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Flight recorders from the Atlasjet Boeing MD-83 which crashed while preparing to land at Isparta Airport in Turkey are expected to be sent to the German accident investigation agency BFU for analysis.
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Charlie Brennan – Friday, September 20th – Charlie's 25th Anniversary Celebration
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Greensboro man identified in Durham fatal cycle wreck
Apr. 28, 2014 @ 06:11 PM
The North Carolina State Highway Patrol on Monday identified the motorcyclist killed in a collision last week.
State troopers say Randall Lamar Gregg, 44, of Greensboro was killed about 9:30 a.m. on Friday when he drove his 1994 Honda motorcycle through a red light at Davis and Park drives near Research Triangle Park and struck a tractor-trailer.
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Florida waters filled with oil, sludge, and tar balls is something I simply can not forgive. For me, there is insufficient punishment for allowing something like this to happen. And, as pointed out by fellow blogger Danny Feldman, this was no "accident". Rather, given regulators' conduct and, more importantly, BP's conduct, the oil spill in the Gulf was simply an inevitable — the question was only when would it happen.
I live on five acres of land in the "back country" of Palm Beach County, Florida. My house sits in the middle of land that used to be entirely swamp and, when we get the rains, it is often transformed back to its "natural state". I love the wildlife and the flora; the raccoon, bobcats, hawks, snakes and gators are all welcome on my land. They were there first anyway. It is simply a heaven made on earth.
I love diving. I am too old to walk in space and the pleasure of diving 80 feet below the surface is breathtaking. The wildlife in that underworld is every bit as glorious as it is on my little piece of heaven. There are few things in this world more beautiful than a coral reef– a formation of living animals– glorious in its multitude of colors and shapes. A reef filled with fish of every color and description. The unique opportunity to be close to shark, barracuda, clown fish, sponge, and all the other glorious wildlife is priceless.
Florida exists largely because people north of us and people across the water have always liked to visit here. People like to come here and fish. People like to come here and see our beaches. The fishing industry; the diving industry; the hotel industry; and the entire tourism industry stands to be economically destroyed by the conduct of BP Oil. It is all happening right in my backyard.
So, these are just some of the reasons I have grown to loathe BP as a corporation; as a corporate citizen; and as a representation of all that is wrong in corporate America.
What could have and should have been done differently?
I am a realist. I recognize that, like it or not, we need oil. It is a necessary evil for at least some period of time.
As a regulator, what should the government have done and be doing concerning the grant of rights to drill oil in our waters and in our treasured wilderness?
Think about what you or I would have probably said to any oil company wanting to drill in the Gulf or even in the Alaskan wildlife preserve:
- You can drill there all you like as long as it is done with every safety measure that can be put into place.
- We will form an independent regulatory committee of engineers and environmental experts. Their sole job will be to make sure you employ every safety measure.
- You and any partners will place 5% of all your respective profits into an interest bearing account into perpetuity; as a fund to be used for clean-up and compensation in the event of an "accident".
- You will agree to be solely and unequivocally responsible for all costs or damages associated with an oil spill of any kind or magnitude.
Am I being too hard on BP? Is Rand Paul, the latest in Tea Party creations, correct when he characterizes this disaster as:
"You hear it all the time – accidents happen. You can't take misfortune out of the realm of possibility. Suing over an "accident" shows what is wrong with us as a country – we want to "blame" someone for every little thing in life that goes wrong."
Well, let's look at an April Wall Street Journal article, which set forth what could (should) have been done by BP to possibly (probably) have avoided this disaster:
The U.S. considered requiring a remote-controlled shut-off mechanism several years ago, but drilling companies questioned its cost and effectiveness, according to the agency overseeing offshore drilling. The agency, the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service, says it decided the remote device wasn't needed because rigs had other back-up plans to cut off a well.
The U.K., where BP is headquartered, doesn't require the use of acoustic triggers.
On all offshore oil rigs, there is one main switch for cutting off the flow of oil by closing a valve located on the ocean floor. Many rigs also have automatic systems, such as a "dead man" switch as a backup that is supposed to close the valve if it senses a catastrophic failure aboard the rig.
As a third line of defense, some rigs have the acoustic trigger: It's a football-sized remote control that uses sound waves to communicate with the valve on the seabed floor and close it.
An acoustic trigger costs about $500,000, industry officials said. The Deepwater Horizon had a replacement cost of about $560 million, and BP says it is spending $6 million a day to battle the oil spill. On Wednesday, crews set fire to part of the oil spill in an attempt to limit environmental damage.
So, for around a million dollars in savings, give or take, BP has wrought billions of dollars in destruction on 4 or 5 entire states. BP will have caused the near or total collapse of economies in 4 or 5 states. And BP will have caused the deaths of untold numbers of wildlife and ecological areas.
Extracting the full compensation of BP's conduct will be impossible. Sea gulls, sharks, and whales are largely victims without a voice and without full representation.
Extracting the fair compensation due to the states and the citizens of the states is also going to be something, which requires deliberate, thoughtful and expert handling. We should take a cautious approach to allowing BP to provide the fullest compensation possible and be sure the full extent of the damages they have caused can be completely evaluated.


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The Vance-Granville Community College Small Business Center, in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Revenue, will present a free seminar Sept. 9 on sales tax refunds for nonprofit organizations.
The event will be from 2 to 4 p.m. at the college's south campus in Creedmoor.
Under state law, certain nonprofit entities qualify for semiannual refunds of sales and use taxes paid on direct purchases and leases of certain property and services. The seminar will cover the step-by-step process for requesting a sales and use tax refund.
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Gloucester gang members jailed for role in £150,000 drugs conspiracy
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Two Gloucester men convicted for their part in a drugs conspiracy have been sentenced to a total of 13 years in prison.
Fakrul Islam Khan, 28, of Knowles Road and Mohamed Rayaz Bham, 23, of Farm Street, were sentenced today at Bristol Crown Court.
The sentencing follows a lengthy, in depth investigation run by Gloucestershire Constabulary's Serious and Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) into the transportation of heroin into the county by a Gloucester based organised crime group.
The drugs seized during the operation had a potential street value of £150,000, and Detective Inspector Neil Carpenter of the SOCU said the policing operation which took the drugs off the streets had been a huge success.
He said: "This particular operation followed the earlier disruption of a heroin supply route into Gloucestershire from the Rochdale area. During the earlier investigation we, working closely with the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, arrested and subsequently convicted a number of individuals including three members of this Gloucester- based gang and seized more than 11 kilos of heroin.
"The offenders from that part of the investigation were sentenced earlier this year.
"During the course of this investigation we proved that Khan, who was the ring leader, along with Bham and several others set up a new supply route from dealers in Sheffield.
"Kilogram amounts of heroin were intercepted by us and, through careful analysis by a dedicated investigation team, we obtained evidence that the transportation of drugs and money was a regular occurrence in December 2011 and January 2012, and that Khan was the organiser using others to get their hands dirty.
"The release of such large amounts of heroin for sale onto the streets would have caused huge misery within our communities and the gang could have profited to the tune of £150,000.
"Through our work, and the assistance of our colleagues in other agencies, including South Yorkshire Police, we put a stop to their activities.
"It's yet more evidence of our ability to disrupt the drugs trade both within Gloucestershire and where it crosses over into other areas around the country and further afield.
"We will continue to investigate their finances to recover any profits from their criminality and have successfully sought Serious Crime Prevention Orders on Khan and Bham, designed to prevent opportunity for further criminality on their release from custody."
Khan and Bham both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply class A drugs – heroin – in proceedings at Gloucester Crown Court. Bham's plea was entered in July 2012, while Khan's plea was entered in September.
Khan received a prison term of eight and a half years, and Bham received four and a half years imprisonment.
Their co-conspirators in the gang - Mohammed Dilu Miah, 30, of Morpeth Street, Gloucester, and and Ripon Miah, 31, of Broad Street, Newent – have been dealt with during separate court proceedings and sentenced to three and four years in prison respectively.
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Session V30: Nanotechnology Applications: NEMS, CNTs, Graphene, and Nanoscale Devices
8:00 AM–11:00 AM, Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Abstract ID: BAPS.2010.MAR.V30.9
Abstract: V30.00009 : Experimental Demonstration and Characterization of on-chip high speed graphene interconnects
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Xiangyu Chen
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Deji Akinwande
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KeongJae Lee
Gael Close
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Shinichi Yasuda
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Bipul Paul
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Shinobu Fujita
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Jing Kong
H.-S. Philip Wong
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Graphene has been considered as one of the most promising candidates for future interconnect technology. In spite of the promising theoretical predictions and DC characterization results about the excellent current-carrying capability of graphene nanoribbons, experimental demonstration and characterization of high speed signaling performance of graphene interconnects is still very limited. Here we present the first monolithic integration of graphene with commercial CMOS technology and the first experimental demonstration of on-chip graphene interconnects that operates above 1 GHz. We also studied the the dependence of high frequency performance on graphene interconnect physical dimensions. Important physical parameters like mean free path of graphene are extracted from experimental data. We compared our experimental results with previous theoretical predictions and gave experimental performance projection of on-chip graphene nanoribbon interconnects with linewidth smaller than 100nm.
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Sarah has made up a new word. She's put together "huge" and "enormous" and made "Hunormous." She even included it in her writing at school this past week! (which she sounded out and spelled herself!)
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Just thought I would drop by and say how much I've enjoyed your videos/tutorials throughout the years. And I do have a question for you.
I recently ordered Axis A Longboard double pedal. I have been using an Iron Cobra Double Pedal for about 6 years. The pedal hasn't been in my possession the whole time and has taken some really rough treatment and has been in some bad conditions. The springs are now rusted, and are on the default settings (loose) and are unadjustable. Also, the chains on the pedals are rusted as well as most of the other hardware. I've been saving up instead of trying to fix up the dying pedal.
I can do single strokes 16ths at about 180 pretty comfortably. I've also been trying to learn the heel-toe technique through various videos, tutorials (including your own- with the heel slam making the double), and I can't get it to work. I was wondering if it's just me or if it could just be the pedal (due to it's condition). I'm really excited about getting my new pedals in, but it'll be a couple of weeks. What do you think? (sorry for the long post)
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Western Oregon University Faculty Senate Minutes
February 12, 2002
1.0 Call to Order (15:34)
2.0 Call of Roll
Senators absent: Maureen Dolan, Juanita Heredia, David Janoviak, Linda Keller, Rebecca McCannell,
Louise Muscato, Pete Poston
3.0 Corrections to Minutes (none)
4.0 Reports of the Presidents
4.1 Senate President (Brian Caster)
Informational Items: 1) Regarding the recent changes to the English program, it was noted that the English
Honors courses would remain at 3 hours. 2) Brian suggested it would be good for faculty to attend the OUS
Chancellor search open meetings in our area. Bob Turner noted this is a good opportunity for non-board
members to make their opinions known. 3) A faculty representative has been invited to attend the Provosts
council meetings as well as the Deans / Division Chairs meetings. 4) Brian distributed a draft of a Division
Chairs Checklist for evaluating writing intensive transfer courses. 5) Brian noted that with only 72 hours
notice he requested and received nominees for the WOU Presidential Search Committee. The Executive
Committee submitted 8 nominees, of which 4 were chosen by the Board. Total WOU representatives are:
Ed Stineff, Ron DeVolder, Forrest Bell, Galen Wish, Anna Hernandez, Darin Silbernagel, Ryan Gleysteen,
Meredith Brodsky, Robert Turner, Mary Anne Linden, Brian Caster and Diane Baxter. Roshani Shay stated
that the Dean of LAS (James Chadney) should be on the committee instead of the Dean of Education
(Meredith Brodsky). Comments were also made concerning the lack of representation on the committee by
persons with Union background. It was suggested that a letter be sent to the Board noting these concerns.
4.2 President of Western Oregon University (Betty Youngblood)
No report.
4.3 ASWOU President (Andy High)
Andy reported he has been invited to attend the Provosts council meeting. He also commented on why he
chose not to put his name first for consideration for the WOU Presidential Search Committee. The
Bookstore recently refused to release a list of required texts to the Book Exchange.
5.0 Report from Interinstitutional Faculty Senators
Bob Turner reported on the hot topics discussed at the IFS meeting: Funding and political issues, the
Chancellor Search, OITs potential privatization, the OSU funding situation and finally on the very need for a
6.0 Reports from Committees (none)
7.0 Consideration of Old Business
7.1 Teacher Education / licensing program revisions:
Adele Schepige distributed a summary of the restructuring changes. General discussion. Motion to approve: David Hargreaves, 2nd: Mark Perlman, approved.
7.2 WOU Presidential Search process: See informational notes in 4.1 above.
8.0 Consideration of New Business (none)
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Neo-Confederates Insist Flag Fly Over South Carolina Statehouse
One brisk day last January, some 8,000 people gathered on the steps of the South Carolina Statehouse. Dressed in Confederate soldiers' gray, draped in the stars and bars of the Confederacy or simply wearing street clothes, they had come together to rally for the Confederate battle flag. Alone among the Southern states, South Carolina still flew the flag above the dome of its Statehouse.
It was a dramatic moment for neo-Confederates, a day when the nation got its first real glimpse of a new social movement, assembled en masse against the backdrop of the world's largest Confederate flag, which had been unfurled on the Statehouse steps.
The ralliers demanded that state officials refuse to bend to a NAACP boycott aimed at bringing the flag down. They denounced anyone who opposed the flag, including the NAACP, which one South Carolina state senator described in a speech as the "National Association of Retarded People."
And they spoke angrily of the "political correctness" that they saw as the nemesis of a reborn and proud South, a South unashamed of its history and historical symbols.
By June, the battle was lost. In a compromise, the flag was removed from the Statehouse to a nearby spot on the Capitol grounds. But the neo-Confederate movement, whose ideologues had spearheaded the vigorous and sometimes ugly battle to keep the flag, does not seem to have suffered unduly.
Indeed, in the short time since that loss, neo-Confederates seem only to have picked up steam, staging more flag rallies, running a political action committee to back flag supporters, and even, through a new party, running a slate of candidates across the South.
'Dropping Their Pretenses'
The movement is a large one. Its ideological core comes mainly from the League of the South (LOS), a group with 9,000 members that has been growing steadily since its formation in 1994 (see A League of Their Own); and, to a lesser extent, the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), with about 15,000 members.
But the influence of these two hard-line organizations is also making itself felt on thousands of people in relatively apolitical, longstanding groups like the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) and the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).
The bonds between many of these groups are strong ones. Most of the key ideologues in the movement are members of more than one group, typically LOS and CCC, but also many of the more "mainstream" neo-Confederate groups (see group biographies in The Neo-Confederates).
A few have links to militias and other antigovernment "Patriot" groups. But what may be most remarkable of all is the way that racism, a visceral dislike for black people, has come to characterize the movement.
"They're getting frustrated and just dropping their pretenses," says Ed Sebesta, a longtime researcher of the neo-Confederate movement.
"They certainly want the revival of the principles of the Confederacy," adds Arizona State University historian Brooks Simpson (see interview White Lies), "and one of those principles would in fact be white supremacy, unquestioned and explicit. The racism that's woven into their comments is often quite astonishing."
So, too, is the success of their message. Somehow, support for racist theories, segregation and Southern secessionism — key elements behind the Civil War — has become the ugly core of a contemporary social movement.
Roots in Racism
The appearance of a modern neo-Confederate movement, of course, is not the first time in recent history that reactionary groups have arisen to defend the Southern cause. In the 1950s and 1960s, the racist White Citizens Councils arose to defend segregation and Jim Crow laws (see Remembering Reality).
By the 1970s, the White Citizens Councils were disappearing, but were replaced by the CCC, a group that held similar racist views (see story on the CCC in the Winter 1999 edition of the Intelligence Report, No. 93).
It was in this period that a contemporary version of the neo-Confederate movement — unabashedly political and beginning to show its naked racism — began to build. The CCC, in particular, led the attack on such things as school busing, non-white immigration and affirmative action.
But the contemporary neo-Confederate movement did not really take off until the League of the South was founded in 1994. Thanks largely to its veneer as a respectable, non-racist organization led mainly by academics, LOS grew very rapidly, counting 4,000 members by 1998 and more than twice that number now.
The group mixes clearly racial themes — like its rendering of the South as "Anglo-Celtic" and little else — with anger at the multicultural "New World Order." LOS also opposes non-white immigration, busing and interracial marriage.
And unlike the CCC, the LOS imbued the Confederate flag with ultimate importance. "The campaign to eradicate our largely Anglo-Celtic Southern symbols is nothing more than an ill disguised attempt to destroy us as a distinct people," writes Michael Hill, who has been president of the LOS from the start.
"A man is identified by the symbols of his history and culture, and the destruction of those symbols prefigures the destruction of the man himself."
Hill, who believes Americans should "tell the courts to go to hell, take back their Second Amendment right to arm themselves, and organize 'well regulated Militia[s]' state by state," also sees the Confederate flag as a symbol of defiance against the federal government.
One of his many warning calls in the midst of actions against the flag: "As our enemies succeed against the symbols that represent our identity as Southerners, they will surely then come for us in the flesh."
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By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2008 The NATO International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan has made significant progress in the country despite the command being "under-resourced," the alliance's top officer in the country said today.
In a conference call with defense experts from his headquarters in the Afghan capital of Kabul, U.S. Army Gen. Dan K. McNeill also said opium poppy cultivation continues to be a major threat to Afghanistan.
"In some portions of the country right now, mostly in the south, the cultivation of poppy is a far greater threat to the Afghan government -- to the security and stability here -- than the insurgency," McNeill said.
The Afghan government has to take the lead in eliminating opium poppy cultivation as the basis for the country's economy, McNeill said. The general estimates that the Taliban and al-Qaida receive 20 to 40 percent of their money from the drug trade. The United Nations estimates it's closer to 60 percent.
"We are in there fighting insurgents who are as much narcodealers as they are insurgents," McNeill said. "In some cases, we are fired upon by people doing narcobusiness."
Poppy cultivation also takes the people away from legitimate enterprises. In Helmand province, the fifth-largest recipient of money from U.S. Agency for International Development in the world, "they seem to focus on the poppy instead of the roads, the medical care, the rebuilding of schools and the work that is going on, albeit slowly, to get them electricity," McNeill said.
The international community cannot fight the opium wars, the general said. The Afghan government has to be in the lead and decide that poppy literally and figuratively is poisoning their children, he told the military experts.
The NATO command in Afghanistan has grown, but still needs more troops, the general said. "When I first took command [in February 2007], we had 36,000; we're at about 56,000 today," McNeill said.
NATO has added a provincial reconstruction team under Czech command.
Afghan forces have doubled in size and are gaining more capabilities. Some units in Regional Command East and Regional Command North soon will be ready to assume battle space, the general said. But the Afghan police effort continues to lag, he acknowledged, mostly because of a shortage of mentors for the units.
Conditions in Pakistan complicate the situation in Afghanistan, McNeill told the military experts. "We keep our eyes on Pakistan. It seems to me to be very dysfunctional right now," he said.
Though the notion of peace talks under way between Pakistani government officials and tribal leaders in the country's northwestern region may sound promising, experience has shown the opposite, McNeill said.
"We are troubled by the negotiations and the possibility of yet another peace deal in the northwest," he said. "We've got good data that shows whenever there is dialogue or a peace deal consummated [between the Pakistani government and the tribal leaders], our aggregate number of untoward events typically goes up. The good news is we have more force in RC-East than we did last year, so I think we can handle what comes."
U.S. Marines operating with RC-South have helped, but the area is still under-resourced, McNeill said. About 1,200 Marines serve as part of Operation Enduring Freedom to mentor the police and to serve as a quick-reaction force. A total of 2,200 Marines are serving under the NATO flag and are helping British forces clear out areas of Helmand province that previously had no coalition forces presence.
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Loving you is like a song
The birds sing in spring,
A renewal that makes a bond
Feels like the strongest thing.
Something that can never break
A tie that's meant forever,
We'll always belong one and the same
In this life and hereafter.
You're stuck with me no matter what
Through the bad times and the good,
We're a team, a pair, a partner in crime
Watching each others backs, like we should.
Trusting the choices that you make
I'll be by your side through it all.
No matter where time takes us
We'll catch each other if we fall.
To have a love that's everlasting
Feels like unshakable bliss,
Every time we feel weak and down
Only to be brought up by a single kiss.
I love that you love me
The way that I love you,
I couldn't have asked for a better half
This much I know is true.
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Authorities are searching for one of two burglary suspects after a chase ended Wednesday morning with one man arrested and a deputy constable injured in north Harris County. Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Ron Hickman tells KTRK-TV in a story on its website that deputies arrived to see the two suspects leaving a house about […] [Read More]


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Spider-Man 3 Fight Scene Revealed
IGN.com has this killer fight scene from Spider-man 3. Beware, potential spoiler! Read on:
IGN is at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas where we just viewed a killer fight sequence from Spider-Man 3 at the Sony booth!
[SPOILER WARNING: Continue reading only if you want to know the details of the film's brutal battle between Peter Parker and Harry Osborn that's glimpsed in the trailer.]
The scene begins with MJ and Peter laying on a web in the park talking — you'll know about this scene if you've paid attention to the trailer and seen previously released production stills. We surmise that she's just been in a performance that he attended as she says something like, "I wish you could come see me every time."
We then shift to a scene where Peter is visiting Aunt May and he tells her he's decided to marry Mary Jane. "That's so wonderful," she says, and she gives Peter her engagement ring to offer MJ.
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Magnesium, Sugar and Allergies/Intolerances
My son tested low on magnesium and I did some research on magnesium and allergies. It turns out that when you are low on magnesium you are more likely to have conditions such as ADD, allergies, asthma, and migraines. Interestingly, these conditions often occur together. In addition, when you are low in magnesium you can have a more pronounced reaction to food and have a histamine response such as hives and red cheeks. In research studies, rats low in magnesium had increased histamine levels. According to Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride, it takes 28 molecules of magnesium to process 1 molecule of sugar so it is easy to see how we are increasingly deficient in this important mineral.
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- Betsy said...
I would be willing to bet that both of my children have low magnesium, but I have no clue how much mag to give. Are you using a product made for children?Print this post
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Both of my boys are low in Magnesium. Makes sense. Wonder if I am! My kids take a supplement for it from Kirkman's.Print this post
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Tiny House Movement Brings Relief to Those With Big Mortgages
Teeny-tiny living spaces aren't just for Manhattanites anymore. According to the Etsy Blog, the latest DIY trend is to build yourself a super-small, yet efficient house that will allow you to own it free and clear — no mortgage! Not only are these doll-sized abodes beneficial to the environment, they're also just about the cutest thing we've ever seen.
We know, building a DIY house sounds overwhelming, so if your carpentry skills aren't up to par, you can always hire a professional to do it for you. The cost will still be less than an average down payment — and it's buying you a whole house! Debra Jordan of Arkansas paid $20K for a contractor on Craigslist to construct her mini dream-house in just six weeks! She shares the 10- by 32-foot space with her husband and teenage son, who similarly plans to build his own home when he turns 18.
If 320 square feet sounds just a little too little for you, keep in mind that the smaller-is-better craze applies to houses of all sizes, ranging from trailers of just 89 square feet to bigger models up to 1000 square feet.
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Builders make aesthetic efficient
In many classic children's stories, seemingly common and mundane entrances disguise the most fantastical places. For Alice, the gateway to Wonderland was through a rabbit hole, while the four Pevensie siblings discovered the bewitching world of Narnia through an old wardrobe. The driveway to Erik and Deirdre Owen's home is no different. Looking (and feeling) […]
Benning served village in work, life
For each of the several hundred people who attended her memorial service at Bryan Community Center on Saturday, Dec. 5, Deborah Benning meant something unique. But in all her roles as mother, step-mother, partner, friend, Village Council clerk and long-time village resident, she was consistently seen as a supportive leader and a touchstone others could depend on. She served in that way for family and friends as well as for the Village of Yellow Springs, and her death on Nov. 24 is as much a part of local history as the legacy of her family as an early part of the village's African American community.
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Malagasy student visits YS
Jalana Lazar's stint with the Peace Corps in Madagascar began inauspiciously. On her first day in the country, she was driven to the village of Nosiarina and dropped off with little fanfare. Remembering her initial dismay, she said, "They left me on the side of the road with a bike and my steel trunk." She figured out the logistics of her new life on her own.
Villagers question rise in airport noise
The "deafening" and "brain rattling" sensation of an F-16 jet veering near town on a training mission is, some villagers say, an "assault on the nervous system"— an inescapable sensation that "penetrates the body" and sometimes rattles windows.
Other villagers find the occasional low flyover to be a mere annoyance, or even a curiosity to count with the kids.
Plug pulled on power plant
The Village made what some would call a wise and prescient decision last year when it declined to sign on to the coal-fired power plant American Municipal Power, Inc. planned to build along the Ohio River. AMP announced last week on Nov. 25 that it was terminating the AMPGS project due to a spike in construction cost estimates that rendered the project unaffordable for its customers.
Parents start local Montessori
Chaos reigned on a recent Wednesday in the Bryan Center gym, where a toddler play group meets each week. Balls were flying and kids caromed off of each other as mothers stood by watchfully. Then a box of curious looking toys were spread out, and one by one, the children came to sit on their mats and check out the shapes, colors and moving parts of the materials before them. The children were rapt, and according to Nacim Sajabi, they were learning in the Montessori model.
Vernay site cleanup plans reviewed
It's been seven years since Vernay Laboratories signed an order of consent with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to remediate the contamination centered on the former manufacturing facility on Dayton Street. Since that time, the company has moved its rubber parts production to Georgia and South Carolina, torn down the Dayton Street plant, welcomed Ed […]
Event to celebrate 'Best Hometown'
Yellow Springs is the best hometown because we embrace the spirit of community. We are a town where neighbors help one another in good times and bad, and where one person's voice can truly make a tangible difference.
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The Best Big Toys for Spoiled Geek Kids
By Great White Snark | September 12, 2007
At some point, it wasn't enough any more to have the greenest lawn in the neighborhood. Instead, the best way to burnish your suburban reputation was to throw a truly obnoxious birthday party for your kid in the backyard.
Around the time my younger brother was still young enough to have birthday parties in the backyard, clowns and balloon animals no longer cut it. First it was pony rides. Then moon bounces. Then donkey shows. Or something. I can't really remember the actual evolution, but you get the point.
And the madness has escalated to the point of the culture vomit that is MTV's My Super Sweet Sixteen. Or, as I like to call it, More Evidence That We'll Find a Way to Wipe Ourselves Out Long Before Global Warming Ever Gets Us.
Fine. If your suburbanite ego needs so badly to lavish demonstrable opulence upon your undeserving child, here are the toys you should check out.
Full-Size Camarasaurus Dinosaur Replica
Who needs a boring, old slide in the yard, when you can slide down the back of a 6-meter tall, 17-meter long dinosaur?
If it's good enough for Fred Flintstone, it's good enough for your ungrateful child.
Full-Scale 59 Foot Gundam Robot
There's only one thing that kids might like more than dinosaurs, and that's fart jokes. And then, robots.
Assuming you've got a spare 60′ x 20′ swatch of land available in your yard, you can be the first one to make your neighbors' fancy swing-sets and jungle-gyms obsolete with a humongous (reclining) Gundam robot.
Giant Replica Robots
Speaking of robots, why let your kid play with his Transformers and other toys alone in his room–away from the neighbor-parents' envious eyes–when he can play outside with his giant frigging robot toys.
All little boys enjoy playing "Versus," whether it's Transformers vs. Robotech, G.I. Joe vs. Marvel Superheroes, He-Man vs. My Little Pony, G.I.Joe vs. firecrackers that you stick up his ass… whatever. Now Trump Jr. can play vs. Transformers Optimus Prime (2-meter tall statue) and Devastator (4'8″-tall poseable toy). May the best badass robot win.
And throw in , , and for the requisite collateral damage. Because what good is a robot battle without aimless destruction of property.
Life-Size Semi-Poseable Latex Zombies
This one is fun for the whole family. After little Johnny Spoiledpants is done "hunting" zombies with his BB gun outside, mommy and daddy can play a game of Let's hide Shotgun Zombie (pictured) under Johnny's covers again. It was so funny last time he got into bed and shit his gold-sateen underpants.
If your kid doesn't like any of this stuff, maybe you can trick him into standing under the safe in a life-size game of Mousetrap.
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3 Responses to "The Best Big Toys for Spoiled Geek Kids"
Cindi Says:
September 13th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Oh Great White Snark, how do I prevent my child from growing up to be a Johnny Spoiledpants?
Great White Snark Says:
September 13th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Enthusiastic beatings?
Cindi Says:
September 13th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Careful, GWS. You already got in trouble once for comments like that. (Remember the lovely children's speech therapist?) ;-)


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With plastic toys in every fast food kids meal and birthdays and holidays galore, little plastic figurines and accessories are quite abundant in our landfills. Jane Perkins has an artful way of repurposing these little trinkets in her textile pieces, combining them with buttons, beads, and other small pieces that are often thrown in the trash. The British artist collects many of her found materials from Car Boot sales, which is the UK's version of a yard or garage sale and insists that she never alters the colors of any materials. Once she takes her treasures home, she sorts them out by color and uses a hot glue gun to attach them in the perfect positions to re-create famous pieces, like The Girl with the Pearl Earring and the Mona Lisa, or stunning portraits of famous figures. …
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Strings of Buttons Become Musical Instruments
Remember those beaded curtains from the 70's? Miami based artist Augusto Esquivel has used a similar concept to create life sized musical instruments- but walking through these would be a sin. The installations were created by stringing colored sewing buttons on to dangling fishing wire from an overhead support. Esquivel meticulously placed each button so that your eyes will fill in the spaces to see each object. Jean-Luc Samuel Gallic calls it three dimensional pointillism. At his most recent exhibit, Esquivel showcased an upright piano, cello, harp, and phonograph fashioned in this method.
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This January 2013 report from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes focuses on the performance of Michigan charter schools and provides comparisons with district schools. The report examines student performance data from 2005-2006 through 2010-2011 and grades 3-8 and includes comparisons based on demographics and poverty, as well as impact based on location and impact on special education students. The report also includes the number of charter schools opened and closed from 1995 to 2010.
According to the report, "35 percent of the charter schools have significantly more positive learning gains than their (traditional public school) counterparts in reading, while 2 percent of charter schools have significantly lower learning gains. In math, 42 percent of the charter schools studied outperform their [traditional public school] peers and 6 percent perform worse."
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Wallace Moran, a flight instructor and former airline pilot, is one of several Lowcountry pilots who donate their time and skill in a special way – he volunteers as a pilot with Angel Flight, a non-profit organization of volunteer pilots across the country who fly medical patients who cannot afford transportation to various facilities around the country for treatment.
Like so many who are part of the organization, Moran sees it as a unique way to give back. When Moran moved to Summerville four years ago, he decided to buy an airplane. The plane would come in handy with his business and with family life – in fact, being able to take to the sky and visit grandchildren in Florida for the day was a compelling reason to make the purchase by itself, he said.
But he also notes how fortunate he is to be in a position to own an airplane. Being able to share his good fortune is important to him, he said.
"I've known about Angel Flights for a long time," he said. "It's an opportunity to use the airplane -- I feel blessed to have it and am glad to share it with people who aren't so lucky."
Jeffrey Elliott, a Goose Creek pilot who has participated in several Angel Flight missions, agrees.
"It's a wonderful program, it serves a great purpose, and it helps a lot of people," he said.
The Angel Flight organization screens potential passengers and if they meet the organization's criteria, then they are placed on a schedule. Pilots in the network then check the schedules and sign up for missions to fly. Pilots may fly entire trips but generally handle individual legs of each flight. In some cases, a pilot may be able to combine the Angel Flight mission with a flight he was planning anyway, such as a business trip.
Most of Moran's flights have involved taking patients to and from the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, Ga., for treatments, he said.
"The people come from all over, really," he said.
All pilots use their own planes and pay their own expenses, Moran said. The passengers are people who are able to travel without restrictions and can get in and out of private aircraft. The planes are not equipped with medical equipment.
"It's a small plane, and space can be a little tight," Moran said of his plane. "Therefore, I have to make sure the passengers meet weight limits and can handle relatively tight quarters."
The flights themselves are not inherently risky; pilots are not flying emergency missions, nor are they be expected to risk mechanical problems or adverse weather conditions.
"A pilot has the ability to cancel or delay a flight, if necessary," Moran said. "No one is going to be expected to fly into dangerous weather, for example."
Nonetheless, there are plenty of people who need the service, and being able to provide that service is what matters, Moran said.
"Each flight is unique in that I get to meet and help people who genuinely need help and are appreciative of what we're doing," he said. "It's a good situation."
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Excellent eyesight is essential if you are a top predator, like the prehistoric sea creature Anomalocaris, an early arthropod relative that patrolled the oceans over 500 million years ago. However, finding proof that a long-extinct animal had super vision has been difficult, until now.
Illustration of Anomalocaris, the ancient top sea predator in Cambrian times over 500 million years ago. Its compound eyes had at least 16,000 lenses each, making its sight rival many arthropods living today. © Katrina Kenny
A team of scientists led by University of New England, Australia, and including those at the Natural History Museum, have uncovered the first direct evidence that Anomalocaris had compound eyes, each with more than 16,000 lenses. This means that Anomalocaris' vision was as good 500 million years ago as that of other arthropods today, such as flies and crabs.
This research is published today in the journal Nature and is on this week's cover.
Museum scientist Dr Greg Edgecombe who worked on the research says, 'This find is significant because having direct evidence of compound eyes confirms that Anomalocaris is a close relative of arthropods. These huge, sophisticated eyes would give animals a tremendous advantage at locating prey.'
The team examined fossils uncovered from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, which were about 515 million years old. Using scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) they could detect imprints of thousands of individual lenses in the 2 large eyes of Anomalocaris. They found at least 16,700 lenses. In comparison, the creatures alive today with the most powerful compound eyes are dragonflies, with as many as 28,000 lenses.
Compound eyes give an animal a pixelated view of the world. The resolution isn't as good as a human would see, but compound eyes have a much wider view angle and they are particularly good for detecting movement, perfect for a predator like Anomalocaris.
Close up of eyes of a dragonfly. They have the most powerful compound eyes with 28,000 lenses. © Alexis Tindall
Anomalocaris, meaning 'abnormal shrimp', was up to 1-metre-long and had a large body, spiny grasping claws at the front of the head and teeth-like serrations in its mouth. Its eyes were 2-3cm wide and set on stalks.
It was the top predator in the sea and there were no land animals around at this time in Earth's history. Anomalocaris managed to eat trilobites (extinct marine arthropods) that were at least 10cm long. Scientists know this because their broken remains appear in the fossilised poo, or coprolites of Anomalocaris.
This research also suggests that compound eyes evolved earlier than was previously known. Edgecombe explains, 'We know from this find that eyes first evolved and developed very early during arthropod evolution, originating before other anatomical characteristics of this group, such as a hardened exoskeleton and walking legs.'
Having excellent eyesight as well as being a top predator may have had an even larger effect on other Cambrian creatures. This was a time of when most major groups of life went through rapid diversification, known as the Cambrian explosion. Dr John Paterson from the University of New England explains, 'Highly visual hunters in Cambrian marine communities would have placed considerable selective pressures on their prey. This would have influenced the "arms race" at this important phase in early animal evolution, over half a billion years ago.'


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Maryland wins popular vote, loses election vs. Oregon State
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COLLEGE PARK--Oregon State's win over Maryland on Sunday evening at Comcast Center wasn't inherently intertwined with politics, but once President Barack Obama and the First Family took their seats behind the Beavers' bench, it became clear.
Oregon State was the underdog campaign from out in the West. The Beavers had suffered a season-opening loss to lowly Coppin State but had a high-scoring duo on the uptick, guard Roberto Nelson and forward Devon Collier.
Maryland was the mainstay out in the East, the more well-known commodity with the recognizable faces, coach Mark Turgeon, guard Dez Wells, and a well-packed 18,000-seat Comcast Center behind them.
It was by no means of Reagan vs. Mondale proportions, but a slow start to the second half for Maryland and the ensuing 8-0 by the Beavers created a hole which the Terrapins could not find their way out of in a 90-83 loss on Sunday.
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"I thought Oregon State was terrific," Turgeon said after the game. "The way we started the game and the second half, I think we gave Oregon State a lot of confidence. I'm just disappointed."
Maryland allowed the lesser-known West Coast candidate to get an early bump in the polls away from home and it cost them in the end.
Nelson and Collier were the star running mates for the Beavers, Nelson dropping a game-high 31 points on 9-of-17 shooting and Collier adding 29 points on 11-of-17 from the floor while grabbing 11 rebounds.
"That's all we talked about in the scouting report--those two kids and trying to guard those two kids," Turgeon said. " Nelson kept getting to the rim and then Collier was just a beast. We had no answer for him."
If we want to stick with the political theme, a shot by Wells at the buzzer to end the first half had a Gore vs.Bush 2000 feel to it. Initially ruled a basket, further replay review waved it off and the score was tied at 38-38 heading into the break.
There was a certain amount of deflation after the intermission, the energy drained after the Beavers came out on their 8-0 run. Part of that was exploiting Maryland's foul trouble inside, as Evan Smotrycz, Charles Mitchell, and Shaquille Cleare had each racked up three fouls mid-way through the second half.
"I just can't get our guys to box out," Turgeon said. "A lot of it was that [Collier] was just a beast. Shaq was trying to lean on him some, but he's just pretty strong out there."
[Related: Photos of President Obama and the First Family at Comcast Center]
The puzzling part was that it seemed Maryland overwhelming won the popular vote against Oregon State's front line, but lost the electoral vote.
Consider this: Maryland won the rebounding battle, 39-32, rebounding 56 percent of their misses en route to 23 offensive rebounds. Simply put, they bullied the Beavers on the glass but were all but ineffective in defending the paint against Devon Collier.
It was an odd combination on a disappointing night for Maryland.
"[Collier] made a lot of tough shots over hands. Our post defense needs to be better," forward Jake Layman, who finished with 15 points, said of Collier. "We needed to come out in the second half and have more energy."
But for Maryland this was more of the first primary, only 10 percent of the season now finished and a 1-2 mark to show for it. They'll have campaigning left to do, seasoning to put on in practice, before the heart of the race begins later in the year and rolling into 2014.
"There are so many mistakes happening I can't even keep up. I can't correct them, there are so many things happening," Turgeon said. "We'll watch the film. We'll try to get better. Sometimes you just have to tip your hat to them."


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Established on 1993. Involved in new technologies development, based on own patents. Area of interest: Firing efficiency improvment, emission reduction, corrosion diminution. Researches and results on all known fuels and firing systems with ECOBIK, the brand name of the technologies. Looking for Licensees in: Canada, Europe, China, Korea, South America, Central America, ...
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DeJaye Electronics Is a supplier of PC based NDIR Gas and Emissions Analyzers/Recorders. The latest analyzer measures and continuously records CH4, C2H6, CO2, O2 & NOx. The 5 Gas version is an Exhaust Emissions analyzer for HC, CO, CO2, O2 and NOx. These analyzers have MilliVolt inputs for additional data modules. Data is saved in a report and Excel format.
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