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Lovely century three-storey arts and crafts home in a quiet, residential, tree-lined street. Great neighbours and an old-fashioned front porch with a glider, perfect for relaxing. Situated in the heart of Toronto in the historically-designated neighbourhood of Cabbagetown. Well-kept home features original artwork throughout, a modern kitchen with dishwasher, a Maytag Neptune washer/dryer on lower level. One queen bed and one double bed, bathroom has shower/tub and full linen closet. Hardwood floors throughout, spacious, comfortable, living room has wood-burning fireplace, formal dining room and with ground-level private courtyard with garden and fountain. Stainless steel BBQ for grilling, hard to imagine you are in th midst a city! Small TV with cable and Hi-speed Internet access. Parking lot just down the street. All conveniences one block away including Starbucks, LCBO, gourmet delis, butcher shop, grocers, ice cream parlour.
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Many HSSP BS students choose to take BIO 14a and BIO 15b in their 1st year; the BIO 18b lab and BIO 18a lab in their 2nd year; and then BIO 16a in their 3rd year. BIO 14a, BIO 15b, and BIO 16a can be taken in any order - one is not a prerequisite
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Core "Policy" Course: HS 104b - American Health Care or LGLS 114a - American Health Care: Law & Policy
HSSP 100b - Intro to Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Population Health Generally taken in the Junior year, the Brandeis/Denmark Institute for Study-abroad (DIS) course -Epidemiology: Danish Case Studies can substitute for HSSP 100b.
HSSP 110a - Integrative Seminar on Health: A capstone course for seniors that combines academic coursework and fieldwork experiences around a central problem or facet of health or healthcare - open only to HSSP Students in their Senior year. You may request to take HSSP 110a in the final semester of your Junior Year, if you:
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One comment that I hear alot goes something like this: "THEY said it would rain today," or "I heard THEM say we're in for a hot summer." And I like to ask, who's "they?"
You can get weather forecasts from so many places these days - newspapers, radio, TV, the web - but if you trace the forecasts back to the folks who actually made them, you'd find relatively few sources. The NWS produces many of these forecasts - for example, that's where the Weather Channel gets theirs. TV stations that have their own meteorologists typically make their own forecasts, but many stations and almost all radio outlets get theirs from the Weather Service or from private forecasting firms, such as Accu-Weather. Then of course, there's the Farmer's Almanac ... But that's another story.
So the next time you catch yourself saying something like "THEY said it would be sunny today," ask - do you really know who "they" are?
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Mortimer's Hole, Castle Rock
Mortimer's Hole is probably Nottingham's
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vital role in British medieval history.
The cave is a 105m-long tunnel which runs
from the top of the Castle Rock - the Upper
Bailey of the medieval castle - down to the
Brewhouse Yard.
In the middle ages the River Leen ran close to
the bottom of the Castle Rock, and
Mortimer's Hole would have probably been
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It is most reknowned as the tunnel through
which Edward III's soldiers entered the Castle
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A Week of Movies from Lifetime5/18/2005 3:09 AM Eastern
Lifetime Television will air a week-long movie festival of U.S. television premieres kicking off Memorial Day, May 30.
Starting on the holiday and running through Friday, June 3, the network will run a movie each day at 9 p.m. (EST/PST).
The five movies are: Missing Brendan, Monday, starring Ed Asner, Robin Thomas and Richard Cox; Seconds to Die, Tuesday, starring Erika Eleniak and John Wesley Shipp; Selling Innocence, Wednesday, featuring Sarah Lind and Mimi Rogers; Touching Wild Horses, Thursday, with Mark Rendall and Jane Seymour; and Steve & Claire & Eric & Ami, Friday, starring John Stamos, Tara Westwood, Daniel London and Meredith Salenger.
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This article explores ths history of theories about the shape of our planet. It is the first in a series of articles looking at the significance of geometric shapes in the history of astronomy.
The second in a series of articles on visualising and modelling shapes in the history of astronomy.
What 3D shapes occur in nature. How efficiently can you pack these shapes together?
How efficiently can you pack together disks?
An introduction to bond angle geometry.
Mike and Monisha meet at the race track, which is 400m round. Just to make a point, Mike runs anticlockwise whilst Monisha runs clockwise. Where will they meet on their way around and will they ever. . . .
Can you visualise whether these nets fold up into 3D shapes? Watch the videos each time to see if you were correct.
Find the point whose sum of distances from the vertices (corners) of a given triangle is a minimum.
Euler discussed whether or not it was possible to stroll around Koenigsberg crossing each of its seven bridges exactly once. Experiment with different numbers of islands and bridges.
A cube is made from smaller cubes, 5 by 5 by 5, then some of those cubes are removed. Can you make the specified shapes, and what is the most and least number of cubes required ?
Can you cross each of the seven bridges that join the north and south of the river to the two islands, once and once only, without retracing your steps?
Problem solving is at the heart of the NRICH site. All the problems give learners opportunities to learn, develop or use mathematical concepts and skills. Read here for more information.
Given the nets of 4 cubes with the faces coloured in 4 colours, build a tower so that on each vertical wall no colour is repeated, that is all 4 colours appear.
The reader is invited to investigate changes (or permutations) in the ringing of church bells, illustrated by braid diagrams showing the order in which the bells are rung.
This is a simple version of an ancient game played all over the world. It is also called Mancala. What tactics will increase your chances of winning?
Imagine a stack of numbered cards with one on top. Discard the top, put the next card to the bottom and repeat continuously. Can you predict the last card?
Find all the ways to cut out a 'net' of six squares that can be folded into a cube.
A half-cube is cut into two pieces by a plane through the long diagonal and at right angles to it. Can you draw a net of these pieces? Are they identical?
A Hamiltonian circuit is a continuous path in a graph that passes through each of the vertices exactly once and returns to the start. How many Hamiltonian circuits can you find in these graphs?
If you can copy a network without lifting your pen off the paper and without drawing any line twice, then it is traversable. Decide which of these diagrams are traversable.
A game for 2 people. Take turns joining two dots, until your opponent is unable to move.
Can you use small coloured cubes to make a 3 by 3 by 3 cube so that each face of the bigger cube contains one of each colour?
Can you make a tetrahedron whose faces all have the same perimeter?
Bilbo goes on an adventure, before arriving back home. Using the information given about his journey, can you work out where Bilbo lives?
This problem is about investigating whether it is possible to start at one vertex of a platonic solid and visit every other vertex once only returning to the vertex you started at.
This is the first article in a series which aim to provide some insight into the way spatial thinking develops in children, and draw on a range of reported research. The focus of this article is the. . . .
A cheap and simple toy with lots of mathematics. Can you interpret the images that are produced? Can you predict the pattern that will be produced using different wheels?
Blue Flibbins are so jealous of their red partners that they will not leave them on their own with any other bue Flibbin. What is the quickest way of getting the five pairs of Flibbins safely to. . . .
This article for teachers discusses examples of problems in which there is no obvious method but in which children can be encouraged to think deeply about the context and extend their ability to. . . .
The image in this problem is part of a piece of equipment found in the playground of a school. How would you describe it to someone over the phone?
Have a go at this 3D extension to the Pebbles problem.
In how many different ways can I colour the five edges of a pentagon red, blue and green so that no two adjacent edges are the same colour?
Is it possible to remove ten unit cubes from a 3 by 3 by 3 cube made from 27 unit cubes so that the surface area of the remaining solid is the same as the surface area of the original 3 by 3 by 3. . . .
Every day at noon a boat leaves Le Havre for New York while another boat leaves New York for Le Havre. The ocean crossing takes seven days. How many boats will each boat cross during their journey?
In the game of Noughts and Crosses there are 8 distinct winning lines. How many distinct winning lines are there in a game played on a 3 by 3 by 3 board, with 27 cells?
A bus route has a total duration of 40 minutes. Every 10 minutes, two buses set out, one from each end. How many buses will one bus meet on its way from one end to the other end?
Lyndon Baker describes how the Mobius strip and Euler's law can introduce pupils to the idea of topology.
Can you mentally fit the 7 SOMA pieces together to make a cube? Can you do it in more than one way?
On a clock the three hands - the second, minute and hour hands - are on the same axis. How often in a 24 hour day will the second hand be parallel to either of the two other hands?
We're excited about this new program for drawing beautiful mathematical designs. Can you work out how we made our first few pictures and, even better, share your most elegant solutions with us?
A useful visualising exercise which offers opportunities for discussion and generalising, and which could be used for thinking about the formulae needed for generating the results on a spreadsheet.
What is the shape of wrapping paper that you would need to completely wrap this model?
A circular plate rolls in contact with the sides of a rectangular tray. How much of its circumference comes into contact with the sides of the tray when it rolls around one circuit?
A square of area 3 square units cannot be drawn on a 2D grid so that each of its vertices have integer coordinates, but can it be drawn on a 3D grid? Investigate squares that can be drawn.
Charlie and Alison have been drawing patterns on coordinate grids. Can you picture where the patterns lead?
Slide the pieces to move Khun Phaen past all the guards into the position on the right from which he can escape to freedom.
An irregular tetrahedron has two opposite sides the same length a and the line joining their midpoints is perpendicular to these two edges and is of length b. What is the volume of the tetrahedron?
A and C are the opposite vertices of a square ABCD, and have coordinates (a,b) and (c,d), respectively. What are the coordinates of the vertices B and D? What is the area of the square?
Place a red counter in the top left corner of a 4x4 array, which is covered by 14 other smaller counters, leaving a gap in the bottom right hand corner (HOME). What is the smallest number of moves. . . .
The aim of the game is to slide the green square from the top right hand corner to the bottom left hand corner in the least number of moves.


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Coca Cola (NYSE:KO) is unarguably a stock with a solid track record of juicy dividend payments. Coca Cola has paid solid dividends regularly for the past decades and it is an established brand known worldwide. Using a combination of attractive dividend yield of 2.7 percent which KO stock has maintained since 2007 and its impressive record of earnings growth, Coca Cola has returned about 50 percent ROI to date. Compared to its peers in the beverage industry such as Pepsi (NYSE:PEP), Dr. Pepper Snapple Group (NYSE:DPS), and Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE:TAP), Coca Cola has the largest market share with 42% while Pepsi and Dr Pepper maintain a market share of 29.3% and 16.7% respectively. Coca Cola and Pepsi share similar characteristics: the two companies were known for regularly offering their shareholders dividend payouts with dividend yields that exceed the yields on the S&P 500 index. The future outlook of the Coca Cola Company is not in doubt, but does its recent 2 to 1 stock split really make the stock more attractive to investors?
Indeed, a company may choose to split its stock if its directors strongly believe that the stock has become too expensive in dollar value, and would like to make it more liquid or affordable to many investors. Also, a company may split its stock if that stock is trading too far above its industry peers. In actual fact, at over $74 before the stock split, KO stock was rather expensive for many investors, and a lot of stock traders would prefer paying about $39 per share now to paying about $78 per share before the stock split. The recent stock split of 2:1 means the total shares of Coca Cola doubled from 5.6 billion units to 11.2 billion shares; that is one of the historical effects of a stock split. It is to be noted that since 1919 when Coca Cola began trading, the recent stock split makes it the tenth time that the company would have its stock split and the first in the last 16 years.
On the surface, Coca Cola's recent stock split does not affect the current holdings of existing shareholders. Simply put, it only doubles their holdings while the price of each stock drops to half of its price at the time of the split. The positive effects that the stock split could have on Coca Cola stockholders certainly exist but are not far reaching. One benefit is that investors will find it easier to trade the stock of Coca Cola after the split. Also, it will be easier for shareholders that like stock trading to get in and out of KO stock and assume new positions with greater speed.
There were mixed opinions of analysts about whether KO stock was overvalued before the stock split. Before the stock split, many analysts felt the stock was actually trading far above its industry peers just like Pepsi. The stock of Coca Cola Company like many other dividend stocks has always remained an impeccable long-term prospect, yet when the stock was considered overvalued, it invariably meant that a potential investor would have paid more than the actual worth for the stock, and that was a risk many discerning traders wouldn't want to take. With the stock split, the coast is clear and many investors should find KO stock attractive and worth buying.
Evaluation and Outlook
Coca Cola maintains a strong cash flow and it is a company that has a good pedigree for increasing shareholder value through a combination of good dividend payouts and share buybacks. Coca Cola grew its earnings per share in the last 5 years at an average rate of 11.3% each year. KO stock has a forward price earnings ratio of 18.5x and a forecast earnings per share growth of 9% for the next financial year. On dividend payouts, Coca Cola raised its payouts per unit to shareholders by 8.5% last February. The Coca Cola Company expects its revenues to double over the next ten years which was what influenced the stock split, and I believe that the stock will start to head higher soon as some existing investors consider picking up more units while other investors also contemplate taking up a position in the market leader.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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Billionaire Donald Trump said July 2 that the U.S. will have a financial collapse this year. This means we have less than six months to put our house in order or face financial ruin. Are we to believe what Trump is predicting will happen in a few months' time?
Trump toyed with the idea of a presidential bid in 2012 but changed his mind, and he is now considering a run in 2016.
Does Trump have solid facts that he can produce to back up his claims that the U.S. will be in financial ruin in the coming months, or is this just election year politicking as we head into the midterm elections in November?


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In 1962, 68 percent of the federal budget was discretionary spending. It was appropriated annually and came under some level control of Congress. About 32 percent of the budget consists of entitlements - or mandatory spending - and interest on the debt. This year that's almost reversed. We now have 35 percent of the budget called discretionary - that's appropriated by Congress - and 65 percent of the budget which is entitlement spending and interest on the debt that just occurs automatically. In 10 years, if we continue on this path, only 25 percent of the federal budget will be discretionary spending. Fully 75 percent will be mandatory entitlement and interest.
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What is a CoolMom
What's in a Name?
The organization's name stemmed from a conversation one of the CoolMom co-founders had with her husband. The conversation went something like this, moms are cool by definition, right? They are down with what kids like and need. They are good care takers, creative, fun, a little crazy- in a good way, and they care about their kid's health and the planet we leave them.
The planet, although very hot and getting hotter, is a cool place to live and we would like to keep it cool, that is, a livable cool so that animals, plants and humans can live comfortably and sustainably.
Thus, the name CoolMom.
Therefore, a CoolMom is an environmentalist by nature and a fitting steward for the planet.
To become a CoolMom, all you have to be is a person [not a requirement to give birth, adopt a two legged human or have the desire to birth children] who cares about the planet and makes daily and concentrated efforts of living more sustainably for the betterment of the planet and our children's futures.
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North Carolina Residents Anticipate Hurricane Irene
Hurricane Irene has made its way through the Caribbean and is traveling to the eastern shore of the United States. In North Carolina, communities like Ocracoke Island have been evacuated. But many residents are still waiting to see whether Irene will be hitting their town.
Kathy Pettit, owner of Hatteras Water Sports in Salvo, and Steven Long, owner of the Golden Sands Motel, in Carolina Beach, speak about the conditions in North Carolina.


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LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1 to 4
- iPhone - �2.99
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Has there ever been a bad LEGO Whatever game? It doesn't seem to matter how many times Traveller's Tales twists the simple formula, it always seems to work a treat.
For its first attempt at squeezing one onto iOS systems, Warners has taken the not-unreasonable decision to port the DS version and release it at about one sixth of the price. At first glance, it's a smart move, with that trademark aesthetic translating well whether you play it on iPhone or iPad.
But being a direct DS conversion, it suffers from watering the gameplay down into a basic approximation of the original. Seemingly designed to appeal specifically to younger gamers, the game prods you along for what seems like an eternity before it deigns to take off the training wheels.
As pleasantly undemanding as it is to trawl through the Potter yarn picking up studs and utilising touch-screen spells, the inevitability of the whole experience robs it of a sense of purpose.
Mobile games always work best when they're simple and refined, but LEGO Harry Potter's debut on iOS feels flabby and unfocused.
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
- iPhone - �2.99
With rare exception, mobile racing games feel more like showboating tech demos than genuinely entertaining handheld diversions. That's certainly been the case for EA up until now, but Hot Pursuit sees the publishing behemoth finally doing justice to its properties.
As with many driving games, Hot Pursuit does the accelerating for you (if you let it), leaving you free to focus on steering, boosting and dishing out spike traps, EMP blasts and road blocks.
It's a ploy that works reasonably well, and the 24-event series of races, takedown challenges and checkpoint events is a decent approximation of Criterion's masterful reboot, presenting a surprisingly stiff challenge.
It's also comfortably one of the best-looking arcade racing games released in the mobile realm, with impressively detailed backdrops and a rock-solid frame rate designed to make you feel glad you went bananas and bought that iPhone 4.
Less creditable is the decision to focus on the cops vs. racers side of the game during the campaign rather than allow you to switch between the two. While you can't really moan at the price, it still feels like half the game it could have been.


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Lady Panthers take advantage of third quarter adjustment
By BOBBY "BUTCH" BURNEY | News-Telegram Sports Editor
Dec. 5, 2007 - The Sulphur Springs Lady Cats knew what was coming from Princeton in the second half of Tuesday's game. They just couldn't adjust to it quickly enough.
Princeton coach Dexter Ivy made a concerted effort to take away the 3-point shooting of SSHS senior Jessica Savage after halftime, and it worked well enough for the fourth-ranked team in Class 3A to pull out a 48-38 victory at Wildcat Gym.
The Lady Panthers (8-2) outscored SSHS 15-3 in the third quarter to take a double-digit lead they held for almost all of the rest of the game.
Savage finished with five 3-pointers to lead the team with 15 points. Senior post Starkeisha Wright added 10 points, eight of them coming in the final 4:25 of the game, and one rebound, and junior Mackenzie Cross finished with eight assists, four points and three rebounds.
"Jessica had an unbelievable game," said SSHS head coach Tina Carrillo. "We talked at halftime about not depending on her shot to carry us in the second half, because he (Ivy) is a good coach and I knew he was going to prevent that from happening.
"Sure enough, that's what happened. It did open it up inside in the second half, but we didn't have Starkeisha take advantage of that quickly enough."
Sulphur Springs (6-5) was able to cut the Princeton lead to eight points (44-36) with 2:35 to play in the fourth quarter when senior Stephanie Conley grabbed an offensive rebound and put it back in. But Princeton pulled the ball out in the stall to put the game away.
Conley led the team in rebounding with five, but hurt her left leg in the final 30 seconds of the game and will not play in the Commerce tournament this weekend.
The Lady Cats led much of the first quarter, thanks to the shooting of Savage, who hit three from long range in a span of 2:20. Their biggest lead of the game (15-11) came with 1:10 to play when Savage hit a long 3-pointer off an assist from Cross.
Princeton's Hayley Fields answered right back with a trey of her own, though. Princeton eventually took a five-point lead with 1:40 to go in the half, but then Savage bombed another 3-pointer and senior Shardae Jones hit a putback bucket right before the buzzer to tie the game.
"I saw a great first half, a very competitive first half," Carrillo said. "It seemed like the momentum swung our way at the end of the first half when Shardae got that offensive rebound and put it back in.
"But, we didn't take advantage of that. We came out and had two or three turnovers and it seemed as if we came out a little flat in the third quarter and didn't adjust to the flow. They outscored us in the third quarter, and that's the quarter that got us."
Princeton was led by Whitney Coffey with 14 points and six rebounds, while Sarah Ivy added nine points and Jordan Strickland put in six points and a game-high seven rebounds.
Sulphur Springs will take to the court at 4:30 p.m. Thursday when they play in the Commerce tournament. Their first-round game will be against Dallas Hillcrest (2-8) in the Commerce High School gym.
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SSHS 38, Princeton 30
The Lady Cats pulled away from Princeton in the fourth quarter, thanks in part to Kayla Phillips, who had six of her 10 points in the final period. Talea Reynolds led SSHS (9-2) with 17 points and seven rebounds.
The Lady Cats persevered despite hitting just 2-of-18 from beyond the arc.
Ja Monica Hall had four points and five rebounds, Kayle Askins added four assists, Jamie Askins had four rebounds and three steals, Chasity Hall scored two points, Melanie Hudson had three points and four boards, and Alyssa Burney had two rebounds and two steals.
SSHS 31, Princeton 13
The SS ninth-graders improved their record to 4-6, having won three of their last four games.
Megan Massey, Frankeisha Hawkins and Ariel Spataro each scored six points to pace the Lady Cats. Tyesha Thomas had four points, Kyrie Ivery had three points and three rebounds, Cydnie Finney scored two points and had two rebounds, and Taylor Eastwood and Caitlyn Nix each had two points and three boards.
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Washington, DC—Nevada Senator Harry Reid released the following statement today following passage of a Senate resolution honoring Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the victims and heroes of the Tucson shooting:
"I join my colleagues today in honoring Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and all of the victims of the tragedy in Tucson earlier this month. I am encouraged by the improvements in her condition, and hope for her continued speedy recovery. She is an inspiring example of the human spirit persevering through extreme tragedy. Today is also a time to remember those who lost their lives during an event that should have been a testament to our democracy, a discussion between a dedicated public servant and her constituents. I express my deep condolences to the families of those who lost loved ones and commend the men and women who showed the best in us by stepping up to prevent an even greater tragedy. My thoughts are with all Arizonans today as they continue to mourn and begin the healing process."


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Struggling computer printer maker Lexmark (NYSE:LXK) is moving to cut jobs as part of a three-year, $160 million restructuring effort.
The company announced that it will end production of ink-jet printers and will reduce its payroll by 13%, eliminating 1,700 workers. Lexmark will also solicit buyers for its proprietary ink-jet technology, the Associated Press noted.
Investors liked the news. Shares of Lexmark jumped 9% in early Tuesday morning trading.
Earlier this year, the company announced plans to trim its workforce by 625.
The new round of job cuts will mostly hit the company's manufacturing division, where 1,100 employees will lose their positions. An ink-jet facility in the Philippines will also be shuttered within three years.
Last month, Lexmark posted lower second-quarter earnings and revenue that missed analysts' estimates, and warned of a weaker third quarter.
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"Fullmetal Alchemist" © Hiromu Arakawa and Square-Enix
Clap, Snap
A clap, crackling, and blue light.
A low curse, a clap, crackling, and blue light.
This time, a rather dark growl that would've frightened the new cadets into proper order.
"Again! For crying out loud, are you planning to get yourself killed in the future? !"
"Damn it, Fullmetal, you know I'm not fully used to clapping transmutation yet!"
"That's why I'm teaching you how to get used to it, bastard!" Ed fought the urge to pull his hair, opting to recite the first half of the periodic table to calm down. "Gah, let's just take a break before you transmute something that'll kill both of us or take out half the parade grounds. Like last time."
Roy mutely agreed as he sat on a short block of transmuted earth, gratefully accepting one of the glasses of water Riza had placed on one of the stumps he had created earlier. Around them, more stumps/walls of varying heights stuck out of the grounds like some bizarre forest competing with the nearby trees, garnering more than several stares from soldiers that "just happened to pass by". Sharp glares from the trio sent the soldiers back to whatever they were originally doing.
"Geeze, I didn't had this much trouble transmuting after I got my automail," the teenager - young man, really - muttered, downing his water in one gulp and refilling from the pitcher.
"My main focus of studies were on gasses, not solids," the colonel shot back, using the condensation to cool his stinging hands after clapping so many times. "Plus, it's difficult on breaking the habit of rubbing my fingers."
Ed sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. He had to wonder if this was how Izumi felt when she had taken him and Al on as her apprentices years ago. He had to admit, since they didn't had any set habits back then regarding alchemy, it probably was a lot easier for he and his little brother to grasp the mechanics of transmuting solids. Mustang, on the other hand, was accustomed to manipulating the gasses that were tied with flames so it would be understandable for him to be having some trouble manipulating solid materials. While his wall that blocked Father's fire counterattack was normal enough that any regular alchemist - certified or in-training - could easily create, it seemed that at least he hadn't forgotten the basics and it was rather decent during a pressing situation. Ed wasn't sure whether he should be laughing or despairing at his current status as the teacher and Mustang as his student in clap-transmutation. He supposed that if Izumi heard about it, she'd be taking great pleasure at his misfortune.
"I believe that the colonel has improved on his fire manipulation," Riza commented, sipping from her own glass.
A raised eyebrow from the former State Alchemist as he snagged a sandwich from the lunch cart. Of course, it made sense for the Flame Alchemist to first attempt something that he was familiar with.
"Although the chefs have requested that he cease testing it out on the current stove ware and try it on the discarded ones or at the trash incinerators," she continued, ignoring the sputtering from her superior officer. "Accounting has cited that it's going to be difficult to continue writing the new kitchenware off as 'military practice expenses' if he continues."
Roy fought the idea to increase the amount of nitrogen in the air when Ed all but fell off his seat while laughing hysterically. It wasn't his fault that one of the cooks startled him, attracted by the clap and ruining his concentration which resulted in the cook requiring therapy and replacing several appliances.
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"Alright, let's try this again from the top," Ed said after their lunch break.
The older man made an exasperated sound. "We've already been at this 'from the top', Fullmetal."
"Hey, I'm no longer a State Alchemist so you can't call me that anymore," the younger blonde snarked, before rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
Dark eyes glared at him. "What?"
"Can you create fire?"
"With my gloves, yes. A lighter in a pinch." The unspoken 'Who do you think I am, a complete idiot?' hung in the air.
Ed rolled his eyes. "Have you tried creating it WITHOUT your gloves? There's going to be cases where you won't have them, you've gotten them wet, and/or you don't have a lighter and you can't carve a circle. Heck, there's always the chance that one of your arm's disabled in whatever way and you can't clap." He had heard from Al and Hawkeye how his former commanding officer had completely burned Lust to her death with Havoc's lighter to create the necessary sparks and by carving his circle onto the back of his hand. Ed had to admit, it was rather ingenious to think of despite bleeding out. "While clapping our hands together fulfills the circle requisition, you can probably still make flames by connecting your second and/or third finger with your thumb and rubbing/snapping like you normally do, so as long you have your circle pictured firmly in your mind. Having an actual spark or flame would be a lot easier, but sometimes you have to make do. Probably means that you have to actually snap your fingers, although I'm not sure if you'll burn them off. It's no different than me envisioning what I want whenever I transmute..."
Roy blinked as Ed proceeded to begin collecting sticks and leaves, all the while muttering about the chemical makeup of anything that involved explosions. Somehow, several officers stationed under him back at East City had heard the tale of his surviving encounter with the female Homunculus (obviously the edited version) and had gifted him with a very heavy lighter that was etched with his transmutation circle during his recovery post-Promised Day (no doubt costing them a good amount of cenz - it was rather more durable than other lighters). A card with a cheeky "So you won't be as useless" had been included, which was promptly turned to ashes and resulting some admonishing words from the nurses and Riza alike on indoor fire safety. Even though he still carried his gloves, the Flame Alchemist kept the lighter with him, somewhat touched by his other subordinates. (It was quite satisfying seeing the many dropped jaws when he pulled it out one rainy day to use against a straggler who still supported the old regime, even though it took a few false starts and singed fingers.) And thinking about it now, the engraved circle was rather perfect - it wasn't that different from his own gloves, Kimblee with his circles tattooed in his palms or the inscribed gauntlets Major Armstrong and the late Grand used to perform their transmutations. Having seen his own circle so many times, it was proverbially burned into his own mind.
Truthfully, it wasn't all that different than controlling gasses - the concept was still the same, just a lot more tightly held together and involving a lot more elements. Yet Hawkeye's comment about the kitchenware hinted at the potential dangers if he didn't quickly master his clap-transmutation skills. Edward, Alphonse, and Izumi Curtis didn't have his extensive knowledge on flame alchemy, which was already dangerous in itself. Better to have singed hairs and complaints than a scorched wing or landing burned people at the hospitals by accident.
Taking in a cleansing breath, Mustang positioned himself in front of the sizable pile Ed had gathered and held out his hand like he always did, sans glove. Index and middle fingers connected with thumb, forming the connection. Mentally, he envisioned his circle - the triangles that allowed him to manipulate the elements that made up air, the curved lines that served as the energy conduit, and the salamander that symbolized his specialty.
Eyes narrowing, he snapped his fingers.
Ed and Riza had been partially expecting the large burst of heat they had seen during the Promised Day at the "snap". Instead, a flash of blue alchemical light preluded the focused stream of bright red and yellow that blossomed just from the edge of the Flame Alchemist's fingertips, dancing through the air almost like an bird with trailing feathers before encircling sticks and leaves. There was very little scorch marks on the ground, other than a small pile of ash.
Gold and ochre eyes stared at the gray remains for several moments before shifting their sights to a very smug and satisfied colonel.
"Bastard," Ed finally spoke, although he had a rather large grin.
The word carried a deep sense of pride and warmth that was reflected on Riza's face as well.
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The Huffington Post recently put together an impressive list of Women in technology you Need to Follow on Twitter, showcasing some of the most dynamic women on the Web. We applaud their accomplishments and the doors they have opened for women, not only on the microblogosphere but also in boardrooms and in the minds of venture capitalists.
Unfortunately, of the 27 women listed, only two, —Jenny Deluxe and Ory Okolloh are Black. The reality is there are many exceptionally remarkable Black women advancing technology and forming networks where women of all races can be mentored to become digital media iconoclasts.
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During a visit to Baltimore in June, Maryland men's basketball coach Mark Turgeon said he might not be done adding to his roster for the 2017-18 season, either with a graduate transfer or another incoming freshman.
Four-star prospect Jamarko Pickett could be the latest addition. Pickett, a 6-foot-8, 205-pound forward from Washington who played last at the Massanutten Military Academy in Woodstock, Va., will visit College Park this weekend, a source familiar with Pickett's situation said Thursday.
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text: LAHORE - Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation Director General Samina Pervaiz has said that country's largest radio network, Radio Pakistan, is being upgraded according to the wishes of the traditional and modem day radio listeners. She was speaking at a reception hosted in her honour by Packages limited. She disclosed that (PBC) multiple purpose programs are still most popular in Pakistan. "They are quoted and suggested as reference, we are engaging the established broadcasters of considerable repute and stature to our network programs, in this connection world fame broadcaster and, one of the icons of Radio Zia Mohyudin has been requested to host programs, over radio Pakistan national network," she added. Samina mentioned Radio Pakistan's historical role and contribution in promoting Cricket by broadcasting high standard cricket commentary by legendry Jamshed Marker, Qmer Qureshi and Jftikhar Ahmed from all parts of world. Samina said she is revamping the sales department and encouraging the dedicated and honest employees."We as institutions have great respect for Packages Limited who has always extended full cooperation to Radio Pakistan," she held.This news was published in The Nation newspaper. Read complete newspaper of 08-May-2014 here.


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The German Jewish community apparently has accepted the principle of quotas on Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union and is nearing an agreement with West German authorities on the number of Soviet Jews who will be allowed to come here.
Government sources said Sunday that the number would likely be fixed at 3,000 immigrants over the next four years, not including Jews who can provide satisfactory evidence they are" ethnic Germans."
The government hopes the agreement will end the embarrassing public debate over whether Soviet Jews should be admitted to the new unified Germany, which comes into existence on Oct. 3.
The Interior Ministry has been discussing the issue with German Jewish representatives for the past month.
Ministry officials, who refused to be identified, claimed the Jewish community initially signaled a favorable attitude toward quotas.
They said they were surprised therefore when Heinz Galinski, chairman of the organized German Jewish community, suddenly rejected last Friday the idea of limiting the immigration of Soviet Jews to Germany.
Galinski, an Auschwitz survivor, told reporters in Berlin that the Jewish community would not give its blessing to quotas, observing nevertheless that the number of Soviet Jews who want to come to Germany was limited anyway.
The Interior Ministry claimed last week that 10,000 Jews applied for entry visas at the West German Consulate in Kiev alone.
But the Foreign Ministry called that an exaggeration, saying that barely 10,000 Jews from all over the Soviet Union have indicated a desire to immigrate to Germany.
Conflicting opinions have been expressed within the Jewish community here over the advisability of encouraging Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union. Some say the community should keep a low profile on the issue and accept only Jewish immigrants with German backgrounds.


text: A newbie on Apple TV but I have set up a projector to a MacMini and use it in my screened in porch for movies. What i like is I can stream the audio using A third party application, I can't recall the name Air something, because iTunes can't send the audio to speakers connected to an Airport Express in sync with the movie. Can Apple TV use wireless speakers connected to an Airport and keep the audio in sync? Thanks


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Archives for the Month of June, 2007
meeting ivan.
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all tomorrow's parties 2007 – mogwai.
Monday, 11 June 2007
nate's morning cigarette.
Thursday, 7 June 2007
nate just started up his photoblog called circlesquaretriangle. it's in its early stages but it's already worth a look. oh.. and chris updated too. awesome.
Tuesday, 5 June 2007
all tomorrow's parties – do make say think.
Friday, 1 June 2007
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"The most used word in the whole fucking universe. Douche bags use it, your kids use it, your mail man uses it, and your fucking dog uses it. If you got swag, you generally wear those shitty hats side way, and your ass hanging out like a fucking goof cause your pants are half way down your white ass legs. To break down the word, it means (Secretly We Are Gay). It is also a word that means to represent yourself/ the way you represent yourself, baggy clothes, shitty hats, small penis and basically a way to say your afraid to come out of the closet."
~ Urban Dictionary.
I'm actually referring to swag in the material possessions sense. However, the definition on Urban Dictionary was reminiscent of what's wrong with the universe, hence it was too good an opportunity to pass over not copy and pasting.
Anyway, I think I've found a decent film store at last. I took the chance to purchase some box sets, one of which I've been looking for for about 3 years. Many of you know Tarkovsky is my favourite director, so you can imagine my utter joy at discovering the box set of his main feature films for £25.
I also picked up a 2 Disc Special Edition of Mulholland Drive for £2 and Persepolis for £2.
My two main purchases by two utterly compelling directors.
Oh, and I bought myself a cheap Captain America sweatshirt.
Here's a picture of myself wearing said item and looking particularly dapper and smug!
Anyway. That will do for a blog right now.


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IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 2, 2012
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Unexpected research results reveal important finding with clinical implications.
CHICAGO -- A new class of agents known as c-Src inhibitors is being tested in a number of different ways to treat breast cancer, but researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center caution that they should not be used in combination with estrogen to treat endocrine resistant breast cancer. That's because their new study, being reported at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2012, shows that using estrogen and a c-Src inhibitor, PP2, cancel each other out. The benefit once seen in using estrogen was gone once PP2, an inhibitor of the Src-family of kinases used for laboratory studies, was added. Instead, the findings suggest that using a c-Src inhibitor alone may offer another treatment option to estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer patients whose tumor no longer responds to tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors, explains the study's lead researcher, Ping Fan, Ph.D. Her research is conducted in the lab of V. Craig Jordan, OBE, PhD, DSc, FMedSci, scientific director at Georgetown Lombardi. Most c-Src inhibitors have been approved for use in blood cancers and some are now being tested in solid cancers including breast cancer. C-Src helps control signaling pathways associated with growth, survival and cell migration, and increased activity of this protein has been observed in multiple tumor types. The study results came about because a Georgetown Lombardi research team, led by Jordan, was testing whether a combination of estrogen and PP2, an inhibitor of c-Src used in laboratory experiments, could work synergistically to destroy breast cancer cells that no longer responded to endocrine therapy. Clinical studies have shown that, for reasons that have not been fully explained yet, about 30 percent of endocrine resistant breast tumors respond to low doses of estrogen. The Georgetown Lombardi study was designed to see if using PP2 with estrogen could produce a stronger therapeutic outcome. What they found was unexpected ? there was less, not more, of a killing effect when the two drugs were used together in the lab. Further investigation concluded that c-Src, one of the family of Src kinases inhibited by PP2, "is one of the important molecules in estrogen-stimulated pathways, so using an inhibitor of c-Src eliminates the beneficial effect of estrogen," says Fan. They also found evidence that estrogen induces expression of multiple genes that act en masse to kill breast cancer cells. "Our data suggest these two drugs should not be used together in resistant cancers," Fan says. This work is supported by a "Stand Up To Cancer" grant to Jordan. About Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of Georgetown University Medical Center and Georgetown University Hospital, seeks to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer through innovative basic and clinical research, patient care, community education and outreach, and the training of cancer specialists of the future. Georgetown Lombardi is one of only 40 comprehensive cancer centers in the nation, as designated by the National Cancer Institute, and the only one in the Washington, DC, area. For more information, go to http://lombardi.georgetown.edu. About Georgetown University Medical Center Georgetown University Medical Center is an internationally recognized academic medical center with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through MedStar Health). GUMC's mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis -- or "care of the whole person." The Medical Center includes the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing & Health Studies, both nationally ranked; Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, designated as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute; and the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization (BGRO), which accounts for the majority of externally funded research at GUMC including a Clinical Translation and Science Award from the National Institutes of Health. In fiscal year 2009-2010, GUMC accounted for nearly 80 percent of Georgetown University's extramural research funding.


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Sasha (Papadopoulos) and his friends are Pontian immigrants whose families left Russia for Greece in the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Workshy and crime-friendly, the troupe's largely nocturnal lives are spent roller-skating, breaking into cars, smoking grass, popping pills and, worse, hawking their wares as rent boys.
While From The Edge Of The City is clearly fiction, Giannaris' unrelentingly bleak depiction of the oppressive lives of a group of youths on the outskirts of Athens has some rooting in documentary, with most of the participants being first-time actors discovered on the streets by the director.
Sickened by the rent boy existence, Sasha takes up the older Giorgos' (Dimitris Papoulidis), a preening pimp, offer to chaperone a beautiful, if desperate Russian hooker, Natasia (played to ice queen precision by Theodora Tzimou). Wide-eyed 17 year-old romantic that he is, he falls in love with her. Naturally, when the older pimp comes looking for his charge in order to sell her on to a pair of out-of-town gangsters, Sasha is faced with the consequences of protecting Natasia.
From The Edge Of The City dabbles in atmospheric film techniques, but for the most part, bleak realism is the order of the day. In this world, the inhabitants are less human traffic and more human cattle.
Even when the nasty side-effects of their lifestyle begin to domino through the characters, From The Edge Of The City avoids moralistic predictability and remains a brave, uncompromising look at a hellish counter-culture.


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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0611 Wednesday, 14 March 2001
Date: Tuesday, 13 Mar 2001 20:26:21 -0500
Subject: Othello in Aleppo
Isaac Asimov in his Guide to Shakespeare remarks: "If Othello killed a
Turk in Aleppo, he was killing him in the midst of a city of Turks and
it is not likely he would have got away alive." Asimov suggests that
Othello was originally a Moslem (when he did the Aleppo murder) who
converted to Christianity later in life.
Shakespeare mentions Aleppo twice, once in Othello (1603-4) and once in
Macbeth (1606). But I guess many people know that. Still the fact that
Shakespeare has Othello kill a Turk in Aleppo seems significant.
Yours, Bill Godshalk


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Feeling confident and prepared regardless of where you chose to give birth is an important factor in increasing the odds of achieving the birth you hope for. Most people would agree that the birth of your child is one of, if not THE most important events in our lives, yet generally people spend more time researching and planning for a wedding, house move or to buy a new car. Birth is unpredictable and therefore there are no solid ways to guarantee where your journey will take you, but the good news is there are lots of things that you can do to stack the odds of a positive experience in your favour.
From NHS run information sessions to NCT antenatal courses, hypnobirthing classes to positive birth story circles there are many options to chose from. There is as much free preparation and support available out there as they're is paid for and it's up to you to see where you feel your energy is best focused as one size does not fit all.
We hope this section will give you a starting point and details of some of the options for preparing for a postive birth.


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Probiotics in the Management of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in HIV-exposed Premature Infants
This study has been completed.
University of Stellenbosch
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Van Niekerk E, Autran CA, Nel DG, Kirsten GF, Blaauw R, Bode L. Human milk oligosaccharides differ between HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected mothers and are related to necrotizing enterocolitis incidence in their preterm very-low-birth-weight infants. J Nutr. 2014 Aug;144(8):1227-33. doi: 10.3945/jn.113.187799. Epub 2014 Jun 11.


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Indiana and Wisconsin Earn Men's Soccer Weekly Awards
Sept. 17, 2012
Park Ridge, Ill. -
Indiana and Wisconsin have earned Big Ten men's soccer weekly honors, it was announced on Monday. Hoosier midfielder Jacob Bushue takes home Offensive Player of the Week accolades, while defender Caleb Konstanski earns Co-Defensive Player of the Week honors. Badger goalkeeper Chase Rau also earns the nod on the defensive end.
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The stubbornly high Australian dollar has had huge effects across the economy and undermined investor returns in international markets. But while the $A is still trading above parity to the US dollar, it has weakened and could be on the cusp of a breakdown.
It would be an overdue relief to our hard-pressed trade-competing industries, and would enhance the attraction of offshore investment.
Locally listed stocks with significant foreign earnings would also do well. Indeed, the Australian equity market tends to prefer $A weakness (provided it is not inflationary) as it's top heavy with exporters rather than importers.
Why the fall? I'm imagining a potential scenario this year where the US economy surprises on the upside – dragging up the still cheap US dollar – as markets warm to speculation of an eventual rise in US interest rates. Meanwhile, due to rising commodity supply and more measured Chinese demand, a stronger US economy might not be enough to boost coal and iron ore export prices. If local interest rates also stay low – to support the transition in growth to the non-mining sectors – it's a recipe for potentially significant $A weakness.
A taste of this came this past week when the Aussie slumped badly, touching $US1.01 before being bid back up to about $US1.02. In turn, this reflected news that China had tightened the screws on the property sector again – a reminder officials are less likely to tolerate the runaway growth which has supported commodity prices.
The $A is at the bottom edge of the $US1.02-1.06 range since August. From a technical perspective, if this support breaks, the next natural support level would be around US96¢ – the low of June last year.
Of course, you may have heard this before. Due to falling local interest rates, weaker commodity prices and the wrenching effects of the high dollar on local industry competitiveness, I've long considered the Aussie as having greater downside than upside risk. I've predicted it would drop below parity last year – and was proven correct, albeit briefly.
The surprise has been the new source of currency support from offshore investors – particularly central banks – seeking high-yielding safe havens in an uncertain world. Traditional valuation models – based on interest rates and commodity prices – have broken down to a degree, and make forecasting more uncertain.
While US interest rates will eventually rise, and commodity prices will likely continue to fall, the remaining pent-up demand for the $A from offshore private fund managers and official investors remains the great unknown.
What we do know is the $A is making life uncomfortable for many trade-exposed sectors, and a cheaper currency seems necessary to smoothly negotiate the end of the mining investment boom.
Indeed, one of the big long-term drivers of currency levels is relative prices between countries – so-called purchasing power parity (PPP). Australia is relatively high-cost: estimates from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) show $US1 of consumer goods produced in the US costs around $1.58 to produce in Australia. For us to be competitive, that suggests the Aussie should be worth around US66¢ – not $US1.02.
Some economists dismiss the PPP concept. But over the very long run, the $A has tracked its PPP level fairly well. Between 1970 and 2000, both averaged around US91¢. The gap between the two is now the largest in at least the last 40 years.
Other cost comparisons are not so onerous, but still suggest the $A is making it hard to compete overseas. Recent Reserve Bank analysis – based on commodity prices and relative interest rates – show the Aussie is between 5 and 15 per cent overvalued.
That's consistent with more quirky measures. According to the Economist's Big Mac index, the cost of a Big Mac in Australia converted into US dollars is $4.90 – compared to $4.37 in the US, suggesting the $A is 12 per cent overvalued.
And beer comparison website pintprice.com says the $A seems 18 per cent overvalued – as it costs about $7.50 for a pint in Australia major cities – $US7.65 at today's exchange rate. That compares to $US6.50 across US major cities.
Should the $A remain stubbornly high even in the face of weaker commodity prices, it will add to the likelihood of the RBA lowering interest rates further this year.
The Australian Financial Review


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Friday Funny: Blame the Architect, The Video
Although first published on YouTube in April, 2011, this video is making the rounds among planners on the Internet.
Blame the Architect is a lecture series by professor Wouter Vanstiphout on the relation between city planning and urban violence, organized by the chair of Design as Politics at the Delft University of Technology.
In this first lecture, the general theme of the series is introduced. The interesting section begins at 10:05 in the video.
From Professor Vanstiphout's lecutre: "Let us examine the riots in the French cities [Les émeutes des banlieues de 2005] in the Autumn 2005. In the outskirts of Paris, riots started that spread... to the outskirts of nearly all French cities. It was a completely new thing. There was a kind of weird discovery that triggered an enormous... preconception... [about] the relationship among planning, crime, poverty, alienation. It turned out that without exception, all these riots happened in post-war modernest, high-rise, public housing complexes. You can image who got the blame... The architect."
Thanks to John Massengale


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Amid protest, Senate revises immigration bill
A Florida Senate panel tinkered with a contentious immigration proposal Monday, speeding through a hearing on the bill without allowing most immigration advocates who had traveled to the Capitol in protest to speak.
The changes made by the Senate Judiciary Committee eased the requirements on local law enforcement to try to enforce federal immigration laws. Opponents of the bill had likened the mandates to an immigration crackdown in Arizona, which they say opened to door to racial profiling.
More than 100 activists, immigrants and their young children from Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Pasco counties packed the meeting to testify against the bill by Sen. Anitere Flores, a Miami Republican.
Full story here.


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Global warming a top priority for Shumlin
01/03/07 12:00AM By Bob Kinzel
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(Host) Lawmakers are back in Montpelier this morning for the opening of the 2007 legislative session.
Property tax reform, health care costs and higher education expenses are some of the top issues they face.
But Senate president elect Peter Shumlin also wants to make global warming a top priority for the Legislature.
VPR's Bob Kinzel reports.
(Kinzel) Shumlin is returning to the top leadership post in the Senate after being out of politics for the past four years.
He previously served as president of the Senate between 1997 and 2002.
Shumlin says there's no question in his mind that finding ways to reduce global warming is the most important challenge facing lawmakers this year:
(Shumlin) "This is going to be the focus of the next generation. Trust me. When you look at the problems like property tax and health care and saving our family farms, all those are incredibly important. But I'll tell you they will be little dwarfs in comparison to this issue."
(Kinzel) Shumlin has scheduled joint hearings for several Senate committees, including Natural Resources, Transportation, Commerce and Agriculture for the first three weeks of the session to study the global warming issue.
He's hoping the committees will draft a plan to promote renewable energy sources as part of the state's long-term energy plan.
Shumlin also wants to attract industries to Vermont that are involved in the development of emerging technologies to help reduce global warming:
(Shumlin) "My view is that Vermont can harvest the economic opportunity from climate change, that if you look at the jobs that have evaded us and the economic opportunities that have moved to Asia and India and Vietnam. You name it. We aren't going to be able to recapture those manufacturing jobs. What we can do is make Vermont one of the meccas for the climate change industry that's going to explode like the technology industry did twenty years ago."
(Kinzel) Shumlin says he's asking lawmakers to wait until the joint hearings are over before they propose any specific climate change legislation - that's because he wants the hearings to focus on a wide range of issues and not get bogged down reviewing the details of any particular bill.
For Vermont Public Radio I'm Bob Kinzel in Montpelier.


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Rudy Gay snapped out of a mini-slump with 22 points as the visiting Memphis Grizzlies continued their winning ways with a 102-84 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday.
Gay, who had just 17 points on 7-for-26 shooting in his last two games, made 8 of 14 shots and also had seven assists and seven rebounds.
Memphis (26-24) outscored Minnesota, 30-16, in the third quarter en route to its seventh victory in eight games. The Grizzlies also have won four of five on the road.
Zach Randolph had 23 points and 13 rebounds for the Grizzlies, who improved to 14-7 this season when their power forward has a 20-10 game. Sam Young added 18 points.
Kevin Love had a quiet 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Timberwolves (11-37), who have lost seven of eight and 12 of 14. Love has 10 or more rebounds in 34 straight games but averages 21.6 points and a league-best 15.6 boards.
The Grizzlies held Love to four rebounds and two points in the first half en route to a 49-41 lead.
Michael Beasley added 19 points for Minnesota, which has lost five of its last six meetings with Memphis. The Wolves fell to 2-34 when allowing 100 or more points.


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Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr. came to prominence under the moniker "Dr. John, the Night Tripper," in the 1960s. His brand of music infused New Orleans inspired funk, jazz, blues, psychedelic rock and rhythm and blues. While a member of the Atlantic Records family, Dr. John released a number of critically acclaimed albums, most notably Gris Gris (1968). His work helped progress the music scenes of that era, blurring the line between pop and folk music and exposing listeners to the musical offerings of less mainstream forms of cultural expression.
Rebennack was born on November 21, 1940, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He began his music career as a session musician in the late 1950s. Originally focusing his sights on playing piano, he quickly moved his focus to guitar due to the fierce competition among piano players in the New Orleans musical community during that time. While still a teenager, his work as a musician began to conflict with his studies in high school. He eventually terminated his studies as a consequence. The nightlife associated with being a working musician eventually led him to a life of drug addiction. To gain a fresh start, Rebennack relocated to Los Angeles in 1963, where he became a first-rate session musician in the local music scene.
After adopting the persona "Dr. John, the Night Tripper" in the 1960s, Rebennack began to make a name for himself as a solo act. His unique style included elaborate stage performances that evoked the spirit of the New Orleans based voodoo culture and spiritual practice. For example, his debut album Gris-Gris, incorporates religious chants along with R&B stylings in an effort to convey the soul of the Bayou, the source of Rebennack's artistic expression. Although the album was not a huge commercial success at the time of release, its appeal grew over the course of the decades. Today it is lauded as one of the top albums of all time.
Today, Dr. John is the recipient of six Grammy Awards and has also been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He also holds an honorary doctorate degree from Tulane University. His music and roots aesthetic continues to be an integral part of pop culture. To learn more about Rebennack's legacy, visit his official website and check out his music on Spotify and iTunes.
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