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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - December 3 - Musician Bret Michaels literally joins the revolution in a guest-starring role on the hour-long sci-fi drama, "Revolution," from NBC and Warner Bros. Television. Michaels plays a post-apocalyptic version of himself and will be performing an acoustic version of Poison's hit ballad "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" in an episode to air in 2014.
Eric Kripke, creator and executive producer of "Revolution," said "Bret is truly a great guy. I'm a huge fan of his music and I'm thrilled he's appearing on Revolution."
Bret Michaels is a multiplatinum global superstar who has turned his passion for music into a multi-faceted brand that encompasses record breaking touring sales, Reality TV stardom, legendary songs that have sold over 32 million records, product endorsements as well as being a devoted philanthropist, all supported and followed by three generations of loyal fans.
Rising to fame as the front man of Poison, one of rock's most iconic and enduring bands, he helped define the rock-n-roll scene on the Sunset Strip. Poison's massive success includes selling over 30 million records worldwide and numerous hit singles. Equally as successful, Bret's solo career has charted its own course with multiple solo albums. His last album, Custom Built, topped the charts, reaching #1 on Billboard's Hard Rock list. His new CD Bret Michaels: Jammin wtih Friends was released in June of this year and features a myriad of legendary artists, who just happen to be great friends of Bret's. The album contributors comprise a who's who list, including Joe Perry (Aerosmith), Loretta Lynn, Jimmy Buffett, Ace Frehley (Kiss), Michael Anthony (Van Halen) and members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, to name a few.
From J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Producions and Supernatural's Eric Kripke, "Revolution" is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama series that centers around one family's struggle to survive 15 years after a mysterious worldwide blackout. Created by Eric Kripke and executive produced by Kripke, Abrams, Bryan Burk, Rockne S. O'Bannon and Jon Favreau, the series airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC and returns in January 2014. "Revolution" is produced by Bonanza Productions, Inc., in associations with Bad Robot Producions, Kripke Enterprises and Warner Bros. Television
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"Molecular Nanotechnology Research in the U. S. and in Japan" by Richard H. Smith is a detailed report on the impact of national research policies on the emerging field of nanotechnology. After introductory sections covering total research and development spending patterns in the U.S. and in Japan, and a brief overview of molecular nanotechnology, Smith describes what organizations are carrying out nanotechnology research in each country, and notes that the Japanese approach to developing nanotechnology seems more coordinated than does the American approach. He sees two problems with the American approach of decentralized control coupled with declining basic research funding: (1) it provides little opportunity for government regulation to insure safety and minimize abuse during the development of molecular nanotechnlogy; (2) it provides little support for basic research in novel directions, instead encouraging researchers to emphasize incremental progress in well-understood fields. Concluding that there is no viable alternative to organized government supported research, Smith holds forth the Human Genome Project as a model for supporting the development of nanotechnology. He argues that it is possible to have a coordinated effort without making the mistake of "putting all the eggs in one basket".
One excellent starting point for information on nanotubes and related subjects is the Web site of Michigan State University physics professor David Tomanek. Included are MPEG movies of simulations of C60 and C240 fullerenes colliding http://www.pa.msu.edu/cmp/csc/simulation.html; of a C60 buckyball melting http://www.pa.msu.edu/cmp/csc/simulC60melt.html; of double-wall carbon nanotube melting http://www.pa.msu.edu/cmp/csc/simtubemlt.html. There is also a page of links to other nanotube Web pages http://www.pa.msu.edu/cmp/csc/nanotube.html.
Another carbon nanotube page maintained by Peter Harris of the University of Reading contains a brief history of carbon nanotubes, a list of WWW links, and a list of publication references.
The QUEST project Web site is focused on the application of scanning probe microscopy-based lithography "to push the fabrication of silicon based devices below the 20 nm limit." The site includes several complete research papers on SPM-lithography of silicon, and related topics.
The "Scanning Probe Microscopy Teaching Web Site," constructed by two pharmacy students as part of their degree work, provides a well-illustrated introduction to basic SPM principles, with most of the site devoted to atomic force microscopy (AFM) and some of its applications.
"Manipulating atoms: The quest for ultimate control", a short paper on the IBM Web site written by Bob Donlan, considers how advances at IBM and elsewhere, such as manipulating atoms with an STM to make "quantum corrals", or making molecular wires that work, might eventually make possible quantum computers and/or computers with atomic scale parts. He concludes that "Unless something intervenes to block our technological progress, atomic-scale manufacturing is inevitable..."
Peter McCluskey has made the very extensive sci.nanotech archives available on Foresight's crit.org server. Several indices are provided that organize the messages by discussion topic. This is the place to go for extended discussions (moderated by Dr. John Storrs "Josh" Hall) on everything related to nanotechnology, from technical questions to implications for world security, cryonics, mind-uploading, etc. The site includes a search engine.
The web site for James L. Halperin's nanotechnology and cryonics novel The First Immortal (see review elsewhere in this issue) offers the prologue and first chapter from the novel, "future news" extracts from the novel, an opinion poll, comments, and links to other information on nanotechnology, cryonics, and related subjects. There is also a site http://www.truthmachine.com/ for Mr. Halperin's related first novel, The Truth Machine.
One crucial element in the future universe of the Halperin novels (see above) is that artificial intelligences are denied emotions and survival instincts so that they remain servants of humanity rather than becoming independent. An alternate view on this topic is presented by Dr. Hugo de Garis, who heads the Brain Builder Group at ATR, a research lab in Kyoto, Japan. "I expect, with the help of my group and international collaborators (from 9 countries), to build an artificial brain with a billion artificial neurons, with evolved cellular automata (CA) based neural circuits, by the year 2001. We already have 10 million neurons, and expect to achieve our target on time." This site contains information on his technical work, including a brief page on a collaboration to explore making a nano-scale brain with evolvable circuits using quantom dot technology (http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~degaris/news/NanoBrain.html). The site also contains essays (http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~degaris/essays/index.html) on his concern that nanotechnology and other developments will lead to artificial intellects ("artilects") so vastly superior to humanity as to make humans an inferior species, leading to intense warfare (including nuclear holocaust) between those who want to develop artilects ("Cosmists") and the "Terrans", who will violently oppose the effort.
It is now possible to watch videos over the Web of two talks from the 1997 Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology. At this site, you can use your computer to watch Ralph Merkle's introduction to the Conference and Richard Smalley's keynote address.
An introduction to molecular nanotechnology that Dr. Ralph Merkle presented at Xerox PARC on March 12 1998 is available at this site, both in the form of the slides presented and as a RealAudio file, so you can simultaneously view the slides on your web browser while listening to the talk.
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The First Immortal, by James L. Halperin, is a thoroughly engaging story of a plausible future for humanity. It is firmly anchored in our current knowledge of science--there is no fantasy, no need to postulate some ad hoc discovery of new physics or some far-fetched technology with no basis in current science. The story starts early in the 20th century, flows through our real world to the present, and evolves by small and plausible changes into a startling vision of the first 125 years of the next millennium.
The protagonist is one Dr. Benjamin Franklin Smith, born in 1925, an independent thinker as a teenager, with a faith in science and the advance of technology that leads him to consider the possibilities of conquering aging and death. Nevertheless, he lives for the most part a fairly ordinary life for a man of his times: surviving a Japanese P.O.W. camp in WW II, raising a family, becoming a successful physician, and then, almost accidentally stumbling upon cryonics and signing up a few years before dying of a heart attack in his early sixties.
Smith's cryonic suspension catalyses conflict among his surviving family members, which the novel explores as it traces the changes in society and technology. The story unfolds as seen through the eyes of Smith's descendants over the decades until advances in nanotechnology allow Smith's revival eight decades after his death and suspension. Not stopping with the hero's return to life, Halperin explores the various dramas among Dr. Smith and his family members across six generations as they adjust to and find meaning and purpose in a world that the older of them could not have imagined.
Nanotechnology makes cryonic suspension--the process of having one's body (or at least one's head) preserved in liquid nitrogen very quickly after legal death--a reasonable possibility to cheat death. The novel clearly and accurately explains how that is possible. One can find a few small quibbles with the technical explanations. For example, Halperin describes an assembler with arms build of iron atoms, which are held together by relatively weak bonds, and thus would not be rigid enough for positional control of molecular synthesis. One also wonders why he thinks that defeating the telomere aging clock is so difficult that it would take more than a decade beyond the development of functional cell repair machines. But the author gets all the important points right (as one might expect; he acknowledges assistance from experts in fields as diverse as nanotechnology and finance), and explains them succinctly and painlessly. Like many good novels, this one reflects good research.
Nevertheless, the novel is not really about technology, but about people and their relationships, and how these relationships are changed and intensified by technology that fundamentally alters the constants of human existence. It covers such diverse themes as the value of clear thinking versus mysticism and superstition, the unexpected consequences of actions, and the value of forgiveness in human relations. It explores psychological and emotional (and spiritual and philosophical) issues through the dialogues of the characters, and affirms the continuing importance of human values in a civilization without aging, practically without death, and without poverty or violence.
It also introduces, almost as throw-away lines, glimpses at the accelerating evolution of humans and other species through the application of technology--interspecies communication, telepathy, interstellar colonization, to name a few.
If you are new to the memes of nanotechnology, life extension, and cryonics, this novel will open your eyes to staggering possibilities made real through application to the lives of believable characters. If you are familiar with these ideas, you can enjoy comparing your conception of the coming decades with the author's. For example, many Foresight members will consider Halperin's time line for the development of nanotechnology a bit slow: it doesn't really get going until about 2030 and takes another three decades to mature. Also, most of the concerns about the potential for horrendous abuse of nanotechnology are settled off-stage by the advent of world government, made possible (and benign) by the development of an infallible lie-detector that leads society to surrender privacy in return for security and prosperity (treated in detail in Halperin's earlier novel The Truth Machine).
Finally, and perhaps most controversially, artificial intelligences are firmly restrained to roles as servants of humanity and special purpose advisors by a quickly developed and universally observed consensus not to endow them with survival instincts or emotions. These assumptions are all necessary to drive the novel's plot line, but they do not arise as natural extensions of today's interaction between science and society, or between the incredibly diverse world-views of different social systems on earth today.
Indeed, if one wished to quarrel with the future world-view Halperin constructs, one might focus upon the optimism with which he views the ability of rationality and technology to overcome superstition, demagoguery, and the perverse sides of human nature. It requires a deus ex machina--Halperin's Truth Machine--to create a global government that is powerful but self-limiting in its action, and to overcome the powerful ethnic and religious forces that have driven human conflict since the dawn of history. In the real future world, Utopia will not be so easily achieved.
By writing a novel that paints an attractive picture of how life might evolve in a world pivoting around technology and rationality, Halperin has set the stage for discussions of what future we want to build, and how to go about it. In an afterword discussing the feasibility of cryonics and life extension, Halperin argues that the most important thing people can do to make it come about is to "subvert secular mysticism by tactfully debunking it whenever you can." His entire book undertakes that task, and thus contributes--whether deliberately or otherwise--to achieving Foresight Institute's goal "to guide emerging technologies to improve the human condition."
James B. Lewis, PhD., is a molecular biologist, consultant, and Webmaster for Foresight Institute and the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing. Lew Phelps is a business communications consultant and Editor of Foresight Update.
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Endoscopic transnasal approach to optic nerve decompression: anatomical and microsurgical study
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Objective: Although traumatic injury to the optic nerve is a relatively frequent event, its management remains controversial. In the iterature recommendations for conservative treatment, medical treatment and surgical therapy are found. Traditional surgical approaches to optic nerve decompression (OND) are the craniotomy approach, the extranasal transethmoidal approach, the transorbital approach, and the intranasal microscopic approach. Because of advances in instrumentation and surgical techniques, the purely endoscopic transnasal approach the anatomic landmarks of OND are described in detail. The anatomical study was performed on 6 human fresh cadaver heads injected with coloured silicone rubber. All dissections were performed with the assistance of rigid endoscopes with 0° and 30° lenses.
Results: A standard endoscopic trans-sphenoidal approach affords a complete view of the sellar floor. The optico-carotid recess and optic nerve bulging were identified through the lateral wall of the sphenoid sinus. The decompressive step of the approach starts with the identification of the lamina papiracea at the orbital apex. This manoeuvre permits the identification of the distal opening of the optic canal corresponding to the annulus of Zinn. Once a full bone decompression was accomplished, the annulus of Zinn and the dural sheath covering the canalicular portion of the optic nerve were opened with a sickle scalpel. The anatomical relationships between the optic nerve and the ophthalmic artery were analyzed. The distances from the lateral walls of the pituitary floor to the annulus were measured.
Conclusions: Even if the management of traumatic optic neuropathy is still controversial, with no clear consensus, OND has been reported to have a favourable outcome by many surgeons. Surgical results of the endoscopic approach to OND seem comparable to those seen with the more invasive techniques but it is potentially associated with a lower morbidity and a more rapid postoperative recovery.


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After 50 years, 23 films and six different 007s, "Skyfall" turned out to be the biggest James Bond film of them all.
As the latest entry in the film franchise that launched in 1962 proved to be as unbeatable as author Ian Fleming's superspy himself, "Skyfall" emerged as not only as the highest grossing and best reviewed Bond film of all time, it also earned five Oscar nominations – an unprecedented feat even for 007 – and a golden anniversary tribute at the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony.
As the crowd-pleasing blockbuster makes its Blu Ray debut, longtime Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli reveal the secrets of "Skyfall's" success.
What has it meant to you to have this film perform so well and become the hallmark of the golden anniversary?
Michael G. Wilson: We always wanted to have a 50th anniversary film, and we weren't quite sure with MGM in bankruptcy if we could make it, but they pulled themselves together in time. And then we were working on this film, and you always have hopes that it's going to be fantastic. But this has really measured up quite well.
What did it mean to have those little touches in the film to evoke all the older films?
Barbara Broccoli: Well, obviously, it was tempting to do that because of the 50th, and we make these movies for audiences – Bond audiences. And so we felt that it would bring pleasure: the nods, the DB5, the various things that they would remind audiences of what's come before and honor what's come before. And all the response we've had is that people seem to love the fact that there are nods to the past in this one.
This is such a singular franchise, and it's gone through the ups and downs behind the scenes. Why do you think the character of Bond, this style of Bond storytelling has stayed so potent after five decades?
Wilson: I think we should start with Fleming as the originator of the character and writing a character that's complex enough and putting him into situations that explore his character well enough, a really well-defined character, and then we have six actors who come in, taken over the role, each of them bringing something to the part – keeping it fresh, always keeping it contemporary. And I think those elements have kept it going.
What are the elements that have made Daniel Craig a Bond that contemporary audiences today respond to so strongly?
Wilson: Besides being handsome and sexy and the best actor of his generation, what are the other elements [Laughs]? First of all, he's a great guy, just always ready to work with you. You can discuss things with him, and he gets it. He's very creative in what he adds to the character, and he understands the character really well. But he's also the most dedicated actor I've ever met, in terms of preparing for the part. When he's working on the film, he's like an Olympic athlete. He works out. The regimen that he goes through every day is amazing. When he goes out to rehearse an action sequence, he totally rehearses it physically, very demanding, but that's the way he does it. He has to work that way, and that commitment pays off because it makes him act and feel like the character.
This one pays such great service to the enduring character of Bond, but also gives the modern audience the Bond they're going to respond to. How do you take the temperature and figure out that balance?
Broccoli: You're always recalibrating. The thing is, we have an amazing team of people who've worked on the movies, and then we bring in new people like Sam Mendes who brings in Roger Deakins, so you have the most talented people on earth coming together to try and make the best Bond movie ever. It's a day-to-day discussion about 'Is this good? Is this right? How can we make this better?' And there's so much enthusiasm – that's the thing. As grueling as it is to make these pictures, it's a real privilege. And people come to it with a tremendous amount of excitement because Bond fortunately means a great deal to people, both people working on it and also the audiences. And we always start off, everyone, saying, 'We want to make the best Bond film ever.' And that's the thing that motivates us and excites us.
In prior Bond movies, most of the casting has centered on actors who were not-quite-star names in the moment, though many have gone on to become stars. Today well-known performers – Javier Bardem, Ralph Finnes, Albert Finney – are having some fun in the world of Bond. Is that the way you're going to go going forward? Is Bond at the point where so many people are excited to play in Bond's world that you can get that level of talent every time out?
Broccoli: I think that's certainly been the case the last couple of movies. I think the casting of Daniel. Daniel is an actor's actor, and I think actors of a certain standing and stature want to work with him. So I think that's part of the reason why we've got such an incredible cast, and also Sam Mendes has attracted a lot of people. And of course Judi Dench, she started back in 'Golden Eye,' and she did not have a huge film career at that point when we cast her. But she's become such an important film star. So I think it's a combination of wanting to just cast the best people for the role, and people being really excited and interesting in being in a Bond movie with Daniel Craig and working with a director like Sam Mendes.
You've run through all the Ian Fleming titles from the literally properties, and yet you were still able to come up with this very Bondian phrase with "Skyfall."
Wilson: Well, it gets harder and harder! That's something we wrestle with all the time, and so we're open to new suggestions. I think we had a four-page single-spaced list of titles. We still couldn't find a good one there.


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Hillary Clinton, in her first interview after leaving the State Department, offered a wise metaphor about the current state of presidential election madness. "This election is more than three years away, and I just don't think it's good for the country," she told New York magazine, referring to the fevered speculation about her possible candidacy. "It's like when you meet somebody at a party and they look over your shoulder to see who else is there, and you want to talk to them about something that's really important; in fact, maybe you came to the party to talk to that particular person, and they just want to know what's next," she says. "I feel like that's our political process right now. I just don't think it is good."
Clinton knows what it's like to be on both ends of that exchange. She was a political spouse; the shortsighted looked over her shoulder for many years, seeing her as merely an adjunct to her accomplished husband. Now, she is the person who draws every eye in the room--away from even her husband. (When someone says "Clinton", it may not be long before a majority of people think of the former secretary of state and not the former president).
Most presidential candidates strain for attention. They rush to Iowa, write books, or take extreme positions on controversial issues. Clinton has to do the opposite, trying to flee from the circus ready to chase her down the grocery store aisle. But she's in a bind. If she makes too much news this far ahead of the 2016 presidential election, there's a chance people will tire of her candidacy. If she steps back, though, the unstoppable flow of Clinton stories will come anyway (especially the highly unflattering ones that feature people loosely associated with Clinton world, like the New Republic profile of Doug Band, who once oversaw the Clinton Global Initiative). Not all of these people leave a good impression.
Clinton is perhaps the first presidential candidate of the modern age who needs a Rip Van Winkle strategy--a disappearing act that removes her from the witless swirl of speculation and gossip that preserves her presidential options. But what is this strategy? Does she go on a kibbutz for a year? What about a prayer retreat? She is a woman of skill. Surely, she can find some way to escape from the clatter or at least turn it into a force for good. (Perhaps she should launch a website on mindless Clinton speculation and donate the ad revenue from the site to one of the worthy causes she's been promoting most of her adult life).
It's frankly hard to imagine a place she could retreat (without the aid of rocket propulsion) that would quiet the appetite of editors, gossips, and TV producers. Retreating would give voters a pause and Clinton a chance to live a normal life, but there's also a governing benefit: We get sick of our presidents pretty quickly in the age of the hyper news cycle. Who pays attention to an Obama speech these days? With candidates starting to position themselves for the presidency earlier and earlier, it's almost certain that we'll be sick of the next president by the time he or she is in office. If Hillary Clinton is that president, it will be particularly acute in her case.
Though Clinton worries about the country looking over the president's shoulder at the next candidate, she isn't exactly keeping her arms at her sides. The New York piece is full of little waves to the admirers, including an admission of the obvious: She's thinking about running for president. The former secretary of state explains how normal her life is now. She's just flopping about the house, laughing at the dogs. As America's jet-set chief diplomat, she only had time to speak to her husband by phone; now she's watching stupid movies with him.
The piece has the feel of a reset, both natural and strategic: Of course she's the competent woman in that C-17 photograph, but she's also normal, real, and grounded. (At the start of the 2008 presidential race, the Clinton team tried to convey a similar feeling with a video to voters where she sat on what looked like a living room couch. If they're going that route again, maybe this time she could appear in the garden with some mulch or a Pinterest account of DIY house projects.)
If you're into tea leaf reading, when you look into the bottom of the New York story, it spells out: Hillary 2016. Clinton positions herself as a secretary of state who was in the thick of it but independent enough to disagree with the president. "I've had a unique, close, and personal front-row seat. And I think these last four years have certainly deepened and broadened my understanding of the challenges and opportunities that we face in the world today." Most impressive is the way the others quoted in the story fall into perfect formation, shooting down each of her perceived vulnerabilities, one by one. They testify to her management skill at the State Department--the chaos of the 2008 campaign is gone. They testify that Bill Clinton is a figure in the distance--no meddling from the Big Dog. It's a masterful rendition of the form. It's the kind of story we once expected to read a year before a presidential race, not three years beforeNow she just has to figure out how to manage those two long years in between.


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Multiple star systems are a form of the standard star system model which contain more than one active star.
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A binary star system is a star system that has two stars at its center. The two stars orbit each other around their common center of gravity, also known as their barycenter.
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- 61 Cygni
- Alastria
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- Beta Aurigae
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- Foster-D'Angelo
- Groombridge 34
- Izar
- Kabrel
- Kavis Alpha sector binary
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- Pallas 14
- Procyon
- Risa
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- Talos
- Vandor
- An unnamed binary star system (2152)
- An unnamed binary star system at edge of Federation space
- An unnamed binary star system in Sector 22139
- An uncharted binary star system in the Gamma Quadrant which included a penal moon. (DS9: "Battle Lines")
- An uncharted binary star system with a lone class M planet. (TAS: "Mudd's Passion")
Trinary star systemEdit
A trinary star system is a star system made up of three stars. Two or three of the stars may orbit around a common center of gravity, also known as their barycenter. Often, trinary stars consist of a binary pair that orbit each other in relatively close proximity with a third star that is further away, in a more "planetary" style orbit.
In 2152, radiation from a trinary star system caused the crew of Enterprise NX-01 to obsess over insignificant details and tasks. (ENT: "Singularity")
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In 2373, Commander Chakotay ordered Ensign Harry Kim to mark the coordinates of a trinary star system in the Delta Quadrant, as he thought it would make a good reference point for the sector the USS Voyager was passing through. (VOY: "Favorite Son")
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- Rura Penthe
- Talax
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The kirk session records that have been digitised for Scotland up to 1901, and which have already been made available at several archives in Scotland, will be available at the Burns Monument Centre from November 10th, following a launch event on the 9th. The event is free, but ticket only - though I believe it is now fully booked.
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We had two great gluten-free dining experiences recently. I only wish I had brought my camera.
Last week, relatives were visiting from out of town, and we met them at Mon Ami Gabi, a French bistro in Chicago. We chose Mon Ami Gabi because it's not far from our home and, since it's a Lettuce Entertain You restaurant, I felt reasonably confident they could handle a gluten-free request.
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– Forcing Fairfax journalists to reveal their sources in the banknote bribery scandal has no forensic purpose, the Supreme Court has heard.
Fairfax lawyers have asked the court to overturn a ruling forcing investigative journalists Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie into the witness stand in the committal of eight former banknote executives charged with bribery.
Editor-in-Chief of The Age Andrew Holden has said the sources will not be revealed under any circumstances.
Defence barrister Campbell Thomson told the Supreme Court on Thursday that the source of an article published the weekend before defence submissions were due to begin, on December 8th, could have had mischievous intentions.
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Nintendo's Got Game, Joins Kids Mobile Tennis Tour Heading To U.S. Open
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May 16, 2012: Nintendo of America has signed a deal with the U.S. Tennis Assn. to become an official sponsor of the SmashZone Mobile Tour, the interactive tennis fan attraction that is traveling the country en route to the U.S. Open in New York this summer.
The alliance is part of the marketing effort to support the release of Mario Tennis Open for the Nintendo 3DS hand-held system, scheduled to hit retail on May 20.
As part of the agreement, Nintendo said it would incorporate video game kiosks into the SmashZone experience throughout the duration of the tour. The partnership will launch May 19-20 at the California Strawberry Festival in Oxnard.
Nintendo will be an official sponsor of Arthur Ashe Kids' Day presented by Hess, scheduled for Aug. 25 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The 2012 U.S. Open runs from Aug. 27-Sept. 9.
The tour is part of the USTA's "10 and Under Tennis" initiative to introduce and promote the sport to youngsters. Other marketing partners for the SmashZone Mobile Tour include Esurance, Xerox Tennis Magazine and SportCourt.
"Video games can serve as a gateway to help get kids interested in real-life sports and activities," Scott Moffitt, evp-sales and marketing for Nintendo of America, said in a statement. "Mario Tennis Open features all their favorite Nintendo characters and fast-paced tennis action that people will have fun experiencing."
SmashZone Mobile includes a 53-foot trailer, which features interactive activities and anchors four kid-sized tennis courts for youth play. The Nintendo video game kiosks will be located in the game room of the trailer. Nintendo brand ambassadors will be on site to provide hands-on demonstrations of Mario Tennis Open.
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James LYNCH (b. abt. 1829 Carlow, Ireland married Margaret CORCORAN (b. abt, 1828 Carlow, Ireland. They were married abt. 1849 in Carlow Ireland. Known children are Bridget Mary b. abt. 1850, Carlow, Ireland, married Samuel EVANS 1875, Victoria, Australia, Ellen b. abt. 1852, Carlow, Ireland, married Edward LAPISH 1882, Victoria, died 1890, Richmond, Elesha (Alicia) b. 19 January 1856, Richmond, Victoria, married John STYLES, died 19 March 1901, Richmond, Victoria, Ann (Annie) b. 1857, Richmond, married Louis WOOTTON 1880, Victoria, died 7 February 1920, Richmond and Patrick b. 1860, Richmond, Victoria, died 1868, Victoria.
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Before moving to Portland in 2004, Julius Achon had already lived a full life of Olympian highs as an adult and unspeakable horrors as a child in his native Uganda.
Achon (pronounced AYCH-wahn) was 12 when rebel forces known as the Lord's Resistance Army abducted him 20 years ago from his home in the northern city of Lira.
The rebels, who the United Nations estimates kidnapped 20,000 children over two decades ending in 2006, gave him an ultimatum: Join or die. They also drugged him and other child soldiers to induce them to murder, steal supplies and participate in torture.
He escaped after three months to rejoin his parents and nine younger brothers and sisters, who had survived by hiding in the jungle. His family didn't have enough money to eat, much less the $20 per semester needed for Achon to attend school.
But Achon, whose uncle John Akii-Bua won a gold medal in the 1972 Olympics in the 400-meter hurdles, began running up to 20 miles a day. And his success in local races led to an athletic scholarship in 1990 to run and study in Uganda's capital city, Kampala. In 1994, Achon put on his first pair of running shoes to win the 1,500-meter World Junior Championships in Portugal, which led to a full-ride track scholarship at George Mason University in Virginia.
In America, he won an NCAA title in 1996 in the 1,500 and competed for Uganda in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics, making it to the semifinals in the 1,500 both times. He didn't compete in the 2004 Olympics because that was the year the LRA killed his mother.
A back injury from a 2007 car crash ended Achon's hopes for Beijing, but he works as an assistant coach in Portland with Alberto Salazar's elite Nike Project runners, including 2008 Olympian Galen Rupp. And he uses his $20,000 annual salary from the Nike Project and donations from other sources to support 11 orphans and his family in Uganda.
WW: Are you afraid of people finding out you were a child soldier?
Julius Achon: Not anymore. I am protected through what I have done for my village. [But] I am afraid of going back to Uganda to live. I am just afraid to be in my country. You are never comfortable—you either get robbed or get killed.
Did you ever have to kill anyone?
One time they instructed me. Then I refused. The man who instructed me was one of my relatives. So he didn't want to kill me, but he beat me almost to death. I could not sit on my butt for seven days. One of my close cousins shot a man in the head—it killed that guy. It is something where the little kids are just happy to kill people. Even when they shoot, they laugh.
Do you think you and the other child soldiers would have acted the same without the drugs?
No. It was because of the drugs. They gave it to us in our food. You really don't see. You just feel. Your mind wants to kill and punish all the time. Even when you feel happy, you don't feel mercy at all.
How did you manage to escape?
Government planes approached our camp. We were over 1,000 people. All the bosses were just running—they didn't care about us. We just dropped our guns and started crawling like monkeys. Once you raised up, the government planes would think we were rebels and shoot at us. Nine of us were shot. Once they rose up, the bullets got them.
Do you ever think about those nine kids?
Always. We used to make jokes together. We went to school together. Sometimes I feel like they are not dead. Still some of their images come to my mind. You see the person remaining is dead, you cannot do anything or cry. You can only wait for your turn. So it became just something normal. You just keep moving.
During a race, do you ever remember your escape?
When I was a kid in races, I would think back to walking around in the bush without shoes, carrying a gun.… Working now with the Oregon Nike Project, I work so hard to pace the other runners. I can bear the pain longer because I know this kind of pain is not going to kill me like a gun. When you come from hardship where your family cannot afford fees, it makes you find an extra will. I would never have been a runner without my difficult childhood, I would have been farming sugar cane, peanuts and raising heads of cattle.
Compared with your life as a kid, ever wonder how weird it is now to be paid by Nike to train kids?
I think about where I came from all the time. Now I always tell my life story to the athletes I coach. I tell them how lucky they are to have shoes on their feet and have enough food to eat. You know the best runners in Uganda still eat only one meal a day.
Do you ever feel like you're dreaming?
Every day.
FACTs: In February, the Ugandan government and the LRA signed a ceasefire.
Achon doesn't know what drugs the LRA gave him, but other media have reported that child soldiers got amphetamines and tranquilizers to blunt fear and pain.
MORE: To help Achon with his orphan project, go to achonacademy.com.
FACTS: In February, the Ugandan government and the LRA signed a ceasefire.
Achon doesn't know what drugs the LRA gave him, but other media have reported that child soldiers got amphetamines and tranquilizers to blunt fear and pain.


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Jamie McMurray, a long-shot winner at the Daytona 500, faces even steeper odds on Saturday night in Daytona's Coke Zero 400. No driver has swept Daytona's annual pair of Sprint Cup events since Bobby Allison in 1982. Nine other Sprint Cup tracks have hosted two races a year over that span; eight have seen sweeps within the past four years. Only Michigan, which last saw a sweep in 1995, even comes close to Daytona's current streak.
Jamie McMurray, a long-shot winner at the Daytona 500, faces even steeper odds on Saturday night in Daytona's Coke Zero 400. No driver has swept Daytona's annual pair of Sprint Cup events since Bobby Allison in 1982. Nine other Sprint Cup tracks have hosted two races a year over that span; eight have seen sweeps within the past four years. Only Michigan, which last saw a sweep in 1995, even comes close to Daytona's current streak.
What's the explanation? Simply put, the Daytona 500 and Daytona 400 are completely different races. Here's why.
1 Teams have found their levels by July
Rarely does a Cup team stay intact from one season to the next. Drivers change teams, teams swap crew chiefs, pit crew members come and go. Even a top team can take time to jell. Now add to that the randomness of a restrictor-plate race. Presto: The season-opening Daytona 500 is a singular crapshoot that offers little indication of what the season will hold. The 400 is a much more accurate barometer. Only twice since 1988 (the start of the restrictor-plate era) has the Daytona 500 winner won the Cup championship. In that same period the 400 winner has won the title seven times.
2 Rules and equipment often change
Last year NASCAR implemented double-file restarts between the 500 and the 400. Also, Goodyear brought a different tire in July after extensive testing at Daytona in May. This year? The rear wing has flown the coop since February, replaced by a spoiler. Also, NASCAR has increased the restrictor-plate opening from 63/64" to 1 1/32", the largest ever, to compensate for the increased drag created by the spoiler. (With a newer, grippier surface next February, NASCAR likely will reduce the plate opening again for the 2011 Daytona 500.) McMurray also has to contend with an equipment change unique to him. Per NASCAR mandate, his 500-winning ride was impounded for immediate display at the Daytona 500 Experience attraction at the speedway, where it will remain until next February. So McMurray will have to use a different car as he goes for the sweep.
3 The track is slicker
In the summer heat Daytona gets greasy, which tends to favor those who are considered "drivers' drivers." David Pearson, one of the sport's greatest natural talents, won the Daytona 500 just once but had five wins in the summer 400. Dale Earnhardt Sr. won the 400 twice before finally winning the 500. Tony Stewart carries that old-school torch today. Stewart, who comes to life on the slick tracks of summer, has three wins in the 400 but none in the 500.
4 The pressure goes up
In February, McMurray was making his first start since returning to Chip Ganassi's team after his No. 26 team was contracted at Roush Fenway. So, despite his past success on restrictor-plate tracks (wins at Daytona in July 2007 and Talladega last November), he remained under the radar in the run-up to the 500. Now, as the reigning 500 winner, he returns to Daytona amid much greater expectations."It is amazing to me how much attention the Daytona 500 winner gets," McMurray said. "Until you live it, you cannot imagine how much there is."
ONE TO WATCH: Kevin Harvick
WHY HE MATTERS: Plate ace won April's Talladega thriller and the last two Bud Shootouts at Daytona.
WHAT HE SAYS: "We just got to keep at it, keep doing what we're doing."
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY: 'Dega was the only points win, but he still leads the standings.
NEXT RACE Coke Zero 400, Daytona International Speedway
THE LOWDOWN Keep it together for just one more race. That's all NASCAR officials can ask of the big ol' oval in Daytona Beach, which was last repaved in 1978. The weathered surface became an issue during the Daytona 500 when a pothole formed, causing delays totaling more than two hours for repairs. After Saturday night's race, track officials will shut Daytona down for complete repaving.
2009 Tony Stewart
2008 Kyle Busch
2007 Jamie McMurray
2006 Tony Stewart
2005 Tony Stewart
ABOUT Daytona
TRACK: Daytona International Speedway (Daytona Beach, Fla.), 2.5-mile paved track
RACE LENGTH: 160 laps, 400 miles
SERIES: NASCAR Sprint Cup
Quote of note
"I had great visions of a huge, spectacular crash." – Loudon winner Jimmie Johnson, who nudged past Kurt Busch for the lead with two laps to go, just six laps after Busch had nudged past him.
Where to watch
Sunday's pre-race show on TNT starts at 6:30 p.m. EDT, followed by the race at 7:30.
Do your worst
In terms of shuffling the Sprint Cup standings, this weekend could be the most turbulent of the summer. Daytona is the toughest track on the schedule for four of the top 20 drivers based on average finish. No more than two of the top 20 bottom out at any other track (see chart). The four drivers who have recorded a lower average finish at Daytona than at any other track are Denny Hamlin, Mark Martin and teammates Ryan Newman and Tony Stewart – even though Newman won the 2008 Daytona 500 and Stewart is a three-time Coke Zero 400 winner. Another surprise: Three-time Brickyard 400 winner Jimmie Johnson's poorest average finish is at Indianapolis.
Obligatory Danica reference
In case you somehow hadn't heard, Danica Patrick has resumed her part-time Nationwide series schedule. Patrick, driving for Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s JR Motorsports, took a four-month break to focus on her IZOD IndyCar series ride (she finished sixth in this year's Indy 500 and second at Texas in June). Patrick finished 30th at New Hampshire after an early tangle with Morgan Shepherd. She'll skip Daytona and make her next Nationwide start at Chicagoland on July 9.
Daytona's Subway Jalapeno 250 on Friday night marks the debut of the new Nationwide series car. NASCAR's goal was to make the Nationwide car more like the new-generation Sprint Cup car on the inside. With a 110-inch wheelbase, the new Nationwide chassis will be interchangeable with a Sprint Cup chassis. The new Nationwide rides have distinctly different looks on the outside, however. NASCAR hopes that two new body styles, the Ford Mustang and Dodge Challenger, will help the Nationwide series develop a separate identity from the Sprint Cup series. NASCAR will require the new car at three additional races this season before a complete roll-out in 2011.
Drivers' worst tracks
1 Kevin Harvick Charlotte/20.7
2 Jimmie JohnsonIndianapolis/17.9
3 Kyle Busch Homestead/25.2
4 Denny Hamlin Daytona/23.0
5 Jeff Gordon Talladega/16.7
6 Kurt Busch Las Vegas/21.9
7 Matt Kenseth Infineon/22.2
8 Jeff Burton Watkins Glen/22.1
9 Tony Stewart Daytona/16.7
10 Greg Biffle Watkins Glen/25.3
11 Mark Martin Daytona/18.0
12 Carl Edwards Talladega/22.5
13 D. Earnhardt Jr.Homestead/23.9
14 Ryan Newman Daytona/21.7
15 Clint Bowyer Darlington/23.2
16 Joey Logano Kansas/33.5
17 Jamie McMurrayRichmond/25.2
18 Martin Truex Jr.Kansas/27.0
19 David Reutimann Infineon/30.3
20 Kasey Kahne Chicago/25.0


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UnNews:Sarah Palin's attempt to rule world put on hold
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10 March 2011
WASILLA, Alaska -- Sarah Palin's plans for world domination took a step backwards yesterday when HBO announced it had cast Julianne Moore to portray her in the upcoming movie Game Change. Based on the book of the same title, Game Change is a straight-to-TV film about the 2008 elections focusing on John McCain's campaign, from his selection of Palin as the heir to the throne to his loss in the November election. The selection of actress Julianne Moore, a long time endorser of the Democratic Party, to play Palin has angered many, including Palin herself.
"I wanted that role," Palin is reported to have said when the news broke, "I think I could get in character much better than that stupid liberal."
Information leaked about the audition mentions that Tina Fey was the obvious first choice for the role of Palin, but that she was too busy to accept the job. Auditions were announced, and then opened to the public when it was reported that the only person to reply to the casting call was Palin herself. Director Jay Roach aggressively begged Moore to take the role, reportedly saying that she "owed him one" and that he'd "be damned if he had to put up with Palin," adding "it'd be like dealing with a really, really dumb Oprah with a shitty accent."
Sources tell us that, while the loss of glory on the big screen hurt Palin deeply, it was the choice of the left-leaning actress that was the real killer.
"Not only did I not get the TV appearance that would make me even with Bristol's run on Dancing with the Stars, but now I have to watch a communist butcher everything I stand for," Fox News' political pundit vented.
The decision was a considerable blow to Palin's attempts to rule the world. Since her election run with McCain in 2008, Palin has actively tried to brainwash the American populace with her last name, taking a post at Fox News, pushing her daughter onto TV shows, registering on Twitter and many other social media sites, and throwing in her opinion on every issue brought to her attention. While many experts are dumbfounded by her ability to sound so stupid on so many things and still not get discouraged, a political science professor at Fordham University, Mike Hunt, has a different view.
"She's trying to become a rival conscience in our minds. As you know, every person has a conscience that whispers what you should do in a given situation. But I think that Palin is trying to go against that conscience consistently in order to implant her way of thinking on our mind; she wants her voice to argue with our conscience every time it tries to say something, in the hopes that her voice is the one that wins out when people cast their ballots."
The decision to cast Moore as Palin throws this apparent game plan into uncertainty, as the sight of a Palin impersonator varying from the Palin attitude will likely break the psychological associations that the former Alaskan governor has spent so long creating, much like Tina Fey's rendition did in 2008.
Faced with the potential destruction of her plans, Palin has dug in her heels and stepped up her cross-media bombardment of her ideas, complaining about the "liberal media" with a newfound vigor.
"They're trying to run the world," her most recent Tweet said, "We have to stop them."
- "Julianne Moore to Play Sarah Palin for HBO". Yahoo!, Mar. 9, 2011


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ProHealth is excited that two respected and beloved ME organizations are in the running to win awards worth $5,000 each. Both of these patient-centric groups have pledged to share the award with their neediest patients.
The competition for votes is called the 'CitGo Fueling Good Contest'. The contest is divided into four national regions and the top four vote getters in each region will win. ANYONE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD CAN VOTE DAILY FOR BOTH, AND VOTING CONTINUES UNTIL A MINUTE BEFORE MIDNIGHT EASTERN TIME NOVEMBER 29
(At this time the contest has become extremely tight, neck & neck, with both worthy organizations fighting hard for enough votes to finish in the money.)
• In the 'Central' region – the non-profit CFS Solutions, listed as the West Michigan Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Support Group.
(Vote each day at http://www.fuelinggood.com/rewardinggood?id=1331606)
• In the 'Southern' region – the ME/CFS Knowledge Center.
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VOTE DAILY FOR EACH. The great news is that you can vote daily for both organizations, since they are not competing in the same regions.
Click on each link to cast your vote on the page that comes up. Then click on the other link and do the same thing for the other organization. Do this helpful 30-second exercise daily until November 29, and the ME will community will have a victory under its belt.
According to CFS Solutions' President Lori Chapo-Kroger, "Many people we serve can no longer work because of illness, so Citgo gas fueling cards would be given to CFS patients, enabling them to travel to see their doctors. Volunteers could deliver meals. It would also help people who are newly diagnosed attend those ever important education classes."
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According to the ME/CFS Knowledge Center, "Citgo gift cards will enable us to increase our funding for producing videos, seminars, and support for seminar attendance by noted scientists, by using the cards to pay for travel rather then cash. Gasoline for local travel, used exclusively for our charitable work, is our second largest expense."
The suspense is exciting, as both organizations are in third place, both presently qualifying for the $5,000 prize.
Please join me in supporting these terrific patient organizations by voting today and every day until the the contest ends on November 29. I voted for both organizations just now to see how long it took me, and the total time to cast two votes was only 25 seconds. Working together we can support each other, and working together we can make this opportunity a success for ME.
Save them someplace where you can find them easily every day. And don't forget to vote for BOTH groups. We can do it! Thanks for being an ME superhero!
With Hope and Enthusiasm,
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