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For a look back at match highlights and some thoughts about the Portland Timbers match versus the Houston Dynamo, you can view the first part of our match recap. You can also take a peek at the MLS official recap, official match stats, quotes and notes, video highlights, complete match commentary, post-match video comments from Timbers Coach Caleb Porter plus the MLS chalkboard that measures statistics like passing rate, tackles, and headers. Here are the ratings for each Timbers player that appeared in the match, plus overall ratings for the coaching staff and team on a scale from 1 (poor) to 10 (epic).
G Donovan Ricketts (90 minutes): 6. I have watched the match a few times and the highlights, and I can't fault Donovan too much for anything within his play. Distribution wise, he was solid albeit a bit rushed at times to try and make quick outlets, and he was able to distribute the ball throughout the pitch. I can't fault him on the goal, nor on the odd play on the back pass from Kah that produced the indirect free kick because the pass inadvertently struck Ricketts in the hand. He's playing reasonably well and making the saves and blocks we need him to, which hopefully will jump start other facets of the team.
D Michael Harrington (90 minutes): 6. Michael wasn't nearly as busy defensively as the Dynamo turned their focus to attacking the Timbers on the opposite side. When they did try, it was usually accompanied by a crossing pass to the other flank to redirect the attack. Offensively, Michael was able to help in some aspects of the attack, but I do feel some of Houston's offensive movement at points was attributed to a lack of communication throughout the defensive and defensive midfielders.
D Pa Modou Kah (90 minutes): 5. I can sympathize with Kah because nobody likes to be the guy caught ball watching instead of marking your man, and I've had this come up a few times in my soccer career. With everything moving about in a flurry of activity, you are trying to center attention to the ball without realizing that a player has moved to another area likely without any attention, and if you aren't careful, it will cost your side. While Kah had a few good moments of tackling and was a hub of the possession the team enjoyed, his play was marked by other inconsistencies that I hope will go away.
D Futty Danso (90 minutes): 6. Of the center back duo, the birthday boy seemed to hold up better if simply that he avoided making some of the mistakes that plagued others. On the Houston goal, he tried his best to mix it up with Giles Barnes and Will Bruin, but marking two players in that instance would be difficult for any player. Overall, Futty didn't seem overwhelmed at certain points and kept his head about him to make some great individual tackles and interceptions, but it did appear there were some times where he and Kah weren't on the same page either.
D Jack Jewsbury (90 minutes): 5. Despite the near constant attention the Houston offense was giving him by sending attacks his way, I didn't think Jack played all that badly. That being said, there were points where his lack of speed hurt the side while the disorganization also left Jack on an island – when Corey Ashe broke out with the ball to drive, Jewsbury had to decide to either take the space with Ashe or drop back and try and cover Brad Davis. Jack chose to try and attack the ball, but the pass went to space for Davis and the rest is an easy goal for Houston.
M Will Johnson (90 minutes): 6. I have been hoping for a more settled, measured but fiery effort from the captain, but the effort against the Dynamo was a bit mellow for my taste. While he did mix it up occasionally on defense and had some great tracking runs back to help, he missed a few assignments which put the defense into recovery mode. The one shot I did see him take was another rushed long distance effort that gave slight pause for Dynamo goalkeeper Tally Hall, but I'm hoping we see a more dialed in captain soon as it would really help the Timbers out immensely.
M Diego Chara (90 minutes): 7. I get exhausted watching Chara run from box to box, but that is what he does each and every match as the central "enforcer" and turnover machine in the middle. Houston was another example of a match where he was everywhere, including involving himself in several offensive runs that produced good shots in the Timbers' offensive flourish in the first half. Ok, it wasn't a true flourish, but compared with what was produced in the second half, it was epic orchestral movement.
M Diego Valeri (69 minutes, substituted by F Maximiliano Urruti in 69th minute for tactics): 6. Diego attempted to be the creative force the Timbers needed, and there were moments where he was able to break free with one of the best shot attempts in the first half. Valeri had some bright moments as well triggering the set pieces, but like most of his teammates, he struggled after the halftime break and was eventually replaced in the lineup. I'm not sure if the move was fitness related or otherwise, but the Timbers really need a full creative 90 from their expert playmaker.
M Steve Zakuani (3 minutes, brought on for F Darlington Nagbe in 87th minute): 5. It's hard to do much in a short appearance on the pitch, but I'm encouraged that Zakuani was able to train and be available for inclusion in the lineup. When healthy, he's one of the fastest players in MLS and can be very difficult to defend if he's on his game. However, he's been unable to really keep his fitness up enough to contribute regularly.
F Gaston Fernandez (90 minutes): 7. What you saw from Gaston with his first half goal is exactly what type of player he is – he can often create something out of nothing. In the 33rd minute, Gaston was in the right place at the correct moment when Kalif Alhassan dropped a pass intended for Darlington Nagbe and the pass flew behind him in open space. Before a Houston player could collect the loose ball, Fernandez pounced and launched a shot before anyone could react. It was pretty impressive, but it's unfortunate the Timbers didn't have more of this.
F Maximiliano Urruti (21 minutes, brought on for M Diego Valeri in 69th minute): 5. Urruti came on to replace Diego Valeri and was hoping to make a difference up top with his speed and pressure, but in his 20 minutes of play, he was fairly non-descript. Granted, the Timbers offense was having issues trying to find ways to break Houston down at that point, but Urruti just wasn't able to do much to influence the match as a substitute.
F Darlington Nagbe (87 minutes, substituted by M Steve Zakuani in 87th minute for injury): 6. In one minute, I was really excited to watch Nagbe chase down a loose pass and shoulder an opposing player clear because he was just a step late to break onto goal. With all the fouling going on, I was happy to see Darlington mix it up a bit, but after the bump to keep the ball, he slumped to the turf with a slight knock. Hopefully this won't keep him out of any matches in the future.
F Kalif Alhassan (76 minutes, substituted by F Michael Nanchoff in 76th minute for tactics): 5.5. While he was mostly average on the night, I was impressed with a slide tackle that he executed in the second half where he took the ball away from behind in the box. While the play ended up being well executed and didn't cause an issue, doing things like slide tackling in the box can be a recipe for disaster. In this case, Kalif pulled it off expertly and confidently.
F Michael Nanchoff (14 minutes, brought on for F Kalif Alhassan in 76th minute): 5. The man who is fast becoming the Timbers' super substitute made another late appearance, and I was hoping for some of the decisive moves and confident shooting we have seen from him. While he did have a few interesting passes to try and break things open, he was mired in some of the offensive slump that plagued the Timbers in the second half.
Timbers Coaching Staff: 6. After his work in the last match, I wasn't surprised the Timbers coaches gave Gaston Fernandez the start to see what he could do. Within the first 45 minutes, the Timbers notched a goal and produced a great advantage in possession despite really not generated many dangerous chances, but they fell apart in a second half where they just couldn't get everyone on the same page. Porter did try and employ some options in the second half, but it just wasn't enough to earn more than the draw.
Overall grade for the Timbers: 6. Part of me is impressed that the Timbers finally earned a road point and they employed a huge advantage in possession, showing they can indeed hold the ball. However, the possession stat doesn't mean much when the team really failed to be dangerous for much of the match. The one goal they generated was off a broken play that they took advantage of, and that sometimes is enough to jump start a struggling side. It wasn't enough here for Portland, and now they face an improved D.C. United, a powerful Los Angeles Galaxy and a resilient Columbus side to try and get the first victory.
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Is there any other haunt tours with this one?
I have fixed my private messages so I can recieve them.
You may also try a haunted house search engine such as Hauntworld and Hauntedhouses.com
Their is a few haunted houses around Little Rock. But these are the only 2 i know of in Arkansas.
Why get mad over this video. You can open a catalog you have and see the same things you will see in this video. Its graphic but some catalog's i have gotten over the years are graphic to.
I'm also looking forward to seeing the Darkness as well.
that looks very cool.
Drinking a few beers. What a weekend! lol
Yes. I agree I need some kind of diploma. I keep putting it off though. Where I went to school in Arkansas the teachers only went up to the 8th grade. I do have a banjo and grandpappy taught me how...
You miss spelled legible. L-e-g-i-b-l-e. Not legable. Dont worry about it though. I had to actually look it up in a dictionary to find out. Did we go to the same school perhaps. But you did go to the...
Well I understood G.E.D and A.D.D.. But what is N.B.A. Basketball? And it's easier to actually understand me when I've been drinking my corn whiskey or moonshine. Just whatever we have in the stail...
To many more years of scaring the hell out of people. And U.F.O abductions!
Somebody give this guy crap about his spelling. He is no better.
It is ed-jew-macation. But i would spell that wrong too. we did have a cement pond at one time. And anytime I go to a swimming pool I call it a cement pond. We were not shooting and some feed and...
it was a 6th grade education. then we loaded up the truck and moved to beverly hills. lol
I know. Arkanas actually only go's to the 4th grade. That's why I can not read, write, spell or do math.
Is there a tour with the lights on and a tour with the live actors? Is the first night light on with behind the seens and the second night with live actors? OR vica/versa?
But I honestly think they were from Autograph Foilage. Either way they look pretty cool.
I have seen these vines with my own eyes. They are not waterhoses and pool noodles are to big around. They buy them from a company. They more then likely buy it from Autograph Foilage. Enough said....
If you click on p.m's on the right hand of your screen. There will be optins on the left hand side of the screen after you click on private messages. Click on edit email and esit password and you can...
I have sent a P.M. requesting that my acoount be deleted. I have also posted on your profile with this request. Please delete my account. Sorry I had to post this on this thread and it is nothing...
This is hopefully over with. And I am going to ask to be deleted from HauntWorld.
How is Kelly doing. Just wondering. Kelly i hope you get to feeling better man.
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Howard Stern Mourns His Beloved Bulldog: A Fan's PerspectiveSerge Bielanko
As a radio king, movie star, best-selling author, and television personality, Howard Stern has weathered a lot of storms in his day, but the passing of his beloved 10-year-old bulldog, Bianca, is probably one of the toughest.
Yesterday afternoon, Stern's wife, Beth Ostrosky-Stern , broke the news to her Twitter followers that their dog had passed a short time ago with a heartbreaking post, "we lost our precious bianca today. my sweet little girl, may you rest in peace. i love you forever."
Word spread pretty fast, of course, and before long, Stern's legion of fans were expressing their shock along with their condolences.
Stern, you see, isn't someone people take lightly.
Over a wildly successful career that has seen him go from local disc jockey to one of the most powerful icons of American radio, Howard Stern has amassed a following, me among them, of hard-core dedicated fans who know that his brilliant wit and intelligence far eclipse the school-boy prankster-isms that most non-listeners associate him with. And for the last decade, since he began dating Ostrosky ( a noted animal advocate who campaigns regularly for a multitude of animal shelters and groups), Stern's outspoken love and affection for his bulldog, along with his fascination for her, was a regular topic of conversation on his daily radio show.
This morning, after judging America's Got Talent on live prime-time TV last night just hours after hearing of Bianca's passing, Stern once again proved to be one of the hardest-working people in show biz when he hit the air for his Sirius satellite radio show. His voice as somber as I have ever heard it, he paused quite a few times as he reflected on Bianca's life and how much she had meant to he and his wife. At times, it was evident that Stern's long-time co-host/sidekick, Robin Quivers, had to pick up the rare slack when Howard was overcome with emotion.
I'm telling you all this from my personal point of view today for one reason, really.
I am what you might call a Super Fan of Howard Stern and his career.
From the time I was 16 until now, no movie/no band/no book/no anything that American pop culture has ever produced has brought me even half as much joy and laughter and thought-provoking insight; nothing has ever made me cringe one second and have to pull my car over to the side of the road in utter hysterics the next minute; no other person who I have never met/ probably never will meet has ever made me realize that life is something to be laughed at in order to live it as best as we can.
Howard Stern is one of my all-time heroes and his long-time radio presence in my life has had a huge influence on who I am today.
And last night, as my wife, Monica (another Super Fan, I'm proud to say) and I heard the news of Bianca's death, as we sat on the couch drinking a couple of cold beers and talked about how much we knew he really really loved that dog, in the same way we love our two hairy dorks, I felt real and genuine grief for the man and his family.
I felt the kind of sadness you usually feel when something cuts much closer to the bone, closer to home.
So, I wanted to write this. And so I did.
Howard Stern Tweeted out to his legion of fans yesterday evening.
'Tough day today my friends. Thanks to all for all the kind messages," he wrote.
Then he added," Give your dog a hug for me tonight."
So, I did that too.
Rest easy, Bianca.
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Almost 59 per cent of the respondents said they were satisfied with the government's performance "rather much or much", compared to 9.4 per cent who were "very much" satisfied, the survey by Assumption University's Abac Poll found.
The government rated an average 6.5 out of a best score of 10 by respondents.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was the Cabinet member respondents were most satisfied with, notching up 70 per cent of votes.
He was followed by Tourism and Sports Minister Chumpol Silapa-archa (56.3 per cent), Education Minister Jurin Laksanawisit (55.9), Science Minister Kalaya Sophonpanich (51.7), Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai (50.4), and Natural Resources and Environment Minister Suwit Khunkitti (50.3).
Other Cabinet members who polled acceptably were Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij, who got 48.9 per cent, Interior Minister Chaovarat Chanweerakul (48.2), Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban (46.5), and Deputy Commerce Minister Alongkorn Pollabutr (45.6).
The survey also found that a large percentage of respondents, ranging from 39 to 44 per cent, said they were unaware certain politicians were in the Cabinet. The 10 "least known" ministers are from all coalition parties, and included Democrat Culture Minister Teera Slukpetch.
The survey was conducted with 1,351 households on Wednesday in 17 provinces in all four regions, including Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Khon Kaen and Surat Thani.
Prime Minister Abhisit said his Cabinet still had room to improve. As for the finding that many ministers were little known by the people surveyed, he said he would soon encourage ministers to prioritise their work and expedite the government's main policies.
Abac Poll chief Noppadon Kannikar said the results showed the need for the government to expedite their work. He noted that while the PM got a high approval rating, only he and five other Cabinet members obtained support of more than 50 per cent.
He said that it appeared the respondents were aware the government was running the country during a difficult time, which explained why they gave the administration a score higher than 5. However, he warned that corruption problems could reduce the government's time in office.


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Pierre Karl Peladeau is at the national assembly in a wheelchair today, a week after suffering multiple fractures in a cycling accident.
Peladeau told a news conference in Quebec City he is looking forward to representing the residents of his Saint-Jerome riding north of Montreal.
He is expected to be in a wheelchair for about three months after the May 18 accident.
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Love the print on this! Looks like the perfect summer skirt to me.
Thanks! I was happy to have found it on clearance...and that there was enough left for this skirt!
What a great summer skirt. I love to wear skirts in the spring and summer. This is a cute fabric and it turned out really well - fits you nicely.
Thanks so much! I'm a skirt person too--being a cyclist/runner my body proportions are completely off for pants/shorts that fit well, skirts are so much easier (and cooler!).
Great job! You inspired me to look into that class too.
Thanks! It's a good one, I've gotten a lot out of it!
Hi! I also fell in love with this model. Just out of curiosity: did you make a toile for this skirt, too or did you use the size that would fit you best? I think you did a really fine job!
I guess this kind of WAS my toile! It was fabric on clearance at the fabric store and was less expensive than the muslin, so I decided to use it. I actually had to size down a little bit, as my measurements are all a couple of inches smaller than the sizes indicated, but the fit of the skirt is incredibly forgiving which helps a LOT with fit!


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Andrea has inspired me to embrace what she calls the "unmade bed". Love that girl...who knew NOT making the bed could look so fantastic! She has made my day one step easier...haha!
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I owe Christina Strutt, Lily & Suzie a huge THANK YOU for this opportunity! And Andrea too, for taking my 924 phone calls and helping me decide how to best use all this gorgeous fabric!
I think I just may go lay down in my guest room today...with my pjs still on and with a big stack of magazines. Just relax and soak in the beauty of the room. Sounds like a perfect day to me!
Oh, and be sure to go over and visit Andrea at Faded Plains, too! She did something incredible in her foyer using Cabbages & Roses fabric as wallpaper!
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By now, Juan Castillo should have been back on the field, shouting instructions, teaching rookies, and noting how much progress his second-year players have made after their first seasons.
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Are you a Royalist at all? Would you prefer a presidential system?
I'm in favour of retaining the monarchy - just shut down the house of lords and make the monarch like, say, queen beatrice of the netherlands.
ie wheel her out to smile for big occasions and slash the budgets.
Let's cut out all that 'Her Majesty has kindly agreed to the dissolution of parliament' crap.
Billions of pounds and thousands of hours are wasted on just being 'quaint'.
As for how to reform parliament - honestly haven't a clue. It's certainly not to be done by voting for any of those three till dippers.
I think that might be a decent start.
But tourists are money.
Imagine having someone like GWB as chief representative of your country overseas?
Worse than insufferable.
Are you voting SNP? I reckon I'd go with them if I was a scot.
can any of you fellas explain to an uneducated chap what difference that would've made...or would in the future? ta.
A president has much more individual power than a prime minister. A good example of a big difference in the recent past, would be the Iraq war fiasco. Blair would've just gone ahead and invaded Iraq... oh wait.
By midweek we should get a better ideas if this sudden support for the LD's seems to be holding.so with the Lib Dem breakthrough dominating the media and the election narrative. Its quite hard to guess what is going to happen next on one hand the Lib Dems are likely to face a concerted attack from the other parties and hostile newspapers, on the other hand if they stay at this level there will be a snowballing effect of them being seen to be on a roll, the Lib Dems normal weaknesses of being seen as a wasted vote will be whittled away, and if the two main parties start focusing their fire upon the Lib Dems it may well backfire by making them seem negative and the Lib Dems as the real challenger.
I guess we can't overestimate the bad mood of the electorate at this point in time.
LD's should be taking serious fire in the days to come.
I think this is the main argument he has to run with.David Cameron goes on the offensive against the surge in Lib Dem popularity by warning in the Guardian that a vote for Nick Clegg risks the country being "stuck" with Gordon Brown in No 10.
Don't get down in the mud with pigs. You just get dirty and the pig likes it.
I'm guessing they already have the dirt on Clegg but we won't see it until such time as the LD's won't have time to recover.
Maybe not Clegg himself, but certainly one of the LD luminaries.
no politican can afford to be seen as mean right now...they know it'll turn people off. they have so much work to do to try and get back people's trust and goodwill that they know they can't appear angry and spiteful.


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Volume 91, Issue 9, 01 November 1989
Infrared spectroscopy of carbo‐ions. V. Classical vs nonclassical structure of protonated acetylene C2H+ 391(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457612View Description Hide Description
The problem of classical vs nonclassical structure of protonated acetylene (vinyl cation) C2H+ 3 has been studied using high resolution infrared spectroscopy. The spectrum has been observed in the 3.2 μm region in air‐cooled and water‐cooled plasmas using C2H2:H2:He mixtures and in liquid nitrogen‐cooled plasmas using CH4:H2:He mixtures. The difference frequency spectrometer with the velocity modulation method has been used to conduct the Doppler‐limited, high sensitivity spectroscopy.
The observed vibration–rotation pattern with the band origin at 3142.2 cm− 1 has been identified as due to the antisymmetric CH stretching ν6 band of the C2H+ 3 ion with the nonclassical (bridged) structure. The observed spectral pattern was anomalous, but definitive assignments could be made for a part of the spectrum using the ground state combination differences which fit to the usual asymmetric rotor pattern. The discrimination between the classical and nonclassical structures is based on the observed spectral intensity pattern due to spin statistical weights. Agreement of vibrational band patterns and the rotational constants with ab initio values gives supporting evidence. The anomaly of the spectrum is at least partly ascribed to the small energy difference between the classical and nonclassical structures and possible rearrangement between them, the idea used by organic chemists over the years in wet chemistry. Systematic splittings with the intensity ratio of 2:1 have been noticed in some parts of the spectrum indicating that the protons tunnel between the apex and the two end equilibrium positions of the bridged structure. Using a simplified internal rotation model proposed by Hougen, the barrier height of the tunneling has been estimated. Chemical kinetics in plasmas related to C2H+ 3 is also discussed.
We conclude that (1) the nonclassical structure is lower in energy than the classical structure, and (2) the apex proton and the two end protons exchange their positions with a measurable time scale.
An a b i n i t i o semirigid bender calculation of the rotation and t r a n s‐tunneling spectra of (HF)2 and (DF)291(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457613View Description Hide Description
Using a purely a b i n i t i o minimum energy path for the t r a n s‐tunneling motion in the HF dimer, the energy levels for the K‐type rotation and t r a n s‐tunneling motion for (HF)2 and (DF)2 are calculated with a one‐dimensional semirigid bender Hamiltonian and no adjustable parameters. The transition moments for rotation‐tunneling transitions are calculated, using our a b i n i t i o value for the dipole moment of an isolated HF molecule, and we also calculate B̄ values. The energy levels we obtain are in close agreement with experiment; for example, the K=0 tunneling splitting in (HF)2 is calculated as 0.65 cm− 1 compared to the experimental value of 0.658 69 cm− 1. As well as showing that our a b i n i t i o minimum energy path is very good, the calculation demonstrates that the semirigid bender formalism is able to account quantitatively for the unusual Kdependence of the rotational energies resulting from the quasilinear behavior, and that the t r a n s‐tunneling motion is separable from the other degrees of freedom. We use the results to predict the locations, and transition moments, of the ΔK=0 and ±1 subbands in the tunneling spectra of (HF)2 and (DF)2, many of which have not yet been observed.
A new determination of the dissociation energy of acetylene91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457614View Description Hide Description
A new u p p e r b o u n d for the dissociation energy of acetylene, D 0 0(HCC–H) =529.89(±0.01) kJ/mol, has been determined by Stark anticrossing spectroscopy. The zero‐pressure extrapolated (unimolecular) decay rates of levels of S 1 (Ã 1 A u ) v ' 3=2 and 3 (quanta of the t r a n s‐bending vibration) i n c r e a s e upon application of an electric field of 113 kV/cm. We attribute this increase in molecular decay rate to p r e d i s s o c i a t i o n rather than any other Stark‐induced nonradiative or radiative phenomenon. The lowest level (v ' 3 =2, J'=2, K'=1) from which we have observed an increase in decay rate (i.e., predissociation) has an internal energy of 44 295.65 cm−1 relative to v=0, J=0 of S 0 (X̃ 1∑+ g ). This corresponds to a value about 24 kJ/mol lower then the consensus u p p e r b o u n d result from four different recent experimental determinations (including one of ours) as well as current a b i n i t i o results. The new value agrees, however, with earlier work and with recent modeling studies of acetylene pyrolysis kinetics.
Phonon wings in inelastic neutron scattering spectroscopy: The harmonic approximation91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457615View Description Hide Description
The inelastic neutron scattering (INS) spectra of some ammonium halides and ammonium nitrate are analyzed in terms of the internal vibrations of the NH+ 4 ion convoluted with multiphonon lattice modes up to the eighth term. Due to the low mass of this ion, most of the intensity of the internal‐mode region of the INS spectra is in the ''phonon wings,'' differences between the salts in this spectral region being mainly due to differences in their lattice‐mode spectra. Refinement of the lattice Debye–Waller factor is included in the profile refinement of interatomic force constants.
Density effects on high‐n molecular Rydberg states: CH3I and C6H6 in H2 and Ar91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457616View Description Hide Description
The absorption spectra of high‐nRydberg states of methyl iodide and benzene perturbed by varying number densities of hydrogen or argon, range 0.9×102 0–10.5×102 0 cm− 3 for H2 and 0.6×102 0–7.5×102 0 cm− 3 for Ar, have been investigated. The high‐n molecular states of both absorbers were found to shift linearly with the number density of atomic Ar and molecular H2scatterers. The Fermi formula modified by the Alekseev–Sobel'man polarization term provides an excellent fit of the shift data. The electron scattering lengths obtained are: 0.93 a 0 for H2 and −1.63 a 0 for Ar using the CH3I absorber; and 0.99 a 0 for H2 and −1.57 a 0 for Ar using the C6H6 absorber. The electron scattering lengths for H2 and Ar agree with the results of an empirical model that correlates scattering lengths and the polarizabilities α(spherical) for inert atoms and α2(nonspherical) for H2 molecule.
Theory of transient hole‐burning spectrum for molecules in solution91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457617View Description Hide Description
Theory based on a configuration coordinate model is presented to clarify solute–solvent relaxation effect on the line shape of a time‐resolved hole‐burning spectrum. The time‐resolved hole‐burning spectrum is affected by both a hole created in a ground‐state population and an excess excited‐state population. The solute–solvent relaxation causes thermalization in both populations and then the shift and broadening of the spectrum is expected observable. The line shapes of three typical cases are mainly considered: (1) The excited state is assumed to have an infinitely long lifetime; (2) the excited state has a finite lifetime, the population being assumed to relax toward an electronic state other than the ground state, and (3) the population created in the excited state relaxes to the ground state, where a hole‐filling effect is taken into account. Results obtained by numerical calculations show that a time evolution of the ground‐state hole is clearly observed when the low‐energy tail of the absorption band is excited under the condition that the population decay to the other electronic state is very fast. Further, it is predicted that the hole‐filling effect causes a considerable deformation of the spectral shape when the solvent relaxation rate is comparable to the excited‐state population decay rate.
Multiphoton ionization of O2 X 3Σ− g , a 1Δ g , and b 1Σ+ g via the two‐photon resonant n sσ g , n dσ g , and n dπ g Rydberg levels91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457589View Description Hide Description
Multiphoton ionization spectra have been obtained and analyzed for excitation in the 215–360 nm region from the X 3Σ− g , a 1Δ g , and b 1Σ+ g states of O2. The 0–0 band of the C 1Π g state is reported for the first time. Measurements of other vibrational bands terminating in the C 3Π g and d 1Π g states are in good agreement with determinations by other groups. Several vibrational levels (v'=0–5) of the 3dπ g Rydberg complex have been assigned on the basis of (1) an analysis of the spin–orbit couplings between the (Λ,S) basis‐set states, (2) spectral simulation, and (3) the behavior of the states when the excitation radiation is changed from linear to circular polarization.
Rotational populations in OD formed in the reaction O(1D)+D2 investigated by infrared rotational absorption spectroscopy91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457590View Description Hide Description
Diode laser transient absorption/gain spectroscopy is used to monitor time‐dependent populations of high rotational levels in OD (v=0) produced in the reaction of O(1D)+D2. Pure rotational transitions on species with large dipole moments offer good sensitivity, full state resolution and μs time resolution in the present apparatus. Measured nascent populations of OD in the four highest rotational levels thermodynamically accessible in this reaction are in reasonable agreement with the reported results of earlier laser‐induced‐fluorescence measurements, in which corrections for transition moments and predissociation introduce increasing uncertainties at high rotational levels. The relaxation kinetics of the highest rotational levels are not hopelessly complex, and evidence is presented for strong, but not complete propensity for conservation of Λ doublet symmetry during rotational relaxation.
Molecular alignment from circular dichroic photoelectron angular distributions in (n+1) resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457591View Description Hide Description
The theory for determination of molecular alignment from circular dichroism in photoelectron angular distributions is generalized to treat the case in which the excitation polarization direction and the laboratory z axis do not coincide. A new method of data analysis is presented here. Alignment created by surface scattering or photofragmentation should be obtainable by these procedures. For studies of orientation with elliptically polarized excitation, differential cross sections at a given collection angle are found to be, to a good approximation, independent of excited‐state alignment. Orientation can thus be obtained from d i f f e r e n t i a l cross sections by the methods developed by Kummel, Sitz, and Zare [J. Chem. Phys. 8 8, 6707 (1988)].
Raman scattering from freely suspended liquid crystal films91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457592View Description Hide Description
Using Raman scattering we have studied the molecular vibrations in freely suspended liquid crystalfilms as thin as two molecular layers. The effect of the free surfaces on several aspects of molecular order were examined by comparing the Raman spectra obtained on both thin and thick films. The liquid crystal materials 8CB, 8SI, and 65OBC were studied in the crystal, hexatic, and fluid smectic phases. Changes were observed in both intramolecular and intermolecular vibrations as a function of thickness.
Interaction induced Raman spectroscopy of the dipole forbidden π u mode in neat CO2 and solutions with N2 as supercritical fluids91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457593View Description Hide Description
The interaction induced Raman spectra (IIRS) of 1:0, 1:1, and 1:3 CO2 :N2 solutions have been studied at 50 °C and 75 °C at densities up to 2.5 times the triple point density (90–3010 bars). M 0, M 2 , and M 4 evaluations have been made upon the π u ν2 Raman dipole forbidden signal. In addition, the absolute Raman scattering cross sections have been evaluated for the 1:0 and 1:1 solutions. A broad low intensity high frequency shoulder was seen in the 1:0 data of ν2 and is identified with a CO2 oscillating on a large cluster of CO2 ; this perturbs the isolated ν2 frequency; the shoulder is not found in the 1:1 or 1:3 solutions. Significant many body cancellation has been observed in the 1:0 data at 50 and 75 °C at near solid densities of the fluid. The nature of the ν2 signal shows that there is a significant difference between the neat and N2 –CO2 solutions. In particular, depolarization measurements upon ν2 in the 1:0 and 1:3 solutions at 50 °C and 1255 bars of pressure showed very different behavior. This would seem to indicate quite a different local field environment, i.e., local structures. All Raman intensity correlation functions show times in the 30–60 femtosecond regime, we believe that such fast times can be related to the behavior of individual CO2 moieties. Last, this IIRS (''ears'') study is consistent with the earlier findings of Amos, Buckingham, and Williams that angle averaged pair entities are the principal intermolecular scattering species and must be present to give rise to the quadrupole–induced‐dipole (QID) allowed ν2 signal.
A theoretical intensity study of the interaction induced Raman spectra of the ν2(π u ) mode of CO2 between 100 and 3000 bars of pressure91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457594View Description Hide Description
The density dependent integrated intensities of the interaction induced (ii) dipole forbidden Raman spectra of the CO2 ν2(π u ) mode have been calculated by the use of statistical mechanics based on the quadrupole–induced‐dipole (QID) mechanism. The calculated intensities were compared with experimentally determined intensities. The intensities examined were between 5.03 to 17.00×102 1 molecules/cm3 and the temperatures examined were 50 and 75 °C. The results indicated that at densities up to approximately 2.5× the triple point density, the integrated intensities can be expressed as a function of the density squared. This density square dependence of the integrated intensity may be due to almost perfect cancellation between constructive intensity originated from (CO2)2 dimers and the destructive intensity of classical three body interactions which have also been calculated. In any case, extra intensity was present as a high frequency shoulder at all densities except the lowest and highest values and was not accounted for by our calculations.
High resolution vibrational overtone spectroscopy of hydrogen peroxide in the Δv=4 region91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457595View Description Hide Description
The vibrational overtone spectrum of H2 O2 vapor between 7400 and 7600 Å is recorded under both bulk gas and supersonic beam conditions. An absorption band corresponding to a Δv=4 O–H stretch is observed in this spectral region. Rotational analysis indicates that it is a hybrid band with mainly parallel character. In addition to the 59 rovibrational transitions that could be assigned to this band, another 83 lines are observed that did not fit an interpretable asymmetric rotor pattern. Spectral linewidths are found to be Doppler limited in all cases (7 MHz FWHM with the supersonic beam).
Changes in electronic polarizability densities due to shifts in nuclear positions, and a new interpretation for integrated intensities of vibrational Raman bands91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457596View Description Hide Description
The nonlocal polarizability density α(r;r',ω) is a linear‐response tensor that determines the electronic polarization induced at point r in a molecule, by an external electric field of frequency ω, acting at r'. This work focuses on the change in α(r;r',ω) when a nuclear position shifts infinitesimally. We prove directly that the electronic charge distribution responds to the change in Coulomb field due to the nucleus via the same hyperpolarizability density that describes its response to external fields. This generalizes a result found previously for the static (ω=0) polarizability density. The work also provides a new interpretation for the integrated intensities of vibrational Raman bands: it proves that the intensities depend on the hyperpolarizability densities and the dipole propagator.
Analysis of the vibrational bandwidths of alkane–urea clathrates91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457571View Description Hide Description
The only large amplitude motion possible for an n‐alkane molecule in urea‐inclusion compounds is libration–torsion about the long axis of the chain. We present a quantitative model that incorporates the effect of this motion on the widths of the alkane vibrational bands. This model explains the difference in the widths of the different vibrations of the alkanes and their temperature dependence. Two effects are combined: (1) a modulation of the angles between the components of the polarizability in the space and the molecule‐fixed frames for Raman spectra or between the components of the dipole moment for the infrared spectra, and (2) a modulation of the frequency of the alkane vibration via anharmonic coupling terms with the libration–torsion. The first effect gives rise to a distinctly non‐Lorentzian band shape, which is convoluted with the approximately Lorentzian band of the second effect to produce the final result. The libration–torsional motion is modeled as that of a Brownian harmonic oscillator. Most of the parameters that enter the calculation are obtained from data other than that involving the bandwidths themselves. The libration–torsion relaxation time of about 1 ps obtained from fitting the observed bandwidths agrees with the value obtained from recent quasielastic neutron scattering experiments. Other bandwidth mechanisms that have been proposed are evaluated and it is shown that site hopping is too slow to account for the observations.
Vibrational dynamics of aniline(Ar)1 and aniline(CH4)1 clusters91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457572View Description Hide Description
The first excited electronic state (S 1) vibrational dynamics of aniline(Ar)1 and aniline(CH4)1 van der Waals (vdW) clusters have been studied using molecular jet and time resolved emission spectroscopic techniques. The rates of intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR) and vibrational predissociation (VP) as functions of vibrational energy are reported for both clusters. For vibrational energy in excess of the cluster binding energy, both clusters are observed to dissociate. The dispersed emission spectra of these clusters demonstrate that aniline(Ar)1 dissociates to all energetically accessible bare molecule states and that aniline(CH4)1 dissociates selectively to only the bare molecule vibrationless state. The emission kinetics show that in the aniline(Ar)1 case, the initially excited states have nanosecond lifetimes, and intermediate cluster states have very short lifetimes. In contrast, the initially excited aniline(CH4)1 states and other intermediate vibrationally excited cluster states are very short lived (<100 ps), and the intermediate cluster 00 state is observed. These results can be understood semiquantitatively in terms of an overall serial IVR/VP mechanism which consists of the following: (1) the rates of chromophore to vdW mode IVR are given by Fermi's golden rule, and the density of vdW vibrational states is the most important factor in determining the relative [aniline(Ar)1 vs aniline(CH4)1] rates of IVR; (2) IVR among the vdW modes is rapid; and (3) VP rates can be calculated by a restricted vdW mode phase space Rice–Ramsberger–Kassel–Marcus theory. Since the density of vdW states is three orders of magnitude greater for aniline(CH4)1 than aniline(Ar)1 at 700 cm−1, the model predicts that IVR is slow and rate limiting in aniline(Ar)1, whereas VP is slow and rate limiting in aniline(CH4)1. The agreement of these predictions with the experimental results is very good and is discussed in detail.
Determination of the geometry of deuterated tryptamine by rotationally resolved electronic spectroscopy91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457573View Description Hide Description
The low and high resolution fluorescence excitation spectra of d 3‐tryptamine have been observed in the environment of a cold, supersonic molecular beam. As in the case of h 3‐tryptamine, six bands due to the origins of different conformers have been found in the low resolution spectrum of deuterated tryptamine. A previous paper reported that conformers labeled A and B and conformers labeled D and E of tryptamine have identical rotational structures. However, for deuterated tryptamine those conformers have distinguishable rotational structures. Analysis of the rotational structure in the high resolution electronic spectra of five of the bands was used to determine the geometries of the different conformers. Conformers A, B, and F have a g a u c h e conformation with respect to the rotation about the C α–C β bond while conformers D and E have an eclipsed conformation. The geometries of conformers A and B and conformers D and E differ only in the orientation of the amino group. In these structures the angles of the internal rotation of the amino group are 180°, 60°, 180°, 60°, and −60° for conformers A,B, and D–F, respectively. Feature C consists of two overlapped conformers, and it is suggested that these conformers have the amino group t r a n s to the indole ring.
Elastic constants of the disordered phase of CBr4 by Brillouin spectroscopy91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457574View Description Hide Description
The technique of Brillouinspectroscopy has been used to determine the adiabatic elastic constants of single crystals of the orientationally disordered phase (phase I) of CBr4 .The values of the elastic constants at 333 K are C11 =42.2, C12 =33.6, and C44 =16.1 (in units of kbar) and suggest that there is strong rotation–translation coupling in the k=0 acoustic wave vector regime. Because x‐ray Laue diffraction was not possible in solid CBr4 , the necessary orientation of the single crystals was determined by also using the Brillouin scattering spectra.
A theory for two‐dimensional Fourier‐transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457575View Description Hide Description
A theoretical model, based on the Lorentzequations for ion motion and the mass action law, is developed for two‐dimensional Fourier‐transform mass spectrometry known as 2D FT–ICR or 2D FTMS. The theory illustrates that the modulation of 2D FT–ICR ion signals in the additional time dimension comes from the modulation of the primary ion speed by the 2D excitation pulses. The modulation of the primary ion speed is found not to be sinusoidal and the modulation of the ion signals in 2D FT–ICR spectra is found to be complicated even in the simplest chemical system. The complex modulation creates higher harmonic components in the spectra. Based on the model, a data processing algorithm is proposed. The results show that the Fourier transformation should be performed stepwise in order to obtain complete information, and that the phase portion of the frequency domain generated by the second Fourier transformation should not be discarded since it contains useful information.
Computer simulation of depolarized light scattering from diatoms with hard core and square well interactions at low temperatures91(1989); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457576View Description Hide Description
We show that the depolarized light scattered from two interacting atoms is qualitatively different for a purely repulsive hard core potential and partially attractive square well potential. This difference is due to the bound states possible with attractive potentials and is used to obtain the spectra from these dimers. The spectra were calculated from the autocorrelation of the scatteredelectric field found by an effective field model. Values were phase space averaged using Gaussian integration. Molecular dynamics routines evolved the phase space points in time for the autocorrelation. The hard core spectra showed an exponential decay characterized by the mean passage time. The square well spectra consisted of a hard core‐type term, plus a harmonic component due to dimer contributions. Subtraction of the hard core spectra from the square well spectra gave the dimer component. The dimer component of the spectra was proportional to the square of the number of dimers and was characterized by the thermal rotational energy for temperatures below the saturation temperature.


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America may be nearing a critical tipping point where our fears, particularly of vulnerable groups such as Muslims and immigrants, are breaking down the sense of social trust that enables nations and communities to work together for the common good, research indicates. A new set of studies surveying fears in 2014 and 2015 offer insights into how much we are afraid of one another.[Read Full Column...]
In a nation where rising numbers of people are dropping out of organized religion, one dynamic religious movement continues to display remarkable strength. The black church. Several studies and surveys reveal black Americans retain remarkably strong levels of religious beliefs and practices. And that spiritual core is having an impact on community life in areas from health to economic empowerment.[Read Full Column...]
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IFAD President Calls on the Arab Agricultural Sector to Address Challenges of Food Security and Climate Change
18 January 2009: Speaking at the 31st Summit of the League Arab States (LAS), held from 17-18 January 2009, in Kuwait City, Lennart Båge, President of the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), called for re-engaging the agricultural sector to meet the challenges of food security and climate change, with particular attention to energy efficiency, water scarcity and the environment.
Båge reported that the recent food crisis has increased the number of undernourished people in LAS member States by four million, and explained that climate change will increase food price volatility and food insecurity while presenting major challenges to the mostly rain-fed agriculture in the region. Noting the region's high population growth rate, he called for increasing food production and greater efforts for food security planning. Outlining IFAD's strategy and achievements in LAS countries he suggested five key areas for addressing food security: increasing agricultural productivity through drought and heat resistant varieties, capacity building and technology transfer; increasing water productivity and savings; combating desertification and land degradation through projects for soil and water conservation and re-vegetation, monitoring of natural resource use, and capacity building for sustainable land management; improving infrastructure, such as roads, financial services, marketing services and price information services; and engaging youth in the agricultural and agro-processing and trading sectors to reduce unemployment and raise education levels. [The Speech]


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A lawyer's concerns about lawsuits could help block the sale of a law school.
Poetic justice?
No, civil justice.
As reported on our front page Tuesday, the Committee on Academic Affairs and Licensing recommended Monday that the S.C. Commission on Higher Education reject InfiLaw's application for a license to operate the Charleston School of Law.
From that article: "A majority of the committee agreed with Natasha Hanna, a Myrtle Beach attorney who serves on the commission, that lawsuits against two of the company's schools could pose problems for the entity down the road."
But though that committee, which is part of the CHE, voted by a 3-1 margin to advise against giving InfiLaw that license, the CHE staff earlier said it was OK with the for-profit company's purchase of CSOL.
So sue me.
Just kidding. After all, we need comic relief from rampant litigiousness.
For instance, Britain's satirical magazine Private Eye regularly features the mock law firm "Sue, Grabbit & Runne."
Of course, soaring U.S. medical malpractice rates over the last few decades and other costly side-effects of suing fever are not laughing matters.
National Football League tickets might even cost more soon if it has to keep paying huge sums to former players claiming long-term health problems as a result of not just concussions but teams' negligence of their needs.
Among the allegations in a class-action suit filed against the NFL this week: Team doctors regularly gave players addictive pain killers without warning them of the dangers, and even lied to players about the severity of their injuries to keep them on the field.
Playing for high stakes
The inherent lie of big-time college sports - that it's an "amateur" enterprise played by "student-athletes" - is also being tested in court.
Will schools already paying coaches millions soon have to start paying players, too?
Sounds far-fetched.
Then again, so does the "nonprofit" status of the NCAA.
And while many lawsuits also sound far-fetched, we still need lawyers, judges and at times juries to sort out such frequently uncivil civil disputes.
Two fresh local examples:
Wednesday's Post and Courier reported that a federal judge has removed Citadel President John Rosa and the school's general counsel, Mark Brandenburg, as defendants in a lawsuit filed by the parents of a boy abused by serial molester Louis "Skip" ReVille.
The Citadel is now the lone defendant in that suit, which alleges that the school failed to report a 2007 complaint about ReVille by a former camper to the police.
And Thursday's paper reported a jury's $1 million verdict - reduced to $300,000 by the S.C. tort law cap - against Dorchester District 2 in a suit filed by a former vice principal (and current teacher). That judgment faulted the district for "improperly demoting her following 2009 accusations that she failed to report alleged abuse of autistic students by a teacher's assistant."
See, not lawsuits abuse reason. Some even deliver at least some level of fairness.
Plus, the liability threat, while financially expensive, motivates businesses, including motor vehicle and drug manufacturers, to make their products safe.
So before finding all lawyers filing (and wearing) suits guilty of first-degree avarice, remember that we need them for an effective civil justice system.
And as pointed out in this space four weeks ago, we need criminal defense attorneys to defend criminal suspects.
OK, so it's a shame that rising dread of being sued has made sliding boards, at least tall ones, obsolete on most U.S. playgrounds.
Another shame is this smoking-gun 1998 evidence of personal responsibility's still-accelerating modern retreat:
Big Tobacco agreed to pay the states $246 billion over 25 years for selling a legal product clearly marked with health warning labels since 1966.
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Now ponder the enduring wisdom of this 1973 hit R&B single written by Mack Rice and sung by "Jukin' Johnnie" Taylor:
"Cheaper to Keep Her."
From a story in Thursday's New York Daily News:
"The 'fertilizer king' stepped in it big time. Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev - who was just slapped with a record $4.8 billion divorce judgment - reneged on a deal to settle the case for a relatively measly $1 billion last year."
The Daily News also put it well in 1991 with this headline on the first Mrs. Trump's decision to legally fight the $25 million pre-nup she had signed with "The Donald":
"Ivana Better Deal."
So if you want a better deal in the civil justice system, get a better lawyer than the people suing, or being sued by, you.
Just don't count on finding a divorce law firm with a better name that this one, borrowed from the pretty-good 2012 movie "The Three Stooges":
"Ditcher, Quick & Hyde."
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Half a year has passed since the last NHL draft and everyone is still waiting for the debut of top pick Nail Yakupov and a few other first-round selections.
For some, if not all of these picks, the longer their debuts are inevitably delayed by the lockout, the better an idea we get as to when that debut will be. Or, more to the point, when these prospects will be able to nail down their pegs on an NHL roster and make a reckonable impact.
With the exception of those in the NCAA, every first-round draftee has had some exposure to established NHL players or would-be NHL rookies in the AHL, Canadian major juniors or European professional circuits.
How they are measuring up with that lockout-affected competition is a rare bonus criterion to use in assessing their progression. Otherwise, it is merely a matter of how they are impacting their current clubs and how their general outlook has changed since they were selected last summer.
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Dennis Keene, an Agua Dulce man accused of murder for allegedly killing his neighbor with his car while driving drunk, will head to trial next week, the prosecutor said Tuesday.
"We expect to start the jury-selection portion of the trial by Tuesday or Wednesday of next week," said Deputy District Attorney Susan Choi.
Keene, 64, was arrested in August 2011 and charged with murder in the death of Lori Lindlief.
Both were residents of White Fox Lane in Agua Dulce.
Lindlief had been walking at least four of her dogs with her boyfriend on Mabana Street, just west of White Fox Lane, when she was hit Aug. 14, 2011, by a 2007 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck, sheriff's deputies reported at the time.
Judge Bernie LaFerteza, who is presiding over the case, has another trial that could push the start of Keene's trial back a day, Choi said.


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1917 Birth Born on February 11, 1917.
1937 20 Years Old In 1937 Sheldon moved to Hollywood, California, where he reviewed scripts and collaborated on a number of B movies. … Read More
1947 30 Years Old His success on Broadway brought him back to Hollywood where his first assignment was The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, which earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay of 1947. … Read More
1970 53 Years Old Production for I Dream of Jeannie ended in 1970 after five seasons.
1982 65 Years Old It was "During the last year of I Dream of Jeannie, I decided to try a novel," he said in 1982. "Each morning from 9 until noon, I had a secretary at the studio take all calls. … Read More
1989 72 Years Old He married Alexandra Kostoff, a former child actress and an advertising executive of Macedonian origin, Ohrid, in Las Vegas in 1989. … Read More
2005 88 Years Old He struggled with bipolar disorder for years; he contemplated suicide at 17 (talked out of it by his father, who discovered him), as detailed in his autobiography published in 2005, The Other Side of Me. A resident of Palm Springs, California, Sheldon died on January 30, 2007 from complications arising from pneumonia at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California. … Read More
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McGurn: Paul Ryan's Cross to Bear
The House budget chairman challenges the religious left.
Paul Ryan shocked the gentle souls at Georgetown University when he traveled up to their campus last Thursday and said: "We believe that Social Security legislation, now billed as a great victory for the poor and for the worker, is a great defeat for Christianity. It is an acceptance of the idea of force and compulsion." The Wisconsin Republican went on to lament that "we in our generation have more and more come to consider the state as bountiful Uncle Sam," and that citizens justify what they get from the state by saying, "We got it coming to us."
Sure sounds like Mr. Ryan was channeling Ayn Rand.
Except for one thing. The words are not Mr. Ryan's. They come from a 1945 column by Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker, in which she complained about how state intervention limits personal freedom and responsibility. Day's skepticism about government was reflected in her nickname for it: "Holy Mother State."
How far we have traveled since then. As the protests surrounding Mr. Ryan's appearance confirm, the Catholic left long ago jettisoned any worries about the size or scope of government (except for national defense). So the Sermon on the Mount now becomes a call for a single-payer system of universal health insurance.
In this worldview, those who believe otherwise—i.e., those who argue that you best help the poor by breaking down barriers to ownership and opportunity—are not simply mistaken. They are selfish and uncaring. It's the same meme President Obama played to when he recently characterized the GOP's approach as "you're on your own economics."
Mr. Ryan believes otherwise. At Georgetown he delivered a spirited defense of his budget. He did so notwithstanding attacks by various Catholic bishops and a letter from 90 Georgetown professors decrying his "continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few."
Now, even a Georgetown professor ought to understand that, for the most part, we're not talking about "cuts" at all; we're talking about the rate of increase in spending. Under Mr. Obama, the increased spending would go to 4.5% a year. Mr. Ryan's "radical" reform proposes to keep it to 3%.
Of course, what drives Mr. Ryan's religious critics bonkers is not his numbers. It's his claim that his policies reflect Catholic principles. At Georgetown he summarized one of the differences he has with the protesting professors this way: "I do not believe that the preferential option for the poor means a preferential option for big government."
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For a certain kind of Catholic, this is anathema. They assume only one possible interpretation of Catholic social teaching: their own. So when a Republican House budget chairman dares suggest that his approach to taxes and spending also rests on a moral foundation, the cry goes up: Partisanship! Social Darwinism! War on the Poor!
Now, let us stipulate that those of us who incline to Mr. Ryan's application of Catholic social teaching—not least Mr. Ryan himself—do not assert we enjoy any monopoly. Plainly others applying the same principles can and do reach very different conclusions. When that happens, the obvious thing to do would be to have an honest conversation about which path has proved better at achieving its goals.
That's just what Mr. Ryan asked for at Georgetown. He put it this way: "If there were ever a time for serious but respectful discussion, among Catholics as well as those who don't share our faith, that time is now."
Alas, a "serious but respectful discussion" is the last thing Mr. Ryan's critics want. For one thing, the critics don't have a real alternative: Democrats haven't passed a budget in years precisely so they won't have to defend their spending philosophy.
More to the point, a "serious but respectful discussion" would have to concede something Mr. Ryan's religious opponents are loath to do: that conservative Republicans advancing market-oriented answers are as serious about their moral case as liberal Democrats are about theirs.
Thus we are left with the familiar pattern. Conservatives assert that liberals have a naïve faith in government, and that this leads them to advocate policies that ending up doing more harm than good. The liberal argument—in tone as well as substance—was well captured by the 50-foot banner greeting Mr. Ryan at Georgetown: "Were you there when they crucified the poor?"
Let's be clear. Dorothy Day would never have embraced Paul Ryan. Still, she had a sense that has been completely lost among religious liberals today: an appreciation for the high price we all pay, poor as well as rich, when we rely on government to be our neighbor's keeper.
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A father was able to stop a man who allegedly tried to kidnap his daughter along with two other girls in Stockton Saturday evening.
Gerald Herbert Childs, 33, grabbed an 11-year-old girl and began carrying her away, along with two other girls, at an apartment complex on the 4300 block of North Pershing Avenue around 7:30 p.m., according to the Stockton Police Department.
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Honestly, having seven future athletes light the cauldron was something of a let down, but the arrival of the torch from City Hall via boat driven by David Beckham was pretty spectacular. Or, it should be noted it involved some spectacular live camera work.
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The Burmese python has become a serious problem in Florida, where the constrictors have taken up residence in the Everglades, gobbling up birds and animals, including threatened and endangered species.
That's why the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is banning the importation and interstate transport of the Burmese python and three other species deemed to be a threat to sensitive ecosystems. That's a smart step.
The species covered by the ban -- the Burmese python, the yellow anaconda, the northern African python and the southern African python -- are all non-native species that have a high risk of establishing populations in the wild and moving into other areas.
Snake owners wouldn't have to give up their pets, but limiting new imports should reduce the number of constrictors -- and the chances that they'll be released into the wild by irresponsible owners.
Louisiana is all too familiar with the environmental and economic damage caused by exotic species like Formosan termites and nutria. Nationally, invasive species cause $120 billion in damage every year, according to the Fish & Wildlife Service.
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Just a week after getting added to the WatchESPN iOS app, the SEC and Longhorn programmes are now available on the Apple TV channel too. Both streams deal with college sports and should enable students to follow their teams' games via Apple TV.
I woke up this morning to the news of two major content additions to Apple TV. This has been a routine lately but the difference here is that neither of these adds a new channel icon to the home screen, but instead streams within existing apps. Thank God they do!


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"When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years," says Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook in a TV interview. "It's an area of intense interest, I can't say more than that." Other news from the chat is his announcement one of the existing Mac lines will be manufactured exclusively in the U.S. next year.
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Apple needs a Pixar clone to make its own product content, and make it interactive. Interactive is the future of all program entertainment. Think about it. How much fun would it be to create your own movie with interactive, interchangeable choices of story, dialog, characters, locations, sets, plot twists, weather, etc? And, that doesn't even count the inevitable cross-discipline creativity goldmine that would spring from it.
That's quite a large step away from their core competency. So far Apple makes nifty devices. On a smaller scale they are a distributor of content but not a creator. I think you try to become too big and do too many things you end up alienating yourself. I wouldn't want to see them stretch in that manner. It would be a misallocation of capital.
Tim's comment is a strong indication for the following:
Cook paused when asked if the reason for keeping manufacturing in China was cost. He answered that it was not, that it was a lack of skills. What nonsense. It is a cost issue, combined with work ethic. Apple and Foxconn will take advantage of a diligent work force at a lower cost as long as they can. When relatively unskilled workers here realize they can't just get a job and slack off but need to start offering a similar work ethic at a competitive market cost, we'll see those jobs return. Cook needs to call it like it is.
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There are lots of capable workers with skills and good education both eager and willing to join in a "back to work/made in USA" enterprise. Apple and Intel could make the most valuable political move on the current economic scene, besides solving for the exploited line workers overseas. There is some huge potential here – right?
Apple is one of many to realize the benifits of manufacturing in the US. 1) Easier to manage production, 2) Your patients and ideas aren't being stolen as you provide these chinese companies all your blueprints (CAD files, Gerber files, Software......), 3) You arent loosing money on lost or stolen parts, and 4) Your competition (In apples case Samsung) has too much loyolty in China and maybe you can gain Loyalty and market share if you build in the USA. If done correctly US manufacturing can be revived with an end cost that the average US consummer would be willing to pay. I for one would pay a little more for a QUALITY (key word) US product and I think apple will deliver! If the germans can do it then so can we!
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well it seems that there r some people who dont know what Death Note is! its a big shock 2 me! i luv Death Note a good friend of mine got me into it andnow i luv it! Light Yagami is awsome! if u havent heard of Death Note u should watch the movies! i think ull like it. :)
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To find a da Vinci colorectal surgeon, call 800-777-7775 or browse da Vinci physicians.
When medication, lifestyle changes and other non-surgical treatments do not relieve symptoms, surgery is generally recommended for many colorectal conditions. While surgery is generally the most effective treatment for many colorectal conditions, traditional open surgery with a large incision has certain potential drawbacks such as a hospital stay of one week or longer, and a lengthy recovery.1,2
Today, less invasive options are available to many patients facing colorectal surgery. The most common of these is laparoscopic surgery, in which smaller incisions are used. While laparoscopy is effective for many routine procedures, it has limitations when more intricate and complex surgery is required.
Many conditions and diseases can affect the gastrointestinal tract. Each of these conditions can cause chronic pain, as well as other disabling symptoms. When medication, lifestyle changes and other non-surgical treatments cannot relieve symptoms, surgery is the accepted treatment for a wide range of conditions.
Rectal cancer is the development of cancerous cells in the lining of the rectum (the last several inches of the large intestine closest to the anus). The stage (extent) of the cancer depends to a great degree on how deep the cancer goes into and beyond the wall of the rectum. Most rectal cancers are called adenocarcinomas.
The wall of the colon is made up of layers of tissue. Colon cancer occurs when abnormal cells form in the inner layer of this tissue. The cancer can grow through some or all of the other layers. The stage (extent) of the cancer depends to a great degree on how deep the cancer goes into these layers. Most colon cancers are called adenocarcinomas. Those are cancers that begin in cells that make and release mucus and other fluids.
Many people have small pouches in the lining of the colon or large intestine that bulge out through weak spots. Each pouch is called a diverticulum. Multiple pouches are diverticula and are most often found in the lower part of the large intestine. When the pouches become inflamed, the condition is called diverticulitis. Diverticulitis can lead to bleeding, infections, small tears (perforations), or blockages in the colon. These complications always require treatment to prevent them from progressing and causing serious illness.
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) refers to two related but different diseases: ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. These diseases cause chronic inflammation of the intestinal tract, which lead to a variety of symptoms. The inflammation can also affect organs other than the intestines. IBD is a lifelong disease with spans of time when it is active and other times when it is under control and inactive. IBD is very common, but it has been difficult to pinpoint how many people worldwide suffer from the disease because of a lack of standardized guidelines for making a diagnosis and also misdiagnosis. Some organizations estimate that as many as five million people worldwide are living with IBD.5,6
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During rectal cancer surgery, known as low anterior resection, the surgeon removes the diseased part of the rectum without affecting the anus. The colon is then attached to the remaining part of the rectum. This allows patients to move their bowels in the usual way and avoid colostomy (portion of large intestine brought through the abdomen to carry stool out of the body) bag.
In situations where the cancer is located very low in the rectum and invades the anal muscles, an abdominoperineal resection (commonly called APR) may be required. During an APR, the entire rectum is removed. Unfortunately, this procedure will require a colostomy bag for the patient.
During surgery for colon cancer, diverticulitis or IBD, all or part of the diseased colon is removed during what is called a colectomy, colon resection or hemicolectomy. Surgery on your right colon (ascending) is called a right colectomy; surgery on your left colon (descending) is a left colectomy; and surgery on the sigmoid colon (lower left colon just before the rectum) is called a sigmoid colectomy.
da Vinci offers patients facing colon surgery (right, left or sigmoid colectomy) and rectal cancer surgery (low anterior resection and APR) such potential benefits as:
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NY Post : AARON NEVILLE: 'NATURE BOY'
On "Nature Boy," one of the most distinctive ballad voices in music tackles some of the best-loved and best-known standards in the American songbook - with mixed results. Like most of Aaron Neville's other solo efforts, this disc sparkles only when he and the song are a perfect match.
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The classic film is given the videogame treatment.
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EA Games label president confirms the publisher is 'not going to do another one'.
EA's The Godfather 2 could release in early 2009
The game's expected to hit stores a few months after Left 4 Dead.
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EA's upcoming action horror title built on a highly modified version of EA's open-city engine.
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EA has announced the March release of two new versions of The Godfather.
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EA are merely offering consumers a choice to unlock parts of a game, says Chip Lange, Vice President of Online Commerce at EA.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
The American Red Cross is experiencing a blood shortage of O negative blood and is at critical levels for all blood types.
Summertime often means that the blood supply is at low levels due to donors vacationing and spending time with family and friends.
On Friday June 14, Trident Medical Center will host a blood drive for the community from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Donors will be entered in a drawing to win a $1,000 American Express gift card.
"The American Red Cross is currently experiencing a reduction in O negative donors," said Christy Joyner, medical technologist with Trident Health. "Presently, we are at critical levels for all blood types."
To schedule an appointment, please call 1-800-733-2767 or schedule your appointment online: www.redcrossblood.org and enter tridentmed as the sponsor. Walk-ins are welcome but donors with appointments will be taken first.
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