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Check Out The Grace Kelly Collection On DVD July 29
A DVD collection featuring Hollywood icon Grace Kelly will be released on DVD July 29 from Warner Bros.
After making her mark in "High Noon," she appeared in the Africa-set adventure "Mogambo" in 1953. The film also starred Ava Gardner and Clark Gable, who wound up romancing Kelly on set, despite being nearly 30 years her senior with four failed marriages behind him. Their relationship was short-lived, but Kelly earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
"Mogambo" drew the attention of director Alfred Hitchcock, who had a penchant for blondes and cast her in "Dial M For Murder." It wound up being the first of three Hitchcock films that Kelly would appear in, and she became romantically involved with several people who made the film, most notably married actor Ray Milland.
She played William Holden's wife in "The Bridges of Toko-Ri" (1954), and in the process fell in love with the married William Holden. This led to her role in "The Country Girl," for which she earned an Academy Award. She played a a sad, frumpy woman stuck in a failing marriage to a depressed, washed-up singer. She left Holden for co-star Bing Crosby, but eventually that relationship fizzled as well.
In 1955 she starred in Hitchcock's "To Catch A Thief" opposite Cary Grant, with whom she became great friends. While attending the Cannes Film Festival she met 31-year-old Monaco sovereign Prince Rainier III, whom she later married.
Her final film was "High Society," a remake of the Oscar winning 1940 comedy "The Philadelphia Story" with music by Cole Porter. Her royal family let her know they wouldn't approve of her continued film career, so she quit acting at age 26, became the Princess of Monaco, and raised three children. She died in 1982 after having a stroke and crashing her car.
The Grace Kelly Collection includes:
Dial M for Murder
The Country Girl
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
To Catch a Thief
High Society


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Britain's House of Commons voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to legalize the creation of so-called "three-parent babies." Though advocates of the move say it will help prevent a debilitating and often lethal condition, many warn that the procedure, though well-intentioned, opens the door to ethical and safety questions that have yet to be sufficiently grappled with.
In a classic 1960 children's book, a baby bird toddles up to one critter after another asking, "Are you my mother?"
For some babies today, there's no simple answer—biologically or legally.
Advances in artificial reproductive technologies mean a baby could have three "mothers"—the genetic mother, the birth mother and the intended parent, who may be a woman or a man.
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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama, the only bureau of the Smithsonian Institution based outside of the United States, is dedicated to understanding biological diversity. What began in 1923 as a small field station on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone has developed into one of the world's leading tropical research institutions. STRI's facilities provide a unique opportunity for long-term ecological studies in the tropics, and are used extensively by some 600 visiting scientists from academic and research institutions in the United States and around the world every year. The work of resident scientists has allowed STRI to better understand tropical habitats and has trained hundreds of tropical biologists.
The history of STRI began with the construction of the Panama Canal from 1904 to 1914. Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Charles Doolittle Walcott reached an agreement with Federico Boyd to conduct a biological inventory of the new Canal Zone in 1910, and this survey was subsequently extended to include all of Panama. Thanks largely to their efforts, the Governor of the Canal Zone declared Barro Colorado Island (BCI) a biological reserve in 1923,[1] making it one of the earliest biological reserves in the Americas.[2] During the 1920s and 1930s BCI, in Gatun Lake, became an outdoor laboratory for scientists from US universities and the Smithsonian Institution. At this time it was referred as the Canal Zone Biological Area (CZBA). By 1940, more than 300 scientific publications described the biota of BCI, and in the "Government Reorganization Act of 1946", BCI became a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution. BCI was renamed the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in 1966.[1]
After the name change, permanent staff scientists were hired and fellowship programs were initiated to support aspiring tropical biologists. The first director after the name change was Martin Humphrey Moynihan.[1] A strong relationship with the Republic of Panama, STRI's host nation, was formalized in the Panama Canal Treaties of 1977. This relationship was renewed and extended in 1985 when Panama granted STRI the status of International Mission, and again in 1997 when the country offered custodianship of STRI facilities beyond the termination of the Panama Canal Treaties. STRI's relationship with the Republic of Panama continues to be of central importance.
A large collection of papers done by STRI researchers at Barro Colorado Island was published as an anthology in 1982, The Ecology of a Tropical Rainforest.[3]
STRI aims to offer research facilities that allow staff scientists, fellows, and visiting scientists to achieve their research objectives. The 38 staff scientists reside in the tropics and are encouraged to pursue their own research priorities without geographic limitations. The continuity of their long-term programs enables in-depth investigations that attract an elite group of fellows and visitors. Active support for fellows and visitors leverages resources further and attracts more than 600 scientists to STRI each year.
With an unparalleled store of background information reflecting 80 years of increasingly intense research in a protected setting, as well as accommodations and modern laboratories, Barro Colorado Island has become a major center for tropical research.
People of the STRI[edit]
The first director after the 1966 name change was Martin Humphrey Moynihan. Geographer and scientist Charles F. Bennett, along with his wife, Anna Carole Bennett, participated in STRI during the 1960s, assisting in the organizing of the library, researching and collecting microclimate data, and studying neotropical forests. In 1966, Bennett became an honorary Research Associate of STRI.[1]
A range of programs supports fellows and visiting scientists. In 2002, STRI hosted eight university field courses (Princeton, McGill, University of Florida, Michigan State, Florida Atlantic, University of Panama, Organization for Tropical Studies and Union College). There were 406 research fellows at STRI between 1995 and 2001. Junior fellows often work closely with a senior scientist, while advanced fellows pursue their own research. Visiting investigators bring their own funding from sources other than STRI to pursue their research interests at STRI facilities. Staff and fellows are drawn from all nations in an open, global competition, while visiting scientists are drawn from leading research universities.
Barro Colorado is open for public day visits, but advance reservations must be made.[4][5][6]
Barro Colorado Nature Monument[edit]
The Barro Colorado Nature Monument includes the 16 km² Barro Colorado Island, which is covered with tropical forest and boasts a nearly intact mammal fauna. It also includes 40 km² of surrounding mainland peninsulas covered by forests in various stages of succession, serving as a site for manipulative field experiments. The monument adjoins Panama's 220 km² Soberania National Park.
Other terrestrial research sites[edit]
Although STRI is based in Panama, research is conducted throughout the tropics. STRI's Center for Tropical Forest Science uses large, fully enumerated forest plots to monitor tree demography in 23 countries located in Africa, Asia Europe and the Americas. More than 4.5 million individual trees representing 8,500 species are being studied.[7] STRI's Biological Diversity of Forest Fragments project created experimental forest fragments of 0.01, 0.1, and 1.0 km² to study the consequences of landscape transformation on forest integrity in the central Amazon region. STRI marine scientists are conducting a global survey of levels of genetic isolation in coral reef organisms.
Marine laboratories[edit]
STRI has marine laboratories on both coasts of Panama including a new Caribbean laboratory at the Bocas del Toro Research Station and a modern research vessel, giving access to two very different oceans that are only 80 kilometres (50 mi) apart. The Atlantic and Pacific oceans were divided by the Isthmus of Panama about three million years ago, creating a superb "natural experiment" in evolution.
The Bocas del Toro Research Station (9°21′6″N 82°15′24″W / 9.35167°N 82.25667°W) is a modern marine laboratory and research facility located on Isla Colón within one mile of downtown Bocas del Toro. The Research Station occupies beach front land.[8] Researchers and visitors can reach the station easily from Bocas del Toro "Isla Colón" International Airport or the ferries to Almirante, Changuinola, and Chiriquí Grande. Accommodations and restaurants are plentiful around Bocas del Toro.[9]
- Offices, laboratories, and The Earl S. Tupper Research and Conference Center in Ancón, Panama City.[10]
- Biological and archaeological laboratories and boat dock on Isla Naos in Panama Bay.
- Accommodations and laboratory facilities in Gamboa, near the 220 km² Soberania National Park.
- A field station in western Panama at Fortuna, providing access to tropical montane forest.
- A resident international staff of over 35 scientists.
- Fellowship support for students and visiting scientists for stays ranging from ten weeks to three years.
- A network of collaborating individuals and institutions distributed throughout the tropics.
- ^ a b c d "Oral history interview with Charles F. Bennett, Jr., and Anna Carole Bennett, 1975". Smithsonian Institution Archives. 1975. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ Eric Jackson (August 5, 2010). "100 years of the Smithsonian's relationship with Panama". The Panama News. Retrieved August 8, 2010.
- ^ P. J. Edwards (1985). "Leigh, E.G., Jr., Rand, A. S. & Windsor D. M. (Eds) The Ecology of a Tropical Forest (review)". Journal of Ecology. 73 (1): 368. doi:10.2307/2259799. JSTOR 2259799.
- ^ "Visit Us at Barro Colorado - The visit". stri.si.edu. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
- ^ "A Visit to Barro Colorado Nature Monument" STRI
- ^ "Isla Barro Colorado Review | The Canal and Central Panama | Fodor's Travel Guides". Fodors.com. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
- ^ http://www.ctfs.si.edu/
- ^ Bocas del Toro Research Station Retrieved: 5 June 2009.
- ^ Moon Panama (2nd ed.). Avalon Travel. November 2008. ISBN 978-1-59880-085-2.
- ^ "Facilities :: Earl S. Tupper Research and Conference Center". Stri.org. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
Further reading[edit]
The Tapir's Morning Bath: Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest and the Scientists Who Are Trying to Solve Them, Houghton Mifflin, 2001. 328 pp. A popular-science book by Elizabeth Royte which describes the researchers' life on Barro Colorado Island.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
- Bocas del Toro Research Station
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute from the Smithsonian Institution Archives


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...Colorado, Maine, New York, Massachusetts...
This porter season thing is a little overwhelming - sure it's a whole season but there's supposed to be snow by Friday and I gotta get on to the imperial stouts, old ales and barleywines...and winter beers...and Christmas ales. You know I want to give each beer the thought it deserves but I have to get moving on the stash, too. I should live with Stonch's rule:
If I reviewed every new beer I tried, this blog would be little more than a collection of tasting notes. However, when something really grabs me, I tell you about it.But that only works when you can live the full Stonch lifestyle:
The landlord would only serve it in half pint measures. That sounds sensible, but didn't really help - I downed seven glasses with indecent haste. I reasoned that they were only 90p each, and it isn't often a beer like this is available from a freshly-tapped cask. Needless to say, it was a mistake...It's been a good weekend, but I am left feeling that single life can wear a man down. I think I might contact every girlfriend I've had since university and propose to them all. Hopefully one will accept and I can break this cycle...Ah, youth. He'll settle down. He'll find the day will come after a hard day wrestling paper at the desk will end with thoughts of just that one porter with the perfect tang followed by a snooze on the sofa. Porter has that attitude as far as I'm concerned. It's a bit like the tawny port or or East India sherry of the beer world - a bit of an old guy's drink, a comfort food.
- Black Bear Porter: from Maine's Sunday River Brewing Co., the inland division of the more coastal the Stone Coast line. This one pours mahogany with a rocky light mocha head and an inordinate amount of floaty-chunkiness. Plenty of dry cocoa and dark chocolate in the malt with a good softness to the water. Mid-bodied with some chalky richness from the yeast floaties. Sort of a cherry-almond aspect under the cocoa. No real tang to speak of but a good weedy touch on the hops that is almost tobacco. 10% BAer disappointment but they cite thinness that has nothing to do with what I have in front of me.
- Gorges Smoked Porter: the 2006 bottling from the Ithaca Beer Company. More cola than mohogany in colour with a quickly disappearing head that resolves to a thin beige rim, as shown in the middle. Very smoky to the nose - oily smoked herring comes to mind...but only because I really like oily smoked herring. I have also owned an accordion - deal with it. Excellent as the rauch from Bamburg smoked malt is there in the mouth but so is plenty of rich fruity malt, making for a smoky richy BBQed meaty effect. I like the concept. A notch lighter in body than the Black Bear but still plenty of heft still. A high rating from the advocatonians.
- Black Shack Porter: another from Wachusett Brewing of western Massachusetts, whose brews I have liked. The lightest of the bunch - but still not thin - with an interesting flour, black pepper and cola thing going on under somewhat inconclusive dark maltiness. Quite particular when placed next to these neighbouring brews. I don't think I have had a black malt running to black peppery brew before. The food matching potential runs rampant. 94% BAer approval though the low raters are instructive.
- Gonzo Imperial Porter: Finally, a big big porter from Flying Dog of Denver Colorado. A lovely cream sherry wave hit upon popping the top. Deepest inky mahogany with a fine dark mocha head. At 9.5%, concentrate of porter compared to the other three. Like sucking pumpernickel soaked in a little chocolate syrup and a little espresso. Minty hops, a smoky touch and a cream finish. Thick. By far most BAers approve as they should.


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Too much distance between America and its military
I don't know what former Army Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha was thinking when President Obama presented to him last week the Medal of Honor for his "gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life" in the 2009 Battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan.
But I'll tell you what I was thinking, aside from my admiration for this 31-year-old man. I was wondering if, this time, the President would have enough respect for the man to call him by the staff sergeant title he had earned. But predictably, Obama called him "Clint."
Frankly, I don't blame Obama because he doesn't have the experience to know better. If the appointees surrounding him had any knowledge or appreciation for military service, their guidance would prevent the President from publicly mangling such simple terms as "corpseman" (someone should have told him the "p" and "s" are silent), the title of combat medic for the Navy and Marine Corps with an honorable and proud history.
In September of 2011, when presenting another Medal of Honor to Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer for his "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life" in Afghanistan, if properly advised the President would have referred to him as Sgt. Meyer, respecting the title he earned, instead of calling him "Dakota" as the President did.
I assume Obama means well, using first names as a sort of affection or familiarity, not realizing his own condescension. While it passes unnoticed to most Americans, those with a military background cringe, knowing first names in the military are customarily reserved for private conversations between those with a close relationship.
We also cringed when the first three rows of seats at the presentation to Sgt. Meyer were reserved for politicians and their staff, relegating to the rear the uniformed servicemen who were involved in the Afghanistan battle, and their families.
There is too little understanding among us for service and sacrifice, especially in recent years when few Americans serve and five combat tours has become common. There is far too little notice and appreciation of the prices families pay.
Instead of telling you the story of these two extraordinary young men, I want to share with you a story written by Lt. Col. George Goodson, USMC (ret). I will remove a few pieces for length, but you will understand why this story has countless millions of miles on the web.
Lt. Col Goodson's story is titled "Burial at Sea," written in 2007 at 76 years of age, memories of his duty as a casualty notifications officer in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland:
... It was late 1967. I had just returned after 18 months in Vietnam. Casualties were increasing. I moved my family from Indianapolis to Norfolk, rented a house, enrolled my children in their fifth or sixth new school, and bought a second car.
A week later, I put on my uniform and drove 10 miles to Little Creek, Va. I hesitated before entering my new office. Appearance is important to career Marines. I was no longer, if ever, a poster Marine. I had returned from my third tour in Vietnam only 30 days before. At 5-feet 9-inches, I now weighed 128 pounds – 37 pounds below my normal weight. My uniforms fit ludicrously, my skin was yellow from malaria medication, and I think I had a twitch or two.
I straightened my shoulders, walked into the office, looked at the nameplate on a staff sergeant's desk and said, "Sgt. Jolly, I'm Lieutenant Colonel Goodson. Here are my orders and my qualification jacket."
Sgt. Jolly stood, looked carefully at me, took my orders, stuck out his hand; we shook and he asked, "How long were you there, Colonel?"
I replied, "Eighteen months this time."
Jolly breathed, "Jesus, you must be a slow learner, Colonel."
I smiled.
Jolly said, "Colonel, I'll show you to your office and bring in the sergeant major."
I said, "No, let's just go straight to his office."
Jolly nodded, hesitated, and lowered his voice, "Colonel, the sergeant major. He's been in this #*&$@ job two years. He's packed pretty tight. I'm worried about him." I nodded.
Jolly escorted me into the sergeant major's office. "Sergeant Major, this is Colonel Goodson, the new commanding officer."
The Sergeant Major stood, extended his hand and said, "Good to see you again, Colonel."
I responded, "Hello, Walt, how are you?" Jolly looked at me, raised an eyebrow, walked out, and closed the door.
I sat down with the sergeant major. We had the obligatory cup of coffee and talked about mutual acquaintances. Walt's stress was palpable. Finally, I said, "Walt, what's the hell's wrong?"
He turned his chair, looked out the window and said, "George, you're going to wish you were back in 'Nam before you leave here. I've been in the Marine Corps since 1939. I was in the Pacific 36 months, Korea for 14 months, and Vietnam for 12 months. Now I come here to bury these kids. I'm putting my letter in. I can't take it anymore."
I said, "OK, Walt. If that's what you want, I'll endorse your request for retirement and do what I can to push it through Headquarters Marine Corps."
Sergeant Major Walt (last name withheld) retired 12 weeks later. He had been a good Marine for 28 years, but he had seen too much death and too much suffering. He was used up.
Over the next 16 months, I made 28 death notifications, conducted 28 military funerals, and made 30 notifications to the families of Marines that were severely wounded or missing in action. Most of the details of those casualty notifications have now, thankfully, faded from memory. Four, however, remain.
My first notification — My third or fourth day in Norfolk, I was notified of the death of a 19-year-old Marine. This notification came by telephone from Headquarters Marine Corps. ... The boy's family lived over the border in North Carolina, about 60 miles away. I drove there in a Marine Corps staff car. Crossing the state line into North Carolina , I stopped at a small country store/service station/post office. I went in to ask directions.
Three people were in the store. A man and woman approached the small post office window. The man held a package. The storeowner walked up and addressed them by name, "Hello John. Good morning Mrs. Cooper."
I was stunned. My casualty's next-of-kin's name was John Cooper! I hesitated, then stepped forward and said, "I beg your pardon. Are you Mr. and Mrs. John Copper of (address)?"
The father looked at me (I was in uniform) and then, shaking, bent at the waist, he vomited. His wife looked horrified at him and then at me. Understanding came into her eyes and she collapsed in slow motion. I think I caught her before she hit the floor.
The owner took a bottle of whiskey out of a drawer and handed it to Mr. Cooper who drank. I answered their questions for a few minutes. Then I drove them home in my staff car. The storeowner locked the store and followed in their truck. We stayed an hour or so until the family began arriving.
I returned the storeowner to his business. He thanked me and said, "Mister, I wouldn't have your job for a million dollars."
I shook his hand and said; "Neither would I."
I vaguely remember the drive back to Norfolk. Violating about five Marine Corps regulations, I drove the staff car straight to my house. I sat with my family while they ate dinner, went into the den, closed the door, and sat there all night, alone.
My Marines steered clear of me for days. I had made my first death notification.
The funerals — Weeks passed with more notifications and more funerals. I borrowed Marines from the local Marine Corps Reserve and taught them to conduct a military funeral: how to carry a casket, how to fire the volleys and how to fold the flag.
When I presented the flag to the mother, wife, or father, I always said, "All Marines share in your grief."
I had been instructed to say, "On behalf of a grateful nation." I didn't think the nation was grateful, so I didn't say that.
Sometimes, my emotions got the best of me and I couldn't speak. When that happened, I just handed them the flag and touched a shoulder.
They would look at me and nod. Once a mother said to me, "I'm so sorry you have this terrible job." My eyes filled with tears and I leaned over and kissed her.
Another notification — Six weeks after my first notification, I had another. This was a young PFC. I drove to his mother's house. As always, I was in uniform and driving a Marine Corps staff car. I parked in front of the house, took a deep breath, and walked towards the house. Suddenly, the door flew open, a middle-aged woman rushed out. She looked at me and ran across the yard, screaming "NO! NO! NO! NO!"
I hesitated. Neighbors came out. I ran to her, grabbed her, and whispered stupid things to reassure her. She collapsed. I picked her up and carried her into the house. Eight or nine neighbors followed. Ten or 15 minutes later, the father came in followed by ambulance personnel. I have no recollection of leaving.
The funeral took place about two weeks later. We went through the drill. The mother never looked at me. The father looked at me once and shook his head sadly.
Another notification — One morning, as I walked in the office, the phone was ringing. Sgt. Jolly held the phone up and said, "You've got another one, Colonel." I nodded, walked into my office, picked up the phone, took notes, thanked the officer making the call, I have no idea why, and hung up.
Jolly, who had listened, came in with a special telephone directory that translates telephone numbers into the person's address and place of employment.
The father of this casualty was a longshoreman. He lived a mile from my office. I called the longshoreman's union office and asked for the business manager. He answered the phone, I told him who I was, and asked for the father's schedule.
The business manager asked, "Is it his son?"
I said nothing.
After a moment, he said, in a low voice, "Tom is at home today."
I said, "Don't call him. I'll take care of that."
The business manager said, "Aye, aye, sir," and then explained, "Tom and I were Marines in World War II."
I got in my staff car and drove to the house. I was in uniform. I knocked and a woman in her early forties answered the door. I saw instantly that she was clueless. I asked, "Is Mr. Smith home?" She smiled pleasantly and responded, "Yes, but he's eating breakfast now. Can you come back later?"
I said, "I'm sorry. It's important, I need to see him now."
She nodded, stepped back into the beach house and said, "Tom, it's for you."
A moment later, a ruddy man in his late forties, appeared at the door. He looked at me, turned absolutely pale, steadied himself, and said, "Jesus Christ, man, he's only been there three weeks!"
Months passed. More notifications and more funerals. Then one day while I was running, Sgt. Jolly stepped outside the building and gave a loud whistle, two fingers in his mouth — I never could do that — and held an imaginary phone to his ear.
Another call from Headquarters Marine Corps. I took notes, said, "Got it." and hung up. I had stopped saying "Thank You" long ago.
Jolly, "Where?"
Me, "Eastern Shore of Maryland. The father is a retired chief petty officer. His brother will accompany the body back from Vietnam."
Jolly shook his head slowly, straightened, and then said, "This time of day, it'll take three hours to get there and back. I'll call the Naval Air Station and borrow a helicopter. And I'll have Captain Tolliver get one of his men to meet you and drive you to the chief's home."
He did, and 40 minutes later, I was knocking on the father's door. He opened the door, looked at me, then looked at the Marine standing at parade rest beside the car, and asked, "Which one of my boys was it, Colonel?"
I stayed a couple of hours, gave him all the information, my office and home phone number and told him to call me, anytime.
He called me that evening about 2300 (11 p.m.). "I've gone through my boy's papers and found his will. He asked to be buried at sea. Can you make that happen?"
I said, "Yes, I can, Chief. I can and I will."
My wife, who had been listening, said, "Can you do that?"
I told her, "I have no idea. But I'm going to break my ass trying."
I called Lieutenant General Alpha Bowser, Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force Atlantic, at home about 2330, explained the situation, and asked, "General, can you get me a quick appointment with the admiral at Atlantic Fleet Headquarters?" Gen. Bowser said," George, you be there tomorrow at 0900. He will see you."
I was and the admiral did. He said coldly, "How can the Navy help the Marine Corps, Colonel?"
I told him the story. He turned to his chief of staff and said, "Which is the sharpest destroyer in port?" The chief of staff responded with a name.
The admiral called the ship, "Captain, you're going to do a burial at sea. You'll report to a Marine Lieutenant Colonel Goodson until this mission is completed."
He hung up, looked at me, and said, "The next time you need a ship, Colonel, call me. You don't have to sic Al Bowser on my ass."
I responded, "Aye, aye, sir," and got the hell out of his office.
I went to the ship and met with the captain, executive officer, and the senior chief. Sgt. Jolly and I trained the ship's crew for four days. Then Jolly raised a question none of us had thought of. He said, "These government caskets are air tight. How do we keep it from floating?"
All the high priced help including me sat there looking dumb. Then the senior chief stood and said, "Come on, Jolly. I know a bar where the retired guys from World War II hang out."
They returned a couple of hours later, slightly the worst for wear, and said, "It's simple; we cut four 12-inch holes in the outer shell of the casket on each side and insert 300 pounds of lead in the foot end of the casket. We can handle that, no sweat."
The day arrived. The ship and the sailors looked razor sharp. Gen. Bowser, the admiral, a U.S. senator, and a Navy band were on board. The sealed casket was brought aboard and taken below for modification. The ship got underway to the 12-fathom depth.
The sun was hot, the ocean flat. The casket was brought aft and placed on a catafalque. The chaplain spoke. The volleys were fired. The flag was removed, folded, and I gave it to the father. The band played "Eternal Father Strong to Save." The casket was raised slightly at the head and it slid into the sea.
The heavy casket plunged straight down about six feet. The incoming water collided with the air pockets in the outer shell. The casket stopped abruptly, rose straight out of the water about three feet, stopped, and slowly slipped back into the sea. The air bubbles rising from the sinking casket sparkled in the in the sunlight as the casket disappeared from sight forever.
The next morning I called a personal friend, Lieutenant General Oscar Peatross, at Headquarters Marine Corps and said, "General, get me the *#@$% out of here. I can't take this *#@$% anymore." I was transferred two weeks later.
I was a good Marine but, after 17 years, I had seen too much death and too much suffering. I was used up.
Vacating the house, my family and I drove to the office in a two-car convoy. I said my goodbyes. Sgt. Jolly walked out with me. He waved at my family, looked at me with tears in his eyes, came to attention, saluted, and said, "Well done, Colonel. Well done."
I felt as if I had received the Medal of Honor!
The all-volunteer armed forces has made it too easy for all of us to ignore the price our troops and their families pay while doing our country's dirty work.
Our country is blessed to have Medal of Honor heroes men and women – with the heart of a bull — like Army Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha and Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer. We are blessed to have all the others serving in uniform, like Lt. Col. Goodson who fought in Korea, was wounded in the Dominican Republic, served three tours in Vietnam and who might ascribe his toughest duty as his assignment as casualty notifications officer.
If I ever have the privilege to shake his hand, I will address him as "Lieutenant Colonel Goodson," unless and until he asks me to do otherwise. Like every man and woman in our armed forces, he deserves the respect of the title he earned.
[Terry Garlock of Peachtree City, Ga., was an Army Cobra attack helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War. He occasionally contributes a column to The Citizen. His email is email@example.com.]
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Lin has not earnt the privelege to be on the cover....yet
I thought only champions or guys who've played at a high level for at least the last 2 years grace the covers of video games. I doubt he'll be on the cover this year. I like Lin, but there are plenty of players who are more deserving, atm. He still has time to prove himself, 3 weeks playing along side other great players is not enough time to accurately assess his skill set.
I'm still not sure what type of player he would be if we didn't have Stat, Melo, J.R., and Chandler on the team...these players take away a lot of the attention from him. And, we can't forget that he was dropped by a couple of teams before coming here. He is still a work in progress with tremendous potential (that he has yet to meet). We still need to see how he plays after his surgury, will he harden his body with muscle to assist him in absorbing those blows that seems to go along with his style of play? Will he work on his shaky handle? The biggest thing I like about Lin has always been his vision and first step, he's a pass first PG...but that first step might be a bit slow now...this often happens after surgeries to the legs. No one can predict his future, we can only speculate and think positive when dealing with an unknown such as J-Lin.
Lin has not earnt the privelege to be on the cover....yet
Linsanity, watching that Lakers game, brought the same emotions to my heart that Croatia gave me in the '98 World Cup.
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|By Windtalker (Windtalker) on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 09:55 am: Edit
I'm sophomore and so far I have about a 3.8 weighted GPA and I thought that was pretty good until I saw people on this site lol
any advice?
|By Constellation35 (Constellation35) on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 12:07 pm: Edit
There's a lot of weighted GPA scales; what's your unweighted GPA?
|By Constellation35 (Constellation35) on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 12:12 pm: Edit
Most of the Floridians going to FSU don't even have a 3.0 unweighted; yet on this board an unweighted GPA that low is unheard of.
Here in Florida unweighted GPA's don't matter; yet out of state they do. If I would have known this earlier I would have been much better off.
...Oh well.
|By Me1 (Me1) on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 01:46 pm: Edit
It really depends on where you want to go & how your GPA compares to the rest of your school (aka your rank or percentage).
|By Gromitjb (Gromitjb) on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 08:32 am: Edit
a 3.8 wont kill your application anywhere. just make sure you're strong everywhere else.
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Also charged was John Mingione, 32, of 2 Radcliffe Road, Staten Island, and a third defendant, Thomas Riccardo, 41, of 166 Oakdale Street, of Staten Island. Mingione was a shop steward for the Carpenters Union, while Riccardo was actually on the payroll at one of construction sites. Both men are alleged to have acted in concert with Goworek in the bribery and grand larceny scheme. All three defendants were arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court. Each faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of the top count of Grand Larceny in the First Degree.
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This is a pretty dodgy question. If 8 of the snowballs he made in that hour melt, why doesn't the other snowballs made in previous hours melt?
Q2) Justin is making snowballs to build a fort on the winter break. Justin can build 15 snowballs in an hour but 2 snowballs melt every 15 minutes. How long will it take him to build 210 snowballs?
A: We are given that, every 60 minutes Justin makes 15 snowballs, but out of the 15 snowballs made in that 60 minutes 8 of them melt. Therefore, Justin is making snowballs at a rate of 7 snowballs every 60 minutes. This gives the proportion:
7/60=210/x, since we want to know the time it takes. So x=1800 minutes.
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Laurie, I'm not sure there will be much of a cost. For example, look how often cereal brands change up their labels now. Something is new on them all the time. A new toy or sports figure. they'll just need to add the GMO info for the next box order. When you look at how labels are changed all the time, this does seem to be a red herring issue.


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I absolutely agree the on-screen keyboard sucks and carrying around a Bluetooth keyboard can be a pain. however I use my iPad all the time for document creation as well as my iPhone and I never use a keyboard for either device. A real computer keyboard blows away the iPads on-screen keyboard period, however voice to text which works great on the iPad blows away any keyboard in my opinion. voice to text has done more to improve my productivity then any invention since the computer itself. try using voice to text with your iPad and wordprocessor and tell me that's not a superior experience to a keyboard on the desktop or any other computer.
iPads are all over the place at work, 2 or 3 in every meeting. Need to refer to a ticket or bug report? Need to look up an email? Want to take notes on this meeting? Need quick access to a graph or a database? Go back and read the stores of the fabled "Slate" at Xerox PARC, and then realize the iPad is really the Slate come to life. Yes, the iPad makes a lot of sense in the office setting, especially as more and more productivity, tracking, and sharing apps are moving to web interfaces.
As for Word, I'm not so sure. That's a lot of code for a tablet device. Maybe it's just time to break your dependence on Word in office life. I don't really use Word anymore, since my employer has gotten away from writing requirements and design documents in Word, and now does them as stories in our web tracking tool. Which works great from an iPad.
Tapping on a glass screen instead of a keyboard is a crummy experience. I can't see ever wanting to use an iPad for business productivity, but if I were traveling and carried an iPad for handling email, surfing, and editing documents, sure, I can see Word being useful.


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AKRON (June 26, 2014) — Richard Smallwood, president, CEO and general manager of North America Overseas Tire Sales for Falken Tire Corp., has agreed to participate in the Presidents and CEOs Panel at the upcoming International Tire Exhibition & Conference (ITEC) show for tire dealers and auto service professionals in Orlando, Fla.
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So you want to grow a pumpkin. Not just any pumpkin, but the biggest, baddest pumpkin on the block. You want a sumo pumpkin. A pumpking. With the right conditions, the right seed, and a dose of luck, you can grow a pumpkin that makes other pumpkins look wimpy by comparison. Just follow these simple tips.
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For big pumpkins, many experts recommend varieties such as Atlantic Giant and Prizewinner. Simply plant 2-3 seeds several inches apart in a cluster. Tamp them down, and cover them with a thin layer of soil. Then water gently. You can plant pumpkins after the last frost. But you're going big, so either start it indoors several weeks earlier in a rich potting mix, such as Miracle-Gro� Moisture Control� Potting Mix, or cover the plant outdoors with a cloche (a glass covering designed to extend the growing season) or portable cold frame. The idea is to keep your plant nice and warm, with daytime temperatures above 75 degrees for 3 or 4 months.
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A Potter County grand jury indicted an Amarillo man Thursday for the death of a city of Amarillo employee.
Joe Louis Gonzales, 40, was indicted for intoxication manslaughter in the death of Juan Jose Arredondo on Sept. 4.
Arredondo, 51, of Amarillo suffered fatal injuries when a vehicle struck him about 11 p.m. He later died at Northwest Texas Hospital, according to the Amarillo Police Department.
Arredondo and another Amarillo utilities division employee were called to make emergency repairs on a backed-up sewer at the intersection of South Garfield Street and Southeast 10th Avenue.
A Chevrolet Tahoe heading eastbound on 10th Avenue struck Arredondo, the APD said. The Tahoe narrowly missed Michael Baca, the other utilities employee, who did not suffer any injuries, police said.
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Background: Retained hemothorax and/or empyema is a commonly recognized complication of penetrating chest injuries that may be treated by early video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS). However, the use of VATS in blunt chest trauma is less well defined. Our acute care surgeon (ACS) group aggressively treats complications of penetrating chest trauma with VATS, and our results suggested that the early use of VATS by ACS should be expanded.
Materials: A retrospective review of Trauma Center admissions between January 2007 and December 2009 was performed to identify patients with blunt thoracic injuries who underwent VATS.
Results: Eighty-three patients underwent VATS to manage thoracic complications arising from their blunt chest trauma. All operations were performed by ACS. The majority of patients (73%, 61 of 83) were treated with VATS for retained hemothorax, 18% for empyema (15 of 83), and 10% for persistent air leak (8 of 83). All (15) patients who developed empyema had chest tubes placed in the emergency department. No patient treated with VATS for a persistent air leak required further operation or conversion to thoracotomy. VATS performed ≤5 days after injury was associated with a lower conversion to open thoracotomy (8% vs. 29.4%, p < 0.05). Hospital length of stay (LOS) was significantly lower for patients receiving VATS ≤5 days after injury (11 ± 6 vs. 16 ± 8, p < 0.05). No patient treated with VATS ≤5 days had persistent empyema; however, five patients treated with VATS for retained hemothorax or empyema >5 days after injury required further intervention for thoracic infection. Multivariate analysis demonstrated that both a diagnosis of empyema and VATS >5 days after injury were predictors of increased LOS and increased conversion to thoracotomy.
Conclusions: Early VATS can decrease hospital LOS and thoracotomy rate in patient suffering blunt thoracic injuries. ACS can perform this procedure safely and effectively.
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