text: Kosmor :: View topic - announcements of AcidStar Imprint Search Log in Legal Memberlist Profile announcements of AcidStar Goto page 1, 2 Next Kosmor Forum Index -> Kosmor RPG View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message ClaudioGuest Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 08:15 Post subject: announcements of AcidStar Dear imperators of the universe, by the 29th day of the year 3503 (KST) we declare our independency of our former mother house BlackStar under the great and mighty leader Chrysander. All contracts, treatys and every agreement are to be renegotiated. We are looking forward to bright and clear future under the thousands suns of our empire! secretary for public affairs Garlia -------------------- end of message Back to top ClaudioGuest Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 16:01 Post subject: As due to the closing of trials: Commander Tempest is member of the union of the thousands suns. Commander Lordfoul is fully acknowlegded as part of the union. Due to their membership to AcidStar they're approve the headship of the contracts of the house AcidStar in return we assure them of our help in every convenient way which is necessary. May to the thousands suns of our empire many be added! secretary for public affairs Garlia ------------------ end of message Back to top ClaudioGuest Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 04:09 Post subject: Dear interested imperators, since a few days we've been involved in acts of war. The imperators Tink and Rolan from the house of Deathstar_of_Nikoy first launched their attack on our loyal member Tempest. Now they deserve our revenge. The thousands of our empire are shining brighter and brighter. secretary of public affairs Garlia -------------------- end of message Back to top tinkGuest Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 04:27 Post subject: rolan My Lord, you mean rolan first attacked you i havnt so much gone past one of your planets..... Back to top ClaudioGuest Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 11:32 Post subject: tribute to SFExtension Today a lot of people lost their live, we're lost in black. Our thoughts and memories go to these people who lost their life in this war today. The shipcrew of the SFExtension fought with honour and pride, but was hunted down by the pirate fleet of tink. Blessing in disguise was that one of our Battlegroups nearby was able to strike back at once. We'll set an example to show pirates how we handle such situations. In addition we'll run a social program for the families of these modern-day heroes. 9 planets were freed today, and more will follow. The shadow is soon lifted from the suns of our empire. secretary of public affairs Garlia -------------------- end of message Back to top JayGuest Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 17:33 Post subject: My lord, Tink is no pirate. He's never attacked one of your planets, as it says in the galactic news. There is no report of Tink attacking one of you planets. It was all rolan. So how can you sit there and say you hunting down the "pirate fleet of Tink" when Tink's fleet has never comitted any pirate acts when it's all been rolan's doing. You needed more planets to keep up with rival houses. You were looking for a scape goat and you found it. Jay Back to top ClaudioGuest Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 03:32 Post subject: Dear imperator jay, we have to admit that tink only once fought our fleet, when I forced him to - as shown in the GNN. But he announced in private messages that he's going to attack planets of our house. So, we just stopped him before he could launch his attacks. There is no need to act like a pirate to be one. Tink drove himself in this situation by his offending messages, obvious courses he set, rolan's attacks etc. These are things you cannot see in the GNN. secretary of public affairs Garlia -------------------- end of message Back to top JayGuest Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 04:28 Post subject: My Lord,once again you try to make an excuse. I'm personal friend of Tink and he's been round to my house and shown me his stauts on my intergalactic simulcrum. I've seen his messages and he asked you if your're going to attack him. Then the second thing he says to you is asking for peace, as he's done anything wrong, because it's all rolan's fault and he's trying to make peace with everyone in the area. He even offers you some planets for your troubles, but you decline. So you and your wing would prefer to annihilate him, just because he's and easy, soft target. Jay Back to top ClaudioGuest Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 14:32 Post subject: Dear imperators, as you can already see from the daily GNN, we are in a state of war with blanka from the house Kesh. Attacks will at the moment only occur on his own or on planets that belonged him previous. So, we're only announce the state of war against blanka from the house Kesh. Who, as it is reported just by chance got member of Nolder-Reacor. The suns of AcidStar will burn brightly in victory. secretary of public affairs Garlia -------------------- end of message Back to top NeirehGuest Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:52 Post subject: I should inform you that blanka now belongs to Noldor-Reacor, he got accidently in friendly fire between the forces of us and michmike in that fight and he will stay some time. You should know that blanka is a friend of us, a ally and when you attack him you attack us all. So we will take actions to stop you. Even Suns will fade, but shine brighter then ever before they die. Back to top APOcalypseGuest Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 14:47 Post subject: Dear Claudio, once one of your subs conquered a planet of me. I told you "No problem. No reason for a war.". Within the last 8 days you conquered 24 planets of friends - of blanka AND Neireh. Now think about what is wrong in your declaration. War against blanka. Who is missing? Do you really believe we will do nothing? Do you really believe I will not support friends? I told you a few days ago that you should declare war on us. You did nothing. And now you declared war at blanka - tell me your intention. I do not understand. But it doesn't matter. We have friends in this universe and these friends will support us against you. Herewith Noldor-Reacor declares war at Acidstar and Tempest_Acidstar. Bye bye Claudio, bye bye Tempest. Greetings APOcalypse Back to top JayGuest Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 16:15 Post subject: Jay and Tink suddenly lept out of their chairs in joy and cracked open a bottle of champaign. Back to top AssasineGuest Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 06:04 Post subject: i will help my frind's and declair war at noldor! first akt is integrate tikonda! Back to top APOcalypseGuest Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 08:30 Post subject: Tell me something new. I refused your offer of a NAP weeks ago because you tried to blackmail me. So we are since that day in state of war. Back to top ClaudioGuest Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:49 Post subject: Dear imperators, Neireh was so kind to state that Blanka is only 'accidently' part of Noldor-Reacor. So we can draw the conclusion, that Blanka is only temporarily part of this house. This is what he mentioned in negotations between the house AcidStar and himself. As everybody can see Blanka himself depicts him only as a passing member of Noldor-Reacor, not as a long-term member. This why I follow the conclusion, that Blanka is seen to be as a single imperator in his own house, named Kesh. So we echo our declaration of war against the house Kesh again. We also offer Blanka negotations about his future. As a part of AcidStar or even as head of his own house, but these things have to be negotiated. Imperator APOcalypse, referring to the messaging between you and the chief of suns, claudio, you're recommended to review your messages in order to give correct and complete information. Claudio offered you that addressed imperator is an outlaw and you can act as you wish. For declaring war there is no cause to give reasons at the present time. Well, we did something, we let our arms do it and the declaration followed as you can read above. Due to the facht, that Blanka is to be seen as independent imperator, you're not in a position to ask for intention and await answers. If you want to fight us, declare war on us. We expect your statements soon. The number of suns of our house is counting. secretary of public affairs Garlia -------------------- end of messageLast edited by Claudio on Fri Aug 03, 2007 01:21; edited 1 time in total Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Kosmor Forum Index -> Kosmor RPG All times are GMT - 6 HoursGoto page 1, 2 Next Page 1 of 2 Jump to: Select a forum Information----------------NewsGalactic News Community----------------Kosmor TalkKosmor TradeKosmor TournamentsKosmor RPG Support/Feedback----------------Questions and AnswersFeedback / suggestions for improvementBug-Reports You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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This game can be just that. Marathon seasons are filled with peaks and valleys, ups and downs. That applies to teams and individual hitters or pitchers
Right now, we're in a pothole in a valley. Charlie Manuel put it best: "We're playing bad baseball."
**Ryan Madson is going through a valley right now. He ended last season on a brilliant roll, 0.63 ERA, for final 14 appearances. Season-best 14.2 scoreless inning streak ended in Toronto on June 16. Since then nine runs in 6.2 innings in seven outings.
**J-Roll broke an 0-28 spin with two singles last night. He's been in an offensive funk most of the season. Yet, in his career, he's been a model of consistency. Going into this year, his monthly averages: April (.271), May (.270), June (.274), July (.276), August (.277), Sept. (.293). Hey Jimmy, you should know Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt went 0-30 in 1988 over nine games.
**Phils just finished their third straight, three-city road trip at 3-6. Previous two, 15-5. Looking at the schedule before the season started, an 18-11 record for these three trips would have been a welcomed thought. One more three-city journey remains, the last trip of the season: Atlanta, Florida, Milwaukee.
**Even with a losing trip, the Phillies continue to have the best road record (26-15) in the NL.
**They enter the Mets series having lost their last six home games, one shy of the longest Citizens Bank Park funk (August 12-19, 2004). 13-22 home record is matched only in the NL by the Nationals (13-25).
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Joshua Rivera, 22, and his brother, Jeremiah, of 500 Los Rosas Drive, were arrested Sept. 5 following a two-month investigation by Kennett Square, said Police Chief Ed Zunino. Approximately one-half pound of marijuana was seized during the raid along with cash and drug paraphernalia.
Joshua Rivera was charged with three counts each of delivery of marijuana; possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was also charged with criminal use of communication facility.
Jeremiah Rivera was charged with two counts of possession with intent to deliver marijuana, three counts of possession of paraphernalia and underage possession of alcohol.
Zunino said the raid was coordinated after the Kennett Square Police Narcotics team obtained a search warrant.
Both were arraigned before District Justice Daniel Maisano. Joshua Rivera was sent to Chester County Prison in lieu of $10,000 bail. Jeremiah Rivera was released on unsecured bail.
The investigation is continuing. Police obtained additional information on drug activity in Kennett Square following the arrests. Zunino said more arrests are expected.


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2012 Contributors Give Foundation Strong Support
Colonial Williamsburg's formal development program is now in its 36th year with philanthropic support providing vital financial resources for the Foundation. In 2012 individuals, corporations, and foundations committed $63.7 million in annual, major, and planned gifts, a 59 percent increase over 2011. Generous estate commitments from distinguished Colonial Williamsburg friends contributed to the year's total.
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Although the uncertain economic and political environment continued to present challenges, our supporters remained faithful to Colonial Williamsburg's mission. More than 109,000 donors representing all 50 states contributed to the Colonial Williamsburg Fund, with Virginians comprising 16 percent of all Colonial Williamsburg donors. The Colonial Williamsburg Fund received $14.8 million in 2012, a two percent increase over 2011. More than 18,400 new donors chose to support Colonial Williamsburg for the first time in 2012.
Members of the Colonial Williamsburg Burgesses, Colonial Williamsburg Associates, and Raleigh Tavern Society contributed $5.7 million to the Fund and a total of $13.3 million to the Foundation. Membership in the societies grew again this year with 330 new households choosing to join in 2012. Donor society members enjoyed activities and benefits including study tours, assistance with travel arrangements, and annual meetings with behind-the-scenes experiences led by curators, conservators, members of the Historic Trades, and interpretive staff.
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Donors provided significant new gifts and pledges in Historic Area preservation and programming, collections, conservation, museums, and educational outreach. The Grainger Foundation of Lake Forest, Illinois, made a $2 million grant for historic preservation. The gift established the Grainger Historic Architectural Resources Department with funds available for projects, equipment, and training. Grainger support also endowed Director of Historical Architectural Resources Matthew Webster's position. Matt is responsible for ensuring ongoing conservation of nearly 600 Historic Area structures—including 88 original buildings. A third component of the Foundation's grant focused on Historic Area masonry preservation. David and Juli Grainger, Raleigh Tavern Society Life Members, together with The Grainger Foundation are among Colonial Williamsburg's most generous benefactors.
Over the years, Marilyn and Robert (Bob) Asplundh of Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, have been great friends and supporters. In 2012, they made a $500,000 gift, their third similar commitment, for the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg expansion project. Continuing their outstanding record of support, President's Council members Douglas Morton and Marilyn Brown of Englewood, Colorado, provided $400,000 to create the Douglas N. Morton and Marilyn L. Brown American Indian Endowment Fund. The Kern Family Foundation of Waukesha, Wisconsin, made a $150,000 grant for religious programming. Since 2006, the Kern Family Foundation has given Colonial Williamsburg over $1 million in support of religious initiatives.
Senior Trustee Bob Wilson and his wife Marion, of Rancho Santa Fe, California, both members of the President's Council, made a $300,000 gift for the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute for California Teachers. Through a $300,000 grant from the Batten Educational Achievement Fund of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation, major benefactor Jane Batten of Virginia Beach, Virginia, established the Jane P. Batten Teacher Project for Virginia.
President's Council members and Williamsburg residents Linda and Donald Baker established the Donald and Linda Baker Endowment Fund for History, Citizenship, and Democracy. The Bakers' pledge was the first commitment toward the Foundation's aspiration to focus more intentionally on becoming a center for history and citizenship. Saint Simons Island, Georgia, residents Anita and Jim Timmons endorsed the center concept when they designated their gift funds for an international conference and created the Anita A. and James D. Timmons Fund for History and Citizenship. Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. made a $100,000 grant for the World Heritage Project and for History and Citizenship programs.
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"To quote one of our benefactors, 'Young people today do not know enough about our history and the people who sacrificed to make this country what it is. We cannot expect them to act like Americans when they do not know what it means to be an American.'
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The Foundation's net assets increased by $12 million in 2012, ending the year at $810 million, largely as a result of a net increase in endowment value that was partially offset by lower operating results.
The market value of Colonial Williamsburg's endowment was $735 million as of December 31, 2012, an increase of $26 million over the 2011 year-end value. The endowment investment return was 13.1% for the 12-months ended December 31, 2012, which compares favorably with the performance of other endowed institutions.
Operating revenues were negatively impacted during the peak summer months by lower visitation to the region and to Colonial Williamsburg and also by Hurricane Sandy in late October. Gifts to the Colonial Williamsburg Fund increased by $300,000 (2%) to $14.8 million, reflecting strong donor support of Colonial Williamsburg's mission in a challenging economic environment. Total revenues for the calendar year, including budgeted endowment support, were $177 million, a decrease of $2 million compared with 2011.
Expenses for 2012 were $214 million, an increase of $3 million compared with 2011 reflecting planned increases in salaries and wages and significantly higher group medical expenses. Operating expenses exceeded operating revenues by $37 million.
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So this week I have the opportunity to share some of my thoughts with a group of college freshmen in a Christian Worldview class. As I prepare for that, (and recover from this week's "Adventures in Missing the Point" conference in Chattanooga), I thought I'd ask what you think about the phrase, "Christian Worldview."
How can it be useful? How might it be misleading? Is it possible to teach a consistent and uniform Christian worldview when there is so much diversity within the Christian tradition? To what degree can we intentionally maintain a Christian worldview, and to what degree is our worldview culturally conditioned? How can we use the phrase in an effective way?
My hope is that the students will come away from the talk with an appreciation for how their worldview class is preparing them to think critically about their faith and become familiar with Christian theology and practice, but also how their worldview is bound to change over the next few years – and how that's okay.
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Chris Brodeur: Sports becomes Newtown's 'Step One' to recovery
NEWTOWN -- It was back in March when Jeremy O'Connell last stared down an impossible comeback.
O'Connell's bid for a banner second season as coach of the Newtown High girls basketball team was sputtering in the semifinals of the state tournament, the Nighthawks playing an admirable David but trailing their Goliath by 15 entering the fourth quarter. Then, as if "shot out of a cannon," as athletic director Gregg Simon later gushed, All-State point guard Riley Wurtz and company erased their deficit with an astonishing 28-8 run to secure a berth in the state final.
No one had ever seen such resolve, such a sudden 180 of fate.
It's sports hyperbole of the highest order, to be sure. But the emotions that flowed from a community a week later -- when the Nighthawks took the title by a bucket, rising again when it looked as though they might fall -- those were as real as it gets.
Wednesday night, O'Connell's bunch hosted Masuk to become the first Newtown High team to compete since 20 first-graders and six adults were slain in a mass shooting last Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where many young athletes first dream of wearing Nighthawk blue and gold.
Twenty-six is not a deficit that can be erased. The comeback will be slow, the healing gradual. Wednesday, with 26 Sandy Hook green-and-white balloons -- six green, 20 white -- floating on the baseline under a banner that read, "Newtown Strong," the Nighthawks began the process.
"The thing that we do here is we come together. You saw in the last couple years how this community rallied around us, how they've rallied around every athletic program, every band competition, every school play -- that's the kind of community this is," said O'Connell, who wore a green and white checked shirt and a dark green tie. "This was an opportunity for us to give back to the community, however small and insignificant that may be."
Shortly after Masuk, of neighboring Monroe, was introduced as the Nighthawks' rivals, Newtown High principal Charles Dumais took the microphone to offer an opening statement, calling the night "a tiny piece of normal."
"Rivals is an interesting term," Dumais said. "I don't know if Newtown and Monroe could ever be called rivals after their gracious act of giving us a new elementary school," he added, referring to Monroe's Chalk Hill Elementary School, which hasn't been used since June of 2011 but will serve as the temporary home of Sandy Hook students beginning in January.
Administrators opted for a simple and elegant ceremony, which included a 26-second moment of silence for the victims and a presenting of the colors by the Edson division of the U.S. Naval sea cadets from New Haven.
"(We wanted) a simple ceremony that would honor those students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School, but also allow us to begin to move forward," said Simon, who politely declined 12 to 15 media requests Monday, including one from ESPN. "It's going to be done in very small increments, and this was kind of just the Step One."
Only the home bleachers were full, where Wurtz, a freshman at New York University, sat with other college students home for the holidays. Her old coach, the fiery O'Connell, completed his ensemble with a pair of lightly worn green and white Nikes he had forgotten about, which got their usual mileage hopping and stomping alongside the Nighthawks' bench for every minute of a 64-44 victory in which they never trailed.
"(The girls basketball players) embody everything that we want in our student-athletes," Simon said. "To have them be the first game, in front of a really great crowd ... it's hard to know exactly how we feel tonight. But I'm very happy that we took the first step."
No tickets were sold for the game. Instead, donations totaling over $2,200 were accepted on behalf of the Sandy Hook victims. One group of Masuk parents pledged a dollar for every point scored.
As fans shuffled out, Dumais handed out small white cards with green type bearing the message: "Our collective strength and resilience will serve as an example to the rest of the world."
On Wednesday, Newtown showed the world Step One.
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Are you willing to arm wrestle people for the window seat on airplane just for the chance to take pictures? If you answered "yes," you will definitely like the photographs below. In this collection, we have photos from airplanes, balloons, RC planes and even kites! Aerial photography has its roots in World War and has been used for real estate and construction projects, tourism, and spying. It has now become a real art form.
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In a standard QFT class, you're being indoctrinated that there is the "infinite vacuum energy density problem". (This is sometimes paraphrased as the "cosmological constant problem", which is in my opinion a misnomer since the calculation that calculates a finite value for the vacuum density and relates it to the cosmological constant is ill-founded and dubious.)
The argument goes as follows: When defining the Hamiltonian $H$ from the Lagrangian density $\mathcal{L}$, we first define the Lagrangian function $L := \int \operatorname{d}^3 x \mathcal{L}$ and the momenta $\pi(x) := \frac{\partial L}{\partial \dot \phi(x)}$ and finally the Hamiltonian $H := \int \operatorname{d}^3 x \pi \dot \phi - L$.
We then promote all the quantities that occured to operators and calculate the decomposition of $H$ into creation and annihilation operators $a^\dagger$, $a$.
Then, the lecturer makes a big fuss (prototypical example) about the Hamiltonian being of the form $\int \operatorname{d}^3 p E_p \frac{1}{2} \left( a^\dagger a + a a^\dagger \right)$ = $\int \operatorname{d}^3 p E_p \left( a^\dagger a + \delta(0) \right)$ and the $\delta(0)$ being an infinite contribution to the vacuum energy density. (I always found the argument fishy because we can't know beforehand if some quantisation strategy will succeed or not, so we should rather start with a quantised Hamiltonian and ask whether its classical limit is the theory we started with, which can be answered with yes.)
My question now is: Does a similar problem also occur in the Feynman path integral approach, or in any approach from algebraic quantum field theory?


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Following a review and a hearing, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell determined Friday that the Detroit Lions violated the league's anti-tampering policy by publicly commenting about their desire to acquire players then under contract to the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Lions also were cited for impermissible contact with a player (or his agent) then under contract to the Chiefs. According to the Detroit Free Press, the player in question was safety Jarrad Page, whom the Chiefs traded to the New England Patriots last year.
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Goodell decided on the following disciplinary action to resolve the matter:
» The Lions will forfeit their seventh-round selection (acquired from the Denver Broncos) in the 2011 NFL Draft.
» The Chiefs and Lions will switch fifth-round picks in the 2011 draft. As a result, Kansas City now owns the ninth selection in that round and Detroit the 23rd.
» Either team may appeal the decision by advising Goodell in writing of its desire to do so by Feb. 28.
The violations occurred in 2010 and center around Lions defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham, who served as the Chiefs' coordinator from 1995 to 2000. He told the Free Press that he wouldn't mind signing players the Chiefs might release.
"(Kansas City) keeps wanting to dump their players. I would like to be there to catch a lot of them because I know a couple of those guys," Cunningham told the newspaper in February 2010.
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As the November elections approach, one question jumps to mind: Why does anyone want to be president? Taking the rudder of the United States has never been anything but an enormous challenge. The difficulties confronting the winner of the next election will prove no exception.
I'm not referring to the state of American politics and the way the two parties have suddenly decided they cannot work together, or about the giant economic dilemmas that loom in the American horizon. I'm simply looking at the warning signs rising from the other side of the Atlantic — I'll leave the Pacific for another day. It's enough to take your breath away.
Consider, for a small sample, what has transpired in the world in just the last few days. In the course of a single week, the European Union, America's principal global ally, inched closer to the edge of economic disaster. We know Greece is standing at the brink of the precipice and has already seen many rocks slide out from under its feet. But Greece is a small country. The really frightening troubles are becoming visible in Spain, where banks are groaning under a mountain of bad real estate debt. This is not the result of too much government generosity. It's the product of an economic collapse that sucked the air out of the real estate property market.
If Spain falls, Europe may not be able to avert disaster. America will not be able to build a sea wall tall enough to keep out the tsunami.
But Europe is hardly the only danger ahead. Egypt, the most populous country in the Middle East, recently held its first free presidential election — and produced a most disappointing result. Instead of choosing one of the relatively moderate candidates, voters chose the two extremes. The top two vote-getters will face off in a run-off next month, and the outcome of that election is sure to give heartburn to whoever lives in the White House in the coming years.
The next president of Egypt will be either Mohammed Morsi, a hardline leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, or Ahmed Shafiq, a former general who served as Mubarak's last prime minister.
Whether Morsi or Shafiq wins, the future for Egypt looks like a confrontation waiting to happen between the military and the Brotherhood. Nobody, by the way, seems to be standing for the liberal principles that guided the young, secular activists of Tahrir Square.
Egypt could become the first post-Arab Spring country whose government is completely dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, or it could erupt into Muslims versus military clashes, or it could end up with a military takeover. The way ahead looks as clear as a sand storm. And we're talking about the Middle East, the most unstable region of the world even before the new wave of revolutions started last year, and lest we forget, the source and transit point of much of the world's economic lifeblood, oil.
As Egyptians voted a few days ago, western powers met with representatives of Iran, hoping for progress in efforts to stop the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. The meeting in Baghdad achieved nothing, except an agreement to meet again next month in June. Every few weeks we hear more evidence from U.N. nuclear inspectors, who say Iran is enriching uranium to higher levels and appears to be preparing to "militarize" its nuclear operations.
The president's briefing on Iran was probably interrupted by news from Syria, where the regime is intensifying its slaughter of anti-dictatorship protests. Now an Iranian general has let it slip that Iranian Revolutionary Guards are helping forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad put down the rebellion.
Pressure is growing for intervention in Syria, but Russia, in particular, has given Assad cover. Syria is becoming a proxy for the battle between Iran and its Arab, Sunni, and western adversaries.
Regardless of what unfolds in Europe, and how the American economy fares in the coming months, the danger from the continuing crises in the Middle East will occupy the days of the man who wins in November. And it is sure to occupy some of his nights, as well, with a few 3 a.m. emergency calls sure to wake him up.
With the world changing at such a dangerous pace, it would be nice if he could count on a Congress and an opposition party with a strong sense of loyalty, and on an economy strong enough to provide more freedom of action. Yet it's all but certain that those luxuries, available to some of his predecessors, will remain absent for the winner of the next election.


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Pakistani Taliban's leader alive according to his twitter account.
After conflicting reports last week Baitullah Mehsud set the record straight on the state of his health.
"OMG You guys! Totes not Dead! Just sick after some bad schwarma last week. BLARG!"
This post came in response to numerous news stories based on reports from the US CIA and UKs MI6 that Baitullah had been killed in a missile strike earlier that week.
He later posted "Jeanine won SYTYCD?? FTW?!!" and "UGH still on toilet! 😦 PS: Death to the infidels."


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Billionaire investors love fighting with each other over the markets, safely out of public view in sleek Greenwich or Manhattan offices. But a new political fight is pushing them into a high-profile debate over the future of energy consumption in the U.S.—and they are literally taking to the streets of Washington to make their views heard.
The brawl is over an upcoming decision by the Obama administration about whether energy company TransCanada should be allowed to build a massive oil pipeline, called Keystone XL, that will ship oil sands in Northern Canada to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. The State Department—in charge because the project would cross an international border—is still studying the issue and its environmental impact. A decision could come next year.
The two sides couldn't be more convinced of their positions. Former Vice President Al Gore recently called the controversial project an "atrocity." House Speaker John Boehner has said President Barack Obama should "stand up for middle-class jobs and energy security and approve the Keystone pipeline."
Likewise, prominent investors have planted themselves on opposite sides of the issue.


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The Mexico and Central American Gallery at the Penn Museum holds objects from the area encompassing most of southern Mexico, all of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, known as Mesoamerica. Exceptional Mayan stone monuments from Piedras Negras in Guatemala and Caracol in Belize stand central in this gallery with hieroglyph inscriptions glorifying Mayan rulers. Most notable of the stone monuments is Stela 14 (758 CE) from Piedras Negras, whose inscription depicts the accession of Ruler 5 wearing an elaborate headdress featuring a Celestial Monster-head mask. Other highlights in this gallery include exquisite figurines crafted of jade or ceramic made by the peoples inhabiting the Valley of Mexico in the Classic Period.
As part of our Building Transformation, we are renovating and reimagining the Mexico & Central America Gallery. The new gallery will explore the stories of powerful ancient civilizations like the Maya, Aztec, and Zapotec through objects ranging from stone monuments to gold figurines. The current Mexico & Central America Gallery will close September 2 for a year of renovations. We look forward to welcoming you to the new gallery when it reopens on November 16th, 2019—along with new Africa Galleries, Main Entrance Hall, Gateway to Egypt, and renovated Harrison Auditorium!
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In parts of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, farming villages grew into towns and cities, tribal chiefs were made kings and emperors, trade networks became more complex, stone monuments and pyramids were erected, a calendar and writing system developed, and devotion to nature spirits developed into state ceremonies in honor of the gods and ancestors.
Anthropologists recognize that civilizations such as those in Mesoamerica cannot develop without adequate agricultural surpluses. Excavations have documented growth of farming villages in the millennia before the first Olmec monuments were carved. Maize, beans, and squash became the domesticated staples of life, and these were supplemented by an enormous variety of fruits, roots, chilies, and other foods. The transformations toward civilization in Mesoamerica began in the Early Formative Period in several parts of the area. Perhaps the most famous of these early developments was the Olmec of Veracruz and Tabasco, with its earthen pyramids, great stone monuments, jade carvings, and exquisite figurines.
When the Spanish arrived in the 16th century, Mesoamerica was divided into the Maya area to the east and the Aztec-dominated area to the west. The Aztec had not conquered the Maya, but they depended heavily upon Maya trade to supply them with the luxury goods -- chocolate, cotton, tropical feathers, and jade -- which helped to bind together their powerful state. This economic interdependence between east and west can be traced back to the Formative Period and was especially evident by the Classic Period as well, when Maya centers such as Tikal flourished in the east and the much larger site of Teotihuacan near Mexico City prospered in the west.
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The earliest hieroglyphs in Mesoamerica date to about 600 BCE. The earliest Maya inscriptions date to 36 BCE. Thousands of Classic Period (250 - 900 CE) Maya texts have survived on stone, bone, shell, pottery, stucco and wood, while 4 Maya bark-paper books devoted to astrology, divination and ritual instruction have survived from the Postclassic period (900-1519 CE). The Maya were still writing in hieroglyphs at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519; afterward they continued to write Mayan with the Spanish alphabet.
Examples of Maya hieroglyphic writing can be seen in this gallery on large stone stelae and altars from Caracol and Piedras Negras, on painted pottery from Guatemala and on shells from a burial at Piedras Negras. It is made up of recognizable objects such as hands, birds and animals. These signs can be ideographs, representing the meanings of whole words, or they can be syllables, representing the separate sounds that make up a word. The illustration shows hieroglyphs as the whole words yax kin kan pakal, and as the separate sounds pa ka la and mu kaah that make up the king's name, Pakal, and the word mukal, meaning "he was buried."
The 1566 Spanish manuscript of Diego de Landa is the only known document in which a message in Mayan hieroglyphs is repeated in alphabetic signs, making it the "Rosetta Stone" for deciphering Mayan hieroglyphs. In 1886 Ernst Foerstemann deciphered Maya numbers and dates from a Postclassic bark paper book kept in Dresden, Germany. In 1952 the Russian Yuri Knorosov showed that hieroglyphs could be read as phonetic syllables and in 1960 Tatiana Proskouriakoff was able to identify major events in the life histories of the ancient Maya rulers. By now, over ⅔ of the contents of Mayan inscriptions can be understood, thanks to the work of various scholars.
Proskouriakoff's breakthrough study proved beyond doubt that Maya monumental inscriptions did indeed record historical events. Prior to her work, Maya inscriptions were thought to consist essentially of only calendrical notations and rituals connected with calendrical phenomena. Careful analysis by Proskouriakoff, which began during her work with the Penn team excavating at Piedras Negras in 1936-37, showed that each of several groups of monuments contained a sequence of dates that were spaced at such intervals that they could correspond to the births, accessions, and deaths of a sequence of rulers. From her analysis Proskouriakoff identified the glyphs for events in each ruler's lifetime and proposed a 7 ruler dynasty for Piedras Negras that is still largely accepted by epigraphers today. Although most subsequent epigraphic research is based on phonetic decipherment unrecognized by Proskouriakoff, her pioneering work was the foundation for the reconstruction of dynastic histories at Tikal, Palenque, Copan, Caracol, and other Maya sites. The stela that she used to decode these royal life histories was Stela 14 from Piedras Negras, which now stands in this gallery.
Linda Schele was instrumental in analyzing the semantic and structural nature of the of the inscriptions, to reveal the history contained in them.


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I've given up waiting for these machines to arrive, especially one with the new version of ION support. Since no one has been selling such machines, Intel must have been doing something wrong. It remains to be seen if Intel has persuaded the manufacturers to produce significant quantities and that their press release is more than wishful thinking.


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Farmingdale State - 6, NYU-Poly - 3
Flushing, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's tennis team picked up their second victory of the season with a 6-3 win over conference opponent NYU-Poly (1-7, 0-5 Skyline) on Thursday night at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y.
The Rams (2-6, 1-5) held a 2-1 advantage after doubles play, before winning four sets at 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th singles to secure the conference win.
Sophomores Regina Cane (Lindenhurst, N.Y./Lindenhurst) and Laura Earlie (Moriches, N.Y./William Floyd) won convincingly at #2 doubles, 8-1, to improve their season doubles record to 4-3.
The Rams will now host Yeshiva University on Tuesday, October 12th at 8:00 p.m. in their final Skyline match of the regular season.
|Singles competition
|1. Zeig, Ariel (NYUPOLYW) def. Cane, Regina (FSCW) 6-3, 7-5
|2. Weldon, Stephanie (NYUPOLYW) def. Josma, Vanessa (FSCW) 6-1, 6-4
|3. Pendergrast, Jamie (FSCW) def. Sandora, Rebecca (NYUPOLYW) 6-3, 6-0
|4. Earlie, Laura (FSCW) def. Burbrink, Kelly (NYUPOLYW) 6-0, 6-0
|5. Clarke, Simonette (FSCW) def. Griffis, Tiffany (NYUPOLYW) 6-0, 6-1
|6. de la Cruz, Nairobi (FSCW) def. Huang, Yenyu (NYUPOLYW) 2-6, 6-4, 10-3
|Doubles competition
|1. Zeig, Ariel/Weldon, Stephanie (NYUPOLYW) def. Josma, Vanessa/Pendergrast, Jamie (FSCW) 8-4
|2. Cane, Regina/Earlie, Laura (FSCW) def. Sandora, Rebecca/Burbrink, Kelly (NYUPOLYW) 8-1
|3. Clarke, Simonette/de la Cruz, Nairobi (FSCW) def. Huang, Yenyu/Phillips, Stephanie (NYUPOLYW) 8-0
|Match Notes
|Farmingdale State 2-6, 1-5 Skyline
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Standard disclaimer---This could void your warranty. I am not responsible if you muck up something. Take your time and do it right. Start your bike and take voltage reading from a meter at the battery for idle and at 4K rpm's for reference after you do the mod.
Before mod:
13.4V at idle 12.7V at 4K rpm
After mod:
14.56V at idle 14.47V at 4-5K rpm
All voltages checked from a real Voltmeter. In my testing, my voltmeter readout on my dash is ~.5 of a volt lower than the reading taken at the battery with a real voltmeter. Carlos' dash readout was about ~.6 of a volt different than the voltmeter.
Summary. You are going to add 4 wires to the white plug off the rectifier. 2 of the wires you add will connect to the negative battery terminal via a ring connector when completed and the other 2 will connect to a fuse block (30 amp fuse) which will then be connected to the positive terminal of the battery via the ring connector you add. You will be adding the wires to the male side of the white connector or the side that has the spades. I used 14ga wire. After the white plug has been modified, you then will do a quick and easy mod to your Brown plug to remove excessive resistance/heat from that connector. As a quick test, remove your tail section fairing. Start the bike. Let it idle for 3-4 minutes, then touch the yellow wires form the brown plug on the non-rectifier side of that plug. HOT YEAH? Crimp connectors are shit without solder as the resistance is amazing and resistance turns into heat which could melt the plug or worse, cause a fire one day. When we inspected Carlo's brown plug, the yellow wires had gotten really hard and the yellow insulation had turned brown color from the excessive heat
Okay, so now time to get into the mods.
Remove your seat, then remove the 8 bolts that hold the tail fairing on and remove the tail fairing exposing the plugs, wires and rectifier. You will have to remove the lock cable from the tail fairing so you can sit it aside.
Dis-connect the negative terminal on the battery (black) and put it aside before you touch anything! Don't put the new 30Amp fuse into the new fuse block until you have finished the work and are ready to connect everything up.
You will need:
14ga. Wire
A single fuse block w/30amp fuse
A volt meter
A pair of electrical crimping/wire stripping plyers
1 blue crimp-ring connector (12-14 ga size)
1 yellow crimp-ring connector (10-12 ga size)
Solder and solder torch or iron. (Torch is easiest to use)
Shrink wrap and electrical tape
Small bladed screw driver and a pointy tool like a ice pick
Pair of sissors and a sharp knife
A pair of needle nose plyers
A alligator clip. Comes in handy to hold the wire to the spade when soldering
1 dremel tool with a sanding cone/stone tip
I bought some red wire for the positive ones I added (2) and black wire for the negative wires I added (2). Any color of 14ga. Is fine, but I wanted it color coded to make it easy to remember which battery terminal to connect to when complete and it just makes good sense to use a standard color scheme. Cut 2 pieces of red wire and 2 pieces of black wire about a foot and a half long. This is longer than you need, but you can trim them to size later. I routed all four wires up through the existing rubber sleeve/loom where the stock wires go and this will have them come out right behind the battery area! So you will have one end of the four wires hanging out by the plug and the other end hanging out over the battery area.
Take the two black wire ends you just put through the wire loom on the battery side and twist them together (obviously having stripped some insulator off the ends of the wires so the actual wire is exposed). Then slip them into blue ring connector. Crimp that connector, then add some solder to that ring connector. This will connect to the negative terminal when you have completed the mod and are ready to hook everything back up.
Then take the two red wires you just put through the loom on the battery side and twist them together and solder them to one end of the new fuse block you are adding. Don't forget to slip some shrink wrap over the wires before you solder them. After you solder the 2 ends of the red wires to the new fuse block, slip the shrink wrap over the solder joint and shrink it down to cover up your solder joint. I used a blade style fuse block so I would only have to have blade style fuses as that is what the stock system uses. You put a 30 Amp fuse in this fuse block when completed. You could use a glass or barrel style fuse block, but then you would need two kinds of spares to carry around and the blade style are not as vunerable as the glass barrel fuses. Make sure what ever you use, the fuse block you add is a water tight one.
Now take the other end of the new fuse block you are adding and put that wire into the yellow connector and crimp it down and solder that crimp like you did for the ring connector on the two black wires. The fuse block I bought was 12 gauge wire size. If yours is smaller or bigger, use the correct ring connector size.
Bottom line, you need to solder all connections for the best results
Okay, now time to mod the white plug-----You will not use shrink wrap here. Shrink wrap takes up too much space when trying to re-insert the spades back into the plug after to have added the wires. So I used electrical tape and wrapped each modded wire set (existing wire plus the one new one I just sdded to it), one at a time AFTER I HAD THEM PROPERLY RE-INSERTED AND SEATED TO THE CORRECT DEPTH IN THE PLUG.
You now will take the other ends of the 4 wires you added to the loom and connect them one at a time to the existing wires in the white plug on the spade side or male side of the plug. I added one wire each to the red/blk(+) and red/blue(-) wires coming from the white connector on the male or spade side of the connector. I took them out one at a time and did the soldering.
Look in the plug and you will see a small tounge or lever on the blade of each spade. This is a retainer clip. You can use a small flat blade screw driver or ice pick to push it down so the wire can easily be pulled out of the connector. Remember, you add each of the 2 new red wires to the 2 existing red/blk(+) wires in the plug and the 2 new black wires to the red/blu(-) existing wires in the plug.
After you pull one out, take the corresponding new wire and lay it on the top of the crimp. It helps if there are two people, one to hold the spade and new wire while the other solders. Needle nose are handy for this. I did it by myself so I used the alligator clip to hold the wire in place on the spade while I soldered. You want to make sure you get solder all over the wire to the crimp for good connectivity/conductivity, but not excessive. It is a tight fit to get it back into the plug, so if you have too much solder, use the dremel to trim it down. As I said it is a tight fit since you are adding wire but they will fit good it you don't over do the solder.
When you put the spade back in, it will be tight. Use the needle nose plyers to reach in the plug and pull the spade back into place in the plug. Make sure you pull it in far enough so that it makes a proper connection when re-attached to the female side. This is why I did them one at a time so that I could have the un-mod'd spades to use as a gauge to make sure I was putting the mod'd spade back into the plug far enough for a good connection when done. It will take some pulling force to get it back in. It is important to get it in to the proper depth for a good connection.
Now repeat that process for the remaining 3 wires left. Again, take your time and make sure you are adding the new red wires to the red/blk (+) existing wires and the new black wires to the existing red/blu (-) wires.
After you add the new wires to each existing wires and have them re-inserted it into the plug, and have got them in to the proper depth, then wrap the wires with electrical tape to clean up/finish the plug mod.
After you have added all four wires, have wrapped them with some tape and everything looks good, connect the white plug to make sure it fits correctly. Now you can put the 30 Amp fuse into the new fuse block you added.
Now to fully provide integrity to the system, you should remove the female side of the white plug (4 female spades) and add some solder to each of them. So unplug the white connector/plug again and do them one at a time, again using the others for a gauge to make sure you are re-inserting them to the proper depth when you put them back in. You just are adding solder to the crimps. Shoud take just a couple of minutes as you are done adding wires and such, now just finishing the job the factory should have done.
DO NOT CONNECT THE BATTERY TERMINALS UP YET, WE NEED TO GO MOD THE BROWN PLUG NOW. This mod is not related to the voltage gain, rather since you have the tail fairing off and the battery dis-connected, this is another good thing to do.
The brown plug off the rectifier also uses crimp connectors and they have massive resistance which results in major heat. On a lot of Futura's and other 00-03 Aprilia's, it gets so hot that the plugs had started to melt or mis-form. NOT GOOD! Mine looked okay but the wires had gotten really stiff at the connector from the excess heat. Inspect your brown plug from the rectifier. All this mod is, is adding some solder to the crimp connectors on the male side, or spade side of the connector. I am not kidding that fucker gets incredibly HOT.
Now, in the case of Carlos' plug, in addition to the dis-coloration of the yellow insulator and stiffening of the wires, the little brown plastic wire keeper in the plug had melted to the spade, making it almost impossible to remove the wires to add solder. IF THIS IS THE CASE, BUY 3 NEW BARREL CONNECOTRS, CUT THE BROWN PLUG OFF AND CONNECT THE WIRES ONE BY ONE VIA THE NEW CONNECTORS. This way you can remove the rectifier in the future if you needed to. Or you could simply solder the wires together one set at a time as a way to remove the heat/resistance from the stock connector.
I was able to remove my spades in my brown plug, so I did the add solder to the crimp method.
So I removed one yellow wire at a time from the male side of the plug and added a small amount of solder to the spade and wire. There is a white piece you pry out of the plug first, then you have to use a small flat screw driver or an ice pick works good to pry open the little keeper inside the plug that holds the spade in.
Once you get one wire out, I Held it up/vertical so the solder would run down into the crimp. Make sure you get all three soldered, put back in the plug and put the white keeper piece back in. IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH SOLDER TO DO THIS. JUST ENOUGH TO MAKE GOOD CONNECTION BETWEEN THE WIRE AND THE CRIMP.
Once you finish the male side, do the same thing to each of the yellow wires on the rectifier side of the brown plug. Same deal, just add some solder to the crimp and put them back into the plug.
After completing the brown plug mod. Confirm you have added the 30Amp fuse to the new fuse block. Make sure all connectors are connected, then attach the new red wires via the ring connector you added from the new fuse block to the positve or red terminal of the battery.
Then connect the new black wires you added to the negative or black terminal of the battery. You will have to reset all fo your dash functions. Technically, you could connect these two black or negative wires you added to any good ground connecting point like a bolt in the frame etc. I just chose to add them to the negative terminal for simplicity.
Now you are ready to start and check your voltages. Again, take a reading at the battery with a meter at idle and at 4K rpm's. Compare that to your pre-mod readings. You should have a nice gain. Remeber, AGM's batteries like ~14.5 voltage nominally and that is what you should now be getting at idle and a 4k rpm's.
After 3-4 minutes of idling, grab those yellow wires now, NO HEAT ON THOSE WIRES THAT BEFORE WOULD BURN MY HAND! Amazing how much that little bit of solder on those spades cured that CRAPPY JOB FROM ITALY. The wires used on the one side (side that gets hot) are definitely too small of a gauge and add in a crimp only connector, you get HEAT and resistance.
So now I have good voltage in the charging system and have taken the excess heat outta that connector. One thing about the brown plug. Both sides have yellow wire. One side, the reccy side is traditional bright yellow and it is the female side connectors, you add the solder to the other side of the plug, or the male side with the spades and those wires are more of a washed out yellow or faded looking yellow color.
Tricks and tips.
For the white plug mods, Unless you are a ace solderer (I am not), I took my dremel and cleaned off the excess solder so I could get the wires back into the connectors after I added wire. It is a tight fit when you go to put the spade back into the connector with the new wire added, so try to keep your soldering clean and small as possible, BUT COMPLETE!!!! As I stuck the spades back into the connector, I used needle nose to pull the spades in to original depth rather than trying to push them in. Make sure you have all spades in proper depth and aligned properly so you mate correctly when you re-attach the plug. Also do the rectifier side fo the plug by adding some solder to the crimps so that you now will have wires added on the male or harness side of the plug and good soldered female crimp connectors on the rectifier side of the plug.
For the Brown plug mod, you only need add a small amount of solder to the area where the wire is coming out of the crimp on the SPADE side of the crimp. I held the wire up so the solder would run down into the crimp connection. Again, you don't need much. These spades should go right back in with no hassles as the solder is within the crimp.
Do it, you will gain voltage and reduce heat to the system. Long term reliability and increased battery life without needing a trickle charger except for maybe long term storage and winter months.


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Stacy McIntosh needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. — The endless months of campaigning finally dwindled into hours and minutes late Monday as President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and their surrogates barnstormed across electoral battlegrounds for one final day, and both sides expressed confidence in a Tuesday victory.
While 11th-hour polls gave Obama a slight edge, the race was perceived as so close that neither campaign was ceding any ground anywhere. Obama and Romney both appeared here in Columbus, Romney and Vice President Joe Biden stumped about 165 miles apart in Virginia, and Obama and Rep. Paul Ryan both campaigned in Wisconsin and Des Moines, Iowa. All together, the presidential and vice presidential candidates made stops in Florida, Nevada, Colorado, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Virginia and New Hampshire. Romney, according to a campaign official, will keep campaigning on Election Day, adding stops in Democratic-heavy Cleveland and Pittsburgh, and Ryan will join him in Cleveland.
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"I'm going to be flying with Bruce Springsteen on the last day that I'll ever campaign," Obama said in Columbus of the legendary blue-collar rocker who was part of his presidential entourage. "That's not a bad way to bring it home."
"Together we must lead America to a better place," Romney said Monday night in Manchester, N.H. "We're one day away from fresh start, one day away from the first day of a new beginning. My conviction is that better days are ahead and that's not based on promises and hollow rhetoric but on solid plans and proven results, and on an unshakeable believe in the greatness of the American spirit."
"Are you gonna help us win this thing Nevada?" Ryan asked at a 1,000-person morning rally in Reno. "We're doing a barn burner today. We are crisscrossing the country Mitt and I are because we are asking you to work with us, to stand with us to get our country back on the right track. We know the kind of choice that's facing us."
After a stop in Lynchburg, Va. to court evangelical Christians - Jonathan and Jerry Falwell Jr., sons of the evangelist who founded nearby Liberty University were at his rally - Romney made his final foray into the Commonwealth in Fairfax. Romney drew a crowd of 11,500 to George Mason University's Patriot Center in this D.C. suburb; he addressed 8,500 who made it inside and then went out to talk with an overflow of 3,000 more..
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Ann Romney rejoined her husband after missing the first two stops of the day, asking the cheering crowd rhetorically: "Are we gonna be neighbors soon?"
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- The recent bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma has highlighted the complexity of the phenomenon of political extremism. Until this occurred, inside the United States foreign terrorists were the focus of attention, particularly the so-called Islamic fundamentalists. Undue emphasis on the "foreign connection" can make it appear that only Middle Eastern terror is of consequence. The Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) has long resisted this approach.


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This exhibition explores the complicated practice of black women disguising themselves as well as the historic trend of others camouflaging themselves as black women. It is based on the premise that people manipulate their outward appearance for many reasons including: to gain access that they would not otherwise have, mimic, deflect attention, or garner confidential information. The project also surmises that artists incorporate the practice of disguise as a critical strategy to carry out or debunk cultural traditions, confront or reinforce stereotypes, explore fetishes, and challenge sociocultural norms.
"Undercover" considers the reasons and ramifications of disguise and the multiple implications it has on race and gender. It examines seemingly disparate types of disguise including, self-portraiture, cross-dressing, and blackface performance. Featuring a range of media including painting, video, and photography, "Undercover" investigates the multi-layered strategies for and outcomes of disguise. While it includes works by well-known artists including Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Doris Ulmann, and James VanDerZee, it also introduces promising emerging and mid-career artists such as Renée Cox, Lalla Essaydi, Ellen Gallagher, Myra Greene, Lyle Ashton Harris, Lauren Kelley, Kalup Linzy, Nandipha Mntambo, Magdalene Odundo, Berni Searle, and many others.
For a corresponding lecture from participating artist Renée Cox, please see ACP 11 Collaborations.
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The collections staff is responsible for collecting and maintaining an extensive and rich collection of artifacts, objects and fine art; planning traveling exhibitions; maintaining permanent exhibitions; conceptualizing and creating new exhibitions. For questions about curatorial services, contact the museum's curator by calling (313) 494-5810.
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MILPITAS, Calif., Mar. 26, 2015 – SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced that it expects its revenue for the first fiscal quarter, which will end on March 29, 2015, to be approximately $1.3 billion, depending on final sell-through results, compared to the previously forecasted revenue range of $1.40 billion to $1.45 billion.
The change in first quarter revenue estimate is primarily due to certain product qualification delays, lower than expected sales of enterprise products and lower pricing in some areas of the business. The Company expects continued impact to its 2015 financial results from these factors as well as the previously identified supply challenges, and now forecasts 2015 revenue to be lower than the previous guidance.
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I've recently noticed an issue with a couple of our most commonly used references.
The website www.accio-quote.org, an archive of many of Rowling's press releases and interviews, seems to be down, and as it hadn't been updated since 2008 anyway, I'm not sure if it's coming back.
J.K. Rowling's own website, www.jkrowling.com, has recently undergone a major revision, and a lot of the background information on the Harry Potter series seems to be gone (i.e. - Dean Thomas' background in the "Extra Stuff" section). While some of that same info is now available on Pottermore, it's still only on Book 1, and it'll be a while before the rest becomes available again.
We've used both sites rather heavily as references in many of our articles, so this creates something of a problem for us. There a couple of possible solutions, but they'll still require a lot of work.
There's a site called the Internet Archive Wayback Machine that can search for previous revisions of websites, and many of the referenced pages from Accio-Quote and Rowling's site can still be found there. This would still require looking through many articles and revising the web addresses of each reference.
For example, www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=2 can still be seen at web.archive.org/web/20110623035046/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=2
Another option would be to use the Web Archive to create our own archive here on the site, copying the text from the original sources to pages here. While this would be a bit more work, we wouldn't have to worry about our references disappearing from the internet again. To prevent vandalism, the copied pages would be locked so only Administrators could edit them. This would STILL however require revising many of our reference links.
Any other ideas? - Nick O'Demus 21:12, April 23, 2012 (UTC)
- Can't think of any, but I imagine at some point this will be an issue with Pottermore as well, maybe not in the immediate future, but having something set up, so that we don't have to go through this again now, would be helpful in more than just taking care of the current situation, but avoiding it ever happening again.
BachLynn23 Send me an Owl! The worst failure, is the failure to try. 23:19,4/23/2012
- I agree, as well. Future unpleasantness will be avoided this way, without compromising the verifiability of our sources. Perhaps a new Forum namespace, called something among the lines of "The Daily Prophet", "Prophecy Record", "Ministry of Magic Archives", or "Hogwarts Archives"? (by the way, all of them are canon terms). We should create a template as well (like the image documentation one) listing original source, link (if available), etc., for easy and transparent reference (as our articles cannot, by definition, be our sources). -- Seth Cooper owl post! 00:10, April 24, 2012 (UTC)
- Rowling's site is rather simply laid out, so perhaps even subpages of the main article would work. Perhaps something like this? A link to the original, archived page is included as verification of the source.
- Accio-Quote would be a bit more problematic since there are so many rather lengthy transcripts. Seth's idea of a new namespace on the wiki is probably the most workable solution, both for this and the "No HPW articles as references" rule. - Nick O'Demus 00:42, April 24, 2012 (UTC)
- I think each transcript should have its own page, to make referencing that piece of information in articles easier (i.e., to reference Dean Thomas's biography, one would simply direct the reader to [["Dean Thomas's background (Chamber of Secrets)"]] instead of [[Information from J.K. Rowling's Official Site#"Dean Thomas's background (Chamber of Secrets)"]]. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 22:29, April 24, 2012 (UTC)
- Some of these interviews are massive. Would we be copying the entire things, or just the information that we need for our sources? (I'm assumming the latter.) ProfessorTofty 01:09, April 27, 2012 (UTC)
- I was actually thinking the former, always with proper attribution saying where the original text was from. I don't think size would be an issue. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 23:24, April 27, 2012 (UTC)
- AccioQuote, at least, is back up again, so we can probably hold off on that part (for now). We still need to address the issue of J.K. Rowling's old site though. If we do create our own reference archive, it might be worthwhile to do one for the new info from Pottermore also, since not everyone has an account there. - Nick O'Demus 11:42, May 16, 2012 (UTC)


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Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich signs a copy of his book "A Nation Like No Other" as he and his wife Callista Gingrich greet supporters during a book signing event at Books-A-Million in Naples, Fla., Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011.
This weekend's big election news comes by way of New Hampshire, where the Manchester Union Leader, the state's largest and most widely-read newspaper, endorsed Newt Gingrich for the Republican presidential nomination. This is great news for the former House Speaker, who has been catapaulted to the front of the pack by the GOP's large cohort of anti-Romney voters. Because of its large influence—and New Hampshire's distinction of holding the first Republican primary in the nation—the Union Leader's endorsement is coveted by GOP presidential candidates. Between now and the primary, it's safe to say that the Union Leader will devote its time to boosting Gingrich and tearing down his competitors.
On the face of it, this nod should cement Gingrich's place in the top tier of Republican presidential candidates, and yield him more supporters within the conservative establishment. But the seriousness of Gingrich's campaign is far from evident, and moreover, it's important to note the extent to which the Union Leader hasn't had a great record for choosing presidential nominees. It's endorsement has gone to the eventual Republican nominee in only two of the last nine presidential elections—Ronald Reagan in 1980 and John McCain in 2008. In every other case, the Union Leader has given its nod to the conservative insurgent du jour: Pete Du Pont in 1988, Pat Buchanan in 1992 and 1996, and Steve Forbes in 2000. If the Union Leader held to form, it would have endorsed Mitt Romney as the conservative alternative to McCain (which is what he was in the last election cycle). But the newspaper has a particular dislike for the former Massachusetts governor, and rejected Romney for his opportunistic brand of conservatism.
At The New York Times, Nate Silver offers the narrow argument that Gingrich is likely to benefit from the Union Leader's endorsement in new Hampshire proper. "[A]lthough only three of the six Republicans endorsed by The Union Leader during this period won their primary," writes Silver, "all six outperformed their polling." He offers his chart to illustrate the change:
With a consistent lead of more than 18 points, the New Hampshire presidential primary is still Mitt Romney's to lose, even as Newt Gingrich gains strength in the state. This might change if the Gingrich campaign grows into something serious, but that remains a big "if." More importantly, there's still Romney's immense resources, organizational strength, and deep well of support from Republican elites. Gingrich has a long, tough slog ahead of him if he wants the nomination, and the Union leader's endorsement does nothing to change that fact.


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Lindsay Lohan's mom's house is heading for foreclosure, according to a report.
Bankers recently filed a lawsuit to take Dina Lohan's $1.3 million Long Island, New York home because of past due mortgage payments, according to The Long Island Press.
The mom of four reportedly has an opportunity to salvage the property by settling with the bank for the undisclosed amount due.
Dina has reportedly been fighting to keep her home out of foreclosure since 2005 and last year, her famous daughter gave her $40,000 to save the house.
It has been a bad September for Dina – she was arrested for allegedly driving drunk in Long Island, New York and booked on two counts of driving while intoxicated (DUI) and one count of speeding. She is due in court later this month.


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Warren's quiet plan for the Senate
When the newest senators lunched together for the first time last November, their biggest star immediately tried to flee.
As a flock of reporters approached Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat turned and engaged fellow freshman Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) in a fake conversation.
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"Pretend to talk to me … talk, talk, talk," Warren said to Baldwin, grabbing her arm as the two fled into the lunch's private confines.
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The duck-and-cover move ran contrary to her Senate campaign, which featured a headline speech at the Democratic National Convention, guest spots with Rachel Maddow, "The Daily Show" and all the other trappings of a national media moment.
But it was also a harbinger of things to come: Since taking office, Warren has kept the lowest of profiles, speaking only to select Massachusetts media outlets while shutting out the national press save for a smattering of interviews, most notably with the liberal-friendly Huffington Post. For a left-leaning icon and national media darling, the role of silent senator is a sharp departure from her rousing campaign and outspoken consumer advocacy.
It's the same tactic used by other first-term senators who entered the chamber to great fanfare, including former New York Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Other outlets hoping to nab Warren's thoughts in the Capitol hallways are either ignored or offered a litany of excuses for why she can't talk, including Warren's own recent explanation that she's "walking right now."
Warren declined to comment for this article, but in a statement her chief of staff Mindy Myers said that the senator is "working hard to advocate for the hardworking families in Massachusetts."
( PHOTOS: Female senators in the 113th Congress)
"Sometimes the best way to do that is quietly, letting everyone else take the credit, and sometimes it means not being so quiet and taking a public stand," Myers said, pointing to Warren's first news conference Wednesday on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
By picking her battles and flying under the radar, Warren is working to convert her campaign star-power into a reputation as a serious legislator among her Senate colleagues.
"Your colleagues here are not necessarily as impressed with you as those on the outside might be. You've got to earn their respect, you've got to work hard," said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who has his own share of admirers. "I think she comes in with a lot of experience given her involvement in a number of different issues over the years, but there's a lot she'll need to learn first and I think it's a good approach, usually the most successful approach."
Warren's conspicuously quiet entrance to Congress, as well as her laser-sharp focus on the Bay State, is in part a bid to prove she's not the carpet-bagging bomb-thrower her critics predicted.


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A public meeting attended by over a hundred people seeking to call an end to the governments recent decision to extend airstrikes in Syria was called in Brighton.
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The new rule means anglers can no longer keep any sea bass they catch until July of this year.
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A Polegate town councillor accused of the attempted murder his wife will appear in Brighton Magistrates court next week.