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1976 - The area's first nuclear pacemaker was placed in a patient.
1977 - The Hospital established the area' s first cardiac rehabilitation program.
1980 - Southeast introduced the region's first wellness program designed to promote the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
1981 - The Hospital completed construction of the $3 million, free-standing Regional Cancer Center. From a caseload of 35 radiation therapy patients in 1980, the Cancer Center today recorded more than 7,000 radiation therapy visits in 2010.
1983 - The $6.34 million Robert D. Harrison Annex was completed.
1984 - Southeast offered the region's first open heart surgery in October. By the fall of 2000, nearly 4,700 open heart surgeries have been performed by the Regional Heart Center team.
1985 - Southeast Home Health was established, bringing skilled nursing services into the homes of residents in seven southeast Missouri counties.
1986 - Southeast Hospice was established, offering a special kind of care to terminally ill patients and their families in 10 southeast Missouri counties. Doctors' Park Outreach was established.
1987 - Southeast's new Dennis B. Elrod, M.D. Obstetrics and Gynecology Center opened in 1987. Completed at a cost of $2 million, the Center introduced a new concept in childbirth to the region with its three "birthing" rooms. Also completed as part of the Elrod Center project was renovation of Southeast's 25-bed Pediatrics Department.
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One of the two murderers of the Clutter family, Perry grew up under difficult circumstances. He was abandoned by his family and severely abused by nuns (who he develops a life-long aversion to) and other caregivers. He has a reoccurring dream about a large bird that saves him from bullies, abusers, and anyone who might cause him harm. Perry is described as a small man, but very muscular in his upper arms and chest. His feet and legs, however, are small and delicate. This is one of Perry's many contradictions. He never passed the third grade, but as an adult he has an incredible thirst for knowledge, vocabulary, and literature. He is calm and gentle, and he seems to want love and acceptance, but he is eventually revealed to be the more brutal of the two men. One of his main motivations is to take Dick to Mexico, and to hunt for treasure and go skin diving. After the murders, Perry seems unable to reconcile his personal opinion of himself with the crimes he has committed. Perry also appears to have homosexual tendencies, which are revealed via his affections for both Dick and a former cell mate by the name of Willie-Jay.
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Update: The ivory crush was postponed due to the US government shutdown. It is now due to take place on 14 November 2013.
Original article, published 05/10/2013
The US Fish and Wildlife Service is crushing 6 tonnes of illegal ivory this week in a bid to deter traffickers – biologist Richard Ruggiero explainss
What is the purpose of the ivory crush?
Increasing demand for ivory is driving uncontrolled elephant poaching. We intend to crush about 25 years' worth of ivory, confiscated by our law enforcement agents. By destroying it in this public way, we're sending a clear message to criminals who engage in trafficking and poaching that the US government takes the issue of illegal ivory trade very seriously.
How significant a threat does this illegal trade pose for elephants?
There are several reasons why elephants are having problems. Bushmeat was the driving force behind poaching in central Africa for a couple of decades. Then increasing demand from rising economies in Asia began driving this recent increase in poaching for ivory. Now, the ivory trade is by far the number one problem. Bushmeat is number two, followed by habitat loss due to conflict between human and elephant interests.
Why not flood the market with legalised ivory to satiate demand?
We feel that is absolutely not the way to go. To begin with, demand is frequently stimulated by availability. Also, in principle a legal trade makes sense, but in reality it creates a smokescreen for laundering illegal ivory. When people see a logo or statement that it was legally acquired, they don't dig very deeply for the details used to determine that. Finally, a simpler reason is that the demand is so high right now that there are not enough elephants left in the world to produce enough legally acquired ivory to satisfy the market.
What is the value of those 6 tonnes?
That depends on the type of ivory. We're mainly talking about African elephant ivory because Asian elephant ivory is very rare. African savannah elephants produce somewhat softer, yellow ivory. African forest elephants' ivory is pink, harder, straighter, and much more highly prized for carving and aesthetic beauty. The type, quality, thickness and length all play into determining its value. That said, reports indicate that ivory runs between $1000 to $2000 per kilogram.
Other countries have destroyed their ivory stockpiles. Did they inspire action by the US?
Some countries with large amounts of ivory frankly have a problem storing it, because it can be stolen and it takes up a lot of space. But mostly, destroying it is more about making a statement, and in that sense our motivations are very similar. Last year, Gabon burned and crushed a bunch of ivory, and Kenya has done it on two occasions. We're taking a slightly higher tech approach but with the same end in mind.
How will the ivory be crushed, and what will happen to it afterward?
We're using a stone crusher to reduce it to shards less than a quarter of an inch in size, which will render it commercially useless. Then, it will go back to storage as we're still deciding what to do with it. It could be interesting to get suggestions from the public. Perhaps it might make a good aggregate for concrete, bricks or statues that could be embossed with a conservation message.
This article appeared in print under the headline "One minute interview: A crush on ivory"
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Shunning the M25 and M23, the 10 metre angling vessel Evelyn Jane took skipper Andy King with fans Joe Glidewell and Danny Eakins via the Strait of Dover and the English Channel to get to the Brighton suburb.
Joe told the Messenger: "It was pretty rough from around half way into the journey, but we got there without any dramas. It took around 20 hours.
"We wanted to do something different really, something that perhaps nobody has done before. I mean, 20 hours on a boat to a Skrill South game is pretty mad.
"Andy, the Skipper, has his own angling vessel and he was determined to go to a game by boat.
"He was looking into doing Grimsby away last season, but their involvement in the FA Trophy put a stop to those plans.
"I woke up Saturday morning after a bit of sleep and felt rough so didn't believe I could make the journey back. For a bit of banter, I'm now nicknamed Halfway Joe.
"The two who remained stayed on the boat Saturday night and then left on Sunday morning around 10am and arrived back around 4am Monday."
Leaving from Strood in the early hours of Friday, they passed Whitstable, Herne Bay, Margate, Folkestone, Dover, Hastings and Eastbourne in rough waters.
They eventually arrived at Brighton Marina just before 8am on Saturday.
Evelyn Jane's skipper Andy King told FleetOnline: "I just like doing things differently if possible. I am pretty sure nobody in the history of non-league has done this before. I want to do something not many, if any, have ever done."
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The Pearl Jam tour will start a couple of weeks before Infinite Arms, the third Band of Horses album, drops via Brown Records/Fat Possum/Columbia. Before they jump on the Pearl Jam tour, BoH will play a bunch of shows on both sides of the Atlantic, including SXSW dates and shows with Widespread Panic, She & Him, and Snow Patrol. We've got their dates below.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Professor Roy M. Mersky, a member of The University of Texas School of Law faculty and the director of its Jamail Center for Legal Research, Tarlton Law Library, since 1965, is a recipient of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) 2005 Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award.
"Roy has been an invaluable leader of our law school community during his more than thirty years at Texas. Under his leadership, the Tarlton Law Library has become one of the preeminent libraries in the country," said Dean Bill Powers.
Mersky, who holds the Harry M. Reasoner Regents Chair in Law, will be honored formally on Mon., July 18, at the AALL Annual Meeting in San Antonio. Fellow honorees are Charles R. Dyer, UT Law class of '74, director of libraries at San Diego County Public Law Library, and Michael Miller, director of the Maryland State Law Library. Established in 1984, the Distinguished Service Award recognizes extended and sustained service to law librarianship, exemplary service to the Association and contributions to professional literature.
Under Mersky's leadership, the Jamail Center for Legal Research has become one of the most important legal research institutes in the United States. He is known for his pioneering approaches to library management and services, as well as his strong commitment to improving library resources, services, and facilities. Mersky was one of the first law librarians to recognize electronic information's potential to transform library services and to disseminate information to library patrons. He teaches law librarianship courses and works to elevate the eminence of the profession. A number of current law library directors trained under him.
Mersky publishes widely and lectures frequently in the areas of legal research, law librarianship, language and the law, law library architecture and the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is co-author of Fundamentals of Legal Research, now in its 8th edition, the leading legal research textbook in the United States. He recently co-authored The First One Hundred Eight Justices, and he co-edits a multi-volumes series, The Supreme Court of the United States: Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Justices by the Senate Judicial Committee. Further, he collaborates on The Documentary History of the Legal Aspects of Abortion in the United States.
Mersky has made significant contributions to the field of law librarianship. He chaired or served on numerous AALL committees, among them the National Resources Committee (1986-88) and the Special Committee to Study the Need for a National Law Library (1982-85). He was a founder of the Contemporary Social Problems Special Interest Section and established the Spirit of Law Librarianship Award, which honors law librarians who make meaningful contributions to social concerns. He was a member of the Special Committee on the Renaissance of Law Librarianship in the Information Age (1994-96), which culminated with the Committee's 1997 publication, Toward a Renaissance in Law Librarianship. In 2003 he was named a "Mover and Shaker" by the American Library Association in its annual article naming the most influential librarians in the country. Mersky is currently a member of the American Bar Association's Law Library of Congress Standing Committee.
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Sunday, March 16: Open House and Once Upon a Purim - The Sandy & Edgar Snyder Family Purim Carnival
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T-Mobile Steps up Attack Ads, Includes Verizon
T-Mobile USA has launched a new attack ad that takes aim at Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility, lumping them both into one category of carriers that carry the iPhone on what T-Mobile calls "slow networks."
According to T-Mobile, the new ad is called "Identity" and compares T-Mobile head-to-head with AT&T and Verizon. The ad features a similar look and feel to the carrier's recent myTouch 4G ads and attempts to show "that there's no fun in having a great device running on a slow network."
Similar to Apple's Mac and iPhone ads that pitted "Mac" against "Windows," T-Mobile features two men in suits that look exactly alike save for their red and blue ties. Not surprisingly, the man with the red tie introduces himself as Verizon and the man in the blue tie introduces himself as AT&T. A younger man identifies himself as the iPhone and T-Mobile's spokesperson announces herself as the myTouch 4G.
"How can you tell them apart?" the woman (myTouch 4G) asks the younger man (iPhone). "Does one of them have nationwide 4G like me?"
"Nope," the iPhone replies, "I'm pretty much slow with either one."
At CES, T-Mobile was aggressive in its insistence that its HSPA+ network will offer speeds comparable to Verizon Wireless' LTE network. Verizon has launched its LTE network in 38 markets nationwide, and AT&T has committed to completion of its LTE rollout by 2013.
Both AT&T and T-Mobile are calling HSPA+ a 4G technology, which has become a point of contention amongst the carriers in their advertising.
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One of the first images of captaincy that springs to mind is the leader in the field. There is nothing as commanding as a skipper orchestrating his side with precision, especially when his tactical nous leads to a wicket.
Captaincy might be about a lot more than that, but it's this element that naturally draws people to the job. I'm sure you have imagined yourself exuding calm authority as captain. It demands admiration and respect.
What does a good captain have to do in the field to be like this? It boils down to three elements.
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THE quickest way to find people buried in an avalanche is to make sure no single person is in charge of the rescue team. At least, that's the view of researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who say they've worked out how to locate trapped skiers at least four times as fast as conventional means, by adopting a swarm-like search strategy.
Many off-piste skiers now carry radio beacons to help locate them in an accident. Traditionally, teams sweep the area in a grid pattern in an attempt to home in on their signals. But precious time can be wasted pinpointing them, says Blyth Wright of the Scottish Avalanche Information Service in Aviemore.
By opting to do without a leader, says Sandia computer scientist Rush Robinett, search parties can adopt a "distributed intelligence" strategy that makes better use of their resources. In his scheme, each member follows ...
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SNELLVILLE -- Two Georgia professional educator groups have selected a veteran administrator in Gwinnett County Public Schools as the Outstanding Educator of the Year.
Debbie Dees, who serves as Brookwood High's principal, received the 2010 Jim Puckett Outstanding Educator Award from the Georgia Association of Educational Leaders and the Georgia Association of Secondary School Principals. The award is named after a former executive director of GAEL.
As this year's honoree, Dees is recognized as an educator who possesses an exemplary record of service in educational leadership and exhibits leadership characteristics that are considered a positive role model for others, the school district announced Wednesday.
"Clearly, Debbie Dees exemplifies the qualities of an outstanding educator and leader," said Area Superintendent Calvin Watts, who supports the Brookwood cluster. "Brookwood High has a tradition of excellence that Ms. Dees has cultivated. In doing so, she has exhibited outstanding leadership and has challenged her school community to achieve at increasingly higher levels."
As the selection team considered Dees for the honor, members looked at her demonstration of effective leadership and management skills, how she has implemented new ideas and projects at Brookwood High, and her contributions to the educational leadership profession, as well as her participation in professional growth activities, and her contributions to the profession and the school's community.
This school year marks two decades of service with Gwinnett County Public Schools for Dees. She joined the school system in 1990 as a teacher and coach at Meadowcreek High. Six years later she became a Bronco at Brookwood High where she has been a teacher, coach and assistant principal. She was named Brookwood High's principal in 2007. Dees also has taught in several other schools in Georgia.
The Gwinnett County Board of Education will honor Dees at its monthly meeting tonight in recognition of this recent award.
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The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era
Universality in Transition
By James A. Sweeney
Routledge – 2013 – 264 pages
Routledge – 2013 – 264 pages
The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Universality in Transition examines transitional justice from the perspective of its impact on the universality of human rights, taking the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights as its detailed case study. The problem is twofold: there are questions about differences in human rights standards between transitional and non-transitional situations, and about differences between transitions.
The European Court has been a vital part of European democratic consolidation and integration for over half a century, setting meaningful standards and offering legal remedies to the individually repressed, the politically vulnerable, and the socially excluded. After their emancipation from Soviet influence in the 1990s, and with membership of the European Union in mind for many, the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe flocked to the Convention system. The voluminous jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights can now give us some clear information about how an international human rights law regime can interact with transitional justice. The jurisprudence is divided between those cases concerning the human rights implications of explicitly transitional policies (such as lustration), and those that involve impacts upon specific democratic rights during the transition. The book presents a close examination of claims by states that transitional policies and priorities require a level of deference from the Strasbourg institutions. The book proposes that states' claims for leeway from international human rights supervisory mechanisms during times of transition can be characterised not as arguments for cultural relativism, but for 'transitional relativism'.
[Sweeney] bridges the fields of transitional justice and human rights, thus offering a highly significant contribution to both strands of academic literature… As far as the style of the book is concerned, praises are in order. Sweeney brings together numerous court cases and categorizes this less than consistent case law in a manner that is accessible to readers. - Swiss Political Science Review (Vol 20, No.1, 2014)
"Sweeney has made an important contribution to the literature on transitional justice and how human rights law can play a constructive role beyond simply setting goalposts for universal principles."
D. A. Messenger, University of Wyoming, USA, Human Rights Review (Vol 15, 2014)
1. The Council of Europe, Transitional Justice, and the Universality of Human Rights Part 1: The ECHR and Transitional Policies 2. Transitional Criminal Justice: Prosecution and Amnesty 3. Openness, Secrecy and Historical Justice 4. Reparatory Justice and the Restitution of Property 5. Lustration Part 2: Democratic Rights in the Transitional Context 6. Freedom of Expression 7. Freedom of Assembly and (Religious) Association 8. Free Elections 9. Universality in Transition
Dr James A. Sweeney is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Durham University, UK. He is also Deputy Director of Durham Global Security Institute. Dr Sweeney has acted as an expert advisor to the Council of Europe in relation to freedom of assembly projects in Armenia, Azerbaijan (with the Venice Commission), Georgia, and Kosovo. In March 2011 he delivered human rights legal training to judges of the Ukrainian Supreme Court as part of a UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office project. Throughout 2009 he acted as an expert advisor to the EU's Committee of the Regions as it prepared its Opinion on reforms to the Common European Asylum System. His work on the human rights of failed asylum seekers has been cited by both the UK House of Lords (in its former judicial capacity) and the Court of Appeal.
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Martial Arts 2.0: How to Download a Black Belt
With the help of a short instructional video on the Internet, a few minutes is all it takes for anyone to learn how to crack an egg with one hand, perform a card trick — or crush the windpipe of a fully grown human being.
Martial arts classes are moving out of the dojo and onto the Internet, proliferating on how-to websites. A simple search of "self defense" turns up 171,000 YouTube videos, including the secrets of groin kicks, choke holds and eye gouges. Likewise, instructional sites such as Ehow.com and VideoJug have hundreds more.
But can you really learn martial arts from just watching a video?
"Oh sure you can!" said John Graden, founder of the Martial Arts Teachers Association and protegé of former world Karate champion Joe Lewis. "You're not gonna be that good … "
Graden himself, however, has made some of the most popular videos on YouTube and sees them as a useful tool. In "How to Knock Someone Out in One Punch," viewed more than 830,000 times since he uploaded it two years ago, he appears onscreen, standing tall in a blue Karate uniform, and punches his training partner across the chin (but only at half speed).
"This is only for illustration and education," he warns his audience. "This is not what you're going to go out and practice or turn this off right now."
Some martial arts experts worry that there is a danger to relying solely on how-to videos when it comes to something as serious as self defense. Without a live teacher to correct your technique, you may not be learning much of anything.
"A live teacher will provide the necessary adjustments and corrections to make technique excellent and efficient in dangerous circumstances," said Matthew Apsokardu, a 26-year-old karate instructor in Pottstown, Pa.
Learning a martial art takes time, lots of it, Apsokardu said via e-mail. Training between two and three days a week with an experienced and qualified master, one can typically expect to gain a black belt in three to five years.
"Video alone simply cannot provide the kind of personal guidance needed to become a good practitioner of any style," he wrote.
In the old days, the way you learned martial arts was to put yourself on the line physically.
"You wanted to find out about something, you took the risk of going to school and getting your ass kicked to find out about it," said David Herbert, 53, who runs the World Martial Arts Center in New York City.
Herbert has been practicing martial arts since he was 11 years old and growing up in Brooklyn, where his Green Beret father wanted his children to be able to defend themselves. Describing himself as an old school kind of guy, Herbert said that he was surprised at the amount of information available on the Internet compared to when he was coming up.
"We had nothing," he said. "Everything was cloaked in secrecy, you know?"
Initially, he said he was thrilled at being able to see video footage online of rare and famous fighters — such as respected Aikido practitioner Hiroshi Ikeda of Japan — but he soon realized that the unfiltered content on the Internet carried pitfalls.
"There were some good people, there were some legit people, but the fact that anyone could put anything on there, a lot of it was crap, a lot of it was what I would call misinformation," he said.
Now a 7th Dan black belt in Jiu-Jutsu and a 6th Dan black belt in Hapkido, Herbert has seen people claim they are experts at certain martial arts after having trained only from videos and seminars. As a result, he changed his hiring policies for instructors, insisting that they have at least 10 years of real sparring experience.
For Herbert, students who learn only from videos on the Internet are missing out on the flow and transitions between techniques.
"It's like me giving you a manual that has all the parts of a car," he said. "It has all the pieces, but it doesn't show you how to put it together, and it doesn't show you how to drive."
However, some serious practitioners can benefit from supplementing live training with videos, in which they can view techniques from different angles and slow down action to see how it's done.
Mitchell McCray, a former New York City police officer who currently is training police and security personnel in Afghanistan, wrote in an e-mail that he uses videos as useful supplements and for reference. Combining physical instruction with video reinforcement can "help make a well-rounded practitioner," McCray wrote.
But in an industry with little regulation, Apsokardu wrote that anyone could Photoshop a certificate and declare himself a master: "The phrase 'buyer beware' is in full effect when it comes to martial arts and self-defense videos."


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Texans to be spared worst of travel mess
Thanksgiving could bring first freeze of season to Houston area
By Eric Berger, Erin Mulvaney | November 25, 2013 | Updated: November 26, 2013 6:51am
Photo By Melissa Phillip/StaffMarilynne and Justin Zborowski, of The Woodlands, check in Monday at Bush Intercontinental with their daughters and nephews. The family will be spending Thanksgiving at grandmother's house in Arizona.
Photo By David Woo/The Dallas Morning NewsEmployees work on deicing and anti-icing a plane Monday at DFW Airport, where an excessive number of delays and cancellations was reported.
Photo By Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleRosia Hernandez bundles up as she walks along Main Street, Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, in Houston. The forecast calls for one hundred percent chance of rain and a high of 45 degrees.
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Robert Aguirre adjusts his coat as he waits for the bus along Louisiana Street in downtown Houston. Aguirre said that it's cold and the weather can be a bit frustrating.
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Leesa Everitt crosses a puddle early Monday morning along Texas Avenue in downtown Houston.
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A pedestrian endures the cold and rain Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, as he walks along Bagby Street in downtown Houston.
Photo By Louis DeLuca/Staff PhotographerA sign alerting residents to a possible freeze sits near the driveway of some apartments off of Whispering Hills in northeast Dallas, near Abrams and 635, as an arctic cold front begins to move into the North Texas area on Sunday, November 24, 2013. (Louis DeLuca/Dallas Morning News)
Photo By Louis DeLuca/Staff PhotographerDavid McCain of Abilene relaxes in the seats of the ticketing area for American airlines in Terminal C after his flight home to Abilene was cancelled, as an arctic cold front begins to move into the North Texas area on Sunday, November 24, 2013. (Louis DeLuca/Dallas Morning News)
Photo By Louis DeLuca/Staff PhotographerCameron Bongo braves the drizzle and gusty winds to collect the shopping carts in the Costco parking lot off of US 75 in Plano, as an arctic cold front begins to move into the North Texas area on Sunday, November 24, 2013. (Louis DeLuca/Dallas Morning News)
Photo By Louis DeLuca/Staff PhotographerKeunte Williams huddles in his hoodie as he waits for his train at the DART station off near the West End in downtown Dallas, as an arctic cold front begins to move into the North Texas area on Sunday, November 24, 2013. (Louis DeLuca/Dallas Morning News)
Photo By J. Patric Schneider/For the ChronicleKennesha Williams braves the cold to watch the University of Houston Cougars face off against the Cincinnati Bearcats during an NCAA football game at BBVA Compass Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Thomas B. Shea/For the ChronicleFriendswood students Kiera Ash, bailey Couillard and Abigail Ardoin huddle behind a wall trying to stay warm while they watch the Stratford Spartans play against the Friendswood Mustangs in the Class 4 A playoff football game at Mercer Stadium in Sugar Land.
Photo By JAMES DURBINFrozen tree branches on the campus of Midland College as a winter storm moves across Texas on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013.
Photo By James Nielsen/Houston ChronicleEasha Joseph bundles up during the Via Colori street painting festival in downtown Houston on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013.
Photo By Edyta Blaszczyk/Odessa AmericanA horse roams an icy patch of land Saturday morning during a winter storm warning with light freezing rain falling Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013 in west Odessa, Texas.
Photo By Edyta Blaszczyk /Odessa AmericanA White Chinese Goose roams on the icy grass surrounding a pond Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013 in Odessa, Texas. West Texas is currently experiencing a winter storm warning and could possibly receive two to four inches of snow and sleet.
Photo By Edyta Blaszczyk/Odessa AmericanSamantha Hernandez scrapes ice off of the windows after Kenneth Fields sprays them with a concoction of vinegar and water to soften the ice on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013, in Odessa, Texas. The fierce weather has caused at least eight deaths and prompted advisories Saturday afternoon in New Mexico and Texas.
Photo By Jerry Baker/for the ChronicleLela David, right, and Bettysheba Pole of Frisco, Texas, braved the cold and rain in downtown Dallas on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013,. to tour Dealey Plaza in remembrance of the JFK shooting.
Photo By Johnny Hanson/Houston ChronicleA vehicle drives through high water on the 7100 block of Fondren as a heavy rain falls early Friday morning, Nov. 22, 2013, in Houston.
Photo By Brett Coomer/Houston ChronicleCars are are shown in raindrops as they drive south on the I-45 service road Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, in The Woodlands.
Photo By RON JOHNSON/APWashington High School quarterback Colton Marshall (10) gives teammate Kyle Stratton a hug after a 44-14 loss to Sacred Heart-Griffin in a Class 5A semifinal football playoff game in Springfield, Ill., on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013. Senior Colton Marshall's family lost their home in last Sunday's tornado that tore through Washington, Ill., destroying over a 1,000 homes.
Photo By RON JOHNSON/APWashington High School head coach Darrell Crouch, left, and Sacred Heart-Griffin head coach Ken Leonard, say a prayer with football players from both teams Saturday Nov. 23, 2013, after a Class 5A football semifinal playoff game in Springfield, Ill. Washington lost the game, 44-14, but still played the game despite over 10 players on the roster that lost their family home after a tornado tore throughout central Illinois town last Sunday.
Photo By Ron Johnson/APWashington High School quarterback Colton Marshall gets a hug after a 44-14 loss to Sacred Heart-Griffin in a Class 5A semifinal football playoff game in Springfield, Ill., on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013. Senior Colton Marshall's family lost their home in last Sunday's tornado that tore through Washington, Ill., destroying over a 1,000 homes.
Photo By RON JOHNSON/APFans gather for a sendoff of the Washington High School football team on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013, in Washington, Ill., before their Class 5A football semifinal game with Sacred Heart-Griffin of Springfield. Sacred Heart-Griffin High School provided charter buses for the Washington team and fans as well as feeding team and fans before and after the game as a goodwill gesture after players and fans in Washington lost homes to last Sunday's tornado that tore through central Illinois.
Photo By J. Patric Schneider/For the ChronicleA UH fan braves the cold weather to watch the Cougars face Cincinnati.
Photo By J. Patric Schneider/FreelanceUH students varied their approaches to dealing with Saturday's chilly weather.
A storm system that caused at least 10 deaths, half of them in Texas, headed east Monday and is expected to bring snow, rain and strong winds that may disrupt Thanksgiving travel over the northeastern U.S. but spare Texas the worst of the inclement weather.
Texans getting an early jump on Thanksgiving experienced icy roads, flight delays and freezing rain in parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas and Texas.
Nearly 300 American Airlines and American Eagle flights were canceled in and out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Monday because of the weather, spokeswoman Laura Masvidal said, mirroring disruptions at the air hub a day earlier.
The headaches could continue with some of the country's busiest airports - New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Boston and Charlotte, N.C. - potentially experiencing big delays on Tuesday and Wednesday.
However, after a wet morning Tuesday, motorists departing from the Houston area to Dallas or points north should experience clear but windy conditions.
The cold will continue, too.
Houston on Monday had its coldest day since the middle of January, and the city is likely to experience its first freeze of the season by Thanksgiving morning.
Most of Houston, except for coastal areas, should in fact see its first freeze of the fall season on Thanksgiving.
That's because, after a cold front moves through on Tuesday, the rain and clouds should slowly clear out of the area and allow for overnight cooling. A freeze appears likely for most of the region except for counties immediately along the coast.
The clear weather should help out a region that has gotten several inches of rain since Friday.
Rains on Monday didn't have too much effect in Houston on early travel for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Monday afternoon, Bush Intercontinental experienced very low levels of delays and Hobby Airport registered moderate levels, according to data collected by Flight Stats, which analyzes flight data for U.S. airports and airlines.
Several flights were canceled Monday morning flying to Dallas from Hobby.
Dallas experienced an excessive number of delays and cancellations, related to the weather, according to Flight Stats.
Delays could worsen beginning Tuesday as a large storm produces rain along the East Coast, and snow in the northeastern United States, with the poor weather continuing on Wednesday.
"We are keeping our eyes on the weather and will be prepared to assist the airlines in case there are considerable delays and cancellations which will affect our passengers," said Houston Airport System spokeswoman Darian Ward.
"We have additional staffing during the holiday and we can reach out to our concession partners in case they need to stay open later or open earlier."
The Houston Airport System recently said it expected 1.4 million travelers during this holiday week.
According to the American Automobile Association, an estimated 43.4 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the holiday weekend, a decrease of 1.5 percent from the 44 million people who traveled last year.
This decrease falls just shy of last Thanksgiving's four-year peak since the recession-driven declines in 2008-2009 when Thanksgiving travel fell by 25 percent.
Return travel does not appear likely to be significantly affected by weather in the United States.
Houston can look forward to a warming trend heading into the weekend, with highs in the mid-60s likely by Saturday, with a fair amount of sunshine.
After the big chill, highs in the 60s should feel almost balmy.


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Saraf Jidad — Armed herders allegedly attacked the area of Saraf Jidad, Sirba locality, in West Darfur on Tuesday November 20 for the third day in a row, Radio Dabanga has learned.
An armed group of herders attacked Saraf Jidad camp in Sirba locality on Sunday morning and allegedly kidnapped three policemen.
The reason for the attack, according to the perpetrators, is because they believe members of the community police killed a herder. They claimed to have found his body at Mruro area, five kilometers north of Saraf Jidad on Saturday. Additionally, the herders are being accused of torturing more than 60 camp residents and looting of homes, shops and properties.
Omda of Saraf Jidad, Yahya Umla, described the situation in the region as 'chaotic'. He claims that militias have been roaming the area since Friday and are still present, causing residents to flee, while others stay inside their homes in fear and panic.
Ulma told Radio Dabanga that livestock was looted on Tuesday and that 'chaos prevails in the area', claiming it will not stop unless the government sends 'capable troops' to the area to contain the situation.
On the other hand, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) condemned the attacks, describing them as 'pro-government militia attacks'.
Bashir al-Sanosi, adviser to movement's leadership, told Radio Dabanga that the militants attacked the area of Saraf Jidad after looting the local police station.
Sanosi said he holds the state authorities responsible for the attacks, adding that 'the perpetrators are loyal to the National Congress Party and their arms are supplied by the regime as well'.
The adviser continued that the state authorities are also responsible for burning farms in the areas of Bir Dagig and Kendebe about two weeks ago.
He accused the government of West Darfur of 'knowing about the burning of farms on forehand; with the purpose of starving residents and displacing them, to make room for new settlers', he added to Radio Dabanga from El-Geneina.


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Good news for the half-million people who signed the Coalition to Save Our News petition: the Koch brothers have dropped their plans to buy Tribune Company's eight national ...On August 26, 2013 / By Connor Gibson
New internal documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reveal new methods that fossil fuel companies, agrochemical interests and corporate lobbying groups will influence certain ...On August 7, 2013 / By Connor Gibson
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Watchdog Outlines $1.2 Billion in IT Overlap Within Defense, Energy
February 17, 2012
An inventory of about 20 percent of all information technology investments at the Defense, Energy and Homeland Security departments turned up 37 potentially duplicative efforts that cost the government about $1.2 billion over the past five years, according to a watchdog report released Friday.
Of those potentially duplicative investments, 31 were within Defense and six were within Energy. The Homeland Security Department did not have any internally redundant investments; the Government Accountability Office did not examine possible duplication across agencies.
"DoD and DoE officials offered a variety of reasons for the potential duplication, such as decentralized governance and a lack of control over certain facilities," GAO said. "Further complicating agencies' ability to identify and eliminate duplicative investments is that investments are, in certain cases, misclassified by function. Until agencies correctly categorize their investments, they cannot be confident that their investments are not duplicative."


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Two years ago, I wrote about how few people were running for school board in Oakland. It's much different this year. Below is a list of 13 candidates that have announced at some point that they were running for seats 1, 3, 5, or 7. I've learned of a number of new candidates since my blog post in late May.
Friday, Aug. 10 is the filing deadline. You can see for yourself who's supporting whom and who's filed on the City of Oakland's online campaign portal. If you want to see all the filings, select "search filings by date."
District 1: Incumbent Jody London is running for re-election against Thearse Pecot, who sued the district this spring, saying the district's school closure policies discriminate against poor, minority children.
District 3: Incumbent Jumoke Hinton Hodge and challengers Vicente Cruz, Richard Fuentes and Sheilagh Polk.
District 5: An open race between Roseann Torres, Cindi Reiss and Mike Hutchinson, another vocal school closure critic.
District 7: Incumbent Alice Spearman is being challenged by James Harris and former OUSD student-trustee Christina Jiang (Skyline Class of 2007). Mieko Scott also announced, on Twitter, that she would run, and it says so on her bio, though I haven't found any campaign material for her.
Am I missing anyone?


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TRADITIONAL varieties of major US food crops have been widely contaminated by DNA from genetically modified crops. Some scientists have gone as far as to suggest that this may pose a serious risk to human health.
Crops engineered to produce industrial chemicals and drugs - so-called "pharm" crops - could already be poisoning ostensibly GM-free crops grown for food, says a study by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "If genes find their way from pharm crops to ordinary corn, they or their products could wind up in drug-laced cornflakes," says microbiologist Margaret Mellon, the report's co-author.
In trials, crops have been genetically engineered to manufacture antibodies to fight cancer, vaccines against rabies, cholera and foot and mouth disease, and proteins for healing wounds and treating conditions such as cystic fibrosis. But while conventional pharmaceutical factories are subject to stringent controls to prevent drugs entering the ...
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10 things I'm going to do before I die
1. Challenge the Pope to a duel over control of the Christian Religion
2. Get someone to refer to me as Optimus Prime whenever they see me
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5. Drop a few tracks about going to school, and practicing safe sex
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7. Punch Mick Jagger in the jaw then go looking for Keith Richards
8. Find Tupac's hidden gold then organize a search committee to find him
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10. Find Narnia, find Mr. Tumnus and tell him to take me to Aslan so I can kill him and take his magic Lion Powers


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Festival-goers have fun of climbing up bun tower
Lots of festival-goers got the chance to climb the famous bun tower today (April 30) at the climbing event of "2006 Bun Carnival" at the soccer pitch of Cheung Chau Pak Tai Temple Playground.
By making on-site applications for "Bun Tower Climbing Challenge" of the "2006 Bun Carnival" jointly organised by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) and the Hong Kong Cheung Chau Bun Festival Committee, they enjoyed the fun and excitement of climbing the 15-metre tall tower used for the Bun Scrambling Competition on May 6.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the climbing event, the Chairman of the Hong Kong Cheung Chau Bun Festival Committee, Mr Yung Chi-ming, noted that the "Bun Tower Climbing Challenge" was a newly added programme for festival-goers to experience climbing up the tower.
The "Bun Tower Climbing Challenge" divided into four groups - the Master Group (aged 35 or above), Adult Group (aged 18 to 34), Youth Group (aged below 18 and at least one metre tall), and Family Group (a team of two and each member must be at least one metre tall).
The challenge had six sessions, with each session lasting for an hour. Souvenirs featuring the buns were awarded to participants of the six groups in each session who reached the designated height on the bun tower in the shortest time.
The climbing event in the carnival also offered lots of other festive programmes. The Hong Kong Mountaineering Union gave climbing demonstrations and there were also traditional Chinese arts and crafts stalls.
People enjoyed variety shows like magic performances and traditional Chinese entertainment.
A total of 12 finalists selected on Saturday afternoon (April 29) will enter the Bun Scrambling Competition to be held on May 5 night at the Cheung Chau Pak Tai Temple Playground.
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