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@alisha-- No, anise is mostly safe, especially in quantities found in anise candies.
It might have side effects if you were taking it in another form for its medicinal properties. I don't think a few anise candies a day will do much.
It's still best to be careful if you're pregnant or breastfeeding though. I also know that women with breast cancer or with cysts in their breast should avoid anise tea because it acts like estrogen in the body. I don't think anise candy has enough anise in it to cause problems though.
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Compiled and written by Kathryn Masson, the book examines 20 residences built in California from the 1830s through the 1920s. Masson's preface teams with a foreword by Robert Winter and an introduction by Lauren Bricker to provide useful background information on the architectural styles highlighted in the book: Adobe, Craftsman, Victorian, and Spanish Colonial Revival. The designers of the chosen homes represent an eclectic mix of prominent names (Smith, Bernard Maybeck, Greene & Greene) and lesser-known architects such as Roland E. Coate Sr., whose William D. Edwards house in San Marino, Calif., is highlighted.
"Climate, culture, and landscape—these are the three factors that most directly influenced the California house through the mid-twentieth century," writes Bricker in her introduction. The book's well-researched text acknowledges this intertwined role of nature and culture in creating the featured houses. And its detailed photos showcase not only the architecture but also the homes' interior and landscape design. The California House serves as an essential guide to an important era in California residential architecture.
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If you need to answer a climate question, head to Antarctica. That's where scientists find clues locked in glaciers and ice sheets.
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One of the world' leading ice core specialists, Oregon State University geoscientist Ed Brook, directs the project with Jeff Severinghaus at the University of California, San Diego. Brook analyzes trace gases in ice cores to reveal how the Earth's atmosphere changes naturally over time. He is co-chair of the International Partnership in Ice Core Science, a 19-nation group that is studying some of the oldest Antarctic ice.
In the distant past, methane concentrations have spiked up abruptly in the atmosphere for reasons that are unclear. Likely sources include wetlands and methane ice — in a form known as "clathrates" — trapped in permafrost and on the sea floor. Methane is about 20 times more effective than carbon-dioxide at trapping heat.
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I know British actress Nikki Amuka-Bird best as the long suffering Det. Sgt. Erin Gray on BBC One's addictive series Luther. Fans will get to see another side of her now that she's been cast in the new Cinemax drama pilot Quarry.
Logan Marshall-Green stars in the pilot as a 1973 era Vietnam vet, freshly home for the war and quite disillusioned. So, what does he do? He joins a shadow organization to become a hitman.
Amuka-Bird will play Ruth, explained the latest Deadline casting update. Ruth is the wife of Artie, friend to Marshall-Green's Quarry. Artie is a former Marine, by the by.
It's all coming together. Quarry is based on the series of novels by Max Allan Collins, who also brought us the amazing Road To Perdition graphic novel. As previously reported, Stellan Skarsgård will play the key role of The Broker. Noah Taylor has been cast as the hitman who teaches Quarry how things are done.
Graham Gordy and Michael D. Fuller have written the pilot and will executive produce the Cinemax pilot with Steve Golin, David Kanter, Matt DeRoss, Keith Redmon, Collins, Ken Levin and John Hillcoat. Hillcoat will also direct.
Nikki Amuka-Bird has also been cast in Jupiter Ascending, the upcoming science fiction film written, produced and directed by The Wachowskis. Now this is interesting because though The Wachowskis saw glory with The Matrix, their projects seem to get stranger and stranger ever since. This one revolves around an intergalactic hitman and a space queen…so of course, its a love story. Ha. You cannot deny the cool cast though, which so far has Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum as our star-crossed lovers, Game of Thrones' Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth, James D'Arcy, Terry Gilliam and Amuka-Bird. Could be very cool, though. I'd keep my eye on that one.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- The Kansas Senate has approved a bill barring cities and counties from requiring their contractors to pay union-scale wages.
The 31-9 vote Tuesday sends the measure to the House.
The bill would bar local governments from requiring private firms to pay employees more than the federal minimum wage for work on public contracts.
It's aimed at local policies requiring contractors to pay so-called prevailing wages. The federal Department of Labor sets those rates, and critics say they're often based on union scales.
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The same hawish pundits who so successfully demonized Saddam Hussein are now looking for a new target. For most, the demon of choice is an old foe: Fidel Castro.
Georgie Ann Geyer, an old cold warrior with a new biography out on Castro, gave the Today show (3/4/91) a description of Castro that seemed remarkably similar to the dirt dished out by unnamed U.S. officials on Khadafy, Noriega and Saddam: of "illegitimate" birth, he abused his first wife, admired Hitler and Mussolini for their power and toted Mein Kampf around with him. The interview--more like a monologue--concluded with Geyer speculating on Castro's future: "I don't think he'll go quietly into the night. I'm worried that Cuba could be our next conflict, our next crisis....He's so grandiose, he might attack Florida or something."
Jeane Kirkpatrick (Washington Post, 4/1/91) wrote that a nuclear power plant under construction "with Soviet help" in Cuba, "two years away from completion...could be used to 'produce weapons grade plutonium.'" Her source: an anonymous "U.S. official" quoted in the Rev. Moon-owned Washington Times (1/4/91). She also suggested that the recent defection of a Cuban officer in a MiG aircraft might have been staged to test U.S. air defenses and demonstrate "what a few determined men with a few nuclear warheads and a few low-flying MiGs could do to South Florida."
Unable to resist the temptation to tie Castro to the coattails of a villainized Hussein, Reagan spokesperson-turned-columnist John Hughes (Christian Science Monitor, 3/28/91) wrote that "Saddam and Fidel have had a long relationship." Hughes cited that fact that Hussein went to Cuba for elective surgery and that Castro sent medical teams to treat victims of U.S. bombing in Iraq. Now Cuba, he concludes is "crumbling": "Bicycles are replacing cars." Hardly a frightening thought, viewed from the blackened skies of "Free Kuwait."
One columnist has dissented from the naming of Cuba as the next menace: Leslie Gelb, writing in the New York Times (4/10/91), proposed instead that North Korea is "the most dangerous country in the world today."


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Hill City masons rededicating lodge, celebrating 125 years
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HILL CITY -- The rededication of the Masonic Lodge in Hill City is planned for 1 p.m. Sunday.
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HILL CITY -- The rededication of the Masonic Lodge in Hill City is planned for 1 p.m. Sunday.
Attending the event will be Kansas Grand Master Don Newman, along with officers from across Kansas. The rededication is in keeping with a long-held tradition that will include an ancient ceremony.
The Millbrook A.F.&A.M. Lodge first was chartered Feb. 16, 1887. It has approximately 100 members and has meetings twice a month.
"We're kind of proud about being 125 years old," said Millbrook Lodge secretary Cole Presley,
He's just as proud the lodge has been able to retain members, something that has proven difficult in other communities.
As a deputy director covering much of northwest Kansas -- the largest geographic area in the state -- he laments the idea it has the fewest number of lodges.
That's why he thinks Hill City's lodge has been lucky.
"A lot of guys live out of state, but they still send their dues back every year," he said. "It helps keep us going."
In 2012, Millbrook Lodge supported the Graham County Recreation Commission's T-Ball program, sponsored a car show and members participate in different community activities, Presley said.
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From A Little Girl
A couple years ago I was dating a woman who had three young daughters, aged six, eight, and ten years old. All three girls had the bad habit of not flushing the crapper when they were done, so I could not help but get a glimpse of what they sometimes brewed.
So anyways, I went into the bathroom after the eight year-old one time, and there was an absolute behemoth staring up at me while floating on the surface of the water. I never drop floaters, so this was something I found really odd. But it wasn't the floatiness of the poo that baffled me most -- it was the sheer size of this insane poo log. And the eight year-old was very thin and petite. I could give you all measurements and such, but I find it easiest to say that it was the size of a pop or beer can... This thing was huge. Because the kids rarely used toilet paper, there was no paper to block my view; all I could see was the monster, just floating there.
I flushed, and reluctantly it went down with the last of the water. We did take a picture of it, but I never got the photo, so you will all just have to believe me. It was the largest human poo I have ever seen, and it came from a little girl.
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Wait, you mean to tell me that an 8 year old isn't using toilet paper? How disgusting is that??? Who cares about how big their turds are--someone needs to teach them how to wipe their behinds after going #2. Gross!!
An apple a day keeps the ExLax away!
Never underestimate the power of the little girl shit. When I was 12 or so, my 9 year old sister had a friend over who was about the same age. I went into the bathroom after her and there was a perfectly cylindrical shit coiled around that must have been at least 14 inches long. Also, no paper. Hmmm.
What the heck are these girls eating???


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Holy Ghost!
The abridged version of the story of Holy Ghost! – the one that begins in 2007 with the release of the duo's highly acclaimed, revelatory debut single "Hold On" – is less than half the story. A full retelling begins far earlier – nearly two decades before either the duo's excellent 2009 track "I Will Come Back," their critically lauded 2010 EP Static on the Wire and their 2011 self-titled full-length debut, or the remixes they've done for a seemingly endless list of esteemed artists – MGMT, Cut Copy, Moby, Phoenix and LCD Soundsystem among them.
In fact, the unabridged Holy Ghost! story starts when 7-year-olds Alex Frankel and Nick Millhiser met in their elementary school on New York City's Upper West Side. Even then, the pair of second graders were beginning to make music, nudged on by the "artsy" environs at Manhattan's Trevor Day School and their open-minded parents.
"First grade, I started playing saxophone and I hated it, and I wanted to quit," says Nick. His mother told him he could drop the saxophone, but he would have to find another instrument. He started taking drum lessons and realized he'd found what he wanted to be when he grew up.
Alex also got an early musical start. He began lessons with jazz pianist Les Horan, a family friend, at age 6, and learned to play by ear and improvise instead of memorizing scales. By age 12, he had already started to work on his own songs.
Huge fans of hip hop as they moved into their teen years, Alex and Nick, along with four other musically likeminded friends, formed Automato, a hip-hop outfit with live instrumentation and an affinity for groove-based songs. The band of high school sophomores quickly made a name for itself, gigging all around the city and playing some of its best known, now defunct, clubs. In 2000, Automato – mere high school seniors at this point – were signed by Capitol Records. They met with a series of well-known hip- hop producers, most of whom Nick says "didn't know what the fuck to do with a live drum set." After countless fruitless conversations, the group was introduced to James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy, two young producers who were just starting a label called DFA. It was a pairing that, though they couldn't have known it at the time, would outlast Automato.
Automato's DFA-produced debut was released in 2004 to light fanfare: The UK's Guardian called the release "The first essential hip hop album of the year." But the band dissolved just a year later. Alex and Nick remained friends with Murphy and Goldsworthy, even lending their talents to DFA as studio musicians on recordings by the Juan Maclean and remixes for N.E.R.D. and UNKLE. Following a brief stint when Alex left the city to attend Upstate New York's Bard College, and Nick toured with the Juan Maclean, the two again started making music together. They self-recorded some "ragtag" – Nick's word – demos, including an early, bare bones version of "Hold On" which they shared with Murphy, who liked what he heard and encouraged them to keep working.
They finished the track a little over a year later. The two shared this early version with a few friends, including tastemaker Tim Sweeney, who liked it enough to play on his revered radio show, Beats in Space. Murphy heard as-of-yet unfulfilled promise in the single, and led the duo – now called Holy Ghost!, a name taken from a song of the same name by '70s soul masters the Bar-Kays – back into the studio, where the LCD frontman produced and remixed the single. "Hold On," released on DFA Records in 2007, gained the attention of some of the most esteemed names in dance music, including A-Trak and The Loft's Dave Mancuso. Alex and Nick found themselves traveling the world as in-demand DJs, and by the end of 2008, they had remixed songs – by request – for Moby, MGMT and Cut Copy.
By the time 2009 wound to a close, the duo set to work on a batch of songs that would be a heftier offering than a lone single. The resulting four-song EP, Static on the Wire, which included "I Will Come Back" along with three new singles, was released on DFA in May 2010. It was only a taster of what was to come on the band's full-length LP, which was released the very next year.
The 10-song self-titled album included a few guest appearances (Luke Jenner from the Rapture; Chris Glover from Penguin Prison; and – really – Michael McDonald) and though it certainly yielded more evidence of Holy Ghost!'s place at the top of the heap of dance music makers, this isn't likely to be a collection of club bangers. It cemented an idea of what people have come to expect from Holy Ghost!: Riveting songs filled with analog warmth and wonderful, driving, catchy rhythms.
After a few years of relentless and successful touring with only a single album, an EP, and a couple singles to their name, Nick and Alex reconvened in the studio to start working on their newest batch of songs. The result of these sessions is the band's upcoming sophomore release, Dynamics.
Though they were only making their second album, the experience they brought with them to the studio was a huge advantage. "There was a bit of a learning curve on the first record that slowed down the creative process," Nick said. "We didn't have to learn how to record an album at the same time as we were trying to make music this time around." With the recording studio now tamed, the band felt they had more control and better instincts with writing their music. There were more musical casualties this time around as well, with more songs and musical ideas getting left on the cutting room floor as the band separated the wheat from the chaff.
During recording for Dynamics, Alex felt more comfortable with his singing abilities than the first time around, and the duo pushed themselves to record more single-track vocals, yielding a more personal, emotional response. "I tried to make more simple, personal ideas come across more effectively," he notes. "When you're doing up-front vocals, you can't bullshit the lyrics, because you're talking directly to your audience."
The effect of these things upon the overall recording sessions for Dynamics is that the band are painting in bolder strokes, truly utilizing one of the most important aspects of music (dynamics) to open their songs up to entire new palates of color. "Dynamics is really a descriptive term we used to focus on contrast, but it's also referring to a lot of Alex's lyrics this time around, which deal with the dynamics of relationships," reflects Nick. "It's a good single-word descriptor of what we were trying to do with these songs, something we kept coming back to when writing and recording."
At the end of the day, Holy Ghost! are making great dance music that is beyond passing trends, that gets to the very heart of why we love music, that touches our most simple, direct, inborn reactions to sound. "I'm trying to make music that makes me as unabashedly giddy as music made me when I was a kid," says Nick. "I think that's a big part of why we're so obsessed with sounds. Because I think more abstract things, like sound, take [you] places. It's a guttural, sort of ambiguous familiarity to things you grew up with that I think, when you get older, you come back to. And you're like, "Oh – this really is the best."
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Costessey Centre - Handed over to the Parish on the 19th April 2010
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The tennis courts can be used as a temporary car park fin exceptional circumstances. Spaces will not be marked out but users are asked to park carefully. .
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Course not so foreign to students
By JUDY SHERARD
Some Hays High School students might not mind being called a rat, or even a snake.
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Some Hays High School students might not mind being called a rat, or even a snake.
It's not a reflection of their character, but the animal associated with their birth year in the Chinese culture.
Students interested in learning about the Chinese culture and its language are meeting once a week for four weeks during seminar period this semester.
Eight students attended a session of China Club last week, which coincided with the Chinese New Year -- the year of the horse.
"In China, we mark years using animals," said Shirley Liu, who was leading the discussion.
Liu, a native of China, graduated from Fort Hays State University in 2007. She taught English in China at the university level before coming back to Hays with her husband in 2012.
The Chinese culture is based on a 12-year cycle, and the animal for each year influences the culture, she said.
The 12 animals in Chinese zodiac are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. Each appears every 12 years.
Some believe a person's birth year animal is a "good way to tell people's characters," Liu said.
The students learned the attributes of each sign, how to pronounce the name of the animal and the written symbol.
"You don't have to memorize all of them, (but) it's always good to practice your tones," she told the students. "The most difficult thing about (the) Chinese language is the four tones. English doesn't have tones."
The club gives students a taste of learning Chinese, said Ann Adams, who teaches Latin and serves as the Hays High sponsor for the club.
Hays High senior Jill Pokorny has "always been very interested in Asian cultures. It's always been a place I've wanted to go, and a language and a culture I've wanted to learn. So this was just a great opportunity to get myself started in it before I went off to college and maybe took some advanced classes in it."
Administrators are gauging students' interest in Mandarin Chinese classes, HHS Principal Marty Straub told the board of education in December.
"The turnout was not as high as we'd like," Straub said of the China Club.
However, Mandarin Chinese will be among the class choices when students pre-enroll later this month. If enough students enroll, the district will check into adding the class, Straub said.
Even if there aren't enough students to have a class, the school might continue to offer activities such as China Club next year, he said.
"(It) would be a positive addition to our offerings here," Adams said.


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Nacogdoches, TX — Surveyors from Global Geophysical Services are lining roads with orange cables and installing microseismic-detection equipment in areas in the city and across Nacogdoches County as they search for oil and gas in the Haynesville Shale, a corporate executive said Wednesday.
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Posted by Mike Florio on May 3, 2012 Researchers in Boston want to study the brain of the late Junior Seau for evidence of Chronic Traumatic Encephelopathy. Seau's family may decide to allow it. Pastor Shawn Mitchell told Reuters that Seau's family is "considering" the request. Frankly, it would be a surprise if Seau's brain doesn't show evidence of CTE. He played one of the game's most violent positions for two full decades, repeatedly absorbing and delivering contact, often involving his helmet. For 19.5 of those seasons, the NFL used a much more lax approach to ensuring that players with concussions were held out of practice and games while exhibiting symptoms. The fact that Seau never had any documented issues with concussions doesn't mean he never suffered concussions. Former NFL linebacker Gary Plummer estimates that linebackers experience at least five low-grade concussions per game. "Junior played for 20 years," Plummer told the San Jose Mercury News. "That's five concussions a game, easily. How many in his career then? That's over 1,500 concussions. I know that's startling, but I know it's true. I had over 1,000 in my 15 years. I felt the effects of it. I felt depression going on throughout my divorce. Junior went through it with his divorce." The broader question is whether the changes the NFL has made since 2009 will reduce head trauma and, in turn, reduce and/or eliminate CTE. For all players, the challenge is to find a way to give them the support they need once their careers end. "There is no exit strategy from the NFL," Plummer said. "It's 'You're done.' You don't even get an apple and a road map. What needs to happen is mandatory counseling. In 15 years as a middle linebacker, I never would have thought of seeing a counselor. I saw one in my divorce, and I just called my counselor today. It can't be optional, because macho players are taught to be invincible and they're not going to do it. Make it mandatory." Plummer's suggestion has plenty of merit. And if it keeps only one former player who is dealing with depression and migraines and the other effects of a life of football suddenly becoming a lifetime without it, it will have been worth the effort and the expense. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...ain-for-study/
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i almost wanted to post this article because many of the younger fans may not realize all the pittsburgh (and steeler) connections to the nfl player brain injury research going on today. not only do we see evidence of how the browns suck when they draft, look no further than polamalu and ward being benched last season, while colt mccoy was sent back into a game with a concussion induced blackout that ended his season. then again you rarely hear about a steeler with staph infection, and the browns players seem to eat mursa for lunch.
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Jim Trotter of SI.com reports that he spoke with the late Junior Seau in March about the perception that commissioner Roger Goodell was making the game too soft with his enhanced enforcement of player safety rules.
"It has to happen," he said. "Those who are saying the game is changing for the worse, well, they don't have a father who can't remember his name because of the game. I'm pretty sure if everybody had to wake with their dad not knowing his name, not knowing his kids' name, not being able to function at a normal rate after football, they would understand that the game needs to change. If it doesn't there are going to be more players, more great players, being affected by the things that we know of and aren't changing. That's not right."
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Seau's suicide prompts worries about post-NFL life By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Pro Football Writer Junior Seau's suicide is troubling NFL players. No one knows precisely why the 43-year-old Seau shot himself in the chest at his oceanfront home May 2, less than 2 1/2 years after the end of his Pro Bowl career as a linebacker. What is clear - and cause for concern among other players - is that he reached some serious depths of despair. "To see a guy like that, in such a dark place, to take the action he did ... makes you think about life after football and what it's like, and what you'll be going through, when that time comes, mentally," said Colts linebacker A.J. Edds, who is entering his second NFL season. "This might have been what people needed to open their eyes a little bit about what might happen down the road. How do you go forward to prevent it? Hopefully some good can be found from a horrible situation. Hopefully that's one silver lining - that it might help other guys keep from getting to a place like that." In 40 interviews with The Associated Press during the last two weeks, many players voiced growing worry about the physical and emotional toll professional football takes. Seau's suicide resonated among the 13 rookies, 17 active veterans and 10 retirees, with more than half of each group saying it pushed them to consider their future in the sport or the difficulties of adjusting to post-NFL life. It's one thing to read about hundreds of guys they've never heard of suing the league because of neurological problems traced to a career long ago. It's quite another to find out about Seau, a charismatic, recent star for the Chargers, Dolphins and Patriots who played in the Super Bowl. "The difference with Junior for many folks my age or younger is that I played against Junior a bunch. He was a peer. It's more impactful. Not to suggest I had a great friendship with Junior or knew him off the field. I didn't. It's simply closer to home for me than a guy who played in the `70s or `80s," said Pete Kendall, a starting offensive lineman from 1996-2008 for the Seahawks, Cardinals, Jets and Redskins. "All of those kinds of situations are horrible, but Junior's situation probably would have people re-examining things." Indeed it did. Even less-experienced NFL players in their mid-20s were forced to face some complicated questions in recent weeks. "You can't avoid thinking about how the game might be affecting your future. Even something as small as forgetting where I put my keys. I know everyone does that from time to time, but am I forgetful because of football? Have I already done damage to my brain playing the game?" Packers tight end Tom Crabtree, who's played two seasons in the league, wrote in an email. "When you see a guy we all assume to be so happy and successful take his own life, it's disturbing. I worry about how happy I am with life right now and wonder if the damage is too much to overcome. ... It's like these brain injuries really turn you into another person," Crabtree wrote. "It slowly chops away at your happiness. Nothing you can do about it." He was one of a dozen players who, unprompted, mentioned brain disease or concussions in connection with Seau, even though there has been no evidence of either with the linebacker, who played from 1990 to 2009. "The obvious questions arise: Was it depression? Brain damage? I've been reading a lot of different articles about it. I personally believe that concussions will definitely give you some sort of brain damage. Was that the cause? We won't know for sure until they examine his brain," former Chargers, Dolphins and Vikings receiver Greg Camarillo said. "But it definitely makes you think, as someone who has played this sport, about the damage that can be caused." Explained rookie receiver Mohamed Sanu, chosen by the Bengals in the third round of April's draft: "You kind of wonder about your safety and your health and wonder if you'll be like that one day." Players frequently mentioned that Seau's suicide prompted heartfelt conversations with spouses or close pals. "As soon as something like that happens, you start calling all your friends to make sure they're OK, just checking on everybody," said Ken Norton Jr., who retired in 2000 after 13 seasons as a linebacker for the Cowboys and 49ers and now coaches that position with the Seahawks. "It just opens your eyes and makes you more aware of what each other is going through - and ask that extra question, give that extra hug, to make sure there aren't any problems we don't know about." Matt Bowen, a former defensive back for the Redskins, Bills, Rams and Packers whose last season was 2006, got a telephone call from a college teammate the day Seau died. "`I just want to tell you if you're ever down, you're ever depressed, just call me.' He was worried. ... My buddy from Iowa calling hit home a little bit," Bowen said. "A little doubt creeps into the back of my mind: Well, maybe this could happen to me." In responding to the AP's questions, rookies were, to a man, certain the league is making things as safe as possible for them. They, of course, have yet to participate in their first training camp or game. But players who've spent time in the NFL were split on whether they're properly equipped for what might await down the road. Asked whether the league is doing all it can to take care of players' financial, mental, physical and neurological health, particularly when it comes to having a good life in retirement, 13 veterans or retirees said yes, while 11 said no. "There's a program for everything, but it can't prepare you for everything. Most people find out about the real world when they're 18 or 19. Ex-NFL players find out about it at 30 or 35," said 39-year-old Jon Kitna, a quarterback for the Seahawks, Bengals, Lions and Cowboys from 1997-2011. "You might think you've got it bad in football, because it can be a grind and you might think meetings are a drag, but the real world gives you a totally different mindset," said Kitna, now teaching algebra and coaching football at the high school he attended in Tacoma, Wash. "There are a lot of programs available, but you have to search for the answers. That's harder for athletes, because they've been given answers their whole life." Said Bowen: "I understand players who say, `They just throw you out the back door.' ... I would love to have guaranteed insurance. I think every NFL player would. It'd make life a lot easier. I'm 35, I have aches and pains. What am I going to be like at 45? I can't tell you that." As for money matters, Steelers linebacker LaMarr Woodley, who's heading into his sixth season, said: "I wouldn't say the NFL takes care of players financially for the future. The NFL makes sure this is a drug-free league. You can't use steroids or street drugs; they're testing every week for that. But in terms of taking care of your finances, it's not something they push every week like they do with drugs. There's not a push that makes it mandatory for players to learn how to manage their money, or to set up life insurance or 401Ks." The two men in charge of post-career programs at the NFL and the NFL Players Association readily admit there is room for improvement. "Do I think enough is being done? A lot is being done. Can we do more? Yes," said NFL Vice President of Player Engagement Troy Vincent, a former defensive back in the league. But he also put the onus on players for not participating in what's available. "We can continue to expand our offerings, but if the athlete doesn't engage, it does no good," Vincent said. "What other employer provides this kind of service for their employee? It doesn't exist." NFLPA Senior Director of Former Player Services Nolan Harrison said the union has been working for years to develop a new "life cycle program" to address various needs during careers in the NFL, from start to finish - and beyond. Asked if there's a specific gap that can be improved, Harrison said: "Every area needs help." "They need help with the identity of leaving the game: `You're no longer a football player.' They need help understanding they weren't ever `just a football player.' They were more than that. They weren't `just No. 74,'" said Harrison, who played defensive line. "We need them to understand they can take advantage of mental-care specialists while they're playing." Only one veteran or former player the AP interviewed acknowledged having taken advantage of counseling provided by his team. Three said they weren't aware such help exists. "I could get a phone call and, in 30 seconds, my career's over. And where do you go from there? You're stuck. It's like, `What do I do next?' ... So you see a lot of players do fall into depression, gambling and partying and things like that to try to get over what happened," said Bills linebacker Kirk Morrison, who's entering his eighth season. "I think that's another time where players would seek help. But we're not built that way. ... We're not built to express our feelings." Several players echoed Camarillo's observation that the biggest difficulty might very well be persuading players that there's nothing wrong with seeking help. "It's a matter of a culture change, moreso than just creating a program. It needs to be something that's not looked down upon. If a player goes for counseling: `What's wrong with that guy? Why can't he deal with it?' The NFL and NFLPA can definitely help more, but it also needs to be a culture change," said Camarillo, who holds out hope of continuing his playing career. "It's just the `tough guy' mentality," Camarillo said. "We're taught to deal with any type of weakness and fight through it. In the physical world, that works fine with a sprained ankle or something like that. But in the emotional world, it just doesn't work the same." http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...MPLATE=DEFAULT
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Go & Assembly. One of my favorite parts about Go is its unwavering focus on utility.
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Donna kept making phone calls until 1:30 a.m. She called the Coast Guard again and pleaded with the duty officer to look for Gary. He told her that in order for the agency to conduct a search, it needed a confirmed flight plan. Frustrated, she called the Federal Aviation Administration in Miami to see if there was one. The agency told her to call back the next morning. She fell asleep and was back on the phone at 8 a.m.
That day, December 16, several friends and neighbors visited Donna. It was a somber affair; they brought food and drink, and all of them seemed to be in mourning. This is like a wake, Donna thought. They're acting like somebody died.
Donna went into her bedroom by herself and got back on the phone. That day, she spoke three more times with the FAA to no avail. She again paged Krugh.
This time, he finally phoned her back.
"What happened to Gary?" she asked.
"I don't know," he told her. "I don't have any idea."
"Randy, they can't find Gary. I'm calling everywhere trying to find him. I need your help."
"OK, I'll be right over."
When he arrived at Donna's apartment, the balding and mustachioed Krugh seemed upset, which wasn't surprising considering that his old friend was missing. What Donna didn't know at the time was that he had a lot more to worry about than just Gary. It would take years for her to discover just how much trouble Krugh was in on that day in December.
To almost every question that Donna asked, Krugh professed ignorance. When she asked about planes Gary may have flown on, he finally gave her a lead: the tail number N88KP. It was a Beechcraft Queen Air that his "contacts" in the Bahamas often used. Like Sims, Krugh mentioned that Gary may have been on the way to Colombia.
"Why Colombia?"
"I don't know," Krugh said before leaving the apartment.
Newly invigorated, Donna contacted the Nassau airport and gave the tail number to an airport official who gave his name as "Mr. Major." He discovered that the Beechcraft had indeed taken off at 10:46 a.m. December 9, shortly after she spoke to Gary on the phone. According to the flight plan, there were three people aboard, including a pilot named "Boudreau." The plane was supposed to be going to Hog Key, a private island in the Exuma Cays in the southern Bahamas.
The pilot never radioed the tower after taking off, Mr. Major explained, so the flight was never confirmed. Donna desperately wanted a search. She was tormented by the specter of Gary out in the water needing to be rescued. But when she phoned the Coast Guard, an officer repeated the rule: no flight plan, no search.
For the next few days, she feverishly worked the phone, calling the American Embassy in Nassau, the State Department, and the FAA. Through the embassy, Donna was able to contact the Bahamian Defense Force, which, unlike the Coast Guard, conducted an air search.
It turned up nothing.
When Gary asked her out, Donna couldn't resist. Every day after that, they were together. He would bring her fresh-picked wildflowers; no telling where he got them. And he liked to park on the side of the road -- Coral Springs was mostly rural country back then -- and just look up at the stars with her.
Gary quickly proved to be a wonderful guide to South Florida, which was a hundred times bigger and more exciting than the Jersey Shore. When he wasn't working, he played. He could walk into a restaurant and make a handful of friends before food was on the table. He took her to barbecues at Krugh's Boca Raton home and out on double dates with his buddy and co-worker, J.P. Delaney. Donna became close to Delaney's girlfriend, Sheila, who had a 5-year-old son named Brian. She loved to be around the boy and so did Gary, who would play with Brian for hours at a time.
Gary was like a hyper kid, except that he always had a beer in his hand and a cigarette dangling from his mouth. Gary had to be moving. And he could have an animated, ten-minute tiff with Brian over who got to play with which Tonka truck. She thought he would make a good father.
But he was also mischievous. Once he took her out to the Everglades and as they stood by the car, he yelled, "A snake!"
The exclamation led to Donna's thirteenth concussion. She jumped headfirst into the side of the car and was knocked out cold. There was, of course, no snake.
One of his favorite pastimes was tossing golf balls on the fairway behind his apartment to confuse the players. He would crack up as they tried to sort out which ball was theirs.
Donna found his antics both maddening and endearing. She was in love before she knew it. She moved into his Coral Springs apartment after only a few months of dating and five months after that became pregnant. Though the pregnancy was unplanned, Donna and Gary were ecstatic. On December 10, 1982, less than a year after their first date, they married in a small ceremony in Fort Lauderdale. On that day, Krugh, his boss and old friend, took on a third role in Gary's life: best man.


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ROCHESTER — Fans of country music - both new and classic country - will enjoy a spectacular concert tribute to Garth Brooks on Friday, Aug. 2 at The Governor's Inn.
White's band, a five-piece high energy combo, has also played in Nashville as well as Walt Disney World and Las Vegas. While at Disney, White's band performed three shows a day, seven days a week. Dressed in his dead-ringer outfit of country hat, shirt, jeans, and cowboy boots, White says every item of his wardrobe is exactly the same as what Garth Brooks wore at concerts for 20 years.
Tickets for the Garth Brooks Tribute - Aug. 2 at 7 p.m. - are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. The show may be held from the outdoor stage if nice out, or in the ballroom if not. As always at The Governor's Inn, cold beverages and tasty, casual food will be available. For more information or tickets, call the Inn at 332-0107 or visit www.governorsinn.com.


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Thread: Reboot the Biosphere Project?
August 29th, 2012, 01:01 PM #1
Reboot the Biosphere Project?
A recent article in IO9.com advises that the Biosphere projects should be revived.
I agree: We have no hope to establish sustainable bases in space or on other planets unless we understand how to create a sustainable biosphere... and so far, we do not. The Biosphere experiments here and in the Soviet Union have demonstrated that we don't have the environmental, agricultural or biodiversity specs down. Further, the hardships of living in a struggling or failing biosphere space creates dysfunctional co-workers. We need to figure out the psychological and sociological needs and parameters of the crew in such a system.
Or maybe, the idea of creating an Earth-like biosphere in a place other than Earth is sheer lunacy, and we need to start thinking of systems that are totally unlike "transplanted Earth" but still sustainable.
This is an area that could use some fresh investigations and approaches in SF lit (see the "What's missing in SF" thread); I may even write one myself. Any thoughts from the gallery?
August 29th, 2012, 01:56 PM #2
Thats interesting. I'd fogotten about the Biosphere project. Perhaps it was too grandious to work right and we should start from the bottom up.
I remember seeing a glass sphere that had water, 1 plant and some kind of minor animal in it (sorry this is vague). It was claimed that as long as the sphere got normal light it would continue in equilibrium. It was sold as a novelty. [can anyone help my fading memory here as to what these are called].
Assuming I am remembering correctly perhaps we start with something like that, make it a bit bigger and add a new couple of things to it and see if it can be sustainable. Keep at this looking for where things break down. It is a lot easier debugging a small system than a large complex one and you learn things in a incremental fashion.
August 29th, 2012, 03:53 PM #3
Yup, we had one of those, and gave one to a relative as a gift (I forget what they were called too!). As I recall, even the critters in that biosphere eventually died, though it might have been from an outside source (such as too much heat from direct sunlight) that did them in. They are still sold, I see them in stores now and then.
I agree that working small and scaling up as you go would be a good way to continue the experiment... possibly even multiple parallel experiments, each investigating a different biological system/aspect, to be combined later to see how they work together. And it could be that some isolation of bio-projects is essential to their success in an artificially-closed system.
August 30th, 2012, 10:37 AM #4
I agree. I think the lax nature of the development of the technology is due to the fact the need is not that urgent yet where our backs are to the wall where it is do or die.
Have you ever read The Biological Time Bomb?
That book covers everything from biological warfare to sending robots in space to introduce new chemistry to planets to make them more suitable for human life.
If such a biosphere was to be built for space, it would also need artificial gravity and shielding from radiation.
August 30th, 2012, 12:43 PM #5
I think the necessity of gravity for various biological systems (not just our own) needs much further investigation. At least rotation of structures in space should be eminently workable, but there may be some organisms and processes that should thrive in microgravity, and we'd be better off leaving them there.
In the case of radiation, I think investigation is not necessary, we just need to develop physical or energy-based shielding methods that will work from large structures down to space suits (or else make all EVA activity the domain of robots... not a horrible idea, but clearly less romantic than heroic astronauts on EVAs).
August 30th, 2012, 01:13 PM #6
I am working with biospheres in my series. I watched Aeon Fluxx the live action movie and The Starlost as references and I read The Biological Time Bomb years ago.
Biospheres became mandatory after World War III on Earth that was a nuclear war that ended all human life. Three military cyborgs survived the human race. They left Earth to go to an Earth-like planet in another solar system where one of the cyborgs was built. From there, they send back spaceships to Earth with cyborgs who built biospheres and cloned humans to live inside the biospheres to give the human race a second chance with one major change; the cyborgs took over world security to prevent the humans from repeating the history that ended them the first time.
So, biospheres is something I am researching myself.
August 30th, 2012, 07:20 PM #7
Another movie to use the biosphere idea is Silent Running.
August 30th, 2012, 07:58 PM #8
August 31st, 2012, 02:17 PM #9
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you know, this probably would have been a great project for NASA to pursue planetside right now, since we seem to be earth-bound for a while (not taking into account 3rd party/national hitchhiking, of course)...
August 31st, 2012, 02:48 PM #10
I was reading an article NASA published on Google Plus that SpaceX signed a $440 Million contract with them to make the spaceship that will replace the Shuttle. The articles did not specify if SpaceX picked up the Orion project.
August 31st, 2012, 02:55 PM #11
Yes, NASA would be best qualified to run and evaluate such a project, or to determine whether there was a way to replace the Biosphere concept with another system (less natural, less elaborate, more practical). Part of me thinks a fully-functional biosphere is simply too much to hope for, but a more artificial closed system (much like the little globes mentioned earlier) could work... it just wouldn't be as pretty.
August 31st, 2012, 05:46 PM #12
If you are interested in more advanced technologies for biospheres, there's force fields like done in The Outer Limits in the 1990s and my own ideas such as interdimensional biospheres created to exist within different wave frequencies than our physical world.
September 1st, 2012, 10:48 AM #13
Containers aren't really the problem with biospheres. The problem is successfully coordinating the biological processes and ecological balance of everything from independent animals (like men) to bacteria, and everything in-between. The more I think about it (and the lack of success we've had doing that on a planetary scale), the more I doubt our ability to maintain such a complex ecosystem.
The Biosphere projects should be dedicated to figuring out a limited-scale ecology that still sustains all biological organisms in an efficient way. It may be necessary to genetically engineer plants and animals specifically designed to function in such a limited ecosystem only, for the express purpose of providing a livable environment, and not to be "released into the wild." Their end form may be nothing like the plants and animals that exist today.
September 1st, 2012, 11:01 AM #14
The ideal system would be self .monitoring and self correcting.
Earth does not have that in place and human intervention is helping to destroy it.
Right now biosphere technology is like artificial consciousness, we just don't understand it yet. In time we will.
September 2nd, 2012, 05:39 PM #15
True, but I doubt that's possible. Even on an entire planet, the biosphere goes through changes that force change, survival pressures that cause evolution of species, extinction of others, and altering habitats and feeding grounds... IOW, the planetary biosphere is not self-correcting, it simply evolves to suit the new circumstances.
A Biosphere, despite its appearances, would be as artificial an environment as the inside of a space ship; just more invisibly elaborate, as complex natural elements would take place of simpler technological elements. You don't want a perfectly natural system, because it will evolve, as the Biosphere projects proved.
You want a stable and static environment... the antithesis of "natural." And you want an environment that can be adjusted to handle changes in demand... say, the loss, gain or significant change of crewmembers, the introduction (or evolution) of an invasive species, or a crop failure. Expecting a Biosphere to self-correct a system that extreme (and if you think about it, it's not that extreme) is expecting unnatural behavior in a supposedly natural system.


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Looking for the best photo uploader/storage app
I am slowly trying to make my whole computer accessible via my phone. I use Google drive for most of my important files, and I sync my music using isyncr. Next is my photos. I was thinking of picasa but the free storage is limited. I don't need a new social networking app like instagram. I've heard of Flickr, but don't know enough about it to make the jump yet. What is a good app to use to make all of my photos on my PC accessible from my phone?
What I'd like to keep is the folder organization I have on my computer. A have a good 6gb of photos and I don't want to have to reorganize them after uploading them somewhere.
What are my options?
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I use Picasa for photo uploads. The free storage is good... The yearly costs for additional storage is reasonable, in my opinion.
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"George M. Cohan singing 'Over There'" From A Tribute to George M. Cohan © Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
"Over There" World War I inspirational song By George M. Cohan and sung by Nora Bayes
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"Your Song--My Song--Our Boys' Song: Over There" "Johnnie, get your gun,Get your gun, get your gun,Take it on the run,On the run, on the run.Hear them calling, you and me,Every son of liberty,Hurry right away,No delay, no delay,Make your daddy gladTo have had such a lad.Tell your sweetheart not pine,To be proud her boy's in line.ChorusOver there, over there,Send the word, send the word over there-That the Yanks are coming,The Yanks are coming,The drums rum-tummingEv'rywhere.So prepare, say a pray'r,Send the word, send the word to beware.We'll be over, we're coming over,And we won't be back till it's overOver there." In 1940 Congress awarded Cohan a special medal for his popular World War I song. Just three years later, American troops would be "over there"--fighting in Europe--once again.
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