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You might have heard or read that someone hacked into Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook photo album. His privacy settings limited access to his friends. But, the hacker bypassed the settings, copied his personal pictures, and made them accessible to everyone in the world.
There is a great lesson here to discuss with our children.
First, there is a lesson for parents, educators and other adults. It seems that the part of the brain that enables a person to understand cause and effect is in the brain's frontal lobe. This part of the brain is not fully developed until an individual reaches the mid-20s!
Now think about this in connection with Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook account being hacked.
Teenagers, tweens and children (even most college students) are not capable of predicting the future consequences of posting a risque picture on a Facebook page. Their brains are not developed sufficiently to enable them to use the frontal lobe in this way. They simply cannot do it. They need our help and guidance! Mark Zuckerberg, on the other hand, is an adult who presumably understands what type of pictures are appropriate for posting on Facebook.
The lesson for our children is this: they might have pictures in their Facebook photo albums that could ruin their reputation or prevent them from getting into the college of their dreams.
I strongly encourage parents to sit with their kids (age 8 to 25) once a week to look at the pictures they have "living" on their Facebook pages. It is important to check both public photos and the ones marked private. (As we have learned from what happened to one of the most successful men (Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook) in the world, it really does not matter if they are posted as public or private.
If you are an educator, you can walk your students of ANY age through this simple lesson. The lesson, by the way, was created by using the Operation Gen Text curriculum guide.
Step 1: Have your students read this article about Mark Zuckerberg: "Facebook Security Flaw Allowed Access to Mark Zuckerberg's Private Photos" http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-security-flaw-allows-access-to-zuckerbergs-private-photos-2011-12?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Business%20Insider%20Select&utm_campaign=BI%20Select%20Recurring%202011-12-06#ixzz1frJQe2wJ
Step 2: Explain to your class that this lesson is NOT to "Tell them what to do" but to give them an example of how to make safe choices on the Internet. Let them know that you realize that you will not be present when they make these types of decisions, so it is important that you give them the tools so they can make the best decisions.
Step 3: Say: "The first thing I want everyone to do is to picture a billboard like the ones you see on the highway. Now, I want you to imagine that there is a billboard right outside the front of this school. Every single student, teacher, principal, parent, college recruiter, and everyone else sees this billboard as they drive by or enter the school. "
Step 4: Say: "Now, I want you to imagine that any picture you post on your Facebook page will automatically be posted on that billboard."
Step 5: Say: "Let's think of pictures that it would not be a good idea to put on Facebook (or on the billboard)." Ask them to give you examples. (You must make the point that some pictures are OK to take or have in a physical photo album, but not the kind of picture that someone could copy and paste and show the world. For example, a picture of you in a bathing suit.)
Step 6: Say: "Let's think of the types of pictures that would be OK to put on the internet." Ask them to give examples.
Step 7: Say: "How does that make you feel? Do you think the visual of the billboard will help you make the right choices when uploading your pictures online?
I suggest following up with the students or children involved in this lesson, about once a week.
- Ask them if they remember the billboard imagery and if they used it when deciding what pictures they would post on Facebook or elsewhere online.
- Ask them if they saw any pictures on their friends' pages that they think would be inappropriate on the billboard in front of the school.
- Give them a homework assignment: to go on Facebook and find a picture one of their friends has posted that they think is inappropriate for the billboard or for Facebook.
- Ask them to share their discoveries (no names) with the group the next day and explain why it seems inappropriate.
- Finally, ask them what they plan to do about it.
My experience indicates that this approach will succeed with kids from 8 to 25. I hope you find it helpful.
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In this tough political year Republicans lunged at the opportunity to connect the Obama Administration with the recent scandal involving the general services administration. You may have seen the videos showing GSA employees enjoying outrageously expensive junkets and parties all at the expense of taxpayers.
The highlight of which was that gauzy picture of GSA Commissioner Jeff Neely -- relaxing in a Las Vegas hot tub -- wine goblets nearby and not a care in the world. Now, with this picture, Neely becomes the latest poster boy for federal government waste and abuse of taxpayer funds.
But he is hardly the first folks, and presidential politics aside, this behavior on the part of government employees is bi-partisan. They all do it— Democrat and Republican alike. It is a mentality -- the same entitlement mindset that tells Cleveland Firefighters that it's OK to scam the system to get paid while you aren't working. Regrettably, and regardless of ideology, what we are confronting here is a decadent culture that permeates our government apparatus from the very top to bottom.
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They don't have a selector switch, but they can be changed back and forth. Just ask Johnson for the instructions. I think it's just a matter of making some soldering changes and swapping out the fuses.
I wish! If it was switchable to 220V I'd be taking it with me... =)
I'm a fan of the CV5000. Good amp for a 5,000watt load @ 4ohm. Hummm, in fact....I think I just found my new amp choice for my 24's.
Thanks man!
Thanks for the confirmation, both!
Glad to have been even a little bit useful, popalock I generally feel like I'm sucking up useful info from this place but not necessarily giving enough back, so I'm glad to have prompted a decision in your mind lol
Mine shall be stereo 2Ohms when it's finally up and running!
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Yeah, I used to own a CV5000 a few years back. It's a heavy brute for sure. I'll be using one each @ a 4Ohm mono load for each 24".
I'll be heading to Doha, Qatar (aka: the hottest place on earth, aka: death valley's cousin, aka: 133°F in the shade) for a few years.
I was just thinking about your shipping weight considerations! lol
That region is great for earning a LOT of money but the employment rules and also class hierarchy can make life tricky for those from 'outside', as I understand it. That said, english-speaking westerners are near the top of the tree so you will be fine!
It will be interesting to hear your views once you get out there, I would like to go myself
Good looking out on the shipping weight and the insight on the region. I'm pretty sure we will be able to utilize the military APO shipping system, so I'll take that route if necessary.
As for the region, the wifey and I each have about 4 years under our belts living and working in the middle east. I'd say we are more familiar with the culture than most, but we understand and respect that every country has subtle cultural nuances that make each unique.
We will definitely make the best of it.
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As regular readers will know, I'm the traditionalist when it comes to Italian food. By and large, I stick with the tried and true. But every so often, an innovative dish comes around that attracts me, usually because, even if it's not traditional, the dish feels so 'right' that it might as well be. So it was when I stumbled upon this beauty on a popular Italian recipe site. I had never even heard of pairing pasta and wine before, but the idea intrigued me. And when I did try it, it was love at first bite.
Best of all, the recipe is incredibly quick and easy—one of those pasta sauces that are done while your pasta cooks. You start with a classic garlic and oil base, then add red wine and let it reduce. That is, quite literally, it. You can add olives and/or parsley for some extra flavor and color.
Serves 4-6 people
- 400g (14 oz) linguini or other long pasta
- 2-3 garlic cloves, slightly crushed and peeled
- Olive oil
- 500 ml (2 cups) of a full-bodied red wine (see Notes)
- Salt and pepper
- A handful of pitted black olives, perferably Gaeta or nicoise (optional)
- A few sprigs of parsley, finely chopped (optional)
Put the pasta on the boil, cook in well salted water until al dente.
While the water is coming to a boil, sauté the garlic cloves in olive oil in a large skillet. When the garlic cloves are just beginning to brown, remove them. Then add the red wine. Let the wine reduce until it is quite syrupy. Just before the wine is fully reduced, add the olives if using.
When the pasta is done, drain it (but not too thoroughly) and add it to the skillet with the wine reduction. Mix the pasta and wine reduction well, and let the pasta absorb the wine almost entirely. The pasta should remain quite moist, so it 'slithers' around.
Serve the pasta immediately, if you like with a sprinkling of parsley on top for color (although I actually like the darkness of the dish without it).
The original recipe called for spaghetti, which of course would do very well, but I rather like the slinky quality of linguini here. Any long pasta secca, in fact, is suitable. As for the wine, the original recipe called for primitivo, aka Zinfandel, but I used a Rioja Crianza I happened to have open. It was lovely. I would think that any full-bodied, not too acidic red, like the ubiquitous Cabernet, would work very well.
It seems to me that this dish would lend itself to some experimentation: capers instead of olives, for example, or a few anchovy filets for that umami taste. And you could probably go in a meaty direction with pancetta or crumble sausage.
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Here is a probably helpful article about the Ukraine situation (written pre-Crimea though): http://pando.com/2014/02/24/everything-you-know-about-ukraine-is-wrong/
I've done the recording. Screenshots though, that's one hell of a task. I wrote a script to post the lyrics to the chat automatically, but screenshotting it programmatically made my laptop run out of memory. I'm not sure if optimizing that would be worth it. Are these screenshots really needed? Are you sure you can't just, I dunno, generate the chat bubbles that you know you'll montage in on your end?
You guys suck.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html http://james-iry.blogspot.de/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html
I think leaving them as is will make the project run much more smoothly. Imagine the overhead of writing fitting lyrics content-wise and rhyme-wise. And then everyone learning them. And then the recording thing too. It's not worth it, we just want to have fun, I think
I'm going to sing. Have at ye, Kirn, betcha you didn't expect that!
Remember on site image storage? 90%. Not labeled or tagged. No, we will not forget. So no, read the disclaimer and cry a bit.
That was waaaaaay before the rule. And it was on the image boards. And it was tagged NSFW.
I second the idea of making drug/alcohol discussions NSFW and forbidding witch hunt material. Arguably that might be part of the "do not harass anyone on and off-site" rule. I agree with Kirn that currently stuff might be a bit vague. On the other hand, you can't spell every edge case out, either, most real-life jurisdictions rely either on case-by-case judgment or precedents when applying laws.
You have to keep in mind that the terms of service is legalese with the sole purpose of preventing anyone from suing the site. The "rules and guidelines" are the one thing humans are supposed to read and follow. Redundancy between them is a-ok. I would also argue that the terms should be more broad and restrictive than the rules, because one thing is getting banned from the site, and a whole different level of suck is getting brought to court over something.
Other than that I don't have much to add. The "act without limiting the fun of another" rule is a direct reference to Rousseau's social contract. Clearly constructive criticism is distinguishable from flamewars.
At last, personally, I suggest removing the reference to me under the NSFW rule. I have never posted anything NSFW outside of a NSFW-labelled thread after the rule was introduced (by me, iirc). Rules and laws are not retroactive. That's just libel.
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- Lay the eye of round roast on your work surface. Use the tip of a sharp boning or paring knife to cut a pocket by inserting the knife all the way through the center of the roast, beginning on the flat side. Rotate the blade 90 degrees and insert the knife in the same spot, creating an cross shape that extends through the roast. Stuff the chorizo pieces into the pocket. Using the same knife, pierce the roast all over. Set aside.
- Mash garlic and oregano with a mortar and pestle to create a paste. Rub paste all over the roast, then season with paprika, salt, and pepper. Pour the orange juice, lime juice, and lemon juice over the roast. Cover with plastic wrap and marinate in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours, or overnight. Remove the roast from the marinade, and shake off excess. Reserve marinade.
- Heat a large Dutch oven over medium heat. Place the roast in the Dutch oven and brown on all sides, about 10 minutes. Remove roast to a platter, and set aside. Stir in the onions; cook and stir until the onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes. Return the roast to the pot. Add the bay leaves, sherry, beef broth, and reserved marinade. Increase heat to medium-high, bring to a boil, then cover and reduce heat to low; simmer 2 hours.
- Drop potatoes into the pot, cover, and continue to simmer until potatoes are tender and easily pierced with a fork, about 30 minutes more, adding additional beef broth as needed.
- Remove the roast and place on a platter. Cover the meat with two layers of aluminum foil, and allow to rest in a warm area for 10 minutes. Slice roast into 1/2-inch thick slices, and arrange potatoes on the platter. Spoon the remaining sauce over, and serve.
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I have been making a version of this all my life. Having grown up in Tampa, it was a staple for Sunday lunches or anytime during the week. The ONLY difference in this reciped and mine is that I use ham steak instead of chorizo. You just chop it up and stuff it in the roast like the chorizo. My grandma could not eat the spice chorizo and there was always leftover ham to use in this. For optimal flavor, marinate overnight. You can do it in three hours if you must but it is even better if you plan ahead and let it sit. WONDERFUL!!!!!
I made a few changes. No oregano. Rosemary and sage for the rub. Red wine rather than sherry No potatoes. I didn't use too much olive oil for browning the roast. After bringing roast and liquid to boil on cooktop in cast iron pot, I put it in oven (covered) at 400°C for 30-45 minutes, basting every 15 minutes or so and then turned it down to 350°C for another 90 minutes. Let roast sit covered with foil for at least 20 minutes while you reduce the liquid. It got rave reviews.
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Amazing!!! I used ham instead of chorize, because of my kids and didn't have any potatoes, so I thickened the gravy with a little cornstarch and served over rice. It was a hit!
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If you've ever browsed the Web, you've dealt with a phantom audio stream. The problem: Somewhere, amongst your many browser windows, an unsolicited sound is streaming. Maybe even more than one at once—in which case you're dealing with a certifiable cacophony. The only way to figure out which window or tab is the source of the sound: systematically click through and close every single one of them—an incredibly annoying and time-consuming process that is made particularly painful if, like me, you have a tendency to leave dozens of forgotten tabs open at once.
This got me thinking: Why the heck is this still a problem? Netscape came out 18 years ago, and we still have no easy way of zeroing in on which browser window a sound is streaming from. To figure out why this is still the case, I called up Firefox-maker Mozilla to see if there was some deep-seeded technological issue that is keeping browser designers from tackling this problem. Turns out, it's all about the plugins.
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I have a 2000 APY engined S3. Can anyone please tell me what type is the turbo (i.e. K03/K03s...)
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K03 are the 150bhp models
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Each of our stations provides an inviting atmosphere for volunteers. Opportunities abound for those wanting to give back to the Lord for what He has given them. If you would like to give some of your time to helping us spread the Good News of Jesus Christ, contact us today!


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Jul 25 2014
NSF Awards Grant to NYIT Professor for Workshop on Gaming and Therapy
NSF Awards Grant to NYIT Professor for Workshop on Gaming and Therapy
Arkansas Higher Education Board Certifies New NYIT Medical School Site in Jonesboro
Medical Students Transition from Classroom to Clinic
NYIT Awards Research Grants
NYIT's M.S. in Instructional Technology Approved in Abu Dhabi
NYIT Cyber-Security Talk
B.S./D.O. Enrollment Day
Graduate Tuesdays
NYIT Transfer Student Orientation Day 1!
NYIT Transfer Student Orientation Day 2!
NYIT's modern campus in Nanjing, China is located in a growing new university community in a northeast suburb of Nanjing. NYIT shares numerous campus facilities with Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), one of the two best engineering universities in the region. At least 15,000 NUPT students share the large campus with NYIT-Nanjing's student body of less than 1,000. At least a dozen other universities with more than 100,000 students are in the immediate area.
Campus facilities include two gymnasiums, basketball and tennis courts, a track field, a large student center, libraries, computer labs, and numerous small stores. Dorms and offices have wired and wireless broadband internet service.
The campus has three cafeterias, and dozens of restaurants, stores, and other shops are within walking distance of campus.
Student clubs, held in conjunction with NUPT, are plentiful on campus and include: karate, volleyball, basketball, football, badminton, skateboard, table tennis, taekwondo, roller skating, tennis, bodybuilding, dance, computer game, cinematographer, financing and investing, military fans, psychology, Korean, Japanese, model, marketing, research of the company management, painting and calligraphy, green wind environmental friendly, music park, speech, software fans, computer graphics, cool water film office, film fans, fly film production, computer, reading, guitar, English, debating, drama, chess, cartoon, ACM program design, and girls club.


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Women's Health
Student Health and Wellness offers many women's health services. Some are listed below with descriptions. Fees are applied and are subject to change. Call the office to ask about any particular services not listed below.
Well Woman Exams
Annual female exams (pap/pelvic exam) may be scheduled by appointment. Student Health and Wellness now offers the liquid-based pap. The liquid-based pap is a newer technology and if the pap is abnormal, further testing for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) can be conducted and further follow-up will depend on those results. A breast exam is included with the Well Women Exams.
Contraceptive counseling and information
Contraceptive counseling is available by scheduling a nurse practitioner visit. Contraception options that can be
prescribed at Student Health & Wellness include the birth control pill, Depo-Provera (the shot), Nuva Ring, and Ortho Evera (the patch).
Referrals can be given for intrauterine device (IUD) and Implantation. Prescriptions can be filled at any
retail pharmacy.
Emergency Contraception
Emergency Contraception (the morning after pill) consists of one dose of hormones that are given to decrease the likelihood of pregnancy when unprotected intercourse has occurred. It is most effective if taken within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse but can be effective up to 120 hours. Emergency contraception is currently available in Student Health and Wellness, no appointment or exam is required.
Pregnancy testing and counseling
Pregnancy Testing is available for a minimal fee. No appointment is
Vaginal Discharge
All women have some vaginal discharge. Normal discharge may appear clear, cloudy white, and/or yellowish when dry on clothing. It may also contain white flecks and at times may be thin and stringy. Changes in normal discharge can occur for many reasons, including menstrual cycle, emotional stressors, nutritional status, pregnancy, usage of medications-including birth control pills, and sexual arousal.
- A vaginal yeast infection produces a thick white discharge, similar to cottage cheese in texture that can cause itching. There is no charge for this test.
- Bacterial vaginosis is an overgrowth of vaginal bacteria and produces a thin, white discharge, often with a fishy odor. There is no charge for this test.
- Trichomonas vaginalis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by a protozoa that produces a white to green discharge with a fishy odor. Trichomonas is an STI. There is not charge for this test.
- Vaginal discharge can also be caused by gonorrhea or Chlamydia, which are sexually transmitted infections. There is a fee for this test.
Call or make an appointment to further discuss and be evaluated for any of these infections.


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This morning, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law a groundbreaking health care bill that puts his state on a path towards universal coverage for all residents. The legislation, H.202, sets Vermont on course to become the first state in the nation to implement a single-payer system, and had previously passed both the House and Senate chambers by significant margins.
On Monday, February 14th, Progressive States Network and the Working Group of State Legislators for Health Reform co-hosted a national conference call for legislators and advocates about enacting strong state health exchanges.


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Africa News blog
African business, politics and lifestyle
Kenya: Dealing with the hard times
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki's New Year address had a sobering message; east Africa's biggest economy should brace for a tough year because of the global financial crisis.
It was not the most encouraging message after a year that had few silver linings for the country of 36 million, still recovering from a bout of post-election violence early last year.
But the global crisis has strained even some of the world's most advanced economies as well as many across Africa and Kibaki was not about to shield Kenyans from reality. He even cancelled the traditional New Year's Eve state ball that is held in his official residence in Mombasa, on the steamy Indian Ocean coast.
Government minsters and officials, used to ushering in the New Year with a waltz with their spouses at the party, had to quickly make new plans for the occasion.
Ghana steps back from the brink
Ghana's epic nail-biter of an election has finally ended with opposition leader John Atta Mills being declared the winner by the narrowest of margins: barely 40,000 votes out of 9 million, or less than 0.5 percent of votes from the past week's run-off.
Virtually everybody was expecting a close race, but the contest got tighter and increasingly acrimonious as both rival camps sensed power was within their reach. As the vote went down to the wire, to be decided with delayed voting held in one final constituency on Jan 2, the ruling New National Party (NNP) announced a boycott and launched legal proceedings to postpone the poll and freeze the announcement of results.
After a year that has seen electoral bloodshed in Kenya and Zimbabwe one analyst who has followed the vote closely warned that incidents of violence during the polls indicated Ghana "may be coming close to that abyss of no-return".
Yet shortly after the Electoral Commission announced results on Saturday, Akufo-Addo conceded defeat, congratulated Mills and both candidates were stressing the need for cooperation and consensus between their two parties.
from Global News Journal:
More power-sharing in Africa?
Kenya's power-sharing government was only born after weeks of election violence that killed 1,300 people. Zimbabwe's power sharing agreement is yet to bear fruit as southern Africa's former breadbasket crumbles into economic ruin.
So will power sharing in Central African Republic, where one of Africa's most forgotten conflicts has been simmering for more than half a decade, fare any better?
Kenya's traffic – a daily adventure
The ancient truck labouring up the hill followed by a long queue of vehicles looked like a typical Kenyan scene — except for the legs protruding from under the bonnet. A Mafia hit? No, the legs were moving. Then I realised the bonnet was jammed slightly open and the man was adjusting some fault to keep the engine running while the truck proceeded.
Even for Kenya this was bizarre, but only slightly more unusual than the daily chaos on the roads, where almost anything goes; from enormous potholes capable of cracking the axle of normal cars, to abandoned or broken down trucks, to the swarms of battered, unroadworthy and brightly decorated matatu minibuses, driven by people whose brains appear to have been removed. A colleague recently saw a matatu swing across three lanes of traffic to smash into an unsuspecting car for no apparent reason. Matatus are the only available transport for many Kenyans but climbing into one is a daily and possibly terminal gamble. They are notorious for terrible accidents, often when smashing into oncoming trucks while overtaking on bends or hills. Matatus, like other vehicles, including huge trucks, often travel without lights at night. Matatus break down frequently, leaving a group of disconsolate passengers beside the road while the driver and tout (who takes the fares) try to change a wheel or mend the engine, creating another hazardous obstruction. Combined with the entirely selfish habits of other Kenyan drivers who think nothing of jamming a junction to get a slight advantage over other traffic, the minibuses cause the daily commute to frequently turn into a frustrating calvary with jams that last for hours. All this is made worse by regulations requiring drivers involved in an accident, even a minor shunt, to desist from moving their cars until the police arrive – which can be many hours.
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Ghana's elections: Dare Africa hope?
As Ghanaians get set to elect a new president and parliament on Sunday, there seems to be as much attention on what a new leader will mean for Ghana as on what message Ghana will send the world about the state of Africa today. After a dismal year with elections rigged or marred by violence in Kenya, Zimbabwe and most recently Nigeria, to name but a few, Africa could do with a pick-me-up.
Despite some wobbles and sporadic violence in northern Ghana where several people were killed in the early stages of the campaign, preparations for Sunday's elections have gone relatively smoothly.
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Fighting graft in Africa. Or not.
A little while back, we asked who is and isn't fighting corruption effectively in Africa. This week, a number of examples bring us back to the subject.
In Tanzania, two former ministers have been charged with flouting procurement rules over the award of a tender for auditing gold mining back in 2002. The pair, who deny wrongdoing, served in the government of President Jakaya Kikwete's predecessor Benjamin Mkapa. One of them also served under Kikwete himself.
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Maasai fertility blessing: Audio slideshow
Click on the play button above to view an audio slideshow on the Loita Maasai in Kenya blessing women from their village to ensure they have children in a rare fertility ceremony.
Saving Kenyan forest. Is it a turning point?
After a decade of rampant destruction of the Mau forest water catchment in western Kenya, the country's coalition government seems firmly united in trying to save the complex before more serious damage is inflicted on the economy.
U.N. officials say this is no longer simply an environmental issue but something that has huge importance for the whole country. Already two of the top three foreign exchange earners — tourism and tea — are feeling the impact of falling water levels which have also forced the postponement of a major hydro-electric project.
Time for colonial masters to pay up?
Italy settled its colonial era dispute with Libya at the weekend with $5 billion in compensation for wrongs done during colonial rule. The money will be invested in a major new highway as well as used for clearing mines and other projects. Both sides say that will allow them to make a new start.
Relations between Libya and Italy had been especially difficult and this was a very specific dispute, but Italian colonialism did not last all that long in Africa – even if there were episodes of particular nastiness while it did.
Birds and biofuels at odds in Kenya
The road to Kenya's Tana River Delta from the Indian Ocean resort of Malindi is a lonely stretch of tarmac punctuated only by road blocks manned by armed police.
Few people from the outside world come this way.
Most foreign and local holidaymakers heading for the popular Lamu Islands prefer to fly rather than use the road.


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By BRIAN SMITH
HUDSON OAKS — Hudson Oaks City Council member approved an amendment to the water and sewer utility agreement with the town of Annetta that will relieve the city of operation responsibilities.
The amendment ends the current contract on Sept. 30, 2014 and allows for the full transition of water and sewer operations to Annetta officials at that time. According to a staff report, Annetta officials have begun to take "significant steps" in preparing for the transition by setting up employee benefits and creating employment policies.
Hudson Oaks has been operating the Deer Creek water and wastewater system for Annetta since the smaller city purchased the utility system in October 2010. In March 2012, the contract was amended to adjust contract compensation from Annetta and transfer billing responsibilities.
During the 10-minute regular session, the city council also approved a $14,146 addendum to the municipal-county contract for road repair services.
The addendum, which will be paid for out of street maintenance funding approved in the fiscal year 2014 budget, provides for approximately 1,300 square yards of patching repairs in the Red Eagle subdivision on Red Eagle Trail and Gray Wolf Trail.
Inadequate subgrade stability on portions of these streets has drawn concern from city staff, particularly in areas over utility lines, according to a staff report. Failure of the road in the locations is severe enough for crews to fix before the damage spreads.
A more detailed analysis will take place this spring for additional repair projects.
The council also approved the purchase of two public works trucks to replace 2004 and 2007 trucks at a combined cost of just more than $52,700. Both Ford F-250 trucks will be purchased from Southwest Ford, which provided the low bid.
Councilmembers also approved cancelling the December meeting, which would fall the day after Christmas. The next meeting is scheduled for Jan. 23.


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The Townsend Spring Festival and Old Timers Day is just the thing to rouse anyone from their winter hibernation.
Set to run on April 25 and 26 and May 2 and 3, the four-day event is fun for everyone. Activities throughout both weekends give participants the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors, listen to good music and enjoy delicious food.
Herb Handly, vice president of the Smoky Mountain Convention and Visitors Bureau, touted the festival as a time for fun and fellowship that is always the last weekend of April and the first weekend of May. "This focuses on Appalachian music, crafts, foods and the telling of stories about our area," he said.
For more information, visit www.smokymountains.org. Below is a listing of some of the activities for the 2008 Townsend Spring Festival and Old Timers Day that take place at the Smoky Mountain Visitors Center in Townsend. There are also activities at the Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center and at shopping venues and stores along the main road in Townsend.
Friday, April 25: "Nature Celebration Day"
Special activities in and about the great outdoors, plus music, crafts, and Appalachian skills.
• 9 -11 a.m.: Chestnut Top Trail with Dwight McCarter; limit 25 (call 865-448-6134 to reserve a spot).
• 10 a.m.: Hedgewood Gardens Tour
• 12 p.m.: Clogging Instruction and Demo, with Jack and Doris Patton
• 1 -5 p.m.: White Oak Sinks Hike with Jim Burbank; limit 15 (call 865-448-6134 to reserve a spot)
• 2 p.m.: Hedgewood Gardens Tour
Saturday, April 26: "Young Folks and Family Day"
Special activities for children and family fun, plus music, crafts, and Appalachian skills.
• 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Old Fashioned Kid's Games
• 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Ijams Nature Center Booth with animals and hands-on exhibits
• 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Bill Lea, Cades Cove photographer, book signing
• 11 a.m.-12 p.m.: Young folks' stories and music, Faye Wooden
• 1-4 p.m.: Storytelling with Lendel Abbott, Faye Wooden, and Dwight McCarter
Sunday, April 27: "Tuckaleechee Cove Day"
Special activities to highlight the beauty and traditions of our mountain community, plus music, crafts, and Appalachian skills.
• 9 -11 a.m.: Walker Valley Ramble with Dwight McCarter
• All afternoon: Porch Pickin', Gospel Singin', and old time jam sessions
• 11 a.m.-1 p.m.: Special trip to Tuckaleechee Caverns (fee)
• 1 -4 p.m.: Pottery Demonstration with Carol Ware
• 2 p.m.: Hedgewood Gardens Tour
• 4 - 6 p.m.: "Shadows of the Past" guided bicycle ride with Tim Patterson, "Cycology"
Friday, May 2: "Great Smoky Mountains National Park Day"
A day of appreciation of the beauty, diversity, and history of Great Smoky Mountains National Park and surrounding natural areas, plus music, crafts, and Appalachian skills.
• 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.: Traditional mountain music with Carl and Betty Ross
• 10 a.m.: Hedgewood Gardens tour
• 2 p.m.: Hedgewood Gardens tour
• 1 p.m.: The National Parks Centennial, presentation by Emily Jones
• 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.: "Birth of the National Park" walk with Ann Froschauer
Saturday, May 3: "Old Timers Day"
A tradition of picnics, music, relaxing, and remembering the olden days in Cades Cove and Townsend in the morning, plus music, crafts, and Appalachian skills.
• 8 - 10 a.m.: Townsend Bird Walk with Mark Dunaway
• 10 a.m.--5 p.m.: "Bird Songs of the Smokies" CD signing, Mark Dunaway
• 6 p.m.: "Smokin' in the Smokies" People's Choice BBQ awards


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BELLEVILLE — The Belleville West Maroons enter the 2013 golf season with their goals clearly in mind and with enough good players to make them come true, hopefully.
After a mediocre regular season a year ago, the Maroons came within an eyelash of qualifying for the sectional tournament before settling for a fourth-place finish at the O'Fallon Class AA Regional.
That showing, along with the return of one of the top players in the Southwestern Conference in junior Mikaela Hickey and several other much-improved players, has coach Elaine Souders very optimistic heading into the season opening Mascoutah Invitational today at The Hills at McKendree.
"We didn't qualify, but to play the way we did that day and place fourth in the regional, I think has given us a lot of momentum heading into this year. I know I'm looking forward to carrying it over and I think our girls are as well,'' Souders said. "We've got Mikaela (Hickey) back and several of the other girls played tournaments and took lessons.
"We've improved and we're looking forward to a good year.''
An individual sectional tournament qualifier last season, Hickey will lead the way for a West team which also has quality players such as Maggie Arehart, Macy Copeland, Beth Dain, Andrea Mitchell, Carli Brown, Kelsey Gaby and Brooke Ingram, all of whom are capable of posting solid scores nearly every time out.
"Mikaela didn't just play a lot of golf, she played almost every day this summer and yes, she has improved in every area of the game. Especially with her consistency,'' Souders said. "She played in a number of tournaments, she went to camp -- I believe at Drake University -- and just put a tremendous amount of time in on her game.''
Arehart, Copeland, Brown and Mitchell were others who saw a lot of playing time on the Maroons' varsity a year ago.
"All of our top players have their own teaching professionals they work with and that's good in order to get the one-on-one attention they need to become better players,'' Souders said. "They're excited about the season and so am I.''
Other players vying for playing time on the Maroons' varsity include Macy Burk, Jessica Copeland, Madeline Perez, Kelly Shea, Claire Harter and Addy Mitchell.
Souders said her team has specific goals in mind for the season. One is obvious.
"We'd like to make it to the sectional as a team. That's one of the main goals and I know Mikaela (Hickey) has a goal of getting to the state finals,'' Souders said. "I would have to check with former coach Kathy (Baldus) about the last time West made it as a team. I know we haven't since I've been coaching.
"But we can't control what other teams shoot. All we can do is continue to work hard and improve as the season goes on. If we do that, we'll have a chance to advance."


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Far Cry 3 gameplay demoed at E3
Last year saw the unveiling of Far Cry 3 with the main character being unceremoniously drowned in a well. This year Ubisoft Montreal's Dan Hay and Jamie Kean appeared to demo gameplay for the first time.
After a protracted and slightly trippy in-game cut sequence featuring some female nudity the game kicks in and Ubisoft have really upped the ante with the variety of gameplay being offered.
Beginning with some interesting and rather visceral stealth gameplay using a machete and a bow and arrows the demo slips into some more familiar shooting with the kind of impressive visuals that we have come to expect from the series.
There's even a lot of wildlife around the full archipelago of islands that will feature in the game and the demo shows the main character getting up close and personalSpectacular visuals up close and personal with some rather angry tigers.
Ubisoft promises a lot more surprises form this tropical nightmare when Far Cry 3 arrives on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this September.


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10:30 a.m.: A Washington Street resident reported two artificial plants were taken from the front porch of the caller's home on Feb. 7 or 8, each worth $25.
10:51 a.m.: Police received a call from a pedestrian on Fiske Street saying a Doberman puppy was following him. Police alerted Animal Control.
9:32 p.m.: Police issued a citation to a driver with a Junior Operator License for failure to stop at a stop sign after a crash on Washington Street. The driver's parents were notified, and picked up the child.


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July 29, 2014
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The producer of a documentary about the
1988 Carrollton bus crash is hoping to win a contest prize that he
says would cover the costs of making the picture.
Harold Dennis survived the fiery crash that claimed 27 lives and is producing "Impact: After the Crash." It has been entered into the Pepsi Refresh Project under the education category. The prize is $50,000.


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Carolyn McClanahan, Contributor
I discuss all things money and medicine.
Today the Department of Treasury announced a one year delay in the Affordable Care Act's requirement for large employers to offer health insurance to eligible employees and for mandatory insurance reporting requirements. What exactly does this mean and how does this delay affect you and the Affordable Care Act in general?
What is the reporting requirement for employers?
Beginning in 2014, employers with more than 50 employees were required to offer affordable health insurance to their full time employees or face paying a fine. To determine who exactly got insurance and what the employees were to be offered required extensive and complicated reporting. This year is officially half over, and employers have been very nervous because most have no idea what exactly is expected of them on January 1, 2014. Because of the lack of good information, the business community lobbied hard and long for a delay in the reporting requirement and today were rewarded for their efforts.
Along with the delay came another gift – since employers don't have to report their employee's insurance status, they also do not have to pay a fine if they do not provide affordable coverage to their employees. Employers are breathing a big sigh of relief.
How will this delay affect your health insurance?
Most people are already covered by employer based health insurance, and those employers will probably continue to offer coverage next year. There are a few shortcomings I see for this population of covered employees:
What if you work for a company that does not offer health insurance, or you are not employed in a regular fashion? The good news – insurance will still be guaranteed issue, which means you cannot be turned down because of illness. Also, premiums will not be based on health underwriting. This is a significant benefit for those who have previously been unable to get coverage. The bad news – information on cost is still not readily available in most states.
How will this delay affect Obamacare in general?
Any "glitch" in implementing the Affordable Care Act is like throwing chum to hungry sharks. Anyone who is anti-Obamacare will look at this as an opportunity to again talk about repeal. As I've stated all along, the law has significant warts and many good provisions. The move toward prevention and wellness, rebuilding of our primary care system, and implementation of payment reforms are excellent parts of the law. If we repeal the ACA without a clearly laid out plan for what we will do to repair health care, the system will likely descend into further chaos and these good provisions will go away. I'm grateful the administration is fessing up to the problems, listening to the people in the trenches, and working toward repair of the inferior parts of the law. It will take serious work on everyone's part to create a health care system that works.
I'm sure there are many questions and scenarios that I'm not thinking about with this new development – I look forward to reader's responses on this issue. I'll be on the lookout for further guidance from the administration and get back to you.
Questions, comments? I answer posts here first, then on Twitter @CarolynMcC, and finally get around to email at email@example.com. I appreciate your patience – there is much to keep up with.
What the existence of the employer mandate has done thus far is cause underemployment and hold back the unemployment numbers from going down. Rather than have a massive increase in what a business has to pay for medical coverage for its employees, many service industry employers are simply not hiring beyond the part time level, instead expecting the states to foot the bill by providing Medicaid.
I know plenty of people who are getting too few hours to get healthcare benefits under their employer, and at the same time whose paychecks are too big (due to an exorbitant local minimum wage) to get Medicaid.
Mr. Meilstrup,
What you describe has been occurring with increasing frequency for decades, long before the PPACA. All sorts of employers have been hire as many temporary, part-time, or contract workers as they can to avoid paying any benefits. This trend began in the late 1970′s and has been growing ever since. The PPACA did not create the problem.
I am concerned about what this delay will do to the state exchanges. Won't fewer employees be sent there now? Isn't this a self fulfilling prophecy when biz refuses to prepare, causes a delay because they are not prepared, and in so doing sabotages the state organizations that followed the law in good faith?
Madam, may I suggest, you actually read the law. It is a tightly-wound pile of higher taxes, higher costs, and fewer jobs. As such, if one piece is removed, other pieces are disrupted.
Obama and Pelosi did that, to prevent others from tampering with their "mess-terpiece." That's on them, and no one else, do not blame others.
This is an utter mess that Obama caused. Period.
Theft by deception.. This is what our healthcare system is doing. the Hospitals do operations that have no purpose at times keep you there to fill a space like a airport loading a plane only to meet there quarter. That nurse"s are under educated and bloody nose"s and broken toe nails fill our Hospitals beds and the greed gets payed by the healthiest of people . Self care awareness to Health care must be taught in Schools . We have to stop punishing good productive people for the ignorance of others !
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Why the delay in Obamacare?
All the business community did was ask the obvious, how is this fiasco of a set up supposed to work? Give us some guidance! It wasn't happening….
Obama and the govt were looking stupid, Obamacare was a big part of the stupidity, and what happens in 2014? Elections!!!
Anyone in Poly101 can figure this one out. Obama simply announced a delay until after the 2014 elections, then it isn't our 'fault'. Plus, maybe we can win enough seats to 'patch things up'.
Won't matter much to the part timers I hired one way or the other…..
Carolyn, this law needs to be repealed entirely. I know you say something needs to replace it there are many better approaches including allowing health insurance to be "portable." Unfortunately the law is still extremely unpopular in part through the frankly sleazy way the Democrats passed it with not a single vote from Republicans who were entirely shut out of the process. Every suggestion they made was ignored including tort reform. This law was not meant to "fix" our health system as much as it was meant to force health insurance coverage on the uninsured and also expand Medicaid a system that is broke and growing 6-7% a year. This law will encourage adverse selection and its poor assumptions regarding human behavior. Now unions are coming out against it since they realize it will wreak havoc on their union plans. You may want to mention that the underpinnings of this law in part is the assumption that the young and healthy will purchase policies that are not priced on their age but instead are priced to subsidize older policy holders. The so-called "penalty" is probably not sufficient to force them to buy insurance before they are sick. I predict this law or most of it will be repealed within 5 years or it will be altered to incorporate market forces instead of price fixing and coercion. I could probably write a book on the problems with this law. It was pieced together by people who really do not understand insurance.


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It is unlikely at the current time that dialogue will resume between the Syrian regime and the opposition in GenevaUnited Nations envoy Brahimi stated Monday. On the ground, Syrian forces battled with rebels who captured a village and a crossing on the Turkey border. UN's Ban ki-Moon also blamed both sides of the conflict for blocking humanitarian aid.
We cannot get liberated from the terrorism of the Brotherhood in Egypt without ending it in Gaza, which lies on our borders.An unidentified Egyptian security official • Justifying upcoming efforts by Egypt's ruling military leaders to stamp out Hamas, now that the Muslim Brotherhood is no longer viewed as a credible threat to the Egyptian government. Egypt's military leaders apparently believe that Hamas can be driven out of Gaza via the same sort of mass protests that ultimately led to former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi being removed from office, though experts on the region aren't quite as convinced that the strategy will prove effective. source
No one really wants to go to war in Syria because it's a huge sectarian, you know, mess, with all kinds of implications. […] But look, this is complicated. This isn't easy.United States Secretary of State John Kerry shares with ABC News 'The Week' on how he views Syria today. He also admits al Qaeda is an issue he will have to confront there.
We've seen several red lines put forward by the president, which went along and became pinkish as time grew, and eventually ended up completely white. When that kind of assurance comes from a leader of a country like the United States, we expect him to stand by it. There is an issue of confidence.Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former intelligence chief of Saudi Arabia, describes his country's disappointment in the United States and Obama regarding the Syria conflict.
(Source: nytimes.com )
Egypt's interim president on Sunday banned public gatherings of more than 10 people without prior government approval, imposing hefty fines and prison terms for violators in a bid to stifle the near-constant protests roiling the country. The new law is more restrictive than regulations used under the rule of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, overthrown in Egypt's 2011 uprising that marked the start of unrest in the country.
Another terrifyingly disappointing move from the country of Egypt. The country is often looked to as an example in the MENA region and now there's this rather alarming set of news. They're clearly hurting the right to protest in a detrimental way.
Today, that diplomacy opened up a new path toward a world that is more secure. A future in which we can verify that Iran's nuclear program is peaceful and that it cannot build a nuclear weapon.United States President Barack Obama said late Saturday night in a statement that took place just as the news came in about nations in Geneva working with Iran to finally reach a deal over its nuclear weapons program.


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Imagine a harmony that could be better described than just the climax of a Boyz II Men song. Imagine if the word peace didn't have to share its pronunciation with a deadly weapon, holstered in the waistband of the malevolent. Imagine if acceptance was about common interests and not common color.
Imagine if the world hadn't been exposed to the illogical murder of a young African-American boy at the hands of a bigot. Perhaps then, we would still impulsively believe we are closer to equality than we really are.
Oh, the amenity of deception is always much more bearable than certainty.
On February 26, Florida teen Trayvon Martin was chatting on his cellphone with his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was confronted--and then murdered--by George Zimmerman, a self-made neighborhood watch captain. Zimmerman had contacted 911 before the confrontation to report the teen as being suspicious, but despite 911 operators and police instruction to not follow the teen, he ignored them.
Though Zimmerman remains free, the FBI and Justice Department announced plans last week to investigate the case amidst public opinion of inadequacies by the Sanford Police Department. On Thursday, Sanford police chief Bill Lee Jr. stepped down from his duties in part due to criticism from civil rights leaders, who had called for his resignation over his mishandling of the case.
Though the immorality of racism is at the forefront of the case, there's an underlying revelation that may be less sinister than racial assumption, but still poignant.
Have the authors of the Stand Your Ground law made the use of deadly force too easy?
What fears could George Zimmerman possibly have had of a 17-year-old boy he outweighs by more than 100 lbs? If he felt threatened by his confrontation with Trayvon Martin, how could he not have reasonably defended himself from a 120 pound teen carrying nothing but a plastic bottle of ice tea and pack of Skittles?
No rhyme, no reason.
Organized protests have began to extend from Florida to New York in support of Trayvon Martin. It's quite graceful to witness Americans of all ethnicities, tied together like shoe laces, and marching to city streets in a kindred alliance reminiscent of the days after the September 11 attacks.
Athletes and celebrities have taken to Twitter, removed charismatic avatars, and took raw pictures of themselves in zipped up hoodies to show their new uniform of solidarity. Last night, between 5,000 and 8,000 supporters of Trayvon Martin took to the streets of Philadelphia, many adorned in hoodies themselves.
There was a time in a dismal history when "the hood" stood for evil in the African-American community. Now the irony of it ambushes the revulsion.
If only the harmony can continue to be sung.
The Trayvon Martin case is a doleful reminder of how little the betterment of race relations has come since the Rodney King beating, 22 years ago. There's still a prejudice to the music, style and culture of today's African-American youth. It continues to become the inspiration behind incidents of unprovoked profiling from those of white privilege.
That unjustifiable privilege--and complexion for protection--would be better used to speak for the voices of the minority, who are a hindered dissonance to ears not in tune with injustice. Being fully awakened involves facing a light that isn't as comfortable as putting faith in a new days sunrise to be the only hope we have from the plight of yesterday.
I am white.
I am the color of that privilege.
I will never look inglorious in a hoodie and a fresh pair of white Nike's. I will never be able to fathom how it feels to be presumed guilty before proven innocent. I will never be denied a job I'm well qualified for because the color of my skin.
What I can recognize is that erasing the dilemma of racism can be as natural as amicably coexisting. To raise my toddler, and future children, to acceptably coexist, because believe it or not, that's the fight more challenging than anything that faces the future of our humanity.
Yet for many people like George Zimmerman, to coexist is more arduous than pulling a trigger and robbing an innocent child's breath.
Imagining that, unfortunately, feels all too real.
The Trayvon Martin Wound
A view from white privilege
Imagine a harmony that could be better described than just the climax of a Boyz II Men song. Imagine if the word peace didn't have to share its pronunciation with a deadly weapon, holstered in the waistband of the malevolent. Imagine if acceptance was about common interests and not common color.
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A judge has ended a trial and dismissed the case against a Gering 18-year-old accused of scrawling racist graffiti on the car windows of another high school student. Police say that on Oct. 17 at a high school volleyball game in Scottsbluff, Alysha Schwartzkopf defaced the windows of a Gering High School senior who is biracial. Judge James Worden of Scotts Bluff County Court made his ruling Tuesday after three hours of testimony, following a request from the defense attorney.
Worden said subsections of the law covering graffiti showed that it applied only to buildings and other structures, but not car windows. He emphasized that he was ruling only on the applicability of the law, not on the facts of the case.


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I write about the future of science, technology, and culture.
Last week, Ford Motor Ford Motor Company announced that it is joining up with the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in Russia on a three year project. Their mission? To study how robots communicate in space so that one day in the future, you'll have a smarter car.
This is part of an ongoing effort by Ford, as well as other companies in the industry, to develop smart networks between cars, street lights, and other parts of the road to help avoid auto accidents. Other goals for such networks include improving emergency response times and easing traffic congestion.
So why study the communications of robots in space? Because, for one, they're extremely redundant. Because there are multiple ways for communications to fail in space for multiple reasons, there are multiple ways to communicate. By studying how robots in space handle communications failures, auto engineers can apply that to the use of vehicles on Earth.
"We are analyzing the data to research which networks are the most robust and reliable for certain types of messages, as well as fallback options if networks were to fail in a particular scenario," Ford's Oleg Gusikhin said in a press release.
The three year project will be focused on three robots: DLR's "Justin", which is a mobile humanoid robot; the Eurobot Ground, which is being developed by the ESA to work on the surface of other planets; and the Robonaut 2, which is currently aboard the Int'l Space Station.
This isn't the first time that space technology has helped make driving safer. The original hand controls for automobiles that parapalegics can use to drive were spun off from technologies originally designed for the "Moon Buggy" that astronauts drove on the Apollo mission. Systems used to help the Mars Mars Phoenix rover land on Mars are currently being employed for collision avoidance in some vehicles. Also, if you have Goodyear Goodyear tires, they might have been designed by the same systems used by NASA to develop composite materials for jet engines.
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Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department's Northeast Division are as of 10 p.m. on Thursday searching for an armed man in the area of Avenue 50 and Monte Vista Street, CBS Los Angeles and a local witness report.
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According to Sergeant Christopher Curry from LAPD Central Division, police were pursuing a suspected car thief from the Downtown Los Angeles area. LAPD Northeast officers helped Central Division in making an arrest near Avenue 50 and Monte Vista Street.
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With his characteristic humor and in-your-face storytelling, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff paints a bleak picture of his hometown in Detroit: An American Autopsy, this portrait of a crumbling Detroit. From corruption at every level of city politics to fire stations without functioning fire alarms, it's hard to believe the anecdotes related are happening in the United States. A disturbing, fascinating, and ultimately tentatively hopeful read.
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Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley defends his participation in Ted Kennedy's funeral.
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"We will stop the practice of abortion by changing the law, and we will be successful in changing the law if we change people's hearts. We will not change hearts by turning away from people in their time of need and when they are experiencing grief and loss.
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Country superstar Kellie Pickler was here to show Ellen her new look. After her close friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, the two then faced losing her hair -- together, with a new haircut.
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I was diagnosed in June of this year with breast cancer, too. I don't know how I would have felt if a friend offered to shave their head when I had mine shaved. But I have several friends that are dealing with breast cancer now, and already lost their hair before I did. One friend has just finished with her chemo and another has finished with radiation. I have only had 5 chemo treatments so far, and several more to go. What a wonderful cancer buddy Kellie is to her friend.
What an inspiration Kelly is. It is during your greatest time of need that you find out who your real friends are. Kelly's friend has a strong person by her side to support her. My thoughts and prayers to all of those who are currently battling all forms of cancer and for those fighting this fight along side of them in support.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer last year (34 years old, Sept. 21st) and will receive my last Herceptin treatment in a couple of weeks. I finished chemo in February. Some of my friends asked about shaving their heads, and I told them not to do it. I don't know why I felt uncomfortable with this. It is quite liberating, though, to walk around bald.
I feel that I have beat cancer, and now I'm not scared to do anything where as before I was timid and shy at times.
Keep calm and fight on!
I really just want to say what a great friend Kelly is. It doesn't matter if she is her true blood sister she is a true friend. Not everyone has one of those. I pray her friend will be well. Prayer, encouragement and a good attitude go a long way.
I want to thank Kellie for what she did for her friend by shaving her head.
I wanted to just say I am proud that I did the same thing. I didn't do it for just one person but I did it for all the beautiful people who are fighting all types of cancer.
It's just hair and it will grow back.
Some people said I was crazy to do it but why not?. I have lost both my patents to cancer and I know to many friends and family that are either fighting it or are more recently finding out they may have the terrible disease. I'm not ashamed to have no hair on my head and neither should anyone else. I'll do it again if I was asked to. Any way I can spread the word I'm there.
Thank you
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Weidman's victory over Anderson Silva was amazing to say the least. But as an astute and bewildered observer, I couldn't help but wonder if somehow the fight had been fixed. It was an overall feeling I had which was then interesting to note others in the media felt as well. Before we consider if there was foul play, it is imperative to note why myself and others were so shocked at the outcome. The fight should not in anyone's mind have gone the way it did. If Weidman was to win, it would have been by decision, much like the one Chael Sonnon should have gotten in the first fight. But a Weidman knockout in the second round? — one in a million chance. In order to ponder the points made above, it is imperative to separate the general bewilderment with such an outcome and the actual evidence that there might have been foul play. If we want to go down that dangerous road, the evidence would be as follows:
1. In the first round Weidman took Silva down very easily, more than I have ever seen in any of Silva's fights and far easier than Chael Sonnen was able to do. Weidman further held Silva down longer and did more damage than anyone else. With such ease why didn't Weidman take him down again in the first round and was so horribly unsuccessful in the second? Whether this proves anything, people would have to agree that there has never been such a dichotomy between two take downs from the same fighter against the same opponent in UFC history.
2. Didn't Anderson Silva's moves seem a bit….I don't know, off? His kicks seemed lazy, timed and not as sharp as they have been. His punches lacked finesse and were all over the place, never connecting with precision. I understand that the hands down approach is his way to goad people in, but this was very sloppy and very un-Anderson Silva.
3. I don't know how hard the punch was from Weidman that put Silva on his back but judging by the replay over and over again, it didn't seem to be in full force. I know with gloves so small anything can happen, but this is Anderson Silva at the end of the day. The greatest UFC fighter ever. The man who stood in front of Forest Griffin, Stephan Bonnar and others with his hands down and let them punch him in the face over and over. Now all of a sudden he is being laid out cold by a Chris Weidman cross? Seems strange. Further, when the fight was finished Anderson Silva was so dazed that he grabbed onto the refs legs and tried to wrestle him down. I don't know how to put it, but this just seemed very fake.
4. When the fight was stopped, Weidman seemed happy but not as ecstatic as one would think for being on the positive side of one of the greatest upsets in sports history. I don't mean to sound like TV police who accuse a husband of murder because he was not crying enough when they told him his wife has been killed, but it would just seem that Weidman could have been a little more excited and teary eyed at pulling off when many conisdered an impossible task. Even during the press conference it seemed like it was just another day at the office for him, not that he just made the impossible possible by knocking out Anderson Silva.
5. Did you notice how defensive Dana White got when asked about a fixed fight in the post-fight interviews and further how defensive he seemed when asked about the fight in general? There was something different about him for sure.
Yet, if the fight was fixed, what would possibly be the reason? Does Anderson Silva want to retire and this is his way of doing it? Was he threatened into throwing away the fight? Was Weidman in on it or was it a solo act, or is the whole UFC behind it from Dana White on down in an attempt to shake up the most stagnated division in the UFC and create a new champion? It was a little strange, don't you think, how so many fighters and analysts predicted a Weidman victory. Not to take away anything from Weidman, but Anderson Silva is the greatest fighter ever and his last two fights were his best yet. How was everyone so sure Weidman was going to win?
In the end, stranger things have happened and the Chris Weidman spectacular victory is probably just that. But if someone decided to investigate this some more, let's just say I wouldn't stop them.