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In Greek mythology, Persephone (Kore or Cora) was the embodiment of the Earth's fertility at the same time that she was the Queen of the Underworld, the korē (or young maiden), and the parthenogenic daughter of Demeter—and, in later Classical myths, a daughter of Demeter and Zeus. In the Olympian version she also becomes the consort of Hades when he becomes the deity that governs the underworld.
The figure of Persephone is well-known today. Her story has great emotional power: an innocent maiden, a mother's grief over her abduction, and great joy after her daughter is returned. It is also cited frequently as a paradigm of myths that explain natural processes, with the descent and return of the goddess bringing about the change of seasons.
In Greek art, Persephone is invariably portrayed robed. She may be carrying a sheaf of grain and smiling demurely with the "Archaic smile" of the Kore of Antenor.
The Romans first heard of her from the Aeolian and Dorian cities of Magna Graecia, who used the dialectal variant Proserpine (Προσερπινη, Proserpinē). Hence, in Roman mythology she was called Proserpina, and as a revived Roman Proserpina, she became an emblematic figure of the Renaissance. At Locri, perhaps uniquely, Persephone was the protector of marriage, a role usually assumed by Hera; in the iconography of votive plaques at Locri, her abduction and marriage to Hades served as an emblem of the marital state; children at Locri were dedicated to Proserpina, and maidens about to be wed brought her their peplos to be blessed.
In a Classical period text ascribed to Empedocles, c. 490–430 BC, describing a correspondence between four deities and the classical elements, the name Nestis for water apparently refers to Persephone. "Now hear the fourfold roots of everything: enlivening Hera, Hades, shining Zeus. And Nestis, moistening mortal springs with tears".
Of the four deities of Empedocles's elements, it is the name of Persephone alone that is taboo— Nestis is a euphemistic cult title— for the Greeks knew another face of Persephone as well. She was also the terrible [Queen of the Dead], whose name was not safe to speak aloud, who was euphemistically named, simply as, Kore, "The Maiden", a vestige of her archaic role as the deity ruling the underworld.
Unlike every other offspring of an Olympian pairing of deities, Persephone has no stable position at Olympus. Persephone used to live far away from the other deities, a goddess within Nature herself before the days of planting seeds and nurturing plants. In the Olympian telling, the gods Hermes, Ares, Apollo, and Hephaestus, had all wooed Persephone, but Demeter rejected all their gifts and hid her daughter away from the company of the Olympian deities. Thus, Persephone lived a peaceful life before she became the goddess of the underworld, which, according to Olympian mythographers, did not occur until Hades abducted her and brought her into the underworld. She was innocently picking flowers with some nymphs—, Athena, and Artemis, the Homeric hymn says—, or Leucippe, or Oceanids— in a field in Enna when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth; the nymphs were changed by Demeter into the Sirens for not having interfered. Life came to a standstill as the devastated Demeter, goddess of the Earth, searched everywhere for her lost daughter. Helios, the sun, who sees everything, eventually told Demeter what had happened.
Finally, Zeus, pressured by the cries of the hungry people and by the other deities who also heard their anguish, could not put up with the dying earth and forced Hades to return Persephone. But before she was released to Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, Hades tricked her into eating pomegranate seeds, (seven, eight, or perhaps four according to the telling) which forced her to return to the underworld for a season each year. In some versions, Ascalaphus informed the other deities that Persephone had eaten the pomegranate seeds. When Demeter and her daughter were united, the Earth flourished with vegetation and color, but for four months each year, when Persephone returned to the underworld, the earth once again became a barren realm. This is an origin story to explain the seasons.
In an earlier version, Hecate rescued Persephone. On an Attic red-figured bell krater of ca 440 BCE in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Persephone is rising as if up stairs from a cleft in the earth, while Hermes stands aside; Hecate, holding two torches, looks back as she leads her to the enthroned Demeter.
In the earliest known version the dreaded goddess, Persephone, was herself Queen of the Underworld (Burkert or Kerenyi).
In some versions, Demeter forbids the earth to produce, in others she is so busy looking for Persephone that she neglects the earth, or her duties as the Earth which she represents, and in some the depth of her despair causes nothing to grow.
This myth also can be interpreted as an allegory of ancient Greek marriage rituals. The Classical Greeks felt that marriage was a sort of abduction of the bride by the groom from the bride's family, and this myth may have explained the origins of the marriage ritual. The more popular etiological explanation of the seasons may have been a later interpretation.
The tenth-century Byzantine encyclopedia Suda, s.v. "Macaria", introduces a goddess of a blessed afterlife assured to Orphic mystery initiates. This Macaria is asserted to be the daughter of Hades, and Persephone, though there is no previous mention of her.
Persephone also figures in the story of Adonis, the Syrian consort of Aphrodite. When Adonis was born, Aphrodite took him under her wing, seducing him with the help of Helene, her friend, and was entranced by his unearthly beauty. She gave him to Persephone to watch over, but Persephone also was amazed at his beauty and refused to give him back. The argument between the two goddesses was settled, either by Calliope, or by Zeus, (depending on the antiquity of the myth), with Adonis spending four months with Aphrodite, four months with Persephone and four months of the year on his own. This later myth placed a god into the position of a goddess in the cycle of the seasons.
When Hades pursued a nymph named Minthe, Persephone turned her into a mint plant.
Persephone was the object of Pirithous' affections. In a late myth, Pirithous and Theseus, his friend, pledged to marry daughters of Zeus. Theseus chose Helen and together they kidnapped her and decided to hold onto her until she was old enough to marry. Pirithous chose Persephone. They left Helen with Theseus' mother, Aethra, and traveled to the underworld, domain of Persephone and her husband, Hades. Hades pretended to offer them hospitality and set a feast; as soon as the pair sat down, snakes coiled around their feet and held them there. Edith Hamilton called it a "Chair of Forgetfulness" that they sat upon. It also should be noted that Heracles was able to save Theseus from this fate when he was in the Underworld, but Hades forced Pirithous to remain seated forever.
Persephone and her mother Demeter were often referred to as aspects of the same Earth goddess, and were called "the Demeters" or simply "the goddesses."
More daringly, the mythologist Karl Kerenyi has identified Persephone with the nameless "mistress of the labyrinth" at Knossos from the Bronze Age Minoan civilization on Crete that flourished from 1700 BC.
On the other hand, the hypothesis of an Aegean cult of the Earth Mother has come under some criticism in recent years. For more on both sides of the controversy, see Mother Goddess.
Inspired by James Frazer, Jane Ellen Harrison, and modern mythologers, some scholars have labeled Persephone a life-death-rebirth deity.
"As she was gathering flowers with her playmates in a meadow, the earth opened and Pluto, god of the dead, appeared and carried her off to be his queen in the world below. ... Torch in hand, her sorrowing mother sought her through the wide world, and finding her not she forbade the earth to put forth its increase. So all that year not a blade of corn grew on the earth, and men would have died of hunger if Zeus had not persuaded Pluto to let Persephone go. But before he let her go Pluto made her eat the seed of a pomegranate, and thus she could not stay away from him for ever. So it was arranged that she should spend two-thirds (according to later authors, one-half) of every year with her mother and the heavenly gods, and should pass the rest of the year with Pluto beneath the earth. ... As wife of Pluto, she sent spectres, ruled the ghosts, and carried into effect the curses of men."
Persephone is the name of a Main belt asteroid with a diameter of 49.1km, discovered by Max Wolf in 1895 in Heidelberg.


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Italy captain Sergio Parisse said his side deserved their stunning 23-18 victory over France in their opening fixture of the Six Nations.
Italy went down to 14 men in the last two minutes when Davide Giazzon was sin-binned but resisted France's attempts at a push-over try."If they'd scored in the last minute we would have been really disappointed – we deserved that victory," he said.
Prop Martin Castrogiovanni said Italy would "have a chance against any team".
"We can't start the tournament better than this," the 31-year-old tight-head told BBC Sport, with a trip to Scotland's home Murrayfield awaiting the Azzurri next week.
"We repeated what we did two years ago. We still have another four games and I hope we can play like that again. If we do, we have a chance against any team."
Home skipper Parisse went over in the first five minutes to give the Azzurri an early lead before France fought back.
But a Martin Castrogiovanni try, 10 points off the boot of Luciano Orquera and good defending secured the win.
"I'm happy to score, but it was good day for the whole team," said the Stade Francais number eight. "We defended really well."
The visitors, perennially among the pre-tournament favourites, took a 15-13 lead into the interval thanks to tries from Louis Picamoles and Benjamin Fall, and Frederic Michalak's penalty extended their advantage soon after the restart.Six Nations highlights: Italy 23-18 France
But a brilliant offload from Orquera allowed Leicester's Castrogiovanni to dart over, before replacement Kristopher Burton added a great drop-goal to give the Italians some breathing space.
Despite a late French onslaught, the the home side held on for a repeat of the shock success over Les Bleus in 2011.
France coach Philippe Saint-Andre said his side made "too many mistakes".
"I want to congratulate Italy – they played with a lot of passion," Saint-Andre told BBC Sport. "We had opportunities to score, but we lost too many balls."
"We have to be very focused in order to play well against Wales at the Stade de France next week. [We] are very, very disappointed. We prepared well. We need to realise that the Italians are improving year by year. They were unlucky to lose to Australia.
"We had control, but we made too many mistakes. We respect Wales, but we need to win. It's not acceptable to lose at home."
Italy's former captain Marco Bortolami said he did not think the French were in the right frame of mind.
"We [Italy] struggled with discipline towards the end, but what a win," he told BBC Sport.
"Their body language was a disaster. They were here, but didn't know how to win this game. It was a big game for Italy. Next week, we travel to Scotland, so who knows?"
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International pressure is mounting for the U.S. administration to engage itself more actively in mediating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even as their future Secretary of State pledges to commit herself to this goal, the American people themselves don't seem so enthusiastic about getting involved. According to a Gallup poll from last week, not even the violence in Gaza bolstered American support for greater action:
Israel's military action in the Gaza Strip after recent Hamas rocket fire into southern Israel has put international pressure on the United States to advocate an immediate cease-fire; but only 33% of Americans, according to a Jan. 6-7 Gallup Poll, say the Bush administration should be doing more to end the conflict than it already is doing.
Attitudes toward active engagement — and specifically, toward a cease-fire — fall largely along partisan lines, with Democrats demanding more of it on average compared to Republicans — a political divide reflected in several polls. Since liberals are generally less supportive of Israel, Gallup concludes that "it is likely that liberals favor an immediate cessation of the Gaza hostilities, even if that doesn't serve Israel's security interests."
Interestingly, there's also a new Rasmussen poll on Israel and Gaza offering material for a comparative analysis. Generally speaking, American support for the Gaza operation is still very high — even slightly higher than it was two weeks ago:
Forty-five percent (45%) say Israel should have taken military action against the Palestinians, little changed from 44% two weeks ago. Thirty-eight percent (38%) say that the Jewish nation should have tried harder to find a diplomatic solution, down slightly from 41% in the earlier survey.
In an earlier Rasmussen survey, 52% of Americans said, "it is possible for Israel and the Palestinians to live in peace, but just 35% thought Obama is likely to help end the conflict during his presidency." According to this new survey, "[f]ifty-three percent (53%) are at least somewhat confident in Barack Obama's ability to deal with the situation in Gaza, including 25% who are Very Confident in the President-elect." Perhaps they ought to read Rick before making up their minds.
What might seem puzzling in the Rasmussen poll is this conclusion:
Looking ahead, 50% say Israel should agree to a truce now while 26% disagree.
Why would 50% of Americans — most of whom are supportive of Israel's military action — want Israel to agree to a cease-fire now? The wording of the question is straightforward:
Should Israel agree to a truce now and seek a diplomatic solution to the fighting in Gaza?
A plausible explanation may be Americans' inability to reasonably asses the implications of a truce, and their assumption that the "diplomatic solution" mentioned in the survey is viable. I'm not sure whether we would get the same statistical response to a differently framed question, such as:
Should Israel agree to a cease-fire which would be trumped as a victory by Hamas and which would signal internal weakness to the Arab world, or should Israel continue fighting until it achieves a unilateral victory over Hamas?
Perhaps Americans' elusive wishes are best captured by last week's Gallup poll:
Public opinion about U.S. involvement in resolving the Gaza conflict is reminiscent of how Americans reacted to the hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006. A Gallup Poll conducted in July 2006 found only a third of Americans saying the United States should press for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, 20% saying it should wait before calling for a cease-fire, and 43% saying it should not get involved at any point.
Gallup analysts use the example of 2006, and draw conclusions they think apply today:
[In 2006] Given several options for the role the United States should play in bringing about peace between Israel and Hezbollah, only 14% of Americans said the United States should take the leading role. More than half (56%) said the United States should be involved but that the United Nations should take the leading role, and another 29% said the United States should not be involved at all.
That sentiment may very well apply to how Americans perceive the Gaza conflict today. While the public may believe the United States should have a place at the diplomatic table, it may not want to see the United States leading the Palestinian-Israeli peace effort, or expending time and other resources on it that may be needed closer to home.
This might explain the discrepancy between Rasmussen finding 50% wanting a cease-fire now, and Gallup finding only 33% to want more engagement in brokering a cease-fire. While Americans wish for a cease-fire, most of them don't want it to be a direct result of American intervention, but rather an internal truce among the warring parties which would void the need of any further American involvement. The Gallup poll iterates the finding that liberals statistically favor direct U.S. intervention and a cease-fire more strongly than other political denominations.
What's most interesting: Gallup asked half the sample about involvement of "the Bush administration" and the other half about involvement "of the United States"; when the "Bush factor" was eliminated from the question's wording, the partisan differences in attitudes waned significantly:
This difference [between the samples] is largely because Democrats and independents are significantly more likely to favor greater action when the question is framed in terms of the Bush administration rather than the country, generally.
In other words, it's not even action most liberals truly want; it's having another, probably last, shot at criticizing the Bush administration.


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The head of Chicken Farmers of Canada alleges food companies are fraudulently importing chicken into Canada by labeling it as "spent fowl." The term describes meat from old broiler breeding and, to a lesser extent, laying chickens which can enter outside the supply management system.
"A few years ago we typically had 40 to 50 million kilograms of spent fowl imports each year. Two years ago it hit 82 and last year it was 106 million kilograms. We're saying enough is enough, this is out of control and it's now 10 per cent of our market," says CFC Chair Dave Janzen.
The feeling is that food companies are using the spent fowl category as a loophole to import chicken without paying tariffs at the border. "We are now importing all of, or even slightly more, than what the U.S. breeder flock is capable of producing. We know there's a significant market in the for fowl meat in the U.S. and they're using a portion of that, so obviously there is fraud."
He alleges some companies are blending chicken meat with spent fowl and then importing it as spent fowl to circumvent the supply management system. "There will be just enough fowl in that container to classify the shipment as spent fowl and therefore it can enter in duty-free even though a significant portion of that will have broiler chicken meat in it. That is what we're going after."
CFC is asking Ottawa to require certification at the border, likely a USDA inspector's signature, saying whether or not a shipment contains spent fowl. "You either bring in chicken or you bring in spent fowl. If it's not chicken at the border, then it shouldn't turn into chicken in Canada."
So far, Janzen suggests, it hasn't been a priority for Ottawa.
"We started bringing to government's attention but it fell on deaf ears. They just thought this wasn't really a problem and it wouldn't escalate to the extent it has today," he explains, noting part of the challenge is that any change would require approval from multiple government departments. "We've had very good support from [Agriculture] Minister Ritz, but it's multi-jurisdictional. You need CBSA, CFIA, Finance, you need all of these government bodies to deal with this issue."
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The Archdiocesan Executive Council (AEC) Presents its 2011 Fall Lecture
From Diyarbakir to Bergen County
The Experience of Three Generations of a Suryoyo Family in America
By: Jack C. Darakjy, Esq.
November 27th, 2011 at 6 PM
Virgin Mary Church, Paramus
In defining what it means to grow up an immigrant Suryoyo in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, and the challenges faced in a society that still did not accept, indeed even fully understand multi-culturalism, it is important to briefly describe a family whose origins began in the plains of Diyarbakir, Turkey, at the turn of the 20th century. A family that witnessed the Seyfo, its escape to the relative peacefulness of Syria under the post-World I mandate, and the events that ultimately led to each member of the generation of the family preceding mine to eventually emigrate to the U.S. I will then trace the period of growing up and coming of age, from high school, to college, to law school and ultimately into the workforce. I also want to review the difficulties I faced, whether through explicit or covert discrimination because of my origins. Finally, I wish to briefly touch upon the legacy that has passed to my children, who are the first generation Suryoye-Americans.
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Men over 40 are almost six times more likely to father a child with autism than younger men, according to a new study.
Israeli researchers looked at birth data of more than 130,000 people born in the 1980s, where the paternal and maternal ages had been recorded. Of these 110 - or just over 1 in 1000 - had an "autism spectrum disorder". ASD can include autism, Asperger syndrome and Rett syndrome.
"Men who were over 40 at the time of the child's birth were 5.75 times as likely to have a child with ASD compared with men under 30," says Abraham Reichenberg at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, US. "The risk was slightly higher for men in their 30s - they were 1.6 times as likely to produce a child with ASD."
Older maternal age was not found to be a risk factor for ASD. "There might be a maternal age effect, but there were so few women in our study that gave birth after the age of 40 that it was not statistically significant," explains Reichenberg, who carried out the study with colleagues.
Genetic imprinting
As people age, their cells' DNA repair mechanisms lose some functionality. As a result, more of the randomly occurring genetic mutations occurring in sperm-producing cells may be passed from father to offspring, suggests Reichenberg, who now works at the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London, UK.
There may also be a change in genetic imprinting - the way a gene is expressed - as we age, he adds. "The silencing' device may not work as we age, so certain gene expressions that are usually silenced might be expressed in the offspring," Reichenberg told New Scientist.
Previous studies have shown a link between paternal age and the risk of other neurological conditions, including schizophrenia and Down's syndrome.
Reichenberg is now researching the clinical implications of this study. "It might give us some information about the types of mutations that lead people to develop these disorders," he says.
Journal reference: Archives of General Psychiatry (vol 63, p 1026)
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Diet's Blog
A common reason people avoid gluten is to lose weight—an approach about 13 million people have taken, far overshadowing gluten avoidance for health issues.
To remove gluten from your diet, you have to stop eating wheat and foods that contain it, such as bread, pasta, cereal and crackers, which are all relatively rich in calories.
If you replace them with foods like fruit, vegetables and lean meats, you may naturally eat fewer calories and lose weight.
But if you replace them with gluten-free counterparts made with rice or other gluten-free flours, you're just substituting one carb for another and likely eating the same number of calories—possibly more—so you won't lose weight.
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I've had countless friends ask me if they should "go Paleo" and while I don't recommend the diet as a whole (read more about the pros and cons here), there are certainly some healthy principles that we all can borrow from the popular plan.
The Paleo Diet is based on eating like our ancestors ate, back when they were still hunting and gathering. It eliminates foods that weren't around back then, which makes sense since we've certainly taken some steps in the wrong direction in the past many thousand years when it comes to the foods we eat. (I'm looking at you, neon-orange cheese powder and doughnut cheeseburgers.)
With that in mind, here are 5 Paleo Diet principles worth following to help you eat better in our modern world.
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U.S. News & World Report's Best Diets 2015, released earlier this week, ranked 35 diet plans. But the No. 1 diet may surprise you. The "Best Diets Overall" winner (for the fifth year in a row): the DASH diet.
The DASH diet—or Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension—was developed to combat high blood pressure (hypertension is the medical term for high blood pressure). So it certainly doesn't fall into the realm of trendy diets like Paleo or the Alkaline Diet. To earn a spot on the "Best Diets" list, the diet plan has to help with weight loss and diabetes (research shows the DASH diet does)—as well as be easy to follow and nutritious (check and check). Their panel of experts, which included EatingWell advisors David Katz, M.D., M.P.H., and Brian Wansink, Ph.D., gave it top billing in part because it scored well in the heart health...read full post »
Ooh, the Fitbit. I'm completely addicted to mine. Thanks to my Fitbit, I've discovered I'm a bit of a sloth on nonexercise days. So now I'm the first person in my house to offer to run upstairs and grab whatever anyone needs. More steps!
I say the Fitbit—and other wearable trackers—are so worth it because they make you aware of your activity level (or lack thereof) and motivate you to move more.
There's science to back me up, too: research shows that tracking your activity and/or being motivated to work out helps shed pounds.
Better yet, one study showed that simply wearing a tracker could help you lose as much weight as if you regularly attended in-person weight-loss sessions.
But if you take the calorie-burn number too literally you could end up gaining weight. How is this possible?
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TAGS: Diet Blog, Brierley Wright, M.S., R.D., Diet, Fitness, Health, Weight loss
Sugar seems to be everywhere these days—in foods that taste sweet and even foods that don't. It sweetens up everything from yogurts and coffee drinks to sauces and crackers to pizzas and salad dressings. Sugar goes by many names, but whether it's cane sugar, syrup, honey or fructose, it pretty much gets treated the same way by your body.
Here are some of the 60-plus different names for sugar that may appear on your food labels.1. Anhydrous dextrose
2. Agave
3. Agave nectar
4. Beet sugar
5. Brown sugar (light and dark brown)
6. Cane juice
7. Cane juice solids
8. Cane sugar
9. Cane syrup
10. Carob syrup
11. Caster sugar
12. Coconut sugar
13. Confectioners' sugar
14. Corn syrup
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Whether the coming holidays have you up or down, it's always a good idea to take some time for yourself. If you're like me, art-based adventures recharge the spirit, so here are a few suggestions for the coming weekend.
MOCAD New Wave presents Monster Drawing Rally: 4454 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-832-6622; mocadetroit.org
Friday, December 7, 8 p.m. to midnight
Admission: $10
Monster Drawing Rally is a live drawing event and fundraiser benefitting the MOCAD (a Knight Arts grantee). More than 90 artists will participate in the event, with 30 at a time drawing in three-hour shifts. As the art is made, it will be hung and available for purchase, with proceeds to support MOCAD programming.
Everything Is Terrible! at Corktown Cinema: 2051 Rosa Parks Blvd., Detroit; 313-473-9238; corktowncinema.com
Friday, December 7, doors open at 9:30 p.m. and show is at 10 p.m.
Admission: $10
EIT! works with found-footage, creating VHS collage that highlights humanity in its raw, unglorified glory. Celebrating its fifth annual holiday special with a theater tour, EIT! will be on-hand at Corktown Cinema to present their latest holiday handiwork for all to see.
Enduring Sometimes Warring at Institue for Neo Connotative Action (INCA): 750 Delaware St., Detroit; www.incainstitute.org
Sunday, December 9 2012, 6-9 p.m.
INCA presents its seventh and final happening for the 2012 season, with a show curated by by Ulrika Gomm and Clara López. During the evening, Chelsea Knight's "I Lay Claim To You" will be playing, and Barbara Hammer's "Dyketactics" will be screened one time. Malin Arnell's performance, "Possession Principle, Flames of Protection" and Broadside Press participation will happen throughout the evening.
There you have it — highbrow and lowbrow quality offerings to supplement your holiday hustle. Keep it artsy!


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Fired-up Leinster down Dragons
Hosts run in five tries to see-off Dragons 45-25
Last Updated: 08/09/12 10:27pm
Leinster ran in five tries to post their first RaboDirect PRO12 win of the season with a comfortable 45-25 victory over the Newport Gwent Dragons.
The sides shared eight tries in total on a hot September evening at the RDS.
Brendan Madigan helped the hosts take a 26-13 half-time lead as they sandwiched Steffan Jones' intercept try with efforts from Andrew Conway and Ben Marshall.
Shane Jennings and Fionn Carr touched down to seal the province's bonus point, but the Dragons drew some inspiration from Tom Prydie and Dan Evans scores.
But Joe Schmidt's men hit back right at the death as Macken intercepted Evans' pass to race clear and in under the posts.
The Dragons, league leaders after their opening round 37-6 win over Italian outfit Zebre, were looking for their first win in Ireland since 2008 and went in front thanks to a Prydie penalty.
But two sloppy restarts from the Welsh region allowed Leinster - who had lost 45-20 to the Scarlets in their first match of the season - to score 10 points in a two-minute spell.
Jevon Groves infringed at a ruck, giving Ian Madigan - who landed seven kicks out of eight for an 18-point return - the chance to kick Leinster level.
Slashing run
From the restart Noel Reid broke from deep to set up Conway's seventh-minute try. Reid's superb slashing run cut the Dragons' rearguard wide open, with his centre partner Macken providing timely support, and a final pass sent winger Conway muscling over to the left of the posts.
Madigan converted for a 10-3 turnaround, only for the Dragons to snap back four minutes later with an intercept try from out-half Jones.
He picked off Reid's pass inside his own half and evaded John Cooney's grasp on a long sprint to the line.
Prydie supplied the extras to get the visitors back on terms, but Madigan's second penalty in the 16th minute and a rewarding scrum gave Leinster a welcome boost.
The Dragons, for their part, managed to build through the phases for a Jones drop goal effort that was well off target.
Leinster were penalised for holding on after a quick drop-out though, and Prydie sent the penalty through the posts.
Schmidt's men came storming back, Madigan landing a long-range penalty and then young flanker Marshall waltzed through for a try after two piercing carries from Sean Cronin.
The conversion and an injury-time penalty followed from Madigan, although a poor pass from Cronin spoilt a move that should have led to a third Leinster try.
The Dragons had prop Nathan Williams sin-binned just before the break for persistent infringing, and were guilty of some aimless kicking as Leinster increased their lead.
A rolling maul from a lineout sent Jennings over in the left corner and Madigan converted, and the bonus point was secured by Carr in the 49th minute.
Madigan jinked his way into space, setting the back-line in motion before looping back around to send Carr over out wide. His first missed kick followed at 38-13.
The Dragons responded with an equally impressive score, Pat Leach and Dan Evans darting away down the narrow side and putting Prydie clear for a five-pointer.
Another break down the blindside was rewarded in the 59th minute as Leinster's sloppiness was punished.
This time Prydie got free along the touchline and passed inside for full-back Evans who got away from Isa Nacewa to race in close to the posts.
Prydie added the extras to make it 38-25, with Darren Edwards' charges now playing with much more freedom - Andy Tuilagi was making his presence felt in midfield.
However, Leinster defended stoutly in the concluding minutes and Macken's break from his own half was a fitting way to round off an action-packed encounter.


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All sessions are 45 minutes.
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What Next Wander Tour
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Joined: Mar 2010
Location: Iowa
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WNWT Day 2
Great night's sleep at my cousin's in Springfield, MO. Hung around this morning and visited a bit before taking off. Pretty certain this is probably Ayla's first time on a motorcycle. What can I say, Triumph's attract cute gals...
I noticed last night on my GPS that there is an American Civil War battlefield just southwest of Springfield so checked it out as I left town. It's the Wilson's Creek National Battlefield park. First battle west of the Mississippi, one of the bloodiest of the war and had the first general to die in battle. I'm an American history nut so this stuff is interesting to me. There is a real eerie feeling knowing how many men were killed and injured right where you're standing.
Wilson Creek... pretty Ozark creek other than all the bloodshed in 1861...
The only structure left from the day of the battle. The family that lived there and some others all hid in the cellar during the battle. 17 people in the cellar. After the battle the house was filled with dead and wounded as a makeshift hospital. Running in front of the house is the old "Wire Road" they used to deliver mail. Mostly still there and used for hiking and horses now.
Stuck to the lettered roads and had some fun getting from Springfield over to the Oklahoma state line... sun was shining, about 60 degrees out, roads were clean. Took a little shortcut that got pretty rustic... one lane bridge that made all the fun banging and snapping noises when you cross. "Rebel Pride" graffiti on the bridge pilings and ropes hanging underneath for swinging into the water (I assume...
Really wanted to get west in Oklahoma to try and miss all the heavy rain Texas and Oklahoma is getting. Pretty sure I haven't ridden in OK before. Sure get's flat and straight once you get out of Missouri... at least the northern part of OK. Thought I was taking a shortcut... looked like it on the map and ended up on about 30 miles of gravel. Looks just like Iowa gravel but with much less houses.
Ended the day in Ponca City, OK along with what would appear to be every oil rig worker in the state. Decent hotel with a bar and grill attached was just what I needed. Pretty sure I convinced an oil guy from Arkansas at the bar that if he had a more practical bike than his Iron Horse chopper (i.e. something with a normal rake, rear tire smaller than 200mm, luggage, and a passenger seat that doesn't mount with suctions cups) he and his wife would ride more than 4 or 5 times a year. Earned my merit badge for the day. Improved the world.
Pretty slow morning so just 293 miles today.
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ~ A. Lincoln
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Debian-Installer errata
Errata for Jessie (8.0)
This is a list of known problems in the Jessie (8.0) release of the Debian Installer. If you do not see your problem listed here, please send us an installation report describing the problem.
- Desktop installations may not work using CD#1 alone
- Due to space constraints on the first CD, not all of the
expected GNOME desktop packages fit on CD#1. For a successful
installation, use extra package sources (e.g. a second CD or a
network mirror) or use a DVD instead.
Status: It is unlikely more efforts can be made to fit more packages on CD#1.
- Powerpc boot messages are out of date
- Bug #783569: powerpc CDs still talk about using the kernel command line to select a desktop, which is now obsolete - use the tasksel menu instead.
- Problems installing more than one desktop task at once
- Bug #783571: It's not possible to install both GNOME and Xfce at the same time. There is a conflict in dependencies that causes package installations to fail.


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Corpus Christi ranks 2nd on Forbes 2011 Best Cities for Jobs list
CORPUS CHRISTI - The job market in Corpus Christi grew faster and has more momentum than most cities across the country, according to a ranking published by Forbes Magazine.
The magazine listed Corpus Christi No. 2 on its 2011 Best Cities for Jobs list in the midsized category, which are communities with fewer than 450,000 jobs.
Corpus Christi ranked 12th overall when its growth trends and momentum were measured against all cities.
"This is good news for the region," said Roland Mower, the CEO of the Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development Corp., the agency that seeks to recruit and retain employers.
"This is more evidence that things are going really well in the Coastal Bend."
Mower said he has seen job growth in the oil field services, refineries and military-related jobs, and added that the corporation is busier discussing prospective companies now than it has been in at least three years.
Unemployment in the Corpus Christi region was at 7.9 percent in March, according to records from the Workforce Solutions of the Coastal Bend.
That rate is 0.2 percent lower than the rest of Texas and 1.3 percent lower than the national average.
The magazine ranked all 398 metropolitan statistical areas in the country based on 12 years' worth of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to the Forbes Magazine article.
Texas cities took all the No. 1 spots, with Austin ranking highest for large cities, El Paso ranking highest for midsized cities and Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood ranking highest for small cities.
Best cities for jobs
1. Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood
2. Bismarck, N.D
3. College Station-Bryan
4. Midland
5. Dubuque, Iowa
1. El Paso
2. Corpus Christi
3. Anchorage, Alaska
4. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission
5. Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Ark.-Mo.
1. Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos
2. New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, La.
3. Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown
4. San Antonio-New Braunfels
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Juan "Johnny" Clark leaves us
The heartbreaking news just reaches us from friend Fernando Marquet that yet another member of his freedom-fighting Band of Brothers known as Bay of Pigs veterans passed away this morning in his Miami home.
Juan "Johnny" Clark, a professor at Miami-Dade college, authored an indispensable book on the Cuban catastrophe, titled Cuba; Mito Y Realidad.
"Johnny" was also tremendously helpful--at all hours--to your humble servant during his own book writings.
Famous command from current Bay of Pigs Vets Assoc. President Maximo Cruz. He and his men had just gotten the word that they were outnumbered ten to one by Castro's Soviet-led and supplied forces--- and were utterly abandoned by their U.S. patrons with one day's supply of ammo.
(And so they did--and wrote as glorious a chapter in modern military history and the annals of freedom as any you'd care to read.)
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"I'm floored by this,'' said Narduzzi, whose Spartans ranked No. 1 in the nation in total defense from the start to the finish of the season. "I don't even know what to say.''
The other finalists for the were: Rhett Lashlee, offensive coordinator/quarterbacks, Auburn; Philip Montgomery, offensive coordinator, Baylor; Kurt Roper, offensive coordinator/quarterbacks, Duke and Jeremy Pruitt, defensive coordinator, Florida State.


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Crunchy Maple Brown Sugar Granola Bars
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Crunchy Maple Brown Sugar Granola Bars
As hectic schedules grow only more crazed thanks to the beginning of the new school year, it's a challenge just to find time to squeeze in three square meals, let alone healthful snacks. There's no need, however, to slow down when you have wholesome, lightly sweetened, and completely customized granola bars in your pantry. Whether you like them crunchy or chewy, chocolaty or fruity, there are endless flavor options for both. Perfect for busy kids and adults alike, this easy and satisfying staple is always good to have on hand.
- Ready Time : 0 min
- 1½ cup old fashioned rolled oats
- ¼ cup sliced or slivered almonds
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup dark brown sugarm firmly packed
- 6 tablespoons canola oil
- 1½ tablespoon maple syrup
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- Preheat your oven to 350°F. Lightly grease an 8-inch square baking pan.
- Place oats in a food processor, and pulse them just briefly to break them down a bit; three 1-second pulses should do the trick. Transfer oats to a large bowl along with almonds and flour. Stir to combine.
- In a separate bowl, mix together brown sugar, oil, maple syrup, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt until smooth. Add these liquid ingredients into the bowl of dry; and stir well.
- Pour the mixture into your prepared pan, and firmly and evenly pack it down.* Bake for 22 to 25 minutes, or until the entire top is amber.
- Score into bars immediately after removing the pan from the oven, and let cool. To reduce crumbling, wait until the granola bars have reached room temperature before you cut them.
Quick Tip: To quickly and easily pack the granola bar mixture into the pan, lightly grease the bottom of a measuring cup. Use it to smooth and press the mixture firmly into place.
Tropical: Add 1/3 cup unsweetened coconut flakes, and swap out the sliced almonds for an equal measure of finely chopped dried pineapple. Eliminate the cinnamon and add 1 teaspoon orange zest.
Double Chocolate: Replace 1/4 cup of the oats wth 1/3 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder. Mix in 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips or finely chopped chocolate.
Gingersnap: Add 2 teaspoons ground ginger, 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg, and a pinch of ground cloves; increase the cinnamon to 1 teaspoon. Swap out 2 tablespoons of the maple syrup for molasses. Add 1/4 – 1/3 cup finely diced crystallized ginger, if desired.
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The appointment slots feature lets you set one period of time on your calendar, divided into available time slots for people to reserve. For instance, professors can have their students reserve time during office hours each week, or a hair salon could let anyone visiting their website schedule an appointment during business hours.
- Sign in to your Google Calendar account at https://calendar.google.com.
- Make sure that you're in Week view or any Day view, since the appointment slots can't be created when you're using any of the other Calendar views.
- Click anywhere in the calendar grid. In the event bubble that pops up, click Appointment slots.
- Indicate the details for the appointment slots using these fields:
- What: Enter a short title for the appointment slots, like "Professor Brown's Office Hours."
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Nairobi — In the past few weeks, there has been a great deal of debate over whether or not women should wear trousers. OMWA OMBARA looks at the origins of this item of clothing that has generated so much controversy.
Deputy Police Chief Stanley Kilonzo has assured Kenyan women of police protection against trouser haters and warned that anybody who tries to strip or harass women wearing trousers will meet the full force of the law.
His assurance came in the wake of the recent stripping of two women in Mombasa's Mwembe Tayari and Kongowea markets and leaflets circulating in the coastal town that gave March 1 as the deadline for women to stop wearing trousers and minis.
The leaflets did not, however, indicate whether women in the armed forces or departments of the civil service, whom the law allows to wear trousers to work, would also be affected by the dealine.
In January this year, 54 women were stripped naked in Oyugis town in Nyanza Province by local youth for wearing trousers or "dressing shamelessly". Shortly afterwards, an Oyugis resident telephoned a local station, Ramogi FM, and not only justified the action but warned that, "If they continue dressing in ways that make us (men) suffer, we shall rape them".
The general feeling among the critics of trouser-clad women is that trousers are strictly a male item of clothing, and that by wearing them, women are intruding into male fashion.
In recent weeks, local radio stations have been receiving calls from emotionally charged men - and some women as well - claiming that by wearing trousers, women are not only provoking men to rape them, but are also largely responsible for the spread of HIV/Aids in the country.
Most of the callers argue that only men should wear trousers, with some quoting verses from the Bible to the effect that women should not wear men's clothing and vice-versa. Others even claim that some women wear trousers to disguise their intention of usurping their husbands' role as the head of the family.
Trousers come in various styles, some designed for women but the question is, do men really have the exclusive right to wear them? And just where did this controversial item of clothing originate anyway?
Trousers were first popularised by the British colonisers. Well, we adopted their language, why not their mode of dressing?
Trousers: "Two-legged outer garment for a man or a boy reaching from the waist to the ankles," says my dictionary.
But where did the British find them?
Nowhere in ancient history can they be found. Egyptians had something resembling African cloth. The Greeks preferred to go naked, or simply clad in a sheet. The Romans had their toga. All were basically a one-piece, loose-fitting garments.
Even though men and women dressed differently, the men's version was closer to a dress than to a pair of trousers. The Scots wore kilts. Africans wore leaves or skins around their waists, while some like the Maasai wore wrap-around skins - skirts really - or sheets round their shoulders, which were more like dresses.
There were exceptions of course. The indigenous "savages" of Western Europe, who did not want to be conquered by the Romans, wrapped fur around their legs and bound it with rope. Perhaps that may be considered the origin of the design for trousers. The fur clothing may not have been as convenient to wear as modern trousers, but it not only made the wearers' movements easy, but also kept them warm in winter.
After some time, the "savages" conquered the Roman empire and found the luxury of linen cloth and knitted wear. So they made all kind of clothes in different colours, but based on a design to wrap the legs separately. Some went up to the ankle, some were knee-length, some wide, some tight, some went round the foot.
The new rulers later became the kings and queens of the European empires, and the richer they became, the more elaborate their trousers got. Soon a person's dressing became a reflection of one's standing because every stratum of society had its own design. But at that time, only men wore trousers; women wore dresses.
Since clothes were a symbol of status, especially trousers, it was not surprising that the leaders of the French Revolution did away with the different styles. They produced a standard version of trousers, which they called "culotte". The culotte was a white, body-hugging garment that made the wearer appear naked from afar.
As a result, the opponents of the French revolution disparagingly referred to them as "sans-culottes" (without culottes). But the culottes marked a radical departure from the old empire's way of doing things, and the era of elaborate trousers was gone.
But the revolution did not last, and Napoleon, the first post-Revolution French leader, who wanted to build an empire, introduced trousers as we know them, together with the bowler hat. The hat has been forgotten, but the trousers were imitated by the Germans and the British, and crossed the Atlantic to the New World.
With the industrial revolution, trousers came in particularly handy because they were well-fitting, thereby reducing their chances of getting caught in the machines in the factory. So trousers were there to stay.
Fashion changed a lot, but the basics remained the same. And trousers were worn by men - until the women's liberation movement used the garment as a symbol of revolution.
Sources attribute the popularisation of trousers in the New World to a poor German Jew called Levi Strauss, who migrated to the US. in search of a better life. After crossing the US without finding gold, he ran out of money. With no money to buy clothes, he cut off some of the material covering his horse-drawn wagon, which was made of a very thick cloth, and used it to make a pair of trousers.
Other gold-prospectors liked the sturdy cloth and Strauss's trousers became a hit. Strauss thought of a fancy name, hiding the fact that he had made them himself, and said they came from Genua, but the gold prospectors somehow just named the trousers "jeans". Strauss had found his goldmine.
Gradually, the jeans got improved, with steel studs were added for reinforcement. In 1930, some engineer invented the zip, not for clothes, so the story goes, but for wastebaskets, and other containers. The rest is history.
Now men think it is normal masculine dress, but its roots are to be found in the wilderness of savage Europe.


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Lapham is bursting with pride when he tells his wife that Tom has come to him for a job. This completely contradicts her estimation of Tom the night before. Until now, Lapham had a definite dislike for the offensively aristocratic Coreys. He had treated the notion of Tom's affection for Irene with the contempt which such a ridiculous superstition deserved, Howells mentions. Yet, now as he watches the young people together, he is ready to accuse himself of being the inventor of a romance between the instantly liked Tom Corey and his beautiful daughter, Irene.
Lapham's pride has nearly reached its peak, for he now has a Corey under his thumb. Also, his daughter may capture Tom as a husband, again raising their social position. Silas' greed has not been sated; he desires more social recognition. From this peak, he must fall and be humbled. He will be forced to face the reality of his crude background and the unjust way he made his money, his only claim to social position.
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Don't they know? They're supposed to stick to the wear-once rule! They have endless money, multiple stylists and access to all the top designers; their wardrobes should be disposable. Who do they think they are committing such a fashion faux pas?
But somehow, when Michelle Obama wears things on multiple occasions, it's eco-friendly, practical, down to earth. After all, she's just like you and me.
First off, there's the Moschino oversized-bow blouse she wore in London and again for "Take Your Child to Work Day" at the White House. "How chic," we proclaim. And her undeniable fondness for Junya Watanabe cardigans (she wore one on her G20 Summit trip and another to the aforementioned White House event). "How modern," we point out. And what about her Inauguration Day Jimmy Choo "Glacier" pumps? They made an encore appearance during her G20 trip. "How great that she had another chance to wear the green shoes," we think to ourselves.
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The stop motion YouTube brooming craze has come to Israel, and the first local clip couldn't be better. The Israeli version titled 'Witch From Tel Aviv' shows Patricia Maya Wilczak – until now, just another Tel Aviv resident — riding a squeegee in the city's Port area.
Her high-tech startup entrepreneur brother, Hubert Wilczak, and his filmmaker girlfriend, Natasha Duzev, decided to hop on the brooming craze and create a fun video of their own. Patricia was asked to jump 2000 times over a three-kilometer route.
The original idea was to offer a short video similar to the Jackson Holland "Harry Potter" Vine that kicked off the craze in March but Hubert Wilczak told POP3 that they quickly realized it would be cooler to do a longer video with the sights of Tel Aviv in the background.
The filmmakers also decided to use the squeegee instead of a broom – a typical Israeli household cleaning tool.
The Tel Aviv video has been picked up by social media channels and is going viral fast. Watch it here:
Around the world, Harry Potter fans – and Jackson Holland fans – have been showing off their Quidditch skills in short brooming videos.
YouTube is literally brimming with brooming clips. Among the better ones, there's this racing clip:
This muggle shows how to launch a flight properly:
And, brooming in the suburbs has never looked so fun:
Of course the Israeli version takes all the brooming videos up a notch. A big LIKE!
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I just returned from a trip to England and I highly recommend Made in Italy in London. They appear to have several locations but we went to the only one we knew of at the time, as mentioned in Lonely Planet, in Chelsea on King's Rd. I can't speak for the others but I assume they all have true WFBOs. You can easily see the oven in the back of the kitchen from the dining area but I didn't get too close a look because none of the cooks spoke any English and seemed quite confused about my curiosity, so I politely gave up and left. Good table bread and good pizza though...oh, and the house Sangiovese was excellent too.
I'm always curious about restaurants with true brick ovens: where did the oven come from? Did they build it or is there an actual company that goes around building them for restaurants. I assume that since this particular restaurant has several locations they must have a pretty solid method for cranking out new ovens when they need them, a dedicated or well-trusted builder of some sort. I asked, but they didn't understand what the hell I was asking so, again, I gave up. Even the hostess/waitress, who seemed to comprehend my question since she clearly spoke English, didn't have a clue where the oven came from and reacted as if it was positively the strangest question she had ever heard. Oh well.
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Looks like a commercial modular oven to me:
Here's FB's version of what I think it is, from the look of it.
The Forno Bravo Commercial Pizza Oven Family
Nice brickwork arch in front: that's a nice style.
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I saw that photo too, but that isn't the oven in the restaurant I went to. I could clearly see bricks lining the inside of the oven I was eating from. I take your point though.
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I am English and often venture into places i hear have an oven, i ask many questions and likewise, people think i am not right, these people have no passion at all, what a waste
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