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Photo By  Simon StarlingSimon Starling, Black Drop, 2012, 35mm film transferred to HD (27 minutes, 42 seconds), joint acquisition of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, funded by the Anchorage Foundation; and the Dallas Museum of Art, funded by the DMA/amfAR Benefit Auction Fund.  Simon Starling / images courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York
Photo By  Simon StarlingSimon Starling, Black Drop, 2012, 35mm film transferred to HD (27 minutes, 42 seconds), joint acquisition of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, funded by the Anchorage Foundation; and the Dallas Museum of Art, funded by the DMA/amfAR Benefit Auction Fund.  Simon Starling / images courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York
Photo By  Simon StarlingThe 28-minute film "Black Drop," by conceptual artist Simon Starling, was acquired in a joint venture between the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Photo By Steve Campbell/Staff2/10/04--Fernando Dovalina will be one of the speakers at an upcoming journalistic forum. Photo by Steve Campbell
Photo By Steve Campbell/StaffLes Wood (left) and Fernando Dovalina are the director and one of the writers respectively. of "the Gospel According to Tammy Faye." the Bering and Friends production of "The Gospel According to Tammy Faye". The play was written by Houstonians Fernando Dovalina and J.T. Buck and is directed by Les Wood. (Sunday, July 15, 2007, in Houston. ( Steve Campbell / Chronicle)
Photo By John CalabreseSugar Land city leaders are planning plan an $84 million indoor arts and concert venue they hope to open in 2016 on a 21-acre lot off U.S. 59, between the University of Houston campus and Brazos River Park. The facility is part of a 2007 plan to make Sugar Land a tourism and entertainment destination, bolstered by Sugar Land voters' approval of two bonds to fund construction of an entertainment venue. Sugar Land City Council has contracted Houston-based's Ace Theatrical Group to build the 6,500-seat, 200,000-square-foot theater and manage its operations for 30 years.
Photo By John CalabreseMembers of the Houston Symphony League and Houston Symphony staff listen as Kirill Gerstein tries out concert grand pianos at the Steinway & Sons factory in New York City.
Photo By Courtesy city of Sugar LandArchitectural rendering of the Sugar Land performing arts center
Photo By Courtesy city of Sugar LandArchitectural rendering of the Sugar Land performing arts center
Just as resourceful folk make lemonade out of lemons, writers can spin stories out of natural disasters.
Marking the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Ike's landfall, Houston playwright Fernando Dovalina has created "Eye of the Storm - Tales From Hurricane Ike," a program of short plays, comic and dramatic, showing the various ways catastrophe can strengthen - or break - the human spirit.
A former Houston Chronicle assistant managing editor, Dovalina retired after 31 years at the paper and has since turned his attention to writing plays. He has had many of his scripts produced at area theaters, including "The Man in the Trunk," "American Homefront" and "The Gospel According to Tammy Faye."
In case anyone has forgotten, Dovalina reminds us that Ike turned out to be the costliest hurricane in Texas history and the third costliest in U.S. history, after Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy.
So what perspectives do his nine playlets bring to the disaster?
In one, six infamous hurricanes take human form to argue about which of them had the biggest impact on U.S. presidential politics.
In another, a woman fights to get the last bag of ice left in Houston.
Two are monologues: a slacker teen's description of a hurricane party gone awry; and a dog's-eye view of surviving the storm.
Other vignettes show various figures -a newspaper reporter, a bartender and his customers, a transsexual man and his wife, the owners of a Mexican restaurant - either riding out the storm or coping with its messy aftermath.
One of the pieces even allows 2001's Tropical Storm Allison her own bragging rights - as the textbook case of a storm that didn't even meet the hurricane designation but caused massive damage nonetheless.
Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays, through Sept. 21, with an "industry night" show at 8 p.m. Monday, at Spring Street Studios, 1824 Spring. It runs in repertory with the premiere of Michael Weems' "A Common Martyr," which plays at 8 p.m. Sundays, Tuesdays-Wednesdays, through Sept. 18, at the same location.
Tickets are $15, available at eyeofthestorm.brownpapertickets.
Everett Evans
Houston, Dallas museums two-stepping
So much for an Interstate 45 art rivalry. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Dallas Museum of Art have made their first joint acquisition, a practice they plan to continue.
The directors of Texas' largest encyclopedic art museums believe it's better to share some works than store them. With funds from the Anchorage Foundation and an annual benefit auction in Dallas, the museums have jointly acquired "Black Drop," a 28-minute film by conceptual artist Simon Starling.
"It's a convenient way to share the wealth and make sure as many people as possible get to enjoy works," said Gary Tinterow, the Houston museum director.
Shared collecting isn't new but it is a trend, said Maxwell Anderson, the Dallas museum director.
"Time-based" installations like film are especially well-suited to joint ownership. Requiring dedicated environments that consume a lot of real estate, they aren't shown for long periods. Films also can be exchanged electronically, solving myriad transportation, storage and insurance issues.
"It's truly uncomplicated," Anderson said.
Made in 35 mm and transferred to high-definition format, "Black Drop" connects the history of cinema with several centuries' worth of scientific observation into the transit of Venus, a phenomenon once used in calculating the distance between the Earth and sun. The title comes from an optical illusion that occurs - and creates a margin of error - when Venus' path moves near the sun's edges.
The subject offers an interesting metaphor for the traveling of art from one city to another, Anderson said.
He and Tinterow, who have been friends since college, were hired in Texas at about the same time. "We were curious about the much-discussed rivalry," Anderson said. "The distance from Dallas to Houston is greater than New York to Boston, and they don't compete. ... It makes Texas a better art state if we work together."
This isn't the Dallas museum's first joint acquisition deal in Houston; with the Menil Collection, it co-owns an untitled work by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.
Anderson and Tinterow are open to more shared collecting, in virtually any media, if the conditions are right.
"I'm not saying we're moving toward time shares," Anderson quipped, "but neither of us has a perspective that anything's off the table."
Independently, each museum also has acquired sculpture from Starling's recent project. Houston owns the two-piece "Transit Stones," made last year from discs of yellow marble with black marble insets. Dallas owns 2011's "Venus Mirror," also a disc shape.
"Black Drop" and the sculptures will have their Texas debut next May at the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts in Spring, a Houston museum partner.
Was that about finding neutral territory? Apparently not.
"The Fincher staff came to us and asked for a project, and this was on our mind," Tinterow explained.
Molly Glentzer
Pianist unveils new grand piano
When Kirill Gerstein plays Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Houston Symphony this week, he will be responsible for more than the performance. He'll want the piano itself to please the audience, too. After all, he picked it out.
The concerts will inaugurate the orchestra's new Steinway concert grand piano, a 100th-birthday present from the Houston Symphony League, which raised nearly $130,000 to buy the instrument. Then, like many people who need help finding just the right gift, the group turned to Gerstein.
He met league members and Houston Symphony staffers at Steinway & Sons' factory in New York in March. They watched and listened as Gerstein worked his way down a row of concert grands and offered his advice. Gerstein said the piano that was selected "has a larger sound than the current concert pianos and will be a great fit for all types of repertoire. If it sounds good now 'at birth' then it will only get better as it matures.".
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 should test the instrument's power and poetry. Guest conductor Peter Oundjian and the orchestra also will perform Giuseppe Verdi's Overture to "La Forza del Destino," Claude Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" and Ottorino Respighi's "The Pines of Rome." Before each concert, Gerstein and Roger Daily, the orchestra's education director, will talk about the Steinway and why it was selected. The concerts will be at 8 p.m. Thursday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sept. 15. Details: 713-224-7575, houstonsymphony.org.
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Trial in the case of an Iranian, Azim Aghajani charged with unlawful importation of firearms and explosives to Nigeria continued on Thursday at the Federal High Court, Lagos, Nigeria with his Nigerian accomplice, Ali Abbas Usman testifying that he does not know that the container which he was contacted to assist move to Banjul, Gambia was carrying firearms.
This trial relates to allegations that arms imported from Iran but destined for The Gambia were to be transshipped from Lagos to the Gambia. However thirteen containers were intercepted before the transshipment. The prosecution says that the thirteen containers that were purportedly carrying building materials were actually carrying arms.Led in examination by his counsel, Ali Yahuri Usman told the court that his Iranian contact who engaged him for the service informed him that the container was carrying building materials.He narrated how he came in contact with the Iranian contact, having worked as a journalist in the Iranian Broadcasting Service before returning to Nigeria to set up a private business. According to him, the owners of the container sought his help because they informed him that there was no direct shipment from Iran to Gambia and so will be needing a transshipment from Lagos, Nigeria. Usman who told the court that he had no prior knowledge of shipping business or clearing of goods said he discovered that the transshipment of the containers could not be executed when it landed in Lagos except by a registered shipping company."After some efforts to do the transshipment, my friend in Lagos, Mohammed Tukur informed me that it is only a registered clearing agent that can handle the job and that if I could not get anyone, Aghajani should get one. So I called Mr Behimel, the proprietor of Behimel Trading Company, Iran who engaged my services to inform him about the development in the transshipment", he stated.
The trial judge, Okechukwu Okeke thereafter adjourned the matter till tomorrow for continuation of examination.Aghajani and Usman are standing trial on a five count charge of unlawful importation of arms and explosives to Nigeria.Aghajani who had earlier been led in evidence by his counsel, Mr Chris Uche, SAN, told the court that prior to the engagement of his services by Behimen Trading Company in Iran for the shipment of a 13 by 20 feet container, he had never been to Lagos.He said he was engaged to do a transshipment of the container from the Nigerian port to Gambia.He told the court that the first problem he encountered during the transshipment was that in the bill of lading, the name of the consignee and destination of the consignment was vacant.He said since he was disturbed by this discovery, he wrote to Behimen Trading Company in Iran but received no reply.Aghajani told the court that all the while, he was never aware of the content of the container, but had only dealt with the bill of lading in which it was stated that the consignment consisted of building materials."From the content of the bill of lading, I concluded that there was no unlawful item in the container. I was not opportuned to see the content of the consignment until I was apprehended at the Naval Ordinance at Apapa, where the content of the container was revealed to contain arms and explosives. I sincerely never knew of the content of that consignment, neither did I make any representation that the consignment belonged to me", Aghajani testified.He said that before his apprehension, he had employed the services of one Kingsley, to whom he had explained the content of the bill of lading.According to Aghajani, Kingsley had said that he had communicated with the Nigerian custom service, and was now making preparations for the safe transshipment of the consignment.
The two are facing a four- count charge of illegal importation of arms and ammunition comprising bombs, grenades, and rockets among others into Nigeria.

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September 28, 2006 1:37 PM PDT
Hurd: HP's founders would be appalled
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"I wish I had asked more questions," Hurd said in his opening statement before being questioned by a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "There are signs I wish I had caught."
In addition to the congressional hearing, which has stretched for more than six hours, there are federal and state criminal probes, as well as a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation over how HP conducted and disclosed its probe into unauthorized leaks to the press. HP has admitted targeting the phone records of more than a dozen people, including current and former board members, nine journalists, two employees and an unspecified number of others.
HP's boardroom drama
Hurd repeated an earlier apology to the victims and to HP's employees.
"If Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were alive today, they'd be appalled. They'd be embarrassed," he said.
Asked about a key report that detailed the methods used in the leak probe, Hurd again said that he had not read it. "Not my finest hour, Mr. Chairman," he said.
"I am accountable for everything that's sent to me" Hurd said, acknowledging he should have read it. "I pick my spots where I dive for details."
Under questioning, Hurd said he didn't know about the pretexting of phone records, the digging through trash or the monitoring of reporters and board members. He said he did know about a fake e-mail tip to a reporter.
At the time, he said he thought that method appropriate. "It was appropriate to find the leak," Hurd said, but added he would not approve similar techniques now. "With the benefit of hindsight, I wouldn't do them again."
Hurd said that he does not recall approving or being told of the tracer technology that was included in the e-mail. Rather, he said, his understanding was that the e-mail, sent to CNET News.com reporter Dawn Kawamoto, was designed to make the source call into the company to verify the information.
"The objective was to get whoever it was that was leaking the information to call back into the company to verify that the information was accurate," Hurd said. "I think that's what the team's objective was."
Hurd was also asked about HP's other use of tracers, given that security worker Fred Adler testified earlier Thursday that he has seen them used a dozen or two dozen times in his more than three years at the company. Hurd said he didn't know of any use of tracers to track business rivals.
"I have no evidence of that," he said. "I have no knowledge of us using it against a competitor or in any improper way."
Hurd said he did not have a comment on whether he thought Dunn's assertion was reasonable that she thought phone records were public documents.
But, asked whether that would be appropriate, he said: "I would not want somebody, without my permission, to have my cell phone bill," he said.
Rep. Ed Whitfield, the chair of the subcommittee holding Thursday's hearings, concluded the hearing by praising security worker Vince Nye, who was one of the few HP employees to question the company's investigative techniques. In a Feb. 7 e-mail, first reported by News.com, Nye said he had "serious reservations" about what the company was doing.
Nye said that his understanding of the methods HP was using to obtain telephone records using false pretenses "leaves me with the opinion that it is very unethical at the least, and probably illegal," he said in the e-mail, which was sent to former HP ethics chief Kevin Hunsaker and former security manager Anthony Gentilucci. Both of those men have left HP and were among a host of people who refused to answer questions in the early part of Thursday's hearing.
"If it is not illegal, then it is leaving HP in a position of (sic) that could damage our reputation or worse," Nye said in the e-mail. "I am requesting that we cease this phone number gathering method immediately and discount any of its information."
Whitfield joked: "I think that's an employee at Hewlett-Packard that needs some sort of recognition, maybe get the day off or something."
Following his testimony, Hurd bolted down a side hallway and did not respond to questions.
Click here for a PDF transcript of Hurd's opening remarks.
CNET News.com's Greg Sandoval and Anne Broache contributed to this report from Washington, D.C.
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- Hurd'll Keep His Job
- HP CEO Mark Hurd will come away from HPGate with his job in tact. He's doing a good job of acknowledging his role in the scandal, while being non-committal.
I'm sure HP's Board and shareholders are happy with statements like: "I am accountable for everything that's sent to me, I pick my spots where I dive for details."
Now that he's got Patricia Dunn's job as HP Chair I'm sure the board'll drive him and whoever's named HP's new Chief Ethics Officer to abide by HPs' policies & values http://www.iwantmyess.com/?p=104
There are better ways to keep a competitive edge http://www.essentialsecurity.com/news.htm?id=43
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- Where's the Leadership?
- Since when is "I was too occupied digging in the weeds in other places to bother" a valid excuse for the CEO of a company to be held personally responsible for malfeascance? Maybe if he were the COO. But certainly not as CEO. This is the difference between being a manager and a leader!
This sorry saga demonstrates that HP's issues are deeper than operational improvements (i.e. layoffs, cost cutting, salesforce reorg, etc.) can address.
Hurd has proven adept at cutting costs and squeezing employees into delivering for the quarter. Both at NCR and HP he is unproven as a positive moral and ethical force. Whether his actions (or the actions of people in his employ) violate the law or not, the CEO should be held personally responsible for failing to set the right moral example for the company.
His performance to date should have no bearing as to whether he remains CEO or not. Leaders accept personal responsibility (and the fallout that comes with it). Hurd should resign.
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- HP's founders would be appalled
- That's probably true, but they'd also be appalled at the protection given to reporters who were probably guilty of eliciting leaks from HP employees. That's the real story here - reporters who practice insider crime themselves by attempting to bribe or coerce corporate employees into leaking information. Why isn't anyone digging deeper in THIS end of the story??
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- HP's founders would be appalled
- That's probably true, but they'd also be appalled at the protection given to reporters who were probably guilty of eliciting leaks from HP employees. That's the real story here - reporters who practice insider crime themselves by attempting to bribe or coerce corporate employees into leaking information. Why isn't anyone digging deeper in THIS end of the story??
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- fear of punishment is no way to lead america!!
- running around with a pitch fork!? Invent! or Else!! no thanks bigbro.. HP execs kinda deserve it though.. all execs that use these practices do.. who wants to code for a jerk...
and there are hardly any niches left to fill... the things to be done to get everything back on track show no signes of profit..
"living wages are not in the peoples will..." - and you can quote me on that!
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Grimaldi's to Open Manhattan Location in 'Limelight Marketplace'
[Photograph: dandeluca on Flickr] How strange. During the Limelight's heyday I was but a hayseed in Kansas, but even I had heard of the place. It's being turned into a retail mini mall to be called Limelight Marketplace and, guess what? It's going to house Grimaldi's first Manhattan location, according to a press release emailed to Slice.... More


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£7m funds will help low-skilled workers in Cornwall
Posted: November 20, 2012|
Thousands of low-skilled workers could have their prospects boosted thanks to a £7.8 million scheme to make Cornwall's workforce one of the best in Britain.
The Work Place Learning Project, which is being driven by European Union money, is aimed at 6,000 people who have left school with few qualifications.
The scheme will focus on those with jobs and is being led by Cornwall College with the help of partners including the Eden Project and Truro and Penwith College.
Mark Yeoman, head of communication at European Social Fund (ESF) Convergence, said the investment would make a real difference.
"People are at the core of our future economic competitiveness, they inspire and drive business success.
"ESF Convergence is playing an important role in boosting the skills of our workforce, creating new opportunities in the labour markets for the individuals involved and helping shape the value of our economic future.
"The breadth of the partnership brought together by Cornwall College in this project reflects the growing diversity of our economy."


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Indian Country Report
A large portion of the District of Arizona is Indian Country - more than any other district in the United States - and is home to one of the largest Native American populations. With guidance and encouragement from many who have long worked in and for Indian Country, we have sought to improve the way this office collaborates with Arizona's 22 tribal governments and colleagues in law enforcement. We are proud of the progress this office has made but recognize there is more work to do. This report highlights this progress as well as some of the challenges we continue to face.
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- 2013 Indian Country Report
- 2012 Indian Country Report
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Attorney General Memo (April 1, 2013) PDF
VAWA 2013 and Tribal Jurisdiction Over Non-Indian Perpetrators of Domestic Violence
Operational Plan
The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona developed its Operations
Plan for Public Safety in Indian Country in August 2010. This plan lines out seven components the District feels are essential to achieving the results sought: Communication, Investigations, Victim Advocacy, Training, Outreach, Reduction of Violence against Women and Children, and Accountability and Continuous System Reviews.
Read the entire Operations Plan-- Public Safety in Indian Country. (PDF)
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Letter to Tribal Leaders regarding Updates (PDF) | 03/23/2011
Letter to Tribal Leaders regarding SAUSA Program, Webpage and Juvenile Transfers (PDF) | 11/24/2010
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Copper Down Slightly at $7,193.75 a Tonne
Three-month copper was down 0.1 percent, or $7.20, at $7,193.75 per tonne this morning.
Three-month copper was down 0.1 percent, or $7.20, at $7,193.75 per tonne this morning.
Copper for March delivery was nearly flat this morning, increasing 0.4 percent, or $29.43, to reach $7,357.25 per tonne.
Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange today rose $1.48, to $7,383.25 a tonne.
Copper prices increased today following news that the Chinese government will make its currency more flexible and market driven.
Copper prices hit their highest level in a week due to optimism that the Federal Reserve will decide today to avoid tapering stimulus until the economy shows more signs of recovery.
Copper prices continued to decline September 24. In London, copper futures fell to $7,172.85 a tonne, down $71.73 from the previous session.
Concerns about the future of the Federal Reserve's stimulus program caused copper to fall today.
Reuters reported that after rising to its highest price in almost a month earlier today, benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) edged lower, trading at $7,280 per tonne.
Copper prices rose today ahead of the Federal Reserve's announcement regarding its stimulus program.
Bloomberg reported that copper is heading towards the biggest two-day rally since May after the Federal Reserve announced that it will be carrying on with its stimulus plans. Also, unexpected expansion in China has helped stoked the fire under copper prices. Copper for September was p 2.1 percent to $3.185 a pound in New York, in early morning trading.
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Desalination using permanent electric fields generated by electrets is investigated and described.
Electrets are fabricated from non-conducting polymers such as polypropylene sheets.
Electrets do not give up their charges but force positive and negative charge migration out of the flowing stream of salt water.
Since electrets do not supply an electric current, the process is viewed as low cost as the stream flow or thermal energy can be used for the energy needed for ion separation.
This work tests Douglas MacGregor's patents (4,958,514 and 5,061,376).
The work provides a critique of these patents and of MacGregor's reported results.
The work tests electric fields strengths up to 18kV/cm.
To allow better temperature control, the tests are with column lengths of 4 and 8 feet rather than the 18 foot length in MacGregor's design.
The study also investigated a shorter, wider configuration.
The modest results to date have not supported the large removal efficiencies reported by MacGregor.


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Do you think wearing on-body cameras on duty should be mandatory?
Within the past few years INTERPOL has worked to demystify this highly specialized and elite organization. Muth, of the Maryland State Police, is currently serving a two year term as assistant chief, in charge of the State Liaison Division to INTERPOL-U.S. National Central Bureau (USNCB) in Washington, D.C.


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"SuperBod, A Hero's Homecoming" is the theme for the 2013 Washburn University Homecoming celebration, which will begin Monday, Oct. 21, and feature daily activities leading up to the Washburn vs. Lindenwood University football game at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at Yager Stadium at Moore Bowl. For more information about Washburn's Homecoming and to view the complete schedule, go to Washburn.edu/homecoming. Ichabods also can follow Washburn Homecoming on Facebook at Washburn University Homecoming and Twitter with #Superbod.
Photo Opportunity – Friday, Oct. 25
5 to 7 p.m., Ichabods will mix and mingle at Washburn After Hours at the Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center. Attendees also will bid on their favorite Top Hat during the silent auction and view the winning cakes from the WU Chef competition. Proceeds from the Top Hat sales benefit United Way of Greater Topeka.
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Cynthia Bair Van Dam
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- Cindy Bair Van Dam joined the Department of Literature faculty in 1995. She earned an MA from American University in 1993 and a BA from the University of Nebraska in 1991. Prior to teaching at AU, she taught at Howard University. Her professional interests include political rhetoric, children's literature, and composition theory. Her less than professional interests revolve around Jane Austen, college football, professional cycling, reality television, and academic novels.
DegreesMA in Literature, American University
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Book Currently Reading:The Goldfinch (Tartt); And the Dark Sacred Night (Glass); What We Lost is Nothing (Snyder)
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The bombings are never claimed, and so regular Syrians struggle to figure out who is to blame.
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How Old Were You When You Rode Your First Coaster?
Do You Still Enjoy Riding Roller Coasters Now?
Is the Coaster Still Operating? Did You Ride It Again?
No, it was torn down years ago. Yes, I returned to ride it many times.
What Is Your Favorite Roller Coaster?
El Toro at Six Flags Great Adventure
Name of the First (Major) Roller Coaster You Rode
Not sure of the exact name. I think it was Cyclone or Wildcat. It was at Salisbury Beach in Massachusetts.
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I was a bit buzzed (a shock, I know! at age 16!) and on a dare from one of my friends boarded the old wooden coaster. I was incredibly scared, and thought I was going to faint while climbing the rickety lift hill and staring down the first drop. After that though, it was great fun.
I had been on smaller coasters, Wild Mouse-style ones and others, but never one of the big boys. After riding--and surviving--the Salisbury Beach coaster, i felt a sense of mastery, overcame my fears, and have loved coasters ever since.
Lessons Learned
- I wouldn't necessarily recommend a state of intoxication for a first coaster ride.
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People have a right to be ignorant. Just as we can choose to damage our health by overeating, smoking cigarettes and neglecting to take prescriptions, we can also choose to remain uninformed on policy issues.
Perhaps ignorance makes sense sometimes. According to economists, "rational ignorance" comes into play when the cost of gaining enough understanding of an issue to make an informed decision relating to it outweighs the benefit that one could reasonably expect from doing so. For example, many who are preoccupied with family, school, work and mortgages may not consider it cost-effective to sift through a mass of often-inconsistent data to understand, say, the risks and benefits of nuclear power, plasticizers in children's toys or the Mediterranean diet.
The deluge of conflicting data relating to various foods' costs and benefits exemplifies the challenge inherent in making informed decisions. In a recent study, Jonathan Schoenfeld and John Ioannidis found that, despite the media hype, "scientific" claims that various foods cause or protect against cancer were frequently not supported by meta-analysis (analysis of pooled results from multiple studies). As Ioannidis put it, "People get scared or they think that they should change their lives and make big decisions, and then things get refuted very quickly."
People are particularly likely to exercise their right to ignorance – rational or not – when it comes to issues of science and technology. A 2001 study sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation found that roughly half of people surveyed understood that the earth circles the sun once a year, 45 percent could give an "acceptable definition" for DNA, and only 22 percent understood what a molecule was.
In 1995, the cosmologist Carl Sagan expressed concern about the trend toward a society in which "clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline ... we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness." More recently, the British polymath Dick Taverne warned that "in the practice of medicine, popular approaches to farming and food, policies to reduce hunger and disease, and many other practical issues, there is an undercurrent of irrationality that threatens science-dependent progress and even the civilized basis of our democracy."
Indeed, while people are entitled to believe in horoscopes, trust in crystals to bring good luck or buy into quack medicine, such "junk science" becomes a serious threat to society when it is allowed to influence public policy. Consider, for example, the response last year by some activists in Key West, Florida, to efforts aimed at stemming the spread of dengue fever, a serious, potentially life-threatening disease, which reappeared in the area in 2009 after being absent for more than 70 years.
Using genetic-engineering techniques, the British company Oxitec has created new varieties of the mosquito species that transmit dengue fever. The new mosquitoes contain a gene that produces high levels of a protein that stops their cells from functioning normally, ultimately killing them. As long as the modified male mosquitoes are fed a special diet, the protein does not affect them. When released, they survive just long enough to mate with wild females, passing along the protein-producing gene, which kills their offspring before they reach maturity – resulting in the species' elimination after a few generations.
After receiving the needed approvals, Oxitec worked with local scientists to release the modified mosquitoes in the Cayman Islands and in the Juazeiro region of Brazil. According to the published accounts of these experimental releases, the approach was highly effective, reducing the infected mosquito population by 80 percent in the Cayman Islands and by 90 percent in Brazil. The company is awaiting approval from the Brazilian Health Ministry to implement this approach as a dengue-control policy.
While similar releases in Florida are years away, some locals have already reacted forcefully to the program. One activist gathered 100,000 signatures on a petition to oppose using the mosquitoes in eradication efforts. But her concerns – "What if these mosquitoes bite my boys or my dogs? What will they do to the ecosystem?"– have no basis in science and thus reflect voluntary ignorance. With a little research, she would have discovered that male mosquitoes do not bite, and that the released mosquitoes (all of which are male) die in the absence of their specially supplemented diet.
In fact, the experimental releases revealed no detectable adverse effects of any kind. But presenting the facts in a reasonable manner, as Florida mosquito-control authorities have attempted to do, has not been enough to change opponents' minds. Unfortunately, those who choose ignorance are immune to – or simply prefer to ignore – reason.
Why are so many people afraid of so many things? Cancer epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat identifies several factors, including "the success of the environmental movement; a deep-seated distrust of industry; the public's insatiable appetite for stories related to health, which the media duly cater to; and – not least – the striking expansion of the fields of epidemiology and environmental health sciences and their burgeoning literature."
Regardless of their reasoning, people have a right to choose ignorance. But allowing that choice to drive public policy constitutes a serious threat to scientific, social and economic development.
Henry I. Miller, a physician and fellow in scientific philosophy and public policy at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, was the founding director of the Office of Biotechnology at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. THE DAILY STAR publishes this commentary in collaboration with Project Syndicate/Institute for Human Sciences © (www.project-syndicate.org).
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IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox announced today that James Cameron's Oscar®-winning film, Titanic will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX® 3D format and released for a limited engagement in 149 select IMAX® theatres worldwide. Titanic will open in 79 domestic IMAX theatres simultaneous with the film's wide release on April 4, 2012 and a total of 70 international IMAX theatres, 63 of which will open on April 4. Additional international playdates will be added as pending bookings are confirmed. Since its initial release on Dec. 19, 1997, Titanic has grossed $1.8 billion globally and remains the second-highest grossing film of all time.
"James Cameron is a visionary filmmaker who masterfully harnesses the power of technology to elevate storytelling to another level," said Greg Foster, IMAX Chairman and President of Filmed Entertainment. "We're excited to work again with our partners at Fox, Lightstorm and Paramount as we present the next iteration of the Titanic story and transport audiences into this compelling tale like never before."
Titanic: An IMAX 3D Experience has been digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® through proprietary IMAX DMR® technology. With crystal-clear images, laser-aligned digital sound and theatre geometry that maximizes field of view, IMAX provides the world's most immersive movie experience.
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I saw Korn for the first time at Brixton academy on the 2nd of May .....
Now I've seen shed loads ( metallica in 84 - theres too many to mention ect ect ect ) but I simply wasn't prepared for the sheer brilliance I witnessed in London .
Please , please Korn , I realise lifes gonna be busy in the near future , but return home to tour the uk asap .
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Is it that time of the month? These are the words no man should ever utter. How about this for a diplomatic alternative: "Are your GABA receptors playing up?"
You may be spot on. It seems that these brain cells are to blame for some women's monthly mood swings.
Many women feel a little irritable before menstruating, but up to 8 per cent suffer extreme symptoms, including anxiety, depression and fatigue.
Symptoms of what's called premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) begin around a week before menstruation when women are in the "late luteal phase" of their cycle and progesterone levels are at their height. Symptoms quickly subside after menstruation, once the so-called "follicular phase" has kicked in.
To investigate potential mechanisms behind PMDD, Andrea Rapkin at the University of California, Los Angeles used a PET scan, which shows where glucose is being metabolised to identify activity in the brain. The idea was to analyse the brain activity of 12 women with PMDD and 12 without the condition, at various times throughout their menstrual cycle.
Before each scan, the women rated the severity of any symptoms they had on a scale of one to six. Blood samples were also taken to test their hormone levels.
Fluctuating hormones were not to blame: all the women experienced similar jumps in progesterone levels throughout their cycle, irrespective of whether they had PMDD or not.
However, brain analyses showed that in the late luteal phase women with PMDD had heightened activity in their cerebellum. Rapkin also discovered that the larger the spike in activity, the worse the symptoms.
Women without PMDD had no such spike in activity, even though their progesterone levels were also rising during this time.
Animal studies have shown that progesterone can change the shape of receptors present in the cerebellum, which forms connections with the limbic and prefrontal cortices, which are responsible for controlling emotion and behaviour. Changes to the receptors make them less receptive to a chemical called GABA.
GABA is the brain's main inhibitory molecule – the "off" signal for neurons. One of its functions in the brain is to limit activity associated with stress and anxiety.
Rapkin suggests that in PMDD, progesterone alters the shape of GABA receptors in the cerebellum, making it harder for GABA to bind to them and damp down anxiety.
Lorraine Dennerstein a psychiatrist at the University of Melbourne, Australia, who researches the relationship between ovarian hormones and women's mood, suspects that women with PMDD and premenstrual syndrome have GABA receptors that are particularly sensitive to progesterone, and so change shape easily.
Suzanne Abraham, a gynaecologist at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia, says that PMDD was not taken seriously as a condition, but this study confirms it "is 'real' and can be measured", she says.
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Agrees with this. People forget their was an era before the Attitude Era. And like it or not we are living in a new one. Besides, the Attitude Era had it's lame moments as well. Like World's Strongest Man as Sexual Chocolate getting Mae Young pregnant, and then she gives birth to a hand. Their our many things they need to bring back from the past eras, but the attitude ain't necessarily one of them.
It should've been when Nexus launched that Cena turned to lead them - that was the time to turn him. Anything now seems like too little too late.
@cnoevl21 The Attitude Era was great because it was new, and because that era wasn't dominated by "political correctness" and sponsors. If the WWE went back into full on Attitude Era mode, WWE would get hammered by sponsors and parents turning off the channel. Edginess and a willingness to let the wrestlers be more adult than kiddie is needed, but what REALLY needs to happen is a complete overhaul of creative and how they build wrestlers and shows up. The 80s were largely kid friendly oriented, but they didn't suck because storylines were interesting.
Truth be told, until WWE gets away form "PG" its all pretty much garbage. I honestly watch RAW in 15-20 min. cuz the everything is so boring and predictable. My favorite times in present day WWE is when Cena gets hurt and is off TV for a few months. I honestly dont even know why I still watch it. Bring back the days with DX and NWO, and a silent "crow like" Sting. The attitude era had humor, excitement, sex appeal. Todays WWE has none of those things. At least I used to have enjoyable TNA to watch until Hogan and Bishoff came and ruined it all. Bring back the original ECW, and the old TNA; cuz todays wrestling is pure crap and Cena is the worst of it.
To be honest I don't see the point of Cena turning heel. Cena does not need to turn heel. He is a good role model for kids whether you hate him or not. If Cena was heel he would still be stealing the spotlight. Yes you did make sense in your blog but he would be a heel that is cheered for. Like Eddie Guerero was a heel and he was still cheered for.
I know Cena turning heel would change his gimmick but plenty of superstars have kept thier gimmick for a long time and they are still cheered for.
So yes you make plenty of sense but still Cena being heel is pointless
Great post man you make a great point. A Cena heel turn would be irrelevant if people are going to cheer him lol. Sometimes i wish Cena didn't make wwe so much money so they can be rid of him. I can't see a Cena heel turn being good cuz there's gonna be no surprise feel to it we all expect it to happen and wwe hopes it will make Cena relevant it's just sad.
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Now the long side is divided into two lengths, and the ratio of the shorter of these to the longer is the same as the ratio of the longer to the sum of the two. This is the Golden Ratio, in which, as with political systems where ma'at or eunomy is present - the effective running of the polis made up of individuals - as with such systems the relationship of the parts is found by factoring in the whole of which they are parts. It is a proportion that has repeatedly been found to be aesthetically pleasing, and it is still used widely today. Since it is this that makes the 2 by 1 rectangle so interesting to the Hermetic-Platonic artist and architect, I reasoned that I would expect to find something of significance at the Golden Section of the line in question. I had to now use a different name for the line. I couldn't call it the St Michael Line anymore; I wanted as far as possible to leave that line alone, allowing it its own existence whether as a new or old idea, and to treat this 2 by 1 line as a different entity. I toyed with long names like the Foundational Vitruvian Hypotenuse, but the Golden Diagonal will suffice. So I was after the Golden Section point along the Golden Diagonal.
I had a map in front of me with the line marked along it. With a long ruler, I measured the full length, calculated the Golden Proportion of that, and then measured again to find that suitable spot for the Polis of Ma'at, for Eldorado, the City of Gold. Here was the first revelation. No matter how many times I measured it, the Golden Section of the 2 by 1 diagonal from West Point to East Point through Glastonbury Tor exactly pinpointed the most significant archaeological site in the whole of the Thames Valley, a complex of sites once including an enormous double henge with cursus. It was, of course, that Dorchester-on-Thames site that we have spoken of already.
I began to feel exited. Very exited. I visited Dorchester-on-Thames. Repeatedly. I coined a name for the scheme: Angleland. I even had a vision while lying in bed of a great vortex of light rising from the Dorchester site up into the skies. I felt I had something. Dorchester-on-Thames was a very important centre, perhaps even a royal capital, for thousands of years. There is even an old Welsh story in The Mabinogion - Lludd and Llevelys - that describes how in order to end a fight between two dragons that had been plaguing the land, a measurement of the width and breath of the country was made, with consultation from the king's brother in Gaul, resulting in the pin-pointing of a site in the region of Oxford, and then a beaker of golden mead was buried as part of the healing rite. Oxford is a short way upstream from Dorchester, and in ancient times it was the latter that was the big centre. The place where the mead was buried became known as Dinas Emrys, according to the story, the Fort of Ambrosius, although perhaps it makes more sense that Emrys comes not from the male name Ambrosius but from "ambrosia" in reference to the honey mead, because the story says that it was from the time of the burying of the honey mead onwards that it took this name. (These thoughts of the Fort of the Honey Mead might lead us to the talk in the Taliesin poetry of the Castle of the Honey Mead, but let's not get distracted.) Dinas Emrys is associated with the fight between the two dragons not only in The Mabinogion but also in Geoffrey of Monmouth, but there it has become associated with the Mount Snowdon region. This would be strange - why bury the mead at Mound Snowdon in Wales if the place located by the measurement of the land was near Oxford? A solution presents itself when we consider the Dorchester-on-Thames location. There are two distinctive and well-known prominences in this location called the Sinodun Hills, crowned by those famous copses painting by Nash, the Whittenham Clumps. "Snowdon" could hardly be more similar to "Sinodun", and on one of these two hills, Castle Hill by name, there are to this day the earthen ditches of an ancient hill-fort. This, I suggest, is Dinas Emrys, the Fort of Ambrosia, and this is where the beaker of ambrosia was buried. I've already mentioned that Dorchester is a Beaker Burial site. As an intriguing footnote to the Lludd story, I might mention that The Mabinogion says that before this site was called the Fort of Emrys it was previously known as the fort of a noble youth named Ffaraon Dandde, translated as "Flaming Pharaoh".
I should contact Michel, it seemed to me. A few positive words from him and I could entice publishers to help me share this scheme by means of a published book. Thousands of readers would result in a strengthening of the Morphic Fields of this geometric idea of place, grounding it into the landscape, and thus collectively we could awaken the Albion Osiris, I reasoned, and dreamed of how we could thus activate the foundation of a eunomous High Culture, a New Renaissance or High Civilization of ma'at with its glorious shining capital at Dorecester, The Golden Castle, complete with dreaming spires, Isis statues (this is the spot where the Thames becomes the Isis), Vitruvian temples and Hermetic academies!
But from my written correspondence with Michel it became clear that he didn't want to abandon his St Michael's Line with its 27' bearing. He admitted that "the 26.6' angle is interesting", appreciated the spirit in which I was working, and complemented the attractiveness of presentation, but there was not the emphatic backing of the 2 by 1 angle I'd hoped for. His reaction was understandable: he was now used to defending the Line against all comers.
I pushed on with my investigations. Once I had received this encouragement (from the Dorchester surprise) for the notion that the 2 by 1 alignment was important because of the relation of that rectangle to Sacred Geometry, I had to ask myself the question of how the 2 by 1 rectangle is itself generated by geometric means using compass and straight edge. The answer is through the simple Vesica Pisces pattern, the most elementary generative pattern in Sacred Geometry - generative in the sense that many other forms can be arrived at from this. Having realized this, it next made sense to have a look at how the pattern related to the landscape. One of the two all important intersection points of the Vesica pattern turned out to be on dry land, and intriguingly it pinpointed a sacred site of Piscean pilgrimage even more important in its day than Glastonbury, the greatest of all Britain's pilgrimage centers during the Christian period, namely Canterbury.
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What happens when opera goes pop? There's a grand tradition of opera stars teaming up with pop stars to create memorable collaborations. Here are a few of our favorite results when musical genres collide.
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Lyric's creative consultant Renée Fleming is known for her diverse musical interests. Here she is with the late Lou Reed perform "The Perfect Day" in Prague in 2009. The performance was part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution.
And she has also partnered with crooner Josh Groban, performing a medley from Brigadoon.
The adventurous Anne Sofie von Otter (starring as Clairon in Strauss's Capriccio from October 6-28) is not afraid to expand her musical horizons. She collaborated on an album with Elvis Costello in 2001, and they performed the title track, "For the Stars," on The Late Show with David Letterman.
As a native of Sweden, it only seems natural that she would release an album of covers of ABBA songs and others written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. Here is her cover of ABBA's "Like An Angel Passing Through My Room."
To celebrate Barcelona being chosen for the 1988 Olympics, pop icon Freddie Mercury and the great soprano (and Barcelona native) Montserrat Caballé teamed up to record a theme song, fittingly titled "Barcelona." They went on to record an entire album together, which would be Mercury's last.
Luciano Pavarotti is the king of pop duets. His "Pavarotti and Friends" concerts featured duets with U2, Lou Reed (another "Perfect Day" rendition), Sheryl Crow, and others. Here he is performing "It's a Man's World" with James Brown.
And he performed "I Hate You, Then I Love You" with diva Céline Dion.
Like Pavarotti, who joined him as one of "The Three Tenors," Plácido Domingo has also achieved a great deal of crossover success. He had a hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Perhaps Love," a duet with John Denver recorded in 1981.
And he's performed with his Muppet alter ego Plácido Flamingo on Sesame Street.
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Whither White America?
"Majority-minority" is an unusual term—by definition, minorities are no longer such if they're in the majority—but it's a convenient shorthand for what most people expect to happen in the United States over the next few decades. A growing population of nonwhites—driven by Asian and Latino immigration—will yield a country where most Americans have nonwhite heritage, thus "majority-minority."
The most recent analysis from the Census Bureau seems to bear this out. Last year was the first year that whites were a minority of all newborns, and based on current rates of growth, they'll become a minority of the under–five set by next year, if not the end of this one. Overall, the government projects that within five years, minorities will compromise a majority of all Americans under the age of eighteen, something to keep in mind when trying to project future political support for both parties.
There's more: For the first time in more than a century, the number of deaths among white Americans exceeds the number of births. More than ten percent of the nation's 3,143 counties are "majority-minority," and in 13 states and the District of Columbia, the under–five population is already "majority-minority." By 2043, the Census projects, America's white majority will be gone.
One fact stands out in all of this, however. The fastest growing group of Americans—by far—fall under the "multiracial category." If past research is any indication, these Americans are likely the product of intermarriage betweens whites and Hispanics (the most common interracial pairing) or whites and Asians (the next most common one). While we identify them as nonwhite, we don't know how they'll identify themselves in the future.
My hunch is that—as (certain groups of) Latinos and Asians integrate themselves into American life—a good number will identify themselves as white, with Hispanic or Asian heritage, in the same way that many white Americans point to their Irish or Italian backgrounds.
Indeed, if there's anything to take away from the history of white as a racial category, its that it's flexible; who "counts" as white is fluid, and changes with social and economic circumstances. The only constant to "white" is that it isn't "black." Even now, a biracial person of African American heritage is most likely to be identified as simply "black."
Which gets to something I've argued in the past. While there's no doubt the United States will become a place where people of Asian and Hispanic heritage are common, that's not the same as saying it will become a "majority-minority" country. Given our history, and continued assimilation, intermarriage, and upward mobility among Latino and Asian Americans as a whole, there's a good chance the United States will remain a "white" country, where "white" includes people of Hispanic and Asian heritage.
Yes, as always, there will be exceptions. While the children and grandchildren of middle-class Columbian immigrants may find themselves on the "white" side of the ledger in our future racial landscape, that might not be true for the children and grandchildren of Mexican migrant workers. And you can make similar judgments with other racial groups—our changing demographics will complicate our notions of race and class.
But all that means is that the color line will change, not that it won't endure. There will still be white Americans in the future, and they'll still be the majority. They'll just have a different character than what we know now.
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Very true, the color line will not disappear, it will just shift around. Hopefully someday, probably many generations from now, racism will fade into memory. However it is so heavily ingrained into the American culture, economy and "justice" system that it will take a very long time for racism to be effectively excised from our country. My main reason for the comment is that for many years now the shifting of the color line has already transcended skin color. Any person, regardless of the color of their skin, can "talk white". Some dark skinned people are referred to by some racists as "white blacks" or "oh, he's really white". The basic fact that some of the people they are talking about have diverse ancestry or perhaps are half European-American, such as the president of the United States, seems to be irrelevant. To typical American racists the president's race is "black", regardless of his actual background. By the way, I do not pretend I don't have any racism within myself, I'm partly a product of American culture so have some racism implanted in me. However intellectually I completely reject it as a social construct that is a tool of oppression.
Thanks again for a thoughtful article.
Wed, 2013-06-19 13:48
I like the advantaged-disadvantaged dichotomy better than the majority-minority. Unless we clarify the terms of subordination, e.g., economic, social, or in numbers, the minority-majority distinction doesn't tell us which group has the upperhand? in terms of power? Whites were the minority in South Africa (only in numerical terms)? Being White or Black doesn't make much difference in actual terms if your group still has the power or lacks it? Main question is therefore is not whether Whites will be the minority group (numerically) in twenty years but whether who will have the economic, political, and social power per se ?
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Pilots honored for safely landing plane at Denver International Airport despite thick smoke
DENVER - As Captain Micah Peery and First Officer Andrew Kinnear were preparing to land ExpressJet Flight 5912 at Denver International Airport on April 3, smoke billowed into the cockpit and cabin.
Within seconds, Peery could not see Kinnear sitting next to him.
"At that point, the smoke was so thick I had my head and chin over the steering column so I could see the instruments," recalled Peery, 37, of Bartlett, Tenn., near Memphis.
The smoke in the cabin of the Embraer 145 aircraft, where 19 passengers sat, was just as thick. "(The flight attendant) said she could hardly see her hand in front of her face," said Peery.
With his head less than a foot from the instrument panel, Peery was unable to look out of the window to see anything outside of the plane. He relied solely on the instruments and Kinnear to help him safely land the plane after several harrowing minutes.
For their heroism, Peery and Kinnear received the Superior Airmanship Award from the Air Line Pilots Association.
"There aren't a lot of words I can say. It is very humbling that they would choose us to get this award," Peery said.
The Air Line Pilots Association, formed in 1931, represents over 59,000 pilots in the United States and Canada. According to the group, the Superior Airmanship Award is among the highest honors they bestow on "professional pilots who, when faced with an extraordinarily challenging situation or event, displayed exceptional flying skills and abilities."
At the time of the incident, Peery and Kinnear, of Waukesha, Wis., had only flown together once before. They made a brief flight April 2, the day before the incident, from Chicago to Peoria, Ill., a flight that lasted only about 30 minutes.
Peery, who had a wife and three young children waiting for him back home in Bartlett, tried to focus only on landing the plane.
"I just knew I was going to fly it all the way to the ground, and everything was going to be fine," Peery said.
Peery and Kinnear were able to safely land the plane shortly after 6 p.m., less than five minutes after the smoke filled the plane. The flight attendant quickly evacuated the plane onto a cold, snowy runway in Denver.
"Some of the passengers were crying ... some were in shock. It was a surreal experience," Peery said.
An investigation conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration revealed the smoke was a result of an engine failure. The incident has not shaken his confidence in the safety of flying, Peery said.
"The odds that something is going to happen on your drive to the airport is much greater than something happening on the aircraft," Peery said. "It's the safest way to travel."


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Releasing genetically modified organisms into the environment will become much easier if proposals from the European Commission are approved. The Commission is particularly keen to relax restrictions on releasing genetically modified plants, saying that they pose no risk, but scientists in Britain and the US say there is no firm evidence for this claim.
The Commission issued the proposals last week in a discussion document aimed at improving the competitiveness of Europe's biotechnology industry. The German government says it will try to push through the proposals during its presidency of the European Union, later this year.
The planned changes will alter two existing directives. The first, on 'contained use' in laboratories and factories, lays out precautions for preventing the escape of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Amendments to this directive would ease the rules on notifying the authorities and gaining their permission before certain modified microorganisms are used.
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American Idol Ratings Still Suffering Despite Winning Wednesday Night
With the Top 10 season 12 hopefuls taking on songs by past American Idol winners on last night's performance show, it may have felt a bit like American Idol Rewind. What's even more interesting is the ratings for the FOX show were a bit like looking into the past as well. As it has been all season long, the show continues to have the worst ratings in its history on most nights since 2002.
While Fox won the night, American Idol ratings slid down again by 3 percent to 3.6 in the 18-49 age group from last week's 3.8. The show was up a tiny bit in overall viewership, but the 18-49 age group is what the advertisers really care about when they are looking for where to spend their money on TV. Even so, American Idol ratings still beat out the rest of the competition on Wednesday night, including CBS' Survivor: Caramoan.
Here is how the numbers for the networks broke down in the adults 18-49 category:
FOX -- 3.6 rating; 13.08 million viewers
CBS -- 2.0 rating; 8.22 million viewers
ABC -- 1.2 rating; 3.95 million viewers
NBC -- 1.1 rating; 3.81 million viewers
CW -- .4 rating; 1.51 million viewers
The FOX reality show has not been the ratings juggernaut it once was, and even the new judges this season don't seem to be giving it much of a kick of new life. While it is still winning on Wednesday night, American Idol is currently getting trounced by CBS comedies on Thursdays, especially monster hit, Big Bang Theory. CBS is so confident in that show, they just announced that their finale will go against Idol's finale. It's a dog-eat-dog world in ratings, so it'll be interesting to see how it all pans out.
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| Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- Civic and public organizations of south Korea comprising intellectuals, religionists, media persons and lawyers formed a promotion committee for the enactment of a "special law on probe into the truth about massacre of Koreans during great Kanto quake and reinstatement of victims, according to Thongil News, internet newspaper of south Korea.
A press conference was held at the human rights committee on May 26.
In the press conference speakers said the list of some victims of the great Kanto quake 91 years ago was opened to public during the transfer of the south Korean embassy in Tokyo in November last year.
The massacre of Koreans at that time was not an accidental one entailed by an earthquake but an organized crime unprecedented in the world history which the Japanese military committed in collaboration with the police and civilians, branding Koreans ambitious of national independence as delinquent ones, the speakers said, adding:
The probe into the cruel massacre of Koreans by soldiers, police and ultra-right organizations at the time of the 1923 quake is a work to bring to light before the world the inhuman and barbarous nature of the Japanese imperialists.
We will clarify the fact that Japan has ignored the massacre of Koreans and covered up the relevant records for the past 91 years and prove the shameless nature of the Japanese authorities.
The speakers vowed to try their best until the passage through the Diet of the above-mentioned special law.
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Species retain their identity because they live in different places, fail to have sex with each other or, if they do, produce infertile offspring. Hybrid sterility is due to genes, but because most species cannot be crossed it is hard to find out which ones are involved. Experiments with two kinds of Mexican fish show how little change is needed to keep species apart.
The platyfish lives in streams and is covered with elegant dark spots. In other streams nearby lives the swordtail, which looks much the same, although the males lack spots and have a long tail. The two species never cross in the wild, but can be persuaded to do so in the laboratory. Hybrids are spotty and survive reasonably well, at least in an aquarium, but if they are crossed in their turn to one of their own parents ...
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Nairobi — A group calling itself "Kenya Ni Kwetu" left mock coffins at the gates of Parliament, in a demonstration "to bury years of impunity," charging political rulers of corruption and calling for change ahead of elections due next year.
Around 200 protestors left 49 coffins - marking the number of years of Kenya's independence from British colonial rule - at the Parliament building and waved placards with slogans such as "Wanted: leaders who pay taxes."
"We have a present for MPs : 49 coffins for 49 years of impunity in this country," said Boniface Mwangi, a photographer and demonstration organiser.
"We need young Kenyans to vote and know who they vote for," he added.
Kenya has been mired in multiple corruption scandals since independence in 1963, but despite political promises to crack down on graft, high level suspects have seldom faced justice.
"For quite a long time, we had leaders who exploited us," said Edwin Ochieng, a demonstrator in the peaceful protest, where there was a small uniformed police presence. "We ask for an accountable leadership."
Kenya is due to hold the first general election since deadly post-poll violence fours years ago in March 2013.
"We want a peaceful ballot revolution," one placard read. "Wanted: competent leaders," read another.
Kisumu Town East MP Shakeel Shabir met the demonstrators outside Parliament buildings and told them to take advantage of the freedom guaranteed by the current Constitution.
"This is your right. During the previous tenure you could not demonstrate, you could have been forcefully dispersed. We now have a say as earlier the country had its owners," Shabir said.
The country is in preparations for highly contested general election with new elective seats that were created with the current Constitution.
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