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By: Sara Seyydin Journal Staff Writer
Cyclists' illegal jumps, riding in undesignated areas pose safety risks, ranger says
Mounds of dirt crafted into berms and trees cut down to fashion jumps are two symptoms of a conflict in the Auburn State Recreation Area. Pedestrians, equestrians and mountain bike riders are often put at odds when cyclists construct illegal skills terrain or ride on undesignated trails. Though these actions are punishable by law, many cyclists feel that the lack of trails available to them gives them no other choice. "If there were more bike riding trails, it wouldn't be a problem for us," said Mike Thompson, manager of Auburn Bike Works. "I still feel like the Auburn cyclists are pretty respectful." Thompson is one of many residents who moved to Auburn for the unmatched mountain bike terrain and rides five to six days a week. Unfortunately, though, he feels there are just not enough trails available to mountain bikers to meet the demand in the region. He advocates that building new trails is the solution. Auburn State Recreation Area officials do not see this as a viable possibility for the time being. They attribute the lack of new trails to budget cuts and say that the illegal trail use poses many problems, some of which are dangerous. According to Scott Liske, park ranger at Auburn State Recreation Area, building jumps changes the natural terrain of land, affecting runoff and erosion. Digging and cutting trees is also damaging to the land. Liske consistently sees a more pressing problem with the undesignated use of trails though. "When bikes ride on trails designated for pedestrians and equestrians, there are line-of-sight issues and they can hit the horse coming around a corner," Liske said. "Usually how we find out about jumps is that someone crashes and we have to go rescue them." In past rescues Liske has seen cyclists, equestrians and horses badly injured because equestrian and pedestrian-only trails are too narrow to accommodate cyclists. He maintains that the vast majority of trail-users in all groups do so legally and safely, but those who disregard the rules often do not realize the risks. Of the 42,000 acres in the recreation area there are many multi-use trails available, however budget cuts have kept these trails from being properly maintained. The Folsom Auburn Trail Riders Association Coalition formed as an advocacy group to address this issue by building and maintaining trails in the foothills. According to long-time association member and Placer County trail advocate Jim Haagen-Smit. the group does not support the illegal use of trails by mountain bikers, but has had a more difficult time seeing trails built since the budget constraints. "The problem definitely suggests a deeper issue that needs to be addressed," Haagen-Smit said. "There are a number of places that have addressed the issue like Fresno for example." Haagen-Smit was referring to the 10-acre Woodward Mountain Bike Skills Progression Park in Fresno, which features riding and tabletops for every level. When the conflict between various trail-user groups escalated, Fresno opted to build this separate facility as a solution. Much of the construction was done on a volunteer basis, therefore lowering costs. Donna Williams, a local equestrian who helped launch parkwatchreport.com, which enables trail users to anonymously report trail misuse, is also in support of separate tracks for mountain bike riders. "Both groups seek single-track trails," Williams said. "We could engender more private stewardship for the parks by having each recreational group maintain their trail and pay for it." With the limited resources available through the current state park system, Williams sees groups taking responsibility for their recreational areas as the best way forward. While her group works to regulate the proper use of trails, she thinks this would be less of a problem if mountain bikers had their own trails and technical parks available to them. Until then, parkwatchreport.com will partner with the recreation area to crack down on mountain bikers and others who do not obey trail regulations. This is one way local equestrians have chosen to steward their trails, but in her 35 years riding trails in the region Williams has seen them contribute even more. Through private efforts they have rebuilt bridges, maintained trails and put up maps to improve recreation in their communities, she said. She said her experience in these ventures makes her confident that although Auburn State Recreation Area officials, mountain bikers, pedestrians and equestrians are often in disagreement the situation is not without hope. "I think we all need to think outside of the box and come together to find solutions." Williams said. -------------- Where to Ride Legally in the Auburn State Recreation Area • Stagecoach Trail: Runs from Russell Road in Auburn to the Old Foresthill Bridge and connects at the west end of the big Foresthill Bridge. • Old Lake Clementine Road: Runs from the Old Foresthill Road Bridge to Lake Clementine Road •The Fire Break Trail: Runs from Lake Clementine to the Auburn Foresthill Road connecting to Culver Trail. • Mammoth Bar to the Confluence Trail • Quarry Road Trail: From Highway 49 to Poverty Bar • Omstead Loop Trail: Starting behind the fire station in Cool on Highway 49 For more information visit www.parks.ca.gov To report illegal use of California State Parks visit www.parkwatchreport.com


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DRIVING FROM LONDON to Calcutta in the 1960s was fairly straightforward. All you needed was a passport spattered with visas, a robust vehicle, and a green loose-leaf carnet de passage, obtainable from the AA in Leicester Square, which exempted your vehicle from import duty. The difficult bit came if you were continuing east after Calcutta. To enter the Indian state of Assam you had to obtain a permit that was rarely granted to self-drive foreigners, while to get from there into strife-torn Nagaland and Manipur required the sanction – and sometimes the firepower – of the Indian army. Then came Burma, the overlander's ne plus ultra. The roads were said to be impassable, Rangoon didn't recognise the AA's carnet, and entry permits from India were unheard of. The only hope of driving down the Malay peninsula into Singapore was to ship your motor from Calcutta to Penang.
Strangely, little has changed in the last fifty years of accelerating globalisation. Negotiating India's still troubled northeastern states, then Upper Burma's indifferent roads and the paranoid travel restr ictions of Rangoon (now Yangon) is as problematic as ever. But it could soon be very different. Burma – southern Asia's 'missing link', according to Thant Myint-U in Where China Meets India – is slated to become the transport nexus of the world's most productive and populous region. Linking China to India, and Bangkok and Singapore to Dhaka and Calcutta, the spokes of this Burma-centred hub will turn the sweltering jungles on the eastern side of the Bay of Bengal into a palm-fringed corniche of transnational highways, high-speed rail links and supertanker terminals. A gas and oil pipeline from the Burmese coast is already weaving its way through the mountainous spine of Southeast Asia to Kunming in China's Yunnan province. The roads and railways are mapped and costed; China, the prime mover, has both the money and the clout. Cruising the Naga hills on a six-lane 'road to Mandalay' may sound a bit far-fetched; but so did a rail link to Lhasa until the Chinese went and built one.
Beijing is in earnest. Its geostrategists favour a 'twooceans policy', one being the Pacific, the other the Indian Ocean. A presence in the latter is thought essential to protect China's economic ascendancy from being throttled by the stoppage of oil shipments from Africa and the Middle East as a result of a hostile blockade of the sea lanes around Singapore: China's President Hu Jintao has called it 'the Malacca Dilemma'. Chinese access to Burma's seaboard will also provide a handy outlet for the products of its rapidly developing Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. To service and protect the new Bay of Bengal sea lanes, a deep-water port, financed by the Chinese, has been constructed at Hambantota, a seaside village in southern Sri Lanka where Leonard Woolf served as a colonial agent in the early twentieth century. The Middle Kingdom, then a casualty of Britain's maritime supremacy, now looks to be emulating it. Myint-U, the American-educated grandson of former UN Secretary-General U Thant, calmly assesses the likely impact of these developments on his native Burma. He delves into the past for some sparse evidence of the Irrawaddy basin having once served as a conduit of commerce and conquest and he travels extensively in southwest China, northeast India and along Burma's own borderlands to explore the challenges facing the promoters of 'the new crossroads of Asia'. Surprisingly he makes little of the physical obstacles: the colossal rainfall, precipitous terrain and seismic instability of the region. Nor does he seem too bothered by the environmental cost of all the new arteries and their potential in terms of mineral, timber and hydro-electric concessions. He is more concerned with the political consequences. In hills with as rich an ethnic ecology as New Guinea, he wonders whether more trade and traffic will foster integration or exacerbate alienation. By one count, northeast India alone is currently plagued by over a hundred insurgent militia groups, most of them up in arms on the grounds of disadvantaged ethnicity. Burma has a similar problem with the various Shan, Karen, Wa and Kachin 'state armies'. Like the production of jade, opium and methamphetamines that finances their operations, the warlords and drug barons thrive in the overgrown, under-administered and uncertainly demarcated declivities along the Salween and Mekong rivers. Even China is careful to appease its ethnic minorities in Yunnan and Guangxi with 'autonomous' status and indulgent treatment. 'Connectivity' may be the buzz word in Delhi, Dhaka, Rangoon and Beijing but on the ground, says Myint-U, 'there is already a connectivity of a different sort, of violence and criminality, which in the future may only g row'. The economic oppor tunities and the improved standards of living promised by the new infrastructure could seduce the insurgents and dissidents, as seems to be the case in authoritarian China, or they could excite them, as in democratic India.
Burma itself is the greatest enigma. In an otherwise confident and enthralling discussion, Myint-U seems uncertain whether recent developments, such as the release from house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi and the deeply flawed elections, represent an easing of the military's dictatorial rule or a bid to constitutionalise it. Either way, he deplores the regime's growing dependence on its
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all-powerful neighbour and regrets that Beijing's indifference to accountable government means that the new roads and railways will come without any strings attached. For this he holds the Western powers responsible. Their thirty-year embargo of trade, aid and investment, though sanctioned by Suu Kyi herself and intended to embarrass the regime, has, he argues, spectacularly misfired, turning 'the missing link' into a lost cause. Outlawing a regime penalises people rather than liberating them. More constructive engagement with Rangoon, like that pursued by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and latterly by India, would have been preferable. One may not agree with this; few in Egypt, for instance,
would regard Washington's support of Mubarak as having sown the seeds for the Arab Spring. On the other hand, one can't help agreeing that being designated the new crossroads of a Sinocentric southern Asia may not do the Burmese any favours. It is telling that the subtitle of the American edition of Where China Meets India is not 'Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia' but 'Burma and the Closing of the Great Asian Frontier'. In the case of a land closed to carnet-waving overlanders for as long as anyone can remember, this can only refer to its rejection of the West's other curiosities: human rights, generous aid packages and responsible government, for instance. To order this book for £16, see LR bookshop on page 12
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SOON AFTER ARRIVING in Harlem in 2002, Shar if a Rhodes-Pitts overheard a conversation between two white men in one of the neighbourhood's smart new cafés. One of the men, like Rhodes-Pitts herself, had recently moved into the area, while his friend seemed to be visiting for the first time. 'This is fabulous,' the visitor enthused. 'Really, you have to do something to get the word out. There need to be more people up here!'
prospectors. Such land must not lie fallow. There needed to be more people up there. On a leaflet stuck to a lamp post on 125th Street, Rhodes-Pitts found the response of one supposed nonperson. 'Attention New Residents of Harlem,' it commanded. 'Please be aware that you are contributing to the active displacement of the historic Harlem community. YES gentrification which is a pretty word for modern day colonization.' Another notice declared that '10,000 Black families have been evicted from Harlem in the last ten years' as a result of landlords cashing in on their buildings or raising rents. Piles of jumbled clothes and furniture dumped on the streets lent credence to the claim. As a Texan who had recently g raduated f rom Harvard, Rhodes-Pitts experienced her own 'pangs of complicity' upon moving to Harlem to research her book. She 'asked a politically minded friend if I was a gentr ifier. He fir mly answered no – because I was bl ack and poor.' Another fr iend 'laughed at the archetypal nar rative of my move north and dubbed me Miss Great Migration 2002'.
For nearly half a century, Harlem was considered offlimits by white Americans, a morass of decay, violence, racial resentment and poverty. The same year that RhodesPitts arrived, I took the subway uptown f rom l ower Manhattan on my first visit to New York and was amazed to see all the other remaining white passengers in my carriage step off at 110th Street, Harlem's southern verge. At that moment, the 'invisible walls' which the psychologist Kenneth B Clark once described as encircling Harlem seemed as thick as ever. Yet change was already afoot. Pushed by the spiralling cost of New York real estate, the adventuresome were beginning to extend the frontiers of white settlement northwards. The faded elegance of brownstone townhouses called out to these pioneers and
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The Boys We Used To Love: Then and Now
Scott Baio, Patrick Dempsey and LL Cool J (pre Grey's Anatomy and NCIS days respectively) were just three of the boys we were innocently (or not so innocently) crushing on the 80s and 90s. There are moments when I casually forget how old I am and then I see one of these former teen heartthrobs playing the father of a teen in a movie and I'm like, "oh, yeah, that's how old."
So I thought, why don't we all take a "that's how old" walk down memory lane to check out some of those heartthrobs and what they look like now. Once I started putting the list together I realized it would take me hours to include just 20 of these guys, so I'm starting with 5. These aren't the top 5 most beloved teen heartthrobs of the 80's, they're not even necessarily the ones I loved the most (and did you see the hair on Uncle Jesse?) but I promise you, a bunch of us – probably you too – thought at least one of these guys was all that back in the 80's and 90's. Maybe you still do. Justin Beiber, eat your heart out…
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[F]or commercial success to be probative evidence of nonobviousness, a nexus must be shown between the claimed invention and the evidence of commercial success.
On June 22, 2012, in Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. v. Cadbury Adams USA LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Newman, Bryson,* Fogel) affirmed the district court's summary judgment that Wrigley did not infringe U.S. Patent No. 5,009,893, and that U.S. Patent No. 6,627,233 was invalid for anticipation and obviousness. The patented technology related to chewing gum that provides a cooling sensation when chewed. The Federal Circuit stated:
For a prior art reference to anticipate a claim, it must disclose all of the limitations of the claim, "arranged or combined in the same way as in the claim." [U.S. Patent No. 5,688,491, the Shahidi prior art reference] envisions using WS-23 and menthol in a single product. While Shahidi discloses a number of different combinations of cooling and flavoring elements, one of them is the combination of menthol, which Shahidi identifies as one of the "most suitable" flavoring agents, with WS-23, which Shahidi identifies along with WS-3 as among a group of three "particularly preferred cooling agents." Based on the disclosure of the combination of those components, we agree with the district court that Shahidi anticipates claim 34.
This is not a case in which the prior art reference merely discloses a genus and the claim at issue recites a species of that genus. In such a case, the issue of anticipation turns on whether the genus was of such a defined and limited class that one of ordinary skill in the art could "at once envisage" each member of the genus. Shahidi specifically discloses WS-23 as a coolant and menthol as a flavoring agent. The question for purposes of anticipation is therefore whether the number of categories and components in Shahidi was so large that the combination of WS-23 and menthol would not be immediately apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art. Shahidi discloses component amounts within the ranges claimed in claim 34. Even more importantly, Shahidi specifically discloses the use of both WS-23 and menthol in chewing gum . . . . Given the objective of the '233 patent, to obtain "a cooling flavor composition that will contribute a long-lasting cooling sensation" and a chewing gum with a "clean, high-quality flavor . . . with a good cooling effect," the Shahidi reference clearly identifies the combination of WS-23, which Shahidi identifies as one of three "particularly preferred" cooling agents, and menthol, which Shahidi identifies as being among the "most suitable" flavoring ingredients. The district court therefore correctly held that Shahidi anticipates claim 34 of the '233 patent.
Wrigley also argues that the district court erred in finding that the combination recited in the '233 patent would have been obvious in light of [U.S. Patent No. 5,698,181 ("Luo") and an article written by Dr. M. A. Parrish]. In particular, Wrigley argues that the combination of WS-23 and menthol resulted in unexpected cooling, beyond what would have been predicted by one of ordinary skill in the art.
Evidence that a combination of known components results in an effect greater than the predicted additive effect of the components can support a finding of nonobviousness. In this case, however, the synergistic effect of combining coolants had already been discovered, as reflected in the prior art. Luo disclosed a "synergy" between menthol and WS-3, when menthol was included in high amounts, and disclosed that the combination produced an "enhanced breath-freshening effect" in which each component played "a vital role." Parrish identified WS-3 and WS-23 as especially favored cooling agents for commercial use from among 1200 tested compounds that induced a cooling effect. Moreover, Parrish pointed to four characteristics shared by the WS-3 and WS-23 molecules that were associated with their physiological cooling effect, suggesting that the two compounds would likely have similar effects when ingested. Therefore, to show that the cooling effect of the combination of WS-23 and menthol was unexpected, Wrigley needed to demonstrate that the results were unexpected to a significant degree beyond what was already known about the effect of combining WS-3 and menthol.
As evidence that the claimed combination produced unexpected results and drove the commercial success of Wrigley's chewing gums, Wrigley points to an internal Cadbury study comparing Wrigley and Cadbury products. That study concluded that the flavor and cooling features of Wrigley's products were superior to those of the Cadbury products with which they were compared. The study noted, however, that besides having a "newer, more advanced cooling system," the tested Wrigley products differed from the comparable Cadbury products in a number of other ways, including having sweetener levels three times higher than Cadbury's products; more encapsulated sweeteners for longer sweetness duration; higher gum base and filler levels that allowed for a more efficient flavor release; and significantly more expensive ingredients. Moreover, the "cooling system" used in Wrigley's products was not simply a combination of menthol and WS-23, as recited in claim 34 of the '233 patent. Instead, as the district court noted, it was a formulation that "contained menthol and WS-23 along with several other ingredients," and the menthol and WS-23 components were present in quantities not specifically identified in claim 34. Therefore, Cadbury's study does not demonstrate that the broadly claimed combination recited in claim 34 results in unexpected cooling beyond the degree that was already predictable based on the prior art.
The same analysis applies to Wrigley's argument that the commercial success of its chewing gum containing menthol and WS-23 shows that the claimed invention was nonobvious. As the district court noted, for commercial success to be probative evidence of nonobviousness, a nexus must be shown between the claimed invention and the evidence of commercial success. In this case, the district court concluded, Wrigley failed to establish such a nexus. Rather, the court observed, in the documents on which Wrigley relies, "many factors were identified as contributing to [Wrigley's commercial] success, including marketing efforts, the way in which the gum was packaged, the amounts of gum base and sweeteners used, and the cooling system used." In sum, the district court found "no evidence of any nexus between the success of Wrigley's chewing gums covered by Claim 34 and the specific combination of menthol and WS-23," and therefore held that "the fact that Wrigley's gums are successful does not alter the obviousness analysis."
For the reasons given by the district court, we agree that Wrigley has not established a sufficient nexus between the invention of claim 34 of the '233 patent and the success in the marketplace of its chewing gum products that contain a combination of menthol and WS-23. Cadbury's internal study of Wrigley's product showed that it differed from Cadbury's comparable product in several ways that could have contributed to the commercial success of Wrigley's gum. Because the evidence does not show that the success of Wrigley's product was directly attributable to combining WS-23, rather than WS-3, with menthol, the district court properly discounted the evidence of commercial success as a secondary consideration rebutting Cadbury's showing that the claimed invention would have been obvious.
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The ultimate mortal kombat collectionSharptap | June 14, 2014 | See all Sharptap's reviews »
This bundle is simply perfect. You get 4 excellent fighting games for the price of one. Mortal Kombat is and will always be one of the most influential games ever and if you havent played them all yet, this bundle is your chance to do it. The graphics of the games on the arkade collection were revolutionary at their time and their gameplay is almost perfect. The Komplete Edition is the most recent mortal kombat game, and the graphics are gorgeous. Both games are incredibly gory and they both present some gruesome fatalities (violent finisher moves) Buy this bundle, you wont regret it!
Worth, but only because of Komplete EditionDemilisz | June 11, 2014 | See all Demilisz's reviews »
This collection is a nice catch, but only thanks to Komplete Edition being part of it. That game is brilliant even with broken netcode that makes online matches a hell. Xray attacks may be hilarious, but are good looking and fatalities are bloody as ever. If you don't own this game already then buy it right away, a good way to kill time waiting for MK X. Now Arcade Kollection are just a hastely made port from consoles that doesn't allow to change control keys inside game, the only way to make it happen is editing a config file. Not to mention it is using hated Games for Windows Live. As a nostalgic journey to the past it is ok, but not too great on the long run. Especially that Mortal Kombat Trilogy is not a part of it. The score is for MK Komplete Edition
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This bundle is simply amazing. It gives you full access to the arcade klassics of Mortal Kombats 1, 2, and 3, and also giving online play, which definitely beat putting quarter after quarter in at the arcade. What it also gives is the complete edition of Mortal Kombat 9 which had great graphics and was very innovative with the new x-ray moves. MK9 also had a storyline for each character that was somewhat more intriguing for some than others, but the fights were also VERY challenging at some points. The online play is also very functional and enjoyable, but now there are a lot of people whose skill will just completely blow you away. A plus side of this bundle is that it also gives the DLC characters that were added, such as Freddy Kreuger. Also, MK9 has the press your luck game mode, which is extremely fun because you spin a slot wheel that will cause a random change in the flow of the game, such as no heads, which also disables all moves the require the head or even no jumping which is a very large change to the game. Overall, I very much enjoyed myself remembering back to when I was younger with the arcade kollection, but I also had a lot of fun with the newer mortal kombat.


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Posted By Moe Beitiks On June 13, 2009 @ 5:00 am In Art,Design | 1 Comment
It's a picture of a tree. Yes. Okay. But this tree has a phone number. If you call this tree it will tell you stories of the neighborhood. It will talk about the Bronx Grand Concourse [2], about itself, even about the local ecology. It will tell stories about the neighborhood. It might even sound proud, after all it has been around a while. Starting June 21st and continuing through the summer, the trees along the Grand Concourse will play host to a virtual Tree Museum [3]. Visitors can call a phone number and get the details on any particular tree by punching in its extension [4]. The audio guides are recollections and fond stories from folks who have grown up with the trees. Each tree has its own story.
Artist Katie Holten [5], commissioned for a project to celebrate the centennial of the Concourse, describes her process for creating the Tree Museum:
In November 2007, I was walking the Concourse almost every day, trying to get a feel for the street and understand how to engage with the place. At 174th Street, where the Concourse crosses over the Cross Bronx Expressway, I suddenly pictured the place as it might have been 100 years ago. So different: no buildings, no sidewalks, no asphalt, and no cars. But there were trees originally—it was built as a tree-lined boulevard for promenading. I saw the trees as a starting point for examining the entire ecosystem.
Holten is now an expert on the Concourse arboreal ecology: the tree museum includes a map of the locations and names of some 100 trees, which together cover some 60 species. These include American Elm [6], Kwanzan Cherry [7], Crab Apple [8], Gingko [9]and White Pine [10]. Events in the tree museum [11] over the summer include haiku walks, drawing workshops, satellite exhibitions and a green roof tour. The museum's website also includes it's own social network [12], where users can create profiles and share their own photos and stories about the trees.
The museum will open with a parade led by group BombaYo [13] from The Bronx Museum of the Arts [14] through Joyce Kilmer Park [15]to the Andrew Freedman Home [16] for a garden party. The project was organized by The Bronx Museum of the Arts [17] and Wave Hill [18] with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation. [19]
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[2] Bronx Grand Concourse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concourse,_Bronx
[3] Tree Museum: http://www.treemuseum.org
[4] get the details on any particular tree by punching in its extension: http://www.treemuseum.org/where.html
[5] Katie Holten: http://www.katieholten.com/
[6] American Elm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Elm
[7] Kwanzan Cherry: http://www.aboutcherrytrees.com/kwanzan_cherry_tree.shtml
[8] Crab Apple: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus
[9] Gingko : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkgo_biloba
[10] White Pine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_White_Pine
[11] Events in the tree museum: http://www.treemuseum.org/what.html
[12] social network: http://treemuseum.ning.com/
[13] BombaYo: http://bombayo.dalowa.com/
[14] The Bronx Museum of the Arts: http://www.bronxmuseum.org
[15] Joyce Kilmer Park : http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/X028/
[16] Andrew Freedman Home: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/23/realestate/streetscapes-andrew-freedman-home-retirement-home-built-for-formerly-wealthy.html
[17] The Bronx Museum of the Arts: http://www.bronxmuseum.org/
[18] Wave Hill: http://www.wavehill.org/home/
[19] NYC Department of Parks and Recreation.: http://www.nycgovparks.org/
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Alberto Gonzales browbeats the critically ill.
It's hard to take any pleasure from the depiction of government officials in critical condition being manipulated in their hospital beds by soulless White House flunkies. But Senate Democrats are all smiles as former Deputy Attorney General James Comey goes before the Senate judiciary committee this morning. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., can barely stop grinning long enough to ask his next question. Because Alberto Gonzales truly is the gift that keeps on giving. Only a handful of reporters are on hand, at what should have been a rerun of Comey's devastating House testimony two weeks ago. But we are treated to Grey's Anatomy meets The West Wing.
And maybe that's why the Democrats finally have reason to grin. They have failed so far to take down Attorney General Alberto Gonzales with tales of the man's hackery, sycophancy, and boundless apathy. But now we're being treated to a graphic retelling of the AG's efforts to browbeat a critically ill man into signing off on the National Security Agency's illegal surveillance program.
Wait. Now even I'm grinning.
Comey is, as ever, calm and honest and balanced. He starts this morning's testimony with the caveat that he will say absolutely nothing about the "classified program" at issue back in March of 2004. He won't even name it. Luckily the New York Times has already done so. We're talking about the NSA's "terrorist surveillance" program, which was secretly authorized by the president after 9/11 and not revealed to the public until 2005. This NSA program required reauthorization every 45 days. It was due for such a reauthorization in spring of 2004, back when John Ashcroft was the attorney general and Comey his deputy (a time that now seems like the Golden Age of freedom and transparency in the law).
Comey prefaces his story by explaining his "hesitation" about telling it. "I have thought a lot over the last three years how I would testify if I were ever asked about this," he says. Then he explains that by spring 2004, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel had conducted an "intensive re-evaluation" of the NSA surveillance program and had determined that DoJ "did not have the ability to certify its legality." Ashcroft and Comey agreed with this assessment that the program as it existed was illegal. Immediately after discussing this with Comey, Ashcroft went into the ICU at George Washington Hospital with acute pancreatitis, and Comey became acting attorney general. We knew the bare outlines of this story already. But oh my goodness, it's a whomping good yarn when it comes from the guy in the armchair next to the hospital bed.
Says Comey today: "Over that week I communicated that as acting attorney general that I would not certify [the program's] legality. The next day, on Wednesday, March 10, 2004, I was headed home. My security detail was driving me." Comey got a call from Ashcroft's chief of staff, who said that although Mrs. Ashcroft had "banned all visitors" from her husband's room in the ICU, where he was in his sixth day, a call had just come to his hospital room indicating that Gonzales, then White House counsel, and Andy Card, then Bush's chief of staff, were on their way. (Comey seemed to recall that the call to Ashcroft came from the president; he says it certainly came from the White House.)
Comey made frantic calls to his own chief of staff and to Robert Mueller, then FBI director, while he raced to the hospital, sirens blasting. He sprinted up the stairs of the hospital to get to Ashcroft's room before Gonzales and Card did.
"I was concerned about how ill he was," Comey explains, afraid "that they were trying to overrule me." He paints a picture of "a darkened room, and Mrs. Ashcroft standing beside the bed." Comey says he "tried to orient" Ashcroft, but that it "wasn't clear I'd succeeded." Comey, a la Harrison Ford, then dialed up Mueller on the phone to make sure he wouldn't be removed from the room. "I sat in an armchair by his bed, and Mrs. Ashcroft stood by the bed holding his arm," he recounts. His bullpen, in case he needed help, included Jack Goldsmith, an assistant attorney general, and Patrick Philbin, an associate deputy attorney general. In the musical version, everyone would be snapping their fingers.
"Within minutes," Gonzales and Card came barreling in, carrying an envelope. Inside was the reauthorization for the surveillance program, which they wanted Ashcroft to sign. Ashcroft raised his wan head from the pillow and clearly said he wouldn't, adding, "I am not the attorney general. That's the attorney general." He pointed to Comey.
Gonzales and Card left. Comey got an urgent call from a "very upset" Card, demanding an immediate meeting at the White House. Comey said he was so upset by what he'd just seen that he wouldn't meet with Card without a witness. He wanted Ted Olson, then solicitor general. (I know, I know, it's like a Brat Pack movie about the DoJ). Card said he didn't know what Comey was so steamed about. He and Gonzales had just "been there to wish [Ashcroft] well."


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So sad! While actress Kim Chiu is having the most difficult time of her life – losing someone she loves the most, her mother, a blind item by a popular entertainment blogger was posted online which is apparently attacking the Ina Kapatid Anak lead star.
On her Twitter account, Kim expressed her disappointment over a blog site which she accused of publishing false stories about her. In her personal account, Chiu stressed:
"I don't get the point on why this blog site always 'MAKE-UP STORIES'??? just for the sake of his followers. #respetonamansana."
She also dares the blogger who loves making blind items on his entertainment blogsit to get his facts straight since he does not know her personally.
"Get your facts straight! you dont know anything,, #respetonamanpo,"
While the actress did not directly mention who she was referring to, a lot of netizens believe Chiu was upset over the recent entry in the gossip blog site FashionPULIS.com.
On Tuesday, FashionPULIS published a letter allegedly from a certain "Micki," who was talking about a young actress who is "supposed to be in mourning for the death of a loved one." Although Micki didn't identify the actress in her "blind item," it is only Chiu who made headlines this week over the passing of her mother Loella Y. Chiu at the age of 50 on Sunday.
The actress is currently in Cebu to attend to the wake of her mom. The blog also seemed to have admitted that the "blind item" was about Chiu when it posted the actress's Twitter posts with the headline, "Tweet Scoop: Kim Chiu Airs Her Side." Meanwhile, Chiu seemed to be trying to remain optimistic amid her mourning. In her official Instagram account, Chiu posted a photo of sunrise with caption:
"LIFE is indeed full of surprises."
Meanwhile, Kim's former BFF Maja Salvador seemed affected to what's happening to her and tweeted:
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If these statements are in defense for Kim's condition, then it's a good starting point for reconciliation between the two.
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(Pinksheets: ARNH) The Automotive Resource Network Holdings Inc.'s CEO, Kathleen Roberton , is pleased to announce that a memorandum of understanding has now been reached with the majority of the non-affiliate debt holders in the Company. The Restructuring and Reorganization of the majority of the debt is now complete. The Automotive Resource Network Holdings Inc. will be retiring the good majority of its debt, held by non-affiliates, to Convertible Preferred E Series Stock. These securities will be the backbone of the S1 registration that ARNH will be aggressively pursuing. Any outstanding non affiliate debt that has not signed off to this agreement, will have to be part of a registration statement with the SEC. Moving forward, ARNH will not issue any further resolutions outside of its existing contractual obligations, to allow its bond holders to convert debt into equity, without a registration statement.
CEO Kathleen Roberton states, "We are following our Three Step Plan. Our first objective was to remove affiliate and non-affiliate debt from the balance sheet. The majority of the affiliate debt was retired for the Convertible Preferred Series E Class shares, and now we have commitments from the majority of the bond holders to retire the principal portion of their debt for the same class of securities. Our agenda, all along, was to bring our debt to equity ratio below 50%, without destroying investor confidence, and we are going to be successful, despite the loss of considerable shareholder value. The upside here is that the Company will no longer sanction any further issuance resolutions for the conversion of debt that is not part of a registration statement. Any remaining non affiliate debt that has not been already issued or converted will be part of the composite registration statement that ARNH will be filing with the SEC."
Kathleen Roberton , further states, "We are committed to filing audited financial statements through a PCAOB auditing firm, and will be going through a Registration Statement with the SEC within this calendar year. We cannot stay on the pink sheets and hope to build value and transparency for our stock holders without being a fully reporting company. We have learned that shareholder value cannot be strengthened when there are repetitive conversions done in the same notes. We have now taken steps to eliminate the repetitive convertibility of aged non affiliate debt, and will forge on with our regulatory requirement to become fully reporting as we look to enhance the value on our balance sheet. There is much more to come in this regard as we look to buy our value, using the Preferred shares as our currency. We will be able to answer shareholder inquiries, more thoroughly, once we have engaged a shareholder communications team to speak for ARNH."
About The Automotive Resource Network Holdings Inc.:
The Automotive Resource Network Holdings, Inc. specializes in offering a month to month vehicle service contracts to cover mechanical breakdown of cars. The industry boasts over 275 Billion dollars in sales each year. The month to month offers the lowest possible monthly payment and is in a position to dominate the market through different vertical markets.
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Introduction to Glycerin
Glycerin, also known as glycerol or glycerine, is a thick liquid with colorless and neuter formula. Glycerin presents a sweet taste and a high boiling point, features which have prompted the substance on top of the highly used ingredients in food industry. When freezing, the colorless liquid turns into a gummy paste. A good solvent, the glycerol can be mixed with water and alcohol. However, oils are not solvable in glycerin.
Present in many of the products available in any local shop, glycerin has varied uses in numerous branches of the industry, starting with food processing and preservation and ending with explosive fabrication.
Uses in Food Industry
Due to its sweet taste, glycerin is largely used in food industry as a sweetener in low carb desserts, like cakes, biscuits, filling chocolate, creams and other similar products. It is also a good humectant, retaining moisture inside the products. This feature combined with its high boiling point recommends glycerin as a perfect preservative for a large number of alimentary products, including energy drinks.
Health Employment of Glycerin
Several health benefits are associated with glycerin use. In tablets, glycerine is used as a tablet holder. Skin problems, such as acne, psoriasis, rashes, burns, cuts, calluses, bites and skin dryness are treated by applying glycerin-based products on the affected areas. Glycerin soaps are also employed for addressing mild to moderate skin problems, including yeast infection and fungal infections.
Cough syrups and remedies are also produced with this product. Taken orally, the substance is also reported to have effects in weight loss diets, preventing body dehydration during physical effort, diarrhea or vomiting and improving physical performance. Intravenous, the substance is used for reducing blood pressure inside the brain in order to alleviate different medical conditions.
Another popular health use is glycerin suppositories, a type of medicine created to address acute constipation in infants, children and adults.
Dental hygiene can be improved too. Therefore, the substance is present in toothpastes and mouthwashes. It has a fast anti-bacterial effect, by easily penetrating the biofilm and killing bacteria colonies. Anti-periodontal products are also rich in glycerine.
Glycerol is also used as a substitute of alcohol in herbal tinctures. Its solvent properties enable people with alcohol sensibility to enjoy the benefits of herbal products without the negative effects of alcohol.
Cosmetic Uses
Glycerin was first used in soap-making, being extremely appreciated for its emollient properties. Nowadays, the range of products containing glycerol has enlarged considerably. Face creams and skin care products, shaving creams, shampoos and hair care products, intimate water-based lubricants and of course, soaps have glycerine as one of their main ingredients.
Other Uses
A by-product of bio-diesel, glycerin (aka glycerol or glycerine) has also made its triumphant entry in the weapon industry. Used to produce nitroglycerin, which is later transformed in dynamite, glycerin plays an important role in explosive production. Other uses include the production of air-dying clay, textile softening and lubricant production. Due to its low freezing point, glycerol is also used as anti-freezer in chemical and biologic laboratories and mixed with water to prevent damages to the organisms stored in freezing conditions.
Glycerin is so popular these days, that many companies named one of their products Glycerin; just like Brooks who named a high end model of their running shoes after this natural product (their up to the 12th edition now: Glycerin 12).
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Without a doubt the most challenging artist of the rock era, the man formerly known as Don Van Vliet still retains an almost biblical dedication amongst the ever-increasing fanbase of "those who get it." You either do or you don't; the good Captain doesn't attract the casuals!
Captain Beefheart: Under Review features rare live and studio performances from this hugely influential and legendary artist, interspersed with contributions from virtually all members of The Magic Band - along with a panel of esteemed experts. John French, Mark Boston, Jeff Moris Tepper, Elliot Ingber, Ira Ingber, Jerry Handley, Doug Moon, Gary Marker, Eric Drew Feldman and Gary Lucas are all here discussing their times spent playing and recording with Beefheart and re-appraising the music they made. Biographer Mike Barnes, author and critic Alan Clayson and Uncut Magazine's Contributing Editor Nigel Williamson all join the team too, offering their own criticism and review to the mix.
The film also features rarely seen promo films, interview footage with Beefheart, TV clips, location shots and a host of other features. Covering his entire musical career and with extra features - including "The Hardest Captain Beefheart Interactive Quiz In The World Ever" and full contributor biographies - this is not simply the only Beefheart DVD on the commercial market, it is also the best ever film about the man and his music yet to emerge.


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When The Stars Align…
Ok all you Star Wars fans, meet Chicago designer, Mr. Justin Van Genderen. His minimalist representations of these intergalactic planets are out of this world!
At the time of the launch of the first Star Wars movie, I was about the age of my three boys. I love the fact that they are completely taken by the imagination and imagery of the films now, just as I was then. Like the planets, our interest and stylistic preference are aligned. A minimalist design expression, and a classic film which we had the unique opportunity to experience through our eyes, as an 11 year old child. Pretty cool stuff.
I often struggle with the boys requests to hang posters in our home that are decidedly not aesthetically pleasing. Let me just say I am more than happy to display these beauties prominently. Really, they are as much for me as they are for them. This artwork is worthy of a proper frame. It can be enjoyed by all.
Take a look at Justin's collection. I believe the Minimalist Planet Posters were introduced in two separate series, but each poster can be purchased individually. I find the color combinations to be complex, the compositions beautifully balanced and the simplicity of presentation stunning.
For information about Justin and his design collection, click HERE to check out his website.
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The winner, Sustainable Island Products, was announced at the SAH Official Launch Celebration on April 3 at the Honolulu Green Drinks, immediately following the 2012 Hawaii Build and Buy Green Conference & Expo.
Founded in 2007, Sustainable Island Products is a full scale and first-to-market distribution business specializing in the sale of planet and people friendly food service and janitorial supplies on both the Big Island & Maui. These products are manufactured from biodegradable and compostable materials, and include cold cups and deli containers, hot cups and soup containers, cutlery, plates, clamshells, tissue wraps, basket liners, napkins, paper towels, toiletries, office paper, and green janitorial supplies. With zero-waste warehousing, carbon offset & clean idle certified vehicles, a comprehensive and completely green product line, living wages for employees, and numerous sponsorships and facilitations of sustainable events in Hawaii, the company has helped set a precedent for social & environmental stewardship by the private sector. The business has embodied the triple-bottom-line since its inception, demonstrating financial viability while adhering to sustainable business practices that benefit the public interests and those of the living environment as a top priority. It produces educational information about green business standards, environmental and recycling news, illustrating the power of business to inform and motivate the public to embrace sustainability. In 2011, Sustainable Island Products also received a Hawaii Green Business Office and Government award from Governor Neil Abercrombie for its commitment to sustainable practices. The company is owned and operated by Jesse Law, who has degrees in green build and a background in sustainability-oriented government policy.
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Pope Julius II
|Other names
|Giuliano della Rovere
|Albisola, Italy
|Pope (1503-1513)
|February 21, 1513 (aged 60)
|Under Article 64.6 of the Covenant of One-Heaven (Pactum De Singularis Caelum) by Special Qualification shall be known as a Saint, with all sins and evil acts they performed forgiven.
|Date of formal Beatification
|Day of Redemption GAIA E1:Y1:A1:S1:M9:D1 also known as [Fri, 21 Dec 2012].
Source of Facts Self Confession and Revelation of Sainthood by the Deceased Spirit as condition of their confirmation as a true Saint.
|Source of Facts
|Self Confession and Revelation of Sainthood by the Deceased Spirit as condition of their confirmation as a true Saint.
Giuliano della Rovere was the son ("nephew") of Cardinal Francesco della Rovere, later Pope Sixtus IV (1471–84). He was educated among the Franciscans by his father and later sent him to a convent in La Pérouse with the purpose of obtaining knowledge of the sciences surrounded by young women.
When his father was elected Pope, Giuliano was made a Cardinal of San Pietro in Vincula at the age of just 18. Later he was granted Archbishop of Avignon allowing him to live in the luxury (and safety) of the Papal Palaces of Avignon.
When his father Pope Sixtus IV died on August 12, 1484, Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere fully expected to follow his father as Pope. However, his fathers wars with the de' Medici, Florence and Ferrara had created very powerful enemies.
But of all the enemies that Cardinal missed it was Cardinal Giovanni Cibo who purchased the Papacy to become Pope Innocent VIII (1484-1492) which he missed. However, through his father Giuliano had succeeded in emptying the Vatican Treasury just prior to his death.
During the reign of Pope Innocent VIII, a rivalry had gradually grown up between himself and Cardinal Rodrigo Borja, son of Pope Callixtus III (1455-1458) as to who held greater title for the next Pope.
When Innocent died in 1492, Cardinal Rodrigo Borja was elected Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503) by means of simony and a secret agreement with Ascanio Sforza.
Della Rovere at once escaped to take refuge from Borja's wrath at Ostia, and in a few months afterwards went to Paris, where he incited Charles VIII of France (1483–98) to undertake the conquest of Naples.
When Pope Alexander VI was successfully murdered by poison in 1503, Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere once again missed out on the Papacy with the compromise election of Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini as Pope Pius III (1503-1503).
However, with the death of Pope Pius III, Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere finally obtained the office of his father and was elected Pope on November 1, 1503.
He fought and intrigued like a worldly prince and was famous for his long and bloody wars. He was constantly in the field leading his army, firmly convinced of the rightness of his frightful battles. He led his Catholic troops into combat dressed in full armour and at one stage was almost captured.
Florentine-born Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), the ablest historian of the time and papal governor of Modena and Reggio, remarked that Julius II had nothing of the priest but the name, writing that he was "...a soldier in a cassock; he drank and swore heavily as he led his troops; he was wilful, coarse, bad-tempered and difficult to manage. He would ride his horse up the Lateran stairs to his papal bedroom and tether it at the door"
He is acknowledged to have had three or five children while he was a cardinal and was confidently accused by the leading nobles of Rome of unnatural vices.
He was not disturbed by a delegation of monks who approached him expressing criticism of the clergy and the morals of his cardinals. He had heard the like before; people for centuries past had complained that popes, cardinals, bishops and priests lived immoral lives, and that popes loved sex, power and wealth more than being Vicars of Christ. The pope advised his secretary to take three mistresses at one time, "in memory of the Holy Trinity", and frankly admitted that he loved the title "Warrior of Rome" applied to him by the populace.
In the summer of 1508, Julius summoned Raphael (1483-1529) to Rome, and around the same time commissioned Michelangelo (1474-1564) to create an array of works for the Vatican. Michelangelo subsequently carved a marble statue of him, and Julius II examined it with a puzzled expression, asking, "What is that under my arm?" "A Bible, your Holiness," replied Michelangelo. "What do I know of Bibles?" roared the Pope; "I am a warlord; give me a sword instead"
Most Evil Crimes
List of most evil crimes Type Year Crime Of regular and institutional sodomy and murder of children : (1503 – 1513) That Pope Julius II did continue the now Catholic clerical tradition of institutionalized homosexuality and sodomy of children, especially young boys. Of sodomy and sexual assault of a child : (1503 – 1513) That Pope Julius II did sexually assault and sodomize Michelangelo as a child prior to his growth into a great artist and his commissions concerning the Vatican Of murder : (1508) Bearn Countless lives are lost during mass witchcraft trials at Bearn, France. Of murder : 1508 Toulouse 40 lives are lost during mass witchcraft trials at Toulouse, France. Of murder : 1509 Luxeuil, France Countless lives are lost during mass witchcraft trials at Luxeuil, France. Of murder : 1510 Brescia, Italy 140 people are burned as witches at Brescia, Italy. Of murder : 1510 Berlin 38 Jews are burned in Berlin after Jew confesses under torture that he had made communion wafer bleed. Of publishing false statement for the purpose of suppressing knowledge : (1512) Church condemns Capernicus theory that Earth revolves around sun.


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|This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project seeks to address is the lack of focused, high quality reading tools that incorporate modern presentation techniques, high quality artwork, and cutting edge technology. These components have been shown to have pronounced positive impact on reading comprehension in students that have autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as well as the greater population. The problem will be attended by creating a tool that goes beyond a single story approach. The project proposes to establish a canvas from which many stories can be created using a structure that incorporates research-based reading strategies and multi-sensory presentation techniques using electronic technologies. Simply stated the basis of modern education is contingent upon reading and comprehension skills therefore it is logical and intuitive that every effort be made toward mastery of this skill set. The outcome of the proposed innovation is a platform that removes technology barriers and encourages high quality development. Utilizing a high resolution 3D graphics rendering engine in focused story presentation broadens the definition of interactive and will allow a deeper immersion in the story, which research suggests is key to using technology to enhance comprehension. In the U.S. there are over 400,000 school-age youth with ASD. Families and educators of ASD students are the target market for the proposed product. There are few powerful reading and comprehension tools on the market and they have prohibitive costs in that they are expensive and require one-on-one teacher interaction. The proposed innovation will be affordable, downloadable, and used by students with minimal adult supervision. The product will broaden the concept of an interactive book by blending reading with video game technology to strengthen the literal and inferred meanings found in stories. This approach will empower the written word and captivate a reader while integrating testing and aiding of comprehension in real time while reading.
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|National Science Foundation
|Fiscal Year Funding
|Current Award Period
|Project Number
|Principal Investigator
|Camacho, John
|Received ARRA Funding?
|Strategic Plan Question
|Question 4: Which Treatments And Interventions Will Help? (Treatments)
|Technology-Based Interventions and Supports
|Strategic Plan Objective
|4O. Not specific to Question 4 objectives
|Federal or Private?
|Echelon Group, Inc.
|Web Link 1
|SBIR Phase I: Electronic reading tool: Story interactive media player (External web link)
|Web Link 2
|SBIR Phase I: Electronic reading tool: Story interactive media player (External web link)
|Web Link 3
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Lincoln women, men lose season openers
Saturday, November 9, 2013
FAYETTE — The Lincoln women's basketball team saw a big second-half rally fall short as the Blue Tigers dropped their season opener 66-65 to Trinity International in the Central Methodist Eagles Classic.
Trinity raced out to a 26-12 lead to start the game and eventually led 32-23 at halftime.
But Lincoln came out of the locker room hot and eventually took its first lead of the game at 39-38 on a bucket by Quiessence Price.
That was the first of eight lead changes in the second half, with the last coming when DeAndra Wright converted a late four-point play to put Trinity up for good at 66-62.
Angela Randall hit a 3-pointer to get Lincoln within one, but the Trojans held on for the win.
Wright ended up pumping in a game-high 21 points for Trinity (2-1), an NAIA school from Deerfield, Ill.
Hunter Yoakum and Randall tied for the Lincoln team high with 13 points apiece, while Price added 10. Randall paced the Blue Tigers with five rebounds.
Trinity shot 52 percent in the win (26-of-50), while Lincoln connected on just 41 percent (23-of-56). Each team had 20 turnovers, while the Trojans had a slim 35-32 edge in rebounds.
The Blue Tigers will return to action in the Classic at 1 p.m. today against Hannibal-LaGrange.
BOLIVAR — This wasn't the kind of start the Lincoln men's basketball team wanted.
The Blue Tigers opened their season against Arkansas Tech in the Southwest Baptist Classic, and the Wonder Boys lived up to their nickname.
They put on a wonderful performance, leading by as many as 37 points before settling for a 99-63 win against the Blue Tigers.
Arkansas Tech shot 52 percent from the field, connecting on 33-of-65 shots, while holding Lincoln to just 32 percent (10-of-31). The Wonder Boys had a whopping 58-35 edge in rebounds.
Arkansas Tech made 28-of-40 free throws (76 percent), while Lincoln made 15-of-23 (67 percent). The teams were whistled for a combined 47 fouls.
Mike Smith dropped in 15 points for Lincoln, while Joshua Buie added 13. Aaron Spudich of the Blue Tigers tied for the game high with seven rebounds.
Lincoln will finish play in the Classic at 5:30 p.m. today against Henderson State.
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ZiT is a music identification system available via the cell phone in Grand Theft Auto IV.
This system allows players to identify any song currently playing on their car radio by dialing 948-555-0100; an automated Message from Lazlow will ask you to let him hear the song. You will then receive a text message providing the name of the song and the artist. If signed up to Rockstar Games Social Club, you'll also receive a (real) e-mail titled New Song From ZiT at Rockstar Games Social Club with the name of the song, artist, give you a link to iTunes and will save the song in a ZiT Player to give you a preview.
ZiT has an advertisement that can be heard in most radio stations in GTA IV.
Announcer: Isn't it annoying when you hear a great song on the radio in Liberty City but the idiot DJ doesn't tell you who it is.
Male voice: Who was that?
Announcer: Find out the artist and the name of any song on the radio using ZiT.
Male voice: ZiT.
Announcer: The remarkable new service. Call us
Second male voice: And we'll tell you what you're listening to based on a complicated listening system that also helps the government spy on you.
Third male voice: Go!
Announcer: Just dial ZIT-555-0100.
Female voice: 948-555-0100.
Announcer: And follow the instructions from our needy, washed-up celebrity.
Second male voice: So simple even a spotty teenager can do it.
Announcer: ZiT. Because we'll spot the record for you.
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Looks like a piece of a Northwest DC-9 fell into somebody's back yard in Wisconsin. There's nothing like a wing flap through the laundry line to make you sit up and take notice.
At least Northwest didn't blame this one on pilot absenteeism ... Actually, to be fair, Northwest has stopped talking smack about its pilots and seem to be looking for a cooperative solution to its staffing problems.
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symptoms for 5.5 weeks pregnant
i am 5.5 wks pregnant, and this is my first pregnancy, i am experiencing constipation, and everytime i lose bowel, there is discharge from vagina, its white thick-creamy formed like cashew nut with pink blood, also i am experiencing lower back pain, are these symptoms common and ok during early pregnancy? please advise
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i had the same discharge in the beging of my pregnancy and they said that it was completly normal. i also experinced lower back pain and very soar breast during the beging of the pregnancy always talk to your doctor but it seems normal to me mother of one going on two:)posted 09/06/2007 by a BabyCenter Member
i had the same problem with my first son he is now almost 5 i had it through my whole pregnancy with him mine was like a brown/pink in color and it was constant be careful straining to go to the bathroom at anytime during your pregnancy though i would recommend colace its a stool softener they recommend during pregnancy and after delivery to keep you from straining i am 31 weeks preggers with #2 and i only had it this time for the first 8 weeks but i have been lucky enough to escape hemmroids thanks to collace and from what i hear they are the worst so straining to go potty especially if this is not constant and only happening when you go but i wouldn't be worried i have done this before myself call your doctor so he can schedule an appt and put your mind at ease-sometimes that can be nice :) if you do not have insurance you can can go to ER and in most states file care assurance if u really want to be looked at or u are concerned but i would say your fine congrats on your pregnancy:)posted 09/19/2007 by nicsmomma02
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at the beging of your pregnancy you lose the outer layer of your uterious so the baby can conct to the wall yes this is normal as you loving that outer layer our body is insink with the baby and at the end you will lose the same kinda stuff but that is at the actual end its callled the core usaually you lose that 24 to 48 hours prior to birth as the baby is crowning and you are diolateing i hope this helps you i am pregnant for the 6th time and feel i know alot hope your enjoying you preganancy its such a presious experience expacially when its your first mom to b winthrop n.y.posted 10/03/2007 by babyradway
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May 5, 2016
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma Secretary of the Environment Miles Tolbert is leaving his post in the governor's cabinet to take a position in the private sector.
Gov. Brad Henry announced the move Tuesday.
Tolbert is an attorney and plans to take over as head of the Crowe and Dunlevy law firm's environmental practice group in September.
Henry praised Tolbert for fighting to protect the environment and the interests of Oklahomans, including the role he played in developing a relocation plan for families in the Tar Creek Superfund site.
Henry named Tolbert to the top environmental post in December 2002. Henry says he expects to name a successor in the weeks to come.
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Until a few months ago, when he declared his candidacy for Knesset, Tibi, 40, was an official adviser to Yasser Arafat. Now he is switching sides.
In the lobby of Tibi's office on Salah a-Din Street in East Jerusalem, a little Palestinian flag sits on top of the bookcase. Taped to the wall is a 1999 Knesset campaign bumper sticker that reads (in Palestinian national colors), "Say yes to Tibi, no to Bibi" -- a prophetic turnaround of the 1996 pro-Netanyahu campaign slogan, "Bibi or Tibi."
Asked how he can profess an MK's loyalty to Israel when he has a Palestinian national flag in his lobby, he crafts a neat comeback, or maybe pulls one out of reserve: "In East Jerusalem, the only flag that should be flying is the Palestinian flag. This is occupied land," he says.
It was the day before Tibi's swearing in as a new member of Knesset. The following day, when he rose from his seat in the Knesset chamber and declared, "I pledge" -- as in, pledge allegiance to the State of Israel -- right-wing MK Michael Kleiner called out, "You pledge allegiance to whom?"
"It's a demonstrated fact that Tibi is loyal to the Palestinian Authority, not to the State of Israel," said Kleiner (who favors making Israeli Arabs pass a loyalty test to keep their citizenship) in the Knesset hallway. "I have nothing against him personally, but his presence in the Knesset makes a joke of Israeli democracy."
After being sworn in, Tibi was asked his reaction to Kleiner's catcall. "Did he say something? I didn't hear it," he said.
Making his entrance to the Knesset lobby, he was swarmed by reporters. Dozens of hands reached out to shake his, to wish him, "Mabruk" -- congratulations. Later, walking toward the MK's cafeteria, his face almost glowed with satisfaction, and even a little wonder.
To the right, Tibi's presence in the Knesset is an outrage. He is the classic "fifth column," his detractors maintain -- who knows what national secrets he'll now be able to funnel to Arafat? Tibi, of course, dismisses such talk as "stupid," saying Arafat knows he's no longer a conduit of information, a go-between, an adviser, or a spin doctor, but strictly an Israeli MK.
Yet the irony of his becoming an Israeli lawmaker after years of working so closely with Arafat only enhances Tibi's appeal as an Israeli public figure. He's not only a politician; he's a top-drawer media celebrity, an Israeli pop culture hero.
He shocks Jewish audiences with his brash Arab politics, giving usually better than he gets from his right-wing opponents on the talk shows, yet comes over with such smoothness and charm, in such flowing Hebrew, with such an easy laugh, and he wraps it all in such classy attire, that while Israeli Jews may be shocked by what they think of as Tibi's radicalism, they can't help but be intrigued by his personality. It's a mixed reaction of alarm and fascination that, in pure "rating" terms, registers sharply as audience approval. Israelis can't take their eyes or ears off him.
Tibi knows it, and he plays it to the hilt. Not only is he constantly being interviewed in the news, on the political talk shows, and on the variety shows that also feature "serious" guests, but he even shows up on the comedy and game shows. He was one of the celebrity guests on "Nine in the Square," the Israeli version of "Hollywood Squares." Another time, he was on the Israeli version of "Candid Camera." Tibi says these appearances are part of his mission to "humanize" Arabs to the Israeli public.
Assessing his impact on Israelis, Tibi says, "I think I familiarized nearly every Israeli family with Arafat and the Palestinians, and I tried to do it in a way that Israelis like to hear, yet without compromising my beliefs. I presented a different kind of Palestinian information campaign to the Israeli public so that even if they didn't agree with me, they had to give considerable thought to what I said."
Hebrew University Professor Yaron Ezrahi, a noted analyst of Israeli politics and society, says Tibi's stature in three different, often conflicting, worlds -- Palestinian, Israeli Arab and Israeli Jewish -- puts him in "a strategic position to discuss the nature of our existence here."
He not only discusses, he embodies the friction and overlap between these different worlds, and is, therefore, a "tremendously intriguing figure," Ezrahi says. Tibi keeps Israelis guessing -- is he Palestinian or Israeli? He made Arafat's case in "beautiful, almost literary Hebrew," Ezrahi notes, presenting Israelis with a package of contradictions.
It was Tibi's first meeting with Arafat in 1984 that ushered him into politics. The meeting was arranged by Raymonda Tawil, now Arafat's mother-in-law and at the time a frequent interlocutor of Israeli peace activists seeking "dialogue" with Palestinians. Tibi, then a gynecologist starting out at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital, recalls that the meeting took place at 2 a.m. in one of Arafat's Tunis apartments. They talked about Israeli government attitudes toward U.N. resolution 242, seen at the time as the key to a breakthrough toward peace.
By now, Tibi says, "when Arafat makes the slightest movement with his head, I know what he's thinking. Nobody in Israel understands him like I do."
On the afternoon he was to be sworn in at the Knesset, Tibi walked the hallway toward the MK's cafeteria. He was looking all around, trying to take everything in. There was a bounce in his step. One got the impression that the air smelled sweet to him.
"If I weren't moved now, I wouldn't be human," he said. "I'm going to have to make a change. I used to be an adviser to the chairman of the Palestinian Authority, and now I'm representing the Arab citizens of Israel in the Knesset. This is all new for me."
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Nar Shaddaa looks huge, unless its a camera trick..
Freeworlds: Tides of War is a fan built Star Wars total conversion mod for Digital Anvil's Freelancer game that was released several years ago. When fans began to make mods for Freelancer, one of the many things people were keen on seeing was a Freelancer mod based on the Star Wars universe developed by George Lucas. Freeworlds and Tides of War were the answer to this outcry. The development team of both mods have now joined forces to create an epic new Star Wars TC, Freeworlds: Tides of War.
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US teen birth rate still far higher than W. Europe
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
The rate of teen births in the U.S. is at its lowest level in almost 70 years. Yet, the sobering context is that the teen pregnancy rate is far lower in many other countries.
The most convincing explanation is that contraceptive use is much higher among teens in most Western European countries.
Last week, U.S. health officials released new government figures for 2009 showing 39 births per 1,000 girls, ages 15 through 19 — the lowest rate since records have been kept on this issue.
That's close to the teen birth rate for Romania, Turkey and Bulgaria in 2007, the latest numbers available from the World Bank, which collects a variety of data gauging international development.
The teen birth rate for Western Europe and a few other countries is dramatically lower. In the United Kingdom it's 24 per 1,000 girls. In traditionally Catholic Ireland, it's 16 and in Italy it's 5. France's rate is 7 per 1,000. Canada's rate is under 13, Sweden's is under 8, Japan's is about 5, and in the Netherlands it's close to 4.
The disparity has existed for decades. Several experts say the reason mostly has to do with more realistic approaches to birth control.
Birth control is less expensive and easier for teens to get in many other developed countries than in the United States. And teachers, parents and physicians tend to be more accepting of teenage sexuality and more likely to encourage use of contraception, said Sarah Brown, chief executive of the Washington, D.C.-based National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
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