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One of the greatest advantages of visiting DC is the abundance of musuems in the area, and the fact that practically all of them are free! During black history month there will be some special exhibits at both the National Museum of America History, and the National Geographic Museum. The latter is not free, but the fee is nominal and the exhibits well worth it.
To celebrate Black History Month the Smithsonian is holding the Black History Month 2011 Family Day Celebration at the National Museum of American History. The event will take place Saturday, February 5, 2011. There will be theatre, performances and special exhibitions including the debut of the Addy Walker exhibition. There is no entrance fee at this museum.
The National Geographic Museum is also debuting their newest exhibit, America I Am: The African American Imprint. This museum often changes exhibits, so take the opportunity to explore this collection. The entrance fee for this exhibit is $12.
Both of these musuems are accesible by metro rail. The National Museum of American History is located closest to the Federal Traingle stop (Blue or Orange Line). The National Geographic Museum is a short walk from either The Farragut North (Red Line) or Farragut West (Blue or Orange Line) stations. Please check here for travel information.
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See How These Oscar Predictions Turned Out
This was being called one of the closest Oscar races in recent history, so our colleagues at Screencrush tracked the 2014 nominees and compiled their predictions. See how many they nailed.
Best Animated Feature
- 'Frozen' (Winner)
- 'The Croods'
- 'Despicable Me 2′
- 'The Wind Rises'
- 'Ernest and Celestine'
With Pixar and 'Monsters University' shut out this year, it was a chance for Universal or DreamWorks to steal the prize from Disney. Well, sorry guys: Disney Animation was reborn in a major way and 'Frozen' was both a massive critical and commercial hit and we expect it to win an Oscar.
WHO WILL WIN: 'Frozen'
DARK HORSE: 'Ernest and Celestine'
Best Foreign Film
- 'The Great Beauty' (Winner)
- 'Broken Circle Breakdown'
- 'The Hunt'
- 'The Missing Picture'
- 'Omar'
The Golden Globe went to 'The Great Beauty' and we think that Italian film will repeat. If we had our way though, we'd vote for the mega-depressing 'Broken Circle Breakdown' (if you watch, make sure to bring your Kleenex).
WHO WILL WIN: 'The Great Beauty'
DARK HORSE: 'Broken Circle Breakdown'
Best Cinematography
- Philippe Le Sourd, 'The Grandmaster'
- Emmanuel Lubezki, 'Gravity' (Winner)
- Bruno Delbonnel, 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
- Phedon Papamichael, 'Nebraska'
- Roger Deakens, 'Prisoners'
Another tough one to pick because these were all beautiful looking films. That said, we're going with Emmanuel Lubezki, who will benefit from a lot of well-deserved 'Gravity' buzz.
WHO WILL WIN: Emmanuel Lubezki, 'Gravity'
DARK HORSE: Phedon Papamichael, 'Nebraska'
Best Original Song
- "Let It Go," 'Frozen" (Winner)
- "Ordinary Love," 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom'
- "Happy," 'Despicable Me 2′
- "Alone Yet Not Alone,' 'Alone Yet Not Alone'
- "The Moon Song," 'Her'
If the 2014 Oscars were a poker game, we'd tell you to push all your chips to the middle of the table for "Let it Go" winning Best Original Song. As close as a lock as you can get this year.
WHO WILL WIN: "Let It Go," 'Frozen'
DARK HORSE: "The Moon Song," 'Her'
Best Original Score
- 'The Book Thief'
- 'Her'
- 'Gravity' (Winner)
- 'Saving Mr. Banks'
- 'Philomena'
'Gravity' again? Yes, 'Gravity' again.
WHO WILL WIN: 'Gravity'
DARK HORSE: 'Her'
Best Visual Effects
- 'Gravity' (Winner)
- 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug'
- 'Iron Man 3′
- 'The Lone Ranger'
- 'Star Trek Into Darkness'
Ah, duh, 'Gravity' all the way.
WHO WILL WIN: 'Gravity'
DARK HORSE: 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug'
Best Original Screenplay
- Spike Jonze, 'Her' (Winner)
- Eric Singer and David O. Russell, 'American Hustle'
- Bob Nelson, 'Nebraska'
- Woody Allen, 'Blue Jasmine'
- Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack 'Dallas Buyers Club'
'American Hustle' may not be the best script in this bunch, but it's probably going to win simply because it was a much more commercially successful film.
WHO WILL WIN: 'American Hustle'
DARK HORSE: 'Her'
Best Adapted Screenplay
- John Ridley, '12 Years a Slave' (Winner)
- Terrence Winter, 'The Wolf of Wall Street'
- Steve Coogan, 'Philomena'
- Billy Ray, 'Captain Phillips'
- Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, 'Before Midnight'Whether '12 Years a Slave' will win Best Picture remains to be seen, it should easily win Best Adapted Screenplay.
WHO WILL WIN: '12 Years a Slave'
DARK HORSE: 'Before Midnight'
Best Supporting Actor
- Jared Leto, 'Dallas Buyers Club' (Winner)
- Jonah Hill, 'The Wolf of Wall Street'
- Barkhad Abdi, 'Captain Phillips'
- Michael Fassbender, '12 Years a Slave'
- Bradley Cooper, 'American Hustle'
Jared Leto has won most of the critics' awards and the Golden Globe, so we see no reason he won't repeat here at the Oscars.
WHO WILL WIN: Jared Leto, 'Dallas Buyers Club'
DARK HORSE: Michael Fassbender, '12 Years a Slave'
Best Supporting Actress
- Lupita Nyong'o, '12 Years a Slave' (Winner)
- Jennifer Lawrence, 'American Hustle'
- June Squibb, 'Nebraska'
- Julia Roberts, 'August: Osage County'
- Sally Hawkins, 'Blue Jasmine'
Boy, this is a tough race to call. While Lupita Nyong'o was considered the odds-on favorite for much of the race, Jennifer Lawrence won both the Golden Globe and the BAFTA, making everyone second guess the early frontrunner. Could J-Law pull an upset? It's weird to think that Jennifer Lawrence is a dark horse, but we're going with Lupita just edging out the competition.
WHO WILL WIN: Lupita Nyong'o, '12 Years a Slave'
DARK HORSE: Jennifer Lawrence, 'American Hustle'
Best Actor
- Matthew McConaughey, 'Dallas Buyers Club' (Winner)
- Chiwetel Ejoifor, '12 Years a Slave'
- Bruce Dern, 'Nebraska'
- Leonardo DiCaprio, 'The Wolf of Wall Street'
- Christian Bale, 'American Hustle'
And the McConaissance will be complete. We fully expect Matthew McConaughey to win for his exceptional performance in 'Dallas Buyers Club' and that'd be alright, alright, alright with us.
WHO WILL WIN: Matthew McConaughey, 'Dallas Buyers Club'
DARK HORSE: Chiwetel Ejoifor, '12 Years a Slave'
Best Actress
- Amy Adams, 'American Hustle'
- Cate Blanchett, 'Blue Jasmine' (Winner)
- Sandra Bullock, 'Gravity'
- Judi Dench, 'Philomena'
- Meryl Streep, 'August: Osage County'
Meryl Street, who knows her way around the Oscars, opted to not even campaign very heavily this year because Cate Blanchett seems to be all but a lock. Even though her movie came out this past summer, her stranglehold on the Best Actress race hasn't wavered.
WHO WILL WIN: Cate Blanchett, 'Blue Jasmine'
DARK HORSE: Amy Adams, 'American Hustle'
Best Director
- Alfonso Cuaron, 'Gravity' (Winner)
- David O. Russell, 'American Hustle'
- Steve McQueen, '12 Years a Slave'
- Martin Scorsese, 'The Wolf of Wall Street'
- Alexander Payne, 'Nebraska'Few films feel like an evolutionary leap forward in cinema like 'Gravity' did and, even if the rest of the films on this list were good, none matched what Alfonso Cuaron did with his film.
WHO WILL WIN: Alfonso Cuaron, 'Gravity'
DARK HORSE: Steve McQueen, '12 Years a Slave'
Best Picture
- '12 Years a Slave' (Winner)
- 'American Hustle'
- 'Captain Phillips'
- 'Gravity'
- 'Her'
- 'Nebraska'
- 'The Wolf of Wall Street'
- 'Dallas Buyers Club'
- 'Philomena'
If you couldn't tell, it's a two-horse race this year between 'Gravity' and '12 Years a Slave'. We're going to predict this, but really we could flip-flop between the two right up until the last second. For your Oscar pool, you're probably safe flipping a coin. The choice will be between the historically significant, but grueling '12 Years a Slave,' and the massively successful and technically impressive 'Gravity.' Here's how we think it'll play out:
WHO WILL WIN: '12 Years a Slave'
DARK HORSE: 'Gravity'
FULL LIST OF WINNERS (Associated Press):
List of winners at Sunday's 86th annual Academy Awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Best Picture: "12 Years a Slave."
Actor: Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club."
Actress: Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine."
Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club."
Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave."
Directing: Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity."
Foreign Language Film: "The Great Beauty," Italy.
Adapted Screenplay: John Ridley, "12 Years a Slave."
Original Screenplay: Spike Jonze, "Her."
Animated Feature Film: "Frozen."
Production Design: "The Great Gatsby."
Cinematography: "Gravity."
Sound Mixing: "Gravity."
Sound Editing: "Gravity."
Original Score: "Gravity," Steven Price.
Original Song: "Let It Go" from "Frozen."
Costume: "The Great Gatsby."
Makeup and Hairstyling: "Dallas Buyers Club."
Animated Short Film: "Mr. Hublot."
Documentary Feature: "20 Feet from Stardom."
Documentary (short subject): "The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life."
Film Editing: "Gravity."
Live Action Short Film: "Helium."
Visual Effects: "Gravity."
Honorary Oscars:
— Peter W. Anderson.
— Film-processing labs over past century.
— Angelina Jolie.
— Angela Lansbury.
— Steve Martin.
— Piero Tosi.

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1 How very good and pleasant it is
when kindred live together in unity!
2 It is like the precious oil on the head,
running down upon the beard,
on the beard of Aaron,
running down over the collar of his robes.
3 It is like the dew of Hermon,
which falls on the mountains of Zion.
For there the Lord ordained his blessing,
life for evermore.
The New Revised Standard Version (Anglicized Edition), copyright 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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With Whitchurch United in desperate need of playing time before their rescheduled League Cup semi-final with Petersfield Town, they are again kicking their heels as tonight's Andover League Open Cup match with Kingsclere has been postponed.
The Longmeadow pitch has standing water and is unplayable.
Sadly Andover New Street's home match with Stockbridge has gone the same way as referee Colin Hopkins had little option but to call it off with the pitch saturated. Stockbridge are still waiting to play their first game since November.


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Jaipur, Oct 11 (IANS) A court in Rajasthan's Jodhpur city Friday allowed controversial spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, currently lodged in prison on charges of sexually assaulting a minor, to be taken to Gujarat for questioning in another case of sexual assault, police said.
The court of the district and sessions judge (Jodhur rural) Friday allowed a Gujarat Police team to take Asaram to Surat in connection with a case of sexual assault registered against him and his son Narayan Sai by two sisters.
The Gujarat Police team arrived in Jodhpur, some 350 km from Jaipur, Thursday and filed an application in the court seeking custody of Asaram, who is lodged in the Jodhpur Central Jail since Sep 1, a police officer in Jodhpur told IANS.
In the application, the Gujarat Police investigators sought Asaram's custody for questioning him in connection with cases registered against him in Surat.
"The district and sessions judge today (Friday) allowed Gujarat Police team to take Asaram to Surat on a transit remand. Asaram will be brought back to Jodhpur whenever hearing into the case of sexual assault lodged here comes up in the court," a senior police officer told IANS.
Sources said that Asaram will be taken to Surat Saturday morning.
On Aug 20, a 16-year-old girl filed a police complaint accusing Asaram of sexually assaulting her at his ashram near Jodhpur.
Asaram was arrested from his ashram in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, and brought to Jodhpur Sep 1.


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Dublin locals tell us their perfect day in their home city
We asked three trendy, in-the-know characters living in Dublin what their perfect day in the city would look like.
Chef Giuseppe Crupi runs the Italian School of Cooking in Dublin, so is perfectly placed for giving us a tasty tour of the city.
"For the perfect day, I start with the food markets for a morning of tasting and walking. I'm spoiled for choice, with organic markets in Temple Bar, in Cornmarket and in Howth. If I hop on the Dart out to Howth, I can squeeze in a walk by the sea, feed the sea lions and get a delicious lunch: oysters with a pint in Ivan's Oyster Bar.
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"Then I'd head back into town for a quick visit to the bog people at the National Museum of Archaeology. They're perfectly preserved – like polished leather – after thousands of years in the bog. My favourite is the warrior with his leather armband – pure surfer style.
"Around the corner in the National Gallery, I'd slip into the Jack Yeats room. To me the Impressionist works are quintessentially Irish, and every time I stare at his paintings I see new details and new stories.
"I'd have a little siesta in the Iveagh Gardens by the nicest waterfall in town – it's so quiet and peaceful there, I think very few visitors know about it.
"Then up it's up to Pinocchio in Ranelagh for the best tuna steak ever. In the evening, a herbal tea in the Tea Gardens along the quays makes me feel very oriental. Then the day is perfectly perfect."
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Gorman: Shell hearing sounds of his broken records
The holy grail of high school football, a record that has endured for five decades, is about to be broken.
This isn't about Clairton chasing Central Bucks West's winning streak or University Prep's Akil Young setting a Western Pennsylvania single-game record for passing yards, with 462 against Somerset.
Rather, it's about a name synonymous with Sugar Land, Texas: Ken Hall's national prep career rushing record, which has stood since 1953, likely will be eclipsed Friday by Derrick Henry of Yulee, Fla.
Henry needs 102 yards against Taylor County in a Florida 4A playoff game to best the mark of 11,232 yards set by Hall, who went on to play for Bear Bryant at Texas A&M.
Considering that Henry, a 6-foot-3, 240-pound Alabama recruit, owns the national record for consecutive 100-yard games (44), that's pretty much a given.
It was this time last year that Hopewell's Rushel Shell was breaking Billy Sims' national mark with his 39th consecutive 100-yard game. Shell learned via Twitter that his record had lasted less than one year. Not that it came as a surprise.
"I didn't think that one was going to stick too long," said Shell, now a freshman at Pitt. "For some reason, I knew that one was going to be broken."
Shell had never heard of Ken Hall nor had he fathomed of running for 11,000 yards. Instead, Shell zeroed in on Jeremiah Young's state mark, finishing with 9,078 yards to break it by 51.
"Honestly, I never really looked at any records. Everyone else brought them up," Shell said. "If I was focused on a record, I was mostly focused on the state record because it was more within my reach."
Shell's foray into major-college football has yet to produce record-setting results. It's no wonder the WPIAL playoffs have caused Shell to reminisce.
"It's not all eyes forward," he said. "Being a freshman, I still miss things about high school football that aren't the same in college.
"Now, everyone on the field is as good as you or even better. That's the biggest thing. It's a big transition, but if you put your mind to it you can do it."
Shell, however, is well aware that Clairton's Tyler Boyd is five touchdowns away from breaking his WPIAL record (110) and Washington's Shai McKenzie is 379 yards shy of breaking his WPIAL single-season rushing mark of 2,740 yards set in 2009.
Only months removed from high school, Shell sees that his records are about to fall, one by one.
Not that he cares.
"I knew that records are meant to be broken," Shell said. "That's why they weren't my truest concern. I was always more concerned with winning a championship because they last forever."


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When is a Rendered Image Good Enough: Perceptually-Based Realistic Rendering
Kavita Bala, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University
Friday, April 23, 2010, 3:30pm
Spanos Auditorium
This seminar is part of the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society series
Producing realistic images is a fundamental challenge in computer graphics. But physically accurate realism is far too expensive — the key is to cheat the human eye by focusing computation only where it is needed to affect perceived image quality. But when is a rendered image a good enough representation of a scene's appearance? In this talk I will describe our work on a new standard of image quality, visual equivalence, that aims to characterize when an object's appearance is faithfully reproduced in an image. I will also describe scalable algorithms that exploit knowledge of human perception to efficiently render complex materials and lighting. Applications of this research include ecommerce, cultural heritage, virtual training, games, and movies.
About the Speaker
Kavita Bala is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University. She received her S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and her B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Bombay). Bala has co-authored the graduate textbook "Advanced Global Illumination" (A K Peters publisher, second edition), and has served on more than 30 program committees. She has co-chaired the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR), 2005, and Pacific Graphics, 2010. Bala has received the NSF CAREER award, Cornell's College of Engineering James and Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching Award (2006 and 2009), and the Affinito-Stewart award.


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Serralves Museum, the first large-scale contemporary art museum in Portugal, is located in the Quinta de Serralves; a large property close to the center of Porto that includes a main house built in the 1930's for the Count of Vizela.
The landscaped gardens designed by Siza, on the approximately 3 ha of land, preserved the most important species already existing on the site. The public access to the Museum's ground is made at the highest level of the terrain through an opening in the existing wall that surrounds the property.
The main gate gives access to a patio where the staircase and elevator coming from the subterranean car park and the paths coming from the different gardens also converge.
The Serralves Museum is superb without heroics, dazzling with a supple curve to the auditorium roof, a projecting shadow-casting fin, a window strip inserted just so, a perfect rail, stone and tile finishes impeccably applied./Michael Sorkin
From the patio you pass down a long, covered walkway, pass a small ticket pavilion and an walled-in garden, to finally arrive at the main entrance to the museum and, through an independent entrance, the auditorium foyer.
A longitudinal axis, set in an approximately North/South direction, takes the direction of the pre-existing paths of the vegetable garden. The two asymmetrical wings of the main body are generated southward; creating a courtyard between them. Another garden, by the public access to the building, is generated between the L-shaped volume set to the North and the central body.
The volume of the building is defined by vertical surfaces covered with stone or stucco; the top of these walks keep a constant level, while the bottom accompanies the variations of the changing ground (the variation in ground level is approximately 9 meters, which corresponds to a slope of 5,3% descending from North to South).
The reception and information desk is placed next to the Museum entrance leading to a square double height atrium with a skylight roof. This atrium is centered on the longitudinal and transversal axes that define the building.
Besides functioning as the geometrical generator and centre of the building, this main hall constitutes a distribution space from which the public may have access to the different Museum facilities. Internal courtyards and numerous windows permit the visitor to remain in contact with the surrounding landscaped park.
Suspended from the ceilings in several of the galleries are what looks like upside down tables concealing the skylights, air-conditioning equipment and artificial lighting. Natural light pours over the sides, to wash the surrounding walls, and is supplemented by artificial lighting as needed.
The passage to the upper floor is made through stairs and
elevators, giving access to a Galleria over the main hall. From
here the public can walk to the Cafeteria, which has a dining room
for 80 people and an Esplanade overlooking the Park where meals can
also be served.
From the main hall the public also has access to the Library foyer. This room is at the level of the terrain, prolonging itself to the exterior through a garden. Divided into two floors, the Library is specialized in art-related subjects. It comprises a traditional reading-room, a deposit room, personal computers and video screens.
The Auditorium can function autonomously, should the rest of the Museum be closed to the public. It has an independent entrance and the necessary public facilities. It is a multipurpose room, prepared for performances of music, dancing, acting, lectures and conferences (with the possibility of simultaneous translation), and the projection of cinema and video. It seats approximately 290 spectators. The Book Shop and Gift Shop on the entrance level can also be entered from the central courtyard.
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Excellent location right next to the republic square. The hotel staff was outstanding especially at reception, she called taxis for us whenever we needed even after checkout. The restaurant was just excellent. Highly recommend this hotel!!! Honestly everything was great!
Comfortable, clean , children friendly and welldesigned hotel with polite, kind and ambitious staff :)
The staff are the best I've encountered in any hotel anywhere I've been. They stand and greet you anytime you set foot into the lobby. The cleaning staff are extremely thorough; they clean and vacuum the room everyday, all glass surfaces, toilets, counters also cleaned spotless. Decent breakfast. The rooms have quality doors and windows, perfectly functioning AC, extremely comfortable beds and sheets. Nice leather sofa and coffee table in my room for lounging. The hotel sits about 100m in from the main street therefore it is peaceful, you only hear the birds chirp (if your window is open) and absolutely no traffic noise. Also it is located in the quieter and cleaner part of Yerevan city center. Hotel staff is always ready and willing to help with anything you want. I was totally impressed by this hotel. I would not even think twice about staying here again. I probably wouldn't look elsewhere actually now that I have experienced it. The path (driveway) that leads to the hotel doesn't have any lighting so you have to tread carefully at night not to step on an obstacle or puddle if it has been raining. The hotel itself is very well lit though. There is no real view of anything so if you require a nice view then this won't fit the bill. Personally, I didn't care about having a view because I was out exploring everyday. I gave the location 4-star rating because I'm a solo traveller and like to be where the action is. The hotel is about 12-15 minutes walk to Opera where most of the nightlife is located.
Great room. Great location. Just shell out $50 for the executive lounge and watch the republic square foundations from there. Front desk staff was super friendly and helpful for a random American tourist :) Cheapest rooms don't have good view from window. Thin walls, you can hear the people in the next room arguing and throwing their phones etc.


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An Ilkley business is doing its bit to tackle youth unemployment by offering an apprenticeship to a local student.
Pitscards, a long-standing business in Leeds Road, Ilkley, has been producing promotional marketing cards and informative business cards for over 20 years, turning the business card into an all-powerful marketing tool.
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Now, with nearly a million young people unemployed in the UK, and the North particularly badly hit, Pitscards is searching for a keen apprentice to help drive forward expansion plans.
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Hi all, I'm a little new at dream weaver and brand new at this forum. I have built a couple of websites with DW CS5 but I am on my first one with a sidebar. The layout is fixed with header, footer, and sidebar on left, all inside of a container div Here is my question, some of my pages on the website have more content in the content div, and the div grows downward with the more content I put in, but the sidebar does not grow downward with the content div. And with this site some pages with a lot of content and others having less. How do I keep my sidebar running from my header all the way to my footer on every page regardless off page height?
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That's a common question but the solutions can be a bit complicated. Here's one:-
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Is there any easier way like changing settings in the DW css panel anyone?
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I would suggest that you just manually edit the sidebar divs' pixel height, or you can just add empty paragraphs in the sidebar div. That's the simplest way.
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Not really. Divs expand and contract based on their contents. I wouldn't suggest adding empty paragraph tags or manually adjusting the height on the sidebar. The way I usually handle this is using a background image behind the footer (see 16a in Wickham's link: http://www.wickham43...xbackground.php).
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Thank you Ben for your answer I ended up photo shopping a background image of the same color as the sidebar at the same width and 10 px high and repeated y. Than I made it the background for container div and it works great. And thank you to the other people that gave answers.
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What I do is leave the height blank then the box will grow to fit the content. Or put in my content then adjust the height to match. Your wrapper div may also be folding up to stop this put a empty span tag just before the closing div tag. this works for me.
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Sobekhotep wrote:Doesn't Brunei still use Jawi? I think it's all over their banknotes.
Jawi is still official in both Malaysia and Brunei. But it isn't much used - Malay speakers in Thailand maybe more than in Malaya. Bank notes don't mean too much - you could find glagolitic on bank notes just a few years ago.


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Some people maintain that although the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was not martyred by the unbelievers of his time, he still died, and that Allah first caused the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) to pass on and then raised him into His Presence. This claim is incompatible with the Qur'an and the belief of ahl al-Sunnah.
They use the term "I will take you back" from verse 55 of Surah Al 'Imran as evidence, at least in their own eyes, to support this claim. The verse reads:
[Allah said:] "Jesus, I will take you back [mutawaffeeka] and raise you up [wa raafi`uka] to Me and purify you of those who are unbelievers. And I will place the people who follow you above those who are unbelievers until the Day of Resurrection..." (Surah Al 'Imran:55)
The words"... I will take you back... " means that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was put in a state resembling sleep and raised into the Presence of Allah. The Prophet Jesus (pbuh) did not die, but merely departed this dimension by Allah's choosing.
The word translated into English as "to die" is the Arabic verb tawaffaa derived from the root waffaa. This verb does not imply death, but rather taking the soul, or surrender. Allah also reveals in the Qur'an that taking a person's soul does not always imply death. For instance, Allah uses tawaffaa in another verse to refer not to a person's death, but to taking his or her soul while asleep:
Allah takes the souls [of people] at death [yatawaffaa], and those who do not die [lam tamut] during their sleep. Those on whom He has passed the decree of death [al-mawt], He keeps back [from returning to life], but the rest He sends [to their bodies] for a term appointed. Verily in this are signs for those who reflect. (Surat az-Zumar:42)
The word here translated as "taking back" is the same as that used in Surah Al 'Imran:55: yatawaffaa. Since a person does not actually die during the night, the word yatawaffaa here refers not to death, but to taking the soul at night. If tawaffaa were being used in the sense of death, then that would mean that all people would be biologically dead during sleep. Thus, the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) would have died every night of his life. Such an assertion is both irrational and illogical.
Another instance in which sleep is regarded as a kind of death, but which does not refer to biological death, is the following hadith: "'All praise is for Allah, Who has made us alive after He made us die [sleep] (Al-hamdu li Allah illadhi ahyana ba'da maa amatana; wa ilayhi al-nushoo)' Our Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) often said this after he woke up." No doubt, he used these wise words not to refer to biological death when one is asleep, but rather to a sleeping person's soul being "taken."
Great ahl al-Sunnah commentators on the Qur'an are also agreed when interpreting the word tawaffaa that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) did not die, but was raised into the Presence of Allah and will return to Earth before the Day of Judgment. These Islamic scholars include:
Ibn Kathir, the famous Islamic scholar and commentator, used this hadith, along with many other proofs in his commentary on Surah Al 'Imran, to explain that tawaffaa refers to sleep:
Ibn Abi Hatim says that: "My father told us … from Hassan that the meaning of the verse 'I will take you back...' is this: Here it means that 'I shall kill you with the death of sleep; in other words, I shall cause you to sleep.' So Allah raised the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) to the heavens while he was asleep … As an incontrovertible truth, Allah caused the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) to die the death of sleep and then raised him to the sky, rescuing him from some of the Jews, who were inflicting suffering upon him at the time. (Ibn Kathir, Tafsir al-Qur'an al-'Azim, 1:573-76.)
Imam Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari, another Islamic scholar who examined the meaning of tawaffaa, stated that it did not mean death, and drew attention to the use of mawt in Surat az-Zumar:42:
Had the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) died [which is not the case], then the word mawt revealed in the verse: "Allah takes the souls [of people] at death" (Surat az-Zumar:42), would not have been revealed… This is because if, as has been claimed, Allah had referred to normal death [in the biological sense], then this would have been clearly stated. Since Allah refers to the fact that the Jews did not kill the Prophet Jesus (pbuh), but that he was taken and raised to the sky, then one must think of a meaning beyond that of ordinary death… (Imam Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari, Nazra 'Abira fi Maza'im Man Yankur Nuzul 'Isa 'alyhi al-Salam aabla al-Akhira (A Cursory Look at the Claims of Those Who Deny Jesus' Descent before the Next Life) (Egypt: 1980), 34-37.)
Sheikh al-Islam Mustafa Sabri, a contemporary of al-Kawthari, cites this verse as evidence and offers the following interpretation:"If we were to take the word tawaffaa as meaning 'killing,' then souls would also have to die." (Sheikh al-Islam Mustafa Sabri, Mawqif al-'Aql (Beirut: 1992), 4:177-79)
In his commentary on the Qur'an, the Islamic scholar Mawlana Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi makes the following statement about mutawaffeeka, which appears in Surah Al 'Imran:55 (the same word is also used in Surat al-Ma'ida:117):
The word mutawaffeeka, in the Arabic text comes from the word tawaffaa, meaning "to take the surrender of" and "take the soul," although here it is used in a figurative sense. Here, it means "relieving from duty." (Mawlana Sayyid Abul A'la al-Mawdudi, Tafhim al-Qur'an, 1:230-31)
Abu Mansur Muhammad al-Maturidi, regarded as one of the first Qur'anic commentators, also stated that the verse does not refer to the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) dying in the familiar biological sense:
The thing being referred to in the verse is not passing on in the sense of death, but in the sense of the body being taken from this world. (Abu Mansur Muhammad al-Maturidi, Kitab Tawilat al-Qur'an (Beirut), 67)
The famous commentator and scholar al-Tabari stated that mutawaffeeka is used in the sense of "removing from Earth" and interpreted the verse in the following terms:
In my opinion, the soundest thing is to take this word in the sense of "to take into one's possession," "draw [away] from Earth." In that case, the meaning of the verse is: "I shall take you from Earth and into the heavens." The rest of the verse emphasizes the [believers'] victory over unbelievers in the End Times, which confirms the above idea. (Tafsir al-Tabari, 3:290-91.)
Further on in his commentary, al-Tabari included other interpretations of mutawaffeeka. Islamic scholars are in general agreement that its correct interpretation is "a kind of sleep." According to Imam Hasan al-Basri, the Egyptian scholar Muhammad Khalil Herras stated that the verse means: "I shall put you to sleep and raise you to My Presence as you sleep." In his commentary, al-Suyuti said, based on reliable hadith, that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) did not die, and then continued:
In that case, the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was raised to the skies and will return before the Day of Judgment. (Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, Durr al-Manthur, 2:225-27.)
Mehmed Vehbi, a commentator who lived during the final years of the Ottoman Empire, interpreted the verse in the following manner:
O Jesus, I shall put you to sleep and raise you to the skies, the place of plenty and My sanctity. I shall rescue you from the Jews' wickedness and cleanse you of the unbelievers' impure actions, rescuing you from their wickedness by drawing you up away from them. (Mehmed Vehbi Hadimli, Hulasatu'l Beyan-i fi Tefsiri'l Kuran (Tafsir al-Qur'an) (Istanbul: 1979), 2:613. [emphasis added by the author])
The great Islamic scholar Imam Ibn Taymiyya stated that Surah Al 'Imran:55 indicates that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) did not die, but most likely experienced a kind of "sleep death." He then wrote:
This verse is proof that the death of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) is not being referred to… The word al-tawaffi [the infinitive form of the word mutawafeeka used] in the verse requires the death of the soul without that of the body, or of both, but with the existence of another piece of evidence explaining the circumstances in this sense. The meaning may be the death of sleep (as in Surat al-An'am:60). The words at the end of the verse, to the effect that: "I shall separate you purified from the unbelievers," are also along these lines. Had the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) body been separated from his soul, then his body would be in the ground, as with the other prophets. (Imam Ibn Taymiyya, Majmu' Fatawa (The Collected Fatwas), trans. by Abdurrahman ibn Muhammad ibn Qasim al-Asimi an-Najdi, (Riyadh: 1991), 4:322-23. [emphasis added by the author])
In his commentary, Hamdi Yazir of Elmali stated that the verse in question means:
... In my view, a summary of this interpretation and belief is as follows: The soul of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh), described as a "word from Allah" and reinforced with the "Purest Spirit", has not yet been taken. His soul has not come to the hour of death. "The Word" has not yet returned to Allah. He still has work to do in this world. (Elmali Hamdi Yazir, Hak Din Kuran Dili (The True Religion, the Language of the Qur'an), 2:1112-13.)


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Khaled Tukan, Jordan's Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, said that his country is working in cooperation with Egypt to repair the gas pipeline which was sabotaged last Wednesday in the Sinai town of El Arish. In a press conference, Tukan has said that Egypt had informed Jordan that its experts will fix the gas pipeline within two weeks. According to him, the Egyptian gas is flowing into Jordan, but at half or third of the regular quantities.
The Jordanian Minister revealed that following the attack the Kingdom has been looking for alternatives and thus asked Iraq to increase the quantities of oil from the current 10 thousand barrels per day to 30 thousand. Tukan said that before the explosion of the gas pipeline, Egypt pumped some 150 million cubic feet of gas per day.
Wednesday's explosion was the second time that the gas pipeline was attacked. The first time was on February 5. That incident led to the halt of gas supply for about a month and a half. That explosion enforces Jordan to convert all electricity generation plants to use diesel fuel. The Jordanian electricity sector's losses amounted to at least US$3 million dollars a day, according to Jordanian officials. Source: yallafinance [1].
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Buchholz overpowers Astros, first to five wins
Papi remains hot with 3-for-4 night, including home run to center
BOSTON -- At some point, a hot streak is no longer considered a streak. At some point, it becomes the new norm.
This might be the new Clay Buchholz. Or maybe it's Buchholz circa 2010.
Buchholz hurled 7 2/3 innings of two-run ball as the Red Sox cruised to a 7-2 win over the Astros, making Buchholz the first five-game winner in the Majors.
Catcher Jarred Saltalamacchia said Buchholz, who struck out 10 batters, didn't have his best stuff on Thursday night.
"To me, that's what makes a great pitcher -- an ace," Saltalamacchia said. "Think about CC Sabathia, a guy that's at the top of the league in pitching every year. What does he do? He battles. If he doesn't have his best stuff, he finds a way to get it done. Similar to what [Jon Lester] did yesterday. That's what Clay's able to do. That's what you need and that's what sets you apart from everyone else."
In the Astros' first visit to Fenway Park since 2003, their offense struggled to get anything going, scoring one run in two separate innings that began with a leadoff double.
Aside from the two-base knocks, the Astros could hardly touch Buchholz. Of his 10 strikeouts, six were sent down looking, as the right-hander had both his two-seamer and cutter painting corners.
"When he's able to start commanding the zone and things like that later in the game, that's when you can see why he's as good as he is," said Astros catcher Jason Castro. "He can pretty much throw any of his pitches at you at any time and never really seems to throw the same pitch twice, back-to-back, and that makes it harder to get a feel on him."
The Red Sox scored four runs in the first inning off Houston starter Philip Humber, who has posted an ERA above 7.00 since throwing his perfect game on April 21, 2012.
Daniel Nava, batting second in place of Shane Victorino, who was held out of the lineup with back tightness and isn't expected to return for a few games, walked twice, including once in the first inning to start the four-run rally. Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz followed with singles before Mike Carp hit a broken-bat double that dropped into right field and scored Ortiz.
Ortiz went 3-for-4 at the plate and has now gone 11-for-20 since returning from the 15-day disabled list on Saturday. He had the RBI single in the first inning, his first home run of the season in the third inning and a single up the middle in the fifth.
"I've been putting good swings on the ball and things have been happening," said Ortiz, who feels like his previously-injured right Achilles is feeling better every day. "It's a little deeper than what I can explain to you guys. It comes down to feeling at the plate. Some pitches, when you are locked in at the plate, they're not going to be hits, they're going to be homers.
"When you're not there, sometimes they're going to be outs, sometimes they're going to be rollovers, sometimes they're going to be just singles. It's a process."
Seven runs were more than enough for Buchholz.
While manager John Farrell has insisted that Buchholz's hot start is sustainable, his lights-out performance on Thursday paired with a look into the statistics proves that the skipper may be onto something.
Since May 27, Buchholz has made 25 starts. On three separate occasions, including this season, he's strung together a streak of at least four games in which he allowed two runs or fewer.
Over 177 2/3 innings since May 27, Buchholz has posted a 2.89 ERA.
"He's done a very good job of pitching ahead in the count, most of all," said Farrell, "and it's allowed him to pitch to a scouting report and exploit some holes of given hitters."
Perhaps what's been most impressive about Buchholz this season is his ability to close out innings with runners on base.
His left-on-base percentage (or strand rate), which can often indicate how lucky a pitcher has been, was a measly 69.7 percent last season.
Buchholz entered Thursday night having left an astounding 94.4 percent of his runners on base this season, the third highest mark among qualified pitchers in the Majors according to fangraphs.com. He stranded five of seven baserunners Thursday.
And the long ball, which has cursed Buchholz in the past, has been almost a non-factor this season, when he's allowed just one home run. He thinks he's finally been on the lucky side, saying, "balls that were homers last year that I'm missing in the middle of the zone, they're either fouling them off or swinging through them or taking them."
Saltalamacchia said there's much more than luck going on for a pitcher who has struck out 39 batters in 37 2/3 innings.
"He hides the ball really, really well," Saltalamacchia said. "He's good at deception. He mixes his times up to the plate, he slide-steps, he picks, he holds. When nobody's on, he hides the ball well. It gets on you. It's not just because he's missing over the plate. He's got good stuff. It's showing."
Jason Mastrodonato is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @jmastrodonato. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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HER mother, Linda Lusardi, has performed on the Wyvern Theatre stage; her father, Sam Kane, has performed on the Wyvern Theatre stage and now it is the turn of Lucy Kane to step on to the stage in this year's magical pantomime adventure, Dick Whittington.
Lucy said: "Seeing my parents on stage in panto was one of the main reasons that I wanted to become a performer.
"It was so inspiring to see them do a job that they love and do an amazing job of it.
"I spent many years watching the show from the wings and it's a dream come true to be able to follow in their footsteps."
Lucy will play Alice Fitzwarren, the love interest of title character Dick Whittington. She will be joined on stage by Nigel Havers as King Rat and David Ashley as Sarah the Cook.
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New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) The fate of Rajasthan Royals' playes S. Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, who have been charge-sheeted by the Delhi Police in the IPL spot-fixing case, will be discussed Friday when the cricket board's disciplinary committee meets to discuss the report submitted by Anti-Corruption Unit chief Ravi Sawani.
The three players have been suspended by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for their involvement in the spot-fixing scandal. They were arrested by the Delhi Police after a midnight raid in Mumbai on May 16.
Sawani, who is also a former chief of International Cricket Council (ICC) anti-corruption unit, was asked to investigate the alleged involvement of the three cricketers in conceding a pre-determined number of runs per over in exchange for money during the IPL.
The players are currently out on bail after serving time in the Tihar jail.
Sawani, a former CBI officer, had submitted his report to the Board during its Working Committee meeting in Kolkata last month.
Sawani's report will be scrutinised by Board vice-presidents Arun Jaitley and Niranjan Shah before comming up with a final verdict. The players may face life bans.
The disciplinary committee will present the findings at the BCCI annual general meeting slated for Sep 29.
Sawani had interrogated both Sreesanth and Chavan but had not spoken to Chandila, who was released from custody earlier this week. All the three cricketers have maintained their innocence.


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If you have been tracking the forecasts over the past several days, you know the winds have been kind of shifting with each update.
It looks like most of the Mid Atlantic will see that offshore shift during the day today. Its going to hit hatteras first during the morning, start to shift offshore for Delmarva around midday, and then shift offshore for Central Jersey by the late afternoon. Should be solid... Please post some reports if you get the chance.


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The hammer has fallen on the final episode of The Block All Stars with favourites Phil Rankine and Amity Dry taking home $295,000 profit as well the $100,000 prize money.
The couple's property sold for $1.67 million - well above the $1,375,000 reserve.
All four semis on Tasman Street, Bondi, sold at auction on Tuesday night with prices starting at $1.37 million.
In line with the Sydney property recovery, the Bondi median house price has increased by 2.8 per cent to $1,393,500 in the past 12 months.
The winning property managed to sell $276,500 above the median.
Auctioneer Damien Cooley fetched the highest price on the night but is convinced that those buying properties were the real winners.
''If you look at the core investment of what was put into those houses they were good value for the purchasers,'' he said.
Mr Cooley estimates that the terraces unrenovated would have cost about $1.3 million.
Hence, at $1.37 million, the semi sold by Sydneysiders Duncan Miller and Mark Bowyer was definitely ''the buy of the night''.
The other contestants pocketed more than $200,000.
Big profits have become part of Channel Nine's winning formula.
Last year the producers switched up the auction format following a disastrous 2011 series finale when three out of four properties passed in at public auction.
They now conduct secretive in-room auctions with only registered bidders allowed to attend.
The winners last year pocketed a total of $606,000 when their South Melbourne terrace sold for $506,000 over reserve. Combined, the 2012 contestants racked up $1,743,000 in profit.
There was speculation after the 2012 series that the producers had set unrealistic reserves to ensure big profits for the season finale.
That could be why investigators from the NSW Office of Fair Trading turned up at the auctions in Bondi on Tuesday night.
Senior Investigator Steve McGuire said, ''We're here to let people know that The Block isn't out there on its own; it is monitored by the industry.''
Specifically, the officers said they looked at ''allegations of underquoting''.
The total profit of $815,000 this year was more modest than 2012.
Mr Cooley said ''one of the biggest things to come out of the results is that good quality finishes and styling has a huge impact on sale price.''
However, he warned that reality TV is far from the reality of the property market.
''People like success and the public want to see these properties sell,'' he said. ''It is obviously very important that the contestants make money so The Block continues and so people want to go on it.''


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The following transcripts cover Senator Sam Nunn's introduction and Senators Saxby Chambliss and Mark Warner's acceptance speeches.
Thank you very much Bob. And thank you for the superb job you do in leading
Concord Coalition. I don't think it's ever been more important in terms of mission and in terms of message. You know one of the paradoxes is, when the deficits are very low or don't exist, it's very hard to raise money for The Concord Coalition. But boy the Congress is really helping us out now.
I'm delighted to be here tonight to honor two men who put their country before their ideology, their principles before their political parties, and the good of the nation before their narrow interest.
Our Concord Coalition has been described as many things, not all of them attractive: budget watchdog, deficit hawks, even fiscal freaks occasionally. But first and foremost, we are fiercely and fundamentally nonpartisan. Our staggering mountain of debt in this country and the unsustainable path on which our nation is embarked is not a Democratic problem or a Republican problem, it is an American problem.
This is not Physics, this is not Calculus, it is not Ideology, it is basically Arithmetic. Winston Churchill said more than once, No matter how beautiful the theory, occasionally, we must look at the results.
Senator Mark Warner and Senator Saxby Chambliss have looked at the results and they both get it. They understand what's at stake for our nation and at stake for our young people, children and our grandchildren. They understand that if we don't get our national debt and annual deficit under control, America's security will be threatened; America's economic leadership will be in jeopardy, and so will the standard of living of each and every living American.
Saxby and Mark understand that sound bites and extreme partisan positions do nothing to address the serious problems we face that are eroding our credibility and our leadership in the world. They recognize that today's political wings, yes they are noisy and they are flapping, but they are not likely to keep our country airborne unless we develop a strong fuselage or political center.
Mark and Saxby not only know all of this, but they did something even more remarkable in Washington these days, they've taken action. Together Senators Chambliss and Warner, each brought in two colleagues from their own party and together this gang of six worked to turn the broad recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles Commission and the Domenici/Rivlin Commission into national policy.
Indeed for many months, this bipartisan group of senators seemed to be the only elected officials focused on America's long term budget problems and indeed our long term economic future, and of course they caught heat for it. Senator Chambliss was castigated by many of his fellow Republicans for even discussing Tax Reform and Saxby in what other words, revenue enhancement or what my Republican friends used to use. Nevertheless he did catch heat. Mark caught heat from Democrats for bringing up issues that are essential to any kind of real reform, like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. Saxby and Mark, some people might call it political suicide, but here at The Concord Coalition, we call it leadership and we call it political courage.
Unfortunately, today whether you are a Democrat or Republican, on the basic task of fiscal policy, if you are not incurring the wrath of your party, you're not really protecting our nation's future.
I am and remain an optimist. I believe that in America today, courage remains contagious. This courageous small gang of six has grown significantly since it was formed. At last count, I believe there are forty-four Senators now signed on to the principal of bipartisanship, subsidy and fiscal reform, and deficit reduction. That takes a lot of leadership in today's political arena. This development speaks to the courage, the passion, the perseverance, and the persuasive ability of our two honorees tonight.
And so my bottom line on behalf of The Concord Coalition, in recognition of their effective leadership on our country's fiscal and economic future, it is my great honor and pleasure to present the 2011 Paul E. Tsongas Economic Patriots Award to two very deserving leaders, Senator Saxby Chambliss from my state of Georgia and Senator Mark Warner. Let's congratulate them.
Well well, I had a forty-five minute acceptance speech that I had planned to give but Nunn had ran a little long and my staff told me I had a minute and a half I'll cut it down.
You run for public office to hope to have the opportunity to make a difference some day and this is one issue which is the issue of our lifetime that thank goodness I've had the opportunity to participate with a great partner in Mark Warner in trying to educate other members in the United States Senate about the serious of the problem and a way forward. And there's somebody else here that deserves a lot of credit, who really deserves both these awards and that's Maya MacGuineas over here who has been a dear friend and adviser to us.
When I think about the Paul Tsongas Award; I know what Senator Tsongas' reputation was, that he was a strong fiscal conservative even though he came from what is now a very blue state. I know that he was accused sometimes, when it came to fiscal idea, he was more Republican than even Democrat but to be recognized in the name Paul Tsongas is very special.
And to have that award to be presented by mentor, my long time dear friend, and sometimes golfing partner. I'm having to give him way too many strokes is my dear friend Sam Nunn. It just means an awful lot This organization is so well respected in this town and the halls of Congress that really is an honor and a pleasure to be recognized by you tonight.
Let me also thank Senator Nunn and everyone from The Concord Coalition. Nobody would've thought well, about, almost 2 years ago now when Saxby and I sat down on the floor and said well we have some mutual friends in Atlanta, let's talk about the debt, that this would develop the king of friendship, relationship, and partnership.
I want to echo what Saxby has said about Maya. But I also want to say in a certain sense, following in the footsteps of the great senator and former governor, maybe in Virginia this was a little easier to do. But for Saxby, and let's also give credit where credit is due, someone like Tom Coburn and Mike Crapo, Kent Conrad has been an advocate for this for a long time. I think oftentimes people don't give enough credit to Dick Durbin in this process as well. These five guys have been incredible. We've spent literally thousands of hours together trying to build both the trust and the understanding to get to the so called Gang of Six which built simply on the great work of the Simpson-Bowles Commission and Rivlin/Domenici Commission.
I want to thank you as well. I promised I would try to, my Chief of Staff Luke Albee said "See if you can talk less than even Saxby tonight." Which is a challenge, so I'll just make two quick points because you're gonna have to hear us again when we have the panel. One is, while this is an enormous honor and I'm very grateful, this should not be so tough. The notion of trying to get 4 trillion over 10 years with some fair balance should be the regular course of what you should expect as a diminished expectation from your elected leaders not simply a sign of political courage.
So while I give all the great kudos to all of you that have been in the trenches for The Concord Coalition for so long, the one admonition that I would make at this moment when we're gonna get to the Super Committee and everything and this is one of the reasons why I won't end up as DSCC chair, but my appeal to all of you would be for those of you who are Democrats tonight, go find a Republican that's willing to talk truth about revenues and support him. For those who are Republicans tonight, go find a Democrat that's willing to tell truth about our entitlement programs. Unless we can have that kind of consensus around these two big drivers; they are the only part that keeps us from getting this kind of agreement then we're not gonna get the problem solved that we need to at this coming discussion.
With that, my thanks to The Concord Coalition and congratulations again to my great, great friend and partner Saxby Chambliss. We've had a lot of wine between us over these last two and a half years.


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Did you know?
Museum Africa is housed in what used to be the city's main fruit and vegetable market.
Museum Africa, in Johannesburg's Newtown Cultural District, is not only an important ethnological museum holding artefacts, paintings, photographs, musical instruments and archaeological items, but is also an animated memorial to key phases of Johannesburg's past.
Its permanent displays are themed to reflect the city's geological, social, political and economic history, with many documenting the social effects of the gold mines on life in South Africa and, specifically Johannesburg.
One of them, Sounds of the City, traces South African music from the Marabi music and dance of the 1920s slum yards to the township jazz of a Sophiatown shebeen, bringing this world vividly to life.
Another permanent display, Tried for Treason, covers the four-year trial of 156 people opposed to apartheid, including Nelson Mandela.
In the exhibition titled Gandhi's Johannesburg, you will discover the city landmarks associated with the man who pioneered the philosophy of passive resistance. There's another long-term exhibition called Cartoons in Context, looking at South African history through the eyes of some of the country's leading visual commentators and satirists over the decades. Johannesburg Tracks: Mapping sexuality in the city explores the gay experience of Johannesburg.
Attached to Museum Africa is also the Workers' Museum, telling the story of migrant labour in southern Africa.
The museum also collects southern African exhibits from the Zambezi River down, and a highlight is an Iron-Age Tswana house, including a furnace for working iron.
The Africana Museum, formerly housed in the Johannesburg Public Library, has also been incorporated into Museum Africa, with its collection of historic utensils and furniture used by the Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana and Afrikaner. Two other museums have also moved to the Museum Africa: the Bamberg Museum of Fashion, with its gowns and accoutrements, and the renowned Bensusan Museum of Photography.
The latter traces the history of photography from Louis Daguerre in 1839 to the latest digital images, and there is a fine collection of equipment for both photography and cinematography.
Contemporary exhibitions on Southern Africa's socio-economic history, featuring traditional as well as fine art, are also often presented at this South African cultural museum.
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How to get here
Museum Africa is found at 121 Bree Street in Johannesburg's Newtown Cultural Precinct, on one of the main taxi and bus routes in the city.
Best time to visit
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 9am-5pm
Around the area
Some of Johannesburg's best live music venues are located in the Newtown Cultural Precinct, as is the famous Market Theatre and Gramadoelas Restaurant.
What will it cost
Entrance to Museum Africa is free.
What to eat
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And hopefully some answers as well! As stated yesterday here at GeneaBloggers, Facebook is rolling out a new profile format to its users. And naturally when there are changes to almost anything, there are lots of questions.
First, as a resource, check out Facebook's Top Ten Questions about the new profile. Most of what folks want to know, such as "Can I switch back to the old profile once I turn on the new profile?" are contained on this page. And, unfortunately the answers is no on the switch back.
Second, be aware that, at least according to Facebook, none of your privacy settings have changed with the rollout of the new profile. I double-checked my own privacy settings this morning and I can confirm that none of mine have changed.
Third, I do have some concerns about the new Family feature discussed in yesterday's post. Right now, when I designate someone who is already a friend as a relative, and I select the type of relationship (aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, etc.), it displays the person in the Family section of my profile. There does seem to be a confirmation process (this is why the profile pictures won't appear until the family member confirms their relationship with you) but, wouldn't it be better not to display anything until the relationship is confirmed?
Also, for those who don't want to display the Family section, you can customize the settings for who can and can't see this section of your profile. Click here for more information.
Finally, I encourage you to give feedback on the new profile to Facebook using this form.
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ONE day in 1920, a large biplane passed low over the Railway Works and a man leaned bravely out with an unwieldy camera whose 'film' was a glass plate about five inches square.
What he couldn't have known was that the images he shot would eventually be preserved with thousands of others in one of the buildings below, and made available to the whole world.
And if you'd told him those images would one day be shown on a big television at Wharf Green, he'd have said: "What's a television?"
On Saturday, the second day of Swindon Film Festival, the festival organisers are teaming up with English Heritage at the Big Screen for Chocks Away! Take Off With Britain From Above. Vintage aerial views will be shown free to all who wish to see them. Britain From Above is a project that's been running at English Heritage's Railway Works headquarters since funding was secured in 2010, and is due to finish next year.
The 13-strong team of conservers, repairers, digitisers and cataloguers is headed by Verity Hancock.
She said: "It's a project to preserve a unique and significant aerial photography collection which was taken by a company called Aerofilms Ltd, which started in 1919.
"It was set up by two men after the First World War – Francis Lewis Wills and Claude Grahame-White. They decided that with rapid technological advances they could set up a business and make money on a commission basis and also with postcards.
"They started the company flying borrowed planes from Hendon."
Many clients were companies wanting views of their premises. Uses for these included simple display, proof of site size for tax breaks, and gifts for clients. There was also plenty of money to be made in providing aerial views for the public. Aviation was out of reach to most people until at least the 1960s, so a shot of their own home or town from above was a desirable novelty.
The most comprehensive set of aerial photos of Swindon and the surrounding area is the Adver's, taken for various supplements over the years. However, the ones on the Britain from Above database are almost cetainly the earliest of their kind, and show a Swindon where the the railway was still king and challengers non-existent.
The Second World War saw Wills and Graham-White helping Operation Crossbow, taking detailed shots of German V-weapon installations on the Continent to assist Allied bomb-aimers.
The company went through various owners before selling its archive of historic images to English Heritage in 2007.
Britain from Above is making 95,000 of the oldest images, dating from 1919 to 1953, available to the public. Before coming to English Heritage they been stored in sheds and even toilet blocks in various locations across the country.
The conservators are led by Rosalind Bos. Their work involves skill, patience, nerve and frequent use of very soft squirrel hair brushes. Also, if they happen to spot a visitor's nose wrinkling in their small lab, the conservators are quick to point out: "It's not us." Early film negatives can give off powerful odours of vinegar and cheese like those we sometimes associate with a laissez-faire attitude to personal hygiene.
As if that weren't amusing enough, they can also blow up in the hands of the unskilled. "Our first step when we get a box," said Rosalind, "is to start treatment in a fume cupboard. The gases they sometimes give off can be a health hazard.
"Nitrates can also self-combust at about 40 degrees, so they have to be kept away from sources of heat."
Glass negatives, which were used until just after the Second World War, can suffer what the conservators call 'glass disease' with images sometimes peeling away from the glass beneath.
Later film negatives suffer their own problems, from gross chemical deterioration to curling up into something resembling one of Clint Eastwood's cheroots in a Spaghetti Western. All are stabilised and preserved as much as possible.
Sometimes members of the team find themselves peering at things which truly startle them, such as preparations for the Queen's Coronation or the aftermath of the 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone train disaster, in which 112 people died.
Once cleaned and preserved, the images are sent for scanning and digitisation by other specialists who use the latest technology to bring out as much detail as possible without altering the 'truth' of what the lens saw all those years ago.
Another team cross matches the images against maps and known information, allowing for easy searching of the tens of thousands of images already online.
"We've had over 10 million page views," Verity said, "and over 25,000 people have registered. People can log in to use features of the website such as being able to zoom in on details."
Saturday's Big Screen showing runs from noon to 3pm, and the Britain from Above website is www.britainfromabove.org.uk


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The numbers bear it out -- the NHL's Southeast Division was the poorest-performing, least-respected of the lot last season. Had the league not guaranteed each division winner a playoff spot, by points the Southeast came the closest to having no participants, though in the end the Florida Panthers and Washington Capitals limped into the post-season.
In order of their overall low finish, here's a team-by-team look at the prospects ahead for all five clubs in the 2013 bid to earn back some of that respect. There's nowhere to go but up.
Florida Panthers
REASON FOR OPTIMISM: The two men in charge of the Panthers rebuild -- GM Dale Tallon and head coach Kevin Dineen -- get big slaps on the back for getting the walls up in a hurry, but also ensuring the foundation is solid. The Panthers have arguably the best collection of prospects in the NHL, including centre Jonathan Huberdeau, Alex Petrovic, Rocco Grimaldi and Oakbank's Quinton Howden, and that makes Dineen's job of pushing his vets easier, knowing some young guns are about to push for regular work. Huberdeau may centre Florida's second line along with newcomer Peter Mueller.
CAUSE FOR CONCERN: They'll raise a Southeast Division champions banner to the rafters at Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, but there is still convincing to be done around the rest of the NHL. The Panthers got huge years out of the likes of Tomas Fleischmann, Stephen Weiss and Kris Versteeg and good work from their goaltending duo of Scott Clemmensen and Jose Theodore. But the question now is whether they can repeat. The Panthers were the third seed in the East by virtue of capturing the division, but were just two points out of eighth. Losing Jason Garrison to Vancouver -- he provided 16 goals, nine on the power play -- leaves a gaping hole and when a club is inviting Andrei Kostitsyn and Alex Kovalev to camp to provide some offence, alarm bells should be clanging.
Washington Capitals
REASON FOR OPTIMISM: After a painful season with a coach-firing (Bruce Boudreau) and a seemingly square coach (Dale Hunter) trying to fit into a round hole (his team), the Caps figured things out just in time to barely squeeze into the post-season and make a bit of noise, dumping Boston out of the first round in a Game 7 OT thriller. Hunter opted out of the future, bringing new coach Adam Oates behind the bench, seemingly a better fit for what should be a dynamic team. Factor in a pair of promising young goalies in Michal Neuvirth and Braden Holtby and there may be a better level of comfort for the Caps to go where many thought they should have gone a year ago.
CAUSE FOR CONCERN: Volatile and pouty or focused and productive -- the fact there's even some doubt with star Alex Ovechkin can't help the Caps. Ovechkin may return to better form, but the only apparent improvement in the roster seems to be swapping out enigmatic scorer Alex Semin for Mike Ribeiro in a draft-day trade. Add a little lockout toxicity concerning defenceman Roman Hamrlik and you've got a few question marks in D.C.
Tampa Bay Lightning
REASON FOR OPTIMISM: Some of the key pieces of a team that pushed eventual Stanley Cup champion Boston to a Game 7 in 2010-11 remain intact, including last year's 60-goal man, Steven Stamkos, plus Martin St. Louis and Vinny Lecavalier. But GM Steve Yzerman was also quick to move as some warts were exposed during last year's disappointment. The goaltending was upgraded, albeit on paper only, with the addition of 6-6 Swede Anders Lindback from Nashville. As well, both Matt Carle and Sami Salo were added in free agency while Brian Lee, who came over from Ottawa late last season, was solid after moving south.
CAUSE FOR CONCERN: Lindback may fill a lot of the net physically, but he hardly got his jersey sweaty backing up Pekka Rinne in Nashville. He's 16-13-2 over parts of the last two seasons and a huge question mark. To that end, consider this: Since winning the Cup in 2004, the Bolts have used 18 different goalies -- most in the NHL. Some of the key parts counted on here, namely St. Louis (37), Lecavalier (32), Matthias Ohlund (36) and Ryan Malone (33), Eric Brewer (33) and Salo (38) are greying at the temples.
Winnipeg Jets
REASON FOR OPTIMISM: Well, games, NHL games, are reason enough for most folks in Winnipeg these days, as the honeymoon for the league's return rages on. After a year of introduction and love at first sight, the relationship will gradually take on new layers. One this year will be additions of size at forward, which surely can't hurt the team's outlook. Centre Olli Jokinen, who can play top-six minutes and has learned to be a better all-around player, is the most significant addition. Veteran Alexei Ponikarovksy also joins the forward crew. The Jets got mileage out of leading point-getter Blake Wheeler and goal scorer Evander Kane last season and there is hope for more where that came from.
CAUSE FOR CONCERN: If the Jets are unable to progress, their weakest link certainly appears to be defensive in nature. The conference's fourth-worst team in goals against has changed barely at all in the back end, with the same No. 1 goalie, Ondrej Pavelec, and a defence corps that is without emerging star Zach Bogosian for some time in 2013. New faces on Winnipeg's blue-line are limited journeymen like Derek Meech and Grant Clitsome and fresh faces Paul Postma and Zach Redmond. Two of those will have to play every night to start. The group has a lot to prove and may be so motivated but the assignment is daunting.
Carolina Hurricanes
REASON FOR OPTIMISM: The Canes made one of the biggest splashes in the off-season, landing centre Jordan Staal from Pittsburgh in a deal that sent Brandon Sutter to the Pens. He'll go from being lost in the shadows of Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin to centring Carolina's top line that might feature his brother Eric on the left side. Cam Ward has emerged to become one of the NHL's elite netminders and after replacing Paul Maurice with Kirk Muller, Carolina -- who lost five of its first six after the coaching change -- played with a lot more spark in the latter parts of last season. In the Staal brothers, 2010-11 rookie of the year Jeff Skinner, Jussi Jokinen, Chad LaRose and the talented but enigmatic Alex Semin, who comes via Washington in free agency, the Hurricanes have a collection of front-line talent that ranks among the NHL's best.
CAUSE FOR CONCERN: The special teams were subpar last year with the power play ranking 18th and the penalty kill 22nd. And after Ward, who has fought injuries in the past, the backup job falls to Justin Peters. But this is a team that has missed the playoffs for three straight years and unless it can improve on its goals against -- the Canes were 25th last year -- they may still be on the outside when the post-season begins.
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Hello everybody, i'm now working with python for a year and i'm doing a school project and im looking for someone who can help me out. I really appreciate it if anyone can help me out. I understaning everybody is busy and time is money so i'm willing to pay compensation for the trouble.
I'm studing IT cisco and im doing this project for school , for the most people it's something easy and it's gonna take max 1 hour.
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The first two are integers(points) and the third (float) is the distance between the points. The text file is huge and has over 5M lines. What is the fastest way to read the text file and populate a matrix (say numpy matrix)??
So far I have done something like this:
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for line in open("distances.txt", "rb"):
ls = line.split(' ')
A = int(ls[0])
B = int(ls[1])
C = float((ls[2])[:-1])
# Write further code for storing data in distance matrix
But this is too slow. Please help


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BRUNSWICK, Ga. - A bullet recovered at the crime scene where a 1-year-old boy was killed will be tested ballistically against a .22-caliber handgun found in a pond two miles away, Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering said at a news conference Thursday afternoon.
This comes a day after a Georgia grand jury indicted 17-year-old De'Marquise Elkins in last week's fatal shooting of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago in his stroller and in another unrelated shooting 10 days earlier in a robbery attempt.
The indictment says Elkins shot the boy in the face with a .22-caliber revolver while trying to rob the child's mother.
Doering said Thursday investigators found one bullet in Santiago's body, it's now at the crime lab, along with the gun police believe was used in the crime.
"Our investigators, as we speak, are still out interviewing people," Doering said. "There was more evidence recovered last night. There is still evidence we know that we are still searching for."
The indictment charges 15-year-old Dominique Lang on seven counts including felony murder. Elkins' mother, 36-year-old Karimah Elkins, and sister, 19-year-old Sabrina Elkins, were charged with trying to dispose of the gun in a saltwater pond.
DOCUMENT: Read the full indictment of 5 in killing of toddler
"We know who, we know when, we know where and we know how the firearm was hidden transported and disposed of," Doering said.
Doering said there was a vehicle involved in transporting the gun, and he said investigators know who it belonged to, but wouldn't say who.
(Karimah, Katrina and Sabrina Elkins pictured, right)
The gun recovered Tuesday was found in a pond in a gated subdivision behind Brunswick Floors on U.S. Highway 17, just more than two miles from the shootings, Doering said.
Investigators were tipped off to the location of the gun after investigating Karimah Elkins and her 33-year-old sister Katrina Elkins. Police arrested and charged the two women with lying to police about who was with DeMarquise the morning Santiago was killed.
The lawyer representing Lang also spoke Thursday. Kimberly Copeland wants to make it clear that her client, she believes, had no part in the heinous crime.
She said he did not know the other teen accused of the shooting and was merely a witness who's being wrongly held.
"I believe full-heartedly in my client's innocence, and I am going to represent him fiercely on these charges," Copeland said. "I don't think that he should be listed as a co-defendant."
Copeland said Lang never even knew De'Marquise Elkins, and she said he surely wasn't his friend.
"They're not in school together," she said. "There's a substantial age difference between the first defendant and my client. There's no relationship."
Copeland was hired by Lang's family on Tuesday and said she wants to keep most of what she knows out of the media and in the courtroom. She does admit that her client wasn't at school last Thursday when the shooting happened. Instead, she said, he was out sick.
"Normally he would have been in school," Copeland said.
She said Lang did see the crime take place, but had nothing to do with it, despite what many people have said. She would not go into detail, just said he was only an eyewitness.
"That's the only role he would have," Copeland said. "He didn't participate. He didn't approach. He did not request anything from the victim. He did not shoot anyone. So he didn't participate."
Copeland said she's filing several motions to get the charges against her client dropped.
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So I got two small turkeys at thanksgiving and they've sitting in my freezer.
An 8 pounder and a 4 pounder.
I've decided to smoke and pull them this memorial day weekend.
I've never smoked and pulled turkey (or chicken) before so i've been looking around online for ideas.
Some people say since it doesn't have the fat and collagen like pork and beef just cook it at 325
until its done. Others still say low and slow.
Any thoughts from you ladies and gents on here?
I usually just use Memphis rub on my chicken so I'm still thinking on a rub. Any suggestions there too?
And to make my confusion worse, I usually cook on my offset but i bout one of those
Brinkmann vertical smoke and grills this weekend.
I've done some mods and this will be the test run.
So wish me luck on that front.
It looks like I may do this http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/turkey5.html
and it should be done in 2-3 hours.
Not sure if I believe that with using the new ECB.


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