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The Solar System: An Introduction to the Sun
Brighten up your teaching of the solar system with this middle school astronomy instructional activity. Over the course of these five activities, young astronomers get an up close and personal look at the sun as they watch videos, read...
6th - 8th Science CCSS: Adaptable
Understanding Climate Change
The young scientists in your class will appreciate a resource about different elements of climate change. The packet includes factual materials, informational text, and clear visuals, perfect for sharing with your environmental science...
9th - 12th Science CCSS: Adaptable
World History and Geography to 1500 A.D.
Here's a great resource for your curriculum library. The 240-page packet, organized into units by topics, includes sample lesson plans, links to primary and secondary source documents, worksheets, activities, and sample assessments.
6th - 10th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable
The Sun, Moon, and Our Solar System: Teacher/Student Notes
Introduce basic Earth and space science to your budding astronauts. This handout works in two ways, the first part provides information about the sun, moon, eclipses, and Earth to be read to or by the class. The second part is composed...
3rd - 5th Science
Winter Landscape with Skaters by Hendrick Avercamp
In need of a quick set of ideas to use on a wintery day? Why not analyze Winter Landscape with Skaters with your class? After a thorough discussion, learners compare and contrast two paintings, research what curators do, draw landscapes,...
7th Visual & Performing Arts
AP World History Unit Test Chapters 8-15
Get your AP historians thinking about the facts with this exam worksheet, which has students responding to 60 multiple choice questions about world religions, major events, and significant historical figures. The exam specifies chapters...
9th - 12th Social Studies & History
Early 18c Europe: Proto-Industrialism
Providing key information, visually appealing pictures, and thought-provoking questions, this series of slides presents your class with a study of 18th century Europe as it becomes increasingly urbanized. From peasants to princes, the...
8th - 11th Social Studies & History
The Climate Change Skeptic's Argument: Natural Solar Cycles or Human Activity?
Teachers explore patterns in sunspots and total solar irradiance to understand the counterpoint to the human effect of global warming. In this professional development tool, teachers work through a lesson on the sun's natural patterns to...
Higher Ed Social Studies & History
Dark Skies: Volcanic Contribution to Climate Change
Young scholars examine how volcanic eruptions affect global climate. They listen to first-hand accounts of the effects of a large volcanic eruption and illustrate a landscape to show understanding. They experiment with the loss of light...
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Okay....looks like I might have a little time to write about something.
So yeah, like the title of this blog suggests, I wanna talk about the end of the world as we know it....the end of the home gaming world as we know it, that is. Okay, well, maybe it's not going to happen, but there have been things I've been thinking about for years now that may suggest one MAY happen, and I would like to share my thoughts with all of you.
I'm going to try breaking my thoughts down into smaller pieces so that I don't have to write them all at once; given my current schedule, it would take forever for me to publish it. So here we go....
The way I'm going to write this is by approaching the issue with answers to "why" questions. Why MIGHT a video game market crash happen? Well, there are philosophical aspects, and more factual aspects. Let's start with a philosophical aspect.
"History is bound to repeat itself"
This would be the simplest way -- and also the least plausible -- way to explain why another game crash will happen. Simple: it's happened before. A lot of people know about the North American Game Crash of 1983, but there was another, smaller crash that happened before that in 1977. Since we've already experienced two Crashes, surely we're bound for another, right? Not only that, but the second Crash was worst than the first, right? And it's been, what, TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS since the Crash of '83?!? Just imagine how bad the Crash would be now!!!
Okay, so maybe that might be too pessimistic of a prospect to be plausible. Optimistically, you can take the twenty-seven (and counting) years of prosperity as an indication that the industry has learned their lessons and have adapted to prevent a cataclysm. But, being optimistic isn't really fun, now, is it?
Attack of the Clones
While the philosophical stance on the matter isn't too concrete, perhaps looking deeper into the previous Crashes is a better thing to do. More particularly, we should look into WHY Crash '77 and Crash '83 happened.
Both Crashes had their unique reasons, but the one thing in common that they had was the fact that there was an over-saturation of the same kind of games and consoles. Mind you, the video game industry in terms of copyright laws wasn't worked out until the 80s, so there were a lot of systems that were practically the same, to the point where cartridges were compatible across multiple systems. As a result, many companies were forced out of business due to the glut of clone systems.
Uhh....so I'm gonna end this here. I seemed to have run abruptly out of things to say for the time being....I've been staring at the blog without writing anything else for days, so I'm just going to post this part.
While this might not be establishing a strong argument, but I assure you, the good stuff will come later. In the meantime, I have to look busy. Check in later, peoples!

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Menu for Goose Island beer dinner with top chefs
The menu's been released for the Best of Milwaukee Beer Dinner on Feb. 25 (this one is a fund-raiser for a wounded veteran whose wife is expecting twins). It's being paired with Goose Island beers, including one recently released only in Chicago, Golden Goddess. Cooking that night are some of the city's heavy-hitters, chefs Daniel Jacobs of Wolf Peach, Justin Aprahamian of Sanford, Dan Van Rite of Hinterland and Paul Zerkel of Odd Duck:
Course 1, stuffed clamari with Basque chocolate sauce, served with Belgian-style farmhouse ale Sofie »Read Full Blog Post
Actor John C. Reilly brings character to concert at Miller Caves
The Miller Caves, underneath the brewery that not only made Milwaukee famous but also helped define the city itself, apparently never seemed, until Sunday night, like a place to hold a concert.
In retrospect, after the very first such event courtesy of John C. Reilly and Friends, the historic location was a small club waiting to happen: The painted backdrop of cavorting (presumably) Germans had retro style, as did the overhead lamps and the high-arched ceiling. »Read Full Article(4)
What does strange press release from 'Mad Men' mean?
Two minutes after the end of Sunday's "Mad Men" episode - filled with personal drama, some of it involving, Pete, Bob, Ted and Peggy - AMC, I presume sent out this press release.
With Peggy listed as the contact, it is presumably the press release Peggy was told to prepare a few weeks ago on the show, announcing the new name of the merged advertising agency. »Read Full Blog Post(3)
Central Bark Fido Fest unleashes the fun
A fine time for canines
This may be the warmest and fuzziest festival of all. »Read Full Article
Museum fundraiser; 'Fondy Soulbration' market; 'Walk, Run and Wag' 5K
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Milwaukee's historic house museums are offering patrons a seat at their annual fundraising event Wednesday. And, afterward — guests can take the chairs with them. The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum and the Charles Allis Art Museum have been blessed with chairs — or artistic riffs on chairs — created by local artists for this auction at 6 p.m. at the Villa Terrace. The seats range from an old easy chair dressed as a cozy grandmother to a pew made from doors to a partial-chair that's now totally sculptural. Other seats for auction are ones at theatrical productions, sporting events or a table in a local fine dining establishment. The evening also features live music, hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. Tickets are $25. Making a reservation would be appreciated and can be done by calling Ann Steinbach at (414) 278-8295 Ext. 5, but it isn't mandatory. Visit www.charlesallis.org/cavtgalleryofchairs.html »Read Full Article


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Ivan Calderon Claims Division Rust, Wants Fuentes Next
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After four years, Ivan Calderon (35-2-1, 6KOs) returned to 105 pounds on Saturday night in Puerto Rico. Calderon did not perform as expected, winning a close split decision over Mexico's Felipe Rivas (11-9-1 and 5KOs). Calderon won the fight on two cards, with scores of 97-93 and 96-94, while the third judge saw it 96-94 for Rivas. In February of 2012, Calderon is targeting a shot at the WBO minimumweight champion Moises Fuentes.
"I had to take a rest and use my boxing ability in those later rounds. It's been four years since I've fought at this weight and Felipe is a very strong fighter. I did not place my focus on his record. I turned to my experience as I felt a bit tired in the later rounds. Felipe proved to be a good warrior. Now I'm going to take a small rest and I'll be better prepared for the fight with Fuentes in February," he said.
good fights warr calderonComment by nycsmooth on 10-30-2011
Terrible main event for WBO Convention..Ring rust I doubt from all accounts he was ready w/good gym preps/sparing and no trouble making 105...maybe Segura's punches linger??...either way this was vs a guy 9-9...he'll have trouble w/Raul...Post a Comment - View More User Comments (2)


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Abbyssinal Chest piece... art design failure!What's with the crossed straps in front, they go right over the top of my pawns breasts, hiding all the cleavage being pushed up by her silver chest piece. WHAT WAS CAPCOM THINKING!!!I choose not to equip this item on my pawn solely on the fact that it hides her cleavage.
TC, can you say that this item is not found in the Everfall, like I suspect?I have a few places in mind.
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Dual Diagnosis, Second Edition: Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuserby Katie Evans
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The treatment of coexisting chemical dependency and psychiatric disorders has long been a serious challenge for care providers. With the advent of managed care, counselors, case managers, and other professionals increasingly are called upon to treat very ill and troubled clients in outpatient settings. This popular volume offers a thorough introduction to clinical work with this difficult-to-treat population. Providing a unique synthesis of chemical dependency and mental health models, the book articulates a framework for assessment and treatment and describes a range of effective counseling and motivational strategies for adolescents and adults. The practical utility of the volume is enhanced by numerous clinical vignettes and clearly presented tables to aid in assessment. Appendices feature helpful reproducible forms.
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Description: This book updates and integrates mental health treatment with substance abuse treatment.
Purpose: The purpose is to update the reader on dual diagnosis and suggested treatment approaches. This book also seems to accurately incorporate other major clinical syndromes with substance abuse disorders. This is an important an necessary endeavor given the prevalence of substance abuse disorders. This book appears to have covered the relevant issues regarding dual diagnosis and treatment.
Audience: This book is written primarily for the practitioner, more specifically those trained in psychology or in mentally ill substance abuse (MISA) treatment. Although the author seems to target a more general audience, including substance abuse counselors, the information relating to other mental disorders and DSM-IV classifications may not be as familiar to this group. I do think that the authors are very credible in this area and provide significant depth of information to the reader.
Features: The book essentially addresses two main areas: dual diagnosis and treatment. It integrates major mental disorders with substance abuse disorders. It outlines the features and dynamics of symptomatology. It also highlights treatment modalities and even offers disorder-specific interventions. The book covers some practical assessment issues and also contains good examples for understanding key issues. The checklists and examples in the appendix are especially helpful. I do think that the book would have benefited from some additional discussion on cultural issues and influences related to dual diagnosis and treatment.
Assessment: This is an excellent addition to the literature on dual diagnosis. It is relatively comprehensive and offers important suggestions on treatment approaches. This book is exceptionally practical from this standpoint. The new edition is necessary since it updates diagnostic information from the current DSM.
"This comprehensive examination of the complex relationship between addictive disorders and other psychiatric conditions will meet the needs of a wide range of audiences. The authors combine research-based recommendations with a richness of detail and insight about the most prevalent coexisting disorders. They write with a vividness that can only be achieved by seasoned clinicians. The book will serve as a valuable guide for practitioners in different disciplines and as a textbook for graduate and postgraduate training." Joan E. Zweben, PhD, Executive Director, East Bay Community Recovery Project & The 14th Street Clinic, Oakland, CA; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
"Evans and Sullivan have done it againprovided a practical, clinically useful book on the treatment of a variety of dually disordered conditions. In this updated second edition they have added new material and approaches gleaned both from the professional literature and their own active clinical experience. A 'must read' for those in the field." Richard K. Ries, MD, University of Washington and Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
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Distraction is highly frowned upon in sports.
When an athlete loses focus or attracts attention outside of their sport or team-- it can cost an athlete a game-- or even their career.
But can distraction in sports serve as good for the right reasons?
Colin Kaepernick has become the NFL's most-talked about player this football season. The San Francisco 49ers quarterback refused to stand during the national anthem during a pre-season game Aug. 27, in Santa Clara.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media in an exclusive interview after the game. "To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."
His decision erupted in controversy-- many called the move 'un-American' and 'disrespectful' to the nation's flag. Other NFL players such as Kaepernick's former teammate, Minnesota Viking's Alex Boone, and New York Giants' Victor Cruz, also disagreed with his decision to protest.
Kaepernick has since started taking a knee at games during the national anthem, in what he said is a sign of respect for military service members, and has argued he is not un-American. He said the protest isn't meant to insult members of the military, according to ABC News.
"I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country," Kaepernick said of the criticism. "I have family, I have friends that have gone and fought for this country. And they fight for freedom, they fight for the people, they fight for liberty and justice, for everyone. That's not happening. People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up."
Kaepernick has also said he'd donate $1 million to help groups affected by the issue he's trying spotlight. The 49ers followed suit, announcing the San Francisco 49ers Foundation will commit $1 million to the cause of improving racial and economic inequality.
Through the uproar, many have stood with Kaepernick and supported the quarterback's protest.
Veterans have stood up for Kaepernick on social media. The #VeteransforKaepernick went viral after military vets showed support for his cause.
The Seattle Seahawks announced their plan to protest as a team on Sept. 11, the NFL's opening day where they would play the Miami Dolphins. After receiving backlash in regards to the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the team instead interlocked arms and stood during the national anthem.
At the same time, four Dolphins took a knee during the anthem.
Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall has lost more than one sponsorship for choosing to kneel during the national anthem.
Other NFL players such as Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters, took on the protest a little differently, raising a gloved fist, similar to Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the medal stand at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
Whichever way you choose to interpret Kaepernick's actions, there are two things to consider about the situation:
- Patriotism and social injustice in Kaepernick's case are two separate discussions. The NFL player has said numerous times he is protesting against social injustice, not the U.S. or the people who serve the nation.
- Kaepernick has the right to protest peacefully under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He also has the freedom of speech under the same amendment. Some have called for the NFL to fine Kaepernick for his actions but that is illegal under the Constitution. The NFL may have strict policies- including dress codes- but they don't have the power to interfere with the Constitution. Taking a knee or sitting during the national anthem isn't against NFL rules.
With all the reactions, regardless of the stance taken, one thing is clear: The silent protest is working. People are responding- whether it be in a negative or positive way.
The distraction is Kaepernick's message. The distraction is the point.
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I myself just wanted to warn you, former GM Mike Hart calms he has proof you was present on the Internet, please come forward now before he convinces Rocky to remove from Nitro. No matter what the problem seems to be i'm by your side. We all need to remain focus right now, our alliance depends on it nobody is forcing you to do this thing
Our viewing audience are depending on us to remain devoted to them, it's pretty funny how far away we live from each other and yet feel so connected as partners, taking into consideration the amount of trust we had to build as a group. Just get in touch with us before this week is over TWA would be nothing without you
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Nope, I'll keep flying it with the 14x7.
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This is the continuation and the third part of the excellent thread that Kelvin started on Building and Flying an E3D.
Building and Flying an E3D
Building and Flying an E3D Part II
I moved my CG way back, a good inch behind the spar, and my E3D performed much better and was still stable and controlable, until I stripped another set of aileron servos. HS-85BB's this time. I heard the horrible flutter sound on a fairly slow upline and I immediatly landed with one servo completely stripped ond one only partially working. There was zero slop in the linkage. The entire linkage was very tight. I've wasted so much time unsuccessfuly trying to eliminate the flutter that I'm tempted to yank all the gear and install it in my Stevens Aero CAP 40E and toss my E3D in the trash so that I don't waste any more time on it.
Thanks for the tip Ed. I may try that before I remove all the gear and run over my E3D with my truck. It's the time that I've wasted on the flutter problem that really upsets me. That and the fact that it worries me every time I fly it, so from that respect I've never really gotten any good use out of my E3D.
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Kelvin -
With your new 10C TP pack, it likely is running much cooler than the other packs. Because of its nature, it will perform best when its warmer - around 120-130 degrees. Without propping up or pre-heating the pack, some guys hadnt seen much of an improvement even after the break in proccess. But once they took steps to add power to the system or keep the packs warmer in flight, theyre typically rewarded with 15% more power overall (without propping up you can still see the power increase with a pre-heated pack - propping up will promote self-heating in the pack which typically prove too much for the previous 8000 models.).
Once you get past the 5-6 cycle mark on the new pack, Id suggest trying some of the above to see the real improvement (prop up only if the motor/ESC combo can handle the added power!). Try leaving the pack on the dash of your car in the sun for pre-heating and carry a temp gun to check temps before and after flights on all the packs.
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These packs don't even get to 120 degrees after flying them. I flew the 7600 pack for 2 ten minute flights. The pack was barely warm. I guess I'll have to wait until it gets to the 90's here in Texas
I've configured dual rates but I think I have the elevator set to too much throw even with a lot of expo on it. I'm feel like I've reached a plateau in my 3d flying. My hovers aren't getting any better, I just can't seem to find that magic point between where the model stops climbing or falling off. I can't harrier worth anything and I"m doing something wrong trying to get any sort of flat spins. I can only get a 270 degree rolling circle. I guess just keep practicing.
Maybe I can get some tips from some of my glow club member colleagues. I don't want to embarrass myself at SEFF!
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Spinner working its way off.
I have the graupner spinner on my Banchee. Have noticed that it gradually will work it way out on the motor shaft. I have tightened the nut as tight as I can get it. Has anyone "roughned" up the shaft so the collet can get a better bite?
Thanks Carl;
This is basically how I have my set up. I've used a UBEC with this receiver before, so I don't think that's it. There really isn't too much room to move things around. I really hate to go to a seperate receiver battery, but I don't know if I want to trust the BEC on the ESC once the weather gets a bit warmer.
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I don't use a UBEC on my E3D and have 85s all around. I haven't had an issue with the BEC overloading. I know I can overload it on the ground if I rotate all the TX sticks rapidly in a circle for about a minute. In the air I don't cycle the controls near that extent. I'm using a HM 40 3p with BEC.
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My E3D continues to fly. Just the other day I got adventurous and decided to move the battery back another 1/4". I'm overly cautious but it was a nice late afternoon with little wind, rare in Dallas, and I was pleasantly surprised. Now my hovers, or what I think are hovers, now are easier. I noticed the nose didn't want to pitch down as easily. I notice the wings didn't waggle or very little at slow high AOA. What have I been missing. I may learn this 3d stuff yet
I was having so much fun I ran my new 7500 3s4p TP pack further down than I realized. Two flights on one charge; 10 minutes and 7 minutes. I noticed the front cells were hotter than the back cells; 140 vs 120. When I got home the resting voltage was 10.4v. I could smell a faint sweet odor out of the warm cells where the lead wires come out. I've read that a resting voltage of 3.6v/cell is the lowest or 10.8 for a 3s pack. I'm wondering if I've discharged them too much. They recharged up to 6600 mah. No puffing. I hope they're OK.
From all I've read if you smell that sweet smell there is trouble for sure.
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Skip to comments.Why Nobody Saw 9/11 Coming
Posted on 03/27/2004 6:05:50 AM PST by Ranger
ONDON Did the Bush administration, before the 9/11 attacks, fail to take terrorism seriously enough? At first the contention seems unlikely. Isn't this the most hawkish administration in living memory? Wasn't it President Bush who coined the phrase "war on terror"?
Yet in the current hearings on the attacks and in the controversy surrounding the new book by Richard A. Clarke, the administration's first counterterrorism chief the words "neglect" and "failure" keep cropping up.
And there is something to these accusations although perhaps not in the sense that the people making them intend. The administration's early failures on terrorism cannot be pinned down to individual instances of "neglect." To understand what really went wrong, we need to go back to the last decades of the cold war, when people like Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, and Vice President Dick Cheney first started to make sense of terrorism.
In the 1970's and 80's, the predominant view among Washington hawks was that none of the various terrorist groups that operated in Western Europe and the Middle East was truly independent. They were all connected through a vast terrorist network, which was created and supported by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites. The Communists' aim, the hawks believed, was to destabilize the Western societies without being directly linked to violence.
It all seemed to make perfect sense, and books like "The Terror Network" by Claire Sterling, which argued the network hypothesis with considerable force and conviction, became essential reading for anyone who wanted to make his way in the Reagan White House.
The idea that the sinister hand of the Kremlin was behind groups like the Italian Red Brigades and even the Irish Republican Army revealed the deep sense of paranoia within political circles at the time. More important, the idea of the Communist terrorism network buttressed the conservative fixation on states as the only major actors in the international political system.
According to the classically "realist" mindset, only states can pose a significant threat to the national security of other states, because lesser actors simply do not have the capacity, sophistication and resources to do so. Hence, if terrorists suddenly became effective in destabilizing countries like Italy, they couldn't possibly have acted on their own. They must have had state sponsors, and it was only by tackling the state sponsors (in this case, the Soviet bloc), that you could root out the terrorists.
During the cold war, the paradigm of "state-sponsored terrorism" was useful, if not entirely correct. Most terrorists did receive help from states, and there were some links between disparate groups, although not to the extent that many in the United States believed. And some of the worst atrocities like the 1983 attack on United States military headquarters in Beirut were in fact carried out by groups that had been created by "rogue states" like Iran, Libya and Syria.
With the end of the cold war, however, things changed. While there was no longer a prime state sponsor for any "terror network," there was also no longer any need for one. It became easy to travel from one country to another. Money could be collected and transferred around the globe. Cell phones and the Internet made it possible to maintain tight control of an elusive group that could move its "headquarters" across continents. In fact, by the end of the decade, it seemed as if the model of state-sponsored terrorism had effectively been reversed: Al Qaeda was now in charge of a state Afghanistan under the Taliban rather than vice versa.
But the Washington hawks failed to see what was happening. The world around them had changed, but their paradigm hadn't. For them, states continued to be the only real movers and shakers in the international system, and any serious "strategic" threat to America's security could only come from an established nation.
Consider an article in the January/February 2000 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine by Condoleezza Rice, titled "Campaign 2000 Promoting the National Interest." Ms. Rice, spelling out the foreign policy priorities of a Bush White House, argued that after years of drift under the Clinton administration, United States foreign policy had to concentrate on the "real challenges" to American security. This included renewing "strong and intimate relationships" with allies, and focusing on "big powers, particularly Russia and China." In Ms. Rice's view, the threat of non-state terrorism was a secondary problem in her to do list" it was under the category of "rogue regimes," to be tackled best by dealing "decisively with the threat of hostile powers."
It comes as no surprise, therefore, that there was relatively little interest in Al Qaeda when the Bush team took over. For most of 2001, the national security agenda really consisted of only two items, neither of which had anything to do with the terrorist threat of radical Islam. First, the administration increased its efforts to bring about regime change in Iraq, which was believed to be the prime source of instability in a region of great strategic importance.
The second goal was a more competitive stance toward China. Missile defense this time against attack by China and North Korea was put back on the table. Even the collision of an American spy plane with a Chinese fighter in 2001 is an indication of the administration's mindset intelligence resources were deployed not to find Osama bin Laden, but to monitor what many White House hawks considered the most likely future challenger of American power.
Sept. 11, 2001, brought about a quick re-orientation of foreign policy. What didn't change, however, was the state-centered mindset of the people who were in charge. According to Mr. Clarke, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld immediately suspected Saddam Hussein, and suggested military strikes against Iraq. While cooler heads prevailed at the time, and there was a real effort to track down and destroy the Qaeda network, there was also a reluctance to abandon the idea that terrorism had to be state-based. Hence the administration's insistence that there must be an "axis of evil" a group of states critical in sustaining the terrorists. It was an attempt to reconcile the new, confusing reality with long-established paradigm of state sponsorship.
In the end, the 9/11 hearings are likely to find that the intelligence failure that led to the horrific attacks stemmed from the longstanding problems of wrongly placed agents, failed communications between government departments and lack of resources. But it was also a failure of vision one for which the current administration must take responsibility.
Peter R. Neumann is a research fellow in international terrorism at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.
Surprise, surprise!! [/sarcasm]
I'm not certain whether the author is merely confused, or whether he wrote this deeply-flawed article with malicious intent. His main premise seems to be that Republican administrations, most notably the Reagan administration and the current Bush administration, have had ideological blinders on, and due to their outdated belief that only state-sponsored terrorism can muster a real threat to national security, they missed the threat from Al Quaeda.
The author has done a sloppy job, and has not come close to proving his case. For just one example, when he quotes an article by Dr. Rice to support his thesis, he's making an obvious error. The article in question is focused on "foreign policy". By definition, foreign policy deals with the relations between states. It does not deal with relations between states and NGOs, or between states and organized crime syndicates, or between states and large multinational corporations, or, more tellingly, between states and terrorist groups. So, relying on that article to explain the Bush administration's policy and actions for fighting terrorist groups is simply silly at best (or, possibly a malicious red herring).
The SOL saw it coming:
23 August 2001
>>>A red flag is a well known warning sign or danger signal. What a picture to see the SOL holding a red flag up. What a picture to see the Statue of Liberty with the same initials (SOL) as a common expletive beginning with the letters S.O.L. meaning S___ Out of Luck.
Volition: The exercise of the will: Prospective volition: Danger signal
danger signal (noun)
danger signal, note of warning, WARNING
murmur, muttering, DISCONTENT
writing on the wall, portent, evil omen, OMEN
gathering clouds, thundercloud
storm warning, gale warning, small craft warning, hurricane warning
tornado warning or alert
warning sound, alarum, alarm clock, alarm bell, burglar alarm, security alarm, car alarm, fire alarm, fire bell, foghorn, fog signal, bell buoy, car horn, klaxon, buzzer, bicycle bell, police whistle
blast, honk, toot, LOUDNESS
alarm, church bell, curfew, tocsin, siren, alert, red alert
tattoo, beat of the drum, trumpet-call, CALL
war cry, battle cry, rallying cry
fiery cross
death's head, skull and crossbones
warning light, red light, yellow light, Very lights, lighthouse, beacon
quarantine flag, storm flag, red flag, yellow flag
distress signal, SOS, Mayday, SIGNAL
sign of alarm, start, tremor, blench, sweat, hair on end, FEAR<<<
On the one hand it can be of analytical use to swap the nomenclature around like that. But on the other hand it is a distinction without a difference. We needed to mop up the Taliban in order to attack Al Qaeda just as surely, either way.
But as to the culpability, or lack thereof, of Iraq, IMHO Saddam's problem was that he had cultivated a situation in which nobody knew that he wasn't making WMD and nobody knew that he had nothing to do with 911 and especially with the anthrax problem of the time. Having cultivated that situation for his own reasons (possibly including the fact that they were true), there was no way to assure Bush that they were not true - and thus no way to prevent an American invasion.
The Administration decided that it could not afford for the regimes in the region to be in doubt that Saddam had done those things and gotten away with it, any more than it could afford for Saddam to have actually done those things (if it had) and for him to believe that he had gotten away with it. The fruits of this policy are not only a democratic Iraqi government in the making but a Libya turning from foe to friend.
Al Qaeda can still exist sub rosa anywhere in the world, but the places willing to allow them to exist publicly are dwindling and may soon disappear. At which point Al Qaeda will be the law enforcement problem the Democrats are fond of claiming that it already is.
What I cannot understand is why so many are willing to buy blaming the current administration, and call for us to turn over our safety to a corrupt international body that has never stopped terrorism, and indeed, has fed off it and corrupt dictatorships for decades. Amazing.
The continuing 'practical' alternative to the hyper-critcized Bush policies would then be..........
Within days of taking office the Bush Administration would have declared War on the Soverign State of Afghanistan and would have gone before Timmy Russert, Judy Rough-woodie, Leslie Stall, etc. to explain to these HOSTILE gate-keepers of the public opinion why we're going to invade.
Think about the response!!!!!!!!!!!
There would have been immediate incredulous-jawdropping-SCREAMS of "HAS THIS ADMINISTRATION LOST ITS MIND!!!!!!!!!".
This whole thing is crap, IMHO, and the continued trashing of the Bush administation IS NOT endearing the media to me, whatsoever.
Could you imagine what would have happened if we had invaded Afghanistan before 9-11.
We would not have been able to stop the 9-11 plot anyway. That was well developed outside of Afghanistan, and going to happen.
All the terrorists would have to say was that 9-11 was in response our invading Afghanistan,and they would get world wide approval.
The blame America first crowd in this country and around the world would have had a field day saying we brought it on ourselves by invading Afghanistan. -
We were saved from a major PR blunder by our own incompetence. -Tom
According to official Kenyan government figures, 213 people were killed in the blast that gutted the U.S. Embassy building in downtown Nairobi. That included 12 American workers and 34 of their Kenyan colleagues, called "foreign service nationals [FSNs]." More than 4,000 Kenyans were also injured in the explosion.
According to Tanzanian government figures, 12 people, all Tanzanians, died as a result of the truck bomb that exploded in the street outside the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam. Seventy-two Americans and Tanzanians were also injured in the terrorist attack.
The bombings in East Africa should have been the real 9/11 for the American public. It was a failure of leadership (read Clinton/Clarke) that did not rally our country to go to war against al-Qaeda. The number of total casualties, wounded and dead, approximated or exceeded those suffered on 9/11.
I was angered by Clarke's comments during the hearing that only 35 Americans lost their lives to al-Qaeda during the Clinton administration compared to the number lost during the Bush administration. We need to expose Clarke and Clinton for their feckless reaction to the East Africa Embassy bombings, which injured and killed thousands. Clarke's assertion that the Clinton administration placed a higher priority on fighting terrorism is belied by their reaction to the attacks on our embassies. I would also mention that over 1000 people suffered injuries in WTC I in 1993.
The bottom line is that the Clinton administration failed to recognize we were at war and took the less controversial stance of treating terrorism as an ad hoc law enforcement matter. There was a thread that ran through all of these attacks, and that was al-Qaeda.
While there is some truth to what the author is saying, why does everyone think that there cannot be concurrent efforts? Deal with China while pressuring rogue states AND actively trying to destroy AlQ. Sounds pretty nuanced to me.
Nice points, Peach.
It is the nature of counter-terrorism that you must either fight a perpetual defensive war, with the full knowledge that you will not be "lucky always" - Or you must take the offensive, and act preemptively.
Anybody want to venture a guess what the reaction would have been by the dems and those who are trying to lay culpability for 9/11 at the feet of the Bush Administration, if, in February of 2001, the President Bush had announced that they were invading Afghanistan in the name of preempting potential terrorist attacks later in the year?
Yeah, I'm sure the NYT, the Washington Post, and John Kerry would have all rallied behind that initiative...
I don't think they do.
My son had to give a speech in class about a political candidate. He chose Bush, of course, LOL, and had as one of his talking points the fact that the economy was rebounding.
Then he used Clinton's "it's the economy stupid" quote, but used it to lead the listener to the fact that if another terrorist attack happens, the economy will be down the tubes again, so the only real issue is the WOT.
His professor, (who told the class he hates Bush, such unbiased education in college these days, LOL) gave him an A+ and wrote on his paper that his economy argument was a strong persuasive point.
Could it be that this professor had never logically thought through the issue before? It appears that way.
And an excellent example of this quote by Denis Boyle (NRO) "... but then the French press isn't as French as the New York Times, where every page is drenched in rich nuance."
Although I agree we would have suffered a PR setback, I don't think such considerations should deter our political leadership from taking the necessary actions to protect our citizens at home and abroad. That's the mantra of the Clintonistas like Alrbight and Berger, i.e., we didn't have the support from abroad or domestically to take such actions.
In his testimony before the Commission, Rumsfeld said we would have taken action against the Taliban and AQ even if 9/11 did not happen. The comprehensive strategy and plan to deal with AQ was signed on September 10. The Bush administration did not want to retaliate for the USS Cole using the pinprick of missiles launched at training camps. Clinton had 4 months to respond to the USS Cole and did nothing because the proof was not definitive that AQ did it, which is laughable given the prior attacks. Besides, the embassy bombings were sufficient enough.
From a practical and logistical standpoint, it would have been very difficult for the Bush Administration to act immediately on taking office. Anyone who has worked in the federal government during a change in administrations knows that it takes 4 to 5 months to transition to the new team. The fact that we were able to respond so quickly after 9/11 is testimony to the fact that a plan was already in place and just needed to be implemented. That is the Bush legacy.
I am in no way implying we need approval or a permission slip from the UN to fut-her our countries interests.
But the PR disaster of unilaterally going into Afghanistan and having the 9-11 attacks passed off by Al Qaeda and the world as retaliation for our attacking Afghanistan would mean we would never have gone into Iraq.
Bush would be blamed for the deaths of 3,000 Americans in NY and beaten over the head with that to the point I don't think he would have pressed for an invasion of Iraq,
And if he did invade Iraq in that environment, and no WMDs were found he probably would get impeached for reckless and dangerous behavior as commander chief.
So I'll say it again:Could you imagine what would have happened if we had invaded Afghanistan before 9-11...We were saved from a major PR blunder by our own incompetence. -Tom
Actually, only Russia can physically destroy much of this country. But even a "limited" nuclear attack by a state or sub-state actor can destroy or severely undermine our national ethos...and replace it with something else that we probably would not like. (My guess: we go on a war of extermination.)
Well, yeah, with nukes. But
a biology wiz kid
with a billion bucks
from some fanatic
can bio-engineer bugs
(or even prions,
I'd guess) and cause more
loss of life and chaos than
a big nuke attack.
(Biology is,
comparatively, so cheap,
I'm puzzled no one
has used this path yet.
Some of the eco nuts are
educated nuts . . .)
Faulty tin foil hat... -OR- Tin foil boots weren't grounded...
Can't happen here... Famous last words.
That was a very large problem.
Any Grand Jury testimony, ie. law enforcement route, was secret and could not be dispensed to the CIA and FBI.
He refers to her as "Ms. Rice."
That was enough for me.
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25 years ago, a different Ebola outbreak in Va.
RESTON, Va. -- It had all the makings of a public-health horror story: an outbreak of a wildly deadly virus on the doorstep of the nation's capital, with dozens of lab monkeys dead, multiple people testing positive, and no precedent here on how to contain it.
Americans' introduction to the Ebola virus came 25 years ago in an office park near Washington Dulles International Airport, a covert crisis that captivated the public only years later when it formed the basis of a bestselling book.
Initially thought to be the same hyper-deadly strain as the current Ebola outbreak that has killed hundreds in Africa, the previously unknown Reston variant turned out to be nonlethal to humans. But the story of what might have been illustrates how far U.S. scientists have come in their understanding of a virus whose very name strikes fear.
Gerald Jaax, one of the leaders of a team of Army scientists that responded to the 1989 outbreak in Reston, Va., closely watched the meticulously planned transfers this month of two American aid workers from Liberia to a specialized facility in Atlanta, the first Ebola patients ever brought to the U.S. Jaax recalled his days urgently trying to corral the country's first known outbreak.
In the fall of 1989, dozens of macaques imported from the Philippines suddenly died at Hazelton Research Products' primate quarantine unit in Reston, where animals were kept and later sold for lab testing. Company officials contacted the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., concerned they might be dealing with an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever among the monkeys.
Initial testing revealed something much worse: Ebola, specifically the Zaire strain, which had a 90 percent fatality rate in humans. Four workers at the quarantine facility tested positive for exposure to the virus.
Amazingly, they never even got sick.
Researchers eventually realized they were dealing with a different strain, one now known as Ebola-Reston. Though its appearance under a microscope is similar to the Zaire strain, Ebola-Reston is the only one of the five forms of Ebola not harmful to humans.


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She's my Baby & I'll love her if I want to, love her if I want to.... you would love her too she's the Baby ... the kins ...sung ..just one of her songs..
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Miloslav Trmač wrote:
Hmm,Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel píše v Čt 15. 01. 2009 v 16:35 +0530:Launchpad has it's own set of issues that I don't want to get into.Right. And note that deviation from upstream, along with the potential for controversy, is implied in what you want to do. Mirek
So, looking at the conditions, it seems that we can't have branches within VCS itself for core Fedora packages because of the obvious reasons explained by Miloslav.
And submitting a patch via bugzilla is not really a solution that can work for translations, I think!
I thought I would try to get all the issues sorted out that we are facing one by one, but unfortunately first one didn't get through. :(
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Over three generations, the Wyeth family has produced five painters, three of whom have achieved national stature. Andrew, who died Jan. 16, became the most famous, not only for the remarkable longevity of his career but also because a number of other painters have trod in his stylistic footsteps.
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The Winnipeg Jets will have their top scorer, Evander Kane, back in the lineup tonight against the Toronto Maple Leafs, but more questions have surfaced about the injury that has kept Kane out.
Kane has missed seven games because of a concussion. But on Tuesday he revealed that he likely suffered the injury as far back as Dec. 20 when he was hit during a game against the New York Islanders. He added that he became more certain after his head hit the ice in a game against Buffalo on Jan. 19. That means he played 14 games with what may well have been a concussion.
"I think it happened in the Islander game a few months ago," Kane said Tuesday. "I kind of got my bell rung and it didn't affect me too much."
He added that "I don't think it was affecting my play I think it was a long time ago and I got over it quickly. But I just wasn't feeling the same as I felt most of the year. So I wanted to step back and rest up and get a little bit better."
Kane leads the Jets with 18 goals this season and 13 assists. But he hasn't scored since Dec. 29, raising questions that he may well have been affected by the concussion.
"I feel good. I feel well rested," he said Tuesday. "I feel back to my old self."
As for his lack of scoring, Kane expressed frustration. "Any time you go through a stretch like that it's never fun...I should be able to refresh and regroup and I'm really excited about tonight. It feels like a fresh start."
Coach Claude Noel said he will likely keep a close watch on Kane's play and limit his time on the ice. But he said Kane should help bring some badly needed goal scoring for Winnipeg.
"We've certainly known that drought for the last little while so he'll be a welcome addition for us," Noel said. "He struggled a little before, Sometimes when you are out it enables you to reflect and brings some enthusiasm to the game."
Noel said Kane's lack of scoring could be related to the hit on Dec. 20 even if he didn't believe he had a concussion at the time.
"It could be part of it," he said. "I don't know. I could be."
The Jets face a tough task against the Leafs. Winnipeg has lost two straight and hasn't been able score more than one goal a game for the past six games. Toronto has been on a roll, winning five out of their last six games including a 6-3 victory over Edmonton on Monday.
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A borrowing from Middle Low German kogge ("wide, roundish ship"), or from Old Frisian kogge, Middle Dutch kogge, or pehaps from Old Norse kuggi ("sea vessel") or Swedish kogg ("merchant ship"). The word was first used in Germanic languages to refer to a kind of sail, wide with stumpy, roundish ends; it spread all over the Baltic sea in the 14th-15th centuries with the Hanseatic league, when it was borrowed into Latvian. At first used only as sailors' slang, it spread under Swedish influence in the 17th and 18th century (though one 18th-century author mentions that kuģis was used mostly in Riga, liela laiva "big boat" being used elsewhere); by the mid-19th century, it had became a general term for all kinds of ships in the standard language.[1]
kuģis m (2nd declension)
- ship (fairly large vehicle on water)
- pasažieru kuģis — passenger ship
- tirdzniecības, zvejas kuģis — commercial, fishing ship
- glābšanas kuģis — rescue ship
- okeāna, jūras, upes kuģis — ocean, sea, river ship
- mīnu kuģis — minelayer (lit. mine ship)
- kuģa korpuss, priekšgals, pakaļgals — ship hull, bow, stern
- kuģa klājs — ship deck
- kuģa kapteinis, apkalpe — ship's captain, crew
- kuģa žurnāls — ship's log book
- uzkāpt uz kuģa — climb on board of, embark on the ship
- nokāpt no kuģa — to disembark form the ship
- kuģu būvētava — shipyard
- kara kuģis — war ship
- lidmašīnu bāzes kuģis — aircraft carrier
- flying vessel (syn. lidaparāts)
- gaisa kuģis, gaisakuģis — aircraft
- kosmikais, kosmosa kuģis — spaceship
Derived termsEdit
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), "kuģis", in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7


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DA, defense differ on blame for police shooting
PITTSBURGH -- A prosecutor contends a black man shot and paralyzed by a white city officer had only himself to blame for the "choices and consequences" of driving away from a traffic stop, while a defense attorney contends the man was the victim of "undisciplined, overzealous officers" who wrongly confused him with a suspected gang member.
That's what the attorneys told an Allegheny County jury Tuesday to open the criminal trial of the injured man, Leon Ford, 21.
The Millvale man was 19 when he was charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and resisting arrest stemming from the incident Nov. 11, 2012.
Police contend Ford was trying to drive away from the traffic stop when Officer David Derbish, who was kneeling in the passenger seat of Ford's car and trying to wrestle him out of the vehicle, shot Ford five times.
But defense attorney Fred Rabner argued his client was justifiably afraid after police confused Ford with a "known gang banger" with a similar appearance, the same age and a different first name: Lamont.
Rabner contends one of the officers whispered in Ford's ear, as he lay handcuffed and bullet-riddled, saying "You better die" after failing to find a gun or drugs in the car.
The police said that "because they didn't want to be in this courtroom where we get to tell our story," Rabner said.
Derbish and fellow officers Michael Kosko and Andrew Miller, could wind up in court again if Ford's federal civil rights lawsuit doesn't settle.
The lawsuit depends largely on an internal police board that determined officers contributed to the shooting by not following proper procedures, though board members also said the shooting wouldn't have occurred had Ford obeyed the officers.
Deputy District Attorney Robert Schupansky contends Ford was speeding and rolled through one or two stop signs.
"What you're going to hear from that (witness) chair is a story about choices and consequences," Schupansky said, reminding the jury the criminal case "is about what Leon Ford did, not what the officers did. That's a separate matter."
Rabner contends Ford pulled over immediately, was polite, and provided a valid driver's license, registration and vehicle insurance to Kosko and Miller.
Despite that, he said, they suspected he was a gang member with a similar name so they called Derbish to the scene because he had guarded the other man in the hospital the year before in an unrelated case.


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Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/11/19 04:54 CST
It really looks like the second attempt at driving Spirit out of the trap has had the hoped-for result: some forward progress (maybe about a centimeter), and no evidence for further downward sinking.
Space Imaging II: Getting Started with MER and Cassini Raw Images now available for download
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/11/19 02:49 CST | 2 comments
I probably crammed too much into today's class: an hour-and-a-half whirlwind tour through the cameras on the rovers and Cassini, how to access their raw images on the Internet, and some basic processing that you can do with each of them.
Opportunity's poking at Marquette Island; Cassini's catching dancing moons
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/11/18 04:58 CST
Since tomorrow's class is going to be on playing with raw images from the rovers and Cassini, I've been playing with recent raw images from the rovers and Cassini! I just thought I'd share a couple of the fun items I've been working with.
Results of the first "Free Spirit" extrication drive, sol 2088: not much, as expected
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/11/17 03:20 CST
Even though all of us rover fans know that Spirit is really, really stuck, I think I'm not the only one who was secretly hoping that today's images downlinked from Spirit would show that the rover had magically popped out of the ground overnight. Of course, she didn't.
Highlights from today's Spirit press briefing
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/11/12 01:49 CST
Since A. J. S. Rayl was also listening in on today's press briefing about the efforts to extricate Spirit from her predicament at Troy, I'll just hit the high points and send you over to her story when she has posted it.
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Begins Extraction Process
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2009/11/12 11:00 CST
On Monday, November 16, 2009, Mars Exploration Rover Spirit will begin the much-anticipated, weeks-long process of extricating itself from a patch of powdery soil that stopped it in its tracks six months ago. It will begin by driving forward to the north, following its tracks out, even though its right front wheel is broken and immobilized.
Planetary Radio Q and A: Are meteorites on Mars actually interesting?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/11/09 03:53 CST
The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been studying a lot of meteorites. That made me wonder, why study meteorites on Mars when we can study them in hand on Earth? How are Mars meteorites interesting?
She moves! "First drive sequence in 145 sols" for Spirit
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/11/08 04:39 CST
It's been an awful long time since we've seen one of these from Spirit: an animation of four Navcam frames documenting motion!
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Overcomes Setbacks and Waits for Extraction Orders, Opportunity Takes a Magical Meteorite Tour
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2009/10/31 12:00 CDT
The Mars Exploration Rover mission logged another textbook-rewriting month in October 2009 with more discoveries of geologic gems, new robot achievements balanced with equal amounts of challenges and frustrations overcome, topped off with special honors.
Opportunity's world of dunes and rock
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/10/16 01:28 CDT
Opportunity's been making tracks lately, with brief stops to check out a couple of meteorites. I thought this view of its surroundings on sol 2,034 (a couple of days ago) was neat.
It would appear that Opportunity has stumbled upon another meteorite
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/10/02 12:58 CDT
I wonder if this came from the same original body as Block Island, or if Meridiani is the kind of slowly deflating landscape that accumulates meteorites at its surface, like the ANSMET meteorite hunting spots in Antarctica?
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Embedded Spirit Waits Exit Approval, Opportunity Celebrates New Mars Year with New Record
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2009/09/30 12:00 CDT
From notable achievements and new discoveries to trials and tribulations and harbingers of hope, the Mars Exploration Rovers seemed to experience the gamut on the Red Planet this September, their 69th month on an expedition that originally set out back in 2004 for a three-month tour.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/09/29 11:49 CDT
Opportunity rover is driving, driving, driving. It departed the meteorite named Block Island on sol 2,004 and has routinely clocked 70 meters per driving day (with drives every other day).
Beautiful 3D animation of Spirit's environs in Gusev Crater
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/09/23 08:14 CDT
Doug Ellison has done it again: he's created a spectacular overflight of Gusev crater based upon digital elevation models of the terrain produced by the United States Geological Survey from HiRISE data.
Opportunity's highway, and a tour of Block Island
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/09/15 12:35 CDT
Just a cool image to start the morning: after a 70-meter drive yesterday, Opportunity's following not one but two sets of its own tracks.
New HiRISE image of Spirit at Home Plate
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/09/03 01:43 CDT
There's a lovely new color HiRISE image of Spirit at Home Plate. It was captured on July 16 (sol 1,968), and Spirit is firmly entrenched at Troy, on the western side of Home Plate.
Dust storm update: Skies clearing for Spirit
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/09/02 12:25 CDT
For a while, Mars was beating Spirit while she was down, throwing a dust storm at the rover where it's bogged up to its hubcaps in fluffy soil When lots of dust is lofted into the sky, the hazard is that when it comes down, it may come down on the rover and its solar panels. But it appears things on Spirit are still pretty clean.
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Celebrates 3 Martian Years, Opportunity Finds Blockbuster in Block Island
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2009/08/31 12:00 CDT | 1 comments
The Mars Exploration Rovers hunkered down in place in August and delivered more mission "gold" as they achieved new milestones and uncovered more scientific gems, not the least of which was a blockbuster of a meteorite. But August proved to be a stormy month, uniquely challenging and one that many on the Mars Exploration Team will never forget.
Happy 3rd anniversary of the Spirit landing!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/08/26 02:03 CDT
"Third anniversary?" some of you may be asking. "Hasn't it been more like five years since Spirit landed?" Five Earth years, yes. But today is the third anniversary of the landing, measured in Mars years.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/08/24 12:37 CDT
While Spirit has been stuck at Troy, it's been taking numerous opportunities to capture photos with dramatic twilight lighting. On sol 2,002 (three sols ago, or August 21), it gazed toward the setting Sun, snapping the shutter roughly once a minute.
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Mass layoffs in April
May 30, 2003
Employers initiated 1,576 mass layoff actions in April 2003, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month. Each action involved at least 50 persons from a single establishment, and the number of workers involved totaled 161,095.
Compared with April 2002, the number of layoff events increased slightly, while the number of workers involved declined. April 2003 marked the 11th consecutive month the number of mass layoff initial claims declined over the year. From January through April 2003, the total number of events, at 6,460, and initial claims, at 624,401, were lower than in January-April 2002 (6,496 and 730,002, respectively).
These data are from the Mass Layoff Statistics program. Mass layoffs data for April 2003 are preliminary and subject to revision. For more information, see news release USDL 03-261, "Mass Layoffs in April 2003" (PDF) (TXT).
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Mass layoffs in April on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2003/may/wk4/art04.htm (visited September 26, 2016).
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China Thursday denounced the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to dissident Liu Xiaobo as tantamount to "encouraging crime," as state media said the award was part of a Western "ideological war" against Beijing.
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Shakib Al Hasan put in a superb all-round performance as Bangladesh enjoyed one of its biggest days in limited-overs cricket, beating New Zealand by nine runs in a thrilling fourth match to gain an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the five-game series.
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The Coalition says an inquiry into the social impact of the proposed water allocation cuts in the Murray-Darling Basin has no purpose.
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The weather bureau has issued warnings for damaging winds, flash floods and snow for much of Victoria.
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World number one Lee Chong Wei produced his fifth blistering performance in a row to help Malaysia to three individual titles and to four of the six badminton golds at the Delhi Games.
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Almost every aspect of the Nazis has been covered by German museums, but a chilling new exhibition in Berlin from this week explores for the first time the personality cult of Adolf Hitler.
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Queen Elizabeth has cancelled a planned Christmas party at Buckingham Palace after deciding it would be inappropriate to celebrate as ordinary Britons feel the pinch from tough economic times.
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Steve Cannane hosts a panel discussion with ABC political analyst Annabel Crabb, Sydney Morning Herald journalist David Marr and Tim Wilson from the Institute of Public Affairs.
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Andy Murray has become the fourth man to qualify for next month's season-ending championships as he defeated Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals of the Shanghai Masters.
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Annesley College in Adelaide hopes families will stick with it as it plans to merge with another school.
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It has been revealed that a prisoner was shot with a Taser 12 times by an elite group of West Australian prison officers in 2007.
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Stephen Smith has responded to Opposition claims the Government has betrayed three soldiers charged over civilian deaths in Afghanistan.
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The jury in the Supreme Court murder trial of Hobart woman Susan Neill-Fraser has retired for the night, after deliberating for six hours without reaching a verdict.
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All-rounder Shane Watson has declared Australia will have "no excuses" for Ashes defeat at home this summer after becoming more accustomed than usual to learning from their mistakes.
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The Tasmanian Government has supported a Greens motion to set up a parliamentary inquiry into the child protection system.
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Three suspected members of late terrorist leader Noordin Mohammad Top's network have gone on trial in Indonesia over twin suicide bombings on two luxury hotels in Jakarta last year.
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New Zealand needed double extra-time to beat world champions Australia 66-64 in a thrilling netball gold medal match at the Delhi Commonwealth Games.
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Tasmanian's outgoing Commissioner for Children, Paul Mason, has criticised the process that has dumped him after only one term.
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Outgoing Geelong president Frank Costa will meet with his Essendon counterpart David Evans to settle growing tensions between the two AFL clubs.
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The Victorian Government will introduce a new category of public bushfire shelter to be called a Bushfire Safer Precinct, just weeks before the next bushfire season.
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Perth Glory skipper Jacob Burns insists there is nothing sinister behind Robbie Fowler's absence for Friday night's A-League clash with North Queensland, claiming the star striker was never in line to play the game.
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Aspiring civil servants in Indonesia have been quizzed about the music career of the country's president during their selection exam.
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As international markets began trading the Australian dollar reached a 28-year high of 99.93 US cents, but has since slipped back to 99.45 cents.
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One of the veterans of the Australian mining industry says there are big lessons to be learnt from the dramatic rescue of 33 miners in Chile.
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Frank Ocean, fun. lead Grammy nominations
Smooth-voiced R&B singer Frank Ocean and indie pop group fun. were the big nominees revealed for the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.
Ocean, who made waves both for his critically acclaimed debut album "Channel Orange" and for revealing he had a relationship with a man, picked up six nominations including for album of the year, best new artist and record of the year categories (the latter for "Orange" track "Thinkin Bout You"). »Read Full Article
'Lois Ehlert's Mole Hill Stories' casts a spell on theatergoers of all ages
In the beginning, there was a nearly blind mole in the dark woods. Less than one hour later, that same mole could see all the way to the moon, inspired by a fellow creature making the seemingly impossible journey there.
These bookends hold "Lois Ehlert's Mole Hill Stories," Alvaro Saar Rios' adaptation of three of Ehlert's children's books. A collaboration between First Stage Children's Theater and Danceworks Performance Company that's designed to expose young children to theater, it opened Saturday morning under Desiree Rosas' direction. »Read Full Article


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Patriots running back Shane Vereen left the team's Week 16 game against the Ravens and is questionable to return with a groin injury, the team announced.
Vereen pulled up following a pass route down the left sideline, leaving the game and being taken to the locker room shortly thereafter.
The third-year pro was replaced by Brandon Bolden in the team's up-tempo offensive sets.
Vereen missed eight games earlier this season after suffering a wrist injury in Week 1 against the Bills. Upon his return, he has made a significant impact, with 36 catches in five games.


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Episode 147 of Speculate!–Daniel Polansky Novella Review (The Builders)
Welcome to Episode 147 of Speculate! The Podcast for Writers, Readers and Fans. In this episode we begin a brief two-show set on the work of Daniel Polansky, looking at his new novella The Builders, published by Tor.com. Joined by new addition to the team Mike Underwood, we chat about the Redwall meets Unforgiven nostalgia which The Builders unabashedly embraces, the excellent tone and pacing, the wonderfully detailed characters (despite the brief time we have to get to know them), and the sense of humor which keeps an otherwise dark tale from sinking into a morass of despair and gloom. We also set the stage for our upcoming discussion with several Tor.com notables about the novella and Tor.com's general approach to publishing, which has been attracting a great deal of notice and praise–and which both Mike and Brad, with works due out from them in the future, were drawn to as well. If you like what you hear, don't forget to check back next week when we'll have that discussion with the Tor.com people. And if you haven't done so already, please continue supporting our Patreon, which will give you exclusive content and other goodies from us every month. Thanks for supporting us here and via our Patreon page, and thanks as always for listening to and spreading the word about the show!
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Interest Master
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It was her acting variety that hailed her as 'the most interesting young actress of her generation' starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the early 1990s. Divya Bharti passed away at an early age but even today, her charm and aura is cherished through her films and roles. She made a mark not only in Bollywood but also in Telugu and Tamil films. Her performance in Vishwatma, Shola Aur Shabnam and Deewana have been the best ones from her kitty. Here's taking a trip down the memory lane through some rare photos of the Bollywood starlet who left us years ago.