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Social Networks in the Distant Past
Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 27, No. 2
Issue editor: Matthew A. Peeples, Archaeology Southwest.
Read Of Ancient Networks and Bacon Numbers, Matt's blog post about this issue, here.
Cover image: Twill-plaited H-strap sandal made of agave fiber, Arizona State Museum catalog number GP 6439. Archaeologists recovered this sandal from the Hog Hill Ruin, a site in the upper Verde River valley of north-central Arizona. Similar examples came from the Tonto Cliff Dwellings, Canyon Creek Ruin, and the Red Bow site in the Point of Pines region. All date between 1300 and about 1400. Experts feel that this style of sandal may reflect a more southerly tradition, and similar examples seem to be depicted in sixteenth-century Mesoamerican codices. Image: Jannelle Weakly, courtesy of the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. Consultants: Laurie D. Webster and G. M. Jacobs. Trail and landscape at Quail Point, a rock art site in the lower Gila River valley. Image: Andy Laurenzi. Cover design: Kathleen Bader.
In the age of Facebook and Twitter, "social network" is a phrase heard or read almost daily. Most of our readers will have a general concept of social networks through their familiarity with these communication tools. Yet, social networks are a mainstay of the human experience, not a product of new technologies.
Articles in this issue describe analyses conducted by Southwest Social Networks (SWSN) project team members using the SWSN database and social network analysis methods. Although these analyses draw on somewhat different techniques and evidence, they all center on related questions. How did patterns of interaction and exchange change through time at local and regional scales? How might the structure and organization of networks of interaction among settlements have influenced the long-term success or failure of settlements or regions? How did the arrival of a relatively small number of northern immigrants to the mountains and deserts of the southern Southwest affect the network landscape of the region as a whole?
Acronyms Used in This Issue
CCD: Coalescent Communities Database (see pages 5 and 24), a precursor to the SWSN Database
GIS: Geographic Information System (see pages 7–8), an integrated computerized system for storing, mapping, and analyzing geographic data. In practice, GIS can refer to a database itself or to analyses performed on the data therein, as in "a GIS database" or "using GIS techniques."
SNA: Social network analysis (see page 3), a group of tools derived from the mathematical field of graph theory and used to systematically examine social interactions
SWSN: Southwest Social Networks (project and database), the subject of this issue
XRF: X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (see pages 14–15), a technique that uses a special instrument to acquire elemental data in artifacts, providing information about the provenance of analyzed samples
Social Networks in the Distant Past: The Late Precontact Southwest — Barbara J. Mills, Jeffery J. Clark, Matthew A. Peeples, W. R. Haas, Jr., John M. Roberts, Jr., J. Brett Hill, Deborah L. Huntley, Lewis Borck, Ronald L. Breiger, Aaron Clauset, and M. Steven Shackley
To view a digital video of Matt Peeples's Archaeology Café presentation on the project, click here.
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From Wikimedia Commons: Lorenzo de' Medici as a teenager. Fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli, in the "Cappella dei Magi," at Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence, Italy.
For further reading:
Hill, J. Brett, Jeffrey J. Clark, William H. Doelle, and Patrick D. Lyons
2004 Prehistoric Demography in the Southwest: Migration, Coalescence, and Hohokam Population Decline. American Antiquity 69(4):689–716.
Mills, Barbara J., Jeffery J. Clark, Matthew A. Peeples, W. R. Haas, Jr., John M. Roberts, Jr., J. Brett Hill, Deborah L. Huntley, Lewis Borck, Ronald L. Breiger, Aaron Clauset, and M. Steven Shackley
2013 The Transformation of Social Networks in the Late Pre-Hispanic U.S. Southwest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110(15):5785–5790.
Mills, Barbara J., John M. Roberts Jr., Jeffery J. Clark, William R. Haas Jr., Deborah Huntley, Matthew A. Peeples, Lewis Borck, Susan C. Ryan, Meaghan Trowbridge, and Ronald L. Breiger
2013 The Dynamics of Social Networks in the Late Prehistoric U.S. Southwest. In Network Analysis in Archaeology, edited by Carl Knappett, pp. 185–206. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Peeples, Matthew A. and John M. Roberts, Jr.
2013 To Binarize or Not to Binarize: Relational Data and the Construction of Archaeological Networks. Journal of Archaeological Science 40(7):3001–3010.
Roberts, John M., Jr., Barbara J. Mills, Jeffery J. Clark, W. Randall Haas, Jr., Deborah L. Huntley and Meaghan A. Trowbridge
2012 A Method for Chronological Apportioning of Ceramic Assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(5):1513–1520.
Proximity: What role did nearness play in creating social networks?
Lead investigators: J. Brett Hill and Deborah Huntley
For further reading:
Hill, Brett
1995 Ecological Variability and Economic Specialization. Master's Thesis, Arizona State University
Pottery: How do decorated ceramics enable us to reconstruct social networks?
Lead investigator: Barbara J. Mills
To download information about the pottery illustrated on page 10, click here (opens as a PDF).
To download our standardized list of ceramic ware and type names, click here (PDF) or here (Excel).
Edward S. Curtis, Zuni Potter (1903), at the Library of Congress
Helga Teiwes's images of the Tohono O'odham Polychrome Pottery Making Study at the Arizona Memory Project
An online exhibition of Helga Teiwes's work at the Arizona State Museum
For further reading:
Mills, Barbara J., John M. Roberts Jr., Jeffery J. Clark, William R. Haas Jr., Deborah Huntley, Matthew A. Peeples, Lewis Borck, Susan C. Ryan, Meaghan Trowbridge, and Ronald L. Breiger
2013 The Dynamics of Social Networks in the Late Prehistoric U.S. Southwest. In Network Analysis in Archaeology, edited by Carl Knappett, pp. 185–206. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
SPECIAL: Animated network maps
Obsidian: What does a sudden expansion in its exchange imply?
Lead investigators: Jeffery J. Clark and M. Steven Shackley
Website for M. Steven Shackley's Geoarchaeological XRF Laboratory
For further reading:
Shackley, M. S.
2005 Obsidian: Geology and Archaeology in the North American Southwest. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Brokers: Where were the middlemen? What was their role?
Lead investigators: Matthew A. Peeples and W. Randall Haas Jr.
For further reading:
Peeples, Matthew A. and W. Randall Haas Jr.
2013 Brokerage and Social Capital in the Prehispanic U.S. Southwest. American Anthropologist 115(2):232–246.
Internal and External Relations: Why were some groups less vulnerable to crises?
Lead investigator: Lewis Borck
Dorothea Lange image of car on Highway 99 (1936) at the Library of Congress
Dorothea Lange image of drought-stricken corn (1936) at the Library of Congress
Who was the Reverend Henry Melvill?
Interactions in Turbulent Times: Insights Revealed by Social Network Analyses
Official website of the Hopi Tribe
Official website of the Zuni Tribe
Timothy H. O'Sullivan image of Zuni Pueblo (1873) at the Library of Congress
Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 22, No. 4 — Immigrants and Population Collapse in the Southern Southwest
Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 26, Nos. 3 and 4 — A Complicated Pattern
Collaborations: More Than the Sum of Their Parts
The Southwest Social Networks project seminar page at the School for Advanced Research
Dr. Linda Cordell's obituary at the School for Advanced Research
The official website of the National Academy of Sciences
Why were Mills and Trowbridge wading in the river? Because the land vegetation was essentially impassable, and the river provided the easiest access to the sites of interest!
Food for Thought: Leonhard Euler's Seven Bridges of Königsberg on Wikipedia
Back Sight — William H. Doelle, Archaeology Southwest
New York Times, January 3, 2016: Untangling an Accounting Tool and and Ancient Incan Mystery
From Wikimedia Commons: Sketch of a Quipucamayoc from El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (The First New Chronicle and Good Government), a chronicle of Inca history by the indigenous Inca historian Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (ca. 1535–1616)
Circa fifteenth-century quipu at the Larco Museum (Museo Larco), Lima, Peru — Food for Thought: This database could have been in use as the Medici rose to power and at the same time as the later parts of turbulent period we examine in the SWSN project
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Coming To A Bar Bathroom Near You: Pregnancy Tests!
Alaska has the highest rate of fetal alcohol syndrome in the United States, so apparently, the obvious solution to lawmakers is to put free pregnancy tests in the restrooms of local bars so women can make sure there's no bun in the oven before they order a beer.
I don't know about you, but nothing gets me fired up for a an after-work drink quite like peeing on a state-funded stick.
The brains behind this operation is Republican State Senator Pete Kelly, a dude who has publicly stated that he believes birth control is for women "who don't want to act responsibly." When Kelly first mentioned the idea a few months ago it sounded like an astronomical joke, but alas, the Uterus Police are officially set to descend upon the good people of Alaska this December. In the two-year program, tests will be placed in 20 bars and restaurants throughout the region.
In his March interview with the Anchorage Daily News, posted above, Kelly shared his plan:
"Literally, you can go into the bathroom at the bar and test. So if you're drinking, you're out at the big birthday celebration and you're kind of like, 'Gee, I wonder if I — ?' You should be able to go in the bathroom and there's that plastic, Plexiglas bowl in there."
All of this is absurd enough without the knowledge that Kelly vehemently opposes abortion access and refuses to provide women with greater access to contraception —which would help prevent the necessity of abortions in the first place. Instead, he uses his political power to avoid being part of any solution and instead leaves women alone to deal with unwanted pregnancies — in smelly bar bathroom stalls, no less.
I'm all about decreasing fetal alcohol syndrome, but it seems like approaching this issue at its source — alcohol consumption — makes a hell of a lot more sense. Alaskan women of baby-making age are 20 percent more likely to binge drink than their peers in other states. Maybe it's time to focus on providing more resources to recover from alcoholism instead of seeing this as yet another window for rich white guys to talk about women's personal choices.


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New York (AFP) Jan 03, 2014
A fierce winter storm brought chaos to the northern United States on Friday, killing at least 11 people and forcing the cancelation of thousands of flights.
More than 24 inches (61 centimeters) of snow fell in parts of Massachusetts town as a state of emergency was declared in New York and New Jersey states.
One worker was killed when a 100-foot pile of salt being prepared to treat roads in the Philadelphia region fell on him, media reports said.
A 71-year-old woman suffering from Alzheimers disease froze to death after walking out into the cold and getting lost in northern New York state, authorities said.
At least nine other deaths were blamed on the storm -- named Hercules -- that caused traffic accidents and other disruption across 22 states and parts of Canada.
Hercules closed major roads for several hours with snowdrifts built up by Arctic winds of up to 65 miles (105 kilometers) per hour.
Weather experts said the windchill temperature would plummet to -13 Fahrenheit (-25 Celsius) in New York state.
More than 4,200 international and domestic flights were cancelled at airports along the east coat and as far as Chicago on Thursday night and Friday. Thousands more were delayed.
New York's John F. Kennedy Airport closed for several hours because of poor visibility and high winds.
Flights were also canceled at Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and other key airports.
Boston woke up to a temperature of about three degrees Fahrenheit (minus 16 Celsius) but with the wind chill, it felt much worse.
Essex county in Massachusetts recorded 24 inches (61 centimetres) of snow. Much of the state's Atlantic coastline was put on flood alert.
The New York and New Jersey governors ordered major roads closed during the worst of the blizzard, but they were reopened on Friday morning.
Government leaders still appealed for people to stay home unless they had urgent business.
The storm was the first big test for New York City's new Mayor Bill de Blasio, who only took up his job Wednesday.
De Blasio had vowed a "laser focus" on the storm. But the mayor also urged residents to stay indoors and warned against going out in the freezing temperatures.
De Blasio shoveled snow from in front of his Brooklyn house Friday before repeating appeals for drivers to stay off the streets to help the city clear its 6,200 miles (9,900 kilometers) of roads.
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Tourists lobbed snowballs at each other in Times Square and more than six inches of snow fell on Central Park.
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Many metro trains were canceled or delayed however and schools and many businesses remained closed in all the affected states.
And sub-freezing temperatures are expected as far south as Florida, the National Weather Service said.
Officials backed de Blasio's warning about going out in the cold as night fell again and temperatures plummeted.
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Mike Leigh's tale of a working class family in London examines the growing emotional distance between taxi driver Phil (Timothy Spall) and his wife, Penny (Lesley Manville), who works at a grocery store. Seeking a way to reconnect, they are brought together by an unexpected tragedy. In the process, they also bond with daughter Rachel, who works at a home for the elderly, and son Rory, who's an unemployed misfit.


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Jane needed to get away. From her parents. Her school. Even her hometown. She dyes her hair blonde and trades in her car for a ticket to Australia. She even changes her name. Anything to get away from what haunts her the most. Marcie is new in Australia. All the kids know that she moved here from England. They don't bother her and she doesn't bother them. Except one. Calum Hood is curious about this new girl. Something tells him that she needs help. But she doesn't know that he sees her. Yet. "You can't hide in the Library anymore" He says, standing right in front of me. Stopping me from escaping. He looks straight into my eyes. "It's too late. I've seen you
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Rocko Removes Rick Ross' Verse From "U.O.E.N.O."
Amidst all the controversy surrounding Rick Ross' date rape lyric on "U.O.E.N.O.," Rocko has decided to remove the Bawse's verse from the song.
In a recent interview with Hot 97, Rocko revealed that he will be taking off Ross' verse from his controversial record given the outpouring of protest. He explained that he will be releasing a new official remixed version sometime soon, possibly with a verse from Ross' former sparring partner Young Jeezy.
"The record instantly became a smash over the All-Star Weekend and stuff like that. It just became a smash in the streets." he said. "With me, I feel like I'm a street artist so I feel like the record with Ross that will always be the original record. But because of the type of attraction the record has as far as like radio and all over the country and things of that nature it puts me in a position to where I have to change it."
As for the new version, he added, "I have six different verses from all types of different, very talented, multi-faceted artists…I can't confirm that [Young Jeezy will appear on it], I know he did a verse [but] I haven't put the final record together yet. With all respect to the homie Ross, because it's a catch-22. Cause it's like I don't want to take him off, but one thing about it, one thing's that set in stone he's t doesn't matter who I put on the song that's gonna always be the original version of it. It's not like I can do another verse and be like, 'Okay, this the original right here.'"
Most recently, Ross apologized for the lyric via Twitter, saying that he was sorry for the "#lyric interpreted as rape."
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How You Can Help Oklahoma's Tornado Victims
Monday afternoon a mile-wide tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, a suburb on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. The tornado's deadly path tore through a hospital and two schools, and while rescue crews still aren't sure about the exact number of victims, the county medical examiner confirmed that there are at least 24 dead.
As search crews continue to look for any remaining survivors amid the rubble, we wanted to let the people of Moore and its surrounding communities know that we are thinking of them, and want to give you, our readers, the opportunity to help out.
After the jump, a list of charities you can donate to, that will help to rescue, recover and restore the people of Moore. In most cases, due to time, space and administrative costs, these charities are asking for financial, rather than material, donations. Generally, whenever possible, it's good to donate to local organizations and charities first, as they typically have a better idea of what's need in their communities and are more invested in recovering and reviving affected areas.
Oklahoma Disaster Relief: The ODR has set up food and laundry services for people in the area. They are asking that people donate financially, as they are not able to take food or clothing donations at this time.
The Central Oklahoma Humane Society: Animals have been devastated by this disaster, too. To help out, donate to the Humane Society and designate it for the OK Humane Disaster Relief Fund.
The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma: To help provide food and toiletries to needy Oklahomans, you can text FOOD to 32333, and a $10 donation will automatically be made to the food bank via your phone bill.
The Tulsa Community Foundation: The Tulsa Community Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to disbursing charitable support to a variety of nonprofits. They've created a Moore and Shawnee tornado relief fund.
Feed America: A nonprofit food bank network, Feed America is setting up a food program for Moore and its adjacent communities. You can donate here to support their initiatives.
The Red Cross: The Red Cross has one shelter operating in Moore and a few others in the Oklahoma City area. They are also providing food service and emergency response vehicles to aid in search and rescue. To send $10 immediately, text REDCROSS to 90999. You can also make donations via the Red Cross website. The Red Cross is also collecting blood donations to make sure that local hospitals and medical facilities have the blood supplies they need.
The Salvation Army: The Salvation Army is also collecting donations, but be forewarned that they are "an evangelical part of the universal Christian church" and have a history of being anti-gay. That said, they are also providing on-the-ground services.


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Tokyo (AFP) June 10, 2011
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami criticised his country's pursuit of nuclear power in an acceptance speech for Spain's 2011 International Catalunya Prize, a news report said Friday.
Murakami said that Japan's people, having suffered the world's only atomic bomb attacks at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, should have rejected nuclear power in the post-war era, the Kyodo News agency reported.
The author made the comments at a ceremony in Barcelona three months after the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster sparked the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
"The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is the second major nuclear detriment that the Japanese people have experienced," he was quoted as saying, speaking in Japanese, by Kyodo.
"However, this time it was not a bomb being dropped upon us, but a mistake committed by our very own hands."
He said the Japanese people, having "learnt through the sacrifice of the 'hibakusha' atomic bomb victims just how badly radiation leaves scars on the world and human well-being," should have rejected nuclear power.
"Yet, those who questioned nuclear power were marginalised as being 'unrealistic dreamers'," he said, while the government and utility companies stressed nuclear energy's efficiency and convenience.
The novelist stressed that he was confident Japan would rise again to rebuild, saying, "We must not be afraid to dream".
"Do not be caught up by the evil dogs that carry the names of 'efficiency' and 'convenience.'," he said. "Instead, we must be 'unrealistic dreamers' who charge forward taking bold steps."
The novels of Murakami, a former Tokyo jazz bar owner, have drawn worldwide acclaim and been translated into almost 40 languages, among them "Norwegian Wood," "Kafka on the Shore" and "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle".
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Tokyo (AFP) June 10, 2011
Here are key developments in Japan, three months after a giant quake and tsunami ravaged the country's northeast, sparking the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986. Some 23,500 people are now estimated to have perished in the disaster, while almost 100,000 still live in evacuation shelters. - March 11, 2011: A 9.0-magnitude earthquake, the world's fourth largest sinc ... read more
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Because He's Hot! Ryan Gosling Buffs Up For 'Only God Forgives' Scenes (PHOTOS)
Ryan Gosling pic. The actor is shooting scenes in Thailand for his upcoming movie Only God Forgives, and those muscles are certainly unforgettable.We can't resist a
After being snubbed for People's 2011 Sexiest Man Alive title and an Oscar nomination for his critically acclaimed badass role in Drive, RyGos skipped town to start filming alongside his Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn.
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After promising us year-round programming, what Fox has delivered this summer is a lineup in which the best shows are forgettable and the worst are not. Meanwhile, its smaller cable cousin FX has moved seamlessly from the third-season finale of the critically acclaimed The Shield to the second-season return of the even more audacious Nip/Tuck.
Tonight, FX hits the trifecta with Rescue Me, which may be the network's most effective combination yet of artistic reach and popular appeal. Created by The Job's Peter Tolan and Denis Leary, who also stars, Rescue Me could do for firefighters what NYPD Blue did for cops: strip them of myth while celebrating their humanity. (Related story: Rescue stirs 9/11 embers)
Rescue Me * * * * (out of four) F/X, Wednesday, 10 p.m. ET/PT
The men in Rescue's New York City firehouse aren't heroes. They are real, sometimes deeply flawed, often scandalously funny human beings who, when called upon, do heroic things.
As they did on their much-missed ABC sitcom, Leary and Tolan nimbly jump between comedy and drama; neither feels forced nor phony. There's an easy flow to the dialogue, which is humorous without pushing for laughs and profane without trying to shock. Rescue takes full advantage of cable's greater freedom, particularly in its use of ethnically insensitive insults, but it does so in a way that feels organic.
Leary stars as Tommy Gavin, senior firefighter of an uptown Manhattan crew. Clearly, Leary has an affinity for the subject: He founded the Leary Firefighters Foundation after his firefighter cousin was killed on the job.
But affinity isn't enough without ability. Given the best role of his career so far, he has responded with his best performance. Indeed, anyone who still thinks of Leary as a stand-up comic who acts will soon realize that he should now be classified simply as an actor — a very good one.
Tommy lost four co-workers on 9/11, including his cousin and best friend, Jimmy Keefe (James McCaffrey). Unable to face his grief, he has replaced crying with "whiskey and black rage" — and with hallucinatory visits from Jimmy and the ghosts of others he failed to save. Ghostly visits are an easily abused device, but in the first three episodes at least, Tolan and Leary have incorporated them in a way that makes dramatic sense.
Tommy also gets a great set of supporting characters and actors, who instantly establish the crew's camaraderie. The ensemble includes Steven Pasquale as the sweetly dumb hunk; Daniel Sunjata as the smooth ladies man; John Scurti as a secretly poetic lieutenant; Charles Durning as Tommy's dad; and, most impressive, Jack McGee as a short-tempered chief whose homophobia may prove to be his undoing. Coming up, the show will add Job veterans Lenny Clarke and Diane Farr.
They have now landed a job on what may be the hottest network on TV. Just think of it as FX to the rescue, for both them and us.


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A Murder in Kabul
When a war gets personal
21 people were murdered last night in a restaurant in Kabul.
That's what's left of the lede I've been writing and rewriting all day. For once I don't have an angle, or a YouTube clip, or a bunch of GIFs that can help me make sense of this. For once I don't have a convoluted array of pop culture references to explain how I feel about what happened last night.
When I write about Afghanistan, I mostly hold it at arm's length. I manage to bang out a couple of thousand words at a time because I've found a niche that lets me talk about this place without getting too personal. Part of that's because of the job I do, and I've chosen to not write about that or the people I know for a variety of reasons, both professional and personal.
So I find a way to retreat behind objective analysis of Taliban peace talks, or take on the Lord of the ISAF latte and assorted wonks and their baseless assertions that we're winning a war we had no idea how to win in the first place. Or I put together playlists and listicles that might help take the edge off this place, if only for a little while. Because to do otherwise means I have to think about places like Taverna du Liban, and Kamal Hamade, and another murder in Kabul.
For once I don't want to try to analyze this . For once I'm not doing an "explainer" of what this means/does not mean for the future of foreign intervention in this country. For once I could care less about the implications for transition, or the elections, or about how many troops will be left in Afghanistan at the end of the year.
Because this time it's not at arm's length. Because this time it didn't happen in some far off province where I've never been. Because this time, and not for the first time, the war got personal.
It's personal because La Taverna was a place all of us knew well. It's personal because at some point nearly every expatriate that's been through this town met Kamal. It's personal because of the ridiculous amounts of free food and the chocolate cake.
It's personal because the expatriates who died yesterday were here trying to do some good. Because they believed that their purpose here was to help Afghans make Afghanistan a better place. Because like me they hoped to make a difference here, and by many accounts, that's exactly what they were doing.
I know we foreigners have made more than our fair share of mistakes. Far too often genuine good gets lost in the pointless acts of the Noble Order of White Helpfulness. I am aware that this is, in many ways, the graveyard of good intentions.
But once you get past the blast walls, the poppy palaces, and the Flower Street Cafenistas, what you'll find are some true believers. Cynical, jaded, and sometimes frighteningly pragmatic about this country's future, they are smart people who are here to help, and do so competently. People who sincerely believe that Afghans and Afghanistan are going to be just fine.
Contrary to the popular image of the mercenary hordes descending upon this country en masse, some of us come here and manage to not make things worse. We eke out something resembling a life in the Kabubble. We chafe at our security restrictions and our curfews, and find a way to be a part of this place even so.
So it jars us when the violence hits this close to home. I've listened to my fair share of stories of lives forever changed by this war. My Afghan colleagues have broken me more than once recounting violence suffered at the hands of both the insurgents and the coalition. I've had coffee with an old friend here on what turned out to be the last day of his life.
Those days, like yesterday, are the days when the war gets a little too close. When it's more than sterile facts and disembodied figures. When it has a face, and a name, and all that's left when the smoke clears is twisted rubble and memories that fade all too soon.
Today the war got personal.


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Rihanna's Neighbors Not Feeling The Love
It looks like Rihanna is taking a cue from The Biebs and in the doghouse with her neighbors.
Since a rooftop stranger was nabbed creeping around her Pacific Palisades home on Monday, according to TMZ, the songstress' neighbors in the swanky enclave of Los Angeles have grown increasingly agitated since their once-private street has become a prime locale for trespassers and paparazzi.
"We've had it," resident Marian Mandel told Celebuzz.
"We're quite upset about the publicity. It was a private street and we want to keep it that way. Everyone is taking care of each house and we are protecting our rights up here."
And this isn't the first time the pop star, who's currently on her Diamonds tour in the U.K., has been paid a visit by a lurking lookie loo on the $12 million property she reportedly bought in Dec. 2012. In February an obsessed fan was also put behind bars after trying to break into her digs.
Another resident, who asked to remain anonymous, points the finger right at RiRi.
"The neighbors closest to Rihanna are really offended by this," added the neighbor. "It affects our entire street and it's no longer private because of her. Trespassers come here just to look for her."
In time, Mandel believes the "Run This Town" singer will eventually find another place to call home.
"She'll probably move out," she said. "She'll get tired of this."
RiRi's next door neighbor Mark Green said fellow residents are staying proactive about what to do next, even if it means beefing up security.
"We've been getting emails and alerts about what happened," added Green.
"The neighbors are pretty much as upset about this as about the paparazzi who are here all the time. It's a private road and we moved here because we like the privacy.
"Each has spoken to different security companies and we're formulating if we go in as a group or contract separately."
Despite the hard feelings, he's a bit more sympathetic to the 25-year-old superstar's circumstance.
"It's such a quiet street and we hardly ever see her [Rihanna]," he said. "As long as people at least keep getting arrested, it's all good.
"It's a private road and the people who are caught here are felons.
"Other neighbors are pretty upset, but I'm okay. It's a process. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to warn people away. She has no control over what crazy people do."


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If you buy a picture book of that poem, the illustrations are usually of the full-size, jolly, red and white Santa Claus.
Think about times you've spotted a thumbnail-size photo from a friend in your feed and clicked to see it full-size.
Right about now, Paula Deen may be feeling like she got smacked in the face with a full-size ham.
When this raid was over Greece would have to maintain a full-size army in its northern mountains to guard against its repetition.
It may, if preferred, be obtained in full-size sheets 20 26 inches.
An interesting monument of the Cowper and Coles families is preserved in the south transept—three full-size coloured figures.
full-size, she'd be a knockout; I'd be falling, as the saying goes, all over her.
Fig. 82 is a full-size working drawing of a particular form of mounting for galvanometer coils.
Well illustrated with photographs and full-size pattern drawings.
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UPDATE: Aegis Capital Reiterates Buy Rating, Raises PT on Neuralstem
In a report published Monday, Aegis Capital Corp. reiterated its Buy rating on Neuralstem (NYSE: CUR), and slightly raised its price target from $3.50 to $4.00.
Aegis Capital noted, "Following the news this morning that Neuralstem has received FDA approval to move into spinal cord injury (SCI), we are raising our 12-month price target from $3.50 to $4.00 per share on Neuralstem shares. Investors should note the fact that SCI is the clinical indication that most closely mirrors the situation in the preclinical rat model that yielded the groundbreaking data published in Cell last year. Accordingly, therefore, we believe that Neuralstem may be even more likely to observe clinical improvement in SCI patients than was the case in ALS. Complete Phase 1/2 data from the firm's ALS study of its proprietary stem cells, designated NSI-566, is expected to be available in February 2013, including data from patients administered stem cells at the cervical (neck) level of the spinal cord. We believe that, if there is any improvement in patients given cervical injections, NSI-566 could rapidly progress into Phase 2 testing and could eventually be fast-tracked towards approval in ALS."
Neuralstem closed on Friday at $1.24.
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Recently, I attended my first ever beauty blog event. I was excited but at the same time a bit nervous because I'm going see the top beauty bloggers in town. I do admire them and haven't got a chance to mingle with them. Since I'm a noob, I was the only one wearing jeans that night Hahaha! I should have worn a cocktail chic attire. Anyway, I'll just share how the night went.
The event happened in Midas Hotel in Pasay City. It was also my first time to go to there. Luckily, my friend Elaine is working there as a Marketing Specialist. So while waiting for the event to start, I joined the ocular inspection of one of her clients.
After some time, I also met Maan of Ogilvy, again for the first time. We were requested to go to the Executive Lounge together so we were gathered in the lobby. I saw familiar beauty bloggers like Nikki of Ask Me Whats, Tara of Chronicles Of Vanity and Shen of Shen's Addiction. Later I get to know Martha of The Beauty Junkie, Lace of Style and Relax and Angel of Lush Angel. They were all good looking gals.
The event as I've mentioned was in the Executive Lounge where they really turned into a wonderful venue. The stage, table with flower arrangements as well as the product display area. The room was a delight in my eyes.
The event started along with our sit down dinner from Midas Hotel. The intimate venue made it very conducive to learning about the product. The host for the night was Jules Gollayan, Assistant Brand Manager of Pond's.
The welcoming remarks was done by Jacqe Yuengtian, Brand Manager followed by Zo Aguila, Media Partner for Pond's Philippines who shared her personal experience on choosing the right skin care products.
Finally, Dian Yu, Assistant Brand Manager didn't made us wait for long and informed us what to expect for the night. She also introduced the main speaker who came all the way from Pond's Institute in the US to talk about the product in detail.
Dr. Helen Meldrum, scientist in Pond's Insititute in New York, told us how Pond's Institute carefully studies skin care and how to take care of it. She showed survey made as well as tests done to see the improvements that needs to be done to achieve younger looking skin.
The discussion was very informative and I learned a lot. It was only now that I knew I should've started using products that contains anti-aging creams or dose up some moisturizers when I hit my 20's to be able to preserve my youthful look. Some say I look mature for my age but some say I look young. So I really don't know who to believe in that case. For my peace of mind, I do want to look younger than my actual age so I'm excited to use the Age Miracle line. I now use the eye cream of this line.
Pond's Turns Back Time
Offering their most revolutionary formulation in anti-aging to date—New Intelligent Pro Cell Complex™—Pond's institute gives your skin the chance to boost its skin renewal power. A sophisticated and unmatched skin solution, it combines the power of up to six bio-actives and the natural processes of your skin to comprehensively ensure that age simply cannot catch up.
These six bio-actives include:
- CLA, the miraculous ingredient that stimulates skin cells thus promoting faster cellular turnover;
- Retinol, the best-proven ingredient that works to produce and repair collagen;
- Two Retinol Boosters that accelerate epidermal rejuvenation;
- Alpha Hydroxy Acid (AHA) which exfoliates skin by removing skin-dulling dead cells;
- Glycerine which moisturizes the skin;
- and 12HSA which works deep within skin to renew skin cells and adapts to the unique genetic framework of skin.
However, the Flawless White product line also appeals me and I got pretty much the whole product line. So, I'm giving my Age Miracle to my mom but keeping the Age Miracle Sensitive for my usage after I finish the Flawless White line.
A Synergy Of Beauty And Science
A breakthrough innovation in skin-lightening, the new GenActiv™ Formula in the new Pond's Flawless White is a result of 10 years of research on more than 20,000 gene codes in the Pond's Institute. They discovered that a certain set of genes influences skin darkening by triggering melanocytes – the melanin producing cells – to produce more melanin that eventually makes skin darker. The new Pond's Flawless White combines Niacinamide with 12 HSA, two potent ingredients, which goes deep down the skin's basal layer – preventing genes to trigger melanin production. This and other vital whitening ingredients such as SPF 18 PA++, Allantoin and Optics System make the new Pond's Flawless White Pond's most advanced and effective whitening technology yet. The result? Spot-less white radiance like never before.
The new Pond's Flawless White with GenActiv™ Formula delivers visible results to empower women to confidently step out to the light. This revolutionary innovation from Pond's once again proves that the brand is always at the forefront in providing the best skin solutions for every Filipina.
Pond's promises to see results as early as 7 days but to be able to see the full effect, it is recommended to continue using the product.
I had an awesome time with the beauty bloggers as well as the Unilever staff. I also get to see in person famous model Apples Aberin who I think is an ambassador of Pond's. She's really beautiful!
There were 2 more surprises that night. Pond's Philippines raffled one iPad with Pond's branding at the back. Nikki of AMW was the lucky blogger who took home the iPad.
Another surprise is for us as well as our readers. A chance to win a Trip to Bali for 2! You just have to simply share with them the most romantic moment you've ever had with your special someone. Check out Pond's Philippines Greatest Acts of Love.
Celebrate romance this February with Pond's! Show off your youthful glow with the Pond's Age Miracle Valentine's promo. From February 14 to March 15, 2012 post a photo or video of your Greatest Acts of Love on Pond's Facebook Wall and get the chance to win a romantic getaway for two in one of Asia's most gorgeous destinations—Bali. The chosen winner must present a valid receipt to show purchase of Pond's Age Miracle Day Cream (50g) bought in any Watson's branch during the promo period. Make your Valentine's more memorable and exciting with beautiful and younger-looking skin only with Pond's. Visit www.facebook.com./pondsphilippines to know more about this exciting event.
After the launching, I had a chance to mingle with the beauty bloggers. My apprehension of them subsides after! Hahaha! They look intimidating at first but they're really friendly and fun to be with. I'm really thankful for Ogilvy and Ponds Philippines for inviting me to the event.
For more details, you can visit Pond's Philippines online accounts:
Pond's Philippines Website
Pond's Philippines Facebook page
Pond's Philippines Twitter page
Pond's Philippines Youtube
Disclaimer: This post is not paid. It reflects only the honest and truthful opinion and actual experience of the author.
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A tessellated floor is currently being installed in the double volume entrance to the Apero bar and restaurant. The black and white design is hand finished to exacting standards with over five thousand ceramic tiles being cut and fitted in situ. Offering an intriguing geometric formation, the design takes its cue from the fabulous mosaic floor in the nearby V&A.


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Rhett Lamar Conner waited for the Red Rabbit bus Wednesday afternoon at a new bus stop near Brenau University.
The fixed-route bus system that's housed in the Gainesville-Hall Community Service Center under Hall Area Transit has simplified fares, increased service hours and added several new bus stops to existing routes.
The changes took effect nearly two months ago, but there's already a rise in riders and increased efficiency, with no loss in revenue.
Passengers said they like the course the bus service is taking, which is basically reversing mandates from Hall County in fiscal year 2013 that raised rates and reduced hours of operation.
Fares went down from $1.25 to $1, simplifying rates for both passengers and the transit administration.
Rides are free for seniors ages 60 and older, children aged 7 and younger and the disabled.
Those eligible can get a $3 identification card good for two years if they register with the transit office.
Conner flashes the card with his picture at the bus driver as he climbs onto the bus, using his wooden cane as support.
The location was just moved to the other side of the street, but that's one less road to cross for the 72-year-old resident.
He rides the bus everyday to grocery stores, pharmacies and to do other errands.
"(The card) goes until 2015," Conner said. "I couldn't afford to turn that down."
Phillippa Lewis Moss, director of the community service center, said Hall County's attempt to cut costs and increase revenue didn't work.
The fixed-route system brought in the same amount of revenue this October as it did for the same month last year when the fare was 25 cents more.
Saving a quarter on a bus trip helps passenger Nicholas McGinn eat more Little Debbie snacks.
He works for Gainesville Marble and Granite, and taking the bus frees him from a long walk home.
"The Red Rabbit is really good to me because it saves me an hour a day worth of walking distance," McGinn said. "Just for a dollar, you can't beat it."
Passenger Clyde Herman Smith is a senior citizen and disabled. He also has a free fare card and says he'd have to spend around $20 if he had to take a taxi.
"I'm thankful to God, you know, that we have the Red Rabbit," he said.
When the fares increased in August 2012, the ridership was 16,443. The following August the ridership dropped to 12,649, figures from the community service center show.
"(Ridership) is starting to level out, and hopefully over the next few months will increase," Moss said. "So we're definitely seeing, just in that 30 days, that the trend has shifted."
Gainesville took over full financial responsibility for the Red Rabbit bus system July 1, which is the start of the 2014 fiscal year.
Hall took full financial responsibility for the reservation bus system Dial-A-Ride that serves more people in the county.
Previously both local governments split the costs of both systems. The Federal Transit Administration pays half of the operating cost for Red Rabbit, and the city pays the other 50 percent.
Hours of operation have been extended from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. during the week to 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The service doesn't run on weekends.
The buses now stop at several popular locations for residents, including the Goodwill store in Oakwood, The Good News at Noon shelter on Davis Street in Gainesville and Avita Community Partners off Mabry Road.


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AFL - Essendon have humiliated fierce rivals Carlton by 81 points, raising fresh concerns about what is in store for the Blues this AFL season with no wins from the opening three rounds.
RUGBY LEAGUE - While Melbourne were seething at a controversial last minute penalty which helped propelled Gold Coast to the top of the NRL ladder, the Warriors have reportedly lost patience with coach Matthew Elliott with speculation he could become the first coach sacked this season.
SOCCER - Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard scored two penalties as his side returned to the top of the Premier League table with a 2-1 win away to West Ham, while Everton bolstered their hopes of Champions League football next season by moving to within a point of fourth-placed Arsenal after a 3-0 win over the Gunners.
MOTORSPORT - Lewis Hamilton has won back-to-back Formula One Grand Prix races after beating Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg in a thrilling wheel-to-wheel duel in Bahrain, with Sergio Perez in a Force India finishing third and Australian Daniel Ricciardo in fourth.
CRICKET - Australia's women's cricket won their third straight World T20 title with a crushing six-wicket win over England in Bangladesh, while Kumar Sangakkara hit a memorable half-century to help Sri Lanka to a six-wicket victory over India in the men's World Twenty20 final in Dhaka.


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The NSA: Fostering a New Generation of Code Breakers
Posted on May 6, 2006
The presumed next head of the CIA, Gen. Michael Hayden, once ran the National Security Agency. Fine. But check out the home page of the NSA's website: It's got a cartoon picture that leads to a kid-friendly site called Cryptokids: America's Future Codemakers and Codebreakers. It's filled with decryption games and NSA employment resources.
Huh? Cartoons appeal to 7-year-olds. How many of them are going to be surfing the NSA's website? And if the agency is trying to recruit high school students, why use a cartoon turtle as a roper?
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By Not Paranoid, May 8, 2006 at 6:28 am Link to this comment
There's a difference between fostering interest and knowledge versus indoctrination. If you can't recognise this then your idea of truth is flawed. This country needs talented youth with good scientific grounding and moral outlook if it to remain strong and secure. Finding grand conspiracies and ascribing evil motives to every action of every agency of government will make this country weak and sick.
Healthy skepticism is one thing, paranoid delusion is something else.
By iPodRob, May 8, 2006 at 4:03 am Link to this comment
Oh this is sick. You do know that the NSA used to stand for "No Such Agency" thats because it was ultra top secret, read this about them…
Next thing we know is ECHELON is going to have it's own website and headed by a pink/green mouse.
By Vic Anderson, May 7, 2006 at 4:54 pm Link to this comment
More like the Youth League Spies, since we've crossed the Rubicon of 1984.
By Kenneth W. Nichols, May 7, 2006 at 7:54 am Link to this comment
The Hitler Youth was mandatory. No one is being forced to visit NSA's kids page. If ou would check further into the NSA webste, you would locate decrypts from the VENONA Project. Very interesting. Thank God we have NSA.
By Sponge Bob (NSA name..."Square Pants"), May 6, 2006 at 5:22 pm Link to this comment
The NSA should have done a google search first.
"Meet the CryptoKidsZander, Cassi, Theo, Stella, and Marcus. In CryptoMania!, five friends build a Teleporter and head for adventure in real and imagined places, picking up cool Greek and Latin word chunks along the way.
Calling All CryptoKids!
Kim and I are eager to hear from all you CryptoKids out there. We'll post your riddles and jokes, drawings and photos of your Logomobiles, Teleporters, Roman Numeral machines, and Create-a-Critter critters and more. Tell us your favorite parts of the book and your favorite character. Send us news about how youre using this book."
By Ed Encho, May 6, 2006 at 4:17 pm Link to this comment
My God…it's the vanguard of the new Hitler Youth!
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Caramelized Chai Dessert French Toast
READY IN: 35mins
Recipe by cookiedog
This is a dessert french toast that is a special treat for breakfast as well. If you choose to substitute with a different liqueur I would reduce the amount to 1 tablespoons.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 eggs
- 1⁄2 cup fat-free half-and-half
- 1⁄4 cup chai liqueur
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 5 slices French bread (3/4 inch thick slices)
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 10 teaspoons brown sugar, divided
- vanilla ice cream
Directions See How It's Made
- Beat eggs, half & half, liqueur, sugar, vanilla and cinnamon in a large shallow dish.
- Add bread slices and let stand for about 2 minutes to absorb mixture. Turn and let stand 2 minutes more.
- Melt butter in a large skillet.
- Sprinkle 1 teaspoons brown sugar on each side of bread.
- Cook over medium to medium-high heat for about 2 to 3 minutes per side or until crisp, taking care not to burn sugar. (If sugar begins to burn, wipe out pan with a paper towel).
- Transfer to plates and top with a small scoop of ice cream and a drizzle of liqueur, if you like.


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Karl Johnson, associate professor of biology and neuroscience, is a member of the research team that has developed a new high-throughput assay to identify the interactions between extracellular proteins. The study, "An Extracellular Interactome of Immunoglobulin and LRR Proteins Reveals Receptor-Ligand Networks," was published in the July 3 issue of Cell.
"It's been a huge challenge for biologists to understand how cells talk to each other," explains Johnson. "The goal of the project was to characterize the proteins at the cell surface and to understand what proteins interact with each other to communicate information between cells."
"Cells have a nearly impenetrable plasma membrane which makes it hard for another cell to 'talk' to it. The way cells 'listen' is to put proteins in their membranes – receptor proteins – which allow cells to detect information in the form of proteins outside the cell," Johnson says.
The study reports the complete interactome of three extracellular protein families in Drosophilia melanoganster – immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF), fibronectin type III (FnlIl) and leucine rich repeat (LRR) classes of proteins. These protein families, the study notes, are "known to mediate important homeostatic functions and neural wiring."
"Cell surface receptors and secreted ligands mediate cellular adhesions of all types; serve as immune neural receptors; connect the extracellular matrix to the cytoskeleton; determine cell shape, polarity and mobility; relay extracellular signals to cytoplasm; and regulate processes that can lead to disease," note the authors in the discussion section of the paper.
The team screened 20,000 different candidate interactions, resulting in the identification of 106 interactions between extracellular proteins, 83 of which were new discoveries. Since the screens were done in vitro, the team also verified the interactions in a living Drosophila embryo to ensure that the interactions would be verified in the organism.
These "real world" tests involved the live dissection of fly embryos, and the probing of these fly embryos with tagged receptor proteins to examine the distribution pattern of the ligand. Then, fly embryos with mutations in the ligand were examined to determine if the receptor binding sites were lost. It was in this phase of testing that Johnson participated most heavily. In each case, the interaction was validated suggesting a low false positive rate.
The team consisted of Engin Özkan (Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Robert A. Carrillio (California Institute of Technology), Catharine L. Eastman (Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Richard Weiszmann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Deepa Waghray (Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Karl G. Johnson (Pomona College), Kai Zinn (California Institute of Technology), Susan E. Celniker (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) and K. Christopher Garcia (Howard Hughes Medical Institute).
According to Daniel Leahy, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, whose review of the study appears in the same issue of Cell, "Özkan et al have clearly uncovered a bounty of interactions that will keep biologists busy for a long time to come…. It is conceivable that the [Extracellular Interactome Assay] could be applied to much larger subsets of extracellular proteins, including, one hopes, all or most secreted proteins in key organisms…. The current study of Drosophilia proteins demonstrates that discovery of treasure troves of extracellular interactions awaits."
Prof. Johnson is the Sarah and Harbert S. Rempel Professor Neuroscience and an associate professor of biology at Pomona College.


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The structure currently known as "The Gallery" was built in 1892 by the grandfather of the current owner/managing director, Surachai Leosawasthiphong. The grandfather , an immigrant from China, married a Chiang Mai woman on whose property the structure was built. The site was initially the family store which sold cotton silk and household items. Customers could enter from the street or from a special pier on the river. Surachai's family used the structure as the family home until 1978, when they moved to a new house.
In 1989, Surachai decided to restore the decaying structure. After six months of work, " The Gallery " opened for business. The front building, which currently houses the art gallery, was built in a traditional Chinese style in stucco with molded motifs. The rear structure, the current riverside restaurant, was built of teak-wood in Northern style. The owners proudly note that the mixure of architectural style reflects the ethnic mix of their family. It is one of the oldest structures remaining in Chiang Mai and has received many awards over the years. These include :
- The Best Conserved Structure Awards 1991 - The Lanna Architect Associations.
- The Outstanding Conservation Awards 1993 - The Siam Architect Associations.
- The Best of Asia 1994 - A culinary tribute from TIME magazine ( Business & Pleasure. The Ultimate Guide To The Top 80 Cities & resorts in 23 countries ) naming The Gallery as one of the best restaurants in Asia.
- Excellent Establishment Awards 1996 - The country's top marketing experts.
- November 24th, 1996. A historical visit by the US First Lady , Hillary Rodham Clinton and the US ambassador to Thailand Mr. William Itoh with their distinguished guests during the Loy Kratong festival.
- Beautiful Chiang Mai Awards 1997 - The governor of Chiangmai in corporation with Siam and Lanna Architect Associations.
- September 1998. The Gallery was chosen to be the "AMAZING RESTAURANT OF THAILAND" surveyed by TOURISM AUTHORITY OF THAILAND.
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Considered Volvo XC90. Lexus Rx & GX, BMW x3 & x5.
Nutshell version is we didnt think any measured up against MDX for nexus of features / function / value.
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Best Featuresa) Drive performance / handling; in particular "hug the road" cornering. b) Cargo room; in particular clear width space. c) Hard drive for downloading CDs & top notch sound system; works great not only for music but for books on tape for road trips. d) Efficient AC and heat. e) Rear view camera.
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This group brings together the members of the existing SL Experiments with teachers from the AVALON project to form a new partnership of teachers interested in working in Second Life and other virtual worlds. All are welcome.
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Bonjour à tous,
Je recherche des professeurs de FLE expérimentés et étudiants en Master 2 de FLE intéressés par l'enseignement en environnement virtuel 3D. Cette formation pilote ne forme pas a l'enseignement du FLE à proprement dit mais aux techniques d'enseignement à distance par le biais de l'immersion en 3D.
Cette formation uniquement en français est découpée en 40 heures, 2 heures par session, 2 fois par semaine sur 10 semaines et débutera mi-juin 2012. Aucune expérience dans la 3D n'est nécessaire, vous apprendrez les fonctionalités principales de l'interface client de Second Life, Phoenix, Firestorm ou bien imprudence selon les capacités de votre PC.
Pour un détail du contenu de cette ofrmation, laissez-moi un message ici ou bien passez voir le lien du Virtual Institute of French.
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Hola a todos, como estan
Kia Ora everyone, SLExperiments activities are picking up again after the busy SLanguages 2011 and other events.
Come and join us next Friday at 7pm GMT, 8PM CET and 11AM SLT on Edunation Webheads HQ. Dante's Inferno is on the programme!
If people feel that a one-off Saturday same time (rather than Friday) for the visit is better, please let me know and I will reschedule. Please comment on this discussion or on the wiki : ;)
Edith /Cybère
Psssstttt (also) .... If you are into Steampunk art and fashion, Air Kraken festival is on this week starting on the 19th of August with an openair market, building contests, exhibits or course, a Treasure Hunt and lots more... Check the notecard inside the Air Kraken sign on my plot. Not language realated of course, but surely promising for ideas to get your students talking...
Paris is striking again with one of their fabulous choreographies ... in the catacombs! If you want to see an unbelievable show coupled with a visit to the catacombs, join me next Friday 26 7pm GMT, 9PM CET and 12PM SLT in Paris (slurl). I have put a sign with a notecard in both French and English (scroll down) on my plot (slurl) next to the Webheads' HQ, and added some information on the SLexperiments calendar.
An event not to be missed!!!! Contact me if you need more information otherwise.
Cybère :)
Hi - Thanks to Mary for running a great session (lunch time).
Just a quick reply ref BB - I've used Dapci Plus (just in stuff I've bought), and it can be very annoying. For some reason the box (which has to be rezzed but hidden) flies around the area from time to time. So there you are, sitting drinking a cup of (virtual) tea, and BAM --- whacked in the back of the head by an invisible flying box.
Thanks for posting a recording of the session :)
I had to leave in the afternoon and I hadn't managed to get much done. The recording will be VERY helpful :)
Thanks again to Mary for her infinite patience :)
Hi Vance,
It was so great to see you working hard on the scripts!
We have two links this time because Mary added a great bit of theory on how to create a learning scenario. And these recordings by the way are the ones from the evening session not the one at lunchtime. At the evening sesson we were fewer and the recording is so much more concise, so I decided to use that one.
Personally I think Mary is one of the best SL trainers out there (next to Daffodil and Graham of course).
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November 6, 2004 - 22 Heshvan 5765
Annual: Genesis Genesis 23:1-25:18 (Etz Hayim, p. 127; Hertz p. 80)
Triennial Cycle: Genesis 23:1 - 24:9 (Etz Hayim, p. 127; Hertz p. 80)
Haftarah: I Kings 1:1 - 31 (Etz Hayim, p. 143; Hertz p. 90)
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Upon the death of Sarah at the age of 127, Abraham mourns his wife. He enters into protracted and formalized, public negotiations with the Children of Heth (Hittites) to secure a burial place for her, purchasing the Cave of Machpelah from Ephron at an apparently inflated price. Abraham subsequently dispatches his servant to Aram Naharaim (Mesopotamia) to find a suitable wife for Isaac, first administering an oath that he not select a Canaanite woman. Although traditional sources identify this servant as Eliezer, explicitly mentioned elsewhere, the marital emissary is not actually named in the Biblical text. He is properly referred to simply as "the servant of Abraham."
The servant's prayer for guidance and a divine sign in identifying Isaac's future wife is immediately answered with the appearance of Rebekah. Beautiful and chaste, Rebekah approaches the well where the servant has stationed himself. In keeping with his prayer, she draws from the well, generously providing water to the servant and his ten camels. Rebekah is identified as the granddaughter of Nahor, Abraham's brother. The servant presents gifts to Rebekah and then her family, to whom he recounts the events that transpired at the well.
Rebekah consents to marry Isaac and receives her family's blessing. Isaac and Rebekah meet. Rebekah covers herself with a veil, in a gesture of modesty still reenacted at traditional Jewish weddings (frequently accompanied by the recitation of a verse from this Parsha -- Genesis 24:60).
Isaac takes his bride "into his mother's tent." The bereaved son finds comfort in his marriage. Abraham marries Keturah; the marriage produces six additional children. Upon Abraham's death, Isaac and Ishmael together bury their father in the Cave of Machpelah, which the patriarch had earlier purchased as a final resting place for Sarah.
After Abraham's death, God renews His blessing of Isaac. Ishmael dies at the age of 137. The Parsha concludes by enumerating his many descendants, demonstrating fulfillment of God's earlier blessing of Ishmael as progenitor of a great nation and father of twelve chieftains.
"And he said, 'O Lord, God of my master Abraham, grant me good fortune this day, and deal graciously with my master Abraham.'" (Genesis 24:12)
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"And Abraham breathed his last, dying at a good ripe age, old and contented; and he was gathered to his kin. His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah." (Genesis 25:8-9)
Parshat Haye Sarah, recording the deaths of Sarah and Abraham, and describing their burial in detail, is read on November 6, 2004. On this date in 1995, assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was laid to rest at Mount Herzl National Cemetery in Jerusalem, eulogized by descendants of Isaac and Ishmael.


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Atlanta-based trio Last November plays two gigs in South Florida this weekend, hitting an early all-ages gig tomorrow night at Respectable Street Cafe in West Palm Beach, and then Transit Lounge in Miami on Friday. The group first got together in high school, when they bonded over playing acoustic versions of songs from Brand New's album Deja Entendu -- awwww. The influence has carried over -- Last November's own latter-day material is marked by a particular bittersweet nostalgia for the present. Not that it's all a mopey trip. The threesome, helmed by guitarist/frontman Luke Pilgrim, is as celebratory as it is introspective, with harder-rocking songs as caffeinated and perky as a double espresso. With heavy airplay on Atlanta radio, and recent features on AOL RED (AOL's teen portal), the band could be ready for heavy Fuse rotation soon. If upbeat power pop is your thing, check out this band in West Palm Beach on Thursday or Miami on Friday.
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A new study released in the EarlyView of Ecology Letters addresses forest productivity trends in Alaska, highlighting a shift in biomes caused by a warming climate. The findings, conducted by scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center and three other institutions based in Alaska and France, linked satellite observations with an extensive and unique tree-ring data set.
Patterns observed support current hypotheses regarding increased growth of evergreen forest at the margins of present tundra and declining productivity at the margins of temperate forest to the south. This study provides a regional picture of forest productivity which did not previously exist.
According to lead author Pieter Beck, a post-doctoral fellow at WHRC, "The results provide evidence for the initiation of a biome shift in response to climate change, and indicate that some ecosystem models may be missing fundamental changes taking place in the circumpolar region."
He adds that "while the findings contrast with some recent model predictions of increased high latitude vegetation productivity, they are consistent with longer-term projections of global vegetation models."
Scott Goetz, a senior scientist at WHRC, proposed the study and co-authored the manuscript.
He says, "Most people don't think of high latitudes forests as being drought stressed - and they are not in the traditional sense of having soils dry up and blow away - but their growth is negatively impacted by hot dry air masses and those have increased in recent years.
"This paper shows those drought impacts are captured in both the satellite and the tree ring record. Of course the tree rings go back in time much further than the satellite observations, which only extend about 30 years, but the changes that we observe from satellites are clearly supported not only by the tree rings but also by carbon isotope analysis of the wood."
Beck adds that climate driven changes in the disturbance regime, which can rapidly alter forest dynamics and the ability of boreal forests to migrate into current tundra areas, will most likely shape the biome shift in the future.
In addition to WHRC, researchers from the University of Alaska School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, the Pantheon Sorbonne Archeologie des Ameriques, and the Bureau of Land Management participated in the study and co-authored the paper.
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On the latest "Inside IMPACT," TNA wrestler Samoa Joe talks about former PRIDE and UFC fighter Quinton "Rampage" Jackson signing with TNA and Bellator.
Samoa Joe versus Rampage
in an ultimate submission match
Would be epic , can't wait to see
Who's better @ the holds Joe or Rampage
I love to see this match a No Holds Barred match, Joe can move for a man his size he's quick and he's good on the mic. I think this match done right could be a show stopper on a PPV and produce a really good fued between the two.
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The group's legal representative, Clifford Chance partner Ian Cochrane, said Mr Sayers was neither a giver nor recipient of the gifts and he didn't understand their nature when he was called by Wickenby investigators to give evidence. The gifts relate to payments made after Mr Bartlett sold 70 per cent of Barminco to Gresham Private Equity in mid-2007 in a deal worth more than $300 million.
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WIGGINS - Unusual sounds coming from behind Fred's Department Store early Wednesday morning prompted a concerned citizen to contact the Wiggins Police Department.
When officer Reggie Nix responded, he found Joseph Langley within a couple blocks of the store covered in insulation.
"The duct work had been opened on the air-conditioning unit and it appeared he'd tried to get in through the roof," WPD detective Roger Freeman said. "I never could tell what his motivation was but I'm pretty sure he wanted to break in the building."
Langley was charged with attempted burglary and was given a $25,000 bond.
Because he had a felony bond revoked from Forrest County, he is still lodged in the Stone County Regional Correctional Facility and won't be back on the streets anytime soon.
"This is a perfect example of a citizen picking up the phone and making a difference," WPD Chief Matt Barnett said. "I've always said we need the input of the citizens in order to fully do our jobs.
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SVS Leaders and Metropolitan PHILIP Discuss Education and Public Discourse
Metropolitan PHILIP received representatives of St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary on September 15, 2009. He discussed theological education and matters of common concern with V. Rev. John Behr (Dean), V. Rev. Chad Hatfield (Chancellor), Anne Glynn Mackoul (Executive Chair, Board of Trustees), in a constructive exchange. Also present at the invitation of His Eminence were His Grace Bishop Antoun, V. Rev. Elias Bitar (Vicar General), V. Rev. Joseph Allen, V. Rev Paul Nadim Tarazi, V. Rev Thomas Zain, and Rev. George Kevorkian.
Metropolitan PHILIP on AOCA students and their education at St Vladimir's Seminary
Metropolitan PHILIP spoke eloquently and appreciatively of the long association between the Antiochian Archdiocese and St Vladimir's Seminary. His recent decision to relocate one St Vladimir's first year student to Holy Cross was due, he explained, to his desire to distribute students more equitably among the schools. Metropolitan PHILIP also said he was pleased by the steps that have been taken at St Vladimir's to strengthen the pastoral and priestly formation of AOCA students, to support their liturgical and musical instruction, and to accommodate them appropriately in the chapel. He encouraged the Seminary leadership to take further steps in this direction.
A common vision
All agreed that, for the future unity of all Orthodox in this country, seminarians from all traditions must come together to study, to learn each others' traditions, and – especially – to worship together!
Respectful discourse in the twenty-first century
In addition, Metropolitan PHILIP spoke about the nature of public discourse today, about its pitfalls, and about its ability to sow division and discord. He also expressed his dismay at personal attacks, rumors and unsubstantiated postings that have appeared on various web sites. The leaders of St Vladimir's observed that open, honest, and also respectful discourse is needed for the health of the Church. All agreed that those being formed as priests for this digital age must learn a respectful mode of discourse, and that those involved in their instruction must model such discourse.
Positive online communications modeled by SVS
St Vladimir's Seminary recognizes that instant online communication can also be used positively, as a powerful tool for opening up discussion, engaging with others, and sharing new ideas, such as the blogging and the audio streaming that accompanied the SVS Conference this summer. Without that technology, the conference would have been virtually unknown aside from the hundred or so participants who could be there in person. With that technology, thousands could, and did, log on to hear or read the papers almost as soon as they were given.
New SVS web discussion forum
St Vladimir's Seminary plans to build on the success of the Conference, as well as the interesting reactions to Fr John and Fr Chad's statement on theological education, by launching a web discussion forum to pursue some of these ideas. The forum will model respectful online discourse that Metropolitan PHILIP expects his seminarians to learn. Participants may have diverse perspectives, but those will be presented and discussed courteously in an open forum – no anonymous or abusive postings will be accepted.
SVS also recommends His Grace, Bishop Savas of Troas' new site http://livinginthelogosphere.blogspot.com/ as another model of what can done with positive communication in the digital age.


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