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William Preston was about 45 years old when he moved his family to Smithfield in March of 1774. He and his wife had seven children at that time, five more children were born at Smithfield. Colonel Preston began at once to make Smithfield a productive and profitable plantation.
Colonel Preston had served as a member of the House of Burgesses and held the offices of County Lieutenant, Sheriff, and County Surveyor for Fincastle County Virginia. One of his greatest contributions was opening up the Kentucky lands for settlement by the colonists who were pushing westward.
As troubles with England grew, Preston's political responsibilities increased. He signed and possibly wrote the Fincastle Resolutions of 1775. These resolutions expressed the signers' sense of freedom, liberty, and popular sovereignty.
In 1776, Montgomery County was formed from Fincastle County and the colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. Colonel Preston was appointed County Lieutenant and had almost total authority over the new county's affairs. During the Revolutionary War, the Preston family and other Patriot families were threatened by the Shawnees and the Cherokees, as well as the many Tories in the New River area. Colonel Preston lived to rejoice in the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in October 1781, but died two years later in June 1783 while attending a regimental muster.
Susanna Smith Preston, Colonel Preston's wife, was left the use and profits of all of her husband's plantations, slaves, and stock if she remained single and supervised the rearing and education of their children, particularly their daughters. She lived at Smithfield for forty more years until her death in 1823. Smithfield continued to be the family seat for several generations afterward.
James Patton Preston, the first child born at Smithfield, inherited Smithfield. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, fought in the War of 1812, and was Governor of Virginia from 1816-1819. He died in 1843 and Smithfield became the home of his son, William Ballard Preston. William Ballard Preston served in the Virginia General Assembly and in 1849 was appointed Secretary of the Navy under President Zachary Taylor. A college in Blacksburg, Preston and Olin Institute, was named for him. It was from this school that Virginia Tech evolved. William Ballard Preston was the last Preston to make Smithfield his home, but it would remain in the possession of the family for two more generations.
In 1959, Janie Preston Boulware Lamb, great great granddaughter of Colonel William Preston, presented Smithfield to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities with the stipulation that the newly formed Montgomery County Branch of Preservation Virginia would restore, maintain, and open the house to the public.
Smithfield was first opened to the public in 1964, and today is a living document of the past, a testimony to the bravery and devotion to country of the Prestons who made it their home.


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Chelsea turned around a 3-1 loss at Paris Saint-Germain with a 2-0 win at Stamford Bridge to advance to the semifinal on away goals.
An ominous sign presented the hosts on 17 minutes played. Star attacking midfielder Eden Hazard went down and subsequently had to be substituted off due to injury.
However, it was his replacement, Andre Schurrle, that opened the scoring.
A long throw from Branislav Ivanovic was flicked on by David Luiz in the penalty box. The football fell right to the German's boot and he was able to convert a rather easy chance.
Just after 50 minutes it was Schurrle again, but his luck was absent. Willian pulled back a pass onto his run, and the ball cannoned off the crossbar.
PSG immediately conceded a free kick just outside of the area. Oscar, too, put it off the crossbar and the ball was eventually cleared.
Petr Cech was called into action about five minutes later parrying away a free kick across the face of goal.
Edinson Cavani has a chance to kill the tie off in the 76th minute with an opportunity from the left side. But instead, the ball was blazed over the bar.
In the 79th minute, PSG managed to grab some possession. Lucas Moura rifled in a shot, but Cech made a smart save and caught the football in the process.
Fortunes changed in the 87th minute.
A long ball hit into the box bounced around and Torres struck for goal. A deflection played it right into the path of Demba Ba who applied the finish.
Chelsea defended well in the final minutes to see out the 2-0 score to advance 3-3 on away goals.

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Born in Kiev, Vadym Kholodenko was the winner of the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. A student of the great Vera Gornostaeva in Moscow, the 27-year-old was also First Prize winner of the Maria Callas, Sendai, and Schubert competitions. Kholodenko is notably the first musician in his family, and he teaches at the Moscow Conservatory. Below is a transcript of our recent San Francisco conversation with the brilliant pianist, Vadym Kholodenko.
EH: For those who aren't familiar with your musical background, please describe your musical upbringing. At what age did you begin thinking of the problem of piano technique and how to solve it ?
Kholodenko: Well, it all started at the age of six when my mother took me to music school. Her main thought at the time was simply that it was better for me to spend time with music than with a football (laughs). I have to confess that from the very first lesson, I never felt forced or pressured by my parents. It was my own intention to play and to practice, and I'm very grateful that my parents and teachers realized that I probably had some talent.
To be honest, I mostly played scales and some very simply studies by Moszkowski. Today, I warm-up with scales, arpeggios, and some very simple things that are very, very useful. I'm an assistant to my professor at the Moscow Conservatory, and while I cannot be with students too much due to my scheduled concerts, I find the old-fashioned ways to be very, very helpful.
EH: How is you musical memory ?
Kholodenko: Sometimes people ask me how much music I can memorize (laughs). Last year, over seven evenings in Ukraine, I played all 32 of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas. That's 11.5 hours of music. Of course, I try not to think about it too much, but it seems to stay in the fingers.
EH: That's incredible. A question we ask every pianist - because every pianist has a slightly different hand - which is the most difficult Chopin Etude for your hand ?
Kholodenko: I should say all of Opus 10. I've played the Transcendental Etudes of Liszt, but compared to the Chopin Etudes, they're nothing (laughs). This is an exaggeration, of course (laughs), but even the First Chopin etude is extremely difficult to play.
EH: I'm curious to know your personal feelings about Rachmaninoff, who was arguably the last universally-admired composer-pianist.
Kholodenko: The figure of Rachmaninoff is very special for me. Whenever I am working on a piece that Rachmaninoff has recorded, I always make a special effort to listen and study his recordings very carefully. I admire him on the very highest level. In my opinion, he was able to keep such incredible balance - having the soundest structure, yet maintaining flexibility - and combining it with the finest musical taste. His style is probably the one I would most like to follow in my own performances.
EH: One of the composers you've performed, a friend of Rachmaninoff's, is Medtner. I would love to hear your thoughts on this magnificent composer, and why, for you, his music isn't quite as well-known to the public.
Kholodenko: You know, this is a very sad issue for me, especially because Medtner is now not so well-known even in his native country. In my opinion, if you listen to his recordings, he was perhaps a pianist as great as Rachmaninoff. It's not always possible to do it, but whenever I can, I do try to include Medtner in my programs. Not all of his works are of equal musical value, but some of the Sonatas and Fairy Tales, his concertos, are such beautiful music. These are real masterpieces.
EH: Being from Kiev, I must ask you about your thoughts on Vladimir Horowitz, or any of the other great artists who came from that area. Whose recordings do you find yourself returning to the most and who has most influenced your development over the years ?
Kholodenko: I'd have to say that the pianists who influenced me most were Emil Gilels and Glenn Gould. The sound of Emil Gilels is something that continues to amaze. On the other hand, I admire so much the musical structure of Gould, his phrasing, etc. I believe he contributed just about the most brilliant versions of some music.
Of course, I admire Horowitz. He's very well-known for his performances of some technically difficult pieces – people are always impressed by that – but he was also a very deep, very serious musician, and unfortunately, in my opinion, this side of him has been a bit hidden by his technical brilliance.
EH: You studied with Vera Gornostaeva, whose musicianship and recordings many pianists admire and adore. Can you speak a little bit about this legendary artist ?
Kholodenko: Yes, of course! Gornostaeva had an enormous influence on my musical growth. I am so happy to have a small connection with that old-school world of piano-playing. It may not be the most well-polished playing, but it was always about the sound, always about the music itself. Gornostaeva taught me that it really is about having a dialogue on the stage, and that it has to be about communication.
Of course, Vera told me much about Neuhaus and his famous pupils. She actually taught Gilels' daughter, so she was very well-known. It's interesting that until 1917, the Moscow Conservatory had many teachers from the West, and once the Soviet Union was formed, these teachers had to stay, as they were no longer allowed to leave the country. So when somebody asks me if there is a difference between the Russian and Western schools of playing, of course there's a difference. But it was all connected, too: Liszt taught Anton Rubinstein, who taught Siloti, who taught Rachmaninoff, etc.
EH: Last summer, you won one of the most prestigious music competitions in the world. What was your process of preparation for the Van Cliburn ? And does the late American pianist mean anything special to you ?
Kholodenko: The competition was very special for me. I think everybody felt Van's presence at the competition. People would share their memories of his performances. My own teacher in Moscow actually still remembers his performance at the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958, how the audience admired him and his personality so much, and how happy they were that he won the top-prize. Of course there was controversy, but the end-result was good. I've known his recordings since childhood because my mother bought his LP recordings, and they're just incredibly beautiful. I admire him very much, and it was just wonderful that over the three weeks, the audience experienced so much beautiful music in his name.
I began preparing for the competition about six months to a year before the competition. Before the prelims, there were live auditions in different cities. Many of the pieces I played were those I had played before - I'd have to be very brave to use completely fresh pieces (laughs) – and the interesting thing was bringing together the appropriate program for the competition. I discussed it with my professor for a long time, and it was interesting to hear the thoughts of different people on this matter.
EH: The incredible Cyprien Katsaris once said (interview) that there was a kind of academic playing that affected the aesthetics of pianism for generations, in a negative way. What are your thoughts on piano competitions in general ?
Kholodenko: This is a very interesting subject, actually. I'm not a very big fan of competitions. They often have little to do with real music-making, which should be experienced in an intimate chamber hall. But I do recognize that we live in the real-world, and competitions are necessary. There are nerves and very awful experiences before each round because of the pressure. It is not pleasant (laughs). However, you do grow, and you become stronger by going through these experiences. I don't think it has a strong influence on the culture, though. My teacher told me about Grigory Sokolov, who was just 16 years-old when he played at the Tchaikovsky competition. He was a young boy who played brilliantly, and he is now one of the big figures of real music. Competitions did not seem to affect him negatively.
EH: You mentioned Glenn Gould earlier. In your opinion, is it possible for great performers to surpass the vision of a composer ?
Kholodenko: This is a complicated question. You know, Gould brought a kind of self-confidence, a strong view of Bach's music. I'm not sure that it's the way Bach imagined his music to be played, but I do believe Gould's version is 100% truth, because it was developed so thoroughly, where every detail was accounted for. Of course, in my opinion, we've had some different views about Serkin's Schubert Sonatas, Hamelin playing Medtner, etc. and if you feel that these are truths, then that's beautiful. But I don't think you can ever cheat an audience. The audience is smart, and every time we feel something, we know. A new vision for a composer, or his works, in many cases, is a subjective view. We feel the music ourselves, and this can never be the exact way that the composer felt. The composer likely did not think of the specific audience when he was writing either.
EH: If you feel comfortable answering, what are your thoughts on the current conflict in Ukraine right now ? I believe you still have family living there ?
Kholodenko: Thank you for asking, Elijah. My mother and grandmother are still living in Kiev, actually. I think Putin is very passionate about the idea of 'empire'. Crimea was originally a very important place for the Russians, and the situation is probably a huge bonus for his next presidential election. Actually, this probably guarantees a fourth, fifth, and 150th presidential term for him. From this perspective, this is good for Putin's Russia. Putin's Russia needs power. There is a phantom pain for the separated parts of the USSR that is still in Russian blood.
For Ukraine, this is a tragedy. This is a total failure of the diplomatic section, failure of new government, failure of hope that something can change in Ukraine, and in Russia as well. But all of this is nothing compared to the tragedy of the people. This is not your average war: this is civil war. This is a war between nations who were in the Second World War. Together.
Of course, all of this is just lyrical tweet. War means war. Through all of the hysteria, I feel the weakness of my generation, in comparison with the generation of my grandmother. That generation saw and experienced real war.
EH: Vadym, thank you for sharing these thoughts. I wish the very best for you and your family.
Kholodenko: Thank you very much, Elijah. It was my pleasure.
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Working Man's Death
A documentary on the extremes to which workers will go to earn a living. In today's technological age - is heavy manual labour disappearing or is it just becoming invisible?
Physical work was once celebrated with hymns of praise. But workers today must be content with encouraging one another that their hard work is better than no work at all. This series looks at the state of physical work in today's world. Work that is dreary, demanding and at time dangerous.
Episode 1: Heroes
When dawn breaks over Kawah Ijen, men with bamboo baskets slung over their shoulders and torches in their hands emerge one by one out of the darkness, only to disappear into the white sulfur vapors of the volcano later. We visit east Java in Indonesia – where men climb steep paths amid pungent vapours carrying a heavy load of sulphur rock from the mouth of a volcano.
The sun is already out by the time they reach the "kitchen." The "kitchen" is the place at the edge of the hot, blue-green lake at the bottom of the crater where sulfur is mined. The "kitchen" spits, hisses, billows up in clouds of hot caustic vapor. Here molten sulfur flows through long clay pipes, touches the air, and hardens in a matter of minutes. Orange puddles turn into pale-yellow, jagged-edged chunks and slabs.
Equipped with long iron rods, the men stuff a cloth or the sleeve of their jackets into their mouths, and dash up the slope and into the biting fumes. There they break off big chunks of hardened sulfur. After a few minutes of this, they are forced to take a breath. They cough and spit, but keep on working.
Episode 2: Ghosts
The Port Harcourt slaughter yard is a labyrinth of people and animals. The entire area is actually a market, which lies between the zoo, a bridge in the middle of construction, a river, and an area where multinational corporations like Coca Cola and Shell have settled.
The grounds consist of a few huts, a large covered market hall, a cold storage room, a corral for the cattle, pig pens, a pool table sheltered by an awning, a mosque, a few shanties, a slope leading down to the river, and the places where the slaughtering is done.
These places are a large paved surface "The Slab," where the cattle is slaughtered, skinned, and cut into portions, and a charred elevated platform for roasting the beef heads, skin, feet, and whole goats.
First, the young assistants of the goat butchers and goat roasters bring in the animals. The goats make the most noise as they are being led - all tied together - to the slaughter yard. You can't tell if they sense what's in store for them; maybe it's just uncomfortable to be pulled around all tied together like that.
Episode 3: Lions
It's snowing in Shamorgar, a little Pakistani mountain village near the border to Afghanistan. Ramadan is over. The harvest is in. Corn, onions, potatoes, and tomatoes are being stored for the winter.
It's calm in the village. A blacksmith is repairing hooks, rakes, shovels, and plows. The owner of the general store opens for business. The muezzin calls to prayer. His voice echoes across the vast landscape.
The Pashtuns are big, proud, and strong. The men speak softly, are seldom loud. They themselves say they can perform the most grueling tasks and are not afraid because they have been chosen by Allah to do so.
That's why they are generally the ones who make the long journey from the mountains in the north to Southern Baluchistan. Here they scrap huge ships. Piece by piece they cut apart the gigantic hulls until all that remains are small sections of steel plate.
Episode 4: Brothers
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reminds me of my old demolition labour ,which i gladly don't miss !up to
70 hours a week with regular minor & the odd fatal injuries but the pay was ok!
Everyday you come out of the hole is a good one. The Mining sector is now my second career. Albeit, you would not catch me in a mine like the ones shown here, but suffice to say, I have been to three backwater places on the globe where it was pucker factor 9.9 the whole time. My sphincter was sore after those ascents and descents, never mind the general work conditions and safety procedures. I received extra pay for those three jobs, I actually negotiated on a sat phone with my boss, getting the dangerous super heavy duty pay package from the top of the header for the elevator shaft, I absolutely refused to go in that hole unless the man was upping extra dough. It was probably the scariest work site i have ever been on through a lifetime of engineering work. The job I do pays very well, but for laborers in some of the Countries I have been to, it is literally for pennies a day, risking it all for their families and themselves, to eek out a rather low scale existence. I made a lot of friends while there though, being a charitable kind of person, I partially payed for and helped build playground equipment for a local school and its students through a work program that my company partly covers the cost of. These people deserve better money than their state sponsored mining industries pay them, we are sub contractors, and nothing more, we have no say in what they get. A lot of these men look much older than they are for good reason. Having the living sh*t scared out of you everyday can age a man quickly.
interesting comment - bet you would be worth buying a beer :)
stay safe - andy, uk
I may take you up on that, I have some friends in the UK, in Bournemouth and Manchester. I plan on visiting sometime in the future. They owe me a few cold ones for some old bets.
ahh,manchester........most beautiful metropolis of this decaying
world!haven't been back in 10 years,miss it!
Aaahhhh yes. The soddy mancs are not far removed from the potato farmers that inhabit Wales.....LOL. The sheep and cows in Wales can hear a zipper at 50 paces doncha know lad. Bloody mancs are not far behind at all. This is the type of friendship we have, it insists of me insulting them at every turn, while they call me a moose shaggin canuck whenever the opportunity arises, which is, it seems, every 4 minutes or so. Good lads they are anyways, off topic as it is.
och,not necessary off topic when one beholds manchesters industrial
history ,where labour was hard,dangerous & under-paid!with pride,
the turn of the centuries economy was made possible on the pain-ridden backs of northern souls !out of date,maybe...but not off topic.
Hey! from North Bay slpsa. Thanks for telling me about this site.
Loved this doc and it ended too soon.
Despite their horrendous job, these miners seemed so sweet. I thought they'd act hard and bitter.
I cringed watching them dig with out safety glasses, and those tight spaces - eeeks!
Imagine the boys in Sudbury having to work under those primitive conditions?
See my post slpsa about Working Man's Death. Just wanted to let you know I've been gobbling up these docs.
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The N900 will run Maemo 5, and feature a 3G cellular connection (WCDMA and HSPA at 900/1700/2100 MHz), a WVGA touchscreen display and hardware QWERTY keyboard. It will pack an ARM Cortex-A8 processor, 1 GB of RAM, 32GB of storage (expandable up to 48GB via microSD), and OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration. Nokia's new smartphone will be capable of multitasking, it will run a browser made by Mozilla, and will support Adobe Flash 9.4.
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text: On Beyond a Million: An Amazing Math JourneyAuthor: David M. SchwartzIllustrator: Paul MeiselPublisher: Dragonfly BooksCopyright: 1999ISBN: 0-385-32217-8Number of Pages: 32Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 610This book provides a context for exploring extremely large numbers, including googol and beyond. Students involved in popping popcorn for an assembly have a popcorn machine that is out of control, and they are curious to find out the number of kernels popped. Since it is impossible to count fast enough, Professor X suggests "power counting" using powers of 10 to do the job. Many interesting facts involving large quantities emerge along the way. Go to: How to Use This BookHighlights and InsightsRelated ORC ResourcesOhio Standards


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For those of you that do not know, over the summer Andreas was out enjoying a ride on his motorcycle when he was sideswiped by an unlicensed and uninsured driver. Andreas was left with broken bones and his foot was nearly severed from his body. The doctors were miraculously able to reattach his foot and he is making a recovery. Since the driver had no insurance, however, he has been left to shoulder the entire burden of the exorbitant medical bills.
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High temperature superconductors have remarkable properties: they conduct electricity with zero resistance, even with simple cooling by liquid nitrogen; they can withstand high magnetic fields and huge current densities - and we now know that they continue to be superconducting throughout the plasma pulse in a tokamak. It has long been known that high temperature superconductors could have an important role to play in the future of tokamak fusion research, but this is the first time they have actually been used for magnetic field coils on a tokamak.
In the experiment, two of the copper magnetic field coils on the Golem tokamak in Prague were replaced by high temperature superconductor in a simple cooling system known as a cryostat. Plasma pulses were then created in the normal way and the tokamak operated exactly as expected. A whole series of further experiments is now planned.
Dr Mikhail Gryaznevich, Chief Scientist of Tokamak Solutions, said "this was an important step for fusion research. We have learned a lot about the practical use of high temperature superconductors on tokamaks and these new materials are now certain to play a key role in the future of controlled fusion."
Dr Vojtìch Svoboda of the Czech Technical University in Prague said "although Golem is just a small tokamak, we are always looking for innovative ways to improve its performance and to progress fusion research. Last year Golem became the first tokamak to be operated fully remotely via the internet. This year, thanks to a stimulating collaboration with Tokamak Solutions and Oxford Instruments, it is the first tokamak to use high temperature superconductors."
Dr Radomír Panek of the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic said "we are delighted to have supported this groundbreaking experiment. High temperature superconductors will be vital to the future of fusion research and this experiment has already provided useful data."
Jonathan Flint, Chief Executive of Oxford Instruments, said "Oxford Instruments has long established track record supplying tools and consultancy services to the fusion community and as the leading innovator in high performance magnets for scientific applications, so we were delighted to play our part in this successful collaboration."
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Hugging is an important welcoming part for Kairos prison ministry team members. It's not too accepted in the prison population, like the one at the William Clements Unit.
It was maybe two years ago during a four-day gathering of Kairos and Clements prisoners that Pat Pirtle cracked a joke about hugging to ease the tension. He then asked inmate Johnny Ray to come forth. And they shared an embrace.
They had been in the same room once before, a courtroom in the early 1990s when Pirtle was a 251st District Judge, and Ray, along with his court-appointed attorney, stood before him. Pirtle pronounced sentence upon Ray that he was to die by lethal injection for capital murder. And now they hugged.
"It was,'' Pirtle recalled, "a real special moment.''
Pirtle is now a justice on the 7th Court of Appeals. Ray is no longer on death row, his conviction overturned because of the fraudulent testimony of pathologist Ralph Erdmann. He plea bargained a life sentence.
Those are the unexpected moments that very few members of Kairos, an international prison ministry, can experience. There are about 30 in the Panhandle who meet with 42 prison inmates for four-day "retreats'' twice a year and follow-ups the first Saturday of each month.
They are from all over the Panhandle - Silverton, Tulia, Hereford - including a man in his late 70s from Wheeler. A couple are in law enforcement. One is a heart surgeon. But there is only one judge.
Pirtle estimates out of the 4,000 or so prisoners at Clements, he has issued sentences on hundreds of them in his 17 years as a district judge. All kind of crimes and all kind of times.
Not to diminish the work or the challenge for other Kairos members, but only one has that kind of uneasy connection with hardened criminals who don't think real highly of Pirtle and his opinions. And now he comes face to face with several of them again.
Why do it? Pirtle has a simple, matter-of-fact explanation.
"I'm a Christian first and foremost,'' he said. "I really separate my role as a judge from my life as Christian.''
Pirtle's last Kairos time with the 42 inmates was Sept. 20-23. It wasn't his first rodeo. He's been doing this for 10 years after he tentatively accepted an invitation from a friend.
"I was not real comfortable with the idea, but I thought I'd at least try it,'' he said. "But I was so moved by the experience that I just kept going.''
Pirtle says he's never felt threatened or been threatened because he was a judge, and he could have been the target on several occasions. He's been in groups where prisoners, like Ray, were ones he sentenced. He's seen his position as a judge have negative and positive effects on prisoners.
Motivated by love for Christ
"Some are so turned off by the fact that I'm a judge that nothing I can say will ever influence them,'' Pirtle said. "They've made up their minds they don't like me or trust me.
"Others are so moved that someone representing the system would care for them that it gives me an opportunity to talk to them. It opens a door.''
Pirtle has to be aware of who he talks with and what they talk about. It was possible that his former district court could have jurisdiction on an offense committed by a prisoner while at Clements and have a case pending, so contact with a defendant was an ethical violation. Pirtle had to check the list of inmates to see if any had pending charges before he had contact with them.
And when some found out he was a judge, they would often want some free legal advice.
"That made me feel uncomfortable,'' he said. "I don't want to be rude and cut them off, but I turn the conversation to the fact I'm not there to talk about the fairness of their sentence, but to talk about the fairness of God. That's uncomfortable trying to deflect that.''
Cynics might suggest that Pirtle is trying to soothe a conscience or alleviate some guilt harbored by his legal decisions on prisoners, but that would miss the mark of his motives.
"I certainly don't go out there to feel better about what I've done in the courtroom,'' he said. "I'm motivated by my love for Christ. I was asked the question once by an inmate if I'd ever been unfair to someone appearing before me.
"It was a real piercing question. Most defendants or inmates don't ask about the fairness, but about the legality of it and the appeals. It caused me to examine the justice of my judicial decisions.
"I started crying. I know I'm imperfect. There's bound to have been a time when my sentence was not just. But there's nothing I can do to change that. That's part of being a judge. You just have to live with it.''
That stays with Pirtle, but so do other things. Like most Kairos members, he talks of the things he receives: the love from his fellow workers, the satisfaction of trying to walk the walk, and the grace he says he feels from God.
"There's not that much that distinguishes those on the outside from the inside,'' he said. "We're all sinners, and it makes me appreciate the grace that God pours out on me.''
A judge and a defendant are often two lives passing on two different planes, never to meet again after the sound of the gavel. And then Pirtle comes along, interjecting himself along with others in what he calls "sowers of seed.''
Last month, in the third of four days at Clements, a team member came to Pirtle and said an inmate, whom he had sentenced, wanted to speak with him.
Pirtle had not recognized him. So that Sunday, Sept. 23, the two sat down for a conversation.
"He just wanted to thank me,'' said Pirtle, "thank me for treating him like a human being.''
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|Norway (NO)
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|Population (thousands)
|Population density
|Persons per household
|GDP per capita PPS
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|Household characteristics
|Percentage living in rural areas: 25%
Percentage living in urban areas: 75%
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|41.2% Industry, including energy
4.8% Construction
15.7% Trade, transport and communication services
17.7% Business activities and financial services
19.5% Other services
1.1% Agriculture, hunting and fishing
This chapter provides a short overview on the Norwegian Pollution Control Act.
It is the first unified law in Norway concerning pollution and waste issues. It was at that time a political goal to create one basic legal framework for all types of pollution and waste.
The Pollution Control Act is a typical enabling act. This means that the details in each case are outlined in discharge permits and regulations issued by the pollution control authorities. The Act was established for the purpose of preventing and reducing harm and nuisance from pollution. This is reflected in the main rule of the act, which says that pollution is forbidden, unless it is specifically permitted by law, regulations or individual permits.
Section 1 of the Act states that the purpose of the Act is to protect the outdoor environment against pollution and to reduce existing pollution and waste. But environmental protection is not the only relevant consideration here. The act shall secure a satisfactory environmental quality based on a balance of interests, which includes costs associated with any measures and other economic considerations.
Pollution is defined in section 6 of the Act. The definition has two aspects. In the first place, certain actions must be present. There has to be a discharge of solids, liquids or gases to air, water or ground. This discharge must be caused by human activity, not by nature itself. Secondly, there has to be a risk of adverse effects or impacts on the environment. The discharge has to effect the recipient. It is enough that the discharge may cause damage or nuisance to the environment. That is in accordance with the precautionary principle. Any damage or nuisance is relevant here, whether they affect humans, animals or nature itself.
The Norwegian Pollution Control Act distinguishes between legal and illegal pollution. Section 7, first paragraph, states the basic principle and the main rule of the act: It is not allowed to possess, do, or initiate anything that may entail a risk of pollution, unless this is specifically permitted by law.
Almost all pollution activity in Norway is based on individual permits or licences issued by the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority or the county environmental agencies. Whether a permit is granted or not, depends on the professional judgement of the pollution control authorities.
In addition to the Ministry of Environment, Norway has three authority levels with regards to waste handling.
1. The Pollution Control Authority is responsible for following up firms that manage hazardous waste, which include both incinerators and landfills. The Authority also prepares suggestions for new waste regulations to the Ministry.
2. The County Governors are responsible for non-hazardous waste management, although they also follow up firms that handle some hazardous waste.
3. The Municipalities are responsible for following up collection and management of household waste. The municipalities are also responsible for local waste issues such as the ban on littering and open fire.
The Pollution Control Act regulates nearly all waste management activities. Specific requirements are given in Waste regulations under the Act. There are a number of waste regulations covering waste treatments such as landfilling and incineration or waste management of specific waste streams.
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|The Pollution Control Act is from 1981. It is the first unified law in Norway concerning pollution and waste issues. It was at that time a political goal to create one basic legal framework for all types of pollution and waste. One whole chapter, chp 5, concerns waste and waste management.
|Waste Regulation (Avfallsforskriften, 2004)
|All the different regulations concerning waste and waste handling is gathered in on big regulation called "Avfallsforskriften"/Waste regulation. It contains 14 chapters, and regulates explicitly different waste categories such as:
- Waste electrical and electronic equipment (EE equipment).
- Handling of discarded refrigeration equipment containing CFC
- Batteries which are hazardous to the environment
- End-of-life vehicles
- Collection and recycling of discarded tyres
- Take-back systems for beverage packaging
- Refund of taxes paid on trichloroethyleneTRI ,
- and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and perfluorocarbons (PFCs).
- Landfilling of waste
- Incineration of waste
- Hazardous waste
- Permits for transfrontier shipment of waste
- Discarded insulating glass units containing PCBs
|Landfill Directive 99/31
|Norwegian Waste Regulations
|Landfill Decision 33/03
|Norwegian Waste Regulations
|Incineration Directive 76/00
|Norwegian Waste Regulations
|BMW (Bio-degradable municipal waste)
|The Norwegian Waste Regulations, Chapter 9 Landfilling of waste
|Construction/demolition waste
|The Norwegian Waste Regulations, Chapter 15 About construction and demolition waste
Regional waste regulations in Norway cover responsibilities and fees in connection with collection and management of household waste. Municipalities also administer the ban on littering. Link: http://www.lovdata.no/ (in Norwegian)
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The Norwegian Government issues a White Paper on the environment almost every second year. The White Paper outlines the national waste targets and the instruments on how to reach them. This is analogue to a national waste management plan, apart from it does not have a legal reference. The White Paper is a report on the state of the environment and a discussion on the government's future policy on this particular field. .
The Paper includes several waste targets for the coming years. The national targets aim to
Further, the Paper describes new or revised instruments that the Government wants to put in place or have put in place to reach the targets:
County Governors have no mandatory waste management plans. Some municipalities have local waste management plans, but this is not compulsory either.
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Norway has introduced a financial support scheme to increase utilization of energy from waste treatment, in particular to address treatment of biodegradable waste. The scheme is handled through ENOVA which is an enterprise that was established to take a leading role in promoting environmentally friendly restructuring of energy consumption and energy generation in Norway. It is owned and financed by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE).
Norway has introduced a national strategy for hazardous waste which is mentioned in 3.1.
The Environmental Authorities carry out national and local information campaigns on waste issues every year. The last few years, these campaigns have been connected to landfilling of waste, hazardous waste, illegal export of waste and others. These campaigns are a mix of information and control of the regulations. This autumn (2009) there is a national campaign on the new Norwegian Regulation on C&D-waste.
In Norway, the Environmental Authorities are not involved in voluntary schemes such as EMAS or ISO 14001. With regards to eco-labelling, there is a Norwegian foundation called "Miljømerking" where businesses and others can apply to have their products or services ecolabelled. Again, the Environmental Authorities are not involved in this work. Link: http://www.ecolabel.no/
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|The objective is to promote and ensure correct handling of CD-waste, prevent illegal dumping of C&D waste and raise awareness amongst the waste producers.
|The waste producer must sort minimum 60% of the waste.
|Contractors must outline their waste management plans which must be accepted by the municipality before work begins. Further, there must be a survey on amounts and types of hazardous waste.
|Norwegian Waste Regulation, chapter 15.
|There has been national campaigns to evaluate how entrepreneurs have followed up the new regulations.
Secondly, the Norwegian Law on Product Control requires all businesses to consider substitution of products containing hazardous compounds with other products containing less hazardous compounds. This applies to the C&D industry as well.
Incineration tax and landfill tax are valid for C&D wastes.
The Environmental Authorities carry out national and local information campaigns on waste issues every year. The last few years, these campaigns have been connected to landfilling of waste, hazardous waste, illegal export of waste and others. These campaigns are a mix of information and control of the regulations. This autumn (2009) there is a national campaign on the new Norwegian Regulation on C&D-waste.
In Norway, the Environmental Authorities are not involved in voluntary schemes such as EMAS or ISO 14001. With regards to eco-labelling, there is a Norwegian foundation called "Miljømerking" where businesses and others can apply to have their products or services ecolabelled. Again, the Environmental Authorities are not involved in this work. Link: http://www.ecolabel.no/
Norway has implemented a ban on landfilling biodegradable waste. This is a part of the Regulation of landfilling, chapter 9 in the Waste Regulations.
· The ban on landfilling biodegradable waste, apply to waste that contains 10% TOC or more.
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|Transition period
|The ban was adopted by the Ministry of Environment in June 2008 and implemented 1. July 2009. There will be a period of 1-3 years where it is possible to apply for exceptions from the ban as treatment capacity for biodegradable waste in Norway is not adequate yet.
|Reduce landfilling of BMW and reduce emissions of methane.
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|Ban on landfilling of biodegradable waste (paper, wood, garden waste, food, textiles)
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|The ban is newly introduced so it will be evaluated later. However, the Authority assumes that methane emissions from landfills will be reduced drastically and more biodegradable waste will be recycled.
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|To encourage recycling of materials and internalise the environmental costs of landfilling
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|In 2007 it was 416 NOK pr tonne waste on landfills with double side and bottom lining, and 541 NOK for those without double lining.
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|If we look at the statistics from industry and business it shows a decreasing trend of waste being landfilled. This is due to that industry and business got more to gain on material recycling their waste. If we look at household waste it shows that this waste source is increasing more than GDP and also waste being landfilled from this source is increasing. But the all the waste being generated in Norway, 70 percent is recycled. Less waste is being landfilled, but not only due to this tax. This reduction is the result of several measures which were introduced in the waste sector particularly in the 1990s. With a few exceptions, it is prohibited to dispose easy degradable organic waste, sewage sludge included, at landfills in Norway.
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|Transition period
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|To encourage recycling of materials and internalise the environmental costs of incineration
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|Depending average figures on emission, the cost is in the range of 90 -120 NOK/tons
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|The result of the introduction of the incineration tax is more linked to reduction of emissions than waste prevention.
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SFT, County Governors and municipalities are organising campaigns to control the CD-industry to see whether they follow up the new regulations.


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My fear now is that we get a full winter's snow in April, just after the lifts close. We need it for the water supply, but once I'm down to bare ground, I'm done with winter.
This is unusual, to say the least. Last fall, there were no hornet nests to predict the winter. Instead of building high in the trees or low in the bushes, they just packed up and left entirely. I think they knew what kind of spring we were in for, and decided they didn't need to be part of it.
As if the state of the winter weren't enough, I had a colonoscopy last week. If you haven't had the pleasure, it's something to dread. On the other hand, compared to colon cancer, the choice is clear. At least it all looks good on paper.
When you are sitting there in the kitchen contemplating a 55-gallon drum of high-test laxative, a little colon cancer, years from now, doesn't seem all that bad.
I have about the worst health insurance in the world. Over the years, I've paid the company the price of a house. In return, they have paid almost $38 in claims. The company reported a net profit of $2.65 billion (with a "b") in 2011, and the CEO managed to eke out a living on $13.2 million. You don't get there by paying claims. Still, I'm not complaining about being healthy enough that I haven't run up big medical bills. Health insurance is a bet you make that you really hope to lose.
I had to call and get the process pre-approved. They expect that with a heart attack, too, and demand you get several competitive bids while in the ambulance.
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Because my doctor recommended it for a whole lot of very good reasons.
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"It's not recreational," I answered. What kind of question is that?
It turns out that under Obamacare, a preventive screening colonoscopy is now something they are required to pay for. Socialist bastard. The insurance companies don't much like that. If all of their customers get one colonoscopy every 10 years, and they have to pay for them, it might knock that $2.65 billion profit down to $2.64 billion. Next thing you know, the CEO will be living under a bridge.
If there was a way to weasel out of it, she was going to find it. If the procedure was because I actually had colon cancer, well, then the claim was denied and would be applied against my deductible in ways that guarantee that the deductible will never be reached. Obamacare won't let them cancel sick people anymore. So now they just hope you die quickly before eating into the bottom line.
If you didn't read Steven Brill's article on medical costs in the March 4 issue of Time, it's well worth digging up. His analysis of the health industry makes the banks look benevolent.
The process itself isn't bad, mostly because you are out cold and have no memory that a room full of women you might find attractive under other circumstances did unspeakable things to you with a drain snake. When it's all done, and you wake up (surprisingly quickly), the doctor stops by and gives you a written report, a bit of a pep talk, and, just for fun, a souvenir photo album of your nether reaches. Now there's something to post on your Facebook page.
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International Journal of Theoretical Physics
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Atom Capture by Nanotube and Scaling Anomaly
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The existence of bound state of the polarizable neutral atom in the inverse square potential created by the electric field of a single walled charged carbon nanotube (SWNT) is shown to be theoretically possible. The consideration of inequivalent boundary conditions due to self-adjoint extensions lead to this nontrivial bound state solution. It is also shown that the scaling anomaly is responsible for the existence of such bound state. Binding of the polarizable atoms in the coupling constant interval η 2∈[0,1) may be responsible for the smearing of the edge of steps in quantized conductance, which has not been considered so far in the literature.
KeywordsAtom bound state Self-adjoint extensions Scaling anomaly
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- Title
- Atom Capture by Nanotube and Scaling Anomaly
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International Journal of Theoretical Physics
Volume 47, Issue 6 , pp 1776-1783
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- 10.1007/s10773-007-9620-y
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- 0020-7748
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Rangers Pound Sabres For 8 Goals In Wild Friday Night Win
The Rangers strengthened their hold on the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference playoff picture with an eventful 8-4 win over the Buffalo Sabres last night, giving the Rangers four big points in two days after they beat the Panthers 6-1 on Thursday at the Garden. The Rangers, who were led by Brad Richards' first career hat trick, have now scored 14 goals in two nights and will take on the Devils tomorrow afternoon.
The Rangers, now 23-17-4 sit at 50 points for the season while the Jets have 49 after this afternoon's 5-4 shootout win against the Islanders, though the Jets (49 points) and Islanders (53 points) have both played one game more than the Rangers so far this year. The Senators have 57 points and are seventh in the conference.
Last night's game was very bizarre to say the least. The game got off to a slow start with neither team generating much of anything on offense until Carl Hagelin beat Ryan Miller on a wraparound at 18:42 of the first period. Brad Richards added his first goal of the night off a deflected slap shot less than a minute later at 19:39 and Ryane Clowe got a gift goal 17 seconds later after Ryan Miller misplayed a clearing attempt with just four seconds left in the period, and within a blink of an eye the Rangers had a 3-0 lead going into the first intermission.
The second period opened with more of the same. Anton Stralman scored a goal off a wrist shot from the right circle 1:13 into the second period that chased Ryan Miller from the game, and Richards potted his second of the night 27 seconds later. Rick Nash added another goal at 7:05 and before you knew it the Rangers had a 6-0 lead. All good, right? Sort of. The Sabres answered with a power play goal at 13:50 from Cody Hodgson and scored another quick goal six seconds later after Nathan Gerbe intercepted a terrible Michael Del Zotto pass. Suddenly, it was 6-2 and I think every Ranger fan was instantly reminded of the Montreal Meltdown when they blew a 5-0 lead a few years back. But fear not, because Ryan Callahan answered the call 32 seconds later with a goal on a breakaway, and that was pretty much that. The Sabres added another goal to make it 7-3 going into the second intermission, but that was pretty much that. Richards got his hat trick goal 12:32 into the third period and the Sabres got one more goal in garbage time to give you a final score of 8-4. Just like how you drew it up, right?
It certainly wasn't pretty, and was truly scary how many defensive breakdowns the Rangers had after jumping out to a 6-0 lead. Plus, Henrik Lundqvist was far from his sharpest. But two points is two points and the Rangers will gladly take it. The Rangers were benefited by a few cheap goals and weird plays that they normally never get, but anytime you score eight goals in a game it's not without some crazy luck and weird bounces. It was one of those games that was probably a coach's nightmare and I wouldn't be surprised if John Tortorella totally throws all footage of last night's game out the window since it really wasn't pretty.
Anyway, Brad Richards finally showed up in a big way. As mentioned, his hat trick was the first of his career and last night's breakout game came after he registered a goal and an assist in the third period against the Panthers the night before. If the Rangers can get Brad Richards going now, it would obviously be a gigantic boost for the team's offense going forward. Richie has struggled this year but he can definitely right the ship if he has a strong finish to the regular season and an even stronger performance in the postseason (assuming the Rangers make it).
Some other notes:
- With last night's win in regulation, the Rangers officially eliminated the Flyers and Sabres from the playoffs.
- Brad Richards now has five points (four goals, one assist) in his last two games after having one point (an assist) in the six games prior.
- Rick Nash also has five points (two goals, three assists) in his last two games and 12 points (seven goals, five assists) in 10 games in April.
- Derick Brassard was held without a point for the first time since April 8, but finished the game with a plus-2 rating.
- Henrik Lundqvist registered an assist on Carl Hagelin's goal, giving him his first point of the season.
- Ryane Clowe has three points (one goal, two assists) in his last two games, giving him two goals and five assists for seven points in 9 games as a Ranger, along with 14 penalty minutes.
- John Moore registered an assist in 12:51 TOI (with 16 seconds of power play time) and now has one goal and three assists for four points in 9 games as a Ranger.
- Ryan Callahan scored his first goal since April 6 against the Hurricanes.
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We have that De Rham cohomology of $SO(3) \simeq \mathbb{R}P^{3}$ is $\mathbb{R}$ in degree $0$ and $3$ and $0$ in degree $1$ and $2$. But I saw that $H^{*}(SO(3)) \simeq \mathbb{Z}_{2} $ in degree 2. (Probably I have to use the universal coefficient theorem to armonize these two results...). I have to calculate the De Rham cohomology of $SO(4)$ using the fiber bundle $SO(3) \rightarrow SO(4) \rightarrow S^{3}$. How can I do it using spectral sequence? In this situation can I say that $H^{2}(SO(3)) \simeq 0$?
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Your work seems slightly misleading. The De Rham cohomology $H_{dr}^2(SO(3)) \simeq 0$, whilst the ordinary cohomlogy $H^2(SO(3);\mathbb{Z}) \simeq \mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$. It's good to use different notation for the two, so it is clear what you are trying to do.
Recall that, for smooth manifolds, $H_{dr}^*(X) \simeq H^*(X;\mathbb{R})$. Thus in your case the spectral sequence runs $$H^p(S^3;H^q(SO(3);\mathbb{R})) \Rightarrow H^{p+q}(SO(4);\mathbb{R})$$ and so you can indeed use $H^2(SO(3);\mathbb{R}) = 0$


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Rose Marie Orr, 85, of Medina, passed away Wednesday, November 28, 2012, at the Cleveland Clinic. She was born October 12, 1927 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, to William Oakley and Elizabeth (nee Wissinger).
Rose had her realtor's license and she also was a Librarian at St. Ambrose School and Medina County Library. Rose also was the owner of Archway Gifts in Brunswick and Medina. She loved her family and appreciated her friendships. She is survived by her husband of 62 years, Samuel Glenn Orr; children, Joseph (Susan), David (Ellen), Constance and Christine; nine grandchildren, Stephanie, Melissa, Benjamin, Joey, Brian, Andrea, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Aaron; and two great-grandchildren, Victoria and Mara; and her only surviving sibling, Barbara Moore.
She was preceded in death by eight siblings; and her parents.
Visitation will be held Sunday, December 2, 2012, from 2 until 4 P.M., at Carlson Funeral Homes & Cremation Services, 3477 Medina Road, (corner of Rt. 18 and River Styx Rd) Medina. Visitation also at 9 A.M., one hour prior to 10 A.M. Mass of Christian Burial at Holy Martyrs Church, 3100 South Weymouth Road, Medina, Monday, December 3, 2012. (Please meet at the Church).
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from Ben Kuzma of the Vancouver Province,
Had Kevin Bieksa been wearing a protective Kevlar sock, the Vancouver Canucks defenceman may not have been sidelined three months after two tendons in his left ankle were severed Dec. 29 at Phoenix from a skate cut. Products are being marketed that feature a Kevlar lining knit inside a sports-mesh polyester outer shell to make socks cut-resistant, but something seems lost in translation as to how it can be adopted as regular equipment sooner rather than later.
Reebok is the official equipment supplier to the NHL and players must wear its items as part of the agreement. But what's to stop a player from donning a Kevlar sock under mandated equipment — and not exposing a competing company's logo — until the league and the Players' Association make Kevlar socks mandatory?
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Commonly suggested to be the cheapest first-run theater in Chicago, the Davis Theater in Lincoln Square has virtually nothing else to tempt theatergoers with. For a deflated movie ticket price, one nowadays would expect a lessened quality theater experience. However, crooked screens, poor lighting, fuzzy sound, disruptive patrons, and sticky floors hardly fall within the perimeters of 'Acceptable.'
Attending any place open to the public leaves room for annoyance and discomfort. This is taken to a new plateau when choosing the Davis for your movie night. The theater seems to attract the most restless audience in Chicago; a crowd that feels the need to perpetually change seats, leave and re-enter the theater, and talk excessively to each other and at the screen.
Watching a film on their screens is more like a sensory test than an entertaining outing. Once a night scene occurs in the plot, the visuals almost entirely disappear, leaving viewers to strain their sights to glean what is happening. The effort is amplified when combined with the blending sound effect from speaker static. This is of course even harder as you are watching this on a projection screen that is raised too high – especially anyone in the first few rows – and is slanted to fit the angle of the wall it is posted on.
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Sophomore Olivia Elliott scored SMU's goal in its 1-0 victory over Marshall on Sunday.
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HURRICANE, W. Va. (SMU) - Olivia Elliott picked up a long rebound and fired a shot past Marshall's Lindsey Kerns from 30 yards out in the 19th minute to propel SMU to a 1-0 win on Sunday afternoon.
The Mustangs' record improves to 7-6-3 (3-2-3 C-USA) in 2012. The Mustangs are currently riding a three-game unbeaten streak. SMU is now 6-1 all-time against the Thundering Herd. SMU goalkeeper Lauryn Bodden notched her second consecutive shutout, marking the first time in her career that she's had clean sheets in back-to-back games.
"Lauryn (Bodden) was good," Head Coach Chris Petrucelli said. "The whole back four were good. The team was committed defensively. Bodden has certainly played well lately."
Elliott scored her fifth goal of the season in the 19th minute to give SMU an early 1-0 lead. The play started with Shelby Redman getting the ball past the Marshall defense where it was found by Kenzie Scovill. Scovill took a shot on goal, which deflected off of Kerns' leg to about 25 yards away where Elliott received it. The sophomore then fired the ball into the wide-open net.
Marshall tried to apply more pressure late by making some offensive-minded substitutions, and it nearly worked. Bodden was forced to make a crucial save in the 87th minute off a header by Marshall's Erin Simmons.
The win concludes a four-game road trip that started on Oct. 5. The Mustangs have not played a home game since Sept. 30, but will return to Westcott on Friday to take on UAB.
"We've got to get rested up," Petrucelli said, noting how much travelling his team has done recently. "We'll need some big efforts (this weekend) and I think we'll get them."
SMU's contest against UAB is slated for a 7 p.m. kickoff. The Mustangs take on Memphis at 2 p.m. on Sunday.


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I was having a perfectly good time watching Tosh.0 with Pumpkin and Boo until suddenly, and I don't even know how this happened, Pumpkin and I got into another argument, and they left my house! They just walked right out! And they even took Boo with them!
They're just trying to deprive me of everything that makes me happy in my life. I know they are!
They just want to see me depressed. Well, that's just fucking fine! Because I am depressed! I haven't felt this way before in my life, and I don't know what to do! I need Pumpkin. I need Boo. But no, they both just walked out of my life!
I'm getting desperate.
Why does Pumpkin hate me so?
I thought they loved me. I love them.
Come back to me, Pumpkin.
Oh, and bring Boo back, too. I know she's fat, and it could be a difficult job, but I really want my baby kitten back.
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"War of the Vikings," published by Paradox Interactive, is a player versus player game where up to 24 players can compete against one another in feats of strength and skill. The game is set during the Viking Age, in particular around the conflict between the Saxons and Vikings. Boston Games Examiner was able to touch base with Gordon Van Dyke, who is the Executive Producer for War of the Vikings, and talk more about his game this past weekend at PAX East.
The game features "high impact combat" which focuses around swords, shields, two-handed axes, and bows and arrows. Those of you familiar with this combat style might recognize it from another game "Chivalry." However, don't be mistaken, there are plenty of things that separate the two so you won't be confused.
"War of the Vikings" runs on a newer engine and requires a bit more to run. So, from a technical standpoint, there is a difference. While Chivalry focuses more on first person combat, there is more total control when it comes to "War of the Vikings." "What's really important is if the game is fun and if you like it," says Van Dyke. Still, the game is a little harder and more complex to get into. And while the games do have their similarities, comparing the two is like calling "Battlefield" similar to "Call of Duty."
As of right now, the Vikings and the Saxons are the only playable groups, but if things become successful, and things allow them, there is a chance for expansion such as the Byzantines and Norwegian Vikings.
A great feature of the game is how players progress through the game. As you gain ranks, you unlock classes and perks that allow you to customize your character. However, they are not perks that increase certain aspects of your character like health or attack. The game is more skill based. Therefore, "when you add things like that it's kind of pointless because the guy who is already experience who would have gotten that [will have gotten] a huge advantage it doesn't make sense to begin with," according to Van Dyke. This has lead to the rewards being more cosmetic.
Van Dyke then added, "Those guys didn't buy a sword and go, 'Oh my god, this sword is going to give me +5 Damage. It's going to be so much more epic in the battlefield.' It was more like, 'I've survived so many battles, and I've looted so much, I have all the money and I'm going to buy this badass sword. I'm going to show off!' When you saw that you knew this guy had to be a badass to have this sword, and we wanted to reflect that in the game as well."
Speaking of cosmetic, those of you who caught that special on television not too long ago, the "Ulfberht" is in the game. However, players who have been in the early access may have noticed something odd about theirs. Van Dyke confirmed to Boston Games Examiner what forum members have been dreading. Just like in the history books, the current version is fake, but, rest easy, there are plans to release the real version in a future update.
"War of the Vikings" is currently available on PC via Steam.
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Stormtrooper Is Bengals Fan, Loves Losing
Not to be outdone by the Master Chief and Optimus Prime Saints fan comes this Cincinnati Bengals (0-7) stormtrooper. As you can see, he's really rocking out with his orange, Darth Vader loving penis out. Good for him. And, to his credit, this picture was actually taken last year when the team was 4-7. Which, in four more games, they might be this season too! Or, you know, 0-11.
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Jarred Cinman, creative and software director and one of the founders of Cambrient, a Web marketing and content management company, has been selected as a judge on the digital and digital crafts panel at the 32nd Loerie Awards.
Cinman is part of a key panel of judges representing the industry that remotely, via the Internet and on-site in Cape Town, judged the entries. The judging commenced on the 14th of July and the final scoring happened on-site in Cape Town on the 29th of July.
The judging week includes a half-day seminar on the 20th of August, where three leading international jury chairmen, which include Pablo del Campo, from Del Campo/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Buenos Aires Communications Design, Greg Quinton, from The Partners, London, as well as Colin Nimick, from OgilvyOne Worldwide, will each give a presentation.
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I installed Maverick Meerkat when it came out alongside Windows 7, via the traditional installer (not Wubi). So everytime I restart/booted up my computer, I'd get a purple OS selection screen, to select between the Ubuntu version or Windows 7. However, after I updated it to Natty Narwhal, the GUI basically stopped working and I couldn't get it to work. Now when I log in I have 2 linux options (one with a recovery mode), one Windows 7 option, two options that say Wintestx86, and one that opens up previous versions of ubuntu (as a a separate folder).
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So the Democratic convention played host to lots of teacher union-bashing, but this week's GOP affair will feature an event co-sponsored by the National Education Association? The times, they are a changin'.
It's hard to find a better example of the positive change that can come from charter school competition than this statement by Washington Teachers Union president George Parker (part of an interview published by the National Council on Teacher Quality ):
Have your views of the role of the union changed over time? How?
I think it has a lot to do with the landscape in the system right now. We have the second highest number of charter schools-56 or 57 charters. So we are in a competitive market here in D.C.
The union has now had to take on a dual role. Previously our main concern was bread and butter issues--to make sure teachers have good benefits and working conditions. We didn't have to be that concerned about keeping children in [D.C. schools]. But now around 21,000 of our students are in charters and around...
The union has now had to take on a dual role. Previously our main concern was bread and butter issues--to make sure teachers have good benefits and working conditions. We didn't have to be that concerned about keeping children in [D.C. schools]. But now around 21,000 of our students are in charters and around
Here are a few off-the-top-of-my-head thoughts about John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate:
1. Clearly he wasn't looking for someone with a national profile on education. That should surprise no one; how many times do we have to stress that this election ain't about schools? Still, it's noteworthy that both Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty-the favorites to get the nod-built a strong track record on education. Palin might care about the issue but it's hard to know yet; from the little that I could find it appears that she's fairly conventional on the topic, voicing support for more funding, charter schools, homeschooling, and support for teachers.
2. Don't expect to hear a lot about inner-city schools. Let's see, we have a presidential candidate without much education experience, and a vice presidential candidate from Alaska. I'm not sure either one...
If the candidates aren't going to take my advice, surely the National Education Association isn't going to either. But still, let me offer one suggestion to its executive director, John Wilson: Find a different line of attack against merit pay than this one:
The unions oppose [merit pay] because it puts too much emphasis on one measure and doesn't consider factors outside teachers' control, John Wilson, the executive director of the 3.2-million-member NEA, said in an interview here.
"It's very tough to hold the faculty accountable for test scores without holding students and parents accountable," he said.
That's a great point, John. Let's figure out a way to hold third-graders "accountable" for learning to read. "Suzy, until you decode those ten words, no recess for you!" Or parents: "Mr. Smith, we're going to garnish your wages unless you show up...
Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein writes today about Michelle Rhee's proposed teacher-pay plan.
Sure, there will be times when teachers will be treated in an arbitrary and capricious way if they give up their tenure rights. Guess what: It happens all the time in the private sector, where hiring, promotion and pay decisions are sometimes made with incomplete information, favoritism, or undue emphasis on one factor or another. But despite this imperfection, despite the numerous instances of unfairness and poor judgment, somehow the vast majority of Americans manage to find a job, move up the ladder and enjoy their work, and companies manage to operate successfully and turn a profit. Pretty incredible, huh?
Yesterday, I bet that Barack Obama wouldn't mention NCLB in his acceptance speech, nor would he say much about education at all. I was right on the first count and wrong on the second. Here's what he said about k-12 schools:
America, now is not the time for small plans. Now is the time to finally meet our moral obligation to provide every child a world-class education, because it will take nothing less to compete in the global economy.
You know, Michelle and I are only here tonight because we were given a chance at an education. And I will not settle for an America where some kids don't have that chance.
I'll invest in early childhood education. I'll recruit an army of new teachers, and pay them higher salaries, and give them more support. And in exchange, I'll ask for higher standards and more accountability.
No, it wasn't a major part of his speech--his segment on healthcare was about twice as long--but it was more attention for education than he gave, say, judges.
Don't expect John McCain to say "No Child Left Behind" next week either. With the bases of both parties dead-set against the law,...
This must be a first: a New York Times blog post about a blog post about a phone call about a blog post.
The world has truly changed forever....
The newest issue of Education Next* has just gone online, and one of my favorite articles is this one about the early educational experiences of the presidential candidates. Its author, Peter Meyer, writes,
We might ponder the fact that neither John McCain nor Barack Obama had the experience of attending the public school down the street, standard fare for most Americans. Just how the two candidates' early schooling informs their assumptions and beliefs about education reform is hard to know, but their stories provide an interesting window through which to view their policy beliefs.
Read those stories here.
*I'm part of its editorial team....
No more wooly-headed education reform ideas from me. In today's Education Gadfly I wager
...that a majority of teachers in remote rural schools and mid-sized urban communities will continue to come from the middle ranks of middling colleges. Or worse. So policymakers and philanthropists might ask: what can we do to make sure that their students get a strong education too?
Read the whole piece here....
What you can expect from this week's Gadfly: Mike tells us what to do about mediocre teachers, we uncover lots of anti-union liberals in Denver (and Australia), and Christina tells us why we shouldn't throw a party for the College Board. Over on the podcast, Stafford brings us a dazzling new segment, called Rate That Reform.