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"N, A, 1, sugar sugar, this is Victor, Oscar, 1, V, Z, N. Do you copy Chris?"
Primary radio operator Keith Perry initially heard waves of static after sending out that message from the Admiralty House Communications Museum in Mount Pearl Saturday morning. A Royal Canadian Air Cadet stood beside him.
A few more attempts were made before a response was finally received.
"Go ahead," came the voice of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who is on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station.
Hadfield, who was an air cadet in his youth, took time Saturday to answer questions from a group of air cadets with the Newfoundland Cadet Detachment.
Dylan Thomson, a member of Royal Canadian Air Cadets 515 North Atlantic, was the first youth to ask a question.
"If you could explore any part of the solar system, where would it be?"
"I'd choose Mars," responded Hadfield. "Mars has an atmosphere. Mars has water. Mars is a place we could live. Mars is not too much more harsh than the worst parts of the world, so I think it's our logical next step, and that's where I would like to live if I had the choice."
With the ball rolling, other cadets stepped forward to ask questions over the course of 10 minutes.
Flight Cpl. Evan Lane of Torbay asked Hadfield what it was like to be the first Canadian to walk in space.
"Evan, it was spectacular," said the astronaut, who was formerly a fighter pilot with the Canadian Armed Forces. "Not only as the first Canadian, but as the first time for me, and it was a magnificent personal and professional experience to be alone in between the world and the universe. It was better than any flying I've ever done, and I really enjoyed flying."
Speaking with The Telegram afterwards, the 15-year-old said he was excited about the opportunity to speak with Hadfield.
"Nobody gets the opportunity to talk with somebody out in space," said Evan. "It's just a once-in-a-lifetime experience."
If the opportunity were to present itself, Evan said, he would love to travel to space.
Saturday's event was arranged through the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program, which encourages youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math through amateur radio communications opportunities.
Everett Price, a board member with the Admiralty House Communications Museum who also manages its radio station, said he was approached in October of last year by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) about whether there would be interest in having local air cadets chat with Hadfield.
"It's not an individual effort by any means — it's a group effort," said Price. "A tremendous amount of time and money was put into this, and it worked."
In preparation for Saturday's communication with space, a group of scanning antennas were installed on the roof of the building, and NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston also insisted that the site be equipped with backup antennas.
While the recent snowstorm initially scared those involved with the technical side of the event, Price said they were relieved to find the antennas had not been damaged.
Price added that NASA has asked if the site in Mount Pearl would consider serving as a ground station for the International Space Station. He said the board will make a decision at a later date.
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The Lang Family Year In Review 2011
Started by BethLang, Dec 28 2011 04:51 PM
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Posted 28 December 2011 - 04:51 PM
Here is a rather lengthy presentation we are making for our family to document the arrival of our son this year!
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Posted 28 December 2011 - 05:18 PM
Beth, it's wonderful! I see you have been quite busy this past year. Congratulations on the wonderful addition to your family! Aaidan does indeed have the most wonderful smile. And Annabelle looks very good in short hair. You look radiant in the pictures, too. I'm so glad things have worked out so nicely - I know it took a long time. Enjoy your wonderful family!
Thanks for sharing your great presentation.
Thanks for sharing your great presentation.
Posted 28 December 2011 - 05:22 PM
Looks fantastic Beth!
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Posted 28 December 2011 - 06:30 PM
How fun, Beth! You did a great job!
Posted 28 December 2011 - 07:12 PM
I watched the whole thing and it's wonderful! Adorable photos of beautiful little ones - I enjoyed it very much!
Posted 28 December 2011 - 09:34 PM
AWESOME Beth!! What fun photos and the music is perfect. Nice job.
Posted 28 December 2011 - 10:03 PM
Great effort Beth. What a wonderful keepsake for your family. It was lovely. Kay
Posted 28 December 2011 - 11:27 PM
Fabulous, Beth! Annabelle is just precious and you did an beautiful job with your presentation! The childen look so happy togehter!
Posted 29 December 2011 - 06:53 AM
You said it was long, but I watched every slide! What a wonderful review! I really like the music you chose and the zoo slides are so cute with many of your photos! (great bedroom btw!) Congratulations on your expanded family, what beautiful memories you are creating, Beth!
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Posted 29 December 2011 - 07:09 AM
Ah Beth, that was fantastic! I loved every minute of it. Its so great seeing Anabelle grow up, and such a grown up little lady she is too! And to see Aidan come into your family is just so exciting. He does look like one happy camper. And its good to see you still around. I know you've had a very busy year, but Ive missed seeing you. What a special way to keep in touch. Thanks for sharing this with us. You've got a precious family.
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Preserving some of the space's original elements helped keep the building's history alive. Previously a discount department store that sat unused for more than 50 years, most of its original five-quarter hardwood floors are intact, and their variegated appearance adds character and depth to the space. "No one worries about spilling graphite or shavings on the floor here," says Vice President and Design Principal Jason-Emery Groen.
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Under the terms of the agreement, Amerigen will manufacture the product at its US FDA approved and China CFDA certified, finished solid dose facility in Suzhou, China.
Sinochem has been granted exclusive sales and distribution rights for the product in China in exchange for undisclosed payments to Amerigen. The first commercial shipments of the product, which will be sold under Suzhou Amerigen's label, are expected in mid-2014. In addition, the parties will seek any regulatory approvals required for the commercialization of the product in China under the terms of the new collaboration arrangement.
Mr John Lowry, Amerigen's president and CEO, commented that, "This agreement is a continuation of our strategy to bring high quality and locally manufactured generic products to the rapidly growing Chinese market by leveraging Amerigen's FDA and CFDA licensed manufacturing facility in Suzhou. Our collaboration with Sinochem enables expedited market entry through the sales expertise of a highly reputable and leading Chinese pharmaceutical company."
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Today, give thanks for those have cleared the trail and set an easier path for us.
Say a prayer today, for those less fortunate, say a prayer for our soldiers away from home, give thanks that we can sit at a table with our families and celebrate.
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We have a male yellow that we would like to stud that has these same pedigrees in it. It is a fabulous pedigree for a hunting dog and would like to get it back. We are looking for a Black female lab with some back ground pedigrees of some British imports from the C H Breeze of Drakshead, F T CH Swinbrook Tan, FT CH Pocklington Glen, FT CH Venture of Brattonsplash, Henderland Beaver, Henderland GeeGee, Henderland Amber, and some Franklin Hill Snoopy, Franklin Hill Pop N Fresh, Franklin Hill Foxy Lady, Kellygreens Sunnymums, Kellygreens Kody, There's some Guiding Eyes FT Blind Marsh and Guiding Eyes Anja also. The mother is Charcoal Blach Sapphire MHR WR and is out of Franklin Hill Montezuma Britt and the father is Ashridge Captain Wentworth J H. I know this is a long shot but I hope there's some one out there that can help us and that there dog has these pedigrees in there pedigrees. We don't have much time because the dog is up there in age. Thanks, and hope for any help out there. How can I link the pedigree to here? again thanks.
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I don't know if he fits our scheme but i would love to get Sammy Watkins in the first round next year.
I don't know if he fits our scheme but i would love to get Sammy Watkins in the first round next year.
I think USC already had an underrated defender or two, one by the name of Nickell Robey who had to go to the Bills as a UDFA. We'll see on him but that's one of my top 10 UDFAs for sure. T.J. McDonald going in the 3rd round wasn't underrated or overrated...just rated. Wes Horton struck me as overrated back when he was being placed near the top of the class by NFL Draft Scout prior to and during the 2012 season. But as a UDFA, he might be a little undervalued. He looked good during All Star practices and game. I was suprised.
I look forward to seeing Skov return to form this year.
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As for USC's upcoming guys on defense...I've never really disliked Morgan Breslin, but I haven't been grabbed by him the same way I have a Kyle Van Noy or Anthony Barr. Watching USC, I always come away feeling like I need to pay more attention to Dion Bailey, George Uko and Leonard Williams than Morgan Breslin. Just a feeling.
And speaking of Stanford, when I try and sit down to watch David Yankey, my eyes usually aren't getting past Cameron Fleming. He's a looker. Great frame, great athleticism. good kick slide. Probably another situation like Texas A&M's where the right tackle might be better than the left tackle. But of course Yankey is no Joeckel.
slight off topic but for all of you draftniks that use Twitter:
Teddy Bridgewater has finally joined Twitter, you can follow him at @teddyb_h2o
As far as I know he doesn't have a Facebook account or at least one that is public.
Turns out, far too much has been written about great men and not nearly enough about morons. Doesn't seem right.
Loving me some Shayne Skov [and no, not in that way ] think he would fit well in our D, and bring a level of nastiness I don't think we have quite yet. Not sure it will happen what with the recent FA/Draft aquisitions at backer, but he's going to be a player - probably a 2nd rounder though, doubt he goes in the 1st.
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Dion Bailey is scheduled to move back to his more natural safety position. He simply doesn't have the size to prevent him from being a liability at linebacker against teams that are going to committ to the running game the way Georgia Tech did in the Sun Bowl, where I felt like Bailey struggled more than the other two LB's (Pullard and Dawson).
I'd look for Pullard and Dawson to start at the 'Mike' and 'Will' positions under the new coordinator's 52-defense.
I don't know where that came from about Kouandjio struggling in Bama's spring game but it's inaccurate.
Well I was there and I didn't see any issues with Kouandjio. I've probably talked to 50 people since then that all watched our A-day game and they don't see it either.
Fact is, we only ran about 8 different plays.
I think you're probably on to something here, just not necessarily what you think it is. Ryan Anderson is going to be a dominant force. That's what was on display during our A-day game.
As for Kouandjio, he's a proven commodity.


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From Mr. Obama's webpage about global warming:
Huffington Post Article:We need to take steps to stop catastrophic, manmade climate change. If we do not act, the consequences will be devastating for future generations, especially for the poorest global populations.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-g...i_b_50046.htmlSo why did Obama introduce the "Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Promotion Act of 2007," a bill that would promote the use of coal, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels, as a transportation fuel and make global warming a lot worse?
When Obama introduced the coal-to-liquids bill back in January, he drew catcalls from environmentalists. Frank O'Donnell, the executive director of a Washington group called the Clean Air Watch, told Grist's Amanda Griscom Little: "Obama may be a climate crusader, but in this case he's marching in the wrong direction."
Environmentalists are appalled. Frances Bienecke, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, told me: "If you fill your Prius with liquid coal, it would be like driving a Hummer." She described the coal-to-liquids proposal, as now written, as "an ecological disaster."
I take no pleasure is saying that this will damage Obama. I read his autobiography, Dreams From My Father, a few months ago, and came away very impressed. I want to believe that he is a different kind of political leader.
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He is undermining his own claim to be above politics, to be the kind of leader who looks beyond narrow, parochial interests to do what's right for all Americans.


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This one will also be consigned to the Quilts and Crafts Sale the weekend after next.
(Here's a link to my other consignment Autumn Windows ... or change the name?)
I"ve always called it "Double Rose Trellis",using the name I gave to the pattern.
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Bank of America analyst Christopher Ferrara upgraded Procter & Gamble (PG) to Buy from Neutral today and raised his price target to $75.
Ferrara writes that P&G's commitment to make $10 billion in cuts by Fiscal 2016 represents a more serious move than the company's past cost-cutting statements.
"While there's been reason to question PG's ability to deliver savings, committing to such a large target represents change, in our view. The market often questions PG's appetite or ability to cut costs, but rarely doubts the fact that there is actually fat to cut."
P&G could find it difficult, however, to keep growing and innovating amid the cuts.
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We have been working on "HOLD" and it looks like we have it. I am a true believer in the "Hillman" method of training, I own the birdiest pup i have seen and listens like a dream. Never any force yet just "happy, happy, happy".


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Stabbing suspect has extensive record, troubled backgroundJanuary 31, 2014 11:59 PM
The man accused of killing a Pittsburgh police dog comes from a chaotic background that includes a criminal record, history of mental illness and lack of family support.
John Lewis Rush, 21, served a year in the Allegheny County Jail for statutory sexual assault and is now back there on a $1 million bond set Friday stemming from the assault Tuesday of Rocco, a K-9 officer, who police say he stabbed during a confrontation in Lawrenceville.
A preliminary hearing on charges -- including disarming a law enforcement officer; aggravated assault; burglary; resisting arrest; cruelty to animals and possessing instruments of crime -- is scheduled for Feb. 12.
On Friday, details began to emerge about Rush, who quickly became a target of public outrage. His own Facebook page included dozens of comments castigating him for the stabbing, and another page, Justice for Rocco, which was created Thursday afternoon, already had more than 53,000 likes.
Rush's former girlfriend, who asked that her name be withheld, has remained friends with him. She has heard from many people over the last few days about his actions and is unsure how to respond.
"He was never aggressive with me -- ever," she said.
But court records show Rush has a violent background, having been arrested for aggravated and simple assault, reckless endangerment and terroristic threats, as well as indecent assault of a child under 13 years old.
Most recently he was charged with assaulting one former girlfriend and attacking another man who he claimed owed him $20.
On Jan. 28, 2013, Rush pleaded guilty to statutory sexual assault, corruption of minors, indecent exposure and simple assault. According to the criminal complaint in the case, Sharpsburg police responded to a call of a 14-year-old girl having been badly beaten by her 19-year-old boyfriend on March 10, 2012.
The girl told police she met Rush in August 2011 and they began a sexual relationship two months later.
Although he was initially charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, those charges were withdrawn by the district attorney's office.
"Through the course of that investigation, evidentiary issues came up that resulted in our office having to offer the plea that we did," said spokesman Mike Manko.
Judge Jill E. Rangos sentenced Rush to 1 to 2 years at the Allegheny County Jail, to be followed by three years of probation.
He received credit for time served of 321 days because he had been unable to make the $50,000 bond on the case, and Rush was ultimately released on Feb. 21, 2013.
As part of his plea agreement, Rush was required to register as a sex offender for 15 years. As a Tier 1 offender, he was required to report, in person, once a year.
But he failed to register, and on Jan. 8, Judge Rangos issued a bench warrant for his arrest.
It was the second bench warrant issued for him in a month, stemming from a violent home invasion at his father's house in Lawrenceville on Dec. 7.
Those warrants led to his most recent arrest.
According to the criminal complaint, members of the Allegheny County sheriff's office spotted Rush carrying several bags while walking Tuesday night on Butler Street in Lawrenceville. Deputy John Herb asked Rush for his name and identification and Rush lunged toward the deputy's gun then began hitting him in the face, the complaint says.
The deputy tried to stop him by using a Taser, but Rush ran away.
About 40 minutes later, Officer Philip Lerza and Rocco responded to a call for a suspicious man in the basement of a home in the 3700 block of Butler Street.
Officer Lerza stood by the doorway of the basement and shouted three times, "Pittsburgh Police K-9," and warned the man to "sound off" or the dog would come for him, police wrote.
Police said Rush "lunged out from near a pillar and attacked K-9 Rocco," swinging the knife about while the dog attempted to bite his upper torso and arm.
Rush, police said, punched Officer Daniel Nowak, who told him he was under arrest, and hit Officer John Baker in the head several times. Officer Lerza sustained a puncture wound to the back and was treated at UPMC Mercy. A fourth officer sustained a knee injury.
Rocco was rushed to Pittsburgh Veterinary Specialty & Emergency Center in Ohio Township where he underwent surgery and received blood transfusions. He died Thursday evening after developing pneumonia and additional bleeding.
The charges against Rush cannot be upgraded under the current state of the law, Mr. Manko said.
Rush's former girlfriend and his half-brother, Sam, said he came from a difficult background.
He spent much of his life in Lawrenceville but rarely had a permanent place to live.
Court records listed a number of different addresses, and his former girlfriend said he moved often from place to place, sometimes staying with relatives, girlfriends or friends.
"He kind of just lived off of everybody," she said.
Rush was diagnosed with a form of schizophrenia in his adolescence, his former girlfriend said, and he spent extensive time in a number of juvenile facilities.
Sam, who shares a mother with Rush and asked that his last name not be used, said he remembers visiting his half-brother during one of his placements about four years ago.
"He had really started turning his life around. Participating in the jail academic program was showing good promise for him," Sam said. "I remember one conversation in particular about him talking about how he feared himself and the things he'd done. And how he didn't want to hurt people anymore and just wanted to be accepted into normal social life."
When Rush got out, he got a full-time job at the Silk Elephant in Squirrel Hill, Sam said, and it seemed like he'd gotten his life on track. He left for a new job, but the position fell through, and when Rush went back to the restaurant, he'd already been replaced.
Sam said his brother "fell off the grid" at that point, "calling every now and then telling me to cherish everything I have because some people don't have it as well and that he cared about me."
Rush enrolled at Community College of Allegheny County, his brother said, but his loans fell through, and he quit.
"When he grew up, his life was so bad," his former girlfriend said.
Rush's family members were not there to support him, and they did not encourage him to stay on his medication.
"His moods, oh my God, you could see him changing," she said. "Something wasn't going right in his head."
When Rush was off his medication, his friend said, he became irritable and paranoid. He began to believe that everyone hated him and he threatened suicide.
Although she could not specify when, Rush's former girlfriend said he spent time at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic on more than one occasion. "My wonder is, why didn't anyone see this coming?"
According to a recommendation sheet included in Rush's criminal court case file from March 2012, the behavior clinic at the jail cleared him but suggested he undergo outpatient anger-management classes, as well as take psychiatric medications.
The form does not include any specific diagnosis.
Although his former girlfriend does not believe Rush set out Tuesday night to hurt anyone, "John deserves to pay for everything he did to that dog and those police officers," she said.
But, she continued, "he needs help."
Paula Reed Ward: email@example.com, 412-263-2620 or on Twitter @PaulaReedWard. Liz Navratil contributed.


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If you follow presidential politics, you know that Barack Obama's past use of illegal drugs is suddenly a topic of great interest. In an article published on Wednesday, January 3, Washington Post staffer Lois Romano reported that Obama — in his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father: a Story of Race and Inheritance — admitted to using cocaine as a young man. In fact, as Romano noted in her lead, Obama claimed he'd barely escaped a life of chronic drug abuse. "Junkie. Pothead," Obama wrote. "That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man."
Quite a revelation, coming from a rising Democratic star and prospective 2008 presidential candidate. But the most interesting part of the story didn't actually involve Obama directly. Toward the middle of her piece, Romano offered some historical context for Obama's confession. Here's how she did it:
"Two decades ago, Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was forced to withdraw as a nominee for the Supreme Court after reports surfaced that he had used marijuana while he was a law professor. As a presidential candidate, Bill Clinton thought marijuana use could be enough of a liability in 1992 that he felt compelled to say he had not inhaled. And President Bush has managed to deflect endless gossip about his past by acknowledging that he had an 'irresponsible' youth but offering no details."
What's really striking here, of course, is the vague and dismissive reference to George W. Bush. You don't take "endless gossip" seriously; it's something to dismiss with a roll of the eyes or a contemptuous shrug. What's more, the subject of this so-called gossip is, in Romano's account, left to the reader's imagination. Did people accuse Bush of smoking pot, perhaps? Of using mushrooms? Of tipping cows?
In fact, the question behind the "endless gossip" was whether Bush had ever used cocaine. And there was — and is — real reason to think he had.
In the summer of 1999, long-standing rumors that Bush had used coke in the past were a real drag on his campaign, made all the worse by the flimsy non-denials he issued when pressed on the subject. (Way back in 1994, when Bush was running against Ann Richards for the Texas governorship, the Houston Chronicle asked if he'd ever used illegal drugs. His answer: "Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. What's the relevance?") In July 1999, during an interview with Romano and another Post reporter, Bush was asked why he wouldn't simply deny using coke. "I'm not going to talk about what I did years ago," he replied. Early the next month, after then–South Dakota Democratic senator Tom Daschle complained that the press wasn't investigating Bush's past aggressively enough, the New York Daily News asked a dozen presidential candidates if they'd ever used cocaine. Bush was the only one who didn't answer the question.
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After reading this article, I'm pretty sure it's pure nuts to teach math this way.
As the article mentions, sounds like a great way to make kids hate math. Not a good thing when math is involved so much in technology that we have to deal with more each day, and shows no sign of letting up.


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Hi everyone, this is my second diary entry. I have overcome the bug that I listed yesterday. It was just a matter of g_malloc() etc. Whenever something funny is going on, I guess you can say that it's probably a memory related problem.
Now, I don't have a new bug to post here.. I dunno if I should be happy or sad about that... but anyway, Dull is progressing nicely.. well, not as fast as I want it to go, but it's getting there. I can now access the modem, I haven't been able to read from it though... I'll work on it tonight.
I'm posting this from an internet cafe across the street from my school. I just got out of an exam. I think I'm gonna fail that exam, not that I don't know the stuff that the teacher discussed, it's just that the type of exam that the teacher gave was a very weird multiple choice thingy, wherein two stuff are so similar that it becomes a matter of opinion whether or not it is the right answer :(. The reason why I'm in this internet cafe is because it's even cheaper here than getting internet access from an isp. It only costs about $0.5/hr here, while it costs $1 from an isp to your house. :( I would've gotten the cable modem offer if there was one, but there isn't so, I'm stuck with a 33.6kbps modem.
I'm thinking about the configuration stuff for my app... should I use gconf? or should I just do a plain text thing. A plain text thing would be easier to do, but I wouldn't learn much from it, while gconf may be harder, but it's the future... hmm... I don't know what to do. Do you have a suggestion? e- mail me
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In "Decision Time," Editor Brian Lovett will share a scenario from his 20-plus years hunting turkeys. Each hinges on a critical decision. Post what choice you would have made, and then see how things actually turned out.
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Remember The Nashville Network, which used to run all kinds of great hunting shows?
Remember the promotional footage that network used in the late 1990s; the clip of a guy staring down a shotgun barrel at a big Gould's gobbler while heat waves rose from the rocks between them?
That was me. (The guy, not the turkey.) How did my friend Mitch get such great footage? Well, we had nothing else to do while that gobbler and two of his friends strutted endlessly for umpteen hens 80 yards away.
We were stuck on that Sonora flat for a couple of hours. The birds weren't coming closer, and we couldn't move toward them. Something had to happen.
It did. Eventually, the breeding flock began drifting to our left, toward the timbered ridge from which they'd come. It was hot, so I surmised the birds might be heading to some shade. Still, they were in no hurry, so I wondered if they weren't just drifting around the flat in one of those lazy, random turkey movements.
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We do not need the goverment telling us what our values should be. They are learned at home.
When is that going to start?
huntinmann,that's an old photo in my avatar.she has since taught me to line up correctly where she wants me to be.
Example: Locally, here in my area, a group of Boy Scouts proposed a project to clean up a particular public parkland that the city did not have the manpower to keep up with. The union went up in arms because the Scouts would be interfering with work the union workers should get paid to do. The only thing that pulled the Scouts out of the hot water, and got the park cleaned up, was the justifiable public outrage at the union's stupidity. The city didn't then (and doesn't now) have the funds to hire any more workers to do all that needs doing ... without citizens volunteering the park land would still be a trash heap.
Sort of like the Alabama utility workers being turned away from NJ because they were non-union.
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Well, after scanning quickly through this thread, it's clear that you all are angry...
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angry white men? angry white men? angry white men?
let us examine the fact that in national elections:
blacks and black men historically vote ~84% for anyone with a (d) behind their name. they vote >90% for any black man with a (d) behind their name.
i grew up in the rural south with arfican americans as a high percentage of my school mates, i have lived in some of the most diverse cities in the country, i live in a very sucessfully integrated southern small town. even now occasionally i still go to the park and play basketball with friends and neighbors. one thing i can tell you from near 50 years of constant observation is that the opinions of african americans are as diverse as any other demographic group......until election day.
hispanic men seem to vote ~74% for anyone with a (d) behind their name. i work with and employ hispanic workers today. in my interaction and observation of hispanics as a demographic group i see varied opinions and values.....until election day.
white women seem to vote~56% for anyone with a (d) behind their name. i spoke in agreement with memmon in a thread two months ago about what this demographic group was going to do in this immediate past election. and guess what?
young people......?
now poor little old, hard working, white guys line up and vote together at a rate of about ~54% behind a republican candidate. these men lose and say: don't tax the wealthy....they buy my products......i intend to be wealthy some day......you take the rewards of my work and pass it out as earned income tax credit......you spend money you don't have.......blah blah blah. they say this and they are called angry?
there are in fact plenty of angry demographic groups of voters. they all stick together in their voting regardless of their diverse values or the real issues at hand. in my opinion white men appear to be the least angry group. if they are angry they have a dang funny way of displaying it on election day.
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Hyperthyroidism. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated March 12, 2013. Accessed November 25, 2013.
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Just as it is your right to disrespect a decorated, wounded vet with your posts on RFT. You don't think him worthy, or he speaks his own minand is his own person and not a party mimic, so lets flame him. That, is poor taste. But it is your right.
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If you were next to me and we watched someone burn or disrespect our flag (because it is their right) you would either help me, or be calling a policeman and an ambulance.
As far as the Church people who invade a fallen soldiers funeral, again, same scenario.
In fact, there were rumors of such activity planned here in Milwaukee at a fallen Marines services.
But rumors got out about some of us VMC guys and some MCMC guys were attending as security.
It never happened.
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Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
what most people tend to forget is that just because someone is a decorated military figure it does not automatically make them a good politician...in fact it sometimes comes back to haunt them because they believe they are bulletproof...anyone remember Randall " Duke" Cunningham, John Murtha, McCain, Wesley Clark
Hagel is a bonafide hero....unfortunately his political career wont matter because there arent enough votes to stop his confirmation, same goes for Kerry...lets confirm them and get back to the business at hand


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Dr Saleem Mohammad, founder, XCode Life Sciences, India (winner of the BioSpectrum Asia Pacific Awards 2013 award in the Emerging Company of the Year 2013 category)
Dr Saleem Mohammad, who founded XCode Life Sciences in December 2010, first had the idea of starting this company while he was pursuing his PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Nebraska, US.
"(There was) Cutting-edge research, committed researchers around me working for the love of science and the thirst of knowledge at a leading academic set up- it is easy for anyone to get an idea in this buzzing atmosphere," he says. "On the one hand, science was trying to catch up with nature in leaps and bounds with the whole genome sequencing in 2003, and on the other hand I discovered that my mother was diagnosed with diabetes. It was the first lifestyle-related disease that someone close to me was affected with. I suddenly became interested in my own health. That's when the idea really took some shape."
When he could not find a single organization in India that analyzed an individual's risk to diabetes, it further inspired him to follow up his idea with action. He already had the educational background and access to latest scientific understanding of genetics to back him up.
It took six months to develop the technology. The company was incubated at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in Tamil Nadu, a southern state of India, where it was provided with space, infrastructure and opportunity to raise government funding worth $11,600 (Rs 6.25 lakh). The company then raised two rounds of angel investments of $200,000 each in 2011.
"Our technology was in a niche that required understanding of genetics as well as use of information technology, so it was challenging. Transforming the technology into a marketable product was the next challenge," says Dr Mohammad. The big break for him came when the second founder and investor, Mr R Narayanan, joined him. The company launched its first product, LifeLong Wellness Kit, in June 2012. This is when it received a second round of funding worth $250,000 (Rs 1 crore).
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"This week is all about saying 'thank you' to the men and women who work so hard to give us a clean, safe environment," said Jonathan Baer, director of Building Services. "I believe that our employees contribute a great deal to the quality of life for our students too -- and few things are valued more than when a student takes the time to simply say 'thank you.'"
Employees will be wearing special badges during the week. On Thursday, they will be recognized at a luncheon in the Frist Campus Center.
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By Brad Locke/NEMS Daily Journal
NASHVILLE – Fred Thomas has always had the confidence to shoot. On Wednesday, those shots fell for him.
The freshman guard scored a career-high 21 points to lift Mississippi State past South Carolina, 70-59, in the first round of the SEC Tournament at Bridgestone Arena.
MSU (10-21) will play No. 5 seed Tennessee (19-11) at 2:30 p.m. today.
Thomas made 6 of 12 shots, including 4 of 8 from 3-point range. Entering the game, he was hitting just 23 percent from behind the arc.
He scored eight points during a 13-0 MSU first-half run, when 12th-seeded South Carolina (14-18) was held scoreless for more than six minutes. During one trip up the court, Thomas called for the ball, got it, and swished a 3-pointer.
"I had thought at the beginning of his career he was taking some bad 3s that were contested," MSU coach Rick Ray said, "but I thought you started to see toward the end of the season, he was taking good shots, he just wasn't having success. Today he got great looks, and he knocked them down.
"I think that's the type of shooter we recruited."
Thomas also had five steals, and he came up big on both ends as MSU, the tournament's No. 13 seed, turned back every South Carolina push.
The Gamecocks trimmed the lead to four points early in the second half, but consecutive transition buckets by Sword and Thomas pushed it to 44-36.
Comeback attempt
After South Carolina cut it to 53-47, Thomas hit a 3-pointer off an inbounds pass with 7:30 left. A Brenton Williams 3-pointer cut it to 60-56, but the defense tightened up, and another Thomas three made it 64-56 with 2:06 to go.
"Yeah, I was in the zone," Thomas said.
The Bulldogs all looked zoned in from the opening tip. They shot 46.9 percent from the field, 7 of 15 from 3-point range, and 17 of 27 from the free throw line.
The Gamecocks shot 37.5 percent, made 6 of 31 from deep and were 5 of 7 on free throws. They committed 17 turnovers, leading to 17 MSU points.
Frank Martin's team had trouble cracking Ray's 1-3-1 defense, and MSU wound up with 12 steals.
"We prepared for it, we knew it was coming, we just didn't take care of the ball as well as we should have," South Carolina forward Lakeem Jackson said.
MSU got 11 points and eight rebounds each from Colin Borchert and Roquez Johnson, and Gavin Ware added 10 points and seven boards.
"We had a lot of intensity and motivation going into this game," Ware said. "We weren't ready to go home for spring break."
Martin was impressed by the Bulldogs' energy.
"As a fan of the game, it's fun to watch a bunch of young kids get through a season and still have so much enthusiasm for the game," he said.
Bruce Ellington led South Carolina with 13 points.


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SDCC'13 has finally put parking online. Where to look for the CORRECT link, you might ask? Not their website. Not their facebook. Not their twitter. Not the last year's pages on either their site or the permit store website. No, that would be sane. Instead, Comic Con waits 27 minutes after the information went up on the Ace Parking twitter page and then link not to that, but to their own website's page that merely links to it.
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Anyway, hope you guys get your parking permits if you need them. I was able to get my convention center passes for all 5 days after a grueling 30 minute battle with their server and then more time getting them to spit out of my printer.


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Today in Kickboxing: Remy Bonjasky vs. Tsuyoshi Nakasako, February 15 2004
- Written by Dave Walsh
February has always been a busy month for stand-up sports, and it's no less true now than it was during the Silver Age of K-1. Today in kickboxing, Remy Bonjasky faced Tsuyoshi Nakasako at K-1 Burning 2004 (introduced by a special guest announcer).
At this point in time Remy had just won his first Grand Prix a few months previously, and was looking to continue his momentum from 2003 into the new year. Nakasako was a Japanese journeyman who had moderate amounts of success in Japan, but was never able to find the win to push himself into the upper echelons of K-1.
This fight is a perfect example of what made Remy Bonjasky a great fighter. Perfect use of range and distance, and a devastating left body-hook, right low-kick combination that found it's mark nearly every time. Nakasako is one tough guy, and he was almost able to weather the future 3-time champion's blistering kicks until the final bell. Almost.


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I was dreading having to lug a BMF all the way home from the USA... the box is HUGE... but then it popped up locally at $199 (about US$165 at today's exchange rate, it's been pretty volatile lately). I know that in the UK it's 150 POUNDS (nearly $280US) and somewhere close to $240US in Singapore, so thankfully luck favours the Aussie market for this one item.
Basic vehicles (V-19 etc) still sell for $60 here. Go figure.
Any sightings of the A-Wing would be much appreciated. Apart from the Republic Gunship are there any more exclusives this year?
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The inability to solve journalist murders in Arauca feeds an atmosphere of hostility and intimidation for the media there. By John Otis
Attacks on the Press | Colombia
The inability to solve journalist murders in Arauca feeds an atmosphere of hostility and intimidation for the media there. By John Otis
Colombian journalist Élida Parra Alonso, who was kidnapped on July 24, 2012, by a local guerrilla group in the northeastern state of Arauca, was released on August 13, 2012, according to news reports. Parra hosts a program for Sarare Estéreo radio station and does community outreach work for Oleoducto Bicentenario, a company constructing an oil pipeline that it says will be the largest in the country, news reports said.
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Socialization -- or, more specifically, the LACK of socialization -- is probably the single biggest cause of aggressive behavior in dogs. Lack of socialization causes fear responses in older puppies and dogs, leading to shyness, yappiness, and downright aggressive behavior.
With puppies, socialization is fairly easy... just take your puppy with you, everywhere you go. Anywhere you're allowed to take him... take him. Introduce him to everybody. Make special trips to the park, or the pet store, or walk him in the grocery store parking lot. Show him off. Make sure he understands that ALL people, animals, places, are GOOD people, animals, places. If you notice that certain types of people, animals, or places cause even the slightest fearful reaction, take him more often to be introduced into those situations -- and reward him for appropriate behavior.
Socializing the older dog to strange people, surroundings and strange dogs is a longer process than socializing a puppy to the same people, surroundings and dogs. It's not impossible, but does require more patience. His natural inborn instinct is to fear new things -- in the wild, new things are dangerous. You have to teach him to trust in your judgment.


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18th Century, Grade 1 listed London hotel The Royal Horseguards, known for its use by the Secret Service and its current links to Whitehall, is benefiting from a £16.3m investment from owner Guoman Hotels, the deluxe hotel group with properties across central London.
The refurbishment of The Royal Horseguards, whose eighth floor was used by the Secret Service as a base during the First World War, will see all 280 bedrooms across nine floors transformed into state-of-the-art luxury accommodation by early 2009.
New features will include built-in iPod docking stations in every room, plasma TVs in the bathroom, mood lighting, free wi-fi access in every bedroom and surround sound as standard. The bedroom balconies will also be opened up to overlook the Thames.
Built in 1884 in the style of a French château on the Embankment of the Thames, the Royal Horseguards is one of London's landmark hotels, neighbouring the Ministry of Defence and just moments away from Downing Street and Parliament. The Royal Horseguards also appeared in the 1983 Bond film Octopussy.
Jon Beecroft, general manager of The Royal Horseguards comments, "The Royal Horseguards is already a landmark London hotel thanks to its history and location at the heart of Westminster. It's truly fantastic that the hotel's reputation for outstanding service will be reinforced with new luxurious bedrooms and facilities, securing its position as one of the Capital's leading hotels".
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Is numerical mimicry a third way of establishing truth?
Kevin Heng
Empiricism lies at the heart of the scientific method. It seeks to understand the world through experiment and experience. This cycle of formulating and testing falsifiable hypotheses has amalgamated with a modern form of rationalism—the use of reasoning, mathematics, and logic to understand nature. These schools of thought are couched in centuries of history and, until recently, remained largely distinct. Proponents of empiricism include the 18th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume, who believed in a subjective, sensory-based perception of the world. Rationalism is the belief that the use of reasoning alone is sufficient to understand the natural world, without any recourse to experiment. Its roots may be traced to the Greek philosophers Aristotle, Plato, and Pythagoras; its more modern proponents include Kant, Leibniz, and Descartes.
A clear example of both practices at work is in the field of astronomy and astrophysics. Astronomers discover, catalog, and attempt to make sense of the night sky using powerful telescopes. Astrophysicists mull over theoretical ideas, form hypotheses, make predictions for what one expects to observe, and attempt to discover organizing principles unifying astronomical phenomena. Frequently, researchers are practitioners of both subdisciplines.
Problems in astrophysics—and physics, in general—may often be rendered tractable by concentrating on the characteristic length, time, or velocity scales of interest. When trying to understand water as a fluid, it is useful to treat it as a continuous medium rather than as an enormous collection of molecules, because it makes it vastly easier to visualize (and compute) its macroscopic behavior. Although the Earth is evolving on geological time scales, its global climate is essentially invariant from one day to the next—hence the difficulty in explaining the urgency of climate change to the public. The planets of the Solar System do not orbit a static Sun, as it performs a ponderous wobble about its center of mass due to their collective gravitational tug, but it is often sufficient to visualize it as being so. Milankovitch cycles cause the eccentricity and obliquity of the Earth's orbit to evolve over hundreds of thousands of years, but they are essentially constant over a human lifetime.
This separation of scales strips a problem down to its bare essence, allowing one to gain insight into the salient physics at the scale of interest.
Multiscale problems, on the other hand, do not lend themselves to such simplification. Small disturbances in a system might show up as big effects across myriad sizes and time scales. Structures on very large scales "talk" to features on very small scales and vice versa. For example, a grand challenge in astrophysics is understanding planet formation—being able to predict the diversity of exoplanets forming around a star, starting from a primordial cloud of gas and dust. Planet formation is an inherently multiscale problem: Uncertainties on microscopic scales, such as how turbulence and the seed particles of dust grains are created, hinder our ability to predict the outcome on celestial scales. Many real-life problems in biology, chemistry, physics, and the atmospheric and climate sciences are multiscale as well.
By necessity, a third, modern way of testing and establishing scientific truth—in addition to theory and experiment—is via simulations, the use of (often large) computers to mimic nature. It is a synthetic universe in a computer. One states an equation (or several) describing the physical system being studied, programs it into a computer, and marches the system forward in space and time. If all of the relevant physical laws are faithfully captured, then one ends up with an emulation—a perfect, The Matrix–like replication of the physical world in virtual reality.
In astronomy and astrophysics, this third way has come into its own, largely due to the unique status of astronomy as an experimental science. Unlike other, laboratory-based disciplines, astronomers may not exert full control over their experiments—one simply cannot rearrange objects in the sky. Astronomical phenomena often encode information about a subpopulation of a class of objects at a very specific moment in their evolution. To understand the entire population of a class of objects across cosmic time requires large computer simulations of their formation and evolution. Examples of different classes of objects include exoplanets, stars, black holes, galaxies, and even clusters of galaxies. The hope is that these simulations lead to big-picture understanding that unifies seemingly unrelated astronomical phenomena.
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What followed is a long, complicated and unpleasant story. Columbus returned to Spain to bring the news of his discoveries. The Spanish monarchs were less impressed than he with what he had found, but he was able to round up a large expedition of Spanish colonists to return with him and help exploit the riches of the Indies. At Española the new settlers built forts and towns and began helping themselves to all the gold they could find among the natives. These creatures of the golden age remained generous. But precisely because they did not value possessions, they had little to turn over. When gold was not forthcoming, the Europeans began killing. Some of the natives struck back and hid out in the hills. But in 1495 a punitive expedition rounded up 1,500 of them, and 500 were shipped off to the slave markets of Seville.
The natives, seeing what was in store for them, dug up their own crops of cassava and destroyed their supplies in hopes that the resulting famine would drive the Spaniards out. But it did not work. The Spaniards were sure there was more gold in the island than the natives had yet found, and were determined to make them dig it out. Columbus built more forts throughout the island and decreed that every Arawak of 14 years or over was to furnish a hawk's bell full of gold dust every three months. The various local leaders were made responsible for seeing that the tribute was paid. In regions where gold was not to be had, 25 pounds of woven or spun cotton could be substituted for the hawk's bell of gold dust.
Unfortunately Española was not Ophir, and it did not have anything like the amount of gold that Columbus thought it did. The pieces that the natives had at first presented him were the accumulation of many years. To fill their quotas by washing in the riverbeds was all but impossible, even with continual daily labor. But the demand was unrelenting, and those who sought to escape it by fleeing to the mountains were hunted down with dogs taught to kill. A few years later Peter Martyr was able to report that the natives "beare this yoke of servitude with an evill will, but yet they beare it."
The tribute system, for all its injustice and cruelty, preserved something of the Arawaks' old social arrangements: they retained their old leaders under control of the king's viceroy, and royal directions to the viceroy might ultimately have worked some mitigation of their hardships. But the Spanish settlers of Española did not care for this centralized method of exploitation. They wanted a share of the land and its people, and when their demands were not met they revolted against the government of Columbus. In 1499 they forced him to abandon the system of obtaining tribute through the Arawak chieftains for a new one in which both land and people were turned over to individual Spaniards for exploitation as they saw fit. This was the beginning of the system of repartimientos or encomiendas later extended to other areas of Spanish occupation. With its inauguration, Columbus' economic control of Española effectively ceased, and even his political authority was revoked later in the same year when the king appointed a new governor.
For the Arawaks the new system of forced labor meant that they did more work, wore more clothes and said more prayers. Peter Martyr could rejoice that "so many thousands of men are received to bee the sheepe of Christes flocke." But these were sheep prepared for slaughter. If we may believe Bartolomé de Las Casas, a Dominican priest who spent many years among them, they were tortured, burned and fed to the dogs by their masters. They died from overwork and from new European diseases. They killed themselves. And they took pains to avoid having children. Life was not fit to live, and they stopped living. From a population of 100,000 at the lowest estimate in 1492, there remained in 1514 about 32,000 Arawaks in Española. By 1542, according to Las Casas, only 200 were left. In their place had appeared slaves imported from Africa. The people of the golden age had been virtually exterminated.
Why? What is the meaning of this tale of horror? Why is the first chapter of American history an atrocity story? Bartolomé de Las Casas had a simple answer, greed: "The cause why the Spanishe have destroyed such an infinitie of soules, hath been onely, that they have helde it for their last scope and marke to gette golde." The answer is true enough. But we shall have to go further than Spanish greed to understand why American history began this way. The Spanish had no monopoly on greed.
The Indians' austere way of life could not fail to win the admiration of the invaders, for self-denial was an ancient virtue in Western culture. The Greeks and Romans had constructed philosophies and the Christians a religion around it. The Indians, and especially the Arawaks, gave no sign of thinking much about God, but otherwise they seemed to have attained the monastic virtues. Plato had emphasized again and again that freedom was to be reached by restraining one's needs, and the Arawaks had attained impressive freedom.
But even as the Europeans admired the Indians' simplicity, they were troubled by it, troubled and offended. Innocence never fails to offend, never fails to invite attack, and the Indians seemed the most innocent people anyone had ever seen. Without the help of Christianity or of civilization, they had attained virtues that Europeans liked to think of as the proper outcome of Christianity and civilization. The fury with which the Spaniards assaulted the Arawaks even after they had enslaved them must surely have been in part a blind impulse to crush an innocence that seemed to deny the Europeans' cherished assumption of their own civilized, Christian superiority over naked, heathen barbarians.


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Barron's and this blog have spent some time lately airing opinions about whether bonds are in a bubble. (The latest scorecard: Bill Eigen of JP Morgan Asset Management says they are, Fitch Ratings and the Financial Times say they might be, and Jeff Gundlach says they're not.) This has prompted some readers to chime in that such bubble talk is (naturally) overblown, and that bonds are neither prone to bubbles nor are they in one.
This blog believes a lot of bonds look overvalued right now, particularly given the uncommonly acute downside risks, but that the term "bubble" deserves some special attention, since it can sound unduly alarmist.
By their nature, when it comes to bubble-like overvaluation, stocks are more precarious than bonds. You can lose just about all your money if a stock bubble bursts, but even if bonds in your portfolio default you'll likely still recover a good chunk of your principal. Rising interest rates, currently the main risk to high-grade corporate bonds, erode bond prices rather than destroying the majority of their face value.
But people don't buy bonds expecting them to perform just like stocks; they view bonds more defensively. So bond investors, who at this point are accustomed to three decades of falling rates and rising prices, might be in for a shock if their holdings lose value next year, or the year after, or whenever rates commence what most pundits see as an inevitable rise.


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