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The Vampire Diaries - Season 3 Episodes
The Vampire Diaries - Season 3
The CW's number-one series continues for another season of epic romance, suspense and a bloody good thrill ride. Based on the best-selling book series, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES is the story of two vampire brothers, obsessed with the same gorgeous girl, who are battling to control the fate of an entire town.
"The Birthday"
On the morning of Elena's (Nina Dobrev) 18th birthday, Caroline (Candice Accola) is busy planning a party, but Elena is focused on searching for any clues that might help her discover where Stefan (Paul Wesley) is. Damon (Ian Somerhalder) is also searching for Stefan, while trying to protect Elena and keep her from doing anything that would draw Klaus' (Joseph Morgan) attention. Meanwhile, Klaus and Stefan are busy trailing a werewolf named Ray Sutton (guest star David Gallagher, "Super 8"). Now working at the Mystic Grill along with Matt (Zach Roerig), Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) is struggling to understand why he keeps seeing the ghosts of Vicki (guest star Kayla Ewell) and Anna (guest star Malese Jow) since he was brought back to life by Bonnie's (Kat Graham) magic. Meanwhile, Alaric (Matt Davis) does his best to watch over Elena and Jeremy, while dealing with his grief over Jenna's death. Finally, Caroline and Tyler (Michael Trevino) face a new and unexpected challenge.
"The Hybrid"
Klaus (Joseph Morgan) puts a plan in motion that will give him even more power, but even with the unwilling participation of werewolf Ray Sutton (guest star David Gallagher), things don't go exactly as Klaus had planned. Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Alaric (Matt Davis) reluctantly go along with Elena's (Nina Dobrev) new strategy to find Stefan (Paul Wesley), leading Damon into a dangerous fight with an unexpected enemy. Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) turns to Matt (Zach Roerig) for help as he continues to try to understand what the ghosts from his past want from him. Unaware that Caroline (Candice Accola) is in need of his help, Tyler (Michael Trevino) faces an emotional confrontation with his mother (guest star Susan Walters).
"The End of the Affair"
Klaus (Joseph Morgan) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) arrive in Chicago, where Stefan is reunited with a vampire (guest star Claire Holt, "Pretty Little Liars") who hasn't really moved on from her interest in him decades earlier. In a flashback to Chicago in the 1920s, Stefan comes face-to-face with a shocking chapter from his wild past. After Damon (Ian Somerhalder) gets a tip on Stefan and Klaus' whereabouts from an unexpected source, he and Elena (Nina Dobrev) follow their trail. Back in Mystic Falls, Tyler is concerned about Caroline and turns to Sheriff Forbes (guest star Marguerite MacIntyre) for help.
"Disturbing Behavior"
Still in Chicago, Klaus (Joseph Morgan) uses Gloria (guest star Charmin Lee), a witch he knew long ago, to help him track down missing information that will explain why his plan isn't working. Gloria's spells reveal intriguing glimpses of the truth, but she soon realizes she needs Stefan's (Paul Wesley) knowledge to complete the puzzle. When Stefan suddenly finds himself in danger, help comes from a surprising ally. Back in Mystic Falls, a frustrating new enemy pushes Damon (Ian Somerhalder) over the brink and he lashes out in a way that will have lasting consequences. Caroline (Candice Accola) struggles with her own emotional issues, even as she tries to help Elena (Nina Dobrev) face her feelings. Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) makes a brief but disturbing breakthrough with one of his ghostly visitors, leaving him more confused than ever. Finally, Bonnie (Kat Graham) has a strange encounter that will affect everyone.
"The Reckoning"
Despite all that has happened, Caroline (Candice Accola) is determined to see that Elena (Nina Dobrev), Bonnie (Kat Graham), Matt (Zach Roerig) and Tyler (Michael Trevino) all enjoy a traditional Senior Prank Night before the school year begins at Mystic Falls High School. However, when uninvited guests show up, it doesn't take long for the evening to take a deadly turn. Damon (Ian Somerhalder) convinces Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) that he can use his new connection to the other side to help find a way to defeat Klaus (Joseph Morgan). Finally, Klaus deepens his hold on Stefan (Paul Wesley) and uses him for increasingly violent and dangerous purposes.
"Smells Like Teen Spirit"
On the first day of their senior year, Elena (Nina Dobrev), Caroline (Candice Accola), Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Matt (Zach Roerig) are still reeling from recent events, while Tyler (Michael Trevino) seems to be enjoying everything a little too much. Damon (Ian Somerhalder) is annoyed by a new houseguest, and everyone is surprised by the arrival of a new student in Alaric's (Matt Davis) history class. Matt asks Bonnie for help when he realizes he made a serious mistake. Meanwhile, Stefan (Paul Wesley) continues to carry out his latest assignment from Klaus (Joseph Morgan, who does not appear in the episode).
"Ghost World"
As Mystic Falls prepares to celebrate the traditional Illumination Night, the town is invaded by spirits of the dead. After a particularly violent encounter with an angry spirit, Damon (Ian Somerhalder) asks Bonnie (Kat Graham) to find the reason behind the ghosts' surprising power. Elena (Nina Dobrev) convinces Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) to use his connection to the other side to help her find a new way to reach Stefan (Paul Wesley), leading Jeremy to a terrible choice. Finally, Alaric (Matt Davis) discovers a long-hidden clue to the past.
"Ordinary People"
With help from Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Bonnie (Kat Graham), Alaric (Matt Davis) tries to decipher the meaning behind his recent discovery Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Rebekah (guest star Claire Holt) engage in a mean-girl power struggle, until Rebekah finally reveals some of her family's ancient secrets and the violent past she shares with Klaus (Joseph Morgan) and Elijah (Daniel Gillies). Damon (Ian Somerhalder) tries a reckless new approach to make a breakthrough with Stefan (Paul Wesley), and they're both surprised by an unlikely ally.
On the night of the Homecoming dance, Rebekah (guest star Claire Holt) opens up to Elena (Nina Dobrev) about why the evening is so important to her, leaving Elena with conflicting emotions. Caroline (Candice Accola) and Matt (Zach Roerig) are both shocked at Tyler's (Michael Trevino) behavior throughout the evening. The night takes a surreal turn when Klaus (Joseph Morgan) puts his latest plan into action. Determined to outsmart Klaus, Damon (Ian Somerhalder) enters into a dangerous partnership, leading to a terrifying turn of events. The band My Morning Jacket performs in the party scenes.
"The New Deal"
Stefan (Paul Wesley) has hidden the coffins containing the bodies of Klaus' (Joseph Morgan) family, and Klaus quickly turns to violence to convince Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Elena (Nina Dobrev) that no one will be safe until he finds Stefan and gets his family back. Tyler (Michael Trevino) continues to make the most of his new abilities as a hybrid, but he has to face the disturbing consequences of his actions as well. After a terrifying incident, Elena and Alaric (Matt Davis) grow increasingly concerned about Jeremy's (Steven R. McQueen) attitude and, ultimately, his safety. Alaric meets the beautiful Dr. Fell (guest star Torrey Devitto, "Pretty Little Liars"), who is intrigued with his amazing ability to heal. While trying to strike a deal with Klaus, Elena delivers news that truly shocks him.
"Our Town"
Although Caroline is in no mood to celebrate her 18th birthday, Elena, Bonnie and Matt surprise her with a small party in an unusual location. Damon and Stefan disagree on the best way to handle Klaus, and a reckless Stefan decides to test his theory by taking things to dangerous extremes. Bonnie is concerned when Elena tells her about Jeremy's new plans. At a Founder's meeting, Alaric once again runs into Dr. Fell (guest star Torrey Devitto), who is in the middle of an argument with her ex-boyfriend, the medical examiner (guest star David Colin Smith). Tyler refuses to go along with Klaus' latest demand, and is surprised when Klaus seems to accept his decision.
"The Ties That Bind"
Bonnie believes her recurring dreams about Klaus' coffins will tell her how he can be killed. The dreams also lead Bonnie to a reunion with her mother, Abby (guest star Persia White, "Girlfriends"), whom Bonnie hasn't seen for 15 years. At Abby's remote farmhouse, Bonnie and Elena meet Jamie (guest star Robert Ri'chard, "One on One"), the young man Abby took in years earlier. Bonnie's sudden appearance catches Abby off-guard, but she does her best to explain the past. Tyler turns to an unexpected ally in his quest to regain his free will. Damon is intrigued by Alaric's new friend, Dr. Fell (guest star Torrey Devitto), and Klaus continues his bitter negotiations with Stefan over control of the coffins containing his family members
"Bringing Out the Dead"
Sheriff Forbes (Marguerite MacIntyre) delivers some disturbing news to Alaric (Matt Davis) and Elena (Nina Dobrev) about the weapon used in a recent murder. In the Salvatore brothers' escalating quest to kill Klaus (Jospeh Morgan), Stefan (Paul Wesley) turns to Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Abby (guest star Persia White), while Damon (Ian Somerhalder) reaches out to an old acquaintance for help in setting up an elaborate plan. Intent on a plan of his own, Klaus hosts a strange dinner party, where he reveals another story from his family's violent past until an unexpected guest brings the party to an end. Meanwhile, Caroline (Candice Accola) is heartbroken when she is unable to stop a tragedy from unfolding.
"Dangerous Liaisons"
Elena (Nina Dobrev) is surprised to receive an invitation to a formal ball, and when Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) hear the party is being hosted at Klaus's newly renovated mansion, they both insist on attending the event with her. Caroline (Candice Accola) and Matt (Zach Roerig) also receive invitations to the ball from unexpected admirers. At the elegant party, Elena learns of a horrifying plan that could lead to numerous deaths and she must decide who she can trust wither her new information. Caroline discovers a side of Klaus (Joseph Morgan) no one would have suspected. Finally, after an evening of violence and dashed hopes, Damon finds a new way to cope.
"All My Children"
After starting her day with a startling discovery of Damon's (Ian Somerhalder) latest indiscretion, Elena (Nina Dobrev) is frustrated to find that none of her friends agree with her on how they should react to the Original family's internal power struggle. Once again caught up in the destiny of the Bennett witches, Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Abby (guest star Persia White) find themselves playing a part in a ritual to appease the spirits of nature. When Elijah (guest star Daniel Gillies) gives Damon and Stefan (Paul Wesley) a dangerous ultimatum that puts Elena in danger, they turn to Alaric (Matt Davis) and Meredith (guest star Torrey Devitto) for help with a plan that leads them to a terrible choice.
The present-day murders in Mystic Falls remind Damon (Ian Somerhalder) of a similar crime spree a century earlier. In flashbacks to 1912, Damon recalls a beautiful vampire, Sage (guest star Cassidy Freeman), who showed him a whole new way to exist. Sheriff Forbes (Marguerite MacIntyre) warns Damon not to get involved in her investigation, but Damon is convinced she's going after the wrong suspect. Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Matt (Zach Roerig) resort to breaking and entering in their search for evidence to prove Dr. Fell (guest star Torrey Devitto) is a murderer. For reasons known only to her, Rebekah (guest star Claire Holt), becomes interested in locating one of the town's oldest landmarks. Finally, Elena comes to a new understanding of the path her life has taken, and Damon makes an emotional confession to Stefan (Paul Wesley).
"Break On Through"
Damon and Sage reunite a century after their first encounter. They meet again at a ceremony to begin restoration of Wickery Bridge. Meanwhile, Abby has trouble adjusting to her new reality; and Elena tries to help Stefan with his latest struggles.
"The Murder of One"
Damon and Stefan focus on a plan to destroy Klaus. Meanwhile, Klaus threatens someone close to Bonnie in order to force her to conduct a spell for him
"Heart of Darkness"
Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) set off together to make sure Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) is safe in Denver, and to see if his special abilities can help reveal the information they need about ancient vampire bloodlines. It doesn't take them long to learn that Jeremy has been hanging with the wrong people. Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Klaus (Joseph Morgan) both go to brutal extremes in their search for the missing weapon. Caroline (Candice Accola) is thrilled when Tyler (Michael Trevino) returns to town, but Tyler soon suspects that something has been going on between Caroline and Klaus. Matt (Zach Roerig) has his hands full trying to keep Rebecca (Claire Holt) busy organizing the school's upcoming 1920s Decade Dance.
"Do Not Go Gentle"
Alaric (Matt Davis) finds an unexpected ally to guide him on his dangerous new path, while Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Meredith (guest star Torrey Devitto) try to figure out what their next move should be. At the school's 1920s Decade Dance, Bonnie (Kat Graham) asks Jamie (guest star Robert Ri'chard) to go with her and, at Caroline's (Candice Accola) suggestion, Elena (Nina Dobrev) asks Stefan (Paul Wesley) to be her date. Caroline is pleasantly surprised when Tyler (Michael Trevino) shows up at the dance determined to sweep her off her feet, but Klaus (Joseph Morgan) does his best to come between them. The dance takes a deadly turn when Damon and Stefan realize they need the help of Matt (Zach Roerig), Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) and especially Bonnie to undo a spell that could prove devastating for everyone.
"Before Sunset"
Klaus acts on his intentions to leave town with Elena (Nina Dobrev), but finds resistance from a surprising new enemy. Bonnie (Kat Graham) calls on Abby (guest star Persia White) to help her with a difficult spell. As events spiral out of control, Elena is determined to protect Caroline (Candice Accola), Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) enlist Tyler's (Michael Trevino) help, while Bonnie and Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) take a terrifying risk to make sure her spell is effective. Damon and Stefan have a surprisingly candid conversation about the future.
"The Departed"
Determined to protect his sister, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) makes a decision that will change everything. In the harsh reality of the present situation, Elena (Nina Dobrev) longs for simpler times when her parents, Grayson (guest star Jason MacDonald) and Miranda (guest star Erin Beute), and Aunt Jenna (guest star Sara Canning) were still alive and her biggest concern was her relationship with Matt (Zach Roerig). Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) leave Mystic Falls together on a mission, but soon split up when Elena needs one of them. Caroline (Candice Accola) and Tyler (Michael Trevino) are forced to make a life-changing decision. Finally, Bonnie (Kat Graham) makes a secret deal that has heartbreaking consequences.


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New evidence points to an alternative explanation for a civilization's collapse
Terry Hunt
A Misplaced Metaphor?
By the time the second round of radiocarbon results arrived in the fall of 2005, a complete picture of Rapa Nui's prehistory was falling into place. The first settlers arrived from other Polynesian islands around 1200 A.D. Their numbers grew quickly, perhaps at about three percent annually, which would be similar to the rapid growth shown to have taken place elsewhere in the Pacific. On Pitcairn Island, for example, the population increased by about 3.4 percent per year following the appearance of the Bounty mutineers in 1790. For Rapa Nui, three percent annual growth would mean that a colonizing population of 50 would have grown to more than a thousand in about a century. The rat population would have exploded even more quickly, and the combination of humans cutting down trees and rats eating the seeds would have led to rapid deforestation. Thus, in my view, there was no extended period during which the human population lived in some sort of idyllic balance with the fragile environment.
It also appears that the islanders began building moai and ahu soon after reaching the island. The human population probably reached a maximum of about 3,000, perhaps a bit higher, around 1350 A.D. and remained fairly stable until the arrival of Europeans. The environmental limitations of Rapa Nui would have kept the population from growing much larger. By the time Roggeveen arrived in 1722, most of the island's trees were gone, but deforestation did not trigger societal collapse, as Diamond and others have argued.
There is no reliable evidence that the island's population ever grew as large as 15,000 or more, and the actual downfall of the Rapanui resulted not from internal strife but from contact with Europeans. When Roggeveen landed on Rapa Nui's shores in 1722, a few days after Easter (hence the island's name), he took more than 100 of his men with him, and all were armed with muskets, pistols and cutlasses. Before he had advanced very far, Roggeveen heard shots from the rear of the party. He turned to find 10 or 12 islanders dead and a number of others wounded. His sailors claimed that some of the Rapanui had made threatening gestures. Whatever the provocation, the result did not bode well for the island's inhabitants.
Newly introduced diseases, conflict with European invaders and enslavement followed over the next century and a half, and these were the chief causes of the collapse. In the early 1860s, more than a thousand Rapanui were taken from the island as slaves, and by the late 1870s the number of native islanders numbered only around 100. In 1888, the island was annexed by Chile. It remains part of that country today.
In the 1930s, French ethnographer Alfred Metraux visited the island. He later described the demise of Rapa Nui as "one of the most hideous atrocities committed by white men in the South Seas." It was genocide, not ecocide, that caused the demise of the Rapanui. An ecological catastrophe did occur on Rapa Nui, but it was the result of a number of factors, not just human short-sightedness.
I believe that the world faces today an unprecedented global environmental crisis, and I see the usefulness of historical examples of the pitfalls of environmental destruction. So it was with some unease that I concluded that Rapa Nui does not provide such a model. But as a scientist I cannot ignore the problems with the accepted narrative of the island's prehistory. Mistakes or exaggerations in arguments for protecting the environment only lead to oversimplified answers and hurt the cause of environmentalism. We will end up wondering why our simple answers were not enough to make a difference in confronting today's problems.
Ecosystems are complex, and there is an urgent need to understand them better. Certainly the role of rats on Rapa Nui shows the potentially devastating, and often unexpected, impact of invasive species. I hope that we will continue to explore what happened on Rapa Nui, and to learn whatever other lessons this remote outpost has to teach us.
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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Happy Birthday Ladies! Hope you had a good one.I should be sewing but my wonderful husband brought me to Cotter Ar for a Trout fishing weekend and we have had so much fun.We always try to see who's going to catch the biggest one. Well yesterday he got it and today I did.Going home tomorrow and when I get home I have to see all afternoon! Yeah!!! As if thAts a punishment!
I want to wish a wonderful thank you to Wanda Lou for my SP package. It came yesterday and was lots of fun to open. My DH and I have been sick - flu for him and sinus infection for me so things went and are going late out of my house - but they are on the way. Please don't fret yet!
I received my package from Gaijin (Deborah) yesterday from Japan! I was so excited. She enclosed a Christmas panel, a fabric calendar, 5 pieces of fabric that were made in Japan, strawberry yogurt covered almonds, chocolate, maple walnuts, a variety pack of yummy tea and a marking pen. I felt like the luckiest girl as I unpacked each item. Thank you SO much Deborah! Bless you
Faith is not about everything turning out OK; Faith is about being OK no matter how things turn out.
I received my SP package from Gaijin yesterday, all the way from Japan! It was thrilling to see what she sent: strawberry yogurt covered almonds, chocolate, maple walnuts, herbal tea, a marking pen, some lip balm, a Christmas panel, a fabric calendar and 5 beautiful pieces of fabric made in Japan.
Faith is not about everything turning out OK; Faith is about being OK no matter how things turn out.
Fabulous packages, everyone! As for being in your 30's -- I've been in my 30's for 30 years!
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JDSU Drops 6%: FYQ1 Beats, Q4 Rev View Misses
Shares of fiber-optic component supplier JDS Uniphase (JDSU) are down 83 cents, or almost 6%, at $13.92, after the company this afternoon reported fiscal Q1 revenue and earnings per share that topped analysts' expectations, but also projected revenue substantially below consensus for this quarter.
Revenue in the three months ended in September rose 1.9%, year over year, to $429 million, yielding EPS of 13 cents.
Analysts had been modeling $423 million, and 12 cents.
JDS's results were affected by "weak order intake in North America, including U.S. government sector" that pushed down demand for its "network and service-enablement," or NSE, revenue by 9%. That segment makes up 40% of total revenue. By contrast, optical component sales rose 12%. The NSE unit focuses on network test equipment used primarily by carriers for both fixed and mobile networks.
Gross margin roseslightly to 46.3% from 46.1% last quarter, on a non-GAAP basis.
CEO Tom Waechter remarked that he was pleased with the company's 28th quarter in a row of positive operating cash flow, which came in at $29.5 million.
For the current quarter, the company sees revenue of $420 million to $440 million, which is below the average $457 million estimate.


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Since its introduction in 2000, the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC's) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green-building rating system has undergone many changes. More are in store, with the 2013 launch of LEED v4, formerly LEED 2012. Although the final document has yet to be approved, following is an analysis of expected changes related to HVAC.
Retired Gen. Colin L. Powell and former ABC News "Nightline" anchor Ted Koppel are among 250 speakers scheduled to appear at the 35th World Energy Engineering Congress (WEEC), to be held Oct. 31 through Nov. 2 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
New research shows little correlation between drought or dry conditions in a locality and the amount of water citizens use.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and its Northern California Chapter (USGBC-NCC) recently launched the California Best Buildings Challenge.
Richard Trethewey, plumbing and heating expert on Emmy Award-winning PBS television series "This Old House," will be the featured General Session speaker for Mechanical Systems Week 2012 Sept. 21 at the Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, Ill.
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A-TEP students Bob Haak and Natalie Salazar at a
recent model making professional development seminar.
Go to the head of the class--as a teacher
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(Aug. 14, 2006)--For college graduates considering a career change, UTSA may have the answer for you. Attend an information session at the 1604 or Downtown campus to learn about the Accelerated Teacher Education Program (A-TEP).
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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A-TEP will facilitate your teacher preparation and certification process. With 18 months of professional development and a paid internship, you will be ready to apply for a secondary teaching certificate issued by the Texas State Board of Educator Certification.
A $4,000 stipend is available to help pay for your books, tuition and related fees. You may also apply for financial aid. In return, you make a commitment to teach math or science for three years in a high-need school district in San Antonio. UTSA's partner school districts include the Edgewood, Harlandale, San Antonio, Southside and Southwest ISDs.
A series of information sessions about this program offered by UTSA's Academy for Teacher Excellence in the College of Education and Human Development begin at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 15, at the Downtown campus, Frio Street Building 3.402. Additional information sessions are planned through August and September. For more information, call (210) 458-6170, or go to Accelerated Teacher Education Program Web site.


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Lol you just summed out how shitty LSU fans can be half the time. Congrats.
Congrats on the boner you got though for "just showing up"
I haven't read all the posts, but I wonder how many that are calling out the crowd for leaving early were even there? The crowd was pathetic, I ate two tickets I couldn't give away, tailgating was Towson-like, etc. Yes, some of it was the blue hairs migrating off their primo seats on the west sideline early, and there were a bunch of no-shows in all parts of the stadium, but if anyone comes in here and whines about not having access to tickets and how the fans going these days have ruined Tiger Stadium, I will call BS to their face.
quote:you are more of a bandwagoner than the people leaving early.
Since I've had ticket in 2007
Name one stadium that leaves early for a ranked conference opponent dumbass. The weather was perfect. The offense was fun to watch. the game was competitive. There was no excuse for that many fans to leave early.
...if they would have a smoking area there would be no need for me to leave so I could get my smoke on.
The group that sits behind us actually left in the 4th quarter of the Bama game. They couldn't wait to get back to their tailgate to booze it up. I think that's part of the problem. Tailgating and drinking has become the main event for many folks, and the football game is sometimes an unwelcome distraction.
I guess that we should be happy that the old Death Valley showed itself twice this season.
The drinking is part of it, but they can also finish watching the game on TV while tailgating.
The tailgating culture
How much the this contribute financially to LSU? I guess there is some from the parking passes. Is it a big part of the intake?
The tailgating culture is out of control and I would support severe restrictions on it.
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Pulaski Technical College celebrated a structural milestone at the college's new Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Institute with a Topping Out and Beam Signing celebration Friday.
More than 150 people, including faculty, staff and students, attended the afternoon celebration inside the college's Little Rock-South site, which is adjacent to the new culinary institute.
During the festivities, college trustees, faculty, staff, students, community leaders and guests signed a 10-foot beam that will be incorporated into the new building's structure.
"Having a state-of-the-art facility like this, designed with the students' education in mind, has been a dream of ours for more than 20 years," said Todd Gold, director of the Pulaski Technical College Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Institute.
Construction of the two-story, 52,000-square-foot Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Institute began in May 2012, and will be complete later this year and open to students this fall. It will accommodate as many as 800 students when it is complete.
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A show that makes whale wars look like never before seen color footage of WW2. By far the most boring show ever
Hey guys if I dont slit my wrist today lets watch meteorite men; that should be enough to push me off the edge.
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Mr. Behan earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science from Michigan State University and his Juris Doctor degree from Detroit College of Law. He is currently in private practice which focuses primarily on the areas of probate law, estate planning, personal injury, commercial and business litigation and real estate law. He has taught Probate Practice and Procedure at Thomas M. Cooley Law School and has been a lecturer on Estate Planning for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education.


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Snow system departs Eastern Carolina
Winter Weather Advisory in effect until 9 a.m. Sunday
EASTERN N.C. - Snowfall is expected to end in Eastern Carolina in the early morning hours of Sunday morning, as the storm system moves from west to east. But dangerous driving conditions and gusting winds are still a concern.
Bertie, Martin and Western Pitt Counties saw the most snow, with Farmville getting more than three inches.
Meanwhile, residents in coastal areas saw only a light dusting.
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A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for all of Eastern Carolina until 9 a.m. Sunday. The advisory means that periods of snow will cause primarily travel difficulties. Drivers should be prepared for snow covered roads and limited visibilities.
With below-freezing temperatures overnight, it will be dangerous to drive across bridges and overpasses across Eastern Carolina, as they will freeze first.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation has not reported any major road closings because of the inclement weather. The department has sent out crews to take care of the snow. To get real-time information on road conditions, you can do the following:
- Call 511, the NCDOT's toll-free travel information line
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In addition, it;s expected to be windy overnight, with speeds between 20 to 25 m.p.h., and gusts close to 30 m.p.h
The snow are expected to be melting away by Sunday afternoon.
Snow is in the forecast for eastern North Carolina as we move through Saturday afternoon and evening, but will taper off overnight into Sunday morning.
A complicated weather pattern has an impulse of rain approaching the East during the day Saturday as another system tries to get wound up off the coast.
Rain is expected to develop across the inland areas (west of US 17) on Saturday, during late morning and early afternoon. As the rain moves across from west to east, cold air will quickly rush into the area, causing the rain to mix with snow by afternoon and become all snow by early evening (7 p.m.). The snow will end from west to east through the late night.
At this point in time, I am alerting you to the potential for up to two to three inches of snow across some of the deep inland locations, from Greenville to Kinston to Kenansville. I say "potential" because the exact track of the snow maker and the results of its interaction with another storm, developing just offshore, are still uncertain.
If the system offshore does not come into play (stays too far offshore), then only light snow will occur along the beaches and sound front counties. If the system offshore begins to pull some moisture off the ocean back toward the mainland, then snowfall amounts could be significantly higher.
For now, pending major changes in our computer forecast models, the highest snowfall amounts should be deep inland in the areas mentioned above, with one to two inches along the U.S. 17 corridor, from Washington to New Bern to the west side of Jacksonville/Onslow County. There should be half to one inch of snow from U.S. 17 East, across Beaufort, Craven, western Carteret and eastern Onslow Counties, with a dusting to half an inch east of that. The snow should end overnight.
There is a good one to three inches of water aloft that could become snow, so it will likely come down pretty hard. But it will fall into above-freezing temperatures so it will be hard to get it to stick. That changes as we move into the evening and temperatures drop to near freezing and then below freezing in the overnight hours. That's when we would see the accumulations.
Bear in mind that bridges and overpasses will see the snow stick before most of the rest of the terrain, so travel could be hazardous for much of the mid to late afternoon. Hazardous travel is likely for the evening, overnight and early Sunday morning.
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Lopez earned Ph.D. and A.M. degrees in English and American literature at Harvard University. She has an M.A. from Middlebury College and a B.A. from University of the South. Her areas of specialization are British and American romanticism, 19th century British poetry, 19th century and early 20th century novels, and U.S. ethnic literatures.
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I just my new package 4.9mm bees in today from Wolf Creek apairies.
This is my 2 or 3rd year at beekeeping, and i thought about trying a top entrance i've made (images attached).
It's seems like a good idea to have a top entrance to reduce brood congestion during honey flow and to keep it cooler in summer since heat rises.
Can any experts see any potential problems with this design?
This is 3/8''s think and the plan is to have this on top of the brood chambers, and the supers will be on top of this, so it's kind of a top/middle entrance depends on if supers are on.
If I decide to use a queen excluder this would be on top, so it would not allow the queen through, but since the entrance would be on top to the excluder the bees wouldn't have to go through the excluder to the honey supers.
But after thinking about it I would still need to let the drones in and out of the brood some way.
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Roald Hoffmann
When Stefan Petrovich Krasheninnikov, a 24-year-old Russian student of science, first visited Kamchatka in 1737, he saw mountains that "for many years throw out a continual smoke, but flame only at times." He wrote, "the principal riches of Kamchatka consist in the great number of wild beasts: Among them are foxes, sables, stone foxes, hares, marmots, ermines, weasels, wolves, reindeer, wild and tame, and stone rams." Clearly his mind was on the furs precious to Russians and Chinese. That's why Empress Anne had sent him (actually she had sent some professors of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who opted to stay behind in Siberia and send their student on into the wild lands); this was the reason bands of unruly and rebellious Cossacks were dispatched to subdue the land, exacting tribute in furs from natives.
It did not take me four months to reach Kamchatka, as it did Krasheninnikov from nearby far-eastern Siberia. Only four hours on an aging jet of Reeve Aleutian Airlines from Anchorage. Distant from the Czarist and Soviet sources of power, this was never a rich part of Russia. It's a more than nine-hour flight from Moscow to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, situated on a beautiful natural harbor, which became (along with Vladivostok) a seat of Soviet military power and its main eastern submarine base. The harbor is filled with rusting, decomposing ships.
Like Krasheninnikov, I could not help seeing the volcanoes—it is hard to look up anywhere in Kamchatka and not see one in the landscape of the most seismically active place in the Pacific Rim of Fire. And I came to see life. Not fur-bearing mammals, but a microscopic, far older form of life, the thermophiles and extremophiles of the hydrothermal sources of Kamchatka.
Workhorse Russian troop-carrier helicopters flew us into the Uzon Caldera. Two hundred thousand years ago a volcano erupted here. The frequent earthquakes fragmented the deposits in the caldera. But around was hard rock, sealing in a kind of giant chemical reactor. Several kilometers below the surface, a magma chamber is buried. Surface water seeps down to it, is sent up as hot steam, corrosive, mixed with volcanic gases. There's dissolution and redeposition of ions under conditions of varying acidity and lots of time—it's a veritable hotbed of geochemistry. Beneath the surface lie layers rich in arsenic, phosphorus, copper, lead, antimony, even gold. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and sulfur are never far away. We saw a little pool, a meter across, bubbling merrily away at 95 degrees Celsius and depositing at the surface a beautiful yellow-orange layer of As2S3.
From far away, Uzon is nondescript. Thin "smoke" is the first thing one notices, rising from some shallow lakes. Closer up the lakes and surrounding hills seem a Monet-like landscape of blues, grays, greens and yellows blending into each other. The smoke turns out to be condensing steam; it does the blending. Krasheninnikov saw those marvelous colors too, in the microcosm of a rock; he wrote "the clay in taste is sour and astringent; and if a piece of it, or a stone, is broken, there appears an efflorescence of alum, like a moss, with the colors blue, white, red, yellow, green, and black, which are so mixed as to resemble marble; and when the day is not quite dry, the colors are pretty bright."
Still closer, the pastel landscape breaks up into pools. Some are crystal clear, some muddy, filled with clay. Except suddenly a bubble pops in the clay, more burst explosively, and soon, especially as we smell the hydrogen sulfide, it looks like a nook reserved for some of Dante's less favorite people. The subtle color around the pools comes from mats of bacteria and Archaea. Sometimes we see several rings of slightly different color, each a species flourishing in a different temperature range.
Our group is an international one, nearly all microbiologists here for a small workshop on the enzymology, molecular biology and biochemistry of thermophiles such as live in these springs. A graduate student in the group sticks in a probe with a thermometer, another a piece of pH paper. The water is bubbling up at 95 degrees Celsius. The pH is 1, about 0.1 molar of sulfuric acid. I would not immerse my finger in that water even if it were cool. Two weeks later, far away, a Yellowstone Park employee dies in an accident, stumbling into a similar boiling pool.
Now I know what a thermophile likes. The world's record is an organism called Pyrolobus fumarii that flourishes at 113 degrees Celsius (under pressure, at sea bottom). The pools in Kamchatka are not only acidic, but also basic, up to pH 10.5. When I see life rampant under such conditions, or plants growing in what was lava weeks after an eruption, I can't help thinking that the variegated surface of Mars once bore life too.
In the course of the week, I learn a lot about thermophiles. They are some bacteria and mostly Archaea, the third kingdom of life recognized only in recent decades. Most are anaerobic, not requiring (and sometimes damaged by) oxygen. They are the same and not the same. Of course they have membranes and proteins and nucleic acids, all the wondrous molecular machines of the living. But a normal lipid cell wall would decompose at these temperatures, the hydrogen-bonded helices of proteins would unwind, the genes would fragment and not be faithfully reproduced. An acid and hot environment is what people normally use to denature proteins; these creatures love it.
So they are different. Their lipids are linked by sturdier ether groupings instead of esters. Thus bonded, lipid chains span the entire membrane of the cell to form a monolayer wall. The proteins of thermophiles appear to be reinforced by special sequences of amino acids, and have increased ion-pair content buried inside the protein, which, it has been argued, leads to greater intrinsic stability. A better pH environment is maintained inside the cell. Auxiliary cell components, such as polyamines and small basic proteins that resemble histones in eukaryotic chromosomes, seem to stabilize nucleic acids.
I've never seen salmon prepared in as many tasty ways as at the rural hostel where we stayed. Thermophiles have to eat too. The building blocks of the remarkably varied archaeal diet in the hydrothermal fields (or submarine volcanic vents) are CO2, CO, H2, H2S, N2, S and several oxidized sulfur species. That more than suffices, in the presence or absence of oxygen. Some typical reactions are
Normal green-plant photosynthesis is endothermic, by 481 kilojoules (change in free energy per mole CO2). The energy to get it done comes from light. Who needs light when you can have the H2S reaction above? It releases 706 kilojoules per mole! That's enough energy to reduce lots and lots of CO2 to sugar.
Most remarkable are biological systems that use as their source of energy inorganic ions such as Fe++ and Mn++. Thiobacillus ferroxidan's name tells it all. The oxidation of such metal ions is exothermic, and of course it is used. It is conceivable that much magnetite is of biological origin.
I didn't expect to face questions of intellectual property rights and ethics in Kamchatka, but?. As described above, the molecular machinery of thermophiles works—in ways we don't yet completely understand. It does so under conditions that approximate more a heated reaction flask in a lab or a washing machine than an Ithaca winter. This has not escaped the attention of detergent concocters, who want an organic stain-removing enzyme, as well as biochemical supply houses. One enzyme, Taq polymerase, which is used in the polymerase chain reaction, apparently has a billion-dollar market.
Taq polymerase was isolated from a thermophilic bacterium, Thermus aquaticus, collected in Yellowstone National Park. The park receives not a penny from the manufacturers. The consequences: People get ideas—maybe there are other Taq polymerases around. Maybe we can remove dioxins, make a carbon-carbon bond in another, more efficient way. There's money to be made in bioprospecting. There were bioprospectors among us in Kamchatka. And not all working for companies. One industrial biologist was reported as saying, "I've never met an academic who didn't have something to sell." Or who wasn't thinking about a small startup company.
Second, you can understand that Yellowstone National Park is not happy about not getting anything back. How to reward, legitimately, a source of materials that will yield commercial profit—a place, a country? Licenses for sample collecting at Yellowstone now carry a proviso for a royalty if a product from an organism collected in the park is commercialized. I have a feeling that in the absence of a clear agreement of this kind, it will take many a court case to decide what happens if a bioprospecting company takes the DNA of a natural organism, and mutates it in the lab or splices it with a piece of DNA from another organism so as to enhance the production of an enzyme. Whose DNA is it at the end?
This was the first time I was in a meeting of biologists. I noted the following things:
(1) The more molecular they were, the less I understood. The reason was that I have been bypassed by several generations of biochemistry, molecular biology and genetic engineering. And what jargon! It was my fault to let it happen, but also there were a couple of people there who could not conceive that someone could not know what 16S rRNA was. (I learned eventually that it is part of the ribosome. By comparing the sequence of 16S rRNAs from various organisms, scientists can make rough determinations about their evolutionary relatedness.)
(2) I imagined that in the struggle between the organismic and the molecular, the molecular worldview had routed the opposition. Indeed, I saw signs of the struggle. A preeminent expert on thermophiles, Karl Stetter, a man responsible for naming a good fraction of the archaea, used some of the language of the DNA world, but clearly wanted to point to its limitations. So he stressed that two species close on the 16S rRNA scale—and therefore presumed to be close on the evolutionary tree—nevertheless had very different metabolisms. I also saw people who were in a way uninterested in the organisms, in the beauty and complexity of their adaptations to the hostile (to humans) environment. Instead of looking under a microscope, they were just eager to get the DNA out of the bugs.
On balance, what was interesting to me was a new breed of microbiologist—delighted to collect the Kamchatka microfauna and eager to see its DNA. It was wonderful to see the enthusiasm of Stetter fishing up a sample (you can be sure it was not his first one) from a boiling well and to see young biologists using the hotel lobby floor as a makeshift chemical laboratory to fix the samples they had collected earlier in the day.
(3) I saw a new ecology at work: Eric Mathur of Diversa Corporation, as he dipped his collecting receptacle under a tree stump near a hot spring and noted with excitement how probably no one had looked in that environment. Maybe there was a group of organisms there, he continued, to oxidize xylenes. Maybe a gang of enzymes. Whether by looking at the organisms, or by looking at their DNA, the interest of the microbiologists was in an ensemble, not the individual. People were clearly thinking in terms of populations.
I bought a small piece of walrus scrimshaw in Kamchatka. In exquisite brown lines, it shows a most Russian well-dressed bear sitting on a sled in the snow. He's tired but happy, perhaps after a long hunting trip. That's how my microbiologist friends looked after a long, wet day of collecting. The bear holds cupped in his hands a steaming cup; there is a teakettle sitting in the snow. So he's a thermophile too. And behind him is a smoking volcano. It's Kamchatka.
© Roald Hoffmann
Thanks to Valeria Rozenberg and Sergei Varfolomeyev for getting me to Kamchatka, as well as to Frank Robb and John Varley for their comments.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/thermophiles-in-kamchatka/2
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


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SISTERS, Ore. - A Portland man was critically injured Monday evening when his speeding car left Highway 126 east of Sisters and struck three trees, said Deschutes County sheriff's deputies as they sought witnesses to the crash.
Deputies were dispatched around 5:30 p.m. to the reported single-car crash on Highway 126 about 200 yards east of Buckhorn Lane, two miles east of Sisters, said Lt. Chad Davis.
The car, a blue 2000 Porsche Carrera driven by Grant Prentice, 58, had been seen heading west on the highway at a high rate of speed before the crash and narrowly missed a cyclist riding on the highway, Davis said.
When the car reached a 45 mph corner west of Camp Polk Road, it left the highway, crossed a cinder shoulder and continued off the road until it struck two pine trees, Davis said.
The car then struck a third pine tree on the driver's side, breaking the tree into pieces before coming to rest facing south on the north side of the highway, the lieutenant said.
Prentice was flown by Life Flight helicopter to St. Charles-Bend with serious injuries, Davis said. He was listed in critical condition Tuesday afternoon.
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How to getting the Ebook Publisher to Give up Copyright Protection.
One wonders why everyone laments how the reading habit is quite lost in today's iPod-gazing world. The new e-book reader market has never been hotter – Amazon looks like it cannot lose with its number one product the Kindle, the Sony Reader is a scrappy contender, and Barnes & Noble just came out with its Nook e-book reader.
And the Apple iPad and HP's competing iSlate look set to demolish the competition with their versatile slate-type touchscreen tablet computers that can just do everything that a computer, a mobile phone, an e-book reader and God knows what else can do, all at once.
So there it's settled, America can't get enough books to read, so red-hot is the market for e-books. There's just one little problem here – publishers are not so sure how they are going to protect their copyrighted intellectual material from a free-for-all once everything is released in electronic form.
Consider what happened when ten years ago; iTunes let the world have its first taste of copyright protection. iTunes said that if you bought a song for your iPod, it could only be played on that iPod, and could not be transferred anywhere else. It was not yours to own, and you could not share it with anyone. And then there were years of struggles between copyright holders and music lovers until finally, the industry gave in, and ended copyright protection. So now here come the Kindle and all its other look-alikes; you buy a Kindle with Amazon, you load it was a few dozen books and you are happy.
Until you see a nice shiny iPad. Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could take all your ebooks from the Kindle and transfer them to read on the iPad? Well, that does sound like a very nice idea. It's too bad no ebook publisher will hear of it.
That is not even the biggest problem. When people couldn't use their music any way they wished, there was an outcry. People began to write articles and put out blog posts that seemed to get satan and the music labels all mixed up.
For something that people seem to consume just as much as music – e-books, where is the outrage. How can any e-book publisher expect you to pay $20 for a book, and lose it the moment that reader dies or you switch readers? There are voices of protest, but not as many as there should be to get the ebook publisher community to change its ways.
How many times do we have to go around the same path to understand that when morbidly fearful publishers install badly-designed copy protection, all it does is make it difficult for paying customer to read a book that's paid for? The customer has to jump through so many hoops every time, that he's just refuses to do it anymore, and the copyright holder has to just abandon the whole thing. Wasn't it wonderful when the music companies just dropped their hated copy protection and DRM?
What happens really when an e-book publisher or a famous band like Radiohead put their music or book out for free, but also sell it in the bookstores for a price? It has been tried, and it certainly doesn't bankrupt anyone. People do download them for free if they can get them without paying for them.
Usually these are people who wouldn't be able to afford to pay for it anyway, so you aren't really losing anything; you only gain wider exposure. And paying customers pay too. For now, every ebook publisher is trying to at least make copy protection somewhat sensible.
They're making sure that if you buy an e-book for the Kindle, you can play it on any device. Going without copy protection does work. It doesn't look like the music labels are filing for bankruptcy now does it?


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By Andrew Perzo / American Press
The local golf rumor mill has been abuzz about the city of Lake Charles closing Mallard Cove to allow expansion of the Chennault airpark. Is that true?
No, but the rumor holds a grain of truth.
The city has no immediate plans to close the course, said John Cardone, Lake Charles city administrator. But, he said, Chennault International Airport officials have said that acquiring the golf course would aid their expansion.
Mallard Cove — with its errant golf balls and bird-friendly setting — will present a greater hazard to people and planes in the future as the airport expands, said Randy Robb, Chennault executive director.
The course lies just south of Taxiway G, which is used for small planes, he said. The taxiway has in the past been little used, so problems associated with the golf course were manageable, Robb said.
But Chennault plans to build a cargo center along Taxiway G, and the increased traffic associated with it will mean a greater exposure to hazards for people and airplanes, he said.
Cardone said the city has asked Chennault to look at other development alternatives, and Robb said airport officials are doing just that.
"We have to look at options to limit exposure," Robb said. "We're looking at all the different things that can be done."
The land Mallard Cove occupies was given to the city by the U.S. Department of the Interior several decades ago for recreational use "on into perpetuity," Robb said. To put the land to commercial use, officials would need approval from Congress.
"We're a long way off, if we decided to do it," Robb said.
Online: www.cityoflakecharles.com; www.chennault.org.
How many states were carved out of the Louisiana Purchase?
The Louisiana Purchase — which, incidentally, didn't include the Calcasieu-Cameron area — doubled the size of the United States in 1803, adding more than 820,000 square miles of land.
The area included all or parts of the following 15 states:
New Mexico
North Dakota
South Dakota
Online: http://history.state.gov/milestones.
The Informer answers questions from readers each Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. It is researched and written by Andrew Perzo, an American Press staff writer. To ask a question, call 494-4098, press 5 and leave voice mail, or email email@example.com


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Some young bands dream of the day they'll write that one song — a beautiful, searing bundle of truth that persuades parents to have kids, inspires armies to stop fighting, and conjures puppies and kittens from thin air. If they've already written it — like, say, Foghat with "Slow Ride" — they probably remember the day it spilled forth as a momentous occasion, one on which it became clear that pursuing a career in music might be worth the trouble after all.
Spencer Smith, drummer of the Las Vegas–based emo-rock band Panic! At the Disco, probably has this dream. But it's not the first thing that comes to his mind when you ask the 18-year-old whether he remembers that initial spark of possibility. "It was probably our first-week record sales," Smith says over the phone from Great Britain, where Panic are on tour with another emo outfit from Chicago, The Academy Is . . . Saturday night the joint tour hits Avalon with Acceptance and Hellogoodbye, and Tuesday it's at Lupo's at the Strand in Providence. "Our record came out on the first day of our tour with Fall Out Boy," the drummer continues, recalling that fateful Tuesday last September when A Fever You Can't Sweat Out arrived in stores stores courtesy of Fall Out Boy leader Pete Wentz's Decaydance imprint. "And our original goal was about 5000 copies that week. But we actually sold 9700, which was amazing. Then recently we had our biggest week yet coming up to Christmas: over 20,000 records. The week before Christmas is big for the whole record industry, but the week after Christmas everything slows down. The Panic record was the only record that went up."
Panic! At the Disco are part of a new breed of young, smart, industry-savvy bands who, in an irony not likely lost on emo pioneers like Guy Picciotto of Rites of Spring and Fugazi, are colonizing emo-land, that former wellspring of self-important artistic and economic integrity. Along with The Academy Is . . . and a handful of other outfits, Panic are redefining what it means to be a rock band in a music industry shaken by file sharing, CD burning, consumer apathy, MySpace surfing, and radio acts that aren't really rock bands at all. Panic are incredibly ambitious, surprisingly cynical, and mildly ruthless.
And they're making some pretty good music. A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, which Smith and his mates wrote and recorded after Wentz had signed them to Decaydance, is great fun. In the current issue of Rolling Stone, Wentz the A&R man (who is barely distinguishable from Wentz the musician) hypes the disc as sounding "like the Killers meets Fall Out Boy meets the Faint," a handy little description that suggests he should try his hand at PR if he ever tires of FOB. The equation is just right: taut, catchy emo tunes tricked out with soaring keyboards and propulsive dance beats. Like all emo frontmen, singer/guitarist Brendon Urie writes lyrics dense with self-reference and wordplay. "Well, we're just a wet dream for the Webzines," he sings in "London Beckoned Songs about Money Written by Machines." "Make us it, make us hip, make us scene." In "Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks," over surging guitars that conjure vintage Duran Duran, Urie describes being "prescribed pills to offset the shakes, to offset the pills you know you should take."
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Question: what do the federal government's "war on terror" and its "war on political corruption" have in common?
Answer: torture.
America was outraged when it learned of abuses committed by enlisted personnel at Abu Ghraib. As details of waterboarding and other enhanced forms of interrogation emerged, a vigorous national debate ensued.
But when the news broke recently that Salvatore DiMasi, a former Speaker of the Massachusetts House convicted of political corruption and now serving time at a federal prison, was subjected to treatment so Borgia-like, so inhumane as to constitute a form of torture, the community mostly yawned.
There is compelling evidence that DiMasi was subjected to torture-lite in his assignment to a faraway prison in Lexington, Kentucky, there to serve his eight-year sentence, rather than at the nearby federal prison hospital at Fort Devens in Ayer. At the time of DiMasi's September 9, 2011, sentencing, US District Court Chief Judge Mark Wolf recommended to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBP) that DiMasi serve his sentence in Ayer. Wolf expressed concern about DiMasi's then-diagnosed heart condition and the prospect of forcing his cancer-stricken wife to travel long distances for visits. Yet the distant Kentucky assignment was callously selected by the FBP, a subdivision of the Department of Justice (DOJ).
It is difficult to avoid suspecting that the FBP chose a distant prison in order to persuade DiMasi that, if he were to testify helpfully (translation: tell prosecutors what they wanted to hear), he would be rewarded with a more convenient prison assignment and other amelioration of his conditions and length of confinement.
The DOJ's likely reasons for incarcerating DiMasi in distant Lexington began to bubble to the surface when the press reported that he was making the 900-mile trip from Kentucky to the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island, while shackled in a prisoners' van. He was held at Wyatt for more than a month in order to appear before a federal grand jury sitting in Worcester and looking into additional suspected corruption. Had he been a "cooperating" witness, he likely would have gone first-class in a FBP plane, assuming, of course, that he was not being permanently housed closer to home. Instead, he was taken on a grueling, circuitous eight-day road trip in each direction, making overnight stops in such out-of-the-way lock-ups as those in Oklahoma City and Brooklyn.
Worse yet, we now are told that at least some federal officials knew that, in addition to cardiac problems, DiMasi likely had cancer. In December 2011, DiMasi found lumps in his neck and made repeated requests for a medical examination. In January 2012, a prison doctor examined him, determining that the lumps were potentially cancerous and that further testing was required.
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text: Eponine probably never went for Enjoras because he was even less interested in her than Marius was, lol. All revolution and justice for that boy; no time or interest in women. You can just see it in his exasperated face when the other boys are extolling the virtues of girls, lol. Besides, Marius was different; not like the others. He came from a good upbringing and as much as he hid it, I'm sure it showed in his manners and actions. Eponine probably saw him and thought he could be her knight in shining armor.


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Petitions for candidacy are available at the Campus Center Information Desk. Petitions are due by 4:30 p.m. Sept. 10.
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Irwin, its understandable why the border was closed. There was a lot of over reaction going on down here when the T-mites first started showing up, then varroa. But eventually we all got the nasties, and learned to deal with them (mostly). Is there any point to keeping it closed now?
>>Some growers behaved as if bees were like pizza's... just call and presto 2 days later there they are.<<


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Advertising is going through a metamorphosis and how! These days most advertisers are pushing their creative and outdoor agencies to create eye grabbing installations on billboards or any other outdoor media vehicles. One obvious route used is to create giant replicas of package or other relevant objects. There are many popular ones like Absolut, Mini, Ikea or Heiniken done over the period of time. Check out few of them on http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2009/01/05/clever-and-creative-billboard-advertising/. Clients in India also desire to have their campaigns dotted with such innovations. But lack of time, prohibitive cost, lack of expertise and impatience makes it a difficult proposition.
In the absence of using such giant replicas or props, is there a way in which the billboard can still be made attractive? Yes, many campaigns we see these days use smart graphic renditions to give a depth to the objects and pictures. Clever use of shadows and perspectives makes the packs or objects that you want to highlight, stand out, and helps grab a better attention from the passing audience. The next pertinent question is, does it come cheap? Ideally not.
Shown below is an artwork where 3D effect is given:
Now guess what's wrong in it.
Mistake #1:
The shadows by sunrays are sharper than what's provided here. Probably it was meant for the 3-4 halogen bulbs from the top illuminating the board in the evening. But then half of the sites are illuminated from the bottom! So the shadow should be above the cubes as well!
Mistake #2:
This is a rampant one. It starts from the fact that outdoor is still an after thought and when a shoot takes place, the stills take care of ads for press and brochures. We all forget that these ads are seen at an eye level, when you hold them in your hand. The problem is the camera angle which are either top, a bird's eye view or eye-level view. 99% of billboards or any outdoor media vehicle for that matter is at appreciable height. So if the intention is to create a realistic 3D effect of the object then the camera angle has to be from the bottom, i.e. ant view. Therefore if I want to show a car stuck on the board on its side, then I have no option but to show the bottom of the car, which I guess is not a great sight. Unless I stick it sideways with the wheels on the board and the roof outside.
So the artwork below can be considered as a correction to the above artwork:
Mistake #3:
A single artwork with size adaptations takes care of all sites irrespective of size of the board, its height from the ground, its angle to the viewer and the sun position during peak hours. That should never be the case while creating realistic 3D artworks. Each site should be treated separately with all the data of viewing angle, height and position to the sun. Look at the examples of the same campaign. I am sure you will get it.
Yes, creating 3D effect on the artwork itself takes care of lot of hassles and nightmares, but doesn't come in cheap as it needs special skills, special treatments, softwares and calculations. The advertisers should realize this.
In the end, actual or replicas or props built and installed on billboards give much better appeal, but we can look at this cosmetic option as long as it's done right.


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text: The 306, 206, and 319 all use an "L' bobbin. I think I got mine from Sew Classic. They also all use a 206x13 needle. Some people have tried to put in a 15x1 needle, but you will mess up the timing if you try that. I'd get the correct needles for your machine. The needles and bobbins are not expensive, but you won't be able to buy them at your local JoAnnes, or Walmart. I treadle my 319w. I don't even have a motor for my machine. Those are great machines, easy to work on - I have had to re-time my 319w twice after my grandson did a number on it -, and easy to use. Did you get the cams?


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Violence which comes as a result of the consumption of large amounts of cheap beer, such as Natural Bohemian (or Natty Bo). Variants on both the subject (someone from the city of Cincinnati, someone with a last name ending in the natti phoeneme) and predicate (Natti Bows can escalate to Natty Blows or, if the alcohol has rendered the aggressor more incoherent than dangerous, Batti Nows).
After getting his ass handed to him in Super Smash Brothers, Josh threw them Natti Bows, sending his dapper adversary to the emergency room.
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It'll be some time before the full story of why Shane van Gisbergen walked away from a three-year deal with Stone Brothers Racing and got behind the wheel of a Holden for the Webb family's Tekno Autosports team.
Van Gisbergen told Driven this week: "I was having a good time and then we had a little chat with Tekno and then things starting rolling along. It's been pretty exciting and I'm looking forward to this year racing with Jonathon [Webb] and I've already had a look around their facility.
"They've got some good cars and it's a great place to be and I reckon we can do quite well this year."
Van Gisbergen is happiest when with a family-oriented team - that's what he enjoyed about SBR. But with Ross and Jimmy Stone going into an alliance with Erebus Motorsport, and a new management structure, things were not going to be as they were.
With Tekno, van Gisbergen will be with a tight-knit group who just want to go racing.
"There'll be a lot of sponsorship stuff to do as well as the racing but the best thing about having Jonathon as a team owner and a driver is he understands all that stuff and how to go about it the right way," said van Gisbergen.
There has been a little tension in the V8 camp about the bloke jumping from a Ford into a Holden but if he'd stayed with Erebus Motorsport he would have been driving a Mercedes.
"Some people might be a bit peeved about how it all came about, which is a bit unfortunate, but it's just the way it turned out.
"I had no plans to come back [V8 Supercars], it's just the way it turned out. I just want to go racing. It was a bit of a shock to some people last year but I just want to get on with it and not worry about other stuff," said van Gisbergen.
Added Webb: "There's so much new stuff going on this year and we're hugely excited and quietly confident about the cars we're getting built by a championship-winning team [Triple Eight].
"Shane wasn't on our drawcard when we were looking for a second driver. He was out of the game and had gone back to New Zealand.
"We touched base with him early in the New Year after he'd had some time back home and here we are.
"We are very much a family business. My father [Steven] helped us to get it going and my wife and I run the business from day to day."


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Two Years On continues today on Arsenal.com with a look at some of the more interesting facts and figures on the Club's new home:
The 7-0 Champions League trouncing of Slavia Prague on October 23, 2007 is the greatest margin of victory by Arsenal at their new home. However the 6-2 defeat of Blackburn a season early remains the highest scoring game.
The 0-0 stalemate with AC Milan on February 20, 2008 was the only goalless draw at Emirates Stadium last season. There had been two in the first campaign.
60,161 fans watched Arsenal's 2-2 draw with Manchester United on November 3, 2007, an Emirates Stadium record. The stadium's capacity is 60,335.
The Carling Cup Semi-Final first-leg draw with Tottenham Hotspur in January 2008 was watched by 53,136, a record low for a first-team game at Emirates Stadium.
An average of 600 stewards are on duty on a matchday at Emirates Stadium. That is 250 more than the average used at Highbury.
The 18 huge broadcast trucks which packed into the car park at Emirates Stadium when Arsenal played Liverpool in the Champions League was the highest number used during the competition, anywhere, other than at the Final.
On average 120 cars move in and out of the stadium on a daily basis. That rises to 350 on a matchday.
There are 41 TV camera positions.
73 first-team goals were scored at Emirates Stadium in 2007/08, three less than the season before.
Nicklas Bendtner scored the the 100th Premier League goal at Emirates Stadium in the Gunners' 1-1 draw with Aston Villa in March 2008.
The stadium's 104 full height and 28 half-height turnstiles, plus 13 glazed gates, are capable of getting 600 people into the ground every minute.
The overall attendance at Emirates Stadium for competitive first-team fixtures during the 2007/08 season was 1,672,505. That is an increase of 56,914 on the previous campaign.
The Premier League's average attendance was 60,700 last season, an increase of 35 on the 2006/07 campaign.
The area of all the internal floor space covers an astounding 91.127 metres squared, almost equivalent to the Millennium Dome.
The stadium complex covers 17 acres.
Arsenal kept the environment in mind too. There are 16 trees around the podium.
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Boston Logan International Airport Lands Emirates and Non-stops to Dubai
Emirates Will Fly Daily to Middle East with Connections to India and Southeast Asia
BOSTON – The Massachusetts economy will be better connected with the world on March 10 when Emirates – named the "World's Best Airline" at the 2013 Paris Air Show -- begins flying daily nonstop service between Boston and the United Arab Emirates. From its Dubai hub, Emirates flies to 134 destinations worldwide, including 10 in India.
"Nonstop service to the Middle East will open up new commercial and economic opportunities for Massachusetts and the region," said Governor Deval Patrick. "This and similar service expansions is how we bolster the Commonwealth's competitiveness.''
Emirates will use Boeing 777-200LR aircraft for the route, with the cabin configured for three classes of service and 266 seats. Flight 237 will depart Dubai daily at 9:45 a.m. and arrive at Boston at 3:15 p.m. Flight 238 will depart Boston at 10:55 p.m. and arrive in Dubai at 7:10 p.m. the next day.
"The arrival of Emirates and its non-stop service to Dubai will expand Boston's global presence in business and tourism," Mayor Thomas M. Menino said. "We look forward to welcoming them to Boston and applaud Massport for its work in helping our City continue its strong growth."
His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive, Emirates Airline & Group said: "Our Boston service will further develop this exciting gateway into the northeastern United States. Based on passenger demand, we believe the time is right to further boost our U.S operations, while stimulating channels of trade and tourism to and from the state of Massachusetts and the wider New England region."
The new service falls under Massport's International Air Service Incentive Program, which applies to new nonstop international service to destinations in Asia, Central America, South America, Africa, and the Middle East. The incentive program includes landing fee credits and joint advertising opportunities. Massport's action is not designed to subsidize a service that is not likely to be self-sufficient, but to help minimize the initial business risk of the air carrier. Massport is undertaking the program to compete with other airports around the country, most of which offer some type of financial incentive to attract new international air service.
"Our new partnership with Emirates helps expand the global reach of Boston and Logan by connecting New England with new markets,'' said Thomas P. Glynn, Massport's CEO. "Emirates offers seamless connections from Dubai to dozens of destinations in the Middle East, India, East Africa and Southeast Asia – a combined market from Boston that in 2012 saw more than 331,000 passengers spend more than $295 million in tickets.''
The most heavily traveled destinations from Boston served by Emirates are Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Chennai, Singapore, Hyderabad, Nairobi, and Dubai.
Massport had been in discussions with Emirates since 2006 about the potential for service. In the past 17 months, new international service to and from Logan includes Japan Airlines service to Tokyo, Copa Airlines service to Panama City, Turkish Airlines announcing they will start service to Istanbul in May, and now Emirates.
Emirates started flights to America in 2004, beginning with New York. The airline's current seven U.S gateways form part of a 134-destination network, served by a fleet of more than 200 modern aircraft, including the airline's flagship Airbus A380. Emirates' much-lauded hub in Dubai is equipped with the world's first purpose-built A380 concourse, housing the largest First and Business Class lounges in the industry.
Aboard the Boeing 777-200LR serving Boston, customers in all classes will be able to dine on gourmet-chef prepared food, browse through more than 1,500 channels of movies, TV, music and games on the ice Digital Widescreen in-flight entertainment system. Multi-lingual cabin crews are on each flight. As part of an agreement with JetBlue, Emirates and JetBlue passengers are able to travel on each other's flights and earn reciprocal miles.
About Emirates
Emirates www.emirates.com is one of the world's fastest growing airlines. With over 200 aircraft, Emirates flies to 134 destinations. So far in 2013, Emirates has launched flights to Warsaw, Algiers, Tokyo Haneda and Stockholm. In the coming months, flights will begin to Clark International in the Philippines, between Milan and New York, to Conakry in Guinea, Sialkot in Pakistan, Kabul, Kiev and Taipei.
Emirates operates the world's largest fleet of A380s. The airline's A380 superiority was underlined earlier this year with the opening in Dubai of Concourse A, the world's first purpose-built A380 concourse. Amongst its hundreds of international accolades, the airline picked up the Skytrax 'World's Best Airline' 2013 award.
About Boston Logan
Boston Logan, 15 minutes from the intersection of Route 128 and I-90 and five minutes from downtown Boston, serves as the gateway to the New England region and offers nonstop service to 75 domestic and 34 international destinations and in 2012 handled 29.3 million passengers. Boston Logan is served by two public transit lines and is the Air Line Pilot Association's Airport of the Year for 2008 because of its commitment to safety. Over the past decade, the airport spent $4.5 billion on a modernization program that includes new terminals, public transportation access, parking facilities, roadways and airport concessions, and has been transformed into a world-class 21st Century facility. The airport generates $7 billion in total economic impact each year. You can find us on Facebook at facebook.com/bostonlogan and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/bostonlogan.
The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) owns and operates Boston Logan International Airport, public terminals in the Port of Boston, Hanscom Field and Worcester Regional Airport. Massport is a financially self-sustaining public authority whose premier transportation facilities generate more than $8 billion annually, and enhance and enable economic growth and vitality in New England. No state tax dollars are used to fund operations or capital improvements at Massport facilities. For more information please visit massport.com.


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text: Hi, Hi, I have a 2008 Silverado 1500 Crewcab with my warranty ending the latter part of next year. When I bought it the dealer included a "customers for life" deal which included free oil changes and I pay for the filter and get a tire rotation each time I brought it in. Since then the dealer went out of business and sent me to a Toyota dealership he owned. They were changing the oil every 6k with Mobil and assured me it was fine being a new truck because I am old school and been changing my own oil every 3k like clock work. Now they have moved it up to 9k and I'm getting uncomfortable with this. The Toyota place also put my tire sensor in the wrong place...when the left front is down the indicator comes on for the LR. I said all that to say this: Can I do the maintenance myself without voiding my warranty if I keep a record and receipts? Can I bring it to an independent garage? The dealers say it will but they want to keep me on that program because my upcoming transmission flush will be be around $400! I don't want to go 9k between changes. I also want to use Mobil1 and do it myself as I have been all my life. In the final analysis it's my truck(warranty gone next year) and want to get the mileage or more I got out of my old 1994 Z-71! Thanks in advance!