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The Answer Lies Within
From NPR and WNYC live from the Bellhouse in Brooklyn, New York, this is ASK ME ANOTHER. I'm Ophira Eisenberg, your host for this next hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia.
EISENBERG: And if you love rom coms, you are totally going to fall in love with this show. Our VIP is bestselling author and screenwriter Delia Ephron.
EISENBERG: And now please give it up for our one-man house band, Mr. Jonathan Coulton.
JONATHAN COULTON: Hello, everybody.
EISENBERG: And it looks like we have our first two contestants. Please welcome Kelsey Amentt and Ed Knoesel.
EISENBERG: Hello, Kelsey.
KELSEY AMENNT: Hi, there. How are you?
EISENBERG: Good. I understand you review movies on a blog called Pretentious Netflix.
AMENNT: Yes. Basically it's a whole blog of just anything that people are sort of scared to watch like, you know, anything Ingmar Bergman, anything Federico Fellini.
EISENBERG: Right. Highbrow stuff.
AMENNT: Yeah. Just like those things that people are like, ugh, I don't know if I want to devote two and a half hours to this. So.
EISENBERG: That is so our time, right? We're like, eh, that sounds like a lot of time.
AMENNT: So it's one of those things where basically I review it and I say whether or not you'd be sort of into it, depending on what you're into.
EISENBERG: Oh. That sounds great. I love it. OK. And Ed, you work very interesting job, I didn't even know this existed, in environmental - the environmental office in airports.
ED KNOESEL: Yes. That's right. Yes.
EISENBERG: So you travel around to airports and try to decide who is doing their job to help the environment.
KNOESEL: Right. Well, yes. Just the ones around here - Newark, Kennedy, La Guardia for the most part - and we're working to make those airports run a little bit more sustainable and environmentally nice.
EISENBERG: OK. Well, this game is called The Answer Lies Within and you're in luck because I'm feeling very generous. So in this game I'm going to tell you the answer to each question. And by that I mean the answer to each question will be contained within the question itself. I know. And joining us is our puzzle guru Greg Pliska and he is going to give us an example. Greg.
GREG PLISKA: All right, Ed and Kelsey. If we said this cable channel was launched on June 17th, 1985 just shortly after British scientists announced their discovery of the Ozone hole, then the answer would be Discovery.
AMENNT: Ah.
EISENBERG: Oh.
KNOESEL: Oh.
EISENBERG: Fun, right?
PLISKA: Heck, yeah.
EISENBERG: Yeah. OK. So listen carefully and the winner of this round will move on to our Ask Me One More final round at the end of the show. Here we go. What's the official nickname of the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution?
EISENBERG: Kelsey.
AMENNT: The First?
PLISKA: Uh, the first. The first...
AMENNT: State.
PLISKA: Yes. Good.
COULTON: Yay.
PLISKA: We'll give it to her.
AMENNT: The first state.
EISENBERG: First state. Terrible nickname. They were not that inventive back then.
PLISKA: But they were the only one.
EISENBERG: They were the only one. They were. They were the first to like it on Facebook.
COULTON: Should've called themselves The Only State.
EISENBERG: The Only State.
COULTON: The Only State.
EISENBERG: That's right. The title character of this popular Showtime drama series showed some dexterity as both a crime scene analyst and a prolific criminal.
EISENBERG: Kelsey.
AMENNT: "Dexter"?
EISENBERG: Exactly. "Dexter" is correct.
EISENBERG: You never really think about that, how a murderer should be agile.
AMENNT: Like a cat.
EISENBERG: If your math teacher was very mean she might have you add up a thousand different numbers and divide the sum of those numbers by 1,000 to find this.
EISENBERG: Ed.
KNOESEL: The mean.
EISENBERG: The mean is correct.
EISENBERG: Do you know why math teachers are mean?
AMENNT: Why?
EISENBERG: Because they have a lot of problems.
COULTON: Oh, my. What, did you get that off a Dixie cup?
EISENBERG: Snapple.
COULTON: You finish your popsicle and that joke is there on the stick.
EISENBERG: The cover of this magazine's September 3, 1970 issue featured Rolling Stone's lead singer Mick Jagger wearing what appears to be pink lipstick.
EISENBERG: Ed.
KNOESEL: Rolling Stone.
EISENBERG: Yes. Exactly.
EISENBERG: Which was a scandal, the pink lipstick. Right? Because he's a winter.
KNOESEL: He was hanging out with David Bowie, I think.
EISENBERG: Do you remember what the article was about?
KNOESEL: No.
EISENBERG: Was it like there's no way he's doing this in 40 years?
KNOESEL: Get your tickets.
EISENBERG: Yeah, get your ticket. Dubbed the Lady with the Lamp, nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale was born in what European city?
AMENNT: Oslo?
EISENBERG: Kelsey, I feel like we forgot what the game is for a second there. Oslo is an excellent guess but not contained within the question. Ed, can you steal?
EISENBERG: Yes, please ring in. Ed.
KNOESEL: It's Kuala Lumpur.
COULTON: That's a good one.
EISENBERG: Yes, that was very cool.
COULTON: Good one.
EISENBERG: No. The answer is actually Florence. She was born in Florence, Italy.
EISENBERG: But her parents were lazy.
COULTON: You know what, Ed. You tried to make it work and I respect you for that.
EISENBERG: I know. Before launching one of the world's most successful companies, this technology pioneer with this last name held jobs designing video games for Atari and entertaining kids by dressing up as the Mad Hatter.
EISENBERG: Kelsey.
AMENNT: Jobs?
EISENBERG: Yes, exactly. Steve Jobs.
EISENBERG: All right. This is your last question. Many of the exterior scenes in this Oscar-winning movie starring Marlon Brando were filmed on the waterfront of Hoboken, New Jersey.
EISENBERG: Kelsey.
AMENNT: "On the Waterfront"?
EISENBERG: "On the Waterfront" is correct.
EISENBERG: Puzzle guru Greg Pliska.
PLISKA: I believe our winner is Kelsey. Congratulations.
EISENBERG: Congratulations, Kelsey.
EISENBERG: You'll be moving on to our Ask Me One More final round at the end of the show.
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It has been reported that the members of BTS have worked with Naver's LINE Corporation to create their own characters and emojis.
The collaboration resulted in the birth of BT21, eight new LINE characters. But BTS has only seven members, 'how does it make sense to end up with eight characters?' you might ask. The eighth character is actually a character that represents the band themselves and their fanbase 'A.R.M.Y'. The characters of BT21 include Tata (created by V), RJ (created by Jin), Chimmy (created by JiMin), Cooky (created by JungKook), Mang (created by J-Hope), Shooky (created by Suga), Koya (created by Rap Monster), and the robot Van.
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Ridgeline Sets Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2013 Conference Call for Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Nov 21, 2012, 13:37 ET
Financial results to be released after the close of the market Monday November 26; Conference call to be conducted Tuesday November 27 at 8:30 a.m. ET (5:30 a.m. PT)
CALGARY, Nov. 21, 2012 /CNW/ - Ridgeline Energy Services Inc. ("Ridgeline" or the "Company") (TSXV: RLE, OTCQX: RGDEF, FSE: RL7) an energy services and water treatment technology company, today scheduled a conference call to discuss its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2013, ended September 30, 2012. The call will take place at 8:30 a.m. ET (5:30 a.m. PT) on Tuesday, November 27, 2012. The Company will report financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2013 after the close of the markets on Monday, November 26, 2012.
Interested parties can access the conference call by dialing (877) 317-6789 or (412) 317-6789, or listen via a live Internet webcast on the Company's website at www.ridgelinecanada.com.
A teleconference replay of the conference call will be available by dialing (877) 344-7529 or (412) 317-0088, confirmation code 10021452, through November 30, 2012. A webcast replay of the conference call will be accessible on the Company's website at www.ridgelinecanada.com for 90 days.
About Ridgeline Energy Services Inc.
Ridgeline Energy Services Inc. is an energy services and water treatment technology company. The Company is applying proprietary technology to treat water generated from industrial and commercial waste water markets. These markets include a wide variety of clients across a broad spectrum of industries including oil and gas. Through its environmental consulting and remediation divisions, Ridgeline Environment has built a reputation as an established provider of environmental services to the Western Canadian oil and gas industry. Ridgeline GreenFill provides soil remediation and wet waste disposal services to the oil and gas industry. The Company trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "RLE", the OTCQX as "RGDEF" and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as "RL7".
Additional information is available on the Company's website at: www.ridgelinecanada.com.
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"Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release. This news release may contain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements address future events and conditions and therefore, involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements. Such information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could influence actual results or events and cause actual results or events to differ materially from those stated, anticipated or implied in the forward-looking information. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information, as no assurances can be given as to future results, levels of activity or achievements."
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Strike looms at East and Gulf Coast ports
Wed., Dec. 19, 2012
BOSTON (AP) — Weeks after a critical West Coast port complex was crippled by a few hundred striking workers, the East Coast is bracing for a possible walkout numbering thousands that could close 15 ports from Massachusetts to Texas.
The latest talks between shipping companies and dockworkers broke down Tuesday, less than two weeks before the contract expires Dec. 29, leading to worries a strike was inevitable.
The National Retail Federation wrote to President Barack Obama this week to ask him to use "all means necessary" to head off a strike, which they fear could have catastrophic ripple effects nationwide. "We foresee this as a national economic emergency, to be honest," said Jonathan Gold, the group's vice president of supply chain and customs policy.
Gold said billions in commerce at countless businesses nationwide could be affected, from auto manufacturers awaiting parts to the truckers that deliver them.
Ingrid Hirstin Lazcano, founder of the Los Angeles-based Andean Dream LCC, said a strike on the East and Gulf Coasts could bankrupt her company, which sells soups, pasta and other products made from quinoa, a grain, grown in the Bolivian Andes.
The company has two containers shipped monthly to both Los Angeles and Philadelphia, and Lazcano said she's still recovering from the eight-day strike of 450 clerical workers at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex, which ended Dec. 4.
"If the strike does happen, we will be paralyzed," she said. "We will not be able to fill orders."
James McNamara, spokesman for the International Longshoremen's Association, said the union knows what's at stake for others but must protect its membership.
"We offer the labor that keeps the commerce moving," he said. "If management doesn't appreciate or respect the labor that has made them a lot of money, then we have to do what we have to do."
A strike wouldn't affect passenger cruise ships, U.S. mail, military cargo or perishable cargo with a limited shelf life. It also wouldn't affect non-container, or break bulk, cargo such as steel, wood products and cars.
The longshoremen's union represents 14,500 workers at the 15 ports, which extend south from Boston and handle 95 percent of all containerized shipments from Maine to Texas, about 110 million tons' worth. The New York-New Jersey ports handle the most cargo on the East Coast, valued at $208 billion in 2011. The other ports that would be affected by a strike are Boston; Delaware River; Baltimore; Hampton Roads, Va.; Wilmington, N.C.; Charleston, S.C., Savannah, Ga.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Port Everglades, Fla., Miami; Tampa, Fla.; Mobile, Ala.; New Orleans; and Houston.
The impasse comes during a 90-day extension of the current contract. On Tuesday, a federal mediator offered another monthlong extension. Various issues, including wages, are unresolved, but the sides couldn't agree on what's become the key sticking point, container royalties.
The royalties are payments to union workers based on the weight of cargo received at each port. They were created in the 1960s to boost wages and finance worker benefits after increased automation cut down salaries and jobs, making it impossible for the dwindling labor force to finance its benefits, McNamara said.
The container carriers and port operators, represented by the U.S. Marine Alliance, want to cap the royalties at 2011 levels, saying they've morphed into a huge expense, totally unrelated to their original purpose, which hurts the industry's competitiveness as it tries to keep up with new technology. The alliance says the royalty payments now amount to a bonus averaging $15,500 annually for East Coast workers who already earn more than $50 per hour.
The union says the payments aren't a bonus, they're an important supplemental wage. It argues that in its previous contract, management agreed to remove the royalties cap in exchange for being allowed to use $42 million of royalty payments to cover a previously negotiated wage increase. There's no way the union can allow the alliance to revive the cap now and accept the cuts in worker income and union revenue, McNamara said.
The sides have traded charges of inflexibility, though both also point to a history of cooperation since the last East Coast-wide strike in 1977. No one has ruled out renewing talks.
But with time so short, companies are pushing up shipment dates or finding alternative transportation, said Steve Lamar, executive vice president of the Washington-based American Apparel and Footwear Association.
Companies are already worried about restocking after the holidays, and some are still dealing with the effects of the West Coast shutdown and Superstorm Sandy, he said.
"You've already got companies and ports and trade that have been battered by a couple of situations over the last couple of months, and we still have this uncertainty," Lamar said.
In Philadelphia, port executive Robert Blackburn estimates a strike could affect 60 percent of the tonnage the port handles.
"Frankly, there's not a lot we can do except that hope that cooler heads prevail and, if they don't, perhaps there will be intervention by the president," Blackburn said.
Associated Press writers Eileen AJ Connelly in New York and Kathy Matheson in Philadelphia contributed to this report.
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(CNN) -- How cold is it?
It's so cold, even polar bears and penguins were being kept indoors Monday.
Anana, the lone polar bear at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, has never grown the thick layer of fat that bears in their native Arctic develop to insulate themselves against winter temperatures that can range as low as -50 degrees F, zoo spokeswoman Sharon Dewar said. So when temperatures plunged well into the negative range in Chicago, Anana stayed in a 40ish-degree habitat, Dewar said.
"In the wild, they would seasonally eat seals and fatten themselves up with that blubber," Dewar said. But zookeepers "don't feed them seals or fatten them up," she said.
And at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, both bald eagles and African penguins "who are used to temperate climates" were taken off exhibit until the weather warms up, the facility reported.
Chicago saw a record low of minus 16 (minus 27 C) on Monday. The day's high was minus 11, with a windchill of minus 34. It's part of an Arctic blast that plunged deep into the central United States on Monday, leaving Nashville, Tennessee, 40 degrees colder than Albany, New York; Memphis 20 degrees colder than Anchorage, Alaska; and Atlanta colder than Moscow -- Russia or Idaho, take your pick.
The bitter cold that a "polar vortex" is pushing into much of the United States is not just another winter storm. It's the coldest in 20 years in many areas. The South was downright balmy compared to the Great Lakes region, where temperatures hovered in the negative 20s -- before wind chill, which dropped temps to the negative 40s and in places like Minneapolis.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton ordered the state's roughly 2,000 public schools to close on Monday, the first such order since 1997. Many of those will stay closed Tuesday, including the three major districts around Minneapolis, where blowing snow shrouded bridges over the frozen Mississippi River.
"I've only been out of school four days ever, and today and tomorrow are two of the four days," said Graham Myers, who was going to a movie with several friends and his father.
Wind chills in the 40-below range can cause frostbite in a matter of minutes, the National Weather Service warned. But there were those who reveled in it.
"I love the cold. I'm one of those crazy cold-weather Minnesotans who just enjoys this," Robert Pettit told CNN as he took a walk on a work break. If properly dressed, "It's not so bad," he said.
"You dress up, put your mukluks on, get some gloves and a hat and you're set," Pettit said.
Freeze toll 15, mostly from accidents
Authorities have blamed a total of 15 deaths on the cold so far, 11 of them from traffic accidents.
But the the death of an Indianapolis woman found in her backyard early Monday "is believed to be weather-related," police spokesman Kendale Adams told CNN. A man in Wisconsin died of hypothermia, and an elderly woman with Alzheimer's disease who wandered away from her home in New York state was found dead in the snowy woods about 100 yards away, authorities there said.
In addition, hypothermia was a contributing factor in the death of a patient at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, hospital spokesman George Stamatis told CNN.
At the Salvation Army Harbor Light Center, a Minneapolis homeless shelter, Executive Director Bill Miller said 750 people came in off the street to spend the night Sunday.
"That's a record," he said. He said Harbor Light "will take in everybody, no matter if they've been drinking or whatever their issues might be."
Further south, the chill was less brutal but still nothing to dismiss. In Fairfield, Iowa, at minus 9, CNN iReporter Deborah Roberts called Monday "a good day to stay in and use the excuse it's too darn cold."
In Illinois, Gov. Pat Quinn called on state residents to stay off the roads and activated National Guard troops to help local authorities clear highways. In Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel urged residents "to keep exercising good judgment and remain indoors if at all possible."
8 tips to ease winter travel woes
The deep freeze has also snarled air traffic across the country, with more than 3,800 flights canceled by Monday evening, according to flightaware.com. Among those stuck waiting for a way home was New York resident Mindy Goldberg, whose family's flight back from Mexico had been diverted to Boston because of bad weather.
"I just called my kids' school to tell them they wouldn't be there, and she said, 'Everyone's stuck somewhere,' " Goldberg told CNN affilliate WBZ.
In Indianapolis, Los Angeles resident and iReporter Jason Bentley took some time out to play in the snow outside the airport after learning his flight home had been canceled Sunday. It was 15 below zero.
"This is the wettest snow I've ever touched," Bentley said. "The easiest snow to make a snowman and to have snowball fights. It's also probably the worst (weather) I've ever been in because of the temperature."
The Northeast will be seeing its own swift drop in temperatures as the arctic air works its way east. In New York, where it was about 50 degrees with wind chill Monday morning, could go as low as minus 7 on Tuesday, said CNN meteorologist Indra Petersons -- a nearly 60-degree temperature change in a single day.
Welcome to 'Chiberia'
The National Weather Service adopted the Twitter hashtag "#Chiberia" for Chicago. Parts of the vast Siberian region, such as Tobolsk, had Fahrenheit temps in the low teens Monday, though other parts had temperatures of 50 below zero.
Freezing? Look up, this is why. Image Shows Entry of the Polar Vortex into the Northern U.S. http://t.co/Fhxklu2mdk pic.twitter.com/aJuGG6lmay— NASA Goddard Images (@NASA_GoddardPix) January 6, 2014
Chicago opened up 12 centers for residents to seek warmth, one of which was to stay open all night through Tuesday. Libraries and some other city facilities would also be open, said Evelyn Diaz of the city's Department of Family and Support Services. Quinn said 100 warming centers were open statewide.
The Southern Illinois University men's basketball team, fresh off a game against Illinois State, got trapped on the side of Interstate 57 late Sunday and was prepared to spend the night on the bus, SIU Athletic Director Mario Moccia said.
There wasn't a massive amount of snow on the ground, Moccia said. Rather, it was the blowing snow that made the road virtually impossible to see. Players later tweeted that they were going to spend the night at a nearby church.
"Somehow this eventful day/night has led to our team sleeping on the floor of a church in Tuscola. What a journey it has been," Dawson Verhines tweeted.
Some of the greatest concern surrounds the tens of thousands of Midwesterners without electricity. More than 15,000 customers in Indiana, 6,800 in Illinois and 2,200 in Missouri didn't have power overnight, according to utility companies.
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The worst was still reaching down South on Monday night. In Atlanta, where Tuesday morning's low was projected to be in the single digits, Katie Fallon joked, "My shoes do not even match my outfit this morning! Had to go fuzzy socks and hiking boots for warmth." Atlanta's public schools were still closed for break Monday, and the city announced schools would remain closed Tuesday.
But by Wednesday, temperatures will start edging closer to normal, and by Thursday temperatures in most of the country will be back to normal -- or even a bit warmer, said CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller.
"It's bitterly 10 degrees here in Weatherford, Texas, with a wind chill of below zero," said Elizabeth Brew. "Very hard to watch my kids go to school in such weather, but it is what it is."
Enjoy the present mild temps, it all goes downhill into tomorrow. Difference in highs over the next 24 hrs: pic.twitter.com/13gGqbMijy— NWS Boston (@NWSBoston) January 6, 2014
"It's not just a snow event, it's a cold event, and that's what scares us," Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard said. He urged residents to stay off the streets, especially after nightfall.
In Embarrass, Minnesota, residents wondered whether they might see their cold-temperature record of 64 below zero, set in 1996, snap like an icicle.
"I've got a thermometer from the weather service that goes to 100 below," resident Roland Fowler told CNN affiliate KQDS. "If it gets that cold, I don't want to be here."
iReport: Watch heavy snow create a beautiful scene in Indiana
CNN's Stephanie Elam, Paul Vercammen, Kevin Conlon, Holly Yan, Dave Alsup, Jareen Imam, David Williams and Dave Hennen contributed to this report.


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The Yellowstone Art Museum collects American art with an emphasis on progressive contemporary art from the northern Rocky Mountain and northern Plains regions. Collecting began soon after the museum's founding in 1964. In 1984, with a major grant from the Montana Cultural Trust (coal tax fund) and generous donations from private individuals, the YAM began to build what is now the largest permanent collection of significant contemporary art of the region.
Today all of the permanent collections number over 7,300 objects, including both art works and archival pieces.
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Charles Ringer, Super Sonic Spin Cycle
Installed 26 July 2012 at the museum's Visible Vault
Dedication ceremony 11 July 2013 at the YAM's Annual Membership meeting
Purchase made possible by support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), RBC Wealth Management, Bill & Debbie Tierney, Gene & Marilyn Wade, and Anne-Marie Wade & John Stoddart. We are grateful for in-kind gifts from the Appliance Shack, Schnitzer Steel Industries (Golden Recycling), Hardy Construction, High Tech Construction, Pacific Metal Company, and PowderKote Unlimited.


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And We Can Now Call the Election for … "The Daily Show"
CNN's John King may have taken the early lead on election night with his use of the Perceptive Pixel touchscreen, but "The Daily Show" was not to be outdone.
Skewering its mainstream media competition, correspondent John Oliver helped kick off the show's coverage, appearing with an iPad strapped to each arm while pointing at several other flatscreen displays.
From there, he read an "actual tweet" from an "actual person" who said they voted for Mitt Romney. And, if that tweet was representative of all Americans, then, he concluded, clearly Romney would win.
"That just happened, moments ago and I'm explaining it to you now in real time," Oliver told host Jon Stewart, before moving the tweet to a larger screen. "There is no denying that tweet is now physically bigger."
He then took a picture of himself, posted it to Instagram and to the show's Tumblr page.
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If you own a small business, it is important to choose the best lawyer to represent the interests of your small business. A strategic business lawyer can help you with your start-up and ongoing strategies, help you with critical business planning, review leases and contracts, and negotiate for you. Your attorney must help you comply with a myriad of regulations from employment issues to zoning.
You must research carefully to find just the right legal expert. You do not want a lawyer who does not take an interest in or learn about your business. You can ask accountants, bankers, other small-business owners, and friends for referrals. You can check with your state Bar association to find out if they have attorneys who specialize in representing small businesses. You can ask for and check the lawyer's references. You can also look in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.
You should not make your final decision based on referrals or other sources. You must interview the lawyers that you believe would suit your business. You should be aware that many attorneys charge a consultation fee of $150 or more. That is a small amount to pay to be sure that the lawyer you choose can meet your needs and will really do a job representing your business.
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Who had the best record-breaking performance in Georgia? We took your nominations over the past week and here are the finalists:
Chance Seabolt – North Murray High School
Archery- On Saturday, May 13th, 2017, Chance Seabolt was awarded the highest achievement at the National Archery in Schools Program (NASP) National Tournament for his shooting performance during the tournament this weekend in Louisville, KY. He shot a score of 298 out of 300 points, hitting the bulls-eye 29 times, outshooting 14,491 other archers. This was the first time anyone from a Georgia high school has been in the top five places.
Jamie Boatright – Hillgrove High School
Baseball – Not only a starting pitcher for Region championship team, Jamie also finished the regular season as the starting 1B with highest batting avg. and RBI on Varsity. He is the current record Hillgrove record-holder for career varsity game starts.
Brook Goodrow – Forsyth Central High School
Football – First female player in the school's 61 year history to score points during a varsity football game. A soccer player for 14 years, Brook decided to not play her senior year and try-out for the football team instead, kicking an extra point during the regular season vs. Meadowcreek.
Tylan Morton – Griffin High School
Football- Breaks the state record for passing yards in a season with 4,741. The record was last broken by former Georgia Bulldogs QB Hutson Mason.
Hope Glenn – Pope High School
Track & Field – 100, 200, 4×100 Champion
Ansley Jenkins – Creekview High School
Track & Field – Long Jump, 17'6 1/2″ – The last record was 16'7″, which happened last year. Ansley broke the record the beginning of this track season with a jump of 16'9″ and then broke her own record at sectionals with a jump of 17'6 1/2″.
Ahmad M. Perryman – Centennial High School
Track and Field – 400M record broken 2- 3x in one season – Ahmad broke the record at the 6A State Track and Field Meet May 13 and is both team MVP and received the Excalibur award. He also received one of 5 principal awards this year and is known in the community to be dedicated to the sport, being a servant, and encouraging even to his competition.
Julian McDuffie – Shiloh High School
Track and Field – 300M – 36.84 – All-Time Gwinnett County Record
George Lira – West Hall High School
Track and Field – 100M – 10.90 – Even with a injured knee he overcame the injury and made magic happen.
Nicole Fegans – Landmark Christian Academy
Track and Field – 1600M – 4:58.09 – Broke the 5-minute mile. The Landmark Christian senior and Georgia Tech signee went 4:58.09 in the 1,600 to win the Region 5-A title and advance to state.
Jonathan Ross – Shorter High School
Track and Field – 110M hurdles – 13.86
West Forsyth Gymnastics Team – West Forsyth High School
Won the State Championships with the highest ever recorded point total in state history at 114.167 and breaking the old state record by over 2 points. It was the first state title in school history.
So, who had the best record-breaking performance? Vote below. Voting closes at Midnight EST on June 5th.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones and her husband Michael Douglas were seen making their way through La Guardia Airport in New York City on Friday (March 28). The couple were joined by their 10-year-old daughter Carys. Michael and Catherine are also parents to son Dylan, 13.
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Diwali (or Deepavali, Tihar or Swanti) is a festival of lights primarily celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Newar Bhuddists but also, occasionally, fans of holidays, South Asian food or culture. As with all ancient holidays, the true origins are obscure but undoubtedly symbolize the triumph of good over evil. Probably due to its timing, it wouldn't be too unlikely that its roots were in an ancient harvest festival. As is also true of all ancient holidays, Diwali acquired additional significance over the millenia for different people. In the modern age it's marked with lots of lights, house cleanings, new outfits, decorations, flowers and snacking on sweets. This year Diwali fell on the 28th, but was celebrated in the Southland's Little India neighborhood yesterday, on the first.
Newar celebrating Tihar
For Hindus
Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth, is honored on this day to ensure a good year will follow and, in northern India, the financial year begins on Diwali. In parts of India, the homecoming of King Rama of Ayodhya is observed with the lighting of rows (avali) of lamps (deepa) which were used to light his way after a 14 year exile. In western India it marks the day King Bali was sent to rule the underworld by Vishnu. Southern India marks it as the day Lord Krishna defeated the demon Narakasura.
For Jains
On October 15, 527 BCE, Lord Mahavira attained Nirvana at the dawn of the new moon, an event which is marked today.


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This German-made robotic vehicle is designed to cope with a lot more than just snow. The work of ESA Business Incubation Centre-supported start-up company progenoX GmbH, this all-terrain unmanned ground vehicle will support emergency services in disaster situations.
The UGV is intended for major incidents where rescue staff could be at risk, such as chemical spills or large fires.
Fast, remote inspection will help rescue teams to establish the best and safest way to proceed.
The vehicle serves as a platform for instruments to examine the situation from a safe distance. It can operate a number of different sensors in parallel, based on the needs of different emergency workers, from police to firefighters to medical units.
All of its data are marked with the position, time and other general information and then sent via cell-phone networks to the appropriate forces.
The vehicle is steered by an integrated unit with communication and navigation technology plus standard interfaces for sensors and cameras, based on developments by Germany's Fraunhofer FKIE research centre and a defence group.
The first unit has already been tested at a German police school and is expected to be put into pre-operation within a year.
progenoX developed the vehicle with the support of ESA Technology Transfer Programme's Business Incubation Centre Bavaria.
Expertise from European space activities is helping to handle harsh environments, guarantee continuous operation and select the best navigation and communication solutions.
Lightweight materials from space are also being considered for the vehicle, and progenoX is now working with Germany's DLR space agency to identify space technologies to spin off to improve its heat protection.


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Xbox SmartGlass Changes the Second-Screen Playing Field [PREVIEW]
With Xbox SmartGlass, Microsoft wants to revolutionize the second screen.
Microsoft is committed to extending the appeal of the Xbox brand beyond gaming and beyond the console. This was clear with last week's unveiling of Xbox Music, and it's even truer with Tuesday's official unveiling of Xbox SmartGlass, along with the news that Xbox Video and Xbox Games are coming to Windows 8.
SmartGlass, which was first announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in June, will launch alongside Windows 8 on Oct. 26. It allows users to view content on multiple devices, and to control or enhance that experience.
At its most base level, SmartGlass will allow users to shift content from device to device; that means you can start watching a movie on the Xbox 360, and then use SmartGlass to resume playing that film on your Windows 8 tablet. Likewise, you can start a movie on your Windows 8 device and finish on the Xbox.
If SmartGlass only worked with the Windows 8 ecosystem, it would be pretty great. What makes SmartGlass genius is that apps will be available for iOS and Android. Microsoft doesn't have specific dates on when those apps will be available, but says they will debut "very soon."
Navigation: A 10-Foot UI That Finally Works
One of my favorite aspects of SmartGlass is the remote-control functionality. With the SmartGlass apps, users will be able to control their Xbox 360 with their phone or tablet. This is great news; it means no more searching for an Xbox remote (or even a Harmony Touch) — just grab your phone and control the Xbox. Functions such as playback, pause, rewind and search all work on the phone.
Where the remote control element really shines is when you use it with Internet Explorer for Xbox. Microsoft helped pioneer the movement to get the web onto televisions back in the Web TV days, but it hasn't really succeeded with the concept until now.
As someone who has built and customized more Home Theater PCs (and Mac mini HTPCs) than I can count, I'm all too familiar with the problem of putting a web browser on a television set. The biggest issue is that making content accessible and controlling page movement with a traditional remote, keyboard or mouse is just a total pain.
Microsoft has decided to take a page from some of the better third-party iOS remote control apps, and turn the tablet or phone screen into a trackpad. Move your fingers across your device to control the cursor on Internet Explorer for Xbox.
Tap a text field, and use the device's native keyboard to enter content. Pinch to zoom on the trackpad to get a closer look at content on the TV. This is the way web browsing on the TV was supposed to work. Even better — if you want to send a URL from your Xbox to your phone or tablet, you can do that with the tap of a button.
Creating a Real Second Screen for TV and Movies
We already touched on one of the larger aspects of SmartGlass when it comes to watching TV shows or movies: shifting content from one device to another. Again, if Microsoft stopped there, SmartGlass would still be a cool product.
But it didn't. What has the potential to take SmartGlass to the next level is true second-screen integration within those apps. For example, if I'm watching a movie on a Windows 8 tablet and I want to shift it to my Xbox 360, my tablet now becomes a hub for second-screen content.
If you're watching a movie or TV show, the cast members of that program will be part of the tablet experience. You can then browse through an actor's filmography or learn more about his or her background. What's more, specific details about a scene — as well as visual highlights of what's happening in the scene — can appear on-screen.
Microsoft tells Mashable that it is working hard on getting extra features and bonus experiences integrated alongside content. HBO Go has a great second-screen experience for Game of Thrones on the iPad that lets users browse maps and explore the series' universe and characters, while watching the show; HBO Go will be bringing this experience to Xbox SmartGlass. So, if you're watching Game of Thrones via HBO Go on your Xbox, you can use SmartGlass to get that second-screen experience.
As with video, users can control the Xbox Music service from their SmartGlass phone or tablet. Plus, if you want to play content on the Xbox, the tablet or phone becomes a screen you can browse for recommended artists, new releases, playlists and more.
The second screen opens up a much more group-oriented experience, especially if you want to have music blasting out of the speakers connected to the TV, while giving others the chance to choose songs. And since it works over Wi-Fi, you could have the tablet in your kitchen, while controlling the TV in your living room.
Microsoft is investing heavily into sports with SmartGlass. The goal is to bring more real-time sports programming to Xbox, and then augment that experience with on-screen highlights and second-screen controls. This will kick off with NBA Game Time for Xbox, and will expand to more sports in the coming months. The NBA Game Time app is now available for Xbox, and the SmartGlass enhancements will be ready on Oct. 26.
The Xbox is still about gaming, and Microsoft is hoping to deliver a more unique gaming experience using SmartGlass.
In supported games, users can get more views or have additional experiences on the phone or tablet. In Fozra: Horizon, for example, the phone or tablet becomes a virtual GPS; that means I can glance down at my phone or tablet to see where I am on the track (or even better, let my husband direct me as I'm driving).
With Dance Central 3, players can queue up the next song from SmartGlass, rather than having to wait for the end of a song. When Halo 4 launches, SmartGlass will act as a progress guide for the game.
How Does it Compare With the Wii U
Microsoft isn't the only company actively courting the second-screen space. Nintendo is making it a fundamental part of its upcoming console, the Wii U. The Wii U controller includes a tablet built into the device; this allows Nintendo and its partners to create games that take advantage of that second screen (similar to what Microsoft is doing for some of its SmartGlass-enhanced titles), but it's also letting users control the game itself on the screen.
When it comes to entertainment content, the Nintendo TVii is focused on creating a personalized way to access content from a number of digital services, as well as controlling the cable or satellite box.
I've only spent a few minutes with both systems, but feel like both companies are approaching the same idea from different directions. Nintendo is focusing first and foremost on crafting game experiences or additional game-play modes within the second screen itself. Microsoft is also certainly interested in achieving that, but its game integration is more about using a phone or tablet as a way to view additional information (such as a map in a car game) or to perform simple tasks.
That said, Microsoft seems to be further along at crafting second-screen experiences around video and music content. Nintendo has recommendations nailed with Nintendo TVii, but Microsoft has a more complete ecosystem for video and music.
This is the Future
Many companies are trying to capture momentum around the second screen. What makes Microsoft's gambit unique is that they already have 70 million consoles around the world; that helps solve a big barrier already — targeting people with compatible set-top boxes.
The biggest game changer, however, is the fact that SmartGlass is device agnostic. It's beyond cool that the controls and second-screen options will be available on iOS and Android. It also helps position Xbox 360 as a continually valuable device for the home-entertainment space.
Microsoft is serious about extending the Xbox brand the same way it did with Windows. An added benefit? The user interface on SmartGlass is so similar to Windows 8, it might just convince a few skeptics to give the Surface or another Windows 8 tablet a second look.
Technology and entertainment are only going to continue to converge as the years go on. For now, SmartGlass is one of the first products on the market that offers a glimpse at that larger future.


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Recently he has worked with human-derived samples with known genetic mutations and signatures. He has participated in various induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells projects since 2009 and has led the Mayo Clinic component of three iPS cells grants sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine.
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The Coming Iranian Class Wars
The particular shape of the ruling classes in Iran has, for the past one thousand and one years at least, consisted of two major components. In Iran they are referred to as the "Shah" and the "Shaykh", the King and the Cleric.
For those less familiar with the history of Iran, it is instructive to know that the clergy were a most integral part of the ruling classes all the way until the 1920s, when the founder of the Pahlavi Dynasty, Reza Shah, summarily stripped the mullahs of almost all their social institutions of power.
From that point on the clergy had to stay content with running the mosques for the most part. Even large land holdings of the organized clergy were confiscated.
As Reza Shah's liking for Germans, who built the first railway system in Iran, grew, his occupancy of the Peacock Throne eventually became too intolerable for the British and the Soviets, who jointly invaded Iran in 1941; the British occupying the southern regions and the Soviets occupying the northern regions. So, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had to watch his father be sent to exile, and was himself installed as the king.
Seeing how his father had been hated and feared so fiercely, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi decided to at least start out as a nicer, gentler Pahlavi King, and so "To assure the public that the dictatorship would not be re-imposed, the new shah granted amnesty to all political prisoners, and released 1,250 dissidents during the next few months; refused to protect two of his father's henchmen … and decreed a return of ecclesiastical lands to the religious foundations." [1]
In time, there would shortly come a big turn to the right, big crackdowns would follow, and a huge new wave of dissidents would be created, consisting mostly of the communist sympathizers of the Tudeh Party and the left-nationalist supporters of the National Front.
So, for the most part, the second King of the Pahlavi "dynasty" set his priorities in line with the Cold War-dictated aims and goals of his enablers in the West, and participated wholeheartedly in pursuing the leftists and making them into public enemy number one.
A most telling episode of a Pahlavi-era union between the Shah and the Shaykh, harkening back to the good old days when the two ruled harmoniously together, came in the wake of the social struggles of 1951-1953, which pit different factions of Iranian bourgeoisie against each other: the monarchist-comprador bourgeoisie and the feudal landowners against the nationalist factions, led by Mossadegh, the Prime Minister who successfully nationalized the Iranian oil industry. The struggle between these two factions naturally opened up the political arena to a wider participation on the part of other segments of society with other political inclinations, most significantly other nationalist-democrats as well as leftists.
It is instructive to see how the Ayatollah Khomeini's mentor, Ayatollah Kashani, acted in the fight between the nationalist and the comprador (i.e. imperialist lackey) factions of the Iranian bourgeoisie. At the height of the struggle, Ayatollah Kashani, a leading clergyman of that time, openly sided with the absolutist monarch, inciting his followers to oppose Mossadegh, who, according to Ayatollah Kashani, was clearly a communist/atheist lover, which Mossadegh was not.
We must take a slight detour here, in connection with the coup organized by the CIA to overthrow Mossadegh, a pleasing event not only to the monarchist-comprador factions, but also the clergy. The point of the detour being to show how thoroughly the imperialists plan when it comes to clearly marking their strategic friends and their strategic enemies.
According to documents released by the National Security Archive in June 2004, there were plans drawn up by the CIA in late 1952, early 1953 to train and arm a guerilla army in southern Iran, as a contingency backup in case of the failure of Operation AJAX, which was the covert coup carried out by the CIA and the British intelligence in August 1953, securing Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's installment as an absolute monarch servile to the UK and the US interests.
At the time the coup organizers were planning, one point of anxiety was the possibility of failure; in which case, they calculated, the communists (Tudeh Party), utilizing their popularity and influence among the rank and file of the National Front (Mossadegh's party), plus using their own sizable social support, would gain the upper hand and seize some or all state power. For this contingency, the coup organizers needed a guerilla army (death squads) that would literally target communists. Although this back-up plan was eventually shelved (the coup was successful enough), it served as a clear prototype for what the US later did in Guatemala, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Contra attacks against Nicaragua, and other death squads funded, trained and sustained in Central America throughout the 1980s.
Kermit Roosevelt, the operations manager for Operation AJAX, in his book, Counter Coup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran, recounts that after the completion of the coup, and as he was giving his oral report to John Foster Dulles, he noticed something eerie: "Despite his posture [leaning back in his chair], he was anything but sleepy. His eyes were gleaming; he seemed to be purring like a giant cat. Clearly, he was not only enjoying what he was hearing, but my instincts told me that he was planning as well." And sure enough, "Within weeks I was offered command of a Guatemalan undertaking already in preparation … I declined the offer," (Counter Coup, p. 209-210).
Then Came the White Revolution
So, the relations between the Shah and Shaykh were somewhat smoothed out during the reign of our second Pahlavi so-called king. Until, that is, the White Revolution, which was a package of social reforms instigated by the Kennedy administration and implemented by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Chief among these reforms was a land redistribution law, as well as laws recognizing suffrage for women, along with other measures such as health and education corps to be sent to all rural areas of Iran. These reform measures either took the mullahs' and their traditional social allies' lands, which alone caused extreme alarm, or else cut into areas such as education in rural areas where they had enjoyed a de facto position of hegemony. The mullahs were also voicing a loud opposition to those parts of the reforms that gave women rights previously denied them.
So, by modernizing the performance of all social functions that the clergy might have had a traditional role in, the White Revolution would codify into law the cutting of the hands of the clergy from essential spheres of social control outside the actual running of the mosques. Naturally, the mullahs were not going to take this sitting down, and though a sizeable segment manning the state-sponsored mosques dared not enter the fray, others such as Ayatollah Khomeini did come out in open rebellion against the so-called White Revolution.
As a result of this package of reforms, therefore, large sections of the traditional classes (the feudal landlords, as well as significant segments of the clergy) became the enemies of the state. The enemies of the monarchist bourgeois state, therefore, consisted not only of those on the left, but also of those solidly on the reactionary side of the fence.
And strange as it may sound, the Iranian bourgeois "liberals" have historically been able to work with both factions of the ruling classes, whether the immediate rulers came in the uniforms of the monarchists or the robes of the clergy, or a combination of both. And this, better than anything else, proves the incapacity of the Iranian liberals for consistency and adherence to their own supposed ideals when it comes to two of the most fundamental cornerstones of bourgeois liberalism: 1) commitment to the separation of religion from governance (an absolute minimum), neglected by the "liberals" who comfortably work inside the clerical regime; and 2) commitment to democracy, neglected by the "liberals" who find it unproblematic to work with the monarchists.
So, in effect, any true nationalist, or any true liberal in Iran has no place left to go, politically speaking, but to the socialists!! It is only a socialist program that can satisfy the most basic social demands of both the liberal and democratic segments of the so-called middle classes (the professional class), as well as liberate the rest of the working classes in Iran.
The Next Round of History
The monarchists who are now lining up again for another ride on Uncle Sam's Magic Bus Ride, have adopted a new slogan, a "democratic" one in which, the Newly Improved Reza Pahlavi, has been espousing a funny neo-monarchist slogan: I want to be the King of all Iranians! Implying, inadvertently of course, that his father was a bit of a dictator who chose to be the king of only a few!!
It is more than slightly embarrassing, of course, to enunciate such a position at all. Does not every king worthy of the title take it for granted that he is the king of all his subjects?
We must repeat that with or without the imperialist invasion by the US-British-Israeli axis, the liberation of the Iranian peoples of all nationalities remains in our own hands.
As such, those of us, the people of Iran, who will yield neither to the Shah nor to the Sheykh, will have to make an unambiguous stance:
Anybody who, for the purpose of taking state power, collaborates with the imperialists including US, UK or Israeli colonialists, is a traitor to the country, and as such, a pimp who is selling the future generations of your fellow countrymen and women for the price of a temporary taste of political power; meaning, you have earned yourselves an eternal entry into the large ledger of historical traitors to community, and will forever be placed in Lower Hell, on the ninth circle to be exact, on the lake of ice called Cocytus, on the inner circle Antenora, where the Traitors to Their Country are housed if Dante's map, constructed from his memory after his journey with Virgil, is to be trusted. [2]
Weapons of Mass Destruction or not, next on the agenda for another century of barbarity is if and when and how to attack Iran. The "if" relates to whether or not the imperialists can get "their man" at the helm of power in Iran. That man is said to be Akbar Rafsanjani, a.k.a. Akbar Shah. He is well known to have very cordial relations with institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF, and is the author of a "privatization" plan very popular with western investors. He is known as a "pragmatist" for very good reasons. And if the imperialists can subjugate a nation and make it crawl, by finding compliant national leaders who like to live on their knees and beg for dependency, then why go through all the mess of a war to get what they want?
But, again, imperialists are thorough. All contingencies must be accounted for and a plan A and a plan B for all such contingencies must be drawn up.
Times are strange indeed. There are some Iranians who would like to lend a hand to occupying rapists. Such Iranians both inside and outside Iran are rubbing their miserable and well-manicured hands together, salivating over the prospects of the rewards for being a US poodle dog. Count in this group Reza Pahlavi and his allies.
There are other types of Iranians, too, some of whom we can safely and accurately call fools, who think that the US will fire a few shots allowing them to storm the streets and overthrow the tyrannical regime, and once the Iranian tyrants are overthrown, the US tyrants too will go back home, only to send postcards from afar. These Iranian, much like first-time gangsters, with shaky fingers, filled with nervous adrenaline, can't wait to get some action going.
Then there are, of course, those Iranians inside and outside Iran who constitute the business classes, and they are nervous too. But only to a degree. They are mostly busy counting these days. Counting their assets, that is. They are also counting the possibilities, and counting the costs of each possibility.
Not least, we have the Iranian tyrants running the state apparatuses who are very nervous right now. They know that their particular political leaning, religious orientation, or actual plans or possible actions are not at issue, and that is why they are very nervous. Because they know very well how they got to be the current rulers in the first place: Like the Pahlavis, they are imperialist-assisted too with an expiration date!
Yet, in all their nervousness, the current tyrants are uplifted as well. Partly because they can once again puff up their chests, brandish their armor, get the public to tighten up their lips and shut up, and sing macho songs of war in defense of "Dear Islam." Back in 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, Khomeini is well known to have called the invasion a blessing, for it provided the perfect opportunity for the good Ommat-e Islam to march all the way to Basra, Najaf, Karbala, and Baghdad, and beyond that, to Jerusalem, to bring about a more powerful Islamic Republic (he may yet achieve this posthumously thanks to the Yanks). Expansionism was writ large into the spirit of Khomeini's designs, and here was a genuine chance for actual international gains. In the cause of heavens what matter that people die in unimaginable numbers?
Does this not sound like the "moral" calculations espoused by the Bush administration? The two are made for each other, and in fact are from the same cloth. And both are taking all of us for a vicious ride.
The other reason for the more frequent smiles on the mullahs' faces these days is more sinister, and involves the same calculative immorality that gives Bush and his gangster fellows their biggest satisfaction. Some of the more adventurous indeed calculate:
About 70 million people live in Iran. Most people simply wish to be left alone and not harassed, and are therefore a politically unknown factor. We do know, however, that about 15-20% of the population is solidly with the regime; as in, their status, privileges, petty-powers and income -- hence physical and social survival -- depends on this theocratic state apparatus. A further 10-15% may also be bought or coerced into cooperation through a carefully designed regime of carrots and sticks.
So, what does that come to? To about 10 million people whose lives physically and socially depend on the existence of this regime; no mere conscripts. And then, there is also the regular army. So, as pertains to the mere quantitative side of things, on top of all the military equipment, the Iranian regime can count on at least a few million hardcore supporters to cushion the blows dealt by Uncle Sam. For the mullahs therefore the question is very crude yet basic: How many millions of its citizens is Uncle Sam willing to stake on this bet?
And it will be a bet. No guarantees for anybody.
Some Iranian mullahs may look even gleefully at the American soldiers in Iraq trembling at the thought of another patrol, another foray into the chaotic hell that they themselves (at the order of their superiors) have created. They see the American soldiers already fatigued, breaking down at the mere thought of going back to Iraq for another tour of duty, or even for another day. The adventurous see this and think, "Bring it on then! We'll make things into such a hell that they will wish they had never left their mama's home!"
And the truly scary part is that the US administration of George Bush and his gang of high-stake rapists count on this kind of thinking. Hence the open talk of attacks on Iran, which have only been toned down while waiting for the election results. And hence the handy leaks for Seymour Hersh's article, "The Coming Wars: What the Pentagon Can Now Do in Secret," in The New Yorker (Jan 24, 2005), which constituted the opening salvo in the psychological phase of the "Iranian campaign."
Should the US imperial planners fail to get their man in the seat of power, we can expect an attack on Iran, either directly by the US or, as Vice President Dick Cheney has remarked, "Israelis might well decide to act first and let the rest of the world worry about cleaning up the diplomatic mess afterwards." Or is the US trying to convince Pakistan to start a war with Iran, "inviting" the Americans to fight along with them?
Oh, the possibilities! The possibilities and their cost-benefit studies must be delectable to consider and mull over!
The Possibilities Not Endless
In the fog of the current "war on terror" it is easy to forget that Khomeini, the cunning master politician that he was, knowing the imperialists' liking for an abundance of possibilities, benefited from the favors rendered him by imperialists, who, in turn, saw in Khomeini a great anti-communist like they would not see too frequently, a person whom Zbigniew Brzezinski called a "strategic ally." [3]
This should not come as a surprise in view of the historical landscape of the Iranian ruling classes' particular components as shown above. The mullahs, in their latest occupancy of what they consider their rightful place in the seat of power have been extremely helpful to the imperialists, by wiping out at least two generations worth of leftist achievements in Iran, sending an entire social movement into exile, into jails, or executed in the thousands.
In spite of all the belligerent talk by Bush and his Gang against the Iranian Islamic regime, pursuing all alternatives is a must-follow element of the proven protocols of the U.S. ruling classes.
And so it is that in following protocol, the imperialists' choice among the mullahs for Iranian President, Rafsanjani, is getting a lot of positive media attention in the Western capitals, especially in Washington, DC. Item: as reported in Al-Sharq al-Awsat of Feb 24, 2005, Rafsanjani had communicated indirectly with the White House, as well as with European and Arab leaders, to seek out their views on the possibility of his running for president. And consider, if you will, the International Crisis Group, a Soros/CIA front, which, before Rafsanjani even announced his candidacy, was calling for him to run for president, and has been advertising for him ever since.
The Iraqi population in general and the Iraqi resistance in particular continue to consider the presence in their country of some 160,000 foreign soldiers and paid mercenaries, who do not take their orders from Iraqis, as nothing but a foreign occupation. Their resistance is only likely to continue and grow.
One option open to an aggressor wielding substantial military superiority coupled with moral and ethical bankruptcy has historically been to widen the conflict. Should the need arise at any point, the necessary pretexts will be manufactured as required, and the rape-n-plunder show will continue leaving its blood drenched trail in our neighborhood.
Considering that the ruling classes in the US are confronting very little opposition of any significance, they can strategize with relative ease of mind. And as messy as the occupation and its reality might be, the business of the occupation seems to have been a profitable production. Simply look at the graft racked up by merely three US companies, Bechtel, Carlyle Group, and, Dick Cheney's current benefactor (he has millions in stocks) Halliburton. And for the foreseeable future, the looting will remain sweet. The non-handover of authority to the CIA-friendly Allawi, and then to the "elected" government after the so-called elections, includes a series of edicts, one hundred in total, signed by Paul Bremer and (until a new constitution arrives) still standing that, among other things, give US soldiers and military contractors immunity from Iraqi laws, provide for 100% repatriation of profits, and cap the taxes at 15% (Ibrahim Warde, Le Monde Diplomatique, May 2004, English edition). So, lacking a willing Islamist servile leader taking the helms in Iran, an eventual military attack will be fully activated as the track to follow.
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Many lessons can and should be learned from the US general elections of 2004; in particular from the political behavior of some on the US left who advocated voting for the lesser of two evils, i.e. the Democratic presidential candidate, in a race in which both candidates were pro-war. A key lesson is that radical democrats, socialists and left social democrats must create their own autonomous political institutions.
As long as we stay minimalist and attend only to the minimum necessities, and as long as we do not create the necessary political structures to channel people's demands, most people who could otherwise be in our camp will in fact very easily fall for the sweet talk handed out by the Democratic Party USA, or, in the context of Iran, fall for a "moderate" or a "reformist" mullah, or a "pragmatist leader"; all of whom will present themselves as the only alternative to the status quo, or conversely, as the only alternative to doing nothing. It is not for no reason that the corporate or state-owned media all over the world work so hard to turn citizens into well-behaved, TV-conditioned participants when acting politically, merely casting ballots and returning home joyously, feeling good that they delivered on all the democratic duties required of them. In short, no matter how many books we may have read or even written about the futility of supporting "reform" movements that in reality buttress the existing order, the world will not change for the better unless we on the left act collectively and consciously in the interests of the working classes, the oppressed, and the poor.
In the case of Iran, it is therefore the duty of leftists to insist on a social order and governance that represents and reinforces the true will of the people, who are the true source of all sovereignty, and the only legitimating base for any state. As progressives in Iran and the leftists worldwide, we must recognize and expose Rafsanjani as the face of US/UK intervention in Iran. It is wise to note that the same Belgian court that reviewed the cases brought against "pragmatists" such as Pinochet and Henry Kissinger has reviewed a similar case against Rafsanjani. To support a reactionary system in the name of anti-imperialism is as naive as Reza Shah's support for the Germans, which ultimately compromised Iran's independence for more than thirty years. As Samir Amin has characterized it, Islamic Fundamentalism is the "Dream of the Past," something highly appreciated by the CIA as a ready-to-use weapon against the progressive forces of Muslim countries. [4]
We demand that imperialists stay out of our country, and allow us to settle our accounts with the barbaric regime that is choking us and keeping us all down, to the ultimate delight of the imperialists. An imperialist power that has some thousands of nuclear warheads at the ready, and who daily uses uranium-enriched munitions in Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby exposing all the biological life of the region to radioactive poisoning for the next four billion years (half-life of uranium), has no moral authority espousing concern over the offensive capabilities of a nation whose military budget is a mere drop in the ocean that represents U.S. military expenditures, and who is completely surrounded by the U.S. military presence.
We further demand that the Islamic Republic regime respect the safety and health of the Iranian people and cease its pursuing of nuclear energy for civilian purposes for the foreseeable future, until a government is established that exhibits thoroughness of modus operandi. In a country where the government cannot, yet, publicly account for the serial killings of the most prominent intellectuals and writers; in a country where thousands of political prisoners have vanished without any culpability; in a country where the government manifestly lacks any accountability for its methods and means when it comes to providing for its people (except when it comes to pursuing, terrorizing and killing dissidents); in a resourceful country where almost half of the population lives in poverty, the government that has thus thoroughly proven its incompetence has no right exposing the public to the enormously poisonous hazards of activities as dangerous as nuclear activities.
And for those who believe mistakenly, or advocate maliciously, that nuclear power brings prosperity, prestige and respect, they need only look at two examples: the case of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and the deserted ghost communities that spread in all directions from it today; and the case of Pakistan, a country that in spite of its nuclear weaponry is still a slave to the designs of the imperialists.
Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, known to some in Iran as Akbar Shah, and Reza "Everybody's" Shah are in fact the two faces of the same coin that constitutes the Iranian ruling classes, with one twist: Akbar Shah is also a US-approved alternative to their junior Pahlavi.
Rosa Faiz is an independent writer, researcher and analyst, and may be reached at email@example.com. This article first appeared in Covert Action Quarterly.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 21: Members of the Australian Irish Dancing Association assemble for the start of the annual St Patrick's Day parade in Sydney's CBD on March 21, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. The festival, with more than 70 floats and representation from all 32 counties of Ireland, marks the national day of Ireland, celebrated on March 17. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)


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DENVER (AP) — No one should be surprised that the Super Bowl favorites are already out of the playoffs.
With their 38-35 loss in double-overtime to the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday night, the Denver Broncos became the ninth No. 1 seed in the last eight years to go down in the divisional round.
On Sunday, the Atlanta Falcons nearly became the 10th before escaping Seattle's upset bid in a 30-28 thriller and becoming just the seventh top seed since 2005 to advance to the conference championship.
"I wouldn't say I'm shocked," said Peyton Manning, who also lost as a No. 1 seed with Indianapolis in 2005. "That's not the right word. I'm disappointed."
Seeds just don't matter anymore.
"That's playoff football, it's do-or-die," Denver linebacker Keith Brooking said. "There are no makeups, there's no 'my bad' on that play. You have a bad day, you go home and you deal with it. You're staring an offseason right in the face with nothing to do, except to think about it."
The Broncos hadn't lost since Oct. 7, winning each of their last 11 regular season games by an average of two touchdowns.
"I feel like we're the best team," receiver Brandon Stokley lamented. "But, in the NFL, it doesn't matter. It's one game and it's whoever plays better. And they played better."
The Broncos certainly aren't alone in their heartache.
Among the top seeds to have fallen flat in the first playoff game are a 15-1 team, three 14-2 teams and five 13-3 teams — all at home, coming off a bye and facing an opponent that had to travel following a win on wild-card weekend.
The favorites who faltered were led by some of the greatest quarterbacks of our generation, too. Manning and his brother, Eli, have both won Super Bowls and both have been bounced right out of the playoffs. Same with Aaron Rogers and Tom Brady. Others who made early exits are Matt Ryan, Philip Rivers, Tony Romo and Kerry Collins.
To paraphrase the late Vince Lombardi, "What the heck's going on out here?"
"I have no clue," Broncos safety Mike Adams said.
Speaking of Lombardi, no top seed has hoisted the Super Bowl trophy that bears his name since the New Orleans Saints did it in 2009 — the last year the No. 1 seeds in both conferences won in the divisional round.
And not since the '03 Patriots has the team with the best regular-season record won it all.
Maybe the solution is to expand the playoffs, which could pit No. 1 seeds against lesser teams in their playoff openers.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell hasn't taken a stance on the issue.
"I think it needs to be evaluated carefully," he said. "… It's got to be special to make the playoffs. It's also got to retain its uniqueness and the importance of all those regular-season games. So, it has to be done very carefully — if we do it."
The possibility of another 7-9 team making the playoffs like the Seahawks did in 2010 isn't necessarily a deterrent to adding teams to the playoff pool, Goodell said.
"I think it's because of the competitive nature of our league that wild card teams have gone on to win the Super Bowl," Goodell said. "And teams that haven't had great records, if you're hot and you get hot in the second half of the season, you can win the Super Bowl. And I think that's what's changed a lot, and that's why I think it's worthy of evaluation."
Perhaps the quest to secure a first-round bye shouldn't serve as such an imperative for teams anymore because all that R&R so often translates into rust and ruin.
Manning lost his first playoff appearance with the Broncos (13-4), who wasted the home-field advantage they secured throughout the playoffs by failing to pressure Joe Flacco and negating a record-setting performance by kick returner Trindon Holliday.
It wasn't like the Broncos had rested their regulars down the stretch, either. They didn't secure the No. 1 seed until Week 17, so they never took their foot off the gas, something they were sure would help them keep rolling through January.
"I felt like we went about our business the right way and we had good weeks of practice, were ready to play and the game came down to about 12 plays and they made them and we didn't," Stokley said.
The Falcons also played their starters to the end but lost their regular-season finale to Tampa Bay, then got all they could handle from the Seahawks before advancing to the NFL title game, where they'll host San Francisco.
That wild win over Seattle included a TD run, a field goal and a desperation heave into the end zone over the final 31 seconds — the exact amount of time that remained when Broncos coach John Fox decided to have Manning take a knee and settle for overtime on a frostbitten night in Denver after Jacoby Jones' stunning 70-yard TD catch over safety Rahim Moore had tied the game at 35.
"You know what? I agreed with it," Stokley said, "just with the conditions, where we were on the field. The wind was kind of blowing in our face a little bit and they were getting after Peyton and in that situation, I agreed with it and I had no problems with that at all."
Aside from the Saints three years ago, the five other No. 1 seeds since '05 that managed to win their playoff opener all won their conference championship only go on to lose the Super Bowl.
Champ Bailey, a 12-time Pro Bowler still searching for his first Super Bowl ring, knew this was his best chance, calling this his "best team that didn't do anything. It's frustrating, but that's the reality of it. We got to the playoffs but you have to win in the playoffs for it to mean something. So, it's just another year when we came up short."
Anymore, the odds are simply stacked against the odds-on Super Bowl favorites.
Yet, they still have a better shot than regular-season champs in other sports.
Since the first Super Bowl, the team with the best regular-season record has won 21 of 46 championships, or 46 percent, which is more than in the NHL (42 percent), NBA (41 percent) and MLB (28 percent), according to STATS.
"There's no doubt in my mind that we'll be back and we'll be bigger, stronger, faster, we'll be hardened and ready to go," Broncos star linebacker Von Miller said.
But how far?
Of the eight previous No. 1 seeds to falter in their first playoff game, only one — the Patriots in 2011 — recovered from that heartache to reach the Super Bowl the next season, where they lost to the New York Giants.
By ARNIE STAPLETON, AP Pro Football Writer
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The $3,300 Easter Ham With a Spanish Accent
Charles Passy joins Lunch Break with a look at Iberico ham from Spain. The top of the line ham costs around $1,200, but with all the special carving utensils it can add up to $3,000 from a company such as LaTienda. Photo: Getty Images.
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Incandescent light bulbs and their uses
Incandescent light bulbs are the traditional style of light bulb with a twisting filament. Theyre often used as heat lamps due to the high temperatures produced as a by-product of generating electric light. When using incandescent light bulbs, only 5% of energy is used to create visible light.
Incandescent bulbs come in many fittings, including:
- Bayonet caps
The standard incandescent bulb is a glass bulb structure that protects, most commonly, a tungsten filament. Incandescent bulbs are usually significantly cheaper than LEDs or any other fluorescent lamps to buy, however, LEDs are energy-saving by design.
Are incandescent light bulbs still available?
Although incandescent bulbs are being phased out slowly, theyre still available to buy (often called rough-service or shock resistant varieties). In theory, though, these bulbs are meant solely for industrial use in industrial equipment like heat lamps.


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