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So what did you think of Katie, Ms. Couric's new talk show? I have mixed feelings about it.
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So, with all that lovely time outdoors, we didn't watch any movies this weekend, but I did watch one during my lunches this past week:
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On Sunday, about 200,000 people took to the streets in Taipei.
As always, it was a colorful display of political views on a range of current issues. That this is happening is a testimony to Taiwan's still-vibrant democracy.
At the same time, that it is necessary to go out into the streets means that a lot of people are unhappy with the current state of affairs and want a change in direction. Let us attempt to analyze the situation from an outside perspective and see what steps would be appropriate.
A major socioeconomic element driving the dissatisfaction is the weak economy, coupled with the widening income gap. Workers, students and middle and lower income people in general have seen their incomes decline and costs go up. In particular, housing prices have skyrocketed.
The global economy is sputtering, and this may of course have some effect on Taiwan, but the main issue in the view of many people is the discrepancy between the promises of high economic growth made when the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) went into effect about two years ago and the present reality.
A second major theme driving the people into the streets is the encroachment on Taiwan's media by major pro-China media and business mogul Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明). I commented on that development only recently ("Want Want monopoly threatens democracy," Dec. 26, 2012, page 8).
It does appear that this issue is of deep concern to many, but in particular the young people, the students, who have been out in the streets for several months now. However, the government has turned a deaf ear to their pleas, and recently even blocked amendments to media legislation in the Legislative Yuan designed to prevent such monopolies in the media.
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This idea was first proposed by former DPP chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) in November, when several of these issues were starting to come to a head.
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Hey everybody. I'm getting back into posting again and am looking for some advice. I have two younger cousins(7 and 10) coming to town in a couple weeks and one loves cooking and baking. I on the other hand am no chef, so I want to have some fun and creative dishes for us to make. Does anyone have some fun ideas or cookbook ideas that I can pick up? Thanks.
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You might see if you can find Marion Cunningham's "Cooking With Children: 15 Lessons for Children, ages 7 and up, Who Really Want to Learn to Cook".
On the other hand, using no specific cookbook targeted at children, I've found that my grandchildren simply love being part of any regular kitchen activity. Let them stand on a stool or chair (if they need a boost), teach them about measuring and adding ingredients, let them help in kneading bread, concoct delicious smoothies in a blender, etc. Then there is always the too-much-sugar-decorations approach to cookies and cupcakes...
Have fun!
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"...15 Lessons for Children... Who Really Want to Learn..."
That title sounds a little straightlaced, slighty forbidding!
I love the Fannie Farmer Baking book she (M. Cunningham) did--the "Plate Size Cookies" would be fun for kids.
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I still have my original children's cookbook: the Better Homes and Gardens Junior Cookbook for the Hostess & Host of Tomorrow. The red-checkered cover shows a smiling cook carrying trays of hotdogs and desserts!
Unbelievably, I found a link on Amazon:
It brings back such memories - the Junior cookbook looked a lot like the grown up version that my mom had, making me feel an important part of the kitchen.
What memories!
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I had the Better Home Junior Book also! They actually have some good recipes in there.
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If you check back in the topics archives here at C & Z very early on in the forums there was a thread on cookbooks for Kids, pretty sure it was about 4 years ago.
Vivant Linguae Mortuae!!
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You might check out Jo Anne Larzik's new
Let The Kids Cook.
The book is an outgrowth of her cooking school for kids.
This isn't a hot dogs & mac & cheese book, but is filled with recipes for real food, such as stuffed mushroom caps with deviled crab, corn chowder with diced tomatoes, and Chicken Parmesan. Each recipe is even divided into the steps the child does and those an adult should handle.
I think it's only available via direct sales. But you can find info at
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Hey everybody! Thanks for all the advice. I didn't have a chance to get any of the books yet, but will definitely let you know how it goes. They're going to be here this coming Saturday. I think we're going to make pizza. Make the dough, prepare the toppings, grate the cheese, etc. We can also make brownies which requires the measuring and mixing like you all suggested. Thank you!!
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If you have the Chocolate & Zucchini cookbook---there is nothing easier than the yoghurt cake. Clotilde says it's more or less the first thing little French people learn how to bake---and i can do it so a 6 year old should be able to as well.
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Great suggestion, David. I have made that wonderful cake so many times, in so many different ways that I can almost make it in my sleep.
If you don't have the C&Z cookbook, timetobake247, here's the original recipe from Clotilde, posted in 2005
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I just ran across
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by Jennifer Carden. Haven't read it myself but it looks like healthy recipes combined with healthy advice on cooking & eating with kids.
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OK, those children will be quite a bit older now, but my own children have only just reached the age where they can help along a bit (they're almost 4).
I really love Mollie Katzen's childrens cookbooks (
Pretend soup
, and
Salad People
) because children as young as three can really follow the recipes thanks to the pictorial representation. I think too many childrens cookbooks are really only for children of 6 and up, and then they're basically normal cookbooks except everything has a funny face on it.
my daughter is making the popovers from Pretend Soup. It's amazing how much they can do even at the tender age of three. Of course I had to put them in the oven, and supervise everything, but she mixed everything, broke the eggs, greased the pan, even measured the milk.
There's one for children from 8 years up with a bit more complicated recipes (
Honest Pretzels
), but I don't know how that one is yet - ask me in four years time.
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Welcome to the forums, Wester, and thanks for sharing these recommendations. The photo is adorable, too.
My nephew is two years old so he's still a bit young, but it's interesting to hear that kids can start "cooking" as early as three -- I'll get him one of those books then!
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You might laugh at this one, but my 12 year son received a cookbook for Christmas -- Betty Crocker Kids Cook. Very, very simple recipes and probably too easy for 12. Nonetheless, he made a "mouthwatering cinnamon muffins" recipe for my wife's birthday. Oh wow. But how could you go wrong when you put in
amount of butter! [/u]
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RussNH...ah, butter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
timetobake247, have come across The Kid's Cookbook ~ Abigail Johnson Dodge
golly gosh am thinking of my childhood..the very IDEA of a cookbook for children would have been unthinkable
...at least in my neck of the woods...
love that children are more and more involved in the preparation of meals..simply marvellous...
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On 15 May, the Second Branch of the Beijing People's Procuratorate posted the following message to its Weibo account:
On May 15, 2015, the Second Branch of the Beijing People's Procuratorate sent the Beijing Number Two Intermediate People's Court an indictment in accordance with the law against defendant Pu Zhiqiang on charges of suspected inciting ethnic hatred and provoking a serious disturbance. The bill of indictment charges that defendant Pu Zhiqiang used information networks to publish multiple microblog posts over a period of time that incited ethnic hatred with aggravating circumstances and brazenly insulted others with odious circumstances and damage to social order. [On the basis of these acts,] he should be held criminally responsible in accordance with the law.
At this point, I would like to say that I believe these charges to be an untenable violation of Pu Zhiqiang's right to free expression under China's constitution. Unfortunately, as Pu Zhiqiang—a tireless advocate for many people charged with speech-related offenses over the years—knows only too well, that argument will have a difficult time winning the day in a Chinese court.
Below, I want to address a very specific issue. One of the obvious questions that many have asked is: if Pu is convicted of these two charges, what might his sentence be? There's been a great deal of confusion on this point, with claims of a possible sentence of up to 20 years. But Shang Baojun, one of Pu Zhiqiang's defense lawyers, told Verna Yu of the South China Morning Post that his client was facing a maximum of eight years in prison.
I believe that Shang Baojun is correct. To explain why, it's necessary to consider a number of things.
First, let's look at Art. 249, the offense of "inciting ethnic hatred or discrimination." Here is the text:
Whoever incites ethnic hatred or discrimination, if the circumstances are aggravated (情节严重), shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights; if the circumstances are especially serious (情节特别严重), he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than 10 years.
In general, one could thus say that the maximum possible sentence for the offense is 10 years' imprisonment. But does that apply in this case?
The summary of the charges given in the indictment makes it pretty clearly that Pu's alleged offense falls under the category of "aggravated circumstances" not "especially serious" circumstances. I don't believe that the procuratorate chose that language arbitrarily. So, I think this means that the prosecution is seeking a maximum sentence of three years' imprisonment for this one charge.
Now, let's look at Art. 293, "provoking a serious disturbance" (or "picking quarrels and provoking troubles," if you like):
Whoever disrupts the social order by committing any of the following provocative and disturbing acts shall be sentenced to imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or control:
(1) Assaulting any other person at will, with odious circumstances;
(2) Chasing, intercepting, reviling or intimidating any other person, with odious circumstances;
(3) Taking or demanding forcibly or vandalizing or occupying at will public or private property, with aggravated circumstances; or
(4) Making trouble in a public place, which causes a serious disorder of the public place.
Whoever assembles other people to commit the acts as mentioned in the preceding paragraph many times, which seriously disrupt the social order, shall be sentenced to imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than 10 years and may be fined in addition.
This last clause was added to the statute in 2011. Prior to that, the maximum sentence under Art. 293 was five years' imprisonment. Since the 2011 revision, a heavier penalty may be imposed for those who "assemble others" to commit offenses "multiple times." If these conditions are not met, then the heavier sentencing range is not available.
So, do those condition apply in Pu's case? I doubt it. One of the more ridiculous things about the way this charge is being used against Pu Zhiqiang is the way it applies an offense written to cover behavior in physical space on actions that appear to have taken place solely online. For that, we can thank a "judicial interpretation" on "using information networks to commit defamation and related crimes" issued by the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate in September 2013, which states, in Article 5:
Using information networks to insult or threaten others with odious circumstances and damage to social order shall be convicted of provoking a serious disturbance and penalized in accordance with Criminal Law Article 293(1)(2).
The way this interpretation is constructed, it seems unlikely that Pu is being accused of using the Internet to "gather others" to insult people. I believe that if the prosecution wished to make this allegation, it would have been mentioned in its summary of the indictment. Therefore, I see no reason to believe that the prosecution seeks a sentence of more than five years on this charge.
Based on this analysis, the maximum possible sentence on these two charges should be eight years' imprisonment. But even if Pu were to receive the maximum sentence on both charges, his combined sentence would most likely fall somewhere between the heaviest of the two and the total of the two—i.e., between five and eight years in prison.
UPDATE: The full indictment has been made public, added here for reference:


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Economist Robin Hanson suspects that the world economy may soon be doubling every week or two. He arrived at that suspicion based on historical extrapolations, but he also has a theory as to how it might happen: the development, in the near future, of intelligent machines.
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The mother of all brain simulation projects is Blue Brain, a joint project of IBM and Ecole Polytecnique Fédérale de Lausanne (a Swiss town also known for its lower tech, but tastier, fondue). Announced with much fanfare in 2005, Blue Brain has as its anything‐but‐modest mission to create a complete and exhaustively accurate simulation of the human brain within a decade or so. They figure they can knock out the neo‐cortex in the next few years.
Somebody buy these guys a calculator.
The current Blue Brain hardware has 8,000 processors and they have apparently set it up so that one chip models one or two neurons. That has allowed them, as of this month, to model a 10,000 neuron grouping called a "column." That's hugely impressive. But, umm, 10,000 down, 99,999,990,000 to go.
The human brain is estimated to have about 100 billion neurons, so they're going to need another 10 million or so Blue Brain computers to finish the job given the current specs. They're having a tough time convincing the Swiss government to spring for another one or two of them.
Mind you, computer processing power per dollar has been increasing exponentially over time since the earliest electromechanical computers. So maybe, in a generation, we'll be revisiting this question. But that's an awfully big maybe.
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When choosing a gas spring, base the decision on multiple criteria: selecting the correct spring for the task it must perform, locating it properly in the
Die Design and Tool Build
Die design plays a critical role in optimizing nitrogen-gas spring life. The recommendations provided here can apply to new die designs as well as to retrofits of existing dies.
Nitrogen gas springs have standard operating specifications. A typical gas spring may be charged to a maximum pressure of 2175 psi (150 bar) with operating temperatures as high as 160 F. It is imperative that gas springs do not exceed maximum charging and operating-temperature guidelines.
Whenever possible, the actual rod travel of the gas spring should not exceed 90 percent of the gas-spring stroke. This provides a safety factor to avoid die or gas spring damage, and serves as a basic rule for good performance. Selecting a rod travel of only 75 to 80 percent helps reduce the pressure rise in the cylinder and the amount of heat produced, improving the spring's overall performance. Although overheating will not necessarily cause immediate damage, after prolonged operation it will damage the seals and lead to premature spring failure.
During the design stage, process conditions that may reduce spring life can be offset by reducing percent-travel and pressure, and by adding surge-tank volume to a linked system. Manufacturers also offer special cylinder types designed for lower pressure-rise factors and higher production rates.
Further, designers should aim to distribute loads evenly among the springs so that none of the springs must work to full capacity. This allows the springs to run cooler and maximizes their life expectancy.
Consider Gas-Spring Accessories
Additionally, think about adding nitrogen-gas spring accessories to the die design to assist with spring operation. Consider piping gas springs together to provide the ability to monitor, control and adjust force from outside the die. Many gas-spring manufacturers offer a wide selection of hoses, fittings, control panels and other equipment to simplify piping operations. Including a nitrogen-gas surge tank to a piped system adds volume to
Metalformers also can install electronic pressure monitors to a setup, to examine system pressure from outside the die. Transmitting pressure readings, they can either signal the press controller or directly shut down the press prior to production problems.
Avoid Misalignment and Contamination
Als use the top of the piston rod as the strike surface, never the bottom of the spring. By designing dies with the proper guide conditions (adding guide retainer sets, roller bearings and wear plates), and using a hardened strike surface, the metalformer helps to ensure long spring life. Improper or inadequate guidance within the die can lead to side loading, which occurs as a result of axial or contact misalignment. This can cause damage to the bearing, seal and piston rod, significantly decreasing spring performance. A standard recommendation is to maintain less than 1 deg. of side load on the piston rod.
Contamination within a die may cause premature spring failure. Die designers should specify drainage holes within the spring pockets to prevent fluid from pooling around the springs. During production, protect gas springs from direct exposure to caustic draw-die compounds and contaminants. Where this is unavoidable, the metalformer should contact the spring manufacturer to discuss possible protective measures for the gas springs.
There are two popular alternatives used in the field to minimize the ingestion of fluid. One option is to add a protective cover to the gas-spring rod to prevent exposure; the second is to install a secondary heavy-duty wiper to clear a the caustic fluids from the rod.
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Contrary to popular belief, maintenance of nitrogen gas springs does not begin when the spring has run its course through the production cycle. Maintenance begins by recognizing the different factors that influence the performance and life of a gas spring. Much of what affects the performance can be controlled prior to experiencing any problems, such as safe design and diligent preventive maintenance.
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The countdown has begun for the "12-Millionth Source Challenge" and Official Contest Rules have been sent out but the links to the online versions all appear broken. The Rules certainly look official with statements such as "These Rules form a binding legal agreement between you and FamilySearch with respect to the Challenge." Hmm. What if I have never read the Rules or even know about the Challenge and simply go about my work putting sources on the FamilySearch? Oh, Ho. And further more, in my blissful ignorance, I win the Challenge? Well, that wasn't covered in the Rules.
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Early on in the episode we are told it will take less than an hour to cross the anomaly at warp 4. Warp 4 is 64 times lightspeed, so the anomaly is about 64 light hours across. We are then told that at impulse, it will take four days - 96 hours - to cross the distance. So that means full impulse speed is 64/96 = 0.666 xc, exactly two thirds of light speed. So far so good.
However, when they find that they are still inside the anomaly T'Pol says they are nearly a quarter of a lightyear from the edge. She then says it will take ten weeks to get clear. At 0.666 xc, it should actually take 19.5 weeks. In fact to get out of the anomaly in ten weeks the ship would have to be travelling faster than the speed of light on impulse drive, which is both a mismatch with what was said earlier and is supposed to be impossible.
On another front, when Phlox talks about waking everybody up he says he is going to wake his medical staff before most of the crew. Does Phlox have a medical staff? I don't think I've ever seen or heard of another doctor, nurse or even orderly anywhere near sickbay!
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If they had left left it ambiguous, if they had said "the crew" would have to be put into comas or something, that would be one thing. But to try and stop the audience from seeing the twist in the ending by telling the audience one thing and then doing something else... well that's just plain bad writing. The whole point of an episode like this is for the writer to try and outsmart the audience, not to lie to them and then expect them to think you have been clever about it.
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A new federal report comes down hard on the Northern California utility PG&E for ignoring -- for 54 years -- serious problems with the gas pipeline that exploded in the Bay Area community of San Bruno last year, killing eight people and destorying 38 homes.
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The same sort of logic is used all the time by California homeowners who know that their foundations may be unsafe or decaying. But if the house has stood up for a century, through previous quakes, why wouldn't it survive the quakes to come?
Of course, this is the dominant way of thinking about California's broken governing system.
The state has problems, but it's held up for 160 years. So why go to the trouble and difficulty of digging deep and fixing the way we govern the whole thing?
This, of course, is irresponsible thinking.
But it is the thinking of the state's political, labor, corporate and good government elites.
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A while ago I posted a request for this movie, Well after lots of hunting I found a copy, I thought I would post it incase anyone was intrested. (The File has been chacked and it is working avi.)
Name: - Edison, the Man (1940)
IMDB: - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032432/
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Plot: The movie begins with a dinner in 1929 honoring the "Golden Jubilee of Light," the anniversary of the invention of the electric light bulb. But the guest of honor has not yet left home. He is being interviewed by two high school students, telling them that success is ninety-nine percent perspiration and one percent inspiration, and that the most valuable thing in the world is time, because all the money in the world won't buy one minute of it.
At the dinner, he is spoken of as a man who created with the light "a new declaration of independence, a freedom of the mind." The movie flashes back to Edison's arrival in New York, as a young man. His first invention, a vote recorder, failed, not because it didn't work, but because no one wanted to buy it, and he swears not to make that mistake again. He invents a stock ticker, expecting to get no more than two thousand dollars for it. Taking the advice of his girlfriend, he waits to get an offer, and ends up selling it for $40,000, which he uses to set up the first industrial research laboratory in the U.S.
He almost loses everything with his failure to create the electric light, which scientists have proclaimed impossible. Noticing the properties of one of the pieces of equipment in the lab, he invents the phonograph, which is enormously successful, and the lab is saved. He keeps working on the light bulb, testing more than 9000 substances as filaments. When one of his colleagues says, "We're as sorry as you are that you didn't get results," he replies, "Results? Man, I got a lot of results. I now know 9000 things that won't work."
Finally, they find a filament that works. The science has been successful, but the next challenge is politics. The powers behind gas do not want electricity because they will lose money. They impose a seemingly impossible deadline, but Edison meets it, and New York City is electrified.
At the celebration in 1929, the speaker worries that man will destroy himself with technology. Edison responds that man's ingenuity and humanity must work together in balance. "What man's mind can conceive, man's character can control."
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Flickr to video users: You're a bunch of amateurs
Almost every digital camera captures both pictures and movies. This reality has seemed lost on Flickr for four years. Cofounder Stewart Butterfield reportedly told attendees at a fourth-birthday party last night that Flickr, now owned by Yahoo, will introduce video uploads next month. At this point, Yahoo might as well launch the service on April 1 — the delay has become that much of a joke. Yahoo Video has already relaunched, with its own movie-upload features. So why bother?
We hear the difference between the two sites is that Yahoo Video will host longer, "professional" videos; Flickr will house shorter clips, three minutes or less — and at least at first, only from those who already have Pro accounts. The skilled visual artists who pay to use Flickr should take this as an affront. When it comes to still images, they're good enough to pay to be deemed pros. When they record moving images, they suddenly become amateurs in Yahoo's eyes. Flickr user riot: film at 11.
One could blame this plan on absentee management. After his paternity leave, Butterfield is not returning to a management role at Flickr. His wife and cofounder, Caterina Fake, didn't even attend the Flickr party. Flickr's de facto commander, Kakul Srivastava, came to Flickr from Yahoo after the acquisition. She previously worked on Yahoo's video products. That Flickr took nearly three years after she joined to roll out video doesn't speak well for her stewardship, either.


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The Marine Corps' warfare training center in the desert community of Twentynine Palms could undergo a significant expansion if the Navy Department and Congress approve a plan presented in an environmental study released last month.
The Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center would add two pieces of land that roughly equal the size of Camp Pendleton so it can hold large-scale exercises at the base. Twentynine Palms is already the top live-fire base for the Marine Corps, but the expansion would increase its hosting capabilities.
The Corps wants to be able to train an entire Marine Expeditionary Brigade at the base. A Marine Expeditionary Brigade consists of about 15,000 troops plus equipment, weapons systems and aircraft.
"The training we do now, we support larger exercises, but our primary bread-and-butter is training Marines for combat deployment," said Capt. Nick Mannweiler, spokesman for the Twentynine Palms combat center. "While we have played a very important role in training Marines for the last decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Marine Expeditionary Brigade training exercise isn't geared toward those battlefields."
Plans for the proposed expansion began nearly four years ago when a notice of intent to prepare the environmental study was posted in October 2008. A 30-day public comment period on the study began July 27, and when it's over, the Department of the Navy must decide whether it wants to transfer the land from the Department of the Interior to the Defense Department, Mannweiler said.
From there, Congress must approve the land transfer.
Of the six plans studied, the Marine Corps opted to push one in which it annexes 167,971 acres of federal, nonfederal and state land. Of that, 146,667 acres would be added from the west of the facility, and 21,304 acres would be taken from the south.
The additional grounds would enable the Marine Corps to stage two 24-day Marine Expeditionary Brigade exercises, the report says.
The Marine Corps hopes it can commence training in the expanded zones as early as 2014 and begin large-scale Marine Expeditionary Brigade exercises in 2015, Mannweiler said.
"The Marine Corps needs the proposed action because existing facilities, ranges and live-fire ground and air maneuver areas are inadequate to support the requirement for MEB-sized training exercises," the environmental report reads.
"The proposed action is needed to resolve training range deficiencies so that MEB training can be accommodated in accordance with the 2006 Marine Requirements Oversight Council decision and the predeployment readiness directives … and so that Marines are able to train as they will fight."
Although Twentynine Palms is the largest base in the Marine Corps, its terrain restrictions — such as mountain ranges and biologically sensitive sites — limit how large-scale units can train, Mannweiler said. In order to train a Marine Expeditionary Brigade, the Corps would need to operate three battalions, simultaneously maneuvering for 48 to 72 hours with combined live fire and the accompanying air space, he said.
"We currently don't have a way to train an MEB the way the Marine Corps operates," Mannweiler said.
The biggest loser in the expansion plan would be off-road enthusiasts. The Johnson Valley off-road recreation area would lose 57 percent of its available space, the report states. However, the public could still use part of the land west of the base for 10 months of the year when the large-scale exercises aren't performed.
The military would use non-dud-producing ordnance in those areas during exercises, so it would be safe for the public to return, Mannweiler said.


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The New Jersey Nets' Vince Carter and Ryan Anderson have been traded to the Orlando Magic for Rafer Alston, Tony Battie and Courtney Lee.
You knew the Magic were going to move Rafer. One: Jameer Nelson, their injured All-Star point guard, will be 100% healthy on opening day. Two: if the tail-end of the Finals were any indication, Rafer would have gotten absolutely no burn next season had they kept him. Three: Rafer's a solid veteran rotation player with an expiring contract. But I did not expect they would get Vince-freakin'-Carter.
If the Magic are able to lock Hedo Turkoglu, can you imagine how much firepower their starting five will have?
Nelson will be running the offense. Vince and Rashard Lewis will be near the wings. And Dwight Howard would lock down the paint. This is a recipe for success especially if Dwight Howard develops some semblance of a post-game or at least a countermove.
A major acquisition by a team fresh off a Finals berth bucks the recent trend. It is a bold move by Magic GM Otis Smith but I think it's ingenious.
Generally, Finals teams sit on their rosters during the next summer. They may pick up a player with a mid-level contract but they have not made any huge splashes. After their recent Finals appearances, the Heat, Mavericks, Spurs, Cavs, Celtics and Lakers all sat on their hands during the summer. With the exception of the Lakers, none of the other teams really had enough potential to get better with their transactional inertia.
Losing Courtney Lee is a marginal loss because Mickael Pietrus is still around to provide solid defense and can hit system-created 3-pointers. Losing Tony Battie is also a marginal loss because of Marcin Gortat's wonderfully-adequate defense and rebounding.
It's a huge win for everyone on the Magic and it finally gives Vince Carter a real opportunity to silence his doubters. He can follow in the footsteps of Kevin Garnett and shed the erroneous "loser" label like a Jonas Brother stepping into a middle school. I've got my Mickey Mouse ears on and I'm ready to go.


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Nyko shows off exactly what their Trans-Port technology can do with the introduction of a vibrating nunchuck attachment and gun controller for their Nintendo remote alternative, the Wand.
Announced at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year, Nyko's Wand is a replacement for the standard Wii remote that uses electronic triggers instead of mechanical ones to transmit data to attached devices. What exactly does that mean? It means your nunchuck can rumble.
The Wired Kama is a wired version of Nyko's wireless nunchuck controller which, unlike the standard Nintendo nunchuck, can vibrate along with the Wand in games that support vibration feedback. It's only a small difference from the shipping standard, but as Sony's original Sixaxis controller for the PlayStation 3 taught us, a little rumble goes a long way.
Along with the Wired Kama, Nyko has also announced the Pistol Grip, a light gun controller for the Wand that forgoes the clunky mechanical parts of the Wii Zapper accessory in favor of electronics that map the trigger and hammer of the gun to the Wand's A and B buttons, which should result in a more solid light-gun experience, for those of you looking for such.
Both the Wired Kama and the Pistol Grip will ship packed in with the Nyko Wand in June of this year, with a suggested retail price of $49.99. Not a bad price to pay for a little innovation.


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Rody wrote:While I was at it, I took a photo for my uncle of all my titles related to giant monsters so far:
Dr Kain wrote:Glad I had already paid for this before the "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!" hit the fan.
DannyBeane wrote:Dr Kain wrote:Glad I had already paid for this before the "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!" hit the fan.
What is happening? Is garo already out of print?
klen7 wrote:my preorder on Amazon says Dec 12. Where did you order from and are they cheaper than/comparable to Amazon? ($22.89 for v2)
The Shadow wrote:Judging by your collection of giant monster related titles; if you need a short list item for a Christmas gift idea I recommend Warner's Special Effects Collection.
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It's new HD transfers of Mighty Joe Young, Son of Kong, Them, and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. The movies are also available individually in standard blu-ray cases if you prefer.
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Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with metric $g$ and associated Riemannian volume $\nu$ and geodesic flow $G_t : UTM \rightarrow UTM$, where the unit tangent bundle is indicated. Let $X_j \subset UTM$ for $1 \le j \le n$ be open disjoint codimension one submanifolds transversal to $G_t$, i.e., local cross sections (a global cross section does not exist).
Is it possible to choose a metric $g'$ on $M$ with geodesic flow $G'_t = G_t$ and $\nu'_1(X_j) \equiv 1$?
NB. Here $\nu'_1$ denotes the induced codimension one [relative] measure on $UTM$.
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