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The sky's the limit for this spectacular climbing petunia! Masses of 10cm (4") blooms in purple, silver and pink are produced in abundance throughout summer on long lax stems. Train them upwards on a climbing frame or let them spill over low walls for a spectacular display of vibrant colour. The delicate blooms are more tolerant of wet weather than most varieties so you are guaranteed a brilliant display whatever the weather! Height: 1.9m (6'). Spread: 90cm (3').
Includes 10 Steps to Success - a step by step guide to growing your Petunia 'Tidal Wave' plants.
To make the most of your displays, try our exclusive supportive climbing frame, specially designed to help plants to climb easily.Get the best out of your petunias with our specially formulated Petunia Fertiliser - the perfect balance of nutrients to get them off to a flying start and nourish them through the summer.
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By Asim Raheel 18-08-2016
Really impressed with the performance of Petunia tidal wave. In the second year they grew stronger and started flowering earlier in April and covered the whole basket with single plant. I will order again.
Thank you very much for your review. I am glad that you have been happy with your purchase and thank you so much for taking the time to let us know. I hope we can continue to be of service to you in the future.
By Jeanette Baldock 15-08-2012
Have had so many comments, planted 4 in a large tub and they have been amazing, good height and all round width even put some in single wall baskets and these are the best ever - had a second order later on for a second tub and hanging basket and these are still looking brilliant, ordering for next year already Jeanette Baldock
By Helen Toft 29-05-2012
I still have the original plants that I put in three years ago and I am amazed each spring that they are still going and as a 'perennial' the are in flower way before anyone else's annual petunias. They have never however reached to top of the frame but this year I intend to feed well every week with the aim of getting them to the top. Brilliant plants. I do live in Weymouth on the south coast which may help.
By Diane Howard-Willis 31-03-2012
Have these outside front door - so many comments on them by passers by - tell them where they can order!!
By Alan warren 18-02-2012
By Alan Warren 18/02/12 I have just ordered these again. I have had them since first introduced and are a must for the garden.I get comments upon comments on them. I have even had passers by taking photo's. Aprt from last years hard witer I have even had some over winter. The picture does not do them justice.
By Jane Knape 04-09-2011
From the very easy ordering process to taking delivery of our ' Tidal Waves ' .... our opinion is excellent. We have ordered these plants on many occasions and they have never failed to impress our family, friends and neighbours. So much so I have posted a photograph to Thompson & Morgan on their Facebook page, as our Petunia's are looking stunning in our balcony troughs, they drape over as described in ' Tidal Waves '. They do not disappoint, highly recommended by us !
By linda hirst 30-08-2011
this is the second year i've grown these wonderful plants and i can't fault them top marks for scent, colour and growth they certainly do reach the sky would recommend others to try
By Katherine Hooper 31-07-2011
I have bought these for the first time this year, the advice from Thompson & Morgan is superb & my petunias are really starting to bush out & thrive, just love the colours and cant wait untill they reach their full potential, will definately recommend them to others, Thanks Thompson & Morgan. :-)
By Theresa Farr 24-07-2011
Really brillint show of flowers, worth every penny will definately grow them again, just a shame there is not the same amount of colours as other surfinias, but still brilliant.
By Diana Eastwood 16-06-2011
I would highly recommend this petunia grown up a frame mine reach six foot and just look wonder such beautiful colours and grow in hanging baskets a must my baskets look so full and they did seed them-self so some came again the following year ... i
By C Wakeman 30-05-2011
These are truly brilliant - they give the most amazing show of pink and purple flowers every summer. I tend to buy new plants each year, as they are described as annuals; however I always have a good number of plants growing again from the previous year (even after such a harsh winter, there are several coming up again). Fantastic plants, great value for money - I absolutely love them.
By rachel parker 21-04-2011
I had managed to overwinter these Petunia's outside for 3 years up until the last bad winter we had, so had to purchase some more for this year. Great plant, doesn't need much deadheading as repeat flowers. Can we have in variety of colours, please


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Make your Super Bowl party a win for everyone
Perhaps you haven't heard: Super Bowl XLVII is Sunday. It's in New Orleans. The San Francisco 49ers will play the Baltimore Ravens.
And that's really all you need to know about football to throw a great party. No knowledge of flea flickers, chop blocks or Ray Lewis required. Well, you should probably know about Ray Lewis. He's on the Ravens. He's monstrous on the field, as well as in the locker room, and he was connected to, though cleared of, murder in 2000.
There. Now that's all you need to know about football.
What you really need is some food. A lot of food. Plates, cups and napkins.
Festive d�cor can be as beautifully simple as a 70-yard touchdown pass. Kids will be kids, so have a game plan for them as well.
Foods from Baltimore, San Francisco and/or New Orleans can grace the table.
Think about this: Advertisers are forking over $3.8 million for a 30-second spot during the game, but you can get away with spending what a football player tips his valet for fun that lasts for hours.
JENNIE GEISLER can be reached at 870-1885 or by e-mail. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNgeisler. Read the Loaves&Dishes blog at GoErie.com/blogs/loaves.

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The papers referenced here relate to our efforts in implementing IMS specifications over a period of time; They are meant to inform both at a technical and non-technical level, and describe how far these specifications can help to achieve 'interoperability' between VLEs (and MLEs), and what that term might mean.
Our work to date has been in applying Metadata, Content Packaging and Enterprise specifications to COSE . In the next phase, the SCORM specification for content runtime behaviour will be implemented, and our intention is to apply QTI, LIP and other emerging specifications.
The specifications provide the best means available in achieving interoperability, but provide only a framework for data interchange requiring negotiation of exchange profiles between partners e.g. in implementation of optional features [extensions]. Conformance requirements can apply at different levels for each specification, and in general, are only loosely defined. There is currently no independent agency to certificate claims to conformance. The only proper test for interoperability is evidence of actual exchange between systems, which is facilitated, but not guaranteed by use of the specifications.
It is clear that different specifications have matured over the past several years. Specification development is an on-going process and with new technologies and exchange models, more powerful specifications will emerge, though these may not be backward compatible with current versions. Whatever future developments, it seems quite possible that in key areas investment in making systems, tools or content conformant can be re-paid as different communities choose to stabilise on a usable specification or specification set.
Certain of these briefs are referenced from collaborative reports to expand on the material contained therein. Certain others, labelled as draft documents, may not be quite complete but the intention in including them here is to provide the information in as timely a fashion as possible in what is a rapidly changing field.
A Framework for Interoperability
[Jan. '01 Observations on using IMS Specifications
up to date indicated]
SURF Pilot Report
[Jan. '02 Staffordshire University Regional
Federation participating in Pilot Study with other MIS Vendors
using IMS Enterprise 1.01 specification as part of JISC MLE Programme]
C03 Report now available here
CO3 Project web site - for more briefs
[Interim reports and briefs relating largely
to CO3 work at CeLT, Bangor University:
Briefs below will be added there in due course]
[Spring '02 Briefs expanding on content of C03 Report from COSE perspective]
IMS Metadata Specifications (v. 1.0, 1.1, 1.2)
Metadata used in COSE
[Spring '02 About the Metadata Specification(s)
and how implemented in COSE]
Implementation of the Content Packaging Specification (v.1.1.3)
Content Packaging and Interchange in COSE
Content Packaging Issues
[Spring '02 About the Content Packaging Specification and how implemented in COSE]
ADL SCORM v. 1.2
[Overview of the SCORM specification set as
the basis for COSE work in JISC X4L programme]
IMS Enterprise Specification (v. 1.01) and COSE
Enterprise exchanges [coming soon]
Enterprise Issues
[Spring '02 About the Enterprise Specification and findings on how it will be implemented in COSE]
Which DTD
[Elaborating on confusion over Enterprise 1.01 control documents]
About Enterprise Interoperability Profiling Tools
[About using profiling spreadsheets used to determine interoperability intersect, courtesy Bill Olivier]
What Interoperability Tables might mean
[More on interoperability intersect, courtesy Bill Olivier]
XML Generator
[To be further developed in collaboration
with CETIS SIG Learner Information and Enterprise Group]
Packaging Update
[Findings on content handling in the absence of a runtime specification (!)
These early findings are supplanted now with development of RELOAD tools at www.reload.ac.uk and our own new (in v.2.1, specification compliant) packaging option for standalone (and interoperable) content (see SURF X4L)
There is also great interest in the Learning Design specification, in providing a more sophisticated runtime model (as well as other things) than is offered by the SCORM model
Introduction to IMS specifications
[Update on 'Framework' brief referenced above]
The Managed Learning Environments Steering Group Reports
[Mar. '02 Link to JISC Summary Report, Technical Report and individual pilot project reports]
MAISIE Center Report - Making Sense of Learning Specifications & Standards
[Mar. '02 S3 (from title) Guide from US with advice on what specifications mean in practice]
Enterprise 1.1
[May 2002 From CETIS web site, describing new Enterprise specification with stronger conformance statements]
Educause Extra
[October 2001 From IMS web site, with an overview
of IMS working groups and accomplishments from IMS CEO]
Last revised / updated 01/08/02
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Who let the dogs in? They're everywhere these days. It's not their year on the Chinese calendar, but they seem to seizing every piece of American culture they can get their teeth into.
On a recent visit to Borders, the front table was mostly devoted to dogs. I didn't even realize they could read. On the Web are books about choosing dogs, naming dogs, training dogs and giving dogs just the right amount of love. There's a book called "We're Having a Puppy." Another is "Don't Shoot the Dog."
On TV, the National Geographic Channel rang in the new year with a marathon of episodes of "The Dog Whisperer." It was my introduction to Cesar Millan. Like the old RCA dog pondering the Victrola, I watched, mesmerized as a puppy waiting for you to throw a stick, as Cesar did his thing.
Cesar's thing is to think like a dog. If you can master that one - assuming, of course, that you're smarter than the dog you're dealing with - you can be the pack leader.
Your dog will stop chewing the couch cushions, chasing cars and skateboards, knocking small babies over with his wagging tale or attacking the neighbors. He'll be happier. You'll be happier. It's a win-win.
Cesar's so in touch with his inner canine, he sometimes moves like a dog, or smiles like one. You only wish he had a tail so he could wag it.
As much as he purports to be about training dogs, what Caesar is really about is training owners. Invariably, as you watch him entering a distressed family's home - like a superhero or a physician with a miracle cure - you realize that the out-of-control dog has merely filled a power vacuum in the household.
It's not the dog, but the people, who need fixing.
If only there were more Cesars in the world.
This week's top movie star might make Cesar consider changing professions. He is "the world's worst dog," the Golden Lab who co-stars with Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston in the surprise hit of the Christmas movie season, "Marley & Me."
Just from the trailers and TV spots, you've already seen Marley (he was named for reggae icon Bob) do his tricks, wrecking restaurants, causing traffic jams, singlehandedly demolishing living rooms or whole beaches with a single swoop.
But unlike the cases that come to Cesar, Marley is just so doggone cute when he misbehaves that Owen and Jennifer don't really have it in them to change him. Or realize that they couldn't, even if they wanted to.
It must have taken a whole kennel's worth of canine co-stars to play Marley, since the film chronicles his life, beginning to sniffly end. But as much as he is the glue tying the story together, the sweet-natured comedy is more about two-legged animals than the one with four feet and a wagging tail.
The story was adapted from a series of columns by newspaper writer John Grogan. He turned them into a permanent fixture at the top of the best-seller list for more than a year. This isn't the kind of thing that endears him to other newspaper columnists -but there's so much warmth and tenderness in his writing, and the performances by Wilson and Aniston, that it's impossible to resist.
Untrainable Marley winds up being both witness and reliable member of their growing family, as they get on with the messy business of life.
This is the time of year when the movies acknowledge this fact - life is messy - instead of trotting out the latest superhero to pretend it's not. With new movie awards being announced almost daily and the Academy Award nominations coming right up, a number of wonderful current films make the same point.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "Slumdog Millionaire" are just two of the new releases that manage to find silver linings to all that messiness. Fellow Golden Globe nominee Sally Hawkins in "Happy-Go-Lucky" - next Wednesday's Maui Film Festival selection in Castle Theater - does it all by herself, greeting life's flaws with as much joy as a movie screen can hold.
Ironically though, in this movie award season when studios present their best work, most filmgoers are expressing their own preference for the humbler aspirations of "Marley & Me."
We may all long for a Cesar out there to get our dogs, and our lives, under control - but Marley and his family are closer to the way it is.
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It's November 5, 2012. It's our deadline for delivery of the tape of our new program, BREAKFAST SPECIAL 2: REVENGE OF THE OMELETS, and I think we've made it.
I spent most of the morning on the phone with two good-natured and patient folks at PBS headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, Sheronne Wilson and Dan O'Melia, trying to complete the computerized "Packaging Forms" that are one of the last steps in the formal program submission process. When you finish those forms, you get the coveted shipping label and bar-code! With that in my electronic "hands," I was able to forward it on to the wonderful folks at Pillar 2 Post, our expert post-production friends (also in Arlington) who actually have evaluated and output the final High Def tape that will be the PBS master tape.
On past projects, we have always sent (or delivered in person if we were really late) a tape from here at WQED. This time, for the first time, we sent a small external drive (750 GB) with the program and our consolidated project on it. I think there was some doubt about the new fangled procedure, but all went well. We did have some problems with non-drop frame time code (How did that happen?) but that wasn't caused by digital delivery. We had to cut one sound bite from the show, a 3-second-and-18 frame bite from one of the last parts of the show, a comment from a guy at the Post Road Diner in Connecticut. Then we had to get some adjustments made to the Closed Captioning file, and we had to replace the video for one shot from Ken's in Hilo, Hawaii, where the Pillar 2 Post folks found a glitch. We were lucky. The glitch was not in the original video and we were able to Dropbox them a new digitization of that scene. (Is "to dropbox" now a legitimate verb?)
Lots of little detail work. Not necessarily the coolest and most glamorous parts of the process.
Now there's just the promo-spots to finish, the press release to write, and some promotional efforts leading up to our big premiere night on December 25 at 8 pm.


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The newest member of the operating team is certainly being put to work. "We're probably doing one or two robotic cases a week," says Dr. Paul DiGiorgi, a cardiothoracic surgeon on Lee Memorial Health System's medical staff.
Surgeons like him are using the da Vinci Robotic Surgical System to perform various cardiac procedures. "It's exciting because we're able to do surgeries that we couldn't do before with the robot."
In fact, because of the robot's smaller incisions, patients once considered at high risk for traditional surgery are now possible candidates for a robotic procedure. The robot has also changed the way Dr. DiGiorgi and his staff operate. "That's probably been its biggest impact we see in the hospital is that all the other staff members have gotten really excited about the new technology, mainly because they are involved in it more than they ever have before."
It's this new involvement that's having an impact on patient care. "My surgical part is just one small piece of it whereas we have the nurses doing a lot of things at the table themselves, along with our assistants and the anesthesiologists are doing things and profusion has changed a lot and it's really been exciting for the whole team.
"Bypass surgeries and mitral valve repairs are performed regularly at HealthPark with the da Vinci robot. This minimally invasive surgery means less pain, less scarring, and faster recovery than traditional surgeries.


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The family of Roxana Kingsbury Gould (nee Weed) farmed the rocky soils of western New England during the late nineteenth century. Roxana's first husband Ambrose died of dysentery shortly after the Civil War, leaving her to care for their two infant sons, and after marrying her second husband, Lyman Gould, she relocated from southwestern Vermont to Cooleyville and then (ten years later) to Shelburne, Massachusetts. The Goulds added a third son to their family in 1869.
A rich collection of letters and photographs recording the history of the Kingsbury-Gould families of Shelburne, Massachusetts. The bulk of the letters are addressed to Roxana Kingsbury Gould, the strong-willed matriarch at the center of the family, and to her granddaughter, May Kingsbury Phillips, the family's first historian. In addition to documenting the complicated dynamics of a close-knit family, this collection is a rich source for the study of local history, rural New England, and the social and cultural practices at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
The collection is open for research.
Roxana Orvilla Weed Kingsbury Gould (1838-1904) was the matriarch of the Kingsbury family during the late nineteenth century, a family of middle class New Englanders. A native of Winhall, Vermont, Roxana married Ambrose Kingsbury in 1859 after he divorced her older sister Lura. During their relatively brief marriage, the couple had two boys, Arnold O. Kingsbury (1861-1901) and Oscar B. Kingsbury (1863-1943), both born in Jamaica, Vermont. Ambrose survived the Civil War with the 5th Vermont Infantry, but shortly after his return home, he succumbed to dysentery.
Three years later, in 1868, Roxana married Lyman G. Gould and moved her children to his home in Cooleyville, Massachusetts (now New Salem), where she had another son, David Oris Gould (1869-1953). After ten years, the family moved to a farm in Shelburne. When the question of who would inherit the family's farm arose, the decision seems to have been determined by the process of elimination. Roxana and Lyman's only son together, David, showed no interest, and Roxana's oldest son, Arnold, proved to be unreliable. As a result, the farm was settled on Oscar, the middle son, who took up the work in late 1888. Married a year earlier to Lillian M. Davis (1868-1937), Oscar failed in his first efforts at assuming responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the farm, and over the next few years Oscar sought work elsewhere. When he finally returned to the farm in 1895, Roxana and Lyman were ready to let it go, this time formally transferring the farm and its movable assets to Oscar.
In the next generation of Kingsburys, May O. Kingsbury, the second of Oscar and Lillian's four children, took a keen interest in the family's history. A teacher in Shelburne before her marriage to R. Ernest Phillips in 1923, May kept up an active correspondence with family members, especially during her single years, and she preserved most of the family's papers and genealogical materials. During the 1960s, she wrote a series of essays detailing the life of her grandmother Roxana, which were saved by her daughter, Merilyn, and eventually passed on to her nephew, Conrad Totman.
This collection contains a wide variety of personal papers belonging to the members of the Kingsbury, Gould, and Totman families, long-time residents of the Western Massachusetts and Southern Vermont area. Dated between 1862 and 2006, the papers were collected by family members during the twentieth century.
The family of Ambrose and Roxana Kingsbury and their two sons Arnold and Oscar maintained an active correspondence throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. The bulk of this correspondence details the family relationships and local events as experienced by Roxana by her female relatives after her second marriage and subsequent removal to rural western Massachusetts. There are also various items of personal interest from extended family members, including children's books, autograph albums, stereocards, picture postcards collected in albums, a few legal documents, graphic business cards from local western Massachusetts businesses, and a large sample of calling cards.
May Kingsbury Phillips collected her grandmother's letters and later compiled a family genealogy, which is included here. After May's death, her nephew Conrad Totman became the repository for the family's history. Both May and Conrad compiled narrative histories of the family, mostly focusing on Roxana's correspondence and the photographs contained in this collection. Their notes, identifications, and interpretations can be found throughout the collection.
The collection is rounded out by a series of family photography, dating from a formal portrait in 1862 to photocopies of photographs for genealogical research made in 2005. There are gem tintypes, formal portraits, snapshots, and photograph albums, preserved in a variety of frames, matted presentations, lockets, and albums. Some are professional photographs and others are candid photographs taken by members of the family.
Gift of Conrad and Michiko Totman, 2006.
Processed by Megan M. Kennedy, Summer 2008.
For material related to the Kingsbury and Totman families, see:
For material related to the Kingsbury family at other repositories, see:
Cite as: Kingsbury Family Papers (MS 504). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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France will 'fight to the death' to beat NZ
France's Imanol Harinordoquy speaks after New Zealand media blasted the team named to play the All Blacks in their Rugby World Cup pool match as an "insult" and a "farce."
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Jean Lee: Leader's chilling nuclear threats may be more bark than bite
Published 30/03/2013 | 05:00
Across North Korea, soldiers are gearing up for battle and shrouding their jeeps and vans with camouflage netting. Newly painted signboards and posters call for "death to the US imperialists" and urge the people to fight with "arms, not words".
But even as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is issuing midnight battle cries to his generals to ready their rockets, he and his million-man army know full well that a successful missile strike on US targets would be suicide for the outnumbered, out-powered North Korean regime.
None of the key players in the region wants or expects another Korean War – not even the North Koreans.
But by seemingly bringing the region to the very brink of conflict with threats and provocations, Pyongyang is aiming to draw attention to the tenuousness of the armistice designed to maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula.
It's all part of a plan to force Washington to the negotiating table, pressure the new president in Seoul to change policy on North Korea, and build unity at home – without triggering a full-blown war if all goes well.
In July, it will be 60 years since North Korea and China signed an armistice with the US and the United Nations to bring an end to three years of fighting that cost millions of lives. The designated Demilitarised Zone has evolved into the most heavily guarded border in the world.
In that time, South Korea has blossomed from a poor, agrarian nation of peasants into the world's 15th largest economy while North Korea is struggling to find a way out of a Cold War chasm that has left it with a per capita income on par with sub-Saharan Africa.
The Chinese troops who fought alongside the North Koreans have long since left.
But 28,500 American troops are still stationed in South Korea and 50,000 more are in nearby Japan. For weeks, the US and South Korea have been showing off their military might with a series of joint exercises that Pyongyang sees as a rehearsal for invasion.
On Thursday, the US military confirmed that those drills included two nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers that can unload the US Air Force's largest conventional bomb – a bunker-buster powerful enough to destroy North Korea's underground military tunnels.
Mr Kim reacted swiftly, calling an emergency meeting of army generals and ordering them to be prepared to strike if the US actions continue.
However, what North Korea really wants is legitimacy in the eyes of the US – and a peace treaty. As threatening as Mr Kim's call to arms may sound, its target audience may be the masses at home.
For months, the masterminds of North Korean propaganda have pinpointed this year's milestone Korean War anniversary as a prime time to play up Mr Kim's military credibility as well as to push for a peace treaty. By creating the impression that a US attack is imminent, the regime can foster a sense of national unity and encourage the people to rally around their new leader.
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by James Rogers
Not to beat around the bush or hedge the bet, this is a must-read for every Tom, Dick and Harry under the sun, but it could make the hair stand on end for anyone truly in the know. It goes without saying that from A to Z, a dictionary of clichés is all things to all men, whom it makes brothers under the skin. But even at first blush, putting 1,400 old saws in one basket seems like carrying coals to Newcastle and the feeling of déjà vu here gets thicker than pea soup, no getting around it. "The cliché has a bad name," the author protests, not coining a phrase by a long shot, and in all fairness the roots of his shopworn old hats are now and then more fun than a barrel of monkeys. It's the cat's whiskers, or pajamas, or meow, par exemple, to unearth the fact that Moses coined "the apple of his eye," that Homer trotted out "bite the dust" in the Iliad, that "on cloud nine" springs from Dante's Paradise, that "Goody-Two-Shoes" made its first appearance in a 1765 young sprouts' book. Who would have guessed that poor Gaius Petronius, who kicked the bucket in 66 A.D., had "his heart in his mouth," that "signs of the times" (Matthew 16:3) are as old as the hills, that to Chaucer clichés went "in one ear and out the other." Be that as it may, everything isn't A-Okay here: It seems like comparing apples and oranges to trace "the bigger they come, the harder they fall" to Herodotus' "It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness." "Egg on your face" is a lot longer in the tooth than the 25 years old worthy scribe Rogers says it is. It is a letdown that nobody knows where in tarnation "dressed to the nines" came from, and why in tarnation isn't "tarnation" in here, I ask you? Woe is one. It all puts one in mind of a TV soap producer who once said, "I know every cliché in the book and I avoid them like the plague." Alas and alack, when all is said and done, the upshot is you can't have your cake and eat it, too, not once in a blue moon, even in the best of all possible worlds, so if what oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed is your cup of tea, abandon hope, all ye who enter here, and how. (Facts on File, $18.95)
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PASADENA, Calif. - After two NASA missions to Mars over the past six years ended in sudden failure, the stakes are especially high today for the Mars Polar Lander, and the list of things that can go wrong is long.
"It's about as do-or-die an event as they come," flight operations manager Sam Thurman said.
The Polar Lander is set to touch down this afternoon, roughly 500 miles from the Red Planet's south pole. Scientists said they hope to learn about Mars' climate by studying layers of dust and possibly ice during the 90-day mission. Instruments will measure vapor in the atmosphere, while a claw on the spacecraft will collect samples to be cooked and analyzed for water.
But there are many mission-ending scenarios: The spacecraft's parachute or descent thrusters could fail. It could land on a rock that causes it to tip over. Or it could touch down into the quicksand-like permafrost in the never-explored south polar region.
In September, NASA's $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter vanished as it approached the Red Planet. Investigators blamed the loss on scientists' failure to realize that English-style units of measurement - feet and inches - were not converted to the metric system.
And in 1993, the Mars Observer, a $1 billion NASA spacecraft, disappeared just before going into orbit around the Red Planet. It is believed to have exploded as its fuel lines were being pressurized.
"The tension on the team is up by several factors because of what happened," said Richard Cook, spacecraft operations manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In the weeks since the Mars Climate Orbiter's failure, controllers for the $165 million Polar Lander mission have reworked and reviewed plans to deal with the myriad of things that could go wrong at the end of the 157-million-mile voyage.
They have put together hundreds of contingency plans for nearly every possible glitch.
"When we're working on contingency plans, we're thinking gory details about everything that can go wrong," Thurman said.
The Polar Lander will deploy a parachute and fire a dozen retro-rockets, slowing from about 15,400 mph to 5 mph as it lands on the surface.
A few minutes before landing, it will break off communication with Earth. The highest priority is making sure the probe can re-establish contact.
NASA said there is a 50 percent chance that even if the spacecraft lands safely and deploys its camera, weather mast and antenna, it will fail in its first attempt to contact home.
Communications also will be complicated by the loss of the Mars Orbiter, which was to have relayed scientific data between Earth and Mars. NASA said it hopes instead to relay data through the Mars Global Surveyor, which has been orbiting Mars since 1997.
If the first signal from the Polar Lander doesn't arrive as expected about 38 minutes after the 12:01 p.m. PST landing today, controllers will use the Deep Space Network, a collection of giant antennas on Earth. They will listen today and Saturday for signals at pre-arranged times.
And if by Sunday the Polar Lander hasn't yet contacted Earth, it is programmed to send data at a higher frequency that can be received and relayed by the Mars Global Surveyor.
"It goes through a series of steps," said operations project manager Richard Cook. "We just need to wait for the spacecraft to try those different things."
Once communication is established and the science begins, backup plans are available for everything from a less-than-desired landing position and power problems to computer shutdowns and malfunctioning sensors.
And just to be certain, the scientists at JPL have their good luck charm. For more than 35 years, jars of peanuts appeared on desks before launches. The tradition faded in recent years, but for the Polar Lander, the nuts will be back.
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CHARLES TOWN - Jefferson cashed in its limited opportunities Tuesday night to defeat Washington 6-4 at Bruce C. Davidson Field.
The Cougars managed six runs on four hits, scoring a pair on a Washington (11-8) error in the fifth inning and three more on a passed ball and one hit in the sixth.
Jefferson's Cody Johnson posted the eventual game-winning hit in the sixth with a two-run single. He also reached on the error that allowed a pair of Cougars to score in the fifth.
"It was a good workmanlike win for us," Jefferson coach John Lowery said. "We did what we had to do to win. I didn't think we were particularly sharp, but we made plays when we had to and took advantage of a break we got.
"It's a big win, being a sectional-seeding win. We are happy to emerge on top."
"With Jefferson, you can't make the mistakes," Washington coach Mark Hash said. "You have to play mistake-free baseball. I coached baseball over there for 10 years and been around it for 22 and see it every year. You make a mistake, they take advantage of it."
Jefferson's Logan Johnson added a home run, and Corey Mangold and J.P. Jones each added a hit for the Cougars.
Washington staged a seventh-inning rally, scoring three runs and bringing the winning run to the plate, but Jefferson's Tanner Everton pitched his way out of the squeeze to earn the win in relief.
Everton moved his record to 7-0 as Jefferson won its seventh straight game to improve to 20-4 - the 35th consecutive year the Cougars have reached the 20-win plateau.
Everton scattered three runs and five hits across four innings, striking out seven and walking two.
He replaced Chris Payne, who struck out five, walked four and gave up one run on three hits in three innings of work.
"Three of our pitchers primarily have most of the innings, and Chris and Tanner are two of those three," Lowery said. "They both did a nice job."
Logan Johnson led off the game with a home run to left field for Jefferson, but Washington starting pitcher Robbie Reynolds slowed the Cougars' offense to a crawl after that.
Reynolds, who gave up five runs on three hits, striking out eight and walking four in 5 innings, sat down the Jefferson side in order in the second and third innings.
"I think you have to tip your hat to Robbie Reynolds," Lowery said. "He threw extremely well for them. We were fortunate to get out of here with the win."
Washington's Trey Fields tied the game in the home half of the third, driving in John Rickards from third after Rickards reached on a double and advanced on a Dillon Wilt groundout.
Fields led Washington with a 4-for-4 effort and two RBI, and Rickards went 2 for 3 with an RBI.
Jones singled in the fourth for the Cougars, but Reynolds left Jones' courtesy runner stranded at third.
Reynolds was prepared to finish his fourth consecutive scoreless inning in the fifth when a two-out Washington error allowed a pair of Cougars to score.
Allen Milbourne drew a two-out walk, stole second and took third on an error. Logan Johnson walked and stole second to put a pair of runners in scoring position. Cody Johnson cashed them in, reaching on an error that allowed both Cougars to score for a 3-1 lead.
Jefferson rallied on two outs again in the sixth to add to its advantage.
The Cougars put runners on the corners when Jamie Richard reached on a dropped third strike, stole second and took third on an error, and DiAmario walked, ending Reynolds' night.
Washington's Jared Silva walked Everton to load the bases with one out. Milbourne bunted, but Silva managed to shovel pass the ball to Fields to force out Richard at the plate for the inning's second out.
A passed ball scored DiAmario from third for a 4-1 lead, and Cody Johnson singled in Everton and Milbourne for a 6-1 lead.
"To me, Cody is the consummate high school baseball player," Lowery said. "He just makes plays."
Lowery said that Cody Johnson's play as second base was as important as at the plate.
"The little soft liner that he dove for and it kicked away from him, he realized he didn't have a chance to get a double play, so he just slowed himself down and got the force at second," Lowery said. "On the play that Logan dives and we don't have anybody at first, he does a reverse pivot and gets the lead out.
"Those are just plays that, I think for a high school kid, are really high-level plays. Then he had the two-run single, and as it turned out, that's the margin of victory."
Washington went down swinging.
In the home half of the seventh, Rickards singled to score Jonah DeSimone, who walked. Fields singled to scored Larcomb, who reached on an error. And Nicholas Burgess scored Rickards with a sacrifice fly to cut the lead to 6-4 with runners at first and second with two outs.
"That is something we have done this year," Hash said. "The past two years, these guys, when they would get down, they would quit. I'm proud of our kids. Our kids have came a long way, and they are heading in the right direction."
Everton struck out the final batter to preserve the milestone victory for the Cougars, which also marked Lowery's 1,101st career win.


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The NBA season has just ended, leaving us to reflect on the Miami Heat winning their second consecutive championship.
Like all the champs that preceded them, the Heat needed some clutch shots along the way to come out on top.
Ray Allen's three-pointer in Game 6 with their season on life support was as clutch as it gets.
It ranks right up there with Magic Johnson in 1987, Michael Jordan in 1991 and 1998 and Robert Horry in 2005.
The plays by the guys mentioned above all contributed mightily to their respective teams winning a title.
That's not what this article is about. We're going to swim upstream and look at some of the greatest shots made by players who weren't quite able to win the Finals series they were in.
These shots are still iconic, but to a lesser degree.
We can only imagine how legendary they would be if their teams had been able to hoist the trophy in that particular year.
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Following a number of terrible quarterly results by retailers, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI ) may finally break its six-day losing streak. As of 12:45 p.m. EDT the index is up by 59 points, or 0.4% while the S&P 500 is up 0.71% and the Nasdaq has risen 0.87%.
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Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ ) is down 11.8% today after the company reported disappointing earnings after yesterday's closing bell. Not only did HP report weaker-than-expected results for the quarter, but CEO Meg Whitman told investors that the company would not see revenue growth in 2014. That comment, and the fact that nearly every unit of HP's business is performing poorly, has investors selling the stock off today. Just a few days ago, HP was up more than 90% for 2013. That gain has since been reduced to 55%. Investors should be cautious if they're thinking about buying this company as it gets cheaper.
Retailers Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF ) and Sears (NASDAQ: SHLD ) are also having bad days: Shares of Abercrombie are down a crushing 18%, and Sears has lost 8.3%, after each company reported earnings this morning.
Abercrombie missed on both the top and bottom lines, which many blame on an inability to keep up with the changing tastes of young shoppers. The company had to deeply discount merchandise during the quarter, and it generated about half the profit it had forecast. Retailers that focus on a younger generation always need to stay on top of the latest trends, and one misstep can lead a company into big trouble, like we're seeing today.
Due to weak sales, deep discounts, and a lower number of stores, Sears posted a widening second-quarter loss. For the quarter the company lost $1.83 per share, compared with a loss of $1.25 per share last year, as revenue declined 6% from $9.47 billion to $8.87 billion. Things just keep getting worse and worse for Sears, and I have a hard time finding anything good about the company. Even as some value investors say there is money to be made from the property the company owns, I would argue that there's more money to be made by owning a better company with less risk involved.
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Try ditching the kiwi fruit and see what happens. Lots of people eat it, or take a kiwi extract to treat constipation as it has a laxative effect
Otherwise, if you're eating lots more veggies & fruit in general than you did previously, it may just take you a while to adjust.
Your gut probably won't have the flora it needs to digest the amounts of veggie matter you're eating now, so that could be it.
Former IBS suffer here too, over 2 years without serious issue now thanks to primal/paleo
A couple of minor upsets when I've decided to use my 20% to eat stuff I shouldn't, or someone's snuck garlic into my food (one of my worst triggers). But even the response to garlic is much less intense than it was a few years ago, now just a bit of bloating and some cramps at worst, whereas it used to cripple me.
My dad also suffered the same for decades. To the point where he was virtually living off of mushrooms on toast because anything else caused him problems. Now, after 8 months on primal (and probably only 75% at that) he's much improved and can eat a whole host of veggies that would have crippled him a year ago.
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BULGARIAN ballerina Polina Kadiyska had just finished dancing in a side job when she was struck down by a hit-and-run vehicle on South Broad Street earlier this week.
The 22-year-old, a student at the Rock School for Dance Education in South Philly, was elated that her performance at a bar had gone well, a friend said Wednesday.
So she called her boyfriend, Nick, to let him know while she waited in a Chinese takeout for food, said the friend, who did not want her name published.
After she left the restaurant, at Broad and Ellsworth streets, about 4 a.m. Sunday, a 1999 Audi A4 driven by Deandre Barnes, 19, blew through a red light and hit her, cops have said.


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The Challenge
The challenges around water access in Africa are not limited to actual access to water itself. In many cases the bigger challenge is making sure that water that people do have access to is safe for them to drink and won't cause any illnesses and deaths due to water borne diseases or contamination. The fact is when a child is thirsty and hungry they are going to drink the water they find or have access to. A further part of the challenge is the the long distances that typically women and children need to transport their water. As you know water is heavy and presents a daily challenge to move it to where it is needed for some urban, rural and remote communities.
Talking to the women in the community of Bergnek early last year they challenged us to find a way to make transporting water to their homes easier and to make sure the water was safe for their children to drink. We took this challenge seriously and sought the help of experts and people who knew more than we did to solve the challenges before us.
The Solution
We presented the challenge to a team at Arizona State University participating in the Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS) program to help us find a solution to the challenges put before us; transport and safety.
The SafeSIPP team responded with an innovative, highly efficient and cost effective solution that goes one step further, by creating employment opportunities around the manufacture of their product. They took an existing idea and decided to expand on it to meet the needs expressed by the women of Bergnek. Their solution can easily and almost effortlessly enable a person to safely transport 144 litres of water AND purify it while transporting it to their homes. When they place the container in an upright position the device also serves to dispense the water through a built in tap.
In October of this year we are planning to travel to Bergnek, Limpopo in rural South Africa to deliver the solution and with the help of the SafeSIPP team, to transfer the skills needed to manufacture the solution in the community for distribution to surrounding communities and perhaps even further afield in South Africa and surrounding countries.
What can your support through a donation do?
Here's how your donations can support the transfer of skills and the implementation of the project in Bergnek, Limpopo.
- $40 supllies 1(one) SafeSIPP Pureroll to the community - We need 100 to start
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- $200 supplies 5(five) SafeSIPP Purerolls to the community - We need 100 to start
- $250 - supports the training of the community members in manufacturing the Pureroll
- $500 - pays for lodging and food for a student to be in the community for 5 days - We have 5 students travelling this October
- $750 - supports the cost of transport for the 5 students within South Africa this October
- $1,500 - pays for the airfare for a student to travel to and from South Africa this October
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We have big goals for what we want to accomplish in 2012 – and we need your help to get there.
That's why I contribute a significant portion of my own top line income and resources to people in the communities of My Arms Wide Open, because I believe that I need to do my part in creating and enabling the change needed in our world.
Our work takes many forms – supporting women entrepreneurs and providing women with the opportunities to create the future they want for their children; transferring in the missing skills to create economic activity in communities; providing washable and reusable menstrual supplies for girls in struggling communities helping the girls to stay in school; building our vertical food garden walls to provide sustainable food sources in communities around the world without access to regular food supplies, arable land or consistent and readily available water resources; providing education to children and communities on growing their own food in healthy and sustainable ways; working with children, youth and woman in our Iziko Labahlali programs to believe that they matter, are worth it and can contribute to their families and communities in meaningful ways; providing innovative and creative education systems and support for community based schools.
But every project we undertake together stems from the heart and from the same belief – give of yourself, give people the skills, tools and opportunities they need to improve their lives, and they will be empowered to build a stronger tomorrow for themselves and their children.
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High school football season may not officially be here yet.
Unofficially, the sport got under way on Friday in the Santa Clarita Valley, with the Saugus "Under the Lights" Passing Tournament at Central Park in Saugus.
Players from Hart, Valencia, Saugus, Canyon and West Ranch competed in the two-day, 24-team tournament, which concludes at 5 p.m. tonight. The final game begins at 9 p.m.
"I liked the fact we were in the finals in the Crescenta Valley tournament last week," said West Ranch head coach Mike Kane, after the Wildcats lost three touchdowns to one to Thousand Oaks. "We needed to catch the ball better. We'll be more competitive."
The teams had 7-on-7 play on a 40-yard field.
Touchdowns counted for six points, interceptions were two points.
Quarterback Jake Bernards threw for one touchdown, and had a few accurate throws dropped here and there.
He is one of a few promising QBs. Valencia gunslinger Dominick Solley threw for five touchdowns, including two to receiver Richie Nyberg, in a 30-12 win over Agoura.
Valencia had tougher competition in Oaks Christian, who led two TDs to one early in the Vikings' second passing league contest. Solley threw for one touchdown.
Last year, Solley broke his finger in Valencia's first practice, when he was slated to start as a cornerback.
The host team, the Saugus Centurions, had an up-and-down tournament. Against speedy Muir High of Pasadena, Desi Rodriguez flinged long balls that sailed long and out of the hands of receivers.
Like most of the teams in the Foothill League, the spread is about 50-50 in regards to returning players versus new players.
Canyon also had some mixed results - a 35-6 blowout of Antelope Valley and a 35-22 loss to Long Beach Poly.
Cowboys senior receiver Chris Rivas performed well.
"It's a real good experience," Rivas said. "It's good to see where we're at, it's good competition."
Hart, which is trying to settle its quarterback situation between Spenser Souza and Ian Shols, showed arm strength with both players. The first play of both Hart and Chaminade were interceptions.


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Dwayne Allen is clearly entrenched in as my No. 2 tight end in the 2012 NFL draft behind Coby Fleener. Of course the issues in regards to Orson Charles helped the Clemson product out a great deal, but he does possess the talent to be a really good player at the next level.
This is a relatively weak draft class as it relates to the tight end position and is extremely top heavy. You are probably looking at a total of just four players here that have the capability of starting in the National Football League.
Dwayne Allen is one of them.
This article is going to focus on five strengths and weaknesses as they relate to Dwayne Allen and his possible success in the NFL.


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It's not 2011 anymore for Paul VI.
The Eagles have matched last season's win total after just two weeks, outscoring opponents by 79-12 and establishing themselves as dark-horse contenders in the loaded West Jersey Football League's Constitution Division.
"I wouldn't say last year was a wake-up call, but it was a tough situation," said Paul VI coach John Doherty, whose team had gone 32-9 from 2007 to '10. "Our young guys saw what it was like. There was a lot of negativity.
"Our guys bonded in the offseason, worked hard, and vowed to do their best not to let it happen again."


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Zombie author starts young
At 18, D.J. Kowalenko has put pen to paper and written about what he knows best — zombies and adventure.
"I just like writing books," said Kowalenko, who lives in Delburne.
"I play a lot of action/adventure games and watch zombie movies and kind of just wrote it out."
Kowalenko authored the novel, Drake Halberd and the Veil of the Dead, a story about a treasure hunter trying to stay alive while getting to the bottom of a zombie uprising conspiracy.
The young author got help from a couple of editors and worked through the novel with them.
"I would spend an hour or two writing at one time," said Kowalenko.
"It depends on how much of a writing mode I was in right then."
The book was released in September and he said sales have been steady and the feedback positive.
"A lot of people have really liked it, from what I've heard," said Kowalenko. "They want a sequel, that's for sure."
He already has a story in mind for a sequel and is planning to continue writing about the lead character, Drake Halberd. Future storylines could include aliens, world-devouring mystical beings, mercenaries and soldiers.
Kowalenko said his favourite part of the book was the humour he managed to work into the zombie uprising story.
"I tried to use some of my own kind of humour in it and maybe some people will laugh at it," said Kowalenko.
Although he managed to get his first book published at 18, being an author is something Kowalenko would like to make a career out of.
"I'm all in."
He has already had one book signing at the Delburne library and has another planned for Jan. 19 from noon to 4 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library's Waskasoo Room, at 4818 49th Ave.
The novel is available in both book ($8.95) and ebook ($3.99) form through the website www.drakehalberd.com.
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Blue Brothers 2000
Any film that inspired Dan Aykroyd to lose weight is okay with me. I mean, we're talking about a guy who was getting so fat that people were starting to wonder not whether he was still married to Donna Dixon, but whether he had eaten her.
Otherwise, "Blues Brothers 2000" plays like a movie inspired by an album. How would you approach the film version of "Led Zeppelin II" for instance? Well, you'd probably think up any dumb-ass excuse you could to get your characters from one situation to another so they could sing each song on the album. If I had wanted to watch two hours of "VH-1," guess what? I would have stayed home and done that. For free.
What microscopic story there is revolves around Elwood Blues (Aykroyd) trying to get the Blues Brothers back together 18 years after the original band disbanded and Elwood got sent to jail. He gets out and finds out John Belushi is dead (don't they have newspapers in prison?). Undaunted, Elwood digs up a John Belushi replacement (John Goodman), a Cab Calloway replacement (Joe Morton) and an annoying little kid named Buster (J. Evan Bonifant) to run around with him and sing gratingly bad songs.
Just about everybody from the original movie reappears, looking about 18 years older, more tired, and more concerned with their prostate problems than playing in a rock and roll band. Frankly, I would have preferred "Blues Brothers 2001" -- we could have shot the band into space and watch them twirl around to the tune of "Blue Danube."
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The NFL is turning to Congress to help pass human growth hormone testing.
According to an email acquired by the Associated Press, the NFL is lobbying Republican House members who are physicians to push the players union into agreeing to a provision in the latest collective bargaining agreement that would allow HGH testing.
Georgia Rep. Phil Gingrey, co-chairman of the doctors' caucus, and Tennessee Rep. Phil Roe, caucus vice chair, authorized the letter to the 21 members of the "GOP Doc Caucus".
The most recent CBA has a provision that would begin HGH testing. However, the players union has asked for more data to prove the tests are reliable.


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From Pajamas Media, Helen Smith brings us an example of a man who was raped by a woman:
On a Friday night in 1990, after hanging out with a friend for several hours at a club — said friend disappeared for the night and left his female friend (stranger to me) without a ride and about 35 miles from home. I was plastered, and not going to drive as the club was next to a motel. She asked for a ride and I offered to drive her home in the morning as she was about 6 months pregnant, but I was going to have to get a motel room for the evening as I was drunk and not driving in such a state. We decided to split the cost of the room and both agreed that sleeping was all that was going to take place. She was pregnant and also not my type in the slightest. At the time, I thought I was in love with a woman attending a local college. I seem to recall we even had separate beds.
I woke up about 2 hours later — still destroyed by the alcohol — to find my clothes removed from the waist down and the girl on top of me wailing like a banshee and quite roughly enjoying herself. She had apparently brought me to erection — not hard as I'm one of those men who can hold one for hours, awake or asleep, sober or drunk. She told me everything was okay and to go back to sleep and despite my best effort to the contrary, I was unable to move or speak coherently in my still very inebriated and half-conscious state and did fall asleep again quickly.
After most of my drunken stupor wore off around 7 am or so, I awoke again to find her on top of me — this time with a more menacing attitude as she knew I was in a better position to respond physically this time. I had began to wiggle out from under her (taking care not to hurt her baby) when she sternly warned me to "be quiet" and "not be forceful" and made it clear that she would cry rape if I tried to stop it. I was stunned to say the least and not sure how to respond. I could easily have thrown her across the room and off of me, but was concerned for her child and took her threat very, very seriously. She said it so easily that I doubt I was her first.
I weighed my options for a moment and came to the conclusion that a sober, 6 or 7-month pregnant college student of 24 was far more likely to be believed by the authorities than a drunk 19-year old Marine in the best shape of his life. I frequented that club a lot and I'm sure several people saw me leave with her. I was pretty much f*cked — in more than one way — at that point.
I complied by lying still while she continued to warn and threaten me and she eventually orgasmed again and got off me. I don't know how long the second rape transpired as I tried to disconnect my mind from that scene. Further, I have no idea how many times she had actually raped me that night (at least twice), but I was extremely sore for a few days. As a small favor, she turned out to be disease free.
This seems to me like a fairly clear cut case of rape: the victim did not have the power to consent, first because he was drunk and passed out, and therefore physically unable to say "yes," then the second time under the duress of psychological coercion. Pretty distressing to read, as are all first-hand accounts of rape.
Even more disturbing to me, though, were some of the comments that followed:
Zero sympathy, Blunderbrain. Get plastered, then get a hotel room with a total stranger, and later you're 'raped'.
Stupid people deserve the pain they afflict upon themselves.
First of all, the scare quotes around raped indicate that the writer doesn't believe the situation was rape – but under a simple definition were rape is sex without consent, it sure as hell was. Then there's the idea that springs up when dealing with women that being stupid means you deserve what you get. It may be a dumb idea for me to walk home alone in the dark, but that doesn't mean I deserve for someone to attack me. The same is true here.
That being said, get over it already. It's been 17 years and you did nothing at the time. You're a man an should not react as women do – crying and feeeeling so bad, that's the women's domain. You could have pressed charges long time ago, now all you can, and should, do is to get over it.
This is where feminists have it right: strict gender roles hurt men too. Crying and feeling bad are not traits unique to women; where did we get this idea that men who experience the full range of human emotion are acting like women? More of the same from another commenter named 360Annie:
I'm sorry Helen, but this is silly. Men ARE supposed to be different than women. I don't want to see men crying and sharing their feelings….I hate the whole metrosexual thing, it's part of what is wrong with the whole landscape…we need men to be men…
Tell you what Annie – I'll let you date the androids, and you can leave the men who share their feelings to girls like me who prefer our boyfriends and husbands to be human.
Does anyone really believe this. There is zero chance this happened. Only a fool would believe this. The only way a woman can rape a man is if she straps one on and ties him up.
And here, rape is equated only with penetration and physical restraint. Which is ridiculous, because it isn't the sex act performed which determines whether it is rape – it's the lack of consent. We also see a lot more of this idea that coercion must be physical:
Rape must surely include physical force or threat of physical force. That is why women raping men is virtually a non-issue – most men, including this one, are stronger than most women.
Isn't the threat that you could be sent to jail (because I have to agree with the victim about the likelihood that a jury would buy his story), and have your career and life essentially ruined enough? Isn't that also force?
Luckily for my faith in humanity, later comments sided with the victim here as well.
Not even the most ardent feminists will argue that there aren't physical differences between men and women. But those differences don't mean that men can't also be victims.


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GREENWICH TWP. — A 28-year-old Oak Street man and his mother were arrested Jan. 28 when police were called to an apartment for a fight, assault and someone with a knife.
It was 10:25 p.m. when Linda Allen, 49, told officers her son, Brian, had hit her in the head with an unknown object, police said.
Brian Allen was found in a downstairs apartment, where he allegedly pointed two large knives at officers and declared he was not going back to jail, said police.
Brian Allen was taken into custody after a brief standoff and was charged with possession of a weapon, resisting arrest, obstruction of justice, disorderly conduct and several outstanding warrants and was lodged in the Gloucester County Jail in default of $30,000 full-cash bail, police said.
His mother, Linda Allen, was charged with simple assault, obstruction of justice and unnecessary disturbance. She was served with a complaint summons and released.


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Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese democracy leader, spoke of a new democratic era in her country's history as her party declared victory in every one of the seats it contested in yesterday's by-elections.
She warned her supporters in the National League for Democracy to "respect the feelings" of their defeated pro-government opponents after claiming victory in 44 seats in the Burmese parliament, including the constituency of Kawhmu where Ms Suu Kyi herself was standing.
"It is not so much our triumph as a triumph of the people, who have decided that they must be involved in the political process


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is director and president of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, where he explores topics related to taste, olfaction, and chemesthesis
'Hey, Mom, pass the brussels sprouts, please."
What parent wouldn't like to hear that? Yet no matter how many times children - or adults - are told we need to consume more healthy foods and avoid foods high in sugar, salt, and fat, we show no inclination to change our behavior. Why?
Scientists believe that the main reason rests on the biological imperatives that underlie human food likes and dislikes. We evolved in an environment where the primary challenge was to obtain enough sweet, salty, and fatty nutrients to grow, survive, and reproduce. It was even more important to avoid the potentially deadly bitter poisonous compounds abundantly found in plants. As a result, humans - especially young ones - are predisposed to choose exactly those foods that nutritionists label "bad" and to avoid those that are "good."


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Leader of Oxford University to visit Upstate Jan. 4, 5
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Andrew D. Hamilton, Ph.D., who as vice chancellor serves as senior officer of the University of Oxford, located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, will visit the Upstate Medical University campus Jan. 4 and 5 to meet with cancer researchers, tour the Cancer Research Institute and deliver two public lectures.
Hamilton, will be the keynote presenter at the President's Forum on International Cancer Research Collaboration, to be held Tuesday, Jan. 4, at 3 p.m. in Medical Alumni Auditorium, Weiskotten Hall, 766 Irving Ave., Syracuse.
Hamilton's address, "A World of Impact: International Dimensions of University of Oxford's Biomedical Research," will examine Oxford's robust biomedical research agenda that includes the work of its own Institute of Cancer Research, which is currently conducting large prospective studies of smoking, drinking, diet, obesity, hormone replacement therapy and other avoidable causes of cancer.
Hamilton and Upstate officials also are expected to speak about potential collaborations in cancer research between Upstate and Oxford.
"Dr. Andrew Hamilton is a visionary and wise leader with a distinguished career in teaching and research," said David R. Smith, M.D., president of Upstate Medical University.
"Upstate is pleased to welcome him to campus and to gain his singular perspective on biomedical research, especially cancer research, and our anticipation of a robust collaboration with Oxford."
On Jan. 5, Hamilton will deliver the inaugural Baldwin Lecture in Cancer Research, named for breast cancer survivor and advocate Carol Baldwin.
Hamilton will present "Synthetic Approaches to Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions Involved in Oncogenisis at noon in the Medical Alumni Auditorium of Weiskotten Hall.
The Baldwin lecture is sponsored jointly by the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Foundation and the Upstate Cancer Research Institute.
In addition to his presentations, Hamilton will meet with Upstate cancer researchers and tour the Cancer Research Institute.
Hamilton serves as scientific advisor to the Upstate Cancer Research Institute.
Ziwei Huang, Ph.D., professor and chair of the pharmacology department and director of the Upstate Cancer Research Institute, said Dr. Hamilton's visit to campus helps highlight Upstate's cancer research agenda.
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