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Family hopes to find cure for teen's rare disease
Theo Menswar, 15, fights for survival at Florida Hospital
Brant and Emily Menswar have been overwhelmed by the Facebook response to their son's struggle for survival.
Theo Menswar, 15, has been in Florida Hospital Orlando's Pediatric Transplant Unit since July.
"Over a million people have been praying for Theo from our estimates, now from Australia, to the hills of India, to the United States here," said Brant Menswar.
"It helps us get through each day to know how much support we have," said Emily Menswar.
The Rockledge teen was diagnosed in 2011 with myelodysplastic sydrome, or MDS. A bone marrow transplant last August prevented it from developing into leukemia, but now he's battling graft-versus-host disease, in which donor cells are attacking his body. He is also fighting a potentially deadly fungus.
He grows weaker daily.
Brant Menswar said doctors have told them three times that Theo isn't going to make it.
"Theo is still here. He's still fighting," he said. "He is a very tough kid. We have nicknamed him Rocky around here because he's taking a beating but he's still standing."
Broadcasting to the world that his "nephew is dying," Theo's uncle posted a YouTube video last week, not seeking money for medical bills, but hoping to reach an infectious disease specialist somewhere in the world with a cure.
Brant, a musician, and Emily, a math teacher, say their prayers were answered late Thursday when one doctor called and is expected to advise local doctors on a new treatment. It's an unexpected Easter blessing.
"He's a miracle child. He just keeps going, and that's hope," said Emily Menswar.
"I've never understood God's timing, but he seems to know what he's doing, so we're going to continue to trust him," said Brant Menswar.
The staff at Florida Hospital and the Menswar family say the best thing you can do to help Theo and others battling similar diseases is give blood. He's used a lot of it, and needs more.


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Metal Gear: Ground Zeroes review
Way back before the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the Sons of Aryas, in the year 2001, there was a teaser demo for a game called Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. This teaser allowed you to play as Solid Snake on an oil tanker which was secretly carrying a Metal Gear for the United States government.
Solid Snake, the avowed enemy of all things Metal Gear, was going to take some pictures of it in order to expose the government's violation of international treaty. Things went pear shaped and fans eagerly bought up the demo (even if they had to pay full-price for Zone of the Enders to get it) and were disappointed when they found out the main game was about newcomer Raiden rather than Solid Snake.
I am reminded of this story when I play Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, which is the hour to two hour long first mission of Metal Gear V: The Phantom Pain snipped away from the main game and released as an independent $30 release.
This is actually half of what the original price was intended to be and only at the bidding of Hideo Kojima the developers. This, despite the fact that most of these sorts of demos are free and the equally long Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, only cost $5.
Now, there's reason to argue that selling this two-hour-preview is worth more than Case Zero. The graphics are top-notch, Metal Gear is a much-much bigger franchise than Dead Rising, and the gameplay is far more intricate. You could even argue with rising Triple A game costs, it's necessary to release DLC and separate discs in order to defer costs.
I agree, which is why this game should have probably cost $15. Either that or they should have thrown in enough levels to make it a four to five hour experience and charged the same. As is, the game is incredibly overpriced and better as a rental or "buy and return" from Gamestop.
The later which, honestly, I consider crooked. So, fans of the game, I suggest you pick it up used or when the price goes down if you want your money's worth. Still, I've wasted 15 bucks before on much stupider things than this so you CAN buy it if you want. I'm just saying the price is an issue.
The premise of Metal Gear: Ground Zeroes is that it is about a month or so after the events of Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker. Paz Ortega, the seemingly peace-loving teenage co-star, has been captured by a Freddy Krueger-looking American soldier nicknamed Skullface.
Worse, Chico, Big Boss' surrogate son and conscience tried to rescue her and ended up getting himself captured. Skullface is the leader of a group called XOF (Fox spelled backwards) and he's apparently tortured both of them as well as performed all manner of gross medical experiments.
Yeah, nice guy.
Big Boss, being the honorable guy that he is, decides he's going to recover Chico at any cost. He's not so concerned about Paz and first suggests putting a bullet in her head to silence her. Those who played Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker shouldn't be surprised by this. Big Boss is convinced to rescue them both, though, and heads to US-run black site "Camp Omega" in Cuba. Gee, I wonder what location inspired this place? There's also something about Big Boss' mercenary company getting investigated by the U.N.
Anyway, the plot is surprisingly complex for a game which lasts a little under an hour for the main story. There's even a lengthy 11 page explanation of Peacewalker's plot available from the start screen. I love Hideo Kojima's work as much as the next man but he's learned nothing from the 9 hours of cutscenes in Metal Gear Solid IV has he? I also think anyone who hasn't watched a Let's Play of Peacewalker or completed the game is going to be somewhat lost as to who Paz is and why they should care.
The gameplay is what everyone really wants to talk about, however. Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is probably the most user-friendly and multi-gamestyle capable entry into the franchise yet. After years of finding it punishingly hard to complete these games, I completed Ground Zeroes both as a "run and gun" character as well as through stealth.
There's forty or so Marines in Camp Omega and it's quite possible to kill them all. The fact the game allows you a few seconds to shoot them in a "bullet time" effect when they first spot you is a great gift for those of us who lack godlike stealth abilities. Unlike in previous entries, if you kill them, they can't call for help and gunfire doesn't automatically inform the military of where you are. I'd say this adds replay value but it's, literally, possible to complete the game in seven minutes once you know where Paz and Chico are.
Artificial means of extending the game's length include trying to rescue all of the prisoners in Camp Omega and a number of side quests you gain by retrieving XOF patches. While I feel emotionally compelled to do the former, the latter doesn't really interest me. Sadly, I think there's several more side missions which could have been performed in Camp Omega which would have made the game more interesting.
You could have also lengthened out the existing missions by putting a few necessary steps in-between. Rescue Chico>Recover evidence about the torture going on in Camp Omega>Kill the Scientist conducting the experiments>Capture the Base Commander to find out where Paz is>Rescue Paz. Some of this is touched on in the side missions but they could have all formed a coherent main narrative.
Graphically, Ground Zeroes' Camp Omega is one of the most beautiful settings I've ever played in. The dreary, dark, and foreboding location combined with its stormy atmosphere makes it a wonderful setting for a rescue mission. The Fox Engine even allows you to "wait out" the storm so it can be daylight when you explore, though it loses some of its feel thereafter. The contrast of modern military equipment to dog kennel-like conditions for the prisoners is also a real kick in the gut.
One final warning, the treatment of Chico and Paz by the forces of XOF goes beyond the bounds of good taste. Kojima wishes to make a point about the sadistic treatment of prisoners by torturers and includes the potential triggers of sexual abuse along with a sickening placement of explosives. If you are easily offended, you should probably avoid this game. Thankfully, the worst of it is never alluded to beyond the audio tapes.
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Astonishing Acts Involving Sleeves
Last night I sat down with Fin to read her a bedtime story, and she did the most amazing thing. She reached for the book, but two of her fingers were caught in her sleeve, so first she stretched her arm straight out, popping her hand free, then took the book.
Maybe that doesn't sound so amazing. But I was flabergasted. It was so grown up. When I first saw Fin, she was seven cells. I saw her on a TV monitor, while Fin herself floated around inside an IVF doctor's syringe. For the month prior to that, she was in frozen storage (and for this reason was called "Popsicle" during most of the pregnancy). She was seven cells. And now she can free her hand from her sleeve and climb stairs and wave at trains and moo at pictures of cows.
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They are the folks all across America, including our own Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, and Erie counties, they are what keeps America going. They are creative, hard working men and women of integrity; and, they are dedicated senior citizens of passion; and, they are the loved and natured children who are cherished; ...that is what keeps America going. They are the great engine of humanity, powered by ingenuity and enterprise, generated by determination and collegiality. That is what fosters the grandeur of the great American spirit.
You know, we are an affluent nation of wealth, property, and products, but that is not the basis of our affluence. We have a powerful military establishment, but that's not what makes us strong. We have a creative energy in our medical and scientific communities within our shores, but that is not what makes us stand out among nations. We have illustrious enterprising business establishments, but that is not for what we are noted. And, our universities and culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. So, what is it that keeps America going?
It is the realization of the American spirit, the hope of the American promise, the indomitable fortitude of the People themselves. It is the American people of all ages and backgrounds... that moves us ever forward. Even when the times are uncertain and the pathways are unclear, there is a surge of energy, a spirit of resilience, and a drive for creativeness which prevails among the people. This same energy binds us together in spite of our differences. There is a spirit of determination that makes us fix our sights not on what is seen, but what is in the realm of possibility. For you see, there resides within the consciousness of Americans, a hope of that which can yet be realized. This hope is based upon the promise of that which resides in our greatest strength: a spirit of a valiant virtue within a determined people... regardless of age, background, or national origin. Therein, is our great American spirit.
The strength of America lies in the reality that the individual citizens are the architects of their own destiny. The people can write the scripts for their own life. If there is a single phrase, that best captures this idea, it is the "pursuit of happiness." America doesn't guarantee happiness but it guarantees you the opportunity to discover happiness for yourself. And happy people are a strong, passionate, and courageous people.
You know, America is exceptional. True, we are the most diverse nation on the Earth and there are strong bonds that hold the people together as a nation... as a united people. There is a strong belief that our destiny is shared with one another; that this country works well when we hold true to our obligations we have for and to one another. And these obligations extend to future generations. And, that the freedoms which so many noble Americans have fought for and died for, comes with responsibilities as well as rights, and among these rights are faith, love, and charity to one another and to our posterity. That's what makes America great.
All men and women in their own chosen fields are distinctly important in their own right. Be they present, past, or future workers. To name a few... health care providers, skilled trades and service personnel, military men and women, agriculturalists and all associated with foods and fabrics, social/scientific/civic/ and humanities personnel, business folks and artisans, educators and researchers, and media and civic personnel Each calling, plays a significant role as part of the epic mosaic of American free enterprise. And, each stands stoically as a significant pillar of the American enterprising spirit.
What keeps America going? It is the indomitable spirit of the people themselves. That is what keeps America going.


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Arrieta hopes Monday is final rehab tuneup
CHICAGO -- Jake Arrieta, slowed this spring by tightness in his right shoulder, will make another rehab start on Monday for Class A Daytona, and he hopes that is his last tuneup before he's ready to rejoin the Cubs.
Arrieta has made three rehab starts with Double-A Tennessee, but the Cubs are having him start for Daytona in hopes of finding some warmer weather.
In his last outing, Arrieta went 5 2/3 innings, and said he'd like to throw 100 pitches on Monday.
"I want to get out there and get up to 100 pitches and kind of fine tune and refine some things, and hopefully, that'll be the last stop," Arrieta said.
In his last outing, the Double-A Jackson team was swinging at just about everything Arrieta threw. He said he wants to work on throwing his cutter and changeup when he's behind in the count, something that will be necessary in the big leagues.
"There are some things I need to do better," Arrieta said. "I'm one step away from being really locked in, and it feels good."
What has also been encouraging is that his stamina and velocity are strong, with his fastball in the low- to mid-90s.
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Bye, Bye, Microsoft
When I attended my first Consumer Electronics Show in 1990, Microsoft was a relatively small company that had had one real hit (MS-DOS) and was struggling to gain traction with its other applications. I don't think the company even exhibited at CES back then. When I attended my 11th CES in 2000, Microsoft was regarded by most as the most important company at the show. Because I watched the company rise to dominate CES, it was in many ways shocking to me when I heard Microsoft had pulled out of the 2012 show and had cancelled its traditional keynote address.
But on another level, Microsoft's withdrawal from CES didn't surprise me. After all, why would a company that has repeatedly tried and failed to enter the consumer electronics business want to hang around the Consumer Electronics Show?
Consider the record. By my tally, the company's only real success in consumer electronics has been the Xbox game platform, which maintains a strong presence in that field. The Windows Phone 7 platform has been well-reviewed but has yet to make a real impact. The Zune MP3 player succeeded on one level — you've actually heard of it — but failed in every other way. The company's attempts to promote tablet computing went nowhere while its rival Apple succeeded spectacularly on its first try.
Microsoft strived to insert its technology into the living room with early home theater PCs, the later Windows Media Edition, and the Microsoft TV Foundation Edition cable-box OS. But a few diehard HTPC geeks perhaps excepted, few people greeted those efforts with enthusiasm. The company's attempts at home automation through PCs similarly fizzled.
None of this means Microsoft is dead. Not even close. I'm writing this on a laptop running Microsoft Windows 7, using Microsoft Word, and when it posts I'll check it using Microsoft Explorer. While I don't know what database the Sound+Vision website uses, a lot of them run on Microsoft SQL Server.
Microsoft's rival Apple doesn't exhibit at CES, either. But it doesn't need to. Any time an Apple product is introduced, it dominates the tech news for a week before and a week after the introduction.
What Microsoft's departure from CES means is that Microsoft remains a computing company. It succeeds when it targets IT professionals, and when its products are already so well-established (Windows, Word, Excel, etc.) that there aren't any real competitors.
Yet when it tries to sell to consumers, Microsoft generally fails. The company's principals brilliantly understood how to gain leverage and use that leverage to effectively force its products into the commercial marketplace, and force its competitors out. Yet none of them ever seemed to understand that consumers cannot be forced. Consumers must be persuaded, charmed, seduced — and if anyone ever used those terms describing the effect of a Microsoft product or ad, I think we'd all laugh.
But you never know. The guy who turned Apple from a little computer company into a master seducer of consumers is gone. The guys who made Microsoft the 800-pound gorilla of enterprise computing are either out or probably on their way out.
And the 2012 CES will probably contain one exhibitor who, while barely able to pay the bill for a 10x10-foot booth at this show, will be taking colossal bites out of Apple's and Microsoft's business come 2020.


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Macaroons around the world differs by ingredients and taste. This recipe I got from one of my "COOKING HEROES", my –Mommy Bing. We are proud to say that this is our PHILIPPINE MACAROONS!!!
And just for the record… Today is friday! Actually its "Friday The 13th"!!!
My eldest daugther Jenin told her mom that friday the 13th is bad luck for her. My wife ask her why? Jenin told her that she loses some POGS to her classmate. Aha!!! So thats what my kids is doing at school… Gambling instead of studying!
But on the otherhand, back in our days, we use to bet real money. Nice to know that my kids are not as bad as their dad. 😉 Wish they dont follow my footstep, I was kick-out when I was on 8th grade. 😦
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Now on with the cooking…
Coconut Macaroons
Prep. time; 10minutes
Baking time; 30-35minutes
Difficulty: Very Easy
Makes; 24pcs. muffin cups
You will need;
500 grms dessicated coconut
1 tin (397grms) sweet condensed milk
1 tin (410grms) evaporated milk
½ cup sugar
½ tsp. Baking powder
4 pcs. (60grms/each) fresh eggs
1 tsp. vanilla liquid
Preheat oven to 165'C / 350'F
Mix all ingredients, scoop 4Tbsp. of mixture to each muffin paper cups.
Bake for 30-35minutes or until golden brown.
Serve it warm or cooled.
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As feel-good endings to basketball-arena timelines go, what happened yesterday at UCLA's slated-for-renovation Pauley Pavilion is scripted perfectly. In the building where his great grandfather, the late John Wooden, coached eight national-championship teams, Tyler Trapani made his third on-court appearance of the season and scored his first two points of his career.
They just so happened to be the last points ever scored at old-school Pauley. Check 0:49 of the video up top. Looks somewhat fated, right?
His coach cried.
Afterward, Tyler Trapani said his family was probably worried about him because, for the first time ever, he was delaying their postgame dinner to do an interview. And when actually asked about the shot, he couldn't really answer.
"I'm still kind of baffled about what just happened," he said. "Usually, I don't even get into the games. I'm just honored to be part of the team."
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MOAB, Utah — The doorknob had smashed a sizable hole in the wall of our room at the Apache Motel. The rusty bathroom ceiling fan made a harsh scraping sound, and the industrial carpet sported several suspicious stains.
We loved the place.
The neon sign at the motel, built in the early 1950s on what was then the town's main street, is classic: A giant white arrow spears the motel's name alongside the archaic image of an Apache. It glows with pure midcentury sentimentality.
On a nine-day road trip last month, my best friend, Emily, and I found dozens of these pop culture touchstones as we wound through the rock country and national parks of Utah, the old mining towns of Colorado and the vast red rock reservations of New Mexico. We relived the glory years of road-tripping — the gritty motels, restaurants, bars and diners that have been replaced or are overlooked as modern travelers choose safe hotel chains and familiar fast-food joints.
Our mission was to find those reminders of classic American road trips before they fade into oblivion. The rule was simple: If it wasn't built before 1975, it wasn't for us. We awarded bonus points (or, in our case, pints) for a place such as the Apache, which had the right mix of retro aesthetics, character and rundown charm, plus a dash of celebrity. (John Wayne and John Ford often stayed at the Apache while filming in the area.)
We were so intent on re-creating the classic American road trip experience that we used a paper Michelin road map, instead of our iPhone directionals. Each morning we would plot the next chapter of a back-road course that took us to small, wind-swept towns that often had these relics.
During our 2,700-mile quest, we stumbled across dozens of still-operating classic roadside businesses. But we also found plenty of places where weeds grew out of the broken windows and the faded "for sale" signs spoke volumes about the luck (or lack of luck) in finding a buyer. Every turn of the tires took us back in time.
Towering red sandstone cliffs surround the low-slung Zion Park Motel in Springdale, Utah, built in 1972 and just a mile from the national park. A slide carved into a chunk of rock catapulted swimmers into a simple swimming pool. We drank wine and stared at the enormous sky, which was littered with stars. When we grew tired of gazing at the sky outside, we could continue inside where cloudy blue heavens were painted on the ceilings of the rooms.
We hiked Zion's Emerald Pools Trail the next morning, a 3-mile stroll through monoliths, before setting out for Monument Valley. Along the way we came upon Kanab, called "Utah's Little Hollywood" because so many westerns —including "The Outlaw Josey Wales" and "Stagecoach" — used the town as a location.
Even more important, Kanab is a veritable holy grail of midcentury motels. Like snap-happy children, Emily and I ran from inn to inn taking pictures of stunning old neon signs: Quail Park Lodge (which has been remodeled, but its retro vibe is intact), Bob Bon Inn, Four Seasons Motel, Treasure Trail Motel and Aiken's Lodge.
The grandma of them all was Parry Lodge, whose rooms are named for the stars who stayed there, including Wayne, Dean Martin, Clint Eastwood and Barbara Stanwyck. Like aging silent-film star Norma Desmond of "Sunset Blvd.," the Parry Lodge has seen better days, but that gives it a sense of romantic nostalgia tinged with tragedy.
A large white plantation-style main building gives way to rows of rooms along a vast parking lot built around an old barn. The rooms are dimly illuminated and out of date despite a remodel, with tacky patterned bedspreads and a harsh fluorescent bulb in the bathroom, but they are clean and well-kept.
Retro, we quickly learned, doesn't necessarily mean refined.
Night had fallen by the time we reached Monument Valley, so we drove into the town of Mexican Hat, Utah (population 34), where we got a room at an old trading post called the San Juan Inn in a steep red rock cliff above the San Juan River. The original part of the inn was built in the 1950s, although the trading post predates it by at least a decade. Our bathroom window opened on a sheer rock wall that you could reach out and touch. The beds were comfy and the décor plain and pastel, but the tub was gray in a way that looked unscrubbable.
In the morning we had fried eggs and toast at the motel restaurant, the Olde Bridge Grille, which was filled with scuffed wooden chairs and tables and covered with kitsch. The coffee was terrible and therefore perfect.
After driving the rocky 17-mile loop road through Monument Valley, where we marveled at the stark beauty of the park's iconic buttes, we were covered with a fine red dirt, so we headed for Moab and checked into the Apache Motel.
Just before lunchtime the next day, we climbed onto classic red diner stools beneath a Formica counter at a little burger stand in Moab called Milt's Stop & Eat, a 1954 diner where we had the best meal of our trip.
Milt's features hormone-free, grass-fed beef burgers and hand-cut fries with housemade fry sauce, a clever mixture of ketchup, mayonnaise, salt and pepper.
"Fry sauce and Jell-O are Utah staples for some reason," our friendly server Jim Aleff told us. Emily had a juicy Cowboy Burger with melted cheddar cheese, jalapeños and an onion ring, and I had a Peggy-O Ranch burger with avocados, tomatoes and ranch sauce.
We hiked off the calories in Arches National Park with a trip to Landscape Arch, a giant with a span of 290 feet, then sped on for the cool, green of Colorado. There we took a dip in the hot springs in Ouray and bunked down for the night in the old mining town of Silverton. But the vibe of these stops was more 1870s than 1970s, so we quickly detoured south to New Mexico.
At sunset we pulled into the quaint town of Taos, N.M., and checked into El Pueblo Lodge. It was built 100 years ago but became a motel in the 1950s. This was the best-kept motel of the trip: The grounds were neatly manicured, it had a lovely kidney-shaped pool and we found barbecue pits and picnic tables. The rooms were large and clean with pretty wooden porches for lounging. The motif was adobe and Southwest, and the place spoke to the past without giving up on niceties of the present.
Our breakfast the next morning was a gooey egg enchilada at Michael's Kitchen, which opened in 1974 and attracts a big morning crowd. With a cool old sign, a scratched diner counter and round, red stools we found it easy to picture yesterday's travelers. After discovering the joys of New Mexican sopaipillas at Michael's, they would surely head for El Santuario de Chimayo, which features an 1816 adobe church and a pit of sacred earth said to have miraculous healing power.
We stopped here before heading to our final destination, the hard-as-nails town of Gallup, N.M., my birthplace.
Gallup has a strip of old motels along a stretch of Route 66; my parents, who were once teachers on the nearby Navajo reservation, recommended El Rancho Hotel & Motel. The sign on this 1937 classic boasts of the "Charm of Yesterday … Convenience of Tomorrow."
Yesterday's charm was apparent in our Rita Hayworth room (hordes of old stars once stayed here too) with its old carpet and rickety wood balcony that looked over the faded glory of Route 66 and its successor, the brutish Interstate 40.
The next day we took the latter home, passing unremarkable motel chains and fast-food places. No charm, no character, no portal to the past. What fun was that?


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Embattled ex-LSUcoach resurfaces, says exit wasn't voluntary Saturday,
August 04, 2007
By Lori Lyons
It has been nearly six months since Pokey Chatman abruptly resigned as LSU women's basketball coach before the Lady Tigers were to participate in the NCAA Tournament. Since her departure from the program she had been associated with for the past 20 years, Chatman had not spoken publicly about allegations of improper relationships with her former players.
Chatman, however, emerged Friday in a familiar place. She is hosting a basketball camp for girls ages 10 to 18 at Hahnville High School, her alma mater.
Despite her low profile since March, Chatman, 37, said she has not been in seclusion. She also refused to address the allegations, which were first brought to LSU's attention by assistant coach Carla Berry, a former teammate of Chatman with the Lady Tigers. Chatman and LSU reached a contract settlement of $160,000 in June with an agreement that the former coach wouldn't pursue further litigation.
"I've traveled, I've been to the grocery store, I've been to Wal-Mart," the Ama native said. "I've got to live. Mostly I've been at my house in Baton Rouge, at my place on the river. I've been riding my bike a little bit, spending some time with my friends and family, and basically just getting ready for these camps.
"People assume that I've been in seclusion because I haven't been doing interviews, but I'm at the stage where that's been my life for the past 12 years, so, I'm living. I'm moving forward and making progress."
Chatman announced her resignation with the intention of coaching the team through the NCAA Tournament. A few days later, however, LSU announced that she would not continue to coach the team. Longtime assistant Bob Starkey took over on an interim basis and led LSU to its fourth consecutive Final Four. Van Chancellor, formerly of Ole Miss and the WNBA's Houston Comets, subsequently was hired as LSU's coach.
Chatman said she was caught off guard by the way her coaching career ended. She had been at LSU since 1987, beginning as a player with Coach Sue Gunter. After her playing career was over, Chatman was hired by Gunter as an assistant and took over as head coach on an interim basis in 2004 when Gunter fell ill. That season, Chatman led the Lady Tigers to their first Final Four appearance. She was 90-13 during her tenure, which was the most successful in the program's history.
"I had a 20-year career at LSU, and that didn't warrant a 20-minute conversation," she said. "Would I do things different? That's difficult to say, because I didn't get to do anything. And I'll just leave it at that. I don't want to wrestle in the mud with the pigs. The bottom line is, I worked 20 years for an institution, and I couldn't get a 20-minute conversation about what was going on. That told me right then and there that I was not wanted there."
Asked why she announced her resignation before the tournament instead of waiting until the season ended, Chatman replied: "If (you) think that was voluntary -- come on. I committed to doing my part to keep the madness at a minimum. I had a commitment to the team. Regardless of what everyone else was saying about, 'It's for the players. It's for the kids' -- yeah, right. That was my commitment. That made it easy. It made it easy because they're on the plane and they're calling me. It's halftime of the game, and they're calling me."
Chatman said she watched LSU's victory against North Carolina-Asheville in the first round of the tournament and its loss to Rutgers in the Final Four surrounded by family and friends in Ama -- and a large portion of uneaten boiled crawfish.
"I love crawfish, and I couldn't eat," she said. "They were saying, 'You're not going to eat this crawfish?' And I said, 'Rutgers is not a 3-point shooting team, and they're hitting everything they're putting up. Leave me alone. I'm sick.' "
Since leaving LSU, Chatman said she has been consulting with a shoe company and exploring opportunities, which including coaching possibilities. She also has been spending time with her mother, Carolyn, and her sister, Derrill Scrubbs.
"I'm glad to have her back," Scrubbs said. "I used to call her on the phone and she'd say, 'I have to call you back.' Now she's watching movies she hasn't seen in two years. We're talking about Oprah."
Chatman said she was urged by supporters to hold the camp. Hahnville also hosted her first camp in 1994. Chatman will hold another camp in Baton Rouge later this month.
After spending Friday with about 75 eager basketball players, Chatman was exhilarated.
"It was awesome," she said. "It's just the whole camp mentality. Coaches teach; and the game doesn't change. It doesn't matter if you're coaching professionals or kids.
"Will I coach again? I'm coaching today. Will I ever coach another college team? You never rule anything out, but that's not what I'm looking for today."
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Two days after Libyans voted in their first elections in more than four decades – a key step toward remaking their country after Qaddafi – many are talking about a possible liberal win in a country long seen as conservative.
Votes are still being counted, but yesterday, the National Forces Alliance coalition (NFA) claimed an unofficial lead in congressional elections, something the two main Islamist groups acknowledged. Now the question is: with NFA leader and former interim prime minister Mahmoud Jibril rejecting both the liberal label and the Islamist, what does the NFA intend? And what do Libyans think it intends?
Two days ago, Libyans voted in their first elections in more than four decades – a key step toward remaking their country after the downfall last year of dictator Muammar Qaddafi. Votes are still being counted, but already Libyans are talking about a possible liberal win in a country long seen as conservative.
Yesterday, the National Forces Alliance coalition (NFA) claimed an unofficial lead in congressional elections, and two main Islamist groups acknowledged the claimed lead. But with NFA leader and former interim prime minister Mahmoud Jibril rejecting both the liberal label and its Libyan opposite, Islamist, what does the NFA intend? And, perhaps as important, what do Libyans think it intends?
As Mr. Jibril tells it, the NFA is classic big tent politics: about 55 diverse parties and 100 individual candidates united to make Libya function after autocracy.
"We're not an ideological organization," he told reporters at a press conference last night at the NFA's headquarters. "We're a mixture of different parties who have joined hands to rebuild this country."
For supporters, however, Jibril represents the Libya they want to see take shape: politically centrist, outward-looking, respectful of Islam but not beholden to it.
"I want a modern country, though not too liberal, because we're Muslims," says Nairuz Shihub, a young bank employee taking a lunch break this afternoon in the upscale district of Hay al Andalus. She voted for a party from within the NFA party.
"Jibril has a lot of plans for the economy and for education, and he's not closeminded like the Islamists," she says.
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A former prime minister in the interim government appointed last year by the National Transitional Council (NTC), Jibril toured Libya for months to meet local leaders, says Faisel Krekshi, the NFA's secretary general. "The main thing they all have in common is a basic principle: Start building Libya," Mr. Krekshi says.
The NFA wants to form a unity government with rival groups, including Islamists such as the Justice and Construction Party, a Muslim Brotherhood branch, and the Nation Party.
"This country is 100 percent Muslim; talking about secularism would be stupid," Krekshi says. "Religion cannot be an obstacle to restarting the country."
The NFA rejects political Islam. But its manifesto cites Islam as a source of law while pledging respect of other religions and foreigners' freedom to practice them.
It remains to be seen how votes will stack up in official results expected later this month. Even with a high score, the NFA might splinter or fail to find partners.
Islamists might deem Jibril insufficiently pious, while eastern Libyans might criticize his service in an interim cabinet that some say has favored Tripoli, says Mustafa Fetouri, an independent Libyan academic in Belgium. Easterners have also complained that their region gets only 60 of 200 congressional seats, while Tripoli gets 102.
"That could deny the NFA a majority coalition," he says. "Or parties could take matters into their own hands and cause trouble in areas like the east and southeast."
Jibril, meanwhile, called for dialogue with disgruntled easterners and stressed problem-solving over polemics. "Arguments don't serve the interests of Libyan citizens," he said.
Jibril's star power
The NFA wants to leave questions of ideology aside to focus on nuts-and-bolts issues. That would be a dramatic break from Mr. Qaddafi's rule, when Libyans were subject to his shifting interests.
He backed armed groups in the name of anticolonialism, banned political parties in favor of the jamahiriya committee system – his own invention – and as a pan-Africanist lavished Libyan wealth on sub-Saharan governments.
Libya, meanwhile, was neglected. Today many note the contradiction between the country's vast oil reserves and the shabby state of its roads, schools, and infrastructure.
During Jibril's press conference, the electricity cut out. He stopped in mid-sentence, the room dark, until staff members started a generator outside. When the conference, ended the audience filtered into the night beneath a giant NFA poster bearing his image.
He stresses that he is one of many partners. Yet star power and a hurried 18-day campaign period has brought him to the fore, says Krekshi.
Many voters on Saturday said they put individual capacities above party affiliation. But for some, association with Jibril was a plus.
"He was one of the first people in the NTC, and we saw him on television more than the others," says Ms. Shihub.
"We haven't had time to fully explain our program," says Krekshi. "But it would be crazy to hide a personality like him. If you have a Ferrari, you go with it."


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Born: 10 May 1899 in Uhersky Ostroh, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Died: 22 July 1995 in Brno, Czech Republic
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Otakar Boruvka entered the Gymnasium in Uherské Hradiste in 1910 when he was eleven years old. He continued to study there until 1916 but, of course, by this time Europe was in the midst of World War I. The war was unpopular with the Czech people, and the press was censored and public meetings were forbidden. With the influence of the military increasing, Boruvka went to the military school in Hranice in northern Moravia. He then moved to another military school in Mödling in the picturesque Brühl Valley, just southwest of Vienna.
After the end of World War I, Boruvka returned to the Gymnasium in Uherské Hradiste to take his final examinations. He then entered the Czech Technical University in Brno where he studied from 1918 to 1922. Here he came under the influence of Mathias Lerch who, after eight years as professor at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, had returned to the Czech Republic in 1906 when he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Czech Technical University in Brno. In 1920 Boruvka became an assistant at the Institute of Physics and, in the same year, began taking courses also at the Masarak University in Brno. This was a new university, opened in 1920, named the Masaryk University after the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomás Masaryk. Lerch became the first professor of mathematics at this new university and he selected Boruvka to become his research assistant in 1921. Sadly the collaboration did not last long since Lerch died in August 1922. Eduard Čech was appointed extraordinary professor at Masaryk University in 1923 to fill the vacancy created by Lerch's death. Boruvka then became Čech's research assistant and Čech interested Boruvka in differential geometry. After being awarded his doctorate in 1923, Boruvka continued to undertake research at Masaryk University.
To many people Boruvka is best known for his solution of the Minimal Spanning Tree problem which he published in 1926 in two papers On a certain minimal problem (Czech) and Contribution to the solution of a problem of economical construction of electrical networks (Czech). Let us quote the problem as it appears in the second of these 1926 papers:-
There are n points in the plane whose mutual distances are different. The problem is to join them with a net in such a way that:In modern graph theoretical terms this can be stated as: Given an undirected graph with weights assigned to its edges, find a spanning tree of minimal weight.
1. any two points are joined to each other either directly or by means of some other points;
2. the total length of the net will be minimal.
In fact the problem had been suggested to Boruvka before he became a university student. He had a friend, Jindrich Saxel, who worked for the firm West-Moravian Powerplants and he suggested the problem which he stated in terms of cities and the distances between them. At the time that Saxel suggested the problem to Boruvka, World War I was still happening and Czech universities were closed. Boruvka was offered a job with West-Moravian Powerplants at this time but declined. The authors of [8] write:-
The Minimal Spanning Tree problem is a cornerstone of Combinatorial Optimisation and in a sense its cradle. The problem is important both in its practical and theoretical applications. Moreover, recent development places Boruvka's pioneering work in a new and very contemporary context. One can even say that out of many available Minimal Spanning Tree algorithms, Boruvka's algorithm is presently the basis of the fastest known algorithms.Čech suggested to Boruvka that he should go abroad and broaden his mathematical horizons. An obvious choice, suggested Čech, was Paris where Boruvka could work with Élie Cartan. He spent 1926-27 in Paris, where he lectured on his solution to the Minimal Spanning Tree problem, then returned to Masaryk University in Brno where he habilitated and was made a dozent in 1928. He spent further years abroad, going back to Paris in 1929-30 where his visit was supported by the Rockefeller foundation. He then went to Hamburg where, still supported by the Rockefeller foundation, he spent the year 1930-31.
The graph theory work undertaken by Boruvka early in his career did not lead to further work in this area. Under the influence of Eduard Čech and Élie Cartan he worked on differential geometry, then he became interested in algebra, and undertook research on groups and groupoids (algebraic systems in which the associative law does not hold). For example in Über Ketten von Faktoroiden Ⓣ (1941) he considered partitions of groupoids with the property that the product of two sets is contained entirely within some other set of the partition. In 1944 he published a little book of 80 pages Introduction to the Theory of Groups (Czech). The book consists of three chapters: the first gives the fundamental concepts of set theory; the second contains the theory of groupoids; and the third contains the theory of groups. The book went through a number of editions, each adding considerably more material. The second Czech edition in 1952 contains about 150 pages, while when the book was published in German in 1960 it was about 200 pages long. Its aim in presenting material in both groups and groupoids was reflected in the title Grundlagen der Gruppoid- und Gruppentheorie Ⓣ. Essentially the material of this German edition appeared in Czech in 1962 and in English in 1976 with the title Foundations of the theory of groupoids and groups.
As World war II was drawing to a close, Boruvka began to think about revitalising the mathematical research work of Masaryk University. He discussed these matters with Frantisek Vycichlo, a Prague mathematician, and their feeling was that differential equations would be a good direction to take his research team. Boruvka had already written a paper on differential equations in 1934, but now he began to direct the research of Masaryk University towards that topic. His own recollections about this period are given in [22]:-
Already in 1944, when it was clear that the war would be over soon and that the victory of the Allies was certain, it was necessary for me to think about my future activity realistically, i.e. on the one hand my pedagogical activity, but also my scientific one as well. As for the pedagogical activity, it was necessary to see to it that those students who started studying before the war might accomplish their studies and the newcomers might begin studying ... How to organize lectures to satisfy all those students? In this respect I did not worry ... I was rather thinking of what trend to start, as far as scientific work was concerned. At that time scientific work was not controlled in any way and the professors bore the responsibility personally and individually and I had not a good overview of what it looked like in this country on the whole and in what direction scientific work in mathematics should continue. I went to Prague, it was at the end of 1944, to consult the matter with my colleagues. I spoke above all to Frantisek Vycichlo whom I held in high esteem. We discussed the matter thoroughly and arrived at the conclusion that it was essential to start pursuing the theory of differential equations which is immensely important as far as applications are concerned and which was much neglected before the war and in essence it was not at all developed. And since we did not see anyone that would take up that task, I declared that I would take the matter myself, although it was not an easy decision, because it meant I had to change the field of my scientific work.In 1946 Boruvka became an ordinary professor at Masaryk University and in the following year he set up a Differential Equations Seminar. The main aim of the seminar was to study global properties of linear differential equations of the nth order. He explains [22] how he went about this work:-
Very soon I recognised that it was an immensely difficult problem of long lasting which I could not master with my own forces in the near future. The main problem and difficulty was the fact that here there occurred absolutely new questions which had no models, no basic concepts were known, not to mention any methods that would permit some systematic study, etc. And that is why I came with the idea that the solution of that problem was possible only in the following way that in the first period one would acquire some experience in the simplest cases and only in the second period, on the basis of the concepts introduced and experience obtained, one would go to the extension of those results to the most general case. And I did it in that way.Boruvka's publications on this topic include Sur les intégrales oscilatoires des equations différentielles linéaires du second ordre Ⓣ (1953), Remark on the use of Weyr's theory of matrices for the integration of systems of linear differential equations with constant coefficients (Czech) (1954), Über eine Verallgemeinerung der Eindeutigkeitssätze für Integrale der Differentialgleichung y' = f (x, y) Ⓣ (1956), and Sur la transformation des intégrales des équations différentielles linéaires ordinaires du second ordre Ⓣ (1956). Much of his work, and that of others participating in his seminar, is contained in Boruvka's book Lineare differential- transformationen 2. Ordnung Ⓣ (1967) which was translated into English as Linear differential transformations of the second order (1971).
Among the many honours which Boruvka receiced were election to the Czech Academy of Sciences (corresponding member 1953, ordinary member 1965), and honorary doctorates from Bratislava (1969) and Brno (1994).
Let us end this biography with Boruvka's own words about his approach to mathematics [22]:-
I would like to remember facts in my life that were essential not only for me personally, but chiefly for mathematics and for the future mathematical generation: Before every serious task I try to find carefully and dutifully how to fulfil it in the best way, and when I find a solution, I carry it out as best as I can according to my best sense and conscience and with all my might. I consider success a natural consequence of my activity and I do not ascribe it a particular importance. I consider failures to be signs of the complexity of life and I draw information from them. But I am never sorry for my decisions, because at every moment I acted as best as I could. ... And maybe just because none of us knows which day will be his or her last, I tried knowingly, and according to my powers, to live in each of them fully and to work. In the same way as my teachers lived - Matyas Lerch, Ladislav Seifert and Eduard Čech - they gave me a lot - I also feel the duty to pass most of it to the young talented generation. They always sided with the talented and diligent ones, that was their, and in the end also my, creed: I will set you on the horse, but you must ride the horse yourselves.
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Manchester City are at the centre of the transfer rumour mill once again in this morning's headlines.
A number of reports link the Club with what would be a dramatic, world record £140m bid for Monaco's French striker Kylian Mbappe.
Reports suggest the battle to capture the teenager, who burst onto the stage in last season's Champions League, will boil down to a straight fight between City and Real Madrid, who have also been heavily linked with Mbappe.
Chris Wheeler in the Daily Mail, writes that City are hoping to hijack Real Madrid's bid to persuade the youngster to move to Spain.
"City are pursuing a deal that would shatter the £89m deal that brought Paul Pogba to Manchester United last year," he writes.
"Real have agreed £160m six-year deal with Mbappe but City are refusing to give up the chase."
ESPN's Jonathan Smith says that City are willing to match any offer for a player who has become the most sought-after young talent in Europe.
"City are ready to offer assurances that he will feature regularly despite the wealth of attacking options at the Etihad Stadium with Sergio Aguero, Gabriel Jesus, Leroy Sane and Raheem Sterling all fighting for a starting place."
Writing in the Daily Mirror, David McDonnell says that City are more than willing to go toe-to-toe with the likes of Real Madrid in order to sign the best available talent.
"Pep Guardiola says City can compete for the same players as Real such as Mbappe, and insists they have the same financial muscle as 12-times European champions."
Meanwhile, new City defender Danilo, who joined the club from Real Madrid earlier this week, revealed he has rejected the chance to join Chelsea in order to move to Manchester, according to Manchester Evening News reporter James Robson.
"It wasn't a difficult decision to choose City over Chelsea. The moment Pep and City called me, I knew what I had to do," Danilo told the paper.
"It was very fast. I was training with Real Madrid and Pep called me and I was very motivated to make this change and start to work with him.
"I was sure I needed to change. I needed to think a bit more about myself and find a place where I had the best options."
That's all for today, Blues, but we'll be back with more paper talk tomorrow.


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Kareena: To work with Zoya Akhtar
Source: Mid Day
Many filmmakers wish to work with Kareena Kapoor, but she has her eyes set on one director – Zoya Akhtar, who has scripted the actress' forthcoming film "Talaash".
"I am grateful to the directors who have cast me and that means a lot. (There are) Actors that I have worked with double times, so I consider myself lucky. But I personally love Zoya's (Akhtar) work. She is a wonderful filmmaker. I would love to work with Zoya," Kareena told in an interview.
Earlier, reports indicated that Zoya was working on a script and intended to cast Kareena and her cousin, actor Ranbir Kapoor in the movie.
However, to this, Kareena said: "She is wonderful. I hope things fall in place. I think Zoya is writing a script, (but) nothing is concrete right now."
Meanwhile, Kareena believes the "audience has become very sharp and they are liking different films."


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Dan Aykroyd has put to bed all those "will he, won't he" Bill Murray rumors for Ghostbusters 3. Bill Murray will not be a part of the third installment of the franchise, Grumpy Old Ghostbusters. Also, the entire project is in limbo:
In an interview with the Telegraph Aykroyd gave us a project update:
I honestly don't know. At this point it's in suspended animation. The studio, the director Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis feel there must be a way to do it, but Bill Murray will not do the movie. He doesn't want to be involved. He's got six kids, houses all over America. He golfs in these tournaments where they pay him to turn up and have a laugh. He's into this life and living it. I know we'd have a lot of fun...I can't be mad at him. He's a friend first, a colleague second. We have a deep personal relationship that transcends business and he doesn't want to know.
We're been pretty staunch on our "No Murray, No Movie" stance. So let's hope this picture dies before it can come back with out Dr. Peter Venkman.


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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Peller at DC's "Busboys and Poets"
We've previously noted the publication of my Georgetown colleague Gary Peller's historically informed Critical Race Consciousness: Reconsidering American Ideologies of Racial Justice. He will be discussing the book tomorrow (Sunday, December 2) from 5-7 at the 14th and V location of Busboys and Poets, as part of A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race), which is said to be an "open discussion series is produced and hosted by Busboys and Poets as a community service."
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Despite leaps and bounds in the advancements in technology—we now have shiny little rectangles that respond to touch and voice and connect us to other people half way round the world!—one thing still sucks hard: stalled progress bars.
It's not just waiting for things to happen which is annoying—it's that they're inaccurate. There is little more annoying than a progress bar, sat at 57 percent, taunting you. Never shifting. It hasn't really managed 57 percent of the task. Of course it hasn't.
And then you realise it might never finish the task. It laughs in your face. "Oh no no, don't expect this software install to finish for another 5 minutes despite the fact that I say 99 percent done," it sneers. "I'm not really here to inform you. I'm more... decoration."
Seriously, is there anything else like this left in tech that feels like it hasn't moved on in the last twenty years?
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The Guardian has published several articles on suspected military strikes, over the last several days, by the Israeli Air Force, which likely targeted sophisticated weaponry (possibly Russian made SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles) reportedly on its way to the Iranian backed terror group, Hezbollah, illegally based in Lebanon.
Israeli officials have been warning for months that the IDF will not allow the transfer of advanced Syrian weapons – including chemical and biological weapons – to terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra Front and Hezbollah.
Assuming reports of the Israeli strikes are accurate, it may indicate that Assad had decided test Israeli resolve to prevent such arms transfers.
Harriet Sherwood's latest report on the conflagration in Lebanon, 'Israeli warplanes violate Lebanese airspace', Feb 1, included these passages:
Israeli warplanes flew over Lebanon again on Friday, two days after air strikes targeted a convoy of arms or a weapons research base inside Syrian territory.
Under UN security council resolution 1701, passed following the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, Israeli planes are forbidden from flying over Lebanon. [emphasis added]
Sherwood is referring to the UN security council resolution which ended the Second Lebanon War in 2006.
Here are relevant provisions of 1701:
14. Calls upon the government of Lebanon to secure its borders and other entry points to prevent the entry in Lebanon without its consent of arms or related materiel and requests Unifil as authorised in paragraph 11 to assist the government of Lebanon at its request;
15. Decides further that all states shall take the necessary measures to prevent, by their nationals or from their territories or using their flag vessels or aircraft;
a. the sale or supply to any entity or individual in Lebanon of arms and related materiel of all types, including weapons and ammunition, military vehicles and equipment, paramilitary equipment, and spare parts for the aforementioned, whether or not originating in their territories, and;
b. the provision to any entity or individual in Lebanon of any technical training or assistance related to the provision, manufacture, maintenance or use of the items listed in subparagraph (a) above, except that these prohibitions shall not apply to arms, related material, training or assistance authorised by the government of Lebanon or by Unifil as authorised in paragraph 11;
So, by any reading of 1701, arms transfers from Syria to Hezbollah (in Lebanon) are prohibited and, therefore, Israeli efforts to prevent such transfers would arguably be justified, according to at least the spirit of the resolution.
Further, and more relevant to the current crisis, 1701 includes the following, which specifically prohibits the continuing presence and arming of Hezbollah – an illegal militia – in Lebanon, by calling for:
- security arrangements to prevent the resumption of hostilities, including the establishment between the Blue Line and the Litani river of an area free of any armed personnel, assets and weapons other than those of the government of Lebanon and of UNIFIL as authorised in paragraph 11, deployed in this area;
- Full implementation of the relevant provisions of the Taif Accords, and of resolutions 1559 (2004) and 1680 (2006), that require the disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon, so that, pursuant to the Lebanese cabinet decision of July 27, 2006, there will be no weapons or authority in Lebanon other than that of the Lebanese state;
- No foreign forces in Lebanon without the consent of its government;
Yet, it is widely known that Hezbollah has flagrantly violated 1701, as it has continued to maintain and develop a military infrastructure, including sophisticated offensive and defensive weaponry, south of the Litani river, and are believed to possess nearly 1,000 facilities in southern Lebanon, located in up to 270 civilian villages.
Here's an IDF map illustrating Hezbollah's 'illegal occupation' of Lebanon.
Not only has Hezbollah failed to disarm, but has in fact acquired (from Iran and Syria) an astonishing array of up to 50,000 rockets (4 x the amount they possessed at the end of the 2006 war) which threaten Israel and the entire region – all under the eyes of UN observers (UNIFIL) tasked with preventing the Shiite terror group's re-arming.
Interestingly, Sherwood does add, further in her report, that "Western…sources said Israel's target was a convoy of trucks carrying Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles from Syria to the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon", but, not surprisingly, fails to note that such a transfer would necessarily violate 1701.
Even if Sherwood is to argue that reported IAF missions over Lebanon technically violate 1701, the absence of any context regarding Hezbollah's flagrant violation of the letter and spirit of the resolution for over six years represents another classic example of a Guardian omission which serves to grossly distort the political reality of the region.
Related articles
- BBC reports on alleged air strikes: high on speculation, low on context (bbcwatch.org)
- Guardian analyst laments that Israel's 'far-right' gov't won't make peace with global jihadists (cifwatch.com)
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Teens' views on dangers of pot fall to 20-year low
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new federal study says that teenagers' perception of the dangers of marijuana has fallen to the lowest level in more than 20 years.
The survey released by the National Institutes of Health found that only 41.7 percent of eighth graders believe that occasional use of marijuana is harmful, while nearly 67 percent regard it as dangerous when used regularly.
Both rates are the lowest since 1991.
Teens' perception of marijuana risks diminished even more as they got older. About 20.6 percent of 12th graders said occasional use of pot is harmful. Roughly 44.1 percent believe that using it regularly was detrimental, the lowest since 1979.
The study said teens' dwindling concerns about the dangers of marijuana, despite the risks, "can signal future increases in use."


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John Perez is one of the sharpest political strategists in California. After a career spent working behind the scenes in the labor movement, he is now the Speaker of the California Assembly. The budget proposal he and his fellow Assembly Democrats produced this week shows his political skill. It's full of positives -- attempts to avoid job losses (particularly in the public sector) and unpopular cuts in the most popular programs, namely schools.
But how is Perez's budget math? Here there is reason to doubt.
The Assembly Democrats' proposals suggests that the state can meet its obligations and hold off big cuts in health and human services program with complex borrowing, a series of accounting manuevers, the delay of about $2 billion in corporate tax cuts, and the establishment of an oil severance tax in California (more on this last tax here).
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The policy approach used by the Democrats has some merits. California is the only oil-producing state without a severance tax. Cutting education is usually counterproductive, since the economy needs more educated, skilled workers.
But the credibility of the budget is undermined by very optimistic revenue estimates -- billions higher than those offered in Gov. Schwarzenegger's budget. Given the last decade of budget history in California, it's safe to assume that both the governor and the legislature are overestimating revenues. The borrowing and the accounting manuevers are more of the same.
While the BP oil spill in the Gulf may make this the moment for an oil severance tax, raising taxes is difficult given the opposition of Republicans and the fact that the requirement of a two-thirds vote for revenue increases allows the minority party in the legislature to block tax increases. It's likely that Republicans will do just that, and force deeper cuts in popular programs.
Which is what makes this such a smart political document. Perez is framing the budget in a way designed to force the Republican to pay a political price for opposing taxes. Essentially, he's presenting the budget as a choice between taxing oil companies and cutting education. In this way, the summer budget season may look like a rerun. The Republicans win on policy. The Democrats win on politics.


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What is the OE sources mirror network?
Openembedded uses a large number of upstream sources for compilation. Quite naturally, given the sheer number, at any point in time, one can usually expect at least a few of them to be either temporarily or permanently unavailable. This leads to avoidable user frustration and lost time. The solution is for the Openembedded project to provide a mirror of all the sources used in the recipes as a fallback of last resort. This is done in the OE sources mirror network which has two components.
- sources.openembedded.org: the main mirror is currently hosted on melo. It aims to have a complete copy of free-to-publish sources used by the current org.oe.dev branch (the stable branch may be added later)
- mirrors.openembedded.org: a swarm of possibly incomplete source mirrors provided by the community and load-balanced via DNS round robin. They act as a first line of defense and lower bandwidth for the main mirror.
Fetching from these mirrors is transparent to the user and enabled by default in the dev branch.
How can I become a member in the mirrors.openembedded.org network?
tbd. right now, ask Laibsch in IRC if you want to help


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Little bit behind in updates, but many new collage publications have bene published in the last 6 months.
Many older items are available at a discount to fund the next 2 publication due in a few months. Last few copies of the Ace zine left!
Grab em at http://www.input-error.co.uk
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- Dead Reckoning by Ewan Aparicio
- Nothing/Forever Issue 4 - various artists
- Nothing/Forever Issue 5 - various artists, final issue in the series
- Rites & Ceremonies - various artists, focusing on occult themes
- Oblique Interactions - various artists
- Ancient Future by Danger aka Dan Wininger
- Reality Is Not An Option by Ace Farren Ford
- SELECTIVE REUPTAKE CLASS by David Crunelle


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CU professor involved in $8.3 million Gates Foundation childhood malnutrition study
Rob Knight, a scientist at University of Colorado Boulder's BioFrontiers Institute, will be working with an international research team to find new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent malnutrition in infants and children. The research will be funded by an $8.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and led by Dr. Jeffrey I. Gordon at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
The goal is to discover novel dietary and microbial therapeutics targeting infants and children living in countries with rampant malnutrition. Severe malnutrition has long be thought to stem simply from a lack of adequate food, but now scientists understand the condition is far more complex and may involve a breakdown in the way gut microbial communities process various diet components.
Research led by Knight has shown that people carry "personalized" bacteria on many individual areas of the body, including the intestine. His CU-Boulder lab will host the Gates Foundation study database integrating various types of information, including whole-genome sequencing and microbial community analyses.


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Sony's 12 Deals Of Christmas
EU PSN's 12 deals of Christmas sale discounts PES 2016
Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 is the latest game to get a discount on the European PlayStation Store.
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Hitman: Absolution is the penultimate Deal of Christmas
The second to last offer in Sony's 12 Deals of Chirstmas is IO Interactive's Hitman Absolution. Normally £49.99/€59.99, the stealth action effort can be yours for £19.99/€29.99, or as low as£16.99/€25.49 if you are a PlayStation Plus member. This one is valid through 11.59PM, December 22. For a full list of past deals, see the […]
The Unfinished Swan and Journey join 12 Deals of Christmas offer
The PlayStation Network's 12 Deals of Christmas is drawing to a close, but this tenth offer is a doozy. You can grab indie favourites The Unfinished Swan and Journey in a bundle for just £10/€13, or £9/€11.70 for PlayStation Plus subscribers. That's down from £20/€26. As usual the deal is only available for two days […]
Sony's 12 Deals of Christmas - Deal 8: Need For Speed: Most Wanted up to 60% off
Sony has added another sale to its 12 Deals of Christmas promotion, and those who feel the Need for Speed, can pick up Most Wanted for up to 60% off. The racer would normally cost you £59.99/€69.99, but from now until December 16 at 11.59pm, you can download it for £23.99/€29.99 instead. Go go go.


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790.053 Open carrying of weapons.—
(a) A license issued under this section does not authorize any person to openly carry a handgun or carry a concealed weapon or firearm into:
790.25 Lawful ownership, possession, and use of firearms and other weapons.—
(1) DECLARATION OF POLICY.—The Legislature finds as a matter of public policy and fact that it is necessary to promote firearms safety and to curb and prevent the use of firearms and other weapons in crime and by incompetent persons without prohibiting the lawful use in defense of life, home, and property, and the use by United States or state military organizations, and as otherwise now authorized by law, including the right to use and own firearms for target practice and marksmanship on target practice ranges or other lawful places, and lawful hunting and other lawful purposes.
(3) LAWFUL USES.—The provisions of ss. 790.053 and 790.06 do not apply in the following instances, and, despite such sections, it is lawful for the following persons to own, possess, and lawfully use firearms and other weapons, ammunition, and supplies for lawful purposes:
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(1) Notwithstanding s. 790.06(2)(b), the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services shall issue a license to carry a concealed weapon or firearm under s. 790.06 if the applicant is otherwise qualified and:
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- Page 1 Amazon Kindle International Edition Review
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Many people simply don't get eBooks. The concept of wanting to read literature on an electronic device just seems, well, wrong to lovers of the written word, and to a certain degree I agree with them. I can't imagine myself wanting to read a novel on a computer screen, a mobile phone or portable media player, but a proper eBook is a very different kind of device. In fact it wasn't until I reviewed the Sony Reader PRS-505 that I fully appreciated the eBook, but once I'd spent some time with one, I was pretty much sold on the concept.
When it comes to eBooks, the Amazon Kindle is probably the most widely known and recognised, which is quite odd when you consider that until now it hasn't been available outside the US. Finally though, after what seems like an age, the Kindle has been made available to us in the UK, but was it worth the wait?
First I should make it clear that the Kindle, in essence, still isn't available in the UK, since amazon.co.uk doesn't sell it. If you want to buy this International version of the Kindle, you need to order it from amazon.com in the US, from whence it shall be shipped to you. This means that you could end up paying duty and VAT on your Kindle if you're unlucky enough to have your order stopped by customs. So, that $259 price tag could end up being a fair bit higher by the time you actually take delivery.
Of course this also means that you'll have to pay for your Kindle in US Dollars, but then you'll need to get used to seeing Dollar transactions on your credit card, because you'll be buying all your books that way too. You see despite the fact that Kindle books are essentially just digital files, you can't buy them from Amazon in the UK, instead you'll have to order from the Kindle store in the US, and that means pricing in US Dollars.
Assuming that you're not charged too much for USD transactions by your credit card company, the fact that you're buying from the store in the US shouldn't be too much of a chore, because once you've set your Kindle up, you shouldn't have to go to the Amazon website very often, if at all. Unlike other eBook readers, the Kindle doesn't need to connect to a computer in order to have content loaded onto it. Instead, it has a built-in 3G data modem, which means that you can purchase and download anything from the Kindle store whenever, and wherever you want.
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Driver of crashed train may have dozed off: union
A passenger train that slammed through its end-of-the-line barrier at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport this week tripped an automatic emergency stop system and was not speeding when it entered the station, a federal investigator said on Tuesday.
The crash sent the Chicago Transit Authority train hurtling onto an escalator and stairs at the airport's mass transit station early on Monday. Thirty-two people sustained injuries that were not life-threatening.
Investigators hope to interview the train operator on Tuesday afternoon and have not reached any conclusions about the cause of the crash, Ted Turpin, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, told reporters.
A union official on Monday said he spoke to the operator after the crash and believed she may have dozed off. The train operator, who has not been identified, told the union she had been working very long hours and had indicated to him she was extremely tired.
Turpin said the train was traveling at a normal speed of 25 to 26 miles per hour (40-42 kph) when it entered the station and triggered a physical device beside the track that put it into emergency mode.
"It was attempting to stop the train, brakes were applied," he said.
The NTSB hopes to release the train on Tuesday to the CTA, which will be responsible for clearing the tracks, Turpin said. It may have to cut up the front car resting on the escalator, but may be able to pull a second car back, he said.
Turpin said he hoped it would take "a lot less than" a week to restore service at the station. Buses are shuttling riders between O'Hare and the next train station.
The investigation includes a review of station video of the train arriving and an outward-facing video recorder on the train, as well as signals and the train's condition. The crash happened at about 3 a.m. CDT (0800 GMT) on Monday.
The incident was the second in recent months involving an apparently out-of-control CTA train. In September, an unmanned CTA train ran loose onto active tracks and collided with a standing train at a suburban Chicago station during morning rush hour, injuring at least 33 people.


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Sarah Brazier used bold print fabrics to bring a new look to a familiar flag.
Here's what Sarah had to say about her quilt:
"This quilt was inspired after my 2 1/2 year stint in England and I wanted to make something funky for my British pseudo step daughter It took a lot of trial and error and about a year of trying, some errors of which I blogged about it.. many that I didn't.. when I finally got the right combination I was over the moon. I just simple adore the flag and the history behind the Union Jack. I've got another one already on the way to being made out of softer Moda fabrics.
This quilt which is made with an old symbol of England has been freshly tossed with all sorts of colours the Union Jack has never seen. Up close you can see spiders, pirates and dragonflies (oh my)!! Designed, sewed and quilted by me it was made to make a statement."
You can read more about Sarah and her pattern at The Aftercraft.