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Revenge Review: What Did You Think of the Season 2, Episode 3: "Confidence"?
Tonight's episode of Revenge was filled with plot twists, flashbacks, and a steamy Emily/Aiden makeout session!
Victoria Grayson was back in a big way and ready to announce her return to the press — but first she chose to push Emily Thorne out of the picture.
Ems had her own things to worry about in the form of one White-Haired Corpse and one British snoop who likes getting in the way and parading that sexy bod around. Sigh, the daily challenges.
Though Jack was set on keeping Amanda away from the Graysons, Emily saw her faux-twin as the only way back into their lives. And in tonight's episode we finally saw the end of Jack's patience!
As usual, Victoria Grayson was back to proving that she's in charge. But no one could have predicted that Em's mother, Kara Wallace Clarke, and the White-Haired Man were lovers.
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Mississippi State University reported an attempted abduction late Wednesday night through its Maroon Alert messaging system.
At 11:39 p.m., the university sent the alert, warning students and alert subscribers of the possible abduction attempt near Sessums Hall, an all-female residence hall. The university later said that at approximately 11 p.m. MSUPD responded to a report from a female that said she was walking behind Sessums Hall when an unidentified black male — described only as wearing a grey shirt — reportedly jumped from between two cars and tried to grab her. The university said the victim called for help and a second male responded to help. The alleged abductor released the victim and fled toward Burger King.
Mississippi State police responded immediately to the call and secured the scene, then carried out a preliminary search for the perpetrator.
MSU Police Chief Georgia Lindley said the department continued investigating into the matter on
A university spokesman said Thursday morning that all students and personnel were present and accounted for, and that no injuries were reported due to the incident.
The Maroon Alert remained posted on the university website's main page and at emergency.msstate.edu, and the university operated under advisory conditions through the morning on Thursday.
University Relations Director Sid Salter said the university had options for anyone on campus to travel safely at night, but wasn't suggesting extra precautions in the aftermath of the reported incident.
"All we have suggested is that if anyone feels unsafe or is concerned, to avail themselves to the Bully Patrol or other safe or escort options on campus," he said. "The library has personnel for that daily. Students or staff that have any safety concerns can do that, but beyond that, this appears to be an isolated incident."
Salter declined to comment on what extra steps the university might take for security following the incident.
"We feel better about just doing it and letting anybody who's in the business of trying to harm people find out what our law enforcement is doing on the back end," he said.
He did say, however, that the university would continue to do everything possible to ensure the safety of everyone on campus.
"The main thing is the safety of our students and faculty and staff," he said. "We take that very seriously 24/7, 365."


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The physical and chemical behavior of liquids cannot be understood without taking surface tension into account. It governs the shape that small masses of liquid can assume and the degree of contact a liquid can make with another substance.
Applying Newtonian physics to the forces that arise due to surface tension accurately predicts many liquid behaviors that are so commonplace that most people take them for granted. Applying thermodynamics to those same forces further predicts other more subtle liquid behaviors.
Surface tension has the dimension of force per unit length, or of energy per unit area. The two are equivalent — but when referring to energy per unit of area people use the term surface energy — which is a more general term in the sense that it applies also to solids and not just liquids.
Surface tension is caused by the attraction between the liquid's molecules by various intermolecular forces. In the bulk of the liquid, each molecule is pulled equally in all directions by neighbouring liquid molecules, resulting in a net force of zero. At the surface of the liquid, the molecules are pulled inwards by other molecules deeper inside the liquid and are not attracted as intensely by the molecules in the neighbouring medium (be it vacuum, air or another liquid). Therefore, all of the molecules at the surface are subject to an inward force of molecular attraction which is balanced only by the liquid's resistance to compression, meaning there is no net inward force. However, there is a driving force to diminish the surface area, and in this respect a liquid surface resembles a stretched elastic membrane. Thus the liquid squeezes itself together until it has the locally lowest surface area possible.
Another way to view it is that a molecule in contact with a neighbour is in a lower state of energy than if it wasn't in contact with a neighbour. The interior molecules all have as many neighbours as they can possibly have. But the boundary molecules have fewer neighbours than interior molecules and are therefore in a higher state of energy. For the liquid to minimize its energy state, it must minimize its number of boundary molecules and must therefore minimize its surface area.
As a result of surface area minimization, a surface will assume the smoothest shape it can (mathematical proof that "smooth" shapes minimize surface area relies on use of the Euler–Lagrange equation). Since any curvature in the surface shape results in greater area, a higher energy will also result. Consequently the surface will push back against any curvature in much the same way as a ball pushed uphill will push back to minimize its gravitational potential energy.
Some examples of the effects of surface tension seen with ordinary water:
Surface tension is visible in other common phenomena, especially when certain substances, surfactants, are used to decrease it:
Surface tension, represented by the symbol γ is defined as the force along a line of unit length, where the force is parallel to the surface but perpendicular to the line. One way to picture this is to imagine a flat soap film bounded on one side by a taut thread of length, L. The thread will be pulled toward the interior of the film by a force equal to 2γL (the factor of 2 is because the soap film has two sides, hence two surfaces). Surface tension is therefore measured in forces per unit length. Its SI unit is newton per metre but the cgs unit of dyne per cm is also used. One dyn/cm corresponds to 0.001 N/m.
An equivalent definition, one that is useful in thermodynamics, is work done per unit area. As such, in order to increase the surface area of a mass of liquid by an amount, δA, a quantity of work, γδA, is needed. This work is stored as potential energy. Consequently surface tension can be also measured in SI system as joules per square metre and in the cgs system as ergs per cm2. Since mechanical systems try to find a state of minimum potential energy, a free droplet of liquid naturally assumes a spherical shape, which has the minimum surface area for a given volume.
The equivalence of measurement of energy per unit area to force per unit length can be proven by dimensional analysis.
The photograph shows water striders standing on the surface of a pond. It is clearly visible that their feet cause indentations in the water's surface. And it is intuitively evident that the surface with indentations has more surface area than a flat surface. If surface tension tends to minimize surface area, how is it that the water striders are increasing the surface area?
Recall that what nature really tries to minimize is potential energy. By increasing the surface area of the water, the water striders have increased the potential energy of that surface. But note also that the water striders' center of mass is lower than it would be if they were standing on a flat surface. So their potential energy is decreased. Indeed when you combine the two effects, the net potential energy is minimized. If the water striders depressed the surface any more, the increased surface energy would more than cancel the decreased energy of lowering the insects' center of mass. If they depressed the surface any less, their higher center of mass would more than cancel the reduction in surface energy.
The photo of the water striders also illustrates the notion of surface tension being like having an elastic film over the surface of the liquid. In the surface depressions at their feet it is easy to see that the reaction of that imagined elastic film is exactly countering the weight of the insects.
If no force acts normal to a tensioned surface, the surface must remain flat. But if the pressure on one side of the surface differs from pressure on the other side, the pressure difference times surface area results in a normal force. In order for the surface tension forces to cancel the force due to pressure, the surface must be curved. The diagram shows how surface curvature of a tiny patch of surface leads to a net component of surface tension forces acting normal to the center of the patch. When all the forces are balanced, the resulting equation is known as the Young–Laplace equation:
The quantity in parentheses on the right hand side is in fact (twice) the mean curvature of the surface (depending on normalisation).
Solutions to this equation determine the shape of water drops, puddles, menisci, soap bubbles, and all other shapes determined by surface tension (such as the shape of the impressions that a water strider's feet make on the surface of a pond).
The table below shows how the internal pressure of a water droplet increases with decreasing radius. For not very small drops the effect is subtle, but the pressure difference becomes enormous when the drop sizes approach the molecular size.
|Δp for water drops of different radii at STP
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The reason for this is that the pressure difference across a fluid interface is proportional to the mean curvature, as seen in the Young-Laplace equation. For an open soap film, the pressure difference is zero, hence the mean curvature is zero, and minimal surfaces have the property of zero mean curvature.
Where the two surfaces meet, they form a contact angle, , which is the angle the tangent to the surface makes with the solid surface. The diagram to the right shows two examples. Tension forces are shown for the liquid-air interface, the liquid-solid interface, and the solid-air interface. The example on the left is where the difference between the liquid-solid and solid-air surface tension, , is less than the liquid-air surface tension, , but is nevertheless positive, that is
In the diagram, both the vertical and horizontal forces must cancel exactly at the contact point. The horizontal component of is canceled by the adhesive force, .
The more telling balance of forces, though, is in the vertical direction. The vertical component of must exactly cancel the force, .
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Since the forces are in direct proportion to their respective surface tensions, we also have:
This means that although the difference between the liquid-solid and solid-air surface tension, , is difficult to measure directly, it can be inferred from the easily measured contact angle, , if the liquid-air surface tension, , is known.
This same relationship exists in the diagram on the right. But in this case we see that because the contact angle is less than 90°, the liquid-solid/solid-air surface tension difference must be negative:
Another special case is where the contact angle is exactly 180°. Water with specially prepared Teflon approaches this. Contact angle of 180° occurs when the liquid-solid surface tension is exactly equal to the liquid-air surface tension.
An old style mercury barometer consists of a vertical glass tube about 1 cm in diameter partially filled with mercury, and with a vacuum (called Toricelli's vacuum) in the unfilled volume (see diagram to the right). Notice that the mercury level at the center of the tube is higher than at the edges, making the upper surface of the mercury dome-shaped. The center of mass of the entire column of mercury would be slightly lower if the top surface of the mercury were flat over the entire crossection of the tube. But the dome-shaped top gives slightly less surface area to the entire mass of mercury. Again the two effects combine to minimize the total potential energy. Such a surface shape is known as a convex meniscus.
The reason we consider the surface area of the entire mass of mercury, including the part of the surface that is in contact with the glass, is because mercury does not adhere at all to glass. So the surface tension of the mercury acts over its entire surface area, including where it is in contact with the glass. If instead of glass, the tube were made out of copper, the situation would be very different. Mercury aggressively adheres to copper. So in a copper tube, the level of mercury at the center of the tube will be lower rather than higher than at the edges (that is, it would be a concave meniscus). In a situation where the liquid adheres to the walls of its container, we consider the part of the fluid's surface area that is in contact with the container to have negative surface tension. The fluid then works to maximize the contact surface area. So in this case increasing the area in contact with the container decreases rather than increases the potential energy. That decrease is enough to compensate for the increased potential energy associated with lifting the fluid near the walls of the container.
If a tube is sufficiently narrow and the liquid adhesion to its walls is sufficiently strong, surface tension can draw liquid up the tube in a phenomenon known as capillary action. The height the column is lifted to is given by:
Pouring mercury onto a horizontal flat sheet of glass results in a puddle that has a perceptible thickness. (Do not try this except under a fume hood. Mercury vapor is a toxic hazard.) The puddle will spread out only to the point where it is a little under half a centimeter thick, and no thinner. Again this is due to the action of mercury's strong surface tension. The liquid mass flattens out because that brings as much of the mercury to as low a level as possible. But the surface tension, at the same time, is acting to reduce the total surface area. The result is the compromise of a puddle of a nearly fixed thickness.
The same surface tension demonstration can be done with water, but only on a surface made of a substance that the water does not adhere to. Wax is such a substance. Water poured onto a smooth, flat, horizontal wax surface, say a waxed sheet of glass, will behave similarly to the mercury poured onto glass.
The thickness of a puddle of liquid on a surface whose contact angle is 180° is given by:
|is the depth of the puddle in centimeters or meters.
|is the surface tension of the liquid in dynes per centimeter or newtons per meter.
|is the acceleration due to gravity and is equal to 980 cm/s2 or 9.8 m/s2
|is the density of the liquid in grams per cubic centimeter or kilograms per cubic meter
In reality, the thicknesses of the puddles will be slightly less than what is predicted by the above formula because very few surfaces have a contact angle of 180° with any liquid. When the contact angle is less than 180°, the thickness is given by:
For mercury on glass, , , and , which gives . For water on paraffin at 25 °C, , , and which gives .
The formula also predicts that when the contact angle is 0°, the liquid will spread out into a micro-thin layer over the surface. Such a surface is said to be fully wettable by the liquid.
In day to day life we all observe that a stream of water emerging from a faucet will break up into droplets, no matter how smoothly the stream is emitted from the faucet. This is due to a phenomenon called the Plateau-Rayleigh instability, which is entirely a consequence of the effects of surface tension.
The explanation of this instability begins with the existence of tiny perturbations in the stream. These are always present, no matter how smooth the stream is. If the perturbations are resolved into sinusoidal components, we find that some components grow with time while others decay with time. Among those that grow with time, some grow at faster rates than others. Whether a component decays or grows, and how fast it grows is entirely a function of its wave number (a measure of how many peaks and troughs per centimeter) and the radius of the original cylindrical stream. The diagram to the right shows an exaggeration of a single component.
By assuming that all possible components exist initially in roughly equal (but minuscule) amplitudes, the size of the final drops can be predicted by determining by wave number which component grows the fastest. As time progresses, it is the component whose growth rate is maximum that will come to dominate and will eventually be the one that pinches the stream into drops.
Although a thorough understanding of how this happens requires a mathematical development (see references), the diagram can provide a conceptual understanding. Observe the two bands shown girdling the stream – one at a peak and the other at a trough of the wave. At the trough, the radius of the stream is smaller, hence according to the Young-Laplace equation (discussed above) the pressure due to surface tension is increased. Likewise at the peak the radius of the stream is greater and, by the same reasoning, pressure due to surface tension is reduced. If this were the only effect, we would expect that the higher pressure in the trough would squeeze liquid into the lower pressure region in the peak. In this way we see how the wave grows in amplitude over time.
But the Young-Laplace equation is influenced by two separate radius components. In this case one is the radius, already discussed, of the stream itself. The other is the radius of curvature of the wave itself. The fitted arcs in the diagram show these at a peak and at a trough. Observe that the radius of curvature at the trough is, in fact, negative, meaning that, according to Young-Laplace, it actually decreases the pressure in the trough. Likewise the radius of curvature at the peak is positive and increases the pressure in that region. The effect of these components is opposite the effects of the radius of the stream itself.
The two effects, in general, do not exactly cancel. One of them will have greater magnitude than the other, depending upon wave number and the initial radius of the stream. When the wave number is such that the radius of curvature of the wave dominates that of the radius of the stream, such components will decay over time. When the effect of the radius of the stream dominates that of the curvature of the wave, such components grow exponentially with time.
When all the math is done, it is found that unstable components (that is, components that grow over time) are only those where the product of the wave number with the initial radius is less than unity (). The component that grows the fastest is the one whose wave number satisfies the equation:
where is Gibbs free energy and is the area.
Thermodynamics requires that all spontaneous changes of state are accompanied by a decrease in Gibbs free energy.
From this it is easy to understand why decreasing the surface area of a mass of liquid is always spontaneous (), provided it is not coupled to any other energy changes. It follows that in order to increase surface area, a certain amount of energy must be added.
Gibbs free energy is defined by the equation, , where is enthalpy and is entropy. Based upon this and the fact that surface tension is Gibbs free energy per unit area, it is possible to obtain the following expression for entropy per unit area:
Kelvin's Equation for surfaces arises by rearranging the previous equations. It states that surface enthalpy or surface energy (different from surface free energy) depends both on surface tension and its derivative with temperature at constant pressure by the relationship.
where is the difference in pressure inside and outside of the bubble, and is the surface tension. In equilbrium, , and so,
For a spherical bubble, the volume and surface area are given simply by
Substituting these relations into the previous expression, we find
which is equivalent to the Young-Laplace equation when Rx = Ry.
Surface tension is dependent on temperature. For that reason, when a value is given for the surface tension of an interface, temperature must be explicitly stated. The general trend is that surface tension decreases with the increase of temperature, reaching a value of 0 at the critical temperature. For further details see Eötvös rule. There are only empirical equations to relate surface tension and temperature:
For example for water k = 1.03 erg/°C (103 nJ/K), V = 18 ml/mol and TC = 374 °C.
A variant on Eötvös is described by Ramay and Shields:
where the temperature offset of 6 kelvins provides the formula with a better fit to reality at lower temperatures.
is a constant for each liquid and n is an empirical factor, whose value is 11/9 for organic liquids. This equation was also proposed by van der Waals, who further proposed that could be given by the expression, , where is a universal constant for all liquids, and is the critical pressure of the liquid (although later experiments found to vary to some degree from one liquid to another).
Both Guggenheim-Katayama and Eötvös take into account the fact that surface tension reaches 0 at the critical temperature, whereas Ramay and Shields fails to match reality at this endpoint.
What complicates the effect is that a solute can exist in a different concentration at the surface of a solvent than in its bulk. This difference varies from one solute/solvent combination to another.
Gibbs isotherm states that:
Certain assumptions are taken in its deduction, therefore Gibbs isotherm can only be applied to ideal (very dilute) solutions with two components.
is the Kelvin radius, the radius of the droplets.
The effect explains supersaturation of vapors. In the absence of nucleation sites, tiny droplets must form before they can evolve into larger droplets. This requires a vapor pressure many times the vapor pressure at the phase transition point.
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The Ministry of Labour in collaboration with the Liberia Manpower Development & Recruitment Services has launched a Career Awareness Program for High School Students in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County.
The program which was held under the theme "Promoting Employable Skills" brought together seven high schools within the City of Buchanan and its surroundings.
Speaking during the official launching program, Deputy Minister for Planning and Manpower Development, Atty. Neto Zarzar Lighe said the Ministry of Labour had reached the conclusion to place emphasis on career awareness for 11th & 12th graders because, he said, high school level is where people make decisions relative to their careers.
For his part, the President of the Grand Bassa Community College, Dr. Levi Z. Zangar, praised the Ministry of Labour for introducing such a program, noting that it will help to determine their career path.
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"The biggest obstacle to reducing poverty in Liberia is the lack of skilled Liberians," Dr. Zangar noted.
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The Politics of Nothing
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Routledge – 2013 – 118 pages
This book questions what sovereignty looks like when it is de-ontologised; when the nothingness at the heart of claims to sovereignty is unmasked and laid bare. Drawing on critical thinkers in political theology, such as Schmitt, Agamben, Nancy, Blanchot, Paulhan, The Politics of Nothing asks what happens to the political when considered in the frame of the productive potential of the nothing? The answers are framed in terms of the deep intellectual histories at our disposal for considering these fundamental questions, carving out trajectories inspired by, for example, Peter Lombard, Shakespeare and Spinoza. This book offers a series of sensitive and creative reflections that suggest the possibilities offered by thinking through sovereignty via the frame of nihilism.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Culture, Theory and Critique.
1. Introduction: The Negativity of Sovereignty, Now Clare Monagle and Dimitris Vardoulakis 2. A Sovereign Act of Negation: Schmitt's Political Theology and its Ideal Medievalism Clare Monagle 3. Enmity and Culture: The Rhetoric of Political Theology and the Exception in Carl Schmitt Jürgen Fohrmann 4. The Sovereign Without Domain: Georges Bataille and the Ethics of Nothing Charles Barbour 5. The Ends of Stasis: Spinoza as a Reader of Agamben Dimitris Vardoulakis 6. The Late Althusser: Materialism of the Encounter or Philosophy of Nothing? Warren Montag 7. Naming the Nothing: Nancy and Blanchot on Community Ian James 8. Next to Nothing: Jean Paulhan's Gamble Anna-Louise Milne
Clare Monagle is a lecturer in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University, Australia. She has published widely on medieval thought, and has a forthcoming monograph, Trying Ideas: Peter Lombard, Christological Nihilism and Theological Controversy, 1050-1215.
Dimitris Vardoulakis is a lecturer at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the author of The Doppelgänger: Literature's Philosophy (2010) and Sovereignty and Its Other (forthcoming). He is also the editor of Spinoza Now (2011).
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Paynter Beats Laminitis, Still Fights Colitis
Zayat Stables' Haskell Invitational (gr. I) winner Paynter has beaten laminitis and will be able to race again if he beats colitis, his owner said Sept. 21.
The 3-year-old colt has been hospitalized at Upstate Equine Medical Center in Schuylerville, N.Y., since the week of Aug. 26 while battling colitis, an infection of the colon. He was diagnosed with laminitis in three feet Sept. 4.
"Dr. Brian Fraley (flew) in from Kentucky to visit him and wow, yes, he has beaten laminitis, and yes, he can race again," Ahmed Zayat said via Twitter, the method he has employed to issue updates on the son of Awesome Again .
Zayat also said the casts that had been applied to support the colt's limbs were removed Sept. 21, and that he was showing uniform growth in the hoof walls of all four feet.
"Radiographs taken barefoot showed significant sole growth," Zayat tweeted. "The hoof-lamellar zone has returned to a normal thickness, indicating a decrease in swelling within the hoof. Soft-ride boots with EVA foam pads were placed on the front feet and EVA foam pads were placed on the hind feet. He is sound at the walk."
Dr. Laura Javsicas, Paynter's attending veterinarian, and Fraley are optimistic the feet will not be performance-limiting, meaning the colt could race again at top levels, Zayat said. Paynter continues to battle colitis, however, and continues to spike fevers well above normal. On Sept. 17 doctors began a more aggressive strain of antibiotics delivered directly through a catheter to fight the illness.
"Now that our warrior has beaten this sick disease of laminitis, if he can only beat his colitis and get his GI tract back to normal," Zayat wrote. "Healing will take some time but we are heading in the right direction. His fever is normal today. He is bright, happy and comfortable. I am on cloud nine; I will take it day by day."
Paynter, bred in Kentucky by Diamond A Racing Corp., is out of the Cee's Tizzy mare Tizso. He has three wins and two seconds from six starts, with earnings of $952,224.
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Wander through the impressive lobby and up to a sumptuous double bedroom resplendent with air conditioning, cable TV, and complimentary internet access. En suites are kept topped up with bathroom products throughout trips, and room service is on hand 24 hours a day. Heading down to the Real restaurant each morning, days can begin with a hearty buffet breakfast before taking to the Portuguese streets. As evening draws in guests can also consider dining at the hotel, with a 15% discount at the Guarda Real restaurant during the stay.
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The Northern Irishman will be officially presented as the new Reds boss at a press conference on Friday morning after a compensation package was agreed with Swansea.
"For me, the only way I was going to leave Swansea was for a big club, and I mean a big club," Rodgers told the South Wales Evening Post.
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I bringing it up here? Did you read the OP?
And let's be honest, who DON'T want to get paid 1 million per year? It's called human wants, and it's unlimited.
K im lost, whos saying we have our priorities twisted and implying we shouldnt be complaining about the higher salaries of public employees?


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A Rhythm Game That's A Bit Out Of Synch.
Elite Beat Agents is an interesting game with a lot of character and some great humor. Unfortunately, it also has a lot of problems. In it, you play as the Elite Beat Agents, a group of dancing government (?) agents, whose sole purpose is to make a difference in the lives of others. How do they do this? By dancing, of course. At it's heart, EBA is a simple rhythm game you play using the only the stylus. You'll find yourself tapping, dragging, and tracing your way to the beat. This is all well and good when it works, but when it doesn't, the game can be a frustrating mess.
The Good
- Controls - The touch screen is responsive and it never feels like you miss a beat due to lousy detection. The spinning sections can be annoying, but they are never unfair due to sloppy controls.
- Crazy Humor - The game is loaded with off-the wall humor and ridiculous situations. Helping a penniless oil baron get his gold-digging wife back is a joy.
- Style - The cut scenes and comic book panels look fantastic and really grab the player's attention. The colorful art is an excellent supplement to the wacky tales unfolding during the missions.
- Music - Some of the songs are great choices and lend themselves to this type of rhythm game.
The Bad
- Difficulty - There is nothing wrong with a game being difficult. In fact, I love a good challenge and the gameplay difficulty actually ramps up nicely in EBA, unlocking more challenging versions of the song as you go. The problem here is that it can be difficult for the wrong reasons. Sometimes the screen is too cluttered to tell where the next beat will appear. Even worse, your own hand will often get in the way of seeing the screen. This leads to a lot of repetition and memorization.
- Repetition - Something about having to repeat songs in this game seems worse than in other rhythm games. You're forced to sit through all of the cutscenes just to get back to the part of the song that you failed, even though you've seen them before. If the part you're struggling with is at the end of the song (which it invariably will be, due to the nature of the game), you'll spend a lot of time playing the parts you already know and very little working on those you need to learn. This could've been ameliorated with a practice mode, but no such thing exists.
- Variety - Or lack thereof. There are only 19 songs in the game and you will probably see the majority of them in the first day if you start on the easiest setting. Three songs open up as you increase your score and level up, but it's just not enough. We've come to expect a lot of variety in our rhythm games thanks to Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution, so this seems like a step backwards.
- Music - The music is a relatively eclectic mix and it works most of the time, but there are a few stinkers in there. It's obvious they wanted to please a large fan base, but some of the song/story pairings make no sense (e.g., Sk8er Boi, Walkie Talkie Man, etc.).
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Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the media during a meeting with Senegal's President Macky Sall at the presidential palace in Dakar January 10, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney
ISTANBUL: Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday his government would never surrender to Kurdish militants but he was cautiously hopeful peace talks could end a conflict that has brought nothing but "pain, blood and tears" to Turkey.
Late last year Turkish intelligence officials began talks with jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan on how to end an insurgency which has killed more than 40,000 people since rebels loyal to him took up arms in 1984.
The talks drew fierce criticism from nationalist circles which accused the government of going soft on Ocalan's Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), designated a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the European Union and United States.
In a sign of Ankara's continued hard line against the guerrillas, media reports said Turkish warplanes struck PKK targets in northern Iraq on Sunday and Monday, the first such attacks since details of the Ocalan talks emerged.
"Nobody can make us surrender. We did not take a step back in the face of any attack, we will not take any steps back," Erdogan told his ruling AK Party in parliament in the capital Ankara.
"Violence and terror has brought nothing to this country but pain, blood and tears. Believe me, we have one goal: that is to halt the mothers' tears," he said.
"We are cautious, careful but hopeful."
The nascent talks were overshadowed last week by the execution-style killings of three Kurdish women activists in Paris, which Erdogan has suggested could be the result of an internal feud in the PKK or a bid to derail the peace talks.
The PKK blamed shadowy elements within the Turkish state or foreign powers and Ocalan issued a call on Monday through his brother for French police to solve the murders. But he gave no indication their killing would disrupt the peace talks.
Ocalan's younger brother Mehmet, who visited him in his jail on the island of Imrali near Istanbul, said the PKK leader did not comment on the peace process but may make a statement later if Kurdish political party leaders visit him.
Several Turkish jets attacked PKK forces in northern Iraq on Sunday in the first operation in 12 days and struck again on Monday evening, broadcaster CNN Turk said. It did not identify a source for the report, which could not be confirmed.
However the Firat news agency, which is close to the militants, reported the PKK as saying Turkish warplanes carried out a series of attacks in the region on Monday. It did not give details on any damage caused by the attacks.
Dialogue between Ocalan and government officials, which media reports say yielded a framework for full negotiations, began after Ocalan called on hundreds of PKK inmates to end a hunger strike last November. His brother Mehmet had conveyed that appeal after a previous visit.
"He was very saddened by the massacre in France. He condemns it," Mehmet Ocalan told reporters on his return from Imrali late on Monday. "They must solve this massacre right away."
"This massacre was a sign. Hence he was very downcast. He sent his condolences to the families of the three Kurdish women who were killed," he said, without clarifying what the sign was.
French investigators have given no indication as to who might be responsible for the deaths.
Ocalan was long held in virtual isolation after his capture in 1999. Access to him remains tightly controlled and his lawyers have not seen him for 16 months.
Kurdish politicians have demanded improvements in his jail conditions. Erdogan said last week that such changes would be limited but that he would be given a television.
Asked about those reports, Mehmet said his brother had not requested a television. "It was not his own demand. The prison governor convinced him and that's why he accepted," he said.
One of the three women killed in Paris was Sakine Cansiz, a founding PKK member well-known to Kurdish nationalists and believed to be an important PKK financier in Europe. PKK fighters are based mainly in northern Iraq.
The bodies of the three were set to be flown to Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, on Wednesday evening ahead of a funeral ceremony on Thursday.
Erdogan and other political leaders called for calm ahead of the funerals and warned against efforts to provoke trouble.
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By John LeBoutillier |
Monday, 25 Apr 2011 07:50 AM
More and more Republicans and conservatives see President Barack Obama's re-election as a disaster for future of the United States, yet feel powerless to stop. Unless we find a special candidate to unite the right, the GOP, the tea party movement — and win over independents — we will not defeat Obama.
That candidate needs a unique combination of skills and temperament not seen since the days of Ronald Reagan: a strong vision of where the country ought to go combined with a personality that can sell that vision to more than 50 percent of the voters, plus a thick skin to be able to weather the pro-Obama leftist so-called mainstream media, which has everything they have ever believed in riding on Obama's re-election.
In their minds, Obama's ascension to the Oval Office was an affirmation of their dreams and his re-election will solidify and affirm that dream; his defeat shatters all they have believed in. Thus, they will do anything to win the 2012 election. Losing the Senate, while a huge problem for the left, is even acceptable to them; losing the Obama presidency is not.
This special candidate has to have what I see as the five tools of politics:
For the 2012 race, the only conservative, Republican, or tea partyer who can defeat the Obama machine will have to have all five tools — plus he will have to connect with the American people like no other candidate since Reagan.
Pollster Scott Rasmussen says that "the odds are the GOP candidate next year will not come from the current group of [Mitt] Romney, [Mike] Huckabee, [Tim] Pawlenty, [Sarah] Palin, [Donald] Trump; it will be someone we are not yet talking about or focusing on."
He is right: If we are to defeat Obama in 2012, we need to find that special candidate. And so far no one has appeared on the political scene.
Let's hope that the right candidate does — and soon.
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AT&T/T-Mobile merger blocked by Justice Department
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department filed suit Wednesday to block AT&T's $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile USA on grounds that it would raise prices for consumers.
The government contends that the acquisition of the No. 4 wireless carrier in the country by No. 2 AT&T would reduce competition and that would lead to price increases.
At a news conference, Deputy Attorney General James Cole said the combination would result in "tens of millions of consumers all across the United States facing higher prices, fewer choices and lower quality products for mobile wireless services."
The lawsuit seeks to ensure that everyone can continue to receive the benefits of competition, said Cole.
AT&T said it would fight and ask for an expedited court hearing "so the enormous benefits of this merger can be fully reviewed." The company said the government "has the burden of proving alleged anti-competitive effects, and we intend to vigorously contest this matter in court."
Four nationwide providers — Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint — account for more than 90 percent of mobile wireless connections.
T-Mobile has been an important source of competition, including through innovation and quality enhancements such as the roll-out of the first nationwide high-speed data network, according to Sharis Pozen, acting chief of Justice's antitrust division.
Mobile wireless telecom services play an increasing role in day-to-day communications, with more than 300 million smart phones, data cards, tablets and other mobile wireless devices in use.
Deutsche Telekom, the owner of T-Mobile, had no immediate comment.
The proposed cash-and-stock transaction would catapult AT&T past Verizon Wireless to become the nation's largest wireless provider, and leave Sprint Nextel Corp. as a distant number three.
In a statement, Sprint said the Justice Department's lawsuit "delivered a decisive victory for consumers, competition and our country. By filing suit to block AT&T's proposed takeover of T-Mobile, the DOJ has put consumers' interests first."
AT&T and T-Mobile compete nationwide, in 97 of the largest 100 cellular marketing areas, according to the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington. They also vie for business and government customers.
The suit says AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile would eliminate a company that has been a competitive factor through low pricing and innovation. T-Mobile had the first handset using the Android operating system, Blackberry wireless email, the Sidekick smart phone, national Wi-Fi "hotspot" access and a variety of unlimited service plans.
In support of its case, the department quoted an unidentified AT&T employee on a competitive issue, the sophisticated wireless broadband devices that can provide high-speed data connections. The AT&T employee, according to the suit, noted that T-Mobile was first to have such devices in its portfolio and that "we added them in reaction to potential loss of speed claims."
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So far, the parasitoid wasps look like the best chance to save our ash trees.
Emerald ash borers were first spotted in Connecticut in Prospect, in July 2012. The little green buggers have now spread to at least eight other Connecticut towns.
Just last week, federal experts in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued an expanded EAB quarantine order that prohibits anyone from moving ash logs and lumber, ash nursery stock, and other hardwood firewood out of Fairfield, Litchfield and Hartford Counties. (The original quarantine order only covered New Haven County.)
The reason for the quarantine is that shipments of wood products, particularly firewood, are the way EAB spreads fastest.
"The infestation grows at about one mile a year," explains Rutledge, "but it grows a lot faster if it's in the back of a pickup truck."
In China and other parts of Asia, native ash trees have evolved defenses to limit the damage from emerald ash borers. Our North American ash forests have no such natural anti-EAB systems.
"We're fighting an uphill battle," says Rutledge, "because the trees aren't helping."
The war to stop the emerald ash borer is going to last for a long time, and it may be years before we know how successful our wasp assassins can be. "Biocontrol is a slow burn," says Rutledge. "You have to wait a while to see if it's working."
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Public employees sue FL Gov. Rick Scott over order to drug test state workers
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A public workers union and a state employee from St. Pete are suing Governor Rick Scott because of an executive order requiring random drug testing of all state workers. A lawyer from the ACLU of Florida is joining with Peter Walsh, a Miami trial lawyer, to represent the plaintiffs.
"Executive order 11-58 calls for random drug testing. It requires the state to set up a regime of random drug testing for all state employees, everybody. Presently, before the governor signed this order, there is a system already in place that deals with employees for whom there's a reasonable suspicion that they're abusing drugs. The state can deal with that. It can discipline the employee, it can drug test the employee. The state's been able to do that for 20 years. There's also a system in place for mandatory drug testing of employees in safety sensitive positions where there's a concrete danger of real harm. The state has had that ability to drug test for 20 years now, or more."
"What the governor's order does, believe it or not, is it makes mandatory drug testing for all state employees under the purview of the governor. That's the little old lady in the back file room at the Department of Citrus or the secretary at the Department of Health neither of whom have ever abused drugs, will never abuse drugs, and about whom there's never been a whiff of suspicion or probable cause that they abused drugs. So this governor says 'we want to test everybody regardless of whether there's reasonable suspicion or not."
"The AFSCME union that represents more than 50,000 people, state employees, who are subject to this executive order, are upset because this violates their worker's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable government searches. It's "Black Letter" law. Drug testing is a search under the Fourth Amendment and random drug testing which is, in other words, without any suspicion, without any probable cause whatsoever, of the grandmother file clerk in the Department of Citrus, under the Fourth Amendment that is blatantly unconstitutional. The government cannot invade someone's privacy to conduct a search when the government doesn't have a single particularable suspicion that the person is abusing drugs. And that, in a nutshell, is where we are."
One of the things that Governor Scott mentioned in his executive order is that he's doing this to protect public safety. What do you think about that argument?
"I'd like to hear more about that argument. I think, by the way, he sort of mentions public safety in passing. I think more prominent in the order are the other reasons that he has signed this order. Reasons of trying to impose control over state employees. He talks about 'it'll boost morale'. He talks about it'll lessen workplace absenteeism, he says it will increase productivity, well unfortunately none of those is legitimate ground under federal Constitutional law to violate the Fourth Amendment. Public safety, he throws in the public safety, he pays it lip service but, as I said, there's already a drug testing plan in place for employees in safety sensitive positions. Employees who work in places where there's a concrete risk of real harm. Those people are tested and have been tested for two decades."
Critics would say, 'what's the big deal?' of random drug testing if an employee doesn't use illegal drugs they won't be harmed, if an employee does maybe the state should know about it. How would you respond?
"I'd say, 'easy for you to say'. I don't know if you've ever been drug tested but let me read you what I think drug testing is. It'll take me just 20 seconds, bear with me."
" Employee drug testing by urinalysis is particularly destructive of privacy. It's offensive to personal dignity. It's demeaning. It's a needless indignity, it's an invasion of privacy, it's an affront to dignity."
" Those descriptions of employee drug testing aren't my words, they're not the ACLU's words, they're not AFSCME's words or Richard Flamm's words. Those are the words of Justice Anthony Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States describing how profound an invasion of privacy urine testing is. It's not something that people, about whom we have no reasonable suspicion of drug abuse, it's not something that they ought to be subjected to under any circumstances."
"And you talk about a tremendous waste of money. I'm just looking at this from a Constitutional standpoint as a lawyer, I'm not looking at the money this is going to cost the state, but does it make sense when you've already got these safeguards in place to prevent drug abuse in the state, does it make sense to test a little old lady in the back stock room? It's staggering, it does not make sense. You're absolutely right, there are some employees who might say, 'look, I don't have anything, I don't mind it". But guess what? Try getting the call from your boss who says, 'Joe, have you had your coffee yet? Step into my office and step behind the curtain, I want to listen to you pee.' It sounds absurd but that's what urine testing, how it's done. And it's insulting, humiliating, and it's a tremendous waste when you've already got this system in place for dealing with this."
Finally, Peter Walsh, what do you think the chances are of winning this lawsuit, are there precedents that are on your side?
"That's going to be up to our judge. If you read the lawsuit it's clear that we are very confident that the law is on our side. Rarely do we lawyers have such clear, cut and dried, precedent right on point and in my lawsuit I actually cite to those cases. Cases like the Yvonne Robb case from 1989. Skinner, the companion case to the Yvonne Robb case and Chandler. All three talking about employee drug testing right on point. We think the law is on our side."
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Why would anyone want to drug test air traffic controllers⦠school teachers⦠law enforcement⦠fire & rescue⦠EMT⦠school bus drivers??? WHY??? WHY??? WHY??? I just donât understandâ¦
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We should drug test anyone who voted Republican in the last election, and both houses of the legislature as well. Or at least a competency test because these people have lost their minds.
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The Republicans are drug tested on a regular basis⦠they work in the âprivate sectorâ⦠where drug testing is SOP!!! The only way to get the democrats tested is to drug test guvment employees!!!


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CHICO, Calif., July 20, 2011 – Enloe Medical Center is sad to report the loss of J.B. Wilson, long-time Enloe Medical Center leader and local businessman. Wilson, 78, of Chico, died on Thursday, July 14. His family will hold a memorial service Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 3 p.m. at Butte Creek Country Club. Gifts in memory of J.B. Wilson, as requested by the family, may be given to the Enloe Foundation, 249 Sixth Avenue, Chico, CA. 95926.
Wilson co-owned the Butte County Credit Bureau along with his wife Vonnie and other family members. Until recently, Wilson was also the chairman of the board of Mid Valley Title and Escrow.
Among his service to the community, Wilson served on the Enloe Medical Center and Enloe Health System Boards of Trustees for a combined total of 26 years, from 1973 to 1999. These are volunteer positions that do not provide financial compensation. While on the medical center board, from 1973 to 1990, Wilson served as secretary, vice president and vice chairman. While a member of the Enloe Health System board from 1983 to 1999, Wilson acted as its first director and later held the positions of vice chairman and chairman. As chair, from 1991 through 1999, he became an ex-officio member of the Enloe Medical Center Board of Trustees and the Enloe Foundation Board of Directors. Additionally, Wilson was a member of the finance committee of the Enloe Board of Trustees for many years, a service he provided until April 2011.
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Wilson also chaired the board of the former North State National Bank of Chico and was a current member of the board of the Northern California National Bank. Additionally, he was active in the YMCA board and the Butte County Juvenile Justice Commission and was past chair of the city's personnel board. Wilson belonged to Chico Elks, Chico Rotary and the Butte Creek Country Club. He was a graduate of Chico High School and California State University, Chico. Wilson served in the United States Army from 1954 through 1956.
Over the years, Wilson's family has continued J.B.'s legacy of service to Enloe Medical Center. His wife, Evonne (Vonnie), served the Enloe Auxiliary from 1966 to 2002 and volunteered in the Enloe Gift Shop for more than 30 years. In the family's honor, the new Gift Shop within the Enloe Century Project will be named the J.B. and Vonnie Wilson Family Gift Shop. Their daughter Patti Souza currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Enloe Foundation; and their son Jim Wilson has served on the Enloe Foundation Golf Tournament Committee and was Chairman in 2006 and 2007.
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