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Ralph Eugene Reed, Jr., (born June 24, 1961) is a conservative American political activist, best known as the first executive director of the Christian Coalition during the early 1990s. He sought the Republican nomination for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, but lost the primary election on July 18, 2006 to State Senator Casey Cagle. Reed is also a part of, and implicated in, the ongoing Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal. Reed and his wife, the former JoAnne Young, were married in 1987 and have four children. __FORCETOC__
At the CRNC, Abramoff, Norquist and Reed formed what was known as the "Abramoff-Norquist-Reed triumvirate." Upon Abramoff's election, the trio purged "dissidents" and re-wrote the CRNC's bylaws to consolidate their control over the organization. Abramoff promoted Reed in 1983, appointing him to succeed Norquist as Executive Director of the CRNC.
Reed roomed with Abramoff in Washington, D.C., and later introduced Abramoff to the woman who would become his wife. Reed participated in the weddings of both Abramoff and Norquist. Norquist would later serve as President of Americans for Tax Reform, an anti-tax nonprofit lobbying firm in Washington, D.C.
SFA became largely dominated by members of Maranatha Campus Ministries, and this brought Reed into contact with Ed Buckham and Jim Backlin, the current Legislative Director of the Christian Coalition. This forged Ralph Reed's links to Tom DeLay through Buckham and Backlin.
Students for America established chapters on college campuses up and down the East Coast and held conferences. Among other issues, SFA supported Helms' bid for re-election and organized abortion clinic protests. After Ralph Reed left SFA for a bigger job at the Christian Coalition, SFA faded out of existence by the early 1990s.
Reed led the organization from 1989 to 1997, achieving national prominence which included an appearance on the cover of TIME. He resigned and moved to Georgia after federal prosecutors began investigating allegations by the Christian Coalition's chief financial officer, Judy Liebert. At this point, the group's finances were collapsing, and the IRS and Federal Election Commission were investigating it.
Building on the remnants of Robertson's Presidential campaign, the Coalition organized former Robertson supporters and other conservative people of faith to oppose political liberalism. Eschewing the confrontational tactics of street protest learned as a College Republican, Reed projected a "softer" public face for Christian conservatism. Reed repeatedly described himself as a "guerrilla fighter" who "traveled at night" and put "enemies" in "body bags" before they even realized he had struck.
Both Reed and the Christian Coalition rose to national prominence in the early 1990s, protesting against the Clinton administration's policies. Reed and the Coalition were widely credited with helping mobilize Christian conservatives in support of Republican candidates in the 1994 Congressional elections.
The influence of the Coalition had waned by the 1996 Presidential election, when Reed helped Senator Bob Dole win the Republican nomination for President. Dole lost the general election to President Bill Clinton. Reed's "Contract with the American Family," an imitation of Speaker Newt Gingrich's 1994 Contract with America, failed to ignite activists.
At the pinnacle of his power, Reed appeared on the cover of TIME on May 15, 1995, under the banner "The Right Hand of God: Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition."
In 1996, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) brought an enforcement alleging that the Christian Coalition "violated federal campaign finance laws during congressional elections in 1990, 1992 and 1994, and the presidential election in 1992." Reed called the action "baseless." In part because of the allegations, the Internal Revenue Service denied tax exempt status for the Coalition.
Liebert alleged that Hart, "a close friend with whom Reed regularly golfed and vacationed," was "regularly marking up the Coalition's bills." "Liebert also charged that Reed had turned over, free of charge, the Coalition's entire mailing list to Hart's firm." The Coalition subsequently offered Liebert a severance package that included a "letter of recommendation, a year's salary of $80,000, and another $25,000 to cover legal expenses, provided that she agree not to publicly disparage the Coalition.
Reed himself resigned in April 1997 while the investigation was pending. Reed denied that his resignation was related to the "Judy Liebert thing." He was never charged with any crimes. In December 1997, after Reed's resignation, the Christian Coalition sued Hart's firm, Hart Conover, for using its mailing list to entice donors away to other organizations. The Coalition blamed its own subsequent decline on Hart's misuse of the list. In March 1998, the Coalition and Hart reached an out-of-court settlement.
Skandalakis was a moderate Republican who had openly courted gay voters in earlier campaigns. He was opposed in the Republican primary by the staunchly conservative State Senator Clint Day, a devout Christian whose parents had founded the Days Inn motel chain.
In the primary, Skandalakis placed first among the five Republican candidates, but did not receive a majority of the vote and was forced into a run-off with second place finisher Day. The other three candidates endorsed Day, but Reed orchestrated a series of negative attacks on Day that included charges that Day had "desecrated Indian graves" on a plot of land owned by a Day family foundation. He even staged a news conference at which tribal leaders, wearing headdress and other ceremonial clothing, attacked Day as a "vandal" and "grave robber." Day chose not to respond in kind.
Reed's strategy initially met with success, as Skandalakis narrowly defeated Day in the Republican primary run-off. However, Skandalakis went on to lose the general election in a landslide and was widely blamed for the defeat that year of heavily favored Republican candidates for Governor and Attorney General. Skandalakis ran television advertisements calling the black Mayor of Atlanta a "buffoon" and promising to "kick Atlanta's ass," helping to stir an anti-Republican backlash among black and urban white voters. Another Skandalakis advertisement accused the Democratic candidate, Senator Mark Taylor, of drug abuse. Taylor sued for libel, and Skandalakis paid a $50,000 settlement after the election.
Skandalakis subsequently pleaded guilty to a felony charge of lying to federal investigators in a public corruption investigation and was sentenced to a six month prison term. Reed distanced himself from Skandalakis after the campaign, saying that he had not been responsible for the television advertising and that all his activities had been "legal."
Its clients have included now-bankrupt energy trader Enron, software giant Microsoft, educational programmer Channel One News, the Puerto Rican statehood movement, business interests advocating normal trade relations with the People's Republic of China, the eLottery Internet gambling firm, and at least two Indian gaming tribes introduced to Reed by Abramoff. Century Strategies was most recently hired by the cable industry to fight newly proposed federal decency standards.
Reed's initial foray into campaign consulting met with failure; virtually all of his general election candidates were defeated. In addition to his involvement in the Skandalakis campaign, Reed helped Alabama Governor Fob James win renomination in a bitterly contested Republican primary, only to become the first Republican in over a decade to lose the Alabama governor's election. Reed's two challenger clients for Congress, Gex Williams of Kentucky and Cary Hofmeister of Indiana, were also defeated. Reed was accused of running "some of the most vicious and racist campaigns of the election season." Reed blamed the failed impeachment attempt against Clinton for Republican setbacks. (Nina J. Easton, Gang of Five, pages 398, 400)
Immediately after the 1998 election, Reed shifted gears to corporate work, writing an e-mail to Abramoff asking for help "humping" corporate clients.
In 1999, Abramoff helped Reed get hired as a consultant subcontractor for Preston Gates & Ellis, a large law firm founded by the father of Microsoft's Bill Gates.
Reed's $30,000 per month contract with Enron was arranged in 1999 by Karl Rove, principal campaign advisor to Texas Governor and future President George W. Bush. Rove did not want Reed to work against Bush, but he also did not want Reed to be publicly associated with Bush in the early stages of the campaign. The existence of Reed's contract was revealed in 2002, when a federal investigation was launched into Enron's bankruptcy.
Reed is credited with orchestrating attacks on Senator John McCain in the 2000 South Carolina presidential primary, together with Roberta Combs, then head of the South Carolina Christian Coalition, who later took over the national Christian Coalition. Bush's defeat of McCain in that primary came at a key moment and ended McCain's early momentum from an upset victory in the New Hampshire primary.
Reed's $20,000 per month contract with Microsoft proved a minor embarrassment to the Bush campaign in the summer of 2000 when it was revealed that the software giant, which was being prosecuted for antitrust violations, had hired a number of Bush aides as consultants and lobbyists. Reed apologized for the "appearance of conflict" but continued to accept the money until early 2005, when Microsoft terminated Reed in the midst of the Indian gaming scandal.
The greatest controversy about Reed's business dealings has come from his fellow conservatives, who have criticized Reed's choice of clients and suggested that he has inappropriately profited from his credentials as a conservative Christian leader. A conservative Alabama group called Obligation, Inc. is a fierce critic of Reed's client Channel One News, arguing that the company pumps classrooms full of "commercials for junk food and sleazy movies."
Century Strategies received over $4.2 million via Abramoff for work in Texas and Alabama opposing the opening of new Indian casinos. The work was commissioned and paid for by tribes with competing casinos, represented by Abramoff. Reed later claimed he did not know that the funds came from gambling proceeds.
Reed's company was also paid by another Abramoff client, eLottery, to oppose the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act, although Reed subsequently denied knowledge of this.
Yet another controversy revolves around activity in August 1999, when Reed's firm "sent out a mailer to Alabama conservative Christians asking them to call then-Rep. Bob Riley (R-Ala.) and tell him to vote against legislation that would have made the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands subject to federal wage and worker safety laws." This proved controversial as the United States Department of the Interior reported that workers were exploited, including being "subject to forced abortions and ... forced prostitution. It also alleged that the garment industry and other businesses set up facilities on the Northern Marianas to produce products labeled 'Made in the USA,' while importing workers from China and other Asian countries and paying them less than U.S. minimum wage under conditions not subject to federal safety standards. Abramoff represented the commonwealth as a partner of Greenberg Traurig and received $4.04 million from 1998 to 2002. Greenberg Traurig, in turn, hired Reed's firm to print the mailing.
Reed's principal opponent was David Shafer, a former executive director of the Georgia Republican Party recruited to the race by Congressman John Linder. Shafer campaigned on Republican gains made when he served as state executive director in the early 1990s, but was hampered by his subsequent association with the failed campaigns of Mack Mattingly, Guy Millner and Clint Day in the later half of the decade.
The state convention, held at the Cobb Galleria in May 2001, was the most heavily attended and longest running in the history of the party. Reed won on the first ballot, capturing almost 60 percent of the delegate vote against Shafer, who won 40 percent, and a third candidate, lobbyist Maria Rose Strollo, who won one percent.
Reed was endorsed by the "Confederate Republican Caucus," a block of almost 500 heritage activists who had participated in the state convention as a protest against the removal of the Confederate battle emblem from the State Flag. Associated with the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Confederate Republican Caucus claimed credit for both Reed's victory and the large margin. They would later claimed that they were "double-crossed" by Reed.
Documents released by federal investigators in June 2005 show that Reed's 2001 campaign for State Chairman was secretly financed with contributions from the Choctaws, an Indian gaming tribe represented by Abramoff.
The party experienced success in the 2002 elections under Reed's leadership. Saxby Chambliss was elected as U.S. Senator, and Sonny Perdue was elected as Governor. Reed, however, was asked to relinquish his job as State Chairman by Perdue, whose long-shot candidacy was largely ignored by Reed in favor of Chambliss.
Reed supported the candidacy of Congressman Bob Barr, who had moved into the neighboring district of Congressman John Linder and challenged his renomination. Linder decisively defeated Barr.
Reed was also criticized by some Republican activists because of the alleged business activities of his firm, Century Strategies. Critics claim that if Reed had sought to run for reelection as State Chairman, members of the State Executive Committee were ready to publicize the details of these allegations.
Reed claimed support of the White House, access to the Bush fundraising apparatus and command of a large grass roots organization. His official declaration of candidacy on February 17, 2005 largely cleared the field of opposition; Keen, Stephens and Oxendine all left the race. Keen, a former state chairman of the Christian Coalition, was the first to drop, followed quickly by Stephens. Although insisting at the time of Reed's entry into the race that he would "never" withdraw, Oxendine ended his candidacy two weeks later. Only Cagle, a relatively unknown lawmaker, remained in the race to challenge Reed.
Reed's early lead in fundraising evaporated by December 31, 2005, when disclosure reports showed Cagle raising almost twice as much money as Reed in the last six months of the year.
In a widely publicized act, 21 state senators signed a letter in February 2006 calling on Reed to withdraw from the race, "declaring that his ties to Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff could jeopardize the re-election of Gov. Sonny Perdue and the rest of the GOP ticket.... Reed rejected the petition as a useless stunt, and expressed confidence that his record and ideas would prevail."
Aides to Speaker of the House Glenn Richardson, ostensibly neutral in the race, released a poll that showed Reed's mounting negatives could hurt Perdue and the Republican ticket. On March 21, 2006, political consultant Matt Towery of Insider Advantage released a poll showing Reed represented an eight point drag on the Perdue ticket.
Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, whose own ambitions had been upended by Reed's candidacy, endorsed Cagle in June 2006, saying that Reed's nomination threatened the success of the Republican ticket.
Two dozen members of the Reed steering committee, including a Reed State Co-Chairman, resigned their affiliation with the Reed campaign and endorsed Cagle, but Reed continued his pursuit of the nomination.
After Reed attacked Cagle for accepting contributions from the real estate development industry, Senator Chip Pearson, a developer and former Reed backer, sent Reed a letter demanding the return of over $6,000 in campaign contributions.
Reed responded to his difficulties by criticizing Cagle for "negative campaigning." Cagle's staff includes several former employees and associates of Reed, whom the Reed campaign has labeled "disgruntled."
Reed incurred the wrath of the Southern Heritage Movement by failing to keep any of the campaign promises he had made to them, and when he began his campaign for Lieutenant Governor four years later, they struck back with a vengeance.
The Georgia Heritage Council, Southern Heritage Political Action Committee, and Southern Party of Georgia, three leading organizations comprising the Southern Heritage Movement, all declared "guerrilla" war on his candidacy. Reed's campaign appearances were the repeated subject of protests and demonstrations called "flaggings" because of the use of the Confederate Battle Flag as a protest symbol.
The Georgia Heritage Council published a series of cartoons lampooning Reed. These cartoons compared him to Judas and denounced his role in the Abramoff gambling scandal.
Reed attempted to revive his campaign with high powered endorsements. Hoping to make himself more acceptable to Christian conservatives in the 2008 Presidential race, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani traveled to Georgia to campaign for Reed. A Democrat, conservative former United States Senator Zell Miller, also endorsed Reed.
On July 18, 2006, Reed was decisively defeated in the Republican primary, losing the nomination to State Senator Casey Cagle. Final returns show Reed losing by twelve percentage points, collecting 44 percent of the vote to Cagle's 56 percent. According to Politics1.com, Reed indicated he would not likely seek elective office ever again.
Reed was named in the scandal arising from lobbying work performed by Jack Abramoff on behalf of Indian gambling tribes. The scandal arose from the discovery that Abramoff and his junior partner Michael Scanlon had fabricated an artificial threat to Native American tribal gambling casinos in order to then bill those same tribes for lobbying efforts to 'save' them. Abramoff may have received as much as $82 million from the tribes to defend their casinos from a non-existent threat.
E-mails released by federal investigators in June 2005 revealed that Reed secretly accepted payments from Abramoff to lobby against Indian casino gambling and oppose an Alabama education lottery. However, just as damaging were revelations that Abramoff and Scanlon, and to a lesser extent Reed, celebrated the billing of massive amounts of money to the tribes. Additional e-mails released in November 2005 show that Reed also worked for another Abramoff client seeking to block a congressional ban on Internet gambling. These cases are being investigated by multiple federal and state grand juries and by the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Abramoff pled guilty to three felony counts in federal court, raising the prospects of Abramoff testifying against others.
Those e-mails and other evidence revealed the participation of the Christian Coalition in the alleged fraud, particularly the Alabama chapter of the Christian Coalition, which received large amounts of donations from the casino money. It is alleged that Abramoff engaged Ralph Reed to set up an anti-gambling campaign to include the U.S. Family Network, the Christian Coalition, and Focus on the Family in order to frighten the tribes into spending as much as $82 million for Abramoff to lobby on their behalf.
To represent him in connection with the scandal, Reed has retained white collar criminal defense attorney W. Neil Eggleston of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. Eggleston served as White House associate counsel during the administration of President Bill Clinton, a one time Reed nemesis. Reed's campaign spokespeople insist that his conduct in the scandal was legal.
In December 2005, three Texas public interest groups filed a complaint with Travis County Attorney David Escamilla on December 1,2005, alleging that Reed failed to register as a lobbyist in 2001 or 2002 when he was working for Abramoff. The groups cite e-mail messages from Reed to Abramoff released by the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in which Reed claimed to have made contact with the Texas Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General. Escamilla said on March 27,2006 "his office had concluded its investigation -- but that a two-year statute of limitations on misdemeanors from 2001 and 2002 had expired."
On June 22, 2006 the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs released its final report on the scandal.
The report states that under the guidance of the Mississippi Choctaw tribe's planner, Nell Rogers, the tribe agreed to launder money because "Ralph Reed did not want to be paid directly by a tribe with gaming interests." It also states that Reed used non-profits, like Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, as pass-throughs to disguise the origin of the funds, and that "the structure was recommended by Jack Abramoff to accommodate Mr. Reed's political concerns."
On July 7, 2006, The National Journal ran a lengthy article, entitled "Reed In The Rough," detailing the extensive relationship between Abramoff and Reed. The article noted, for example, how Reed helped Abramoff land his influential slot on George W. Bush's Interior Department transition team. The article further detailed how Abramoff prodded Reed for help at the Interior Department even before Bush won the election in 2000. An e-mail to Reed on October 24, 2000, had Abramoff openly asking Reed to help him get on the transition team. "This would be really key for future clients for both of us," he wrote to Reed. "Let's discuss.


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text: The other wide-open weight IMO. So much talent and experience here, without the head-case factor that some of the top 84's seem to have. Still going back and forth on this one. I'm tempted to predict a Hasanov victory (like last year) but he is now 0-2 against Kumar. I still think Shahin is the best guy at the weight but he hasn't shown it lately. Garzon, I presume, is still suspended?


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That punch was anything but lucky. Kim is just trying to be modest. He STORCHED Silva and I'm for one glad.
I agree. Kim was putting everything he had into almost every punch, kick and elbow thrown last night. I thought it was a very entertaining fight and should have been fight of the night.
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According to me, animals shouldn't be hunted and used for selfish needs of man. Hunting of animals should be banned as it creates an imbalance in environment. Example: Extinction in the tiger species. Animals have done nothing to deserve this but still they get killed for no reason. While animals are been hunted they also feel pain, as humans have a nervous system which allows them to feel pain. In today's day, man has being self centered and greedy. The day is not far when man will realize the ill-effects of hunting animals. Animals are been hunted for thrill but why don't he understand that a balance in the environment should be maintained for his benefit. Man is the creator of crisis, happening recently in the environment. So I feel that hunting is dangerous for the Environment.
Deepanjali Mishra, IX-F, St. Xavier's High School, Borivali (E)
A drastic rise in the number of species encoutering extinction has brought us to realize that the preservation ands protection of wildlife is certainly not as easy as we think. One of the major threat to wildlife from us is hunting. Human beings have been using countless hunting methods since the begining. Earlier the main or rather the sole motive was to obtain food for survival. However nowadays hunting is used for incredibly large number of purposes and sadly also for fun. But is it really worth killing the beautiful creation of nature to feed ones agreed? Hunting has brought an end to numerous species and to manipulate the wildlife in such a cruel way is something I consider completely atrocious. Therefore in my opinion hunting is bad for the environment.
Juhi Sawant, Grade 10, Ryan Global School, Andheri
According to me, animal hunting should be banned. It is cruel and I oppose the ignorant and barbaric slaughter of such innocent animals. I cannot stand the thought of killing animals for thrill as it gives pain to the animals just like humans have a nervous system which allows them to feel pain. Also, this causes extinction to the species and it gets declining which creates a imbalance in the environment. E.g.: Cheetah's face high mortality rates due to inbreeding issues. Hunting is the form of legal mass murder. Now, who is the culprit of this imbalance in environment?
The answer is Man, Who is being self centered, greedy and selfish. It is imperative that man soon comes to his senses and understand that a balance should be maintained in the environment and realize the ill effects of hunting. So, I personally feel that hunting is bad for the environment.
Medini Ghag, IX-D, St. Xavier's High School, Borivali (E)
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A Christian monastery was vandalized and set alight in what appears to be a price tag attack.
The door of the Latrun Monastery was set on fire early Tuesday morning, and the names of West Bank outposts were spray-painted on the walls, as was the epithet "Jesus is a monkey."
No one was injured in the attack, which occurred slightly after 3:30 a.m.
The Jerusalem District Police have opened an investigation into the attack.
Security forces had been on alert for potential price tag attacks in the wake of the evacuation of the Migron outpost on Sunday. Price tag refers to the strategy that extremists have adopted to exact a price in attacks on Palestinians and Arabs in retribution for settlement freezes and demolitions, or for Palestinian attacks on Jews.
Last week, Palestinian cars were torched and vandalized in a village near Ramallah. The words "Price Tag," "Migron" and "Revenge to Arabs" were spray painted on the cars.
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That was my point, the Move Engines are nothing more than SPUs were on PS3, people are talking like they are some super special silicon that is going to boost GPU performance, at best they will offer "free" antialiasing. They are mainly there to get around the slow bandwidth of the DDR3 RAM.
The PS4 has beefed up ALUs on all the CUs of the GPU, so physics is moot.
Don't be ridiculous it's not moot. You've 1) just eliminated any memory bandwidth advantage, based on your words, which would be situational anyway, 2) Anytime you free up the GPU to do more GPU this increases overall performance, the SPUs were just too hard for many to utilized, and 3) beefed up ALUs or not, if you can offload the physics, that would leave them to do even more!
Only real world performance will tell, just as was the case with this generation.


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Nairobi — A fighter pilot is one of the world's most glamorous professionals. Romanticised in such blockbuster books and films as the "right stuff "and the "top gun", the dashing aviator captures the imagination of millions of young men and women who dream of becoming like him.
If the Kenya Air Force headquarters put out an advertisement calling on youths of between 18 and 21 years to turn up for recruitment as fighter pilots, it would have to move to another place avoid being buried in an avalanche of humanity.
Such is the fascination with flying, especially high-speed flying. Yet unknown to many aspiring pilots are the risks involved. Perhaps they don't matter, or they are worth it, as long as one can get the chance to strap oneself in a jet's cockpit.
This must certainly be the case because virtually all pilots who have survived the closest calls to their lives have always expressed the desire to return to flying as quickly as possible. It is an addiction that those called to this life seem to identify themselves long before they earn their wings.
Like many other young men, Lt-Col John Kiili, the current commandant of the Kenya Air Force flying training school, dreamt of flying. He was lucky. He achieved his dream and became an Air Force fighter pilot. He flew at great speeds, with both the Kenya and US Air Forces. And he loved every minute of the great adventure -- 25 years of flying the dream -- literally.
Today, at 47, the dashing man has mutated into a mature and thoughtful flying instructor. He is reading for a masters degree in armed conflict and peace studies. He already holds a BA in sociology and communication from the University of Nairobi.
Few are better placed to separate the myth from the reality of flying than the big, bespectacled Air Force officer. He has logged almost 3,000 hours of mostly uneventful flying. But he also holds the unenviable distinction of being the only pilot in the Kenya Air Force to be forced to abandon two planes in mid-air to save his life.
First, he had to eject himself from a Hawk jet fighter, and then he had to order his student to get out of a Bulldog trainer before he himself followed. Both planes had become uncontrollable and the decision to abandon them had to be made in a matter of seconds.
Kiili was a captain serving as a pilot with the Hawk Squadron at the Laikipia airbase when, on January 7, 1994, he was tasked to do an air test on one of the jet fighters. This was a routine assignment and he had done many such duties before. The only difference between this flight and the previous ones was that the plane he was going to test was itself going to test his will to live as well as skill and courage to enforce that will before it went down in flames in the plains of Dol Dol in Laikipia.
According to rules governing air safety, it is mandatory to have an aircraft air-tested if any of its parts has been tampered with for whatever reason. Air tests fall into two categories -- full and limited. The full test is done when major components such as the engine are involved. This invariably involves two pilots, and detailed note taking is done. A limited test is a lower-level category, and usually involves one crewman.
Kiili's Hawk fighter jet needed an air-frame test. The airframe is the aircraft's body, and it is where all the control surfaces -- the flaps, aerolons, radar, trimmers and so on -- are located. His mission involved testing the efficacy of all these. He would fly at different altitudes and speeds and put the aircraft to different attitudes (angles and postures) and make a report of his findings.
The captain made a smooth take-off from the Laikipia airbase and headed out to the designated test site around Dol Dol. The aircraft performed flawlessly during the test.
He recalls: "The aircraft had passed all the essential stages of the test, and the final checks remaining required it to be flown at a height of 2,000ft above the ground.
As usual, with such a test, I put the aircraft in a steep dive against the dark green foreground of the land. I was plunging from a height of about 11,000ft, but never made it smoothly to the desired height. At anything between 2,500ft and 3,000ft, I heard a deafening explosion and, for a while, I could not tell what had happened."
On looking around, Kiili found that the glass canopy that houses the cockpit was badly shattered. At that time he was doing at a speed of about 800kph, and the noise coming through the exposed canopy was unbearable. Even worse, he had this feeling that a part of his body had been ripped off. At the same time, lose objects were flying around the shattered cockpit and communication with the control tower became a gargantuan task.
On further inspection of his environment, Kiili saw that, among the objects flying around, were a bird's feathers.
He notes laconically: "These were definitely not in the cockpit when I was taking off, nor were they part of the aircraft." He immediately concluded that he had made a bird strike.
"Some fragments from the bird and debris from the aircraft had caused some injuries on me," he recalls. "Blood was oozing through the sleeve of my right arm and from the side of my face. Clearly, the impact had damaged my helmet."
On seeing these, he decided to find out no more. All this was happening in a matter of seconds and the ground was rising up towards him. He levelled the aircraft and started climbing again. When in trouble, pilots are instructed to pull up immediately and gain as much height as possible to buy them time to solve the problem. As he flew up, Kiili kept inspecting his plane and noted that the right wing was badly damaged.
Visible points of impact
Obviously, given the visible points of impact on the plane, he had come into contact with not one, but a flock of birds. And they must have been big birds. With searing pain in his body and enduring unbearable noise from the headwind rushing through an exposed canopy, he shouted into his radio:"Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!" It is the international radiotelephone call for help used by aircraft and ships when in distress.
"Confirm you have an emergency," radioed back the controller.
"Confirmed! Confirmed!"
The conversation was barely audible. The controller was Maj Noah Sawe, now retired. He was at the time Kiili's best friend, and he knew that his friend was in great distress, going by the violence coming through the radio. It was too much for him.
Just as a doctor disqualifies himself when faced with a close friend or relation in a life-threatening situation, Maj Sawe decided to hand over the controls to somebody else. He quickly called his commanding officer, Lt-Col Harold Tangai, who arrived promptly on learning of the emergency.
Tangai is currently Air Force commander with the rank of major-general.
He was calm, and spoke sympathetically to his pilot. "Describe your problem," he requested. Through the cacophony, Kiili laboured to say he had injuries on his face and on his right arm. They appeared minor, he said, but not so for the aircraft.
"The damage to the aircraft is serious, but it is still operable," he reported. "There is damage on the canopy and on the wings."
"Can you attempt to make it back to the base?" Tangai asked.
"Yes, Sir," Kiili replied, "But if things get any worse, I will eject. I am preparing to eject."
"Try and make it back to the base," Tangai told him. "Wish you all the best."
Tangai was trying to be as encouraging to the stricken young pilot as he could. Kiili was now flying a course with a heading for the Laikipia airbase.
But he had barely acknowledged his boss's call when everything seemed to come apart.
He recalls: "Moments after this conversation and flying at a height of 10,000ft above the ground, all hell broke lose. Without warning, I heard a loud popping noise from within the aircraft followed by a sudden deceleration. I tried to boost the power, but there was none.
Looking at the instrument panel, I saw that all the warning lights were on, including the one that showed engine failure. At that point, I was 40km away from base and I knew that reaching home in my circumstances was virtually impossible."
Tangai was back on the radio. "Will you attempt to make it back to the base?" he asked.
The dire reply from the pilot said it all. "Sir, I've just lost the engine as I am talking to you."
"Where are you?"
"Too far, Sir, I cannot make it home."
"You cannot?"
"No Sir, the base is so far away. I am preparing to eject."
"Okay, John," Tangai said with resignation; "call when ejecting."
The cockpit was a festival of flashing warning lights. The red light indicating that the engine was on fire was particularly scary for Kiili. He looked around, but didn't see a fire.
But he knew better than to mistrust his instruments, which showed that virtually anything that could fail had failed. He was steadily losing altitude and speed, and his fighter was now a glider.
Even the most resilient and hopeful of pilots know when the game is up. You linger a little longer, tampering with the instruments and hoping you will kick the dying aircraft back into life and you go down with it.
On the flip side of the coin, ejecting is no simple matter. For one, there is no guarantee the mechanism will work; the seat could jam and you remain strapped to it until the hard and fateful contact with the ground.
If not that, you could get kicked out of the aircraft and the seat fails to separate from you, making the parachute useless, with similar catastrophic results. In such moments and in a matter of milliseconds, the brain analyses which is the best method of dying and comes to a decision which it instructs the body to perform.
Says Kiili: "The motion of the aircraft was now inevitably downward, and I kept updating ground control of the impending tragedy since the aircraft was no longer flyable. In my mind, I was left with no other option, but to eject.
In less than two minutes, I would have no more height to lose and I therefore informed base of my decision to abandon the aircraft."
Through the cacophony of flying debris and a powerful headwind in a shattered cockpit, Kiili radioed: "This is John. I am ejecting now. See you later if it is possible." He wasn't sure he was going to live.
"Okay," replied a resigned Tangai. "We wish you well."
Ejection handle
And with that, Kiili pulled the ejection handle and armed the triggers. He was kicked out of his plane and became a projectile travelling at hundreds of kilometres an hour. Before blacking out, he saw the plummeting, disabled aircraft with fire coming out of its engine. He had time to note that his fire warning instruments were right and maybe he had just beaten a mid-air explosion.
When he came out of his blackout, he saw himself floating down gracefully in a brightly coloured parachute. His first thought was: "I am alive!"
But the whole experience of distress is nothing but a series of worries that flash through a hyperactive mind. When the birds first smashed through the glass canopy, his first worry was whether he could somehow fly the plane home. When it became clear he could not, his next worry was whether he could safely eject.
Now that he had done so, his next worry was whether he could land safely. Hazards included landing on tall tree tops, cliffs, rocks and even electrical power lines. There was simply no way to control where one landed.
Says Kiili: "The parachute of a jet fighter comes down faster than that of transport planes. It is designed this way with a war-time scenario in mind. When a fighter pilot is shot down over enemy territory, he must reach the ground as fast as is safely possible to give him a chance to evade pursuers and seek help. I tried to slow down the parachute's descent, but I couldn't.
"I had landed in the in the area between Dol Dol and the Laikipia airbase, an area infested with wild animals as well as thick and thorny vegetation and a rocky terrain. Now my worry was that I would be eaten by the animals.
"By God's grace, I had hit the ground on a clear and safe patch as I watched the aircraft burst into flames on impact some kilometres away.
"The smouldering plane confirmed to me that I was actually alive. It had been a very strange feeling during descent, imagining that I was still in the aircraft and that floating under the parachute was just but a dream."
Happy to land in a clear place, with no immediate evidence of wild animals, Kiili's next worry was losing his aircraft. This was an extremely bitter experience and he kept asking himself whether there was anything he could have done to save it. He felt as if he had lost a part of himself.
Still depressed by the experience that was only slightly eased by relief at surviving the airborne clash with birds made of flesh and bones, he executed rescue procedures as he lay nursing a sprained ankle and wounded face and hand. He had no idea at what point he had lost his helmet -- in the aircraft or when parachuting to earth.
He radioed base for help and a rescue aircraft was dispatched to fetch him. But it was airborne for no more than a minute before developing mechanical problems itself. But it returned safely home.
Luck was, however, with the stricken pilot this time around. He remembers: "A British Army helicopter in the vicinity had witnessed what had happened, and the crew
promptly flew to the spot where I had landed. They picked me up and I informed the base that I was on the way home.
"Being a foreign aircraft, the helicopter needed clearance to land in the restricted airfield, but that was given with no questions asked; base knew its mission. The major injuries I had sustained were a sprained ankle, a cut in the cheek, a punctured arm muscle and psychological trauma. It took three weeks for the physical injuries to heal, but the psychological trauma lingers on to date."
Traumatised he might have been, but he was eager to get back into the cockpit as soon as possible. He did this immediately medical authorities gave their go-ahead. What he had no way of knowing was that in his book of destiny, it was written that he would abandon another aircraft against his will in a similar decision of last resort to save his life. And to complicate matters farther, he would be in the company of a student.
Both successfully bailed out of their recalcitrant Bulldog trainer aircraft in an incident unique to the 45-year history of the Kenya Air Force.
Ejecting and bailing out are two very different actions, though both result in abandoning an aircraft mid-air. Ejecting is an automatic process, while bailing out is manual. In their own different ways, both require supreme courage to do. Kiili is the only pilot in the Air Force's history to have been tasked by his fate to perform both.
This time, his day of destiny was February 12, 2004 -- almost 10 years to the day he had abandoned the Hawk. By this time, he had graduated and become a qualified flying instructor.
He was attached to the Air Force flying school, which had been temporarly moved to Mombasa to conduct high-altitude training, including spinning exercises on Bulldog aircraft. He remembers: "On that day, I was to conduct a spinning exercise for my students --Second Lieutenants Duncan Cheruiyot and Simon Chege.
The briefing lasted about 30 minutes. At 10.30am, we went for tea before flying out to the training area. During my first flight, I was to take 2nd Lt Cheruiyot as my first student. At 11.30 am, we were strapping up, ready to start the engine.
"We did the pre-flight checks, and at noon we were rolling off for take-off to the training area, south of Mombasa. The weather was partially cloudy and a bit hazy around Mombasa."
The training zone extended from Kinango, Kwale and Msambweni down to Ramisi. Instructor and student found fairer weather at Msambweni, where they started the exercise. The first part included a revision of a normal spin and after a thorough airborne briefing, Kiili asked his student if he had any questions. Cheruiyot responded he had none and was ready to proceed. Kiili handed over controls to him and ordered him to start the manoeuvres.
After the pre-spin checks the student entered into a left normal spin. This was well executed and, after three normal spins, he ordered the student to recover from it. Cheruiyot responded as ordered and began the recovery procedures. Here, it is important to note that the effectiveness of the recovery inputs is normally felt within two seconds. But this was a day like never before in the instructor's career.
I was taken aback
He recalls: "For the first time in my flying career, I witnessed an aircraft defy the commands. When I noticed this, I was taken aback and took over the aircraft controls from the student. I put in the recovery controls afresh, but again there was no response.
A normal recovery usually takes place within the first six rotations at most, but we were on the eighth spin. Noting this, I concluded that the aircraft had entered into a phenomenon known as a "flat spin", a state of flight difficult to recover from. I noticed that we had dropped height from 10,000ft to 6,000ft above the ground and were still losing more."
Kiili needed no further evidence that he and his charge were in real trouble. He earnestly got down to work in an all-out effort to recover. The picture of the Hawk incident crossed his mind as he continued to struggle. But the aircraft completely failed to respond and, as they continued losing time and height, he knew that it was time to make that fateful decision again: call it quits and try the final option -- bailing out.
He says: "Bailing out is different from ejection in that ejection is an automatic process whereas bailing out is a manual action where one has to unstrap himself, open the canopy, walk out of the aircraft to the wing and dive away into the air." Just the thought of doing that has made some people prefer going all the way down with the aircraft, betting that the crash will somehow be survivable.
A glance at the altimeter showed that the pair had dropped to 5,000 ft and having been through 11 spins it was time to jump for dear life. Kiili gave his student the order:
"Bail out! Bail out! Bail out!"
As he gave this order, he opened the canopy. Cheruiyot took heed of Kiili's command without any hesitation. He courageously and readily bailed out and Kiili followed him seconds later. But now the strong attachment to his aircraft took over. He just couldn't proceed without making one final effort to save it.
He recalls: "I stopped and stood on the wing and looked at the aircraft that we were about to lose. At the thought of it, I decided to go back into the cockpit and make the last attempt at recovery."
A horrible dilemma
A horrible dilemma occurred to him during those few seconds that he attempted to coax the plane back to normal. Supposed it obeyed? Cheruiyot had already bailed out and Kiili would have the unspeakable agony of flying safely back to base without knowing the fate of the student he had just ordered out. The plane would be saved and that was good for the Air Force and the country-- but what about the young man?
In these circumstances, should the plane agree to come back to life or should it not? What kind of teacher returns safely home after possibly sending his student to his death? How could he live with this, should it happen? Had he made the right decision -- to try one last time to save the plane after the student was out of it?
All these questions occurred to him in the very few seconds that he struggled with the recalcitrant metal bird after Cheruiyot had jumped out. He had now dropped to 4,000ft, was still dropping and finally he decided: time to leave.
"In the case of bailing out, the parachute has to be deployed manually by pulling out the D-ring on the breast. Since I did not get a black-out, I reached out for the D-ring immediately after diving. On pulling it out the attachment string felt too light and I thought it had snapped. For a while, I thought my end had come.
I looked up fearfully and said a prayer. God heard me and granted my wish -- I saw the parachute gracefully opening up above me. I then felt a jerk and the parachute was fully deployed.
"This gave me a feeling of great relief and gratitude and, with this, I thought of my student. I looked around fearing for his safety. I took a 180-degree turn and failed to locate him. As I was about to settle for the worst, I looked up and saw him gracefully dangling under his parachute several feet above me. I was overwhelmed with relief and gratitude. I am very religious and kept thanking God for everything."
What happened is that, although Cheruiyot jumped first and Kiili spent a few seconds in the cockpit, the plummeting plane was travelling faster than the student's parachute. That's how he ended up below him when both were floating down.
As in the incident of 10 years before, worries came in quick succession. Now that he was gracefully floating earthwards, where would he land?
This was how he remembers the view of the topography from above: "The landing zone was forested, and directly below me was a cluster of traditionally built houses and a huge gaping borehole, which made my hair stand on end. The houses had central poles projecting from the roofs. My worst fear was that if the poles missed me, the borehole would not.
"Fear gripped me and I started thinking of my family and other relatives, friends and colleagues and started imagining how they would receive the news of my death."
Yet another prayer and yet more grace from the almighty. He survived. He landed on a clear patch in the forest as if indeed by a miracle. Cheruiyot landed similarly -- in a clear patch some 100m away. And to their astonishment, the aircraft, which had crashed just before them, sat at a clearing on its belly, positioned as though by design. There was no sign of fire on the aircraft and no injuries for the relieved crew.
Recalls Kiili: "I bundled up my parachute as I watched my student make a smooth landing. I then walked towards him, reached out to him and congratulated him for surviving and he, too, congratulated me. Normally, a student-instructor relationship is so formal that casual fraternisation is non-existent. But on this particular occasion, all was put aside. My student and I were at that moment equal in that we were both survivors."
Accompanied by bemused locals, the pair walked towards the aircraft. At the crash site, they found that the it had almost flattened due to the great impact. They laid out rescue signs after alerting base about the crash.
They were rescued an hour later by an Air Force Puma helicopter and taken to Mtongwe Naval Hospital for medical attention. Save for minor leg bruises, they had sustained no notable injuries. They were treated and discharged and, sure enough, resumed training immediately.
Says Kiili: "This did not deter me from continuing with my normal duties, and I do not think it will. Flying is just but a part of me."
There was a poignant ending to this story. Cheruiyot graduated as a brilliant student and was sent to the Laikipia airbase to start training on the F/5 Tiger jet fighter. But he never made the squadron as a pilot. Kiili wistfully thinks that the incident over Msambweni had a more profound impact on the young aviator's career than was immediately apparent.
He remembers the observations of the correspondent who reported the crash. He had observed that, while the instructor looked composed, the student appeared traumatised by what had just happened.
"Maybe we should have taken a closer look at him," says the colonel with a melancholy tone.
"Maybe he would eventually have been a very good example to other students, because his experience was real and inspirational. He was a brave, responsive and obedient young pilot, who did exactly as I ordered him to do in extremely challenging moments. But well, he was not fated to fly for a career."


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I was interested in Stephen Battersby's speculation that there could be subsurface liquid water present on some of the solar system's moons, and whether or not life forms could exist in these environments (27 March, p 32).
It made me wonder about other possibilities. Take Jupiter's moon Io. As some of its surface features are made of solid sulphur dioxide, could the moon's internal heat cause there to be liquid SO2 below the surface? It is liquid between -73 and -10 °C - at a pressure of 1 atmosphere, at least - and is a highly polar solvent, just as water is. It also dissolves organic molecules and some inorganic salts. So could SO2 have the same role as solvent as water does on Earth? Could microorganisms with an alien biochemistry involving liquid SO2 exist beneath the frozen surface of Io?
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Huambo — The Angolan artist Adalberto Ferreira, also known artistically by Toy Boy, presented Tuesday in this city his photo exhibition entitled "Urbanism", portraying the urban movement in Angola, with stress on human presence.
According to the author, the ten photos printed on canvas reflect the socio-cultural reality of various cities of the country, including rural, urban and sub-urban areas, representing the people, habits and customs.
Toy Boy stressed that his photographs, which have been on display in Luanda for over a month, mainly illustrate the lives of people living in substandard housing located in neighbourhoods without electricity, water and sanitation, the dilemmas of women in Angolan society as well as children and their dreams.


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On Wednesday afternoon the Baseball Hall of Fame announcement took place. Enshrining three illustrious career's into the Hall. This included Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and Frank Thomas who received Cooperstown justice on Wednesday. Unfortunately, Cooperstown justice was not properly compensated to other candidates.
Earlier this week, I wrote a passionate article demonstrating my disappointment towards the BBWAA for snubbing Curt Schilling's well deserved Hall of Fame career. It was the second consecutive year that he was scolded from his rightful passage into Cooperstown. Not only did he not get in, but his percentage fell and finished just above 29 percent. An utterly atrocious and insulting percentage for a career of his caliber. Schilling was not the lone snub courtesy of the BBWAA and another citation of their malpractice was Mike Mussina's dismal percentage.
Mike Mussina cumulated only 20.3 percent of support from the voters. A number that is equally if not more ludicrous than Schilling received. Here is the statistical comparison across the board of starting pitching candidates this year.
Schilling: 3.46 ERA, 3.23 FIP- 29.2%
Mussina: 3.68 ERA, 3.57 FIP- 20.3%
Glavine: 3.54 ERA, 3.95 FIP- 91.9%
Morris: 3.90 ERA, 3.94 FIP- 61.5%
Mussina nicknamed "Moose" took home seven Golden Glove's in his career. An extraordinary total that places him tied fifth all-time among pitchers to take home this award. Now, this total is eleven less than recently inducted Hall of Famer Greg Maddux, but nonetheless it is a splendid quantity.
On top of exceling on defense and with advanced statistics, Mike appeals to old-school thinkers train of thought as well. Mussina compiled 270 wins in his career, a substantial number that should mean nothing, but holds a lot of weight to the thinking style of the voters. He has a high win total that the writers adore and respectable post-season marks too. In 139 and 2/3 innings Moose collected a 3.42 ERA.
Mike displayed his dominance on the mound in one of the most potent offensive eras in baseball history. Not only did he pitch effectively amidst the "steroid era", but he pitched so well in the American League East, which is notoriously known as the most robust division in MLB history. Most notably on the offensive side of the ball given the dimensions of the ballparks that the A.L East has to offer.
Mike Mussina is no doubt Hall of Fame worthy, first ballot for the fact. It is a shame that he only managed to salvage minutely over 20 percent of the vote. Mike Mussina should get his due diligence when it is all said and done, and when the ballot is less crowded. However, long that may take, Mussina should and will receive Cooperstown justice.
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Orono Sophomore Scores Hat Trick In Playoff Debut
In Minnesota, there's nothing like the atmosphere, excitement and pressure of high school playoff hockey. That is, unless, you're Orono's David McCuskey. In his high school hockey postseason career, McCuskey is averaging three goals a game. He's only played one, but it was a good one. "I just really like to win. I guess I'm pretty competitive out there," McCuskey said.
Good Question 'Reply All': Gas Meters, 3-Alarm Fires & Hat Tricks
This one came to us without a name, but it's from someone who wanted to know: How do they read our gas meters?


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Leading with Confidence Video
Two women exit a building, piano music plays in the background as a yellowing photo of past Wilson graduates gather in front of Warfield Hall for a graduation ceremony. As a current picture shows, President Lorna Duphiney Edmundson begins speaking. The scenes alternate between past and current students. Students, professors, alumnae, trustees and campaign members add their voices and speak heartfelt opinions about Wilson. This eight minute and twenty-six second video provides a brief overview of the Leading with Confidence Campaign.
Objectives of the Campaign
This newest campaign aims to fund the Science Center, to provide opportunities for students to become globally knowledgeable, to support students financially that may have difficulties attending Wilson and to provide the best possible technology and retain qualified faculty and staff.
To begin a campaign college representatives send out a survey of needs, assessments and feasibility studies. The question included: what on campus requires attention, what should our goals and objectives be, do we have enough outside support, and what should we name the campaign and what should our logo be? Votes and surveys went to administrators, donors, community leaders, faculty/staff, alumnae and students.
New Logo
Carnegie Communications designed the logo for the campaign and from that logo designed the logo for the college. During an interview Pamela V. Lambert, Director of Development, explained that the new logo for the campus is part of the branding initiative. This brand helps people "pull a visual to mind" when thinking about the college. She used examples such as Kellogg's Cereal, most people see the red K and think of cereal. Lambert says this "visual is a way to promote the college."
What the Campaign Raised so Far
By May 11, the campaign raised $41.5 million. A few donors include the Lenfests, the Appenzellars, Charles "C.Q." Smith, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Wal-Mart Foundation and the Stabler Foundation. The main goal is to reach $45 million by the end of the campaign in December 2011.
Smaller Parts to the Whole
Smaller objectives break this amount down to parts. The first initiative is the Brooks Complex for Science, Mathematics, and Technology. 53% of students at Wilson major in a science. The campaign hoped to offset the cost of the building by trying to raise $25 million. The campaign has raised $28 million in this objective. The additional amount of money raised went to the purchase of various teaching materials. The Wal-Mart Foundation's grant bought science equipment for aquatic life.
The second objective asked for $10 million for the Global Citizenship Initiative. This seeks to provide scholarships for travel abroad and fund cultural exchanges with students around the globe. Currently, students from 15 countries attend Wilson. This objective has received $300,000. In October 2009 the Henry Luce Foundation, based in New York City, provided a $25,000 grant to support this objective, especially in areas concerning Asia.
The next objective is the Wilson Fund, which hoped to raise $5 million. So far, it has received $3.5 million. The Wilson Fund is used as a day-to-day fund, as Lambert explains, it "helps bridge the gap" making sure equipment stays running. In emergencies in which a department is over its budget, such as in the snow removal this past year, the department could receive money from the Wilson Fund to help them. This keeps the tuition low, brings scholars and poets to campus and ultimately helps the entire camps community in many ways.
The last objective is Endowed Support for Faculty, Staff and Technology which hoped to raise $5 million. However, this objective has received no money. As the campaign website states, "This initiative will guarantee funding to upgrade technology on the campus and will ensure that we can continue to attract and retain the best faculty and staff to Wilson." In addition, the campaign collected $3 million in restrictive gifts. These restrictive gifts go towards specific buildings, such as the library, specific departments, such as athletics and specific programs.
After this campaign is over campus administration will reevaluate the outcome and the objectives. Soon after a new campaign will launch, one in which Zufelt feels a few topics could include a new athletic building and a new or improved physical plant.
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Terra Madre Day Special: A Christmas Toast to an Old Tradition
27 Nov 12
In the old mining town of in Røros in central Norway, many residents still live in the wooden houses and 17th and 18th century buildings that linger from its booming copper-mining days, and have led to the area's designation as a UNESCO world heritage site. But the town has another legacy that you may not read about in history books.
"It's a very old ritual in this area that every year before Christmas, families would make a traditional ginger beer," says Per Tore Holgersen from the Slow Food Røros Convivium. The recipe includes just five ingredients: ginger, raisins, sugar, water and yeast, which are mixed and left for 3-5 days to ferment. The result is a lightly alcoholic beer.
"Some people still carry on this tradition, but not all," says Holgersen, "and many young people don't know how to make it." This was what inspired the Røros Convivium to put this age-old practice at the center of their Terra Madre Day event to be held this December 10, with an event that involves participants making the ginger beer together from an old recipe.
"This recipe comes from families in the area, passed down through generations from mother to children. It's not something you can buy, but made from information that is passed on through people."
"We hope that young people will come to the event and learn this old tradition so they can carry it on. We'll also be serving local food and a ginger beer that we made beforehand, so we can enjoy the final results!"
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SCOOBA – The East Mississippi Community College has proved to opponents this year that it has a very dangerous offense.
It's not just because of the scoring as the Lions have averaged 63.2 points per game and defeated Coahoma Community College 90-7 earlier this season. EMCC has the yards to go with those points.
The Lions have a total offense of 6,722 yards as a team. That's an average of 611.1 yards per game.
EMCC head coach Buddy Stephens refers to his offense as "prolific," but the thing he likes most is how "balanced" it is.
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Home Decor: Creating a Luxurious Bed
Who would not want to slumber each evening in a romantic, elegant place of rest — your own private retreat from the stresses of everyday life? Here are some tips for creating a romantic getaway or private haven in your bedroom!
Prop yourself up with pillows
Decorative pillows go a long way in dressing the bed! Select two or three colors from your room's color scheme for topping your bed. Try varying your pillow size, shape and texture for added interest.
The most comfortable twin size bed sports three sleeping pillows, while doubles/queens/kings display six sleeping pillows for the ultimate in luxury!
Layering creates luxury
Use multiple bed skirts and create a layered effect (one at floor level and one three to six inches shorter). Multiple bed covers create a warm, cozy appearance. Depending on the season, select various bedcovers. Cotton thermal or lightweight blankets with a coverlet at the bottom of the bed work well during the summer. For winter, choose a plump down comforter and duvet cover with a throw or quilt at the bottom of the bed.
Layering your sheets by placing a lightweight blanket between two top sheets provides extra comfort. Speaking of sheets, today there is a wide variety of fabrics to choose from. Cotton jersey knits are gaining popularity. They are so incredibly comfortable, producing the feel of sleeping in one's favorite T-shirt. For cold weather, try soft and warm cotton flannel sheets. Indulge in smooth satin sheets for the summer.
Here's a tip: Save money by shopping yearly "white sales" at your favorite department store. Instead of purchasing a complete sheet set, consider mixing and matching clearance solids with patterns sheets. You will take advantage of advertised sales and never tire of your sheets, as you will have several different ensembles!
Transform an old headboard
Give an old headboard a new twist. Cover an outdated headboard with batting and fabric. Coordinate fabric with your window treatments or bedding. Or consider refinishing an old wood headboard. Strip off the old stain and re-stain or paint a different color. Use a "faux" paint technique, stencils, or applique borders.
Create a swag with fabric in three or four of your rooms predominant colors and attach to the top of your headboard to create a romantic effect. Drape lace, mosquito netting or gauze around a poster bed for romantic, Victorian charm.
Don't forget the mattress
Do not underestimate the importance of a good quality mattress. Shop the sales and buy the best quality mattress you can afford. A mattress is an investment in a piece of furniture that you will use for many years. Test the mattress by gently bouncing and lying down on it. Inspect the mattress by examining the stitching and workmanship.
The bed is the main focal point in most bedrooms. You can create a bed with a sense of character, warmth and luxury. Remember, one-third of your day is spent sleeping — unless, of course, you are a new Mom! You deserve to indulge in a welcoming, comfortable bed!


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FAMILY TRAVEL: Amusement Parks
By Jackie Burrell
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 at 6:30 am in Family Travel.
We've been browsing the Times' round-up of new theme park offerings and chatting up Emily Kaufman, SoCal's Travel Mom and family travel expert. And it sounds like every amusement park is unveiling something new and spectacular for summer.
Ride an old fave – Giant Dipper on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, anyone? – or try these new thrills on for size:
California's Great America is launching "Firefall," a 60-ft. thriller with zips, spins, and fire and water effects.
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom – Tony Hawk's Big Spin sends riders careening down a 1,300-ft. long track in roller coaster cars that resemble Hawk's skateboards.
Universal Studios – A Simpsons simulator takes riders through a Krusty the Clown-style theme park. And for the small fry, a new 30,000 sq. ft. Curious George play zone.
Knott's Berry Farm's newest roller coaster is the Pony Express. Riders sit astride mechanical horses that buck and glide down the track at speeds of up to nearly 40 mph.
Sea World and Sesame Street have created a series of new "Bay of Play" rides, activities and a 4-D movie for the Elmo-loving set.
Disneyland/California Adventure – The big news here is "Toy Story Mania," which opens June 17 with a ride that includes a video-game element. We're hoping the whole thing's fab — the ride, the park, the whole experience — because our last jaunt to the Mouse Kingdom was most un-Disney like. Just bizarre. (Did we hit a really bad day or are other people experiencing Disney weirdness too?)
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While post-structuralism is difficult to define or summarize, it can be broadly understood as a body of distinct reactions to structuralism. There are two main reasons for this difficulty. First, it rejects definitions that claim to have discovered absolute "truths" or facts about the world. Second, very few thinkers have willingly accepted the label 'post-structuralist'; rather, they have been labeled as such by others. Consequently, no one has felt compelled to construct a "manifesto" of post-structuralism. Indeed, it would be inconsistent with post-structuralist concepts to codify itself in such a way.
Two key figures in the early post-structuralist movement were Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes. In a 1966 lecture "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Science", Jacques Derrida presented a thesis on an apparent rupture in intellectual life. Derrida interpreted this event as a "decentering" of the former intellectual cosmos. Instead of progress or divergence from an identified centre, Derrida described this "event" as a kind of "play."
Although Barthes was originally a structuralist, during the 1960s he increasingly favored post-structuralist views. In 1968, Barthes published "The Death of the Author" in which he announced a metaphorical event: the "death" of the author as an authentic source of meaning for a given text. Barthes argued that any literary text has multiple meanings, and that the author was not the prime source of the work's semantic content. The "Death of the Author," Barthes maintained, was the "Birth of the Reader," as the source of the proliferation of meanings of the text.
In his 1976 lecture series, Michel Foucault briefly summarized the general impetus of the post-structuralist movement:
In the post-structuralist approach to textual analysis, the reader replaces the author as the primary subject of inquiry. This displacement is often referred to as the "destabilizing" or "decentering" of the author, though it has its greatest effect on the text itself. Without a central fixation on the author, post-structuralists examine other sources for meaning (e.g., readers, cultural norms, other literature, etc.). These alternative sources are never authoritative, and promise no consistency.
In his essay "Signification and Sense," Emmanuel Lévinas remarked on this new field of semantic inquiry:
A major theory associated with Structuralism was binary opposition. This theory proposed that there are certain theoretical and conceptual opposites, often arranged in a hierarchy, which human logic has given to text. Such binary pairs could include Enlightenment/Romantic, male/female, speech/writing, rational/emotional, signifier/signified, symbolic/imaginary.
Post-structuralism rejects the notion of the essential quality of the dominant relation in the hierarchy, choosing rather to expose these relations and the dependency of the dominant term on its apparently subservient counterpart. The only way to properly understand these meanings is to deconstruct the assumptions and knowledge systems which produce the illusion of singular meaning. This act of deconstruction illuminates how male can become female, how speech can become writing, and how rational can become emotional.
The general assumptions of post-structuralism derive from critique of structuralist premises. Specifically, post-structuralism holds that the study of underlying structures is itself culturally conditioned and therefore subject to myriad biases and misinterpretations. To understand an object (e.g. one of the many meanings of a text), it is necessary to study both the object itself, and the systems of knowledge which were coordinated to produce the object. In this way, post-structuralism positions itself as a study of how knowledge is produced.
Post-structuralists generally assert that post-structuralism is historical, and classify structuralism as descriptive. This terminology relates to Ferdinand de Saussure's distinction between the views of historical (diachronic) and descriptive (synchronic) reading. From this basic distinction, post-structuralist studies often emphasize history to analyze descriptive concepts. By studying how cultural concepts have changed over time, post-structuralists seek to understand how those same concepts are understood by readers in the present. For example, Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization is both a history and an inspection of cultural attitudes about madness. The theme of history in modern Continental thought can be linked to such influences as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals and Martin Heidegger's Being and Time.
Structuralists also seek to understand the historical interpretation of cultural concepts, but focus their efforts on understanding how those concepts were understood by the author in his or her own time, rather than how they may be understood by the reader in the present.
Basically, many who began by stating that texts could be interpreted based solely on the cultural and social circumstances of the author came to believe that the reader's culture and society shared an equal part in the interpretation of a piece. If the reader sees it in one way, how do we know that that is the way the author intended? We don't. Therefore, critical reading seeks to find the contradictions that an author inevitably includes in any given work. Those inconsistencies are used to show that the interpretation and criticism of any literature is in the hands of the individual reader and will necessarily include that reader's own cultural biases and assumptions. While many structuralists first thought that they could tease out an author's intention by close scrutiny, they soon found so many disconnections, that it was obvious that their own experiences lent a view that was unique to them.
The element of "play" in the title of Derrida's essay is often erroneously taken to be "play" in a linguistic sense, based on a general tendency towards puns and humour, while social constructionism as developed in the later work of Michel Foucault is said to create a sense of strategic agency by laying bare the levers of historical change. The importance of Foucault's work is seen by many to be in its synthesis of this social/historical account of the operations of power (see governmentality).


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|Mitch and Danny have been buddies since their glory days as high school jocks, but both are on a losing streak to end all. But losing doesn't mean they see themselves as losers, they still believe they're just one clutch hit away from getting back in the ballgame. Mitch is never at a loss for illegal shortcuts to get his way, and of course Danny always follows suit.
Now enter Lucy, a young woman who is as lost as Mitch and Danny, with big plans of her own, including staying one step ahead of her unstable ex-boyfriend. Lucy becomes the catalyst Mitch and Danny desperately need to make a change in their lives. Right or wrong, legal or not, they will do whatever necessary to make it happen!
Editor's NoteThe independent drama MEN IN SCORING POSITION is the tale of two regular stiffs who take a desperate gamble to try and improve their luck. Mitch and Danny are best friends, although they are long removed from their glory days as high school sports stars. Now they spend most of their time drinking and dreaming up ways to get rich, but Mitch seems less concerned with legalities than his pal. When Lucy, a young woman trying to evade her obsessive ex-boyfriend, enters their lives, the two men see in her an opportunity for one of their schemes to finally succeed. MEN IN SCORING POSITION is the debut feature from director Timothy Rhys.
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The fourth-largest city in the United States, Houston is also the biggest city in Texas, a vast state synonymous with size in all shapes and forms.
Houston is a melting pot of cultures, thanks to its close proximity to the US–Mexico border and the nearby French Creole city of New Orleans. The city's multiculturalism—it has the third-largest Hispanic and Mexican population in the US—has also resulted in it possessing one of the country's youngest populations, making for a dynamic city with a youthful approach.
Houston's pancake-flat landscape is intersected by the trickling waters of the charmingly named Buffalo Bayou and is home to the NASA Space Center, the starting point for the US Space Program—hence Houston's official nickname: Space City. Houston is also known for its aeronautical and energy industries, and the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, whose legendary Mission Control coordinates all of NASA's Space Shuttle missions.
Houston's two million residents are joined each year by more than seven million tourists, each keen to see what this sprawling city has to offer—suggesting that in Texas anyway, bigger really is better.
Although Houston is best known for being the heart of the US space program, the city is just as culturally rich as its other southern counterparts. Its Museum District is home to many globally renowned institutions and exhibitions, and the city has an active performing arts scene. In fact, Houston is one of just five US cities that offer year-round resident companies in all the major performing arts.
Head for the Theater District to enjoy the Houston Grand Opera, the Houston Ballet, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, and the Alley Theater. Whether you love arts or science, you'll be enthralled in the Museum District; investigate the Museum of Fine Arts, the Contemporary Arts Museum, and the Museum of Natural Science. For a slightly more macabre experience, visit the National Museum of Funeral History. Owned by a funeral company, it houses the largest collection of funereal artifacts in the US and displays historic hearses and memorabilia from famous funerals, such as those of Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Elvis Presley.
If you had another type of "out-of-this-world" journey in mind, visit the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, the home of a breathtaking array of space artifacts.
Dining and Nightlife
Houston's combination of cultural diversity and uninhibited Southern charm boosts the local culinary scene; restaurants, like the city itself, tend to be cosmopolitan. Hundreds of excellent restaurants abound, from the ubiquitous Tex-Mex to the fiery gumbo of Cajun seafood. Primary influences come from Louisiana, Mexico, and Southeast Asia, but you can find restaurants serving just about any cuisine you can think of. But whatever you choose, the proper accompaniment—for the locals, anyway— is beer or ice tea. An extra large glass of ice tea is a cultural fixture in Houston, the perfect palate cleanser (and cooler) after a spicy Tex-Mex meal.
For some of the best food, stop by any nondescript taqueria and order at random; you won't be disappointed. If you're looking for upscale dining, you can't go wrong downtown, where you can take your pick of the city's numerous international restaurants.
Nightlife in Houston is said to be similar to its weather: if you don't like it, give it five minutes, and something better will come along. The city's scene is bubbling over with casual bars, ϋber cool clubs, and a live music scene to rival New Orleans; however, as the hip venues and areas change frequently, consult a Houstonian or up-to-date listings magazine for the current hotspots.
Beyond Houston
About 200 kilometers southwest of Houston (a short drive in this vast state) is Matagorda Island. A welcome respite from urban activities, Matagorda Island is an offshore barrier island known for its wild, untouched beauty. The island is 60 kilometers long and varies in width from 1.5 to about 7 kilometers. Matagorda Island is a wildlife management area and supports a wide variety of migratory birds, a large herd of white-tailed deer, alligators, and other wildlife. Activities include salt-water fishing, birding, and picnicking; a lighthouse that dates from 1852 can be explored.
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Lyon's Alexandre Lacazette has refused to rule out a move to Liverpool.
The forward - who is now third in the Ligue 1 goalscoring charts behind Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edinson Cavani - has been linked with a £10m summer move to Anfield.
And Lacazette says such a move is a possibility if he feels he has reached the end of the line with Lyon.
Lyon have had a poor season by their high standards and currently sit in fifth place after struggling with financial problems.
And while Lacazette is open to helping Lyon return to their former glory, he admits he could move if it is best for both parties.
He told Canal+: "I am not going to stop at 13 goals.
"I want to go further, higher and, more importantly, help the team win because if I finish the season with 25 goals but we ended up in tenth, there will be disappointment, so I want to score to help the team.
"Everything is going well at the moment, that's for sure.
"If there really is a club that is interested in me and I cannot advance with Lyon, it will be discussed.
"But I don't think it will come to that. The matter will be talked about between men and discussed intelligently."
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Handsets for the upcoming 3G cellphone system can be automatically upgraded by downloading software from the network. But if the software becomes corrupted during the download, the phone can give the network bad information on reception quality, fooling the base station transmitters into sending too much power. This can interfere with other cells and crash the whole network.
Motorola's fix is for the handset to store reception data before and after any software update (GB 2375687). If the measurements don't match, the phone shuts down to protect the network.
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Here is a montage of all the chemical reactions ever recorded by youtube channel periodicvideos.
Ample amounts of liquid nitrogen, heat and of course various chemicals are used. Some of these chemical reactions are caused when a catalyst is introduced to initiate change between the factors. [WARNING: Do not try to recreate these experiments at home. Seriously.]
A catalyst is a substance that causes or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected. For example, sodium hydroxide will vigorously break down an aluminum Coke can leaving behind a black solution of sodium aluminate and the plastic coating from the can. In this case, sodium hydroxide is the catalyst.
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sometime last month i decided to make my own croutons. i don't know why i never made them before because homemade croutons are ridiculously delicious, budget friendly & super easy to make. it's a great way to use up a loaf of bread - stale or not.really, think about it. a loaf of french bread or a baguette costs next to nothing at the grocery store. all of the other ingredients you'll need - olive oil, salt, pepper, parmesan, dried basil or oregano - you will have at home. how much does a bag or box of store-bought croutons cost? anywhere between $2 & $3, right...maybe more. well, for less than $2 you will have bread for your meal AND croutons to toss in a salad {this is based on a family of four}. trust.{this was part of a baguette from trader joe's. the baguette was only … [Read more...]
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Kids never listen, do they? Well, Mark certainly did, after Brendan Douglas rammed a shotgun in his mout...
James Rawbone has, (in no particular order), spent significant parts of his life; being mugged in Africa, sleeping on the temples at Tikal, building a ranger's post in Belize, losing cheques for Barclays International, working with drug addicts in Manchester, tomb-stoning in Jersey, learning Spanish in Guatemala, accidentally joining a brainwashing cult and spending subsequent months 'kulking´ around Denmark, working in a Street Children's Orphanage in Mozambique, being a special needs teacher and owning two very spoilt ginger cats. He is 35, still not dead and lives with his wife in the rolling countryside of the North Downs.
In the midst of all this, he is writing a book. Inspired by Dean Koontz, Stephen King and Aldous Huxley 'Bunker' will be a book that fascinates and frightens in equal measure. Read the first chapter and tell him what you think!
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