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Tilghman visit to high school fires excitement about science
During a two-day trip packed with meetings, President Shirley M. Tilghman stopped at a Chicago high school Wednesday to lead a spirited discussion with students about the genome project and opportunities that await those who continue to study science.
Tilghman's stop at Theodore Roosevelt High School was her second visit to an urban public school since she became president in June. She chose Roosevelt because of its 10-year partnership with Princeton alumni who provide tutoring, mentoring, job-shadowing and other services to students.
Anjan Rao, 15, a junior, loved talking to Tilghman about biology. "This was completely great because I want to get into Princeton and I want to be a medical examiner," said Rao. "I love genetics. I just love biology. I aced biology."
"Me too," said her friend, Jodi Sharp, 16, a sophomore who told Tilghman she wants to be a genetic engineer. Tilghman told Sharp, "Gene therapy is a very exciting field, and someday it could be the genes themselves that are the drugs."
Addressing about 300 students who are interested in science, Tilghman spoke about how scientists have learned an enormous amount about human biology by studying very small organisms. "The genes in a worm are in essence the same genes as in us, so when you are about to squash a worm just remember that you are squashing a distant relative of yours," she said.
Tilghman also met with 20 students who are members of Roosevelt's robotics club, which was started five years ago by Princeton 1969 graduate Tom Pirelli.
Hoping to show students that science can be fun, Pirelli, a software entrepreneur who devoted many hours of his childhood to building a rocket for a science fair, started the club so Roosevelt students could enter a national robotics competition. Two years later, the team placed third out of 207 teams competing in the FIRST Robotics Competition in Orlando, Fla.
The students demonstrated for Tilghman the robot they built for last year's contest and played two videos that showed them designing, assembling and testing their robots. James Preusser, 18, a senior who has been in the club for the last three years, said Tilghman's visit meant a lot to him.
"Her coming out here and talking to us and listening to us, that gives me the recognition that people on top care about us," he said. Being a member of the robotics club, Preusser said, "has helped me think about going to college. And it teaches you a lot about leadership."
Last year the club got its own machine shop at Roosevelt. A foundation started by Pirelli paid for the tools, with local machine shops pitching in. Princeton trustee Dennis Keller, a member of the class of 1963 and the chief executive officer of DeVry Inc., lent the expertise of local DeVry Institute professor Donald Ingram, who helps the students with the design of their robots.
"I thought it was a great way to introduce younger students to science and technology before they got to college and to show kids that science and engineering can be fun," Pirelli said of the club. "I wanted them to know it's not all just math and calculations. You can build things."
Several students from the robotics club have gone on to pursue engineering degrees in college. "These were kids that had no intention of going to college or to an engineering school," Pirelli said.
Tilghman was delighted by questions students asked about DNA patenting and the ethical and legal issues raised by the genome project. "One of the reasons I wanted to talk about science and not college applications is that the real reason you go to college is the new knowledge you discover can be something that changes your life," she said. Earlier she told them, "I want to give you a sense of why I've had such a great time being a biologist."
Some of the students have been studying the genome project during the Saturday college prep program run by Princeton in Chicago Schools (PICS), the group of Princeton alumni working at Roosevelt.
PICS' full-time director, Carolyn West of Princeton's class of 1990, coordinates the numerous projects in which more than 300 alumni have participated. In addition to tutoring and mentoring projects, PICS holds a career day every year for the entire school, with 35 speakers offering glimpses of their working lives. Alumni join students on summer camping trips, outings to museums and other cultural events and trips to sporting events.
Principal Miguel Trujillo said the program has been very beneficial to the school's students. "It has brought great things to Roosevelt," he said. "We're an urban school system that's strapped for cash and resources and the program has brought resources to our students. And I'm not just talking about financial resources. I'm talking about human resources."
Rao and Sharp, the students who aced their biology class, said the Saturday college prep sessions have given their college aspirations a boost. The two have visited several colleges this year with the program.
"It's helped us prepare for college and it's helped me choose what is the right college for me," Rao said. And that help will be important for Rao as she plans her future. "I want to go to a good college and a good medical school," she said.
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Pumpkins are not just for carving and sitting on your front doorstep. These three desserts show that pumpkin can become the star ingredient in your fall baking. The recipes and photographs are all courtesy of Spice Islands.
Pumpkin Cupcakes with Orange Cream Cheese
Pumpkin Cupcakes
4 eggs, slightly beaten
� cup Mazola Vegetable Plus! Oil
2 cups sugar
1 can (15 ounces pumpkin)
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons Argo Baking Powder
2 teaspoons Spice Islands Cinnamon, Ground Saigon
1 teaspoon baking soda
� teaspoon Spice Islands Cloves, Ground
� teaspoon Spice Islands Ginger, Ground
� teaspoon Spice Islands Nutmeg, Ground
� teaspoon salt
Orange Cream CheeseFrosting
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
3 tablespoons butter OR margarine, softened
1 tablespoon orange juice
2 teaspoon Spice Islands Vanilla Extract
1-1/2 teaspoon Spice Islands Orange Peel
4 cups powdered sugar
To make Pumpkin Cupcakes: Blend the eggs, oil, sugar, and pumpkin in a large mixing bowl; set aside. Stir together dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture and beat until well blended.
Pour into lined muffin tins. Fill about 2/3 full. Bake in preheated 350�oven for 30 minutes or until center springs back when touched. Cool 30 minutes. Spread with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting.
To make Orange Cream Cheese Frosting:
Beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add remaining ingredients and beat until smooth. Spread over cooled cupcakes
Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes
18 paper baking cups (2-1/2 inch)
18 gingersnap cookies
12 ounces cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon Argo� Corn Starch
1 teaspoon Spice Islands Pumpkin Pie Spice
2 eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin
1/3 cup Karo� Light Corn Syrup
Preheat oven to 325�F. Line 18 muffin cups with paper baking cups. Place 1 gingersnap in each.
Beat cream cheese, sugar, corn starch and pumpkin pie spice with an electric mixer. Add eggs and mix well. Add pumpkin and corn syrup; beat 1 minute.
Pour filling into liners, dividing evenly. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until just set.
Chill for 1 hour. Garnish as desired.
Pumpkin Ice Cream Pie
1 cup canned pumpkin
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon Spice Islands Cinnamon, Ground Saigon
1/2 teaspoon Spice Islands Ginger, Ground
1/4 teaspoon Spice Islands Nutmeg, Ground
1 quart vanilla ice cream, softened
1 prepared pie crust, pastry or graham cracker
Mix pumpkin, brown sugar, ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a large bowl. Fold in softened ice cream. Pour mixture into crust.
Freeze until firm, a few hours or overnight. Remove from freezer 15 minutes before serving.
TIP: 2 teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice can be substituted for the ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
PUMPED FOR PUMPKINDesserts to delight fall appetites
Pumpkins are not just for carving and sitting on your front doorstep. These three desserts show that pumpkin can become the star ingredient in your fall baking. The recipes and photographs are all courtesy of Spice Islands.

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Chugach. Powder. Guides. The name says it all. Chugach—the legendary Alaskan mountain range that has been featured in many a ski film. Powder—what every skier and rider that's addicted to their craft seeks. Guides—well, this year CPG has more than just mountain guides… they have skiing and snowboarding legends ready to lead you into the Alaska backcountry via helicopter from their Girdwood lodge.
CPG has heli outposts in Girdwood, Tordrillo and Seward, Alaska. If you ski or ride with CPG in Girdwood this season, you'll be in the company of legendary snowsports athletes like Chris Davenport, Lynsey Dyer and Bryan Iguchi.
Winter in Alaska can be finicky. That varied weather can really put a damper on a heli trip if they can't get the birds off the ground. Luckily, CPG in Girdwood also offers cat outings and has Alyeska Resort in it's backyard. So if the wind is howling or there's too much snow to fly, you're going to get your powder turns in one way or another.
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Travel: The Girdwood outpost is located 40 miles from Anchorage's Ted Stevens International Airport. A CPG driver will meet you at the airport and transport you to Girdwood via a scenic one-hour drive.
Basic Package: The Girdwood five-day heli package includes five days of heli skiing, six nights of lodging at The Hotel Alyeska, round-trip transfer from Anchorage, option to purchase guaranteed seats on snowcat for no-fly days and use of transceiver.
Years in Biz: 14
Size of Tenure: 750,000 acres in Girdwood
Snowfall: 600 to 800 inches on average annually
Size of Group: Four skiers and one guide per helicopter
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Cuboid is a stunning 3D puzzle game in which players navigate ancient ruins and lush environments, manoeuvring a rectangular block through mystical exits.
Cuboid's 66 twisted levels engage the senses with amazing graphics and soothing music, immersing you in a surrealistic puzzle world.
The object is to bring the Cuboid to stand on the exit tile of the game field with as few moves as possible, facing challenges along the way including flimsy tiles, switches and teleports.
The Cuboid itself is covered with mysterious glyphs and magical symbols, and completing each level rewards players with a piece of a treasure.
Presented in stunning full 1080p High Definition, Cuboid includes PS3 trophy support, and lets you compare your smooth moves with other players' scores in the online standings for the ultimate Cuboid challenge.
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The locality objective influences the impact that locality, as measured by locality group (lgroup) data, has upon the selected configuration. An alternate definition for locality is latency. An lgroup describes CPU and memory resources. The lgroup is used by the Solaris system to determine the distance between resources, using time as the measurement. For more information on the locality group abstraction, see Locality Groups Overview in Programming Interfaces Guide.
This objective can take one of the following three values:
If set, configurations that maximize resource locality are favored.
If set, configurations that minimize resource locality are favored.
If set, the favorableness of a configuration is not influenced by resource locality. This is the default value for the locality objective.
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Magnetic Attraction Stand
I developed this stand out of fear of that horrible drawer full of miscellaneous utensils that everybody's scared to open. You know the one… It's usually full of 55 utensils that are bent out of shape from banging them because the drawer doesn't close properly. There are usually a few sharp bits and pieces threatening to stab you every time you reach in to retrieve a utensil. This got me thinking that the best place for utensils is right where you need them. They should be by your cooktop or hanging from a stand within arms reach of your stove. The magnetization between the stand and my utensils makes it super easy to grab the tools you need, and then pop them back into place with ease. It's so much easier than fumbling around in that drawer or playing around with fiddly hooks.
I've created 28 Magnetic Attraction Utensils to live with the stand or on any magnetically compatible surfaces in your kitchen. Utensils not included with stand purchase.
Product Features
Place the Magnetic Attraction Stand with utensils attached in an easy to see and easy to reach spot to make cooking a breeze!
Care & Usage
Clean gently with a damp cloth
What's Included
Magnetic Attraction Stand made of ABS plastic for long life durability
Stand Out Features
Slim vertical stature: Allows utensils to be hung vertically saving space in the kitchen
Heavy EVA base: Provides stability to hold utensils and gadgets without tipping over
Large circumference: Provides enough space to hold up to 5 utensils freeing up drawer space in the kitchen
18/10 stainless steel ring: Allows Magnetic Attraction utensils and gadgets to be displayed on the counter top for easy access


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Riley is best known for her role on the series Glee as Mercedes Jones. Her character gets through her school days with her 'diva-style' and stylish clothes. In 2011, Riley received an NAACP Image Award nomination for her portrayal of Mercedes on Glee. Riley has sung numerous solos, including "Hate on Me", "Beautiful","Bridge over Troubled Water" and "I Look to You".


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Channel 4 Education commissions Playniac to create International Racing Squirrels using Adobe Game Developer tools.
FreshPlanet utilizes Adobe Gaming technologies to develop social gaming phenomenon SongPop for multiple platforms.
Mat Dickie, renowned independent game developer, creates his first major touchscreen project using Adobe Gaming technologies.
Spaced Away, the award-winning game from Falanxia, uses Adobe Gaming technologies to deliver the game to iOS and Android devices.
Using Adobe Flash Professional and Adobe AIR, ACHTUNG!—assisted by developers from the Superhero Cheesecake—created Volkswagen game Das Interland for mobile devices and Facebook for an online competition.
Creeo Studio embraces new business opportunities using Adobe Gaming technologies to deliver high-intensity, multiuser games across platforms and devices.
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Independent game developer CUKETA releases Age of Defenders using Adobe Gaming technologies and delivered to mobile and desktop platforms with Adobe AIR®.
FlashGameLicense.com levels the playing field, enabling independent developers of Flash technology based games to compete with commercial game publishers.
Amanita Design's visually compelling Machinarium game — a top-rated iPad app built using Adobe Flash technologies — hit No. 1 in the U.S. the first week of launch.
This game technology provider uses the Flash Platform to help developers build MMOs, social games, and virtual worlds for the browser and mobile.
Woven Interactive delivers the high-performance Comb Over Charlie game across iOS and Android™ devices and BlackBerry PlayBook using Flash Platform technologies.
The organization behind the Grammy Awards uses the Adobe Flash technology to create MusicMapper — a microsite on the platform — as an Adobe AIR application for the online engagement and social media success of MusicIsLifeIsMusic.
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T-Mobile delivers outstanding customer service and saves millions annually by using the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform and Flash Platform solutions to transform the customer experience.
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EPIX drives innovation with the Adobe Flash Platform — giving subscribers unprecedented access to premium HD content while connecting with friends, family, and fans on devices everywhere.
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eDocker enables publishers to transform Adobe InDesign® projects from print to screen in minutes, using the Adobe Flash Platform to deliver remarkable digital flip-page experiences.
Leading provider of game technology uses the Adobe Flash Platform to provide developers with robust tools for building unique and immersive MMOs, social games, and virtual worlds for the browser and mobile.
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For the uber-rich and sometimes simply for the high-net-worth client niche, charitable giving through trusts and foundations is an outstanding tax-reducing tack.
Indeed, gifting is both giving and receiving: Give away assets, receive an income tax break.
For some fine points on this strategy, and more, ThinkAdvisor chatted with Scott E. Squillace, a life, business and estate planning attorney, and founder of the Boston law firm, Squillace & Associates.
He focuses on tax, asset protection and estate planning for an international clientele, including corporate executives, small business owners, physicians and attorneys. Squillace, who has also practiced law in Paris, Moscow and Brussels, wrote the new book "Whether to Wed: A Legal and Tax Guide for Gay and Lesbian Couples."
ThinkAdvisor: Is gifting a good strategy to reduce income tax?
Squillace: It is. One way, especially if you don't yet know where you want to make the gift, is to bookmark it using a donor advised fund: You can set up a fund that allows you to take the tax deduction in the year in which you make the gift. But it's parked there until you decide which charities will be the [beneficiaries].
How popular is this one?
It isn't well known. But it's a really nice, flexible tool to take a charitable deduction in a year, for example, in which you get a big bonus or get some other extraordinary income. But you don't have to send any money to the charities right away. Once it's set up, you turn on and off the spigot as to which ones ultimately get the gift. You have your choice of charities.
What's the down side?
You can't get the money back. Once it's gone [committed], you don't get it back. You have to be prepared to irrevocably part with it.
Aren't charitable remainder trusts and charitable lead trusts irrevocable, too?
Yes. Those are kind of two sides of the same coin.
With a charitable remainder trust, you basically get an income stream for your lifetime, and then the charity winds up with money after you're gone.
Where does the tax break come in?
With the piece that goes to the charity. You get to take the deduction in the year in which you set it up. So that helps a little.
And the charitable lead trust?
With this one, the charity gets the money while you're alive, and your heirs – whomever you pick – wind up with the balance after you're gone. Like the charitable remainder trust, you can take the tax deduction in the year that it's set up.
What about gifting to relatives?
You can give $14,000 a year per person, or if you're a married couple, a total of $28,000, to anyone without being subject to gift tax. And on top of that, there's a lifetime credit you can use up. This year, it's $5.35 million; last year it was $5.25 million. If you use [some of] it during your lifetime, then it's that much less you can pass at death. Please elaborate.
For example, you can't give away $5 million during your lifetime tax-free and then turn around and leave an estate of $5 million tax-free. You get that credit either during your lifetime or at death.
What's an illustration?
Let's say you want to give your kids some stock. If it's worth more than the $14,000 a year gift, you'd file a gift-tax return using up some of your credit; the balance is used at your death.
Any other type of trust that helps in the income-tax department?
One [specialized] trust is called a qualified personal residential trust (QPRT). It's a way to transfer a vacation home, or even your principal residence, tax efficiently.
Where do family revocable trusts fit in?
Those are just pass-through entities. They don't help with tax planning; but they're helpful for avoiding probate.
Tell me about foundations.
They're like charities. Basically, a foundation is a private charity that has a whole bunch of rules around it and is pretty expensive to set up and maintain. So usually, unless you're prepared to give away more than $1 million — though there's no rule on that — it's probably not worth setting up your own private foundation.
What should widows and widowers consider in connection with tax planning?
The big one is called a spousal rollover: If your spouse dies with an IRA and you're the beneficiary, you can roll it over to your own IRA — but you don't have to take it out and pay taxes on it. So it's worth considering whether you need the money now or if you want to beef up your own retirement account.
If you roll it over to your account, what happens with the required minimum distribution (RMD) you're subject to once you turn 70 1/2?
That applies to all IRAs, whether it's your own or an inherited one.
What if the husband, 70 1/2 or older, dies and has of course been taking RMDs; but his spouse is, say, only 55. Is the spouse also subject to the RMD rule at that point?
No. The IRA becomes hers; so she's subject to RMD when she turns 70-1/2.
Older generations, or even baby boomers, often don't tell their children the amount of money in their estates and what they plan to leave them. How does that play out with the heirs' taxes?
It's hard to plan if you don't know what's coming down the pike. If you're going to be inheriting money and are in the middle of the world's worst divorce, that inheritance might go sideways if your parents haven't planned properly. That's why many people use trusts so that the inheritance can be protected from divorces and lawsuits.
What else should folks be aware of concerning divorce and taxes?
Alimony and divorce-settlement payments are not taxable from a gift-tax perspective. Therefore, you don't have to use up the credit that I spoke of earlier. But if you're paying alimony, that's tax deductible. The person receiving the alimony, though, has to declare it as income and pay tax on it.
Is it a good idea for newly married same-sex couples — or any married couples — to mingle their assets?
Mixing assets is a personal decision: some people view themselves as one family unit; others like to have "my bucket," "your bucket" and "our bucket." Once you're married, you don't have to worry about the gift-tax limits because there's an unlimited amount you can pass between spouses.
What about marital status and income tax filing?
When married, you can choose either to file jointly or individually — but you always have to file as a married couple. It's usually worse to file individually because your itemized deductions get phased out quicker, and you get to the higher marginal rate quicker.
Is tax-loss harvesting — selling investments at a loss to offset capital gains — worth considering?
It can be a good idea, but it depends on whether or not you want to take the loss. The stock may be down now, but it may come back later. If you do it just to take the tax loss, you'll miss the opportunity for the gain. You have to be careful about being sure that the tax tail doesn't wag the dog and that you're making the right investment decisions for the right reasons.
You also need to keep in mind the "wash sale" rule, correct?
Yes. You have to wait 31 days before you can buy it back — assuming that it's going to be around the same price. So it can be risky.
Is it helpful tax-wise to domicile investments according to their tax efficiency?
Yes. A lot of people are looking at tax-exempt municipal bonds, for example. Even though they earn less than, say, a stock or a regular bond, they're tax-free. All the people I know who are in the highest tax bracket don't want to earn more money and pay more taxes, so they buy tax-exempt bonds. But that has to be tied in with your overall financial plan because you don't want all of any one thing. You need to have some balance and diversification.
What about investors who have a very large position in a single stock?
There's an old saying: "The way to get wealthy is to be highly concentrated; the way to stay wealthy is to be highly diversified." It's risky when you're concentrated, but you could make more money in the short term. However, you have to be careful to protect it. It's a financial planning issue.
What's the tax impact to having a big holding in one stock?
Depends on whether it goes up or down!
It's a double-edged sword.
Right. But at the end of the day, if you have a tax problem, that means you've made a lot of money. It's a nice problem to have.
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The Hamsa Meditation
Sanskrit Mantra is one of the more direct ways for us to allow Presence to be revealed. The sounds of the syllables help the mind relax and let go. There are many sacred mantras and each one has a different quality to it. Some mantras focus on specific deities from the Hindu tradition, such as Shiva, Lakshmi, Ganesha and Durga, honoring the divine aspects of the individuals. These mantras are called saguna mantras, which means that they focus on a specific manifestation of the One. Nirguna mantras, on the other hand, are not individualized. The focus is on the One; not separated or manifested.
One of the oldest and more powerful nirguna mantras is "So Ham", also called the Hamsa Meditation. Hamsa means "white swan" in Sanskrit, which symbolizes spiritual grace and purity. So Ham means "I Am That I Am'. The mantra gently brings one's attention back to itself, and dissolves into pure Being. It holds both the question and the answer within it. This mantra predates Hinduism and Buddhism and some people believe that Buddha used this mantra for his own realization.
To do the Hamsa Meditation, as you inhale, breathe in "Ham" and as you exhale breathe out "So". This is a silent meditation and the breath should also be as quiet as possible. You can also do the opposite breath; breathing in "So" and breathing out "Ham". Experiment with the two versions to see which feels right for you in the moment. This repetitive cycle is said to balance the inner masculine and feminine qualities. As you breathe, keep your attention on the breath and the internal sound of the mantra. Notice the space between the mantra, the silence, and allow that to reveal Itself.
Many realized beings have expressed the power of breath to bring us into the present; the Presence. Adding a mantra, especially one which is very simple and true, has profound effects on our ability to rest and realize our true nature.
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Amidst one of the biggest urban developments of private-collective dwellings in the Netherlands, on a former industrial site close to the historical heart of the renowned Dutch university city of Leiden, the Rotterdam based pasel kuenzel architects realised this single family home.
"V36K08/09 is the front end of a terrace that is built on a collective parking garage.
The residence comprises two separate dwellings for mother and son, including two spacious and hidden patios. The dark pre-patinated zinc façade with its subtle disposition of seams gives the building a calm but yet spectacular appearance."
"Looking from the outside, the house appears rather compact and closed – a fortress in the urban tissue. Only by entering the estate through the heavy wooden gate, one gets into an utterly different inner world – an oasis of tranquillity, a living space that is generous and open, where inside and outside merge into each other."
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The United States is one of few nations left in the world that has made no recognition to the right to food. Feeding America estimates that there are approximately 49 million Americans living in food insecure households: 33.1 million adults and 15.9 million children. That's approximately 14.5% of American households, or 1 in 6 people, struggling with hunger in the "land of plenty".
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Designer Tory Burch sure knows her way around the runway, but it doesn't seem like she's too well-versed in the world of real estate. Curbed reports that the designer and philanthropist recently unloaded her Southampton property after chopping the price numerous times until the asking price was about half of what she bought the home for.
Burch originally bought the pad from her ex-husband for $22.5 million following their divorce. The property, which boasts 200 feet of white sand coastal frontage, includes six bedrooms and eight bathrooms. With an idyllic oceanfront location, panoramic views, a swimming pool, and even approved plans to build a 7,100-square-foot beach house, Burch's home still sat untouched on the market, even after the designer chopped the price to $11 million. Yikes!
A major deterrent in Burch's quest to unload the pad is the annual $81,500 tax paid on the property according to public records, as well as the fact that the home reportedly suffered severe water damage after some pipes burst. Despite the yet-to-be-disclosed sale price, we're guessing Burch is happy to wash her hands of this property.


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Whooping Crane
The world whooping crane population now stands at 319, the highest level of the century. Last summer 47 pairs nested in and around Wood Buffalo National Park in the Northwest Territories and adjacent Alberta. This population of 190 whoopers--the only self-sustaining, wild population--winters at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge on the Texas coast.
An 18-year effort to start another wild population in Idaho using sandhill cranes to incubate whooping crane eggs was discontinued in 1988. Eighty-five chicks were fledged and reared by sandhill cranes between 1975 and 1988, but the mature whoopers never paired. The four remaining birds from this flock winter in New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley. A third wild population of 31 birds survives in Kissimmee Prairie, Florida, south of Orlando. This population, which originated in 1993 from birds reared in captivity, is nonmigratory.
Captive populations include a flock of 29 at the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin; 19 birds at the Calgary Zoo; 72 birds at the Patuxent Environmental Science Center; and two pairs at the San Antonio Zoological Gardens.
In the mid-1800s, more than 1,000 whoopers nested in prairie marshes of north-central U.S. and southern Canada. These birds wintered primarily in the tall grass prairies of southwestern Louisiana. Advancing human settlement, agriculture, and perhaps the impacts of disease and occasional hunting and specimen collecting reduced whooping crane numbers through the late 1800s and early 1900s; by 1941, fewer than 20 individuals remained.
The biology of whooping cranes works against their rapid recovery. They don't reach sexual maturity until 4 or 5 years of age. Usually just two eggs are laid but only one chick is fledged, and often just every two or three years. In addition, they are handicapped by nesting so far north where the ice-free season lasts only four months. Their long migration exposes them to a variety of hazards: predation, disease, illegal shooting, and collision with man-made obstructions, especially powerlines.
Whooping cranes migrating between Canada and Texas frequently stop in northeastern Montana. Although no birds were observed there in 1995, in 1994 two whooping cranes were seen near Fort Peck and one in Sheridan County. In addition, cranes from southeastern Idaho occasionally wander west of Yellowstone Park to the Centennial Valley and Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. The last several years a single whooper has visited this refuge with a flock of sandhill cranes. Learn more


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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has signed a controversial anti-gay Bill that has harsh penalties for homosexual sex.
Mr. Museveni signed the Bill on Monday at his official residence in an event witnessed by government officials and journalists.
Government officials clapped after he signed the Bill.
The Bill calls for first-time offenders to be sentenced to 14 years in jail. It also sets life imprisonment as the maximum penalty for a category of offenses called "aggravated homosexuality," defined as repeated gay sex between consenting adults as well as acts involving a minor, a disabled person or where one partner is infected with HIV.


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Jeff Kurtti is fed up with people trashing It's a Small World. "People who think they are too sophisticated for this kiddie attraction are kind of sad," says Jeff Kurtti, creative director for San Francisco's Walt Disney Family Museum. "The world is full of people who refuse to let go and enjoy themselves."
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The world is also full of people who grew up on Disney. Considering the broad variety of traditions in America, there are few things every kid shares no matter where they grow up. Happy Meals, maybe. Cap'n Crunch cereal, if they're allowed. But all kids agree on Disney.
That's with good reason. Disney made its name with rigorous entertainment standards. In the 1950s, Walt Disney spun off his idea factory, now called Walt Disney Imagineering, as a stand-alone unit dedicated to inventing stuff to amuse his customers. Some of Imagineering's biggest successes, such as Audio-Animatronic robotic characters, have become hallmarks of the Disney brand.
"He could certainly have installed off-the-shelf roller coasters, merry-go-rounds, and go-karts," says Kurtti, who has written more than 25 books on Disney parks and Imagineering — known for their innovation.
Just as not every room in the Louvre is worthy of your touring time, there are reasons to love — or skip — many Disney rides. But if we had to choose just 10 from the dozens of choices, from kiddie coasters to robot-packed operas, we'd have to settle on emblematic experiences.
The famous Pirates of the Caribbean float-by predates the Haunted Mansion, and it stands taller in pop culture; the kitschy 1960s ride got a Hollywood-style makeover in 2006, complete with a new captain inspired by Johnny Depp's portrayal of Jack Sparrow in the ride's namesake movie.
At Disney, a ride's cool factor sometimes comes down to its adrenaline-pumping bells and whistles. We love Space Mountain, but at heart it's just an okay roller coaster. Park-goers will do better to stand in line at the superfluous indoor-outdoor flume attraction Splash Mountain — opened in 1989 — where riders leave their stomachs behind on a soaking 40-foot drop.
As for It's a Small World, if you can appreciate Walt Disney's kiddie lovefest as the American landmark it truly is, you'll find yourself humming its relentless ditty with a newfound appreciation. After all, some things stick with us forever simply because they're great.


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CHICAGO -- The Dodgers activated pitcher Stephen Fife from the disabled list to start Sunday's game against the Cubs and made room for him by optioning Scott Van Slyke to Triple-A Albuquerque.
Fife had been out since July 7 with his second bout of shoulder bursitis, which sidelined him for five weeks earlier in the year.
He was inserted as a sixth starter for Sunday's game to provide an extra day of rest for the other five starters, as well as to push Zack Greinke back to pitch against the Cardinals on Monday night.
"The timing's right," said manager Don Mattingly. "We can make sure we get Zack and [Clayton Kershaw] an extra day and we line up a little better. This kicks [Chris Capuano] out of the St. Louis series."
Capuano has a 6.00 career ERA against the Cardinals and a 7.90 ERA at Busch Stadium.
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Mattingly said he expects to use the sixth starter only one time through the rotation at this point, but suggested there might be another time in September where a sixth starter could be used to give his starters an extra day off.


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Hello Good People who read this blog whether you got here on purpose or by accident you are all welcome!
My rambling blog is going to attempt at some form of confused continuity by continuing my stories of drug dealers . Please refer to my calendar on the right and click on June the 27th to read the first part of these tales.
Anyone out there firstly should know that names have been changed and some facts may be distorted by the following mathematical formula:
(time-compressed-in-my-brain) x (imagination + fantasies) x % ^ (the fact I was very stoned at the time). However if only you knew the stuff I left out, that's far wilder, so anything innacurate will not be an exageration, if indeed I get to tell that stuff in this post.
The Sports Shop
So if you read my entry (27/6/08) you'll know that via my friend who was looking for a party we found a house full of drug dealers living above a sport's shop in Harrow Road . At last we had found a regular place to score that did not involve dealing with brawls in pubs or hanging out in All Saint's Road.
I had concepts of dodgy drug dealers before I met these guys. This was in 1979 and all I can say is that from our point of view it was the happiest household I'd ever been to. The first people we got to know through my partying friend were two guys called Tony from Northern Ireland.
They were either from Ulster or Belfast I cannot remember, but I do remember that due to the amount of bombings going on, the general stereotype was that anyone with a strong northern Irish accent was feared as a bomber. This was because each time there was a bomb , on the news they would always conclude by saying "and someone with a strong Irish accent phoned up to claim the IRA were responsible". The IRA also were involved in some kind of drug smuggling but there was no way these two young men with strong Northern Irish accents were at all interested in bombing anyone or in politics either , they were only interested in getting stoned, having a laugh and listening to good music.
One of the Tonys had a sweet young face, always smiling he had a drum kit in his room and I had my first go on drums thanks to him. I was rubbish and realised drums were not for me. He played them pretty well though. His taller friend, also a Tony, had long black hair with wrigglets and a moustache, he looked altogether wilder and people teased him by saying he looked like one of the Fabulous Furry Freak brothers ( the one with the glasses…what was his name? Phineas Freakears!). Both Tonys were friendly guys with a great sense of humour.
A little trip around the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and other drug culture characters …
In fact I seem to remember we christened a fair few of our friends at that time according to different characters from that comic it was so funny and tragic at the same time. The new obscenity laws that dear old Thatcher brought in meant the nice people at the headshop in Portobello Road were busted several times for selling "Fabulous Furry Freak Brother " comics. I bought a board game from that head shop back in 1980 ( the shop still exists, called "Alchemy" it changed address though).
It was a board game called "Dealer Mc Dope" ( this photo is from the Last Gasp website where you can still buy this game from!). It was like Monopoly except you have to go around the world buying and selling drugs . It takes several days to win and some of the rules are quite insane and humanly impossible. I seem to remember there were 2 sets of rules one was the "Perverto Insane rules" or something involving cannabalism and nuclear explosions or similar .
The cartoons on the banknotes are fantastic with Ronald Reagan and other American politicians. Anyway I bought that from that same headshop in 1980 and they had to keep it under the counter for me in case they got busted for selling a drug dealing game.
My favourite was always Fat Freddy's Cat and because we had a large number of cats at home , we frequently referred ( or should I say reefer-d..very bad pun!) to the philosophy and wisdom of Fat Freddy's Cat. He used to poo in Fat Freddy's cowboy boots to remind him that the catbox needed changing and ours used to poo everywhere too… aah! Happy Days!
Around then there were various cinemas that catered for hippies , late night tokers and those interested in counterculture films. It was through these that we encountered Fritz the Cat. A pornographic debauched cat I didn't much like, still it certainly turned the stereotypes of cartoons like Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat upside down.
In Notting Hill the Electric Cinema had late night shows where I remember watching "La Vallée Obscured by Clouds". Pink Floyd had provided the music but one of the characters (Monique) is also played by Miquette Giraudy of System 7. However in this clip she is a bit er… obscured by clouds but that's her in the red/brown cape or possibly blanket.
On the same bill was "More" also with some music from Pink Floyd. Both films were directed by Barbet Schroeder. I seem to remember that "More" was one of the most depressing junkie films I had ever seen. Mind you I don't remember a lot about it except that I got bored . I much preferred "La Vallée" which had a more interesting story of hippies trying to reach a place and way of life before the trappings of modern culture and capitalism.
In this clip of "More" from youtube below they have censored some of the ingredients to their spaced out drug concoction……sorry !
I might have to write another entry just about films and alternative cinema because I can sense another 1500 words about to emerge.
I cannot forget the first time I saw " Up in Smoke" in the late summer of 1979 . I was alone in Paris at the time, I had a place at The Sorbonne to study French but I was desperately lonely , broke, and had nowhere to live. I ended up going to stay in a convent in the Latin Quarter. I went to the cinema every day to hear some spoken English as I was very homesick and I came across " Up in Smoke " by accident , I had never seen anything like it . Cheech and Chong playing two bumbling American hippies in the most hilarious film I had ever seen, going through every young toker's scenario . I went back to the cinema to see it several times until I just had to leave Paris where I was desperately miserable and rejoin my hippie boyfriend and friends back in London leaving my University course behind…. but I never regretted it and studied later on a course I was much more suited to.
(this clip of "Up in Smoke" has a couple of flash frames in it added by the person who put it up on youtube but of nothing bad or brainwashing..not sure what it is a picture of)
Cheech and Chong were almost like cartoon characters, also there was Robert Crumb and the Stoned Agin posters.
The bedsits over the Sport's shop in Harrow Road were full of young small time dealers, who actually were just like Cheech and Chong and had all the stereotype posters on their walls. The Stoned Agin one , then there was the multicoloured one of a woman smoking a great big cone spliff, plus of course Bob Marley , Jimi Hendrix and other bands.
The two Tony's were always very happy to see us. We used to get up to run our stall in Portobello Road at 6 a.m. on Saturday mornings and yet I think we used to go there to score and get stoned on a Friday night and I was working full-time. We were young and sleep was optional. (Also jobs were a much less demanding back then in every way and I worked a 36 hour week which was considered as a typical 9-5 full-time job with a lunch hour and morning and afternoon tea breaks. )
We'd spend the evening there and have tea and munchies and lots of spliffs. There were sometimes other drugs there but we didn't generally bother with those, I certainly was not interested in other drugs at all. There was quite a range of different types of cannabis available and the different varieties of dope available improved when eventually we got to know their dealers, and their dealer's dealers! But for a year or so we hung out happily at the Sport's shop and got to know the other inhabitants who all were smiley jolly people and seemed eager to be our friends and tell us of the latest attempts by the police to have them busted.
Dope was cheap, much cheaper than beer and made me happy, not aggressive or miserable like alcohol could. Plus it made me feel good about being creative and someone who liked to think about society as the entire drug culture was about using drugs to expand the mind and to create new music and other artistic and intellectual pursuits. I think I personally wanted the spiritual ecstatic experience that religion alluded to ( being filled with the Holy Ghost!) but just didn't deliver. I wanted to feel at one with the planet, with all living things and that life was special and had a purpose. I think I found this through dope temporarily at least although I think the company and culture associated with drug-taking was equally important.
But I was also quite paranoid, we all were but none of us admitted it as well as very accident prone when stoned and well…it's not a risk-free activity. At the time we thought it was healthy to smoke it and that tobacco was dangerous so we often smoked neat bongs, pipes, and grass spliffs, and so did the health- conscious people we knew. It always makes me laugh, I've known so many hippies who have given up tobacco, eat only vegan and sometimes macrobiotic foods, won't use any anti-biotics or painkillers or any type of "poisonous" conventional medicine yet they are quite happy to have huge quantities of dope and sometimes other "natural" non-pharmaceutical drugs like mushrooms and even opium etc…
Still I find most people are walking contradictions including myself. In those days we all thought that dope was not only healthy but good for you, cured asthma, arthritis, annorexia, depression, and that is why we supported the "legalise cannabis campaign" and were willing to risk getting arrested at Smokey Bear's Picnics in Hyde Park and other legalise cannabis events.
My thoughts and feelings about dope are totally different now and today's skunk is a totally different drug. Skunk has wrecked the mental health of at least one of my friends. Also we now have the knowledge that smoking anything gives you cancer…is ignorance bliss? or just foolish? or were we just young and some of us finding life very stressful and alienating without dope and the good company of other smokers?
It was bliss back then to smoke dope and feel that it was revolutionary, wise, naughty and illegal as well as a healthy herb and it separated us from "straight" people who liked to drink lots. It was very "us" and "them".
I'll write more soon. At my leisure!
Please tell me in a comment if you had any dope smoker's posters on your wall or other paraphenelia I may have forgotten about . How about unusual cigarette papers? Like there were dollar bill ones and pink leopard-skin skins.
and do you smile each time you watch the BBC London news read by Rizzla Teeth? I do!
Yes..the dope-smoking culture and sense of humour doesn't go away even if writing blogs has replaced the hours of giggling and listening to Gong while smoking bongs. Happy Days!
( cough ! cough! splutter! wheeze!)
Lots of things from the US in this entry and I'll finish with a trailer from the film Psych-out ( 1968 ) see below this paragraph . It's an absolutely brilliant little montage of this crazy colourful film. I first went to see this at The Scala in King's Cross as part of an all-nighter with my ex and our mate Gid who was 6 foot 4 and had his face painted as a mouse. They were both tripping from dope cake and totally freaked out from seeing this cautionary film and I had to try and chill them out after the film by finding them munchies and talking to them about nice things. It was quite difficult not to smile , Gid looked very sweet as a 6 foot 4 inch terrified long-haired hippie mouse with a little red nose and painted whiskers across his cheeks.
" PSYCH-OUT" 1968 ( a psychedelic movie with some horror sequences includes a young Jack Nicholson with long-hair, the Seeds, the Strawberry Alarm Clock and much more!)
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It doesn't matter where he rolls, the game is always stopped if GK is injured and that's fair enough.
It was ridiculous in this match. Two other players could easily have rolled off.Glad he had to be subbed though.
How do people on here actually feel about injury time? In recent years in rugby they've brought in the stopping of the clock for injuries and other things with all the officials in sync. When the clock hits 80 mins it goes into the red and you know it's the last play. I know it would be different in football as you can end the game while the ball is still in play, but maybe that could be used in football too.
No stoppages, just play around the injured players til they get off the field.
That's something else we do in rugby
No. But he should've been booked.They changed the law recently to basically say it's only a red if it isn't a genuine challenge for the ball.
come off a night shift and that pub on corner next to school is open for business, have you tried it bally ?
Fucking hellEven by you that's shite
The ones who are saying he has no ability really don't know anything about footballGraft, pace, never say die attitude, goals, these are all important qualities and he has themSome people gave up at 2-0 down and left early. One lad chased a lost cause and never gave up and put his side back in with a chance, put smiles on faces and songs in heartsNiasse is one of very few bright sparks we have right nowHe's all heart, motherfucker
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Yasmin Nakhuda said she's concerned about the tiny primate's well-being and is consulting a lawyer to see if she can regain custody of the "pet" she called Darwin.
However, the head of the monkey sanctuary Darwin was sent to by Toronto Animal Services on Monday said the mischievous simian was adjusting well to his new home.
"He's not mourning his human mother at all," said Sherri Delaney of the Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary in Sunderland, Ont., about 100 kilometres northeast of Toronto.
"He is not showing signs of stress — signs of stress might appear in the form of his hiding or huddled in a ball, whimpering," she said during one of her numerous media interviews Tuesday.
"He's not doing that. He's happy."
Delaney said she intends to call Nakhuda and update her on Darwin's condition once she gets "five minutes" of free time. But Delaney vowed the sanctuary would fight any potential legal challenges over Darwin.
Nakhuda said she initially tried to return the monkey to the breeder who supplied him, but changed her mind after hearing his heartbroken cries.
After that, she said the monkey was near her at all times, including while she slept and showered.
"At the beginning, I was told that was the best for him because generally, monkeys live off the back of the mom," she said.
"He always had to be within my view."
The young monkey captured worldwide attention after he somehow let himself out of a parked car Sunday and ambled around the Ikea parking lot dressed in a fitted shearling coat.
He was eventually captured by animal control officers, who fined Nakhuda $240 for breaking the city's prohibited-animal bylaw.
Legal experts said the Toronto woman would likely face an uphill battle if she went to court to regain ownership of the animal. An animal services spokeswoman said control of Darwin was voluntarily surrendered by Nakhuda, and that he is now the property of the primate sanctuary.
Lesli Bisgould, who teaches animal law at the University of Toronto law school, said legal action could hinge upon what exactly was agreed to when Nakhuda gave the monkey to animal services.
"Who's to say to what they all agreed to and what implications (that could) have?" asked Bisgould.
"The No. 1 concern is what's in the best interest of the animal," she said, adding a court challenge should centre on what's good for the monkey, not who owns him.
"The best thing for this animal was not to come into (human) contact in the first place. And now here he is," Bisgould said.
Nakhuda said at the very least she would like to be involved in Darwin's transition to a new life at the primate sanctuary. She said Darwin has shown signs in the past of disliking his own kind.
Sanctuary head Delaney said she's not ruling out letting Nakhuda come visit, but said whether that happens depends on how the Toronto real estate lawyer handles the separation.
"Her behaviour is going to govern how we react to her" in deciding if they'll let her see Darwin, Delaney said.
She said Darwin is in the process of being transitioned into a more normal life with the sanctuary's 22 other monkeys. Delaney added that the speed of his reintegration is being assessed a day at a time.
Nakhuda has questioned animal service's description of Darwin as a five-month-old rhesus monkey, instead identifying him as a Japanese macaque that she has owned for more than five months.
A video Nakhuda posted on YouTube and titled "Darwin Kiss" shows the stylish simian interacting with a woman described as his "mom." The monkey is dressed in a light blue striped onesie embellished with metal studs.
Another clip shows the monkey wearing a diaper while roughhousing with a shaggy off-white dog.
The primate sanctuary launched a campaign on the fundraising website Indiegogo on Tuesday, to help cover the cost of tending to Darwin.
"I am so happy to finally be able to live and act like a real monkey," a letter on the website mock-written by Darwin states.
"Story Book farm did not expect to get me for Christmas and we could desperately use funds to help pay for my care as well as the other amazing monkey friends I have made," it says.
— With files from Paola Loriggio.
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Good morning, Kotaku! Owen isn't here right now. He can't come to the phone, and I'm certainly not taking a message for him. The best I can do is offer you two days of Kotaku my way.
My name is Mike Rougeau. I've dreamt of covering the games industry my entire life, and now I'm doing it. I write for Complex, where Kotaku's own Tina Amini used to be my boss. My words, such as they are, have also appeared on TechRadar, G4, GamesRadar, IFC, Gameranx and others.
My version of Kotaku shouldn't be too different from what you're used to. I considered turning this weekend into Twittaku West, where every post is 140 characters or less. Even your previous weekend hero Dave Oshry thought this was a good idea:
…But I like what Kotaku's been doing too much to change it up significantly.
Above you'll see a candid shot of myself and my sidekick, fellow Sunbro Ricky the Dog, praising the sun as our joint Dark Souls character did the same over a pile of steaming red souls that used to be a Darkwraith.
Yeah, I like Dark Souls. I'm going to take this opportunity to talk about it. But that's not all (as much as I would love to turn this place into KotakSouls for a weekend). Today and tomorrow you can look forward to articles about the apocalypse, the NRA and the Sandy Hook shooting, and the fallacy of 48FPS. But don't worry—there will be some serious posts, as well.
I'm looking forward to the next two days, and I hope you all enjoy!


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