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My first short story book in TEN YEARS has has a rough road to publication. BUT IT'S FINALLY HERE!
News and Updates
The baddest-ass trailer collection OF ALL TIME comes out just in time for Christmas, and I'm all over it!
Our Fulci Comics are selling like bats out of hell over at eibonpress.com! Come check it the fuck out!!!
Lots of swell new exploitation movie poster art from upcoming releases!
IT'S JUST US is the name of the book. And, like Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan, it will melt your brain!
The big news is that FULCI COMICS are coming! The bigger news is that I'm publishing them myself!
Here's a teaser glimpse of Romano's upcoming new publishing venture, which brings his most celebrated "lost" book back to life!
Julia rises again, for the last time, with a new face and a new mission. Hope you've enjoyed the ride.
Julia's finest hour. And her darkest hour. All in one.
The awesome, terrifying, cautionary tale of sci-fi's most notorious space babe continues…
The most amazing trailer collections of all time will blow your eyes right out of your mind!
An all new feature film from Charlie Band, master of 80's video sleaze. And a swell new teaser poster from little old me!
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EDUC268 (Not Liberal Arts) $ Bilingual and English Language Learner (ELL) Education 3 hrs. 3 crs. This course is an introduction to the philosophy, fundamental principles, and current approaches of teaching linguistically diverse English Language Learners (ELLs) in the urban school in both bilingual and mainstream settings. Preq: ENG 125. 15 hours of Fieldwork required. Not open to students with credit in EDUC 269.

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Tech Director Mondo here getting your ready for the weekend!
Summer time is here and that means its time for outdoor music festivals, movie screenings and good times. Here are some fun actives going on this weekend.
First up we got Ozomatli starting the Levitt Pavilion's summer concert series in MacArthur Park. Ozomatli are in my top five favorite bands and are a great band to see live. It's taking place this Sunday June 8th.
On Saturday June 7th There is the Make Music Pasadena event going on from 11a - 11p. There will be a ton of bands! Some of my favorites are Sufer Blood, Tennis and Yuna. It's only a five dollar donation for over 20 bands!
And for you movie buffs out there you can check out Rushmore at The Autry in Griffith Park. They will have food trucks and live music.


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This article was published 30/11/2013 (1328 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Chiefs are stumbling home to Arrowhead Stadium off two straight losses. The Denver Broncos are hobbling in off a disheartening letdown in New England.
Much has changed in the two weeks since they played at Mile High Stadium. Much has stayed the same, too.
The Broncos and Chiefs are 9-2 and tied atop the AFC West, so it's still a two-team race to the finish. But the Chiefs are no longer the NFL's lone undefeated team -- in fact, they're the first to start with nine straight wins and then lose two in a row -- while the Broncos squandered a chance to create some separation with their overtime loss to the Patriots last weekend.
"I think just playing is the best medicine," Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith said, "but no question, when you're playing for your division, it raises the focus for sure."
The Broncos would have the tiebreaker over Kansas City and a two-game lead with a win and four games to go. The Chiefs would put themselves in position to win the division for just the second time in a decade, not to mention take a step toward home-field advantage in the playoffs.
So it's an easy argument that there's even more on the line than the first time they met.
"You have to study them just as hard as you did the first time around... They are such a diverse team scheme-wise and they have such good players," Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning said.
The Chiefs could be without two of their best players. Leading pass rusher Justin Houston, who dislocated his elbow in a gruesome fall during the Chiefs' 41-38 loss to the Chargers last week, will likely watch from the sideline. His running mate, Tamba Hali, hopes to play despite spraining his right ankle against San Diego.
Even with their top two pass rushers, the Chiefs failed to get pressure on Manning in their first go-round. Manning threw for 323 yards and a touchdown without an interception or taking a sack, and the result was a reasonably comfortable 27-17 victory.
"We don't take anything for granted," Broncos interim coach Jack Del Rio said. "Again, it's basically approaching it very similarly," Del Rio added. "The difference is that we just did this a couple weeks ago."
Here are five things to keep in mind as they play Round 2:
MORENO'S FLAT TIRE: Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno, who had career high 224 yards rushing against the Patriots, missed practice time this week with an ankle injury. Moreno hopes to play against Kansas City, but it's uncertain how effective he'll be.
BATTERED DBS: The Chiefs' defensive backs were humbled last week by Philip Rivers, who threw for nearly 400 yards against them. Now, they face the prospect of Manning and his plethora of wide receivers.
VICKERSON'S VALUE: Broncos defensive tackle Kevin Vickerson landed on injured reserve with a hip injury, so it will be up to Sylvester Williams to step in and help slow down Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles.
BEWARE THE PICKS: Denver excels at running crossing routes that inadvertently (wink, wink) cause picks in the secondary. Demaryius Thomas may catch the ball five yards downfield, but he ends up gaining 20.
CHIEFS LEARNING: Chiefs coach Andy Reid wouldn't reveal particulars, but he said there were things he learned from the way New England dominated Denver in the second half last Sunday.
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Tanning Mom Wants To Make A Sex Tape, Takes 100 Topless Beach Pics Instead
Tanning Mom is ready to ditch the bows and get down to business. TMZ obtained an email sent by Patricia Krentcil to Vivid Entertainment's president, Steve Hirsch, shamelessly propositioning him to produce her sex tape:
"I see you are trying to buy this sex tape from this Teen Mom. Well, if you REALLY want to make more MONIES, then I would agree to let you film me and all my hotness … I am far MORE popular and WAY HOTTER than Farrah! Men want a cougar and a real woman, not a teenybopper … Contact me back if you're ready to talk serious cash and rock the world."
The moxie this woman has. It's incredible. I think Tanning Mom should get a sex tape based on confidence alone and her use of the word "MONIES."
Hisrch is not so into the idea of tanning porn. He wrote her back saying, "Unfortunately we don't have a granny porn section on Vivid.com, but we feel your look would be perfect for radio. You could talk about everything you've ever done on a tanning bed."
Ouch. I guess it's back to starring in her own biopic. But before that … Tanning Mom stopped by a New Jersey beach to take 100 absolutely incredible photos of herself tanning topless. There are so many pictures to choose from, but I think this one is my fave. She really nailed that side angle.
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[Seattle, WA] Officers arrived at the Safeway—on Rainier Avenue S. and 52nd Avenue S.—just after 6 am and woke the man, who (sort of) explained to officers that he'd been out drinking earlier in the evening and had somehow ended up in the truck after he was robbed in the Central District.
The man told police that about eight hours earlier, two masked men approached near 28th and Jackson and took his wallet.
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CLEVELAND - Jamal Crawford eyes the 3-point line and sees something else - four points.
Crawford scored 24 points, converting a four-point play and making another 3-pointer in the fourth quarter, and Chris Paul had 15 assists as the Clippers finally switched on the after-burners in the final minutes and beat the Cavaliers 105-89 on Friday night for their first win in Cleveland since 2002.
The Clippers had lost 10 straight at Quicken Loans Arena, but sparked by Crawford's 37th career four-point play, pushed aside the Cavs for their fourth win in a row.
"The hardest part of that is making the free throw, honestly," Crawford said. "There's so much pressure on that free throw, you better make it."
With the Clippers leading by 11 and unable to shake off the Cavs, Crawford converted his four-point play, something he says "is not by accident."
Never one to pass up a shot - whether he's open or not - Crawford was fouled by Cavs center Marresse Speights while knocking down a high-arching 3-pointer from the deep corner with 9:51 left. He calmly made the free throw, giving the Clippers an 85-70 lead and extending his NBA record for the quirky play.
It sent a much-needed jolt through the Clippers, who were understandably sluggish after playing at Indiana on Thursday night.
"That was huge," Paul said. "They're always so timely. He just makes big shot after big shot. What he does is priceless. Everybody knows how well he shoots and that's why they close out the way they do."
Blake Griffin had 16 points and 11 rebounds as the Clippers, having their best season in franchise history, tuned up for Sunday's showdown at home against Oklahoma City. After Griffin scored on a monster dunk - off a lob from Crawford - to put the Clippers ahead by 23, coach Vinny Del Negro pulled his starters with 4:19 left.
Rookie Dion Waiters scored 17 for the Cavs, who played their third straight game without injured All-Star guard Kyrie Irving (hyperextended knee).
C.J. Miles had 16 points and Tristan Thompson 15 for Cleveland, which beat the Clippers earlier this season and was within nine to open the fourth. The Cavs, though, didn't have enough firepower down the stretch to match the high-flying Clippers.
"They're without their best player," Del Negro said. "They've been playing good basketball. We're coming off a back-to-back. There's no easy games. I don't care who you're playing."
Crawford nearly had a chance at another four-pointer. After a basket by Eric Bledsoe, Crawford banked in a long 3 to beat the shot clock. As he retreated on defense, Crawford complained to the officials he had been fouled, but to no avail.
The next time the Clippers had the ball, Paul drained a 3 to make it 93-76 and Cleveland fans began heading toward the exits.
Griffin beat Cleveland's Tyler Zeller down the floor and soared for an alley-oop dunk, getting fouled on the play by the rookie center. Paul had a word with Zeller, who tried to explain the contact was not on purpose.
Also ...
Byron Scott coached Paul in New Orleans and has remained close with the point guard, who before the game spent some time visiting in the Cleveland coach's office. "He's an unbelievable guy," Scott said of Paul. "We've got a great relationship." ... Forever a Laker, Scott said it pains him to accept that the Clippers are now the kings of basketball in Los Angeles. "It hurts me to see the purple and gold where it is right now," he said. ... Clippers center DeAndre Jordan, who came in shooting 42 percent from the line, shot an airball in the first half that wasn't within 2 feet of the rim.


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Tardive dyskinesia causes a person to repeat the same movement over
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I first met Jesse Bradley on a solo kayak trip I made back in 1983, close to where the Suwannee River meets the Gulf of Mexico. He was sitting along the river's bank running the sliver of a sharp blade through the belly of a catfish. This is the story of our exchange and the photograpy resulting from that one meeting we had.
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HALIFAX - Most Canadians who have had to relocate from one point of our vast country to another know that a big move will come with at least one glitch.
In Kristen Lipscombe's case, the glitch came in the form of nearly $9 million worth of hash, pot and heroin hidden aboard the moving truck that picked up all her worldly goods in Calgary on June 3.
"All you can do is laugh," said Lipscombe on Monday – her first day on the job as Metro Halifax's new sports reporter. "It's out of my control, so I have to have a positive attitude and look at it as another life experience and a really good story."
Lipscombe has moved several times in her life, so she wasn't entirely surprised when the truck didn't arrive in Halifax as scheduled last Thursday.
But the reason she got from the moving company the next day – Friday the 13th, no less – was a shock.
"It was literally, 'we have some not so great news for you,'" said Lipscombe. "My first thought was, there was some sort of accident, my stuff's all over the highway."
In fact, Lipscombe's clothing, mementoes and furniture were safely aboard the truck – but surrounded by boxes of pot and bricks of "high quality" heroin.
It was all seized at the Edmonton airport by members of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT,) who found more drugs in a storage facility.
Several men – one of whom dutifully itemized and signed for all of Lipscombe's belongings in her Calgary condo – were arrested.
Lipscombe says it's a funny story in some ways – but not in others.
She said she wasn't told the moving company – which came highly recommended – would be subcontracting the move to another company that she had no experience with.
"I don't completely blame the moving company, but they should take responsibility for these employees that they contracted out to," she said. "I have, obviously, individuals who shouldn't be trusted dealing with all of my personal belongings. It's disturbing."
Information has been hard to come by – one moving company representative told Lipscombe the situation is a 'gong show' – but it appears her goods are on their way to Halifax.
She said she has enough stuff to get by for a few days, but is hoping it arrives sooner rather than later – and with some kind of discount.
"Moving is one of the most stressful life events…so add on the fact that my stuff is in the middle of some drug investigation, and that's the icing on the cake," she said.


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A MAN was robbed in a field in Colchester in broad daylight.
Detectives are appealing for two women who came to his aid after the attack to come forward.
At about 2.40pm, on Wednesday, March 19, the victim was approached by two men in Hillyfields, off Lexden Road.
He was pushed to the floor and then punched and kicked before his wallet and iPhone 5C were stolen.
Det Con Claire Jennings said: "The victim approached a young woman for help moments after the robbery and she may have seen the suspects.
"Another woman also came to the victim's aid and offered him her mobile phone to call police.
"I am keen to speak to these women and would also like to hear from any other people who were in the area at the time.
"This is an area popular with dog walkers and joggers so I am hopeful that someone may have seen something or the suspects in the area."
The suspects are white.
One is around 6ft tall, slim and has a thin face.
He had short dark hair and was wearing dark clothing.
The other is 5ft 8in tall, of slim to medium build with brown hair and a light coloured top.
Anyone with information call Det Con Jennings at Colchester police station on 101 or ring Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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From Commander, Navy Installations Command Public Affairs
Commander Navy Installations Command's (CNIC), Work and Family Life Department released an online training course for new Navy spouses called the New Spouse Orientation (NSO).
The course is designed to support new Navy spouses that may be geographically isolated or unable to attend this Fleet and Family Support Center workshop in person. Because the The NSO course is web-based, access to the instruction is available anytime.
The course provides information on benefits, support services, military culture and resources to help Navy spouses adapt to the military lifestyle.
According to Dede O'Rourke, CNIC Relocation Assistance Program Analyst, "the NSO course should be at the top of any new Navy spouse's to do list."
Click HERE for direct access to the course.
This web program is not a replacement for the Fleet and Family Support Center's new spouse workshop, but provides access to those who cannot attend in person.
For more information on New Spouse Orientation, or to find your nearest office, contact the Fleet and Family Support Center.
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We are very excited to join forces with Columbus Public Health for a fifth season of free Art Walks & Landmark Talks! This year's line-up includes 14 walks to keep you fit and informed. Art Walks & Landmark Talks are made possible with support from the Greater Columbus Arts Council and are offered on Mondays from 7-8 p.m. from May 1 through August 14.
Join in conversations during these free, hour-long guided tours led by expert historians and guides. Explore the art, history and architecture of our Columbus neighborhoods while getting your steps in. Challenge yourself to attend every week - you will know Columbus like never before!
Art Walks are offered on scheduled Mondays at 7 p.m. Rain dates are following Sundays at 7 p.m. If weather is threatening or inclement, call 614-221-0227 to listen to a recorded message that will be posted by 6 p.m. on tour days. If it's a light rain or drizzle, we typically proceed!


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The trolls and crackers at LulzSec – new masters of the market for anarchic entertainment hactivism – is going DJ-at-the-wedding by asking members of the public to request targets for its next source of lulz.
LulzSec The Lulz Boat Call into 614-LULZSEC and pick a target and we'll obliterate it. Nobody wants to mess with The Lulz Cannon - take aim for us, twitter. #FIRE – 6/14/11 noon, eastern time
By open-sourcing the targeting of random hacks and DDOS attacks, LulzSec is pushing the mainstream Internet experience fully into the world of stateless power politics, cybercrime and often-destructive citizen-activism.
Rebellious individualism is more the default position for netizens than a new phenomenon. LulzSec comes to prominence through doors created by generations of hacker-hobbyists, formalized by free-information organizations like WikiLeaks and used to sometimes historic effect by protesters in Egypt, Syria, Iran, Libya and other venues for Arab Spring political protests.
Of course, it comes to play in a political environment shaped by stateless terror groups like Al Queda, cyberwar attacks like Stuxnet and heavy online international and corporate espionage as practiced most aggressively by China, Russia and organized crime groups with changeable political affiliations.
LulzSec, Anonymous, WikiLeaks and other alternative-power players aren't anywhere near the bloody end of the spectrum occupied by Al Queda and other groups who prefer their terror IRL to CGI.
Still, cyberwar and online espionage, which have been more a cat-and-mouse game among superpowers until recently, have become standard tools for ambitious second-tier power-players such as Iran, whose military and geographic weaknesses are less important in cyberattacks on the big dogs than their ability to exploit security flaws or spear-phish effectively.
Cracks on international institutions like the International Monetary Fund are redefining the dynamics of international power politics to depend as much on the control or access to information as on economic influence or military power.
That dynamic shows a dramatic shift in what real power means internationally. Aircraft carriers, stealth bombers and long-range missiles haven't lost any of their impact. The ability to identify, crack and occupy an enemy's information systems to eavesdrop on its plans and evaluate its abilities has simply risen, dramatically, in importance.
Attacking the enemy directly by disabling or manipulating its internal utilities, financial markets and military command-and-control systems is the next step – one that could allow an enemy to deliver an attack as crippling as Pearl Harbor, CIA director Leon Panetta told a Senate subcommittee June 9.
LulzSec – which named itself after hacker slang for prankish "fun" and whose tone in public self-promotion comes off as more anarchic, adolescent troll than portentous online power player – is, nevertheless, the personification of a new reality for corporations and governments.
Though undeniably a coterie of trolls and griefers, LulzSec players made their bones with cracks of Sony, PBS, the U.S. Senate and a host of other targets that range from developers of covert Internet monitoring software to game sites LulzSectors claim to like.
Companies that ignore threats like LulzSec do so at the risk of targeted mayhem, though there's no evidence that there's any way other than purity of purpose, incorruptibility of soul and really, really good intrusion protection will stave off that wrath.
Even LulzSec spokesTweeters sometimes seem not to fully understand why particular targets are chosen:
LulzSec The Lulz BoatTango down: finfisher.com - because apparently they sell monitoring software to the government or some s*** like that.
But they are effective, and even organized enough to plan backups for their target-designation help lines:
LulzSec The Lulz Boat
If 614LULZSEC is overcapacity, try our second routing number at (732) 993-7703 as we get insane call traffic on our primary switchboard.
Unlike the better-known Anonymous, LulzSec doesn't seem to have a consistent political agenda other than to increase the heat in what is already a roiling chaos of online security disasters made of a mix of aimless sabotage, financially motivated criminal intrusion and deadly serious international espionage and special warfare.
Its Twitter tagline is "the world's leaders in high-quality entertainment at your expense." Not a source of comfort to those hoping to understand not only how to defend against new sources of threat, but to understand where they come from and why.
Stateless, highly mobile terror groups with global communication and finance networks, enabled by local members who can operate in many countries with relative impunity, fundamentally changed the risks that face national defense networks.
Trailing changes in the real world for once, groups like Anonymous, LulzSec and the more mysterious presence of organized criminal groups in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, have brought the same changes to the online world as well.
The result can only be mixed, as hactivists give a deserved comeuppance to some corporations and governments, organizations with temporal power respond by cracking down with financial punishments, legal restrictions and arrests.
Meanwhile, the mainstream of global politics will become more like flame-prone online forums and less like traditional venues such as the U.N., which rely as much on their air of pretentious respectability as on diplomatic restraint to keep negotiators from screaming foul names and slapping each other silly.
Whether you think that's a good or bad thing depends, according to the doctrine of Lulz, on which you think is funny.


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Killer whales trapped in ice of Hudson Bay
Canadian Inuit people and authorities are attempting to help a pod of killer whales trapped in the sea ice of Hudson Bay.
The mayor of the remote Inuit community of Inukjuak, Quebec, is calling on the government to send an icebreaker to save the panicking mammals, who are taking turns breathing through a hole in the ice about the size of a pick-up truck in the frigid waters.
"They are trapped," mayor Peter Inukpuk told CBC radio on Wednesday. "It appears from time to time that they panic. Other times they are gone for a long time, probably looking for another open space, which they are not able to find at the moment."
He said a hunter first spotted the whales on Tuesday. There were 11 whales, including several small ones, which could mean they are all from the same family.
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Thu Jan 10, 2013, 10:56 AM
Baclava (6,088 posts)
1. what did whales do before there were icebreakers?
the smart ones lived?
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Thu Jan 10, 2013, 11:21 AM
HereSince1628 (36,063 posts)
2. It's not necessarily about 'smarts', I'm not sure of the population genetic impacts of intervention
I recognize the empathy and sensitivity represented by people wanting to help these whales as a good thing.
I am not really sure of the population numbers of killer whales in that region and the relative importance of that number of whales to the species demographic and genetic structures.
In a world now dominated by human impacts, I'm not at all sure that 'doing things like it was before humans' is a correct approach.
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Thu Jan 10, 2013, 11:41 AM
Baclava (6,088 posts)
3. here's more ...
Geoff Carroll, a wildlife biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game who helped release two California gray whales in a similar situation that made international headlines in 1988, said his experience in the effort known as Operation Breakthrough also showed the power of other methods.
Our experience up here was that it seemed like the local knowledge and the low-tech approaches to working with the whales were the ones that worked best, Carroll said. It seemed like there were lots of high-tech efforts made to get those whales out and they kind of failed one after the other. What really worked was when we got local guys with chainsaws cutting one hole after another and we could kind of walk the whales out that way.
Wade, the fisheries biologist, said he watched videos of the killer whales and thought some were engaging in normal behavior while other appeared agitated. He said it looks like the pod includes two adult males, several juveniles and female adults or younger adult males.
There are cases where whales have been able to keep holes open just by the continually coming up every minute or so, he said. It seemed like they could probably keep that open although its not something killer whales do a lot of.
Wade also questioned how they got caught in the area.
Why these whales hung around so long is a mystery, he said. But he added: Even the types of whales that live in the ice a lot or much closer to the ice more frequently than killer whales -- they make mistakes as well.
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Thu Jan 10, 2013, 12:01 PM
FarCenter (18,170 posts)
4. The Inuit probably want the killer whales gone
They don't hunt or eat them. They are regard them as aggressive and dangerous.
Killer whales eat seals, beluga, bowhead and other marine mammals and are competitors of the Inuit for these food resources.
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Thu Jan 10, 2013, 12:16 PM
Sunlei (19,129 posts)
5. very interesting to watch especially the social structure of the pod
Much like family groups of other animals the young bachelor males are pushed out and get more agitated waiting for their turn.
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Kevin Pietersen will have to wait for his first chance to show England what they are missing this summer, having been ruled out of Surrey's Twenty20 Blast derby against Middlesex on Friday night with the finger injury that has troubled him throughout a miserable Indian Premier League campaign.
Surrey had been hoping all week that Pietersen would make his first appearance in this country as an ex-England player, around 16 hours before his former team-mates aim to clinch the one-day series against Sri Lanka across the river at Lord's, after his Delhi Daredevils team failed to reach the IPL semi-finals.
Delhi played their last game in the competition in Chandigarh last Sunday and since then Surrey have not offered any suggestion he might be an injury doubt.
But when they announced a 14-man squad for the Middlesex game, he was conspicuous by his absence. "After seeing a hand specialist today Kevin has been told he does not need surgery but will require five days of intensive physiotherapy," said Surrey, who added that he will definitely be fit for next Friday's home game against Essex.
Pietersen missed Delhi's first two games of the IPL season in April after damaging the little finger on his right hand in a fielding drill with Surrey when he made a brief appearance at their pre-season preparations.
Surrey have sold around 14,000 tickets for the Middlesex game and have three more home Friday night T20 Blast matches in June, against Essex, Hampshire and Sussex – as well as a trip to Cardiff to face Glamorgan and another match at home to a Sussex team that will include Matt Prior for his first senior appearance since April. Prior had a lengthy session with Bruce French, England's wicketkeeping coach on Thursday after Sussex's County Championship game against Middlesex had been abandoned as a complete washout – a huge frustration to both teams, although Middlesex have extended their lead at the top of the Division One table to 15 points.
Pietersen's return would not have been top of England's priorities when they were dodging the rain to beat Sri Lanka at Old Trafford on Wednesday, but Alastair Cook will surely be relieved they can prepare for Lord's with the chance to seal the five-match series rather than needing to win to keep it alive.
"We've got two opportunities now, but obviously we'd love to do it the first time," he said, refusing to accept the inexperience of England's reshaped team as an excuse for the wild fluctuations in their performances through the series so far.
"I think we'll have some inconsistency, but I'd hope that they won't be as bad as what we showed at Durham," added Cook. "That wasn't pretty viewing … you can't blame that on inexperience at all. It was a realisation to the guys that if you give Sri Lanka an inch, they will take a mile. After one good performance, you have to keep going at 100% or you will get found out. There will be some inconsistency with the less experienced guys, but that doesn't mean you can pass off every poor performance on that."


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The backers of Victoria's huge desalination plant could tap debt markets as soon as next year to take advantage of lower financing costs on the $4.9 billion project in a move that could save the state's consumers money on their water bills.
The AquaSure consortium, featuring French company Degremont and Australian contractor Thiess, won the contract from the Victorian government to build and operate the plant at Wonthaggi in 2009.
The way the multibillion-dollar contract is structured means the price the government pays for water is linked to the cost of debt to the consortium. That means a looming refinancing could result in lower cost water for the state if borrowing costs are lower than when the contract was struck in 2009.
Degremont chief executive Remi Lantier told The Australian Financial Review the project's construction phase would finish in mid-December, meaning payments would begin flowing from the state that would sustain the venture over its 27-year term.
The project is due to refinance in 2015. But Mr Lantier said that falling debt costs ould mean the consortium moves sooner. "The base rates are lower. It was before around 10 per cent, now it's about 6 per cent, so it's much better," he said.
That could also deliver a benefit to the state government due to the unusual debt arrangements in the public-private partnership (PPP). The Victorian government in 2009 guaranteed the debt financing for the bidders on the project. That guarantee was never called on because finance was arranged wholly through the private sector.
Jean-Louis Chaussade, the chief executive of Suez Environnement, a French company that is parent of Degremont, said the state would also again guarantee the project's debt if it were not fully subscribed. He declined to nominate the scale of any potential saving.
"If the refinancing costs less, we will share with them the reduction of cost partially," he said. "What I can tell you that the risk of this refinancing, the first refinancing, is on the shoulder of the state, that is for sure."
Looking forward to the next refinancing, Mr Lantier said the Victorian government would benefit from a lower cost of finance because of the contract's structure. "There is an advantage for all of us . . . to refinance as quickly as we can to take advantage of the better rate existing. We can go sooner. We can go in 2013," he said.
It is understood that there are about 35 banks and other institutions that have banked the project's $4.2 billion in debt, led by
The project has been beset by industrial and climatic issues, meaning it is behind schedule and the subject of a $1 billion claim against the government from the consortium. Mr Lantier said it would be better for all parties if that claim were settled before refinancing occurred.
"The best way is to go to see the financier as a happy family, between the investors, the operators and the client," he said. "This is extremely important, to have a team.''
He added: "This is why we are promoting so much negotiation and peace between the constructor, the investors and the state not to be in litigation before going to the financiers because it will be in the best interests of everybody."


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Sun City Concert Band 10th Anniversary CelebrationWHEN: 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8 WHERE: Drendel Ballroom of the Prairie Lodge, 12880 Del Webb Blvd., Huntley Tickets cost $10, and are available now at the member services desk in Prairie Lodge and at the door. Information: 815-515-7773.
The music of the Sun City Concert Band used to depend on who showed up.
When the band formed 10 years ago, those involved say, it was simply a group of 11 intrepid souls with instruments.
They played flutes, clarinets, trombones and a saxophone. There were no drums.
"It was a really eclectic little group," said Rose Kundich, the band's publicity chair and a clarinet player.
"They had no music, nothing except their own personal instruments," she said. "They didn't really know what kind of band they were going to be until they sat down."
A decade later, the band boasts at least 50 members and has gone from performing in a hallway near the fitness center in Sun City to putting on several concerts a year in Huntley, including an annual joint performance with the high school band.
The band is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a special concert at 2 p.m. Sept. 8 in the Drendel Ballroom of Prairie Lodge, 12880 Del Webb Blvd., Huntley.
Coffee and cake will be served, just as it was when the band put on its first performance years ago.
"They served coffee and cake to get people to come," Kundich said with a laugh. "We're honoring that tradition."
As part of the concert, the band's eight remaining original members will perform a song as they did years ago. Halfway through the piece, the rest of the band will join in.
"Everybody will be able to see the vast difference, not that they haven't over the years," said Donna Bressler, the band's conductor for the past eight years. Or in other words, she "plays the stick."
"It's monumental, absolutely monumental," she said of the band's transformation through the years. "It's not only musically a fine band, but very professional in its presentation, and everybody is just a huge family, which is probably the most important thing."
The band's original conductor, Warren Goldsand, is expected to take part in the celebration.
Open to any Sun City resident, the band plays a wide mix of music from classical to big band to gospel to patriotic to marches and other pieces.
"It takes a lot for us not to want to try to tackle it," Kundich said. "We're getting more and more difficult music as time goes on. We're just trying to be better musicians and having a great time while we're doing it."
Many of those involved join after having not played for decades, members say.
Others have moved to Sun City specifically to be part of the band.
An original and the band's oldest member, 91-year-old Valere "Babe" VanDeVelde, hadn't played since his days of service during World War II.
He plays any type of saxophone as well as the clarinet and now is playing the alto saxophone in the concert band. He plays in a couple of other area bands, as well as with a band in Florida, where he spends the winter months.
"I'll keep playing as long as I can," he said. "For me, that's what I like. If I didn't do that, I can't lay out in the sun all day."
Along with the music the band plays, what makes it special is the camaraderie, members say.
There's no competition for first seats and solos, only support, they say.
"We have a whole lot of faith in each other," Kundich said. "If somebody can come in and play only one note today, that's fine. Maybe next week, you'll be able to play two notes. ...
"We're an encouraging group. That's a terrific way to enjoy music. And we think we do a darn good job at it."By JAMI KUNZER – firstname.lastname@example.com


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Senators back plan to push Juban Crossing
DENHAM SPRINGS (WBRZ) - Lawmakers backed a plan that could fuel the development of a planned shopping center in Livingston Parish.
The Louisiana Senate approved using state money for infrastructure improvements and bond payments for Juban Crossing. The development is going at the intersection of I-12 and Juban Road.
The project has been delayed but developers have said the first phase could open as early as 2014.
The plan now heads to the Louisiana House of Representatives.


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Crossing Borders: Representations in Film and Literature
Instructor: Margrit Froelich
This course explores some of the historical and political circumstances under which individuals at different points in time and place leave (or are forced to leave) their country of origin and cross borders, to start a new existence, and often, to save their lives. The first half of the course is devoted to an inquiry into several distinct periods in German and European history: Paris as the center of exile for critical thinkers from Germany in the 19th century (such as German-Jewish poet Heinrich Heine); the United States as the desired land and safe haven for oppressed European minorities in the 1890s (AMERICA, AMERICA, dir. Elia Kazan, USA, 1963); the flight of Jewish refugees from Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1930s and early 1940s (CASABLANCA, dir. Michael Curtiz, USA, 1942; Transit, written by Anna Seghers, 1942; Night in Lisbon, written by Erich-Maria Remarque, 1962); the border between East and West Germany before 1989 as emblematic of the division of Europe in the cold-war era (BARBARA, dir. Christian Petzold, Germany, 2012). Shifting the perspective from Europe to the American continent, the course will also address the historical and political implications of the border between the United States and Mexico through discussion of a film classic depicting immigration from the south: EL NORTE (dir. Gregory Nava, USA/GB 1983).


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FIVE bikes a day are now being stolen in York, after a sudden surge in thefts.
Cycling City York manager Graham Titchener said the council, police and Safer York Partnership had held talks about the rise but said they were all "perplexed" by the increase.
He said: "A lot of these thefts are opportunist – we are not talking about some organised crime wave here." The figures show 820 bikes have been stolen so far this year with 161 stolen alone last month – equivalent to five a day. The spate has come despite a number of high-profile police operations to drive down the crime.
Police say a large proportion of the thefts are due to owners leaving bikes unlocked, using inadequate locks or leaving their biked in inadequate and unsafe areas.
Twice as many cycles were reported stolen at the University of York last month compared with the same time last year, and the local Safer Neighbourhood Team is now using covert techniques and plain clothes officers in a bid to catch the offenders.
Micklegate, Guildhall, Poppleton and Fishergate also saw increases, while the Heworth ward and Huntington and New Earswick reported rises of 140 per cent and 227 per cent respectively.
Police have tried various initiatives such as the city-wide Operation Spoke, where people can have their bikes tagged, to deter thieves.
Under the scheme, 4,000 bikes have been UV marked, increasing the chances of stolen cycles being returned.
Cycles with RedWeb technology – tracking devices left on cycles to trap offenders – are also frequently deployed in the worst hit racks.
Mr Titchener, Cycling City manager for City of York Council, said "a serious amount of money" from the Cycling City budget had been ploughed into cycling safety and security in the city.
"We want people to cycle more so we need to spend money to make sure cycling is safe and secure," he said. There has been a rise in the number of cyclists in the city and the number of bikes being purchased, so that might be one factor.
"But I have to say we are perplexed. I would say people need to invest in decent locks – those that only cost a couple of pounds are not adequate."
He said further campaigns were being planned, including in hotspot areas such as St Andrewgate.
CTC York spokesman Paul Hepworth said more money was needed to cover parts of the city not yet covered by CCTV.
He said: "Anyone who has spent hard-earned money on a bike, especially an expensive one, is going to be naturally upset by the theft of their cycle."
A police spokesperson said: "From analysing reported incidents, the main area of concern is how users either leave cycles unlocked or use inadequate locks.
"The cycles are also left in inappropriate areas such as unlit streets, out of sight, around the corners of buildings or simply dumped on a pavement. These are all places criminals look for and know about."
The Press reported earlier this year how a former electricity sub-station near Lendal Bridge will be turned into a cycling hub which will allow 100 bikes to be parked there.
Police advice
• When buying a bike, budget for security. Take out insurance.
• Record and register your bike model, make and frame number.
• Take a clear, colour photograph of your bike and make a written record of its description, including any unique features.
• Security mark the bicycle or get it tagged. • Park in secure, designated areas.
• Protect your bike with a lock. A hardened steel D-lock is recommended as the minimum.


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Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 13, 2012
How can solar energy be stored so that it can be available any time, day or night, when the sun shining or not? EPFL scientists are developing a technology that can transform light energy into a clean fuel that has a neutral carbon footprint: hydrogen.
The basic ingredients of the recipe are water and metal oxides, such as iron oxide, better known as rust.
Kevin Sivula and his colleagues purposefully limited themselves to inexpensive materials and easily scalable production processes in order to enable an economically viable method for solar hydrogen production.
The device, still in the experimental stages, is described in an article published in the journal Nature Photonics.
The idea of converting solar energy into hydrogen is not a new one; researchers have been working on it for more than four decades. During the 1990s, EPFL joined the fray, with the research of Michael Gratzel.
With a colleague form University of Geneva, he invented the photoelectrochemical (PEC) tandem solar cell, a technique for producing hydrogen directly from water. Their prototypes shared the same basic principle: a dye-sensitized solar cell - also invented by Michael Gratzel - combined with an oxide-based semiconductor.
The device is completely self-contained. The electrons produced are used to break up water molecules and reform the pieces into oxygen and hydrogen.
In the same liquid, two distinct layers in the device have the job of generating electrons when stimulated by light; an oxide semiconductor, which performs the oxygen evolution reaction, and a dye-sensitized cell, which liberates the hydrogen.
The most expensive part? The glass plate
"The system is very interesting from a theoretical perspective, but with their method it would cost 10,000 dollars to produce a 10 square centimeter surface."
So the scientists set themselves a limitation from the start - to use only affordable materials and techniques. It wasn't an easy task, but they managed. "The most expensive material in our device is the glass plate," explains Sivula.
The efficiency is still low - between 1.4% and 3.6%, depending on the prototype used. But the technology has great potential.
"With our less expensive concept based on iron oxide, we hope to be able to attain efficiencies of 10% in a few years, for less than $80 per square meter. At that price, we'll be competitive with traditional methods of hydrogen production."
The semiconductor, which performs the oxygen evolution reaction, is just iron oxide. "It's a stable and abundant material. There's no way it will rust any further! But it's one of the worst semiconductors available," Sivula admits.
Silicon-enhanced nano-rust
"We needed to develop easy preparation methods, like ones in which you could just dip or paint the material."
The second part of the device is composed of a dye and titanium dioxide - the basic ingredients of a dye-sensitized solar cell. This second layer lets the electrons transferred by the iron oxide gain enough energy to extract hydrogen from water.
An outstanding potential - up to 16%
Sivula predicts that the tandem cell technology will eventually be able to attain an efficiency of 16% with iron oxide, while still remaining low cost, which is, after all, the attractiveness of the approach.
By making it possible to store solar energy inexpensively, the system developed at EPFL could considerably increase the potential of solar energy to serve as a viable renewable energy source for the future.
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A militant extremist Islamist fundamentalist group in Somalia is offering bounties for people who can provide them information on the whereabouts of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton– ten camels for the first and, according to various reports, either two camels or ten chickens for Secretary Clinton.
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According to Yahoo! News, the group Shabaab, which operates in Somalia, group "commander" Fuad Mohamed Khalaf has some rewards for Somalis who can tell him and his group where "infidel Obama and the lady of Bill Clinton, the woman named Hillary Clinton" have been hiding all this time:
"Anyone who helps the Mujahideen find the whereabouts of Obama and Hillary Clinton will be rewarded with 10 Camels to the information leading to Obama and 10 hens and 10 cocks for Hillary," said senior Shabaab commander Fuad Mohamed Khalaf in a statement reported on numerous websites. [...]
"There is nothing new in the fact that infidels pay to have Muslim leaders killed," said Khalaf. "They already did that by offering camels for the head of Prophet Mohammed, and the dollar is the camel of today."
Khalaf was referencing a passage in the Koran in which 100 camels were offered for the Prophet Mohammed as he fled Mecca for Medina.
"I can assure you that these kind of things will never dissuade us from continuing the holy war against them," said Khalaf.
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"Let's see what my fans want to see this month." A busty young woman said as she opened her laptop. She turned it on and ran a brush a brush through her long brunette hair with blonde highlights.
Angie Bush specialized in balloon fetish videos. She would make videos of her blowing up balloons, playing with balloons, and popping balloons in every way imaginable and put them up for sale. Some fans would even send in scripts of things for her to say or special costumes for her to wear in the videos. Balloons really did nothing for her, but knowing she was turning all these guys on did.
Unlike most models, Angie read her own fan mail and usually replied quickly. Some fans would send messages complimenting her looks and her work, but she was looking for the fans ordering custom videos currently.
"Seems like the same ol' same ol'. Blow to pops, sit pops, Helium set." She had a sheet of paper next to her laptop. She wrote down everything the fans mentioned and made talley marks for each time a certain thing was suggested.
Finally she got to the last email in her inbox. "Ah yes, Tony's monthly order." Tony was Angie's most loyal customer. Every month for the last 2 years he spend his hard earned money on a custom Angie clip. Several times he sent her special balloons to use. He also sent a Hooter's uniform and a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader uniform for her to wear.
"Again with this?" Angie asked the computer screen. As good as a customer he was, Tony also had a habit of bringing up an idea Angie didn't really care for. Every 3 or 4 months he would suggest Angie get a giant balloon and climb inside.
It wasn't necessarily a bad idea. In fact Angie had done it twice before and the resulting clips where the best sellers on her sight. The problem was that on a shoot, it was just Angie and her photographer. Should something go wrong she didn't have a good escape plan.
"What's on tap for this shoot?" A tall man with gray hair said as he walked in the room.
"More of the same, John" Angie said to her photographer. "Tony requested a climb in again. I'm about to send him the usual email letting him know I'm not comfortable with it."
"You know, if you would just do one for him he'd stop asking." John said.
"We've had this discussion before. With just me and you in there what would happen if something went wrong? And I've seen you work. Your usually to concerned with getting the shot."
"Don't worry, you're where my paychecks come from. I wouldn't let anything happen to you. Plus your 2 climb in clips are the best sellers. It's about time we do another one."
"You too?" Angie let out a long groan. "There's no way I'm gonna win this argument is there?"
""Fine. I'll do it." she turned back to laptop to let Tony know he'd finally get his wish.
Sitting in front of a computer a couple hundred miles away, a young man with short brown hair heard the noise that signaled that he had a new email.
"Oh good, Angie sent her quarterly rejection email." he said with a tone of sarcasm. H skimmed the email quickly . When he saw the word "yes" his eyes about popped out of his head. He went back and carefully read the email.
"So she finally decided to do a climb in and she's gonna wear the Hooter's uniform." An evil smile crept across his face. "Phase one complete. Time to go to Phase two."
Tony pushed his chair back from the desk and walked across his bedroom. He kneeled down and took a black lock box from under the bed. He opened the box and pulled out two giant uninflated balloons. One had a tiny black line on it. "It's show time boys." He ran back to his desk to make travel arrangements.


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On this wiki page we will list the Ornithogalum species that originate in southern Africa from A-O.
Ornithogalum index | Southern African Ornithogalums from P-Z
Ornithogalum adseptentrionesvergentulum U.Müll.-Doblies & D.Müll.-Doblies is one of the world's most miniature bulb species (under 3 cm tall) and yet it has the one of the longest names of any plant in the world. It is native to an area north of Laingsburg in the western end of the Great Karoo Desert of South Africa. The climate is harsh there with hot days and freezing nights with an average of 150 mm precipitation per year, falling only in winter. It is a winter-growing species, dormant in the summer. In some years when there hasn't been enough rain the bulbs will skip growing seasons and remain dormant, conserving their energy for better years. To avoid deep frosts they inhabit hillsides that are covered in grey shale that get shade in the summer from the intense force of direct desert sunlight. In habitat the leaves all lean to the north, hence its sesquipedalian specific epithet, and blend in with the grey shale that surround them. In the experience of Nhu Nguyen and Jacob Uluwehi Knecht growing this species in Berkeley, California, its leaves haven't demonstrated quite so much determination to lean in a single direction. It produces impressive numbers of charming blush-cream flowers with a quite reflective, sparkly appearance that open sequentially.
The four photos below show a plant grown by Nhu Nguyen and Jacob Uluwehi Knecht, photographed by Jacob Uluwehi Knecht.
Ornithogalum candicans (Baker) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt is the new name for Galtonia candicans. This gracious species' native range covers the East Cape Province of South Africa and also includes Lesotho. The first picture shows a planting grown and photographed by Jacob Uluwehi Knecht. The second was taken at Satansnek Pass in the Eastern Cape of South Africa by Cameron McMaster. The last photo from Mary Sue Ittner was taken at the same spot.
Ornithogalum caudatum see Albuca bracteata
Ornithogalum concordianum see Albuca concordiana
Ornithogalum constrictum F.M. Leight is a wide-spread species from both the winter rainfall, year round rainfall, and summer rainfall areas of the Western and Eastern Cape with a strange outpost in the Northern Cape. It has been found in Bredasdorp, Grahamstown, Hondeklipbaai.
The photo below was taken of a plant found in clay soils in the renosterveld. It has white flowers with greenish keels below and grows in both the winter rainfall, year round rainfall, and summer rainfall areas. It blooms November to February in the wild. Photo by Cameron McMaster taken in the Overberg.
The photos below were taken by Hans Joschko of a plant in cultivation. This plant seems to make a lot of seeds and can spread itself in a collection.
Ornithogalum convallarioides is from Madagascar. Photos by Alessandro Marinello.
Ornithogalum dubium is a long blooming plant with beautiful large flowers, yellow to orange or rarely white, often with a green or brown center. This species is found on mountains and flats over a broad area in the Cape Province of South Africa. Some of us have found it is difficult to get it to come up and bloom every year. Often only one or two of four bulbs I have appear. The bulbs still look healthy if you dump them out, but they don't always choose to grow. This year one has sent up 9 flowering stalks whereas usually there is only one. It is reported by some growers that this species benefits from a little bit of water during the summer dormancy. However, summer watering should always be made with care and success depends on the individual's summer climate. Flowering time can be late winter until early spring. Seeds are extremely tiny and dust-like. First two photos by Mary Sue Ittner of flowers in bud and opening. The last photo was taken by Nhu Nguyen at the UC Botanical Garden where a nice clump flowers every year.
Most years it is possible to buy ornithogalums at garden centers that probably are Ornithogalum dubium or have it in their heritage. Last year I bought three that were just labeled white, yellow, and orange. They all bloomed for a long time. None of them chose to grow this year however. This yellow one was blooming at the same time as Triteleia laxa and Triteleia peduncularis pictured in the background and I found that a pleasing color combination. Photo #1 by Bob Rutemoeller. Photo #2 was taken by Mary Sue Ittner of a plant found flowering near Tulbagh August 2006 with Lachenalia unifolia. Photos #3 & 4 are habitat pictures from Cameron McMaster taken in the Overberg.
Ornithogalum fimbrimarginatum is distributed from the Gifberg to the Eastern Cape. Growing from 20 to 45 cm with about five leaves, usually dry at flowering, it has white lightly scented flowers with or without a dark center. Its botanical name reflects the hairy leaf margins. Photographs taken by Ed Mertz of plants belonging to Pamela Slate, contributed by Pamela Slate. These plants originate from bulbs donated to BX 247 by Roy Herold.
The photos below were taken by Nhu Nguyen showing the leaf margin that gives this species its name and the flowers.
Ornithogalum graminifolium is found on stony clay flats and slopes, often in moist sites from the western Karoo to KwaZulu-Natal. It has linear to lanceolate leaves and white, yellow or pink flowers. This species has a wide distribution and is very variable in color and habit. It blooms in summer. Photo by Cameron McMaster.
Ornithogalum hispidum is found on clay flats and stony clay slopes from Namaqualand to Worcester. Leaves are distinctive, three to six, often with spotted sheathing bases and hairy. Flowers are white in a narrow raceme. Photo by Cameron McMaster taken in the Overberg.
Ornithogalum hybrids Rod Saunders and Rachel Saunders of Silverhill Seeds with their partner, Andy, are creating hybrids from some of the South African species. Here are pictures of three of them photographed by Bob Rutemoeller
Ornithogalum juncifolium, syn. Nicipe juncifolium, is found in damp, grassy areas, on cliffs, up to 2300 m from the southeastern Cape to Mpumalanga. It has narrow ribbed leaves and white flowers with central green stripes. Photos from Mary Sue Ittner taken January 2010 at Gaika's Kop.
Photos below from Pamela Slate who wondered what species this was. Close ups of the bulbs show the basal leaf clasping that becomes terete halfway or more toward the leaf tip. Flowers are 1.5 cm in diameter, slightly smaller than the bulbs in these photos. Entire plant is only 4-5 inches tall.
Ornithogalum lithopsoides is native to the Western Cape of South Africa. The photos below were taken by Jeff from Bulbesetpots.com.
Ornithogalum longibracteatum see Albuca bracteata
Ornithogalum maculatum is found in sandy soils, often in rocks from Namaqualand to the southwest Cape and the western Karoo. It is a very striking plant with orange to orange-red or yellow floweres with the outer tipal tips often having a dark blotch. These first 3 photos were taken September 2006 in Namaqualand by Bob Rutemoeller and Mary Sue Ittner. Flowers seen in the morning mist were not yet open, but later in the day they were. Photos 4-6 were taken on the Biekoes Farm near Nieuwoudtville by Cameron McMaster September 2011.
Photos bellow from Bob Rutemoeller and Mary Sue Ittner are of plants being produced by tissue culture by Andy Hackland in partnership with Silverhill Seeds.
Ornithogalum multifolium is a tiny plant usually less than 10 cm high, but can be up to 25 cm. It is found in shallow pockets of soil on rock outcrops from Namaqualand south to areas in the western Cape. We saw it often with the flowers closed in the early morning or later in the day in the Roggeveld and the Bokkeveld Plateau in September 2006. The first three photos were taken by Bob Rutemoeller and Mary Sue Ittner of a group seen in Namaqualand in the middle of the day and illustrate the habitat as well as the flowers. The fourth and fifth photos were taken September 2011 by Cameron McMaster in the Roggeveld. The last photo was taken by Rod Saunders.
Ornithogalum neopatersonia, syn. Neopatersonia uitenhagensis, grows on mostly limestone slopes and has greenish flowers with white stamens. It blooms in the spring. Photo taken by Alan Horstmann.
Ornithogalum osmynellum see Albuca osmynella
Related genera are listed below. Some of these are now included in Ornithogalum or were recently included and now restored to genus status:
Albuca - Dipcadi - Galtonia - Neopatersonia - Ornithogalum index - Pseudogaltonia - Southern African Ornithogalum P-Z


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Once it's shaken up the semipro video market with its forthcoming 3K Scarlet HD camera (pictured), industry hot stuff Red plans to take on still shooters with a DSLR-killer. Jim Jannard, Red's CEO, dropped in at reduser.net's forums:
The primary advantage to RED is REDCODE. Compressed RAW at over 23.976 fps. This is a core invention of RED that's full effects have not been seen yet. The secondary advantage of RED is our sensor program. Some could argue that this is number one. Mysterium "Monstro" is a sensor program that pushes the envelope past anything on the horizon. It will go into Epic, and another camera aimed squarely at the DSLR market. Epic ships with Mysterium-X and has a free upgrade to Monstro.
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911 Commission co-chairs claim that they were misled, perhaps deliberately, by the Bush administration and Pentagon brass. Because 911 was an act of mass murder overtly covered up by the Bush administration, the many lies by Bush amount to more than mere obstructions of justice or cover ups. They amount to high treason --a mechanism by which this administration seized power unconstitutionally. Holes in Bush's theories are holes in Bush's theories. Lack of evidence in support of Bush does not refute his critics who point them out. Bush's many lies and overt efforts to obstruct justice, it is hoped, will bring about the 'controlled demolition' of this illegal and illegitimate regime.


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A new book called The Normal Bar, out Feb. 5, has surveyed over 100,000 people about their sexual relationships, and USA Today pulled out some of the more interesting facts from the book:
Based on responses from individuals 18 and older who are in relationships (both heterosexual and same-sex):
40% say they have sex three to four times a week.
48% of men and 28% of women report having fallen in love at first sight.
43% of men and 33% of women say they are keeping a major secret from their partner.
29% of women and 44% of men say it bothers them "a lot" that their partner is not more romantic.
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Supply and demand. That fundamental concept seems to be at the core of why there's a rising number of interns working without pay for organisations making enough of a profit to pay them.
The theory of supply and demand is simply that the price of a good or service (in this case, young labour) will rise or fall depending on how much it's wanted and how much of it there is to go around. On that latter point, the answer is a lot.
Over the past year, youth unemployment has jumped by a third and, since 2008, the long-term jobless rate among those aged under 24 has tripled. That's a lot of young people – more than 250,000 according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics – without work.
With such a significant oversupply of young labour, competition among them for work is fierce. And that, of course, includes unpaid work.
The issue of supply and demand was also emphasised in a report released last year by the University of South Australia on behalf of the Fair Work Ombudsman. The researchers concluded that "an oversupply of qualified graduates" was a contributing factor to the proliferation of unpaid internships. Armed with a degree in a dwindling industry, such as media and the arts, new graduates are taking whatever they can to get a foot in the door.
That's why it was interesting to read an unorthodox opinion piece written by a professor in this week's Sydney Morning Herald. His view was that university places should be limited to the top five per cent of the population, thereby making them more exclusive. At the moment, he writes, there are students obtaining even post-grad qualifications who still need to settle for an internship.
A common argument put forward by employers is that unpaid interns are there essentially for a trial period, at the conclusion of which they're offered paid employment should their performance meet a certain standard.
But that's somewhat of a hollow argument because the so-called trial is why a probationary period exists. Probation (an inherently ugly term) is an opportunity for new workers to demonstrate their suitability for a role, knowing they might be let go in six months' time.
The other argument made by business groups is that money isn't the only currency with which people can be paid. Surely there's also value in being remunerated via non-monetary currencies, such as highly sought-after work experience with a popular employer. Well, that argument has a little more merit.
A few years ago, a study published in the Academy of Management journal revealed the determinants of job satisfaction among interns. Surprisingly, whether they're paid or unpaid has little impact on their level of satisfaction. Other factors are far more influential. These include the opportunity to:
- Work on important tasks that make a difference.
- Receive formal and informal feedback regularly from a supervisor.
- Connect meaningfully with colleagues throughout the organisation.
- Learn new skills that haven't been taught in the classroom.
The researchers found a major reason those four satisfaction drivers are rarely implemented is that interns are often given less attention than their paid colleagues because employers view them merely as temporary workers. The bosses are disinclined, therefore, to invest time and effort mentoring and training their young recruits.
So, should interns be paid or should they remain unpaid? The answer really depends on what else the employer offers in relation to meaningful work, considerable feedback, professional connections and new skills.
Whenever those four factors are lacking, interns deserve to at least receive the minimum wage. Because it's pretty clear they're getting little else from the experience.
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Soldiers of the Jewish Brigade are supervising German troops who are clearing up the ruins of Klagenfurt, in Austria, the correspondent of Driennik Polski, semi-official organ of the Polish Government-in-Exile, reported today.
He says that the Germans "look rather miserable, but it is difficult to say whether they are upset by the heavy, unpleasant work, the defeat generally, or because they have been placed under the guard of soldiers of the Jewish Brigade. On the soil where Hitler attempted to destroy the last few Jews," the correspondent continues, "the flags of the Jewish Brigade are now flying, and a German mansion has been converted into a synagogue,"
The same paper reports that hundreds of Polish Jews released from concentration camps in Anglo-American zones in Germany have indicated that they do not wish to return to Poland. Most of the Jews, it said, wish to settle abroad, with the majority of them desiring to go to Palestine.


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Crabavocat and "big ravioli" are two longstanding Troisgrois classics still offered. The latter is sensational, a single, sizable, sumptuous ravioli plumped with mousseline of taro root, perfumed with a drizzle of truffle oil, and bathed in a foam of wild mushroom "cappuccino". The crabavocat is really just a juiced-up version of crab-stuffed avocado, elevated by a spicy tomato coulis and a few crisp shrimp. We preferred the crabcake, large pearly lumps of jumbo lump crab barely bound by anything but a light bread coating.
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The LovSan worm, also called W32/Blaster-A, which has been causing problems in the US overnight, has given Australian techs their fair share of work today, with one predicting that the rest of the week would definitely be a busy period.
Hamish O'Dea, a senior anti-virus researcher with Computer Associates in Melbourne, said it was not only the worm which had been causing headaches, but also the side-effects which made computers reboot.
He did not think the worm was a trial run, but rather the real thing. It did not spread as fast as Slammer but had a wider range of targets as it affected both Windows XP and Windows 2000. Slammer only affected machines which were running the Microsoft Desktop Engine.
"The vulnerability itself affects NT and Server 2003 as well, but the worm does not work on these systems though it can cause them to crash," he said.
He said CA had released a free cleaning utility which could be downloaded from the company's website.
The utility would look for and stop any worm processes found in memory, scan all drives on the machine and, if the worm was found, fix any modified registry keys.
The original advisory about the vulnerability which the worm exploits was released by Microsoft on July 16 and hence there was a good chance that not many people had patched their systems, O'Dea said.
Sophos Anti-Virus head of technology for the Asia-Pacific, Paul Ducklin, said users should update Windows to patch the vulnerability, block port 135 at one's firewall, delete or rename the file TFTP.EXE (in the SYSTEM32 directory), block port 69 (TFTP) wherever possible, ensure that ports 137, 139 and 445 (used by Windows file sharing) were blocked inbound from the internet and update anti-virus software.
"But note that W32/Blaster-A doesn't spread by email so an absence of detections at your mail gateway does not mean you can give yourself the 'all clear'," he said.
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Minerals Health Safety Council (MinEx) Endorses Report
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Minerals Health And Safety Council (MinEx) Endorses Commission Report
The industry body concerned with the Health and Safety of the New Zealand minerals sector has endorsed the recommendations made by the Royal Commissions on the Pike River Mine disaster.
MinEx chairman Dene Dickson says, "The Pike River Mine disaster was a tragedy that must not be allowed to happen again. MinEx looks forward to working with the Government on the implementation of measures to ensure the catastrophe that occurred at Pike River is never repeated."
Dickson agrees with the Royal Commission finding that there is an urgent need for an effective regulatory framework for underground coal mining.
"In 2008 we made submissions to Government on the need for a review of current mining regulations but our recommendations were not taken up." Dickson says. "This is one of many examples when the need for reform has been recognised for some time, but change has taken too long. This must not happen in this instance."
MinEx is pleased with the recommendation that the development of a new framework should be a collaborative exercise involving a task force of health and safety experts and representatives of Government, industry and mining employees. It is important that these key parties are all involved. "This is a real opportunity to merge the interests of all key stakeholders in the achievement of an effective health and safety system for our industry that we can all have confidence in," Dickson said.
Dickson says MinEx has been working with the staff of the department's High Hazard Unit for several months on the improvement of current MinEx Codes of Practice and the development of new ones and he sees the Commission's recommendations as endorsing and extending the scope of this approach.
MinEx also welcomes recommendations aimed at improving worker participation. "The issue of check inspectors has been a difficult one for industry," Dickson notes. "Employer and union representatives on MinEx have traditionally disagreed over the matter of check inspectors. We now have an opportunity to revisit the issue and discuss how we can make it work," says Dickson.
The recommendation for a Crown agency to be established to administer the New Zealand Health and Safety system has ramifications for all New Zealand industries. Dickson says that the need for improvement in workplace health and safety is a vital issue for New Zealand and agrees that a Crown agency with a single focus on health and safety improvement, and accountable directly to a minister is critical.
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The association was established in 2005 after it became apparent that an industry code of practice was necessary to ensure sufficient health and safety standards were met in the minerals sector. The first underground and surface Codes of Practice were released in 2008, along with 12 Guidelines on good health and safety practice.
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CONTACT: Carol Anderson
Walk, Run or Swim, But Get Moving
Toward Good Diabetic Health
YPSILANTI Everyone knows its the thing to do, but eating
healthy takes effort and exercise can be boring. Without motivation, people
rarely do something simply because its good for them. But when the subject
is exercise, people are even more reluctant to change.
But change is exactly what Eastern Michigan Universitys Shel Levine wants
people to do. As assistant professor of clinical exercise physiology and coordinator
of the exercise science program, he knows the benefits of exercising and encourages
individuals, especially diabetics, to find their personal motivation to become
Levine talks to groups about exercise and stresses the benefits for diabetics
in reducing the risk of heart disease.
A few years ago, a diabetic gave Levine the key to people starting
an exercise program and sticking with it.
Following one of his lectures, Levine had an audience member come to him for
advice. From the attendees diary of vital personal statistics, Levine
discovered the individual was a diabetic who, a year earlier, had been overweight,
inactive, had high sugar levels and was taking a lot of insulin for his weight.
Within a year, the man had lost 100 pounds and drastically reduced his 240-250
blood sugar levels to 130-140. In addition, he was off insulin and was taking
oral medication.
This (going from insulin to pills) usually doesnt ever happen,
said Levine, who asked the audience member what he did to get those results.
The individual said he started walking 10 minutes a day on a treadmill and
currently was doing 75 minutes daily. The man was 72 years old!
Why did you so radically turn your life around at 72?
Levine asked. The man replied, My grandkids are having kids and
I want to see them.
An external goal of rewarding oneself with clothes or material things wont sustain a long-term exercise routine for most people, he said. Its internal motivation that people need.
Diabetes management is a balancing act, said Levine, who defines
diabetes as the inability for individuals to eliminate glucose from their bloodstream.
There are two types of diabetes. Type 1, previously called juvenile diabetes,
develops when the pancreas doesnt produce insulin, he said. With type
2, formerly known as adult onset diabetes, the body produces insulin, but cant
maintain adequate blood sugar levels.
Exercise will get the blood sugar under control, said Levine.
Each diabetic must balance medication, diet and exercise to properly manage
glucose in their bloodstream, said Levine. Medication is either insulin or oral
hypoglycemic agents (pills). Diet is basically eliminating simple carbohydrates
such as candy and pop, and controlling complex carbohydrates. Exercise is aerobic
and includes walking, running, swimming, biking or stair climbing.
This balancing act becomes even more important when risk factors such as high
blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking or inactivity enter the picture, he
said. Without any additional risk factors, diabetics are at a slightly higher
risk for heart disease than those without diabetes.
He cites the Framingham Heart Study that states one risk factor increases a
diabetics chances of heart disease by two times; two risk factors, eight
times; and three risk factors, 11.2 times.
Mens Fitness magazine (January 2002) named Detroit the third
fattest city in the United States. The magazine evaluated the 50 largest U.S.
cities using 16 categories, including sports participation, smoking, drinking,
air and water quality, length of commute, availability of parks/open spaces
and percentage of overweight/sedentary residents.
Even among people with the highest risk of developing obesity-related health
problems, such as diabetes, only 37 percent change their eating habits to lose
weight, reports a 1994 poll by the former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.
Before coming to EMU in 1999, Levine spent 14 years in cardiovascular rehabilitation
as a clinical exercise physiologist at Botsford General Hospital in Farmington
Hills and the Medical College of Ohio. He is certified by the American College
of Sports Medicine as an exercise specialist and has a masters degree
in exercise physiology. He recommends that people check with their doctor before
starting an exercise program.
For information on upcoming lectures, contact Levine at 734.487.7120, ext.
Eastern Michigan University is a public comprehensive, metropolitan university
that offers programs in the arts, sciences and professions. EMU prepares students
with the intellectual skills and practical experiences to succeed in their careers
and lives, and to be better citizens.


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