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So I took a test last week the day my period was due and it was negative...I held out for a week and retested. Drumroll! The two pink lines appeared and catapulted us into panic mode. We have an almost-6 month old, we just moved from Connecticut to Florida, our family lives three thousand miles away and only one of us is working at the moment. After the initial shock, we started to think rationally about how in the world we're going to do this.
Despite the overwhelming idea of having a new baby so soon after our son, I can't even entertain the thought of terminating a pregnancy. We have such a wonderful relationship and family - we definitely wanted more children - we just weren't planning on this soon!
So, amidst the teething, crawling and not-quite-sleeping-through-the-night-yet...we're adding a little blessing to the madness that is our household and I'm sure it's going to be a fun ride!

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NEW ALBANY, Ind. (October 24, 2012)—Republican Indiana U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock was on the defensive Wednesday after he said when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape "that's something God intended."
Mourdock made the comments when asked during a debate Tuesday night whether abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest.
"Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen," he said.
Mourdock's comments came two months after Missouri GOP Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin said women's bodies have ways of preventing pregnancy in cases of what he called "legitimate rape."
Mourdock is locked in a tight race with Democrat Rep. Joe Donnelly.
Democrats were quick to criticize Mourdock's comments, and a spokeswoman for Mitt Romney says the GOP presidential hopeful disagrees with Mourdock.


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Men's hoops begins championship quest Saturday vs. Albany
March 1, 2011
2010-11 Stony Brook Men's Basketball
Game #30: Stony Brook Seawolves (13-16, 8-8) vs. Albany Great Danes (16-15, 9-7)
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Stony Brook Seawolves (13-16, 8-8 America East)
Albany Great Danes (16-15, 9-17 America East)
About the Game: The Seawolves begin their quest for an America East championship and need just three wins to do it, beginning with a quarterfinal game against Albany. This is a rematch of last season's noon quarterfinal that saw the Seawolves win 68-59. The winner of this game will play the winner of the following quarterfinal between No. 1 Vermont and either No. 8 UMBC or No. 9 Binghamton. Albany is Stony Brook's most visible rival; this is the 54th all-time meeting between the two teams, and Albany leads the series 34-19.
Scouting Albany: The Great Danes are riding a four-game winning streak into this tournament and finished with a 9-7 record for a third-place tie, their best conference finish since tying for second place in 2007-08. Albany is looking for its third America East championship after winning back-to-back titles in 2006 and 2007. The Great Danes are led by the one-two punch of Tim Ambrose and Logan Aronhalt. Ambrose is averaging 16.4 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.6 assists while shooting 45.1 percent from the field. His only downfall is that he leads the team in turnovers with 92. Aronhalt averages 14.7 points and 4.8 rebounds and is the primary 3-point shooter on the team.
Last Time Out: Stony Brook put together a tremendous effort against Binghamton, shooting a season-high 52.2 percent and holding the Bearcats to just 13 field goals in a 67-42 rout at sold-out Pritchard Gym. Dallis Joyner led the Seawolves with 16 points and eight rebounds. Bryan Dougher added 15 points.
Last Time vs. Albany: On Feb. 14, the Seawolves struggled to shoot the ball with any consistency in a 58-43 loss to the Great Danes in Albany. Leonard Hayes scored 18 points and was 7-for-16 from the field, but the rest of the team was only 10-for-39 for 25 points. Tim Ambrose led Albany with 22 points.


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The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
Character Analysis
Chekhov describes Fiers's first entrance like so: "leaning on a stick, [he] walks quickly across the stage; he has just been to meet Lubov Andreyevna. He wears an old-fashioned livery and a tall hat" (1.24). We immediately know 1) he's old, 2) he's old-fashioned, and 3) he hops to it when his mistress needs something. Fiers is 87 years old and thinks things were better before the serfs were freed: "When the Emancipation came I was already first valet. Only I didn't agree with the Emancipation and remained with my people. ... [Pause] I remember everybody was happy, but they didn't know why" (2.79).
Fiers is deaf and senile. This perfectly natural character detail enables Chekhov to repeatedly conjure up old Russia:
FIERS. In the old days, forty or fifty years back, they dried the cherries, soaked them and pickled them, and made jam of them, and it used to happen that...
GAEV. Be quiet, Fiers.
FIERS. And then we'd send the dried cherries off in carts to Moscow and Kharkov. And money! And the dried cherries were soft, juicy, sweet, and nicely scented...They knew the way....
LUBOV. What was the way?
FIERS. They've forgotten. Nobody remembers. (1.115-119)
With his memories, his loyalty to the family, the way he looks and behaves, Fiers stokes the fire of Lubov and Gaev's attachment to the cherry orchard. He evokes the past. But with the estate in decline, Fiers becomes a problem to solve. In Act 4, Lubov has "two anxieties […]. The first is poor Fiers [Looks at her watch]. We've still five minutes." (4.74). Anya assures her that Yasha has taken care of Fiers. They've left the fate of the faithful old servant in the hands of the faithless young one. We can guess what happens, but the ending of the play still shocks us. Fiers tries the handle to the door:
FIERS. It's locked. They've gone away. [Sits on a sofa] They've forgotten about me. ... Never mind, I'll sit here. ... And Leonid Andreyevitch will have gone in a light overcoat instead of putting on his fur coat. ... [Sighs anxiously] I didn't see. ... Oh, these young people! [Mumbles something that cannot be understood] Life's gone on as if I'd never lived. [Lying down] I'll lie down. ... You've no strength left in you, nothing left at all. ... Oh, you ...bungler!
[He lies without moving.] (1.134)
With the necessity of forward movement pressing on them, the family has forgotten Fiers. They abandon him, a relic of the past.


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Africa's Top Media Company Looks Beyond Tencent, Mail.ru
As Africa's largest media company, with 5.6 million pay-TV subscribers today and a potential market of hundreds of millions more, Naspers Ltd. would appear to have almost limitless room for growth. Investors, though, seem to place little value on the South African company's primary publishing and broadcasting business.
Investments in Tencent Holdings Ltd., China's biggest Internet company, and Mail.ru, the largest Russian-language Internet firm and a 1.5 percent owner of Facebook Inc., account for almost 90 percent of Naspers' $23 billion market value.
That calculation puts a price tag of about $2.7 billion on Naspers' media operations -- satellite and cable TV across Africa, broadcast rights to English Premier League soccer, South Africa's biggest newspaper, and dozens of other businesses in 133 countries from Argentina to Zambia.
Chief Executive Officer Koos Bekker said the valuation is of little concern and that Naspers' reliance on two outposts on the Internet's wild frontier poses no risk to the company. "These investments look very much like the engine of pay-TV for us," Bekker said in a telephone interview from the company's headquarters in Cape Town.
The company's global Internet push and burgeoning African television operations will account for a growing share of sales and profits in coming years, said David Ferguson, a research analyst at Renaissance Capital in Moscow.
Romanian Acquisition
Income from new businesses "will increase to reduce the reliance" on Tencent and Mail.ru, said Ferguson, who has a buy recommendation on Naspers and predicts the stock will reach 575 rand, or an increase of 24 percent from today's closing price of 463.20 rand.
Naspers said today it agreed to buy a 70 percent stake in in eMAG, a Romanian online retailer that reported 145 million euros in 2011 revenue. CEO Bekker said he plans to complete 10 to 20 acquisitions in the year through March 2013. "We see some opportunities in the e-commerce space," particularly in eastern Europe, he said.
Naspers spent 1.85 billion rand ($227 million) on four major purchases and "various smaller" ones in the previous year, Naspers said on June 27. It had 9.8 billion rand in cash and cash equivalents at the end of March.
This year, Naspers has purchased majority stakes in Netretail SRO, an online retail business in central Europe, and Internet Mall AS, a Prague-based website selling household goods such as washing machines. It also invested in Resolva.me, a Brazilian site that offers ratings of dentists, lawyers and other professionals.
$7 Monthly
Naspers, begun as a newspaper publisher in 1915, is rolling out $7 a month pay-TV deals in underserved markets such as Zambia, Kenya and Nigeria. The company's Daily Sun tabloid is the largest-selling daily in South Africa, while News24.com is the most popular online news service in the country. Its Supersport TV brand is the biggest sponsor of team sports in Africa.
Naspers is "well-positioned to succeed" with its next purchases because the company's executives are prepared to help acquired businesses, said Richard Tessendorf, an analyst at Avior Research in Johannesburg.
"These guys have been doing this for 10 to 15 years now," said Tessendorf, who has a hold recommendation on Naspers shares, which have jumped 29 percent this year.
Chief Investment Officer Mark Sorour is on the board of Mail.ru, and Naspers advises Tencent through the Chinese company's board, Bekker said.
'Early Investors'
Naspers owns 34.2 percent of Shenzhen-based Tencent and almost 29 percent of Mail.ru. Tencent shares have risen 48 percent this year, better than any company in the Bloomberg World Media Index, which includes Naspers and has jumped 18 percent in the period. Mail.ru has advanced 16 percent.
Shares of Naspers climbed 1.8 percent to 463.20 rand at the 5 p.m. close in Johannesburg, the highest level in five weeks. Tencent rose 0.6 percent to HK$230.40 on the Hong Kong exchange. Mail.ru advanced 7.4 percent to $30.07 in London.
"We discovered both opportunities by being very early investors in both markets and learning step by step," Bekker said. Naspers had previously made unsuccessful investments in both China and Russia, he said, "and learned a lot from those failures, including how important good local management is."
Naspers has a team looking globally for investment possibilities and is approached regularly by entrepreneurs seeking partners, Bekker said. Last year, the company evaluated about 300 opportunities and agreed to about 30 deals, he said.
Disney, Springer
Naspers invested $191 million in Mail.ru in 2007 and its holding is worth $1.7 billion. The Tencent stake, purchased 12 years ago, was worth $18.6 billion as of July 27. Tencent contributed 11.4 billion rand to Naspers' sales of 39.5 billion rand in the year through March, and Mail.ru contributed 1.1 billion rand.
Naspers' stock trades at 24 times estimated earnings. The 60 companies in the Bloomberg World Media Index trade at an average of 15 times projected profit. The index includes Walt Disney Co. and Axel Springer AG, which like Naspers have publishing, television and Internet assets. Tencent trades at a multiple of 27 times earnings.
David Reynolds, a London-based analyst at Jefferies, cautions that Naspers' African television operations may face declining margins due to growing numbers of TV shows online.
"Naspers has become a derivative of Tencent, which begs the question why don't you just buy Tencent stock itself," Reynolds said.
Reynolds is the only analyst with a sell recommendation on the stock among seven who have reported on Naspers in the last month and shared their advice with Bloomberg. He initiated coverage with a sell rating on Nov. 23, and the stock has risen about 30 percent since then.
Bekker rejects the notion that shareholders see little potential in Naspers' core holdings. Investors typically value a company's shares in other corporations at about 70 percent of their listed price, he said. "In this thinking," Bekker said, "our Mail and Tencent stakes jointly will then be worth about half our market cap."


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Authorities say they seized a dozen rifles and six handguns from man's home.
Little relief likely over the weekend.
Joint Justice Center to replace courthouse.
TV host: RNC 'felt like parody.'
Teens charged with aggravated murder, involuntary manslaughter after Incident during impromptu anti-violence rally.
Man charged pleaded guilty to another abduction in 1990.
Blistering temperatures expected for weekend.
In-flight instructions used by astronaut during 1962 Mercury spaceflight.
State unemployment rate is 5%, jobs up 12,400.
Major police presence, extreme heat have stifled unrest.


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AstraZeneca reported a ruling by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York that ordered Apotex Corp., Apotex, and Torpharm, to pay AstraZeneca approximately $76 million in damages. This ruling is a result of Apotex's infringing sales of generic omeprazole between 2004 and 2007. This follows a previous ruling in 2007 that found two Prilosec (omeprazole) formulation patents valid and infringed by Apotex.
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Volume 104, Issue 4, 15 August 2008
Indentation size effects in single crystal copper as revealed by synchrotron x-ray microdiffraction104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2966297View Description Hide Description
For a Cusingle crystal, we find that indentation hardness increases with decreasing indentation depth, a phenomenon widely observed before and called the indentation size effect (ISE). To understand the underlying mechanism, we measure the lattice rotations in indentations of different sizes using white beam x-ray microdiffraction ; the indentation-induced lattice rotations are directly measured by the streaking of x-ray Laue spots associated with the indentations. The magnitude of the lattice rotations is found to be independent of indentation size, which is consistent with the basic tenets of the ISE model. Using the data together with an ISE model, we can estimate the effective radius of the indentation plastic zone, and the estimate is consistent with the value predicted by a finite element analysis. Using these results, an estimate of the average dislocation densities within the plastic zones has been made; the findings are consistent with the ISE arising from a dependence of the dislocation density on the depth of indentation.
Exothermic reactions in Co/Al nanolaminates104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2968444View Description Hide Description
Vapor-deposited Co/Al nanolaminates having a net equiatomic stoichiometry exhibited rapid, high-temperature synthesis. When ignited locally, -thick Co/Al foils were characterized by self-sustained propagating reactions with flame front speeds between and 9 m/s. Speed was largely affected by bilayer thickness and premixed volume fraction, consistent with previous studies of other exothermic multilayers. Cobalt aluminide foils reacted by self-propagating synthesis developed a variety of rough surface morphologies characterized by a large amplitude (peak-to-valley ), multiperiod, wavelike structure. High-temperature reaction was also stimulated by rapid global heating. Tests revealed low ignition temperatures compared with previous Co–Al powder reactant experiments. Ignition temperature was influenced by bilayer thickness. All foils ignited by global heating and those reacted in a self-propagating mode developed a single-phase (CsCl-type) crystal structure. Thick Co/Al nanolaminates were used successfully to join a few different materials including metalized (by soldering) and polyetheretherketone (by direct attachment).
The influence of process parameters on electromigration lifetime statistics104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2956827View Description Hide Description
Even after the successful introduction of Cu-based metallization, the electromigration failure risk has remained one of the important reliability concerns for advanced process technologies mostly due to ever increasing operating current densities. The main factors that require understanding are the activation energy related to the dominating diffusion mechanism, the median lifetimes, and the lognormal standard deviation sigma of experimentally obtained lifetime distributions. This study investigates the effect of different process parameters on electromigration lifetime statistics in Cuinterconnects. First, the failure distributions of single damascene interconnects with smaller line height are examined, followed by an analysis of the influence of different passivation layers on electromigration statistics. A third part focuses on samples with dual damascene technology. It is observed that the first two process modifications change the median time to failure but do not alter the sigma value. Geometrical and kinetic models developed to describe the electromigration characteristics in Cu/SiN interconnects are successfully employed to explain this observation. These models imply that the lifetime statistics depend on variations in void sizes, geometrical and experimental factors of the electromigration test, and kinetic aspects of the mass transport process. The sigma value in dual damascene interconnects is found to be larger compared to corresponding single damascene structures as a result of an increase in possible void shapes and sizes for void growth into the via in addition to evolution along the line. Furthermore, simulations of expected characteristics of lifetime distributions for future technology nodes using the above models and current electromigration data are discussed.
Metal organic vapor phase epitaxy of InAsP/InP(001) quantum dots for applications: Growth, structural, and optical properties104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2968338View Description Hide Description
This contribution reports the metal organic vapor phase epitaxy of InAsP/InP(001) quantum dots with a voluntary V-alloying obtained owing to an additional phosphine flux during InAsquantum dot growth. The quantum dots were studied by photoluminescence and transmission electron microscopy. We show that the additional phosphine flux allows to tune quantum dot emission around while improving their optical properties. The comparison of the optical and structural properties of the InAsP quantum dots allows to deduce their phosphorus composition, ranging from 0% to 30% when the phosphine/arsine flow ratio is varying between 0 and 50. On the basis of the compositions deduced, we discuss on the effects of the phosphine flow and of the alloying on the quantum dot growth, structural, and optical properties.
Evolution of photoluminescence as a function of the structural order or disorder in nanopowders104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2968388View Description Hide Description
nanopowders were prepared by the complex polymerization method. The materials were characterized by x-ray diffraction(XRD) and by Fourier transform infrared, Raman, and optical reflectance spectroscopies. The data revealed the presence of crystalline scheelite-type phase and the absence of additional phases. The surface morphology was monitored by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy (HR-SEM). The HR-SEM and XRD characterizations both revealed a tendency for the particle size to increase with rising treatment temperatures. The disordered nanopowders showed strong emission of photoluminescence, which dropped to minimal levels in the ordered nanopowders. These differences in the photoluminescence of disordered and ordered nanopowders were attributed to complex cluster vacancies.
Lamb waves in phononic crystal slabs with square or rectangular symmetries104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2970067View Description Hide Description
We report on both numerical and experimental results showing the occurrence of band gaps for Lamb waves propagating in phononic crystal plates. The structures are made of centered rectangular and square arrays of holes drilled in a silicon plate. A supercell plane wave expansion method is used to calculate the band structures and to predict the position and the magnitude of the gaps. The band structures of phononic crystal slabs are then measured using a laser ultrasonic technique. Lamb waves in the megahertz range and with wave vectors ranging over more than the first two reduced Brillouin zones are investigated.
Detailed arsenic concentration profiles at interfaces104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2967713View Description Hide Description
The pile-up of arsenic at the interface after As implantation and annealing was investigated by high resolution -contrast imaging, electron energy-lossspectroscopy(EELS), grazing incidence x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (GI-XRF), secondary ion mass spectrometry,x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy,Rutherford backscattering spectrometry, as well as Hall mobility and four-point probe resistivity measurements. After properly taking into account their respective artifacts, the results of all methods are compatible with each other, with EELS and GI-XRF combined with etching providing similar spatial resolution on the nanometer scale for the dopant profile. The sheet concentration of the piled-up As at the interface was found to be for an implanted dose of with a maximum concentration of . The strain observed in the -contrast images also suggests a significant concentration of local distortions within 3 nm from the interface, which, however, do not seem to involve intrinsic point defects.
Luminescence behavior of doped glass ceramics containing nanocrystals104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2969039View Description Hide Description
The luminescence behaviors of dopedglassceramics containing nanocrystals were investigated. The formation of nanocrystals in the glassceramics was confirmed by x-ray diffraction and high resolution transmission electron microscopy. Energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy analysis showed that the ions were efficiently incorporated in nanocrystals. The efficient upconversion luminescence of the in the glassceramics can be observed. The lifetime of the in the glassceramics was found to be much longer than that in the glass due to the lower phonon energy of fluoride crystals when entered efficiently fluoride crystals in the glassceramics.
Intense white upconversion emission in Pr/Er/Yb codoped tellurite glass104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2969046View Description Hide Description
Near infrared sensitized white light emitting glass has been developed and demonstrated. The white light comes from a combination of radiations emitted from triple rare earth ions (Er, Pr, and Yb) doped in tellurite glass. White light emission is possible by suitably mixing the red-green-blue (RGB) intensities emitted from these rare earth ions. The 980 nm radiation sensitized ions transfer their excitation energy to the and ions to promote them to the upper states. The green and red emissions come mainly from ion whereas blue emission from and ions. The RGB intensities could be adjusted by tuning the rare earth ion concentration. The optical quality of white light was adjudged using the Commission Internationale de l' Eclairage coordinates by the rare earth ion concentration and incident power density.
Investigations on multimagnetron sputtered thin films through metal-ferroelectric-semiconductor configuration104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2969718View Description Hide Description
The effect of Mgdoping in ZnO is investigated through structural, electrical, and optical properties. thin films were deposited on Si (100) and corning glass substrates using multimagnetron sputtering. Investigations on the structural properties of the films revealed that the increase in Mg concentration resulted in phase evolution from hexagonal to cubic phase. The temperature dependent study of dielectric constant at different frequencies exhibited a dielectric anomaly at . The thin films exhibited a well-defined polarization hysteresis loop with a remnant polarization of and coercive field of 8 kV/cm at room temperature. An increase in the band gap with an increase in Mg content was observed in the range of 3.3–3.8 eV for . The average transmittance of the films was higher than 90% in the wavelength region .
The evolution of the structure and mechanical properties of fullerenelike hydrogenated amorphous carbon films upon annealing104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2969768View Description Hide Description
Hydrogenated amorphous carbonfilms were deposited on Si (100) substrates using dc-pulse plasma chemical vapor deposition.Structurally, the as-deposited carbonfilms could be considered as nanocomposite thin films with fullerenelike microstructure in diamondlike carbon matrix based on our previous result [Q. Wang et al., Appl. Phys. Lett.91, 141902 (2007)]. In this paper, the evolution of the structure and the mechanical properties of hydrogenated carbonfilms with fullerenelike microstructure on the annealing in vacuum was investigated. The fullerenelike hydrogenated carbonfilmsannealed at showed higher hardness (16.9% harder) and higher elastic recovery (11.2% higher) than the as-deposited films. The friction coefficient of fullerenelike hydrogenated carbonfilms in air with 40% relative humidity remained constant at about 0.037 when annealed at . The wear rate of the films decreased sharply when annealed at 200 or . Structural analysis shows that annealing at improved tribological properties originated from the volume increase in the fullerenelike microstructure, and further annealing at improved mechanical properties originated from the transformation of nanosized curved to clusters.
Annealing effect on the chemical structure of diamondlike carbon104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2969792View Description Hide Description
The effect of annealing in an ultrahigh vacuum on the chemical structure of diamondlike carbon (DLC) was investigated using photoelectron spectroscopy, thermal desorption spectroscopy,electrical resistivity, and micro-Raman spectroscopy measurements. The line shapes of the photoelectron spectra depended on annealing temperature. The relative intensities of four chemical components in the spectra were quantitatively evaluated: carbon with carbon-carbon bonds (C–C carbon),carbon with carbon-carbon bonds (C–C carbon),carbon with hydrogen-carbon bonds (H–C carbon), and carbon with hydrogen-carbon bonds (H–C carbon). The variation of the ratio of the components demonstrated that hydrogen in DLC is emitted to the outside in between 450 and , and the remaining DLC is graphized above . The increase in the asymmetry of the spectra and the decrease in the electrical resistivity of the DLC film with annealing temperature agree with the picture that the H–C bonds in DLC produces large free spaces in the structure, which inhibit conductive routes and lead to high electrical resistivity.
Effects of UV cure on glass structure and fracture properties of nanoporous carbon-doped oxide thin films104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2968438View Description Hide Description
The effects of UV radiation curing on the glass structure and fracture properties were examined for a class of nanoporous organosilicate low dielectric constant films. A detailed characterization by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy showed significant changes in the glass structure with increasing curing time, marked by the removal of terminal organic groups and increased network-forming bonds following the initial removal of porogen material. The higher degree of film connectivity brought about by an increased cure duration is demonstrated to significantly enhance adhesive fracture properties and to moderately improve cohesive fracture resistance. Explanations for the enhanced fracture behavior are considered in terms of the glass structure. The important role of crack path selection during adhesive and cohesive fracture processes is used to rationalize the observed behavior.
Room temperature tunable blue-green luminescence in nanocrystalline thin film grown on yttrium-doped zirconia substrate104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2969030View Description Hide Description
Room temperature tunable blue-green photoluminescence was observed in nanocrystallinethin film under UV excitation. Its emission energy increases from 2.42 (at ) to 2.76 eV (at ), while the band gap decreases from 3.6 to 3.3 eV. Thin films of were prepared on yttrium-doped zirconia substrate by a simple sol-gel technique with spinning-coating process. Atom force microscope micrographs and crystallographic studies revealed the polycrystalline perovskite-type structure of the thin films. The observed optical properties are attributed to distorted octahedral due to different cation substitutions. The work shows that this kind of wide band gap and low cost nanocrystallinethin films is a very promising material for flat panel display applications and integrated light emission devices.
X-ray diffraction imaging of strain fields in a domain-inverted crystal104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2968224View Description Hide Description
We investigate lattice orientation and strain fields across ferroelectricdomain walls in a single crystal lithium tantalate using x-ray diffractionimaging (topography). The sample is an actual voltage-operated optical switch consisting of a series of triangular polarization-inverted domains formed in an originally poled single crystal. By applying an electric field only about 2% of the coercive field in the forward and reverse directions, we observed asymmetric lattice rotation of about , and normal strain variation in the order of with reference to the zero-field state. Our results confirm that in congruent crystals there is unexpectedly large strain field expanding several micrometers across the domain walls, in contrast with the widely accepted theoretical fact that in this material the polarization reversal establishes over only a few lattice constants, resulting in small and localized lattice distortions.
High-temperature AlN interlayer for crack-free AlGaN growth on GaN104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2968546View Description Hide Description
This paper presents a study of the transformation of high-temperature AlN (HT-AlN) interlayer (IL) and its effect on the strain relaxation of . The HT-AlN IL capped with transforms into AlGaN IL in which the Al composition increases with the HT-AlN IL thickness while the total Ga content keeps nearly constant. During the HT-AlN IL growth on GaN, the tensile stress is relieved through the formation of V trenches. The filling up of the V trenches by the subsequent growth is identified as the Ga source for the IL transformation, whose effect is very different from a direct growth of HT-AlGaN IL. The -type dislocations generated during the advancement of V trenches and their filling up propagate into the overlayer. The -type dislocation density increases dramatically with the IL thickness, which greatly enhances the strain relaxation of .
First-principles study of structural and energetic properties of (, Ho, Er) compounds104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2969662View Description Hide Description
The structural and energetic properties of (, Ho, Er) compounds have been investigated by means of ab initiototal energy calculations. For the defectfluoritestructure is predicted to be more stable than pyrochlore structure, agreeing well with previous experimental [J. Inorg. Nucl. Chem.31, 2367 (1969); J. Less Common Met.14, 435 (1968)] and theoretical [J. Am. Ceram. Soc.85, 2139 (2002)] investigations. In contrast to pyrochlore, and prefer pyrochlore structures, which is consistent with the recent experimental observations of compound [J. Solid State Chem.179, 1990 (2006)].
Enhanced broadband near-infrared emission from Bi-doped glasses by codoping with metal oxides104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2970167View Description Hide Description
An intense broadband and flat emission from Bi-doped germanate glass has been measured upon excitation with a commercial laser diode, which makes the glasses more attractive for their use in broadband optical fiber amplifiers. The emission exhibits a distinctive fine luminescence shape with four bands centered at 1225, 1320, 1370, and 1390 nm, respectively. It is noted that the addition of , , or into Bi-doped glasses could remarkably enhance the luminescence intensity by a factor of 4, 12, and 23, respectively. Whereas, no luminescence has been observed for the glass prepared under a controlled redox condition. The optical properties of the Bi-doped glasses and the possible mechanism involved have been explained.
Modeling deflagration-to-detonation transition in granular explosive pentaerythritol tetranitrate104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2970168View Description Hide Description
Based on an approach suggested by Stewart et al. [Phys. Fluids6, 2515 (1994)] we develop a model to simulate deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) in pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) powders. The model uses a continuum mechanics formulation of conservation laws for a mixture of solid reactants and gas products, written in terms of mixture quantities plus two independent variables used to account for exothermic conversion of solid reactants into gas products, and compaction associated with pore collapse and grain rearrangement. We propose a simple empirical dependence of the reaction rate on the initial bed compaction that allows us to calibrate the model for a wide range of initial conditions. For the solid reactants we use a wide-ranging equation of state(EOS) developed by Davis and co-workers in a series of papers [Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Detonation, 1993, pp. 369–376; Explosive Effects and Applications (Springer, New York, 1998), Chap. 1, Combust. Flame120, 399 (2000); Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium Detonation, San Diego, CA, 2002, pp. 624–631; . ONR 333-05-2; Proceedings of the Eighth Detonation Symposium, 1985, pp. 785–795; Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Detonation, 1998, pp. 303–308]. The EOS for powder uses the model of Herrmann [J. Appl. Phys.40, 2490 (1969)] and Carrol and Holt [J. Appl. Phys.43, 759 (1972)]. To close the system, we suggest phenomenological closure relations, consistent with the limit of a compressible inert material and of a solid fully reactive material, such that the EOS can be posed only in terms of mixture quantities and the reaction and compaction variables. We demonstrate the model's ability to capture DDT in PETN powders by matching transients typically observed in experiments through simulation. We show that for flows calculated using nonideal EOSs and complex reaction kinetics such as those formulated in our model, it is possible to define a separatrix, i.e., the characteristic that separates the characteristics that evolve into the detonation front from those that evolve away from it. We comment on the effects that the variability in the grain microstructure in PETN explosive powder beds can have on the overall mechanics of DDT and discuss possible ways to model this.
In situ studies on the kinetics of formation and crystal structure of using high-energy x-ray diffraction104(2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2969913View Description Hide Description
High-energy x-ray diffraction was utilized to study in situ the formation temperature and crystal structure of the rhombohedral phase . The kinetics of formation from bixbyite and tetragonal nanopowders were investigated during isothermal annealing treatments ranging from 1335 to . The transformation data exhibited two regimes, well described with a two-exponent kinetics model. The first regime followed a Johnson–Mehl–Avrami–Kolmogorov (JMAK) behavior until 75% of the phase formed and was modeled with a modified JMAK equation. The formation of the first grains of at was observed in situ using diffraction two-dimensional images. Structural results obtained from Rietveld analysis include atomic positions, phase analysis compositions of the samples, and lattice parameters during heating, cooling, and isothermal conditions. Linear and volume coefficients of thermal expansion were determined for the phase.


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Apple co-founder and amateur dancer Steve Wozniak has complained about the voting system on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. But the format is, if anything, set up to prolong the longevity of fan favorites such as Wozniak.
In both elimination rounds of the competition show's current season, the judges ranked Wozniak last of all contestants. After the first one, he complained in a Facebook posting that the producers would have to be out to get him if viewer votes weren't sufficient to keep him out of the bottom two dance teams. (He was in the bottom two, but retracted his complaints after talking over the voting system with top officials at the show.) This week, despite ranking last with judges such as Bruno Tonielli — who called Wozniak's effort perhaps the "worst samba" ever — viewer support was strong enough to keep Wozniak out of the bottom two and propel him to another week of competition.
The eccentric techie with a strong online following is likely a beneficiary of the show's quirky scoring system, which ostensibly weights the votes of judges and viewers equally but really puts greater stock in fan voting, particularly in the early going. Each week, for each type of voting, each contestant gets points equal to the percentage of all points handed out by that set of evaluators, either judges or fans. But because of the difference in how judges and fans assign points, fans are the more important constituency when the contestant field is large (a dozen this week). Judges grade each contestant on a fixed scale, meaning that the best dancer and the worst aren't separated by much. But fans can choose to vote only for their favorite, even if it's by a narrow margin, magnifying differences in dancers.
Consider the votes this week by judges. Wozniak received a score of 10 out of 30; high scorers Shawn Johnson, Gilles Marini and Melissa Rycroft each received a score of 27. Overall, the judges handed out 254 points. So the top three each got 10.6% of all judges' points, compared to 3.9% for Wozniak. That's a narrow edge of just 6.7 percentage points. The fan voting isn't announced, but Wozniak's ample press coverage — partly arising from those same low judges' scores — and his likely appeal to the online voting population could easily more than make up the difference.
Consider an extreme case, in which Wozniak gets no support from judges but lots from fans. If next week, with just 11 contestants, the rest of his competitors score the same while he gets 0 points. He'll still be within 12 percentage points of the leader. It's plausible he'd hold a lead at least that large over all his competitors in the fan vote. This may start to break down at later stages of the game, when there are fewer judge points to go around, and the higher scores for nominally better dancers start to kick in. Until then, fan favorites have stuck around, seemingly against the odds, which helps make for entertaining television.


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Oakland City Drops First Home Game of the SeasonApril 13, 2010 at 4:31 PM
Oakland City, IN - The Mighty Oaks hosted the Tornados of Bevard College Wednesday night in the Johnson Center, 74-63. Amore Pizza sponsored the game and free pizzas were given away during timeouts.
Oakland City scored the first five points of the game and led by as many as nine points in the first half, but Brevard was able to outscore the Oaks 15-3 to close out the first half with a two point lead at 28-26. The Tornados stretched the lead to five early in the second half before a pair of free throws by Brandon Hopf and two jumpers, one by Craig Parks and another by Hopf, brought the lead back to the home team at 41-40. The lead was shortlived, however, and Brevard was able to close out the game, holding the Oaks without a field goal in the final four minutes and finishing the game on a 10-2 run. Brevard won the game by eleven, the final score being 74-63.
The Mighty Oaks were led in scoring by Hopf with 17 points, followed by Craig Parks and Nate Schumacher with 11 and Jared Maners with 10. Maners and Schumacher each tallied a double-double for the Oaks as Maners dished out 10 assists and Schumacher pulled down a game high 15 rebounds to lead the team for the thirteenth consecutive game, dating back to last season. The Tornados were led in scoring by Josh Roper with 23 points, followed by Jonathan Whitson who scored a double-double of his own with 15 points and 13 boards.
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Aretha Franklin waited for it, Martin Luther King marched for it, and Rodney Dangerfield built a comedy career around it. Hip-hop's Nas and The Sopranos' Dominic Chianese discuss the world's greatest equalizer.
This feature originally appeared in Complex's June/July 2002 issue (a.k.a. Issue #1!)
Nas on Respect
Illmatic (Columbia), a vivid and at times horrifying look at street life. Nas went on to display his potency onscreen, starring in the acclaimed 1998 film Belly, directed by Hype Williams, only to be plagued by a three-year fall from grace. His 2001 joint, Stillmatic(Columbia), reestablished Nas as hip-hopÕs grittiest wordsmith, a man whose rhymes stand up and demand respect.
Who do you respect? Who are your heroes?
Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King, Malcolm. My moms and pops.
How has being from Queensbridge played into your sense of self-respect?
Because IÕm from one of the largest projects in the world, that allowed me to be around so many different kinds of people. People who had that automatic respect and some people who didnÕt have any respect at all. People who didnÕt care about respect, because they didnÕt respect themselves.
I meet disrespect with the same amount or more.
Do you think there is a difference between fear and respect?
Absolutely, because fear is poison.
You donÕt need to fear someone to respect them?
Nah, because with fear people react out of emotion and they could try to harm you. If they respect you then there is something they admire.
How does hip-hop relate to respect?
Hip-hop and rhymes are the codes of the street. So, you respect the artist because of what words of wisdom come out of his mouth.
How do you know when youÕve been disrespected?
ItÕs a gut feeling.
What is your reaction when you are disrespected?
I meet disrespect with the same amount or more.
Do you feel like Jay-Z disrespected you?
He thought he did. And I think he did, to some extent, but not at the level where he thought he could, or thought he would, or thought he did. I think he knows he disrespected himself. I think he exposed a side that he really didnÕt want [people] to see.
When it comes to battling and the current feud with Jay-Z, can the disrespect limit itself to the microphone any more? Where do you draw the lines?
ThatÕs like asking Ali and Frazier where to draw the line, because off the screen they still wasnÕt showing each other love. I mean, a war is a war, a battle is a battle.
Jay-Z has sold more records than you, has made more money than you, and has more fans than you. DonÕt you think heÕs already won the battle on points?
My thing is thisÑthe whole world listens to Jay-Z, and the streets fuck with Nas. And that explains to you why he wanted to come after me. Because itÕs not what the critics were saying, it was what reality was saying. Jay-ZÕs reality was that he couldnÕt be Jay-Z unless he conquered Nas. ItÕs like you want everything in the world, but you know you have to do this one last thing to really be king.


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Can you freeze truffles? I want to make mine a few days before I am serving them to save time.
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Chocolate truffles freeze beautifully! Wrap them well and store in a tupperware in the freezer. Chocolate is very prorous and easily picks up odors and flavors, so it's important that they are well wrapped. Thaw in the wrapping so that condensation won't form on the chocolate.
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Could you post your recipe. I have never made truffles, but would like to experiment. Also, Have you tried the truffles from Costco, they are really quite good and very inexpensive. They come in 2 boxes together and are $9.50, each box has 2 foil bags. So four bags and each bag must have at least 20-30 truffles. They are very creamy.
I think they only carry them during the holiday time. They are french truffles.
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- Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay walk past the greenhouse, which is beginning to get repaired, but Mrs. Ramsay doesn't have the heart to tell her husband the cost (50 pounds, incidentally, and Mrs. Ramsay often thinks randomly on this fact).
- Instead, Mrs. Ramsay brings up Jasper's fondness for shooting defenseless creatures.
- Mr. Ramsay says that's natural, and not to worry about it. Mrs. Ramsay thinks Mr. Ramsay is so sensible!
- They chat some more about Charles Tansley, Prue Ramsay (Mr. Ramsay fails to see her beauty), and about the garden.
- Mr. Ramsay brings up Andrew, and says that if the boy doesn't work harder, he'll lose a scholarship. Mr. Ramsay will be proud if Andrew gets a scholarship; Mrs. Ramsay will be proud either way. They seem to like this balance in each other.
- Then there's a tiny paragraph about what the two of them can't say to each other.
- Mrs. Ramsay expresses worry that some of the kids aren't back yet, but Mr. Ramsay glosses over her fears.
- The two of them reach a place where the Lighthouse can be seen again. Mrs. Ramsay doesn't look.
- Mr. Ramsay looks at everything and murmurs, "poor little universe." Just who does this guy think he is?!
- Mrs. Ramsay thinks his little phrases are ridiculous, and that it's a perfectly fine evening. Then she brings up the idea that Mr. Ramsay would have written better books had he not married her.
- He says that he's not complaining, and then kisses her hand passionately. Ooh… hot.
- The two of them walk up the path and Mrs. Ramsay reflects that even though her husband is over 60, his arm feels just like a young man's.
- Mrs. Ramsay contemplates her husband's inability to understand the simple and the ordinary in favor of dealing with the complex and the extraordinary.
- Mr. Ramsay shouts at a woman named Mrs. Giddings. Mrs. Ramsay is not sympathetic to Mrs. Giddings, and instead bends down to examine her evening primroses.
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- Several servants and guards dressed in Iven liveries quickly rushed out to the carriages and directed them to the house that her parents had employed.
- As president, Jefferson dressed down, but he did fit out the servants in snappy livery of blue and red cloth with silver trimmings.
- Servants in their traditional livery continued about their tasks, sable bands about their arms in honor.
- In Frankfurt the plane will have its livery changed to the colours of the new owner.
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- My Lord, on the question of horses used for hunting kept at livery, our survey showed about 10,100 horses kept at livery or in riding stables and used for hunting.
- Keeping horses at livery and going out hunting are expensive pursuits that are totally unaffordable by those claiming penury status.
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- The staff, liveried in braided uniforms which perhaps were some sort of nod to the Raj (and why not in saris, we wondered), were quite accustomed to speaking English to customers.
- Even in the cyber age, nothing much has changed in the coffee houses, not the menu or the waiters liveried in red-white and wearing a gilt-edged, crisp headgear and certainly not the coffee.
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Middle English: from Old French livree 'delivered', feminine past participle of livrer, from Latin liberare 'liberate' (in medieval Latin 'hand over'). The original sense was 'the dispensing of food, provisions, or clothing to servants'; hence sense 4, also 'allowance of provender for horses', surviving in the phrase at livery and in livery stable. sense 1 arose because medieval nobles provided matching clothes to distinguish their servants from others'.
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The root of liberty is Latin liber 'free', the source also of liberal (Middle English) , libertine (Late Middle English), and livery (Middle English), and deliver. During the French Revolution the rallying cry was 'liberty, equality, fraternity'. Supporters of change wore the cap of liberty, a red conical cap of a type that had originally been given to Roman slaves when they were freed.
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Eagles off to flying start
The Highlands Youth Football and Cheer Organization hosted its official season opener on Saturday at Joe Franza stadium in Avon Park with games against the Lake Wales Gators. It was the first official game of the season, the Eagles coaches and players were anxious to get on the field knowing that from this point on, every game counts and each win is one step closer to a divisional playoff game. Our Lady Eagle cheerleaders started off the day getting our players pumped up for the game and boosting the team spirit in the stands with our spectators. The first team to take the field was the Flag team, ages 5-6, coached by Steve Remes. The Eagles offense took the field led by Marcus Gomez, Josh Hernandez, Leon Harris and Damari Cohen. The Gators took an early 6-0 lead, but the Eagles responded quickly with Harris scoring the first touchdown of the day and the extra point by Cohen made i 7-6.The defense made its presence felt and stood strong with key plays by Max Gagnon, Keldrice Legree, Clayton Hooks and Harris. The offense scored again to win by a final score of 13-6. It was a very exciting game with the Eagles getting the first win of the official season. Next to take the field was the Mighty Mite team, ages 7-8, coached by Bronson Smith. The Eagles took the field with pride with the offense led by Fred Hankerson, Luis Calderon and Isiah Pete. The offense struck quickly as Pete ran 52 yards for a touchdown. The Gators responded with a couple of scores of their own to take the lead at 13-6. On the defensive side of the ball, Solan Huter forced and caused a fumble and made several key tackles with teammates Kaleb Rojas, Landon Young and Hankerson. In the second half, the offense struggled to gain momentum and the defense couldn't contain the Gators who cruised to a 31-6 win. Next up was the Pee Wee team, ages 10-11, coached by Tim Hooks, which started the day meeting a strong defensive stance from the Gators after an early score. The Eagles offense rallied together led by quarterback Graisin Wheelock along with offensive linemen O'Brien Yarde and Christopher Cardoso plowing the way to allow fullback Austin Smith to drive down the field resulting in a touchdown in the first quarter. The Gators quickly responded with a score of their own. The defense came out in the second half with key tackles by Jacob Bennett, Colton Topper, Steven Douthit and Wheelock but the Gators strong offensive drives led to the first loss of the season for this team with a final score of 31-6. The Junior Varsity team, ages 12-13, coached by Cliff Howell, took the field with the Gators. The game got off to a great start with the offense, led by Quarter Norris "Fish" Taylor, Jr. and Geo Gonzalez scoring on a 15-yard touchdown for the first score of the day to take an early lead of 6-0. The strong JV defense took the field alert and ready with key tackles made by Kyle Rodriguez, Kasey Hawthorne, Jordan Rose, Kevin Webb, Gonzalez and Taylor. The Gators quickly responded with a score of their own on a breakaway run to take the lead 7-6. The Eagles offense exploded as Taylor scored with the extra point by Marquis Hawthorne. The defense quickly thwarted the Gators advances and capitalized on the next drive as Kasey Hawthorne intercepted the ball and ran 75 yards to score. Kasey scored again on a 20-yard pass from Taylor and Taylor scored again on a 55-yard touchdown to make it 32-7. Colton Williams sacked the quarterback causing a fumble in the end zone which Williams in the end zone for a final score of 38-7. The Varsity Eagles team, ages 13-15, coached by Nick Bailey, did not have a game due to the Gators not having a Varsity team and earned their first victory by forfeit. All in all it was a great day of football for the Eagles taking three out of five games. The Highlands Eagles play their next game today on the road against the Lakeland Hurricanes at Lake Gibson High School. Games begin at 9 a.m. Admission is $4 for adults and $3 for children. Come on out to support the Highlands Youth Football and Cheer program. Lake Placid Youth Football It was an exciting, high-scoring game for the Lake Placid Flag team with a combined total of 57 points scored that was decided in the last minute of the fourth quarter. Lake Placid standouts included Alfrado Archer, who ran for two touchdowns and threw a completion to Caleb Andrews. Edwin Williams scored a touchdown and Brandon Pratts scored his first touchdown of the season. But, Frostproof proved to have just enough to pull out the win and hand Lake Placid a 31-26 loss. Frostproof got the ball first, but the Dragon defense applied tremendous pressure, pushing the Bulldogs back, and ending their drive when Amani Allen sacked the quarterback for a safety. The Dragon offensive line worked really well together with strong performances by Ty Hannon, Gavin Higgs, Christopher Winslow, Tony Barajas and Tracen Phillips. The offensive line opened up opportunities for the Dragon running game with good runs by Allen, Patrick Pierre, Colton Krueger, and quarterback James Zarrella. The second half saw more offensive power from the Dragons, but penalties took their toll. Contrary to the Flag game, this was a defensive contest that ended where it began - Lake Placid won 2-0. Coach Kevin Zarrella was very proud of the way his team played and is looking forward to playing the Heartland Hurricanes. Although the Pee Wee game was officially forfeited by Frostproof due to a mixup with their books, the teams played an abbreviated contest with a running clock. Dragon coach Alfrado Archer was very proud of his defense, which was able to hold Frostproof scoreless for the entire game. Defensive standouts included Austin Wilson, who had five tackles for a loss, Alan Glover with four tackles for a loss, The Dragon offense, led by Trent Garrison, had impressive performances by Javarie White who ran for 135 yards and a touchdown and Anthony Allan who rushed for 95 yards and two touchdowns. Lake Placid won 18-0. Juniors coach Shawn Taylor couldn't have been more proud of his squad on Saturday. The Dragons dominated on both sides of the ball and came away with an impressive 48-6 win over the Bulldogs. The leader of the Dragons offense was Quwesmael Sholtz who connected with several pass completions and scored two rushing touchdowns.
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Sopranos creator David Chase puts the Bada-bing into rock
David Chase's first project since The Sopranos is a "gritty, graceful" portrait of a 60s garage band
GOOD news for the many people living with a Tony Soprano-sized hole in their lives: David Chase, the creator of HBO's hit suburban gangster drama, is about to unveil his first post-Sopranos project.
Not Fade Away, a feature film about a fictional 1960s garage band from New Jersey who want to be the next Rolling Stones, is "a gritty, graceful salute to rock & roll", writes Peter Travers in Rolling Stone. For the Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney it's "a warm, funny, poignant scrapbook that evokes a spirit of youth."
Chase's movie features several key players from his acclaimed HBO drama series. James Gandolfini, who played gang boss Tony Soprano, appears in Not Fade Away as the "disapproving father" of the band's drummer played by John Magaro.
Rock guitarist Steve Van Zandt – who played Silvio Dante, a member of Tony's gang – is the film's producer and musical director. Zandt, a longtime member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, put a lot of effort into making the fictional band in Not Fade Away look and sound like a real group, organising a "rock boot camp" for the actors, says the Daily Telegraph.
Chase's movie is semi-autobiographical: the 67-year-old grew up in New Jersey in the 1960s and was a huge fan of the era's music. "I love rock 'n' roll so much that I really wanted to make a movie about the music, not about the personalities involved, not about the ups and downs or the rise and fall of it," he says.
Variety's Ronnie Schieb says Chase has fulfilled those ambitions because Not Fade Away "injects the past with the nervous energy and exciting uncertainty of the present, devoid of nostalgia or biopic baggage, and infused with all the wicked wit that characterized The Sopranos".
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Pregnant Scrapbooking: Simple Tips For Scrapping This Very Special Time!
Pregnant scrapbooking is incredibly popular and lots of fun!
Moms-to-be are eager to share their exciting news with family and friends, and what better way than to create a scrapbook. Read on for cool ideas on how to get started with your pregnant scrapbooking journey!
Choose how you want to showcase your pregnant scrapbook page photos
Brag book vs. album.
A pregnancy scrapbook album typically covers the time between when you first discovered that you were pregnant and the day your baby was born.
Since it might not be practical to carry a scrapbook album with you as you meet the girls for lunch or go visit your in-laws, you might want to consider putting together a brag book instead. Brag books are usually 5×7 inches in size and can house 10 front/back pages
Of course it's perfectly fine to put together a full-size album. It all depends on what you want to include and how much time you can afford to put into the album.
Certainly a lot will happen during your nine months of pregnancy so it will be easy to fill up an album.
Decide on themes (this makes things easy)
What do you want to remember about your pregnancy? What special moments do you want to be able to relive as you look through your pregnancy scrapbook pages in years to come? These are the things that you want to make sure to include in your album.
Here are some ideas to consider:
- Pregnancy test results
- Baby bumps/pregnancy photos (3 months, 6 months, 9 months)
- Doctor visits
- Ultrasound
- Decorating the nursery
- Baby shower
- Bonding with your unborn child
- Choosing a baby name
Have fun with layouts during your pregnant scrapbooking!
Be creative with pages.
- Positive pregnancy test. A lot of pregnancy scrapbooks begin with a photo or two of the pregnancy test results. For a cute layout include a photo of the test kit, a photo of you ecstatic about the results and the word "Pregnant" or if you've already had a baby use "Pregnant again!" You might even catch a sibling checking over the pregnancy test to see what all the excitement is about.
- Pregnancy photos. Use three photos taken of the mom-to-be at a side view. Photos should be taken at 3 months, 6 months and 9 months. Create one horizontal mat with three panels and place it so that the bottom of the mat is in the middle of the page. Above the photos, use die-cut letters and spell M-O-M-M-Y. Underneath the photos, journal your thoughts about having a baby. Purchase or make your own pregnancy quotes, such as "For now in mommy's tummy, forever in her heart" or "A baby is a gift from God". Use the quotes as a border around the top and bottom part of the photo mat. Embellish the page with a few heart shaped confetti pieces.
- Ultrasound photo. Either free hand or download the silhouette of a pregnant woman. Adhere your ultrasound photo to the belly of the silhouette. Journal how it feels having a little one growing inside of you.
- Planning for the hospital. Create a pregnancy scrapbook layout with outfit options that you plan to dress your baby in when it's time for the baby to leave the hospital. Include a photo of your baby bump. Write about how excited you are for the big day to arrive.
- Bonding with siblings. Little kids get excited over the thought of a baby growing inside of mommy's tummy. Let the kids talk to the baby, kiss your belly, or even paint your belly! This is a special time and the kids want to bond with their unborn baby sister or brother.
Journal your pregnancy experience
Talk to your baby.
When your baby becomes a young child, he or she will love to go through the pregnant scrapbooking album with you over and over. Consider keeping all of your journal entries as conversations to your unborn child. As you put your scrapbook together, consider journaling about:
- Your excitement of finding out that you were pregnant.
- How you let your family and friends know the news.
- Your cravings.
- Going for your check-ups.
- The first ultrasound.
- Reaction of the baby's siblings.
- Choosing the baby's name.
- Setting up the nursery.
Embellish your pregnant scapbook page
Making it personal.
In addition to photos and journaling, think about the special items you can embellish your pregnancy scrapbook pages with. Include the messages and/or pictures from some of the congratulations cards. On the page of your first ultrasound, adhere the appointment card. On the pages of outfits for your baby, include some of the clothing tags. Years from now you'll get a good laugh out of the name brands and the price tag!
At your local craft store, you'll find lots of baby related items–stickers, rubber stamps, buttons, die-cuts and more! Choose a few that will enhance your pages.
The more you work on your album, the more you'll come up with pregnancy scrapbook layout ideas. Remember this is a special time for you to bond with your unborn child. You want to capture as much of the experience as you can.
As an added thought, check out these great scrapbooking ideas for a baby shower!
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BABY, IT'S YOU!: 57% Bittersweet
LemonMeter | Nov 23, 2009 | Comments 0 |
Serious book problems hamper a strong catalog of early 1960s tunes and the efforts of a talented cast in Baby It's You!, now at the Pasadena Playhouse. The result is a surprisingly uninvolving biography of Florence Greenberg, the Jewish housewife who discovered and fostered the doo-wop group The Shirelles.
Jonas Schwartz – Theatremania
If the Shirelles can't quite do for "Baby It's You!" what Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons did for "Jersey Boys," please don't blame the music. The sound of this path-breaking girl group, which skyrocketed up the charts in the early '60s with such hits as "Dedicated to the One I Love" and 'Soldier Boy," still has an infectious charm. But these singers deserve a better-written vehicle for the roller coaster of fame than this patchwork musical, which opened Friday at Pasadena Playhouse.
Charles McNulty – LA Times
Floyd Mutrux's splashy doo-wop, jukebox musical tracks the naive but strong-willed exec as she discovers the brief glories of being on top of the charts with a new man at her side, prideful lyricist and producer Luther Dixon (Allan Louis). Mutrux and co-writer Colin Escott see this as a story about suits, not singers: The Shirelles (Berlando Drake, Erica Ash, Paulette Ivory and Crystal Starr Knighton, all excellent) get stage time but no individuality except for Drake's Shirley, who makes a play for Luther. But everything is tangential to the music.
Amy Nicholson – LA Weekly
Choreographer Birgitte Mutrux, music director Adam Irizarry, and the design team achieve a handsomely packaged production. For those who might not care about Greenberg and the behind-the-scenes story, the show's glittery pleasures might suffice. Nonetheless, major libretto retooling is needed prior to a hoped-for Broadway run.
Les Spindle – Backstage
"Baby It's You" has the legs to potentially make a successful trip to the Big Apple once it achieves a more symbiotic balance between music and storyline. The onstage talent is certainly in place.
Julio Martinez – Variety
Baby It's You! follows in the footsteps of Ray Charles Live! in recreating an important era of American music history. This time, though, the accent is behind the scenes, and Florence Greenberg's story is one well worth telling and remembering. In the accomplished hands behind Baby It's You!, the New Jersey housewife turned music VIP finally gets her moment center stage.
Steven Stanley – StageSceneLA
Possibly intriguing story, pitiful execution. If someone told you that the woman who discovered the 1960s African American girl group The Shirelles was a white New Jersey housewife; that this same lady took on the male establishment by starting an independent record label; and that her partner and lover was an equally ambitious black songwriter, you might consider this a tale worth spinning, right? Well, the creators of the new jukebox musical Baby It's You! thought so too although their product shows otherwise.
Evan Henerson – CurtainUp
If the rollicking "Baby It's You!" is an indication, get ready for another season of standing-ovation plays at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2010.
First, two words about "Baby It's You!," See it!
Bill White – Tolucan Times
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A pair of South Carolina residents were arrested on drug trafficking charges near Macksburg on Christmas Eve....
The methamphetamine is what kills it for me. That stuff is poison!! But any commentor, or official that states 105 pain pills is more than prescribed for personal use is a moron! Working in personal care, I have seen many people be prescribed 120 pain pills every 30 days, that's 4 pills a day.
That said, Mom, I hope you are seriuos about letting her stay incarcerated, or at least gathering family and have her committed until she gets clean, because these young people are dying from methamphetamine and pain med addiction.
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Healing With Horses
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A horse communicator shares her journey in the healing given and received whilst working with physically and emotionally abused animals. By introducing people and these animals to each other, it enables them to assist one another through emotional struggles. This book is not just for "horsey" people, although it will assist horseowners. It introduces and educates the reader on approaching problems from a wider perspective instructing them about the of communication of the soul. This book goes through many examples of how horses have been healed using all forms of healing. These methods include natural healing energy, magnetic therapy, herbal therapies, massage and laser therapy.
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May 23, 2011This looks like a great book. It's so amazing what horses and people can do for each other.
Feb 17, 2009"gr8 work" have knowing Naomi for over a year now and have seen her work.I have seen horses hard alive to full heath ,she knows what she doing.One horse written in book "tebby" I rode.And from riding him I can see what beautiful work she done.I wish her all the best on future projects..by buying this book all money goes back into the horses ..great work keep up the good work... RATT
Jul 31, 2008"Re: gr8 work" Hi Michael, thankyou so much for your lovely words and you are right the money will go back into the horses and helping to educate others about what I do. thanks Naomi
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On this date in 1991, the Flyers opened their 25th season with a game against the Capitals in Washington. The Flyers lost the game, 5-2.
Right wing Mark Recchi led the Flyers in scoring in 1991-92 with 97 points (43G,54A). He posted 27 points in 22 games with the Flyers after being acquired from the Pittsburgh Penguins in a February 1992 trade.


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Madea's Witness Protection
- Studio: Lionsgate
- Release Date: Jun 29, 2012
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How much of this is actually funny is a question of taste, but even a confirmed Perry hater might get caught laughing once or twice.
Reviewing a Tyler Perry movie is a bit like reviewing the weather report. People who want to watch it are going to do so, regardless of what anyone says about it. And that's not even factoring in Charlie Sheen.
With Tyler Perry gradually segueing toward non-drag leading man status with "Good Deeds" and the upcoming James Patterson thriller "Alex Cross," his latest appearance as the sassy, wisdom-dispensing matriarch of the title in Madea's Witness Protection has an aura of fatigued reluctance to it, as does the film itself.
While I fully support the appearance of a new Madea movie every six months, even Tyler Perry can't be bothered to take this setup seriously.
He's still a young guy, but all throughout Witness Protection I imagined Perry sitting glumly at a dressing-room mirror, like the aging Chaplin in "Limelight," forlornly rubbing makeup in his face - a tired, old clown stuck in a tired, old routine.
There aren't many laughs in this vaudevillian gambit, and fewer still in the fish-out-of-water comedy of Madea hosting a rich white family that's chiefly concerned with yoga, wi-fi, and their carb intakes. Still, Perry remains a true outsider artist-nobody makes movies like his. (And please don't try.)
A comedy that's too late to the Ponzi-scheme party to be topical, and not outrageous enough to take advantage of its own setups.
The writer-director-star still hasn't learned to smoothly blend broad comedy and family-values sermonizing.
The interaction among opposites inspires an abundance of predictable race-based jokes, many of which have the saving grace of actually being funny.
An agent of spiritual regeneration and showman, Perry's dramaturgy is as subtle as a Bible-thump, but until a logy last act that has Levy disguised as a faux-Frenchman, his instincts are on-target here.
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Jul 13, 2013Madea's Witness Protection is funny and entertaining but not enough, it took itself more seriously this time, it has some really funnyMadea's Witness Protection is funny and entertaining but not enough, it took itself more seriously this time, it has some really funny moments, but sometimes you will feel, not bored, but that the movie is somehow overlong and you will check your hour once or twice at least during this movie, it is clever somehow but ridiculously unbelievable, but on the brighter side, it is entertaining and has some capricious fun.… Full Review »
Jul 9, 2012I can't even begin to explain how hilarious this movie is! Ive been waiting for some time for a hardcore Madea film, and this film delivers.I can't even begin to explain how hilarious this movie is! Ive been waiting for some time for a hardcore Madea film, and this film delivers. Its non-stop laughter. I lol'd, rofl'd, lmbo and cried my eyes out! I plan on going to see this twice! Usually his films are dramatic with a side of humor but this time it was hilarious with a side of drama and it fantastic! Well-written, good actors, and a great soundtrack! Made'a back with more jokes and funnier than EVER!!!!!… Full Review »
Jun 30, 2012So I went to see "Madea's Witness Protection Program" today and I honestly loved the overall movie itself but there were just some points inSo I went to see "Madea's Witness Protection Program" today and I honestly loved the overall movie itself but there were just some points in the movie where your like "Oh my gosh, when is it gonna get to a good part" and then there are Madea's scenes that are really on point but the rest was a little ok. It was worth the money overall but I wouldnt go see it again. But I also dont wanna ruin your trip so go out and support it, I dont wanna ruin it for but thats my Honest opinion. Enjoy!… Full Review »


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Teens will learn how to choose healthy foods and prepare healthy meals! Students will learn about the USDA MyPlate and the five food groups through fun games and activities. Students will learn the basics of cooking by preparing yummy recipes of healthy meals and snacks. Upon completion of the course, students will receive a graduation certificate and their very own Kids in the Kitchen cookbook!
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Drought in the West
The impact of a dry summer on wildlifeJune 3, 2013
Drought continues to crackle throughout Colorado as warmer weather approaches. Sixteen percent of the state is experiencing exceptional drought, which, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, is as bad as it gets.
A wet spring in the western half of the state appears to have given forage on the range a healthy start. But, run-off has peaked and it's hard to predict how much rain the summer will bring.
And, as KDNK's Amy Hadden Marsh found out, dry summers can have as much impact on wildlife as harsh, wet winters.


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Yep kids, it's all over.. The show that spanned over nine years and nine seasons came to a close last night, but was it a truly satisfying ending?
Well yes and no. If your a hopeless romantic than you would've been disappointed, but if your all about the harsh realities that life deals us you may have been satisfied.
|Ted finally finds the one.. but did the love last an eternity?
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I'm happy these two got their happily ever after.
Barney.. Okay so Robin and Barney didn't work out.. I kind of had a feeling these two wouldn't last, especially since their reluctance to head down the aisle. But he became a father! He finally ditched the playboy ego and made baby Ella the love of his life (aww!).
I'm actually quite happy with his ending, life is not rainbows and butterflies with plenty of single parents out there dedicating their purpose of living to their children.. so in that sense i applaud the writers for capturing that realisem, and hey don't be a Marshall and judge just cause he hasn't got a wife.
Robin.. Her stubbornness got the better of her, and in the end left her with nobody. I know alot of people would blame her for ending up that way, but Robin is a representation of individuals who just don't know what they want from life and end up living a lonely loveless life.
She got the career though, becoming a famous news anchor.. but was she happy? She certainly didn't look it and showed regret for giving up Ted in the end.
The Mother... How sweet were they together? Ted and Tracy McConnell, (yep her name was finally revealed) even share the same initials.. match made in heaven right?
It was all rosy as we saw the two bond and share some perfect chemistry with each other. But things took a turn for the nasty, as it was revealed the mother was in fact (as many suspected) deceased from an unspoken illness (most probably family inherited as her brother was also revealed to pass in the 100th episode).
Ted & Who? Now that you've processed the mother is in fact dead. We now return to where it all began.. Ted telling the damn-longest story ever of how he met their mother. It is revealed that it has been 6 years since the mothers death and the kids pronounce "This whole story is about how you're in love with Aunt Robin… how you totally have the hots for Aunt Robin." We feel ya kids, there certainly was a whole lotta Robin drama in his quest to find the one.
Ted suddenly realises he does, and always has wanted to Robin and heads off somewhere.. well yeah, back to Robin's place with the good-old blue horn and ola it comes full circle as Robin opens the door with her dogs (how does she even still have them?). Cut to black, and the How I Met Your Mother title appears.
So, that's it folks.. we always kind of knew it, it's just we didn't expect her to be his second partner/ possible second wife? I'm iffy on this, it felt like cheap attempt to get Ted and Robin back together as quick as possible, especially that the characters seemed to have taken different paths.
But again six years have passed, and people do move on and lose their perfect soulmate. As Ted said, "nothing lasts forever". The bittersweetness of this reality though, is Robin's life has finally found life. Delivering the message that even the hopelessly lost get a crack at love. Life always has a way of delivering its perks in due time.
In the end Tracy was the mother, while Robin was 'the one'..
So what did you loyal and devoted fans think of the final? Were you happy who Ted ended up with?
|Thank you HIMYM cast and crew!
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Want Better Benefits? Get Fit.
Need a reason to quit smoking?
Some 20% of employers this year offered a discount on health insurance premiums for employees who don't use tobacco products, up from 12% in 2011, according to the Society for Human Resource Management's latest annual survey of 550 employers' benefit offerings.
And a growing number of employers offered discounts on premiums for getting an annual health risk assessment: 21% in 2012, up from 14% in 2011.
"We've seen from research [that] when you use incentives to influence behavior, it's lasting," says Mark Schmit, vice president of research for SHRM and leader of the study. Employers find healthier employees keep premiums down by spending less on health care and are also less likely to get sick and miss work, he says.
Other wellness benefits were offered more widely too, including health and lifestyle coaching, rewards for completing certain wellness programs, and a reimbursement for a membership at a fitness center.
Mr. Schmit says medium-sized companies are most likely to run these programs well. That's because they have the funds to roll the programs out broadly, but are still small-scale enough that it's easier for changes to the corporate culture to have an impact. At a big national retailer, for instance, it would take a lot more work to get all employees on board with a wellness program than at a firm with one mid-size office, he explains.
Readers, what do you make of these incentives? Are you in favor of them or should companies steer clear of employees' wellness choices?
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