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5 WTF Old-Timey Sci-Fi Genres That Were Hugely Popular
Some book genres are incredibly long-lasting. The simple mystery novel has never really gone out of style, science fiction and fantasy are a century or more old and still going strong, and romance authors have turned that one plot they have into thousands of bodice rippers, with no signs of slowing down yet.
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When the first amphibians crawled onto land, they brought with them primitive tales of bodice ripping.
But other genres come and go, as evidenced by the wave of zombie and vampire novels that I guarantee will not be widely read by the cultured residents of TomorrowLand. And we can see the same when looking at the books of bygone eras, where we find literary styles that were once incredibly, even implausibly popular that now evoke only a sensation of "What?" or "What were they smoking?"
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The books themselves?
No, friend, they were smoking the thinking of their time, a pungent zeitgeist packed deep in the bowel of their minds, throwing off the smoke of incredible stories and ideas. Also, incredibly colonialist and/or racist stories and ideas.
So hold on to your butts.
#5. Sword and Planet
The sword-and-planet genre contains, as one might deduce, both swords and planets, combined in a very specific manner. It essentially involves an Earthman traveling to an alien planet by some loosely explained means, where he meets the humanlike but surprisingly primitive locals and goes on all sorts of adventures with them, which basically just means stabbing things with a sword.
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"I come in peace. But I'm not staying in peace, or behaving in peace, or anything sissy like that."
Although nominally science fiction-based, sword-and-planet stories feature very little discussion on the scientific details of how any of this is possible. Can an Earthman breathe the atmosphere of Venus? Sure. Stop asking questions. How did he get there? Astral projection? Yes, fine.
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Or this, apparently.
The prototypical sword-and-planet story is probably the Barsoom series of books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. These stories feature John Carter, a confederate officer who somehow makes his way to "Barsoom" (Mars) to stab lots of Martians. (You might remember this character from the movie version you didn't see.) And then there's The Outlaws of Mars by Otis Adelbert Kline, which features, no lie, Jerry of Earth, who travels to Mars only to find himself, within seconds of arriving, meeting a beautiful princess and murdering her pet.
Perhaps the greatest meet-cute ever written.
Sword-and-planet stories haven't completely faded away, of course, some of their principles living on in aspects of other science fiction (Star Wars' lightsabers, most notably). But the central premise of a "civilized" man arriving and fixing the natives' problems with his civilized brains and civilized brawn has faded away. Which is perhaps for the best.
Even if it means we've lost the art of pet-stabbing introductions.
#4. School Stories
School stories were a genre of novels and stories set in English boarding schools, a form of schooling that reached its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an era when the English apparently wanted nothing to do with their own children, busy as they were maintaining their empire.
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"Ahh, Reginald. You're born. Tremendous. We're off now. Terribly busy with the crumpets in the lorry factory
in Ceylon, you know. See you in 16 years."
The stories are all typically written from the perspective of the students and focus on life in boarding schools. Bullies and bizarre school sports feature heavily, as do themes of friendship, honor, and penmanship.
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The popularity of the stories waned alongside the waning popularity of boarding schools themselves, as the English decided that, no, they didn't hate their children that much after all.
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A policy they're only now starting to reconsider.
Nowadays we don't really see many boarding school novels, with one notable exception, and even in that case, it was only the hoary creative technique of magic that could conceal how implausible it was that parents would send their children to a school with such a horrifically bad safety record.
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#3. Invasion Literature
In 1871, a story called "The Battle of Dorking" was published in an English magazine that depicted an invasion of England by some unnamed villains who happened to speak German.
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So Namibia, presumably.
As depicted in the story, the British military is woefully underprepared for such an invasion and is quickly rolled over, the British Empire falling and the world never knowing the Beatles.
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Only their Germanic replacement, Die Kakerlaken.
Interestingly, the British loved the idea of being invaded by a foreign power, and hundreds of books with similar plots soon flooded the market, each one of them featuring England being invaded by basically every country on the planet. The Great War in England in 1897 had France and Russia as the aggressors and Germany as the ally, because why not? The same author got the sides right a few years later when he wrote The Invasion of 1910, this time featuring Germany in their traditional place as villains. That work is made particularly hilarious by the fact that it was soon pirated and published illegally by the Germans, who translated it and changed the ending to make the Germans win.
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"Ja, sounds about gut to me."
Perhaps the best known work in the genre is H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, which swaps in Martians for Germans, but otherwise maintains all the London-stomping themes.
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Including an allusion to Germans' well known vulnerability to Earth microbes.
The appeal of these stories is obvious; they fulfill a kind of persecution fantasy, allowing a group to see themselves as the victims, fighting an absolutely moral war (what could be more moral than defending your own home?). And although the specific genre of "everyone invades Britain" has faded away, this concept has actually stuck around in other formats.
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The only thing Red Dawn invented was the practice of yelling "Wolverines!" at people you're about to shoot.


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Leighton Meester and Adam Brody are engaged, PEOPLE has confirmed.
The former Gossip Girl actress, 27, and the former The O.C. star, 33, whom sources confirmed were dating earlier this year, have been notoriously hush-hush about their relationship.
Though they make a point to keep a low profile, the couple were spotted having dinner with another friend in Venice, Calif., in February at local Mexican restaurant La Fiesta Brava.
As the couple left the restaurant, "Adam put his arm around Leighton and the two smiled at each other while she snuggled into his chest before the trio headed out," an onlooker told PEOPLE.
The pair worked together on the 2011 film The Oranges.
In 2010, Meester spoke about her "really hard" split from Sebastian Stan, saying, "I was really sad when it ended, but that's what taught me a lot about myself and love and life – and that's good."
Brody famously split with costar Rachel Bilson in 2006. "It was a typical romance and they just grew apart," a source told PEOPLE at the time.
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Oxford BioMedica says it expects Phase I/II development of ocular products partnered with sanofi-aventis to start during 2011, and full Phase II studies with its LentiVector-based ProSavin® gene therapy for Parkinson disease to start in 2012. Phase I/II trials with ProSavin are ongoing. The sanofi-aventis partnership includes development of four LentiVector-based ocular therapies currently being prepared for Phase I/II studies. These include: RetinoStat® for wet age-related macular degeneration; StarGen® for Stargardt disease; UshStat® for Usher syndrome; and EncorStat®, for corneal graft rejection.
"Investment in our specialist manufacturing processes will ensure the rapid progression of these five products through Phase II, Phase III, and to market," notes John Dawson, BioMedica's CEO. "Importantly, this acquisition also provides the opportunity for Oxford BioMedica to become the LentiVector technology supplier of choice for its current and future partners which could provide additional revenues in the coming years."
The acquired GMP facility is already configured to meet BioMedica's manufacturing requirements, the firm states. It projects needing at least 12 months to re-commission the facility, including the first phase of staff recruitment. It estimates that when fully operational, the plant will cost about £2.2 million a year to run.
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text: The Elkins High School Class of 1973 celebrated their 40th class reunion during the weekend of Aug. 16. The reunion was held at The Railyard Restaurant and Elkins City Park. The following classmates attended: from left, first row: Donna Nelson Nazelrod, Kathy Arbogast Leary, Ardith Kyle Turner, Maria Joseph, Susie Polino Yeager, Debra Ice Finchman, Darlene Henry Tribbey, Nola Winn Clark, Carol Miller Mallow, Ellen Maxwell Hoffman, Randy Satterfield, Harold Langevin, Jack Valentine, Debra Hart Gainer, Connie Hinkle Kemrite, Carol Satterfield Valentine, Bobbie Moran Burks, Laurella Hardesty Lawrence, Joyce Harshbarger Hutton and Joyce Isner Johns; second row: Jon Hiser, Linda Wirth, Sharon Stemple Hinchman, Denny James, Steve Yeager, Greg Wyatt, Blake Johnson, Jay Rector, Matt Fair, Gary Skinner, Bobby Arbogast, Dave Hewitt, Stanley Evans, Tom Gilbert, Dan Mullen, Joe Gray, Mike Johnson, John Dornblazer and Ellen Patric Spears. Attending the reunion but not present for the photo were Dawn Wood Swecker, Dave Oldaker, Larry Howell, Mike Pritt and Sam Severino.


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Three violent robberies were reported near Millersville University over the weekend.
Students were attacked within an hour of each other early Saturday near the Brookwood Apartments.
Police said all the robbers wanted was their cellphones.
"A lot of college students are out partying and they may be drinking; you know, I think the criminal may view that as they're vulnerable," Millersville Police Chief John Rochat said.
Investigators said they are checking surveillance cameras in the area.
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Jimmy Lee Barner, 30, of Buffalo, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Bill Wilson to serve a eight and one-third years in prison on his conviction for being a felon illegally possession firearms and ammunition.
U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. said that during a search of Barner's Amherst Street apartment in January 2008, government agents found a firearm and ammunition.
At the time Barner was on parole for a state court conviction. His house was searched four years ago by state parole officers and special agents of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Men's Tennis Plays At Xavier & Notre Dame This Week
MUNCIE, Ind. - The Ball State men's tennis team travels to Xavier Wednesday at 1 p.m. and Notre Dame Saturday beginning at 7 p.m. At Notre Dame the Cardinals will participate in the 2014 College Match Day series which will be streamed live on ESPN3.
"Xavier has a very strong team this year as they return six of their top seven players from last year and have added two freshmen that play consistently in their lineup," said Ball State head men's tennis coach Bill Richards. "We won a close 4-3 match at home last year so we know we have a big challenge. I look forward to seeing how we respond."
Ball State enters the week with a 4-2 overall record while Xavier owns a 5-5 ledger. Notre Dame has since moved up to No. 10 in the nation this week with the 4-0 victory over Florida on Sunday.
"The Notre Dame match is certainly very unique and exciting," said Richards. "It is one of ten college match day matches this winter and spring that will be televised by ESPN. These matches are sponsored by The United States Tennis association as they use their resources to show case college tennis. The format we are playing will be experimental, so this will add to the excitement as well as shortening the length of the match."
Last year the USTA announced its new "College MatchDay" series. The series will highlight several of the top men's and women's college tennis team matches each season, featuring organized activities and local events at each host team's campus. Twenty-two matches on 18 different campuses will be showcased this season, 11 of which were chosen to be delivered by ESPN3.
The match at Notre Dame will use a trial format where the teams will play singles first: Six best-of-three set singles matches (worth one point per match) will start each match. Four points are required to win the team match. Doubles will only be played in case of a tie. Three doubles matches will be played with 10-point super tie-breakers, to create a college tennis' version of "overtime" The team that wins two or more of the three doubles matches wins the doubles point. After a team has clinched four points the remaining matches shall not be completed.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The Stetson men's soccer team opened up preseason play with a 1-0 victory over Embry-Riddle on Wednesday evening. Junior Steven Saballos scored the game-winner on an assist from senior Kai Eckenrode.
The Hatters, who open up regular season play at Penn State on August 25, scored in the second half of the exhibition match that ended 10 minutes early due to inclement weather. The goal came on a short corner where Eckenrode played the ball to Saballos, who finished it in the far upper corner to give Stetson a lead they did not relinquish.
"Overall it was a very good exhibition," Head Coach T. Logan Fleck said. "It showed some things we are doing very well, and a few things that need improvement before the start of the regular season. I was very encouraged by our possession play and our ability to create chances throughout the match."
Fleck went on to praise the play of junior Andreas Schnabl, senior Jonathan Mendoza, senior Luis Ocejo, and junior JJ Bostic, but he named Saballos the "Man of the Match."
Stetson will host Florida Southern in its final exhibition of the summer before opening regular season play on the 25th. The Hatters will stay on the road, playing at West Virginia (Aug. 27) and Houston Baptist (Sept. 1) before returning to DeLand for the home opener against Jacksonville on September 7.


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A Tip of the Hat to these Songs About Hats
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This week the Record Bin Roulette Wheel randomly stopped on the category "Hats". We rarely question The Wheel's judgment, but we must admit we were a little worried The Wheel might be spinning eccentrically.
But then, in our vast Record Bins, we found these singing stars who would be nothing without their iconic hats. In the 1940's Carmen Miranda became one of the highest paid performers in the world, and she did it with the help of hats. This completely over-the-top Busby Berkeley production from 1943 features her singing "The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat":
Fred Astaire wore a topper for much of his film career and made excellent use of it in this 1935 film with "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails":
Hats helped SsGT Barry Sadler reach the charts in 1966 with his "Ballad of the Green Beret". This is possibly the most boring music video ever made:


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Care to sample chocolate bread pudding with bourbon caramel sauce served up by The Sweet Hearth's funky green-and-white food truck in your neighborhood?
Want to try Lloyd's "tricked out nachos" while out on the town?
Do you want to sink your teeth into a gourmet slider served hot off the Knight Slider's sleek black kitchen on wheels?
That may all depend on what happens in Buffalo and Amherst over the next few weeks as they grapple with what to do about food trucks – from how much they should be charged to operate to where and when they can do so.
Despite their popularity nationwide, food trucks are still relatively new to the Buffalo area, and in many communities, peddling laws written to govern door-to-door salesmen, some dating from the early 1900s, are the closest things on the books to a regulation for these mobile kitchens.
But elected officials and food truck operators say that's just not going to work for this 21st century phenomenon.
Truck owners worry that if other towns and villages follow Buffalo and Amherst's lead and set up their own sets of fees and rules, they'll be severely limited on where they can operate.
"The cost to operate a food truck in Western New York is going to be astronomical," said Peter V. Cimino, a principal with Lloyd Taco Truck, which opened for business in 2010.
Truck owners say their business is difficult as it is, pointing to two of their colleagues who have put their trucks up for sale.
Buffalo is weighing a renewal of a food truck ordinance enacted in January 2012 and expiring April 1. The new ordinance is much like the old one, but would reduce the $1,000 permit fee to $500 for trucks that paid the $1,000 fee last year. Like the existing ordinance, operators of new trucks would be charged $1,000 for their first permit.
In addition, a 100-foot restriction from any open kitchen is also maintained in the renewal. A hearing will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Buffalo Common Council chambers.
Amherst is the first suburb to follow in Buffalo's footsteps by requiring food truck permits, and is considering new regulations. A proposed law up for public discussion April 8 at Town Hall would be more restrictive, in some ways, than Buffalo's permit.
Lovers of food-on-wheels would have more difficulty finding food trucks on streets in Amherst, late in the evening or near intersections under the draft law recently released.
While there aren't any restrictions on food trucks in private parking lots, where the trucks do the most business in town, food trucks would be forbidden from operating for more than an hour on streets.
"We don't want these folks just setting up shop and staking out an area for an indeterminate amount of time," said Building Commissioner Thomas C. Ketchum, who authored the proposed food truck permit law.
The trucks don't want to be anywhere all day, said lawyer Mitchell M. Stenger, who represents a coalition of mobile food vendors. They typically set up for two hours at a location, but restricting them to an hour is too onerous, he said.
The Amherst proposal also doesn't allow trucks to be parked within 60 feet of any intersection for traffic safety and visibility reasons, and, like Buffalo, they can't be located within 100 feet of any open kitchen without permission. Unlike Buffalo, the trucks would also have to shut down by 9 p.m. in residential neighborhoods and 11 p.m. in nonresidential areas.
"We were concerned about how this played into any nuisance activities in the evening," Ketchum said.
Amherst's annual permit would require a $500 fee for the first truck and $250 for each additional truck operating in town.
The town was motivated to create a specific food truck permit after the embarrassment of last fall when town police and code-enforcement officers shut down food trucks, turned away hungry patrons and endangered a food truck fundraising event for the City Mission because of an outdated "peddling and soliciting" law.
The new laws are designed to be more practical, community leaders said, while still protecting brick-and-mortar restaurants.
"These rules really need to be looked at," said Tucker Curtin, who owns the Steer restaurant and Lake Effect Diner in University Heights and is urging the Council to increase regulations on the trucks.
While some are concerned, other city restaurants welcome and partner with food truck businesses. North Council Member Joseph Golombek Jr., who has taken the lead on the food truck issue in the Council, said he has "received very, very few serious complaints about the trucks."
Other suburban communities don't yet require formal permits but are taking intermediate steps.
The Village of Williamsville is considering whether it should impose its own permit requirements on food trucks since the proposed Amherst law would not apply within village limits. Mayor Brian J. Kulpa said he's conscious of "overregulating" food trucks but worries about the impact on brick-and-mortar businesses. He's asking the Williamsville Business Association for its input.
"There is some anxiety from our restaurant owners about it," he said.
West Seneca has set up a system for allowing the trucks onto town property, and has allowed one truck to set up at Town Hall and the highway garage for 90 minutes at a time. So far, there are no permit fees, but the trucks have to write to the town to request where they would like to serve and provide proof of insurance.
"It's kind of like a look-and-see thing," said Supervisor Sheila M. Meegan "It's something the town is not saying no to."
So far, Meegan has heard from just one restaurant owner about the trucks, which welcomed the competition, she said.
Officials of both communities said they couldn't imagine charging steep fees like Buffalo and Amherst are considering.
"We wouldn't ask for that much," Meegan said of Buffalo's $1,000 fee. "That wouldn't help the vendor."
Ayoub "Mike" Abboud, owner of the Knight Slider food truck that was shut down by Amherst police last fall, said all the restrictions were excessive and way beyond local government mandates to protect public health and safety. "It just doesn't seem right," he said.
Kelly Brewer, owner The Sweet Hearth dessert truck, said she used to do more business in Amherst than anywhere else but was forced to scale back after the fall. She has turned down several requests from Amherst businesses to come to town, calling the fees in Buffalo and Amherst "ridiculous."
"The permit fees," she said, "are the biggest obstacle for me to earn a living and grow my business."
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Finally. They got it right.
It took five movies prior to this one dating back to 1978, but they finally got the point when it came to making a really good Superman movie.
This is Superman, not Bozo, so quit clowning around.
I'll say here and now, Man of Steel is the best super-hero movie ever made, and I loved the Avengers, Iron Man and Dark Knight Rises. Man of Steel ranks head and shoulders above anything else out there.
You figure you have the Avengers and Dark Knight here – around shoulder height let's say. To show where Man of Steel ranks I'd have to climb a stepladder.
It's not just a great Superman movie, it's a great movie, period.
I truly believe now a man can fly.
For almost two years I have devoured every teaser, trailer and still photograph the studios released. I'd play the trailers over and over again, breaking into sobs at the sound of the first drumbeat.
Remember, Superman is one of the four things that make me unconditionally cry, along with weddings, ceremonial sports moments and bagpipes.
I have been fascinated with Superman ever since I was in second grade and we gathered at my best friend Rick's house to watch a new TV show one afternoon. It was called "The Adventures of Superman" and was originally a Saturday afternoon movie serial run in theaters. This show happened to be about some attacking mole men.
I remember not being very impressed over the first 20 minutes of the show, and looking around at the rest of the neighborhood gang, Tommy, Jeff, Rick, Greg, Skeeter and Moose; they weren't very impressed either.
Still, I felt something coming.
I remember the moment, Clark realizes Lois is in trouble and calls out, "Great Scott! Lois is in trouble!" and takes off down a deserted corridor for the storeroom.
He pauses at the door, looks around, snatches off his glasses and jerks at his tie knot.
And then the music starts.
Moments later Superman emerges from the storeroom and jumps out the window.
I sat up and felt the air leave the room, realizing my life was forever changed at that moment.
When the show was over I raced home and snatched a bath towel and a safety pin out of the linen closet, found an old T-shirt, and grabbed a magic marker.
I paused at my bedroom door and said, "Great Scott! Lois is in trouble!"
And disappeared inside.
About an hour and a half later I emerged wearing a T-shirt with a crude "S" scrawled across the front in magic marker, a bath towel safety-pinned around my neck, and here's the fun part, my underwear now worn outside my blue jeans with the pants-cuffs stuffed into my socks.
Then I flew outside, racing through the family room, arms outstretched in proper flying position, whistling the flying sound Superman made, and Dut-Dah-Dah-ing the Superman theme song.
I ran right past my parents, who didn't understand I was Superman; just that I ran outside wearing my undershorts on the outside of my pants.
My dad said, "I'm going to have a long talk with that boy."
You should have seen what I did to Mom's best bath towel when I became Batman for the first time. That involved a pair of scissors.
I will say this about Superman, if it were socially acceptable I'd wear a cape, even today, and last, it's a good thing Underoos don't come in XXXL.
It would not be pretty.
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The Irish National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) and Waters have formed a partnership for research as well as training. The aim is to develop advanced analytic systems and educate scientists on their use as well as drug regulations on both sides of the pond.
The partnership establishes NIBRT as a Waters Center of Innovation in the area of glycobiology research. Professor Pauline Rudd, NIBRT's principal investigator, and her team will be working with Waters' mass spectrometry-based systems.
Furthermore, Waters and NIBRT have established the Complete Product and Processing Characterization Facility (CPPCF) for hands-on laboratory-based training covering biopharmaceutical analysis including protein and peptide characterization. The CPPCF's goal is to provide comprehensive training of industry and governmental technicians. The facility will also educate scientists on existing and upcoming U.S. and European drug regulations.
"The combination of Pauline Rudd's expertise in glycan analysis and Waters technology for analysis of complex biological samples provides a unique combination of capabilities that can help underpin Ireland's continued reputation as a centre of excellence for the very highest quality standards in biopharmaceutical manufacturing," Sean Sherlock, minister for research and innovation, department of jobs, enterprise and innovation, commented during the opening ceremonies for the two new laboratories.
NIBRT's interim director Professor Ian Marison, added, "NIBRT was created by the Irish government to underpin the biopharmaceutical industry. One key area that NIBRT will focus on is research into improved product analytics to assist the industry in maintaining exacting quality standards. A second key area is bioanalytical training in the most modern and advanced analytical methods.
"This is being achieved through a major partnership with Waters, who are world leaders in analytical equipment development. This partnership will enable NIBRT, with the help of Waters, to provide advanced solutions for the pharmaceutical industry, including protein characterization, N- and O-glycan analysis."
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ENGLEWOOD � Peyton Manning�s pocket of protection is about to get an upgrade.
A finally healthy Chris Kuper is expected to return at right guard Saturday when the top-seeded Denver Broncos (13-3) host the Baltimore Ravens (11-6) in an AFC divisional playoff.
�It would be great,� coach John Fox said after Tuesday�s practice, the exact four words Peyton Manning would use 10 minutes later. �He was voted on as a team captain by his teammates. He�s a guy who�s been in and out of the lineup all year. He�s worked very hard to get back. It was good to see him out there today, and he had a fine day.�
Left tackle Ryan Clady also returned to practice, after missing all of last week�s workouts with an undisclosed injury. Although he�s dealt with a troublesome hamstring of late, Clady never has missed a game in his five-year NFL career.
Kuper, on the other hand, spent more time on the sideline than on the football field this season, and his absence sorely was felt, particularly � and, quite literally � by Manning.
Coming off four neck surgeries, Manning was sacked 21 times this season � but only twice with Kuper in the lineup.
Although Manny Ramirez admirably filled in, the O-line wasn�t the same without Kuper.
The anchor of Denver�s offensive line and a seventh-year pro out of North Dakota, Kuper made just five starts at right guard this season and played a half dozen snaps on special teams in two other games, including the season finale against Kansas City.
He missed the first four games after breaking his left forearm in training camp Aug. 14, and he missed five other games with a sprained left ankle, the same one he dislocated and broke in a gruesome scene a year ago.
For overcoming all these tribulations, his teammates Tuesday voted him their 2012 Ed Block Courage Award winner.
�Obviously, you don�t want to be in that situation because that means you had to fight through some injuries or adversity, but to be recognized as a guy who will do that, I think that�s just part of being a professional,� Kuper said.
Manning lauded Kuper for his perseverance.
�What Kupe�s been through from an injury standpoint, certainly physically, it�s taken its toll,� Manning said. �That�s a real challenge mentally, and I can just tell you that from my experience last year. He�s had a positive attitude; he�s worked hard; he and I have spent a lot of time in the training room together, so to see him back out there ... it�s kind of like seeing Willis: It�s a great lift to the team and it�d be great to have him in there on Saturday.�
Running back Willis McGahee returned to practice Tuesday for the first time since tearing a ligament in his right knee in mid-November and missing the last six games of the regular season. He�s eligible to return to the active roster if the Broncos reach the AFC championship.
Kuper is gearing up for his first playoff game. He missed the Broncos� run last season after getting hurt in the season finale.
�I remember watching that game on TV last year and what he�s done to come back from it is pretty spectacular,� wide receiver Brandon Stokley said. �So, it�s well-deserved.�
And all the adversity this year, �he�s fought through it,� Stokley said. �He�s a team guy and he�s one of those guys that when he�s on the field everybody looks to and kind of rallies around.�
Kuper was named a second alternate to the Pro Bowl after playing in just seven games this season, a measure of how much he�s respected across the league.
�To get him back at a much-needed time is a blessing,� Broncos pass-rusher Elvis Dumervil said. �Glad he�s able to go out and showcase what he can do.�
Kuper said the bye week did wonders for him, allowing him to knock off some rust.
�It helped me tons,� he said. �It�s been a trying year for me, so getting that extra week to kind of work back into the offense, it helped me a lot. It felt good. I�m doing my best out there to get ready to go.�
Now, he�s about to get his first taste of the playoffs.
�This is what I�ve been playing for since I got here,� Kuper said.
McGahee didn�t make himself available for comment Tuesday, but Lance Ball said, �I don�t know when he�ll be back or if he�ll be back or not, but it was just good to go out there and see him out there practicing.�


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5 Life Lessons from a Former Mean Girl
#2. Cruel Humor Is Lazy Humor
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So if you've gotten this far, you probably hate me, or the version of me that I used to be. But guess what, li'l homeys -- we're all bullies now. Only instead of teasing the fat kids, we use social media to tease celebrities, religious people, Walmart customers, and Two and a Half Men. So we're mostly still just making fun of the fat kids, but without the benefit of showing our faces when we do it. Congratulations, everybody! We suck!
I know what you're thinking. Some targets are totally justified, like Chris Brown, for example. Remember that time Twitter comedian Jenny Johnson got him good for being such a loser?
Sorry, but Chris Brown is sick in the head, which makes him too easy a target. In 2012, 65 percent of toddlers' first words were digs at Chris Brown, most of them in the form of tweets. Making fun of Chris Brown is like making fun of a quadriplegic blind man who's also retarded in the retarded sense of the word "retarded." You can do it, but good luck feeling great about yourself afterward.
Think of it this way. You're at a strip club and you want to give the guy a dollar for his sexy moves. You can throw it on the stage, all sloppy like, then run back to your seat and high-five your girlfriends and send a tweet to let everyone know how much fun you're having, or you can do things the hard way. Try to get the dollar in his man panties. It's hard because he's wiggly and his oily skin is getting your dollar slippery and the spotlight is making it hard to see. But if you're going to do the deed, you might as well not take the coward's route. Comedy is the same way.
#1. People Change
In preparing for this column, I asked a few of my Cracked co-workers this question:
Robert Brockway said this, jokingly.
Daniel O'Brien said this, not jokingly.
Soren Bowie is under the impression I make good soup.
But then Robert also said this, which was very nice and is totally not printed out and pasted to my office wall next to the spray-painted words "BROCKWAY (heart heart heart)!"
Everyone else had other things to do than massage my fragile ego with responses to a not very hard question. But that's OK, because I don't need the approval of specifically Adam Brown to know that I outgrew bullyhood. I outgrew bullyhood hard.
The lesson here is that people change and your personality is not set for life. This is crucial information when you're a parent or a human being, because it's so easy to just write off people for jerkiness. Actually, it's not easy, it's lazy. It's like choosing to look at a two-dimensional copy of a picture of someone when the real person is right in front of you. Fortunately, while I was a colossal pain of a student, I also had teachers who looked past the brattiness and nurtured my good parts, but not in a sexually abusive way.
So cheer up, parents of bullies, brats, whiners, and toughies. Your kids might end up like me and Mike Tyson -- reformed. Just don't count on calling your child "The Mike Tyson of the Non-Boxing World," because that's my nickname. I will RIP YOUR GUTS OUT OF YOUR BELLY BUTTON HOLE IF YOU TRY TO STEAL IT.
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CHARLES TOWN - On Oct. 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown led his 18 raiders on an attack of the federal armory at Harpers Ferry. Their attack failed and on Oct. 24, 1859, John Brown was tried for murder, conspiracy and treason. He was found guilty of all charges and was sentenced to be hanged until dead.
Was John Brown a savior or a terrorist? That depends on your point of view. For some, he was an abolitionist fighting for the freedom of the black man; for others he was nothing more than a mentally ill zealot who declared war against the nation.
Most local residents know the story of John Brown and his raiders, but few know what actually was said during his three-day trial.
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Jerry Bayer plays the role of Thomas Green, mayor of Charles Town and defense attorney for Brown.
Was John Brown a savior or a terrorist? That depends on your point of view. For some, he was an abolitionist fighting for the freedom of the black man; for others he was nothing more than a mentally ill zealot who declared war against the nation. This play shows what was actually said during Brown's trial — leaving no room for personal interpretation.
This weekend, a group of actors are performing "The Anvil - The Trial of John Brown," as the trial actually occurred condensed into a two-hour play.
"The production follows the trial pretty closely," Director Joe Yates said. "The dialogue of the play comes from the actual transcripts of the trial. The playwright, Julia Davis, indicates that all of her research came from letters, documents and eyewitness testimony - so it's dead-on accurate, but some scenes have been added. There's one where (John Brown) meets a minister in his jail cell. There's one scene where the widow of a man John Brown killed in Kansas reads a letter she wrote to him aloud. And then there's one where his wife talks about their crusade together."
Starting with a very powerful summation of the raid on the armory, the trail begins with Brown's indictment being read aloud in court. The play will take place not only at the actual courthouse where the trial was held, but in the actual courtroom in which it occurred - the current upstairs courtroom of Circuit Judge David H. Sanders.
Jim Cummins, who portrays the role of Captain Sin, said, "It's our nation's history and an important moment in dialogue. For Lincoln, (the armory raid) was a terrorist act."
"There's a lot to this incident," said Jerry Bayer, who plays the role of Thomas Green, mayor of Charles Town and defense attorney for Brown. "You're going to get a more thoughtful story (with this play)."
"It's a very complex situation," added Emily Romine, who portrays Mahala Doyle, the widow of the man and her two sons killed by Brown and his sons in Kansas in 1856. "It's not as black and white as people think. It humanizes what happened. I think having a theatrical play helps people realize more than reading a book, and the chance to perform it in the courtroom where it actually happened can only happen to people here. People can come to this play without any background of what happened and find a certain amount of humanity. If you have a child of age to see this, bring them. I think you'll take something away."
While historical opinions and ideas of what happened may become distorted over time, actual court transcripts and notarized documents cannot. This play shows what was actually said during Brown's trial - leaving no room for personal interpretation.
And while anyone of any age is welcome to come see this production, Yates would like viewers to be aware that this is an emotionally charged play depicting an actual historical event and some scenes may be very intense for small children.
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Feeling Dixon's Bones and Some History Behind it all
August 31,2001
She could tell through her rubber gloves that it was round and had ridges along the edge, and wasn't to her a familiar part of the male pelvis, with it's flat shape. It only took seconds to realize that this was a grappling of the past.
It wasn't the familiar Mae West comment. "Is that a gun or are you just glad to see me", It was the realization that meant that she had found the Captain's gold piece. Right there in his pocket. The bent coin was in the same place as it had been when it had deflected a bullet at the Battle of Shiloh, saving Lt. Dixon from a life on crutches.
The CSS H. L. Hunley Submarine was first discovered by Dr. E. Lee Spence in the 1970's and it is considered by many to be the first successful combat submarine, (if sinking three times prior can be considered a success), to sink an enemy warship.
"On the night of Feb. 17, 1864, the crude Confederate vessel, which was made from a boiler, had no extra air supply and was powered by a hand crank -- rammed a torpedo into a Union warship anchored off Charleston" is the description used by some. But facts show that it was not made from boilers, and was sleek in it's design.
After the finding of the "Gold Coin" researchers went to other areas of the world and will be back late this year to complete their mission of recovery.
The partial remains of all the crewmen, their bones now stored in trays in a special morgue, were found at their stations near the hand crank and despite the fact that researchers were working in the pelvis area of what was believed to be Lt. Dixon, it was never confirmed publicly that any of the skulls that were found were indeed his.
"We've got eight skulls so far, and I think we've got 16 shoes," one scientist said as part of the latest report.
The Yankee ship. Housatonic, went down, but did the Hunley, mysteriously, with its crew and captain, continue on with it's mission.
The Hunley was found in 1970 by Dr. E. Lee Spence laying on its side in Charleston harbor until it was brought up last summer, by a secondary crew headed by employees of Clive Cussler, a famous and well known author.
A search has been started for crew descendants and continues involving possible DNA identification and facial reconstruction.
And with the 42-foot-long iron hull filled over the years with tightly packed preservative mud, it was decided that other things may take priority.
Some of the earlier discoveries include a tag around the neck of one of the crew. Mysterious because it bore the name of a Yankee soldier, Chamberlin, who had been killed in a battle at James Island near Charleston six months before.
"It's a bit like finding the Wright Brothers first airplane with the Wright brothers sitting there," said Jacobsen, the Danish scientist who is the project's senior archaeologist and excavation manager. "It's incredible."
The effort to examine the HUNLEY raised from waters off Charleston, the heart of the Confederacy, and where the Civil War began, has drawn expertise from carpet baggers from all over the world.
The project director, Robert S. Neyland, the head of the Naval Historical Center's underwater archaeology branch in Washington, as well as the Lead anthropologist Douglas W. Owsley, of the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History confirmed that Dr. E. Lee Spence was the first discoverer of THE HUNLEY.
Chief conservator Paul Mardikian, a native of Paris, Project historian Mark K. Ragan, and Warren Lasch, from outside Cleveland oversee the business end of things.
What were their intentions in overlooking the discovery of the Hunley by Dr. E. Lee Spence and how did they decide that suing THE HUNLEY.COM may be a good thing.
Is the Hunley Commission now involved in lawsuits against various companies that use the word "Hunley" as part of their domain names?
The Friends of the Hunley, Inc. is now being sued for not releasing information to the public claiming they are private non-profit charitable organization. (see article)
A Grisly History
Will be told of the Men who cheated Spence out of History.
The Truth will always
You have read about Charleston, The Hunley and how she had already sunk three times, killing part of one crew and all of the others.
Named after a rich old fool, Louisiana planter Horace L. Hunley, slave owner, who had helped fund its construction, caused the submarine to perish at his helm in a grisly sinking, where their bodies had to be sawed out of the hull to remove them.
Every time, the sub was found and raised, the bodies were removed through the vessel's two narrow hatches, and the befouled, stinking interior was scoured clean by slaves.
Despite the submarine's track record, the Confederacy, with its Navy, remained desperate for some way to break the Union coastal blockade that was strangling the port.
And The Hunley, built in Mobile, Ala., seemed perfect.
It was a submarine, with a sleek, cigar-shape hull, diving fins to help it submerge and surface, and two conning towers.
But under water, it was scary, the crew had only the air in the sealed hull to breathe while underwater. Light was also provided by candles. And the sub's barbed torpedo, at the end of a pole attached to the bow, had to be injected like a harpoon into the hull of an enemy ship, well below the waterline and the metal skins of the ship.
The sub would then release the torpedo, back up and detonate the explosive with a rope, and whose job would that be. Backing up had to be a trick especially when you had a hard enough time going forward in Charleston Harbor.
The odds of success, to say nothing of survival, were long.
But the boat had volunteers, among them a young Confederate infantry officer named George E. Dixon, the former steamboat engineer who was its last skipper, after all he knew all about currents and being 20 years old, thought he knew all about life.
Dixon had been in an Alabama regiment, was injured in battle and later requested command of the submarine, deciding he knew enough about sub marines from floating on top of the Mississippi.
Mr. Ragan claims that he also unearthed a romantic legend about him that seemed too fanciful to be true, hard to believe he can take credit for that.
The story that Dixon had been given a $20 gold piece by his Alabama sweetheart, Queenie Bennett, when he left Mobile for the Battle of Shiloh in 1862 is known by all.
During the battle, as the story went, a bullet struck the coin, bounced off and spared the young lieutenant, who kept the bent gold piece for good luck.
It was just a corny old yarn, Ragan thought, too gooey to be true. "It was just too crazy," he said, all though he takes credit for it.
As far as some records show, however, Dixon may have recruited another crew of volunteers at gun point. The Hunley did set out on the night of Feb. 17, 1864, and "torpedoed" the 12-gun Union sloop Housatonic, which quickly sank, killing a handful of the Yankee crew, and the Hunley failed to return.
'Every Day . . . a
After periodic searches that began right after the attack, the Hunley remained lost until 1971, when Dr. Lee Spence and several friends from Charleston found her.
To recover the submarine, a Hunley Commission, chaired by South Carolina state Sen. Glenn F. McConnell, was formed, as was a nonprofit fundraising branch, Friends of the Hunley, Inc. chaired by Lasch. Lasch had reportedly been convicted of a felony but had worked a deal that would help clear his name, them proceeded to sue a small company call The Hunley.com
Money came from the federal government, which by law owns the boat, after someone threatened to back "anyone who ran against McConnell from South Carolina", which by agreement has permanent custody; and from private and corporate donors galore including the free services of a major law firm in S.C.
About $17 million was raised, Lasch said. An unused warehouse at the old Navy base here was transformed into a gleaming $2 million laboratory ,named for Lasch, with a huge water-filled storage tank for the boat and a special refrigerator for remains. The hull was opened in February and interior excavation began.
After that, said archaeologist Jacobsen, "every day was a revelation."
Among the discoveries were the tag and, especially, the coin, which experts likened to a message across time directly linking Dixon to the boat, verifying much of the story.
The tag was found in late April by Shea McLean, a project archaeologist. McLean said he had been spray-cleaning a skull, he is not sure whose, in an excavation area when he noticed a circle. At first, he thought it was the hole in the base of the skull through which the spinal cord passes, but being fully qualified forensics and not just a volunteer, he figured it out.
As he sprayed further, he realized it was a round object. "The more I sprayed it, the rounder it got, until I could see writing on it," he said. He made out the word "volunteers" and realized it was a dog tag of some kind. A terrific find that has never been released to the public.
But when it mysteriously turned out the name on the other side was not of a Hunley crewman but of a Union soldier, "things got real serious real fast," McLean said.
The Name was " Ezra Chamberlin", of the 7th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, who had been killed the previous July in a failed assault on a Confederate fort outside Charleston, right where we live.
But why was his tag on the Hunley? Had he deserted to the rebels? Had he been captured and forced to help crew the boat? Was he a spy? "All these questions" arose, McLean said.
Some quick research showed what had probably happened: A member of the Hunley crew, C.F. Carlson, had served in a Confederate artillery unit that had been at the battle where Chamberlin was killed.
Though the skeleton with the dog tag has not yet been identified as Carlson's, it is possible, historians say, that Carlson, as many did, went over the battlefield when the fighting ended and took the dog tag as a trophy or souvenir. You should see that battlefield today. It is terrible.
"We'll probably never know for sure," McLean said.
But Note:
Some of the ship had been cleaned out. The project's initial phase was winding down. And excavation crews were working in two shifts to remove the remains. Then all of a sudden they quit.
Jacobsen, working the May 23 night shift in a blue jumpsuit, was preparing a "block lift" of the segment of muck that encased Dixon's pelvis. A metal lifting tray would be slid under the mud block, and Jacobsen , checking with her hands to make sure the metal wouldn't damage any bones said "I was running my hand down the side of his left [pelvic bone] . . . to make sure that the plate didn't scrape against it," she said. "And as I ran my fingertips along the bone, I touched" something.
"You know how sensitive the tips of your fingers are," she said. "And I can tell you, I know it sounds incredible, I could feel with the tips of my fingers what it was. I knew right away."
It felt round. It felt bent. It was right at his left hip, where a pants pocket would be.
She turned to a colleague and said: "I've got the coin."
A True Friend of the Hunley


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Deaths bring back memories
December 7, 2010 - Neil Rudel
Two news items moved on the sports wire in succession Monday that hit home for me.
Both were deaths of sports figures. One was "Dandy Don" Meredith, the old Dallas Cowboys quarterback and former announcer on Monday Night Football, and the other was ex-Marquette coach Hank Raymonds.
Until I was old enough to know better, and before the Steelers evolved into a playoff team, I grew up as a Dallas Cowboys fan in part because my dad worked for an insurance company, Southwestern Life, based in Dallas.
I still remember the gold pens he'd give us with his name inscribed on them. Anyway, at that point, he started rooting for the Cowboys and as the oldest of his three boys (and five kids), so did I. For the record, I think he would have allowed us to stay in the same room if we chose to root for the other team, but I'm not 100 percent sure.
We loved the speed of Bob Hayes and the durability of Don Perkins and the Doomsday Defense with Bob Lilly, Jethro Pugh, Cornell Green and Lee Roy Jordan.
My first disappointment was Dallas' 34-27 loss in the 1966 NFL championship game to the Green Bay Packers. A berth to Super Bowl I was on the line. The Cowboys froze in the Ice Bowl, losing 21-17 to the Packers and Vince Lombardi the following year as well.
Meredith was the flamboyant QB who later made his mark working with Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football, where he'd sing, "turn out the lights, the party's over..."
I was a junior at Penn State in 1977-78, covering the basketball team for The Daily Collegian, when Raymonds brought the Marquette Warriors to Rec Hall.
Marquette was coming off its national title under Al McGuire and Raymonds, a former McGuire assistant, was in his first year as head coach. The Warriors had future NBA players Jerome Whitehead and Butch Lee and were able to survive a scare from Penn State, which was led by Jeff Miller, who is still one of the best shooters in Nittany Lion history.
Rec Hall was packed that night, but Penn State couldn't put away Marquette after leading at halftime (in that regard, not much other than the venue has changed).


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March 18, 2007
Sean Dougherty's green eyes peeked out from beneath a headdress of eagle feathers tipped low over his forehead.
The Irish-German-Native American was bedecked in feathers, ready to step-to for the men's traditional Native American dance at a Saturday social powwow at Willamette University in Salem.
The fifth annual event, in Cone Fieldhouse on campus, included Native American dances set to a drum beat and chanting.
It was not a performance, though 500 onlookers crowded the stands and ringed the gym floor to gaze at the stomping feet and brightly colored clothing. Nor was it a dance.
"Every step we take is prayers to the people, dancing for the people," Dougherty, of Salem, said. "It's very spiritual."
Master of ceremonies Bob Tom said powwows have been going on before Native American people had a name for them. The 70-year-old attended his first when he was 6, and being a part of one means more to him than song and dance. It is who he is.
"Listening to the drums, being surrounded by friends, Indian people, makes you stand taller, makes you proud to be Indian," he said.
A dizzying array of scents, including burning sage, dried lavender and fried dough, filled the fieldhouse Saturday. The aromas reflected cultural roots, but also drew visitors to vendors on the scene selling Native American foods and wares.
Jessie Hunt of Turner sold herbs such as sage smudge stick, an early antiseptic and cleanser of bad spirits.
"When (the dancers) walk in, they burn it," Hunt said. Some Native Americans "take it to the sweat lodge. They breathe it."
Debbie Austin of Keizer sold fry bread in a booth outside of the gym.
"I can give you the ingredients, but the way of mixing it is the secret," she said.
The flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, milk, water and yeast combination sizzled in vats of oil.
Willamette University freshman Caity Casebolt said the event was a crucial reminder of American history -- the Native Americans' loss of their homes, land and hunting grounds.
"It's a part of our history," she said, "and it's also a part of theirs."
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As postgraduate students in the department of physics and clinical medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, Vivienne Williams and Dmitry Kashanin were working on a project to investigate microfluidics and develop biochips for cell-based experiments. They developed a technology to mimic human capillaries in plastic.
Williams and Kashanin realized that dynamic, continuous-flow experiments by simulating a blood vessel, would be more representative of the physiological condition than animal tests. The assay would mimic the flow of blood, thereby, providing a better simulation of how a new drug might react within the body. Researchers could use the system in tandem with, or just before, animal testing to determine the in vivo effect of drugs on the human body.
"By operating under continuous blood flow conditions, the Cellix platform simulates the human environment, providing researchers with powerful data far beyond that available via static conditions of the petri dish before advancing to costly animal trials," Williams explains. "By using our solution, false leads can be eliminated earlier in the process and winning compounds can be chosen, increasing the success rate of clinical trials and giving researchers the competitive edge."
As a result of this collaborative partnership supervised by professors Dermit Kelleher and Igor Shvetz, a prototype microfluidics screening tool for drug discovery was born, patents were issued, grants were procured, and Cellix was launched.
"Our solution contains everything a researcher requires to execute continuous-flow, cell-based assays and make informed decisions," Williams explains. "The only fully integrated end-to-end microfluidics system on the market, the Cellix solution includes the platform, biochips, and cell analysis software. They give researchers reliable tools for investigation of cell adhesion under physiological shear stresses."
In 2006, the company was formally established with a head office in Dublin. Williams joined as the CEO and was the first employee in March of that year with Kashanin and O'Dowd joining as CTO and design engineer, respectively, in November.
The company raised venture capital funding from OTC in Paris, NCB Ventures in Dublin, and Enterprise Ireland. "That $3.5 million in funding was not a huge amount, but we've grown the business on original revenue," Williams explained.
According to Williams, the technology provides an assay for secondary drug screening in research labs and preclinical testing for drug discovery. Compounds can be investigated with isolated cells or whole blood samples from human donors "where cells act differently under flow conditions in a physiological sense." In situations where no biomarkers are present, researchers have to use flow-based adhesion studies or flow cytometry to determine what happens in vivo, according to Williams, who said that cell-cell and cell-protein interactions can be studied in a fast, reliable, cost-effective manner.
"We don't offer one-size-fits-all products. During the consultation phase, our team will run a demonstration and ensure that a customer's team members are fully trained to get the most from the platform within the specialized disease area. Cellix provides customized solutions for all its clients depending on what is needed, e.g., changing flow rates or adhesion molecules to suit the application."
According to Williams, one key area of research with Cellix systems is thrombosis studies, in which scientists determine how platelets attach to blood vessel walls. Inflammation studies are also "huge," she said. Those experiments determine how cells attach to blood vessel walls and attack the site of inflammation. Another area of study is circulating tumor cells, which can create a secondary tumor.
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DeLand, Fla. - Stetson sophomore goalkeeper Andreas Schnabl (Blaichach, Germany) was named Atlantic Sun Conference Defensive Player of the Week for men's soccer, the conference office announced Monday. Schnabl moved into a tie for third place on the Stetson career list with his eighth career shutout as the Hatters beat A-Sun rival Mercer 1-0 in overtime Sunday evening. This is the first such award of Schnabl's career.
Schnabl, a 2010 Atlantic Sun All-Freshman Team and All-Tournament Team honoree, recorded a clean sheet for the third time in 2011 and the eighth time overall, moving past former teammate Logan Potter and into a third place tie with Tim Riek '02 for career shutouts at Stetson. Kevin Johnson '93 is second with 10 shutouts while Ed Funcheon '89 holds the record with 11; just midway through his sophomore year the program record appears extremely attainable for Schnabl. He made two saves in the win over Mercer and denied several more long crosses and services by the Bears in a driving rainstorm.
"This is an extremely well-deserved honor for Andreas," Hatters Head Coach T. Logan Fleck said. "In Sunday's match, Mercer floated numerous scoring chances in the air towards our goal but he commanded his 18-yard box like we know he can. Andreas is a key ingredient to our success as a team going forward."
The Hatters (4-5-1, 1-1-0 Atlantic Sun) face a key conference road trip this coming weekend with a 7:00 pm Friday kickoff at defending A-Sun tournament champion ETSU and a 12:00 pm Sunday start at current second place holder USC Upstate. The matches can be seen on ASun.TV (if made available by ETSU/USC Upstate); links to Live Stats will be available at GoHatters.com.
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The Keystone XL pipeline would bring tar sands oil from Alberta to the United States. Tar sands oil is the dirtiest source of energy there is. The process emits 14 percent more greenhouse emissions than conventional oil extraction and it uses large amounts of water. It turns the landscape into a moonscape. To approve this project would make a mockery of his inaugural comments about betraying our children and future generations. I hope President Obama will do the right thing and reject the tar sands pipeline.
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Introduction to Geography
Focuses on special relationships and how human culture adapts to varied
environments. Class includes how natural resources are utilized as a source
of economic and political power. Students also learn how our natural resources
are limited on a global scale.
Introduction to Geology, LE
What are the processes and events that have made the earth look the way
it does today? How long have these processes been going on? How different
will the earth look in the future? In answering these questions, this
course will not only introduce students to the basic principles of geology,
but will also explore the problems inherent in the scientific study of
the deep past. Students should take note: this class will make you see
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Environmental Earth Sciences
A study of the earth as a dynamic system focusing on the human dimensions
of global change. Changes to the earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, and
biosphere through time will be explored, as will geologic risks and human
impact on the globe.
Special Topics in Earth Systems Science
Meets the special needs of students interested in pursuing more advanced
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geology of Utah, paleontology, etc. Topics for study may also focus on
specific global environmental issues such as climate change or bio-diversity
loss. Advanced study of methods for studying earth systems such as GIS
or remote sensing may also be done. Field-oriented courses, which focus
on a specific geographic region, e.g., Africa, Latin America, Asia, may
also be offered. Prerequisite for 300-level credit: ESS 110 or ESS 205.
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
This course takes an in-depth look at how geologists us sedimentary rocks
to interpret the changing nature of the earth's surficial environment.
This class utilizes actualistic experiments and field studies in addition
to traditional lectures and discussions. Topics include the physical nature
of sediment and sedimentary environments (shelf, terrestrial, and carbonate);
naming clastic and chemical sedimentary rocks; dating, correlation, and
magnetostratigraphy; biostratigraphy and biogeography; and sequence stratigraphy.
Principles of Paleontology
This course introduces the organisms that comprise the fossil record
as well as the methods that paleontologists use to reconstruct the life
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the history of life. Same as BIOL 315.
History of Life on Earth
This course examines a number of fundamental questions about the history
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No bridezilla here. Jamie Chung says fiancé Bryan Greenberg is better at calling the shots when it comes to their upcoming nuptials.
"We're equally excited," the Believe star tells PEOPLE.
The former How to Make It in America and One Tree Hill actor, 35, surprised Chung, 30, by popping the question in her native San Francisco over the holidays, and, since then, the two have been in full-fledged planning mode.
"Actually, he's better at planning parties than I am," admits Chung – though she hasn't relinquished control altogether.
"He wants a big blow out and I want to keep it intimate, so there's certainly things we need to work out." But what's wedding planning without a guest list debate?
One thing she is completely in control of – the dress! The PEOPLE StyleWatch Celeb Style Council member has an eye for fashion, and for her own wedding, she's eyeing one designer in particular.
"Monique Lhuillier is a designer I lust for," Chung says. "I saw her Fall 2014 runway show and it was literally like an opera. I would love to wear one of her dresses!"
The couple haven't yet set a date, but for now Chung is busy shooting her new NBC thriller Believe, which airs Sunday at 9 p.m. "I'm so excited to work with J.J. Abrams. Every episode is a mystery," says Chung.
And despite all the time she and Greenberg spend together, there's one activity they still do solo. "He hates working out with me," says Chung with a laugh. "Bryan says, 'It's so cheesy,' so we're not that couple."
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Results of NISAC's two-year study on the potential impacts of pandemic influenza in the United States were published in October 2007 and released to the public in 2008. The summary report and supplemental analysis reports can be downloaded from the column to the right.
Pandemic Influenza Impact on Workforce and Critical Infrastructure
NISAC models have been enhanced to simulate multiscale epidemiology and the public health infrastructure. NISAC analysts are using these models to examine disease spread at census-tract level nationally and at an individual level on a regional scale.
Using expected manifestations at the seasonal, 1958/68, and 1918 pandemic levels, explicit modeling of relevant aspects of the public health system has enabled NISAC to couple model output to population, workforce, infrastructure asset, and economic consequence assessments. Analyzed for geospatial structure, modeling output has revealed hotspots, strong correlations with average household size, and other demographic characteristics, emphasizing the importance of geospatial structure for pandemic planning at the local level.
Selected aspects of proposed national pandemic plans, mitigation, and response options are being simulated in this ongoing project. In-depth sensitivity analysis is planned for strategies deemed most effective and robust.
Pandemic Influenza Policy Analysis
Conclusions from the epidemiological and mitigation strategy analyses conducted to date include:
- Response time is most important, other factors are secondary.
- Partially effective response early is best.
- Geospatial dynamics are important.
- Face masks can reduce or prevent an epidemic.
- Border control can only delay an epidemic, and a 95% reduction in the contagious individuals entering the country delays the epidemic by 5 weeks.
- Social distancing is also effective in delaying an epidemic, but returning to normal interactions without other mitigation measures causes waves of outbreaks. This strategy corresponds to historical interventions and disease outbreaks.
Working in collaboration with the DHS Science and Technology's Critical Infrastructure Protection Decision Support System (CIPDSS) program, NISAC developed models of workforce impacts on infrastructure operations. We will use these models to evaluate pandemic effects on infrastructures and provide input to the analysis of national economic impacts.
Modeling/Analysis Approach
- Translated epidemiological results, using population and workforce data, into impacts on labor categories by infrastructure, industry, and commercial sector.
- Modeled functional relationships of labor categories on infrastructure operations for each sector.
- Used reductions in workforce to estimate reductions in infrastructure service provision.
- Modeled impacts of mitigation strategies on workforce and used the results to estimate impacts on infrastructure service provision.
NISAC uses systems models of infrastructures to evaluate the effects of labor shortages on operations (transportation, telecom, and energy) and data analysis to develop labor models for the other infrastructures (banking and finance, water, government, agriculture/food, etc.). Different processes in infrastructure supply chains are represented in the model and include the effects on the workforce due to illness, parents having to stay home with sick children, employees refusing to go to work out of fear (worried well), and fatigue in staff that are working extraordinary hours.
The NISAC and CIPDSS approach to estimating the economic impacts of a pandemic are comprehensive and multi- dimensional, based on known interactions between labor supply, industry output, consumer demand, and households. By having the economics modeling take a systems approach that is similar to the epidemiological and infrastructure modeling approach, a rich environment is created for cross-model comparison and validation.
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NISAC applied a central model of how firms adapt to labor losses, under varying epidemiological and government response conditions, to estimate the impacts of pandemic morbidity and mortality on infrastructures, their interdependencies, and the economy. Analyses include identifying infrastructure and economic vulnerabilities caused by labor losses and overall economic conditions. Estimates are made of
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A guy with a very big (usually huge) penis.
Guy: wanna see it?
Girl: sure
Guy: ok here
Girl: HOLY CRAP its a george
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A great good looking guy, sometimes cocky-er than should be. Highly intellegent and educated. Hot physique, acts sometimes like he doesnt care but deep inside he is very cuddly like a teddy bear. Ever guy wishes he was George
Boyfriend: OMG there George, i wish i was like him.
Girlfriend: Sigh....i wish you were like him too.
Girlfriend: Sigh....i wish you were like him too.
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the most perfect guy in the world. has a great smile. a person with a promising future. acts like he doesnt care, but really cares, a lot. loves hugs and kisses. especially from his girl. has some regrets, but lives for the future. when he says he loves you, listen to him. he means it. no bull. a bit jealous, but because the last thing he wants to do is lose you.
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hes a king.
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hes a king.
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an extremely hot down to earth guy that i like very much.
george is so awsome!
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-the type of man every women dreams of. he opens doors and remembers every word you say, every detail and uses them later to surprise you with all your favorites. knows exactly how to work a women but does it because he loves her with no alternative motives. will do anything for the ones he loves especially his girl, would be forever indebted in order to please her. selfless in every way. knows exactly how to love a women. excellent kisser a true gentleman. a real life prince charming forever in love with his cinderella.
-a man who takes his drinks on ice and his women on fire.
-a man who takes his drinks on ice and his women on fire.
"George didn't bring you roses for valentine's day?"
"because he remembered tiger lilies are my favorite"
"because he remembered tiger lilies are my favorite"
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the only one that can match my game, the only one that can proudly anounce that he is a sex machine and mean it. He will come to your town, stay for a while, and when he leaves there will be no virgins left. amazing person george is...
"Omg, you slept with george too?!"
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A U.S. $1 bill. After George Washington, whose mug appears on it.
Dude, lend me a George, I'm jonesin' for a Hershey bar.
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Commenting on the honor of being nominated for best performance by an actor in a supporting role, Heath's Perth, Australia-based father, Kim Ledger, said in a statement to PEOPLE, "We thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for honoring Heath's performance in The Dark Knight."
He added, "This nomination is deeply appreciated and is not lost on those of us who continue to love and miss him. We are so proud our boy's work is being recognized in this way."
Ledger will compete in the supporting actor category with Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr. for their roles in Tropic Thunder, Ralph Fiennes for The Duchess and Philip Seymour Hoffman for his role in Doubt.
Heath Ledger, 28, was found dead in a New York apartment Jan. 22, the same day the 2008 Oscar nominations were announced.
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