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When local nature walking club, Terra Verde, decided to plan another walk to Santiago but this time passing through a lesser known route via Braga, I decided that I had to join them. This walk would also take in the Minho region of northern Portugal which I have written about before (see the link here) and that I find is incredibly beautiful and unique.
The route via Braga is not considered to be the traditional one to Santiago de Compostela but it was still used by pilgrims coming from the south-east of the country and eventually linked into the Roman route 'Via XIX' from Ponte de Lima up to Santiago. Beginning in Porto, it passes through Paranhos, S. Mamede, Nogueira de Maia, Silva Escura, S. Mamede do Coronado, Covelas, Esmeriz, Vila Nova de Familicão, Telhado, BRAGA, Merelim, Goães and finally Ponte de Lima.
Unfortunately the route is not well marked with the traditional yellow arrow of the 'Caminhos de Santiago' but with some guidance from locals and a map in hand there is always hope. Fortunately Terra Verde began marking this route especially for our walk, pioneering and reopening the way for other pilgrims wishing to take this different route to Santiago.
The first sector took us from the Sé Cathedral to Covelas in Trofa – 21 kms through the urban areas of Porto. This is a fascinating way to discover part of the city and its people whilst observing the beautiful Portuguese architecture some of which is 'antiga Portuguesa' (buildings made from granite blocks with large windows and doors framed in granite and traditionally painted in white with dark green extras). There is a continuous array of old, two or three story, buildings covered in many different coloured tiles with magnificent windows and doors protected by wrought iron railing terraces.
I am totally drawn to the old and worn out colourful, hand painted tiles (azuleijos) which can still be found on the exterior and interior of buildings everywhere and are just a treasure in themselves. The traditional colours are blue and white but one can encounter many colour mixes with slightly imperfect patterns and it is sad to see them chipped and faded as time goes by. Azuleijos were originally used ornamentally and as a measure of controlling temperature. They were put up on major historic buildings where they narrated historical facts of days gone.
The walk took us out of urban Porto and into villages, where we passed old manor houses with magnificent gates and doors, small chapels and churches with gilded alters, statues and hand painted ceilings – some dating back to the early 1700's, small town squares with their granite pillory or 'pelourinho' posts which were once used for public punishment and humiliation. The Leça River (Rio Leça) accompanied us some of the way and one place in particular called Silva Escura has a documented history back to the year 920 where a very dense and almost impenetrable forest once existed! The history of each place is never ending and there is a yearning to stop and just wander to discover some of the treasures that these places have but there isn't always enough time.
From the small villages we moved into rural farm areas where we followed dirt tracks with green pastures on either side, people working on their farms and an array of lovely pets and farm animals. We closed the first stage of the walk at the small local church located in the parish of Covelas in Trofa. Although the start of this walk is rather urban it still gives one a chance to view Portuguese daily life and enjoy what the small towns and local people have to offer. Slide show of the walk below.
Next sector Covelas to Santiago de Antas in Vila Nova de Familicão.

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This is a promo clip for the "Heavy Breathing" Electronic Rock Group That The New York Times Wants You To Believe Is As Innocent And As Pure As The White Driven Snow :
This shit is so sick, and twisted, and so chock-a-block full of deevillish disgusting symbolism, the fact that Hillary Clinton has what the press makes it seem like is a one hundredth of a degree of separation is bad enough ; the fact that Clinton itself is likely so much more closely associated with this horrifying scary stuff would make any right-thinking person tremble in their Cole-Haan Chukkas :
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Washington Post, May 7th: "Math, reading performance is stagnant among U.S. 12th-graders, assessment finds." All this effort on standards and test scores and still no change. Hmmmm.
But there are those who predicted that teaching directly to standards would only make a bad system worse. Maybe we should listen. A teacher in New York, for instance, sent me this report three years ago:
"Kindergarten is now the learn-to-read year in New York public schools. Teachers tell parents at parents' night that according to 'school standards' their child should be reading by the end of kindergarten. A teacher told the parent of a smart, well-adjusted 5-year-old in October that her daughter was 'behind' in reading. Coupled with NYC's late cut-off of Dec. 31 this is doubly distressing. Many are only four when they start kindergarten.
"The schools use Lucy Calkin's A-M letter-based progression of reading ability. While the program is generally good, the leveled reading ability is damaging. Kindergartners learn in the fall that they are a level A or level B and are told their goal is to advance to the next letter. They compare letters with each other.
"We know what this does to children who fail to move up a letter as their friends become C's and D's. One precious five-year-old asked me what my pre-k daughter's reading level was. I laughed and asked her if I had a reading level too? I told her, 'I read books that I like.'
"In one second grade classroom on the Upper East Side students in mid-year ranged from levels G to M. During independent reading they could select books only from their leveled bins. They read in order to take tests on the computer that check and reassign their levels. The principal and teachers stress reading goals by telling the students what letter-level they should be by the end of the year. They do this repeatedly.
"Children are also pushed to read beyond their level of comprehension. The pleasure of reading is greatly diminished by eliminating choice and making kids read books that are constantly a little too hard for them or that they may not understand. This sends children the wrong message about reading. Reading should be about understanding and enjoyment.
"This leveling is seductive. Every kindergarten parent would love to think their child will be an early reader. When they are not, they are unnecessarily anxious. I've talked to some about how making reading a competition is counter-productive. I've pointed out that it is more important that their child like what they read and are able to understand it. Doesn't make a dent.
"I decided to keep my 5-year-old (September birthday) home with me this year because of this obsession with 'standards.' My daughter loves to be read to, and I want her to continue to love reading as she learns to read. I don't want her feelings to change or her confidence to fall when she's asked to begin to learn to read. By having her at home, we can continue to read together for all the right reasons, and I will help her learn when she is ready."
From coast to coast American children are being sorted rather than educated, and this teacher gives us a window into the mechanics of it. Emphasizing "standards" sounds like common sense, but it doesn't work; it backfires. Kids don't perform better with benchmarks. Labels have the opposite effect on both the "gifted" and the slow (Carol Dweck, 2006, Mindset, The New Psychology of Success).
Why do kids drop out when they get to high school? The reason is staring us in the face. By fourth grade they know what their chances are, and that their only hope is to get out of a system that will likely keep putting them down.
Seventy-five percent of brains are wired to learn to read naturally anytime from age 3 to age 9 (6.5 on average). The Orton-Gillingham method works with 99 percent of those that aren't. Leveling is an artificial, arbitrary and unnecessary construct that interferes by creating self-fulfilling prophecies.
Most teachers I know are good educators trapped in a management system that is not great for any child, saps many children of their potential, and deprives our nation of vast qualities of valuable human resources. Most of us go along with it as we unwittingly drop our children off at the processing plant.
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Kiyaunata Goodwin is a large young man. He's currently 6-foot-7, 370 pounds (200cm tall, 168 kilos). But wait, here's the best part …
He's 14 years old. He's in the eight grade.
The eighth grade.
That's him in the picture at right, playing against a typical eight-grader. Pretty impressive, is it not?
Here at the Galactic Football League, we like to keep an eye on players that might someday make the cut of a Tier One or Tier Two team. How big will Mr. Goodwin get? No way of telling. Right now, he's 5 inches (12.7cm) shorter and 10 pounds (4.,5 kilos) lighter than Ionath Krakens star Quentin Barnes. Keep in mind that Barnes is a quarterback. Mr. Goodwin currently plays left tackle, the position usually played by a team's most-dominant offensive linemen (and often the second-highest-paid player on the squad, behind quarterback).
To compare Mr. Goodwin to a GFL player at least close to his own species, we'd have to line him up against Ionath starting defensive end Ibrahem Khomeni, a HeavyG that is 6-foot-10, 525 pounds (182cm, 238 kilos). In a game, Goodwin would try to stop Khomeni from reaching the quarterback. Giving up 155 pounds (79 kilos), Goodwin wouldn't stand a chance. Of course, Khomeni will be 28 years old heading into the 2686 season. With another ten years of growing and working out, how big could Goodwin get?
Watch the video to see what seems like a nice kid who has already been offered at least five Division I full-ride scholarships, including offers from Georgia, Louisville and Michigan. Here's to hoping he gets a great education, and if things work out for him, seeing him suit up on Sundays in the NFL.
To play on the Krakens offensive line, though, Goodwin would have to get as big as offensive guard Michael Kimberlin, a moving mountain at 8-feet-even, 615 pounds (254cm, 279 kilos). That's right, Goodwin would have to nearly double his size. Hey, he's only 14, right? Let's see the young man when he's 21. If he gets big enough, he needs to be careful of a time-traveling Greedok the Splithead, owner of the Krakens, who would like nothing more than to spirit the young man away and put him in the GFL Combine.
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Along with posting the beyond adorable picture, she also joked about the struggle of posing with her four kids, calling it an "almost impossible" task.
"Bahamas Pics Coming Up! I thought taking a pic with three kids was hard OMG this is almost impossible," she captioned the post.
However, despite all the struggle, the family pulled off a beautiful seaside snap and looked super cute in the picture. The picture features the gang seeming more preoccupied with playing in the sand than getting a good shot.
Chicago and North were twinning with their doting mother as they soaked up the sun and played in the sand. The trio donned matching silver swimsuits and accessorised with chic grey scrunchies.
Kardashian's followers expressed concern over the bandage on North's leg in one of the photos.
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This past Friday the Alpha recording label released its third album featuring Ensemble InterContemporain and its current Artistic Director and conductor Matthias Pintscher. The title of the recording is New York, and it is the first album in the series to focus on American music. Over the course of two CDs, the package offers a profile of some of the more "bleeding edge" examples of music created by composers living in New York.
The first of those composers, Edgard Varèse is not, strictly speaking a New Yorker. However, he is represented by "Intégrales," which is one of the pieces he composed while living in New York. The "New York School" is represented by its two members that could definitely be counted as New Yorkers, John Cage (even though he was born in Los Angeles) and Morton Feldman. Similarly, Elliott Carter was very much a New Yorker; and some of Cage's writings even cite what it was like having Carter and his wife as neighbors. The generation subjected to influences from both Cage and Carter is represented by Steve Reich. Finally, there are two composers of roughly the same age, who may be regarded as representative of the current generation of New Yorkers, Sean Shepherd and David Fulmer.
Beyond any geographical base of operations, the seven compositions in this collection have one thing in common. None of them were intended for "casual" listening. This seems entirely appropriate, since casual listening was probably the last thing on Pierre Boulez' mind when he created Ensemble InterContemporain. While this makes the album a valuable document of creative practices emerging from New York over the last 100 years, it also poses a cognitive challenge that should not be disregarded. Each of these seven pieces has its own unique point of view, and that point of view is not necessarily reinforced by listening to any one of these works before or after another track on the album.
Nevertheless, the juxtapositions of the track arrangement occasionally bring some interesting insights to the surface. The first CD begins with "Intégrales;" and, while I would like to say that this piece has been around long enough that we can sit back and enjoy it as much as, say, one of the late quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven, the truth is that this just ain't so. Scored for eleven winds and enough percussion to require four players, "Intégrales" is as spiky as ever. However, after one accepts the spikes for what they are, the music offers up a visceral experience that feels as if it will never be dated; and Ensemble InterContemporain has no trouble keeping those spikes as sharp as ever.
In the track ordering "Intégrales" is followed by Carter's clarinet concerto. Now it turns out that Carter was a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute Institute of Technology during my senior year there. What this meant in reality was that he would come by once a week to give a somewhat rambling seminar on whatever topic happened to interest him at the time. On one of those occasions the topic of Varèse arose, but all Carter wanted to talk about was the friction between Varèse and Nadia Boulanger. There was a faint subtext in his approach to Varèse that sounded a bit like, "I paid my dues; why didn't he pay his?"
In that personal historical context I found myself struck by the extent to which the dissonances in Carter's concerto were not only as spiky as Varèse's but could almost be taken as downright reminiscent of them. Mind you, Carter wrote this concerto over 30 years after Varèse's death. (He wrote it for the twentieth anniversary of Ensemble InterContemporain, which makes it a particularly appropriate selection for this album.) Thus, one of my own reactions to listening to this recording was one of revelation, musing over whether Carter had come to a stage in his personal sense of aesthetics at which he could admit (and even leverage) the idea that Varèse may have been up to something with consideration!
Those wishing to start their listening experiences with something more "accessible" would probably do well to select the second CD in this collection and turn to Reich's "WTC 9/11." This piece was scored for string quartet and tape and written for the Kronos Quartet. In many respects it complements "Different Trains," which was also introduced in both concerts and recording by Kronos. Both pieces explore the potential for melodic contours in spoken text; and, of course, both are unabashedly political. "Different Trains" was basically reflections on the Holocaust by a Jew who escaped that catastrophe by having been fortunate enough to be born in the United States. "WTC 9/11," on the other hand, was about a catastrophe that took place in the composer's "home town" (a town whose environment he had previously celebrated in "City Life"). Curiously, this is not the first time that "WTC 9/11" has been recorded by a European ensemble, since there is also a recording made by Quatuor Tana. On this recording the performers are violinists Jeanne-Marie Conquer and Diego Tosi, violist Grégoire Simon, and cellist Eric-Maria Couturier; and they certainly know how to bring clarity to what Reich had in mind in creating this piece.
The most surprising selection in the collection is probably Cage's "Music for Wind Instruments." Composed in 1938, this was a piece in which Cage used the twelve-tone technique to provide him with a systematic approach to pitch selection. He was equally systematic in determining how silences were added to the overall structure. The piece is in three movements, the first a trio (for flute, clarinet, and bassoon), the second a duo (for oboe and horn), and the last a quintet for all five instruments. Given Cage's "bad boy" reputation (which is probably as fresh today as it was 75 years ago), the music is surprisingly affable, thus offering a striking contrast to the dissonances of Varèse and Carter. Considering the level of rhetorical intensity in this album's perspective on New York, it is nice to know that Cage's "sunny disposition" (his choice of words) provides the listener with a chance to enjoy a smile or two. The two younger composers that contributed to this album might make a note of how effective Cage could be in that regard!


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Chopped Salad with Sweet Basil Dressing Recipe
A few months ago Lora Krulak sent Nancy and I her cookbook Veggies for Carnivores. The small book is packed with a lot of recipes and variations which are tasty and easy to make. One of our favorites was this salad recipe. We've used the dressing on multiple salads now, but the first we tried it on was this chopped salad. We had it at home, then brought it to a friends house for a party, and it was a hit both places. The touch of honey is the missing ingredient that I had not been putting in my dressings. It really brings this one together. Enjoy!
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Servings: 4
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- Dressing:
- 1 bunch basil washed with stems removed
- 3/4 cup high quality olive oil
- 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (about 1 lemon)
- 1 tsp honey
- White pepper and salt to taste (you'll likely want at least 1/2 tsp of each)
- Salad:
- Any chopped vegetables that you have and like will work here. Feel free to experiment. Here's a sample plan.
- 4 cups Romaine Lettuce
- 1/2 cup Celery
- 1/2 cup Carrot
- 1/2 cup Avocado
- Alternatively, try adding cucumber, green onion, green or red peppers, beets, cauliflower, parsnip, green beans (par boiled), cabbage, tomatoes, fennel, olives, almonds, raisins, etc.
- Put the basil, lemon and honey in a blender and start blending slowly, increasing the speed gradually to high. Slowly drizzle the olive oil into the blender, emulsifying the ingredients. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Chop all the vegetables for the salad into bite size chunks and place them in a large bowl. Add sufficient dressing and toss thoroughly. Check for seasoning and add kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper as desired.
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|Amount Per Serving
|Serving Size 194g
|Recipe makes 4 servings
|Calories 423
|Calories from Fat 384
|Total Fat 43.42g
|Saturated Fat 6.03g
|Trans Fat 0.0g
|Cholesterol 0mg
|Sodium 37mg
|Potassium 402mg
|Total Carbs 10.45g
|Dietary Fiber 3.6g
|Sugars 4.43g
|Protein 1.64g


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Abu Dhabi, Paris: The strategic allure of Middle East markets for global consulting firms was underlined again this week when both Booz Allen Hamilton and Atos opened new operations in the Gulf region.
Booz Allen Hamilton unveiled its new Abu Dhabi office facilities in the Etihad Towers complex, signifying, it says, the organization's sustained momentum and growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
The new Abu Dhabi offices now serve as Booz Allen Hamilton's regional headquarters, further bolstering the firm's presence in the MENA region after extending operations to both Kuwait and Qatar in May 2012.
Senior Vice President Don Pressley, who leads the firm's MENA operations, commented, "Booz Allen Hamilton is gaining increasing traction in the region, and the new Abu Dhabi office is a great base from which to manage our operations. We've been actively recruiting to build our team of regionally-based specialists, and this prestigious new space gives us a solid platform from which to manage our growth. Beyond the excitement of moving into our new, first-class facility, this week also affords the opportunity to gather together some of the firm's global cyber security experts and discuss some of the security challenges facing Middle East organizations today."
Meanwhile Atos, the French IT services company, has opened new offices in Qatar.
The firms says its move demonstrates growing commitment to the Middle East; having operations in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries will enable it to capitalize on the predicted growth in IT investment in this region over the next few years.
The new offices in Qatar are realized thanks to a partnership between Atos and HBH, which is represented by His Excellency Hamad Bin Ali Al Hanzab.
The Middle-East is a priority for Atos, as its businesses are key adopters of new technologies and innovative solutions. Atos plans to partner with and invest in local companies and talent to deliver the on-shore elements of solutions and services.
Thierry Breton, Chairman and CEO at Atos said, "We understand the need to develop long-term, deep relationships with our customers. That is what we do globally and what we'll do in Qatar.
"Our global presence and expertise will allow Atos to bring its know-how in the in areas such as the Public Sector, Energy & Utility, Telecomunication & Media and the sports sector to its customers in Qatar. Atos has an ambitious growth plan and setting up new operations in Qatar is a clear example; our goal is to increase our business in this region achieving profitable growth.
"We look forward to working with our global and local experts to deliver the high quality services and solutions that will help organizations further accelerate business growth and stay one step ahead of the competition. Atos will deliver what it promises and what its clients in Qatar expect — a measurable, valuable business advantage".
Atos began its expansion in the Middle East in late 2010 with the establishment of Atos IT SAE in Cairo Egypt, and has other offices in Riyadh (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), UAE (Abu Dhabi, Dubai), and Qatar.


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"Headhunters" is the first screen adaptation of a book by Jo Nesbo, the Norwegian novelist best known for his crime series starring a loose-cannon detective. This relentless new film, which does not feature the detective Harry Hole, is ostensibly a stand-alone tale, unless you count the planned American remake. But its justifiably paranoid protagonist suffers enough punishing twists for two or three movies.
Punishment is the key word, for this thriller from the director Morten Tyldum follows one contemporary genre trend by tying case-study psychology to what might be termed extreme fate. Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), a smug corporate headhunter, introduces himself in voice-over as all but a walking neurosis: a shorter-than-average, supposedly homely man who believes that he retains his statuesque wife only through luxurious upkeep.
Where he oversteps the bounds of accepted yuppiedom is with his sideline in art theft. He scopes out clients for their paintings as well as for their prowess, working with a sleazy partner in crime named Ove. The lucrative, surprisingly easy hobby both encourages his outsize sense of entitlement and leads to his wide-eyed downfall.
The agent of Brown's destruction is a slick company prospect, Clas Greve (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, of "Game of Thrones"), who is a potential mark Brown meets at a party. Greve looks like someone who would end up having an affair with Brown's wife. Greve proves to be a formidable and persistent foe, once Brown learns to suspect him and realizes that Greve's unattended Rubens might be a ruse concealing nefarious motives.
The exact cross-country chain of events and reversals, assuming they could even be plausibly explained, are best left unmapped. This nightmarish relentlessness and Brown's viscerally visualized degradation make the typical Hitchcock hero look blessed. Car chases, unexpected gunfights and Space Age surveillance all have disastrous outcomes without stopping the story short. Death seems to be a lesser mortal threat to Brown, in his perpetual flight, than his own all-encompassing fear of Greve's machinations, which entangle everyone closest to him.
More is often better in a movie-length pursuit, if it's all executed without excuses, and Mr. Tyldum's blithe sense of narrative amnesia and absurdity is healthy and appropriate. But the endless pursuit begins to feel a little pointless and, even with a couple of false-bottom shocks, repetitive.
As black comedy, the film is crude and downright sloppy when compared with the clockwork machinations of the Coen brothers' creations, as it has been since its premiere. Brown's panic is capably rendered, but his ordeals are not worth enduring to the bitter end.
"Headhunters" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Bloody violence and nudity.


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On December 14, 2012, The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released an update to its Study on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking". The study, and subsequent outreach program, is described as one of the most aggressive programs in EPA history. The report seeks to bring a better understanding to the impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources, but has critics concerned over the lack of conclusions drawn within the report surrounding the effects and frequency of contamination on water resources.
The Study has been gaining praise through environmental and industrial groups, but is not due to be released in its finality until 2014. The EPA has already confirmed that it will not address the frequency of drinking water contamination in its final report. Earthworks, an environmental group has stated that "In [the EPA's] inability to find a single company willing to test water quality before and after drilling and fracking, the EPA is being thwarted in perhaps the most important part of its study of fracking's impacts." Although Earthworks and many others are concerned at the lack of research into the frequency of drinking water contamination, most groups regard the progress report as a positive step towards the continued research of fracking.
As the study progresses, our understanding of fracking, and its effects on our water resources, will become clearer. Although the EPA is not researching the frequency of contamination, further understanding into the process of fracking and its residual effects is a positive step towards proper and safe use of the technique. The EPA is projecting further public releases of information related to the fracking study throughout the upcoming months.


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TREK TECH / 40 years since the Enterprise's inception, some of its science fiction gadgets are part of everyday life
In the 23rd century universe of "Star Trek," people talked to each other using wireless personal communicators, had easy access to a vast database of information and spent hours gazing at a big wall-mounted video screen.
On 21st century Earth, that future is already here.
People talk to each other on wireless communicators called cell phones. They have instant access to infinite amounts of information on the Internet. And they can spend hours staring at a big wall-mounted plasma or liquid- crystal display TV watching reruns of "Star Trek." That is, if they can afford one.
Indeed, 40 years after "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry outlined his vision for the groundbreaking science-fiction TV series, some of the once- futuristic personal technology depicted in the voyages of the starship Enterprise have become a reality.
Moreover, "Star Trek" has influenced a generation of engineers and scientists, inspiring them to engage in the future they saw on TV and to "make it so."
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"When I designed the UI (user interface) for the Palm OS back in '93, my first sketches were influenced by the UI of the Enterprise bridge panels," said Rob Haitani, product design architect for Palm-One Inc., the Milpitas firm that makes the popular handheld personal computers.
"Years later, when we designed the first Treo (a combo phone and wireless PDA), it had a form factor similar to the communicators in the original series. It had a speakerphone mode so you could stand there and talk into it like Capt. Kirk."
The show that made Capt. James T. Kirk, Lt. Cmdr. Spock and Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy into pop-culture icons premiered on NBC on Sept. 8, 1966.
However, the genesis of the show dates to March 11, 1964, when Roddenberry wrote a 16-page draft pilot for a show he told network executives would be a "Wagon train to the stars," a nod to the many Westerns that populated TV schedules at the time. Later that year, shooting began on the first "Star Trek" pilot episode, "The Cage."
In interviews and memoirs written before he died in 1991, Roddenberry said NBC executives rejected the pilot as "too cerebral" but were impressed enough to green-light a second pilot.
Despite its intensely loyal following, "Star Trek" was canceled by NBC, and the last first-run episode aired in June 1969, a little more than a month before the Apollo 11 crew landed on the moon.
In syndication, "Star Trek" was propelled to a higher level of popularity, and even cult status. It became one of the most lucrative franchises in the annals of entertainment industry history, with an animated series, ten theatrical movies and four spin-off TV series -- including the present "Enterprise" on UPN.
Kirk to Enterprise
Whether it was because they were inspired by the show or because "Star Trek" writers often based science fiction on science fact, today's popular personal technology gadgets resemble or have similar functions to the show's nonworking props.
The prime example is the communicators, the portable palm-size transceivers with a flip-up cover-grid antenna that, according to "Star Trek" "technical" data, had been used "since at least the 2240s."
When they were on missions off the starship, seeking out new life and new civilizations, each crew member used the communicators to keep in voice contact with their shipmates.
The communicators also transmitted a special identification signal to allow the ship to gain a transporter lock on crew members, essential for beaming them back to the ship.
Similarly, today's cell phones -- many with the flip-up cover -- do more than just transmit voice signals. Newer models have global positioning system satellite technology to let emergency workers lock on to a caller's location. And some include GPS maps, helping owners to navigate unfamiliar streets.
Some cell phones also respond to simple voice commands, although it's still far from the level of sophistication depicted on the starship.
One other similarity: As with cell phones, Star Fleet communicators didn't always work. Thanks to "ion storms" or other "subspace" interference, "Star Trek" crew members had their own "dead zones" to deal with.
Also, new hands-free devices worn on the ear to connect wirelessly with cell phones loosely resemble the "ear receiver" used by the Enterprise's communications officer, Lt. Uhura.
Time warp
To appreciate how far ahead of its time "Star Trek" was, consider that in 1964:
-- The main consumer communications device was a telephone tethered to the wall by a cord that could not be unplugged except by a trained technician from Ma Bell. Modular jacks and cordless phones were years from being average household items, so the idea of a personal wireless communications device was as alien as a Keeper on Talos IV.
-- Computers were large contraptions used by big corporations or the government, not in the home.
-- Television broadcasters and makers of TVs were still in the early stages of the transition from black-and-white to color, and many households had only one TV. A typical "big screen" TV of that era measured 23 inches diagonally and was housed in a wooden box.
-- Audio entertainment was stored on vinyl records or spools of magnetic reel-to-reel tape.
-- Although a Sony engineer proposed the idea of a videocassette recorder that year, it would be a dozen years before the company introduced the first Betamax home video recorder in the United States.
On "Star Trek," however, computers were ubiquitous, running everything from life-support systems to long-range sensors. The voice-activated computer gave any crew member instant access to a database containing the recorded histories of Earthlings, Vulcans, Romulans and other known life forms.
"The flashing lights and teletype sounds when they were computing were silly, but the concept that computers would be ubiquitous in life as tools seemed inevitable to me, but was not a widely held belief in the 1970s," said "Star Trek" fan Steve Perlman, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and founder of WebTV.
Today, the Internet links personal computers in homes, schools and businesses. And computer technology is incorporated into every modern convenience, from automobiles to watches.
"Star Trek" writers "didn't succeed in predicting the Web, and they didn't predict the networking of computers," said David Allen Batchelor, an astrophysicist in the Science Communications Technology Branch at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
But "Star Trek" "had a huge multimedia library, accessible like the Web is now," Batchelor said. A lifelong "Star Trek" fan, Batchelor wrote a paper called "The Science of Star Trek," posted on the NASA Goddard site, that examines "Star Trek" technology that is already available, possible, unlikely or impossible.
There are no smart androids, such as "Norman" in the episode "I, Mudd." But Batchelor noted there is a form of artificial intelligence not seen when that episode aired in 1967 that is taken for granted today -- phone answering systems.
"This is rather primitive usually, but there are some good systems, like the one that I use to call the Washington Post and suspend delivery at my home while I'm away," Batchelor said. "It's pleasant to use and performs its task automatically."
"Star Trek" crews never wasted their star dates watching TV, but they were surrounded by electronic video screens called viewers, either on tabletops or affixed to workstations. The main viewer on the bridge was a wall- size screen.
In the first pilot, Mr. Spock used a viewer in a meeting room to display what resembled a primitive PowerPoint presentation to the ship's executive officers.
In the past two years, makers of consumer electronics and computers have been pushing similar-looking devices: large-screen flat-panel plasma and LCD TV monitors that can be hung on a wall.
Warp factor MP3
On "Star Trek," the crew recorded audio and video messages on square, palm-size cartridges that were played back with a computer. Today, small, square flash-memory cards are used to store digital photos, MP3s and short videos. Disk drives, CDs and DVDs also store multimedia files.
"In the '60s, it was inconceivable that you would have a miniature disk drive, let alone nonviolable semiconductor memory in a plastic square," said Perlman in an e-mail.
In a 2002 book, "Star Trek: I'm Working on That," actor William Shatner, who played Capt. Kirk, examined technologies and inventors inspired by the show. He also commented on the stunning pace of technological advancement during the "Star Trek" era.
"We're like the driver behind the wheel of a car that's suddenly accelerated from zero to 150 miles an hour in the space of a few seconds. Not only that, but we're not sure how to operate the damn thing," Shatner wrote.
"I suspect that one of the purposes of science fiction is to let us play out our nightmares and our dreams in the theater of the future before we turn them into reality."
Techies who are Trekkies
Steve Perlman, WebTV founder
Episodes like The Menagerie contemplated technology that could create an artificial reality. This was hugely inpiring to me, and its one of the things that drove me into exploring computer graphics, motion capture, audio perception. And a lot of this work made its way into the color Mac. I was a big fan. .
Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder
I went to Star Trek conventions. During my Apple design days Id come home to my apartment, from work at nearby HP, to watch Star Trek (reruns) and then head back to HP to work late .
Rob Haitani, PalmOne designer
I have to say I was most inspired by the vision of racial equality. Remember in those days, Japanese people were portrayed on TV as buck-toothed clowns with thick glasses. But on Star Trek, there were Asian and African American bridge officers, and starships with Japanese names.


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Tax - POSTED: 2011/05/24 09:12
Thousands of companies that cashed in on President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package owed the government millions in unpaid taxes, congressional investigators have found.
The Government Accountability Office, in a report being released Tuesday, said at least 3,700 government contractors and nonprofit organizations that received more than $24 billion from the stimulus effort owed $757 million in back taxes as of Sept. 30, 2009, the end of the budget year.
The report said the tax delinquents accounted for nearly 6 percent of the 63,000 contractors and grantees examined and cautioned that the real number might be higher because the known tax debt does not measure such factors as income underreporting.
Among the examples was an engineering firm that received a $100,000 stimulus act contract but owed $6 million in taxes. The IRS called it "an extreme case of noncompliance." A social services nonprofit that received more than $1 million in stimulus funds owed taxes of $2 million.
The GAO referred those two cases and 13 others to the IRS for further investigation.
On Tuesday, a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee will hold a hearing on the report.
Federal law does not prohibit tax delinquents from getting government contracts or grants, though there are provisions that enable the government to withhold payments in some cases. While the federal government requires contractors to present documentation that their taxes are paid, some recipients escaped federal review because the money was disbursed at state or local levels.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the investigations subcommittee holding the hearing, said it's been known for years that a few federal contractors and grantees don't pay their taxes.


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I don't go to grocery stores regularly, so it was somewhat surprising when I approached the checkout line and saw television screens at every lane for people to watch. The only thing that surprised me more was that the lady in front of me was carrying totes to put her groceries in instead of disposable bags. It's like the most obvious way to save resources that the U.S. hasn't promoted for decades.
Finally, things are about to change. Countries across the world are banning or taxing the use of plastic bags, including Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, South Africa, and China beginning in June. Why customers have become so attached to their wasteful plastic bags, I'll never know. Personally, I feel pretty bad any time I stuff a pile of them into a trash can. I think to myself, there has to be a way this could have been avoided. Finally, someone's getting something right.


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Macaskill on markets: Bitcoin greed will overcome fear
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An important step to confer respectability on trading in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies was taken in mid December when analysts from Deutsche Bank highlighted the role played in the emerging market by male leveraged foreign exchange investors from Japan.
Their report gave a catchy name to a new investor type, 'Mr Watanabe', to distinguish the men who supposedly do this trading from the female Japanese equity retail investors stereotypically dubbed 'Mrs Watanabe'.
This helped to rehabilitate the image of bitcoin investors, who had been widely viewed as divided between criminals seeking to launder illicit earnings and libertarian IT specialists with a limited understanding of how markets work.
It also provided comfort to financial market professionals, ranging from bankers to fund managers, who would like to profit from the newly booming market in crypto-trading and have been driven to despair by the effects of a prolonged slump in volatility across established asset classes.
The potential pitfalls of bitcoin trading have been widely discussed. Theft is common, transaction costs are high and the chances of bitcoin being adopted as a widespread means of payment are falling not rising, as recent wild price swings make establishing its value more difficult.
But this price volatility is the real lure for bankers and professional investors.
Volatility is at or close to historical lows in every traditional asset class, which is squeezing returns in markets businesses for banks that can no longer take large proprietary positions.
Bitcoin volatility in excess of 80% offers a tempting alternative to equity markets such as the S&P, where implied volatility as expressed in the VIX index was anchored around 10 for much of last year by stubbornly low realized volatility.
Both market structure and a veneer of respectability are required to give banks and funds the confidence to start making two-way prices in any new asset.
Futures contracts
Bitcoin started to see the emergence of market structure with the launch of futures contracts in December.
The first contracts from CBOE (the former Chicago Board Options Exchange) did not herald the birth of a fully mature market. Volume was relatively low, with fewer than 2,000 contracts changing hands on most days in the first week of dealing.
There was also a surprisingly large initial gap between the price of a bitcoin future expiring in January and the cash price as expressed on digital exchange Gemini.
But the important step for bankers and investors was the launch of bitcoin derivatives on a legitimate exchange with the blessing of a large regulator, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
And CBOE's larger Chicago rival CME Group launched its own bitcoin futures designed to appeal to institutional investors a week after the debut of the first contract.
Now that bitcoin derivatives have been legitimized, the establishment of a cryptocurrency trading market that seeks to exploit and explain divergences in prices can begin.
There is a vast information gap to be filled and new trading worlds to be created as the implications of wholesale cryptocurrency dealing are tackled. The lack of historical precedent will be no barrier to filling this vacuum.
Deutsche, for example, was quick to follow up its observation that leveraged retail FX investors in Japan are doing a lot of bitcoin trading by stating that this creates an elevated risk of failure for futures brokers in Asia.
This in turn implies that there is a greater need to hedge any credit and equity exposure to the brokers, and no doubt Deutsche and its fellow dealers will be ready to provide hedges in the form of default swaps or equity puts.
Big dealers will also be keen to provide details on the mechanics of cryptocurrency trading on derivatives markets, the implications for exploiting arbitrage and the tools to monetize these opportunities.
Bitcoin mining and trading had already become a subject of global fascination before the launch of futures contracts in December. Markets professionals added to this speculation by wondering if time-honoured attempts at price manipulation would be seen in the new bitcoin derivatives sector.
Futures arbitrage is much like the difference between tax avoidance and evasion. There are legitimate ways to exploit divergences between prices and there are also illegitimate ways to achieve a profit, such as "banging the close" by moving the level of an underlying reference before the settlement of a derivatives contract.
It is not always clear what constitutes illegitimate trading of a reference for a listed futures contract and there is even greater ambiguity when it comes to over-the-counter derivatives trading.
Some of the banks that have been taking a prissy approach to the advent of wholesale bitcoin trading, as if loath to soil their silken gloves, are well known for historically using their dominance in flow fixed income OTC derivatives dealing to push prices in their preferred direction, for example.
New complications
Bitcoin will bring new complications to old challenges surrounding defining and policing market manipulation.
There are multiple existing exchanges for bitcoin cash trading, for example, and little sign of the consolidation that might be expected in a market with limited frictions.
CBOE picked Gemini as the price reference for its futures in part because it requires bitcoin traders to provide proof of identity. CME took a different tack by using prices from four exchanges for its contracts, which also has the appeal of making price manipulation more difficult.
The prospects for bitcoin mining are also uncertain, as is the proper nomenclature for creation of new digital units. Bitcoin farms – or banks of computers working to create new units – already exist in countries ranging from those with a reputation for ethical business practices (such as Iceland) to those that do not rank as highly (such as China).
Investment banks would be pleased if bitcoin miners – or farmers – start to behave like traditional energy and agriculture producers in hedging their exposure to future prices for their commodities. Banks once preferred not to judge the character of a paying client, but a new era of regulation is forcing them to know their customers better, which could prove difficult in the cryptocurrency world.
And with many banks seeking to profit from appearing both ethically and environmentally sounder than they were in the past, cryptocurrency trading presents an unexpected hurdle in the form of complaints that bitcoin farms are deeply energy inefficient.
It is therefore possible that banks that recently agreed to stop funding coal mining will find that a new digital market is also circumscribed by concerns about the environmental impact of actions by potential customers.
A more likely scenario is that cryptocurrency trading will continue its growth, led by bitcoin activity.
While banks seek to profit from client activity on this new trading frontier, they will also hope that new markets can be used to help to inject some volatility back into traditional asset classes. If funds start taking risks in uncertain cryptocurrencies, there are bound to be some trading mishaps and collateral calls against their other holdings, for example.
And it surely cannot be long before a hybrid market develops that offers a layering of cryptocurrency risk on top of exposure to old-school currencies, commodities, bonds or stocks.
Anything that provides some volatility to dealers and investors who have been starved of trading opportunities will no doubt be given consideration.


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text: Usually things were meager but they did have food in Fresia's home. Mamma had a hard time finding ways to make ends meet and was often busy and distracted. One day Mamma brought home the most beautiful gift. It was a real live baby. A real live baby boy for Fresia to love and comfort and take care of: He had big brown eyes just like her. They understood each other. She had her new soul mate. Changing and feeding her little live baby doll made Fresia forget the rumbling in her own tummy. She loved her little baby brother. Her life was so much brighter. Then one day she was sent to the market to buy some bread. When she came home, the baby was gone. Where had he gone? It was time for him to go, was all she was told. He wouldn't be coming back. The world changed that day and a part of her joy dimmed forever. Now she knew true sadness. For the rest of her childhood, she would sit at the doorway and wonder: Where had her baby boy gone to? What had become of him? How big was he now? She missed him. She even wondered if he had been a dream. But it wasn't a dream and there was always an empty spot deep inside, a missing piece in her heart. The years went by and she never knew the answers to those questions.P.S. I've just joined Soap Opera Sunday at Brillig's. More stories there! See part 2 of my story here.


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We all love our fur babies, however sometimes they can leave a mess on our carpets. Some of the hardest stains and odors are caused by dogs and cats and can be almost impossible to get the smell totally out of the carpet and underpad.
Pet feces and urine soaks into the carpet fibres, underpad and even the concrete. What you say? Well your concrete is pores and can absorb urine and therefore makes it nearly impossible to remove all signs or in this case smells from that lovely stain.
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BIG BANG's G-Dragon proved his fame as a fashionista, boasting unmatched charisma in outfits of a variety of styles.
Recently, G-Dragon did photo-shooting for the September issue of fashion magazine "Elle". G-Dragon took special care of every detail for the photo-shooting, from the pattern and fabric to the color of the outfits for him.
GD's special tattoo left a big impression, too. Despite the scorching hot weather, GD tried fancy styling in a sukajan jumper, leather pants, coat, and knit.
G-Dragon also made a satisfied smile on his face, with his pet cat in his arms. He expressed a care-free attitude in outdoor photo-shooting.
Thin eye-makeup and thick eyebrows added to GD's charisma. His outstanding aura overwhelmed everyone at the photo-shooting.
GD has recently rounded off BIG BANG's 10th anniversary concert held on August 20 at Sang-am World Cup Stadium in Seoul.
Source: Dispatch via YG Life


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dance, essay-poem, meditation on memory, memory, music, Paris, photography, travel, winter
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It was many years ago now. Late winter. The only sign of spring the intensity of the light: the sky had an endless quality of blue layered upon blue, with a light between the layers – a vibrating blue.
But cold. It was the cold of the North, the cold that holds your bones and burns your eyes. A clean cold.
We sat outside, in the sun, and the sun mixed with the cold like stratified surf. Later that day we were due to get on a plane that would take me away from the complicated city, with its art and its avenues, its courtyards in shadow and limestone-light.
A flash of black caught my eye. A cat. A sinew-limbed, tall, long-legged short haired black cat. Around the cat's neck was a perfectly fitted collar, attached to the collar a long thin leash. Attached to the leash was a hand, the hand of a beautiful man. He was sinewy, tall, long-legged and had beautiful thick short black hair.
The cat pranced, clearly comfortable with some morning ritual of promenade and then, I imagined, a lovely fish breakfast. The man strolled behind the cat, a newspaper under one arm. He had headphones wrapped around his ears, and I wondered what he heard as he watched the cat's proud mast of a tail.
Memory is a trickster. Was the cat white, the man old? Was the cat a small dog? No. The cat was a cat and his companion his twin. I remember. It's true. Blue. Cold. Tall man, tall cat, cobblestone.
Often when a guest leaves after a lovely visit a gracious host will offer a small gift to remember him by. A sketch, a book, a scarf. Or a man and a cat strolling down a quiet street on a cold Sunday morning.
Rain. A heavy, burdensome rain. A rain that one couldn't believe was not snow, because it was so thick, so raw and cold. The broad sidewalk was dark, the street alive with the blurred yellow headlights of scooters, delivery trucks, commuters. The pavement was so wet it created a mirror to every light, as if one could live both above and below the Earth.
Such weather does not create a mood for lingering; reality itself seemed to pick up speed as the rain and the darkness deepened. I knew I had something of a walk ahead of me, and even with an umbrella I felt I would never be dry or warm again.
I reached the Eglise de Saint Germain des Pres. This was my landmark. Soon, home. But on this night, this most impossible of nights, in front of the church, was a man. He was extremely well dressed in that Parisian bobo style: he looked like an attorney on holiday.
The man had no umbrella. But he did have enormous, DJ-quality headphones, which apparently were waterproof.
He was dancing. In the rain, under the eaves of the Eglise. When I say dancing, I do not mean to indicate that he was conspicuously bobbing his head. He was… moving. Head down, legs engaged in an intricate pas de bourree, his torso undulating, gorgeously, to the silent sound. Whatever he was listening to, he really heard it, and, as someone who knows a bit about the subject, I tell you the man could really groove.
No one paid any attention. Big city, big rain, cold night. And he was not performing. His was a private joy, and those who caught a glimpse were just lucky. Someone, I am sure, caught sight of Isadora Duncan's first white-robed solo on top of the Acropolis. I saw a nameless man moving like a feline snake on the Boulevard St. Germain.
These visions. Apparently, they are everywhere.


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Math Maniac
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There are 15 maths-related questions you need to answer. The more you answer, the harder they get! Use your English and Maths skills to complete the game. Goodluck!
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match up and resolve the families of these functions