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Thanks for the advice. I guess I hadn't looked at it that way. You guys just taught me a lesson in debating over the internet. Who do I pay? lol. Now I know not to take it so personal. Oh well, back to basketball. So what do ya think about the Lakers and the celtics? I think the Lakers are gonna take it. But after seeing paul pierce' passion for the game, and considering how long he's been struggling with the Celtics. I think he deserves more than anyone. So I'm a bit indifferent.
I want the Celtics to win because I am a huge Pierce fan (Rock Chalk), and I think the whole Big 3 deserves a Championship. But the Lakers are just so damn good and good on both sides of the ball. If they had Bynum it'd be over in 5, but since he is out the Celtics still have a chance. And you know KG and Pierce are going to show up, if Allen can show up to, then who knows maybe that home court will help them out.
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Well, there's something you don't see every day.
Reader Dynatos brings this gripping image from Champions Online to our attention: "A superhero that has come back out of retirement, Granny Freedom grapples across Millennium City's skies on the lookout for both evil-doers and heroes who need a little help with their moral compass!"
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Indianapolis Colts: All-Star Offense Will Dominate, Defense Will SatisfyJune 28, 2008
Team Outlook
With nine of 11 offensive starters from 2007 returning, the Colts' explosive attack will eat up defenses like Popeye eats spinach.
Manning, Harrison, Wayne, Clark, Addai, and Rhodes are a group of men that will put teams like "The Greatest Show on Turf" to shame. Along with four of the five offensive linemen returning, Indy's offense will sparkle as they chow down on defenses with an energy that will be unmatched. As long as everyone stays healthy, a march to Tampa Bay is highly possible.
However, the run defense will be a huge factor in the 2008 campaign. The Colts will be playing against a number of running backs that, at one point or another, are Pro Bowlers and even future Hall of Famers: Adrian Peterson, Maurice Jones-Drew and Fred Taylor (twice), Willie Parker, LaDainian Tomlinson, and Jamal Lewis.
The lack of size at linebacker (middle linebacker Gary Brackett is only 5'11") will pressure the attributes of speed, strength, and agility to excel. Though the Colts run defense did improve in 2007, adjustments need to be made. The point is that the linebackers just need to get better. The D-line is impressive, but the front four alone will not be able to stop the aforementioned players.
Indy's defensive backs look great! Marlin Jackson, Bob Sanders, Antoine Bethea, and Kelvin Hayden are all young, skilled players that will control the air attack. What these four have that not many other secondaries have is brilliancy. They are quick to respond and are lightning fast when moving into zone coverage.
Schedule Outlook and Predictions
The Colts have a tough schedule. The Colts have an EXTREMELY tough schedule. With 10 games against teams that had records above .500 in 2007, 16-0 just isn't possible.
But this year will be an emotional year for the Colts. Tony Dungy will be coaching against friends from his past for probably the last time. And there is a large chance that legend Marvin Harrison will retire after this season.
Now, to the schedule analysis.
Sept. 7, Chicago at Indianapolis: Home opener and first game at the Lucas Oil Stadium. Bears keep game close, but Colts start pulling away late.
Indianapolis: 24-13
Sept. 14, Indianapolis at Vikings: Colts play the run all night and force Minnesota to throw. Offense shines and game turns into long night for the Vikings.
Indianapolis: 31-14
Sept. 21, Jacksonville at Indianapolis: Jacksonville has a strong defense and explosive offense. Colts try same defensive game-plan as in Week Two, but the Jaguars' offense perseveres. Game is decided by last-second field goal by Adam Vinatieri.
Indianapolis: 16-13
Oct. 5, Indianapolis at Houston: Colts come off from their bye week rested and refreshed. They then proceed to seize control early in the game and never let go.
Indianapolis: 24-7
Oct. 12, Baltimore at Indianapolis: The Ravens' legendary defense come to Indianapolis and gives Colts fans a run for their money. In the end, the Colts grasp a lead and hold on in a very low-scoring game.
Indianapolis: 13-7
Oct. 19, Indianapolis at Green Bay: Tony Dungy has never won as a head coach in Lambeau Field. To finally pull one off here would be the ultimate gift from the players. Indy's defense shines, but the offense stutters at first. Colts pull this one off by extending a second-half lead and not letting go.
Indianapolis: 31-17
Oct. 27, Indianapolis at Tennessee: Sigh! The Patriots will be the first to tell you that nobody is perfect, and the Colts lose to the Titans by just a hair. Defense doesn't do anything spectacular, and the offense is sloppy. Titans command the whole game and win by double digits on Monday Night Football.
Tennessee: 28-13
Nov. 2, New England at Indianapolis: The rivalry continues as the Colts fix mistakes from the week before. Addai, Rhodes, and Hart all play with passion and give a sell-out crowd a win.
Indianapolis: 31-24
Nov. 9, Indianapolis at Pittsburgh: Colts play without passion while Big Ben and Willie Parker eat up Indy's defense. Steelers score first and never give up the lead. Manning is pressured all day, and the Steelers' defense proves themselves.
Pittsburgh: 24-10
Nov. 16, Houston at Indianapolis: Colts stay atop the AFC South with an easy win. The offense plays hard, and the defense practices fundamentals while Indy beats the determined Texans in a boring game.
Indianapolis: 38-16
Nov. 23, Indianapolis at San Diego: Last year, Manning threw six interceptions and the special teams let two returns go all the way. This year, the Colts hold LT and rattle Philip Rivers all night. Running game gets revenge for getting knocked out of the playoffs, and the Chargers leave the field disappointed.
Indianapolis: 20-10
Nov. 30, Indianapolis at Cleveland: The Browns are good. The dog pound sucks to be in when you are the opposing team. Jamal Lewis breezes all over the field, and the Browns hand the Colts their third loss of the year in a high-scoring battle.
Cleveland: 42-35
Dec. 7, Cincinnati at Indianapolis: Two excellent quarterbacks face-off as the running game is a deciding factor. Addai and Rhodes both have big games while the Colts' defense does their job.
Indianapolis: 41-14
Dec. 14, Detroit at Indianapolis: Dungy versus apprentice Rod Marinelli. Manning and company play well, but the defense struggles. Colts pull off another boring game.
Indianapolis: 26-12
Dec. 18, Indianapolis at Jacksonville: The Jaguars blow the Colts out of the water with the running game. Indy never has a chance on Thursday night. Everyone watching turns off the TV and goes to bed towards the end of the third quarter.
Jacksonville: 45-14
Dec. 28, Tennessee at Indianapolis: The Colts wrap up season with a win against the Titans. Defense is factor, but ultimately it's an uneventful game as both teams have playoff berths at this time and rests starters.
Indianapolis: 17-6
Division record: 4-2
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It is hard even to think of it now, to believe it exists. I write this in August, in Michigan (and it feels sometimes like I am always in Michigan), on one of the first days we've had where you can even start believing in fall again. It's been hot this summer, hot everywhere. The television says heat wave and the documentaries tell me about global warming and what I can do to stop it and I feel like I am beneath someone's thumb or mouth or boot. My friend Emma moved into her new apartment a couple weeks ago, during the second big heat wave of the summer, in the historic neighborhood (on the National Register of Historic Places, no less, meaning that you need permission to change anything on the exterior of your house) that has a lot of houses worth a lot of money, and her first night in her new place the power went. Turns out the power company shut down the transformer for six hours to upgrade something because they thought it would blow under the increased load from the trillion air conditioners humming and dripping throughout the day, the night, and so they fixed it and got the grid back up and running, only to have a limb break and drop on the now-fixed transformer 12 hours later, thus bringing the grid back down for another six hours. Emma was too hot, and too mannered and laid back, really, to be irate. Everyone on the block surely baked.
It was hot everywhere for a week, and we baked, and some of us probably wept, and we begged the gods for succor, like one of those Coors Light ads where the Love Train from the disco song shows up blasting all these tank-topped hotties with the frosty goodness of the Silver Bullet. That would have been okay with me—one of the few times I have craved Coors Light in my life.
But today, today is a different story—it's cooled, 70s, full-on sun, but it's dry and beautiful. One of these days that is all summer but that which simultaneously suggests summer's end, which means fall and the semester and Back to School Days at Target and Wal-Mart and Meijer, which means, if you follow it logically, that there must be a winter after this, and winter in Michigan means snow, even on the West edge of the Lower Peninsula where everyone complains about how bad we have it, how much snow we get. Let me tell you people: my home in the Upper Peninsula has it much worse than this. Of course so does Canada and Greenland and the Arctic Circle. I feel obligated to testify for my customary stoicism in the face of overwhelming inclement weather. Everyone in the Midwest feels stoic, sort of hardy, at some point. It is probably a human trait, but it's a Midwestern one to be sure, to complain about the weather, but really complain about the complainers who can't take a good Midwestern winter, because we had it worse, no doubt about it, uphill both ways to school being whipped by giant fishheads, etc.
But that—the logical ebb of summer into snow—is far off today. And the gradual reduction in gradations on our thermometers will happen eventually, as we approach less atomic motion, as we asymptotically approach absolute zero, if you really want to follow the logical end of it all, everything: the whole universe eventually waning, falling apart, losing energy and dissipating in the void.
I sort of want it to happen.
Then people would stop complaining, at least.
And I do want the snow, the trudge, the February sludging when it all gets dirty and starts building up. I want to be buried in it, these extremes of weather again. I am sort of thankful even for the big heat wave because it raises the body's appreciation for heat's opposite, the comfort of the cold.
I am a warm person. I sweat, I swear I don't wear sweaters, or if I wear them I don't wear coats on top of them. I am made by the cold. I am made for the cold. It is in my Scandinavian blood. My people go from the sauna into water underneath the frozen skin of lake. And as much as I enjoy the heat, I want immobility, I want to dress up to go outside again, I want to court hypothermia as I would a woman.
See also William Bentley. See also Observations of Snow Structure. See also Frequently Asked Questions about Snow. See also the NOAA's National Weather Service Photo Archives. See also the Houghton County Road Commission's website. See also the Michigan Snowmobile Association. See also the MTU Keweenaw Research Center's Institute of Snow Research. See also The Avalanche Research Page. See also Paradoxical Undressing. See also Neck Deep.


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Rocket boffinry in pictures: Gulp the Devil's venom and light a match
How scientists sup from Wernher von Braun's cup
Posted in Science, 2nd April 2013 06:17 GMT
Feature It's been more than 70 years since the first successful test flight of the German Vergeltungswaffe 2 (V2) - the weapon that paved the way for subsequent rocket-based efforts to escape Earth's surly bonds.
On 3 October 1942, a team headed by Wernher von Braun watched its creation rise from the launchpad at Peenemünde, little suspecting that within three years it would conduct similar test flights for the benefit of the United States.
Wernher von Braun at Peenemünde in 1942, and in his office in the US
Von Braun's work on the V2 was vital to America's space ambitions, and he successfully guided the country towards the mighty Saturn V, which lifted Apollo missions to the Moon.
In the 43 years since Neil Armstrong planted his boots on the lunar surface, we've honed the art of the rocket launch, enabling us to establish bases in Earth orbit, send probes to distant worlds and ring our planet with satellites and telescopes giving a tantalising glimpse into the vast universe beyond our tiny blue marble.
However, all of these achievements are underpinned by technology that hasn't changed much since the V2, for all the advances in fuels, materials and electronics.
Spot the difference: V2 and Soyuz launches
The V2 was powered by a liquid ethanol/water mix and liquid oxygen (LOX). The Russian workhorse Soyuz has, since the 1960s, been lifting payloads with a blend of LOX and kerosene. In both cases, the initial propellant/oxidant mass constitutes a large percentage of the total vehicle mass, and this seriously limits the rockets' ability to lift large loads.
The use of solid rocket boosters (SRBs) can provide extra oomph, as shown in the US's space shuttle programme, although this "light the blue touch paper and stand well back" approach has its risks.
Whether a rocket is powered by liquid or solid propellant - or a combination of both - the quantities of potentially explosive material required just to get off the ground makes vehicles prone to spectacular - and sometimes tragic - failure. The 1986 Challenger disaster was caused by a seal failure in one of the orbiter's SRBs, which in turn ruptured the external liquid hydrogen fuel tank, resulting in a catastrophic explosion.
Nonetheless, space agencies worldwide continue to put their faith in rockets, in the absence of a workable alternative. In the next part of our series, we'll look at some theoretical technologies which may one day render the grandchildren of the V2 obsolete. First, here's a quick overview of various current international capabilities.
In 2003, the communist state put itself on the orbital map with its Shenzhou 5 mission, becoming the third nation to develop an independent manned-spaceflight capability.
"Taikonaut" Yang Liwei was lifted aloft by a Long March 2F rocket burning the hypergolic melange of dinitrogen tetroxide (N2O4 - aka nitrogen tetroxide, or "NTO") and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) in four main engines and four strap-on boosters. The final stage packed a single N2O4/UDMH unit.
A Long March 2F lifts Shenzhou 5 at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in 2003
Development of the Long March series began back in the 1960s, based on the country's intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) programmes.
The Long March 3 and 4 series - mostly rolled out for satellite launches - also use N2O4/UDMH motors, although the final stage of the 3 variant is reportedly a liquid hydrogen (LH2) and LOX powerplant.
The Long March 5, 6 and 7, currently in development, will switch to LOX and kerosene for the main stages, sticking with LH2/LOX for the final stage. Exact details are not forthcoming, since the Chinese National Space Administration is remaining tight-lipped on its capabilities.
Hypergolic rocket fuels work on the spontaneous combustion on contact between propellants, such as N2O4 and forms of hydrazine (N2H4). The engine of Germany's Messerschmitt Me 163 brought together a mix of 80 per cent concentrated hydrogen peroxide and 20 per cent oxyquinoline (T-Stoff) with methanol blended with hydrazine hydrate (C-Stoff) to provoke the required reaction.
Such fuels have a reputation for toxicity and instability. Soviet scientists honoured nitric acid plus hydrazine with the name "Devil's venom" for its corrosive and poisonous properties.
Although stable, Devil's venom claimed the lives of 92 people in October 1960 at Baikonur test range, when the second-stage engine of a prototype R-16 rocket fired on the launchpad, provoking a massive explosion. The event is the worst disaster in the history of rocketry.
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Ariane 5 has a heavyweight reputation in the commercial launch sector, and its 2011 lift of the 20.06-tonne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Johannes Kepler - carrying supplies to the International Space Station - showed it has the clout to mix it with the big boys.
The heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA
Ariane was spawned in a 1973 agreement between France, Germany and Britain. While the the 1-4 models evolved from ICBM technology, the 5 series represented a virtually complete redesign intended for tasks such as carrying the proposed Hermes spacecraft into orbit. The Evolution Cryotechnique type A (ECA) variant, seen above, is a satellite-lifting workhorse capable of hefting 10 tonnes, while the more powerful ES (Evolution Storable) model is responsible for ATV duty.
Since 1996, the Ariane 5 has performed 68 launches, with four failures. It relies on LH2/LOX for single main and second-stage engines, backed by two SRBs.
These boosters are - in common with those from the space shuttle programme and small motors regularly used by amateur rocketeers - packed with ammonium perchlorate composite propellant (APCP).
This is a solid mass of oxidising ammonium perchlorate and aluminium powder, held in a binder - commonly hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB), which is also a fuel in its own right for some hybrid rockets.
In the case of the Ariane 5, the boosters provide 92 per cent of thrust at lift-off, with each burning 138 tonnes of APCP until separation at an altitude of about 60km.
SRBs provide plenty of bangs per buck, although their obvious disadvantage is they can't be turned off once you hit the igniter button.
APCP will continue to give the Ariane 5 a leg-up for the foreseeable future. The ESA hopes to have an "ES Galileo" version of the rocket ready by 2014, able to put four Galileo global navigation system satellites into orbit in one hit.
Since its establishment in 1969, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has overseen the subcontinent's advance from its first satellite - 1975's Soviet-launched Aryabhata - to the 2008 Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter and impactor mission.
Chandrayaan-1 was launched atop a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), and the ISRO website offers overviews of this and the country's other operational lifter: the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
India's Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) blasts off from Satish Dawan Space Center at Sriharikota in September 2004
The PSLV's range of thruster types is interesting. The first stage boasts "one of the largest solid propellant boosters in the world", tipping the scales at 139 tonnes of fuel. It's assisted by six strap-on solid propellant motors, four fired on launch and two in the air.
The second stage "Vikas" engine is a N2O4/UDMH unit, while the third is once again fuelled by solid propellant. The fourth stage has two engines fuelled by the hypergolic reaction between monomethylhydrazine (MMH) and nitrogen oxides.
The three-stage GSLV has the same solid propellant first stage as the PSLV, but with four Vikas engine boosters strapped on. The second stage is propelled by a single Vikas engine, and the third has a liquid hydrogen/LOX motor.
The ISRO is currently developing the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-III (GSLV III), with two solid boosters, a liquid-fuelled second stage and a final LH2/LOX push capable of putting satellites weighing anywhere between 4,500kg and 5,000kg into orbit.
In 2007, the country announced it will put a pair of astronauts into a seven-day low-Earth orbit in 2016, thereby becoming the fourth nation in the extra-atmospheric manned mission club.
Japan's first forays into space - such as its first satellite Ohsumi, launched in 1970 - relied on purely solid rocket motor technology.
However, as the Hayabusa probe blasted off en route to the Itokawa asteroid in 2003, propelled by a M-V solid-fuel rocket, the country was struggling to get its HII liquid-fuelled programme off the ground.
The National Space Development Agency of Japan (absorbed into the newly formed Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency - JAXA - in 2003) suffered two early failures of the LH2/LOX rocket, and it wasn't until 2005 that a HIIA model enjoyed its first successful flight.
In its standard configuration, the HIIA's single main engine is augmented by two "polybutadiene composite solid propellant boosters", lifting the second stage and its LH2</LOX engine heavenwards.
JAXA's H-II B on the launch pad in July 2012
The mightier HIIB has two first-stage liquid motors, plus four solid boosters, and a LH2/LOX second stage.
The HIIB's maiden flight was the 2009 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) mission to the International Space Station, in support of the orbiting outpost's Kibo laboratory.
According to JAXA, the HIIB's two primary roles are HTV operations and multiple satellite launches. The HIIA is also capable of lifting multiple kit, as it showed back in January when it deployed two satellites, including the Information Gathering Satellite (IGS), designed to warn of hostile missile activity.
With its tried-and-trusted Soyuz system, Russia is currently the only nation able to deliver astronauts or cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS). The venerable Soyuz lifter dates back to 1966, a development of the Vostok rocket family, which in turn evolved from the world's first ICBM - the R-7 Semyorka.
Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft blasts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 14, 2004, carrying astronauts to the space station
With over 1,700 lift-offs under their belt, the Soyuz's kerosene/LOX engines have proved a reliable and economic means of getting off the ground. The vehicle has six motors, one for each of the second and third stages, with four bolted to the second-stage core in their familiar conical housings. The Soyuz-2 variant has an optional N2O4/UDMH third stage, allowing it to launch satellites into higher orbits.
Soyuz's long career has not been without its low points. In August 2011, an unmanned Progress vehicle was lost after a rocket malfunction delivered it to Siberia rather than the ISS. In January this year, mindful of Soyuz's creaking bones, the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) announced it would spend £43bn on an "energy transportation module with a promising propulsion installation that will be ready for testing by 2018".
In the meantime, Soyuz will slog on, as will the long-serving Proton heavy lifter, which mostly earns its keep as a commercial satellite transport.
A proton carries the DIRECTV 12 satellite aloft in 2009
The Proton's maiden flight was in 1965, after the Soviet Union scrapped its initial plan to use the design and its N2O4/UDMH powerplants as a "super ICBM".
No less than ten hypergolic motors - six in the first stage, three in the second and one in the third - give the current Proton M variant the capability to lift 22 tonnes to low Earth orbit, or 3.2 tonnes into geostationary orbit.
The Proton is slated to be replaced by the Angara 5 rocket - part of a family of various lifting capacities built on a kerosene/LOX-powered "Universal Rocket Module" concept, where more modules bolted to a common core provide more lift. The second stage will carry either a kerosene/LOX motor, or the Proton's N2O4/UDMH engine.
United States
Over the past couple of years, there's been less talk about what the United States can do in terms of rocket lifting, and more focus on what it can't do.
Following the retirement of the space shuttle, America no longer has the capability to put people into space, and relies on the Russian Soyuz to do the job.
While it works on a homebuilt alternative, though, it's business as usual for the US tech sector charged with aerospace grunt work. The Atlas V has been a quiet success story since its first flight in 2002, suffering just one anomaly (early shut-off of its Centaur upper stage motor) in 37 missions.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket prepared for launch in 2002
The Atlas V is built around a "standard common core booster", around which up to five SRBs can be bolted according to requirements. The core comprises a Russian-built RD-180 keresone/LOX engine and Centaur second stage.
The Centaur commonly packs a single LH2/LOX motor, although two is an option if required. The 552 configuration (5.4m wide payload fairing, five SRBs and two Centaur engines) has the power to raise 20,520kg into low Earth orbit.
Plans are afoot to bring the Atlas V up to NASA "human-rating" standards. Boeing is eyeing the rocket as a lifter for its CST-100 (Crew Space Transportation) capsule, for private space flights and trips to the International Space Station.
Snapping at Boeing's heels in the race to get astronauts back into orbit on US-built kit is SpaceX, whose Falcon 9 has made headlines of late by successfully launching its unmanned Dragon capsules to the ISS, and successfully returning them to Earth.
Falcon 9 lift-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida
The Falcon 9's power comes from nine kerosene/LOX "Merlin" engines in its first stage, and a single Merlin in its second. Since the second stage is simply a scaled-down version of the first, with both sharing common components, SpaceX reckons the resulting construction savings are reflected in the rocket's "lowest cost per kilogram to orbit". For those considering sending something aloft, the company offers fixed-price launches for a modest $54m.
Drink the Devil's venom? No thanks...
This quick trip around the world of big-lift rocketry indicates we shouldn't expect any ground-breaking advances in the near future, at least on the fuel front.
That SpaceX relies on a simple blend of kerosene/LOX is significant. It's tried-and-trusted stuff, used for years on Soyuz and Atlas, and now proposed for the Russia's Angara rocket family, which will replace the hypergolic-powered Proton.
Similarly, China looks set to make the switch from hypergolic juice to kerosene/LOX for future models in its Long March family, with LH2/LOX powering the final stage, in common with the Atlas V's Centaur.
Accordingly, liquid hydrogen/oxygen mixes have a assured place on the launch pad - albeit with the problems associated with cryogenic fuels. SRBs, meanwhile, will continue to be the low-cost powerhouse of choice for going that extra mile.
In the end, though, for all the advances in design, composite materials, and control and computer systems, getting into orbit is still basically a matter of injecting a flammable substance and oxidiser into a combustion chamber and putting a match to it. In that sense, the Falcon 9 is simply a V2 with less sinister aims.
In the next part of this series, we'll investigate technologies offering an alternative to the rocket, and ponder whether we'll ever escape Wernher von Braun's long shadow. ®


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Serves 2
- 4 slices of whole-wheat bread
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- 1 large hothouse tomato, thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, "coarse" setting
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- 2 tablespoons olive oil, preferably organic extra-virgin
- Toast the slices of whole-wheat bread. Sprinkle the tomato slices with the freshly ground black pepper. Place the tomato slices and the cucumber slices on each of two slices.
- In a stainless-steel frypan, heat the olive oil over moderate heat. Crack two eggs open, inspect for any spots, and if not spotted, place in pan. When thoroughly cooked, remove and place on one of the slices of whole wheat bread. Repeat the process.
- Place the cooked bull's eye eggs on each of the two slices of bread, covering the tomato and cucumber slices. Cover with the remaining slices, then cut each sandwich diagonally in half.
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The ongoing debate of what's worse for you, artificial sweetener or (added) sugar, is one that carries many opinions, but not always facts. What's happened over time is that people heard one thing, it stuck, and then they brought it up whenever the topic arose. However, New York Times' contributor and health researcher Adam E. Carroll, likely in an effort to spare future dinner party arguments, evaluated the evidence and broke it down, noting a clear winner: artificial sweetener.
See, back in the 1980s, saccharin, an artificial sweetener that's been around forever, was deemed a problematic chemical, with Congress deciding that any product that contained it also needed a warning: "Use of this product may be hazardous to your health. This product contains saccharin, which has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals."
Why? Because more than 50 studies were done about saccharin in lab rats. One of those studies actually found a correlation between the artificial sweetener and disease. The great fear then, as a result of the tests, was that saccharin caused bladder cancer. But, apparently, in a much later reveal, it was noted that the study focused on a certain type of rat, one that's regularly infected with a bladder parasite anyway.
Moving onto humans, though, studies across North America and Europe had trouble determining an association between saccharin consumption and bladder cancer once cigarette smoking was accounted for. So, in 2000, saccharin was removed from the carcinogen list.
But a bad rep can be hard to lose.
That's where aspartame, another artificial sweetener, came in. But though it was more or less considered a replacement for saccharin, it went through the same thing because studies were "highly contested."
Meanwhile, added sugar intake increases the fat and overall weight of a person. Toward the end of his argument, Carroll summarizes the two heavyweights.
Another meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2013, found that sugar-sweetened beverages alone cause body weight to go up in adults. In comparison, a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of artificial or low-calorie sweeteners published last year in the same journal found that their use led to lower body weight and less overall fat.
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Americans More Skeptical About Global Warming
A new poll released this week shows that Americans are becoming more skeptical about global warming.
The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press polled 1,500 US adults from September 30 to October 4.The new poll found that only 57 percent of Americans believe there is "solid evidence" for the existence of global warming, compared to 71 percent in April 2008.
Additionally, the poll shows that the percentage of Americans who believe global warming is caused by human activity has dropped from 47 percent last year to 36 percent today.
"The decline in the belief in solid evidence of global warming has come across the political spectrum, but has been particularly pronounced among independents," the report said, noting that 53 percent of independents believe in solid evidence of global warming, compared to 75 percent in April 2008.
What's more, already skeptical Republicans became more skeptical with only 35 percent of Republicans confirming evidence of global warming, down from 49 percent in 2008 and 62 percent in 2007.
However, the poll shows that half of Americans favor a plan to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions, even if it leads to higher energy costs; 39 percent are opposed to such measures.
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By Mindy Thomas Sparks
No matter what He may wear, God had a plan to save the world.
"Does God wear a cape?" This was the question posed by our 4-year-old son riding home from a football game one Friday night. My husband and I looked at each other, smiled quizzically, and pondered just the right answer to give.
My husband, a pastor and therefore the resident theologian, answered first. "Whitt, the Bible doesn't say God doesn't wear a cape, so I guess it's possible." Whitt smiled, obviously satisfied with the answer.
As we proceeded to drive the rest of the way home, I thought to myself, What if God does wear a cape? Maybe He uses it to dry my tears when my heart shatters into a million pieces or wraps it around me when the coldness of agony or loneliness washes over me. Maybe He uses it as a sling to carry around the babies who have already gone to be with Him or lets the children take turns riding on it like my daddy used to do with us and a blanket down the hallway of my childhood home.
As Jesus was laid in the manger, He was our Hero, our Champion, our Savior.
The more I thought about it — God with a cape — the more I liked the idea. A superhero, not one who possessed minor powers or "spidey-senses," but a real hero. One for the ages, for all people, for all humanity.
As Jesus was laid in the manger, He was our Hero, our Champion, our Savior — as if He traded His swaddling clothes for a cape; one He wore all the way to the cross. When we get to heaven, our eyes will see this Hero in all His glory. And I bet if He does have a cape, He will let us ride on it all the way to our mansion in glory. •
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Overall rate for all ISU student athletes is 89 percent
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana State University's men's basketball team has a 100 percent graduation success rate, according to an NCAA report released Tuesday, one of just 27 schools nationwide to achieve that perfect score.
In addition, the Indiana State athletic program has an 89 percent graduation rate for student-athletes, well above the national average of 79 percent.
"The Graduation Success Rate is something that we take a lot of pride in at Indiana State Athletics," Ron Prettyman, director of athletics, said. "Our coaches, student athletes, administrators and Student Academic Services Office get a lot of credit for the prioritization of academics in the daily lives of Sycamore student-athletes. The Indiana State University Faculty also gets much credit for their commitment to all students in the effort to create the love of learning in an outstanding educational environment."
The Graduation Success Rate is a measurement of student-athletes at Division I schools within four years of entering classes. The current report measured student-athletes who entered school from 1998-99 to 2001-02. Student-athletes have six years to complete their graduation requirements.
An average of 89 percent of student-athletes who entered Indiana State in the 2001-02 school year graduated with 83 percent of men student-athletes and 96 percent of women student-athletes completing their graduation requirements.
Indiana State, Notre Dame and Evansville were the only men's basketball programs in the state of Indiana with a perfect 100 percent GSR. Among the other Division I schools in Indiana, Butler had 92 percent, Valparaiso 82 percent, Purdue 77 percent, Ball State 67 percent, Indiana 62 percent, IUPUI 52 percent, and IPFW 50 percent. Only Indiana State and Evansville had 100 percent GSR in the Missouri Valley with Southern Illinois third at 86 percent.
The Sycamore football program is tops in the Missouri Valley Football Conference at 80 percent, fourth in the state of Indiana and 41st in the nation out of 233 schools. Only Notre Dame (94 percent), Valparaiso (90 percent) and Butler (83 percent) had better GSR's. Ball State came in at 72 percent, Indiana 58 percent and Purdue 63 percent. The national average for Division I-A is 67 percent and for Division I-AA 65 percent.
The other Indiana State men's sport that had a 100 percent graduation success rate was the tennis team who joined Drake and Evansville as the only Missouri Valley schools with a perfect mark. Sycamore baseball had an 86 percent rate (second best in the Missouri Valley) and men's cross country/track & Field is at 73 percent.
In women's athletics, soccer, softball and tennis each had a perfect score of 100 percent in their GSR. Creighton and Northern Iowa also had a perfect mark in women's soccer while Bradley, Creighton, Drake, Evansville and Southern Illinois were also at 100 percent in softball. Creighton and Evansville were also at 100 percent in women's tennis.
Indiana State's women's basketball team had a graduation success rate of 97 percent which ranks the team eighth in Indiana and 155th nationally out of 318 schools. Evansville, Notre Dame and Valparaiso were the only Indiana schools with a perfect mark of 100 percent. Ball State and Butler were both at 91 percent, Indiana 90 percent, Purdue 89 percent, IUPUI 69 percent and IPFW 42 percent.
Among Valley schools, Creighton, Drake, Evansville and Northern Iowa had perfect marks in women's basketball.
Women's cross country/track & field had a graduation rate of 97 percent which is fourth best in the Missouri Valley. Bradley, Creighton and Evansville had 100 percent GSRs.
For students who enrolled at Indiana State during the 2001-02 year, 62 percent of student-athletics graduated compared to 41 percent of all students. The four-class average was 60 percent for student-athletes and 40 percent for all students.
According to the NCAA study, the most recent GSR data show that 79 percent of freshmen student-athletes who entered college in 2001 earned their four-year degrees. The average Graduation Success Rate for the last four graduating classes is 78 percent. Both rates are up one percentage point from last year.
NCAA president Myles Brand praised the latest figures, citing increased initial-eligibility standards and an overall emphasis on academics, including the development of Academic Progress Rate for each Division I sports team, as key factors contributing to student-athlete success.
"Nearly eight out of 10 Division I student-athletes are finishing college and earning their degrees," Brand said. "This is extremely good news. We still have work to do and can't declare a victory just yet, but the trend lines are moving in the right direction.
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OK Dinghy World Rankings for December 2013
by Robert Deaves on 9 Dec 2013
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OK Dinghy World Ranking - Greg Wilcox (NZL) returns to the top of the final release for 2013 after another solid season. He climbs two places to retake the world number one position he last held in 2011. Nick Craig (GBR) remains in second while previous world No 1, Jørgen Svendsen (DEN), drops to third.
It has a been a busy season following the early world championships in Thailand. World Champion Roger Blasse (AUS) moves up just one place to seventh, while Bo Petersen (DEN), who won the Europeans in Carnac in July, moves up three places to sixth. The European season started in May with the prestigious Spring Cup in Medemblik, which was won by Thomasz Gaj (POL) from the ever improving Richard Burton (GBR) and Andreas Pich (GER).
Thoughts soon turned to the upcoming Europeans in Carnac, France, but first there were three major regattas to complete. First up was the Nordic Championship at Herslev Strand Sejlklub. It was narrowly won by Thomas Hansson-Mild (SWE) from Wilcox and Christian Olesen (DEN). Kiel Week was next with former World Champion André Budzien (GER) winning from Petersen, with Wilcox again getting onto the podium in third. Wilcox then won Warnemünder Woche from Stefan Myralf (DEN) and Hansson-Mild.
The fleet then moved onto France. Just before the Europeans the French Champinship in Quiberon was used as a warm up regatta and Wilcox took his second straight regatta win. Myralf was again second, with Jørgen Lindhardtsen (DEN) third. The Europeans turned out to be a very light affair, but Petersen pulled out all the stops to win his first title in the class, from Myralf and Hansson-Mild, in what turned out to be a very tight and tactical week.
The season concluded with several national championships. First Svendsen took out the Danish Championships, leaving Myralf as runner-up yet again, while Lindhardtsen placed third. Poland's rising star, 16 years old Dawid Kania, won the Polish Championships from Gaj and Pawe? Pawlaczyk (POL).
Then at the beginning of July, Hansson-Mild won the Swedish Championship from Wilcox and Myralf. In September Robert Deaves took his second British title, from defending champion Terry Curtis and Dave Bourne. Rüdiger Prinz (GER) won the Belgian Championship on Galgenweel in Antwerp from Yannick Laumans (BEL) and Ralf Mackmann (GER). Finally at the German Championship, on Lake Zwischenahn, Svendsen won from Budzien, who took the German title, and Martin von Zimmermann (GER) in a wide range of wind conditions.
As this goes to press, the next ranking event Sail Melbourne has just concluded and this will be included in the next release after the New Zealand Championships in April. A large fleet of OK Dinghies are currently sailing in Melbourne ahead of the Interdominion Championships after Christmas and also looking ahead to the next World Championships there at the end of 2014.
All this points to a class is in a pretty healthy state with 455 sailors from 14 nations counting at least one ranking regatta on the current release, with sailors ranging from 16 to 53 years old winning major regattas.
OK Dinghy World Rankings – December 2013
Place, Name, Sail No, points, events
1 Greg Wilcox NZL 544 1024.32 13
2 Nick Craig GBR 2150 974.30 10
3 Jørgen Svendsen DEN 1427 946.59 11
4 Stefan Myralf DEN 1408 929.39 15
5 Jørgen Lindhartdsen DEN 1364 917.33 15
6 Bo Petersen DEN 1421 849.22 9
7 Roger Blassé AUS 749 822.86 6
8 Andre Budzien GER 782 810.59 6
9 Martin von Zimmermann GER 693 807.52 11
10 Sonke Behrens GER 778 802.44 8
11 Thomas Hanson-Mild SWE 100 778.54 10
12 Paul Rhodes NZL 517 777.80 6
13 Mogens Johansen DEN 1335 770.19 13
14 Alistair Deaves NZL 542 766.79 6
15 Mark Jackson AUS 735 748.57 6
16 Mike Williams AUS 730 730.81 5
17 Jorg Rademacher GER 775 704.57 9
18 Rene Johannsen DEN 1393 703.49 10
19 Terry Curtis GBR 2118 673.19 5
20 Luke O'Connell NZL 546 671.40
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Located in Barra, this hotel is steps from Sao Diogo Fort and Porto da Barra Beach. Forte de Santo Antonio da Barra and Farol da Barra Beach are also within 1 mi (2 km).
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This hotel features a restaurant, an outdoor pool, and a fitness center. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a poolside bar, and a sauna are onsite.
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In addition to an outdoor pool, Hotel Sol Barra provides a sauna and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. Wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 3-star property offers access to a business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 1076 square feet (100 square meters) include conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers a terrace, an arcade/game room, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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There is a lot of shopping in the downtown area, where you can get many touristy items and Mexican novelties. A great place to grab a bite to eat, especially delicious baja style fish tacos!
There are a lot of beggars in TJ, and many of them are children. The rome the beaches trying to get you to buy souvenirs.
Temperature is always around 75 degrees. Tijuana is home to a thriving nightlife that is especially attractive to college students and sailors under the age of 21 (drinking age) from Southern California. The drinking age in Mexico is 18. The city is also known for having some seedy areas and traveling alone is not recommended. People in Tijuana do not have the best chances in life and tourist attitudes should be minimized.
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Meatless Mondays #30 – Spicy carrots, mushrooms and tofu soup
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Have you ever had one of those days when you wake up and everything just does not feel right? In the last week, I have been feeling out of place. It seems that there are just so much to do and I am just try to find the balance for everything. I feel tiredness and at the same time, questioning my abilities. How I hate the feeling of self-doubt. What do you do when this happens?
I love the time that I spent in the kitchen every weekend. I love the time at the markets and shopping for fresh produce. Look how beautiful these enoki mushrooms. Reminds me of baby breathe! What do you think?
Recipe adapted from Gourmet Worrier's Spicy Moroccan Carrot Soup with Vermicelli Noodles
- 550g of carrots, grated or julienne
- 1 large brown onion (200g)
- 100g of dehydrated shitake mushrooms, soaked and sliced thinly
- 300g enoki mushrooms
- 2 sweet corns, de-corned
- 2tsp of whole coriander
- 1tsp of whole white pepper
- 2tsp of ginger powder
- 1tsp of cinnamon powder
- 2tbsp of Korean hot chilli paste
- 1tsp of raw sugar
- 700g of firm tofu
- 2L mushroom stock
- 2L vegetable stock
- Salt and light soy to season
- Hydrate the mushrooms with water. This will form the mushroom stock required. Lightly toast coriander and white pepper seeds in a small pan. Grind and set aside with the rest of the spices
- Heat up the pot with 2 tbsp of olive oil. Add the onions and the sugar. Saute till the onion is slightly caramelisd and browned
- Add the carrots, both mushrooms and sweet corns. Mix with the sweet onions for about 30secs. Then combine in the spices and mix thoroughly till the vegetables are all softened. Add the mushroom and vegetable stock with the Korean chilli paste. Bring it to a gentle boil and then lower heat to simmer for about 20mins
- Taste and season accordingly. Add the tofu and heat it through. You can serve it alone or add some vermicelli or your choice of noodle to bulk it up if needed. Garnish with coriander or parsley
** Please note – The mushroom stock is the liquid hydrating the mushrooms. When pouring the stock over the pot, use a very fine muslin cloth or Chux!
This soup turned up to be pretty damn good. The Korean chilli paste worked really well with the Moroccan influenced spices. The cinnamon scent was quite prominent and the broth was naturally sweet. We had a couple of nights for dinner this week. On one occasion, we cracked an egg, whisk it and poured it over the simmering soup over low heat. Allow it to sit for a while until the egg is slightly cooked. Stir gently and serve over Udon noodles. And on another night, we had it over white rice and a fried egg.
I hope I get over this emotional ride soon. I am just having a bad week where everything isn't in its right place. I can't wait to get back into my kitchen this weekend
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Old food found at World Cup hotels
Out-of-date food has been found at a Brazilian hotel where the England team will be staying during the World Cup, a consumer watchdog said.
A search of the Royal Tulip Hotel in Rio de Janeiro found 4.5lb of butter, parma ham and salmon which was past its expiry date.
An inspection at the base booked by the Italian side, the Hotel Portobello, discovered 55lb of pasta, shrimp, salmon and margarine was out of date.
The Rio de Janeiro state consumer agency said the inspections are part of an effort to enforce food safety codes ahead of the tournament's start next month.
The agency said the Hotel Caesar Park where the Netherlands team will stay passed its inspection with no problems.
Inspectors at the Hotel Portobello dumped another 53lb of food because there was no visible expiry date on the labelling.
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TITLE: They Called it Christmas
By Gentry Yeatman
There was a place of quiet peace, a time of unfettered joy, a season of simple pleasure. A clapboard sanctuary surrounded me, yet I was free. Free to savor the season of God's loving incarnate grace. They called it Christmas.
Memories are fuzzy now. They remain as mere wisps of scenes long past. They are in part solid reality indelibly inscribed in the granite of time. Yet, in part they are but the youthful fantasy of a small southern lad.
A half-century old story fades with the ink of time.
Green boughs sparkled with hanging slivers of silver. Plastic snow covered the hardwood ground below. A soft glow rippled from a rusty gas heater. A pint-sized boy lifted a heavy-laden limb and peered below with mystical anticipation. The day had finally arrived; the red clad package would soon render its contents into eager hands.
Like a wild animal tearing into its prey I soon disemboweled the cardboard treasure chest dumping its contents with a bouncing thud. My eyes enlarged. A six-inch Deere tractor lay below. Many hours passed while rubber plows tilled wooden gardens accompanied by the holiday tune of "vrooom." And no batteries were required.
Many children once crawled and toddled in this magical land. I do not know who rewrote the scene; I do not know to what distant shores it has retreated. I only know that scant memories of precious times remain and the images seared deeply in my soul are not complex. They called it Christmas.
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Federal law protecting interactive computer service providers bars a lawsuit brought by a car dealer that alleged it was defamed by comments posted on a consumer website, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. The defendant operates a ...Read More »
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Workers can't get paid for time changing gear
Poultry workers are not entitled under federal wage law to be paid for the time they spent donning and doffing personal protective gear required for their jobs, the 4th Circuit has ruled in affirming a judgment. The defendant operates a ...Read More »
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Before recessing for the holidays last year, the House of Representatives passed a bill designed to boost online data privacy protections, while another data security measure advanced in the Senate. The House bill, the Data Accountability and Trust Act, H.R. ...Read More »
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Friday marked the closing date for entries to the competition to select the menu for the Gala Dinner which the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) will shortly be holding as the centrepiece of this year's Congress (click here for programme details: you may still have the chance to register!). The IPKat received many emails on the subject, some offering a single course (happily, humble pie was not mentioned) and one offering practical tips on how to dispose of the diners' bodies afterwards.
One entry (should that be entrée?) was so much better than the rest that it would be invidious to publish the runners-up, and that -- appropriately given the surname of the successful entrant -- came from the ever-fertile pen of Philip Grubb. The winning menu runs as follows:
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Taking The Pressure Off Boum?
Jean Alain Boumsong arrived at St James' Park last season in an £8 million switch from Rangers with a huge reputation, but sadly he had a nightmare start to his Toon career. Mistake after mistake brought pressure on the manager to drop him, but the Jock stood firm, saying his player was having problems at home and Toon fans should give him the benefit of the doubt.
We weren't the only website to reply to Graeme Souness, saying if the player was not up to the job - for whatever reason - he should not be in the team. It would take the pressure of the player AND the team.
However, Souness says he will continue to play the player regardless of problems off the field. Serious illnesses to his wife and son have forced Boumsong to commute between Newcastle and his ailing family in France and Souness believes the trauma has inevitably had a detrimental impact on his performances in a black and white shirt.
Souness: 'Jean-Alain has had problems off the pitch. His little lad off the pitch has had several operations and his wife has been seriously ill. Jean-Alain has had a great deal to put up with. People don't realise how much it affects him but he has got on with his game.
'I work with him every day and I can see his character. He is the first one to hold up his hand if he makes a mistake. He is still new and getting used to English football. He has been in our football nearly a year and I'm very happy with him.'


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Uzbekistan is located on the Asian continent in the basin of the great Amu-Dariya and Syr-Dariya rivers and encompasses a desert subtropical zone, lowlands and mountainous highlands. Doubly landlocked and home to almost 30 million people, Uzbekistan is Central Asia's most populous country.
The Amu-Dariya river delta was once heavily populated, and it supported extensive irrigation-based agriculture for thousands of years. However, since the 1960s, the world's fourth-largest inland sea – the Aral Sea – has shrunk to less than 50 per cent of its former area and decreased in volume threefold.
ater resources and forests are shrinking, as well as being poisoned by windborne salt, fertilizer and pesticide residues from the dried bed of the Aral Sea. High salinity and contamination of the soil with heavy elements are especially widespread in Uzbekistan's autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan, which is adjacent to the Aral Sea. The rate of anaemia, respiratory diseases and other health problems has risen dramatically.
Due to its geology and location, Uzbekistan is also prone to hazards and risks including earthquakes, cross-border population movements into Uzbekistan, extreme weather, drought, floods, debris flows and landslides.
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Putter's Pride is a fun-loving miniature golf haven in the big city. We were staying downtown in the concrete jungle of Denver when we discovered this little gem. You see, my family loves miniature golf. They thrive on it. They seem to instinctively understand where the 'sweet spot' will be to best hit the ball into the hole in minimal strokes. Meanwhile, I struggle just to make it through the front 9 before I quit. I do not find the sweet spot and I seldom feel like I have control when the ball goes in the hole. It's luck and a few prayers. But the rest of my family, the Fearsome Foursome, absolutely LOVES mini golf. So they thought Putter's Pride was a really fun treat. It has many of the usual features of mini golf, but a few bonus items that really made their time even more fun. I think the second favorite hole was the dinosaur hole. I'm not sure the hole was so difficult as lining up this shot. (I mean camera shot, you know.) Keep reading to find out about the favorite hole.
The kids (both the big kid and the little ones) had such a fun time that we decided to keep on golfing. They were having so much fun I had to talk them into pausing for lunch.
The hardest course has the best 18th hole. It's an outhouse. You have to try to get the ball in the toilet bowl. Crazy funny. we couldn't stop laughing. And of course, I didn't get a good shot of it. Let me tell you it is worth the trip to see and play on the outhouse hole. It was our favorite hole at Putter's Pride. Overall, we had a terrific time at Putter's Pride and look forward to visiting the Denver area and this course again. Be sure to get your discount coupon which is good for birthday parties as well. Receive Buy 1 Round Get 1 Round FREE Or 20% Off Birthday parties. Can't beat a deal like that!!
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LOS ANGELES - Universities have become attractive targets for hackers who are taking advantage of the openness of the schools' networks, their decentralized security and the personal information they keep on millions of young adults.
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A major database breach at the University of California, Los Angeles that went undetected for more than a year and a smaller breach at the University of Texas are the latest examples of how vulnerable colleges are to such attacks, security experts said.
Universities account for more than 50 data breaches on a list of more than 300 so far this year as tracked by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Hackers have broken into computer systems at Georgetown University, Ohio University, the University of Alaska and Western Illinois University, among others.
"They are a major category, if not the major category," Clearinghouse director Beth Givens said.
The UCLA breach was discovered Nov. 21 when the university noticed a hacker was fishing through the database specifically for names and Social Security numbers. Officials said the hacks date back to at least October 2005.
Hackers also might have obtained the personal information of 6,000 people who worked for, applied to or attended the University of Texas at Dallas, school officials said last week.
The information includes names and Social Security numbers, the school said. In some cases, addresses, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers also might have been obtained.
In both cases, school officials stress there is no indication that any of the information has been used to commit identity-theft crimes.
One reason university databases make such attractive targets is that Social Security numbers are routinely used to identify students.
"It is about time that Social Security numbers receive more protection or that they no longer be used for identifying individuals within the university system," Givens said.
Universities also need to communicate freely with other educational institutions and the public to foster research.
"On the academic side, we want people to see what we do and who we are, within limits," said David Farber, professor of Computer Science and Public Policy in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Universities do take seriously, however, the need to separate sensitive personal data from academic data that is more open, Farber said.
"On the administration side of the house, they are running a business and should behave like a business," he said.
Tougher penalties for data breaches also need to be enacted, said Robert Brownstone, an attorney at the Silicon Valley law firm Fenwick &West.
Despite several attempts, there is no strong federal law mandating that universities notify everyone whose information has been compromised due to security breaches. Laws in 33 states vary in notification requirements placed on universities and corporations.
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|Volume Number: 29
Category(s): STREETS AND HIGHWAYS
|Opinion Issued January 10, 2012
Claimant appeared pro se.
Andrew F. Tarr, Attorney at Law, for Respondent.
Claimant brought this action for vehicle damage, which occurred while his wife was driving his 2008 Subaru Legacy. Claimant's wife was driving his vehicle when it struck a large hole while she was traveling along Gregory Run Road, designated as County Route 9 near Wilsonburg, Harrison County. County Route 9 is a public road maintained by Respondent. The Court believes that Claimant should receive an award in this claim for reasons more fully stated below.
The incident giving rise to this claim occurred at approximately 9:00 p.m. on March 16, 2011. County Route 9 is a two-lane road with a painted center line. Claimant's wife testified that she was maintaining the speed limit. She also testified that she is aware of the holes and usually can swerve into the opposite lane to avoid them. However she stated that oncoming traffic prevented her from doing so on this occasion. The hole was located in the main travel portion of the road and was not marked to alert drivers. She further stated that she could not have avoided this particular hole. As a result, the Claimant's vehicle sustained damage in the amount of $434.07. Claimant's vehicle had insurance, which requires a $500.00 deductible; therefore, any award to Claimant is limited to the amount of the deductible.
The position of the Respondent is that it did not have actual or constructive notice of the condition of the road
The well-established principle of law in West Virginia is that the State is neither an insurer nor a guarantor of the safety of travelers upon its roads. Adkins v. Sims, 130 W.Va. 645, 46 S.E.2d 81 (1947). In order to hold Respondent liable for road defects of this type, Claimant must prove that Respondent had actual or constructive notice of the defect and a reasonable amount of time to take corrective action. Pritt v. Dep't of Highways, 16 Ct. Cl. 8 (1985); Chapman v. Dep't of Highways, 16 Ct. Cl. 103 (1986).
In the instant case, the Court is of the opinion that Respondent had, at the least, constructive notice of the hole which Claimant's vehicle struck, and that the hole presented a hazard to the traveling public. The size of the hole and its location on the travel portion of the road leads the Court to conclude that Respondent was negligent. Thus, Claimant may make a recovery for the damage to his vehicle.
It is the opinion of the Court of Claims that the Claimant should be awarded the sum of $434.07.
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Is fact greater than fiction? When it comes to understanding the world around us, most of us would say yes. In this video, the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative reveals the truth about advanced electrical meters, or "smart meters," dispelling misinformed claims which allege that that these devices infringe on personal privacy, are harmful to human health, and in summary, may just be the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse!
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