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WASHINGTON - Standing in a room full of lined faces, Alan Yellowitz held up an orange drum shaped like a wineglass. "This one's called a djembe," he said. "It's from Ghana."
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Iowa was unreal in the Wrestle Backs: 3,4,dnp,3,3,5. Most avenged prior losses as well. Those kind of performances will pay off more at NCAA's. It'll be very interesting to see what the brackets look like.
Congrats to the lions. In spite of mental weakness, terrible coaching, and alcoholism you were able to win the big 10s.
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Again, if the Coach of the Year award controlled for success and level of talent/recruiting to 100% evaluate one's ability to get the most out of their athletes then smaller programs like Borrelli's CMU would win it many of those years, not only the major programs that are winning NCAA team trophies. Being a great coach requires all of the above, so it makes sense that they award it to the coach who won Big Ten's so that it's not subjective.
I agree with you. I was just stating that for a coach to be successful he must be good at both coaching and recruiting. Coaching someone in and of its self has nothing to do with recruiting but is still a necessity. That being said beating Iowa by one point at big tens does not prove that they are superior in either of those things. PSU deservedly won the big ten title but winning by one point doesn't make Cael a clear cut winner of that award. I have no problem with him winning the award but I think the job Brands has done from the start of the season to now is superior to what Cael has done.


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"Our Philippine Embassy in Madrid, who has jurisdiction over the area, is already aware of the incident and of the news reports about the incident but they would like to verify these reports with the local authorities in Canary Islands," Raul Hernandez, Assistant Secretary and DFA spokesperson Raul Hernandez told reporters in a briefing Monday.
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Milligan is still learning, but his tenor resonance and barking delivery invite comparisons with Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, and when he's onstage, you can't take your eyes off him. He's six feet two and has thick shoulders, long arms, and large hands. He bounces on the heels of his patent-leather brogans, makes a tent of his fingertips, admires instrumental bridges with the otherworldly head sway of Stevie Wonder, and draws back his lips over an expanse of grin and gums worthy of Louis Armstrong. Then he jumps through the guitar play at the mike, flaps his palm against his chest, flings out an arm, and inhales the room. Of course, Milligan's appearance cuts both ways. Although he was a performer at last year's gala in Austin celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Texas Film Commission, his entry was blocked by a security guard who took one look at him and decided he was a derelict or a street crazy. "On tour," Milligan relates cheerfully, "people are always saying, 'Are you a, uh, roadie for this band?' 'That's right. You got it! Exactly.'"
Though live performance is clearly what drives him, Milligan has acquitted himself well in the recording studio. Storyville's A Piece of Your Soul (Atlantic/Code Blue), which was released last summer, has sold 50,000 copies to date, and the debut single, a rousing roots rocker called "Good Day for the Blues," has received strong radio airplay for half a year. Milligan insists that such success reflects on the band, not him, for as a musician, he considers himself as green as horse apples. Certainly he has reason to be awed by the talent around him. Drummer Chris Layton and bass player Tommy Shannon were the legendary rhythm section of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Guitarists David Grissom and David Holt have each had star turns as Joe Ely protégés; Grissom has also played with John Mellencamp and the Allman Brothers, Holt with the Mavericks and Carlene Carter. The players' résumés read like a short course in rock and roll history, and to some observers they are a connoisseur's guitar band—but that mix of artists would never have gotten together if not for the promise of a relatively inexperienced but spellbinding lead singer.
Milligan grew up in Elgin and Lubbock in a family of six who followed the cotton harvest from Central Texas to the south plains. "When I was a baby," he recalls, "my mother would drag me along on a cotton sack while they picked. I'd get really sunburned." Schools in Elgin were segregated when he first enrolled: "I came up in the civil rights era with nice pink skin and blond hair. In an all-black school I stuck out like a sore thumb, which made me extremely shy." The Milligans were dirt poor; during summers in West Texas, they lived in whatever housing the farmers would provide. By the time Malford was old enough to participate in the harvests, they were mechanized—he hoed weeds around the cotton and his dad worked the machines. "I remember the look of all that flatness, nothing but cotton and sky," he says. "In a way, I kind of miss it." Music was a fixture of his upbringing but never occurred to him as a calling. "One time, my mother had the TV on and called us over. 'Come in here. Look at this man wearing makeup.' It was Little Richard, and he was just killing them. Beauty mole, pencil-thin mustache—I had never seen anything like it. But then, when I was growing up, you didn't see many black people on TV. When Bill Cosby got to be on every week on I Spy—it's hard to imagine now what a big deal that was. Later I liked to watch James Brown, but I was never really attracted to blues. I always thought it was old music, because my father listened to it."
If Milligan had grown up following the cotton harvest a generation earlier, he would have had little chance to finish high school, much less go to college. The migrant life and spring-to-autumn growing seasons made a dropout of his father in the third grade. But farming had changed in more ways than mechanization, and a family could time the moves so that children stayed in school. Milligan graduated from Elgin High in 1978 and took classes at Texas Tech University and, eventually, the University of Texas at Austin. The next decade found him working the night shift at an Austin grocery store in diffident pursuit of a sociology degree. "I was falling asleep in the first row," he says. "Professors hated me."
During his early days in Austin, Milligan prowled a favorite record store and listened to rock and roll of the Bad Company and King Crimson vein, but the city's flourishing music scene was alien to him. On a whim, he joined a Buddhist society; at his first meeting he was mortified when the leader told him to take off his shoes—his socks were riddled with holes. But it was in the midst of the Buddhists, while voicing meditative chants, that he began to discover his talent. A voice teacher who belonged to the group heard


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When it comes to colorful carnival rides, overpriced glitter hats, and territorial psychics, the Santa Monica Pier delivers an eclectic array of options. With memories of that cool pier from Rocket Power in mind, Marissa and I dressed up in our loudest prints and became boardwalk tourists for the day. Since we're huge fans of wearable knickknacks, we headed to the souvenir shops in search of the oddest and most out-there finds. When we stumbled upon a body shirt with built-in belly button ring, we knew we had struck gold. From then on, Marissa and I accessorized ourselves with every object in sight (a giant pink dinosaur that we didn't actually win, a mini key chain flask filled with blue ICEE, and piles of friendship bracelets, just to name a few), which served as indelible memories from our seriously-fun-but-hot-as-fuck day. —Chris Rellas
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"People who perpetually hunt for witches to burn inevitably find them..." as the saying goes.
Arn't you the same chap who created a thread a while back comparing the fictional Empire from Star Wars with the not at all fictional Third Reich and thus anyone who likes said Empire being a sympathiser with said non-fictional regime?
Pot, Kettle, Black anyone?
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Kwokman Productions, partnering with Legend Fighting Championship, has begun producing live Mixed Martial Arts events throughout Australasia. Drawing upon vast knowledge and experience in sports entertainment television, Kwokman Productions produced this first event from Kowloon, Hong Kong on June 24, 2010 in full High Definition.
The main event featured winner Adrian Pang of Australia taking home the first LFC Welterweight Championship Belt by defeating Yu Woo Sung of South Korea. The rich fighting history and culture of host country, Hong Kong, provided a perfect backdrop to host the 18 top ranked fighters from the Australasia region.
William Pfeiffer, CEO of Tiger Gate Entertainment, whose Asian action TV channel, KIX, will air the Legend Fighting Championships, said, "The team at Kwokman has raised the bar for the production values of fight competitions in Asia. Kwokman has brought the glossy look and fast-paced excitement of American television to the Hong Kong-based Legend Fighting Championship."
VP of Production for Kwokman Productions, Jim Birch commented, "We worked to bring together a production team that was able to capture the excitement of each fight, while putting together a look and feel that defines the setting of being in Hong Kong."
The next Legend Fighting Championship is scheduled for September 24, 2010 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and will air the following week throughout Asia.
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Kwokman Productions is a sports and entertainment production company with an innovative, global vision. Headquartered just outside of Los Angeles, California, Kwokman is involved in all stages of production to create and deliver campaigns that drive results. Kwokman has experienced continued growth domestically and internationally in an expanding client base and increasingly diverse project load since its founding in 2001. Recent successes include multiple accolades for its involvement with Monday Night Football, being awarded bids for various government campaigns and integrating its work with various marketing campaigns for clients worldwide. For more information visit: www.kwokmanproductions.com.
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Boston Bruins backup goaltender Tuukka Rask has his eye on returning from injury next week.
"I'd like to get in a game before season is over," Rask told CSNNE.com. "But to be ready for playoffs is the goal."
Rask, 22, has been sidelined since March 3 with a lower abdomen/groin strain that was suffered in the Bruins' 3-2 loss to the New York Islanders.
The injury was initially expected to keep Rask out of action for four-to-six weeks. The Bruins added veteran netminder Marty Turco to take Rask's place as Tim Thomas' backup.
Rask has played in 23 games during the 2011-12 season, compiling a 11-8-3 record, while holding a 2.05 goals against average and notching three shutouts
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Based on 1,031 survey interviews and more than 500 hours of in-depth unstructured interviewing, on both sides of the border, this volume is the first fieldwork-based study of how the U.S. economic crisis that erupted in 2007 has affected flows of Mexican migrants to and from the United States. Focusing on Tunkás, a migrant-sending community in rural Yucatán that they first studied in 2006, and its satellite communities in southern California, the researchers find that it is the combination of poor job prospects in the United States with higher costs of migration (mainly, people-smugglers' fees) that has discouraged new migration in recent years, among both legal and unauthorized migrants. They also find that neither the economic crisis nor workplace raids and other forms of interior enforcement are inducing large numbers of migrants already in the United States to go home. The researchers document the strategies that have been developed by migrants and their dependents in Mexico to cope with the economic crisis, how migrants navigate the contracting U.S. labor market, and how the economic crisis is affecting health, education, and community participation on both sides of the border. A ground-breaking chapter shows how a "youth culture of migration" develops in a migrant-sending community. This volume is the fifth in a series based on the research of the Mexican Migration Field Research and Training Program at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego.
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On September 24, U.S. District Court Judge Jesse Furman largely denied a bank's motion to dismiss a complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) in which the government alleges that the bank falsely certified loans under the FHA's Direct Endorsement Lender Program in violation of the False Claims Act (FCA) and the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (FIRREA). U.S. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., No. 12-7527, 2013 WL 5312564 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 24, 2013). Addressing four primary arguments raised by the bank, the court held that the government sufficiently pleaded (i) that the bank falsely certified compliance with FHA regulations upon which payment was conditioned, (ii) that the bank fraudulently induced the government to insure loans it otherwise would not have, and (iii) that this alleged misconduct caused the FHA to pay insurance claims it otherwise would not have. It also held that the government's claims were pleaded with sufficient particularity. Citing two recent decisions from other Southern District of New York courts, the court held that FIRREA allows the government to pursue claims against an institution for engaging in alleged fraud that "affects" itself. Further, relying in part on a recent holding by the Fourth Circuit, the court held that the government's claims were timely because they were tolled by the Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act. Finally, relying on an order issued earlier this year by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the court rejected the bank's argument that the release it executed as part of the National Mortgage Servicing Settlement specifically released liability arising under the FCA and FIRREA for the government's claims. The court dismissed as untimely certain of the government's common law and quasi-contract claims, but preserved the government's breach of fiduciary duty claim, reasoning that whether such a duty existed is a question of fact.
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California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) directed the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to adopt regulations that would reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) to 1990 levels by the year 2020. AB 32 authorized CARB to adopt regulations that use "market-based compliance mechanisms," among other means, to achieve that goal. Accordingly, on December 17, 2010, CARB adopted the Cap-and-Trade Program (Program) aimed at reducing the GHG emissions of electricity providers, large industrial sources, carbon dioxide suppliers, and fuel suppliers and distributors. The landmark Program will take effect on January 1, 2012, and promises to dramatically change "business as usual" in California.
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For example, Paul McCarthy, 60, is a kind of dirty-old-man, raving-lunatic warlock whose autoerotic, sadomasochistic crackhead stories are replete with bodily fluids, babbling nincompoop characters drawn from politics and fairy tales, red-nosed reindeers mounting elves, and demented Santas defecating chocolate into the mouths of female helpers. McCarthy is Bruce Nauman, Egon Schiele, George Grosz, Ed Kienholz, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Walt Disney rolled into one. He starts messy and stays that way. His stories have no morals; his performances barely any structure. He is noxious but strangely sweet.
By comparison, Jason Rhoades, 40, who also has a potty mouth and a knack for shock tactics, is far more organized and formal. Rhoades groups things together, creates categories, and weaves subplots that may be semi-psychotic but are decipherable and sometimes revelatory. Last season at David Zwirner his Lego reconstruction of the Kaaba surrounded by numerous euphemisms for female genitalia spelled out in neon was an alarming riot of unmitigated gall. Rhoades is much more processed than McCarthy and pushes the sculptural envelope as much as any artisteven when he's lousy.
Sarah Sze, 36, and Phoebe Washburn, 32, "nurture" their materials more. Wholes are created and perfected, then perfected yet again. Sze is a precisionist who transforms space and creates miniature worlds within worlds. She has the touch of a spider and the mind of a saboteur, and is occasionally as deadly as both. Washburn is a combination termite-beaver-magpie; she's a builder who accumulates, creating, almost excreting anomalous architectures and bizarre artifices. Like Sze, she is a marauding organism, someone who doesn't just disrupt space but who inhabits and gestates within it, sometimes until an entirely new organism appears.
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With budget cuts looming, officials struggle to make case to maintain large Army
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Group hopes to boost interest in computer sciences among black girls in Memphis
Learning what Daddy did as a software architect wasn't on the top of their things to do list in December. So when their parents signed them up for a computer workshop for black girls in Atlanta, the two sisters grudgingly went along.
Their resistance quickly changed. "It turned out to be really cool," admitted 11-year-old Elechi Egwuekwe of Memphis.
Her sister, Sobenna Egwuekwe, 8, agreed: "Once we were there, it was fun."
WhenFeb. 16, 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Where:Rhodes College.
Details: The workshop targets girls of color ages 7 to 17. Space available for 60 participants. Register at bgcmemphis.eventbrite.com. Cost is $25 or $40 with a Black Girls Code T-shirt. Volunteers can sign-up at blackgirlscode.com/volunteer-signup.html.
"I liked actually building the app," Elechi added. The computer application the two built allows them to add booing, applause or the sound of an explosion to downloaded photos or videos.
When the Egwuekwe family attended the workshop, the girls' mother, Peabody Elementary teacher Pamela Egwuekwe said, "We saw brown girls from all walks of life. They were beautiful to see. They weren't scared of technology. They were really into it."
Black Girls Code is holding its first Memphis workshop on building a Web page Feb. 16 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at Rhodes College. The workshop can hold up to 60 participants. It is aimed at girls of color from ages 7 to 17. Girls or their parents can register at bgcmemphis.eventbrite.com. The cost is $25 or $40 with a Black Girls Code T-shirt. Volunteers can sign-up at blackgirlscode.com/volunteer-signup.html.
The organization's founder and Memphis native Kimberly Bryant will be at the February workshop. Since she started her nonprofit organization in 2011 in the San Francisco Bay Area, it has grown to seven volunteer-led chapters. Memphis will be joining the ranks of Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York and even Johannesburg, South Africa.
Bryant, a graduate of Memphis Central High and Vanderbilt University, is a technical project manager of Life Technologies, a global life sciences company.
"I want to reach back and help the next generation to flourish and thrive," Bryant said in an email. She added that she is looking forward to seeing her group "help fuel an innovation renaissance in my hometown."
"We hope to have later workshops on mobile app development and game development," workshop organizer Meka Egwuekwe, a software architect for Lokion Interactive. The goal is to attract more minority girls to computer science.
"To me, it is just basic math. If you can move the needle of African-American females, the effect on our city, economically, from a business and a quality of life perspective is immeasurable," Egwuekwe said.
The effort to attract girls and minorities to computer science fields is nationwide. Carnegie Mellon University discovered in tracking its students in 2003 that there were more men named "Dave" taking computer science classes than all the female computer science students combined. They coined the term, "Dave-to-girl ratio" to refer to general inequity in computer science and worked to improve their numbers.
Others have reported similar trends. The National Center for Women and Technology say women represent 15 percent of computer science degrees. Black women represent 3 to 5 percent.
In the last 10 years, the National Science Foundation reported that the proportion of science and engineering bachelor's degrees awarded to women has failed to grow measurably and has declined in computer sciences, mathematics and engineering.
While both sisters agree that more African-American girls should get involve with computer sciences, it is not something they aspire to do. "I actually want to be a pediatrician," Elechi said. "But I like working in computers."
"I'm thinking of being an artist," Sobenna said, "But I'm not really sure."
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MAY 25, 2007--Common misconceptions of history bring to mind parched mummies, dank archives, and long-winded lectures about dates and events repeated since elementary school.
UW-River Falls history professor Roark Atkinson used to have this view of history himself and he's set out to change that perception.
"I strongly disliked history in high school, since we had to memorize so many meaningless dates and facts," Atkinson said. "It wasn't until college--when I had a chance to do research myself--that I became aware that much of the work historians do is very creative. It's this creativity that makes history one of the most exciting fields there is. I think it's one of the ironies of history: people expect it to be about stuff we already know, but it's also about re-discovery, and sometimes learning something entirely new about the past that places our own lives in a new context."
Atkinson is excited to share his perspective on history with others and will employ his methods of "re-discovery" researching in New York City as a result of receiving the highly competitive Bernard and Irene Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship is funded by private philanthropists, and is hosted and cosponsored by the New York Historical Society and the New School for Social Research.
"I had to pinch myself when I heard the news," Atkinson said. "It's a very great honor."
The Bernard and Irene Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellowship is designed to help young scholars get their first books published so that their work can be received by a larger audience--an important goal of the academic profession.
Atkinson's forthcoming book, "Invisible Plantations: Religious Violence, Occult Healing, and Witchcraft in the Scottish Atlantic World, 1590-1820," will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2008. The book explores religious beliefs and violence amongst Scots and Scots-Irish settlers in the American South.
The road to creating a book is long, expensive and time-consuming yet exciting, says Atkinson. "More than half the documents I rummage through are unusable," Atkinson said. "I live to discover those few documents that shed new light on the past--to a historian it's like panning for gold!"
Atkinson said persistence is key in creating a historical book of this magnitude and finding the funding to do so. "In order to pay for this project, I applied to hundreds of fellowships and grants. For every grant I received, I probably got turned down by 20 or 30 others. Persistence is the name of the game."
The fellowship will allow Atkinson to focus almost exclusively on the book over the next year to have it ready for publication by August 2008. The stipend will help cover the costs of living in New York, where Atkinson will have access to some the nation's best research libraries. He will also be obligated to teach two courses at the New School, where scholars like Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey and Claude Levi-Strauss once taught.
Atkinson plans to bring his research back to UWRF--literally. "Provided I can obtain additional financial support, I hope to bring my research material home and start an archive on campus for students and researchers to use, perhaps in the Chalmer Davee Library," Atkinson said. "It would be fantastic to start a unique collection of material on witchcraft, popular religion and Southern culture right here in Wisconsin."
Atkinson is currently an assistant professor of history at UWRF. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2005. "Sometimes people ask me: Why don't we just teach the old stuff?" said Atkinson." It's only through this kind of book project or through scholarly journal articles that we can start to form a newer and larger grasp of history--one that's meaningful to our generation."
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The Atlantic County town of Port Republic has decided there will be no "rockin' around the Christmas tree" if you decide to steal one.
Anyone thinking of stealing one of their Christmas trees will need more than a car air freshener to get rid of the stench they will also take back with them.
A sign along the municipal tennis courts at Harry Bowen Memorial Field reads, "Warning: These trees have been sprayed with a chemical that when introduced to the heat of a home emits an obnoxious smell."
Mayor Gary Giberson said, according to The Press of Atlantic City, "People have literally climbed 30-, 40-foot blue spruces just to cut the tops off. I've seen that in rural towns. It makes me sick.
Philly.com reported that the New Jersey Turnpike Authority used to spray their trees in the 1990s. They used a noxious hydrogen sulfite mixture that was intended to frighten away rodents and deer while keeping the tree's natural scent.
Giberson said he was uncertain what chemical was used to spray the trees. The chemical is said to smell like rotten eggs if the tree is brought inside a home.
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued two 5�4 rulings Wednesday that supported federal rights for married gay couples and opened the way for same-sex marriage in California, but stopped short of ruling on whether gay couples have a fundamental right to marry.
The two cases concerned the constitutionality of a component of the federal law, the Defense of Marriage Act, that denied federal benefits to same-sex married couples, and a California state law, Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage.
�For my clients, up until this time, we had to plan for inequality,� said Todd Sivia, an Edwardsville attorney who specializes in estate and tax planning for lesbian gay, bisexual and transgender clients.
�We�re not in the 1960s anymore, so there shouldn�t be a second class of married couples,� he said. �The Constitution grants everyone equal rights, so discrimination of any sort shouldn�t be allowed.�
The Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996, defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. This law took precedence over any state law enacted that endorsed same-sex marriage, preventing these couples from receiving federal benefits.
However, the caveat for Illinois residents is that the state grants same-sex civil unions, but doesn�t allow gay marriages. This means that these same-sex couples united in civil unions are not considered married under the law and will not be recognized for federal benefits, tax, health and pension benefits.
And the picture remains ambiguous for same-sex couples who traveled to another state to get married, or who have moved from a gay marriage state back to Illinois since being wed.
Their eligibility depends on the benefits they are seeking. For instance, immigration law focuses on where people were married, not where they live. But eligibility for Social Security survivor benefits basically depends on where a couple is living when a spouse dies.
However, the outcome is clear for people who were married and live in states that allow same-sex marriage. They now are eligible for federal benefits.
Same-sex marriage has been adopted by 12 states and the District of Columbia. Another 18,000 couples were married in California during a brief period when same-sex unions were legal there.
President Barack Obama praised the court�s ruling on the federal marriage act, which he labeled �discrimination enshrined in law.�
�(The Defense of Marriage Act) treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people,� Obama said in a statement. �The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it.�
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he was disappointed in the outcome of the federal marriage case and hoped states continue to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
The ruling in the California case was not along ideological lines. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Antonin Scalia.
�We have no authority to decide this case on the merits, and neither did the 9th Circuit,� Roberts said, referring to the federal appeals court that also struck down Proposition 8.
In the case involving the federal Defense of Marriage Act, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, joined by the court�s liberal justices.
�Under DOMA, same-sex married couples have their lives burdened, by reason of government decree, in visible and public ways,� Kennedy said.
�DOMA�s principal effect is to identify a subset of state-sanctioned marriages and make them unequal,� he said.
In 2011, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law civil union legislation. Since that time, nearly 5,200 couples across 94 counties have joined in civil unions.
�Today the Supreme Court took a historic step by providing equal access to more than 1,100 federal rights and benefits for same-sex couples,� Quinn said in a news release Wednesday. �This is a monumental day for freedom in the history of our nation.
�The opportunity to guarantee equal rights and benefits to all citizens � under both state and federal law � is one we must seize here in the Land of Lincoln without delay.�
Similarly, Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon hailed the decisions as a decisive victory for civil liberties.
�I am thrilled by the Supreme Court�s ruling in Windsor today to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act,� Simon said in a news release. �This decision supports one of the fundamental principles of our country � equality � and brings us one step closer to the nation we aspire to be.�
Stridently opposing the decision, Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield condemned the ruling.
�As in the case of Roe v. Wade striking down abortion laws 40 years ago, the United States Supreme Court has again usurped its legitimate prerogative through a raw exercise of judicial power by giving legal protection to an intrinsic evil, this time by striking down the Defense of Marriage Act in the case of U.S. v. Windsor and in refusing to take up the defense of Proposition 8 in California in the case of Hollingsworth v. Perry,� Paprocki said in a news release.
�These hollow decisions are absolutely devoid of moral authority,� he added. �It is becoming increasingly and abundantly clear that what secular law now calls �marriage� has no semblance to the sacred institution of Holy Matrimony. People of faith are called to reject the redefinition of marriage and bear witness to the truth of Holy Matrimony as a lasting, loving and life-giving union between one man and one woman.�
The broadest possible ruling that could have been issued by the Supreme Court would have given gay Americans the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals. The justices said nothing on that topic in either case.
The decisions Wednesday have no effect on the roughly three dozen states that do not allow same-sex marriage, including 29 that have enshrined the bans in their constitutions.
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Spas have an average yearly growth rate of 35% to 40% in the Koramangala neighborhood of Bangalore, India, as professionals increasingly view massages and relaxation as more than an occasional indulgence. "Corporate people and techies inhabit the place, and that is where 70 percent of our clientele is from. As disposable income is higher for this group, spending in a spa for relaxation is more of a recurring necessity for them than a luxury," said Four Fountains Spa owner Rashmi Pawar.
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LAS VEGAS, March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Cord Blood America, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CBAI), the umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company (http://www.cordblood-america.com), is focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells, a biological insurance policy, to families nationwide and internationally. Its new Director of the Medical Advisory Board, Shamoon Ahmad, M.D., M.B.A., FACP, was interviewed about the stem cell revolution in medical care by analyst Francis Gaskins.
The entire interview is available at http://gaskinsco.com/cbai-3-8-10-b.mp3 .
Dr. Ahmad said he believes that stem cells preserved from the umbilical cord at birth will be used to treat Parkinson's disease, diabetes and muscular sclerosis, among other chronic diseases, which, he said, are amenable to cord blood transplants. Currently more than 70 diseases, including childhood leukemia and sickle cell anemia, are treated with these preserved stem cells.
The interview also features information about Dr. Ahmad's background, including that he established the first, and only, bone marrow transplantation facility in Nevada. He also is a registered investigator with the National Cancer Institute.
Dr. Ahmad explained that his new position means he will oversee the medical requirements of Cord Blood America's program and its quality. "We are looking for innovation," Dr. Ahmad said, explaining that the Company is a pioneer in stem cell storage and will soon add other biologic storage and preservation at its new Las Vegas facility.
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Cord Blood America (OTC Bulletin Board: CBAI) is the parent company of CorCell, which facilitates umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation for expectant parents and their children. Its mission is to be the most respected stem cell preservation company in the industry. Collected through a safe and non-invasive process, cord blood stem cells offer a powerful and potentially life-saving resource for treating a growing number of ailments, including cancer, leukemia, blood, and immune disorders. To find out more about Cord Blood America, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CBAI), visit our website at www.corcell.com. For investor information, visit www.cordblood-america.com.
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We are still trying to accept the fact that Hello Kitty is not a cat, because what the heck?
In case you missed it, University of Hawaii anthropologist Christine R. Yano, who has been studying the iconic character that made its debut in 1974, told the L.A. Times, "That's one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show. Hello Kitty is not a cat. She's a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat."
Sanrio confirmed the bombshell by simply stating, "Hello Kitty is not a cat, she's a girl."
That clearly gave us trust issues, and we began to think about celebs whose names are very misleading, like Seal or Cat Deeley, for example. He's not actually a Seal. She's not actually a Cat. Who else is lying to the world?!
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MLB Matchups >> San Diego vs. Miami Preview 06/29/2013
The San Diego Padres and the Miami Marlins will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Marlins Park.
The Padres will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander Eric Stults in this game. Stults has a 6-5 record and a 3.20 ERA this season.
Stults's opponent in this one will be Jacob Turner. The Marlins righthander has a 1.97 ERA to go along with a 1-0 record this season.
Oddsmakers currently have the Padres listed as 112-moneyline favorites versus the Marlins, while the game's total is sitting at 7.
Last time out for San Diego, they were a 9-2 winner as they battled the Marlins on the road. Moneyline bettors who got the Padres at +112 were rewarded, while the 11 combined runs moved the game OVER for totals bettors.
TEAM RECORDS:San Diego: 40-40 SU
Miami: 27-51 SU
SAN DIEGO MOST RECENTLY:When playing on Saturday are 3-7
Before playing Miami are 6-4
After playing Miami are 5-5
After a win are 7-3
MIAMI MOST RECENTLY:When playing on Saturday are 4-6
Before playing San Diego are 6-4
After playing San Diego are 6-4
After a loss are 7-3
A FEW TRENDS TO CONSIDER:San Diego is 10-2 SU in its last 12 games when playing on the road against Miami
The total has gone OVER in 4 of San Diego's last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of San Diego's last 5 games on the road
San Diego is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Miami
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Miami's last 8 games at home
Miami is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games
The total has gone OVER in 17 of Miami's last 25 games when playing at home against San Diego
Miami is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games at home
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NASA Briefs Preliminary Plume Findings From Moon Mission
NASA will hold a news conference Friday to talk about early science results from its successful moon impacting mission, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS. The satellite gained worldwide attention when it plunged into a crater near the moon's south pole on Oct. 9.
The briefing from NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., will begin at 9 a.m. PST, on Nov. 13. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's Web site. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
The panelists are:
- Doug Cooke, associate administrator, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington
- Michael Wargo, chief lunar scientist for Exploration Systems at NASA Headquarters
- Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator from Ames
- Greg Delory, senior fellow, Space Sciences Laboratory and Center for Integrative Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley
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Zach Sweetser, a 17-year-old junior at Bellevue s Interlake High School, has been an aviation enthusiast since he could talk, and he loves building and flying radio-controlled planes.
He has attached a camera to an R/C plane to take pictures from the air in the past, so when storms blanketed the Seattle region in snow last week, he decided to send his plane aloft again check out the view from above.
Snow completely changes the way an area looks from the air, he says. I have taken many pictures in the area I live, but have never gotten any when it snowed. So, I took the opportunity, turned on the plane and camera, and flew. I was very happy with how the shots turned out, especially the morning shots that had the sunrise in them.
He got some spectacular shots. He submitted one to KING5 News, which featured the picture on air. After seeing it, we wanted to know exactly how he did it.
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The composition of airborne pollution is changing, however. For example, scientific effort has focused for years on analysing the corrosive effects of sulphur dioxide (SO2), which comes largely from factory and power plant emissions. But these have been declining due to tighter EU and national pollution controls. The greater threat now comes from Europe's ever-rising number of cars and lorries. The compounds and particulates they produce are creating a complex multi-pollutant situation that requires new analytical and monitoring tools, as well as a more inflected response from policy-makers. That is where MULTI-ASSESS entered the picture.
"SO2 pollution levels have plummeted quite substantially in the last ten to 15 years. You now have to take into account the pollutants that have been 'hidden' by the focus on SO2, such as nitric acid, ozone and particulate matter from vehicles," said MULTI-ASSESS' coordinator Dr Vladimir Kucera of the Swedish Corrosion Institute (SCI).
A 40-month project supported by the EU's Fifth Framework Programme, MULTI-ASSESS (Model for multi-pollutant impact and assessment of threshold levels for cultural heritage) brought together 16 scientific establishments in 14 European countries. Ending in April 2005, its main objectives were to:
The team measured corrosion and soiling involving the kinds of materials typically found in historical buildings and objects: copper, zinc, cast bronze, potash-lime glass, stone materials, concrete and steel. For example, potash-lime-silica glass was commonly used for church and cathedral windows in Europe, north of the Alps, for about 500 years well into the 16th century. While beautiful when lit by sunlight, the glass is unstable due to its high potassium content and vulnerable to deterioration caused by pollution. Portland limestone from England is another highly vulnerable material.
To focus on local and micro-scale conditions, pollution data was collected from sites in Athens, Cracow, London, Prague and Rome, where information on site-specific soiling rates was collected via specially designed sheltered 'racks' placed in half a dozen different positions along the façades and roofs of historic buildings. A special study was also carried out in the five cities, plus two sites in Latvia, to compare pollution-induced deterioration rates on Portland limestone and other calcareous building materials frequently used in Europe.
The researchers relied on a mixture of passive sampler devices and active sampling equipment. "In many cases, it is not possible to use large or bulky equipment at historic buildings, so you have to use smaller passive samplers. If you place these and selected materials specimens on and around buildings for a year, you get a good picture of the aggressiveness of local pollution," explained Kucera.
While collecting their data was difficult enough in many cases, the project's real challenge was to provide practical advice and guidance to those who need it most: the people directly in charge of preserving cultural sites and the policy-makers who must address Europe's pollution levels.
The on-site monitoring and test methods developed by MULTI-ASSESS go far beyond merely indicating whether pollution levels at a given locality are high or low, according to Johan Tidblad, Kucera's colleague at SCI and a main participant in the project. "The Portland limestone analysis techniques enable us to tell preservationists how many microns of a limestone's surface has been lost to corrosion over a certain period and how much is likely to be lost in the future without corrective action," observed Tidblad. "If a preservationist knows the corrosion rate, then they have a better idea of what their maintenance schedule should be. It's not just a matter of timing and money. There's a trade-off between tolerating a minimum level of acceptable soiling and the frequency of a façade's cleaning. After all, different cleaning techniques can also have their negative effects on historic materials."
To help cultural specialists make such decisions, the MULTI-ASSESS team developed a simple-to-use prototype analysis kit they can use to quickly and cheaply assess the corrosion risk posed by local pollution conditions to their cultural site. The kit includes three of the materials that, together, span the earliest medieval period up to modernity: Portland limestone, zinc and carbon steel. Managers responsible for monuments registered on UNESCO's list of world heritage sites must meet special monitoring requirements, for example, and some 350 of these sites are located in Europe.
Another significant achievement of the project is its contribution to the UN/ECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution monitoring network. As Kucera explained: "The UN's pollution- monitoring capability has been strengthened. MULTI-ASSESS' work on nitric acid and particulate matter analysis has led to the addition of these two variables to the pollutants that the network monitors. This was a big step towards a more effective cultural preservation strategy because these are two of the important pollution threats our monuments face today."


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Also, if you've every had a turbo vehichle then you know you are just one tune away for lots more power. So, if they start out at similar power, then you will get more power per mod buck for the turbo engine.
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Drought, demand from China drive up pecan prices
NEW ORLEANS Expect to pay more for pecan pie this Thanksgiving thanks to drought in parts of the South and big demand from China.
The average retail price for a pound of pecans rose from $7 in 2008 to $9 last year, and it's expected to be about $11 this year, said Jeff Worn, vice president of South Georgia Pecan Co., which processes 40 million to 50 million pounds of pecans a year in Valdosta, Ga. The price increase has him and others in the industry worried that people will stop buying the nuts.
"In an already suffering economy, how long will people be able to pay that much for pecans?" asked Worn, whose customers include the Winn-Dixie and Publix grocery chains, big-box stores Sam's Club and Costco, and food manufacturers such as Russell Stover and Sara Lee.
Pecans are the only major tree nut native to the U.S., which produces about 80 percent of the world's crop. The harvest season begins in the fall in Georgia and Florida and ends in February in New Mexico. Georgia is usually the biggest pecan producer. Other top states include Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
Drought dramatically reduced the pecan crop in many of those states this year. Production in Texas, which has had a record drought, dropped the most, from 70 million pounds last year to an estimated 40 million pounds this year. In Louisiana, production plunged from 20 million pounds last year to an estimated 9 million pounds this year.
The entire U.S. crop is expected to be less than 252 million pounds this year, roughly 14 percent smaller than last year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Pecans are "alternate-bearing" trees, with good crops tending to be followed by smaller crops. In general, odd years should be better, according to the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, but this year's harvest has been reduced by drought.
"I've been farming for 60 or more years, and this is the driest I've ever seen," said Ben Littlepage, a grower in the central Louisiana town of Colfax. "The bayous are completely dry."
Without enough rain, trees drop nuts early. The nuts also don't open when it's too hot and dry - and open husks are needed for mechanical shelling.
"If they remain in that green shuck for a long period of time they sprout," Littlepage said.
He expects to get only about a quarter of his typical harvest this year.
A bigger reason for high pecan prices is strong demand from Asia. China typically buys a fifth of the U.S. crop. The nuts are especially prized during the country's two-week New Year celebration in January or February.
Pecans have been popular in Asia since growers and shellers responded to flat domestic sales with aggressive overseas marketing in the past decade. Sales in China and Vietnam climbed from less than 10 million pounds a year in the early 2000s to nearly 89 million pounds in 2009. Exports to Asia dropped some last year, but total exports rose from 143.5 million to 146.7 million, with Europe and Mexico accounting for much of the increase.


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Most of Vista "bad rep" comes from two sources:
- people massively stealing Vista using cracks to activate it (these cracks were, due to much better antipiracy protection, highly unstable), screaming all over the net about "horrible experience" with their cracked version -> so they went back to XP, were cracks were more "mature", bashing Vista
- people with 5 year old PCs w/ 1GB of RAM, who experienced performance drops comparing to XP, do not taking into account Windows Search, Windows Defender and other services built-in into Vista, but not XP
People who purchased Vista and have decent PCs are extremely happy. Rock-solid OS, in SP1 with identical kernel to Windows 2008 Server.
I viewed Windows 7 as "Vista SP2", but there are some nice things, like virtualization, that make it a bit more. I have no problem with Microsoft selling "Service Packs". Apple is doing this for ages (10.3, 10.4, 10.5 OS X updates include very little new stuff, even less then you can freely download for Microsoft OSes - Windows Defender, excellent Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Photogallery, Windows Desktop Search, IE8, Microsoft Earth, Office 2007 compatibility packs for Office 2003, and myryads of other apps are available freely for Windows XP as well). Can you imagine Apple giving so much apps for free for 8 year old OS?
In fact, Microsoft is too generous most of the time
- The crack doesn't make the OS run bad LMAO. Its an activation crack using SLIC bios to make the OS think it's a Dell or ASUS PC. It has nothing to do with performance. Wow to this - just wow. I didn't think people were that clueless. You should work for the MPAA or RIAA.
- 5 year old PCs with 1GB ram run Windows 7 beautifully. Vista was just a hog plain and simple. Stop defending the garbage. Netbooks runs Windows 7 beautifully too. Win7 still has Windows Search, defender and the "other services" you mentioned yet runs 100x better than Vista.
- the Vista kernal wasn't the same as Server 2008 until SP1 I believe.
- Vista SP2 vs Windows 7 - no contest. I'm running the believed gold code of SP2 on my machine and on another HD Windows 7 7100. Same hardware, same overclock on GPU and CPU, and it's no contest. Ram usage is far lower in Windows 7, everything is faster. Again, Vista is, was and will always be a resource hog - you can put lipstick on a pig all you want...
I think you were as far wrong on all points as anyone possibly could be. Teh internets have phailed you.
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10 Hungry Rabbits: Counting & Color Concepts by Anita Lobel; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Knopf 24 pp. 2/12 978-0-375-86864-1 $9.99 Library ed. 978-0-375-96864-8 $12.99 g When Mama Rabbit announces her plans to make vegetable soup for dinner, her ten children—each one wearing a different color—gather ten matching colorful ingredients: one purple cabbage, two […]
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A discreet ACB inquiry against decorated police inspector Hemant Bawdhankar and his wife regarding acquisition of a sprawling 1,425 sq ft flat in upmarket Gamdevi area has revealed that the flat, the ready reckoner value of which is Rs 2.88 crore, had been bought by the Bawdhankar family for just Rs 25 lakh. The owners of the property alleged that as Bawdhankar was a policeman he would have 'bought' the property at such a low price in order to escape ACB clutches.
According to Atul Korgaonkar, one of the landlords of Saraswati Niwas flat now occupied by the Bawdhankars, said: "Last August, we learnt that our ancestral 1,425 sq ft flat, which had been rented out to Mulraj Kapadia many years ago, had been occupied by the Bawdhankar family. From then on Kapadia was nowhere to be seen. We were told by the family that Kapadia had sold the flat to Anjali Bawdhankar. The occupants have not allowed us even to enter the property. We have moved the court against Kapadia and Bawdhankar as they had made the deal without our consent."
"Despite their meagre income, they acquired a flat worth Rs 2.88 crore from Kapadia, who stayed in the ground floor as a tenant. We therefore lodged a complaint with the ACB against Bawdhankar asking them to investigate how they could have acquired a property the cost of which was disproportionate to their known sources of income," said Korgaonkar.
"A discreet inquiry revealed that the flat had been bought for Rs 25 lakh. We checked the bank statements of Bawdhankar and his wife, and it appears the transaction money was given through known source of income. Hence no case can be made on disproportionate assets against Bawdhankar," said Vishwas Nangre-Patil, ACB additional commissioner of police.
"Firstly, can anyone buy a property for less than its ready-reckoner value? It's shocking why the ACB did not find it suspicious that a plum south Mumbai property worth crores was sold and bought for just Rs 25 lakh. We will certainly take up the issue in the court as there is a possibility that either black money or hawala channel was used to make the payment and the property was undervalued by the buyers in order to dodge the ACB radar," said Abha Singh, advocate for Reena Mhatre, one of the landlords of the property.
Bawdhankar was instrumental in gunning down Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Ismail, one of the main gunmen in the 26/11 case in 2008 and was awarded for his bravery.