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— If commissioner Bud Selig has his way, baseball's amateur draft will have a whole new look next year.
With the collective bargaining agreement between players and owners set to expire after this season, Selig wants to see some changes to the draft implemented in a new labor deal.
For one, he'd like a slotting system that limits bonus money for top picks — they would be paid based on where they are selected.
Also, he wants Major League Baseball to develop an international draft.
"I believe in slotting and I believe in a worldwide draft. I think it's important," Selig said, pointing out that the draft began in 1965 as a way to improve competitive balance. "I think the draft has worked, but I think there are some things that have happened in the last five or six years that are worrisome."
The NBA currently has a rookie pay scale and NFL owners would like to implement one as well. New players entering the NHL are subject to maximum salaries.
Selig said owners and general managers have voted in favor of a slotting system. Now, it's a matter of getting players to agree.
"I think we need it," Selig said. "We have a negotiation ahead of us."
For the third straight year, Selig announced first-round picks from a podium at MLB Network studios. The draft was broadcast live and several Hall of Famers were in attendance as club representatives.
"I really do enjoy it. I always used to look forward to this when I ran the Brewers. This is an exciting night," Selig said, remembering when Milwaukee drafted Hall of Famer Robin Yount third overall in 1973. "It's fascinating to watch them develop."
Years ago, the draft was held by conference call and players sometimes waited hours — or days — to learn where they were headed.
"I think this has worked out great," Selig said. "We've come a long way and this is very helpful. We need to do more of this."
WAITING GAME: Larry Greene sat anxiously at the draft site at MLB Network studios as name after name was called by commissioner Bud Selig.
The wait finally ended with the 39th pick — in the compensatory round — as the Philadelphia Phillies drafted the outfielder out of Berrien County High School in Georgia.
"It was definitely frustrating a little bit," a smiling Greene said. "But, I'm happy now."
Unlike the NFL and NBA drafts, baseball rarely has players show up at the draft to slip on a hat. After all, the draft was long an event conducted exclusively by conference calls. Since Major League Baseball brought it to MLB Network studios three years ago, Greene is just the second player — joining Angels first-rounder Mike Trout in 2009 — to attend.
"My mother told me to come up and be here," said Greene, who was at the draft with his father, Larry Sr. "I listen to her."
Greene, wearing a Phillies cap and holding a white team jersey, got a huge round of applause from the fans and former big leaguers in attendance when he was drafted. Former Reds All-Star Eric Davis shook his hand and hugged him. Greene, who signed to play at the University of Georgia, was a high school All-American with loads of power — like his idol, the Phillies' Ryan Howard. And someday, maybe he'll be in the same lineup.
"It's crazy," Greene said. "It's a dream come true coming from a small town in Nashville, Ga. Words can't describe it."
BASEBALL BLOODLINES: The sons of Dante Bichette and Dwight Smith were among the players selected during the draft's first day.
Dante Bichette Jr., a high school third baseman from Florida, was the New York Yankees' first pick at No. 51. He has committed to the University of Georgia, but the Yankees are surely hoping he develops into an All-Star slugger like his dad.
"Dante is one of the guys in this draft we thought had an impact bat and the potential to hit for big power in the middle of the order," said Damon Oppenheimer, Yankees vice president of amateur scouting. "He's someone with an advanced makeup and work ethic who possesses the desire and drive to be a special major leaguer."
Dwight Smith Jr. was the 53rd overall selection by the Toronto Blue Jays. The speedy Smith is an outfielder, as his father was, and is also committed to the Bulldogs.
California high school right-hander Joe Ross got bragging rights on his brother, Tyson, after being taken 22nd overall by San Diego. Tyson Ross, pitching for Oakland, was a second-round pick of the Athletics in 2008.
FAMILIAR FACES: Joe Torre started his day by ringing the opening bell at NASDAQ. He ended it by announcing the start of the compensation round at the draft.
The former New York Yankees manager is now Major League Baseball's executive vice president of baseball operations.
"It's a celebration of the past, present and future all coming together," he said before telling the Washington Nationals they were on the clock with the 34th pick.
Each big league team had former stars and front office personnel representing them at MLB Network studios, including Hall of Famers Jim Rice (Boston), Gaylord Perry (San Francisco) and Rod Carew (Minnesota). Roberto Alomar, who will be inducted in July, was there for Toronto.
LONG TRIP: Jose Fernandez's path to a professional baseball career included four boat trips attempting to leave his native Cuba. Now he could be joining the Florida Marlins' organization.
The 18-year-old Fernandez, a high school senior from Tampa, Fla., was taken by the Marlins with the 14th pick.
Fernandez grew up in Santa Clara, Cuba. He and other family members made repeated attempts to leave the country and join his father in Tampa before finally making it in 2008.
Marlins player personnel executive Jim Fleming said Fernandez's background was a factor in the decision to draft him.
"You weigh it a lot," Fleming said. "Going through the minor leagues, there's a lot of adversity that the normal kid hasn't had any experience with. This kid has faced a lot worse things than anything he'll face going through our system."
A 6-foot-4, 220-pound right-hander, Fernandez has a fastball that has been clocked at 98 mph. He went 30-3 in three years at Alonso High School and helped his team win two state titles.
Fernandez earlier signed to pitch at the University of South Florida.
HAWAIIAN PUNCH: A telephone call to Kolten Wong a handful of picks before it was the St. Louis Cardinals' turn finalized their decision to take the Hawaii second baseman.
Wong eased worries about signability, telling the Cardinals that would not be a problem and that he was eager to begin his pro career. The franchise addressed an organizational need with the 22nd pick, selecting a middle infielder for the third time in four years.
A bonus was a chance to perhaps play with Albert Pujols one day.
"Just hearing that name gives me chills. He's a legend," Wong said.
Wong became just the third native of Hawaii to be a first-round pick, joining Dave Masters (1985) and Justin Wayne (2000). He's also the third player from the University of Hawaii to go in the opening round, joining Mike Campbell (1985) and Mark Johnson (1996).
Wong was a 16th-round pick of Minnesota in 2008 and batted .378 last season with seven home runs and 53 RBIs in 57 games, plus was MVP of the Cape Cod League last summer and played on the U.S. National team in 2008.
Wong's father, Kaha Wong, was a utilityman who played in the minors in 1989 and 1990. A batting cage in the backyard helped Wong hone his skills.
SHORT HOPS: A total of 18 college players were taken in the first round, and the state of California — led by No. 1 pick Gerrit Cole of UCLA — led the way with six players selected. … Tampa Bay had 10 of the first 60 picks on the draft's first day, mostly because the Rays lost several free agents last offseason, such as Carl Crawford and Rafael Soriano. With the first of the bunch, they took South Carolina high school righty Taylor Guerrieri at No. 24 and wrapped up the compensation round with California high school outfielder James Harris at No. 60.
AP Sports Writers Dennis Waszak Jr. in Secaucus, N.J., Steven Wine in Miami and R.B. Fallstrom in St. Louis contributed to this report.


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In an effort to raise awareness about sexual assault, University of Massachusetts sorority Alpha Chi Omega, with Amherst's Dunn & Phillips Law Firm, hosted the panel "Debunking the Myth: A Guide to Understanding Sexual Assault" Wednesday night in the Campus Center.
The discussion came after a semester in which a female UMass student was allegedly raped by four men in her dorm room and an editorial was published in Amherst College's student-run newspaper by a female student alleging that Amherst College had mishandled its response to her on-campus rape.
One in four female college students will be victims of sexual assault at one point in their college careers, according to the Department of Justice.
Organizers of the event were quick to point out that behind every statistic is a human being.
"It is not the statistics that are important, it is the people that lay behind them," said Molly Conneely, a UMass senior who coordinated the seminar as both a member of Alpha Chi Omega and a Dunn & Phillips intern.
The panel of four experts leading the night's discussion emphasized that victims often struggle to come forward with their story. And when they do, the process can be difficult.
As many victims may be unaware of the services offered to them, Instructional Director at the Center for Women and Community Jill Grimaldi urged students to call the free and confidential CWC hotline for information about steps to take following a sexual assault.
The seminar emphasized the multitude of resources victims can turn to after being sexually assaulted. Collecting evidence, for example, is vital to achieving justice for the victim. The Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program ensures its examination process as being oriented around the needs and feelings of the patient. University Health Services on campus is a designated SANE site.
Despite the existing options, Michael Edelstein of Dunn & Phillips Law Firm noted that colleges do not always provide the best service, citing the dropping out of Angie Epifano, the Amherst College student that wrote the column detailing her on-campus rape, as well as the Penn State sex scandal as examples of institutions failing to fulfill their obligation to protect students.
Edelstein, a UMass alum, said "institutional prerogatives are often more important than the interests of a student."
Today, Alpha Chi Omega will be wrapping up their week-long Healthy Relationships Week selling carnations in the Campus Center to aid this cause and raise awareness.
Eric Bosco can be reached at [email protected].

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Pavel will face top seed David Nalbandian in the final of the clay-court tournament, after the Argentine breezed through with a far simpler 6-3, 6-0 victory over Finland's Jarkko Nieminen on Saturday.
The fifth-seeded Pavel took a close first set when Haas wafted a backhand well wide at the end of a long point.
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A powerful earthquake jolted three popular tourist islands in the central Philippines yesterday, killing at least 93 people, tearing down buildings and triggering landslides.
Bohol police chief Dennis Agustin said 77 of the deaths were in that province. At least 15 died in nearby Cebu province and another on Siquijor Island.
The 7.1-magnitude quake struck at 8.12am and was centered 33 kilometres below Carmen city, where many small buildings collapsed.
The town lies across a strait 60 kilometres from Cebu, the political, economic, educational and cultural centre of the central Philippines with the country's busiest port and busiest airport outside Manila. A university, a school and two shopping malls sustained major damage.
"I was fast sleep when suddenly I woke up because my bed was shaking. I was so shocked, I could do nothing but hide under the bed," said Janet Maribao, 33, a receptionist in Cebu.
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He said two other people were killed when part of a school collapsed on a car, while four others died at a fish market that crumbled.
The Philippines' oldest church, Cebu's Basilica Minore del Santo Nino, was badly damaged, civil defence office spokesman Reynaldo Balido said.
It was first built in the 1500s by Spanish colonisers, although its current stone structure dates back to the 1700s.
A church on Bohol that was built in the early 1600s also collapsed, according to Robert Michael Poole, a British tourist who was visiting the area. "It's absolutely devastated. The entire front of the church has collapsed onto the street," Poole said.
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text: highlander_highlanderphotos_p2-mc1-4 p2-mc1-4 highlanderphotos highlander yes Photograph of Inza McAdoo and Myles Horton seated outside on the lawn of Highlander Research and Education Center, Knoxville, Tennessee Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) African American women--Tennessee--Knoxville Men, White--Tennessee--Knoxville Conversation Chairs--Tennessee--Knoxville Social reformers--Tennessee--Knoxville Social movements--Tennessee--Knoxville McAdoo, Inza Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 Inza McAdoo and Myles Horton seated outside on the lawn of HREC Knoxville in conversation. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. Title provided by cataloger. Emory University Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) Highlander Folk School Collection (Emory University) Black-and-white photographs http://www.metascholar.org/highlander/photographs/p2-mc1-4.html 1 photograph : b&w Forms part of the Highlander Folk School Collection. United States, Tennessee, Knox County, Knoxville, 35.9606384, -83.9207392 Researchers should contact the Highlander Research and Education Center for terms governing the use of the collection. Contact: Susan Williams, firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Ted Cruz talks about health care, Syrian conflict in Valley
Updated 6:10 am, Wednesday, September 4, 2013
MISSION — According to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, health care should not be required by the government, but rather achieved through hard work and economic advancement.
That was the senator's message to a sold-out luncheon in the Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday for what was intended to be a two-day tour of the Texas-Mexico border. A trip to Laredo on Wednesday was postponed.
"More and more people are having their hours forcefully reduced," Cruz said. "Health insurance premiums are going up, and more and more employers are dropping their health insurance."
The freshman Texas Republican senator covered a broad range of subjects, including the Syrian conflict, the economy and his mission to defund and dismantle "every single word" of the Affordable Health Care Act.
He has doggedly pressed Congress on defunding President Barack Obama's health care plan. Cruz cited his father, who was uninsured until finding economic success, as a model for others.
Cruz made a favorable impression on Rio Grande City Mayor Ruben O. Villarreal, who described the senator's stage presence and message as "very presidential."
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"His agenda is very firm, very defined, there's not a lot of wiggle room whether you like it or not," Villarreal said. "And he firmly believes the economy is the golden key to opening all gates."
On Syria, Cruz said it is unlikely that he would support military action.
Villarreal said he would have liked to hear more from the senator on immigration reform and the border fence.
Outside the luncheon, about 25 people protested Cruz's visit to the Valley, where the subject of immigration reform, border security and access to health care are hot-button issues.
Danel Diaz, a community organizer with La Unión Del Pueblo Entero, said it's important for the senator to know that there are many along the border and elsewhere in Texas who do not share his views.
According to census data, Hidalgo County has the highest rate of uninsured among urban counties, at 38.9 percent, while Maverick County has the highest rate of uninsured among medium-sized counties, at 35.1 percent.
"I don't believe a majority of Texans want militarization of the border," Diaz said.
Later in the day, Cruz spoke about immigration reform, calling the current system "broken," but said he opposes a path to citizenship for people who entered the country illegally.
"We've got to get serious about securing the border, about solving the problem of illegal immigration," Cruz said after visiting with landowners and the Border Patrol.


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The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) was established in 1968 in Geneva, Switzerland. The IBO works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programs of international education and rigorous assessment. The IB programme is currently available at 3,900 schools in 147 countries. These programs encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners.
The IBO is an internationally recognized, academic program that emphasizes critical thinking in a global context.
The IB Primary Years Programme (IB/PYP) is designed for students age 3 to 12. It focuses on developing the whole child by encompassing social, physical, emotional and cultural needs in addition to academic development.
IB Mission Statement
The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
IB Learner Profile
Inquirer: Acquires skills for purposeful, constructive research
Thinker: Applies thinking skills critically and creatively to solve complex problems
Communicator: Receives and expresses ideas in more than one language including the language of mathematical symbols
Risk-taker: Approaches unfamiliar situations with confidence
Knowledgeable: Explores themes which have global relevance and importance
Principled: Displays integrity, honesty and a sense of fairness and justice
Caring: Develops a sense of personal commitment to action and service
Open-minded: Respects the views, values and traditions of other individuals and cultures and is accustomed to seeking and considering a range of points of view
Balanced: Understands physical, mental and personal well-being
Reflective: Analyzes own strength and weaknesses
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|appreciating the wonder and beauty of the world and its people
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|cooperating, collaborating and leading or following as the situation demands
|being creative and imaginative in their thinking and in their approach to problems and dilemmas
|being curious about the nature of learning and of the world, its people and cultures
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Guest post written by Brian Ficho
Brian Ficho is CEO of oBaz.com, a Chicago-based social e-commerce site.
Welcome to the very beginning of a brand new phase in e-commerce, where personalization and discovery combine to uniquely fit consumer needs. This is when "Wow I can't believe what a deal this is!" turns into "This combination Mongolian-fur-hat-and-MP3-player is just what I need for my walk to work in December in Chicago!"
Phase One - the phase Amazon mastered - was Search, the process of helping people find what they're looking for at the exact moment they want it. Phase two was Push, where Groupon and Gilt led the charge. Push provided people with unbeatable deals on things they probably weren't looking for, with elements of scarcity, limited time offers, and social baked in.
Phase Three will combine these two elements, leading to highly relevant offers and product discovery at the exact right time. Everyone has their own way to break down the evolution of e-commerce, but for the sake of this piece let's use these phases and keep it simple.
Discovery and personalization - the generation of marketing opportunities based on an individual's unique interests, wants, and values - is a wonderful thing. Phase Two businesses knew this. Most deal businesses are based, to some degree, on discovery and personalization. Groupon may know, for example, that a given prospect lives in Chicago, and Gilt knows that that prospect is a guy. Without better business models and technologies, however, the result is superficial discovery that quickly leads to deal fatigue.
Contrast the current state of daily deal affairs with a different scenario: Say you're a 28-year-old living in Manhattan. You enjoy cooking, fashion and going out with your friends. You don't own a car and the 10-day weather forecast is trending below 30 degrees. Today you get offers for a scarf from an up-and-coming designer, a Dutch oven, and tickets to your favorite band. Serendipity? Or simply a better understanding of who you are as an individual?
The reason today's consumers are struggling with daily deal sites is because the filtering mechanisms and technology aren't quite ready to handle highly targeted offers to individuals. There are too many "deal pushers" at a time when consumers really want simplicity, relevance and accuracy.
There's another side to the situation as well. Because of the way many e-commerce companies' business models were set up, moving lots of single SKUs quickly is how they make money. Many other providers of goods and services have great products but lack the inventory and scale needed to market through these channels. They default to Phase One e-commerce, listing theirgoods on Amazon, hoping potential customers will find them. With tens of millions of widgets out there, it's a daunting task for a consumer.
For online commerce to succeed, then, discovery theory must evolve. There are three aspects to the challenge: the discovery process itself; curation, or the sourcing of high-quality, appropriate product solutions; and personalization, which involves accurately matching the right product or service with the right individual, at the right time.
To achieve this ultimate dialogue between merchant andcustomer, e-commerce companies must perfect the troika of discovery, curation and personalization, then apply all three consistently in the retail environment. Some non-commerce sites, e.g., Pinterest, Tumblr, and Stumble Upon, understand this dynamic. Pinterest allows users to self-curate by "pinning" products, photos, news items and other online content onto a personal interest boards that serves as a discovery tool between users. Pinterest is taking off, demonstrating the massive potential waiting for venues that help people set themselves apart and discover new things based on who they are.
It doesn't take an expert to realize that personalized discovery has a long way to go. But certainly as this evolution begins, truly exciting new retail models will emerge in mobile, local and online commerce. Finally, deal fatigue will be a thing of the past. And what is "serendipity" to the consumer, will be exceptional business success to the merchant.


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Bi-Weekly Summary
For the Period Aug. 22 to Sept. 10, 2012
Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project
Aug. 28: A radiological control technician entered
the shielded area of a Real Time Radiography unit to
perform a contamination survey without the required
hazardous energy controls in place. The equipment was
not operating at the time and the technician received no
exposure. An order was issued to clarify the
requirements necessary for entering the shielded
enclosure. (EM-ID—ITG-AMWTF-2012-0019)
Sept. 5: A manager at the Advanced Mixed Waste
Treatment Facility discovered that the installation and
removal of a crane from the Real Time Radiography Cart
was being carried out without the proper lockout/tagout
protection. Work to remove the crane was halted until a
lockout/tagout was installed.
Operational Summary
Waste Shipments: Two of two planned shipments of
contact-handled transuranic waste were made from Idaho
to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico for
disposal during the week ending Sept. 1, 2012. Six
shipments of contact-handled transuranic waste and two
shipments of remote-handled waste were scheduled for the
week ending Sept. 8, 2012.
Idaho Cleanup Project
Nothing to report.
Operational Summary
Buried waste retrieval: The remediation of the Idaho
Subsurface Disposal Area is about 54 percent complete.
Targeted waste has been retrieved from six of nine
planned enclosure structures.
Idaho National Laboratory
Aug. 22: During refurbishment of an electrical
breaker at the Advanced Test Reactor, electricians found
what appeared to be suspect fasteners in various places
throughout the breaker. The suspect bolts were turned
over to Quality Assurance and will be replaced when the
breaker is rebuilt. (NE-ID—BEA-ATR-2012-0023).
Operational Summary
INL's team was one of 150 honored for innovative
application of geographic technologies.
INL Teams Honored: Idaho National Laboratory's
Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity and Geospatial Science
and Engineering teams received a "Special Achievements
in GIS" (SAG) award during the ESRI International User
Conference (ESRI UC) recently in San Diego. About 14,000
geospatial information science experts and technologists
attend ESRI UC each year and INL's team was one of 150
honored for innovative application of geographic
technologies. More than 100,000 award submissions were
received for the annual conference.
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IN THE SMALL TOWN OF LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA 27-year-old Carla carried and delivered a baby last year for an Australian couple. Carla and her husband are both medical technicians and have two young daughters of their own. Carla's surrogate pregnancy and delivery were difficult - which had not been the case with her own babies. But she remains cheerful about the experience.
"This is something I felt I had to do. I just wanted to help someone out. Everyone deserves a child, and this is something I could do for someone else," Carla says.
As it turned out, Carla and Corey became good friends with the Australians, who flew over for the conception and then returned for the birth. The couple stayed with Carla and Corey for two weeks waiting for their baby to come.
"When the baby came out, it was really weird," Corey says. "We didn't have a bond or a connection to him at all. It was more with the Australian parents than anything."
Carla nods in agreement. She says there was no feeling of loss when the baby left. "It was like I was baby sitting. He was a visitor. It wasn't like an emotional connection," Carla says. Meanwhile, the two couples stay in touch from their opposite sides of the globe.
Psychologists who work with surrogates say the relationship formed among the adults often determines how a gestational carrier will feel about the experience afterwards. Researcher and health policy expert Nancy Reame of the University of Michigan is conducting a long-range study of surrogates. If the intended parents treat the surrogate with respect and concern, Reame says, the surrogate appears to experience much less sense of loss after the baby is gone. Many surrogate mothers want some form of ongoing contact with the families they help, she says.
"Sometimes there is an artificial friendship created by the [intended] couple during the pregnancy to keep the carrier happy, and they abandon her once the child is in their custody," Reame says. "It can leave the carriers bitter and sad, but very few have said they regretted the experience."
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In a brilliant mix of magic, history, and romance, M. K. Hobson moves her feisty young Witch, Emily Edwards, from the Old West of 1876 to turn-of-the-century New York City, whose polished surfaces conceal as much danger as anything west of the Rockies. Like it or not, Emily has fallen in love with Dreadnought Stanton, a New York Warlock as irresistible as he is insufferable. Newly engaged, she now must brave Dreadnoughts family and the magical elite of the nations wealthiest city. Not everyone is pleased with the impending nuptials, especially Emilys future mother-in-law, a sociopathic socialite. But there are greater challenges still: confining couture, sinister Russian scientists, and a deathless Aztec goddess who dreams of plunging the world into apocalypse. With all they must confront, do Emily and Dreadnought have any hope of a happily-ever-after?
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"The Goremance Continues!"
Bloodier and darker than the previous volume in the series, M.K. Hobson's The Hidden Goddess still manages to be utterly charming and romantic, despite people wading up to their knees in streams of blood or striding atop pyramids of human skulls.
Despite all the death, Hobson's vision of an alternate America in the late 1800s - where magic is as popular as religion - is buckets of fun! There are dangerous renegade Russian scientists, the earth is spewing black blood, and the Aztec Apocalypse is probably at hand - as is the wedding of Emily Edwards and Dreadnought Stanton.
Hobson has a certain knack for not only writing sharp dialogue, but also for delivering it, and Suehyla El-Attar does a good job of capturing that spirit in her performance. I often found myself hooting with laughter while listening.
If you like an equal mix of gore and romance, this one is worth listening to, and a solid sequel to The Native Star.
"Much better..."
Yes, this book was faster paced than the first concentrating more on the story than establishing the world it takes place in.
The ending was happy and tidy.
Unsure, the scenes all flowed nicely.
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Hernanes had been ruled out for a month after he was knocked unconscious, but there are reports the Lazio star is recovering quickly and could face Napoli on Saturday.
The midfielder suffered head trauma and some retrograde amnesia [12] when he clashed heads with Juventus' Luca Marrone during last Tuesday's Coppa Italia semi-final.
He had initially been told he would probably not play for a month, but the Brazilian resumed light training today.
Hernanes will have another MRI scan tomorrow and a good result could see him passed fit to play on Saturday against Napoli.
Lazio need him back as soon as possible, having lost Miroslav Klose for two months with a knee injury.
See the latest Serie A predictions and betting tips with Eurotips.co.uk [13]


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Whit Stillman
1994 • 101 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #807 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Collector's Sets
Set during the eighties, Barcelona explores topics both heady and hilarious while remaining a constantly witty delight, featuring a sharp young cast that includes Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman, and Mira Sorvino.
Whit Stillman
1998 • 113 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States
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The Last Days of Disco, from director Whit Stillman, is a cleverly comic look at the early 1980s Manhattan party scene from the vantage point of the late nineties.
Whit Stillman
1990 • 99 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States
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One of the great American independent films of the 1990s, the surprise hit Metropolitan, by writer-director Whit Stillman, is a sparkling comedic chronicle of a young man's romantic misadventures while trying to fit in to New York City's debutante society.
Whit Stillman
United States
Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray
Over the course of the 1990s, writer-director Whit Stillman made a trilogy of films about the acid tongues and broken hearts of some haplessly erudite young Americans in New York and abroad.


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Are you pushing a Sophia or an Aiden around in a baby stroller? Congratulations, your kid has the most popular baby name for 2010.
BabyCenter released its list of the Top 100 Baby Names of 2010 today.
The online parenting and pregnancy destination compiled some 350,000 baby names and combined those that sound the same but have different spellings (such as Sophia and Sofia) to create a true measure of popularity.
Almost all of last year's top-10 darlings are still favorites this year. Aiden reigns as the top boy's name for the sixth year in a row, and Sophia inched her way from number five to number one among girls.
Abigail, the only new name to crack the top-10 ceiling for girls this year, claimed the number-10 spot. And Liam muscled his way into the boys top-10 pack with an impressive climb from last year's number 23.
Top 10 Girls' Names of 2010
- Sophia
- Isabella
- Olivia
- Emma
- Chloe
- Ava
- Lily
- Madison
- Addison
- Abigail
See all 100 top girls' names of 2010
Top 10 Boys' Names of 2010
- Aiden
- Jacob
- Jackson
- Ethan
- Jayden
- Noah
- Logan
- Caden
- Lucas
- Liam
See all 100 top boys' names of 2010
What about trends? Mad Men, Glee, travel destinations, and, of course, Sarah Palin all influenced baby-naming parents.
- Betty is back in style and Don Draper's cool ex-wife probably has something to do with this.
- Glee-clubbing, cheerleader Quinn may be mean on the show but her name is certainly popular and jumped up 60 percent.
- Maybe it's wanderlust…Brooklyn and Charlotte made big jumps, while London, Alexandria, and Paris gained in popularity.
- Parent's aren't finding inspiration in Mrs. Palin herself as Sarah took a nosedive but her daughters' names–Bristol, Willow, and Piper–shot up the charts.
For more about the top baby names of the year, the hottest trends, which names are up and down, and more, see BabyCenter's Top Baby Names of 2010 Special Report.


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Oklahoma City Thunder by the Numbers
OKLAHOMA CITY, Thursday, April 15, 2009 – Over the past seven months, the Oklahoma City Thunder lit up the Ford Center and created memorable moments for fans across the state. Last night, on April 15, the Thunder closed its regular season against the Los Angeles Clippers with a 126-85 win. From moving trucks to Opening Night, from the first win to a historic inaugural season in the Ford Center, below is a quantitative sample of highlights from the Thunder's first season.
Approximately 60 staff, coaches, players relocated with the team to Oklahoma City
Approximately 85 staff members were hired in Oklahoma City
61 truckloads traveled 110,000 miles, carrying 786,000 pounds of freight
In 5 days the Thunder sold more than 13,000 season tickets
41 homes games at the Ford Center, including 18 sellouts with an 8-game sell out streak during the final 4 weeks
The arena capacity was at 97.7 percent for the season, ranking the Thunder 9th in the League
Thunder is ranked 11th in the NBA in season attendance, with average attendance at 18,704
More than 49,500 free T-shirts were distributed to fans
End-zone fans waved a total of 22,000 McDonald's Foam French Fries
Corporate partner giveaways, including 12,300 consumed Buffalo Wild Wings, totaled more than 115,000 items
Memorable in-game elements included 3 CNG Chesapeake Energy cars given away, 41 MidFirst half-court attempts, 2,200 Oklahoman parachutes dropped and 6 Thunder Community Heroes honored, presented by Devon Energy
150 pairs of adidas sneakers given to students, courtesy of SandRidge Energy, for the holidays
Thunder players headed into the community for more than 233 appearances, including 80 school visits by players and the Rolling Thunder Book Bus
Nearly 5,000 tickets were donated to non-profit and community groups
More than 5,200 books where distributed through the Rolling Thunder Book Bus, presented by American Fidelity Assurance Company
The Thunder honored 41 local teachers with the American Fidelity Teacher of the Game award
The Thunder Girls appeared in 90 community events throughout the region
35,200 total miles traveled by the team for road games
$100,000,000 amount of improvements coming to the Ford Center over the next two years
On Friday, April 17, Rumble the Bison will have completed 74 appearances since his debut 60 days ago


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The British Army in Egypt
4 of 5 portraits of Sir Hildebrand Oakes
© National Portrait Gallery, London
The British Army in Egypt
by Anthony Cardon, after Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
stipple engraving, published 1806
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Artistsback to top
- Anthony Cardon (1772-1813), Engraver and print publisher. Artist associated with 68 portraits.
- Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740-1812), Painter. Artist associated with 4 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.
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- Sir Ralph Abercromby (1734-1801), General. Sitter in 15 portraits.
- Sir David Baird, 1st Bt (1757-1829), General. Sitter in 4 portraits.
- Eyre Coote (1759-1823), Army officer and colonial administrator. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore (1757-1832), General and politician. Sitter associated with 8 portraits.
- Sir John Doyle, Bt (1756-1834), General. Sitter in 5 portraits.
- Edward Finch (1756-1843), General. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun (1765-1823), General. Sitter in 4 portraits.
- John Francis Caradoc (Cradock), 1st Baron Howden (1762-1839), General. Sitter in 6 portraits.
- Robert Lawson (1741-1816), Army officer. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- George James Ludlow, 3rd Earl Ludlow (1758-1842), General. Sitter in 5 portraits.
- Sir John Moore (1761-1809), Lieutenant-General; victor of Corunna. Sitter in 11 portraits.
- Sir Hildebrand Oakes (1754-1822), Lieutenant-General. Sitter in 5 portraits.
- Sir John Stuart (1761-1815), Lieutenant-General. Sitter in 6 portraits.
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The glories of the 1801 campaign against the French in Egypt are recalled in this engraving of 1806, which was probably sold by subscription. Soldiers are shown building a monument to heroism with portraits of the generals involved in the Egyptian campaign and garlands of laurel, symbolising victory. The likenesses were based on paintings by Philip James de Loutherbourg, well known for his popular contemporary battle scenes. At the very top is General Sir Ralph Abercromby who led the campaign and was mortally wounded in a failed French counter-attack. His successor General John Hely-Hutchinson, who forced the French to evacuate Cairo, is also included.
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- Place portrayed: Egypt
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Events of 1806back to top
Current affairsWilliam Pitt dies in January and his lifelong opponent Charles James Fox dies in September. Pitt is succeeded by William Wyndham, Baron Grenville, who forms the 'Ministry of all the Talents' coalition .
Prince of Wales instigates the 'Delicate Investigation'; a Parliamentary enquiry into claims that his wife Caroline had an illegitimate child.
Art and scienceJohn Constable embarks on a formative tour of the Lakes and makes landscape studies of the Langdale Pikes and Helvellyn.
Turner exhibits his Thames views to acclaim at his own London gallery.
Humphrey Davy discovers the elements potassium and sodium by passing an electrical current through molten compounds.
InternationalSoprano Angelica Catalani arrives from Italy to make her London debut, amazing audiences with her showpiece arias.
Napoleon turns his forces east against Austria, Russia and Prussia and enjoys a wave of French victories.
British attack on Buenos Aires under General William Beresford fails.
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Bryan Fischer is at it again, asking the question on his blog yesterday, "Would Jesus occupy Wall Street?" His answer is, "Not on your life" and his reasons are as fatuous and poorly reasoned as everything else he has ever said. What got him going was a question by a CNN reporter:[1]
A CNN anchor asked earlier this week whether or not Jesus would occupy Wall Street.
That question can be answered with a categorical "No."
First, Jesus has no truck with rank, blatant hypocrites. The OWS crowd has now fallen to squabbling over who gets a slice of the $500,000 which has been donated to them, and which, by the way, they put in one of the evil, greedy banks they are out to destroy.
And the OWS crowd is thinking about incorporating! In other words, they're about to become one of the evil corporations they claim to detest, as the Occupy Portland folks have already done.
And they're royally hacked off at the vagrant homeless types trying to cadge free food from them. They're going to feed them brown rice gruel this weekend instead of spaghetti bolognese to show them the depths of their compassion for the poor and downtrodden. No more soup for you!
So all of sudden that sharing the wealth business has lost its appeal. They're tired of people freeloading off of them and taking advantage of them. To which we say, welcome to our world. Now you know why we have lost patience with all of liberalism and the entire welfare system.
So the OWSers want the greedy, evil corporations to share the wealth with them, but they don't want to share their wealth with anybody, especially with the poor and needy flooding into their squatters' camps. I'm sure Jesus would be happy to address the OWS crowd, and he'd probably begin his remarks with the scathing use of the word "hypocrites."
Secondly, Jesus has no truck with those whose entire agenda is to flagrantly disobey two of the Ten Commandments of God.
God said, "Thou shalt not steal," a commandment Jesus affirmed on numerous occasions. Stealing is wrong, and it doesn't make it right when government does it under color of law.
But the OWS crowd wants to use the coercive power of government to take resources from some and involuntarily redistribute it to others. Namely, them. When government confiscates wealth by force from some citizens and transfers that wealth to others, that's not welfare and it's not compassion. It is nothing less than legalized plunder.
Jesus teaches the redistribution of wealth – as long as the transfer is voluntary. But he is adamantly opposed to the involuntary redistribution of wealth, because that violates the moral law of God and is profoundly wrong. His words to take care of the poor are not addressed to government, they are addressed to us.
And the OWS crowd is animated by a thoroughly ugly disregard for the 10th Commandment as well. God says, "Thou shalt not covet…any thing that is thy neighbor's." And yet the Occupiers are driven by a dark, bitter, resentful, angry and acquisitive greed for stuff that belongs to other people.
I submit that no political program that is predicated on a violation of twenty percent of God's moral law can possibly be right, can possibly work, or can possibly be good for America.
Jesus took a whip to the thieves and the covetous in his day. If he were to come back and do the same thing today, he just might start in Zuccotti Park.
In other words, he might occupy Wall Street after all.
There will be no explanation forthcoming from Bryan Fischer as to why James the Just and his followers held "all things in common. As related in Acts, "no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common…there was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold…and it was distributed to each as any had need" (Acts 4:32-35).[2]
Today's fundamentalists hate the idea of a Jesus who actually cared about people, particularly about the poor and oppressed; they seethe at any suggestion of a Jesus concerned with issues of social justice. The Jesus of Bryan Fischer and his fellow fundamentalists, though he was a penniless Galilean peasant who lived a communal lifestyle with his disciples, seems paradoxically to have loved the rich and to have promoted the existing power structure.
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. Jesus was the ultimate redistributor of wealth and it is impossible to conceive of Jesus finding in favor of the Wall Street tycoons, or of a 1% that treats the 99% like the priestly aristocracy of his own country treated peasants like him. He despised the power structure of his day. And he was very, very, concerned by the plight of the underprivileged and oppressed. They were, he said, the people who would inherit the kingdom of God, while camels would fly through eyes of needles before rich men found salvation.
Worse yet, Jesus particularly cared for women – yes, the same gender who have become the ultimate enemy of Christian fundamentalism.
Bart Ehrman cites a few examples:
Jesus does speak with women in public and instructs them one on one (something unusual for a reputed teacher; see the independent traditions in Mark 7:27-28; John 4:7-26; 11:20-27); he urges at least one woman to be more concerned with hearing his teaching than doing womanly duties about the house (Luke 10:38-42); he publicly praises one for an act of kindness (Mark 14:6-9); and so on…women were clearly a central part of his mission.[3]
And the poor? Read the Beatitudes. Who gets the Kingdom of God? The short answer is, the same people to whom Jesus preached his gospel: the poor (Matt. 11:15; Luke 7:22): "In this manifesto," writes Geza Vermes, "admittance into the Kingdom is promised to the poor, the hungry and the thirsty for justice, the generous and merciful, the irenic, those who are prepared to sacrifice everything."[4] The first shall be last – the folks at the top of what Ehrman calls the "socio-politico-economic heap" would trade places with those above them.[5]
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted;
Blessed are those who are meek, for they will inherit the earth;
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied (Matt. 5:3-6)
For Luke, Jesus actually says, "blessed are you who are poor" and Luke's Jesus speaks of those who "hunger and thirst".
Not only that, but Luke's Jesus says something wholly reprehensible in the eyes of Bryan Fischer, and it's no wonder he refuses to repeat it:
But woe to you who are wealthy, for you have your comfort (now); woe to you who are full now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who are rejoicing now, for you will mourn and weep. And woe when everyone speaks well of you; for so too did your ancestors treat the false prophets (Luke 6:24-26).
Ouch. Jesus didn't like rich people much at all.
"For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and those who are humble shall be exalted" (Luke 18:14; Mark 23:12) are words he repeated in one form or another again and again: "whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted" (Luke 14:11) and "Whoever humbles himself as this small child, this is the one who is great in the Kingdom of heaven" (Matt. 18:4). Are we to believe Jesus said this again and again and mean none of it; meant, in fact, the opposite? That is what Bryan Fischer would have you believe.
Jesus said, "Children, how hard is it to enter the kingdom of God? It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" (Mark 10:34-35; Matt. 19:24-25; Luke 18:25). The words and the meaning behind them left Jesus' listeners in no doubt as to what he meant, and at whom his disapproval was directed. Yes, Jesus would Occupy Wall Street, but it is the bankers who would feel the wrath he visited upon the moneylenders in the Temple, not the poor and oppressed gathered outside seeking justice.
[1] On Wednesday, 10/26, "CNN Newsroom," Washington, D.C.-based CNN contributor Carol Costello.
[2] See the discussion in Geza Vermes, The Changing Faces of Jesus (Penguin, 2002), 44.
[3] Bart D. Ehrman, Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium (Oxford, 1999), 175-176
[4] Geza Vermes, The Authentic Gospel of Jesus (Penguin, 2003), 410
[5] Ehrman (1999), 148


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Mathilde Castello Branco, creative director of red carpet darling Azzaro took time to chat with us this week about her first collection for the fashion house, which was unveiled at couture this week.
Mathilde cut her teeth working for Martin Margiela at Hermes, and most recently as Alber Elbaz's second in command at Lanvin. Her debut collection for Azzaro pays homage to both her teachers. "Martin Margiela taught me to see the importance of fabric. Once you start working with the finest cashmere or the most buttery soft leathers you never forget. It's like excellent food, once you taste it, you never forget - and it's hard to go back."
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From Alber Elbaz, Castello Branco says that she learned the importance of "taking an emotional approach to work; creativity should come from your heart, your feeling, your instinct and you should respond emotionally to piece of clothing as you would to a piece of art." It's also clear that she has acquired her old boss' fondness for poetic language when it comes to her job. "It's like a dream coming to work every day, I 100VIRTUAL-Gallery-145640%


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Network Colleagues Ann Masten and Angela Narayan are the authors of Child Development in the Context of Disaster, War, and Terrorism: Pathways of Risk and Resilience published in this year's Annual Review of Psychology (Volume 63, pages 227-257). Authors highlight progress over the past decade in research on the effects of mass trauma experiences on children and youth, focusing on natural disasters, war, and terrorism. They review conceptual advances in terms of prevailing risk and resilience frameworks that guide basic and translational research. Authors evaluate recent evidence on common components of these models, including dose effects, mediators and moderators, and the individual or contextual differences that predict risk or resilience. Also, they discuss new research horizons with profound implications for health and well-being, particularly in relation to plausible models for biological embedding of extreme stress. Authors noted strong consistencies in this literature, suggesting guidelines for disaster preparedness and response. At the same time, they noted the "stunning lack of evidence on intervention" for child and youth victims. Practical and theory-informative research on strategies to protect children and youth victims and promote their resilience is a global priority.
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Network Members Lisa Amaya-Jackson, Jan Markiewicz, and John Fairbank are among the authors of Development and Application of the NCCTS Learning Collaborative Model for Implementation of Evidence-Based Child Trauma Treatment, a chapter in Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Psychological Interventions published by the Oxford Press. In this chapter, the authors describe the NCCTS Learning Collaborative Model, an approach to implementing evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions intended to support the delivery and sustained use of effective child trauma treatments in community practice settings.
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The Human Rights Campaign recently released Growing Up LGBT in America, a study of 10,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) young people and straight youth ages 13-17. A major finding of the study was that LGBT youth are twice as likely as their peers to report they have been physically assaulted, kicked, or shoved at school. More than one-half of LGBT youth (54 percent) say they have been verbally harassed and called names involving anti-gay slurs.
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Network Members Mandy Habib and Victor Labruna are the authors of Clinical Considerations in Assessing Trauma and PTSD in Adolescents published in the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma (Volume 4, Issue 3). Authors outline some of the issues complicating an accurate assessment of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder, such as varying definitions of trauma, chronicity or multiplicity of exposure, and developmental factors unique to adolescents. Authors review considerations in conducting thorough assessments, focusing on the factors underlying the unintentional minimization and/or active concealment of traumatic events and trauma symptoms. They offer suggestions to enhance assessment accuracy and discuss treatment implications.
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December 20, 2012
Cyclosa Makes Decoy Spider To Attract Predators
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com — Your Universe Online
While salt licks may be one intelligent ploy by man to attract deer for hunting, its got nothing on the method used by one Amazonian arachnid.One tiny spider in the Peruvian Amazon builds an elaborate decoy spider, and hangs it from its web in order to trick predators into getting stuck in its web.
The artful dodger takes it time crafting up decoys from dead insects, debris and leaves as what scientists suspect is a defense mechanism.
The new species is part of the Cyclosa genus, which includes other sculpting arachnids, none of which have been observed to build spider mimics though. Cyclosa are known for building decoys, but most of those structures are not as elaborate, and are more clumpy.
Scientists discovered the spider in September when they were leading tourists into a floodplain surrounding Peru's Tamboptata Research Center.
"From afar, it appears to be a medium sized spider about an inch across, possibly dead and dried out, hanging in the center of a spider web along the side of the trail," biologist and science teacher Phil Torres wrote in a blog post for eco-tourism firm Rainforest Expeditions.
He said as he approached the decomposing arthropod, it began to wobble back and forth as if it was alive. When approached even closer, the spider form starts to look like it is made up of tiny bits of leaf, debris and dead insect.
"The confusion sets in. How can something be constructed to look like a spider, how is it moving, and what kind of creature made this," Torres wrote in the blog post. "It turns out the master designer behind this somewhat creepy form is in fact a tiny spider."
Linda Raynor, an arachnologist at Cornell University, told Wired the decoys made with legs and web-shaking behavior has never been observed before.
Torres returned to the area he found the spider and found a further 25 specimens of the spider in the same floodplain. He and his team did not find the spider species in other areas in the region, which suggests they have a restricted range.
The next step for Torres is to return to the area in January to collect samples, in preparation for a study to get the new species officially recognized.
"I have never seen a structure just like this," William Eberhard, an entomologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute told Wired.


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October 24, 2005
Nigeria recovers body parts from air crash site
By Tume Ahemba
LISSA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Recovery teams gathered human
body parts in plastic bags on Monday and prepared to excavate a
smoldering crater left by a Nigerian passenger plane that
crashed killing all 117 people on board.
north of Lagos on Saturday night and most of the fuselage and
corpses were now buried beneath the red-hot impact zone 4
metres (13 feet) deep.
"The plane nosedived, the wings blew off, but the main body
of the plane is buried underground," said Ibrahim Farinloye, a
spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency.
"We are trying to remove the debris from the ground."
Dismembered and burned body parts, fuselage fragments and
engine parts were strewn over an area the size of four football
fields near Lissa village, 30 km (20 miles) north of Lagos.
Aviation Minister Babalola Borishade said he had asked
construction companies to help dig out the crater, which was
still emitting a pungent smoke on Monday.
A Muslim cleric said a prayer at the crater's edge.
Fingers, part of a foot and other unidentified pieces of
human flesh were still visible on Monday amid mangled metal,
clothing, shoes and documents. Recovery workers collected body
parts in plastic bags.
Relatives picked over the wreckage for evidence of their
loved ones.
Sony Enemoh, whose brother George was on the passenger
list, said he found his brother's clothes at the site.
"I don't believe that this was an accident. Look at
people's clothes all over the place without bloodstains on
them. We picked the dress our brother was wearing when he
traveled and there is not a single drop of blood on it," he
Bellview Airlines flight 210 lost contact with the control
tower three minutes after take-off from Lagos en route to Abuja
in a heavy electrical storm, aviation officials said. A
presidency source said the pilot sent a distress signal before
losing contact.
The black box containing vital information from the plane's
flight deck has still not been recovered, the minister said,
contradicting a Punch newspaper report quoting police as saying
it was already found.
Borishade said two forensic experts were expected to come
from the United States to help identify the victims.
A government statement released late on Sunday said all 111
passengers and six crew were killed, and declared three days of
national mourning for the dead.
A U.S. military officer, a top official of the Economic
Community of West African States, a Nigerian presidential aide,
two Britons and a German were believed to be on board,
diplomats and airline officials said.
The route the airliner was taking is heavily traveled, with
dozens of flights each day between the port of Lagos -- one of
the world's biggest cities -- and Abuja in the heart of
Africa's most populous nation.
The 24-year-old plane only recently received a clean bill
of health from inspectors, a Bellview official said.
Aviation analysts questioned why there was so much
confusion and delay in finding the crash site.
Officials had at first identified a location 150 km (100
miles) further north in Oyo state, deploying helicopters and
cars full of emergency workers only to find nothing there. It
took 15 hours for the authorities to find the downed aircraft.
Bellview Airlines is a privately owned Nigerian airline and
was popular with expatriates for its previously unblemished
safety record. The airline resumed flights to Abuja on Sunday.
As Nigeria mourned those who died in the crash, the country
also remembered President Olusegun Obasanjo's wife Stella, 59,
who died on Sunday after cosmetic surgery known as a "tummy
tuck" in Spain, local media reported.
(Additional reporting by Tom Ashby in Lagos)


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The Washington Post published part two of Cupcakes Wars last week, the latest installment in its six-week quest to sample and rate all the cupcakes the DC-area has to offer. This week the publication featured cupcakes from two NOVA establishments that, in all honestly, I had never heard of: Buzz and Pastries by Randolph.
Now, I'm not obsessed with the DC dining scene, but I do read the Posts' food section pretty regularly. So I was surprised that I had no idea that these two bakeries existed. It made me wonder if the Post was stretching for content (after all, six weeks is a lot of space to fill with, um, cupcake reviews).
Sadly, I cannot compare the ratings for this weeks' pastries to last week's because The Post failed to provide the average rating per cupcake. This may be because the offerings were so all over the map from each bakery—but I really couldn't tell.
The Post liked Buzz's vanilla cupcake with vanilla frosting, giving it a 5.5 out of ten rating. They praised the tender cake and fluffy but not overly sweet frosting. Post testers singled out the Bumble Bee cupcake as one that they particularly didn't like because of its "muddled flavors," but they didn't elaborate on what the flavors were, or what about them was so muddled. Details, people! I want details! Now I feel the need to high-tail it out to Alexandria and figure out what happened.
The Post was not at all impressed by the offerings from Pastries by Randolph, an Arlington establishment, calling the cupcakes "grade-school cafeteria" fare. Testers especially disliked the artificial flavors, and described the lemon flavor in one cupcake as "Pledge"-like. The least objectionable of the bunch was the Red Velvet cupcake.
So there you go, folks, another week of cupcake reviews. Since I'm guessing that they're saving the "hot" DC cupcake establishments for later in the series, we can only guess where they'll go next for cupcakes. Does Firehook make cupcakes? Maybe they'll go to Starbucks?


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that Cray Inc. has been awarded the contract to build NNSA's next generation supercomputing platform.
The new platform, named Cielo, will support all three NNSA national laboratories – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. The selection was made through a highly competitive procurement process that included a technical evaluation by members of the labs. Design, procurement and deployment were accomplished by the NNSA's New Mexico Alliance for Computing at Extreme Scale (ACES). This is a joint partnership between Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories.
"Cielo, the culmination of more than two years of hard work by our entire team, will be an invaluable addition to the suite of supercomputing platforms that helps NNSA ensure the safety, security and effectiveness of the nuclear stockpile without testing," said NNSA Administrator Thomas D'Agostino. "This has been a great partnership between the labs and has brought together unique capabilities and expertise from each institution. NNSA looks forward to enabling the solution of critical national security problems using this platform."
With a projected platform cost of less than $54 million, Cielo is the next generation capability class platform for NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program. Cielo will be installed in third quarter of 2010, with additional capability planned for 2011. The architecture of Cielo will be based on Cray's next generation "Baker" architecture.
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- Hillebrand, Evan & Bervoets, Jeremy, 2013. "Economic Sanctions and The Sanctions Paradox: A Post-Sample Validation of Daniel Drezner's Conflict Expectations Model," MPRA Paper 50954, University Library of Munich, Germany.
Journal articles
- Hillebrand Evan E & Lewer Joshua J. & Zagardo Janice Turtora, 2011. "Backtracking from Globalization," Global Economy Journal, De Gruyter, vol. 10(4), pages 1-19, January.
- Hillebrand Evan E, 2010. "Deglobalization Scenarios: Who Wins? Who Loses?," Global Economy Journal, De Gruyter, vol. 10(2), pages 1-21, May.
- Hillebrand, Evan, 2008. "The Global Distribution of Income in 2050," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 36(5), pages 727-740, May.
- Hillebrand, Evan & Closson, Stacy, 2015. "Energy, Economic Growth, and Geopolitical Futures: Eight Long-Range Scenarios," MIT Press Books, The MIT Press, edition 1, volume 1, number 0262028891, January.