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A Word in Season
Faith's Eyes See True Reality: Reflections from Chapter One of Lumen Fidei
Note: This is the second in a series of reflections on Francis' first encyclical, Lumen Fidei. The introductory article is here.
All church teaching is based on Scripture, and chapter one of Pope Francis' Lumen Fidei (LF) is no exception; its over-arching theme is from St. John's First Epistle, "We know and believe the love God has for us" (cf. 1 Jn. 4:16). Memorize that verse and you'll have a very good definition of faith in the Christian life. Knowing and believing are the head and heart components of faith.
A powerful secondary theme that chapter one, "We Have Believed in Love," introduces is that when one has faith one has the basis of understanding reality. That is, the "new eyes" of faith detect and experience God and discern the deepest meanings of life. Several selections from chapter one bear this out as it examines the profound history of faith, beginning with our "father in faith," Abraham, and finding its completion in God's Incarnate Son, Jesus Christ.
Abraham, our Father in Faith
God spoke to Abraham, revealing himself "as a God who speaks and calls his name." (LF, 8) This very personal call sets Abraham on a journey to a new homeland.
Abraham does not see God, but hears his voice. Faith thus takes on a personal aspect. God is not the god of a particular place, or a deity linked to specific sacred time, but the God of a person, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, capable of interacting with man and establishing a covenant with him. Faith is our response to a word which engages us personally, to a "Thou" who calls us by name.
...it is a call to leave his own land, a summons to a new life, the beginning of an exodus which points him towards an unforeseen future. The sight which faith would give to Abraham would always be linked to the need to take this step forward: faith "sees" to the extent that it journeys, to the extent that it chooses to enter into the horizons opened up by God's word. (LF 8, 9)
Abraham's faith gave him "sight" for his journey. In faith, we, too, embark on a journey with faith as our true north, the guiding light to move us forward. One surprising "horizon" that faith opened to Abraham was the possibility of fatherhood in his old age.
In the voice which speaks to him, the patriarch recognizes a profound call which was always present at the core of his being. God ties his promise to that aspect of human life which has always appeared most "full of promise," namely, parenthood, the begetting of new life: "Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac" (Gen. 17:19). The God who asks Abraham for complete trust reveals himself to be the source of all life. Faith is thus linked to God's fatherhood, which gives rise to all creation...
For Abraham, faith in God sheds light on the depths of his being, it enables him to acknowledge the wellspring of goodness at the origin of all things and to realize that his life is not the product of non-being or chance, but the fruit of a personal call and a personal love. The mysterious God who called him is no alien deity, but the God who is the origin and mainstay of all that is. (LF, 11)
Pat Gohn is a Catholic writer, speaker, and the host of the Among Women Podcast and blog. Her book Blessed, Beautiful and Bodacious: Celebrating the Gift of Catholic Womanhood is published by Ave Maria Press. Subscribe to "A Word in Season" via email or RSS.


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On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:53:47 -0500, Adam Gibson <agibson at ptm dot com> wrote:
> That price was in USD. Thanks for the info about the WRAP. I noticed
> that ituner.com has the 3 nic WRAP for $146 but I assume I would still
> need to purchase a 233 or 266 MHz Geode CPU?
No, the CPU is non-removable, permanently on the board, and
(obviously) included.
> a case, and a power supply
> from somewhere else.
That is true.
However you can get them all in one place in the US. wisp-router.com
has all of them, and a total of $174 for board, case, and power
supply, and has almost 200 in stock right now.

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Discussion in 'Members Zone' started by chip_gilkey, Jan 7, 2011.
I'm majoring in Accounting, and am going to graduate this August. Woohoo
I went for an Associates in Applied Science and got that a few years ago.
Starting this summer I'm planning to go back and get a Bach. in criminal justice.
Marketing....and now I work for a company that provides Dallas Cowboys Travel Packages. How cool is that?
Check it out... www.cowboyscorral.com :starspin
That's pretty darn cool! Do you ever get to meet anyone associated with the team?
on a side note im surprised to see a few other history majors in here, seeing as its not a "practical" choice for getting a degree in. I guess we can all live in the poor house together :laugh2:
Political Science BS (Biology Minor) Sam Houston State
Basically I am what most companies call a System Administrator at a Children's Hospital
Intend to go for Business Management.
I'm a janitor at the most prestigeous technological institute in the world, MIT. Sometimes professors write complex equations on a black board, and when no one is around I like to annonymously solve them.
How do ya like them apples?
That's so awesome. :laugh2:
Boom goes the dynamite
Yes sir, quite a few players, coaches and brass. It's my dream job.......well besides being a race car driver.
Political Science (Political Theory and Leadership Studies) at Williams College, graduating in a couple of weeks actually.
I went to college for electrical engineering but ended up majoring their beer program.
Sam Houston State (1 year junior college)
Political Science (Minor: Biology)
I have an Associates Degree in Applied Science that allows me to make more money as a drafter, when I'm actually working as a drafter.
I'm planning to go back to school this fall to get a degree in Criminal Justice so I can use it with either security, or as a cop, or something in the law enforcement area.
Bach of Science in Economics from Louisiana Tech University
B.A. in English and History
M.A. in English
Bachelors in Biology or Business Administration (still deciding)
Masters in Healthcare Administration/Public Health
extreme oragami.
hmm this is my first time seeing this thread. good work everyone.
i have a bachelors in criminal justice.


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Did Voters Give Republicans a Mandate for More War?
Everybody knows that the recent election was all about the economy, right?
Nobody would claim that American voters just gave Republicans a mandate for more war, would they?
Republican Senator John McCain said on Tuesday in the wake of big Republican victories in Congress that he hopes President Barack Obama will take a fresh look at U.S. war policy in Afghanistan. McCain won re-election to his Arizona Senate seat by a large margin, ensuring he will retain have a strong voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee as its ranking Republican member.
In an interview, McCain told Reuters he was looking forward to a December review the Obama administration is preparing to give an update on the U.S. troop increase Obama ordered a year ago to try to repulse a strengthened Taliban.
McCain, who is expected to visit Afghanistan soon, said he would like to see a change in Obama's decision to begin withdrawing some U.S. troops from Afghanistan next August.
The world would be a better place if one could just ignore things like this. But as Reuters points out, McCain is ranking member on Senate Armed Services, in addition to being the 2008 Republican presidential nominee. Two axioms of politics in America are: 1) you can't ignore a dangerous political claim, just because it's nonsensical, and 2) you can't wait for a nonsensical and dangerous political claim to gain momentum before moving to quash it, because it's like a highly infectious disease: you have to stamp it out immediately before it takes root in the population.
A Progressive Primary to Push for Jobs and End the Wars
It's bad enough that we lost progressive champions like Russ Feingold, and that the leadership and committees of the House will be taken over by advocates of domestic austerity and endless war. In addition, the airwaves and print media will now be filled with pundits saying that the lesson of the election is that Obama must move to the right and cut the budget, except the military. But the worst thing we must now face is that the 2010 election is likely a preview of 2012, unless at least one of two things happen: decisive federal action to boost economic growth and employment, now much more difficult to achieve than before, and some dramatic new element is introduced into our national politics that changes the character of national debate.
Jonathan Chait pointed out last week that based on the state of the economy, historical trends predicted a Democratic loss of more than 40 seats, enough for Republicans to take the House. In other words, on average, based on historical trends, the fate of the election was sealed when the Obama Administration proposed and Congress enacted an economic stimulus package that was much too small to counter the fall in domestic demand resulting from the collapse of the housing bubble. Everything else that happened in the election has to be judged according to the baseline expectation of the Democrats losing at least 40 seats - enough to lose the House - due to the failure to restore economic growth and employment with a sufficient stimulus to counteract the fall in private economic demand.
Is the Pentagon Deliberately "Degrading" Afghanistan's Capacity for Peace?
On Wednesday, the Washington Post carried a remarkable article reporting that according to U.S. government assessments, the U.S. military escalation in Afghanistan has failed.
The Post's Greg Miller reported that
An intense military campaign aimed at crippling the Taliban has so far failed to inflict more than fleeting setbacks on the insurgency
Miller explains why this is so:
Escalated airstrikes and special operations raids have disrupted Taliban movements and damaged local cells. But officials said that insurgents have been adept at absorbing the blows and that they appear confident that they can outlast an American troop buildup set to subside beginning next July.
"The insurgency seems to be maintaining its resilience," said a senior Defense Department official involved in assessments of the war. Taliban elements have consistently shown an ability to "reestablish and rejuvenate," often within days of routed by U.S. forces, the official said, adding that if there is a sign that momentum has shifted, "I don't see it."
So, since the policy of military escalation has failed, according to the U.S. government's own assessments, we should expect that in December, when President Obama promised that the policy will be reviewed, we should see a fundamental change in policy. Right?
But, according to the same Washington Post report, "no major change in strategy is expected in December."
How could it be, that the policy has failed, according to official U.S. government assessments, and yet no change is expected when the promised review occurs?
The Taliban Might Negotiate, Even If They Think They're Winning
You can't follow U.S. print media coverage of the war in Afghanistan for any length of time without running into some variation of the following assertion:
"The Taliban Will Never Negotiate, As Long As They Think They're Winning."
No serious effort is usually made to substantiate this claim, which is asserted as if it were a self-evident truth. What you generally don't see, reading the newspapers, is a sentence that looks like this:
"The Taliban will never negotiate, as long as they think they're winning, and the reason that we know this is...."
Yet, if you look back over the course of the last year, the assertion that "the Taliban will never negotiate, as long as they think they're winning" is a very important claim. Why did the U.S. send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan last year? Because "the Taliban will never negotiate, as long as they think they're winning." Why are we killing innocents today in Kandahar? "Because the Taliban will never negotiate, as long as they think they're winning."
A claim that is a key buttress of life and death decisions about people we have never met and know little about and who have no say in our decisions, and yet which has never been substantiated, is a claim that deserves sustained scrutiny.
How could it be a self-evident truth that "the Taliban will never negotiate, as long as they think they're winning?" Logically, two possibilities present themselves:
1) It is an immutable fact of human nature that no party engaged in a conflict ever negotiates as long as they think they're winning. The US never negotiates as long as it thinks it is winning; Britain never has; France never has; no guerilla army or insurgent movement ever has.
Restore Sanity? Jon Stewart Gave Senator Coburn a Bum Rap on Haiti Aid
Like many Americans, I have a great deal of sympathy with the thrust of Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity on October 30. It's bad enough that the debasement of public discourse is unpleasant, and encourages some Americans to want to withdraw from politics completely; but the debasement of public discourse is also a major obstacle to enacting policies that America needs.
If you think, for example, that endless war in Afghanistan is not in America's interest, and that we would be better off seriously pursuing a negotiated political solution with leaders of the Afghan Taliban and with countries in the region including Pakistan and Iran, it's not in your interest to have a political environment where someone can essentially shut down your voice by accusing you of wanting to "cut and run," or of being "soft on terrorism," or of "not caring about Afghan women." Such a political environment is a mandate for endless war. The debasement of public discourse has been a major obstacle to ending the war in Afghanistan.
This week the New York Times reported that serious efforts towards "talks about talks" have begun between the Afghan government and leaders of the Afghan Taliban. This and similar reports have sparked significant debate: are these developments really significant, or are they being hyped? Are Taliban leaders of sufficient rank being included to make the talks meaningful? Is Mullah Omar, leader of the main branch of the Afghan Taliban, being excluded? Is Pakistan being excluded? If key players remain excluded, won't that be likely to sink the talks?
Britain's Budget Cuts - Will the Bell Toll For Us?
This week, the British government announced plans to cut its military personnel by 10 percent, scrap 40 percent of the army's artillery and tanks, and withdraw all of its troops from Germany within 10 years, the New York Times reports. The plan will involve a cut of about 8 percent in real terms in Britain's annual defense budget, significantly less than the 10 to 20 percent cuts that were under discussion. The Times attributes the reduced military cuts, in part, to US government pressure.
The reduced cuts in military spending are expected to lead to increased cuts in domestic spending:
The more modest scale of the military cutbacks placed extra strain on the government's overall effort to save more than $130 billion through spending cutbacks by 2015, a commitment that will require other government departments to make cutbacks averaging 25 percent. [my emphasis]
This what we have to look forward to with a Republican Congress: demands for budget cuts from which military spending is largely spared and which therefore will fall on domestic spending, like Social Security.
For a DREAMy, Wartime, National Service Draft
Recently, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been sounding the alarm about the fact that the burden of "our" wars is being disproportionately borne by a very small slice of the population: soldiers and their families.
Like, I am sure, many Americans, I have sharply conflicted feelings about this.
One the one hand: I strongly agree with Secretary Gates that the burden is disproportionately falling on a few, and that this is unjust, and I am glad that he is trying to use his position to call attention to this injustice and urge that it be remedied.
On the other hand: they are not my wars. I did not vote for them, I did not and I do not support them. I have worked with others to end them; obviously, my companions and I have not yet succeeded in this endeavor, but going forward, I am more seized with the urgency of ending the wars than with the urgency of spreading the pain more fairly while they continue.
Moreover, I am not a little irritated that my opinions, and those of my companions, are systematically marginalized when major decisions about the wars are made, but we are then urged to more fully share the sacrifices resulting from the decisions into which we were told that our input was not welcome.
Secretary Gates is surely aware of the paradox of his position: he bemoans the fact that the burden of the wars falls disproportionately on a few, but he is well aware that the fact that the burden falls disproportionately on a few is a policy choice that has been made by his colleagues with the goal of facilitating war politically.
If we allow ourselves to consider all possible remedies to the problem posed by Secretary Gates, including those that are politically absurd, an obvious solution presents itself: reinstate the military draft.
But this is a dead letter politically. The Pentagon doesn't want it; Congress will never approve it.
The Washington Post Wants Your Social Security to Pay for the War
For the Washington Post, there's no such thing as a war that America can't afford.
In an editorial today, the Washington Post takes President Obama to task for being concerned about the cost of the war in Afghanistan and the fact that it conflicts with domestic priorities. That the Washington Post, a knee-jerk supporter of war for empire, would slam President Obama for this is the opposite of surprising. Nonetheless, what the Washington Post actually said in its editorial is still breathtaking:
Mr. Obama repeatedly cites the cost of the war and the need to shift resources to domestic priorities -- though spending on Afghanistan is well below 1 percent of U.S. gross domestic product.
We have been led to believe that official Washington is seized with urgency about long-term projections of U.S. budget deficits. Yet here is the Washington Post, downplaying the cost of the war in Afghanistan on the grounds that it is "well below 1 percent" of U.S. GDP.
Logically, there are two possibilities.
One possibility is that the Washington Post is saying that in the future, we can ignore any government expenditure or savings that amounts to less than 1% of U.S. GDP as being too small to bother about.
The other possibility is that according to the Washington Post there are two standards for judging costs. One standard is for war, in which an expenditure of less than 1% of GDP is too small to bother about. The other standard is for domestic spending that benefits the majority of Americans, in which a reduction of government expenditure of less than 1% of GDP is something that should be seriously considered.
Can the U.S. Negotiate Peace in Afghanistan?
A major contribution of the "inside experts" Afghanistan Study Group report (read here ; send to your reps in Congress here), released last week to spur Washington debate towards de-escalating the war at the next fork in the road is that its very first recommendation is this:
1. Emphasize power-sharing and political inclusion.
The U.S. should fast-track a peace process designed to decentralize power within Afghanistan and encourage a power-sharing balance among the principal parties.
Predictably, there appear to have been two principal objections so far to this proposal:
1. Oh my God. How dare you suggest that the U.S. should support a peace deal with the Afghan insurgency. You must be some kind of amoral monster.
2. Ho hum. Nothing new here. Everyone already knows this. Why do you tax our patience by stating the obvious as if it were a profound revelation? This is already Administration policy. Move along, nothing to see here.
It should go without saying that these two objections are, as a matter of logic, mutually exclusive. A real peace process leading to a new political dispensation in Afghanistan that ends the civil war could be the worst idea in human history, or it could be a commonplace that everyone already knows and is already Administration policy. But it cannot be both.
Why Peaceniks Should Care About the Afghanistan Study Group Report
There is a tradition among some peace activists of striking a pose of annoyed indifference to the question of how to get out of an unpopular war. "There are three ways to get out," goes one waggish response. "Air, land, and sea."
This is funny and emotionally satisfying, and also represents a truth for peace activists: ending the war is a first principle, not something contingent on whether a particular means of doing so satisfies someone else's notion of what is practical.
On the other hand, peace activists can't be satisfied with being right; they also are morally compelled to try to be effective. And part of being effective is giving consideration to, and seeking to publicize, arguments are likely to end the war sooner rather than later. It's not likely, for example, that discussing ways in which the war might be useful for the long-term maintenance of the "capitalist world system" will turn the Washington debate against war in the short run. If, on the other hand, central to the official story is a claim that the war is a war against Al Qaeda, but senior U.S. officials publicly concede that there is no significant Al Qaeda presence today in Afghanistan, that is certainly a fact worth knowing and spreading.


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 22/11/2013 (1342 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The Kilcona Park Dog Club has changed its position on the plans to revamp Kilcona Park.
In an interview at an open house on Nov. 6, club president Donna Henry said, "On balance it's, I'm not going to say right, but it's pretty good."
However, Henry said she received over 50 phone calls from club members in the days after the open houses on Nov. 6 and Nov. 10.
"Other people had an opportunity to look at it, I guess, in more detail than I did," Henry said. "There are a lot of complaints coming in about what the plan is."
As part of the proposed plan, the dog park's off-leash boundaries are slated to change. The park is set to be fenced off, and members will lose access to the pond trails that are currently part of the northeast part of the dog park.
"There's no other sheltered spot to walk in the entire park," Henry said. "Dog owners won't have access to pond trails in the wintertime, so essentially what will happen is they'll be contained in the landfill area, but there aren't any trees there.
"I don't know why the city wouldn't give people access to the ponds in the winter. As far as I know, there are no plans for winter use."
Henry said the landfill hill is too windswept to use in the winter, and the trails do not get plowed.
Though the dog park is losing some of its area in the northeast, it will be gaining some land to the south of its current location. However, Henry said dog owners won't be able to access the new area until the sports fields that are currently on the site are moved to their new site in the park.
Project manager Rob Zanewich stressed dog walkers are still allowed to access the ponds — but dogs must be leashed and picked up after. He also noted that plans to change the boundaries are still three to six years away, and the sports fields would likely be moved before the dog park boundaries are changed.
As well, the project, expected to be completed over 10 to 15 years over two phases, still needs to secure its funding before proceeding.
He added the off-leash area is allotted approximately 40% of the usable land in the park, and in the proposal, the size is approximately 20% larger than the Kildonan Park Golf Course.
"We realize that the dog park, the off-leash area, is the most-used area of the park at this point. We're hoping to bring many more people into the site," he said. "They've got a good portion of the park."
Henry said the new treed areas that will be added to the park are too small to compensate for the loss of access to the pond trails. She also expressed disappointment that though there will be new paved trails in the park, the bulk of trails in the dog park itself will still be unpaved.
"Disabled dog owners are saying there seems to be a real bias in the plan," Henry said.
Zanewich said the dog park will have some paved trails on the west side, and other added areas will make the park more accessible.
"Both the area to the south and the area to the west were considered (for inclusion) because they provide an accessible area for dog use," Zanewich said. "Those who might have difficulty climbing the hill to the off-leash area will have more of an accessible area down on the south side and west side of the park."
Henry said she believes there are some positives to the plan as well, but must be conscious of what members desire.
Zanewich said the proposal is not set in stone, and the city is still accepting feedback from residents until Nov. 29. For more information on the project, visit http://winnipeg.ca/ppd/planning/KilconaParkHarbourviewRecreationComplex/default.stm
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Spacers for M??
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Just upgraded to an M about 2 weeks ago. WIth winter coming up i want to tuck the 19's away and throw on the 17' winter set-up i had on my 330ci but im not sure what size spacers i need to clear the breaks or if i need spacers in both front and back. Also i have csl m3 brakes* installed which adds to the confusion. Here are pics of the 19's and the 17' asa's i want to replace them with(all 4 rims are 7.5 inch's wide and all 4 tires are 205/50/17) Any help will be appreciated. Thanks:thumbsup:
you might be SOL with clearance on the CSL rotors and 17s. 17s barely cleared the OEM size as I recall...
Testfit and look?
Brakes, not breaks.
Test fit. If they clear, go to the hardware store and pick up a bunch of large nuts and washers to space the wheel out. You can get away with putting them on 3 points on the wheel. Get the car off the ground, bolt the wheel up with different combinations of washers and and nuts until you get proper clearances. Measure the thickness.
So if they do fit purchasing spacers from let's say.. bimmian wouldn't suffice?
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Select Committee on GRAS Substances (SCOGS) Opinion: Ferrous sulfate
The GRAS Substances (SCOGS) Database allows access to opinions and conclusions from 115 SCOGS reports published between 1972-1980 on the safety of over 370 Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) food substances. The GRAS ingredient reviews were conducted by the Select Committee in response to a 1969 White House directive by President Richard M. Nixon.
Ferrous sulfate
- SCOGS-Report Number: 35*
- Type Of Conclusion: 2
- ID Code: 7720-78-7
- Year: 1980
- 21 CFR Section: 184.1315 (1988)
SCOGS Opinion:
The body content of iron in the normal individual is regulated primarily by absorptive processes. Relatively small amounts of iron are absorbed when body stores of iron are high, and relatively large amounts when body stores are low. This regulation of iron absorption is faulty in individuals with the metabolic disorder, hemochromatosis.
Although hemochromatosis is generally considered a rare, genetically transmitted disorder, several investigators believe that a latent form of hemochromatosis may be much more common. In Sweden, where food fortification with iron is at a higher level than in the United States, and where medicinal iron supplements are widely consumed, investigators reported several cases of hemochromatosis and iron overload in a sparsely populated district. The significance of these findings suggest that it is possible that a significant number of apparently normal and unidentified individuals might be at risk of developing liver damage from intakes of iron which are innocuous and, in fact, probably beneficial for the population at large.
It should be noted that in the United States (and probably in other industrialized countries), individuals ingesting large amounts of iron may achieve these intakes through regular consumption or iron supplements. For these individuals, food fortification contributes a relatively small fraction of total intake. The question of total intake of iron by the U.S. population and its relation to chronic iron toxicity merit further study. Monitoring of the population with respect to iron nutritional status is essential. The estimated per capita intake of 5 mg per day obtained from food fortification comprises more than one-third the total iron intake for much of the population.
Iron deficiency is a leading nutritional problem in the United States. Intakes of iron are below recommended levels for a large fraction of the population. Hence, it is evident that an increase in iron fortification of selected foods could be an important public health measure.
The form of iron utilized to fortify foods should be of adequate bioavailability. Iron forms evaluated in this report which appear to be adequately bioavailable are elemental iron (reduced, electrolytic, carbonyl), ferrous ascorbate, ferrous citrate, ferrous fumarate, ferrous gluconate, ferrous lactate, ferrous sulfate, ferric ammonium citrate, ferric chloride, and ferric citrate. In contrast, the bioavailability of ferrous carbonate, ferrous oxide, ferric oxide, ferric phosphate, ferric pyrophosphate, or ferric sodium pyrophosphate is relatively low compared with ferrous sulfate. Insufficient data are available to judge the relative bioavailability of the other iron preparations considered in this report.
Experimental data are sparse for most of the forms of iron considered in this report. Animal studies have been largely confined to determination of the acute toxicity and bioavailability of specific iron forms. Such studies have limited relevance in evaluating the possible hazards of the addition of iron to foods. Few reports are available on the effects of long-term feeding experiments. An extensive literature exists on the use of certain forms given as hematinics, but the reports are largely anecdotal and their interpretation is of questionable value. Certain compounds have been employed extensively for many years both as additions to food and in the treatment of iron deficiency with no reported adverse effects. In view of the need for, and wide use of, iron compounds, it would appear prudent to place this historical and anecdotal experience on a scientifically rigorous basis in the reasonably near future. The Select Committee emphasizes the need for well-controlled chronic feeding studies with most of the individual compounds, before confident appraisal can be made of their relative merits or hazards.
In the light of the above considerations, the Select Committee concludes that:
There is no evidence in the available information on reduced, electrolytic, and carbonyl iron, ferrous ascorbate, ferrous carbonate, ferrous citrate, ferrous fumarate, ferrous gluconate, ferrous lactate, ferrous sulfate, ferric ammonium citrate, ferric citrate, ferric phosphate, or ferric pyrophosphate, that demonstrates or suggests reasonable grounds to suspect a hazard to the public when they are used at levels that are now current and in the manner now practiced, or if deemed necessary at somewhat higher levels to meet nutritional needs. However, it is not possible to determine without additional data whether a major increase in consumption would constitute a dietary hazard.
*Complete reports containing details of the safety studies that formed the basis of the opinions and conclusions and are available from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161 (703) 605-6000.


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We gladly share it with others.
Bernese foundation for cancer suffering children and adolescents
Christmas 2016
Cancer can tear apart families and be very wearing for the loved ones, especially when it is concerning children. The bernese foundation for cancer suffering children and adolescents supports the concerned and their families in all parts of the life – in hospitals, at home, in school and in everyday life. The foundation supports the families in all the stages of the illness, starting from the diagnosis till long term care. Furthermore, the foundation helps with financing research projects and thus allows to increase the healing chances of the treated persons. The subsidized projects target to improve the quality of the life of the children and their families and also help to psychologically support the relatives.
mimacom thanks the bernese foundation for cancer suffering children and adolescents for their valuable work and supports the organization with CHF 5'000.00.
Christmas 2015
Accidents and diseases affecting children demand a different treatment compared to adults. Children and adolescents react differently to medications and the diseases progress in another way. Furthermore, these medical therapies are often not cost covering. To counter these financial difficulties, the fundraising organization batzebär has been founded by the pediatric clinics of the universities and the emergency center for children of the university Bern five years ago.
mimacom decided to support this impressive project in order to make the suffering of the children at least a bit more endurable. Therefore, this year's Christmas donation in the amount of 5'000 Swiss francs goes to batzebär.
Building a Future
Christmas 2014
The non-profit organization (NPO) "Building a Future" is serving the disadvantaged and vulnerable children and youth in Barkly West, South Africa. For the last 18 years this work has been based on the principle of "helping people help themselves". the organisation has the following three legs for service delivery to children and young people:
- Action Team: Children (6-12 years)
- Rising Stars: Teens and Youth (12-35 years)
- Mzansi Youth Center: Extension of the project in the form of a youth center
The work involves various activities, projects and workshops that serve as tools for education, health, furthering skills and personal growth.
We are impressed by their commitment and made a donation of 5000 CHF to finance the construction of a youth center to change the lives of children and young adults in need, in a positive way.


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Helping out with a voter registration drive during a Day of Action is a great way to participate in the political process. Whether you are a seasoned campaign worker or political novice, this is a fun and satisfying way to help make a difference. Don't miss this opportunity to join other supporters and help make sure our voices are heard when we send President Obama back to the White House.


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The solar light popped on in the head of bookstore co-owner Trudy Mills last year while she was riding her bike down a car-free street.
For pizzeria/bar owner Tony Vaccaro, solar interest has been simmering since he saw solar panels on an acquaintance's house when he was growing up in suburban Long Island, N.Y.
Now, Mills and Vaccaro have taken their North Fourth Avenue businesses in Tucson 100 percent solar.
Vaccaro installed huge solar panels that double as towering parking-lot-shade structures last month for his adjoining Brooklyn Pizza and Sky Bar businesses. The businesses already were drawing 40 percent of their electricity from the sun and had been using some solar since 2008.
Mills had a more conventional PV panel rooftop system installed at Antigone Books over the past few months. It went online last week.
Taking advantage of large state tax credits, federal grants, income tax depreciation and utility rebates, the business owners are paying installation costs they say are affordable. They can be paid back in three to 3 1/2 years, according to Technicians for Sustainability, the Tucson solar company that installed the systems - although Vaccaro says it may take up to seven years. The various incentives cover more than 80 percent of the systems' upfront costs, says Technicians for Sustainability.
The businesses will still have to draw off the regular electric grid at nights. But the owners say they'll be producing enough energy when the sun shines to have a surplus to sell back to the grid. That makes them "net zero" electric consumers to Tucson Electric Power.
Technicians for Sustainability and owners of three other leading Tucson-area solar installers - the Solar Store, Geoinnovation LLC and American Solar - said they haven't installed any other 100 percent solar systems in a business.
Mills said that as she biked down University Boulevard last year in the Cyclovia event, in which five miles of road were kept car-free, she came across a Technicians for Sustainability booth and started talking solar with people in it.
"We're always thinking about trying to be decent citizens, but solar seemed relatively huge and unaffordable," Mills recalled Tuesday. "But this was shockingly painless to do. I thought it would be more expensive, and I thought it would be a huge hassle, and it wasn't."
"We're also lucky - we own our own building. We're not doing it for a landlord," the Antigone Books co-owner added.
When Vaccaro saw solar panels at age 12, he didn't know such things existed but was extremely impressed by their ability to draw free energy, he said. Now, 30 years later, installing the panels makes sense for environmental reasons, he said.
"Fossil fuels are clearly polluting and changing our environment in a negative way," Vaccaro said Tuesday. "It's an ethical issue - we need to take care of what we have."
According to the Technicians for Sustainability firm, Antigone's solar system costs $71,436, with $60,721 covered by rebates, incentives and grants, leaving the bookstore with $10,715 in net costs. Assuming about $3,000 annually in electric bill savings, this system will pay for itself in three and a half years, said Mills.
The Sky Bar-Brooklyn Pizza systems cost close to $550,000 originally, but barely $100,000 after rebates and incentives, says Technicians for Sustainability.
Bruce Plenk, solar energy coordinator of the city of Tucson, said he hopes these solar systems will inspire other businesses in that area to install their own systems. Not long ago, an office strip-center owner in the 2000 block of East Broadway installed solar panels on his roof, and two other neighboring businesses had followed suit within six months, Plenk said.
"This is the wave of the future here today," he said.
If you go
Solar power celebrations:
• For Brooklyn Pizza and Sky Bar, 534 N. Fourth Ave.: 2 p.m. today.
• For Antigone Books, 411 N. Fourth Ave.: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 27.
• In 2010, Tucson Electric Power added more than 950 solar home systems and about 20 solar commercial systems.
• By the end of 2010, 1,876 homes and 74 businesses in the TEP service area had photovoltaic solar systems.
Contact reporter Tony Davis at email@example.com or 806-7746.


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24 stations hearing me on 500kHz
This evening I received a WSPR spot report from F4EMV who is 433kms to the south of me. Yesterday I had one from F0DVZ. This brings the number of different stations reporting my signals on 500kHz to 24 (22 on the WSPR database and 2 others).
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- Mike, AA1TJ said...
Fantastic results there, Roger! It boggles the mind to think your ERP is below 500uW. Keep up the good work, OM!
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13Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters,* that the world hates you. 14We know that we have passed from death to life because we love one another. Whoever does not love abides in death. 15All who hate a brother or sister* are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them. 16We know love by this, that he laid down his life for usand we ought to lay down our lives for one another. 17How does Gods love abide in anyone who has the worlds goods and sees a brother or sister* in need and yet refuses help?
18 Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. 19And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him 20whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
The New Revised Standard Version (Anglicized Edition), copyright 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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All-V's sub shop reopens on Eighth Avenue with new owners
All-V's, a 45-year-old sandwich shop that was forced to close earlier this year, reopened this week with new owners, Karen Jacobs and her son, John.
"We are alive and well and slinging the best darn sandwiches in Denver," Karen Jacobs said in an e-mail. The family promises that the sandwiches and their ingredients, from steak to avocado to turkey and cheese, will stay the same.
See also: The venerable All-V's sandwich shop gets new owners, a new lease on life
The family bought the restaurant at auction in March after it was seized from the previous owners in February for nonpayment of taxes. A note in the window to loyal customers from those previous owners read:
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The Phillies were looking for a veteran bat to add to their bench for the final month of the season and found one they liked in Giants' outfielder Michael Tucker. With the Giants trying to take a look at young players, Tucker was expendable and his exit creates room for Jason Ellison to return from AAA. The arrival of Randy Winn in San Francisco also cut into Tucker's playing time and he got just 41 at bats over the last month. The price was minor league pitcher Kelvin Pichardo, who was 8-7 showed progress in his second season in the Gulf Coast League, going 3-2, 4.17 in ten games (nine starts). Pichardo is just 19 and is a better than average prospect for down the road. To help ease the pain of losing Pichardo, the Phillies will also receive $50,000 as part of the deal.
The 34 year old Tucker is a career .257 hitter who has played for the Royals, Braves, Reds, Cubs and Giants. He hit a career high .283 in 138 games with Atlanta in 1997 and was hitting .240 in 104 games with San Francisco this season. "He's a veteran bat off the bench. He's a guy who can drive the ball," said Phillies' assistant general manager Ruben Amaro, Jr. "It's nice to be able to have a guy who's a professional hitter, a guy who's been around the league and understands that role. We think he's going to help us."
Giants' manager Felipe Alou hated to see Tucker leave his club. "Tucker, what a gentleman he is in the clubhouse, airplane and everywhere he goes," said Alou. "It had nothing to do with anything or anybody in particular. It was the club making a move."
Tucker will give the Phillies a little power off the bench and add some speed as well. He can play all three outfield positions, but will be relied upon primarily as a pinch-hitter.


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Balance Edit
Seems severely unbalanced to me. Let's take a sample character--a Crusader. They're in full plate, so their dex is around 12, and they add their charisma to Will so they have a low Wisdom modifier. First they take things that would hurt them: Magic Magnet, since their touch AC is virtually never going to be high enough to compete with touch attacks, Weak Mind since they don't use their Wisdom for Will saves anyway, and Slow Body since at most they're getting +1 to Reflex from dex anyway. That basically gives us 6 points without any real weaknesses that hurt us severely, for which we can get +6 to two ability scores for the case of this example. Alternatively, they could take Ageless (+3 to all mental stats) as well as +4 to one stat to get a total of +13 to stats, taking no real penalties for these bonuses. Just doesn't seem balanced at all. --Ghostwheel 05:54, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
- This is being discussed in chat, I will reply once a conclusion is came to in there. → Rith (talk) 06:17, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
- Another possibility might be to limit the "penalty" points to a max of 2, which would limit characters to less free stuff without it costing as far as xp and such goes.
- Also, for ability points, I'd make it cost +1 the last cost, so 1 p for +2 in an ability, 3 p (1+2) for +4 in an ability, and 6 p (1+2+3) for +6 in an ability.
- Finally, instead of losing experience (which can be broken, as per the Experience is a River thread on the wotc boards) or gold (makes it so CWBL might be broken-ish, doesn't matter at higher levels) I'd make it straight LA, which can be bought off in games where LA buyoff is used, and not where DMs prefer not to use it. --Ghostwheel 06:27, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
- Dude, first off, you shouldn't be so blunt, it pisses people off. Secondly, I'll admit that this template may be slightly off, but I've already made a few edits to it, and more are coming. For future reference, I can be found in the chat if you would like to speak with me. → Rith (talk) 06:42, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry for appearing blunt--it's hard for me to constructively criticise someone else's work without trying to explain my point of view. I'll try to be better about it in the future though. I also posted in here because I wanted to take a few minutes to organize my thoughts, something that can't really be done in the blow-by-blow in the chat. Though if you don't want criticism on your stuff, just lemme know and I'll not say another word about it. --Ghostwheel 06:56, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
- No no, if it wasn't for critism, nothing would ever improve. It's just that you used very extreme words that made it seem as though you didn't beleive the template could be helped, and made me rather angry. Just, in the future, choose your words more carefully. → Rith (talk) 14:03, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
That Big List Edit
It is mostly as it was posted on the chat. Removed names and fixed a couple posting errors here and there. Anyways, here is that big list:
- Inability to exist in daylight
- Exposure to negative energy/positive energy [bad]
- Always fail saves against poison/save penalties against poison or disease
- Half AC
- Half Natural Healing rate
- Reroll successful saves [bad]
- -2 on all saves: names... Hopeless, Error Prone... Unlucky
- reroll all confirmed confirmation rolls on critical hits [bad]
- Retinis Pigmentosa: Your eyesight is extremely narrowed. You can only perceive by means of sight in a line in front of you. Spot checks against creatures or objects outside of your line of vision automatically fail, etc. Pinhole Vision
- Skills cost 2 points per rank
- Bludgeoning damage doubled
- Everything has DR5/- for you
- Weapons count as a size smaller for damage
- Charisma is halved for purpose of qualifying for spells
- You get no bonus spells
- Your AoE effects and spells have half that distance. In additin, you have no reach even with a reach weapon.
- NPC's will regard you as indifferent at the best, unfriendly at start. Treat all NPC interactions as one lowerthan they are.
- Anything with an Int of 2 or less flees from you, unless attacked.
- Store owners don't like you and charge you double cost for items...
- Unloved: Members of the opposite sex will treat you as unfriendly at best.
- Ill-fated: -1 to ALL rolls you make.
- Muzzle: You lose all natural attacks, including bite, tail, claw, and wing attacks.
- Permanent Negative Level (Note, cannot be removed. ECL 1 characters don't die from it. Doesn't actually result in level lose.) well, its like, a permanent unremovable curse or something, and I forget all the effects of negative levels.
- Split Personality: Pick two types of personality, one taking a minus to charisma and the other to Wisdom. Roll a d100 at the beginning of each day to see what type you are.
- Don't allow Slow Footed, Slow Body, or Weak Mind to be taken if you have negative ability score modifiers. as written, you can take them with negative ability score modifiers and not actually lose anything or — ability modifiers.
Hope you find some use out of any of that.--Ganteka Future 20:56, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
- Okay, I've got a few idea's now. I've narrowed down the list and changed a few things so that all of them detriment all characters (to the best of my knowledge):
- Cannot exist within in direct light, or you die (mechanical workings to be detailed). cost:−4p
- Cannot exist outside some form of light, or you die (mechanical workings to be detailed). cost:−4p
- Any and all hit points recovered (whether from a negative energy effect, a positive energy effect, or rest) is split in half (rounded down). cost:−3p
- How would this work with Lesser Vigor? --Ghostwheel 05:45, September 11, 2009 (UTC)
- Take a penalty on all saves equal to (1 + ¼ HD). cost:−3p
Any and all damage you deal, to anyone, from any source, be it a spell or a melee attack, is reduced by an ammount equal to your HD. cost:−2p
- How about spellcasters who don't deal damage? (God wizards and such) --Ghostwheel 05:45, September 11, 2009 (UTC)
- All damage dealt to you is doubled. cost:−5p
- I like this one ^_^ --Ghostwheel 05:45, September 11, 2009 (UTC)
- Take a penalty to all rolls you make equal to (1 + ⅛ HD). cost:−5p
- Same as the spellcaster one, those who don't roll too many rolls --Ghostwheel 05:45, September 11, 2009 (UTC)
- At the beginning of each day, roll 1d2. On a roll of 1, you gain no benefits from this template for the day, still taking penalties however. At the beginning of the next day, you roll again. cost:−3p
- Nice! --Ghostwheel 05:45, September 11, 2009 (UTC)
- Now then, do these penalties seem appropriate for the the p value given at the end of each one? (Also, I'd perfer that all numeric penalties scale, given that the numeric benifits of this template scale as well.) → Rith (talk) 05:37, September 11, 2009 (UTC)
- For the most part, yes, though the exist within/without light feels slightly off, since either there's never going to be a problem with it (everburning torch or w/e) or they'll automatically die the first time it occurs--unless perhaps there's a save every round with scaling DCs according to character level? --Ghostwheel 05:45, September 11, 2009 (UTC)
- Well, for the light/no light ones, yes, it would be tricky. I'd would have a save DC each round to survive, of course, and would prolly include ways to avoid the fact, such as converring every inch of your skin with black shawls, or enchanting a pebble with the 'light' spell, and wrapping it up in a bandage that presses it against your skin. Of course, I would also include autofailures, such as darkness spells of a level X always dealing Xd6 damage to you if you are caught within the range of them, or something. Then there would also be the issue of shadowy illumination (was thinking of fatigue while you are in it for both). Opinions/comments/ways to make these ideas better? → Rith (talk) 20:52, September 11, 2009 (UTC)
- Need to cast permanancy on the 'light' spell. Other than that, I think there you have a good addition. Ben Overon 23:27, November 12, 2010 (UTC)


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Digos City
Digos City is a 3rd class city in the province of Davao del Sur, Philippines. It is the capital city of Davao del Sur. The city lies on the eastern shores of Davao Gulf on the island of Mindanao. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 125,171 people in 26,306 households.
In 2000, Digos was converted into a city. [1]
Facts and figures
- Land area :287.1 km².
- Total population (As of May 2000) : 125,171
- Number of households : 29,450
- Population density : 486/km².
- Number of barangays : 26
- Actual revenue (2003) : PhP 490,861,368.26
- Location : Southern foothills of Mt. Apo
In the early days, Digos was a watercourse, a meeting place of inhabitants belonging to the Austronesians settled along the southern foothills of Mt. Apo. The Digos River meets the Davao Gulf and it is ideal for fishing and bathing.
During the Spanish Era, a group of natives carrying bows and arrows were approached by some Spaniards traversing the very fertile tracks of land in Davao. One Lopez Jaena Pacheco, a conquistador during the administration of Governor Claveria serving as the head of the group, inquired about the name of the place from the barefooted natives. Believing that the Spaniards were asking where they were bound to, the natives answered "Padigos", which means "to take a bathe". Since then the place was identified as Digos.
As a portion of the "food bowl" of the province of Davao del Sur, otherwise known as the Padada Valley, Digos lured many migrants, majority of whom came from the Visayas and Ilocos regions to settle permanently in the area. Before World War II, an enterprising American by the name of N.E. Crumb leased 1,024 hectares and transformed the place into an Abaca Plantation. This became the hub of economic activity in the locality during those days.
Through the initiation of then Congressman Apolinario Cabigon, Digos, became a regular municipality in 1949 by virtue of Presidential Executive Order No. 236, dated July 19, 1949 issued by President Quirino. Its Coverage included the barrios of Tres de Mayo, Goma Bansalan, Matanao, Darapuay and the Poblacion where the seat of government was located. Before its creation into a municipality, Digos was a barrio of Sta. cruz, a town 16 kilometers away. On 19 July 1949, the town was formally inaugurated with Benito Rabor appointed as Mayor.
Digos in later years, before its conversion into a city, was regarded as the capital town of the Province of Davao del Sur, long before it gained the status of a First Class Municipality in 1993, being center for trade, commerce and education, accruing to its strategic location at the cross point of two principal thoroughfares in the south.
In July 1998, the bid to convert into a city was moved and initiated by Hon. Mayor Arsenio A. Latasa, considering its very satisfactory qualificationas required for in R.A. 7160
House Bill No. 5672 dated November 24, 1998 of Congress authored by Hon. Congressman Douglas Ra. Cagas, led to the drafting of Republic Act 8798, converting the Municipality of Digos into a component City of Davao del Sur, which was signed by President Joseph E. Estrada on July 14, 2000 and ratified by the Digoseños on September 8, 2000.
Digos will enter the new era of development in the new millennium.
Digos city has a school named as Digos City National High School. Its former name was Davao del Sur National High School. In this school, it is said that they train the best students in their Special Science Curriculum (Network).
Another school in Digos City which is popularly known is the Polytechnic College of Davao del Sur (PCDS) located at Mc Athur Highway, formerly located at Estrada St. The graduates from PCDS are trained well; especially nurses since the school administration knows the students' needs and runs the school properly.
Commerce and industry
There are several rural, commercial, government banks in the city namely:
- Landbank of the Philippines (Rizal Avenue) (with ATM)
- Equitable PCI Bank (Rizal Avenue)
- Metropolitan and Trust Bank (Metrobank) (Estrada Street) (with ATM, Cirrus Maestro)
- Bank of the Philppine Islands (Rizal Avenue) (with ATM, Cirrus Maestro)
- Development Bank of the Philippines (Quezon Avenue) (with ATM)
- Philippine National Bank (Quezon Avenue) (with ATM)
- Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (Rizal Avenue) (with ATM)
- One Network Bank (Rizal Avenue) (with ATM)
- Rural Bank of Digos (Rizal Avenue)
- Rural Bank of Subang Daku (Estrada Street)
- Rural Bank Of Tagum (Luna Street)
- Cooperative Bank of Davao del Sur (Luna Street)
- Peninsula Bank (PenBank) (Luna Street)
- Bank of Koronadal (Luna Street)
Pawnshops, lenders and financial institutions are largely present in the city.
The only notable industrial corporation in the city is the Nakayama Technology Corporation [1]. It has a tile plant and a computer graphics center [2]. It is a Japanese owned company.
Other industries are also operating in the city in small and medium scale.
Places and events
There are some notable places that you can shop and dine:
- Gaisano Center of Digos (Estrada Street)
- DC Square Mall (Rizal Avenue)
- Davao Central Warehouse Club (Rizal Avenue)
- Novo Department Store (Quezon Avenue)
Digos has long beaches with black and white sand. One can also hike the mountains.
Fiestas and Festivals
- Sinulog sa Digos - every January 15
- San Isidrio Labrador - every May 15
- Mary Mediatrix - every August 22
- Araw ng Digos - every September 8
Digos City is politically subdivided into 26 barangays.
- ^ NSCB - 2001 Factsheet - 12 New Cities Created, July-December 2000.
External links
|City and Municipalities of Davao del Sur
Bansalan • Digos City • Don Marcelino • Hagonoy • Jose Abad Santos • Kiblawan • Magsaysay • Malalag • Malita • Matanao • Padada • Santa Cruz • Santa Maria • Sarangani • Sulop
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Alex Price, a baggage handler for US Airways (NYSE:LCC) at Philadelphia International Airport, stole $20,000 worth of the newly redesigned $100 bills. The bills were part of a shipment of $3.2 million worth of the new Benjamins that were heading to a Federal Reserve facility in New Jersey.
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 08, 2013
A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world. The eruption, which is classified as a gamma-ray burst, or GRB, and designated GRB 130427A, produced the highest-energy light ever detected from such an event.
"We have waited a long time for a gamma-ray burst this shockingly, eye-wateringly bright," said Julie McEnery, project scientist for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
"The GRB lasted so long that a record number of telescopes on the ground were able to catch it while space-based observations were still ongoing."
Just after 3:47 a.m. EDT on Saturday, April 27, Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) triggered on an eruption of high-energy light in the constellation Leo. The burst occurred as NASA's Swift satellite was slewing between targets, which delayed its Burst Alert Telescope's detection by less than a minute.
Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) recorded one gamma ray with an energy of at least 94 billion electron volts (GeV), or some 35 billion times the energy of visible light, and about three times greater than the LAT's previous record. The GeV emission from the burst lasted for hours, and it remained detectable by the LAT for the better part of a day, setting a new record for the longest gamma-ray emission from a GRB.
The burst subsequently was detected in optical, infrared and radio wavelengths by ground-based observatories, based on the rapid accurate position from Swift. Astronomers quickly learned that the GRB was located about 3.6 billion light-years away, which for these events is relatively close.
Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's most luminous explosions. Astronomers think most occur when massive stars run out of nuclear fuel and collapse under their own weight. As the core collapses into a black hole, jets of material shoot outward at nearly the speed of light.
The jets bore all the way through the collapsing star and continue into space, where they interact with gas previously shed by the star and generate bright afterglows that fade with time.
If the GRB is near enough, astronomers usually discover a supernova at the site a week or so after the outburst.
"This GRB is in the closest 5 percent of bursts, so the big push now is to find an emerging supernova, which accompanies nearly all long GRBs at this distance," said Goddard's Neil Gehrels, principal investigator for Swift.
Ground-based observatories are monitoring the location of GRB 130427A and expect to find an underlying supernova by midmonth.
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Henry David Thoreau once penned, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." I was reminded of this quotation one night as I lay on the trampoline with my teenage children, gazing up into the night sky. I wanted to raise my children deliberately. I wanted to "live deep and suck the marrow out of life" (Thoreau). I wanted to enjoy every moment of their childhood and not watch them grow to adulthood and suddenly realize my opportunity to teach them, to spend time with them, to enjoy learning with them was over and I did not even know them.
As I lay there dozing on the trampoline for the third time in a week, knowing I would rest better in bed, I had no regrets. These days will soon be gone, my teenage children will soon be grown, but I have enjoyed these days of childhood pleasures, and we have many happy memories of hours spent together. My children may not remember all the nature walks we took in our early days of home schooling (when they were preschoolers and toddlers), but we all remember backyard science experiments when they were grade-school children. (Some of them were quite memorable!) They may not remember every book we have read, but they remember hundreds of days spent reading together. Over the years we have biked together, camped and cooked in the yard together, slept outside together, worked together, laughed together, cried together, and learned together. We have enjoyed long walks, rainy mornings, and winter nights spent in front of a crackling fire, and there is nothing money can buy that is worth more than that. I chose to homeschool my children before they were even school aged because I wanted to give them a Christian education, but I soon discovered there were both great joy as well as great advantages to spending lots of time with them. As they have grown, I have watched the unique person God created each one of them to be unfold and develop. What a privilege to know their individual strengths and weaknesses, their hopes and dreams, their fears and struggles. It makes the command to train each one in the way he should go a little easier.
As I look back over the years, life has certainly not been easy. Money has always been tight, and I have not always had all the things I desired. Many times I did not even have the entire curriculum I wanted. We have had triumphs and failures, great joy and great sorrow, but the difficulties we faced only made the attempts to enjoy life a little more deliberate and the time spent together a little sweeter, and there is nothing I would trade for the time I have had to spend with my children. As they grew in independence and increasing maturity, I did not merely watch from the sidelines. We have spent both quantity time and quality time together gleaning the most from every opportunity.
Now my sons are sixteen and seventeen, and they are becoming young men. They shave, drive, work summer jobs, and grow in independence every year. Their struggles and their victories are the footholds that will bring them into manhood. Their desire to become young men of godly integrity is challenged almost daily. At the same time, my thirteen-year-old daughter is quickly becoming a young woman, and the seemingly petty issues of youth are the very things that will define the young woman she will become. Sometimes it is difficult to keep up with their ever-changing wants and desires, and homeschooling teenagers is not always easy.
When I made the decision to continue to homeschool them through high school, I had to face many of my own fears and feelings of inadequacy, but God is faithful when I trust Him. When algebra became difficult, there was extra money to purchase videos. When I was concerned about science labs, Wayland Baptist University offered chemistry and biology labs for local home school students. Each challenge we have met has been faced, and each need has been provided one year at a time. Now as my oldest son enters his last year of high school, I face the new year with mingled feelings of sorrow and triumph. My home schooling days are short and will soon be over, and there are still many things that I want to teach my children, but I am blessed to know my struggles have not been in vain. I am reminded of Philippians 1:6, "…being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." I live in a home full of teenagers, and I love it. I am proud of my children, and I am blessed by their presence.


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So, here's the long awaited Lupe Fiasco interview we did last week. Lupe was definitely cool as shit and we had a good convo. And I wanted to try something different, so half of the interview was solely questions submitted by readers of The305.com.
His album Lasers, drops next Tuesday March 8th, so support that! Below are some of the highlights from the interview and notes of what we covered.
– Loving Miami's Graffiti and art scene
– Lasers dropping next week
– Getting a chance to relax after touring overseas the past few weeks
– Miami Music
– Billy Blue being his FAVORITE gangsta' rapper
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Whether this is to be a private or public enterprise lies in the hands of the people handling such things.
Governor Jenkins assailed it on the floor as dangerous to capital and fatal to public enterprise.
Nobody convinced him that his first plan was not the right one; but what can a man do in any public enterprise without supporters?
All kinds of property are heavily taxed, and all private and public enterprise is discouraged.
This is what is called the fine spirit of teamwork by which things get done, both in private and public enterprise.
Without any government, without any pretence of municipal organisation, there is no co-operation for public enterprise.
Then you will understand that a public enterprise is a coin with two sides.
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A rare conjunction of private and public enterprise brought about these results.
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Guido: Area teams get ready for WPIAL football playoffs
Five local teams are getting set for the opening round of the WPIAL football playoffs Friday night.
Two of the teams — Kittanning and Highlands — will be playing on their home fields, while Apollo-Ridge, Valley and Kiski Area all will take to the road in the hopes of finding the way to Heinz Field for the WPIAL finals Nov. 23.
Let's set up Friday's playoff matchups.
Class A: Apollo-Ridge at Beth-Center: The two teams have played twice in the past — long ago.
The Vikings defeated Beth-Center, 9-0, in 1969, Apollo-Ridge's first season. The Bulldogs then won a 20-13 decision in 1970.
The Bethlehem-Center School District was formed in 1958 by way of a merger between Centerville, Bethlehem Joint and West Bethlehem Township high schools serving mid-Washington County.
Class AA: Yough at Kittanning. This will be Kittanning's first home playoff game since 2001 when the Wildcats lost to Blackhawk in double overtime.
Yough High School resulted from a 1969 merger between Sewickley Area, South Huntingdon and West Newton high schools.
Both schools are looking for some playoff success.
Kittanning's only playoff win was in 1975 over Union Area. Yough has experienced first-round eliminations seven previous times.
Kittanning has won all four regular season games against Yough.
Class AA: Valley at Mount Pleasant: The only playoff meeting between the two schools was in 1996 when Mount Pleasant won at Valley, 35-21.
The Mount Pleasant School District was formed in 1961 via a merger between Hurst and Ramsay high schools.
Class AAA: New Castle at Highlands: The Golden Rams nearly upset heavily favored New Castle in the 1982 first round before falling 27-19. The following year, the Red Hurricanes had little trouble, winning 28-0.
Class AAAA: Kiski Area at Upper St. Clair. You don't have to go back very far to find a playoff game between the two schools. Upper St. Clair won handily 49-0 last season.
Familiar faces
There is an abundance of familiar faces in this year's postseason.
Aliquippa is in the playoffs for the 32nd time in the last 34 seasons. The Quips also hold the record for most titles with 15.
Aliquippa and Thomas Jefferson also extended their record for most consecutive playoff trips. The Quips and the Jaguars are in the WPIAL postseason for the 19th consecutive season.
Upper St. Clair is in the playoffs for the 27th time in the last 28 seasons. The only time that USC fell short was in 1999.
Representatives from West Shamokin and Summit Academy attended their first WPIAL playoff pairings meeting Monday.
Avella is in the playoffs for the first time since 1976 when the Eagles lost the WPIAL title game to Western Beaver.
Streak's over
One notable team missing from the playoff field is Rochester.
The Rams had been in the playoffs 16 consecutive seasons but finished 2-7 this year.
Jeannette is also out with the PIAA restoring Washington's victories following an appeal of the WPIAL ruling that mandated five forfeits for using an ineligible player.
The Jayhawks had made the playoffs 18 of the last 19 seasons. At 4-5, it was only the second losing season for Jeannette since 1968.
Locally, Springdale (3-6) is out of the playoffs after 11 straight appearances. But with some underclassmen blossoming, the Dynamos don't figure to be down for long.
George Guido is a Valley News Dispatch scholastic sports correspondent. His column appears Wednesdays.


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The very least that anyone can say about Varg Vikernes is that he's been a man of his word ever since his prison release. Since last year, he's graced us with Belus and Fallen, which were far from disappointing to already-converted lovers of Vikernes' music. The second release of this year, From The Depths of Darkness (not "Deeps"), features re-recordings of the most coveted Burzum works pre-Hvis Lyset Tar Oss. Thankfully, "War" was left out of the mix.
To these ears, Varg chose to use the exact same instrumentation that exists in the original recordings, but changed the album's mixing drastically. The result is old Burzum songs recorded in Hvis Lyset Tar Oss fashion. What would a Burzumite want more than to hear the old tracks recorded with the same intensity of what is one of the most powerful and influential black metal albums of all time?
Although From The Depths of Darkness is as perfectly justifiable as it is enjoyable, it lacks some of the "magic," if you will, that exists within the confines of the original Burzum/Aske and Det Som Engang Var LP's. Varg Vikernes once said that the whole point of the musical rebellion that is black metal is not to care about brands of instruments, types of studios or the "in" music at the time. To quote him:
"A few mistakes make the music more alive and personal -- it simply gives the music some "soul" and originality, so I never bothered to correct anything. The music on the Burzum albums is simply an honest and sincere, unvarnished and clear representation of me. Certainly I am not flawless or without mistakes, so neither is my music."
A musical visionary, Varg is absolutely correct in his practically prophetical statement as a sign of things that were to come in the extreme music industry. If there's one thing that's true about what most musicans consider traditional soul music, it's that the music is certainly not without mistakes. That's what gives the notes character. It wasn't the notes that were being played that attracted so many people to Burzum in the first place. It was how they were being played. That's what was so revolutionary about black metal at the time, and that's what separates extreme metal from any other form of rock music today.
Vikernes didn't exactly fail to live up to his standard of what is soulful music on these re-recordings, but two of the trademark sounds of the original recordings -- the wails of a soul in dire agony in the original "Spell of Destruction," for example; and the incessant pounding behind the drum kit featured in songs such as "Ea, Lord of The Depths," and "My Journey To The Stars" -- are completely missing in this supposed re-vamped re-recording. Still, it's nearly a worthy sacrifice given the increased intensity of the sharp-as-hell riffage on all of the new album's songs.
So if you're stuck trying to choose which song versions you prefer, you've missed the point of this release entirely. The most positive thing about From The Depths of Darkness is that we now have both recordings. If Hvis Lyset Tar Oss was too short for you, you now have an additional seven songs you can enjoy. If you think it's blasphemous and too profitable to be trve, nobody is forcing you to listen to this. On top of that, if the ferociousness of the old Burzum with such a fresh production is a sign of what's to come, do not be surprised if Burzum manages to pull an Album of the Year contender out of its hat, or burn down a church or two. Hell, at this point, anything is possible.
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My name is Diana, and I am a junior at Wellesley College studying mathematics and attempting to complete the daunting hurdle that comes with being premed, the MCAT. Fashion has always been an outlet for me. In times of endless procrastination I find myself scourging fashion blogs to keep up with the inspirational fashion world that never sleeps.
I am thrilled to be writing the FASHIONISTA SPOTLIGHT posts for Wellesley College this semester. As I discovered last semester, the student body at Wellesley exemplifies an eclectic collection of stylistic personalities. It is always interesting to hear the stories behind the outfits that Wellesley's Fashionistas/os put together. One Fashionista told me how a friend gave her the Pashmina scarf from a Pakistani market. Some of my favorite outfits from this past semester include a dapper style tie and vest ensemble and a rocker-chic lace top that complemented this Fashionista's bright pink hair.
Although Wellesley is not a fashion-focused school, it was exciting to see the student body come together when Scott Schuman, The Sartorialist, spoke on campus this past December. His international vision of fashion documented through street style photography will continue to be influential in the fashion world. By continuing to follow fashion bloggers, I hope to improve my own fashion photography and ability to document Wellesley's unique fashion perspective. Being a Style Guru for CollegeFashionista has really opened my eyes to the variety in attire worn on campus. Through my posts, I hope to inspire new wardrobe additions, self-expression and creativity in fashion.