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NH ranked highly in new health report
State has low infant mortality rate, low incidence of disease
New Hampshire has received a high health ranking in a national report.
It's ranked third in the country by the Trust for America's Health. Last year, the state ranked second and was third in 2010.
The report said some of New Hampshire's strengths are a low sedentary lifestyle rate, a low incidence of infectious disease and a low rate of children in poverty. The state also has seen a decline in the infant mortality rate, from 8.4 deaths per 1,000 births in 1990 to 4.4 in 2012. There's also been a decrease in the number of smokers.
One health indicator in which the state hasn't improved is obesity. The number of people in New Hampshire who are overweight or obese has been climbing dramatically since 1990.
The report looks at a wide range of indicators, including cardiovascular disease, deaths, preventable hospitalizations, immunization coverage and air pollution levels. The scores are then calculated to determine an overall ranking.
"We are lucky to be living in such a healthy state," said Dr. Jose Montero, public health director of the state's Department of Health and Human Services. "But there is more work to be done. Our obesity rate continues to climb, and we can do better on our cancer and diabetes rates."


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Walking, rolling, floating, and swimming among the packed crowd at the Google I/O afterparty were numerous robots autonomous and otherwise under the influence. If you were to drop by the Maker Faire booth you would have gotten the chance to try your luck at navigating the slalom course with Brian Jepson's 3D printed Slalombot using an Android smartphone's accelerometer.
These robots are based on Kimmo and Tero Karvinen's Soccer (Football) robots from the recently published Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets. They are built around the Arduino Pro Mini and the Bluetooth Mate module, and are controlled by an Android phone's accelerometer. For Google I/O, I simplified things by omitting the soccer playing part. Instead, I printed out some of Jag's traffic cones and let people try driving around without hitting them.
I've been making some tweaks to the code we originally printed in the book, and I also used a 3d printed chassis for these. Because this predates the Android Open Accessory Development kit, the bot just uses plain old Bluetooth rfcomm for communications. You can find the source to all three of these parts on GitHub:
Android remote control app
Arduino sketch for the bot
Bot Chassis OpenSCAD files

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Landscape Logic: Your trees and shrubs need water
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Vail, CO Colorado
Anyone in Colorado who works with trees is already worried about them being unduly stressed from the long, hot summer. Their next worry is what a dry winter might do to make matters worse.
We hope for a lot of snow this winter, but horticulturists and landscape pros all agree that this year, fall and winter watering will be critical for long-term tree health – and it's not too soon to get started.
Deciduous trees, evergreen trees and shrubs all will need regular attention. They likely will need thorough watering on a monthly basis when the ground is not frozen and months there has been little or no precipitation.
Once the sprinkler system is turned off, it will take a little effort to keep trees and shrubs watered. The good news is that there are some easy and inexpensive ways to get the job done.
Use a soaker hose. Most hoses sell for less than $15. The best type is one that "weeps" or "seeps" water, rather than spraying it. Hoses typically come in 10-foot, 25-foot and 50-foot lengths, so match the length to the area you need to water. Because they attach to an outdoor faucet, they can be used whenever you need to apply water. Remember to detach them from the faucet afterward to keep pipes from freezing.
These hoses can be buried 3 to 6 inches deep in the soil – or you can simply spread mulch over them. This protects them from sun and other damage from the elements.
How long do you water? If you have a mature shade tree, run a 50-foot hose around the drip line of the tree. (The drip line is where rain falls off the tree's canopy at its outermost edge.) For a hose that emits 1 gallon of water per foot per hour, you should water one to two hours, depending on how dry the soil is.
Buckets with holes make another inexpensive and easy-to-use watering device. Make sure that buckets you re-use did not contain materials whose residue could be harmful to plants. Drill three or four holes in the bottom of each bucket. For a newly planted tree, set the buckets over the root ball. For more mature trees, place buckets around the drip line of the tree spaced a few feet apart.
Once the buckets are in place, simply fill them with water and let gravity take over. Water will slowly flow out of the buckets to soak gently into the soil with no run-off. That's a water-conserving and sustainable way to water.
More tips: Only water when the ground is not frozen. If the soil is powder dry, wet it first with a hose before watering trees so that the water will start to seep down and not just run off. Flooding can cause serious property damage and lead to a $100 or more repair bill.
Becky Garber is member of the Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado, of which Neils Lunceford, a landscaping company, is a member. You may contact them at 970- 468-0340.
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National Security Agency's dragnet classified data collection: National security necessity or Orwellian proportion privacy invasion?
By Bonnie K. Goodman
Ms. Goodman is the Editor of the Academic Buzz Network, a series of political, academic & education blogs which includes History Musings: History, News & Politics. She has a BA in History & Art History & a Masters in Library and Information Studies, both from McGill University, and has done graduate work in Jewish history at Concordia University as part of the MA in Judaic Studies program.
The Obama Administration can add a fourth burgeoning scandal to their second term woes. Last Wednesday June 5, 2013, the Washington Post and the London, UK paper the Guardian revealed the National Security Agency (NSA) along with FBI had been the monitoring all phone and internet records in the United States. The story took an added twist on Sunday, June 9 when Edward Snowden, the NSA contractor responsible for leaking documents from the surveillance program to the press came forward. Now the focus is on two fronts, the violations of rights to privacy in exchange for national security, and the legal fate of the whistleblower.
When the story broke, news headlines first focused on Verizon releasing information relating to all their customers landline and mobile phone calls because of a special and secretive court order. The data collection focuses on the metadata; telephone numbers, call lengths, locations, and call frequency for all calls within the country and calls abroad dialed within the United States. There have been repeated assurances that the phone calls themselves were not recorded. However, the public was soon informed that the government's collection was far broader and included internet and social media sites including Yahoo, Google and Facebook.
The administration has justified the data surveillance by stating it is important to national security and has thwarted terrorist attacks in the past. A White House official speaking to ABC News stated the program was "a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats to the United States," but complies "with the Constitution and laws of the United States and appropriately protect privacy and civil liberties."
The government position is that this revelation to the general public would hinder their ability to protect the public from terrorism. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper released a statement which an excerpt read "The unauthorized disclosure of information about this important and entirely legal program is reprehensible and risks important protections for the security of Americans."
President Barack Obama speaking in California on Friday, June 7 attempted to reassure the public that their phone calls were not being recorded, "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls. They are not looking at people's names, and they're not looking at content. But by sifting through this so-called metadata, they may identify potential leads with respect to folks who might engage in terrorism," Obama said.
The phone and internet surveillance program known as PRISM has popular support in Congress and there seems there might not be grand scale opposition in either the House of Representatives or the Senate. Chair of the Intelligence Committee Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-CA stated that the records collection was a part of the 2001 Patriot Act and said "It's called protecting America…. I understand privacy…. we want to protect people's private rights and that is why this is carefully done."
President Obamas also made it clear on Friday that although the program was a secret to the public, but there was bipartisan support and knowledge of the data collection program from Congress. "The programs that have been discussed over the last couple days in the press are secret in the sense that they're classified, but they're not secret in the sense that when it comes to telephone calls, every member of Congress has been briefed on this program," Obama stated. The President continued "The relevant intelligence committees are fully briefed on these programs. These are programs that have been authorized by broad, bipartisan majorities repeatedly since 2006."
Speaker of the House John Boehner, a Republican agreed with Obama in an interview on Tuesday morning, June 11with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos. "He's a traitor," Boehner declared about Snowden's press leak. Boehner continued; "The disclosure of this information puts Americans at risk. It shows our adversaries what our capabilities are. And it's a giant violation of the law."
Americans and human rights activists are left pondering can the widespread invasion of privacy sacrificed by the government be justified even for national security, even to prevent a widespread and catastrophic terror attack? The answer was no to Edward Snowden, the NSA contractor who leaked the documents on the PRISM program on the widespread data collection and privacy intrusion.
Snowden first contacted the media in January getting the wheels in motions for the big reveal. Living and working in Hawaii, Snowden took sick leave from his job and then left for Hong Kong, where he was staying at the time the leaks about the NSA was made public last week up until the disclosure Sunday, June 9 that he was the whistleblower.
In his interview with the Guardian Snowden claimed; "I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things … I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."
As the US government looks into charging Snowden, he has been fired from his contracting job at Booz Allen, and the conversation has veered to countries that would give him asylum. Snowden supporters have created a petition on the White House's We the People web site stating that "Edward Snowden is a national hero" and are asking that there be a "full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed." As of late Tuesday night, June 11 there are 58,299 signatures, with 41,701 needed for the 100,000 required for a review.
Human rights groups are standing firmly against the data collection, the head of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called the data collection program Orwellian. On Tuesday the ACLU filed a suit in federal court against the Obama Administration challenging the constitutionality of the data collection program.
If there is partisan support for the program there is also bipartisan opposition, former Vice President Al Gore a Democrat, wrote on Twitter "In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?" While a Republican and Libertarian in Congress such as Senator Rand Paul said it "represents an outrageous abuse of power." "It is an extraordinary invasion of privacy…. I also believe that trolling through millions of phone records hampers the legitimate protection of our security," Paul said on Fox News.
Despite the so-called broad bipartisan support, two bills have been introduced to curb data collection since details of the NSA programs appeared in the media. On Friday June 7, Senator Paul introduced a bill; the Fourth Amendment Restoration Act, which would make it necessary to obtain a warrant prior to a data search. On Tuesday June 11, eight senators in a bipartisan effort introduced a bill to end and declassify secretive data collection laws. The heavily democratic supported bill has among its ranks Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Republicans Mike Lee, Utah and Dean Heller, Nev.
At this time the public opinions seems more unclear, two conflicting polls released on Monday, June 10 from the Washington Post-Pew Research Center and Tuesday, June 11 from CBS News.
The Washington Post-Pew Research Center seems to find Americans looking favorably on the data collection. According to the poll 56 percent find it "acceptable," and 41 percent find it "unacceptable" for the government to monitor phone data. When it came to expanding government monitoring internet activity the results differed; 52 percent did not believe it should be expanded versus 45 percent who support collection expansion.
According the CBS News poll 6 in 10 disapproved of the phone data collection program, however Americans strongly approve by three-quarters that terrorist suspects should be monitored and the internet data of foreigners. Still 53 to 40 percent believe this program helps discover terrorists.
Whatever the political fallout will be for the Obama administration and the legal outcome for Snowden there is no doubt that Snowden will be put down among the ranks of the major whistleblowers in American history.


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'Huge' win for Brewers over division-nemesis Cards
Comeback victory could be signature early-season moment for Milwaukee
ST. LOUIS -- Brewers manager Ron Roenicke isn't about hyperbole. He's more the lava lamp than neon lights.
So as calmly as Roenicke may have been sitting behind the desk in the visiting manager's office at Busch Stadium with the clock about to strike midnight, turning Monday into Tuesday, rest assured that when he declared the Brewers' 5-3, 12-inning come-from-behind victory against the defending National League champion Cardinals as a "huge" win, it showed just how "huge" a win could be.
This wasn't merely a night where the Brewers found themselves facing a 3-0 deficit going in the seventh inning against a Cards team that had beaten Milwaukee in 25 of 37 games since the start of 2012, including taking two of three from the Brew Crew at Miller Park earlier this month.
No, it was bigger than that.
It was "huge."
It was one of those nights that will be fondly recalled come September if the Brewers can build off this best-in-baseball record of 19-7 that they have put together in the opening weeks of the season, and actually claim a postseason berth.
It was a win in a game Yovani Gallardo started against the Cardinals, only the fourth time Milwaukee has won in the 18 times that Gallardo has faced St. Louis.
It was a win in a game that began with right fielder Ryan Braun (strained right oblique muscle) and shortstop Jean Segura (facial cuts and swollen eye) unavailable, and third baseman Aramis Ramirez was lifted with a bruised left elbow after being hit by pitches in both the sixth and seventh innings.
It was a game in which Roenicke was left without any more available players before the Cards even came to bat in the bottom of the eighth after pinch-hitting Rickie Weeks in the top of that inning.
In the top of the seventh, Roenicke had used Lyle Overbay to hit for Gallardo, and he was rewarded when Overbay singled home the first run and scored the game-tying third run in that inning. Roenicke, however, had to unexpectedly insert backup catcher Martin Maldonado at first base in the bottom of the seventh, so Mark Reynolds could move from first to third in place of the ailing Ramirez.
Roenicke lost the chance to keep Overbay in the game, because it wasn't until after reliever Tyler Thornburg came through the bullpen gate that he found out Ramirez was headed to the training room.
Turned out, the Brewers didn't need anybody else.
Khris Davis, who had stranded eight runners, including leaving the bases loaded when he struck out to end the sixth and flied out to end the seventh, provided the answer to the lingering Brewers questions. With one out in the 12th, he tripled home the go-ahead run, and then scored the final run on a Reynolds sacrifice fly.
"We got one," said Roenicke. "We'll do what we can [Tuesday]."
The Brewers got one against a Cardinals team that had earlier this month given Milwaukee its only series loss other than when the team dropped two of three to Atlanta in the season-opening series.
It's a Cards team that won the NL pennant a year ago, was a World Series champion three years ago, and has been to the postseason in 10 of the last 14 seasons. They don't buy headlines like the free-spending Yankees and Dodgers, and they aren't Team Chic like the A's or Rays because of their low-budget, high-success rate.
Nope, they are just the Cardinals, a team that has set the standard for what most any fan base would love to see their own team match. And beating the Cards sends a message that the Brewers just could be putting together a special season after two years of disappointments.
"It was a grind," Roenicke said, "which is why it was so important."
Most of all, it was a win, thanks to a bullpen that added five more scoreless innings to its April resume, lowering its ERA to 2.21, and saw Francisco Rodriguez rack up his best-in-baseball 13th save in his 13th opportunity. And it was a win in a game against St. Louis that was started by Gallarado, even if he wound up with a no-decision.
Gallardo may be 40 games above .500 (82-42) against everybody else in baseball, but his record is 1-11 in 18 starts against the Cardinals, the worst record of any active pitcher against one team. It's a tad worse than Mark Buehrle's 1-10 against the New York Yankees. Gallardo's three-run, six-inning effort Monday did lower his career ERA against the Cards from a worst-in-baseball 6.46 to a second-worst 6.37, a tad better than the 6.39 ERA that Joe Saunders has against Texas.
"No explanation for it," said Milwaukee bench coach Jerry Narron.
But then none was needed, not on this night.
The Brewers had worked overtime, and they got the payoff.
"It definitely was not easy," said Gallardo, "but it was a good one. It shows that the guys in the clubhouse, they want to win."
They got one.
A "huge" one.


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Calling the defendant's conduct "sadistic" and "despicable," a judge sentenced a 64-year-old convicted rapist Friday to 225 years to life in prison, plus 18 years.
James Michael Williams was convicted in January of rape and two counts of forced oral copulation in connection with an attack on a 26-year-old woman he met at an Ocean Beach bar in 2011 and invited back to his motor home parked near the pier.
According to court documents, the woman and a female friend had gone to the motor home after Williams told her he could offer her a modeling job with a clothing company he was starting. The attack occurred after the friend went home.
San Diego Superior Court Judge Charles Rogers sentenced Williams to the maximum term available after declining to strike previous convictions on the defendant's record.
In 1985, Williams pleaded guilty in Oklahoma to charges of rape and kidnapping.
In the San Diego case, Rogers said the defendant had used "sadistic cat and mouse" tactics to overbear the victim's will. The judge noted that the victim testified that she complied with Williams' orders to avoid being hurt.
"I can't remember a defendant before me who had so consistently demonstrated that he deserves the maximum sentence — and every day of it that can possibly be imposed — as Mr. Williams," Rogers said.
At an earlier point in the hearing, the victim stood and spoke about how the rape had left her emotionally shattered and damaged her relationships with men, even her own father.
"I've lost my sense of who the good guys are," she said.
Deputy District Attorney George Modlin called Williams a "monster," who had already served 25 years in prison for previous convictions. The prosecutor said Williams had been out only 16 months when he committed rape again on March 9, 2011.
In the courtroom Friday, Williams maintained his innocence and said the victim had taken nearly $2,000 from his motor home. He accused the woman's friend of acting as a co-conspirator.
According to court documents, the woman told authorities she took the money after the sexual assault, when Williams was asleep and she managed to escape. The money was impounded by police.
Williams' lawyer, Dan Tandon, had argued that his client should receive a term a 25 years to life so that he would have some chance at getting out, possibly in his early 90s.
But the judge was not persuaded.
"Mr. Williams deserves the longest sentence I can possibly give him," Rogers said.
Williams said in court that he would appeal.


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Solitaire is the famous card game known to many as Patience or Klondike. Like many old games, the exact origins are unknown, and the earliest documentation is from a German book in 1783. It rose in popularity in Europe throughout the 1800's, and with the advent of computers has enjoyed a resurgence. Solitaire is one of the most popular games of all time.
The aim of Solitaire is to reveal all the cards that are face down, and ultimately build 4 stacks of cards at the top, one stack for each of the 4 suits. You can drag a card onto another card if it is numbered one less than the other card, and of a different colour (red on black or black on red). You can use the 'pack' at the top left to deal new cards at any time. Start building the 4 stacks at any time.


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It has been announced today that we have acquired this painting by Cornelis de Heem for Dyrham Park.
The picture was purchased by the builder of Dyrham, William Blathwayt, in the 1690s. It stayed in the house until it was sold at auction in 1956.
Now, after an absence of almost sixty years, it is returning to Dyrham. The acquisition has been made possibly by grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Mr and Mrs Kenneth Levy bequest, the Art Fund, a fund set up by the late Hon. Simon Sainsbury, the Royal Oak Foundation's Ervin-DesChamps Fund and a private donation.
Apart from being a display of virtuoso painterly skill, the picture also hints at the transience of material culture. Some of the fruits are beginning to rot and the wild plants are encroaching on the garden, ready to undo man's efforts.
Blathwayt is thought to have acquired this picture on one of his trips to the Low Countries in the 1690s, when he was accompanying King William III on his military campaigns.
Blathwayt's 'Hollandophile' taste is still very much in evidence at Dyrham, with its collections of Dutch paintings (including other flower paintings) and blue and white Delftware. The de Heem will look right at home in the Diogenes Room, next to the Diogenes tapestries (also richly festooned with flowers) and Delft flower pyramids.


text: Petite Engagement Ring Styles That Dazzle June 13, 2017 Natasha Blog (0) It's not the size of the ring, it's the length of your love. No matter what style diamond you choose - round, emerald, oval - or what setting she desires, you can find just what you're looking for and still have enough money to indulge in a luxurious honeymoon. Let's take a look at some dazzling designs for when you're Just Beginning. Emerald and Scalloped This beauty features a glowing emerald-cut diamond, propped up by scalloped-shared prong diamonds. The careful etching around this emerald-cut beauty truly does dazzle. In case you didn't think she shined brightly enough, the band features another touch of decadence that will dance halfway around her finger. Pair this stunning display of love with a matching wedding band, and she's set until death do you part. Even then, what a gorgeous heirloom this will make. An Artsy Angel Does your lady have an artsy flair to her personality? Is she likely to scoop up some household treasure that's just a little bit on the wild side? Then, this is your ring. With its twisted shoulders giving off a dynamic edge, this is sure to be a walking piece of art. Strutting a half band of diamonds and a shared prong halo around that centerpiece, everyone's bound to take a second glance at this show-stopper. On that special day, pair this glistening gem with a twisted band from Gottlieb & Sons, and it's happily ever after, right from the start. Rose Gold Reminiscent The soft light given off by this rose gold setting is sure to leave your lady reminiscing about your love, day after day. This timeless classic features a pink bezel and bead setting. Oftentimes the diamond does the talking. In this case, the elaborate setting around each side stone really makes a statement. Pair this with a plain rose gold band, or a matching bezel and bead, and you're off to a sweet, sweet start. Contemporary Centerpiece This nearly half-carat center stone is met with two rows of sparkling shared prong diamonds. The featured split shoulder enhancement is fabulously unique and intricate. Honestly, her wedding band won't have to do much. A half band of small dazzlers would be nice, but the artistry put into this setting is show-stopping all on its own. Serenely Scalloped Look at these prong set diamonds that are just happy to dance all the way up to their delightful centerpiece. As they meet their dazzling delight, it's embraced in a hand-beaded halo. What incredible artistry. That center stone couldn't be any more secure, just like your love for her. This ring somehow manages to embrace both vintage and modern elements. Just like a woman, its complexity is its greatest asset. Milgrain Magic Here, you're offering your love two rows of prong set diamonds detailed with a lovely milgrain border, meeting a .30 carat stunner. It doesn't end there. Delicate scrollwork in the gallery offers a treasured delight. Pair this dazzling show with a thin, plain white gold or platinum band and you're ready to enjoy the rest of your lives together with this symbol of love's magic. Gottlieb & Sons makes it plain to see that it's not all about the size of the center stone. Rather, it's about hand-crafted artistry and an attention to detail. Each of these featured dazzlers will provide you and your loved one with that sparkling moment in time when you ask her to join her life to yours forever. Sealing it with a kiss and a symbol of your promise couldn't be any more magical. Cheers to your happily ever after!


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Should You Sell High on Ubaldo Jimenez?
- He's averaging about 7.99 strikeouts per 9 innings. That ranks him 26th among starters with at least 70 IP this season. He's behind Colby Lewis, Ricky Romero, and Gavin Floyd, to name three pitchers with much less star power.
- He's averaging 3.03 walks per 9 innings. That ranks him 54th among starters with at least 70 IP. Among the pitchers walking batters at a lower rate are Brian Bannister, Kyle Kendrick, and once again, Gavin Floyd.
- He's averaging 0.34 home runs per 9 innings.That ranks him 6th among qualified starters. However, only 4.4% of his fly balls are going for home runs. His career rate is 7.6%, and he plays half his games at Coors Field. That's very likely to regress.
- His strand rate is 87.8%, meaning 87.8% of the runners he puts on base don't score. That's largely a function of fortuitous timing (pitching abnormally and probably unsustainably well with men on base), as well as unusually strong bullpen bullpen. That's also the luckiest rate in the entire major leagues.


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The Virtua Corps: Rossignol at the Escapist
Jim is away today. Don't be sad. He left something for me to post later and until then you can get your Rossignol fix over at the Escapist, where they've just published his Virtua Corps article. It's about hardcore Solder-Sim fanatics online.
One of the finer pleasures of being a journalist who spends too much time in the depths of PC gaming is the number of encounters you have with the platform's various subcultures. Over the past five years, one in particular has fixed me with a mixture of dread and amazement: It's the community that surrounds the hardcore soldier sim.
Idle, completely pointless and completely unprovable boast: I was the first person who started referring to the whole sub-genre as Soldier Sims. I'm all about the morning neologisms, me, even if they're not really very clever at all. Anyway – read the rest of Jim's article over here.


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Musée du Louvre
The Louvre is a museum in Paris, which attracts millions of visitors every year because of its art collection. It is the most popular art museum in the world.
The most famous picture in the Louvre is the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, but there are also paintings by other great painters like Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Rubens, Titian and Eugène Delacroix.
There are also statues inside the Louvre. The most famous statues are the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.
History of the Louvre
Philip II of France built a castle called the Castle of the Louvre. It used to be where the museum is. They used the castle as a fortress to defend Paris against the Vikings. Charles V, King of France turned the castle into a palace. However, Francis I, King of France, knocked it down and built a new palace.
Henry IV, King of France added the Grande Galerie to the Louvre. The Grande Galerie is more than a quarter of a mile long and one hundred feet wide. The Grande Galerie was built along the River Seine. It was the longest building in the world.
Other websites
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- Free photos of Louvre
- Official Louvre website (Requires Flash)
- Extensive Photo Gallery from The Louvre — Photos of almost all the sculpture, many of the paintings and Objects d'Art
- Fullscreen Virtual Tour by Virtualsweden
- History of the Louvre
- Excerpt of Michael T. Cannell's book on I.M. Pei — discusses controversy over Pei's pyramid.
- Antiquities of the Louvre
- 200 photographs from a one-day visit
- Official École du Louvre website (Requires Flash)


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DreamWorks Animation's Turbo Racing League app, has reached the 20 million downloads mark. The Turbo Racing League app, from DreamWorks Animation and PikPok, features the thrill of racing in the palm of your hand, and is available on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch from the iTunes Store; Android handsets and tablets from Google Play; and Windows Phone 8 from the Windows Phone Store.
In conjunction with the app's release, Turbo Racing League unveiled the $1,000,000 Shell-Out Contest Presented By Verizon. This in-game contest awarded $1,000,000 in cash prizes over an eight-week period and culminated in a live grand finale event where champion Brian Dragotto of Mays Landing, N.J. walked away with nearly $300,000 in winnings.


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On Monday, May 19, travelers at London Heathrow Airport will find themselves racing to catch flights not at "Terminal 5," but instead at "Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5."
The awkward mouthful is the result of a complete branding takeover orchestrated by Samsung to promote its recently released Galaxy S5 smartphone. According to Samsung's press release, the "revolutionary" rebranding will last for two full weeks and will see all Samsung's name and branding plastered all over "the signage, wayfinding, website, and every single digital screen at the UK's newest terminal to promote the launch of its iconic Galaxy S5 mobile."
Unless you are actually sight-impaired, it will be impossible to avoid seeing Samsung advertisements while traversing the terminal:
The initiative includes all signage throughout the Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5 terminal—at the entrance and drop-off locations, in the lounges, at security and at the gates. In addition, all 172 digital panels in the main terminal, gate rooms and baggage reclaim areas will feature the rebrand 'Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5' and images of the Galaxy S5 smartphone.
Terminal 5's page on Heathrow's website won't be exempt from the marketing effort; the press release notes that "Online visitors to the Terminal 5 site will also experience a rebranded 'Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5' home page."
According to The Verge, Heathrow Airport spokespersons are sanguine about the marketing effort. "Samsung want to call it Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5," said the spokesperson, "and we are relaxed about that." The spokesperson explained that Samsung hasn't purchased permanent naming rights to the terminal—the brandsplosion is temporary and tied to Samsung's larger Galaxy S5 marketing campaign efforts.Those marketing efforts are expansive and enormous: the Korean electronics giant's total advertising budget in 2013 was a ludicrous $14 billion, and even though the company has stated that it would decrease that budget in 2014, it still has billions and billions of marketing dollars to spend. However, whether or not these kinds of overwhelming brand blitzes actually drive any additional revenue for Samsung is a murky question. "The stronger, more differentiated the product, the less it needs to be propped up by advertising," said a former Nokia business manager to Reuters.
The idea of a dead-eyed smiling counter attendant handing over a boarding pass and cheerily announcing, "Sir, your flight will be boarding at gate A1 in Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5!" feels profoundly disturbing; Samsung is digging its fingers deep into your travel experience and forcing you to engage with it. Advertising is already pervasive in airports, with most terminals featuring huge ad posters (most of which seem to be for Barracuda's e-mail management boxes), but in this case Samsung is ensuring that you cannot travel through the terminal without its name and its product's name being spoken at you. Anyone going through "Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5" will have to hear the fully branded name over loudspeakers and see it on their tickets—not to mention all the signage and the 172 digital panels.
Now is probably as good a time as any to point out that when it comes to high-flying branding exercises, Samsung's got nothing on Japanese drink company Otsuka: that company is getting ready to plant a can of powdered Pocari Sweat sports drink on the surface of the moon as a marketing stunt. Welcome to the future.
Update: It turns out that in spite of the wording of Samsung's press release, the advertising campaign will not affect wayfinding or terminal signage. It will instead be limited to normally-available ad locations. A spokesperson for Heathrow made the following clarification in a statement to iMore.com: "Heathrow Terminal 5's signage and passenger wayfinding has not changed....Samsung have rented advertising space in Terminal 5 with a tongue-in-cheek campaign using the line: 'Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5'."


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VANCOUVER - British Columbia's much-maligned Pacific Carbon Trust will be eliminated and the province's profitable greenhouse gas offset program brought into the government fold, as the provincial government attempts to slash $50 million to meet the promise of a balanced budget next year.
Bill Bennett, the minister responsible for a core review of government services, said Tuesday that winding down the controversial Crown carbon offset agency will trim $5.6 million annually.
"I recognize the significance of this change but, again, I want to make it really clear we are committed to carbon neutrality in the public sector and achieving our greenhouse gas emissions targets," Bennett said.
"We have simply found a way to deliver these benefits more efficiently for less money."
Transferring the carbon offset program to the Climate Action Secretariat within the Environment Ministry will mean a reduction in staff from 18 to 5. Employees will be given an opportunity to transfer to other jobs within government.
Environment Minister Mary Polak said the activities of the trust, established in 2008, will continue from within government — a disappointment to some of its most ardent critics.
"We've accomplished the first set of objectives, and that was establishing a market that involved carbon offsetting in British Columbia," Polak said.
"We still have that record of being the first carbon-neutral jurisdiction in all of North America, and we will continue to be carbon neutral."
In order to be "carbon neutral," public sector agencies purchase carbon offsets, or credits, from the trust from other, more environmentally beneficial projects to compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions.
A report by provincial Auditor General John Doyle last March found that government agencies were buying offsets from the trust at a cost more than double the amount on the open market. It also found that the trust was purchasing carbon credits from projects that were not eligible.
Jordan Bateman, B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation said Tuesday that the program is "hopelessly flawed." He welcomed the decision to scrap the agency, but had hoped government would go further.
"Taxpayers are spending millions on buying carbon credits for these facilities rather than providing frontline services," Bateman said, adding that Interior Health spent $1.24 million purchasing offsets from the trust last year.
"It doesn't address the core issue there... but we'll take wins where we can get them with any government."
The controversial program made for strange political bedfellows, as both the Opposition New Democrats and the fledgling B.C. Conservative party promised to eliminate the carbon credit scheme during the provincial election earlier this year.
On the surface, the agency is a money-maker for the province, with a projected surplus of $3.8 million for 2014-15. By 2015-16, it has a projected accumulated surplus of $37 million — before the $5.6 million in administrative savings announced Tuesday.
But critics said forcing public sector agencies to buy offsets from private enterprise amounted to corporate handouts.
Polak said the carbon offset program will continue, but the province is looking at expanding an exemption to health agencies and post-secondary institutions that was put in place for elementary and high schools.
Andrew Weaver, the only Green Party MLA in the legislature, said the trust has been an important tool in the province's shift to clean energy.
"It is important to find cost-effective ways of administering the offset program and ensuring greater government oversight and accountability of the type of offsets purchased," Weaver said.
Ian Bruce, science and policy manager at the David Suzuki Foundation, said in a statement that without an active plan to address climate change, the provincial government could lose its leadership position when it comes to prioritizing clean energy and driving environmental innovation.
"Since coming into power, the B.C. government's environment leadership has been absent with its decisions to cut or freeze environmental programs without replacing them with more effective policies or making the necessary investments to make our communities healthier places to live," said Bruce.
Bennett also announced the elimination of the Provincial Capital Commission, the Crown agency that organizes special events and manages several government properties and heritage buildings in the capital region.
Cutting the commission, whose duties overlap with several other government programs, will save an estimated $1 million a year as Bennett and his core review team look at 90 government agencies in an effort to find the $50 million in savings by the next fiscal year.
Bennett said he's confident they will achieve that goal, though not easily.
"There isn't a lot of low-hanging fruit out there in government and the longer this core review process goes along, the more truth I find there is to that statement," he said.
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HAMing It Up with the Astronauts
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Space Exploration
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|Short (2-5 days)
|You'll need to an amateur radio license (or work with someone who has one) to complete this project. Details on getting a license can be found at the American Radio Relay League's website.
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|This project requires access to HAM radio equipment and a amateur radio license.
|Very High (over $150)
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AbstractHave you ever wished you could talk to an astronaut on board the International Space Station? You're probably thinking "yeah, like NASA would ever let you do that!" Actually, they will! The International Space Station (ISS) is equipped with its own HAM radio station. The ISS HAM radio station allows astronauts, cosmonauts, and space mission specialists from different nations who are on board the space station to talk to people back home on Earth. Anyone with an amateur radio license is welcome to try contacting the astronauts there. If they aren't busy with other activities, they'll answer!
Figure 1. The International Space Station (top) is equipped with a HAM radio station (bottom) where astronauts, cosmonauts, and other space mission specialists can communicate with people back on Earth. (Photo on top NASA, May 2006; photo on bottom: NASA, June 2009.)
Making contact with the ISS requires some careful planning and logistics, though. The ISS is traveling approximately 240 miles above the surface of the Earth at a speed of nearly 17,000 miles per hour! To make contact, you'll need to carefully monitor the space station's trajectory and calculate your window of opportunity. The good news is, the ISS's high speed means it orbits Earth approximately 16 times a day, which gives you plenty of tries to get it right.
With a little bit of reading about the space station, you'll be ready to get your radio equipment in order and talk to the astronauts. For more suggestions on getting started, read the Science Buddies blog entry Making Contact with the Space Station and consult some of the resources in the Bibliography, below. Just make sure you document it all so your friends and your teacher don't think your project is just a piece of science fiction!
- Dismukes, K. (2010, January 20). International Space Station Reference: HAM Radio. Retrieved October 27, 2010.
- ARRL staff. (n.d.). Amateur Radio on the International Space Station. Retrieved October 27, 2010.
- Cowen, A. (2010, October 21). Making Contact with the Space Station. Retrieved October 27, 2010.
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BAQUBA, Iraq (CNN) -- The woman ridicules the Iraqi police who question her about ties to suicide bombers.
Umm Omar was questioned by police about ties to suicide bombers. "Why would I blow myself up?"
"Someone telling me to explode?" Umm Omar says. "I have to be both mother and father to my children. Why would I blow myself up?"
Strangely, she even laughs at some points of the interrogation. Umm Omar was detained along with her two daughters in a recent raid in Baquba.
All of them are suspected of wanting to blow themselves up in suicide attacks. She was brought to one of the police offices here for questioning. Watch the interrogation of an Iraqi mom »
Covered in an abaya -- black Islamic dress -- she has a broad face and large eyes. She sits on a thin mattress smoking the cigarette an Iraqi police officer offered her.
Her interrogator confronts her about a letter the Iraqi police say they uncovered on the raid on her home. The letter is addressed to "Umm Omar" from the local al Qaeda emir Abu Dawood.
"Good news for you my sister, Umm Omar," it says. "Your sister Fatima became a martyr after an operation in Mafraq district, and God enabled her to carry out this blessed operation.
"Know that she did not hesitate in confronting the infidels and tyranny. We pray to God that you follow her in God's course. We inform you, Umm Omar, that this letter is very confidential."
Umm Omar shrugs it off. "I cannot read, so why would he send this to me?"
She goes by the name of Umm Omar. In the Middle East, Umm -- means mother -- followed by the eldest son's name, in her case Omar. She says the Umm Omar reference could be just about any woman in Iraq.
Her profile fits that of other women who have carried out suicide attacks.
U.S. intelligence on the psyche of female suicide bombers suggests the women have various motives; some have links to al Qaeda -- sons, husbands, fathers killed in the fighting -- and are seeking revenge.
The intelligence also suggests al Qaeda is seeking out women whose families are struggling financially, making cash promises to them but not paying out. Others are young widows or women who are deeply religious and swayed by the promise of heavenly rewards.
Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, earlier this year, spoke to reporters about this issue. "We do see certain members of cells attempting to persuade women. Specifically in many cases, wives of those who have been killed as terrorists conduct suicide operations," he said.
Umm Omar's husband has been jailed at Camp Bucca on terrorism charges for three years. Her two sons and her son-in-law are dead. Iraqi police say the son-in-law was a member of the insurgency killed in clashes with them.
"Her family has been completely destroyed," says Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Khalaf, spokesman for Iraq's Ministry of Interior.
Khalaf explains the letter to Umm Omar was found in an "intelligence-driven raid."
"We received intelligence that this family was dealing with al Qaeda and other criminals. This letter is from Abu Dawood; he is the one in charge of recruiting female suicide bombers," he says from the dark room that serves as his temporary office and residence at the governor's compound in Baquba.
Umm Omar is from a neighborhood in Baquba that was once the center of "the Islamic State of Iraq," an umbrella group headed by al Qaeda in Iraq.
The city of Baquba is the capital of the volatile province of Diyala and is at the center of the insurgency's suicide bombing operations. In the first seven months of this year, there were more than two dozen female suicide bombers. About half of those attacks were carried in Diyala.
The U.S. military, working with Iraqi units, has been actively raiding suspected cells of female suicide bombers. Umm Omar was detained as part of a joint U.S. and Iraqi crackdown throughout the whole province.
"The psychological pressures of the security situation that we used to have in Diyala -- the systematic killing, especially in some parts of Baquba where the government's forces presence was weak -- allowed the insurgents to use religion to exploit women," Khalaf says.
He adds, "Women bombers are a problem for us."
"Men can't search women," Khalaf says. "This is a red line. So they take advantage of this weakness in Iraqi society"
As part of the efforts here, U.S. and Iraqi forces have been recruiting women, training them to search other females. But the program is relatively new and quite simply it's not enough, officials say.
Umm Omar remains in custody, but her daughters were released because of a lack of evidence.
Despite her denials, police suspect the mom and daughters may still intend to carry out an attack. Umm Omar says she doesn't believe her daughters would ever be suicide bombers.
But 48 hours after CNN met Umm Omar, a female suicide bomber targeted a police station in Baquba. One policeman was killed and 17 other people were wounded.
Police are following up on all their leads, and they went to check on Umm Omar's daughters. One of their relatives said they were at their uncle's house; their uncle said they had gone to Baghdad, police say.
The police are more suspicious than ever and are still searching for Umm Omar's daughters.
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Who doesn't love monogrammed items? Personally, I think more things should be monogrammed. Bags, towels, umbrellas, cosmetic cases. I think it makes a nice statement. It says – I care for this item, it's mine, hands off (in a fashionable and enviable tone of course)! Veeshee has a fabulous selection of reasonably priced, super cute items that can be monogrammed. You name it, they have. Even laundry hampers, passport covers and baby items such as onesies and diaper covers. And all prices include embroidery!
I chose the Vertical Notebook Canvas Bag, with Raspberry colored monogram. But believe me, it was hard to choose! There were so many selections. She has a nice variety of colors choices for each item as well. Once you choose your item, you then need to pick out your font style and embroidery color. The choices are endless. This is a really great way to make a simple item special and personalized.
I was really impressed with the customer care and QUICK turnover time. I had my item within a couple of days of ordering. The quality of my item is really great and the embroidery is completely professional. The canvas bag that I chose is intended to be used for a laptop, which fits perfectly. It is not padded, so be aware of that prior to purchase. The bag itself is great, with a couple of zippered pouches and a nice long strap that allows you to carry the bag messenger style. I love it for toting around my laptop and a couple of folders, but I have also used it as a purse/diaper bag. I can put easily put my purse items in the bag, along with a diaper or two and some toys or books. This is a great catchall bag. I like the look of it too. My husband says it looks just a little bit hippie (kind of like me!) I can honestly say that I have no complaints, and would not hesitate to order from Veeshee again (in fact, I have my eye on the laundry hamper and diaper cover).
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Cheesecake is one of the few desserts I actually go out of my way for. I kind of really love cheesecake. And this cheesecake is delicious. Using ricotta instead of traditional cream cheese really makes the cheesecake seem both rich and creamy, but without the heaviness cheesecakes normally have. I also think that the blueberry and lemon flavors really help keep the cheesecake feeling light and summery almost. I think a fruit centered cheesecake is much more appealing in the summer than something super rich and chocolatey.
Definitely make sure you let these cool overnight! You cannot skimp on the cooling time with these ones. But trust me, it's totally worth the wait. The blueberry and lemon flavors really, really develop and get nice and friendly together the longer they And since this cheesecake is cut up into bars, it makes a great dessert for picnics, barbecues or when you need a portable dessert (obviously leave the blueberry sauce off to keep it clean and portable!).
Gluten Free Blueberry-Lemon Ricotta Cheesecake Bars
Recipe from Our Best Bites.
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, very cold
- 1 large egg, separated
- 1 Tablespoon lemon zest
- 15 ounce container ricotta
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 eggs, plus one egg white
- 4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- ¾ cup frozen blueberries
Quick Blueberry Sauce
- 1 ¼ cups frozen blueberries
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon water
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray an 8×8 baking dish with nonstick spray and set aside.
- To prepare crust and topping, combine sugar, flour, salt, and baking powder in a medium sized mixing bowl and stir to combine. Use a large-hole cheese grater to grate butter into flour mixture, or alternately cut butter into small chunks and add to flour mixture. Use clean hands to break up butter and flour mixture until it resembles large crumbs. Add egg yolk from separated egg (reserve egg white for the next step) and add to crumb mixture. Quickly toss to incorporate egg yolk into crumbs. Remove half of crumb mixture (about 1 ½ cups) and lightly press into the bottom of prepared baking dish. Bake for 10 minutes and then remove from oven. Add lemon zest to the remaining crumb mixture, stir to combine, and set aside.
- To prepare filling, place ricotta and sugar in a food processor and process until smooth and creamy (about 1-2 minutes), scraping down sides as necessary. Place mixture in a mixing bowl and stir in flour, vanilla, eggs, plus the reserved egg white from the first step, and lemon juice. Whisk to combine and pour mixture over crust in pan. Sprinkle ¾ cup blueberries over the top of filling and then top with the reserved crumb mixture. Bake for 40-50 minutes. Bars should be just golden on top and slightly jiggly in center when shaken. Remove and let cool completely. Cover, and Place in fridge overnight to chill. When ready to serve, slice into bars.
- For Sauce: Combine all ingredients. Bring to a simmer and cook for 3-5 minutes, smashing berries with a fork. Cool. Sauce will thicken once cooled and chilled, adjust consistency by adding water until desired consistency is reached.


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- At the very least, contribute enough to your 401(k) to get the company match.
- Target-date funds are a popular way to save for retirement.
- If your company goes under, your 401(k) is safe.
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A 401(k) is a retirement savings plan sponsored by an employer. It lets workers save and invest a piece of their paycheck before taxes are taken out. Taxes aren't paid until the money is withdrawn from the account.
401(k) plans, named for the section of the tax code that governs them, arose during the 1980s as a supplement to pensions. Most employers used to offer pension funds. Pension funds were managed by the employer and they paid out a steady income over the course of the retirement. (If you have a government job or a strong union, you may might still be eligible for a pension.) But as the cost of running pensions escalated, employers started replacing them with 401(k)s.
With a 401(k), you control how your money is invested. Most plans offer a spread of mutual funds composed of stocks, bonds, and money market investments. The most popular option tends to be target-date funds, a combination of stocks and bonds that gradually become more conservative as you reach retirement.
While a 401(k)can help you save, it has plenty of restrictions and caveats. In most cases, you can't tap into your employer's contributions immediately. Vesting is the amount of time you must work for your company before gaining access to its payments to your 401(k). (Your payments, on the other hand, vest immediately.) It's an insurance against employees leaving early. On top of that, there are complex rules about when you can withdraw your money and costly penalties for pulling funds out before retirement age.
To oversee your account, your employer usually hires an administrator like Fidelity Investments. They'll email you updates about your plan and its performance, manage the paperwork and assist you with requests. If you want to keep watch over your account or shift your money around, go to your administrator's web site or call their help center.
With that settled, how much should you put in? As much as possible, being mindful that you'll need to have enough money to live, eat and pay down any debt you have. At the very least, invest enough to get the full matching amount that your company pays to match your contributions. You don't want to leave free cash on the table. Nearly every plan offers matching funds—the most popular being 3% of your salary, according to the Profit Sharing/401k Council of America.
So how would a 3% match work? If you put in 3% of your $50,000 salary, or $1,500, your company puts another $1,500 in the pot. You can add more than that $1,500 yourself, but the company won't match beyond 3%. The rules for matching funds vary, so be sure to check with your employer about qualifying for its contributions.
The IRS mandates contribution limits for 401(k) accounts. For 2007 and 2008, the most you can put into your fund is $15,500 in any combination of pre- and after-tax dollars. If you're older than 49, you can kick in another $5,000. The total dollar amount that can be contributed—including both your contributions and your employers'—cannot exceed 100% of your salary or $46,000 in 2008.
You'll also want to consider the type of 401(k) you choose. They come in two varieties, the main differences being the tax implications and the schedule for accessing your funds. Chances are your company offers a traditional 401(k). Less common is a Roth 401(k). Here's the breakdown of each:
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|Tax rules
|Withdrawal rules
Most companies allow you to enroll in a 401(k) right away, although some smaller employers might make you wait up to a year. If that's the case, set up an individual retirement account, and lodge a complaint with your employer's HR office. Some companies will automatically register you. You can normally increase or decrease your contributions at any time. Don't forget to elect a beneficiary, or the person who gets your money if you die. (If you're married, your spouse is automatically the beneficiary.)
Finally, if your company is on shaky ground, don't fret. Your 401(k) is off-limits. If your company goes under, the plan would most likely be terminated. If that happens, you should roll the money over into a traditional IRA to avoid paying the 10% withdrawal penalty and income taxes.


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Buried in North Carolina's latest document dump on impermissible benefits to players includes former Maryland and current 49er tight end Vernon Davis giving $20 worth of stuff. That's a heck of a lot more interesting to us than Hakeem Nicks's $3,300.
UNC finally cut ties with the tutor who played the middle(wo)man for most of UNC's recent offenses. But in that release was an accounting of five players who provided improper benefits. There, at the bottom, Vernon Davis: $20.
What the hell could that be for? Davis went to school at ACC and geographic rival College Park, so we're assuming he was recruited by UNC at some point or had friends there. From the documents, we know that the gifts to players "included cash, jewelry and travel and entertainment expenses." Some guesses:
•Tickets for the player and a friend to see Kangaroo Jack on opening weekend.
•A crisp $20 bill from UNC's grandmother on his birthday.
•A nice crystal earring from Claire's at the mall that could almost look like a diamond stud if you look at it from across the room, and not too closely.
•Signed and framed photo of Matt Doherty.
•Cab fare from Chapel Hill to nearby Eli Whitney, N.C., because Davis is a history buff specializing in the Industrial Revolution.
•A football.
•Three "Six Dollar Thickburgers" from Hardee's, with enough left over to go halfsies on a side of onion rings.
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Devotion: The Power of God's Word
By Cathy Horner
How can a young man keep his way pure?
By guarding it according to your word.
With my whole heart I seek you;
let me not wander from your commandments!
I have stored up your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you. (Ps.119:9-11, ESV)
Even as a small child, I was very aware of the presence of God. I remember those delicious afternoon nap times when I was 4, when you become increasingly drowsy and utterly aware of the steady beating of your heart. It was then that I would drift off to sleep totally convinced that my heartbeat was drawn from my Creator, who was very near. It was a Romans 1: 20 moment – a perception of God's limitless, divine nature — within the soul of a child.
As I matured and became more aware of my personal rebellions against God, I was still aware of His presence, but more with a sense of fear and dread. I had been taught that He knew my every thought, word, and deed, and that my sin had put a barrier between myself and Him. I was afraid of His justly held wrath. What does this have to do with our passage? Bear with me.
It was not until I was a teenager that I realized that I knew of God but I did not know God. So I jumped into studying the Bible, God's Word. I was blown away that God, the Heavenly Father, would send His Beloved Son to bear the wrath that I deserved so that I could be reconciled to Him. He loved me first, before I ever loved Him!! I surrendered my life to Him in faith, wanting to love Him in return. But how could I love someone I did not know?
At that point in our lives, God's Word becomes intensely relevant. The Bible is God's revelation of Who He is — of His divine nature as Creator, Redeemer, and Restorer. Therefore, I grow to know and reverence God by searching and studying the Scriptures. Within this passage in Psalms about the purifying effect of God's Word, I find three essential truths it reveals about God (and consequently myself).
God is God and I am not.
He is the Creator of all things, the author of my physical life (Ps.139) and my spiritual life in Christ (Heb.12:1-2). That means that what He has to say – His Word – has authority over my life. It tells me that I am called to walk with Him in a way that reflects His glory – what verse 9 calls the "pure" way. Yet God, who knows all things, is aware that the remnants of my old sin nature would have me chasing after things that could darken and destroy my life and my witness. Therefore, His Word provides commands and precepts that set a guard around my life and heart, establishing boundaries for pure living. Since God knows all possible outcomes and consequences of my every word and deed, clearly His way is the wisest and best. The pure way offers my life protection, growth in spiritual understanding, and right relationships with others. Gloriously, Christ's Spirit indwells me and will help me to guard my ways according to His Word. My boundaries actually free me to develop a deeper trust relationship with God.
My obedience is fueled by whole-hearted devotion to Him.
In verse 10, the psalmist gives us the key to obeying God – seeking Him with your whole heart. Because we are in Christ, we can have intimate relationship with the transcendent God who made all things and is enthroned above the heavens. When our hearts are whole-heartedly in search of His will and His ways, our benevolent "Abba" Father will support and guide us with His all-sufficient hand (2 Chronicles 16:9). If our love is only half-heartedly given because we also carry allegiance to other things in this world, verse 10 warns that we will tend to stray from His path.
Internalizing God's Word keeps me from sinning against Him.
Finally, since God is everywhere present, verse 11 indicates that when we sin we are doing it in His face. Our sin is ultimately against Him. That stunning truth from the Word should be a check to any believer's stubborn and willful heart, causing it to tremble in fear and reverence. The psalmist assures us that God's Word – when stored up in our hearts –acts as a constant measuring rod to our thoughts, feelings, and decisions. It can deter us from sinning.
Thankfully, I have experienced this. When I've been tempted to participate in anything the Bible calls impure – drugs, sexual immorality, occult practices, defiling entertainment – God's Word, memorized years ago, wells up within me: "Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body" (1 Cor. 6:19-20). … Activity check.
Likewise, when my desire is to verbally lash out at someone, God's Word whispers: " Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear" (Eph.4:29). … Tongue check.
When I am discouraged and feeling overlooked by God, He speaks to my heart: "For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope" (Jer. 29:11). … Attitude check.
So let no excuse stop you! Internalizing God's Word is important to your spiritual health. Write a pertinent verse out on a card. Put it where you will see it and can repeat it frequently – your car's dash, your kitchen window, your mirror, your desk. Meditate upon it, memorize it, store it in your heart. God's Word is powerfully active, either restraining your feet, reminding your heart, or re-training your thoughts. Allow His Word do all it is meant to do within you.


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More about the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve on the wildsingapore website and Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve website. This walk is conducted by the volunteer guides of NParks' Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve and is held every Saturday.
Time: 9.30am and 3.30pm for walk in guests, register at the Visitor Centre.
Tour duration: One to one-and-a-half hours. Suitable for young children.
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Fox Sports reporter Emily Jones was reporting on Mike Napoli during the game against the Philadelphia Phillies when Bush — once a part owner of the Rangers — slid onscreen behind her to say "Hey."
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Today, Jonah Lehrer gave the final address at the Knight Foundation's Media Learning Seminar. For an hour, he spoke about his journalistic transgressions over the course of the past few years, which came to light over the summer.
He was paid $20,000 for his time.
What struck me the most wasn't Lehrer's robotic, characteristically arrogant speech, but one of the questions posed by a conference attendee. She stated flippantly that Lehrer's plagiarism affected her less than a "typo on Wikipedia," and didn't understand why people expected public apology for something that didn't specifically hurt them.
Alrighty then. Let's talk about how Jonah Lehrer has hurt the journalism community. Come on, raise your hand if you've ever felt personally victimized by Regina George.
First of all, the public inherently trusts successful journalists, especially ones hired as staff writers for publications as reputable as The New Yorker. Should people be skeptical of everything they read? Yes! Please, be skeptical. Should readers have to wonder if every word written in a magazine they trust is a lie or a fabrication? Dear god, I hope not.
Lehrer was a public darling. I was never a fan of his writing (I found it over simplified and written with a cocky tone that rubbed me the wrong way) but I always appreciated how good he was at playing into what the mainstream wanted to read. To end up in a position like that and then abuse it is to tarnish public view of journalistic morality. Permanently.
Let's get more specific, shall we? Lehrer wrote about science. Science journalists have another layer of public trust to navigate, because science has gotten a reputation for being confusing, boring, and elitist. It's hard to get the public listening to you when you talk about science, and Lehrer had his finger on the pulse. So yes, I do feel that there's something wrong with Lehrer ending up on a science journalism pedestal and then making shit up, pulling quotes out of thin air, and muddling facts so that they fit the narrative he knows will sell a book. Personally.
One more thing. Jonah Lehrer's behavior was offensive to me. Specifically me. Me, and every other young, emerging science journalist. Do you know how unobtainable a staff position at The New Yorker is, especially for a science writer, in the age of dying print and literary cutbacks? I would cut out my own kidney if it got me a regular blog on Wired, let alone a longterm print contract. The respect, stability, and readership attached to that gig is the sort of thing I'm afraid to even dream of. Jonah Lehrer got it, and he abused it. He recycled old pieces. He copy and pasted from others' work. He didn't provide the content he was being paid to provide.
If he hadn't been caught, that job would still be his–and that would be one less staff position for a young science writer willing to actually write about science.
Did tweeting live zingers about Lehrer while he spoke make me feel better about what he'd done? Not really. Especially now that I know how much money he made for his lackluster public apology.
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What's a modern computer user to do? You've got your thumb drives, your backup drives, your joystick, your drink warmer, your drink cooler, your USB humping dog, your USB blow-up doll, and a hundred other things littering your desk. And even the best motherboards only come with 10 or 15 USB ports. If only there were some way to plug in all of these things at once, in some sort of… hub. Brother, your prayers are answered at last! With this 49-port powered USB hub, you can live it up and never worry about unplugging anything ever again.
Okay, so it's actually aimed towards a more… labratory-ish environment in which, perhaps, drives from different batches are all tested for flaws at the same time, or input from 49 different cameras must be pulled simultaneously. That doesn't mean you shouldn't have one in your home. Why let the scientists have all the fun?
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Three-quarters of endowments and foundations in a recent poll said the U.S. economy was in a better place now that it was last year at this time.
NEPC, an investment consulting firm to endowments and foundations, conducted its online Q1 2014 survey in April.
More than half of respondents expected markets to show high single-digit returns.
Overall confidence in the markets notwithstanding, half the respondents said a slowdown in global growth posed the greatest single risk to investment performance, down somewhat from the 60% that gave the same answer in the fourth quarter last year.
Rising interest rates was the second biggest concern, cited by 19% of endowments and foundations, and Fed tapering was third, cited by 13%.
As for investments, 60% of organizations surveyed believed U.S. and emerging equities, followed by international equities, would be among this year's top performers.
At the same time, migration of capital from traditional equity and fixed income strategies to nontraditional assets appeared to be continuing.
Only 4% of respondents said they planned to increase exposure to domestic equities, while 81% said they would allocate the same or more to hedge funds, specifically those in the multistrategy, credit-linked and event-driven spaces.
Private equity continued as one of the preferred alternative investment allocations of endowments and foundations.
Thirty-eight percent of respondents (versus 32% last quarter) planned to increase their allocation to private equity, and 34% said they would keep their investments level with last year.
Specific subcategories of private equity investments favored by respondents were split at 25% each among buyouts/growth equity, direct lending and secondaries.
NEPC said in a statement that its Q4 2013 survey had found 41% of respondents planning to allocate more to real assets in 2014.
In the current survey, when asked which real assets were their top choices, 34% said real estate, 24% selected energy and 8% picked precious metals, specifically gold, gold mining and silver.


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"The Plot to Overthrow Christmas" first aired on December 25, 1938. It was written by the legendary Norman Corwin and is told entirely in rhyming verse. It is a veritable tour de force in its dark, rather ghastly depiction of demons, devils, and nefarious historical figures assigned to Hell who plot to destroy one of Christianity's holiest celebrations. It was Corwin's first original play on network radio after CBS hired him in 1938, and ran as the first episode of Norman Corwin's Words Without Music.
Norman Corwin–along with Arch Oboler and Orson Welles–was, in the 1930's and 1940's, one of old time radio's most respected figures. Like Oboler and Welles, Corwin wrote, produced, and directed in many genres, most notably history, fantasy, drama, and biography, often infusing his work with a social conscience. His work has influenced the likes of Rod Serling, Gene Roddenberry, and J. Michael Straczynski. Among his numerous awards, Corwin has been honored with a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and two Peabody Medals. He was voted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1993, and a Short Feature documentary on his life (A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin) won an Oscar in 2006.
Ray Bradbury has acknowledged that Corwin was responsible for the eventual publication of The Martian Chronicles, and has said of Corwin that he is "…the greatest director, the greatest writer and the greatest producer in the history of radio." And the late film director Robert Altman forthrightly proclaimed that "Norman Corwin was my idol."
Listening to the clever, witty, rhyming throughout "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas," one immediately thinks of the work of Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss: 1904-1991). Seuss, born in 1904 and six years' Corwin's senior, published and illustrated his first children's book in 1937 (And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street), a mere year before Corwin's own entirely rhymed classic hit the airwaves. Seuss was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and Corwin in Boston. Seuss was 33 when "Mulberry" saw print, and Corwin was 28 when he wrote "Plot." While both Seuss and Corwin would go on to produce timeless works–and in their own fields the term genius is equally apt–one can't help but wonder if Corwin was influenced by Seuss, his home-state contemporary whose just-published first work, it is reasonable to assume, he had opportunity to read.
Norman Lewis Corwin (May 3, 1910- ) pictured above in 1941, is still active writing for radio and various publications, and remains listed as a writer in residence at the Journalism School at the University of Southern California.
To tempt with but a taste of what you will hear, and given the political activism of some regarding Christmas today and what they perceive as the separation of church and state, here are a few lines from "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas," where those assembled in Hell offer their ideas on how to get rid of Christmas. I find the following wry bit of observation somehow eerily prescient:
Now the way to go about it is to get in Congress.
Bribe a bunch of senators who know their oats,
And just make a practice of a bloc of votes.
And then they can legislate a situation,
Where they'll rule old Christmas right out of the nation.
They can all get together and pass a law,
Where they ain't gonna be no Christmas no more!
Norman Corwin's homepage, full of fascinating information, wisdom, accolades from famous actors, writers, directors, news personalities, and historical factoids, can be found here. I urge you to visit this wonderful website and introduce yourself–if you haven't already–to the works of a truly American "treasure." A measure of the influence Norman Corwin has had over his lengthy and distinguished career can be found in the hour-long radio broadcast from December 15, 1941, eight days following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Titled "We Hold these Truths," it was commissioned by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From the Norman Corwin website:
"Commissioned by FDR to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, this hour-long program was aired over the combined national networks (CBS, NBC Red, NBC Blue, and Mutual) eight days after Pearl Harbor. The Crosley Rating Service estimated 63 million people listened, half the US population at the time, and this was the largest audience in recorded history for a dramatic performance."
Pictured here is Corwin discussing "We Hold These Truths" with actor James Stewart, 1941.
Herewith, the CBS radio network's December 19, 1944 re-dramatization of Norman Corwin's classic "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas." Corwin returns to produce and direct, as do most of the original cast to reprise their roles from the original 1938 production–including Will Geer (who would later star on tv's The Waltons.)
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Family Relationships Quarterly No. 18
Articles include: communication with young people in a family services setting; investigating gender differences in romantic relationships
The Australian Institute of Family Studies acknowledges the traditional country throughout Australia on which we gather, live, work and stand.
We acknowledge all traditional custodians, their Elders past, present and emerging, and we pay our respects to their continuing connection to their culture, community, land, sea and rivers.


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