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Educators using yoga therapy to help children relax
A pilot program recently implemented in some New Orleans schools focuses on deep breathing, relaxation and body awareness.
Students and school leaders are giving it rave reviews.
An ancient discipline dating back 5,000 years or more is brand-new to kids at Arthur Ashe Charter School in Gentilly.
For two months, they've practiced deep breathing, meditation and poses through yoga power play, a pilot program that empowers kids ages 9 to 13.
"The fact that they have tools outside of a yoga class to know that this is how I relax myself by taking a couple of deep breaths, knowing that they have access, empowering themselves through breathing and through movement," said Executive Director Laren Darnell.
Damell said yoga helps kids relieve stress and calm down. She shared a story of a little boy who was recently sent to the principal's office.
"He went into the office, and he said, 'I just need to sit in the corner and breathe for a couple of breaths, and I'll be OK,'" says Darnell.
"It makes you feel really calm and relaxed. If you're angry, you'll calm down," said student Nadia Frederick.
School leaders said 98 percent of students participating have never been exposed to yoga.
"I feel calm, and I get all the anger out of me," said 10-year-old Jamari Metoyer, who before yoga power play, was frequently angry.
"I would be stressed out (and) punch something," said Metoyer
"They need a place to calm down. They feel overwhelmed. They feel things are happening, and they can't stop it," said Principal Amanda Aiken of Lawrence Crocker College Prep in Central City.
Aiken said many students come from high-crime neighborhoods and need help dealing with stress at home.
"The kids don't actually know they're getting therapy. They focus on the play. They're excited they are going to P.E. and trying something new," said Aiken.
Aiken said yoga isn't often offered to children in Title 1 schools. She hopes the program will continue and be expanded. Organizations such as Son of a Saint are utilizing the program.
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The charitable developers at ACE Team have released the first batch of downloadable content for their first-person brawler Zeno Clash. Sorry, these aren't new levels or knuckle skins, but new models for Garry's Mod.
That means the bizarre cast of characters from Zeno Clash is yours for the goofy manipulating in Garry's Mod, meaning even crazier machinima and screen caps await us. The Zeno Clash model pack includes 70 character, creature and weapon models from the independently developed game.
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It's been a busy summer for the Badewanne diving team. The Finnish group of underwater explorers have dived a number of deep wrecks in the Gulf of Finland from the first and second world wars and also discovered an unnamed wreck from the 19th century. In this team report they give the lowdown on their finds so far:
Operating from the Estonian and Finnish side, we have made dives during which history has again revealed itself before our eyes.
Near Osmussaar Island, Estonia we visited the wreck of Russian mineship Yenisei, another victim of victorious U26 from summer of 1915. The mighty ironclad rests on the seabed at 45 m listing to port, with the Obuhov cannons in their casemate stations defiantly pointing towards the green light above.
U 479 lies at a depth of 95 m. ©Badewanne.fi
Next we headed out further into central Gulf of Finland and revisited the wreck of WW2 era wreck U 479. She rests on the seabed at 95 m after hitting a mine in the late fall of 1944. Dropping down through the water, we can see that the water is very layered, and eventually pass through the halocline at 75 m. There is a distinct boundary layer where water is optically distorted as we enter the more saline deepwater. Visibility at the wreck is good, and we utilize our short bottom time to shoot video of this uniquely well preserved WW2 U-boat wreck.
Continuing our journey through time, we dived another deep wreck, a WW2 "Torpedoboot" T18. It wasn't a small "motor torpedo boat", as many would think about, but in German classification it's a 900 ton small destroyer of "Torpedoboot 37" class. The wreck is broken in the middle, laying at almost 100 m. Visibility is very good, and we obtain a good series of still images be
fore undertaking the ascent, and the subsequent and inevitable almost three hours of decompression.
The Torpedo boat T18. ©badewanne.fi
Next we move back to Finnish side, and establish our base on Hanko peninsula at Tvärminne Zoological Station, a scientific facility operated by University of Helsinki. From Tvärminne we again head out to the mouth of Gulf of Finland. We visit the wreck of U26, vanquisher of Pallada and Yenisei before her own fate in the fall of 1915. This wreck is very tricky to dive as it's in a very busy location on the westbound shipping lane. Cooperation with maritime traffic controllers, Helsinki Traffic and Tallin Traffic is essential for safe and successful diving. We shoot video and stills for our documentary purposes, before we leave the U26
to her rest, which has lasted for 100 years this year.
The wreck of the Yenisei, sunk by U26. ©badewanne.fi
Next target is something we don't know – something that according to sonar images could be even a submarine. However, when we drop through 75 m of water, we arrive at a wreck of a mail ship from the 19thcentury. Her bows are buried in the glacial clay, and deck cabins have suffered from inevitable trawl damage, but it can be clearly seen that this ship has transported mail – and people. Fancy cast-iron lattice in railings, beautifully crafted wooden benches can be seen on upper deck, together with the ships' wheel still standing, and the engine telegram and compass bowl on the deck. The identity of the ship is yet unknown.
Further out, during a lucky weather break, we again drop down to wreck at 80 m looking for a real "motor torpedo boat". This turned out to be German Kriegsmarine Schnellboot S106 from the WW2 era, as we hoped. She's broken in two by a mine explosion, but in very good condition. This is another new discovery, which adds a significant piece into the puzzle of naval warfare in the Gulf of Finland during WW2. After shooting images we again undertake the long ascent towards the green light.
Kriegsmarine Schnellboot S106 ©badewanne.fi
These are some impressions from our expedition this summer. However, there are still many weekends left of the diving season. Stay tuned, we may bring you more interesting stuff before the winter closes in!
For more info on the Badewanne team, head over to their website.


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Hello! I'm Dr. Ryan McNutt, a University Teacher (adjunct professor to American readers) in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. Today I'm going to talk a bit about a typical day in my work as an early career archaeologist within academia, and also tell you a bit about how I got here.
Anthropologizing Abroad—Or, an American in Glasgow
Like many archaeologists, and in fact, like many of my colleagues at Glasgow, I've had a varied journey to reach the desk I'm sat in front of today. My undergraduate was a B.Sc in Anthropology from Middle Tennessee State University, where the majority of my interest was in the prehistory and protohistory of the Mississippian civilizations of the American Southeast. Even within that, I was always interested in conflict within and between groups, and the archaeological and anthropological investigations of the effect of conflict on human behavior, and indeed, on the landscape.
After a few years doing commercial archaeology in the United States, this interest in conflict, coupled with my desire to return to postgraduate study, saw me pack up and move across the Atlantic to Glasgow to pursue an Mlitt, and latterly a PhD, focused on conflict and battlefield archaeology with Glasgow's own (and the only one in the world!) Centre for Battlefield Archaeology. My postgraduate study through the Centre was phenomenal, opening doors and providing some amazing opportunities for fieldwork in France, Poland, and on some of the most historically significant battlefields in Scotland, as well as participating in TV documentaries.


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So far, things for Battlefield: Bad Company seem to be off to a rocky start, at best. Between the lukewarm previews, the beta test a lot of players had to pay to participate in, and the announcement that there would be additional weapons for sale as microtransactions, the game hasn't seemed to garner a lot of approval from the online community.
Gamespot is reporting that EA has decided to ditch the idea of selling the weapons included in the Gold Edition of the game, making them available to owners of the regular edition... albeit, for a little extra work. If a player hasn't bought the Gold Edition, he or she will have to slog through a number of online battles until the character achieves the maximum in-game rank (exactly what the requirements for said ranks are has yet to be revealed). This change came about due to the public outcry.
"We listen a lot to what people say out there. I think that's important to show, because we don't have time to comment on everything, because there's so much noise out there, but DICE is built upon the multiplayer community, and we do listen to what people say out there," Karl-Magnus Troedsson, Bad Company's senior producer, told GameSpot. "When we saw this big uprise about people that really felt it was dissatisfying that some people bought the Gold Edition, those five weapons you couldn't get or that you had to buy if you had the ordinary version of the game, that we just decided that all weapons will be free in the game, and that's how it is now."
While this solution isn't going to make everyone happy—EA is still encouraging people to buy the Gold Edition of Bad Company if they want to have these weapons available from the moment they start playing—it's nice to see that the developer is willing to adjust its strategy when it proves unpopular. Of course, the whole paying-more-for-the-option-to-get-extra-content-for-no-work approach seems like a variation of when EA sold weapons and cash for The Godfather, but I'm sure I'm just picking nits.


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The holidays have always been a time for families to come together, and more than ever families are meeting up in a new location, to share new experiences as well as each others' company. Whether it's holiday time, a hard earned graduation, a milestone anniversary or birthday or just an excuse to get away, a family reunion can be a legacy trip of a lifetime. So how do you ensure your time and financial investment don't go to waste?
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I have never kept a total of my caches on GSAK. I came across "Cache Stats" and thought it would be a good idea to have a record of my caches on my home page. Here's my problem...
How do I get my total caches into GSAK? I have about 800 caches and the pocket quieries only allow 500 at a time. I tried doing it by each province and state, but I was still missing about 200 caches. Any suggestions?
Once I get it in GSAK it will be a matter of updating the stats.


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AMD's stock rose by as much as 13 per cent on Monday morning when the Wall Street moneymen returned to work after their Good Friday holiday and rewarded the microprocessor and graphics design firm for its upbeat financial report for the first quarter of 2014.
We can hear the champagne corks a-poppin' at AMD's headquarters from here (source: Yahoo Finance)
Some of that gain, however, should also be considered to be a result of statements by both AMD CEO Rory Read and Intel CEO Brian Krzanich that perhaps the PC market is mildly de-toiletizing.
"We are seeing signs that the [PC] market decline is slowing and potentially stabilizing, as some of the softness in consumer [demand] is being offset by demand for commercial PCs," said Read in a conference call after releasing his company's financial result's last Thursday.
Krzanich sang much the same tune during his conference call after releasing Intel's Q1 2014 results last Tuesday, when he said that he saw "signs of improvement in the PC business."
Read was careful to explain that he didn't see the PC market to be on the upswing, however, it's just that the downswing is slowing. "I think the PC market will be down. No question," he said.
What's happening is that the commercial PC market is marginally stronger than anticipated based on the Windows XP end o' life and a somewhat improved global economy, Read said, "and I think that's offsetting a bit of the pressure that we're continuing to see in consumer from tablets."
Neither is Read predicting a rapid resurgence in PC sales: he's merely revised his previous estimation of a 10 per cent decline this year to a 7-to-10 per cent decline.
How's that for hedging your bets? No matter – Wall Street seems sufficiently pleased and more upbeat about AMD's future.
But not all members of the moneymen community are so sanguine, of course. Bernstein Research analyst Stacy Rasgon, after admitting to his clients in a research note that he had been wrong about AMD's Q2 revenue projections, did get in a dig about the company's prospects.
"AMD's competitive position remains fairly awful," he wrote, "regardless of near-term upside."
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So here we go...
10 ways to wear a braid. Are you ready for it? Count 'em. It's 10.
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- Fishtail
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Which braid are you just dying to try?? Some are cool... some are just not my style... but rock it, sister, if it's your thing!


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In the beginning was the big bang.
God may have been around before then — but as far as scientists are concerned, the big bang is as far back as they can go. And to get back there, they're getting ready to blast subatomic particles so energetically that the extreme conditions of the freshly born universe will be re-created on Earth.
Will those "little big bangs" crack age-old scientific mysteries? Or, despite repeated assurances from the world's top experts, will they create black holes that could gobble up the planet? After decades of preparation, scientists are finally switching on a machine that will separate the facts from what is plainly science fiction.
The machine is the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider, or LHC — the most powerful, most expensive particle-blaster ever invented. On Wednesday, Europe's CERN particle-physics lab is due to start shooting beams of protons through the LHC's 17-mile-round (27-kilometer-round) ring of tunnels beneath the French-Swiss border, near Geneva.
It will take months for the machine to reach full power. But eventually, those protons will be whipped up to 99.999999 percent of the speed of light, slamming together with the energy of two bullet trains colliding head-on. Underground detectors as big as cathedrals will track the subatomic wreckage on a time scale of billionths of a second. Billions of bits of data will be sent out every second for analysis.
As big as the numbers surrounding the LHC are, the mysteries it was built to address are bigger:
- What was the newborn universe made of?
- What causes things to have mass?
- Why is most of that mass hidden?
- Where did all the antimatter go?
- Is our entire universe a mere sliver of all that is?
"The LHC is the most powerful microscope that's ever been built," said John Ellis, a theoretical physicist here at CERN. "It will be able to explore the inner structure of matter on a scale that is 10 times smaller than anyone's been able to do before."
Ellis said the LHC also serves as "the most powerful telescope ever built," even though it looks inward rather than outward.
"We know that the way elementary particles interacted with each other controlled the very early universe," he explained. "So with the LHC we are able to, in some sense, re-create the conditions that existed in the universe when it was just a fraction of a second old — the sort of thing that the optical telescopes just can't see."
What's the point?
Past experiments in particle physics have yielded scores of practical spin-offs, ranging from new medical therapies to high-tech industrial materials — and even the World Wide Web, which you're using to read this report. But the potential for spin-offs isn't why more than 10,000 researchers around the world are looking forward so anxiously to the LHC.
"People ever since the ancient Greeks – and probably a long time before that – have wanted to understand how matter is made up, how it behaves, where the universe comes from," said Ellis, surrounded in his office by stacks of research papers. "And so we are responding to that continuing human urge."
The quest is not without controversy: Scientists say there's a chance that the LHC could create microscopic black holes, a phenomenon never before observed on Earth. They hasten to add that the tiny singularities will instantly pop out of existence, but that hasn't stopped critics from trying to block the collider's startup. Two of the critics have filed suit in federal court in Hawaii, seeking the suspension of LHC operations until more studies are done.
Responding to the critics, CERN has issued a series of reports explaining why the LHC will pose no threat. Ellis was one of the report's authors. "If the LHC were to make microscopic black holes, it would be tremendously exciting — and no danger," he said.
The 62-year-old London native has spent more than half his life at CERN, delving into topics ranging from dark matter to the theory of everything. Once the LHC is up and running, he expects to find out whether the theories he and other physicists have developed over all those years lead to solid evidence — or lead to a scientific dead end.
"Theoretically, that would be the most interesting possibility, because it would really mean that we had to tear up our notebooks of the last 45 years and start more or less from scratch," Ellis said.
The God Particle
The theory described in all those notebooks is known as the Standard Model, which ranks among the scientific world's most successful theories. The Standard Model lays out a menagerie of subatomic particles and their interactions — and provides the basis for inventions ranging from television sets to microwave ovens to nuclear bombs.
Only one elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model has not yet been detected: the Higgs boson, which is thought to interact with other particles to give them mass. Without the Higgs, the big bang might have been an insubstantial flash in the pan — all energy, and no mass. Or so the theory goes.
The elusive Higgs boson looms so large as a gap in the Standard Model that Nobel-winning physicist Leon Lederman wrote a book about it called "The God Particle." (He joked that he wanted to call it the "Goddamn Particle," but his editor wouldn't let him.)
"This is in some sense the holy grail of particle physics, to find this missing link in the Standard Model," Ellis said. "So that's one thing that we're really looking forward to with the LHC. In fact, back when we persuaded the politicians to stump up the money to build the thing, that's probably what we told them."
Not even the LHC will be able to spot the Higgs boson directly. Instead, physicists will have to infer its existence through an analysis of the other particles that should be created when it decays. It's not an easy task, but Ellis believes the evidence should turn up within a year or two of the machine's startup.
Even that won't mark the end of the quest. Ellis compared the Higgs boson to a doorway that should lead beyond the Standard Model.
"I don't think that the Higgs door, if you like, is just closing off the room, and there is nothing beyond," he said. "I believe there's going to be a lot more physics beyond. What it's going to be, I don't know. Maybe it's supersymmetry. Maybe space has additional dimensions. Maybe it's something that we haven't thought of yet. I certainly hope it's something we haven't thought of yet. It would be great to come across a real surprise."
But Ellis and his colleagues at CERN have two nagging concerns in the back of their minds: What if somebody else finds the magic door first? Or what if they spent all these billions of dollars and there's no Higgs particle at all?
A competitive twist
Fifteen years ago, when Leon Lederman wrote "The God Particle," he thought the Higgs boson would be found in the Superconducting Super Collider, a project that was just getting started in Texas. That machine would have been four times as powerful as the LHC — but when the costs started running far beyond the initial estimates, Congress killed the program.
Over the decade that followed, U.S. scientists weren't just waiting for the LHC to be built: The focus shifted to the Tevatron collider at Fermilab in Illinois, which theorists figured might have just enough punch to pick up the Higgs' trail.
Last year, researchers at Fermilab passed the word that they had found some interesting data — readings that hinted at the presence of the Higgs but weren't yet solid enough to publish. That added a competitive twist to the grail quest.
"The longer we wait, the higher the probability that Fermilab discovers something that we wouldn't mind discovering ourselves here," Jos Engelen, CERN's chief scientific officer and deputy director general, said last year.
Beyond the God Particle
What if physicists don't find the God Particle they are expecting to see? Ellis acknowledged that was a possibility. "This might be a little bit difficult to explain to our politicians, that here they gave us 10 billion of whatever, your favorite currency unit, and we didn't find the Higgs boson," he said.
But Ellis has faith that even then, there'd be something to discover — maybe something even weirder and more wonderful than the Higgs boson.
"Probably the most likely option then might be extra dimensions," Ellis said. "And there are some ideas where if you have some additional dimensions of space, you could somehow do the job that the Higgs does in the Standard Model."
For years, string theorists have noted that their equations come out better if they assume that the universe has nine or 10 spatial dimensions instead of the three we can perceive. The LHC could provide the first evidence of those extra dimensions: Some theorists say the collisions could produce anomalously heavy particles, suggesting that part of their momentum was going into the extradimensional realm. Harvard physicist Lisa Randall estimates that the LHC could nail down the evidence for extra dimensions in five years.
Other theorists have focused on the idea that every subatomic particle should have an as-yet-undetected "supersymmetric" partner that mirrors many of the characteristics of the particles we know, but is dramatically different in other respects. The partners would have greater masses and a different spin, for example.
To date, no actual evidence of supersymmetry has been found. But if supersymmetric particles don't exist, then a lot of the theories that look beyond the Standard Model would have to be thrown out.
If supersymmetric particles do exist, they could account for a large part of the universe's dark matter. That's the 90 percent of all matter that scientists can detect only by its gravitational effect — a puzzle that has bedeviled astronomers for decades. "There are good reasons to think that these dark matter particles, if they exist, will be observable in the LHC," Ellis said.
Exploring the big-bang frontier
One of the LHC's detectors, known as ALICE, is devoted to studying the stuff that the universe was made of less than a billionth of a second after the big bang. Earlier experiments have hinted that the stuff was a super-hot liquid consisting of subatomic particles known as quarks and gluons.
For one month out of every year, the LHC will switch from smashing protons to smashing heavy lead ions, in an effort to re-create that quark-gluon soup and let ALICE analyze the recipe.
Yet another detector, LHCb, will study the tracks of particles containing specific types of quarks and antiquarks. The Standard Model predicts that equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been produced in the big bang — but today, we see hardly any antimatter in nature. That's a good thing, because matter and antimatter annihilate each other when they come in contact, leaving pure energy behind.
LHCb will follow up on earlier experiments that suggest matter won out over antimatter because they somehow decay in different ways.
And then there are the wild cards in the deck: Could the LHC really create black holes or exotic forms of matter? What about all these claims that the world is in peril?


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There's car dealerships that give the auto industry a bad rap. And then there are the ones that make those look like fuzzy kittens. We've highlighted them with "Cotomer Sevis," but now we're ready to give them a name and its own investigative column here on Jalopnik. We call it "Stealerships." These aren't just hard-nosed negotiators who know how to get you to agree to a bad trade-in value and a high monthly payment. These are the dealers that straight up jack you. We're talking total lemons, reneged deals, detailing that leaves scratches all over your car, and $62,000 cars being pushed on 70-year-olds with dementia. Now we want your stories, and we want to help make them right.
I'm Ben Popken, former managing editor of Consumerist (which Gawker sold to Consumer Reports in 2009). I've spent the past six years investigating and exposing corporate chicanery, and giving tools to the regular guy so he can solve consumer complaints on his own. Often that's meant giving great stories exposure so the forces of the internet can converge to share tips and tactics. It can also mean putting bad actors in the public pillory so we can bury them in tomatoes. (I know how you like to do that, internet.)
Now Ray has asked me to come over here and see what we can do for car buyers — making the calls, getting the quotes, digging through evidence, getting the straight story and solving problems. The ultimate goal is to make this car industry more honest, transparent, and fair to you, the car enthusiast.
So help us out by sending us your tales, forum links, and best supporting evidence (docs, audio, video, pix) to our tips line with the subject line of "Stealerships".
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Another Time, Another Life (The Story of a Crime Series #2)416
Stockholm, 1975: Six young people take the entire staff of the West German embassy hostage. The long siege ends with the deaths of two hostages and the wounding of several others. Jump to 1989: When a Swedish civil servant is murdered, the two leading detectives on the case find their investigation hastily shelved by a corrupt senior investigator. Ten years later: Lars Johansson, having just joined the Swedish Security Police, decides to tie up a few loose ends left behind by his predecessor: specifically, two files on Swedes who had allegedly collaborated on the 1975 takeover of the West German embassy, one of whom turned out to be the murder victim in 1989. Johansson reopens the investigation and follows the leads--right up to the doorstep of Sweden's newly minted minister of justice.
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Leif GW Persson has chronicled the political and social development of modern Swedish society in his awardwinning novels for more than three decades. Persson has served as an adviser to the Swedish Ministry of Justice and is Sweden's most renowned psychological profiler. He is a professor at Sweden's National Police Board and is considered the country's foremost expert on crime. He lives in Stockholm.
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On Thursday the twenty-fourth of April 1975, death came during office hours, and oddly enough in both female and male form. Which is not to say the men weren't still in the majority. Death was attractively and neatly dressed, and to start with behaved both courteously and urbanely. Nor was it by chance that the ambassador was at his place of employment, which was otherwise far from always the case. On the contrary, this was the result of careful planning, and key to the whole affair.
The embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sweden is located on Djurgården in central Stockholm, and has been since the early 1960s. In the northeast corner of the area that goes by the name Diplomat City, with the Swedish Radio and TV building and the Norwegian embassy as its closest neighbors, it hardly gets finer than that as Stockholm addresses go. There is nothing remarkable, however, about the embassy building itself. An ordinary, dreary concrete box in the sixties' functional style, three stories and just over twenty thousand square feet of office space with entry on the ground floor at the north end, it is far from the most prestigious foreign posting in the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The weather was nothing to write home about that day when death came to call. It was a typical Swedish spring with biting winds, restless clouds under a pewter-colored sky, and only a vague promise of better, warmer times. For death these were ideal conditions. Best of all security at the embassy was almost nonexistent; it was a building that was easy to occupy and defend but difficult to storm. Best of all, a solitary, rather worn-out attendant manned the reception area where, if worse came to worst, the glass doors of the security passage could be forced manually. Granted, the weather conditions would not help the perpetrators when it was time to leave.
At some point between quarter past eleven and eleven-thirty in the morning things started to happen, and the fact that a more precise point in time could not be established was also owing to the poor security. Whatever. Within the course of a few minutes, six visitors arrived in three groups of two people each, young people between twenty and thirty, all German citizens of course, and they all wanted help with various matters.
In their homeland they were notorious. Their likenesses and descriptions were on thousands of wanted posters all across West Germany. Their faces were also to be found in airports, train and bus stations, banks, post offices, and basically any public area where there was vacant wall space available. Their images were even on file at the embassy in Stockholm, in a folder in a desk drawer in the reception area, however useful that might be. But when they actually showed up no one recognized them, and the names by which a few of them introduced themselves were different from their own.
First two young men arrived who wanted advice on an inheritance issue that concerned both Swedish and German jurisdictions, and it was clear, if for no other reason than the bulging briefcase one of them was lugging, that this was no simple matter. The guard in the reception area told the two men where they could find the official they needed and let them into the embassy.
Immediately after this came a young couple who wanted to renew their passports. A routine errand, one of the most common at the embassy. The young woman gave a friendly smile to the guard as he opened the door for her and her companion.
But then things became more complicated. Two young men showed up looking to acquire work permits. The guard explained that this was not an embassy matter but rather a question for the Swedish authorities. Instead of listening to him the two persisted. One of them even got a bit stubborn when the guard didn't want to let them in. While they stood there arguing, one of the embassy employees, who was going out for lunch, appeared. As he exited, they both took the opportunity to slip in and immediately disappeared up the stairway to the upper floors, without taking any notice of the guard shouting at them to come back. Then everything happened very fast. The six congregated in the stairwell outside the consular department on the second floor, pulled on balaclavas, and took out pistols, submachine guns, and hand grenades. After that they cleared the offices of superfluous visitors and personnel; a few introductory rounds in the ceiling making the plaster spray was sufficient for the majority of the staff to flee head over heels out onto the street, and the twelve who remained behind were gathered together and herded into the library on the top floor, with military precision and without wasting time on any pleasantries whatsoever.
At eleven forty-seven the first alarm about "gunfire at the West German embassy" came to the Stockholm police command center, and this unleashed an all-out response. Uniformed police, detectives from the central detective squad, the homicide squad, and the secret police, in effect all personnel that could be called out were ordered there; blue lights, sirens, and screeching tires all headed for the West German embassy on Djurgården, and the alarm they are responding to is already clear enough. The West German embassy has been occupied by terrorists. They are armed and dangerous. All police are urged to observe the greatest possible caution.
First on the scene was a radio car from Östermalm precinct, and that it arrived at eleven forty-six according to the submitted report was not because the patrol commander was psychic; his watch was two minutes slow when he noted the time, and considering what happened later this was a minor error.
By twelve-thirty, after a little more than forty minutes, the police had already surrounded the embassy, secured the basement and lower floors inside the building, set up barricades in the area outside the embassy to hold back the quickly growing crowds of journalists and curiosity seekers, set up a temporary command center, and begun to organize their radio and telephone connections to police headquarters, the embassy, and the government offices. The head of the homicide squad who would be leading the effort was on the scene, and as far as he and his colleagues were concerned they were ready to get going.
The six people inside the embassy hadn't been twiddling their thumbs either. They had led the twelve employees being held hostage, including the ambassador himself, from the library to the ambassador's office in the southwest corner of the top floor of the building, and as far away from the entry as they could get. A few of the female employees had to help by filling wastebaskets with water and stopping up the sinks and toilets with paper towels to prevent an expected gas attack via the water pipes. Two of the terrorists primed blasting caps at strategic places on the top floor while the others guarded the hostages and the door toward the stairwell. And after all that they were ready at approximately the same time as their opponent.
The terrorists made the first move, opening with a simple, unambiguous demand. If the police did not immediately leave the embassy building, one of the hostages would be shot. The head of the homicide squad was not a man to get worked up unnecessarily, and his self-confidence was great, if not unlimited. Besides, he had been present at the drama on Norrmalmstorg a year and a half before, and there he had learned that if the culprits only had time to get to know their hostages, then the strangest feelings of camaraderie could arise between them, and the risk of violence would be greatly reduced. This interesting human mechanism had even been given a special name, "Stockholm syndrome," and in the general psychological delirium no one gave any thought to the limited extent of its empirical basis.
Therefore the head of homicide thought he was on a solid behavioristic footing when he sent word that he had made note of the terrorists' wishes and was willing to talk things over. But his adversaries had different, more violent ideas. After only a few minutes a volley of shots echoed from the top floor of the embassy. Then the door to the upper corridor opened and the German military attaché's bloody, lifeless body was thrown out down the stairs, coming to rest on the halfway landing. That done, the terrorists again made contact.


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Market watchdog Sebi has barred DSQ Software and its promoter Dinesh Dalmia from capital markets for seven years on charges of fraudulent trading in 1998 that had led to a sharp rise the company's stock price.
Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has found that DSQ and Mr. Dalmia made misleading statements "which had the effect of inducing purchase of securities by public which in turn increased the market price of the shares of the company".
It said the percentage rise in the price of the shares of DSQ was considerably higher as compared to that of other companies in the same industry. Percentage increase in other scrips varied from 140-340 per cent, whereas increase in the price of the shares of DSQ was around 750 per cent during January-December, 1998.
In its order dated October 3, Sebi said it "...hereby restrain DSQ Software Ltd and Dinesh Dalmia from accessing the securities market and also prohibit them from buying, selling, and otherwise dealing in securities market, directly or indirectly, in any manner whatsoever, for a period of 7 years from the date of this order."
The market watchdog observed that Mr. Dalmia, being the promoter and Managing Director of DSQ, was responsible for reducing the free float of shares by purchasing shares through his wife (Radha Dalmia) and filing cases in the court directly and indirectly through his affiliated entities which resulted in the stay of transferability of a substantial number of shares (28 per cent of the equity capital).
Sebi found that three cases including one against UTI Bank (Kolkata) were filed by Mr. Dalmia and other entities related to him to create an artificial scarcity of floating stock.
Further, it was observed that price sensitive statements were made by the company to "create a positive sentiment" for the shares of the company in the secondary market to influence the price of the shares of the company.
These statements were found to be misleading in nature and had induced public to purchase the shares of DSQ which led to an increase in price of its scrip, the order said.
It added that the company had made misleading statement of bagging a certain contract with Japanese firm Unisia Jecs Corp and related to future opportunities for DSQ.
Sebi had conducted a probe into the trading of the shares of DSQ for the year 1998 when a sharp rise in the price of the scrip was observed.
DSQ (formerly known as Square D Software) was mainly promoted by Mr. Dalmia and his group entities —— Ganapati Commerce, Ganapati Combines, Lexus Exports, and Square D Exports. These firms were wholly owned by Mr. Dalmia, his friends and family members.


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Naked patches of dirt around our house, where there used to grow juicy grass, signaled it was time to get off our meatless diet. Last Sunday marked the monthniversary of our eating only combinations of a veg with another veg over a bowl of grain of some kind.
To celebrate, we invited a few friends over, all foodies, for a potluck dinner. Everybody brought a dish of their own making. Our dining table, barely standing straight under the weight of all the goods, bravely held on its head a giant casserole of Risotto, a glass bowl of Short Ribs with Wild Mushrooms (from Poland!), a tray of Armenian mini Pizzas and Pastry Rolls filled with Cheese. There was Shrimp Ceviche, mean Brussels Sprouts with Pine nuts, another dish of Rosemary Roasted Potatoes, Sauteed Zucchini with Mint Butter, and some Simple Green Salad for common sense. The menu was only complete with a platter the size of the Columbus Circle in New York City filled with THAI LAMB LARB of my creation. Here's the satellite shot, for it were the only way to capture it whole:
I found the recipe for this colorful appetizer in my recently purchased book "Small Bites" by Jennifer Joyce. As the author explains, "larb" describes ground meat in Thai. She used pork for her dish, however I went with lamb. Shockingly, that's pretty much the only change I applied to the recipe. (Yes, Mama Linda, for once I followed the instructions!)
Before I list all the ingredients, let me just say that if I were to ever make this again (as hardly ever do I repeat myself on a plate), I'd use BIBB LETTUCE instead of Romaine. The latter seems muscular enough to hold the filling, however its leaves are long and straight-ish. Bibb lettuce not only has a kick-ass name but also its leaves create small and sturdy cups that I imagine would be more practical with this dish.
Having said that, let's rock & roll. Get yourself the following items:
– 3 stalks lemongrass
– 2 tbsp vegetable oil (I used coconut)
– 1 lb lean ground pork (lamb worked!)
– 1 tbsp soft brown sugar (raw cane variety was just as good)
– 1 sm red onion, finely diced
– 1 ripe but firm mango, diced
– 3 tbsp fresh cilantro leaves, some chopped and some picked leaves for garnish
– 20 heart of Romaine lettuce leaves, chilled to serve (mark my words. I say BIBB!)
Remove the hard parts of the lemon grass and finely chop only the white, soft insides. Toss it into a saute pan with heated oil and stir fry it till soft over medium heat. Now get the fire going and add your larb. Cook it until crispy and brown. Remove from the heat when fully cooked (5 minutes or so), and set aside.
Quickly whip out a DRESSING using the following:
– 3 tbsp palm sugar (again, raw cane rocked!)
– 1 sm red chili pepper, deseeded and finely chopped (wahs your hands THOROUGHLY afterwards and under no circumstances touch your eyes, or nuts if a boy, with those fingers. Trust me!)
– 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
– 1 tbsp fresh ginger, peeled and grated
– 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
– 2 tbsp fish sauce.
If you own a mortar and pestle, use it to crush the sugar, pepper, garlic and ginger together until they turn into a paste. Add the lime juice and fish sauce and mix together. In case you didn't have the ancient tool, simply toss everything into a small jar, close it tight and shake like a mad person until sugar's dissolved and all the guys inside are seriously dizzy, but happy.
Pour the dressing over the still warm meat, add your onion, mango, and cilantro, toss about and scoop some of the filling onto the prepared lettuce leaves. Done!
The dinner, just like a Thai wedding, went on for days. Or at least it felt like it, especially when we collected all the empty wine bottles in the end.
Jason's and my celebration of meat went on into the week, and was culminated with our last night's visit at ANIMAL. This LA restaurant has earned its reputation with the rich meat dishes it serves. It was also featured in various culinary magazines as well as the Food Network, or else known as my televised bible. Can you imagine a better place to PIG OUT? Literally.
We started with a few appetizers to share:
1. Carrot Salad with Parsnip Chips, Green Goddess Dressing and Avocado
2. Hamachi Tostada with Herbs, Fish Sauce Vinaigrette and Peanuts
3. Lamb Meatballs over Golden Rice with Green Garbanzos & Creme Fraiche.
Everything was phenomenal, but the meatballs just blew our minds. It sounds almost like an oxymoron, but those meaty balls were fluffy, almost airy, so light and delicate. Amazing!
Then the Entrees arrived. Jason ordered Catfish with Gold Rice Succotash, drizzled with Tabasco Butter and topped with King Crab. Every bite melted in his mouth. I can verify it was true, for I have sunk my fork into his plate for examination.
My main course was quite different. I asked for Crispy Rabbit Legs with Peas, Dandelion and Meyer Lemon Aioli. The meat just fell off the bone upon the slightest touch of my utensil. It was cooked to perfection and the flavors did not disappoint. HOWEVER. Yes, there is a "however". For my liking, the meal was too heavy. There was so much sauce poured all over the meat you could hardly see the Guest of Honor peeking through it. The rabbit, that pour bastard, was DEEP FRIED, I guess the best method for that crisp texture. It's not the kind of food I enjoy on weekdays, or even a weekend.
The feast did not end there, oh no! We had to try their famous dessert of Bacon Chocolate Crunch Bar dressed with Anglaise. While their Panna Cotta did not kick flip-flops off my feet, and one taste was enough, I could hardly stop myself from stealing the chocolaty bites finished with bacon bits from Jason's plate. Bacon was written all over that bar, but also it was married to rich and velvety chocolate, and it was a Holy Union I tell you. Alleluia.
After sampling their food it was clear to us why the two chefs from Florida, who created the restaurant, called it ANIMAL. The food was superb, and it stood for its name, but when the dinner was over I considered another meatless month, just for a moment.
And then I found a leftover patch of grass behind our garage.


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As a college student, the question of my major and future career ambition is one of those frequently asked questions that I contend with on a daily basis. Very few seemingly understand what it means to study cultural anthropology- that isn't necessarily a value judgement, merely an assessment of my personal experiences. The FAQ takes various forms, but amounts to something like "What are you going to do with that?" or "Oh, so you're going to be a teacher."
I must admit that I often ask myself the same question(s), which prompted me to participate in an internship rather than a field school this summer as part of my undergraduate degree requirements. I knew that I had to find something that interested me both as an anthropologist and as a historian.
I ended up working on a project that satisfies both of those requirements. So far this summer, I have participated in a NAS fieldschool that was held in Traverse City, Michigan and helped other underwater archaeology students with their individual projects. I have attended various organizational events as a representative of my site supervisor/mentor. But for me, one of the coolest things about this internship is my participation in a complete inventory of the historic docks and piers of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Last summer at this time, I was spending the day conducting research on a shipwreck that washed ashore in the same area in late 2010. This summer, I spent the day (once again) doing research. And while the area of historic research is not really in my scope of interest, the information that I found on one of the historic sites is rather fascinating (which for me was rather unexpected). The dock that I am researching is called Aral Dock and is one of many century old docks in the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore that has all but disintegrated into just pilings. The dock itself was rather homogeneous for the area in both build and use. Cargo such as lumber and agricultural items was loaded and unloaded at the dock and was sent on its way to various ports around the Great Lakes. Aral Dock is not interesting (for me) because of it's construction, or materials, or rate of decay; Aral dock is interesting because of the scandal that surrounds it.
Research through local and regional newspapers as well as oral history from residents shows that there was a double homicide on this particular dock, earning it the nickname "Murder Dock". The reason was money related- taxes, specifically- and the murder touched the small agricultural port town in a way that was unexpected for that community. As a student of anthropology and history, this salacious history of an area that is currently considered to be quiet and relaxing for residents and tourists alike is an interesting study in local anthropology.
The area itself was a combination of industrial and agricultural, with the docks acting as a material reminder of how these people once lived and worked. What remains of the historic docks in the area is submerged in varying depths of water, ranging from shoreline depths to fifteen feet. Position fixing has been a chore, especially because of the wave action that is common in this specific bay on Lake Michigan. That is not to say that this experience hasn't been enlightening or enjoyable. I can now say with confidence that I know what it is that I can do with my degree in Anthropology: I want to take what I have learned and apply it the field of historic archaeology, specifically sites that are underwater. Yes, I will likely spend more time in a library, museum, or historical society than I will in the field. I will likely be spending large amounts of time sifting through innumerable amounts of historic photos and oral histories as I did on the Day of Archaeology. But I have come to realize that there is no better way for me to combine my interests in history and human culture than by studying the physical material remains of the people that once occupied the most beautiful place in America.
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Three-quarters of British Columbians now favour moving away from cannabis prohibition and toward a system of regulation and taxation, an Angus Reid poll released today shows.
The new poll, conducted between October 22 and 24, shows an increase of six percentage points from a year ago in the number of British Columbians who support regulation.
The poll was released this morning by the Stop the Violence BC coalition, which proposes changes to marijuana laws to curtail gang violence.
"These results reveal a quite remarkable and growing dissatisfaction among British Columbians with the status quo and an eagerness for policymakers to pursue an entirely new approach to cannabis policy," Mario Canseco, vice-president, Angus Reid Public Opinion, said in a coalition news release.
"These beliefs cut across political, social and regional lines. I can't think of any other issue where the laws on the books are inconsistent with the wishes of three-quarters of British Columbians."
The poll also found that only 14 per cent of British Columbians believe possession of a marijuana cigarette should lead to a criminal record, down from 20% one year ago.


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Dealing with children's minor accidents
Many GP surgeries, minor injury units, walk-in centres and pharmacies are equipped to deal with minor casualties, such as cuts or items trapped in the nose or ear.
In this situation, ask your GP or NHS 111 for advice on where to go before you go to A&E.
Further information
- Diarrhoea and vomiting
- If your child has to go to hospital
- Medicines for babies and toddlers
- Treating a high temperature in children
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When you visit our Griffin office, your eye health is our top priority. Our entire team is dedicated to providing you with the personalized care you deserve using only the latest, most innovative techniques in eye care.
We offer a variety of skills to help restore and maintain your optimal vision health including cataract surgery, glaucoma treatment, oculoplastic, eyeglasses, refractive surgery evaluations, and treatment for macular degeneration and dry eye to name a few.
This website was designed with you in mind - the patient. Part of our commitment to serving our patients is to provide them with useful information to help them make more informed decisions about the various treatments that are available today.
Having been in practice since 1973 our practice has grown tremendously. We are fortunate to have four Emory trained doctors available to you to serve all your eyecare needs.
We are an eye care practice devoted to enhancing and correcting your eyesight, as well as focusing on your cosmetic needs by using state-of-the-art technology and training that will result in better vision, appearance, and a overall better quality of life!
Do not let finances get in the way of obtaining the clear vision you deserve! To make your vision correction by the expert surgeons at Takle Eye Group in Griffin even more accessible, we are pleased to offer the CareCredit card, North America's leading patient payment program.
CareCredit lets have your vision corrected now and then pay for it over time with low monthly payments. You can choose between no interest and extended payment plans.
The first step towards better vision is to schedule an appointment. Some vision problems are symptom-less and pain-free, making it hard to know whether or not you might have a problem. The most effective method for detecting vision problems is through a comprehensive eye exam performed by an eye doctor.
Please contact our Griffin, GA office by phone or complete the appointment request form. Our scheduling coordinator will contact you to confirm your appointment.
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CONTENTS: CATCHER$ (David Britland): A card is selected and replaced. You place the two black Aces on the top and on the bottom of the deck. You throw the deck and between the two Aces the selection appears! RINGO (Stephen Tucker): A ring is placed in a cup. The middle of a piece of rope is lowered into the cup and the ring appears on the rope (only one ring used and it can be borrowed)!
DARK REVELATION (Eoin Taylor): A spectacular way to produce a selected card. A deck is covered with a handkerchief. When the hankerchief is removed the card is face up on top!
VARIATIONS VARIANT (Roger Curzon): This fantastic routine combines two classics of magic: Between The Palms and Point Of Departure!
FLASH (Mark Russell): A revelation of a Royal Flush (or any five cards) very pleasing to the eye!
FANTASIA (Stephen Tucker): A stunning routine. Four cards are selected, these four cards are seen to be predicted by you. The cards are the only ones with a red back in the blue deck and, at the end, the entire deck turns blank. Easy to do!
KONTRACT KILLER KARDS (Stephen Tucker): Four Killer Kards (the four Kings) capture one selected card with surprising effects along the way!
AMERICAN EXPRESS (Stephen Tucker): A transposition of two cards and a coin!
BLOOD-MONEY (Stephen Tucker): A coin penetrates your hand and some blood appears on the coin as a result of the penetration!
SIAMESE DECK (Paul Brignall): A deck made up of red and blue cards is shown. You pick a card from one half and a spectator picks a card from the other half. The two cards match!
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This story appears in the June 1997 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Recently I received two letters in the mail. One was in a standard white envelope. The second was in a putty-colored envelope with brown speckles all over it. It looked as if mud had been splattered on it. Printed in one corner was the line "Time for a wash?"
This mailer caught my interest, and I set aside the ordinary, impersonal white one. Inside the "muddy" one, I found a personal letter about a new automatic car wash in my area. It explained features and prices, and included a small card with a map, phone number and prices, plus a colorful coupon good for one free deluxe wash in the next 90 days.
I was hooked. Since my car typically looks like something found in an archaeological dig, I couldn't wait to use the coupon. That little piece of paper spurred me to make the extra effort to seek out a new business and use its service. And, as a result of the owner's extra effort to attract me, I've become a loyal customer.
The other letter? Oh, it was announcing a new dry cleaner in the area. It was obviously mass-produced and offered me no incentive whatsoever to switch from the one I now use.
The lesson: If you want to attract and keep customers, you need to offer an incentive. Especially in a new business relationship, don't expect the consumer to buy something sight unseen. A coupon for a free sample or service, or some useful item related to your business, can be just the push a reluctant consumer needs.
Coupons can help you reach many goals: to help introduce a new product or service, to increase repeat business, to fend off the competition, to reinforce an advertising campaign, or even to soften the impact of a price increase. Traditionally, coupons have taken the form of newspaper inserts, packs of assorted offers, individual direct-mail pieces, in- or on-package offers, and even handouts at specific businesses.
One of the most popular and easiest ways to use coupons is through direct mail. This is a powerful way to call attention to your business. It is especially good for occasions such as grand openings, remodelings, the addition of new departments or facilities, anniversary celebrations, or the introduction of new products or services. It is an enticing way to invite both current and new customers to visit your business.
Some tips to keep in mind:
1. Coupons can be offered as a "thank you for buying from us" or "stop by and learn about us" message.
2. A coupon can be a single item for a one-shot promotion or be used in combination with other offers. Whatever the case, the value must be substantial enough to attract customers. Better to make the value too good than to err on the side of making it seem cheap or insignificant.
3. Use coupon promotions sparingly. They wear themselves out if overused.
4. If you aren't sure of your creative abilities, get professional help designing your coupon. Be sure the coupon says what the offer is, how long it lasts, and the terms for redemption.
5. Color-code your coupons if a variety of groups will receive them. For example, if you're mailing to six different ZIP codes, color each coupon differently so you know how many were redeemed from each area.
Direct mail isn't the only way to distribute coupons. They can also be run in local papers or, in the latest twist, distributed via the Internet. With more and more people going online every day, why not make the most of this "virtual" Sunday paper?
If you already have a Web page, design your offer so people can e-mail you to receive coupons. Or consider using a Web coupon service, which offers coupons in booklets by mail or online for consumers to print out themselves.
Whatever method you use, why not try your hand at a coupon promotion and see how it enhances your redeeming qualities?
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You know the part in Westerns where a bad guy gallops off with some widow's or orphan's horse, so the roguish anti-hero tears after him on his own stallion, and when he catches up to him the two battle it out stride by stride until the anti-hero finally shoots the bad guy off and thus has to corral the two horses by straddling them? Bull skating, or Karapan Sapi, is kind of like that, but with bulls.
Essentially an Indonesian rodeo event, the Karapan Sapi race involves latching together two bulls with a decorative wooden harness that also has a place for a rider to stand. The rider gets up in the saddle, whips the bulls a few times, and hangs on for dear life. Afterwards, the bulls are auctioned off, presumably to rich guys who want to practice the sport themselves.
Here are a few pictures of the event in action, courtesy of Modern Farmer:
The best part is the crowd's reaction. They respond to the ridiculous awesomeness on display with the right blend of disbelief, confusion, and unbridled joy. Check out the whole Modern Farmer article for more pictures and information.
You've been put on notice, mutton bustin'. There's a new challenger seeking to be the greatest human-animal rodeo competition.