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Built as a pair of cottages between 1629-1635, Rose Cottage, adjoining The Old Shop, is a 17th-century, Grade II listed building. The cottage has its own garden, which offers a quiet space for guests to enjoy an alfresco glass of wine in the most pleasurable of surroundings.
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BIG RELEASE: World War Z (June 21)
BIG PICTURE: The good news? The world's nations have learned to stop fighting each other. The bad news? Our Third World War is against the undead. TV's Walking Dead has set the bar unfairly high for zombie movies by essentially offering a 12-hour film with rich character development each season. Meanwhile, Brad Pitt & Co. only have two hours to adapt a brilliant novel by Max Brooks, which offers a geo-political portrait of how our world might suffer through -- and overcome -- a "real" zombie virus. That's 120 minutes for Pitt to furrow his brow, kill a few zombies, run from a few zombies, criss-cross the world, find the origin of the virus and deliver a potential cure to mankind. I have no idea how he's going to do it (unless the twist is he's Santa Claus). I'm hoping for a cameo by Ocean's Eleven to buy Pitt time by mesmerizing the zombie hordes with charm, one-liners -- and by tossing them Matt Damon. Mireille Enos, brilliant on AMC's The Killing, plays Pitt's wife, trying to keep their kids safe as he embarks the international backpacking trip from hell.
FORECAST: Zombie fans and "those who daydream of Brad Pitt saving them from the apocalypse (we've all been there)" will find this war worth fighting through. But fans of the book will be sorely disappointed. The novel's strength was grounded in a realistic, fictional "interviews" with the global survivors of World War Z - from doctors and generals to politicians to average Joe heroes. The scariest thing about this movie might be the over $200-million price tag, production delays and script rewrites. Zombies may be the "it" thing in pop culture, but WWZ can't afford for any of the genre's fans to stay away.
HONOURABLE MENTION: Monsters University (June 21). Billy Crystal and John Goodman reprise their roles as the voices for monsters Mike and Sulley. This animated sequel tells the tale of the how the two became unlikely friends during monster school, while learning how to hide under a bed, say "boo," stake out a kid's closet -- and other skills essential to creatures of the night. I believe Dick Cheney, Simon Cowell and Sen. Mike Duffy are all graduates.
BIG EVENT: Devious Maids (June 23, Lifetime, 9 p.m.
BIG PICTURE: Straight from the magical land of Clich©, this baby is delivered by Marc Cherry, the maker of Desperate Housewives. First, ABC's Mistresses and new Devious Maids? TV executives must already be running out of titles. This fall, keep an eye out for Sexy Women Who Make Dramatic Mistakes, Regret Them, Complain About Them, And Then Forget the Lessons They've Learned Just In Time for the Next Episode. Ana Ortiz, Judy Reyes, Dania Ramirez and Roselyn Sanchez star as the group of Latino maids in Beverly Hills. Expect sex. And then more sex. And then murder. And then post-sex murder. I'm hoping for a spinoff called Bodacious Butlers inexplicably starring Scott Baio (Charles in Charge), Joey Lawrence (Blossom) Luke Perry (90210) and Matthew Perry (Friends and all his other random, cancelled sitcoms).
FORECAST: It's like Desperate Housewives meets the board game Clue, only every character is Mrs. White. Featuring dialogue such as "If you don't stop screwing my husband, I'm going to have you deported" and "Never fall in love with the help" and "You'll have to forgive my wife, she's drunk -- and evil." Yup. Seriously.
BIG RELEASE ON JUNE 18: Kanye West (Yeezus)
BIG PICTURE: We always knew Kanye West had a God complex, but now he's gone one step further. In recent interviews, he has cited Yeezus as his "God name." Yup. Seriously. The album Yeezus is shrouded in mystery with almost zero promotion or pre-release details. We can only hope the album features 12 guest-star "apostles of Yeezus." I'm hoping for Drake, girlfriend Kim Kardashian, Hologram Tupac, Hologram Stephen Harper (even more human than the real thing!), Scott Baio (simply because he needs work before my butler idea takes off) and Weird Al Yankovic. (Real Yeezus collaborators include Daft Punk, Frank Ocean, John Legend, Tyler the Creator and Skrillex). With tracks such as New Slaves and Black Skinhead, early word is this album is darker than typical Kanye and delves into a few socio-political themes. Crazy Yeezus.
FORECAST: Who knew dating a Kardashian would bring out West's serious side? Maybe all the great songwriters need a Kardashian for a muse. I sense wedding bells for Bob Dylan and Khloe Kardashian in 2014. (On a side note: In case you were wondering, my "God name" is Herculackner.)
HONOURABLE MENTION: Austra (Olympia). This Toronto indie electro-pop act has been universally loved (at least by critics and the hipster crowd) since debuting with Feel It Break in 2011. Frontwoman Katie Stelmanis can move you with her lyrics -- and move you to dance at the same time. The new album was apparently influenced by early house music when a live band typically performed. Imagine that? A live band? Dance songs without any computerized tinkering or auto-tune to disguise their mediocrity? Now that's something to celebrate! (In honour of our Olympic team, I give this Olympia a bronze medal.)

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The demand for self-defense and concealed handgun courses is soaring in Louisiana amid fears of new gun control measures proposed in the wake of last month's Connecticut school shooting, according to interviews and state statistics.
Firearm instructors around the state said they are offering additional courses to meet the demand, and many of their upcoming classes are booked.
The interest in concealed carry courses has reached "unprecedented levels" since the Newtown, Conn., shooting of 20 schoolchildren and President Barack Obama's recent push for tighter gun restrictions, said Gordon Hutchinson, a veteran firearm instructor in the Baton Rouge area.
"It's the fear that the government is going to do something to limit our right to own guns or limit our access to guns, and everybody wants to run out to get the permit before something is done to limit that ability," Hutchinson said. "It's just a frantic situation, and people talk to each other and get one another worked up. I have never seen a demand for classes like we have right now."
The State Police Concealed Handgun Permit Unit received an average of about 220 applications a week for concealed handgun permits between January and August 2012, according to State Police. But since the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the average has been about 450 applications a week, said Trooper 1st Class Jared Sandifer, a State Police spokesman.
There are nearly 50,000 concealed handgun permit holders in the state, Sandifer said.
The number of applications has been trending upward since about two months before the presidential election. The state has received an average 1,025 applications a month for concealed handgun permits since September, state statistics show.
"The main thing that's driving folks is they want protection," said Alvin Palmer, a concealed carry instructor in the Monroe area. "I can tell you it's been a significant increase."
Lee Perkins, manager of the Lake Charles Gun Club, said he has scheduled extra classes this month and next month to meet the rising demand.
"It's going off the page," Perkins said. "With everything in the news, people have said we better do it now or we won't ever be able to do it."
Dave Arthur, a firearm instructor at Gretna Gun Works, said his class has doubled in size since the November election, prompting him to add a second class. Arthur said the interest has been fueled by "a combination of concerns."
"The majority want to protect themselves, but there is a smattering in there of, 'We're concerned that something's going to happen, but if at least I have my permit we should be grand-fathered in for any eventuality,' " Arthur said.
In the capital city, heavy interest in self-defense classes has prompted the Chamber of Commerce of East Baton Rouge Parish to provide free gun-training courses, said Woody Jenkins, the group's chairman.
"We know that people are very concerned about the crime problem in Baton Rouge, and being able to protect yourself involves more than having a firearm — it involves understanding how to use that firearm safely," said Jenkins, a former state legislator and an outspoken proponent of gun rights. "We expect a high demand, so people who are interested should go ahead and register."
The courses, which begin Feb. 23 at the Baker Range, are offered to all parish residents but are targeted especially at women, Jenkins said.
"We are particularly concerned that there are a lot of ladies out there who want to have a firearm and aren't sure how to use it," he said.
The courses can only accommodate up to 35 participants each, but Jenkins said the chamber will offer the courses for "as long as there's a lot of interest in it."
Instruction will be led by Greg Phares, the former Baton Rouge police chief and former East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff. Participants are required to pay a $15 fee for use of the range and must also provide — or purchase — their own ammunition, said Kim Smith, manager of Baker Range. Rental guns are available for $20, she said.
Hutchinson, who will teach the class along with Phares, said the course includes about two hours of classroom training focused on safety. Participants then will fire a half a box of ammunition, or about 25 rounds.
Smith said the range had already seen a steady increase in demand for its state-certified course.
"People are calling every day wanting to get a concealed weapons permit," she said.
Carol Thomas said she was among the first to register for the chamber's free training course. She said she has not decided whether she will buy a handgun after completing the class.
"Like so many women, I've never even picked up a gun before," Thomas said. "Number one, it will get rid of all my fears of guns because I want to learn to respect them."


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HOUSTON - A man has been accused of videotaping his co-workers while they were in the restroom.
Isaac Gutierrez, 53, has been charged with two counts of improper photography/visual recording.
Harris County sheriff's deputies said Gutierrez set up an iPod with a video camera and hid it in a ceiling air vent in a women's restroom at Mogas Industries in the 14300 block of East Hardy.
Detectives said one of the employees noticed the camera. She and another employee had been recorded, investigators said.
Prosecutors said it was simple to trace the iPod to Gutierrez because when he put the device in the ceiling, he photographed himself.
The charge is a state jail felony. Prosecutors said they are seeing more and more cases of it.
"As technology increases and cameras and recording devices get smaller and smaller, it really does create an opportunity to get photographs and video illicitly," Assistant Harris County District Attorney Donna Hawkins said.
Gutierrez has been released from the Harris County Jail after posting $4,000 bond.
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The Timberwolves entered Friday night's game at 24-25 and are looking at the next four games before the all-star break as an opportunity to get a few games above the Mason-Dixon Line. That sounds like a good plan, no? The team traveled to New Orleans for Friday's encounter with the 21-27 Pelicans. While under .500 for the season overall, the Pelicans were 12-12 going into the action Friday night.
The Wolves got back a few starters after they missed Wednesday's game, opening up with: Rubio, Martin, Brewer, Love, and Turiaf. Nikola Pekovic remains out with his injury. The Pelicans are dealing with a slew of injuries of their own, but their starting lineup Friday night was: Brian Roberts, Eric Gordon, Al-Farouq Aminu, Anthony Davis, and Alexis Ajinca. Added bonus for future trivia: tonight was the first game in the "Smoothie King Center". Let's just move on …
First Half
Game got off to a slow start in the scoring department. As an added "bonus" for Wolves fans, Kevin Love seemed to tweak something early and looked slow and banged up. Going into the first timeout with just over 5 minutes left in the opening frame, the Pelicans held a 14-12 lead, led by the Unibrow, who got it going early with 8 points on 4-5 shooting. (Congrats to the 'Brow on being named to the Western Conference All-Star team – more than deserved!)
Kevin Love picked up a quick second foul and that led to Dante Cunningham's early arrival in the game. For the record, Love probably should have taken a seat when he couldn't get past half court to play defense, but you know … Adelman. (I'm quickly turning to the dark side.) Before I get in trouble, the Wolves held a 26-25 lead over the Pelicans at the end of the quarter. Corey Brewer led the Pups with 9 points and creating chaos, including one of the ugliest fast-breaks you will ever see in NBA history; however, it ended with a Kevin Martin three pointer, so no complaints here.
The early minutes of the second quarter can be summarized with this:
Hubie Brown on Budinger: "This guy used to be an excellent 3PT shooter" (Kill me)
— john flesta (@jflesta) February 8, 2014
It isn't like we signed this guy to a new contract this past summer or anything, right? (Crickets) Beyond this little tidbit, the Wolves played a Pelicans-inspired slowed down pace, outscoring the home team 21-17 in the quarter and taking a 47-42 into the locker room.
Here are a few halftime thoughts:
- Despite not scoring in 14 minutes of action, Dante Cunningham had a nice half of basketball with 4 rebounds, 1 assist, and 1 steal
- Kevin Love had 10 & 8 at the half and was solid offensively, but Anthony Davis led the Pelicans with 17 points at the same time – interesting match-up!
- Ronny Turiaf – defensive presence! (3 blocks by halftime!)
Second Half
Despite Kevin Love looking like a broken body multiple times in the 3rd quarter, the Wolves played a solid final few minutes to increase their lead a bit. Love was fouled (but not called) by Greg Stiemsma and looked like he was going to need to be scraped off the floor after a few attempts in the paint on the ensuing possession after not being able to get back on defense. There is going to be a time when we are going to regret this. However, it wasn't through the third quarter, as the Wolves built a 71-61 lead going into the final frame.
All of the good from the 3rd quarter came to a screeching halt with the Pelicans going on a massive run to begin the 4th quarter, going up 78-77 – a 17-6 run before Adelman finally called a timeout. The onslaught continued as the Pelicans poured it on in the 4th quarter, while the Wolves found ways to increase their deficit – bad defense, terrible shot selection, and overall bonehead play. With about 2.5 minutes to go, the Pelicans held an 89-82 lead, outscoring the Pups 28-11 to this point in the quarter. Let's hit the fast forward button because nothing positive happened the rest of the way for our Pups. They continued to fall flat on their face and wound up giving up 37 points in the 4th quarter, losing to the Pelicans, 98-91.
Three Stars of the Game
- Anthony Davis – great game for the 'Brow, 26 & 10 and looked like a leader on the floor
- Eric Gordon – huge second half for Gordon, who finished with 20 points and it felt like he threw two or three daggers at the Wolves
- Kevin Love – who I am somewhat expecting to hear "trade request" from this all-star break. 26 & 18 for the starting PF in the Western Conference …
Key Takeaways
- The Wolves continue to shoot three pointers for no apparent reason other than "it's flashy" … 4-17 in tonight's game, including a 0-6 from Love.
- Huge advantage for Minnesota at the FT line, going 31-37 on the evening, compared to NOLA's 12-16. Somehow, someway, the Wolves still managed to lose this game.
- Ricky Rubio and Corey Brewer create havoc on both ends of the floor … however, their lack of fundamental defense (along with Kevin Martin's lack of any defense) is killing this team. This already feels like a very long second half of the season.


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Les Hinton Resigns From News Corp.
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Les Hinton, the Chief Executive for News Corp.'s Dow Jones & Co., is resigning.
Les Hinton, who headed News Corp.'s News International unit when the phone-hacking allegations roiling the media empire first arose, on Friday resigned as chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Co., the second major executive casualty of the scandal.
Mr. Hinton had come under increasing scrutiny recently as a cascade of allegations indicated the problems at the center of the scandal were more widespread than he had twice led a parliamentary committee to believe.
Hinton had a key role in News Corp.'s original response to the phone hacking scandal:
Hinton was chairman of News International, the UK newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's empire, from 1995 to 2007 - the period in which much of the phone hacking was done by the News of the World.
He has been accused of giving misleading information to parliament on two occasions, in 2007 and 2009, by saying there was no evidence of widespread malpractice within the company.
Hinton went on to become the chief executive of Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
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If Windows or Blackberry really wants the market share, then they should offer to allow users that can prove that they paid for Apps on the iPhone App Store, Google Play or Amazon Market Place to obtain the equivalent versions on their OS for free.
This would overcome what is one of the primary obstacles to switching.
On the world stage, Android is still near 69% overall.
Android captured almost 70% global smartphone market share in 2012, Apple just under 20% | VentureBeat
Just trying to un-skew the "journalism" that's often presented here.
I'm unsure of how your response is supposed to rationalize blatant inaccuracies from story authors here. Feel free to attack my stance on how it's not important to attempt to keep up on what apps my end users may try to run that provide undue stress on a network that primarily hosts client-server and web apps that can get data hungry during peak usage times.
Additionally, I do often times have to eat food that I don't enjoy currently due to going through chemotherapy. Would I enjoy eating a huge steak dinner or pizza every once in a while? Sure, but my body disagrees with that idea and I'm stuck eating things that provide the largest amount of micronutrients while assuring I'm getting enough calories to sustain treatment and work.
The reason other companies aren't getting market is because people have so much digital merchandise like you said, and its almost all exlusively on iTunes. None of apples competitors have an "iTunes". And that will forever hold them bak
The problem with jailbroken devices on my network are the people who start streaming/downloading things like YouTube clips, downloading other large media files directly to their device (Safari Downloader), Torrenting (you wouldn't believe how popular this is, as they aren't admins on their local box), and general things like disabling Exchange PIN requirements (Major HIPPA violation)
I need to stay on top of what people are doing with their devices, and I do the same with sites like A-Developers as well to see what mods people are running. Most of my staff is pretty good about being open with the ROMs they're running on Android, or that they aren't overutilizing our limited bandwidth that we allocate for employee use, but it's always an uphill battle to properly utilize resources without taking a hammer to the situation and not allowing anyone to have a mobile device on our network.
Moving on to my displeasure with this particular article, it just happened to be the first on the page when I hit it today, and it always frustrates me that the writers on staff at MMI will give information in a very misleading way, either by stats such as the one in this article that imply that Apple is gaining traction in the mobile market as a whole, when the truth is that Apple had a good quarter due to the iPhone 5. We've seen this cycle for how many years? Every quarter a new iPhone has been released, it's gained a bump in overall market share in the US. Was my usage of the word tripe a bit much? Probably, but I so seldomly get to use it in proper context that I had to take the opportunity.


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Penryn and SkullTrail Benchmarked at IDFby Anand Shimpi & Cara Hamm on 9/20/2007 3:00 PM EST
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Beenthere - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - linkIntel keeps releasing engineering samples and tech info. to the media because they are running scared. AMD is once again delivering the best of breed and Intel is in for one Helleva beating to come now that Barcelona is available and ramping in clockspeed. The shitze is about to hit the fan! Reply
Zak - Monday, September 24, 2007 - linkI've just built a new gaming rig last week: the new 3GHz Core2Duo (@3.8GHz with Tuniq cooler) and 8800GTX (slightly o/clocked) with 3GB of 800MHZ RAM, 600W PS, the whole thing sans case and HD, which I already had, was just under $1,200 and I get over 12000 points in 3DMark and 100% stable with few 12cm fans and CM Stacker case. So with a decent case and a couple of HDs it'd be around $1,500. I can imagine I can build a system for $3000 that will get close to 17000 points. WTF?
There is no reason to even consider this monstrosity unless you have a really small penis...
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Amiteriver - Sunday, September 23, 2007 - linkRan a quick FM06 at 3467 (13x)on a qx6700 with 2 GTX SLI and got 17,425 pts overall with nothing tweeked. G Kind of thinking in this bench mark - wheres the beef. Reply
vgermax - Thursday, September 20, 2007 - linkWhy are the TMPGEnc scores listed as 151 and 239 for both comparisons? It seems a might coincidence if a different encoded file would result in identical scores in comparing Penryn/Merom and Skulltrail/Penryn. Either that or the mobile Penryn is as fast as Skulltrail, with the desktop Penryn being the same speed as Merom, which doesn't seem plausible. Reply
tayhimself - Thursday, September 20, 2007 - linkWhat the f**k???????????///////slash
smilingcrow - Thursday, September 20, 2007 - link"TMPGEnc 4.0 Express Beta (seconds)
151 239
while there's a 26% reduction in encoding time in TMPGEnc."
The reduction is 88 seconds which equates to a ~37% reduction, or you could say that the single CPU system takes ~58% longer.
joex444 - Thursday, September 20, 2007 - linkYea, they suck. Reply
mcnabney - Thursday, September 20, 2007 - linkAbout a 40% increase in gaming performance by adding a second top-end video card and doubling the number of CPUs that also happen to run at a higher speed. A good bit better, yes, but the performance hardly scales with the amount of hardware. Reply
retrospooty - Thursday, September 20, 2007 - linkIts not really a gaming system. There games are now being coded to use 2 cores, and a few that do 4 cores, but nothing uses 8. 8 is for special use niche apps at this point. Reply
mcnabney - Thursday, September 20, 2007 - linkYes, they cleverly disguised a plainjane workstation by covering it with skulls and loading two $700 gaming video cards into it... Reply
lebe0024 - Thursday, September 20, 2007 - linkDoesn't the Source engine now use an unlimited amount of cores? (with diminishing results, obviously) Reply
retrospooty - Thursday, September 20, 2007 - linkI hadn't heard that but its certainly possible. Either way, yes it will come eventually, maybe soon on some games, but for now the fact remains this is a high end enthusiast "gotta have it" type machine, or special purpose machine. Reply
kleinwl - Thursday, September 20, 2007 - linkAs an engineering work station or graphic/video editing system this has some promiss... however as a gaming station this thing is silly (real time ray tracing aside).
I would love to have this running my CFD/FEA models (assuming I can afford 8 simultanious licenses which are $10K apiece)... but running Quake 3? Seriously? Reply
Stas - Thursday, September 20, 2007 - linkSo it consumes around 800 Watt or so? And produces enough heat for you to turn your central heating system off in the winter? And costs $10K+? What a deal! Can't wait for it to become available in retail... just to watch the suckers complain about spending a ton of cash on a POS system.
P.S. Performance shown is a fraction of what I would expect from that system. What was Intel thinking? Reply
Thatguy97 - Thursday, June 18, 2015 - linkspooky scary skeletons send penyrn down your spine Reply


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It is the last weekend of summer here in Sydney! Saturday was beautiful so we decided to pack our picnic basket and bags and spend the day on the boat at Sydney's beautiful Pittwater. It was a stunning day and every time we go boating it feels like such a luxury. I love getting away from the city, away from all the traffic noise and masses of people. There is no better way to enjoy this beautiful city than on water and it really is the best way to relax and just get away from it all.
this couscous salad to go along with savoury muffins of thyme, pine nuts and feta. Lunch on the boat is always the best part of the day!
These muffins are great picnic food. I would usually make this in a loaf form (and you could do that too, with the exactly same measurements), but individual portions worked better for this occasion. They are wholesome with rye flour, just enough salty with feta cheese and the pine nuts along with thyme give them extra boost of flavour.
Thyme, pine nut and feta muffins
(Makes one loaf or 12 small muffins)
1 cup organic rye flour
3/4 cup organic white, unbleached spelt flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
pinch of sea salt
1/4 cup pine nuts
few sprigs of fresh thyme
4 large free-range eggs
1/2 cup low fat milk
100g low fat feta cheese
3 tbsp pine nuts, extra
Preheat oven to 180C and prepare the muffin tins or a medium size loaf tin. Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl along with the pine nuts and the thyme leaves. In a separate bowl, lightly whisk the eggs and the milk. Pour the egg mixture in with the dry ingredients and mix through. Finally crumble in the feta cheese and stir everything to combine. Spoon the batter into the prepared tins, sprinkle each muffin with extra pine nuts and bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden and a tester comes out clean. Leave to cool on a wire rack.
We were back at the marina late at dusk - a little dazed from all the fresh air, but so happy and relaxed. Looking forward to the next time! Thank you again M & G!


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An immaculate commentary on a sad fact of contemporary Western society…
Intelligence Redux
I was disappointed recently after reading Life's Extremes: Smart vs. Dumb on LiveScience. Based upon the comments of American psychologist Richard Haier, the article presented a one-sided view of human intelligence research: a view largely consistent with Herrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve. In this brief blog post, I'm going to don my contrarian hat and advance the flip side of the intelligence coin.
Quite a gulf exists between the extremes in innate human intelligence.
"Everybody would like to think there are environmental interventions to overcome biology. We know in medicine it's true – you can overcome certain genetic predispositions by exercise or changing diet," Haier told LiveScience. "But we haven't found such things on cognition."
Not all intelligence research subscribes to such biological determinism. To the interested reader, I suggest perusing:
- Yet More on the Heritability and Malleability of IQ, an article by Cosma Shalizi
- The Mismeasure of Man, a book by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Genius in All of Us, a book by David Shenk
- Shenk's book is very well documented; half of it is devoted to citations.
"A generation ago, people were arguing over the definition of intelligence, and that argument is now done," said Richard Haier, professor emeritus in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. "Intelligence is something that's real and exists, and it can be measured."
Regarding intelligence, I explored the twin problems of its definition and its measurement in a previous blog post, Questioning Everything Includes Questioning Yourself. In that piece, I examined the question of whether or not Mark Zuckerberg is a genius.
The best-known index of smarts is an intelligence quotient (IQ) test, which probes spatial ability, memory, speed of processing information and more. "In the last hundred years of studying intelligence, there have been pretty constant results that several different intelligence factors, like these, relate to how smart people are," said Haier.
IQ tests are indicative of IQ-test-taking ability. They also tend to be predictive of academic performance. Beyond that, however, their use in conclusively assessing the breadth of mental capacity is questionable. As Mary-Elaine Jacobsen so eloquently asserted in her book, The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius: "As we have seen, we have been indoctrinated with the notion that a single IQ number, such as 109, 123, or 145, is a true indicator of ability from which we can determine the limits of our potential, including giftedness. However, we now know that a single IQ rating (1) does not validly describe the intelligence of many individuals, (2) is a finite measure of performance that can change over time, (3) cannot claim to measure the multifaceted factors of ability proposed by current research on intelligence, (4) all but ignores creativity and other specialized aspects of human potential."
When discussing intelligence, researchers tend to cite a general factor of intelligence, or g, the common factor across a battery of intelligence tests. "Think of the really smart kids you knew in school — they were kind of generally smart, not just in one subject," said Haier. "It's that general ability that's reflected in the g score."
In Norse mythology, Víðarr, son of Odin, avenged his father by smiting the monstrous wolf, Fenrir, at Ragnarök. Likewise, Cosma Shalizi divinely judged and utterly decimated the abstraction of g in his article, g, a Statistical Myth.
"The question of why are people smarter than others is a question we now have the scientific means to investigate," Haier said.
Intelligence research still seems to exude the trappings of pseudoscience. Perhaps one day—once neuroscience has progressed to the point where the brain's neurocircuitry can be mapped in detail—it will graduate to the level of a hard science, such as physics. I'll impart the last word of this post to The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience, Volume 2, edited by Michael Shermer: "Volumes have been written on problems with intelligence tests, and I will not repeat them here. Suffice it to say that one problem with such tests is what they purport to measure. Rather than measuring some qualitatively distinct structure or process as defenders of such tests would have us believe, intelligence tests literally measure only the correctness of a variety of learned behaviors—answers to questions on the test—in a contrived context—the test taking situation (Schlinger, 1992). Alfred Binet knew this when he developed the first modern intelligence test (although he eschewed the use of the term 'intelligence' in favor of the more descriptive and neutral 'intellectual level'). The challenge for serious scientists is to ask about the variables that affect the broad range of behaviors we describe as intelligent; and only an experimental analysis can answer such questions."
Inconspicuous Mixed Messages from the Media
As I watched Morning Express with Robin Meade shortly after I rolled out of bed this morning, they presented a story about the performance of Watson (IBM's supercomputer for natural-language processing) on Jeopardy! last night, after which the newscasters—the show's host and namesake, Robin, and meteorologist, Bob Van Dillen—offered commentary on how boring the news item was. This was followed by an interview with NBA player, Jerry Stackhouse, who elucidated the importance of education. Does anyone see what's wrong with this picture? An apathetic attitude by the media towards a superlative achievement in science and technology—and, by extension, the necessary advanced education of people to make that achievement possible—juxtaposed against a sports hero attempting to inspire others to persevere with school. My spidey sense (for mixed messages) is tingling! In the mainstream of North American society, there exists a continuum of cultural aversion to the "hard" subjects (i.e., the various sciences, math, and computers) and to those who enthusiastically advocate them, with Robin's and Bob's dismissals of Watson (as being a snooze-worthy topic) on one end, and the subjugation of "nerds" to the bottom of the social totem-pole on the other. Those same media mavens wouldn't have dared to refer to the Super Bowl as mundane. Maybe if Americans revered their scientists and mathematicians to the same degree that they venerate their sports gods, their kids would be more ebullient about science and math, and the United States wouldn't be ceding the edge in scholastic achievement to Asian countries, such as South Korea and Singapore.
"The Pursuit of Vikings"
In April of this year, I made a discovery, one comparable to the Viking discovery of North America—nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus—in its magnitude: I found the wickedly awesome metal of Amon Amarth, a Norse-inspired, Swedish melodic death metal band from Tumba, Sweden. How did I find them, you ask? Well, I receive constant emails listing bands coming through my little burg. One such email advertised these guys, and displayed the image you see to the right of this text. I thought, "They look mean and cool simultaneously. I wonder what they sound like." So, I checked out a couple of songs. Wow! I couldn't believe the powerful music to which I was listening. It was as if Thor repackaged his lightning bolts as songs and sent them to my waiting eardrums.
On top of their masterful metal, they also appealed to my geek sensibilities: Amon Amarth is an alternative name for Mount Doom, Mordor's mountain of fire from Tolkien's Middle-earth. Amon Amarth is, without a doubt, one of the best bands I've come across since Iron Maiden. I love so many of their heavy melodies—to the point where I listened exclusively to them every day for several consecutive months—but if I had to pick a fave, it'd unquestionably be The Pursuit of Vikings. And without further ado…
Questioning Everything Includes Questioning Yourself
Is Mark Zuckerberg a genius? And can the traits of such geniuses be enumerated in a nice, tidy list?
Well, Jen Kim, through the Poor Little Rich Genius post on her Psychology Today blog, Valley Girl With a Brain, seems to have answered both of the aforementioned questions in the affirmative. But things aren't as they seem.
I'm starting a new series of blog posts, entitled Stop and Think, the purpose of which being to uncover ignorance, bias, and faulty reasoning wherever they may be found. Welcome to the first post of much more to come. I'm a voracious reader. And after several years of consuming various forms of prose—such as books, essays, and articles—both online and off, I've developed the discernment to separate the wheat from the chaff in written discourse. Unfortunately, Jen's piece, on Zuckerberg in particular and geniuses in general, doesn't meet the criteria for wheat.
I believe in questioning everything and so, ostensibly, does Jen: her blog slogan is "Question, like, everything." However, she never bothers to perform the mental exercise of questioning the very premises of her article…
Smart acquaintances and a movie
Let's examine the sources from which she extrapolates the characteristics of genius.
I have been fortunate to meet a few of these gifted souls in recent years and have marveled in their mental and verbal jabberwocky…
Still, I have gleaned from my few experiences that geniuses live more than just lives of privilege and prestige.
In my brief encounters with the uber-brilliant…
They are looking for something more intangible, and until I watched "The Social Network" last night, I had no idea what that thing was…
This is how I saw Mark Zuckerberg portrayed in the film.
So, she thinks she knows what constitutes genius, based on anecdotal experiences with intelligent acquaintances and the fictional portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in a Hollywood film. Not exactly a stellar argument. No supported statistics. No cited results of empirical testing. The biblical parable of a house built on sand comes to mind. She does go on to quote journalistic entities when delving into Zuckerberg's profile, but this doesn't rescue her from the colossal blunder of using The Social Network as a primary source for her exposition.
What is genius, anyway?
As someone who has read much literature on intelligence, giftedness, genius, and IQ, I can tell you that the debate is far from settled on what exactly intelligence is.
Charles Spearman's general intelligence factor proposes the existence of g, or general intelligence, an abstraction of the principal factor common across a set of positively correlated cognitive tests. Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences contends the opposite, that there are types of intelligence: spatial, linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, and existential. And Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence asserts that intelligence can be conceptualized through three subtheories: componential/analytical (i.e., book smarts), experiential/creative (i.e., creativity), and practical/contextual (i.e., street smarts).
If a particular something cannot be clearly defined, how, then, is it possible to accurately measure that particular something? Such is the case with intelligence. At best, IQ tests quantify a single aspect of intelligence—academic intelligence (i.e., logical-mathematical, spatial, and perhaps linguistic in Gardner's theory and componential/analytical in Sternberg's model), the kind of intelligence that's highly valued in Western societies—and at worst, they're used, and have been used, to support scientific racism, especially eugenics.
Thus, if intelligence cannot be clearly defined or accurately measured, how can we begin to know what constitutes genius? The simple answer is we can't. If you still think IQ tests can be used to determine genius, as Mensa would have you believe, ponder this: Richard Feynman—the physicist who, through the Manhattan Project, participated in the development of the atomic bomb, who was a co-recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the advancement of quantum electrodynamics, who pioneered the field of quantum computing, and who is widely and unquestionably considered to be a true genius—purportedly had an IQ of only 125, a score commensurate with above average to superior intelligence, but falls below the top 2% cutoff for Mensa.
Zuckerberg, a genius?
Perhaps the recognition of genius requires the passage of time. In that case, if Zuckerberg is indeed a genius, several decades will need to elapse before his intellectual prowess will be appreciated. However, it is a dubious assertion to say that Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. To say that is to put him on the same plane as Einstein, Feynman, and Mozart. Does he really belong there? Is Facebook—in my opinion, a medium for people to document the insipid trivialities of their daily lives through status updates—in the same league as Einstein's theory of relativity, Feynman's quantum electrodynamics, and Mozart's Symphony No. 40? I'll leave that to you to decide.
Pascal's IQ and Jen's credentials
I have a couple of remaining morsels for you to mentally chew. Jen mentioned Blaise Pascal's IQ of 195. Interesting. IQ tests were invented at the turn of the 20th century by Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon, to aid in identifying students with special needs. Yet, the mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer, Blaise Pascal, who lived from 1623 to 1662, managed to score an IQ of 195, nearly 250 years before the advent of IQ tests. Of course, he never actually wrote an IQ test. The score of 195 is someone's guess as to what his IQ was, nothing more.
The said literature on intelligence, giftedness, genius, and IQ that I've read has typically been put forth by authorities on those subjects, such as psychologists and neuroscientists. Jen, on the other hand, "is a writer, sometimes commercial actor, budding sociologist, former Psychology Today intern, and graduate student at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism." She's nowhere near the radius of being an authority on those highly controversial subjects.
Critical thinking
Hopefully, you've enjoyed this exercise in critical thinking. And I look forward to the next piece of poorly thought out gibberish that I can logically tear apart and share with you. 🙂
Sistine Chapel to "The Number of the Beast"
A week ago, I had the good fortune of stumbling upon the Sistine Chapel Virtual Tour. (Go ahead and check out the link; then come back. It may take several minutes to load.) What's the Sistine Chapel, you ask? Well, it's a chapel in Vatican City that happens to house some of the greatest art in Western Civilization. To speak of the Sistine Chapel is to evoke the names of the eminent artists of the Renaissance, such as Michelangelo, Raphael, Bernini, and Botticelli. As a lover of art and history, it was a treat to step foot inside the virtual chapel, look directly above my head to the ceiling, and gaze hypnotically at Michelangelo's The Creation Of Adam.
In addition to his masterpieces in the Sistine Chapel—the ceiling decoration, of which The Creation Of Adam is an element, and The Last Judgment fresco, spanning the wall behind the altar—Michelangelo is best known for two sculptures he created before he turned thirty: David and Pietà. The former depicts one of the central figures of the Old Testament in a contemplative pose, while the latter shows Mary cradling the body of Jesus in her lap after the Crucifixion. Michelangelo was preeminent in several fields—painting, sculpting, poetry, engineering, and architecture—making him an archetypal polymath.
The word polymath, derived from the Ancient Greek polumathēs ("having learned much"), is loosely defined as a person who is very knowledgeable, while its more strict definition describes a person who excels or is highly educated in a wide spectrum of fields or subject areas (a "Renaissance Man"). I aspire to be a polymath of the first kind; Leonardo da Vinci is, unquestionably, the foremost example of the second. Intelligent Life magazine ran an article, The Last Days of the Polymath, in their autumn 2009 issue. In it, they discuss the difficulty of being a polymath, or generalist, in this age of the specialist. As an addendum to the article, they attempted to identify several living examples of polymaths. Their list just happened to include a personal hero of mine: Bruce Dickinson, the singer of Iron Maiden.
That Bruce is considered a polymath should come as no surprise. On top of being Maiden's frontman, he writes, fences, and pilots Boeing 757 jets. One of those jets, Ed Force One, the band uses on tour to transport themselves, their crew, and their equipment to cities all over the world. They flew in Ed Force One extensively for the 2008-09 Somewhere Back In Time World Tour. As part of that tour, which featured an Ancient Egypt-inspired stage set similar to the one from the 1984-85 World Slavery Tour, they came to my burg on June 9, 2008 and performed a swath of their greatest hits from the 80s. Included in that night's set list was The Number Of The Beast, one of the adrenaline-charging tracks from its namesake album—the album that cemented Maiden's rightful place at the apex of the metal genre.
I don't often use profanity in written discourse. Conversational discourse is another matter. 🙂 But sometimes, something astounds you so much that a conventional adjective simply won't do; only a vulgar one will suffice. Having said that, I stumbled upon the following video the other day and four words describe it perfectly: it is fucking awesome! It's Motörhead's live performance of their early hit, Overkill, in Düsseldorf, Germany on December 7, 2004. It was filmed for their 2005 DVD, Stage Fright, which was released to celebrate their 30th anniversary. The video makes me want to pick up the DVD and watch the rest of the show.
Overkill is from Motörhead's second album of the same name and is a favorite at their concerts. It was covered by Metallica—along with Damage Case, Stone Dead Forever, and Too Late Too Late—as a birthday gift to Lemmy (also known as Ian Fraser Kilmister), Motörhead's singer and founding member. Metallica's version was featured in their album, Garage Inc.. Alan Burridge, Motörhead's official biographer and organizer of the Motorheadbangers fan club, had this to say about the song:
Phil Taylor instigated that double bass drum killer steamroller intro upon which the title track is so firmly built. Lemmy thought, "That's a bit of an overkill!" and there it was, the song and album title for one of rock's mightiest classics was born. Coupled with Lemmy's machine gun bass and Fast Eddie's landslide chords this track tears the roof off your home – and the vocals haven't even started yet!
Enjoy the video and be prepared to have your inner headbanger unleashed!
"All Nightmare Long"
I can't rave enough about this song and this video, All Nightmare Long by Metallica. Nightmare is from their wicked new album, Death Magnetic, which I finally picked up a few months ago, about a year after its debut. To say the least, I am nothing short of awestruck by the song and the album. Despite Metallica's plethora of hits—which include the likes of Battery, One, Enter Sandman, and For Whom The Bell Tolls—I'd venture to say All Nightmare Long is perhaps the best song they've ever produced. It's that good!
I absolutely love the video. I don't want to spoil it for you, so watch it below first and then read on.
I love the fictitious documentary of how the USSR decimated the USA by using a "special" kind of biological weapon—a spore of of extraterrestrial origin—to trigger an American zombie apocalypse. The video is creative and original, two traits that are sorely lacking in the videos of today's mainstream music.
Though the video is a fantastic piece of fiction, it's based upon an actual, historical occurrence, the Tunguska Event. In the morning of June 30, 1908 (not July 30, which is displayed in one of the video's captions), a sizable chunk of meteoroid or comet exploded in the sky above the Podkamennaya Tunguska river, in what is now the Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, obliterating 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometres. The blast occurred 5-10 kilometres above the Earth's surface, with its force estimated to be approximately 10-15 megatons of TNT; that would make it 1,000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II by the American B-29 bomber, Enola Gay. That's quite a wallop!
Update (February 5, 2010). Last week, during a hunt for a live performance of this song—which I have now officially declared to be Metallica's best song ever—I happened upon the following video. It's a superb performance of All Nightmare Long that was recorded in Nîmes, France on July 7, 2009 for the DVD, Français Pour Une Nuit. For me, as a lover of antiquities, what's most notable about the performance is the venue, the Arena of Nîmes. It's a Roman amphitheater that was constructed circa 70 A.D., during the reign of Emperor Augustus, and is still used to this very day for public events, such as bullfights and concerts.
"Phantom of the Opera"
I thought, what better way to celebrate the commencement of my blog than with the ultimate song by the greatest band to have ever walked the earth: Phantom of the Opera by Iron Maiden. It would never be my desire to pick a favorite from Maiden's vast collection of magnificent melodies, but if I had to pick one, it would undoubtedly be Phantom.
Based on the 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera by French author Gaston Leroux, the song was written by Maiden bassist Steve Harris and was featured in Maiden's self-titled, debut album, Iron Maiden. I could try to describe the song, but Steve did a pretty good job of that himself:
This is a very long song that was done in sections. The middle part was totally separate but it fit in very well. It felt right to go from the slow part into the middle section. Phantom is one of the best pieces I've ever written, and certainly one of the most enjoyable to play. It's got all these intricate guitar lines which keep it interesting. Then there's the slow middle part which creates quite a good mood. It's also got fast heavy parts which are really rockin'. And it's also got areas for crowd participation. It pretty much covers all the bases for the band. It was also a good example of what I wanted to get across.
For your enjoyment, following this paragraph is a video of Maiden's December 1980 performance of the song at The Rainbow in north London. The video features Iron Maiden's original frontman, Paul Di'Anno.


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In these podcasts, the author and advocate consultant of the VAWnet Applied Research Paper titled Youth Sexual Violence Prevention share their thoughts on the research, trends, and recommendations discussed in the document.
Podcast 1: Mitru Ciarlante, Principal at ACT for Change: Advocacy, Consultation, Training and advocate consultant for the paper. [11:55] (see transcript)
Podcast 2: Patricia Cook-Craig, MSSW, PhD, Associate Professor at the College of Social Work University of Kentucky and author of the paper. [12:55] (see transcript)
© 2016 National Sexual Violence Resource Center – Founded by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
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The full report, published by California-based watchdog agency Break the Cycle, rates states on their ease of access to legal recourse for domestic violence victims under the age of 18.
Why does Missouri get an "F"? According to the report, there are two main reasons.
Read about what protection orders are and who can get them in Missouri.
Find teen dating violence statistics, victim resources, educational materials, and other resources from the organizations and websites below.
Want to get involved in community action and education regarding teen dating violence? Find links to toolkit downloads, documents, and contacts at loveisrespect.org, breakthecycle.org, and thesafeplace.org.
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You must register with the Department of Revenue if you meet any of the following conditions:
To register your business with the Department of Revenue and other state agencies, use My DOR, the new online business licensing system.
Once registered, you will receive a business license and Unified Business Identifier (UBI) number from the Business Licensing Service. You will also receive a letter from the Department of Revenue with your UBI/tax registration number and filing frequency. Check out our New business tax basics booklet for an overview of Washington's business taxes and reporting requirements.
If you have been doing business in Washington and are not registered with the Department of Revenue, you can come forward voluntarily under the Voluntary Disclosure Program.
If you are buying a business or the assets of a business, you may owe tax on capital assets and consumable supplies.
Use this application to lookup a business. Here you will find UBI numbers, addresses, open and close dates, etc. for all businesses registered in Washington State.
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The tragic death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard occurred because 'assumptions were made', the coroner has said.
Eastbourne soldier Michael Pritchard, 22, was shot by a British sniper in 2010 and an inquest into his death is taking place at Eastbourne Town Hall.
On Monday (May 21), the coroner heard there was much confusion surrounding the location of LCpl Pritchard who was mistaken as an insurgent.
The sniper, LCpl Malcolm Graham, believed he was seeing insurgents laying an improvised explosive device in the road through a thermal imaging lens. He had 'eyes on' the heat source for some time but Pritchard was shot on the roof of his observation point.
The sniper and other soldiers involved were not aware of the close proximity of Pritchard's observation post or the restricted firing line that was in place. Commanding officer for the sniper's post, Cpl Jonathan Dolton, knew of Pritchard's post but didn't point it out to the sniper on the map – leaving LCpl Graham unaware of its exact location. Captain Michael Holden, who was in the ops room and communicating with the sniper's post, said he was 'shocked' Cpl Dolton had not passed on the location of Pritchard's post to LCpl Graham.
Captain Holden also told the coroner he thought the heat source they were watching was in a different location, further away from Pritchard's post. He had also held off granting permission to fire while he explored other possible tactics and had not granted permission for the final lethal shot which killed LCpl Pritchard.
Coroner Alan Craze said, "This is a tragedy under any circumstance but it occurred because of a lot of assumptions have been made and information has been given to you [Captain Holden] which turned out to be wrong."
LCpl Graham previously told the inquest he would not have taken the shot if he had known there was a friendly post so close.
It was accepted by Captain Holden that communications were poor and relaying messages to the sniper's post may have caused further difficulties.
He said communications improved in the weeks after LCpl Pritchard's death with the introduction of new equipment and a CCTV camera that allowed servicemen in the ops room to see what was going on elsewhere.
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Children attend classes at Save the Children's Early Childhood Care and Development pre-school at a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Chronically malnourished children struggle to read and write simple sentences, whatever their level of schooling, according to research by the charity. The report Food for Thought shows that eight-year-olds who are stunted by malnutrition are 19% more likely to make a mistake reading simple sentences.
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Staking Claim: A California Invitational
8 Oct, 2013 - 26 Jan, 2014
This original exhibition is the second installment of a triennial series showcasing the talent of and diverse scope of photographic work being done by photographers living within the Museum's home state. Sixteen different artists, all of whom reside in California, are featured in the exhibition and all of the work has been created within the past five years.
The artists are both established and emerging and the variety of work is as varied as the state of California itself. Staking Claim: A California Invitational embraces the digital medium but also remains true to, and in some cases reinterprets, traditional photographic processes. The result is a dynamic exhibition that highlights the constant evolution of the art form.
Photographers in Staking Claim: A California Invitational
Staking Claim is accompanied by a full color catalog. To purchase the catalog or learn more about it, click here.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Just to our north in Atlanta, the National Weather Service has issued Freezing Rain Advisories, Winter Weather Advisories and Winter Storm Warnings all across northern Georgia, including Atlanta, as well as Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and South Carolina.
The Atlanta metro will be spared most of the icy problems. Light icing is expected mainly on bridges and overpasses with more significant icing issues north of the city. That being said, travel delays at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport are possible on Friday.
In far northerneastern Georgia, Winter Storm Warnings are up for heavier icing of up to 1/4" may be possible in the north Georgia mountains. Travel will become exceptionally hazardous there with power outages and downed trees possible due to the weight of the ice.
Meanwhile in Tennessee, Nashville and Chatanooga are gearing up for icing issues there as well. Nearly the entire state of Tennessee is under some sort of winter weather advisory or warning. A mixture of sleet and ice with accumulations of up to .2" is likely across much of the area and extremely dangerous travel issues are anticipated on Friday.
It's quite a different story on the south side of that cold front. Temperatures have once again tickled the lower 70s Thursday and will again on Friday before the front sags south into our region. Saturday appears to be the coolest of the next seven with highs in the upper 60s for many of us before rebounding big time into the lower and mid 70s by the early and middle part of next week. Rain chances appear to be rather slim for the next week as our atmosphere remains devoid of any significant mositure.
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Oh, no! Chris, Dan, Jorge, Karl, and Eric have forgotten about Valentine's Day! And, it's February 13th! Each has bought a last-minute gift for his girlfriend, fiancee, or wife, wrapped in a different color. Figure out which gift each bought, the wrapping color, who he bought for, and what the relationships are.
The five men are Dan, the guy who sent roses, the man who sent chocolate, Eric, and Zoe's fiance.
The roses were wrapped in green. The chocolate was not wrapped in pink and white.
The teddy bear was given to the 4 month girlfriend, who is not Tina.
A delighted wife received a gift wrapped in purple. An equally happy girlfriend, not Tina, had a red-covered present.
Carla has been dating for only 4 months, and Zoe was the most recently engaged.
No man has the same first initial as his girlfriend, fiancee, or wife.
Eric wasn't proposing to Tina, but gave her a ring, anyway. They are not married.
Chris knows Zoe hates mushy stuff, so he got her an electronic device, wrapped in a color not normally associated with Valentine's Day.
Jorge gave his fiancee a gift in emerald wrapping paper that matched the color of her eyes.
AnswerChris, Zoe, 2 months engaged, Laptop, Blue
Dan, Carla, 4 months dating, Teddy Bear, Red
Jorge, Ellen, 3 months engaged, Roses, Green
Karl, Joann, Married, Chocolate, Purple
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On this week's Face The Nation, host Bob Schieffer welcomed a "cross-section of Republicans" for a round table about the state of the GOP campaign season. However, the unbalanced format also allowed Republicans to launch attacks on liberals and President Obama without having anyone on the show present to rebut the allegations.
For instance, addressing the Herman Cain sexual harassment allegations, former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie told Schieffer "conservatives believe that liberals" have "a special disdain for black conservatives." He also insisted, "People are fed up with what's going on in Washington and they're frustrated with the Obama economy."
Republican Ken Blackwell attacked the president's "inability to create jobs." And conservative strategist Liz Cheney claimed Americans are "afraid that this president wants higher taxes and more spending and bigger government." (She also insisted Obama had "inherited a victory in Iraq" from president Bush.)
For the record, following the GOP panel discussion, Schieffer then interviewed Republican candidate Jon Huntsman's three daughters, which meant Face the Nation welcomed eight guests to its program this week, seven of which had direct ties to the Republican Party or its campaigns.
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Unbeaten Sunlake rallies in 2OT to beat Eastside
Published: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
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Nearly 17 minutes after forcing overtime off a handball, Eastside fell victim to a fortuitous glance of its own in Tuesday night's Class 3A, Region 2 final.
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The host Rams pushed an undefeated Land O'Lakes Sunlake team on a 29-game winning streak into two overtimes before losing 2-1 off a deflected golden goal at Citizens Field.
With 3:06 left to play before the end of second overtime, Sunlake sophomore Connor Spencer shot a ricocheting right-footer from seven yards out through two Eastside defenders and over the left hand of goalkeeper Cody Peterson.
"The last play, we had a little bad clearance there," Eastside coach Ron Messick said. "But hats off to my defense. They played an excellent game. It's just one little mistake, so that's brutal how sports can be sometimes."
After a 30th minute goal by Connor Kallenborn opened scoring for Sunlake, the Rams were able to control the run of play on a 13-6 shots on goal advantage but could not find an equalizer until the final four seconds of regulation.
In a desperate run down the right side of the penalty box, Eastside sophomore forward Tyler Miller-Jones tried a crossing pass before time expired. However, the outstretched right arm of a Seahawks defender impeded the ball's progress, forcing the referee to blow his whistle.
"I've been taking PKs ever since I was a little kid, and I don't miss them in games," said Miller-Jones of his 23rd goal of the year. "I had the pressure on myself, but I was up to task so I did my job and (my teammates) did theirs."
Behind the penalty-kick line, Miller-Jones took three smooth steps before striking the ball unimpeded into the upper right corner past Sunlake goalkeeper Daniel Hrenko, who guessed left and dove the opposite direction of the kick.
Despite needing a last-gasp conversion to tie the game at 1-goal apiece, the Rams felt their style of play gave them a chance against a Seahawks squad featuring Connor Gilboy, Pasco County's all-time record holder with 60 goals this season.
"Their goal might have been off of a handball, but they were giving us pressure all game," Spencer said. "I think they actually deserved it."
Eastside was able to keep Gilboy out of the goal on eight attempted shots and also force 12 offside calls on Sunlake's attackers.
Before the game could reach penalty kicks though, Spencer was finally able to break through the Rams' stingy defense with his game-winner to drop Eastside (22-3-2) from the regional semifinal round for the second straight year.
"I saw the ball going through and I thought, 'I haven't taken a shot in a while. Maybe it's my turn and maybe something will come from it,'" Spencer said. "I took a shot, it got a nice deflection and it went in."
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A WORCESTER park which has now reopened looked like a 'bomb site' after high winds tore down several trees.
Darren Hobbs, the park keeper, said he was 'horrified' when he walked into Cripplegate Park in Worcester today to find the havoc wrought by recent winds and flood water. The park had been closed since Friday.
Mr Hobbs said even the floods of 2007 did not leave more damage in their wake. Three of the trees to come down following the strong winds on Friday included a 40ft eucalyptus which knocked the branches off a nearby cedar and hit a bench when it came down (the bench was undamaged) and two conifers (one leylandii and one pine) which fell into the car park. Meanwhile the water had picked brash (dead branches) and bark chips used around the shrubs and scattered them all around the park. The leylandii took out a stretch of ornate fencing and the pine fell into the car park. He said: "Usually it is chock-full of cars but fortunately, because of the flood water, there were no cars there or it would have taken one of them out. There was one down in the car park of the Pavilion in the Park as well."
At the height of this month's floods there was around 2ft of water in part of the park, at the bottom of the tennis courts.
Mr Hobbs said it was a shame that the park had lost the trees but said he would have been 'gutted' if the park has lost some of its older trees, like an oak or a beech. He said: "There are trees dating back to before the park was opened in 1932, trees getting on for 100 years old. The park looked like a bomb site this morning."
The first job of the day was to clear the park's paths for people to walk through, working with apprentice Luke Osborne, 22.
Mr Hobbs said: "This was worse than the floods of July 2007. The water came into our service yard this time which it didn't in 2007. I have never known a winter so wet." He said he expected it would take them a week to clear the park.
Worcester City Council has been forced to close an area of the park around the zip wire as keepers have discovered that a number of other conifer trees damaged in the storms.
An area around the zip wire, as well as the entrances to the park oppositie McDonald's and next to The Pavilion have since been closed for safety reasons. Gheluvelt Park in Barbourne remains closed because of flooding which has left silt on the play areas and water on the paths.


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Summer is the season when the wide open highway calls to many Arizonans, beckoning them to a road trip adventure. It is also when the state's roadways take an extra beating from the paper litter, cigarette butts and blown-out tire treads that can accumulate when motorists don't take time to plan ahead, according to the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG), the organization behind the powerful "No Cups, Cans or Butts – Don't Trash Arizona" initiative.
This summer, drivers can ensure a safe and litter-free road trip by following some advance-planning strategies:
- Carry extra plastic bags (recycled grocery shopping bags) in the car for use when discarding trash, or visit www.DontTrashArizona.com to receive a free, reusable, recyclable trash bag to keep in your vehicle. Although research finds that about 60 percent of litter is intentional, typically occurring in places where debris has already accumulated, it's important to note that ALL litter is preventable. Littering—whether accidental or intentional—is a class three misdemeanor, punishable by up to $500 in fines.
- Keep a portable ashtray in the car for getting rid of cigarette butts. For newer vehicles that don't have an ashtray, drivers can use an empty soda can instead. By discarding cigarette butts properly, drivers help keep the roadway clean, prevent toxic chemicals from contaminating the water system, and help reduce the incidence of wildfires started from sparks igniting dry brush that is commonly found along desert highways.
- Properly maintain vehicle tires. The summer heat wreaks havoc on rubber, causing it to dry out and crack. To help avoid a tire blowout, drivers should examine the tread. AAA Arizona recommends checking tire tread by placing a quarter upside down in the tread grooves on several spots on the tire. If the top of Washington's head is exposed at any point, it's time to replace that tire. Blowouts can cause serious traffic accidents. Tire tread along Arizona highways also greatly contributes to roadway debris, creating a safety hazard for other motorists.
"We're asking summer travelers to recognize litter is ugly, unhealthy, and unsafe," said Tempe Mayor and MAG Chair Hugh Hallman. "Motorists who toss or lose trash on the roadway contribute to the 1.6 million tons of litter that must be removed from Valley freeways each year. A little advanced planning is all it takes to help put trash in its proper place."


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The goals of treatment are to eliminate the infection, and prevent hearing loss and other complications.
Antibiotics are generally used to treat ear infections in children under 2, but these medications only work against bacterial infections. If the infection is caused by a virus, the antibiotics will not be effective. The only certain way to tell if the infection is caused by bacteria is to perform a
and culture the middle ear fluid, which are not frequently done.
In recent years, doctors have come to realize that antibiotic use for any reason causes bacteria to develop resistance to the antibiotic used. These resistant bacteria can then cause new infections in a child or be passed to family members or other children. Antibiotic resistance is a serious problem—particularly when, unlike most cases of otitis, the infection is serious or life threatening. Experts feel that our best protection against running out of antibiotics is to reduce prescribing these drugs for illnesses that are likely to get better on their own without treatment. Since many children with otitis will be much improved within 2 days—even without antibiotic treatment, reducing the use of antibiotics in children with otitis is an important health goal worldwide.
Many experts now believe that the risk of antibiotic treatment may be greater than its benefit for many children 2 and over with an ear infection or suspected ear infection. In these children, symptoms of infection will often subside just as quickly without an antibiotic. A pain reliever is frequently all that older children need to recover fully from an ear infection.
It is important to keep in mind, too, that antibiotics can cause a number of side effects. Nausea, stomach pain, and
are common. Also, there is a risk of having an allergic reaction to the antibiotic.
The doctor may prescribe an antibiotic if symptoms continue for more than a few days or worsen. Some doctors will give parents a prescription for antibiotics, but instruct them not to use the antibiotic unless pain or fever persists beyond an agreed-upon number of days.
When an antibiotic is prescribed, it is important that you carefully follow the dosage recommendations. Failure to finish the medication can make it less effective in the future. Sometimes the antibiotic initially prescribed does not clear the infection, and another medication may be recommended. Be sure to go to a follow-up visit with the doctor to determine whether the infection is resolved or requires further treatment.
Other medications that can help treat otitis media include nasal sprays or antihistamines in children with allergic rhinitis.
Treatment involves the following:
About antibiotic use and resistance. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
website. Available at:
http://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/antibiotic-use/URI/ear-infection.html. Accessed April 17, 2015. Accessed September 21, 2015.
Acute otitis media (AOM). EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at:
http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T116345/Acute-otitis-media-AOM. Updated May 17, 2016. Accessed October 4, 2016.
Ear infections in children.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
website. Available at:
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/pages/earinfections.aspx. Published March 2013. Accessed September 21, 2015.
Middle ear infections. American Academy of Pediatrics Healthy Children website. Available at:
http://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/ear-nose-throat/Pages/Middle-Ear-Infections.aspx. Updated August 20, 2015. Accessed September 21, 2015.
10/12/2006 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance
http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T116345/Acute-otitis-media-AOM: Spiro DM, Tay KY, Arnold DH, Dziura JD, Baker MD, Shapiro ED. Wait-and-see prescription for the treatment of acute otitis media: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2006;296(10):1235-1241.
11/30/2010 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance
http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T116345/Acute-otitis-media-AOM: Coker TR, Chan LS, Newberry SJ, et al. Diagnosis, microbial epidemiology, and antibiotic treatment of acute otitis media in children: a systematic review. JAMA. 2010;304(19):2161-2169.
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