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The number two belt, the stepping stone, the gateway to the world title; all these terms could be used to describe the WWE's Intercontinental championship. This piece of leather and gold has provided some of the most entertaining matches in wrestling history, many of which are included on a new three-disc DVD set -- but not all. There are also definitely a couple of head scratchers put in that makes one wonder, what made the WWE think that a fan would want to see that match again?
The compilation, entitled The History of the Intercontinental Championship, is broken down by era into the three decades that the title has been in existence, beginning with the inaugural champion Pat Patterson. Host Todd Grisham does a great job of setting up each battle, however, it would have been nice to have some of the WWE Superstars share their thoughts on their particular match-up.
In this SLAM! Wrestling writer's humble opinion the 1980s portion is by far the best, and truly captures how important it was to hold the Intercontinental championship. It is Disc 1 where the WWE staff especially shines adding some rare gems to the collection. For example, being able to see the likes of Pedro Morales and Ken Patera in action once again gives the WWE Universe a different view of the '80s outside the usual visions of Hulk Hogan. Of course there are the typical repeats from other WWE DVDs of Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat from WrestleMania III, along with Superfly Snuka's legendary cage match against Don Muraco, however, these can be overlooked since the battles had such historical significance to the championship.
Disc 2 takes us to the 1990s, and it is here where a lot more could have been done. First of all the same Bret Hart vs. Mr. Perfect '91 SummerSlam match can be found in both The Hitman's and Curt Hennig's DVD sets. These two had dozens of incredible contests for the gold, and it would have been nice to have seen a rare match put in instead. Although repetitive, the Hart/British Bulldog encounter in England at SummerSlam is necessary as the Intercontinental strap was showcased as the feature on such a large scale. It is a shame that none of Owen Hart's matches were included and that the only clip of Owen is when he dropped Stone Cold on his head with a botched piledriver. The HBK and Razor Ramon WrestleMania X ladder match is another duplicate, but giving credit where it is due, there are a couple of forgotten Rock battles that bring back some fond memories of the Attitude Era.
Sadly it is during the current decade where the title really becomes watered down. The real pity is that because of the Chris Benoit double murder/suicide the fans are robbed of his classic Intercontinental matches. There is also only one Eddie Guerrero contest included, and it is not a particularly good one between himself, Chris Jericho, and X-Pac in a Triple Threat. Although the championship has lost a lot of its prestige and overall importance, it does not mean that the match quality is not fantastic. For instance, the Jeff Hardy vs. Rob Van Dam ladder match unification of the Intercontinental and European championships shows the amazing athleticism that this nearly 30-year-old belt has become so well known for.
There is only one Easter Egg hidden extra in the entire set and this can be found on Disc 1 in the 'Inaugural Champion' headline. Here we have various wrestlers discussing how good Pat Patterson was as the choice for the first I.C. champ, as well as the importance of the title as a career launching pad. Many of the clips come from WWE Confidential, and Edge's story of when he first won the belt reiterates the significance of this championship among the wrestlers.
The History of the Intercontinental Championship is certainly not the perfect compilation, but is still a remarkable snapshot of a phenomenal title, and will find its way onto the shelf of any WWE DVD collector. In fact, it's a safe bet that many a copy will be wrapped under a Christmas tree.
Disc 1: The 1980s
Disc 2: The 1990s
Disc 3: The 2000s
Andy McNamara is a SLAM! Wrestling writer, and play-by-play broadcaster for Toronto Maple Leafs inter-county league baseball, along with university basketball and volleyball on Rogers Television in Toronto. He is also the Host of Oakville Blades hockey on TV Cogeco.


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Nation's educators to honor 'Three Cups of Tea' author Greg Mortenson
WASHINGTON - June 26, 2009 -
The National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest organization of school employees, will honor humanitarian Greg Mortenson, co-author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time, with a special Human and Civil Rights Award at the Association's Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif., on July 2.
Mortenson will receive the Mary Hatwood Futrell Award, named in honor of a former NEA president.
Mortenson's book has topped The New York Times bestseller list for the past two years. He is known internationally for creating schools in some of the most remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Through the Central Asia Institute (CAI), Mortenson has worked with villagers to build more than 80 schools and employ local teachers.
"Greg Mortenson's book is an outstanding and inspirational story of the possible," said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. "Every student in America's public schools should receive a copy to learn firsthand what one person can truly do to make a difference in the world."
Mortenson's groundbreaking work in Central Asia has shown not only that relationship-building is critical to a safer world, but that educating girls is critical for reducing infant mortality and ensuring greater peace for this generation and the next.
Mortenson also established Pennies for Peace (P4P) to educate schoolchildren in the U.S. about the world beyond their experience and to show them they can make a positive impact on a global scale, one penny at a time. Last year, P4P raised more than 100 million pennies—$1 million.
Mortenson's humanitarian work grew out of his gratitude to members of Pakistan's Korphe village, who nursed him back to health from a near-death experience after his 1993 attempt to climb K2, the world's second highest mountain. Seeing Korphe children writing their lessons in the dirt with sticks, he realized how much they wanted to learn and how little was available in the village to satisfy and expand their desire for learning.
Mortenson received Pakistan's highest civil award, Sitara-e-Pakistan ("Star of Pakistan") for his efforts to promote education and literacy. He is a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.
The NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards program honors individuals and organizations that promote peace and advance social and economic justice for all people. The Mary Hatwood Futrell Award is given to a nominee whose activities make a significant impact on education and on the achievement of equal opportunity for women and girls.
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UCLA professor Keisuke Iwamoto answered reader questions about the dangers of radiation exposure in a live Web chat Thursday.
Iwamoto, a faculty member at UCLA's Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, studies radiation exposure and how it can lead to cancer. In his research, he also has analyzed donated tissue samples from Japanese atom bomb survivors.
Here's the transcript of the chat (moderated by L.A. Times staff writer Jeannine Stein with help from reader engagement editor Martin Beck):
Jeannine Stein: Welcome to our live Web chat on the health effects of radiation. Our guest is Keisuke Iwamoto, an adjunct associate professor of experimental radiation oncology. His research interests include how the body responds to radiation exposure and how it can lead to cancer. Welcome, Dr. Iwamoto, and thanks very much for being here today.
Kei Iwamoto: Hi everyone, thanks for being here. I hope I can answer some of your questions.
Jeannine Stein: I'll start off by asking something that's on a lot of people's minds: Radioactive isotopes are headed toward California after being released from the nuclear plant in Japan. We've been told that there's nothing to worry about, that the radiation levels are very low and not potentially harmful. Still, many people are worried. From what you know about this, is there any cause for alarm at this point?
Kei Iwamoto: There should be no alarm from the radiation because it will be so diluted and negligible by the time it gets here.
Comment From John: Should I buy Iodine tablets?
Kei Iwamoto: Hi John, there should be no need to buy the tablets except for nutritional purposes; i.e, you are deficient in iodine.
Jeannine Stein: Would there be side effects if people did take them without needing them?
Kei Iwamoto: There are studies that excessive iodine can be unhealthful; for example there can be allergic reactions, and in some cases it can actually cause goiter, which is ironic because deficiency is usually connected with goiter.
Comment from Joyful Diligence: What are 'harmful levels' of radiation in the short run and long-run? Cant even the slightest exposure to radiation require cancer in a person?
Kei Iwamoto: Hi Joyful, this is actually a complicated question. Defining a dose as high and low does not really describe the real situations. The range that we use in the radiation field generally runs from microsieverts to tens of sieverts; one sievert is a million microsieverts.
Background, from the rocks around us, the radiation from space, etc. give us about 3,000 microsieverts a year. Even pilots can get an extra 1,000 microsieverts a year from flying. The amount of radiation from Japan will be very much below the above doses I've just described, so the cancer risk will be negligible.
Jeannine Stein: How does the amount of radiation people may get from Japan compare to what people may be exposed to every day from flying in airplanes, getting an X-ray, etc.?
Kei Iwamoto: A medical X-ray like from a CAT scan is around 1,000 microsieverts, and the amount you might expect from Japan might be a thousand times less than that.
Comment From Concerned: I am in the very early stages of pregnancy -- 6 weeks -- living in Los Angeles. Do I need to take any precautions?
Comment From Nirav: Should pregnant woman and kids stay inside during the forecast weekend rain?. I am concerned that the radioactive materials will come down with rain.
Comment From elliot: My wife is 10 weeks pregnant. Any extra steps she should be taking?
Kei Iwamoto: The amount of radiation expected should be so negligible that there should be no effects on pregnant women and their children, in the womb or running around on the playground...
The risks from air pollution should be a greater one than that from any fallout from Japan.
Jeannine Stein: Dr. Iwamoto, is there a precedent for radiation arriving here from bombs or earlier accidents, such as Chernobyl? Do you know how much reached here? Did anything happen in terms of people's health?
Kei Iwamoto: I do not know the exact numbers but I do know that the radiation from the 1986 accident was negligible from a health standpoint; I know of no evidence that that accident caused any increase in cancer in this country.
Comment From Dimitri: I have several retired Japanese business associates in Tokyo how hard should I encourage them to hop a plane and come stay in out guest room till all this problem is resolved one way or another.
Kei Iwamoto: The current reports for radiation levels in Tokyo suggest that they are still very low (in the microsieverts per hour range), so I doubt if there will be any health effects from the radiation...
They should be safe for the time being, staying put in familiar surroundings.
Comment From V. Swaminathan: When you say the radiaton will be diluted and negligible, can you be more specific? How solid is the science on this issue?
Kei Iwamoto: Hi V., we can do a rather simplistic calculation that gives the rough area that the radiation will be dispersed...
If we take the distance from Japan to the U.S. West Coast to be 5,000 miles and take the distance from Canada to Mexico to be about 2,000 miles, we can use some simple geometry to figure out the area of the triangle starting from Fukushima, Japan...
So that's 5,000 x 2,000 x 0.5 gives us 5 million square miles to disperse; if we assume the area of the power plant to be around a 100th of a square mile, spread out to 5 million square miles -- that's a dilution of at least 500 million....
So even a high dose of 1,000 microsieverts at the plant could be around a microsievert.
Comment From CA: Prof. Iwamoto, thanks for your time. It's great being able to ask these questions directly to an expert.
Comment From Paul C: For purposes of assessing risk, how many microsieverts is fatal
Comment From Robert M: How many microsieverts would be enough to make it wise to "do something"? And by doing something in that higher level case, what would we do? Stay indoors, take something, drill 50 ft into the earth and hide out for 100 years?
Kei Iwamoto: Hi Paul and Robert, generally a whole body dose of approximately 6 million microsieverts will cause death within a few weeks. There is really no clear-cut dose boundary for these things, but you might want to become concerned if the levels get to be on the order of tens of thousands of microsieverts.
Comment From Adam: Are these amounts of radiation still neglible for longer periods of exposure? Is there a constant plume coming from Japan into the jetstream so that people will be exposed to these levels for many days/weeks? Just wondering
Kei Iwamoto: Hi Adam, you bring up a good point. In addition to dose, dose rate is important; that is, how quickly one can attain a certain dose...
For example being exposed to 1,000 microsieverts over a day is different from being exposed to [that dosage] over a second, because the cells in our body can repair the damage caused by the radiation and if the damage is accrued over a longer time, it's easier for them to repair it...
Also, any radioactive iodine that might come has a relatively short half-life of a week or so. In a week the dose will go from negligible to half of that.
Comment From Christy: Are you saying that if radioactive material arrives on the West Coast on Friday, that cesium, strontium, and radioactive iodide will pose ZERO health risk? If small health risk, what is the risk? What about as they accumulate in our cells/DNA over time/
Kei Iwamoto: Hi Christy, certainly no risk is zero, but compared to every other form of risk that we encounter everyday, the risk would be so close to zero that zero would be a better description.
Comment From Dick: How about pets, particularly dogs that need to go outside, and particularly a young puppy? I realize you're not a vet, but could a puppy nosing around the beach here get enough radioactive iodine to be a concern? Given their greater sensitivity and their noses on the ground, should young pups be kept inside until the levels are clear?
Jeannine Stein: Dr. Iwamoto has graciously agreed to stay on a little past 2 p.m. Pacific time to continue to answer questions, so please stay tuned!
Kei Iwamoto: Hi Dick, yes you're right, I'm not a vet, but there should be no radiological health effects judging by what we predict to be the small amount of any radioactivity coming from Japan.
Comment From Wayne: I have a vacation in Hawaii in 2 weeks. Should I make other plans given that the reactors are still leaking radiation?
Comment From Lilia: I am participating in LA marathon on Sunday and wirily be outside for over 8 hours walking in the rain. Shall I be conserned about radiation exposure during that time?
Comment From Steve Hanson: Is it safe for young children to play outside this weekend?
Kei Iwamoto: There will be more radiation from our surroundings than what we expect from outdoor activities; just as a sort of comparison, the UV light from the sun will produce more DNA damage than any damage from radiation from Japan.
Jeannine Stein: We have another question from a reader: "Since we will have no bad affects here, why not talk about what the people in Japan working at the power plant are facing?"
Dr. Iwamoto, can you talk about what levels of exposure the nuclear power plant workers might be facing, and what their health risks may be?
Kei Iwamoto: My heart goes out to those dedicated workers and other members of the rescue team; some may be exposed to hundreds of thousands of microsieverts or greater depending on the length of time they are exposed and their positions from the source of radiation...
At the lower end of the hundreds of thousands of microsieverts, they may just experience some temporary low white blood counts...
At the millions of microsieverts some may feel nausea, and their risk for cancer may go up in the coming decades...
If anyone is unfortunate enough to be exposed to tens of millions of microsieverts, the hope to save them may be small.
Comment From Guest: kei, have you started to do anything different to protect your health since the news began?
Kei Iwamoto: No, I'm not doing anything different; we have to keep enjoying and being thankful for the life that we have here in California. Thanks, all of you, for your comments and questions.
Jeannine Stein: I'm afraid that's all the time we have today. Thanks, everyone, for being part of our chat. Dr. Iwamoto, thank you very much for being such a great guest and for taking the time to answer our readers' questions, we appreciate it.
Kei Iwamoto: Thank you!


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(HealthDay News) -- Petting zoos are fun for children and a great way to expose them to different animals. But parents should take precautions to protect against germs.
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- Do not carry or serve food in the animal areas.
- Never share food with the animals.
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Article by Sara Keli
Travelling with kids can be the joy-filled experience of a lifetime if you get it right. Before you head off on your next adventure with the kids in tow, read these five tricks to help make your travels with children a whole lot easier.
Give them their own luggage
Last year, I travelled to Melbourne, alone, with both of my kids then aged 3 and 1. One of my saviours was having a suitcase for my 3-year-old to be responsible for herself. We opted for a Trunki, but whether you choose a suitcase or a backpack, make sure it's easy for your little one to carry or wheel around and not too awkward for you to carry if they end up abandoning their station! For our flight, we only had the Trunki and my handbag as carry-on. My 3-year-old was proud to be wheeling around her own things and I just had to worry about the baby and my bag.
Pictured, left to right, top to bottom: Trunki Una Unicorn from David Jones, Wipe-Clean Dinosaur Activities from Australian Geographic, Away We Go Travel Journal in Blue from Smiggle, Beats EP On-Ear Headphones from Apple Store, Lonely Planet Boredom Buster from Australian Geographic, Skippet Pack v3 from Kathmandu.
Pack all the snacks
Sitting next to a hangry kid on a long flight is anything but enjoyable, so make sure the snacks are plentiful. Keep all your snacks together within easy reach and, if you are travelling interstate or overseas, familiarise yourself with any restrictions on bringing in food to your destination.
If you're heading on a sightseeing holiday, stock up on some snacks when you arrive (or bring them with you if your kids are fussy) and then take them out with you each day to save any meltdowns while you are out and about. Pack a reusable snack bag that you can rinse in the bathroom sink each night, rather than a bulky lunch box that will weigh your bag down.
Don't forget to pack a water bottle for everyone in the family as well!
Choose your accommodation wisely
If you've never stayed in a hotel with young kids, you've probably never had the joy of sitting silently in a dark bathroom while you wait for them to go to sleep. When your kids are young, serviced apartments or Airbnb-type accommodation is usually best. You will have access to a kitchen for preparing meals and you can book somewhere that has an additional room so you aren't sitting in the dark when your kids have gone to sleep. If a hotel is your only option, a set of headphones may be a good investment, so you can at least plug in to your tablet or laptop!
As your kids get older and you don't need to worry about getting them to bed at a certain time each night, hotels can become a better option, although it really depends on your preferences as a family. The benefit of a hotel when you are a tourist is that the concierge is usually a wealth of knowledge when it comes to transport options and things to see and do.
Have activities at the ready
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• For older kids, a travel journal is a great way to keep them engaged and entertained, as well as creating a beautiful record of their travels
• Lonely Planet also has a range of kids' travel books, so check if they have one for your destination and let the kids be the tour guide
• Keep a secret special toy or activity that you can pull out if you really need it, like at the end of a long flight when the kids are extra grumpy!
Pack a change of clothes, even for yourself
Whenever I travel with the kids, I always pack a couple of changes of clothes for them, but I also pack a fresh top for myself because you never know what will happen when you have kids! It's easy enough to squeeze an extra t-shirt into your bag rather than having to dry off when you inevitably have a drink spilt down your front, or worse…
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Ft. Knox goes for outsider's SRM tool
Despite being an HP shop for servers and storage, the Army's recruitment headquarters at Ft. Knox recently purchased an SRM tool from Northern instead of AppIQ.
The U.S. Army's recruitment headquarters at Ft. Knox, Ky., recently completed in-house testing and bought a storage resource management (SRM) tool from Northern Parklife despite being a Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) shop for both servers and storage. Ft. Knox evaluated HP's AppIQ Inc. product but found it too costly to implement and lacking support for its clustered Windows file servers.
"We have 54 distributed offices around the country, as well as our infrastructure here at headquarters," said Ft. Knox network administrator Kim Jackson. "We needed to implement an SRM tool because people were taking advantage of the storage to store .JPEGs, .MP3s and other files that didn't belong there. We wanted to restrict storage space for each user and eliminate certain file types."
"The costs would have been in the thousands of dollars," he said. "We just wanted to stick with our existing infrastructure."
Even that became moot, he said, because AppIQ at the time would not support his two three-node Windows Distributed File Systems (DFS) clusters running on HP ProLiant 580 servers.
"They couldn't support setting quotas on shares of the clustered file system," Jackson said. "Actually, there weren't many [products] out there who could do a cluster-aware setup."
The Northern Storage Suite SRM tool, which is installed locally on each Windows server, allows the Army's recruitment headquarters to set quotas on the thousands of users spread out over their campus and the 54 recruitment branch offices across the U.S. and in Puerto Rico, as well as monitor each branch office's local servers with DAS on HP ProLiant 370 servers.
"We can keep track of them better from our headquarter's location now," Jackson said. "We don't have as much inappropriate data cluttering up storage either, at headquarters or in the branch offices."
Jackson is still waiting for Northern to add the ability to set storage quotas for groups, as well as for individual users, something he said they had promised within the next 90 days.
"That's key for us," he said. "Instead of having to allocate by individual user, we could parse out our storage more efficiently according to different departmental groups. We're always looking for ways to be even more constrictive controlling our data."
AppIQ does offer this functionality, but it's not supported on Windows DFS clusters.
HP responded over e-mail to this story: "As we know it, Northern is a niche player in Gartner's latest SRM magic quadrant and has them ranking at the bottom of the list in completeness of vision." The statement continued, "They [Northern] have built Windows-specific management tools for many years, and their offering is a Windows-only quota management and host-based disk reporting tool. Their utility monitors and reports on Windows server storage only and enforces user quotas, and it's not entirely accurate that Northern was chosen over HP/AppIQ because as we see it, Northern doesn't really compete against HP Storage Essentials."


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What Will the Fed Do When QE2 Fails to Stimulate Economy?
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Here we are a full three years into our economic malaise, Uncle Sam has thrown everything and the kitchen sink at the economy yet we have little to no traction in terms of growth and momentum. Will another trillion dollars of liquidity do the trick? Well, while the Fed's liquidity may move markets, will it move the economy? Don't bet on it. The Fed and its brethren on Wall Street and in Washington are reluctant to truly level with the American people. How so?
Our nation is experiencing a serious structural change in our economy — not a mere 'enormous downturn' in the midst of the business cycle. If our central bankers and government officials were to emphasize this point, it may cause a sharper retrenchment in our current growth but it would likely lead to a quicker rebound. Before we get into why our bankers and their political cronies are reluctant to make this acknowledgement, let's take the pulse of an array of venture capitalists, money managers, and others who provide the capital to a wide array of companies. What do these individuals think the economic impact of another round of quantitative easing might be? (more…)
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Benjamin M. Wassell of Silver Creek, New York, a wounded Iraq war veteran, is the first resident of that state to be arrested and face prosecution under its draconian new firearms law. He was arrested during an undercover operation by state police in which he sold an AR-15 rifle and six large-capacity clips on January 24.
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Wassell has been charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor – yet released on his own recognizance, an implicit acknowledgement of the fact that he is not an actual criminal. If they have their way, New York police officials will be doing a brisk business in incarcerating innocent gun owners. The State of New York has established an anonymous tip line encouraging people to report suspected "illegal gun owners" for a $500 reward.
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Ever in search of new ways to cook it, I turned to Foil Roasted Salmon with an Aromatic Jus. Glancing over this recipe, you can see why it is perfect for weeknight cooking. As long as you shop in advance -– I never seem to have leeks just hanging around, though I should –- the whole dish takes about five minutes to assemble, maybe a bit more if you have a lot of pin bones to pull out, a task I have an unhealthy affection for.
You make your salmon a lovely bed of leeks, shallots and garlic, set him upon it, then add more of the same with herbs. Please be generous with your onion family, because you want this fish to pick up their aromas.
Once you have made the fish a nice little foil pup tent, go ahead and carefully drizzle your wine on top. (I used Champagne, because my friend Elisabeth had come earlier in the day for tea, and tea in my house means Champagne, which is how I manage to maintain a respectable passel of girlfriends, in spite of a fairly disagreeable personality and a penchant for despising every place I move to until it is time to leave, at which point it becomes Xanadu, but none of that really has anything to do with salmon so I am just going to move on to the part about the oven now.)
Once you have your fish in, please watch it carefully, as even two pounds may cook more quickly than you thought, as I learned the hard way. Indeed I regret to inform you, through my fault and none of monkeymom, the recipe's author, my first attempt at this dish ended a little blandly. Here is how I fixed that on my second attempt:
I took the skin off my next piece, a far smaller one, but used the same amount of leeks, and was very generous with the grey sea salt all over both sides. (Taking the skin off is a no-no when payfrying, but in this case, when you are essentially steaming, I think it is a good move.) The fact that I used almost the same amount of leeks and shallots and a bay leaf for a serving half the size told me that I had short changed my earlier salmon. Finally, I was much more careful about watching it cook -– monkeymom suggests you use a thermometer, which is too much trouble for me, but I did carefully peek at it because obviously overcooking it ruins the subtle flavors here. It gets these nice telltale white spots -– and you can go ahead and cut into it.
"This is way better mom," said the I.P. And I agree. Serve it with some Isreal cous cous. There is basically no clean up, so fold some laundry instead.
Foil Roasted Salmon with an Aromatic Jus
By monkeymom
Serves 4 to 6
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Slice leek in half lengthwise beginning at white end but not cutting through green end. Rinse thoroughly under cold water separating leaves to remove trapped dirt. Cut green ends off of leek and reserve. Slice white and light green parts.
3. Select a baking sheet large enough to accommodate the fish. Lay out a long double length of heavy-duty aluminum foil on top of the baking sheet across the shorter end of the sheet. Place another perpendicular to the first.
4. Lay out the leek greens on the foil to form a bed where your salmon can nestle. Add half of the sliced leeks, shallots, garlic, herbs and bay leaves. Place the cleaned salmon on top of greens. Generously salt and pepper the both sides of the salmon. Drizzle all over with olive oil and rub to cover top and bottom. Lay tarragon or other herb stems across the top of the fish and cover the top with the rest of the sliced leeks.
5. Optional step: insert an electronic meat thermometer probe inside the thickest end of the salmon. This will help you monitor the cooking process without opening the foil.
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Note: This is also a fantastic way to cook whole salmon. For a 4lb salmon, you can use relatively the same amount of ingredients. Increase cooking time to 35-40 minutes.
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It's an unusual strategy but one the Obama administration has used before: projecting strength on an issue by trying to create the perception that the White House is riding a wave of momentum from the American people. It was the theme of Obama's two presidential campaigns and was central to his campaign-style road show to tout his fiscal cliff priorities in December.
Participants in Vice President Joe Biden's meetings have said the White House is seeking to mount an aggressive effort to back the gun control push, which is likely to formally commence next week after Biden delivers his recommendations to the president.
During one session with a dozen religious leaders on Wednesday, Biden made a specific request to those gathered to preach to their congregations about the importance of enacting stronger gun control laws, said the Rev. Michael McBride, a participant in the meeting and a community organizer for the PICO Network, an alliance of faith-based organizations.
"The vice president shared how he felt this was one of the most important meetings of all the meetings, that the faith leaders, the faith community has a very unique role in engaging in the moral persuasion necessary to address the gun challenges in our country," McBride said. "He called upon us to take that seriously and that the administration and everyone involved is going to be looking to us to help to make that argument across the different faith traditions."
Biden has made a point of highlighting the broad diversity of organizations now backing the White House gun efforts, telling the NRA and other gun owner organizations in a meeting Thursday that "all of a sudden there is a different attitude" from groups not previously invested in gun control, according to Richard Feldman, who attended the session and is president of the Independent Firearm Owners Association.
In Biden's public remarks Thursday, he emphasized the extent of his panel's outreach to groups from fields including medicine, law, education, mental health, religious groups and social service outlets such as the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs.
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A young woman ventures to her uncle's crumbling plantation in 1874 Louisiana.
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Adorable sled dogs alert. Today marked the ceremonial kick-off party for the "Last Great Race," or the Iditarod, Alaska's annual sled dog race. The real race starts tomorrow, but for now we'll have to wait with this picture of a dog adorably licking four-time champion Martin Buser's face.
Probably one of the last sporting events not extensively broadcast on 100 different channels and/or pay-per-view in the U.S., the annual race will kick off tomorrow in Willow, Alaska boasting over 60 teams of sled dogs racing across an over 1,000 mile trail in the Alaskan wilderness. The race itself only dates back to 1973, but people in Alaska were travelling the Iditarod trail long before there was an organized competition.
There are actually two different courses Iditarod organizers can choose from; a southern route and a northern route. This year the race will use the southern option, which includes more check points for food and water, but is considered the more difficult of the two because it's longer and spends more time travelling across the state's icy rivers.
Last year, the race was won by its youngest "musher" ever, 25-year-old Dallas Seavey. He'll have to fight off Buser and two other four-time champions if he hopes to repeat. He'll also have to deal with frigid temperatures and a gruelling marathon of a course through some of America's most barren, open, frozen terrain. But, y'know, that's no big deal for these guys. (It's totally a big deal for these guys.) Mush on, puppies.
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Obama Obliterates Clinton's Penn. Lead; Now 42% vs. 47%
Forty-seven percent (47%) say they have followed news stories Very Closely about Clinton's Bosnia misstatements. Another 27% have followed those stories Somewhat Closely. Overall, 19% consider that issue to be Very Important in their voting decision.
[Elections 2008]
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Pennsylvania shows Clinton leading Barack Obama by just five percentage points, 47% to 42%. For Clinton, that five-point edge is down from a ten-point lead a week ago, a thirteen-point lead in mid-March in and a fifteen-point advantage in early March.
Support for Clinton slipped from 52% early in March, to 51% in mid-month, 49% a week ago, and 47% today. During that same time frame, support for Obama has increased from 37% to 42%.
Obama recently received a key endorsement from Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey and has also spent more on television ads than Clinton. If Obama is able to pull off an upset in the Keystone State, it would effectively end the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination.
Obama currently leads Clinton nationally in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll. However, while an Obama victory could end the nomination battle, Clinton remains ahead in the state and recently demonstrated her ability to finish strong in the Ohio and Texas Primaries.
Tensions clearly remain in the contest. If Obama is nominated, just 56% of Clinton supporters say they are likely to vote for him against John McCain. Forty percent (40%) of Clinton voters in Pennsylvania say they are not likely to vote for Obama.
On the other hand, if Clinton is nominated, just 67% of Obama supporters say they are likely to vote for her against McCain. Twenty-nine percent (29%) are not.
Just 21% of Pennsylvania's Primary Voters say that Clinton should drop out of the race while 18% would like Obama to leave. Those figures are similar to results from a recent national survey.
Fifty-one percent (51%) in Pennsylvania say it's very likely the contest will not be resolved until the convention in Denver. That figure includes 61% of Clinton voters and 38% of those who support Obama. Overall, another 33% say a convention decision is Somewhat Likely.
Forty-seven percent (47%) say they have followed news stories Very Closely about Clinton's Bosnia misstatements. Another 27% have followed those stories Somewhat Closely. Overall, 19% consider that issue to be Very Important in their voting decision. That figure includes 6% of Clinton supporters and 36% of Obama voters. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Pennsylvania voters say that most politicians lie or embellish the truth when discussing their own accomplishments. Only 12% disagree.
Clinton voters, by a 64% to 26% margin, believe that American society is generally fair and decent. Obama voters are evenly divided; 45% hold that optimistic view while another 45% say society is generally unfair and discriminatory.
Among voters who say the economy is the top voting issue, Clinton maintains a sixteen-point lead over Obama. Among those who view the War in Iraq as the top issue, Obama has a seventeen-point advantage. Among those who say health care is most important, 48% prefer Clinton and 40% choose Obama. Overall, 54% say the Economy is most important, 19% say it's the War in Iraq, and 10% say Health Care.
In the Keystone State, Clinton is now viewed favorably by 74% of Likely Democratic Primary Voters, Obama by 73%.
A separate survey found that both Democrats are in a competitive race with John McCain for Pennsylvania's Electoral College votes. Nationally, McCain currently leads both Democrats in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll. Looking at the Electoral College, the race is essentially a Toss-Up.
Just 3% of Likely Democratic Primary Voters rate the economy as good or excellent while 70% say it's in poor shape. Just 2% say it is getting better while 91% say the economy is getting worse. Nationally, the Rasmussen Consumer Index shows that consumer and investor confidence has fallen to the lowest level of the past seven years.
Rasmussen Markets data just prior to release of this poll shows that Clinton is overwhelming favored to end up victorious in Pennsylvania (current prices: Clinton 83.7 % Obama 17.0 %). Overall, the Markets give Obama a 81.7 % chance to win the Democratic nomination while expectations for a Clinton victory are at 15.6 %.
Numbers in this paragraph are from a prediction market, not a poll. Using a trading format where traders "buy and sell" candidates, issues, and news features, the Rasmussen Markets harness competitive passions to provide a reliable leading indicator of upcoming events. We invite you to participate in the Rasmussen Markets. It costs nothing to join and add your voice to the collective wisdom of the market.
This telephone survey of 730 Likely Democratic Primary Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports March 31, 2008. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information.
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Marlins announce Spring Training broadcast schedule
The Marlins will broadcast 15 of their Spring Training games on the Marlins Radio Network this year, with 14 of them on the new official English flagship station WINZ 940 AM and one on sister station WIOD 610 AM.
The Spanish flagship station, Radio Mambi WAQI 710 AM, will have 10 of the team's Grapefruit League games, while FOX Sports Florida will televise five contests.
The Marlins open their exhibition schedule on Feb. 26 against the University of Miami, a game that will air at 1:05 p.m. ET on WINZ. The preseason finale will be March 29 against the Yankees in Tampa, Fla., with FOX Sports Florida, WINZ and WAQI all carrying the 1:05 broadcast.
Hall of Fame broadcaster Dave Van Horne will be in his 14th season this year, while Glenn Geffner is also back for his seventh year on the Marlins Radio Network. Rich Waltz and Tommy Hutton will call games for FOX Sports Florida, with Spanish-language Hall of Fame broadcaster Felo Ramirez and Yiky Quintana on the call for Radio Mambi.
Each English radio broadcast will include live 30-minute pregame and postgame shows.


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Critically Acclaimed, Emmy-Award Winning DAMAGES Arrives at Its New Home on DIRECTV; Showcase of Seasons 1 - 3 Begins in January
All New Season 4 of the Original Series to air Summer 2011
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- DIRECTV, the world's most popular video service, will showcase the first season of the critically acclaimed, award-winning series DAMAGES, starring Glenn Close, Rose Byrne and Ted Danson, on The 101 Network beginning Wednesday, January 5 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Season two will launch on Wednesday, April 6 at 10 p.m. ET/PT and season three will begin on Wednesday, May 25 at 10 p.m. ET/PT leading up to the summer 2011 premiere of an all-new fourth season. The unveiling of DAMAGES on DIRECTV marks the first time viewers will be able to experience this gripping legal thriller as it was meant to be seen - uncut and commercial free.
In Season four, the original series will consist of ten new episodes that will air exclusively on DIRECTV. Emmy(R) Award winner Glenn Close, Emmy nominee Rose Byrne and other principal cast members will return for the new episodes.
Over its first three seasons on television, DAMAGES has featured what is arguably the most impressive cast and guest stars of any series on television - Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Tate Donovan, Ted Danson, �eljko Ivanek, William Hurt, Martin Short, Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Peter Facinelli, Mario Van Peebles, Marcia Gay Harden, Timothy Olyphant and Campbell Scott.
The series earned seven Emmy Award nominations in each of its first two seasons, and Close, who won twice, became the first actress from a basic cable series to win the Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama; �eljko Ivanek became the first actor from a basic cable series to win the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor for a Drama Series, and DAMAGES was the first basic cable series to take home the Emmy for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series. DAMAGES and AMC's Mad Men were the first basic cable series to be nominated for Outstanding Drama Series. In its first season, DAMAGES earned the most Golden Globes nominations of any series in television with Glenn Close winning for Best Actress in a TV Series - Drama.
The show received five Emmy Award nominations for its critically acclaimed third season including Glenn Close for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Rose Byrne for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Martin Short for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Ted Danson for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series and Lily Tomlin for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
The show was created and is executive produced by Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman.
Seasons one through three of DAMAGES were produced by Sony Pictures Television in association with FX Productions.
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There will be over 70 spots at the Super Bowl. 111 million viewers. An average of $3.5 million dollars per 30s spot. That's a lot of money, a lot of eyeballs, and a lot of competition.
So there's a new trend to get more eyeballs, more exposure & less competition (and more bang for your quite a bit of buck)… Releasing a teaser, or the whole spot, before Game Day.
It started with Volkswagon. Well, it really started with their Darth Vader spot last year, but continued this year with "The Bark Side."
(I've never seen Star Wars, so it didn't mean that much to me. But it seemed to be pretty popular… 10 million views anyone?)
And then the Dog Strikes Back, a commercial within a commercial responding to a commercial posted on YouTube:
We love this Audi spot. I'm a big fan of vampires, and la and I have concepted our fair share of "vampire" inspired car spots (when you work on cars for long enough, everything is game!). We're kinda bummed Audi has now killed our dreams of ever having a car spot with vampires!
This super funny ones from our old CDs Chris & Margaret at Saatchi:
Even teasers from Chiat's own Pepsi (from our buds Armando Samuels and Kristina Krkljus!):
And a teaser from Hulu with "TV Star" Will Arnett:
But our most favorite one started with this – and created a maelstrom of guesses, conjectures and posts:
And then ended up as this:
Congratulations to my old partner Ariel Shukert for making what may be the most popular Super Bowl ad of 2012! Can't wait to see it on television this Sunday!
Is it worth releasing your Super Bowl spot before the Super Bowl? I think the 6 million views, coverage on the Today Show, the Daily Show and countless blogs would say "yes." But next year, when everyone releases their spot before the Super Bowl, will it still be worth it? We'll see…
In the mean time, we're looking forward to eating chips & dip, chicken wings, drinking beer and hanging out with friends while watching ALL the commercials on Sunday. Oh, and throwing in a little football watching too! Here's to seeing what social media extensions people use on the spots to make it worth their high price tag…


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Mission and Goals
Mission Statement
Sex Offense Courts promote justice by providing a comprehensive approach to case resolution, increasing sex offender accountability, enhancing community safety while protecting the rights of defendants. The purpose and function of Sex Offense Courts is to promote best practices in the resolution of sex offense cases and to facilitate and enhance coordination and communication among relevant stakeholders.
Key Principles
The Sex Offense Court model follows a set of key principles that have emerged based upon national research on sex offender management, best practices and an analysis of the court system's current methods of addressing sex offense cases. *
These key components are:
Dedicated Court Part | Jurisdiction | Case Identification | Judicial Monitoring & Offender Accountability| Community Supervision | Training | Stakeholder & Community Resources | Victim Services | Technical Assistance | Evaluation
Dedicated Court Part
A dedicated judge and court part handle sex offense cases directly from identification through disposition.
Sex Offense Court jurisdiction should include at a minimum all cases where a felony sex offense registrable under the Sex Offender Registration Act ("SORA") is charged. Domestic violence sexual assaults, however, remain within the jurisdiction of domestic violence courts. During the planning process, each Sex Offense Court will conduct a caseload analysis to determine the penal law charges that will be included in the court.
Case Identification
Sex Offense Courts should develop protocols to identify eligible cases. This process can be accomplished by working with the stakeholders, such as the District Attorney's Offices and local law enforcement agencies, at the earliest possible stage in the court process.
Judicial Monitoring and Offender Accountability
Judicial monitoring of offenders in criminal cases is a cornerstone of the Sex Offense Court model. Rapid calendaring for sex offenders on probation, including those in need of a modification of conditions, should be part of a Sex Offense Court's protocol. This promotes accountability and permits the court to adjust conditions of probation as necessary.
Offenders' compliance or noncompliance with court mandates should be immediately communicated to the judge in order to facilitate regular and intensive judicial oversight.
Sex Offense Courts should respond swiftly to violations of conditions of probation as well as violations of the Sex Offender Registration Act.
Community Supervision
Sex Offense Courts should work with probation and parole agencies to define their active participation in these courts. Sex offense courts should promote the use of pre-sentence investigation ("PSI") reports to provide critical information and set the framework for community supervision and should work with local probation departments to encourage the development of specially trained probation officers.
Special sex offender conditions, as part of a sentence of probation, are critical to the effective management of sex offenders in the community. The court should have available as tools sex offender treatment programs and the use of polygraph testing in order to assist the offender in reducing risk-taking behaviors that can lead to re-offending.
Training and education for judges and non-judicial personnel in Sex Offense Courts is an integral part of the court's ability to handle complex sexual offenses in a consistent and comprehensive manner. Intensive training on issues related to sexually offending behaviors should be provided to the judges and court staff in order to keep all personnel abreast of the latest research and best practices in the field.
Stakeholder and Community Resources
Sex Offense Courts depend on successful interaction with stakeholders. Judicial monitoring and community supervision are more effective when the court, probation department, district attorney, defense attorneys and victim service agencies understand each other's role. Accordingly, Sex Offense Courts should become familiar with the whole range of available services in their county, hold regular stakeholder meetings both during the planning process and post-implementation, and, where feasible, collaborate with stakeholders on training programs and other projects.
Victim Services
Each Sex Offense Court should work with local service providers to facilitate victims' access to child abuse and sexual assault advocates who can provide counseling and access to a multitude of other social services.
Technical Assistance
Sex Offense Courts are assigned a technical assistance team to guide them through planning both pre and post-implementation. Each Sex Offense Court creates a planning document that outlines procedures that conform to the mission statement and key principles.
Sex Offense Courts track cases and collect data by using the Sex Offense Court Application, a database and case management tool developed by the Unified Court System. These procedures should allow for evaluation of the Sex Offense Courts.
* The Sex Offense Court model draws on the Center for Sex Offender Management's most current knowledge and effective practices for managing sex offenders. The Center for Sex Offender Management ("CSOM") is a national project that seeks to support jurisdictions in the effective management of sex offenders through the latest research and recommended emerging practices. CSOM was established in 1997 and is sponsored by the Office of Justice Programs ("OJP"), U.S. Department of Justice, in collaboration with the National Institute of Corrections, State Justice Institute, and the American Probation and Parole Association. CSOM is administered through a cooperative agreement between OJP and the Center for Effective Public Policy.


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James Pallister explores architecture's influence on contemporary ceramics
One of the exhibits in last year's Royal Academy Summer Show – now accepting entries for 2013, by the way – was a model taken from Eric Parry's recent collaboration with artist Richard Deacon. For the St James' Gateway project, Deacon created a series of cross-sections of cornices in clay, finished in an oxide glaze. The brightly coloured, modulated cornice can now be seen in Piccadilly.
Parry is one of the contributors to the forthcoming Marking the Line, an exhibition and symposium to be held at the Sir John Soane's Museum in central London. The accompanying catalogue has a series of essays, interspersed with a beguiling set of photographs from Hélène Binet. The shots place contemporary ceramics within the preserved interiors of three houses; the Soane Museum, Soane's country villa, Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing, and Port Eliot in Cornwall, a house he remodelled in the early 1800s.
In her introduction, curator Joanna Bird explains that the show and symposium arose out of an intention to 'build a bridge between cermaics and architecture'. Site-specific installations, she writes, can very much complement and enhance the substance of a building and as an example she cites the Signs and Wonders installation of a suspended ring filled with porcelain at the V&A by Edmund de Waal, the ceramicist and author known for his published family history, The Hare with the Amber Eyes. But documenting such site specific installations is just the start of exploring a relationship. She writes: 'Many ceramic artists would have liked to have been architects, and some architects, conversely, artists manqués … Both pursuits are primarily occupied with the use of space, scale, volume, and just as importantly, with materials … how and where do ceramics fit in?' You can join the discussion on 28 March, or see the touring show over the next few months.
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London, December 19, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed that two attacks against journalists in Northern Ireland have taken place over the past week. On Friday, a pipe bomb was left at the door of the home of freelance press photographer Mark Pearce. On Monday, Adrian Rutherford, a reporter with the daily Belfast Telegraph, was attacked by a gang while covering Loyalist protests in East Belfast.
Early Friday morning, police alerted Pearce, who has worked as a photojournalist for more than 20 years and frequently covers political rallies and demonstrations, that a pipe bomb was planted in front of his home in Carraig Crosain near Newry, County Down, according to local news reports. Pearce, his partner, and two children, evacuated along with the occupants of five neighboring homes. The photojournalist believes the bomb was in connection to his work, as reported by the Guardian, BBC, Belfast Telegraph and other U.K. media.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland told CPJ it is too early to confirm whether the bomb attempt was related to Pearce's journalism but will follow all lines of inquiry.
In a separate case, on Monday, a masked mob chased Rutherford down the street, assaulted him, and stole his mobile phone. Northern Ireland has witnessed two weeks of demonstrations by loyalists opposed to Belfast city council's decision to cut the number of days the union flag flies above city hall.
The National Union of Journalists condemned both attacks.
"We call on law enforcement authorities in Northern Ireland to act swiftly and efficiently in investigating the attacks against Mark Pearce and Adrian Rutherford, and bring all perpetrators to justice," said Nina Ognianova, CPJ's Europe and Central Asia program coordinator in New York. "It is alarming to see journalists in Northern Ireland confronting what appears to be an increasing number of attacks."
The two attacks are the latest of several disturbing incidents involving the press in Northern Island this year. In early December, a Belfast-based Associated Press photographer, Peter Morrison, was injured when caught up in a violent clash between police and demonstrators.
In August, a Belfast journalist received death threats reportedly from the Ulster Defense Association, an outlawed vigilante group reportedly formed to protect Protestants from alleged attacks by Irish republicans. (The group officially ended its armed campaign in November 2007.) Local publications withheld the journalist's identity.
Violence against the press is a raw issue in Northern Ireland. In 2001, prominent investigative journalist Martin O'Hagan was shot dead by paramilitaries, in front of his wife, as the couple was leaving a pub in the town of Lurgan. O'Hagan's killing remains unsolved.