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A global Pew Research Center survey finds a large gender gap in attitudes about U.S. government use of drones to target terrorists.
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56% of Americans say the NSA's monitoring of the phone records of millions of Americans is an acceptable anti-terror tactic. Americans have supported government efforts to investigate terrorist threats, even at the expense of personal privacy, since 2006.
Balancing Act: National Security and Civil Liberties in Post-9/11 Era
Since 9/11, Americans generally have valued protection from terrorism over civil liberties, yet they also have expressed concerns over government overreach and intrusions on their personal privacy.
Should Guantanamo be open or closed? Either way, Democrats have stuck with Obama
One near-certainty on which President Obama can count in his renewed effort to close the prison at Guantanamo is support from rank-and-file Democrats who have consistently backed him on this issue.
Obama and drone strikes: Support but questions at home, opposition abroad
In his address Thursday on U.S. counterterrorism policy, President Obama defended the use of drones, which has the support of the U.S. public but is strongly opposed abroad.
Public Interest in Benghazi Investigation Remains Limited
Fewer than half of Americans say they are following the Benghazi hearings very or fairly closely, virtually unchanged from late January when Hillary Clinton testified.
What Pakistan Thinks
As Pakistan prepares for this weekend's elections, the Taliban has significantly stepped up its attacks. And no matter which party emerges victorious from the May 11 poll, it will have to answer to a public that is increasingly worried about the threat extremism poses to the Pakistani state.
The World's Muslims
A new global survey of Muslims shows they are deeply committed to their faith and want its teachings to shape not only their personal lives but also their societies and politics.
The World's Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society
A new survey report looks at attitudes among Muslims in 39 countries on a wide range of topics, from science to sharia, polygamy to popular culture. The survey finds that overwhelming percentages of Muslims in many countries want Islamic law to be the official law of their land, but there is also widespread support for democracy and religious freedom.
Most Expect Future 'Acts of Terrorism'
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Are power contracts traded on any stock markets ? What about OTC markets ? I ask about the derivatives where payoff is some exponential function of difference between strike and spot price.
Stock markets? Not that I know of. I would say ICE and NYMEX have OTC power contracts but I believe they have pretty big margins and account minimums for that kind of contract. Just at looking at today's settlements I see very little traded on Clearport.
Levered ETFs have the behavior similar to power contracts, but there aren't any listed options. Some banks should be able to sell you OTC contracts, although I doubt you can do any arbitrage like trade if you are hoping to do - the bid and ask will kill you!


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The Coldwater High School (CHS) Class of 1962 gathered for its 50th reunion on July 6-7 at various venues in Coldwater. With many activities planned for both days, more than 90 people showed up for fun and food and lots of catching up. Everyone agreed that 50 years have flown by quickly. Classmates from coast to coast were in attendance, and plans for the next reunion in five years are in the works.
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As the severe weather continues throughout South East Queensland, more than 150,000 homes and businesses have lost power in the last 24 hours. Crews have managed to restore power to 40,000 however in these conditions restoration efforts are difficult.
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That piece about the Crocs is spot on. Robin Givhan is an amazingly smart fashion writer -- she won the first Pulitzer ever given to a fashion reporter.
And it's good to know that the Crocs president is throwing Republican fundraisers. An even better reason not to wear them.
They lampooned Crocs on the CBC's 22 Minutes by airing a commerical for "Dorcs."
A sassy gal walks through the office and proclaims: "Hey everyone, I'm giving fashion the finger - Dorc style!"
I love Cathy Jones.
I never thought I'd never reach a day when I appreciate Birkenstocks. Then I set my eyes on a pair of Crocs.
So, if the Office of the Vice President isn't part of the Executive Branch, would someone please tell Mr. Cheney to get the FUCK OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!
You must have missed Cheneys recently published manifesto in the Everyone Thinks Im Insane-Os Home Journal. The introduction was written by SCJ Scalia.
Is that the one with the picture of him dressed as Scrooge McDuck, doing the backstroke in the WH pool filled with thousand dollar bills?
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A late goal from halftime substitute John Brooks gave the United States a 2-1 triumph over Ghana in the teams' Group G opener. Goal gives you the best photos...The United States topped Ghana in its World Cup opener, thanks to a goal shortly after kickoff from Clint Dempsey and a John Brooks winner that canceled out an equalizer from Andre Ayew.
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Cheney sizzles, then fizzles in Woodbat play
SummerHawks American Legion team gets off to fast start but fades in day two of tournament
Like fireworks sometimes do, there can be the spectacular bangs, flashes and light shows.
Or they can occasionally be a dud.
That might best sum up the Cheney SummerHawks' run through the Woodbat Classic in which they won convincingly in their opener 11-0 over Spanaway, Wash. but fell 6-3 to Regina, Saskatchewan on day one.
Then Friday, Cheney was crushed by the Spokane Dodgers Blue select team 16-3 and fell 8-0 to Mead. Saturday's non-qualifier game was a 16-8 loss to Ferris.
"We had a fantastic first day of the tourney, beating Spanaway 11-0 and playing a very tough Regina team that ended up playing to get into the semis," Cheney coach Randy Elam said.
Josh Arthur and Shane Hammel combined to one-hit Spanaway while Arthur, Hammel and Kyle Jones each had two hits.
Elam said he was proud of the team's effort, especially considering Cheney's lack of depth to begin with and having players come up sick and hurt.
"Connor Pratt, pitching on just two days rest, pitched his heart out and did a tremendous job," against Regina, Elam said. Pratt got tired in the fifth and Hammel came on to close out the game.
After Cheney led 2-0 early, the visitors rallied, scoring two runs in both the fourth and fifth and an important insurance run in the top of the sixth.
Elam said his team had its best chance in the sixth with two runners in scoring position and needing a base hit to close the gap. Bubba Smith nearly got that hit as he ripped a ball right up the middle at the Regina pitcher. "It was one of those excuse me, I'm protecting myself things," Elam said of the great play the pitcher made to catch the ball and make the out.
"It was a tough break for us because the ball would have gotten into center field and scored two, giving us a very good chance to sneak a victory in the seventh," Elam said. Arthur and Jones each had two hits for the SummerHawks.
The rest of the tournament proved to be pretty rough on Cheney, Elam said. "We got it handed to us by the Dodgers and then Mead."
Everything the Dodgers hit found a hole, Elam said as the winners collected 17 hits and led 12-0 after just three innings. "The bright spot was Bubba (Smith) breaking up the no-hitter with a base hit in the fourth," Elam said.
"We really struggled both defensively and offensively against Mead and lost 8-0," Elam said. "The final day game against Ferris was a good one for us into the fifth. We had a one-run lead only to watch Ferris score 12 or 13 on us."
Overall, there were some good things that happened for the SummerHawks in the tourney, Elam said. "But really, what we need is a few days off to rest and get healthy before jumping back into to league play on Wednesday against Shadle."
Shadle leads the National League with a 13-1 record. Colville is 12-2 while Cheney is 9-7 after splitting a pair of games last Tuesday against Central Valley, winning 9-6 before losing 16-15 in the nightcap.
After the pair of games versus Shadle, the SummerHawks close out the league portion of the schedule Saturday when they host North Central. Cheney then travels for a Sunday non-league game at Medical Lake at 7 p.m..
"Our playoff chances are looking real good," Elam said. "The way I see it, we need to win one of the next three to get in and I'm confident this group of boys will get it done."
Cheney will play the remainder of the season with Mike Cagle as head coach. "This was our plan before the season started, that he would come back after the Fourth," Elam said. "I am going to continue to help out as an assistant." Cagle will take over from Elam next spring as the Cheney High head baseball coach.
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Oil Rises, Capping Weekly Decline, on Demand Growth Optimism
Oil rose, capping its biggest weekly decline in New York in three weeks, on speculation rising demand may absorb excess inventories in the U.S., the largest consumer of crude.
A U.S. government report today showed growth in the world's biggest economy picked up in the last quarter, suggesting fuel consumption may erode stockpiles. New York futures narrowed their discount to North Sea Brent, which reached more than $12 a barrel after Energy Department data showed stockpiles grew 2.3 percent in the U.S. storage hub at Cushing, Oklahoma, last week.
"In the long run, we see a rising oil price because of the rise in energy demand, which clearly will go up significantly," Royal Dutch Shell Plc Chief Executive Officer Peter Voser said today in Davos, Switzerland. There is a "revolution" in emerging markets in energy use and there will be "definitely growth over the next few years" in energy demand, he said.
Oil for March delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose as much as 67 cents, or 0.8 percent, to $86.31 a barrel and was at $86.15 at 1:48 p.m. London time. The contract is 3.3 percent lower for the week, the biggest drop since the week ended Jan. 7, and down 5.7 percent this year.
Brent crude for March settlement rose 40 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $97.79 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. The contract has gained 0.2 percent this week and is up 3.2 percent this year.
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Economic growth in the U.S. accelerated in the fourth quarter, a government report showed. Gross domestic product rose at a 3.2 percent annual pace, up from a 2.6 percent rate in the previous three months.
Brent's premium over Nymex-traded West Texas Intermediate was at $11.64 a barrel, after widening to a record $12.49. Investors are buying Brent contracts as a buildup of supplies at Cushing, the delivery point for New York-traded West Texas Intermediate oil, skews the U.S. grade's reliability as an indicator of demand.
"A combination of oversupply in Cushing and strong demand from European refineries has pushed the spread to a record," said Thorbjoern Bak Jensen, an analyst at Global Risk Management in Middelfart, Denmark. "Seaborne exports from OPEC have been reported higher and it's said the Saudis are producing more, though the Saudis themselves deny it."
OPEC Won't 'Interfere'
Secretary-General Abdulla El-Badri of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said in interview today with CNBC in Davos he sees no need to "interfere" in the oil market and won't hesitate to act if required.
Analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co. said in a report yesterday there were indications that some OPEC members were raising output unilaterally.
"We take that as a strong indication that the producer group does not want oil prices to rise too high, too quickly," JPMorgan's analysts, led by New York-based Lawrence Eagles, said in the report. "OPEC continues to supply the marginal barrel and therefore sets the price for crude oil."
OPEC will boost shipments by 330,000 barrels a day through the middle of February, the group's first increase since the month ended Dec. 25, according to tanker-tracker Oil Movements.
Oil will rise to $100 a barrel, possibly in the first half of this year, and may eventually peak at $140, Duke Energy Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jim Rogers said in Davos today.
OPEC's El-Badri said on Jan. 26 that oil prices are in a "comfortable zone," adding that the producer group is concerned about Europe's sovereign debt crisis. The group, next scheduled to review its production quotas at a meeting in June, is also wary that measures taken by China to slow its economy will impede the country's energy demand, El-Badri said.
Prices in New York may extend their decline next week as inventories increase amid a decline in refinery utilization rates and fuel demand, a Bloomberg News survey showed.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- When a player as young and talented as Mike Trout pulls into the last station ahead of schedule, there's a tendency to presume extremes. Either he's about to be the biggest bust in baseball history or he just wrote the first anecdote for his Cooperstown induction speech.
It's easy to forget that the game is almost always contested somewhere in the middle.
Trout isn't in Anaheim a month before his 20th birthday because the Los Angeles Angels think he's going to run like Vince Coleman, hit like Pete Rose, slug like Hank Greenberg and make Willie Mays seem like Juan Rivera in the outfield.
Trout probably isn't even going to be here on his 20th birthday.
Here's kind of how Thursday's late-night discussion among manager Mike Scioscia, his coaches and general manager Tony Reagins went before they decided to promote Trout: Peter Bourjos is an excellent center fielder. Peter Bourjos has a strained right hamstring. Mike Trout is the next-best center fielder within reach. Get Mike Trout.
Scioscia has gotten addicted to good defense in his outfield this year. If you had to sit in the dugout and watch Rivera and Bobby Abreu play right in front of you for almost a year, you probably would be, too.
"Right now, he's the best fit to bring us that presence in center field, and we'll see what he can do on the offensive side," Scioscia said.
That's the beauty of Friday's move: It's so simple. The Angels don't have a pre-printed return ticket for Trout to the minor leagues, as they did for Ervin Santana when he made his major league debut straight from Double-A in 2005. But they made it clear Friday that Bourjos -- a wizard with his cleats and glove -- will be their starting center fielder when he comes back (and he's not even on the disabled list).
That means the Trout experience, Phase 1, could be as short as one week. But flashing a little talent this bright to the rest of the league probably isn't a bad idea -- it lets them know you've got it in case you need it. And I'm guessing it's not going to affect Trout's sense of self-worth much one way or another. He's a bright enough kid, with a chest full of pride. He knows the Angels just handed him a stack of house money.
The fun part about having Trout here is that, every day until he's gone, we can imagine what he'll one day be. Is his power going to blossom, or will he always set the table for others? Will he play in an All-Star Game before he can legally buy an alcoholic beverage? Should his nickname be "The Flying Fish" or, as his Twitter account suggests, just plain old "Trouty"? Have two players ever looked and acted so differently while wearing the same number and the same uniform as Vladimir Guerrero and Mike Trout?
I keep going back to what somebody who has seen Trout play as many professional games as anybody in the world told me when I was in Arkansas profiling the young outfielder a couple of months ago.
"If he somehow never lived up to our expectations, if he was a .270 hitter, he's going play great defense, run the bases great, play his tail off and be a great teammate," said Bill Mosiello, who managed Trout at Single-A and Double-A before taking a college job at Tennessee last month. "He's still a winning player. Now, is he going to be the best player that maybe we've seen? That remains to be seen."
Friday didn't give us a whole lot to work with, but it offered a fleeting glimpse of what all the fuss is about. Trout made a running grab in right-center to take a double away from Franklin Gutierrez. To paraphrase a famous sentence, one of the only guys who could have caught that ball, hit it. Another one caught it.
"I could see Peter Bourjos running that down; I could see Mike Trout running that down," Scioscia said. "Maybe Gutierrez could have run his own ball down. There aren't that many center fielders who have that much closing speed."
Otherwise, Trout caught a couple of routine fly balls, and saw a blooper drop in front of him, a single land to his left and Vernon Wells cut off a couple of balls in the gap that he could have caught. He went 0-for-3 with two fly balls and a sharp grounder to shortstop, but he certainly didn't look overmatched at any stage.
The Angels have a pretty good thing going at the moment. Wells and Torii Hunter are picking it up. The pitching is tough. If the Angels win one game this weekend, they will have won eight straight series entering the All-Star break. Things are a whole lot more stable around this team than the last time it considered bringing Trout up, when Wells popped a groin muscle back in May.
"We just expect him to come up here and be Mike Trout, not try to save the franchise, not try to do anything extraordinary, just come out here and have fun," Reagins said. "His athletic ability and his overall ability will take care of itself."
Most prospect hounds hoped Trout would taste a cup of major league coffee in September, when rosters expand, not before the All-Star break. What convinced the Angels he was ready as a teenager wasn't anything spectacular. It wasn't seeing Trout pull into third with a standup triple after a line drive in the gap -- which he's done -- or touch all four bases after a fly ball off the left-field wall -- as he's done -- or reach first on a two-hopper to the shortstop -- as he's done.
What convinced them he was ready was so much more mundane. It was really a matter of showing up to work and doing what he does. Trout looked like a major leaguer when Reagins happened to be in Little Rock looking at the Angels' Double-A club last month. He carried himself with a quiet, big league swagger. He had proficient at-bats that he could repeat. He caught the balls that were hit near him.
"I felt real confident walking away from there that he could be in Anaheim shortly," Reagins said.
And so, for the next week or two, while he's still around, try to enjoy it, in the moment, without seeing it as anything more global than a gifted young ballplayer taking a wobbly first step. The Seattle Mariners sent Alex Rodriguez back to the minors in 1995. He was 19. The Angels sent Jered Weaver back to the minors in 2006 even though he was 4-0 with a 1.36 ERA.
It's going to happen again, probably, no matter what Trout does, and everyone's going to be fine in the long run.
Mark Saxon covers the Angels for ESPNLosAngeles.com.


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I returned the product the day after I got it. SUPER faded color, really poor quality ink. Really poor quality fabric, rough and thin. I can see straight through the individual stitches. I was very disappointed.
- How did the color on site compare with the actual product? SUPER faded color, really poor quality ink
- Please tell us about the quality of the product. Really poor quality, rough and thin fabric. I can see straight through the individual stitches.
- How accurate was the on site description of the product? Lacking in information.
This duvet cover was a gift for my daughter and she's absolutely thrilled with it! From the whimsical, youthful print to how cozy yet lightweight it feels, she loves everything about it! Not to mention the overall Perry Ellis quality of the product; this was a perfect gift! (I'm actually considering getting one for the master bedroom)
I love it! The color is true to the color on the site. It is very soft. I have already washed it several time and the color/quality has stayed true.
This looks great on my bed. The picture shows that the flowers are lime green, but what we received was more like aqua, which I actually like better. I haven't tried washing it yet, so I'm hoping for the best.
The duvet cover looks just like the photo. It is incredible soft and absolutely gorgeous. I also forgot that it came with two shams which just completes the look. This was an incredible value.
The fabric on this is thin. It was too small to fit my queen size thick down comforter in it, it did however work for a thinner comforter. I am keeping it as it looks good in the spare bedroom.
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I have had wonder compliments on this duvet cover! It washes up great too!
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I just had the most disturbing dream--- so please tell me how effed up my head must be. It is going to sound like a joke- but I SWEAR I just woke up from this dream when my DD came in the room. (I work real early, so when my kids take afternoon naps, I try to also--- if yall aren't driving me nuts here and keeping me awake. )
I dreamt my DH and I were installing new flag poles around our houses. We needed MORE US flags flying. In the distance we saw some wild animals doing animal things- and figured it was going to get ugly when some of the predatory types started to get hungry.
I went down to get a closer look- and DH then told me I needed to take a flag with me for protection. (maybe why we were putting in so many poles around the house? I don't know)
Awwwwww... look! A unicorn! A baby unicorn! It's so cute.. so sweet... and it's mommy and daddy and a whole unicorn heard.
Wait--- HOLY CRAP--- evil unicorns- they are attacking; suddenly they are mean and snorting fire and running towards me and I am freaking out, running backwards, falling down... when out of the bushes leap two triceratops dinosaurs. They fight, I get up and run.
A bat lands in my hair as I am close to the house- I beat him off with the flag in my back pack.
So there you go.
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Almeida wrote:didn't recognize Barca. could RM have become that stronger in terms of creativity? or it was just Barcelona who werent at their best and allowed Madrid to look THAT good? hard to say... but Real DID link up passes much better than ever before facing Barca. they didn't deserve defeat last night, for sure.
Alexis is my man in the Barca squad. what a technique!
Almeida wrote:yeah, i think a draw was the fairest outcome, too. none of the teams played to the point of winning this game. Barca were probably closer to a win in the end with couple of scoring opportunities including that hit off the bar, but then RM were the better side in the beginning.
Bren, that statistics is cool of corse, but i didnt mean it. Real will never be able to replicate this piece of art from Barca, and none of the teams will. most of them passes that make up this terrific at first glance figure of 70% are meaningless and toothless. and nither Real nor any other team needs it. therefor, what i mean is that RM really seem to have improove on the linkage of the passes that are really meant to sharpen the game. that are destined to cut, open up, not to roll the ball uselessly and meaninglessly in the midfield.
it's surprising though after this game particulary that RM should have lost so many points in la liga this season. they looked strong!
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An exciting new cinema for Canberra - at the NFSA.
Damian Porombka produced the story.
PHILIP WILLIAMS: Canberrans who love movies mourned the loss of electric shadows but then came the Dendy cinemas and now there is another exciting film development.
The National Film and Sound Archives has opened its own cinema and the whole experience promises to thrill the senses.
Damian Porombka produced this story.
DR PAOLO CHERCHI USAI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE: You're going to get the best possible experience you can possibly have in a movie theatre. The state of the art sound, perfect projection, a wonderful environment where you can en joy being immersed in this space even before the show starts.
Arc is the embodiment of the vision of the NFSA of its role in the community.
We believe that a National film and sound archive should have a cinema but more particularly that Arc is more than a cinema.
It is our way of explaining that going to the movies is more than just entering a box with a screen and a projection booth.
It is a place where the experience of the moving image and the sound begins at the very moment when the audience enters the theatre.
We are starting with three screenings per week with the intention, of course, to intensify our schedule and possibly to get up to a screening every day.
When you have the entire history of cinema in your hands, anything that is unusual, rarely seen or available in a beautiful print become a potential item for Arc.
Because we are in a heritage building, we needed to make sure that the new cinema would not compromise structurally the architectural design of the place.
So we had to be respectful of the history of the building. Then making a cinema, building a cinema in an archive means dealing with the past and the future at the same time.
We wanted to convey a message of respect and promotion and love for the past but with the eyes turned towards the 21st and the 22nd century.
Sometimes, long afterwards, it's possible to look back and see the beginning of things.
The point at which you'd already plunged in.
DR PAOLO CHERCHI: We wanted to make sure that Arc satisfies the needs, the curiosity of the widest possible audience. There should be something for everybody, whether you like art movies or cartoons or experimental, westerns, comedies, world cinema, Australian classical cinema.
There has to be something for everybody.
I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
We must be over the rainbow.
DR PAOLO CHERCHI: By showing these films in a venue like this, films that are deemed obscure or little known, will come to new life.
You don't even think to call me godfather.
DR PAOLO CHERCHI: We want to give the audience a sense of surprise, a sense of discovery of what cinema is and can be.
PHILIP WILLIAMS: And this weekend they're showing "Monkey Grip" and "The Godfather'. Next weekend's program includes the "Wizard of Oz".
It's the end of our program except for a brief glimpse of very important photographs at the National Gallery. Until next week, goodbye.


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Themes of Medieval Literature:
- The Seven Deadly Sins
- The Seven Heavenly Virtues
- Physiognomy and "The Humours"
- Values of "courtly love"
- The Code of Chivalry(CF)
The Poets and Authors:Caedmon: First English poet; author of "The Dream of the Holy Rood."
Venerable Bede: wrote the Ecclesiastical History of England and the scientific treatise, De Natura Rerum.
Geoffrey Chaucer: Famous Medieval author of the Canterbury Tales.
Margery Kempe: Author of the first autobiography in English.
John Gower: Medieval poet and friend of Geoffrey Chaucer
Francesco Petrarch: Italian poet, and a humanist. Famous for his poems addressed to Laura.
Dante: Medieval poet and politician.
Christine de Pizan: Medieval author and feminist.
William Longland: English poet who wrote the Vision of Piers Plowman.
Boccaccio: Italian writer who was famous for writing the Decameron.
Raphael Holinshed: Medieval author of Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland. (KM)
- Chivalry was the reason behind this type of literature.
- The greatest English example of the romance is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- The romance hero-who often has the help of magic-undertakes a quest to conquer an evil enemy. (KM)
- A system of ideals and social codes governing the behavior of knights and gentlewoman.
- The rules included: taking an oath of loyalty to the overlord and observing certain rules of warfare.
- Adoring a particular lady was seen as a means of self-improvement. (KM)
Courtly Love:
- The idea that adoring a lady would make a knight braver and nobler was central to one aspect of chivalry, courtly love.
- Courtly love was nonsexual
- A knight might wear his lady's colors in battle.
- The knight could glorify his lady in words, but the lady had to remain pure and out of reach. (KM)
- The emerging merchant class expressed their point of view in ballads.
- A ballad is a song or songlike poem that tells a story.
- These were sung in alehouses and at firesides, mystery miracle plays performed outside, craft unions, and even cathedrals and municipal buildings. (KM)
How were books made back then?
- Early medieval books were painstakingly hand-copied and illustrated by monks.
- Paper was a rarity, with vellum, made from calf's skin, and parchment, made from lamb's skin, were the media of choice for writing.
- Students learning to write used wooden tablets covered in green or black wax.
- The greatest number of books during this era were bound with plain wooden boards, or with simple tooled leather for more expensive volumes.(SK)
Language in the middle ages:
- Language saw further development during the Middle Ages.
- Capital and lowercase letters were developed with rules for each.
- Books were treasures, rarely shown openly in a library, but rather, kept safely under lock and key.
- Finding someone who might loan you a book was a true friend.
- Some might rent out their books, while others, desperate for cash, might turn to the book as a valuable item to be pawned.(SK)
Random Facts
The medieval literature talks about the dark ages of the western culture and civilization.
At this time , the church was a powerful institution that 's why the literature texts that could survive had to appeal to the teaching of the church,otherwise their writers would be condemned.
There was elegance of speech and manners.
is considered as a pure love, platonic and idealistic love. (SK)
- Alchin, Linda. Medieval Life and Times. N.p. 20 December 2008. Web. 25 October 2011. (KM)
- "The Middle Ages: Topics." The Norton Anthology of English Literature. W.W. Norton and Company, n.d. Web. 26 October 2011. (KM)
- Beers, Kylene, and Lee Odell. Elements of Literature Sixth Course. New York: Holt, 2007. 116-129. Print. (KM)
"Medieval Literature." Medieval Life. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2011. <http://www.medieval-life.net/literature_main.htm> (SK)
- "What are the characteristics of medieval literature." The Q&A wiki. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2011. <http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are (SK)


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AES 136 - Meet the Judges #9: Mandy Parnell
Meet Mandy Parnell, one of our honorable judges for Category 3: Modern Studio Recording.
Award winning Mandy Parnell became interested in recorded music at the age of 5, listening to records on a portable Dansette player - the iPod of the time.
She studied music and music technology through her school & college years, trained and worked in recording studios until landing an internship, which led to her becoming a world renowned mastering engineer. Mandy then decided to launch her own facility - Black Saloon Studios.
Mandy Parnell's 24 years of experience have allowed her to discover and develop her philosophies in analogue and digital audio, while working with an amazing array of artists including Björk, Feist, The XX, Frightened Rabbit, Sigur Ros and Brian Eno.
Mandy's unique style as a mastering engineer has afforded her respect from all areas of the industry. She has mastered countless records that have achieved gold and platinum status around the world.
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This is LittleJoe-42, with a little knowledge about inserting your own .PNGs into GTA4.
First, you need SparkIV. This is a must! .PNG sizes are based on a binary system. All will have dimensions of 128, 256, 1024. I used Paint.NET to create my billboards. First, I exported the .PNG from a GTA4 .wtd file. Next, I open it into Paint.NET, which will automatically set it to the proper dimensions (if you're one of those people that likes HD textures, "resize" it to double dimensions). Create a new file, make your billboard (I take images from Google Images myself), and put it on a layer above the original billboard, adjusting for size and proportions. Export the final .PNG (DON'T ERASE OVER YOU'RE ORIGNAL, IT'S THE BACKUP), and reinstall into the .wtd using the "edit" function.
Finally, is you're changing large textures, there's most likely an associated "length of distance" texture. This texture, for example, as in billboards, is half the size of the original billboard. You can find these files by entering "lod" into SparkIV's .IMG search engine.
If you're really serious about making your own billboards, I suggest looking at my own billboard mods, or ZBNYNCs'. In fact, if there's any place you want to make a change to, most likely someone has done it before you. Simply look up someone else's, and use the same texture locations to make your own.
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Most children's visits to the dentist are uncomplicated: they have their teeth cleaned, maybe get a filling or two, a fluoride treatment, and their choice of stickers on the way out. The dentists in Columbia University College of Dental Medicine's (CDM) pediatric dental clinic provide thousands of these typical visits each year to the area's children at their very busy facility on Haven Avenue. But they also do much more. Read more.
Longtime Babies Hospital doctor Anneliese Sitarz, MD, passed away on October 3, 2015. Read more.
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I'm pregnant with twins, now on 16th weeks. One baby is 16 week and other is 13 weeks. My OB said that smaller baby is at risk and may be affected with some chromosomal abnormalities.. i'm really worried, any suggestion/pointers are really appreciated!
FISH test returned normal waiting for the amino detailed test results.. still Baby A is slow in growth.. its 14 W 2 D and Babay B is 17 W 2 D... US technician informed that she sees ver less fluid around A. Is that an issue ?


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GEARY, Okla. (AP) - A teenage girl and a man have been killed in
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The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says 17-year-old Courtney
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When Peggie Carlson began her memoir about entering Minnegasco's blue-collar work force on the heels of the Equal Opportunity Employment Act of 1972, her intention was to write an "angry feminist book." But from the first scene of The Girls Are Coming (Minnesota Historical Society Press), where she struggles to understand her stoic, mush-mouthed Scandinavian partner Elmo, Carlson knew she had a comedy, albeit an odd one. Some of her experiences on the road to becoming Minnesota's first female licensed pipe fitter are frightening and disturbing, but Carlson finds humor in the physical threats, unwanted sexual advances, and incidents of overt and unintentional racism.
Carlson downplays her courage and tenacity and instead recounts her past as a fish-out-of-water story. Blue-collar life in Minneapolis in the mid-Seventies comes across as a strange world, but Carlson leaves any larger conclusions about gender, work, and race to the reader. As a result, The Girls Are Coming is at times a slight book that leaves the reader hoping for more, but often the details speak to the larger ramifications of Carlson's experience. The history of the civil rights movement is often told as a history of ideals and great leaders, and it feels somewhat novel to hear from one of the more ordinary people who brought an abstract notion like equality to life.
CITY PAGES: Your first week on the job, you were set up by co-workers, who sent you to a home in Richfield where you were attacked with a knife by a crazy, racist old lady. Did you ever get to the bottom of the conspiracy?
PEGGIE CARLSON: It was frightening while it was happening, but in the end I was more angry than frightened. She really was old. I was 22; I felt strong. I knew once I got a hold of her arm that I could take her on. I was still shaking with fear because she had a knife aimed at me and she was not happy to have a black person in her house.
I never had any proof [of being set up], but I would have given everything I owned in a bet because of the guys' attitude afterwards. They were clearly staring at me, waiting for a reaction. There should have been a note on that card to skip that house. The guy who normally had that [assignment] book knew not to go there because he was a black.
CP: You seem to have made a conscious decision when you started not to be confrontational about any racist or sexist treatment. How do you feel about that decision now?
CARLSON: Well, I was clearly a chicken. [Laughs] I did it in part out of fear. I thought if I started to fight--I don't know--I might get killed. And I've always felt in part that in dealing with racism, if you acknowledge someone who is blatant about it, then you're telling them, Yes, I hear what you're doing. But if you ignore that person, it's almost as if you're saying to him that what you've said or what you've done has no meaning to me.
CP: There is a frightening moment in the book when a co-worker takes you on a detour through the woods of the Minnesota River valley. It's clear he was trying to intimidate you but unclear how far he was going to go. When you think about that now, what do you think was happening?
CARLSON: In retrospect I think he expected me to approach him. I think he was probably one of those people who thought that all black women were exotic and that I would certainly want this white male. I don't know, because I never pursued it. I was very frightened. I always kept a distance and yet I still worked with him.
CP: So the incident has more to do with sex than race.
CARLSON: Oh, it was sexual. One time he was drunk at a safety meeting and he stabbed a hunk of meat on my plate and said in a loud voice, "Peggie, you dirty dog, why don't you come home with me tonight?" You could have heard a pin drop.
CP: What happened that made you realize that this work was something you really liked to do, something you were good at?
CARLSON: "Like to do," is something of a stretch. What I discovered is that I could do it. I have five brothers and a dad and my assumption was that there were some things that girls wouldn't be able to do. That's pretty much how I grew up. And even though we were moving through a time when there was more power for women and minorities, [I thought] this was a lie. In the back of my mind I thought I would never be able to take apart an engine.
I was shocked to find out it wasn't that difficult. Most work was done with machines. I think that's the big secret. The real reason why women weren't welcome was because they didn't want us telling their wives. A lot of those men going home demanding a beer and a meal hadn't done anything.
CP: You, on the other hand, worked very hard and after two years got your pipe fitter's license--when a lot of these men never got one. Did this earn their respect?
CARLSON: No. Some, maybe. I think a lot of them resented it. I was not pleased that [my supervisors] wanted to blast it all over. It was a really small note in a newsletter that I was a pipe fitter. There were people who had tried to pass, but then after two years I'm making more money than they were. I didn't want to be in-your-face about it.
CP: How did you feel about your accomplishment?
CARLSON: I had no idea I was the first woman to get licensed in the state. And there was maybe a tinge of pride at that. The rest of it didn't mean that much. I was glad to have the money. I think if I had graduated from college it would have been more of a feeling of grandeur. There is something about being a pipe fitter that didn't cut it.
I don't mean to belittle the achievement. It's a step, but it's not a leap. What disturbs me is that this was over 27 years ago and now I understand that Minnegasco has only two female servicemen. There are a few people in management but not as many as I would have hoped by this time.
A servicewoman came to my house and said that a lot of people ask not to have women come to their homes. I was surprised. She also felt that Minnegasco wasn't doing much to counter that. I mean if they had said, 'I'm sorry, ma'am, we have to send a woman,' then it might not be an issue. I think Minnegasco didn't move as fast as some of the other places, and that's sad.
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Thank you to our families and neighbors who came to meet our teachers and learn about exciting changes at our school.
More projects like this expected next year, as we expand our focus on science, engineering and project-based learning.
Students increase their understanding of programming, robotics, and STEM careers during summer break.
Sporting handmade crowns and decorated wands, kindergarteners and first graders created a colorful scene at Will Rogers Middle School this month.
Here are a few highlights from the San Juan Unified Board of Education's most recent regular meeting on Tuesday, June 28.
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Building on a strong partnership of approximately five years, Flextronics (FLEX) announced that it has once again been selected to partner with SunEdison (SUNE) to manufacture its solar modules—this time, in Mexico. SunEdison is the world's largest renewable energy development company and these solar modules will be primarily used in the USA for residential, utility and commercial photovoltaic (PV) projects.
Popular State Incentive Helps to Drive Louisiana Solar Growth
WASHINTON, DC - Powered by a rapidly-growing residential market, Louisiana became a Top 20 solar state for the first time last year, according to the recently-released U.S. Solar Market Insight 2014 Year in Review. It was the fifth straight year that Louisiana showed strong growth in solar installations.
Indiana Shows Impressive Growth in Solar Installations
Powered by a robust utility-scale market, Indiana ranked 14th in the nation in installed solar capacity last year, according to the recently-released U.S. Solar Market Insight 2014 Year in Review. It was the second straight year that Indiana exceeded 50 megawatts (MW) of new installations.
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Showing strength in all market sectors, Connecticut ranked 16th in the nation in installed solar capacity last year, according to the recently-released U.S. Solar Market Insight 2014 Year in Review.
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Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), released the following statement today in response to news that certain domestic producers of solar energy products intend to file anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) petitions with the U.S. International Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
SEIA Announces Solar Champion Award Winners
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA®) today announced the winners of the SEIA Solar Champion Awards during the Solar Power International (SPI) conference being held at the Dallas Convention Center until October 20. These entities or individuals were chosen based on the significant impact they made during the last year in helping build a strong solar industry to power America and to advance the solar industry goal of achieving 10 gigawatts (GW) of new annual installed capacity by 2015.
NYSEIA and National SEIA Formalize Partnership to grow New York Solar Market
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Solar Works for America: SEIA President Rhone Resch Highlights Solar Job Growth at Solar Power International 2011
Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association® (SEIA®) today addressed the Solar Power International 2011 conference and trade show at the Dallas Convention Center to welcome solar industry professionals from around the United States and the world.
Solar Industry Donates Solar Arrays and Installation Services to Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity Homes
This morning, representatives of several solar companies with a Texas presence - including SolarCity, Trina Solar, Solar US, SES 21, SolarTek, Schletter, and Bosch Solar Energy - joined Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) officials in celebrating the donation of residential solar arrays being installed on 15 new Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity homes.
SolarCity Raises $201.5 Million in Bonds Backed by Panels
SolarCity Corp. (SCTY), the first U.S. company to offer bonds backed by rooftop solar panels, raised $201.5 million in its third debt offering in eight months.
The senior notes were sold at an interest rate of 4.03 percent and were rated BBB+ by Standard & Poor's, the third-lowest investment grade. The junior notes were sold at an interest rate of 5.45 percent and were rated BB, which is not investment grade. Both tranches mature in July 2022.
Solar Software Tools Slashing Soft Costs
It's estimated installers spend up to $3,000 to acquire each new customer. This high price of customer acquisition is one of the many so called "soft costs" that increase the price of solar and reduce installer margins. Every step along the road to a signed contract has inefficiencies, which is spurring new software solutions to help installers increase their sales volume and close deals faster.
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Minnehaha County officials say they've been approached by a developer seeking to build a large-scale solar power project near Sioux Falls.
Taiwan Solar Stocks Fall After U.S. Expands Trade Penalties
Taiwanese solar stocks led by Motech Industries Inc. (6244) fell after the U.S. proposed expanded penalties on solar-energy imports in a victory for the U.S. unit of SolarWorld (SWVK) AG, which accused China of shifting production to Taiwan after it lost an earlier case.
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The Amarillo Independent School District trustees board tabbed Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas as the district's health provider. Again.
Five weeks after a multimillion-dollar accounting error forced the board to rescind a vote approving a deal with Blue Cross, the insurer landed a contract a second time Friday. The board voted 4-0 in favor of a one-year pact with Blue Cross for next school year. Board President Anette Carlisle and trustees Jim Austin and Mary Faulkner Bralley were absent.
In both cases, the cost of the Blue Cross deal was significantly lower than those of two competing bidders, Amarillo-based Insurance Management
Services, the district's current provider, and Aetna Health Insurance, officials said.
"This was really a dollars-and-cents issue," Trustee John Ben Blanchard said. "I don't have experience with the winning bidder, but I am hopeful they will step up and provide the services we are accustomed to with our prior vendors."
Blue Cross' plan is expected to cost the district slightly more than $18 million with a maximum cost of slightly more than $21 million, according to district records. Both of those estimates are nearly $2 million lower than the proposals from Aetna and Insurance Management Services.
The maximum cost for Aetna's plan was almost $24 million, and the maximum for Insurance Management's lowest proposal was almost $22.9 million, according to district records.
The district's health insurance plan cost about $22 million last school year, making up about 10 percent of AISD's general fund budget, spokeswoman Holly Shelton said.
But there is a hitch in Blue Cross' plan: The district's more than 4,000 employees will be covered for care only at Baptist St. Anthony's Health System, according to district records. Assistant Superintendent of Personnel Daniel Coward said the current Insurance Management plan allows employees to choose either BSA or Northwest Texas Healthcare System, which operates the Texas Panhandle's only trauma center.
Maxor, another local company, was the drug provider in the Insurance Management and Aetna proposals, according to district records. Prime Therapeutics will handle prescriptions for the Blue Cross plan, according to records.
During Friday's meeting, Aetna, Northwest Texas and Maxor representatives along with a local doctor raised concerns about where the companies are based — Blue Cross is based in Richardson, near Dallas. Prime is located in Minnesota and has board of pharmacy in Austin — as well as the availability of only one hospital under the new plan.
Neil Seltz, the district's health insurance consultant, said he and district officials did consider issues other than cost, but he thinks the Blue Cross proposal is best because it minimizes the district's risk.
Blanchard said he wanted a plan with two hospitals, but the cost difference was too high.
"I have always preferred a two-hospital option, but financially it's not feasible at this point in time," he said.
Employee premiums will increase by an average of $10, or about 7 percent, for a preferred provider organization plan, Coward said. The district will continue to cover employees' portions of high deductible health plans, he said.
Even though trustee Jack Thompson voted for the Blue Cross plan, he said he is concerned about the possible impact on employees.
"I still don't like the fact that for a lot of our lesser-paid employees a $3,000 deductible is almost too much, but if we lower that, we up the costs," Thompson said.
A dramatic difference in the cost of the plans led to Blue Cross winning the contract the first time the board voted, on March 19. But after representatives of the competing bidders complained, district officials found they'd made an error in the calculations of projected costs. That led to a rescinding of the vote roughly a week later.
This time, officials presented board members only with a look at costs for the next year, rather than the next three. Coward said the district didn't add projections for future years because there is too much uncertainty over future health care costs.
Trustee James Allen said this was one of the most difficult decisions he has made as a board member.
"I'm born and raised in Amarillo," he said. "I understand the business standpoint, I understand from the employees' standpoint and also our taxpayers. We have a lot of people we answer to, and it's difficult making those decisions sometimes."
The contract with Blue Cross is for one year, and Blanchard issued a warning before he voted.
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A native resident of Dawson County, Georgia, Clint G. Bearden maintains a general practice serving citizens throughout North Georgia.
Clint received his B.A., Political Science (magna cum laude) from the University of Georgia in 2005 and his Juris Doctorate (JD) from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2008.
Prior to joining the Law Offices of David E. Ralston, Clint served as an associate attorney with the Cumming, Georgia firm of Boling Rice LLC, and as a judicial intern in the office of the Honorable Jason J. Deal, Superior Court Judge for the Northeastern Judicial Circuit serving Dawson & Hall Counties.
Clint was admitted to the Georgia Bar in Fall 2008 and is licensed to practice in all state trial courts throughout Georgia. He is presently a member of the Georgia Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, American Bar Association, Appalachian Circuit Bar Association, and the Dawson & Fannin County Chambers of Commerce.
Additionally, Clint currently serves on the Lake Lanier Islands Development Authority, as appointed by Georgia Governor Nathan Deal. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Dawson County Development Authority and Dawson County Library, and as legal counsel for the Board of Directors of the Len Foote Hike Inn and Kare for Kids, Inc.
He is a past chairman of the Dawson County Republican Party and is a graduate of the Republican Leadership of Georgia program (formerly the Coverdell Leadership Institute). He is also a graduate of the GA Academy of Economic Development, Leadership Dawson, and was selected as a member of the 2013 Georgia Bar Association Young Lawyer's Division Leadership Academy.
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Features milk thistle and alpha lipoic acid
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Fry's was founded as a one-stop-shopping environment for hi-tech professionals, and offers a wide variety of over 50,000 electronic items in their stores and ecommerce site. Fry's Black Friday sale begins Thanksgiving day at 5PM and goes till 11PM. Friday stores open at 8AM and close at 10PM. You must sign up for their promocode emails to get the promotion codes necessary to take advantage of the their deals for this Black Friday season.
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Minimum-Phase Signal Processing for Loudspeaker Systems
Loudspeaker response data can be decomposed into minimum and excess phase components. Subjectively less significant elements can then be filtered and a new family of response curves computed. Applications to both cumulative-decay spectra (CDS) and energy-time curves (ETC) are discussed, where noncausal attributes are corrected. Some observations using digital processing for transfer function modification are also presented together with the implications on CDS and ETC.
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