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We are excited to announce that The Vera Project is partnering with Summit Block Party this year and will have our very own Vera Stage! The event is Saturday August 9th from 11:00am to 9:30pm between E Olive & Howell Street. There will be plenty of great DIY music, crafts, art, and more!
Here is this year's lineup:
The Pharmacy // Ecstatic Cosmic Union // Snuff Redux // Great Spiders // Kleine // Kelli Frances Corrado // Wayfinders // Parker Edison //
Bad Tats // CMRTYZ // Diogenes // Carnotaurus //Lifeslow // Funky Photos // Nightspace // Spread Thick Crew
Official Website: www.summitblockparty.com
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By Danyka Tagg
A rising act in the world of Alternative Rock, The Kongos have formed a distinct style with influences ranging from all different grounds. The band is composed of four brothers including Johnny, Jesse, Dylan and Daniel Kongos. Having endured life shaping steps moving from London to South Africa, and now to Arizona, the band is cultured from various different roots. With a collective South African inspired sound and a funky accordion beat, their songs have been rising to top the charts in the past weeks. They recently sat down with The Vera Project at Sasquatch! Music Festival 2014 to talk about their experiences on tour and at the fest.Read the full post HERE.
The Vera Project is excited to announce the 12th annual drinking fundraiser A Drink for the Kids! Happening just in time to gear up for the best week of the summer, when the sun shines the longest and the cocktails are the most refreshing, we invite Seattle's 21+ music and arts loving community to support programs for all ages at the Vera Project just by drinking at their favorite neighborhood bars!
Vera is excited to welcome Tito's Vodka and local distillery 3 Howls as A Drink for the Kids' liquor sponsors, and welcomes back Eugene, Oregon's Ninkasi Brewery as beer sponsor. During A Drink for the Kids, 100% of the proceeds raised from the purchase of any Tito's, 3 Howls cocktails, or Ninkasi beer directly benefit The Vera Project. Each night will feature raffles with fun prizes from partners like Seattle Theatre Group, Sub Pop, the Show Box, Bon Voyage Vintage, and more, with the Linda's Tavern night also featuring a small silent auction of sought after items.
Read the full post HERE.
By Shaun Mejia
Eugene Mirman has had an unconventional rise in the past few years. After moving from Russia to Massachusetts, he graduated from Hampshire College with a Bachelor of Arts in Comedy (the college offered a "choose your own major" program). From performing festivals and opening for bands like The Shins and Modest Mouse to starting his own comedy festival as a joke, Mirman has paved his own path in a career that spans over 20 years. While polishing his stand up, he landed small roles like Bret and Jemaine's landlord Eugene on Flight of the Conchords and Russian mobster Yvgeny Mirminsky in Delocated. Currently, he voices the character Gene on Fox's series Bob's Burgers, a kid who loves music as much as he loves farts. He is also involved with Cosmos host Neil Degrasse Tyson on a podcast called Star Talk. The Vera Project got a chance to talk to him at the Sasquatch Festival about why people at the Gorge have it together, possible alien life, and yelling jokes at an audience. Read the full post HERE.
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Welcome to Shell in the United States.
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- 07/28/2014 Shell Wins Bid For Offshore Block in Colombia, With Ecopetrol
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Update, Oct. 3
A second suspect, also a juvenile, was arrested Tuesday in connection with last week's robbery, according to Prince George's County Police.
Update, 5:16 p.m.:
Prince George's County Police say they made one arrest on Monday in connection with last week's robbery outside of a Riverdale restaurant.
The suspect, described as a juvenile, was not immediately identified.
Original article:
Prince George's County Police are searching for three suspects accused of robbing a man Friday outside of a restaurant in East Riverdale.
According to the PGPD, the victim had just left the restaurant the 6000 block of Riverdale Road around 5:30 p.m. when the assailants approached him and asked him for a smoke.
As he began to offer a cigarette, one of three punched him in the face and knocked him to the ground, the victim told told investigators.
Though the man escaped, the suspects took his wallet and cell phone, which he had dropped when he fell. The victim sustained minor injuries and was taken to a local hospital for treatment, police said.
The attack was captured by a nearby security camera, video from which can be seen above. One of the suspects was pictured in still images distributed by the PGPD (also above).
Police are asking anyone with information on the incident to call the PGPD District 1 Robbery Suppression Team at 301-699-2601.
Residents can also remain anonymous by calling Crime Solvers at 1-866-411-TIPS, texting "PGPD plus your crime tip" to CRIMES (274637), or submitting a tip online.
Crime Solvers is offering an unspecified cash reward for tips that lead to an arrest and indictment in the case.


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The meeting that was to take place at the Manross Memorial Library in Forestville, at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 13, has been rescheduled for the same time (and location) on Thursday, March 13. For more information, please contact Jackie Majerus-Collins at 860-655-8188.
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AARP Tax-Aide is now under way at Bristol Public Library
AARP Tax-Aide is under way at Bristol Public Library on Tuesdays 12-4 PM, February 11 through April 15. The service starts at 12:00 PM, but please come EARLY to sign-in and reserve your spo,t as appointments are first-come-first-served, and spots are limited.
AARP Tax-Aide provides free tax assistance for senior citizens, disabled citizens and low-income citizens. More information on eligibility requirements may be found at: www.aarp.org or 1-888-227-7669.
Bristol Schools open LATE…no A.M. story times!
Bristol Schools have a LATE opening today…Thursday, February 6, 2014…so there are NO morning story times! We will see you next week! There will be afternoon story times and reading clubs today! Let's make sure that everybody gets to SCHOOL safely!
READ DOGS at the Library!
The READ DOGS are in the Children's Department at the Bristol Public Library this Saturday, February 8, 2014 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Come to the library and READ to a dog!
Llama visit rescheduled!
The Llama visit has been RESCHEDULED…it looks like the weather is going to be BAD again on Wednesday…so our LLAMA IS COMING ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. instead! Mark your calendars…and hope for SUNNY SKIES!


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By Andrea Coombes, MarketWatch
Who will inherit your IRA?
You'd think we'd all know to do this, but one of the most common mistakes is failing to name a beneficiary for retirement-savings accounts, the two experts said. Read: 10 ways to get the most out of your IRA.
"A lot of times when I'm talking to clients about estate planning, I'll say, 'Well, who is the beneficiary of your individual retirement account?'" Nuckolls said. "You'd be surprised, the look on people's faces. One guy got up literally to call his banker to find out. And he had a significant IRA — it was millions of dollars — and he didn't know the answer to that question."
"If you don't do it right, there's nothing the children can do," Nuckolls said.
Slott agreed. "When I talk to people, it's the same reaction," he said. "Everybody thinks somebody took care of it, the bank, the broker, the attorney — [but] nobody takes care of this thing. I call it the black hole of estate planning," he said.
Yet, "it's that beneficiary form that controls a huge chunk of the estate," Slott said.
And, Nuckolls pointed out, "the will doesn't matter. It is not governed by the will."
Beneficiary break-down
For beneficiaries, how to best deal with an inherited IRA, from a tax perspective, can get complicated. The options include "stretching" out the IRA payouts over one's life expectancy — that means delaying the bulk of the tax hit for many years. Read: IRA strategies to lower your tax bills.
Still, often when adult children inherit a pile of cash, Nuckolls said, they immediately pull it all out.
IRAs: How to trim the tax hit
Got an IRA? Higher taxes are looming. In this edition of MarketWatch's Retirement Adviser, Andrea Coombes talks with Jack Nuckolls, head of private client tax services at BDO, and Ed Slott, host of IRAHelp.com, about ways to manage IRAs and taxes.
"It's not prudent from a tax perspective, but they see that inheritance and they pull it out and they pay full tax on it, as opposed to stretching it out much like a retirement or an annuity benefit over their life expectancy," Nuckolls said.
Perhaps that's not surprising, given that beneficiaries often aren't advised about their options, Slott said. "A properly titled inherited IRA has to be set up according to the tax rules," he said.
Some beneficiaries might want to stretch out the payments but "very often they blow the stretch," Slott said, because they treat the IRA as their own. "They'll make a contribution to it. Or, they'll move it to a different institution — they can't do a rollover. They have to know, if they're going to do that, [to do] a direct transfer."
There are "a whole host of rules," Slott said. "We train advisers for days and days on this."
One key point for beneficiaries who want to stretch the IRA: The IRA must be titled correctly.
"The deceased IRA owner's name must remain in the title," Slott said. "Sometimes the child will inherit and say, 'Well, I'll put it in my name.' Fully taxable, fatal error."
Complex rules for IRA trusts
Some IRA owners, knowing their children are unlikely to take advantage of a stretch IRA and will likely grab the lump sum despite the tax hit, choose instead to designate a trust to inherit the IRA, Slott said.
"Some clients say, 'A stretch IRA sounds great, but not with my kids,'" Slott said. They look to a trust, "but that brings in a different level of complexity...You have to have an attorney who understands the nuances of IRA trusts."
Naming a trust as the beneficiary of an IRA is complex, Nuckolls agreed. "When you go down that road, it is doable, but you need to be very careful. You need to make sure that your advisers and your attorney know the consequences and the issues."
Said Slott: "It's different than any other estate property. IRAs are full of tax. They have required distributions. For example, you have a home in a trust — that's easy."
"There's no rule that the first year the kitchen has to come out and the second year the dining room has to come out and the third year the bathroom has to come out," Slott said. "But IRAs do have these rules, and they're loaded with taxes and one mistake can wipe it out."


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Russell Roberts is the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He tries to make economics understandable to a general audience.
Roberts hosts the weekly podcast EconTalk--hour-long conversations with authors, economists, and business leaders. Past guests include Milton Friedman, Nassim Taleb, Christopher Hitchens, Jimmy Wales, Joseph Stiglitz, and John Bogle. EconTalk was named podcast of the year in the 2008 Weblog Awards.
His two rap videos on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek, created with filmmaker John Papola, have had more than six million views on YouTube, been subtitled in eleven languages, and are used in high school and college classrooms around the world. His newest web-based economics education project is "The Numbers Game," a look at data and charts using animated videos.
His latest book is The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity (Princeton University Press, 2008). Set on the Stanford campus, it's a novel that tells the story of wealth creation and the unseen forces around us creating and sustaining economic possibilities. He is also the author of The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance (MIT Press, 2002) and The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism (Prentice Hall, 3rd edition, 2006). The Invisible Heart explores the economics and morality of the marketplace in the framework of a novel. The Choice, a novel on international trade policy and the human side of international trade, was named one of the top ten books of 1994 by Business Week and one of the best books of 1994 by the Financial Times.
A three-time teacher of the year, Roberts has taught at George Mason University, Washington University in St. Louis (where he was the founding director of what is now the Center for Experiential Learning), the University of Rochester, Stanford University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a national fellow and visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution from 1985 to 1987. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago and received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


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By Jay Skurski
The Buffalo Bills have made a change to the depth along their offensive line this afternoon.
The team has released tackle/guard Sam Young and replaced him with guard Antoine McClain, who was claimed off waivers from Oakland.
McClain, 23, entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the Baltimore Ravens in 2012. The 6-foot-5, 336-pounder played collegiately at Clemson. He spent the 2012 season on the Ravens' practice squad, but was one of the team's final cuts this season after training camp. The Raiders claimed McClain on Sept. 1, but he did not appear in a game for them before being waived Friday.
McClain started 41 of 54 career games at Clemson from 2008-11, including every game in his final three years.
Young, 26, has appeared in 20 games for the Bills over the past three seasons, including four starts last year. The 6-8, 316-pounder played limited snaps at right guard in replace of an injured Kraig Urbik during a Week Three loss at the New York Jets. Young became replaceable, however, when Doug Legursky returned from a knee injury.
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Submitted by Dalton State College
Dalton State cross country coaches Andy Meyer and Margie Bruner have announced the signing of Bradley Central (Tenn.) High School star runner Paul Patterson.
Patterson is the latest addition to a Dalton State men's squad which previously announced the signing of accomplished area runners and brothers Rafael and Isaac Pacheco.
Patterson's best time for the 1,500-meter run is 4 minutes, 11 seconds, and he has posted a 2:02 in the 800. In the 5K, he has posted a time of 15:55. He is the 2011 AAU National Intermediate Age Champion in the 5K. He was also sixth in the nation at the 2011 AAU National Jr. Olympics in the 1,500. Locally, Patterson was the McCallie Mid South Track Classic 2012 Champion and won the 1-miler at the 2012 Vols Classic in the High School Division. He was a finalist at the Footlocker South Region Championship, and he qualified for the state finals in cross country and track every year of his high school career, starting as a freshman.
"Paul has been a joy to work with and seeing him win the AAU National title was very special," Bradley Central coach Larry Cotton said.
Meyer agrees that Patterson is something special.
"Paul has shown immense talent and great heart in winning national championships," Meyer said. "He comes from an outstanding family and is an exceptional student. Dalton State is very lucky to have an athlete of his caliber on campus."
Patterson chose Dalton State among other suitors, including a number of schools in the SEC.
"I look forward to running for Dalton State and improving my times, challenging myself academically, competing in big time meets and having a lot of fun," said Patterson, an environmental engineering major.
Said DSC athletic director Derek Waugh, "We are very excited to add a person and runner of Paul's caliber. Our cross country coaches (Meyer and Bruner) have done an amazing job of assembling outstanding teams with great young runners. In a couple of seasons, we should be a force on the trail and the track."


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Okay I looked around and did some searching, but haven't found anything. Has anyone tried raspberry ketone for dieting/ weight loss? I am just getting back in the gym after over a year of being lazy, and want to start losing some weight and getting some definition. Anyone tried this stuff yet? good, bad?
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IBM Certified Associate BPM Developer - BPM Blueprint; WebSphere Lombardi Edition V7.1
Job Role Description / Target Audience
Note: This certification will be withdrawn on 08/31/2013. The most current certification is: IBM Certified Associate BPM Developer - WebSphere Lombardi Edition V7.2
This entry level certification is for developers who deliver low complexity processes and contribute to delivery of moderate complexity processes under the guidance of an intermediate level developer. These developers analyze and implement high quality process driven business solutions using WebSphere Lombardi Edition.
These associate BPM developers:
- comprehend Process Modeling phases, goals and deliverables.
- implement all elements of a Process Model.
- communicate process needs through the expected, exception, and escalation paths in a Business Process Definition (BPD) model.
- capture, define, analyze, document and implement a process model in IBM BPM Blueprint and IBM WebSphere Lombardi Edition.
- create data models, create guided end-user interactions (Coaches), create services, and connect to external databases to retrieve data.
To attain the IBM Certified Associate BPM Developer - BPM Blueprint; WebSphere Lombardi Edition V7.1, candidates must possess the skills outlined under Recommended Prerequisite Skills below and pass 1 test. To gain additional knowledge and skills, and prepare for the tests based on the job role and test objectives, take the link to the test below, and refer to the Test preparation tab.
Recommended Prerequisite Skills
(Knowledge and skills one needs to possess before beginning to prepare for this job role certification; skills not measured on the test)
Complete a BPM project using IBM Websphere Lombardi Edition V7.1, while serving in the role of entry level BPM Developer. This project should be completed utilizing IBM BPM Blueprint, demonstrating best practices, as well as the identification of Key Performan Indicators (KPIs) and metrics for the project. Other project activities should include the creation of reports, coaches and integrations using IBM WebSphere Lombardi Edition V7.1.
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Philip J. Swartz, of North Tonawanda, age 54, passed away, unexpectedly, on January 26, 2013, at DeGraff Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Swartz was born in Niagara Falls, NY on April 2, 1958, son of the late Robert and Jean (nee Murphy) Swartz.
Mr. Swartz attended local schools in Niagara Falls and graduated from Niagara Falls High School.
Philip was a machine operator who worked for Bixford-American Coaster for many years, and in recent years worked for Pioneer Printing in North Tonawanda. Mr. Swartz was an avid golfer and known for his quick whit and sharp sense of humor.
Philip is best remembered for his willingness to help others. He was neighborly and helped anyone who needed assistance.
Beloved husband of 16 years to Linda (nee Whitcomb) Swartz; loving stepfather of Brian (Heather) Larson; brother of Maureen Walsh, Lee (Florence), Michael, Karen (Richard) Smith, Paul (Carol Stankovich), Dennis (Ann Marie), Donald (Patricia), Lawrence (Jonna), Mary Anne Swartz and the late Timothy (Joanne); son-in-law of Cortland and Helen Whitcomb; brother-in-law of Susan (Edward) Falcone of CT, Marlene(Michael) Janda and Gary Whitcomb; nephew of Sister Bernadette Greiser, RSM; also survived by nieces, nephews, cousins and his very special pets, Suzi, Mariah, Zoe, Riley and Sammy.
Friends may call THURSDAY 4 to 8 PM in the WATTENGEL Funeral Home, 307 Oliver St., North Tonawanda, where funeral services will be held FRIDAY at 10:00 AM. Private interment will be in Acacia Park Cemetery. "We have lost a very kind, compassionate, loving, amazing man that we will miss terribly."
Love you Phil
Linda and Brian
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Philip J. Swartz
Philip J. Swartz, of North Tonawanda, age 54, passed away, unexpectedly, on January 26, 2013, at DeGraff Memorial Hospital.


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For Jude Law, with maturity comes complication
Jude Law feels his work options are widening as he gets older, and he revels in the complications.
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Despite its flawless superhero pedigree, there's always been apprehension about 'Guardians of the Galaxy.'
There's a delicious moment in 'Get On Up,' Tate Taylor's new James Brown biopic, when Brown played by Chadwick Boseman, in a thrillingly magnetic performance is about to appear on the T.A.M.I. Show, a multi-act concert filmed in 1964.
At the height of their powers, our overlords at Marvel have deigned to prove, like an emperor tolerating a court jester, that they do, in fact, have a sense of humor.
Don't worry about me. The Sharknado evacuation map supplied by Syfy network places me, as a resident of Lower Manhattan, smack in the zone most in peril this sharknado season. But I'll be ready.
A year after playing Jackie Robinson in '42,' Chadwick Boseman was back in biopic spring training.
Luc Besson's "Lucy" proved mind can overpower muscle, topping a remake of "Hercules" by director Brett Ratner at the box office on the weekend.
Showing at Louisiana Boardwalk and Tinseltown USA. You'll have to say one thing for Brett Ratner's production of
There is no place to hide on a movie screen when playing the Greek icon Hercules. The first superhero had a demigod body in a time of skimpy clothing.
Visiting a retired Frank Capra at his Sierra Nevada hideaway, Clint Eastwood was baffled.
Its here! The new trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey.
There's an untold story behind the women of Family Services Unlimited.
The summer box office continued to lack mojo, as the R-rated "Sex Tape" failed to turn on moviegoers over a weekend where "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" maintained its rule.
Showing at Tinseltown USA, Louisiana Boardwalk The clever conceit behind James DeMonaco's 2013 sleeper hit 'The Purge' was not that American society had resolved its crime/inequality/population problems with an annual free-pass-for-murder '
Four-time Grammy nominated, multi-platinum-selling songstress Keyshia Cole was set to perform at 8 p.m. Friday at CenturyLink Center. But the concert is postponed until a yet-to-be-announced date, according to the venue's website.
After six years and thousands of butts, Robinson Film Center was facing a problem it couldn't afford. The art house movie theater went to the best source it could to bring in the $45,000 needed for the new seats, and the fans of the downtown gem didn't disappoint.
The Public Broadcasting Service television series NOVA is working on a documentary about the sinkhole in northern Assumption Parish.
"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" roared to $73 million on its opening weekend, one of the summer's best debuts, according to studio estimates Sunday.
HBO's True Detective and two original Netflix series, Orange is the New Black and House of Cards, are in the mix as Emmy nominations were revealed early Thursday in Los Angeles.
Duck Dynasty's Robertson family and The News-Star's Business Editor Greg Hilburn will be featured on Thursday's episode of 'E! True Hollywood Story.'
The famous Lasyone's Meat Pie Kitchen in Natchitoches will be featured on a new syndicated show airing this fall.
The Fourth of July went off like a dud at the box office, as the Michael Bay sequel "Transformers: Age of Extinction" and the Melisa McCarthy comedy "Tammy" led the weakest summer holiday weekend in at least a decade.
The summer of 1984 was a rough one for Tim League; at 14, he was the spitting image of actor Anthony Michael Hall, the skinny, redheaded teenager in the John Hughes comedy 'Sixteen Candles.'
Adam Levine knows pop stars-turned-actors are greeted suspiciously. And he's hesitant to make any grandiose declarations about suddenly transforming into an actor. But he also can't help himself.
'Tammy' is showing at Louisiana Boardwalk and Tinseltown USA. Meet Tammy. Boy, is she a mess. Angry, profane and aggressive, then suddenly shy and sweet. Sometimes she's funny, sometimes totally not.
Tom Hiddleston, best known as Loki from the blockbuster 'The Avengers' franchise, will star in 'I Saw The Light' a Hank Williams biopic set to begin shooting in October.
"Transformers: Age of Extinction" is ruling the box office.
Moonbot Studios has won a pair of Daytime Emmys for its work on the animated short film and accompanying app "The Scarecrow."
'Transformers: Age of Extinction' is showing at Tinseltown USA and Louisiana Boardwalk. The special effects are sharper, less blurred and the robots far more defined in '
Shreveport-based Moonbot Studios took part in 17 awards from the 61st annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity last week for its short film, 'Scarecrow.'
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The new Azrieli-Revel Dual Degree (ARDD) program, through which students earn an MS at Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration and an MA at Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies concurrently (with some courses counting toward both degrees), is designed to provide aspiring Jewish educators with high-level professional preparation in both methods and content, by combining the discipline of pedagogy in Jewish graduate education at Azrieli with the acquisition of a level of expertise in academic Jewish studies at Revel.
Students should apply independently for both the Azrieli and Revel master's degree programs and once accepted to both schools, at least one courses in each school should be taken each semester.
Students must receive approval for their class schedule from both program coordinators each semester.
The recommended requirements and sequence can be downloaded (PDF).
All students are required to complete a workshop in Child Abuse Identification and Reporting as well as Violence Intervention – SAVE.
Childhood Abuse Identification and Reporting is offered at no cost face-to-face every semester. Check our announcements for the upcoming dates.
Violence Intervention – Save can be completed online through Azrieli Graduate School. Send email to email@example.com to register. Be sure to Include your name and YU ID in the email message.
This is a 2 hour workshop that can be completed online at any time prior to graduation.
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ACU FilmFest 2013
Friday, March 22 at 8 p.m.
Gala event at the historic Paramount Theatre
325 Cypress Street, downtown Abilene
Admission is $5 at the door. Admission for those with current ACU IDs get in free thanks to generous support from ACU's Students' Association and Campus Activities Board.
About FilmFest
Abilene Christian University's FilmFest is a student film festival designed to give those interested in film production and the motion picture and entertainment industries and creative outlet at ACU and inroads into the industry through alumni and industry professionals that serve as judges for the event.
Students follow a specific calendar and rules tailored to each year to create a short film. Judges across the United States evaluate those films, then awards are presented at a gala red-carpet event at Abilene's historic Paramount Theatre in downtown Abilene. ACU FilmFest began in 2005. The top films in contention for best picture will be shown during live event.
The awards event is open to the public. Admission is $5 per person with tickets will be available at the door.
Student entertainers round out the gala event with live entertainment sets between award presentations. Those students will play original works featured in some of the films. Their work will be in contention for "Best Original Musical Composition" in the FilmFest competition.
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Celia Deane-Drummond, professor of theology at Notre Dame University, has a unique appointment in both the Department of Theology and the College of Sciences. This bespeaks the interdisciplinary nature of her teaching, research, lecturing, and writing. Her focus is the engagement of systematic theology and the biological sciences, alongside practical discussion in bioethics and environmental ethics. During the academic year 2012-13, Deane-Drummond is in residence at Princeton University to co-lead a research team of scholars from the fields of evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, religious studies, and philosophy of science in an "Inquiry on Evolution and Human Nature."
Deane-Drummond earned doctorates in plant physiology from the University of Reading and in systematic theology from Manchester University. Before going to Notre Dame in 2011, she taught at the University of Chester and served as director of the Centre for Religion and the Biosciences. Past editor of the international journal Ecotheology, she has written or edited more than 20 books, including The Ethics of Nature (2004), Christ and Evolution: Wonder and Wisdom (2009), Creaturely Theology: On God, Humans and Other Animals (2009), Seeds of Hope: Facing the Challenge of Climate Justice (2010), and Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere (2011).


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The best-selling Zombie writer in history finally unleashes an all-new epic for comics! Be ready for the summer's biggest comic event as millions of zombie fans come looking for with the first chapter of Max Brooks' Extinction Parade! One of the founders of the zombie renaissance, Max Brooks has sold millions of books in dozens of languages. His first book The Zombie Survival Guide not only singlehandedly jump-started the zombie prep subculture, it's graphic novel companion Recorded Attacks debuted as #1 on the New Times Bestseller list. His second book World War Z (already a multi-million copy NYT bestseller in its own right) has been adapted by Brad Pitt into what is sure to be one of the biggest blockbuster movies of 2013.
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As humans wage their loosing fight versus the hoards of the subdead, a frightening realization sets in with the secretive Vampire race: our food is dying off. This is the story of Vampires decent into all-out war with the mindless hungry hordes of the zombie outbreak as humanity tries to survive them all. Three species in mortal conflict. This is how a species dies. Available with Regular, Wraparound, End of a Species and Bloodwashed Retailer Incentive covers by Raulo Caceres. Also, available with a special black Leather cover, limited to just 1000 copies!


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Christopher Helman, Forbes Staff
I'm based in Houston, Texas. Energy capital of the world.
The booby prize this year for Dirtiest City in America goes to Fresno, California. This Central Valley city suffers some of the worst air in the nation, and a water supply so degraded that the city used to tell pregnant women not to drink from the tap. Fresno epitomizes the environmental challenges of the Golden State. And it's not alone. Plenty of its neighbors in central California like Modesto, Stockton and Bakersfield have it almost as bad. (Other California metro areas ranked among the 20 Dirtiest Cities include San Jose, Riverside and Los Angeles — but don't worry, they have lots of company from towns in the Midwest and on the East Coast, too.)
The environmental degradation of the Central Valley has many contributing factors. First of all, its geography doesn't do it any favors. It's a big, long bowl surrounded on three sides by mountains that trap pollutants from cars and factories and oil fields in an inversion layer.
Second, it's a victim of what brought people there in the first place — rich fertile soils from which grow much of America's fruits and vegetables. For decades farmers would burn leftover cuttings from their fields after the harvest — dumping massive amounts of lung-choking particulate matter into the air. Burning has been banned since 2004, and the air has gotten cleaner since then, but there's still a long way to go. Compounding the problem are frequent dust storms, exacerbated by water shortages.
Third, all that agricultural activity has wreaked the Valley's groundwater. Decades of fertilizer and pesticide applications and manure from livestock have caused noxious chemicals to trickle down into the water table. When pumped back up into homes, the water regularly gives people rashes when they shower in it. Nitrates in the water can cause babies who drink it to come down with potentially fatal "blue baby syndrome."
What's troubling is that rather than getting better, the water problem might be getting worse.
An EPA report on California's waters last year found the number of rivers, streams and lakes with meaningful levels of toxicity rose more than 170% from 2006 to 2010. Of the 215,000 miles of shoreline, streams and rivers in the Golden State, 30,000 miles are not meeting water quality goals, and 20,000 need a pollution cleanup plan. What's more, says the EPA, of California's 3.0 million acres of lakes, bays, wetlands and estuaries, 1.4 million acres do not meet water quality goals and need to be cleaned up.
Unfortunately, in much of the Central Valley, the water pollution is so pervasive that that there's virtually no possibility of rehabilitation. According to a study for California by U.C. Davis Prof. Thomas Harter, remediating the water in the Tulare Lake Basin and Salinas Valley would cost around $30 billion a year over 20 years.
As if all that's not enough, Fresno also is home to Superfund sites like the Fresno Municipal Landfill – which has leaked chemicals like vinyl chloride into groundwater — as well a pesticide factory that leaked so much gunk into groundwater that nearby residents had to be provided with an alternative water supply.
Depressed yet?
Well help may be on the way.
Last month California held its first auction for carbon allowances under the state's new cap-and-trade law that will force any company that emits more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year to reduce its emissions, or pay the price for permits. Though carbon dioxide itself doesn't contribute much, if at all, to air quality problems, the other emissions that often accompany it out of smokestacks, like sulfur dioxide and soot, certainly do.
Starting in 2015 California's oil refineries will also become responsible for the emissions from cars that use their fuel. This is a cost that they will, of course, pass along to motorists in the form of higher gasoline prices. But to the extent that Californians vote with their wallets and buy more fuel-efficient cars, the effect should be to reduce air pollution in the state. (It would also likely drive refiners and other big emitters out of California entirely, but that's a different discussion.)
Estimates are that for every $10 a ton in the price of carbon allowances, California gasoline prices will go up a dime. The first cap-and-trade auction resulted in a price of $10.09 per ton. If the scheme works in California, it might not be long before our intrepid lawmakers in Washington, D.C. attempt to do the same thing nationwide.
A bright spot in the pollution landscape is that according to this EPA report, America's air quality has generally been getting better. Cars and trucks are more efficient, fuel blends are cleaner, and coal-fired power plants have been forced to install air-scrubbing technology.
But lord knows we have a long way to go.
Much of the data for our list of the 20 Dirtiest Cities In America is derived from rankings done by Bert Sperling on his Bestplaces.net website. Sperling is known for for his books like "Best Places To Raise Your Family" and "Cities Ranked And Rated." His website features tools that let you slice and dice cities by a whole host of categories, like cost of living and income, as well as by water and air quality.
Sperling's air quality index is based on annual data from the EPA, which factors in ozone and pollutants like carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, lead and volatile organic chemicals.
Likewise, his water quality rankings use EPA data that measures watershed quality by looking at 15 indicators like pollutants, sediments, and toxic releases.
Both indices rank metropolitan areas into an index where 1 is the worst and 100 is the best.
To get a set of dirty cities, we identified which metro areas (with population of 500,000 or more) showed up on both lists for poor water quality and air quality. Then we averaged their rankings on the indices. We then took a look at some other sources, such as EPA data on the big cities with the most toxic releases (Houston, Texas — ranked 13th — leads by a mile), the American Lung Association's annual State of the Air report, as well as a look at the prevalence of Superfund sites in the various areas.
Ignorance must be bliss. I lived in Fresno for 10 years. When I first moved there, I had a dry hacking cough for the first 6 months. and every summer season would have a re-occurrence for at least a month.
While the rash statement, I agree is quite wrong… at least in North Fresno area… who knows about the other areas surrounding.
Also, back when my then wife was pregnant, we were told to not drink tap water. back in 96-97. And, what a surprise, my Son developed asthma.
All in all… Fresno and all of central Valley is absolutely disgusting with air quality, which is one reason why I moved out of that area. The only thing you get to enjoy in Fresno is a much lower property cost.
Nice picture of dust. Is that the best source you could find to substantiate a claim of frequent 'dust storms' in the area? SMH.
As a Fresnan, I would like to make some points: In 2011, dailyfinance.com (http://aol.it/dTuOQL) published an article of the top 10 worst cities for water quality in the U.S. Fresno was nowhere on the list. However, number 6 on the list was Houston, the home-sweet-home of the author of this piece, Christopher Helman. In 2010, Houston Public Radio reported that Houston's water ranked 95th out of 100 in quality (http://bit.ly/12hK7oQ). Fresno's water quality is among the best in California (http://bit.ly/SMvC8l). NASA reported that "Houston has a serious air quality problem." (http://1.usa.gov/1WCsdG). That's right, NASA. The New York Times Reported that "[Houston] is the worst recycler among the United States' 30 largest cities." (http://nyti.ms/TZVHjb). Fresno, on the other hand, has the highest recycling rate in the Nation, as recently profiled by National Geographic (http://bit.ly/RwHM8i). Now, I'm not trying to pick on Houston, I'm sure that it's a great city with it's fair share of pros and cons, and I know that Fresno has plenty of room to improve. I'm just pointing out that Mr. Helman seems to have an agenda of badmouthing California cities, while ignoring the facts, and the problems in his own backyard.
No agenda? Most up-to-date? You reference a report that is over a decade old in order to further your argument that Fresno is dirty. And Fresno coming in 89th is still 6 places better than Houston. Your hometown's conspicuous absence from your article in spite of its well-documented environmental problems (of which you have chosen only to respond to one of the many that I pointed out) makes it hard to believe that you wrote from a completely objective viewpoint. I see what you (and Forbes) are doing here: Post an inflammatory 'top ten' style list that is guaranteed to offend in order to drum up hits on your blog. That I have no problem with, it happens all the time. But come on, man! At least have enough journalistic self-respect to call out your hometown for its problems too. I know that Texas has always had an inferiority complex to California, but this is ridiculous!
What sort of training/degree do you have?
This article could have possibly been A LOT BETTER if for instance you made your own research at the source. I suggest interviewing long time residents, visiting the city, and contacting the local water supply department that can issue you CURRENT UP TO DATE water information.
Geez; what a loser you are Chris
chris, Im behind you. love the article. we live in san jose and it's basically filthy here. keep up the good work.


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The Berea Community boys soccer team snapped a two-game losing streak with a 1-0 win Tuesday at South Laurel.
Neil Claytor scored the only goal of the game 25 minutes into the first half. The junior striker got loose on a breakaway and ripped a shot inside the far post.
Claytor hit the post in the second half as well and also had a strong defensive performance for the Pirates.
Gabriel Gomez Jr. was switched to sweeper and led the defensive effort as Berea keeper Trey Terrill earned his first shutout of the year.
The Pirates are now 3-7 on the season.
Berea is set to return to action Saturday at home against Model.
Madison Southern 2, Corbin 0
The Eagles couldn't find the net until the closing minutes Tuesday on the road against Corbin.
But, Madison Southern scored twice in the final eight minutes and earned a 2-0 win.
Tanner Kidwell scored with eight minutes left on a cross from Garrison Copper. The combo hooked up again with three minutes left when Kidwell sent a cross to Copper, who scored.
With the win, the Eagles move to 9-3-1 on the season.
"They clogged up the middle and made it tough on us," Southern coach James Ray said.
Elijah Sexton earned the shutout in goal for Southern.
The Eagles are set to return to action Monday at Pulaski County.
Lady Pirates 9, Whitley County 0
The Lady Pirates bounced back from a district loss at home Monday to Model to pick up a lopsided win on the road.
Berea Community (7-8) defeated Whitley County 9-0 on Tuesday.
Taylor Powell had five goals, Izzy Whatley had three goals and Emma Williams also scored.
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WITH EACH successively ripening summer fruit, my allegiance wavers. Strawberries are like a first crush, sweet and wholesome. But then I fall in love with the dark and handsome poetry scribbler, the cherry, whose deep stains are hard to forget.
When I find myself tiring just a bit from his moody ways, the racy raspberry steals my heart with that perfect combination of fun and romance. An affair of blackberries, snatched offhandedly during a walk to the park, doesn't quite satisfy.
All of these sweet summer treats grow well in Western Washington, and Kirkland. But it seems to me we all miss the raspberries a little more than we should. Fortunately, with such a late start to the summer weather, we might get a few more pints of them from the farmers.
Knowing how much I adore the bubbly red thimbles, my mom left me a wonderful surprise on the counter while I was out one evening -- three half flats of ripe raspberries. She loves shopping at the Yakima Fruit Market just north of Kirkland on Bothell Way, which sells local produce for a bit less than the average farmer's market.
I got home late the night of the surprise raspberry drop-off, but first thing in the morning, my kids and I were pushing our way through the new and confusing aisles at , fillings rattling in my teeth with each surge of the jackhammer behind the construction zone. I picked up a new case of jam jars -- the cute quilted kind that make perfect hostess gifts.
Since man cannot live on raspberry jam alone -- especially my man, who despises the billions of seeds -- I perused the housewares to find a tart pan. Just the night before, we had a discussion with some friends about buying things you didn't know you needed until you saw them at Fred Meyer. So, it wasn't without a little bit of guilt that I also bought two new bread pans and a pack of wire racks -- but they were on sale!
BACK HOME, I washed and mashed berries, sterilized those adorable jars, softened butter for a tart crust and made an enormous mess of my kitchen. It was hot that day and here I was boiling gallons of water in my huge canner. Fortunately, making a tart crust isn't as temperature-sensitive as a pie crust, which requires frozen flour, butter and whatnot to create that perfect flaky texture.
Tart crust is more like a very rich cookie, which is ten times better than any pie crust in my opinion. I'd been meaning to make this tart again for a very long time. A few years ago, I topped it with ripe peaches -- a sensational variation. But, since I'm currently in the irresponsible stage of reckless raspberries, this tart would be topped in juicy rubies.
It's not a difficult recipe, but it does take time since it requires mashed, hard-cooked egg yolks, refrigerator resting before rolling and then freezing for at least an hour before baking it another hour. The effort is all worth it.
The crust stays crisp even the next day when I will undoubtedly be eating fruit tart for breakfast. I know it's not good for me, but, like young love, I just can't help it! See what raspberries do to me?
Raspberry Tart
For the dough:
- 2 c sifted flour
- 3 TB sugar
- ¾ c butter (1 ½ sticks), cut into pieces
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 tsp grated lemon rind
- 3 hard cooked egg yolks, mashed
- 2 raw egg yolks
For the filling:
- ⅛ tsp cinnamon
- ¾ c ground nuts (almonds, pecans, walnuts)
- ½ c sugar
- 3 to 4 c raw pitted fruit (raspberries, peaches, cherries, etc.)
- ½ c glaze (apricot jam for light colored fruit, currant/raspberry jam for dark colored fruit)
- Place the flour in a bowl. Make a well in the center. Add all ingredients to the well. The butter should not be ice cold, nor so soft that it is oily.
- With your finger tips, make a paste of the center ingredients, gradually incorporating flour to form a smooth, firm ball of dough. Work quickly so the butter does not become oily. When the sides of the bowl are clean, the pastry is finished. Wrap it in wax paper and chill in the refrigerator until it is firm enough to roll.
- Roll the pastry between sheets of wax paper, loosening the paper as necessary. The dough should be just under ¼ inch in thickness. Use the paper to help invert the dough onto the tart pan, being careful not to stretch or tear the dough. Gently mold the dough to the pan. Set the paper across the top and roll over the edges to cut off the excess dough, which can be used as a lattice topping depending on the filling.
- Cover the filled tart pan with the paper and freeze for at least an hour before baking. (At this stage, you can tightly cover the pan and freeze it for another time if you wish. Frozen tart shells should not be thawed before baking and may require a few fork pricks during baking to prevent puffy bubbles from forming.)
- To bake, preheat the oven to 350 and arrange a rack on the very lowest setting.
- Combine the cinnamon and nuts, then press into the chilled crust of the tart.
- Combine the sugar and fruit, then layer the fruit into the raw tart crust, paying special attention to make the top layer look pretty.
- Bake the tart on the lowest rack for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and glaze with the jam while the tart is still hot. Allow the tart to cool before tucking in -- molten fruit is painful!


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B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1992. Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1997 (Michael Rosbash). Postdoctoral: University of Colorado, 1998-2000 (Steve Schultz), 2000-01 (Tom Cech). Honors and Awards: Burroughs Wellcome Fund Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation 1998-2001; Basil O'Connor Scholar 2004-06. At Oregon since 2002.
The primary goals of the Berglund lab are to understand the molecular basis of the human disease myotonic dystrophy (a form of muscular dystrophy) and the mechanisms regulating pre-mRNA splicing. Myotonic dystrophy is caused by the expression of a toxic RNA, which is made up of greater than 100 expanded CUG repeats. This toxic RNA functions in the cell by sequestering a RNA binding protein (muscleblind). The sequestration of muscleblind to the expanded toxic CUG repeats means muscleblind is no longer able to carry out its normal function in the cell. At least one of the functions of muscleblind is to regulate the alternative splicing of various pre-mRNAs (see figure). Without the proper regulation of alternative splicing by muscleblind, splicing defects occur and some of the symptoms of myotonic dystrophy can be directly correlated to these mis-splicing events.
To study the structure and function of the toxic CUG repeats and muscleblind we are using a combination of biochemical, structural biology and bioinformatic methods. The identification of RNA motifs through which muscleblind regulates splicing is a goal within our lab. Interestingly, muscleblind can function either to positively or negatively regulate the splicing of an exon and we would like to understand the mechanisms through which muscleblind makes this choice for the many different exons it regulates. We have also begun to study small molecules that bind the toxic CUG repeats and release muscleblind from sequestration, so this protein can once again properly regulate splicing. We are collaborating with Professor Michael Haley (also a member of the Chemistry department at the University of Oregon) to synthesize molecules that bind the expanded CUG repeats.
We are also interested in identifying and studying all RNA motifs and splicing factors that regulate pre-mRNA splicing because it is clear that splicing plays an important role in expanding the diversity of human genes and incorrect splicing causes a variety of diseases. Most human genes are alternative spliced and many of these splicing events are tissue specific or developmentally controlled. Bioinformatic tools have been used to identify novel RNA motifs involved in splicing and we are currently determining how these motifs and their associated proteins function in a combinatorial manner to regulate splicing.
A new area of research in the lab is the use of RNA in the synthesis of nanomaterials. We are exploring the ability of RNA to control the shape and size of nanoparticle growth. This is a collaborative project with Professor Jim Hutchison (also a member of the Chemistry department at the University of Oregon).
Mooers, B.H.M., Logue, J.S., Berglund, J.A. 2005. The structural basis of myotonic dystrophy from the crystal structure of CUG repeats. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 102(46):16626-31.
Cass, D., Berglund J.A. 2006. The SF3b155 N-terminal Domain is a scaffold important for splicing. Biochemistry 45 (33); 10092-10101.
Garrey S. M., Voelker R., Berglund, J.A. 2006. An extended RNA binding site for the yeast branchpoint binding protein and the role of its Zn knuckle domains in RNA binding. J Biol Chem. 281(37): 27443-53.
Voelker, R., Berglund, J.A. 2007. A Comprehensive Computational Characterization of Conserved Mammalian Intronic Sequences Reveals Conserved Motifs Associated with Constitutive and Alternative Splicing. Genome Research Jul;17(7):1023-33.
Warf, M.B., Berglund, J.A. 2007. MBNL binds similar RNA structures in the CUG repeats of myotonic dystrophy and its intronic pre-mRNA target in cardiac troponin T. RNA Dec;13(12):2238-51.
Garrey, S.M., Cass, D.M., Wandler, A. M., Berglund, J.A. 2008. Transposition of two amino acids changes a promiscuous RNA binding protein into a sequence specific RNA binding protein. RNA Jan;14(1):78-88.
Henscheid, K.L., Voelker, R.B., Berglund, J.A. 2008. Alternative modes of RNA binding by U2AF65 at the polypyrimidine tract. Biochemistry 47(1): 449-59.
Murray, J.L., Voelker, R.B., Henscheid, K.L., Warf, M.B., Berglund, J.A. 2008. Identification of motifs that function in the splicing of non-canonical introns. Genome Biol. June 12: 9(6): R97. Epub 2008 June 12.
Goers, E.S., Voelker, R.B., Gates, D.P., Berglund, J.A., 2008. RNA binding specificity of Drosophila Muscleblind. Biochemistry 47(27): 7284-7294.
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LAKE WYLIE — If there's such a thing as homecoming at a place they've never been, Tuesday was it for The Community Cafe.
The free meal cafe opened at Lake Wylie Christian Assembly, where it will operate from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays.
The cafe began as a Lake Wylie ministry and ran at River Hills Community Church for more than two years. Two cafes have been opened in Fort Mill – one being turned over to the church that started it and the other still a Cafe site – at Lake Wylie Lutheran Church.
Billy Ginn, associate pastor for Lake Wylie Christian Assembly, was one of several excited diners at Tuesday's opening.
"They've done an amazing job," he said. "All these volunteers are doing an amazing job."
Don Murfin has been the head chef for at least one Cafe site since its 2010 launch. Homecoming, he said, is a fitting word for the return to Lake Wylie.
"To a lot of people, it is," he said. "We've got lots of volunteers from the church here. We've got a lot of volunteers from back when we were at River Hills. We've got volunteers from Lake Wylie Lutheran Church. We've just got people from all over."
Sharon and Dick McConnell passed out name tags and greeted guests at the welcoming table.
Betsy Stefanik showed diners to the kitchen on her first day volunteering. She's a member of The Journey at Lake Wylie, led by pastor Kenny Ashley.
"It's wonderful," she said. "It's a real outreach for the community. In this day and time, we need it."
Several guests were waiting when the doors opened. Calls were coming from businesses to pick up meals.
Given a strong showing each Friday at Lake Wylie Lutheran, volunteers are expecting to be busy on Tuesdays in Lake Wylie.
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SIGOURNEY — Jesse Dean Hornback, 35, died suddenly June 15, 2013, at his home in Sigourney.
Jesse Dean Hornback was born on July 6, 1977, in Iowa City, the son of Jim F. and Cindy Lee Flactiff Hornback. He grew up in the Hedrick and Sigourney areas and graduated from Sigourney High School in 1995. Jess received his bachelor of science degree from Buena Vista University and has worked in the human services field since graduation. He was united in marriage to Crystal Glandon on Nov. 2, 2002, in Sigourney. Jesse was the Keokuk County Community Services director. He was on the City Council and the Republican Central Committee. He loved politics, history, trivia, traveling (especially Hornback family vacations) and was totally devoted to his wife and daughter, Maddie.
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The history of this "bug" really isn't a bug. We tried a mod-rewrite tool on here at one point that gave the system better looking URLs and it allowed linking to be done better. The problem? That was the tool that allowed hackers to come in and take over the server back in September 2010!
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Ever since the first dinosaur skeleton was discovered, the question rose: what happened to them all? After all, there aren't any around today. It's a mystery that paleontologists have been debating for well over a century. One of the leading candidates for the dinosaurs' demise is an asteroid impact – namely, the asteroid that struck the Earth in what is now the Yucatan peninsula millions of years ago.
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However, an international team of researchers, using the most precise dating methods currently available, have determined that while the asteroid impact wasn't the only thing that wiped out the dinosaurs, it was pretty much the deciding event – and it definitely happened simultaneously with the extinction.
"The impact was clearly the final straw that pushed Earth past the tipping point," said researcher Paul Renne in a press release. "We have shown that these events are synchronous to within a gnat's eyebrow, and therefore the impact clearly played a major role in extinctions, but it probably wasn't just the impact."
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While an asteroid impact is obviously a devastating event, what's interesting about this impact and the extinction of the dinosaurs is that it might not have happened – except that for a million years prior to the impact, the Earth's climate had started to undergo some significant climate changes. That meant that the asteroid impact caused much more harm to the ecosystem than it otherwise might have during a more stable era.
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In the article it is stated that dinosaurs don't exist today. But they do!!! alligators, lizards, snakes, turtles, etc. are all dinosaurs that continue to live in our day. We know the dinosaurs of the past were very tall and many walked upright. The dinosaurs of today are smaller and all travel on their bellies. Since they still exist what changed them from what they were to what they now are?????
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actually, dinosaurs evolved into birds not alligators and snakes…
Better to put it the other way around: Birds evolved from one dinosaur species. The rest of the dinosaurs kept on being dinosaurs … until they were wiped out.
They are still here. Take Joe Biden for instance.
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What is the risk of 'Asteroid' impacts?
We don't know when the next NEO impact will take place, but we can calculate the odds. Statistically, the greatest danger is from an NEO with about 1 million megatons energy (roughly 2 km in diameter). On average, one of these collides with the Earth once or twice per million years, producing a global catastrophe that would kill a substantial (but unknown) fraction of the Earth's human population. Reduced to personal terms, this means that you have about one chance in 40,000 of dying as a result of a collision. Such statistics are interesting, but they don't tell you, of course, when the next catastrophic impact will take placeónext year or a million years from now. The purpose of the Spaceguard Survey is not to improve these statistical estimates, but to find any individual rock that may be on a collision course.
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With so many of even the larger NEOs remaining undiscovered, the most likely warning today would be zero —
Anothering interesting link is, risk of dying by various causes:
From http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/intro_faq.cfm : "As of the end of 2004, astronomers had discovered more than two thirds of the larger Near Earth Asteroids (diameter greater than 1 km). "
2004? That's not very recent. I would expect in 2013 we have a better inventory of those NEAs bigger than a kilometer
"[I]t definitely happened simultaneously with the extinction."
This is the first responsibly accurate conclusion I have read throughout a weekend of claims that confident dating of an impact somehow also serves as a coroner's report for a mass extinction.
Species have disappeared en masse more than 20 times over the last 500 million years, and even if these upheavals occur in short periods of geological time, are far more gradual than our perspective — and maybe our attraction to the sensational — allows us to easily comprehend. We know a little from fossil records and rock beds, but both the causes and process of these extinctions remain mysteries.
Saying "an asteroid did it," then, does us no favors in trying to learn about the Earth's intrinsic changes and their effect on terrestrial life.
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In his days as a Bulldog, Hunter Faubion would never have dreamed of teaming up with arch-nemesis Port Neches-Groves no matter what the occasion.
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