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Chocolate Raspberry Cookie Recipe (Heart-Shaped Cookies)
Yesterday, my husband's sister Lya (she's a high-schooler now) told me she was secretly in love with a boy when she was in fifth grade. For Valentine's Day, she was too shy to say anything so she gave him heart-shaped chocolate cookies and a sock monkey anonymously. The guy never knew it was from her. Now that she goes to an all-girl school, I told her we should find the boy and give him the same Valentine presents. She said: "No way!", plus she's totally moved on from her first school crush. Ahh kids!
Of course, we still baked the cookies. I made a few changes by flavoring the chocolate cookie dough with raspberry extract and covered the top with raspberry chocolate. I used Hershey's raspberry kisses, which are available in stores this Valentine season.
Yields: 44 cookies1 whole egg, at room temperature
1-½ cups light brown sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
16 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1-½ cups unsweetened cocoa powder
2-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1-½ teaspoons cream of tartar
½ teaspoon salt
8 ounces Hershey's raspberry Hugs
3 tablespoons chocolate luster sprinkles (see tips)
Preheat the oven to 400°F.
Making cookie dough:
In a bowl, combine flour, baking soda and cream of tartar. Set side.
In a mixing bowl, beat the egg with ½ cup sugar for about 5-6 minutes. The texture will become thicker. Add vanilla extract.
In another bowl, cream the butter with 1 cup sugar until it forms a uniform paste. Add cocoa powder and salt.
Alternately add the flour mixture and butter to the egg mixture and blend and knead the dough with your fingers until the cookie dough comes together.
Wrap and chill it in the freezer until firm; it will take at least 30 minutes to harden.
Baking cookies:
Roll the dough about 1 inch thick. Using a heart-shaped cookie cutter, form 44 heart cookies.
Place them on several (I used 4) non-stick baking sheets (or regular sheets lined with a silicone mat). Make sure they are spaced out so they won't touch each other when they expand while baking.
Bake for 10 minutes in the oven. Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool completely to room temperature. They will harden and get firm as they cool.
Assembly time:
Make a "double boiler" (a pot filled with hot water, covered with a piece of cloth) and place a stainless steel bowl filled with the raspberry Hugs on top. Make sure the bowl circumference is larger than the pot, so there isn't any splatter of water in the chocolate. Slowly melt, do not stir. Dip one side of the cookies ; you will see a swirl from the milk chocolate, raspberry and white chocolate. Decorate with the chocolate sprinkles.
Let the chocolate coating harden.
Bon appétit!
You could use more sugar but I think the additional coat of raspberry chocolate is enough.
I used Ticings artisan dark chocolate shimmer sprinkles. You can order them directly at ticings.com
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- Web experts, users say mobile payments will replace cards, cash
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- The survey by Pew Internet and Elon University sought out Internet experts
Most Internet users and tech experts think cash and credit cards will become things of the past in the next decade as people turn to their mobile phones to make payments, results from a newly released survey suggest.
Nearly two out of three respondents to the survey (65%) told the Pew Internet & American Life Project that they think most people will have fully adopted the "mobile wallet" as their day-to-day means of paying by 2020.
Whether it's paying for coffee with a mobile app, using more versatile apps such as Google Wallet or doing business using tools such as Square that turn phones into mobile cash registers, the adoption of mobile payments is clearly under way.
In a December report from comScore, 38% of smartphone owners had used their phones to make a purchase of some kind.
That finding jibes with an earlier Pew study in which one-third of smartphone owners had used their phone to do some sort of banking (such as checking their balances or paying bills) and that nearly half (46%) had paid for an app with their phone.
In the survey released Tuesday, 65% of respondents agreed with the following statement:
"By 2020, most people will have embraced and fully adopted the use of smart-device swiping for purchases they make, nearly eliminating the need for cash or credit cards. People will come to trust and rely on personal hardware and software for handling monetary transactions over the Internet and in stores. Cash and credit cards will have mostly disappeared from many of the transactions that occur in advanced countries."
Survey respondent and Harvard University professor Susan Crawford wrote, "There is nothing more imaginary than a monetary system. The idea that we solemnly hand around printed slips of paper in exchange for food and water shows just how trusting and fond of patterned behavior we human beings are."
Crawford, an ex-special assistant for technology policy for President Barack Obama, asked, "So why not take the next step? Of course, we'll move to even more abstract representations of value."
One-third agreed with an essentially opposite statement, saying there won't be a major conversion to "all-digital, all-the-time" payments.
Many cited security concerns as the reason.
"The use of a simple string of digits that must be shared with any vendor with whom you transact is really a ludicrously insecure system that can and must change," said Peter J. McCann, a FutureWei Technologies senior engineer.
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"It's basically the same technology as credit cards," Mung-Ki Woo, the head of mobile for MasterCard Worldwide, told CNN last year. "It's not better or worse."
Pew's report said those who think mobile payments will dominate in the coming years frequently said the boom in smartphone ownership, convenience and security are key factors that make "these systems an obvious choice to replace established modes of payment in day-to-day commerce."
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This year we partnered with the Unity House and the YWCA of the Greater Capital Region.
Our generous employees donated money, shopped, wrapped and delivered gifts to the families.
With the gracious matching of Morris Massry and Norman Massry, we were able to raise over $2,400 to adopt a family from Unity House as well as make 25 Holiday kits for the YWCA.
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Visit the Texas Shakespeare Festival Before it is Over
The annual Texas Shakespeare Festival has been filling the July weekends with a bit of comedy and tragedy. It brings the great plays of Shakespeare to the East Texas area, but it is almost gone again. Don't miss your chance to bring your friends and family to this great Kilgore event.
The Texas Shakespeare Festival has been in full swing, but it is fast coming to a close.
The most recognizable name in theater history, Shakespeare, has given the world a wealth of great stores to be played out by the world's acting professionals. This experience is happening right now, right here in East Texas. But, he isn't the only talented writer that will be showcased. Seriously, don't miss this chance to experience some great art.
The Texas Shakespeare Festival is going on right in Kilgore.
Pulling right off of Henderson Avenue will lead you to a great cultural experience that is fit for the family. Before it leaves, make the drive out and see it.
They have five plays in rotation, but all are down to their curtain calls.
The Comedy of Errors
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Chuck Ney
July 27
A jumble and chaotic mess of mistaken identities and other blunders makes this play a delight to see play out.
The Foreigner
By Larry Shue
Directed by Raymond Caldwell
July 27
An Englishman is mistaken by locals of a small town for having the inability to speak English. This confusion leads to a great showcase of hilarious and crazy situations.
The Winter's Tale
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Matthew Earnest
July 26, 28
This is a great fairy tale for adults, it tells the story of good and evil within a gorgeous scene of jealousy and forgiveness.
Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Fredrick Loewe
Based on "The Once & Future King" by T.H White
Directed and choreographed by Abe Reybold
Music Direction by Arnold Sherman
July 26, 28
This Tony Award winning play is one of the world's greatest love stories ever told. The love between Guinevere and Sir Lancelot is a story you will love to hear again.
The Enchanted Forest
By Jason Richards
Directed by Jason Richards
July 26, 27
The Enchanted Forest is another fairy tale, but this one is made specifically for the kids.
All of these great shows will be taking place at the Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Center.
For more information check out the Texas Shakespeare Festival website. You can read more about these performances, get to know the history of the festival, and buy your tickets. Or, you can find them on Facebook for even more information on this great event.


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Our twenty-sixth flight over the Bible from 30,000 Feet takes us over the entire book of Job, the first book in the section of poetical books. This is a powerful story of a man who has everything taken from him; his health, wealth, and even his beloved family. Yet as we see God allowing Satan to test Job, God's faithfulness to those he loves is clear and Job's steadfast faith prevails. Join us this week as we see Job's dilemma (ch.1-2), the debate with his four friends (ch. 3-37), and his final deliverance (ch. 38-42). The key chapters to review are Job1-4, 8,11-12, and 29.
DESTINATION: Job 1-42
Job is the first book in the section of Poetical Books. The opening chapter of the Book of Job begins in the throne room of Heaven, where we observe a conversation between God and Satan regarding the faithfulness of a man named Job. Satan is allowed to test Job's allegiance to God by causing him to suffer the loss of his health, wealth and even family – but is forbidden to take his life. Even with the lack of comfort and support of Job's four friends – and even his wife – Job is left pondering why, yet never loses his faith.
The book of Job is a powerful story, which in the end displays God's sovereignty. Even in the midst of Job's tragic circumstances we see that God was always in control of all that was happening. Job can be divided into three parts:
1. The Dilemma - Chapters 1-2
2. The Debate of Job and his four friends - Chapters 3-37
3. The Deliverance of Job - Chapters 38-42
Land of Uz - This is the central location in the Book of Job. The exact location of Uz is unknown, but many have speculated that it was probably near Edom. In the beginning of the book, Job 1:3 shows us that Job lived to the east of the Jordan, and some believe Uz might have been located in Syria or northwest Mesopotamia.
Heaven - As the book of Job opens, we are quickly taken into the Heavenly Throne Room of God. As the angels of God came and presented themselves, Satan also came with them and had to ask permission of God to attack Job.
Job - The main character of the book that shares his name. He is characterized as being upright and blameless, one who feared God and shunned evil. Job was wealthy and the greatest of all the people of the East. Hand-picked by God, Job was allowed to be tested and tried, losing family, prosperity and his own health.
Satan - In chapter one, Satan comes with the Heavenly angels to present himself before God. Ever seeking to devour the devout, God gives permission to Satan to begin his attack on Job, hoping Job will curse God.
Job's Wife - After Job had lost his wealth, health, and his children it was his wife who asked Job the question, "Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die."
Eliphaz the Temanite - One of Job's friends, probably a descendant of Eliphaz, son of Esau (Job 4:1), who came to comfort Job, but instead discouraged him, dogmatically telling Job that all calamity is God's judgment upon sin.
Bildad the Shuhite - Job's second friend to speak. He was descended from Shuah, son of Abraham and Keturah, whose family lived in Arabia. He picked up where Eliphaz left off, trying to convince Job the destruction that had befallen his life was a result of some hidden or covered sin.
Zophar the Naamathite - The third in order of Job's friends. He too believed Job's tragedies were a result of sin and could be divine punishment. Zophar contended with Job to turn from his ways lest a heavier judgment come upon him.
Elihu the Buzite - The youngest of Job's friends and last to speak. Elihu was assertive and approached Job giving him half the truth. He condemned Job for his self righteousness and declared the glory and majesty of God. What Elihu failed to realize is that trials and tribulations can befall even the most godly of men.
Bear, Orion and Pleiades - Mentioned in Chapter nine and chapter 38, these were three of the great constellations of the heavens. Pleiades is also mentioned in Amos 5:8 and is poetically referred to as "the seven stars." Orion was the constellation next to Pleiades and was thought to resemble the form of a hunter. In ancient mythology, Orion was killed by the goddess Diana and placed in the sky as a constellation.
Gravity - In Job 26:7, we see the existence of gravity as Job declares that the earth hangs upon nothing. The earliest known theory of gravitation was from Aristotle in the 4th century B.C. Yet Newton didn't publish his work on the universal law of gravity until 1687--showing us that God is always one step ahead of the scientific community.
Potsherd - In chapter 2, Satan strikes Job with painful boils from his feet to his head. Job uses a potsherd, also known as a "shard," to scrape the boils from his body. A potsherd was a broken piece of pottery often found in archeological digs today.
Behemoth - The name has come to be used for any extremely large or powerful creature. The word Behemoth in Hebrew means beast, but here in Job something more specific is being talked about. Some believe what is being spoken of here is a mythological creature, and others assert that it might be a brontosaurus or some other dinosaur, although mostscholars believe behemoth is nothing more than a hippopotamus.
Leviathan - Much like Behemoth, there are many thoughts as to what this mysterious creature actually is. References to Leviathan are made in Psalm 74, Psalm 104, as well as in Isaiah 27. Some have suggested Leviathan to be a whale or dolphin while others speculate that Job is referring to a crocodile. One thing is agreed upon, and that is that Leviathan is a large creature that dwells in the water.


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Updated: Thursday, December 01, 2011
|Gopal Ruminates
Zeeshan Mahmud
Gaius Julius Caesar, when young, was once captured by pirates who asked 20 talents of silver for the man's ransom. Caesar insisted they ask for 50 talents! It is said that even in captivity the mighty Roman maintained a superior demeanor. He boasted to his captors that one day he would have them tracked down and killed one by one. And he did just that.
Whatever feelings one may harbor towards the dictator, from an early age Caesar was a man of action and not just empty words: There are not many mortals lying around who can brag and back up the words with proper action. For an example that hits home, it is downright sad to see that Bangladeshi players many a times have been baited with (and goaded to engage in) "trash talk" which they subsequently failed to manifest with results on field.
The Bangladesh camp therefore might as well have a gag order if they want to pull a fast one on Pakistanis as the historical month of December approaches. One cannot, regardless of political stance, separate the history from the sports given the two country's past. It's not about blind patriotism but rather a test of fidelity. Once they have acknowledged the past (Bangladesh liberating itself from West Pakistan in '71), the players need to keep their emotions in check and let their game do the talking.
So what of the "legionaries" who have been chosen? Farhad Reza has been recalled and Elias Sunny included in the fifteen-men squad; weeded out Ashraful, Junaed, Shuvogato Hom and Shuvo. Sunny may be the trump card while Reza, who has not played since 2008 (ICL saga) needs to perform at a hitherto higher level than the mediocrity which which has marked his international career to date.
The hosts have added a quirky routine to their training schedule of riding rickshaws on the ground to increase their stamina, if not to have come back with new-found respect for the hard-working labor of the countless rickshaw pullers.
Stuart Law, admittedly still green in his tenure, may have shown out-of-the-box style of thought with this "try-cycle" curriculum, but it will still be sticking the basics that will ensue any prospects of win (or draw when the Tests roll around). As some say, to be extraordinary, be ordinary. Take McGrath for instance; he was no maverick from outer space but the man could pretty much hit any spot on the crease, at will and often.
Any fan is by now familiar with the recurring motif of Bangladesh after a hiatus: Start with bang, with early breakthroughs (recall Mashrafee's jaffa to Jaffer) or run-fest only to be followed by a yet more familiar collapse of top order. Then script progress, the burden of resurrection of it falling on Iceman or Mushfiq. Of course we cannot help but wonder why not fix this issue that has been foreshadowed in so many of collapses of the team? Perchance lobotomies for all the batters?
On the field, Ajmal no doubt will be the biggest threat and the fact that Pakistan pretty much steam-rolled Sri Lanka adds to the portents of doom. Bangladesh, of course, beat Pakistan only once and that was in '99 World Cup and since then the Pakistanis have enjoyed a one-sided monopoly.
Bangladeshis would need to implement the basics of building partnership, rotate strikes, cut down rash aerial shots, keep fielding tidy abetted with economy from bowlers, etc. Yes, the trick after all would be to keep it simple, and to unfurl a cricket clothed with deceptive boredom, yet all the same whole being greater than the part.
Anyway, it's all hunky-dory to spin yarns of theories from my armchair. As an expat not being able to relish live experiences, I can only counsel to take the home-court advantage to full throttle. I invite all 160 millions of fans, a wave of red and green of all faith, creed and path to flood the stadium and create conducive atmosphere which would be - to mildly put in one member's word- ELECTRIC. After all, that is the spirit of the real victors in the patriotic month and one that pays homage to history.
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Rogelj Receives DOE Award, Nov. 10, 1999
SOCORRO, N.M., November 10, 1999 -- New Mexico Tech biology professor Snezna Rogelj recently added to the state-supported research university's national repute by being honored with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Defense Programs Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award.
Rogelj was notified earlier this month that she had been named a recipient of the award--one of the nation's highest awards honoring young researchers--after being nominated by Sandia National Laboratories.
Rogelj becomes the second Tech faculty member in as many years named to receive the award. Last year, New Mexico Tech chemistry professor Christopher Paul Palmer was the recipient of both the DOE's Defense Programs Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Having won the DOE award, Rogelj now also becomes eligible for consideration for the presidential award which further recognizes the nation's outstanding young researchers.
"My having been named to receive this award came as a complete surprise to me," Rogelj says. "I can only assume that it was given to me in recognition of my broad interests in science. . . . I've worked in many different fields over the course of my career and now they all seem to be coming together.
"I think that this award is a vote of confidence," she adds.
Rogelj's current research interests center on the molecular mechanisms of leukocyte target recognition in the human immune and inflammatory responses. Leukocytes are the white blood cells that protect us from injury and infection.
"My recent research has focused on how leukocytes control their adhesiveness and has resulted in a discovery of a novel regulatory pathway," Rogelj relates. "It's a Rube Goldberg kind of sequence: Biochemical events that occur along this pathway determine the expression of a critical cell surface adhesion molecule, which in turn determines the ability of a leukocyte to recognize its target. Signals that lead to a loss of cell adhesiveness, therefore, result in suppression of the immune response. And, suppression of the immune system may or may not be a good thing."
The work that Rogelj and her research colleagues have done in these areas has resulted in a number of patent disclosures for drugs that interfere with the inflammation associated with diseases such as septic shock, reperfusion injury (severe complications that follow heart attacks, strokes, and organ transplants), and autoimmune demyelinating disorders.
A surprising implication of this developed model--the potential to interfere with the HIV entry into lymphocytes and the pathogenesis of AIDS--is also being explored.
"On the other hand, we are finding that several widely used pesticides and pollutants cause profound immuno-suppression and perhaps even infertility," Rogelj points out. "And, that is the dark side of our results."
Rogelj explains that all living organisms are elaborate and dynamic structures.
"Their complexity is built from simple molecular building blocks; yet, the emergent properties endow them with entirely novel features," she says.
"The simple building blocks are arranged into delicate instruments, each optimized to function within its size realm," Rogelj says. "Compartmentalization and specialization, two repeated themes in biological systems, further permit organization by ranks of molecular switches.
"We are built from the bottom up," Rogelj adds. "We all started off as a single cell. So, in a sense, the materials of which we are made are programmed to self-assemble."
Biological adhesion molecules mediate self-assembly of specialized cells into complex organs, for example into bone, or liver, or skin, or blood vessel, or brain tissue.
"Biological adhesion molecules then constitute a new, far-out way to assemble small inorganic manufactured parts," Rogelj points out. "The production of fine composite materials, such as 'cermets'--mixtures of ceramic and metal grains--could be enhanced by preprogramming the granular building blocks using 'smart' biological adhesives."
Clues taken from the evolutionary successes of Nature promise to have direct applications to the burgeoning research fields of biomimetics and nanotechnologies.
"We eventually hope to use biological adhesion molecules to 'program' non-biological materials to form circuits, to carry out sensing functions, or to self-assemble into useful mechanical gadgets," Rogelj says.
Energy Secretary Bill Richardson will present Rogelj and five other recipients with the DOE's Defense Program Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award in a Washington, D.C. ceremony
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The ice and snow covering Europe and beyond is creating problems for almost everyone. There is a baby elephant in Amsterdam, though, who seems quite thrilled to just play in the white stuff.
If only more people took the elephant's point of view in Eastern Europe today, where record snow and harsh temperatures have closed schools and clogged public transportation in Serbia and Bosnia and trapped thousands in the region's remote mountain villages.
Europeans across the continent were continuing to dig out from heavy snow after a week of bitter cold in which the death toll, mostly homeless people, continues to rise into the hundreds, the Associated Press reports:
Temperatures have fallen as low as minus 33 Fahrenheit (minus 36 Celsius) in Ukraine, the hardest-hit country.
The big freeze has caused traffic chaos throughout Europe, blocking roads, and shutting down airports from the U.K. to Russia.
But it has also offered opportunities for snowy fun: Ice skaters in the Netherlands were hopeful they could stage a race that hasn't happened in more than a decade; children in Rome and along the usually temperate Adriatic coast in Croatia frolicked in rare snow; and Bosnians in the capital, Sarajevo, spontaneously organized a winter "Olympics" in which they boarded down main streets and leapt out of windows into deep snow banks.
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Dr. Michael Watson, who is spending the fall semester at Hope College as the Meiji Gakuin Exchange Professor, will discuss the translation history of an epic Japanese narrative on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 4 p.m. in the Fried-Hemenway Auditorium of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Watson will present "'L'écho des vicissitudes humaines': The Tale of the Heike through its Translation History."
"The Tale of the Heike" ("Heike monogatari") is a narrative of epic length and style that gives a highly romanticised account of Japan's first great civil war of the 1180s. There are no less than three complete translations of the work in English, with a new one in preparation.
Watson's talk will focus on the famous opening of the work, looking at how French, English, German, Russian and Chinese translators have found different ways of conveying its special rhythm, style and content. The French phrase in the title of his talk comes from the earliest known translation in a Western language of this opening, a slim volume published in Geneva in 1871, a remarkable achievement for its time and for the translator François Turrettini, who never visited the Far East.
Despite its undoubted importance in Japanese cultural history, the work, Watson notes, has resisted definitive translation. In exploring why, he will consider some of the central questions of literary translation and the reception of foreign culture.
Watson has been a professor and lecturer at Meiji Gakuin University since 1986. He has several publications in the fields of medieval European literature as well as Japanese studies and literature. He has also been the president of the Asian Studies Conference Japan since June 2007.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, he holds a doctorate degree in philosophy from the University of Oxford (2003); Master of Arts degrees from the University of Cambridge (1979) and ManchesterUniversity (1978); and a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, from Cambridge University (1975).
HopeCollege and Meiji Gakuin University of Tokyo, Japan, have enjoyed a longtime relationship that allows students from each institution to study on the other's campus. The faculty exchange program began in 1994 to enhance the academic programs on each campus by drawing upon the special expertise of the exchange scholars.
The Martha Miller Center for Global Communication is located at 257 Columbia Ave., at the corner of Columbia Avenue and 10th Street.


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A one-in-trillions dreidel game
"Uncle Al," a novice, spins an incredible streak, leaving relatives floored
GUILDERLAND — Oy vey, here's a Hanukkah dreidel story guaranteed to flip your yarmulke.
After dinner at Chris Terry's house on Christmas, her sister Lori Charash's children took out a family dreidel they brought with them from Burlington, Vt.
The kids invited their great-uncle, Alfred Lorini, to join the game of chance traditionally played after the menorah candles are lighted on the eight nights of the Jewish holiday.
"Uncle Al," who is a Catholic, had never played the dreidel game and needed a rundown on the rules.
The four-sided spinning top features letters of the Hebrew alphabet on each side: nun, gimel, hei and shin. The players put a penny in a pot at the center of the table. Each player took a turn and spun the dreidel. If the nun faced up, the player did nothing. A gimel meant the player got all the pennies in the pot. A hei roll won half the pot. Shin required the player to add a penny to the pot.
In translation, the NGHS acronym stands for "a great miracle happened here."
What occurred next for Lorini might qualify as a Hanukkah miracle, or an NGHS on Christmas.
Each time his turn came around, Lorini rolled a gimel and kept collecting the pot. The other players had to keep putting pennies in as Lorini's pile of winnings grew.
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The others chalked up Lorini's first few gimels to a fluke, but as his streak continued, the noise level at the table rose.
"I heard so much commotion, I had to go into the room and see why everybody was so floored," Lori Charash said.
Lorini kept spinning gimels. He ripped off a dozen in a row at one point. Then, he might spin a nun or a hei, before continuing a string of gimels. He never spun a shin, a loser.
"We were jumping up and down, running around the table. It was unbelievable," said Nancy Rissacher, Lorini's niece. "It just kept happening. It was insane. I thought I was going to wet my pants."
Somebody yelled, "Call the Guinness Book of World Records!"
Lorini, 80, of Albany, is a retired linotype operator and printer who started at the Knickerbocker News on Beaver Street in downtown Albany in 1952 and retired from the Times Union in Colonie in 1992. He always worked the night shift.
As his great-nieces and great-nephews cheered him on, Lorini got into the spirit of the streak. He started putting extra mojo on the dreidel by hovering his fist over the spinning top and wiggling his fingers.
They kept track of the streak on a napkin. The game spun on for more than an hour. Leah Charash, a great-niece, took cellphone pictures and video of Lorini's amazing streak.
The final tally: Out of 68 turns, Lorini spun 56 gimels and 0 shins.
Great-nephew Phil Charash, a Princeton University sophomore and math whiz, pulled out an iPhone and began figuring out the odds. He quickly decided he needed a calculator's power to crunch the numbers.
He used a binomial distribution and came up with 1-in-2.25 times 10 to the 22nd power for the order of magnitude. Put another way, it was 22.5 billion times 1 trillion. "It's a massive number," said Phil Charash, who is majoring in operations research and financial engineering at Princeton.
Another analogy of the gimel streak is that the odds of it occurring were about 100 million times the number of stars in our galaxy.
"It was just ridiculous," Phil Charash said. "It made no sense. Every time he rolled the dreidel, we expected a gimel to come up. Normal probability should have ensued and his streak should have ended with a shin."
That never happened.
"It was just so bizarre and we were all standing there witnessing it. Unbelievable," Rissacher said.
"I don't know how it happened," said Lorini, a man of few words. "Just luck, I guess."
Back in Burlington, the Charash children continued to discuss the streak. Their father, Bill Charash, an associate professor of surgery at the University of Vermont, who worked on Christmas and did not attend the dinner, used it as a lesson in logic.
They immediately excluded the notion that the dreidel was defective or somehow unevenly weighted to favor a gimel because the other players spun the same dreidel and did not land a streak of gimels.
It could not be explained merely as a run of good luck, either. "The numbers are just not fathomable that way," Bill Charash said.
They mused that Uncle Al may possess telekinetic powers.
"My son is convinced he has to be a Jedi knight," the father said.
Finally, they wondered whether the streak might have proven the inexplicable.
"Was this a Christmas-Hanukkah miracle revealed by a man who had never played the dreidel before?" Bill Charash asked. "Could this be mathematical proof that there is a God?"
The questioned lingered in the air, a Talmudic discussion to be taken up another day.
The Charash family left the dreidel with Lorini as a memento of the gimel streak.
A niece chimed in: "Throw him over our shoulder. We're goin' to Vegas."
NGHS, baby.
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Also, difference between NellieBall and what Jax is doing is that Nellie would play 5 wings with a fully healthy roster. I know it's ugly to see RJ or McGuire at center, but we just pushed through a period where we traded our starting 5 (Udoh) for an injured player (Bogut), along with our previously injured backup (Brown), our current backup (Biedrins) was hurt, and David Lee is playing 43, 44 minutes a night. Some would go to Tyler more often, but Jackson's not feeling him. Even amongst his 14 and 5 game yesterday, the big rookie was -12 on the court. I can't condemn Jackson cause, truth be told, I like how the team operates with healthy personnel.
Also, ownership wants to run ****. Last thing they wanna do is hire Stan Van, who always seems to bump with ownership at every location.
Isn't Mike Malone actually coming up with the plays and Mark Jackson is the hype man energy booster for the player. Either by start of next season Mark Jackson know how to coach off the court and on the court as good or half as good as Mike Malone at least or get a really good assistant to help. I think Mike Malone might leave for coaching jobs that are available this summer. It wouldn't be a problem if they have a great player or 2, but they don't.


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A judge in Kansas City has ruled on the matter of custody of the nine-month old girl orphaned last year when her father, Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, killed her mother Kassandra Perkins and then shot himself in the head.
Brian Burnes of the Kansas City Star reports that Jackson County Probate Commissioner Daniel Wheeler said in a ruling that the court has awarded custody of young Zoey Belcher to Sophie Perkins, a cousin of her mother. The court was asked to choose between Sophie Perkins and Cheryl Shepherd, the mother of Zoey's late father. Other maternal family members were also party to the proceedings and Wheeler, who said both women would make appropriate guardians, had a message for all of them in his ruling.
"Based upon the evidence submitted, including the opinions of an expert witness, the Court determines one party is the most suitable person … and whose appointment serves the best interests of the child to a stable and permanent placement," Wheeler wrote. "The other party, and the other interested persons, will retain the critical role of family members."


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A little bee with a little bee
This week kids in Denmark dress up for Fastelavn. I made a bee costume for Elinor. She is still at an age where I can decide what she dress up as and I like that :)
But a bee costume was the obvious choice because ever since Elinor was born - for every single day and night her whole life - she has had a little bee by her side! I made the stuffed bee, called Bibi (you know BeeBee), before she was born and it goes with her everywhere. In the second and the last photograph you see Bibi when Elinor was just a few days old - in the first photo you see her between E's legs. Bibi is a very worn out bee after two years of intens love.
I know it would have been smarter to just have bought a stuffed animal so we could have had a whole arsenal of the same one, just waiting for one to be lost or worn out, but I love Bibi too and we make sure to look out for her. Soon she will be too fragile to go everywhere and she will need to stay in bed all day. I will have to explain to E how it is, when bees get old.
(E is playing with Toca hair salon on my phone -such a cool app)
▶ Lykke: Tak!
▶ Dessa: I don't really mind when the balance tips to chaos either - but D does, so I try my best to keep the balance. Tomorrow I will show you how much the balance has tippet right now: It is pure chaos :)
▶ Sarah: Yep, that would be really good. I often think of the house as a first prototype -want to build new versions of it -build in storage, build in tv, wheels, so you could have storage behind the house! Bookshelves all along the top of the walls --- I need a workshop and a lot of wood!
Bibi is a loved little bee:)
Bibi is a loved little bee:) My bibi is a little seal, called Nille, she also lives in my bed now, after 30 years... a little secret from my life;)
Åh hold op det er sødt!
Åh hold op det er sødt!
What a lovely thing of spring
What a lovely thing of spring to see middle of snow clouds forecasted for the whole week.
ooh this is too fun! I love
ooh this is too fun! I love how her costume even has a little sting :)!
haha that.sting.is
haha that.sting.is.uberfantastik!!
it all goes so well with her hair :).a one super cute bee :).
ps.i sometimes wonder where do you find time for all you super woman.
This is so sweet! She is just
This is so sweet! She is just the cutest, hope I'm lucky enough to get a little red panda like that one day. And great sewing job, for both the bees. I always thought that was a striped snake, don't know how I missed the wings!
oh em gee! cute overload!
oh em gee! cute overload! that sting is to cute!
Sikke en sej bi! Var selv bi
Sikke en sej bi! Var selv bi til fastelavn, da jeg var ca.3 år- elsker stadig at se på billederne fra dengang, det var bare et hit...
Sooooo cute:)))
Sooooo cute:)))
so cute! :)
so cute! :)
Your daughter is one cute
Your daughter is one cute bumblebee!
Homemade things mean so much, both when you're little and grownup, the effort, thought and love. Especially in "today's society" when everyone seems to be out of time...
When I was little I stole a plush doggie from a shop (and my parents had to run in and pay for it), and we were inseparable for years. My mum mended Kompis over and over and sew a beautiful 70's overall for him in orange, yellow and white (a big pattern!). I still go a little soft inside, thinking about it...
besides the gorgeous costume
besides the gorgeous costume and the lovely bibi i really like the blanket on the last picture!
i want to sew me a blanket since half a year now, but there is always something to sew for others or for school... well, now spring is on its way and the need for a blanket isn't that urgent.
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RANS' Randy Schlitter reports that the company's new S-20 Raven has passed a battery of static load tests and the final version of the airframe is entering full production.
Testing of the fuselage included vertical and horizontal stabilizer, rudder and elevator, control system, and landing gear.
The fuselage proved to be more than adequate, passing all testing with flying colors, according to Schlitter.
The landing gear was especially rewarding, since this a convertible from tailwheel to trike fuselage, he added.
Convertible fuselages can carry a small weight penalty, but the design team at RANS was able to optimize the structure to the point little to no penalty was incurred, he reports. This was achieved through graduated tube sizing, careful layout of the tail cone trussing and making the landing gear trusses as deep as possible. The end result is about a 2.75 pound weight increase for being able to switch from trike to tailwheel.
Several landing gear drop tests proved out the two piece flat aluminum legs. "What was impressive was the lack of bounce," Schlitter said in his "Into the Flight" newsletter. "The gear absorbs but lacks recoil. This makes for smoother landings, and better control when a hard landing does occur."
Being two piece rather than one required making those deep but light weight gear trusses, he explained. "A couple of advantages from this design are less weight, and lower cost replacement, should you manage to bend one," he said. "From our testing, we do not see the Raven gear to be something we will see a lot of replacement market."
With the testing of all structural aspects of the Raven completed, the project is now being readied for flight test. "We anticipate a first flight in two to three months," he said.
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Justin Bieber Goes Shirtless In First Instagram Video While His Permanent Houseguests Get Busted for Speeding
Instagram just released video capabilities, and Justin Bieber promptly celebrated by posting a quick clip of him shirtless. We are so surprised. (No, we're not.)
Anyways, the Biebs looks very happy and giggly in this video and some people [*cough* TMZ] think Justin might be a little lifted in his first Instagram clip. Honestly, we kind of agree with them. What is so funny about the Instagram video? Is someone telling a funny joke off camera? We want to know.
Justin was also at last night's NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs. When the Miami Lebron James' won the title, Justin took another Instagram video where he remarks, "This is unbelievable!" Really? The team with three of the best players in the NBA won the title and you honestly can't believe it?
Of course, while Bieber is away, his permanent houseguests will play. Lil Za and Lil Twist were both busted by a Calabassas, Calif. neighbor for speeding around the neighborhood once again. When Za realizes he's being filmed, he can't believe it's for speeding and even says that the neighbors were driving too slow! The cojones on this kid!
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PASADENA – The City Council voted 6-to-1 to green-light an environmental study worth up to $400,000 Monday that supporters said will allow the Rose Bowl to vie as a temporary host for an NFL team should the opportunity arise.
Neither developer Ed Roski Jr. of Majestic Realty, which is proposing a stadium in Industry, nor Anschutz Entertainment Group, which is proposing Farmer's Field near LA Live downtown, has a team in hand and neither has begun construction. But if either proposal is successful, an interim facility, such as the Rose Bowl or the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, would likely be needed, officials said.
City Manager Michael Beck contends that hosting an NFL team could generate "tens of millions of dollars" a year in direct and indirect revenue for cash-strapped Pasadena. City officials say it could also go a long way in making up a $20 million financing gap in the historic stadium's $160 million renovation.
The city will split the cost of the study with the Rose Bowl Operating Co., which still must approve a $200,000 transfer to the city's General Fund, officials said.
"Completion of an (Environmental Impact Report) allows us to compete…but it also formalizes an opportunity for community input," said Councilman Victor Gordo, president of the Rose Bowl Operating Co. "I think it's important to keep our options open and to have all the relevant information as it relates to impacts and potential mitigation measures."
Councilman Terry Tornek voted against the motion Monday, noting that there has been no NFL pronouncement concerning having a team in the Los Angeles area in the near future.
"I think it's a highly speculative investment and an inappropriate one at this time," Tornek told his colleagues.
The report would examine air quality, land use, noise, impacts on recreation, traffic and regional transportation in hosting an NFL team for up to five years, Beck said.
Rose Bowl neighbors have mixed views on the subject, with some citing concerns about safety and security impacts of hosting an NFL team.
The Linda Vista/Annandale Association's 18-member board last year voted unanimously opposed any occupancy of the Rose Bowl stadium by the NFL.
Councilwoman Jacque Robinson voted in favor of the proposal, arguing that "the Rose Bowl is not a neighborhood asset; it's a city asset."
"I think we owe it to ourselves and we have a fiscal responsibility to contend for those revenues that may be derived from an NFL team if and when it comes to the City Council," she said.
Pasadena resident Floyd Fulvin spoke out against the proposal, arguing that the city could use the money to avoid further layoffs rather than "spend money on future events beyond the control of the City Council."
The City Council would need to certify the report and amend the city ordinance to increase the number of large events of 20,000 persons or more allowed at the stadium from 12 to up to 25 a year. Stadium and city officials say they are pursuing having a developer pay for the cost of the report but that it is not an expectation at this time.
Councilman Chris Holden was absent from Monday night's meeting. Mayor Bill Bogaard was also absent although he participated in the council meeting by speaker phone.


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Athens, Modern Greek Athínai, Ancient Greek Athēnai, historic city and capital of Greece. Many of Classical civilization's intellectual and artistic ideas originated there, and the city is generally considered to be the birthplace of Western civilization.
Athens lies 5 miles (8 km) from the Bay of Phaleron, an inlet of the Aegean (Aigaíon) Sea where Piraeus (Piraiévs), the port of Athens, is situated, in a mountain-girt arid basin divided north-south by a line of hills. Greater Athens has an area of 165 square miles (427 square km). The Kifisós River, only a trickle in summer, flows through the western half; the Ilisós River, often dry, traverses the eastern half. The surrounding mountains—Párnis, 4,636 feet (1,413 metres); Pentelicus (Pendéli), 3,631 feet; Hymettos (Imittós), 3,365 feet; and Aigáleon, 1,535 feet—add to the impression of barrenness. Yet such considerations are superficial when compared with the fecundity of Athens's bequests to the world, such as its philosophy, its architecture, its literature, and its political ideals.
For treatment of the city in its regional setting, see Greece; historical and cultural aspects are treated further in the article ancient Greek civilization.
Physical and human geography
Character of the city
Athens, with its tall buildings and contemporary shops, is the first European city when approached from the Middle East. When approached from the west, from elsewhere in Europe, what strikes the visitor is the influence of the East—in the food, music, and clamorous street life—perhaps vestiges of a time when Athens was divorced from European society under the yoke of Ottoman rule. Nevertheless, it is wrong to say that Athens is a mixture of East and West: it is Greek and, more particularly, Athenian. The city, after all, nurtured Western civilization thousands of years ago. Athens remains on the world stage to this day.
Notably, in 2004 the world came to the city for the Olympic Games, which spurred a dramatic makeover for Athens. In addition to building a raft of new sports venues and facilities (including a stadium designed by Santiago Calatrava), Athens undertook massive transportation infrastructure improvements that included dramatic expansion of public transportation and the construction of a new international airport.
Some three centuries after the death of Pericles (429 bce), Athenians entered upon a period of bondage that lasted almost 2,000 years. The city was freed in 1833, and in the following 170 years it was the scene of more than a dozen revolutions, another brutal foreign occupation, and a civil war of especial savagery. This long history of passion and suffering has had considerable effect on the Athenian character. The core of that character is an implacable will to survive, buttressed by a profound sense of loyalty (especially to the family) and patriotism. The Greek Orthodox Church, which is directed by a synod sitting in Athens, was a main force in keeping alive the Greek language, tradition, and literature when such things were forbidden, and most people still support it.
The millennia of oppression, instead of driving the Athenians into obtuse moroseness, have honed their wit and rendered them tough but supple, while centuries of privation have only preserved their warmth and generosity. The long oral tradition, alive even under the invader, has reflected and stimulated a taste for rich talk. Of course, the poetic impulse to make a good story better leads to considerable exaggeration in daily conversation, suiting a vanity that goes with a sharp-edged sense of personal and family honour and the spoiling of children. The ancient heroes, too, were vain about both themselves and honour, boasting as much about outwitting the enemy as about outfighting him.
The landscape
The climate of Athens is benign: frost is rare (the minimum temperature is 32 °F, or 0 °C) and snow seldom lies, while the summers, though hot (maximum temperature is 99 °F, or 37 °C), are dry, and a fresh northeasterly wind often blows by day. The nights are cool. The climate of the city permits outdoor activity the year round and has had an important effect on both the style of architecture and the life and political institutions of the city.
The city plan
In 1833 there was almost no Athens at all. During the fight for independence, it had been entirely evacuated in 1827, and six years later it held perhaps 4,000 people in the straggle of little houses on the north slope below the Acropolis. The newly imported king of the Hellenes, Otto, the 18-year-old son of Louis I of Bavaria, was installed in the only two-story stone house, while his German architects hurried ahead with plans for a palace and a new Athens far out in the fields.
Below the well-sited but very plain palace, a large garden square, Síntagma (Constitution) Square, was laid out. Today it is garnished in the tourist season with some of Europe's most luxurious cafe chairs, and at all seasons it is hemmed in by tall new buildings and elderly luxury hotels. Broad avenues were created and are still the city centre's principal thoroughfares (Stadíou and Panepistimíou [Elefthérios Venizélou]), between which an orderly grid of narrow side streets was laid out. The housing that developed was generally the sort of architecture familiar in Victorian London: solid, porched, rather imposing, the later imitations graceless and monotonous. In Athens it is called the Ottonian style, but there is little of it left as the centre encroaches on old residential areas.
Once the new capital was established, the city grew at a regular rate of about 7 percent a year, soon reaching 50,000 inhabitants, a figure not much exceeded in the days of Athens's greatest power and glory. By 1907 the municipality had a population of 167,479. Omónia (Harmony) Square had been built at the western end of the two main streets, with other broad avenues radiating from it, but it did not develop as the hoped-for balance to Síntagma.
By then the railway to Piraeus had been built, its station near the antique Agora. Indeed, the city plan projected a logical growth southward along this axis, but a real estate developer beckoned northward—the National Archaeological Museum is out this way—and the newly rich followed. The palace garden almost touched the Arch of Hadrian and the 15 mammoth columns (some of them 7 feet 10 inches in diameter) of the temple of Olympian Zeus, last of the Classical buildings built in Athens, and beyond lay empty fields. The slopes of Mount Likavittós, outside the town limits, were still pine-clad. Since then the garden has become one of the painfully rare public parks in Athens. Likavittós now rears up in the middle of the city (as if Hyde Park or Central Park were a 1,112-foot mountain), its lower slopes built upon and many of the trees felled for a road leading to a cog railway and restaurant.
Along Panepistimíou Street rose the Academy of Athens, in marble from Mount Pentelicus, its pediments and colonnades gilded. Its new neighbours were the University of Athens (refounded in 1837), the colonnade adorned with paintings, and the National Library. All were done in Greek Revival style by the court's German architects. A new Royal Palace (now the Presidential Residence) was built during 1891–97, a little southeast of the old (which is now a Parliament house) on Herodes Atticus Street. This leads to the 70,000-seat Panathenaic (Athens) Stadium, reconstructed by an expatriate Greek millionaire in time for the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896.
In 1921 the orderly progress of Athens was overturned and haphazard development began, for ethnic minorities were exchanged between Greece and Turkey, and approximately 1,500,000 Greeks, most of them penniless, came home from Asia Minor. Despite government efforts to resettle them elsewhere, many swarmed into shantytowns around the fringes of Athens and Piraeus, and the area's population soared from 473,000 to 718,000. After that the city began to spread in two directions, south toward Piraeus and north toward the village of Kifisiá, which first became a smart suburb when Herodes Atticus built his villa there in the 1st century bce.
In the 1940s hideous things happened in Athens. During the German occupation many people died from starvation, and the city began to fall apart from lack of maintenance. When the Germans left, part of the Allied-equipped resistance refused to lay down its arms, and the civil war began. For a while the government held only the Parliament building, neighbouring embassies, and a part of Síntagma Square, while the palace garden was used as a common grave.
A construction boom began in the 1950s. New apartment houses pushing up everywhere erased old social boundaries (though the Kolonáki district on the southeast slope of Likavittós remained an enclave of respectable fortunes), and villages that had been attached to the city in the previous expansion lost their physical and political identities. A network of major highways was thrown up. The west side of the historic olive grove by the Kifisós River was shorn, and hillside greenery began to disappear under housing, either unauthorized or made legal through political skulduggery. Open space vanished, without provision for parks, playgrounds, or even schools, and Athens spread down to the sea by Glifádha, joining up with Piraeus. Piraeus itself was transformed from one of the world's celebrated honky-tonk ports into a clean, newly built, flower-decorated city.
The Athens master plan was enlarged several times to keep pace with spread, which by 1964 had already attained 75 square miles, with a built-up area of 17 square miles outside the plan altogether. Land values in the centre quadrupled, then octupled, and rose proportionately elsewhere. Traffic increased almost to the saturation point at rush hours, and the city continued to sprawl beyond its planned limits. As international tourism increased, Ellinikón Airport, south of the city, was expanded and modernized.
The city water supply from an artificial lake at Marathon was insufficient to supply the new building construction, and the Mórnos River 110 miles to the northwest was dammed and tapped. Installation of a modern sewer system was undertaken, together with controls to check the floods that roar into Athens when heavy rains pour off the denuded mountains.
Traditional features
The older Athens has not entirely disappeared in all this hubbub. Older men may have given up smoking hookahs in shadowy cafes but not their 33-bead kombouloi ("worry beads"), which were acquired from the Turks. Old Athens occupies the six streets sidling off Monastiráki Square, by the excavated Agora. Tiny open-fronted shops are hung with tinselled folk costumes and all of the monuments of Athens reproduced in copper, plaster, plastic, and paint. There is an alley of antique dealers, a street of smithies, one of hardware merchants, and another of wildly assorted miscellany.
Close to this lively quarter is the Pláka, on the north slope of the Acropolis. Small, one-story houses, dating from about the time of independence, are clustered together up the hillside in peasant simplicity. There are appropriately tiny squares with tavernas, once celebrated for their folk music, dancing, and simple fare. There are vine-covered pergolas and some unpaved streets too narrow for cars. The baths built by the Turks still function morning and afternoon, but the bouzouki, a local relative of the lute, is giving way to the electric guitar. The taverna signs are multilingual, and the ubiquitous kitchen chair is being replaced by the plastic-ribbed restaurant seat. Progress laps at the Pláka like a vengeful sea, but the Acropolis is just up above, just under the stars.
The Acropolis
Many of Athens's bequests (all, if the theatre of Herodes Atticus may be regarded as an embodiment of the city's literature) to the world are expressed in and around the natural centre of Athens, the Acropolis (designated a World Heritage site in 1987). Rising some 500 feet above sea level, with springs near the base and a single approach, the Acropolis was an obvious choice of citadel and sanctuary from earliest times. That it could be something more is evidenced in the Parthenon, one of the brightest jewels in humankind's, let alone Athens's, treasury.
As deceptively simple as Socrates' conversation, this columned, oblong temple is the expression—without a trace of strain or conflict—of a human ideal of clarity and unity. The architectural genius is concentrated in the exterior, for within was a shelter for the goddess Athena—the patroness who lent her name to the city—not a place for mass worship. Its spiritual quality, the sensation of being almost afloat, is enhanced by the lack of a single straight vertical line in the peristyle (the surrounding colonnade); each vertical is almost imperceptibly bowed, theoretically meeting some 11,500 feet in the sky. The columns, of diminishing thickness toward the centre of the colonnade, with diminishing space between them, lean toward the centre, too; all these differences are virtually invisible to the beholder. Even the 20 flutings of each column diminish in width as they rise, and the humblest details of craftsmanship are perfect.
On the northeast corner of the interior are faint traces of Christian wall paintings dating from the temple's service as the Church of St. Mary, and in the southwest corner of the porch is the stair leading to the minaret that was added when the building was a Turkish mosque. The Parthenon was also used as a powder magazine, when, on September 26, 1687, Venetian artillery, attacking the Turks from the Hill of the Muses, scored a direct hit. A member of the party with the field commander, General Königsmark, wrote, "How it dismayed His Excellency to destroy the beautiful temple which had existed three thousand years!" Conversely, Francesco Morosini, the commander in chief, when reporting to the Venetian government, called it "a fortunate shot." Wishing to bring home more than just good news, he also tried to lower Athena's horses in the centre of the west pediment, but his men's dexterity was not as highly developed as their marksmanship, and the masterpieces were smashed to bits on the rock below.
The Turks regained possession of the Acropolis the following year and later began selling souvenirs to Europeans. The duc de Choiseul, formerly French ambassador in Constantinople, picked up a piece of the frieze and two metopes. In 1801 the British ambassador, Lord Elgin, arrived with an imperial decree permitting him to pull down Turkish houses on the Acropolis to seek fragments of sculpture. Among the 50 pieces he took home (the shipping charges were £75,000, a huge sum for those days) was most of the remaining Parthenon sculpture, which he later sold to the British Museum for £35,000. The Greeks have forgiven the clumsiness of the Venetian engineers, the accuracy of Venetian cannoneers, and the vandalism of the Turks, but they still nurture rancour against Elgin. He also removed one of the caryatids from the Erechtheum, a temple of Athena called after a shrine dedicated to the legendary king Erechtheus or to Poseidon Erechtheus, but replaced it with a plaster cast. From London he sent a town clock for Athens, duly erected in the Agora and lost in the fire of 1885. The Erechtheum (5th century bce), which later became a church under the Byzantines and subsequently the Turkish commander's harem, was originally dedicated to both Athena and Poseidon and was the most venerated of the Acropolis temples.
The Propylaea, the matchless entryway into the Acropolis, was the only opening in the surrounding wall. Just in front of it and to the left is the 27-foot-high pedestal for the thank offering to Agrippa, the victor of the Battle of Actium, who interceded for Athens, which had supported the loser, Mark Antony. To the right was the temple of Athena Nike (Giver of Victory), 27 feet long and 18 1/2 feet wide, which stood untouched until the Turks demolished it in 1686 to use the stones as defenses against the Venetians. In 1836 it was badly restored, and 100 years later its foundations began to slip into previously undiscovered Turkish cisterns, revealing the 6th-century foundations of Peisistratus's earlier shrine to Artemis Epipyrgidea (Artemis on the Tower). The temple was then more accurately reconstructed. The northern wing of the Propylaea, the Pinakotheke, was used by the Frankish dukes, who reconstructed the interior to make a two-story building. In the 12th century Greek Orthodox bishops lived in the Pinakotheke, and in the 14th century the dynasty of Athenian dukes from Florence turned the Propylaea into a fortified castle with a Tuscan tower, which Heinrich Schliemann, the German excavator who discovered Troy, paid to have dismantled in 1875.
When the Turks, who had occupied Athens since 1456, departed, they left the monuments in a state of ruin, the ground covered with garden plots, and several hundred small huts. After Greece won its independence, Otto, the first king of the Hellenes, had everything that postdated the Classical period swept away, set scholars to work identifying the remains, and encouraged some reconstruction.
According to Pausanias, the Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century ce, the colossal 30-foot-high bronze seated statue of Athena Promachos (Athena Who Fights in the Foremost Ranks), by the 5th-century-bce Athenian sculptor Phidias, was set up in the open behind the Propylaea, her gleaming helmet and spear visible to mariners off Cape Sunium (Soúnion) 30 miles away. The 6th-century Byzantine emperor Justinian carried the statue off to Constantinople (now Istanbul), just as Phidias's ivory and gold statue of Athena had been taken from the Parthenon. Both of these masterpieces were lost to other looters in the Crusaders' sack of Constantinople in 1204. Other statues stood in profusion amid small temples, such as the sculptor Myron's group of Marsyas and Athena, his Perseus, and his heifer; Phidias's Lemnian Athena and his Pericles; and a gigantic bronze effigy of the Trojan horse. There was an altar to Athena Hygeia (the Health Giver), a precinct sacred to the goddess Artemis Brauronia (named after a statue of her, brought from the town of Brauron), the Pandroseum (a building named after Pandrosos, a girl associated with Athena in legend), where the sacred olive tree of Athena grew, and, beyond the Parthenon, the great altar of Athena.
Less than 1,000 feet (300 metres) southeast of the Parthenon is the New Acropolis Museum, which was designed by Bernard Tschumi and opened in 2009. A dramatic glass and concrete structure, it has some 10 times the exhibition space of the old Acropolis Museum.
Other notable buildings
Below the Acropolis sanctuary, on the southwest slope of the hill, Herodes Atticus, a rich Roman, built a 5,000-seat odeum as a memorial to his wife in 161 ce. A conventional Roman theatre except that the semicircular auditorium was hollowed out of the rock, it was roofed in cedar and had a three-story facade of arches. Repaired but roofless, it is now used for the Athens summer festival of music and drama. A 300-yard-long portico stretching toward the Theatre of Dionysus had been built some 300 years earlier. The Dionysiac theatre itself, scooped out of the south slope early in the 5th century, replaced the Agora stage as the drama centre. It also replaced the Pnyx as the meeting place for the popular assembly. Rebuilt many times, the ruined theatre now visible is largely Roman, the last construction work on the stage probably dating from the early 3rd century ce. The Dionysia, the spring festival, which drew crowds from many parts of Greece and colonies in Asia Minor and Italy, was held in this theatre, which had 13,000 seats in 67 rows. The jury had larger front seats and the ecclesiastical dignitaries small stone thrones, on which their titles can still be read. Three tragic and four comic plays were presented in competition for the prize. Production costs were met by private sponsors who, when their choruses won the prize tripod, displayed it in an elaborate memorial in the Street of Tripods to the east of the theatre. The only one of these monuments still standing is that of Lysicrates, erected 334 bce, a small circular temple 21 1/2 feet high, its six columns an early example of the Corinthian order. The monument was preserved through incorporation into a convent (in which the English poet Lord Byron had a study) and influenced British Georgian and Regency architecture through the engravings of the Edinburgh artist "Athenian" Stuart. Farther east lay the Odeum of Pericles, and to the west are traces (420 bce) of the precinct of Asclepius, the god of healing, which took the form of a hospital portico for patients and temples decorated with votive reliefs.
On the Hill of Ares, the god of war, to the right of the descent from the Propylaea, a legendary jury of gods spared Ares from execution for the murder of the sea god Poseidon's son. Trials for homicide continued to be heard on this hill through the ages, and the Supreme Court of Greece still bears the name.
Across Apostólou Pávlou (Apostle Paul Avenue) are the Hill of the Nymphs, where an Austro-Greek, Baron Sina, built an observatory in 1842; the Hill of the Muses, crowned with the remains of the marble monument to Philopappus, a Syrian who was Roman consul in the 2nd century ce; and the middle hill, the Pnyx (Tightly Crowded Together), the meeting place of the Ecclesia, the assembly of 18,000 citizens who heard the great Athenian orators. (In fact, attendance of more than 5,000 persons was rare at any gathering, but the Pnyx would still have been crowded.)
The Agora
The avenue leads down to the Agora, which the American School of Classical Studies started restoring in 1931, paying $2.5 million compensation to the several hundred families living there. Financed by, among others, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Marshall Plan, and the Greek government, the work went on until 1960. It includes what has been called "the pitiless replica of a 180-columned portico of the 2nd century bc," which serves as a museum.
At the approaches to the Agora is the best-preserved of all Greek temples, the Theseum (5th century bce). Although virtually intact and absolutely genuine, it has all the deadness of a latter-day reproduction. The beauty, the mystery, and the genius that render the Parthenon incandescent eluded the architects and builders of the Theseum.
The Horologium and the Orthodox cathedrals
Another monument is the octagonal, 42-foot-high marble Horologium of Andronicus of Cyrrhus, usually called the Tower of the Winds because each side bears a weather-beaten figure of the wind from that particular compass point. It used to have a sundial, a water clock for telling the hour on cloudy days, and a weather vane. The Turks left it unchanged, believing it to be the tomb of two local prophets, Sakhratis and Aflatun (Socrates and Plato).
In the shadow of the 19th-century, neo-Byzantine Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Mitrópolis) nestles the 12th-century Mitrópolis, Áyios Elefthérios, one of three genuine Byzantine churches still surviving. It is red brick, like the others, and tiny. Its Pentelic marble is ruddied with age, and its outer walls are artfully, if promiscuously, decorated with Classical Greek tidbits: panels, votive tablets, and morsels of frieze. Like its sisters, this retired cathedral is charming, unassuming, and comforting.
The people
The population of Greater Athens increased considerably after the war of independence in the early 1830s. The rapid growth was largely attributable to the great influx of refugees from Asia Minor in the early 1920s and the migration of rural inhabitants from the provinces during World War II and the communist rebellion (1946–49). By the 1960s Athens had become a bustling cosmopolitan city. Almost all Greeks adhere to the Eastern (Greek) Orthodox faith.
The economy
Industry and trade
Since World War I Athens has become the hub of all mercantile business, export and import. With Piraeus it is the most important manufacturing city in Greece. Athens accounts for half of the jobs in industry and handicrafts, and earnings are much higher than the national average. There are cloth and cotton mills, distilleries, breweries, potteries, flour mills, soap factories, tanneries, chemical works, and carpet factories. Exports include olive oil, tomato products, wine, cement, bauxite, and textile manufactures. Publishing enterprises are important.
The brilliant Attic light, however, is now dimmed by the pall of air pollution hovering over the city. To discourage new factories from further adding to the problem and to stimulate the economic growth of other regions, an industrial wage tax has been imposed in the Athens area, and tax incentives have been offered to new factories set up in other areas.
Transportation and shipping
Athens accounts for more than half of the cars, trucks, and buses in use in the country. Furthermore, the number of merchant ships registered in Greece (mostly at Piraeus, the country's largest port) increased since the late 1960s as Greek shipowners answered the government's call to bring their foreign-registered ships home (though many Greek ships remain under other flags). Scores of shipping offices have opened in refurbished Piraeus, while on weekends shipping magnates sail to the nearby islands of Hydra and Spetse in chrome-fitted luxury yachts flying Panamanian or Liberian flags.
Snarled traffic and air pollution, long endemic problems for Athens, were both significantly reduced by the extensive transportation infrastructure improvements that were undertaken to prepare Athens to host the 2004 Olympic Games. A new airport, Athens International Airport—located east of central Athens between the towns of Koropi, Markopoulo, and Loutsa—was completed in 2001. Before the Games' opening ceremony, some 17 miles (27 km) of track and 28 stations were added to the metropolitan transit system, which includes an electrified rail line, buses, and trolleys. By the 2010s the Athens Metro network was being used by about 650,000 passengers per day. Larissa, the main railway station, links the city with the rest of the country and the continent.Blake Ehrlich The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica


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Men's Junior Training Team Announced
|The U.S. Men's Junior National Team salutes the flag at the 2012 NORCECA U21 Men's Continental Championship.
B.J. Hoeptner Evans, Manager, Communications, Phone: (719) 228-6800, E-Mail: email@example.com
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 30, 2013) – USA Volleyball has announced the 22 players that will comprise the 2013 U.S. Men's Junior National Volleyball Training Team.
From the roster of 22, 12 players will be chosen to compete in the FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship as well as the U21 Pan American Cup.
Eleven of the players on the training team were part of the 2012 U.S. Men's Junior National Team that won the NORCECA Men's Junior Continental Championship in Colorado Springs. However that does not mean they are shoe-ins to make the 2013 team, U.S. Men's Junior National Team Head Coach Pete Hanson said.
"As we watched players compete and looked at stats and checked their progress through the year, we saw some guys who were having very good college seasons and doing really nice things," Hanson said. "We took it upon ourselves to say, 'we need to look at those individuals.' "
The returning players on the roster are setters Micah Christenson (Honolulu, Hawaii), Matt West (Seattle, Wash.) and James Shaw (Woodside, Calif.), opposite Ben Patch (Provo, Utah), middle blockers Driss Guessous (Pasadena, Calif.) and Nick Olson (New Berlin, Wis.), outside hitters Michael Henchy (Ventura, Calif.), Greg Petty (Downers Grove, Ill.), Scott Rhein (Pleasant View, Tenn.) and D.J. White (Hermosa Beach, Calif.) and libero Tony Ensbury (Manhattan Beach, Calif.).
Players on the training team who were not on the 2012 U.S. Men's Junior National Volleyball Team are opposite Matt Marsh (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.), middle blockers Taylor Gregory (Saugus, Calif.), Ryan Hardy (Lake Forest, Calif.), Ryan Mather (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Bobby Walsh (Chicago, Ill.), outside hitters Tom Jaeschke (Wheaton, Ill.), Austin Kingi (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Kyle Russell (Loomis, Calif.) and Aaron Russell (Ellicott City, Md.), and liberos Brennan Anderson (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Andrew Sato (Calabasas, Calif.).
Besides Hanson, who is the head coach of the men's volleyball team at Ohio State University, the staff will include Jay Hosack, an assistant coach for the men's volleyball team at Penn State University, and Jonah Carson, an assistant coach for the men's volleyball team at University of the Pacific.
The 2013 FIVB Men's U21 World Championships will be Aug. 22-Sept. 1 in Ankara and Izmir, Turkey. The World Championship competition for athletes born in 1993 or later will be much fiercer than at the 2012 NORCECA Championship, where the U.S. Men's Junior Team won the gold medal having lost only one set in five matches against regional opponents.
"The competition is going be significantly upgraded from what we experienced last year," Hanson said. "We do have guys (on the training team) who have been on the international stage. That's going to help tremendously."
The U.S. Men's Junior National Training Team will first gather on June 16-20 in Southern California. During that time, the team will scrimmage Russia's boys' youth national team and the roster will be trimmed to 12 players. The team will then compete in the U21 Pan American Cup on July 12-20 in Costa Rica. Around Aug. 10, the team will reconvene at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs to train for the world championship in Turkey.
Hanson said he and his staff are not looking forward to having to cut the roster from 22 to 12, but know they must focus on creating the best team.
"It is all about putting together the best team," Hanson said. "We will have to tell the players, 'You might excel at one skill, but maybe it's not the skill that fits into the whole mix that makes us a stronger group.'"
2013 USA Men's Junior National Training Team
Name (Position, Hometown, School, USAV Region)
Brennan Anderson (L, Newport Beach, Calif., Ohio State University, SCVA)
Micah Christenson (S, Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Southern California, Aloha)
Tony Ensbury (L, Manhattan Beach, Calif., Princeton University, SCVA)
Taylor Gregory (MB, Saugus, Calif., Long Beach State University, SCVA)
Driss Guessous (MB, Pasadena, Calif., Ohio State University, SCVA)
Ryan Hardy (MB, Lake Forest, Calif., UC Santa Barbara, SCVA)
Michael Henchy (OH, Ventura, Calif., Ohio State University, SCVA)
Tom Jaeschke (OH, Wheaton, Ill., Loyola University, Chicago, Great Lakes)
Austin Kingi (OH, Thousand Oaks, Calif., UC Santa Barbara, SCVA)
Matt Marsh (Opp, Trabuco Canyon, Calif., UC Santa Barbara, SCVA)
Ryan Mather (MB, Redondo Beach, Calif., Grand Canyon University, SCVA)
Nicholas Olson (MB, New Berlin, Wis., Loyola University, Chicago, Badger)
Ben Patch (Opp, Provo, Utah, Brigham Young University, Intermountain)
Greg Petty (OH, Downers Grove, Ill., Lewis University, Great Lakes)
Scott Rhein (OH, Pleasant View, Tenn., Pepperdine University, Southern)
Kyle Russell (OH, Loomis, Calif., UC Irvine, NCVA)
Aaron Russell (OH, Ellicott City, Md., Penn State University, Chesapeake)
Andrew Sato (L, Calabasas, Calif., Long Beach State University, SCVA)
James Shaw (S, Woodside, Calif., Stanford University, NCVA)
Bobby Walsh (MB, Chicago, Ill., Lewis University, Great Lakes)
Matt West (S, Seattle, Wash., Pepperdine University, Puget Sound)
D.J. White (OH, Hermosa Beach, Calif., Harvard University, SCVA)
Head Coach Pete Hanson (Ohio State University)
Assistant Coach Jonah Carson (University of the Pacific)
Assistant Coach Jay Hossack (Penn State University)
Technical Assistant Jacob Schick
Team Manager Collin Powers (USA Volleyball)


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by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., February 13, 2002 -- Dreams of winning gold, silver, and bronze medals will not be limited to this year's Winter Olympics, since some of the hottest wintertime rivalries this side of Salt Lake City will be played out at the 16th Annual New Mexico Science Olympiad on Saturday, February 23, on the New Mexico Tech campus.
Nearly 800 student "intelletes" representing 25 middle schools and 26 high schools from throughout New Mexico will tax their brain power and motor skills in 54 spirited academic contests at this year's science competition.
Teams of Science Olympians will drop raw eggs from tall buildings, launch rockets powered by compressed air and water, build Rube Goldberg contraptions, and construct efficient cantilevers, bridges, and robots in a quest for Olympic-style medals and the chance to be among the two top teams that will represent New Mexico at the National Science Olympiad, being held May 17 - 18, at the University of Delaware in Newark.
Science Olympiad is a nationwide program that uses tournament competition as a means of challenging and motivating
science students in their academic pursuits. The competition requires teamwork, cooperation, planning, and months of practice,
providing students with a working knowledge of facts, concepts, and processes, as well as helping them develop thinking skills
through practical applications of science and engineering.