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This article was published 18/9/2012 (1799 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
IQALUIT, Nunavut -- The thing that you never think about as a passenger on an aircraft hurtling toward takeoff is that the length of the runway is finite -- it has an end, marked by big yellow-and-black barriers that could, shall we say, trip the aircraft, snag its wheels and bring it down before it gets up.
But looking forward from the cockpit of a Boeing 767 taking off from Winnipeg International Airport at 270 km/h, the end of the road very quickly becomes clear. It wasn't frightening, but I must say the approaching end focused my mind until the instant when all became comparatively silent and we "slipped the surly bonds" with lots of runway to spare, climbing at a rate that was exhilarating to witness through the large and panoramic windows of the cockpit.
So began my flight aboard a First Air freighter carrying nearly 41,000 kilograms of provisions to Iqaluit on Baffin Island in Nunavut, 2,270 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg.
The 767, the largest of First Air's fleet of 21 aircraft, and the largest aircraft servicing the North, is not the Arctic's lifeline, but it is an important strand in the logistical web that sustains the people of the Far North in their remote and far-flung communities.
Based out of Ottawa, the First Air 767 flies five or six times a week to Iqaluit, moving more than 226,000 kilograms of freight, half of which is destined for stores operated by Winnipeg's North West Company, the modern successor of the Hudson's Bay Co., which established trade into the North in 1670.
When I first considered taking the flight, I imagined crossing the coast of Manitoba into James Bay -- The Coast! Of Manitoba! -- and flying another 1,200 kilometres over the choppy waters of Hudson Bay in a couple of hours. I imagined the months explorer Henry Hudson spent in 1611 covering the same distance -- a lifetime, as it turned out for Hudson, whose crew mutinied and set him adrift to perish.
But a straight line from Winnipeg does not cross the Manitoba coast, but rather the Ontario coast at Fort Severn, and then across the south and north coasts of Kuujjuaq region in northern Quebec.
I suspect, however, the Manitoba coast looks much like the Ontario coast from 35,000 feet. As we came to land's end after crossing what pilot Gord Wallace called "a great expanse of very little," we could see far below seeming-corrugated mud flats of flowing dun- and bone-coloured shore ending at a pencil-thin line of yellow beach, beyond which the waters were clouded muddy for miles, finally clearing into an expanse of pen-ink blue.
There was nothing else to see -- water and clouds, clouds and water. No signs of man, only of God.
Wallace said that occasionally he will spot a ship steaming to Churchill, but only in season. On this day, however, we saw one other sign of humanity -- a jetliner about 30 kilometres distant, looking much like a white rocket streaking west propelled by a tail of black smoke.
Flying First Air is nothing like the reality-show fantasies seen on History Channel. In fact, First Air crew are dismissive, even derisive, of the TV programs.
"They make it seem dramatic and dangerous," first officer Will Stonehouse said. "But there's no room for romance in aviation. You wouldn't catch me working there."
Careful preparation starts long before takeoff. Goods -- mostly dry goods, frozen foods and sundries -- are moved by North West Co. to the First Air warehouse at the Winnipeg airport. There they are loaded onto aluminum "pizza-plate" pallets and weighed. A computer then determines by weight where each of 19 pallets will be positioned inside the hold to achieve balance. (Aircraft are much like boats -- put too much weight to the front, back or sides and they will want to tip in that direction in the air, which is fluid). Each pallet is locked in place -- no loose cannons allowed.
The cargo this day consists of appliances -- all the way from China, as Leonard Cohen sang -- sundries and a great deal of those frowned-upon northern staples -- frozen pizza and chicken-things, battered this and that, potato chips and pop.
To some extent, the relative flow of fast food and snacks is slowing as a result of a year-old federal program that switched transport subsidies from pretty much anything that could be flown north to more nutritious foods -- fresh produce, dairy, meats.
The program, well-received in the south where nutritious food is plentiful and cheap compared to junk, has not proved a winner in the North, where it has become a lightning rod for discontent about the high cost of food, healthy or otherwise.
Much of the rancour is aimed at the North West Co., which pretty much owns the grocery market in the North, with 130 stores dispensing more than $1 billion of goods ($1.5 billion if you throw in the rest of Canada and the Caribbean).
Criticism of the near-monopoly, however, is dismissed by thoughtful northerners such as Jim Bell, the editor of Nunatsiaq News, a Michener-nominated weekly newspaper based in Iqaluit. Bell said that with annual reports indicating that North West last year had a six per cent return on operations, there is no evidence of gouging, as critics charge.
Rather, he says, the price of North West products, like everything else in the North, is the result of the punishing costs posed by logistical challenges.
Not surprisingly, that's the position taken by Craig Gilpin, chief corporate officer of the North West Co.
"We get lots of media talk about prices in the North," he said. "And we understand it. We live there."
Utility costs, he said, are 400 per cent to 500 per cent higher in the North than the south, construction costs are at least double. The company maintains 500 housing units for some of its 6,900 employees. A simple thing like a repair to a refrigeration unit can cost 20 times the rate in the south as it requires airlifting a repairman, his equipment and, hopefully, the right parts to a remote site, where he must be fed and sheltered.
Planning is mind-boggling and long-range. How much flour can be sea-lifted to Resolute next year? What might be the demand in Repulse for snowmobiles and can they be moved cost-effectively by truck to Thompson, train to Churchill and barge to market before freeze-up? Or should they come around by sea from the Quebec north shore?
So, it's trucks as far as feasible, track as far as possible, barges as much as floatable and air when all else is impossible. Remember: There are no roads from anywhere in Nunavut to anywhere else.
"We use the lowest-cost option to get goods the farthest north possible," Gilpin succinctly explained.
The nutrition subsidies, which replaced the former food mail subsides, have cut prices of eligible, perishable air-lift goods by 15 per cent on average, Gilpin said.
But still there are complaints. Flour is nutritious, for example, but is not subsidized because it can be moved by barge in summer. Fresh chicken is eligible, but frozen, coated chicken, which many find more desirable, is ineligible.
Gilpin seemed sympathetic to complaints about the lack of subsidy for some products -- for example disposable diapers, which are as "essential" to contemporary life in the North as they are in the south, perhaps more so.
Which brings us back to the First Air 767-200. First Air purchased the aircraft, familiar to most travellers as a passenger plane (and to buffs as the model flown by terrorists into the Twin Towers) when it realized it could move twice as much cargo as a 727 for the same cost in fuel.
So, too, did North West Co., which was shipping cargo to Ottawa to take advantage of the aircraft's economies of scale. But then North West asked: Why truck stuff to Ottawa that could be flown north from Winnipeg? That led to an agreement to fly, starting just two months ago in July, once a week loaded from Ottawa to Iqaluit on Wednesdays, then to Winnipeg, where it is loaded on Thursday mornings, flown back to Iqaluit in the afternoon and then to Ottawa in the evening to start over.
First Air says the arrangement will save $650,000 a year, all of which is to be passed on to consumers in lower prices -- not much in a more than $1-billion equation, but nothing to sneeze at, either.
Gilpin said despite its critics, North West faces considerable competition by Internet and is committed to lowest-possible pricing.
It has an arrangement with Winnipeg's Dufresne Furniture, for example, to supply compact designs that not only fit easily into the 767, but then into First Air's seven smaller 737s, its two Hercs and 11 ATRs, which move the payloads on from Iqaluit across the unbelievably vast North. The territory of Nunavut, for example, has a population of 33,000 spread over two million square kilometres -- 20 per cent of Canada's entire land mass.
First Air, owned by a Makivik Corp., a "birthright" corporation created from money flowing to the Inuit from the James Bay Agreement in Quebec, is not a private company in the same mould as North West Co., but it can hardly be accused of gouging, operating by most accounts at break-even.
"Any profit goes back into investment in the communities," Bill Thompson, vice-president of commercial operations, said. "We build arenas, gymnasiums, what have you.
"When we started, aboriginals were not involved in airlines. Land claims gave us money to invest. We looked at the isolation, the need for air service. To have control of the type of service that we wanted it to be, it made sense to invest in airlines."
A few minutes short of Iqaluit, warnings sounded on the 767. I was invited to take, again, a coveted cockpit seat. There below was Frobisher Bay, a fiord, really, leading straight to the runway at Iqaluit, a runway so long and large that it was used to cold-weather test the world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380.
Islands began to appear, then a rocky, treeless, low-mountained shoreline of drab-green and grey. The bay led straight to the runway built by the U.S. army in the distant past when Iqaluit didn't exist except as a word meaning "many fish."
Over there a huddle of houses -- Apex, the original Inuit village, as I learned -- then more, and then a townsite, small city of gaily coloured two-, three-, even four-storey buildings, most shining-new.
We touched down and taxied past the "yellow-submarine" terminal to the First Air hanger. The cargo-bay doors opened. Heavy-lift machines appeared and started to unload the nearly 41,000 kg of stuff to be dispersed quickly across the northern frontier by increasingly smaller aircraft.
Elapsed time from "O Canada" to the "True North Strong and Free?" Three hours and two minutes.


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Research by scientists in pursuit of super strong material is in progress. Partial success has been achieved in previous research on this subject, and the materials obtained have found uses in many areas. For example, "Kevlar" which is inspired by the chemical structure of spider silk, was first designed to replace steel in automobile tyres. Now, it has numerous areas of use: in the beams of airbags in the Pathfinder that was designed to travel to Mars; in passenger protecting shields of jet aircrafts; in the production of lightweight ropes of small diameter that are used in the mooring of huge vessels and super tankers; and in the production of lighter but stronger tennis rackets.
Kevlar also has some disadvantages, even though it is strong and lightweight. For example, when used to manufacture bullet-proof vests, it reduces the mobility of the wearer since it is very hard. Therefore, it is not very suitable for tasks requiring agility and speed. Moreover, it may absorb water and is not as durable as other materials against natural factors. In addition, its compressive properties are relatively weak in spite of its high tensile strength. Hence, there are still a number of improvements that could be made on Kevlar. (Harun Yahya, Biomimetic)
All these disadvantages of Kevlar are enough to show that spider silk, which is five times stronger than steel wire of the same thickness, in spite of its diameter being smaller than one tenth of one millimetre, is a perfect wonder of design. In the issue published in August 2001 of National Geographic, a well-known scientific magazine, these creatures were examined under the heading "Spiders puzzle evolutionists with their art". In his statement to the magazine, Mr. Bill Eberhard, a well-known biologist, described conscious movements of spiders and their excellent webs as follows:
"You have an essentially blind animal with a limited nervous system building a complicated structure in an unpredictable environment. The spider makes what for a human would be very complex calculations: 'How big is the open space? How much silk do I have? What attachment points are available?' Spiders are not little automatons making the same thing over and over. They're flexible. And they're not stupidly flexible; they're smart flexible."
Attempts to produce spider silk are some of the most exciting developments in the search for super strong materials.
Now, scientists aim at producing spider silk directly rather than producing imitations of its chemical structure. However, producing the fibres from the spiders themselves is not as easy as milking the cow, because very large areas are necessary to collect silk in adequate quantities and this is not economically viable. Moreover, collecting silk in high quantities is extremely difficult since spiders tend to eat each other.
For all these reasons, a company called Nexia entered into an agreement to produce spider web silk by utilizing goats, with the Departments of Defence of the USA and Canada. This advanced gene technology is preferred due to the similarities between milk glands of goats and secretory glands of spiders. They are attempting to re-engineer the DNA of goats, so that they secrete silk instead of milk.1
The spider silk, the exact like of which scientists are trying to manufacture artificially is being web by spider for 380 millions of years. ("A Devonian Spinneret: Early Evidence of Spiders and Silk Use," Science, Shear, W.A., J.M.Palmer, 246:479-481.) This is without doubt one of signs of the perfect creations of Allah. All these extraordinary processes are within the dominion of Allah and take place by His will. One verse of the Qur'an states as thus:
"..There is no creature He does not hold by the forelock.." (Surah Hud, 56)
1-"A Devonian Spinneret: Early Evidence of Spiders and Silk Use," Science, Shear, W.A., J.M.Palmer, 246:479-481.

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65 Modern Art Books Available for Free Online
The Guggenheim has digitized 65 art catalogs and made them available online, free of charge. These texts include introductions to artists such as Kandinsky, Calder, and Munch as well as thematic introductions to modern art. Many of them contain full-color images.
If you have trouble using the online reader format (which includes an interactive page-turning feature), you can download PDFs and other versions at Archive.org.
Via Open Culture.
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NVIDIA Refreshes Quadro Lineup, Launches 5 New Quadro Cardsby Ryan Smith on 8/12/2014 10:45 AM EST
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ArthurG - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkno article on Nvidia Denver ? Reply
Morawka - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkcuz it's faster than apple's a7 silly Reply
extide - Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - linkNo, because it is vaporware Reply
Gunbuster - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkFantastic plastic! I know these get hidden in workstations but do they have to sport dollar store plastic shrouds? I mean the K5200 is going to be a $2000 something card right? Reply
TiGr1982 - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkThese are professional cards for doing work, not for bragging. Professionals don't care how they look, but only how they work. Reply
TETRONG - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkCan somebody clue me in? Why is it that GPU's all seem to be backing off bigger memory buses?
256 bit...isn't that simply an artificial constraint?
Really curious about this - Shouldn't 512 and higher be considered the norm at this time, especially for professional usage? Reply
akdj - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkWith memory bandwidth @ 288GB/s and 12GB RAM clocked @ 6GHz, 256mb is plenty. Quite a lot actually. Almost 175 3.5" floppies guiding a three billion opposing traffic system. They're good at what they do;). I'm not so sure it needs to be larger as 256 is actually quite massive. For a memory bus. These are going to be incredible cards. Reply
RussianSensation - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - link288GB/sec on K6000 is achieved with a 384-bit bus, not 256-bit. Your numbers aren't lining up. Reply
Morawka - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkthe smaller the memory bus, the smaller the DIE is. The more you harvest from a wafer.
Companies are going to small bus, big seats approach by putting a lot of cache to offset.
TLDR: to increase profit margins Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - link"the smaller the memory bus, the smaller the DIE is"
I think he was referring more to the fact that K5200 uses an expensive GK110 chip with 384 bit memory bus, yet artificially limits its performance by only using 256 of these bits. The wider memory bus could give nVidia "free" performance (only slightly more complex PCB) from the same chip, or similar performance from a chip running a more power efficient setting. Reply
yik3000 - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkSo in the perspective of 3DS Max user, with the recent improvement of viewport performance for gaming GPU and V-Ray RT for CUDA, is it necessary to spend crazy money on Quadros anymore? Reply
mapesdhs - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - link
That depends on whether or not you want the quality. Gamer cards are simply not designed
to be hammered in the same way as pro cards, and then there are differences in support
structure, warranty, etc. It's true that various pro apps no longer show such a huge speed
difference because vendors have deliberately shrunk the gap (as shown by Viewperf 12
results), but if you decide to save on the pennies by getting a gamer card, don't be
surprised if it fails a lot sooner than you'd like.
Also, please note that one reason why gamer cards are, on paper, seemingly so
fast for some pro apps now is because they cut an awful lot of corners as regards
geometry precision and rendering quality. For example, the performance of a
7970 for Viewperf 12 looks really impressive, but the image quality is nowhere
near that of a Quadro. For many pro tasks, image precision is important, eg. CAD,
medical, etc. I guess it's up to you whether the lower cost of a gamer card is worth
sacrificing what pro cards have as extras, especially ECC, better compute, etc.
Btw, there is of course always the used market. I bought a Quadro K5000 recently,
it was only 550 UKP, excellent deal.
Also, do note that for some pro apps the performance difference vs. gamer cards
still persists, eg. CATIA and ProE.
PS. If you want strong CUDA on a budget, get a bunch of used 3GB 580s. Four will be
faster than two Titan Blacks, works very well, if you don't mind the power, noise, etc. :D Reply
yik3000 - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkThanks!! Reply
mapesdhs - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkApologies for following up my own post...
I meant to say, IMO the K5200 is the most impressive new card NVIDIA has released
in quite a long time. The shader bump, VRAM increase, etc., all add up to something
which finally looks like a worthy upgrade for pro users stuck with older cards like the
4000, etc., though it depends on the pricing I guess.
Ian. Reply
p1esk - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - link"If you want strong CUDA on a budget, get a bunch of used 3GB 580s. Four will be
faster than two Titan Blacks"
What are you talking about? 580 has 512 cores. Titan Black has 2880 cores. Four 580 cards will be slower than a single Titan card. Reply
Senti - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkThey are very different cores. Think like old fat AMD CPU cores and new pathetic ones: yes, "core count" is greater, but performance? Reply
p1esk - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkHow exactly the cores are different? Reply
Senti - Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - linkFirst of all Kepler's cores work at doubled frequency. Second, for many computational loads how cores are packed in CC2.0 is more efficient than how it went from CC2.1: reached/theoretical FLOPS ratio usually is way higher for CC2.0 hardware. Reply
Senti - Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - linkedit: Fermi cores work at doubled frequency compared to Kepler ones. Reply
p1esk - Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - linkInteresting, I didn't know that. I looked up the comparison of 580 vs Titan, and it seems I was wrong, 580 is a decent performer for compute tasks. But still, I doubt 4 580s will outperform two Titan Blacks.
Here's a good performance analysis:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6774/nvidias-geforce... Reply
romrunning - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkIs there a performance comparison somewhere between these new Quadros and the new FirePros? Is would be nice to see someone do some SolidWorks tests on these new cards and existing cards to really show how they perform on an application for which workstations graphics cards are designed Reply
nathanddrews - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkThey were just announced today, so it will be a while before they make it to market and can be benched... Tom's Hardware recently covered everything from K6000/W9100 and below with lots of benchmarks. Very informative and should give you a baseline for what to expect from these new cards. Reply
aabeba - Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - linkI'm saving up some money over the summer for a PC that I'd like to use both for gaming at 1440p and 4K and for work in programs like Houdini, Maya and ZBrush. I'm still in the learning stages, but I'd like the computer to be powerful enough a few years later, when I'm doing more demanding work (mostly character modeling and animation). At a budget of around $7-10K, should I run with enthusiast i7 or Xeon CPU, and a Titan Black SLI config or a Quadro? Any tips and reasoning appreciated. Reply
Sindalis - Friday, August 15, 2014 - linkQuadro cards do not use GeForce drivers and are not optimized for games.
The difference between the i7 and the Xeon is primarily the type of memory it uses. Xeon's support workstation and server ECC memory, i7's do not. You're probably going to want a Xeon so you can use ECC memory for your rendering. If ECC memory is not important to you, go with the i7.
If you want something that's primarily a gaming machine with the ability to also be decent at graphic design. Go with Titan Blacks.
If you want a machine that's primarily for graphic design with little focus or care on the gaming part. Go with Quadro. Reply


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Explore the Beauty of Maps, Old and New
The BBC provides digital tours of "five of the world's most beautiful old maps," including a Psalter Map from 1260 which shows the earth as a flat round disc and a satirical map from 1877 depicting Russia as an octopus (above). The same website also features maps of the digital world, including a map of blogging and a map of global data exchange.
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SEVENTEEN schools across Castle Point have joined forces to become a charitable trust to help secure more funding and improve learning.
Primary and secondary schools in Benfleet and Thundersley have come together to form the Benfleet and Thundersley Interschools Cluster to enhance teaching, share facilities and obtain thousands of pounds of additional grants.
The trust, which has been four years in the making, has already secured £77,000 of lottery funding to allow pupils to learn more about the heritage of Hadleigh Farm and the legacy of the Games.
Youngsters recently visited the Olympic venue and will be studying the history of local athletes and what the future holds now the sporting event is over.
A further £1,500 has also been obtained to teach pupils more about sports in the Paralympics.
Dominic Carver, head teacher at South Benfleet Primary School, said: "Now that we have charitable status we can bid for funding to start up projects which will improve learning, get pupils out of the classroom and make their education more enjoyable.
"The schools can also work more closely together and share expertise, where some are a mathematics or special needs specialist school for example. Where we improve our teaching, that is a benefit which will have a significant impact on children's lessons.
"Ultimately, we want to ensure our pupils get the best possible opportunities for an excellent education."
Plans are also in the pipeline to bid for funding to start up a new speech therapy project to help build students' confidence and help those suffering from speech impediments.
The schools which have signed up are: The Deanes School, Hadleigh Infants and Nursery, Hadleigh Junior,Holy Family Catholic Primary, Jotmans Hall Primary, Kents Hill Infant, Kents Hill Junior,Kingston Primary, Montgomerie Infants School, Montgomerie Junior School, The Robert Drake Primary, South Benfleet Primary, Thundersley Primary, Westwood Primary, Woodham Ley Primary, Cedar Hall and Glenwood Schools.


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What Would Texas Look Like if Marijuana Was Legal? [POLL]
Two states have legalized marijuana this year. What would Texas look like if we followed them? This is something that is not soon to come, but it would be interesting to imagine, right?
With Colorado and Washington voting for the legalization of marijuana in their states, who is next? The South might take a little longer to feel comfortable with this idea, though. Maybe New Orleans, Atlanta, and Nashville will help influence the push for more lenient laws on the drug. Will the liberal-leaning Austin help guide Texas to the idea?
I want to paint an imaginary scene for you of what could happen if Texas voted in favor of pot.
It seems that medical marijuana licensing is the slippery slope that warms up a state to legalization of the plant. So, lets start there. Let's pretend that Austin and all of the weird that comes with the city have convinced our state government to allow medical marijuana for our cancer sufferers.
Slowly, acceptancewill spread.
Local celebrities will be caught by paparazzi with pipes in hand around the city. Texas Monthly magazine will do stories about the new culture growing in Texas. The Onion, the satirical newspaper, would be a lot more funny to some. Food trailers around the bat city will start offering THC infused sweet treats. Willie Nelson will spend more time than ever in his home state to avoid the arrests and charges he receives when out on the road. Blues on the Green, ACL, and SXSW will be enjoyed in massive clouds of smoke. This smoke will mix with that flowing out of Franklin's BBQ and the Salt Lick as their sales increase with the surge of munchies that grows everyday. Everything will have just a bit of difference to it, but the big change will happen when Governor Rick Perry will admit on live television that he loves a joint at the end of a busy day running the state.
Remember, this isn't real. But, what if it was? Would Perry take part in the marijuana take over? How fast would the trend spread? How long would it take before Texas completely legalized marijuana? Why would we be in favor of this?
Elspeth Reeves of the Atlantic Wire reported this, "It's a little funny that legalization really could spread through a pet idea of dorm room stoners going back years: states will figure out they can make lots of money taxing weed."
That is something that Washington and Colorado are soon to take advantage of, the extra tax revenue. Texas being a large state with a large population might like the idea of more income to help those citizens.
But, why has Texas refused this extra revenue? Why will we not see our state go up in smoke any time soon?
The effects of marijuana intake are not fully understood yet. It seems like it could be a dangerous decision to hand it out over the counter. There are legitimate arguments coming from both sides, for and against.
There are some facts out there to find, though. According to DrugeAbuse.org the effects of marijuana ingestion include, "[i]n one study, heavy marijuana abusers reported that the drug impaired several important measures of life achievement, including physical and mental health, cognitive abilities, social life, and career status." They also comment on what happens inside the users body. Apparently there are carcinogens within the joint's, bong's, pipe's, and blunt's smoke. Some of these carcinogens are the same as those found in cigarette smoke, which we all know to be bad for us. Because pot smokers inhale and hold the smoke longer than a regular smoker, the carcinogens are exposing the lungs for longer. Yet, the links to marijuana smoke to cancer are not concrete. It seems, though, that every other form of smoke or outside substance introduced to the lungs causes problems down the line. So, it is easy to believe that "taking a hit from the bong" will end up causing something wrong in the lungs of the smoker.
If Texans become "pot heads," we might see problems down the line for health care and productivity. None of this is a for sure thing, but we can wait and see what happens in Colorado and Washington. If we decided that these effects are not too much of a change from the legal drugs we have such as; alcohol and tobacco products, what would the federal government have to say about a stoned Texas?
The president has been answering a lot of questions recently because of the new state laws set. What does he think the US government's responsibility is?
Let's go back to the daydream of what Texas would look like if marijuana was legal. Would it take our state in a bad or good direction? Would our systems and sense of control be thrown out with the dirty bong water? Would the Dallas Cowboys be able to come back to win another Super Bowl if they tested positive for THC? 'Dazed and Confused' was filmed here, would life turn into that movie script? Would all of our high school students spend more time climbing light towers and listening to Led Zeppelin and not remember to graduate? Or, would our seniors and cancer patients live more at ease because smoking has made them regain their hunger and their level of pain is lessened?
Lots of changes would happen in Texas if everyone was getting high. Who knows what would really go on, but we can rest knowing that this imaginary world will not happen within our life time. I still want to know, though, what do you think about a sticky, rolled up, and smoked Texas?
Please, keep in mind that all of the speculations and statements made while imagining what could happen are not meant to be seen as fact nor opinion. This is a fake and made up idea of fiction.


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Five Spring-Perfect Emmy Rossum Ensembles
Beautiful Creatures' deliciously evil siren knows that looks can kill. So get ready to fall hard for these five fabulous outfits!
-Diana Denza
We adore the mega-talented Emmy Rossum for her soaring vocals and serious acting chops. But did you know that her perfectly put-together getups make her a fashion blogger favorite? That's why we simply had to recreate five of the 26-year-old actress/singer-songwriter/fashionista's best looks. And we pulled them together right in time for spring wardrobe revamping! We might not be able to cause boys to drop to their knees at the lick of a lollipop a la Rossum's Beautiful Creatures character, but at least we can come close.
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Get to the Point - vinyl wall art decal phrases
Tell it how it is. Get to the point. A unique way to greet your guests, and a little reminder for yourself. This set of 8 vinyl surface decals are the perfect way to give your space a little attitude. Each phrase measures 2.25" high and up to 17" wide.


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Oh, and you can tell how absolutely knackered I was at this point (I'd got up at 3 in the morning and by now we'd been on the road for hours). I was not 'wailing for the ferry to leave' and the cafe wasn't full of seagulls. I was looking at them through the window.
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Apopka police officer's 3-year-old child drowns
Published: Monday, June 24, 2013 at 8:49 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, June 24, 2013 at 8:49 a.m.
APOPKA, Fla. — The 3-year-old daughter of an Apopka police officer drowned in a backyard pool.
Orlando television station WFTV reports the girl drowned shortly after noon on Sunday. She was rushed to Florida Hospital South, where she died.
Authorities have not released the family's identity.
Orange County Sheriff's deputies say the drowning was accidental, but remains under investigation.
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KETTERING, Ohio (AP) -- Authorities say two Japanese grenades from the World War II era caused a scare when they were found during an estate sale in a residential area of southwestern Ohio.
The Dayton Daily News (http://bit.ly/x7XRJ1 ) reports the Dayton bomb squad was called Sunday evening after someone found the explosives at the sale in suburban Kettering. The squad safely detonated the devices in an open field.
Larry Hyatt was running the sale and says the trigger string for the devices was "rotten-looking."
Kettering police were worried about the potential hazard of the old explosives, and they suspended radio transmission during the incident out of concern that the communication frequencies would trigger a blast. They also told onlookers near the house to avoid using their cellphones until the grenades were removed.
Information from: Dayton Daily News, http://www.daytondailynews.com


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September 27, 2012
Special reunion events give returning alumni the opportunity to reconnect with friends and professors during Wheaton College's 2012 Homecoming Weekend.
September 26, 2012
The "Thunder Sports Report" has nine new interviews now on the Wheaton Athletics website.
September 25, 2012
Wheaton College faculty regularly publish books and articles. Here is a list of recent books.
September 21, 2012
The Artist Series at Wheaton College presents the Cashore Marioneets in performances on September 21 and 22.


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Foreign Minister Westerwelle on Germany's membership in the Security Council
At the end of the year, Germany will finish its term as a non‑permanent member of the UN Security Council. On 19 December Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle presented to the Cabinet a review of Germany's two-year term on the Council.
The roughly 40‑page‑long report "Germany in the UN Security Council in 2011-12" summarizes the issues the Security Council has dealt with over the past two years. The changes which have swept through the Arab world have loomed large in the Council's work during this time. But the Council has also continued to devote a great deal of attention to its traditional area of focus, the African continent.
Foreign Minister Westerwelle wrote in the forward to the report that it offered the reader an impression of the "remarkable array of issues and problems" addressed in the Security Council. Westerwelle wrote that the widespread image of the Security Council as dealing only with decisions about sanctions and military operations was too narrow. "What is always at the fore of the Council's work is the struggle to find political solutions, to reach consensus on the political processes without which scarcely any violent conflict can be resolved for the long term, and without which lasting stability and peace remain unattainable."
German areas of focus
The report also presents the particular emphases of Germany's work in the Security Council, from chairing the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict and the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee to acting as lead coordinator on Afghanistan. Westerwelle wrote that the passage of Presidential Statements – on the security implications of climate change in July 2011 and in praise of the Arab League's new role in September 2012 – showed that Germany had been able to bring important issues onto the Council's agenda.
Broad-ranging engagement in the United Nations
Westerwelle said that while Germany's influence within the United Nations would decline with its exit from the Security Council, "our work has gained international recognition". And Germany's engagement in the United Nations would remain broad-ranging and intense: as newly elected a member of the Human Rights Council as of 2013, as one of the most important financial contributors to the UN, and as a contributor of troops for UN missions in Lebanon, South Sudan and Darfur.
"For German foreign policy the United Nations remains an essential force for shaping our globalized world in accordance with rules and values," Westerwelle said.


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Sleep Inn Hotel Paseo Las Damas
3rd Avenue 9 & 11 st., Del Parque Morazan 50 Metros Este., San Jose, San Jose, Costa Ricahttp://www.sleepinnsanjose.com(506) 2521-6500Del Parque Morazán, 50 Metros al Este.
Points of Interest
National Museum
Cuesta de Moras, San José, Costa Ricahttp://www.museocostarica.go.cr2257 1433It was created on May 4, 1887 by agreement No. 60, during the administration of President Bernardo Soto Alfaro.
Plaza de La Democracia
Avenida Segunda, San José, Costa Ricahe square, symbol of peace and democracy in Costa Rica has 20 ramps for disabled access, railings, lighting and greenery.
Gold Museum
Calle 5, San José, Costa Ricahttp://www.museosdelbancocentral.org2243 4202The Pre-Columbian Gold Museum has an extraordinary collection of gold objects that reflect the world view, social structure and gold-working techniques of the Pre-Columbian peoples of Costa Rica.
Jade Museum
Laisa, San José, Costa Ricahttp://portal.ins-cr.com/portal.ins-cr.com/Social/MuseoJade2287 6034It houses an archaeological collection consists of a wide range of ceramic artifacts, bone, wood, shell and stone and statuary, metates, manos and other
Children Museum
Union, San José, Costa Rica2258 4929This institution houses others three important projects for Costa Rican culture. These are the National Gallery, the National Auditorium Theatre and a zone for young people.
National Theatre
Avenida Segunda entre Calles 3 y 5, Centro, San José, Costa Ricahttp://www.teatronacional.go.crThis theater represents the Costa Rican decision when to take action and economic policy of the time in which it was built stability (brought by picking CAFE1) and.
Metropolitan Cathedral
Calle Central, Avenida Segunda, Avenida 2, San José, Costa Rica2221 3820The original cathedral was built in 1802 but was destroyed by an earthquake. It was replaced in 1871 by a design by Eusebio Rodríguez in a style which combines Greek Orthodox, Neoclassical and Baroque styles with its Doric pilasters and neoclassical pediment with steeples at the side at the front of the building.
China Town
Barrio Chino, San José, Costa RicaThe area began to develop as a commercial center during the last decades of the twentieth century, mostly with the installation of supermarkets, shops and some restaurants whose owners are Eastern.
Simón Bolivar Zoo
Parque Zoológico Simón Bolívar, Calle 13, San José, Costa RicaIs Botanical Garden (1916) and the country's oldest zoo (1921). It is located in Barrio Otoya, on the banks of river Torres. Its name is a tribute to Simon Bolivar, since the zoo opened on July 24, 1921 during the celebrations for the birth of the Liberator.
Antigua Aduana
Calle 23, San José, Costa RicaHeritage building, which until recently ran the offices of the National Institute of Housing and Urban Development.
Casa del Cuño
The House of two floors filled Cuño best national design. The public visiting the exhibition will find a wide variety of furniture products, fashion and accessories from over 54 designers and designers representing 45 brands in 40 positions.
Restaurant & Lounges
Magnolia Restaurant
Avenida 3, San José, Costa Ricahttp://www.sleepinnsanjose.com/spanish/restaurant.html2521 6500Magnolia's restaurant offers you the ability to start or end your day, have breakfast, meats, poultry, seafood, pastas, desserts and a variety of beverage alternative.
Casino Club Colonial & Sport Bar
Avenida 1, San José, Costa Ricahttp://www.casinoclubcolonial.com/restaurante.html2521 6500Casino Club Colonial was founded in 1982, at the very start of the casino industry in Costa Rica, and 30 years later is still considered one of the best casinos San Jose Costa Rica has to offer.
Balcon de Europa
Calle 9, San José, Costa RicaItalian and French restaurant. First restaurant in Costa Rica, since 1909.
El Cuartel de la Boca del Monte
Av. 1 between Calles 21 and 23, San Jose, Costa Rica, Costa Rica2221 0327Specialized in a typical Costa Rican food menu restaurant. It has over 28 years serving delicious dishes and known.
Jazz Café
Pan American Hwy, San Pedro, Costa Ricahttp://www.jazzcafecostarica.com2253 8933Jazz Café Restaurant and Bar opened its doors in May 1999 in San Pedro. The idea was to become the home of high quality music, in particular for genres.
Bar Morazán
Av. 3 and Calle 9, on the eastern edge of Parque Morazán. Calle 9, San José, Costa Rica2256 5110Every evening a varied musical agenda and a delicious menu. Weekends electronic music with the best DJs in the country. The best atmosphere to enjoy with friends.
JR Ribs
Laisa, San José, Costa Ricahttp://www.jrribs.com2256 0991Specializing in ribs BBQ Restaurant. NATIONAL WORLD-FAMOUS RIB.
Centro Comercial El Pueblo
108, San Francisco, Costa Ricahttp://www.centrocomercialelpueblo.com/index_es.phpEnjoy the pleasant climate of Costa Rica, tropical vegetation and atmosphere outdoors in the El Pueblo Mall; a small city with narrow streets that lead to colonial style shops offering the best Costa Rican Art, meals and entertainment.
It is a place with good food, service, price ... everything you could ask for. Even has beautiful and sweet waitresses.
Av 11, San José, Costa RicaLocated in a restored Barrio Amon mansion, Bakea combines French cuisine with the ingredients of Costa Rica.
Tin Jo
Calle 11, between Avs. 6 and 8, Calle 11, San Jose, Costa Rica, Costa Ricahttp://www.tinjo.com2221 7605Tin Jo Restaurant is located in an old in the cultural heart of San Jose home, Costa Rica, close to theaters, museums, and galleries.
Multiplaza del Este
Multiplaza del Este has 130 shops with the best international and national brands; restaurants; modern theaters, a financial center and services, and department stores.
Corporate Centers
Mercedes Tower
Torre Mercedes, Calle 24, San José, Costa RicaAnother example of the modern skyscraper era, Torre Mercedes was the first modern skyrise on Paseo Colon.
Zona Franca Z
Alajuela, Costa RicaZETA Industrial Parks are home to over 100 companies from all over the world in different industries, most of them which operate under the Free Zones status.
Mexico Embassy
Avenida 7, San José, Costa Ricahttp://embamex.sre.gob.mx/costarica2257 0633
Spain Embassy
Calle 32, San José, Costa Rica2222 1933
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto
Avenida 7-9, Calle 11-13, San José, Costa Ricahttp://www.rree.go.cr2223 7555The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica was established on April 9, 1844, during the first administration of Don José María Alfaro Zamora, and its first owner was Dr. Don José María Castro Madriz (1818-1892), who later became the first President of the Republic
Hospital Clínica Bíblica
Avenida 14, San José, Costa Ricawww.clinicabiblica.comHospital Clinica Biblica is the largest and most comprehensive private hospital in Costa Rica. Founded in 1929, the hospital's mission and vision focuses on the health of each of its customers.
Universidad de Costa Rica
Ciudad universitaria Rodrigo Facio Brenes, Costa Ricahttp://www.ucr.ac.cr2511 0000The origins of the University of Costa Rica is located in the Casa Teaching of St. Thomas, founded in 1814, converted from 1843 - at the University of Santo Tomas.
Universidad Internacional de las Américas
Avenida 7, San José, Costa Ricahttp://www.uia.ac.cr2258 0220The campus of the International University of the Americas have a central and convenient location. The Metropolitan See of San José, is located less than a kilometer from the city center, in the quiet district of El Carmen, Barrio Aranjuez.


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Toshiba REGZA 47HL167 47" 1080p LCD HDTV
Large 47" wide screen HDTV with built in analog and digital tuners. CineSpeed LCD panel is 1920 x 1080 pixels and can be wall mounted with purchase of wall mount hardware. The only drawback to this TV is that the remote could be more user friendly - which is not a big thing.


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In its May, 2000, issue it carried Harun Yahya"s "Never Plead Ignorance About the Apparent Existence of Allah," which says that when a person looks at the world he finds God in every detail, and that God holds everything under His control; He is aware of everything and He has made human beings aware of His existence through the perfection of His creation.
In another issue of The Muslims" Digest (above), the article "Cities Turned Upside Down" discusses the various ways in which those societies that acted arrogantly towards God were destroyed. The article "The Design in Water" describes how water was specifically created for human life; "The Disaster of Pompeii" discusses the destruction of the city of Pompeii in Italy in AD 79, and "Scientists Confirm the Signs of Allah" discusses scientists who have become believers after examining the clear proofs of the existence of God.


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Medical discoveries are not possible without volunteers like you.
Research positively impacts the lives of people every day, but research needs YOU. Too many studies end early because there aren't enough volunteers. We help, by matching you with researchers. Researchers need people with all types of conditions, and healthy people too. Everyone can be the perfect research match!


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Watermelon Feta Salad with Mint – This refreshing salad with watermelon, feta cheese, and fresh mint is simply dressed with olive oil and lime juice. Perfect for summer.
My husband loves feta. During the summer, one of his favorite snacks is freshly sliced chilled watermelon with crumbly slices of feta. The saltiness of the cheese is a perfect compliment to the cool sweetness of the watermelon. He introduced me to the flavor combination, and now I'm hooked, too. Nothing says summer like fresh watermelon and feta!
A couple of weeks ago we had some friends over for dinner. The weather was just starting to warm up (it's been a long winter here in California), so we decided to make it an outdoor dinner in our back yard. As I grocery shopped for the meal, my mind was on all the summery foods we've been missing. I browsed the produce section and noticed that ripe seedless watermelons were on sale. Of course, my mind went to watermelon and feta! I decided to create a simple summer salad with seedless watermelon chunks, crumbled feta cheese, fresh mint, and a homemade lime juice dressing.
After a little experimentation with the dressing, this is what I came up with! The salty citrus dressing really brings out the flavor of the watermelon, the mint is refreshing, and the feta adds a perfect touch of creaminess. Even those of you who don't like sweet, fruity salads may appreciate this one– the flavor is truly unique. It was a big hit with our friends, and I'm guessing it will be making regular appearances on our summer menu. It would might just be the perfect side-salad for your 4th of July barbecue. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
If at all possible, try to find goat or sheep's milk feta– preferably the larger chunks sold in delis or cheese markets. I personally prefer the flavor to pre-crumbled cow's milk feta. No big deal if you can't find it– the other feta will work just as well!
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Watermelon Feta Salad with Mint
- Note: This salad is best made just prior to serving. Prepare one hour or less before your meal.
- Cut rind from the watermelon, then chop the fruit into 1 inch chunks. Place chunks in a colander to drain as your chop.
- In a small bowl, whisk together olive oil, fresh lime juice, salt, and black pepper to create a dressing.
- Place watermelon in a large salad bowl. Pour dressing and chopped mint over the watermelon and toss gently to coat.
- Pour the crumbled feta into the salad bowl and stir gently to integrate the cheese into the salad. Serve.
- The salt and the citrus in the dressing will activate the juices in the watermelon, so a lot of liquid will collect in the bottom of the salad bowl. This is normal, and does not affect the flavor. To avoid having liquid transfer to your plate, serve the salad with a slotted spoon.


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A GENEROUS grant has transformed a tired and rundown playground into a colourful and imaginative space.
Children at Defford Cum Besford CE First School, near Pershore, can now make the most of a range of new and exciting equipment after the school received £10,000 from the Big Lottery Fund for the Defford Outdoor Play project.
The school also received extra funding from a grant received from the Rowlands Trust and a generous donation from their Friends' Association, while the committee of parents raised £2,000 to extend the project to include class planters, games boards and netball posts.
Headteacher Andrea Bailey said: "We will be showing off our new school improvements during our open day from 1pm to 3pm on Friday, June 20.
"We very much welcome visitors to our school, and would be delighted for new faces to come along and see our school in action.
"Come and see how we use our outside space, including our very popular forest school, which is used to enhance our curriculum for all children throughout the school."
The Bishop of Dudley, reverend Graham Usher, officially opened the playground on Thursday, June 12 and it will also be used by the weekly Mini-Maples baby and toddler group and the school's out of hours childcare club.


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1. Main welcome to the shop menu to select which type of shopping you'd like to do
2. Attack skills menu
3. Other skills menu
4. Upgrade menu
Once the player has completed the shopping they wished to do I use a Break command to back out into the previous menu.
Before I started adding submenus the process worked out well enough. Now, however, the break commands generate errors. Specifically: SyntaxError: 'break' outside loop
Here is the relevant coding, although I suspect the issue is a misunderstanding on my part and not the code itself:
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# The main menu of the shop
def shop(exp):
shopping = 'yes'
print("Welcome to the Shop.")
shopping = input("1 for attacks, 2 for skills> ")
while shopping == '1':
while shopping == '2':
# The Attacks purchasing menu
def ATTACKS_menu(exp):
num = 1
for i in ATTACKZ:
# format: "1 ) Name, Cost"
print(num, ")", str([i[0]])[2:-2], [i[4]], "exp\n")
num += 1
print("What would you like to buy?")
print("When you've finished shopping type '0'.")
choice = int(input("> ")) - 1 # -1 to compensate for numbering
if choice == -1:
break # this is where the error seems to come from
purchase = choice
buying(ATTACKZ[purchase][4], exp, purchase)
I've left out "buying()" and "ATTACKZ" because I don't believe they're related to the issue.
Oh, and of course "shop()" is referenced further on in the coding.
I believe that is everything. Questions, explanations, and suggestions are all welcome.
Thanks in advance,


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A Chicago doctor convicted of running a pill mill in southern Ohio is claiming he is innocent and demanding to be released from jail.
Dr. Paul Volkman says his treatment of patients was consistent with actions of a doctor, not a drug dealer.
Volkman on Monday told a federal judge ready to sentence him Tuesday that the most appropriate punishment was immediate release from custody.
Volkman, who is facing 20 years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines, is now representing himself after firing his attorneys because he says he was strongly dissatisfied with them.
Volkman was convicted last year of causing the deaths of four patients who overdosed on pain pills.


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Investors in luxury goods producers tend to spend a lot of time following what's going on in China, for good reason. China's legions of corrupt officials have a penchant for bling (as well as luxury cars and gambling), and plenty of ability to garner the cash needed for fancy western watches and handbags. Lately they've been cutting back, as the slowing economy and rising scrutiny from bloggers and the public makes open diplays of wealth less acceptable.
It might be easier simply to focus on what is going on in the US. Are households finding their share portfolios rising faster than their house prices? Shares are easier to cash in to fund that oh-so-desirable Cartier watch, although most people would have to sell their house to afford a £1.2m handbag. Read more


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Fox News Psychiatrist Ablow Denies Existence Of Mental Health Provisions In Gun Violence Prevention Legislation
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Fox News psychiatrist Keith Ablow erroneously claimed that recently enacted state legislation failed to address firearm access for individuals with mental health problems who have been deemed a danger to themselves or others. Ablow also fearmongered that proponents of gun violence prevention legislation would like to "disarm the whole population."
In fact, legislative packages enacted in New York and Connecticut specifically address mental health and the U.S. Senate gun violence prevention legislative package has a provision to improve records of individuals with mental health problems who have been deemed a danger to themselves or others. Furthermore, no state proposals involve disarming gun owners; instead new state-level gun laws have included bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines as well as expanded background checks.
During the April 5 edition of America's Newsroom on Fox News, Ablow seriously mischaracterized gun violence prevention legislation when he told host Bill Hemmer that recently enacted gun violence prevention packages did not address mental health:
HEMMER: Whether it's Colorado, whether it's the push for gun laws in New York or Connecticut that we saw this week, with Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook, or the national gun push that we're seeing. Is there anything in those laws that would prevent a future [James] Holmes or Adam Lanza when it comes to mental health that you see?
ABLOW: So let me be exactly clear. Zero. Zero. Our shattered shoddy slipshod mental health care system is the thing that needs attention. The folks who are piggybacking on these tragedies and saying it's guns are simply exercising a political agenda getting nothing done.
Ablow - who heavily criticized the alleged failure of Holmes' psychiatrist to notify the proper authorities of her patient's dangerousness - is wrong.
New York's recently enacted SAFE Act of 2013 requires mental health professionals to report individuals "likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to self or others" to their local director of community services, who will review the report for possible referral to the Division of Criminal Justice Services. The Division of Criminal Justice Services could then put in motion the suspension or revocation of the individual's firearm license. SAFE also extends outpatient mental health treatment for individuals discharged from Office of Mental Hygiene hospitals.
Legislation signed into law on April 4 by Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy extends the firearm possession prohibition for individuals who have been involuntarily committed to 60 months and creates a task force "to study the provision of behavioral health services in the state with particular focus on the provision of behavioral health services for persons sixteen to twenty-five years of age." The task force, made up of mental health professionals, will make recommendations on a number of topics including, "requiring disclosure of communications by mental health professionals concerning persons who present a clear and present danger to the health or safety of themselves or other persons."
Part of the legislative package sent to the floor of the U.S. Senate seeks to improve the records stored in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), the FBI administered criminal background check system for gun purchases from licensed dealers.
Under federal law, an individual who has been deemed a danger to themselves or others by a judicial proceeding or who has been involuntarily committed is prohibited from possessing a firearm. Numerous states, however, fail to report disqualifying mental health records to the NICS system. Notably, the perpetrator of a 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech should have been in the NICS system because a judge had declared him to be "an imminent danger" to himself.
A provision in the Senate package, the Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013, would incentivize states to submit disqualifying records by providing funding to those states that do and reducing funding to states that do not comply.
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A newborn baby and six other people escaped a burning house after an early morning fire broke out today.
More than 20 firefighters battled a blaze for more than an hour in Coombefield Close, New Malden, after they were called just before 6am this morning.
The four-day-old baby, whose mother was visiting its grandmother, the landlord of the house, suffered smoke inhalation.
The fire is believed to have begun in an elderly tenant's room after an old halogen heater fell over.
Lovish Jain, 30, a tenant in the house, said: "In the morning there was a lot of noise and then the landlady knocked on my door – first I could not understand.
"We had to wait outside for about 45 minutes and it was very chilly – I was in my shorts. Everyone is okay."
Next door neighbour Quiteria Barros, 51, said: "I have lived here three and a half years and nothing like this has ever happened before. I heard someone knock violently on the door – it was my neighbour opposite. We organised the children and the guinea pigs and went to their house.
"I saw a lady who had her hand burnt. There was a baby and the mother was really scared. I was so worried about the people – we don't know them well but we see everyone passing so I was worried."
All seven people in the home suffered smoke inhalation and one woman suffered minor burns to her arm. They were all taken to hospital.
Damage to the semi-detached home is said to be mostly in an upstairs bedroom.
Watch manager Steve Preston, from New Malden fire station, said: "The house didn't have a smoke alarm, so these people are incredibly lucky to have escaped."
He also warned that halogen heaters should be placed away from furniture and somewhere where they cannot easily be knocked over.
Fire engines from New Malden, Sutton, and Surbiton fire stations all attended.


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TOUCHING letters penned by the father of a premature Black Country baby during her battle for survival, will be turned into a book.
Daisy-Mae Little was born three-and-a-half months early at Russells Hall Hospital on December 1 last year, weighing just 1lb 13oz.
Parents Wayne and Jennie Little, from Pensnett, barely left her side during her 108 day stay on the neonatal unit and 'Little Daisy-Mae - The Girl Who Couldn't Wait' is an account of the emotional rollercoaster they experienced.
The book features Wayne's frequent Facebook posts about Daisy-Mae's progress, which captured the hearts of thousands of well-wishers across the world, alongside exclusive photographs.
Diary entries that Wayne wrote to his daughter, entitled 'Dear Daisy-Mae, a letter from your dad' will also be included in the book.
Wayne admitted he was unsure when first approached by the publisher, but after some consideration, decided the book could help other families and hopes to get a copy placed in neonatal wards across the country.
He said: "It is a great feeling that what I have written to help my daughter understand what she went through could help other parents. Even if it only helps one family, it will be worth it.
"I still can't believe its happening and my words are going to be in print. When I was writing, that was the furthest thing from my mind.
"I have worded it in simple terms, I imagined reading it to her when she was sat on my knee."
Wayne said his daughter is "thriving" and added: "She's starting to sample Jen's homemade cooking and is piling on the weight, she now weighs nine pounds nine ounces."
The book, priced £11.99, will be released on September 13, to coincide with Daisy-Mae's christening at St Mark's Church, Pensnett.
Copies can be pre-ordered online at www.oodlebooks.com/daisy-mae.
For every book ordered before the release date, Solpreneur Publishing will donate £1 to a charity of Wayne and Jennie's choice.


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When Your Award Is Ending
Approximately one month before an externally sponsored project/grant, contract, cooperative agreement, etc., is to terminate, a notice is sent to the PI and various University offices notifying them that the account is closing and to forward charges to the Accounting Office by a certain date. The terms of most sponsored programs require that a project be closed in a timely manner after the termination date. While the University may be able to obtain a no-cost extension, this termination date must be considered final. No charges can be incurred after that date. Activities such as student payroll, copy key charges and that type of charge which is typically posted the following month are allowable. No new obligations may be incurred. The PI is responsible for reviewing open purchase orders to expedite their payment. Any items which cannot be received prior to the termination date of a project should be moved to another source of funds. All purchase orders still open on the date of termination should be closed through the Purchasing Office.
Specific closeout procedures for contracts/grants are usually set forth by the sponsoring agency in their award document. Requirements may range from a simple final fiscal and narrative program/progress report, to a series of reports dealing with such matters as fiscal accountability, disposition of property acquired with contract/grant funds, certificates of compliance, invention disclosures and grantee releases. Stipulations as to number of copies of the final reports will also vary.
The primary aim of local procedures is to satisfy the closeout requirements of the sponsoring agency and to provide adequate fiscal and managerial records for retention for future audit. Accordingly, at the end of the contract/grant period and within the time specified in the agreement, SPARC will review the account to ensure all significant actions are complete. The PI will receive an email to alert them the account will close in approximately 30 days prior to the end date.


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All of us know how hard it is to negotiate against a seller who has no competition. However, even the strongest seller has limits in how much they can take advantage of their superior bargaining position. Here are a few ways the buyer can generate competition where little or no competition appears to exist. If you know how to bargain with a seller who has no competition, dealing with one who has will be a lot easier.
One thing a buyer can do is to decide to do the work themselves. They can favor a "make" decision rather than a "buy" decision. I have seen many organizations make just such a decision after being exploited by a single-source seller for years. Not only did the seller lose the business, but they found themselves confronted by a new and formidable competitor.
A buyer can also create competition between the seller's long-term interests and their short-term profit goals. The buyer can reduce the size of their order or spread it out over a longer time period. They can break the requirement into parts- some parts to be eliminated, some given to other suppliers, and still others done themselves. This has the effect of creating internal competition within the seller's organization.
The third way a buyer can create competition is by dealing with others in the same distribution system. Consider investigating the used market. Look for deals at lower distribution levels, where sellers may be seeking to get rid of large amounts of inventory.
Taking on a sole-source supplier need not always be a problem, unless you, as a buyer, choose to be passive and give in too quickly. Just keep in mind that if you give in this time, you're likely to be exploited even more at the next negotiation.
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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: The song I felt for my wife when she walked into the room 22 years ago was You Are My Sunshine. The song I feel for her now is Stormy Weather. She has a mood disorder and doesn't monitor herself or take her daily medications to keep herself stable. God help me if I tell her to take her pills. I have had many years of dealing with this bipolar disorder now and I hate it. Sometimes I feel like I hate her. I don't know how much love is left deep down, if any.
I don't know what she would do if I told her I was leaving, as she threatens to kill herself if I ever hint at it. I feel sick that I am her prisoner for life -- or that I might have her death on my soul. Is there any way out of this trap for me? -- In Her Personal Jail Cell, Winnipeg
Dear Jail Cell: Take this relationship to a counsellor. Make the appointment and absolutely insist to talk about your unhappiness in the marriage. Your wife should know the only power she has now is to take her medications faithfully and try to fix things with you. It should be clear by the time you leave that office she will lose the marriage if she doesn't make positive changes. Her suicide threats will hasten the day. If she goes home to the bathroom, locks the door and threatens suicide, tell her you are calling 911, and do it. Alert her entire support network -- medical, family and friends -- of this situation, especially if you decide to leave and need them to come over and look after her.
On the bright side, there's still a chance you won't need to escape. Things could get better through therapy and marriage counselling. The counsellor will help her see the reason why she is not taking her medication and how she is using the disorder and suicide threats to control you and make you stay, no matter how she behaves. At this point she may not know how miserable you are, so tell her, "When you don't take your medication, I don't feel loved. When I don't feel loved, I don't know why I in this marriage with you, and frankly, I want to leave." Love is wanting your partner happy.
This is always a difficult problem. If any readers have left a person who threatened suicide, and have helpful information to share, please write in and share your experience. See the contact info below.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: My four sisters are up to something. I'm driving to our previous town's reunion in August and there is a lot of whispering and Facebook-sneaking going on. I'm divorced for the second time. I was married as a teenager to a guy from that town and everything went south because of my total immaturity and my continued partying. Thank God there were no babies. I just found out from my oldest sister that one of my interfering younger sisters -- who is newly separated -- has been talking to my old ex, who's single again, on Facebook. She knows I still have old romantic feelings and regrets about him. Is she talking to him to flirt with him herself, or is she trying to get us back together. What should I do? This is making me mad. -- Awkward Situation, Fort Garry
Dear Awkward: Take this grown-up bull by the horns. Send a Facebook message to your old love and ask him what your sister is up to contacting your old flame on social media behind your back. He will probably laugh and get a kick out of this and write you back, unless he is now flirting with your sister. Then he's caught and won't know what to say, and you will get a guilty two-word hello, or no response at all, to your attempt to "friend" him and see what he's doing. Then let her know in person you have written him about her meddling, and watch her squirm.
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PHILADELPHIA - Six-time defending Ivy League champion Penn will open the 2013 women's lacrosse season ranked inside the top-ten of the deBeer Women's Lacrosse Media Poll as the Red and Blue were voted No. 10 in the preseason poll.
The Quakers received 99 total points in the opening poll, tops among the three Ivy League programs inside the Top-20. The Red and Blue have won at least a share of the last six Ancient Eight crowns - including five outright championships. The run is the longest stretch of consecutive conference championships currently in existence among the nation's Division I conferences and one away from tying the Ivy League record for consecutive conference championships owned by Harvard with seven titles from 1987-1993.
The No. 10 spot is also where Penn was ranked by Inside Lacrosse in its 2013 Season Preview, while Lacrosse Magazine ranked the Quakers No. 11 heading into the season.
The Quakers, led by returning All-American Maddie Poplawski and fellow All-Ivy performers Meredith Cain, Taylor Foussadier, Lydia Miller and Courtney Tomchik, will return five of their top six scorers from 2012 and 10 starters from a team that has posted a 40-2 record inside the Ivy League over the last six seasons. The Red and Blue will undertake a challenging schedule as always with five of its 14 games coming against teams ranked inside the top 15 of the deBeer preseason poll - and three inside the top five.
Penn opens its 2013 season on Feb. 23 against University City rival Drexel at Franklin Field at 1 p.m.


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Father Peter Hopkins, LC (left) and Msgr. William Smith concelebrating the Mass.
Father Peter Hopkins, LC, was invited to the New York
Catholic Physician´s Guild on June 23rd to present the work
of the Legion of Christ with the poor, especially
Helping Hands Medical Missions in South and Central America. The
meeting took place at the beautiful Cardinal Cooke Medical Center
in Manhattan, which has a panoramica view of Central
Park.During his talk Father Peter invited the doctors to join
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LAST Saturday I wrote about America's gas and oil shale fracking boom, and the risk-reward trade-offs involved, including those revolving around environmental concerns. This column is about the broader implications of the fracking boom, and they are huge.
Reports about the boom being a game-changer have proliferated since last month's prediction by the International Energy Agency that the United States will overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world's biggest oil producer in about five years' time, and be energy self-sufficient by 2030.
Tectonic shifts are occurring, but there is no clear consensus yet among bankers, economists and energy analysts about what the world and the world's energy markets will look like when they are finished moving.
The US, for example, was paying for about 13 million barrels of foreign oil a day between 2004 and 2006, before the fracking boom accelerated. By 2011 it was importing 11.5 million barrels a day to help meet domestic consumption of 18.8 million barrels a day, and that decline reflected two things: a decline in domestic demand in the wake of the 2008-09 global financial crisis, and increasing US oil production from America's shale fracking fields.
US domestic oil production has jumped by 18 per cent in the past year as the shale boom has expanded, and in the first eight months of this year oil imports were 800,000 barrels a day lower than they were a year earlier. America's oil exports rose over the same time by 300,000 barrels a day, so net imports have fallen in just one year by 1.1 million barrels a day, or about 6 per cent of total consumption. If that pace is sustained the International Energy Agency's prediction of self-sufficiency for the US by 2030 will prove to be conservative.
Oil production from shale in the US is rising much more strongly than expected because the boom itself is working to shift production into liquids. The shale contains a mix of gas and liquids including oil, and enough gas has been discovered to produce a structural downshift in the price of US domestic gas, which by law cannot be exported.
Companies that have bought into the shale boom, including Australia's BHP Billiton, have reacted to this by pulling drilling rigs out of fields that are gas-rich and relocating them in ones that are rich in liquids for which the price is roughly four times higher, pushing US shale oil and liquids production up. It is now running at about a million barrels a day, and is predicted to reach about 3.5 million barrels a day by 2016.
That's enough to underpin a fall of about 25 per cent in oil imports that is worth $US100 billion ($A95.5 billion) a year at the current oil price. But the bottom line for the US is bigger. Bank of America Merrill Lynch calculates there is already a combined value shift or ''energy carry'' of more than $US300 billion a year in America's favour, as the US oil import bill falls, oil exports rise, and as gas reserves have expanded to underpin cheap energy generation. On top of this is an international cost advantage for US heavy industry, which can buy US gas currently at a price of $US3.60 per thousand cubic feet, between a third and a half of the price being paid in the rest of the developed world.
The price advantage that has opened up for US users is not going to disappear quickly. Opening US gas up to global prices by allowing it to be exported as North-West Shelf-style liquefied gas would push prices higher by between 22¢ and $1.11, according to a report for the US government that was released this week. But even if Washington agrees with the report that that is a price worth paying to turn the US into a major gas exporter, it will take at least a decade, perhaps two, to negotiate regulatory and environmental approvals and construct liquid-gas processing and export facilities.
The geopolitical ramifications of the boom are also potentially immense, and currently unfathomable. US shale production will, for example, not only reduce America's reliance on Middle Eastern oil, it will make it less reliant on oil from nations such as Nigeria and Venezuela.
A more self-sufficient US that had lower energy input costs would meanwhile be more capable of growing its way out of its debt problem, but also perhaps more politically self-contained, even isolationist.
As I have previously mentioned, the world's economic speed limit will rise if oil supplies expand on the back of the shale boom, because the oil price will rise less aggressively in response to rising demand. By extending the supply side, shale oil also changes the peak oil equation, and arguably militates against alternative energy. Is shale oil production already balancing declining production from established ''peak oil'' fields?
Shale is also going to produce a new pecking order in the oil industry, as the economics of oil production move against conventional oil and the multinationals that control it, and towards unconventional producers, including BHP Billiton.
Shale oil isn't as cheap to produce as conventional well oil once was, but it is commercial at the current oil price, and over time it is likely to become less expensive to produce. Returns from the conventional fields that are owned predominantly by the world's big oil multinationals, meanwhile, are falling because they are becoming more expensive to operate and less productive. The majors have bought into shale, but they own so much old oil that independents that are more heavily weighted to ''new oil'' are the hot investment.
According to Goldman Sachs, cash returns from conventional fields have fallen by 28 per cent from a peak in 2005 despite a doubling in the oil price.
Goldman estimates conventional producers need an oil price of $US116 a barrel or more to generate free cash - cash that is left over after the company pays its bills, funds capital expenditure and declares dividends for its shareholders. The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries needs about $US90 a barrel for the same reasons.
Shale reserves, of course, are not limited to the US. They are everywhere, waiting to be developed: everything to do with oil and things it affects will have changed by the time the shale boom is over.