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Tyna Marie Robertson (picture left, via), the ex-girlfriend of Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher, was ordered to pay $11M for extorting dancer Michael Flatley by California Superior Court Judge Michael L. Stern. Tyna Marie Robertson had consensual sex with Michael Flately in a Las Vegas hotel in 2002, but the stripper-turned real estate agent accused Flately of raping her and threatened to sue unless he agreed to pay a "seven figures" settlement.
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1. Joseph Randle, Oklahoma State: Randle carried the torch as the Big 12′s biggest standout all season long at running back. He was mostly consistent and led the Big 12 in rushing by more than 300 yards, racking up 1,417 yards and 14 touchdowns on 274 carries. Strong season from an experienced player who's leaving early for the NFL.


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Davide Mattia, who leads the research team, has taken inspiration from the well-known Fischer-Tropsh process, which uses an iron catalyst to react hydrogen with carbon monoxide, producing a mixture of alkanes that can be used as fuel. Mattia's catalyst, which works with both carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, is also iron based, taking the form of iron nanoparticles embedded on carbon nanotubes. It has a rather unique method of preparation, which is not only simpler to carry out, but results in a more effective catalyst.
'Our process [for making the catalyst] uses the same iron nanoparticles for both nanotube synthesis and carbon dioxide conversion,' Mattia explains. More usual approaches require the seed nanoparticle to be washed out of the nanotube before a new one is introduced. The iron nanoparticles become part of the surface of the carbon nanotubes and this is why Mattia thinks their catalyst is so efficient. 'It is the synergy between the carbon nanotubes and the iron nanoparticles,' he says.
Mattia found that when carbon dioxide and hydrogen were allowed to flow over their catalyst, the hydrogen absorbed preferentially onto the carbon nanotubes. When the carbon dioxide reached the iron nanoparticles and reacted, the surrounding high concentration of hydrogen increased the efficiency of hydrocarbon formation. 55% of the reaction mixture was converted to hydrocarbon with the rest becoming carbon monoxide. Roughly half of these hydrocarbons were C2-4 molecules.
Mark Keane, an expert in catalyst development from Heriot-Watt University, comments that 'current carbon capture and storage solutions, based on solvent absorption and geological storage, can only be considered a short- to mid-term solution. Any study like this one that considers catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide is to be welcomed'. He adds that this catalyst needs testing against a conventional standard to show its full potential.
Looking to the future Mattia and his team envisage trying to use waste heat from the flue gas in power plants to run their process, with the aim of making it carbon neutral.
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–, Thursday, November, 22, 2012, (1:15pm)
Al Gore reveals:
We call it dirty weather because dirty energy creates dirty weather.
Genius. Next, Al might tell us where Dirty Dancing comes from.
UPDATE. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change isn't going to Doha for the UN's Climate Change Crapfest, and neither is Greg Combet. But it looks as though Al Gore is on his way, and his celebrated effect is already kicking in:
The world's climate has cooled during 2011 and 2012, temperature data from Britain's Met Office reveals — just before this year's talks on cutting global greenhouse gas emissions.
Inconvenient, you might say.
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I know what you're thinking. "Does Al Gore own six private jets or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a Bugatti Veyron, the most powerful private jet in the world, and would blow a bald eagle's clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel warmer? Well, do ya, punk?
Thu 22 Nov 12 (01:23pm)
well the sun must be one big dirty mutha
Thu 22 Nov 12 (01:23pm)
Thu 22 Nov 12 (01:38pm)
"Daddy, where do 'dirty bombs' come from?"
Thu 22 Nov 12 (01:39pm)
But it looks as though Al Gore is on his way
Is the Middle East ready for the Gore Effect?
Thu 22 Nov 12 (01:55pm)
I believe Clint Eastwood has a right to sue for plagarism when they use the word Dirty.
Thu 22 Nov 12 (02:00pm)
A Gore and his global "warmin" minus the g, then it was climate change and now its dirty weather. I am still smiling that he was knocked back by Northern Territory film maker Chris Tangey with the Willy Willy (dust devil) fire storm photo. I would defintely put that down as inconvenient for Gore.
Thu 22 Nov 12 (02:09pm)
Isn't dirty weather caused by dirty climate science? Dirty as a result of flawed data, using only the results that point toward climate change, as opposed to using all the relevant information?
All this data collection costs, and if you pay enough, you can get the 'right' dirty scientists who gather the 'right' dirty data.
Thu 22 Nov 12 (02:10pm)
IN SHOCKING NEWS global warming, dirty weather, carbon pollution AND climate change have all contributed to the first undiscovered island.
Al Gore would love this!
Thu 22 Nov 12 (02:11pm)
And Tipper thought he was a dirty bastard.
Thu 22 Nov 12 (02:11pm)
Does that mean Tim one can only tgell dirty jokes when the wind is still?
Thu 22 Nov 12 (02:35pm)
Thank you Tim, what a surprise. The alarmists ignore the facts as they come up and just lie and scream a little louder.
Thu 22 Nov 12 (03:00pm)
so, is gore saying that before mankind started using "dirty energy", the weather was always pristine?
Is there a single intelligent person in the world who still believes gore's bull?
btw, warmists are always accusing skeptics of confusing weather and climate. Idiots.
Thu 22 Nov 12 (03:21pm)
Good News: Gore has stopped talking about global warming, realising it does not exist.
Bad news: he has replaced it with another fiction, dirty weather.
Thu 22 Nov 12 (03:25pm)
The findings could prove politically sensitive, coming ahead of the United Nation's climate summit in Doha…
I thought it was about the science.
IPCC: You want answers?
Average Joe: I want the truth!
IPCC: We can't handle the truth!
Thu 22 Nov 12 (03:38pm)
Funny thing, just this morning I was sitting behind a couple of construction workers in their forties, on the train.
One of the things they talked about was the weather. They remarked about how cold and cloudy it was these days, not like the hot summers of their youth.
Thu 22 Nov 12 (04:21pm)
Thu 22 Nov 12 (06:37pm)
They remarked about how cold and cloudy it was these days, not like the hot summers of their youth.
That's the Carbon Tax working its arse off.
The world's climate has cooled during 2011 and 2012
Does that make any sense? I didn't know the climate had a temperature. I thought the earth had a temperature. The climate is not a physical object so how can it cool? I can't quite put my finger on it but something is wrong with that statement. It's like reversing cause and effect. Or treating a description of something as the actual object.
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Thu 22 Nov 12 (06:43pm)
I thought the earth was the big ball with hot stuff in the middle. You could hardly say the earth cooled, that's not what's being discussed.
Dirty energy creates dirty weather and I think it raises the question about the role that Tony Abbott's playing.
Thu 22 Nov 12 (05:04pm)
Big Al should be right up there with the dirty dancers, he's being practicing for years.
He may not have the "dancing" bit quite right yet , but the rest he seems very proficient with.
Thu 22 Nov 12 (06:12pm)
The young people today, they think comedy is dirty words.
It's not!
It's words that sound dirty.
Like mukluk!
Thu 22 Nov 12 (07:14pm)
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I stumbled into filmmaking after graduating from college. I was living in Korea for a couple of years and I got involved with a support center for Korean women who were working as prostitutes for American GI's near the Demilitarized Zone. I originally wanted to do some kind of oral history project about the women because my background in college was history and journalism and because I wanted to help let other people hear these stories. I had never used a video camera before. I met filmmaker Diana Lee and then PhD student, Kathy Moon, who were both interested in the topic, and we decided to pool our resources and make the documentary CAMP ARIRANG, which is about militarized prostitution in South Korea.
When I came back to the States, I just started trying to get more experience, getting production work, working on various documentaries as a researcher or assistant. I worked for a television show as a post-production assistant and got involved in a production workshop at Third World Newsreel in New York. I was getting my feet wet, while simultaneously trying to co-produce a documentary. I was making a film, but I had so much to learn about the whole process.
I had always been interested in writing my own stories and working with actors. I decided to go back to film school and focus on that aspect, and that's what I've done ever since. I'm currently working on a feature script that I plan to direct, but in the meantime, I continue to make documentaries because I just love the process. There are just so many stories and characters out there - the ones you could never recreate in a fiction form because the originals are so much more interesting.
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Data on the next version of the SATA connection standard has been unveiled, according to its governing body. The SATA-IO group has announced early specifications for SATA Revision 3.0, which it expects to be finalized by the end of this year. The initial specs relate to the physical portion of the interface, which should double transfers speeds compared to current SATA II links, with a peak of 6Gbps. The format is also set to include "advances for data streaming," SATA-IO says, and "better power management."
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Baking runs in Cathy Holiday's family.
Her Amish grandmother passed old-fashioned, time-honored recipes onto her mother, who passed them to Cathy, whose daughters now make them.
No canned pie filling, only real fruit. No preservatives. Just made-from-scratch baked goods, hence the name of Holiday's new venture: Made From Scratch Bake Shop.
"Our biggest thing is baking," Holiday said Friday from behind the well-stocked display case in the tiny front room of the bakery on Mount Vernon Road, just north of the former Helen's Family Restaurant. "Baking and making."
After a hiatus from years of experience in the restaurant business -- Holiday previously owned restaurants in Johnstown and near Delaware -- she decided to put her love of baking into action at the property she'd been eyeing "for years," she said.
Made From Scratch Bake Shop features baked goods of all varieties: cookies, cobblers, apple dumplings, cream puffs, cakes and pies -- both fruit and cream. Plus strudels, rolls, biscuits, cupcakes -- the list goes on.
In addition, lunches are served at windows on the side of the building adjacent to the parking lot, where customers can drive up, park and take their food to go or eat it at one of several outdoor picnic tables.
Holiday calls it "comfort food to go."
Sandwiches and soups are served at lunchtime; Friday's special was a turkey bacon club on a homemade Tuscan herb bun, seasoned with garlic and tomato.
Beginning in June, the bakery will open at 6:30 a.m. to offer fresh breakfasts of sausage, biscuits and gravy.
Live entertainment also is on the horizon.
"Eventually out here we'll be having jam sessions," she said.
The faithful customer base that Holiday served previously in the restaurant business have been supportive of her new venture, she said, as have the passers-by who have stopped in.
The business has been open about a month, she said.
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Dakota Mathias, a 6-foot-5, 190-pound junior shooting guard from Elida, Ohio, has accepted a basketball scholarship offer from Purdue's Matt Painter. This summer, Painter will add 6-6 shooting guard Kendall Stephens from St. Charles, Ill., to a roster that is in need of perimeter scoring. In 2014, Mathias will join the Boilermakers.
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LOS ANGELES — California's insurance commissioner wants to exclude Anthem Blue Cross from the state's new health exchange for small businesses, saying it's made excessive rate hikes.
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It's great to find a Civil War gem in the rough. These are places you stumble onto, intending to spend a minute but stay an hour; a secluded nook on a busy battlefield parks and or a spot tucked way in nowhereville. ConnYankee's post about Maryland Heights got me thinking about it, and I offer a few places I have visited just to whet your appetite. Please add your own.
Maryland Heights near Harper's Ferry - thanks Conn, have a beer on me after the hike...
Ball's Bluff -especially with Jim Morgan around, give Jim a beer after the hike
Confederate cemetery in Chattanooga -not sure of the exact directions but it's surrounded by a stone wall and all the graves are unmarked but one
Fort Davidson, Ironton Missouri - a big little battle,
Guinea Station - where Jackson died, almost always deserted,
Fort Ward - Alexandria VA, nice restoration of a capitol-guarding fort. Hard to believe it was in the country in the 1860s…
Charlestown WV courthouse - where John Brown was tried and hanged a couple of blocks away
Glasgow MO - another little battle, nice walking tour among the old houses
Perryville, KY - nice tour and guidebook at this overlooked and beautful battlefield


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Fort Polk: U.S. Rep. Gillis Long Tuesday confirmed the army is planning cutbacks in the civilian workforce at Fort Polk.
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Atomic testing: Sfc. Jerry J. Ducote, Cpl. L.W. Wilson, Sgt. Jeff Bass, and Pvt. Alto Hamlett Jr. are among more than 60,000 soldiers scheduled to take part in Exercise Flash Burn, the Army's first large-scale maneuver involving the tactical use of atomic weapons.
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Favorite Pokemon Generation and/or game and why
What are ap.net user's favorite Pokemon generation and/or games?
First, Red.
That's my childhood, so
I haven't bothered playing a game after they came out with new Pokemon, and I never will. I'm partial to leaf green via GBA emulator.
First and Pokemon Snap, I took some damn good pics of Mew
im not really sure when i stopped playing new ones, but i've always gone back to Gold/Silver
Can't believe such a horrible poster made such a great thread.
I don't know if I'd call them my favorite but I probably got the most playing time out of Ruby/Sapphire.
I still remember my Sapphire that I spent so much time on. i had 150 out of the 200 in the pokedex, had a level 100 Kyogre...I spent too much time on that game.
Please tell me you took your cartridge to blockbuster and made stickers with the pics you took.
My favorite pokemon are from the first gen but I always go back to playing Gold. The length, the baby pokemon, more types, day/night, improved graphics but still "old school"....gold/silver are legit.
My favorite Pokemon Game ever is HeartGold. It's simply the one with the best elements combined, as being a Gold Remake+ The 4th Generation features. It's simply excellent.
Loved the Pokemon Pinball game for the N-Gage. prolly my fave at this point
First and Second generation are my favourite pokemon. Favourite game's HeartGold. always thought Gold/Silver were the best games, I mean come on, 16 badges.., so having it updated with all the other pokemon and new graphics was perfect.
First gen for nostalgia, although if I played them today I'd probably enjoy 2nd gen more.
I need to buy a Game Boy Color.
Pokemon Blue, Gold, Crystal, and Pinball were my shiiiit. Loved the Stadium games for N64, too, I'm really regretting selling those when I was a kid to buy a new airsoft gun.. all we do in my suite is play smash bros and diddy kong racing on my old nintendo XD
I honestly am not sure which generation was better. Blue for nostalgia's sake, but first gen really had a few bugs and things in it that didn't make a lot of sense. 2nd was probably the best out of them all. I never got into any of the GBA games, jumped straight from 2nd gen GBC games to the 2nd gen DS heart gold XD.


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Gall, Franz Joseph (1758-1828), a German-born French anatomist, founded the pseudoscience (false science) of phrenology. Phrenology was based on the belief that different areas of the brain control different aspects of behavior. Gall believed that the skull could be mapped to show the locations of these areas, which he called organs. Some organs covered personality traits, and others controlled mental abilities.
According to phrenologists, a person's outstanding traits could be identified by bumps or bulges on the head. These swellings were caused by the enlargement of the organs related to each powerful trait.
Gall wrote, with Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, the first two volumes of Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System (1810-1820). The two parted company in 1813, and Gall finished the remaining two volumes himself. These volumes expounded his theories on phrenology. Gall lectured widely throughout Europe starting in the 1790's. He also traveled to schools, hospitals, prisons, and institutions for the mentally ill to gather evidence in support of his theories.
Phrenology was popular in Western Europe and North America during the early and mid-1800's. Many eminent political figures, philosophers, and artists subscribed to the theory, including the United Kingdom's Queen Victoria, U.S. President James Garfield, and the writers Edgar Allan Poe and the Brontë sisters. However, by the end of the 1800's Gall's assertions had been almost entirely discredited.
Scientists today know that a personality trait is not localized in any one area of the brain. Different parts of the brain have different functions, but the parts interact in a more complex way than phrenologists realized. Nevertheless, phrenology did help pave the way for the scientific study of personality, and thus for modern psychology.
Gall was born in Tiefenbrunn, near Pforzheim, Germany. As a boy, he was educated by an uncle who was a priest. He later attended schools in Baden and Bruschal. In 1777, he began studying medicine in Strasbourg. He earned his medical degree in Vienna in 1785.


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...the first time I ever heard the name "Rush Limbaugh" was in reference to his bashing the looks of then-teenage Chelsea Clinton 17 or so years ago. Now, she's a lovely bride (with a fantastic dress). It's so rare that a presidential kid has a big wedding like this. I don't remember the last one. Nobody noticed if Amy Carter got hitched. And Hillary looks like she was beaten black-and-blue by the pretty stick—hair, makeup and dress. Bill still looks slightly like he's in the doghouse, no? It's like Hillary's embracing her son-in-law and daughter and Bill photo-bombed the picture.


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Wow, great result for those less steps! Great work (:
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A quick tutorial how to create a simple, primitive generic grass texture from scratch.
1. Create a new image
2. Fill it with a dark green color
3. Choose Filters -> Noise -> HSV Noise
4. then Filters -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur, set its Blur Radius (Horizontal & Vertical) to 1.0
5. Filters -> Distorts -> Wind, you can customise it to suit your needs, here: Threshold: 20, Strength: 10
6. Image -> Transform -> Rotate 90° counter-clockwise
7. Filters -> Map -> Make Seamless
8. Colors -> Brightness-Contrast, you may customise it as you wish, here Brightness -30, Contrast 40
And yep, that's all. As in the case of this tutorial Moddb.com this texture is a bit repetitive and generic as well as somewhat blurred, that's why it always comes in handy to customise effects and change this rigified procedure of creating grass textures in such a way so as to suit your own needs (you need to 'mod' tutorial steps a bit and see how it works out).
How it looks in-game: Media.moddb.com
This grass texture was made specifically for RTS games. To make it look better you may probably need to tweak/customise GIMP effects.
Wow, great result for those less steps! Great work (:
Nice one. I can make grass now xD
this "grass" looks funny
As said in the tutorial, "a simple, primitive grass texture". It hardly looks like grass, it's so generic and jumbled lol.
welly well, 2d is good but now do 3d multiple objectbased painting.
I'm sorry but it's look kind a lame. It's not so much harder to make decent photo texture instead :|
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A Fairfield man visiting a friend on Nordstrand Avenue early Thursday called police when he saw someone drive off in his 1996 Dodge Caravan.
He called 911 just before 2 a.m. Thursday when he said he heard his van, which he said has a distinctly loud muffler, start up. He looked out of the house and saw the vehicle pulling away as he called police.
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HTC Internet devices in 08
HTC, creators of phones like the P3470 and the Touch, is joining Intel's push to create Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), according to sources from the Taiwanese cellphone industry. The HTC products are said to be scheduled for launch sometime in 2008, and will combine aspects of both phones and UMPCs, including voice functions. Exact features and specifications are otherwise unknown; the devices will use Intel's x86 architecture, though, and will thus also be able to run a wide range of applications.
HTC's efforts represent a contribution to a second wave of MIDs, which are expected to be substantially cheaper than current models. Despite the addition of voice to HTC's devices, they should still be priced below the present standard for MIDs, which is $599 to $799. [via DigiTimes]


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There's something fascinating about the way hanging birdbaths seem to not only attract wild birds, but invite them to come by to wade and splash around in them. As many birders and bird watching enthusiasts know, birds naturally bathe or regularly shower themselves with water as a way to maintain their plumage. As many wild birds aren't accustomed to being provided with their own standing area of water for bathing, they must look for places to bathe that are safe from predators. This is why many bird watching hobbyists set up birdbaths within their gardens and yards. Not only do they provide wild birds with a safe place to bathe, but they also help to enhance the bird watching experience for many birders as birdbaths help to draw in more wild birds. There are many types of baths available, from decorative pedestal baths that are great for use all year round to ornamental hanging birdbaths that beautifully adorn trees and posts. There are even birdbath heaters and de-icers to prevent the bath water from freezing up during cold weather. Whether you opt for pedestal baths that stand alone, hanging baths or baths equipped with birdbath heaters, provide wild birds with a safe place to bathe by setting up a bird bath in your garden today.


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Sadly and with a heavy heart, I have decided to shut down Project Foodie on December 28th, 2015.
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Samosas are flaky, crispy, and triangular-shaped pastry shells that cocoon seasoned potatoes and peas and are the most recognizable of finger foods in Indian cuisine. They are deep-fried and addictive, and I hanker for one (okay, I can devour four of them and call it a meal) quite often whenever I get homesick (funny, considering I have lived in the U.S. for more than half my life, I still think of India as home). This version of mine is just as comforting, but instead of the labor-intensive pastry shells, I use store-bought phyllo sheets, and baking replaces the deep-frying for a heart-healthy alternative. Popeye-friendly spinach, in lieu of the potatoes, adds to the "good for you" argument and you can eat more than four, guilt free.
Makes 16
1. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Once the oil appears to shimmer, add the onion and stir-fry until it is slightly brown around the edges, about 2 minutes. I always tell my students to use their nose—if it smells like there is no pungency and your eyes stop tearing, the onion is slightly brown. You really can cook with a blindfold.
2. Stir in the spinach, paneer, chiles, salt, and garam masala and stir-fry until the spinach wilts, 2 to 4 minutes. Transfer the spinach filling to a colander and let the excess liquid drain as you prepare the
phyllo sheets. There is no need to save the drained liquid, but if you do, you can use it to season and flavor mashed potatoes.
3. Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 375°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. If you don't have parchment paper, lightly spray the sheet with nonfat cooking spray.
4. Unfold the thawed phyllo sheets on a countertop. Have a clean and damp cloth on hand. Carefully peel a sheet of the phyllo from the pile and place it on a cutting board with the longer length of the rectangular sheet facing you. Brush it with some oil. Repeat 3 more times so you end up with a stack of 4 sheets of phyllo. To keep them from drying out, cover the stack of unfolded sheets with the damp cloth each time you unpeel a single sheet. Cut the 4-sheet stack into 4 equal strips.
5. Working quickly with one strip at a time, with the smaller edge facing you, spoon a tablespoon of the spinach filling onto the center of the narrow end closest to you. Here is where your flag-folding skills come in handy (good time to learn now). Form a triangle by folding the lower left-hand corner over the filling to the opposite side. Then fold the phyllo straight up. Next fold it up on the diagonal to the right side, maintaining the triangular shape. Continue folding this way until you get to the end of the strip. You should have a neatlooking triangle. If you have an uneven lip at the end, brush that lip with oil and tuck it under. Repeat with the remaining strips. You will need to repeat the 4-sheet stack, strip cutting, and triangle folding three times more to yield 16 phyllo samosas.
6. Arrange the samosa triangles in a single layer on the prepared baking sheet so there is a little space in between them. Bake the samosas until they are golden brown, 25 to 30 minutes.
7. Serve the samosas warm, as is, or with a store-bought dipping sauce, with the the Tangy Mint Chutney (page 102) or with Tamarind Date Chutney (page 103).
Filling and Folding a Samosa Step-by-Step
1. Brush a sheet of phyllo with canola oil and top it with another sheet, repeating oiling the layers for a stack of 4 sheets.
2. Cut the 4-sheet stack into 4 equal strips.
3. Place a heaping spoonful of the spinach filling at one end of the phyllo dough strip.
4. Fold the dough over the filling by lifting it up from the lower left-hand corner and bringing it to the opposite side.
5. Fold the dough-covered filling straight up.
6. Maintain a triangle, mimicking the classic flag fold.
7. Now, fold the dough over on the diagonal back to the left-hand side.
8. Continue in this manner until you reach the end of the strip.
9. You will have a little strip left.
10. Brush the remaining dough with a little oil and tuck it under, pressing on the dough to secure it.
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Mark Shepard, our fellow blogger and diner, starts off the meal with a crisp welcome statement, doubtfully read off his phone.
"Hottest bar tenders in New York City"
For those of you who have continued past that, I have continued writing. Humor me, as I walk through the mundane details of the food.
Even before then, let me paint the backdrop of where we find ourselves. Rustic tables, old movie posters, taxidermy deer head, and almost surreal hanging vegetation (more charming still as the drinks pour on). On that note, I ought to discuss the cocktails, which many of you will study to conversate properly with the staff. The cocktail menu itself is tentative, but certainly a solid teaser. The Ginge, with peach vodka and homemade ginger syrup, is a knock out. If this is a true representation of what we might find for drinks, the reason to arrive at De Santos might be found on the bar and not behind it.
We had a sampling of the appetizers, which first was entrapped in the New York expectation that there must be tuna tartare. Definitely on par, but missing the pop of a dish that is wanting to be a classic but written off today as a somewhat has-been starter. Next was another troubling sign–an unexplained truffle inclination. While the truffle mac and cheese was decent and enjoyable, the truffle cream on the gnocchi completely inundated the delicate, defenseless beef carpaccio. A crime indeed, to have so fine a gnocchi dance with so absent a partner.
The entrees were also somewhat lacking in character. The steak was generally unmemorable, the lamb was nicely cooked but expected, the scallops were oddly prepared, on a bed of wild rice that did nothing to supplement the rich, naturally subtle, seductive flavor that was possible but not attained. We closed our meal with a bananas foster, which was a nice follow-up to our protein line-up.
I think De Santos suffers from the exceedingly high expectations of any New York diner. The meal left little truly to scrutiny, but with its location and alcohol selection, it begs a menu executed to the same level. For now, I would call it an excellent place for drinks–with a menu that needs to push itself to meet the challenge of being in the West Village.
Chow on,
What does this rating mean?
The meal was complimentary, though it did not affect my opinion, nor were we required to write. Food photos courtesy of Bradley Hawks. Restaurant photos courtesy of De Santos.
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Lung specialists join forces to provide expert care in Gloucesteshire
Posted: February 03, 2014|
Patients with long-term lung complaints in Gloucestershire can now benefit from more joined up care thanks to changes in respiratory services. Respiratory services provided by Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust and Gloucestershire Hospitals have been combined to provide a seamless service between hospital and home. Between 2012 and 2013 there were more than 1,000 unplanned hospital admissions in Gloucestershire as a result of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder. The new 'one stop shop' will provide a co-ordinated approach for all service users at every stage of their care.
Dr Helen Miller, Clinical Chair of NHS Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group and Clinical Lead for Respiratory services said the integration of the teams is an exciting development: "In Gloucestershire, we're seeing an increasing number of patients with respiratory conditions that need specialist care. This mirrors the national picture and ties in with our ageing population. Locally, there are around 40 to 60 new referrals every month, with most people being referred by their GP. The newly formed Gloucestershire Respiratory Team will improve the quality of information and advice people receive, reduce the amount of time they need to spend in hospital and reduce their likelihood of having to go back into hospital, as well as supporting GPs and surgery staff."
Sally King, respiratory team lead from Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust, said: "We're working in hospitals, as well as closely with GPs and out in the local community. Our aim is to help people recover, manage their condition, feel as well as they can, and support them as they leave hospital so that they can recover in the place that is best for them, perhaps in one of our community hospitals or in their own home."
The new-look service offers a range of options including urgent assessments, supported discharge (where a patient leaves hospital but remains under the care of a consultant and receives treatment in their home), home oxygen assessments, outpatient clinics and pulmonary rehabilitation. The improved service provides a 'one stop shop' through a central telephone number that gives support to GPs and other health professionals on the types of care available for their patients' needs.


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Falling for Her
Chapter One
'The scary thing about dating is that you either you marry them or you break up.'
School was never my favourite place to be, and the feeling of coming back was definitely dreadful. I hesitated at the front entrance of school before I finally steeled my heart and pushed open the squeaky door and walked in. I stepped in and breathed in the fresh scent of books and that when I noticed.
Everyone was staring at me. And I knew exactly why.
We broke up.
They said that the first day of school shaped the rest of the school year and I could see why. It was a shock to everyone, our breakup. It was those breakups that everyone asked you about, and gave you sympathy but deep down, they were all secretly glad.
I managed to ignore everyone's pestering and entered my room where I was greeted with a half-smile from my best friend, Chloe. Chloe was the typical 'golden child', blonde, fit and absolutely stunning. I smiled and swiftly slipped into the seat beside her, 'Hey Chloe.'
Chloe waved and then turned my way, 'Alexis, is it true?'
I shrugged, and went on to open my books. Chloe sighed and eventually got the idea that I didn't want to talk about it. That what everyone did, they nose around and wanted to see when you would crack. Sure, breakups sucked but it was never the end of the world.
Not for me anyways.
'Maybe he got bored of you,' someone jeered in the corridor and Chloe took the honour to bash him up. I sighed and walked to my next class, until a hard shoulder collided with mine and my books sprawled across the floor.
It was not my day today, 'Sorry.' I bent down to pick up my textbooks, and our hands skimmed against each other, 'Sorry.' I whispered as I looked up. I met the eyes of someone I was not yet ready to see, ever.
Romeo Mitchell. He picked up the remainder of my books as we stood, and gave me one of his carefree smiles as he handed him back to me, 'Hey Alexis.' I stood dumbly in front of him and he looked at me as though nothing was wrong.
As though he never broke my heart. I took the books out his hands and mumbled a tiny thanks, and he asked me about my holidays, 'How was your break Lexi?'
Lexi, it was his nickname for me. When we first met, I was the nerd at the back corner and was he was conveniently placed next to me. Lexi, he had no right to call me that anymore, 'It was great.' No, it was horrible, 'I heard you went to Europe.'
He laughed lightly, 'Yeah, well, it was cut short.' Everything felt so natural, natural to the point it sickened me. There wasn't even the slightest sense of awkwardness, it was like we had never been together, 'So Lexi, um -.'
'I was thinking - are we cool?'
I nodded slowly, 'Yeah, what do you mean?'
'No nothing,' he cleared himself and gave me his signature chuckle while he scratched his head, 'I mean, it's gonna be okay if we date other people right?'
He was about to continue until Natalie patted him on the shoulder.
'Romeo, it's so good to see you. Hey Alexis.' She smiled at me, 'Oh, didn't you two break up?'
Ouch, bitch.
'I'm soo sorry!' She said to me and I could tell she was enjoying this way too much, 'So you finally got bored of each other.'
He laughed jokingly and my heart stung painfully, and patted her on the head, 'Not at all, it was mutual. We're still friends at the end of the day, aren't we?'
He looked at me and it was then I think, that it really hit me. We had broken up. No more kisses, no more warm nights together or late night movies. A cold shivered throughout my body and I looked at him and I couldn't read his eyes anymore
He didn't even care, 'Yeah, whatever.' And I walked straight past him and on with my life. I stopped at my locker and opened it up and sighed to myself. I'm being so pathetic, and a laugh escaped my lips, 'what is it Romeo?' I heard Natalie's voice echo in the corridors.
'I was just wondering if you'll like to hang out sometime.' Came the familiar voice of Romeo, I bit my lip and slammed my locker. They both jumped as though I became Godzilla.
I gave them my innocent smile, 'Sorry, bit too much force.' Before I walked off to class, I bit my lip until I tasted blood and I had to plaster a smile on my face.
Romeo was a jerk.
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After Macy's closes its downtown St. Paul store in March, there's apparently no one looking to claim the city-block-sized space.
Despite an upbeat attitude from St. Paul officials Thursday, Jan. 3 -- calling the Macy's exit an opportunity, not a defeat -- retail experts cautioned that filling such an immense vacancy will be very tough. But it's not hopeless. Some retail trends are starting to swing downtown's way, after decades of working against it.
Discounters like Target and Walmart are starting to build scaled-down urban stores in city centers, a break from their traditional sprawling suburban business model. Asked if the city is actively courting a retailer in the vein of Target or Kohl's, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman said there have been discussions -- but also big hurdles.
"We've had previous conversations with some of those businesses that wanted a fairly significant subsidy," Coleman said Thursday. "That's not something I'm prepared to entertain. ... No large-scale subsidies."
On Thursday, Cincinnati-based Macy's formally confirmed that it is closing its downtown St. Paul department store, along with five others across the United States. A final clearance sale will start Monday. The store is expected to close in March.
The move was a "tough decision to selectively close underperforming stores that no longer meet our performance requirements or where leases are not being renewed," said Karen Hoguet, Macy's chief financial officer.
The St. Paul store has 153 employees, and Macy's said those workers "may be offered positions in nearby stores where possible" or severance benefits.
With the store's departure now official, attention quickly turned to the huge site -- 362,000 square feet -- and what might become of it. Coleman is not a fan of the windowless early-1960s modernist brick box.
"The current structure, quite frankly, it's not attractive, it's not historic, it's not conducive to how people view 21st century retail or any of those things," he said.
Nonetheless, he added, "If you look at the site itself, I think it's one of the most attractive development opportunities in the Twin Cities. You have a light-rail stop directly in front of the building. You have a downtown that is kind of resurgent with housing, with various levels of retail" as well as restaurants and bars.
Andrea Christenson, vice president of commercial real estate firm Cassidy Turley, agreed that there are positive signs in downtown St. Paul, with a core of successful restaurants, the opening of a downtown ballpark and a new Lund's grocery store coming. But the Macy's space presents a different challenge.
"I think it's going to be very, very difficult to backfill that with retail," she said. "You only have 8,000 people living downtown, and you only have 40,000 workers. ... Without the density, you just can't make it. You look at the hours they're open and do business: Pretty much after 5 or 6 o'clock, you're done. There's no business Saturday or Sunday."
Coleman's spokesman Joe Campbell noted that 73,000 people work in the two zip codes covering greater downtown and extending several miles down West 7th Street.
Even a small CityTarget is a long shot, Christenson said -- and for reasons beyond the downtown's small population.
"It's highly unlikely they could retrofit that Macy's building," she said. "You need flat parking because of the shopping carts."
Stan Pohmer, a Twin Cities retail analyst, notes that the empty Macy's is far bigger than the largest SuperTarget store or the biggest Walmart SuperCenter.
Still, he's seen Target grow interested in opening stores in existing structures in busy downtowns, including San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles. Target officials suggested in 2010 that they were looking to open a CityTarget location somewhere in the Twin Cities, but they haven't said where.
"If you take a look at the trends, people are moving from these suburban areas back to the cities," Pohmer said. "Where we had people gravitating from the city outward, now we've got some people moving back in. Now, I can't say that's happening in St. Paul."
Macy's also announced Thursday that it is consolidating its two stores at Ridgedale Center in Minnetonka into one location, beginning in early 2014. That led to some speculation that it may pave the way for Nordstrom to open a store at Ridgedale.
"The current 202,000-square-foot Macy's main (Ridgedale) store will be expanded and upgraded by approximately 84,000 square feet, with construction beginning in June 2013," a Macy's statement said. "When this project is completed in early 2014, the men's and home businesses currently in a separate 129,000-square-foot building will move into the main Macy's store.
"The smaller building at Ridgedale Center will be closed and acquired by (Ridgedale owner) General Growth Properties for redevelopment."


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Honey Boo Boo is shunning fame.
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After "awaking" when she realized taht the questions weren't going away, the 7-year-old star of TLC's "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" stated that she doesn't even like being on TV.
Dr. Drew pounced. "Why?" he asked.
"Because fans come up to me and I hate it," she responded.
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Rev. Karl A. Divine-Koch, 65, of Iowa City, died peacefully at his home, Tuesday, December 24, 2013 after a long illness.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 am Monday, December 30, 2013, at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, followed by a time of fellowship and lunch. Visitation will be from 2 to 5 pm Sunday at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made in Karl's memory to benefit UIHC Pulmonary Rehab Services, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, or Iowa City Public Library. Online condolences may be sent for his family through the web @ www.gayandciha.com.
Karl Arthur Koch was born August 31, 1948, in Ann Arbor, MI the son of Harold and Margaret (Schoenberg) Koch. He grew up in Dexter, MI where he graduated from high school in 1966. He attended Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa where he received his BA degree in English. He received his Master's in Divinity at Wartburg Seminary in Dubuque in 1974 and was ordained at his home church, Zion Lutheran Church, in Ann Arbor, MI. His career in the church as a Pastor began in 1974 at St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Waltham, MN. From there he moved to Fresno, CA serving as a Lutheran Campus Pastor and then in the same position on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames for over 15 years. He accepted an interim position as Pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Iowa City in July of 1999. He was called as senior pastor to Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Iowa City in 2000 and here he remained until health issues forced him to leave the ministry in 2012. In his heart and soul, he never left the ministry that he so loved!
Karl loved the theater and while in Ames he was involved in Ames Women's Theater and Ames Community Theater (ACTORS). This is where he met Catherine Divine who he married in Ames on Dec. 28, 2000. He was a family man and enjoyed being a coach to his sons' soccer and baseball teams in Ames as Ben and Jeff were growing up. Karl believed in giving back to the community and he shared his time, talents and gifts in volunteering in Fresno, Ames, and Iowa City. In his quiet time, he loved those close to him with such passion, enjoyed listening to all genres of music, especially something his son had produced, and was an avid reader of everything he could put his hands on.
His family includes his wife, Catherine Divine-Koch; two sons, Benjamin Koch and his wife, Paula and their children, Vincent, Morena, and Maya of The Colony, TX; and Jeffrey Koch of Portland, OR; step-daughter, Anna Ellenberger of Iowa City; his father, Harold Koch of Iowa City; sister, Kathy Mundt and her husband, Jerry of Cedar Falls, and their son, Cory Mundt; and Karl's brother, Keith Koch and his wife, Sue of Oxnard, CA, and their children, Anthony Koch and Sharon Embree.
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Only twenty-eight percent of Massachusetts adults admit to eating the recommended number of daily servings of fruit and vegetables. One out of every five adults in our state say that they have taken part in no leisure time physical activity in the past month.
While many dismiss the problem of being overweight and obese as a genetic issue which can only be accepted, studies have shown that a person's environment along with their actions often lead to weight problems, obesity and the health concerns they present. Having the place they call their comfort zone, be the cause of their weight issue, can add to a person's confusion.
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PLAYWRIGHT: Tarel Alvin McCraney
DIRECTOR: Timothy Bond
CAST: Sam Encarcacion, Roderick Covington, Joshua Reese
VENUE: Barney Simon Theatre at the Market
Until: July 1
Flexing their muscles, the playwright, the director and the three actors grab you by the scruff from the start. This is why one goes to theatre. It's about a text that infiltrates the heart, it's about new voices (perhaps just for you), players finding ways to express them best and a director who knows how to weave a story in all its richness.
There's not much that is familiar about this production, but for the story that deals with brotherly love – the brothers Size, in fact – among others. How do you hold on to each other in tough times when the one seems to drain the other, or it takes too much strength to hold on and hold high? But if you don't and the one stumbles, the other finds himself in a prison of another kind.
"Whenever you fall everyone looks at me like I f****** pushed you… That's my f****** life sentence… That's my lockdown…" says the older Size to his sibling just out of prison.
Older brother Elegba Size has his own car business; he's the one making a life, the strong one, the stable one. Young Oshoosi Size is constantly watched over by his older sibling, fresh out of prison with dreams of a life, but not much hope of anything happening.
On the periphery of their lives is Oshooshi's friend and prison mate Ogun, who is shrouded in slight darkness yet trying to find the light.
Starting off with a dramatic ritual as the three magnificent physical specimens dance and lament about the rough road ahead, there's a light shone on a damaged existence which is then fleshed out as their stories play out. Everything is not how it seems.
The text, which is rooted in a socio-economic reality, unravels with flashes and insights too many to hold on to or even comprehend, yet always in a language that has you marvelling as the playwright takes words that run through sentences to shed light on something that quickly disappears – yet lingers as you feel the burden of the brothers in arms.
There's much that's implied, but this is a story fleshed out with ritual and rite as a circle of light implies from the start.
The young playwright draws on Yoruba and Bayou mythology and the story drifts in and out of reality with stage instructions becoming part of the spoken word. In the beginning it almost brings a cartoon-like feel to the proceedings, but as the wounds are turned inside out, it becomes part of the play.
Or the way, the playwright juggles with words:
Weary of saying anything
Weary of talking
She may be weary… Young girls they do get weary!
This is the kind of exchange that's constantly happening with words skipping from one sentence to the next as you try to hold on to ideas, listen to their stories and get caught up in their woes. It's a magnificent text spectacularly told by three actors who leap into your soul as they share their story with every sinew of their being.
And while it might all run too rapidly as the events almost stumble across one another and you hardly have the impulse to hold on, once you leave and have time to reflect, it returns in waves.
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The Monroe City School Board will move toward the final contract approval of the Neville High School charter by seeking approval of the federal court.
The board also approved hiring independent charter evaluators to look at the applications of Neville, Excellence Academy and Vision Learning Academy to comply with Louisiana law and to hire a professional consultant to work with the board during the contract process.
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On the corner of Highway 12, where it trails into Sebastopol, and Morris Street is the emerging Barlow, the site of the former Barlow Apple Center.
It is set to officially open in April as a gourmet gathering place for locally made food, wine, coffee and other artisan products, from lavender and organic cotton to bronze and baked goods.
Barlow developer Barney Aldridge wants the center to connect customers not only with the products, but also with the people who make them and the production process behind them.
Set on a little more than 12 acres, The Barlow consists of 17 metal buildings with roll-up storefronts and high ceilings, 10 of them new and seven of them refurbished, around a landscaped "campus."
A whole host of tenants have already signed on, many of them moved in and ready to go, while other spaces remain under construction and tenants still to be determined.
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Wineries: One of the first high-profile names to sign on, Kosta Browne winery is famous for its pinot noirs, many of them snapped up before they're even officially put out for sale.
A homegrown success story, Kosta Browne will produce its wines here and offer limited access to tasting.
Joining it on campus are a handful of other pinot-noir-focused producers, including La Follette Wines, Greg La Follette's personal brand; Marimar Estate Vineyards & Winery, a downtown outpost of Marimar Torres's beautiful Sonoma Coast estate; MacPhail Family Wines, another pinot noir-specialist making wines from Mendocino, Sonoma, the Santa Barbara area and Oregon under both the MacPhail and Sequana names; and Wind Gap Wines, a small producer of chardonnay, pinot gris, syrah, grenache and other treasures.
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In 2011, Lytle Primary School had 15 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The Texas average is 15 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
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Something has to be said about so many children so happy and eager to learn. The teachers here in Lytle provide just that. I have never seen so many littles, excited about what they will learn next. My Son attends this school. He will be going on to First Grade this upcoming school yr. and is excited to get back already.
We are happy to be a part of such a great school, with loving Teachers and happy students!
The teachers have a genuine love for teaching the children of Lytle. My children love attending the schools here, their intrest for learning has grown in great lengths.
I have to say that all the teachers, especially the ones that have taught my children. They all made sure my children were challenged in the work they did. I can say that the staff at this school are friendly and encouraging with staff, students, and parents. They work very hard helping their students to succeed, in school and in life.
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"The greatest Olympic athlete of all time" calls it a career after another gold
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LONDON » As if 22 medal ceremonies over the last three Olympics weren't enough, Michael Phelps was summoned back to the pool deck for one more accolade.
This time, he received a trophy rather than a medal, an award that sought to sum up a career like no other.
"To Michael Phelps," it said, "the greatest Olympic athlete of all time."
Too bad it was silver.
Gold was the only color for this guy.
In a final race that was more a coronation than a contest, Phelps headed into retirement the only way imaginable -- with an 18th gold medal. Reclaiming the lead with his trademark butterfly stroke, the one seen in his Olympic debut as a 15-year-old in Sydney a dozen years ago, he capped off a mind-boggling career with a victory in the 4x100-meter medley relay Saturday.
"I've been able to do everything that I wanted," Phelps said.
When it was done, he hugged his teammates -- Matt Grevers, Brendan Hansen and Nathan Adrian -- before heading off the deck for the final time in his hip-hugging swimsuit. He waved to the crowd and smiled, clearly at peace with his decision to call it a career.
And what a career it was!
"I was able to really put the final cherry on top tonight, put all the whipped cream I wanted and sprinkles. I was able to top off the sundae," Phelps said. "It's been a great career. It's been a great journey. I can't be any more happy than I am."
Phelps retires with twice as many golds as any other Olympian, and his total of 22 medals is easily the best mark, too. He can be quite proud of his final Olympics as well, even though there were times he had trouble staying motivated after winning a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Games four years ago.
The 27-year-old could surely swim on for another Olympics, maybe two, but there's really no point.
"I told myself I never want to swim when I'm 30," Phelps said. "No offense to those people who are 30, but that was something I always said to myself, and that would be in three years. I just don't want to swim for those three years."
He hugged his longtime coach, Bob Bowman, who was teary eyed as he whispered three words that said it all, "I love you." Their partnership was formed 16 years ago, when Bowman took a gangly, hyperactive kid with an extraordinary gift and helped turn him into a swimmer the likes of which the world had never seen.
"Bob and I have somehow managed to do every single thing," Phelps said. "If you can say that about your career, there's no need to move forward. Time for other things."
Bouncing back from a disappointing first race in London, a fourth-place finish in the 400 individual medley, Phelps wound up with more medals than any other swimmer at the games: four golds and two silvers.
"Honestly, the first race kind of took the pressure off," Bowman said. "If it's not going to go too well, we should at least have fun while we're here. That helped us relax a little bit, then he started swimming well in the relays and he picked it up again."
Grevers had the Americans in front on the opening backstroke leg, but Kosuke Kitajima put Japan slightly ahead going against Hansen in the breaststroke. Not to worry, not with Phelps going next.
He surged through the water in the fly, handing off a lead of about a quarter of a second to Adrian for the freesytle anchor. The Americans won going away in 3 minutes, 29.35 seconds, just off their own Olympic record from Beijing. Japan held on for silver in 3:31.26, with Australia taking the bronze in 3:31.68.
The U.S. men had never lost the medley relay at the Olympics, and they weren't about to now on the final night of swimming at the Olympic Aquatics Centre, on the final night for such a momentous athlete.
How momentous? The governing body of swimming, FINA, broke with Olympic protocol to present Phelps with an award recognizing his entire body of work. While a video montage played on the board, he made one more victory lap around the pool, even stopping off again at the medal podium he spent so much time on during the Olympics.
"Wow," he said. "I couldn't ask to finish on a better note."
Phelps wasn't the only star of the night. Missy Franklin capped off a brilliant Olympic debut by helping the U.S. take gold in the women's 400 medley relay -- with a world-record time, no less.
The 17-year-old Franklin, who will begin her senior year of high school when she gets back to Colorado, seems destined to be America's new star in the post-Phelps era after taking four golds, tying Amy Van Dyken at the 1996 Atlanta Games for the most by a U.S. female swimmer. The youngster also picked up a bronze while swimming seven events -- the same number as Phelps.
"I don't think his shoes will ever be filled. They're so huge," Franklin said. "Hopefully I can make little paths next to him."
And let's not forget Allison Schmitt, another swimmer with ties to Phelps. They trained together over the past year in Baltimore, becoming fast friends with all their goofy antics. But they sure took care of business in the pool, with Schmitt winning three golds, a silver and a bronze in London.
The Americans dominated the medal count at the pool, finishing with 16 golds and 30 medals overall.


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Three pages of manuscript notes in Wallace's hand entitled "Science in 1907".
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Science In 1907
I am not aware of any strikingly specially important development of science during the past year, though all the sciences have advanced by the usual amount of specialised study and research. As regards the science with which I am most interested -- that of Organic Evolution -- the last few years have seen a considerable advance towards the establishment of the original Darwin's theory of Natural Selection on a more extended basis of observation and experiment than had previously been possible. The two chief workers in this line of research are, Mr, W. L. Tower of the University of Chicago, and Professor E. B. Poulton of the Hope Museum, Oxford. The former, after five years continuous experiment and observation on a very large scale and over a wide area of country, published, in 1906, a large volume on Evolution In Chrysomelid Beetles of the Genus Leptinotarsa, in which he has demonstrated the action of natural selection as the great agent in the formation of new species. This is established [[2]] both by experiment and by the observation a close study of the living insects over a under varying climatic and environmental conditions.
Professor Poulton's work has been in the systematic study for a much longer period of the whole range of the phenomena of Protective resemblance and Mimicry, in every part of the world. He has brought together in the Hope Museum the first extensive and systematic collections so arranged as to illustrate the phenomena of Mimicry, which are now shown proved to be far more widespread and important than had formerly been suspected, and to be absolutely inexplicable on any other theory than that of continuous variation, and elimination of the less fit through the struggle for existence.
Both these great investigators agree in rejecting, as being wholly opposed to the facts of nature, the three alternative theories -- Neo-Lamarckism, Mutation, and Mendelism. The first of these has now few supporters, and is absolutely condemned by Mr. [[3]] Tower. The upholders of the other two theories have, for the last few years, been very loud in their claims, but are shown by Prof[essor] Poulton ( in a work (now in the press) entitled "Essays on Evolution", to be altogether beside the question inoperative in natural the production of new species. In this he is supported by most many eminent students of Evolution in all parts of the World. My own opinion is that the extravagantgant claims made by the Mutationists and Mendelions for what is a are merely side-issues of in the great problem of heredity, are are entirely without foundation and, to those who are well acquainted with the works of Darwin and the facts of nature, are little less than ridiculous.
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