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Tokyo (AFP) July 12, 2011
Japanese waste incineration plants near Tokyo have found high levels of radiation in ash, and officials said Tuesday it may be from garden waste contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The radioactive caesium was detected in plants in Kashiwa city in Chiba prefecture, northeast of Tokyo and about 200 kilometres (120 miles) from the plant that has leaked radiation since the March 11 quake and tsunami.
Officials stressed that the radioactive ash collected in late June and early July, at concentrations of up to 70,800 becquerels per kilogramme, was safely contained within the plant and posed no health risk to the community.
The level is far higher than the government's 8,000-becquerel per kilogramme limit, above which waste dumps must keep such ash in storage, and it presents authorities with the question of what to do with it.
Authorities suspect the caesium may be from garden waste, such as tree branches and grass cuttings, that has been burnt in the facility.
Kashiwa city official Kiyoshi Nakamura told AFP: "Some people are believed to have cut plants and mown their lawns because of fear of radioactive contamination, and that waste was apparently brought to the plant."
"The radioactive ash is stored inside the plant, so the radiation has not been leaked into the environment," he said.
However, another city official, Masaki Orihara, warned that "we may run out of space to store the ash in about 55 days. There may be no other way but to end up suspending incinerators in the worst case."
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The Internets beloved Grumpy Cat took a trip to Disney recently for their "Show Your Disney Side" Social Media Day.
The Internets beloved Grumpy Cat took a trip to Disney recently for their "Show Your Disney Side" Social Media Day.
Who wants this dog? or any for that matter. Clever advertising strikes again!
Yes you read that correctly. Cats and Ping Pong. Got your attention didn't I.
There are plenty of places for people to bring their dogs out in public, but the same does not bode for cat lovers. That could be changing in Massachusetts, if one local woman has her way.
When it comes to the world of pets, cats are definitely the snobs. Dogs are great, but they certainly can't make a bow tie or top hat look as fancy as a cat can. Plus who doesn't like seeing an adorable furry animal dressed up like a human getting ready for a night on the town. Fancy feast indeed.
Nobody can resist a kitten, not even a dog. This crazy canine can't stop going on about how much he wants a feline of his own.
Boxes, a simple container typically constructed with four sides perpendicular to the base and often having a lid or cover. They also happen to be great entertainment if you have a cat.
In the past year or so, we've been introduced to Grumpy Cat, Lil Bub, and now it's Colonel Meow. The 2-year-old Himalayan-Persian has just been awarded the Guinness Book of World Record's "Longest Fur" honor...
Drink never leads to anything good, I mean it does but sometimes, but the next day you kinda have to ask, what happened?
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Theater review by Helen Shaw. St. Ann's Warehouse. By Cynthia Hopkins. Dir. D.J. Mendel. With Hopkins. 1hr 15mins. No intermission.
Those who know Cynthia Hopkins and her one-woman-and-a-band extravaganzas already know a lot about the performer herself. In other thorny music-theater works she has ruthlessly mined her self-confessed "psychodrama"—family relationships and her alcoholism. Now, after years of looking inward, she turns to encompass the globe. This Clement World, a shaggy, stunning cri de coeur inspired by an Arctic trip, tries to shake us into eco-awareness by any means necessary. And while passion deranges dramaturgy (as during interruptions by a visiting space alien), most of her crazy-quilt elements overwhelm us with their rage and hope.
Documentary footage from Hopkins's time among the glaciers floats on screens behind her; she moves in and out of projections; she sings love songs to a boat, to the sea, even to solar power. But the unhymned resource here is, naturally, Hopkins. She radiates happiness during her haunting songs, a woman discovering innocence without ignorance. She quenches that brightness while playing an Arapaho woman slaughtered 150 years ago at Sand Creek; supertitles of the ghost's furious thoughts appear behind her: "You're living in the afterworld of your rape of my people." But Hopkins's cherubic incandescence rattles us even more effectively. In another guise, she plays a visitor from our drowned, postcivilization future. How beautiful, she says, New York looks from the bottom of a glass-bottom boat. Her joy is chilling: She can't wait for humanity to be gone.—Helen Shaw
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This wallpaper is inspired by vintage blue tableware and has a uniquely Dutch vibe, doesn't it? It's designed and printed by Studio Ditte in the Netherlands and sold in stores worldwide, I found it today over at Catkin Collection. I've blogged about Studio Ditte before (here) but this is their latest pattern and I just love it — it's so fresh and clean.
I fancy the different scenes and also the various shades of blue, don't you? The birds and the windmills are very sweet. I find it so interesting to see products that stick to very limited color palette yet look amazing and inspirational. And I often wondered why that is – how can a product that is basically just blue (and white) be so captivating? If you were to create a blue and white room, would it equally charm you or?
After much thought I've come to realize that is really has to do with tints and tones of that color and how well you use them. It's not about using a single tone – say indigo blue – and mixing it with lots of white and putting a room together. In a room, there is also lighting and texture that come into play to create a gorgeous space with a limited palette. But it's really about using different tints and tones of blue, often ranging from light to dark, to add visual interest, depth and of course, personality and life.
Lots of people fear a limited palette – it's almost suffocating to them to imagine using only a few colors in a room. Everyone is different, and since decorating is subjective, it's all about what works for you personally. Some people like to put labels on others and feel that if they don't use tons of color they really don't have a good understanding of color or are "cop outs", meaning they are just using it as some strange excuse for being unable to successfully marry colors into a environment for a cohesive look. Like they can't — so they just fall back on white or beige because they don't know how to work with color, for example. I don't buy into that. We decorate using colors that we love – even if that means using color in small doses. We are all so unique, some can live in neutral spaces and others simply cannot, there is no wrong or right.
There is a wrong – wrong is when you decorate according to what you think others want you to express or share or pretend to be and not according to who you truly are, so wrong decorating is to deny yourself the freedom of displaying your authentic expression of self in your home – no matter how "white" or "neutral" or "colorful" or "pastel" that is may be. It's your home, your way.
I don't find a limited palette suffocating, in some ways for me it is total freedom because the less visual stimulation in my, say work space, the more the images and ideas in my head can rise to the top and be freed and transformed into actual work.
When my surroundings are too stimulating with tons of bright, energetic colors and patterns all around, my brain freezes and I can't accomplish much. I was never the kid that thrived in primary colored classrooms. I thrived in art class with the white walls, art wall with taped works pinned up, smell of clay and paint (very earthy and exciting to me), the large wooden work tables, the potter's wheel in the corner… I still remember each art room that I had at school since grade school with absolute clarity. I thrived in such spaces where we had less clutter around us, when everything was in its out container, and where color and pattern was placed in very specific locations and not scattered everywhere but then when you did find that location, it was a bit chaotic — randomly tacked and taped things on walls, for instance — but altogether on a single wall. Which made me realize that I thrive under situations that could be described as organized but also chaotic – but mostly organized chaos. I wouldn't want everything neat and in a row, paints can all be thrown into a big bucket without rhyme or reason, but they still all need to be in that one big bucket.
Something about a lot of white space around, or neutrals with splashes of color here and then, definitely works for me in my home office as an adult, too. However, a wallpaper like this one shown above would be fun in a dining room on one wall (or on the ceiling with deep indigo walls and crisp white moldings!) or in the kitchen — because in those places I'm social and I want to feel energetic so strong graphics as a focal point – for instance a wall with this paper behind my stove, could be absolutely perfect, quirky and fun.
I wonder if you think like I do when you see things that you are naturally drawn to – do you intentionally try to figure out what about it works or where in your home you could imagine enjoying it, or do you simply like it but could never imagine living with it? For me, I love the blue porcelain plates wallpaper by Studio Ditte and could absolutely use it in a small dose somewhere in my home but definitely not in my office space!
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The vetting of a sign language interpreter who got within three feet of world leaders including President Barack Obama during Nelson Mandela's memorial was being investigated Thursday after organizers admitted they were unaware of his violent history of schizophrenic episodes.
Thamsanqa Jantjie, 34, was accused of gesticulating gibberish during Tuesday's service. Members of the deaf community said his movements did not resemble any recognized form of sign language and some groups accused him of being a "fake."
Jantjie told Johannesburg's Star newspaper he started hearing voices in his head and hallucinated while at the Mandela event, resulting in gestures that made no sense and outraged deaf people around the world.
The South African government on Thursday admitted that "a mistake was made."
Jantjie said he was happy with his performance -- describing himself in an interview with Talk Radio 702 as a "champion of sign language" -- but added that he may have suffered a schizophrenic episode while on stage.
"There was nothing I could do," he told the Star newspaper. "I was alone in a very dangerous situation. I tried to control myself and not show the world what was going on. I am very sorry. It's the situation I found myself in."
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Police were questioning the two men Thursday after a court placed them on a two-day remand. Smart Export Garment Ltd. Chairman Sharif Ahmed and managing director Zakir Ahmed face charges of negligence and murder, and a police case has been filed against the duo and another official.
Garment industry workers and labor rights groups had demanded the arrest of the owners for their alleged negligence.
The fire occurred just two months after a blaze killed 112 workers in another factory.
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Skip the diet for a few days and check out some of the hottest desserts in New York City. Whether you are a tourist or a NYC resident, these dessert hot spots should be a must on your to-do list this summer!
New York City is full of decadent dessert places on every corner, but it takes a committed sweet tooth to really find those top rated dessert restaurants. We here at Celebrations.com have researched to find some of the best dessert hot spots in NYC. All of us here cannot wait to stop by each one!
While some of the restaurants that made our list are well-known and usually big tourist traps, like Serendipity III, others are hidden treasures that you should definitely discover. Whether you are visiting the big apple for a weekend or a New York City resident, everyone should make it a summer goal to try these 7 NYC dessert hot spots. Forget the diet for a couple days and grab a fork!
Serendipity III
Tourists flock to Serendipity III just to taste their delicious frozen hot chocolate. I have to admit, even though I am no tourist, I have waited over an hour to be seated at Serendipity III! There is something about this dessert that just screams New York. Maybe it is because the restaurant is featured in many movies, like the movie Serendipity!
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Crumbs Bake Shop
With over 20 bakeries in New York, Crumbs is becoming one of the biggest cupcake hot spots in the city today. Crumbs Bake Shop began in New York City in 2003 and has grown exponentially! Today they bake more than 50 varieties of cupcakes every day. Tourists and residents of NYC must stop by Crumbs at some point in their life...there is sure to be a flavor for every member of the family.
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Dominique Ansel Bakery
We all know this soho bakery because of its latest invention, the cronut. While other bakeries around the world have tried to recreate this dessert phenomenon, no one has succeeded. The cronut is the perfect blend of flaky croissant layers and creamy doughnut insides. People will line up outside the Dominique Ansel Bakery for hours just to get a taste of this savory treat!
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The Chocolate Room
The name of the shop says it all: chocolate…what could be better? This New York hidden treasure features the greatest chocolate desserts from brownie sundaes to chocolate layer cake. Every chocolate lover should put this dessert hot spot on their list of places to eat! If you cannot make it to the actual store though you can also order their famous brownies and chocolate sauces online.
Chinatown Ice Cream Factory
This hidden treasure is considered one of the best ice cream places in Manhattan! I would recommend everyone in the area stop by, especially during those hot summer months to come, and get a scoop of ice cream. Chinatown Ice Cream Factory is known for both their traditional flavors like vanilla or mint chocolate chip, but they also have exotic flavors as well! Exotic flavors include zen butter, green tea, ginger, and almond cookie.
ChikaLicious Dessert Bar
This decadent dessert shop located in the East Village will satisfy anyone's sweet tooth. They feature both popular desserts and seasonal ones and have a prix fixe menu so people can get a little taste of everything. Some say they have the best macaroons while others are huge fans of the ice cream filled éclairs.
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Rice to Riches
I first discovered this place in high school and have been in love with it ever since. This NYC hot spot is an entire restaurant with just one dessert: rice pudding. With over 15 different flavors this restaurant will make everyone a rice pudding lover.
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(CNSNews.com) - House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-N.Y.) blamed House conservatives for defeating a $700-billion bailout that enjoyed the support of the Bush White House and bipartisan leaders of Congress.
"There is a wing of the Republican Party that believes very deeply in the free market ideology who said explicitly, 'Yes, we understand there will be economic pain but we think it's worth preserving freedom,' and the way they see it is that freedom will be somehow impinged by this government intervention," said Frank at a press conference at the Capitol immediately following bill's 205-228 defeat. "I understand their view but I don't agree."
Congressional sources told CNSNews.com that conservative House members including Reps. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), Ron Paul (R-Texas), and Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), chairmen of the conservative Republican Study Committee, worked over the weekend to convince Republican colleagues to buck the will of their party leadership and bring the bailout bill down.
The bailout deal was negotiated by the Bush administration and congressional leaders of both parties over the weekend. It would have directed the U.S. Treasury to prop up the U.S. economy by purchasing up to $700-billion in teetering mortgages and mortgage-backed securities.
Among other things, it authorized the secretary of the Treasury to reduce the principle owed and the interest rates to be paid by people who bought houses they could not afford, allowing them to keep the houses at taxpayers' expense.
House conservatives argued that the bill would allow profits from risky mortgages to remain private while socializing the risk, spreading it out among American taxpayers who pay their bills, including their mortgages, on time. They feared that it would cause a permanent expansion of government regulation and control of the economy.
Prior to the vote on Monday afternoon, House Minority Leader John Boehner(R-Ohio), and House Minority Whip Roy Blunt(R-Mo), both of whom played critical rolls in negotiating the final bill, called on all Republican House members to support it.
But Pence told CNSNews.com that the bill did not have the support of the American people.
"The American people rejected this bailout and today the American Congress did likewise," Pence told CNSNews.com immediately after the vote. "Now we have to come up with a good bill that reflects the values of the American people."
Pence said such a bill would contain a "commitment to free and limited government."
"It will be important for Congress to come together and now devise an alternative that actually reflects the American people's commitment to free government and limited government," said Pence.
"The American people didn't want it," Paul also told CNSNews.com. "It was probably the thousands of emails congressmen were receiving that caused the bill's defeat."
Frank told CNSNews.com, however, that as a consequence of the bill's failure, he is now "worried about the markets" and said he believes many conservatives have a mistaken faith in the free market.
"A great majority of Republicans were skeptical that something needed to be done," Frank told CNSNews.com. "Some said there was no great crisis. If that in fact turns out to be the case, then I will cheerfully admit my error and take the rest of the year off. But I am not confident that will happen."
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With his ministers facing public ridicule over their extravagant lifestyles, President Sarkozy cancelled the annual Élysée Palace summer garden party yesterday in an attempt to curry favour with taxpayers.
Mr Sarkozy confirmed the decision at a Cabinet meeting at which he reprimanded ministers over a series of scandals in which they have been exposed for splashing out on such things as cigars, jets and limousines.
The Bastille Day party in July is one of the more conspicuous examples of the sumptuous style of France's monarchical presidency. Last year 7,500 guests downed champagne and canapés to the music of military bands in the elegant palace gardens. At €100 (£80) a head, the bill came to €750,000. In another money-saving measure, Mr Sarkozy dropped, with less fanfare,…


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SEFFNER — Alvin Bailey's most nimble footwork Friday was figurative.
Moments after helping Armwood (9-3) will its way past Hillsborough in the Class 6A region semifinals, the University of Florida-bound senior refused to address the lingering turf toe ailment that won't allow him to sidestep anyone except a converging reporter.
Reporter: How much pain are you in?
Bailey: "I ain't in no pain."
Reporter: C'mon.
Bailey: "I'm good, man, I'm ready to go for next week."
Reporter: Which toe is it?
Bailey: "No toe. No toe."
With that, Bailey — undisputed vocal leader of this Hawks team — limped away.
"He's better than the most high school players back there still," said Armwood coach Sean Callahan, who reinserted Bailey at quarterback for good late in the season. "But he's in a lot of pain."
Which has only served to reveal his pain threshold.
Whereas the Hawks' 2011 state title run served as a platform to showcase Bailey's clutch gene, the 2012 playoffs are showcasing his courage. In Friday's 9-7 victory at Hillsborough, Bailey amassed 127 total yards despite not being able to make cuts in the second half.
On Monday, he completed his upper-body weight room workout, received moist-heat treatments and slipped a black protective boot back on his right foot. Ideally, Callahan would like to give Bailey about two weeks' solid rest.
Leading tackler Marcus Jacobs (left ankle sprain), fellow linebacker Jordan Griffin (right forearm injury) and defensive lineman Zeric Coleman (left lower-leg strain) also could use some down time.
But the Hawks' next playoff assignment is in Gainesville, a few exits shy of Perfect World. Bailey is set to start.
"He's an athlete," said Jacobs, a Bailey teammate dating to their flag football days at Jennings Middle School. "From all the years I've been playing with him, flag football, he shows a lot of character."
Just not a lot of cutting. At least not lately. Callahan said Bailey aggravated the injury just before halftime Friday, essentially limiting him to straight-ahead running in the second half.
As a precaution, the Hawks are preparing sophomore Noah Johnson to take a few reps against the state's top-ranked team (12-0), which Bailey torched for 202 passing yards in a 17-14 playoff win last season. Bailey insists he'll be ready.
Toe or no toe, his teammates say he can cut it.
"You only get to be a certain number of years with people like that," Jacobs said. "He's a big impact."


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February 7, 2013
Seattle Mariners sign Felix Hernandez for seven years: Report
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The Seattle Mariners have extended the contract of ace Felix Hernandez for another seven years, according to the USA Today.
Hernandez, 26, was reported to be signing a deal worth $175 million Thursday, making it the highest contract ever for a pitcher.
The 2010 American League Cy Young award winner pitched the 23rd perfect game Aug. 15, 2012 against the Tampa Bay Rays.


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NEW ORLEANS, LA (April 16, 2012) – The Rockstar Energy Racing teams were a sight to behold as they returned to racing in the infamous Big Easy after a weekend off. Round 14 of the 2012 AMA/FIM Supercross Championship at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, LA, on Saturday night saw Star Valli Yamaha's Kyle Cunningham capture his best Supercross Lites result of the season and Rockstar's Brett Metcalfe card his fourth top-five finish of the year. Additionally, this event was the final Eastern Region Supercross Lites round until the East/West Shootout at the season finale in Las Vegas in May.
Although Cunningham is still recovering from recent injuries, the Star Valli Yamaha rider put in a heart-felt ride in New Orleans. Despite an early get-off in his six-lap heat race, Cunningham quickly remounted and carded a fifth-place result. In the 15-lap main event, Cunningham overcame a rough start and diligently worked his way through the field to capture sixth and finish the season with his best result to date.
"New Orleans was pretty good," said Cunningham. "I got a bad start, and that's kind of been a thing for me, not getting out of the gate. But I rode 15 laps good and got up to sixth, so now I'll just go from here and test Outdoors next week. I haven't been able to train the way I wanted to, and I've been off the bike after hurting my wrist at Dallas and hitting my head at Indy. So it's just going to be nice to go home, work out a little more, spend more time on the bike and get to where we need to be."
Star Valli Yamaha teammate Kyle Peters had a solid showing in his heat race, finishing seventh and transferring to the main. Unfortunately, Peters suffered some bad luck in the main and was unable to finish the race. Despite this, Peters remains optimistic about his rookie season.
"Overall, it was a decent night," said Peters. "I had a good start and I felt pretty good all night. But we had some problems on the first lap and there was nothing we could do."
For Rockstar Energy Racing's Blake Wharton, the New Orleans event was particularly significant because of a podium ceremony honoring Wharton's friend, the late Jesse Masterpool. For the entire 2012 season, Wharton is running Masterpool's number 956 in his honor. Now, in addition to that, prior to the New Orleans opening ceremonies, Wharton presented the Masterpool family with a signed jersey and a framed, autographed cover of the next issue of Racer X magazine that features Wharton.
In his heat race, Wharton was on the gas, getting a great start and finishing second. But in the main, Wharton struggled, crashing on lap one and starting from last place. Despite this, Wharton still managed to finish 14th. Rockstar Energy Racing teammate Hunter Hewitt returned from injury and put in a valiant effort, but went down in his heat race and ultimately did not make the main event.
In the Supercross class, Star Valli Yamaha's Weston Peick carded his best main event result of the year. Peick started the night by picking up a solid fifth-place result in his heat race, and then went on to bring home a well-earned seventh-place finish in the 20-lap main event.
"My night went good," said Peick. "In the heat race, I didn't have such a good start but I worked my way up to fifth, which was pretty solid. In the main, I got off to a decent start, about 11th or 12th, and just stayed consistent. Everything this year has been about consistency, so I just worked my way up and up and up, and ended up seventh overall for the night. So I was pretty pumped on that."
Star Valli Yamaha teammate Nico Izzi raced his last Supercross class race of 2012 at New Orleans. Although he's been racing the premier class during the Eastern Region rounds, Izzi officially campaigns Western Region Supercross Lites and those rounds resume next weekend. In New Orleans, Izzi put in a spirited ride in his heat race, going down in the sand section but remounting to finish ninth and transfer to the main. In the main event, he was giving it his all when he went down again and was out for the evening.
"I had a pretty tough heat," said Izzi. "I went down and came back to ninth. Then, in the main, I was doing good and running seventh. But on the 14th lap, I was pushing the edge and I swapped out so hard in the whoops, there was nothing I could do. The bike shot sideways and I had to just go for a ride. At least I'm healthy and I can move on to Supercross Lites next week, so that'll be fun to change it up and try to get a podium in the Lites class."
Also on the Star Valli Yamaha team, Bobby Kiniry had a bittersweet night. Coming off his best result of the season at the last race at Houston, Kiniry carded a notable sixth-place finish in his heat race. But in the main, he got swept up in a turn-one pile-up and never really recovered. He finished 18th.
"I got the Rockstar Yamaha to a great jump, maybe first or second," said Kiniry. "And then I got down to the first turn and another rider made a bonehead move and put us all over the berm. It was a huge pile-up – I had tuff blocks stuck in my bike – and I just tried to get up and get going as fast as I could. I was riding around mid-pack, then I hit neutral and fell on my own and got another lap down. It was just a fiasco out there. I just had a rough main, but now I'm ready to get back to work this week and put that Rockstar Yamaha in the top five next weekend at Seattle."
Also in Supercross, Rockstar's Metcalfe turned in a very respectable performance, getting the holeshot in his heat race and finishing third. In the main event, the Australian got another excellent start and rode a smart race, bringing home fourth. All in all, this marks Metcalfe's fourth top-five result of the 2012 season.
"It was nice to have a weekend off," said Metcalfe. "We came back with a fresh start and I was happy with the way I was riding. In the heat race, we ripped the holeshot, but then I went back a couple of spots when I made a mistake. But I still got third and was able to get a good gate pick for the main. I got another great start in the main, but on that first lap I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and I got slammed around and dropped back a few places. But once I got going, I was able to click off some good laps and I got back up to fourth. Now, I'm looking forward to Seattle. We'll be working hard this week to come out next weekend and keep this momentum going."
Rounding out the Supercross class, Rockstar's Nick Wey returned to racing after missing the last three events due to injury. Although Wey was still recuperating, he managed to finish seventh in his heat race and 11th in the main event.
"The New Orleans Supercross went OK for me," said Wey. "I wasn't really ready to come out and race, but I did my best. I was ninth in practice and I did OK in the heat race. In the main, I should have finished well inside the top 10, but from being off the bike and not being able to train like I want to, I got a bit tired out there and I ended up 11th. It was definitely better to be out there riding than to be on the couch. I think every weekend's going to get better and I appreciate everybody's support."
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Roundup(R)-tolerant alfalfa likely to be used in Iowa this year
Some Iowa alfalfa producers will likely be planting some glyphosate-tolerant alfalfa this year. Iowa producers have been asking about it.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service granted approval to Forage Genetics International and Monsanto for sale and use of Roundup Ready® (RR) alfalfa on June 14, 2005, and the following day the Environmental Protection Agency approved the labels to use Roundup® for weed control in Roundup Ready® alfalfa forage and hay production. Approvals also have been secured from individual states for use labels.
The United States regulatory agencies granted full approval to alfalfa containing the Roundup Ready® trait for commerce within the United States, including approval for marketing and consumption as food, food ingredients, and feed for livestock. These products also now have the necessary import approvals in Japan, Mexico, and Canada. Regulatory approval is still pending in Korea.
Forage Genetics has simultaneously developed RR varieties adapted to most of the uniquely different alfalfa growing regions (winter dormant areas, semi-dormant areas, and non-dormant growing areas). Many seed companies have agreements with Forage Genetics to sell RR alfalfa in the Midwest this spring planting season.
The key question is the value of this trait in alfalfa to Midwest alfalfa producers. Managing weeds during seedling establishment is certainly a major selling point for the technology. In addition, the use of a broad spectrum herbicide may be attractive to some growers to aid them in maintaining weed-free stands and possibly improving forage quality and value of the hay in the marketplace.
As with other crops developed with the glyphosate-tolerant trait, there is an additional technology/management fee associated with RR alfalfa. Since alfalfa is the first perennial crop carrying this trait, the fee is understandably higher than for an annual crop. East of the Rocky Mountains, the onetime technology fee per 50-lb bag of Roundup Ready® alfalfa seed is $125. That works out to be about $30 more per acre for a grower planting 12 lb/acre. Add to this the cost of the seed itself, and these varieties are selling for about $6 per pound. In addition, seed buyers (forage growers) must sign Technology/Stewardship Agreements and must have a valid Monsanto Technology/Stewardship Agreement (MTA).
Remember, when selecting alfalfa varieties, be sure to consider information on all the important traits you need in top performing alfalfa varieties in your situation (winter hardiness, disease, and insect resistance/tolerance, etc.).
The technology also has brought controversy. RR alfalfa in a rotation with other RR crops may contribute to the possible development of herbicide-tolerant weed populations. And, there is currently a legal dispute against the USDA for release of the RR alfalfa from growers and groups who have concerns about pollen spread and its impact on organic and alfalfa seed production.
This article originally appeared on page 66 of the IC-496 (5) -- April 3, 2006 issue.
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Provo • In the first half of Saturday night's West Coast Conference basketball game at the Marriott Center, the BYU Cougars had seemingly corrected the mistakes that cost them a win two nights ago at San Diego.
They were 12 of 12 from the free-throw line, had committed just three turnovers, and had cruised out to a nine-point halftime lead over San Francisco. It looked like BYU was heading toward another easy league win at home over an overmatched WCC foe not named Gonzaga or Saint Mary's.
The Dons had other ideas.
They shot 72 percent in the second half, while holding the Cougars to 35 percent, and scored 60 points in the final 20 minutes alone to spring the 99-87 upset.
"That's just them. They never give up," said BYU's Brock Zylstra, who led the Cougars with 18 points on 6-for-12 shooting.
"That's coach [Rex] Walters' mentality, and his guys follow exactly how he is. He's a fighter, and all those guys are fighters and never give up. All the games they have lost in conference have been pretty close, and so it is just a credit to them."
BYU coach Dave Rose said he could not remember a better display of shooting in a half by an opponent at the Marriott Center.
"Whatever we did defensively, they kind of had an answer for," Rose said. "They drove us to the rim and scored, they drove us and kicked it and shot 3s and scored. They got to the free-throw line and scored."
After going 11 for 22 from the stripe in the 74-68 loss at San Diego, the Cougars finished 25 of 29 from the line and committed just seven turnovers, but that hardly mattered against the red-hot Dons, whose bench outscored BYU's bench 49-24.
"You definitely have to give them a lot of credit. It has been a while. ... We haven't seen a team come in and shoot like that, especially in a half," said BYU's Brandon Davies. "It is definitely hard to swallow. They were shooting lights-out, and we had a couple letdowns defensively. But they were making shots, and in these [games] just the littlest letdown can turn into disaster."
Dons' 3-point shooters
Player 3pt Pts
Chris Admas 5-6 17
Cody Doolin 2-3 16
Avry Holmes 3-5 17
De'End Parker 3-3 23
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Peter Martin (''Sugar's bitter-sweet truths'', Times 2, January 1, p4), refers to a YouTube presentation by US researcher Robert Lustig, and reminds us that eating and drinking too much sugar is not advisable. I sincerely hope readers weren't too surprised. After all, ever since British scientist John Yudkin published his book Pure, White and Deadly in 1972, nutritional scientists have advised us to limit our intake of sugar.
It's well known that excessive consumption of sugar (or saturated fats) can lead to metabolic dysfunction and chronic disease. But should we try to remove all sweet stuff from our diet? I think not, but it does make sense to avoid placing our blood glucose control system under regular stress. There are two ways to do this.
First, we can use our muscles regularly. Physical activity of any kind reduces demand on our pancreas to produce insulin, and as the only hormone we possess with a blood glucose lowering effect, the pancreas is worth protecting.
Second, we can avoid eating or drinking concentrated sugary food or beverage on an empty stomach, in turn avoiding any rapid absorption and surge in blood glucose and of insulin in response. While it certainly makes sense to keep sugar ingestion to a minimum, if you seek out physical activity in your day, and refrain from shots of sugar on an empty stomach (candy, sweet drinks) then it is most unlikely that sugar is going to be pure, white and deadly to you.
Dick Telford, Forrest
Balance in sentencing
It is hard to disagree with David Biles' assertion that mandatory sentencing in Queensland's ''anti-bikie laws'' is unjust (''Reforms put fairness at risk'', Times2, January 2, pp1,4.) It is equally hard to disagree a mandatory life sentence under the ''three strikes and you're out'' principle in the US, when applied to crimes such as petty theft, is idiotic.
It is easy to agree that all mandatory sentencing legislation should be reviewed. Yet it is not possible to agree with the extrapolation that there is no ''justification for the continuation of mandatory sentencing''. That is akin to adopting the extremist argument that the acknowledged evils of the prison system mandate its dismantlement.
Gary J. Wilson, MacGregor
Jolie bad show
The article ''Angelina arrival perhaps a bridge too far'' (Private Capital, December 28, p10) reported on rumours of Hollywood's interest in filming on the south coast and quoted Bega Valley Shire's general manager Leanne Barnes as saying the Coast ''is stunningly beautiful''. Perhaps someone should tell the Eurobodalla mayor and council about this ''stunning beauty'' since they've permitted the building of a service station at the southern end of the Kings Highway, gateway to Eurobodalla's Nature Coast. They seem to have forgotten that in 2009 this site was identified as a gateway site requiring scenic protection controls. Now a whole chunk of hillside on the western side of the highway, once covered with trees and grass, has been given over to petrol bowsers.
Eurobodalla Council prides itself on its concern for the environment and advertises the shire as an ''amazingly unspoilt landscape'' (p23 of the recent Canberra magazine Summer 2013).
Its management plan 2011-14 undertakes ''to conserve, manage and enhance the Eurobodalla Nature Coast values''. Perhaps the town of Batemans Bay and its immediate environs have been excised from the council's plan. We can only wonder.
Doris Robinson, North Batemans Bay, NSW
Question of heritage
Under an editorial heading of ''Wilson must protect rights of pale-skinned Aborigines'' (Letters, January 2) Frank McKone ponders the protection of pale-skinned Aborigines from future racial vilification following ''the injection of Tim Wilson into the Human Rights Commission as commissioner for freedom''. I would suggest that if somebody had, say, a full-blooded Aborigine as one of their 16 great-great-grandparents and no further antecedents with Aboriginal connections, then the 6.25 per cent Aboriginal heritage is surely outweighed by the 93.75 European heritage, making them mathematically, and ignoring cultural factors, dark-skinned Europeans and ironically, by the law of averages, having ancestors who contributed more to Aboriginal disadvantage than suffered from it.
Still, Frank's letter does indirectly raise several vexing issues: who can be accurately referred to as an Aborigine? should such people have special rights? to what extent does pointing out an obvious truth become vilification and can one vilify one's own culture and/or ethnicity?
Bill Deane, Chapman
Super bowls
What a delight to read a positive suggestion about where the future of lawn bowls in the ACT might be. Dave White (Letters, December 30) suggested we should look to establishing a bowling centre in the ACT rather than have the current situation where several clubs are struggling.
Ten years ago, when I was president of the now defunct Canberra South Bowling Club, I raised with Bowls ACT the issue of there being too many bowling clubs for the number of bowlers. At that time there were 36 bowling greens, spread across 12 clubs, with no more than 3000 bowlers. Those numbers represented one good bowling day per week at a club, hardly a viable proposition. I was told at that time that this was a matter for the clubs rather than for Bowls ACT. The clubs have certainly sorted the situation out, with the closure of two facilities, another one due in 15 months, another due to be relocated, and others struggling to survive.
Rather than appealing to a cash-strapped government to support individual clubs, perhaps a pooled effort among several clubs to establish a bowling centre might encourage the government to contribute. Whatever the outcome, bowlers need to face up to the costs involved in providing facilities. When our Chief Minister was asked about the situation facing West Deakin Hellenic (closing in March 2015) her simple response, which is hard to dispute, is that the business model for bowling clubs is just not there. In a letter to the ACT Bowls Journal of June/July 2003, I pointed out that while the price of a beer had increased by a factor of seven or eight over the past 25 years or so, the price of a game of bowls had increased by a factor of two or three. Bowlers need to think laterally about the long-term future of our facilities and look beyond simply continuing to try to protect their uneconomic greens.
Peter Forster, Curtin
Supremacist streak a dark part of male culture of violence
Let's be very clear, Professor Catharine Lumby (''No country for young men: notions of gender must evolve'', Times2, January 3, p5), the one thing you dare not mention about the ''ugly truth'' that lies behind the Aussie male stereotype is that he is invariably an angry white supremacist. His anger arises from an aggrieved sense of a loss of entitlement as the harbinger of white privilege.This was implacably on display during the Cronulla race riots, when thousands of angry young men gathered together in a drunken stupor singing the national anthem.
While Lumby rightly argues that such masculinity is ''too often defined by all-male bonding sessions over alcohol'', she makes no reference to its vile racial context. Her omission makes it impossible to deconstruct an identity whose very construction is embedded in these negatively exclusivist attributes of white culture.
Until this ''ugly truth'' is acknowledged, the Aussie male stereotype will continue to be a blight on the national conscience, manifesting itself in these random acts of cold-blooded violence - even on other white males.
Reverend Dr Vincent Zankin, Rivett
Redressing the balance
How odd that the same author who describes the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a ''so-called authority'' whose reports are ''exaggerated science with a large dollop of politics'' should be an expert reviewer for the latest IPCC report (''Lack of accountability clouding the climate change debate'', canberratimes.com.au, January 3).
So odd that I looked up the International Climate Science Coalition of which he, John McLean, was described as a member. A familiar face at the top of the ICSC homepage was Professor Bob Carter - a prominent supporter of Christopher Monckton and his lecturing in Australia. Scroll down to the ICSC consultant policy board and McLean's name is listed - immediately above Christopher Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley. Mystery solved, although it does suggest that the IPCC is rather more inclusive than a ''UN-sponsored lobby group''.
If publication of McLean's article is The Canberra Times ''balancing'' its rousing editorial of January 2 (''Time for CEOs to challenge a sceptic'', Times2, p2), then I protest.
Jill Greenwell, Ainslie
Pundits already in pulpits
It seems that Maurice Newman has been able to misuse the bully pulpit of his appointment to the Business Advisory Council to repeat canards about the impact of carbon pricing on industry and to, basely and baselessly, slander our generally admirable scientific community without any legal challenge or hindrance. Given this fact, why do we need to waste significant public funds to employ Tim Wilson to protect his apparently already secure right to rehearse his personal prejudices and delusions in public?
Indeed, I am sure that both the gentlemen in question would give us the benefit of their views without needing taxpayer funding.
Felix MacNeill, Dickson
It's Israel, not Palestine
Dorit Herscovich (Letters, January 2) speaks the truth but Marilyn Shepherd (Letters, January 2) displays an ignorance of history. The name Palestine was imposed by Rome in about AD70. The Romans were unable to enslave the Jewish spirit so they took out their frustrations by killing millions of them and driving most of the rest into exile, ploughing Jerusalem into rubble, building another city on it with a Roman name and naming the country Palestrina for no other purpose than to obliterate Israel/Jews from their ancestral land. Sound familiar?
That is what Islam is still trying to do. The land is Israel, not Palestine. It was theirs long before Rome happened, is now and always will be.
J. Halgren, Latham
Ethnic cleansing planned
When Stephen Jones (Letters, January 1) says Ariel Sharon's decision in August 2005 to withdraw from Gaza ''was not the action of a prime minister determined to pursue endless negotiations'', he is probably right.
Unlike most other Israeli politicians who have sought to endlessly extend negotiations to maintain Palestinian apartheid, Sharon saw negotiations ending through his plan to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from ''Eretz Israel'', completing the process begun in 1948. Dismantling the settlements was designed to trap the Palestinians inside the world's largest prison as a prelude to their relocation to Jordan and Iraq. Jones reckons Tanya Reinhart's book, first published in 2002, is out of date when considering the Israeli withdrawal.
However, Jones appears to have missed Reinhart's post-script to the second edition in 2005 about Sharon's Gaza plan. ''The crucial factor behind the plan,'' Reinhart noted, ''was gaining the time necessary to advance the project of the West Bank barrier'' (p247). Subsequent authorities have confirmed the accuracy of Reinhart's view. Oxford professor of international relations and Israeli army veteran Avi Shlaim, for example, in 2009 wrote that, under Sharon's plan, ''withdrawal from Gaza was not a prelude to a peace deal with the Palestinian authority but a prelude to further Zionist expansion on the West Bank … [and] part of a long-term effort to deny the Palestinian people any independent political existence on their land''.
Perhaps it is difficult for the likes of Jones to understand why some Palestinians, faced with the horrific reality of their hopeless gulag, would turn to firing rockets at their tormenters. But Jones need not worry. While not for a nanosecond pausing to consider the shockingly disproportionate Israeli killing of Palestinians since 2005, Zionist apologists for the Sharon plan have recognised their debt to their comatose former prime minister.
Chris Williams, Griffith
It's time to salute the Canberra bomber
The Monster Moves program on SBS One on December 23 was different from the usual formula of jacking up and trucking a building from A to B. An English Electric Canberra medium bomber was taken by road to a destination in south-east England. The wings had to be dismantled and loaded into special cradles along with the rudder and horizontal stabilisers. Some difficult problems in dismantling and transportation were overcome and the Canberra is in its new home.
The eponymous aircraft was named after our fair city, and has many links to VIPs at the time of its acquisition in the early 1950s and its service to the RAAF in several theatres of war.
Many were built in Australia. We still have a few retired Canberras, one is in storage at Mitchell and two more at Amberley RAAF Base in Queensland. It seems very odd that the ACT government appears to show no interest in acquiring a Canberra for static display at a prominent location, perhaps in the environs of Canberra's updated airport.
It could be a belated, but fitting, sequel to our centenary celebrations.
Colin P Glover, Canberra City
Age is but a number
I've always loved those old darlings who sidle up to news crews filming in the street and say something like, ''I'm 88,
you know.''
Funnily enough, I thought of that this morning and thought
I might get a chance to do it myself one day.
Today is my birthday and one of my husband's surprises was to take me to the Summernats street cruise on Thursday morning, and I loved every minute of it. I just noticed the gallery on your website and, lo and behold, there I am in a white cloth hat and pinkish top in the first and third photos. I'm 66, you know!
Jane Craig, Holt
So the keeper of the ''death stare'', Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop, reckons that Julian Assange's father, John Shipton, is ''stupid and reckless'' (''Assange's father to start legal action against Tony Abbott, Julie Bishop'', January 2). Given the trail of diplomatic wreckage left by her government in its first 100 days in office, from Indonesia to East Timor and China, many would have thought Ms Bishop was smart enough to go into hiding. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
John Richardson, Wallagoot, NSW
Here we are approaching the four-month point of the new government and we are still being told that the substance of its announced policies are, in the main, the result of the (add any extremely emotive adjective) budgetary mess left by the previous government. Certainly such a claim is traditional at change-of-government time, but I think that it is time the present government argued the strength of its decisions instead of continuing to blame the past. My advice is to get on with the job of governing and stop whingeing.
Bryan Docherty, Garran
Maurice Newman (''Time for CEOs to challenge a sceptic'', January 2) needs to learn to play the violin. Then he can fiddle while Rome burns!
Linda Anchell, Ainslie
Apparently, a new Batemans Bay marina will mean the end of an unusual tourist attraction ('Batemans Bay marina redevelopment strikes a hitch', January 2). The story says ''the new floating pontoon facilities - with thick plastic bases - would be safer for boaties who often had to climb down ladders at low tides and be a major tourist attraction''. As an old boatie with stiff joints and a sense of uncertainty about ladders, I can imagine how such antics would attract onlookers. It is a pity these will be lost with the advent of pontoons.
David Townsend, Curtin
Barnaby Joyce's platitudinous piece (''No place for complacency in changing world'', January 2) lacks profundity of analysis, timely observations and salutary vision. But that's Barnaby, he never changes.
John Rodriguez, Florey
I have recently returned from a visit to Wellington, NZ, and couldn't believe my eyes when every supermarket I went into had between 12 and 16 cash registers open and operating. Obviously the Kiwis understand the value of real customer service.
P. J. Carthy, McKellar
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The old saying is just one letter off -- it's not the meek, it's the geek. I'm sitting in Portland Airport in Oregon waiting for a redeye, and the wifi is up but the DHCP server is dead. PDX is an enlightened airport, offering free WiFi for the entire airport (when it works) and I have a few hours to kill before the soul-sucking cross-country flight, and I really needed to get some work done. So, where most of the world would have given up in frustration, I simply ran tcpdump on my WiFi interface, found traffic on the local net which told me what subnet was in use, and I picked an ip high in that range, guessed at the default route (it was .1), specified a public DNS server I run, and voila, I'm posting this entry.
Between that and the knowledge required to successfully configure Bluetooth contact list synchronization, us geeks have it all tied up.


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Focus on Earnings and Dividends
High unemployment, a shaky economy with talk of a "double-dip" recession, and more debt crises in Europe drove stocks lower in late November. But third-quarter earnings accelerated, and gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 2%.
Looking ahead, the first indications of holiday season sales look very positive, and consumer confidence is on the rise. This could help stabilize the stock market.
But volatility remains high, so this month investors should concentrate on stocks that have shown strength in earnings and price with an emphasis on dividend increases.
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The Harris case, described above, may make a dent in this argument. Judge Sciarrino drew specific attention to differences between different types of information that come into play when a user posts content on an Internet site. "Content" information makes up "the substance, purport, or meaning of that communication", but the act of posting also generates non-content information — logs about account usage and the mailer header that carries information about which email address the post originated from, IP addresses, browser type used and so on. The latter, according to Judge Sciarrino, is non-content information and may not be eligible to protection under privacy laws as they currently stand in the US.
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The Sixers started slow and finished slower tonight, but managed to do enough in between to secure a 98-95 victory in Portland.
Andre Iguodala led the team with a career-high 32 points to go along with 5 assists, 5 rebounds and 5 steals. He's the player of the game, although Andre Miller made a strong push with 25 points, 10 assists and 7 boards, but he choked from the foul line down the stretch, giving Portland a chance to come back. He also fouled Portland guard Brandon Roy on their last possession, but the refs missed the call. Roy could've tied the game from the line had the call been made.
Iguodala asserted himself beginning in the second quarter and led a fierce comeback for the Sixers. He disappeared in the fourth, as did everyone else. The Sixers scored 20 points in the fourth and saw their double-digit lead dwindle to one point. Kevin Ollie hit a key pair of free throws in the final seconds to save the win for the Sixers. Mo Cheeks did his usual, puzzling job of managing his timeouts, killing Sixers runs with bad timing. He also picked up a quiet technical foul for arguing with the refs.
Chris Webber's griping about playing time is starting to get louder, he was quoted as saying, "Twenty-six minutes [against the Kings] isn't a lot of minutes. I only played 13 minutes [against Golden State]. I really don't know what's going on." He sat out tonight's game and, not surprisingly, the Sixers played better defense. It would be nice if Webber would just admit that he can't play anymore. He's so slow out there, has no lift on his jumper and he's really a detriment to this team, and would be to any other team. It's sad, but I guess he's got about $40 million reasons not to retire. I fully expect him to get some kind of phantom injury and sit out the remainder of the season some time soon. His ego is too big to allow him to wallow on the bench for much longer. Kudos to Mo Cheeks for sticking to his guns and sitting Webber.
Charlotte won a thriller against the Lakers tonight, and Memphis was inactive, so the Sixers remain tied for the second-worst record in the league with the Bobcats. Their next game is New Year's Eve in L.A. against the Lakers.
Iguodala took this game over in the third quarter, finishing with 32 points. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Post your lsusb output.
can somebody give me a fully working driver for linksys wusb100v2
nemesis and apocolipse drivers don't work (nemesis doesn't find any network,apocolipse-iwconfig doesn't show ra0)official don't support injection
help help help
Post your lsusb output.
oh thanks god somebody wrote something,
lsusb : 1737:0078 linksys
and i added it in the rt2870.h of both drivers Official and patched by hirte and apocolipse,but the only working driver was the official 18.104.22.168 how i said
oh and i made the apocolipse driver working but again it does NOT show any network in both wireless asisstant and airodump i tried to lock it on channel 1 where is my ap but it doesn't show it
i tried to install the firmware (rt2870.bin) i copied it in /etc/firmware/ and /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA/ but when i issue modinfo rt2870sta there is no sign it is using it
Have you also tried the kernel in the repository?
how to try it ? where to download and which to download 2.?
why the hirte,nemesis & apocolipse drivers don't find networks but the official does?
did anyone have this problem? how to make the official drivers inject (mod or patch)?
please answer
It might be an issue with the radio chip not compatible with the driver or firmware. Sometimes dmesg may output useful information.


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going for goldIt seems strange to me that trampoline jumping is an Olympic sport while football is not. How does a sport become an official Olympic event?
Duncan, Chicago, IL
It's a long and arduous process that requires plenty of lobbying and copious amounts of paperwork. For starters, the event must be practiced by men in at least 75 countries and four continents, and by women in at least 40 countries and three continents. Sadly, that excludes Sheep Tackling and Javelin Catching, but there's always hope those events will catch on soon in Eastern Europe.
Next, the sport must be regulated by a governing International Federation. The dedicated members of this non-governmental organization are responsible for promoting their event through television broadcasts, printed brochures and through live competitions and interactive demonstrations. They're also entrusted with the duty of filing a highly involved application with the International Olympic Committee. Their time-consuming tasks aren't for the faint of heart, which probably explains why events like Competitive Pot Smoking and High Speed Joint Rolling never quite seem to get off the ground.
If the IOC is impressed with the Federation's application, the event will then be welcomed to participate at the Olympics as a demonstration sport. From there, the event's critical and popular reception generally determines whether it will be invited back as a full-fledged Olympic event. The entire process can take up to 10 years and the IOC is typically flooded with hundreds of applications every year.
The good news is that ridiculous events like Tug-of-War and Bridge have both been Olympic events in the past, so there's always hope that another wacky event may someday merit inclusion too. So, who's up for a little Dwarf Tossing?
flame on!Did you read that the Olympic torch arrived in Kazakhstan this week amid tight security?
Franklin, Brentwood, TN
I did, Franklin. The extra police effort was deemed necessary since it was the first time many people there had seen a technology as sophisticated as fire.
oh brotherIn your opinion, which player benefited most from this year's NCAA tournament?
Nicholas, New Haven, CT
My vote goes to Robin Lopez. The 7'0" sophomore played his way into the first round of the NBA draft thanks to a pair of unexpectedly strong performances against Cornell and Marquette. However, it should be noted that the hype surrounding Lopez has as much to do with his genetic similarities to his twin brother Brook as it does to his own personal development, and that's a shame because the two players couldn't be more different. While Brook has emerged as the second coming of Tim Duncan, Robin's offensive game is, well, rather offensive. The Fresno native doesn't appear to be particularly comfortable with the ball in his hands and his shooting touch and low post moves both need major refinement if he hopes to succeed at the next level. That's not to suggest that Robin won't be a solid pro, but as Ozzie Canseco, Frank Stallone and Stephen Baldwin can all attest, just being related to a superstar doesn't necessarily make you one yourself.
sly as a foxIs it true that Matthew Fox used to be a decent football player?
Danny, Phoenix, AZ
That's correct, Danny. The strapping 6'2" actor played wide receiver at Columbia University, where he helped the lowly Lions snap a 44-game losing streak during his senior year. His experience on the gridiron helped inform his portrayal of coach Red Dawson in the phenomenal football flick We Are Marshall. "I had all of my own coaches in my life and… I brought some of the things that I knew about them into the way that I wanted to portray Red," he says. "I really documented Red well enough and I felt like I had a good idea of what kind of coach he had been as well, how important the game was to him and how important the people in the game were to him." Although the film has been in the can for more than two years, Fox continues to stay involved in the sport by hosting football clinics for deserving youths.
That's all for this week, muchachos. If you have questions for me, please send them to firstname.lastname@example.com. I'll be back next Thursday with more advice and answers. Until then, please check out my blog at www.askryanmurphy.com where you'll find never-before-seen articles, polls and jokes.


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Nokia PureView 808: have camera phones finally grown up?
Thomas Curtis looks at the Nokia 808 PureView, a smartphone with a 41 megapixel camera - is it marketing fluff or have Nokia raised the bar for what we expect a smart phone camera to be capable of?
First things first I am, not what I would say in any way shape or form a photographer by hobby or nature. Sure, I take pictures with my phone camera at jaunty angles, apply filters but I consider that to be so far removed from photography as swimming is from walking in space. Prior to using this phone I had little idea, let alone appreciation of photographic mainstays such as ISO settings or exposure.
But, perhaps that's the horrific beauty of the smartphone camera, we've been mollycoddled into accepting the mediocre camera technology for a long, long time.
In the future when we look back at the visual record of humanity there will be a noticeable dip in photograph quality over the last twelve years. This is because we transitioned from film to digital cameras that in short were far from good enough, I remember my first .5 megapixel digital camera that used a 2 mb smartmedia card. Half a mega pixel, compared with an average of between 10 and 15 megapixels for your ordinary film cameras of similar age. This issue was greatly increased with the advent of the camera phone, as the sheer astonishment of the fact that you could now have a camera on your phone precluded discussions on image quality.
And so for a long time poor quality sensors were attached to sub par optics and we had to like it or lump it (or in the case of the general populace, not care). That began to change with the advent of the Smartphone, people were beginning to expect more out of their hardware which meant that manufacturers soon began adding ever larger headline grabbing megapixel cameras to their products.
From a two mega pixel camera on the first iPhone in 2007, to eight on the latest generation, the smartphone hydra that is HTC has more than sixteen smartphones currently on sale equipped with a range of cameras from three to sixteen megapixels. The list goes on, but although the photographs get bigger, the quality often does not rise with the megapixels, this is to do with the sensor. A sensor is the most important part of a camera, as its the technology that converts the light hitting the camera into digital signals and they can be assessed on a variety of metrics like dynamic range, low light sensitivity or signal to noise ratio. To be brief, most sensors in smartphones today are, photographically speaking, a tad rubbish.
This meant that, until recently any dedicated camera provider could happily point to the pictures taken by a mobile phone and laugh at the quality. If you want a picture that you could print out and hang on a wall, it would seem that you have only one option, get a 'real' camera. The mobile industry evolves at a breakneck pace, phones that are king of the hill are often made obsolete within six months. Device manufacturers are keenly aware that they need to innovate and offer new features to maintain consumer interest and to convince those who have not joined the smartphone world to finally invest.
One way to achieve adoption is the realisation that the consumer might just want a decent camera and that they can use that to rapidly increase sales. After all if a consumer wants a camera and a smartphone but can only afford one, they will always go with the phone. It's a decision that no doubt horrifies point and shoot camera providers as the combination of portability, availability and sheer convenience that a camera phone provides ensures that most people have no need for a dedicated device.
And so the iPhone 4S has by all accounts both a decent sensor and optics, enabling it to take some very good pictures. So too does the Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC One X meaning that soon even mid tier smartphones will have more than passable picture taking equipment on board.
However there was one manufacturer that always seem to produce a phone with class leading camera technology, Nokia. This is thanks to high quality sensors and its partnership with Carl Zeiss which has provided Nokia with industry leading optics that enable products such as the the N95 and N8 to be used as photographic reference benchmarks.
That all changes today, with the device I have in my hand, the Nokia PureView 808, remember how I said an image quality is derived from the size and quality of the sensor?
This phone has a 41 megapixel sensor.…….it also runs Symbian Belle 'Feature Pack' One.
This is a phone that makes no sense to anyone familiar with Nokia's present economic woes, it is an incredibly expensive, balls out ultra camera phone that has no support from mobile operators and is running an operating system with one update left before its taken behind the cow shed and shot.
Hyperbole aside, the PureView technology is nothing short of phenomenal it uses the huge sensor which, incidentally is big enough, so there is quite a bulge at the top of the case (and, incidentally creates a great finger rest when held in portrait mode.) to oversample images captured meaning that it can create a five megapixel shot of incredible quality. This not a evolution, its a quantum leap in what you think is possible on a smartphone and its a damn shame that it's connected to an operating system that is past its best.
Lets get one thing straight, Symbian Belle FP1 is the best version of Symbian to date. It feels like Nokia has put a lot of effort to drag the operating system into the present. However on a usability level Symbian Belle is confusing and sometimes downright bizarre in how it implements actions.
An example, is Power save mode – a great concept that helps eek out battery life. When things are looking bad for the battery, the phone will pop up asking if you want to enable it – great. However it doesn't switch off, automatically even if you have a full battery. The logical solution is to go to the settings > phone > phone management > power saving. But you would be wrong, as all that is contained in that menu is the setting that determines if the phone should ask you if you want power saving mode enabled. What about a long press on the power button? That switches the phone off without asking for confirmation from the user, great. The actual solution is a quick press of the power button (difficult as its physical) and then you can switch power saving off and get back fast mobile data access.
On a software front, most of the apps I use have versions or fairly decent alternatives available, Tweetian is a great twitter app that seems to be actively maintained. The default browser however, is shocking; taking an age to display pages and to add insult to injury it has incredibly poor text rendering. Thankfully, Opera is available for Symbian and whilst not perfect, it is a damn site better than default browser. As we're on the subject of performance, it brings me neatly to a further issue, namely the hardware powering the PureView. At the heart of the device is a 1.3Ghz single core cpu coupled with 512mb of ram and whilst it does a fine job most of the time, there are certain moments where it doesn't keep pace with the user. Multitasking is available but having more than five apps open and the system begins to lag, beyond ten and out of memory errors rear their ugly head. But I can forgive the slight stutter here and there, what I have major issues with is the screen, chiefly its resolution of just 340 x 640 and just 184 DPI. Considering the quality of the photos and videos taken, it seems baffling that Nokia could not equip this device with a screen worthy of the 41 megapixel sensor.
So in review, fantastic, game changing camera technology, woeful operating system and mediocre hardware specifications. But you know what? I don't care. I can live with a clunky OS and so so performance when the focal point of the product is so damn good.
In short, the 808 PureView feels much like the embodiment of Nokia: maddening, infuriating, yet stunningly brilliant. Thomas Curtis looks at the Nokia 808 PureView, a smartphone with a 41 megapixel camera – is it marketing fluff or have Nokia raised the bar for what we expect a smart phone camera to be capable of?


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Concord, NH- On a September campaign stop at the Strawberry Banke Museum in Portsmouth, President Obama and his entourage cost the historic city over $30,000 in police, fire and public works support. When the Portsmouth City Council, by a majority vote, rightfully asked his campaign for reimbursement, the President refused, leaving the city to recover costs that it never expected to have.
"This is the epitome of the fiscal cliff debate in Washington. The President and the Democrat party feel they can spend, spend, spend without any consequence or ownership," said New Hampshire Republican State Committee Chairman Wayne MacDonald. "When the campaign raised hundreds of millions of dollars, this is what we expected they would spend it on. It is unfair to burden the City of Portsmouth and its citizens with such a large bill when they are forced to host events for political candidates. Because this was not an official visit, Obama for America should have appropriately budgeted for these expenses and must settle their debt with Portsmouth."
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W.S. Merwin to Receive 2010 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement
GAMBIER, Ohio — The Kenyon Review has selected poet W.S. Merwin, the freshly minted poet laureate of the United States, as the winner of the 2010 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement.
Merwin will accept the Kenyon Review award at a gala benefit dinner in New York City on Nov. 4 and will visit Kenyon College on Nov. 6 to deliver the keynote address at the fourth annual Kenyon Review Literary Festival.
Read more about Merwin and the KR Award for Literary Achievement here.
KR Young Writers awarded grant from the Surdna Foundation
In September of 2010, the Surdna Foundation awarded KR a three year, $150,000 Thriving Cultures grant to identify and recruit underserved, exceptional teen writers and provide them with scholarship funding to attend the KR Young Writers Workshop. Funds will also be used to identify regional writing advocates who can partner with KR and support the recruitment project. The project will have a national scope, and will focus on disadvantaged urban and rural schools.
KR developed a pilot recruitment model with support from a previous award from Surdna, focusing on recruitment in Ohio, with a emphasis on schools in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, and rural areas of the state. We will continue our outreach in Ohio, as we embark on this new, national outreach project provided for by the latest award.
Read more about Surdna and Young Writers here. [This will go into a KR News flow]
KR Introduces Two New Editors
We are excited to welcome two new editors to the KR masthead: Daniel Torday and Zach Savich, who have signed on as KR's Book Review editors. Each will be responsible for soliciting and editing book reviews for KR, and both have a history as KR writers and reviewers. Look for timely and incisive reviews in upcoming KR print issues and KROnline web updates.
Is that The Kenyon Review in your pocket?
In partnership with our friends at Electric Literature, KR is excited to announce the launch of an Apple application that is compatible with the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Priced at $3.99, each purchase includes the Summer 2010 issue of the magazine for free! Each subsequent issue will also be produced for the app and priced at $3.99, a savings of over 60% off the single issue print price. Whether on paper on in pixels, take the great writing in each KR with you now, wherever you go—in your pocket or in your backpack.
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Knox Reads Merwin
KR launched this year's Knox Reads! initiative by giving away free copies of The Shadow of Sirius, the Pulitzer Prize winning poetry collection of current U.S. Poet Laureate, W.S. Merwin. Copies were distributed at the Oct. 2nd Mt. Vernon Farmers' Market, as well as through Paragraphs bookstore and the Kenyon College Bookstore.
Check out the full slate of Knox Reads! events here.
Join Us in The Shadow of Sirius
Join us at the Kenyon Review Blog in October for an online book discussion of W.S. Merwin's The Shadow of Sirius, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Four emerging poets will lead a discussion on the book, as well as on Merwin's place in twentieth century and contemporary poetics. Pick up your copy of The Shadow of Sirius and plan to join us!
For brief bios of the poets, click here.
Marilyn Hacker wins 2010 PEN/Voelcker Award
Poet and former KR Editor Marilyn Hacker has won the 2010 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. The award is given to a poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature.
In their award citation, judges Christopher Ricks, Marie Ponsot, and David Ferry wrote:
Her subjects, her occasions, are various—erotic love, the life and look of neighborhoods, in Paris, in New York, the lives and troubles of friends, the besieged worlds of other writers, the outrages of our leaders; and her voice, as called for by her occasions, is joyful, tender, self-amused, and angry, alive—and even in the anger there's joy, the exhilaration of saying it well, and saying it right to you.
Marilyn Hacker served as editor of The Kenyon Review from 1990 to 1994.
The seventh annual Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers will begin accepting entries in November. The prize, which is open to high school sophomores and juniors throughout the world, is juried by David Baker, KR's poetry editor.
Students are invited to submit one poem via an online submission system beginning November 1. Visit KR's Web site for a link to the contest submission page at that time. The contest will close on November 30.
For more information on how to enter, click here.
KR is pleased to announce the Fall 2010 Reading Series. All readings are free and open to the public.
Click here for the full slate of readings in Gambier.
The Kenyon Review is proud to present selections from I Take Back the Sponge Cake: A Lyrical Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book combining drawings and poems by Invisible Seeing Machine, the collaboration of Sierra Nelson and Loren Erdrich. Winner of the NYU Washington Square Review Prize for Collaboration 2010, the book is forthcoming in Fall 2010 from Q Ave Press.
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In less than 2 weeks, this feeling will crack—
A dark head full of dark thoughts meets a ferry.
Each year after fighting the antlers fall off,
Shake your poor, incandescent head—
TIDE: ebb and flow at sea
High _______________, we met in the dark by the docks.
If you choose tide, go to page 9.
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"You look, from all appearances, / like a poem."
Thomas Glave has a long history with KR. His most recent story "The Torturer's Wife" appeared in our Fall 2008 issue. "Interview With The Not-Poem first appeared in our Spring, 2003 issue, and has since been reprinted in Readings for Writers.
Spring 2003, Vol. XXV, No. 2.
Interview with the Not-Poem
Interviewer: "But how can you call yourself
You look, from all appearances,
You crouch,
Your flesh
of all poems,
So how,
Not-Poem: "But then do not call me a poem,
I came recently from that country
simply un,
Entire poems were murdered
Click here to finish "Interview with The Not Poem."
September 20, 2010 —
At the edge of the caldera, a pack animal stumbles:
The following evening as they rode up onto the western rim they lost one of the mules. It went skittering off down the canyon wall with the contents of the panniers exploding soundlessly in the hot dry air and it fell through sunlight and through shade, turning in that lonely void until it fell from sight into a sink of cold blue space that absolved it forever of memory in the mind of any living thing that was.
Is creation finished? That is: is everything in the world already, that will one day exist or occur?
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