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Forget Avatar. The best 3D thrill ride of 2010 is driving the new Porsche Panamera. No cinematic experience can come close to the feel of ripping over an open road in Porsche's newest creation, whether it be in the base rear-drive Panamera S or the all-wheel-drive 4S or Turbo.
I spent a couple dozen laps on Road America's challenging track in the new four-door luxury sedan, and I didn't need dorky spectacles to see that the Panamera is the most exciting example of Porsche genius since the 911 got blown.
Porsche introduced the Panamera to the world's auto writers at Road America, one of racing's most challenging road courses, to prove a point. The track's a hoot for the pros but is a brutal menace to the typical driver in a street car. Even racecars get eaten up by the high speeds, off-camber corners, blind crests and concrete walls, which suck up metal like giant magnets.
I'd already driven half a dozen production cars on Road America, and each time I came away feeling I'd been lucky to escape the near-death experience the pros call a "moment." Road America feasts first on the tires and brakes, chewing away rubber shoulders and scraping pads to the bone, and then gnaws its way into the bones of the car and slowly dismembers it, rivet by rivet. Racecars are made to survive this mauling; production cars are fast food.
Usually-the Panamera was just plain fast.
Porsche's most potent reach into a previously untapped market segment might be burdened by the size and shiny stuff that defines a luxury sedan, but the Panamera ate up Road America as if it craved the punishment. There is simply no other luxury sedan on earth that could have come close to catching it, and more than a few sports cars would have been left sucking on the Porsche's tailpipe.
Surprisingly for a company that makes the best brakes, the brakes on a couple of the cars overheated (none were the optional ceramics). I blamed the drivers, who likely clod-hopped the left pedal beyond endurance. I was in the backseat for one writer's "manly" session as he smoked the brakes, almost made me barf and disgusted our co-driver and instructor for the session, Porsche factory driver Patrick Long.
I ran several laps in each of the three Panamera models being offered the first model year - the S and 4S with a normally aspirated 400-hp V8, and the Turbo with a 500-hp twin-turbo V8 - and marveled at the synthesis of contrasting elements that makes the model such a distinctive car to drive. Porsche's double-clutch gearbox is a perfect fit for the big GT, and though some have complained about gear selection via thumb-actuated buttons on the steering wheel, I didn't think paddles would have made my laps any quicker. In fact, Long advised me just to leave the PDK in automatic sport mode and let its algorithms figure out the shifts. Worked for me.
Any nerves I might have felt from having a professional driver sitting alongside me were quickly dissipated by the Panamera's masterful dynamics. Speed and comfort have never been so deftly incorporated into a single automobile.
I then asked Long to attack Road America with all the skill and youthful exuberance he's so far shown in his short but noteworthy career. I figured he and the Porsche would be an impressive tandem, because I've known the brains who put these cars together for too long to expect anything less than brilliance, and I know Porsche Racing is disinclined to ask just any quick shoe to join the team. What I didn't expect was that a flying lap of Road America in a luxury sedan could feel so much like a spirited Sunday drive around beautiful country lanes. Long and I yakked the whole way around as if we were trundling through the Loire Valley in search of the next wine tasting instead of setting a time that plenty of racecars would envy. Only the lordly roar of the engine and the sloshing of my inner ear fluid told me Long was absolutely smoking it as we chatted about the joys of growing up in Southern California.
The Panamera's fresh synthesis of existing Porsche bits and pieces, along with more than a dash of completely new technology, make it stand out from the crowd like...well, like a certain rear-engine sports car did 50 years ago. Its looks are either a stylish homage to Porsche design history or a clunky refusal to break the mold, but there's no denying the Panamera's lineage. The roofline could be from no other manufacturer, the rounded rear quarters and large hatchback are reminiscent of the 928 (or maybe a Crossfire), and the front end is pure Porsche, with its rounded fenders embracing a steeply sloping hood, large intakes supplanting a conventional radiator grille, and oval headlamp clusters reclining behind body-conforming lenses.
The Panamera may weigh two tons and be longer than two Shaquille O'Neals laid head to toe, but that's what it takes to enter a new dimension of spaciousness and luxury. The four leather-clad buckets are supremely comfortable, even for big American butts, the rear hatch opens to reveal enough luggage space for a foursome on holiday, and scattered around the superbly tailored cabin are all the creature comforts demanded by the car's intense competitive environment. Most impressively, all this was accomplished without compromising the carved-from-a-block-of steel-feel of the smaller, faster Porsches.
Big and heavy is rendered moot, too, when powerful and lithe become the primary factors of the equation. Even when I was pulling up the hill toward Road America's front straight, both of the engines did well to hide the weight behind varied levels of effortless acceleration. And around the bends, the Panamera cut lines like German steel slicing through a Black Forest ham.
Not surprisingly, the Panamera Turbo was my favorite. The standard adaptive air suspension (an option on S and 4S models) was nothing less than remarkable, adjusting each corner as needed to keep the car's considerable heft within the parameters of complete control, and the 500 horses almost had me fooled into thinking I was driving a lightweight two-seater.
Best of all, my laps in the Turbo were the first time I'd ever had Road America for lunch.
2010 Porsche
Panamera Turbo
Longitudinal front engine, all-wheel drive
2010 Porsche Panamera Turbo
4.8-liter V8, dohc, 32-valve, turbocharged
Seven-speed PDK automated manual
Peak Power: 500 hp @ 6500 rpm
Peak Torque: 516 lb-ft @ 2250 rpm
0-60 mph: 3.8 sec.
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Pink hails 'influential' Adele
Pop punk PINK has heaped praise on ADELE in a new magazine article, hailing the soul star a "unique package".
The Someone Like You hitmaker has been named among the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people and Pink jumped at the chance to pay homage to the talented star, who has spent the past 18 months topping charts around the globe and scooping a record-equalling six Grammy Awards.
In the article welcoming Adele to Time's exclusive club, Pink writes, "There are a few artists in my life who I can think back and remember where I was when I first heard them. When you're so utterly moved by something that you know you'll never be the same again.
"When I first heard Adele, I was on tour, alone in a hotel room in London, watching her sing from a rooftop on YouTube - a song called Hometown Glory. I thought, 'Who is this creature? This voice! Her tone! Why is the entire world not watching this video?
"I'm always so happy when the world catches on to something great. Especially when it's authentic talent, great songwriting and a unique package. I am so relieved that Adele possesses the kind of beauty that she does, that she's crass and funny and that she sings live - and incredibly.
"Her success renews hope in me that the world I live in has good taste - that we still occasionally come back to what's simple, and simply amazing. I can't wait to hear what she does next."
Pink isn't the only celebrity fan who has written an article in praise of Adele - Julia Roberts did the same for Entertainment Weekly last year (11).

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Tests carried out by the Mars Exploration Rover have discovered a substance thought to be dog shit, on the surface of Mars. The discovery has taken everybody at NASA by surprise and could prove to sour any potential meeting with Martian life.
In a candid interview with our reporters, Chuck Armitage, leader of the Mars mission, confirmed he had mixed feelings about the discovery. "Well you don't find dog shit unless there's a dog to shit it out do you? It's like the no smoke without fire thing. But with dogs. And shit. In SPACE!"
Armitage went on to confirm that his motivations were now not only about discovering extra terrestrial canine life, but also to have "words" with the culprit and its owner.
"I hope we find whatever dog done it, and its fucking big eyed alien owner. Red planet? Fucking brown planet more like. I've got poo all over my camera lens, and my special Mars wheels have shit in them".


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I have been a commercial fisherman for more than 30 years, and I've caught a lot of fish. I feel good about that. But there is one aspect of commercial fishing I haven't felt good about the entire time.
The waste.
People are starving in many places on our little blue dot, and I and my men have probably thrown away close to half a million pounds of fish in my fishing career.
Why, you might ask? Because there is no market for them. Or worse, the price is too low and it's not worth the effort of taking the fish to shore and to market. Instead, the fish are thrown back into the water, sometimes alive with a chance of survival, most times dead.
When I was trolling for salmon in the Pacific, off the coast of Canada barely south of Alaska, my skipper would make me throw the pink salmon back into the sea. "They'll just use up the ice," he said. "We need the ice for the sockeye. They're at least worth some money."
Pink salmon were worth some money at the time — about 10 cents a pound. Sockeye were closer to two dollars a pound.
Despite appearance, salmon are not the toughest fish when it comes to surviving being caught and released, and pink salmon, I would argue, are the weakest of the salmon. The very act of picking them up seemed to mortally injure them. They had no chance of living.
Though it bothered me immensely, I dutifully tossed them out as they came in. Again, and again, and again, until it drove me crazy.
I grabbed the next pink salmon to come in, and I filleted it as it squirmed in my hand. Then I ran to the galley and threw it in a frying pan. In two or three minutes, it went from getting caught to being eaten, and it was the best piece of salmon I have ever tasted. The vagaries of the marketplace made it nearly worthless — not the taste or quality of the fish.
On Lake Winnipeg in Canada, we have a curious case of wasted fish at the moment. Firstly, the lake is full of fish. So full in fact, that I asked my 88-year-old father if his father had ever seen so much fish in the lake. This would be firsthand knowledge dating back to before the 1900s.
My father just shook his head. No.
All the fishermen on Lake Winnipeg sell their fish to the same place, the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corp. (FFMC). This body then markets all the fish, and it sets the prices as well. Since the lake has been full of fish for many years, there are all sizes of walleye, the most valuable fish. Since we are on a quota system and only able to sell a certain amount of fish per year, most fishermen throw away any other type of fish. All of them. But it's worse than that.
Different sizes of walleye are worth different amounts, and right now the biggest walleye are worth the least. Everybody is throwing them away. Not only would a sports fisherman be in his glory were he to catch one of these absolutely beautiful fish, but weighing from 5 to 15 pounds, each fish could feed a family.
I delivered my catch to FFMC a few days ago, and waiting in line to get some ice, I talked with another fisherman about the price of these jumbo walleye. "Gut barrels (barrels we use for the offal from cleaning the fish) all over the lake are filled with them, and people are starving all over the world," he said, shaking his head and echoing my sentiments.
I was at a Halloween party about a decade ago, and a fellow partygoer was telling me about a recent trip he took to the poorest of the poor parts of India. He had an expression on his face I will never forget — a mix between bewilderment, shock, horror and confusion — as he described seeing a man eat his own feces to stay alive. "It was ... it was ... horrible," he said, shaking his head ever so slightly, as if that action might remove the image that had clearly been burned into his brain.
And yet today I threw fish away — lots of them.
Shameful? That word is not strong enough.
Bruce Benson is a Canadian writer and journalist who makes Hendersonville his home. Reach him at bensonusa@ hotmail.com.
The guilt never fades over wasted fish
I have been a commercial fisherman for more than 30 years, and I've caught a lot of fish. I feel good about that. But there is one aspect of commercial fishing I haven't felt good about the entire time.


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The Milk of Paradise: The Effect of Opium Visions on the Works of DeQuincey, Crabbe, Francis Thompson, and Coleridge.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934. Edition: First edition, one of 300 copies printed. The first book by literary critic Meyer Howard Abrams (1912- ), a study of the opium addiction of four famous romantic poets and its effect on their creative processes. This pioneering work was published in the series... More


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Online Oral History Collections
Online resources or oral history collections. Places to hear and view oral history.
Fascinating Oral Histories Online
Twelve collections of online oral histories, described by Kimberly Powell (About.com Genealogy). From stories collected by the Federal Writers Projects, to slave narratives, to Japanese internment camps, the holocaust, war stories from the Veterans History Project, A southern cotton mill, and the southern United States, and Voices of Feminism. [via Pennington Research Online]
From Kimberly Powell's introduction:
Even if you aren't lucky enough to find your ancestor's history preserved online, you can learn a lot about them by reading oral histories of their contemporaries - neighbors, people from the same ethnic community, individuals who had similiar experiences (e.g. same Japanese internment camp), etc. There is no better way to understand the history that you came from than through the words of the people who lived it first-hand.
To her list, I'll add another one, the Big Daddy List of oral history collections, part of a larger collection of first-person narratives: In the First Person—search results for oral history repositories (60 results) and ...Read More
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Nat'l Museum of African American History and Culture
NMAAHC launches an online museum before its physical museum is constructed. Sponsored by the Smithsonian, the site hosts online holdings from its own archives and includes a Memory Book where people who to tell their own stories (mostly text-based) and submit images may do so. [via WRT] The virtual museum has lots and lots to explore.
The site makes prominent use of tags. So the Sojourner Truth entry, for example, is tagged women's rights, abolition, activism, autobiography. The flash-based navigation widget toward the top of the page (or in a larger, separate window) allows you to explore different connections, from moments in history to topics to persons. You can follow threads that connect one to the next. With each click, the navigation widget loads up a new page and redraws new connections.
The virtual museum has ties to StoryCorps. There a page with 45 audio excerpts of StoryCorps Griot interviews. Go. Click. Listen.
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Densho Project: Remembering the Japanese Internment
The Densho project is named for the term "to pass on to the next generation," or to leave a legacy. The Project's mission is "to preserve the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished. We offer these irreplaceable firsthand accounts, coupled with historical images and teacher resources, to explore principles of democracy and promote equal justice for all."
A few highlights of the site:
Sites of shame: A flash site where you can learn more about the different types and locations of internment camps. (link goes to intro page; you click a link on that page to launch Flash app)
They have a learning center with a select sample of interviews from their archives, some of which they just posted to YouTube.
The site has extensive archives; you need to register to get full access. It's free, and mostly geared toward education, but they want you to read their agreement about the archival materials and understand what you can and cannot do with them. It took about a day for me to receive my username and password from the Densho Project....Read More
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Latino Vet Stories, Day 3
Latino WW2 Vet stories from the Pacific and Italy, in keeping with The War's third episode, "A Deadly Calling." Taking Tarawa island in the Pacific and fighting in Italy at Anzio and Monte Cassino, here are some highlights from the US Latinos/Latinas & WWII Oral History Collection.
Joseph Alcoser concentrated on getting a good education, but then volunteered for the service when he was a senior in high school.
"I never thought about returning home," he said. "I thought we were sent off to die."
Consequently, Joe did not communicate very much with anyone back home while he was overseas. He sent only one letter to his mother.
"If anything happened to me, my family would find out," he said.
"The scariest battle for me was the midnight battle at Surigao Straight," he said. It was dark and we could only see shells flashing by the ship. The unknown was what caused great fear."
The battle that occurred near Tarawa Island, an island east of New Guinea, had a ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on September 28, 2007 in
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Latino WW2 Vets companion stories, Day 2
More companion stories from the Latinos and Latinas & WWII Oral History Project that echo the theme of "last night's episode" of The War, When the Going Gets Tough. These are stories of the war in North Africa and Italy, and of being shot down from a plane.
Joseph Diaz made it to Naples when Mt. Vesuvius was erupting.
Pvt. Diaz was the only Mexican in his unit, which included Audie Murphy, the most decorated combat soldier in World War II. Mr. Diaz said Murphy admonished the soldiers not to waste ammunition.
Once he landed in Morocco there was no time to travel slowly. His division moved into Tunisia, where fighting subsided, and Pvt. Diaz thought he was heading home.
Unfortunately, there was more fighting to come against Germany's Gen. Erwin Rommel. By marching or riding on tanks and trucks, Pvt. Diaz quickly moved into Palermo, Italy, where soldiers were rebuilding the area. From Palermo, Pvt. Diaz headed to Naples and reached ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on September 25, 2007 in
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Two stories from a Latino WW2 Oral History archive: War in the Pacific
Here are two excerpts from the oral history project that has interviewed Latino World War 2 veterans. A trip through news search engines brings lots of latino response to Ken Burns not-including and then including stories of latinos in The War. I'm less interested in reactions than in the stories themselves. So I'll dip into one oft-cited oral history archive to find stories that keep with the theme of "last night's show" for inclusion here.
Today, two stories from the Pacific theatre of war: Bataan death march and being taken prisoner of war by the Japanese.
From the narrative of Philip James Benavides, who served in the Pacific. He was a musician that was part of the Marine Band; he fought on Guadalcanal and Bouganville, and was taken prisoner of war.
Circumstances forced the 9th Marine bandsmen into combat as they headed back to the frontlines to replenish supplies and retrieve the wounded and the dead.
"It was unbelievable. The more we battled," he said. "I guess you could say you got used to it."
Hungry and tired, the Marines would eat anything they could scrounge up, including roots and grubworms.
After contracting (and recuperating from) malaria, he went island-hopping again in the Pacific
On Nov. 1, 1943, Staff Sgt. ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on September 24, 2007 in
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Two Companion Web Sites to Ken Burns's The War
The Veterans History Project's companion site features stories from its collection about the events described in each episode. Episode 1 covers Pearl Harbor, Bataan Death March, Guadalcanal and Japanese American internment camps. And I've linked to it before, the PBS Site for The War… the site got a revamp and facelift. Happy to see a prominent link from the PBS site to the Veterans History Project site.
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Veterans History Project Medal Controversy: Fraud or Clerical Error?
The Veterans History Project's web sites posts stories from its collection. An independent Medal of Honor watchdog fact-checks the recipients listed on the Project's web site against the official records. Watchdog finds discrepancies, notifies Project. Vets History Project scrubs the bad records. Investigates. Is this a case of Lie-induced Nausea or Unfortunate Clerical Error?
Test yourself. Quick: Which of these is the true Medal of Honor? the Vietnam Armed Forces Honor Medal or the Medal of Honor (Air Force)?
This week, MSNBC reported that the Veterans History Project (VHP) took down listings of veterans whose reports receiving the Medal of Honor were false. And here's the tricky bit. Were those listings fraud? Exaggeration? Error? Doug Sterner, who operates an independent web site honoring those who have received the Medal of Honor, fact-checked the Veterans History Project's site and database and found the errors and reported it to the VHP. The Project notes that many of the false listings are due to clerical errors.
The accusation: "Gross Negligence"
Doug Sterner's efforts are devoted to debunking false claims to receiving medals—and honoring the known recipients of the medals. He ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on September 22, 2007 in
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Oral History OF the silver screen
Archive of American Television: "The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation's Archive of American Television makes many of its more than 500 video oral history interviews available free online. This site helps you navigate through TV history – as told by those who were there." Just looking down the sidebar is great. There are several interviews with Julia Child.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on August 30, 2007 in
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The Hawaii Nisei Story
The Hawaii Nisei Story is a website that's a presentation of the oral histories of Americans of Japanese Ancestry. I went to a presentation where Shari Tameshiro, Cybrarian and Webmistress at Kapiolani College, presented the site. The site is a virtual museum exhibit.
There are text transcripts from the interviews, pictures, larger historical context, and video excerpts where you can see the interview.
She showed us the story of Takejiro Higa, born in Hawaii, spent a portion of childhood in Okinawa, then came back to Hawaii when Japan went to war (in order to avoid serving). He then served in the American armed forces doing intelligence. What he went through in his return to Okinawa is amazing.
One day, Takejiro is ordered to report to corps headquarters. There he sees a huge map of the southern half of Okinawa. He freezes as if doused with a bucket of ice water; he realizes the next target is Okinawa.
Then next, he showed me - oh, he asked me, "Where did your grandfather used to live?" So I pointed in the general area of the map. And then he pulled out one big picture ...Read More
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Houston, we have a memory
Johnson Space Center Oral History Project. This is cool. "Participants include managers, engineers, technicians, doctors, astronauts, and other employees of NASA and aerospace contractors who served in key roles during the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle programs." In addition toh manned (and womanned) space flight, there's at least one interview that concerns robotic space flight.
This is cool for me, because I attended a shuttle launch in Florida. Just last Friday, I went to a booksigning by Jim Bell, the scientist in charge of the Mars Rovers cameras (Book: Postcards from Mars).
I poked around the site. If you want to browse to see what's there, here's an alphabetical list of participants. There are search pages (which I tried first), but I wouldn't recommend it, as you have to know what you're looking for in order to look for it. (I searched "Aldrin"—as in Buzz Aldrin—and came up empty)
Cool! In the Herstory section, there's a link to the transcript of Donna Shirley [pdf], who managed the Mars Pathfinder program. When I attended the Spirit Lands on Mars ...Read More
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Oral History of Technology
In a twist from this site's theme, the technology of personal oral history, here are some links to collections of oral histories of technology (thanks to some semi-recent discussion of the Oral History mailing list)
Academic institutions. Caltech is in my regional neighborhood. So's Harvey Mudd. I'm interested in the other big tech institution across the country, MIT (Massachussetts Institute of Technology), since my Grandmother (and uncle) graduated from there. (If you saw my movie where my Mother talks about her mother, you see old school newspapers from MIT)
Other institutions that might have oral history collections are: RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology), Rensselaer, Georgia Tech, Stanford (see "Silicon Valley" below), Berkeley, Carnegie-Mellon. I'm sure there are others.
Women and technology and oral ...Read More
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Katrina Oral History
Stacy Parker Aab has three posts [1] [2] [3] at Huffington Post to describe her oral history project: The Katrina Experience (project home page). The blog entries have excerpts: A 30-year old guy at a shelter. A physician from a New Orleans hospital describing how things changed in an emergency and with no technology. A woman describing how the storm surge flooded the first floor of their home in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. A couple discussing having to gut and rebuild their flooded New Orleans home. A roofer describing what it was like in the Ninth Ward during the hurricane and aftermath.
My name is Stacy Parker Aab and I'm a writer here in Houston. For the past year I have interviewed Americans about their Katrina experiences.
We talk about the hurricane and the aftermath. We talk about what it's been like to survive, and for some, to thrive. We talk about crimes. We talk about epiphanies. We talk about their lives before. We talk about their dreams ahead.
Katrina is not over. Far from it. Therefore, I will keep chronicling the lives of those who survived. I will also talk to people whose role, or calling, is to work with survivors.
Using the Studs Terkel approach, I've shaped those interviews into oral history essays. I've posted several essays on the project ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on August 31, 2006 in
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Loma Prieta Earthquake Oral History
UC Santa Cruz, near the epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, announces publication of oral histories of the quake. Timely in light of the fact that I just read a book on California geology; the book concludes with a description of that quake. Here's a link to the collection
From the introduction to the online transcripts:
On October 17, 1989 at 5:04 p.m. a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on the San Andreas Fault shook the Central Coast of California and lasted for fifteen seconds. The epicenter of the quake lay near Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, about ten miles northeast of the city of Santa Cruz, deep in the redwoods of Forest of Nisene Marks State Park. The focus point was at a depth of ten miles. This earthquake killed sixty-three people and injured 3,757 others, and caused an estimated six billion dollars in property damage. It was the largest earthquake to occur on the San Andreas fault since the great San Francisco earthquake in April ...Read More
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In the first person: Spanish Peaks
There's a brilliant site out there: In the First Person. It's a repository of
kerjillions hundreds thousands of first-person narratives: Oral histories, memoirs, diaries, letters.
3,350 collections
650,000 pages of full-text by more than 15,000 individuals
pointers to some 3,500 audio and video files
index of 30,000 bibliographic records
and 20,500 months of diary entries
and 63,000 letter entries
and 17,000 oral history entries
Hm. D'ya think there might be anything useful or worthwhile in there?
So I went poking through, looking at the names of collections. Maybe I'll find some interesting stuff to look at and feature on this site. You know, a kind of regular feature or something.
And then I found this: Spanish Peaks Library District Oral History Interviews. Location: Walsenberg, Colorado. A Gold mine! No, the Spanish Peaks area is not a place where ...Read More
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Tourism Ireland launched the County Kerry focus of The Gathering initiative Wednesday at Ellis Island in New York.
It was an afternoon that brought together many County Kerry affiliated societies and organizations stateside. At the event, Tourism Ireland outlined their ambitious plans for next year to help draw people from the world over back home to Ireland. Representatives from several organizations were present for the day's Ellis Island tour and luncheon.
The Kerryman's Association, local AOHs, and Rose of Tralee members were all on hand to support. It wouldn't have been a gathering of Irish organizations without a few clouds and a slight rain falling from the sky.
Though of course highly modernized now, the ferry ride over to Ellis Island from Battery Park in the chilly wet weather had many considering the hardships that our shared ancestors must have faced in long journeys across the Atlantic about a century ago.
The Irish party were provided an informative brief tour of some Ellis Island's most notable areas led by professional tour guide Tom Bernardin. During his tour, Bernardin noted how the Irish met fierce prejudice from Nativists upon arriving in America in the post-World War I era. In an argument that feels almost too relevant to today, Natives of the bygone era believed that newcomers who were immigrating into America took all the jobs, caused crime and drained resources.
As a response, the Irish made themselves pillars of society by throwing their work and dedication into areas of public service, such as fire and police services.Their dedication to public service helped carried the Irish to where they are today in America, with of course, producing a President along the way.
President Kennedy was a third generation descendant of an Irish immigrant. After the tour, the luncheon began at Ellis Island, whose "iconic" locale was noted. Contestants, from this year's New York Rose selection for the Rose of Tralee provided some brief entertainment including Irish music, song and dance prior to presentations.
The Rose of Tralee International Festival in 2013 will be used as part of the marketing efforts for The Gathering and will feature an expanded programme for that year.
Kerry County Councillor Jim Finucane walked the audience through the multitude of different attractions that County Kerry has to help draw in visitors, both Irish and non-Irish. "Whatever you want to do, you can do it in Kerry," said Finucane, remarking about Kerry's array of activities available to its visitors.
Three of the signature events that Kerry will be hosting in part of The Gathering celebrations will be an event, at Muckross House in Killarney; Listowel Writer's Week Week festival which will highlight the literature of the diaspora and contribution of Irish American writers to the world; and Killarney
Summerfest which will feature events both big and small to help drive up the number of visitors.Another event that will, as usual, receive special attention throughout the Kingdom in 2013 is the International Rose of Tralee festival, which Finucane described as always being a "major success" during its fifty-plus years of existence.
The Festival next year will be expanded again to accommodate The Gathering's efforts. Finucane touched upon Kerry's "superb golf" opportunities, and how a St. Brendan's trail is being developed in the county. In addition to these extended special programmes, County Kerry will be hosting an array of other events during 2013 as part of The Gathering, many of which are still in development.
A primary focus will of course fall on attracting those who wish to trace their genealogical roots throughout Kerry, which has some of the most extensive data organized in the country. For more information about The Gathering click here.


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Establishing a comprehensive content strategy for existing pages on your website is a key piece of the search engine optimization (SEO) puzzle, especially considering Google's ongoing Panda quality updates.
From a strictly on-page optimization perspective, it's important to make sure that you have content dedicated to the primary and secondary keywords with the highest search volume in your space.
Let's look at one strategy you can use to both Panda-proof and better optimize your site to grab more of the long tail traffic in your space. Who doesn't like that?
Eliminate Bloat Pages
Before starting to look at where you need content, critically evaluate your site and see if there are unnecessary pages being indexed. Some common examples of this extra fluff that bloats your Google pages indexed are paginated product pages, indexed internal search result pages, and sort options for product pages.
Although solutions for bloat pages are beyond the scope of this post, eliminating these is a must prior to creating a great content strategy. The easiest way find what bloat pages are getting indexed is to run a simple site search (e.g., [site:example.com]) command in Google and explore.
Keyword Research Blueprint for Content Optimization & Content Creation
Keyword research is the blueprint of any content strategy. Although much of the methodology you will use will be determined by the size of your site, here's one good method for small to mid-sized sites.
Keyword Research for Your Strongest Subpages
Assuming that you've fixed any internal duplicate content issues on your site and removed unneeded pages, it is time to beef up existing pages.
Since you're making an investment in content for your site, you want to make sure that pages are well optimized for both relevant and valuable primary keywords. You also want to make sure that you include important variations and synonymous keywords as part of the content strategy for existing pages.
The natural starting point for this kind of research are ranking based keyword tools. Some popular paid tools for this information include SEMRush, SpyFu, and Ahrefs. These tools provide keywords for your site and your competitors, which you can export into a nice spreadsheet. They are great for giving you a good idea of what the valuable keywords for pages across your site are and identifying gaps in your content strategy. You'd be surprised how common it is for pages not to even include the powerful keywords that they rank for in the copy.
Once you vet the data a little bit, you can get a good idea of the powerful keywords that are already bringing traffic to your site. If you have some budget constraints and can't use a paid tool, you can attempt some of this research using analytics and the Google AdWords Keyword Tool.
One thing you'll find when you do ranking based keyword research is that there are a lot of pages and keywords missing. This means that it's time to start your exploratory keyword research, which is how you fill in the blanks in your spreadsheet. Although there are many great paid options, Google AdWords Keyword Tool is a nice free solution for this purpose – just make sure to log in to see the full data!
It's a good idea to run at least a couple iterations of your exploratory keyword tool of choice to identify valuable keywords that you don't yet rank for. During this research, not only will you find keywords for existing pages that you may have missed but you will also find whole keyword groups which you'd want brand new pages for.
On a side note, by this point it's a good idea to break out your keyword list into one primary and a bunch secondary phrases for each page. This can be done using simple highlighting or some other method. Your call.
Keyword Research For Your Thin Deep Pages
Adding content to your deep pages is a funny thing because if you have a large site, there is definitely a cost associated with it. If adding unique content to a large number of pages falls outside your given budget, consider going back to see what additional pages can be done away with in the index.
Depending on the nature of your products and the amount of SKU's you have, SEO based keyword research strategy will vary dramatically. However, let's assume that a given site has a couple hundred or couple thousand SKU's, there are several things to look at for sites of this scope.
First, check that all of the given pages are cached. That may seem like a 'duh!' proposition to some of you, but you'd be surprised how often this is overlooked.
Second, check if there are relevant high value phrases that you can pair with your thin non-ranking pages. It is hard to speak generally on this because so much of this level of keyword research ties into your specific space and how people 'talk' about your kind of products online. One general method that can be used is throwing large swaths of product names into a keyword tool and 'sampling' to see what gets search for and deserves deeper inquiry but this method is not ideal.
Competitor Based Keyword Research
Once you've exhausted keyword research for existing pages and exploratory keyword research, it's time to go gem hunting on your competitors keywords. Use the tools mentioned above for doing this by running keyword reports for all of your competitors and comparing them against your own list and filling it in with keywords that make sense for your site.
Another great thing to look at, if you're not doing PPC already, is what keywords competitors are bidding on that you can consider incorporating into your organic strategy, if you already have not.
Now that you're done with the hard part, you're ready to start actionably using your keyword research for implementing your content strategy and keyword optimization for your pages. In a word, you have your master keyword list for organic search.
Tips for Content Creation
Once your site is cleaned up of all unnecessary pages and you have a plan for the rest of the pages on your site, it's time to get the pages optimized and the content created. Here are some general pointers:
- Keep word count varying from page to page: Try not to have the exact same non-linked word count from page to page. This will make your content look more natural.
- Make sure that there is a good saturation of synonymous phrases: Google is getting very good at understanding synonymy and they're working hard to decipher language meaning. Inclusion of secondary phrases is an important part of any keyword strategy.
- Add value on your pages: See if there is anything that you can add to your pages to make them more interesting. Consider adding widgets to pages or looking at competitors to see how you can improve the value of individual pages or templates on your site.
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Wedding Limo Service in San Juan Capistrano
Travel in style on your wedding dayA wedding is a memorable event in the lives of the bride and the groom, as well as their families and friends. It might not be the first thing that one thinks of when planning a wedding, but transportation is equally important and needs to be considered. Weddings are often elaborate events and can take place at several locations. On such a special day, the wedding party, and particularly the wedding couple, deserves to travel in style in the wedding limousine service from one location to the next.
Before deciding to hire a wedding limo service there are some things that should be taken into consideration and clearly understand, because a special occasion such as wedding also calls for very special preparation as well. The most important factor to consider for your wedding is your transportation arrangements. Wedding limos are the obvious wedding transport.


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This worship service is in conjunction with the students at St. Andrew's School--1st through 8th grades--and is celebrated in the nave. All are welcome to come participate. We follow a modified version of Morning Prayer, Rite II, from the Book of Common Prayer, with a reading from scripture, a short sermon, lots of "hand-clapping" music and singing, prayers and prayer requests, and lots of laughter and praise! The service lasts about 45 minutes.


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Major Contributions in Psychiatry
The Department of Psychiatry at 50: Major Contributions (1963-2013)
In 1938, the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology was created (75 years).
In 1963, the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology separated (50 years).
What have been the Department's major contributions?
Adult Psychiatry: Diagnosis & Outcomes
- Elaboration of the Medical Model Concept in Psychiatry
- The Feighner Criteria for Psychiatric Diagnosis
- The Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC)
- Criteria for Validating Psychiatric Disorders
- The Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS)
- The Young Mania Rating Scale
- Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) Study
- Collaborative Study of Depression
- Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) & Human Personality
- Type I and II Alcoholism
- Predictors of Suicide
- Psychiatry and Criminality
- Conversion Symptoms in Psychiatric Disorders
- Marijuana as a Gateway Drug
- Psychiatric Outcomes in Survivors of Disasters
- Psychiatric Outcomes in Vietnam Veterans
- Bereavement and Mood Disorders
- Psychotic Symptoms and Personality Changes in Dementia
- Early cognitive changes in Alzheimer's disease
- Prevention of childhood obesity
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder in the elderly
Child Psychiatry: Diagnosis & Outcomes
- Deviant Children Grown Up (Outcome Studies of Conduct Disorder)
- Diagnostic Interview for Children & Adolescents (DICA)
- WU-KSADS Diagnostic Instrument
- Diagnosis and Course of Childhood Bipolar Disorder
- Genetic Structure of Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder
- Social Reciprocity Scale (SRS) and Genetic Structure of Autism
- Diagnosis and Course of Early Childhood Mood Disorders
- Early Abuse and Psychiatric Outcomes
- Impact of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
- Cognitive Effects of Childhood Diabetes
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Depression - First Independent Replication
- Depression and Cardiac Disorders
- Depression and Diabetes
- Metabolic Effects of Psychotropic Medications in Adults & Children
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Eating Disorders
- Tricyclic Antidepressant Blood Levels, Toxicity and Treatment Response
- Adoption Studies in Psychiatry
- Genetics of Alcoholism
- Genetics of Nicotine Dependence
- Alpha-5 Nicotinic Receptors and Smoking
- Missouri Twin Registry
- Genetics of Dementia (Alzheimer's disease & Frontotemporal Dementia)
- Genetics of Schizophrenia & Bipolar Disorder
- PET Studies of Lactate-induced Panic
- Neurocircuitry of Depression (subgenual anterior cingulate cortex)
- Hippocampal Atrophy in Depression
- Hippocampal Atrophy & Shape Change in Schizophrenia
- Structural Brain Changes in Adolescent Depression
- Identification of the Default Mode Network
- Default Network and Dorsal Nexus in Depression
- Imaging Beta-amyloid in Alzheimer's disease: Role of Default Network
- Developmental Trajectory of Brain Connectivity
- Mood Changes with Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease
- Cognitive Changes in Schizophrenia
- Human Brain Connectome Project
- Glutamate & Excitotoxicity
- NMDA Receptor Hypofunction in Schizophrenia
- Depressant/Anesthetic Medications and Developmental Neuroapoptosis
- Cellular Mechanisms of Nitrous Oxide
- Neuroendocrine Effects of Alcohol and Opiates
- Lithium and Inositol Phosphates
- Identification of S100, 14-3-3 and Other Brain Proteins
- Catecholamines and Blood Brain Barrier Permeability
- Glial Loss in Mood Disorders
- Role of Glial Transport in Excitatory Synaptic Function
- NMDA Receptors and Hippocampal Metaplasticity
- Cellular & Membrane Mechanisms of Neurosteroids
- Presynaptic Homeostatic Plasticity & Synaptic Silencing
- Glycolysis & Synaptic Plasticity
Faculty and Trainees Who Have Become Heads of Departments or Institutes
|Kelly Askins, M.D.
|Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
|Somporn Bussaratid, M.D.
|Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Mahidol University, Thailand
|Paula Clayton, M.D.
|Head, Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota
|C. Robert Cloninger, M.D.
|Head, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis
|Wilson Compton, M.D.
|Director, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, NIDA
|Linda Cottler, Ph.D., MPH
|Chair, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida College of Medicine
|Nick Craddock, M.D.
|Head, Department of Psychiatry and Division of Neuroscience, University of Birmingham, UK; Director, National Centre for Mental Health. Cardiff University, UK
|John Csernansky, M.D.
|Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
|Donald W. Goodwin, M.D.
|Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Kansas – Kansas City
|Samuel B. Guze, M.D.
|Vice-Chancellor for Medical Affairs and Head, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis
|John Helzer, M.D.
|Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont College of Medicine
|Fritz Henn, M.D., Ph.D.
|Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University School of Medicine; Director, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
|Elie G. Karam, M.D.
|Head, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, St. George Hospital Medical Center, University of Balamand, Lebanon
|Ronald L. Martin, M.D.
|Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Kansas - Wichita
|Peter McGuffin, M.D.
|Chair of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff; Dean of School, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London
|Sheldon Preskorn, M.D.
|Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Kansas - Wichita
|Eli Robins, M.D.
|Head, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis
|Vicente B. Tuason, M.D., FAACP
|Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center, St. Paul, Minnesota
|George Winokur, M.D.
|Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa
|Charles F. Zorumski, M.D.
|Head, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis


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Relaxity needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 11 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
Need a 20 x 14 (Landscape orientation) poster designed for an upcoming trade show. The resolution needs to be at least 150 dpi.
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We need an eye catching design that will draw vendors to our table at an upcoming Natural Foods trade show.
Relaxing Colors, Eye Catching/Contemporary/Modern Design. All Natural Stress Reliever. Visit the website for more information on the company, design styles, etc. http://www.relaxity.net


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printme needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 268 designs submitted by 105 freelance designers.
We're a printer cartridge supplies company, our website is at http://www.inkfactory.com and we've bought http://print.me to set up a great new service that will allow any internet user to make any webpage printer friendly. This means removing ads and other unwanted stuff that just wastes paper.
We expect the print.me button to appear on blogs and websites as a convenient service for the web, but people will also be able to come directly to our site and type in a web address to have it made printer friendly.
The website contest may well follow this, but for now it's just a logo that we want. The home page of the site will have the simplicity of a Google style box where you can type in a web address.
We want a logo that can also be used as a "print.me" button that will work at varying sizes for different uses on different pages around the internet.
The service will be used by any internet user who wants to make a page printer friendly. This means it should appeal to all ages and both genders.
The domain name for the new site is "http://print.me"
We need a "print.me" logo, but it needs to be flexible so we can use it as a button too.
The logo should work at small sizes and large sizes.
We will offer a widget that you install on your blog or website that puts a "print.me" button on any page you want, if a visitor clicks the button it will launch our website with the page displayed ready to make printer friendly.
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New research reveals true cost of Japanese whaling
In a report published today, The Economics of Japanese Whaling, IFAW shows how the Japanese government even diverted tsunami relief funds to support whaling. Annual government subsidies for Japanese whaling average around 782 million yen (US $9.78m), but in 2011 this increased by around 2.28 billion yen (US $28.55m).
The new report, prepared following a year-long research effort conducted by leading Japan-based agencies commissioned by IFAW, provides the clearest picture ever of the failing whaling industry based largely on the government of Japan's own data, never before presented in this way, inside or outside Japan.
While the findings demonstrate that whaling is unprofitable and catering to an increasingly shrinking and ageing market, whale watching is, by contrast, a growth industry.
Patrick Ramage, Director of IFAW's Global Whale Programme, said: "Here it is, for the first time, in black and white. IFAW's report proves conclusively that Japan's cruel whaling industry is dying in the water while Japanese taxpayers are being forced to foot the bill. This cruel, outmoded industry is in the red. Whaling is an economic loser.
"Now is the time for concerned citizens, NGOs and governments around the world to stop bludgeoning the good people of Japan and start helping them migrate from whaling to whale watching – a profitable solution that benefits whales, people and coastal communities in Japan and around the world."
Whale watching is worth around US $2.1 billion annually. In Japan alone, whale watching generated around US $22 million in 2008. There are currently around 30 whale watching operators working from a dozen locations around the Japanese coast.
The country's whaling fleet left port in December for Antarctica to train its harpoons on around 1,000 whales, in defiance of global opposition and several international laws.
Japan hunts whales for so-called science despite a worldwide ban on commercial whaling. IFAW believes Japan's whaling produces sham science and is merely commercial whaling by another name.
IFAW opposes whaling because it is cruel and unnecessary; scientists agree there is simply no humane way to kill a whale. This is proved by footage of Japanese whaling which has shown whales taking more than half an hour to die. In addition, much of the meat is merely stockpiled or sold cheaply to schools and hospitals.
For more information or interviews please contact Clare Sterling in Tokyo on +44 (0)7917 507717 or email email@example.com
A recent IFAW blog about this issue can be found here.
Preview low-res images and video can be found at www.ifaw.org/press.
Notes to Editors:
'The Economics of Japanese Whaling' can be viewed and downloaded from IFAW's website, www.ifaw.org
High resolution hand-out images available for download by signing up at www.ifawimages.com.
About IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare)
Founded in 1969, IFAW saves animals in crisis around the world. With projects in more than 40 countries, IFAW rescues individual animals, works to prevent cruelty to animals and advocates for the protection of wildlife and habitats. For more information, visit www.ifaw.org. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.


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a chip in the middle of the RC cicruits which after research appears to control the car.
Until you are familiar with the RX/TX2 I would suggest you don't connect the Arduino to them, I have no idea how much current would be drawn by the car and in the few cars I have opened most of the decoupling capacitors are labelled on the PCB but just not installed I suspect the same goes for flyback diodes. This is probably not a safe environment for to learn in.
Again thank you for the help I am starting to see where this is going.I have attached an image to make sure I understand the pins before soldering.It wouldn't be a good idea to solder on the top would it? just looks to be more space there than trying to solder exactly over the dot


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A trucker from Missouri has been convicted in a south Texas immigrant smuggling scheme in which six people were found hidden in the cab.
A federal jury in Laredo on Wednesday convicted Miguel Granadeno of Carthage, Mo.
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U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson says Granadeno was convicted of conspiracy to transport and the transportation of undocumented persons. Magidson says evidence showed the six immigrants had entered the U.S. illegally near McAllen.
Granadeno in April was stopped at a checkpoint near Laredo. The six people were found hiding in the cab, including four in a storage compartment under the bed in the sleeper area.
No sentencing date was immediately set for Granadeno, who faces up to 10 years in prison.
Details weren't immediately released on the status of the six immigrants.


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The new edition is out! with more then 150 pages has it double as much content then the one before. A lot of new routes are included and if you like rock towers and a little bit of adventure you should not miss this interesting area of Bulgaria. Touristis come from all over the world to see the famous castle but if you own a rope and some gear then bring it!
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "I Love The Nightlife/Oh Give Me A Home!" I Love the Nightlife - Nick wants to stay awake all night. Good thing the Cat needs help finding his most favorite hat that he lost in the forest of Wagamaroo! The Cat takes Nick and Sally on a nocturnal adventure, along the way meeting a variety of animals who stay up all night! Oh Give Me a Home! - Nick has a super duper special shell and Sally wants one too! The Cat in the Hat takes them to a beachside adventure where they meet Tucker, a hermit crab who is also looking for a new shell because he's grown too big for his. An under the sea fashion show gives both Tucker and Sally super duper special shells!. D
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Super Why! "The Swan Maiden" Red really, really doesn't want her playdate with Little Boy Blue to end so she hides his horn. Super Why, Wonder Red, Princess Presto, and Alpha Pig fly into the story upon which the ballet "Swan Lake" was based, where they encounter a fair maiden who is having a similar problem with a prince! Will Super Why and his friends be able to help the Swan Maiden get her feathers back so she can return home before the sun sets? Educational Objectives: To learn strategies for ending a playdate, catch the alphabet using an alphabet net, identify the letters D,R,O, P, practice the magic of spelling, and use the power to read to change the story. D
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Dinosaur Train "Long Claws/Tank's Sleep Over" Long Claws - Buddy, Tiny, Don and Mrs. Pteranodon head to the thicket to ask a Therizinosaurus family about their colossal claws. Mr. and Mrs. T strike a pose to demonstrate how they use their claws for self-defense, while their daughter, Teri, shows the kids her favorite practice spot. Tank's Sleep Over - When Tank spends the night at Pteranodon Terrace, the last thing he wants to do is sleep. D
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The Electric Company "Franscent" Francine ruins both her science project and Lisa's. The two rivals need find a way to work together on a new project or they'll both fail. D
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Wild Kratts "Attack of the Tree Eating Aliens" The Wild Kratts get an urgent call from a group of North American Wild Kratts kids telling them almost all of the trees in the forest are dying. It's a race against time to solve the mystery and help the forest and the creatures who live there. D
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WordWorld "Boppin' with the Bug Band/Shuffleword" Boppin' with the Bug Band - Ant is having a band showcase on his radio show and while Bug, Fly and Bee have some really good music, they need a lot of help with their lyrics. Frog teaches the Bug Band all about rhyming and they eventually give a fantastic performance. Shuffleword - When Pig and Ant get into an argument while playing Shuffleword, Pig storms off with the consonants and Ant storms off with the vowels but they soon realize that not only do they need each other's letters to make words but they also need each other to have fun!. D
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WordGirl "Theme Park Wham-Page/Chuck Makes A Buck" Theme Park Wham-Page - Becky and Bob are anxiously waiting in line for their chance to ride The Coaster-- the ultimate new roller coaster ride. The Whammer's enthusiasm for chocolate hot dogs and hi-striker machines at the park could ruin a totally fun day. Will WordGirl forfeit her chance to ride the coaster in order to stop the Whammer destroying the park? Vocabulary Words: Patience, Enthusiastic. D
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Outdoor Idaho "Idaho's Scenic Byways" Cameras capture scenes from the state's system of more than 2,400 miles of official Scenic, Historic or Backcountry byways. The routes crisscross the state to reveal natural wonders, geologic and historic sites, and the varied topography of Idaho.G
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Katie Brown Workshop "Seaside" From the kitchen to the craft room to the garden, Katie celebrates the gifts of the sea. In the Kitchen: Delicious Breaded Bluegill, Flavorful Shrimp Pesto, and a simple but scrumptious Seafood Bouillabaisse. Projects: Transport the beauty of the sea into the home. D
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Essential Pepin "Special Spuds" Garlic Mashed Potatoes; Potato Ragout; Gratin Dauphinoise; Cream Puff Potatoes. D
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On Story "Re-Imagining The Classics" The writers of re-imagined classics and popular franchises such as GHOST, CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, TWINS and SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN deliberate how to keep stories fresh while remaining faithful to the original version. Accompanied by Spencer and Lloyd Harvey's short film JACK & JILL, a fresh take on the classic nursery rhyme that follows a young Australian girl who finds an inventive way to contact her father, a soldier stationed in New Guinea during WWII. In this episode: Bruce Joel Rubin, John August, Herschel Weingrod, Evan Daugherty. D
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Dialogue "Kenneth Feinberg" The Washington lawyer, whose firm specializes in mediation and dispute resolution, has acted as a government-appointed special master to settle million-dollar claims arising from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the BP Deepwater Horizon Disater Fund among other catastrophes. Feinberg's book Who Gets What was published earlier this year.G
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MotorWeek "Bentley Continental Gt Speed" Road Test: 2013 Bentley Continental GT Speed. Road Test: 2013 Toyota Avalon Hybrid. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Chicken Classics, Improved" Test cook Julia Collin Davison shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the ultimate Skillet Chicken Fajitas. Next, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of tortillas, and test cook Bridget Lancaster uncovers the secrets to the best Classic Chicken Salad. And finally, gadget guru Lisa McManus reviews her favorite new kitchen gadgets. D
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Globe Trekker "Colorado to Utah" Trekker Holly Morris kicks off her trip in Denver, where she visits the U.S. Mint and enjoys the city's many outdoor pursuits. Next she hikes the Mesa Trail, joins an archaeological research trip at Crow Canyon, and delves into the history of the region's ancestral Pueblans. She then travels to Utah, home to numerous ski resorts, the Great Salt Lake and a plethora of breathtaking national parks - including Arches, Zion and Bryce Canyon.G
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The Artist Toolbox "Sam Gilliam" "You go someplace so that you can learn something that is not in front of you." Sam Gilliam, known as one of America's leading abstract artists, discusses the importance of exploration and a curious mind, a need for 'investigation' in art. Says Gilliam, "Let's call it spirit. D
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Austin City Limits "Jimmy Cliff" The reggae legend opens the 36th season of the musical series by performing his hits and new songs from his album Existence.G
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The Artist Toolbox "Sam Gilliam" "You go someplace so that you can learn something that is not in front of you." Sam Gilliam, known as one of America's leading abstract artists, discusses the importance of exploration and a curious mind, a need for 'investigation' in art. Says Gilliam, "Let's call it spirit. D
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Sun Studio Sessions "Amber Rubarth and Dave Egger" Amber Rubarth and Dave Egger are talented musicians who bring their varied backgrounds together to lift each other's sounds to new heights. In this episode, the artists perform several songs including "Full Moon in Paris" and "Hillbillies and Bach.". D
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Austin City Limits "Jimmy Cliff" The reggae legend opens the 36th season of the musical series by performing his hits and new songs from his album Existence.G


text: London: globally significant for being a central hub of finance, culture, history – not to mention shopping. As such, there is no shortage of fabulous places to stay when hopping across the pond. However, we've fallen especially hard for one newly opened hotel, with a crush so intense we can only compare it to seeing Love Actually for the first time or slathering clotted cream across a scone. ... Read Full Article


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Top 14 Semi-Finals
Wilkinson kicks Toulon to Top 14 final
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June 3, 2012
Toulon's Jonny Wilkinson and coach Bernard Laporte celebrate victory over Clermont Auvergne © Getty Images
Jonny Wilkinson kicked five penalties to lead Toulon to a 15-12 win over Clermont Auvergne in their Top 14 semi-final clash at the Stade Municipal and set up a final showdown with defending champions Toulouse next weekend.
With three minutes left Wilkinson ignored the driving rain to kick the winning points that set up a final against Toulouse at the Stade de France next Saturday. Morgan Parra had the chance to pull Clermont level with a last-minute penalty, but his kick dropped agonisingly short.
Neither side was able to produce many attacking moves and the wet conditions meant that attacks broke down with a spilled or loose pass. Three penalties from Wilkinson, to two in reply from Parra meant Toulon were 9-6 ahead at the break.
After half-time the attritional play continued, though Toulon kept themselves ahead until Davit Kubriashvili collapsed a scrum with seven minutes to go. Parra booted Clermont level, but his side almost immediately re-ofended when a number of players went in front of David Skrela's chip and Wilkinson landed his fith penalty. On the stoke of full-time Bakkies Botha offended at a ruck, but Parra was unable to add to his total.
Toulouse remain on course for back-to-back Top 14 titles following a hard-fought 24-15 victory over Castres in their play-off semi-final clash at the Stade Municipal on Saturday night. The boot of Luke McAlister proved decisive in a try-less contest with the Kiwi centre landing six penalties to help see off a brave Castres outfit.
Toulouse weathered the loss of both centre Florian Fritz and prolific winger Timoci Matanavou to yellow cards in the opening period to build a 15-12 lead at the break but it needed a superb try-saving tackle from winger on Vincent Clerc on Castres centre Max Evans late in the half to preserve their narrow advantage. Three penalties in the first half hour from McAlister and a further six points from fly-half Lionel Beauxis had put the hosts in control but Castres playmaker Pierre Bernard and fullback Romain Teulet kept their side very much in the match.
The tit-for-tat exchanges continued in the second half but crucially, Castres were never able to get ahead in the game. McAlister's penultimate penalty on the hour mark gave his side a precious six-point cushion and his final contribution ten minutes later finally saw off their resolute rivals.
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Likely related to proving Facebook's revenue potential prior to the IPO, the social network is testing out a new feature that charges users to highlight a recent post among their friends. Within the example pointed out by Stuff, the user could pay $1.80 to bring extra attention to a specific Facebook status update, photo or video. The user would pay by credit card or Paypal to complete the transaction, however there is no indication that the user will be able to see metrics like how many of their friends actually saw the post. According to Facebook, the company is testing a variety of price points including free, but the free sample may just be an attempt to attract more users into the program.
Responding to Stuff's inquiry about highlighted posts, Facebook Communications & Policy manager Mia Garlick stated "We're constantly testing new features across the site. This particular test is simply to gauge people's interest in this method of sharing with their friends." Facebook will not be accepting Facebook credits for this test, ideally structured this way to prove revenue generation.
Rather than testing this feature in the United States, Facebook appears to have chosen New Zealand as a "test bed" according to the supplied picture to Stuff, but it's possible that users in other countries will see the feature soon.
According to a Facebook-supplied statement to Techcrunch earlier this year, the amount of friends that actually sees one of your status updates is around 12 percent. If a user does decide to pay to highlight a post, the selected post would likely remain at the top of their friend's Facebook feeds for a specific amount of time. It's also possible that Facebook could set a specific limit on the number of friends that see it prior to expiration. While the post do have a more effective position within the feed, the post won't contain any form of extra shading to help it stand out from the rest of the feed.


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"We also
raise issues," Menghistu added, referring in particular to an editorial that
took a stand on the divisive issue of United
Nations sanctions
imposed on Eritrea in December 2009 on allegations
that the country backs Islamist insurgents in neighboring Somalia. In this case, Selam's editorial urged Eritrean expats to question their
homeland's government, rather than demonstrating against it, as
heeded by the state and its supporters around the world, including in
said than done. "Wherever there are Eritreans,
there are government spies who report your opinions and activities," Menghistu
said, adding that the supporters intimidate those opposed to the government
with reprisals against family members left in
spoke from personal experience. On one Sunday in May, he went with his notebook
and audio recorder in hand to cover a public
seminar convened by local expat supporters of the Eritrean government to oppose the U.N. sanctions: "I was asked to leave the
hall. I said, 'Why? This is a public meeting.' They said I had to go because I
was not a supporter of [
"I went to that meeting to try to
cover what they were going to say," he said. "I knew already what the meeting
was about."
One of those who relayed news
about the
This development did not surprise Aaron Berhane, once the editor-in-chief of Eritrea's defunct largest newspaper, Setit, and the publisher of the award-winning Toronto-based Meftih since September 2004. "They used to dump the paper in the garbage," he said. "They flattened my car's tire with a knife on July 23, 2007. They broke the front glass of my car on January 17, 2008." To overcome the sabotage of his paper's distribution, Berhane said he convinced storeowners to install security cameras and relied on the assistance of volunteers.
and Menghistu experienced much worse when they were both involved in starting
the first independent newspapers in
we broadcast anything, a ruling party censor had to check everything," he said.
He recalled a time when he interviewed Justice Minister Fawzia Hashim about
newspaper would be called Selam ("Peace").
It was 1999, during
Menghistu, Berhane, and Eyasu, sustaining a news outlet only part-time while
working odd jobs to survive is a personal expense and a demanding commitment on
their personal lives. "I started Assenna
with my own money in May 2007 and launched a shortwave to
All three journalists believe a lot remains to be done. "Media is very important for countries like us to become civil and gain political maturity," said Eyasu. "We need lots of private media outlets representing a diversity of opinions and views. We're not opposition per se; we oppose the government because it doesn't allow any free existence of newspapers or things conducive to public debate. Even we oppose the opposition if they do similar things."
For Berhane, diaspora media is a necessary outlet for the
natural range of views of Eritreans that the government seeks to repress. Berhane said that the Eritrean government knows the power of the diaspora media: "It
has great potential to enlighten the people to know their rights and
duties, and in the same token to stand up for their rights." He went on to tell me with great
frustration, "I lost two brothers in
Regardless, Menghistu is undeterred in his pursuit of journalism. "I have a long way to go," he said, and told me about his long-term ambition of studying journalism at the University of Houston. But, he added, "I'll continue what I'm doing."


text: Tailgate Talk January 2013 January 6, 2013 07:53 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By AgWeb.com Editors Email Written by Sara Brown and Katie Humphreys Crop Insurance Payments as of Dec. 10 As of Dec. 10, more than $8.7 billion has been paid to farmers for crop losses in 2012. That number is expected to almost double when final numbers are tallied. This time last year, farmers had no idea that their $4.1 billion investment to purchase 1.2 million crop insurance policies for 281 million acres (86% of U.S. planted acres) would pay. To see an interactive series of maps that detail indemnity payments on a county-by-county basis, visit www.FarmJournal.com/crop_insurance. What a Day! Down hill slide This picture doesn't show the hill that this tractor and manure spreader slid down, but it must have been a doozy of a ride. Next time they go out to play, they may want to use the regular sled instead! If you've had one of those days—or caught someone else's on film—we'd love to share it with our readers. E-mail high-resolution images to firstname.lastname@example.com, or mail prints to What a Day!, FARM JOURNAL, P.O. Box 958, Mexico, MO 65265. Photos for publication will be selected on a first-come basis. Stat Rack Facts heard at the 2012 Farm Journal Forum during speeches by USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and Tom Dorr, former USDA Rural Development Undersecretary: 95% of the world's population lives outside the U.S. 75% of U.S. agricultural trade comes from the Asia-Pacific Rim area 290 million Chinese people will emigrate into the affluent social class by 2020—that's almost as large as the entire U.S. 60% The increase in farmers markets—which will be a continued focus because it provides smaller operators an opportunity to get into this farming business. Doubled Production capacity for renewable energy in the past three years 16% of the U.S. population lives in rural America—which means 16% of elected U.S. representatives represent rural America; 84% don't. Back to news


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Date: about 1888
Address: 68 West 100 South
The Union Roller Mill was built in 1865 and was later renamed the Thatcher Milling & Elevator Company. In 1888 the millstones in the Thatcher Mill were discarded and steel rollers were installed with an elevator with the capacity of 40,000 of bushels of grain. At the right of the photo is the East Building of the Brigham Young College.
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Our sex life has been underwhelming. I wonder if what happened to her as a child could be to blame
By Pamela Stephenson Connolly
I am in my mid-40s and have been married for 16 years. Our sexual life has been very underwhelming. I have tried everything I know but my wife seems to have little or no interest in sex. I do know that she was circumcised as a child. Could that have affected her sexuality?
A person's sexuality is created through a complex combination of physical, psychological and physiological factors as well as the messages about sex they received from childhood onwards – religious beliefs, parental warnings, societal judgment and formative experiences. You have told me little, but the fact that she was circumcised suggests that she may have been raised in a society where the notion of female sexuality was not exactly appreciated. In many of the world's societies – including our own – it is judged by some as inappropriate, and even feared, suppressed, or punished.
I cannot even try to guess your wife's experience, or the motives of those who performed it, but I am sure it has had some effect on her conceptualisation of sex and her ability to experience pleasure. This would be particularly true if her clitoris was removed. Gently ask her if she could try to express what the circumcision was like for her, and how it might have affected her ability to enjoy sex. A gynaecologist could shed some light on how nerve loss or damage might have affected her ability to orgasm or even become aroused, and a psychosexual counsellor could suggest alternative sexual approaches. After 16 years, your wife and you deserve some understanding and hope.
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At See.Me's exhibition space in Long Island City, Rachel Haot, the city's Chief Digital Officer, spoke about how the city responded to the storm, along with how it will improve the way it uses technology in the future.
"It became clear that social media played a really important role in keeping people informed and safe," she said.
Haot said that the use of social media to disseminate information helped keep people calm, a fact that shocked her and the mayors office.
"We knew that information was crucial in the event of an emergency, and that's why we activated all of our channels," Haot said.
To aid the city, Twitter donated "promoted" tweets, which meant that if a Twitter user in New York Dity searched for anything Sandy-related, the city's tweets would appear at the top of the page.
"This is something that goes an incredibly long way, and we see it as almost the future of the emergency broadcast system," Haot said.
One member of the audience asked Haot about wireless connectivity problems with the city when Sandy hit.
"There are some of us who have concerns about the communications infrastructure being as essential as our water supply," the audience member asked.
"The city is looking into making the wireless network stronger and the issue has come up multiple times," Haot said.
Jessica Lawrence, managing director of NY Tech Meetup, used her apartment as "command central" in the wake of Sandy. She used her list of 29,000 members to ask for volunteers and to create NY Tech Responds, a website that posted Hurricane Sandy relief information.
Her initial email received 900 responses from people who were willing to give their time to help work on the website and use social media to spread the word on relief efforts.
"I knew that tech platforms were something that was key in helping recovery happen fast, and I figured there would be additional support that was needed," Lawrence said.


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Kaka will move on loan to Sao Paulo before joining Orlando City
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Kaka has revealed he will move on loan to Sao Paulo before joining new Major League Soccer club Orlando City following the mutual termination of his contract with AC Milan.
The Rossoneri announced Kaka's second spell with the club is over after he exercised a get-out clause after Milan's failure to qualify for European football next season, despite still having one year left to run on his deal.
He will now join Sao Paulo, with whom he began his youth and professional career before being sold to Milan in 2003, and will then link up with Orlando City, who will become a team in the MLS in spring 2015.
"I've always said I wanted to play in the USA and now I have reached an agreement to play there," Kaka told AC Milan's television channel.
"Orlando City is a new team with a good project and the owner (Flavio Augusto da Silva) is Brazilian.
"I'm also happy to return to Sao Paulo. It's really satisfying for me."
Kaka only returned to the San Siro on a free transfer last summer after four years at Real Madrid.
The 32-year-old, who won a Serie A title and the Champions League in his first spell at Milan, scored seven goals in 30 league appearances in the 2013-14 season.
In total, Kaka, FIFA World Player of the Year in 2007, has scored 104 goals in 307 appearances for the Rossoneri.
Milan's statement continued: "Certain loves never end, they go in big circles when a contract is mutually terminated.
"The key word is mutual.
"Ciao Ricky (Kaka), we will never leave each other."
Milan finished a disappointing eighth last season and failed to qualify for European competition for the first time in 16 years.
Kaka added he will never again wear the number 22 - the number he wore at Milan.
"In Brazil, I think I will wear the number 8 and then 10 in America," he said.
Milan captain Riccardo Montolivo paid tribute to his former team-mate, writing on his Facebook page: "It was an honour to be your team-mate. Thanks for everything and good luck for your career."