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The Animation Area of the Popular Culture Association seeks individual-papers and panel proposals for presentation at the National Conference of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association.
Proposal which consider the diversity of animation in relation to popular culture are welcomed. Possible themes for papers/panels include but are not restricted to:
Animated adaptations, comics and animation, propaganda, public information, advertising, animated television series, animation for education, animation aesthetics, gender issues, animation studios, online animation, comedy, documentary, South Park, the work of Matt Groening, CGI/animated special effects, anime.
Please include the following:
Panel titleName and contact information for the Panel ChairTitles and abstracts of each paperContact information for each presenterAll presenters must be members of the PCA and must register for the conference.
Here is the schedule of deadlines and pertinent dates:
July 1, 2014 Database Opens for Submissions
September 1, 2014 Registration Opens
November 1, 2014 Deadline for Paper Proposals
December 15, 2015 Early Bird Registration Rate Ends
January 15, 2015 "Drop Dead" Date: Participants Not Registered Removed from Program
April 1-4, 2015 Conference – New Orleans!
Please send all inquires to:
David S. SilvermanKansas Wesleyan UniversitySalina, KS 67401(785) 827-5541 ext. firstname.lastname@example.com

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"Operational evaluation system of the Spanish air quality forecasting model CALIOPE". ACCENT/GLOREAM Workshop, Brescia (Italy), 2009.,
"The Impact of HONO Sources in the Air Quality of the Iberian Peninsula", GLOREAM-EURASAP 2011 Workshop on global and regional atmospheric modelling. National Environmental Research Institute , Aarhus University, 26–28 January 2011. Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011.,
"Evaluation of the Spanish Operational Air quality Forecasting System: Diagnostic and Near Real-Time", 2n International Workshop on Air Quality Forecasting Research (IWAQFR), vol. . Air Resources Laboratory of NOAA, 16-18 November 2010. Quebec, Canada, 2010.,
"Contribution of atmospheric processes to photochemical pollution by using a process analysis tool in the north-eastern and central Iberian Peninsula". ACCENT/GLOREAM Workshop, Berlin (Germany), 2008.,
"Comparison of two different sea salt aerosol schemes as implemented in air quality models applied to the Mediterranean". ACCENT/GLOREAM Workshop, Brescia (Italy), 2009.,
"CALIOPE: an Operational Air Quality Forecasting System for Europe and Spain". Mesoscale Modelling For Air Pollution Applications: Achievements And Challenges (COST 728 Final Workshop), Organisers: COST 728, WMO/GURME and MEGAPOLI, Geneva, 2010.,
"Assessing the effects of introducing natural gas vehicles on urban air quality. Case of Barcelona and Madrid cities (Spain)". Models-3 Workshop: Recent Developments and Applications, Swindon (UK), 2007.,
National Conferences
"Estudi de regionalització climàtica dinàmica a alta resolució sobre Catalunya", Reunió Grup d'Experts en Canvi Climàtic a Catalunya (GECCC), vol. . GECCC, 28-29 June, 2012. Monestir de les Avellanes, Spain, 2012.,
"Potential significance of photoexcited NO2 on global air quality with the NMMB/BSC chemical transport model", Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 117, no. D13301. AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION, UNITED STATES, pp. 1-16, 2012.,
"Impact of HONO sources on the performance of mesoscale air quality models", Atmospheric Environment, vol. 54, no. July. PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, ENGLAND, pp. 168 - 176, 2012.,
"The impact of different nitrous acid sources in the air quality levels of the Iberian Peninsula", Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., vol. 10, no. 11. Copernicus Publications, Germany, pp. 28183-28230, 2010.,
"High resolution modeling of the effects of alternative fuels use on urban air quality: Introduction of natural gas vehicles in Barcelona and Madrid Greater Areas (Spain)", Science of The Total Environment, vol. 407, no. 1. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV , NETHERLANDS, pp. 776-790, 2009.,
"A full year evaluation of the CALIOPE-EU air quality modeling system over Europe for 2004", Atmospheric Environment, vol. 44, no. 27. PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, ENGLAND , pp. 3322-3342, 2010.,
"Emissions variation in urban areas resulting from the introduction of natural gas vehicles: Application to Barcelona and Madrid Greater Areas (Spain)", Science of The Total Environment, vol. 407, no. 10. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, NETHERLANDS, pp. 3269-3281, 2009.,
"Contribution of atmospheric processes affecting the dynamics of air pollution in South-Western Europe during a typical summertime photochemical episode", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, vol. 9, no. 3. COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH , GERMANY, pp. 849-864, 2009.,
"The challenge of improving urban air quality: effects of hybrid cars, introduction in Barcelona and Madrid (Spain)", International Journal of Environment and Pollution, vol. 47, no. 1/2/3/4. Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland, pp. 70-78, 2011.,
"Air quality models sensitivity to on-road traffic speed representation: Effects on air quality of 80 km h−1 speed limit in the Barcelona Metropolitan area", Atmospheric Environment, vol. 42, no. 36. PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, ENGLAND, pp. 8389-8402, 2008.,
"Air pollution impacts of speed limitation measures in large cities: The need for improving traffic data in a metropolitan area", Atmospheric Environment, vol. 44 , no. 25. PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, ENGLAND, pp. 2997-3006, 2010.,
International Conferences
"A review of background air quality trends in Europe using EMEP data". 13th Intern. Conf. on Air Pollution (AP'2005), 2005.,
"A Review of background Air Quality trends in Europe using EMEP data.". Air Pollution XIII, 2005.,
"Reduction of NOx emissions on urban areas by changing specific vehicle fleets: Effects on NO2 and O3 concentration". AGU Fall Meeting 2007, San Francisco (USA), 2007.,
"Operational air quality forecasting system for Spain: CALIOPE". AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco (USA), 2009.,
"Near Real Time Evaluation System of the Spanish Air Quality Forecasting System CALIOPE". Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU2010-5266, Viena, 2010.,
"Near Real Time Evaluation of the Spanish Air Quality Forecast System: CALIOPE". HARMO13 Conference, Paris (France), 2010.,
"Impacts On Future Air Quality (Year 2015) By Managing The Vehicular Mobility In The City Of Barcelona (Spain)". 7th International Conference on Air Quality ? Science and Application, Istanbul, 2009.,
"High-resolution modelling of atmospheric pollution by aerosols in the Iberian Peninsula: annual cycle simulations". 2006 International Aerosol Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota (USA), 2006.,
"High-Resolution Air Quality Modelling in the Iberian Peninsula: Applications and Developments in a Supercomputing Framework". Advanced Atmospheric Pollution Modelling Worshop-ACCENT, University of Herts, Hatfielld (UK), 2006.,
"High Resolution Climate Scenarios by Dynamic Downscaling Modeling Techniques over the North Western Mediterranean Basin", 12th EMS Annual Meeting & 9th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC), vol. . European Meteorological Society (EMS), 10-14 September, 2012. Łódź, Poland, 2012.,
"The HERMES high-resolution emission system: simulating anthropogenic and biogenic emissions for the Iberian Peninsula, Canary Islands and Europe". GEIA ACCENT 2009 Conference on surface emission. University of Oslo, Oslo (Norway), 2009.,
"Future Air Quality (year 2015) by managing the vehicular mobility in the city of Barcelona (Spain)". 17th Transport and Air Pollution Symposium - 3rd Environment and Transport Symposium (ETTAP09), Toulouse (France), 2009.,
"Effects on air quality of 80 km h-1 speed limit in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (Spain)". 17th Transport and Air Pollution Symposium - 3rd Environment and Transport Symposium (ETTAP09), Toulouse (France), 2009.,
"Contribution of Atmospheric Processes Affecting the Dynamics of Air Pollution in Coastal Urban Areas of the Southwestern Mediterranean: Case of Barcelona". Harbours, Air Quality and Climate Change-HAQCC2008, Rotterdam (The Netherlands), 2008.,
"Comparative Analysis of Natural gas, Biodiesel and Hybrid Cars use in Madrid and Barcelona (Spain). Searching the Improvements of the Air Quality". 17th Transport and Air Pollution Symposium - 3rd Environment and Transport Symposium (ETTAP09), Toulouse (France), 2009.,
"The CALIOPE high-resolution air quality forecasting system: development and evaluation for Spain and Europe". 8th Annual CMAS Conference, Friday Center, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2009.,
"Assessing the contribution of atmospheric processes to the dynsamics of trophosfere ozone and its precursors during a typical summertime episode in the southwestern Europe". Quadrennial Ozone Symposium-QOS2008, Tromso (Noruega), 2008.,
"Air quality models sensitivity to on-road traffic speed". 30th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and its Application. San Francisco (USA), 2009.,
Book Chapter
"Alternatives for a cleaner air in urban areas: a modelling study. Assesssing variations in urban air quality when introducing on-road traffic management strategies by means of high resolution modelling", VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG Editors, 2010.,
"Air quality models sensitivity to on-road traffic speed representation. Effects on air quality of 80 km h-1 speed limit in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area", Air Pollution Modelling and its Application XX. Editors: Down G. Steyn and S.T. Rao. Springer: 229-235, 2010.,


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Lexington - Academic Magnet's girls soccer coach Anna Merriman stopped short of calling her program a dynasty after watching her team capture its third state title in four years with a 4-1 win over Christ Church on Friday.
SOCCER State finals
River Bluff High School, Lexington
AA Girls: Academic Magnet 4, Christ Church 1
AAA Girls: Chapin vs. Hilton Head
AAAAA Girls: J.L. Mann vs. Wando
A Boys: Charleston Charter vs. St. Joseph's, 11:30 a.m.
AA Boys: Indian Land vs. Academic Magnet, 1:30 p.m.
AAA Boys: Eastside vs. Brookland-Cayce, 3:30 p.m.
AAAA Boys: J.L. Mann vs. Wando, 6 p.m.
But, if the Raptors are not a dynasty, they are inching ever so close to being one.
Academic Magnet dominated play from start to finish and the top-ranked Raptors finished the season with a 22-1-1 record.
Christ Church, ranked second in the latest polls, finished at 17-4. The Class AA final was a rematch of last year's championship game, which Academic Magnet won, 2-1, on penalty kicks. There was no such dram in this one.
"I am super, super proud of these girls," said Merriman. "We said from the start that we didn't want to be a team that earned a chance to play in the finals but didn't bring it home. I knew we had the players and the talent but I wasn't sure if we had the stamina to survive this heat. I'm so proud of them. We executed perfectly."
It took 20 minutes or so for Academic Magnet to get in the flow of the game and once they did, there was no slowing them down.
The Raptors took a 1-0 lead in the 27th minute when Becca Bosch blistered the net on a free kick from 25 yards out. That was the score at halftime, but the Raptors turned up the heat in the second half.
"They had a few opportunities early where we got a little confused in the back but overall, defensively, we played very strong all day," said Merriman.
Maddy Carens scored in the 46th minute from 15 feet out, breaking free unguarded down the left side and deep into the box, putting the Raptors up, 2-0.
"We knew they were a good team going in but we were not ready for their speed of play," said Christ Church coach Chris Nichols.
Less than two minutes after Carens' goal, Marin Miller headed in a loose ball in the box for a 3-0 lead.
After Christ Church scored on Molly Crosswell's blast from 30 yards out in the 49th minute to cut the lead to 3-1, the Raptors put the game on ice in the 59th minute when Jesse Dooley delivered a perfect corner kick to the head of Alexis Polcyn, who bumped the ball past keeper Cameron Beach for a 4-1 lead.
"I think we need a few more years before we're a dynasty," said Merriman. "I think we need to keep the fire in our belly and continue to pursue this. I think four trips, with three wins, is really an awesome accomplishment, but I think we have a lot more left in this program for the future."
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The Electric Jesusby Graham Hancock Jonathan Talat Phillips
When Jonathan Talat Phillips experiences a devastating loss as a countercultural media activist, he unwittingly starts on a mystical journey marked by underground ayahuasca ceremonies, kundalini awakenings, prankster spirit guides, extraterrestrial encounters at the Burning Man festival, and miraculous energy healings that reshape his skeptical worldview. Along the way, he chronicles the rise of an international movement that is trailblazing visionary ways to address our current planetary crisis through raised consciousness. To better understand his spiritual journey, Jonathan delves into his own Christian background, discovering the lost rites of the mystery schools. Uncovering secret "electric" meanings behind biblical symbols like the serpent, dove, and tree of life, he reveals how early Christians utilized a radical initiation process for harnessing divine energy in order to achieve gnosis, direct knowledge or experience of the divine. Jonathan suggests that these mystical symbols, which appear in spiritual traditions across the globe, offer a profound energetic roadmap and alchemical message for personal transformation, as well as a potential evolutionary shift for our world.About the Imprint: EVOLVER EDITIONS promotes a new counterculture that recognizes humanity's visionary potential and takes tangible, pragmatic steps to realize it. EVOLVER EDITIONS explores the dynamics of personal, collective, and global change from a wide range of perspectives. EVOLVER EDITIONS is an imprint of North Atlantic Books and is produced in collaboration with Evolver, LLC.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Entangledby Graham Hancock
Graham Hancock has spent decades researching and writing some of the most ambitious and successful nonfiction investigations into ancient civilizations and wisdom. Entangled uses all of Hancock's skills and knowledge to propel a fantasy adventure like nothing else preceding it. Entangled is a time-slip novel alternating between present-day California, Brazil, and prehistoric Spain, with two teenage female protagonists who must come together to avert an incredibly bloodthirsty takeover of the human race. Entangled is the first book in a trilogy relating the story of an unrelentingly evil master magician named Sulpa who is on the loose and determined to destroy humanity. Leoni, a troubled teen from modern-day Los Angeles, and Ria, a young woman who lives in Stone Age Spain, meet in a parallel dimension outside the flow of time to stop Sulpa's spectacular, deadly materialization of the modern world. Entangled rides a growing wave of interest in parallel dimensions and imaginary worlds (The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Golden Compass are recent Hollywood examples) and will have immediate appeal to readers of Philip Pullman, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Kate Mosse, among others. But Entangled has the added merit of being grounded in solid anthropological and scientific research. Hancock calls on his years of research into cutting-edge issues, including the "Neanderthal Enigma," the nature of consciousness, the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics, parallel realms, time travel, and near-death and out-of-body experiences. Graham Hancock is the author of Fingerprints of the Gods, The Sign and the Seal, Underworld, Supernatural, and other best-selling investigations of historical mysteries.
Fingerprints of the Godsby Graham Hancock
The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory. Four 8-page photo inserts.
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilizationby Graham Hancock
On the great mysteries of nature, history, and man.
Magicians of the Godsby Graham Hancock
Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recently come to light...The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago.Near the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments. Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap. The impacts, from comet fragments a mile wide approaching at more than 60,000 miles an hour, generated huge amounts of heat which instantly liquidized millions of square kilometers of ice, destabilizing the Earth's crust and causing the global Deluge that is remembered in myths all around the world.A second series of impacts, equally devastating, causing further cataclysmic flooding, occurred 11,600 years ago, the exact date that Plato gives for the destruction and submergence of Atlantis. But there were survivors - known to later cultures by names such as 'the Sages', 'the Magicians', 'the Shining Ones', and 'the Mystery Teachers of Heaven'. They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilization burning. They settled at key locations - Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific where a huge pyramid has recently been discovered in Indonesia. Everywhere they went these 'Magicians of the Gods' brought with them the memory of a time when mankind had fallen out of harmony with the universe and paid a heavy price.A memory and a warning to the future... For the comet that wrought such destruction between 12,800 and 11,600 years may not be done with us yet. Astronomers believe that a 20-mile wide 'dark' fragment of the original giant comet remains hidden within its debris stream and threatens the Earth. An astronomical message encoded at Gobekli Tepe, and in the Sphinx and the pyramids of Egypt,warns that the 'Great Return' will occur in our time...
The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planetby Graham Hancock
An asteroid transformed Mars from a lush planet with rivers and oceans into a bleak and icy hell. Is Earth condemned to the same fate, or can we protect ourselves and our planet from extinction? In his most riveting and revealing book yet, Graham Hancock examines the evidence that the barren Red Planet was once home to a lush environment of flowing rivers, lakes, and oceans. Could Mars have sustained life and civilization? Megaliths found on the parched shores of Cydonia, a former Martian ocean, mirror the geometrical conventions of the pyramids at Egypt's Giza necropolis. Especially startling is a Sphinx-like structure depicting a face with distinguishable diadem, teeth, mouth and an Egyptian-style headdress. Might there be a connection between the structures of Egypt and those of Mars? Why does NASA continue to dismiss these remarkable anomalies as "a trick of light"? Hancock points to the intriguing possibility that ancient Martian civilization is communicating with us through the remarkable structures it left behind. In exploring the possible traces left by the Martian civilization and the cosmic cataclysm that may have ended it,The Mars Mysteryis both an illumination of our ancient past and a warning--that we still have time to heed--about our ultimate fate.
The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankindby Graham Hancock Robert Bauval
In this riveting account of historical and archaeological investigation, the authors present hard evidence that the Sphinx, the Pyramids, and the other monuments at Giza are of far more ancient origin than previously believed. Complete with evidence of a conspiracy between the Egyptology establishment and various confidential organizations to keep the secrets of the Pyramids from the world, The Message of the Sphinx is also a modern-day detective story. of photos.
Return of the Plumed Serpentby Graham Hancock
Graham Hancock, an expert in ancient civilisations and author of the 7 million selling Fingerprints of the Gods, and expert too, on the use of hallucinogens to achieve higher states of consciousness, brings these two interests together in the second volume of the War God trilogy. The conquistador Hernán Cortés is dreaming of Tenochtitlan, the golden city of Aztecs. But in order to win the Aztecs' gold, Cortés and his small force of just five hundred men will have to defeat the psychotic emperor Moctezuma and the armies of hundreds of thousands he commands. Cortés expects that the warlike Tlascalans, hereditary enemies of the Aztecs, will join him, but instead finds himself locked in a deadly struggle. Even as Cortés risks all in the bloody campaign against the Tlascalans, he plays mind games with Moctezuma, aiming to dismantle the Aztec emperor's confidence and defeat him psychologically before ever having to face him on the battlefield. In this he is aided by his lover Malinal, a beautiful Mayan princess. It is from Malinal that Cortés learns of the myth of Quetzalcoatl, 'The Plumed Serpent'. She shows him how to exploit the prophecy of the fabled god king's return to weaken Moctezuma's resolve and keep alive the suspicion that the conquistador might actually be Quetzalcoatl himself. Meanwhile Malinal's friend, the witch Tozi, wages a supernatural war of her own against Hummingbird, the terrifying demon the Aztecs worship as a god, and against the evil sorcerer Acopol who does his bidding.
The Sign and the Sealby Graham Hancock
The fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vesel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The Bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark's power to level mountains, destroy armies, and lay waste to cities. The Ark itself, however, mysteriously disappears from recorded history sometime after the building of the Temple of Solomon. After ten years of searching through the dusty archives of Europe and the Middle East, as well as braving the real-life dangers of a bloody civil war in Ethiopia, Graham Hancock has succeeded where scores of others have failed. This intrepid journalist has tracked down the true story behind the myths and legends -- revealing where the Ark is today, how it got there, and why it remains hidden. Part fascinating scholarship and part entertaining adventure yarn, tying together some of the most intriguing tales of all time -- from the Knights Templar and Prester John to Parsival and the Holy Grail -- this book will appeal to anyone fascinated by the revelation of hidden truths, the discovery of secret mysteries.
Sun of gOdby Graham Hancock Gregory Sams
In Sun of gOd, cultural pioneer and bootstrap philosopher Gregory Sams takes a fresh look at our solar benefactor. As Sams sees it, the Sun is a living, conscious being, fully aware of itself and its place in the universe. Simply put, the Sun of gOd communicates with other conscious beings on all levels with an intelligence that dwarfs our own. Sun of gOd explores exciting new ground, adding a crucial piece to the jigsaw-puzzle picture we have of our cosmos. Sams considers God, gods, notions of divinity, our place in the firmament, the intelligence of light, feedback, free will, electro-magnetism, crystals, fractals, macrobiotics, the four elements, and the self-organizing force that seems to crop up everywhere, perhaps powering everything. "Could it really be that the universe waited 13,698 billion years--until we came along--to manifest the phenomenon of consciousness and made ours the only type of vessel able to experience it?" Sams thinks not. Citing David Bohm's discovery that even on the subatomic level of electrons there appears to be intention and choice, Sams goes on to imagine that creative intelligence may be a bottom-up system in which "everything, from a molecule of water to a neuron in our brain to the Sun itself, is a part of the bottom that is subtly steering a greater whole." The implications are startling and in harmony with science, logic, and common sense. They smoothly join the microcosm to the macrocosm, revealing a universe incorporating both intelligence and design, without an Intelligent Designer.
Underworldby Graham Hancock
From Graham Hancock, bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans.While Graham Hancock is no stranger to stirring up heated controversy among scientific experts, his books and television documentaries have intrigued millions of people around the world and influenced many to rethink their views about the origins of human civilization. Now he returns with an explosive new work of archaeological detection. In Underworld, Hancock continues his remarkable quest underwater, where, according to almost a thousand ancient myths from every part of the globe, the ruins of a lost civilization, obliterated in a universal flood, are to be found.Guided by cutting-edge science and the latest archaeological scholarship, Hancock begins his mission to discover the truth about these myths and examines the mystery at the end of the last Ice Age. As the glaciers melted between 17,000 and 7,000 years ago, sea levels rose and more than 15 million square miles of habitable land were submerged underwater, resulting in a radical change to the Earth's shape and the conditions in which people could live. Using the latest computer techniques to map the world's changing coastlines, Hancock finds astonishing correspondences with the ancient flood myths.Filled with thrilling accounts of his own participation in dives off the coast of Japan, as well as in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Arabian Sea, we watch as Hancock discovers underwater ruins exactly where the myths say they should be--sunken kingdoms that archaeologists never thought existed. Fans of Hancock's previous adventures will find themselves immersed in Underworld, a provocative book that provides both compelling hard evidence for a fascinating, forgotten episode in human history and a completely new explanation for the origins of civilization as we know it.From the Hardcover edition.
War Godby Graham Hancock
A young girl called Tozi stands at the bottom of a pyramid, waiting to be led to the top where her heart will be cut out... Pepillo, a Spanish orphan who serves a sadistic Dominican friar, is aboard the Spanish fleet as it sails towards Mexico... This is the epic story of the clash of two empires, two armies and two gods of war. Five hundred desperate adventurers are about to pit themselves against the most brutal armies of the ancient Americas, armies hundreds of thousands strong. This is a war of gods and men. Dark powers that work behind the scenes of history show their hand as the prophecy of the return of Quetzalcoatl is fulfilled with the arrival of Cortes. The Aztec ruler Moctezuma fights to maintain the demands of the war god Huitzilopochtli for human sacrifice. The Spanish Inquisition is planning an even greater blood-letting. Caught up in the headlong collision between two gods of war are Tozi, Pepillo and the beautiful sex slave Malinal whose hatred of Moctezuma runs so deep she will sell out her own land and people to destroy him.
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The Noble Police Department has a new K-9 unit after a donation from Barry Switzer.Video Transcript
A SMALL OKLAHOMA DONATION. AFTER ATTENDING THE FUNERAL FOR K-9 KYE LAST WEEK BARRY SWITZER AND HIS WIFE HAVE DONATED A NEW POLICE DOG. KIM PASSOTH WITH THAT STORY NEW TONIGHT FROM NOBLE. Reporter: SHE IS STILL TECHNICALLY A TRAINEE BUT SHE IS QUICKLY BECOMING ACCUSTOMED TO HER PLACE IN THE BACK OF THIS POLICE CRUISER. SHE IS A YEAR AND SEVEN OR EIGHT ONCE OLD SHE CAME FROM SYLVANIA. THE GERMAN SHEPHERD IS A GIFT TO THE NOBLE LEASE DEPARTMENT FROM A MAN WHO HAS FOUR OF HIS OWN. I KNOW THE BOND AND MAN HAS WITH A DOG. IT IS A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. I CAN READ HER ALMOST LIKE A BOOK. Reporter: THEY ARE NOW INSEPARABLE. THAT WASN'T ALWAYS THE CASE WHEN I FIRST GOT HER SHE WASN'T TOO SURE. Reporter: AFTER MONTH OF INTENSIVE TRAINING SHE LEARNED TO SNIFF OUT CRIMINALS AND DRUGS. WHEN SHE GETS INTO A SUBSTANCE OR NARCOTIC WE CAN TELL INSTANTANEOUSLY BECAUSE OF THE WAY SHE ACTS. Reporter: HER REWARD? A FEW CHUMPS ON A PLASTIC TOY AND THE AFFECTION OF THE OFFICER. THE ONLY OTHER POLICE CAME BACK
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that was in August 2011. looks like EMC is going to support this stock no matter what. I think we will be trading above $80 this month
hey virtual, if you go and look at the past years and what the stock has done, it has followed in this pattern at least 3 years in a row, ending January under $80, but rebounding in February, lower in March higher in April for earnings. This is a time to buy and surely EMC knows this that is why they have started buying again under $80 this week. Can it go a bit lower, yes but a turnaround is near, perhaps as low as $75, but this will start making a run.


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We arrived without reservations, but were lucky that there was space at their communal table. The restaurant was very fairly priced with a 2 course menu at 28€. The restaurant also serves as a wine shop, so you are surrounded by some gorgeous bottles. Owner/sommelier Lolo (Laurent Brelin) set up a gorgeous Chardonnay flight for us and set us up with some gorgeous olives to stave off our hunger until dinner made it to the table.
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Ray Rice electrified the Reliant Stadium crowd again and the Scarlet Knights have put together back-to-back scoring drives to take the lead to 31-10.
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When my aunt Arlene was 24 years old, she paid $500 to have her nose done. The year was 1957. Her father was against it, so she paid for it herself with money she earned at her first teaching job.
"This was the '50s, mind you, and I think there was an underlying fear of elective surgery. The philosophy was, 'Don't jeopardize your health unnecessarily. Don't look for trouble,'" she told me.
But she was resolute. Despite her family's assertions that "you're beautiful the way you are," she said, "it did not assuage my needs not one single bit. It was something that had been bothering me since adolescence, a nose that was not perfect, was just not right for my face, I thought."
Although it had been around since the late 1880s, plastic surgery didn't gain wider acceptance until the 1950s. Middle-class Jews like my aunt were early consumers when it came to rhinoplasty. The goal was to rid yourself of your Semitic-looking proboscis, and the movement only continued to grow as one by one, Jewish noses were shrunk.
Forget the bar mitzvah. Today, nose jobs for American Jews have become so ubiquitous a rite of passage, they're a cliché. And little did the Jews who got their noses "fixed" in the '50s realize they were in the vanguard of a grander American obsession: combating the aging process.
Today, plastic surgery has become part of the cultural zeitgeist. There's no escaping it in media and our everyday lives. Plastic surgery and makeover television shows draw huge audiences, running the gamut from reality programs like "The Swan," in which real-life ugly ducklings undergo multiple surgeries to compete in a beauty pageant, to fictionalized dramas like "Nip/Tuck," that romanticize the lives of plastic surgeons. Americans also participate -- more than 8.7 million of us last year, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) -- going in for "procedures," and attending botox parties. We have come a way since the 1950s nose job, and with the wide appeal that plastic surgery holds today, you could say that Jews were some of the early trend setters. Consider this: Jews, who have always had a love/hate relationship with plastic surgery -- and their own appearance -- have helped create a trend that has now exploded into the mainstream. They were "early adopters" of a surgical technology that has since gone from rare to ubiquitous, from stigmatized to embraced. Jews, out of their very desire to appear less Jewish, made plastic surgery acceptable to the very people whom they were trying to look like.
"Certain kinds of noses speak Jewishness.... Jews assimilating into a largely gentile culture thus strip from our features the traces of our ethnicity. We have other aesthetically assimilating rituals. We straighten curly hair, dye dark hair light. We get very thin to disguise what we often imagine are Jewish-coded thighs and hips. What we choose to treat are precisely the features that are culturally selected as our distinguishing physical traits," writes Virginia L. Blum in her book "Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery" (University of California, 2003).
Historically, Blum is correct in her observation. This has been our tradition, but in the early years of plastic surgery, it was a survival mechanism against anti-Semitic eugenic philosophies as much as an effort at social acceptance. Supposed ethnic identifiers like Jewish or Irish noses and "Dumbo ears" were a major target of plastic surgery in its earliest stages, as were facial deformities resulting from disease or genetics.
With the advent of antisepsis and anesthesia in the late-18th century, the science of plastic surgery truly began to flourish, with nose jobs the major focus. The first real nose job by modern standards was performed in 1885, by Jaques Joseph, a Jewish surgeon, on a Jewish patient. Other doctors worked to help rid the Irish of the "pug nose" and Jews of "a large, massive, club-shaped, hook nose," to quote one eloquent anthropologist of the time, Robert Knox. Social outcasts of a different sort, syphilitics often suffered nasal deformities like sunken nasal bridges or the lack of a nose altogether. Recreating noses in entirety, then, was also part of the early focus of rhinoplasty. These surgeries were done to help outcasts pass within mainstream society, according to University of Chicago professor Sander L. Gilman, author of "Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery" (Duke, 1998).
Other surgeries to help ethnic others "pass," included the pinning back of "Dumbo ears" and decircumcision, according to Gilman. "In the 19th century those ears were absolutely identified as signs of ethnic difference. In New York, Irish, and in Germany, Jewish," he said. Decircumcision, too, was a procedure undergone by Jewish males, who were thought to be effeminate. Foreskin restoration was considered to also restore a man's damaged masculinity.
Slowly, new strides were made in the field. In World War I and World War II, facial reconstructive surgery began to give the plastic surgeon -- until that point as much an outcast as his patients -- more acceptance in general society. With the popularity of movies in the 1920s, film and stage stars also began to get plastic surgery, giving it broader acceptance. Jewish comedian Fanny Brice was one of them. In 1923, she famously had her nose done, causing Dorothy Parker to comment that Brice had "cut off her nose to spite her race."
So then, "what begins in the 1890s, becomes in the 1950s," Gilman said. In post-Holocaust, anti-Semitic America, a nose job became a gift bestowed by Jewish parents, usually on their daughters. It made it easier to join a country club, and "move into general society," Gilman said.
My aunt's story is only atypical in that her parents made her pay for her nose job herself, and that she had it done after she was married.
"It was not uncommon in my generation at that time.... I think it was common among Jewish girls. The reason was to enhance your looks to get a guy," she said.
My grandparents' disapproval was actually a more traditionally Jewish response than many other Jewish parents of that generation seemed to have, at least in respect to the Jewish law banning self-mutilation. But most Jewish theologians actually make allowances for plastic surgery, depending on the situation.
"From a Jewish perspective, you're not allowed to intentionally injure your body, because your body belongs to God and you have it on trust during your life," explained Rabbi Elliot Dorff, author of "Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics" (JPS, 2004). However, he added, "we do have the permission and even the mandate to heal. The Jewish tradition understood mental illness to be a serious matter."
In other words, therapeutic plastic surgery, to cure burn victims, for example, is allowed by Jewish law. So is the removal of a big mole, argues Dorff. "Even some things that are not physically problematic, but are nevertheless very distasteful, I think that would be very reasonable," he said, noting the immediate gray area that arises. "You clearly are allowed to do other things to look better, like dress better or pierce your ears, to feel good about yourself. The question is whether you are allowed to undergo surgery to look better -- the degree to which surgery is the proper response to the feeling," Dorff said.
Dorff's argument takes on greater resonance when one considers the actual risks involved. In the case of liposuction, one of the top five most popular plastic surgery procedures today, patients were facing death rates higher than those from traffic accidents, according to a survey conducted by the ASPS in January 1999. Furthermore, the risks of plastic surgery like liposuction can be difficult to gauge because according to a quote in the FDA's consumer magazine, "there is no national group of consumers, nor one group representative of all clinicians, that is organized to oversee liposuction procedures and results."
For 19-year-old Rachel (not her real name), however, the benefits of plastic surgery outweighed the potential risks. She had a nose job during her senior year of high school to fix the size, which she felt was too big for her face, and to get rid of "the Jewish bump in the middle." She's not alone. More than 300,000 Americans underwent rhinoplasty operations last year, according to the ASPS. But Rachel eschews the idea that her nose job perpetuates a tradition of assimilation, or that it is in any way an act of self-hatred.
"None of my motivations had anything at all to do with trying to seem less Jewish. I wear a Jewish star necklace. You can tell I'm Jewish. No one would need to stereotype me by my nose size," she said.
Beauty, essentially, was the motivating factor. The size and proportion of facial features in relation to one another has been considered the essence of beauty since Leonardo da Vinci, and the Greeks before him, sought formulaic answers to the elusive concept of what is beautiful.
"When you look at studies of what people feel is attractive, it's symmetry. Things that are out of proportion are viewed as unattractive. This is across cultural lines," said Dr. Jonathan Hoenig, an oculofacial plastic surgeon and a Modern Orthodox Jew. "I come from a family where four out of five kids wanted rhinoplasty," he said. "I don't think they wanted to look Swedish. I think they all had beaks."
Hoenig said he never finds a contradiction between the work he does and his spirituality. His work is 30 percent reconstructive and 60 to 70 percent cosmetic, by his own estimation. But, he said, "there are people who have droopy eyelids and they say that they always have to raise their eyebrows to see. The surgery allows them to see better. It's functional and it's also cosmetic," he said.
He added that he turns away patients about 30 to 40 percent of the time.
"I always tell them the enemy of good is better," he said. "Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease ... but there are 20 doctors who will have them in surgery the next day," he said. "It doesn't say much for our profession, but unfortunately it's true."
Nor does it say much for our society. Dorff worries about the emphasis we place on physical attractiveness nowadays.
"One of the problems we have in American society is that we idolize youth," he said, "whereas the Jewish tradition appreciates old age. You gain honor as you age."
While it's true that stories mythologizing beauty exist in every cultural tradition -- from Helen of Troy, to "Beauty and the Beast," to Queen Esther -- Dorff also noted the proverb Eshet Chayil, which praises a woman, but not for her beauty: "Beauty is false and is worthless. It is a woman who respects God that is to be praised."
In that respect, our Jewish tradition is much more in line with American culture of the 19th century, according to the findings of Cornell University professor Joan Jacobs Brumberg, author of "The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls" (Vintage, 1998). Brumberg researched the book using historical documents, including many diaries of adolescent girls from 1830 to 1980. One thing she noticed was a shift in emphasis from good works to good looks. A girl's self-worth today is more likely to be focused on how she looks than on how she behaves in the world, Brumberg noted.
Of course, men are neither immune nor removed from this. The rise of the metrosexual proves men are quickly gaining on women in their obsessions over beauty and youth. While men only made up 18 percent of people who underwent plastic surgery procedures last year, the number is up from 15 percent the year prior, and almost double from 1996, when it was 11 percent.
If there was once a stigma associated with cosmetic surgery, television shows like "Extreme Makeover" and "The Swan" prove the atmosphere has changed, even as they continue to push those boundaries.
"Between 1995 and today, plastic surgery went from something you did not talk about to people now having public discussions and Botox parties, and it is truly a matter of the number of people having these procedures," Gilman said. "You couldn't have had the show 'Extreme Makoever' 20 years ago."
The aging of the baby boomers means the market for youth prescriptions is higher than ever. In his practice, Hoenig noted that "the baby boomers have changed things a lot because these are people who have retired a little earlier and have more money. They want to continue looking good. They're interested in vitamins, skin care, jogging, gyms. I think it's a global thing. This generation is more concerned with health and wellness.... People want to feel better. Not just to look better."
With the rise in nonsurgical procedures like Botox and microdermabrasion, or minor procedures like mini-facelifts, looking better has become less invasive and risky, and has blurred the line even further between cosmetic procedures and cosmetic surgery. Consumer demand for minimally invasive plastic surgery jumped 41 percent last year to more than 6.9 million procedures, according to the ASPS.
"It's an incredible trend," said Dr. Helene Rosensweig, of Indianer, Lask and Rosensweig Dermatology Group in Encino.
"Part of it has to do with how well it works and how few the side effects are," she said. Rosensweig added that when she began offering Botox injections in her office several years ago, she'd see about a patient a week. "Now we do between three and 10 a day."
Of course, Botox injections, which are the most popular of what Rosensweig terms the "easy procedures," are only FDA approved for use on the top one-third of the face. She said patients who are still unhappy with the other two-thirds sometimes seek out more invasive surgeries like face lifts: "I think you want your entire face to look good."
You could say that we Jews have come full circle, from setting the trend by being outsiders in the last generation, to embracing it as part of our American culture in this one. Strides have been made since my aunt went in for a "perky little Doris Day" nose, as she described it. In the '70s, for example, the "ethnic look" came into fashion, and even today, African Americans and Jews going in for nose jobs generally don't ask for perky upturned noses, but rather, more refined variations of the ones they were born with.
As for our youth culture, according to Gilman, the first facelift was done in 1904, so perhaps the emphasis on youth has been around longer than we imagine. My aunt didn't go under the knife again for 35 years, but in 1992, she decided to have upper eyelid surgery to remove some puffiness, she said. Since then, as she has felt her age catch up with her over the last 12 years, she's had a number of procedures, including laser resurfacing, liposuction under her chin, a general facelift, and Botox a couple of times. Whatever else you want to say about her choices, and minus recovery times and a few weeks along the way when the first Botox injection caused one of her eyes to droop, my aunt has always looked good, and that's something that has always been important to her.
My aunt said she has plans for another mini-facelift at some point.
"It's one of the aspects of my life to plan for the future," she said. "Just like I don't have to stop working because I've reached a certain age, I don't have to stop looking better because I've reached a certain age. It makes me feel there's unfinished business. I always leave a few dishes in the sink."
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FLINTON - Bellwood-Antis High School football coach John Hayes knew his Blue Devils needed to make some big plays to beat Inter-County Conference North rival Glendale, and senior Buddy Shaw provided a huge one early.
When no one downed a Glendale punt that was rolling dead near midfield in the opening minutes of Friday night's game at a windy Dr. Roy F. Baker Field, Shaw alertly picked up the ball in front of an opposing player and scooted 42 yards to the Viking 18.
"It was basically instinct, really,'' Shaw said. "I just saw open field, and the guy really wasn't paying attention. So, I tried to make something happen, and it ended up working out for the best.''
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Bellwood-Antis' Luke Evans wraps up Glendale's Luke Westover on Friday night.
Shaw's heady, risky play set up a Luke Evans touchdown pass to Tyler Campbell that allowed Bellwood to draw first blood. The Blue Devils stayed one step ahead of Glendale and its fast-break offense before pulling away at the end to move to 6-1 overall with a 41-14 win.
"The kids played a pretty big game,'' Hayes said. "We got that big punt return right away. Kids got to dare to be great. I thought the play was over. The next thing I know, he's running down there in front of me. I'm really happy. I thought we played really well.''
Bellwood won its sixth straight and improved to 4-0 in the division. This, though, was the first Blue Devil win not to come by the 35-point rule; Bellwood led by just six late in the second quarter and 14 at halftime, after which Travis Taylor tacked on two touchdown runs to set the final.
"We knew we were going to face a good team,'' Shaw said. "They've been passing the ball a lot, and we knew we had to change some things up.''
Glendale quarterback Tyler Jenny, in fact, had more passing yards over the first two quarters (143) than did Bellwood total (135). The difference was in plays like Shaw's punt return, his 44-yard punt that helped put the Devils in business at the Glendale 40 and led to an Evans-to-Jared Minori 18-yard TD pass later in the first quarter and Casey Gray's 83-yard kickoff return for a touchdown seconds after Jenny ran in from 3 yards out to pull Glendale to within seven.
"Special teams plays like that kill you,'' Glendale coach Michael Keith said after the Vikings slipped to 4-3 overall and 2-2 in the ICC North. "We were right there. We moved the ball on them. We just had some [dropped passes] at some key times, some stupid penalties at key times and our pass protection wasn't what we needed it to be.''
Jenny threw for 189 yards on 19-of-45 passing and ran for both Viking touchdowns. However, he was sacked four times and penalized for intentional grounding at the Bellwood 15 in the final two minutes of the first half with Glendale threatening to cut the score to 28-21. Jenny was knocked out of the game later on the possession, and the Vikings came up empty.
Despite having its defense on the field most of the first half against Glendale's no-huddle offense, Bellwood found a way to put pressure on Jenny when it had to. Minori had a pair of sacks.
"I just had some good opportunities to get past [the linemen], use my hands and got to Jenny,'' Minori said. "We were sucking wind the whole time.''
Bellwood's passing game did well, too. Evans completed 4-of-6 attempts for 85 yards, including the two touchdowns and a 36-yarder to Derek Denny that set up a short Shaw scoring run.
The Devils negated Glendale's wind advantage in the third quarter with its one long drive of the game, eating 7 minutes, 50 seconds off the clock while going 75 yards on 13 plays. Evans turned in the crucial play by scrambling for 24 yards on second-and-20, and Taylor, who had 90 of his 145 yards rushing in the second half, covered the final 8.
"Guys made some big plays when they had to,'' Hayes said. "Overall, I can't be more pleased.''
Game notes: Glendale was celebrating senior night. ... Bellwood was without starters Danny Noye and Tyler Beech because of injury. Beech, the Devils' fullback and one of the better linebackers around, may be back in time for the playoffs. ... Glendale's Lucas Westover surpassed the 1,000-yard receiving mark for his career on a 15-yard catch in the second quarter. ... Bellwood hosts undefeated Juniata Valley next Friday, while Glendale travels to Claysburg-Kimmel.
Bellwood-Antis14 14 6 7 - 41
Glendale 0 14 0 0 - 14
First quarter
BA-Campbell 14 pass from Evans (Shaw kick), 8:50.
BA-Minori 18 pass from Evans (Shaw kick), 1:25.
Second quarter
G-Jenny 3 run (Gedman kick), 9:56.
BA-Gray 83 kickoff return (kick failed), 9:39.
G-Jenny 4 run (Gedman kick), 6:47.
BA-Shaw 3 run (Conversion), 3:33.
Third quarter
BA-Taylor 8 run (pass failed), 4:10.
Fourth quarter
BA-Taylor 1 run (Shaw kick), 4:31.
RUSHING: Bellwood-Antis-Taylor 25-145, Evans 6-28, Campbell 5-26, Shaw 4-13, Gray 4-4, TEAM 1-(-2). Glendale-Braniff 10-66, Bickford 3-10, Sutton 3-8, Jenny 11-(-13).
PASSING: Bellwood-Antis-Evans 4-6-0-85. Glendale-Jenny 19-45-2-189, Witherow 1-1-0-9.
RECEIVING: Bellwood-Antis-Minori2-35, Denny 1-36, Campbell 1-14. Glendale-Westover 7-85, Stackhouse 6-75, Cree 3-43, Ferrell 3-42, Braniff 1-(-7).
INTERCEPTIONS: Bellwood-Antis-Davensizer, Taylor. Glendale-none.
First downs1519
Passing (comp.-att.-int.)4-6-020-46-2
Yards passing85198
Total yards299269


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John C. Lincoln Designated as Level III Trauma Center
Wednesday 2.27.2013 @ 8:27pm | ImagesAZ | Community
The Arizona Department of Health Services Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Systems has granted John C. Lincoln Deer Valley Hospital's application to be designated as a Level III Trauma Center, hospital CEO John L. Harrington Jr. announced, just hours before the first trauma patient arrived.
Patient care services in the Deer Valley Emergency Department have been expanded to qualify for the higher Level III Trauma Center designation and to better serve people injured in the North Valley. Emergency care for traumatically injured patients at the Deer Valley Hospital has been upgraded with additional resources and staff education.
According to Alicia Mangram, MD, care at the Level III Trauma Center at Deer Valley will be coordinated with higher acuity medical services also available at North Mountain's Level I Trauma Center, where she is medical director.
The Level III Trauma Center will also offer injury prevention community outreach programs similar to those presented by North Mountain's Level 1 Trauma Center. The facility will also provide data about patients, their diagnoses, care and outcomes to the state Department of Health Services Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Systems.


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The heart of French Polynesia
Tahiti is the heart of French Polynesia's culture and commerce. Various cultures from around the world meet here in Tahiti.
Being that it's the largest of all the islands, the majority of the population resides here. Home to a range of world-class resorts, nightclubs, restaurants, pearl shops, boutiques, markets -- you won't run out of things to do.
Water sports in Tahiti
If you can name a water sport, Tahiti has it: kayaking, snorkeling, scuba diving, windsurfing and even spear fishing. In fact, one of the world's most famous surf spots, Teahupo'o on the southwest part of the island, is site of the annual Billabong Pro Surf Tahiti event.
Tahiti has it all
From surf and sand to culture and nightlife, Tahiti brings it all together in one breathtaking piece of paradise.


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Consider the following code:
with(LinearAlgebra):with(Physics):Setup(anticommutativeprefix = psi):psiFermi := Vector(2,symbol = psi):psiBose := Vector(2,symbol = phi):A := Matrix([[0,1],[1,0]]):Transpose(psiFermi) . A;Transpose(psiBose ) . A;
It produces the following output:
Why is the first line, for anticommuting components, not evaluated to the same form as the second line, for commuting components? The actual choice of the matrix A seems immaterial; the odd behaviour is present even if A is chosen to be the identity matrix!
In comparison, the 'contracted' (scalarly) expressions
Transpose(psiFermi) . A . psiFermi,Transpose(psiBose ) . A . psiBose;
produce the following completely sensible output:
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There are a few things in Wayne Swan's sixth federal Budget handed down last night that families will not be happy about.
The baby bonus is disappearing – although replaced by a change in the family tax benefit A – and there's also an increase to the Medicare levy which will put more pressure on the family budget.
But there is another hidden cost inside this Budget that families won't appreciate, and they will start picking it up in the next couple of days.
In short, the tax take from their income taxes to help drive the Budget back to surplus in four years' time is coming from their back pockets.
Right now there's an absence of any tax cuts and this will lead to "bracket creep" – as your wages start to increase you'll pop into higher tax brackets.
As bracket creep continues to happen over the coming years, the tax take from your personal taxes is going to rise to its highest level since 2000.
Amid a $60 billion fall in revenue and a drop-off in corporate tax, the federal government is now relying on a very rapid increase in personal taxes to prop up its bottom line.
As for the $18 billion deficit announced for the year ahead, Australia can afford its debts – it can afford to be in deficit.
But what we don't want is for those deficits to continue into the longer term.
What we need is a plan to get back into surplus at some stage in the future and to take pressure off households.


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By Joe Connolly, Consulting Educator
My son who is 17 does not want to go to school. He comes up with all kinds of excuses. He won't do the assignments given by teachers. He distracts others. He is breaking his mother's heart and stressing us to the max. What should I do?
I have a lot of empathy for your situation. Without having more specific information about your son's history, it can be difficult to figure out the actual problem. My suspicion is that the behaviors you are seeing from your son are symptoms of something else that is going on in his life. There are many things that could be affecting his behavior.
It could be something as simple as normal teen development. At 17, your son is very close to being developmentally independent. This could be an attempt by him to demonstrate that independence. Simply stated, you want him to do A, therefore he's going to do B.
His behavior might stem from some control issues that have existed for many years. If a child has been under very tight controls his entire life, it's not unusual for that same child to act out by refusing to do anything his parents wish once he advances into his teen years. Likewise, if a child has been allowed to do anything he pleases, without any boundaries, he also could exhibit the behavior you describe.
Another possibility is that your son could be using alcohol or other drugs, thus causing a behavior that is new to you and destructive to him.
I would start by trying to talk with your son about your concerns. But you need to do it in a way that he feels completely safe. He needs to know that you love him and that you're concerned with his health and safety, not with punishing him. If the two of you can get to this point, he might tell you what's really going on. At least then you'll have a way to start helping him.
If that doesn't work, you might ask the school counselor to get involved. Most school counselors see this type of behavior all the time and are very qualified to help. You could also check in with his teachers to see what they think. If he has another adult in his life that he is close to, you could ask that person what they think is going on.
If those suggestions do not help, you might consider professional counseling. There are many qualified counselors who can help you get to the root of the problem. You should see the counselor first, so you can explain the situation. Keep in mind that finding a good counselor is often like finding a good pair of shoes. Sometimes you have to try on a few pairs before you find one that fits.
If you have any reason to suspect alcohol or other drug use, even if it's a small chance, I would urge you to seek professional help as soon as possible.
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Proposal Letter for Events
An event proposal letter is written to a perspective client to convince an individual or a company to utilize their services to organize an event they are planning. It can also be written by an event organizer to an individual or a company for participating in an event. Try to convince the reader, but the tone should be a formal one.
If you are trying to find a sponsor for your event, make sure that you mention the details of the event, including the venue, time and the sponsorship cost details. If you are trying to convince the reader that he or she should hire them for their services, give them the details of the services that you provide. Also, mention the clients name and the types of the events that you are capable of organizing. Sample proposal letter for Events:
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5th Floor,
New York, NY 10017
Phone: 21221111
Mail id: @eventsmanageers.com
Date: 03/03/11
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South Avenue,
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Dear Ms. Jacobs,
In response to your query for organizing a fundraising dinner for cancer patients, we would like to proposal for the services that we offer.
Event Managers have been successfully managing events since the last ten years. We have managed a wide variety of events. We manage events for various business organizations and social occasions. We work for profit and non-profit organizations. Although we are based in New York, we have managed events successfully in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and Boston.
- Be it a big birthday bash, a wedding, or a private party, we have the resources for every occasion.
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Myths of Antitrust Progress
by Prof. Dominick T. Armentano
Prof. Dominick T. Armentano wrote Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure (Independent Institute). On the 25th anniversary of the publication of that classic, the author offers his observations.
Antitrust fashions come and go. Current antitrust enforcement appears more rational than in decades past. Insights from the Austrian and Chicago schools, and public choice studies concerning the actual workings of the competitive process have impacted regulatory policy and court decisions. No doubt it is more difficult today for federal officials to successfully litigate merger cases or those involving predatory practices or price discrimination.
Still Poor Policy
However, opponents of antitrust laws should not declare victory and go home. Horizontal price agreements and resale price maintenance are still illegal per say. And although private antitrust activity has fallen from record levels, it still supports a small army of attorneys. The basic antitrust paradigm survives. In the next century, it will likely damage sectors that may lose their antitrust exemption, such as professional baseball and insurance.
All antitrust laws should be repealed. The most important argument against antitrust is that laws designed ostensibly to restrict monopolization have been repeatedly employed by the government to restrict and restrain the competitive process. Businesses that innovate, market aggressively, and increase production while lowering prices have been a primary focus of antitrust enforcement. Comparatively, government licensing, certificates of public convenience, legal franchises, and foreign and domestic quotas (the real monopolistic abuse in the system) have been almost entirely immune from antitrust scrutiny.
No Golden Era
Antitrust enthusiasts have never re-solved the massive economic irrationalities buried in the case law. Some belatedly admit that specific cases like Alcoa (1945) and Brown Shoe (1962) were a mistake. Rulings in those cases found companies guilty of monopolistic practices not because they raised prices but merely because they took ad-vantage of every opportunity to expand capacity and meet customer demands. The rulings were blatant attacks on economic efficiency.
Most antitrust supporters continue to believe in some golden age of enforcement when antitrust was magnificently pro-consumer. Yet a review of two of the most influential early cases in antitrust history, Standard Oil (1911) and American Tobacco (1911), reveals that neither of the accused firms monopolized or "restrained" trade; on the contrary, both firms expanded outputs enormously, innovated continuously, and generally lowered prices for consumers. Thus, the antitrust assault on successful firms like Microsoft is not a recent policy aberration. It is entirely endemic of the history of antitrust regulation.
Scholarly Support
Revisionist case analysis nicely corresponds with recent scholarship concerning the actual origins of antitrust law. The original rationale was that before the Sherman Act of 1890, monopolistic abuse laced the economy. Yet Thomas DiLorenzo, Thomas Hazlett, and others have shown that market outputs were expanding and prices falling relative to the rest of the economy in many of the "trust" industries prior to 1890. Thus, antitrust laws and antitrust cases are more accurately seen as special interest legislation designed to protect less efficient organizations and redistribute income.
The irrationalities of antitrust enforcement are also rooted in problematic theorizing. The "perfect competition" economic model is still the reference point for "resource misallocation" analysis that backs many antitrust actions. Yet it has little demonstrable real-world relevance. Cost-benefit analysis employed in merger guidelines methodology is pseudo-science at best. And alleged "barriers to entry" and "raising rivals cost" confuses genuine legal barriers, which are harmful, with legitimately earned cost and performance advantages, which clearly are not harmful to consumers and require no antitrust fix.
The torrid pace of technological change in open markets and the trend towards less restrictive international trade offers the latest reason to doubt the efficacy of antitrust laws. Rapid technological change coupled with historically low tariff barriers clearly invigorates the competitive process. The monopoly power feared by antitrust enthusiasts is far more a function of government legal restraints. Free markets, competition, and consumer opportunities will not emerge from antitrust laws but, rather, from their abolition.
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He has been going through a thorough work-up to determine a base line, but before he sees his nephrologist again, I thought he might benefit from having independent information to help him.
Currently he has enlarged kidneys with many cysts on both and a liver cyst. He has had a blood pressure problem since college and has been tired most of his life. A heart murmur was detected when he was young, so he takes antibiotics before dental work.
I've heard there are things you can do to help slow down the progression of this disease. I know it is incurable at present, but I understand that a cure may be possible within his lifetime. I have read that controlling blood pressure is at the top of the list, as well as consuming adequate water and restricting salt and protein in his diet.
The long-term problems are difficult for me to talk about, so I hope you will mention them as well has any other possible symptoms and treatments.
Dear Reader: Polycystic kidney disease causes the kidneys to develop clusters of cysts (fluid-filled sacs). The cysts are noncancerous and can also affect other organs, such as the liver. It varies in severity.
The most common sign is high blood pressure. Other signs include kidney stones, kidney failure, headache, frequent urination, urinary tract or kidney infections, back or side pain, an increase in abdomen size and blood in the urine.
Polycystic kidney disease is most commonly caused by genetic defects passed from parent to child. Rarely, a spontaneous genetic mutation can occur, causing an individual without a family history to develop the disorder.
While the disease is incurable, many of the symptoms can be treated as they arise. Blood pressure can be controlled through diet, exercise and medication. Pain can be treated with over-the-counter and prescription pain relievers as needed. Urinary tract and kidney infections should be treated promptly with antibiotics. Kidney failure can be managed with dialysis and/or transplant.
Drinking plenty of fluids, consuming a low-salt, healthful diet, exercising regularly, quitting smoking, maintaining a healthy weight and taking medication(s) as prescribed or recommended by your doctor are important for staying as healthy as possible, for as long as possible.
Your son may also benefit from joining a local support group. He can keep up-to-date with the latest treatment breakthroughs, learn more about his condition, and connect with other sufferers in his community by visiting the PKD foundation website, www.pkdcure.org. This organization has been around since 1982 and is working with researchers to find new drugs, treatments and a possible cure. It has also raised awareness and millions of dollars for PKD research.
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After injuring his back, former construction worker and Altoona native Mark Bates decided to get into the restaurant business.
Six years ago, he and a partner took over Fat Daddy's Barbecue Shak and Six Pak, which at the time was at Logan Boulevard and Sixth Avenue.
Today, the location has changed, the partnership dissolved and Bates touches just about every aspect of the business, including smoking the restaurant's specialty: Barbecue.
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Mirror photo by Gary M. Baranec
Fat Daddy's owner Mark Bates poses in the dining room.
"When it's busy, I'll jump in there," Bates, 54, said. "I like cooking the ribs and the chicken, put it that way."
While Fat Daddy's - now located at 200 Pleasant Valley Blvd. - serves up ribs, chicken, pulled pork and brisket smoked on an indoor smoker, it also offers homemade rigatoni and meatballs, subs, sandwiches, pizza, salads and wings.
Classic barbecue sides such as corn bread, coleslaw and Fat Daddy's Original Baked Beans can round out a meal, while appetizers such as fresh-cut fries, sweet potato fries, buffalo chips or mac and cheese bites can start it.
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Behind the Plates
Fat Daddy's Barbecue Shak and Six Pak
Address: 200 Pleasant Valley Blvd.
Phone number: 949-2727; fax orders, 949-2366
Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/ fatdaddysbbqshak/home
Hours: Noon to 9 p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Closed Monday. Delivery for business orders 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and 4:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. All day Saturday and Sunday.
Price range: $.75 for a side of corn bread to $32.99 for a barbecue family pack containing a full rack of ribs, whole chicken, a pint of pulled pork, two sides and four corn bread.
Capacity: 137
Atmosphere: Casual. Has a full bar and dining space for large parties.
Specialties: Barbecue ribs, chicken, pulled pork, brisket
Fat Daddy's also serves homemade soups, such as chicken noodle, vegetable beef and ham and bean.
But barbecue is at its heart.
"I like the barbecue part of it. That's what I wanted to get into," Bates said.
The smoker can handle 65 rib racks at a time, but the 1976
graduate of Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School keeps the output in line with what they sell, so that what is served up is always fresh.
They do about 60 to 70-plus racks of ribs weekly, he said.
"Oh yeah, you got to keep it fresh. Yes," Bates said. "I actually buy a lot of my meat from [Kepner's] Grandview [Meats] down the street here. They have really good meat. It's fresh. Comes from there to here. It's about a mile away.
"And I go see him about three times a week, if not more. Yeah, it's local. We work together."
The children's menu has classic offerings such as grilled cheese and chicken fingers, but families can also order up Fat Daddy's family specials.
The Smokehouse special comes with a half rack of ribs, half a chicken, a side and corn bread. In addition to what the Smokehouse offers, the Sampler special has a half pint of pulled pork and more corn bread.
While the "Full House" special doesn't come with a complimentary house cleaning from Danny Tanner, it does add another side and more corn bread to the Sampler's offering.
The Family Pack special comes with a full rack of ribs, a whole chicken, a pint of pulled pork, two sides and corn bread.
Another business partnership isn't in the future, Bates said, even though
the full responsibility of running the business is tough.
"It's a lot of work, but with two people, at least you could be off here and there, but when there's one person, it's like, yeah, I pretty much live here," he said.
And no wonder because it's not just a restaurant. Fat Daddy's has a full bar inside and offers a catering service, as well.
Bates said he enjoys meeting people through his business.
"Got a lot of regulars that come in," he paused, "hang out at Idiot's Lounge," he finished, using the name he coined for the restaurant's bar.
"I use that word a lot... 'You idiot!' Jokingly, you know," he said, laughing.
On a recent Friday afternoon, customer Larry Robbins of Altoona said he enjoys the Pittsburgh sandwich, and he had just eaten a cheeseburger with the works. He often orders the barbecue chicken, he said.
"Quality of the food, cleanliness," he said as for what he likes about the restaurant.
Jennifer Hale of Tipton is a regular at the restaurant.
"We like the wings, the cheesesteaks, the pizza ... strombolis, basically anything. I mean, we bring our kids here. It's a friendly, fun, atmosphere. The baseball team comes here regularly after games, and it's just a nice place to come."
It's not just the customers who are happy at Fat Daddy's either.
"I love it," waitress Kendra Luckett, 19, of Altoona said. "He's [Bates] a really good boss. And then the other waitresses that I work with, we all get along really well. We're all like a little family."
Mirror Staff Writer Amanda Gabeletto is at 949-7030.


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Nanoxia Deep Silence Case Review
Nanoxia Deep Silence Case Review
Published: 11th January 2013 | Source: Nanoxia | Price: £100 Quiet PC |
So Nanoxia have been around for a few years, most of us will know them for sexy green fans! They have their sights set high with their new range of cases and are looking to take a chunk of Fractals market share away from them. Being a German company our hopes on quality are very high, so lets take a look at the specifications before swiftly moving on to the video review.
|Case Type
|Midi Tower
|Form Factor
|ATX, XL-ATX, Micro-ATX, Mini-ITX
|5.25 inch drive bay external
|3 x
|3.5 inch drive bay external
|1 x (optional)
|2.5/3.5 inch drive bay internal
|8 x
|Case Fan (Front)
|2 x 120 mm
|Case Fan (Rear)
|1 x 140 mm
|Case Fan (Top)
|optional 2 x (120/140 mm)
|Case Fan (Bottom)
|optional 1 x (120/140 mm)
|Case Fan (Left Sidepanel)
|optional 1 x (120/140 mm)
|Height (Approx.)
|517 mm
|Width (Approx.)
|220 mm
|Depth (Approx.)
|532 mm
|steel, plastic
|Weight (Approx.)
|11.34 kg
|Maximum installation height of CPU coolers
|185 mm
|Maximum VGA Card Length
|315 (445) mm
Video Review
So at first we said we would wait until the white version was released before we would take a look at this, we honestly wish we had got one earlier. It's that awesome. Now don't go getting us wrong here, our spidey senses are tingling because of this case's ace card.... Watercooling. Thing is we should recap a little about the basic features before diving head first into these.
So many many of you at first glance would have thought "Fractal" well don't worry I did too, still am tbh. Id put money on them being manufactured in the same factory to be honest. The Fractal resemblance will never be a bad thing, its simple and sleek. No harsh lines or disco lights on this one, oh no far more grown up.
Silent by name, silent by nature. There's bitumen (same as Fractals) in the side panel and also under the pop up airflow port/chimney on the roof. The front fans are dust filtered and easily removed/changed/cleaned, talking of fans there is also a pair of fan controllers on the front to give you the option of easily customising your fan speeds on the fly.
There's ample room behind the motherboard tray for cables, decent cable routing options both round the back and in the main part of the case too. The hard drive bays can be split into 3 parts and removed / installed how ever you see fit including a second mounting point in front of the PSU which also allows 3.5" drives to be run while you have a radiator fitted into the front.So with watercooling mentioned we move on to cover this, for such a small case it does pack quite a punch when it comes to H20. You can remove the hard drive bays and get a radiator in the front but without having to sacrifice storage space, these can simply be relocated further back. The rad mount in the roof is offset so that it sits further away from the motherboard than normal, you still need to go careful with memory choices (35mm tall max) but this does mean you can get a 60mm thick rad in the roof and a set of fans without it effecting the rest of your hardware OR a bay res/pump combo should you want to run one to save room.
The only negative points we personally have picked up on are with such great water cooling support even an optional extra of a window is an oversight. Secondly the white plastic is textured satin white and the main case is gloss white, we know its picky but the two together doesn't work for us.
We'll be honest without that roof radiator support this would have been a shiny silver award. Once you factor in the H20 options it just tips the scale towards the enthusiast that little bit more and means we are happy to award the Nanoxia Deep Silence case the OC3D Gold Award. Add in a window to this case and it would become hard to find a way how you could not choose this over the R4..... So get to it Nanoxia!
Thanks to Quiet PC for sending us the case in for review, you can discuss your thoughts in the OC3D forums.
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Nice Review again dude.Quote
I get the feeling that would be a VERY popular case. As popular as the CM690 was, at least.Quote
What a beast mid tower! I would have to have seen something like that in person to decide though, and I have to admit the differing textures of the metal and plastic, as well as a lack of a window would probably have made me want to see at least one other case option.
I think I saw in a CES video a version of this case with a side panel window in Black, or it may have been a slightly different case but from the same company.Quote
I think I saw in a CES video a version of this case with a side panel window in Black, or it may have been a slightly different case but from the same company.
well I dont know about that but I just saw Linus and "Elric" (real name seems to be Richard ...) get a run-through on the new Swiftech H220 cooler kit in Las Vegas. Swiftech had 4 Nanoxia DS1´s with windows at the presentation.
What i felt missing in TTL´s video-review was a clear shot or mentioning about gloss or satin finish on the air-chimney and usb-thingy. Would also have liked to see the other side panel as showing only the inside had me wondering if it actually had the same cut-out for the fan in the panel itself, or only in the sound-dampening material. A quick shot of the bottom of the case would also be nice.
EDIT: Found some pictures on the norwegian Hardware.no review that showed the black case. Here the chimney and usb-flip was coated in the same satin finish as the case. The right sidepanel dit not have the cutout for a fan. Norwegian review also had the same problem with the USB thingy, they complained about a fiddly front lower fan-shield and were dissapointed over the low quality-feel of the plastic componets in the case - since the case otherwise felt very well built.
45 days ago, planning my new build I was in direct contact with Nanoxia to learn if they had a window in the works for early 2013 - as this at that time was the only thing separating their case from the Fractal Design Define R4 for me. They stated that they had no such plan since the demand for this was very small in the marketplace, but if this interest would pick up, they surely would reconsider.
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The only thing that bothers me is the front USB panel, looks and behaves in a cheap manor (and of course no window option).Quote
Bloody good little case that. I think I would recommend this over the R4 now.
The only thing that bothers me is the front USB panel, looks and behaves in a cheap manor (and of course no window option).
There is a window in the works. For me the R4 still has it on build quality alone. It also more than meets my needs for cooling.Quote
With this review I would certainly look at this case for a mid-range to higher silent build - On air cooling that is.
Thanks Tom.Quote
There is a window in the works. For me the R4 still has it on build quality alone. It also more than meets my needs for cooling.
So My failure askink logan direkly faild so i have do go to you guys may you help me .
I can't get a point if i go get the R4 or the DS 1 ?
Which one is a bit quieter? Wich one is "cooler" so i mean cold u now.
Is the PSU sektion of the R4 a the DS1 "non vibrating stuff etc.?
What are the storage holder made of in the R4?(DS 1 in video review looks like metal)
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hopefully they do the window panel soon as alot of people who are into major watercooling would love this case Quote


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The clearance rate in Sydney was 82%, according to Domain.
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