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Whether it's Beyonce unveiling her baby bump, Rihanna getting raunchy on stage or the Twilight crew causing teen hysteria, the MTV Video Music Awards are always a good'un and last night's shindig was no exception. In the gallery above, you'll find the hottest looks from the red carpet players – from Katy Perry looking tres sophisticated to Nicki Minaj making our eyes water – but inside the ceremony, we were delighted to see Robert Pattinson working a touch of McQueen.
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Yep, while Kristen Stewart was nailing her first post-scandal appearance, the oh-so-hunky Rob popped up on stage wearing a bomber jacket by Brit brand Alexander McQueen. He was on stage with the Twilight crew to premiere a never-seen-before trailer for Breaking Dawn – Part 2 *squeals* Poor Pattzy must've squirmed when K-Stew as vampire-tastic Bella says, 'Forever isn't as long as I hoped' in the clip. God love him.
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Black History Month: Mamie "Peanut" johnson
Mamie Johnson (Peanut) was born Mamie Belton on September 27, 1935 in Ridgeway, SC. She was the second woman, and the first female pitcher to play with the men in the Negro Leagues.
She played for the Indianapolis Clowns from 1953 to 1955 and had a 33-8 W-L record.
Here is a cover of a children's book titled: "A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie "Peanut Johnson by Michelle Y. Green. Grades 4-6.
Despise the hardship, there were memorable highlights for Johnson. The great LEROY SATCHEL PAIGE helped her perfect the curveball. Don't squeeze the ball so tight, Paige told her. and let it break to the outside.
According to Johnson her most unforgettable moment came in a game between the Clowns and the Kansas City Monarchs. Facing off against third baseman Hank Bayliss with a runner on first, Johnson threw a called strike. the second ball was high and outside. Johnson's third ball was another strike. According to Johnson, Bayliss then called out to her on the mound with a voice so loud, the crowd could hear him. "YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A PEANUT", he alledgedly yelled. Johnson reared back and threw a third strike–gaining a strike out and a nickname at the same time!
After her baseball career ended, she was a nurse for 30 years, and also coached youth baseball. When she retired from nursing, she was the manager of a Negro Leagues memorabilia shop. She was also a guest lecturer at a Library of Congress symposium in October 2009.
Here is Mamie as a young girl and in uniform in 2007.
ref: African American Lives. Michelle Green's book.
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Another great history lesson about women in baseball! Wow. I'm learning a lot here.
Did you hear they are going to start adding Negro League statistics to Baseball-Reference.com? Pretty cool.Nice articles, learning a lot!
It pleases me so much to know that someone can learn something from my blog! Thanks!
No! I did not know that! That is terrific!
You know during the baseball season, I can pickup KNBR at night. I enjoy listening to it.
Thanks for stopping by! I'll check out your blog
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You can also download KNBR podcasts of your DJ of choice, which is what I've started doing instead of listening to the radio, so that I can hear the entire interview rather than whatever I happen to catch when I'm in my car. Of course, they don't talk about LA much, so I'm not sure how interesting you'd find it.
Keep feeding me more Emma!!!…I love this stuff!!
She looks great in her jersey.
Another great story of a pioneering athlete! I love the last two beautiful photos both in nice smile! Cannot wait for the next one!
SUPER entry, Emma! That book sounds like a great read! 33-8, eh? Not too shabby!😉 Good to see Paige help her out, also! Thanks, Emma!
Well if is a good interview of someone I would want to hear, yes. But yeah, they do not talk much about LA but I like hearing Giant fans complain🙂.
Peanuts still does look great in her uni! She was in San Diego last year along with other Negro League players being honored. Sure wish I could meet her! She is the only one still alive of all three!
Those two pictures are my favorite ones too! I saw plenty but like the smiles on those two!
Quite a record! She was in the regular rotation and other times played in the infield. Sachel! What a guy! And to offer to help her! I like the guy even more!
That is a great story :O) Thanks for the history lesson!
This is why I love MLBlogs.com so much.
It would take a long time for me to see such great feats and stories put into print or popped online, but this blogging community brings out interesting facts, figures and stories every day.
Great post, and one I really enjoyed reading today.
I never knew about this great pitcher, and I am glad you got to tell us about her.
Way to go!
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Emma, what an interesting entry! I never knew there had been any female players in the Negro leagues. Though you don't mention it, I'm assuming that she was not a particularly large person, to have earned the nickname "Peanut"? I'm sure she must have a wealth of fascinating stories to tell!
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You are so welcome Jenn!
I am so glad you liked it!
According the the Indianapolis Clowns program (wish I had one!), Mamie Johnson weight 120 pounds and stood 5'3″! imagine that!
She still alive! She was in San Diego along other players that played in the Negro League that were being honored. I wish I would have known about it earlier. I would have made the trip the two hour trip to San Diego.
Thanks for the interesting entry!!! It's too bad that players in the Negro League weren't allowed to play in the big leagues. Just think, if they were permitted to play, what kind of records might be different.
Some of those records would have been shattered!
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BENNINGTON Ralph W. Becker Sr., 77, died Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, at Crescent Manor Care Center in Bennington.
He was born April 15, 1935, in Bennington, the son of Franklin Becker and Fannie (Harrington) Becker Moon.
He received his education in Bennington.
He married the former Patricia Lucille Lane on July 2, 1955.
In earlier years, he was in the logging business and for many years was employed at the Union Carbide Corporation, retiring in 1992.
He was a former member of the Bennington Moose Lodge.
He enjoyed stock car racing and in earlier years, deer hunting.
Survivors include his wife, Patricia Becker of Bennington; five sons, Ralph Becker Jr., Barry Becker, and Kurtis Becker, all of Bennington, Jeffery Becker of Panton, and Eric Becker of Shaftsbury; five grandchildren; two step-grandsons, a great-grandchild, two step-great-grandchildren; an uncle, and several nieces and cousins. He was predeceased by a sister Reaha Bouchard.
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Computer games are big business. A team of 10 or 20 people may work feverishly behind closed doors for one to two years before the latest --insert game of your choice -- killer even sees the light of day. The average budget for this kind of development runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars, and that's before marketing gets involved! Given the risk and cost associated with game development, it's not surprising so many of today's games walk a fine line between derivative and evolutionary.
Large publishers are consolidating development houses or offering golden handcuffs to bring leading IP exclusively to a specific manufacturer's hardware. The barriers to entry into the games development industry are too large for just anyone to write a computer game.
Or are they?
Ok, I'll come clean. The barriers to entry into the commercial games industry are high, probably too high. Bob and Joe aren't going to write the next killer Playstation 2 title just by sitting in their respective bedrooms for six months, beavering away in an effort to realize a good idea. But this doesn't mean all they can do is sit in the pub arguing over what would make a great game. Bob and Joe have advantages! They don't have margins or deadlines to worry about. They have a great idea, some free time and nothing to lose. Most importantly, Bob and Joe have free software and a network of people willing to share their knowledge in order to help them learn. Add to this an audience of people crying out for more games -- whatever the cost. There are powerful weapons in the budding game developer's armory.
Commercial-grade tools for the programmers, artists, and musicians amongst us are available at the price of a download. This helps us all in our daily lives, but it helps budding developers like Bob and Joe even more. They have at their disposal a choice of rock-solid operating systems to develop upon, and one of the cleanest, easiest-to-learn programming languages available: Python.
Language developers have made numerous attempts to create a language that's easy to learn, yet powerful enough for novice programmers to develop a game. Some, like Blitz Basic, have been moderately successful. Yet all these languages fall down in several areas:
Enter Pygame, stage left.
"What's Pygame?" I hear you mutter? Well, I'm glad you asked...
Pygame is a lightweight wrapper around the Simple DirectMedia Layer(SDL) -- stay with me here! -- a cross-platform library for accessing low-level graphics programming routines available under Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and BSD (amongst others). Think "DirectX" and you'd be close enough, except the beauty of SDL is it's free, non-proprietary, and extremely powerful.
Pygame provides an abstraction of SDL, giving you access to CD devices, keyboards and joysticks, fine-grained control of palettes and hardware-accelerated graphics primitives and, of course, the "mixer" module, allowing you to play anything from MP3s to WAV samples. Pygame contains everything you need to create a computer game.
You might be wondering, "Is Python fast enough for game development?" Involved in a Pygame project since it's inception, I have been more than surprised at how fast Pygame can be. Sure, it's not C, but it's no slouch, either. Thanks largely to Pete Shinners and the dedicated and active development community that has sprung up around Pygame, it's only going to improve. There is a burgeoning library of contributed modules you can include in your own projects, a warm and friendly developers mailing list that's only too happy to help people with their problems, and of course the IRC channel (#Pygame on irc.openprojects.net), where most of the "Pygame Projects" developers can be found. There's no problem that seems to go unanswered.
Game developers taking their first forays into "real" development come armed with a large collection of ideas, and a small bag of "clues" about how to realize them. It's demoralizing to get caught up in the intricacies of the chosen development language early in the project, or to realize that there is a large "tooling" time required to get a project off the ground. What these guys want is results! And quickly! The graphic artist wants to see if his character designs will work with his backgrounds, the sound guy wants to know if his music "feels" right, and the coder wants to know exactly how many screen updates (frames per second) he'll get shifting the proposed number of objects (sprites) around a certain-sized screen.
The beauty of Python and Pygame is they free developers from some of the more mundane chores that come with "lower level" languages such as C. You know the arguments: not having to worry about memory, no compile cycle, etc. etc. But it really does make a difference, when you consider the scope of computer games. The basics of Python syntax can be picked up in a couple of days, and the core Pygame functions in a couple more. It's not unfeasible for a novice game programmer to have a small test application up and running in less than a week! Don't believe me? Let's have a quick look.
We will create a simple framework for loading a sprite (a moveable image), set up a display, and blit (or copy -- this term is derived from "bit block transfer") the sprite onto our screen:
# Quick PyGame Example...
# Initialise SDL, display an image...
# For handling filenames...
import os
# The pygame module itself...
import pygame
# The image handling...
import pygame.image
# Important constant definitions for Pygame,
# in this example: used to setup the "Double
# Buffered" Display...
from pygame.locals import *
# Get the image from: ./images/sprite1.gif
sprite_file = os.path.join('images', 'sprite1.gif')
# Open up a display, draw our loaded image onto it
# -- check for ESC; if pressed, exit...
def main():
# Initialise SDL environment
# Setup a 640x480 screen...
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640,480), HWSURFACE|DOUBLEBUF)
# Make a "surface" which is the same size as our screen...
background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size())
# Make this background surface a white colour
# (note: R,G,B tuple):
# Load our sprite:
sprite = pygame.image.load(sprite_file)
# Get the initial position of the sprite,
sprite_position = sprite.get_rect()
# Set it's position to the middle of our display...
sprite_position.bottom = (480 / 2)
sprite_position.left = (640 / 2) - 100
# Now "blit" the background and our sprite
# onto the screen...
screen.blit(background, (0,0))
screen.blit(sprite, sprite_position)
# Now display the screen buffer we've been
# blitting things to...
# Infinite loop to keep the window open until
# ESC or "Close Window" widget
# is pressed...
while 1:
# Get all "Events" that have occurred.
# Check for keyboard input...
keyinput = pygame.key.get_pressed()
# If ESC or "QUIT" events occurred, exit...
if keyinput[K_ESCAPE] or pygame.event.peek(QUIT):
# So we can run straight from the CLI...
if __name__ == '__main__':
A simple application that didn't involve the words "Hello World"! Save yourself some typing by downloading the examples. When executed, the example code looks something like this:
We first set up a display 640 pixels wide by 480 pixels high. We've also opted for hardware acceleration (if available) and a "double buffered" display. (Double Buffering allows you to draw on a virtual display that is hidden from view until you switch or "flip" to it.)
Next we create a surface (think of it as a piece of clear plastic that you can draw on), that is the same dimension as our display, and we fill this with a white color -- this surface will act as our background.
We now load our sprite. Using the
get_rect() method, we retrieve its current parameters. This allows us to set our sprite's position via the
bottom and
left attributes (and a few other useful things!). We can set these attributes to an integer value -- or use the existing values as the basis for dynamic modifiers.
With the sprite's position set (in the center of the display, in this example), we blit the background and the sprite to our screen buffer. Using
pygame.display.flip(), we make our hidden buffer visible.
The example above is fairly simple, but it's trivial to extend this to move the sprite around our display. We already have an infinite loop that checks if the Escape key is being pressed; if we extend this to check for the cursor keys, we can modify the position of the sprite accordingly and display it in its new position, like so:
while 1:
# Get all "Events" that have occurred.
# Check for keyboard input...
keyinput = pygame.key.get_pressed()
# If ESC or "QUIT" events ocurred, exit...
if keyinput[K_ESCAPE] or pygame.event.peek(QUIT):
# Ok, ESC not pressed, check for cursor keys...
if keyinput[K_RIGHT]:
sprite_position.left = sprite_position.left + 4
if keyinput[K_LEFT]:
sprite_position.left = sprite_position.left - 4
if keyinput[K_UP]:
sprite_position.bottom = sprite_position.bottom - 4
if keyinput[K_DOWN]:
sprite_position.bottom = sprite_position.bottom + 4
# In case changes were made to the position,
# redraw everything in it's new position...
screen.blit(background, (0,0))
screen.blit(sprite, sprite_position)
Voila! A moving sprite!
The example shown is very simple, but as you can see, Pygame handles complicated tasks with grace.
Things don't stop there! Python itself has many ways to impress. Need some networking for your game? No problem:
>>> import socket
Want to use an XML configuration file for the user parameters in the game? Great:
>>> import xml
Bob and Joe have the full power of Python and its standard modules at their disposal, power that removes the need for traditional proprietary formats or other custom developments normally associated with computer games.
In addition, Python provides a great platform for distributed games, as seen in early Ultima Online 2 developments. Python can also provide the means for players to customize ("mod") the game, something that's been popular since Doom hit the shelves. Customizing a game was recently taken to the extreme with "Severance, Blade of Darkness", which features an embedded Python interpreter within the game itself!
Related Reading
Programming Python, 2nd Edition
Python and Pygame let developers concentrate on their ideas. You can quickly turn a discussion via email into working code, code that could end up in a final release with little or no change. Updates or modifications (with a bit of thought and the normal software engineering practices) are often trivial to do. It's an easy language for the novice to learn from other people's code, while being powerful enough to implement some extremely far-reaching ideas. Not to mention the fact that the combination of Python, Pygame, and SDL gives you real cross-platform development powers -- virtually the Holy Grail of the modern games industry.
What more could you ask for?
There are numerous examples of simple games that have taken a week to develop, as well as large projects that are still in development after a couple of years of work. Pygame has grown with them all, and continues to add new functions that will simplify the developer's life and provide new and interesting features. Python game development is easy and flexible.
With so few commercial developers free to take risks and bring revolutionary titles to market, maybe now is a perfect time to consider doing it yourself. It has never been easier to to sneak under their radar.
Gareth Noyce is an XML Architect by day and an independent Graphic Artist for Free Software projects by night.
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Furtive fawn response bypasses state policyAP File Photo
A fawn hides in the woods in South Hero.
MARSHFIELD — A kind of Underground Railroad for orphaned fawns has formed in Vermont in response to a policy adopted by the Fish and Wildlife Department.
Julie Gresser says she learned of the illicit network in early June, after hearing from neighbors in Marshfield about an orphaned fawn. She said she was taken to where the animal lay and was told the neighbors had found a dead doe with a full udder a few days before.
In what she felt was in the best interest of the baby deer, Gresser said, she took the fawn home and kept it on her back porch, feeding it goat's milk. Gresser didn't know what to do with the fawn and started calling animal rehabilitators around Vermont to see if they could take it in.
"I just naively assumed there would be help somewhere for getting this fawn to a place that could protect it and get it back to the wild," she said.
What she found out is that the policy of the Fish and Wildlife Department is to shoot fawns that have been picked up by the public. Because wildlife rehabilitators are licensed in Vermont, she said she learned, they are obligated to notify the department when they hear someone has a fawn.
Gresser soon received a phone call from the department asking about the fawn and where she lived, she said, but she was careful about what information she gave.
Gresser says she was in the process of talking with people around the state who were willing to take the fawn in and raise it illegally.
"In addition to being inhumane and really creating a lot of divisiveness between the community in Vermont and (Fish and Wildlife) when there are incidents like this, they may create the situation that they say they are trying to prevent," she said. "Because people will kind of use this Underground Railroad system for fawns because of this strict policy."
When she was away from home for a couple hours, Gresser said, a game warden took the fawn from her back porch and later told her it had been shot.
"I don't want to be emotional about this because people then see you as a bleeding heart, but this was a beautiful, peaceful animal. The fawn was a beautiful and vibrant animal who had a tremendously strong will to live," Gresser said.
Behind the policy
Adam Murkowski is the deer project leader at the department. He said the reason for the policy is that fawns can't be rehabilitated and returned to the wild because they need their mother's guidance to survive.
"Deer are really social animals," he said. "When a deer is really young it is really impressionable. So things like predator avoidance, what should pose a danger to the deer, that is something it should learn from its mother."
Murkowski said deer also need to find wintering spots and he doesn't think it is ethical to release an animal into the wild without those life skills. He cited two published studies, one in 2011 out of Connecticut and another in 2005 out of Missouri, that say fawns picked up in the spring and released back into the wild in the fall have a very low survival rate.
Then there is the issue of disease. Murkowski said chronic wasting disease is now found in deer in about 20 other states. Vermont has had no recorded cases of the brain disease, a distinction Murkowski attributed partly to not rehabilitating fawns and potentially getting a sick deer grouped with healthy animals.
"To rehab one deer at the risk of the overall deer herd is not worth the potential price that could be paid," he said. "Vermont is very lucky to have a healthy deer herd, and we want to keep it that way."
Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Patrick Berry said he supports the policy on fawns because of the science behind it.
"Fawns cannot be rehabilitated," he said. "They all die within 30 to 60 days, regardless of (how they are released). Some states do (rehab fawns) — I don't know why."
State law allows for young big game such as deer, bear and moose to be rehabilitated, saying, "The State Game Warden shall handle the big game animal by either returning it to the wild, dispatching it in a humane manner, or, if the animal is a young of the year, he may allow the rehabilitator to possess the animal until it is well enough to be returned to the wild."
Berry said he has the discretion to close that loophole.
"There are a thousand places in statutes where a commissioner, the secretary or the governor has the discretion to allow or not allow a specific activity," Berry said. "This is one of those cases."
The policy predates his tenure, according to Berry and Murkowski. It has been in place for more than three years, Murkowski said.
Berry said usually people are taking deer out of the wild that are perfectly fine and whose mothers are around, but all the people see is the lonely baby. He said that was the case with Gresser's fawn and that the game warden requested but was never shown the dead doe.
"The reality with the fawn that this woman found is that it died because she took it home. If she had left it in the woods, it likely would have survived because there was an excellent chance that the mother was nearby," he said.
Death in the wild is just the way nature works, he added.
"Animals that die in the woods feed a whole variety of wonderful creatures that we also appreciate in the woods. Without that kind of natural process and death and renewal there would be a lot of animals that wouldn't survive."
Berry said that although he could have cited Gresser for taking in a wild animal illegally, he chose not to because he understands Vermonters love wildlife.
Back to the wild
Pat Ferguson says she has been successfully rehabilitating fawns at her Field of Dreams center in Springville, N.Y., since 1995. She said authorities take the "impossible to rehab" stance with deer because they don't want deer to be seen as pets.
"They want them to be seen as hunting targets. The only studies done on deer over the years have been failures when you (rehabilitate the animals) the old-fashioned way. ... The majority of (the New York Department of Environmental Conservation's) budget for the year comes from hunting licenses," she said.
Ferguson's way of rehabbing deer, which she said has about a 95 percent success rate, involves accepting the deer in the spring, letting it live with penned domestic deer to learn how to be deer in the fall and winter, and "soft releasing" it the following spring by leaving the gate to the pen open so it can come and go. After two weeks, Ferguson said, rehabbed deer will not let her approach and do not return to the pen, becoming wild animals again.
Ferguson said the disease argument is insignificant because what she does is take the sick deer out of the population and quarantine it until it either gets healthy or has to be euthanized.
"We're actually the best ally the state has because we pull (the deer) out of the wild," she said.
She does agree that most of the time, people finding a fawn should leave it alone. When fawn season hits in the spring, Ferguson said, one or two people at her center are on the phone from sunup to sundown explaining how a doe purposely leaves a fawn alone the first few days of its life — keeping a watchful eye on it — until it is strong enough to flee from predators. A newborn fawn has no scent, so the mother's absence means predators are less likely to find it.
Out of 10 calls her center gets, Ferguson said, maybe one will actually be a case where the fawn needs to be rehabilitated; the rest are fine with their mothers.
And while the "cycle of life" argument about animals dying in nature makes sense in a perfect world, she said, it goes against human nature.
"You can't tell someone that cares about their animal, that cares about their dog, their cat and has horses, to leave a fawn and let nature run its course. It won't happen," she said. "What will happen is people will pick up the fawn, take it home and raise it illegally."
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A persistent pig problem has resurfaced at Hoomaluhia Botanical Garden as feral pigs dig up roots, knock down plants and turn grass into mud pits. The problem has grown exponentially after a contract to cull the pig population with the United States Department of Agriculture was allowed to lapse Sept. 30.
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"Without them, I think that all our joggers and walkers and campers and fisher people would have a difficult time enjoying the garden," said Winnie Sinego, director of Honolulu Botanical Gardens, which consists of five gardens including Hoomaluhia.
A resolution (13-275) by the Honolulu City Council seeks to authorize a new contract with the USDA through Sept. 30 of next year. The council expects to pass the resolution during its meeting on Dec. 11.
"They damage the grass, they root it up," Sinego said of the feral pigs. "They damage our native Hawaiian plants, (and) they damage all the ornamental plants also."
The new $53,000 contract will allow trappers to enter Hoomaluhia during off hours to set-up corral traps, non-lethal leg snaring and lethal neck snaring. According to the agreement, pigs taken out of the garden alive will be put down by rimfire rifle at close range. It's up to Sinego whether to allow night shooting and pig hunting dogs inside the garden.
"I don't think we can ever eradicate them, but we want to maintain them so that they don't do too much damage," said Sinego.
In addition to destroying native plants and trees, feral pigs at Hoomaluhia pose a danger to visitors who may get too close. Weekend campers and early morning walkers often report seeing pigs to staff at the garden.
"We always worry that somebody might inadvertently just go between a mamma and her babies, and then what?" said Sinego.
The contract with USDA allows staff with the agency's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services to work 44 hours during every two week period, excluding Sundays and federal holidays. The agreement allows APHIS-WS staff to monitor traps and snaring devices within Hoomaluhia at least once every 48 hours for animal welfare reasons.


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If there's one thing that working as undercover assassins and fighting terrorists in tall buildings has taught us, it's that everything worthy in life can be learned from movies. So if you're looking for love, there's nothing like sitting down with a bunch of romantic comedies and letting their sage lessons filter into your brain like music from a stereo held aloft by John Cusack.
Unfortunately, though, it's not quite that simple. When done in real life, many of the tricks used by onscreen singletons to successfully woo potential lovers can get you put away for a long time.
6Dashing Through Airport Security to Declare Your Love
As Seen In: Love Actually, Liar Liar, countless others
Will Get You: A year and a half in prison, depending on the charge.
Approximately half of all movie romances culminate in an airport, or on the plane after it's left the airport. You know the drill: The girl is flying away forever, the guy finally realizes he can't live without her and declares his love (see: The Wedding Singer, The Thomas Crown Affair, even freaking Crocodile Dundee had a variation of it). They even parodied the cliche in an episode of 30 Rock.
But then you have sequences like the end of the Jim Carrey romantic comedy Liar Liar, where desperate to catch up with his ex-wife and son who have boarded a plane on their way out of his life, Carrey hijacks an airport stair escalator on the runway and maneuvers it alongside the plane. Due to his trademark reckless but zany efforts, the takeoff is canceled and Jim Carrey gets to convince his son that he's a better dad than Cary Elwes. Everyone lives happily ever after.
Except Cary Elwes.
Of course, Liar Liar has the excuse of taking place before 9/11, so the cops weren't yet tazing every man, woman and child who reaches for a cell phone in the airport. But then there's Love Actually, which was released in 2003 and actually references 9/11 in its opening sequence, where Liam Neeson encourages his stepson to sneak through airport security at Heathrow without a boarding pass at Christmastime, in order to say goodbye to his school crush. The young scamp runs through the airport, pursued by airport guards, and confesses his love. Afterwards, the guards escort him back to his dad with trademark "kids will be kids" smiles, and then simply let both of them go.
Possibly as a reward for this sweet jump.
In reality:
The exact same scenario actually happened late last year, in real life. A young man at Newark Liberty International Airport briefly crossed a security barrier to give his girlfriend a final goodbye kiss. Hell, it even happened at Christmas.
Of course, guards and fellow travelers, overwhelmed with such a display of true love and the Christmas spirit, surrounded the couple and clapped... Oh, wait, no. What really happened was that the breach was discovered, the terminal went into lockdown, and around 200 flights were delayed or canceled worldwide.
"Is that your ex-boyfriend getting wailed on by the TSA?"
Once tracked down, the lovestruck man was given a fine and community service. A fair price to pay for romance, you say? Well, after this breach, everyone in New Jersey was so annoyed at this light punishment that moves to toughen laws are now advancing in the state legislature, which if passed could lead to up to 18 months imprisonment for similar acts in the future.
On top of all this, keep in mind that Love Actually takes place in the UK, where police have proved they are willing to shoot fleeing terrorist suspects in public, so it's not looking good for our plucky hero. And if that doesn't seem scary enough, unless you are blessed with the discerning power of Kanye West, you'd be hard pressed to find another crime that would earn you the immediate hatred of literally tens of thousands of people in your immediate surroundings.
Thanks, dick.
As for wackily hijacking the rolling stairs and blocking the plane from taking off like Jim Carrey? We're pretty sure if you try that now it'll get you a sniper round in the skull.
"Take the shot."
5"Oh, It Was You I Was Having Sex With!"
As seen in: Revenge of the Nerds, Overboard, While You Were Sleeping, Only You
Will Get You: Up to 30 years in prison, depending on the jurisdiction.
So, you want to get intimate with someone of the opposite sex, but they won't give you the time of day? Well, why not pretend to be someone else? As Revenge of the Nerds showed us all back in 1984, the perfect way to win over a young woman is to dress up in a Halloween mask, pretend to be her long-term boyfriend and then perform oral sex on her. If your technique is good enough, she won't be angry. In fact, she'll be so thrilled she'll even leave her boyfriend for you!
However, this technique does have limited practicality, being generally confined to Halloween night, and to the partners of firemen, exterminators, mutant pianists who live underneath theaters and ninjas.
An easier Hollywood route is to simply wait until your beloved is knocked on the head and then tell them you're sexually involved when they wake up with amnesia. In the 1987 film Overboard, the movie's hero, Kurt Russell, picks up spoiled heiress Goldie Hawn from a psychiatric ward where she's suffering from amnesia, and claims to be her husband.
Amazingly, this scene is not from a porno.
Despite Kurt's abrasive personality, Goldie reluctantly complies, and he takes her home and sets her to task cooking and cleaning for him, as well as looking after his four out-of-control kids. Naturally, Goldie falls madly in love, despite this being similar to the plot of several horror movies, and even after the ruse is revealed she chooses to stay.
In reality:
Ask Raymond Mitchell how that worked out for him. He had a habit of calling women, whispering to them and claiming to be their boyfriend. He'd tell them to wait for him with blindfolds on, and he'd show up and have his way with them. He wound up with a 15-year prison term.
And some great stories.
It's called Rape by Fraud, and you may have heard of a recent case in Israel that made international headlines where a man was recently convicted of rape after lying about his religion (that is, claiming to be a Jew) to convince a woman to sleep with him. He got 18 months.
What is more remarkable is how many states don't have rape by fraud laws at all (there have been calls to change that for years). The objection seems to be that once you can convict a guy or girl of lying to get sex, there may not exist enough bricks to build that many prisons. But for now, let's just say that if you're in a situation where the girl is only consenting because you're wearing a mask or she's wearing a blindfold, stop and rethink your life.
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When former Israeli President Moshe Katsav pleaded guilty to charges of sexual harassment and resigned his post late last month, no one was more surprised and saddened than his strongest supporters in Southern California, the Iranian Jewish community.
Many local Iranian Jews share a common ancestry with Katsav, and were particularly disappointed as they had backed his claims of innocence amid the frenzy of criticism of his sexual conduct from politicians and the media in Israel.
"While some diehards will continue to look for excuses, most of his supporters feel betrayed and deceived by his denials," said H. David Nahai, an Iranian Jewish attorney in Century City. "His ignominious downfall is a matter of great sadness and deep disappointment for Persian Jews everywhere."
The scandal began last July, when Israeli government investigations led to a total of 12 women accusing Katsav of sexual assault and harassment. Additional allegations were brought against Katsav for giving state-funded gifts to private individuals, committing fraud, harassing a witness and obstructing justice.
Finally, in late June, Israeli Attorney General Menahem Mazuz offered to drop all charges and suspend any prison time for Katsav, citing a lack of evidence in the case, on the condition that Katsav would plead guilty to sexual harassment and resign his post as president.
While many local Iranian Jewish leaders remained tight-lipped on Katsav's resignation, his close allies in the community said they refuse to believe Katsav is guilty of any wrongdoing.
"I've known him for many years, and I've never seen any of [the] things they've accused him of," said Shimon Magen, a Los Angeles resident and close friend of Katsav. "He loves his family, is a decent human being, good hearted, and a God-fearing man."
In April, Iranian Jewish leaders in Los Angeles said that a nonprofit group was set up on behalf of Katsav's legal defense fund. Community leaders declined to comment on how much money was raised for Katsav's attorney fees, but Magen said that he was frustrated with the lack of financial support for Katsav during the scandal.
"I was surprised that after members of our community were once fighting to be photographed with Moshe Katsav and shake hands with him—but now that he had fallen, no one was willing to come to his aid," Magen said. "I haven't spoken to him since his resignation, but he told me he was very upset that no one from our community stepped up to help him."
Katsav's ascension to the presidency nearly seven years ago was a source of tremendous pride for many Iranian Jews worldwide, as he was the first from the community to achieve such a high political office in any government. Ironically, the Iranian Jewish Woman's Organization (IJWO), a Los Angeles-based social group, honored Katsav's mother, Goher, last year for her success in raising Katsav to become a source of pride for Iranian Jewry worldwide.
For the past year, both Katsav and his legal team have vehemently denied his involvement in any sexual misconduct. His attorney, Avigdor Feldman, said Katsav only agreed to plead guilty for pragmatic reasons.
"We almost had to use force to persuade the president to plead guilty to the charges, because had he not done so, the prosecution would have filed an indictment including two rape charges," Feldman said. "He would have been acquitted in the end, but he would have gone through the hell of a prolonged trial, media attention, media hullabaloo, sitting on the defendant's dock and facing harsh and humiliating accusations."
On June 28, Katsav's son, Yisrael, told Israeli Channel 2 television reporters that Katsav's acceptance of the plea bargain was not an admission of guilt by his father, but rather a decision to end the intense media scrutiny of their family life.
"We wanted our quiet, and that was the deciding factor in accepting the deal," Yisrael Katsav said.
Nahai and other local Jewish legal experts said they are not convinced of the excuses Katsav and his attorneys made for accepting the plea bargain.
"I think the case against him must have been overwhelming and futile to defend against," Nahai said. "An innocent person would have wanted to clear his name. Instead he will carry the stigma of being a sexual offender for the rest of his life."
If convicted, Katsav would have faced a maximum sentence of three years in prison for obstruction of justice and a maximum of 16 years if convicted for rape, according to Israeli laws.
In a July 3 interview on Israeli Channel 2 television, Katsav still maintained his innocence and said he was a victim of a "campaign of incitement" and "false allegations." In a January press conference, Katsav had said the Israeli media and his opponents were motivated by racism and had been trying to discredit him ever since his 2000 victory over Shimon Peres for the presidency.
Many of Katsav's friends and supporters in the Iranian Jewish community said despite Katsav's embarrassing exit from politics, they believe the majority of local Iranian Jews would still welcome the ex-president within their ranks.
"President Katsav is and will be held in the highest esteem in our community," said Ebrahim Yahid, a West Los Angeles resident and 40-year close friend of Katsav.
"He is an outstanding individual who from a young age has been in public service in Israel and rose to the ranks of president; this is a great achievement for someone from our community," Yahid said.
Leaders from the L.A.-based Iranian American Jewish Federation declined to comment on Katsav's resignation. Calls made to Katsav's attorneys in Israel and the IJWO in Los Angeles for comment were not returned.
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A View of Paestum, 1759
Antonio JoliItalian, 1700-1777
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Born in Modena, Antonio Joli went to Rome as a young man and studied under Giovanni Paolo Pannini. After Joli moved to Venice in 1735, Canaletto encouraged his art, and Joli became one of the finest architectural view painters of his day. A View of Paestum exemplifies the mid-eighteenth century taste for ruins reflecting the classical past. A Greek colony in southern Italy, Paestum possessed some of the best preserved Doric-style structures. Joli's perspective from the east shows the temples of Hera, Poseidon and Athena. Walls mark the ancient boundar-ies of the town, with a modern village nestled in its foothills and Monti di Cilento in the background. Paestum was a popular stop on the Grand Tour, and Joli provided a number of paintings of the site for its many visitors.
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As a high school athlete at Cary-Grove, Carly Loeffel thought of herself as a one-event specialist.
Two years into college, her vision has drastically changed.
On Monday, Loeffel was named a U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association second-team All-American after finishing 15th in the heptathlon at the NCAA outdoor nationals this month in Eugene, Ore.
"I've stopped thinking of myself as a high jumper," said Loeffel, a sophomore at Notre Dame.
The high jump, in fact, was Loeffel's third-best event at nationals, where she posted a personal-best score of 5,470 points, just shy of ND's school record of 5,509.
Her finish in Eugene also pushed Loeffel to imagine a bright future in her event.
"It really opened my eyes to the fact that I have a lot more potential than I gave myself credit for," she said. "I've started thinking about the (Olympic) trials in a couple of years. That could be a goal for me."
For the 2012 trials, the top-tier qualifying standard was 5,800 points, while the second-tier standard was 5,600, according to USA Track and Field's website.
Though high jump was Loeffel's love in high school, she posted better finishes at nationals in the shot put (sixth place at 41 feet, 8 inches) and long jump (ninth, 19-8).
She credits her Notre Dame teammates with training support. When she works on a specific event, Loeffel trains with that group in practice.
"They just pull me along with them," she said.
Loeffel was especially pleased with her progress in the long jump, where one adjustment was crucial.
"I learned to plant my foot better and launch myself," she said. "It was that one little thing."
Loeffel also placed in the top 15 in the high jump (11th, 5-6 ˝), 800-meter run (12th, 2 minutes, 19.34 seconds) and 200 dash (14th, 24.88).
Those performances helped Loeffel beat Pittsburgh senior Elizabeth Kline, who finished 20th. Kline edged Loeffel for first place, 5,460-5,411, at the Big East Conference outdoor meet.
Loeffel expects improvements in her two lowest-placing events at nationals – javelin (23rd, 92-5) and the 100 hurdles (23rd, 14.54).
"My coach says I have the experience of a high school sophomore when it comes to the hurdles because I'd never done them before," she said.
If Loeffel does make the 2016 Olympic trials, it would mean a return to Eugene, which will host the meet. The city's moniker, "TrackTown USA," suits its rabid track and field fans, Loeffel said.
"The stadium is huge and the people in Eugene are just there to watch track," she said. "During the 200 was when I first noticed it. We came down the stretch and … the entire stands were full."
Loeffel said she and her fellow heptathlon athletes are used to a much different crowd during their competitions.
"Usually, it's just our parents," she said with a laugh.
Huskers on a roll: Jacobs grad Amanda Burau was a member of Nebraska's national championship women's bowling team this season.
Burau, a junior who competed in one tournament for Nebraska, was part of a team that won its fourth NCAA title this spring. The NCAA has sanctioned a women's bowling championship for only 10 years. Nebraska defeated Vanderbilt for the title in April in Canton, Mich.
Judson's best: McHenry West grad Sarah Boyer earned first-team All-Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference honors in softball this spring for NAIA Judson University in a historic season for the Eagles.
Judson finished third in the National Christian College Athletic Association national tournament, tying the 2008 team for the best finish in school history.
Boyer (19-9) was the team's top pitcher this season, posting a 2.52 ERA with 22 complete games and 227 strikeouts in 183 1/3 innings.
Fab Flyer: Jacobs grad Ben Albano won first-team All-Great Lakes Valley Conference East Division baseball honors this spring.
The junior outfielder batted .305 and ranked second on the team in hits (54), RBIs (39) and home runs (seven). He also posted a .469 slugging percentage for the Flyers. Albano was one of four outfielders chosen for the team.
Lewis (33-18) won an at-large bid to the NCAA Midwest Regional tournament, where they posted a 2-2 record.
New homes: Harper College outside hitter Sarah House (Crystal Lake South) has committed to play volleyball this fall at D-III Lake Forest College.
Over the past two seasons, House has compiled 609 kills for the Hawks and ranked second on the team last fall with 445 digs.
Prairie Ridge grad Andraia Leja, a libero for Harper in 2011, will transfer to D-III Benedictine University this fall. Leja played last season at D-II West Florida after winning Harper's Female Athlete of the Year Award in 2011-12.
• Barry Bottino writes a weekly column and a blog about local college athletes for the Northwest Herald. Write to him at firstname.lastname@example.com, check out his On Campus blog at McHenryCountySports.com and follow him @BarryOnCampus on Twitter.


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Remember the movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"? That was fiction, but some alarmists would have us believe that the tomatoes and potatoes on our plates are really out to get us.
I recently got an e-mail inquiry from an MD who said he had read that solanine in tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants could be responsible for essential hypertension and a number of GI complaints, as well as symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, apparently through their inhibition of acetylcholinesterase. He had looked for supporting scientific studies and hadn't found any. He wondered if I had seen any such studies. I looked too. I couldn't find any either.
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Illinois state government reminds me of that AT&T commercial where actor Beck Bennett sits on a classroom floor with a group of kids and asks, "Who thinks more is better than less?"
You know the one I'm talking about?
The kids raise their hands, and the cute little girl in the purple dress and white sweater jumps in with: "More is better than less because, if stuff is not less, if there's more less stuff then you might want to have some more, and your parents just won't let you because there's only a little. But we want more, we want more ..."
We want more. We want more.
They won't say it publicly, but behind the scenes, "We want more" is the rallying cry of some powerful state officials and large special interest groups who hope to bring a progressive income-tax rate to Illinois by the end of next year.
So there's no confusion, "progressive income-tax rate" is code for "large tax increases" for Illinois' hardworking men and women.
Illinois' wage earners currently pay state government a 5 percent flat income tax regardless of how much they earn. That rate was 3 percent before 2009, when Democrats in a lame-duck General Assembly foisted a huge, "temporary" income-tax increase on individuals and businesses in a middle-of-the-night vote.
That "temporary" income-tax increase is scheduled to scale back to 3.75 percent at the end of 2014. But many of those in power in state government – mostly elected Democrats – want to replace it with a progressive income-tax rate that likely would maintain the 5 percent rate for the state's lowest earners and increase it dramatically for higher wage earners.
In the coming months and into 2014, proponents of a progressive rate will blatantly try to mislead the public by saying that the vast majority of wage earners actually will see their income taxes decrease under a progressive rate.
Let me be clear – that's a load of crap.
The folks behind this movement (check out ABetterIllinois.org, but don't be persuaded by the propaganda) want more revenue – even though the state already is taking in more money than ever before. The state can't get more revenue by lowering taxes on the bottom – say – 95 percent of wage earners and increasing it just on the top 5 percent.
There's this thing called math, you see, and those numbers don't add up.
If a progressive tax rate is approved, just about everyone's taxes in Illinois are going up. Or, at the least, the "temporary" increase to 5 percent will become permanent.
There's a large political hurdle that has to be crossed before a progressive tax can become reality.
Illinois' Constitution protects the state's current flat tax, so changing to a progressive tax system would mean a constitutional amendment.
Changing the state's Constitution first requires that a resolution be adopted by a three-fifths majority in both chambers of the General Assembly to put a measure on the ballot. If both the House and Senate manage to get it on the ballot, then either three-fifths of those voting on the constitutional amendment or the majority of those voting in that election would have to approve it.
Voters would not be setting the rates at the ballot box, however.
That would come only after everything is approved, and taxpayers would be at the mercy of the Democrat-controlled General Assembly, the same group that's been wanting – and wasting – more of our tax dollars for years.
It'd be like handing a blank check to a gambling addict outside of a casino and saying, "Here, go have some fun."
There are two resolutions seeking the amendment already filed, one in the Senate and one in the House (SJRCA30 and HJRCA33).
The resolution has a clearer path out of the Senate, where Democrats hold a 40-29 majority. Just 36 votes are needed to meet the three-fifths requirement there.
It's a little trickier – and more interesting – in the House, where Democrats hold 71 seats to the Republicans' 47. Exactly 71 votes would be necessary to move the resolution out of the House.
State Rep. Jack Franks, D-Marengo, is the only Democrat in the House to sign on as a sponsor to a resolution filed by state Rep. David McSweeney opposing a constitutional amendment allowing a progressive tax.
If all House Republicans stick together and vote against it, as McSweeney, R-Barrington Hills, thinks they will, the Democrats would need Franks' vote to proceed.
But Franks is steadfast in saying he won't be swayed.
"I don't know why anyone in their right mind would give our government more money," he told me Thursday. "The only reason a tax increase would be necessary is because we're doing such a bad job with the revenue we have. ... We don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem."
Franks is right, of course.
More, more, more is the mantra of most in Springfield.
State government is like a giant black hole. We put money in, it sucks it out into the middle of who knows where and demands more.
Illinois already is a high-tax state. Other states have successfully used that against us to lure businesses and jobs out of Illinois.
"A progressive tax rate will be the final nail in Illinois' coffin," said McSweeney.
Despite the two resolutions that already have been filed, and the coalition of forces through A Better Illinois, Franks thinks the effort won't go anywhere.
If there is a big push, as McSweeney and others believe there will be, Franks acknowledges that he will be the subject of a lot of political pressure from within his own party.
"I'm sure I will," he said. "I get that every day."
Thankfully, he's on the right side of this issue.
• Dan McCaleb of Crystal Lake is group editor for Shaw Media's suburban publications, which include the Northwest Herald. He can be reached at 815-526-4603, or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Journal Article, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, volume 5, issue 4, page 798804
July 2011
Authors: Hengwei Liu, Former Associate, and Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 2008-2010, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Member of the Board
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Energy Technology Innovation Policy; Environment and Natural Resources; Science, Technology, and Public Policy
An integrated carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage (CCS) system requires safe and cost-efficient solutions for transportation of the CO2 from the capturing facility to the location of storage. While growing efforts in China are underway to understand CO2 capture and storage, comparatively less attention has been paid to CO2 transportation issues. Also, to the best of our knowledge, there are no publicly available China-specific cost models for CO2 pipeline transportation that have been published in peer-reviewed journals. This paper has been developed to determine a first-order estimate of China's cost of onshore CO2 pipeline transportation. An engineering-economic model based on China-specific data, codes, and standards to the greatest extent possible has been developed for this purpose. Based on the model, five illustrative case studies on pipelines for transporting captured CO2 from typical Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) and Ultra-supercritical (USC) generating units of 250 megawatt (MW), 400 MW, 660 MW, 1000 MW, and 2× 1000 MW are carried out. The results show the capital costs of constructing a 100-kilometers (km) pipeline are between $18 million and $102 million, depending on the amount of CO2 transported. Corresponding figures for the levelized costs are $1.84$3.06 per tonne of CO2. Sensitivity analyses are also performed examining the effect of pipeline length and soil temperature on pipeline diameter, as well as flow rate and capital cost on levelized cost. The pipeline length is found to impact the diameter significantly, whereas soil temperature demonstrates insensitivity to pipeline diameter. Both flow rate and capital cost have significant effects on levelized cost. Comparison to other existing models based on either North American or European data implies a major cost difference between developed countries and China: China's cost of onshore CO2 pipeline transportation is very likely much lower than those estimated in the developed countries. For a 0.02 MtCO2/d case, for example, the levelized cost of CO2 transportation in China is about two-thirds that of the developed countries.
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I had a busy weekend with volunteering.
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From temples to Tomb Raider
For decades off limits to all but the most intrepid travellers, today Southeast Asia's Cambodia is a popular destination for all kinds of folks: from independent backpackers who roam far into the hinterland to luxury tourists who stay in style and see Cambodia's main drawcards between massages and exquisite French meals.
The ancient temple complex of Angkor Wat is Cambodia's national treasure. The nearby city of Siem Reap has developed dramatically since the days when Angelina Jolie filmed Tomb Raider here and fell in love with the nation.
While some lament the discovery of Angkor by the masses, the site is still breathtaking and Siem Reap offers all of the comforts one could wish for on any budget. Those with more than a day or two to spend in the Angkor area will find a host of more obscure ancient temples and monuments which can be fascinating in their own right.
Many do simply holiday at Angkor and travel no further, but Cambodia has a lot more to showcase. Consider as well a break on the lazy white-sand beaches of Sihanoukville, a stay at a stylish resort in resurging coastal Kep, or a tour to the atmospheric, mist-shrouded Bokor Hill Station for a taste of Cambodia's 1960s heyday. Meanwhile, several of Cambodia's islands have emerged as terrific alternatives to the more developed Thai islands.
Many write off Phnom Penh, yet it's a beautiful city, with a stunning colonial heritage, a gorgeous riverside promenade featuring a glittering palace, and a great selection of restaurants and bars.
Shopping here has taken off: trawl the stalls of the Russian market for "antique" finds, wispy organza fabrics and chic ceramics, stop in a few boutiques for home-grown designer clothes and get some leather shoes handcrafted at a bargain price at one of the city's skilled cobblers.
The reminders of the horrific genocide perpetrated by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge make for harrowing but essential viewing: do see Tuol Sleng and make a trip to the Killing Fields just outside the city for a sobering aside to your travels as you pause to remember the atrocities humans are capable of committing.
Further afield, Battambang offers travellers a taste of laid-back rural life and an increasingly captivating art scene. Stop to see Cambodia's first winery and tour isolated Khmer temples, some of which pre-date Angkor.
The former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Anlong Veng is another key stop for the more adventurous traveller, where the grave of Pol Pot serves as another reminder of the history Cambodia is struggling to overcome.
Travelfish shows you how to make the most of the popular destinations, points you in the direction of Cambodia's best-kept secrets and equips you with the knowledge you need to make up-to-the-minute decisions throughout your trip to Cambodia.
Survey the World Heritage listed ruins of Angkor Wat. Take a sunset cruise off Phnom Penh. Visit the remnants of the Khmer Rouge regime. Eat fresh crab at coastal Kep. Trek through the jungle in remote Rattanakiri.
The most popular time to go is between November and February. There is little rain and it isn't too hot. The wet season runs from May to October and isn't the best time for a Cambodian beach holiday. The wet does keep the crowds at bay and Angkor is wonderful in the wet season, so it isn't all bad. April is scorchingly hot.


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Morgan, 48, infuriated conservatives during his three-year run with frequent discourses on gun control.
The time slot will be filled with a series of documentary-style programs, including Bourdain's popular Parts Unknown travelogue and Spurlock's Inside Man.
Rowe (Dirty Jobs) will profile people with unusual professions. Walsh will follow criminal investigations, and Ling will immerse herself in American subcultures.


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When you become president, something in your brain snaps. You're a normal person for a while, and then, as soon as you take your oath on Inauguration Day, the part of your brain that normally makes sure you don't get too weird with sex collapses in on itself, and a new game begins. The rules are different.
And I'm not just talking about infidelity (of which at least Jefferson, Harding, FDR, JFK, LBJ and Clinton were all guilty), and I'm not just talking about regularly having sex outside (of which John Quincy "Without a Doubt Our Ugliest President" Adams was guilty). I'm talking about the weird stuff. The weird stuff.
4Lyndon Johnson: Accidental Pimp
Until the people who run the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park respect my many petitions and allow me to dig up LBJ's corpse, we'll never know officially how big his dick was, so we'll just have to take his word for it. Johnson's word was that his dick was huge. Always jealous of the attention that Kennedy got for his sexual escapades, Johnson was never shy about waving his wiener around and telling anyone who would listen that he "had more women by accident than Kennedy had on purpose."
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We have it on good authority that this was his O-face.
I've lived a fairly exciting life (I once saw a dog that thought he was people!), but I've never accidentally had sex with anyone. I don't even know how I could, and Johnson managed to do it a whole bunch and still found time to be president.
He used his giant presidential wiener for the things you'd assume he'd use it (peeing, indiscriminate and accidental sex), but also some surprising things as well. According to biographer Robert Dallek, at one point during his presidency, Johnson met with a reporter who repeatedly asked him why American troops were in Vietnam. Frustrated, Johnson unzipped his pants, pulled out his "substantial organ" and shouted "This is why!" The craziest part of this story, which itself is nothing but pure, poop-eating crazy, is that it worked. That answer satisfied the reporter, like "Oh, yeah, when you put it that way, sure. Of course we're in Vietnam -- look at that dick. We should be in all countries. I'd be starting a war on space if I had a dick like yours. Come on, now."
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"You men are the lube that protects me from friction burns."
I don't have any more functioning segues, but I have more ridiculous dong stories, so I'm just going to gracelessly move from one to another. Johnson was so sure of his genitaliac superiority that he would invite other world leaders to the White House pool to go skinny dipping before they started diplomatic relations. This was an attempt to "establish genital dominance." He wanted every other leader he was dealing with to know that he was the man in charge. LBJ was the alpha, proudly wielding his dick with the focus and precision of a surgeon.
Also, Johnson called his penis Jumbo, which means that sex journalists like me get to write sentences like "Johnson's jumbo johnson was 'Jumbo,'" which is a real treat for me.
3Ulysses S. Grant Is Proudly Not Naked
As badass as he was, President Grant was kind of a prude when it came to public nudity (as we've mentioned in the past). Even though he expected his men to fight and die for him, he refused to shower in front of them. He was the only man who would take his morning showers in the privacy of his tent, because ... we don't know. Grant didn't want any of his men to see him naked. All the other soldiers would shower outside together, bonding, swapping stories about how shitty war is while desperately trying to avoid accidentally looking at each other's butts, and Grant would just hide in his tent, hellbent on making sure that no one saw his (just assuming here) hilariously stupid-looking penis.
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It's a fertile subject for historic speculation.
You might think that Grant was hiding his genitals because he wanted to create distance between himself and his men. It's not unreasonable to assume that he kept himself separate so he could always hold himself up as an authority figure. He's not just one of the guys; he's the boss.
But you'd be wrong. It wasn't just his fellow men that Grant hid his genitals from; it was everyone. Late into his 60s, he bragged that no one had seen him naked since he was child, not even the nurses and aides who were assigned to help him in the war. First of all, why would you brag about that? You're trying to win the "Let No One See Me Naked" game that nobody else is playing. Second of all, how? Grant had a wife with whom he had a child, so we have to assume that she was kind of aware of what he looked like naked, right? Because if she didn't ... what? What?
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This photo is the closest they ever came to a blowjob.
Between Johnson's accidental sex and Grant's nudity-free sex, I'm really opening up some pretty terrifying and confusing doors in the future of my sexual career.


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2. 6 Longfellow – Chambers & Chambers – Study Session – File No. 4117 (Zanarini) A STUDY SESSION for Design Review to consider the construction of a 2-story 2,850 square foot single-family residence with a 500 square foot attached garage on an 8,574 square foot vacant lot. The subject property is in the RS-7.5 (Residential Single-Family – 7,500 square foot minimum lot size) Zoning District.
3. 170 Throckmorton – Assing – Study Session – File No. 4118 (Svanstrom) A STUDY SESSION for a Conditional Use Permit and Design Review to demolish an existing duplex (1,097 square foot unit and a 457 square foot unit) and construct a new 3,605 square foot duplex (1,904 square foot front unit and 1,701 square foot second unit) over an attached 2, square foot 4-car garage. The subject property is in the C-N (Neighborhood Commercial) Zoning District.
4. Design Guideline Revision (Moore) CONSIDERATION of an amendment to Guideline 10, "Minimizing Grading, Offhaul, Excavation and Erosion" of the City's Residential Design Guidelines. The proposed amendment would recommend that a new basements should be designed to minimize offhaul (the removal of soil by truck from the project site) and allow the Planning Commission to exercise discretion in determining whether or not a basement of more or less than 300 square feet would be appropriate for a given project site.
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Now that the privatization people who caused our post office problems are not in the majority it is time to let our legislators know what we want and demand that we be treated fairly. We bailed out banks that caused our problems, saved the auto industry, but the post office that serves us daily, which has been voted the most trusted agency in government, crucial to people without transportation and bank accounts is being dismantled.
Hundreds of thousands of postal-related jobs will continue to be lost because of postal closings and cut backs. Even worse, our lives could be at stake. Planning exercises have been done in some major cities to be ready for an anthrax attack or other emergency, to ascertain how well postal workers respond quickly to a public health emergency. Mailing antidotes would take pressure off medical centers and service those without transportation. What would happen to rural America without post offices?
It's time to hire creative, dedicated leadership and build up the post office with more convenient hours, provide broadband since 50% of our nation doesn't have it and save the yearly 1 trillion in economic postal-related industries.
When a post office closes a town can lose its identity and often dies.
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#19503 - 02/20/01 12:36 PM Re: Mangled English for Corporate Identity
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 09/15/00
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lots more where they came from
Yes, please!
#19504 - 02/20/01 04:23 PM Re: QANTAS discount
Registered: 09/20/00
Posts: 347
Loc: Melbourne, Australia
>if you are an American and you can point at New Zealand on a map or even point at the correct ocean, they'll let you onto their planes in cattle class if you pay for the ticket
On his retirement in the early 1960s my grandfather went on a world trip that included the US. He found that many Americans didn't know where Australia was, but for some curious reason they had an idea of New Zealand's whereabouts, so he used to say "Oh, Australia's a small island on the west coast of NZ".
By the way, QANTAS is sometimes referred to here as "Quaint-Ass". If you don't want to fly with them, you can "Fly Ansett and Chance It".
#19505 - 02/20/01 04:31 PM Re: QANTAS discount
Registered: 11/22/00
Posts: 1289
Americans' ignorance of New Zealand
You think that's bad (so do I). I have to confess with shame that at least 40 percent of my fellow citizens could not tell you where Manitoba or Alberta are. The average American knows no more about Canada than he does about Zild or Oz and that ain't much. As to someplace like Chad, or Bhutan, they don't even know there is such a place.
#19506 - 02/20/01 04:57 PM US ignorance of the outside world
Registered: 09/20/00
Posts: 347
Loc: Melbourne, Australia
>As to someplace like Chad, or Bhutan, they don't even know there is such a place.
Oh, I think they've heard enough about chad recently to wonder why you'd name a country after one.
But seriously, if what you say is true, it's a sad reflection on a tendency towards introspection that must be commonplace in the education system (e.g. geography and history teaching) and in the media, to name a couple of institutions.
#19507 - 02/20/01 04:57 PM Re: Mangled English for Corporate Identity
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 11/25/00
Posts: 3439
Loc: New England, USA
I suppose we are all familiar with the trade names which have entered the language as words, such as "xerox" for "photocopier", "kleenex" for "disposable tissue", "coke" for "cola-flavored soda", etc
Dear Boby,
When you are going beddy-bye tonight, pray that the omnipresent Legal Eagles from (all) those companies are not reading the Board!
I recall that when I was working for a small weekly a story with the word coke (small c) got past a harried editor
the paper got a package from Coca Cola regarding its copyrighted names including Coke along with several legal citations upholding the company's right to the names!!
When the reporter's birthday came along guess what we bought him a case of?
#19508 - 02/20/01 06:32 PM Re: US ignorance of the outside world
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Loc: Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U...
a sad reflection on a tendency towards introspection that must be commonplace in the education system (e.g. geography and history teaching)
Oh, it's true. The Cincinnati Enquirer recently published some history test that was given to college students and, if I remember correctly, most of them weren't able to pass it. Most couldn't even identify the decade in which the Civil War occured! History and geography are two of my favorite subjects, but most schools don't see these as fundamentally important to the educational process. My classmates were amazed that I knew on what island Napoleon was born. I can't see the students at my school scoring this poorly on a history test because I consider most of them fairly intelligent (middle class suburban school district) but I'm not sure.
Grade inflation is also definitely a problem. When 70% (I'm not sure of the actual percentage) of the students in your school are on the honor roll, there's a problem. And it doesn't seem right to me that we have students who haven't taken a single honors course in their entire 4 years in high school who are in the National Honor Society.
#19509 - 02/20/01 08:23 PM Re: Mangled English for Corporate Identity
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Registered: 11/12/00
Posts: 819
Loc: Portland,Oregon, USA
Some years ago the Standard Oil co. which produced gasoline
under the name "Esso"
I understand they changed just so the insects flying around their stations wouldn't be known as Esso bees.
#19510 - 02/20/01 08:34 PM Re: Mangled English for Corporate Identity
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 03/15/00
Posts: 11613
Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
Esso bees
Oh, Honey, I want to give you a stinging comeback for that!
Standard Oil also became Chevron, with the appropriate logo.
I never did know why Sinclair gasoline had a dinosaur logo,
but I can still "hear" that theme song that was on the radio every morning: Sinclair puts that nickel in, puts that magic(?) nickel in, only Sinclair gasoline has nickel, nickel, nickel.
#19511 - 02/20/01 10:21 PM Re: standard oil
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 04/03/00
Posts: 10538
Loc: this too shall pass
>>Some years ago the Standard Oil co. which produced gasoline under the name "Esso"...
>Standard Oil also became Chevron...
for the record, in 1911 J.D. Rockerfeller's Standard Oil Trust was broken up into something like 32 small companies. the major players left standing today include Standard Oil of New Jersey (Esso/Exxon), Standard Oil of New York (Socony/Mobil), Standard Oil [California] (Chevron), Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio, arm of BP), Standard Oil of Indiana (Amoco), Continental Oil (Conoco), and Atlantic Richfield (ARCO). Each of these could market under the Standard brand in its respective region, but when they started to challenge each other regionally, and later nationally, they had to change brand names to avoid lawsuits. in our region, the Standard name came down, and became Amoco, although the logo looked the same otherwise.
#19512 - 02/20/01 11:54 PM Re: US ignorance of the outside world
Carpal Tunnel
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Loc: Jakarta
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I can't see the students at my school scoring this poorly on a history test because I consider most of them fairly intelligent (middle class suburban school district) but I'm not sure.
Sorry, this is my King Charles the First's head. Ignorance and lack of intelligence are not the same thing.
This may or may not be an apocryphal story, but apparently after a very long and complicated explanation of some knotty technical point from one of the counsel in a trial, the judge said "I'm sorry, but I'm none the wiser", to which the lawyer replied "No my Lord, but a great deal better informed."
The students at your school may be better informed than the average, but that doesn't make them any more intelligent than people who haven't had the same quality of instruction. [/rant]
P.S. Sorry if you're feeling picked on, Jazzo.
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