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The Junior World Championships in Jasna are now finished. Rossignol athletes have won 5 medals including 3 in gold!
Henrik Kristoffersen confirmed that he is the skier to follow for the next ten years! After winning the bronze medal in slalom at Sochi Olympic Games and four World Cup podiums this season, the racer from Rossignol Team was necessarily the favorite in Jasna. Two races and two victories for the young Norwegian in Giant Slalom and in Slalom! Already two times Junior World Champion in Combined (Quebec 2013) and in Giant Slalom (Roccaraso 2012), Kristoffersen adds two more gold medals to his prize-list. He will find the World Cup again this week-end in Kranjska Gora.
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Your Feb. 8 news article about the Army's plan to replace the N.C. National Guard's Apaches missed several key points. It's not your fault, since the pilots you talked to would certainly rather fly the Apaches than Blackhawks. After all, combat aircraft are sexier than transports, but there are larger issues.
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Second, with the end of war in Afghanistan, the Army has more Apaches than required, but it desperately needs to replace its aging fleet of scout helicopters. Repurposing expensive Apaches as scouts while giving the guard less costly Blackhawks makes perfect sense.
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The National Nuclear Security Administration this week, in conjunction with the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command, announced successful test flight tests using a Joint Test Assembly of the B61 Mod 7 (B61-7), B61 Mod 11 (B61-11), and the B83 strategic bombs.
In a statement, Brigadier General Sandra Finan, the NNSA's principal assistant deputy administrator for military application, said, "The recent JTA tests demonstrate NNSA's commitment to ensuring that all weapon systems perform as planned and that systems are safe, secure and effective."
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The Board of Education Meeting on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012 is Cancelled and the Nov 3, 2012 SAT is postponed to Nov 17, 2012
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As an aging veteran, I was absolutely enthralled by your most recent e-issue (The Last Rich Year, Fall 2010, pacificu.edu/magazine). Your portraits and examination of Pacific students' contributions to victory in WWII were marvelously researched, wonderfully written and genuinely contributed to continued understanding of "the Greatest Generation." The stories were literally "eye-watering" recounts of Pacific's history and the marvelous people who have attended our unique school. Everyone associated with this latest edition should be justifiably proud.
Most important was your revelation of something a lot of civilians don't understand: most military personnel, like Paul Ostrander '46, are pacifists at heart. They have volunteered to stand between their loved ones and the horror of war. Military personnel are rarely war lovers, and the very few who are, aren't after the first battle! Military personnel understand the true moral goal of a national military is to be strong enough to dissuade all attackers. Veterans know exactly how degrading and horrible war is, and plead for more capabilities not so they can "have more high-tech toys," but because they know their job is to stand between this nation, their loved ones, and the horror that is war.
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No amount of bad "buzz" should ever keep you from avoiding a movie you want to see, especially when it's a film that comes from someone like Francis Ford Coppola. Not to overstate the obvious, but the director of The Godfather, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and (the excellent) Tucker: The Man and His Dream has more than earned the benefit of the doubt, plus it's no secret that Mr. Coppola has a clear admiration for horror cinema; some of his other films include The Terror (1963), Dementia 13 (also 1963), and a fairly impressive 1992 rendition of Dracula.
Having said all of that, the filmmaker's latest -- a bizarre and languid horror mash-up known as Twixt -- is an appealing mess (if I'm being kind) and an eye-tickling analysis of how a writer finds his muse (if I'm being smart), but it's recommended only to A) Coppola completists, B) Val Kilmer fans, and C) Edgar Allen Poe fanatics. And even those folks should be in a charitable mood before settling in with Twixt.
The first layer of Twixt is about a semi-sleazy horror novelist called Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer) who wanders into a tiny town for a book signing in a hardware store, but finds himself captivated by the various mysteries surrounding Swann Valley. Like, what's the deal with the creepy young woman who wanders the woods all by herself? Why is the local sheriff obsessed with a rash of murders that involve wooden stakes? What's the deal with the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe offering writing tips? And why does the Swann Valley clock tower need seven separate faces?
If this sounds like a lot to squeeze into an artsy little 88-minute horror flick, you're only halfway to understanding how frequently (and almost happily) arcane this movie is. At some points Twixt feels like an earnest and literate attempt at something like Silent Hill, and at other moments it's little more than Val Kilmer moping around and staring at otherworldly apparitions that, quite frankly, talk too much.
Taken as a weird but sincere little experiment from a veteran filmmaker, Twixt certainly has some assets for the film geeks to savor: the cinematography is often quite beautiful, for example, and it's nice to see Val Kilmer working on a film that's slightly more accomplished than his normal B-movie fare. Additional cast highlights include Bruce Dern as a horror-lovin' sheriff with a big mouth; Ben Chaplin as an oddly intriguing version of Edgar Allan Poe; and Elle Fanning as the spectral lass who hides a terrible secret. I'm not sure that any of it makes a whole lot of sense, but Twixt does deliver some legitimate horror flick roughage (aka murders and chills and gore, oh my) before wrapping things up in rather Gothic fashion.
Twixt is a tough horror flick to recommend, seeing as how it was always going to be super-weird and I don't think it turned out how Mr. Coppola intended, but true students of the genre will certainly want to give it a spin at some point. I don't think it's a very good film, but I did enjoy a brief trek through Francis Ford Coppola's affection for horror fiction and scary cinema.


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I had a stage play to edit. I didn't shoot it, and that lack of quality control on the head end meant that the editing was not the straightforward matter it should have been. It was shot in HDV, which is stored as an MPEG-2 transport stream, and my normal editing program doesn't play nicely with MPEG-2. Because it was a rushed job, I didn't have time to pull in a developer to add HDV support to it. So, I was faced with the task of turning around a difficult edit on a short timetable, using footage in a file format my favorite editor couldn't read.
Fortunately, this is open source. And, the odds are that somewhere, someone has run into the same problem before and done something about it. In this case, my friend Dan Dennedy (developer of Kino) pointed me to a new video editing project named KDENLIVE (yes, it really is an acronym: the K Desktop Environment Non-LInear Video Editor), which is based upon his multitrack engine MLT (Mutton, Lettuce and Tomato—the XML file format it writes to, appropriately enough, is called Westley).
I had run across KDENLIVE before, but had run away just as fast. Yes, Virginia, there is a hell. And, it's a very special hell, more heinous than that reserved for child molesters and people who talk at the theater, grander than Dante's ninth circle reserved for the Borgia dynasty of Popes, with more exquisite torments. This tenth circle, invented in the digital age, exceeding any that came before it, is the bane of Linux users everywhere, Dependency Hell!
This special torture is reserved especially (though not exclusively) for those of us intent on bending the mighty Linux dragon to our will, forcing it to perform feats of derring-do in the creation of art. Occasionally, in this never-ending struggle to do with open source what people with bigger wallets do easily on a Mac, the erstwhile adventurer stumbles upon a tool, just on the point of maturity, suitable to be appropriated to the task at hand.
This time, I didn't have the option to run away from KDENLIVE. Blender wouldn't do—the Video Sequence Editor doesn't perform well enough on my machine to edit HD with real-time playback. Cinelerra wouldn't do—a program that crashes every few mouse clicks isn't my idea of fun. I could have done it in Kino, but that would make for nightmares conforming the audio later, as I'd have to patch it up manually in Audacity when the video cuts had to jump in the middle of a word (not to mention the necessity of converting to DV beforehand, which meant chewing up another 200GB of hard-drive space I wasn't keen on parting with).
None of the other projects on the radar looked like they offered any significant advantage over KDENLIVE, so I bit the bullet and downloaded the thing, steeled with a vial of holy water for my descent into that very special Dependency Hell.
I started working my way through the list and...everything worked. The install was almost flawless, aside from a couple tweaks that had to be made to the MLT build parameters to accommodate a 64-bit environment. Within about an hour (and that spent building the extensive list of dependencies from source), I was up and running.
Well, running might be overstating it a bit. This was KDENLIVE version 0.4, and it was dog slow. To bisect a clip, the work flow went like this:
Select razor tool.
Choose cut point.
Click on the cut point to make the cut.
Go into the kitchen, pour a fresh glass of iced tea.
Come back 45 seconds later just in time to see the cut update to the interface, and continue working.
No, I'm not exaggerating for comic effect.
This clearly was not going to work. I couldn't bill my client for time spent on a laggy interface, and I didn't much relish the thought of spending several orders of magnitude more time on the project than I could honestly bill for. As a last-ditch-effort before borrowing a Final Cut HD machine for the weekend, I gave the KDENLIVE SVN version a try.
This one worked. It was still a little slow, but it was certainly serviceable. It played the HDV back in real time, and its lack of an HD edit profile, while annoying, was not a deal-killer as my client wanted a standard-definition DVD as the end product.
KDENLIVE presents itself pretty much as a standard multitrack editor—its interface looks similar to versions of MainActor and Premier from years past. All visible and within easy view in nested, dockable tabs are as follows:
An asset management window.
Effects control dialog with the standard crop of basic transitions.
Clip selection, timeline and video capture viewer ports.
A multitrack a/v timeline supporting infinite tracks.
Stacking up against previous open-source forays into multitrack editing, KDENLIVE shows definite areas of improvement. It is the only NTSC-capable multitrack editor besides Cuisine (not currently maintained) that is suitable for doing long-form projects in Linux (at least, without plopping down upwards of $15k for a used Discrete Smoke workstation). To date, I've used it on three long-form projects, and the hours spent in front of it have been more than enough to shake out its better and worse points.
On the credit side of the equation, it doesn't seem to suffer from the sound-sync problem introduced by unlocked DV audio (a format that is, mercifully, beginning to ebb away as HDV with its constant bit rate audio replaces it). In most open-source editors (and some commercial ones), the slightly variable sampling rate of DV audio was enough to cause gradual sync slippage, running into several seconds of slippage over the course of an hour-long DV tape. Good DV editors, like Kino, had internal resampling that kept things on track in the editor, but upon format conversion for a DVD, the sync problem would show up in spades. Kino fixed this problem by integrating audio locking upon export. Although KDENLIVE does not obviously do this, it nevertheless seems not to suffer from this problem—or, if it does, I haven't detected it yet.
KDENLIVE's variety of export profiles also is worth cheering about. Presets (customizable) for most conceivable end formats are here, from Flash to H.264, from DV to DVD—a full range of standard-definition and Web profiles is here for the asking. The list of importable formats is no less impressive; because it uses FFMPEG for its encoding and decoding engine, it imports anything FFMPEG can read. This alone places KDENLIVE near the top of the heap for format compatibility.
Finally, the list of available video effects and transitions, although limited, are well implemented and have sensible, accessible interfaces. The maintainers' determination to make a program that "just works" shines through in many areas, even at this early beta stage.
"The audio fader envelopes are not directly editable on the timeline, but may be accessed only through the effects control interface—a situation that is cumbersome at best."
- I have Kdenlive 0.5 installed and it is now possible. It is also possible to see audio thumbnails.
"The faders are limited further by the ability to insert only two keyframes in any given clip, so doing something as simple as a fade-out at the end of a clip necessitates slicing off a separate clip solely for the purposes of fading out—a definite work-flow impediment. Other effects suffer from similar limited keyframe-ability."
- Ctrl-click in the timelime adds keyframes. Dragging keyframes away from the timeline deletes them.
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"The Dark Knight" sequel will swoop into theaters on July 20, 2012, Access Hollywood has confirmed with Warner Bros.
The third film in director Chris Nolan's reinvention of the Batman saga has yet to begin production due to the director's duties on this summer's "Inception," though brother Jonathan Nolan is currently penning a script.
Given its predecessors, the film comes with high expectations – "The Dark Knight" broke box office records during its $158 million opening weekend and earned late star Heath Ledger a posthumous Oscar for his role as The Joker.
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The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 caused widespread devastation, killing 227,000 people across 14 countries, with Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand the hardest hit. This exceptional emergency resulted in Oxfam's largest ever emergency response, extending across seven countries and over a period of five years.
Oxfam raised $294m from across the world to fund its work, 92 per cent of which came from an unprecedented public response. The disaster triggered Oxfam's first truly co-ordinated response as a global confederation, with 12 Oxfam affiliates co-ordinating their efforts through the Oxfam International Tsunami Fund (OITF).
Hundreds of thousands of people are now living in better conditions.
Oxfam and its partners responded with relief, rehabilitation, and recovery activities across seven countries affected by the tsunami: Indonesia (specifically Aceh and Nias), Sri Lanka, India, the Maldives, Myanmar, Thailand, and Somalia. These activities stretched from the days immediately following the tsunami in 2004 through to 2009. Activities undertaken included support for livelihoods, public health, and shelter for affected communities.
Despite the challenging circumstances, we have achieved a huge amount. Hundreds of thousands of people are now living in better conditions than they were before the tsunami, thanks in no small part to the generosity of people around the world.
1. Tsunami Fund - End of Program Report (2008) – download or read online
This report, published in December 2008, gives a summary of the work which Oxfam carried out, assisting around 2.5 million people in seven countries. It includes case studies of individual beneficiaries and their stories of hope and recovery, and is available in English, French and Spanish.
2. In the Wake of the Tsunami: An evaluation of Oxfam International's response to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami (December 2009)
The final evaluation report highlights some of the best of Oxfam's experience – strategies and activities to be repeated in other emergency responses – and identifies areas where we need to do things differently.
3. Collaboration in Crises: Lessons in community participation from the Oxfam International Tsunami research program (December 2009)
Since early in 2005, Oxfam has carried out research in the affected communities of India and Sri Lanka, laying the groundwork for programs, capturing observations and experiences of community members, and exploring new approaches to disaster response and risk reduction. The program was aimed at improving the policies and practices of Oxfam and other aid agencies, as well as contributing to the effectiveness of the global humanitarian community in future emergencies.
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Endangered silverswords (ahinahina) on the high elevations of Haleakala volcano began blooming in unusual abundance this week. If you're on Maui now, it's worth a trip to the summit to see the rare natural event for yourself!
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Since 2001, the nonprofit Paepae o Heeia has been working alongside thousands of residents and visitors on the restoration of Heeia Fishpond. Whether your aim is to get dirty helping out or simply to visit, the centuries-old Hawaiian fishpond is a must-see marvel of human perseverance.
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Check out the month-long seventh annual Honolulu Surf Film Festival, kicking off this weekend. The surf flicks - from Hawaii and all over the world - range from thought provoking to entertaining, covering issues of gender and sexuality as well as tales of adventurous surfers searching the globe for the ultimate wave.
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Montana Reaches 'No Child' Compromise
More than 10 states have expressed interest in applying for No Child Left Behind exemptions.
Yesterday, Montana reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education to lower the yearly targets for math and reading stipulated by No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the law that requires students in the public education system to be "proficient" in reading and math.
The deal will allow the state's schools to receive federal education funding, which was in jeopardy because many were expected to miss benchmark targets.
Obama and Duncan have spent much of the past 18 months asking Congress to revamp the law, which was authorized by President George W. Bush in 2001. The law has been up for renewal and an overhaul since 2007. In March 2011, Duncan said that up to 82 percent of all public schools could miss benchmarks set by the law, and that a new, more reasonable law needed to be implemented.
[Read an expert opinion on why No Child Left Behind should be rewritten.]
Last week, President Obama gave the Department of Education the go-ahead to allow states to apply for NCLB waivers, turning Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's threats to Congress into a reality.
Since the announcement, many states have contacted the administration to apply for waivers, which would allow states that focus on school reform to be exempt from meeting some of the law's test achievement requirements.
The Montana deal is not as comprehensive as an official waiver, and the state will not be required to accept any reforms, according to an official from State Superintendent Denise Juneau's office.
[Learn about the Republican reaction to Obama's announcement.]
Last week, Duncan singled out Tennessee as a state that was making educational reform progress despite poor results on NCLB benchmarks. The state became one of the first to file its waiver application, but has not yet received Department of Education approval. Other states expressing early interest include Kansas, New Jersey, Missouri, Indiana, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Nevada, and Georgia.
Dan Domench, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators, told The Washington Times that he expects most states will eventually apply for a waiver.
Russ Whitehurst, senior fellow of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, a think tank, wrote last week that there is "no question that schools are being over-identified by NCLB as requiring intervention," and that because Congress hasn't yet acted, it is "reasonable" for the Obama administration to offer waivers.
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Voters returned Danielle Gregoire to the Legislature on Tuesday, when she defeated incumbent Fourth Middlesex District State Rep. Steven Levy.
Tuesday's election was the second straight race between Gregoire, a Democrat, and Levy, a Republican, both of Marlborough. Levy won their 2010 contest by about 100 votes. Levy said tonight that preliminary results had this year's gap at 233 votes.
The district includes Precincts 1 and 3 in Westborough; Precincts 1 and 3 in Northborough; and these areas of Marlborough: Ward 2, Precinct 1; Wards 3, 4, 5 and 6; and Ward 7, Precinct 2.
"It feels great. We worked really hard," Gregoire said tonight.
"I don't think we did anything differently, but we did things more. We started knocking on doors in February."
Levy said it was "hard to say" what factors decided Tuesday's contest.
"Obviously, it's always more difficult for Republicans in presidential years. Much higher turnouts," Levy said at the Celtic Tavern in Northborough, where his campaign held an election night party.
"Obviously, we haven't seen the final results from the Scott Brown-Elizabeth Warren race, but it looks like Scott's down as well. And also, a lot of enthusiasm on the Democratic side of the ballot for Elizabeth and for the President."
Levy said he called Gregoire and congratulated her.
Tuesday's election covered different geography than the candidates' 2010 contest.
Some of those doors were in new communities this time, after redistricting due to the most recent census.
In 2010, the Fourth Middlesex District consisted of Marlborough, Berlin, and Southborough Precinct 1, according to the Secretary of State's website.
In 2010, in Westborough, Precinct 2 was in the Eighth Middlesex District. Precincts 3 and 5 were in the Ninth Worcester District. And Precincts 1 and 4 were in the Eleventh Worcester District.
"I think that was one of the big challenges: with the redistricting, picking up two new towns," Levy said.
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Early unofficial results from Town Clerk Nancy Yendriga had Gregoire winning in Westborough, 1,493 to 1,480.
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By John Shinn
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NORMAN — It wasn't the missed shots that had Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger irked after Tuesday's 81-78 loss at Arkansas. He'll take a 55.4-percent shooting night anytime, anywhere, against anybody.
It was OU's defensive effort that elevated his blood pressure.
"We had stretches of decent play, but we didn't sustain anything defensively," Kruger said. "We'd go along and have a pretty good possession and then we'd give up a second shot or layup or break down late. We have to be grittier, tougher, more physical. Easier said than done, because it's not our nature personality wise. We have to work on that."
Defense is where OU (6-2) has made its biggest leap since last season ended. It held its first seven opponents — including No. 10 Gonzaga — to less than 50 percent shooting. Only Oral Roberts, which the Sooners beat 63-62 on Nov. 28, shot over 50 percent in a half.
Arkansas didn't have a problem getting the ball in the basket, shooting 52.6 percent from the field and 9 for 22 from 3-point range.
Some of the defense issues could be traced to facing a hot player. Arkansas forward Marshawn Powell scored a career-high 33 points with 12 of it coming on 4-for-6 shooting from beyond the 3-point line.
Powell only made three treys in the Razorbacks' first six games.
The rest of it lacked an acceptable excuse.
The Sooners employed their usual 10-man rotation. Only guard Steven Pledger played over 30 minutes. They still had plenty of energy to rally to take the lead with 20 seconds remaining.
The permanent memory from Tuesday's game will be Arkansas guard B.J. Young's off-balance floater that went in with 14 seconds to give the Razorbacks the lead for good.
That was a tough, contested shot.
OU's issue was the other 34 points it allowed in the paint and the 14 points it gave up off offensive rebounds.
"We had a lot of possessions where the first 30 seconds on the shot clock was really good defense. In that last five seconds, we'd give up that offensive rebound or break down and someone got a wide-open layup because we didn't talk or don't help," OU forward Romero Osby said. "Those are the kinds of things that frustrate as a player or a coach. You work so hard for 30 seconds to play really good defense and you have a breakdown in the last five seconds. I think that was the whole tale of the game."
The sting from the loss will stick around for a while. The Sooners don't play again until they face Texas A&M on Dec. 15 in All-College Classic at Chesapeake Arena in Oklahoma City.
A lot of time will be spent on the defensive end. It was the difference between winning a big game and losing one Tuesday.
"We need to be more aggressive, more committed, more physical," Kruger said. "We have a few days to work on all that."
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While Johnny Deaton and Trey McVay were setting records in the passing game in 2011, the Northeastern State running game suffered. The RiverHawks posted a pedestrian 1,793 yards on the ground.
The RiverHawks set a trend to change that in the season opener on Thursday night in a 41-20 loss to Pittsburg State.
NSU, led by Terrance Dixon's 128 yards and two touchdowns, amassed 142 yards on 24 carries.
"We rushed the ball effectively in the first half," Northeastern State head coach Kenny Evans said. "That opened up some things for us. That was one of our goals."
After Pitt State scored at the 9:01 mark in the first quarter, Dixon responded with a 46-yard rushing score less than four minutes later.
"Get in that end zone T.D.," Dixon said of what was going through his mind when he saw nothing between him and goal line but green grass. "That's all."
Deaton dusted up
From a brief moment, NSU faithful held their breath in the third quarter.
Deaton scrambled left and was tackled hard on his left shoulder, prompting him to head toward the sidelines to be evaluated. With 40 seconds left until the fourth quarter, Dallas McCutcheon was suddenly in charge of the RiverHawks' offense.
However, NSU was forced to call a timeout when McCutcheon couldn't get the play off in enough time.
Coming out the timeout, Deaton was back in the huddle and finished the game.
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When NSU posted its pregame depth chart, former Wagoner standout, Prince McJunkins, was nowhere to be found. He was, however, listed on the roster.
And that's a good thing for the RiverHawks. The sophomore transfer from Georgia Southern caught three passes and 36 yards against Pitt State.
Not bad for a guy who wasn't even slated to play much early on this season.
"Prince, we knew, would be a very good football player, but we didn't know he'd be ready this quick," Evans said. "He's not only had to move from a quarterback position that he played at high school and Georgia Southern, but he also had to move to the wide receiver spot and learn a whole new terminology and a whole new system.
"I was very impressed with the things he did."


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Are you in the process of updating your kitchen or bathroom? If so, you are in for a surprise when you get to which countertop product to use! In the "good old days" you didn't have much of a choice except color - formica was the product that was used and most popular. The next product to gain popularity was tile - it was more durable than formica and there were lots of colors to choose from. As people learned that grout was just NOT a fun item to clean, more time and effort was put into design ideas for your counters.
Today we have a wide array to choose from. You can still use formica - inexpensive and easy to clean! Tile is still available but less likely to be seen today - even though grout products have improved. Of course, the #1 counter is granite. This is a beautiful product, easy to clean and maintain, with a wide array of color choices! Designers have not stopped there! There are a lot of interesting man made products available, many which use recycled products and are very green! In the picture above you see the use of concrete counters! I know you are thinking of the front steps into many homes today - as you can see above it's a whole different product design! Other materials that are interesting are stainless steel, quartz, wood, and glass! There are so many to choose from!
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Insect bioassay for determining soil degradation of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki CryIA(b) protein in corn tissue
Authors: Sims, S.R., Holden, L.R.
Journal, Volume, Year: Environmental Entomology, volume 25(3):659-664, 1996
Bioassays using larval growth of Heliothis virescens were used to study the environmental fate of Btk Cry1Ab protein. Four treatments were evaluated in this study and included Bt corn tissue with and without soil and non-Bt corn tissue with and without soil. Drummer loam soil was used along with Btk corn plant tissue expressing Cry1Ab toxin that was harvested about 2 weeks after pollen was shed. Treatments were incubated at 24 to 27�C at >80% humidity for 43 days. Each treatment was sampled on 0, 7, 11, 21, 30, and 43 d. After incubation, a series of dilutions was made from each incubated sample, mixed into artificial insect diet, and fed to neonate H. virescens. After 7 days of growth, larvae were weighed, and the bioactivity of Cry1Ab protein was determined using regression analysis of the dose-weight response data. Cry1Ab protein as a component of Bt corn had an estimated half-life of 1.6 d when added to soil compared to 26 d without soil.
This is one of the few studies that used natural soil and Bt toxin from transgenic crops. It is unclear whether lyophilized or non-lyophilized corn tissue was used in the treatments. This could have a significant effect on the degradation of Btk toxin. Study only used insect bioassay to determine presence of the toxin


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Thirty-year-old Byron Lewis says he went in to have a vasectomy shortly before his wife was due to give birth to their second son. It was May 7th of this year.
He says he was healthy and feeling fine the day of the procedure, which he says was performed in his doctor's office.
"A couple of days later I was still in a lot of pain and I was noticing my right testicle was getting larger," says Lewis.
He says he went back to the doctor.
"He told me everything is perfectly fine, nothing is wrong. Keep you feet elevated, put ice on it and you'll be fine. But the next day it got worse," says Lewis.
Again he returned to the doctor and again he says he was told he was fine. Even though he says by this time his testicle was the size of a large egg.
"He prescribed me antibiotics, but that didn't work. I went to the emergency room by ambulance because I couldn't walk," says Lewis.
He says the ER found fluid in the area where he had surgery, but says the ER told him to return to his urologist for treatment.
Lewis says he did that and was told, "it was fine, sometime things happen like this. It will go down in a couple of days just do what I tell you and day off your feet."
Lewis says he had done exactly what the doctor had told him to do when he had the vasectomy. He says he stayed off his feet and used cold packs for the pain. He says, by now his testicle was the size of a large tangerine.
Lewis says he felt like the doctor thought he was trying to get pain pills and was not taking his condition seriously. He says he went back to the emergency room, but again was referred back to his doctor.
Jennifer Waugh asked him, "At what point did you realize this was a terrible infection? When I went to the emergency room for the 3rd time the lady zoomed in and said, oh my God, you are so full of infection it's spreading all upwards to your lower abdominal area. It's all in your thigh area, all in your side," says Lewis.
He says an infectious disease diagnosed it as flesh-eating bacteria.
"It was the scariest thing that ever happened to me in my life," says Lewis.
"I had a child that was going to be born July 3rd and know that this right here was going to take my life? It was the scariest feeling," says Lewis.
His wife, Pairis was 8 months pregnant. Crying she told Jennifer, "to have a diagnosis of flesh-eating bacteria you just see peoples' bodies disappear. Everything cut off, that's what i thought was going to happen. You try to have faith, but how do you do that with this diagnosis?"
Lewis was given only a 20% chance to live. He spent two months in the hospital and says he underwent 16 surgeries to cut out the bacteria. He says his infectious disease doctor used a hyperbaric chamber to fight the bacteria. He says if his urologist had not rejected his complaints of pain for two weeks, he believes the infection would have been caught earlier.
Jennifer interviewed Dr. Mobeen Rathore, an infectious disease doctor at Shands. He has never treated Lewis and talked with Jennifer in general about how flesh-eating bacteria is spread.
"Staph and Strep is on everyone's skin. It's on your skin, it's on my skin. You never really get rid of it," says Dr. Rathore.
If a staph infection is untreated, he says it can turn into necrotizing fasciitis, which is the medical term for flesh-eating bacteria. "The germs are unfortunately very smart. They've been around much longer than you and me have been and they survive. They're very survivable," the doctor says.


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The art of suspense
'Psycho,' the Hitchcock masterpiece made in 1960, is gripping even today.
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Despite a strong voice, Salem Gayatri did not make an impact.
With a fresh lilt
There was exuberance in Nanditha Ravi's approach, while the Sattur Sisters preferred to highlight the swara segments.
Grandeur of the gharanas
Satyasheel Deshpande's love for khayal music led to the setting up of Samvaad.
Deprived of original élan
In the name of restoration, the murals at many ancient temples in Tamil Nadu have been ruined by being painted over.
"Encouraging, inspiring"
Long association or chance meeting, M.F. Hussain made an impact.
Musician with many dimensions
To S. Ramanathan by Geetha Bennett in commemoration of Father's Day that passed on June 19.
The voice falls silent
Carnatic vocalist Vanaja Narayanan passed away recently.
Legacy kept alive
To Sri Yogi Nareyana Yathindra, a saint-composer of Kaivara, Karnataka, whose works reflect his bhakti, gnana and vairagya.
Notes of harmony
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Steeped in bhakti
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Libya Crisis Proves Obama's Foreign Policy Weakness
How quickly the tables have turned against President Obama and his allies who attacked Mitt Romney on national security issues.
How quickly the tables have turned against President Obama and his allies who attacked Mitt Romney on national security issues.
On the anniversary of the September 11 attacks that killed some 3,000 people, several immediate challenges and embarrassments have occurred that the Obama administration must get a handle on immediately. These actions already cast severe doubts that the president has the ability to manage America's interests in the Middle East.
[Read the U.S. News debate: Can Mitt Romney best Barack Obama on national security?]
On September 11th, armed gunmen attacked the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi causing the death of the U.S. ambassador and three of his staffers. The armed group is said to have been protesting a film being produced in the United States that insulted the Prophet Mohammad. In addition, Egyptian protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy on Tuesday, tore down the American flag, and burned it during a protest over what they said was the same film. In place of the U.S. flag, the protesters tried to raise a black flag with the words "There is no God but God, and Mohammad is his messenger", according to a witness.
The U.S. embassy in Egypt released a statement on the anniversary of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil that apologized to the angry mob. The statement said it "condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims -- as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy," the statement said. "We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others."
[See a collection of political cartoons on the turmoil in the Middle East.]
So an angry mob that storms the walls of the American embassy and terrorists that overrun the U.S. consulate in Libya cause the Obama Administration to quickly bow down and apologize? Is it a universal right of free speech to breach the walls of the American embassy and burn the American flag in Cairo, and to kill the ambassador and three staffers at the U.S. consulate in Libya? One would understand if a statement was made on September 10 or 12 that said the American government did not condone the riot-causing video and also called for peaceful protests and civil discourse. But this move made by the Obama administration sent a signal that it's OK for people that don't like the United States to push our country around. In the words of columnist Charles Krauthammer, it's like saying "Thank you. May I please have another."
Here's another diplomatic head scratcher. All it took was a phone call to solve the problem. Growing tensions around Iran's nuclear capability resulted in a request from Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's office to meet with Obama in Washington as part of the prime minister's trip to the United Nations in New York later this month. However it was rejected because of the president will be in campaign mode Netanyahu, however, is expected to meet with other senior U.S. officials in New York, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
According news reports, Netanyahu said that those who do not place "red lines" in front of Iran's nuclear capability have no moral right to put a "red light" in front of Israel when it comes to military action. Netanyahu's words came in the wake of statements by Clinton on Sunday, and State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland on Monday, that the United States had no intention of putting either red lines or deadlines in front of the Iranians.
[Read the U.S. News debate: Should the United States should discourage Israel from attacking Iran?]
So President Obama turned down the Prime Minister of Israel because he's campaigning? One has a growing uneasy feeling that Israel may soon attack Iran and Obama wants nothing to do with it because it may impact the presidential race. If there was ever a time to show American voters how to lead the country during an impending crisis, this is it. Because like it or not, this will have a major impact if tensions escalate into an attack. So after a day of sticking to his guns, the president finally made an hour-long phone call to Netanyahu to discuss Iran.
These embarrassments come on the heels of the Democratic National Convention fiasco when it took the ruling of the chair to quell a rebellion of putting "God" and naming Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel back into the party platform.
President Obama cannot afford to politically posture when America's national security is on the line. He must do his job, exert his role as commander in chief, and prove himself to American voters. To continue campaign and criticize Romney's foreign policy credentials is now pointless when true leadership is required.


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By Sam Pollak
The Daily Star
---- — Exhausted from a nonstop regimen of doing nothing, members of Congress — the best politicians money can buy — are badly in need of a vacation.
The poor dears are absolutely pooped, having not passed an immigration bill … or a farm bill … or a transportation and housing bill … or a reasonable gun-control bill … or come up with a plan to allow the United States of America to pay its bills.
So while thousands of Americans suffer under the effects of an unnecessary sequestration caused by their representatives' obduracy, Congress is taking five weeks off.
It will be rather difficult to tell the difference.
Each legislative proposal made by President Barack Obama — even those incorporating traditionally Republican ideas — is dead on arrival in the House of Representatives, and no one in the GOP has a kind word to say about it at the funeral.
On Tuesday, the president proposed cutting the corporate tax rate — something Republicans have been wanting for a long time — and use the expected increased tax revenue for worker training and to invest in jobs making infrastructure improvements.
However, the Republicans wouldn't take "yes" for an answer.
"This proposal allows President Obama to support President Obama's position on taxes and President Obama's position on spending, while leaving small businesses and American families behind," said House Speaker John Boehner's spokesman.
So, with all the problems facing the country they profess to love, in the last week before their recess, House Republicans hurried to pass a bill to … repeal Obamacare … again.
It is the 40th bill they have passed to repeal Obamacare.
It is the 40th time they have wasted time and money knowing full-well that the repeal stood no chance in the Democratic Party-controlled Senate.
Meanwhile, in that Senate, a faction of Tea Party Republicans wants to shut down the government if that's what it would take to repeal Obamacare. That unrealistic and potentially politically suicidal idea was immediately rejected by the Republicans' common sense caucus.
Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn did the math and said the GOP couldn't come close to enough votes to get past the Senate or an Obama veto. Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina called shutting down the government to defund Obamacare the "dumbest idea" he ever heard of. Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama said it was foolish, and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said it was bad policy and bad politics.
"The American people want common-sense solutions," Collins said. "They don't want us to pursue policies that are pointless, that are going to end in governments shutting down, more partisanship, more gridlock. They want us to actually get things done."
A recent Rasmussen poll showed Congress' approval rating at less than 10 percent, making Obama's worst-of-his-presidency 45 percent look astronomical by comparison.
"The American people are interested in seeing some result from the Congress," said Sen. John McCain, one of the few members of the GOP willing to work with Obama on anything. Referring to the poll, he said "members of Congress ranked just below a colonoscopy. We'd like to get above a colonoscopy."
At least a colonoscopy gets something accomplished, which is more than we can say about the Republicans in the Senate, who have smashed all records for filibustering bills and presidential appointments.
Americans crave the comity, dignity and reasonable debate on the issues that used to be a hallmark of the Senate. They desire achievement and honorable compromise over take-no-prisoners party politics. A case in point is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Christie is a Republican in a very Democratic state. His approval rating is close to 70 percent and he is a sure bet for re-election. He's combative to the point of being coarse on occasion and is not the least bit reluctant to fire back at anyone who criticizes him.
So why is he so popular?
Because in October, when Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast and caused an estimated $68 billion in damages, Christie put his constituents ahead of politics. One of Mitt Romney's fiercest advocates in the presidential campaign, Christie had ripped Obama at every opportunity. But when New Jersey needed massive federal aid, Christie worked closely with Obama to get it.
Seeing the Democratic president and the Republican governor touring the disaster areas together, being friendly with each other and doing their best to help people just warmed the cockles of Americans fed up with the petty mendacity they see every day in Washington and in the nation's statehouses.
Those no-longer-frigid cockles probably helped Obama get re-elected and have made Christie a frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.
While all those lawmakers are on vacation, it would be nice if they took a lesson from Christie and decided to give turmoil and gridlock a rest, too.
Sam Pollak is the editor of The Daily Star. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or at (607) 432-1000, ext. 208. His columns can be found at www.thedailystar.com/sampollak.


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Nicholas Kristof
Damon Winter/The New York Times
Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for The New York Times since 2001, writes op-ed columns that appear twice a week. Mr. Kristof won the Pulitzer Prize two times, in 1990 and 2006. In 2012, he was a Pulitzer finalist in Commentary for his 2011 columns that often focused on the disenfranchised in many parts of the world.
Mr. Kristof grew up on a sheep and cherry farm near Yamhill, Oregon. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College and then studied law at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, graduating with first class honors. He later studied Arabic in Cairo and Chinese in Taipei.
While working in France after high school, he caught the travel bug and began backpacking around Africa and Asia during his student years, writing articles to cover his expenses.
Mr. Kristof has lived on four continents, reported on six, and traveled to more than 150 countries, plus all 50 states, every Chinese province and every main Japanese island. He jokes that he's one of the very few Americans to be at least a two-time visitor to every member of the so-called Axis of Evil. During his travels, he has had unpleasant experiences with malaria, mobs and an African airplane crash.
After joining The Times in 1984, initially covering economics, he served as a Times correspondent in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo. He also covered presidential politics and is the author of the chapter on President George W. Bush in the reference book "The Presidents." He later was Associate Managing Editor of the Times, responsible for Sunday editions.
In 1990 Mr. Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, then also a Times journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China's Tiananmen Square democracy movement. They were the first married couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism. Mr. Kristof won a second Pulitzer in 2006, for commentary for what the judges called "his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and that gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world."
He has also won other prizes including the George Polk Award, the Overseas Press Club award, the Michael Kelly award, the Online News Association award and the American Society of Newspaper Editors award. Mr. Kristof has taken a special interest in Web journalism and was the first blogger on The New York Times Web site; he also tweets and has a Facebook fan page and a channel on YouTube.
A documentary about him, "Reporter," aired on HBO in 2010. A January 1997 article that Mr. Kristof wrote about child deaths in the developing world helped lead Bill and Melinda Gates to focus their charitable work on global health, and the article is framed in the gallery of the Gates Foundation.
In his column, Mr. Kristof was an early opponent of the Iraq war, and among the first to warn that we were losing ground to the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. He was among the first to raise doubts about WMD in Iraq, he was the first to report that President Bush's State of the Union claim about Iraq seeking uranium from Africa was contradicted by the administration's own investigation. He has visited the Darfur region more than 10 times. His columns have often focused on global health and poverty and he has also written often about human trafficking.
Mr. Kristof and Ms. WuDunn are authors of "China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power" and "Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia" and "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide". Mr. Kristof and Ms. WuDunn are the parents of Gregory, Geoffrey and Caroline. Mr. Kristof enjoys running, backpacking, and having his Chinese and Japanese corrected by his children.
All-Knowing Amazon
A reader is disturbed by the idea that Amazon monitors what passages its Kindle customers highlight.
August 1, 2014, Friday
Our Blind Spot About Guns
We have made cars safer with sensible regulations. Why can't we do the same with guns?
July 31, 2014, Thursday
The World's Coolest Places
Looking for a summer escape? Here are some suggestions for adventure way beyond a scintillating beach read.
July 27, 2014, Sunday
An Idiot's Guide to Inequality
If you don't have time for Thomas Piketty's comprehensive best seller, here's a quick five-point take on the gap between the rich and poor.
July 24, 2014, Thursday
Who's Right and Wrong in the Middle East?
With Israeli troops in Gaza again, there's a symmetry in the rhetoric by partisans on both sides of the conflict.
July 20, 2014, Sunday
Leading Through Great Loss
Those who have lost the most and have the biggest reason for revenge in the Middle East offer the greatest wisdom.
July 17, 2014, Thursday
Those Girls Haven't Been Brought Back
Leaders love to talk a good game on promoting education, but they don't deliver.
July 13, 2014, Sunday
Religious Freedom in Peril
This is no Supreme Court case. This is about intolerance in some Muslim-majority countries.
July 10, 2014, Thursday
When They Imprison the Wrong Guy
This legal thriller isn't a John Grisham tale. It's a Texas man's life story. And his perspective on the criminal justice system was unjustly earned.
July 6, 2014, Sunday
Porsches, Potholes and Patriots
The anti-tax crusaders love to oppose taxation without representation, but important public investments deserve their due on this patriotic holiday.
July 3, 2014, Thursday
Talk to The Times: Nicholas D. Kristof
Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas D. Kristof answered readers' questions July 6-10, 2009.
Darfur, Forgotten Too Soon
The Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof reports from Eastern Chad, where Darfuris flood into camps to escape the violence in their homeland.
In Malawi, Tiny Loans Offer Hope
Reporting from Malawi, the Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof meets Biti Rose, who used a $2 loan from her village savings group to start a successful doughnut business.
A Doctor Beaten by Police
The Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof talked with the family of a physician who was beaten by police after he tried to help injured protesters.
A Transformation in Haiti
After 13 months in a local aid program in Haiti, Odecile Jean is starting to turn her life around.
Rabbis for Human Rights
The Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas D. Kristof sees how Rabbis for Human Rights are a voice of conscience in the West Bank, protecting Palestinian farmers from some hostile Jewish settlers.
Inside the Brothels
Seven unforgettable stories in the battle against sex trafficking, collected over two decades of reporting. Curated by Nicholas Kristof.
21st-Century Concentration Camps
Nicholas Kristof travels to Myanmar, where Muslims are confined to camps or within their own villages, deprived of jobs, schools and doctors. Why is the world silent?
Collecting Wood for Pennies
With no jobs available, Anwa Begum dives for driftwood to sell as firewood.
Dr. Pharmacist
After Asiya Khatu smashed her finger in a door, she was treated by a pharmacist, not a doctor. (This is a clip from a forthcoming short documentary from Nicholas Kristof and Adam B. Ellick.)
Nicholas Kristof on Tiananmen Square
Nicholas Kristof remembers the unlikely heroes of the protests 25 years ago.
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July 31, 2014
March 18, 2013
Parents and supporters of the First Tee program in Charlottesville are making their points clear to city council. They're asking councilors to keep funding for the program. The program is on the chopping block in the city's proposed budget.
Supporters say out of the almost $148,000,000 budget, they would only need around $40,000 to operate.
"The ones that we see that come through, one of the biggest things it brings them out from being wall flowers if you will. I think you heard one lady in there earlier say how shy her son was before the First Tee and he's gone all the way up and competed in national events" said supporter Wayne Hall.
Organizers say the program is about more than just golf, it is also about youth development.


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