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As Previously Announced, NBC Teams Up with Leading Reality Show Pioneers John De Mol, Mark Burnett and Warner Horizon Television to Bring Holland's Blockbuster Vocal Talent Discovery Series to America in Spring 2011
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - December 17, 2010 -- NBC's promising new competition series "The Voice" (working title) announces open auditions in cities across America beginning January 14, 2011. As previously announced, NBC has teamed up with hit-making reality show pioneers John de Mol, Mark Burnett and Warner Horizon Television to bring Holland's top-rated vocal talent discovery show, "The Voice of Holland," to America in Spring 2011.
"The Voice" is a show about real talent, the best voice, right attitude, unique sound and performance that makes a lasting impression. The producers are looking for all musical styles. If selected, singers will be mentored by music industry professionals, compete weekly in front of a panel of coaches, and America will decide which singer will be worthy of the grand prize. Contestants should be prepared to share their personal stories -- and why they are a star in the making. Applicants must be at least 18 years or older and a legal U.S. resident to apply.
Details for the open auditions are below:
Friday, January 14, 2011
Location: Superior St., 2734 W. Superior St.
Chicago, Ill. 60612
New York
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Location: S.I.R. Studios, 520 W. 25th St.
New York, N.Y. 10001
Friday, January 21, 2011
Location: S.I.R. Studios, 12200 NE 14th Ave.
N. Miami, Fla. 33161
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Location: S.I.R. Studios, 1101 Cherry Ave.
Nashville, Tenn. 37203
Friday, January 28, 2011
Location: Taylor Sound, 2921 N. 2nd St.
Minneapolis, Minn. 55411
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Location: Music Lab, 500 E Saint Elmo Rd.
Austin, Texas 78745
Los Angeles
Friday, February 4, 2011
Location: CenterStaging, 3350 Winona Ave.
Burbank, Calif. 91504
Friday, February 11, 2011
Location: S.I.R. Studios, 3631 Interlake Ave. North
Seattle, Wash. 98103
For more information and to register for these auditions, please visit: http://www.nbcthevoice.com/
The show's innovative format features three stages of competition. The first begins with the blind audition, then the competition enters into a battle phase, and finally, the live performance shows.
During the blind auditions, if a coach is impressed, he/she pushes a button to select the contestant for his/her team of competitors. At this point, the coach's chair will swivel so that he/she can face the contestant he/she has selected. If more than one coach selects the talent, the power shifts to the contestant, who may choose which coach he/she wants to work with throughout the competition. A contestant is eliminated when he/she is not selected by any coach.
Once the teams are set, the battle is on. Coaches will mentor the contestants and make them over, and ultimately will transform their superlative voices to allow the singers to become star artists. To help them decide who they want to advance, the coaches will pit two of their own team members against each other to sing the same song in front of a studio audience. Based on this, the coaches will pick who they want to continue developing and who should go home.
In the final performance phase of the competition, the top contestants from each team will compete against each other during a live broadcast. The television audience will vote to select who will move on from each team and who will be eliminated.
At last, each coach will have their best contestant left standing to compete in the finale. From these four, one will be named "The Voice" and will receive the grand prize of a recording contract.
"The Voice" is a presentation of Talpa Productions, Mark Burnett and Warner Horizon Television. De Mol is creator and also is an executive producer with Burnett.


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Revision as of 03:08, 25 July 2008
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: I can't boot Neo with charger?
A: 1. You can't boot GTA02 without a spare battery. You should boot Neo with spare battery and attach your charger, then you can boot into neo.
2. Once your phone is booted, remove the spare battery. Freerunner will remain running,
3. Insert dead battery and let it charge.
Q:Uable to flash FreeRunner after booting either into NAND or NOR.
|NOTE: Please check Getting_Started_with_your_Neo_FreeRunner for more information about the flashing image.
I can ssh into the phone via USB per the wiki instructions, but dfu-util does not find the phone.
This is what I need to run as root and the everything works fine:
root(eno,freerunner)# cat upom #!/bin/sh /sbin/ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/route add -host 192.168.0.202/32 dev usb0
/bin/echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -F iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.0.202 -i usb0 -d 192.168.0.200 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.0.200 -i eth+ -d 192.168.0.202 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.2.0/24 -i eth+ -d 192.168.0.202 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.2.0/24 -i eth+ -d 192.168.2.0/24 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -s 192.168.0.202 -i usb0 -d 192.168.2.0/24 -o eth+ -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -s 192.168.2.0/24 -i eth+ -d 192.168.0.202 -o usb0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -d 192.168.2.0/24 -o eth+ -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -d 192.168.0.202 -o usb0 -j ACCEPT iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE -s 192.168.0.0/24 root(eno,freerunner)#
Q: What image version I used?
1. Kernel version using: uname -a
2. Root filesystem using: cat /etc/version or cat /etc/om-version
3. u-boot using: grep Bootloader /dev/mtdblock0
What is the expected battery life?
See Neo FreeRunner (GTA02) Battery#Notes_about_expected_battery_life
SIM compatibility
Q:Sim card is not working, how do I run diagnostics?
A: Here is the "how to" check.
Follow Manually_using_GSM until you get an OK prompt. More detalied documenation please refer FreeRunner_unable_to_work_with_3G_SIM_cards and Carriers.
GSM/GPRS information
Following page contain very usaful information:
Q: How do I get the GPS working?
A: See GTA02 GPS
Q: How do I get the wlan working?
A: See GTA02 WLAN
Q: How do I get the Bluetooth working?
A: See Manually_using_Bluetooth
Sysfs function
Q: How do I get low level hardware related function, like power up device, dump register?
A: See GTA02_sysfs
Can it play VGA video?
No, it can do about 20 fps QVGA with software, and something beetween QVGA and VGA playing MPEG-4 using hardware (at resonable fps). Scaling is also done with GPU hardware.
How to change the background picture of the root window?
Copy whatyouwant.png over /usr/share/pixmaps/wallpaper.png, best results may come up with pictures that have width=480 and height=640. I think that the X-server must be restarted, at least it will show up after the next boot.
Does it support Java?
There is a port of Jalimo for Openmoko.

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A great number of conferences and workshops on various subjects are organized in and around Turkey, providing time for discussions and interaction. The General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works Regional for Turkey is organizing these meetings within the framework of the preparations for the Forum in Turkey.
Each region is coordinated by a specific organization or group of organizations that aims to bring together the various stakeholders from all sectors and corners of that specific area. The outputs of these meetings should have direct impact on daily life and be practice-oriented. At the end, there will be a single document summarizing all concrete outputs of the related meetings.
Two important preparatory meeting will be held next October in Nicosia and Kiev.
A number of local meetings will be held within the framework of the preparations for the 5th World Water Forum by the Turkish General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works Regional Directorates.
The meetings are planned to be held as workshops providing more space for discussions and interaction, rather than a seminar or symposium. The papers to be presented will be chosen among subjects that have direct impact on daily life and that are practice-oriented.
The meetings in question will be limited to two days.
The following list contains the issues to be addressed by the Turkish State Hydraulic Works Regional Directorates:
For the Regional Meetings in Turkey, please click.
In/around Turkey: Turkey - Jordan- Sarajevo - Skopje - Bishkek
MENA/Arab countries
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|Designed exclusively for Farleys by jewellery maker Anna Wales. This piece was influenced by Roland Penrose's lip shape motif often found in art inspired by Lee Miller. "I have kept this first collection very simple, with the separate halves of the lips being represented through different textures and the use of oxidization. Each piece is striking in its graphic aesthetic, light and enjoyable to wear"


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Like everything we do, our return policy is simple, fair, and easy: If you are not satisfied with the fit, function, styling, etc. in ANY way, you can return it within 30 days for an exchange or a refund. To be eligible for a return, you must meet the following criteria:
- Your return must be within 30 days of the original ship date (when we sent it). Sorry, but if your shipdate was older than 30 days prior, we cannot accept it, even if there are "special circumstances", such as forgetting the item in the closet, needing to wait for a full moon, or being away on a covert CIA mission;
- They must be 100% NEW, and not used outside or on the motorcycle;
- They must be in sellable condition. This means undamaged, unmarked, unwashed, untested, unmodified, clean, dry, odor free, with all hangtags, labels, and packaging intact and attached;
- Please, please please do not remove, destroy, bend, fold, spindle, or mutilate the packaging;
- The return must arrive to our warehouse within 14 days of the original RMA date. Once you request the return, please ship it back to us promptly;
- Returns must be pre-authorized and be assigned a return authorization number (RA#);
- The RA# must be clearly written on the outside of the return shipment;
- Customers are responsible for freight costs associated with returning their item to us.
That's it. As long as your return meets this criteria, we will process it promptly, for any reason, without any fees or hassles. Items returned in non-sellable condition may not be eligible for return. "Non-sellable condition" includes but is not limited to: riding or other use, dirt, scratches, stains, missing or damaged packaging, items that have been modified, items with missing or detached hangtags, missing parts, odors such as cologne or cigarette smoke, dog or cat hair, etc. In addition, if you can, it helps us if you fold and pack items neatly. Thank you for your consideration.
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text: I am by no means a blues expert as I just started listening to it a few months ago, but I was curious to see what everyone's opinion of this switch is. I am a Sirius subscriber so I had been listening to Sirius Blues until recently. So far, I haven't been disappointed and have been enjoying the new version of this channel.


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Richard Maffeo
Richard was born into a Jewish home in 1950. Twenty-two years later, he discovered Jesus is the Jewish Messiah, and served Him in evangelical Protestant churches for more than thirty-two years. In 2005 he was received into the Catholic Church.
My movement in 1972 from Jewish faith to Christ was so profound an experience, I can tell you when it happened, where I was and what I was doing when I committed myself to the Lord and joined the Protestant church.
But I cannot tell you when I knew I belonged in the Catholic Church. That process was more gradual. I didn't know I was moving toward Rome until I opened my eyes and discovered I had arrived.
When some of my Protestant friends found out about my reception into the Catholic Church they asked me why. They'd known me a long time, some more than 30 years. We'd studied Scripture together, attended similar evangelical churches and enjoyed lively debates about our beliefs.


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Lawyers continue to help those diagnosed with bladder cancer after taking Actos file claims.
New York, NY (PRWEB) April 18, 2013
The drug safety advocates at DrugRisks.com are alerting of updated legal news on the site for patients who have taken the diabetes drug Actos. A jury could begin deliberations today in a trial accusing Takeda Pharmaceuticals of causing bladder cancer with their diabetes drug Actos***.
DrugRisks is designed to improve the safety of those taking popular prescription drugs like Actos by providing the latest warnings, recalls, studies and legal news. Visitors can determine if other patients are experiencing similar side effects and decide if they need legal advice.
The FDA and European Medicines Agency* have warned that taking Actos for longer than one year may be associated with an increased risk of bladder cancer. Regulators in France and Germany have even banned its use**.
DrugRisks has learned as many as 3,000 patients in the U.S. have filed an Actos lawsuit against Takeda Pharmaceuticals over allegations their drug caused bladder cancer***. The first trial is underway for Jack Cooper, a grandfather who is now terminally ill from the disease***.
Now, the resource center has added legal news showing lawyers are finishing their closing arguments and the jury could begin deliberations as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday this week. A decision is expected soon***.
Lawyers continue to help those diagnosed with bladder cancer after taking Actos file claims. Anyone affected is urged to contact the DrugRisks Center or speak with a lawyer about their legal rights as soon as possible.
Due to the specialized nature of drug injury litigation against large pharmaceutical companies, DrugRisks only recommends lawyers and law firms who have already handled Actos lawsuits.
Visit http://www.DrugRisks.com today for more information on Actos bladder cancer research, side effects and litigation news, or to speak with a lawyer.
*fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm263431.htm#Actos; ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/medicines/human/public_health_alerts/2011/07/hu an_pha_detail_000033.jsp&mid=WC0b01ac058001d126


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Apple has released an update to iOS that fixes a number of minor (but annoying) bugs within the operating system. The update was just released on Monday afternoon (at least for those of us on the eastern half of the US) and includes fixes for iPads and iPhones.
According to Apple, iOS 5.1.1 improves the reliability of the HDR photo option when you try to take photos using the Camera app's shortcut from the lock screen. (This one drives me the most crazy). It also fixes some AirPlay video bugs that affected playback "in some circumstances," improves the reliability of syncing Safari bookmarks and Reading List, and fixes a bug that caused iTunes or the App Store to display an error saying "Unable to purchase" when the purchase was successful after all. The one fix that specifically affects the iPad is one that prevented third-gen iPads from switching easily between 2G and 3G networks.
There may be other minor bug fixes or feature changes buried within iOS 5.1.1, but those will be left for users to discover. When iOS 5.1 was released in March alongside the new iPad, the company also increased its over-the-air file download limit and free trials for subscriptions alongside the OS's bug fixes and feature additions. Although 5.1.1 isn't likely to address any of the ongoing frustrations we have with iOS, we're still eager to update and see if there are any other easter eggs. You can update either through iTunes or by going to Settings > General > Software Update within your iOS device—though when I checked on my iPhone just now, it had not yet seen the OTA update.


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The US has cancelled its biggest air-defence exercise with Israel after Turkey refused to allow Israeli aircraft to participate in the war games, due to begin out of Turkish air bases today.Israeli officials said that Turkey's stance over the 11-day manoeuvres, codenamed Operation Anatolian Eagle, was the result of lingering anger at Israel's devastating onslaught on the Gaza Strip last winter.Secular Turkey is Israel's main military ally in the Muslim world, and has long enjoyed military co-operation with the Jewish state. Israeli bombers are believed to have passed through Turkish airspace when they attacked a suspected nuclear facility under construction in Syria in 2007.The cancellation of the large aerial war games caused anger in Israel, coming only two weeks after Iran held its own military exercises in which it launched missiles capable of hitting Israel. Last week an official from Iran's Revolutionary Guard threatened that Tehran would "blow up the heart of Israel" if a US or Israeli strike was made on the country's controversial nuclear facilities. Anatolian Eagle, which would have involved the forces of several Nato countries, was to have included aerial attacks in Turkish airspace near the borders with Syria, Iraq and Iran.The Israeli military said in a statement: "The exercise has been postponed as a result of Turkey's decision to change the list of participating countries, thus excluding Israel. This decision came several days before the start of the exercise."The abrupt cancellation followed increasing domestic pressure on Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister and head of a moderate Islamic party, to cool ties with Israel in protest at the three-week war it waged on the Gaza Strip last December, in response to Hamas rocket fire into southern Israel. The massive offensive killed more than 1,000 people.Turkey has taken an increasingly robust stance towards its allies in recent years, for example refusing to allow US forces to invade northern Iraq from its territory in 2003.After Turkey refused Israeli participation in the new exercises, the US said that it would also withdraw from the war games, and the operation was shelved, Israeli officials said.The snub was not the first time Turkey has shown its displeasure publicly with Israel. Mr Erdogan openly criticised the Gaza war, and walked out of a meeting at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland in January, after a row with Shimon Peres, the Israeli President. Last month Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish Foreign Minister, cancelled a visit to Israel because be was prevented from visiting Gaza.The Israeli Government played down the significance of Turkey's snub, but reports suggested that senior security officials were furious."We need to stop accepting the Turkish dictates and humiliations," one official was quoted as saying. "It is inconceivable that they should insult us at every opportunity, and we should continue to hold our tongues."
Israeli bombers are believed to have passed through Turkish airspace when they attacked a suspected nuclear facility under construction in Syria in 2007.??


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Batnuts Crazy Christian exposes the level of psychosis required to maintain belief in invisible monsters in a modern world. Hilarious.
Views: 485
I loved it when the music kicked in... what a cry-baby...
Is he real or is he just imitating preachers from the middle ages?
These people are so fucking creepy.
lol play this while listening to him
Oh shit, my bad you're right evidence is everywhere. Majesty and glory were key points I have failed to include in my hypothesis about the existence of the almighty.
I keep picturing the rapist pig from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, right about the time she kicks that dildobat up his fartbox. I'm in no way implying I want that to happen to him, just that I think he's got some off camera antics that may not meet up with his professed belief. No one is that batshit crazy that is perfectly moral and just, he's got some skeletons for sure.
lol play this while listening to him
@ kOrsan - Oh my gawed I am cracking up.
Dear Folks:
Sadly, screaming does not a proof make! More passion does not equate to more truth! When we scream, the 'conversation' becomes monologue! I don't think I would resort to the 'batnuts crazy' lable, but it would be a close second to my first impression or thought! LOL
Normally when I deal with such folks, a twinge of disapointment and sadness washes over me, and I look for the nearest exit, just to save my hearing. Its ok, I expect the world will go on, with or without our understanding. I plan to have a nice day, I hope far from the ugliness that seems unnecessary.
This isn't an argument... it's a sermon.
Next moron please!
If anyone wants a reason to reject Christianity, this video should do it.


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We're not sure what kind of person (or family) needs to keep a stock of 20 apples, oranges, and what could be limes in their home, but this Ring design seems to satisfy your crazy craving for produce. Fresh fruit goes in at the top, and less fresh fruit comes out the bottom. A cool design, but unless you plan on becoming a full-fledged fruitarian like Steve Jobs was, you probably want to stick with the less demanding fruit holders.
design page [Design Boom via Random Good Stuff]


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Day8 in Korea
>> Sunday, May 20, 2007
Ahah!! Finally! This is the final night of the 14th All Asians Debating Championship. Most teams left Korea the next day, but I stayed back at Long's place to do more sight-seeing in Seoul :)
On this final night, we had our Closing Gala Party, held at the gymnasium in the English Village. Somehow, this party isn't as 'wow' as we hoped it to be...even the other dinners were better *sigh* But the variety of food is still good :)
I hope you enjoyed the posts on Korea. We'll continue to keep this site updated from time to time! Stay tuned!
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The at-sea burial of Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was videotaped and probably will be publicly released soon, two Pentagon officials said Monday.
The officials said photos of the body before its disposal in the North Arabian Sea on Monday also may be released. The officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because decisions on releasing the materials were pending.
It was not clear whether the firefight in which U.S. forces are said to have shot bin Laden to death was videotaped.
John Brennan, the White House counterterrorism chief, told reporters that the administration was still deliberating on release of the material. Making it public might satisfy those who would otherwise doubt that it was bin Laden who was killed.
Bin Laden was buried at sea from the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the north Arabian Sea after being washed according to Islamic custom during a religious funeral, a U.S. defense official said Monday.
"Preparations for at-sea burial began at 1:10 a.m. EST and were completed at 2 a.m. EST," the official said. "Traditional procedures for Islamic burial were followed."
The official described the procedure to NBC News as follows:
- The deceased's body was washed and then placed in a white sheet.
- The body was placed in a weighted bag.
- A military officer read prepared religious remarks that were translated into Arabic by a native speaker.
- After the words were complete, the body was placed on a prepared flat board, tipped up, whereupon the deceased's body eased into the sea from the USS Carl Vinson.
The rites sparked a debate about Islamic customs, with some Muslim clerics calling the procedure humiliating and others saying it was proper.
A U.S. official said that the burial decision was made after concluding that it would have been difficult to find a country willing to accept the remains. There also was speculation about worry that a grave site could have become a rallying point for militants.
President Barack Obama said the remains had been handled in accordance with Islamic custom, which requires speedy burial.
U.S. officials told NBC News that the Quran is not specific about burials, as long as the body of the deceased is cleansed quickly. There is no single authoritative Islamic text on burial, they said.
The standard Muslim practice is placing the body in a grave with the head pointed toward the holy city of Mecca, some clerics said. Sea burials can be allowed, they said, but only in special cases where the death occurred aboard a ship.
"The Americans want to humiliate Muslims through this burial, and I don't think this is in the interest of the U.S. administration," said Omar Bakri Mohammed, a radical cleric in Lebanon.
He called the burial a "strategic mistake" that was bound to stoke rage.
Khalid Latif, executive director and chaplain for the Islamic Center at New York University, disagreed.
"I think the White House showed an immense amount of wisdom in the manner they decided to bury him," Latif told msnbc.com.
Latif, also a New York Police Department chaplain, said that under Islamic law it would be important to weigh the impact that bin Laden's burial anywhere on land would have on most people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
"Given the fact that this person was one of the most hated individuals who ever lived, we have to be mindful of what his burial means to people on the whole of the earth," he said. "I wouldn't want my brother, my father, my loved one to be buried anywhere near him."
"My bigger concern is not the treatment of his body … my bigger concern here is what impact (the burial) has on people as a whole."
Latif said he hoped bin Laden's death would mean the end to a painful chapter for Muslim and non-Muslim relations.
"Muslims really hated this man," he said. "He has caused so many problems for Muslims in general."
'Land and sea belong to God'
According to Islamic teachings, the highest honor to be bestowed on the dead is giving the deceased a swift burial, preferably before sunset. Those who die while traveling at sea can have their bodies committed to the bottom of the ocean if they are far off the coast, according to Islamic tradition.
"They can say they buried him at sea, but they cannot say they did it according to Islam," Mohammed al-Qubaisi, Dubai's grand mufti, said about bin Laden's burial. "If the family does not want him, it's really simple in Islam: You dig up a grave anywhere, even on a remote island, you say the prayers and that's it."
"Sea burials are permissible for Muslims in extraordinary circumstances," he added. "This is not one of them."
But Mohammed Qudah, a professor of Islamic law at the University of Jordan, said burying the Saudi-born bin Laden at sea was not forbidden if there was nobody to receive the body and provide a Muslim burial.
"The land and the sea belong to God, who is able to protect and raise the dead at the end of times for Judgment Day," he said. "It's neither true nor correct to claim that there was nobody in the Muslim world ready to receive Bin Laden's body."
Clerics in Iraq — where an offshoot of al-Qaida is blamed for the death of thousands of people since 2003 — also criticized the U.S. action. One said it only benefited fish.
"If a man dies on a ship that is a long distance from land, then the dead man should be buried at the sea," said Shiite cleric Ibrahim al-Jabari. "But if he dies on land, then he should be buried in the ground, not to be thrown into the sea. Otherwise, this would be only inviting fish to a banquet."
The Islamic tradition of a quick burial was the subject of intense debate in Iraq in 2003 when U.S. forces embalmed the bodies of Saddam Hussein's two sons after they were killed in a firefight. Their bodies were later shown to media.
"What was done by the Americans is forbidden by Islam and might provoke some Muslims," said another Islamic scholar from Iraq, Abdul-Sattar al-Janabi, who preaches at Baghdad's famous Abu Hanifa mosque. "It is not acceptable and it is almost a crime to throw the body of a Muslim man into the sea. The body of bin Laden should have been handed over to his family to look for a country or land to bury him."
Prominent Egyptian Islamic analyst and lawyer Montasser el-Zayat said bin Laden's sea burial was designed to prevent his grave from becoming a shrine. But an option was an unmarked grave.
"They don't want to see him become a symbol, but he is already a symbol in people's hearts."


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- Yield
- Makes up to 6 dozen cookies, depending on the size
- 3 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- Sugar Cookie Glaze
- 1 egg white
- Pinch of salt
- A few drops of vegetable oil
- Up to 1 pound of confectioners' sugar
- 1 to 3 tablespoons of cream
- Royal Icing
- If using egg whites: 3 large egg whites at room temperature and 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
- If using meringue powder: 3 tablespoons meringue powder and 6 tablespoons warm water
- 3 3/4 cups confectioners' sugar
- Optional: 1 to 2 drops of glycerin
- Food coloring
- Sift the flour with baking powder and salt in a medium-sized bowl. Using an electric mixer, cream the butter for a full minute, then add the sugar and beat at medium speed until light, about 5 minutes. Beat in eggs and vanilla until fluffy and very light, another 2 to 4 minutes. With a wooden spoon gradually work the flour into the creamed mixture. Divide the dough into two portions and wrap in waxed paper or plastic wrap. Refrigerate until firm, at least several hours or overnight.
- Heat the oven to 400°. On a floured surface, roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thick, using more flour for the rolling pin, sprinkled on the dough, and additionally on the floured surface as needed to prevent sticking. Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters and place on cookie sheets.
- This dough works beautifully if gathered and rerolled; if it gets too soft, chill for about 15 minutes.
- Refrigerate or freeze the cut-out cookies on their baking sheets for 10 to 15 minutes so they will retain their firm edges as they bake; if you're in a hurry, go ahead and bake the cookies immediately. Bake for 5 to 8 minutes or until cookies are puffed and only just barely starting to brown at the edges: Start with the shortest amount of time and watch carefully, especially with very small cookies. As the cookies are fragile right out of the oven, let cool slightly before moving to a wire rack to cool completely.
- When cool, glaze and decorate as desired.
- Makes up to 6 dozen cookies, depending on the size. This recipe can be easily doubled or tripled.
- Sugar Cookie Glaze
- Whisk the egg white and salt until loosened and beginning to foam. Add oil, confectioners' sugar, and cream gradually and whisk, adding more sugar and cream until the glaze is of spreading consistency: You want it to be thin enough to spread easily over the cookies to their edges, but not so thin it runs off the sides.
- Using an offset spatula or a smooth table knife, spread the glaze over each cookie, filling in the shape to its edges. While the glaze is wet, you can decorate the cookies with colored sprinkles, or leave the glaze plain, let dry, and add more decoration with Royal Icing.
- Royal Icing
- Before you start, make sure that all utensils and containers are clean and grease-free. Have ready several small containers for dividing the icing and tinting it with different colors, if desired. You will need to keep the royal icing covered with a damp cloth, plastic wrap, or tight fitting lid or it will dry out. Royal icing will keep, tightly covered, in the refrigerator for about one week. This recipe is proportioned for the firmest-textured icing; adjust the texture with the addition of water or sugar as explained below.
- If using egg whites, combine the egg whites, cream of tartar, and sugar and beat until the icing is thick and holds billowy peaks, about 6 to 8 minutes. Add glycerin for extra shine, if desired.
- If using meringue powder, whisk the meringue powder and sugar together in the bowl of an electric mixer. Add the water and beat on low speed for about 5 minutes, until icing is thick and holds billowy peaks. Don't overbeat or the icing texture will become hard to work with. Add glycerin for extra shine, if desired. To adjust the consistency of icing: To thicken, add sifted confectioners' sugar a spoonful at a time, whisking thoroughly until you reach the desired consistency. To thin, add warm water a few drops at a time, mixing with a spoon. Piped outlines and details require the thickest icing; flows of color over a whole cookie or in sections can be somewhat thinner.
- Royal icing hardens very quickly when exposed to air, so cover with a damp cloth, plastic wrap, or container lids when not in immediate use.
- Divide the icing into separate containers for each color to be used. Tint the icing with small amounts of food coloring until it reaches the color desired.
- To use, icing can be spread onto cookies with an offset spatula or table knife—even painted on with small, previously unused paintbrushes, such as the ones that come in a child's paint box—or it can be piped through a pastry bag and tips. For simple, plain outlines, use a zipper plastic bag with a tiny hole cut from one corner.
- Makes about 3 cups of icing.
Nutritional analysis provided by TasteBook, using the USDA Nutrition Database
CakeWalk: A Memoir by Kate Moses, copyright © 2010. Published by the Random House Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved.
Kate Moses grew up in northern California, Philadelphia, the outskirts of Washington, D.C., and Alaska. In 1997 she teamed up with journalist Camille Peri to found Salon.com's popular daily website Mothers Who Think, which in turn inspired the nationally bestselling, American Book Award-winning anthology Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood (Villard 1999, Washington Square Press 2000) and Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves (HarperCollins 2005, 2006). In 2003, her first novel, Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath (St. Martin's Press, Anchor Books 2003) was published to international acclaim. Translated into thirteen languages, Wintering received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and a Prix des Lectrices de Elle in France. Her latest book is Cakewalk, A Memoir (The Dial Press, May 2010), the result of a lifelong love of sugar and stories. She lives in San Francisco with her family—journalist and Salon.com founder, Gary Kamiya, and their two children.


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A Three Dog Life has the virtue of being short, weighing in at under 40,000 words which, when you are busy and supposed to be on top of reviews and have instead gotten confused about the schedule and so are late getting your review to the editor, can be a gift from the literary gods. In addition to its brevity and its generally simple sentences ("Rich was a runner. He ran for the joy of it. He ran to clear his head."), A Three Dog Life also offers a simple plot, allowing the hard-pressed reviewer to pass through the book, as General Patton once said, like crap through a goose. (Actually, I'd prefer being the goose, but it's impolite to refer to works of literature as goose droppings. And being a critic, I am certainly used to being called worse names. Suffice it to say that the book was a quick and easy read.)
Here is the plot. Abigail and Rich meet. They marry. They live happily until Rich is hit in an auto accident (we never quite get all the details here). Rich enters a sort of nursing home. Abigail visits. Abigail also acquires dogs. Despite his damaged brain, Rich composes the wittiest dialogue in the book. For a time Abigail owns an apartment in New York and teaches at the New School. Later she moves out of the city, buys a home, and sees Rich more than once a week. She takes care of three dogs. She reflects on her fate. She single-handedly knits more shawls, hoodies, and scarves than a Chinese sweatshop. She smokes. She drinks a little. She ponders her existence. Sometimes she even wonders how Rich is doing. (She also, as I said, generally disdains complex sentences.)
Given the fate of Rich — he is, after all, brain-damaged and institutionalized — my remarks here will doubtless strike some readers as cruel. Before anyone begins to sharpen a knife, however, let me put out a question: How many of you have taken care of parents with terminal cancer? With Alzheimer's Disease? How many of you have faced the death of a child or a spouse, a brother or a sister, and the devastation caused by that loss in your life? How many of you readers have raised a child with Down's Syndrome, or some other crippling illness?
Let's say that many of you have endured such calamities or you know someone who has endured them. This book may give you inspiration. You may need such a book right away, this book of "survival" by a woman who has lost the husband whom she has known and loved.
Others of you, however — and I am in this number — will find so many parts of this book annoying that we would consider dropkicking it from our porch roofs.
Annoying in what way? At one point, Abigail proudly tells us how when she moved she threw away all her diaries, including one about her marriage to Rich. During their marriage she also insists that they go to a remote cabin in the backwoods of Maine — a place, she says, where they can't see another house or another person. Once there, however, she can't sleep, convinced that an ax murderer will kill them in their beds, and so Rich drives them home a day early through a tremendous thunderstorm. She frequently tells us of her trips to Mexico, of her many hours of free time, of her dogs. Thomas even writes that "a couple of years ago, Denise and I were in Mexico, both of us counting the days until we would be back with our dogs. We were pathetic." Thomas is absolutely correct — she is pathetic, damned pathetic. Couldn't she at least feign an interest in seeing her husband? She does write that she tried one morning to get Rich on the phone. I was shocked that she wasn't trying to talk to one of the dogs.
In parts of The Three Dog Life, Thomas seems anxious to tell us about connections she's made with her husband. When she calls Rich from Mexico, for example, she informs us that she is staring at tiles on a terra-cote counter. She asks Rich about his activities for the day. He tells her that he has made tiles. When she goes home, she checks with the art director of the home and discovers that neither her husband nor anyone else has made tiles that day. She offers this up as some sort of comment on him, some sort of extrasensory perception on his part, but never entertains the idea that he may have said something else, that she may have misinterpreted his words because of her own obsession with tiles.
There is, at bottom, a coldness in this account. Again I realize how stern, how condemning those words sound. Yet in neither the dedication of the book nor in the acknowledgements is Rich mentioned. Even within the book, he seems to take a poor third place to Mrs. Thomas's concerns for her own well-being and for her dogs. She analyzes her wounded husband, but we never feel as if we know him.
As for Stephen King's comments about memoirs, I would suggest that he avail himself of a public library, where he would find dozens of writers, ancient and modern, who offer much deeper wisdom and comforts in their tales of themselves.


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7.5 Meter (24.6 feet)Giants in Ecuador? And the Giant Footprints of Tawara
In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha. 2 Samuel 21:20
The Giant Bones from Ecuador
From the collection of Carlos Vaca.
"The myths of all peoples tell of giants with superhuman strength. Most scientists doubt that there are real foundations for this.
But a find from Ecuador might point to the existence of an unknown early race of giants.
A collection of giant bones was found in the estate of the late Father Carlos Vaca.
Anatomists identified one of them as a section (occipital)of a human skull. They believe that another bone may be part of a human heel.
Judging by its size, it would have belonged to a giant human or primate. In its lifetime, it would have been an unbelievable 7.50 meters tall.
Erich Von Daniken poses with Mystery Park's scaled human skull reconstruction based on the size of human bones in Carlos Vaca's collection.
Mystery Park succeeded in completing a hypothetical reconstruction of this giant. Did more creatures than the dinosaurs die out 65 million years ago? Did the giants fall victim to the huge climatic catastrophe as well?"...... Unsolved Mysteries.net from Voyager.rai.it
Mystery Park
"Mystery Park is an amusement park located near Interlaken, Switzerland. Designed by Erich von Däniken, it consists of seven pavilions, each of which explores a great "mystery" of the world.
Nazca explores the Nazca Lines near Nazca, Peru.
Contact explores cargo cults.
MegaStones explores Stonehenge.
Maya explores the Maya calendar.
Orient explores Great Pyramid of Giza.
Vimana explores Vimana (flying machines) described in the Mahabharata and the Rig Veda.
Challenge explores space flight and Mars exploration.
The Panorama Kugel is the central pavilion, topped by a 41-meter high sphere, from which the park's grounds can be seen. The Kugel also contains exhibits of von Däniken's works"....WIKIPEDIA
The Giant footprints of Tawara
"…What was most interesting to Von Daniken, and to me, were the GIANT FOOTPRINTS of Tarawa.
A book has even been written about them, entitled The Footprints of Tarawa (it is extracted from the Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol 58, No.4, December 1949, Wellington, New Zealand, and written by I.G. Turbott).
This book mentions a number of places where these footprints can be found in the Kiribatis, [Islands] but the main spot is in the village of Banreaba at a spot called Te Aba-n-Anti, the "Place of the Spirits," or Te Kananrabo, "the Holy Place."
One of the "giant footprints" in volcanic stone on the Island of Tawara.
"Here various footprints can clearly be seen in the volcanic stone, some of them so huge as to seem impossible. MOST HAVE SIX TOES ON EACH FOOT. The largest are about three feet long, easily twice as large as the foot of an especially tall person…
The footprints are reported to be very clear, with the toes, heels and outline distinct: naturally rounded and curved like a normal footprint.
They were certainly not natural rock formations coincidently formed into footprints…These men [Giants] apparently had six toes and were probably ten to twelve feet tall…" Pages 192-193...Quoted in Nibiru And The Lemurian Connection - Part One, By Greg Jenner
"All over the archipelago, footprints in solid stone can be found, ranging from children's feet to normal sized feet and even gigantic prints 1.37 m long and 1.14 m wide.
One left foot print has twelve toes, but most of the prints show only six toes. In average, they are about 1 cm deep. These prints can be found on all 16 Kiribati islands, one on Tarawa near of the village of Antebuka"...Giant Footprints of Tawara
"On Tarawa, the main atoll of Kiribati, I found the footprints of a giant, his wife and children in a schoolyard - in the village of Banreaba. They all had six toes"...Giant Footprints of Tawara
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Learning Express Toys, located in Ridgeland, MS, has a great selection and dozens of categories to choose from, including educational and skill building toys and games. James Bennett, Counselor at the HCC MSBDC assisted Sarah Collado with not only her initial purchase of the business but also worked on ways to improve business performance. Below Ms. Collado shares a few words about here experience with the MSBDC.


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Hair High (2004)
Directed by Bill PlymptonGenres - Comedy | Sub-Genres - Horror Comedy | Release Date - Oct 18, 2006 (USA - Limited) | Run Time - 78 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - NR
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As the prom draws near and the popular head cheerleader of Echo Lake High dumps her star quarterback boyfriend in favor of attending the dance with the biggest loser in school, the raging footballer plots murderous revenge in cult animation icon Bill Plympton's darkly satirical take on the teen tragedy radio hits and high-school melodramas of the 1950s and '60s. High-school sweethearts Cherri (Sarah Silverman) and Rod (Dermot Mulroney) are a match made in popularity heaven. When nerdy new student Spud (Eric Gilliland) makes the fateful mistake of offending both Cherri and Rod on his first day at Echo Lake High, his punishment is to serve as Cherri's "slave" until both she and her brutish boyfriend decree that he has made up for his unintentional transgression. Though the mere sight of Spud at first makes Cherri's skin crawl, the unlikely pair soon grow exceptionally close until, one day, love blossoms between them. Upon learning that his onetime sweetheart will now be attending the prom on the arm of the socially awkward Spud, Rod angrily forces their car off of the road on and into the icy waters of Echo Lake as the couple makes their way to the big dance. Though cunningly successful in thwarting attempts made by local authorities to locate the missing teens, Rod soon discovers that sometimes the dead have a curious way of exposing the crimes of their killers.


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In honor of Data Innovation Day the city of Philadelphia released a guidebook to provide advice and information to city departments and agencies on releasing open data. The city's Open Data Guidebook offers suggestions on reviewing data for completeness and accuracy, adding metadata components and terms of use as well as staging the data and using application programming interfaces.
Like Philadelphia, many cities, states and localities have been able to run their own open data efforts. Gainesville, Fla., for example, launched its Open Data portal, which allows the public to access information ranging from city budgets to its utility consumption.
Other government offices have found partners to help them make more data available to users both within and outside government. Cook County, Ill., signed an agreement with the Smart Chicago Collaborative to help county agencies to develop and identify new data sets to publish, prepare the county's data and post it on a public website, according to a post on the Cook County blog.
Smart Chicago also will help create visuals, infographics and other Web-based content to make it easier for government officials and residents to understand how the county is performing.
Mary Jo Horace, Cook County's interim CIO of the Bureau of Technology, said that "partnering with Smart Chicago lets us to tap into its hands-on expertise as the County expands its data catalog."
While many governments are embracing open data, there are some hurdles to implementation, including staff expertise and upfront costs. In Washington state, the House is considering a bill that would require public officials and employees to undergo training on open government laws.
In Arkansas, government officials cited cost as a serious impediment to not immediately implementing an open data plan. Yet there are long-term savings with an open data plan, particularly with the amount of time it can take to process requests manually.
As open data is a work in progress, some best practices are emerging. The Governance Lab at New York University (The GovLab) released a preview of its study of 500 companies using open government data as a key business resource.
While a wide variety of companies use government data, they report that it is "often incomplete, inaccurate, or trapped in hard-to-use systems and formats," said Stefaan Verhulst in a GovLab post, offering policy recommendations.
Based on the report's findings, Verhulst recommends agencies improve data quality; improve open data resources, such as data.gov and Project Open Data on GitHub; pass the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act; reform the Freedom of Information Act; solicit and encourage feedback from data users on how they want the data; and continue using crowdsourcing and collective intelligence initiatives such as Challenge.gov to use open data to solve a variety of issues.
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More provincial aggregates added
The averages for Quebec, including regional and linguistic breakdowns, can be found here. The latest poll from the province was out just this past week.
The averages for Alberta are here.
And in case you missed them last week, pages for Nova Scotia and Ontario were also added.
The Pollcast: The Stephen Harper years and beyond
Stephen Harper will speak to party members on Thursday evening at the Conservative Party's policy convention in Vancouver. It could be some of the last words he will speak in public as an elected member of Parliament.
Canada's 22nd prime minister is expected to resign his Calgary Heritage seat before the fall, a seat he has held since returning to federal politics in a by-election in 2002.
As leader of the Canadian Alliance, Harper led the party into a merger with the Progressive Conservatives in 2003. He then led the merged party to power in 2006, where it remained until it was defeated by Justin Trudeau's Liberals in October.
Harper's 10 years in office have left an impact on the political landscape of the country and shaped the modern Conservative Party. How will Canadians remember his time as prime minister and what will the Conservative Party look like without the only permanent leader it has ever known?
Joining me to look at Stephen Harper's legacy and the future of the Conservative Party is Postmedia's Ottawa political bureau chief, John Ivison.
You can listen to the latest episode of the Pollcast here.
Canadians shrug off Justin Trudeau's elbow, polls suggest
The altercation in the House of Commons last week between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and members of the opposition captured Canadians' attention, but two polls published this week suggest a majority of those Canadians have shrugged it off like a wayward elbow on a crowded subway.
The latest poll, conducted by Ipsos for Global News, shows that 63 per cent of Canadians feel the tussle was "no big deal," a "momentary lapse of judgment" on the part of the prime minister, and that "we should all just move on."
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Leadership race rules could exacerbate Conservative Party divisions
The Conservative policy convention being held this week in Vancouver will help determine the future of the party. But how much of the party's divided past is still a factor, more than 12 years after the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives united the right as the Conservative Party of Canada?
Compared to the Liberals and New Democrats, the Conservative support base is split more evenly between its centrist supporters and those on the edges of the political spectrum.
Polling data provided by Abacus Data suggests that 45 per cent of Conservative voters self-identify as being centrist, compared to 45 per cent who say they are either on the centre-right or right.
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I am cheating on Day of Archaeology at little, as I am going to talk about work we at TigerGeo did in May, but that is being used to inform the very-much-happening-on-July-29th excavations at Tintagel Castle. We've been really excited to see the excavations progress over the last few weeks and can't wait to get our hands on the reports and plans to go back to our own data with.
While there has been a lot of media attention about the excavations (see Sue's excellent piece for the insider perspective), the geophysical surveys happened without much fanfare in May, in order to give us time to process the data and report it back to the dig team at CAU. We thought it might be interesting to have an insight into the work we did on site and the iterative process of interpreting, getting feedback and revisiting the data that we are engaged in. Most of the time, we don't get such a great chance to see the excavations that follow our surveys so this is fantastic for us as we will be able to update our thinking and interpretations in detail.
So what did we get up to? The excavation team didn't want to make such a drastic intervention on the site blind. They had target areas, based on what was already known or assumed about the site and asked us to look at them in more detail to allow them to better target their excavations. They were particularly interested in finding buildings from the post-roman period that had lain undisturbed by recent archaeologists, so they could look at them with fresh eyes and modern scientific methods. Any excavation is inherently destructive, and on sites as unique as Tintagel, it is important to minimise the impact of destructive research, so to help them do this we came up with a package of four complimentary methods:
- Ground Penetrating Radar, which should be able to detect buried walls and surfaces
- Earth Resistance Survey, which should detect the same things as the GPR, but using different properties of the material, giving us a 'double chance' to find them
- Magnetic Susceptibility, a method that looks at how magnetisable a material is, telling us things about the presence of certain forms of iron. This can help distiguish between different activities taking place on site: we'd expect higher MS in areas of industry or settlement thanks to burning or heating, than we would in storage areas, for example
- Terrestrial Laser Scanning, to produce highly detailed surface models to pin down the geophysical data but also very acurately located biulding platforms that had been recorded over the years by site archaeologists.
A lot of fun was had on site getting ourselves and our equipment into the right places. Unlike the dig team, because we had to be quite mobile, with heavy gear, we needed to use a rope-access team to provide safety lines for us, so there were a lot of logistics to contend with around making sure we could cover the right areas. We were on site for a total of about 8 days, and really enjoyed talking to visitors to the site about what we were doing and why: people were particularly interested in the laser scanner and we've had to edit a lot of tourists (and seagulls) out of our point clouds!
So what did we find out? The earth resistance and GPR surveys taken together confirmed the locations of some of the walls and floors that have subsequently been found in the trenches, and hinted that the archaeology on the southern terrace had a different character than that on the eastern area. The magnetic susceptibility data also suggested clear differences between the two areas, with low values on the eastern area and higher values with internal patterning on the southern terrace. This suggested to us that on the southern terrace people were living or working, using fire either for heat and cooking or for industrial purposes. We could also see come strong patches of enhancement that lay between what were thought to be buildings, so we suggested there may be one larger building here instead. The eastern area showed no settlement related enhancement. So were the buildings there perhaps storehouses? Many of the already excavated buildings in this area have been interpreted as stores rather than dwellings.
The laser scans were useful not only to us but to the excavation team as well as they will form the basis for the topographical data being collected about the site. We were able to use them to make important topographic corrections to our radar profiles, without which interpretation would have been very difficult!
So, what next? Well, our first and most exciting job is going to be to get all the plans and sections back in from the excavation team and see how they match up with our interpretation, especially of the radar: we were able to survey a larger area than could be excavated, so we can refine our interpretation based on the dig and better predict what other walls and floors lie on the southern terrace. Ideally, we'd like to come back and do even more radar and see if we can cover the entire southern terrace: this might give us the best chance of understanding the exciting structures there and their immediate context. We would also like to do more scanning to provide detailed topographic data for the entire islands. The Tintagel Research Project is set to continue, so watch this space….
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In 2011 I gave up nearly two months of my life on three large community excavations. For free. Zilch. Nowt. Nothing. In fact it has actually cost me a lot of money to be involved. I often get asked why. Before I get the chance to answer, the interrogator normally smiles while pipeing up their own pre-conceived thought on the matter. It goes along the lines of, "Ah, you love doing that stuff don't you?"
They are right of course, I do enjoy it, I would not do it otherwise. But there is another reason behind my apparent madness. I am a student at the University of Wales Newport Caerleon campus. I am studying for a MA in Regional History and a lot of the course is based on historical landscape interpretation. Quite simply, it is landscape archaeology in another guise. And I enjoy it, immensely. The reasons behind this are multiple. For starters the study is non-invasive, as such no archaeology is destroyed; it is cheap – it costs me nothing to walk for hours using my eyes while taking notes and photographs; it is important to me that every available means of non invasive information is gleaned from my site of study prior to any possible excavation; lastly, and not by any means should this be last on my list, I have been blessed with tutors who have an active interest in my chosen area of study. That is probably the most important cog behind this. The advice and guidance is, quite simply, second to none.
That is why I volunteer on excavation projects! If my non invasive study is successful, and I see no reason why it shouldn't be, then the next logical step is to put together an achievable excavation strategy. And it excites me.
The first community project I was involved with in 2011 was the Caerleon 'Lost City Excavations' which strangely enough, were in Caerleon. The excavations came about through a geophysical survey undertaken as part of their studies. Led by Dr Pete Guest of the Cardiff School of History Archaeology and Religion, based within Cardiff University. I probably gained more experience from that excavation than any other. It was invaluable.
Next up was a CADW organised excavation at Tinkinswood in Glamorgan. This lasted for two weeks. Yet again, I was fortunate to glean a lot of information on how a community excavation should be run. The site held this amazing atmospheric feel that made you tingle at times. It is hard to put a reason behind this, but it did. It is an Early Neolithic structure and it is pleasing to announce that all of the questions behind the reasons for excavation were more or less answered. Seeing as the first excavations were carried out there in the early 20C, the incredible amount of finds indicates that there should be no reason to excavate further for some considerable time to come. One of the best things things about this excavation came about through the late winter sunsets that we had chance to witness.
The last community excavation I was involved in was St Lythans. Quite lterally, just down the road from Tinkinswood. Another Neolithic structure, this site had not been excavated before. Once again, I was fortunate to learn from the role of a volunteer looking in towards how the site was run. Towards the end of the excavation I was negated to open a trench away from the main investigation. It was wet, cold and uncomfortable, but Tom and I just got on with it, while listening to the squeals of delight while the other volunteers excavated finds near to the structure.
So, what has this got to do with the Day of Archaeology 2012? Quite simply I always keep a photographic diary of my exploits, as such I was able to deliver a talk this afternoon on volunteering in the archaeological sector at Pontypool Museum. I did not beat around the bush and it went down well.
Good luck everybody, I hope you enjoyed my blog.
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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- FOX has moved up the season premiere of "Kitchen Nightmares" to Tuesday, January 26 at 9:00/8:00c.
Said shift, which was confirmed to the site exclusively this afternoon, is part of a two-week stunt to showcase the series - which will still regularly air on Fridays at 9:00/8:00c - after "American Idol."
The special airings will also help fill the void left by the departure of "Our Little Genius," which was pulled from the schedule earlier this month.
FOX previously announced an encore of the "Human Target" pilot will fill the Tuesday, 9:00/8:00c hour on January 19.
To recap:
Tuesday, January 19
8:00/7:00c - "American Idol"
9:00/8:00c - "Human Target" (Repeat of Pilot)
Tuesday, January 26 & February 2
8:00/7:00c - "American Idol"
9:00/8:00c - "Kitchen Nightmares" (Special Night)
Fridays (as of January 29)
8:00/7:00c - "House" (Repeats)
9:00/8:00c - "Kitchen Nightmares" (Regular Time Period)


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2 Doctoral Students Recognized for Astrophysics Research
NASA/Texas Space Grant Consortium Awards to Support Studies of Matter Structures
Michael Troxel (left) and Austin Peel received NASA/Texas Space Grant Consortium fellowships to support their astrophysics research. Both are graduate students in physics at UT Dallas.
Two University of Texas at Dallas graduate students are recipients of the NASA/Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellowship for 2012-13.
Austin Peel and Michael Troxel, both PhD students in the Department of Physics, are among 21 graduate students from 16 Texas institutions who have received $5,000 fellowships from the consortium. The award supports graduate study in space science and engineering.
The fellowship recognizes excellence in research and reflects well on the quality of UT Dallas students, said Dr. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, associate professor of physics and advisor to both students.
"Austin and Michael work on exact analytical models to study the rate at which matter structures have been clustering in the universe for the last 13.7 billion years," Ishak-Boushaki explained. "Their insights will allow researchers to make wider interpretations of cosmological observations."
In his research, Peel uses analytical calculations and numerical methods to examine large-scale structures in the universe. His results may lead to a better understanding of the history of matter structure formation, which could have implications for cosmology theories.
Troxel works with a technique called gravitational lensing, which can be used to more accurately measure the distribution and density of matter in the universe. His research, aimed at improving gravitational lensing techniques, could help deepen the understanding of dark matter, which is believed to be five times more prevalent in the universe than ordinary matter.
Troxel and his recent work in cosmology have begun to attract attention from other institutions. He has been invited to discuss his research at Southern Methodist University on Monday, March 25.
"Michael has done outstanding work in gravitational lensing and self-calibration of galaxy alignments, and it has been very well received by the astrophysics community," Ishak-Boushaki said. "He presented results at the latest meeting of the American Astronomical Society, and was invited to visit and collaborate with researchers at Caltech and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory."
The Texas Space Grant Consortium is a group of 50 institutions, including universities, industry, nonprofits and government agencies working to ensure that the benefits of space research and technologies are available to all Texans. There are 52 space grant consortia nationwide.
Media Contact: The Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected].


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Current U.S. drug policy is proving insufficient in shrinking the damage caused by drug abuse, but promising alternative approaches could lead to improved results, according to an article in the summer 2012 edition of Issues in Science and Technology.
Although the current U.S. approach is comprehensive, involving policies ranging from arresting and imprisoning drug dealers to suspending the licenses of drunk drivers, it has failed to reduce the overall size of the problem, according to the article by Mark A.R. Kleiman of the University of California at Los Angeles and colleagues.
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The data deluge, Sagoff writes, has become most suffocating in biology. Technological advances make it continually faster and cheaper to produce genomic sequence data than to store, manage, and analyze them. To keep up with the flow of data, some biologists have called for a change in the scientific method from the traditional practice that poses a hypothesis and then pursues the phenomena necessary to test it to a novel approach that uses mathematical tools to scan data for interesting associations.
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Issues in Science and Technology is the award-winning journal of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and the University of Texas at Dallas.
Media Contact: The Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected].


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Start Line Location: 401 SW 2nd Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312
Finish Line Location: 1100 Seabreeze Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316
Course Hours: Both the Full and Half Marathon Courses will be open for 6 hours, from 6:00am – 12:00pm
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