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About 45,000 people reported feeling the Sunday morning quake, now tied as the most powerful in state history.Quake may produce aftershocks »
According to Louisiana law, the crime of attempted simple burglary carries no more than 12 years behind bars, but because the 1997 offense was his fourth felony, Bryant, who is Black, received a life sentence in 2000. The justices declined to review the sentence, which was upheld by the state appeals court in 2019, according to the decision. One justice recused himself.
At a surprise press briefing Friday at his private golf club in Bedminster, N.J., President Trump said his audience of well-to-do supporters was involved in a "peaceful protest" and therefore did not need to adhere to state coronavirus guidelines prohibiting large gatherings. Trump was asked about his earlier assertion that the pandemic was "disappearing" by a reporter who noted that the crowd in attendance seemed to be violating New Jersey restrictions meant to slow the spread of the virus. "You're wrong on that because it's a political activity and they have exceptions, political activity and it's also a peaceful protest," Trump responded.
Two weeks ago Maine recorded its first fatal great white shark attack. Julie Dimperio Holowach, 63, of New York City, was splashing with her daughter approximately 20 yards off the coast of Bailey Island when a large shark, likely mistaking Holowach for a seal, struck her with such force that she was launched out of the water, witnesses said. Beaches across the Northeast have closed repeatedly in recent days after great white sharks were spotted swimming close to shore, a worrying trend that has led some people to suggest that states thin the population of seals, the sharks' primary source of food.
Gunmen on motorcycles killed six French aid workers, a Nigerien guide and a driver in a wildlife park in Niger on Sunday, officials said. The group was attacked in a giraffe reserve just 65 km (40 miles) from the West African country's capital Niamey, the governor of Tillaberi region, Tidjani Ibrahim Katiella, told Reuters. The six worked for an international aid group, Niger's Defence Minister Issoufou Katambé told Reuters.
At the time, that court's three-judge panel had not yet heard oral argument on Michael Flynn's mandamus petition — i.e., Flynn's request that the panel find that federal district judge Emmet Sullivan was acting lawlessly. Sullivan had not only failed to grant the Justice Department's motion to dismiss the criminal case against Flynn; he had appointed a former federal judge (the overtly anti-Trump John Gleeson) to posit the argument abandoned by DOJ — to wit, that Flynn should proceed to sentencing because he had pled guilty to a false-statements charge, waiving his right to contest the case any further in exchange for the government's agreement not to file any other charges.
Aaditya Agrawal told Business Insider that he was compelled to create the app in part after a close friend of his, who is Black, was pulled over without cause. "You see it in the news all the time, but when it happens to one of your close friends — and he tells you how it felt for that to happen to him — then you understand the significance," he said. Accountability in law enforcement has been thrust into the national discourse surrounding how Black Americans are treated by police even more so since the police killing of Minneapolis resident George Floyd in May.
WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Thursday tossed out a Republican-led lawsuit aiming to halt an unprecedented proxy voting system established by the House of Representatives due to the coronavirus pandemic, ruling that the House was immune from such a legal challenge. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in the District of Columbia by nearly two dozen House Republicans – led by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. in May, argued the proxy voting rules violated the U.S. Constitution because under the Constitution, a majority of lawmakers must be present to take up business and vote on legislation.
Nasa is to drop "colonial" and "insensitive" nicknames for cosmic objects, including the "Eskimo Nebula" and the "Siamese Twins Galaxies". The space agency said it had taken the decision to address "systemic discrimination and inequality" in science. From now on it will use the official International Astronomical Union designations for planets, stars, galaxies and other stellar bodies "in cases where nicknames are inappropriate."
Iran is urging the United Nations to hold the United States accountable for the interception of an Iranian passenger plane by two U.S. fighter jets in the skies over Syria last month, which it called an "unlawful" and an "adventuristic act." Iran's U.N. ambassador, Majid Takht Ravanchi, said in identical letters to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the U.N. Security Council circulated Friday that Iran "expresses its strongest objections against this violation of international law and will pursue the issue through relevant international bodies."
A police officer in Logan, Utah, was fired after a state investigation concluded he "mishandled" explicit photographs that were used to extort University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey, the Logan Police Department announced Friday. In October 2018, 21-year-old McCluskey told the University of Utah Police Department that her ex-boyfriend Melvin Rowland was extorting her for money by threatening to release explicit photographs of her. She then sent those photographs to Officer Miguel Deras, the on-duty campus police officer, according to a report summarizing the Utah Department of Public Safety's (UDPS) investigation into Deras' conduct.
On Thursday evening, amid a fairly typical burst of presidential Twitter activity, President Trump retweeted two recent posts from the account of Angela Stanton-King, a Republican congressional candidate who has repeatedly used her social media feeds to promote content related to QAnon and other fringe conspiracy theories, including wildly implausible internet rumors about sex trafficking of children. Trump has also flirted with QAnon memes on social media, although his retweets of Stanton-King were not related to the loosely knit group whose followers have been described by the FBI as "conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists." In the first tweet, which was originally posted last week, Stanton-King describes herself as "a proud Black woman who supports @realDonaldTrump" and is "done with the Democrat Party lying to my community."
The bodies of seven Marines and a Navy sailor missing and presumed dead have been recovered, the military said Friday, a week after the amphibious assault vehicle they were in sank during training in California. Nine U.S. service members in all died in the training accident off San Clemente Island on July 30. "Our hearts and thoughts of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit are with the families of our recovered Marines and Sailor," Col. Christopher Bronzi, commanding officer of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, said in a statement.
At least 22 people have been killed after monsoon-season floods triggered a landslide in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Houses in Idukki district were swept away after torrential rain and flooding late on Friday night. Rescuers have been recovering bodies from under debris but 44 people remain missing, Idduki MP Dean Kuriakose told the BBC.
Barry Lewis/InPictures via Getty Images A man's body was recovered from a Hard Rock Hotel construction site that collapsed last October, Nola.com reported. Quinnyon Wimberly was one of three workers killed in the collapse. His body was removed from the site on Saturday, after his remains laid in the wreck for 10 months.
Jeanne Allen, founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform, weighs in on 'Journal Editorial Report.
New Zealand just marked 100 days with no new domestic COVID-19 cases. All restrictions on New Zealand businesses were lifted by June, but its borders remain closed to outside visitors. Now, bars, restaurants, and sporting events are open for business across New Zealand — but health officials say they're staying vigilant for another possible outbreak.
Nicola Sturgeon spent much of July telling anyone who would listen that the prevalence of coronavirus in England was "five times" higher than in Scotland. The figure was deployed to justify her refusal to rule out effectively closing the border by imposing quarantine on travellers from England, and her highly controversial move to set her a Scotland-only policy on air bridges, which airports warned put livelihoods at risk. Alongside their saltires and SNP flags (the First Minister refused to confirm whether her party took any disciplinary action against participants) the wording on their banner was instructive: 'Keep Scotland Covid Free'.
The Ohio governor's positive, then negative, tests for COVID-19 have provided fuel for skeptics of government pandemic mandates and critics of his often-aggressive policies. "I'm sure the internet is lighting up with 'Well, you can't believe any test,' " Mike DeWine said in a WCOL radio interview Friday, after a whirlwind of events the day before when the initial positive showing forced the Republican to scrub a planned meeting with President Donald Trump. Instead of seeing Trump at the Cleveland airport, DeWine returned to this state capital for new testing with his wife, Fran, through Ohio State University's medical center They then went to their southwestern Ohio farm in Cedarville, where DeWine said he planned to quarantine for 14 days.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will refrain from visiting the Yasukuni shrine for war dead on the 75th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War Two, Jiji news agency said on Sunday, but will make an offering on the emotive day, as he has done in the past. The shrine, dedicated to Japanese who have died during past wars including World War Two, is seen as a potent symbol of the controversy that persists over the conflict's legacy in East Asia. "He will make a ritual offering to the shrine out of his personal expenses as the leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, as he has done in previous years," sources close to the matter said, according to the report.
But he has not provided any federal guidance on how, exactly, schools can reopen safely and what the federal government will do in order to ensure that they are safely able to do so. Everyone is looking to our federal government to show some leadership here," Duncan told lawmakers on Thursday, adding that it was unfair to ask school superintendents to make "life-or-death public health decisions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did issue a nine-page checklist for schools, but it contains broad, sometimes obvious recommendations, such as appointing a person to consult "local health officials about the school's approach to planning for COVID-19.
A former senior Saudi intelligence official who has accused Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of trying to have him assassinated in 2018 has been placed under heightened security after a new threat on his life, a Canadian newspaper reported. The Globe and Mail said Canadian security services had been informed of a new attempted attack on Saad Aljabri, who lives at an undisclosed location in the Toronto region. Aljabri served as a counterespionage chief under a rival prince, Mohammed bin Nayef, who was ousted in 2017 by Prince Mohammed.
An Air India Express plane with 190 people on board has crashed at an airport in the southern state of Kerala, killing at least 18 people, officials say. The Boeing 737, en route from Dubai, skidded off the runway in rain and broke in two after landing at Calicut airport, aviation officials said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was "pained by the plane accident".
Though five repatriation flights for crew members have left since April, the company either did not respond to his pleas or said his repatriation was impossible at the time. After receiving questions from the Miami Herald on Friday about Córdova's situation, the company indicated it is going to send him home on Sept. We have been working with Mr. Córdova to get him home in a challenging international travel environment and currently understand the next opportunity to do so is on Sept.
Millions of Americans consider Ireland a home away from home. Most visitors to Ireland, including those from the U.S., have to fill out a COVID-19 Passenger Locator Form that includes their contact details while in the country and where they will be staying. In Florida, for example, where flights are still departing for Ireland, the coronavirus-related death rate is 6 per 100,000 cases — 30 times higher than the current rate in Ireland over the past two weeks, which is 0.2.
For Connecticut — which has struggled to rebound even from the last recession — the migration could be a boon for its struggling finances. Only one Manhattan condo sold for more than $10 million in July, according to a new report, as many wealthy New Yorkers continue to flee the city for greener pastures. Overall apartment sales fell 57% in July compared to the same month in 2019 as for-sale listing soar, real estate firm Douglas Elliman said in its monthly report, a highly-watched data source for the nation's largest housing market.
"It may be a campaign tactic, but older workers, be forewarned. Ageism runs deep in our culture."
"Genuine concerns about the capacities of people who want the world's most powerful job mingle bizarrely with insults."
"Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both old. But the media should not be making mental illness a campaign issue, on either side."
"The Trump campaign is now betting his reelection's already slim chances on Biden proving Trump's diagnosis is right."
"The nightmare scenario for Democrats is that, at a pivotal moment, Biden will struggle to put together a coherent thought."


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Today was the day for doing things that make no sense. Last Friday, I purchased a fish entree from the Kroger Marketplace near my home on a recommendation from my mother. Okay… sidebar… The Kroger Marketplace near my house has wine tastings every Friday and Saturday night. Bizarre? Additionally, there is a chef who makes entrees for purchase by the patrons of the wine tastings. Bizarre? Also, there are tables and chairs set-up for all of the patrons. Bizarre? For those of you who don't live in the Midwest, the Kroger Marketplace is a grocery store and there are regulars who meet for wine tasting every Friday and Saturday night. There's even a server and they both dress in black and white uniforms. Bizarre? The regulars include my mother… hence the recommendation.
Now back to doing dumb things… Today, almost a week later, I decided to eat the fish entree I purchased last Friday. Why? Is, "it looked really tasty", a good excuse? So, I ate the fish and started on the carrots that were included in the entree. Not only did the carrots taste odd, I developed major nausea within minutes. So bad that even the smell of the leftover food in the trash made me feel like I was going to vomit. It was at that moment that I wanted nothing more than a hot cup of tea to soothe my sick stomach. I decided on Organic Peppermint Tea.
Composition: 100% Organic Peppermint
Dry Visual: Very green broken peppermint leaves. No other details available as Organic Peppermint is loose tea in a biodegradable sachet.
Dry Aroma: Absolutely minty!
Flavor: A true lover of Peppermint Tea I eagerly anticipated my first sip and I must say Organic Peppermint tea did not disappoint. Truly minty, this tea was robust from the first sip to the last. Leaving a soft peppermint aftertaste. There was no need to add sweetener – I was able to enjoy Organic Peppermint tea pure. Not only was it delicious, Organic Peppermint soothed my stomach and eliminated the nausea.
Liquor: A golden brown – leaning more towards brown.
Brewing Time: Recommended brewing time is 1 – 3 minutes. I brewed Organic Peppermint for the recommended 2 minutes.
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The next time you think about eating week old fish… DON'T! But, even after my sage advice you decide to do so anyway, please be sure to have a cup of Organic Peppermint tea close by. It will soothe your stomach and produce a great cuppa tea.
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Seahorse Experts Visit Cambodia Conservation Project
This month Projects Abroad funded a visit to the Cambodia Conservation Project for two of the UKs leading seahorse experts, Neil Garrick-Maidment from the Seahorse Trust and Kealan Doyle from Save Our Seahorses. The pair spent a week out in Cambodia. The visit allowed Neil and Kealan to conduct a fact finding trip to put together a series of conservation and aquaculture projects to help secure the future of the seahorses and the environment in Cambodia.
Neil and Kealan will be working closely with Projects Abroad, Marine Conservation Cambodia and the Cambodian people over the coming months to implement these projects and expand the current seahorse research program.
Neil told us "This trip has allowed us to devise a wide range of projects that Projects Abroad volunteers will be able to assist in, knowing that their experience will directly conserve species and habitat in the wild. This first stage will be part of an on-going collaboration between us all and which will eventually be expanded to encompass not only the marine world but the jungle on the island as well.
Without volunteers we would not be able to do this sort of work and they are crucial to the long term future of the environment in Cambodia. It is with great thanks to Projects Abroad that we were able to go over to Cambodia and we are looking forward to working with them on this much needed work."


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Duchess Kate baby-mad media mob gathers at hospital
- Duchess Kate spends first night in hospital
- Attentive Prince William arrives for another visit today
- Middleton family expected to visit soon
Are we excited yet? Yes, the media mob frantic for royal baby news is camped outside Duchess Kate's London hospital today as attentive husband Will visits again and a few wacky looky-loos crane their necks nearby.
The finally pregnant Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, 30, spent her first night last night in the private King Edward VII Hospital in central London where she is being treated for a relatively rare case of acute morning sickness. She is expected to remain there for at least a few days but is said by royal officials to be feeling better and grateful for all the good wishes she has received.
No royal detachment for Prince William, 30, who arrived today to spend more time with her as she struggles through the early stages of her pregnancy with their first child, a future king or queen. Will was dressed casually, having secured leave from his job as an RAF helicopter pilot in Wales.
Her parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, also are expected to visit soon, as will sister Pippa Middleton, who lives near the hospital
At one point, a man dressed in a puffy winter coat and a Prince William mask had to be escorted away from the entrance to the hospital by London police.
Meanwhile the world celebrity media, especially the London-based paparazzi, are gathered outside the hospital, known as a discrete favorite of the royal family, waiting for ... well, what exactly? News. Any news.
So far, there's not much to report after Monday's reluctant palace announcement that the duchess is pregnant, compelled by the certain-to-leak fact that she had been hospitalized.
So now it's waiting time for everybody. Meanwhile, the British media, not to mention the rest of the world, is busy reporting all sorts of related matters, such as the details of severe morning sickness (hyperemesis gravidarum), speculation that Pippa and Prince Harry will be the godparents, what the bookies are saying about the odds on baby names and what happens if she gives birth to twins.
The usually serious Telegraph reported that a "cold statistical analysis" suggests the duchess will bring forth a girl who will grow to be 5 feet 10 inches. The usually less serious Daily Mail reported that twins, unprecedented in the English royal succession, could be a "problem" if they're born just seconds apart.
But what's the problem? Last year the Danish crown princess gave birth to twins, but the boy was born 25 minutes before the girl and so took precedence in the Danish succession.
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Conn. veteran sues Army over diagnosis, benefits
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A Connecticut veteran of the Iraq War has sued the Army, saying he was denied full education and retirement benefits after he was diagnosed with adjustment disorder while actually suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
East Haven resident William Cowles filed the lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Connecticut challenging the denial of his application for medical retirement. The suit says because Cowles was discharged for adjustment disorder rather than medically retired for PTSD, he is eligible for only half the education benefits and lost about $18,000 in retirement benefits.
The Army says it doesn't discuss pending litigation. But a spokesman says the Army never discharges soldiers to avoid providing benefits.
The lawsuit says Cowles deployed to Iraq in 2003 and witnessed the death of men from his unit.


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Exhibit & Sponsorship Sales Position
The Bicycle Trade Association of Canada (BTAC) is a not-for-profit trade association whose members come from the retail and supplier sectors of Canada's bicycle industry. BTAC is the national voice for cycling and our mission is to change Canadian culture by positioning cycling as the pre-eminent form of transportation and recreation in Canada.
BTAC is looking for a contract sales person who can sell exhibit space for our flagship trade show, ExpoCycle in the cycling industry. This person will work from our office in Newmarket three days a week. The position will start immediately and last until the end of October 2008, possibly longer. We are looking for a dynamic sales person with a proven record that can make a significant number of phone calls and contacts on a weekly basis soliciting exhibit space. Trade show sales and/or sales experience in the cycling industry are preferred but not necessary. Minimal travel is required.
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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.102 n.7 Cape Town Jul. 2012
Horses for courses
Robert-Ian Caldwell
(Doc) Caldwell is a physician living in the mist-belt of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. He writes erratically to his Aunt Ethel
Dear Aunt Ethel,
I saw the film War Horse the other day. A review in the media includes: 'a story about lost innocence and the atrocities of war ... perhaps the most moving, beautiful and inspirational movie of the year ... In the midst of cruelty, we see demonstrated humanity.'
The ceasefire in no-man's-land between the trenches was a riveting scene. Bitter enemies united as human beings for a brief period in order to free a frenzied animal from an entanglement of barbed wire.
Decisions seemed simple in my end-of-World-War-II upbringing. My father drove only British or American motor-cars - even though the Yanks chewed gum. Germans, Italians and Japanese were the enemy. France had surrendered and Sweden had remained neutral. As for the Russians ...
Somehow music remained exempt from this discrimination. Beethoven and Verdi crackled off the 12-inch 78 rpm records in the big black box that my dad inherited from his late wartime friend, Bobby Croudace of Maritzburg. He also occasionally played Rachmaninov and Chopin fluently on the piano, between party pieces.
War movies reinforced this villain-of-the-piece mentality, although Rommel, the Desert Fox, managed to escape such harsh judgement. I was still sceptical as a recently qualified doctor, when a girlfriend told me that her ex-prisoner-of-war father felt that the Germans were not bad guys at all. Mind you, her Teutonic flatmate and her friends seemed most charming and attractive.
However, meeting German medical colleagues at Charles Johnson Memorial Hospital in Nqutu, Zululand, when I worked there for six months in 1972, finally convinced me. A young medical student, who subsequently became a paediatrician, was particularly gentle, considerate and compassionate, despite our cruel imitation of her halting English at the breakfast table: 'Bitte the butter to pass, Fraulein Rotraut'
Miss Hunteler took it all in her stride and steadily showed that her generation was wearing the conscience of a previous one on their shoulders. I visited her in Cologne, where she was studying medicine, a couple of years later. She showed me the famous cathedral, restored after near-destruction by Allied bombing. She then took me to a small chapel, built specifically as a symbol of peace and reconciliation, in honour of all the fallen in World War II, irrespective of persuasion. The humility on the part of a vanquished nation was moving indeed.
That evening we went to her parents' home in a small village nearby. Her father was a soon-to-retire country vet. His English was minimal, and my German non-existent, but with Rotraut's interpretation we managed some conversation. We suddenly came to realise that in late 1942, during the second battle of El Alamein, veterinary surgeon Hunteler was looking after the horses of Rommel's army on one hillside, while medical officer Caldwell, my late father, was tending the wounded on the opposite hillside, occupied by the 8th Army under the command of Montgomery. The silence that followed had nothing to do with language difficulties.
Years later, two German elective medical students whom I had befriended during a locum in the UK asked me why the English of their parents' generation always talked about 'ze war' at the earliest opportunity. I told them this story; and that episode in War Horse has reminded me of it again.
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On July 22, 2004 President Bush signed the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) into law… formerly known as HR218. Then again on Oct. 12, 2010 President Obama signed S1132 which was titled the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Improvement Act which became Public Law 110-272
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In my previous article, I introduced a lot of different AJAX frameworks. In this article, I will look in more detail at the Script.aculo.us framework and discuss why you may want to use it in your web applications. Script.aculo.us is purely a client-side framework that gives developers a new way to code in JavaScript by providing new shortcut functions, new powerful objects including Form, Effect, Control and Ajax, and some custom widgets. Script.aculo.us is really not an independent product, but an add-on to the Prototype.js JavaScript library developed and maintained by Sam Stephenson. Prototype by itself is a very well thought out and implemented library of JavaScript methods that helps a great deal with creating rich, highly interactive, and dynamic web pages. Script.aculo.us builds on the existing Prototype implementation. It enhances Prototype by adding effects and controls, morphing, and custom UI widgets such as a Slider.
Among different AJAX and JavaScript frameworks, Script.aculo.us (and Prototype) has been on the forefront of the Web 2.0 movement. Even though it is not a "one-stop-shop" AJAX commercial framework such as Backbase or IceFaces, it still delivers a lot of functionality, time-saving features, and amazing effects with a MIT license. This means that you can use it free of charge for anything you like (which includes commercial applications), but cannot remove the copyright remarks. As of this writing, the Script.aculo.us stable version is 1.6.5, but a beta 1.7 with new morphing effects has just been released. If you are a web developer, dealing with a lot of JavaScript code, and wondering how to add effect to your site, or want to join the Web 2.0 and AJAX movement, you need to give the Script.aculo.us framework a good look.
The framework is standards-compliant, and behind the scenes takes care of the browser compatibility issues for major supported browsers, which are Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Apple's Safari. It is server technology agnostic and can easily integrate with these server technologies: Ruby On Rails, Perl, Nitro, PHP, Java, Plone, Pylons, DotNet, Symfony, Seaside, and OpenACS.
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Because Script.aculo.us only consists of several JavaScript files, it has a very small footprint. The files need to be placed somewhere on the web server in the visible directory and then referenced in your code. I have installed the 1.7 version, under js/ext/s17 directory; therefore, my reference looks like this:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="js/ext/s17/prototype.js"></script> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="js/ext/s17/scriptaculous.js"></script>
By default, Script.aculo.us loads all of the other JavaScript files necessary for effects, drag-and-drop, sliders, and all of the other Script.aculo.us features. If you don't need all of the features, you can limit the additional scripts that get loaded by specifying them in a comma-separated list. Ex:
<script src="scriptaculous.js?load=effects,dragdrop" type=...></script>
The scripts that can be specified (to be loaded) are: builder, effects, dragdrop, controls and slider.
This is really all you need to start harnessing the power hidden in this library. So, start coding!
Script.aculo.us Functions
The Prototype library included with the framework is a collection of JavaScript functions and objects that greatly simplify working with the DOM manipulation and JavaScript in general. New functions for working with AJAX, DHTML effects, a module for drag-and-drop functionality, a module for various custom controls, and a custom widget such as a Slider have been added in Script.aculo.us on top of the Prototype library. In other words, the functions that simplify working with the Document Object Model (DOM) are part of the Prototype library and all of the custom widgets and controls are part of the Script.aculo.us framework.
// somewhere on the page <div id='vlad'><div> // In my JS callback function myElement = document.getElementById("vlad"); myElement.innerHTML = xmlHttp.responseText;
One of the many useful shorthand notations that Script.aculo.us has is the dollar $() function. This is a Prototype shortcut to reference to DOM elements by their id. The same code now looks like this:
myElement = $("vlad"); myElement.innerHTML = xmlHttp.responseText;
You may be saying now, okay less typing, not a big deal. But, this little shortcut is also very powerful—it can take multiple ids and return an array or elements.
nodes = $("vlad", "mariya"); for(i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) { alert(nodes[i].innerHTML); }
Other Shorthand Dollar Functions
Other shorthand dollar functions with existing and new functionalities are:
$F(), $A(), $H(), and $R()
$F() returns a reference to a field input control from the form—very easy and very useful. For example:
<form> <input type="text" id="name" value="Vlad"> .. </form> <script> alert( $F('name') ); </script>
$A() converts any argument passed into it as an array—yet another greatly useful shortcut.
<script> function someFunc(){ var someNodeList = $('someElement').getElementsByTagName('option'); var nodes = $A(someNodeList); for(i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) { alert(node.innerHTML); } } </script>
$H() converts objects into enumerable Hash objects that resemble associative arrays.
The $R() function is a shorthand to writing new ObjectRange(lowerBound, upperBound, excludeBounds), but more on the objects later.
Here is a great chart by Jonathan Snook, showing functions and object available in the Prototype library.
Click here for a larger image.
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"No we did not, we didn't realize this was going to happen," 21-year-old Govert Sweep said on a video call from the Nye County Detention Center.
He along with 20-year-old Ties Granzier are accused of trespassing at the Nevada National Security Site Tuesday.
Nye County Sheriff's deputies say they found a car parked at a gate about three miles into the property. Cameras and a drone were found inside the duo's vehicle.
Sweep said none of this was meant to happen. He said he and Granzier were on the way to Tonopah, Nevada, from Las Vegas when they came across the Area 51 Alien Center in the Amargosa Valley.
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Sweep said trespassing was not a planned part of their trip.
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Even so, police said both men understood exactly what the no trespassing signs said, but still wanted to look at the facility.
Granzier is the personality on a popular European YouTube channel with more than 735,000 subscribers. Sweep, also a YouTuber, hoped they'll both be released soon.
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I purposefully made this beef marinade super powerful. With this hors d'oeuvre, you only end up with a little mouthful and the peppery flavor needs to come through loud and clear. In the catering company, we shave the beef into small pieces which are then piled onto the crostini, so you can easily bite through without too much effort.
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- Makes 20 hors d'oeuvres, with leftovers for delicious sandwiches
- The Beef Marinade
- 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon hot red pepper flakes
- 1 tablespoon whole black peppercorns, cracked (I fold them in a paper towel and bash them with a hammer)
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh rosemary leaves
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 2 pounds London broil (top sirloin), cut 1 1/2 inches thick
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- Grilled Garlic Crostini
- Horseradish Cream
- Combine the garlic, hot red pepper flakes, peppercorns, rosemary, and olive oil in a Zip-loc bag. Add the beef, coating it with the marinade. Squeeze all the air out of the bag so the beef is enveloped by the marinade, and refrigerate for at least 6 hours, or overnight.
- Preheat the grill or broiler for 15 to 20 minutes. Sprinkle the steak with the salt and grill or broil to rare or medium rare, depending on your preference.
- The cooking time will depend on the thickness and temperature of the beef, so push at the steak with your finger, and if it still feels totally raw in the middle, give it a little longer.
- This is one of the things that cooks just need to intuit and learn to read the silent signs. Better under than overcooked, so check often, and if your finger defeats you, cut the steak with a knife and have a look. Let the steak rest for at least an hour, to get the juices back into the meat, then cut into short, very thin slices. (The best knife for slicing is a bread knife with wavy rather than pointed teeth, which cuts through beef amazingly well.) Serve on Grilled Garlic Crostini.
- Arrange a few shaved slices of beef on each piece of bread, top with a pungent dot of Horseradish Cream, scatter with minced Italian parsley, and dust on a little kosher salt.
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George here from South Africa. I installed xubuntu 11.04 and I must say I am very impressed with Xfce! Its very, very fast. The interface is clean and most importantly doesn't get in your way. This is the quickest I have been able to boot into a fully functional OS yet
To all the people responsible for this, a big thumbs up!
That's great. Xfce is even faster on Debian. Try Mint Xfce, which is based on Debian testing. Or better yet Xfce on Debian itself without any GNOME cruft installed.
That's great. Xfce is even faster on Debian. Try Mint Xfce, which is based on Debian testing. Or better yet Xfce on Debian itself without any GNOME cruft installed.
Thanks for the tips, what would be the best method of getting debain with xfce without gnome? Any howtos mayhaps?
Yes, easy.
The Debian project provides excellent documentation and resources.
And the Debian User's Forum is also excellent.
This is a torrent for an iso that contains both Xfce and Lxde.
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0 … so.torrent
Then there's the Mint version which does have GNOMe cruft but also conveniences like pre-installed codecs etc. It's about twice as fast as Xubuntu from people's testimony. And escapes the six month upgrade agonies.
So, again, enjoy.
Have fun.
Thanks I downloaded both of them and tried them out. With the debian release I get a kernel panic when I try to boot from usb stick? Linuxmint looks very nice, but I see that it is the 4.6 version of xfce? How can one update to xfce 4.8?
$.8 is now in Debian Sid (experimental). Once it's been kicked around a bit it will roll into Debian Wheezy (testing).
So how do I install Sid or is it not recommended? Sorry for all the questions I am a bit new to this but most eager to learn.
No, don't use Sid unless you like to fix breakages. And there are quite a few being worked with by Sid Xfce users. For the benefit of those who just want to use their computers.
Xubuntu will have a bunch of work-arounds and patches instead of real fixes.
Best to wait for Xfce 4.8 to come into tresting (Wheezy). Only a week or a few, most likely.
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S.F. PARKING Churches complain about city's expanded enforcement of meters
Pull out the quarters and the credit cards. After a 65-year grace period, San Francisco motorists will have to dig deep on Sunday to feed the city's 29,000 parking meters.
Since the city's first meter was installed at Bush and Polk streets on Aug. 21, 1947, drivers could spend Sundays in the city without having to worry about carrying a pocketful of change and hustling back to their cars before the bright red "Expired" sign clicked into view.
But times have changed, said Municipal Transportation Agency spokesman Paul Rose, and San Francisco is changing with it.
"Back in the 1940s, most businesses were closed on Sundays, so there was no need for metering," he said. "But now it's just like a Saturday, with businesses open and plenty of traffic."
Charging for parking at meters on Sunday is a way of easing congestion in the city, Rose added, and will make life better for both drivers, who will have an easier time finding parking places, and merchants, who need the regular turnover of parking to allow customers to get to their shops, restaurants and offices.
"Parking management" is a catchphrase at MTA, which oversees virtually every mode of transportation in the city, from Muni and taxis to bikes and walking. While the city collects about $47 million a year from parking meters (and another $87 million from parking fines), transit officials downplay any fiscal benefits that the Sunday meters and other changes in parking rules will bring the financially strapped transit agency.
The Sunday meters will only generate about $1 million by June 30, the end of the fiscal year and $2 million over the following 12 months, Rose said.
"This isn't meant to be a revenue program, it's meant to improve parking management throughout the city," he added.
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But the money definitely matters.
The need to improve maintenance and on-time reliability for the transit system, along with the new cost of providing free Muni passes for low-income youths, does mean more revenue is needed, MTA chief Ed Reiskin said in March when the Sunday meter plan was laid out.
Rather than boosting fares or cutting service, Reiskin decided that the best way to raise the needed money - and promote the city's long-standing Transit First policy - was "to modernize our antiquated parking policies."
Not everyone agrees. Religious groups throughout the city have complained that the prospect of paying between $2 and $5.25 an hour to park could put a dent in church attendance.
Many churches have late services and a variety of after-service activities, including free lunch and dinner programs and other efforts designed to help the down-and-out in the city, said Michael Pappas, executive director of the Interfaith Council of San Francisco, which represents congregations across the city.
"The city is telling volunteers that they have to feed the meter to serve the poor," he said.
The transit agency has worked with church groups to ease some of the pain. The meters will be active only from noon to 6 p.m. on Sundays, and motorists will be able to pay for up to four hours at a time. The city's high-tech smart meters also will be adjusted to allow people to feed the meters early on Sunday morning, even though the charges won't start until noon.
For the first three weeks of Sunday metering, violators also will get warnings rather than citations, with the hope that the dreaded sight of paper tickets flapping on the windshield will be an effective reminder 0f the change.
Despite their unhappiness, congregations are working to spread the word about the meters, Pappas said, because no priest, minister or rabbi wants to see a congregant slapped with a $72 parking ticket.
Wharf always charged
While people have long been paying to park seven days a week at Fishermen's Wharf and at Port of San Francisco-owned property along the Embarcadero, the Board of Supervisors and disgruntled residents in the past have always managed to block the Sunday meter charges in the rest of the city.
But when Mayor Ed Lee signed on to the transit agency's request, the end to free Sundays was in sight, especially since cities like Portland, Los Angeles and Chicago already have taken that route.
It was a matter of balance, the mayor said, finding the best and fairest way to provide the transit system with the money it needs to operate.
"Paying for parking on Sunday was a last resort," Lee said.
John Wildermuth is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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A century ago no one had been to the North Pole for certain. Today you can sail to 90° North as a tourist on a Russian nuclear icebreaker. Fellow of the Explorers Club Nick Smith did just that…
For more than a decade I've been writing about North Polar affairs, the history of the region's exploration, its climate, ice cover and biodiversity. And although I've interviewed climatologists, photographers, conservationists and sea captains, the people associated with the Pole that I've enjoyed listening to most are those explorers who have travelled in the region on foot. These are the people who seem to instinctively understand the big picture, the people with ice in their blood. I've learned much about the Arctic from classic explorers such as the late great Wally Herbert, as well as from today's most notable expedition leaders such as Pen Hadow. Over the years I've become fascinated by what draws human beings to this desolate frozen desert at the end of the earth. But never once did I imagine I'd get the chance to go there myself.
Prior to the 20th century no one had even seen the North Pole, much less set foot on it. We know that a little over a century ago – in 1909 – U.S. naval Commander Robert E Peary might have got there on foot with a team of dogs. He certainly believed he'd achieved his goal, but some commentators think he may have fallen short by as much as 100km. Richard Byrd may or may not have reached ninety degrees north in an aeroplane in 1926. In 1948, Russian Alexandr Kuznetsov set off under the instructions of Joseph Stalin to fly north for scientific and strategic purposes, and in so doing became the first person to undisputedly set foot on the Pole. In 1968 Ralph Plaisted reached it from Canada by combination of snow scooter and air. In 1969 Briton Wally Herbert broke new ground, and his arrival at the North Pole by dog-sledge was the crowning moment of one of the greatest ice journeys of the century.
Since these landmark expeditions there have been many successful arrivals at the Pole by fixed-wing aircraft, helicopter and even parachute; by surface traverse, whether complete, one way or partial; by submarine (USS Skate was the first in 1959) or surface vessel. Of these, the first was the Soviet icebreaker Arktika, which reached the Pole on 17th August 1977. Since then there have been 65 Soviet or Russian voyages to the Pole, of which 64 have been in nuclear powered ships. Twelve other icebreakers from five other nations have made token expeditions to the top of the world, but the Russians are the experts.
The reason for this, according to Captain Dmitry Lobusov of the Russian nuclear powered icebreaker 50 Years of Victory, is simply that there is a need. Of those countries with extensive Arctic Ocean shorelines, only Russia relies on the commercial transportation of goods through the sea ice. 'We have very vast country from west to east and there is need to carry cargo by sea and so we need an ice fleet.' Captain Lobusov explained how the development of nuclear technology has led to icebreakers of increasing power and range, with the ability to remain at sea for long periods without refueling. In the Arctic summer, when the atomic fleet is less in demand for keeping open commercial seaways, the 50 Years of Victory – or the '50 лет Победы' – becomes available to adventure tourism companies such as Quark Expeditions, who commission the ship in order to make the armchair explorer's dream of going to the North Pole a reality.
I joined the Victory at Murmansk on the extreme northwest of Russia, on the Kola Bay. Way inside the Arctic Circle, the world's northernmost city consists almost entirely of glum communist tenements hastily thrown up after the Second World War. After near annihilation by the Germans, who had an airbase only eight minutes away, Murmansk was designated one of only 12 'Hero cities' in Russia. In 1943, Harper's published an article about Murmansk by Dave Marlow called 'How it Looked to a Merchant Seaman', in which he quotes a Scots-Canadian mess-man: 'they've took a beating here.' The mosquitoes are like flying fortresses and the only dabs of colour are the buttercups and dandelions that seem to grow everywhere in Murmansk.
We sailed for a week via Franz Josef Land, the northernmost Russian archipelago, and landed at Cape Tegetthof, where we saw the wind-blasted remains of explorers' huts. Then to Cape Fligley on Rudolf Island from which Kuznetsov departed on his successful flight to the Pole. We saw polar bears, kittywakes, walruses, ivory gulls and memorials to dead explorers. As we reached the higher latitudes we navigated through the last of the open water before crunching our way through the pack that got denser and denser as we approached the Pole. Were there any ice conditions that the Victory couldn't negotiate, I asked the captain through his interpreter Irena. 'No' was the reply.
When I set foot on the ice at the North Pole I was the 22,500th person to do so, give or take a small margin for error created by the possibility of unrecorded military expeditions reaching ninety degrees North. The Pole is, of course, an imaginary place; a point on a grid of invented geometry, that in reality is no more or less impressive than a thin membrane of ice floating on the surface of the Arctic Ocean. The ice that is here today is not the ice that was here yesterday or will be here tomorrow. There is no marker other than one you may bring yourself, and the sapphire blue pools of water that lie on the surface of the multiyear ice here are just as beautiful here as they are at 89°N.
T.S.Eliot wrote in his poem 'Burnt Norton' of what he called 'the still point of the turning world'. At the earth's 'axle-tree' he imagined the past and future to coalesce, a place where the spiritual and terrestrial worlds meet. And although it may be too fanciful to say that to stand at the Pole is to stand with one foot in another world, if you look directly upwards along the earth's axis you will come to Polaris, the North Star, the so-called celestial pole. Look down and beneath your feet after a couple of metres of sea ice, there are 4,000 metres of sea. Then, after 14,000km of planet, you will reach sea level at the South Pole, after which there are then another few hundred metres of rock, followed by 2,835 metres of ice. If you have managed to maintain a straight line down through the globe you will end up almost in the middle of the geodesic dome of the Amundsen-Scott science research base at the South Pole.
The significance of the intersection of all lines of longitude depends as much on who you are and how you got there as anything else. I arrived at 11:57pm 15th July 2009 sitting in the bridge bar of the world's largest nuclear-powered icebreaker with a glass of ice-cold Russian vodka in my hand. Something like a hundred passengers from 24 countries had gathered below me in the bright midnight sun to wander around with their global positioning systems, anxious to be the first to claim that theirs read '90°N' exactly. Of course, any such claims were irrelevant because the icebreaker was only at the Pole when the Captain said so, and his GPS on the bridge was the only one that mattered.
As champagne corks popped we cheered and congratulated each other on our passive achievement, as if we'd arrived on skis after weeks of doing battle with pressure ridges, half-starved, frostbitten and with exhausted dogs. A ringed seal popped its head out of a channel of inky black water to see what the commotion was about, to find out what was breaking the rhythm of the creaking ice. There were no birds and despite the razzamatazz that goes with this extraordinary adventure tourism, it was possible to detect something of the deep primal spirituality that has lured the great explorers of the past to this pinprick of nothingness in the middle of nowhere.
Accounts by explorers who arrive on foot after weeks of man-hauling sledges over pressure ridges vary wildly on how time at the Pole is spent. Some scrape together the last of their tobacco and alcohol for an all too brief party, while others become stranded while waiting for the twin otter to get in to pick them up. Tom Avery describes how in 2005 he arrived at the Pole with 4 other humans and 16 dogs only to see an immaculately dressed woman step off a helicopter with a bottle of champagne. She was leading a small group of tourists who had flown to the Pole (presumably from an icebreaker) on a 'once-in-a-lifetime' ultimate tourist experience, as marketed by top end adventure travel companies.
The jury will probably remain out forever on whether tourists should be allowed to travel to ecologically sensitive destinations such as the higher latitudes of the Polar Regions. But the prevailing sentiment on the 50 Years of Victory was that, provided the operator transacted its business responsibly, that the environment came first and that we didn't cause any unnecessary stress to the wildlife, then not only did we have a right to enter this pristine world, but we would come home as ambassadors, to write articles and tell our friends exactly what it is we're supposed to be protecting.
As we returned from the Pole the sense of anticlimax was inevitable, but on the 20th July I reminded some of my fellow travellers that we should celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing. After all, we had more in common with one of the astronauts than most of us might have suspected. In 1998 Buzz Aldrin travelled to the North Pole on a Russian nuclear icebreaker. Aldrin's experiences were remarkably similar to mine aboard the Victory, and indeed, 'except for comments about the cold, I never heard a negative word.' While at sea Buzz spent much of his time skipping lectures and designing a new rocket on the ship's stationery, and like me he kept a journal. 'There's something about being at the top of the world that's exhilarating,' said Buzz. 'We set up a baseball diamond and played a game of softball at the North Pole, and a group of younger passengers even took an extremely brief swim. The adventure was priceless.'


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Aretha Franklin would like actress Halle Berry to play her younger self in a new biopic.
The Queen of Soul, 68, recently put out press release of the actors she would like to star in an upcoming movie about her life, based on the memoir, "Aretha: From These Roots," The Associated Press reported.
In addition to Berry, Franklin's other casting choices would include Denzel Washington to portray her father, the Baptist minister and civil rights activist C.L. Franklin; and Terrence Howard to play legendary singer/songwriter Smokey Robinson.
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The Associated Press left messages for reps of Berry, Washington, and Howard seeking comment.
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When directors have a reputation for loving the ladies, it's usually because they're wearing a hole in the casting couch. But Nigel Cole loves women in the truest, purest way.
After putting the fairer sex proudly and un-exploitatively at the center of his previous films, "Saving Grace" and "Calendar Girls," his latest project, "Made in Dagenham," combines the verve of "The Full Monty" with a "Norma Rae" sense of impassioned activism.
Set in 1968, Oscar-nominee Sally Hawkins ("Happy Go Lucky") stars in this remarkable true story of a group of female factory workers in Ford's Dagenham England plant who unwittingly sparked the movement to create an equal pay act for women.
Sitting down with the director and his star on a balmy autumn day in Los Angeles, Hawkins describes Cole uncomplicatedly.
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"I like to do different films and if you make movies about women, automatically you're different because there are so few of them," Cole offers with a laugh, adding, "I'm clearly fascinated by women and enjoy their company."
The director says he has no interest in filming car chases or shoot outs, finding such fare to be dull to watch, let alone capture on celluloid. He admits he doesn't set out to make films that center on female protagonists, but realizes he's drawn to similar fare time and again.
"I always look for scripts that have comedy, humor and warmth, but are about things and have strong emotional beats," Cole explains. "I have to have both. I'd never do a straight comedy and I'd get too flippant if I did a straight drama. I choose the best scripts and then halfway through, it's like, 'It's about women again. '"
For Hawkins, arriving on the female-dominated set, which also stars such outstanding actresses as Rosemund Pike and Miranda Richardson, to tell the story of women who changed the course of history, was a thrill. "There were moments during filming that I'd stop and think, 'Gosh, isn't this wonderful that there are all these amazing actresses and it's a female led production?' It's so rare and there was so much passion behind it. I was incredibly proud to be part of it."
"The great gift of making this movie was not only the story, but the sense being the guy who's able to tell it first. That seemed pretty cool to me," Cole smiles. "Why it's been so ignored so long, I don't know. I think women's role in history is often ignored, maybe something to do with the fact that men often write history down."
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MSU students find success 84,000 feet above Earth
BOZEMAN – Montana State University students have found a way to gather more information from the edge of space, a historic feat they plan to share with students across the country, according to officials with the Montana Space Grant Consortium.
The accomplishment that could result in a nation-wide study of a solar eclipse proved itself when students launched a high-altitude helium weather balloon from the Harlowton Airport on April 19, said Berk Knighton, flight director for the consortium's BOREALIS program.
As high-altitude, helium-filled weather balloons rise, they expand as air pressure decreases. A latex weather balloon the size of a Volkswagen Beetle on the ground can stretch to the size of a small house at 100,000 feet. When the balloon eventually pops, the scientific instruments it carries plummet back to Earth where they are retrieved and their data extracted. Until the MSU student innovations, there was no way to make a balloon "hover" in the atmosphere. For the scientific instruments onboard, it was a quick trip up and a quick trip down.
Now, because of the student-built valve that releases helium, balloons won't pop automatically as they near the upper limits of the Earth's atmosphere. Instead, the balloons will hover at an altitude of the students' choosing. The balloon that was launched from Harlowton hovered at an altitude of 84,000 feet for 15 minutes and could have gone much longer, Knighton said. Because of student-designed computer systems, the students told the balloon how long and high to fly before commanding a tiny tethered dart to pop the latex.
"We believe this is the first time that a student-designed device of this type was used to achieve float," Knighton said.
The MSU achievement will allow students to conduct new experiments because they will have more time to collect data from the near-space environment, Knighton said. At 84,000 feet, MSU's balloon was above 98 percent of the Earth's atmosphere. MSU students typically use latex weather balloons to gather information about such things as radiation, temperature and pressure.
"That's the cool thing now," Knighton said. "We can take our normal weather balloons and extend the time aloft, so we can conduct more interesting experiments."
A big goal now is for the Montana Space Grant Consortium to work with consortiums in Hawaii and Colorado to coordinate a nation-wide study of a total solar eclipse that will occur in 2017, Knighton said. Because of the recent discovery in Montana, participants would use high-altitude weather balloons to gather information about the eclipse.
The Harlowton demonstration tested work conducted by 38 students over the past year, said Randy Larimer, deputy director of the Montana Space Grant Consortium. Key students were Tim Basta, Scott Miller, Nichole Murray and Jameson Motley.
Basta, a junior from Great Falls and a mechanical engineering major, designed and built the valve that released helium. He built on work that was started by Murray, a mechanical engineering major from Bozeman. High-altitude projects are incredibly challenging, he said, adding that participants have to consider everything from cost to temperature fluctuations.
Miller, a junior from Kalispell and a computer engineering major, designed the software and hardware that allowed the students to track the balloon by satellite, send commands to the valve and balloon, and interpret the data. Miller took over his portion of the project from Motley of Kalispell, a mechanical engineering major who graduated in the fall.
"It's really been fun," said Miller, adding that the early morning trip to Harlowton gave him his first view of the sunrise this year.
A dozen MSU students, as well as Knighton and Larimer, drove to Harlowton for the 8:30 a.m. launch. Shortly before 11 a.m., feeling they had proved what they had set out to do, they popped the balloon, jumped in the air and gave each other high-fives. Then, following GPS signals for the balloon, they drove about 20 miles and asked Matt McAndrews of Ryegate if they could hike through his pasture. About a mile later, after a relatively easy trek compared to others they've made to recover balloons, they retrieved their balloon near Deadman's Basin Reservoir.
"Everything went right," Miller said. "Everything just worked right. There were no issues, which occasionally there can be. All the commands worked."
The balloon project was another high point in their experience with the Montana Space Grant Consortium, according to Miller and Basta. Both were members of winning teams in the 2013 National Student Solar Spectrograph Competition, which was organized by the MSGC, so they traveled to the Kennedy Space Center in November to watch the launch of the MAVEN mission to Mars.
The balloon launch illustrated another opportunity the Montana Space Grant Consortium gives students to apply what they learned in the classroom, Basta said.
"BOREALIS has really been a nice theater to put book learning into practice," Basta said, referring to MSU's high-altitude balloon program which was founded in 2001.
As part of the Montana Space Grant Consortium, BOREALIS allows students from a variety of disciplines to work together to design and build payloads that are flown up to 100,000 feet in the near-space environment. Basta has been involved in the program since the beginning of his sophomore year.
"It's definitely expanded my knowledge of other fields of engineering," Basta said. "It's a unique experience where you get to work on a design team similar to what an engineer would do in an actual workplace."
Evelyn Boswell, (406) 994-5135 or email@example.com


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Sarah Shahi isn't one to mince words, even when limited to 140 characters.
The "Fairly Legal" star recently had a run-in - make that, nearly a run-over - with socilite Paris Hilton, and immediatelly turned to her Twitter page to voice her outrage.
'Paris Hilton- worst driver ever. Almost hit me, then ran a stop sign.what if there was a kid around that corner, you dumb b**ch," tweeted Shahi.
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"One more thing blonde piece of s**t," wrote Shahi. "You're not an elitist just because you have money. You should apologize...To humanity. nowI'mdone [sic]."
There has been no comment from the Hilton camp about the alleged incident.
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From 2 March 2019, the Nicholas Hall in the Winter Palace is the setting for the exhibition "Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678). Paintings and Drawings from Russian Collections" that has been organized by the State Hermitage in conjunction with the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and with the participation of the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, the Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum, and the Perm State Art Gallery. For the first time, visitors will be also able to see a painting from the Holy Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery.
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The foremost stimulating impulse in the formation of the young artist was provided by Rubens. Jordaens was not his direct pupil, but in his youth he did have close connections with the studio of the celebrated head of the Flemish school. The imprint of Rubens's art is evident in both early works by our artist included in the exhibition – the Self-Portrait with Parents, Brothers and Sisters already mentioned and Saints Paul and Barnabas at Lystra. The world of exceptional great passions and lofty heroics that we find in Rubens's oeuvre was alien to Jordaens. The joys and worries of everyday life, the feelings of ordinary people were the sphere of his art. In his early period, the artist gave expression to his observations of life almost exclusively within the sphere of religious painting. Typically for Jordaens, however, within the Gospel stories he usually selects the moments that allow him to present what are primarily situations from daily life.
In his paintings on mythological subjects, Jordaens enters into a sort of "artistic dialogue" with the great Flemish master. His Meleager and Atalanta (Yekaterinburg State Museum of Fine Arts), in contrast to Rubens presents a far from heroic moment in the ancient legend about the Calydonian hunt. Jordaens had his own characteristic approach to the interpretation of images from classical antiquity: bringing the lofty and ideal back down to earth, a tendency to present simple mortals in the guise of gods or heroes. This is testimony to the influence of Caravaggism on him, although the artist would have been able to absorb Caravaggio's ideas only at a certain remove. The importance of the Caravaggist stage in the artist's career (late 1610s to mid-1620s) but they above all in the fact that it logically brought Jordaens to the creation of his own genre compositions – paintings on the theme of Flemish sayings and holidays. A special place in Jordaens's oeuvre was taken by the depiction of the feast of the "Bean King". The artist returned repeatedly to that theme from the late 1630s onwards. And it was specifically paintings on this subject that became the foundation of the artist's fame. However, this Caravaggist element first appeared clearly in Jordaens's art long before the depictions of the feast of the Bean King – in paintings illustrating Aesop's fable of the satyr and the peasant. Here the plot of the ancient tale is only an excuse for the artist to show the ordinary mealtime of a peasant family, in which the woodland deity just happens to take part. One of Jordaens's finest works on the subject of Aesop's fable is a painting belonging to the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. At this early stage in his career, Jordaens was still not mixing his paints, striving to preserve their natural, somewhat glaring but pure resonance and he did not use glazes, but painted from the first stroke with a full brush and thick paint, not hiding his "working".
From the mid-1630s, Jacob Jordaens began to work actively for the Flemish tapestry manufacturers, chiefly those in Brussels. The painting Odysseus and Polyphemus (Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow) included in the exhibition was created around 1635 and is a painted modello, originally intended to be reproduced by weavers as a tapestry in a cycle devoted to The Story of Odysseus. Such modelli, even when they had been used as the basis for the creation of cartoons from which tapestries were then made, could later serve as cabinet pictures. There are grounds for believing that the composition of the Hermitage's painting The Bean King ("The King Drinks!") was initially conceived by the artist as a design for a tapestry. That plan was not realized, but the resulting picture is among Jordaens's unarguable masterpieces. In it the artist emerges with all the brilliance of a mature master, revealing himself to be both a superb colourist and a lively, vivid and observant story-teller. The work blends together grand monumentality of compositional structure, vivid depiction of a situation from daily life and a portrait-like persuasiveness in the presentation of the individual appearance of each personage. The artist was fond of using specific people as models. Most often it was members of his family who posed for him: his wife Catharina, their daughters Elisabeth and Anna Catharina, their son Jacob, and his father-in-law, Adam van Noort. He also included himself in his compositions from time to time. For example, in the Hermitage version of the feast of the Bean King, the artist gave his own features to the man sitting behind the "King" and "Queen" and raising high the jug in his left hand.
Paintings like The Bean King in the Hermitage can only be called genre pictures with certain reservations. Less than anything are they simple reproductions of scenes from everyday life. In them one can always sense something more: the artist's desire to exalt, to monumentalize the images of his personages.
The artist's constantly working in parallel in two fields of creativity – decorative art and painting – inevitably led to interaction between them. A splendid instance of such fusion of Jordaens's skills as a painter and a decorative artist is the 1640 depiction of The Flight into Egypt (Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Moscow) in which the action of the Gospel episode unfolds against the background of a landscape treated in a decorative manner. The landscape occupies a noticeable place in this composition, which is the only example of Jordaens's work as a landscape artist in the exhibition.
The portraits created in the 1630s and '40s are not devoid of a decorative aspect either. They idiosyncratically combine a decorative setting with almost documentary precision in the presentation of the model's appearance. For example, in the Hermitage's Portrait of an Old Man the artist shows without any flattery the subject's obese figure, flabby face and rheumy eyes, yet the sumptuous architectural surroundings, the scale of the figure – advanced into the foreground and filling almost the entire surface of the canvas, its precise contours and large forms invest the image with undoubted grandeur.
In the 1640s and '50s, following the death of Rubens, Jordaens became the "first painter of Antwerp". Between 1649 and 1650 he worked to a commission from the widow of the Prince of Orange, who had been a great admirer of the Flemish school of painting, on large decorative and allegorical compositions to adorn the Orange Hall of the Huis ten Bosch ("House in the Woods") palace outside The Hague. One of them – The Triumph of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange – is closely connected stylistically to the Hermitage's Allegorical Family Portrait. That monumental decorative work demonstrates the great skill of a painter who had a subtle sense of the decorative nature of colour.
In those decades, loaded with commissions, Jordaens increasingly relied on the aid of his assistants and pupils. Examples of the collaboration between Jordaens and his studio in this period are, among other things, two paintings on Gospel subjects: another version of Saints Paul and Barnabas at Lystra from the Perm State Art Gallery and Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well from the State Art Museum in Nizhny Novgorod. The picture from Perm is a repetition with some changes of Jordaens's 1645 painting of the same title that belongs to the gallery of the Academy of Arts in Vienna. As for the work from Nizhny Novgorod: Jordaens's son, Jacob the Younger (1625 – after 1650), may have participated in its creation.
The bulk of the commissions that Jordaens produced for tapestry workshops date from the 1640s and 1650s. Features that characterized his tapestry designs, such as the precise silhouettes of the figures, pronounced large local patches of colour, a clear division of the space into foreground, middle and background, combined with the decorative treatment of the last, also became characteristic of the artist's paintings. An example of this is provided by Cleopatra's Feast from the Hermitage. At the same time, that picture reflects one of the most important tendencies in the late period of the artist's career – the increasing semantic complexity of a work and a tendency to pack it full of a variety of symbolic and allegorical elements. In Jordaens's interpretation, the anecdotal story from ancient history carries a clear moralizing message. That tendency to moralizing and didactics, at odds with all the artist's previous oeuvre, is clearly in evidence in many of the late works. This was evidently a consequence of the fact that in the 1650s, after converting to Protestantism, Jordaens began to openly profess its Calvinist version, although that did not hinder him from accepting commissions from Catholic churches, monasteries and convents.
For the exhibition the State Hermitage Publishing House has produced a scholarly illustrated catalogue with forewords by Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage, and Marina Loshak, Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
The authors of the catalogue texts and curators of the exhibition are Natalia Ivanovna Gritsai, head of the sector of 13th– 18th-century painting in the State Hermitage's Department of Western European Fine Art, and Alexei Olegovich Larionov, senior researcher in the same department.
Foreword to the exhibition catalogue
Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678). Paintings and Drawings from Russian Collections
Our exhibition tells about how Jordaens was and is loved in Russia. His works were bought by Catherine the Great and after her by many a high-ranking collector. The healthy Flemish spirit impressed the energetic people of a young Russia. They probably also liked the multitude of layers in the artist's oeuvre. Enthusiasm, at times seemingly excessive, for extolling the virtues of family relations, idylls of family music-making, combined in his art with the religious ecstasy of a Catholic who towards the end of his life became not just a Protestant, but a Calvinist. And that found splendid reflection in the caricature allusions to the Catholic clergy in the Miracle at Lystra (Saints Paul and Barnabas at Lystra) from Perm.
Jordaens took firm root in Russia and his works have a special Russian biography, some episodes of which I would like to mention especially. Catherine II presented the monumental Lamentation to the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. The Flemish style for depicting Christ's passion with exultation and, at the same time, with what is almost a still life of the instruments of his execution proved entirely appropriate in the ritual setting of an Orthodox church, which the painting has adorned for several centuries now. We have here a characteristic example of European art becoming incorporated into Russian life, a process of which the whole of Saint Petersburg is a manifestation. And the painting's presence in our exhibition is an example of the dialogue between museum and Church that is so important for everyone.
Another episode of Jordaens's story in Russia is connected with the collection of his remarkable drawings. Many of them were attributed to the artist only as a result of tenacious research by several generations of our scholars, especially the present-day ones. Thanks to that, we have an exhibition of discoveries, a striking artistic event for both experts and the general public. It provides occasions for much reflection. Among other things, it is fascinating to compare the Flemish Judith with the Hermitage's famous Judith by Giorgione and to ponder once again about the contradictions and complex emotional background of that remarkable tale that some accept as canonical and others do not.
It is amazing how many new things it is possible to see simply by bringing the works by Jordaens in Russia together. My thanks to my colleagues for the idea.
Mikhail Piotrovsky
Director of the State Hermitage


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