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News | December 10, 2002
SeaWinds Tracks Antarctic Ice Escapades
Icebergs can be sneaky. Even the jumbo-sized icebergs of the South Atlantic could, until recently, lurk beneath clouds or in darkness out of sight of most satellite observers.
The SeaWinds instrument has changed all that. SeaWinds is a scatterometer flying on NASA's QuikScat satellite. A second SeaWinds instrument will launch on Japan's Advanced Earth Observation Satellite 2 on December 13. A scatterometer sends radar signals to Earth's surface and receives the scattered energy back. The instrument works day and night through clear or cloudy skies. While designed to measure the speed and direction of near-surface ocean winds, SeaWinds has been proven to have another talent: It can track large icebergs and map sea ice.
Being able to monitor these floating frozen mountains and vast plains of moving ice has immediate practical applications. Ship captains need to know when an iceberg might drift into their paths and when fast-changing sea ice may make getting in or out of a port impossible.
Take the case of the German ship Magdalena Oldendorff trapped in frozen Antarctic waters since June. "We used scatterometer images to map the ice for the Argentinean ice breaker that went down to try to get the ship out," says Cheryl Bertoia, deputy director of the National Ice Center. The center is the U.S. Navy/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration agency charged with tracking icebergs in the Southern Hemisphere and mapping sea ice globally. "The ice was very thick and moving rapidly. The ice motion was more powerful than the ships' engines and was forcing the ships to move west when they wanted to move east. We did an animation of QuikScat images of the ice pack to determine the predominant ice motion to help the ships' captains to make navigation decisions."
In the end, the icebreaker had to go home alone, and the Magdalena, with its passengers and most of its crew airlifted to safety, awaits the spring thaw. By then, two SeaWinds instruments will be aloft to help map its path to freedom.
Tracking and monitoring icebergs and sea ice also has important long-term uses, such as helping to answer some burning questions about climate. For example, scientists have noted that the number of Antarctic icebergs seems to on the rise and wondered if global warming could be the reason. To investigate, Bertoia, Professor David Long and Jarom Ballantyne of Brigham Young University reprocessed data from SeaWinds on QuikScat and earlier scatterometers going back about 30 years.
"We found that there were icebergs out there that had not been previously counted," says Long, "and that the number of icebergs has remained roughly constant from 1978 to the late 1990s." While global warming is real, says Long, the increase in the number of icebergs reported by the National Ice Center is the result of better tracking methods rather than climate change. The results of the study appeared in the October 15, 2002 issue of EOS Transitions.
Long, director of Brigham Young University's Center for Remote Sensing, is a member of the SeaWinds science team. He and his research group were the first to figure out how to reveal the ice details by combining observations from multiple scatterometer passes. "A scatterometer makes an indirect measurement of ocean winds and their direction by looking at surface roughness," explains Long. "The ocean surface is roughened by waves. The more waves, the more wind. But the scatterometer's radar measurements provide information over land as well as the oceans."
SeaWinds on QuikScat quickly showed its potential for spotting icebergs. Creating images with the first data they received from the instrument, Long and his group made a startling discovery. "A graduate student said 'there's a big iceberg out there. Shouldn't you tell someone about it,'" says Long. "I assumed that the National Ice Center already knew all about it, but when we called them later to ask for identification, they told us that they didn't know there was an iceberg in that location." It turned out that the center had been tracking the Rhode Island-sized iceberg, called B10A, for several years. However, a few months before SeaWinds spotted it, B10A had eluded traditional tracking methods long enough to drift into a completely new position and was a potential threat to shipping. That was in 1999. Today, Long and his group keep daily track of South Atlantic icebergs with SeaWinds on QuikScat and provide the data to the National Ice Center. "Right now we do more than half of our iceberg tracking with SeaWinds," says Bertoia. "The other sensors that we use are visible and infrared sensors. When it's cloudy or dark, these sensors are not very useful because they cannot image the earth's surface in those conditions. In the South Atlantic, it's cloudy or dark about 70 percent of the time."
"We're now tracking about 30 large icebergs and about 20 small ones," says Long. Two of them are giants. The largest, C19, is 31 kilometers by 202 kilometers (17 by 109 nautical miles). Long and the National Ice Center will be watching C19 and its icy colleagues until they break up or melt, a process that can take months or decades. "It depends on the path they take," says Long. "If they get caught in shallow water, they will ground and can be stuck for years at a time. Then suddenly, they can move and disappear within months."
"SeaWinds tracking of icebergs is truly paving the way to a major improvement in our knowledge of iceberg production in the Antarctic," says JPL glaciologist Dr. Eric Rignot, "which is at present one of the least well-known components of the mass balance of the ice sheet."
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My daily driver since its release, no major issues and would recommend others as daily driver as well.
Ok. Im a little confused here. Having some issues. I have the rom installed via odin and i flashed cwm touch recovery via odin but now when i try to reboot recovery to install the bootloader/root zip file.... it wont let me into the custom recovery because i dont yet have root. Make sense to anyone? Where am i going wrong here?
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The writing is on the wall: Diesel is in, but it faces ever-tightening cleanliness standards and consumer scrutiny. To that end, GM diesel partner DMAX, Ltd. is investing $60 million in its Ohio plant.
According to the release from GM, DMAX is the joint venture between GM and Isuzu that builds the Duramax V8 diesel engine found in 3/4- and 1-ton Chevrolet and GMC trucks — GM owns 60% of the venture, and Isuzu owns 40%, the release said. The investment reportedly will go toward retaining 500 jobs and help make design changes to the engine that will help it meet future emissions requirements.
GM North America Manufacturing Manager Christine Sitek said, "Today's announcement demonstrates GM's commitment to continuously invest in technologies that reduce the impact of our vehicles on the environment, while maintaining performance attributes required by customers in the areas of towing and hauling loads."
"This investment represents a vote of confidence in our employees and IUE-CWA Local 755, who have consistently demonstrated their commitment and dedication to building the best diesel engine possible," Sitek continued.
After opening the facility in 1998, DMAX Ltd. started pumping investments into it from 2000 onward, totaling $760 million in the last 14 years.
DMAX President and Chief Operating Officer Maho Mitsuya said, "The successful partnership between GM, Isuzu and IUE-CWA Local 755 continues to bring new investment dollars to our plant. The Duramax diesel's performance is renowned in the industry, and these updates to improve our emissions will make it that much better."
The 6.6-liter Duramax turbodiesel engine currently built at DMAX is rated at an SAE-certified 397 horsepower and 765 ft-lbs of torque at only 1,600 RPM. It uses a high-pressure 30,000-psi Piezo-actuated fuel injection system that helps the engine be both more fuel-efficient and cleaner while producing more power, according to GM.


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HTC Excalibur, the Q slayer?
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HTC Excalibur Rumor
When it comes to full-size Windows smartphones, the Motorola Q has few competitors. This may be about to change: an image of what's purported to be the HTC Excalibur has leaked to the Internet. In addition, a few key specifications accompany the rumor. The Excalibur would be a quad-band GSM phone with WiFi and a unique interface twist. Instead of a jog dial (as seen on Blackberries and other smartphones), there's a touch strip to the right of the screen that should make for less wear on people's thumbs as they scroll through menus and media. No tentative release date has been given other than "soon."


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Obama Re Elected
neither choice was good but honestly he was better then romney. romneys lack of respect for womans rights and bodies was astounding. and he based it all off his morman beliefs. politics and religion DONT mix. he lost all respect from me after that, but even still the rest of his campeign just ... it was so politically incorrect for our country we would have been even worse off. another 4 years wont kill us with obama. I hope Hilary runs again next term like they say she will.


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Yesterday at the barn Wiski was acting kinda funny when I took him into the arena to be ridden. I figured he was just having an off day (since before the mare was in the picture) but the other horse owner said he was probably proud cut and not safe for mares to be around.
Another person at the barn said he probably only acted funny because the mare might have looked like a previous pasture buddy and he might be lonely. She said she highly doubted he was a proud cut gelding.
So thinking about it. He was caught somewhere around a year old by the BLM. I'm not sure when the gelded him. I've noticed he drops his stuff when he smells mares or gets really relaxed around people, other horses.
So I guess I wanted to know what exactly does proud cut mean? I've heard it means that they were not properly gelded and that there is still tissue left, some others say that it's when a horse was gelded later in life and some say it's just when the horse still has hormones.
I suppose I could get him tested but if he's gone 14 years of his life and hasn't had any real problem maybe it's just one person being silly.
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By Chris Casey | University CommunicationsDENVER - I like the urban campus. I love my academic program. The entertainment and recreational amenities around here rock.
Those were some answers students gave to the question, "What do you think?" The university's new advertising campaign, "Think Tank," rolls out next month and CCT Advertising, in partnership with the university's Office of Marketing and Community Engagement, is videotaping segments for the "Think Tank" website as well as YouTube.
All day today students in the North Classroom Atrium were offered a $10 Starbucks card to sit in front of a camera for about 10 minutes. They were asked questions about why they chose to attend CU Denver, their area of study, and what they'd like to do in the future.
Malcolm Tucker, a freshman studying theater, film and video production, said the Starbucks card was secondary to his interest to be videotaped. "When I see a camera, the first thing I want is to be involved," he said.
The Las Vegas resident said CU Denver was the first university he applied to, and he's glad to be a student here. "You have the snowboarding, skiing and all these other extracurricular activities that Vegas doesn't have," he said.
Nur Loyan, a freshman studying economics, explained on camera that he'd like to eventually work in finance or a field involving a lot of math.
"I like the location of the campus -- it's in downtown Denver and it's right next to everything," he said. "A lot of colleges are in the middle of nowhere. Here, you're next to the 16th Street Mall and sporting events. That's why I picked this campus."
Andrew Hoyle, a sophomore in computer science, said he enjoys coffee and had a half-hour free to take part in the interviews. "It seemed like a good cause to communicate with prospective students."
The idea of "Think Tank" is to bring awareness to the campus and enhance future enrollment, particularly among the university's target audience of traditional high school students, community college transfers and military veterans attending the university on the GI Bill, said Director of Marketing Karen Klimczak.
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Quan is the author of various publications regarding transplant immunosuppression, aspects of liver disease and pharmacotherapy. He also is the author of several textbook chapters and serves as a senior editor of the Textbook of Therapeutics: Drug and Disease Management. Quan received his doctor of pharmacy and completed a residency in clinical pharmacy at UCSF.
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New London's financial struggles have gotten the attention of a credit rating agency responsible for evaluating its ability to pay off loans on time. Fitch Ratings recently informed the administration that the city's AA- rating for general obligation bonds, which dropped a notch last March, is in peril of sinking further. Fitch now lists New London's rating outlook as negative.
This clear-eyed, dispassionate assessment of the city's financial standing is more evidence (not that more was necessary) that its fiscal problems are real and developed over several years. There still appears to be a sizable faction in the city that wants to dismiss these problems as the wild imaginings of the current administration, the first since the change to the mayoral form of governance. No mere belt tightening, elimination of waste, or making government more efficient - pick your budget cliche - will fix it.
It is primarily a revenue problem, not a spending problem.
"The shortfall in budgeted revenues was the primary driver for the deficit," states the Nov. 12 Fitch report.
With its limited tax base, high density of untaxable public and nonprofit institutions, and limited room for new growth, it is a challenge for this city to raise the revenues necessary for basic services.
The tax increase that did win final approval hardly fixed the problem, but the rating agency saw it as a necessary step, along with budget cuts.
"Management prudently approved a 5.1 percent tax increase ($2.3 million in additional revenues) for fiscal 2013 and budgeted $2 million less in expenditures compared to fiscal 2012 spending to help mitigate the structural imbalance," states the report.
Yet the credit agency remains concerned that the administration is operating without much of a safety net - the unrestricted fund balance, or fiscal cushion, which dropped from $6 million to about $1 million in just a couple of years, according to preliminary audit figures.
To allay its concerns, Fitch received assurances from Mayor Daryl Finizio's office "that further expenditure cuts, including additional staff reductions, can be made if necessary to help maintain balanced operations."
It appears those assurances will now be put to the test. Last week Finance Director Jeffery Smith told the council that revenues are coming in lower than expected, expenses higher, and if that trajectory is unchanged it could lead to a $1.1 million budget shortfall. Mayor Finizio may indeed have to find more reductions to "maintain balanced operations."
Which leads back to the negative outlook. What does the city have to do to avoid a rating downgrade that would raise the cost of borrowing and make it more difficult to restructure debt? A lot.
"The city's historic level of financial flexibility served as a key credit offset to the weak economy. A return to positive operations and meaningful progress in restoring available reserves in the near term is fundamental to maintain the current rating level," concludes the Fitch report.
In other words, it will not be enough to keep the budget in balance, the city has to start rebuilding that reserve fund. With taxpayers still trying to fight the tax increase that was approved; the likelihood of cuts in state aid to municipalities looming as the state legislature deals with its own fiscal problems; and little room for deeper cuts in city spending, it is hard to imagine the path to that destination.
But one year into his four-year term that is the challenge Mayor Finizio faces. It's probably not how he pictured things turning out.
Paul Choiniere editorial page editor.
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As the sun comes up we're learning more about the water slide collapse in Fleming Island.
ANOTHER UPDATE AT 8:30. OF COURSE, THIS T SLIDE AREA IS GOING TO BE BLOCKED OFF, NO ONE WILL BE ALLOW AROUND THERE. BUT THE POOL CLUBHOUSE AND AMENITIES WILL OPEN AT 10:00, NOW AS FOR THAT SLIDE, IT IS STILL BROKEN IN THE WATER, JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE DAMAGE AND I'M LEARNING MORE INFORMATION, TOO AFTER SPEAKING WITH THEM. IT SEEMS LIKE THE PART YOU SEE GOING INTO THE RETENTION POND WAS ACTUALLY ABOVE THE PART THAT IS STILL INTACT WHICH MAKES THIS EVEN SCARIER THE FACT THAT THESE TEENAGERS FELL FROM SO HIGH ABOVE BUT FORTUNATELY THEY ALL ONLY SUFFERED MINOR INJURIES AND ARE GOING TO BE OKAY, WHEN THE SLIDE BROKE, THAT THEY ALL FELL INTO THAT RE10ION POND WHICH FIRE RESCUE SAYS IS ABOUT FOUR FEET TALL WITH HAVE VIDEO FROM THE SCENE LAST NIGHT WHICH WAS ARE TOLD VERY CHAOTIB, AROUND 17:14 IS WHEN IT HAPPENED AND THEY SAY THE FLEMING ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL BAND WAS HAVING A PARTY AT THE EAGLE HARBOR COMMUNITY POOL. 13 TEENAGERS TOTAL WERE INJURED AND WE KNOW THAT TWO OF THEM WERE TAKEN TO HOSPITALS AND N THE AREA. THE OTHERS OTHERS WERE ALL TREATED A AT THE POOL BY FIRE RESCUE OR LIFEGUARDS. NOW CLAY COUNTY FIRE RESCUE SAYS THERE WAS A LOT OF CHAOS WHEN THEY GOT THERE AND THEY BELIEVE THAT MANY PEOPLE HAD ALREADY LEFT THE POOL BEFORE RESCUE ARRIVED, THEY SAY EVEN MORE TEENS WERE INJURED THAN THAT 13, BUT THEY WERE TAKEN BY OTHER MODES OF TRANSPORTATION BEFORE RESCUE ARRIVED. WE SPOKE WITH SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING AND AND THEY'RE LEARNING NEW INFORMS. WHAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD IS THAT THE BAND HAD A BAND CAMP THIS WEEK AT FLEMING ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL AND THIS WAS THE LAST DAY AND THEY WERE HAVING A POOL PARTY TO CELEBRATE THE END OF BAND CAMP AND, YOU KNOW, WITH SCHOOL STARTING ON THE 12th EVERYBODY IS GETTING EXCITED AND GETTING READY FOR SCHOOL AND I'M SURE THAT THE KIDS WERE HAVING A LOT OF FUN AND A GOOD TIME, BUT, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, IT SEEMS LIKE PERHAPS THERE WERE TOO MANY KIDS ON THE SLIDE. NOW WE'RE TOLD THAT THERE WERE AN ADEQUATE AMOUNT OF LIFEGUARDS AS WELL AS CHAPTER RHONES HERE AT THE POOL WHEN THIS ACCIDENT HAPPENED. WE'RE ALSO TOLD BY FIRE RESCUE THAT THERE IS A SIGN AT THE STAIR CASE LEADING TO THE SLIDE THAT CASE ONLY ONE PERSON IS ALLOWED ON IT AT A TIME, BUT FIRE RESCUE SAYS THEY BELIEVE THERE WERE 10 TO 15 TEENAGERS ON IT WHEN THIS ACCIDENT HAPPENED. ALSO, WITHIN THE LAST 30 MINUTES WE SEEN SOME INVESTIGATORS AND I KNOW I WAS TOLD THAT THE MANAGER WAS OUT BY THE BALCONY OF THE WATER SLIDE TAKING PICTURES AND THEY SAY THAT THIS IS AN OPEN INVESTIGATION THEY'RE LOOKING INTO EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED AND WHAT LED TO THIS ACCIDENT. SO FORTUNATE THAT THESE TEENAGERS WERE NOT HURT WORSE
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Multilayers of InGaAs Nanostructures Grown on GaAs(210) Substrates
Arkansas Institute for Nanoscale Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arkanssas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA
Nanoscale Research Letters 2010, 5:1320-1323 doi:10.1007/s11671-010-9645-7Published: 27 May 2010
Multilayers of InGaAs nanostructures are grown on GaAs(210) by molecular beam epitaxy. With reducing the thickness of GaAs interlayer spacer, a transition from InGaAs quantum dashes to arrow-like nanostructures is observed by atomic force microscopy. Photoluminescence measurements reveal all the samples of different spacers with good optical properties. By adjusting the InGaAs coverage, both one-dimensional and two-dimensional lateral ordering of InGaAs/GaAs(210) nanostructures are achieved.


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TV preview: Elderly Care Exposed on BBC 1 at 9pm
Posted: April 30, 2014|
It is a sad state of affairs that programmes like this one should exist at all. Be in no doubt, tonight's Panorama special makes for some very harrowing viewing indeed, once again bringing to light the issue of abuse in residential care homes. Watch and feel ashamed that this is the treatment we set aside for the old and infirm. There's some irony that this followed immediately over on Channel 4 by Derek.
To gather the footage for tonight's show, undercover reporter Alex Lee posed as a care worker an observed a culture of abuse and apathy on the part of some of the care workers employed at the Old Deanery home for the elderly. As I said, shows like this shouldn't have to exist and the fact that it falls to a journalist to the job of a government board of inspectors is disgusting.
While not everyone who works at the care home is involved in the abuse but questions must once again be asked about how it was that the people who are responsible got jobs there in the first place. Once again, it comes back to a system that doesn't work, a system that has not been fixed since the last time that abuse in care homes was exposed.
Maybe it's naive of me but surely if our culture held compassion and decency in as high regard as it does celebrity worship then those individuals responsible for the abuse would've thought twice about slapping a woman with dementia. Perhaps if care workers got shows about all the good hard work they do instead of oxygen thieves like Joey Essex, who by the way pretends to stupid because stupid people give him money to do so, this wouldn't happen.
Being a care worker is a hard job and those undertaking this profession should be lauded for doing it well. But shows like this show just how far between the cracks that elderly care has fallen for the people who can make a difference.


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Here's my little Toyota Corona. Made in 1966 (same as me!)
I bought this from the son of the original owner, who bought it at Sheridan Toyota in Santa Monica, California.
It is really nice condition. Not a single scratch on the seats! It even had much of the plastic covering still attached to the door panels. I haven't used it lately but it runs very well and the Toyoglide, auto trans is really smooth. To drive it just takes you back in time and it has a lovely original smell!
A keeper! :tu:
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Kaffir Boy
by Mark Mathabane
Kaffir Boy Chapter 53 Summary
- Mark is arrested for being in a white neighborhood after the 10pm curfew. He tells the cops he's a student and, because he carries his schoolbooks with him, they let him go with a warning.
- The black cop tells Mark he's eighteen; he should have gotten a pass two years previously.
- Although he hates the idea, Mark begins the application process for a pass.
- At the pass office, Mark is interviewed by a black man who seems to enjoy his position of power.
- The official interrogates Mark about every detail of his life, and then makes Mark wait for half an hour. When he calls Mark back in, he says Mark has serious problems. His parents don't have a permit to live in Alexandra so they can't start the pass process. His parents have to get a permit first.
- Mark protests that this office refuses to give them one.
- The man says Mark's parents must come with him to the office. Mark protests that his father will lose his job if he misses a day of work, but the man insists. And he needs to bring the necessary papers.
- Which ones? Mark asks, since he's already brought notes from principals, birth certificate, his parents' passes, rent receipts, and his baptismal certificate.
- The man tells him not to be cheeky. They have to have a letter from his employer.
- Mark explains that he's not working, and the man then wonders why Mark needs a pass. Mark wants a pass so that he can't start working.
- The official says that Mark has to get a job and then apply for a pass.
- When Mark responds that it's illegal to have a job without a pass the man is unsympathetic. Mark leaves.
- Mark wonders what he should do while he waits for news from America.
- Papa calls Mark a loafer because he isn't working yet. He destroys Mark's books. He had wanted to destroy Mark's tennis rackets but couldn't find them.
- Mama is also exhausted and begs Mark to find a job. She has diabetes now and needs Mark's income more than ever.
- Mark begins to feel selfish. He tells Andre that he needs a job, and Andre says he could use some help. But then he realizes that his father could get Mark a job at Barclays Bank. In fact, he may find work there so great, he won't even want to go to America.
- Mark explains his problem getting a pass and Andre says he shouldn't worry about that.
- A few weeks later, Mark has an interview at the Barclays Bank. The personnel officer was impressed with him, especially his abilities in English and Afrikaans.
- Finally, Mark has a job. And, with a letter from the bank, he is given the paperwork for a pass.
- But at the main post office, where he takes some papers, he has a terrible experience. Not only does he wait for hours in line, but then he has to go through dozens of tables, where each Afrikaner manning the table humiliates him.
- Mark is asked intimate questions about his life and his parents' lives. Mark is lucky that he has all the required papers, which annoyed the people manning the tables. Then he has to go have a physical. He has to strip down to the waist then get x-rayed. He overhears the clerks saying that some of the migrant workers had lice and would need to be fumigated.
- Mark is x-rayed. Then his private parts are examined for venereal disease (V.D.). V.D. would eliminate him from qualifying for a pass.
- By the end of the day, Mark is so mad that he wants to leave for America first chance he gets.
- But no scholarship offer comes. So Mark begins working at the bank.
- At the end of the month, Mark gets his first paycheck – three times what his parents make with combined incomes. He opens a savings and checking account and buys a new suit. He pays his siblings' school fees and books, and still has half his wages left. The family is able to start eating better.
- Mama starts to talk about buying furniture on layaway.
- Mark is doing so well that his manager sends him for testing to see about advancing. He's told he has a great career in banking ahead of him and they increase his salary.
- Mark's mother says he should thank God for his good luck.
- Mama wants to move to a decent house in Tembisa. Mark says he doesn't mind moving them but he will stay in Alexandra. Alexandra is closer to work, and plus he doesn't want to aid apartheid by settling in an area that they've reserved along tribal lines.
- He continues playing in tennis tournaments.
- One day he meets Lennart Bergelin, a tennis player and poet from Argentina, who looks at Mark's poems and observes that they're good but they're also full of anger.
- In May, Mark receives two letters from America. One is from Stan Smith's coach, George Toley. Toley lets Mark know that although he can't offer him a scholarship to USC, he's sent letters around to coaches at other universities and he should be hearing something.
- The second letter is from a tennis coach at Princeton, who lets Mark know that he should apply. Although they don't offer scholarships for athletes, they can underwrite his entire education at Princeton if he applies and is accepted because they can offer financial aid.
- In the following weeks, Mark receives letters from various colleges, all saying the same thing: apply and we may be able to offer you financial aid or a scholarship. Mark can't apply to all of them – he receives over forty letters – but he does choose a variety and he applies.
- Mark starts thinking about getting plane fare and a passport. He knows he'll have trouble getting a passport. The South African government doesn't like giving passports to blacks.
- Mark figured one of the reasons it was so reluctant to give passports to blacks was the pressure the America government was applying to South Africa to change its policies.
- Mark knows that even if he's offered a scholarship, he might be refused a passport.
- After a month, Mark receives a reply from Princeton, saying that if he decides to come there, the University will almost certainly pay for his tuition and room and board for all four years.
- One of Mark's sisters lets the news leak that Mark will be leaving for America and he soon receives threats.
- The police start stopping Mark in the streets. He tries to continue with life as usual and hopes everything will work out.
- Mark started receiving an average of two letters a week from coaches at American universities. Finally, he receives a letter from Limestone college, offering him a full athletic scholarship to play tennis.
- Mark keeps the news secret for a couple of weeks, though one of his coworkers tells him he seems happy, like he's discovered gold in his backyard.
- Mark's family is happy and Wilfred is thrilled. He tells Mr. Montsisi at the Black Tennis Foundation, who agrees to keep it secret so that the apartheid government doesn't try to prevent him from going at the last minute. He tells Mark that he always knew Mark would do this, because he believed in himself.
- Owen Wilson assigns Mr. Montsisi to help Mark get his passport and advises Mark to start reading about American culture so he can be better prepared when he gets there.
- So Mark starts going to the American consulate on his lunch break to read their pamphlets. He is moved by the Declaration of Independence and writes it down until he has it memorized.
- In June, he receives his packet from Limestone College: his letter of admission, a letter from the Bethel Baptist Church, where he can settle and feel at home, and a letter from Stan Smith, who had heard about the scholarship and offered to help Mark get a visa. Mr. Montsisi went to the Department of the Interior to get a passport.
- A white man interrogates Mark about every detail of his life for two hours. Throughout the interview, Mark denies that he hates apartheid, claims that he loves living in South Africa, and asserts that he'll come back to South Africa when he's done studying because he wouldn't want to live any other place.
- The man finally says he can't possibly issue a passport until November, even though Mark protests that school starts in September.
- They go back and talk to Owen, who calls Stan. Stan makes some other phone calls. The American embassy in Pretoria issues him a visa even before he gets his passport.
- Mr. Montsisi and Mark return to the Department of the Interior with the visa and other papers. The same passport official now raises other objections. Did he have the sum he needed as a deposit? What about his plane ticket? Mr. Montsisi tells him both will be taken care of.
- Mr. Montsisi speaks with several members of the Black Tennis Foundation board of trustees and one of them, Alf Chalmers, offers the twelve hundred rands Mark needed to get his plane ticket. When he went back to the Department of the Interior, they didn't ask any other questions. He could come pick up his passport in two weeks.
- Mark quit his job at the bank after he has his passport. He has just a few short weeks to say goodbye.
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Cape Town - Former community Safety MEC Lennit Max has pulled out all the stops in his bid to clear his name.
He lodged a court application for access to confidential psychiatric records of the woman who accused him of sexual harassment, and hired a clinical sexologist to prove his genitals did not match the graphic description she gave.
Max wants to use the medical records and sexologist's report in a R700 000 defamation action he lodged against the tabloid newspaper, Die Son.
But the woman refuses to hand them over, saying she is "disgusted" at his actions.
The case stems from sexual harassment allegations the newspaper published in February 2010, made by former police clerk Belinda Petersen.
Max said he intended to prove the allegations were not true, adding that he believed that, at the time, Petersen was mentally unstable and had been treated by psychiatrist Segeree Chetty.
It was for this reason he had asked the Western Cape High Court to compel Chetty to hand over clinical notes and Petersen's original file, so they can be examined by an expert.
"Against the above background, the mental health of Petersen is an important issue in determining whether the allegations of my alleged sexual impropriety are true or not. The medical file and clinical notes held by Dr Chetty are of vital importance to establish what the state of Petersen's mental health is," he said.
However, according to the papers, Chetty said she was precluded from producing the file by the Ethical Rules of Conduct for Practitioners registered under the Health Professions Act.
Max approached Petersen herself for consent, but did not receive a response, he said in the affidavit.
"I respectfully submit that Petersen should not be permitted to make false allegations as a consequence of her impaired mental health, and at the same time be allowed to conceal her medical file and clinical notes of her own psychiatrist, which documents will probably prove that the allegations that Petersen had made about me are false," he added.
Max also commissioned clinical sexologist Marlene Wasserman to compile a sexual health report on an assessment she performed on him in January last year.
In the report, she concluded that Petersen's description of the penis of the person who allegedly sexually harassed her did not match Max's.
In addition, she said her examinations were not consistent with the woman's claims that she was injured as a result of the size of Max's penis.
Petersen told Weekend Argus she was shocked at the request for medical records. She could not afford a lawyer to assist her, but said she would go to court to speak for herself and "look him in the eyes".
She was "sick and tired of being a victim", regarding herself rather as a survivor.
The application is expected to go to court next month.
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Courtney Love and Twitter go together like pregnant ladies and an all-you-can-drink Jagermeister night, and her unsupervised fingers may have once again led her into trouble. On Monday night, she reportedly took aim at Dave Grohl, accusing him of putting the moves on her estranged 19-year-old daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.
The onetime Nirvana drummer turned Foo Fighters frontman, who has been on Courtney's extensive and ever-growing enemies list since Kurt Cobain's 1994 death and has known Frances Bean since she was a baby, vigorously denied the allegations.
Gawker obtained Love's purported messages, which were posted under the protected account @Cbabymichelle. The missives contend that Grohl, a married father of two, was spied getting touchy-feely with Frances Bean, who's engaged to musician Isaiah Silva.
The "reliable sources" who ostensibly gave Love this information (besides the voices that no one else can hear): Frances' roommate and a chauffeur.
"She was curious. I'm not mad at her," reads one tweet. "Him I am about to shoot, dead."
That's an odd turn of phrase for the Widow Cobain, whose husband died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The tweets go on to accuse Grohl of being "sexually obsessed" with Kurt and conclude by implying that he's a "gross old man macking on Kurt Cobain's only child."
(Yep, it looks like Courtney will miss out on that Mother of the Year prize again.)
Grohl is understandably upset by the tweets.
"Unfortunately, Courtney is on another hateful Twitter rant," he tells Rolling Stone. "These new accusations are upsetting, offensive and absolutely untrue."
The rocker's rep adds to Gawker that he'd prefer the site's original headline ("Courtney Love Accuses Dave Grohl of Seducing Her Daughter") be changed to, "Crazy Woman Says Insane S--- No One in Their Right Mind Would Believe."
By the by, Love directed many of these tweets to @davegrohl, which turns out doesn't belong to the rocker: It's actually a German student who hasn't posted since 2008.
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Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) is all over the place here in Seattle and we can always find a few of these shrubs growing around our yard. My kids like to nibble the leaves. I'll sometimes nibble them too, but more often I'll just pick a few, rub them between my fingers and smell their nice lemony aroma. Until today I've never tried drinking a plain infusion of lemon balm (though I'm sure I have had them before in blended herbal beverages).
Lemon balm tea is considered a healthy infusion for colds and flu as well as a calming and soothing beverage. It makes a nice addition to aromatic and medicinal herb gardens and has the added benefit of attracting beneficial bees who help to pollinate nearby plants.
I picked ~10 fresh tender leaves and minced them up with a knife. I steeped them for 5 minutes using 5 ounces of boiling hot water. The resulting infusion had a pleasant grass and citrus aroma and a pale watery yellow-green color.
In my opinion it tastes great. Like most herbal infusions, lemon balm is probably hard to over steep. Next time I going to use more leaf and a longer steep time. The flavor was not at all bitter and was too weak to be perceived as tart. I was reminded of lemon juice, lemon peel, rose hips and meadow flowers. It left with a nice aftertaste and feeling in my throat. I can easily see myself drinking this infusion often throughout the winter and sharing it with my two young children.
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either merge them, lock them or delete one or both of them, it depends
How do you deal with duplicate topics? Do you lock the duplicate or do you merge the duplicate with the original?
I usually lock them myself but I do also ocassionally merge topics.
either merge them, lock them or delete one or both of them, it depends
Well, I usually lock one of them. But I should of try merging them.
I only merge them if there is a need for it, if not I inform the person that their topic has been moved to the dump bin as it was a duplicate and a link to the thread that was already there.
Cant say ive ever come across such things on forums ive ran or been staff on.
I will either delete, merge topics or just moved to trash for keeping the topic count. But mostly will merge the topics as they are the same one.
I just merge them. No use wasting a topic by deleting them.
If it's got posts in it i'll merge it, if not it goes to the bin.
Usually lock it, but if it's got a good no. of posts, I'll merge them.


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