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Summary: In this article, you will know details about Canon C500, and it mxf format, know the best way to edit Canon C500 MXF on Mac and Windows.
Canon EOS C500 brief review:
EOS C500, a new digital cinema camera capable of 4Kresolution (4,096 x 2,160 pixels) video output. Designed for motion picture and high resolution digital production industries, the EOS C500 offers the ability to output 4Kresolution images as RAW data for recording using an external device. The cameras uncompressed 4K output also unleashes the full potential of Canons expanding range of 4K-resolution EF Cinema Lenses, while an EF mount with Cinema Lock makes it easier for operators to switch lenses during shooting.
As well as uncompressed 4K footage, the EOS C500 supports 12-bit or 10-bit RGB 4:4:4 output signals for 2K (2048 x 1080 pixels) or Full HD off-board recording delivering rich colour and high compatibility with image processes such as chroma key positioning. The camera also supports frame rates up to 120p in both 4K and 2K
modes, providing enhanced creative flexibility for high-speed (slow motion) video capture. The inclusion of Canon Log Gamma delivers the high quality video and wide exposure latitude demanded by professional cinematographers.
Canon EOS C500 MXF on Mac and Windows solutions:
"I have just bought a Canon C500 camcorder, this device records .MXF video format, now I would like to import these projects to my computer. What I want is to edit 4:4:4 4K MXF files smoothly without codec problems, what video codec should I use on Windows and Mac platform? Can you recommend some software which can help me import and convert MXF to edit smoothly?"
If you own Canon C500 camcorder, you may want to edit Canon C500 MXF files in Windows and Mac editing software. As we know, 4:4:4 4K MXF format is not a common video format, so many software cant supports it well, you will encounter importing and editing problems due to the unfriendly codec.
How to convert/edit C500 4:4:4 4K MXF files smoothly on Mac and Windows?
To use MXF footages smoothly, the best way is to transcode C500 4:4:4 4K MXF to best supported codec for these software.
For Mac software, like Final Cut Pro (X), FCE, iMovie and Avid Media Composer, you can
convert C500 4:4:4 4K MXF to MOV
for them, just need to output corresponding best codecs, like Apple ProRes for Final Cut, Apple InterMediate Codec for AIC, DNxHD for Avid, WMV for Adobe Premiere Pro, etc.
For Windows software, like Sony Vegas, Windows movie maker, Pinnacle Studio, Avid Media Composer, you can
convert C500 4:4:4 4K MXF to WMV or MOV
What software supports so many video codec for output?
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R&B star India Arie has slammed Zoe Saldana's casting as jazz legend Nina Simone, branding the move "ridiculous."
Cynthia Mort, director of upcoming biopic "Nina," has been forced to defend her choice of Saldana for the title role following a wave of criticism, including from the late singer's daughter Simone Kelly.
Now Arie has waded into the controversy after seeing photographs of Saldana wearing prosthetics while filming the movie, insisting Saldana looks "weird."
In a message posted on NinaSimone.com, she writes, "I saw the images of Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone… and I think they are ridiculous! Yes there should be a movie made, and yes they should have chosen someone who LOOKS like Nina Simone, especially since her race played such a pivotal role in who, what and why, she was.
"That aside for a second, this just looks WEIRD, it looks like a person in Black(er) face with a fake nose… REALLY?!!!! Does not the one Nina Simone's (sic) legacy deserve better than this?…
"But these images… just make me feel… SAD. Not because I want to play Nina Simone but because it feels out of place with what Nina Simone means in an African American historical context!!!!"

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There's been a quiet revolution taking place in the food-manufacturing industry since the 1980s, and it's one that could be damaging our health and making us overweight. Indeed, the new evidence suggests that it may even be responsible for the learning and behavioural problems so often seen in our children nowadays.
Over the past 30 years, food manufacturers have slowly been replacing sucrose as a food and drink sweetener with high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)-or 'glucose corn syrup' as it's known in the UK.
In 1970, more than 83 per cent of the sweetener consumed in the US was sucrose. However, according to OU (Orthodox Union) Kosher - a non-profit communal organization based in New York City-by 1997, sucrose-containing food and drink had dropped to just 43 per cent, with 57 per cent using HFCS instead.
OU Kosher has a logo - a U in a circle - that, when seen on a label or packaging, means that the food has been officially certified as kosher (see www.oukosher.org for more information) and, in order to obtain
this certification, the food company must submit a complete list of the food's ingredients.
In the UK, the Institute of Food Research, based in Norwich, has described HFCS as "a brilliant technological invention", as it has many advantages over traditional sweeteners.
In addition to its ability to lengthen the shelf life of products, it blends more easily into liquids and keeps its sweetness better than sugar. For this reason, it was quickly adopted by Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other soft-drink manufacturers. Also, it helps to stop food 'freezerburn' as it prevents icy crystallization and so is used in frozen products such as ice cream. What's more, it helps to turn baked goods brown, and so is used in cakes, pastries, bread rolls, crackers and breakfast cereals. Most important of all, it's far cheaper to produce than other sweeteners.
Nowadays, it is found in virtually every processed food and drink - from Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kellogg's Cornflakes and its other breakfast cereals to some Ben & Jerry's ice creams, Campbell's Vegetable Soup, processed breads and cakes, Ribena, Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice - and many other products as well.
Best of all, claim its advocates, it's both natural and safe, a view that is supported by America's foods regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Indeed, most scientists and commentators apparently agree. Nevertheless, there are a few who believe that HFCS-enriched foods and drinks are a direct cause of obesity and diabetes.
However, while the experts continue to debate whether or not HFCS is contributing to the growing obesity and diabetes pandemic, a recent report has now discovered a much more serious health concern: the sweetener evidently contains mercury, and may be a richer source
of the toxic heavy metal than even fish.
Corn Syrup and Mercury
While the FDA continues to maintain that HFCS is a safe food additive, other investigators have been uncovering evidence that clearly suggests otherwise. One such investigator was Renee Dufault who, in 2005, found mercury levels in nine of the 20 HFCS samples that she had collected from processing plants. However, the FDA did nothing in response to her findings, leaving her no choice but to go public with the information after she retired last year.


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The panel's decision to delete a disclosure requirement—as lawmakers' travel climbs—sparked quick criticism.
House Ethics Committee Chairman Mike Conaway said Thursday that his panel would undo its controversial decision to delete the requirement that lawmakers list free trips they receive on their annual disclosure reports.
"We will reverse that decision," Conaway said during an appearance on a local radio talk show in his Texas district. "Heard first in Brownwood, Texas," the Republican told listeners, one of whom provided a recording to National Journal.
National Journal first reported earlier this week that the Ethics Committee had quietly deleted the disclosure requirement behind closed doors and without any public announcement. Watchdog groups criticized the maneuver and, amid public criticism, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said it "must be reversed."
Conaway, who had previously avoided any public comment on the matter, said there had been "no malicious intent" and declared Thursday, "It was a wrong decision and we're going to fix it."
The Ethics panel is one of the few committees in Congress equally divided between Republicans and Democrats. Conaway said he and ranking member Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., who had previously signed off on the change, had jointly decided to re-implement disclosure of free trips on annual forms.
"Linda and I have reversed the decision," Conaway said. He said lawmakers would have between 15 and 30 days to amend their filings to include the free trips that they received from private sponsors in 2013.
Even in reversal, Conaway defended the change as part of "an overall look" at disclosure as lawmakers move to an electronic-filing format. He noted that even with the change the free trips are still disclosed separately, and sooner, to the House's Office of the Clerk, where they are posted online.
"This report on an annual basis is redundant, it's duplicative," Conaway said. " ... So it's out there, we're not hiding anything from anybody."
Watchdog groups and some transparency advocates in Congress, however, have noted that the yearly forms are the most scrutinized document on lawmakers' finances. "The bottom line is it sends a bad message. With the public's trust in Congress at an all-time low, you don't want to send a message that it can be more difficult to find out information," Rep. Michael Quigley, D-Ill., said in an interview earlier this week.
Conaway said the firestorm occurred "only because one reporter who makes a living jacking people up about these trips" wrote about the issue.
"We had gotten not one complaint from the public," he added of the unannounced change. "Not one person had looked for this information except this reporter."
Conaway expressed greater frustration with Democrats in Congress who had criticized the change after the National Journal report.
"What I do get upset with is my colleagues throwing Linda and I under the bus over a decision that was made months ago," he said.
He specifically named "Mrs. Pelosi and a guy named [Rep.] Mike Fitzpatrick, who set their hair on fire—their righteous indignation would be a lot more believable if they'd have said something in May when they didn't file—when they filed their return without that disclosure."
Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania Republican, had sent a public letter to Conaway and the Ethics Committee urging them to reverse the change on Wednesday.
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Research In Motion confirmed on Thursday that it will not give the Indian government access to transferred email data sent to and from BlackBerry smartphones in its country.
Last year India requested access to email and other services as part of larger efforts to monitor security threats within the country. RIM caved a bit and gave the Indian government access to its BlackBerry Messenger service earlier this month, but complex email encryption will not allow RIM to provide similar access to its email services. Is RIM doing the right thing here? Does India have a strong enough case to request the encrypted data?
There is no possibility of us providing any kind of a solution, RIM VP Robert Crow said to reporters. There is no solution. There are no keys to be handed.


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[Verse 1]
A young girl travelling late at night could pay the price, taped up and sliced
In the Nevada desert God ain't present, pray for your life
That's what he told her as the seatbelt clicked and the car peeled out
She's creeped out but they're moving too fast to leap out
He peeped out her hitching on the side of the highway
He pulled over, "Hey, looks like you're going my way."
A pretty young thing, probably in her early twenties
He was closer to fifty playing some song by Eddie Money
Told her, "Relax, this ain't the first time I've done this
I'll just make it hurt more if you try to run, bitch ."
The radio was silent, all this seemed unbelievable
You could hear the rocks from the road spray under the vehicle
And he never would've guessed, how could he have guessed?
He felt a sharp pain as the knife entered his chest
He slammed on the brakes, looked up at her face
She seemed turned on with blood all over the place
She straddled on his lap, pulled the knife back
The flood of warm blood then his body relaxed
Cause when a killer kills a killer and reality's disrupted
The victim's not a victim and the hunter is the hunted
Did you ever know me? I don't think so
Will you ever know me? I don't think so
But I love what you make me do
I love what you make me do
I love what you make me do
Did you ever know me? I don't think so
Will you ever know me? I don't think so
But I love what you make me do
I love what you make me do
I love what you make me do
[Verse 2]
Joey was a step-brother, real sick little fucker
Snuck inside her room to touch her, "Kill you if you tell your mother."
Held her underneath the covers
Covered up her mouth to smother any noise
Even let his boys come and f**k her
And little devil boys taking turns
You can almost hear the flames flicker as their souls burn
And he did it to conquer, told her no one wants her
Had no idea he was creating a monster
Tears mixed with blood mixed with sweat mixed with semen
Is a list of ingredients to grow your own demon
Then late one night out the window she crept
And burned down the house while everybody slept
Then years passed by and the body count rised
But no one suspects the girl with them real pretty eyes
Till on a lonely stretch of highway in the desert
You can hear her singing like an old record
This is dedicated to those tormented souls


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Salinas said the famous U.S. TV show Survivor and the Spanish version Superviviente are also in the process of confirming Nicaragua as the site for their next shows.
They have pretty much confirmed that seasons 21 and 22 will take place in Nicaragua, according to this article.http://www.nicatimes.net/nicaarchive/2010_03/0312101.htmQuoteSalinas said the famous U.S. TV show Survivor and the Spanish version Superviviente are also in the process of confirming Nicaragua as the site for their next shows.RealityBlurred has also said that seasons 23 and 24 may film in Caramoan in the Phillipines:http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/survivor_21/2010_Feb_17_future_locations
And being able to see Jeff Probst for 4 more seasons sounds good too ] ITA
Yes, finally Survivor (US) will go to the Philippines.Here is Caramoanhttp://www.caramoanislands.com/
This article says that seasons 21 and 22 will be filmed somewhere near San Juan del Sur, on the Pacific Ocean side.
This time out it's going to be a dream location for the crew. Picture yourself on the warm Pacific coast of a nicely tucked away sunspot that happens to be the surfing capital of Central America. Throw in a quaint fishing village that has upscaled itself into a Hollywood celebrity hideaway, an ex-pat real estate hotspot and all the nightlife the young and beautiful can manage and what do you get? The perfect work location, if you can call that work. Did I mention the awesome surfing? And the partying?...well that part is just understood I guess.Digressing to what they will actually be filming is less exciting however. There will be beautiful wide long sandy beaches with breathtaking sunsets. There will be heat, lots of it and a few bugs when the ocean breeze dies down. There could be Reward getaway opportunities to forest preserves, a turtle nesting reserve or even a picnic atop a volcano. There will be no shortage of beaches for challenge locations but there could be a shortage of motivation to actually do them. San Juan Del Sur is the very essence of the term 'laid back'. You cannot 'lay back' any further that at San Juan Del Sur. It's so laid back they're probably going to have to cart Probst to Tribal Council in a wheelbarrow and prop him up for his duties. It's so laid back they may not even have Tribal Councils if the surf is up and a good wave is breaking. But wait that's every day. Hmmmm, could be trouble.
Alina - very strong worker and competitiveKelly B - strong worker and competitor and very smartBrenda - Strong worker and competitorNa'onka - lazy at camp but likes to competeKelly S - Lazy, wants to quit, useless at campChase - strong competitor, soft and quietBen - Likes to compete, great around campShannon - Strong competitor, comical, straight forwardJudson 'Fabio' - not very strong but hilarious at camp'Sash O' Frash' - Weak, useless at campMarty - good competitor, good at camp, loves to digJimmy J - unexpected fisherman, nice guyJimmy T - Too competitive for older tribeDanny - Weak competitor but loves Playboy bunnies!Tyronne - Strong competitor, socially weakJane - Great competitor and workerHolly - Good competitor, weak minded, loose cannon, tick.tick.tick.Jill - Great competitor and strongest femaleYve - Dynamite comes in small packages!Wendy Jo - Still getting the hang of planet Earth
No Exile Island. One tribal shake-up pretty early. Clues to the hidden immunity idol were found on day 1, I think by a water well but finding the idol itself, lots harder this time around. Two girls have the first clue to where it is. One double boot.
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This Week's Prudential NW Open House is the new Westwood Ridge development
This week's Prudential Northwest's Open House – to be held both Saturday (Sept. 14) and Sunday (Sept. 15) – is the new development Westwood Ridge!
The event will take place at the Westwood Ridge Design Center, located at 19655 1st Ave South, #102, in Normandy Park, on Saturday, Sept. 14 from 9 a.m. – Noon, and Sunday, Sept. 15 from 1 – 4 p.m.
Westwood Ridge is a brand new development with 16 homes – all named after various Burien parks – ready to be custom made.
These Open Houses will give you a great idea of what to expect, as well as to design your own new home!
Here's are some renderings (click images to see larger versions):
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WHAT: Special Prudential NW Open House of Westwood Ridge!
WHEN: Sunday, Sept. 14 from 9 a.m. – Noon; Sunday, Sept. 15 from 1 – 4 p.m.
WHERE: Westwood Ridge Design Center, located at 19655 1st Ave South #102; (206) 451-8254 or (206) 409-4220.
Relaxed, spacious, fresh, and designed for living, Westwood Ridge in Burien offers the perfect setting for the active, modern Northwest lifestyle. Enjoy the privacy, beauty, and luxury of an established neighborhood with convenient access to the amenities, services, and activities of a major metropolitan area. Just 10 minutes from downtown Seattle, Westwood Ridge homes are set on large, level lots with generous back yards and surrounded by the luscious green beauty of mature trees that can only be found in the Pacific Northwest."
Floor plans are designed for today's active lifestyle with a concentration on leisure lofts, mud rooms, great room concepts, and outdoor living areas. Options include sunrooms, extra garage spaces, and added bedrooms. Customize your new home with a variety of designs, colors, and materials selected by professional designers. Choose from a number of hardwood floors, granite countertops, and stainless steel appliances to create a current, modern, and individualized home that resonates with your personal style. Enjoy high efficiency furnaces and superior insulation ratings that help lower utilities and promote a better environment.
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Fishwrap's coverage of Fr. Walker's murder… not
Fr. Walker was murdered and Fr. Terra was assaulted so badly that he is in critical condition. These priests worked among the poor of Phoenix in a pretty dodgy part of town. They are beloved of their flock and they … Continue reading
PHOENIX: Developments in case of Fr. Walker and Fr. Terra
You will want to see this. HERE Bp. Olmsted makes remarks on camera. And BBC HERE Among other things that story says that they have now a description of the suspected perp and that Fr. Terra can talk finally: Parishioner … Continue reading
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Recommended reading about the death of Fr. Walker
I friend of mine who writes now for NLM posted a personal reflection on the recently murdered Fr. Kenneth Walker, FSSP. Enough said. Click HERE.
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Centre High School will host the Wheat State League Junior High School Tournament this week. Games will be on Thursday and Saturday.
Centre boys (4-3) are the third seed after beating Rural Vista (4-3) and Solomon (4-3) head-to-head. Goessel boys (2-5) are the sixth seed, and Peabody-Burns (0-7) is the eighth seed.
Centre girls (1-6) received the sixth seed in a drawing among Centre, Elyria, and Peabody-Burns. Goessel girls (7-0) have the top seed, and Peabody-Burns (1-6) is the eighth seed.
Centre girls will play Little River at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the main gym, followed by Centre boys vs. Goessel at 7:45 p.m.
Goessel girls will play Peabody-Burns at 6:30 p.m. in the second gym.
Girls' semi-finals will be at 1 p.m. Saturday. Boys' semi-finals will be at 2:15 p.m. Girls' championship and third-place games will be at 3:30 p.m., and boys' championship and third-place games will be at 4:45 p.m.
Admission is $4 for adults and $3 for students.


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Printrbot update
It's been a while. Printrbot is alive and well at Printrbot.com. Sales are brisk, and we are having a blast. We have sold around 4000+ printers an tons and tons... Read more
New Kickstarter: Printrbot jr. - This time, its all for Schools and kids.
I just wanted to drop a line to let everyone know that I am taking another swing at a kickstarter campaign: Printrbot jr. : Your kid's first 3D printer
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Printrbot KS Complete! Last Video :)
We are done! We love you all. In the future, get your updates on Printrbot.com
Happy printing!
Printrbot Update #29. We FINISH This Week!
Only 35 Assembled Bots to go! We will FINISH this week. Tune into our Dropcam to see and hear the fun.
Saturday, August 18, 11-1pm PST: Party with us... Read more
Printrbot Update 28 (Kits Go On Sale)
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Limited number available daily.
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Printrbot April Update
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Printrbot files in the wild!
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The End. The Beginning.
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Strong Finish: $830,827
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Thank you, Lord.
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All Systems GO!!
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The mission of the Teaching & Learning Center of Kansas State University is to encourage, support and promote excellence in teaching and learning throughout the university.
The Center is dedicated to fostering best practices in teaching and learning, supporting advancements in research-based scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and providing professional development for all members of the campuses teaching community. The staff at the Center collaborates with faculty, graduate teaching assistants and administration to develop and sustain a culture that encourages and rewards teaching excellence. We value learning environments in which diverse students and instructors can excel and we recognize and support individual differences among learners. The Center provides tools for evaluating teaching practices from multiple viewpoints, including the voices of the students on assessment of teaching and learning from various courses.
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Cold Vermicelli Spaghetti SaladMany of my blogging colleagues are all abuzz about fall recipes right now - every form of apple and pumpkin and oatmeal, caramel and maple syrup, soups and stews and chili, casseroles, butternut and acorn squash recipes are all already starting to appear. I've been blogging since 2008, and it begins every year right about mid-August, but... as I write this, it is 105 degrees on the heat index down here in mid-afternoon and, well, I just ain't ready for that yet y'all!
If you live anywhere near the coastal South you know that a heat index number is just as critical a piece of weather information as the actual temperature. The heat index factors in the current humidity level and what the temperature actually feels like, and unless you've been here and experienced it firsthand, well, let's just say there is no humidity that compares. I hear visitors here who thought they knew what humid felt like, say that all the time!
Yes, at least we do benefit from being right on the Gulf of Mexico, and on occasion we get a little sea breeze, even away from the front beach, but ask me just how a breath of hot air feels blowing across your face?! Imagine, thick, hot air suffocating you with a forced air heater blowing right on you. Not cooling at all.
So, today, I bring you a pasta salad recipe and one that I truly enjoy for its simplicity. The base recipe is good ole Italian dressing or a blend of olive oil and vinegar poured over a bed of cooked spaghetti noodles and tossed with fresh tomatoes, and that's how I make it most often. Simple.
Like any pasta salad, from there you can go crazy with customizing it as your own. Typical add-ins are cooked, chopped bacon, finely minced celery, bell peppers and sliced green onion, though it's nice with black or green olives too. Add whatever you like. I've left a few suggestions down in the recipe.
There's nothing much to this salad, but it sure is good. Here's how to make.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil and add plenty of salt. Break pasta into thirds and boil to al dente according to the package directions. Drain and place into a storage bowl. Toss with the dressing.
Add the chopped tomato and any additional add-ins you like. Toss in the seasonings - all purpose seasoning such as Lawry's or Cavenders, black pepper, Cajun seasoning if you like and some basil and parsley. Use fresh herbs if you have them in the garden.
Toss it all together, cover and refrigerate for at least an hour. Toss with Parmesan cheese just before serving if you like.
Recipe: Cold Vermicelli Spaghetti Salad©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 1 (12 ounce) package of angel hair, vermicelli or thin spaghetti
- 1/2 cup of homemade or commercial Italian dressing
- 2 medium sized tomatoes, seeded and chopped
- 1/4 teaspoon of dried basil
- 1/2 teaspoon of dried parsley
- 1/4 teaspoon of all purpose seasoning, or to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon of freshly cracked black pepper, or to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon of Cajun or Creole seasoning, or to taste, optional
- Dash of dried red pepper flakes, optional
- 1/4 cup of freshly grated Parmesan cheese, optional
- Add-ins: Finely minced red, yellow or sweet onion, celery, sweet red, yellow or green bell pepper, jalapeno or other hot peppers, chopped pimentos, green onion, garlic, seeded, diced cucumber, diced summer squash or zucchini, sliced black, green or cocktail olives.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil and add salt. Break pasta into thirds and boil to al dente according to the package directions. Drain and place into a storage bowl. Toss with the dressing. Add the chopped tomato, seasonings and any additional add-ins you like. Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed; toss with Parmesan cheese just before serving.
Cook's Notes: I use Cavender's Greek seasoning or Lawry's seasoning salt. Chopped cooked chicken breast, shrimp and/or cooked, chopped bacon may be added. I prefer my salad without mayonnaise, though some folks do add some to this salad.
Italian Style: Add in 1/2 pound total of one or more Italian cured and cooked meats such as salami, capicola, pancetta, prosciutto cotto and/or pepperoni, 1/2 cup mozzarella pearls, 1/4 cup chopped roasted red peppers and 1/2 cup of olive salad or 1 cup of mixed, pitted olives and a small (4 ounce) jar marinated artichoke hearts.
California Style: Prepare as above, adding in a 12-ounce bag of fresh cut (raw) broccoli and cauliflower florets with sliced carrots, blanched, and chopped zucchini and yellow squash.
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) Minnesota Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen missed practice on Thursday after the sudden death of his mother.
Coach Leslie Frazier says Eden Prairie police arrived at the team's headquarters on Wednesday to deliver the news to Griffen. No details of her death were immediately available.
Frazier and several Vikings players went to Griffen's house on Wednesday night to be there for him. Frazier says Griffen will be given all the time he needs to grieve and make funeral arrangements, and it was not known when he might return to the team.
Griffen is a key player for the Vikings on special teams and has become a valued and versatile backup on the defensive line and at linebacker for the defense.
Minnesota plays at Washington on Sunday.


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Green Mountain College Divests from Fossil Fuels
Green Mountain College has become the second higher education institution in Vermont to commit to divestment from fossil fuels. College trustees agreed at their meeting Friday to withdraw investments from 200 publicly traded companies holding coal, oil and gas reserves. The investments are part of the school's endowment portfolio, which is valued at about $3.4 million.
Sterling College trustees voted at their winter meeting to divest from fossil fuel holdings in that school's $960,000 endowment. Students at the University of Vermont and Middlebury College have mounted divestment campaigns that await possible action by trustees. The divestment issue has also been raised at St. Michael's, Goddard and Marlboro colleges.
Three other colleges in New England have also divested: Hampshire College, in Massachusetts; and Unity College and College of the Atlantic, in Maine.
"We see this as another step in an ongoing effort to connect our investment decisions with our ideals," said Paul Fonteyn, president o f Green Mountain College, in a news release. "Investing endowment funds on the basis of social, economic and environmental criteria is one of the ways Green Mountain College expresses its values."
The divestment campaign was a collaboration of a student group, Divest GMC, and the administration, and featured a teach-in. In 2010, trustees invested 15 percent of the endowment in a portfolio of ecologically responsible companies. The college also switched from fuel oil to wood chips as a primary heating source with installation of a new biomass plant.
The action won praise from Bill McKibben, scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College and a leader in 350.org, a national advocacy group that seeks to build support for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
"I'm delighted Green Mountain College has taken a leadership role in this important issue," McKibben said in the news release. "GMC has long had a great reputation for environmental studies. Now they've demonstrated that it's a core part of their values. What leadership!"


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) — Alexander Joseph Jordan, 21, was arrested on Feb. 27 after he accidentally poisoned himself with ricin he made at home on Horseshoe Loop in Little Rock, according to U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland's office.
Ricin is so toxic that only an amount the size of a few grains of salt can kill an adult, a release said.
Jordan's plan for the two mason jars of ricin he produced are unclear. But he admitted that he got the idea from the popular TV show "Breaking Bad" and found instructions detailing how to make it online. He combined the ingredients using a blender, according to an affadavit.
The man was taken to the hospital on Feb. 22 when he called 911 to his home. He later told officers that he ingested ricin at UAMS.
On Feb. 23, the FBI and Arkansas National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction, 61st Civil Support team executed a search warrant of Jordan's home. They found the ricin mixture in mason jars, an apparent shopping list for ricin ingredients, a blender that tested positive for ricin and an Amazon.com receipt for 50 castor beans, the natural source of ricin.
A violation of possessing a select agent, in this case ricin, under Title 18, United States Code, Section 175b(c) and 42 CFR § 73.3, carries a maximum penalty of not more than five years' imprisonment, not more than a $250,000 fine, and not more than three years of supervised release.— Press release from U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland's office


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Cytoskeletal Dynamics
The cytoskeleton is a fundamental component of all eukaryotic cells. From cell division to membrane trafficking to cell polarity, the cytoskeleton provides the structural framework and force upon which these critical cellular events rely.
Yale Cell Biology is actively engaged in research that expands our understanding of how the cytoskeleton works at a molecular level and how the cytoskeleton supports the many cellular processes that are crucial during development and for cell survival and function. In particular, we are interested in how the cytoskeleton mediates movement of organelles, transport vesicles, proteins and mRNAs within cells to generate cell polarity and how the cytoskeleton facilitates endocytosis and the fusion and recycling of synaptic vesicles.
We are also examining the behavior of the components that compose the cytoskeleton, such as the dynamics of individual actin and microtubule filaments and the biochemical and mechanical properties of the motor proteins that move along those filaments. These complimentary and synergistic approaches to studying the cytoskeleton foster interactions within the Cell Biology community at Yale and accelerate the rate at which we understand how the cytoskeleton mediates cell function.


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Wednesday, June 19
Good morning, TexMessagers! Should Senate Republicans adopt John Cornyn's immigration reform amendment requiring full control of the border before granting amnesty to undocumented immigrants?
Give us your tired, your hungry, your huddled masses — the Congressional Budget Office says they may just slash the federal deficit.
A study released by the CBO Tuesday indicated that the immigration bill up for debate in the Senate may cut $200 billion in debt within a decade of its implementation and another $700 billion in the following decade.
The study is based on a projected population growth of about 10.4 million U.S. residents in the next ten years and estimations that those people will pay more in taxes than they receive in federal benefits. The bill would create a surplus for the system, boosting government spending by $262 billion and taxes by $459 billion.
The study also anticipated that real GDP will jump by 3.3 percent by 2023 and by 5.4 percent in 2033.
Texas Democrats tweeted the study with enthusiasm, using the findings as political justification for their support of the Gang of Eight bill.
Rep. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio tweeted:
Huge savings projected if #immigration reform bill passes. 700+ billion deficit cut. Great for our economy! http://t.co/L4Lkrz2EYe #CIR
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) June 18, 2013
Rep. Pete Gallego of Alpine also retweeted the study, citing its massive gains for the congressional budget.
The CBO findings were released on the heels of another study published in May that indicated immigrants created a surplus for the federal Medicare program. Harvard researchers found that immigrants created a whopping $115 billion for the program from 2002 to 2009, while U.S.-born Medicare patients generated a $28 billion deficit.
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★ Gov. Rick Perry confuses Libya and Lebanon
★ The Heimlich maneuver saves Rep. Ted Poe's life after lawmaker chokes on piece of popcorn
★ TxPotomac study finds correlation between violence and gun ownership, poor mental health care; no tie to entertainment bloodshed, single-parent families
★ Texas tops the nation in lost and stolen weapons, ATF study finds
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In response to our post, Silence not protected before Miranda rights read, court rules in Houston case, yonny wrote,
"This ruling only clarifies what happens before an arrest or charges are executed. The 'Law and Order' scenarios of claiming silence and the whole interview goes out the window never really was. As distasteful as it may seem it makes perfect sense. Before the Miranda Rights are imposed it is all free speech and there are no 'take backs'. Who this hurts most are the less intelligent of such a situation and who may just inadvertently implicate themselves as they answer because they 'want to help.'"
★ The Senate Judiciary committee has an oversight hearing to examine the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
★ The House Oversight and Government Reform committee has a hearing examining the federal government's approach to issuing biometric IDs.
Tomorrow and beyond:
★ June 20 The House Ways and Means committee has a hearing in which Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady will announce the 2013 Medicare Trustees Report.
★ June 20 The Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship committee has a hearing to examine sequestration, focusing on small business contractors.
★ June 20 The House Veterans' Affairs committee has a hearing on the value of education for veterans at public, private and for-profit colleges and universities.
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On this date in 1878, Texas Ranger Dick Ware, shot and killed infamous thief Sam Bass as Bass attempted to rob a bank in Round Rock. More>>>


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Joseph Taylor was born in 1791 in North Carolina. He died in 1866 in Leon County, Florida.
Joseph married Ellen Hatfield about 1812 in North Carolina. Ellen was born circa 1793 in Wake County, North Carolina. She died about 1824 in Leon County, Florida.
They had the following children:
Charles Taylor was born during 1814 in South Carolina. He died about 1853 in Virginia.
Leonard Taylor was born in 1817 in Marlboro County, South Carolina. He died in 1893 in Harrison County, Virginia.
Joshua Taylor was born in 1821 in Marlboro County, South Carolina. He died in 1904 in Indiana.


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A&M's Bertolet should have more fun as sophomore
COLLEGE STATION — With the NFL draft at full throttle, Texas A&M fans will whimsically glance back to an era when the Aggies owned a kicker worthy of a draft choice. All the way to 2012 — when the Houston Texans selected Lou Groza Award winner Randy Bullock in the fifth round.
The Aggies possessed the nation's top kicker in a season when they were barely above .500, so hardly anyone outside of Aggieland — and few inside of it based on the team's disappointing 2011 showing — rejoiced at Bullock's tremendous kicking. Last season, however, the Aggies could've used him while fighting for a Southeastern Conference title.
Instead, new coach Kevin Sumlin was left no choice but to throw freshman Taylor Bertolet to the SEC wolves, and Bertolet booted balls like a wide-eyed guy in his first season of college kicking.
"There were a lot of learning experiences last year, I would say," Bertolet said.
That is putting it mildly. Bertolet made 13 of 22 field goals (59 percent), compared to Bullock's 29 of 33 (88 percent) the previous season, when the Aggies finished 7-6 and coach Mike Sherman was dismissed after posting a 25-25 record over four seasons.
Last season, A&M finished 11-2, which included a five-point loss to LSU that featured two missed field goals by Bertolet in the fourth quarter — from 52 and 33 yards — and a missed extra point after the Aggies' first score. In that final period, Bertolet missed half as many field goals as Bullock had the entire previous season, although an attempt from 52 yards certainly isn't a gimme.
In that same game, however, Bertolet also booted a 50-yarder, a display of the leg power that prompted Sherman to sign him out of Reading, Pa., in 2011.
"You've got to be able to handle pressure," Bertolet said of what he learned from the LSU game last fall. "When things don't go your way you have to keep your composure."
Bullock entered his sophomore season in 2009 having earned the starting gig midway through his freshman year, and his numbers (12 of 19 for 63 percent) in his first full season as a starter weren't much better than Bertolet's first swing through the SEC.
"I'm learning from last year, taking the good things, and moving on," Bertolet said. "We're just letting things rip."
Like Sumlin last year, new A&M special teams coach Jeff Banks also inherited Bertolet, and one of the first things Banks did was settle in with the video and sift through Bertolet's freshman season, kick by kick.
"I analyzed last season without bias," Banks said. "I made my own opinion, and he's got unbelievable talent. He's got a great leg."
So what was the problem, and — more importantly for the Aggies — what is the solution?
"He really struggled on approaching the football, so what we did was take out all of the questions of approaching the ball, and made it simpler and more relaxed for him," Banks said.
Banks added that from there an individual's style typically takes over. He doesn't want to over-coach the youngster, who showed plenty of promise even amid a shaky first season that included a touchdown's worth of missed extra points (67 of 74).
So what are the biggest concerns Bertolet must work on entering his sophomore season, which starts on Aug. 31 at Kyle Field against Rice?
"Not muscling up on balls and being more natural in my swing," Bertolet said. "Being smooth, and feeling relaxed out there. When I'm relaxed, I'm having fun."
And when he's having fun, so are the Aggies.
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(I thought that in light of our idiot culture's imminent celebration of Let's Live Off Of Some Natives Before Killing Them Off Day and WalMart Strike Friday, and in light of this thoughtful piece in Transition Voice, I ought to reprise this diary of DailyKos publication in June of this year.)
This topic is stuck in a psychological double bind -- if we could face up to it, we'd recognize that the problem of avoiding total doom for the human race is multidimensional -- there are sociological, anthropological, psychological, meteorological, and numerous other-dimensional aspects of planetary disaster and how to avoid it. But the topic of possible doom itself inspires walls of psychological denial, because it's too scary to think about. So there's the double bind.
In this post I am going to examine the most-talked-about of impending disasters, the disaster predicted due to global warming. I'm not going to say a lot about the specifics of this disaster -- I'm going to let the video below do most of the talking for me -- but what's important to remember is that scientific forecasts of planetary global warming now predict a disaster on the order of the Permian-Triassic boundary, 251 million years ago, in which nearly all life on Earth was forced into extinction. So the curious thing about the public discussion of global warming is that we can now read and hear pronunciations of doom, of the possibility that the human race may be altogether a hopeless case because global warming will completely overwhelm our ability to cope.
At any rate, in my previous post I argued:
The political reality in which we traffic today is one of emergent and compounding disaster.
Now, my previous post discussed the optimism of a writer named Rebecca Solnit, who argued in her book that in disaster situations people will drop their internalized social attitudes and develop what Victor Turner called "antistructure," a space outside of social structures where people can create society anew in solidaristic fashion. We can hope, then, that the "antistructure" that emerges from the coming disasters will inspire a revolution in human thinking, that will make our world-society's disaster tendencies a PRIORITY and something we ought to fix.
Here I'd like to address the possibility that the sort of compounding disaster that's coming down the pipe is something that will overwhelm the human race. Thus the title of my diary: "We're doomed." I mean to discuss the idea that "we're doomed" as a species of argument, with origins, effects, and destinies of its own.
This post is more-or-less intended to address recent discussions such as this one, from Alex Pareene in Salon Magazine: "Earth Still Probably Doomed No Matter Which Way Court Rules."
Even if, against the odds, the Roberts court manages to uphold the ACA, or even to find the individual mandate unconstitutional while preserving the rest of the bill's reforms and subsidies, there is still a pretty good chance that the country and the world will face mass droughts, floods, famine and extinctions as this century draws to a close. With the global average temperature already .8 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, it is exceedingly unlikely that humanity will manage to keep the planet from warming by less than 2 degrees, which most scientists predict would be fairly disastrous for many people, even if Antonin Scalia writes a very strongly worded dissent to their models.
This argument brings us into the realm of priorities. Oh, sure, the ACA may save a few lives if upheld, based on the supposition that the insurance companies will cooperate with the law and actually grant people CARE rather than just mere "coverage." This, in turn, is based on the assumptions that health insurance in 2014 under the ACA won't be too expensive and won't meet up with (possibly illegal, but unenforced) insurer failures to pay and won't be priced out of the patient's ability to pay with prohibitive copays and deductibles. But the ACA "solution" as such will at best be trivial compared with the health care nightmare which global warming will bring to the world.
Pareene's idea, then, is that the band-aid approach to the health care crisis as championed by the ACA is at best a diversion -- the real health care catastrophe coming down the pipe is the one that global warming will bring us.
Now, I suppose this isn't an either-or matter -- we could have both a health care solution and a global warming solution. The problem, of course, is that the particular solution chosen for health care was one which enriched insurance corporations with public funds. No special interest is enriched by a genuine solution to global warming. Oh, sure, a genuine solution to global warming would help the human race and the planet, but do politicians care about such things? A genuine solution to global warming will help no industry which can offer sweet think-tank jobs to retired politicians.
None of the "serious people," then, in Washington DC is discussing global warming solutions. Perhaps it is only to be expected that the discussion about global warming entertains a degree of alarmism about near-term human extinction because of climatic doom -- what do they have to say before any of the "serious people" pays attention? So in general the question the climate scientists are asking this month is one of whether or not we've "reached a tipping point" -- has the problem gotten so bad that there is really no going back, and we can just kiss the human race goodbye?
But perhaps these links are not enough, and my audience here still needs a good simple oral explanation of the "we're doomed" global warming scenario. For those of you in that category, please take a look at this video by David Roberts of Grist Magazine:
"If we keep doing what we're now doing, we are screwed. This we know now."
That's the rhetoric at its core.
Roberts' conclusion: "To stabilize temperature, global climate emissions must peak within 5-10 years and decline rapidly every year thereafter." Last I looked, no such option was even in the planning stages for my November 2012 voter ballot -- in fact, practically nobody in American society is even TALKING about such a plan.
Let's switch focus, now, to David Swanson's most recent blog entry, "The End Is Near." Swanson, here, is arguing that the failure of the "summit" in Rio is a pretty ridiculous echo of a conclusion that world leaders could have drawn eight years ago, when the 30-year edition of "The Limits To Growth" came out. As Swanson says:
If we wait for Wall Street to decide that destroying the Earth is a bad idea, the basic systems of life on Earth will collapse in shortages, crises, and widespread suffering. Instead, we have to enforce change as a society, and we have to do it now.
At any rate, admitting the possibility that we could just be completely lost as a civilization means getting past the denial of such a possibility. But acceptance of the possibility of doom might threaten the possibility of one's even caring about the future at all. If we're doomed, well, then why bother? If we're doomed, then why bother with any sort of preparation for abrupt climate change at all? Crank up the Hummer and turn on the AC! Tell your kids to kiss their rear ends goodbye! Live for the moment! Party like there's no tomorrow! And by all means stop talking about serious stuff. It depresses the hell out of us, and life is short!
There are plenty of different species of denial at work in an inspection of opinions about global warming. The famed Republican denial that it's happening is only one of them. Also in the bidding for the denial sweepstakes should be "Global warming is happening but it won't be disastrous," "global warming is happening but there's no solution," and "global warming is happening but we can't deal with it effectively because (name your excuse)."
In fact, the only real escape from global warming denial is a proactive solution to the problem. Without the possibility of such a solution, we might as well be deniers, or at least ignorers.
You should be able to see, then, how the psychological double bind works. As collective hope for a proactive solution fades with the continued acceleration of greenhouse gas emissions, the psychological tendency to deny the possibility of such a solution increases.
First off, it cannot be overstated that global warming is not the sort of problem that will be solved through individual responsibility. Global warming is essentially a social problem, and it requires a collective solution. The tipping point is when world society imposes a phase-out of fossil fuel extraction, not when we buy Priuses.
Secondly, we can observe that solutions to global warming will become a priority when other priorities are dethroned. Knowing this underscores the idea of what a priority is -- if collective survival means more to the human race than anything else, then all of the "anything elses" must take second place.
The most important of these priorities is what I've been calling capitalist discipline. Capitalist discipline is what motivates us to pursue "careers," to work for "wages" or "salaries," and to obey the fundamental dictates of the capitalist system and the governments that keep it in place. As a replacement for capitalist discipline, we will need to imagine a sort of "ecological discipline" -- a discipline that impels people to seek out sustainable ways of life and to maintain those ways through an increased sensitivity to the relationships of the natural and social worlds.
An interesting take on the psychology of rational responses to the current world-situation (and here I'd like to avoid terms like "radical," "progressive," and so on -- survival is a human impulse, not that of someone with a particular political stripe) is offered by Bruce E. Levine in this piece for ZCommunications: "Liberation Psychology for the US: Are We Too Demoralized To Protest?" I feel that this is an important piece because Levine gets to some of the psychological "climates" that can be found in the United States which discourage people from being activists. Levine's point of connection for our purposes, here, is in his observation about something Noam Chomsky said:
In the question and answer period that followed a Noam Chomsky talk (reported in Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky, 2002), a somewhat demoralized person in the audience asked Chomsky if he too ever went through a phase of hopelessness. Chomsky responded, "Yeah, every evening.... If you want to feel hopeless, there are a lot of things you could feel hopeless about. If you want to sort of work out objectively what's the chance that the human species will survive for another century, probably not very high. But I mean, what's the point?.... First of all, those predictions don't mean anything—they're more just a reflection of your mood or your personality than anything else. And if you act on that assumption, then you're guaranteeing that'll happen. If you act on the assumption that things can change, well, maybe they will. Okay, the only rational choice, given those alternatives, is to forget pessimism."
Pessimism, then, leads to denial, which forms the double bind. I think that it's safe to say that once world society can break the psychological double bind, and make a proactive solution its priority, the world will itself look different. Until then, we get doom and denial.
Good job, Cass.
You might have seen the following Guy McPherson article. http://transitionvoice.com/2012/11/a-farewell-to-arms. It was making its rounds yesterday, or at least its rounds among the small group of people like us who recognize the impending mega-holocaust for what it is.
In previous essays in this space I have mentioned two phenomena worth fighting for: the living planet and freedom based in anarchy. I surrender. I no longer believe the struggle matters on either front.
The deniers come in such an assortment of flavors, from all across the artificial political spectrum. We're used to so many of them, but the group that irritates me most are the priests of human ingenuity, those who like Bill Gates know there's a problem but think that all we need to do is innovate our way out of the problem and VOILA! we don't even NEED to change our lifestyles. The reactionary level of conservatism embedded in this philosophy is infuriating, and this represents the predominate thought on the LEFT.
The obvious answer is global primitivism, or in other words, if those of us fuckers who live in the decadence of modernity would stop and live like the majority of the world that exists in poverty, we wouldn't need "alternative energy". The preconditions for that are the end of capitalism and consumerism, both of which clearly constitute a universal deathwish.
We're fucked.
Once we get rid of capitalism
That's because there's no commitment to get rid of capitalism.
That sounds like
the solution to me or anyone with a brain in their head. So how do we get rid of 'the vampire squid on humanities face'? Revolution? Nah that's too scary and only the 'extremists' would show up and be killed immediately as they are 'terrists who want to kill yer family'. I keep waiting for them to buy and use that rope that will finally do them in. Alas people seem willing to knuckle under and just keep truckin'.
Like the do da man. They still have visions of bags of cash like sugar plums nestled under their heads or at least possible. Freedom! . I don't know or have the faintest idea of how to make humans globally stop and look and use their power. We all seem captured in a glass onion. Of course it's silly as my musical input here is the oeuvre of 4 too rich dudes so rich they never had to deal with reality. Cassiodorus how do we even begin to penetrate the inevitable way forward. Pot shots from the left seem to be totally ineffective.. The only hope we have have is global solidarity under fire as they hold the power to render you so broke your just screwed. So scared you settle for the lesser evil.
forgot the gist
of my point
Sorry to be so negative the Wal Mart movement gives heart but overall who's willing to do what it takes to stop these fuckers.


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