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New York, March 31, 2010—News reports that the Yahoo e-mail accounts of reporters and others in China and Taiwan have been compromised are a reminder that journalists must be vigilant when communicating over the Internet, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. CPJ called on Internet companies to reassess their business practices in countries where users' communications cannot be adequately protected.
"Internet companies must seriously weigh the value of doing
business in countries that do not provide adequate safeguards." said
Access was interrupted to Yahoo e-mail accounts used by journalists, academics, and human rights activists beginning on March 25, according to international news reports. The reports cited Kathleen McLaughlin, a Beijing-based freelance journalist and head of the media freedoms committee for the Foreign Correspondents Club of China (FCCC).
The FCCC's Web site, which reports
attacks on international correspondents operating nationwide in
McLaughlin told CPJ and news outlets that Yahoo informed her that her personal e-mail account had been improperly accessed. She said the FCCC received reports that about 10 members' accounts had been hacked. McLaughlin was critical of Yahoo for not providing more information about the apparent hacking. "Yahoo has information suggesting our data has been viewed by a stranger. They won't tell us what that information is, how they found it, or who the unwelcome stranger might be. I find this irresponsible, especially given that we deal in sensitive information," McLaughlin told CPJ.
Yahoo said in an e-mail statement that the company was "committed to protecting user security and privacy and we take appropriate action in the event of any kind of breach." It did not provide details. Reuters said in January that the company was aware its security was vulnerable but not publicizing the information.
The California-based Yahoo operates in China through its
stake in the Chinese conglomerate Alibaba. In 2004, a Chinese court imprisoned
local journalist Shi Tao
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Google revealed in January
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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. -- The Lipscomb women's tennis team returned to Nashville after posting three wins in the "Austin Peay Fall Tournament" over the weekend.
Each of the three Lady Bisons participating recorded first-round wins before going on to suffer a defeat in the second round.
Freshman Jenny Borck defeated Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville's Kali Donner 6-3, 6-3 before falling to Lewis's Zsofia Lanstiak 6-1, 6-3.
Senior Sam Bowman took down Belmont's Natalie Nunes in round one 6-0, 7-6 (5). Bowman was defeated in round two by Belmont's Laura Stack 6-0, 6-0.
Freshman Deahna Welcher also defeated an Atlantic Sun opponent in the first round, taking down Kennesaw State's Kelsey Kennedy 7-6 (5), 6-1 before going on to lose to KSU's Tess Lagerkvist in a three setter, 6-3, 2-6, 10-8.
The Lady Bisons prepare to head to Memphis, Tenn., on Friday, Oct. 14 to compete in the "USTA/ITA Regional Indoor Championships," where junior Alyssa Bellini will compete in the main draw in singles and doubles along with partner, Welcher, while Borck will compete in the qualifying rounds on Friday.
Jenny Borck (LIP) def. Kali Donner (SIUE) 6-3, 6-3
Zsofia Lanstiak (LEWIS) def. Borck 6-1, 6-3
Sam Bowman (LIP) def. Natalie Nunes (BEL) 6-0, 7-6(5)
Laura Stack (BEL) def. Bowman (LIP) 6-0, 6-0
Deahna Welcher (LIP) def. Kelsey Kennedy (KSU) 7-6(5), 6-1
Tess Lagerkvist (KSU) def. Welcher (LIP) 6-3, 2-6, 10-8

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This is the last thing i am posting on this topic ty very much for the fun convo.
Ace, all the courses under the KCFDC umbrella are primarily maintained by volunteers. Nothing gets done at any course unless someone volunteers to step up and make it happen. So, would you like the poison ivy at WW killed off? I assume, yes. As such, you're welcome to organize a workday to tackle poison ivy there. Contact the WW course committee to get it going. The club will pay for the spray and the workday lunch.The old saying goes: "If you're not a part of the solution, your part of the problem."Cheers!
I'm following up on the only useful post in this mildly amusing thread....
I think haterade has some unresolved anger issuse's towards me. All he does is slander the things that I say. Twist and turns all the comment that i have said multiple times to make me look like a sh1t talker.
I had a pickled scorpion in a glass Flintstones vitamin bottle my uncle caught for me in Texas when i was a kid. It was cool. I wonder what ever happened to it.
oh yeah - hey kmont what happened to the avatars? i'm not seeing them on my screen?
I'm sure you aren't this big a douche in real life. None of us are, right? Right?Jack?
So it is my opinion that i "heart" water works and anyone who hates it is a communist and should be deported to connecticut and be sentenced to 5 years of message board flame war counseling with the almighty neckbeard. Just my opinion of course.
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Being Marie Colvin
The news reports that come out of Syria on a daily basis often leave more questions than answers. How do ordinary people survive in such a war? How can a country's leader order his military to fire artillery shells into packed urban areas, knowing that such actions will cause civilian casualties by the thousands?
The late foreign correspondent Marie Colvin was obsessed by these questions. Like many war correspondents, she ran toward the sound of gunfire, while everyone else was running away. In February of this year, she had herself smuggled by Syrian opposition members into the besieged city of Homs to document what she considered a terrible war crime, made more terrible by the fact that no one was there to see it, or to stop it. It was an assignment that would cost her her life.
Why did she do it? Marie Brenner in Vanity Fair explores the past of this teacher's daughter from Long Island, and her dangerous passion for being an eyewitness to history:
For Colvin, the facts were clear: a murderous dictator was bombarding a city that had no food, power, or medical supplies. [NATO] and the United Nations stood by doing nothing. In a nearby village, hours before they left, Conroy had watched her trying to get a signal and file her story for the next day's paper on her vintage satellite phone. "Why is the world not here?" she asked her assistant in London. That question, posed by Colvin so many times before — in East Timor, Libya, Kosovo, Chechnya, Iran, Iraq, Sri Lanka — was the continuing theme of her life. "The next war I cover," she had written in 2001, "I'll be more awed than ever by the quiet bravery of civilians who endure far more than I ever will."
Lawrence of Syria
The black-and-white morality of the Syrian conflict – symbolized by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's overwhelming use of force, and by the cruelty of his intelligence service in torturing opponents and dissidents – doesn't make it any easier to find a solution to the crisis.
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has been struggling with this question for months, with few results. Support for Assad from Russia and China doesn't make it any easier.
But should the world intervene militarily in Syria? It's a question that T.E. Lawrence, better known as "Lawrence of Arabia," had an answer for: No.
For Captain Lawrence, then helping the Hashemite tribes of the Arabian peninsula overturn Ottoman rule during World War I, Syria was a nest of petty political figures, all interested in the gain of their own extended families or communities. And in any case, Franz-Stefan Gady writes in the National Interest magazine, military success would be meaningless if it didn't lead to a lasting political settlement afterward.
The major lesson Lawrence drew from the history of foreign interventions in Syria, starting from the Ottomans to the British and French, is that they have been marked by disappointment. The defeats have come not so much in military struggles — both the British and French prevailed in that sphere — but in the failure of political settlements and the transition to peace once the fighting ceased.
A grateful son's tribute
One of the most moving stories I read this week was a tribute, written by David Rothkopf in Foreign Policy, about his father who had just passed on. Mr. Rothkopf's father was a Holocaust survivor, who fled the Nazis in Austria for the US, where he joined the US Army and returned to Europe commanding a battery of howitzers.
Rather than obsess on his own struggles, the senior Rothkopf focused on the future, and specifically the education of the next generation. As David Rothkopf writes, "We talk too easily of 'the Greatest Generation,' as if their primary contributions were in fighting a great war or building America into a great superpower."
What the best of them have revealed was that what makes great nations great is always measured not by how much we spend on or our militaries or the edifices of our states but by what and how we invest in our classrooms and our laboratories and in the minds and futures of our children.
Sexual harassment and us
Somewhere on YouTube, there is a video of a young woman in the northeastern Indian city of Guwahati that has gone viral. The video shows her being sexually assaulted by a crowd of men.
The sexual harassment of women in India is so common, it has a nickname: Eve-teasing. And, as the name implies, there is a prevalent view in Indian society that the real person at fault in such an incident is the woman, Eve, for tempting the men.
The harassment takes place in public, and most people simply look away. The victims largely remain silent, afraid to even confide in their own families. Natasha Badhwar was one of those victims, and she writes of her own experience in The Wall Street Journal affiliated blogsite Live Mint about how this current video scandal has awakened in her a determination to channel her own experiences to make a difference in her society.
"What is the difference between the world that I grew up in and the world our children are growing up in?" she asks. "It's a one word answer. I am the difference."
As the father of two daughters, I found this powerful.


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Many companies have adopted sustainable practices and technology, realizing that consumers prefer doing business with environmentally responsible companies. But some brands (and companies) appear greener than others in the minds of consumers. Branding firm Landor Associates surveyed some 9,000 consumers worldwide to find out which ten companies they find the greenest.
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As documented earlier, we needed an institutional repository for IMSc. This seemed like a good time to review the Debian package for e-prints created by David Tarrant for which he has been looking for a sponsor.
Nutan and Kinjal also worked on this package for incorporation into the IMSc systems. We ended up re-doing their work and David Tarrant's for a number of reasons which I may write about later. Let me instead document how we got the e-print server working.
First of all we created a vserver using the stock Debian kernel and utilities. On this vserver Ravi installed the Debian package created by Tarrant and got it to co-operate with the rest of the system.
The first problem was that we were unable to deposit anything
into the archive! It turned out that the way in which the
software checks for free space uses system calls which are
disabled under a vserver. For the moment we are thus forced to
enable_df=0 and run without these checks.
The second problem was that all our web services are run through a common front-end server. The e-prints server was to be run as one of the back-end servers and it did seem that configuring it as such was going to be hard. In the end, it turned out to be rather easy. The only settings we required were as follows.
In the file
$ARCHIVETOP/cfg/cfg.d/10_core.pl we
put the host entry as
www.imsc.res.in; in
20_baseurls.pl in the same directory we put the base
path as
eprints. This allowed us to map
www.imsc.res.in/eprints to the internal server using
apache2's reverse proxy rules.
Unfortunately, this was not quite enough since the base path
was not used in
$ARCHIVETOP/cfg/lang/en/static/index.xpage. But we
only need to configure that file and the
file and we were off!
That left the task of registering the server with the OAI. This brought up another problem. We had used the HTTPS protocol on the front-end since the site requires password-based logins. It turns out that the OAI's registration page does not accept HTTPS URLs!
So we will need some more fine tuning at a later stage. For now, people are submitting some doucments and one that picks up we can be motivated to work some more!


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GNU Screen is a free terminal multiplexer developed by the GNU Project. It allows a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session. It is useful for dealing with multiple programs from the command line, and for separating programs from the shell that started the program. This is especially useful for unattended programs such as BitTorrent. This package requires that you have already installed the PPC development tools.
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"It was a beautiful thing to observe, all 36 oars working in unison.'' – late Cardinals announcer Jack Buck quipping he had seen George Steinbrenner's yacht.
It is a timeless quote about a timeless subject, George M. Steinbrenner, the demonstrative, cantankerous and blustery owner of the New York Yankees, who died today of a heart attack at age 80.
Buck's comment has long been the perception of Steinbrenner by the public through screaming headlines and video and audio sound bites. The man was positively driven to win and it didn't matter the cost in dollars or whom he stepped on. The Yankees would throw millions at players, and if they didn't win Steinbrenner was ruthless in his handling of his managers and front office staff.
It was that way from the day he purchased the Yankees in 1973 for less than $10 million from CBS and said: "I won't be active in the day-to-day operation of the Yankees. I'll stick to building ships.''
What he did was rebuilt the dynasty – twice.
By the time I started covering the Yankees in 1998, Steinbrenner's legacy was well cemented in that he revived a struggling team and turned professional sports' most revered franchise to a billion dollar empire.
The Yankees Brand is world-renowned and that is Steinbrenner's legacy on the grand scale, but for me I'll remember him like most beat reporters for the exhilarating paces he put us through.
Whenever the Yankees faltered the calls went into Steinbrenner' office. It was maddening on the days he released a statement condemning the team's play.
There is no more haunting words than these on a reporter's voice mail: "John, George Steinbrenner returning your call.''
You knew you wouldn't get another chance.
You had to put the call in early in the hope he'd return it before you went to the park, and rare were the times he did.
He did several times for me, one in particular I'll always remember. It was at the trade deadline in 1999 and Andy Pettitte was the focal point. All the other beat guys had Pettitte being dealt, but I was steadfast in he wouldn't be traded.
The day before the deadline the Yankees were in Boston and my cell rang around 7 p.m., just before first pitch.
It was Steinbrenner and he told me on the record Pettitte wasn't going anywhere.
Five hours later it was my editor with questions about a New York Times story that ran on the wire that had him being traded to Philadelphia for four prospects, and what I wanted to do about it.
"Nothing,'' I said. "I have the owner on the record and that beats any unnamed source the Times can come up with.''
Then there was the spring when Steinbrenner railed at Hideki Irabu, calling him a "fat, @#$%^& toad,'' as he stormed about Legends Field with a pack of reporters following him like he was the pied piper.
I had never seen anything like it, before or since.
Steinbrenner's presence loomed over the Yankees-Mets rivalry in that it cast a shadow upon the Mets. There was always this sense of entitlement from Yankees fans about winning, as if it was a birthright.
Mets fans hated the Yankees for their swagger, but there was always a grudgingly admiration for Steinbrenner in that they knew he would do everything in his power to improve the Yankees.
Mets fans hadn't always seen that with their management.
The last time I saw Steinbrenner was during the 2007 playoffs, frail he was walking out of Yankee Stadium holding onto his daughter's arm. Far from the Napoleonic image of him on a horse for a Sports Illustrated cover shoot.
The phone rang several times today from radio stations wanting me to reflect on my time coving the Yankees and Steinbrenner, and there was the question: Is he a Hall of Famer?
Unquestionably, yes. He should have been in there years ago. Like the Yankees or hate them, like Steinbrenner or hate him, the man kept us interested in baseball year round.
He made the Yankees great again, and a healthy Yankee team makes the sport better. It's just the way it is.


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Kindnessprevious next
Also: Humanity, Nurturing
Kindness means that we recognize that others are fragile--that we have the power to hurt or heal them--and we choose to be healers. When we are kind, we don't take advantage of our power or of other people's vulnerabilities. Instead, we seek to comfort, encourage and strengthen those around us.
To be kind requires empathy: we must consciously attune ourselves to the life experience of another being to know what will feel good for them. Kindness builds confidence, because it lets us see others in all of their complicated, needy humanity, rather than putting them on pedestals.
Kindness does not ask whether it will be repaid. Even so, our kindness often ripples through the world around us; it invites others to be kind in turn.
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In the privacy of her home or in the theatre, Sarah Bernhardt made her life into a spectacle at the service of her talent.
To achieve this, she managed to inspire the admiring complicity of painters, sculptor, photographers and poster designers, who depicted the many facets of her role as a Diva. The painter Clairin, who was her lover and then a loyal friend, remained the official portraitist of his illustrious muse for fifty years.
At the 1876 Salon, all the press noticed the Portrait of Mlle Sarah Bernhardt, Member of the Comédie Française. The singular beauty of this rising star of the French theatre did not fail to move the Parisian critics, who either deplored or admired the slender, sinuous figure painted by Clairin. The 32-year-old actress was enjoying her first triumphs in the plays of Racine and Hugo at the time. As a sign of her social ascent, she had just moved into her new mansion near to Monceau Park, the bohemian splendour of which is depicted in this painting.
This large portrait showing the subject in a white satin dress, with a very studied nonchalance, was one of Sarah Bernhardt's favourites and she kept it all her life. In 1876 it heralded the Art Nouveau aesthetic, with its sinuous lines, pearlescent tones and the magnetism of a feminine presence that is both seductive and disquieting. When his mother died, Maurice Bernhardt donated it to the Petit Palais, where it keeps the myth of this great actress alive.
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Injuries may have sapped the Ravens of starting linebackers Ray Lewis and Terrell Suggs for Sunday's contest against the Washington Redskins, but the Ravens will still feature free safety Ed Reed in their defensive backfield. And the Redskins are fully aware of the eight-time Pro Bowler's potential to wreak havoc at FedEx Field.
"Ed Reed, he's the top of that defense," Washington's exciting rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III said after Wednesday's practice. "With Ray Lewis being out, he is the leader of that defense. He does a good job with everything. He covers good ground. He tackles well. He's got good ball skills. It's nothing to fear, but you definitely have to be aware of where he's at."
One Washington player who knows Reed very well is wide receiver Santana Moss, who played alongside Reed at the University of Miami. But even Moss said that he's glad that he's not lining up at quarterback against his friend and foe.
"He's one of those guys that regardless of what you're doing out there on the field, you have to make sure you see where [No.] 20 is at," Moss said of Reed. "You've got to make sure that you're not letting him bait you into anything, and that's what he does well. He will bait you and make you think that he's doing something else. He's very smart, and he watches all the film."
In Sunday's 23-20 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Reed intercepted quarterback Charlie Batch in the fourth quarter – his 61st career interception, which ranks as the most in franchise history and the most in the NFL since he entered the league in 2002. He ranks 10th on the all-time list for interceptions and needs just one more pick to tie Dave Brown and Dick LeBeau for eighth place.
Washington coach Mike Shanahan met Reed for the first time last year and came away impressed with him.
"Some guys, I think, are born to be football players. I think Ed is that type of guy," Shanahan said. "… He knows what is going to happen before it happens. Usually the great players are not only great athletes but great students of the game, and he is a guy that I think is very well prepared and he knows what is going to happen before it happens, which is why he has so many picks."
The task of keeping the ball away from Reed will fall on Griffin, who is tied with the New England Patriots' Tom Brady for the fewest interceptions (four) by a quarterback who has started every game this season. Griffin said he's already gotten some advice from Moss.
"Tana's telling the truth and the coaches said it: He's the best safety to ever play, or one of the best to ever play. You respect that," Griffin said. "I respect him as a player. I'm going to be aware of where he's at. Like I said, it's nothing to fear. But he covers a lot of ground. He does a lot of unconventional things. You've just got to be aware of where he's at just like he's got to be aware of where I am and [running back] Alfred [Morris] and everyone else."


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JAMAICA, N.Y. – Freshman Mounica Paturu (Plainsboro, N.J.) captured sixth place in epee as senior Robin Shin (Brookline, Mass.) claimed ninth place in sabre to lead the MIT women's fencing team at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championship on Sunday. Paturu was the first epeeist to crack the top 10 since Stephanie Shin '10 accomplished this feat in 2008 while Robin Shin became the first fencer in program history to finish in the top 10 all four years during her career.
Qualifiers for the complete field at the upcoming NCAA Championship will be announced on Tuesday, March 12 with the competition to be held March 23-24 in San Antonio, Texas.
Paturu finished second in the opening-round pool, was fourth in the next group, and then bounced back with a 4-2 total to rank third in the third round. She closed out the day by winning six of 11 bouts in the finals. Freshman Laura Jarin-Lipschitz (Rosemont, Pa.) was 27th in the epee standings as she won all four bouts in the first round and then tacked on two victories to place sixth in her group.
After receiving a first-round bye, Shin won the next two pools before going 4-7 in the final group. Senior Annabeth Gellman (Ridgewood, N.J.) was 20th overall as freshman Madison Douglas (Concord, Mass.) finished two spots behind her. Gellman bypassed the first round, went 3-3 en route to fourth place in the next rotation, and picked up a win in her last outing. Douglas was undefeated in the opening pool and then finished with a total of 2-4 in the second round.
Senior Julia Kimmerly (Middlesex, Vt.) turned in the best performance of her career as she was 23rd in the foil standings. She defeated all four first-round opponents and add two wins to ranks sixth in her pool. Sophomore Rebecca Shi (Plainsboro, N.J.) rounded out the Engineers as a 3-1 mark and runner-up finish in the first round propelled her to a final ranking of 35th.


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(When all is said and done, please just let me out).
I will kill myself.
If it means nothing else, will keep me from sleeping tonight.
Leave me alone.
You did enough to ruin me.
My broken soul can't take another day.
I beg for you to leave.
God if You're waiting for me, won't You please open the gates?
God if You can hear me, open the gates.


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Building with pallets is a trend that has taken off, and for good reason. Keeping pallets out of a landfill while turning them into something useful is a great thing, as is free building materials. We have featured a few outdoor pallet projects in the past, such as a vertical pallet garden, a potting bench and a lounge chair. To celebrate the launch of our Outdoor channel, here are five more outdoor pallet projects worth considering.
Before you get started, read the excellent Instructables article 'How to Determine if a Wood Pallet is Safe for Use,' which will answer all of your questions about chemical treatments and toxicity. Then take your new-found knowledge and get building.
• Bike Rack at Bike Hacks
• Rolling Table at Joy Ever After
• Outdoor Sofa at Funky Junk
• Compost Bin at Young House Love
• Patio Shelf at Ribbonwood Cottage
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Daniel Craig: Bond Returns!
Daniel Craig keeps it cool as he arrives at the Sunset Marquis hotel on Saturday (January 15) in Hollywood, Calif.
There's some good news for the 42-year-old English actor and James Bond fans.
In a statement from MGM, the production company for the James Bond series, production of the 23rd Bond film will soon begin after a brief hiatus. Filming is expected to start in late 2011 shooting for a November 9, 2012 release. American Beauty director Sam Mendes has already signed up to direct the next installment of the British spy action movie.


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Mumbai, Feb 15: That he belongs to a party which has often slammed Valentine's Day celebrations, did not come in the way of a local Shiv Sena corporator who entered into wedlock on Valentine's Day in Mumbai on Thursday.
The Corporator from Borivli, Abhishek Ghosalkar, son of party MLA Vinod Ghosalkar, tied the knot with Tejasvee Darekar, an IT professional, in suburban Borivli on Thursday afternoon.
"This is an arranged marriage...The mahurat was good and so it happened that we are getting married on Valentine's Day," Abhishek told reporters in Mumbai.
The Sena MLA apparently zeroed in on February 14 for his son's wedding as it was Basant Panchami and an auspicious day, according to the Hindu calendar.
"This has nothing to do with Valentine's Day. The wedding took place as per the auspicious mahurat," a Sena functionary from Borivli said.
A few years ago, Shiv Sena carried out several protests and agitations against Valentine's Day celebrations and attacked couples and vandalised shops selling cards and bouquets.


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Weekly links March 21: the gender productivity gap in African agriculture, how to do matching in practice, and more…
- Guido Imbens has a new paper [1] on how to do matching in practice, offering his recommendations for empirical practice based on his reading of the literature: some key takeaways: use normalized differences rather than t-tests to assess overlap in the distributions; trimming the sample to get rid of observations with propensity scores close to 1 or 0 will also help robustness in whether you use logit or probit to estimate the propensity score; he proposes a step-wise procedure for choosing what goes into the propensity score (especially which second-order terms to include); and the use of placebo tests to assess the unconfoundedness assumption. He goes through three empirical examples to illustrate doing this in practice.
- Courtesy of Chris Blattman [2], I see Guido also has a guide to instrumental variables [3] out.
- Rachel Glennerster on comparing cost-effectiveness across contexts [4].
- The causal impact of happiness on productivity [5]? Watching a comedy or eating chocolate made people more productive on a subsequent task.
- Michael Trucano summarizes several new IDB evaluations on the use of technology in schools in Latin America [6].
- Markus' Gender Innovation Lab and the One Campaign have a new (glossy, easy to read) report [7] out on the Gender Productivity Gap in Agriculture in Africa and what can be done about it. This blog post [8] summarizes some key findings: "Yet after accounting for regional differences and the fact that women tend to farm smaller plots than men, one arrives at a much starker conclusion: significant gender gaps range from 23% in Tanzania to a strikingly large 66% in Niger." Their discussion of recommended policy actions at the end draws on a body of impact evaluations, and notes the state of evidence for each recommendation.
- We are pleased by the discussion this week of our series of posts on the ethics of randomization. One comment that I thought was particularly useful was one by Heather Lanthorn on the ethics of pipeline designs [9]: basically questioning whether you should be promising the control group they will get the program later, since what happens if your evaluation reveals the program isn't very good (or is even harmful)?
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I don't mind horror. I'm a Walking Dead fan. I've sat through most every Halloween movie. But these are easily the scariest things I've ever seen in my entire life.
I'm begging you. Please don't put these in your home. If you do, please don't invite me over. Here are 10 of the most frightening shower curtains you'll ever see.
1. The Poncho Shower Curtain – Makes me feel like I need to wear my Baja sweater.
2. Creepy Zombie Shower Curtain – If their eyes had pupils, this might not be so bad.
3. Green Eye Cat Shower Curtain – If you have this, you probably live alone.
4. The Hangman Shower Curtain – If you ordered this thinking you were getting the word game…you were wrong.
5. Artistic Mermaid Shower Curtain – This is supposed to be a mermaid…I don't see it.
6. License Plate Shower Curtain – So you made this while serving a dime in the clink?
7. Bloody Hands Shower Curtain – I would think the floor mat would have to be included with every purchase.
8. Hello Kitty Shower Curtain – I'm at a loss for words…
9. Robert Pattinson Shower Curtain – Is he brooding or does he want me for lunch?
Header image courtesy of Flickr user Docklandsboy
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15 Delicious Appetizers To Amaze Your Friends & Family
Are you looking for a new appetizer to delight your next gathering of friends or family members? Check out these tasty picks from around the web, as they are great inspiration for making something new at your next bash!
• Eggplant Caponata Crostini from Martha Stewart
• Marinated Mozzarella from MyRecipes
• Twice-Cooked Potatoes with Caviar from Martha Stewart
• Lentil Pate from Martha Stewart
• Endive Stuffed with Goat Cheese and Walnuts from MyRecipes
• Bacon-Wrapped Scallops with Chili Butter from The Pioneer Woman
• Pancetta Crisps With Goat Cheese and Pear from MyRecipes
• French Onion Soup Stuffed Mushrooms from Pioneer Woman
• New Mexican Sweet Potato Latkes from CHOW
• Bacon, Onion, and Fig Flatbread from CHOW
• Spinach Phyllo Pie from Martha Stewart
• Monica Bhide's Chile Pea Puffs from 101 Cookbooks
• Baked Sweet Potato Falafel Recipe from 101 Cookbooks
• Tomato and Tapenade Tartlets from Bon Appetit
• Mini Zucchini and Goat Cheese Tarts from Bon Appetit
What's your current favorite (and delightful) appetizer for parties and get togethers?
Related: 10 Appetizers Under 10 Minutes
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Starbucks launches light coffee in Bahrain
Manama, March 15, 2012
Starbucks has launched in Bahrain its first true light roast coffee, Starbucks Blonde Roast, a lighter coffee that features the familiar flavours of Starbucks coffee, but with a mellower taste.
Master roasters and blenders have taken the world's best Arabica beans and drawn out their subtle and soft flavors to create Starbucks Blonde Roast, a statement said.
Meanwhile, the coffee company also launched its five point promise in stores across Bahrain, ensuring partners and customers can make the most of the Espresso promise for perfection in each cup of coffee served.
Rana Shaheen, Regional Communications and CSR manager, Starbucks Coffee Mena said: "The promise for espresso perfection is our way of reaffirming to our loyal customers that Starbucks is always looking for new ways to keep them satisfied."
"The espresso perfection will be a part of the culture in each and every store throughout Bahrain. From the details leading to the perfect espresso shots and the use of the new revolutionary milk pitchers, to barista training and 100 per cent Fair trade espresso, this declaration promises that customers' drinks will be perfect each and every time, ensuring 100 per cent satisfaction," Shaheen added. – TradeArabia News Service


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Twins Interested in Freddy Garcia
The Twins are reportedly interested in free agent starting pitcher Freddy Garcia. The 36-year old Garcia pitched 30 games for the Yankees in 2012 including 17 starts. He was 7-6 with a 5.20 ERA for New York. The Reds and Rockies are also pursuing Garcia.
The Twins signed righthanded starting pitcher Mike Pelfrey earlier this week to a 1-year $4 Million contract. The Twins have also shown interest in lefthander Joe Saunders and righthander Brett Myers.


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MI-5 "Nest of Angels" An MI5 agent is identified and tortured inside a Birmingham mosque, where the leadership is suspected of extremist activities. While still able to speak, the agent reveals boys are being trained as suicide bombers. MI5 needs someone else inside the mosque and an untested Algerian spy seeking a British passport is eager for the assignment.G
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William and Mary William is visited by a boy and his dog. The boy tells William that his father has drowned at sea and no body has been recovered. Would William be willing to hold a service without a body?G
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Joanna Lumley's Nile Joanna flies over the world's largest swamp, the Sudd, in southern Sudan. In Juba, she finds the fragile peace process has brought the re-emergence of beauty pageants. From Juba, Joanna heads into Uganda where she follows the White Nile up to Murchison Falls. Her trip culminates with meeting a modern-day adventurer who shows her a recently discovered new source of the Nile in Rwanda's mountains. Part 4 of 4G
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood "Electric Cars & A Boy In An Electric Wheelchair" Mister Rogers visits a garage where electric cars are being made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri organizes a search for Prince Tuesday and the unhappy Prince is finally found. D
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Curious George "Downhill Racer/Book Monkey" Downhill Racer - When George hears about the annual soapbox derby, he enlists Allie to help him make the coolest car a monkey could drive. But even with the help of Bill's instruction manual, building a car takes a lot of work and car parts sure are hard to find. Will their car made out of wagon wheels, a kayak, and brakes from a buggy race past the finish line or are they on a crash course? Book Monkey - George loves books and helping others, so volunteering to help the librarian is a no-brainer! But when she is called away, George may have volunteered for a bigger job than he expected. D
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Wild Kratts "Tazzy Chris" When Martin and Chris assist the Tasmanian Wildlife Service in tagging endangered Tasmanian Devils, they discover that Zach Varmitech has been kidnapping them to create a ferocious new Zachbot. Science Concepts: A healthy ecosystem has both predators and scavengers. Scavengers are animals that eat mostly other dead animals. D
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Peep and the Big Wide World/Pocoyo "Reflection Affection/Peep Deep in the Big Muddy" Here are two things you might not know about mirrors: they can help you practice flying and they're GREAT for scaring cats! On a hot summer's day, Peep discovers a way to cool off. Pocoyo: Duck Stuck - Pocoyo finds a door that leads to many different places. D
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Be Cool/Elephant Walk" Be Cool - Phew, it's hot outside! How are Sally and Nick going to stay cool? Cat suggests that they should visit some friends in the Dizzle-dazzle Desert to learn how to keep cool. They learn that some animals are light coloured, some stay out of the sun, and some, like Tommy the coolest toad around, just mooove sloooow. Nick and Sally take their advice, but Cat has an even better idea - run through a sprinkler! Elephant Walk - When building a toy construction set, Nick and Sally wonder if there's such thing as a one-thing-does-it-all tool. D
8:30 am
Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps "Angelina's Fancy Tutu/Angelina and the Musical Theater" Angelina's Fancy Tutu - Angelina recounts the story of how she found a fancy new tutu. Not only does she entertain her friends with her Cinderella parody, but she also has to do some creative problem solving to find the tutu's rightful owner. Who could it be? Angelina and the Musical Theater - When the stars of "Mousical the Musical" from New Cheese City have to cancel their scheduled performance at Camembert, Viki convinces her friends they can put on their own show. D
9:00 am
Bob the Builder "Bob's New House" When Bob moves his mobile home to Bobland Bay so it can be his site office, Lofty frets about where Bob is going to sleep. His solution is to turn the machine shelter into a makeshift house for Bob, with chaotic results. With his mobile home relocated to Bobland Bay, Bob decides to build his dream house in Sunflower Valley. D
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Franny's Feet "Iwi The Kiwi/Clothes Call" Iwi the Kiwi - In New Zealand, Franny helps a flightless Kiwi bird experience the thrill of flying. Clothes Call - Franny travels to Milan, where she learns how to dress for the weather. D
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Wishbone "Twisted Tail" This live-action program follows the exploits of Wishbone the dog and his human friends, Joe, David and Samantha through their adventures in their hometown of Oakdale. Wishbone's everyday experiences trigger his imagination and he finds himself in scenes from classic works of literature. In this episode, there's a thief in the neighborhood, who strikes both at Wanda's house and at Joe's place. D
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Dialogue "Samuel Hunter" Host Marcia Franklin talks with Moscow native playwright Samuel Hunter about his works and the influence of Idaho in his plays. Hunter, who was in Boise recently to help direct one of his plays, is the recipient of a 2011 Obie Award, the equivalent of a Tony Award for off-Broadway productions, for his play A Bright New Boise.G
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Consuelo Mack WealthTrack "Great Investors: Matthew McLennan" Guest: Matthew McLennan, Portfolio Manager, First Eagle Funds. This week's Consuelo Mack WealthTrack features a next generation "Great Investor" who is successfully filling the shoes of the legendary Jean Marie Eveillard at First Eagle Funds. Matthew McLennan, portfolio manager of First Eagle Global, tells Anchor and Managing Editor Consuelo Mack where in the world he's finding value now. D
12:00 pm
To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe Protecting Women's Rights: The 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly is tackling gender equality and women's participation in politics and the economy. Mother Gives Daughter Her Womb: The first ever successful uterus transplants may mean two women may now be able to conceive and carry babies to term, thanks to their mothers. Does the Rise of Women Mean "The End of Men?": Journalist Hanna Rosin thinks so. D
12:30 pm
McLaughlin Group The Real Romney Revealed?; Afghan Insider Attacks Up; Poll Bounce. Tim Carney, The Washington Examiner; Eleanor Clift, Newsweek; Mort Zuckerman, US News & World Report; Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune. D
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Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer "Lanier Mansion" Roger and Sarah Bansemer visit the Ohio River and Madison, Indiana. Sarah tours the town and historic Lanier Mansion while Roger captures the light while putting his paints to canvas. D
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Sewing with Nancy "Fancy Footworks 2, Part 2" Use specialty presser feet to help improve your basic and decorative sewing skills. Nancy includes characteristics, uses, settings, and how-tos for the Stitch-N-Ditch Foot, Teflon Foot, and the Flower Stitch Foot. Learn new options for binding, sewing difficult fabrics, and making beautiful circular flowers. D
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Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting "Puppy Pals" Marianne and Mary share how to draw design inspiration from a novelty fabric. They show how to tilt blocks for a whimsical look. D
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Hometime "Screen Porch Highlights" Dean and Miriam talk about roofing, railings and a realistic gas fireplace during the construction of a screen porch. D
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Woodsmith Shop "Workbench Basics" Join the editors from Woodsmith magazine as they show you the must-have features you need when choosing the right workbench. D
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This Old House "Barrington Project, Part 9 of 10" Builder Andy Tiplady sets 4"x4" glass tile in the kitchen using a light green grout (mixed with a latex additive) as the adhesive to set the tile and give a depth of color to the backsplash that thinset would not allow. Outside, the new insulated steel garage door is up; inside, host Kevin O'Connor works with Andy to install a garage storage system from the home center to keep the space organized. At the front deck, carpenter Chris Aguiar finishes up the cable railing system. D
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Ask This Old House "Installing a Manual Transfer Switch; Fixing a Clogged Sewer Line" Host Kevin O'Connor and electrician Scott Caron travel to Annapolis, Maryland, to install a manual transfer switch for a portable generator. Then Kevin, along with general contractor Tom Silva, landscape contractor Roger Cook and plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey, asks, "What is it?" Afterward, Richard heads to Dallas to fix a sewer line that is clogged with tree roots. D
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Growing a Greener World "Young Farmers (Atlanta, GA)" There's a new wave of farmers emerging who are young, educated, hard working and extremely environmentally passionate. As traditional farmers are retiring, these young farmers are answering the call for a healthier tomorrow. D
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Moyers & Company "Elections for Sale" One of the reasons Moyers & Company frequently returns to the theme of money and politics is because it's absolutely necessary to do so. Nothing corrupts our political system more than the ability of the rich and influential to spend limitless amounts of money -- often in secret -- with the intention of creating preferred political outcomes. And far from being a regulator of campaign finances, our political funding laws -- aided by a corporate-friendly Supreme Court and self-interested politicians -- only facilitate the process of empowering the few while subjugating the many. D
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William and Mary Molly comes home from the hospital and the family anxiously waits to hear her results. William gets a shock when he meets the twin brother of a body he is arranging a funeral for.G
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Outdoor Idaho "Pathways of Pioneers" For emigrants bound for a land of opportunity, the Oregon Trail was the corridor to their dreams. This great migration west left Idaho a grand legacy, which we explore in this hour-long program. Massacre Rocks, Soda Springs, Big Hill, Three Island Crossing - these historic landmarks take on new meaning through the eyes of modern-day pioneers.G
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Broadway Or Bust "And The Winner Is ..." The show at New York's Minskoff Theatre is about to begin. During the first half of the show all 60 finalists perform in ensemble with judges giving scores to the leading performers based on the group performances and individual medleys. Then, the top six contenders perform their solos, leading to the judge's announcement of the male and female who take home the Jimmy Awards.G
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Masterpiece Mystery! "Wallander, Series III - Before The Frost" Wallander is on the trail of an escapee and serial arsonist from a psychiatric hospital, when he is visited by Anna, an old friend of Linda, his estranged daughter. As arson attacks occur, Anna appears to be connected in some way. Wallander must reconcile with Linda and join forces to find Anna at all costs.G
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New Tricks Lane indulges his obsession with fishing when UCOS investigates the case of two boys abducted from a fishing lake in 1979. The boys escaped but the kidnapper was not found. Lane thinks the fishing lake, the 1979 abduction and a recent spate of snatches are related.G
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Equitrekking Adventures "Kentucky" In a state well known for its horses, host Darley Newman discovers wildflowers, a historic mill site and rolling green hills on the trails at Shaker Village.G


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Katie Holmes: 'Dawson's Creek' Reunion Would Be Fun!
Katie Holmes heads home after spending an evening out on the town with a friend on Tuesday (November 29) in West Hollywood.
The 32-year-old Jack and Jill actress was spotted taking her daughter, Suri, out to an ice skating rink earlier in the month while in Pittsburgh, Penn.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Katie Holmes
Katie and her former Dawson's Creek co-star, Michelle Williams, both recently said they'd be down for a reunion of the TV drama!
Michelle said she'd go back "in a heartbeat," while Katie said the experience "would be fun."
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After teasing us last week with just a shot of the motor NCR Millona M16 motor, NCR has finally released full pictures of their take on the Desmosedici RR. Weighting just 319lbs, and making over 200hp at the wheel, we called the NCR M16 a Desmosedici on steroids when we first saw the specs. Now looking at the detail shots of the bike, we see plenty to drool over. Photos and more after the jump.
NCR is known for its stunning renditions of Ducati motorcycles, our personal favorite being the NCR Corse Millona One Shot. Of course no bike in the Ducati line-up is safe from getting the once over from this performance-meets-aesthetics tuning brand, and thus the NCR Millona 16 was born. Expected to weigh 145kg (319lbs), make over 200hp (at the wheel), and include a carbon frame, the NCR Millona 16 is a Ducati Desmosedici RR on steroids (BALCO would be proud).


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U.S. wheat exports will reach 31.3 million metric tons (MMT) in 2011/12, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
USDA increased its U.S. export forecast in itsJuly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) by 2.7 MMT from last month's estimate, primarily due to reduced Canadian supplies and a projected increase in U.S. production.
While that volume would be 11 percent below 2010/11 exports, it would also be eight percent above the five-year average. USDA increased its total 2011/12 U.S. production outlook by 1.3 MMT from its June forecast to 57.3 MMT.
The culprit in Canada is the same unusually cool, wet conditions that plagued U.S. farmers in the northern plains.
USDA pegged 2011/12 Canadian wheat production at 21.5 MMT, down sharply from last month's projected 25 MMT and well below the five-year average of 24.8 MMT.
Total estimated supplies will reach 28.1 MMT, 13 percent below the five-year average. Projected Canadian exports are 16.0 MMT or 2.5 MMT less than the June forecast.
If realized, 2011/12 Canadian wheat exports would fall by three percent from 2010/11 and reach the lowest level since 2004/05 when Canada exported 14.9 MMT.
First look at spring wheat
The July WASDE also included the first U.S. by-class production forecast for 2011/12, giving buyers their first look at spring wheat production potential.
USDA projected this year's hard red spring (HRS) crop at 13.7 MMT, down 12 percent from last year, but on par with the five-year average. The agency projects durum production to fall sharply with estimated harvested area and yields well below last year's level.
The estimated durum harvested area of 1.6 million acres is down 35 percent and estimated yield of 38.7 bushels per acre is down nine percent. USDA pegged overall durum production at 1.7 MMT, down 40 percent from 2010/11 to what would be the lowest level since U.S. farmers harvested 1.5 MMT in 2006/07.
USDA increased its U.S. winter wheat production outlook based on greater yield potential for hard red winter (HRW) and soft red winter (SRW) in some states.
Forecasted HRW production stands at 21.5 MMT, up two percent from last month's projection, but down 22 percent from 27.7 MMT last year. HRW supplies will reach an estimated 32.1 MMT, down sharply from 38.2 MMT last year, but still above the five-year average of 31.5 MMT.
While HRW supplies will decline,initial quality samples show improvement in this year's crop. The average protein level currently stands at 13 percent, up from 11.8 percent last year and the average test weight is 80.6 kg/hl (61.3 lb/bu), up from 80.2 kg/hl (61.0 lb/bu) last year.
Projected SRW production stands at 12.5 MMT, up six percent from June. Improved growing conditions increased projected yields in many states, including potential record yields in Arkansas, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Preliminary data indicates that test weights in this year's SRW crop average 78.2 kg/hl (59.4 lb/bu), compared to 77 kg/hl (58.4 lb/bu) last year.
USDA also expects U.S. white wheat production to increase in 2011/12 to 7.9 MMT, up from 7.5 MMT last year. Average yield in Oregon, for example, is projected at a record 73 bushels per acre (just under 5 MT per hectare), about nine percent greater than their average last year.


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Adolescents use smartphones to map and change their community
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Haiti youth map a city's risks, one click at a...
17 year old Daniela is somewhat of an expert on HIV/AIDS. She knows how the disease is transmitted and how to protect herself, and she shares this information with her friends.
Daniela is one of 24 adolescents from the vulnerable neighbourhoods of Cité Plus and Village de Dieu in Port au Prince to have participated in the Voices of Youth Maps initiative. The adolescents mapped HIV risk and vulnerability catalysts in their communities, using smartphones to record the geo-location of health and sanitation concerns, medical infrastructures and unsafe zones. Through geo-located photos and videos organized into thematic digital maps, a real-time portrait of their communities was developed.
Daniela identified an abandoned house littered with garbage and used condoms as an unsafe zone. "Girls in our community are particularly at risk of sexual assault when they have to walk a long way through dark corridors to go to the toilet", she says.
She explains that the training provided her with knowledge on HIV/AIDS and skills she could now use to empower other young people and advocate for positive change in her community.
"I learned a lot about HIV and the different risk factors," she says, "but I also learned how to use GPS and mobile technology to report on pertinent issues, and to most importantly represent other youth."
Voices of Youth Maps empowers its participants by enhancing their knowledge, skills and capacity, and provides young people with resources and digital tools to encourage activism and action-taking within their communities.


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Our commitment to give back to the community is a fundamental principle of PRM. We actively support charities and events that focus on the well-being of kids through education, mentorship, and overall health. Our management team sits on the board of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Portland and dedicates themselves not only on a personal level but as part of our PRM corporate culture.
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Sunday, February 8, 2015
Museum of Natural History Planetarium
Our Sun produces the energy that makes life on Earth possible. How does it do this? What is the Sun made of and how does it affect the Earth in other ways? Solar storms are a threat to our very existence, and the eventual death of the Sun will mean the end of our planet. How is this similar to the lives and deaths of stars throughout our galaxy?


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Interesting trailer for what appears to be a cool documentary, celebrating the iconic Volkswagen bus. One of the most recognizable vehicles ever built. No doubt.
I've always dug VW buses, old and later model versions, but never owned one. I did own a '68 Bug and '73 Thing many years ago, and was into the air cooled VW shtick for awhile. I still dig that stuff and occasionally flip through VW magazines, cruise related sites, and search eBay and Craigslist. Mostly for the entertainment value.
While searching for a used vehicle about two years ago, considered finally owning a VW bus and test drove a few. Clean examples go for loopy prices, especially the camper version. Earlier versions are also amazingly slow and crude, compared to modern rigs - but that's part of their charm.
I'd really like a '60s - '70s era bus to modify. Lowered, fatter wheels and tires, disk brake kit, modified motor - tons of aftermarket items available. Would drive much better then stock and still look retro cool. Even has room for bikes. Maybe someday...


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Gundam Boobs and Boom FTW
Join Date: Dec 2005
It's more like the world dialed the Goddess Help Hotline, and got Lacus.
|2007-07-19, 20:52
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Australia
Age: 36
Lucas has a tendency to do what she wants, when she wants and there is NOTHING that can get in her way.
So if she wishes to stay on a beach island she can... if whe wanted world domination she also can....
and who wanted the dialup goddess help hotline anyways... im sure Patrick Zala, Muruta Azrael, Djibril and Gilbert Durandal dont want too.... but that makes up most of the main leaders.
If anything, i think they will eventually want her dead if not already.... Too bad they didnt work together with a common goal and kill her off..... but thats asking the impossible
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LOL @ how all you guys took my superficial comedic comparison and just ran with it...
The 1-800 Godess Help Hotline eh? I've called that number once or twice..The commercials for it air around 2am in the morning...
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Location: Australia
Age: 36
I just hate their one sided smackdowns...
If Mitsuo Fukuda only knew how to make both sides balanced in their struggles to reach their goals.... But no instead we didnt see that at all... It was pretty obviouse that its going to be a one sided show with BS that would only enhance their ability on bringing down powerfull identities with little effort.
To be honest whats the point of having a 3rd season if its only going to be one sided smackdowns and omnipotent princess who knows all. You might as well watch seed and destiny over and over again and be satisfied that they are invulnerable to all forms of resistance. With this formulae for GS3 the end results will be the same, but just with a different one sided story.
I just hope, JUST HOPE that Fukuda does a 180 degrees and show their downfall from their golden age of Triumphs. But this is asking too much for them to make a decent Gundam show were all different parties are trying to achieve their goals without onesided flawless victories.
If Fukuda can change his one sided formulae and allow KIRA and LUCAS to be defeated again and again and then totally defeated... IM VERY SURE ALOT OF PEOPLE WILL HAVE RESPECT FOR THAT MAN.. Until then there will be a great divide of fans for the SEED series...
|2007-07-19, 22:47
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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota.
I ain't gonna lie... I would really, really like a 3rd Seed with Shinn doing something importan, but that won't happen... Destiny wasn't even all that bad to me. I could put up with almost everything exept Athrun...
|2007-07-19, 23:42
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Australia
Age: 36
LOL dont get me started on Athrun
Yes i do hope shinn does a get major role in the upcoming movie or if ever a GS3... But just like you grandmaster192 i dont think its gonna hapen If anything he will become just a supporting character with no big importance.
But hopefully Fukuda does a 180 degrees on us and gives us all a surprise
|2007-07-19, 23:54
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The Star of hope
You are all forgetting that Kira Yamato is another word for Luuuuuuuuuuke Skywalker. Only thing missing from Kira is the "Emerald" Lightning.
So no, I don't believe that Kira would be Anakin, because He's not as powerful as his son is now.
|2007-07-20, 02:38
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Zechs, pilot of Tallgeese
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Err... Shinn's attitude and personality is more like Zuko's then Anakin's. Anakin was kinda soft. Shinn, like Zuko, take shit from no one. Shinn's fate is a bit different... Alot different, actually. Shinn was redeemed, Anakin turned into a cool evil person.
|2007-07-20, 02:58
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Zechs, pilot of Tallgeese
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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota.
How wasn't it redemption, though? He was fighting against team Kira and was one of the bad guys in the final... It's like saying Shinn didn't get his ass kicked just because he was fighting a far weaker pilot. Just because we don't like something doesn't mean it didn't happen.
|2007-07-20, 03:01
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No I acknowledge that it happened, but redemption is a subjective term...One I don't subscribe to in this case...You're welcome to eat those peanuts, I'll pass...
Oh BTW Anakin got his "redemption" in episode 6...
|2007-07-20, 03:12
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I don't know what to call it...What was he redemed for? For following orders from his commander? For fighting a MS that was trying to fight his mothership and mission base? For being a roadblock to the old cast?
So I don't know what to call it, but one term kinda came to me...
Spoiler for ...:
In any event this discussion is off-topic and I'll spare my haters another Shinn debate, so see it as you will...
|2007-07-20, 07:44
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Location: Australia
Age: 36
(Just giving warning here)
I dont understand y he had to redeem himself by shaking kiras hands.
Ill break this down.
Kira aka moses yamato :
Thief: Stoled Gundam Freedom)
Terrorist: Joined Clyne faction and Fought against EA and ZAFT and destroyed countless military assets with stolen zaft military equipment by using freedom)
In RL he would of had a death warrant by multiple nations for multiple crimes. ( i dont have to explain why either)
Wow Kira really is a good boy!!!!
Im sure if i stoled a tank and blew up a few military buildings coz i disliked govenments reasons for entering a war, im sure that i would be considered walking in the path of righteous.
Athrun: aka Team hopper
Thief: Stoled miltary equpment: Justice Gundum
Terrorist: Joined clyne Faction twice and destroyed military assets from zaft)
Traitor: Oh yeah he did after all point his guns and pull the trigger at his own fellow men multiple times in the series. Not to mention he defected not once but twice when surely he would of sworn an oath to protect and serve ZAFT.
Seriouse crimes here....... normally high treason or execution for stealing and/or defecting depending which country you serve.
I guess most people wish to ignore his crimes here and beleive his actions are just and on the path of righteous.
Lucas aka Pink princess:
Thief: Stoled Freedom as well as that pink ship
Terrorist: Joined/Created Team Clyne Faction known to oppose all goverments that are at war at each other.
Traitor: Um yeah what can i say... she gave the order for countless of ZAFT soldiers deaths that are her own countrymen.
Wow she is perfect in deceiving in many ways including the deaths of zaft personal without people really noticing. If only the general populace back in zaft knew she was the commander of the pink ship. i wonder if they would treat her like a princess or a traitor... too bad nobody has exposed her yet.
Obeying orders
Obeying more orders
Following orders
killing his enamies
Killing more eneamies
Following more orders
Killing lots of eneamies
Returning a POW back to his enaemy (Refering to stella)
Took responsibility for his actions (he came back... YES with his gundam back to minerva where he was sent to the brig) OH MY!!!!!! He didnt defect like some team hopper i know instead took responsibility and was awaiting for discilplinary action.
Following orders again
killing more eneamies
Obeying Orders to kill a long overdue traitor (refering to athrun here)
WOW what can i say???? Shinn was doing what a soldier was meant to do....following orders and killing his nations eneamies...... my my pls help me here to understand y is he black listed as a bad guy?????
So y does he have to redeem himself to TEAM traitors and terrorists?????
Back on topic:
Either way if there is a GS3 ill still watch it regardless of outcome... but i just hope GS3 will be the beginning of the end for TEAM Kira... But for now i can only wish
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While I have edited thousands of film, TV, video and Broadway reviews for CNS since I became media editor in 1992, I have not had to review a movie for publication since I was asked to review, of all things, "Animal House" for a quarterly film journal in my hometown of Detroit nearly 30 years ago.
But as a participant in a recent Appalachian study tour sponsored by the Catholic Press Association and the Catholic Committee on Appalachia, I attended a screening of a documentary called simply "Sludge."
The film tells of a sludge spill in Martin County in eastern Kentucky in 2000 that emptied 306 million gallons onto people's property lying below a lagoon that had held the sludge. Millions of fish were killed, water systems were damaged, and nearby streams and tributaries had the life choked out of them.
When you think about how much 306 million gallons is, keep in mind that the Exxon Valdez oil spill was a mere 11 million gallons — 1/27th the amount of the sludge spill. And it's safe to say that the sludge spill didn't get even 1/27th the media coverage the Exxon Valdez spill did.
Sludge (some will call it "coal slurry") is the thick mixture of water and chemicals, some of them toxic, used to spray coal before it is shipped to customers, along with the coal waste and noncoal material — some of it toxic as well — washed off from the coal.
The documentary showed trees still marked by the sludge line four years later. Despite the coal company removing truckload after truckload of sludge and replanting grasses, some residents of Martin County are shown digging up the earth only to expose the sludge below.
A lot of "we're sorry" apologies by the coal company right after the spill quickly degenerate into a battle between the company and Martin County's citizens. During one meeting, a resident asks the coal firm's president whether he'd let his son drink a glass full of the sludge. The reply: Yes. Of course, no glass filled with the sludge is produced, and neither is the boy.
The coal company handed off responsibility for the spill by calling it "an act of God." A six-figure fine for the accident was later lowered to $5,600. A federal Mining Health and Safety Administration inquiry into the spill was, ironically, whitewashed, and the investigator who blew the whistle on the whitewashing had his office and computer searched after he was sent on an out-of-town assignment. He was later fired. After fighting for two years to get his job back, he gave up and took an early retirement.
There may be a few bad words in the movie, but they don't compare to the obscenity of the sludge spill and the subsequent coverup.
Three years after its release, "Sludge" is still third on the best-seller list of all videos and CDs sold by the online "general store" run by Appalshop, the Kentucky nonprofit arts and education center that produced the documentary.
As a coda, Glenmary Father John Rausch, who led the study tour, told of how, a few weeks after "Sludge" had been released in 2005, he went with a friend to see the source of the spill. He said they were met on the county road by two armed guards from the mining company, who told them, "This road is closed." Father Rausch objected, telling the guards the county road belonged to the people, but seeing the weapons convinced the priest to back down and head in the other direction.


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Try to keep your perspective when those we task with entertaining us try to find a way to capture your imagination
Every second of every day is recorded on video but no one can remember what happened last year.
Everyone is so busy chasing the hot new thing they fail to recognize the recycled nature of almost every hot new fad.
It was true when Solomon said it in the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes and it is just as true now, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
I love the outrage over Miley Cyrus' Angry Birds themed music video for her song "Wrecking Ball" that became the No. 2 viewed video on Youtube this year.
She licks a sledgehammer and rides naked on a wrecking ball while smashing down walls. What angst. What symbolism. How shocking.
Now cur the outrage machine and watch every teenage girl rush to watch it a billion times just to get a primer on how to shock their parents.
And the sad thing is, their parents will be shocked.
They will be shocked because it wasn't like that when we were teenagers. Right. It was like that when your parents were teenagers.
Do people really just remember those cute British boys the Beatles as the "I Want to Hold Your Hand" Beatles. No one remembers, "Why Don't We Do it In the Road" from the White Album or "I'm So Tired" about drug rehab? Do we not remember Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band? Come on, John Lennon and Yoko Ono had love ins where they would lie naked in public.
And Miley Cyrus transitioning from Disney kid to Wrecking Ball shocks you?
The Beatles were doing it 40 years ago.
When I was in high school in the late 1980s Two Live Crew was rapping songs from which I can't even reference the titles or any of the lyrics. They had women doing things on stage that were neither angst ridden nor symbolic, but they were shocking.
Seriously, even kids television's Saved by the Bell produced Elizabeth Berkley who played Jessie Spano – most famous for bad dancing and completely tripping out on caffeine pills - who went on to show more skin than a leather store later in her career.
You have to understand, the career arc is not conducive to longevity. Consumers' tastes change. The cute kid star grows up. They need a new hook.
Some leave the scene entirely and disappear into suburbia. Some can't handle leaving the warmth of the limelight and they are forced to go big or get ignored.
If history is a teacher, Cyrus will settle down and become family minded before reinventing herself as a serious actress or mature singer songwriter again in about five years.
Life is about seasons.
It's cold right now and there are presents stacked high under the Christmas Tree. That makes sense now, but those presents won't be there in July and you certainly won't need that scarf to keep your neck warm.
Try to keep your perspective when those we task with entertaining us try to find a way to capture your imagination.
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Magnetic Island, QLD
Just a 20 minute ferry ride off the coast from Townsville, Magnetic Island's relaxed tropical lifestyle, quiet secluded beaches, unspoilt nature, abundant wildlife and easy access to the Great Barrier Reef, make it an ideal place for a day trip or longer stay.
Magnetic Island sits within the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, but the landscape here is different to the usual tropical rainforest found on many of the Great Barrier Reef islands.
Around 275 million years ago, nature's forces created an extraordinary landscape of rocky terrain and giant boulders. Magnetic Island has less rainfall than the Wet Tropics to the north and the Whitsunday Islands to the south. Its climate is typical of the dry tropics and it is covered with eucalypt woodlands.
The traditional owners of Magnetic Island, the Wulgurukaba Aboriginal people, have inhabited the island for thousands of years. They called the island 'Yunbenun'. Stone tools and cave drawings are some of the reminders of their ancient presence. Magnetic Island was named by Captain James Cook in 1770 when the island appeared to affect the magnetic compass on his ship.
The main areas of Magnetic Island are Horseshoe Bay, Arcadia Bay, Nelly Bay, Picnic Bay and West Point.


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The Student Video Awards has more than $20,000 in prizing offered by title sponsor, Vancouver Film School. Since its inception in 2011, the SVA has attracted more than 1,500 students and reached more than 80,000 people.
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Rusty Palmer's used the same recipe that's served so well throughout the 2012 Honesdale Little Baseball Association season. The Bucs received gutsy pitching from Grady Birmelin and clutch hitting from Max Land...then played solid defense throughout en route to the Senior Division championship.
On a blistering hot summer evening and with an overflow crowd looking on, Rusty Palmer's defeated Wayne Bank to capture the 2012 Honesdale Little Baseball Association's Senior Division championship.
The Pirates spotted the Dodgers an early run, but then surged into the lead with six runs in the middle innings. From that point on, it was up to Grady Birmelin and a Gold Glove Bucs defense to hold the fort.
Wayne Bank went down swinging, plating four runs in the final three frames, but it wasn't enough as Coach Joe Curreri's squad held on for a 6-5 victory.
"I'm very happy for these kids," Coach Curreri told TWI Sports. "We improved a ton from the start of the season until now, but I?also thought we were the best team in the league."
The Pirates proved their coach right, closing out the year with a record of 12-5 and dealing the Doodgers just their second loss of the campaign.
Clash of Titans
Wayne Bank ran roughshod over its competition this summer during regular season action.
The Dodgers scored runs at an alarming rate, finishing off the regular season with 15 victories.
On Wednesday evening at Fred Reisch Memorial Field, it seemed as though this title tilt would follow that familiar course. Anthony DeGori struck the first blow for the Dodgers, taking Birmelin deep with one out in the bottom of the first.
Trailing 1-0, it didn't take the Bucs long to battle back and seize the lead.
Gerald Pepper led off the top of the second with a single and was quickly joined on the basepaths by Dustin Peck who also singled.
Max Land then stepped up and drilled a DeGori fastball to the base of the fence. Land's clutch double plated both runners and gave Rusty Palmer's a lead it never relinquished.
Birmelin walked and eventually came around to score in the third, upping the Bucs' lead to 3-1.
The visitors exploded for three more in the visitors' half of the fourth.
Land and Elijah Harvey each worked a free pass and scored. David Curreri smoked an RBI single and then scampered home on Nate Frigoletto's RBI base knock.
Holding On
Birmelin looked strong on the hill, allowing just a single run in the first and another in the fourth. However, the combination of stifling heat and aggressive Wayne Bank batters began taking its toll.
The Dodgers drew within 6-4 in the bottom of the fifth when Steven Soden crushed a 2-run homer to left center.
Birmelin dug down deep, though, and survived one last rally in the sixth. Grady finished the night with nine strikeouts.
"He pitched a great game,"?said Coach Curreri. "I?really believe that pitching and defense win championships and we've got five strong pitchers on this team."
David Curreri catapulted the Pirates into the title tilt with a complete game gem of his own in the semis. In that one, Rusty Palmer's needed a desperate rally in the bottom of the sixth to deal the Tigers a 3-2 loss.
Wayne Bank defeated Elegante 17-3 in the other Senior Division semifinal.
Score by Innings...
Pirates (12-5) 0 2 1 3 0 0 - 6
Dodgers (15-2) 1 0 0 1 2 1 - 5