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Adan Salazar
November 13, 2012
Citizens from 14 additional states have opened up petitions on the White House's "We the People" petition submission site – the government's "new, easy way for Americans to make their voice heard in our government" – asking to allow "peaceful withdrawal" from the continental United States, a staggering increase from the 20 states reported yesterday.
Concerned citizens from the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wyoming, to name a few, now all have petitions inching their way towards the signature threshold of 25,000 on the government site. If the petitions reach the threshold, they will require a response from the Obama administration.
After enough signatures are garnered, members from all major policy offices "will help determine which policy office in the White House or federal agency should review and respond to petitions and ensure that petition responses are posted as quickly as possible."
So far, two states, Texas and Louisiana, have reached their required signature thresholds and will require responses. Florida's petition should reach the threshold by the end of the day.
Here's the latest list of states and signature counts as of writing this. Some citizens in a few states have opened up multiple petitions for the same state.
- Alaska (2,814)
- Alabama (19,718)
- Arizona (11,642)
- Arkansas (14,384)
- California (5,444)
- Colorado (14,111)
- Delaware (4,532)
- Florida (21,129)
- Georgia (19,802), Georgia (9,457)
- Indiana (12,938)
- Kansas (2,786)
- Kentucky (12,319)
- Louisiana (28,741)
- Michigan (12,868)
- Mississippi (12,355)
- Missouri (14,033), Missouri (11,065)
- Montana (9,634)
- Nebraska (1,879)
- Nevada (5,941)
- New Jersey (9,961)
- New York (3,974), New York (11,084)
- North Carolina (18,601)
- North Dakota (8,633)
- Ohio (1,010), Ohio (5,357)
- Oklahoma (3,681), Oklahoma (11,013)
- Oregon (10,158)
- Pennsylvania (2,420), Pennsylvania (7,624)
- S.C. (15,045), South Carolina (10,948)
- South Dakota (1,372)
- Tennessee (19,030)
- Texas (70,791)
- Utah (626), Utah (4,028)
- West Virginia (1,530)
- Wyoming (4,069)
Most of the petitions cite phrases straight out of the founding fathers' Declaration of Independence, which states, "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
Alaska's petition asks for a "free election" to allow citizens of Alaska to decide if they "should be a free and Independent Nation."
It was suspected that petitions were only being submitted by states from the original confederacy, which could potentially indicate racism towards Obama; however, the support of various other states in the nation has helped quash that theory.
Not everyone's on board with the idea. One person put up a petition asking for signatures to support the deportation of everyone that signed the previous secession petitions. Another asked the U.S. to strip the citizenship of those who signed petitions and to "exile them."
According to the site's FAQ section, anyone with a valid e-mail address and age "13 or older can create or sign an online petition seeking a federal government action on a range of issues. Then it's up to the petition creator and signers to build support for the petition by gathering more signatures."
Seth Masket, a political science professor at the University of Denver, told the Washington Times that petitions of this nature won't be taken seriously by the president or the administration and are little more than grandiose gestures illustrating the discontent of voters. "It's hard to see this as anything other than sour grapes," Mr. Masket told the Washington Times via e-mail. "These petitions have no legal power and no president would ever agree to them. It's a way to register dissent with the way the majority of the country voted last week, but it's little beyond that."
The White House will still have to come up with some type of response for petitions that reached the 25,000 mark but they don't give a specific time frame for when a response should be expected.
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Henderson will not manage Class A Clearwater
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The Phillies announced Saturday that Ramon Henderson, whose return to the organization in 2013 was an inspirational tale of redemption, will not manage Class A Advanced Clearwater this season as previously announced for personal reasons.
Henderson, once a fast-rising coach in the system, left the team in 2008 after 10 years as big league bullpen coach for what he later admitted was a drinking problem. Given a second chance, he was let go again, also for alcohol-related reasons. He subsequently spent 14 months in jail after he ended up in a fender-bender accident.
He came back as a coach for the Gulf Coast (Rookie) League Phillies last year and seemed to have his life back on track. He was thrilled in January with the announcement that he was being promoted to Threshers manager. It was not immediately apparent whether alcohol abuse contributed to Henderson not managing Clearwater this year.
Nelson Prada will step in to manage Clearwater, and Shawn Williams will take over the short season Class A Williamsport Crosscutters.

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David Harrison (born 1954) is an English artist based in London.
Harrison's work comprises mostly representational paintings and sculpture. Influenced by mythology and fairy tales, he paints scenes that juxtapose, often humorously, humans with natural and supernatural creatures including birds, insects, foxes and fairies. His paintings are typically rendered on canvas, wood panels or found flat objects and his sculptures often include discarded objects. He also makes short films. His work often contains social comment, often lamenting the breakdown of society (for example the rise of hoodie culture) or the desecration of nature by human activity.
Harrison received his BA from St Martin's School of Art in 1984. He has shown work in many exhibitions including Sickbed at the Cubitt Gallery in London, One-Man Show at the Cowboys and Poodles Gallery in San Francisco, and Mother Nature at Vilma Gold in London. In 2008 his first New York solo show entitled Green and Pleasant Land was held at the Daniel Reich Gallery which received favorable press reviews . His most recent solo show, entitled Existence, was held in September 2009 at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London.


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Here's a Samsung Galaxy Note vs iPhone street challenge by Samsung USA.
There's lots of debate about how this challenge is bias towards the Galaxy Note. I agree. Plus the girl should just go to the App Store. There's tons of free apps that can help her. Although honestly speaking, I would never be interested in superimposing my photo on another person using my phone.
To crop your head and superimpose on another photo, use this app call PhotoChop (Free).
To draw on a map, go Google map to screenshot the map. Then use this app call DoodleBuddy (Free) to draw on it.
To edit PowerPoint Slide, just use applications like Keynote ($9.99), QuickOffice ($19.99) or Documents To Go ($16.99). OK, I can't find any free apps that can edit PowerPoint slides. So I guess Galaxy Note win this round.
These are just some of the apps I know. I'm pretty sure there are a lot more out there in the iOS App Store. I've no idea where they found that lady. It seems like she is just using the iPhone for the basic functions. Maybe they should find someone who knows how to use the iPhone in their next challenge.
Samsung Galaxy Note vs iPhone
Here's a Samsung Galaxy Note vs iPhone street challenge by Samsung USA.


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'How Low Can You Go' Family Supper Challenge For NPR's "How Low Can You Go" family supper challenge, some of the nation's best cooks agreed to come up with a budget-conscious meal for a family of four that's delicious — and under $10. Then listeners took the challenge. NPR featured a few winners on All Things Considered.
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Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer has accidentally told the world the company may be supplying camera sensors for Apple's next generation iPhone 5.
Read our comprehensive iPhone 4 review and check out our guide to the best upcoming smartphones in 2011.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, Stringer discussed a wide range of topics including the latest trend of tablets. Early in the discussion he said: "It always puzzles me. Why would I make Apple the best camera?"
Sony doesn't currently supply camera sensors for any Apple products, specifically the iPhone 4 and the iPad 2, fuelling speculation that Sony will be supplying camera sensors for the upcoming iPhone 5. Curiously, both Sony and Apple declined to comment on the matter.
Apple's iPhone 5 is still months away from becoming a reality, but rumours around the tech world suggest it will feature a larger 4in screen that could extend from edge-to-edge, an aluminium rear rather than the current glass backing of the iPhone 4, along with the same dual-core A5 processor used in the iPad 2.
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You know how it goes when you're facing another person in a fighting game round: both players have whittled off some chunks off the other's life bar and the match seems up for grabs. That's where I was while playing Dead or Alive 5 at Tecmo's booth today. The person manning the display already whupped me a few times so I knew odds were slim that I'd actually win. But I didn't expect to be humiliated like I was.
In the videos above, you'll see the new Power Blows that will be appearing in DOA 5. These devastating strikes get triggered by directional input and a pair of buttons and need to be charged to be executed. You can use them in DOA5's Tag Mode, too.
You'll also see how the latest iteration of Dead or Alive ramps up the insanity of the series' environmental danger zones to even crazier degrees. Missiles blast the playfield apart and powerful blows can send you dangling off fearsome precipices. Or as above, a titanic mechanized clown mouth can swallow you whole and eject you through a nose cannon. It's a horrible yet hilarious way to win or lose.
When I asked the members of Team Ninja who were on hand just why these mini-cutscenes were so extensive in DOA5, they responded by saying that characters and environments aren't separate entities in DOA games. DOA danger zones are what separate Tecmo's fighting franchise from those published by other companies, so Team Ninja figured they'd double down on that distinction. Fair enough. Just don't be the one to go down by clown. You'll never live it down.


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Michigan Teachers Contribute to Six-Figure Salaries at the NEA
First of two parts
The National Education Association has 361 employees who make $100,000 or more a year, according to documents it filed with the federal government, and it collects $180 a year from each of the teachers who belong to its Michigan affiliate.
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel has the highest salary at $306,286 and a total compensation of $411,172 in 2013. Executive Director John Stocks made $301,588 in salary in 2013 and had a total compensation of $384,320. The NEA had $299.7 million in net assets as of 2013.
According to the Michigan Department of Education, the average teacher salary in Michigan was $62,530 in 2012-13. MEA dues are set at 1.5 percent of salary with a $640 cap. NEA dues are $180 annually.
"The teacher in Tinytown, USA, has no clue how much the executives in his/her union makes," said James Perialas, president of the Roscommon Teachers Association, an independent union that separated from the MEA in 2012. "They just assume that their dues are being spent wisely."
The NEA has 3 million dues paying members. But Perialas said union officials often mislead the public about membership. The NEA doesn't have 3 million employees, but instead a revenue stream of 3 million people, he said.
"They aren't managing them, the school districts manage them," Perialas said in an email. "Unions are created to serve their members. A UniServe director, or union executive should make a decent wage. However, that wage should not be 50 percent to 500 percent more than the average teacher/worker. That is just outrageous."
NEA Spokeswoman Sara Robertson didn't respond to a request for comment.
See also:
Unions, Left-Leaning Groups Dominate List of Largest Political Donors
MEA Spends More On Salaries, Benefits Than Member Representation
MEA Agency Fees Far Exceed Cost of Contract Negotiations
MEA Executive Salaries 'Not Based on Merit'
Teachers' Union: Many Members Conservative; Overwhelmingly Funds 'Progressive' Groups - National Education Association sending money to Media Matters, Progress Michigan
The Left's Piggy Bank? - New report shows the National Education Association to be a cash cow for many liberal causes
Michigan Public School Employees Pay For One of the Country's Richest Unions
With Far Fewer Members, MEA Executives Among the Highest Paid In the Nation
Michigan Capitol Confidential is the news source produced by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Michigan Capitol Confidential reports with a free-market news perspective.


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Life of humanity is full of events. Every day people experience something different from the previous one. Every day such things as passages of new bills, scientific discoveries, civil movements, crimes, diseases, concerts, accidents, and a lot of other events take place in life of people. Certainly, people are interested in what happens around them. Perhaps, it was the main reason for the appearance of news. It is evident that long ago, when people did not know about television and radio, news was spread gradually - from one person to another, from one village to another, from one city to another – and mainly, orally. Later, when scientists invented television, telephones, and radio, it became easier to spread the news. Evidently, that time became a time of appearance of such profession as journalist, whose aims were to gather, analyse, and tell people new information. During the whole history of life of humanity, the necessity to report news has not become out-of-date – people still want to know what happens in their lives and in lives of other people. Nevertheless, news reporting has been changing with time. In fact, it is not the same as it was years ago. "News is a phenomenon worthy of study because it is the pre-eminent way we understand our contemporary setting in all its diversity and complexity". As it was mentioned above, the main sources of news reporting years ago were newspapers, television, and radio. The first source of news to appear was newspapers. Their history began, when Julius Caesar ordered to post a daily sheet of what happened in Rome. First newspapers of modern example were printed already in the 17th century, and became popular in the 18th century. Usually, they included three types of news – political, business, and economical. In the course of time, with the development of news reporting, newspapers spread the topics of news. New rubrics began to appear. Thus, newspapers wrote not only in abovementioned spheres, but also in spheres of medicine, sport, science, culture, education, and others. Newspapers prepared information on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Depending on this criterion, they reported about news, which took place during these periods of time. Two more popular ways of news reporting in times of our grandmothers and grandfathers were television and radio. These means of transferring news allowed people to know about last events in the country or in the world, while doing some housework, driving a car, or having a rest at home after working day. Thinking about these ways of news reporting in modern times one can confuse – people still use newspapers, television, and radio in order to find out about the events, which take place in the world. Nevertheless, two or three centuries passed since the time of the invention of these things. Thus, nowadays we can observe what actually changed in news reporting. The first thing, which led to changes in the sphere of news reporting, is the fact (which is approved by a great number of researchers) that "reading habits had changed; many readers began finding their news online". At the same time, some people say that "reports of the death of newspapers are somewhat exaggerated". Nevertheless, some changes happened – one cannot deny that the invention of the Internet influenced people's habits. As people found it easier to read and watch the news online, economic situation in companies, which printed newspapers, became poor. This fact led to closing of newspapers, which existed for about 150 years. It is hard to imagine taking into account the fact that one day newspapers were considered being "more important to the country than the government itself". In the 19th and the 20th century, newspapers took the first place in making people aware of what happened in the country they lived. Nevertheless, everyone can see how the attitude to this source of news reporting changed in present days. One of the factors, which led to this change, is the appearance of yellow journalism in the close of the 19th century. Newspapers began to attract attention of their readers by eloquent headlines and shocking articles. Nevertheless, this news was not always truthful. In spite of the fact that yellow journalism cannot be called a credible source of information, it found its own way of development. It is popular even nowadays, when it is referred to stories about celebrities and their lives. Certainly, not all of the newspapers were influenced by yellow journalism. One still can think of "The Times" in Great Britain or "The New York Times" in the USA as about quality newspapers. Unfortunately, nowadays the quality of newspapers attracts only few people. One more factor, which made newspapers less popular, was appearance of radio and television. These types of news reporting attracted people because they gave a possibility to know what one wants without spending a lot of time on it. It was easier to listen or to watch to the information instead of reading pages of news. Moreover, one could get information, while cooking, washing, ironing, or driving a car. It is evident that radio and television were more convenient ways of getting information. Although, people began losing an interest in reading newspapers, and gradually most of them were substituted by radio or television programs, it was not final changes. In the course of time, radio and television also became less popular. One should not think hard in order to understand the reason. Certainly, it is development of the Internet. Appearance of the world web changed people's lives to a great extent. Therefore, it gave people a lot of possibilities. For instance, they could find their relatives from another countries with the help of social websites; moreover, they could make friends all over the world; furthermore, they could watch films and listen to music they like online; they could get any book they want; they could buy goods via Internet; and, of course, they could read, watch, and listen to news in the Internet. Actually, people still can do these things via Internet, and even more. While analysing the reasons of choosing the Internet as a source of news, researchers say that people used to buy papers such as The Chicago Tribune as a "seven day a week habit". By the start of the 21th century, many consumers had got out of the habit. Fuller said that people bought papers such as Tribune when "something happens in the world". The rest of the time, he said, "they tended to look for more convenient options such as the Internet". The world web is extremely complicated system. Nevertheless, it is very comfortable in usage. Thus, people can find official sites of the newspapers there and read them where they want, because nowadays the Internet is available not only at home, but also in offices, in the Internet cafes, and even in numerous gadgets, which become more and more popular every day. Thus, if a person wants to get some information quickly, it is enough just to go online through smartphone, or another device, and find everything necessary. The Internet also gives a possibility to listen to radio and watch some TV channels online. Thus, the Internet supposes convenient provision of news at any time. Moreover, the world web helps people to make advertisements via Internet as soon as they need. Just imagine, how many time it will take to advertise in a newspaper or radio, and in the Internet. It is evident that modern people will choose the last variant for their advertising. Although, news became more convenient for people to get with the help of the Internet, this change had already led to some negative effects. First of all, a lot of journalists, editors, and publishers lost their jobs. As the demand for newspapers decreased and great number of newspapers had to end their existence, it led to such job losses. However, people, who worked in news reporting spheres, can find a new job in the Internet. As it is confirmed by people of this profession, "While there may be uncertainty about the future of traditional news platforms, one thing is for certain: good journalism, and good journalists for that matter, will always be in high demand". Thus, they can work in online journals, newspapers, radio, or news programs. Hardly the humanity will be able to create something more powerful than the Internet, for at least, in the nearest time – "it will be until something better comes along to replace it". Moreover, the Internet gives a possibility to be self-employed – it will help people to do what they want, not depending on someone. In my opinion, news reporting, as well as a lot of the other spheres of people's lives, will soon become online. As it is confirmed by the research of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), "more than half of the population read newspapers online". The same thing happens to TV news. If, at the end of the 20th century, people got information mostly from television, than nowadays the situation changed. Researchers suppose that in the nearest future celebrities will begin to create their own news pages in the Internet. The consequences will be the following. As news considering life of celebrities is authentic on their pages, people will not wait for news reports in order to get some information about what they already know. It will lead to irrelevance of news reporting on TV and radio, and, as a consequence, journalistic skill. People already can notice a tendency, which will lead to this event. The fact is that a lot of celebrities and politicians already have their blogs, where they write about last events of their lives, their thoughts, and their plans. This fact shows that predictions of researchers considering possible vanishing of news reporting as it is now are not vain. Taking into consideration the development of news reporting and its change with the time, the next conclusion can be made. Undoubtedly, news reporting is an essential part of people's lives. It is impossible to imagine people, who are not interested in what happens in the world. Even if a person does not want to watch news, she/he will do it because being aware of the last events, which are considered being important worldwide, shows the level of personal development. Although, news reporting did not lose its significance for people, it changed. Certainly, people still read newspapers, listen to radio, and watch television, but they used to do it online. The Internet gives a possibility to get any information as easily and quickly as a person wants. On one hand, this way of getting information is convenient and refers to the demands of modern society. On the other hand, such quick transition from traditional ways of news reporting threats their existence. Moreover, it decreases the importance to prepare such specialists as journalists, editors, publishers, in such a way, making them less prestigious as they were earlier. Thus, the development of news reporting has its own strengths and weaknesses, and it is people's choice – whether to accept these changes or struggle for traditions.0 vote(s)
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Every summer, I wait for Pennsylvania peaches to arrive at our local co-op here in Vermont/New Hampshire's Upper Valley.
When I was a kid, we'd drive through the Amish country of Lancaster while visiting family, stopping at local farms to load up on on produce and homemade jams to take home with us.
Occasionally, my little brother and I would score a bouncy horse-and-buggy ride, if there was time, while Mom and Dad debated what would survive the ride home. Or more importantly, what would even fit in the car amongst all of our other vacation collections!
I can remember trying to comprehend what life would be like without cars and electricity as I watched women rub hand-made aprons and dresses up and down a metal washboard into a bin of murky, lightly sudsed water.
The simple, slower-paced life, where less is more. Something I long for today as the world spins – racing into full-speed- faster, better, more advanced.
Is it, though? I, for one, could do without the rush and much of the fancy beeps and such.
But I CAN'T do without peaches, can YOU? And there are so many delicious ways to share them with your friends, so I'd like to share one of my favorites with you: peach cobbler.
The REALLY cool thing about this recipe? It's made with our latest launch from the King Arthur Flour test kitchen: gluten-free all-purpose baking mix! It's fresh off the presses, onto your store shelves, and it will simplify your baking life.
Hopefully you can use fresh peaches for this cobbler; you'll need 2 1/2 cups of sliced, juicy, peaches for your cobbler.
If you're making this dessert outside of peach season, though, you'll need to thaw frozen fruit completely, draining any excess liquid.
In order to have this recipe and blog ready for you for the peach harvest, I had to begin working on it in the late weeks of winter and early spring – so frozen peaches it was!
We're always thinking ahead in time here in the KAF test kitchen. Right now, we're already at the tail end of holiday planning for our Baker's Catalogue, which means the Christmas cookies have already been decorated for photography just as warmer weather is settling in for the summer. It's a bit odd to be cutting out gingerbread men and decorating peppermint yule logs in spring, to be honest.
The rushing ahead causes a mild case of displacement (kind of like walking through a store that's selling Christmas decorations in October), but as long as I don't hear refrains of "Jingle Bells" and "Frosty the Snowman" echoing from within the kitchen walls, I try not to worry about it too much.
All right, back to THE fruit of summer. Let's whip up some cobbler!
Drain the extra liquid left after the thaw, and set fruit aside.
Preheat your oven to 375°F.
Melt 1/4 cup (4 tablespoons) butter in the bottom of an 8" square or 9" round baking pan. I conveniently threw mine into the preheating oven!
To make the batter, combine 1 cup King Arthur All-Purpose Gluten-Free Baking Mix with 1/2 cup sugar.
Add 3/4 cup milk and 1 large egg.
The mixture will have the consistency of thin pancake batter.
To prepare the peaches, toss them with the following:
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- a pinch of salt
Pour the batter into the prepared pan, followed by the peaches
Distribute the fruit uniformly over the batter.
Bake the cobbler for about 40 to 45 minutes...
...or until the top is lightly browned and the fruit is bubbling.
Allow the cobbler to cool at least 5 to 10 minutes before serving.
Now THAT was easy AND it sure is easy to love this one, especially with a spoonful of soft cinnamon whipped cream, or a scoop of vanilla or ginger ice-cream. It's a simple, peasant- style dessert that can be comforting and warm, or cooling and fresh.
Celebrate peach season with us by sharing your favorite ways to serve this popular stone fruit; we'd love to hear your feedback!
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As one of the scientists involved in the Rosetta mission, news that the unmanned spacecraft has woken up and restored contact with Earth comes as a great relief. It contains an instrument I first began designing while working on my PhD—a project in which I have invested more than 20 years.
It was on January 14, 1993 that I drew some sketches of a concept for an instrument that could be sent to a comet. I'm certain of the date because I still have those two sheets of paper. Ever since starting my PhD, I have been involved in building instruments, and I have always been planning for the possibility that one day there might be a space mission that would travel to a comet, collect materials from its surface, and eventually bring them back to Earth for analysis.
Despite the long odds of achieving this, I was not fazed. Initially, prototypes were built out of bulky components and connected to an electric grid, occupying a space the size of a couple of office desks. But still, we created instruments with unique capabilities for analyzing samples brought back to Earth from comets.
Then, when it was deemed financially impossible to bring samples back to Earth, we set about making instruments that could be taken to the comet on a one-way voyage instead. Ah, the arrogance of youth… how difficult could it be to shrink one of these laboratory monsters down to the size of something that could fit in a shoebox, not to mention powering the thing?
But we managed to do it. In 2004, the Lilliputian version of our instrument, known as Ptolemy, was lofted into space on a 10-year journey toward the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The mission, now known as Rosetta, comprises two units: the main craft, known as the orbiter, which will travel alongside the comet for many months, and Philae, the lander, which is destined to be set down on the surface of the comet and tell us more about it.
Some aspects of comets have been studied for hundreds of years. Take orbits, for instance—we know all about the route 67P takes. This is why it has been possible to place Rosetta on the right trajectory, although it took 10 years. When the spacecraft woke up, it was exactly where we expected it to be, both in relation to the bodies of the solar system and to the comet itself.
The instruments on the two parts are configured to answer many questions about the comet that could not be answered by instruments on Earth: what does it look like, how big is it, what color is it, how hard is it, and what is the temperature on it?
We know comets are in large part made of water, as ice. There are two questions that really interest us: What is the relationship of water in comets to that of other occurrences of the molecule? What is the relationship between water on Earth with that in comets? Although water—whether it is here on Earth or anywhere else in the Universe—is composed of two elements, it is possible to distinguish the water's source because of subtle differences in the isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen it contains. So on Earth, for instance, it would be possible to tell if a water sample came from Antarctica or from a domestic tap. But to do this you need a sophisticated instrument—Ptolemy is just such a device.
Now that Rosetta has woken up, we go back to waiting and hoping for the ongoing success of the mission. We hope the spacecraft will be operational, that our instrument survived hibernation, that the landing will be successful, that the drilling system will deliver samples of surface materials to Ptolemy, that the instrument operates as intended, and that the data can be communicated from the lander to the orbiter and then back to Earth. Only then can we answer some of our questions. Even though Rosetta has woken up, many things still need to go right. Here's to hoping they do.
Ian Wright is professor of planetary science at the Open University. This article was originally published at The Conversation.


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Cuban prospect Urrutia joins O's as promised
ARLINGTON -- When Henry Urrutia was formally introduced as an Oriole in a press conference this spring, executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette made it clear the organization's intention was for the outfielder to be in the Major Leagues in 2013.
Here he is.
Urrutia, who worked out with the team in Texas on Thursday, officially had his contract selected by Baltimore prior to Friday's series opener against the Rangers, and the 26-year-old is expected to get his first start Saturday.
"I'm not going to say he's strictly going to be a DH, but that's probably where he's going to be tomorrow," manager Buck Showalter said of Urrutia, who hit a combined .365 with a .958 OPS between Double-A Bowie and Triple-A Norfolk.
"We watched him take batting practice yesterday and watching him move around. I don't know [if he can provide a spark]. I can't sit here and tell you that. We're going to give it a shot instead of sit around and not. You guys know, we've had some issues with our DH spot."
Signed by the Orioles last July, Urrutia thought he could be a September callup, but he didn't arrive until late February due to issues getting a work visa out of Haiti. But given Nolan Reimold's season-ending injury and the rate at which Urrutia has hit both left-handed and right-handed pitching, the O's pulled the trigger after just 67 Minor League games.
"That's the one thing that makes me strong and all the players that were with me," Urrutia said of his time stuck in Haiti, through Minor League coach Ramon Sambo. "I really think about what I went through and all the things, and that I have had to work really hard to keep it. To be here, it is my dream come true, and I know I have to continue to work hard to stay here."
Urrutia, who spent only 15 games at Triple-A, was billed as a line-drive, gap-to-gap hitter. He hit 20 doubles and seven homers for a .531 slugging percentage at both levels this year. While he will most likely be used as a left-handed DH, with some of the organization's initial concerns over his defense and baserunning, he could occasionally be a corner-outfield option.
Urrutia, who did not play in 2011 due to a suspension from an unsuccessful defection attempt, played for Las Tunas in the Cuban League from 2006-10 and batted .350 with 72 doubles, nine triples, 33 home runs and 219 RBIs. He also played for Cuba in the 2010 World Championship and started in right field for the World Team at Sunday's Sirius XM All-Star Futures Game. He went 0-for-3 with a walk in the World's 4-2 loss to Team USA.


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EAST ROCHESTER — The New Hampshire Fisher Cats visited Nancy Loud School recently to introduce the school to a special reading program. The Fisher Cats and their mascot, Fungo, presented students with the Fisher Cats Reading Challenge, presented by the Community College System of New Hampshire (CCSNH). Under the free program, these students will be rewarded for increasing their reading beyond the normal school curriculum.
"This is a fun way to motivate and reward these students with our partners at the Community College System of New Hampshire," said Fisher Cats President Rick Brenner. "Each year this program has reached more students and schools, and we hope this year's participants have fun while also understanding the long-term benefits of strong reading skills."
During the assembly, Fungo, assisted by Fisher Cats staff members, expressed his love of reading while laying out his challenge. When a student reads an additional five books beyond their normal school assignments, they'll earn a pair of tickets to a Fisher Cats Reading Challenge Night scheduled in 2013 at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium, courtesy of CCSNH.
The special assembly, which also featured healthy eating tips and interactive games with the students, was one of approximately 40 that the Fisher Cats will make before the end of January. By the end of the school year, more than 55,000 students in 150 schools across New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts will have the opportunity to complete the challenge. This figure will raise the program's participation to better than 200,000 students since 2007.
"New Hampshire's community colleges are proud of the students at Nancy Loud School," said Shannon Reid, Director of Communications for the Community College System of New Hampshire (CCSNH). "Literacy is a key element of academic achievement, increasing children's confidence and making them better communicators as they grow. We look forward to celebrating with the students from Nancy Loud at the ballpark in 2013."
In addition to the individual challenge, students will represent their school in a special team competition for the third straight year. Through a donation from the Fisher Cats Foundation, the school with the highest percentage of students who complete the Reading Challenge will win a $3,000 grand prize. Two additional schools with the next highest percentage of completion will each win $1,000 prizes.
Last year, the Reading Challenge reached 55,000 students in nearly 150 schools, with ten schools generating 100-percent participation. Since its inception in 2007, more than 150,000 students have learned the importance of reading through the Fisher Cats and CCSNH.
The program is available free-of-charge to all schools in New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts. To book a presentation by Fungo and the Fisher Cats, or to receive the program information, contact the Fisher Cats Community Relations team at (603) 641-2005.
The Fisher Cats Reading Challenge, presented by CCSNH, is a part of the Fisher Cats year-round effort to give back to local communities. Since 2007, the Fisher Cats and the Fisher Cats Foundation have generated nearly $2 million in monetary and in-kind donations to more than 3,000 non-profit organizations. In that time, the Fisher Cats Foundation has awarded $170,000 in scholarships awards to college-bound high school seniors.


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World's First Potato Fry Museum Opens in Bruges
Now visitors to Belgium can indulge in frites with a side of education.
Nov. 1, 2013 -- Whether you know them as French fries, pommes frites or chips, a potato fry by any other name would smell as delicious. And now the popular starch has its own museum.
Belgian Eddy Van Belle and son Cedric have opened Frietmuseum, the first museum in the world dedicated to the history and culture surrounding the salty snack, in Bruges.
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"Over the years, fries have become known worldwide and enjoyed by adults and children in practically all countries, and so we can be proud that they actually originate from Belgium," Van Belle told the Daily Mail. "This is why it is not only normal, but absolutely necessary that the first potato fry museum should be opened in Belgium."
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Encompassing two floors of the Saaihaile, the oldest building in Bruges, Frietmuseum includes exhibits dedicated to the origin of the potato in Peru and the creation of the specialty food in Belgium -- though other countries such as France and Spain have disputed that over the years, taking credit for themselves.
Other items on display include antique potato cutters, beloved condiments and various photography. On the menu inside of the Frietmuseum restaurant?
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Dickey's lows override highs in loss to Rays
Knuckleballer allows three homers; ninth-inning rally falls short
TORONTO -- There was a case of deja vu at Rogers Centre on Sunday afternoon as the Blue Jays failed to capitalize on a series of golden opportunities for the second consecutive game.
The game was eerily similar to the one played on Saturday afternoon as once again a late-inning rally came up just short with the clutch hit proving to be elusive.
The heart of the Blue Jays' batting order couldn't come up with the necessary knock against Rays closer Fernando Rodney while R.A. Dickey's difficulties with the long ball continued in another heartbreaking, 4-3 loss.
"It was a tough one. We had opportunities to at least tie the game, but it is what it is," shortstop Jose Reyes said after his club's fourth consecutive defeat. "It's tough, it's disappointing, because we haven't been able to get the big hit."
Toronto appeared primed to steal a game away from the Rays when its first two batters reached base in the bottom of the ninth. Reyes quickly followed with a two-run double to the gap in right-center and all of a sudden a seemingly dormant team had renewed life as it climbed to within one run.
The outlook quickly changed when neither Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion nor Melky Cabrera were able to come through with the game on the line. Bautista struck out on five pitches while both Encarnacion and Cabrera hit weak grounders to the left side of the infield.
That enabled Rodney to escape with another save, despite having to throw 35 pitches just one day after he was forced to throw 21. In both games, Toronto had the tying run on third and the winning run on base, but came up just short when it mattered the most.
"We need to turn it around, because it's the end of July," Reyes said. "That's going to be tough for us to run with something. We need to turn it around starting tomorrow, because it's getting late.
"We need to start winning some games, winning some series, because if we don't do that, we're going to go home early and we don't want to do that."
With the exception of Reyes' double in the ninth and a Josh Thole double in the second, the Blue Jays failed to take advantage of their chances. It has been an ongoing concern of late and one that became even more noticeable against the Rays.
Toronto hit just .148 (4-for-27) with runners in scoring position during the series, stranded a total of 25 baserunners, and now finds itself ranked 10th in the American League with a .256 average (183-for-715) with runners in scoring position.
The failures with runners on base has been one of the primary reasons that despite one of the best bullpens in baseball, the Blue Jays have a 9-18 record in one-run games.
"They're competing, but right now, we're not playing good enough baseball to win a lot of games," manager John Gibbons said. "That's basically what it comes down to. They outplayed us in all three games. They're on a nice little roll, good ballclub, great pitching. That's just the way it is."
The late-inning rally almost overshadowed another outing in which Dickey had trouble keeping the ball in the park. He allowed three homers, which marked the seventh time in 21 outings this season he has surrendered at least two.
Dickey is now tied with Angels right-hander Joe Blanton for most home runs allowed (23) in the Major Leagues. It's just one off his entire total from last season with more than two months still to play.
To make matters even more frustrating for Dickey is that after a slow start to the season, he has been pitching better of late, but the positive results are often erased with just one swing of the bat. That was the case Sunday as Dickey was almost untouchable except for three glaring mistakes.
"It seems to be my bane this year," said Dickey, who allowed homers to Evan Longoria, Luke Scott and Kelly Johnson. "It's not all the time that you make a mistake with one and it gets hit out of the park. It's just this year that's been the case. You make a mistake and they pop one out.
"I can take the solo home runs, it's just the multi-run home run that's been really haunting this year. But got to try and take some positives out of today's outing. Felt real good, had a good knuckleball, a lot of swings and misses. Just going to try and build off of the momentum the last month or so."
Toronto was swept for the second time in July and has now lost 16 of its last 23 games after going on an 11-game winning streak during the middle of June.
One day after left-hander Mark Buehrle suggested "maybe we were overrated" following an eventful offseason, Dickey couldn't help agree with his veteran teammate.
"It's hard to see it any other way, because of our record," Dickey said. "I think the capability that this team has is still very very good. I hope we carry an expectation of that going forward now. We obviously haven't put all the pieces together. Hopefully, we're going to be able to do that.
"But this team, that's not built for just a singular year. This is something that we're going to have to try and figure out, because we have some guys under contract for the next two or three years. And we have some good players. I don't think we need to be hanging our heads and pointing fingers. I just think it's time for us to try collectively to make a push."


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While you may have studied the ballot propositions through and through, and understand exactly where your candidates stand on all of the issues, knowing whether there's going to be a harpist at your polling place can be a bit of a question mark.
There was, of course, a musician playing the harp at Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard back on Election Day in 2014. And other polling places around the country have sometimes incorporated live music, of the calming, string-sweet variety, to help those in the queue maintain a contemplative, ready-to-vote state.
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The Sunset Boulevard hotel is once again the cast-your-vote location for Brentwood denizens in precincts 9001354A and 9001364A, but this time a yoga instructor shall be at the ready, the better to help voters with a few breathing exercises and simple poses.
Small bites and refreshments will be nearby, and, instead of a harp this year, listen for the lovely tones of the sitar.
Across town, and downtown, the polling place at Cornerstone Theater Company will take on a poetic mien for Election Day. The troupe is coming together with RENT Poet and the Melrose Poetry Bureau to offer "one-on-one creative writing workshops..." built "...around the theme, 'what does it mean to vote'?"
If you prefer the visual arts to express yourself, there shall be art supplies at the ready. Nearby, The Pie Hole will have gratis coffee to those rocking the all-important "I Voted" sticker, as well as pieces of pie for sale (round up on your bill and help out the Cornerstone Theater Company).
So what creative exercises or meditation-focused happenings might your assigned polling place hold on Tuesday, Nov. 8?
Perhaps it will simply and nobly hold the hallowed hum of the electorate making their choices.
And perhaps the sights you'll see there will include proud voters sticking their "I Voted" sticker on their collars as they quickly exit in order to give other people in line the chance to have their say at the ballot box.
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Study comparing injectable contraceptives DMPA and NET-EN finds HIV risk higher with DMPA
Women who used an injectable contraceptive called DMPA were more likely to acquire HIV than women using a similar product called NET-EN, according to a secondary analysis of data from a large HIV prevention trial called VOICE, researchers from the National Institutes of Health-funded Microbicide Trials Network (MTN) reported today at the 21st Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston.
An unexpected finding in the study was that the combination of being positive for herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) and using DMPA for contraception was associated with a higher risk of HIV compared to women using NET-EN and who were also HSV-2 positive. Among HSV-2 negative women, however, there was no difference in HIV risk between those using DMPA and those using NET-EN. HSV-2, the most common form of genital herpes, is prevalent among sexually active adults worldwide but particularly widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and also thought to play a role in that region's high rates of HIV. Nearly half of all women in VOICE tested positive for HSV-2 at enrollment.
"It's very important to acknowledge that this was an observational study. Women weren't randomized to contraceptive methods, so it's possible that behavioral or other factors were responsible for what we saw in this analysis. While we saw more HIV infections in this particular group of women in VOICE, this subgroup was small and the finding needs to be taken within a much larger context of research on the impact of contraception on women's health," said Lisa Noguchi, C.N.M., M.S.N., who is MTN's scientific director for pregnancy research and led the current study.
MTN researchers conducted the analysis to investigate the relationship between injectable contraceptives and the risk of acquiring HIV. While some studies have suggested women who use DMPA are at increased risk of HIV compared to those not using a hormonal method, a number of other studies have shown no association. Few studies have separately examined the impact of NET-EN on HIV risk. The new analysis of VOICE data is the first head-to-head observational study to directly compare differences in HIV risk between users of DMPA and NET-EN.
DMPA, or depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, and NET-EN, short for norethisterone enanthate, are progestin-only hormonal contraceptives. DMPA (widely known by its marketed name Depo-Provera®) is administered every three months, while NET-EN (or Noristerat®) is given every two months. Both types of injectable contraception are highly effective for the prevention of pregnancy and typically more effective than oral contraceptive pills.
VOICE – Vaginal and Oral Interventions to Control the Epidemic – was designed to test the safety and effectiveness of different antiretroviral (ARV) approaches for preventing HIV in women. It was conducted between 2009 and 2012 among 5,029 women from 15 sites in South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. In this planned secondary analysis of HIV risk, MTN researchers focused only on the women enrolled at VOICE's 11 sites in South Africa, where both injectable contraceptives are popular methods of birth control.
The primary results of VOICE, which were reported at last year's CROI meeting, found none of the products tested (tenofovir tablets, Truvada® tablets and tenofovir gel) was effective in preventing HIV and that most participants had not used their assigned product daily as recommended. Younger, unmarried women were least likely to use study product, and were also most likely to acquire HIV, with HIV incidence in this group approaching 10 percent at some study sites in South Africa, a rate considerably higher than expected. The overall HIV incidence, which reflects the number of women who become newly infected for every 100 participants in a given year, was 5.7 percent overall, double what had been anticipated.
As with any HIV prevention trial testing an unproven biomedical intervention, VOICE enrolled only women willing to use effective contraception throughout their participation. In this context, the secondary analysis of data offers new insight about the role of injectable contraceptives and other factors that may have placed women at particular HIV risk.
Among the 4,077 women enrolled in VOICE in South Africa, 3,163 (78 percent) who used an injectable method were included in the analysis, with 2,055 (65 percent) of those who ever used DMPA and 1,363 (43 percent) who ever used NET-EN (a small percentage used both methods at different times). With 204 women acquiring HIV across both groups, the HIV incidence for women using either injectable contraceptive was 7.1 percent. Yet, compared to NET-EN, HIV risk was significantly higher among users of DMPA – 8 percent incidence versus 5.4 – with 150 HIV infections in women using DMPA and 54 in women using NET-EN.
Compared to NET-EN users, DMPA users tended to be slightly older, less likely to report having multiple partners (or that their partner had multiple partners) and to also be HSV-2 positive. In fact, when the researchers took into account whether or not women were HSV-2 positive, the difference was two-fold. Among 1,032 HSV-2 positive women having ever used DMPA, 95 acquired HIV, an incidence rate of 10 percent. In contrast, the HIV incidence was 5 percent among the 537 HSV-2 positive NET-EN users, in whom 20 acquired HIV during VOICE. However, among those women who were HSV-2 negative, DMPA and NET-EN users did not differ significantly in their risk of acquiring HIV during the study.
"One of the reasons we undertook this analysis was to help provide context to questions about injectable contraception and HIV acquisition. Unfortunately, many African women live in areas where there is not only high HIV incidence but also high rates of maternal mortality. Using effective contraception can be a life-saving choice, so comparing family planning methods to each other, rather than nothing at all, is worthwhile. Meeting the health needs of women in this region means ensuring that women can access a variety of safe and effective methods to prevent pregnancy and to protect against HIV," said Ms. Noguchi.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that women using progestin-only injectable contraception be strongly advised to always use condoms. At the same time, the WHO makes clear the need to both expand the contraceptive method mix and engage in more research on the relationship between hormonal contraception and HIV.
In recent years, the MTN has taken to diversifying the range of effective contraceptive methods available to study participants. In May 2012, the MTN formed the Contraception Action Team to help site staff gain the necessary training for providing a variety of methods, including the copper intrauterine device (IUD) and implants, directly at the clinic. The momentum had already begun when in July 2012 the MTN launched ASPIRE, a Phase III trial of the dapivirine ring. Of the more than 2,100 women from Malawi, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe who have enrolled to date, fewer than half are using an injectable contraceptive, whereas in VOICE, 71 percent of women chose this method. And while oral hormonal contraception was the choice of 22 percent of women in VOICE, only 8 percent of ASPIRE participants are choosing to use the pill, typically a less effective method than the IUD, implants or injectables. Most notable has been the uptake of the IUD. During VOICE, only eight participants (less than 1 percent) of the 5,029 women used an IUD, while more than 22 percent of ASPIRE participants have chosen to use an IUD for contraception. Other long-acting contraceptives such as hormonal implants were used by only 5 percent of VOICE participants; in ASPIRE, the use of these methods has tripled.
"What our trial sites have accomplished is nothing short of amazing. They have broken down a barrier of sorts, by providing women with the contraceptive choices they deserve and enhancing the capacity of their staff in the delivery of a broader range of reproductive health services. With so many women choosing IUDs, and implants in our study, we'll also be able to collect data that may help in understanding the potential impact of a range of contraceptive methods on HIV risk," noted Sharon Hillier, Ph.D., of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who is co-principal investigator of the MTN and a driving force behind the formation of MTN's Contraception Action Team.


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Name: George Geddes
What do you do?
I'm an Archaeological Investigator with RCAHMS
How did you get here?
I started with a BSc at Edinburgh followed by a few years on the Scottish digging circuit. An MA at York in 2003-4 focussing on the archaeology of buildings in the Western Isles led to five years at Headland Archaeology as their building surveyor. In 2007, I took up the post as St Kilda Archaeologist for the National Trust for Scotland, which led to an interest in conservation management planning. In 2008, I moved to RCAHMS to work on a range of archaeological survey projects.
What are you working on today?
Today I am splitting my work over a series of projects: as aerial survey forms part of my work, I am interpreting and cataloguing photographs of cropmarks taken in the Lunan valley last year, an area where a whole archaeological landscape of multiple periods survives under modern land use.
Later in the day I will continue researching the work of Gordon Childe with RCAHMS from 1942 to 1946 and digitising the photographs, notes and sketch plans he made on about 700 sites during the war, so that they can be viewed on Canmore.
We are also producing a new book on St Kilda's archaeology, surveyed by RCAHMS in 1983-6 and 2007-9, and I am researching and writing the chapters for the 19th and 20th century, exploring new approaches to the sites and their wider context.
My most recent fieldwork has been a re-survey of the fort at Finavon, and the discovery of a whole new and significant phase, and a trip to the Flannan Isles, where a medieval chapel and seabird hunters bothies survive – for both, I will begin the drafting of our detailed descriptions.
Favourite part of your job?
In comparison to project manager, the job title 'investigator' seems so old-fashioned but the Ordnance Survey and RCAHMS used it for many years as it describes so well the process of critically engaging with the archaeological landscapes and collections in Scotland. Whether it is getting to grips with complex earthworks at Finavon, or teasing together the evidence of how we have got where we are today in interpretation, the focus at work is so often on that process of investigation. When this process is coupled with a good old sense of 'public service', it can be very productive and rewarding.
What did university not teach you?
While University was fantastic at providing a broad overview, and the opportunity to share and develop ideas, it did not provide an adequate grasp of either fieldwork skills (excluding excavation) nor of the character of Scotland's field archaeology. While this can to some extent be learnt simply by tramping round sites on one's own, as so many of us have done, the advantages of doing this more intensively (i.e. looking at everything within a study area), and with experienced colleagues, makes a huge difference. When one considers that RCAHMS has had staff in a similar post to myself since 1908 (initially in fact, the only staff), there has been a huge amount of accumulated organisational experience, passed on from generation to generation (this can include bad habits too!).
Surprising part of your job?
The colleagues! No seriously, I'm surprised that there is still so much investigative work to do in Scotland. Though we are really far ahead of most countries in the world in having more than a century of relatively coherent and structured fieldwork (by many individuals and bodies) behind us, resulting in a fantastic collection not to mention an ever-improving sense of the past, great swathes of the country still require thorough field survey, to support research, planning and to enable the public to engage with the past. This national project, when combined with an excellent and robust system of planning-led archaeology, and community archaeology, must surely be the envy of many countries.
Top tips for aspiring archaeologists? Earn a fortune in something else and then self-fund excavations and surveys in the land of your dreams (i.e North Rona).


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Pokemon X and Y Debuting Worldwide for 3DS in October
Pokefans have prayed for it and kind of got it with Pokemon Black and White (along with their sequels), but now they're getting a true Pokemon adventure in 3D!
Nintendo dropped the big news this morning that two new Pokemon games, called Pokemon X and Y, will be coming out later this year in October. It's a full 3D adventure with a whole new generation of Pokemon and a brand new region to explore.
The announcement trailer for the 3DS game featured a short introduction by the franchise's beloved Pikachu and shows off the games' new graphics, complete with dynamic camera angles during battle and a few of the new critters.
The new starting Pokemon are Chespin, Fennekin, and Froakie, which look to be a grass-type squirrel, a fire-type fennec fox-like creature, and a water-type toad. You can see these guys in action down in the announcement trailer below.
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If there's one thing I think of when people mention the crowd at Comic-Con it's "these guys love to exercise". So everyone will be in for a treat this July when the The Walking Dead Escape: San Diego is unveiled to celebrate the comics 100th issue. Visitors will be able to play the role of a zombie, a survivor or a spectator in an evacuation zone. I can already hear the wheezing and smell the BO.
Hold the phones folks, Eli Roth is going to direct a movie. It's called "The Green Inferno" and I have no idea what it's about but it's going to be filming in Chili and Roth co-wrote the screenplay with Guillermo Amoedo. Did you hold your phone? You really don't get the full effect unless you're holding your phone right now.
Dimension Films has picked up the rights to "Compulsion", a new film starting Heather Graham and Carrie-Anne Moss. Remember the joke I made about Carrie-Anne Moss earlier in the week? Man that was funny huh? Anyway no release date has been announced for the remake of a Japanese film about two neighbors who find themselves on the opposite sides of the luck pole. I don't know if there's such a thing as a luck pole but I wish I had thought of that when I was single. Think about it.
John Cusack and Elijah Wood in the same movie? Oh my lukewarm excitement. The film is called "The Grand Pioano" and Cusack is just in talks right now but the film is about a pianist who finds a note saying he'll die if he plays one note wrong. Wood will play the pianist and Cusack the lovable geek who ends up getting the girl. That might be a lie.
Neil Marshall, our friend who directed "The Descent", has been tapped to take the wheel on "The Last Voyage Of Demeter". The film tells the story the ship and crew that transported Dracula from Transylvania to London as told by the lone survivor of the voyage. I don't want to spoil anything... but scurvy.
Julianne Moore has been confirmed to be playing the nutso mother in the upcoming "Carrie" remake. Which is fun because she seems so nice so I kind of feel like even if she locked me in a closet for hours on end I wouldn't be so mad at her. Like those stupid Sour Patch Kids commercials. Awww she whipped me with a ruler but now she's making me pancakes.
Heather Graham and Carrie-Anne Moss have been tapped for roles in a new film titled "Compulsion". The flick is a remake of a South Korean horror-comedy about two women who live next to each other and realize one is on a hefty bad luck streak while the other is finding herself overflowing with good luck. I assume Heather Graham will have the good luck because she's never made out with Keanu Reeves.
Michelle Monaghan who looks like a solid D cup has joined Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnan in the cast of "The Coup", a new film about a family stuck in Southeast Asia during a coup. Maybe a large B actually. I don't know, they do amazing things with push up technology these days.


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§3121. Veterans' Advisory Committee on Rehabilitation
(a)(1) The Secretary shall appoint an advisory committee to be known as the Veterans' Advisory Committee on Rehabilitation (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "Committee").
(2) The members of the Committee shall be appointed by the Secretary from the general public and shall serve for terms to be determined by the Secretary not to exceed three years. Veterans with service-connected disabilities shall be appropriately represented in the membership of the Committee, and the Committee shall also include persons who have distinguished themselves in the public and private sectors in the fields of rehabilitation medicine, vocational guidance, vocational rehabilitation, and employment and training programs. The Secretary may designate one of the members of the Committee appointed under this paragraph to chair the Committee.
(3) The Committee shall also include as ex officio members the following: (A) one representative from the Veterans Health Administration and one from the Veterans Benefits Administration, (B) one representative from the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the Department of Education and one from the National Institute for Handicapped Research of the Department of Education, and (C) one representative of the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training of the Department of Labor.
(b) The Secretary shall, on a regular basis, consult with and seek the advice of the Committee with respect to the administration of veterans' rehabilitation programs under this title.
(c) The Committee shall submit to the Secretary an annual report on the rehabilitation programs and activities of the Department of Veterans Affairs and shall submit such other reports and recommendations to the Secretary as the Committee determines appropriate. The annual report shall include an assessment of the rehabilitation needs of veterans and a review of the programs and activities of the Department of Veterans Affairs designed to meet such needs. The Secretary shall submit with each annual report submitted to the Congress pursuant to section 529 of this title a copy of all reports and recommendations of the Committee submitted to the Secretary since the previous annual report of the Secretary was submitted to the Congress pursuant to such section.
1994-Subsec. (a)(3)(A).
Subsec. (a)(3).
Subsec. (c).
1989-Subsecs. (a)(1), (2), (b).
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Madonna Badger to remarry
STAMFORD -- As the two-year anniversary of the Christmas Day inferno that killed her three young daughters and both her parents approaches, Madonna Badger revealed she is engaged to be married next year.
In a personal essay to be published in Vogue magazine's December issue, Badger details her ongoing recovery and grief from the last time she put her three girls -- Lily, 9, and 7-year-old twins Sarah and Grace -- to bed following a reading of Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" to her plans to marry college friend and New York real estate broker Bill Duke.
Duke was among the first to come to Badger's bedside at Stamford Hospital following the deadly fire that ripped through the 116-year-old Victorian home at the foot of Shippan Point.
The 2267 Shippan Ave. house was nearing the completion of an intensive, yearlong renovation at the time of the fire. The official cause of the blaze was placed on a bag of embers from the fireplace that had been put in the mud room.
Badger has questioned the official report and cited other possible causes such as a possible electrical surge or malfunctioning electric meter. The actual cause may never be known since the city tore down the house a day after the fire without Badger's permission obliterating any evidence and removing all of her belongings. She has filed a lawsuit against the city for unspecified damages.
In her nearly 3,400-word essay "The Long Road Back: How to Keep Going After the Unimaginable Happens," Badger recounted her deep depression and treatment at Silver Hill psychiatric hospital in New Canaan and then her nearly yearlong path to recovery with friends in Little Rock, Ark., working with rare books and antiques.
It was a job that she said saved her life.
"I came to understand and be at peace with the notion that the people in the pictures I was looking at were all gone now -- that the little girl in 1905 who owned the doll I was holding in my hands was dead; that all this stuff was really just the ephemera that gets left behind," Badger said. "There was really no judgment about it."
Badger said going back to work at the New York advertising and branding firm she helped found was difficult, but helped in her recovery.
Despite the loss of her daughters and parents, Badger said she is still a mother and daughter of her parents and is working to honor them by not giving up.
Badger traveled to Thailand to escape the pain of the Christmas season last year and said working in an orphanage for girls who had been abandoned or abused "broke me open in a way I still can't fully explain."
Badger plans to volunteer with her new fiance again this Christmas to help children in need. She did not specify where she planned to help and did not return a request for comment for this story.
In her essay, she said volunteering has helped ease a pain that "is just so huge that sometimes it feels like a prison cell."
Badger said she has found some peace after finally finding a place to bury the ashes of her daughters.
"At a certain point, you can either be full of hate or full of love -- it can go either way." Badger said. "I have no hate in my heart, no bitterness, and I am blessed by this."
To read Madonna Badger's full essay, go to Vogue.com or pick up the December issue on newsstands.


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New Vision for Cycling: Doubling the Benefits
New Vision for Cycling: Doubling the Benefits
CTC has been promoting cycling at national and local level since 1878 and, after well over a century of campaigning and lobbying, we believe that cycling has never been more relevant than it is today.
Why cycle?
Cycling is fun, fast, flexible, free (well, almost!) and it keeps you fit. You don't have to pay for a gym and you can save time by getting from A to B while you're exercising.
But cycling also has many wider benefits. It helps improve not just our own health but also that of our streets, communities and the environment. It helps tackle everything, from congestion, pollution, noise, road danger and the school run to the twin crises of climate change and obesity. In fact cycling is a 'best buy'!
Why now?
While cycling can help meet many of today's challenges, there are two that we need to tackle urgently:
- We're living under the threat of climate change and transport emissions are a major contributor. Cycling is one of the best ways of replacing the 60% of car trips that are under 5 miles.[1]
- More and more people are suffering from health problems caused by being overweight and not exercising enough. If things don't change, 60% of the population will be obese by 2050.[2] Cycling for everyday journeys, such as the daily commute or school run, is one of the best ways to increase physical activity.
We must get to grips with these issues, or we'll be leaving our children to deal with the serious impacts of climate change and the financial burdens of treating more and more patients for obesity through the NHS. A renewed boost for cycling is the answer.
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Why do we need a 'New Vision'?
If we want people to cycle more, we have to make it much easier and safer.
That means we must tackle the fears that stop people from cycling, or allowing their children to do so. These include too much traffic travelling too fast, irresponsible driving, hostile roads and junctions, and dangerous vehicles, especially lorries.
We also need roads, streets and neighbourhoods to be planned and laid out so that cycling is an obvious and straightforward transport choice – and a more convenient one than the car for short, local trips.
We want it to become easier for people going on longer journeys to combine cycling with rail travel and other forms of public transport.
And we don't want anyone to forget that cycling is a fun activity too and a good way of getting out and about into the fresh air of the countryside.
CTC is calling for a doubling of cycle use in ten years. This would deliver:
- Economic benefits of around £3.5 billion[3]
- A one third reduction in the risks of cycling[4]
- A saving of 0.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year[5]
The case for cycling
Cycling supports competitiveness and productivity
- Cycling makes extremely efficient and economical use of road-space. One lane of a typical road can accommodate 2,000 cars per hour – or 14,000 cycles.[6]
- Encouraging cycling also makes workers more productive and reduces the costs of absenteeism, ill health and air pollution. It also frees up pressure to provide valuable urban land as car parking space.
Cycling tackles climate change
- A person making the average daily commute of 4 miles each way would save half a tonne of carbon dioxide if they switched from driving to cycling per year.[7]
- If we doubled cycle use by switching from cars, this would reduce Britain's total greenhouse emissions by 0.6 million tonnes, almost as much as switching all London-to-Scotland air travel to rail.[8]
Cycling improves health
- Cycling contributes to weight loss, burning about 5 calories a minute.
- A regular cyclist in mid-adulthood is typically as fit as someone 10 years younger and can expect to live 2 years longer than the average.[9] [10]
Cycling makes life safer for all
- Cycling gets safer the more cyclists there are. Research has shown that a doubling in cycling makes cycling 34% less risky.[11]
- Mile for mile or trip for trip, cyclists are involved in far fewer injuries to other road users than motorists and the consequences are far less likely to be serious or fatal.
- Getting people out of cars and on to cycles would therefore improve road safety for all.
Cycling promotes equality of opportunity
- The wealthiest 20% of people typically travel 4.5 times farther by car and rail than the poorest 20%. However, when it comes to cycle use, this gap is more than halved – the wealthiest cycle just twice as far as the poorest.
Cycling is good for our quality of life and the natural environment
- As zero-emission vehicles, cycles reduce levels of harmful pollutants such as oxides of nitrogen. Cycles also make little noise.
- Instead of streets filled with cars, cycle-friendly town centres are far more attractive both for shopping and relaxing. You can park 10 bikes in the space required for one car.
The political scene: delivering on cycling?
Sixty years ago cycling made up a third of all the miles travelled by vehicles in Britain.
Per mile travelled cycling was as safe then as it is today. By 1970 the number of miles cycled collapsed to its current level, around 2.75 billion miles per year.
Over the same time period, however, total mileage travelled by other forms of transport has increased by 150%, while driving has become 4.5 times less risky.[12] [13]
This has created busier roads that are less attractive to cycling.
Since then, there have been flickers of a cycling renaissance in the 1970s and 1980s. However, Government targets to quadruple cycling by 2012, set in 1996, were quietly shelved when it became clear these would not be met. It is now vital to build on the recent resurgence of cycling in towns and cities around Britain.
Why CTC believes we could double cycle use in 10 years
We believe evidence shows that a doubling of cycle use in 10 years is entirely achievable, given sufficient political will:
- In London, cycling increased by 91% in 8 years, with a corresponding decrease of 33% in cycle casualties. The capital now plans to more than quadruple cycle use by 2025.[14] [15]
- Leicester has increased cycle use by 43% in 4 years, with an 11% reduction in cycle casualties.[16]
- Western Australia increased cycle use by 82% in 7 years during the 1980s, while reducing hospital admissions by 5%.[17]
CTC's New Vision for Cycling
We call for action on the following 6 themes:
Commitment to cycling
- The Government must commit to doubling cycle trips in 10 years, whilst halving the risks.
- All Government departments and other organisations in all relevant sectors, nationally, regionally and locally, need to recognise the benefits of cycling and support it effectively.
Cycle-friendly planning and design
- Local authorities must ensure that new developments are easily accessible by cycle and other sustainable transport modes.
- We need safe and attractive cycling conditions throughout the road network, together with quality cycle parking and well-designed off-road facilities where they enhance cycle travel.
- This in turn means ensuring that planners and engineers have the guidance, training, procedures and, crucially, the understanding of how best to make good provision for cycling.
- Roads and routes should be properly inspected and maintained, so that potholes, defects, obstructions and other hazards stop putting cyclists at risk.
Safe drivers and vehicles
Cycling gets safer the more cycling there is, so encouraging cycling must be central to national and local road safety policies. This should be backed by indicators that measure "more" as well as "safer" cycling. These twin objectives can be achieved through:
- Making 20 mph the speed limit on most urban streets
- Lowering speed limits wherever possible elsewhere and tackling speeding
- Making 'Bikeability' cycle training available to everyone
- Better training for motorists that includes an understanding of cyclists' needs
- Strengthening road traffic law and its enforcement
- Addressing the disproportionate threats from lorries
- Improving the cycle-friendliness of vehicle design
- Setting targets based on individual risk of injury, rather than on total injuries
- Monitoring the perception of danger that prevents people from cycling, instead of simply recording casualties alone
Better provision for combining cycling with public transport use
We need:
- Good access to, from, through and within stations and interchanges for cyclists
- Safe and secure cycle parking, storage and hire facilities at stations and interchanges
- Provision of adequate space for carrying cycles on public transport
- Better information and publicity about combining cycling and public transport
Promotion, encouragement and incentives for cycling
- We need promotional activities and marketing and information campaigns to influence attitudes and behaviour so that more people feel inspired to take up cycling in the first place, or cycle more often – and know how to go about it.
- Financial incentives, including the removal of VAT from cycles, would also boost cycling.
More and better opportunities for recreational and off-road cycling
- We need more places opened up for off-road cycling e.g. through parks and open spaces, alongside the coast, rivers, canals and other waterways, on rural lanes, on the rights of way network and on Forestry Commission land. They should be well signed, maintained and publicised.
We believe that a doubling of cycle use within 10 years is entirely achievable and would bring great benefits to our own health and that of our streets, communities and the environment.
[1] DfT. National Travel Survey 2006. 2007. table 3.4
[2] Foresight. Tackling Obesities: Future Choices. 2007
[3] Calculated using methodology in SQW. Valuing the benefits of cycling. 2007
[4] PL Jacobsen, Safety in numbers: more walkers and bicyclists, safer walking and bicycling. Injury Prevention. 2003. vol 9, pp 205-9. See http://bmj-injuryprev.highwire.org/content/9/3/205.full.pdf
[5] Committee on Climate Change. Building a low carbon economy. 2008. p. 291
[6] Botma & Papendrecht, Traffic operation of bicycle traffic. TU-Delft, 1991.
[7] Calculated on the basis of 170 gm/km for an average car, around 200 trips per year.
[8] See note 5.
[9] Tuxworth W et al, Health, fitness, physical activity and morbidity of middle aged male factory workers. British Journal of Industrial Medicine vol 43. pp 733-753, 1986.
[10] Paffenbarger R et al, Physical activity, all-cause mortality and longevity of college alumni. New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 314(10) pp 605-613, 1986 (for abstract see http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198603063141003 ).
[11] See note 4.
[12] DfT. Transport Statistics Great Britain 2007. 2008. table 7.1
[13] DfT. Road Casualties Great Britain 2007. 2008. table 2.
[14] Transport for London press release, 16th June 2008. accessed: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/archive/8631.aspx,
[15] TfL. Casualties in Greater London in 2007. 2008. accessed: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/casualties-in-Greater-London-during-2007.pdf
[16] Personal communication with Leicester City Council.
[17] Robinson DL. 'Safety in numbers in Australia: more walkers and bicyclists, safer walking and bicycling.' Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 2005, vol 16: pp47-51 - http://www.cycle-helmets.com/hpja_2005_1_robinson.pdf


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Here in America, the Nissan Juke is a great little mini-crossover that overcomes its awkward looks by being genuinely fun to drive. But in Mexico, the Juke is something else entirely: a crime-fighting, time traveling, tire smoking, glass destroying LEGEND.
I stumbled upon this ad on Nissan Mexico's website after reading the Mexican cab story in today's AOTD, which made me wonder if they still make the Tsuru, essentially an early 1990s Sentra often enlisted for taxi cab duty. (Spoiler alert: Yup.)
But when I did my eyes and ears were treated to this stunning video masterpiece. My Spanish is a little rusty, but from what I can infer it tells us the Juke is a motorcycle, a rally car, a cross between a cheetah and a supersonic jet, a police car in a 1970s movie, star of a deleted scene from Akira, a machine that can travel through time and space, and a car bad enough to crash through a big window pane that says "TAL VEZ."
I am now tempted to buy a Juke. In Mexico.