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What is the explanation between equality of proton and electron charges (up to a sign)? This is connected to the gauge invariance and renormalization of charge is connected to the renormalization of photon field, but is this explanation enough? Do we have some experimental evidence that quarks have 2/3 and -1/3 charges? By the way I think about bare charge of electron and proton. And I am also wondering if this can be explained by Standard Model.
$\begingroup$ Related: physics.stackexchange.com/q/20373/2451 and physics.stackexchange.com/q/21434/2451 $\endgroup$ – Qmechanic♦ Mar 2 '12 at 23:41
1$\begingroup$ Nobody knows - there aren't even any good explanantions $\endgroup$ – Martin Beckett Mar 5 '12 at 16:02
$\begingroup$ Also related: physics.stackexchange.com/q/22921 $\endgroup$ – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten♦ Aug 12 '12 at 0:19
1$\begingroup$ absence of anomalies in the standard model. Sum of all the electric charges in one generation of quarks and leptons must be zero. $\endgroup$ – arivero Oct 19 '14 at 2:40
Because a proton can decay to a positron. It is an experimental fact that the proton and positron charges are very close. To conclude that they are exactly equal requires an argument. If a proton could theoretically decay to a positron and neutral stuff, this is enough.
In QED, charge quantization is equivalent to the statement that the gauge group is compact. This means that there is a gauge transformation by a full $2\pi$ rotation of the fields which is equivalent to nothing at all. Under these circumstances you have the following:
- Charge is quantized
- There are Dirac string solutions which have a magnetic flux indistinguishable from no flux (the magnetic flux is the phase around a loop).
If you have any sort of ultraviolet regulator, either a GUT or gravity, the existence of Dirac strings leads to monopoles. If you don't have an ultraviolet regulator, it is consistent to make all the monopoles infinitely massive.
So the question is why is the U(1) of electromagnetism compact. There are two avenues for answering this:
- A compact U(1) emerges from a higher gauge group, because all higher gauge groups must be compact for the kinetic terms to have the right sign. Breaking a compact group produces a subgroup, which is necessarily compact.
It is also true that in any GUT theory producing electromagnetism, you get monopoles, so you automatically get charge quantization by Dirac's argument.
But even if you have a U(1) which is not part of a GUT, there are constraints from gravity. If you have particle with charge q and a particle with charge q', and they aren't rational multiples of each other, you can produce a particle with charge $nq - m q'$ by throwing n q particles into a black hole, waiting for m q' particles to come out, and letting the resulting black hole decay, while throwing back any charge particle that comes out.
This means that in a consistent quantum gravity, you need either charge quantization or a spectrum of charges that accumulates near zero. Further, in order for the theory to be consistent, a black hole made from the wee charges must be able to naturally decay to wee charged things, and barring a conspiratorial spectrum of charges and masses, this strongly suggests that the mass of the wee charges must be smaller than the charge, meaning that as the charge gets small they become massless.
So in quantum gravity, the only alternative to charge quantization is a theory with nearly massless particles with extremely tiny charges, and this has clear experimental signatures.
I should point out that if you believe that the standard model matter is complete, then anomaly cancellation requires that the charge of the proton is equal to the charge of the positron, because there is instanton mediated proton decay as discovered by t'Hooft, and this is something we might concievable soon observe in accelerators. So in order to make the charge of the proton slightly different from the electron, you can't modify parameters in the standard model, you need to add a heck of a lot of unobserved nearly massless fermions with tiny U(1) charge.
This is enough conspiratorial implausibility, that together with the experimental bound, you can say with certainty that the proton and electron have exactly the same charge.
8$\begingroup$ There is zero experimental evidence for proton decay to positron. The current state of the field is that the fact that the proton and positron have the same quantum of charge allows the possibility that a proton could decay to a positron and some neutral detritus. $\endgroup$ – rob♦ Sep 8 '15 at 13:43
8$\begingroup$ @rob I think he's referring to beta decay of a proton inside a nucleus, not a hypothetical decay of a free proton. $\endgroup$ – Timaeus Mar 10 '16 at 20:02
$\begingroup$ @rob, I agree with you that Ron Maimon was referring to proton->positron, not beta decay inside a nucleus. However, Timaeus is also correct in pointing out that we should consider the significance of the more common-place and observable beta decays. $\endgroup$ – Hackless Oct 29 '19 at 20:41
On the level of QED and above, the equality of the charges has no theoretical explanation. But it is extremely well established experimentally, as even small deviations would add up to huge amounts of electricity in bulk matter.
On the level of the standard model, the value of the charges of the up and down quark comes from simple arithmetic from those of the proton and neutron, and hence doesn't give an independent piece of information.
On the other hand, if a unified field thoery with a semisimple gauge group were found to be valid, it would forces charge quantization, as there are only a discrete number of irreducible unitary representations (which define the possible quantum numbers = charges). This would turn an approximate equality in an exact equality, and hence prove the equality of the charges of the proton and the electron (apart from the sign). Thus it would explain this equality.
By the way, bare charges of charged elementary particles are infinite and devoid of any physical meaning.
1$\begingroup$ Even in the standard model the charge of the proton must be equal and opposite to the charge of the electron by anomaly cancellation. This follows from the instanton induced proton decay in the SM. $\endgroup$ – Ron Maimon Aug 12 '12 at 20:09
1$\begingroup$ @RonMaimon: I thought the proton is stable in the SM. Please give a reference for its decay. $\endgroup$ – Arnold Neumaier Aug 13 '12 at 13:54
$\begingroup$ This is a common misconception, not only is B not conserved, it may be violated already at 40TeV collisions for all we know ( physics.stackexchange.com/questions/32080/…). The original reference is a very clear classic: G. 't Hooft, Phys. Rev. Lett. 37, 37 (1976). The argument is that each instanton changes the occupation number of zero modes that go from negative to positive energy through the pseudoparticle in such a way to turn anomaly cancellation link between leptons and quarks into a physical process. $\endgroup$ – Ron Maimon Aug 13 '12 at 19:27
1$\begingroup$ The correct reference is G. 't Hooft, Phys. Rev. Lett. 37, 8 (1976). - I need to digest this first. $\endgroup$ – Arnold Neumaier Aug 14 '12 at 8:41
The answer is "because". It is an experimental fact.
It is among the first data that were gathered which supported the atomic theory. If they were not the same the atoms would not be neutral, there would always be left over charge and the chemistry and atomic physics data would be different, if there were chemistry and atoms at all.
This fact together with a multitude of facts studied since a century and more, have lead to positing the standard model for particle physics. This model simplifies the information in the data in a similar way as when one knows the symmetries which describe a crystal lattice the crystal is describable by a few parameters and equations. The Standard Model of Particle physics incorporates beautiful symmetries which in the end must arise from any theoretical models about particle physics which aims to be a theory of the whole.
7$\begingroup$ It is amusing that there exist people who think they are interested in physics and cannot accept an experimental fact. They need convoluted theoretical arguments which in the end of course end up on the experimental fact. Data trumps theory every single time. Without data theory is science fiction. $\endgroup$ – anna v Mar 24 '12 at 4:45
8$\begingroup$ The issue is that experiment only establishes it to finite precision, while the result is true to arbitrary precision. To extend a finite precision result to arbitrary precision requires a theoretical principle always. $\endgroup$ – Ron Maimon Aug 12 '12 at 20:10
1$\begingroup$ It's an experimental fact on Earth that the universe revolves around the Earth - why? $\endgroup$ – Larry Harson Aug 12 '12 at 22:34
2$\begingroup$ @annav: I agree, it's a combination of common sense/ occam's razor/ mathematical simplicity and experimental data, but you can't say charge quantization is pure experiment, because it's exact. $\endgroup$ – Ron Maimon Aug 13 '12 at 4:00
3$\begingroup$ @annav The same you could say about the cosmological constant. Why is it so tiny? Because it is an experimental fact. That is certainly not enough. $\endgroup$ – Newman Aug 17 '12 at 14:54
It's due to the observed fact that all charges come in common multiples of the electron charge. The electron charge is the minimum charge an isolatable particle can have. Quarks have a charge of $1\over 3$$e$, so that could be considered the minimum charge. However, quarks are never found by themselves, due to a property called quark confinement. Instead, they are always found in either groups of three (baryons), or two (mesons). Any one of these hadrons does however have a charge that is a multiple of the electron charge.
Why is electric charge quantized? That is, why do all charges come in multiples of $e$? Paul Dirac attempted to find a solution to this by showing that the existence of magnetic monopoles would require that electric charges come in discrete multiples. In very simple terms, the basic argument is that if there are magnetically charged particles (magnetic monopoles) they too must have well-defined quantum states, and that this requirement places a constraint on electrical fluxes. That constraint leads to the requirement that electrical charge be quantized. For a derivation, see here:
However, no experiment has found monopoles to date. So, there really isn't a very compelling explanation for the quantization of charge.


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Kingdom Holding, the investment firm controlled by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, said it was part of a consortium that paid 1.5 billion Saudi riyals ($400 million) for strategic stake in an online Chinese retailer.
The value of Kingdom Holding's investment in 360Buy Jingdong Inc. is about 470 million riyals, the company said in an emailed statement on Saturday. Kingdom was advised on the deal by Qatar's QInvest.
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Pelicans beat Lakers 132-125 to end 8-game skid
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In one year, Anthony Davis has gone from Hornet to Pelican — and become one of the NBA's top young stars after getting selected with the first overall pick in the 2012 draft.
Davis had 28 points and 15 rebounds a week shy of his 21st birthday, and the New Orleans Pelicans snapped an eight-game losing streak with a 132-125 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.
The win ended a string of nine straight road losses to the Lakers and was only the third for New Orleans in the last 18 meetings overall — including a 96-85 victory Nov. 8 in which Davis had a career-high 32 points.
"We needed this win to get back on track and we needed to get back in rhythm," Davis said. "We came out and played with a lot of intensity. I was just trying to come out and be aggressive. I know I didn't play the best in the last two games, so I had to be aggressive."
The first-time All-Star made seven of his first eight shots, one night after missing his first 10 in a 96-89 loss at Sacramento while playing with a sore left shoulder.
Davis is averaging 20.2 points, 10.0 rebounds and 2.9 blocks. He has a chance to become the first NBA player to finish a season averaging at least 20 points, 10 rebounds and three blocked shots since Shaquille O'Neal did it with the Lakers in 1999-00.
"For a guy that sets such a high bar — to be 20 years old and have all those expectations — who at 20 is playing like him? In the history of the game, there are very few," Pelicans coach Monty Williams said. "So when he has nights off, and everybody wonders what's wrong, he's entitled. The way he's played, and as good as he's gotten, I don't know who else is going to win Most Improved Player."
Eric Gordon also had 28 points for the Pelicans and Brian Roberts scored 10 of his 19 during a 1½-minute span in the fourth quarter. Tyreke Evans had 24 points and 11 assists, helping New Orleans salvage the finale of a five-game road trip that included a 32-point loss to the Clippers on Saturday night at Staples Center.
Pau Gasol had 29 points and 12 rebounds for the Lakers, who were attempting to match their longest winning streak of the season after beating Sacramento last Friday and Portland on Monday. The loss was their 27th in 35 games and dropped them back into sole possession of last place in the Western Conference, a half-game behind Sacramento and Utah.
Newcomer Kent Bazemore had 23 points and Jordan Farmer added 20 off the bench for Los Angeles.
Coming into the game, the Lakers had allowed an average of 48.2 points in the paint and 16.3 second-chance points, the worst figures in the league in both categories. The Pelicans, who changed their nickname from Hornets before this season, ended up with 54 in the paint and 15 second-chance points.
"The only way we're going to evaluate our team is not through stat sheets, but who shuts people down. And we have to get better at it," Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni said. "We had an emotional hangover at the start. You get so high on a good game like last night, you think you're ready — and you're not. It took us at least two quarters to get into anyone. The first 10 minutes looked like a layup drill for the other team."
Gordon's jumper gave New Orleans a 74-53 advantage with 9:54 left in the third quarter, but the Lakers narrowed the gap to 91-85 on Ryan Kelly's 15-footer with 1:12 left in the period.
That was as close as they got until a late push.
Gasol made one of two free throws to cut New Orleans' lead to 128-125 with 18.1 seconds to go. Gordon sank two foul shots at the other end, and Bazemore missed a 3-pointer from the top of the key. Anthony Morrow hit two foul shots with 11 seconds remaining to finish the scoring.
"I like the fact that we were able to take a punch and then give it back and close out a game," Williams said. "Our guys deserve a lot of credit for their ability to hang in there and not give in. It almost got away from us early in the fourth quarter."
Roberts made a 3-pointer, a 14-footer and five free throws — three of them after getting fouled by Farmar on a 3-pointer — to help the Pelicans open a 114-104 lead with 5:59 left. The Lakers had pulled to 97-93 on a fast-break layup by MarShon Brooks with 9½ minutes to play.
Gasol scored the Lakers' first 13 points and had 17 by halftime. Starting point guard Kendall Marshall played 22 scoreless minutes with 10 assists — the fourth time in the last four games that he didn't have a point.
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The protagonists: Kyle Busch, Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin(L-R) (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
By Mike Mulhern
Totally unexpected -- a furious, brilliant finish at California's much-maligned Auto Club Speedway. And just where these first five races of the season leave this new 2013 stocker is, well, looking not that bad at all.
Kurt Busch, who finished third, his best run yet with his new team and new crew chief Todd Berrier, called the final 50 miles chaotic.
Tire strategies and track position kept crew chiefs gambling and scrambling throughout the three-hour high-speed race. Winning crew chief Dave Rogers worried he's put Kyle Busch in a bind by not stopping late for four tires, in order to give his driver better track position. But Kyle made it all work...though only after Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano crashed hard while battling for the lead the last lap.
"Logano is going to be fast overall," Kurt Busch said of the end-game, pointing toward Logano's great pure speed, "where Hamlin is going to be fast in the corners with fresh(er) tires.
"It's just chaos, and you hope when you clear somebody that your momentum will allow you to draft with them and you're not stuck side by side drafting and slowing yourselves down and waiting for the guy behind you to banzai in there.
"It's a freeforall."
Another major issue for drivers Sunday afternoon -- the very bumpy backstretch
"Do everybody a favor, whoever owns this place, and pave the back straightaway," Dale Earnhardt Jr. said, after taking the Sprint Cup points lead into the Easter break.
"The back straightaway, there's some real bad bumps. We all watched it on TV in the Nationwide race (Saturday) and I'm sure you saw it today.
"It's just going down the back straight. It probably doesn't cost much to pave the two lanes we race in, and that would really cure any complaints I got.
"I think the corners are perfect. I wouldn't pave anything, or change anything, about the turns.
"This place has got the age of asphalt I think tracks strive for. This is what places like Michigan (new asphalt last year) and Phoenix (also new asphalt last year) look forward to --when they get a good 10 or 15 years on their asphalt.
"This (asphalt) is really right in the ballpark, right in everybody's wheelhouse.
"It's just real bumpy down the back straight, and it doesn't have to be. I think they can fix that with a couple lanes of asphalt on the outside toward the wall."
The start: teammates Denny Hamlin (11) and Matt Kenseth (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Winner Kyle Busch certainly didn't have anything to worry about. He dominated Saturday's Nationwide race and he dominated Sunday's Cup race too.
However rivals got downright crazy the last 50 miles, zig-zagging like wild men, diving for holes that weren't really there, diving to the apron to make it four-wide at times.
It was rather breath-taking, and totally unexpected at this track.
Kyle Busch realized Logano and Hamlin, though ahead of him in the final miles, could take each other out at any moment. For some reason those two suddenly have a 'history.'
"We had to get by before they wrecked," Busch said of his end-game.
"When they both went to the bottom side in three and four, I'm like 'Oh, man, this is golden.'
"Lo and behold, I put my foot to it and drove around the outside of them before they started crashing...or maybe as they were crashing, I'm not sure."
Amazingly, Busch's last tour win was nearly a year ago, at Richmond.
That, plus the blown engine at Daytona and a poor day at Phoenix, left him feeling relief: "Man, it feels so good to finally win.
"But we weren't going to win if it wasn't for those two battling. If they had been single-file and just racing, it would have went down in order."
"They got to racing, and racing really hard, and I think they forgot about me.
"Those guys went to racing each other really hard -- which is what this sport is all about, and what's great about NASCAR. But unfortunately it got a little dirty there at the end.
"It's hard racing, but it's also dirty sometimes...but you are going for the win. Nothing I'm sure other people wouldn't do to me.
"It looked like Joey went to the bottom (in turns three and four) but didn't quite get all the way down there, and knew Denny was going to have the run on the outside. So he slid up a little bit.
"I'm not sure if he (Logano) lost his front end or not, but they got together a little bit, and it turned Denny sideways, and Joey got into the fence too.
"I did win the race, by the way, so that might be a story. But I'm sure it's not."
Rogers, Kyle's crew chief, was worried he's put Busch in a hole down the stretch, by not giving him four new tires.
"I just decided to make it interesting on Kyle there, staying out and letting him go on those (old) tires," Rogers quipped.
The pit strategy throughout the race for every team was a guessing game. At the end, though, everyone had fresh tires except for Kyle Busch and Logano.
"Kyle did a great job moving around and figuring out how to get the most out of his car with what he had," Rogers said.
Joey Logano (22) and Denny Hamlin haven't been playing nice together this season (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Yippe what a race!!!! Man did DW kick off the race right by telling everyone to get up off your feet! He must of felt something cause this was one race you didnt want to sit down for! Wheres all my Cali haters at now??????????????
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Monaco have announced they have clinched the signing of Radamel Falcao from Atletico Madrid in a Ligue 1 record deal worth a reported €60 million.
• Marcotti: Falcao's choice
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Falcao, 27, travelled to the principality at the start of the week for a medical and to thrash of personal terms with the striker reportedly receiving a €14 million annual salary after tax on a five-year deal.
Monaco said on their official website: "Monaco are happy to announce we have reached an agreement with Atletico Madrid and the player Radamel Falcao for the transfer to Monaco beginning with the season 2013-14. The Colombian international striker has signed for five years."
The principality club's owner, Russian billionaire Dmitri Rybolovlev, also confirmed the deal during pre-planned end-of-season festivities on Friday evening.
"We're very happy Radamel Falcao has chosen AS Monaco for the future. It's a source of pride for us to be able to count on one of the best players in the world in order to get ASM FC back to its rightful place," Rybolovlev said in a statement.
Falcao will be presented to the media upon his return from holiday, the date for which has yet to be decided but it will be when the players report back for pre-season training.
The striker also confirmed the move on his Twitter account:
I want to share with you that I will be player of @asmfc_monaconext season. I'm eager to start this challenge! I count on you support!— Radamel Falcao (@FALCAO) May 31, 2013
The transfer fee far exceeds the €42 million plus €7 million bonus PSG paid AC Milan for Thiago Silva, and the €45 million Monaco themselves paid Porto for Falcao's compatriot, James Rodriguez, 21, only last week.
It is unclear whether or not he will play for Atletico in their final match of the season at relegation-threatened Real Zaragoza on Saturday evening.
Monaco coach Claudio Ranieri, who guided the club back to the top flight, could scarcely conceal his delight.
"I'm very happy he's coming. We want to build a very good team around him. Falcao's a fantastic player," the former Chelsea boss told AFP. "He plays for the team, but he is also very present in front of goal, he's very impressive."
Ranieri added Monaco's ambitious plunge into the transfer market in the last week also helped explain what appeared at the time to be an eyebrow-raising decision to join the then-second division strugglers in the summer of 2012.
"When I arrived at the club, I knew the project. Now, everyone understands my decision."
While the transfer fee is thought to be a record sum for the French top flight, Monaco are staying tight-lipped over the financial details of the deal until their dispute with the French Football League over their tax status is resolved.
"We won't give details for the moment on the content of the contract because we have a case on-going. We'll give them afterwards," vice-president Jean-Louis Campora explained.
Falcao has scored 16 goals in 44 appearances for Colombia, and after spells with River Plate and Porto he joined Atletico Madrid in summer 2011.
He proved his prowess in the Primera Division and also had success in European competitions with Atletico. He won the Europa League with the Spanish capital club in 2012, having triumphed in the same competition with Porto 12 months earlier.
He scored the only goal of the 2011 final as Porto beat Braga, and netted twice in Atletico's 3-0 victory over Athletic Bilbao in 2012.
Falcao has already scored a fine hat-trick at Monaco's Stade Louis II home, as Atletico beat Chelsea 4-1 in the UEFA Super Cup last August.
He joins Rodriguez, Joao Moutinho and Ricardo Carvalho as summer additions to Claudio Ranieri's squad and could soon be joined by a fifth.
French media reported Valenciennes centre-back Nicolas Isimat-Mirin, 21, was undergoing a medical at Monaco with a view to a €4 million move.
Valenciennes president Jean-Raymond Legrand, who was in Monaco on Wednesday, had declared in Friday's L'Equipe that he was hoping to sell his highly-rated defender quickly in order to balance his club's books.
Also, French news agency Agence France Press has reported Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes will also be in Monaco on Tuesday to discuss a possible move, though he may yet stay at the Camp Nou for the final year of his contract.
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Chen Wei-shou (陳維壽), a pioneer of the nation's butterfly research, remembers being spellbound when as a six-year-old boy he first saw "a flower that could move." A life-long obsession had begun.
Now aged 81, Chen can look back at a long career which has spanned seven decades, 77 books and has culminated in the establishment of one of Asia's largest butterfly museums. By any measure, his academic life has been successful, and yet, when he looks back, his recollections are tinged with sadness, as butterflies which were once abundant have become rare in many parts of Taiwan.
In some parts of Taiwan, Chen said, butterfly populations are now one-hundredth of the level before industrialization.
"Taiwan used to be a paradise of butterflies. When I was a kid, one could easily spot butterflies even in Taipei," he said.
Times have changed, and now one of the only places to see butterflies in Taiwan's capital is at the museum he set up in 1972 on the campus of Cheng Kung High School, where he taught for a generation until retiring in 1996.
Taiwan's butterfly habitats were destroyed with breathtaking speed as the society transformed itself from an agricultural society to an industrial powerhouse in the post-war years.
"A lot of original forest was cleared to make way for roads, homes and factories and for the development of farmland," said Lin Kuo-chang (林國彰), an official with the Council of Agriculture. "The widespread use of pesticides by farmers was also responsible for the massive disappearance of butterflies on the island."
On the plains along the west coast of Taiwan, where the island's economic miracle was forged, populations dropped so precipitously that they became what Chen termed "a butterfly desert."
However, there was also another reason why butterfly populations came under pressure from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Families across the nation found a new source of income, either catching butterflies or working in processing plants turning them into decorations that were shipped abroad in one of the island's great export successes of the boom years.
At the peak of the industry, Taiwan exported 30 million butterflies a year, mostly to Japan, but also to the US and Europe.
Hard trade statistics are difficult to come by, but thousands of Taiwanese derived their entire income from butterflies for years.
"Taiwan sold so many butterflies and butterfly products that the island ended up being called the 'butterfly kingdom,'" Chen said. "Whether you like it or not, it supported many families."
Nearly one-in-five butterfly species can only be found in Taiwan, but concern about their survival is mounting. For one species — the great purple spot butterfly — the concern comes too late, and it has already become officially extinct in Taiwan. Three others — the Broad-tailed Swallowtail, Magellan's Iridescent Birdwing and the Great Purple Emperor — are now on the endangered list and subject to active conservation efforts.
In one of many signs of this new-found concern, authorities have created butterfly sanctuaries and are trying to raise awareness in information campaigns. Every spring, they shut one lane of a busy road in central Taiwan to protect millions of purple spot butterflies on their seasonal migration.
Chen, for one, has replaced his nets with cameras. His first documentary, Dancing Queens of Nature scooped the coveted Golden Harvest award in 1978, and since 1981, the only butterflies he has caught are the ones caught on film.


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US Republican Senator Rob Portman favours gay unions
Influential US Republican Senator Rob Portman has renounced his opposition to gay marriage.
The Ohio senator said he began to change his mind in 2011 after his son, Will, revealed he was gay.
Sen Portman said that his former views on marriage had stemmed from his Methodist faith.
In 1996, as a member of the House of Representatives, he voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman.
He also voted in 1999 against allowing gay couples in Washington DC to adopt children.
Senator's surprise
The gay marriage issue has increasingly divided the Republican party, with some members arguing that opposition to same-sex unions contributed to the party's losses nationally in last November's elections.
Sen Portman, who was considered a potential running mate for Republican White House candidate Mitt Romney, announced his change of heart in interviews with several Ohio newspapers.
"I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married," he wrote in an opinion piece for the Columbus Dispatch.
"That isn't how I've always felt," he wrote. "As a congressman, and more recently as a senator, I opposed marriage for same-sex couples."
His son posted a message on Twitter, saying: "Especially proud of my dad today".
Sen Portman said to Ohio newspapers that his son Will, now 21 and a student at Yale University, told him being gay was "not a choice", and that he had been gay "since he could remember".
The Ohio senator said he and his wife, Jane, had been surprised but also supportive.
The father of three said he had confided in the pastor of his church in Cincinnati about the issue.
He also spoke to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who opposes gay marriage, and to former Vice-President Dick Cheney, who supports it. Mr Cheney's daughter is a lesbian.
Sen Portman told the newspapers that Mr Romney had been informed about Will's sexuality last year.
Mr Romney spoke out last May against gay marriage, a week after President Barack Obama took the political gamble of announcing his support for such unions.
Sen Portman said he had struggled with reconciling his Christian faith and his desire to see his son have the same opportunities for relationships as his siblings.
"Ultimately, it came down to the Bible's overarching themes of love and compassion and my belief that we are all children of God," the senator wrote.
Sen Portman said he would like Congress to repeal the provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma), which bans federal recognition of gay marriage.
But he argued that states should not be forced to recognise such unions.
Sen Portman said in his opinion piece: "Judicial intervention from Washington would circumvent that process as it's moving in the direction of recognising marriage for same-sex couples.
"An expansive court ruling would run the risk of deepening divisions rather than resolving them."
Nine US states and the District of Columbia fully recognise gay marriage, including several states which legalised the unions through a popular vote in 2012.
The announcement comes just over a week before the US Supreme court will hear arguments in two cases related to gay marriage. One challenges Doma.


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From the days of the PS one, this downloadable game allows you to play the classic original on your PSP handheld system or PS3 home console.
Stat: Situation critical. Kreel unstoppable. International forces crushed. Deploy Warhawk, highly maneuverable, air-to-air, air-to-ground capable. Target: 6 hot zones: over 25 areas of high engagement: very hot. Objective: eliminate Kreel. This PlayStation launch game lets player man the deadly airship and attack in any direction. Maneuvers include reverse, sideways, stop and over, dive, barrel roll, loop and even the Immelman turn. Fire lock-ons, rockets, multi-fire swarmers, and plasma cannons and fight over desert wastelands, in castle hallways, a gothic tower, and more.
Also known as: Warhawk
Release Region: United States
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
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Tea Gardens Village Markets is a new and vibrant market situated in the Village Square of the Myall Quays Shopping Village, in Tea Gardens.
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The facial nerve innervates all the muscles of facial expression. Confirm that the temporal branch cervical branch cervical branch is the only branch of the facial nerve to cross the angle of the mandible angle of the mandible. The cervical nerve innervates the platysma muscle.
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By Cara Nissman [1] Jan 19, 2012 0 [2]
Designing the Future: nonPareil Institute
Cheryl O'Brien had worked as a draftsman, technician and electrical engineer before taking time off from the world of work to raise her children. But when O'Brien was ready to return to work, she could not get hired because of her poor interviewing skills. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome as an adult, she had trouble understanding office politics and fitting in socially. Never mind that she had an electrical engineering degree. "No one believed I could do the work or fit in with their group," said O'Brien, 51, of Allen, Texas. O'Brien ended up getting four part-time jobs to make ends meet—two paper routes, a gig as a crossing guard and a billing clerk position.
Kyle McNiece worked as a bagger and cashier at a grocery store. Then he dispensed coffee for customers at a car dealership. Then he bused tables at a Mexican restaurant. These jobs did not challenge his technologically-savvy mind. "The jobs weren't going anywhere and I wasn't doing what I really wanted to do," said McNiece, 23, of Plano, Texas, who also has Asperger syndrome.
O'Brien and McNiece are now embarking on careers thanks to the Plano-based nonprofit nonPareil Institute [4]. Founded in 2009, nonPareil—which means having no equal—is a nonprofit program that trains high-functioning adults with autism ages 18 and older on different aspects of video game and app design and development at a pace each student can manage. The institute is based at Southern Methodist University, which has a renowned graduate program in gaming design and development. While run independently, nP collaborates with SMU and other universities.
"There is a 90 percent unemployment rate for adults with autism," said Gary Moore, who founded nP with Dan Selec. Both are information technology industry veterans and parents of teenagers with autism. "Many people with autism have the intellectual capacity to do the work, but their social and sensory issues prevent them from going into the [white collar] workforce," Moore said. "We think we have figured out the solution to train them with marketable skills that will generate more than a minimum wage income that will be sustainable the rest of their lives."
Adults pay a monthly $600 tuition to learn about video game and app design and development, including 3D animation. Students learn a little of everything involved in video game design at first, then branch off to learn about a specific field once they determine what they like and do best. Students receive a certificate of completion after they finish their coursework. For example, O'Brien discovered her skill lies in coding games. She was the primary developer of the institute's first iPad app, Soroban [5], a digital abacus you can download for 99 cents. "When my app was released, I was quite shocked," O'Brien said. "Although I had experience programming, I didn't have any knowledge of the game world, so it didn't seem possible."
From Skills to Jobs
nP does not just aim to build students' skills so they are marketable for future employers. The nonprofit also hires students who show particular leadership and capability. Such employees receive ongoing assistance and accommodations to be successful nP employees, including flexible hours to account for the use of public transportation. O'Brien now teaches coding and works on games and apps as an nP employee. She thrives on building students' skills and self-esteem. "I like teaching others on the spectrum," she said. "They are 'normal' to me and we understand each other. I think the challenge is in getting them to believe what they can accomplish if they are willing to put forth the effort. For most, nP is the first time they've been accepted anywhere, and they have not been given the opportunity to be successful. Here their success is only dependent on their work, and that is unlimited."
McNiece, who now teaches level design at nP, has seen a similar change in his students. New enrollees start off introverted, but by the end of taking courses with other students like them, he said, "they're completely different people." McNiece has also recently experienced some personal changes. He moved out of his family home into an apartment with a roommate so he could be closer to his nP job. The transition was rough, he said, but he's been preparing to live independently "for pretty much as long as I can remember."
About a dozen of the institute's 75 students have chosen to live in apartments near nP, Moore said. Some of the families who live out of state or several hours away have privately hired caregivers to check on them. Moore and Selec plan for nP to have a larger facility with on-campus housing in the future as they develop and distribute more products. Right now they depend mostly on donations and tuition to keep nP running. Donations accounted for nearly 60 percent of their revenue for fiscal year 2010. But they hope to draw enough revenue from contracts for products and tuition as they expand to build multiple training centers around the country.
The nonprofit has hired eight former students so far, Moore said. It plans to hire more students whose previous jobs have not challenged them or accommodated their needs. "We're teaching white-collar skills in an intentionally flexible environment," he said. The institute provides headphones to mitigate students' sensory difficulties and a room where they can decompress and interact without pressure. Students come for lessons however many hours they can manage, depending on their transportation and other needs. Psychologists provide some pro bono counseling. And Selec runs a regular group meeting on teamwork and appropriate workplace conduct.
Professors from local universities also volunteer their time to offer some programming, Moore said. And the site collaborates with researchers who want to study the nP model. "We will be publishing white papers," he said. "We are also talking with some large companies about doing some work for them." The institute may one day have a for-profit division and employ former students who can work a traditional 40-hour week, Moore said. The program may even go beyond video game and app design. "We're still young, but we fully intend to expand the curriculum to include a lot of other disciplines," he said. "We may do 3D movies down the road. Astronomy. Art. Music. We may have our own restaurant or cafeteria someday and run a chef program."
Until then, students are brainstorming more ideas for video games and apps, Moore said. PC, iPhone and iPad products are under development. And students continue to cultivate personal connections. "For autistics, the difficult part of working is in finding people who believe in you and give you a chance," O'Brien said. "nP is a unique place where people on the spectrum are immediately accepted for who they are within a community of people who understand them. They find real friends they can work and socialize with. Their work proves they are very capable people, regardless of their challenges."


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Letter, J. H. Lane & C. K. Holliday to General Assembly of Kansas member
Author: Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900; Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866
Date: February 25, 1856
This printed letter, addressed to all newly-elected members of the General Assembly, accompanied James Abbott's certificate of election to his seat. The Executive Committee of the General Assembly, which included James Lane and Cyrus Holliday, urged the newly elected representatives to "promptly and early" attend their next meeting at Topeka on March 4.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: James Abbott Collection, #252, Box 2 Folder 9
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Keywords: Abbott, James Burnett; Elections; Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900; Kansas Territory. Legislature - Topeka; Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866
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Philadelphia Phillies – Records: Hitting .400.
One of the rarest of hitting accomplishments is batting .400 during the regular season. Not done since 1941, when Hall of Famer Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hit .406 that season, batting .400 has been done only twenty-eight times since 1876. All but six of the men to reach .400 are now members of the Hall of Fame. The first player to do it would be Ross Barnes of the Chicago White Stockings (now the Chicago Cubs), who would bat .429 in the first National League season of 1876, winning the batting title for that year. Hall of Famer Hugh Duffy of the Boston Beaneaters (now the Atlanta Braves) would have the highest .400 average, as he would hit .440 in 1894. Fellow Hall of Famer Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers would have the lowest .400 batting average, hitting .401 in 1922. Cobb is tied with fellow Hall of Famers Ed Delahanty and Rogers Hornsby for the most times a player would have hit over .400 in his career, with all three men doing it three times a piece.
In the history of the Phillies, four Phils have officially hit .400 or better six times, three times by the above mentioned Delahanty, and once each by fellow Hall of Famers Billy Hamilton and Sam Thompson and Tuck Turner. Delahanty would hit .400 for the first time in 1894, as he would hit .407 that season. Hamilton would also reach .400 for the only time in his carrer that same year as he would bat .404, along with fellow outfielders Thompson (.407) and Turner (.416), being the only outfield in baseball history that would bat over .400 during the same season. None of them would win the batting title that year, as they would all be outhit by Duffy's .440. Delahanty would hit .400 again in 1895, hitting .404 in 1895. Delahanty would become the last Phil batter to hit over .400, as he would hit .410 in 1899, winning his first batting title in the process. Although Delahanty is listed as the Phil with the highest batting average in the team's history (his .410 in 1895), Turner's .416 is recognized by major league baseball as a .400 batting average, although he only played part-time in 1894.
Among the 28 .400 hitters, Phillies are ranked at number 9 (Turner, 1894), 11-T (Delahanty, 1899), 16-T (Thompson, 1894), 18 (Delahanty, 1894), 20 (Hamilton, 1894) and 21 (Delahanty, 1895).
Will another Phil ever reach .400? I seriously doubt it, as such a person would have to avoid running into a major slump during the entire season.


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willPower Barre-Fusion® is a hybrid of of The willPower Method® exercises and ballet barre skills. The goal of this full-body muscular endurance workout is to bring local muscle groups to the point of fatigue, and then stretch to lengthen them. The result creates long, lean, toned and healthy muscles.
Barre classes are trending because they are challenging and they produce results. A traditional barre class utilizes a ballet barre as a point of contact, for additional support. willPower Barre-Fusion® is barre-less!
The advantage to working without a barre: standing single leg work exercises are tremendously helpful for creating balance from the ground up. Consider this: WALKING is the most functional of all human movement – and it's a series of single leg balances!
By relying on your own musculature during unilateral endurance work, you will use systems of the body that are typically not challenged when you have an additional contact point (such as a barre).
Students of willPower Barre-Fusion® love the physical changes they've seen… specifically sculpting and strengthening in the lower back, glutes, abdominals and legs. After warming the feet and spine, the class is based on 30-minutes of balance-strength work standing work followed by a 15 minutes of mat exercises.
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Aurangabad, named after the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb is a tourist hub with so many historical monuments. The city lies along the banks of river Kham and is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. The famous caves of Ajanta and Ellora are situated here which have been recognized by UNESCO as the world heritage sites. Other tourist attractions include the various museums which house the art treasures of the region.
Budget Hotels in Aurangabad
Being one of the major tourist destinations of the region, Aurangabad has a lot to offer when it comes to the provision of staying facilities. Hotel Janaki Executive is located at a distance of 5.2 Kms from the Aurangabad Railway Bus Stand on the Nagpur Aurangabad Mumbai Highway and costs a price range of around Rs. 2036. The Manor Hotel is situated at a pebble throw distance of 2.4 Kms from Aurangabad Railway Bus Stand on Bhanudas Sabhagarh Railway Station Road and the price is Rs. 1983 for the single night stay. Another place to stay is the Key Hotel which lies at a distance of 2Kms from Aurangabad Railway Bus Stand on Bhanudas Sabhagrah Railway Staion Road and charges a sum of Rs. 2961. The luxury hotel Taj residency is located at 8Kms from the Aurangabad Railway Bus Stand and costs a price of Rs. 5844. Hotel Classic is located quite nearby the Aurangabad Railway Bus Stand and costs just Rs. 832.
The main language spoken here is Ahirani which is similar to Marathi and Andh.
Events in Aurangabad
With so many festivals going throughout the year, Dussehra is celebratd in the month of September-October for a period of 10 days. Ganesh Chaturthi is an important festival with a celebration continuing for over 10 days. Another festival is the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji and celebrated in the month of May with quite zeal.
Places to See in Aurangabad
The main tourist attractions are Bibi Ka Maqbara, lying at a distance of 6.5 Kms from Aurangabad Railway Bus Stand and Panchakki is placed at around 4 Kms from the same. The other place worth visiting is Aurangabad Caves which is placed at 8.9 from Aurangabad Bus Stand.
How to Get There
One can reach the town of Aurangabad by air easily with Aurangabad airport lying across.
The city of Aurangabad owns a railway station connecting all the major cities through train routes.
The Aurangabad Bus Stand provides quite an efficient bus service connecting and commuting the tourist passengers from all over the adjacent regions. Avail book bus online service offered by TicketGoose.com to get to Dausa without hassle. To get discounted bus tickets you will have to book your tickets in advance.
Various state transport buses connect the area to different parts of the state. Private buses are pretty active in the area, too. Online bus booking facility is the most convenient way to book your tickets.


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ShootMania: Storm Elite demo now available
A demo for ShootMania: Storm Elite is now available, featuring a full mode from the retail product. It can be downloaded through ManiaPlanet, shootmania.com or Steam – where it is also 50% off. The demo also offers a taste of 3v3 action, matchmaking, dedicated rankings and progression levels. Plus, if you play the demo between […]
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Insomnia 49 gaming festival going on right now
Insomnia has kicked off in Telford, Shropshire, UK which will include a Team Fortress 2 tournament over the weekend. Other competitive matches this weekend include: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, Halo 4, League of Legends, Shootmania, and the StarCraft 2 WCG UK finals. All can be watched via the […]
ShootMania demo and tournament being held at Currys PC World March 30 in London
Ubisoft will be hosting an all-day demonstration of ShootMania at the Gaming Bunker, in Currys PC World – Tottenham Court Road, London. Attendees can try out the e-sports title online and against friends from 11am to 3pm on Saturday March 30. You could end up winning various prizes in the mini-tournament at the end of […]
ShootMania and TrackMania 2 receive Twitch streaming
ShootMania and TrackMania 2 have received Twitch integration, allowing gamers to stream their creations and matches live using the service.
ShootMania 'beta 2' now live, adds grappling hooks & more
ShootMania developer Nadeo has announced the second phase of its beta. The shooter, which comes with a sophisticated map-making suite, is gearing up for a January launch, but you can get involved in the beta now. We've got the 'beta 2' patch notes here.
ManiaPlanet 2.0 now in alpha
According to the ManiaPlanet blog, Nadeo's second iteration on the ManiaPlanet service has gone into alpha. The online tech will be the backbone of the Shootmania, Trackmania and Questmania families, and the developer is already priming users with the knowledge they'll need to build the franchise's celebrated user generated content with the new toolset. Hit […]
Closed beta for TrackMania 2 Canyon coming in July
Ubisoft has announced a closed beat for TrackMania 2 Canyon will start in July, which will also mark "the beginning of ManiaPlanet," a networked gaming system for PCs with tools for community-based game creation and participation.
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ReportsSeptember 7, 2010 - Updated on January 20, 2016
"The Iraq War: The Heaviest Death Toll for the Media" Since World War II, March 2003 – August 2010
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Riyad Assariyeh, a 35-year-old journalist working for state-run Al Iraqiya TV, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen as he was leaving his home in Baghdad this morning. This clearly targeted murder brings to 15 the number of Al Iraqiya journalists who have been killed since Saddam Hussein's removal. Reporters Without Borders calls for a proper investigation capable of identifying and arresting both the perpetrators and instigators of this murder and bringing them to justice. It would be deplorable it this killing were to go unpunished, which unfortunately has been the case in 99 per cent of the 230 murders of journalists and media workers since the US-led invasion in 2003. Two weeks after the U.S. Army's last combat brigade withdrew from Iraq, Reporters Without Borders surveyed the country's seven years of occupation by the coalition forces and their impact on press freedom. The aim of this report is to pay homage to all of the media professionals who gave their lives in order to keep the public informed, despite the risks they were taking. Although the U.S. intervention in Iraq put an end to Saddam Hussein's regime and paved the way for a major expansion of the Iraqi media, the human toll of the war, and the years of political and ethnic violence which followed, were nothing short of disastrous – too many people died. The second U.S. war with Iraq was the most lethal for journalists since World War II. Reporters Without Borders tallied 230 cases of journalists and media staff killed in the country since the conflict broke out on 20 March 2003. That is more than those killed during 20 years of the Vietnam War or the civil war in Algeria. In this report intitled "The Iraq War: A Heavy Death Toll for the Media," Reporters Without Borders focuses on those journalists who were killed during the conflict simply because they wanted to do their jobs. Who were they? Which media outlets did they work for? Under what circumstances were they killed? Were they deliberately attacked? This is the third time that Reporters Without Borders has conducted such a study. The last one was released on 20 March 2006, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq. In this study, Reporters Without Borders also re-examines the issue of journalist abductions during the war: Iraq, with its more than 93 abducted media professionals, was for several years the biggest market for hostages in the world. Suspected of collaborating with insurgent groups, Iraqi journalists were also frequently arrested during the war, either by the newly established Iraki administration, or by the U.S. Army. Some 30 journalists were arrested by the U.S. Army between March 2003 and August 2010, mainly in 2008. By early January 2006, Camp Bucca, the American detention centre in southern Iraq between the cities of Basra and Uum Qasr, had become the biggest prison for journalists in the Middle East. To obtain a better grasp of the factors which contributed to this death toll, Reporters Without Borders produced several graphs showing diverse trends with regard to attacks on the media in Iraq since 2003.


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Chris Hemsworth Set Visit Interview For Thor The Dark World
Thor: The Dark World Set Visit — Chris Hemsworth Jokes About Holidaying Avengers
Are you ready for more Thor? Chris Hemsworth dons those long blonde locks and red cape once again in Thor: The Dark World (out Oct. 31), taking us back to the mythical world of Asgard, reuniting Thor with Jane (Natalie Portman), and of course, catching us up with Loki (Tom Hiddleston). In the sequel, Jane is living in London when Thor comes back into her life, and I was psyched to visit the set of the film in England last year. Not only did we get a peek at Jane's geek-chic British pad, but we also got to set foot on various places in Asgard (spoiler alert: it all feels very Disney — in the most magical way).
The last time we saw Thor, he was helping the rest of the Avengers lock up Loki after his attempt to destroy Earth, so naturally, we're all eager to find out where The Dark World will pick up with the two brothers — not to mention whether or not Thor's new superhero buddies will be hanging around. Based on a chat with Hemsworth, it doesn't sound like we should be expecting Thor to get any help from Iron Man or Black Widow this time around. Here's more on what Hemsworth had to say:
Where is Thor at this point when the movie starts? Does it pick up right after The Avengers?
Chris Hemsworth: The Avengers is kind of a side step amongst all the journeys. This is certainly a continuation of it, but at the same time, Thor's journey picks more so up where we left the first one. He's about to take on the throne, about to earn the right to be the king. He's also coming to the realisation of what responsibility comes with that, and the dark side of that responsibility, and the secrets within being king. The ongoing question from Thor is what is it that Loki wants, and why, and how did we come to this? And I think we get to possibly attack some of those questions properly.
Are we going to see as much comedy on this as the Avengers?
CH: Well no, because [Robert] Downey's not here. He takes care of that for us. Natalie and Kat Dennings certainly have some great humour. There's a few nice, fish-out-of-water moments for Thor, but not quite as naive and obvious as the first one. I think the Earth-bound stuff really grounds the story in both films, and keeps a lightness to it that trickles through Asgard as well.
What about Jane? Are we going to see a bit more of a love story coming up?
CH: Obviously Natalie's in the film, and it sort of picks up where we left off, with a bridge being broken between them and how do we fix that, and . . .
She's pissed off that you didn't call her?
CH: I think she will be, yeah. [Laughs]
To see what else Hemsworth said about Thor and Loki's relationship, just keep reading.
In the first film, there was a lot of time on Asgard and a ton of time on Earth. How does it break down the percentage in the sequel in terms of where you guys are spending time?
CH: It's certainly set in both worlds, pretty substantially. We certainly see more of Asgard, and more of the nine realms in this film than we did in Thor. There's a bigger universe out there, which we get to explore.
What can you tell us about Thor's relationship with his father and Lady Sif this time around?
CH: In the comic books there's an attraction with Thor and Sif. There was little peppering of that in the first one. Little hints at it. There may be more indication. The conflict between Thor and Odin was so great in the first one, and he didn't want to repeat that, but certainly they disagree as I think they always will at times. But there's a far greater respect for each other.
In the comic books, Thor and Loki have these ups and downs where they'll be mortal enemies and then best friends. A lot of us are guessing that in the sequel, we're going to see Thor and Loki as BFFs for a little while. Can you talk about if you guys are on an aligning path in the sequel?
CH: In the comic books, you kind of roll your eyes sometimes at the amount of times they're back to being best friends. We wanted to keep in mind that Loki did just try to kill me for the seventh time. And Earth. You know the scene in The Avengers when Thor says, "Careful how you speak. He may be crazy but it's my brother," kind of sums it up. He's a screw-up, but he is my brother. I don't think we're going back to being best friends. Thor's at a loss about how they got to this point, because for him, it all came out of nowhere. I think that then in this film he certainly can acknowledge now with a maturity that he should have been more aware of Loki over the years, and where he was positioned, and why maybe that led him down a certain path. So I think there's sort of an empathetic view for Loki that no one else can have because they're not bound by blood.
Avengers 2 is coming. Do the next stage of films act as stand-alone films? Do they all still build toward another bigger picture?
CH: They all link up in some way, but I think Marvel is pretty adamant about them being their own stories. I was wondering if we were going to start doing cameos in everyone's films, but I guess that would take away from the impact of all of us when we do finally come together. These stories kind of segue off into their own world and each of the Avengers are conveniently not around at the time. And that's the thing. You watch Iron Man now and you go, "Where's Cap? And where's Thor? Are they on vacation or something?" But they're being really smart about removing everyone in a way that hopefully takes care of that.


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Barn Quilts of Carroll County Illinois
"The American Quilt Trail Movement" is credited to Donna Sue Groves. Much of the information gathered here is from excerpts of the book entitled "Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement" written by Suzi Parron with Donna Sue Groves.
Carroll County, Illinois is very pleased to announce our participation in this movement. Our "Trail" has been organized by the Carroll County Hotel / Motel Tax Board.
Click here for our 2016 "Barn Quilt Trail" Map.
The first official quilt trail began in 2001 in Adams County, Ohio. Donna Sue Groves wanted to honor her mother, Maxine, a noted quilter, with a painted quilt square on the family's tobacco barn in Manchester, Ohio. Although many believe that the Groves farm is home to the first barn quilt, it is not the case. The first barn quilt was an "Ohio Star" which was unveiled as part of a community celebration at a nearby herb farm. The Groves farm later became part of a trail of 20 "Barn Quilts" that formed a driving trail through Adams County. Although an emerging concept, a U.S. National Quilt Trail has rapidly spread across Ohio to Iowa, Kentucky, Kansas, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Texas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Colorado, South Dakota, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Oregon. Carroll County, Illinois is very proud to participate in this trail. British Columbia, Canada has developed a trail, and barn quilts also exist in Ontario, Canada.
There are many places on-line that you can order pre-made "Barn Quilts" or you can find complete directions on-line for making your own. On our Facebook page "Barn Quilts of Carroll County Illinois" you can also find a list of people in Carroll County who will make them for other people.
Barn quilts enhance the beauty of the countryside and are enjoyed by those who pass by. Carroll County is very fortunate to have many "Barn Quilts" already in existence throughout its countryside. Mt. Carroll resident Vivian Curley, over the last couple years has compiled information on many of the existing "Barn Quilts" in our area and we are working to compile our trail from the start of this list. We certainly would like to see "Barn Quilt Fever" continue to grow in Carroll County. Our end goal, is to promote agri-tourism and attract visitors to our rural community.
Please visit our Facebook page to see our listings of photos and information on the Carroll County Barn Quilt Trail. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/barnquiltsofcarrollcountyillinois Albums have started for each town in Carroll County and also albums for barn quilts in surrounding areas in close proximity of Carroll County.
A preliminary list has been compiled and has been published on our website and can be viewed on this page http://www.visitcarrollcountyil.com/barn-quilt-trail It is our sincere desire to verify the information we have, gather more information, and compile a more complete list. Once this task has been completed, we intend to utilize the collected information in our promotional, advertising, and marketing materials for Carroll County
Here are some things that you can do to help us complete the Carroll County Barn Quilt Trail.
- If your barn quilt is currently listed but you prefer not to participate or wish that your information not be published, simply contact us and your information will be promptly removed from our list.
- If you currently have a barn quilt and your information is listed correctly, please contact us and let us know all is okay.
- If you currently have a barn quilt but your information is not listed, please contact us with all of your information and we will come and take a photo of your barn quilt and it will be added to the list. Be certain to include the address and any other information that may assist visitors in finding the specific location.
- If you do not currently have a barn quilt but would like to participate in the "Carroll County Barn Quilt Trail", please send us all your information and let us know when we can come and take a photo of it.
We would also like to feature the history of any of the barn quilts that are placed on historic old barns or out buildings. By answering the questions below, it will enable us to help visitors learn of the rich heritage Carroll County has to offer.
- How long has the property been in the family?
- Who purchased the property and when?
- When was the barn constructed?
- What materials were used in its construction?
- Was the architecture determined by the function of the barn?
- What was its original function?
- What function does it presently serve?
- What is the name or origin of the quilt pattern?
- What is the significance or symbology of the quilt pattern?
If you or anyone you know would like to share your barn quilt story with us, please contact Connie Zink at 815-565-0024 or message us through our Facebook page.
Carroll County Barn Quilt Trail (Please Click On The First Photo In Each Album To View Full Screen)
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I crave coconut curry all the time and luckily for me, I have a restaurant just down the street that can satisfy my craving. But that was before I realized how easy coconut curry is to make. I pretty much thought about all the vegetables that would taste good smothered in coconut milk (so like, everything) and added in rice to make one of my favorite meals. The other exciting news? Follow this recipe and enjoy leftovers for days.
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-1 tablespoon rice vinegar
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3. Add carrots to the pan and add more salt and pepper. Add more oil if necessary. Cook for about 3-5 minutes until slightly softened and add the peppers, onions, garlic, and ginger. Add more salt and pepper. Cook for about 5 minutes or until you can pierce the peppers with a fork.
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The Minnesota Twins announced today that they have recalled outfielder Oswaldo Arcia from Triple-A Rochester to take the roster spot of Wilkin Ramirez who is on paternity leave.
Arcia started the season with Red Wings where he appeared in nine games, batting .414 (12-for-29) with three home runs and eight RBI. The 21-year old, who signed with the Twins as a non-drafted free agent in 2007, will wear uniform number 31.
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Ryan Chilcote: First deep attack
(CNN) -- The pilots of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne pulled an all-nighter Friday completing their first deep attack -- using Apache helicopters against a Republican Guard unit, southwest of Baghdad. CNN Correspondent Ryan Chilcote, embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne's 3rd Brigade, discussed the mission with Chief Warrant Officer Jeff Wellington.
CHILCOTE: It was a mission not without mishaps. Two helicopters on that mission completely destroyed.
Right here on the flight line in crash landings, the helicopters landing in what are called brown-out conditions, meaning the dust on the desert floor rises up and engulfs the helicopter and it is very difficult for the pilot to see the ground in those conditions and very easy to mess up the landing.
That is what appears to have happened. Both those pilots rolling their helicopters, (a) very dangerous situation. Of the four pilots, only one was Injured with a broken leg.
So a really miraculous outcome to what could have been a very, very unfortunate accident. Obviously, flying attack helicopters in Iraq, is a very dangerous business. Two pilots, one in an Apache (that was) shot down on that mission by small arms fire, are now believed to be held inside iraq as POWs. A little cater at exactly how dangerous this business is.
With me, I have one of the pilots that flew the mission. He will tell us a little bit about what happened. First there were two mishaps. The two helicopters with the crash landings. Apparently, brownout was a factor in both (of) those (incidents). What's going through your mind when that's happening?
WELLINGTON: You know, the mission's over. You don't want to get into a relaxed mode at that point, you still want to maintain focus. Until you're physically on the ground, flat pitch, power level's back at idle it can actually take a deep breath and, you know, feel pretty confident everything's over.
CHILCOTE: The pilots are OK. Three of the four, no problems at all. One broke his leg. That's a pretty good outcome?
WELLINGTON: Oh, absolutely. We're very thankful they're OK. For their family members, just -- they're doing fine and their spirits are high and they'll be back in the fight in no time.
CHILCOTE: Tell me about what you saw on the mission.
WELLINGTON: Immediately upon arrival in the target area, we came in contact with the remnants of the Republican Guard. They had suffered several nights of air strikes and we immediately started to engage targets upon arrival, spent about two hours in the target area and returned back to base.
CHILCOTE: Were you taking fire? What did it look like? Did it look like they were hiding? You think they expected you were coming?
WELLINGTON: They were in several defensive positions along the -- certain terrain features. We took some small arms, occasional artillery rounds from northeast of our position. No surface-to-air missiles were fired. But very little resistance at that point.
CHILCOTE: You told me your wife was also flying on that mission. That must be a pretty interesting feeling, being up there knowing your wife also is up in one of those helicopters.
WELLINGTON: I try not to think about it. I try to stay focused on my task at hand. She's a very competent pilot. I feel good about what she's doing. She feels good about what she's doing. I know she's a very good pilot and she knows what she's doing out there so I'm really not too worried about it. Her battalion went out about 30 minutes after us and finished up the attack.
CHILCOTE: Today, the 101st pilots resting up after what they call a very successful mission. They destroyed several APCs, several tanks and several pilots reported that they may have killed some iraqi soldiers on that mission southwest of Baghdad.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This report was written in accordance with Pentagon ground rules allowing so-called embedded reporting, in which journalists join deployed troops. Among the rules accepted by all participating news organizations is an agreement not to disclose sensitive operational details.


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Registration for this summer at Camp Al-Gon-Quian opened at 6 a.m. on a cold winter day in December. Within five minutes, more than a dozen parents were lined up outside the camp's office at the Ann Arbor, Mich., YMCA. "People were freaking out," says the camp's director, Sarah Kurtz, who hadn't even realized yet that the rush of online camp signups had crashed their entire computer system. "It's a little embarrassing, but it's also a good problem to have." By 3 p.m., she'd signed up 855 campers by hand, and she soon maxed out all of the camp's two-week sessions; more than 300 kids were ultimately wait listed.
While the number of campers has grown slowly or remained stable over the past decade—about 10 million children attend either day or overnight summer camps in the U.S. annually, according to the American Camp Association—camps are filling up sooner and waiting lists have gotten longer in recent years. Last summer, 12% of camps hit capacity and more than a third filled up 90% to 99%, according to an ACA survey. Meanwhile, the average price of overnight camp has increased 22% to $500 per week over the past five years, the ACA says. Camps often re-enroll campers for the next summer before they even leave camp, so many bunk beds are already spoken for by January or February. Unofficial camp quotas can also leave some children on the sidelines: "No camp wants too many kids from a school or a town," says Patti Roberts, a New Jersey-based adviser also known as "the Camp Lady" who helps families choose camps.
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