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Online dating link in nurse attack9:08
Police probe if a man met on an online dating site was behind a serious attack on a young nurse in her home in Melbourne's northeast.
BATTERED nurse Shey Webber has come out of an induced coma but cannot tell police what happened to her.
Ms Webber was pulled out of the coma about a week ago as her family keep a bedside vigil but cannot tell police if she was attacked.
The Herald Sun has learned her head injuries are so significant Ms Webber may have permanent brain injuries.
But in a twist to the case, forensic experts have found Ms Webber's injuries could have been caused by a fall inside her townhouse.
Whether Ms Webber was pushed or simply fell down a staircase is still to be determined.
The 35-year-old Warranwood woman has been fighting for life after being found with horrendous injuries face down in her Regency Terrace townhouse in Warranwood on November 6.
The latest development will not deter investigators trying to find a potential culprit even though her injuries may have been sustained in an accident.
Detectives have trawled through her computer and phone records looking for men Ms Webber met online, in particular matchmaker website RSVP.
More than "100 bits'' of information have been analysed but police are yet to make an arrest.
"Maroondah crime investigation unit detectives continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the injuries sustained by Shey Webber at her Warranwood home last month,'' Victoria Police spokeswoman Leonie Johnson said.
"Police have consulted with forensic experts who believe that Ms Webber may have fallen within the house.
"The investigation remains ongoing, with detectives still attempting to determine whether Ms Webber was assaulted or whether it was a terrible accident.
"She was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital where she remains with serious injuries and unable to communicate.''
Ms Webber's sister, Tamika, who last month made a plea for anyone with information to come forward, has been overwhelmed by the support the family has received.
"We continue to look after her in the best way we know how," she said.
She also posted on Facebook that her sister was "progressing as best as can be expected" following an attack.
"As many of you know my sister was horrifically attacked in her home and left to die a month ago leaving her family and loved ones in disarray," she said.
"Due to her case, I can't discuss too much regarding her condition so I'm sorry if I haven't responded to anyone's msgs (sic) but please know her family are so grateful for all your love and support.
"Shey is progressing as best as can be expected considering what she endured.
"Just wanted to say thank you to those who have shown their endless kindness and support through such a horrific time.
"Really does mean the world to know there are more kind people than heartless monsters in this world."
Anyone with information about the case should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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The Rangers man played the entire 90 minutes of the gritty 2-1 win over Iceland on Saturday.
However, the pelvic injury he has been nursing all season flared up on Sunday and, following tests by SFA doctors, has been forced out of the Euro 2004 qualifying trip to Lithuania.
Another player who will not make the trip is Ferguson`s Gers team-mate Steven Thompson, who has failed to shake off an ankle knock.
An SFA spokesman said: "Barry was barely able to train last week leading up to the Iceland game, but he made a fantastic effort to play.
"However, after assessment by SFA doctors, he will not travel with the squad to Lithuania and has returned to Rangers.
"Steven had been carrying an injury before the game against Iceland but was suspended anyway.
"But the knock has not responded in time to be fit to travel to Vilnius and he has also returned to his club."
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Ring the bell, Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to the debut edition of The Other Side of the Squared Circle, I am your tour guide taking you on a voyage through my mind to help you understand my thoughts on this week's edition of TNA Impact. I cannot promise the same quality as Shakespeare or even more experienced writers but I will be honest so there's that. Now these thoughts and opinions are only shared by myself and do not represent TNAMecca as a whole, then again that's a good thing, if we shared the same exact opinions this site would be boring as hell.
Variety is the spice of life and it's through meeting and talking with people who think differently about things is how we grow. With that said, let's get to it. This is for the August 12th edition of TNA Impact. As what I believe will be the format from here on out, I will begin with what I liked then move on to what I did not like and finish up with what just felt blah, wasn't right and it wasn't wrong, it was just there, like a Chavo Guerrero Jr. promo. With that being said, let's get the column going.
1-Count: Things I loved
GFW in the house: As an avid wrestling fan I get excited when I have the opportunity to see new talent on TV for the first time. I think it's damn cool that we have two wrestling companies working together and I hope ROH makes it a trio, but I digress. Some of the talent I had seen before in WWE like Brian Myers though I hope to God he has that haircut because he lost a bet, the former Masterpiece Chris Mordetzky, and PJ Black aka Justin Gabriel, 2 of whom I am a fan of and I also thought PJ had been wasted during his WWE run. It was also good to see Sonjay back on TNA TV though strange to not see his shoulder taped up. I loved that immediately we got GFW and TNA having a showdown at the start of the show.
It Factor gets Roode: Hell yes, Bobby is back to being his damn Roode self again. I missed this ruthless side of him that helped him remain the longest TNA world champion in the company's history. While he had been entertaining, he also seemed to be missing something that gave him the appeal he had to me for so long. Either way I hope this is the start of a return to glory for the It Factor of Professional Wrestling.
KOTM goes Primetime, baby: I really didn't know what to expect for the first ever live KOTM match on TV but I was pleasantly surprised. It did surprise me that they put 2 GFW guys in the match considering Jarrett was running the show since part of me expected him to fill the ranks with them. That Lashley spear off the top rope was insane. All in all it was a great match, though I can't help but feel like the wrong person won.
Sadly no event is perfect there are going to be flaws I mean this is wrestling not anime. TNA Impact did have its issues. I don't point out flaws to be cruel or to hate on TNA as most seem to think about WWE fans or like most WWE fans seem to do. Benjamin Franklin said "Our critics are our friends; for they make known to us our flaws." With that said, let's rip this Band-Aid off quickly as there are 3 things to make the 2-count list tonight.
2-Count: C'mon almost had it.
Kong vs Tapa, no snarky comment because these women could beat my ass: I know that sometimes wrestlers have off nights and on occasion a bad style matchup can ruin an entire match. There was no major botch that killed the match but it just came off as bad, like when Lei'd was trying to "block" Kong's clotheslines. I know neither woman is used to being in the ring with someone their size so I can be forgiving however it is clear that they do not need to wrestle 1 on 1 again anytime soon.
PJ Black the Douchewolf: I understand he is supposed to have this Devil May Care attitude and be reckless, but the guy just seemed less like a daredevil and more like a douchebag. He acted like that guy you meet on the Beach who thinks he's extreme because he rides his high dollar motorcycle his parents bought him and will never shut up about how extreme he is. Not to mention Black damn near crushing Lashley's chest and head with that 450. It is bizarre to write PJ Black and blown 450 together because in the entire time he was with WWE he never botched it. He had the most crisp and on target 450 splash I've ever seen. Maybe with time it'll come off better but for now, I am just not feeling it.
Too many backstage interviews and promos: It seemed like every time Impact came back from commercial break they had to go backstage for an interview or show some promo for next week. I know this is a minor gripe but I hate it when WWE does it and I hate it when TNA does it, especially the latter of the two because WWE has 15 hours or however the hell how many hours of wrestling to fill every night and TNA only has these 2. I get that some interview segments are necessary for storylines but correct me if I am wrong, this GFW thing is not a one off event, we do not need to meet the entire roster tonight.
Ah Band-Aid is off, and the tears have almost stopped. You know, I think Kevin Nash put it best when he said something along the lines of "It's good if they love you, it's great if they hate you but the worst reaction is none at all." These are the segments of Impact that gave me no reaction. I hate feeling that way because the people involved are busting their ass and some of them I really like but I can't fake being supportive, I just don't have the acting ability.
3-Count: That's it?
Bobby Lashley has the touch of death: Lashley's first match of the evening was against Mr. Pec-tactular Jessie Godderz. These two suffered an issue that seemed to run throughout the entire night in that some matches, I could not put my finger on it but something felt off. I am not saying they were outright bad, but they just felt weird. I'll excuse some of them like The Wolves vs Lee and Myers for being new to one another, however this just felt odd to watch and Jessie Godderz has officially won the award for Worst Spear sell ever. Lashley hit him with a spear and he sold it like he had either been shot by a sniper or super kicked by the Young Bucks.
Welcome Back Sonjay: as I said earlier it was great to see Sonjay Dutt back on Impact and even better was him going head to head against the current X-division Champion Tigre Uno, however that same feeling that I had throughout the night seemed to be at its worst here. Again I am giving them a pass because they are probably working with each other for the first time however this cannot be the norm. I know both of them are capable of better flowing matches. It is nice to see heel Sonjay though.
Pope says this about Pope, Josh: I know that commentary has fallen off in years since the 90s with Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler in the Attitude Era, but this team is hard to listen to. I actually thought Josh was a damn good commentator during his WWE days and I don't know what the heck happened since then. Maybe because the commentary isn't done live it just feels hollow and forced like Keanu Reeves' acting ability? Whatever the reason is it needs to be fixed, perhaps it's switching Matthews out with Tenay or something but this team has had long enough time to gel and it hasn't. I don't hate the commentary but Josh's work gives that same hollow vibe that Michael Cole's does.
Well there you have my 3 count for this week's TNA Impact. Now before I go I want to leave you with some parting thoughts. I call this part of the column
After the Bell
Oh My God you killed Kenny...'s Push: In my opinion the person who is losing out the most because of the whole Hernandez situation is the Pretty Boy Pitbull, Kenny King. He was on a roll possibly going to take back his X-Division title and then the Hernandez situation caved in on his head. Now let's take a look at the BDC. Currently this is the state of the BDC as it stands: 3 members are no longer with the company since Low Ki was let go (presumably because TNA management thought they had Hernandez to replace him). MVP quit or was fired depending on what you read and what you believe because he insisted on Hernandez being brought in, and Hernandez who knowingly and illegally went on TNA TV and as a result nearly got TNA sued by Lucha Underground.
Because of 1 man's greed 3 careers were drastically changed. And now as a result Kenny King is left holding the bag as the only BDC member left standing and for the fans of TNA who don't read the news on the internet and keep up to date on behind the scenes circumstances they are going to have some serious questions. I would imagine quite a few will feel confused as hell as to where the BDC has been and why Kenny is by himself all of a sudden. I honestly don't know how they can bring him back any time soon after this unless they turn him face and have him aid Tigre Uno when he's jumped by 2 guys, trying to make up for his sins as part of the BDC. I am a huge Kenny King fan and I want him to succeed because I believe he can be a superstar. Only time will tell what TNA management has in store for TNA's own King of the night.
Alright, now I hope you have enjoyed this column and leave your comments below about what you think can be done to salvage Kenny King in TNA.


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I kept thinking about how these kids could spell words like this, and it dawned on me that there are two likely possibilities. The only way I could imagine them getting these words right was if they were autistic and could memorize everything, like Rain Man, or they were high-IQ kids who had studied language extensively, and knew the rules of spelling words in foreign tongues.
As the competition intensified, one girl finally got momentarily stumped on a word. She spelled it correctly, and then one of the commentators said, "I think we finally had a guess there." They had the words memorized! That put a few points towards my autism theory, as I couldn't imagine anybody memorizing a huge list of random words, hoping those words would be called.
A few words later, the same girl got stumped on another word. She asked for the pronunciation, definition, and country of origin repeatedly, and stared at her hand and drew on it with her other hand for a good 30-40 seconds. I wondered what the hell she was doing. I took this weirdness as more points for my autism theory. She ran out of time, and asked to use her bonus time. She was trying to spell Weldtschmerz, but she used a V instead of a W because of the German pronunciation. When she got it wrong, the other girl was visibly shocked. She was probably spelling it the same way in her head.
This morning I did a google search for 'national spelling bee autism ,' and it brought up many results of autistic kids going to spelling bees, but I couldn't find anything about the winner of this particular competition being autistic. This article, about the winner, says this about how she won:
Kerry's key to victory was memorizing 99 percent of the 23,000 words on a master list used by contest judges, she said. Learning them over five years, despite earlier setbacks at the contest, taught her the value of persistence. Kerry tied for seventh last year.
Every day, according to her mother, Paula, the straight-A student would come home from school, have snacks and milk or sometimes her favorite mint-chip ice cream, walk the dogs, do her homework, listen to music or relax, and study the word list for an hour or two.
Kerry said the trick to memorizing so many words was constant repetition and regular spelling drills by her parents. Such methodical practice, along with the steadfastness under pressure that comes with experience, allowed her to remain calm and composed throughout the contest.
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Magomed Yevloyev, slain owner of the independent news portal, Ingushetiya.Ru, was killed by the Russian state just like any other enemy, writes Fatima Tlisova, exiled journalist from Russia's volatile Karachay-Cherkessia. Yevloyev was one of hundreds killed in Russia's North Caucasus while "resisting arrest" and then branded as terrorist.
Yevloyev had established an independent news portal, Ingushetiya.Ru, which did not, despite all efforts by Russian authorities, become another "Kavkaz Center." The site did not become a "mouthpiece for terrorists," but represented a plurality of opinions and remained a true reflection of Ingush public opinion.
Ingushetiya.Ru managed to prove that there were no real elections to the Russian State Duma in Ingushetia. The website disclosed that huge amounts of federal funds destined for Ingushetia ended up back in Moscow, making it clear that the Russian government was, in fact, robbing North Caucasus, not helping it.
Yevloyev debunked the myth that the Russian government is fighting against international terrorism in North Caucasus. Ingushetiya.Ru made it clear that the "war on terror" in the region is a mere cover for massive crimes committed by the state against it own citizens.
Louise Richardson, Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a leading expert on terrorism, has pointed out that any government that prevents their citizens from expressing their opinion is pushing people into terrorism.
Ingushetiya.Ru spoke of the same danger. The website placed the interests of the Ingush people above those of the Russian state, which regards peaceful opposition as a greater danger than armed resistance. Peaceful opposition hampers Moscow's "war on terror."
Magomed Yevloyev took these views to the international arena. In June 2008, he attended the Finnish-Russian Civic Forum's seminar in Helsinki, speaking about the threats to his site. He organised several demonstrations in Europe to highlight the situation in the Republic of Ingushetia.
Prior to his death, Yevloyev and his colleagues had begun discussing a project to declare Ingushetia independent. Yevloyev knew that this was a desperate and a very dangerous move, but he was convinced that, faced with increasing state terror, the Ingush people had no other choice.
It is worth recalling what was lost when Yevloyev was killed: a large amount of money and his laptop computer. The theft of Yevloyev's money is an indication that the killing was planned. Yevloyev's computer was his main tool and database. The data is now being copied and will be used to destroy the lives of many more people.
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Главная причина убийства Магомеда Евлоева
Фатима Тлисова, 22.09.2008


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We've got an obsession with all things Portuguese and a plan to visit the country is never far away. Here's 9 things that Portugal has given the world.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese is spoken by over 210 million people, from the hedonistic streets of Rio de Janeiro to Macau in the Far East. It's the sixth most natively spoken language in the world, and after English, it's the fastest growing. The language has given way to some of the most creative writing including the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and the sharp humour of José Saramago.
The ukulele
The ukulele might seem quintessentially Hawaiian, but it is in fact a copy of machete, a tiny, four stringed instrument introduced by Portuguese immigrants in the late 19th century.
Port has been a favourite of the British for many hundreds of years. It's produced in Portugal's northern Douro region, the third oldest protected wine region in the world. It became popular in England during the war with France in the early 18th century when merchants were permitted to import the drink at very low duty. British involvement in the port trade can be seen through the names of many port brands including Croft, Dow, Cockburn, Taylor and Graham.
One of the world's best footballers
Cristiano Ronaldo needs no introduction. The Portuguese player is often ranked as the best footballer in the world and regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. During his career, Ronaldo has served as captain for the national team and won the FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2016. In 2015, he scored his 500th career goal.
And managers
José Mourinho has managed some of the world's premier football teams and is considered one of the most successful managers. Recently, Mourinho was named among the 10 greatest coaches since the foundation of UEFA in 1954 and currently manages Manchester United.
Prepaid mobile phone cards
The Portuguese operator TMN was the first to introduce pre-paid mobile phone cards in 1995, something which is still used today and paved the wave for cheap mobile phone usage across the world.
The best surf in Europe
Portugal has some of the world's finest surf and certainly the best in Europe. The consistent rolling swells of the Atlantic over Portuguese shores mean surfers throughout Europe do not need to travel far. It's also got some very agreeable weather and beaches to accompany the surf.
While tempura is synonymous with Japan, the crispy batter's origins lie in Portugal. During the 16th and 17th century, Portuguese merchants brought fried fish recipes from their homeland and introduced it. It is thought the word 'tempura' comes from 'temperar', the Portuguese verb to cook. Similarly, fish and chips might seem particularly British, but it was also introduced by the Portuguese. Love crispy battered fish or vegetables? Thank the Portuguese.
More ways to eat cod that there are days in the year
Though cod cannot be found in the waters around Portugal (they swim in the colder North Sea), the country has taken the fish as their own. Dried and salted, it is said that there is a cod bacalhau recipe for every day of the year, but there are in fact more than a 1,000. The Portuguese know how to cook cod really, really well.
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 219169
net install/rescue URLs shouldnt be blind guess
Last modified: 2008-05-06 13:09:43 EDT
Description of problem:
Enhancement request: When trying a network/HTTP/FTP install, user is prompted
for URL host & path. I tried many combinations of the path: fedora/core,
fedora/core/6, fedora/core/6/i386, fedora/core/6/i386/os, all failed for me, and
I dont know why. The manual suggested last, but I couldnt differentiate its
results from the others.
The other VTs should have enough logging that I can tell how my URL/path guesses
are understood, so I can correct them (by comparing the paths used by anaconda
with those visible via a browser. The current logging granularity is insufficient.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Anaconda Rescue CD, at least.
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
Actual results:
Expected results:
Additional info:
heres the (on-screen) error I get when using mirrors.kernel.org,
fedora/core/6/i386/os for the 2 HTTP-install parameters:
Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata
directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: anaconda-base-2005610172011.i386
The error suggests that problem is with the chosen download-site, ie they dont
have the full file-set where they should be, but I can find it by browser; at
The last entries in VT-3 are:
<time> INFO : moving (1) to step reposetup
<time> ERROR : reading package metadata: Cannot open/read (rest as above)
The ERROR should be more elaborate - at least to see what path is NFG.
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Britain set for Big Freeze TONIGHT: Bonfire night faces smoke out as UK braced for SNOW
GUY Fawkes revellers will have to brace themselves for chilly Arctic winds and snow set to smother Britain tonight.
++ IT'S SNOWING: First pictures ++
Bitter Arctic breeze set to sweep the country will force temperatures to plummet to minus figures on Saturday night.
It's just the beginning of the freezing autumn weather – with this winter on track to be the coldest in 100 years, forecasters claimed.
Scotland, the North, Wales and parts of Central England will plunge to lows of -2C.
While daytime highs will only reach 10C in the south, the rest of the country will struggle to reach above single figures in the lead up to fireworks night.
Grahame Madge, of Met Office, has said chilly gales, hail, thunder and snow threaten Brits' Guy Fawkes celebrations.
He said: "Showers this weekend will be thundery with hail and there is the chance of snow over high ground in Scotland, northern Britain and parts of Wales.
"It is also going to be windy in paces with the possibility of gales around the east coast with overnight frosts.
"The cold is going to last into the middle of next week on current indications as we stay in this northerly flow."
Fireworks party-goers are use to bracing the cold winter winds on Bonfire night.
But the smoke could be put out by the fall of snow on later this evening.
James Madden, of Exacta Weather, claimed this month is set to mark the first "notable" snowfall this year.
And weather experts believe the monster snowstorm could be here to stay for FOUR months.
"The first of these notable wintry blasts and potentially widespread snow showers"James Madden
He explained: "Things are about to turn much colder from the north and later to other parts of the country paving the way for a quite cold and much more traditional November period.
"This will bring an increase in the snow risk across the country among some periods of unsettled weather, parts of the north will see some significant snow across higher ground and there will also be some wintry showers developing to some lower levels at times.
"The first of these notable wintry blasts and potentially widespread snow showers will occur during the early part of November and there will also be ample amounts of fog and frost for many within this period."
Nick Finnis, of Netweather forecaster, said polar winds will take Britain by storm this weekend – with northern and eastern coastal areas in the firing line.
And Brits will have to battle bitter hailstorms.
He said: "The weekend will see a mixture of sunny spells and blustery showers driven in by a strong and cold northerly or northeasterly wind.
"Showers will be most frequent and heaviest near northern and eastern coastal areas exposed to the wind but getting inland too, accompanied by hail and also wintry in nature over northern hills.
"Temperatures widely staying in single figures during the day, with frost forming overnight where skies clear.
"Winds will turn northerly direct from the Arctic over the weekend and so it will turn even colder."


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Transitioning from an earth-based society to a space-based society presents thousands of challenges. The isolation, radiation and detrimental effects of reduced gravity are usually some of the first issues considered – and rightfully so. However, many astrobiologists are concerned with a problem we've yet to solve on earth: invasive species.
If we as humans have such a huge problem keeping these animals from spreading to other areas of the earth, imagine how difficult it is to keep micro-organisms like bacteria from spreading across other planets.
It turns out that bacteria are pretty much everywhere and, thus, really difficult to completely remove. Not only that but there are millions of different types of bacteria, some of them are so resilient they fall into completely different categories of life.. For example, scientists have discovered what have been dubbed extremophiles, ridiculously resilient organisms. Some of these organisms – usually micro-organisms – have a level of resilience that would generally be considered absurd.
scientists have tested the ability of some fairly common bacteria to survive
under additional gravity. How high could they survive?
Over 400,000 times earth's gravity. That's not a typo. That's a four followed by five zeros.
For comparison, unaided humans will pass out at around 4 times earth's gravity. Strangely, gravitational forces in the 400,000g range are only found in a couple of places in the universe, mainly very large stars and supernova shock-waves.
Other insanely resilient bacteria include bacteria that can live beyond the boiling point of water, bacteria that can survive being bombarded by radiation, bacteria that can thrive below -15 degrees Celsius, and bacteria with various combinations of these traits.
In other words, it's quite likely that there are numerous types of bacteria capable of surviving for short periods of time in space and probably capable of sustaining life on planets we would deem inhospitable.
And we've already messed up.
Following a breach of proper procedure the Surveyor 3 moon probe was found to have Streptococcus mitis – a common bacteria – on the camera lens alive and well, two years after the craft had last been on earth. While it's entirely possible that the bacteria was transferred to the lens during the retrieval process, it nevertheless demonstrates our own failure to adequately prevent the transmission of microbial life forms.
So why is this bad?
The idea of alien life forms hitching a ride on human spacecraft to get to earth is called backwards contamination, and has been explored in numerous books, movies, and essays. This obviously has the potential to be a serious problem – but seeing as we've yet to find any sign of life on other planets, this isn't really immediately pertinent.
More important – in the short term at least – is forwards contamination, or earth-based bacteria moving to other planets. There are two main harms that can arise from this. First is the possibility of a false positive, or terrestrial life being brought to another planet then later "found" and deemed alien life. While the odds of this happening are admittedly small (considering that alien life is unlikely to have evolved into the same life-forms found on earth), as the time between seeding a planet and "finding" the life increases, the odds of a false positive increase due to the life forms having more time to adapt to their environment and diverge from their terrestrial counterparts.
The other, more serious possibility from forward contamination is the devastation of an alien planet or ecosystem. Even if a planet has no living ecosystem, by contaminating the planet with terrestrial life, study of the planet as it was before contamination becomes much more difficult. For example, is some probe traveling to Venus was contaminated with a heat resistant bacteria, capable of converting carbon dioxide into oxygen, the Venus of 100 years would look very different from the Venus of now and destroy scientists chances to study the affects of a run-away greenhouse effect as well as numerous atmospheric studies.
What can we do?
Assuming we want actual people to visit planets, there isn't a whole lot we can do other than be careful. Humans have an absurd amount of bacteria in and on us, many of which are necessary for our health and life so it's not really feasible to remove them. Having said that, there are some basic precautions that can be instituted.
Using redundant cleaning stations is a common idea. Another popular idea is some sort of rapidly altering sterilization system, the idea being that even the most hardy of bacteria are generally only resistant to a few different types of sterilization techniques. With this, after some astronauts don their suits, they're bombarded by a plethora of different extreme phenomena including severe cold, intense heat, high radiation levels, and a highly acidic or basic compound, all in quick succession.
With the astronaut protected by the suit, anything outside of the suit would be nearly completely destroyed due to the rapid and intense changes in the surrounding environment. Unfortunately, this process would require some sort of suit that could completely protect the astronaut from each of these phenomena, something that is currently not feasible.
Sterilizing probes and other unmanned vehicles is quite a bit easier, though still remarkably difficult. Even though there isn't a human in need of protection, some pieces of equipment can be surprisingly fragile, making the idea of a rapidly changing environment still a challenge.
It's also important to remember that there are naturally certain times we need to be more careful about sterilization than others. For example, the Committee on Space Research puts far more stringent requirements on sterilization when sending something to Europa than it does when sending a probe to Mercury.
Luckily, there is a general consensus among the scientific community on the importance of proper sterilization techniques and, hopefully, this will culminate in us not destroying the ecosystem of the first planet we find alien life on.
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Rusty is the co-founder of How To Survive Alien Invasion Novels, and gets up to all kinds of shenanigans planning for any and all kinds of apocalypse when he's not busy reading, writing, or yo-yoing. Keep up with him and Rachel on Facebook and Twitter to get cool, space related news or click here to read more of his thoughts on the terror of alien invasion novels.
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Rusty is the co-founder of How To Survive Alien Invasion Novels, and gets up to all kinds of shenanigans planning for any and all kinds of apocalypse when he's not busy reading, writing, or yo-yoing. Keep up with him and Rachel on Facebook and Twitter to get cool, space related news or click here to read more of his thoughts on the terror of alien invasion novels.


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Pro awesome taste, really good value for money, multipacks available, promotional packs are available
Cons none.
"Mars Bar: Price...pefect Taste...perfect Packaging...perfect-wh a"
*** this review first appeared on dooyoo.co.uk ***Mars Bar is possibly the best selling and best known chocolate bar on sale in the UK. What makes up the Mars Bar is a very unique recipe which I will go into later on. Mars Bars have a great taste to them and they are probably my number 1 choice for non, pure chocolate bars (= twixes, milky Ways, fudges, mars bars, toffe crisp etc.). And its no wonder too...
TasteThe taste in Mars Bars is outstanding. There is simply nothing else like it out on the market. Nothing comes even close to it in terms of taste and the idea. The Mars Bar is made up of nougat, covered in caramel and then the whole thing covered in milk chocolate. Together comes the Mars Bar we have today. For me, the most prominent taste in the bar is the caramel. Although, I suppose all of them add together to make the final taste, So together you get quite a soft, great tasting chocolate bar type thing.
Appearance and PriceIn terms of appearance, the Mars Bar tends to be long and reasonably thin (width wise). Although in terms of width, the Mars Bar is quite chunky which is a good thing. In 2002, the packaging made a change for the better and now we see the new redesigned logo with the typcial red and black colour schemes. Over the years Mars have also run quite a few competitions with the Mars Bar. The most recent encouraging sport by putting winning codes in certain bars. These codes can then win you footballs, rugby balls etc. In terms of price, Mars Bars cost the same as any other confectionery item out there today. This is of course, around about 50p, which is very good value for the amount of eating you get in them. Multipacks are available too in packs of 4 or more. In Iceland they sell for 4 Mars Bars (multipack) for £1 which I think is fantastic value for money. Thats haf price on the seperate cost.
So overall, Mars Bar is a very good product that has a great taste and price in it which is reflected in there long standing repuatation.
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Although I disavowed my Christianity by converting to Judaism, I was in church choirs for years (OK, I still am) and I retain a real fondness for hymns, which are the folk music of popular Christianity. They often are, or become, a form of vernacular poetry, and many of them are really powerful:
'Tis by thy strength the mountains stand,
God of eternal power.
The seas grow calm at Thy command,
The tempests cease to roar.
The thirsty ridges drink their fill,
And ranks of corn appear.
Thy ways abound in blessings still,
Thy goodness crowns the year.
The above is by Isaac Watts, the "Father of English Hymnody," and was set to the vigorous fuging tune Rainbow by the eighteenth-century Massachusetts composer Timothy Swan (MIDI links in the Wikipedia article). I love hymns not least for the way they reflect their time and the way belief was shaped in different periods, from the stark puritanism of Watts' Broad is the road that leads to death to the stolid but strangely ecstatic Welsh Methodism of Guide me, o thou great Jehovah to the nearly Transcendentalist mysticism of Dear Lord and Father of mankind.
It's not just the words, I think; it's also the music: from the stout irregular Geneva Psalter meter of Comfort, comfort ye my people to the sentimental Victorian expressivity of The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended to the Georgian modernism of For All the Saints, whose tune "Sine Nomine" is by Ralph Vaughan Williams. There's even one Christian hymn borrowed straight from a 15th century Jewish source: The God of Abraham Praise is simply an English paraphrase of the Yigdal.
Once, when I was in college, a member of the alto section in my choir was taking a geology course which was giving her terrible trouble. One Sunday the closing hymn was the abovementioned "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind," which is based on a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, called "The Brewing of Soma." The poem comes out of late nineteenth-century discovery by Westerners of the religious literature of India and East Asia: in this case Whittier is imagining the Vedic priests drinking the hallucinogenic soma to induce religious ecstasy. Whittier was a Quaker and an abolitionist, and thought that excessive ritual in Christian worship was akin to the drinking of soma: an experience that obscured rather than made straight the way to God. The next-to-last verse of the hymn is as follows:
Drop Thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Thy peace.
The alto confessed that she nearly burst into tears at singing this, since she had an exam on Monday which involved some fiendish equations related to strain and stress in plate tectonics. I'm not sure that Whittier would have foreseen this interpretation; but the last verse goes:
Breathe through the heats of our desire
Thy coolness and Thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
O still, small voice of calm!
Comfort indeed for those oppressed by geology class.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
1 comment:
- mame said...
I am not sure what I believe in "formal" religion but church music continues to be deeply moving to me. Sitting here wishing I could hear "Dear Lord and Father" sung well.
- May 6, 2009 at 4:20 AM
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It's enough to make one shudder, to think of the fights that took place in the East Athens home of Curtis Barnett and his younger brother Chris.
Curtis Barnett, 28, is diligently pursuing his dreams of competing in the 2012 Summer Olympics in taekwondo, the Korean martial-arts discipline he's been studying for more than two decades. And Chris Barnett, 23, has already begun making a name for himself in the ever-expanding world of mixed martial arts fighting.
It doesn't take much to imagine the tussles that took at the home of Johnetta and Davis Barnett, who own and operate Barnett Taekwondo Academy in Athens.
"Growing up, our house was like a kung fu movie," said the 6-foot, 180-pound Curtis Barnett, who recently returned from the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, where he was unsuccessful in his attempt to make the country's taekwondo team for the upcoming Pan Am Games.
"That's how we resolved our issues - through martial arts. As the big brother, I had my way for a while, but when Chris hit a growth spurt, he could either throw me around a room or put me in some kind of pretzel hold. He would embarrass me in front of my friends."
"It was mostly me getting beat up until I started wrestling in high school," said the 5-9, 261-pound Chris Barnett, who now lives in Tampa, where he competes in the cage for Xtreme Fighting Championships and is known as "Beast Boy." "He would manhandle me because he was taller and five years older.
"But once I learned takedowns and slams, I got better with him. I remember we were in the kitchen one time and he threw a hard roundhouse kick at me. I caught it and slammed him to the floor. It was about to be pandemonium in the kitchen, but mom stopped us. We've been tight ever since because I finally earned Curt's respect."
Second time around
Curtis Barnett, a 1999 graduate of Cedar Shoals who last year received his degree in psychology from Kennesaw State, earned a shot in Colorado Springs last year by winning USA Taekwondo's middleweight championship in Austin, Texas. The three-time Amateur Athletic Union national champion is on his second attempt for the Olympic Games. He had an opportunity to make the U.S. team a decade ago.
"I've always trained and competed, but it was a little harder when I was in school," he said last summer. "I was still working, but it wasn't as intense. You stay up late at night writing papers, eating doughnuts."
Although Curtis, a third-degree black belt, was unable to wrest a spot on the Pan Am team from veteran middleweight Tony Graf in mid-January, he's set his sights on competing next month at the U.S. Open in Las Vegas. He's also planning to further hone his skills at various AAU events this spring.
"I like to do both," he said of USAT and AAU competitions. "AAU is a great way to keep sharp, and you can find yourself involved in a lot of international competition - you never know what you'll get. But USAT is the only way to get to the Olympics. It's the top level, the elite."
Dancing and fighting skills
Like his older brother, Chris Barnett began learning taekwondo from their father at an early age and pursued wrestling while at Cedar Shoals (where he graduated in 2004).
"The whole family did taekwondo and I loved it," he said. "By the time I go to high school, my brother was a lot better than me, so I started concentrating on wrestling. I wrestled in the heavyweight division in high school and I broke or set 14 records at Cedar Shoals."
During his senior season, Chris won the region championship and finished second at state. As a junior, he finished second at region and as a sophomore he was fourth at region. After graduating from high school, he wrestled at Campbellsville (Ky.) University and later transferred to the University of South Florida in Tampa, where - believe it or not - his dancing skills led him to XGC.
"I was in a break-dancing club and one night some guys came into the club with fliers about fighter tryouts," said Chris, who added he weighed 320 pounds at the time. "So I got ready and tried out. They saw my taekwondo and wrestling skills, and it's been nothing but good ever since."
While training for XFC, Chris studied jiu-jitsu, lost about 60 pounds and had a couple of amateur fights before turning professional last year.
"In the beginning, my ego was really broken," he said. "I was tapping out all the time to smaller guys. But soon it started to come together."
Last April, he battled veteran Jonathan Ivey and captured a unanimous decision and then in September he improved to 2-0 with a TKO of Daniel Perez.
His next outing is set for March 19 in the St. Pete Times Forum, squaring off on HDNet against Jay White, 31, a jiu-jitsu trainer for Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas. Chris said his relatively small stature doesn't limit him in the octagon.
"Depending on how you use it, (the lack of height) can be a great advantage," he said. "When you're fighting inside and working on somebody's body, it's hard to punch, but I can still kick somebody who's 6-3 in the head."
Looking ahead
Both brothers will continue to train for their upcoming events, with Curtis Barnett (who works at his family's karate studio and is a personal trainer at Body-Plex on Alps Road) spending time in Atlanta under the watchful eye of seventh-degree black belt Brad Carter at Victory Taekwondo and Chris Barnett (who works at Lowe's in Tampa) working out daily at both a local fitness club and the XFC gym.
"I'm hungrier than ever," said the older brother. "So many people let their fears hold them back. I know that the guys ahead of me are good, but they can be beaten. I've always had the physical tools, but now I'm getting the mental edge I need."
"I get hurt a lot worse in practice than I do in fights," said the younger brother, who added his mother won't watch his XFC matches live, preferring to view replays after she knows he's OK. "I've got so much adrenaline running during a match that I don't feel anything. ... Now I don't feel there's any way I can lose. My opponents will need a bat, gun and knife to stop me. I know this is where I'm supposed to be."
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