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Bryce Harper, who was out of the lineup Sunday for the third time in 18 games, sounded upbeat Monday during an appearance on MLB Network Radio's "Power Alley" with Holden Kushner and
Dan Jim Duquette. If Harper is frustrated by his individual performance, it's been offset by the team's 17-11 record since his return from the disabled list.
"I feel good," said Harper, who was at Anacostia High to surprise the baseball and football teams with a renovated locker room in partnership with Gatorade. "I think the biggest thing, man, we're winning. That's all I care about. Everything I always say is, I hope we win. That's all I care. You guys know that, I think everybody knows that, and I just want to get to that next level, get into the playoffs and really try to enjoy it. We've got about a month-and-a-half left and we gotta play our tails off to hopefully stay [ahead in] the East and get back to where we were in 2012. We've got a great clubhouse, a great group of guys that are all pulling on the same rope and doing things the right way. We enjoy going in every single day and playing as a team."
Harper was asked about Denard Span's recent hot streak and Anthony Rendon's continued production.
"Span's been unbelievable all year," said Harper, who ruffled some feathers with his comments about the ideal Nationals lineup (one without Span) in June. "He's on his 28-, 29-game [on-base streak]. …Rendon's been incredible, I think everybody knows that — all-star third baseman definitely, or should've been. He battles every single day, he works hard, and you can see that in his swing. He's got one of the best swings in all of baseball, it's a lot of fun to watch and he's just getting better every day and Span's the same way. Everybody's getting better and our pitching has been unbelievable. That's one thing that people have overlooked this year. Our bullpen has been unreal; Storen has been great. Clippard, Soriano, Strasburg. There's so many guys that have thrown the ball great this year and it's a lot of fun to watch."
Doug Fister is among that group of guys, too.
"I love Fister," Harper said. "He's unbelievable. I don't think there's one guy that could not like Fister in all of major league baseball. That guy works his tail off and his record shows for it. He's all upbeat, ready to go every single day. He's running all over the place, he's trying to get bunts, he's trying to get foul balls that are 20 rows deep and it's just a lot of fun to watch. He's got that high-pace, high mentality of working hard and going after things that he wants. He's been great for us all year."
Harper said he wasn't sure what the Nationals were going to do at the trade deadline, but he was happy to see the team add a veteran in Asdrubal Cabrera.
"I'd heard rumors of getting a guy in the bullpen, or trying to get somebody that could replace Zimm for a minute since he got hurt," Harper said. "But I knew that our team was great where we were, and we just added another great player. Asdrubal Cabrera is defining himself as one of the best middle infielders in the game and he's been unbelievable for us the past couple of nights. It's exciting to be able to add to our team with a great player like that that's a big leaguer. He's been in the big leagues and he's done things. We didn't need a prospect. We needed a big leaguer at that time and that's what we got."
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X Games 14 Men's Skateboard Big Air Finals
Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Run 5 Best Run
1 Bob Burnquist 1.66 1.00 93.33 1.00 96.00 96.00
2 Danny Way 1.00 42.66 90.33
94.00 94.00
3 Jake Brown 85.33 1.00 91.33 1.00 1.00 91.33
4 Andy Macdonald 78.33 36.00 80.33
83.33 83.33
5 Adam Taylor 1.00 33.33 1.00
6 Pierre-Luc Gagnon 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Burnquist Steps Up the Skateboard Big Air Final and Takes Gold
Brazilian Claims Title with a Switch Backside Ollie to Indy 360
LOS ANGELES- It was an emotional rollercoaster in the STAPLES Center this evening as close friends Danny Way and Bob Burnquist battled each other for the Skateboard Big Air gold medal. In the end it was Burnquist who dropped in for a switch backside ollie over the 70-foot gap, to indy 360 on the quarterpipe earning him a first place finish with a score of 96.00.
Danny Way kept the crowd on the edge of their seats as he came back from two crashes on the quarterpipe, eventually sticking a backflip over the gap to a frontside 540 on the quarterpipe, bringing the crowd to its feet. Danny's triumphant last run earned him a score of 94.00, enough to take second place.
Jake Brown made a remarkable showing with a backside no-grab 360 to an 18-feet-eight-inch high mctwist on the quarterpipe, ending him with a score of 91.33 for the bronze.
The skaters fed off each others' energy and pushed each other's limits throughout the final.
"It's all about pedal to the metal with this event. That's what Danny Way is all about and that's what Jake Brown is all about, so I had no choice but to push it,‰ said gold medalist Bob Burnquist.
"That was full throttle. That was the craziest competition I've ever seen,‰ Jake replied to Bob's statement.
Highest landed quarterpipe air of the night goes to Andy Macdonald, who celebrated his 31st birthday with a 22-foot-two-inch air above the coping.
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Civil Partnerships – One Couple's Place in History
Publish Date: 19/12/2011
Over 44,000 Civil partnerships have taken place in the UK since December 2005.
In a special two part story to celebrate the 6th anniversary of civil partnerships being introduced, we speak to Mike Newman and Dennis Killin who highlight the importance of this landmark legislation and share what it has meant to them.
February 4th 2006 was the happiest day of my life, when Dennis and I registered our civil partnership. It was a relationship straight out of a gay Mills and Boon, as we knew at once that we loved each other.
He moved to live with me after a few weeks; ill fortune provided us with an opportunity, as his visual impairment - forty percent vision, enough to be registered blind - and missing fingers, both of which he had lived with since birth, meant he had no paid job to leave, and he had only to give up his rented council flat. I owned my house outright, and was within three years of retirement.
I was very lucky, and knew it.
The picture was completed by the Civil Partnerships Act 2004, which made it possible for us to register our relationship in what was a marriage in all but name, with the legal advantages of marriage, though it also meant Dennis losing his right to some of the benefits he was claiming, as would have been the case in a marriage.
Making History
The staff at the Registry Office could not have been more welcoming, probably rather excited at something new for them too. The registrar on the day told Dennis she was nervous, as it was her first time at such an event; 'You know what?' Dennis replied, 'It's my first time too'.
We had only lived together for nine months when I popped the question, but neither of us had any doubts. We filled the room for the ceremony with the maximum permitted forty guests, and had ten more to the meal in the biggest town centre hotel.
About a third of them were gay friends, the rest straight friends, my work colleagues, and my cousin and his wife the only family there - my parents were dead, I am an only child, and Dennis had severed all contact with his family decades ago after his parents' acrimonious separation.
Ceremonies became legally possible from December 21 2005, but with everyone broke in January, early February became the date.
We had two friends read poems in the ceremony; Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways', and Shakespeare's sonnet - or, according to our friend, Henry Neville's - 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day; thou art more lovely and more temperate', played a jazz track while signing the register, and had a friend play acoustic guitar while people filed in and out.
We saved money and got many more pictures by asking friends to bring cameras. When we left the register office we learned how it must feel to be followed by paparazzi.
Then we filed across town to the statue of Harold Wilson, (a Huddersfield local) outside the train station. Though he had done nothing for it himself, the Sexual Offences Act (1967) was passed under his premiership under the leadership of Leo Abse and Antony Grey.
We explained this to our guests and a few passers-by before trooping into the hotel for lunch. Then we had open house at home until night time. It all went like a dream, as indeed it was. It was a milestone in the long battle for recognition and equality.
Pioneers and Progress
Around five years ago Mike Newman saw a letter in the Pink Paper, regretting the lack of awareness of the work of campaigners working for 'gay' liberation, pointing out that they were ageing, and would not be with us much longer, and deserved recognition.
This prompted Mike to produce a short history of freedom for gay men in Britain since the 1950's that will be published online by The Lesbian & Gay Foundation in February.
"As I had not long come out myself, this prompted me to act, and to contact those I could, and to record what I found out." says Mike.
"I can verify that few gay men I have met are aware of the struggle, and the courage of those who took part in it. My notes are a small attempt to record what I found, and encourage others to take things further, before it all becomes a fading memory.
I am particularly grateful to the late Leo Abse, Alan Horsfall, Peter Tatchell, who we met, and to the late Antony Grey, whose poor health prevented a meeting, but not exchanges of emails, witty and outspoken, but with care and sympathy too."
A special event is being organised for LGBT History Month on 23rd February at 7pm at The LGF to share these unique interviews in February.
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Drug user jailed after threatening shopkeeper with syringe
Posted: January 19, 2013|
A DRUG user who threatened a shopkeeper with a needle has been jailed for three years.
Damian Janes robbed one shop and tried to rob another after taking Valium and cocaine, Plymouth Crown Court heard.
The 32-year-old stole cash and cigarettes at one store only a day after being released from prison.
Janes then threatened a shopkeeper with a hypodermic needle – but was foiled when the man pushed a chewing gum stand at him.
Judge Jeremy Griggs said Dennis Naci had shown "considerable bravery" in seeing off Janes.
Addressing Janes, he added: "Attempts are usually regarded as less serious than full offences, but not in this case as you were armed with a syringe."
Janes admitted robbing two men of money and cigarettes at the Spar store in West Hoe Road on December 5. He also pleaded guilty to attempting to rob Mr Naci at The Corner Shop in North Hill on December 7.
Janes, formerly of the Salvation Army Hostel in Devonport, denied two charges of common assault in Mutley on December 4 and theft of a knife on December 5.
The Crown Prosecution Service accepted those pleas and the judge ordered them to lie on file.
Prosecutor Julia Cox said Janes had been spotted standing near the West Hoe store at about 9.15pm on December 5. She added he had even told a bystander that his name was George and he was from Yorkshire.
Miss Cox said shop assistants Jack Sumner and Daniel McFarlane became suspicious when he walked around the store and left empty-handed.
She added: "The defendant re-entered the store and demanded money and cigarettes from them.
"He said: 'Give me everything. I want all the cash'."
Miss Cox said as he made the demands he banged a heavy bag down on the counter. She said one of the men believed it contained a brick and the other thought it held a truncheon.
Miss Cox said the men handed over £200 in cash and six packets of cigarettes.
She added two days later Janes confronted Mr Naci in his store.
Miss Cox said he demanded the shopkeeper open the till – and held a hypodermic needle to his face as he leant across the counter.
"He pushed a chewing gum display at him," she added. "It struck him and he ran off down the hill."
The court heard Janes had several previous cautions for assault and was released from a 12-month prison sentence only on December 4.
Ali Rafati, for Janes, said he walked free without any accommodation or support and fell in with drug-users. The court heard he was turned away by friends.
He added Janes, a father-of-three from the Newton Abbot area, ended up taking Valium and cocaine.
Mr Rafati said he had not taken Valium for a while and it "wreaked havoc".
He added: "He did not threaten the complainant with the full syringe, but the end of the syringe with the needle showing."
Mr Rafati urged the judge not to pass a sentence which was so long that it would "crush" Janes.


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Boeing adds new orders for 45 planes
Boeing said the orders were for 15 of its workhorse 737s, built in Renton, and 30 of its big, long-haul 777s, built in Everett. The weekly order update also shows previously announced orders for five other planes.
Boeing also noted cancellations for one each of its 747, 777, and 737.
Boeing Co. says it will release its full-year order total early next month. It is on track to pass Airbus for the most commercial plane orders for the year. As of Tuesday, Boeing has booked 1,115 orders, including cancellations. Airbus booked orders for 585 commercial planes through the end of November.
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Bradenton, Florida -- The case of accused murderer is now in the hands of the jury.
He's the man prosecutors saykilled Kathleen Briles, wife of prominent Manatee County doctor, James Briles.
The defense called no witnesses before resting their case Wednesday. During closing arguments Thursday morning, the defense argued that the state failed to do its job of proving Delmer Smith is guilty and that evidence only links him to be in possession of stolen property.
After all, there has beenno confession. And no witnesses can place Smith at the Terra Ceia home where Kathleen Briles was beaten to death with an antique sewing machine in 2009.
However, in key testimony Wednesday, prosecutors were able to connect Smith to the scene and the crime in ways that weren't direct -- but they were compelling.
A detective testified that calls and text messages places from Smith's phone around the time of the murder used a cell phone tower close to the scene.
And an acquaintance of Smith's said he went with Smith to a pawn shop some time after the murder to sell some jewelry Smith had gotten ahold of.
Smith said he'd bought the jewelry from someone. Prosecutors say it was stolen -- taken from the Briles' home sometime between when Kathleen Briles was killed and when her husband, Dr. James Briles, came home and found her dead on their living room floor.
Family members and friends also had the heart-wrenching task of telling the jury that items from the pawn shop and items police say were in Smith's possession were treasured items that had belonged to Kathleen Briles.
Smith is already serving a life sentence for a crime in Sarasota County. If he's convicted of Briles' murder, he faces the death penalty.
A separate, special hearing after the trail would determine whether Smith will be executed. Defense attorneys would make a thorough argument for why Smith should be allowed to live; prosecutors will argue the opposite.
The same jury that took part in the trial would then decide whether to recommend death. If the jury does authorize the death penalty, the judge can then declare that to be Smith's fate, or choose a lesser sentence.


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"Each Olympic Winter Games has great moments and you never know where those will come from. Just expect the unexpected."
Behind those timely words lie more than 30 years' experience in figure skating as an international athlete, three-time Olympic coach and vastly experienced commentator, in the shape of Belinda Noonan.
Noonan, who has skated effortlessly between the demands of competition, coaching and commentary, will bring her expert analysis to a Winter Olympics for the fourth time at Vancouver, after covering figure skating at the Games of 1998, 2002 and 2006.
All the dazzling grace and charm of poetry on ice as the world's best figure skaters vie for glory at the Pacific Coliseum will be on show for Nine's viewers. With her unmatched insight into the competitors, Noonan is the ideal foil for fellow commentator Warren Smith.
As the first Australian woman to win a senior international skating title, as well as the coach of several Olympians and dozens of national champions, Noonan is a figure who commands respect. Her comments on the sport she loves are always entertaining and enlightening.
"As a coach, the personal satisfaction of watching the skaters you've worked with for many years achieve their very best performance under an Olympic spotlight is so rewarding," she says. "Stephen and Danielle Carr skating perfect programs two Olympics in a row will stay in my memory as a highlight.
"I love commentary and look forward to every Winter Olympics. Some people might only see figure skating at the Olympics, so it is my job to communicate to them just what is so great about the sport and its stars."
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Posted by slid64er on 7/30/2013 12:30:00 PM (view original):My guess:
1. The same reasons 2.0 is empty
2. Nobody knows what the developers are working on or what they want feedback on
Posted by noah23 on 7/30/2013 11:50:00 AM (view original):We have so many beta testers, and its not like everyone is running autopilot and abandoned. Why is it only a dozen or so people post about the beta?
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This indispensable book explores the emotional, financial, and even physical changes the father-to-be may experience during his partners pregnancy. Written in an easy-to-absorb format and filled with sound advice and practical tips for men on such topics as, how to make sense of your conflicting emotions, how pregnancy affects your sex life, and how to start a college fund. This volume reassures, commiserates, and informs. It also incorporates the wisdom of top experts in the field, from obstetricians and birth-class instructors to psychologists and sociologists.
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First discovered in California in 1998, olive fruit fly is now firmly established in all olive growing regions in the state. A few flies were initially detected in several locations in Napa County during the summer of 2001, but the population rapidly expanded throughout the county during subsequent seasons. Olive fruit fly seems to thrive in our land of temperate climate and abundant hosts – in such settings as agricultural orchards, ornamental landscapes, and abandoned fields.
In Europe and Africa, areas with established natural predators and less restrictive pesticide use regulations, growers have been fighting for decades – with mixed results – to control olive fruit fly. With little hope for complete eradication of this pest, our growers must now think in terms of managing olive fruit fly populations to minimize the potentially devastating impact on the business. Homeowners can also benefit from the research and experience developed over the last few years by the commercial industry.
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All throughout history, mankind has asked the age-old question, "Do aliens exist?" Annually, thousands upon thousands either report that they have personally observed a UFO, or believe that they have seen a UFO, but fail to report due to the fact that they believe that they will experience personal ridicule.
While it is true that most individuals are quick to answer "Yes" to the question "Do aliens exist?" there are still quite a few people that are hesitant to believe that there is life on other planets, apart from Earth. We are all waiting on confirmation from reputable sources, such as the Government or the organization known as NASA that aliens exist. However, despite the fact that this confirmation has yet to occur, many believe that aliens do, in fact, exist.
In the early part of the 1960s, a man named Frank Drake developed an equation which is now known as the "Drake Equation". The purpose of the equation was to calculate the possibility that extraterrestrial life does, in fact, exist. Based on his calculations, he estimated that there are anywhere from one hundred thousand to one million different civilizations in our galaxy that are extraterrestrial in nature. This theory was strongly based on the fact that water – which is a strong source of life on our planet – has been identified in other regions of the galaxy. Water has been discovered in the atmospheres of various planets such as Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. Furthermore, investigations on the planet Mars have concluded that, at one time, the planet appeared to have a warm and moist climate.
Based on the evidence acquired through scientific research and personal observations, many believe that if aliens do, in fact, exist, that they lack a willingness to cooperate with people on Earth that are attempting to discover more about them. In some instances, investigators believe that the beings are exceptionally deliberate in keeping the nature of their being and their activities secret from the human civilization. However, despite this seemingly secretive nature, there are many types of evidence that points to their existence. Examples of the evidence includes photographs, experiences by people that have left them baffled as well as instrumental based readings that have seemingly picked up on and recorded flights by unidentified flying objects.
Many researchers believe that the exceptionally large stone based edifices that are on Earth assist in validating the proof of aliens. Examples of these edifices include the Great Pyramid, the Easter Island Statutes as well as the Nazca Lines that are present in Peru. In addition to these types of figures, we have often observed pictures of people and actual skulls that seem to be elongated in nature.
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A skeleton walks down empty Main Street. Suddenly he sees another skeleton carrying a gravestone. "Hey, what are you doing? the other skeleton answers "Just strolling", "Why do have the gravestone, buddy?", "Because I always want to have some ID.
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I heard this story in the late seventies. Just prior to a manned launch an insect was heard in the superstructure of the rocket. The risk analysis and decision had to be made to launch or to delay the launch and purge the insect. The risk was negligible so the rocket launch. The insect was dubbed the Gemini Cricket.
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How can this be? Scientists say the world began with a Big Bang 13 billion years ago. All mankind got hit on the back of the head, and now astronomers see stars Millions of Light years away.
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The year's first baby was a boy born at Franklin Woods Community Hospital. Miles Cross Greene, the son of Amy and Brett Greene of Bluff City, weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces and was 20 inches long. Miles came into the world at 1:13 a.m. on 1/1/13, an auspicious time on an auspicious day.
Miles was sleeping soundly Tuesday afternoon under a crown of red hair that perfectly matched his 5-year-old sister, Keeley, and his 2-year-old brother, Braden.
His mother, Amy, said the family did not plan on staying up late on New Year's Eve, nor did they expect that Miles might be the first baby of 2013. He wasn't due until January 14.
"I had no plans of coming in last night," Amy said. "With a 5-year-old and a 2 ½-year-old, sleep is pretty precious, so we didn't plan to stay up until 6:00 this morning. But this was a pleasant surprise.
"We are just so blessed to have three healthy children and to start a new year with our new little baby."
MSHA's first Virginia baby of 2013 was a girl born at 9:03 a.m. at Johnston Memorial Hospital. Addison Blake Sweet, the daughter of Erin and Steven Sweet of Lebanon, Va., weighed exactly 8 pounds, and was 22 inches long.
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:-DWhat is funny is that Hostess still uses beef fat for the frying. I noticed Safeway finally pulled it out.Sadly, I loved these as a kid. Dang, how can tallow taste soooo good? ;-)
Tasty, maybe; bulky, yes.450 calories in 4 oz = only 112 calories per oz.For less bulk and more go-power, try these: I make up 3 oz net weight packets of each for snacks, except for the big Payday bar which is 3.4 oz as purchasedcashews = 170 cal/oz.........3 oz = 510 calsPringles = 150 cal/oz........3 oz = 450 calsPeanut M&Ms = 144 cal/oz.....3 oz = 432 calsKing size Payday bar = 140 cal/oz...3.4 oz = 476 cals
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Tasty, maybe; bulky, yes.Not being required to use a bear can where I normally hike ... I think I could find room for a couple of those in my food bag. Maybe one for each of the even numbered days, or perhaps those divisible by 3;-)
Problem is...for me 3 out of the 4 above items I can't eat due to braces :-( I am 1 year 7 months in....Pringles are the only thing I can eat in that list.....As a side bennie, the Safeway versions are all dye free except for cherry flavor. M7M's have dye so I can't have them either.
'Cause nothing says yummmmm like a trash pie on the trail on a hot Saturday on the Cascade Crest!
I have been known to eat the Fred Meyer brand lemon fruit pies. They're inedible in town, but they taste great on the trail. Now that I have the seal of approval from Sarah and Dicentra, I will feel guilty no longer!
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The Ethnography and Music collections are Designated Collections of national importance.
The Museum holds in total some 350,000 objects and related items. The Horniman has three main collections, World Cultures (Ethnography) comprising 80,000 objects, Natural History with 250,000 specimens, and Music with over 7,000 instruments plus 1,000 archive documents. There is also a parallel education handling collection which has over 3,700 objects drawn from all three main disciplines and a library collection with texts and related items covering the main collection areas.
The Museum also has an active collecting policy with regular fieldwork to acquire new objects and to find out more about existing ones carried out by curators. Over 90% of the collections of Ethnography and Music have been acquired since the original bequest by Frederick Horniman in 1901. Most objects not currently on display are held in storage at the Museum's Study Collection Centre in Greenwich, while the Museum also loans objects to other institutions for exhibitions.
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Over 1300 instruments from the Horniman's internationally renowned collection can be seen in the Music Gallery. Its breathtaking display spans a wide range of instruments from around the world, making up the largest number on display in the UK.
The gallery also features short films linking instruments on display to the cultures and contexts in which they are played around the world.
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Visit our new permanent display of keyboard instruments. This display explores domestic keyboards from the past five centuries that were brought into homes from parlours to palaces and brings together highlights of the keyboard instrument collections from the Horniman and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Why Are There No National Latino Leaders?
The Pew Hispanic Center reports that almost 75 percent of a nationally representative sample of Latinos either cannot identify anyone they consider to be "the most important Latino leader in the country today" or state there is no Latino national leader. How can we explain this?
I remember that as an undergraduate I was taught that democracies could not prosper in Latin America because Latin Americans, the forefathers of Latinos, were so ego-centric that instead of cooperating with others to advance group interests as democracies require, they undermined any initiative that did not enhance their individual status. Popular folklore translated this into the Mexican crab story—the reason Mexican crabs don't climb out of uncovered buckets is that as soon as one gets near the top, the others pull him back down.
The "folk" and the academy have long since abandoned such explanations. In my judgment, today's leadership vacuum is to a significant degree the unintended consequence of well-intentioned reforms. Specifically, the failure to develop national Latino leaders seems to result from the incentive structure inherent in the construction of majority-minority districts mandated by the Voting Rights Act (VRA). These districts include all levels of legislative seats from school boards to Congress but do not extend to state-wide seats, such as Governor and Senator or to any city-wide positions such as Mayor.
VRA districts do not guarantee that minority group members will be elected; it only guarantees that minority voters will have the electoral clout to elect whoever they prefer. Non-minorities seldom contest elections in these districts, and if they do, only rarely are they victorious.
Given this structure, minority candidates have every incentive to run for majority-minority seats. Conversely, running in state or citywide elections poses a substantial risk unless minorities constitute a significant portion, if not the majority, of the electorate. So, in almost all large cities and states, minorities are unlikely to seek governorships, senate seats, and mayoralties, the positions that require them to develop the skills required to deal with society's major issues.
Ironically, the positions which minorities do not compete for are the ones which are most likely to serve as spring boards for national prominence. No one goes from the House of Representatives to the Presidency, for example, nor are members of Congress likely to become national political personalities in the way that large city mayors, U. S. Senators and Governors frequently do.
Latino leadership development is further undercut by majority-minority seats because they reduce the need for incumbents to reach out beyond their districts. Such outreach could help minority legislators expand their constituencies to include non-minorities. It could also enable them to develop the skills and expertise needed to work with non-minority representatives to resolve problems that transcend the ethnic and geographic boundaries of their districts.
Unless Latinos elected from majority-minority districts are willing to risk their careers in pursuit of more significant positions and/or build bridges to non-Latino colleagues and constituencies, they will not attain national prominence. Latinos and the nation deserve no less.
Rodolfo de la Garza, a Columbia University professor of Political Science, has studied immigration, political attitudes and voting for over 30 years. He directed the first national political survey of Latinos and has authored, co-authored and edited 18 books and more than 100 scholarly articles and reports on foreign policy, immigration and political attitudes and behavior.


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Italian archbishop survives shooting attempt
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Archbishop Giuseppe Betori of Florence, Italy, survived an apparent assassination attempt on November 5.
An unidentified man confronted the archbishop outside his office, shot and wounded the prelate's secretary, and waved a gun at the cardinal before escaping.
Father Paolo Brogi, the archbishop's secretary, was reportedly in satisfactory condition after surgery to repair an abdominal wound.
Archbishop Betori and witnesses that the gunman said something as he gestured toward the prelate with his firearm, but they could not understand his intent. Police are looking for the man, who is believed to be homeless and emotionally disturbed.
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Mixed martial arts (MMA) yoga. ~ Christine Schaefer
Originally published by our elephriends over at Recovering Yogi on November 18, 2011.
Mixed martial arts (MMA) yoga.
By Christine Schaefer
I am on hiatus from my yoga class per doctor's orders because I blew out my hip. When the accident first happened I could not walk, which for me was a first. And, apparently, continuing to take hot yoga would make it impossible for me to heal. For the 12 hours that I allowed myself to rehab on the couch, I hatched mind monsters in the form of "Will I get fat?," "How will I stay calm and even?," "What about what I want?," "Stupid hole in the park that I was too busy to see 'cause I was listening to my IPod!," and, "Woe is me, why did I have to get hurt now?" As if anyone wants to get hurt, well, ever.
My biggest fear, however, was not being able to identify myself as a "yogi," marked by logging insane hours at the studio and practicing the same 26 poses that no doubt melted my hips. I'd been dutifully punching the yogic time card, as if in doing so I would be magically poofed with enlightenment.
My favorite part of that menagerie of ridiculousness was that in my head I thought that because I was so "flexible," seemingly in both body and mind, that this injury could have been avoided.
I shared this revelation with my orthopedic surgeon. He was amused. "There is such thing as too much of anything, especially when it is done with repetition," he told me. "We call these overuse injuries, and I know that in your RN program you will go over this." He was half-joking / half-chiding, because before him sat a yoga addict in need of a detox that didn't come in the form of a ten dollar green juice after class.
On the drive home, fortified with a shot of painkillers in my ass, (God Bless Western medicine and a marriage to the badge), I had to chuckle. I realized that I had snapped like a rubber band, because when I did anything, I attacked it, full force. Yoga was no different. My yoga literally looked like MMA, because that is who I am, at heart: a scrappy, fight club kind of gal. I had been traipsing off to yoga five days a week, and for the majority of that time I was in it to hit the mats. I took "warrior" pose to a new level! Was it possible that I was in the wrong place entirely? Perhaps….
In reflection, I have no doubt that I have learned so much from yoga, the greatest thing being that it is OK to back off for a while. And now I hit the mats in the form of kickboxing. (Because this girl has got to throw down at least twice a week to stay on an even keel.) I supplement my newly found yoga/mixed martial arts practice with an asana class where I truly stop to breathe, to listen, and make peace with the fact that I'm both a lover and a fighter.
About Christine Caira Schaefer
Christine Caira Schaefer is a happy wife and mom who lives in the suburban Boston area. When she isn't chasing her pre-teen kids around, writing for her blog, cutting her clients' hair, or trying her damndest to get into the clinical rotations that ALL nursing school candidates need, she enjoys working out, volunteering at her kids school, and decorating her home. While she doesn't feel insane enough for a 7-day-a-week hot yoga practice, she arguably sees why it could be easier to check out and hit the mat while allowing her husband to man her tribe. More about Christine.
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I LOVE hot yoga and the 26 poses, but I have realized that 26 poses are not enough to hit all the spots that need to strengthen and bend. Holding poses and going deep is beneficial, but plop that Hot yogi into a flow class and s/he will struggle to keep up! (Wait, we're changing ALREADY?) At least that was my experience! My down dog sucks and it's hard to stay in – and this is supposed to be a resting pose? So do the Bikram class, but mix it up! Kick – boxing, Vinyassa class, old fashioned running or working out at the gym…. And have you tried Capoeira? It sounds like you would LOVE it if you can find a class! Peace – Alexa Maxwell
Hi Alexa!
Someone else also suggested Capoeira! I have to check it out, and love to stay well rounded! I truly believe that fitness is a life long commitment, and will hopefully get some balance into this head of mine!
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text: Astrophysics, Space Science, Planetary Science and Cosmology Christopher B. Siren Astrophysics, Space Science, Planetary Science, and Cosmology A word to the uninitiated: At first blush one might think that Astrophysics, Space Science, and Planetary Science are all pretty much the same thing, and indeed, they often wind up being lumped together under the heading Astronomy. The main differences are that Astrophysics is the study of everything outside the solar system and Space and Planetary Science are pretty much confined to the solar system. Planetary Science is the study of those solid and fluid bodies within the solar system, from the size of a small rock, to something like Jupiter or even the Sun. It has close ties to geology and meteorology. Space Science concerns itself with the seemingly empty space between the planets and sun. It is the realm of the Solar wind, charged particles and magnetospheres. All three branches overlap in the study of our closest star, the Sun. Ancient Astronomy The Babylonians have left us the earliest written records of astronomy. A map illustrating their view of the world and heavens, including their zodiac can be found in this Monograph from the British Library To their east, the ancestors of the Indians were developing their study of the stars and planets as well. The Antiquity and Astronomy of the Vedic Culture page covers their enterprises. (Broken Link 8/24) After the Babylonians and Egyptians, the early Greeks wrestled with problems of astronomy and cosmology. In the Americas, Mayan Astronomy reached its heights independent of the cultures on the other side of the Atlantic. For further information, Wolfgang Dick maintains an extensive set of links related to The History of Astronomy (Broken Link 8/24) Between Ptolomey and Copernicus, much of the advances in astronomy were made by Muslim Mathemeticians, Astronomers, and Scientists. Megasites from NASA and associates The Voyager missions by JPL and NASA began to pique my interest in planetary science and astronomy when I was still in elementary school. JPL's site contains a number of pages on the various planets as seen through missions in which they've been involved. Another gateways to NASA are the Ames Research Center Public Affairs Page in California and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. The Solar System The SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) site has an extensive tour of The Nine Planets Calvin J. Hamilton's Views of the Solar System is another good collection of images and information. Sun The SOHO spacecraft provides a report of Solar Weather conditions which includes several views the sun over a number of different sets of wavelengths. The Sun Today: SHINE Directory to the Latest Solar Images and Interplanetary Data. Big Bear Solar Observatory at Big Bear Lake, CA provides a number of current images of the Sun in a number of wavelengths, as well as magnetograms. Venus As an undergrad, I did one of my theses on Venusian volcanoes, using data collected by Magellan. Also check out the Magellan Image Sever from MIT's Center for Space Research. and NASA's Magellan Mission to Venus page. Glen Newton and Paul Budkewitsch present F.O.V. Face of Venus includes descriptions of the types of features found on Venus as well as searchable databases about Venusian craters and coronae. Earth's Moon Lunar Prospector was launched in January of 1998. This spacecraft finished its mission in July 1999, by crashing into a lunar crater near the south pole in an attempt to see if there is any water there. In 1996, Clementine also visited the moon and found evidence of ice in a polar crater. Eric M. Jones has assembled a Apollo Lunar Surface Journal documenting the surface portions of the manned missions to the moon from 1969 to 1972. Included are the transcripts between the astronauts and Houston, numerous images, and commentary on what was done and why. In the practice of science it is good to remain skeptical of assertions made by others until one sees if those assertions are backed up by solid justifications and proof. Some folks have taken the skeptical portion of this attitude with regard to the Apollo Moon landings, but haven't really examined the proof that astronauts did indeed land on the Moon. Michael Shermer of Skeptic magazine looks at the reasons why folks might think the lunar landings were faked and counters those arguments in this "Moon Hoax"- debunk article. Mars Set to launch in 2003, ESA's Mars Express will put the Beagle2 lander on the planet. Jim Bell has some interesting pages on Mars and NEAR Woohoo! Mars Pathfinder landed on that planet on July 4th, 1997. Because of the high load expected around the landing date, JPL has let SGI put up this Pathfinder Mirror site The Mars Global Surveyor arrived in September of 1997 and began mapping that planet in March of 1998. The geological features in the Cydonia Region are quite interesting and include what has been called the "face on Mars". The above web page presents the raw and processed images of that region from Mars Global Surveyor. This page on the Face on Mars by Malin Space Science Systems presents some of the same images in a clearer format than above. In early August, 1996 a team of NASA and Stanford scientists held a news conference about their findings from an asteroid centering around the possibility that there was once life on Mars. JPL's mirror site, Ames's mirror site Johnson Space Center's mirror site Transcripts of that news conference and other life on Mars related links can be found at the Federation of American Scientists site. In the 1970's the Viking spacecraft orbited and landed on Mars. You can use these Mars Atlases and image finders to search the images obtained from Mars orbit. Jupiter In August of 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy crashed into Jupiter. Speaking of Jupiter, Galileo has now arrived there. It also launched a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7th 1996 and has been flying by the Galilean moons. Also concerning Galileo is this NASA K-12 Jupiter page Another NASA K-12 project is Kidsat/Project Yes Saturn As Galileo is to Jupiter, Cassini is to Saturn. Launched in late 1997, Cassini is due to arrive at Saturn in 2003 and will drop a probe into the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Pluto Prof. Fran Bagenal maintains The Pluto Home Page Asteroids NEAR - Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous flew past 253 Mathilda and snapped some cool pictures then orbited and later landed on the asteroid Eros. The Planetary Data System, Small Body Node provides information, including ephemeris data, about Asteroids and Comets. Dr. David Williams maintains the NSSDC Asteroid Home Page. David Jewitt maintains an informative page on the Kuiper Belt a collection of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. Douglas Hamilton presents a page on Solar System Collisions which includes an applet which lets you input data on how fast, how large and what composition your impacting body will be and then shows you the results with images from actual craters and some artistic renditions. Comets The Comet Observation Home Page maintains information on currently visable comets as well as having old comet images. In the Summer of 2000, Comet Linear made its closest approach to the sun and began to break apart! Russel Sipe has assembled a site on Comet Hale-Bopp - which wowed us in March, April, and May of 1997. In March of 1996, Comet C/1966 B2 (Hyakutake) was a brilliant show. Quite visible to the naked eye, it passed within one tenth of an AU of the Earth. Charles Kowal discovered the icy body Chiron in 1977, but it wasn't until 1988 that a cometary tail was observed, confirming that it was a comet and not an asteroid. Cometary Magnitude Analyzer Offline The New Solar System, ed. Beatty, J. Kelly and Chaikin, Andrew, Sky Publishing Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990 (There is also a more recent edition). This wonderful book collects articles on the Sun, the planets, comets, asteroids and other features of our solar system written by top planetary scientists. Still, the technical jargon is minimal and kept at a Discover magazine level. It also contains several beautiful photos and color charts which help illustrate the concepts within. I first used this in an introductory level planetary science course at MIT, but it would be a good resource for high school students writing a term paper in earth science or astronomy. Beyond the Solar System Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnel at Goddard Space Flight Center present the Astronomy Picture of the Day, along with archives of past pictures. The archives are organized by topic and each picture's page has an informative caption. Check out the Latest from the Hubble Space Telescope, or visit their library of Pictures. The Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory in Chile is the largest optical array of telescopes right now (four 8.2 m mirrors acting in concert as a 16 m telescope). The High Engergy Astrophysics Science Archive Reasearch Center (HEASARC) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) details their numerous missions & spacecraft, and presents an informative outreach section. VSOP the Very long baseline interferometry Space Observing Program includes an 8m radio dish in a highly eliptical orbit with a 21,000km apogee in addition to sites on the ground. The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) looks for deuterium (heavy hydrogen) as a means of tracing the evolution of galaxies & the universe. CHANDRA, like the HST is one of the Great Observatories in orbit about the earth. Whereas Hubble looks mainly in the visible region of the spectrum, Chandra looks in the higher energy, X-ray region of the spectrum. Another of the great observatories has had a lot of use back at UNH. The Gamma-Ray Observatory's (GRO) Compton Telescope (COMPTEL) looked at the spectrum of light at energies even higher than Chandra. A large part of its mission is oriented around studying the enigmatic gamma-ray bursts. The GRO was de-orbited and crashed into the Earth in June 2000. ESA's successor gamma-ray telescope is INTEGRAL> The satellite Hipparcos has used the method of parallax to determine the position of, distance to, and proper motion of thousands of nearby stars with the greatest accuracy to date. One cool thing about the Hipparchos results is that they help resolve the Globular Cluster Age problem - the old distance calculations to Cephid variables made Globular's seem closer and therefore older than we now find them to be. They were thought to be older than the Hubble law prediction for the age of the universe, but this conflict is not mostly resolved. There have been an awful lot of planets found around other stars lately so JPL has established the Exploration of Neighboring Planetary Systems homepage. Info on the nearby extra-solar planet discovered in June 1998 can be found here and here The Electronic Universe project includes a page on the planet discovered in orbit around 51 Pegasus. The physics on this page is algebra based with a bit of statistics when discussing whether or not the planet could maintain its atmosphere. Because of the low sensitivity of our current instruments, the extra-solar planets we have found thus far tend to be very close to their parent stars and very massive, thus earning them the nickname Hot Jupiters in this Scientific American article and elsewhere. University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Obsevatory has a nice article on Neutron Stars John Kolena collects a number of links to information about Black Holes on the Internet Sky Publishing, publishers of Sky and Telescope put out weekly news releases inluding highlights of the sky this week. Astronomy Magazine another major amateur astronomy magazine. The Space Access Society Nick Strobel's Astronomy Notes present a lengthy introduction to the subject as an online version of his book of the same name. Gary Agranat presents Astronomy Homework Help on a variety of subtopics, including a collection of links geared particularly "for young minds". Jonathan McDowell's Space Page contains links to a number of sites including his weekly Space Reports. Stephen Hawking's Universe was an excellent mini-series on PBS a few years back featuring a number of astrophysicists and physicists. The companion website has a number of articles on a wide variety of astronomy and physics related topics. Sometimes the information we see about astronomy is just bad. Sometimes the entertainment industry skimps on the science for the sake of story and viewers buy into it, sometimes news crews make mistakes, sometimes it's a long standing popular tradition. When Bad Astronomy strikes, Phil Plait tries to correct it on this informative and entertaining site. As an undergrad, I took an observational astronomy seminar run by Steve Slivan. He's got a nice collection of images of Messier Objects taken from the 24" telescope at MIT's Wallace Observatory. The Amateur Astronomy Observers' Log has more images of a wide array of objects. For subscribers, there is net access to The Astrophysical Journal There are a lot of Astronomy Sites on the Internet and the web. Much of the research at UNH's physics department centers on astrophysics and space physics. Then, there is the astronomical Data Center of Strasbourg. Is anybody out there? The folks at SETIquest and SETI League Inc. are trying to find out. sci.space.news (moderated) sci.astro (Beware the high volume) Cosmology What can we determine about how the universe formed and how it is structured? How do we figure this out? Ned Wright maintains a very useful collection of Frequently Asked Questions in Cosmology John Hawley and Katherine Holcomb provide web support for their text Foundations of Modern Cosomology including summaries of the contents and relevant links. In 1980, Alan Guth introduced the Cosmic Inflation theory, a refinement of the Big Bang theory. Guth introduces this theory in an article originally for "The Beamline" in Was Cosmic Inflation the 'Bang' of the Big Bang? Andre Linde has helped modify and expand Guth's original theory and on his home page describes the "Self Reproducing Inflationary Universe". John Gribbin author of several popular science books, presents Inflation for Beginners When Albert Einstein first described General Relativity in 1915, he included a cosmological constant which kept the universe in his theory from collapsing in on itself. Later observational evidence showed that the universe was expanding as if from some initial explosion and not holding some steady state as Einstein had assumed. This made the cosmological constant unnecessary and Einstein considered it "his greatest blunder". However, recent observational evidence suggests that the universe may be expanding more rapidly than gravitational attraction should allow. This has led many to suggest we may need to re-introduce the cosmological constant and explain this repulsion that occurs over very large scales as a consequence of vacuum energy a.k.a. "dark energy". This article from Science Beat describes how SNAP, the SuperNova/Acceleration Probe might be used to find evidence of such dark energy. Paul Preuss reports on dark energy as originally described by Bahcall, Bahcall, Ostriker and Steinhardt in a 1999 article from Science magazine. Scott Watson collected a number of Inflationary Cosmology Links over the course of working on an undergraduate thesis on that topic. Offline Guth, Alan The Inflationary Universe Perseus Books, Reading, MA, 1997. Popular science book at approximately Scientific American level. Here Guth describes the nature of Inflation theory as well as the history of its development. Astronomy Education The World Lecture Hall provides links to online course material for Astronomy. Project CLEA: Contemporary Laboratory Experiences in Astronomy, develops intro Astronomy labs for the high-school and college level, using modern digital techniques & computer software. NASA Spacelink is a collection of NASA's educational and intstructional material. Solar System Educators Project from NASA for K-12 educators. See my Physics Links Last modified: September 30th, 2001 Christopher B. Siren


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Media revenge
April 24th, 2007 by David Weinberger
Dave Winer writes, "I want a checkbox that tells MSNBC that I don't want any more Virginia Tech stories." Exactly. (He's making a point about checkboxes, not about Virginia Tech.)
In fact, for the past few weeks, as a part of my "stump" speech, I' ve been showing a screen capture of USA Today's redesigned site. It includes a button you can click on to give a Digg-like thumbs up to an article. Great, except, um, where's the thumb down? We want to be able to say to the Britney or Justin or We-Should-Teach-Our-Students-Judo article "No no no no no no no no." We want to tune our news. But we also want our revenge. [Tags: news media digg dave_winer everything_is_miscellaneous ]
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on 24 Apr 2007 at 8:13 am1 Peter Bihr
Ha, great idea! (Also, it would go well with the WTF-Button Kathy Sierra proposed in her SXSW speech.) What would the publishers have to fear anyway? It's the best feedback they can get, and it's even free… :)
on 24 Apr 2007 at 10:32 am2 What I Learned Today… » Blog Archive » Tune Your News
[...] Weinberger makes an interesting point (and teaches me something new). I' ve been showing a screen capture of USA Today's [...]
on 24 Apr 2007 at 11:27 am3 Peter Bihr
Saw your message at twitter (http://twitter.com/dweinberger/statuses/38216952) depending on what mag you're writing for, this might be interesting for you: http://www.mysociety.org/projects. It's a UK non-profit with some pretty cool direct democracy web projects…