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Keith Richards Movies and Career Information
Dec 18, 1943
Actor and Producer
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician best known as guitarist for the Rolling Stones, of which he has been a member since its founding. Known for his innovative rhythm playing, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen of the songs he has written with songwriting partner and Rolling Stones lead vocalist Mick Jagger are listed by Rolling Stone as among the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The only child of Bert Richards and Doris Dupree Richards, he was born in Dartford, Kent. His father was a factory labourer, injured during World War II. Their flat on Chastilian Road was hit by a Nazi V-1 flying bomb on 5 July 1944 while he and his mother visited Bert Richards at the hospital. He had been wounded in the Normandy invasion. Richards' paternal grandparents were socialists and civic leaders. His maternal grandfather (Augustus Theodore Dupree), who toured Britain in a jazz big band called Gus Dupree and his Boys, was an early influence on Richards's musical ambitions and got him interested in playing guitar. Richards' mother introduced him to the music of Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, and
- Keith Richards Movies before 2015
- Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling - Ireland 1965 2012
- Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live in Texas 1978 2011
- Shine a Light 2008
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007
- Social Genocide (Memoria del saqueo) 2004
- Gimme Shelter (2000) 2000
- Rolling Stones at the Max 1996
- Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll 1987
- Let\'s Spend the Night Together 1982
- Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones 1974
- Stones in the Park 1969
- Sympathy for the Devil 1968
- Papal Chase
- Invocation of My Demon Brother
- Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus (1968-95)
- Crossfire Hurricane
- Gimme Shelter (1970)
- Keith Richards: Under the Influence
- Charlie is my Darling
- Movies Produced by Keith Richards
- Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll 1987


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I'm impressed!
Or I'm not...
Where's the cat?
The Canary Islands of La Palma and Tenerife have been briefly connected by a quantum teleportation system that sets a new distance record for the spooky communications technique. In an angle that will get Trekkie bloggers reaching for the "beam me up" metaphors, the researchers, from Austria, Germany, Canada and Norway, hope …
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Where's the cat?
The cat? It's here and there...
For some reason the Tom Lehrer song "I Got It From Agnes" came to mind when read about this. WHere are the singing mathematicians when you need one?
... but the terminology & bra-ket notation gives me a headache :-)
Don't be fazed, it's just a scalar product with fancy greek letters. All is linear algebra ... which is a hint that something may be missing, natch.
I've been a bit annoyed by the way that Alice and Bob have been getting lots of interesting work over the years. Now, they've been sent to do interesting work in the Canary Islands !
I had a bit of a fling with that Alice once and Bob found out about it straight away –even though he was miles away, at the time.
it's Zed that I feel sorry for. Poor bugger hardly ever gets any work at all.
"it's Zed that I feel sorry for. Poor bugger hardly ever gets any work at all."
That's because Zed's dead, baby.
...but how do they know that the received photon is actually the one they sent and not just one that looks like it (or that the characteristics of the photon exhibiting similar behaviour are not just a coincidence)? Sceptical? Me?
You Sir must be an Engineer - or went to the same school as I where they taught "question everything"
It has "The One" written on it.
maybe Eve fiddled with it.
Sadly while extremely wonderful research it's never going to lead to an Ansible. Actually the article doesn't explain why this would be better than existing communications systems.
AFAIK at the quantum level if the photon received 'looks' like the photon transmitted (it has the same quantum state), it is in fact the transmitted photon.
So photons have a kind of GUID attached to them? No none of this quantum leap stuff makes sense. If I were in charge I would demand we go back to using the pigeons.
I thought the article explained quite well that it's not limited by that pesky "speed of light" thing Einstien kept going on about.
What it failed to do was beat you over the head with it.
1) We have a typo, commander! It's "Einstein", not "Einsten".
2) "to transmit information instantaneously"
Not so. Information is always transmitted at "c" in the best of cases. Correlation in the measurement of a shared state does, however, not need information transmission. Consider a black card and a red card. If Alice and Bob each have one, and Alice checks the color of her card, how much time did it take for Bob's card to take on the other color? Exactly. If quantum, the colors are not even fixed before at least one side is measured (which makes things interesting as either Alice or Bob can measure first depending on the reference frame) but you get the idea.
Still, this is good engineering stuff.
> Correlation in the measurement of a shared state does, however, not need information transmission.
What about correlation in a change of state over a distance? Alice & Bob's cards don't change state together once allocated. AIUI entangled photons can.
Your card analogy only describes hidden variables. Here's a (hopefully more accurate) analogy:
Imagine a server that generates pairs of 1 pixel images, each a mix of red and green. It sends one of the pair to your lab in Tenerife and one to your colleague in La Palma. You and your colleague examine your pixels, but only in the red or the green channel and use that to classify the image as 'red' or 'green'. Your colleague emails you his results, and you compare notes.
What you find is where you and your colleague have examined different channels, there is no correlation in colours; they coincide only as often as you'd expect by chance. But if you chose the same channel, then there is a correlation, and you get the same colour more often than chance alone; it's as if the server "knew" in advance, when you and your colleague would examine the same channel.
The above is just the Bell inequality, and still misses its full subtlety. Quantum Teleporation (as I follow it) uses this process to transfer some information in secret. It still depends on the pair of you comparing notes. But if someone intercepts those notes, then they don't contain the all the information. As some is transferred in the entangled qubit.
"Knowledge of things happening in advance" is not the correct metaphor to apply. You just need a judicious extension of probability theory:
I won't add a boffin icon because I'm unfortunately not too well in the saddle in all this. Hopefully I will be at some future time... (as if!)
I don't know if I'm missing something, but sending a photon through a fibre doesn't seem like teleportation.
I believe it's the Information that's being teleported not the photon.
Two photons are 'entangled' (and presumably have to be together to do that). One of the photons is then sent away via the fibre.
The state of a third photon is then transferred onto the first and because the first and second photons are entangled the second photon then immediately has the same state as the first. The information effectively teleported.
I guess this means that it's possible to move information between two points without any possibility of it being monitored because the is no channel to snoop on between the two points. What I would like to know is do the two photons remain entangled after the teleportation event has happened or is it a one shot deal?
> I don't know if I'm missing something, but sending a photon through a fibre doesn't seem like teleportation.
It isn't. The 'teleportation' is the transfer of quantum information (a 'qubit') from location A to location B. There are complex reasons why this can't be done classically (ie. putting it in a box and carrying it, and so on), but there's a work-around. The work-around requires Alice to measure two quantum states, and send the results of her measurement as two classical bits on a classical comms channel (a satellite link, maybe) to Bob. Bob then uses these two classical bits, together with his half of the entangled pair, to regenerate the qubit that Alice wanted to send to him. The entanglement is destroyed in the process, but Bob ends up with something that has the quantum state that Alice wanted to send him. Voila, teleportation. Sort of.
You're mostly right.The transfer doesn't happen like this, though. The actual information transfer happens by sending data bits on a classical comms channel, at or less than the speed of light. Effects due to entanglement do travel instantaneously (I think this has been experimentally shown to be at least several thousand times faster than c), but you can't transmit information at this speed. See my other reply for the actual mechanism.
And yes, the point is to prevent snooping, and yes, it's a one-shot deal. The measurements destroy the original entanglement. Back to C++ now :(
It's all about encryption, or rather making comms secure from evesdroppers. If someone intercepts the communication then the transmission is lost. It's the holy grail in secure comms.
The way I read it, the entangled photon pair (of which one half was sent over the fibre) merely acts as the baseline. It was sent merely in order to create distance between points A and B. The teleport bit was when a third photon was injected into one half of the entangled pair (at point A) and the OTHER half of the pair (at point B) reflected the changed state immediately - from oodles of km away.
Impressive stuff, my brain hurts trying to imagine how the teleport itself actually takes place.
That's bloody impressive! How does that work exactly? Is it a timey wimey connection?
Both use a pulse from the same very distant stellar source. Is that why those stars exist? Convenient Galactic Navigation beacons and clock synchronisers?
The use of Alice and Bob suggests the reason behind this experiment isn't to develop an Ansible, but make communications more secure (at the same speed).
I'm sure Eve is watching with interest.
Wheatley and GladOS in homage to Portal, please?
Space. SpaceSpaceSpace. Spaaaace. Space.
I thank you.
The reason Einstein didn't like quantum entanglement is precisely because it does allow for information transfer at higher than the speed of light. If you create two photons in a particular way* they are 'entangled' - whatever happens to one, the opposite immediately happens to the other (again simplyfying but if you turn one to the left, the other immediately turns to the right). This change of state on the second entagled photon happens literally immediately and regardless of the distance between the two photons in the entangled pair (the theory, and all experimental evidence so far, stretches to suggest that this is the case even on opposite sides of the universe**).
This means if you can maintain the entanglement whilst you transfer one of the entangled photons to a distant place (which is the hard part, as alluded to by the difficulty mentioned with regards to 143km of air) then you can use this link to transfer information with no delay at all. OK, the transfer of the original photon to the distant receiving location occurs at the speed of light but once it has arrived, further endless information can be sent instantaneously as long as the entaglemet can be maintained (like laying a transatlantic cable, the cable laying goes at the speed of ship but the phone conversations subsequently go at the speed of light (ish)).
You know you have the right photon at the receiver end when you find the one that is carrying your test signal.
This means not only an ultra-secure communication (there is no known way to intercept the 'entaglement signal') but also entirely delay-free (which is nice on a planet but really useful interplanetarily or even interstellarly).
*massive simplification but the method is not really relevant to my point.
** I know, no such opposite sides exist.....
Not so, I'm afraid. The effect is thought to travel instantaneously, but can't be used to transmit information, other than randomness.
You can't have real-world (non-quantum) information transferred FTL. Quantum state alone doesn't help. Hence, the second link in the experiment.
My quantum lottery card is purchased, I will be checking my numbers to make them win come weekend.
"The weather, they note, delayed the experiment for a year."
So perhaps the most awesome thing about this experiment is that it gave us a real-world opportunity to use the word "nanobaud".
Quantum is science that's gonna take me a while to wrap my poor frazzled head around. It might not be as complex as I think, but when I hear things like "two places at once" or "teleportation" used with the word "Quantum", every thing I thought I knew about science is questioned. I just trust the prof to know what he's doing.
Besides, isn't questioning science what science is all about.
> In quantum teleportation, the phenomenon known as "entanglement" to transmit information instantaneously.
This sentence no verb.
I get the whole collapse wave-function action at a distance bit (went to physics, got the T-shirt)
But I don't see how this provides any security?
If Carol was in the middle with an identical model Quantum Communicator 3000 she could grab the first entangled photon. Then create and send a new uncollapsed one onto Bob with her own message.
The only way Alice knows that it was Bob that collapsed her photon and not Carol is the common time reference and it seems that this would be just as reliable (if not more so) for a regular communications packet going down a fibre.
"If Carol was in the middle with an identical model Quantum Communicator 3000 she could grab the first entangled photon. "
"quantum mechanics guarantees that measuring quantum data disturbs that data; this can be used to detect an adversary's interference with a message"
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography
Basically Carol couldn't pass on a photon that isn't obviously modified.
... but (off topic, but not completely): while we are diligently surveying Universe with all kinds of instruments at all kinds of wavelengths, are we systematically collapsing the Cosmic Wave Function towards one out its many potential states, and when this process is complete, will cats inherit whatever remains?
Paris, cuz you know she thinks about this stuff all the time.


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Sooners freshman will not participate in preseason practice opener
Oklahoma Football opens preseason practice Thursday but star freshman Joe Mixon, won't be there.
The program announcing Wednesday night that Mixon, who is accused of allegedly assaulting a woman last week at a Norman restaurant, has been suspended.
The statement, made via Twitter, reads: "Joe Mixon is not reporting for team activities at this time. We will continue to monitor the situation."
Bob Stoops spent Wednesday night at the Sooner Caravan stop in Oklahoma City, but refused to speak with the media and didn't comment on Mixon during the fan question-and-answer portion of the even.
Mixon has not been arrested. Norman Police told the Tulsa World Wednesday they are 'no closer to an arrest' and evidence likely won't be turned over to the Cleveland County District Attorney until 'late next week' or possibly even later.


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As for our previous poll, Google clearly proved to be a leader in desktop search among our readers with almost 60 percent of the votes. In comparison, Microsoft�s alternative roughly scored 10 percent, while 21.9 percent of voters claim to use none.
Copernic, which is one of the first companies to work on desktop search doesn't seem to be getting the same kind of attention, this is unfortunate given that it is, according to some of our informal tests, one of the most capable tools from the group listed.


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TMZ is reporting that an arrest warrant has been issued for Ric Flair's ex-wife, Jacqueline Beems, for allegedly threatening Flair's current girlfriend Wendy Barlow Kidder.
The threats were reportedly made back in October 2012, when Flair and Beems were still legally married. It's unknown why the complaint was just filed at the end of June.
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Pacha Massive Live on KPFK's Melting Pot: August 1, 2010
Pacha Massive out of New York City were the first in-studio guests for KPFK's Melting Pot. Pacha Massive consists primarily of multi-instrumentalists and vocalists Nova & Maya, here joined by vocalist and flute player Monica. They've released a couple of records on Nacional, 2007's All Good Things and 2009's If You Want It.
In our interview we chatted about their love of Los Angeles, their distinctive mix of styles and sounds and a bit about the recording process. They also performed two songs, "Your Love" and "If You Want It" in our studio, with Nova and Monica on vocals, Nova on guitar, Monica on flute (ala Rahsaan Roland Kirk playing and singing!) and Maya on percussion which as you can see from the picture was improvised on the spot using one of our trash cans! Looking forward to bringing them back at a later date with the full band and hopefully a much better sound person (I simply don't cut it as a sound man…)


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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the City of Chicago have earned the ire of gun aficionados across the country for proposed solutions to rampant gun violence in the city. In the face of a widespread gun control debate that is raging in this country in the aftermath of such mass atrocities as the Sandy Hook massacre and the seventy-four other school shootings that have followed it, Mayor Emanuel has proposed a far-reaching ordinance that would prohibit gun stores from operating in most parts of the city and require those stores to videotape every gun sale.
Mayor Emanuel's plan follows the January federal court decision holding that Chicago's long-existing ban on gun stores violated the Constitution. The court ordered the city to propose less wide-sweeping restrictions, short of a ban, by July 14th. Instead of appealing this decision (perhaps knowing that such a challenge would be fruitless and expensive), Mayor Emanuel decided to find refuge in one of the sneakiest and cleverest avenues for essentially banning the presence of certain businesses without actually banning them—zoning regulations.
Under the mayor's proposed ordinances, new special-use zoning laws would prohibit the operation of gun stores in 99.5% of Chicago, quarantining them to small pockets of the North, West, and South Sides. Furthermore, gun stores would be banned from all storefronts within 500 feet of a school or park. Clearly, Mayor Emanuel vividly remembers (as everyone should) the ease with which young gunmen have been able to get their hands on firearms in the past.
Furthermore, gun sellers would be required to conduct quarterly audits of all gun sales, allow police to inspect their records, and agree to operate under a police-approved security plan before they can even open their doors. Janey Rountree, the major's deputy chief of staff for public safety, claims, "There is no question it will be the smartest, toughest regulation on gun stores in the country….It's designed to prevent gun trafficking and illegal sales in these stores." Rountree's comments and other details can be found at http://politics.suntimes.com/article/chicago/plan-city-gun-shops-would-limit-sites-require-sales-be-taped/tue-05272014-1201am.
The mayor's proposal obviously seeks to tackle the challenge of second-hand, underground gun sales. Gun stores must videotape every sale so every customer can be identified on sight, and employees must receive training on identifying potential "straw purchasers," meaning not the ominous Wicker Man but rather people who legally purchase large quantities of firearms only to resell them to those who cannot buy guns for themselves, i.e. criminals. Under Emanuel's proposal, gun stores in Chicago could only legally sell one handgun per month to any individual buyer. Violating stores would be subject to a revocation of their license and a ban on operation in the same location for three years. More details about the mayor's plan can be found at http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-chicago-gun-control-20140529-story.html.
Gun control is inevitably one of the most heated and divisive subjects to bring up at any dinner party across the United States, and Mayor Emanuel's plans for Chicago's gun retailers join an existing program that is no less controversial. The Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has created a regional gun crime hub known as the Chicago Crime Gun Intelligence Center, where officials from numerous agencies can collaborate in the investigation and prosecution of gun crimes. Details about this initiative can be found at http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-law-enforcement-touts-crime-gun-intelligence-center-in-chicago-20140605,0,309857.story.
After the unveiling of the NSA surveillance program last year, Americans in general have associated any kind of surveillance with an Orwellian notion of a dystopian future where voyeuristic government lackeys watch every mundane activity in every private home in the country. The Chicago ATF program, however, merely takes Mayor Emanuel's goal of tracking straw purchasers from the gun shop to the streets. While the mayor's proposed ordinances would help identify such straw men, ATF's surveillance monitors those illicit sellers in action and pinpoints exactly to whom those guns are being sold on the street.
However, while Mayor Emanuel's plan is an innovative yet tough approach to a complicated and at times devastating problem, ATF's surveillance program is not without some much-deserved criticism. The most obvious limitation of the surveillance program is its geographical confines. Thus far, the initiative extends only to those neighborhoods that have traditionally been blacklisted as "high crime." As gun crime spreads throughout the city like a poison, however, more abundant surveillance is necessary (an expansion that will not come without some kicking and screaming).
Furthermore, while the goal of inter-departmental collaboration is admirable and, goodness knows, absolutely necessary, a sudden improvement in the ability of government agencies to work together may be approaching a level of wishful thinking that Southerners would call "pie in the sky."
Regardless of any individual opinion concerning gun control or surveillance in general, the city of Chicago needs solutions to its rampant gun problem, and it needs them yesterday. Every day, Chicagoans wake up to news of another shooting, more murders, and disturbingly prolific crime rates. Tragedies become increasingly more prevalent and, worse still, random.
On Tuesday, June 10th alone, one man was killed and four others, including a young child, were shot in Chicago. Brett Ewing was murdered in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood of Chicago's South Side. He died after suffering critical injuries in a drive-by shooting on West 72nd Street, an indiscriminate event that also resulted in the wounding of a four-year-old boy. Ewing and his young companion join four other individuals who were injured in drive-by shootings in Logan Square, Wicker Park, and North Lawndale. More details can be found at http://abc7chicago.com/news/1-dead-4-hurt-in-chicago-shootings/107431/ and http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/06/10/woman-killed-man-wounded-in-south-side-shooting/.
Yesterday's many shootings are in no way unique in Chicago. Each day sees new crimes, new murders, new tragedies. News coverage in Chicago often fails to identify the victims by name, perhaps under the delusional but oh-so-much more comforting notion (popular not only in the Windy City but in the world over) that an unnamed victim is a nonexistent victim. The Chicago Sun-Times publication Homicide Watch Chicago seeks to counteract this unfortunate media trend by commemorating every victim and following every case. Its efforts can be viewed at http://homicides.suntimes.com/. However, one lone conscientious publication cannot counter the otherwise prevailing notion that making violence forgettable is the only way to cure it.
Now, it is nothing short of painfully obvious that both Mayor Emanuel's ordinance proposal and ATF's gun trafficking surveillance program will garner vehement criticism. Recent sensationalistic coverage pinpointing the mayor as a liberal anti-gun activist include Breitbart News's story at http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/27/Emanuel-Pushes-To-Ban-Gun-Stores-In-99-5-Percent-Of-Chicago and the appropriately named AmmoLand's story at http://www.ammoland.com/2014/06/rahm-emanuel-pushing-one-gun-a-month-purchase-limit-for-chicagoans/#axzz34Mscqefn. But as crime rates continue to rise throughout the entirety of the city, Chicago has reached a point where it can no longer bury its head in the sand.


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On Saturday, CNBC news reported an eye-opening story about cursing in the workplace. The latest Martin Scorsese movie titled "The Wolf of Wall Street" is a continuous marathon of cursing. Does cursing belong in the workplace? Dennis Gibb, the vice president of Sweetwater Investments says profanity does belong in the workplace.
He says:
"You've got a lot of high-testosterone people with big egos making a lot of money. When you've just bought 100,000 shares of something, profanity is a pretty appropriate response."
Gibb adds that swearing and humor are essential in relieving stress in the workplace. After spending ten years in the military and time as a trader, he says he can curse in 17 different languages.
Timothy Jay, a psychology professor at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts says swearing is common among extroverts with Type A personalities. The article also reports that swearing isn't anything new. Even the ancient Romans swore.
Many vulgar words refer to either sex or body parts. Read the article in its entirety at the CNBC website.
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It is the dog days of summer for the Park City Police Department.
The police last week received a series of reports involving dogs, including at least one report of a dog being left in a vehicle. The other reports included a variety of cases.
The cases reported last week included:
- on Saturday, July 12 at 4:40 p.m., a dog was reported to have been left in a parked car along the 1300 block of Deer Valley Drive. The police were told one window was open, but the vehicle was not parked in the shade. Public police logs did not indicate whether the dog appeared to be in distress.
- on July 12 at 4:23 p.m., at least one dog was reportedly seen tied to a tree along the 1800 block of Bonanza Drive. The person who contacted the police was concerned since it was hot outside, according to police logs.
- on Friday, June 11 at 6:41 p.m., the police received a complaint about a dog jumping on a car on Monarch Drive. The police were told the dog caused unspecified damage.
- on Monday, July 7 at 9:37 p.m., the police received a complaint about three dogs that barked continuously. The dogs were in a yard on Hillside Avenue.
- on July 7 at 7:02 p.m., the police received a report about a dog exiting a residence and coming after two people on Upland Circle. Public police logs described the two people as riders, but the logs did not identify their means of transportation. The dog owner was belligerent, the police were told.The person who contacted the police wanted Summit County Animal Control to remind the dog owner of leash laws, police logs indicated.Advertisement


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Shooting victim Jonathan Blunk, who was killed in the shootings at the Century 16 Theater in Aurora, Colorado, on July 20, will be given a full military funeral in Reno, Nevada. His flag-draped casket was loaded onto a plane at Denver International Airport on Friday, July 27, 2012, bound for Reno. Blunk, 26, was a five-year U.S. Navy veteran. Read story: Theater victim's body returned home to Nevada with military salute


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Sun Soaked Dawgs Wrap Regular Season
A number of wins at today's Ken Shannon Invite set the Huskies up well for championship season.
Distance Dawgs Open Proceedings At Mt. SAC
A baker's dozen of Husky runners competed in the 1,500-meters today.
Track Travels To Hayward For Pepsi Team Invite
Ducks, Cougars, and Aggies of Texas A&M await the Huskies in the first of just two regular season scored meets.
Goethals Crushes 10k Record Plus Huge 5k For Babcock
Megan Goethals moves to No. 6 in Pac-12 history with her 10,000-meters debut.
Next Stop Stanford For Track Teams
The Friday night distance races at Stanford are typically some of the fastest of the outdoor season.
Cameron Features
» A Sketch Of Life (UW Daily; Feb. 7, 2012)
» Q&A With James Cameron (GoHuskies.com; Feb. 24, 2011)
» Cameron Named GoHuskies.com Student-Athlete Of The Week (GoHuskies.com; March 7, 2011)
2011-12: Redshirted track and cross country seasons while coming back from an ankle injury.
2010-11: Breakthrough sophomore season saw him become the fourth Washington athlete ever to break the four-minute mile barrier, and go on to score at the NCAA Indoor Championships ... at the UW Final Qualifier, he powered to a blistering time of 3:58.51 to hit the NCAA automatic qualifying mark and post the second-fastest mile in school history ... advanced to the NCAA mile final by taking fourth in the prelims in a time of 4:01.33 ... placed eighth in the NCAA mile final in 4:01.88, earning First Team All-America status ... also ran top-five all-time marks in the 3,000-meter and the 5,000-meters indoors ... time of 8:00.17 in the 3k at the Husky Classic is third-fastest in school history, and his sixth-place 5k run at the MPSF Championships in 13:54.77 is fourth in school history ... outdoors, had his season cut short by an ankle injury suffered going over a steeplechase barrier ... opened his outdoor season with another PR in the 5,000-meters at the Stanford Invitational, clocking 13:51.83, the No. 3 mark all-time outdoors ... ran 9:02.83 to take second at the Pepsi Team Invitational in his first steeplechase of the season ... cut nine seconds off his PR in his only 1,500-meter run of the year, clocking 3:44.90 to take 11th in the invitational section at the Mt. SAC Relays ... (Cross Country): Came on strong towards the end of the season, running in UW's top-three for the first time at the final three meets of the year ... placed 42nd in his first NCAA West Regional meet, running 31:00 for his first 10k to help UW place sixth ... was the second Husky finisher at the Pac-10 meet, placing 35th overall at Jefferson Park Golf Course, a seven-spot improvement from his freshman year ... second on the team as well at the Pre-National Meet, finishing No. 103 ... finished 17th overall at the Sundodger Invite at Lincoln Park.
2009-10: Ran everything from the mile up to 5,000-meters in his first track season ... competed four times during the outdoor season, highlighted by a ninth-place finish in the Pepsi Team Invite 1,500-meter run, where he crossed in a season-best 3:53.97 ... opened the outdoor season with his first 5,000-meters, finishing in 14:30.09 at the Stanford Invitational ... indoors, ended the season with a big PR in the mile run, clocking 4:06.99 at the UW Final Qualifier, placing ninth ... ran at the MPSF Championships, running the anchor 1,600m leg on UW's DMR that took fifth in a time of 9:47.01 ... also was 12th in the MPSF 3k in 8:13.14, a season-best by five seconds ... (Cross Country): The only true freshman to compete attached during the year ... started his career off with an unattached eighth-place finish at the Sundodger in 24:23 ... was UW's No. 7 runner at the Notre Dame Invite, placing 79th ... ran at the Pac-10 Championships in Long Beach, placing 42nd in 24:33 as Washington's seventh finisher ... was ninth overall and third amongst Huskies at the Mike Hodges Invite.
High School and Personal: Born in Mission Viejo, California ... parents are Kathy and John Cameron ... has one older brother, Ian, and one older sister, Sarah ... a Footlocker National Championship competitor as a senior, placing 26th in December, 2008 ... qualified for Footlocker Nationals with a sixth-place finish at the West Regional meet ... took 13th in the 1500-meters at the 2009 U.S. Junior Track Championships ... won the South Coast league cross country title as a senior and finished sixth at the Division-I California state meet to earn first team All-State ... ranked in the top-20 nationally in the 1600-meters ... finished sixth in he 1600-meter run at the California D-I state meet earning All-State honors ... graduated with a 3.5 GPA.
Major Meets
2009 Pac-10 XC - 42nd (7th UW)
2010 MPSF TF - 12th, 3000m; 5th, DMR
2010 Pac-10 XC - 35th (2nd UW)
2010 Regional XC - 42nd (3rd UW)
2011 MPSF TF - 6th, 3000m; 6th, 5000m
2011 NCAA Indoors - 8th, Mile (All-America First Team)
2013 MPST TF - 27th, 3000m
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The 10th annual event, "A Celebration of Life for Those Who Have Been Touched By Cancer," was a tribute to the human spirit and was the personal and collective celebration of cancer survivors.
The day's activities included workshops, panel discussions, a silent auction and an art show featuring the work of cancer patients. Lawrence H. Summers, President, Harvard University, was the keynote speaker.
"Cancer survivors and their families look forward to this day each year to come together with their peers, other cancer patients and survivors, to celebrate their lives and to share in a unique and profoundly emotional sense of community," says Hester Hill Schnipper, LICSW, chief oncology social worker at Beth Israel Deaconess and founder of the event.
Participants at the event reflect the vast diversity of the cancer experience in age, diagnosis, prognosis and life story. Each survivor brings to the celebration extraordinary personal tales that capture the depth of their journey through diagnosis and treatment to the emotional moment when they are asked to stand in community with their fellow survivors and celebrate that day of life.
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text: Best Pet Adoption Videos: The Nevada Humane Society shares its Adoption Entrance Dance Posted on Sep 03 , 2010 by Jane Harrell, senior producer Print Home > Blog > Animal shelters > Best Pet Adoption Videos: The Nevada Humane Society shares its Adoption Entrance Dance Tags: nevada humane society, pet adoption, pet adoption videos Today we're kicking off a new feature: Best Pet Adoption Videos. Each week for the next month we'll be highlighting a pet adoption video that pulls at our heartstrings, entertains and enlightens, or is just plain fun — but all of which promote pet adoption in their own unique way. Obsessed much? Probably, but that's why we work for Petfinder, isn't it? For our kick-off week we're spotlighting a video made by the Nevada Humane Society in Reno, NV. Their new take on the Adoption Entrance Dance (a fun take-off of the JK Wedding Entrance Dance) shows perfectly what every shelter worker, volunteer and advocate feels when a pet finds his or her forever home. Check it out! Do you know of a pet adoption video that fits the bill? Leave a comment and tell us! <Leave a comment><Return to blog home page> Share this Article: Print


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Emulator supplier, Mentor Graphics believes this will dramatically change chip design by making emulation more accessible and cost-effective.
"Increasing hardware and software complexity in system on chip design requires increased emulation engine power, and emulation had to adapt to deal with these complexity challenges," said Jean-Marie Saint-Paul, European director at Mentor Graphics.
To date the focus has been to improve the efficiency of the emulation process. "Transaction-based emulation has changed the game for us," said Saint-Paul.
The next step was to link hardware and software simulation, but also to make it possible to reuse simulation data, which is inherently costly and time consuming to create.
"Cost of emulation has dropped in ten years, cost per gate has dropped massively, but we knew we could go further," said Saint-Paul.
To be more affordable as a design tool, Mentor believes emulation must change from "project-bound engineering lab instrument to datacentre-hosted global resource".
The next step was to create virtual emulation environments running on enterprise servers which can be accessed by more than one design project.
"The aim now is to make more efficient use of processing power," said Saint-Paul.
The start of this process is removing the need for the in-circuit emulation (ICE) tangle of cables, speed adaptors and physical devices, replacing them with virtual devices.
These virtual devices, which Mentor calls VirtuaLab peripherals, are hosted as central resource within a company or even shared between companies in a datacentre. The software-defined peripherals can be configured for multiple projects.
Another part of the process is more closely coupling chip design verification, simulation and emulation and to move it all to become a datacentre resource.
Mentor calls this the Enterprise Verification Platform (EVP) which combines Questa verification tools, Visualizer debug environment and the Veloce OS3 VirtuaLAB peripherals for the first time.
With Veloce OS3 and Questa 10.3, assertions, coverage and runtime data from emulation, formal, simulation, mixed-signal and low power design are stored on the centralised database.
The virtual platform runs under the Veloce OS3 which manages the emulation resources by creating priority queues to make most efficient use of the resource.
The aim is to make complex chip emulation more affordable to remove the need for costly, dedicated hardware emulators for each project.
Smaller chip design firms may not need to investment in costly emulation systems. They could get their designs emulated by third party emulation service providers. Much in the same way firms use foundries to fab chips.
Saint-Paul believes there are security and IP licensing issues to be address but he sees the potential for this.
Another interesting possibility is using emulation to market chips before they are produced.
""There could be a benefit of emulation for marketing. A design could be shared with customers earlier in the design cycle," said Saint-Paul.
Another benefit of Veloce OS3 is it creates in the emulator PSL/SystemVerilog assertions, functional coverage, and UPF for low power.
This can be used to provide pre-silicon performance analysis of critical on-chip subsystems running application software.


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In the game, there are number of events that only occur during specific time slots. For example, at one point there was a town meeting scheduled between 15:00 and 17:00. In this instance, when I was notified of this event, it was around 09:00. So I had some time to kill.
To pass the time naturally, you have a few options. You can run around town, whittling your time away on side-quests, but there are only so many. You can take a nap, but the naps are broken up into 3-hour incremental chunks. You can just let the in-game clock run up, but waiting for an in-game hour to pass seems to take about 20 minutes of real time.
It seems apparent then that there must be some sort of way to conveniently "wait" à la Fallout 3, Skyrim, etc. Otherwise, lining up a specific time in the game would be an extremely tedious affair. I'm obviously missing something.
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Christine Medin of Elkhart Central and Erin Weber of Goshen are among 23 hopefuls for the Distinguished Young Woman of Indiana title.
ELKHART — Two Elkhart County high school students will compete in the Distinguished Young Women of Indiana scholarship competition Feb. 13-15 in Kokomo.
Christine Medin, an Elkhart Central student, and Erin Weber, a Northridge student, will participate in five areas of competition including scholarship, interview, talent, fitness and self-expression for the chance to win $25,500 in college scholarships.
Medin and Weber are two of 23 girls in the Indiana competition. During the week, they will rehearse for the competition, tour the city of Kokomo and present a "Be Your Best Self" program to local elementary schools.
The winner of the Indiana competition will advance to the Distinguished Young Women National Finals in Mobile, Ala., in June.
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All programs are open to the public. Preliminary competitions will be held on Thursday, Feb. 13, and Friday, Feb. 14, both at 7 p.m. in Indiana University Kokomo's Haven Auditorium. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students.
The finals will be held at Saturday, Feb. 14 at 6 p.m in Haven Auditorium. Tickets are $15.


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Pie-eating contest wrong for town
I see the Naugatuck library held a pie-eating contest for children (Aug. 15 story, "Whittemore Library plans special programs this month"). It is disturbing that while some children are suffering from hunger, the library is promoting stuffing other children with food.
I suggest holding a pie-baking contest and giving the pies to the food pantry. Then the children will have fun and learn to give to others who are in need.
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conservative1 wrote on Aug 18, 2013 9:45 AM:
" Relax Francis. Can we have a little fun? Maybe rather than go on vacation you should send poor people on vacation. We can go on forever with this. "
blue star wrote on Aug 18, 2013 6:16 PM:
" You could take the bus, and use all of that money to feed people. That would be a real commitment, not just talk. "
conservative1 wrote on Aug 18, 2013 11:37 PM:
" How about we elect a president and governor that knows governments true role in our lives. Gets out of our way so we can create jobs so these "hungry" people can feed themselves! "
Brian wrote on Aug 19, 2013 7:56 AM:
" @Consevative1; how do your comments that always cover the same tired ground get published? Who do you know at the Repub (or do the editors just like your slant)?
Want "good eats"/ Head to the Big E! My cardiologist recommends it. "
Want "good eats"/ Head to the Big E! My cardiologist recommends it. "
traci3 wrote on Aug 21, 2013 2:29 AM:
" Well, if you knew Naugatuck at all, you would have realized that the kids, up to age 18, were already fed a sandwich, fruit, veggie, and milk at the summer lunch program, given at almost every elementary school, as well as other designated areas in the town. After finishing this complete lunch, they were also able to receive a snack bag, consisting of a drink, yogurt and little cookie or granola, at St. Michael's Church, on the green. They didn't even have to sign up beforehand, just show up, and guess what ... It was all FREE, all summer long! So I guess Naugy has got it covered. The library just wanted to let the kids have a little fun after they filled their bellies! Maybe you should spend more time researching the things that you complain so that you don't look like a fool, or maybe you can actually help those that are really in need. There are many children out there that really do need a meal, Instead of complaining, why don't you donate a food item... maybe a blueberry pie!! See you at the pie eating contest next year. Congrats to all of the winners!! "
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Former UMass men's lacrosse all-American Anthony Biscardi (2009-12) and rising-sophomore Nick Mariano were named to the 2014 Vail Shootout All-Tournament Team after they helped lead their squad, On The Hop Nation/Lacrossewear, to the Vail Lacrosse Shootout Men's Elite Championship.
Biscardi and Mariano, both playing attack during the title game, combined for five goals to help their team earn a 12-8 win to secure the championship.
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Minnesota Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher had a busier offseason than one would have expected him to have with most roster spots filled by returning players. In addition to signing free agents from outside the organization, which will come in part 2, he had to work his magic in the draft while re-signing his own restricted free agents and re-signing his head coach.
The longterm welfare of the team always begins from within. The moves made before free agency begins every July 1 are the ones that build longterm success or failure.
Re-sign Mike Yeo (May 31)
The Story: Fletcher and Mike Yeo agreed to a multi-year contract extension. His previous contract was set to expire on June 30, but the two sides worked out a deal to keep the three-year head coach in Minnesota. The deal begins this coming season and runs through the 2016-17 season.
The Reaction: This was neither surprising nor shocking. Terms of the deal were not released, but Yeo is the youngest coach in the NHL, more than five years younger than any other head coach in the league. Yeo grew as a coach last season. It showed last season, when he took some responsibilities away from veterans and allowed the young stars to elevate their game.
Grade: A+
Draft Alex Tuch in first round (June 27)
The Story: The Wild had opportunities to trade back in the first and add more picks, but the team chose to stand pat and select forward Alex Tuch with the 18th selection. Tuch, a 6-foot-4-inch, 218-pound Syracuse, NY native, played last season for the United States National Team Development Program in Ann Arbor, Mich. and is committed to play collegiately for the Boston College Eagles beginning this fall.
The Reaction: Tuch is a huge, power forward type of player that will be able to score goals around the net. Given his size and offensive skill set, he probably should have been taken earlier. The Wild benefit from a draft class with a large pool of second tier draft picks.
Grade: A+
Draft seven more in second through seven rounds (June 28)
The Story: The Wild selected defenseman Louis Belpedio (third round from the Tampa Bay Lightning), goaltender Kaapo Kahkonen (fourth), defenseman Tanner Faith (fifth), defenseman Pontus Sjalin (sixth from the Ottawa Senators), center Chase Lang (sixth from the New York Rangers), center Reid Duke (sixth), and center Pavel Jenys (seventh) during the second day of the NHL draft.
The Reaction: The Wild went off the board of most experts and may have reached on several picks with some more recognizable names available. The Wild have a good track record at the draft so time will tell before judging the draft class, but they get an immediate grade above average because they obviously stuck to their board.
Grade: B
Qualifying Five RFAs (June 30)
The Story: The Wild tendered qualifying offers to goaltender Darcy Kuemper, defenseman Jonathon Blum, left wing Jason Zucker and right wings Justin Fontaine and Nino Niederreiter. They did not make qualifying offers to defensemen Josh Caron and Tyler Cuma and left wing Kristopher Foucault.
The Reation: The Wild did the obvious and tendered the restricted free agents on the NHL roster and did not for the players on AHL roster. The only partial surprise was Cuma, but he has not been able to crack the NHL roster and it continued to get less likely that he would be able to do so with the Wild with each passing season. There are plenty of teams in the NHL with less depth on the blue line than the Wild. He should have a better opportunity elsewhere. The five players tendered offers have produced at the NHL level and should be fixtures in the Wild lineup next season.
Grade: A
Re-sign Jonathon Blum (July 11)
The Story: The Wild and Jonathon Blum agreed to terms on a one-year contract. The terms of the contract were not released by the team. He played 25 games last season in Minnesota and 54 in Iowa. He filled in on the third pairing when needed on the NHL roster last season.
The Reaction: Blum is in line to permanently fill the right defenseman position on the third pairing in the NHL next season. He is a solid player that can play at both ends of the ice. The downside is that he is not a big, physical defenseman, which the Minnesota team needs this season. Barring a trade, he is one of six defenseman pencilled on to the NHL roster.
Grade: B+
Re-sign Jason Zucker (July 15)
The Story: The Wild and Jason Zucker agreed to terms on a two-year contract. The contract includes a two-way contract in 2014-15 and one-way in 2015-16. Zucker played 21 games in Minnesota last season and 22 in Iowa. He missed the last 23 games after having what was deemed minor surgery during the Olympic break in February.
The Reaction: Zucker is a fan favorite and young player with speed and a sniper's mentality. He is a shoot-first guy that can score from anywhere on the ice. He hasn't been able to put it all together yet at the NHL level, but should get the first opportunity to claim one of the 12 forward spots on the roster. If he can't win one this season, he will provide depth and would be one of the first call-ups if the need arises.
Grade: A-
Re-sign John Curry (July 17)
The Story: The Wild and John Curry agreed to terms on a one-year, two-way contract. The 30-year-old Shorewood, Minn. native played two games last season in Minnesota and 19 in Iowa.
The Reaction: The Wild need goaltending depth with Josh Harding's illness along with Niklas Backstrom and Darcy Kuemper's assorted injuries last season. Curry played well in his two appearances, including a huge 43-save performance against the St. Louis Blues. Best case scenario for the Wild is that he spends the season in Iowa as Johan Gustafsson's backup.
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Since 1985, America has celebrated July as the nation's official Park and Recreation Month, last year Americans across the country ''rocked their parks'' with celebratory flashmobs. This year the ''Get Wild'' theme encourages individuals, families, friends and park-lovers to venture to their local parks and recreation areas to experience the many benefits they offer.
Barbara Tulipane, President and CEO of NRPA said, ''As the obesity epidemic rages on, physical activity levels remain low and more than ever kids are staying indoors and behind electronic media. Park and Recreation Month is a great time to take a stand against these trends by going to your park, getting active and of course, getting wild!''
Park and recreation agencies nationwide will be helping their communities ''get wild'' through a variety of fun initiatives, events and activities including Geocaching. This is a real-world outdoor treasure hunting game, where players locate hidden containers, called geocaches, using GPS-enabled devices or mobile phones and then shares their experiences online.
The NRPA will be holding a geocaching contest during Park and Recreation Month (July) where people can submit their treasure hunting stories or photos to NRPA through Facebook.
For more information about how to get wild in parks and recreation areas across the country during Park and Recreation Month please visit nrpa.org
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You know cutting back on sodium is good for your heart – but some people find a low-sodium diet too bland for their palate.
Besides cooking with herbs and spices in lieu of salt, you can perk up the flavor of your foods with salty-tasting seasonings. Here are some to consider – and a few things to watch out for.
Brands: Morton Lite Salt Mixture; LoSalt
Some of the sodium is replaced with potassium chloride for a similar salty taste. These products are safe for most adults in moderate amounts – no more than ½ teaspoon per day – but people with kidney disease or who take heart or blood-pressure medications should avoid them, says Elizabeth Boeckelman, a registered dietitian at Stanford Hospital and Clinics in California. "These populations are at higher risk for elevated blood-potassium levels, which can be deadly," she says.
Brands: AlsoSalt Original; Nu-Salt; Morton Salt Substitute
Potassium chloride replaces all sodium, creating the same kinds of risks as low-sodium salts. However, many people can use these salt substitutes safely – and even benefit from the potassium, which helps regulate blood pressure and heart function. Just get the OK from your doctor before you start sprinkling.
Sodium-Free and Potassium-Free
Brands: Maine Coast Kelp Granules; Benson's Table Tasty
Several substitutes use nutritional yeast (Table Tasty) or dried seaweed (Kelp Granules) for a salty taste. Boeckelman says that roughly 1.5 tablespoons of dried seaweed exceeds the safe upper limit for iodine intake, which can interfere with healthy thyroid function, so use kelp granules in moderation.
Self-styled "sodium girl" Jessica Goldman blogs about her low-sodium lifestyle at www.sodiumgirl.com. Facing lupus-related kidney failure, Goldman cut sodium in her diet and was able to avoid a kidney transplant. You can read her amazing success story here, and find a sampling of her low-sodium recipes here.


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Sophomore women's athlete Yvette Bastidas placed in the top 8 in three throwing events at the Cal State Los Angeles Invitational meet to highlight the Pasadena City College track and field teams performance March 7-8.
Bastidas took sixth in the discus throw at 36.76 meters and was sixth in the javelin at 29.63 meters. She was eighth in the shot put at 9.15 meters. Bastidas competed against both 4-year university and community college participants.
On the men's side, freshman Nathan Wolitarsky placed eighth in the shot put (12.02 meters) and ninth in the discus (37.87 meters).
For the Lancers women, Breanna Clark took 13th overall in the 100 meters (12.50 seconds). In the 800 meters, Kailadnni Chavez was 19th at 2:34.57 and Tansica Sunkamaneevongse placed 20th at 2:34.61. In the 1,500 meters, Christina Shamirian placed 27th at 5:14.14.
In the men's competition, Brendan Greene won his heat and placed 25th overall in the 800 meters (2:02.63). Ruben Torres won his heat but was only 31st in the 3,000 meters (9:40.73) while Greene was 29th (9:33.82).
The PCC track and field teams are directed by first-year head coach Cedric Hill.
[Photo--Nathan Wolitarsky throws the shot put in a recent meet, image by Richard Quinton, sports information photographer.]
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Many of us consider dessert to be the most important part of every meal. The idea of having to give it up is too terrible to fathom. Just because you have decided the time has come to eat healthier, it doesn't mean you have to give up dessert. You just have to change the way you prepare it so that your dinners are accompanied by healthy desserts.
Instead of purchasing ready-made or even boxed kits for desserts, you need to start making your own tasty treats. Making your own desserts allows you to tinker with the recipes, making them healthier, something you can't do when you're dealing with a ready-made dessert.
Eliminating the junk from your favorite desserts and turning them into healthy desserts won't be nearly as difficult as you think. The first thing you need to do is stop baking with sugar. There was a time when sugar was the best thing you could use to sweeten a dish, but not any longer. Instead of keeping a bag of sugar in your cupboard, you need to replace it with Splenda, which is a less fattening substitute.
Swapping your regular sugar for Splenda is just one way to enjoy healthy desserts. In addition to using Splenda, you should cut the amount of sugar the recipe calls for in half. Replace the missing half with honey. The honey will be every bit as sweet as the sugar, it will cause your ingredients to stick together better, and it is really healthy. Many people have found they like their favorite desserts even better when they use honey instead of sugar.
The next thing you need to do is look at the ingredients that have a high fat content. Don't worry, just because you're making healthy desserts you won't have to eliminate the high fat ingredients. What you want to do is reduce them. If the recipe suggests a cup of something that's high in fat, try using 3/4th or even 1/2 cup instead. You probably won't even notice the difference. You should also use the lowest fat milk you can possibly find. Skim milk instead of whole milk won't change the flavor of your dessert, but it will change the fat content.
The final thing you need to do when preparing converting your favorite recipes into healthy desserts is to stop using frosting. Instead of putting frosting on the top of your cakes and cupcakes try them without the frosting, or sprinkle a light coating of powdered sugar over the top.
When you're ready to serve the healthy desserts. You can find healthy dessert recipes by visiting My Tartelette, which is a great cake & dessert recipes site. And then don't tell your family that you've tweaked the recipe. If they know you've made changes to the dessert they'll complain. If you don't tell them, they'll eat it and enjoy it. Once they've finished dining, you can spring the newson them that they've eaten something healthy.


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The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has announced the formation an Iowa Agriculture Council. It's made up of farmers and ranchers who support HSUS' efforts to increase farm animal welfare standards.
It's the fourth state council formed by HSUS. The others are in Nebraska, Colorado and Ohio.
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If the animal rights-led organizations (H$U$, et al) can't successfully attack from the outside, they'll infiltrate (as they've done with the USDA) and destroy from within. Considering the propaganda promoting veganism on the H$U$ website, how can ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON believe this isn't just another step towards their goal of destroying animal enterprises? The stakeholders are the animal enterprises, NOT an anti-animal-use organization that is flimflamming the public and a few misguided animal raisers who seem to think if they throw enough others in front of the wolf, it won't get to them eventually.


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All kinds of things can go wrong when you're doing aerial silk acrobatics.
"There are no nets or safety wires, and you're up about twenty feet off the ground," said Tatanya Hamermesh, who started out on the flying trapeze at age five, and graduated to "Aerial Silk" shortly after she got out of high school.
"Open drops are the most dangerous. You wrap the fabric around your waist and then do one drop per wrap. You're supposed to be counting your drops so you know when you're done with your wraps. When you get to the end, you just hang on. But you can miscalculate and run out of cloth and drop to the floor, or you can pull your shoulder out of joint if you don't have the strength to hold your weight with one arm. You need a strong grip and a strong core to get your butt over your head, and strong legs to keep your lines straight."
While Hamermesh has never had an accident, something more insidious happened to her a couple of years ago. She'd been doing aerial gigs around town, most notably at Denver's Church Nightclub, and one night in the middle of her routine she heard a loud pop in her pelvis.
"I was approaching my 30s," she said, "so I thought maybe it was weakness or age. I rested it and began going to physical therapy, but it kept happening. Then I started feeling a lump on my pelvis near the groin."
Just over a year ago, she went in for an MRI and a biopsy. The news was not good.
She had, she was told, Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare pediatric cancer that is almost unheard of in adults. "It's a non-genetic cancer," she explained, "a completely random gene mutation that had already metastasized to my lungs. I was in shock. I never felt sick or out of breath. Other than the injury, I felt fine."
Equally devastating was the fact that she received the news just three days before she was scheduled to be married. "We went ahead with the wedding anyway," she said, "and I started chemo four days later."
Over the past twelve months, she's received 16 rounds of chemo, 13 blood transfusions, a month of radiation on her pelvis, and another month of radiation on her lungs. In what she now refers to as "my lovely year on the couch," she spent much of her time reflecting on her life.
"I've always had a hard time focusing," she said. "I always had ten balls in the air. I wanted to be a diplomat. I wanted to travel. I wanted to work for the UN. But aerial arts were always there in the background. My one regret is that I never really gave my aerial career my full attention. If I live, that's all I want to do. Cancer forced me to determine what's really important. It was a hard lesson."
A year since her diagnosis, Hamermesh is still not entirely out of the woods. She gets a CT scan every three months and so far, the pelvic tumor appears to be in remission, though her doctors are still undecided about her lungs. Even so, she felt good enough this past March to join her husband for a long-overdue honeymoon in Ecuador, Argentina, and Uruguay.
She's also gradually re-entering the world of aerial dance. She's working out again, and serving as General Director for the North American Aerial Acrobatic Arts Festival scheduled for May 30th and 31st at the King Center at Auraria.
"The Aerial Arts Festival was the brainchild of my mom," she said. "It's designed to give semi-pros some exposure, and also to build a community of aerialists. It's inspiring to see so much talent coming to Denver. I hope by next year I'll finally have a chance to compete. But the irony is that now that I know what I want to do, my body may not let me do it."
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On Feb. 5, a 26-year-old man was shot and killed by a Rockford police officer during a confrontation police say he was loitering and harassing customers inside the Hilander at North Main and Riverside, he then ran across the street, where officer Richard Devlieger caught up with him, Donald Cooper intimated that he had a weapon, and police say he got into a shooting stance. That's when Devlieger fired, police say, in self defense.
Donald coopers' attorneys and family held a news conference on Monday to discuss the lawsuit that will be filed on Tuesday in Winnebago County.
On Monday, Bob Fioretti, along with 2 other Chicago attorneys, discussed the filing of a discovery lawsuit. The lawsuit is seeking documents and information from 6 entities involved in the investigation including the Rockford police department and Kroger foods--the owner of Hilander. The attorney's are also demanding a 3rd party investigation.
Donald's father, James, says he brought his son to Rockford a week before his death Donald wanted to get help for his alcohol problem at Jack Clark's home a rehab center. James and Donald's mother Carolyn, spoke passionately about their son's love of family, sports and life.
Coopers' attorney's say they're mind-boggled as to why the police department would release cooper's rap sheet the day after the shooting.
The police department says it has no comment at this time as the investigation is continuing.
The information coopers' attorneys receive out of the discovery lawsuit could lead to a wrongful death or a federal civil rights violation lawsuit.


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Prepare for an adventure like never before when Indiana Jones invades the Fort Worth Museum of Science when National Geographic presents Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology. This special exhibit serves as the backdrop into the real world of archaeology featuring items from four different collections making it more than just a display of movie props but takes you on a journey to learn how archaeology has changed from the mid-20th century from when Indy's adventures too place until now.
The special preview event for the press was more than just your average press day, but turned into an adventure before the exhibit ever opened. As the press filed into the lobby of the beautiful Fort Worth Museum of Science you could feel the excitement building to get to see this exhibit, but the press were in for a treat first. As the various people behind putting this amazing exhibit together stepped up to the podium to speak press looked on filming and recording just like any other event with none of them ready for what happened next. As the final speaker took the podium he mentioned that Doctor Jones had delivered one last item for the exhibit, but before he could even finish his statement a large thug burst in to steal this mystery treasure. Thankfully Jones wasn't too far behind as he burst onto the scene to protect his latest archaeology finding. As per usual it wasn't long before Jones was locked in hand to hand combat with the assailant using everything from their fists, to swords, and of course the fight couldn't be complete without the iconic whip cleaving its mark. As this feast of fun came to a close with our favorite archaeologist the victor the exhibit was opened for the real adventure to begin.
As you prepare to enter the exhibit fans are greeted by a huge banner reminding you that you are stepping into something bigger than just your imagination. Before stepping into the exhibit itself you are given a small device consisting of a touch screen pad and head phones that will enhance your experience through site and sound, taking you inside the adventure and features an audio introduction worthy of wearing the fedora. This is an exhibit to been seem to truly give it the full credit it deserves. As no surprise everything is sectioned off by each film displaying props from all the films including the most famous pieces from each film including the Ark of the Covenant, various productions pieces of art and models, and costumes. Whether you are a hardcore fan or not there is something magical about standing next to the iconic out of Jones himself complete with hat and whip that makes everything in this exhibit feel all the better and at the same time feel small by comparison. The layout is pretty easy to navigate with something new and exciting around every corner. Despite your feelings about Kingdom of the Crystal Skull seeing some of the pieces are still awesome, one particularly large one is just really cool. While the exhibit itself is way cool and could stand on its own, they have taken it to a whole new level including various side displays within the exhibit featuring actual artifacts and the stories behind them that makes it that much cooler. Throughout the exhibit there is a fun little game that can be played with your portable device they provide to collect virtual artifacts as well as use it to watch film clips and behind the scenes videos that just adds to the overall adventure.
Fans of the film series will not want to miss out on this unique exhibit so join the adventure when Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology: The Exhibition comes to the Fort Worth Museum of Science from March 8th through August 10th and just too wet your appetite are a few pics of what you will see, but rest assured this is just a drop in the snake pit.
For more information and tickets head over to http://fortworthmuseum.org/


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Last week was Independent Booksellers Week (I.B.W.) in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland from Saturday June 28, 2014 to Saturday, June 5, 2014. This year saw the introduction of the IBW Bookshop Crawl on Saturday, July 5, 2014, as shown in this bibliophile's vlog (video-blog).
This celebration of independent bookstores is part of a larger effort to defend the physical bookshop in the British Isles. According to the Web site, "Independent Booksellers Week is part of the Books Are My Bag campaign, and seeks to celebrate independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland. We do this with events, celebrations, reading groups, storytelling, author signings, literary lunches and face painting! Your local bookshop will have their own way of celebrating, and we encourage you to visit to celebrate with them."
According to a separate Web site for Books Are My Bag, "BOOKS ARE MY BAG is a nationwide campaign to celebrate bookshops. This collaboration between publishers, bookshops and authors and is the biggest ever promotion of bookshops. For many people bookshops conjure fond images of book readings, in-store cafes and delight at the discovery of a new author. In fact, 56% of all book buying decisions are made by consumers in a bookshop and high street bookshops (both chains and independents) still account for almost 40% of books bought by consumers. Yet, many high street bookshops are under threat."[1]
Part of the campaign involves encouraging readers to go to bookstores, take pictures of themselves ("selfies") with Books Are My Bag canvas bags, and post them on Twitter, as explained in this vlog.
This is the second year for the campaign. It "was devised pro bono by M&C Saatchi and was inspired by the precepts of Lord Maurice Saatchi's Brutal Simplicity of Thought."
The B.B.C. cited The Booksellers Association of the United Kingdom and Ireland, Limited (abbreviated as The BA) as stating sixty-seven independent bookstores closed in the U.K. last year and only twenty-six new independent bookstores opened. The number of independent bookshops in The BA dropped from 1,028 to 987.
The BA announced the winners of the Independent Booksellers Week Book Award 2014 (IBW Book Award), which, for the first time this year, included three categories: Adult, Children's Fiction, and Children's Picture Book. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson won in the Adult category.
The BA stated, "The judges praised the ambition, wit and breathtaking clarity in the way Kate Atkinson evokes wartime Britain and English family life in Life After Life, a novel that spans the most turbulent events of the 20th century in the run up to its second cataclysmic war."
Ms. Atkinson stated, "I am absolutely delighted that Life After Life has won the IBW Book Award. Independent booksellers have been a vital part of supporting my books and creating the essential word of mouth for all great writing. They are so knowledgeable and read so much. I am enormously grateful for all the work they continue to do."
Flora & Ulysses by Kate Di Camillo, illustrated by K.G. Campbell, and published by Walker Books won in the Children's Fiction category. The BA stated, "Flora & Ulysses tells the unusual story of Ulysses, the poetry-writing squirrel, in a book that the judges said is brimming with warmth, wit, charm and quirky humour – with both child and adult appeal either as a shared or more challenging solo read."
Ms. Di Camillo, a resident of Minneapolis, stated, "Flora & Ulysses is a story about superpowers and poetry and friendship. And booksellers have consistently given all of those things to me. I am absolutely thrilled with this honour. I am (truthfully) a little bit undone. Thank you."
A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Mark Hearld, and (also) published by Walker Books won in the Children's Picture Book category. The BA stated, "The inaugural Children's Picture Book category award was given to Nicola Davies for A First Book of Nature, praised by the judges for its inspiring text, stunning illustration, superb design and quality production – a 'perfect marriage of words and stunning illustrations.'"
Ms. Davies stated, "I couldn't be more delighted about this prize from the people who know the most about books. Indy bookshops are the future because they offer guidance through the sea of books we don't want to read to the ones we DO, instead of just throwing us in without a float to compass like the big sellers do."
Publishers nominated books. Booksellers drew up shortlists that consisted of ten titles in the Adult category and twelve each in the Children's Fiction and Children's Picture Book categories.
There were two separate panels of judges. Each consisted of authors, booksellers, and journalists. Both panels were chaired by Meryl Halls, Head of Membership Services for The BA.
Ms. Halls stated, "The winning books were chosen after much debate around each of the very strong, and varied, shortlists. They are all perfect titles for independent booksellers to be enthusiastic about and hand sell. The judges have chosen fantastic winners, and we are delighted to be able to showcase these books during IBW."
IBW Booksellers Collectibles are a range of books that are sold exclusively by independent bookstores during Independent Booksellers Week. This year, Icon Books released a booklet by Mark Forsyth, The Unknown Unknowns: Bookstores and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted on Saturday, June 28, 2014. It sold for £1.99.
For The Independent, Forsyth wrote "The Unknown Unknown, by Mark Forsyth, book review: Where to find answers to questions you didn't ask," posted on Sunday, June 29, 2014. The booklet is shown in this vlog.
According to Icon Books, "Mark Forsyth explores in this essay the most valuable thing about a really good bookshop. Along the way he considers the wisdom of Donald Rumsfeld, naughty French photographs, why Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy would never have met online, and why only a bookshop can give you that precious thing – what you never knew you were looking for."
[1] In the United Kingdom and several Commonwealth countries, far more towns have High Streets than Main Streets. As a matter of fact, High Street is the single most popular street name in the United Kingdom and Main Street is third. In Ireland, parts of Scotland, the United States of America, and the British parts of Canada, towns the major roads are more likely to be named Main Street. The term High Street conjures an image in the minds of British people very similar to the one conjured in the minds of Americans by Main Street: the widest road running through the downtown of a town or village, lined with professional offices, banks, shops, and restaurants. Whether or not the main street in a particular town in England, Wales, and Scotland is actually called High Street, the term is used as short hand for the business district.


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ID theft is a serious problem in this country. In fact, one in ten consumers has already been a victim of this serious crime. Those who do commit this offense, though, know exactly where to look, and being careful in each of these places can reduce your risk of being a victim in the future.
Restaurants, retail stores, and supermarkets are big hotspots. Skimmers can fit inside someone's pocket, so paying with cash is the best possible idea in places like these. Online is another spot that you may become a victim of ID theft. You can avoid this problem by only using secure websites. Updated SSL certificates are an absolute must, and don't send out personal information via email.
ATMs can also be dangerous. There have been hundreds of cases where someone put a skimmer inside an ATM, so look carefully of suspicious ATMs. Look for telling spots that could hold pinhole cameras or those with scuffs on the machine.
Watch your mail as well. Make certain you hand your bills directly to the mailman to keep people from raiding your mailbox. If you're traveling, hang on to your wallet carefully. You may even want to carry prepaid cards to avoid identity theft entirely in these situations.


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Vancouver citizens will have two chances Wednesday to weigh in or ask questions about the Columbia River Crossing project at a pair of open house meetings in the Vancouver Community Library.
There won't be any formal presentations during the meetings, but a series of stations designed to cover different topics, said CRC spokeswoman Anne Pressentin. Those will include a general overview of the more than $3 billion project, property information and next steps. Hard copies of the project's sweeping final environmental impact statement — recently sent to federal authorities for approval — will also be available for visitors to look through.
CRC officials have scheduled four public meetings this week: two in the Vancouver Community Library on Wednesday, and two in Portland's Hayden Island on Thursday. Meetings are scheduled to last from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. both days. Each will follow the same format, with visitors free to come and go as they please.
The CRC would build a new Interstate 5 bridge between Washington and Oregon, rebuild the freeway on both sides of the Columbia River and expand Portland's light rail system into Vancouver. The project is estimated to cost between $3.1 billion to $3.5 billion.
The Columbian will be at Wednesday's meetings at the Vancouver library, located at 901 C St. Look for updates here later in the day. You can also keep tabs on the discussion as it happens at www.twitter.com/col_enviro.


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Join us as well celebrate the bear necessities of bear conservation! Make sure to visit Lewis & Clarke, the North American black bears at 12:30 p.m. for the Black Bear Keeper Talk & Training Session. More "bear" fun will also be available!
Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.


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Disease Proof
Iron, No Meat Needed
Most nutritarians only eat meat once a week or less, so, are they getting enough iron? Yup, they certainly are. Veggies are loaded with iron. Take a look at this:
Now, Sally Squires of The Washington Post examines the issue of iron without the meat. Here's some of her article from The Lean Plate Club:
Now, Sally Squires of The Washington Post examines the issue of iron without the meat. Here's some of her article from The Lean Plate Club:
Dietary iron comes in two forms. One is in red meat, poultry, seafood and other animal products. Known as heme iron, it's absorbed more efficiently and more easily than the iron found in plants, from dried beans to spinach.Okay, here is an interesting tidbit about iron, too much can actually be problematic. Dr. Fuhrman explains:
So what can you do?
Eat cereal fortified with iron. One cup of instant fortified oatmeal has 10 milligrams of iron -- about 60 percent of the daily value. Eat a half-grapefruit or sip a half-cup of orange juice with it, since Vitamin C helps boost absorption of iron.
If you are a pesce vegetarian -- that is, you eat some seafood -- then you've got a lot of options, including oysters and clams. Just six oysters provide more iron than three ounces of chuck steak. And six ounces of clams -- about three-quarters of a cup -- have more iron than three ounces of beef tenderloin.
And if you don't eat seafood, then load up on dried beans and greens. There are delicious ways to do this. One cup of lentils packs 35 percent of the daily value of iron. Kidney beans are also a rich source of iron.
Certain minerals are toxic and if consumed daily with even as little as 5 to 10 times the recommended daily allowances (which is found in some supplements) can have detrimental effects. These minerals with a narrow therapeutic range are primarily chromium, selenium and iron.This worrying about iron if you don't eat meat, reminds me of the mindless blathering about protein. More from Dr. Fuhrman:
There is protein in all foods, ESPECIALLY VEGETABLES, not just in animal products. The fact is, protein deficiency is not a concern for anyone in the developed world. It is almost impossible to consume too little protein, no matter what you eat unless your diet is significantly deficient in overall calories. If it is, you'll deficient in other nutrients as well.Take me for example. The only animal I eat is some fish a few times a month and here are my protein and iron levels:
Iron: 73Oh! And I bench-press more than my bodyweight, so yeah, I'm not too worried about protein and iron. What do you think?
(reference range; 45-175 mcg/dL)
Protein: 7.5
(reference range; 6.2-8.3 g/dL)
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don stewart - April 9, 2008 10:11 AM
My wife and I gave blood last week. Her hemoglobin was 16 and mine was 15.9. We are 67 and 64 years old, respectively. The Red Cross people are amazed at our healthy hemoglobin levels. We get there with plain veggies--no meat with it's 'easily absorbed iron' and no iron fortified cereal and no iron pills. So we don't have to worry about excess iron oxidizing our cholesterol and creating plaques in our arteries. Are we missing something? I don't think so.
Don Stewart
Gerry Pugliese - April 9, 2008 10:21 AM
Hey Don-
Awesome! I get similar reactions from people my age. Since I'm in my twenties and in good shape, everyone thinks I must eat loads of meat and protein, when I tell them I don't, they look at me like I'm the elephant man--its funny.
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By Cree McCree
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Once a sleepy southern Florida jam-band scene, the Langerado Music Festival graduated to the big leagues in 2006. Eye-opening spectacle rockers Flaming Lips and ear-opening noise popsters Wilco were bookends for an adventurous lineup of artists ranging from founding fathers of funk The Meters to avant-garde high-stylists Brazilian Girls. The festival drew over 10,000 fans to Markham Park outside Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and gave Bonnaroo and Coachella a run for their money.
"Hippie radical drug culture freaks rule!" declared Flaming Lips agent provocateur Wayne Coyne at a no-holds-barred press conference that set the tone for the whole event. "Let's make George W. Bush bow down to us!" Rising to Coyne's challenge, The Meters' Art Neville threw his baseball cap in the ring: "I'm running for president!" And for two days in perfect balmy, sunny weather, President Art, King Wayne and their co-conspirators – onstage and in the crowd – created an alternative reality in Jeb Bush's backyard fueled by good music, good drugs, and good friends.
Headlined by Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals and The Black Crowes, the festival showcased 41 bands on five stages, including perennial favorites like Umphrey's McGee, G. Love & Special Sauce, Robert Randolph & the Family Band and Keller Williams. But it was the out-of-left-field acts like sonic sculptors Secret Machines that earned Langerado praise as an eclectic confab, dubbed "a leading light of the festival community" by Spearhead's Michael Franti.
Twang rockers Drive-By Truckers kicked Saturday into high gear with a spirited set that urged us to "Shut your mouth and get your ass off the ground" and climaxed with the anthemic centerpiece of their Southern Rock Opera, "Let There Be Rock." Hundreds of voices joined Patterson Hood as he sang the opening lines: "Dropped acid, Blue Oyster Cult concert, fourteen years old / And I thought them lasers were a spider chasing me."
Over in the Swamp Tent, Brazilian Girls' Sabina Sciubba was also tripped out: She was channeling David Bowie in an alien soft-sculpture boa and blue-veined body suit that showed plenty of shapely leg. "Pussy, pussy, pussy, pussy, marijuana," teased Sciubba, leading the crowd in a sultry sing-along with one part for the girls ("I've got one! I've got one!") and one for the boys ("I want one! I want one!"). Someone passed a joint up to her as Kraftwerk-meets-Doors keyboards created a louche cabaret of stoned trance dancers on a sunny afternoon.
The surrealism peaked with the outrageous visual theater of the Flaming Lips. King Wayne Coyne made a spectacular entrance inside a gigantic plastic bubble born aloft on a sea of hands. He then re-emerged onstage with a back-up chorus of giant fuzzy animals and proceeded to shoot the crowd with round after round of colored confetti. Swinging an arc light above his head, he turned us into a "giant karaoke machine" for "Bohemian Rhapsody," pulled out the boxing nun to segue into "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots," and moo-ed and quacked his way through "Cow Jam" on a kiddy electric keyboard.
Meanwhile, over on the Sunrise Stage, President Art Neville worked his own kind of magic on the keyboards as The Meters funked it up, old school, and led a heartfelt call-and-response with "Take Me Back to New Orleans."
The Sunday buzz band to catch was Brooklyn's Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, who did not disappoint; hard-edged raveups recalled the Velvet Underground and Violent Femmes, and singer Alec Ounsworth took the crowd over the top with a hair-and-hell-raising version of Neil Young's "Helpless." But for fans of avant noise pop, Sunday belonged to Wilco.
A super-relaxed Jeff Tweedy got the crowd in the mood with "Kingpin," Wilco's signature scream-along. Then the band laid down a pitch-perfect set of songs that made old favorites soar like they'd just been freshly minted. Guitarist Nels Cline, now a full-fledged Wilco member, continues to push Tweedy and company past their already out-there limits; "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" sounded just like the "aquarium drinker" it invokes, drowning in a swirling sonic eddy. "Spiders (Kidsmoke)" levitated right off the stage in an orgasmic crescendo. And "Late Greats" was the ideal capper for the whole Langerado experience: "So good you won't ever know / you'll never hear it on the radio."