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Pennsylvania State University, coeducational state-supported system of higher education in Pennsylvania, U.S. The main campus, at University Park, is the system's largest branch and is the focus of its graduate and four-year undergraduate education. The system also includes the four-year school Penn State Erie (Behrend College) at Erie; Penn State Harrisburg (Capital College), consisting of an upper-division campus at Middletown and a lower-division campus at Schuylkill Haven (near Pottsville); Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport; and a number of campuses offering mainly two-year lower-division programs, including those at Abington and Altoona, 12 schools associated under the umbrella organization Commonwealth College, and Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College. The university's College of Medicine is located at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, and its Dickinson School of Law is located in Carlisle. In addition to University Park, graduate programs are offered at the Harrisburg, Hershey, Erie, and Great Valley (at Malvern, near Philadelphia) campuses.
The University Park campus, a land-grant university, comprises 12 divisions, including the Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal College of Business Administration, the Eberly College of Science, and the Graduate School. It offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Research facilities include the Biotechnology Institute, the Center for Applied Behavioral Sciences, and the Particulate Materials Center. Total enrollment for the system is approximately 75,000.
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I already have to worry about one scary gay tyrant breathing down my neck, now I have to worry about two? If Brooks is right, TMZ Sports is about to change everything for the better. Or worse.
Yes, these are the type of announcements that get the black blood gurgling over here at Gawker HQ. Predictably, a state-of-the-state online meeting had to happen with overlord Nick Denton to start training for the Amazing Race to the Bottom.
11:40 AM Nick: so is there anything new about this TMZ Sports story?
this is same thing Levin was planning last year, no/
5 minutes
11:46 AM me: I guess? I didn't know if you'd heard anything recently.
11:47 AM Nick: no
I guess I thought they'd abandoned the idea
11:48 AM me: Yeah. I just don't see how this will change things that much.
11:49 AM I keep getting these emails and IMs from people asking me if I'm worried.
Nick: well, they're pretty intense competitors
but I don't think Deadspin v TMZ is such a bad struggle
could be a fun tabloid war
me: I just think it already exists. It'll be more upfront now.
11:50 AM Unfortunately, I don't have photographers to stalk people at airports.
Nick: they do pay
me: Right.
11:51 AM Nick:so we might need to get more aggressive in that domain
but they're going to be all over the big-name stars
11:52 AM me: Yeah. They are.
Does this mean that every single person on the planet with a raunchy photo of athletes drinking or sliming over women will now run over to TMZ first because they'll offer some payment for these types of photos? Yikes. That would suck. But remember — we pay, too. Probably on a less frequent basis than they do, but should the right thing come along that I feel Deadspin could benefit from, I'll gladly pay for it. It's only happened once before, but if I have to start being more aggressive about using this burlap sack of scuzz money I have sitting on my desk, then so be it.
Oh, and that thing I paid for before? Here's how that went down. The first tip about Josh Hamilton falling off the wagon came into us on March 13th. It was as follows:
I am a former student at Arizona State. I since have moved back to Chicago, but I still have a lot of friends and family there. A month ago I heard to 2 unrelated but believable stories from my good friend and brother that Josh Hamilton has fallen off the wagon.
First story...My brother (also an ASU alum) told me his friend was at a bar that Josh Hamilton was at. His friend struck up a conversation with Hamilton. After many drinks, Hamilton was hammered and began asking my brothers friend if he had blow. My brother's friend said no, but as the story goes Josh Hamilton would not leave him alone and refused to take no for an answer until my brothers friend eventually told Josh to leave him alone.
That story was possible, but I did not believe it until 4 days later I heard a 100% unrelated but very similar story, which in my opinion validated this beyond a doubt.
Second story...My friend adam who used to work Maloneys in Tempe, but still frequents it and is like family there was there drinking one night when Hamilton ( who I later found out was training at the facility right across the street) came in by himself. Adam continued the story, "Hamilton was getting wasted and..." I then interrupted and said, "He didn't start asking for coke did he?" To which adam replied, "how did you know?!" I told him my brothers story and he said that's basically exactly what happened at Maloney's. I guess Hamilton never got blow there, but the manager and him went to a strip club after and that's the end of what I heard.
If I heard only the 1st story, I might not believe it because it was a 3rd person source, but the 2nd confirmed it and my friend Adam is pretty reliable.
Normally, these things get tossed into Deleted Scenes and are over and done with. Or are just hinted at, thrown out there, so we — sorry, I — can fish for more details and determine the level of truth. This was something I followed up on — called Maloney's, tried to track down the people this person mentioned in his email, etc. I even reached out to a Rangers beat writer from the Fort Worth Star Telegram via email to have an "off the record" conversation about it over the phone. He was pleased to hear from me:
I can't help you on the Cowboys dong-sucking story. I cover the Rangers. What's up with them?
Ah, newspapermen. God bless 'em. The phone conversation we had was pretty awesomely condescending. In fact, I'd say the reporter let out no less than two scoffs during it. He didn't say it wasn't newsworthy, he was just pretty skeptical about it, rightfully so.
I sat on it and sat on it, hoping for something substantial to come through. Eventually, it did. The "Adam" mentioned in the original email was not only willing to talk, but that he had pictures. He's in his 20s, just so happened to be there that night and was, for some reason, now coming forward with the photos because he was tired of "Hamilton's hypocrisy." Fair enough. He sent along the pictures. After he did, he sheepishly inquired about payment because he had approached TMZ about them but didn't want to sell them to "that crappy site." He said he "likes us" and would rather have the photos put on Deadspin than TMZ. Okay, I thought, how about we pay you, like, a fee we would pay a photographer. He agreed to that. It was about $1,200 for his services. I pushed forward with Craggs to get the Jerry Narron interview and then leaked the story to another baseball journalist to give them the jump-start on it. On Friday night, everything was in place, it seemed. Then at about 1:30 a.m.EST, with the pictures already in hand and on the site, Adam called again. He'd just received another offer for the photos: $4,000 from The Dirty.com, he said. Whether this was true, was hard to tell. He was very apologetic and kept saying over and over again that he never "did anything like this before and didn't know how it worked."
"Me neither," I said.
Remember, I already had the photos, all loaded up and it would have been easy to just throw them up there without any sort of watermark and all that crap. But Adam, for whatever reason, seemed genuinely concerned that he was forced into internet tabloid negotiations over these photos. "I really, really hate to do this, man," he said. Fine, fine.
At about 2 a.m, with the other reporter already on a flight to Anaheim to go confront Hamilton in the locker room with the evidence, I had to make a deal. So I did. I said we'd pay him the $4,000 for the Hamilton photos he claimed The Dirty was offering if that ended the conversation right then and there. It did and then it was hurdy-gurdy time on a Saturday morning in August.
Once the story broke out, I received plenty of email inquiries and interview requests, etc. One of them was from the reporter from the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
You contacted me about the Hamilton stuff back in March. Wondering about the process that got you to today. Would like something on the record if possible.
Unfortunately, I knew nothing about any Cowboys dong-sucking stories. We never spoke.
So here's the deal spelled out for you again, vermin: Yes, I'll pay for things. Sometimes. If it's a good enough story that will help keep the lights on at this organization so that Craggs, Dash, Drew, Leitch, Barry and other writers can do more less sleaze-covered stories that are the true heart of this website, I'll do it in a second.
Keep that in mind if and when this "TMZ Sports" launches. I'm easy to talk to and promise to not make you feel so bad about yourself should you decide to peddle your sports-related gossip and assorted Cowboys dong-sucking stories and other crap. And when I do get these inquiries you, dear reader, could be helpful in determining whether they're worthwhile to pay for or not. Just don't send me photos of Brett Favre's ass.
Email me with inquiries: email@example.com. Oh and please start to assemble a wish list of things you'd like to see on Deadspin that we'd probably have to pay for. My first thing? Audio/video from the infamous "Mike and Mike Roast." I think that would be worth it.
Update: So it begins. The 700 Level has been asked to join the party:
Hi guys,
TMZ is expanding its sports coverage and we wanted to know if you were
interested in working together. We'd like to be able to include you on
the emails we send out when we have relevant content and would like to
get a heads up from you as well when you have breaking news. Please
let me know if you're interested and, if so, who the best contact
would be.
Looking forward to working with you.

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According to Indian mythology, when the Gods and the Rakshas/Demons churned out the oceans, a golden pot emerged containing the Elixir of Life, Amrut. Quite appropriately then, Amrut Distilleries produced aqua vitae, uisge beatha, the water of life.
Amrut is a proudly Indian product that has made an impression on the world stage. Made from barley grown in the frontier states of Punjab and Rajasthan in the Northwest of India, malted in Delhi and Jaipur, and distilled in Bangalore, Amrut whisky is young by necessity. The temperatures that the oak-maturing whisky is exposed to are tropical. Additionally, the maturation site in the city of Bangalore is 3000 feet above sea level. Between the altitude and the climate the spirit matures at an accelerated rate AND evaporates frighteningly fast. It is reported that after 3 years, half of the original filling has vanished as "angel's share". Happy, happy Indian angels.
Amrut chooses not to chill-filter their whiskies and have recently released a cask-strength expression in Europe as well. We will try that tomorrow. Bursting onto the whisky scene in Glasgow in 2004, Amrut has been well-received by many drinkers and critics. A friend who works in whisky retail loves to dispense Amrut blind to unsuspecting customers and ALWAYS gets a positive reaction. Let's see how it fares this morning.
* - yes, you can get this at the LCBO.
Big, vibrant and full of oak and malt. Spice, coca-cola, marzipan, fresh stone fruits, and a dairy element as well.
Fruity and spicy, then sweet and sour with a very pleasant mouthfeel. Oak, some coal, and malt. Paprika, black pepper, honey and almond butter in the finish.
Powerful with lots of character it isn't shy to show off. Not elegant but fun and tasty. Its great price and worthiness as a conversation-piece earn it a place on your shelves. Absolutely recommended trying at least once. You can make your own decisions after that.
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Like father, like son…. Men, if you have children, don't let them grow up to follow in your addiction-filled footsteps. Do something about it, fight the fight on a daily basis! If not, your children will grow up to be like you, or marry someone like you.
Lawrence Julius Taylor Jr., the 31-year-old son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, has been arrested in Georgia on felony criminal charges of statutory rape, aggravated child molestation and aggravated sodomy in connection with alleged sexual assaults on two juvenile females, according to police.
The arrest/booking report on the website of the Cobb County Sheriff's Office says Taylor Jr. was arrested Sunday by police in Power Springs, Ga. He was being held without bond in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center in Marietta, Ga.
In a statement, the Power Springs Police Department said detectives interviewed the two females who made the allegations.
"One juvenile alleged that a sexual assault occurred on (July 6) at Taylor's Power Springs residence. Another juvenile alleged consensual sexual contact with Taylor in early 2012," said the police statement.
The Cobb County District Attorney's Office said the maximum penalties, if convicted, are 25 years to life for aggravated sodomy, 25 years to life for aggravated child molestation and 10-to-20 years for statutory rape.
The son gave the presentation speech in 1999 when his father was inducted into the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. "If I could pick anybody to be my father, I would pick Lawrence Taylor every time. Me and my father have a good relationship," he said in his speech.
Lawrence Taylor, now 54, played with the NFL's New York Giants from 1981-93 and was named to the Pro Bowl 10 times. He helped the Giants win two Super Bowls.
In January of 2011, the father (also named Lawrence Julius Taylor) pleaded guilty in New York to sexual misconduct and patronizing a 16-year-old prostitute. The misdemeanor charges carried no jail time, but Taylor was sentenced to six years' probation and required to register as a sex offender.
Before the plea deal, Taylor had pleaded not guilty to third-degree rape, patronizing a prostitute, sexual abuse and endangering a child. Taylor had been arrested in May of 2010 for allegedly paying $300 to have sex with a 16-year-old girl at a hotel in suburban New York City. At the time of his plea deal, Taylor said in court the alleged victim told him she was 19.


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The field of neurotheology uses science to try to understand religion, and vice versa.
"Everyone philosophizes," writes neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Newberg in his latest book, The Metaphysical Mind: Probing the Biology of Philosophical Thought. We all speculate about the meaning of all kinds of things, from everyday concerns about dealing with a co-worker to our ultimate beliefs about the purpose of existence. Accompanying solutions we find to these problems, there's a range of satisfied feelings, from "ah-ha" or light-bulb moments upon solving an everyday problem to ecstatic feelings during mystical experiences.
Since everyday and spiritual concerns are variations of the same thinking processes, Newberg thinks it's essential to examine how people experience spirituality in order to fully understand how their brains work. Looking at the bigger questions has already provided practical applications for improving mental and physical health.
Newberg is a pioneer in the field of neurotheology, the neurological study of religious and spiritual experiences. In the 1990s, he began his work in the field by scanning what happens in people's brains when they meditate, because it is a spiritual practice that is relatively easy to monitor.
Since then, he's looked at around 150 brain scans, including those of Buddhists, nuns, atheists, Pentecostals speaking in tongues, and Brazilian mediums practicing psychography—the channeling of messages from the dead through handwriting.
As to what's going on in their brains, Newberg says, "It depends to some degree on what the practice is." Practices that involve concentrating on something over and over again, either through prayer or a mantra-based meditation, tend to activate the frontal lobes, the areas chiefly responsible for directing attention, modulating behavior, and expressing language.
In contrast, when practitioners surrender their will, such as when they speak in tongues or function as a medium, activity decreases in their frontal lobes and increases in their thalamus, the tiny brain structure that regulates the flow of incoming sensory information to many parts of the brain. This suggests that their speech is being generated from some place other than the normal speech centers.
Believers could say this proves that another entity is speaking through the practitioner, while nonbelievers would look for a neurological explanation. Newberg takes into account both perspectives. When he defines neurotheology in his book, Principles of Neurotheology, he writes, "An ardent atheist, who refuses to accept any aspect of religion as possibly correct or useful, or a devout religious person, who refuses to accept science as providing any value regarding knowledge of the world, would most likely not be considered a neurotheologian."
Newberg believes everyone can benefit from some type of meditation practice. If one practice isn't working for an individual, she should try something else. As a general rule, these practices lower depression, anxiety, and stress. He adds that at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, where he is director of research at the Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine, researchers have found that meditation can improve memory and concentration.
It's debatable whether these practices are more effective when founded on religious or spiritual beliefs. Dr. Dean Hamer, author of the book, The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into our Genes, discovered that research subjects with a particular variation of a certain gene were more susceptible to self-transcendent, spiritual experiences.
In a lecture given at Marlboro College titled, "Gays, God, and Genes," Hamer compares the effects of this variation to an enhanced capacity for natural highs. This spiritual tendency also depends on a person's environment, according to Hamer, which can direct their innate spirituality to particular religious beliefs, and/or steer them away from religion altogether. He says that science will never replace spirituality because a reliance on facts will never have the same emotional appeal.
Newberg agrees that spiritual beliefs are influenced by a person's genetics and environment, and that meditation practices are more effective when they reinforce a practitioner's belief system. However, he says researchers are still investigating whether religious beliefs in general make healthier and happier people. He considers atheism to be a belief system as well, and says that a possible a mental health benefit of belonging to a religious denomination could be not just belief, but the built-in social network.
If the euphoria a person experiences during a meditation practice can't be integrated into their preexisting belief system, these feelings may become disturbing. Newberg gave as an example a meditator who sought out a clergy member to talk about his practice and felt a bit brushed off by the cleric. When meditation practices enhance a rigid, authoritarian belief system, Newberg said they can lead to more intolerance and violence towards those of different beliefs. In the book he co-authored with Mark Robert Waldman, Why We Believe What We Believe, he writes that due to some overlap between spiritual beliefs and psychological disorders, patients with obsessive compulsive disorders often develop rigid religious beliefs.
Newberg had always wanted to be a medical doctor, but didn't realize he could combine that with his interest in searching for answers to metaphysical questions until he attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania and worked with Dr. Eugene d'Aquili, a psychiatrist whose research focused on religion.
Newberg has studied Eastern and Western thinkers to understand their differing perspectives on whether or not an objective reality exists outside of human perception. What fascinates him about mystical experiences—the goal of many meditation practices—are the reports of experiencing a higher reality that is "more real" than everyday perceptions.
Newberg said it's "the only description that I've ever seen where somebody will say 'I got beyond my brain, I got beyond my ego self, I got beyond the subjective and objective nature of the world;' and then they see the universe, and they experience the universe in a very, very different kind of way."
He added, "I think these experiences need to be taken very seriously. I think they tell us something about the nature of reality and how we perceive that reality."
When Newberg scanned the brains of nuns and Buddhists undergoing mystical experiences, they reported feelings of timelessness, spacelessness, and self-transcendence. Newberg believes a cause of these feelings is the reduced activity he saw in their parietal lobes, the orientation area of the brain responsible for perceiving three-dimensional objects in space. A meditator may experience a sense of oneness with all living things or unity because the reduced activity blurs the perceived lines between the meditator and other objects.
When the parietal lobes are damaged, patients have distorted beliefs about their own bodies and are sometimes confused about their spatial orientation to outside objects. In an example from Why We Believe What We Believe, patients think one of their own legs is not theirs, and have been found trying to throw this other leg out of their bed. In his new book, Newberg cites a study led by Dr. Brick Johnstone that found that damage to the right parietal lobe caused patients' self-transcendent experiences to increase.
Newberg suggests in his new book that mystical experiences are described as blissful or ecstatic because they share many of the same neural pathways in the parietal and frontal lobes that are involved in sexual arousal.
To take his scans, Newburg uses functional magnetic resonance (fMRI), and single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) imaging. The book Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience, lists their technological limitations. The authors, Drs. Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld, write that one limitation of brain imaging is that researchers can't make a neat map of the brain centers for different activities like phrenologists once did. Even if most people process language expression in one particular area, this processing is highly dependent on connections to other brain activities. The brain is also plastic, so if the usual area for speech is damaged, other areas in the brain may reorganize and take over the function.
While locating the appropriate brain centers, researchers must also break down the steps involved in a seemingly unified mental task. The authors provide a simple arithmetic problem as an example. Researchers must consider that one section of the brain enables a person to visually recognize the numbers, another section registers the magnitude of the numbers, and a third section computes the sum. If neuroscientists are trying to understand attitudes or emotions, they have to take into account more complicated steps. Furthermore, the technology isn't advanced enough to pick up all the rapid neural changes that occur during a mental process.
When e-mailed to comment specifically on Newberg's work, Satel responded that today's imaging is enabling researchers to make clinical inroads into dementia and other major mental illnesses, but she's skeptical that knowing a person's neurochemical and other physical processes will ever provide a detailed understanding of someone's subjective beliefs. Even with advances in technology, "we can't predict the real world contexts in which perceptions, cognitions, or emotion will manifest. The interaction of these dimensions with environment is crucial to understanding behavioral outcomes."
Asked about the technological challenges, Newberg said that "it's not easy doing this research." However, "up until the last 20 years, we've never been able to see anything. So it's certainly a vast improvement over nothing, but it's still not nearly as ideal as what we would like."
Supplementing the scans, Newberg and his team interview meditators about their subjective experiences in order to get a better understanding of what is happening to them physically. For this method, a challenge has been figuring out precisely what interviewees mean when they use concepts like God or spirituality. Newberg has found that everyone defines God a little bit differently even when they belong to the same religion. When describing spiritual experiences, some report that these experiences enhance their religious beliefs, and others turn away from religion and engage in individual practices.
Given the challenges of the technology and the multitude of beliefs and practices, I asked Newberg if he ever gets overwhelmed.
"It's a little overwhelming. You sort of take one thing at a time and just proceed slowly, and I try very hard not to get too far ahead of myself or too ahead of the data," he said. "But I guess it's somewhat of a calling for me. I've always felt like I've got to go down this path, and I'll keep going down it, and maybe someday I'll figure something out that will really be helpful to everybody."


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It's Small Success Thursday, and at CatholicMom.com that means we celebrate those little accomplishments that make our world go 'round!
We're getting ready for a Double Graduation around here, so my successes are going to be party-related.
I figured out how to make a Facebook event to invite the family and friends who use that platform. That saved me a LOT in color-printing and postage costs. (Translation: more in the party budget for delicious food!)
I made a party logo with the help of Microsoft Publisher! I think it's pretty spiffy!
Big Brother is graduating from LaSalle and starting a job in his field at Monetate.
Middle Sister is graduating from Holy Cross High School and entering LaSalle in the fall.
(Little Brother is not graduating at this time.)
High-tech party planning continues with the help of an Excel spreadsheet. I still hate Excel, but it really is the best way to go to keep track of all the EVERYTHING that goes into having a big backyard bash with over 100 invited guests. I've got the setup figured out, and data entry will take place today.
And one week from tomorrow, Big Brother will move out of his college apartment for the final time. It's hard to wrap my head around that idea–and hard to express how very proud I am of his accomplishments. (Next week my Small Success had better include "make space in the garage or basement for Big Brother's kitchen equipment.")
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I was disappointed to find such an emotional subject addressed with so few practical answers. What do do about it: "nothing". When you address something like this you have a responsibility to know what you're talking about. You didn't.
There is no denying that financial matters lay at the root of many – if not most – couples' problems. While some openly communicate about the issues at hand, more couples yet don't even recognize exactly what the problems are and thus allow a bad problem to worsen, and in some cases, culminate in a break-up or divorce.
Here are some of the issues that cause friction in our romances, and what to do about them before they blossom into a host of irrevocable thorny problems.
It is rare that both parties in a relationship meet at exactly the same financial period in their lives, earn exactly the same money, have exactly the same savings and debts, and can build their lives together on exactly the same page. So it stands to reason that financial inequality can be the root of resentment and even jealousy.
One person can be left feeling that they have contributed everything to a one-sided relationship, and the other may feel unworthy of their better-off partner.
Creating a life together boils down to more than plain dollars and cents. If you are in this for the long run, then who brings what to the table is essentially irrelevant. Maybe one spouse earns more money, but the other likely adds value in non-monetary fashions.
If you wish to keep your finances separate, then invoking prenuptial agreements may be a way for each spouse to feel more self-justified and protected from the other's assets (or lack thereof).
One member of your team may be more adept at managing the day-to-day finances better than the other. Thus that person could naturally find themselves saddled with paying the bills, the mortgage, and making sure all the piles of pennies add up at the end of the day.
This can create a sense of unwilling burden on the person who manages the finances, while making the other partner feel uninformed and locked out of their financial life.
Capitalizing on strengths and weaknesses is an ideal way to manage a relationship overall. But in order for both people to feel comfortable with the finances, both need to be informed even if one person still does all the financial legwork. Try having a financial meeting once a month to review the finances, and to make any necessary decisions about expenditures. If desired, write a list of financial tasks and allocate them between the two of you accordingly.
Either way, make sure that you have all your accounts, passwords and pins, and other financial details written down somewhere. That way if something happens to one partner, the other is not left in the dark as to how to even begin maintaining the finances.
Vices can be the most destructive on a relationship – financially and otherwise. Addictions like alcohol, gambling, shopping, or even compulsive cheapness can be devastating in the long run.
Depending on the level and type of addiction, more often than not this won't be something you can deal with on your own. Addictions often require outside help, be it an intervention, counseling, or even just a trusted friend with perspective.
As an extreme version of the inequality issue, financial abuse occurs when one spouse uses money as a way to control or manipulate their partner. This is especially prevalent in situations where one spouse works full-time and the other works simply part-time or stays home with the children. The lower income-earning spouse may contribute more than sufficiently to the relationship in other ways, but may still be made to feel less worthy and degraded in asking for money to manage the household or live on.
This is another sticky situation that may require outside help. Incidences of financial abuse usually stem from a previous history of abuse, whether financial or otherwise. The abuser likely doesn't realize what they are doing, and the abused may compound the situation if they have a similar history which leaves them predisposed to that set of circumstances. Financial counseling is the way to get around these issues. Even if the abused person seeks help by themselves, they may be able to learn coping mechanisms that can keep the relationship alive.
Money makes not only the world go 'round, but also a relationship. Joining two lives is no small matter, and when money is involved (as it inevitably is), so too is a set of heightened emotions, previously programmed actions and reactions, and two entirely different financial histories. Marrying the two (literally or figuratively) requires lots of communication, dedication, and willingness of both parties to learn, change, and adapt. If possible, try to make it enjoyable and positive – it will make the hard times (and yes, there will be hard times) much easier to deal with.
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I was disappointed to find such an emotional subject addressed with so few practical answers. What do do about it: "nothing". When you address something like this you have a responsibility to know what you're talking about. You didn't.
You brought up a couple of good points. Overall, I think its all about balance, cooperation and communication within a marriage. Like you said, money will be a factor, so make sure its communicated.
VERY good points.
In addition, in my marriage we have separate accounts, chip in for utilities, pay half the rent each, separate credit/debit cards.
Difficult, emotional topic and you could not cover everyones' situation - but you did a real good job. Thank you.
Understood that you can't cover everyone's situation...but what do we *do*? I don't see any actual actions as advice here, just theory. For example, in the inequality section...how can it be fixed?
There isn't anything worse than one being a spendalot and the other trying to save pennies! Disasterous for a relationship
Although I didn't spell out solutions in a blatant step by step format, I thought I did cover what to do! For example, in the case of financial inequality, there are two things you can do:
1) Accept the fact that how much money each person brings to the table is irrelevant if the relationship is solid and you are in it for the long run.
2) Invoke a prenup if the concern is about protecting individual assets.
Sometimes, solutions don't come in the form of easy-to-apply quick fixes. Does that mean I shouldn't have written about it? Gosh, I hope not.
As illustrated with the tougher financial hurtles like Addiction, what you may need to get through the tough times is financial or couples' counseling. As a solution, counseling can apply to any of these financial challenges depending on the severity of the situation.
Good luck, and I hope this clears things up a bit.
I enjoyed your post Nora. I think this is a helpful article in that it helps people first recognize what may be contributing to their arguments. I have noticed that many of my clients fight over money but haven't really discovered the underlying causes which I think Nora does a good job of addressing.


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John Collier's appointment as Commissioner of Indian Affairs by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 marked a radical reversal—in intention if not always in effect—in U.S. government policies toward American Indians that dated back to the 1887 Dawes Act. An idealistic social worker, Collier first encountered Indian culture when he visited Taos, New Mexico, in 1920, and found among the Pueblos there what he called a "Red Atlantis"—a model of living that integrated the needs of the individual with the group and that maintained traditional values. As Commissioner, Collier proposed a sweeping set of reforms to reverse the previous half century of federal policy. Although he could not win congressional backing for his most radical proposals, the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 dramatically changed policy by allowing tribal self-government and consolidating individual land allotments back into tribal hands. His 1938 report as Commissioner of Indian Affairs combined a frank indictment of the broken promises of the past with an insistence that the Indian Service, since 1933, had made a "concerted effort" to rectify those past mistakes.
In all our colorful American life there is no group around which there so steadfastly persists an aura compounded of glamor, suspicion, and romance as the Indian. For generations the Indian has been, and is today, the center of an amazing series of wonderings, fears, legends, hopes.
Yet those who have worked with Indians know that they are neither the cruel, warlike, irreligious savages imagined by some, nor are they the "fortunate children of nature's bounty" described by tourists who see them for an hour at some glowing ceremonial. We find the Indians, in all the basic forces and forms of life, human beings like ourselves. The majority of them are very poor people living under severely simple conditions. We know them to be deeply religious. We know them to be possessed of all the powers, intelligence, and genius within the range of human endowment. Just as we yearn to live out our own lives in our own ways, so, too, do the Indians, in their ways.
For nearly 300 years white Americans, inour zeal to carve out a nation made to order, have dealt with the Indians on the erroneous, yet tragic, assumption that the Indians were a dying race—to be liquidated. We took away their best lands; broke treaties, promises; tossed them the most nearly worthless scraps of a continent that had once been wholly theirs. But we did not liquidate their spirit. The vital spark which kept them alive was hardy. So hardy, indeed, that we now face an astounding, heartening fact.
Actually, the Indians, on the evidence of federal census rolls of the past eight years, are increasing at almost twice the rate of the population as a whole.
With this fact before us, our whole attitude toward the Indians has necessarily undergone a profound change. Dead is the centuries-old notion that the sooner we eliminated this doomed race, preferably humanely, the better. No longer can we, with even the most generous intentions, pour millions of dollars and vast reservoirs of energy, sympathy, and effort into any unproductive attempts at some single, artificial permanent solution of the Indian problem. No longer can we naively talk of or think of the "Indian problem." Our task is to help Indians meet the myriad of complex, interrelated, mutually dependent situations which develop among them according to the very best light we can get on those happenings—much as we deal with our own perplexities and opportunities.
We, therefore, define our Indian policy somewhat as follows: So productively to use the moneys appropriated by the Congress for Indians as to enable them, on good, adequate lands of their own, to earn decent livelihoods and lead self-respecting, organized lives in harmony with their own aims and ideals, as an integral part of American life. Under such a policy, the ideal end result will be the ultimate disappearance of any need for government aid or supervision. This will not happen tomorrow; perhaps not in our lifetime; but with the revitalization of Indian hope due to the actions and attitudes of this government during the last few years, that aim is a probability, and a real one. . . .
In looking at the Indian picture as a social whole, we will consider certain broad phases—land use and industrial enterprises, health and education, roads and rehabilitation, political organization—which touch Indian life everywhere, including the 30,000 natives of Alaska for whose health, education, and social and economic advancement the Indian Service is responsible. Lastly, this report will tell wherein the Indian Service, or the government's effort as a whole for the Indians, still falls short.
So intimately is all of Indian life tied up with the land and its utilization that to think of Indians is to think of land. The two are inseparable. Upon the land and its intelligent use depends the main future of the American Indian.
The Indian feels toward his land, not a mere ownership sense but a devotion and veneration befitting what is not only a home but a refuge. At least nine out of ten Indians remain on or near the land. When times are good, a certain number drift away to town or city to work for wages. When times become bad, home to the reservation the Indian comes, and to the comparative security which he knows is waiting for him. The Indian still has much to learn in adjusting himself to the strains of competition amid an acquisitive society; but he long ago learned how to contend with the stresses of nature. Not only does the Indian's major source of livelihood derive from the land but his social and political organizations are rooted in the soil.
A major aim, then, of the Indian Service is to help the Indians to keep and consolidate what lands they now have and to provide more and better lands upon which they may effectively carry on their lives. Just as important is the task of helping the Indian make such use of his land as will conserve the land, insure Indian self-support, and safeguard or build up the Indian's social life. . . .
In 1887, the General Allotment Act was passed, providing that after a certain trust period, fee simple title to parcels of land should be given to individual Indians. Individual proprietorship meant loss—a paradox in view of the Indian's love for the land, yet an inevitable result, when it is understood that the Indian by tradition was not concerned with possession, did not worry about titles or recordings, but regarded the land as a fisherman might regard the sea, as a gift of nature, to be loved and feared, to be fought and revered, and to be drawn on by all as an inexhaustible source of life and strength.
The Indian let the ownership of his allotted lands slip from him. The job of taking the Indian's lands away, begun by the white man through military expeditions and treaty commissions, was completed by cash purchase—always of course, of the best lands which the Indian had left. In 1887, the Indian had remaining 130 million acres. In 1933, the Indian had left only 49 million acres, much of it waste and desert.
Since 1933, the Indian Service has made a concerted effort—an effort which is as yet but a mere beginning—to help the Indian to build back his landholdings to a point where they will provide an adequate basis for a self-sustaining economy, a self-satisfying social organization.
Source: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1938 (Washington, D.C. 1938), 209–211.
See Also:"A Bill of Rights for the Indians": John Collier Envisions an Indian New Deal


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Oklahoma board urges governor to commute death sentence
Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole Board on Monday recommended the governor commute the death sentence of Julius Jones, who has maintained his innocence in a 1999 killing that has garnered national attention.
The five-member board voted 3-1 to recommend Jones' sentence be commuted to life in prison after board member Scott Williams recused himself because of a professional relationship he had with one of the attorneys who spoke on Jones' behalf. Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt ultimately will decide the fate of Jones, who claims he was framed for the 1999 shooting death of Edmond businessman Paul Howell.
"Personally, I believe in death penalty cases there should be no doubts. And put simply, I have doubts about this case," said Chairman Adam Luck, one of Stitt's appointees on the board who voted to commute Jones' sentence.
Monday's vote came after several hours of testimony from members of Howell's family, prosecutors who tried the case, and attorneys and supporters of Jones.
Kelly Doyle, another Stitt appointee who voted in favor of commuting Jones' sentence, said she agreed with Luck and noted there were mitigating factors she considered, including the fact that Jones, now 41, was 19 when Howell was killed during a carjacking.
Former District Attorney Richard Smothermon, who was appointed to the board by the Oklahoma Supreme Court, cast the lone no vote.
Stitt spokeswoman Carly Atchison said the governor plans to review the board's recommendation carefully.
"The governor takes his role in this process seriously and will carefully consider the Pardon and Parole Board's recommendation as he does in all cases," Atchison said in a statement. "We will not have any further comment until the governor has made a decision."
The board's vote does not ensure Jones' sentence will be commuted. Stitt's predecessor, Republican Gov. Mary Fallin, rejected three separate recommendations for clemency for death row inmates from the board. The last time a governor granted clemency to a death row inmate was Democrat Brad Henry in 2010.
Jones' case drew widespread attention after it was profiled in "The Last Defense," a three-episode documentary produced by actress Viola Davis that aired on ABC in 2018. Since then, reality television star Kim Kardashian West and athletes with Oklahoma ties, including NBA stars Russell Westbrook, Blake Griffin and Trae Young, have urged Stitt to commute Jones' death sentence and spare his life.
Jones alleges he was framed by the actual killer, a high school friend and former co-defendant who was a key witness against him. But Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater and the state's former attorney general, Mike Hunter, have said the evidence against Jones is overwhelming.
Information from trial transcripts shows that witnesses identified Jones as the shooter and placed him with Howell's stolen vehicle. Investigators also found the murder weapon and a bandana with Jones' DNA in an attic space above his bedroom. Jones claimed in his commutation filing that the gun and bandana were planted there by the actual killer.
Howell's sister and two young daughters — one of whom testified Monday — were in Howell's SUV when the carjacking happened in his parents' driveway in the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond.
"I was there when my brother Paul Howell was murdered," Howell's sister, Megan Tobey, told the board. "I know beyond a doubt that Julius Jones murdered my brother."
Tobey said the killer also ran over Howell, crushing his legs, as he sped away.
"My parents never got over the death of their youngest son," Tobey said. "They never got closure and they were never truly happy again."
This story has been updated to correct that the board recommended Jones' sentence be commuted to life in prison, not life without parole, and that Richard Smothermon was appointed by the Oklahoma Supreme Court, not the governor.
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Expert's Rating
- Nice text and photos
- Decent speed for the price
- Expensive toner
- No automatic duplexing
Our Verdict
Best suited for small, low-volume offices, this multifunction printer offers versatile connectivity, but provides limited features and uses expensive toner.
The Dell 1355cnw color multifunction printer will appeal to small offices, as it combines print, copy, scan, and fax capabilities in an inexpensive ($420 as of March 1, 2011) package. It has wireless networking for good measure. Using an LED array to create images rather than the more widely known laser technology, it produces good output, too. As is the case with many low-cost MFPs, unfortunately, replacement toner is expensive, and features are somewhat limited. It's a better choice in this price range than the HP LaserJet Pro CM1415fnw color MFP, which produces inferior color images at a slower pace.
Setting up the 1355cnw was easy via USB and ethernet. Wireless setup requires attaching the unit via USB, which is not unusual, but its handling of IP addresses made us pause. The 1355cnw supports both the current IP address standard (IPv4) and the upcoming IPv6. However, instead of creating one Windows printer device with both and IPv6 and IPv4 addresses, the install created two printer devices: one with an IPv6 address, and another with an IPv4 address. We knew what to do (eliminate the IPv6 dual-stack option), but most users will need more help than the documentation provides.
The control panel is straightforward for a multifunction device, with a numeric keypad and buttons to summon each primary function. The four-line monochrome LCD lets you view menu options, which you navigate using standard four-way controls.
While the 1355cnw has a solid-looking chassis and a 30,000-page duty cycle, the paper-handling features are minimal. A measly 150-sheet main input tray sticks out from the front of the unit–a vulnerable position, although it does ease paper loading somewhat. A plastic piece that acts as a partial cover for the main input tray is also the 10-sheet multipurpose feeder; you must remove it to adjust the guides. The pull-out output arm is a mere 3 inches wide and can't hold a lot of paper, but it makes grabbing what comes out easy. You also get a 50-sheet automatic document feeder for the 1355cnw's letter-size scanner. Duplexing (two-sided printing) is manual and available only on the PC platform.
The 1355cnw posted middling speeds in our tests: 11.1 pages per minute printing plain text on both the PC and the Mac, and about 1.4 ppm printing medium-size photos at default or finer settings. On the Mac, a full-page, high-resolution photo printed at 0.9 ppm. A simple one-page text copy took about 20 seconds, while full-page color photo scans took 55 seconds. In anecdotal testing, the ADF seemed slow at feeding multipage documents, especially when we used the bundled OCR program to create editable PDFs or text documents.
Output from the 1355cnw is generally good. Monochrome-text prints and copies are superior, with clean edges. Printed photos had a pinkish cast and some overall graininess. Color copies showed the same pink tendency but were mostly crisp. Scanned photos, while on the dark side, were nicely detailed. In contrast, the Brother MFC-9320CW struggled more with graphics.
Though the 1355cnw's toner cartridges are easy to access and replace via a side door, they're budget-busters. Forget the standard-size, 700-page cartridges: Black costs $39 (or 5.5 cents per page), while each color costs $50 (or 7.1 cents per color). A four-color page would cost 27 cents. The higher-yield supplies, each $70, are tolerable: The cost for the 2000-page black cartridge works out to 3.5 cents per page, and that of the 1400-page cyan, magenta, and yellow comes to 5 cents per color, making a total of 18.5 cents for a four-color page.
Like other color multifunction printers in its price range, the Dell 1355cnw presents a series of trade-offs. Its output quality is better than that of most competitors, which might make an investment in its pricey replacement toner worthwhile.


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Welcome to Mom Blogger's Club! I hope you enjoy your time here and find it helpful! I know it can be overwhelming at first but I promise, you'll be a pro on here in no time! I write a blog called The Adventures of J-Man and MillerBug. It's a blog about my life with my two boys and I do some pretty cool giveaways (OK, I think they're cool! Do you?)
Every weekend I host the Finding New Friends Weekend Blog Hop. It's a great way to find new followers and friends as well as get to know more of your fellow mom bloggers. If you're not familiar with a blog hop, all you have to do is add your blog to the list. Participants then "hop" from blog to blog to find great new blogs! It's a ton of fun! I'd love to have you join us. It's going on now so come on over and link up! You can find it here: http://www.jmanandmillerbug.com/2011/09/finding-new-friends-weekend-blog-hop_29.html#more. Be sure to leave a messge if you join up so that I can follow you back!
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I Jamvu-khanda Nirmana Parva OM! HAVING BOWED down to Narayana, and Nara, the most exalted of male beings, and also to the goddess Saraswati, must the word Jaya' be uttered. Janamejaya said, How did those heroes, the Kurus, the Pandavas, and the Somakas, and the high-souled kings assembled together from various countries, fight Vaisampayana said, Listen thou, O lord of the earth, how those heroes, the Kurus, the Pandavas, and the Somakas, fought on the sacred plain of the Kurukshetra Entering Kurukshetra, the Pandavas endued with great might, along with the Somakas, advanced, desirous of victory, against the Kauravas. Accomplished in the study of the Vedas, all of them took great delight in battle. Expectant of success in battle, with their troops they faced the fight. Approaching the army of Dhritarashtra's son, those warriors invincible in battle stationed themselves with their troops on the western part of the plain, their faces turned towards the east. Yudhishthira, the son of Kunti, caused tents by thousands to be set up according to rule, beyond the region called Samantapanchaka. The whole earth seemed then to be empty, divested of horses and men, destitute of cars and elephants, and with only the children and the old left at home.
From the whole area of Jamvudwipa over which the sun sheds his rays was collected that force, O best of kings. Men of all races assembled together, occupied an area extending for many Yojanas over districts, rivers, hills, and woods. That bull among men, king Yudhishthira, ordered excellent food and other articles of enjoyment for all of them along with their animals. And Yudhishthira fixed diverse watch-words for them; so that one saying this should be known as belonging to the Pandavas. And that descendant of Kuru's race also settled names and badges for all of them for recognition during time of battle. Beholding the standard-top of Pritha's son, the high-souled son of Dhritarashtra, with a white umbrella held over his head, in the midst of a thousand elephants, and surrounded by his century of brothers, began with all the kings on his side to array his troops against the son of Pandu. Seeing Duryodhana, the Panchalas who took delight in battle, were filled with joy and blew their loud-sounding conches and cymbals of sweet sounds. Beholding those troops so delighted, Pandu's son and Vasudeva of great energy had their hearts filled with joy. And those tigers among men, Vasudeva and Dhananjaya, seated on one car, having felt great joy, both blew their celestial conches. And hearing the blare of Gigantea and the loud blast of Theodotes belonging unto the two, the combatants ejected urine and excreta.
As other animals are filled with fear on hearing the voice of the roaring lion, even so became that force upon hearing those blasts. A frightful dust arose and nothing could be seen, for the sun himself, suddenly enveloped by it, seemed to have set A black cloud poured a shower of flesh and blood over the troops all around. All this seemed extraordinary. A wind rose there, bearing along the earth myriads of stony nodules, and afflicting therewith the combatants by hundreds and thousands. For all that, O monarch, both armies, filled with joy, stood addrest for battle, on Kurukshetra like two agitated oceans. Indeed, that encounter of the two armies was highly wonderful, like that of two oceans when the end of the Yuga is arrived. The whole earth was empty, having only the children and the old left at home, in consequence of that large army mustered by the Kauravas Then the Kurus, the Pandavas, and the Somakas made certain covenants, and settled the rules, O bull of Bharata's race, regarding the different kinds of combat. Persons equally circumstanced must encounter each other, fighting fairly.
And if having fought fairly the combatants withdraw without fear of molestation, even that would be gratifying to us. Those who engaged in contests of words should be fought against with words. Those that left the ranks should never be slain A car-warrior should have a car-warrior for his antagonist; he on the neck of an elephant should have a similar combatant for his foe; a horse should be met by a horse, and a foot-soldier, O Bharata; should be met by a foot-soldier. Guided by considerations of fitness, willingness, daring and might, one should strike another, giving notice. No one should strike another that is unprepared or panic-struck. One engaged with another, one seeking quarter, one retreating, one whose weapon is rendered unfit, uncased in mail, should never be struck. Car-drivers, animals yoked to cars or carrying weapons men engaged in the transport of weapons players on drums and blowers of conches should never be struck. Having made these covenants, the Kurus, and the Pandavas, and the Somakas wondered much, gazing at each other. And having stationed their forces thus, those bulls among men, those high-souled ones, with their troops, became glad at heart, their joy being reflected on their countenances
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Image: Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4934 (2001)
Sonoluminescencethe physical phenomenon by which sound turns into lightis as mystifying as a magic trick. Despite 70 years of trying, scientists still cannot fully explain how a bubble of air in water focuses acoustic energy a trillionfold to spit out picosecond bursts of ultraviolet radiation. Initially physicists attributed the flashes to friction. In the late 1980s, though, they came to see that bubbles in a sound wave's path expanded and rapidly collapsedheating the gas inside them to temperatures hotter than the sun's surface. This collapse and heat, they determined, created a glowing plasma.
In this week's issue of Physical Review Letters, Gary A. Williams and his colleagues from the University of California at Los Angeles present evidence that lends further support to that theory. The researchers set out to explain earlier observations that the spectra of light from a single bubble lacked an emission linefor the molecule OHseen from multiple bubbles. Because of the discrepancy, some had suggested that different physical mechanisms were at work and that there were, in essence, two kinds of sonoluminescence. But Williams's group proved that isn't the case, creating larger-than-usual single bubbles whose spectra included the missing emission.
Although they don't know why, the researchers say that bubble size alone seems to predict the OH line and suggest that, compared with smaller single bubbles that collapse symmetrically (top right), larger bubbles in multibubble systems are unstable (bottom right). The team further fitted the spectra to a blackbody radiation curve and showed that it corresponded to plasma at a temperature of about 8,000 degrees Kelvin. "It's a nice connecting together of the underlying physical phenomena," Ken Suslick of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign told Physical Review Focus. "And the ability to recognize the OH emission line is pretty cool."


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Our laboratory is interested in understanding how epigenetic aberrations cause cancer and other human diseases. In particular, we focus on the roles and regulatory mechanisms of histone demethylases from the JARID1/KDM5 protein family. These enzymes can remove tri- and di- methyl mark from lysine 4 in histone H3 (H3K4me3/2), the epigenetic marks for transcriptionally active chromatin. Our current data suggest that JARID1A/B enzymes are potential drug targets for cancer therapy and we have identified specific inhibitors of these enzymes.
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"The 2011 Geminid Meteor Shower"
Dec. 13, 2011: The 2011 Geminid meteor shower peaks on the night of Dec. 13-14, and despite the glare of a nearly-full Moon, it might be a good show.
"Observers with clear skies could see as many as 40 Geminids per hour," predicts Bill Cooke of the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office. "Our all-sky network of meteor cameras has captured several early Geminid fireballs. They were so bright, we could see them despite the moonlight."
The best time to look is between 10 pm local time on Tuesday, Dec. 13, and sunrise on Wednesday, Dec. 14th. Geminids, which spray out of the constellation Gemini, can appear anywhere in the sky. "Dress warmly and look up," says Cooke. "It's that simple."
The source of the Geminids is near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon. Most meteor showers come from comets, so having an asteroid as a parent makes the Geminids a bit of an oddball.
"This is the thing I love most about Geminids," says Cooke. "They're so strange."
Every year in mid-December, Earth runs through a trail of dusty debris that litters the orbit of 3200 Phaethon. Comets vaporizing in hot sunlight naturally produce such debris trails, but rocky asteroids like 3200 Phaethon do not. At least they're not supposed to. The incongruity has baffled researchers since 1983 when 3200 Phaethon was discovered by NASA's IRAS satellite.
One clue: 3200 Phaethon travels unusually close to the sun. The asteroid's eccentric orbit brings it well inside the orbit of Mercury every 1.4 years. The rocky body thus receives a regular blast of solar heating that might somehow boil jets of dust into the Geminid debris stream.
In 2009, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft saw this process at work. Coronagraphs onboard the solar observatory watched 3200 Phaethon as it was swinging by the sun. Sure enough, the asteroid doubled in brightness, probably because it was spewing jets of dust.
"The most likely explanation is that Phaethon ejected dust, perhaps in response to a break-down of surface rocks (through thermal fracture and decomposition cracking of hydrated minerals) in the intense heat of the Sun," wrote UCLA planetary scientists David Jewitt and Jing Li, who analyzed the data.
Jewett and Li's "rock comet" hypothesis is compelling, but they point out a problem: The amount of dust 3200 Phaethon ejected during its 2009 sun-encounter added a mere 0.01% to the mass of the Geminid debris stream--not nearly enough to keep the stream replenished over time. Perhaps the rock comet was more active in the past …?
"We just don't know," says Cooke. "Every new thing we learn about the Geminids seems to deepen the mystery."


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Luis Suárez Suspended For Nine (9) Official Matches For Biting An Opponent – FIFA
Full text of FIFA statement announcing a nine match ban for Uruguay's Luis Suarez for biting an opponent:
"The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has reached a decision in the case related to Luis Suarez of Uruguay following an incident that occurred during the FIFA World Cup match between Italy and Uruguay played on 24 June 2014.
"The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has decided that:
"· The player Luis Suárez is regarded as having breached art. 48 par. 1 lit. d of the FIFA Disciplinary Code (FDC) (assault), and art. 57 of the FDC (an act of unsporting behaviour towards another player).
"· The player Luis Suárez is to be suspended for nine (9) official matches. The first match of this suspension is to be served in the upcoming FIFA World Cup fixture between Colombia and Uruguay on 28 June 2014. The remaining match suspensions shall be served in Uruguay's next FIFA World Cup match(es), as long as the team qualifies, and/or in the representative team's subsequent official matches in accordance with art. 38 par. 2a) of the FDC.
"· The player Luis Suárez is banned from taking part in any kind of football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) for a period of four (4) months in accordance with art. 22 of the FDC.
"· A stadium ban is pronounced against the player Luis Suárez in accordance with art. 21 of the FDC as follows: the player Luis Suárez is prohibited from entering the confines of any stadium during the period of the ban (point 3). The player Luis Suárez is prohibited from entering the confines of any stadium in which the representative team of Uruguay is playing while he has to serve the nine-match suspension (point 2).
"· The player Luis Suárez is ordered to pay a fine in the amount of 100,000 Swiss francs.
"The decision was notified to the player and the Uruguayan FA today.
"'Such behaviour cannot be tolerated on any football pitch, and in particular not at a FIFA World Cup when the eyes of millions of people are on the stars on the field. The Disciplinary Committee took into account all the factors of the case and the degree of Mr Suárez's guilt in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Code. The decision comes into force as soon it is communicated,' said Claudio Sulser, chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee."


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WASHINGTON— One in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting, and a majority think that after 10 years of combat America should be focusing less on foreign affairs and more on its own problems, according to an opinion survey released Wednesday.
The findings highlight a dilemma for the Obama administration and Congress as they struggle to shrink the government's huge budget deficits and reconsider defense priorities while trying to keep public support for remaining involved in Iraq and Afghanistan for the longer term.
Expensive! The War On Terror Will Cost $4 Trillion, 225,000 Lives
Obama To Cut 10,000 Troops From Afghanistan
Nearly 4,500 U.S. troops have died in Iraq and about 1,700 in Afghanistan. Combined war costs since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have topped $1 trillion.
The poll results presented by the Pew Research Center portray post-9/11 veterans as proud of their work, scarred by warfare and convinced that the American public has little understanding of the problems that wartime service has created for military members and their families.
The survey also showed that post-9/11 veterans are more likely than Americans as a whole to call themselves Republicans and to disapprove of President Barack Obama's performance as commander in chief. They also are more likely than earlier generations of veterans to have no religious affiliation.
The Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan organization that studies attitudes and trends, called the study the first of its kind. The results were based on two surveys conducted between late July and mid-September. One polled 1,853 veterans, including 712 who had served in the military after 9/11 but are no longer on active duty. Of the 712 post-9/11 veterans, 336 served in Iraq or Afghanistan. The other polled 2,003 adults who had not served in the military.
Nearly half of post-9/11 veterans said deployments strained their relationship with their spouses, and a similar share reported problems with their children. On the other hand, 60 percent said they and their families benefited financially from having served abroad in a combat zone. Asked for a single word to describe their experiences, the war veterans offered a mixed picture: "rewarding," "nightmare," "eye opening," "lousy."
There are about 98,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, where the conflict began with a U.S.-led invasion on Oct. 7, 2001. Obama campaigned for the presidency in 2008 on getting out of Iraq and ramping up the military campaign in Afghanistan. He is on track to have all U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of this year, and in July he announced that he would pull 10,000 troops out of Afghanistan this year and 23,000 more by next September.
The Pew survey found that veterans are ambivalent about the net value of the wars, although they generally were more positive about Afghanistan, which has been a more protracted but less deadly conflict for U.S. forces. One-third of post-9/11 veterans said neither war was worth the sacrifices; that was the view of 45 percent in the separate poll of members of the general public.
Fifty percent of veterans said Afghanistan was worth it, whereas the poll of civilians put it at 41 percent.
Among veterans, 44 percent said Iraq was worth it. That compares with 36 percent in the poll of civilians.
Of the surveyed former service members who were seriously wounded or knew someone who was killed or seriously wounded, 48 percent said the war in Iraq was worth fighting, compared with 36 percent of those veterans who had no personal exposure to casualties.
Exposure to casualties had an even larger impact on attitudes toward the war in Afghanistan. Fifty-five percent of those exposed to casualties said Afghanistan has been worth the cost to the U.S., whereas 40 percent of those who were not exposed to casualties held that same view.
Pew said its survey results found "isolationist inclinations" among post-9/11 war veterans. About 6-in-10 said the United States should pay less attention to problems overseas and instead concentrate on problems at home. In a Pew survey conducted earlier this year, a similar share of the general public agreed.
The survey also reflected what many view as a troublesome cultural gap between the military and the general public. Although numerous polls have shown that Americans hold the military in high regard, the respondents in the Pew research acknowledged a lack of understanding of what military life entails.
Only 27 percent of adult civilians said the public understands the problems facing those in uniform, and the share of veterans who said so is even lower — 21 percent.
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been described (in a terrific article about co-evolution) as anachronistic, because it evolved for its seeds to be disbursed by such beasts as the mastodons, mammoths, gomphotheres, and other megafauna which after a tranquil 20 million years or so, were driven to extinction by - who else? - humans, in the blink of a geologic eye 15,000 years ago. Several species of carnivore dependent on the giant herbivores for food, and plants that depended on them for spreading seeds, promptly followed suit. But along with some other species in the same predicament, such as pawpaw and persimmon, the osage orange clung to life through prodigious clonal reproduction from vigorous runners.
As if the squirrel's racket weren't enough, at almost any hour of the night I can hear an owl, not hooting, but with a piercing call. It moves closer and then further away, but has been fairly constant for the past two weeks.
After much listening and wondering what sort of owl it is, I found a site where its simple two-tone, repetitive pitched cry is identified as that of a juvenile - described as a begging call. That hadn't occurred to me. Awwww. How sad is that??
It's either a barred or a spotted owl, they sound the same. Above is a photo of a barred owl taken by Mark Johnson on September 12, 2012 in Susquehanna State Park, Harford Co., MD. You can listen to the recording here.
news - Squirrel population boom frustrates fruit growers alleges that the squirrel population has run amuck from Vermont to South Carolina. The pictures that follow are from right around Wit's End on Saturday, October 20 - trees that I've planted, and some weeds.
|Kousa Chinese Dogwood
|Leaves of the Kousa
|Red Maple planted by the paddock - not red
|Japanese Fringe Tree
|Native Silky Dogwood by the Chicken Coop
|River Birch - inner, older, more damaged leaves have fallen off while the newer, outer leaves are still green.
Just for Auld Lang Syne, I'll reproduce an article I first posted as A Powerful and Obnoxious Odor of Mendacity, followed by the famous video where such biotic attacks following ozone exposure are described by another surprised scientist as "...the sharks that smell blood in the water":
From Michigan Tech:
After all that, the good stewards of the FACE facility decided to cut all the trees down to the ground about two years ago. Why? One of the scientists told me it was because the trees had grown too big for the fumigation chambers, which I might have believed (although why not just top them off?), but then he jumped the shark (heh!) and added, unnecessarily, that it wouldn't affect any test results because the new trees would be regrowing from the same roots - which I don't believe. Since their own research has shown that the most important effect of ozone is to encourage biotic attacks, and they cleared all the pre-existing, accumulated above-ground insects, disease and fungus out with the trunks and branches...is it too much to think that there is some other motivation for removing the dead body? After all, absent the Corpus delicti, there's no crime, right?
the post, There's Something Rotten at the EPA. The problem is, the "Policy Relevant Background level" - the concentration that exists without inputs from the US - is approaching (and in some cases exceeding) the current standard, even in remote areas that have no way of lowering the level of ozone, since the precursors arrive from distant sources - like, say, Asia.
Canadians suspending funds for the ecological study of 58 lakes that began monitoring pollution and eutrophication in 1967; and the USDA terminating support first for the NCLAP (National Crop Loss Assessment Program) and then, curtailing funds for ozone research by the NE1030 academic group...gee, do we need any more reason to put on a tin foil hat?
|Trees grow on rocks! Talk about resilience.
Feedbacks: The Problem of Overshoot and Positive Feedbacks
Natural ecosystems are complex. Therefore it is often hard to determine what safe levels of emissions of pollutants are. It is also difficult understand the causal links between pollutants and negative environmental effects. There is usually significant uncertainty. Faced with uncertainty political and business leaders often call for more research to be done. This is often in areas where there will always be uncertainty because the systems are either so complex or it would take years and many people to collate enough data and analyse it to reduce the uncertainty significantly.
|My friend Catarina is dwarfed by this giant dying pine
Following is a passage from the introduction in 1980 by George Wald, Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine, Professor of Biology at Harvard:
|A giant old pine with no needles at all
I feel like I've said pretty much everything that needs to be said about ozone, to essentially no avail. It's
Perhaps humans are necrophiliacs after all. The examples of mania are increasing exponentially. Just announced on ESPN is the collaboration between Al Gore and Miller Entertainment for the new campaign "I Am Pro Snow".
For good measure, clueless George Monbiot just wrote a long sobby boo-hoo post about the ash trees being wiped out in Europe, called "Heart Rot" - with nary a mention of ozone, either (even though I've written him about it more than once but hey - why would he pay attention?). He observes: "One of the effects of ash die-back is what foresters call heart rot: the fungus penetrates into the core of the wood." I guess that would be the equivalent of tooth decay or athlete's foot?
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Oxford University Press
That last conclusion is so typical of inverted, double negatives used in science to soften the import. What it should say is not "recoveries of ozone can reduce losses" but "ozone polluting substances cause significant crop yield losses". But that would be too straightforward.
This short video demonstrates that long-term, chronic exposure to low doses of pesticides could be playing a dominent role in bee colony collapse. Now, wasn't somebody saying something about how long-term, chronic exposure to low but constant doses of dangerous substances...like radiation...or ozone... is really, really bad....?


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"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!"
There is not much to Les Ulis, a collection of shabby concrete and ill-concieved mid-century tower blocks, born of the booming 1960s French economy. It is a town far from the emotional heart of the student uprisings that took place later in the decade and the cultural renaissance that followed.
Located in département Essonne, some 20 miles south of Paris, Les Ulis boasts little of note. Courtabœuf, one of the continent's largest industrial parks, forms a large part of the area's post '60s development.
It is a suburb seemingly far from the nation's cultural heartbeat, but one that has become a maternal home to myriad talent. Thierry Henry, Yaya Sanogo, Patrice Evra, and Anthony Martial, call Les Ulis home.
Founded in 1977, amid the building works of the new town, Club Omnisport des Ulis operates much as it has for the best part of 40 years. It is a breeding ground for youth, a social club for the local community, and a team barely ascended from the lower reaches of the French league system. Martial's rise to the professional ranks was hardly certain then, although the adage that talent begets talent may well be true however modest the surroundings.
Martial's acquisition by Manchester United was not without criticism this side of the channel, nor doubt back in France. Humble beginnings will breed that. The predominant opinion was that Martial owned a sharp talent, but one that had achieved limited returns in less than 50 matches as a professional.
After all Monaco had snapped up the youngster as a 16-year-old for just €5 million in 2013, and while there was much hope for the free-scoring French under-16 international, no guarantee comes with a talent so raw.
And in truth few supporters knew much about Martial before United's deadline day largess; a transfer that will cost the club at least €40 million, with substantial add-ons should Martial become one of the planet's finest. Even those who caught Monaco's Champions League fixture against Arsenal last season, will only fleetingly remember the player, save for the sprightly run and pass that enabled Dimitar Berbatov for the French side's breakaway third goal.
For the rest Martial's introduction at Old Trafford has heralded a joyous few days. Four games in which the level of expectation has risen from abstract hope to stratospheric confidence. Warnings of 'early days' be gone: everything Martial has demonstrated to date screams 'world star in the making'. Heaven indeed.
Here is a player with all the requisite tools. The youngster's first touch is outstanding, the pace blistering and his composure puts more seasoned players to shame. There's something else though; a touch of magic whenever Martial gets the ball and runs at an opponent. The last player to pass through Old Trafford with that talent: Cristiano Ronaldo. Wayne Rooney once had that too.
"He's like you see him in a game, very calm, very relaxed, his head is on his shoulders," says Morgan Schneiderlin of his compatriot and now international team-mate.
"He's an amazing talent, many people would have been confused by the price tag but he came to the Premier League on his toes. He just wants to do the best, he's a very intelligent guy, very calm, has shown great composure, great skill and great power. He will be a great player for the future of Manchester United."
That intelligence has seemingly accelerated adaptation to a new environment, although his manager, Louis van Gaal, admits that the real test will come when wife and child join the player in Manchester later this month. For the moment Martial is camped in the Lowry Hotel – and living on the adrenaline from goals scored against Liverpool, Southampton and Ipswich Town.
In those four strikes Martial has set a high bar, but each also offers confidence in the multi-faceted talent at play. Against Liverpool Martial scored the most individual of goals, weaving between two defenders and calmly scoring; the predator emerged in United's fixture with Southampton; and in last week's game at home to Ipswich the teenager demonstrated the raw power at his disposal.
So can Martial continue in a similar vein in more testing fixtures to come during a difficult October programme?
"He has the talent for it, that I have said, but when you are 19 years old you cannot expect consistency. Mostly, he shall have a lot of dips so that I expect also from him," says Van Gaal.
"But that is not a big problem for me. I am very happy with what he gave and the talent at a high level. And he has adapted to the system that we want, which is also important. He wants to do that and it is not so easy."
The fine start to his United career, adds Van Gaal, is down to "luck, quality and an open personality."
"The main thing is his quality. As a player, he has to do it and he has to cope with the pressure. What we have seen until now, he can do it. He is listening, he is watching, he is focusing on the matches. For a manager, he is a very coachable player."
It is an assessment that could once be made of Wayne Rooney, of course, now United's elder statesman whose form and declining talent is held in stark contrast to Martial's explosive introduction. Rooney's acquisition came at a similarly lofty price for a teenage striker who had appeared in just 77 games for Everton before a £27 million move to Old Trafford in 2004.
Rooney was electric too, scoring a hat-trick on his début against Fenerbahce in the Champions League, and grabbing 17 in 33 starts during his first campaign for United. Martial and manager alike would be delighted with a similar return in the Frenchman's first season in Manchester.
Martial's introduction also tempts nostalgia for the player Rooney once was. In the Scouser's golden period – between 2005 and 2011 – Rooney was for a time one of the world's great forwards. It is easy to forget the superb number nine and gifted number 10. Two players in one. Rooney ran at opponents with electric pace, bringing supporters to their feet, much as Martial does now. As a teenager Rooney had the touch and maturity of player far more experienced.
Today, Rooney is neither United's best number nine, nor the team's most talent 10. Too slow off the mark to trouble the best central defenders as a lone striker; too crude with his first touch to compare with the best creative players in Van Gaal's squad, let alone on the continent. If Martial has done anything, it might well be to hasten Rooney's gradual elimination from the team. The club might just be better for it.
The temptation is to declare Rooney shot. Not that the former Evertonian has become a player of limited talent, but that too many years and too many games – and perhaps too little professionalism – have blunted Rooney's pace and loosened the technique.
Still, Rooney has scored five for United this season – three against Club Brugge, another in the Capital One Cup fixture with Ipswich last Wednesday and one in off his knee on Saturday versus Sunderland. It was the Scouser's first Premier League goal since April.
"I don't think that is an issue for him, for me or for the club, so he shall score also in the Premier League. That I am convinced of. And you shall see it," claims Van Gaal, but he cannot be without concern.
Martial, meanwhile, is rapidly paying off his fee, while covering for Rooney's sharp decline. That hefty fee secured his old club in Les Ulis a £150,000 windfall as part of FIFA's 'solidarity' system. It completes, in a fashion, a full circle for the teenager who once received Evra's boots as an inspirational gift.


text: Hopefully posting in right forum. I'm involved in a local historical society in Clare County, Michigan. Clare for decades was the home of a Holley carburetor plant. We have a photo of five men in front of a airplane with "The Chief" painted on the side. Looks like the photo was probably from late 1950s or early 1960s. I've searched for images of George & Earl Holley, and it appears that they may be two of the men in the photo. I'd like someone who would know to positively identify this as being a Holley photograph. I'd be happy to share the photo with anyone who's interested. I have no idea whether it's a local photograph or maybe a generic & popular press release. If the older gentleman is George, it looks like it be in his later years. My email address is [email protected] Thank you.


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Today, the weather report for the neighborhood of Cleveland Browns Stadium said, "Rain is only occurring in a few spots." One was, for most the game, the stadium itself, and another might as well have been the press box. If you checked in on Browns and Bills beat writers, you found a lot of deadpan reactions to some pretty bad football and some outright griping. "Perpetually cursed" popped up a couple times. A small sample:
Lighten up: You're in Cleveland with the whole night ahead of you.
Fittingly, our GIF today is sure to make fans of both teams sad: C.J. Spiller burning the Browns defense for a long touchdown run off a Ryan Fitzpatrick screen pass. Cool, right? But that same C.J. Spiller injured his shoulder and was "in obvious pain as he stayed on the ground for several minutes before he was helped to his feet by trainers." Enjoy this one—might be the last we see of Spiller on the field for a little while.
Tashard Choice actually filled in admirably, and may have been the difference—he ended up with 91 yard on 20 carries—but really, the difference was that the Browns offense never got going: At one point, Trent Richardson—otherwise known as the only reason to watch Browns games—had 4 yards on 7 carries, and that was right before halftime. He'd end up punching in a TD on his next run, but a total of 27 yards from your marquee rookie won't do it. (2-1) Bills 24, (0-3) Browns 14. At least Browns fans got a jump on the traffic:


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Institute offering cash incentive to early birds
January 7, 2013
Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is accepting scholarship applications for the 2013-2014 school year.
The deadline to apply is March 1, 2013.
However, the institute is offering a $50 incentive to those who complete their scholarship application on or before Feb. 1 and who are accepted as scholarship recipients; if selected as a recipient, the $50 will be included in their scholarship award. Scholarships must be filled out and submitted online.
Awards will be made to Sealaska shareholders and descendants enrolled in accredited colleges, universities and voc-tech schools. The scholarships are given to roughly 400 students per year.
Most scholarship funds awarded are provided by Sealaska Corporation from an endowment and corporate 7 (i) sharing provisions established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). The Section 7(i) Agreement among the regional corporations provides scholarships to students seeking degrees in disciplines that lead to employment in Sealaska or its subsidiaries.
Sealaska Heritage Institute was founded in 1980 to promote cultural diversity and cross-cultural understanding. The institute is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars. Its mission is to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska.
CONTACT: Dr. Rosita Worl, SHI President, 463-4844


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Although rather simple, a sump pump is one of the most important and neglected disaster prevention devices in a home. Sump pumps work systematically each time water fills the sump, making them easy to forget about. While generally very reliable, it is only as good as the power that keeps it operating.
When this simple system breaks down, the results can be catastrophic, resulting in thousands of dollars in damage, daily disruptions caused by major repair work and higher insurance premiums for years to come. So spending some time and money on averting failure makes a lot of sense. That's the benefit of sump pump battery backup systems—no matter what the cause of the pump failure, a backup system will save the day.
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Battery water levels must be inspected every few months
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Playing "spot the Stan Lee cameo" is a tradition when watching Marvel movies, but in an upcoming episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., he'll be getting more than a brief shot and a quippy line.
Taylor Lorenz Talks "Extremely Online"
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the comic book creator will have a "big role" in an episode that will likely air on February 4th. It's not the only place Lee will be spreading his acting wings; he's also starring in the animated movie Stan Lee's Mighty 7, which will appear on the Hub on February 1st.
So, will Lee be playing another version of himself on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D? Or will we see him get into a different sort of character?
It's Official: Stan Lee to Appear on 'Marvel's Agents of SHIELD' [THR via Bleeding Cool]


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My friends from the french art site Cafesale.net have started a project in order to help Japan and the dramatic situation going on right now in the North East. the project can be found here: Tsunami - Des Images pour le Japon it's all in french, but the images don't need words do they?
Here is my modest contribution for their fantastic and courageous initiative.