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Updated: 01/12/2009 - Although students at Texas A&M are still on winter break, plenty of people witnessed the horrific events unfold with the crash of a Black Hawk helicopter on Texas A&M's campus.
Updated: 01/12/2009 - Although students at Texas A&M are still on winter break, plenty of people witnessed the horrific events unfold with the crash of a Black Hawk helicopter on Texas A&M's campus.
Updated: 01/13/2009 - The Army's Black Hawk helicopter is one of the military's work horses.
Updated: 01/13/2009 - One person was killed and four others were injured Monday after the Army Blackhawk helicopter they were on crashed into a field on the campus of Texas A&M University.
Posted: 01/12/2009 - Water will be cut off Tuesday to some Bryan residents and businesses along Carter Creek Parkway.
Updated: 01/12/2009 - Former Brazos County Arts Council Director P. David Romei will spend time behind bars for stealing from the City of College Station.
Updated: 01/11/2009 - Police said he yelled "Bring it On" to a crowd, but he wasn't trying out for the latest cheerleading movie.
Updated: 01/11/2009 - Soon, College Station's elected leaders will vote on a proposed re-working of the city's smoking ordinance.
Updated: 01/11/2009 - Seth Christensen woke up extra early to make sure he didn't miss his flight. He was one of 750 students selected for a special educational seminar on the inauguration and was flying out to Washington.
Updated: 01/11/2009 - In fact, some people may be eligible for a credit of all or some of the economic stimulus rebates received in 2008.
Posted: 01/11/2009 - Just weeks after the case against him was dropped, has the former Leon High School principal finished talking?
Updated: 01/12/2009 - On Monday, the widening of the Campbell Creek bridge on Highway 6 two miles north of OSR began.
Posted: 01/11/2009 - Monday, a judge will likely decide the final punishment of convicted former Arts Council director P. David Romei.
Updated: 01/11/2009 - Authorities say excessive speeding was likely the cause of a fiery collision that killed five people and injured two others in Southeast Texas.
Updated: 01/10/2009 - Hundreds took town the tinsel and brought their old Christmas trees to the park Saturday.
Updated: 01/10/2009 - While the world is watching the conflict between Hamas and Israel, so are residents of the Brazos Valley, in particular, those with relatives in the region.
Updated: 01/10/2009 - Authorities say five people died and two others were injured in Montgomery County after two cars collided, causing one to burst into flames.
Updated: 01/10/2009 - A College Station teen faces felony charges after a drug bust by CSPD with narcotics found valued at nearly $1,500.
Posted: 01/10/2009 - The University of Wisconsin-Madison will stop making its signature aerosol chambers used for researching infectious disease.
Updated: 01/09/2009 - The second man in a two-man team who took part in a two-county crime spree is going to prison too.
Updated: 01/09/2009 - Leon County may not be large, but its leaders are definitely thinking big. County Commissioners have decided to move ahead with plans to build the county's first Expo Center.
Posted: 01/09/2009 - T.C. Sanders, of Navasota, is part of a dying breed.
Posted: 01/09/2009 - A College Station teenager is behind bars facing several drug charges.
Updated: 01/09/2009 - After enjoying weeks of declining prices at the pump, the inevitable has happened and gas prices are on the rise.
Updated: 01/09/2009 - While there is still uncertainty about who will provide electricity to Caldwell next year, the city says one thing is for certain: customers won't have to pay more this year if rates go up.
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Coelacanth Genome: Unexpected Insights From Fish With A 300-million-year-old Fossil Record
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The genome of the coelacanth, a creature with an evolutionary history that is both enigmatic and illuminating, has been decoded by the Genome Center of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and analyzed by an international team of researchers. The findings of this study are published in the journal Nature.
The coelacanth, a sea-cave dwelling, five-foot long fish with limb-like fins, was once thought to be extinct until a living specimen was discovered off the African coast in 1938. According to the AFP news agency, only 308 other coelacanths have been reported since.
Questions about this ancient-looking fish commonly referred to as "living fossils" have since loomed large in scientific circles. Modern coelacanths closely resemble the fossilized skeletons of their ancestors of more than 300 million years ago and the genome confirms what has long been suspected: coelacanth genes are evolving more slowly than other organisms.
"We found that the genes overall are evolving significantly slower than in every other fish and land vertebrate that we looked at," Jessica Alföldi, a research scientist at the Broad Institute, said in a statement. "This is the first time that we've had a big enough gene set to really see that."
The slow rate of evolutionary change might be because the coelacanths have not needed to change. For the most part, they live off the Eastern African coast (a second coelacanth species lives off the coast of Indonesia), at ocean depths where relatively little has changed over the millennia.
"We often talk about how species have changed over time," said Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, scientific director of the Broad Institute's vertebrate genome biology group. "But there are still a few places on Earth where organisms don't have to change, and this is one of them. Coelacanths are likely very specialized to such a specific, non-changing, extreme environment — it is ideally suited to the deep sea just the way it is."
Despite their resemblance to ancient ancestors, modern coelacanths are not a relic of the past brought back to life. They are a species that has survived and reproduced without large changes in appearance for millions of years. "It's not a living fossil; it's a living organism," said Alföldi. "It doesn't live in a time bubble; it lives in our world, which is why it's so fascinating to find out that its genes are evolving more slowly than ours."
The team has tested other long-debated questions as they decoded the coelacanth genome. Coelacanths have features that seem oddly similar to those seen only in land dwelling animals, for example. These features include "lobed" fins, which resemble the limbs of four-legged land animals known as tetrapods. Lungfish, another odd looking group of fish, also has lobed fins. Scientists have long thought that one of the ancestral lobed-finned fish species gave rise to the first amphibians, but until now they could not determine which of the two was a more likely candidate.
The team not only sequenced the entire genome of nearly 3 billion "letters" of DNA, they also examined the RNA content from both species of the coelacanth and the lungfish, allowing them to compare genes used in the brain, kidneys, liver, spleen and gut of the lungfish with gene sets from coelacanth and 20 other vertebrate species. The results of this examination suggest that tetrapods are more closely related to lungfish than coelacanths.
In order to understand what is often called the water-to-land transition, however, the coelacanth is still a critical organism to study. Although lungfish may be more closely related to land animals, its genome remains unreadable. The lungfish genome — at 100 billion "letters" – is simply too long and unwieldy for sequencing, assembly or analysis. The more modest-sized genome of the coelacanth, which is close in size to our own, yields valuable clues about the genetic changes that may have allowed tetrapods to flourish on land.
The team made several unusual discoveries when looking at what genes were lost when vertebrates came on land, as well as what regulatory elements — parts of the genome that govern where, when, and to what degree genes are active — were gained. Among these changes are sense of smell, immunity, evolutionary development and the urea cycle.
- Many regulatory changes have influenced the genes involved in smell perception and the detection of airborne odors. The team suggests that as animals moved from sea to land, a need arose for new means of detecting chemicals in the environment.
- A significant number of immune-related regulatory changes were found when the coelacanth genome was compared to those of land animals. These changes may be part of a response to new land-borne pathogens.
- The team found several key genetic regions that might have been "evolutionarily recruited" to form tetrapod innovations, including limbs, fingers and toes, and the mammalian placenta. One such region, HoxD, harbors a particular sequence that is shared across coelacanths and tetrapods, making it likely that this sequence was co-opted from the coelacanths to help form tetrapod hands and feet.
- Ammonia is excreted into the water by fish to get rid of nitrogen in their systems. Humans and other land animals, however, quickly convert ammonia into less toxic urea using the urea cycle. The team found that the most important gene involved in this cycle had been modified in tetrapods.
For researchers studying the evolution of tetrapods, the coelacanth genome may hold further clues. "This is just the beginning of many analyses on what the coelacanth can teach us about the emergence of land vertebrates, including humans, and, combined with modern empirical approaches, can lend insights into the mechanisms that have contributed to major evolutionary innovations," said Chris Amemiya, PhD., Director of Molecular Genetics at the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI). Amemiya is also Professor of Biology at the University of Washington.
For many reasons, sequencing the full coelacanth genome was a uniquely challenging exercise. Samples for research are nearly non-existent because the coelacanth is an endangered species, meaning that each sample obtained was precious. The researchers would have "one shot" at sequencing collected genetic material, according to Alföldi. This difficulty also seemed to knit the scientific community together. The LA Times reports that obtaining enough samples for genetic sequencing took decades; partially because they are "crazily endangered" and partially because sequencing technology wasn´t up to speed to decode the entire genome from the tiny samples the team had.
"The international nature of the work, its evolutionary value and history, and the fact that it was a technically challenging project really brought people together," said Lindblad-Toh. "We had representatives from every populated continent on earth working on this project."
Further study of the coelacanth's immunity, respiration, physiology, and more is needed to provide insights into how some vertebrates adapted to life on land, while others remained creatures of the sea. The research team is preparing several companion papers for publication in a special open access issue of the Journal of Experimental Zoology.
John Hutchinson, professor of evolutionary biomechanics from the Royal Veterinary College, told BBC News it was an interesting study.
"The lungfish-coelacanth question has gone back and forth over the years; the lungfish answer is not new, but this is a much better, bigger dataset so it does tip the balance a bit," he said. "They are missing some critical animals – it would be interesting to see what addition of salamander or more ray-finned fish would do to their analysis, but it might not change anything important."
There are other studies concerning the coelacanth, including one from the French organization Andromede Oceanology which is working with the Natural History Museum in Paris to attach acoustic tracking devices to the fish in order to study their behavior and capture 3D moving images of their fins as they swim.

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BBC's Graham Norton 'Furious' Over Irish Broadcaster's Payout to Anti-gay Catholic Group
Openly gay BBC presenter Graham Norton is reportedly "furious" about Irish broadcaster RTE's decision to pay a $116,000 settlement to anti-gay Catholic lobbying group, calling the decision "absolutely moronic." The settlement came after Catholic lobby group Iona Institute and two prominent Irish journalists threatened legal action after being described as homophobic and "horrible and mean about gays" during a program on the flagship Irish public broadcaster channel last month. BBC reports:
In his Hot Press cover interview Norton said he was disappointed that the journalists had decided to take legal action instead of examining why they might be accused of homophobia.
Although he said he has no desire to get married himself, Norton added: "I want to ask these people, 'Why are you so scared and intimidated by the idea of gay marriage?'" [...]
He added: "This tiny minority can yell all they want, but it's over. It's all done. The Iona Institute, and people like that, are like rats trapped in the corner of a barn. They know the jig is up. That's why they're screaming so loud."
However, he added that he was glad gay marriage opponents existed as "they drag everyone towards the centre".
"You hear their opinions and suddenly you're a little bit more tolerant - because you don't want to be them!"


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O.J. Leans Against Leaving Las Vegas
By Norm Clarke
O.J. Simpson has been enjoying Las Vegas so much, he'd like to make his home here.
That's not a punch line.
The NFL Hall of Famer has been telling locals that he's considering a move from Florida to Las Vegas.
One of my spies heard him say, "I've already told my kids, if it were my choice, I'd like to move to Las Vegas."
Simpson may not have any choice in the matter of residency if his current trial goes badly. He's charged with armed robbery and kidnapping. His defense attorneys could wrap up their case today.
It's been a tough week for magicians.
Flamingo headliner Nathan Burton underwent surgery for a herniated disc on Tuesday at St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson.
He'll miss six days before returning on Sunday.
"He woke up unable to walk," said his sister/assistant Emily Burton.
The comedy magician has been involved in heavy workouts lately, she said, adding, "It's the first time he's ever canceled a show."
Concern over "Believe," Criss Angel's highly anticipated collaboration with Cirque du Soleil at Luxor, continued to swirl on Tuesday, a day after a critical story by R-J writer Doug Elfman based on fan reaction.
Las Vegas-based Richard Abowitz, who writes an entertainment blog for the Los Angeles Times, offered some analytical advice.
After watching Friday's sneak preview, Abowitz wrote that the show has "serious challenges," among them the need for Angel to deliver more personality.
While acknowledging that several illusions will be added, Abowitz wrote, "Right now, 'Believe' loses energy the moment Angel enters the mystery world of Cirque and becomes, for the most part, a spectator," instead of a compelling personality.
With another month of previews remaining, there's time for Cirque and Angel to turn it around, Abowitz said, but Angel "needs to equal his media claims that this show comes from his personality, because right now his personality is the most glaringly missing element."
New York magician David Blaine took his lumps for his bungled "Dive of Death" ABC special in Central Park.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who rarely has a bad word for anyone, dissed Blaine.
"I'm sick of him," said Cooper. "I don't get the deal. I'm sorry. They're not magic tricks."
A follow-up on that recent sighting of Michael Jackson and his three children, dining at Benihana at the Las Vegas Hilton. A spy who was walking past the private room glanced over and saw Jackson singing softly to his kids. …
Food Network star Giada De Laurentiis is signing her new cookbook, "Giada's Kitchen: New Italian Favorites," from 5-7 p.m. Oct. 17 at Sur La Table, inside the Miracle Mile shops at Planet Hollywood Resort. A ticket is necessary to gain access to the cookbook signing and meet and greet. Fans must purchase a copy of the book at Sur La Table beginning Oct. 1 to get a ticket to the event.
"Don't look at it as a financial meltdown. Look at it as an opportunity for us all to live together at Oprah's house." – Jimmy Kimmel
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LEWISBURG — Holy Redeemer's Kelsey Willaims won a silver medal in diving at the Class 2A PIAA State Swimming and Diving Championships at Bucknell University today.
Willaims finished with 399.35 points, finishing just 7.35 points behind McKenzie Stelter, who won the gold.
Williams is the first diving medalist in the history of Holy Redeemer.
Other local swimmers who have already assured themselves of medals with their performances in preliminary action are Dallas' 200-yard freestyle relay team, Tunkhannock's Ben Spencer in the 200 IM, Dallas' Brian Stepniak in the 100 freestyle and Crestwood's Josh Grezch in the 100 butterfly.
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When the Romanian rustics in Taraf de Haidouks hit WOMAD in '91, gypsy bands were a relative novelty on the world music circuit. Fifteen years later, discs of almost uniformly high quality glut a growing but not insatiable niche market for Balkan artists, as innovators like the fonky Haidouk-lings in Mahala Rai Banda and the electronically modulated ululators of the Shukar Collective stretch their elastic heritage. Bolstered by Western interest (and cash), these upstarts play largely for outsiders, but with a palpable hope that their neighbors, maybe even the youngest and most Europop-besotted among them, will overhear.
Kal ("black" in Romani) is one such pop move, the brainchild of a suburban Belgrade Serb who claims to hate synths yet love Manu Chao. And the mild contradictions of Dragan Ristic's taste in modernity do occasionally hobble his band. His vocals overgloop the emotive syrup, and at moderate speeds, producer Mike Nielsen's found or fabricated beats seem intended to nod the heads of Western world-folk fans rather than loosen the hips of Balkan ravers. But "Dvojka" shifts adeptly between a drum 'n' bass-style breakbeat and a more standard gypsy upbeat, and the up-tempo stuff here generally achieves that same successfully unfussy fusion—throughout the Romani skank "Papuska" and the frisky two-step "Mozzarella," and in the all-too-rare instances when Miroljub Ivanovic's tuba handles bass duties.
There's no horn shortage on The Promise. Had Dixieland not needed Louis Armstrong's injection of arty individualism to evolve, it might have sounded something like the Boban Markovic Orkestar's slightly more trammeled, yet still vigorous, follow-up to 2004's Boban I Marko. Horns wend along distinct but complementary paths to intricately interlock, or they blast parallel but not quite identical courses, their sour harmonies alternately wobbly and crisp.
Respected Serbian bandleader Markovic's brass combo is markedly more traditional than Kal—whatever "traditional" means in a nomadic musical culture that has perpetually incorporated outside sources. And yet, Kal lacks as forward-thinking a musician as Boban's son Marko, the undisputed star here—whatever "star" means in a communal musical culture that considers a virtuoso simply the brashest voice in a brisk conversation. Whether tripping lightly along the flugelhorn like his dad, or pitching in on trumpet and kaval (an end-blown flute), the younger Markovic synthesizes past and present so effortlessly, his contemporaries might even hear how modern he sounds.
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London, Nov 1: Holly Madison, it seems, didn't took much time to get over Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner, for the busty blonde has reportedly fallen under the spell of 'mindfreak' Criss Angel.
Madison had earlier been spotted getting cosy with Angel, around the same time she broke up with Hefner.
Criss, the self-confessed 'mindfreak', has earlier been linked to Cameron Diaz and Britney Spears, reports BBC.
Last month, Hefner and Madison had announced their split, after which Holly decided to move out of the Playboy mansion.
One of the major reasons behind the break up was Holly''s constant desire to have children, which Hefner claimed was not possible.
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Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday the investigation into the crash and likely shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 has already been "seriously compromised."
"On Friday, the monitors and the people trying to get in there to secure the site were given 75 minutes. Yesterday, they were given three hours," Kerry said on "Fox News Sunday."
Kerry went on to describe "drunken separatist soldiers" taking bodies from the crash site and airline parts being removed from the area.
"Anything that has been removed compromises the investigation," Kerry said.
"We need full access" to the site, Kerry said. "This is a moment of truth for Russia."
The Kuala Lumpur-bound flight was apparently shot down over separatist-controlled Ukraine on Thursday.
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I have 4 kids and they have different age appropriate levels of toys, so I have everything ranging from my 3 year old's Little People and Trainset to my 8 and 10 year olds' legos and of course my girl has a ton of girly stuff... I couldn't even begin to guess. Definitely more than we need, I've been trying to pare down, now that the youngest is getting past the baby stage and we've given a ton of stuff to their cousins...
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Local execs seek relief of Agusan town's police force
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ROSARIO, Agusan del Sur—Local officials of this town want its entire police force sacked for sleeping on the job and failing to prevent burglars from stealing a total of P172,000 cash from several offices in the town hall, located just a few meters from the police station a week ago. It was the second town hall burglary since last month.
"They need to pack up and leave because we don't want this to happen again," said Vice Mayor Julie Chua as he expressed dismay over the police's failure to secure the seat of the local government from thieves.
On the night of Oct. 10, robbers broke into the offices of the municipal treasurer, the municipal social welfare and development officer and even the mayor's office, taking personal cash as well as the daily collection of taxes by breaking the locks on drawers and a safe.
In an emergency meeting, the local town council agreed to recommend to the higher police officials the immediate relief of Senior Inspector Elezer Pido and the entire 10-man police force for lack of confidence on the part of the local officials that the policemen could fight criminality in the town.
Pido declined comment pending a formal investigation.
Local officials said they were surprised that the police did not notice that the thieves had destroyed the vault in the mayor's office and the locks on the drawers in the other offices when, at that time, they were busy transferring their furniture and other stuff to the municipal training center. The police office was being moved as the old police station had been dismantled for the construction of a new one.
"How come they could not even hear that the robbers (breaking) the vault with a hammer?" said one official who asked not to be identified.
This was the second burglary in the town hall. Last month, a thief broke into the offices of the mayor and the municipal planning and development officer's and took away a laptop.
The suspect, who turned out to be a member of the local fire department, was arrested after the buyer of the stolen item reported it to the police.
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Sports institution has won 22,000 games, lost 340 in 80 years
Harlem Globetrotters Point Guard Anthony Blakes stood ready to meet the next fan while making the rounds at Driscoll's Children's Hospital last week. Waiting for an elevator, he casually performed trickery with one of the team's red, white and blue basketballs.
"It's really distracting when you're on the road and he's doing that," joked American Bank Center Marketing Coordinator Will Ellis.
Ellis accompanied Blakes as they made the rounds through Corpus Christi to promote the Harlem Globetrotters' local stop on their 2006 North American Tour. They perform tonight and Sunday at American Bank Center arena.
The games, just two of 228 the team will play in the tour, are pit stops in the organization's 80th season. It will take the team through such cities as San Francisco, Miami and New York, but Blakes said it's the other stops that often make his day.
"As a whole, I find smaller communities get more excited," he said. "They usually don't get these kind of opportunities."
The team's Corpus Christi stop is their first since last January, when they performed to a sold-out crowd of 8,500. Ellis said the games are a good opportunity to rally the community as well as for the American Bank Center to shine.
"They play many games a year," he said. "It's amazing that they would choose to do two shows here. It draws attention to our arena."
Being a Globetrotter at once demands physical prowess and an inclination toward being the center of attention. According to Blakes, a little comedic talent doesn't hurt either. He said being a Harlem Globetrotter is at once athletically fulfilling and a natural entertainer's dream job.
"We get the crowd involved," he said. "We make fun of each other. We pull people out on the court. When you're getting scouted, it's all about athleticism, (but) I noticed a majority of the guys on the team are the comedians of their families."
In their 80 years of existence, Blakes said the team has racked up the impressive record of more than 22,000 wins and around 340 losses. Their streak of charity work is also well-regarded, with them giving to such groups as Habitat for Humanity, the United Negro College Fund and the Salvation Army.
"We've broken down racial barriers. We've broken down political barriers," Blakes said. "It's a blessing to be a part of an organization that's been around for so long."
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"the reading assassin"
The writing of this book is a work of art. I loved the imagination so well intertwined with wisdom. The reading however was mechanically grave to the point hysteria. I felt that the reading was so grave and rageful that it presented the main character, Iris, as perpetual victim. Yet no victim will go to the trouble of writing a book, as Iris does, with the long shot hope of being heard by someone lost.
Though i love audio books i reccomend reading this one.
"Beautiful written descriptions"
The Blind Assassin is a beautifully written, interminably long and basically gloomy, frustrating history of a woman caught in a non-accommodating society. If you enjoy descriptions of antique society, women's clothing and buildings, you may enjoy most of the book - just not the plot.
"Worth the effort! Excellent book"
This is really the story of Iris Chase, as told when she looks back at her life from the viewpoint of an octogenarian. Born into a life of privilege in the early 1900's, Iris and her younger sister Laura watch as their lives take turns for the worse because of changing family fortune and circumstances beyond their control in that era. Laura dies tragically at 25 in what appears to be a bizarre accident. This novel is not linear, but the shifts in time make the story all the more suspenseful, in my opinion. The novel has a number of layers: Iris's narration, newsclippings, and a second, largely separate narration: the story of how two unnamed lovers meet secretly, make love, and debate plot and characterization for a pulpy science fiction novel. One does have to listen through extended passages of this rather trashy science fiction novel. The listener needn't really bother to make sense of the sci fi. (I'm not sure it does fully make sense!) What is of interest in this parallel story is what the lovers say to each other about their lives and about the novel they are collaborating to write. This is what is key to the novel as a whole. To be honest, I would have given this five stars, except that I personally found the sci-fi passages a little tedious to get through. However, the rest of the novel was so original and thoroughly engrossing that I still give the novel an unqualified recommendation.
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"One of my all time favorites!"
A deliciously bitchy yet strangely passive woman looks back on her glamorous life and the mistakes she's made. She reveals her secrets at a leisurely pace, thus the book is not for those who like their plots tightly packed. It became, for me, a mystery of character, where every page holds an observation or description that takes your breath away. A real writer's book. Don't be put off by the sci-fi elements, (which initially I was) they pay off beautifully as the author entices you into her web.
"Absolutely Beautiful"
This is an exquisitely written, exquisitely narrated book. The language is like fine brandy, the story heady and intricate. I have never read Atwood so this was a first for me and i could not be more impressed. This is no simple tale, it is a story within a story within a story, yet the narrator did a fine job of keeping all the stories distinct. I would highly recommend this to anyone wanting to be lulled into another world.
"Wonderful Audio"
First of all this is one of the best matches of author and narrator that I've heard.Of all the good things about this book pehaps the best is Atwood's ability to extract all the fine things out of the English language. This is equalled by Margot Dionne's ability to speak each syllable with such passion that she wring's every nuance of meaning from it. Listening to this audio was like being a fly on the wall watching the characters evolve.
The story here is one of romance, lust, intrigue, deception, heartbreak, and family tragedy that is framed in 100 years of real life history.
There is nothing new in any of the subplots. It is the weaving of each of these told and told individual stories into a masterpiece that will keep you listening.
It is like someone taking mundane "been there - done that" food items and combining them into several new recipies, adding a table presentaion and serving a feast full of dishes that taste new even though you've eaten them all before.
By allowing the story to span such a timeline, Atwood has plenty of room for the characters to evolve into 3D people that you come to know quite well.
About 2/3 of the way through you begin to realize the final secret that will be revealed at the end. As it slowly dawns on you, you begin to think back and realize that it should have hit you sooner if only you'd paid more attention to detail. Everything was there to support the truth. Like a master illusionist Atwood misdirected us because she didn't want us to see it until she was ready.
The integration of the sci-fi story was a great tool to add to certain character's development as well as to provide some insight into what the characters do when they were "off-camera".
Overall one of the greatest fictional works in many years.
"For The Love of Lanugage"
The story did not grab me, the language did. Not familiar with Margaret Atwood, I was swept away by her word choices, descriptions, perfect characterization. I found the plot hard to follow and did not feel the need to follow along in a print copy for clarity as with greater works (Crime & Punishment, Madame Bovary). The reading was sharp and done very well, but I did not finish it.
"The world's best-written unhappy story"
Gorgeous, captivating writing and an evocative troubling story. Not a love story but a woman's story. The protagonist is unsympathetic but each character is beautifully draw in depth. At times you will feel trapped at a bake sale with the most negative woman you've ever met; but at other times a few words, a sentence or a short paragraph will absolutely astonish you.
"Beautifully written and beautifully read"
Just finished listening to this book for the second time. I didn't have the problem others have reported regarding sound quality, perhaps it was the equipment they were using. Atwood's perspectives on life, where it has meaning and where perhaps we expect too much meaning, moved me the second time as much as the first. And Dionne's personification of the characters brought the story to life. One of the best audiobooks I've ever listened to, and I'm certain will listen to again.
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3 suspected NPA fighters arrested in Palawan—police
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan, Philippines – Three suspected members of the New People's Army (NPA) were arrested by elements of the Western Command and the Philippine National Police on Sunday morning in San Vicente, Palawan.
Senior Superintendent Atanacio Macalan, the PNP Palawan provincial director, told reporters that pursuit operations were ongoing around the area of Port Barton, San Vicente, and that several high-powered firearms had been recovered.
The government forces, Macalan explained, were in an operation to serve a warrant of arrest against a suspected NPA leader, a certain Dionesio Almonte, when they came upon a group of rebels.
Recovered from the three captives were eight shotguns, a baby armalite, two UZI rifles, a .50 caliber machine gun, detonating cords used on improvised bombs and two drums of chemicals, he said.
Macalan declined to name the captives pending investigation and would not say if Almonte was one of them.
Macalan said initial investigation showed the captured firearms included those taken by the rebels during previous raids it conducted in a commercial pearl farm in Taytay, Palawan, and at the local police headquarters of the PNP in Roxas town.
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Bankruptcy judge OKs Newton estate deal in Vegas
FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 12, 2010, file photo Wayne Newton's home is framed at the end of a tree-lined lane on a 52-acre estate in Las Vegas. Newton is moving out of this sprawling estate of 45 years. The crooner's family members and a spokesman confirmed Wednesday June 5, 2013, that the downsizing to another mansion involving Newton, family members and a menagerie of exotic animals is taking place this week. Property records show the move is to a $3 million mansion about a mile from Newton's beloved "Casa de Shenandoah."(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, file)
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The bankruptcy deal is done, Wayne Newton and his family are out, and the majority owner of Newton's former "Casa de Shenandoah" property said Friday he still wants to turn the southeast Las Vegas spread into a tourist attraction.
Whether the name of the crooner dubbed "Mr. Las Vegas" will be associated with the development remained a question mark.
Newton and his lawyers were absent when U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Bruce Markell signed off on a sealed agreement that leaves CSD LLC, headed by investors Lacy and Dorothy Harber, in charge of the 40-acre property several miles southeast of the Las Vegas Strip.
Newton, 71, his wife, Kathleen McCrone Newton, and their family and menagerie of exotic animals moved this month to a downsized nearby property with several homes on about 20 acres.
The Newtons were in Louisiana on Friday, according to a family member, where Newton was due to perform at the Cypress Bayou Casino on Clarenton. They didn't immediately respond to messages.
Their lawyer, J. Stephen Peek, cited the confidentiality of the negotiated settlement and declined to comment.
Outside the courtroom, Lacy Harber and Grant Lyon, the restructuring agent in the estate bankruptcy, offered sometimes cryptic comments to reporters' questions about the deal. They said they were constrained by the confidentiality agreement.
The two men wouldn't say whether the Newton family was forced to move from the home Newton bought in 1968 and spent years filling with art, animals, artifacts and mementoes.
They also wouldn't say whether the Newtons still had an ownership share in CSD LLC.
Going into the settlement, which was submitted to the judge in May, the Harbers owned 70 percent of CSD LLC. Wayne and Kathleen Newton owned 20 percent. CSD Management LLC, made up of museum project manager Steven Kennedy and his partner, Geneva Clark, had a 10 percent stake.
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"Getting what you pay for" is not always the rule. We paid a fair price for our Endeavour 32 because it was in great shape, and even after living aboard for 2 years have only needed to spend 10% on upgrades & maintenance. Working at a boat yard in Annapolis I saw boats that seemed in the same shape selling for twice the price or if they were around the price we paid needed lots of work. The last boat I worked on was an older Morgan 38 that sold for $25k and before the boat was sea worthy the owner spent atleast another $15k + . An Endeavour 33 that was for sale there was listed for twice what we paid and still didn't seem to be in as good shape. I think you might find much better deals from private sellers then a broker if your looking for a buyers market.
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We'll be looking at the top five players in Padre history at each position. The first rule: we will only consider the players' time with the Padres, so Mike Piazza doesn't count because he was only here for 1 year. I have set a completely arbitrary minimum of 200 games with the Padres. The other rule: players will be considered for their primary position; so Gene Tenace is a catcher and not a first baseman. First, we looked at catcher where Terry Kennedy barely beat out Benito Santiago for top spot. Today, we move from behind the dish to behind the first base bag. Players who just missed the cut: Willie McCovey: '74 – '76 (321 games – .242/.360/.454) Yes he was past his prime. Yes he is an icon with an in-division rival (he was not unique in this regard). But there's no arguing that the old man had 2 1/2 nice seasons with the Friars, hitting 52 home runs before moving on to Oakland. Jack Clark: '89 – '90 (257 games – .252/.423/.490) I wish I could forget about Jack the Ripp
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HILLSVILLE — Law enforcement officials don't just threaten to throw people acting illegally or suspiciously in prison. Prosecutors also go after the contents of their wallets or garages.
Carroll County prosecutors have implemented several such civil forfeiture proceedings in a variety of cases where suspected proceeds from drug dealing or other illegal activity — in the form of large amounts of loose cash or property — have been found.
And on some occasions, the defendants involved in the seizures haven't even been charged with a drug-related crime.
FANCY GAP — Two early Saturday fires that happened at almost the same time — and just a few miles apart — in the Fancy Gap area have raised alarm bells in the minds of Carroll investigators and emergency services personnel.
The Hillsville Fire Department responded to a structure fire on Birch Tree Road at 1:09 a.m. Saturday, where they found a barn with about 200 round bales of hay rapidly burning, according to information from Chief Mike Musser and photographer David Young.
HILLSVILLE — Competitiveness in the construction markets, historically low interest rates and federal Recovery Act initiatives could save Carroll County millions — even tens of millions — if the school board moves ahead now with its school improvement plans.
Carroll County Public Schools has two scenarios for completing the countywide facility improvement program:
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HILLSVILLE -- Generally speaking, losing just two kids off a team that finished 23-1 a year ago would translate in to some pretty high hopes for the coming season.
An incredibly busy week had no ill affect on the defending Group A state golf champions as Galax won two tournaments and opened district play with a win in action last week.
The guys wearing the Virginia Tech colors of Chicago maroon and burnt orange have pretty high hopes for the 2009 football season.
HILLSVILLE -- Maybe there's something to be said for quitting while you're ahead. Carroll County had a downer of a finish to its first scrimmage of the year, but it didn't lessen the strides made on the day as a whole in the eyes of Cavalier head coach Tom Hale. "Up to the last two possessions I felt like we had a very solid scrimmage," said Hale after his
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The first team to represent Carroll County in a Dixie World Series in more than 20 years, Carroll County was eliminated after suffering losses Saturday and Sunday at G.W. Long High School, falling to Collierville, Tenn., 9-1 and then Duplin County, N.C. 11-1.
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If non-humans are not speaking English then why are their mouths forming English words? I mean early on in DS9 Kira and the Bajoran Militia would know only Bajora and a bit of Cardassian. So the UTs would translate the Bajora to Federation Standard, but the mouths of the Bajorans would be speaking Bajora and not FS.
Also acoustically you would hear Bajora being spoken from the Bajorans and FS coming from the UT. That could get distracting pretty quick...
But that's just the magic of UT's. The only time I remember a translator not entirely blocking out the original spoken words is the courtroom scene in TUC, which is 23rd century, and Klingon tech as well. Even on Voyager, where we can be guaranteed that Federation standard is entirely unknown, the officers have routine face to face meetings with entirely unknown aliens via the UTs without any distracting double-language acoustics...
I don't think that the UT would be as passive of a technology as is presented for dramatic purposes. Inidividual UTs probably interface with the available technology around them to provide noise cancellation and acoustic projection/lensing where it's necessary. The user likely has the option of selecting how they are heard, perhaps preventing some language from being continuously translated or to provide an amount of privacy. Indeed, the user can probably select the volume at which they are heard, allowing them to speak more quietly than normal and not contributing to the overall acoustic pollution.
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It ocurred to me what's missing in my tennis. Ten+ years ago I used to grind against a wall, hitting on one bounce and challenging myself to hit more and more balls before I would miss. This gave me quick feet and reaction time. Unfortunately, I can't find a decent wall to hit against anywhere near my house.
This goes back to the lack of a tennis culture in Boston. I've received cursory comments at times when I've used a ball machine at a club, or hit against a wall, or even practiced my serve. People around here see tennis as a social activity rather than a sport. Even within the tennis community it's often considered a 'social sport'. It's pretty weak. Gives me a mind to pull up stakes and move to FL or CA. I might just do that if my family didn't need me here.
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I basically agree with Avles statements re strings. I've been using a 105sq.in. racquet (Babolat Y105) with syn gut strings at 54 lbs, and it's easy to hit long with that setup. I had to learn to be much less lazy in my stroking in order to keep the ball in. But now I think I'm ready to move to a smaller head racquet, say 95, strung a little tighter -- not going with poly yet though. I don't think poly is necessary at sub 4.0 levels.
Then again, if you're getting good results due to the poly, then it's hard to argue against that.
Come to think of it, I experimented with a friend's poly-strung Babolat (Pure Drive I think it was) racquet and it did seem to be quite easy to keep the ball in on high-bouncing balls to both fh and bh ... balls that I tend to hit out with my racquet-string setup unless I'm super careful to hit it just right. With the poly setup there seemed to be much more margin for error. It felt a LOT different than my setup ... in a good way.
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The son of the acting director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal said claims being made about his father are "categorically false" and that L. Patrick Gray does not belong on the long list of Watergate criminals and miscreants from the Nixon White House.
Ed Gray said he would be contacting high-profile figures from the Watergate era whom he felt had defamed his father. The comments were made during television interviews following the May 31 revelation by his father's former assistant, W. Mark Felt, that he was "Deep Throat," the anonymous source for The Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal.
Gray specifically singled out a few offending quotes, including one from reporter Carl Bernstein, who said on CNN that Felt "was disappointed that the FBI that he loved and revered was being misused as part of a criminal conspiracy by J. Edgar Hoover's successor, Patrick Gray III."
Another was by Terry Lenzner, former chief investigator for the Senate Watergate Committee, who told ABC News' "Nightline" that Felt's "motive was that he thought that Gray was cooperating with the cover-up. And Gray, himself, took investigative files out of the bureau, involving the Watergate investigation, and threw them in the Potomac River."
Former Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, who was also singled out by Ed Gray for telling ABC News' "Nightline" that Patrick Gray threw documents into the Potomac, was eager to correct the record. "I made a mistake about him throwing things into the river," Bradlee said. "He did burn two envelopes, I'm told, but he did not throw documents into the river, though God knows I've heard the story over the years."
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The Mountains Restoration Trust is helping connect part of Calabasas' Cold Creek High Trail using a $500,000 award from the 2011 Competitive Natural Land for Trails Grant Program.
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The trust preserves, protects and enhances the natural resources of the Santa Monica Mountains through land acquisition and conservation easements and has been working on the Cold Creek High project since 1984. The preservation and restoration of the 1.63-mile trail has been an objective that has come "in bits and pieces," according to Jo Kitz, the trust's associate director.
"There are still segments that are missing from it," Kitz said. "Eventually, people would be able to take a 17-mile walk from north of the freeway on National Park Service land and join the Backbone Trail in Malibu Creek State Park. It's a very important link."
Debbie Bruschaber, executive director of the trust, said the plan protects a core area of the Santa Monica Mountains between Topanga State Park and Malibu Creek State Park. The land goes from the top of the ridge line of Saddle Peak Road to Mulholland Highway, and Stunt Road cuts through the middle of it.
"It's a real beautiful piece of property. It's the critical connector between the two major state park-protected areas for wildlife corridors. Plus, Cold Creek has a perennial stream of cool water that comes out of the mountains. That means it flows year-round. It's some of the most pristine waters in the Santa Monica Mountains," Bruschaber said.
Kitz said they know the wildlife corridor is used because mountain lions have been seen.
"They're happy to have more than just the Backbone Trail for a route," Kitz said.
The trust is launching a campaign to raise the last $100,000 needed to complete the entire project, Bruschaber said. The nonprofit is holding a Cold Creek High Trail-a-thon. Money raised from the campaign will be used for restoration, construction of bridges and trail signs, and trail maintenance.
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01. Can I flash my MSI FX 5900XT with 5900U/5950U BIOS. I heard that flashing with 5900/5950 bios causes temperature drop. Is it true??
No, I don't believe a 5950u bios will do much for your card ! If however you want to try just for the hell of it, try using one of my underclocked 5950u bios's available either from Mavke wesite or Dr.Infern0 post at Guru3d forum ? You could also try any 5900u bios as your card runs fine at the stock 450/850 of that card, But I also don't think you will get much improvement with your MSI5900XT card ? But of course, you could prove me wrong ? Unfortunately I personally cant say with any authority if a 5900u or 5950u bios can work well with XT cards as I don't have one ? Most of my knowledge in this area is based on feedback I have had from others !
for temps; flashing with a 5900u bios wont help with any temp issues. However, because of a number of parameter changes, flashing with a 5950u bios can improve temp control ! But unfortunately because of the slow memory on your card and low core volts, you would be unlikely to overclock high enough to achieve any real performance benefits ! But if all you want is better/cooler operation then a 5950u bios may be your answer ? Using either a ASUS 5900u or 5950u bios will help with core cooling as both run the fan full speed all the time ? Mind you they also run 3D all the time as well !
02. My 9800P memory (Samsung GC2A, probably 2.8ns) runs at stock (680MHz) is hotter than FX memory (Hynix 2.5ns) @ 850MHz. So, should I feel safe about FX memory (No ramsink)?
I think I have replied to this before; What concerned me before was that you had no ramsinks and no means of measuring actual memory temp ? Your memory chips will likely run fine at 850MHz, but will, as you have found, run very hot ? And will get even hotter as your case and/or environment also gets warmer ? In this situation I would, barring my ability to fit ramsinks, run my memory lower ? However I would probably make a judgement based on temps at 800, 810, 820, 830, 840 ? Temp issue my be exponential rather than linear, so maybe a small reduction in speed may give a large reduction in temp ? test and see ?
03. By changing latency from 43/03 to 40 means higher CAS or lower CAS?? Maybe higher as it causes higher overclocking.
the "03" is very low CAS if you want to call it that ! And "40" is lower than "43". But it doesn't quite work that way in your bios ! And it depends whether we are talking about a XT type or higher card.
There are many timing parameters in a bios, however at the moment we are only suggesting the change to one area ! The "03" value is standard for the slow memory of a XT. And was chosen to improve performance at lower memory clocking speeds ! However, I believe, if anyone is foolish enough to try, that the "03" value could lockup a card using a 5900nu, 5900u or 5950u bios ? I would certainly never recommend it !
For your XT card and bios, you could try many diff values ranging from "03" to "43" ? Somewhere between these is probably a "sweet spot" for your card, which will give the best possible memory performance ? And depending on what "ns" rating of memory, will depend on where the sweet spot is ? Having said all this, it may also be that many of the intermediate values cause artifacts or worse simply because of other interactive timings in the bios ? All my trials were with my 5900nu card and I know there was little latitude with changes before problems occurred ?
04. Is it too risky to remove the heatspreader from core?? FX is now running @ 450/850. It is rock stable @ 485MHz also. I don't want to overclock more but I think without heatspreader, FX will run cooler.
I presume by heatspreader you mean the little cap over the core and not the core heatsinking ?
I do believe some people have removed the heatspreader to make better contact with the GPU, but it is risky ? Since I've never done it myself, I don't have details of the actual risk/damage likely from trying ? But also remember the heatspreader is primarily there to protect the GPU die from undue pressure, knocks, bumps or force, so you would have to be extremely careful if you did decide to remove it ?
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Bangalore: In the wake of rain havoc in low-lying areas of Bangalore city, the Congress on Friday demanded that the Government come out with a White Paper on the funds spent on repairing storm water drains in the city for the last two years.
Addressing presspersons here, Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council V.S. Ugrappa urged the Government to constitute a task force for monitoring work on storm water drains to ensure implementation of quality works on time. He appealed to the Government to take up relief measures on a war-footing in the affected areas.
Heavy rain threw life out of gear in low-lying areas such as Arafatnagar, Bapujinagar, Shamanna Garden, Vijayanandnagar and Gangondanahalli.
People residing in low-lying areas lost foodgrains, clothes, books, and valuables. Mr. Ugrappa urged Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to pay compensation of Rs. 1 lakh each to the affected families.
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