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The second season of "Hell on Wheels" continues its epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount), a former Confederate soldier, and his dramatic journey west as he struggles to leave his past behind. Executive produced by John Shiban ("Breaking Bad," "The X-Files"), Joe and Tony Gayton (Faster, Uncommon Valor) and Endemol USA's Jeremy Gold, the show depicts the traveling town known as 'Hell on Wheels,' a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot that follows and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad. "Hell on Wheels" also stars Common as Elam Ferguson; Colm Meaney as Thomas "Doc" Durant; Dominique McElligott as Lily Bell; Christopher Heyerdahl as The Swede; and Robin McLeavy as Eva; Tom Noonan as Reverend Cole; Ben Esler as Sean McGinnes; Philip Burke as Mickey McGinnes; and Eddie Spears as Joseph Black Moon. The series is executive produced by Endemol USA with Entertainment One (eOne) serving as the studio. Season two consists of 10, one-hour episodes.


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The Motor Car Act 1903, which came into force on 1 January 1904, required all motor vehicles to be entered on an official vehicle register, and to carry number plates. The Act was passed in order that vehicles could be easily traced in the event of an accident or contravention of the law. Vehicle registration number plates in the UK are rectangular or square in shape, with the exact permitted dimensions of the plate and its lettering set down in law.
You can find out where your personalised registration number plate was originally issued here.
A Swede with a passion for offensive number plates has failed in his cause yet again, after transport authorities denied two of his latest attempts to create 'offensive' personalised plate combinations.
The man, from Varberg in southern Sweden, gained some media attention last year when he attempted to register a personal licence plate reading "3JOH22A".
The Swedish Transport Agency (Transportstyrelsen) rejected the licence plate request on the grounds of it being offensive, the reason for which is made clear when the combination is reflected in a mirror.
The same man has now made two further attempts to change his plate to "8UTT5EX" and "X32TTU8" respectively, but they were also denied, as they too could be considered offensive.
If not immediately obvious, the explanation for rejecting the latter combination is once again made clear when a mirror is introduced to the equation.
"We get a lot of requests and some of them are very subtle. Many see it as a sport to try and get a word through. This one was quite easy to reject," Eva Isaksen from the Swedish Transport Agency told public broadcaster SVT.
The Transport Agency's rules state that a personalised number plate "may not be designed if it causes offence or harm to anyone else," including allusions to alcohol, drugs, sex, swearwords, religion or criminality.
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car registration VUL 64R is offered for sale at £3395, a snip compared to the 'phantom' or 'hummer' it may well end up displayed on.
We think this registration plate will appeal to clients who have all the toys and appreciate the fun aspect of this unique reg number plate" said Bruno Morris at Image Registrations. He went on to say "the plate reads so well as it is almost a prefect spelling of vulgar!".
VUL 64R can be purchased now through Image Registrations, online at www.regplates.com or by telephone on 01482 627 628."
In fact, when the DVLA issues a car's registration plate, they actually follow a very distinct system.
While it may look like a random combination, a number plate can actually tell you how old the car is and where it was registered.
A new format for registrations was introduced in September 2001, meaning all cars registered after that date would have their number plate made up of three parts.
How to tell where the car is from
The first section of a number plate is the local memory tag – the first two letters of the plate.
This identifies where the vehicle was registered, and is itself broken down into two parts.
The first letter stands for the local area, for example E denotes Essex, while L stands for London.
The plate's second letter then identifies at which DVLA office in that area the registration took place – multiple letters can signify the same DVLA office.
How anyone can tell how old your car is just by looking at it
The two numbers in the middle of your plate identify how old the car is.
The DVLA issues two lots of number plate combinations each year on March and September 1st.
All plates issued between the 1 March and the end of August will use the same two numbers as the year they are registered.
For example, a car registered in May 2017 would have "17".
Vehicles registered between September 1 and the end of February the following year, use a similar pattern of higher numbers.
When the format changed in 2001, this group of vehicles were identified differently by starting the labelling from "51" rather than "01".
Therefore this second lot of numbers will always be 50 plus the year the car was registered – so after 2010, the number starts with a 6.
For example, a vehicle registered in December 2009 will show "59" on its plate but December 2011 will be "61".
Is any of the plate random?
The final three letters of the number plate tend to be a random combination that make the registration unique.
But it's not uncommon for cars with neighbouring letter sequences to be from the same manufacturer, due to batch allocation of new registrations to dealers by the DVLA.
The letters "Q" and "I" are excluded from the random sequence, along with any phrases that are deemed offensive.
Using the current scheme, there will be a sufficient combinations to last until the end of February 2051.
What about registrations before September 2001?
From 1983 onward, licence plates used a leading single letter to represent the year of first registration.
The letter "A" was used in 1983, progressing through the alphabet, finishing with "Y" at the end of August 2001.
The rest of the characters on the plate were random.
Prior to 1983, the same system was used, but with the year letter at the end of the plate rather than the beginning.
A PETITION against a police chief's decision to sell the first number plate issued to the county has gathered over 850 signatures.
Retired police constable Alan Matthews started the online petition after he found out that the 'AB 1' licence plate was up for auction.
Police enthusiasts have lambasted the decision to sell the plate, which has traditionally been used on the staff cars of Worcestershire's Chief Constables.
West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) John Campion claims the sale will enable him to invest in frontline policing.
Mr Matthews, aged 69, who worked for West Mercia Police from 1985 to 1994, said: "It's a piece of police heritage that shouldn't be sold off.
"It was the original number that the chief had. I just think that there's other ways the PCC could save money.
"I'm getting quire ratty about it. When you have been in the police you see how much waste there is.
"It's a sad thing that people in the UK have so much history but don't think much of it."
Jon Cherry, the director of regplates.com, thinks the plate will sell for between £225,000 and £275,000.
He said: "We have sold similar plates recently at this level and the market for high quality original issue number 1 plates is very strong.
"The buyers of these are intent on having only the best and only this plate will suffice!"
Mr Campion said his priority is use the assets at his disposal to make West Mercia a safe place.
"The prospect of a chief constable or any public servant using a private number plate belongs in a time gone by, both for security reasons and public expectation," he said.
"Therefore a considered decision has been made to market 'AB 1' and any sale proceeds will be reinvested towards frontline policing in West Mercia."
He acknowledged the history behind the plate but said it had not been used for around six years.
A spokesman for Mr Campion said he was not selling anything else apart from the number plate.
Vehicle registration was introduced in 1903 and it is believed 'AB 1' was first issued to Worcestershire's Chief Constable Herbert Sutherland Walker in 1908.
The current format of number plates started in September 2001 with the '51' number identifier as shown in the 'DE51YRE' example above. The idea was to make vehicles easily identifiable and to allow 2 changes per year instead of the traditional one issue per year. This took pressure away from car dealers and diluted the rush with registering all new vehicles at the same time. This new format created several million new combinations offering scope for specific unreleased numbers to be purchased.
A number plate owner has had their number plate withdrawn by the DVLA after a member of the public complained to police that it spelt 'jihad'.
The Ford Fiesta was driven around with the personalised plate for six months before it was reported to officials.
Licence bosses have now banned the plate which was written JH11 HAD and sent the owner a replacement.
The car was reported after it was spotted driving around Newport, Gwent.
One woman who reported it to police after she saw it being driven in her home city said: "How can this be allowed with everything that is going on in the world at the moment?
"I have told the police about it and they said they would make a note of it.
"Surely this plate cannot be legal?"
A DVLA spokesman said the personalised plate had been bought in October last year and had "slipped through the net" of offensive registrations.
The spokesman said: "We try to identify all combinations that may cause offence, and on the rare occasion where potentially offensive numbers slip through the net, steps are taken to withdraw the number.
"As soon as we became aware of this last week we withdrew it and would have then sent a replacement plate."
Plates resembling the word 'jihad', which literally means striving or struggling in Arabic, and is associated with the concept of 'holy war', are unavailable, for example plates starting with JE and ending HAD.
Others which are banned include HO57 AGE, a close match to "hostage", and the chain of characters O54 MA because of its resemblance to the name Osama.
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I recently believed I had a bad power steering pump in my 2005 V. Reading through forums, it is reported that the stock pumps are not made for high RPM use over time, and overheat/burn the oil. It was reported that some folks added a larger cooler, but that was just a band-aid over the original issue of the pump being run too fast. Additionally it was stated that a larger pully cannot be added due to the size of neighboring accessories.
Searching the internet, I found a couple of options for aftermarket pumps built to be used at higher RPM. The one that seemed to be most reasonably priced, made in USA, and supposedly 'bolt in' was the 'turn one' brand pump. From their website 'a direct bolt-in replacement for the stock Toyoda pump' ... 'designed to save you up to 3hp and reduce the power steering fluid temperatures. Made 100% in the USA ' (http://www.turnone-steering.com/#!on...egory=12405744)
Unfortunately the pump was not directly bolt in, but required a couple of changes and discussions with the folks at turn one. Turn one was very helpful in the situation.
I wrote up the information I used and added some pictures of the install here:
Pump seems to work really well, with very little if any diminished power at idle.
Hopefully that can help someone :)
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By LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press
An independent House panel has concluded that there is substantial reason to believe Texas Rep. Silvestre Reyes violated ethics rules and federal law by conducting campaign meetings on House property and using campaign money to pay expenses for his daughter's residence.
The Office of Congressional Ethics report was sent to the House Ethics Committee, which released the findings Wednesday and said it was continuing its own investigation of the eight-term Democratic lawmaker.
The office, run by a board of non-legislators, investigates complaints and makes recommendations to the House Ethics Committee.
In Reyes' case, the office recommended that the ethics committee investigate and subpoena Reyes, who refused to cooperate with the office's probe. The House committee said the referral does not reflect any judgment that violations occurred.
Reyes spokesman, Jose Borjon, said in a statement that the lawmaker was "pleased that the Ethics Committee took no further action on this matter, while making clear that the fact of OCE's referral did not indicate that any violation occurred."
The statement said Reyes "fully responded to these unsupported allegations and cooperated with the Ethics Committee to resolve them" while carrying out his official duties "with the highest level of integrity, strictly adhering to the rules governing" the House.
The allegations were first reported by the El Paso Times in May. The independent panel's report, adopted 6-0 in August but not publicly released at that time in accordance with House rules, found:
—Reyes' 2011 Federal Election Commission disclosure reports show he used $469 in campaign funds for five "campaign meetings" in the members' dining room in the Capitol.
—From 2008 through 2012, Reyes' campaign committee paid approximately $13,000 in expenses relating to his daughter's residence in Washington, where the congressman appears to have a campaign office. Expenses included pest control, Internet, telephone, cable and electricity.
The House Ethics Manual states that House property may not be used to conduct campaign or political activities, including strategy sessions.
Federal law makes it illegal for a federal employee, including the president, vice president or member of Congress, to solicit or receive donations — or anything of value — in property used for official government duties.
The manual says that if a House member's campaign conducts a transaction with the member or someone in his or her family, campaign records must establish the need for the goods and services, and efforts must be made to establish a fair market value.
Federal law says political donations cannot be converted to public use, and a House rule bars a member from converting the funds to personal use in excess of legitimate and verifiable campaign expenditures.


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- non-specific marker of inflammation
- slower to respond than CRP
- elevated if > 100mm/hr
- malignancy
- temporal arteritis
- severe infection
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Chris is an Intensivist at the Alfred ICU in Melbourne and is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Monash University. He is also the Innovation Lead for the Australian Centre for Health Innovation and the Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Education Committee. He has a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives. After finishing his medical degree at the University of Auckland, he continued post-graduate training in New Zealand as well as Australia's Northern Territory, Perth and Melbourne. He has since completed further training in emergency medicine, clinical toxicology, clinical epidemiology and health professional education. He coordinates the Alfred ICU's education and simulation programmes and runs the unit's education website, INTENSIVE. He created the 'Critically Ill Airway' course and teaches on numerous courses around the world. He is one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) and is co-creator of Lifeinthefastlane.com, the RAGE podcast, the Resuscitology course, and the SMACC conference. His one great achievement is being the father of two amazing children. On Twitter, he is @precordialthump.
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Next: Global TODO list, Up: Built-in agenda views
The purpose of the weekly/daily agenda is to act like a page of a paper agenda, showing all the tasks for the current week or day.
The default number of days displayed in the agenda is set by the variable
org-agenda-span (or the obsolete
org-agenda-ndays). This
variable can be set to any number of days you want to see by default in the
agenda, or to a span name, such as
month or
year. For weekly agendas, the default is to start on the previous
monday (see
org-agenda-start-on-weekday). You can also set the start
date using a date shift:
(setq org-agenda-start-day "+10d") will
start the agenda ten days from today in the future.
Remote editing from the agenda buffer means, for example, that you can change the dates of deadlines and appointments from the agenda buffer. The commands available in the Agenda buffer are listed in Agenda commands.
Emacs contains the calendar and diary by Edward M. Reingold. The calendar displays a three-month calendar with holidays from different countries and cultures. The diary allows you to keep track of anniversaries, lunar phases, sunrise/set, recurrent appointments (weekly, monthly) and more. In this way, it is quite complementary to Org. It can be very useful to combine output from Org with the diary.
In order to include entries from the Emacs diary into Org mode's agenda, you only need to customize the variable
(setq org-agenda-include-diary t)
After that, everything will happen automatically. All diary entries including holidays, anniversaries, etc., will be included in the agenda buffer created by Org mode. <SPC>, <TAB>, and <RET> can be used from the agenda buffer to jump to the diary file in order to edit existing diary entries. The i command to insert new entries for the current date works in the agenda buffer, as well as the commands S, M, and C to display Sunrise/Sunset times, show lunar phases and to convert to other calendars, respectively. c can be used to switch back and forth between calendar and agenda.
If you are using the diary only for sexp entries and holidays, it is faster to not use the above setting, but instead to copy or even move the entries into an Org file. Org mode evaluates diary-style sexp entries, and does it faster because there is no overhead for first creating the diary display. Note that the sexp entries must start at the left margin, no whitespace is allowed before them. For example, the following segment of an Org file will be processed and entries will be made in the agenda:
* Holidays :PROPERTIES: :CATEGORY: Holiday :END: %%(org-calendar-holiday) ; special function for holiday names * Birthdays :PROPERTIES: :CATEGORY: Ann :END: %%(org-anniversary 1956 5 14)2 Arthur Dent is %d years old %%(org-anniversary 1869 10 2) Mahatma Gandhi would be %d years old
If you are using the Big Brothers Database to store your contacts, you will very likely prefer to store anniversaries in BBDB rather than in a separate Org or diary file. Org supports this and will show BBDB anniversaries as part of the agenda. All you need to do is to add the following to one of your agenda files:
* Anniversaries :PROPERTIES: :CATEGORY: Anniv :END: %%(org-bbdb-anniversaries)
You can then go ahead and define anniversaries for a BBDB record. Basically,
you need to press C-o anniversary <RET> with the cursor in a BBDB
record and then add the date in the format
YYYY-MM-DD or
followed by a space and the class of the anniversary ('birthday' or
'wedding', or a format string). If you omit the class, it will default to
'birthday'. Here are a few examples, the header for the file
org-bbdb.el contains more detailed information.
1973-06-22 06-22 1955-08-02 wedding 2008-04-14 %s released version 6.01 of org mode, %d years ago
After a change to BBDB, or for the first agenda display during an Emacs session, the agenda display will suffer a short delay as Org updates its hash with anniversaries. However, from then on things will be very fast—much faster in fact than a long list of '%%(diary-anniversary)' entries in an Org or Diary file.
If you would like to see upcoming anniversaries with a bit of forewarning, you can use the following instead:
* Anniversaries :PROPERTIES: :CATEGORY: Anniv :END: %%(org-bbdb-anniversaries-future 3)
That will give you three days' warning: on the anniversary date itself and the two days prior. The argument is optional: if omitted, it defaults to 7.
Org can interact with Emacs appointments notification facility. To add the
appointments of your agenda files, use the command
This command lets you filter through the list of your appointments and add
only those belonging to a specific category or matching a regular expression.
It also reads a
APPT_WARNTIME property which will then override the
value of
appt-message-warning-time for this appointment. See the
docstring for details.
[1] For backward compatibility, the universal prefix C-u causes all TODO entries to be listed before the agenda. This feature is deprecated, use the dedicated TODO list, or a block agenda instead (see Block agenda).
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I made this sandwich for my hubby the other night and he really like it, I did too! The boys like their egg scrambled while we like our a little runny. Eggs, sausage, hash browns, onions, pepper jack cheese, garlic and thyme. Are you ready to eat? Well, here you go then ! Enjoy! <3 and hugs!
1 lb bulk sausage, sliced or sausage patties, country, maple, hot, sage or season your own
or ground sirloin
pepper jack cheese, shredded
hash browns, I used frozen diced ones
1/4 minced onions
1-2 cloves minced garlic
dried thyme
sea salt, to taste
freshly ground pepper, to taste
dinner rolls or slices of bread cut in rounds
Make sausage, or sirloin, into patties and cook until done. Temperature should be 160 degrees for pork. Cook sirloin the way you like it.
Put on paper towels to soak up the grease. Blot tops.
Save a little grease, if desired, and add oil to cook hash browns according to directions.
Add hash browns, onions and garlic. Season with sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste.
Grate cheese.
When the hash browns are almost done on the flip side, toast rolls or bread rounds that have been cut with a cookie cutter or coffee mug.
To microwave eggs: Crack an egg in a coffee cup/mug.
Sprinkle with thyme.
Cook at medium heat (1100 watt microwave) for 30 seconds or until the white is cooked on top. Carefully flip it over and cook another 5 to 10 seconds or until your cooked the way you like your egg. WATCH CAREFULLY!
If using diced potatoes, mash potatoes and onions until stuck together like the shredded ones.
Place on toasted rolls or toast rounds.
Top with shredded pepper jack cheese.
Place sausage, or sirloin, patty on top of cheese.
Top with egg. Season with sea salt and freshly ground pepper.
Add additional cheese, if desired.


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Lohse aims to get on track against Twins
Struggling free-agent signee Kyle Lohse gets another chance to get things going on Thursday night when the Milwaukee Brewers visit Target Field to close out a two-game series with the Minnesota Twins.
A 16-game winner with the St. Louis Cardinals last season, Lohse signed with the Brewers shortly before the 2013 schedule began - inking a three-year pact worth $33 million on March 25.
He was 1-1 with a stingy 2.52 earned run average after a 7-1 defeat of the San Diego Padres on April 22, but is 0-4 in five starts since while consistently suffering from a lack of run support.
Lohse's ERA has swelled to 3.76 in the five starts, but the Brewers have scored just seven runs in that time - including one or fewer in three of the five.
He was nicked for four runs on eight hits in six innings of his most recent outing, a 4-2 loss at St. Louis on May 19.
Lohse began his big-league career with the Twins in 2001 and stayed with them through 2006, winning 13 and 14 games in 2002 and 2003, respectively. If he beats them he'll have recorded at least one victory against all 30 big-league teams, a feat accomplished by only 12 other pitchers.
He's opposed by righty P.J. Walters, who makes his second outing of the season.
The 28-year-old Alabama native won two games in 12 starts with the Twins last season and opened 2013 in the minors at Triple-A Rochester, where he went 4-2 with a 3.31 ERA in nine starts.
Walters made his season debut on May 25 at Detroit and won a 3-2 verdict after allowing two runs on eight hits in six innings of work.
He has never faced the Brewers in 33 big-league outings.
On Wednesday, Samuel Deduno pitched into the eighth inning and Aaron Hicks homered in Minnesota's 4-1 win.
Deduno (1-1), making just his second start of 2013, gave up four hits and a run over seven-plus frames. The right-hander left after throwing 100 pitches.
"He makes hitters very uncomfortable. He gave us a great performance," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said.
Ryan Doumit hit a two-run double and the Twins got excellent relief efforts from Casey Fien and Glen Perkins to win their third straight game.
They won a pair of games in Milwaukee this week, including Tuesday's 6-5 final in 14 frames despite Jean Segura tying a Brewers record with six hits.
Yuniesky Betancourt drove in the lone run for the Brewers, who have lost five in a row. Milwaukee had just five hits.
"I think we're in a funk," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. "I thought he (Deduno) moved the ball around well, the fastball runs in, the fastball away cuts. He threw some nice change-ups to get some outs, but we're not swinging the bats well."
Marco Estrada (4-3), who came into the game on a three-start unbeaten string, allowed seven hits and four runs over seven frames. He also had five strikeouts.
The teams split six games in their 2012 series, while the Brewers took four of six played in 2011. Minnesota last won the series in 2009, 5-1.


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Counteroffensive campaign
Military | Conservative groups unite to offer assistance to soldiers facing infringement of religious liberties while serving in the U.S. armed forces
by Edward Lee Pitts
Posted 7/10/13, 02:25 pm
WASHINGTON—On the week that marks the 237th anniversary of George Washington's general order establishing chaplaincy in the U.S. military, a chaplains organization has launched a project to educate service members of their constitutionally guaranteed right to live out their faith. The group is trying to catalogue and stop what they call a growing threat to religious liberty.
The Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, which represents more than 2,400 chaplains in all branches of the U.S. military, will distribute "Religious Liberty Palm Cards" to soldiers. The cards outline what a soldier's religious liberties are and provide a website address for soldiers to report a suspected violation of their religious liberty and to seek counsel from attorneys and retired chaplains.
"We believe that those who are wearing the uniform, those who are putting their lives on the line to protect the religious liberties of all Americans should not themselves have to give up those religious liberties that they are willing to die for," said Ron Crews, the alliance's executive director, at a Capitol Hill press conference Tuesday.
Crews announced the new campaign on the same day that numerous conservative groups officially formed a coalition, along with launching a website, to continue to push for greater religious liberty protections in the U.S. armed forces. In addition to the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, the organizations involved include the Center for Security Policy, the Media Research Center, Judicial Watch, the American Family Association, Liberty Counsel, American Values, Family-Pac Federal, Patriotic Veterans, the Center for Military Readiness, the American Civil Rights Union, and the International Conference of Evangelical Chaplain Endorsers.
The Family Research Council (FRC), another member of this coalition, also released a report this week documenting numerous examples of threats to free religious expression within the military dating back to 2005.
"We have entered a period in which members of the armed services are being subjected to speech codes and restrictions on the free exercise of religion," the report states.
The incidences chronicled in the report include: The 2011 suspension, after 20 years, of an ethics training course conducted by a chaplain at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., because it included texts from the Bible; the Air Force's 2012 removal of the word "God" from a unit's logo; a March 2012 Army presentation that labeled evangelical Christians and Catholics as extremists along with al-Qaeda, Hamas, and the Ku Klux Klan; and the June 2013 removal by the Air Force of a video honoring first sergeants because it mentions God.
The report also highlights a 2012 West Point study linking pro-life groups to terrorism. That study argued that right-wing extremism in the pro-life movement is based on the belief that "since every human being is created in the image of God, it is by definition a sin to end their lives before they have been able to 'enjoy love and life of this planet.'"
And in 2012, according to the report, the Army censored Catholic chaplains in worship services. The chaplains had a sentence deleted from a text in a letter issued to them by the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Military Services. The letter asked Catholics to resist implementation of the contraceptive mandate in Obamacare. The edited letter was distributed but not read publicly after it was edited.
The FRC report does include one example of resisting attacks on religious expression inside the military: When an anti-religious group threatened a lawsuit over a nativity and menorah display on California's Travis Air Force Base in December 2011, the base refused to remove the display.
"This is just a sampling," said FRC President Tony Perkins, referring to the number of incidences threatening religious liberty that have gone public. "Increasingly, each one of us have been getting confidential calls and other reports and information from members of military pointing to this growing hostility to religious freedom. Unfortunately, members of the military cannot speak out about these things."
Rep. John Fleming, R-La., is spearheading an effort to add a layer of new laws protecting both the religious beliefs and actions of service members. This year, the House passed his religious freedom amendment to a defense-spending bill. Fleming's amendment would ensure that military officials comply with the Constitution when it comes to the military's own members.
"We have a situation in my district going on right now where DOJ [the Department of Justice] is removing funding for grants for a Young Marines program simply because they have the word God in their pledge," Fleming said.
Conservatives argue that new language is needed because some top Pentagon officials are acting under the assumption that religious liberty does not protect the actions and speech that are based on one's beliefs.
The Senate Armed Services Committee, in a bipartisan vote, also passed a version of Fleming's amendment. But the Obama administration "strongly objects" to the amendment, saying in a June 2013 statement that it "would have a significant adverse effect on good order, discipline, morale, and mission accomplishment."
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, said service members who hold strong religious views might leave the military if their First Amendment rights are not protected.
"To take away religious flexibilities that have always been there will not only devastate the military; it will devastate this country," he said.
Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., noted that Washington's order starting the chaplain service was issued on July 9, 1776. That order stated, "The blessing and protection of Heaven are at all times necessary but especially so in times of public distress and danger."
"We are suggesting that the president allow soldiers to have the right to live and act like Christians or whatever faith they may hold dear," said Bridenstine, a former U.S. Navy pilot.
Edward Lee Pitts
Lee teaches journalism at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, and is the associate dean of the World Journalism Institute.


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The nail bottle demonstration1 is one that many of us have conducted in our classes. To perform this demonstration, 2 – 3 mL of ethanol is placed into a plastic bottle that has two nails punctured into opposite sides of the bottle. After stoppering the bottle, a Tesla coil is touched to one of the nails. A spark jumps from one nail to the other, which initiates the combustion of vaporized ethanol inside the bottle:
We recently filmed this reaction with our high speed video camera:
I have seen this reaction performed many times, but never in slow motion like this! When I first observed this reaction in slow motion, I was amazed by the way that the initial reaction front seemed to proceed spherically outward, at least until the reaction front was impeded by the walls of the bottle. This observation made me wonder if the reaction started with a single molecular event. Upon further reflection, I noticed that the spherical reaction front in the nail bottle looked remarkably similar to the spherical shape flames take on in zero gravity. In the presence of gravity, flames rise because hot gases are more buoyant than surrounding cold air. In zero gravity, the hot gases in a flame expand, but don't move upward because there is no buoyant force. Therefore, a flame is shaped like a tear drop in the presence of gravity but like a sphere in the absence of gravity.
So why does the initial flame in the nail bottle – which is certainly under the influence of gravity – proceed in a spherical manner? My guess is that the gases produced in the initial, most violent stage of the reaction expand so forcefully that the buoyant forces on these gases are negligible by comparison. In a sense, the initial flame front in the nail bottle simulates a flame in zero gravity!
The questions and observations I have when watching this video leads me to wonder what some of you might think after viewing this video. When you observe the nail bottle reaction in slow motion, what questions come to your mind? What observations have I have missed? Would you like to see this reaction filmed in a different way? Share your questions, comments and ideas with us!
Thanks to Kristen Lewis for help filming the demonstration.
- Shakhashiri, Chemical Demonstrations, a Handbook for Teachers of Chemistry, Volume 2, pages 216 – 219.
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Super slo-mo is super for generating questions from observations
I love these super slo-mo videos! Keep them coming, Tom! For me, these videos create more questions than provide answers, and this video is no exception. In addition to Tom's observations and questions I add my own. A lot is going on here that I could not see otherwise and leads me to ask...
- What is going on with the second wave of combustion? Is additional ethanol vaporizing and burning after the initial vapor and is this ignited by a second spark?
- What happened toward the end where it looks like something fell into or was sucked into the bottle and burned?
Perhaps the answers to these observations and questions lie in Tom's thinking about gravity and its influence on what we observe. It may be that these secondary observations occur because now gravity can exert its influence.
These videos provide wonderful opportunities to share with your students how a chemist would observe and think about those observations. Please share this video with your students, see what questions arise and encourage them to share in this forum.
Class Discussion Prompt
The video does spark many questions. I am looking forward to sharing with my students. As Tom mentions, this is a demo that many of us already use. I can show the video after and ask my students to jot some notes about what they see and what questions they have. Sometimes it is difficult to get students to join in a discussion, but I think using the slow motion video will help excite them to participate.
Jon, I think what you are seeing at the end of the video is air rushing in after the hot air of the explosion rushes out (there is a vacuum created in the bottle for a moment). Is there something coming in and burning or is the additional oxygen that rushes in allowing for a little more combustion of alcohol?
I try to get my students to realize that thinking about concepts and engaging in these types of conversations helps us to understand the concepts even if we walk away with more unanswered questions than answered ones. That is science.
methanol in a bottle
Since the reaction occurs in the middle of the bottle, unaffected initally by the shape of the bottle, why wouldn't you expect the expansion to be the same in all directions? I expect that gravitational forces have very little to do with the shape of the flame in comparison to the force outward as a result of the inital combustion between the nails. You may notice that there is a distinctive aldehyde smell if you waft the air from the bottle soon after the reaction stops. The combustion quickly exhausts the oxygen, and the aldehyde forms as a result.(Incomplete combustion)
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'Imperfectionists' author balances a thin plot with an intriguing supporting cast in his new novel.
Tom Rachman's second novel is compulsively readable despite its thin plot and needlessly nonlinear narrative, attributes recalling his charming yet overrated debut, The Imperfectionists. In The Rise & Fall of Great Powers, Rachman creates a smaller cast of characters and focuses on a single protagonist.
Tooly (short for Matilda) is rather unprepossessing; the supporting players elevate the story. The tale, narrated in the third person from Tooly's perspective, jumps back and forth between different stages in her life on the margins of society in several countries.
In 1988, she's a 9-year-old girl newly arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, with her father, Paul, who may have kidnapped her. In 1999-2000, Tooly lives in New York City, her father a distant memory, and enters into a romantic relationship with timid university student Duncan. In 2011, she's in her early 30s, running an unprofitable second-hand bookshop in a Welsh village.
Tooly's quest, in 2011, to solve the mysteries of her past is Rachman's excuse for a plot. The concept works because the individuals who shaped Tooly's upbringing possess an insistent and sometimes sinister allure. While in Bangkok in 1988, Tooly leaves Paul, her aloof father who appears to have spirited her away from her mother, to join a globetrotting band of three peculiar, feuding adults.
One of them is Sarah, her flighty and vain mother, who frequently disappears and reappears. Another is Venn, a Fagin-like but handsome and magnetic con artist who resembles "a devilish older sibling, offering that brotherly combination of wholly unreliable and utterly trustworthy." Finally, there is the nurturing Humphrey, an older and intellectually inclined Russian gentleman who takes up the job of raising her.
Living in Wales in 2011, Tooly whiles away the time by trying to find traces of these people — with whom she no longer has contact — on the Internet. Every time she unearths something, she feels as though "a long spoon had been dipped inside her and stirred." When Duncan, her ex-boyfriend, writes out of the blue to tell her that Humphrey is ailing in New York, she sets off to tend to him and delve into her past.
The title of the novel could refer to the 20th century's vicissitudes, which Humphrey complains upended his life, but also to the making and unmaking of individuals who figure prominently in Tooly's. Rachman threads heady themes through The Rise & Fall of Great Powers, including the Nietzchean idea that a person has more than one self.
"People manifested so many selves over a lifetime," muses Tooly at one point, having discovered that Humphrey apparently faked his Russian accent and syntax years ago. "Was only the latest valid?"
Rachman's novel succeeds thanks to the captivating and contrasting personalities of his supporting characters, especially Humphrey and Venn. As a result, you often excuse the story's shortcomings — its overlength, meager plot and anodyne protagonist. Wanting to know what happened to the strange people who exerted so much influence on Tooly's life and how and why she lost touch with each of them keeps you reading.
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(HONG KONG) First Class passengers on Dragonair flights can now savour an authentic seasonal menu featuring 'Steamed Rice in Hot Pot Casserole'. The seasonal menu was first introduced inflight in 2008 and has been so well received by passengers, the menu is being run again with a number of new tasty dishes on the menu.
Premium travellers on flights between Hong Kong and Beijing/Shanghai are now able to enjoy a range of hot pot dishes until 15 March next year. Steamed Rice in Hot Pot Casserole is a popular local Hong Kong dish for winter, incorporating a wide range of seasonal ingredients.
Dragonair Inflight Services General Manager Cecilia Leung said: "It's a big challenge to serve Hot Pot Steamed Rice onboard due to the constraints of inflight environment and equipment.
"But our goal is to bring the best local tasty dishes to passengers and the Dragonair catering team and catering service provider put a great deal of effort into selecting the finest ingredients, ensuring they had the right rice-to-water ratio and designing the best way to heat up and serve the dishes inflight.
"This complicated dish also requires several steps to be executed by the cabin crew inflight before presentation and, without their help and expertise, it would not possible to offer these wonderful seasonal tastes to our passengers," Cecilia adds.
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So if you're like us, and want to travel Eorzea, the fastest way that we know of right now is by Chocobo. Besides, who doesn't want a Chocobo? First of all, it looks cool, you can give it Barding (change how it looks) and you simply save so much time riding a Chocobo vs. walking around.
The moment we stepped foot in FFXIV, we wanted a Chocobo. The problem was, searching for a step by step guide on how to get a Chocobo in FFXIV was not easy! A couple of forums gave hints on what level you get a Chocobo, some sites showed the requirements for a Chocobo, some sites suggested various levels… We also had questions about how to use a Chocobo, and how Chocobo's can be used as pets for fighting, etc. So here we go! As detailed as possible, FFXIV A Realm Reborn Chocobo Guide!
- You must be at least Level 20
- You should have completed the Level 20 story quest 'Hero in the Making'
- You must be part of a Grand Company (click here for our guide) [link to Grand Company guide]
- Finish the quest 'My Little Chocobo' given by your Company Commander.
- Have a 'Chocobo Whistle' in your inventory to summon your Chocobo as a mount
- Use a 'Gysahl Green' to summon your chocobo for battle***
Quest to receive your Chocobo: My Little Chocobo
1. After pledging allegiance to your chosen Grand Company, speak to your Grand Company Commander to get the quest
2. [EDIT] You will now need 2,000 company seals to purchase a Chocobo Issuance.
- The quickest way to earn 1,000 seals, we noticed, is to do Company Leves, it takes only a few to earn 1,000 seals, if you maximize the bonuses. Company Leve locations are as follows:
- Moraby Drydocks in Lower La Noscea for The Maelstrom
- Hawthorne Hut in the East Shroud for The Order of the Twin Adder
- Camp Drybone in Eastern Thanalan for The Immortal Flames
- If you have started crafting, you can also submit crafted items to earn seals through Delivery Missions.
- To see how many seals you have, click on your Gil indicator and it will show your Seals
- FATES are a great way to farm seals and EXP! Never pass up on a FATE!
Delivery Missions and Company Leves Interfaces:
3. Purchase a Chocobo Issuance from your Grand Company Quartermaster
4. Present the Chocobo Issuance to the stablemaster at the Chocobo Stable located in the city of your allegiance and receive a Chocobo Whistle.
5. Name your new Chocobo
Notes on How to use your Chocobo
- You will find your Chocobo Whistle in your inventory, we suggest equipping this to an action bar, using the whistle will summon your Chocobo as a mount.
- Locations where you cannot use Chocobos: city-states and dungeons.
- Dismount from your Chocobo by clicking on the Chocobo Whistle.
- Personal chocobos are faster than rental chocobos.
- You will be detected by enemies as they would if they were on foot.
- While mounted, if a chocobo takes too much damage, it will escape back to his stables.
How to fight with your Chocobo? or include in your Party
1. You must first be Level 30 with a Disciple of War of Magic class to unlock the needed quest! The quest is located in Camp Tranquil, South Shroud (Gridania).
2. Where do you buy Gysahl Greens? Without greens you cannot use your Chocobo in battle.
- Gridania: Maisenta – Vendor NW of Aetheryte Plaza
- Limsa Lomania: Bango Zango – Only vendor in Aetheryte Plaza
- Ul'dah: Roarich – Vender SE of Aetheryte Plaza, Ruby Road Exchange
3. How to summon your chocobo, or how to fight with a Chocobo? Use a Gysahl Green to summon your chocobo.
- Gyashl Greens will be in your inventory
- Use a Gyashl Green to summon your chocobo, it will now be part of your party, and hence take a party space
- You can order your Chocobo to take on different roles in the party (Free, Attacker, Defender, and Healer Stances)
4. To withdraw your chocobo from the party, use the Withdraw command, see details below
What can I do with my Chocobo? Chocobo Actions & Traits?
In the Actions & Traits screen, click on Companions to see what actions you can do with your Chocobo.
Chocobo FAQ's
Q. How long will a Gysahl green last?
A. 30 Minutes.
Q. Do certain Grand Companies give Chocobos?
A. All Grand Companies will have a quest to obtain a Chocobo!
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Is Glee really like high school, with all the crushing and puppy loves going on behind closed lockers? Not according to new guest star, Eve.
Despite reports of some sexual chemistry on-set (hello Lea Michele and Mark Salling!) Eve says that the Glee cast isn't ruled by hormones like typical high school kids.
"The cast were the loveliest people," the singer, who's episode "Hairography" aired on November 25th, tells us exclusively. "You can tell how happy and proud they are to be on the show. It's infectious. I had the best time."
But did Eve, who plays the instructor of a rival glee club, actually hang with the cast? Not really, she confesses. "They all kind of move together — they're a little clique of their own, but they are the sweetest kids," she says.
And although the rapper didnt actually sing with the cast in the episode – and didn't help with the creative musical consulting process, either – she'd dig seeing Beyonce's "Sweet Dreams" performed on-screen. "It's my karaoke go-to," she laughs, adding that she'd love to see some Whitney Houston on a future episode as well.
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By Jason Pribila: On Saturday night Floyd Mayweather Jr. again showed that his ring brilliance is showing no signs of slippage at the age of 36. Fighting for the second time in a calendar year against his most formidable foe in years gave even casual fans an excuse to open their wallets. For myself, and a few of my boxing die hard friends this date was circled on the calendar since the fight was announced. I used some vacation time on Friday afternoon to tidy up my apartment, pick up a few items for my ice box and freezer. My work was done in time for me to enjoy the rock concert atmosphere of the weigh in. I was just about to order the fight on my remote when I received an invite to go watch the fights on the big screen at the local Carmike Cinemas.
For the many people that know me personally and those few who have followed my contributions to the boxing world know that my first love was motion pictures. I once declared that I would be at the Sundance Film Festival by the time I was 30. Several screenplays started and stopped. Many seemed to run simultaneously with how long a particular muse lasted in my cross hairs, before inevitably veering off into the "friend zone". They say one should write about what you know, and all I knew at the time was that there were not too many happy endings that inspired putting pen to paper. And while the stories would entertain co-workers on a Monday morning, I was pretty sure that a loose autobiography would not translate well to the big screen.
In 1997, I wrote an email to Thomas Hauser after I read his ringside account of the Mayweather – Hatton fight. He encouraged my writing, and since then I've been blessed to have an outlet to share my words.
Although I still feel that a great film is head and shoulders above any other art form, I have become a bit of a movie snob. Being critical of films is why I rarely find myself spending my weekends in the movie theater between Memorial Day and Labor Day. That may explain why I did not realize that "The One" would be showing live at my go-to movie theater.
When I received a text message from my good friend Jay Short suggesting that we watch the fight at the Carmike, my mind was not on boxing. San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner had just given up 2 runs to the LA Dodgers. After dominating the second half of the season, I was facing elimination from the LCS of my fantasy baseball playoffs. I exhaled, cleared the lump from my throat, and gave Jay a call to discuss the pros and cons.
My first thought was that I still wanted to host the fight at my apartment. Eats and treats are always enjoyed by all, and there is usually enough spirits left over to get me through a Sunday full of NFL football. I also wanted to record the fight so I could go back to watch the fight during the week hoping it would inspire me to write an article. And finally, I had never watched a fight in a movie theater, and I was hesitant about the unknown.
On the plus side, Jay and I watched the Pacquiao – Mosley on closed circuit at the MGM Grand and had a blast. Although this would be a much smaller venue, the fact that there would not be alcohol served would most likely eliminate much of the asshole factor. Also, I was curious about what the turnout would be like, and was hopeful it would be successful enough so that we would have another option of where to watch future pay per view shows.
By the time the call was over, I was excited about trying something different. It helped that the Giants scored 3 runs and my baseball team was still alive.
It was officially fight night when I locked the doors at my family's deli, Deja Brew at 6pm. I spoke with Jay, and he was set to pick up fellow fight fan, Brian Fentress. We agreed to meet at the Red Robin's restaurant for our pregame. The pints began to slide despite the lost soul who sat to our right, and felt the need to explain to us how his wife left him and moved to Texas. I tuned out Captain Obvious, and focused more on the lovely Amanda, who was pouring glasses of personality 16 ounces at a time. We were approaching 9pm, and my mind was momentarily drifting from boxing to a favorite film of mine. I was moments away from sliding my ticket across the bar and telling my cohorts that "I gotta see about a girl". Luckily, before I made a bold move I'd surely regret, Jay decided to make a friendly wager. He asked me to guess her age, and then he asked her how old she was.
It turned out it would not be the only time I fell short on a prediction. We paid our tab, and we were off to the theater. I was happy that I did not give up my ticket for a gal who was in AM kindergarten when "Good Will Hunting" was winning screenwriting awards.
When we arrived at the Carmike, we walked into exactly what one would expect to see on a typical Saturday Night. Families, friends, and first dates were all in line for tickets and their concessions of choice. I was a little disappointed that I was not hearing chants of "Hard work, Dedication" as we approached our theater. Like many of the films I choose, we were in one of the smaller auditoriums located down the hall, and to the left.
When we walked in the opening bout was in progress. Jay got in line for food, and Brian grabbed a seat up front. I surveyed the audience and realized that there were a few subtle violations taking place. I asked for an usher, who arrived promptly. I asked him if people were allowed to "reserve" seats, which of course they weren't; and soon we were sitting in the center of the theater.
Before leaving, I asked if I could possibly speak to the manager on duty. I identified myself as a boxing scribe who had hoped to ask a few questions on why they chose "The One" for their first venture into the sweet science.
A few rounds later, Melissa Ross called me into the lobby. She was the manager on duty, and was nice enough to answer a few questions. She informed me that they had previously shown a UFC fight and that because of the theater's location; corporate often chooses that location to gauge interest in posting live events. She informed me that they did not need to add any extra security, but asked that the guard on duty begin his rounds in and around the theater that was showing the fight.
The theater had a capacity of 108, and much of the crowd that turned out bought tickets the night of the fight. She seemed pleased with the turnout, and was hopeful that the evening would continue without any problems.
When I returned to my seat the fight between Ishe Smith and Carlos Molina was in progress. To be honest, I'm not sure what round it was, as there was not a memorable round that stood out. These are the kind of fights that I usually spend instructing my guests which wings are hot, which drinks are cold, and where the bathroom is located.
The evening again began to pick up when Danny Garcia and Lucas Matthysse were getting set to trade leather. There were cheers from the audience when it was announced that Garcia was from nearby Philadelphia. Even at $25 a ticket, this crowd was clearly there for the main event.
The crowd gave golf claps in support of Garcia during the early rounds of the fight. They moaned when the swelling under Matthysse's eye was magnified on a movie screen in HD quality. They applauded for both men when they traded at the final bell.
As much as I like Danny Garcia, I had to eat a little crow as I felt that he was too hittable to withstand the powerful punches thrown by "The Machine". Better technique, preparation, and guts earned Garcia his biggest win to date.
It was a fun fight, but it was even more fun watching a crowd that is so trained not to talk in a movie theater.
I was able to hit the rest room before the main event. Again, it was surreal to be at a "sporting event" with so many people that had no idea that a big fight was taking place down the hall.
On the way back to the theater I walked behind some late arriving fans. Yes, there are even late arriving fans in non-casino settings.
The fighters and Justin Bieber were in the ring. There was a feeling when the fighters touched gloves unlike many of Mayweather's previous fights. There was some question as to who would be victorious.
For me, the suspense lasted 11 minutes. Following the third round there was no doubt that it would not be Canelo's night.
As Floyd painted another masterpiece, there was a little grumbling from the crowd.
"I paid $25 for this?" asked a pro-Canelo fan.
There was some boasting from the pro-Mayweather fans.
"For 12 rounds he kicked your ass!"
And in the end, CJ Ross' scorecard gave the entire crowd a common villain.
"The One" was history. Mayweather proved he was not only second to none, but he was so good he left us wondering if there was anyone that could be a worthy enough B-side to inspire the decision makers at the Carmike to reserve one of their theaters in May 2014.
Overall, it was a memorable night. The staff at the Carmike did an excellent job of making everyone comfortable, and the theater is a beautiful alternative to watch future sporting events. The fact that the concessions do not include alcohol is also comforting. For example, when I went to get my soda and popcorn refilled I did not have to look over my shoulder to hear someone telling me that I was paying for their "ju-ju bees".
For me, I would say that the fight card would dictate where I watch my next fight. A card worthy of $65 will almost certainly cause me to hit the order button my remote. I like hosting fights, and it is the one sporting event that my friends know that they usually have a place to go. However, a card like Bradley – Marquez, would be the kind of fight that I would highly recommend looking in the morning paper to see if it is playing at the movies.
Jason Pribila is a full voting member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. He could be reached for questions or comments at email@example.com and followed on twitter.com @PribsBoxing


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By Chris Keane
NAGS HEAD, N.C., July 3 (Reuters) - The first hurricane of the Atlantic season made landfall on the North Carolina coast Thursday night, a windy, wet party-pooper that forced thousands of vacationers to scrap their July Fourth holiday plans amid evacuation orders.
Hurricane Arthur crossed the coast near Cape Lookout at the southern end of North Carolina's Outer Banks at 11:15 p.m. EDT (0315 GMT), with maximum sustained winds of 100 miles per hour (160 kph), earning it Category 2 status on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
Moving northeast at 18 mph (30 kph), Arthur is the first hurricane to hit the United States since Superstorm Sandy devastated New York and New Jersey in October 2012 and caused $70 billion in estimated damage.
Despite growing in intensity on Thursday, Arthur remained a medium-sized storm, with hurricane force winds only extending outward up to 40 miles (65 km) from the center, although lesser tropical storm-force winds extended 150 miles (240 km).
After scything through the Outer Banks, Arthur is expected to move toward the northeast over cooler water on Friday, diminishing in strength and posing little risk to the northeastern United States, forecasters said.
Tropical storm warnings were issued on Thursday for Cape Cod and Nantucket, as well as parts of eastern Canada, including New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the islands of Cape Breton and Prince Edward.
The storm disrupted plans for holiday beachgoers and others ordered off North Carolina's low-lying barrier islands in its path. Tourists and some residents packed ferries and crowded the only highway off Ocracoke and Hatteras islands, where voluntary and mandatory evacuations were in effect.
Ferry service between some islands was suspended on Thursday afternoon as conditions began to deteriorate, with 22-foot waves reported offshore and heavy rain and wind gusts reported along the coast.
Some people on Hatteras Island planned to ride out the storm. Retiree Gerry Lebing said he was tying things down at his house and moving cars to higher ground.
Troy Scroggin drove from Virginia to check on his vacation home on Hatteras Island. "We had to batten down the hatches and we're going to stay and see what it's like," he said.
The storm could bring life-threatening rip currents and a storm surge of up to 5 feet (1.5 meters) to North Carolina's barrier islands, forecasters said.
North Carolina officials warned the storm surge could make the narrow 50-mile (80 km) Highway 12 connecting Hatteras Island to the mainland impassable. The state was putting extra heavy equipment in place to remove sand and the overwash as soon as possible after the storm passes.
Part of the highway was washed out by storm surge for two months after Sandy, forcing people to use ferries to reach the mainland.
"I think it's probably going to get knocked out again," said Jeff Masters, a hurricane expert with private forecaster Weather Underground.
State officials said 105 National Guard members have been deployed to help with storm preparation and safety, and 400 state troopers are helping with the evacuation efforts.
"Right now our crews are in place and ready to deploy once conditions allow for recovery efforts to begin," North Carolina Secretary of Transportation Tony Tata said in a statement.
"We will work to open the roads and resume ferry operations as quickly as possible."
Several towns and villages on North Carolina's coast rescheduled Independence Day festivities and fireworks as the storm approached.
Farther north, the beach resort of Ocean City, Maryland, and more than a dozen communities in New Hampshire and Connecticut moved their July Fourth fireworks display to Saturday.
Despite losing strength on Friday, Arthur would likely bring heavy rain to Boston and strong winds over Cape Cod and Nantucket. It would still be near hurricane strength when it passes over Nova Scotia on Saturday, according to Masters.
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|A spokesman for Mitt Romney said his family needs the space.
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is planning to nearly quadruple the size of his $12 million California beachfront mansion.
The former Massachusetts governor is planning to bulldoze his 3,009-square-foot home facing the Pacific Ocean in La Jolla, Calif., and replace it with an 11,062-square-foot home, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The Union-Tribune reported late Saturday that Romney has filed an application with the city for a coastal development permit but that no date has been set to consider the project.
A Romney campaign official confirmed the report, saying the Romneys want to "enlarge their two-bedroom home because with five married sons and 16 grandchildren it is inadequate for their needs. Construction will not begin until the permits have been obtained and the campaign is finished.''
In 2008, Republican presidential nominee John McCain was criticized and mocked when he said he was unsure how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, owned. The answer was eight.
Since then, perhaps sensing that the issue could be a liability for him, too, Romney has consolidated his real estate portfolio. Romney and his wife, Ann, sold for $3.5 million the 6,500-square-foot colonial home in Belmont, Mass. They also sold a 9,500-square-foot home at Deer Valley ski resort near Park City, Utah, for close to its $5.25 million asking price, according to a 2010 Associated Press report.
The couple maintain a vacation home along Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire, as well as a townhouse outside Boston that they consider their primary residence.
Romney - who made part of his fortune as cofounder of Bain Capital, a private equity firm - and his wife have personal financial assets worth as much as $264 million, according to disclosure documents filed with the Federal Election Commission this month.
Romney's campaign said "a more accurate range'' of his estimated wealth is between $190 million and $250 million.
The Romneys have spent considerable time at their home in La Jolla, a wealthy beach enclave in San Diego. Two of their sons, Matt and Craig, as well as several grandchildren live in the area. And Ann Romney, who has multiple sclerosis, has access to horse riding in California. She believes that riding and the warmer weather have a therapeutic effect.
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Imperva used this week's Infosecurity Show in London to announce what it believes is a key innovation for its line of web application firewalls - crowd-sourced threat data.
Called ThreatRadar Community Defense and incorporated into the firm's latest SecureSphere 10.0 release, the system analyses attack patterns detected hitting the networks of participating customers, which are then fed into its reputation protection and policies in what is said to be close to real time.
According to the company's analysis of 60 web applications, this type of pattern analysis across offers better defence against the types of large-scale attacks experienced by its customer base.
"Together, Imperva ThreatRadar Reputation Services and Community Defense pull crowd-sourced data from around the world to provide heightened insight into the identity of these attackers," said Imperva's co-founder and CTO, Amichai Shulman.
A key to making the concept work is persuading as many customers as possible to adopt the model as possible, which Schulman believed was possible because of the realisation that such a buy-in offered extra protection. To work well, scale was important.
An important giveaway was attacks that targeted multiple networks, said Shulman, describing them as "noisy" sources. Aggregated attack data made it possible to identify these far more quickly.
Shulman used the example of an SQL injection attack source might be aimed at numerous organisations, each one of which would not be able to 'see' the significance of the source from an isolated perspective.
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Imperva was the first vendor to offer web application firewalling using such intelligence, Shulman claimed.
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- Game 13 • Bucknell (3-8, 0-0 Patriot)
- Jan. 2, 2011 • 2 p.m. ET
- John J. Lee Amphitheater • New Haven, Conn.
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The Yale women's basketball team rings in the new year in hopes of gaining momentum prior to the start of the Ivy League season. The Bulldogs return home after suffering a pair of losses at the fourth-annual Fordham Holiday Classic. On Sunday, the Bulldogs take on the Bison from Bucknell. It will be the second straight game for the Bison against an Ivy League opponent. On Thursday, the Bison slippped past Cornell, 54-45. Sunday's matchup is the sixth home game of the season for the Bulldogs.
Last Time Out
The Bulldogs traveled to the Bronx, N.Y., campus of Fordham University, where they joined Fordham, Villanova and Sienna in the Fordham Holiday Classic. In the tournament's opening game, the Bulldogs dropped a 62-44 decision to Fordham on Dec. 29, and then they wrapped up the tournament with a 57-44 loss to Villanova on Dec. 30. Senior forward Mady Gobrecht was the lone Yale representative on the All-Tournament team. She averaged 11.0 points and 4.5 rebounds in the two games.
Scouting Bucknell
Bucknell will close out its non-conference schedule today at Yale. The Bison are also looking for their fourth win of the season. They are looking for back-to-back wins for the first time this season after beating Cornell on Thursday. However, all three of Bucknell's wins have come at home. After winning its first game of the season, Bucknell lost eight of its next nine games, including five straight losses before breaking that stretch with the victory over Cornell. Bucknell, picked to finish last in the Patriot League following a last-place finish last season, return three starters and eight letterwinners from that squad, but introduce a pair of freshmen guards, Shelby Romine and Shelby Trotter.
Fantastic Freshman
Shelby Romine is already making her presence felt at Bucknell. She has started all 11 games and is leading the team in scoring (14.6 ppg) and assists (2.7 apg). She has already won the Patriot League's Rookie of the Week three times this season. She is the team's lone threat from long range, hitting 23-of-54 shots (42.6 percent) from 3-point range. Only three other Bison players have made a 3-pointer and none have made more than four this season. Romine is also leading the team in minutes played (37.1 mpg). No other Bison plays more than 27.5 mpg.
Coaching Milestone
With the next victory, Head Coach Kathy Fedorjaka will earn her 200th win while at the helm at Bucknell. She currently holds a 199-187 record at Bucknell and a 266-225 record in her 18-year coaching career.
Series History
In a series that dates back to 1994, Yale and Bucknell have played five times. After three games in the mid-1990s, the two teams will meet for the third straight season on Sunday. Neither team has won back-to-back meetings. Yale's first two wins in the series were the most one-sided of all the games. Yale earned a 74-56 win in the first meeting on Jan. 9, 1994, and then bested that margin by one point with a 62-43 win on Dec. 7, 1997.
The Last Meeting
Senior Melissa Colborne scored a team-high 10 points and Mady Gobrecht added nine points and a team-high seven rebounds to lead Yale to a 54-50 win at Bucknell. All nine players who got into the game for Yale scored. Freshman Megan Vasquez led the bench effort with nine points in reserve. Morgan Wrightson led all players with 22 points and eight rebounds to pace the Bison. Rachel Voss scored 12 points behind an 8-for-9 effort from the foul line.
Nutmeg Connection
The Bison feature a solid post player in Lindsay Horbatuck, a sophomore forward from Avon, Conn. She is averaging 6.5 rebounds per game, including three double-digit rebounding efforts. She led the Bison in steals as a freshman (34) and is leading the team once again in total steals (17).
Holiday To Forget
Yale spent the holiday week in the Bronx, N.Y., taking part in the fourth-annual Fordham Holiday Classic, along with Fordham, Villanova and Sienna. It turned out to be a tournament that the Bulldogs would love to forget. Yale lost both games, falling to Fordham, 62-44, on Dec. 29, and closing out the tournament with a 57-44 loss to Villanova. Yale led at halftime in both games, but watched both opponents use big second-half runs that took the Bulldogs out of both games.
Classic Honor For Gobrecht
A bright spot in the Fordham Holiday Classic was the play of senior forward Mady Gobrecht, who averaged 11.0 points and 4.5 rebounds in the two games. She earned a spot on the All-Tournament team, joining Villanova's Lindsay Kimmel and Laura Sweeney, Fordham's Kyara Weekes, and Sienna's Serena Moore as the five players to earn recognition for their efforts.
One For The History Books
Yale earned perhaps the biggest victory in its 38-year history on Saturday, Dec. 18, when it stunned Florida State 91-85. At the time, the Seminoles were ranked 15th in the Associated Press Top 25 and 14th in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll. It is Yale's first-ever win over a ranked opponent. It was just the second win for the Bulldogs in 10 attempts against an opponent from the ACC. Yale's first win against the ACC came against North Carolina State University on Nov. 22, 2008. Megan Vasquez and Janna Graf each recorded career scoring highs. Vasquez scored 25 points, which was the highest scoring output for a Yale player since Melissa Colborne scored 27 against Cornell on Feb. 20, 2009. Michelle Cashen recorded her first double-double of the season (11 points, 13 rebounds), while Graf tallied the first 20-point effort of her Yale career with 22 points. Aarica West dished out 10 assists, becoming the first Bulldog to record at least 10 since Stephanie Marciano had 10 against Stony Brook on Dec. 7, 2007.
Ending The Streak
The historic win over Florida State halted Yale's seven-game losing streak. It was the longest losing streak during Chris Gobrecht's tenure as Yale's head coach since her first season when the Bulldogs began the 2005-06 season with 10 straight losses. The longest losing streak in Yale's history is 11 straight losses, which was recorded twice in the team's 38 seasons.
Dominating The Leaderboard
After leading the Bulldogs in scoring last season, sophomore point guard Megan Vasquez is already making her mark on the Ivy League leaderboards. Through Dec. 22, Vasquez is second in the Ivy League in scoring (15.5 points per game), just behind Princeton's Niveen Rasheed, who leads the Ivy League with 16.7 ppg.
Just Around The Corner
The non-conference portion of the 2010-11 season is nearing an end for the Bulldogs. Only two opponents remain on Yale's non-conference schedule. The Bulldogs will face Brown today. Following a week off, Yale will visit the West Point, N.Y., campus of Army on Jan. 9. The Bulldogs will begin Ivy League play in just over two weeks when they play host to Brown on Jan. 14 at Yale at 7 p.m.
Yale Sweeps Ivy Awards
After leading Yale to a pair of victories, including its first-ever win over a nationally ranked opponent, Michelle Cashen, Janna Graf and Megan Vasquez were all honored on Dec. 23 by the Ivy League for their efforts. Cashen was named the Ivy Player of the Week and Graf was named the Ivy Rookie of the Week, while Vasquez earned a place on the weekly Honor Roll. It is the first time Yale has swept the Ivy League's weekly awards since senior Erica Davis and freshman Melissa Colborne won the awards on Jan. 2, 2007. Cashen averaged 15.5 points, 10.5 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game in the two wins. She scored 11 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in the win over No. 15/14 Florida State. Against Quinnipiac, Cashen tallied 20 points, eight rebounds, eight assists, falling just two rebounds and two assists shy of recording the first triple-double in Yale's 38-year history. Graf averaged 16.5 points and 7.0 rebounds in the two games. She scored a career-high 22 points and pulled down five rebounds in the win over Florida State. She fell one rebound shy of her first double-double against Quinnipiac. She scored 11 points and pulled down nine rebounds. Vasquez averaged 22.5 points in the two wins. She scored a career-high 25 points versus Florida State, while she poured in 20 points against Quinnipiac.
Injury Bug
Because of injuries and illness, Yale has yet to play a game this season with its lineup intact. Freshman forward Janna Graf missed the first three games of the season with mononucleosis. Starting guards Yoyo Greenfield and Megan Vasquez, as well as reserve forward Ericka von Kaeppler, all missed time due to concussion symptoms. Freshman forward Alexandra Osborn-Jones also missed time, sitting out the first six games of the season. Greenfield, the team's senior captain, has missed the last five games with her concussion, while Vasquez and von Kaeppler both returned to action against Sacred Heart.
Strength In Numbers
Despite allowing an Ivy League-worst 72.6 points per game through games from Dec. 22, the Bulldogs are still showing some positive signs on the defensive end. They are second in the Ivy League in steals with an average of 9.4 per game. They are also second in 3-point defensive shooting percentage, allowing 37 made threes, just one more than Ivy leader Penn, on just 30.3 percent success. Yale is also second in turnover margin at +3.0 per game. Offensively, the signs have been just as positive. The Bulldogs are third in the Ivy League in scoring (65.5 points per game) and third in field-goal percentage (37.5 percent). They are also second in the Ivy League in assists (16.2 apg).
The 20-Point Club
With their efforts against Florida State and Quinnipiac, Megan Vasquez, Michelle Cashen and Janna Graf became one of 14 Ivy League players who have scored at least 20 points in a game this season. Vasquez reached the mark in both games, with a career-high 25 points against Florida State and 20 against Quinnipiac. Graf notched a career-high 22 points against Florida State, while Cashen scored a season-high 20 points against Quinnipiac.
Stealing The Show
With the injury to senior captain Yoyo Greenfield, sophomore guard Aarica West is making the most of her time on the court. She has earned the starts in place of Greenfield in the last seven games. She is making her mark on both ends of the floor. She is leading the team in assists (3.6 apg) and in steals (1.9 spg). With games through Dec. 22, West was leading the Ivy League in steals per game (2.2). The new weekly rankings are due out on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011.
Dish And Assist
Normally, the assists category is dominated by the guards, but in the Ivy League, a post player is leading the way. Junior forward Michelle Cashen is leading the Ivy League in assists with 3.9 per game. In fact, Yale players take up three of the first four places on the top 10 list, and two post players are among the top eight. Sophomore guard Aarica West is second in the league with 3.6 assists per game and sophomore guard Megan Vasquez is fourth with 3.5 apg. Senior forward Mady Gobrecht is eighth among league leaders with 2.8 per game.
The Fab Four
Yale has bolstered its lineup for 2010-11 with four freshmen that are expected to make an immediate impact. Guard Amanda Tyson, forwards Janna Graf and Alexandra Osborn-Jones, and center Zenab Keita comprise one of the strongest freshman classes during Head Coach Chris Gobrecht's tenure.
Every Day is Mother's Day
Senior forward Mady Gobrecht is the daughter of head coach Chris Gobrecht. They are the only current active mother-daughter, coach-player tandems in Division I women's basketball. This is the sixth time in Yale's 157-year athletic history that a head coach is mentoring his or her child in a varsity sport, and the first where the combo is mother-daughter (men's fencing: Robert & Maurice Grasson, 1936-38; baseball: Smoky Joe & Joseph Wood, 1939-41; men's basketball: Howard & David Hobson, 1952-55; men's squash: John & Jack Skillman, 1954-55; football: Jordan & Harry Olivar, 1957-59).
Schedule Strength
Seven teams on the Bulldogs' 2010-11 slate participated in the postseason last spring. Florida State and Princeton earned a berth in the 2010 NCAA Tournament. Five others participated in the WNIT, including WNIT champion California.
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Description: slow-cooked pork with just a hint of heat.
Serving Size: 8
Time: 7 hours
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- 2 T low-sodium soy sauce
- 1/3 c ketchup
- 2 T brown sugar
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 tsp ginger
- 16 oz peach salsa (Mrs. Renfro's or Paul Newman's are both good)
- 32 oz lean pork tenderloin
- Mix first six ingredients together.
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- Cook on low 7-8 hours.
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Richard Carson, PhD
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and of Biomedical Engineering; Director, Yale PET Center; Director of Graduate Studies, Biomedical Engineering
Departments & Organizations
Radiology & Biomedical Imaging: Bioimaging Sciences: Positron Emission Tomography (PET): PET Radioligand Development for Mental Health (PRDMH)
Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC)
Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP)
Stress & Addiction Clinical Research Program
Yale Cancer Center: Radiobiology & Radiotherapy
Office of Cooperative Research
Richard E. Carson received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1983 in Biomathematics. From that time on, he has focused his research on the development and application of mathematical techniques for the study of human beings and non-human primates with Positron Emission Tomography (PET), a noninvasive imaging technology that uses radiopharmaceuticals to trace in vivo physiology and pharmacology. From 1983 until 2005, Dr. Carson was an integral part of the PET program at the National Institutes of Health, rising to the rank of Senior Scientist. In 2005, Dr. Carson joined the faculty of Yale University as Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Diagnostic Radiology. He is Director of the Yale PET Center, a state-of-the-art facility focused on quantitative PET techniques using novel radiopharmaceuticals. Dr. Carson is also Director of Graduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. Carson's research interests are concentrated in the following areas: 1) New algorithms for image reconstruction with PET, 2) Development of mathematical models for novel radiopharmaceuticals to produce images of physiological parameters, 3) Use of receptor-binding ligands to measure drug occupancy and dynamic changes in neurotransmitters by analysis of PET tracer signals, and 4) applications of PET tracers in clinical populations and preclinical models of disease. Dr. Carson has published over 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals, given over 150 invited lectures and is a member of the editorial board of two of the leading journals in the field of brain PET, the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, and the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism. Dr. Carson was awarded the Kuhl-Lassen award from the Brain Imaging Council of the Society of Nuclear Medicine in 2007. He became a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2008 and was awarded the Sheffield Distinguished Teaching Award from the Yale School of Engineering. In 2009, he was named the winner of the Ed Hoffman Memorial Award from the Computer and Instrumentation Council of the Society of Nuclear Medicine. In 2010, Dr. Carson was named as a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. In 2016, Dr. Carson was given the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy of Radiology Research. In 2017, Dr. Carson received the Edward J. Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award from the IEEE. In 2018, Dr. Carson gave the Henry N. Wagner Jr. Lectureship at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging annual meeting in Philadelphia. In 2019, Dr. Carson was named as a Fellow of the IEEE.
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Education & Training
|University of California at Los Angeles (1983)
|Brown University, Applied Math-Biology (1977)
Honors & Recognition
Henry Wagner LectursehipSociety of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (2018)
Edward J. Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist AwardIEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (2017)
Distinguished Investigator AwardAcademy of Radiology Research (2016)
MemberConnecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (2010)
Edward J Hoffman AwardSociety of Nuclear Medicine (2009)
25 Most Influential in RadiologyRT-Image (2009)
Sheffield Distinguished Teaching AwardYale University School of Engineering and Applied Science (2008)
Member, College of FellowsAmerican Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2008)
Kuhl-Lassen AwardSociety of Nuclear Medicine (2007)
Professional Service
Advancement Committee for Engineering (2016 - 2017)
Physical and Biological Sciences Degree Committee (2012 - 2015)
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (2010 - 2011) Member
Biomedical Engineering (2009 - Present)
Term Appointments and Promotions Committee (2006 - 2009) Member
Radiation Safety Committee (2005 - 2013) Member
Journal of Nuclear Medicine Editorial Board (2004 - Present)
Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism Editorial Board (1993 - Present)
PET-RTRC External Advisory Board St. Louis, United States (2018)
NIBIB Biomedical Technology Resource Center (P41), "PET Radiotracer Translation and Resource Center" External Advisory Board-Member
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf Dresden, Germany (2017 - 2017)
Scientific review panel
Dementias Platform UK MR-PET scientific advisory board Manchester, United Kingdom (2016)
EPSRC Centre for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Multimodal Clinical Imaging Cambridge, United Kingdom (2015)
Scientific Advisory Board
NUS CIRC Scientific Advisory Board Singapore, Singapore (2012 - 2018)
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, National University of Singapore Clinical Imaging Research Centre
EURIPIDES London, United Kingdom (2008 - 2011)
Member of scientific advisory board for European Research initiative to develop Imaging Probes for early In-vivo Diagnosis and Evaluation of response to therapeutic Substances