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Representative Keith Ellison has a problem (or 2) with money in politics.
In a recent op-ed for the Huffington Post, the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus blames "big money" (aka: corporations and super PACs) for Republican Governor Scott Walker's recall win in Wisconsin. He announced plans to introduce a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United which he claims allows for unfair election funding practices.
"In a state of only six million people, $60 million was poured into the race, $50 million of which went to Governor Walker. And almost half of that was spent by outside groups — most of them not based in the state of Wisconsin," says Ellison in his op-ed.
Back in Minnesota though, Representative Ellison is raising "big money" for his own congressional campaign and it's not all from individual citizens of Minnesota's Fifth District.
According to a recent fundraising letter sent by Ellison's competitor, retired marine Chris Fields, Ellison has raised and spent over one million dollars thus far on the 2012 election, with more than 80% of donations coming from outside Ellison's district. FEC reports show....
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Leonardo DiCaprio, 38 years old, is one of the most popular actors on the planet. With the success of the movie The Great Gatsby in which he plays the main role, I wanted to know what you think about the man? Do you find him sexy? Is he your type of man? Do you find him Hot or Not?
Since the late 90s, DiCaprio has always been on the top 100 list of People Magazine 'Sexiest Man Alive" but never won the tittle. Will he win the 2013 edition?
Let me know what you think? What is it about him that you like or don't?
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very hot, too hot, damn hot.
I know lots of people find him sexy, but somehow I just don't see it.
HOT AS HELL!!!!!!!! My husband to be. 🙂
yes i do very hot n handsome/love 2 do him
I FIND HIM A GOOD ACTOR. i HAVE ENJOYED MOST OF HIS MOVIES. HE IS A GOOD LOOKING MAN, BUT FOR ME, NO SEX APPEAL. POSSIBLY BECAUSE HE DON'T DO TO MANY SCENES WHERE YOU SEE HIS BODY, I DON'T KNOW.
I never let myself develop a crush or have sexual fantasies or longings about straight men. There's no point. And there are plenty of handsome, sexy gay men to go around without making myself crazier than I need to be about someone who is totally, irrevocably unattainable.
He's hot. And deff a team player. Would be hot meet and play with him.
I have never found him hot ,he is a good actor but I personally don't find him hot .
Well hes average looking, but i dont think that he could pass as a gay male because he has to much of a straight male look to him.
Sorry. Not . He looks like he needs to be scrubbed down and the older he gets them more unattractive he gets .
This is a hot guy! Sad he still doesnt have a star in hollywoods sidewalks, long overdue. Id love to see him nude. Nice body. Love when he has facial hair.
HOT AS HELL!!!!!!!! My future husband 🙂
He does nothing for me.
Not . He looks dirty , like he needs to be scrubbed down with some ajax and a Brillo Pad. As he gets older he is increasingly less attractive . Something about him reminds me of an inbred.
Nope, ain't what he used to be. Like a lot of us he has gone by the sexy star that he was.
I think, in his younger years, he was more cute… now, he's still quite handsome, but not 'cute'… makes sense?
I'd still do him. hahahaha
Only in the past few years has he been appealing to me. Before that, he looked too boyish for my tastes.
Very fine lookin man!
Nope sorry. He`s just another guy with a shat house full of money and expensive toys.
Ohhhh…he is SMOKING hot!
Though not my type, he has improved with age, both his acting and looks.
Cute and somewhat HOT in a boyish way.
Hot very hot. always loved him. Best in the old movie"Titanic"
So hot. From his younger days all the way to the present, major hottie
Not, never saw what people saw in him
yes he's hot, but more then just looks he seems to be a well adjusted man with a good head on his shoulders…I like his family values and how loyal he is to his friends … all these qualities make for one very hot man!!!
I love that he is an average looking guy, he is not "ripped" but someone you can relate too, and I find that hot
He can fuck me anytime — as long as my legs are on his shoulders and he's got his tongue in my mouth.
no I don't think he is hot nor sexy at all
hot, from day one, the older he gets the sexier he becomes, I'd sure do him
I think at times he is hot like that pic of him with the smoke in his mouth I like a lot very sexy some of the other pics not so much I would love to see nude pics of him I have heard that he is bi is there any truth to that does anyone know for sure
Hot as hell. He had this weird I between faze but he went back to being hot
I've never thought of him as "hot" or "sexy", but I think he is handsome and talented: One of those "attractive but not my type" kind of guys.
Def hot….especially smooth-shaven when he was younger, not as hot nowadays.
Yes I think he has sexy good looks. I wouldn't mind crawling into bed with him, and more.
Not…he is handsome but not "Hot" . I saw a pic with his shirt off, not at impressive…no "sex appeal".
I'd fuck him.
yess whne was yonger but not now
Definitly not. He has that same dirty quality as johnny depp. Though unlike depp I find dicaprio a terrible actor.
I will be incredibly upset with the american population if he becomes sexiest man. I was super psyched when I heard he was taking a sabatical from acting.
he is super sexy
I find him neither hot nor talented.
not at all hot. I think his head and face are too large. But he is better looking than I am, otherwise I wouldn't judge
I'd fuck him………..but there are much Hotter Men!!!
Attractive, not hot. Not my type.
He has nice eyes
Hot. He's absolutely gorgeous in "Gatsby".
i find him handsome, but i have no desire to have sex with him. i know it's weird, but i wouldn't want to have sex with him.
The older he gets the hotter and sexier he becomes—Many years from now the secret of him being GAY will be in the news
I am superised that so many people have responded so quickly! A really great actor! As a young man not the average good looks and as he gets older not your average guy, Sexually he does not start my engine but could run a long time on his class. He is a real star!!!!
Never did a thing for me…
He is a very hot man
Leo now as a 38 year old, yes I think he is hot. Leo during the Titanic days not so much. I think he will be one of those men who get sexier as he gets older.
Definitely NOT he looks like a petulant child. Plus I've never thought he was a good actor
hot always wanted to do Leo
To me, he has a nice looking face, but it ends there. In the pics I've seen of him showing more of his body, he does nothing for me. I wouldn't kick him out of bed, but I sure wouldn't chase him either. He needs to work on his chest, legs, most everything else.
No, not hot at all to me !
Loved him in "Catch Me If You Can" but that's about it. Never quite saw what others saw in him looks-wise, but that's what that whole "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is all about.
I worked with him back in the days when he wasn't even legal ,he was sure comfortable with me . I should have made a move on him ,but that what happens when your a professional ,
HOT , OH yeah
He's not ugly, but NOT hot. He does nothing for me, but to each their own…
I think he is hot….I would do him….wish I could see the "package" unwrapped…..
Fine actor and cute when he was younger but no, not "hot." Also, hate being this shallow, but he REALLY needs to work out: the shirtless pics that make into People or onto TMZ are NOT pretty.
Like John said, attractive, but not hot to me.
He is an incredible actor first and foremost! He's also got sex appeal and yeah, I'd blow him! Lol
Too much a "boy" or "boi" in the younger days, although the older he gets the better looking he seems to me. I'd say give him 5 more years and he'd be fuckable.
I agree with DSC….I just don't see it. I did like him in Titanic, not so much in The Aviator.
Not hot but I'd still fuck him
Sometimes he looks amazing other time he looks like crap
he is so damn hot I want him so bad
I don't see what people see in him but to each his own.
SUPER HOT!!! Love him <3
Although rumors abound, he's never come out and said he's gay. Therefore throwing him up for "hot or not" consideration is disrespectful. Just as disresptful as straights taunting gays with "fag!" or "queer!". Many gays moan that they don't get the respect they deserve for their sexuality, but then they feel totally free to turn around and rave about how they'd "do him (a straight guy) in a heartbeat and I'd keep it up all night!" Hypocritrical, for sure. It's a perfect example of how many gays shoot themselves in the foot while supposedly fighting their way to acceptance and fighting to break down "unfair" negative stereotypes.
Never have seen the appeal….on the whole, really don't care for him as an actor either.
sexy when he was younger. now at 38 he is a man with good looks great eyes. although not my type. he is a good looking man.
Definitely hot. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if some day he came out as being bi… Would love to spend hours on end playing with him. He's definitely very nice and has had a few interesting roles, including one gay one.
He is VERY average and no way would I consider him hot. Would I look at him naked, sure. I've liked many of his movies but sexy and hot – not!
Sadly NO, I have NEVER found Leo attractive. I think he is a good Actor but have NEVER seen his him as handsome, or as the leading man. He's like a character actor for me. Like James Cagney or Bill Pullman for me.I think as he gets older he will get more seasoned and have a multitude of characters to play in various films but he just doesn't give me "Matinee Idol" essence. Sorryboutit.com, just my opinion
BTW-I don't know what Leo's sexual orientation is but in the late 90's he did suggest to a male friend of mine that they go into a private restroom in the Viper room in West Hollywood on Sunset blvd. There was only one toilet in there so I'm not certain why he would have invited my friend in with him. My friend was star-struck by embarrassed/flattered by Leo's suggestion, but after considering the option(my friend is Gay, but a little prudy about wash room sex)decided to wait in the bathroom line and use the facility solo…P.S. There was a rumor floating around tinsel town that Leo is a cross dresser but I haven't heard enough first hand knowledge to support that theory.
I think he's actually one of the better actors out there, but he doesn't do anything for me in the looks department (not that he's not classically attractive, just doesn't do it for me).
Hunter0500 – It's in no way "disrepectful" to appreciate the beauty of a straight man. Is one only allowed to find attractive those who reciprocate that attraction. Is it disrepectful for a straight man who let's just say looks no where close to Brad Pitt to think Angelina Jolie is hot, despite the fact that she would most likely not be attracted back to him? Of course not!
I don't feel "disrepected" when women find me attractive (though I'll admit there was a bit of discomfort mixed with my amusement when a young lady whistled at me in Walmart). The idea that saying a straight man is attractive or not somehow disrespects his sexuality is asinine. Attraction reflects on the sexuality of the attracted, not the attractor.
To Sick Rick, Some inbred's I've seen have very wide foreheads and faces and he has very little jawline now . I wi;; say this He is a great actor .. If yo9u havent seen Whats eating Gilbert Grape you need to … I thought "how did they get that retarded kid to do all this stuff he was so believable …
"Is it disrepectful for a straight man who let's just say looks no where close to Brad Pitt to think Angelina Jolie is hot…"
That's so not even close. You're talking heteros. There's no comparison whatsoever.
We're not talking "gee, he's nice looking." The question here is "hot or not?" and is therefore asking if the guy is "jumpable". For a gay guy to get all drooling over and wanting to jump a straight guy totally disrespects the straight guy's sexualtiy.
Respect for sexualtiy is a two way street. If gays won't give resepct for others' sexualtiy, they cannot demand respect for their own.
I think he is part of that young hollywood crowd that is pretty but has the talent of carpet fuzz.
he played the hyperactive and retarded younger brother in "what's eating gilbert grape". i never got over that roll…in deed, i still see him that way. a goofy, string bean,out of control kind of a kid.
Not handsome,not Hot!! He is an OK actor but he has that pasty,doughy face and he is not going to age well.I never got the urge to want to fuck him.
Not hot
He keeps getting better with age. So yeah I think he is hot.
"That's so not even close. You're talking heteros. There's no comparison whatsoever."
I don't think gay and straight people are as different as you've been led to believe. There's no difference between being appreciated by a man you don't find attractive and a woman you don't find attractive (regardless of whether you are gay or straight).
To say it's ok for a straight guys appearance to appreciated by a woman he doesn't find attractive, but it's horrible for it to be appreciated by a man he doesn't find attractive is ludicrous, illogical and reeks of internalized homophobia.
Putting moves on a known straight guy? Absolutely disrespectful. Being attracted to a straight guy? Not a damn thing wrong with that.
he WAS a bit hot back in Titanic days, but not anymore…Just gross!
OMG I would so molest that man!!! He is so friggin hot!!!
Leo's the shit. Hot doesn't describe that very talented man.
As I find him handsome and when he was younger cute he's definitely not my type but he is f****** hot because he's an awesome actor What's Eating Gilbert Grape when he was just a young kid that's a great performance Basketball Diaries damn he can act he is handsome and he keeps it cool behind paparazzi Kudos 2 DiCaprio he's a fine actor and hansome dude
Not. He's got those weird folded-over eyelids like an Asian even though he's white. Plus, he got bloated over the past decade. A little diet and exercise would fix that right up!
I bet you the majority of guys who think he's hot are Middle Eastern or Latino. They prefer blonde over anything else.
Slanted eyes, bloated face = NO!
Never found him that sexy… cute but I like men that are men and not on the boyish look side… don't think he is aging well, Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, Sean Connery, George Clooney,now these are leading hot men Love the hairy chested men!!!
To respond to the question, in my sole opinion, he is both hot and extremely talented. As he matures, both his looks and talent grow exponentially. What I find interesting is the other comments people are writing. Attractiveness is the judgment of the one attracted. When I think of the years I spent in the closet and then read some of this dribble, I am reminded of why I did not want to be judged in a group that can be so damn "pissy". Now I am older and more matured. I hope that those who judge me are not judging the entire group who share my sexual desires. DiCaprio is a hot man and most importantly has gave more money than nearly all of us on here combined will ever make, to assure that trivial matters such as oppression, the health of the planet and his fellow man will be better off than when he elected to get involved. For those things alone, he is, in my humble opinion, a great man.
HELL NO! DiCRAPio should just fade into the background. BTW, how many of us stood up, cheered, & clapped when he died in "Titanic"?


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Hello, I'm Katya from Bulgaria and the question is what are the main political parties in your country?
Well, it's very bad for us because we have many parties and we have many new parties coming up but the main political parties are the Democracy one and the Communist one and then we still have one that is the Green Party but right now it's actually the Green Party is ruling the country but it's more of being in alliance with the Democratic Party because the country is a democratic republic so basically that's it. But we still have a lot of influence from Communism because we were a Communist country before so it's really hard to take these parties away from the Parliament.
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Even in today's age of advanced medical technology, not very many of us will live to see a full century. Turning 100 is a grand feat, and here in Denver and across Colorado, we have a way of honoring those who have become Centenarians. If you know someone who is nearing their 100th birthday, you can help make sure they receive this honor by filling out and mailing this request form (link: http://www.seniorsresourceguide.com/directories/Denver/pdf/colorado_centenarian_project_2014.pdf).
How does one live to be 100?
Much of it has to do with genetics. Other than what we can't help, we can do our best to try to live as long as we can by living healthfully. Many of those who even just live into their 90s seem to have a certain pattern to the way they lived their lives. Many of them worked long hours since they were very young, and didn't do much sitting until it was dinner time.
They ate more naturally since they were very young, without much of the hormones we consume in foods these days. No dyes, extra salt and sugar or processed foods. Garden fresh veggies and meats that lived on the farm without all the extra stuff, and whole grains were the staples in their diets. Even if they did indulge in candy or soda, or something very salty, it wasn't very often, and the amount of physical activity they got since they were young made up for it.
Even tobacco used to be healthier back then than it is today! It used to be more pure, with less chemicals, and wasn't as life threatening, even if the cigarettes they smoked were unfiltered. It's true that even the things that were unhealthy weren't as unhealthy as they are now.
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Edition: Vol. 04, No. 09
Edition date: September 14, 2011
Mandatory closure - Friday, September 16, 2011
September 20 - Brown Bag Lunch Series Part 1:
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September 6: 2011 Elevator Code Committee
September 7: Mechanical Board
September 8: Boiler Minor Repair Rule Committee
September 13: Board of Boiler Rules- Rescheduled
September 19: Rulemaking Hearings
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September 22: Electrical and Elevator Board
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On Sept. 1, 2011, BCD's ePermitting Program received a Digital Government Achievement Award from the Center for Digital Government. The Digital Government Achievement Awards recognize outstanding agency websites and applications nationwide.
The ePermitting program was recognized in the government-to-business category for delivery of building program services through the Internet.
"The goal of every government website is to provide online services and information to constituents," said Cathilea Robinett, executive director of the Center for Digital Government. "However, this year's winners have taken the power of the Web to the next level – combining clear communication, design aesthetic, and easy navigation. Their foresight and leadership is creating unforeseen opportunities in government-to-citizen interaction and positioning the portal as a critical piece of public service delivery. The center thanks them for their continuing innovation and congratulates them on their achievements!"
"We are honored to receive this award which gives strength to our continued effort to provide a single statewide portal for our customers that allows access to permitting 24/7 from anywhere the Web is available." said Pat Allen, BCD administrator.
The Center for Digital Government is a research and advisory institute that provides information about technology policies and best practices in state and local government.
For more information on the ePermitting program, please contact Lori Graham at 503-373-7755 or at email@example.com.
BCD is updating our list of earthquake, flood, and windstorm inspectors. In the upcoming weeks, we will be asking for your contact information if you are current with the ATC 20 training or the ATC 20/45 training. It is essential that we have your current contact information to ensure that we will be able to respond appropriately in case of a statewide emergency or natural disaster. After we update our list, we will make it available to all building officials.
BCD is in the process of developing legislative training for inspectors, plans examiners, and building officials on bills passed during the 2011 Oregon legislative session. BCD is creating a free online course and webinar that will be available from the main website starting in late October. Similar to 2009, the online course will include summaries of new legislation and questions relating to these summaries.
Certified individuals who attended the Oregon Building Officials Association class at its annual meeting in Bend, July 20 through 22 were given credit for that class and do not have to take the course.
Inspectors, plans examiners, and building officials are required to take this legislative training (law change) course as part of their continuing education requirements as specified in OAR 918-098-1450. The online class will be accessible from BCD's website for up to a year.
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As participants of the Specialized Solar Inspection course gear up to take their certification exams, the division is getting ready for the second round of HB 3462 training. Plumbing Chief Terry Swisher wrapped up the final two-day live Specialized Plumbing session in Salem late last month. The division is working to incorporate feedback on the first series of the HB 3462 trainings before finalizing the second series. Beginning Sept. 26, the division will be offering another Specialized Plumbing Inspector course and a Specialized Electrical Inspector course. There is still room available in both courses.
The Specialized Inspector courses focus on the training that current residential inspectors need to expand to certain simple commercial inspections. The courses are offered through Chemeketa Community College's online learning system. With the exception of a two-day live component, they are self-paced courses that inspectors can access 24/7. If you are interested, contact Aeron Teverbaugh at email@example.com or Tiffani Alexander at email@example.com for more information or an application.
Have you ever reviewed a set of plans for a warehouse and wondered how to apply the emergency power illumination requirements of Chapter 10 of the Oregon Structural Specialty Code? In partnership with our industry partners, BCD recently developed a statewide interpretation that answers several common questions and provides a code analysis of how to apply the emergency illumination requirements in these spaces.
The Emergency Power Illumination in Warehouse Applications interpretation and other statewide interpretations can be found on BCD's Commercial Structures Interps page.
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Going green is as much about creative problem solving as it is about new technology. According to a recent article, a Forest Grove hazelnut farmer replaced his propane-guzzling hazelnut dryer with an energy-efficient boiler fueled by hazelnut shells – a readily available biomass fuel. The shells are now an energy source, instead of being a waste product that he had to pay to dispose of.
Kudos to BCD Boiler Inspector Mario Ramirez for suggesting an extra vent to make the system unpressurized. The double venting that he helped design will make the boiler safe to operate without the need for, and cost of, annual inspections.
Generating heat using locally available biomass has benefits ranging from reduced
energy costs to fostering energy independence. Beyond farm biomass opportunities
like hazelnut-shell-fueled boilers, the state's forestry sector produces more
than 500,000 tons of forest biomass each year. In fact, Oregon has been dubbed the
"Saudi Arabia of biomass." The continued increase in oil cost and the
Oregon Boiler Board's decision in 2009 to allow high-performance boilers and
pressure vessels built to internationally recognized standards to be installed, should
help the state take full advantage of the biomass potential and create plenty of
opportunity for creative problem solving.
The 1% Training program is going strong, sponsoring classes on the 2011 Oregon Residential
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code change classes on the Oregon Plumbing Specialty Code (OPSC) will be available.
There is currently a specialized class on wall bracing and in a couple of months
there should be a specialized class on wet venting. Most of these courses can be
found on BCD's online calendar.
The Brown Bag Lunch online presentations will continue with a series on the new
Oregon Reach Code. The first of this two-part presentation given by Mark Heizer is
scheduled for noon Tuesday, Sept. 20. The one-hour presentation will begin with background
information on the International Green Construction Code (IgCC). This session will
include a look at the code structure and how the electives fit into the use of the
code. The presentation will feature a general overview of the permitting process
for a Reach Code project, including what to submit, who should be involved, and the
plan review and construction inspection process by issuing a Certificate of Occupancy.
The second part of this presentation will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at noon.
This one-hour session will include a more in-depth overview of the core sections
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Energy Conservation. You can register online
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The 2010 Oregon Energy Efficiency Specialty Code will be available online at Chemeketa
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What started out as a ride to the store and help with her groceries turned into a robbery after an Oak Hill woman's helper snatched her purse and fled, deputies say.
Deborah Pohl, 57, asked her friend, Bill McGinnis, if he could give her a ride to the local food bank on Tuesday, according to a Volusia County sheriff's report. McGinnis asked his friend John White, 40, if he and his wife, Kimberly White, 48, could give Pohl a ride.
Pohl said the couple picked her up, drove her to the store and then drove to her home on Flamingo Road in Oak Hill, according to the report. John White offered to carry her groceries to the door, but while Pohl was trying to unlock the door, White grabbed her purse and fled.
McGinnis, 31, who was in the car with the couple, said he didn't know White was going to rob Pohl and throw her purse out of the car window after taking $20 out of it, according to the report. Pohl and McGinnis both identified White in separate photo lineups.
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The Green Wave (4-1) remained perfect at home during the young dual match season with the win. Tulane also earned the fourth doubles point of the spring campaign as well with wins on courts one and three over Nicholls State (1-3).
After gaining the momentum in doubles, Tulane came out in singles and took care of the Colonels by winning on five courts in straight sets. Sophomore Dominik Koepfer secured the team victory by earning the fourth point of the match with a 6-2, 6-5, win over Partha Adavelly on court one. Koepfer remained perfect this spring with the win, while twins Ian and Alex Van Cott also improved their perfect singles marks with victories on courts five and six, respectively.
Ian defeated Bernard Wezeman, 6-1, 6-4, while Alex got past Evan Karatzas, 6-4, 6-4. Tulane also received points from freshmen Sebastian Rey and Jao Chi-Shan. Rey collected a 6-3, 6-2, win over Nico Mertens on court two, while Chi-Shan recorded a 6-3, 6-4, victory over Sam Meessen on court four.
"Nicholls State has one of the best teams they've had since I've been here and they came out of the gates fast on us," Tulane head coach Mark Booras said. "I like how we kept our heads, even being down in the doubles point to come back and win it. It was a great job up and down the lineup to get a good team win today."
The doubles point was won with the duos of Koepfer and Chi-Shan and Ian Van Cott and Takuma Ohashi coming away with wins. Koepfer and Chi-Shan won, 6-2, on court one, while Ian Van Cott and Ohashi battled to a 6-5 victory on court three.
Tulane will return to action on Sunday when they host North Florida at the City Park Pepsi Tennis Center at 1 p.m. CT.
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There was minimal time to operate the equipment after the crew took the necessary time for maintenance of station housekeeping and environmental control systems.
The experiments themselves showed good results and especially the value of reconnaissance of the same location in many different spectral bands and parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Therefore the program was not cancelled, but to be followed by the Almaz-T system, which was to be a multi-satellite multi-spectral system for sustained reconnaissance.
As a counterpoint to the American Lacrosse satellite, this version of Almaz had an enormous S-Band synthetic aperture radar which returned images of 10 to 15 meter resolution. The first such Almaz-T was to be launched in 1981. However, an order arrived from Moscow ten days prior to the launch - terminate the Almaz Program as a result of work on Buran. Ustinov had decided to deal the finishing blow to Chelomei. All work on Almaz was suspended by a decree of the Central Committee issued on 19 December 1981.
Only after the deaths of Chelomei and Ustinov (they died the same year two weeks apart) did new Chief Designer Gerbert Yefremov manage to convince Minister of Defense Sokolov that the program needed to be continued. They authorized him to prepare for launch the station that had collected dust for six years at the Baikonur test range.
The VPK Military-Industrial Commission's resolution 126 of 12 April 1986 revived the Almaz program. To the designers' surprise, the Almaz was in decent condition (in contrast to its fairing, which had been used as a toilet). It had only been saved by its external placards - 'Warning - Don't Enter - Self-Destruct Charges on Board'. This much-suffering Almaz was launched on November 29, 1986. But the second stage did not separate for the first time in many years and the same self-destruct charges destroyed the Almaz.
The next Almaz-T was erected on the launch pad on June 25, 1987. The Proton launch vehicle normally cannot be kept fueled, on hold, for more than four days. An order once again arrived at Baikonur - delay the launch and remove the rocket from the launch pad. The order was ignored, with extraordinary measures being taken to keep the station inside the shroud at normal temperatures despite hot summer days of 42 degrees C. Minister of General Machine Building Baklanov was at Baikonur, and he finally agreed to allow launch of the spacecraft. It received the name Cosmos 1870 and provided radar imagery to scientific and commercial customers for two years. The satellite had a sideward-looking radar with a ground resolution of 20 to 25 m, coupled to a high-resolution television system. The satellite functioned from 25 July 1987 to 30 July 1989.
A second Almaz-T was flown in 1991 as Almaz-1. The satellite had an improved radar resolution of 10-12 m, with data streamed directly to users via transponder satellites. This spacecraft was instrumental in the rescue of an expedition lost on the ice of Antarctica aboard the ship Mikhail Somov. No other sensor could locate the ship in the perpetual polar night.
In 1992, the Machine Building NPO began to develop a new Almaz-T, with three radars and an optical telescope. But financing was not forthcoming.
Habitable Volume: 90.00 m3.
AKA: Almaz-K; 11F668; Mech-K.
Gross mass: 18,500 kg (40,700 lb).
Thrust: 7.84 kN (1,763 lbf).
Specific impulse: 291 s.
First Launch: 1986.11.29.
Last Launch: 1991.03.31.
Number: 3 .


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Geraldine Brooks on How Harvard Inspired Her New Novel
The Australian-born Geraldine Brooks was for many years a journalist and foreign correspondent before she took the leap into novel-writing. In 2006, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, "March." Her new book, "Caleb's Crossing" (Viking), takes its inspiration from the true story of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard in 1665. Speakeasy caught up with Ms. Brooks on the day of her book's release.
The Wall Street Journal: How did you decide to write about Caleb's life? When did you first hear of him?
Geraldine Brooks: It came about from trips to the vineyard before we moved there full-time. I was really intrigued to learn of the uninterrupted Wampanoag community, which is a very big part of the society there. I wanted to know more about it. I got a map from the tribe, and it showed all the sites of significance. On it was marked Caleb's date of graduation from Harvard – I thought it said 1965 and I thought, how interesting, I wonder if he's still alive. I realized I misread it and it said 1665 and it just blew my mind. As somebody who didn't grow up here, it hadn't even occurred to me that Harvard existed in 1665, much less as a place that educated Indian youth, along with these sons of the Puritan elite. My imagination was fired and I wanted to know how it came about that this young man that was from the first-contact generation on the island came to be identified as a scholar, how he became fluent in Latin (the qualification for matriculation) and what it would have been like to cross between different cultures.
I started to research it in a desultory way. Then when I had a fellowship at Radcliffe at Harvard, I really scoured the archives to see what was there. Sadly, there's very little. The paper trail is extremely scanty on this young man and 17th century Harvard. There's just not a lot of documents that came down to us that shed much light on it. I talked to people in the tribe and got the bare facts of his life. But what it was like to be him and all the connective tissue of how it came to be is lost to recorded history. For a historical novelist, that's a good thing. It gives you the space you need to let your imagination work.
What's a catastrophe for a narrative historian, is a feast for a novelist. When the facts run out, that's when you can allow yourself to hear the voices in your imagination.
So, how did you tackle the extraordinary amount of research?
I started from the Harvard end of things. What was 17th century Harvard, the atmosphere that this young man found himself in. I was there at a very lucky time, they had commenced an archeological dig in Harvard Yard, locating the Indian College. Nobody had known where it had actually been. Talking to the archeologist, they were able to tell me about 17th century Harvard. What was there was pretty smelly, muddy.
And we went to live on Martha's Vineyard full-time in 2006. I delved into the island history. I'd always wondered what would impel English settlers to come to the island in 1641 when there was plenty of land to steal in the mainland. This is really, really early days. I learned that original settling families wanted to get out from under the thumb of the Massachusetts Bay Colony – they were intolerant and cruel. So this small group set off for the island and it was hard. The English settler life was very hard too. They found themselves just a handful of families on an island with maybe 3000 Wampanoag who had been living there successfully for thousands of years. That idea of contact was always intriguing.
It was a very difficult place to eke an existence if you were English. All the English writings describe this first contact period of healthy, robust, well-fed people who learned to live with the seasons. The English were quite impressed by that and had a lot to say about it. They were just so struck by how tall and good-looking these people were. The English had a really poor diet, they had been through the rigors of migration.
Were details such as the language or religion particularly difficult to re-imagine?
The Wampanoag Reclamation Project, which is a whole story in itself, has got to a point where there are a number of tribe members fluent in this language that wasn't spoken for six generations. The tribe has its first Native speaker, a child born to two people who now speak the language. There are websites where you can hear the language spoken, which is magical. When the Wampanoag have ceremonial events open to the public, you can hear it, and it puts shivers down your spine, to put this language back in its place where it was missing for so long.
The religion was a dark hole in the record. The Puritans were so afraid of anything outside their own belief system. They'd be writing away about an evening in the wetus — the bark houses — the details of what they ate and talked about, but then write, "later that evening a ceremony took place where I turned my face away so as not to be contaminated." When it comes to religion, they don't write about it because they were afraid.
I didn't think it was my place to make up religious ceremonies. It's vague. What there is I got from tribal members who were prepared to share their understanding, and from some French Jesuit sources, who had worked with Algonquin tribes. The Wampanoag were part of the Algonquin nation. I didn't want to press that too far because it's an area where we have no idea.
You mention in the afterword that you were frustrated by the racism toward Native Americans that you found in certain writings.
That particularly comes up in this correspondence with Harvard trying to extract money from donors in London. They want to make it sound like they're working hard. In the portrayal of descriptions of these scholars – who had been to the test prep schools, who were highly educated – they're always kind of dismissive. This is more the historians of later time. They had to explain the Indian college didn't last as an undertaking, and when historians of early Harvard from the 19th century write about it, the racism just is appalling, just drips off their pen. They didn't want to look at the hard evidence that these guys were accepted as members of the society of educated men. They make all kinds of excuses of they were just token, just there to get money. It's frustrating to read the later writings.
At the [actual] time, the writings show admiration and respect for these students. Even John Winthrop, who's no great friend of the Indians, writes about how impressive they were in Latin in Greek. I think it speaks to the fact that the time I'm writing about was the time when America could have had an alternate history. Towards the end of the 17th century you have King Phillip's history, and that embitters everyone and there's no more talk of joint undertaking of education. The history goes in the direction of dispossession, violence. There was this time when it might have gone a different way. That's one of the things that really drew me to the story.
I think we always look at history backwards, rather than forwards from the point of view of people living at Harvard at the same time as Caleb and Joel. There was still potential that these two peoples could live together in harmony and some sense of sharing the land.
What struck me was the empathy your narrator, Bethia, felt for the Wampanoag. Was this more fictional or historical?
Bethia is completely made up. To get her, I had to try and find voices of 17th century colonial girls and women. It's slim pickings because in general women weren't encouraged to learn to write, that was deemed men's work. They were encouraged to read, to read the Bible. Also, they had very little paper, and they didn't have any time because they worked so hard. There just aren't any diaries whatsoever before 1700, and not many letters.
But from the writings, part of Vineyarders and John Eliot [a missionary to the American Indians], you do get this admiration that they have an intense interest and sympathy, at war with their strong religious belief that said these people had to be saved. It wasn't evangelical in the way we understand it today. Their view was only those God has selected will be saved and it's not for us to know. They'd be banging on about how cleverly the Indians had managed their farming practices and how they moved around with the seasons, and then of course they're abandoned and Godless, we have to save them. I tried to sort of capture that in Bethia's mindset. As she gets to know Caleb more, to sow a few seeds of doubt in her mind, about whether their way is all it's cracked up to be.
Through Bethia, you also raise many ideas about feminism. Was there evidence of this type of thought back then?
People always seem to think it's only women of our own generation who ever raised these questions. You will find women — particularly in court, and in the case of the Puritans, in church, when people documented what was said — there to defend behaviors outside the norm. There were always women pushing the boundaries of their gender. It's an egotism we have as contemporary feminists to think we were the first ones to have this idea. You didn't have to be a rocket scientist to realize you weren't getting a fair shake. Plenty of women realized that and acted accordingly and paid a high price for it.
The idea of girls stealing their education I got from when I was in the Middle East. One girl wasn't allowed to go to school in Afghanistan, so she used to sit on the roof of her house and overhear her brother's lesson in his Madrassa. At the end of the day she would help him with his homework, because she paid more attention.
Why did you choose to frame the novel as a diary?
I like to write in the first person, and because of this lack of a diary from that time, I wished so badly that there was one that I decided to make it one.
Was the publication of this novel timed to coincide with the graduation this year of Tiffany Smalley at Harvard?
That was just an extremely happy coincidence. In recent years, two members of the Wampanoag got graduate degrees from Harvard. But Tiffany's the first to do the four-year undergraduate degree since Caleb. She's graduating this May and it's a wonderful way to close the circle. She's such an impressive young woman, when she first came to Harvard, she worked on the dig and she could see the dig from her dorm room. Her sense of Caleb I think enhanced her experience.
You've written non-fiction and historical fiction. Can you speak to the differences?
I did two books of non-fiction before dipping into fiction writing. The first was journalistic, the second was a hybrid of genres. And then taking the leap into fiction, I'm drawn to these stories of the past. There's a sense of let's follow a line of fact as far as it leads. When you're a journalist, when the fact runs out, you have to stop. That can be frustrating. You had a feeling and some evidence, but you couldn't really nail it. That's frustrating when you can't absolutely nail it.
In historical fiction, I love to follow the line of fact as far as I can, in fact I love to add a grain of knowledge to the sand pit, that's very satisfying. But then you run out of facts, you get up on the high diving board and you dive into informed, imaginative empathy, and that's the most fun, and exhilarating — not to stop.


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ST. LOUIS -- Sunday's game between the St. Louis Rams and Jacksonville Jaguars has plenty of intriguing matchups. Here are three to keep an eye on when the teams kick it off at 1 p.m. ET at the Edward Jones Dome.
Rams cornerback Janoris Jenkins versus Jacksonville receiver Justin Blackmon
When Blackmon entered the league out of Oklahoma State, the Rams eyed him closely, even sending a contingent to Stillwater to work him out. The Jaguars ended up pulling off a draft day trade to leapfrog the Rams and grab Blackmon before he could make it to St. Louis.
On Sunday, Blackmon will get a chance to play in the Edward Jones Dome. Coming off a four-game suspension, Blackmon doesn't represent the threat that players like Dez Bryant, Julio Jones and Larry Fitzgerald have in the first four weeks for the Rams secondary.
Still, Blackmon is a dangerous threat and gives Jacksonville quarterback Blaine Gabbert an option in the pass game capable of breaking a big play at any moment.
"He's very explosive," Rams coach Jeff Fisher said. "We're expecting the best out of him even though he's not been on the practice field up until this week. It's certain that he's in real good shape, so we don't necessarily know how they're going to use him. We're going to have to adjust."
Jenkins has played better than he's been credited for in recent weeks but has had his share of miscues as well, including some fringe pass interference calls going against him. He's entirely capable of covering Blackmon but the Rams have been reluctant to shadow any wideout with one defender.
We'll see how the Rams approach Blackmon and his running mate Cecil Shorts but it may serve them well to have Jenkins in Blackmon's hip pocket more often than not.
Rams defensive end Robert Quinn versus Jacksonville left tackle Luke Joeckel
This is Joeckel's first week back at his natural spot on the left side after the Jaguars traded Eugene Monroe to Baltimore for a pair of draft picks. Presumably, Joeckel should be more comfortable in his more familiar spot.
However, Joeckel doesn't exactly draw an easy assignment in having to deal with Quinn. Through four weeks, Quinn has five sacks and ranks among the most productive pass-rushers in the league.
Gabbert has taken 10 sacks in his two starts and the reshuffling of the line along with the subtraction of Monroe might make things particularly difficult on Joeckel in his first start on the left side.
Rams defensive end Chris Long versus Jacksonville right tackle Austin Pasztor
OK, so maybe this is cheating a bit by offering two Rams ends against two Jaguars tackles as key matchups but it's worth noting since Jacksonville is going through a relatively major line shakeup.
Earlier this week, Jacksonville coach Gus Bradley said Pasztor is his right tackle though Cameron Bradfield could get a look, too. Pasztor has three starts at guard in his career and Bradfield actually has 12 starts at right tackle.
Either way, this game represents an opportunity for Long to join Quinn in wreaking havoc on Gabbert and getting a somewhat stagnant pass rush back up and running.
Long has been battling a hip injury this season but has practiced all week and appears to be making strides in that regard. A big game from the tandem of Long and Quinn would go a long way toward a Rams victory.