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Waldron describes Shadows in the Soil as offering a 'guided tour' of palaeo-osteology as opposed to an exhaustive excursion. He is undoubtedly right, but this is no bad thing; in fact, what could have been a laborious examination of details is actually a rather fascinating and easygoing introduction to the field.
Beginning with the basics, Waldron explains how the age, sex, height, weight, and (with important caveats) the potential occupation of the deceased can be ascertained, before then explaining how the likely cause of death is determined (be it trauma, disease, suicide, execution, or even cannibalism). The final section is dedicated to the various traces disease leaves on the skeleton, focussing on osteoarthritis, various arthropathies, tuberculosis, leprosy, syphilis, and cancer, while also taking note of fractures, amputation, child abuse, trephination, and more besides (his explanation of how isotopic analysis can potentially indicate diet is especially interesting).
Waldron proves himself a superb guide: his enthusiasm for the subject is obvious yet in no way excessive, and unlike many specialist authors he notes his subject's faults along with the achievements. He mostly avoids technical jargon but where he deems it necessary he takes care to ensure that it is adequately explained. The many photographs and diagrams are of course invaluable in such a work.
This is an altogether great introduction, being both informative and rewarding, and would certainly be of benefit to anyone requiring insight into the use of human bones in archaeology.
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In explaining what the archaeologist can reliably deduce about past societies from the study of bones and other human remains, Dr. Tony Waldron carefully avoids over-technical jargon. He covers the subject under the three headings of Life, Death, and Disease. He explains first that bones give us information about age, sex, height, weight, working life, and the demography of a society. We also learn of the causes of death—whether natural or intentional—and the evidence for a whole range of diseases—from aching joints and teeth to infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and syphilis.
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Adult circumcision is most often performed for true medical necessity, at least in Western societies. Although reported complications are few, they can be significant, and hence expertise is necessary. Unlike newborns, the adult will have already maximized his penile growth after puberty. Thus, it becomes more important to assure that adequate shaft skin is protected when doing a circumcision. There are many variations of available techniques and, hence, most urologists and surgeons will incorporate their own preferences when performing adult circumcision. Today, with more adults requesting foreskin preservation, prepucialplasties might be offered in select cases. Proper informed consent, of course, becomes essential.
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Yesterday we talked about how to avoid having your pet munch on pine needles or glass ornaments or otherwise come to harm during the Christmas season. The post prompted a lot of you to send in your "pets at Christmas" photos, so I thought, let's have an extra picture post this week. As well as Furry Friday, let's have Tinsel Tuesday, just this once. Or maybe next Tuesday too.
Joy to the world, remove this hat. The grand tradition of putting a Santa hat on the pet is continued by Daisy. Funny how, in a lot of today's photos, the pet looks as though this Christmas thing may be a foe rather than a friend.
Snoopy seems to be saying "Don't you put that hat on me".
Completely unposed: Smooch takes a nap under the tree, upstaging all that fine wrapping paper.
Sofi has the same idea, sussing out that package containing uncle's soft new T-shirt. Every photo collection on Four Legs Good has its sad aspect: Sofi recently crossed the Rainbow Bridge at the age of 14 and is much missed.
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Amba (left) wants to be woken at New Year. Gemma is a few seconds away from bending that bauble like Beckham.
William is another who likes the baubles of office. He has left his claw and chew marks on quite a few.
Forgive me, at the last moment before posting this blog I gave in to overwhelming temptation and gently stuffed Connor into a Santa hat. Slightly cruel and very exploitive, but he thought it was a game. Then he actually snoozed in his pompommed sleeping bag.
Again, more hum than ho as Goldie submits to the hat. Dads Kevin (left) and Bevan are a bit more festive about it. Great photo, guys!
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I have already decided my cat will win christmas v cat and have preempted the disaster by avoiding a tree.
I will buy her a new teaser toy for christmas though and maybe some batteries for the laser pointer.
Thanks for the lovely photos. This is my 1st christmas without my baby, who was a cat, after 18 years together, and its been hard to not feel like a big part of putting up the tree and having him playing with the decorations and tinsel is missing. These photos made me laugh as it made me remember all the silly things we used to do at christmas together. Atleast I have a 3 year old daughter this year to grab the decorations off the tree, so the tree falling over tradition is still intact.
Our biggest concern is the hundreds of neighboring kitties coming in and spraying the tree. We're pretty much an open home at the moment, but might have to draw the line there. Also, our 4 cats have a bigger present budget than our human family.
Awesome pics! Especially Smooch, she's beautiful! Christmas 2009 was the first Christmas for our cats, Tarzan and Ella. We had a fake tree and they had a ball helping me put it up and climbing in it. They didn't knock it over though (although they were only a few months old and probably not heavy enough to win cat(s) v tree). They did knock off plenty of decorations which they batted all around the house. Last year we didn't have a tree cos we were having Christmas elsewhere. This year we'll be getting a real one, they are 2 years old now and I'm hoping they're mature enough not to try and climb the tree but time will tell I suppose.
Great photos. Last night I spied my Calico Kitty using our tree as a place to hide while stalking my other cat. No bauble injuries as yet.
Haha, I love these photos. Some of them even gave me LOL moments! Love Smooch, William, Goldie (& his Dads), and Ron & Harry - yes,I spotted them both. Brina, Emma & Sammi are gorgeous. Archie - priceless!
I'm glad you gave in to temptation Nick, LOVE that pic of Connor!
That pic of Connor is fricken cute! I wonder if Sanchez would let me do that to him...
Love those pics!
They're all beautiful but having a soft spot for "senior" cats, my favourite today would have to be Sofi - RIP Sofi. Connor looks very snug in his hat. I wondered what you were on about with Ron and Harry - had to look really hard to spot the beautiful blue eyes in the background. The last two pics made me laugh. That's how I imagine any tree of mine would look. Somehow I don't think I'll be submitting any pics of Alfie and Sammy and a christmas tree.
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#1 Oct 8, 2012
DEAR ABBY: I have been dating a man, "Jerry," who committed a crime years ago. He and a friend participated in several robberies. Jerry was unarmed and no one was hurt, although the victims were traumatized. Jerry was caught, served time in prison and has completely reformed his life. He finished college, was married for many years, is a devoted father to his children and holds an excellent job for which he is respected.
Despite the way Jerry has lived his life, I am having a hard time getting over his past. Although I know he has done everything humanly possible to redeem himself, I can't help wondering what kind of person he is deep down. We are starting to get more serious, and he doesn't know I'm aware of his record.(A mutual friend told me long before Jerry and I began to date.)
I'm concerned that if my children know about what he did, they will never accept him. Although I have never met someone with whom I feel so compatible since my divorce, I wonder if it's worth pursuing.-- TORN OVER HIS PAST
DEAR TORN: Let me help you. Jerry is a man who made a very stupid mistake in his youth and who has paid for it. But it didn't stop him from turning his life around and making a success of himself. Many people would respect that. I know I do.
Because you and Jerry are getting serious, he should have mentioned his past to you. The two of you need to have a heart-to-heart talk. If you are truly worried about the kind of person he is "deep down," this is the way to find out. As for your children -- once you accept him, so will they if you impress upon them how hard he has worked to become the person he is today.
DEAR ABBY: I have been going to a small community building near where I live to sing karaoke. I love going there because no alcohol is served, everyone acts like family, and I can take my kids and grandkids. My husband doesn't go because he has other stress relievers and we have different interests. He knows some of the people there and doesn't mind me going with my best friend.
I love my husband very much. I am not "looking for love." However, last month the DJ's wife was waiting for me and said she didn't appreciate my singing with her husband (she never comes, either) and told me to stop leaving comments on his Facebook page.
I tried to explain that I thought he was my friend, but she wasn't having it. She wanted to start trouble and ruin what happiness we all have. I thought about not going back, but I love the singing.
I haven't done anything wrong or said anything inappropriate. My friends at karaoke want me back, and my husband says I should go. I have been so down about this. There's no other place around where they don't serve alcohol. Please help me.-- INNOCENT AND HURT IN SOUTH CAROLINA
DEAR INNOCENT AND HURT: Although your relationship with the DJ is innocent, it appears he has a troubled marriage. If he doesn't know about the incident with his wife, then you should tell him. The next couple of times you visit the community building to sing, ask your husband to please come with you. And stop leaving messages on the Facebook page.
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L1: I don't see why your adult children need to know. It's none of their business.
L2: 1. Cut back on the commenting on someone's FB page. 2. Tell her to eff off and if she has a problem, she can talk to her husband.
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P.S. I'm SO not a fan of karaoke. Sober? That would make me wanting karaoke to be illegal.
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#4 Oct 8, 2012
L1: Anyone with access to google can probably find out all about Jerry's past. Just saying. Anyway, it sounds like Jerry did his time, learned his lesson, and is living a much better life than he was at the time that he committed these crimes. People CAN change.
L2: What Ang said... the Facebook stuff is immature and there's no reason for it. But it's okay to have friends.
Since: Mar 09
#5 Oct 8, 2012
I know, right? I tried to take my personal opinion of this hobby out of the equation when thinking about a response to the letter.
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#6 Oct 8, 2012
L1: The key here is that he hasn't come clean about his past. I'd naturally be concerned if someone I knew was dating an ex-con. I do agree that the adult children don't need to know.
L2: Anything related to karaoke hobbyists gets the same response: just say no.
This lady is infatuated with the DJ, BTW, but I'd tell the wife to get outtas my face.
"Where is Tonka?"
Since: Feb 09
Neda, stay with me! Charlie
#7 Oct 8, 2012
1 If you insist upon making him continue to pay for his crime, do him the favor of leaving him.
2 You Hussy! Nothing worse than a sober karaoke singer hitting on the DJ.
and isn't "sober karaoke singer an oxymoron"?
"Fort Kickass"
Since: Sep 09
#8 Oct 8, 2012
L1: Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!
L2: sober karaoke = trying to slide down a dry waterslide. It can be done, but why?
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#9 Oct 8, 2012
LW1: IS this what life as Michael Vick is like? Committed a crime? Paid the price. Rebuilt his life. Walked the straight and narrow. And people are still concerned with what he did years ago.
LW2: So go back and don't sing with the DJ and stay off his facebook page? How hard is that?
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#10 Oct 8, 2012
I don't dislike karaoke, but the times I've been at a karaoke place and friends have tried to get me on stage, I tell them "you need to get me a lot drunker than this if you expect me up there!"
"I Am Mine"
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#11 Oct 8, 2012
Interesting comment from you when juxtaposed with my Michael Vick analogy.
"The two baby belly, please!"
Since: Sep 09
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#12 Oct 8, 2012
I seemed to me that you both are saying the same thing.
With which I agree, btw.
#13 Oct 8, 2012
I think it is a question of whether you regard the crime as an abberation or a mistake made while young or an indication of underlying character that will show up again later in life.
LW clearly sees it as a manifestation of a character defect which can't be changed, only suppressed
"The two baby belly, please!"
Since: Sep 09
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#14 Oct 8, 2012
LW2: Because this woman's comment caused you so much distress, I'd re-examine that "not looking for love" statement.
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#15 Oct 8, 2012
LW1: It sounds like hes a changed man. Also, if you knew about this before you dated him and were so concerned, why did you date him? Make up your mind its either a deal breaker or its not.
LW2: Just put some distance between you and the DJ.
#16 Oct 8, 2012
LW 1: Is it his past crimes that are bothering you, or is it the unprotected homosexual anal sex he had when he was in the slammer?
"I Am Mine"
Since: Dec 08
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#17 Oct 8, 2012
In this case, we are, but I don't think he keeps it consistent when Vick comes up.
"reign in blood"
Since: May 09
#18 Oct 8, 2012
1- Once a scumbag, always a scumbag. Dump him, there are plenty of non-felons out there.
"Where is Tonka?"
Since: Feb 09
Neda, stay with me! Charlie
#19 Oct 8, 2012
I do not apply it to Vick because I dont believe he is a changed man. I dont believe he thinks he did anything wrong, or sees anything morally wrong with dog fighting in general.
He paid the price for being caught, but getting caught has not reformed him, as it apparently has the LW.
Do you really believe that Vick is a changed man?
"Where is Everyone?"
Since: Jul 12
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#20 Oct 8, 2012
L1: Okay, Patty-Perfect... The man owned up to what he did and went through the process. If anything, you can use him as an example of what not to do and, if you do something you shouldn't, own up to it and make it better for everyone.
L2: Maybe the DJ has stepped out on his wife before so his wife is making assumptions. I'd let it go and leave space between you and the DJ. If you can stomach it and if everyone can agree, why not the 4 of you (DJ & wifey, you a hubby) go out to dinner one night.
As for the comparison with Vick and the guy in L1 -- what PEllen said. It goes to whether it's an indication of a continued character trait or not.
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For example, tucked away in Obamacare is the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a 15-member group of government bureaucrats that is tasked to cut corners and achieve savings in Medicare. You know what that means for you and me: Our health care will be run from D.C. rather than by our local doctors and medical providers. When the D.C. bureaucrats act, we will feel the pain in the loss of coverage for, and accessibility to, health care providers.
Congressman Shuster voted to abolish this board.
However, this and many other Obamacare issues remain unresolved. Let's send Bill Shuster back to Congress so this, and the many other Obamacare issues, get fixed.
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It's one of the biggest night's of the year when it comes to European music celebrations, and the 2012 BRIT Awards are underway in London, England.
Held at the the O2 Arena, the proceedings are being hosted by James Corden with a red carpet packed with stars such as Nicole Scherzinger, Adele, Olly Murs, Emma Bunton, Victoria Justice and Cher Lloyd.
Las Vegas was brimming over with super-hotties as the Club SI Swimsuit shindig rolled into town last night (February 16).
And beautiful babes like cover girl Kate Upton, Irina Shayk, and Anne V all worked their magic for the cameras outside Pure Nightclub at Caesar's Palace.
With the show coming to an end, the 2012 Grammy Awards have named the year's big winners during a fun-filled Staples Center ceremony on Sunday night (February 12).
Taking home the top prize and a total of six trophies was Adele, while other big winners included the Foo Fighters, Kanye West and Taylor Swift.
He's well-known for his high energy and catchy hooks, and Bruno Mars gave a killer performance at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards tonight (February 12).
The "Grenade" singer showed up at the Staples Center ready to impress his contemporaries with his snazzy attire and silky smooth vocals on the song "Runaway Baby."
Teaming up for a musical collaboration, Lil Wayne just released the video for "Mirror" featuring the vocal stylings of Bruno Mars.
The track is a slow tune and takes an up close and personal look at the "How to Love" rapper highlighting his rock hard body and personal tattoo collection.
The show aims to "celebrate the accomplishments of people of color in the fields of television, music, literature and film, and also honors individuals or groups who promote social justice through creative endeavors," and this year's NAACP Image Awards nominees have been announced.
Having revealed the esteemed artists in the running for the top prizes in music, the 2012 Grammy Nominations Concert took place in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday night (November 30).
Twi-hards have been chomping at the bit for this week to finally come, and tonight (November 14) the cast of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" descended on Los Angeles.


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E70 from year to year has various forms of the same component. Each year the form is changed to reflect fixes, hence the last year it should be much more reliable then say the first year. The f15 is a whole new platform and has the latest in BMW engineering so it has new tech vs the e70's old tech.
Old tech will always be more reliable then the cutting edge of technology. The principle behind this is that, the technology that is dated will have been tested significantly more than say something that just came out, since the real world is not a simulation. These real world experiences would provide problem-fixes and updates on the same component.
This is evident in anything these days, from iPhones, tvs, your watch, or say a brand new car.
That's not to say that there will be cases where you'll have reliable tech. However reliabilty statistics are aimed at answering how reliable the majority of vehicles are in the subset, not the individual members of the subset.
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Researchers have recently discovered a novel form of activated protein C (APC) which may be a potentially safer drug for treating severe sepsis in patients who experience a higher incidence of bleeding due to the anticoagulant function of APC. This novel form of APC has been genetically engineered (mAPC). Unlike known forms of APC (such as Xigris®), this modified molecule retains the anti-inflammatory activity but none of the anti-coagulant effects. The inventors were also able to show that mAPC retains important physiological characteristics such as lack of apoptosis in vitro and normal binding to endothelia cells.
Recently, recombinant APC (Xigris®) has been withdrawn from the market as a drug for treating severe sepsis patients. There is growing evidence suggesting that the beneficial effect of APC in severe sepsis is separate from its anticoagulant effect and is, at least partially, attributed to its direct protective signaling effect in endothelium. Nevertheless, a major drawback of APC is the increased incidence of bleeding in ~2% of the treated patients. Therefore, there is an urgent need for APC variants with diminished anticoagulant activity while still retaining their cytoprotective effects.
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Disney Showcases 'Lone Ranger' Characters for Game System
Walt Disney Co. (DIS) showcased "Lone Ranger" and "Monsters University" characters tied to its Infinity video-game platform, which goes on sale in August and is designed to boost the company's money-losing interactive unit.
The play sets, drawing on characters from the forthcoming Disney movies, feature plastic figurines that are set on top of a base unit and appear on screen. The characters were shown yesterday with the Infinity system at E3, the video-game industry's annual conference in Los Angeles that runs through this week.
Disney, the world's largest entertainment company, unveiled Infinity in January, saying it would reduce costs and improve earnings at its interactive division by incorporating characters from multiple Disney movies in the same game. The company also has been promoting other characters for the platform, including from its "Cars" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" films.
"You play your way and it is as fun for you as anyone else," said John Blackburn, chief executive officer of Avalanche Software, a Disney Interactive unit. "We want this to be deep enough for a father to play with his sons but we wanted it to be easy enough where kids can play as well."
Burbank, California-based Disney will sell the figures, which will come with "power discs" that add special powers, weapons and vehicles from Disney movies. A starter kit with the base and figures from the "Pirates" and "Monsters" franchises and "The Incredibles" is priced at $75, and the game can be played by four people over an Internet connection.
Players can use characters from the starter pack across other games. An area called "Toy Box" allows users to create their own game in genres including racing, sports, fighting and world-building.
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Infinity's combination of video-game play with collectible figures is similar to "Skylanders," a game from Activision Blizzard Inc. (ATVI) that generated more than $500 million in sales in the U.S. last year. Infinity comes out Aug. 18.
"I think the buzz around Infinity is very strong," Sean McGowan, an analyst at Needham & Co., said in an e-mail. "It comes at a time when parents are being asked to shell out a lot of money for gadgets -- tablets and new consoles that already have a solid claim on some of that discretionary budget, but if it's a quarter the success of 'Skylanders,' it's a big hit."
Disney earlier this year pushed back the release date for Infinity from June and said in a May 7 conference call that the interactive division would report a loss in the current fiscal-third quarter similar to the $54 million shortfall it experienced in the prior three-month period.
"We believe in Infinity," Bob Iger, chairman and chief executive officer, said on the call. "We think it will be a great product and it's going to help drive profitability for fiscal year 2014."
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The Football Association (FA) introduces sanctions for players found guilty of racist offenses in English leagues.
The sanctioning measures have been suggested by FA chairman David Bernstein, who spoke to several players on the issue.
"I've met with Rio and Anton Ferdinand, Jason Roberts, Clark Carlisle, Garth Crooks and a number of others and taken on board the comments and observations and concerns that they had, which are reflected in the papers that we've put out today," Bernstein said.
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Gail Collins: There To Make MoDo and Bobo Look Smart
I forgot to blog about this on Thursday, but this has to rank as one of the most remarkable recent paragraphs written on the increasingly embarrassing NYT op-ed page:
Lately, anti-Huckabee conservatives have been suggesting he's soft on crime. The story involves an Arkansas man, Wayne DuMond, who was accused of kidnapping and raping a high school cheerleader in 1985. While he was free awaiting trial, masked men broke into his home, beat and castrated him. His testicles wound up in a jar of formaldehyde, on display on the desk of the local sheriff. At the trial, he was sentenced to life plus 20 years. When Huckabee became governor, DuMond was still in an apparently hopeless situation, though theoretically eligible for parole. Huckabee championed his cause, and wrote him a congratulatory letter when he was finally released in 1999. Then in 2000 DuMond moved to Kansas City, where he sexually assaulted and murdered a woman who lived near his home.
"There's nothing you can say, but my gosh, it's the thing you pray never happens," the clearly tortured Huckabee recently told The National Review. "And it did." If by some miracle he became the presidential nominee, there would obviously be many opportunities to point out that Michael Dukakis never sent a letter to Willie Horton celebrating his furlough.
Why do the leaders of the religious right keep sidling away from a Baptist minister whose greatest political sin seems to have been showing compassion to a prisoner who appeared to deserve it?
Tristero and Somerby point out the rather massive gap in the story here: that DuMond was released not out of some independent sense of compassion but because a wingnut campaign on his behalf was launched because the woman DuMond raped was a distant relative of Bill Clinton. There also doesn't seem to be any corroborating evidence that DuMond was the victim of a vigilante attack, which is the presumed source of the "compassion" allegedly demonstrated by Huckabee (unless Collins wants to argue for early parole for serial rapists on the merits.) This was not just a parole that happened under Huckabee's watch, but one he personally intervened to secure. Was this result of a careful assessment of the facts? Where did he get the information that made him decide that keeping DuMond in prison was unjust? Er:
The state official who advised Huckabee on the Dumond case confirmed that the governor knew very little about Ashley Stevens' case:
"I don't believe that he had access to, or read, the law enforcement records or parole commission's files — even by then," the official said. "He already seemed to have made up his mind, and his knowledge of the case appeared to be limited to a large degree as to what people had told him, what Jay Cole had told him, and what he had read in the New York Post."
Jay Cole, like Huckabee, is a Baptist minister, pastor for the Mission Fellowship Bible Church in Fayetteville and a close friend of the governor and his wife. On the ultra-conservative radio program he hosts, Cole has championed the cause of Wayne Dumond for more than a decade.
Cole has repeatedly claimed that Dumond's various travails are the result of Ashley Stevens' distant relationship to Bill Clinton.
The governor was also apparently relying on information he got from Steve Dunleavy, first as a correspondent for the tabloid television show "A Current Affair" and later as a columnist for the New York Post.
Much of what Dunleavy has written about the Dumond saga has been either unverified or is demonstrably untrue. Dunleavy has all but accused Ashley Stevens of having fabricated her rape, derisively referring to her in one column as a "so-called victim," and brusquely asserting in another, "That rape never happened."
The columnist wrote that Dumond was a "Vietnam veteran with no record" when in fact he did have a criminal record. He claimed there existed DNA evidence by "one of the most respected DNA experts in the country" to exonerate Dumond, even though there was no such evidence. He wrote that Bill Clinton had personally intervened to keep Dumond in prison, even though Clinton had recused himself in 1990 from any involvement in the case because of his distant relationship with Stevens.
"The problem with the governor is that he listens to Jay Cole and reads Steve Dunleavy and believes them … without doing other substantative work," the state official said.
Had Huckabee examined in detail the parole board's files regarding Dumond, he would have known Dumond had compiled a lengthy criminal resume.
Interesting definition of "compassion" there. The bottom line is that a woman is dead, not as a tragic consequence of an imperfect parole system but because Huckabee went along with crackpot anti-Clinton conspiracy nuts and released someone with a significant history of violence and sexual assault. Seems like something worth considering when determining if someone would make a good president for me. But that would mean returning to the lunatic war on the Clintons, in which the Times was frequently complicit, and we can't have that!
The Overrated Led By the Even More Overrated
The glorious effects of the reign of Charlie Weis, Super Genius (TM):
Weis' Fighting Irish now stand at 1-7. This record is only the faintest indicator of just how awful Notre Dame is. They have lost nine of their last 10 games, by an average of 24 points. None has been close. While Notre Dame has suffered very few injuries, three of its opponents have had to play the Irish without their starting quarterbacks. Two of those teams, USC and Michigan, nonetheless beat Notre Dame by a larger margin than either has beaten any other opponent so far this year. Notre Dame's lone win came against UCLA, which had been forced to use its third-string quarterback, a walk-on. In that game, Notre Dame compiled just 140 yards of offense, but won with the help of seven Bruin turnovers, five of them hand-delivered courtesy of the hapless walk-on signal-caller.
Just how bad is Notre Dame? Of the 119 teams in Division I-A, ND is 119th in total offense, 119th in rushing offense, 112th in passing offense, and 118th in scoring. If Notre Dame had doubled its scoring output, it would still rank 108th. If it doubled its rushing output (currently 34 yards a game), it would barely eke out Duke for 118th place.
The only thing not to like is that we'll lose the annual pleasure of Notre Dame being humiliatingly demolished in a bowl game. On the other hand, this is one more BCS bowl a year with some chance of having a competitive game.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it also seems to me that Weis is getting off relatively unscathed here. Callahan is having an awful-but-not-quite-this-awful year with a proud team, and people in Lincoln want his head on a pointed stick. I haven't sensed this with Weis.
Enough to Make Me Pine for Eastwood
Clint Eastwood gets disrespected a lot around here, so it's important now and again to recognize that he's made a genuine cinematic contribution as a director. Scott and I might disagree as to the level of his achievement with Unforgiven and (perhaps) Letters from Iwo Jima, but I'd think we'd concur that Mystic River is an outstanding piece of work. Just how well Eastwood handled the Lehane novel was driven home last night when I watched the unfortunate Gone Baby Gone.
As mentioned, Gone Baby Gone is based on a Dennis Lehane novel (Lehane has also done work for The Wire, and the commonalities are evident) and covers much the same territory as Mystic River; the nexus of child molestation with white ethnic neighborhood politics. I haven't read either novel, so can't say anything conclusive about the relative strength of the source material for either film. I can say, however, that Ben Affleck (who directed and co-wrote the screenplay) set out to make An Important Serious Film that would, hopefully, go some distance to getting his career back on track after J-Lo, Daredevil, and several other bad choices. He covers some of the increasingly familiar territory of white ethnic Boston (Boston and Baltimore are the new New York as far as police procedurals go) decently enough, although without ever reaching the insight into the structure of those neighborhoods that we find in The Departed or especially Mystic River. Affleck grew up in Cambridge and put that experience to some good effect Good Will Hunting, while Eastwood is anything but a native, but for whatever reason (more experience, more talent, more distance from the subject matter) the latter paints a far more compelling picture of how a neighborhood actually functions, especially where criminal and police life meet, than the former.
That's fine; saying that a movie isn't as good as Mystic River isn't a fair critique. Affleck coaxes some good acting out of his under-rated brother, and paints a reasonably effective picture both of the deteriorating relationship between the protagonist and his girlfriend, and of the dysfunction in the family of the victim. He even manages to do a solid job of weaving that dysfunction into the tapestry of the neighborhood. Unfortunately, the situation deteriorates from there. Although there are elements of the police procedural aspect that recall the Wire (including a cameo by Michael Williams, aka Omar Little), Affleck doesn't handle the police well; for me the plot barely held together while I was in the theater, collapsing utterly when I took time to give it a second thought. Morgan Freeman delivers an inexplicably weak performance, although Ed Harris does well enough with the material that he's given. Part of the problem is that the cops are given a panoply of often contradictory motivations, there actions being somewhat explicable from one point of view, then utterly nonsensical after the next twist. When, afterwards, you sit down and think about what the main police characters actually did, the plot makes not a lick of sense.
The biggest problem, however, stems from Affleck's desire to make An Important Serious Film. Without going into spoilerish detail, in order to convince us that he's making an ISF, he has to give us a Moral Conundrum, and he has to kill a kid. The former is presented as the film shambles to its collapse, and involves a key decision made by our protagonist. Unfortunately, we know so little about our protagonist that we can't a) reasonably predict what decision he's planning to make, or b) explain why he made it. That's a problem; the end of a movie is supposed to flow from its beginning. Affleck the director gives us some hint of where his protagonist is coming from (pay attention to the discussion of deep, non-consensual identification in the opening monologue), but it's fair to say that the apparently decisive considerations make themselves evident only in the first and last two minutes of the film, and even then only in a "What? Huh? Oh, I suppose maybe that's what he was getting at…" kind of sense. As for the kid, I won't go into details, but I very much felt that the child was essentially sacrificed on the altar of Ben Affleck's quest for seriousness. What I heard was this: "Would someone who wasn't Serious kill a kid? Take me Seriously!" Now, I hardly opposed to the killing of kids in movies, but it should be done for some purpose other than the director's quest for relevance.
Gone Baby Gone isn't wholly without charm, but I can't recommend it. Watch Mystic River again, or sit down in front of a few episodes of the Wire.
"Ain't Gonna Study War No More"
If I had a "Greatest American Birthdays" series, I'd certainly have to include Mahalia Jackson, who must be counted as one of the most remarkable performers of the 20th century. She was probably best remembered for her renditions of "We Shall Overcome," but her performance of "I Been 'Buked and I Been Scorned" — which she sang just prior to MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech — was at least as powerful and has been unjustly left behind by popular memory of the civil rights era.
Unfortunately, I can't find any film of that performance online, but I did manage to turn up this fantastic clip from a 1969 concert in Sweden. Most of that concert appears to be on YouTube, so if you're in the mood to be completely blown away, do yourself a favor and watch.
If she hadn't died too young in 1972, she'd have turned 96 today (which still would have been too soon to lose a voice like hers).
The Beauchamp Response
I've long been skeptical about the Beauchamp stories, and wouldn't be surprised if more elements of them were proven false. Having said that, though, I see nothing objectionable here. Obviously, 1)there's no reason to uncritically believe the self-serving results of an investigation the Army refuses to make public, and 2)a recantation under the supervision of his superiors is hardly credible, especially if it's subsequently withdrawn without his supervisor's presence. The other thing to note is that the easy way out for TNR would be to just throw Beauchamp under the bus, since nothing of any significance turns on the veracity of his stories (contrary to the myths being spun about these cases, nobody cared about his diaries until right-wing bloggers made a big deal about them, and nobody's case against the war turns on the bad behavior of some individual soldiers), especially since it's not as if the magazine is against the war anyway. I think Foer deserves credit for backing up his writer until actual verifiable evidence that further aspects of his stories are false (and "they don't sound right" or "no soldiers would ever do anything against the rules" certainly don't count) emerges.
UPDATE: A correspondent points out that Beauchamp didn't even retract his story to the military. but simply refused to say anything.
UPDATE THE SECOND: A roundup of wingnuttery on the subject from John Cole.
Department of Understatement
From a mound of student essays I'm in the midst of grading:
The abolition of slavery following the [civil] war was a great victory for African Americans, especially those living in the south.
Why yes. I suppose it was.
About Time
Georgia Supreme Court rules, 4-3, that Genarlow Wilson's 10-year sentence for receiving a consensual blow-job from a 15 year-old when he was 17 was cruel and unusual punishment.
The Case Against Mukasey
I lay it out in a new article at TAP.
This is a difficult question; I fully expected to support the nomination, and I certainly don't think that there will be a better candidate. The bottom line for me is that nobody is going to act as a good AG for this administration, so it's more important for the Senate to send a signal that opposition to arbitrary executive power and torture should be non-negotiable issues (and defining torture as not-torture and nominally opposing torture but removing any checks on executive power that could actually prevent it are not going to fool anybody.)
Moral Relativist Of The Day
This is a distinction that many Iraq dead-enders don't seem to grasp, but it's quite straightforward, so let me help. "Torture is wrong" is –right or wrong — not a moral relativist position. "Torture is wrong when other people do it but OK when we do it" is pretty much the definition of a moral relativist position, and indeed the kind that is especially odious: exempting yourself from the standards from which you hold others. You're welcome!
Tough Gig
"I think the most important thing is, whoever we hire, give him a chance. Because he's not getting the '96 Yankees. He's getting a younger team, and for the most part, it's a transition period, so give him a little while."
Yeah, you have to show great patience with a manager given that paucity of talent to work with. Right. Assuming the major free agents return, the '96 Yankees are clearly better than the '08 Yankees at the following positions:
- Centerfield
- First base, assuming they don't sign someone better than Tino "Even More Overrated Than Mattingly" Martinez
And, er, that's it. O'Neill and Abreu are a wash, although I grant that Abreu has much lower Water Coolers Destroyed and Bitching Incessantly About Belt-High Pitches Down the Middle Called Strikes averages. Jeter '08 is obviously better than Jeter '96, even granting the regression in his defense. And some of remaining edges are, of course, massive: one of the 10 best players ever against the shell of Wade Boggs and Charlie Hayes, Cano against Duncan (although Duncan did have a fluke season in '96 itself,) Matsui/Damon against Ice Williams, bordeline HOFer Jorge Posada against Joe Girardi. The '96 Yankees did have a veteran rotation, but apart from Cone's 11 starts it was merely good; Petite was a little better, but it seems likely that Wang/Hughes/Chamberlain will outpitch Key/Rogers/Doc (ERA+s of the latter 3: 107, 107, 100.)
Even granting that the earlier team had an excellent bench (one thing Torre deserves credit for, and which largely got away from him in later years) and more bullpen depth, please. Whoever manages the team in
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First I would like to note that there are other achievement guides in the forums, but it seemed like they didn't give a perfect description on how to get some of the tougher achievements, so I'll do my best to describe how to get them VERY EASILY!!!
-Note: This is my very first attempt at making an achievement guide, so give me a break if somethings are a bit off. I also don't know how to add pics, but hopefully I'll go into enough depth to help those who seriously need the HELP!!!
Let's start out with the single player ones:
VETERAN: (15G) Play 100 games (single player). I would first go for this achievement. It'll make searching for your monkey friend easier (you won't have to keep scrolling back to find him). The way you finish a match REALLY FAST is go into single player, classic chess, single game, rated, then choose your opponent. Once chosen, hit this combo: start, exit game, X to resign, A, A, A (now saving) Match completed in 1 sec. Now even speedy gonzallez would say that's fast
Now that we're at a low rank, we don't need to scroll to get to that damned dirty ape: Stanley (level 1 ELO BOT)
APPRENTICE: (5G) Win 1 game...against Stanley you have to be dumber than an ape to lose to him.
ANNIHILATOR: (10G) Capture all your opponent's pieces in Classic Chess (single player). Just play ELO BOT 1 (Stanley the monkey), and make sure to collect every piece before checkmating, VERY EASY!!!
BLITZKRIEGER: (20G) Win 1 game (single player) in less than 5 minutes (personal time). Beat 1 game against Stanley in less than 5 minutes, if you don't get this on the first try, you'll surely get it when beating Stanley the remaining 19 tries when attempting for the Master Achievement.
MASTER: (25G) Win 20 games (single player). If you can beat Stanley once, you can surely beat him again.
GRAND STRATEGIST: (20) Complete 30 puzzles. Do chess puzzles, and select HUNG PIECE. This is very easy, if you know how pieces move in chess, this achievement shouldn't take more than 5-10 minutes.
CHAMP: (25) Defeat a chess personality with an ELO rating of 1000 or more. Now go into single player, classic chess, single game, CHOOSE PRACTICE, select any bot 1000 or greater (I chose LUCY ELO 1006). Now hit LB, and select HINT. From here just keep doing the hint, until LUCY is checkmated. Easy Achievement!!!
Now for those annoying multiplayer achievements:
I would like to note that I'm not that good at chess, and I boosted the achievements with 2 people. Here's the fastest way I found out how to WIN A MATCH: It takes no more than 5 secs, it's a 2 move checkmate.
1.) account that wants the achievements should be black and should be searching for the match, while the account that's going to be aiding the other account should be host and be the color white. Now once the aiding account hosts a "classic match" have the achievement account search for "classic match" and the other variables any. Once the two join up, follow these directions exactly for a two move checkmate. (There are quadrants on chess board on horizontal and vertical axis's labeled by numbers and letters, you'll see them on outter edges of board).
Losing account white (W):
Achievement receiving account black (B):
-these are movements of the pieces for the 2 move CHECKMATE
(W): pawn G2-G4
(B): pawn E7-E6
(W): Pawn F2-F3
(B): Queen C8-H4
*NOTE: if someone random joins your game, DON'T TOUCH ANY PIECES and QUIT!!! You won't lose any rank, and you won't affect the random person who joins your account either. Wait about 10-20 secs, then try to re-host. If you move just 1 piece, it'll consider it a total loss and you'll lose rank, so be sure NOT TO TOUCH ANY PIECES BEFORE QUITTING!!!
APPRENTICE: 5G) Win 1 game (single player). Follow steps above 5 sec achievement
RISING STAR: (15G) Win online against a higher ranked player. This will be very easy if you follow steps above with two players boostig with one another.
JACK OF ALL TRADES: (15G) Win 1 online game in all chess variants. Follow steps above for all the following game types (classic chess, dark chess, and extinction chess. For progressive chess and losing chess, you'll have to use a different strategy. Fool around in those two game types, and you'll figure it out how to play them. If the other person is cooperating, you'll surely win when you need too.
CHESS REGULAR: (10G) Play 20 online games. Follow steps above, you should get this in a matter of minutes. (approx 5 secs/match when my friend and I boosted it).
PRO PLAYER: (25G) Win 10 ranked online games. Follow steps above, you should get this in a matter of minutes. (approx 5 secs/match when my friend and I boosted it).
GLORIOUS: (15G) Achieve an online rating of 1200 in any type of chess. This one is terrible. It's the "seriously..." for chess. It tooke me 233 wins, and my friend 185 wins. Even with the 2-move checkmate move, it's very time consuming. Well regardless, follow my original strategy for the 2-move checkmate, and you should get this achievement eventually. The ELO system is a true skill type rating system. Meaning if you're expected to win you don't get many points added to your ELO rating. if you're expected to lose and you lose, you don't get minused that many points as well. The best way to level up REALLY FAST, is to face someone with a much higher level then your own, and keep CHECKMATING him/her for a good bit of time. After achievement is unlocked, you can then lose a lot of times to give that player back their rank, or even increase theirs to give them the glorious achievement as well.
*NOTE: you might need another account to help you out on this one. My friend and I boosted me to 1149 ELO, and I stopped getting points. He used another account to boost his rank back up, and then and only then could we finish my 1200 ELO.
Well I'm ending it here. If you have any suggestions please tell me, for it's my first achievement guide. If it's helpful to anyone it's also nice to here acknowledgement once in a while .
There are winners and there are losers:
If you lose, you lose
If you win, you win
No reason to rub the facts in people's face
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In 2004, the Knife began work on their third album in unusual locations, including a former carbon dioxide factory and the vaults of Stockholm's Grand Church, before finishing their sessions in a more conventional studio. The following year, José González's cover of the Deep Cuts single "Heartbeats" (which was from his 2003 album Veneer) appeared in a commercial for Sony's Bravia and became a hit, earning more acclaim for the Dreijers outside of Sweden. Early in 2005, the Knife performed their first-ever live show at London's ICA, appearing with Rex the Dog (who also did a remix of González's version of "Heartbeats") and playing in front of video created for the event by artist Andreas Nilsson. His work also appeared on How I Found the Knife, a DVD/CD set that included all of the band's videos, short films, and remixes, which was released that summer.
The Knife and Nilsson teamed up again for the video for the title track of the group's third album, Silent Shout, which was released in early 2006 in Sweden and that summer in the U.S. (by Mute) and U.K. (by Brille). The Knife's darkest, most ambitious work to date, the album featured singles such as We Share Our Mother's Health, which included a mix by Trentemøller. The duo played a handful of European, Scandinavian, and North American dates in 2006, accompanied by more of Nilsson's visuals. That fall, Mute reissued The Knife and Deep Cuts.
The Knife's next project was Tomorrow, in a Year, an opera commissioned by the Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma and inspired by Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species. Working with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, the duo recorded the album in Berlin, Stockholm, and Copenhagen over the course of 2008 and 2009. During that time, Karin Dreijer also worked on her own project Fever Ray with producer Christoffer Berg; the self-titled debut album arrived in 2009, and Tomorrow, in a Year was released in 2010. Early in 2013, the Knife released a new song, "Full of Fire," and announced their fourth album, Shaking the Habitual. Another single, A Tooth for an Eye, arrived before the album. An unsettling 90-minute meditation on topics including politics and the environment, Shaking the Habitual was released that April. The Knife returned the following June with Shaken Up Versions, a mini-album of some of the band's songs as they performed them on the Shaking the Habitual tour. ~ Heather Phares
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Duck Hunters the choice is yours
I am recommending that all Duck Hunters call or e mail their
Representatives & Senators in DC to Oppose the Action of the USFWS that
will strip US PPR / PPJV regions of it's annual federal duck stamp
revenues. These revenues are spent to acquire, restore and enhance vital
Duck Production Habitat in Iowa's & Minnesota's known portion of the US
PPR better known as the PPJV regions. The Dakotas have always gotten more revenue and still do.
As duck hunters we are not asking the director of the USFWS to change that. What we are asking is that he and his NEW Plan, not effect present restoration efforts in other key areas of the US PPR / PPJV REGIONS.
To read more into the issue and get a better understanding read the
content bellow:
USFWS requests that the Migratory Waterfowl Commission Support a plan
to focus protection efforts on Vital Habitat in the Prairie Pot Hole
Region. < ------- Notice this request when read as is, is ALL inclusive
as it reads
( Prairie Pot Hole Region ) The Map of the Prairie Pot Hole Region
includes ( Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, western regions of
Minnesota, North central regions of Iowa. )
USFWS request that the Migratory Waterfowl Commission also Support a
Federal Duck Stamp formula allocation shift that would direct 70% of
the Federal Duck Stamp revenues to the Prairie Pot Hole Region.
<--Again as it reads , it's all inclusive as a region as a whole ( MT.
Migratory Waterfowl Commission agrees more focus needs to be placed on
the Prairie Pot Hole Region and Supports said request by the USFWS.
Days later a revised NAWMP changes what is the Priority Region with in
the Entire US PPR placing emphasis on the Dakota's as the Top Priority.
Notice I said Dakota's and Not the Prairie Pot Hole Region as it was
initially presented to the Migratory Waterfowl Commission.
USFWS and other NGO request and Support the Federal Duck Stamp Increase
Bill that is in congress which would raise the Federal Duck Stamp fee
from $15 dollars to $25 dollars. This specific Bill and its passage or
effort will be sought in 2013.
With the approval of the Migratory Waterfowl commission on the previous
issues listed above and under the pretence that it was as a Region as a
whole and the revised NAWMP after the Fact, all revenues gained would
squarely be funneled directly into the Dakota's with marginal support
if any from the federal duck stamp fund going to the other portions of
the US PPR states PPJV regions, in the known US PPR Duck Factory to
continue OUR goals as waterfowlers to Restore, Protect and Enhance Duck
Production Habitat in the Whole US PPR REGION ( MN & IA ppjv regions
would take a big hit)
My personal comments to the above are below.
This if you wish to call it A New Sense of Urgency due to Habitat
conversion rates in the Dakota's is not something that just popped up on
the radar screen. In fact it has been known for over 4 years, read the article, Calm Before the Storm Article by DW.
This NEW PLAN is a retreat by the USFWS that leaves OUR
overall presence and Mission as Duck Hunters out on the Prairie Pot
Hole Region as a whole weaker because it simply Abandons or down grades the Importance of saving , restoring and protecting vital Duck
Production Habitat in other regions of the US PPR. It leaves those
other areas with in the US PPR extremely vulnerable and would hinder our
ability in other regions of the US PPR to take advantage of New
Opportunities to Restore, Protect and Enhance Vital Duck Production
In conclusion as a Duck Hunter we cannot allow the USFWS or other to
Retreat from the Mission or Redefine it as a whole. When you give up
something or sacrifice something very rarely do you ever regain what it
was you once had. Your initiative has been lost. In this case we are
talking about the security and future of waterfowl Populations and Duck
Production Habitat as a whole throughout the US PPR that plays a roll
in the overall future of Duck Hunting!
My points are this, when we are in drought and the Dakotas are not
producing ducks or adding to the fall flight, historically portions of
the US PPR like MN & IA. ppjv regions are wet and producing ducks.
Every additional acre we save, restore or enhance in these particular
regions of the US PPR are producing ducks when the Dakotas are Not.
They are a contributing factor to the fall flight and this effort allows us to continue our Mission as duck hunters to add ducks to the Fall flight why at the same time permanently protecting said vital duck production habitat for the future generations of ducks and duck hunters.
Putting all our eggs into one basket as the USFWS wishes to do, leaves
us as Duck Hunters very vulnerable to drought conditions in the Dakotas,
with no contribution being made to fall flights.
If 2 million acres of CRP in the Dakotas is producing a fall flight contribution of an
additional 2 million ducks, lets continue our mission and work towards
restoring and protecting 2 million acres of said vital duck production habitat in MN &
Iowa's US PPR / PPJV regions.
At least when drought is a factor in the Dakotas, other portions of the
US PPR can pick up the slack and the negative impact less threatening
to Duck Hunting in the future. To simply abandon that Opportunity with
in the region as a whole, that Mission, that Goal leaves the future of
waterfowl populations and duck hunting itself at risk and highly susceptible to unstable season structures.
Is that something we want for future generations of Duck Hunters? God I hope
The Proposed Compromise that leads us to a stronger Mission in the US
PPR of the Dakotas, why at the same time maintaining present levels of
support in other areas of the US PPR / PPJV Regions.
1. Support and Pass the Federal Duck Stamp Bill.
2. Fully Support the Federal Duck Stamp Revenue Allocation shift of 70%
to the US PPR Region.
3. Maintain present Federal Duck Stamp Revenue support with in the US
PPR regions of Iowa & Minnesota WHERE every additional acre we restore
and protect is adding ducks to the fall flight.
4. Demand that Ducks Unlimited put All it's Resources into Duck
Production Habitat for the next 5 years.
The increased revenues and support of 1 & 2 WILL DIRECT MORE REVENUES
This action leads to the future security of waterfowl populations and
waterfowl hunting as a whole!
Ducks are Not dropping out of the SKY from starvation on the wintering
grounds FOLKS. If you are not producing ducks to fill the skies , YOU SIMPLY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PRODUCTION HABITAT ON THE GROUND TO FILL THEM.
Everyone knows about the Mallard population levels of the late 70's, Hell that figure has been the bench mark that drives not only NAWMP objectives but just about every waterfowl conservation program and objective we have.
All those Mallards / ducks didnt come from the Dakotas. All US PPR regions where producing ducks at remarkable levels and even if one region wasn't the other picked up the Slack.
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Panel has 'grave concerns' about U.S. nuclear agency chief
WASHINGTON (AP) – Four members of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from both parties say they have "grave concerns" about the panel's chairman, charging that his actions are "causing serious damage" to the commission and creating a "chilled work environment at the NRC."
In a letter to the White House, the commissioners say Gregory Jaczko's bullying style could adversely affect the agency's mission to protect health and safety at the 104 commercial nuclear reactors in the United States.
The two-page letter, signed by all four of Jaczko's colleagues on the five-member panel, stops short of asking that Jaczko resign. It says, however, that he "intimidated and bullied" senior career staff, ordered staff to withhold information and ignored the will of the panel's majority. The letter was signed by Democrats William Magwood and George Apostolakis, as well as Republicans Kristine Svinicki and William Ostendorff.
Jaczko, in a detailed response also sent to the White House, said problems at the agency were not his fault, but instead stem from "lack of understanding" on the part of the other four commissioners.
Copies of the letters were obtained by The Associated Press.
The dueling letters come as Jaczko faces hearings in the House of Representatives and the Senate next week in which his behavior is likely to be featured.
Commission members and staffers have long complained about Jaczko's brusque style, particularly involving a decision he made last year to shut down the technical review of a proposed nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Republican lawmakers also complained that Jaczko may have acted illegally when he declared in March that Japan's nuclear crisis constituted an emergency in the United States.
Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said the letter from the four NRC commissioners shows a serious breach in trust among the commission's five members. Issa's committee is scheduled to hold a hearing about the NRC on Wednesday.
President Obama "has the authority to take action to address these concerns," Issa wrote in a letter Friday to White House Chief of Staff William Daley. "The public deserves to understand what actions have been taken and whether the president still believes that Chairman Jaczko is capable of leading the NRC."
Most of the criticism centers on Jaczko's response to the Japan crisis and his efforts to stop the nuclear waste dump.
The dispute comes after an inspector general's report released in June exposed long-simmering internal strife under Jaczko. The agency watchdog said Jaczko intimidated staff members who disagreed with him and withheld information from members of the commission to gain their support.
In August, Republican senators asked the inspector general to investigate whether Jaczko had authority to declare the Japan-caused emergency, which granted him additional powers, since the crisis occurred on foreign soil. The senators also said they were not certain that Jaczko has rescinded the order, despite his public claims to the contrary.
In addition to the Oct. 13 letter to Daley, the White House chief of staff, the four NRC commissioners also wrote to Jaczko, saying his "intemperate and disrespectful behavior towards your fellow commission members is completely unacceptable."
They cited an Oct. 5 meeting with senior staff in which he reportedly expressed "disdain" for commission procedures and "contempt for the commission" itself.
Jaczko said in his letter that his "sole and passionate focus" since joining the agency in 2005 has been about nuclear safety and security. He has been chairman since May 2009.
"Unfortunately, all too often, when faced with tough policy calls, a majority of this current commission has taken an approach that is not as protective of public health and safety as I believe is necessary," Jaczko wrote.
He denied there is a "chilled work environment around me," and said he never attempted to intimidate anyone.
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While the headlines may go to Apple's MacBook Air or Lenovo's ThinkPad X Series, the Toshiba R Series actually comprises the lightest fully featured laptops in the world - and Tosh is at it again...
Following in the 12.1in 822g R500 and 12.1in 813g R600 is news of Toshiba's first 13.3in R Series and somehow it will also weigh under 1Kg.
vozExpress has claimed quite the exclusive with news and a teaser shot of the - so far unnamed - new machine and learnt it will feature a 16:9 LED backlit display, choice of Core i3, i5 and i7 CPUs, 4GB RAM and an optional 512GB SSD. USB 3.0 connectivity will be available too via a dock.
Even more significant than all this, however, is news of a Super Charged ion Battery (SCiB) which will allegedly charge from flat to 90 per cent in just 10 minutes and has a life expectancy of 10 years. The SCiB will be a secondary battery to the laptop and we don't know how capacious it will be, but if this is a sign of where laptop batteries are headed it would change everything.
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Earlier this week, Facebook released a new feature called "People You May Know." Three random friends of friends are displayed in the right sidebar of your homepage in the hopes that you'll make more connections. When you click the "see all" link, a longer list of possible friends is offered up. Of the 27 people [Keep Reading…]
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If Arsenal lift the FA Youth Cup this season, the first man to get his hands on the famous old trophy will be Jay Emmanuel-Thomas.
The 18-year-old has captained Steve Bould's team to the last eight of the competition but tonight they face perhaps their biggest test yet - a North London derby at White Hart Lane.
Subscribers can now watch an exclusive interview with Jay. He discusses:
- what winning the trophy would mean to him
- beating Villa, Wolves and Sunderland
- the Tottenham players he knows
- the reasons why Arsenal can go all the way
- how Reserve team football helps the Under-18s
- the influence of Under-18s manager Steve Bould
- emulating the class of 2001
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Target is looking for a new chief information officer following the resignation of CIO and executive VP of technology services Beth Jacob on Wednesday.
As the company's top technology executive, Jacob had responsibility for Target's computer systems and network, which succumbed to hackers late last year, enabling a massive data breach.
The breach began on Nov. 27, was confirmed on Dec. 15, and ended on Dec. 18. The company initially said 40 million credit and debit card accounts were affected, but its investigation subsequently revealed that a separate set of data, stored elsewhere and covering 70 million accounts, also had been stolen.
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Ridge Cabinet Company is well known for providing quality wood and vinyl outdoor products throughout the state of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
Come and see our products for yourself by visiting our outdoor showroom located in Mount Airy, Maryland.
Offering a complete line of portable building solutions in wood and vinyl.
- Wood Sheds
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- Hunting Cabins
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- Pool Houses / Pool Cabanas
- Garages
- Carports
- Horsebarns
- Additional uses for sheds include extra storage for things like bikes and other children's toys, garden supply storage, club houses, playhouses, bus stop shelters (see our run-in sheds) and more
- Outdoor lawn furniture, wood and vinyl
- Lawn ornaments
- Picnic tables
- Benches
- Gazebos
- Playsets
- Swing sets
- Gym sets
- Playground equipment (trucks, jeeps, boats, castles, etc)
- Playhouses
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- Pet shelters / pet habitats
- Bird houses
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- Mail box posts
Note: Models, styles, availability and prices subject to change without notice.
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I have three of these and love them! Well, I love two of them. I have the nude-ish color in the purple tube, the clear balm, and also the pink one... Which looks HORRIBLE on me. But I've seen it look nice on other people.
My lips are very soft as of late. It doesn't seem to do the same thing that Chapstick does... My lips are soft now, just in general. When I'm using Chapstick or something similar, my lips are only soft when the Chapstick is actually on my lips. As soon as it's gone, they start to feel dry and cracked.
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Drug Stores & More
Time 2 $ave
Monday, March 11, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
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Event Details
Simplified Step by Step! $10 at the Door!
Before I started saving 50% - 70% on my weekly grocery bills, I was stressed out to the max. My husband had lost his job due to his position being eliminated. We could barely afford the mortgage payment on the house we lived in, let alone the two specs homes we couldn't sell. Our savings account was near dwindling into the negative. Even cutting out non-essential expenses didn't help much. I started learning all I could about coupons and spent hours and hours every night researching the most effective ways to do it. I'm telling you, I had really hoped couponing would make more of a difference than a measly few bucks off our grocery bill. But…not so much.
Drug Stores & More $10 at the door!
I've taken everything I've learned and put it in an easy-to-understand format. I know how it feels to be stressed with life's responsibilities and burdens, especially the financial ones. With all we have going on, who has the extra time to spend hours a day clipping coupons? I certainly don't and I'm sure you don't either. I've learned how to balance savings with having a life and without it being an obsession.
Drug Stores & More $10
How to shop for household, health, and beauty items for super cheap.
The differences between drugstore and grocery shopping (it's like night and day).
How to use multiple transactions.
How to strategically use the store currency.
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Gamma Control
Affine your color temperament.
Download (5.0.2) / Buy direct or Mac App Store
Note: Upgrading from version 4 or earlier requires purchase of a new licence.
Gamma Control is used by designers and photographers to improve the reliability of the colors on their screen or to simulate the effect of various screen calibrations on pictures and videos. Other professionals adopted it to match the screen color temperature with the lighting on film sets, when a screen is put in front of the camera.
Changes to the gamma curve are applied relative to the system color profile to preserve existing calibration. This is particlarily important for LCD monitors having a nonlinear light response.
And when you quit the app, colors are restored according to the system profile.
You can easily toggle on or off the application of Gamma Control's settings to the screen with a hotkey or by clicking on its dock icon. You can also set a hotkey to make the panel appear right under the mouse pointer.
You can save your gamma settings in documents and reopen them as needed to simulate various conditions over and over.
New in version 5
Gamma settings are now combined with the default system gamma curve, using the curve from system color profile as a starting point. You can still choose the old behaviour if you prefer.
Set a hotkey to make the gamma settings panel appear right under the mouse pointer. Hold the key while you make your changes, the panel will disappear on release.
Manipulate the sliders with precision using a mouse wheel or scrolling gestures.
You can choose to save the gamma curves for multiple screens in a single file, and restore them all by opening that file.
Calibrate each screen by moving the panel to the screen you want to change the settings.
Hold on the shift key while moving the red, green, or blue slider to move all three together.
OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard or later. Moving Gamma Control's icon from the dock to the right side of the menu bar requires OS X 10.7 Lion or later.
For an earlier version of OS X (down to 10.2.8), use Gamma Control 3.0.3.
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Cute Pic of the Day: Nina Dobrev
Nina Dobrev kicked off the launch of her "Like Her, Like Me" collaboration with Seventeen and got milk? this past Thursday, and wore a lovely, bright pink Gabriela Cadena dress that really popped against the white carpet! Pairing a neon frock with simple, strappy sandles is a great way to dress up one of our favorite summer trends for more formal events. Plus, you know we can't resist a great head ofbeachy hair!
The winners of the "Like Her, Like Me" contest will win the chance to appear in a got milk? ad with their mother, plus a spread in Seventeen! To enter, visit the got milk? Facebook page. Good luck!
What do you think of Nina's look? Do you love neons for special ocassions, or are they better left for the beach? Leave a comment below!


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Ralph Lauren Fall 2014
New York's skyline has been dusted with a layer of snow for what seems like weeks, and this morning the heavens opened up once again, dumping another six inches on the sidewalk. It's perhaps why fashion folk have swapped out their usual black and gray urban uniforms for a look that reflects the changing landscape this season, and the fluffy white winter coat has been a recurring palate-cleansing theme on street-style blogs.
It's a shift that designer Ralph Lauren has picked up on, too, and his fall show this morning struck a distinctly crisp white note, peppered with soft shades of lilac and dove gray. After spring's swinging sixties inspiration, the designer sidestepped the idea of an overarching theme altogether; save for a few Gatsby-esque beaded silk dresses, the overall focus for fall was on pared-back, practical elegance. Powdery pink blazers and shearling coats swung casually at the shoulders of cozy turtlenecks and were worn with a slouchy trouser which is rapidly gaining ground on the once-ubiquitous skinny. Another noteworthy pant silhouette to come through this season is the humble jogger, which was elevated in cream-colored cashmere. Pair those with discreet kid-suede high-tops and a lovely fluffy white coat, of course, and the look spoke directly to how women want to dress right now. Lauren underscored that winning combo of form and function when he stepped out at the end of the show in a pair of chic Team USA mountain boots of his own design.


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In my own experience,gluten-free breads tend to be somewhat fragile and easily get moldy. Most people I know do not go through gluten-free bread all that quickly,either. BUT –when you freeze sliced gluten-free bread,it tends to turn to a solid brick you are forced to try to chisel with a butter knife in order to pry off the one or two slices of bread you need.
What I've taken to doing is separating my loaf of bread into pairs of slices and putting those in individual freezer bags. This way when I want a sandwich,I just pull out a bag. No more chiseling!
I've also found most gluten-free bread is improved by a light toasting. We have a toaster oven but be sure your toaster won't cross-contaminate your bread. A lot of the time you don't even need to brown the bread,just toast it enough to make the outside a bit crunchy and to dry it out a bit.