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CSULBs College of Engineering recognized one of its longtime champions on Dec. 3, 2013, when it renamed ECS 312 as the Michael and Barbara Niggli Conference Room. Niggli, who earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from CSULB in 1971, recently retired as president and chief operating officer of San Diego Gas and Electric and Electric and Southern California Gas Co., Sempra Energys California regulated utilities.
This conference room is a central hub for much of the business that we conduct in the College of Engineering, says Forouzan Golshani, dean of the College of Engineering. Renaming it in this way seemed like a fitting way to acknowledge the enormous and enduring impact that Mr. Niggli has had on the College, and to salute his unparalleled achievements as an industry leader. Niggli has made personal donations in excess of $200,000 to the College and has advocated for similar levels of financial support from various corporations. Additionally, as a past chair and current member of the deans advisory council, he has helped the College to establish such vital programs as the Distinguished Lecture Series, which brings experts to campus to discuss issues of global importance, and the CSULB Innovation Challenge, which offers students the chance to receive up to $50,000 in funding and services to make their business ideas become a reality. He also played a key role in the development of the Colleges current strategic plan.
I wanted to help allow those to enroll who, like me, did not have significant monetary resources to participate in college, says Niggli. I was the first in my entire family to graduate from college. Im proud of that. I saw there were many others out there in similar situations who wanted access to a great, reasonably priced education. That was what CSULB was all about.
From 2000 to 2006, Niggli was president of Sempra Generation, where he was responsible for the development, construction, operation and maintenance of merchant power plants and energy infrastructure throughout North America. During his tenure, Sempra Generation operated power plant assets in Nevada, California, Arizona, Texas and Mexico.
Ive always seen engineering as a discipline that helps society, says Niggli. When I think of engineers, I think of problem solvers. They innovate. That is why I saw it as a great opportunity to get more people into the engineering pipeline through CSULBs College of Engineering.


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Many naysayers are referring to this fourth installment of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn as "Breaking Wind." While the slam is humorous, it's woefully inaccurate. The film may indeed reek, but its defects shouldn't be assigned to something as simple as excess gas. Nor should it be called "Breaking Story" … particularly since it doesn't have one to break. Perhaps a better snipe would be "Breaking Down," a nod to the fact that this overheated yet pallid love triangle between a girl, a vampire and a wolf deteriorates with each successive chapter. But in the vial-is-half-full department, at least we don't have to be reminded that many of the characters are undead … not when every line, every scene and every frozen expression emanating from the three leads embodies that very concept.
Want to know more about this snore #4? Think a popular daytime soap opera, in which the long-promised wedding of two central characters has finally arrived. It's "One Life to Lose," minutely detailing the nuptials of Kristen Stewart's Bella and Robert Pattinson's Edward. We witness such riveting moments as reactions to the wedding invitation, Bella's trying on high-heeled shoes, Bella's hairdo and makeup choices, all leading to her achingly-slow schlepp to the altar. Followed by endless toasts, less-than-snappy asides and multiple embraces from well-wishers. Of course, Taylor Lautner's Jacob is lurking in the forest, ineffectively sulking as usual. Might some story bubble up through the morass of interminable, syrupy pop songs? Nah — instead, we travelogue with the honeymooners through Rio de Janeiro, ending up at a remote Brazilian island home that we're forced to reside at, as if we're all under house arrest. But hey, it's such lovely beachfront property, who are we to expect a plot? That said, maybe something's hiding inside the chicken that Bella's cooking up for dinner. After all, she's picking through the drumstick obviously looking for something …
And then, a-ha!, in the middle of the mind-numbing second act, a Rosemary's Baby scenario occurs, with Bella suddenly pregnant. The couple rush back to the Cullen estate as the fetus grows faster than, say, Stephenie Meyer's book sales. Bella's very life is at stake, with the special effects team credibly depicting her ever-emaciating body as it becomes rapidly depleted by the alien insider. (Um, of course it's inside her.) Speaking of smart effects, since the CGI wolves can act virtual and literal circles around the actors, it's probably no accident that after too many halting scenes, the filmmakers turned the cameras on the canis lupus clan, combining their physical actions with human voiceovers. No surprise, these scenes are among the movie's most watchable.
Perhaps we can get a sense of this anemic work from screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg herself, who states in the production notes: "I'd already done three Twilight movies and I was getting tired … When we first sat down he [director Bill Condon] says, 'I don't wanna write this – you're going to write this.' I was like 'Oh, really?' The one time I want a director to go on and re-write me, he refuses," laughs Rosenberg. As for Condon, who's previous work includes the far-superior Dreamgirls, Kinsey, Chicago and Gods and Monsters, perhaps this film's faint, flat scenes might be attributed to some rogue vampire with a grudge who had unwittingly drained the director of all talent during some crepuscular midnight visit. Before anyone scoffs, note that this is the fourth lackluster film of a blisteringly-profitable series. In other words … anything's possible.
The movie's tagline states, "Forever is only the beginning …" After a few minutes of viewing this lifeless pap, we realize that it's not a slogan at all. It's a warning.
Rating on a scale of 5 menacing bloodsuckers with a bad Nosfera-'tude: 1
Release date: November 18, 2011
Directed by: Bill Condon
Screenplay by: Melissa Rosenberg
Based on the novel "Breaking Dawn" by: Stephenie Meyer
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Ashley Greene
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Today the Universal Church celebrates the memorial of St. Adomnan of Iona, Abbot, who died September 23, 704. He was the 9th abbot of Iona (near present-day Argyll, Scotland), the monastery founded by Saint Columba in 563. Born c. 627, Adomnan became abbot c. 679. At that time, abbots were members of the powerful Ui' Neill family, kings in northern Ireland.
There were different practices in various parts of the British Isles then. In Celtic monasteries there was a different method for dating Easter, a different tonsure, and the abbot held administrative superiority to a bishop.
Conflict over practice came to a head when King Egfrith of North Umbria (Celtic) married a Kentish princess (English/Universal) and the Synod of Whitby followed in 664 to resolve the differences between the Celtic and English churches. The king was won over by the English, but the Columban factions remained unresolved until Adomnan used his diplomatic skills to convert the Columbanus.
Adomnan had an open mind regarding issues damaging to unity but not essential to the faith. He worked for 15 years to emphasize the essential and downplay the differences. During this time he also established a law to protect women, children, and clergy from injury or participation in war (Cai'n Adomna'n or Law of the Innocents (697)) and wrote the Vita Columbae. The Cai'n Adomna'n established legal rights for women for the first time in the British Isles.
The Vita Columbae stresses St. Columba's relationship with God and his fight against exploitation, carelessness, falsehood, and murder. St. Adomnan upholds Columba as an Irish saint whose faith transcends petty divisions.
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In America during the 1920s, abortion was considered by the medical establishment, and Americans in general, as ``a criminal venture'' according to author Mary Meechan. In the 1940's, abortion, as practiced by Nazi ``doctors,'' was judged a war crime. In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court conducted a clinic in judicial activism and delivered its Roe v. Wade decision, claiming the unborn child is disposable property. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it authorize the killing of the incontestably innocent. Their ruling launched America's second civil war.
As our nation's longest and deadliest, this ongoing 27-year war has a casualty count of nearly 40 million unborn Americans. In addition, countless women, no longer bound by the moral chains of protecting their unborn child, became victims of Planned Parenthood's lies and suffered from emotional trauma resulting from their ``choice,'' a euphemism for government-sanctioned murder.
On Oct. 21, Sen. Ted Stevens voted in favor of a measure to validate Roe v. Wade. He signed on to this measure that states ``Roe v. Wade was an appropriate decision,'' that giving mothers the freedom to hire assassins (doctors) to execute their babies in utero ``secures an important constitutional right,'' and the Roe ``should not be overturned.''
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(As for the suits, I have no idea but that would be interesting to know as well.)
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I have to agree, those suits looked awfully good for a TV production...
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The suits looked good, but I really don't think they were real. The Command Module cockpit was very much not real. It had a few real items, though. I would say the Rotation Control and the Crewman Optical Alignment Sight (COAS) were actual hardware. And the LM cockpit was probably a high fidelity trainer. I also think the communication cabling was from a trainer.
It was nice seeing Pete Conrad in a cameo role.
quote:Originally posted by space1:Thanks for the heads up on the YouTube link. That's the way the Visitor Center looked when I first visited KSC in 1973. I was 17 years old.
Best of all, it showed that visitor center as I first saw it as well (hadn't been there in years, and saw it with my parents last year, we spent the whole time trying to figure out where stuff had been when we saw it when I kid. I assume it occupies the same ground but clearly none of the buildings exist I remember from back then). The first time I saw the place it was 1975 when I was 5. It's easy to remember the year as the tour bus took right past one of the Viking landers sitting on pad 41, being readied for the launch that came very soon afterward...
Remember this was shot in 1974 with a lot of Apollo hardware out there like training and backup suits.
If the CM replica was their standard the suits sure would have looked a lot worse if they were replicas.
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There was an attempt to sell one of these replicas in the UK for £5000, claiming it was a training suit used by Aldrin. However, it turned out that it was merely an advertising stunt for an insulation firm.
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Yesterday (2nd August 2015), West End stars played alongside celebrities and professional footballers in the Les Mis V Phantom charity football match. The Phantom of the Opera beat Les Miserables 6-2.
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BALTIMORE (AP) - The Baltimore Orioles are beginning to feel the pressure of the playoff hunt.
A baserunning blunder and poor hitting in the clutch proved costly Sunday in a 4-2 loss to the White Sox. The defeat stalled Baltimore's run at Tampa Bay for the second and final AL wild-card spot, and ended Chicago's nine-game skid.
Adam Jones hit his 31st home run for the Orioles, who went 0 for 11 with runners in scoring position and stranded eight. A year ago, Baltimore took delight in being in the race for a postseason spot and flourished while doing so.
This season, it's different.
``I think there are times when I think we put a little too much pressure on ourselves,' said Chris Davis, who went 0 for 3. ``That's the nature of the beast. Everybody wants to be the guy to get the big hit or score the big run. We had a lot of fun last year. We were really enjoying ourselves and enjoying the competition, and the fact that we were in the race. I think that's something we really need to get back to.'
Down 4-1, Baltimore loaded the bases with no outs in the ninth against Addison Reed. After Ryan Flaherty grounded into a forceout at second base that scored a run, Chris Dickerson entered as a pinch-runner for Flaherty.
Dickerson tried to steal second on a pitch to Brian Roberts, who hit a foul pop near first base. Dickerson didn't know where the ball went, and the blunder made him an easy out at first.
``I keep hearing, `You should have peeked, you should have peeked.' It's not something I've ever done stealing bases,' Dickerson said. ``For me, it's the first two steps I'm getting down and then I'm looking, my eyes are up looking at the reaction of the second baseman.'
When he got to second base, shortstop Alexei Ramirez pretended the ball was in play, and Dickerson took the bait.
``(The ball) ended up in the one place where you're not going to get that awareness reaction from the infielders, especially Ramirez with the deke,' Dickerson said. ``That pretty much got me. I assumed there was a groundball hit behind me and he was going to first because I was already there.'
Rookie Andre Rienzo pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning and Adam Dunn homered for the White Sox. Reed wound up with his 37th save.
Dayan Viciedo had two hits and an RBI for the White Sox, who averted a four-game sweep and put a positive finish on a terrible road trip that included three defeats apiece in Boston and Yankee Stadium. Only eight teams in major league history have gone winless on a road trip of at least 10 games.
Chicago (57-85) also avoided falling 30 games under .500 for the first time since ending the 1976 season at 64-97.
Making his eighth big league start, Rienzo (2-1) gave up one run and four hits in 6 2-3 innings. The Brazilian native walked two and struck out four in the second-longest outing since being summoned from the minors on July 30.
Rienzo left after giving up a two-out single to J.J. Hardy in the seventh. Flaherty followed with a double off Matt Lindstrom, who struck out Roberts to end the threat.
Bud Norris (10-11) allowed four runs and nine hits in 4 1-3 innings. He was 4-0 as a starter for Baltimore since being acquired in a trade with Houston on July 31.
The White Sox were clinging to a 2-1 lead in the fifth inning when Dunn hit his 31st homer after Alexei Ramirez led off with a single. The drive snapped Dunn's 7-for-65 skid and traveled an estimated 424 feet before landing on Eutaw Street, far beyond the right-field wall.
The four runs the White Sox scored matched their total in the previous three games of the series.
NOTES: The Orioles open a four-game series against the New York Yankees on Monday night at Camden Yards. Chris Tillman starts for the O's against CC Sabathia. ... Chicago hosts the Detroit Tigers. ``That's the good news. We're going home,' manager Robin Ventura said before Sunday's game. ... Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said OF Henry Urrutia, a Cuban defector, will not be allowed to accompany the team to Toronto next weekend because of visa issues. ... Chicago went 3-4 against Baltimore this year and hasn't won the season series since 2008. ... Urrutia and RHP Mike Wright were chosen as the Orioles' minor league players of the year. ... Dunn struck out three times around his home run.


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Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 5, 2012 -- Structures in Seagate community are destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. Cleanup continues throughout the communities while residents try to get their lives back in order. Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA
One week ago today, millions of Americans from North Carolina to Maine braced for Hurricane Sandy. For more than 12 hours, hurricane and tropical storm force winds, storm surge, and flooding impacted 12 states; and more than eight million people lost power. Transportation systems in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC came to a halt, and more than 12,000 commercial flights were grounded. And for the first time since 1888, the New York Stock Exchange was closed for two consecutive days because of a natural disaster. But we are a resilient nation:
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Right: Queens, N.Y., Nov. 1, 2012 -- FEMA Community Relations (CR) team members moved through Breezy Point and Rockaway, NY, after Hurricane Sandy. The CR members talked with disaster survivors about FEMA assistance and assessed the situation on the ground. Photo by Walt Jennings/FEMA
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A take-out window at a chocolate shop in East Vancouver will be allowed to remain open, city officials say.
Scott Edwards with the City of Vancouver says Anne-Geneviève Poitras, owner of Chocolaterie de la Nouvelle France, will be allowed to keep her take-out window open.
He says there was a misunderstanding when another city official visited the shop after a complaint was made about line ups outside her store.
"I think she was very concerned we were actually asking her to close it, but in fact we're not," Edwards said. "We're asking that when there are long line ups, just to be aware of how that might impact the sidewalk."
"She was under the impression that the city had asked her to close it because of concerns that had arisen with a conflict due to a passerby and use of the sidewalk.
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Poitras told the CBC Monday she felt she was being unfairly targeted by a neighbour, after the city asked her to close the window after one complaint was made alleging the line-up blocked the sidewalk.
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About Gunnar
I am a filmmaker in my 30's, I live and work in Reykjavik (mostly). Me and my wife take great pride in providing personal service to all our guests. We are more than happy to offer any advice or suggestions about what to do in and around Reykjavik


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Aurora police are asking the community for help in finding a male accused of attempted kidnapping, robbery and assault Tuesday night.
The female victim was jogging in the area of 2288 S. Jasper Way around 8 p.m. when a man ran after her, grabbed her and pulled her into some nearby brush, according to police.
The man told the woman he only wanted money, police said.
The woman was able to struggle her way free, at which time the man ran into a nearby condominium complex, police said.
The suspect is described as a white male, 15 to 18 years old, with dirty blond hair and a pale complexion. He was last seen wearing a white of tan shirt with a red shirt wrapped around his waist, police said.
The suspect may have recent injuries to his hands and neck sustained during the struggle with the victim, police said.
Anyone with information on the suspect is asked to call office Grierson Wheeldon at 303-627-3251 or detective sergeant Franklin Michelson at 303-627-3251.
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I only need a small group of friends I actually like. I don't need an army of people I barely talk to and have little in common with.
I also appreciate my alone time.
I only need a small group of friends I actually like. I don't need an army of people I barely talk to and have little in common with.
I also appreciate my alone time.
3DS Friend Code, Nintendo Network ID, and Switch FCI look like someone else, but I'm just me.
With you standing by my side, I won't be lonely.
I look like someone else, but I'm just me!
My name is Mimikyu, don't call me spooky!
"I am not a bad man
Even though I do bad things
Very bad things
Such horrible things"
Current rps
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I have a lot of friends sometimes we fight, sometimes we don't talk to each other, etc. Cuz thats what friends for, if they don't fight, love each other they're not friends. So it's good all of us have friends
3DS Friend Code, Nintendo Network ID, and Switch FCI look like someone else, but I'm just me.
With you standing by my side, I won't be lonely.
I look like someone else, but I'm just me!
My name is Mimikyu, don't call me spooky!
i only have my cousin for a friend 'cause i homeschool. i like trying to make friends, and hanging out with friends, but i'm either 1, not very good at making friends, or 2, no one LIKES ME! WAAAH! lol, sorry for that.
Thanks to FairyWitch for the profile pic!
National Dex Completed 2/13/2014, at 12:12 A.M., with 212:16 Game Time, and thanks to my friends who traded me over 200 times that week
I'm a loner
JK, i have couple friends >.>
Best friends, etc... I'm not sure
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Is "friend" a necessity for one to live in the real world?
Well, I know someone will definitely say YES for the above question, but unfortunately mine is NO. Therefore, I don't have friends, not even the internet friends.
Unfortunately, the "friends" that were listed in my Friend List of every forums and websites are not really friends to me. I'll called them fellows, because we talk with each other for the same interest. I will not talk with them for anything outside the forum topics.
But of course, that does not mean I am unsocial in the real world. I get along finely with my neighbours, I was liked by several regular customers in my part-time working place, other people in my other working place talks open-mindedly with me. Those people, I will called them my neighbours, customers, colleague, associates, business partner, or whatsoever title you may think of, but just not "friend".
Friend, to me is someone I can trust, and on the opposite he/she also trust me, such that I can talk to him/her about anything even my inner thought, without the worry of he/she will spread my thought. And, he/she will be there for me when I mentally or physically need help. Unfortunately, I don't have someone like that.
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I have a decent social life, I have many friends which I like to spend with them, but I hate to be a popular guy, and I have few friends that I can trust in everything. Also I 'm a loner,sensible, loyal and I love to make justice.
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Depends on what you classify as "friends".
I still believe having a friend is strongly based upon huge unstated assumptions. Part of the reason hanging out with a friend is so much fun is because it thrives on saying things you wouldn't normally say, cutting corners in conversations, trusting what they say as truth (or letting it slide past you despite the wrongness) Etc...So using that definition, I have tons of friends, sometimes I think I have too much. I perhaps trust a little to much (I don't actually trust anybody fully, but it doesn't make a difference when the desire to trust over powers my desire to be in doubt. I like trusting people, so I tend to listen to that more then I do my reason and logic. At least, I think thats how it goes :X
So yeah. I have tons of friends, but I do need that alone time. xD
Slightly off topic, but...
I also have a slight feeling that the internet blurs these lines that separate friend VS public interaction. :X You say things as though everybody is your "friend" whether they are or not, just because you feel safe. You also tend to be dicks to your friends as a joke (You can be mildly cruel and they can be mildly cruel, but it doesn't matter because its all a give and give and its meant for laughs.),so...Eh, now I'm just rambling. Nevermind.
"I don't live in absolutes, absolutes are my fantasy."
My eyes! (my eyes!) are filled with curiosity! You think! (You think!) that you have power over me! In this life! (This life!) Theres no room for you and me! So turn around and face the day with me!
Such a sexy song. Urgh.
I have quite a bit of friends at the moment. But when some of them move for college, I have a feeling we're going to drift apart...
But, since I'm only a junior in high school, I still have up to 10 close friends and many more to come!
I have quite a few IRL friends and HAD alot of Internet friends, now the minecraft server I play on changed host and had to change IP without notice so about 1/2 the players left
I had a few good friends with no other method of contacting them that were not informed.
I still have many Internet friends and IRL friends though.
Yea, I have a lot of friends, but I can see that falling apart when I leave for college. For best friends, I have about 4. Had 5, but I couldn't talk to him anymore due to his past actions.
I guess I have a lot of friends. I dunno I guess meeting new people is never problem for me sometimes. There is only five or six I consider to be really good friends though.
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I have only a handful of close friends, but I would do anything for those precious few people.
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Take a moment, remind yourself
To take a moment and find yourself
"I am not a bad man
Even though I do bad things
Very bad things
Such horrible things"
Current rps
| Night of the Golden Witch | Kalos Chronicles |
3DS Friend Code, Nintendo Network ID, and Switch FCI look like someone else, but I'm just me.
With you standing by my side, I won't be lonely.
I look like someone else, but I'm just me!
My name is Mimikyu, don't call me spooky!
I have a fair share of friends, but I'm usually more of an intreverted person though I like to talk a lot.
Loner now. I had friends but they all moved away. I have people I talk to every now and again but not people I hang out with like my old friends.
I have many friends online. I am on 27 different forums
But in the non-digital world, I love been a loner.
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I consider myself a loner with one true friend. Sure, she can sometimes befriend others, but generally, I always stay with a group of just two of three.
I would like to think I have a fair few friends, but these days some people are so two faced you can never tell
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I have a pretty big group of friends/acquaintances at school, I have no online friendships though because I hardly come on this site lol...
I have a few close friends and a lot of people who I'm just friends with. It's easy for me to talk and get along well with people as long as they talk back and are friendly. I talk at school a lot (with the people I know, in some of my classes where I don't know anybody you could consider me a loner) and when I'm home I'm only interested in texting/messaging the boys I like...


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Car Theft at Lowest Level in Over 40 Years
The reduction is attributed to new policing methods and increased use of anti-theft devices. Police in many cities are using "bait cars" to lure professional auto-theft rings, according to the Chicago Tribune. Many of these rings cause the bulk of vehicle thefts within metropolitan areas.
Technological solutions like electronic vehicle tracking systems, car alarms and immobilizing devices are also helping to reduce theft. Of course, common-sense measures such as locking your car doors and not leaving a vehicle idling unattended can prevent a car from being stolen, too.
Below are the top locations for vehicle theft rates in the U.S. and their ranking change over last year. Notice the big jump in vehicle thefts in Fresno and other California cities.2010 Ranking (2009 Ranking)
1. Fresno, Calif. (5)
2. Modesto, Calif. (2)
3. Bakersfield-Delano, Calif. (3)
4. Spokane, Wash. (18)
5. Vallejo-Fairfield, Calif. (16)
6. Sacramento/Arden-Arcade/Roseville, Calif. (11)
7. Stockton, Calif. (4)
8. Visalia-Porterville, Calif. (8)
9. San Francisco/Oakland/Fremont, Calif. (7)
10. Yakima, Wash. (6)
Auto theft in U.S. at lowest level since 1967 (Chicago Tribune)


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Our second shoot was a fall session which we decided to do at Lincoln Park Zoo. Which was beautiful at that time of year with all the fall colors. I just love how organized and prepared she is for each session! She has a knack of being able to get my daughter to laugh on a cold November day. The pictures once again were amazing!!!!!!
And our most previous shoot was for my daughters one year (smash cake session). Which we did at Jenny's new studio. She welcomed us in and I was so happy to finally get to see the studio. I really wanted to capture her diving head first into her first taste of cake. And Jenny did just that!! We all had such a great time.
Jenny is incredibly talented, and has a great eye for capturing the perfect pictures. But she is also so sweet and has such a gift with babies. I can't say enough good things about her and her work. I feel so blessed to have met Jenny and to have her capturing theses precious moments with my family."
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If all goes as planned, Baby Tatum won't be born in Los Angeles.
Pregnant Jenna Dewan-Tatum and Channing Tatum looked adorable on their first Oscars red carpet. The soon-to-be dad rubbed his wife's growing bump and proclaimed the baby his "greatest production ever." Aww.
She stunned in a fitted lace column dress alongside her man, looking dapper as always. When asked when her baby is due, Dewan-Tatum responded, "I have a few more months, so I'm walking the carpet trying to keep it together tonight, but we're good!"
Then the couple shared where they planned on having the baby.
Find out at Wetpaint: Channing & Jenna Dewan-Tatum Will Have Their Baby Where?!
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Berlin Airlift
In June of 1948, to force US, UK and France to leave West Berlin, the Soviet Union declared a blockade of all the ground transport in and out of Berlin. The fledgling US Air Force began its first major international challenge — to get 4000 tons of food and supplies to Berlin–and it rose to meet this challenge for the next 462 days.
For the 15 months of the blockade, the western nations kept over 2 million Berliners alive. The blockage was lifted in May 1949 when it became apparent to Stalin that it was not working. On September 30, 1949, a C-54 crew made the last flight of the Berlin Airlift when it lifted off from Rheine-Main Air Base in West Germany.
The above AP/Henry Ries picture of a C-54 "Skywalker" landing at Templehof in Berlin has became the lasting image of the Airlift. Vanity Fair named it one of the most newsworthy photos of the century. However, the below pictures of the innocent children of Berlin seem more emotionally powerful. After all, they, in war ravaged Berlin were to became the main beneficiaries of this generosity and humanity.
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Great photos! I'm trying to track down the rights holder of the Berlin Airlift photograph of the three children on the wall of rubble, watching the cargo plane. Do you happen to know who owns the rights to the image? Thanks!
Hello, I am trying to track down high resolution versions of this photo as well, did you have any luck finding any info on the matter?? Thanks!!
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Carova Beach, N.C. (WVEC) -- A 33-year-old man drowned in the ocean Tuesday has been identified.
Deputy Chief Tim Riley with Currituck County Fire & EMS said Brandon Bryk was swimming alone near Mile Post 15 in the 4X4 area of South Swain's Quarter.
Family members saw that Bryk was having trouble in the water.
He was unconscious and in cardiac arrest when people on the beach pulled him out of the ocean at 3:21 p.m.
Emergency crews from Carova Beach and Corolla Whalehead Station provided advance life support care. They also requested Nightingale Air Ambulance come to the scene, but medics could not revive him.
He died at 4:01 p.m.
Bryk was from Nederland, Colorado.
Riley noted the at the Atlantic Ocean has had strong rip currents and above-average waves for the past few days. He said that Currituck County Fire & EMS is urging people to stay out the water during the dangerous conditions.


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Date: Anytime
Location: Italy
City or Place: Monte Rosa
Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate
Categories: Mountaineering
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Hello Forum,
I'm planning a short acclimisation trip to the Swiss Alps between 23-26th July2013. I was planning to bag some 4000ers over two days (i.e. 24th and 25th, with a hut ascent on 23rd) before I head off for a Pik Lenin expedition on 26th. Nothing too strenuous in grade, just in altitude - so I was looking at a combo of Castor and Pollux or Breithorn in the Monte Rosa Massif, but to be honest I'd be happy for anywhere with good altitude in Switzerland over these days - the key for me as I said is acclimisation.
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Something we have alluded to in previous posts became official overnight: China overtook Japan for the title of "world's No. 2 economy." Following 30 years of relentless hard work and unwavering determination, the country can now boast that it is, in fact, on course to capture the top global economic spot as well, in about another two decades, and wrest it away from the United States.
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None of this has stemmed the flow of ultra-bullish news from permeating gold forums once again. Why, there is even a trend to quote (gasp!) Goldman Sachs (you know, the uber-evil perpetrators of gold price suppression/manipulation schemes) as the best evidence of an upcoming gold 'moonshot' (even if Goldman only sees $1,300 in six months' time). Now that they have said that, they are credible, folks. Whatever suits the agenda…
Silver advanced a dime, opening at $18.24 per troy ounce. Meanwhile, platinum and palladium staged their own mini-recovery, with the former rising $8 to start at $1529.00 per ounce, and the latter climbing $2 to the $478.00 level. No change was reported in rhodium, with a quote of $2,070 on the bid. For the time being, news of GM's impending IPO offering is lending support to the noble metals group.
At what point the weak Japanese GDP data and global slowdown worries might come to impact the industrial and noble metals complex, remains to be seen. For the moment, the markets awaited the release of NY Fed data relating to the Empire State's manufacturing activity this morning. The figures showed a bit of an improvement in the region's conditions and the findings helped stem losses in Dow futures.
Jon Nadler is a Senior Analyst at Kitco Metals Inc. North America
Websites: www.kitco.com and www.kitco.cn


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The Green Scissors Tally also identifies Members of Congress who demonstrated outstanding leadership and consistently voted to eliminate wasteful and environmentally harmful spending. The Tally lists Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), Representative Tom Campbell (R-Calif.) and Representative Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) as Green Scissors Congressional Leaders. These Members voted not to waste any taxpayer dollars, and each took the lead on at least one Green Scissors initiative. "Congress had the opportunity with these votes to cut polluter pork-special favors for special interests that harm the environment," said Lexi Shultz, a staff attorney for U.S. PIRG. "We thank Senator Kerry (D-Mass.) and Representatives Campbell (R-Calif.) and Shays (R-Conn.) for being leaders in the fight to end handouts that serve special interests at the expense of the public interest," she added. Votes documented in the Green Scissors Tally for 1999 demonstrate the diversity of issues covered by the Green Scissors Campaign. Votes include: House of Representatives * Money-Losing Timber Sales - Representatives failed to cut $23 million from the commodity timber sales budget of the Forest Service. This program promotes timber industry clearcuts on our National Forests. * Fossil Fuel Research and Development - Representatives successfully voted twice to cut a total of $79 million from the coal, petroleum, and diesel research programs that benefit large, profitable fossil fuel and auto companies. * Wildlife Services Livestock Protection Program - Representatives failed to cut $7 million in funding for ineffective attempts to control wolves, coyotes and other predators for western ranchers. Senate * Hardrock Mining Subsidy - Senators voted to weaken virtually only public-interest oriented portion of the 1872 Mining law, allowing mining companies to dump unlimited mining waste on public lands for outrageously low prices. * Oil Royalties Underpayment - Senators voted to delay the Mineral Management Service from implementing a rule that would force oil companies drilling on public lands to pay market-based royalty rates. Green Scissors 2000 Separately, the research arms of the Green Scissors Campaign consisting of 27 national organizations, led by Friends of the Earth, Taxpayers for Common Sense and the U.S. PIRG Education Fund, also released the Green Scissors 2000 report. This report identifies 77 environmentally wasteful programs that, if cut, could save taxpayers nearly $50 billion. The report targets agriculture, energy, natural resources, transportation, and water subsidies that pollute our natural resources and threaten public health. Over the last six years, the Green Scissors coalition has helped to eliminate $24 billion of environmentally harmful subsidies. There are five new items in the Green Scissors 2000 report which include: * Deep-Draft Dredging - There are efforts to increase the federal cost share for harbors attempting to dig deeper navigation channels. An increase in the federal cost share would be extremely expensive to taxpayers, and potentially dig up contaminated dredge waste into the water. * Federal Crop Insurance - This program directly cost taxpayers $2 billion a year and encourages farming on marginal lands prone to frequent losses due to weather. * Low Frequency Active Sonar - The Navy is developing a sonar system that threatens to harm aquatic mammals for a diminishing submarine threat. * Forest Highways Program - The Federal Highway Administration manages a program that provides money to the Forest Service to pave over forest roads. Cutting this program would save taxpayers $410 million, and help preserve the wild nature of our forests. * Columbia River Deepening - The Army Corps of Engineers wants to dredge the Port of Portland to a deeper depth. This will cost taxpayers $200 million and re-suspend contaminated riverbed sediment. --xxx-- For a copy of the Green Scissors Tally for 1999, please point your web browser to www.foeaction.org/tally99. The Green Scissors 2000 report can be found on the World Wide Web at www.foe.org/eco/scissors2000. To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send a message to wafcdc at americanlands.org along with your complete contact information (name, org, address & phone #) Steve Holmer Campaign Coordinator American Lands 726 7th Street, SE Washington, D.C. 20003 202/547-9105 202/547-9213 fax wafcdc at americanlands.org http://www.americanlands.org