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Rihanna is known for posting plenty of sexy photos on her Instagram page, but one pic led the rest of two people who were allegedly trafficking protected animals.
While taking a mini-vacation from her Diamonds World Tour, RiRi visited the island of Phuket in Thailand. During her travels she posted a photograph of herself snuggling up to a wide-eyed furry primate called the slow loris. "Look who was talkin dirty to me!" she wrote.
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"Phuket authorities were alerted to the picture (of Rihanna), and last night police arrested the two individuals who brought out the loris as a photo opportunity for tourists," a Phuket district chief, Weera Kerdsirimongkon, told U.K.'s the Telegraph via telephone Sunday (Sept. 22).
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Enrollment above 3,200 for the fourth consecutive year is helping to keep the Hope College campus a busy place.
Hope has enrolled 3,230 students this fall, the second-highest total in the college's history.
The enrollment follows a successful admissions year that saw the college pass its goal of 800 new students. The total has campus housing at capacity and sees the academic program its busiest ever with the college's full-time-equivalent enrollment at a record high.
The high enrollment headcount follows a record enrollment last year of 3,238 students, a total that included the largest graduating class in the college's history.
The total includes 803 first-time students, the fourth-highest ever and the third year in a row that first-time student enrollment has topped 800.
With the enrollment headcount remaining high, the college's full-time-equivalent enrollment has climbed to a record level for the 13th consecutive year. The "full-time-equivalent" figures are a synthesis of full-time and part-time enrollment, and help the college measure the demand on its resources. Hope's total this year is 3,201.8, up from last year's record of 3,177.1.
The numbers make historic Graves Hall and its five classrooms a much-welcomed return to the roster of classroom buildings this fall after a year-long renovation. The college has also added student housing - as it did last year - in response to both its high enrollment and strong student interest in living on campus, including leasing rental space nearby and adding two more homes to the variety of "cottages" that Hope owns in the neighborhood.
The student body consists of 1,286 men and 1,944 women from 42 states and 28 foreign countries.
The enrollment by class, with last year's class in parentheses, is: freshmen, 812 (830); sophomores, 820 (836); juniors, 753 (665); seniors, 768 (822); and special students, 77 (85).
Students transferring to Hope from other colleges and universities total 74, compared with 71 in 2008. There are 111 students in off-campus programs, compared to 95 last year.
The largest representation is from Michigan with 2,240 students. States represented with 10 or more students include: Illinois, 394; Indiana, 112; Ohio, 78; Minnesota, 51; California, 35; Wisconsin, 34; New York, 30; Colorado and Iowa, 21 each; New Jersey, 20; Florida, 17; Texas, 15; Pennsylvania, 13; and Maryland, 11.
Foreign countries represented in the student body include: Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands, Nigeria, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Uganda, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Vietnam and the West Bank.
Hope College was chartered in 1866 and is affiliated with the Reformed Church in America (RCA). The college offers courses in 87 majors leading to a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree.

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The speed dial that greets Opera and Google Chrome users is undoubtedly a timesaver for those who tend to frequent the same websites. Its continuing omission from Firefox may be a deal breaker for some thinking about migrating back now version 4 has been released, but the good news is that there are third-party Add-ons that provide this missing functionality.
One of the best is Fast Dial, recently updated to support Firefox 4 (albeit with a slight visual glitch that turns a cell opaque from transparent when refreshed). Once installed, you're given nine spaces to fill – this number can be customised from the Add-on's options dialogue. To add a website to the speed dial page, just right-click it and choose Add to Fast Dial. Fast Dial will appear by default whenever you open a blank page (again, this behaviour can be customised) or by clicking the new Fast Dial button that appears next to the navigation buttons in the main toolbar.
Once in place, sites can be dragged and dropped between different spaces on the Fast Dial page to reorder them. Right-click a site to access more options, such as removing it from the list or customising it further (you can, for example, replace the site thumbnail with an icon, dozens of which are available from Add-in's home page).
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The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed James Comey on Monday to become FBI director, elevating the one-time Justice Department official who defied efforts by President George W. Bush's White House to renew a program that allowed warrantless eavesdropping.
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed James Comey on Monday to become FBI director, elevating the one-time Justice Department official who defied efforts by President George W. Bush's White House to renew a program that allowed warrantless eavesdropping.
Comey was approved 93-1 after one of the Senate's leading conservatives abruptly ended delaying tactics that had blocked a vote on the nomination.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., mentioned as a possible 2016 GOP presidential candidate, had been thwarting the vote over his concerns about the FBI's domestic use of drones. Minutes before a showdown vote that seemed likely to force an end to his delays, Paul announced he would allow a vote on Comey, saying he'd received a letter from the FBI that answered his questions about drones.
Paul was the only "no" vote.
President Barack Obama nominated Comey, 52, in June. He will succeed Robert Mueller, who is stepping down in September after 12 years heading the agency.
Comey was the Justice Department's No. 2 official from 2003 to 2005 under Bush. He gained attention during a brief stint as acting attorney general in 2004, when he and Attorney General John Ashcroft, who was ill, rejected an effort by White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and White House counsel Alberto Gonzales to have Justice renew a program that allowed eavesdropping without court warrants of domestic phone calls and emails.
"James Comey proved that his reputation for unwavering integrity and professionalism is well-deserved," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said during Monday's brief debate.
Leahy expressed concerns about Comey's approval in 2005 of a legal memo that he said authorized the use of torture, including waterboarding, in which water is poured onto a suspect's face to make them feel like they're drowning. But Leahy cited Comey's answers at a committee hearing this month, when Comey said the FBI would not allow abusive treatment of prisoners.
Monday's vote led off a week in which majority Democrats were hoping to push a parade of nominations through the chamber. Among them were President Barack Obama's picks of Samantha Power as U.N. ambassador and B. Todd Jones to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, for which votes on ending delaying tactics were expected Wednesday.
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More airlines are preparing to fly to Cuba, according to the Wall Street Journal.
With restrictions on travel to the Communist-ruled island loosened earlier this year, four large U.S. airlines - American Airlines, JetBlue, United Continental and Delta Air Lines - will operate about 25 weekly flights to Cuba for charter companies by the end of the year, the report says.
Charter companies estimate about 400,000 Americans will fly to Cuba this year vs. 250,000 last year, the report says. In January, President Obama liberalized travel rules to Cuba for students and religious and cultural groups.
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- Andy Roddick loses in first round of the French Open to Nicolas Mahut
- Roddick has been plagued by injuries and has slipped to 29th in the world
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- Venus Williams survives scare to progress at Roland Garros
Andy Roddick made a sorry first round exit at the French Open Sunday with a four sets defeat to Frenchman Nicolas Mahut.
The 29-year-old American has been plagued by injury this season and proved no match for Mahut as he lost 6-3 6-3 4-6 6-2.
Mahut, best known for his world record marathon match against John Isner at Wimbledon, is not noted for his own ability on clay and it is only the second time he has made the second round.
Former U.S. Open champion Roddick has never gone further than the third round either in 10 visits to Roland Garros and lost all three of his warm-up matches in Dusseldorf last week in the World Team Cup.
Roddick has slipped to No.29 in the world after hamstring and hip problems and admitted that he was never likely to make an impression on clay, preferring the faster grass of Wimbledon.
"You know, there are a lot of guys who know how to play on clay, and it's just second nature to them. I feel that way on grass, so, you know, hopefully I can turn it around there," he told gathered reporters.
He confirmed he will next play at Queen's Club before going to Wimbledon where he has been runner-up three times to Roger Federer.
Roddick also said that he wanted to represent the United States in the London Olympics on the same courts.
Roddick's fellow American veteran Venus Williams also looked in trouble when she trailed Argentine teenager Paula Ormaechea by a set but recovered to win 4-6 6-1 6-3 on a sparsely populated Court Phillip Chatrier.
But Williams, a seven-time grand slam title winner, faces a tough second round match against fancied third seed Agnieszka Radwanska, if the Pole can get past Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia in her opener.
Earlier, 2010 runner-up Samantha Stosur of Australia became the first player into the last 64 as the reigning U.S Open chamption beat Elena Baltacha of Britain 6-4 6-0.
The opening day of the second grand slam of the season did not feature the leading attractions, but French hope and fifth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga gave the home crowd some cheer with a four sets win over Russian qualifier Andrey Kuznetsov.
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He will face Germany's Cedrik-Marcel Stebbe for a place in the last 32.
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Why do dads lie on surveys about fatherhood? And why their lying is socially significant.
By Katherine Reynolds Lewis
A new Boston College study makes the modern American dad look positively Swedish in his dedication to his children and his zeal to participate equally in raising them. The yearlong qualitative study of 33 first-time fathers, released yesterday, found that they viewed themselves as sharing family responsibilities 50-50 with their wives and claimed to devote an average of 3.3 hours each workday to child care. The new dads openly gushed about the way parenthood had changed their priorities and career aspirations. "I love being a father so much more than I thought I would," said one study participant about his new baby girl. "The highlight of my day is in the morning when I hear her start to wake up and I can just go in there and pick her up."
Could that be true? Has the American father adapted so quickly to modern feminist demands? The researchers themselves were somewhat suspicious. After all, the most recent large-scale, benchmark studies on time use found that fathers spend significantly less time on child care than mothers. The Families and Work Institute, for instance, puts fathers at three hours and mothers at 3.8 hours with kids under 13, while Census Bureau time-use surveys found that married men spend about 1.2 hours per weekday caring for children under age 6, while married women spend 2.6 hours on the same activity. (For both benchmark surveys, the most recent year available is 2008.)
The answer, it turns out, is that the men in the Boston College study were probably lying about how they spend their time. But that's no reason to be disappointed. The Boston study relied upon in-depth interviews with men after the fact. Time-use studies involve questions about the previous day's behavior. With in-depth interviews, researchers expect subjects to have imperfect recall or exaggerate behaviors they perceive as being socially desirable—weight loss and breastfeeding are classic examples. But the direction in which they lie is socially significant. Thirty years ago, dads claimed to spend less time with their children than they actually did, since child-rearing was considered women's work. Now they are lying in the opposite direction, which suggests that they perceive doing half of the parenting to be a manly affair.
Social psychologists call this aspirational lying—the unconscious shading of the truth to make us appear smarter, more generous, and closer to the person we want to be. "What you want leads to what you do. If you say you're doing more, it really is a measure of the societal change," said Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute. "If it were not OK to be doing things with your kids and to be nurturing them— not just bringing in the money—you might lie in the other direction." When Galinsky was studying New Jersey factory workers in the 1980s, she knew from her research that they were heading home so their wives could make the night shift at the hospital, for instance, but they would lie to their co-workers and say they were going out drinking. "It wasn't OK in their macho world to say, 'I'm going to tuck in my children,' " she recalled.
What is the current reality? To begin with, the stay-at-home dad is such a rare species that the Census Bureau created a new annual table on stay-at-home parents to debunk 2003 media reports that there were more than 2 million at-home dads in the United States. In actuality, there were 158,000 SAHDs, compared with 5.1 million stay-at-home moms in 2009, according to Census. Typically, when men become parents they don't seek part-time schedules or formal flexible work arrangements, as women do. Instead, fathers get sneaky. (In keeping with their mendacious nature.) "We call it a stealth approach," said Brad Harrington, a professor and executive director of Boston College's Center for Work & Family, who headed the new research. "These guys say, 'I just slip out; my boss gives me a wink and a nod.' "
But this puts men at about where women were 30 years ago—new to the work-life-balance issue and unsure how to square all their identities. The Families and Work Institute saw fathers' levels of work-life conflict skyrocket to 59 percent in 2008, from 35 percent in 1977, while mothers experienced a modest rise to 45 percent from 41 percent over the three decades. "The good news is that we have a whole new generation of men who can't even remember what the world was like before the gender revolution. They take it for granted that their partners will work," said Kathleen Gerson, a New York University sociology professor and author of The Unfinished Revolution. "On the other hand, they're facing very uncertain times without any clear paths to follow."
Take Jorge Torrico, 29, a bank manager who lives in Burke, Va., with his wife, Yoonji Kim, and their two toddler sons. Coming into marriage, his idealistic goal was to be an affectionate father and equal partner with his wife. They both work, and he figured that whenever the inevitable child-care emergency arose, they would decide who could handle it on the spot. But when it's Torrico's turn, he encounters astonishment from some colleagues who "can't conceptualize that the father is the one taking responsibility for some of these things: the doctor's appointment, taking care of the sick child." Once, he was without child care and had to take his son to a monthly team meeting at work, held in the early evening. One peep from the preschooler, and Torrico was admonished not to bring him again. "The workplace doesn't really accept the modern-day father," he concluded.
Then there's the bling. As much as his wife appreciates his help, once in a while she seems to be longing for the old-fashioned provider type. "The biggest pressure I feel would be from my spouse," Torrico said. "She wants me to be the breadwinner and the dad-plus," Torrico said. "There's a mild competition among female friends. You hear from your wife about how her friend has this husband who makes tremendously more money." Also, women are sometimes reluctant to relinquish control, so they may encourage men to take on a task—dressing the kids, for example—but then criticize the way he does it. And when both partners are responsible for children and the household, they both want a say in every family decision—providing many more opportunities for conflict.
Where do we go from here? It's hard to imagine men becoming truly like working moms. They don't typically take paternity leaves, which might help them adjust to their new identities. And given the paltry maternity leaves offered to women, it's unlikely men will soon. So for the moment, they will have to muddle through, fudging the truth for researchers and employers both.
Why Do Dads Lie?
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The 10 Most Cringeworthy Team Songs in Sports History [VIDEOS]
Athletes carry an aura of invincibility that seems to make their fans think that just because they can jump high, run like lightning or throw a ball the length of a small subdivision, that means they can do just about anything. This leads to the music industry automatically assuming that they can also sing.
If a linebacker or power forward's ego grows too big for their overpriced britches, all an agent has to do is stick them in front of a microphone, give them a few back-up singers and let them "express themselves" with their very own single or even a full album. The public backlash alone could drive the likes of Terrell Owens to a life coach. These songs from sporting's past were so bad that they almost drove whole teams into group therapy. Check out the worst songs performed by sports teams below.
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Def Jef and DJ Eric Vaughn with the 1990 U.S. World Cup Soccer Team, 'Victory'
The fact that this historic soccer powerhouse had more than a slight chance at making an appearance in the World Cup actually made the sport slightly interesting to us Yanks. This video celebrating their drive to the coveted Cup isn't worth remembering, however. The team sang the chorus on this forgettable 'Color Me Badd'-style lite hip hop track, which was written and produced by West Coast Rap All-Stars member Def Jef and DJ Eric Vaughn. (Fun fact: Def Jef went on to write the 'That's So Raven' theme.) As if the painfully syrupy lyrics about winning and triumph weren't bad enough, there's also the music video which featured shirtless members of the team playfully kicking a ball on a private beach with no women in sight. It was basically the 'Top Gun' volleyball scene of sports-specific hip hop songs.
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The 1993-94 New York Knicks, 'Go New York Go'
Knicks fans will always love the 1993 Knickerbockers line-up, which included Patrick Ewing, Charles Oakley and Doc Rivers, among others. Unfortunately, this monotonous rap ballad that tried to convey the team's greatness that brought them all the way to the Finals makes most fans wish they'd never heard those names in the first place–or their painful attempts to be musical frontmen.
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The 1987 Calgary Flames, 'Red Hot'
Not even the cutthroat world of bare knuckle hockey could resist the call of the music industry with this ultra-'80s rock ballad. The timing would've been sound if the song was good since Calgary was hosting the Olympic Winter Games that year and they had managed to snag a spot in the Smythe Finals. Their marketing team, however, decided to celebrate the team's success by commissioning a music video which clearly utilized Journey's costume and hair styling crew. All of the proceeds from the song went to charity, hopefully for the Society to Prevent the Growing of Mullets.
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The 1988 Philadelphia Eagles, 'Buddy's Watchin' You'
The saddest part of this rap music video featuring the Eagles' biggest stars isn't just the music. It's the fact that they had more than three years to learn from the mistakes that the Bears, the 49ers and every other major league sports team that released a record in that time made and still managed to muck it up.
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The 1986 Los Angeles Rams, 'Let's Ram It'
The LA Rams' contribution to sports music history is a double-edged sword. It's just hard to decide what is more tragically hilarious– the song's awful musical quality or the team members' inability to realize that phrases like "ramming all day and ramming all night" have more than one meaning.
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The 1986 Los Angeles Dodgers, 'Baseball Boogie'
The Dodgers have become one long sad story since the 1990s from their failure to live up to their long and storied tradition of winning dating back to their early days in Brooklyn to their recent battles in bankruptcy court. Even their glory days get sadder after you've listened to their attempt at "music" with this very '80s style ode to baseball that has less to do with the sport and more to do with the team members wearing hot pink jackets and doing awkward white guy dance moves. It's also notable for featuring easily the least convincing Michael Jackson impersonator of all time.
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The 1986 Los Angeles Raiders, 'Silver and Black Attack'
The only thing more embarrassing than a pro-sports team's attempt at praising their athletic prowess through song is failing to back it up with an actual winning record. These black and silver soldiers tried to silence their critics with their rap anthem 'Silver and Black Attack,' only to finish the season with a dismal 8-8 record. The worst part is we will no longer be able to watch football games on Fox without laughing beer and nacho cheese through our nose since we've seen former-Raider-turned-color-commentator Howie Long try to be an extremely poor man's Vanilla Ice.
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The 1984 San Francisco 49ers, 'We're the 49ers'
'The Super Bowl Shuffle' may have become the perennial sports novelty classic for its awesome badness, but The Bears weren't the first team to punish their enemies with ear-bleeding, tone-deaf tunes. The year before the Bears big Super Bowl win, the famous 49ers, led by legendary quarterback Joe Montana, wrote their own little ditty and sang lead and background vocals after taking Super Bowl XIX away from the Miami Dolphins. The dated Casio synthesizer-infused pop song was so bad that it should have retroactively cost them points in the spread for the following season.
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The 1986 New York Mets, 'Get Metsmerized'
The unexplainable success of 'The Super Bowl Shuffle' started a trend where sports teams utilized what little talent they possessed to write, produce and perform their own pop songs. The '86 New York Mets jumped on to the charts with this very awkward rap ditty featuring their starting lineup behind the mic. This not-so-motley posse featured an extremely tone deaf Dwight Gooden who raps way too fast for the song's tempo (probably because his nose was chocked full of cocaine during the recording session) and a hilarious Rafael Santana who can barely speak English when he's not trying to keep a beat.
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The 1985 Chicago Bears, 'Super Bowl Shuffle'
No list of the worst sports songs in history would be complete without this granddaddy of novelty sports epics. The 17-1 football powerhouse not only took home the Lombardi trophy in Super Bowl XX, but they also gave the world the notorious 'Super Bowl Shuffle' as well as a reason to make them give the trophy back to the league. This hit record from the "so bad it's bad" column of your local music shop was sold to raise money for Chicago's underprivileged and actually ended up going double platinum. However, history hasn't been as kind to the rapping all-stars' one and only hit record. We can thank it for the legions of other sports teams who took a stab at one-hit wonderdom.


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CENTENNIAL, Colo. – For the first time with hair that's brown instead of a wild shade of orangish-red, the suspect in Colorado's movie theater shooting appeared in court Thursday as prosecutors gave up their fight to see a notebook he sent to a university psychiatrist, saying they didn't want to delay proceedings.
James Holmes appeared more animated during the hearing than he has in the past. He smiled and glanced around the courtroom, looking at his lawyers and reporters covering the hearing. He appeared to be moving his mouth but not actually talking.
Defense attorneys say Holmes is mentally ill and that the notebook, sent to Dr. Lynne Fenton, shouldn't be released because of doctor-patient privilege. Fenton last saw Holmes professionally on June 11 before seeing him again in court on Aug. 30.
Prosecutors argued that the notebook and its contents are fair game. He planned to be dead or in prison after the shooting rampage at an opening night showing of "The Dark Night Rises," they said, and had no plans to undergo therapy.
But Deputy District Attorney Rich Orman said even if prosecutors convinced the judge the notebook isn't protected, defense attorneys would likely appeal the decision.
"We still think we have good and compelling evidence that the notebook should not be privileged," Orman said, adding that because of possible delays, "we're not asking to look at it."
If Holmes' mental health becomes an issue in the case, Orman said Holmes would have to waive privilege and prosecutors likely would gain access to the notebook, which remains in the custody of the court.
Arapahoe County District Judge William B. Sylvester approved a procedure for Holmes' defense team to examine the notebook, which includes having a police officer present in the room.
"His notebook, his sketches, his drawings, everything should be made public so we can learn from it and prevent this from happening again," said Greg Medek, of Aurora, whose daughter Micayla, 23, died in the shooting. "He's just putting on a show. I don't think he's crazy. He's just evil."
Holmes has been charged with 142 counts, including murder and attempted murder, stemming from the July 20 attack at an Aurora theater that killed 12 and wounded 58 others. Judge Sylvester on Thursday approved prosecutors' request to add 10 additional attempted murder charges and amend 17 others. Documents released Thursday show names were changed or corrected on some charges.
The hearing was cut short by the prosecution's decision not to seek the notebook, which purportedly contains descriptions of a violent attack.
Former Denver prosecutor Karen Steinhauser said prosecutors want the notebook to bolster their case that the shooting was deliberately planned and carried out by a sane person.
But should Holmes plead insanity, prosecutors would have the right to materials, including the notebook, which the examining psychiatrist would have used to form a professional opinion about Holmes' sanity.
If Holmes is considered mentally ill, but competent to stand trial, the notebook could remain off limits to the prosecution.
Steinhauser also said prosecutors might be able to gain access to the notebook through an "implied waiver" of privilege should Holmes talk about its contents to inmates or jail guards.
"They (prosecutors) believe they will ultimately have access to that notebook," said Steinhauser, who is also a law professor at the University of Denver. "They want to keep this case moving."
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There's even more fallout over Justin Bieber's wild weekend in Houston.
A day after a stripper got hounded by the Bieber faithful when she tweeted about the singer's stop at the V Live club, there's news that another club visited by the teenage heartthrob could get into a lot of trouble with the state of Texas.
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is looking into a complaint of possible underage drinking by Bieber. TMZ posted a photo showing what appears to be the 19-year-old holding a bottle of Dos Equis beer at the Nox Houston, KTRK-Channel 13 and the celeb gossip website report.
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In the meantime, and somewhat serendipitously, a dear friend asked if I would plug her new venture:
"I am drawn to tweet the Shobogenzo. My hope is to post the entirety of Kaz's translation, in increments of 140 characters or less. The project's Twitter handle is @dogenzenji108Only too happy to oblige. I think you can land on this planet here - I am no more on Twitter than I am on Facebook. So if the passages I have posted have been too dense for you, perhaps the condensed versions might trigger something more easily. May we never be without Dogen in our lives.
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Lindsey Blair and Doug DeVore of Terril would like to announce their engagement. Lindsey is the daughter of Jean and Tom Blair of Estherville. Doug is the son of Judy and Ken DeVore of Estherville.
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Dolores and I absolutely had to go to the Getty Center.
We knew it was a museum well worth a trip and besides, we had a rental Caddy that rode smooth as butter. A car in California is as much a necessity as it is in Bluffton for getting from Point A to Point B.
So, without a GPS, without a map, without even a compass and you might say without good sense, we headed West on the 405 from where we were staying in Pasedena.
Survival training at home on U.S. 278 paid off and we made it down the freeway to the Getty with no problem except for one necessary U Turn when we inadvertently drove past the entrance.
I drove, tis true, but it is Dolores who has nerves of steel.
The only charge at the Getty is a $15 per car parking fee in their huge underground garage that even has a special section for motorcycles.
We followed signs to an elevator that took us in a tram, that surely Disney would approve, up the side of a mountain. A uniformed attendant greeted us as we emerged into a world of blinding white marble and manicured shrubs and steered us toward a building that housed a gift shop, offices and thankfully, a well-staffed information center.
An architectural tour had just begun and if we hurried, we could join in.
The Getty Trust which is responsible for this venue and another on the coast at Malibu is the wealthiest art institution in the world with an initial endowment of more than $4 billion.
Is that 9 zeroes, not counting the cents?
Boggles the mind.
J. Paul Getty, of oil development fame, was the force behind this explosion of art
Richard Meier was his chosen architect.
"I don't want anyone complaining about what I'm going to build here," said Getty.
To give himself plenty of room, he bought a mountain, all 700 acres of it and so far, the structures on this site cover 25 acres.
No one discusses how many square feet that might be.
Besides the buildings that are designated for the art collections, paintings using natural light on the top floors, weightier objects below, there is a library and research facilities envied by curators everywhere.
Meier did love the non color white. As an admirer of Corbusier and Mies van de Rohe, his designs reflect Meier's affinity for angles and shadows, the blending and contrast of nature with man made structures.
Even if we never ventured inside to see the massive collection of art, the exterior of these buildings is fascinating.
Meier had personally gone to Europe to choose the most perfect marble available both for the walls and for the pavement.
Any marble containing fossils was marked so it could be placed at eye level for visitors to find and enjoy.
The marble is the whitest of white. Cut into 30 square inch blocks, it was put into place with no mortar, the theory being if an earthquake occurred, the walls would gently move, not tumble and break. Windows by these blocks are the same 30 x 30 inches square for continuity.
Meier studied the sun's relationship to the earth's surface as carefully as any apostle at Stonehenge and used that knowledge to advantage in placing trellis work, corners and cut outs to cast shadows exactly when and where he wanted shadows.
He had trees planted in such a way that if you stand here, you see one tree, and yet, if you move a hair to one side or the other, there is an entirely different view of multiple trees.
Visitors became so entranced with the architecture of the buildings, they would walk right into the pool surrounding the courtyard fountain, so a marble bench was added as a subtle, but effective barrier.
There were students of all ages everywhere. There were attendants galore. The cafeteria food was ethnically varied and well presented.
Sitting in an arbor having lunch on the top of a mountain with views that seem to stretch forever and to be surrounded by literally acres of white marble made for an unforgettable afternoon. Seeing Van Gogh's "Irises" was a bonus.
We were most reluctant to leave. However, rush hour on the California freeway awaited for a higher adventure.
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I work as a writer and editor at a large university. My office is on the top floor of a six-story building, which sports a generous, sun-drenched rooftop patio overlooking our forested back campus and the city skyline in the distance. Recently some of my colleagues and I began to notice a lot of scurrying in and out of a vacant room near the patio. It was actually two members of the building's maintenance crew. Curiosity finally got the better of us, so we inquired. It turned out that they had an arboretum going in the room's large, light-filled windows — orchids and houseplants of all sorts being rooted and nurtured.
My colleague and I got to thinking. Surely these two green-thumb types wouldn't mind if we added a few growing things to the rooftop patio, would they? So she casually asked them one day — would we get in trouble if we just put a few pots out there? One look gave us our answer: in fact, she would be the person we would get in trouble with.
Then she promised to water things while we were away. That was all we needed to hear.
First, we brought in a bush tomato plant. Then we scrounged a few more big pots and added a pepper plant and a Thai basil. The basil was a little tender for that windy rooftop, so I let it hang out in my office for a couple of weeks before moving it to the patio.
Not a week after we had put the first two pots out, a heavy nighttime hailstorm broke the main stem of the tomato in two, and the largest leaves on the pepper were severely damaged. I took the top half of the broken tomato plant home and rooted it, and it's now growing at home in a container. But in the full sun of the patio, both plants recovered, in spite of a little July heat scorching. The basil did well, too.
So what the heck. we added an eggplant and a summer squash vine. Then one day, a cabbage plant mysteriously appeared in a pot next to the pepper. I suspect the building maintenance crew.
It's not easy to casually drag giant pots full of soil and plants through the lobby of a tall building, onto an elevator, and across a common area to a patio. So my colleague and I have an arrangement. I call her from my car as I am approaching the building with the plants. She meets me out front with the office hand truck. We unload the goods, and she takes them up on the lift while I park. In spite of our best efforts, we always seem to attract attention and a few laughs.
Other people on our floor have watched our little guerrilla garden with curiosity, then later with delight as some tomatoes popped out, followed by peppers and eggplant. Everyone wants to try the basil. The squash isn't thriving, but to my surprise, the cabbage is looking quite happy.
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Obsoletes Information Memorandum, Increased Copays for Medical Services, dated 3/29/13.
This release places in the manual the updated income standards for the programs listed below based on the 2014 Federal Poverty Level (FPL). The new standards are effective 01/01/14 for all programs except MPE. The new standards are effective for MPE on 02/19/14.
Use new MAGI income standards for FHP REDEs effective for the month of April 2014 and later, and when processing a change in income or family size on a FHP or ACA Adult case.
However, a second eligibility determination using the pre-MAGI (legacy) income standards and methodology is required in the following situation:
Example: Ms. Jones receives FamilyCare and All Kids Assist for her two children, 6 year old Bobby and 3 year old Susie. Initial approval was in 2012 and her next regularly scheduled REDE is due in September 2014. On April 1st she reports that she has a new job and will earn $2,300 per month. She reports that she pays $200 per month for child care and reports no other expenses. Eligibility is calculated for Ms. Jones only (the children retain continuous eligibility per PM 18-05-01).
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To comply with federal guidelines under the Affordable Care Act, the MAGI income standard for pregnant women is updated to 213% of FPL (that is, 208% plus 5% standard disregard) for new applications. Active Moms & Babies cases maintain continuous eligibility through the 60-day postpartum period.
There is no change in the Family Assist and Family Health Spenddown standards. Children and pregnant women who qualify for spenddown must spend down to the Family Health Spenddown standard. The Family Health Spenddown program ended for non-pregnant adults effective January 1, 2014 (see policy memo dated 12/11/13, Family Health Spenddown Ending for Non-Pregnant Adults).
This release places information about medical service copays into the manual. Updated copay amounts and information about groups that are exempt from copays was previously described in an Informational Memo dated 03/29/13.
The Program Standards Desk Aid in WAG 25-03-02 has been updated with the new income standards.
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I watched a great documentary about Motown the other night, so please excuse the Marvin Gay reference. There is a lot going on at the moment. Let's go through some things. Bear with me.
I recently read James Kunstler's "The Long Emergency", and I'd thoroughly recommend you do too. It's affecting my long-term goals and aspirations in a big way. To summarize, it's about the passing of Peak Oil and what is likely to unfold. It makes for some scary reading, but it's also serving to be inspirational. I might have to expand on this at some point… but not at the moment. More thinking and reading to do.
The USA's Special Forces killed Osama Bin Laden – in Pakistan. That's a sovereign nation where the US military is not supposed to be operating. According to a spokesman, the US Special Forces currently operate in 75 countries, and that number is set to increase over the next year – to 120. It's one thing to have a diplomatic presence in a country, but it's something else to have an active military one – especially when you don't notify the host government about what you're up to. Will there be more operations? You betcha. Will that only serve to increase anti-American sentiment, when they should be considering pulling out of these sorts of situations? You can definitely count on that. For example, the USA recently signed a secret pact to stay in Afghanistan until 2024.
The US really should do something about its own record on human rights before tramping around the world telling everyone else they should enact their own human rights laws. But hey, when in the past 60 years hasn't the US been tramping the world, telling people how they should live?
The unnofficial case against the Western protagonists of the Iraq War continues to build, with MI5 coming out saying they told Tony Blair Iraq was no threat to the West. Also Dick Cheney's memoirs are out in which he continues to unapologetically defend his actions and policies. Can someone arrest these scumbags ASAP, please? There are more and more officials who would be willing to testify against them. Let's do it! Oh, wait. Americans are now too distracted, too conditioned and too afraid to do anything. Also, the conservatives are busy setting up a gerrymander to keep as many potential Democrat voters out of the voting booth as they can. Looks like the real terrorists have won…
Alternet is becoming a go-to place for effective analysis of the American Republican Party's policies and personalities as the 2012 election starts to gear up. Essentially, they're all lying scumbags, but at least one can have a solid intellectual foundation for explaining why. Obama isn't any better by the way. Ron Paul isn't a viable option out of the crazies. If ever there was a time for a solid 'third-way' candidate to make a difference, this would be the time. I don't expect it to happen though.
The new economic reality of America is changing the way people live and work. For example, here is a piece about Workampers. Nothing new, you might say, but it's happening more and more as the US economy stalls big time. Here's something else about how car washes are turning into sweatshops, along with chocolate factories, or how students in trouble are turning to that old standby, sex work.
The Eurozone is slowly moving towards a major existential crisis…
The Australian government tried to pass a law enabling them to send refugees arriving by boat to Malaysia for processing. That was shot down by the High Court. This article goes through the situation and some of the implications very nicely. Personally I'm very disappointed that the supposed left-wing Labour Party have ended up following the policies of the deposed conservative Liberal Party, in particular its 90s poster-boy, John Howard. Very disappointed indeed. Looks like the current PM could be headed to the chopping block since her criticisms of the decision have made her looking bitter, or in the words of the High Court, "'irresponsible … extraordinary, unfair and curious".
Woolworths and Coles are essentially the Walmart of Australia, with the recent price wars highlighting their dirty campaign to remove other brands from their shelves and replace them with their own 'home brands'.
They're talking the high-speed rail link between Sydney and Melbourne again, again.
Oh, and quietly, Australia's internet is now censored.
Moving back home is going to be quite interesting. It's been ten yen years since I lived in Australia. Australia has always been a culture of haves and have nots – and the haves seem to become a bunch of over-indulged, whiny douchebags. It'll be entertaining, at least…
But they are doing one thing right though. The Australian Government may soon pass laws that will, in effect, bankrupt the Scientologists. By legally defining the meaning of 'charity', they may be able to force the 'church' to back pay its workers millions of dollars, as well as the taxes owed on those wages.
An interesting look at the benefits of 'lazy parenting'. I know it's ironic that I'm a part of the industry responsible for the over-scheduling of children, depriving them of creative free time and the chance to enjoy their childhoods. However, I do believe that learning English is going to be become indispensable as global communication becomes a key for survival and prosperity in this current world. You can take your abacus-learning, flower-arranging and calligraphy clubs, along with your cram-schools and drown them in the sea for all I care about what good they'll bring. (They reinforce a lot of negative attitudes that the Japanese have; namely Japanese exceptionalism, the culture of overwork, as well as teaching useless skills.)
With all the media's attention focussed recently on the riots in London, someone or some group of people have been engaged in a campaign of torching luxury cars across Germany for some time now. Are there still areas of Paris that are set alight every summer, where the police fear to tread? The cities are becoming war zones…
Some more climate changey type things going on. The ice sheet on Greenland is starting to break up, with massive ice islands being calved and glaciers shrinking.
People in Japan always seem surprised when I tell them I hate Disney and everything about the Disney company. This article (and subsequent book) go a along way to explaining why. Essentially, Disney's business model is based on targetting children – as young as six months old – in order to condition them to a certain world view, based on conformity to stereotypical roles and bland consumerism. If I ever have children, I will actively ban them from exposure to the Disney company, and if any friends give me anything for them from the Disney company, it will be burnt. Joyfully. Sorry.
The James Randi Educational Foundation has had a $1 million challenge for a number of years now. It's getting pushed again since they've challenged some prominent media 'psychics' to prove their ' powers' are real. One has made overtures, but we'll see if any actually take on the skeptics. In her words, she's the 'real thing' so she doesn't have to worry about taking scientific tests to prove her abilities are real. Huh? I guess we just have to take her words for it. PLEASE don't give these sorts of scumbags any money!!
As the military are always looking to get their mitts on the latest technology, you can be sure that invisibility cloaks will soon be coming to an army near you.


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UT Austin
Through the retrofit of boilers and enhanced control systems at the Hal C. Weaver Power Plant achieved reduction in NOx emissions and energy savings. The University power plant is a combined heating and power facility, supplying the campus with electricity as well as useful heat salvaged from waste heat. Over a ten year period, 1996 though 2006, the use of natural gas as fuel was significantly reduced. The amount of NOx was reduced by 807.1 tons and CO2 by 2.4 million tons.
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Technologies used include the use of a real-time dispatch model of the entire cooling / heating / power (CHP) system to optimize the use of stand-by equipment, the use of a quench vessel to reduce the need for standby steam turbines and the reduction of in-plant parasitic loads. Boiler retrofits using flue gas recirculation and variable frequency drives on two back-up grandfathered boilers (150K and 500K lbs/hr) reduced emissions to meet a voluntary emissions reduction permit requirement and allow the boilers to be banked at 1 MMBTU/hr. These and other technologies are applicable in similar industries. In 1996, the power plants overall thermal efficiency was 60%, compared to a typical combined-cycle power facilitys thermal efficiency of only 40%. By 2006, the UT power plant efficiency had been increased to 76% due to plant modifications and process optimization. The total plant efficiency as of September 2009 was 83% and is projected to improve further. The university recently commissioned a new GE LM-2500+G$ combustion turbine and HRSG, a new 15,000 ton chiller plant, an inlet air cooling system for two combustion turbines and a 4 million gallon thermal energy storage system will come on line September 2010. The efficiency in 2009 allowed the University to return to 1977 fuel and CO2 emissions levels though the campus added 9 million new square feet.
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Despite Media Companies' Best Efforts, 'TV Everywhere' Is Nowhere
People are streaming online video more than ever before but only 17% of pay TV subscribers have watched cable programming online using so-called "TV Everywhere" services, according to a new study.
The study, from research firm GfK Media, is the latest bad news for big media companies' TV Everywhere initiative, which is aimed at reinforcing the value of traditional cable subscriptions. But since its launch four years ago, the effort has been plagued by delays in launch as a result of difficult rights negotiations between various entertainment companies and pay TV operators – cable, satellite and phone companies.
TV Everywhere requires pay TV subscribers to sign in with their pay TV providers' credentials to access TV programming online. The services let people watch on-demand programs, and in some cases live TV channels, on personal computers as well as mobile devices like iPads and smartphones inside the home. In a few cases the content is available outside the home.
One major obstacle, the 1000-person study showed, is the requirement for people to sign in with their cable account details to prove that they are paying video subscribers. Seventy percent of pay TV subscribers who have ever watched programming online said they would be deterred from watching Internet TV content if it required them to sign in with their cable account credentials.
TV Everywhere began as a joint push from Time Warner and Comcast as the industry's response to the threat of cord cutting posed by the rising tide of cheap online video alternatives. The availability of content varies with channel and pay TV provider. As a result of a deal struck between Comcast Corp. and Walt Disney last year, for instance, Comcast customers can watch ESPN live outside the home on tablets or mobile phones over the Internet. But other deals have been far more limited in scope.
One of the main issues that has been separating entertainment companies and pay TV providers is the question of which will deal directly with consumers, traditionally the province of providers. While providers like Comcast have made a big push to make content available online through their own website or apps – in Comcast's case, Xfinity -- channels like ESPN, Time Warner's HBO and CNN have their own individual apps and websites with TV programming content. Those give consumers a direct relationship with channels they haven't traditionally had.
So far, in the battle for online eyeballs, the programmers appear to have the edge. The GfK study shows that 37% of folks who have ever viewed TV online watched the content through a TV network's app or website, while only 30% of those surveyed reported watching through a cable operator or other distributor's online portals. That could partly be because TV watchers associate what they're watching more with a TV channel than with their cable provider. But cable executives believe eventually customers will choose their portals so they can find everything in one place—without sifting through a number of apps.
One bright spot for distributors is that about a quarter of respondents said that they are more likely to keep their existing providers' services as a result of their TV everywhere products. For the vast majority of those surveyed, however, it still hasn't made a difference in how they view their cable, satellite or phone company.


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I'm submitting right now. Or rather, my agent is submitting my new novel to a dozen publishers.
Submitting manuscripts to publishers is one of the main reasons writers have agents. Agents know publishers, and the types of books they're looking for. They also know how to get the best deal.
These days, submissions are electronic. No more making copies and Fed-Exing or messengering them around NY. Agents send electronic files, and the editors print them up. This saves time and trees, and hopefully shortens the response time.
Responses do take time. Depending on the buzz around the book (your agent should have talked it up to editors before sending it to them) and the star-power of the author, it may take a few days to a few weeks (in some cases, even months) for the editor to read and respond.
Hopefully, a publisher will make an offer. This usually involves an editor bringing the manuscript to an acquisitions meeting, where her peers (fellow editors, bosses, marketing people, sales people, accounting people) decide whether or not to try to acquire a book.
These meetings (called "ax" meetings) rarely result in offers. Even if an editor adores a book, the house can still vote no. This depends on a variety of factors: author sales record, publisher sales record with similar books, new and passing trends, buying habits of chains, and many other things. I've heard that 4 out of 5 books brought to ax meetings die there. So even if the editor thinks your book is wonderful, there's still a 80% chance they won't offer a contract.
In the meantime, the author waits. Chewing fingernails. Jumping whenever the phone rings. Dreaming of huge deals and fearing no deals at all.
If you aren't normally neurotic, being on submission will make you so.
So what should this neurotic author do while waiting for the yes or no?
1. Write. You're a writer. That means you put words on paper. You shouldn't stop doing this just because you're anxious.
2. Talk. Bottling all of this anxiety up isn't healthy. Share it with family, friends, and peers.
3. Leave your agent alone. Bugging her constantly, asking for updates, is annoying. If she has good news, she'll call. Assume that no news means she hasn't heard anything yet.
4. Relax. This is easier said than done, but be Zen about it. You've done all you can. It's out of your hands. Worry, stress, prayer, hope, wishes, and dreams aren't going to do anything for you. Don't try to control the situation, because you have no control over it.
I won't sugarcoat it. Being on submission is awful, right up there with being between contracts. The unknown is scary, especially when this is how you make your living. That's why politicians spend so much money on election campaigns. Not having job security is terrifying. So is rejection.
Which is why you need to get back to work.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
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- Jamey Rodemeyer's suicide served as his "catalyst," Spock actor writes on blog
- Rodemeyer killed himself last month after apparent bullying
- Parents must teach respect and acceptance, Quinto writes
Actor Zachary Quinto, known for playing Spock in the 2009 "Star Trek" remake and his role as Sylar on the television show "Heroes," acknowledged his homosexuality in a post on his website Sunday, saying the action comes after the suicide of a 14-year-old who killed himself after apparently being harassed over his sexuality.
"When I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer killed himself -- I felt deeply troubled," Quinto posted. "But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an 'It Gets Better' video only months before taking his own life -- I felt indescribable despair.
"I also made an 'It Gets Better' video last year in the wake of the senseless and tragic gay teen suicides that were sweeping the nation at the time," Quinto wrote. "But in light of Jamey's death, it became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality."
Rodemeyer was found dead September 18 outside his parents' home in Buffalo, New York. His parents said he had experienced years of bullying over his sexual orientation. His suicide has attracted the attention of such stars as Lady Gaga, who dedicated a song to him at a recent concert.
The "It Gets Better" campaign is aimed at gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered youth who may experience bullying.
"Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country," Quinto said. "Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying. Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance. We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society -- and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action."
Rodemeyer's life has changed his, the 34-year-old Quinto wrote. "While his death only makes me wish that I had done this sooner, I am eternally grateful to him for being the catalyst for change within me. Now I