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Coral Beach Resort Sharjah Unveils 'Beach & Lunch' Offer
Coral Beach Resort Sharjah
Unveils 'Beach & Lunch' Offer
Spend a fun-filled day with your family by the beach at Coral Beach Resort Sharjah. With the weather cooling down the resort is offering a beach day-out complimented with a sumptuous lunch buffet for only AED 99 per person from Saturday to Thursday, and for a non-promotional rateof AED 150 per person on Friday. As per the offer, lunch buffet for children below 3 years is complimentary while for 4 to 8 years it costs AED75 and standard rates apply for 9 years and above.
Haytham Aziz, Hotel Manager, Coral Beach Resort Sharjah, said, "OurBeach & Lunch promotionis designed to offer guests excellent value for money combining a relaxing day by the beach along with a delicious lunch.We have got one of the most beautiful beaches in Sharjah. Equally superb is the Al Bahar restaurant, overlooking the sprawling gardens serving outstanding international flavours along with local specialties".
The hotel's scenic private beach hugs the picturesque coast along the Arabian Gulf.Here you can indulge your senses with the soothing sights and sounds of the sea or calm your tired nerves under the warm sun. For adventure seekers, on site are an exciting array of watersports activities such as Parasailing, Jeski, Waterbike, Donut Ride, Banana Ride and Fly Fish that can be booked for an additional charge.
To book the Beach & Lunch offer, contact 0561185306 or call the hotel on (06) 522 9999.
About Coral Beach Resort Sharjah
The Coral Beach Resort Sharjah recently underwent a complete refurbishment of rooms and facilities that has given it a brand new appeal. The deluxe resort features 156 spacious rooms, many with panoramic sea-view. A major attraction is the wide repertoire of dining options with menus to cater to every taste. The resort is located on one of the emirate's principal sand beaches and features a range of leisure activities for all ages, including the Rimal Club, state-of-the-art fitness centre, children's pool, indoor playroom and complimentary Kid's Club as well as tennis (By Clark Francis Tennis Academy), badminton, volleyball and two outdoor swimming pools.
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Mystics Clinch Two, Seeking Third Straight
This past weekend the Washington Mystics proved that this time, they mean business from the jump. Connecticut-bound, the team hit the road to face the Sun in the 2009 season opener this past Saturday.
Outscoring Connecticut in both halves, the Mystics would managed to control the game, and would walked out of the Mohegan Sun Arena with the teams first regular season victory (82-70). Leading scorers included Marissa Coleman who would finish with a team high 16 points, Monique Currie with 14 points and Lindsey Harding would also add 11 to the board.
This win was due to a total team effort on the defensive end, said Head Coach Julie Plank. Connecticut is an excellent offensive team, and we did a nice job getting to the free-throw line and back out in transition. I was really proud of the way the girls played defensively.
The Mystics would not be able to take a minute off of basketball, as they headed home only to prepare for their next match up against the Atlanta Dream the following afternoon.
The newly organized Mystics team cat-walked down a runway into an arena filled with anxious fans, who graciously welcomed their beloved team as well as the new faces of both coaches and players.
Hometown phenomenon and Mystics Rookie, Coleman, was greeted by a roar of cheers and applauds as she stepped onto the court in her first ever WNBA home opener. It was great to see a lot of familiar faces from Maryland out there, said Coleman. And it felt really good to know that my parents were also in the stands supporting me and the rest of the team.
Although the Mystics got off to a slow start in the first quarter, the team would get the boost they needed to gain command of the game as soon as Coleman and Matee Ajavon checked in and made some major plays. Before going into the game the bench talked about what we needed to do to bring that spark, said Coleman. Once Matee, (Crystal) Langhorne, (Tasha) Humphrey and I got in the game, thats exactly what we did.
Tasha Humphrey, who has been struggling with an injury and missed most of preseason, checked into the game and contributed six points to the win. Ive always told our team that I think we have one of the deepest, if not the deepest bench in the WNBA this season, said Plank. Its going to help us tremendously that every single player can come in and contribute at any given time.
Superstar Alana Beard unloaded offensively on the Dream, finishing with a game high 27 points, leading her team to a 77-71 victory. The first half was slow because we were still trying to feel everything out, said Beard. But in the second half, we got the entire team involved and came out with a different mentality.
According to Coach Plank, Beards performance was due to the fact that she is beginning to get comfortable with her new team. She didnt play in the preseason game due to an ankle injury, said Plank. The game in Connecticut allowed her to get back into a flow with the new players, and she ended up playing great last night.
Monday afternoon the team got back into the gym to practice and the overall mood was high now that the team has clinched two straight wins to begin the season. The Mystics will strive to obtain a third one on Wednesday, as they make their way to Detroit to take on the defending league champs, Shock.
According to Ajavon, the team is nowhere near satisfied with just two wins, and feels no pressure about Wednesday night as they remain focused on their own game and not that of the Shock.
Now we need to continue to work on our defense and develop more consistency on offense, said Ajavon. Although the two wins this past weekend were major accomplishments for the organization, we cant be set on just that, we face Detroit soon so thats where our minds are at right now.

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A 19-year-old former Olympian from Suriname faces larceny and other charges for using credit cards belonging to a teammate on the UConn swim team.
Diguan Denzel Pigot was arraigned on Wednesday in Rockville Superior Court.
UConn police said Pigot used the cards between Sept. 2, 2012, and May 21 of this year, made purchases totaling $12,631 and tried to make another $26,631 in illegal purchases that were canceled.
Pigot's attorney, Frank Russo, told The Journal Inquirer that Pigot is cooperating in their investigation.
Police said he acknowledged setting up accounts on various websites using his teammate's credit card information.
Russo said Pigot was dismissed from UConn and is now at the University of Miami in Florida.
Pigot competed in the 100-meter breaststroke for Suriname at the 2012 London Olympics.
He has been charged with larceny, identity theft, 57 counts of illegal use of credit cards and additional charges.
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On June 10, 2011, I received an email from Steve Rutledge, the president of Adopt a Village in Laos, in which he informed me about an essay writing contest to help build a school in rural Laos. Below is that very email wherein he encourages each recipient to vote for the essay about Hat Kham Village.
All of you know that I have been fundraising to be able to build more schools, more water supplies, water filters, hygienic toilets and bicycles for the rural villagers of Laos.
Recently I was contacted by someone who was entering an essay contest for the Jao Lao Foundation, the winner of which not only gets to go to Laos, but a school will be built in the village that they write about. This lady chose to write about Hat Kham Village, in need of a school because their school was destroyed by last years monsoons!
Hat Kham Village is on my list to raise funds to build a school – I have 15 other schools to raise funds for too and it would be wonderful if Hat Kham was chosen – this would save me a lot of effort to try to raise funds for.
The competition closed today and the voting now begins. It is easy – all you have to do is vote on Facebook. If you dont' have a facebook account, it is easy to sign up and you are actually prompted. Please take a look at the following and click the link. Please choose Essay #1 (there are four to choose from). Please vote NOW if at all possible – I wouldn't want anyone to forget. Note that when you get to the home page, click on Notes! Thx
"The Village School Search will run from June 10-24. The four essays will be found under Jai Lao Foundation's Notes section listed under Village Essay #1, Village Essay #2, Village Essay #3, Village Essay #4. While all four villages are worthy of having a school built, only one can win this contest through your votes. Please take the time to read all four essays to determine which one you'd like to vote for. You must "LIKE†the Jai Lao Foundation first in order to have your vote counted.
ONLY ONE VOTE PER FB USER PLEASE. If Jai Lao sees you have voted more then once, then your vote will be disqualified. The contest is two weeks long. Jai Lao will tally up the votes Friday, June 24 and announce the winning essay at our 2nd Anniversary One Night in Laos Charity dinner June 25. "
It looks like I'm going to need your help again in getting Ban Hat Kham to be the top voted essay. If you are not on Facebook already, will you join and "Like" Jai Lao Foundation? Second, will you spread the words to your families and friends to join Facebook and those who are already on Facebook to "Like" Jai Lao Foundation as well. The poll for the essay contest is now open, but please remember that you can only vote Ban Hat Kham's dream of getting a school could become a reality soon if we rally everyone to help us with this cause.
To become a fan, visit Jai Lao Foundation on Facebook.
Thanks so much!
Steve Rutledge
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8th March 2016Some of the world's most powerful figures tout the benefits of GMOs, writes Stacy Malkan, but what's the real story? Facts on the ground expose the PR spin, half truths and outright propaganda that has come to dominate a public conversation that is not so much about engineering genes, but engineering truth for the benefit of multinational corporations. more...
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8th March 2016A new study shows that 99.6% of Germans are contaminated with the herbicide glyphosate, writes Nicole Sagener. The news comes as the EU puts off a crucial decision on whether to re-authorise the chemical, described by IARC as 'probably carcinogenic', until 2031. more...
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3rd March 2016Next week, EU governments will vote on whether to re-authorise the weedkiller glyphosate, judged by IARC to be a probable human carcinogen, writes Molly Scott Cato. The disgraceful shenanigans of the Commission and the European Food Safety Agency to date provide a clear example of the EU and member states conspiring with corporations, against citizens. more...
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Pesticides can cause cancer - so why does CRUK ignore them?
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3rd April 2014Cancer Research UK's slogan is 'Let's beat cancer sooner'. But Georgina Downs wonders why it ignores the role of pesticides sprayed on crop fields - which is a recognised cause of cancer - and why it has spent over £750 million since 2007 on paying its employees. more...
Organic winemaker risks prison for not using pesticide
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28th March 2013An organic farmer in France's Cote d'Or has been prosecuted for refusing to spray insecticide on his vineyard - and is anxiously awaiting the verdict, due on 7th April. He faces 6 months in prison and a €30,000 fine. more...
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Revealed: the chemical blitz of pesticides in our fields
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30th January 2014An ordinary arable field in Sussex is sprayed with pesticides 22 times over a single growing season. Dave Goulson wonders how the bees can survive this toxic onslaught - and exactly who benefits. more...
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Sophie Morlin-Yron
29th January 2014A new study shows a strong link between exposure to the pesticide DDT and Alzheimer's dementia. Sophie Morlin-Yron reports. more...
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Andrew Wasley
31st December, 2013Jordans cereal bars and Warburtons bread have been found to contain traces of glyphosate - a controversial herbicide that campaigners say poses a risk to human health. Andrew Wasley reports ... more...
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17th December 2013Campaigner Georgina Downs has scored a significant victory in her 12 year battle against the UK Government. But DEFRA Ministers have still failed to secure protection from pesticides for people in the countryside. more...
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Two Years in the Gutter
With Al Gore and George W. Bush: Notes From the Campaign Trail
By Dana Milbank
399 pages. Basic Books. $26.
As the whole world now knows, the real drama in the 2000 presidential race occurred after Election Day, not before. Although the journalist Dana Milbank, a Washington Post White House correspondent who previously worked at The New Republic, had the ill timing to be writing a book about the campaign trail leading up to Nov. 7, the reader eagerly turns to ''Smashmouth'' hoping to find previously overlooked clues to the ridiculously close election or some new insights into Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Such searches will be in vain: Mr. Milbank's book turns out to be a tired rehash of the primaries, the debates and the candidates' ups and downs, with only a cursory addendum about the five-week election night that ensued. Once again we are treated to familiar portraits of the also-rans: not just Bill Bradley and John McCain, but the likes of Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, Elizabeth Dole, Lamar Alexander, Steve Forbes and Alan Keyes as well. Once again we are told about Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina. Once again we are told about the conventions in Los Angeles and Philadelphia.
Mr. Bush -- surprise! surprise! -- emerges as someone with a gift for mangling the English language, Mr. Gore -- surprise! surprise! -- as someone saddled with the image of ''a wooden drone.'' There is no analysis in these pages of Mr. Gore's involvement in the 1996 campaign finance scandals or his penchant for double talk. Similarly, there is no analysis of Mr. Bush's questionable record on the environment, or his indebtedness to corporate interests.
Instead, we get inane observations, like Karenna Gore may be ''the most effective spokesman for her father's candidacy.'' Or: ''Buchanan, however zany his views may be, is probably the Reformers' best fit'' as a candidate.Continue reading the main story
Instead of giving the reader any sort of retrospective assessment of the campaign, Mr. Milbank simply plows ahead in the present tense: the reader has the sense that he was downloading his reporter's notebook into a computer every day as the campaign plodded along. Although he tries to gussy up the familiarity of his material with tongue-in-cheek asides and self-dramatizing scenes, such efforts almost always turn out to be willfully juvenile or embarrassingly cute.
Mr. Milbank recounts how he was barred from a party held by Republicans, and how he interviewed Mr. Gore's daughters, Karenna and Kristin, about their resemblance to Marcia and Jan in ''The Brady Bunch.''
He goes on at wearying length about possible vice presidential candidates. (The 97-year-old Strom Thurmond, he writes, ''has everything Bush craves'' from maturity to a military record.) And he spends pages discussing the food served to reporters by the Bush and Gore campaigns, reasoning that their repasts may be ''a predictor'' of the press corps' coverage.
The sort of provocative insights and revealing anecdotes found in Richard Ben Cramer's ''What It Takes'' -- a study of the 1988 Presidential campaign, which seems to have served as a kind of model for this book -- are decidedly few and far between.
As for Mr. Milbank's overarching thesis, it's shallow and dubious at best. ''The purpose of this book is to celebrate the virtues of good, solid, in-the-gutter campaigning,'' he writes. ''Such nasty, smashmouth politics are said by the goody-goodies to be destroying our democracy, alienating the electorate and suppressing voter participation. I believe the opposite is true: that nasty is nice on the campaign trail, that it's cool to be cruel.''
He contends that ''tough and negative campaigns allow candidates to demonstrate and build leadership qualities,'' and that ''in the smashmouth world of politics, if you don't differentiate yourself and say what's wrong with the other guy, you aren't going to win,'' adding, ''nor should you.''
It's no secret of course that negative campaigning can often be effective, but for Mr. Milbank to revel in attacks and invective seems downright perverse. Of the mud-slinging in South Carolina and push-polling conducted on behalf of Mr. Bush, he writes: ''This, ladies and gentlemen, is what we've been waiting for. Bush, backed into a corner, has gone on the attack, and it's working. He's dumped the Mr. Nice Guy routine, and he's attacking McCain directly.'' In another chapter he credits Mr. Gore's ''heightened and near hysterical rhetoric about Bradley'' with enabling him ''to take the upper hand in the Democratic race.''
Perhaps Mr. Milbank is such an ardent proponent of negative campaigning because it gives him something juicy to write about without having to go to the bother of doing a lot of legwork, or seriously analyze his subjects. Perhaps he merely thought that taking a stand opposed to conventional wisdom would make for a provocative book. Given his sophomoric and simplistic thesis that we should ''stop equating the negative with the bad,'' it's clear that he completely missed the boat with this book. If he had waited until Nov. 7 to begin his reporting, he could have had a field day with the torrent of partisan demagoguery and toxic anger that erupted after Election Day.Continue reading the main story


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HAMILTON COUNTY, TN (WRCB) -- Hamilton County Sheriff's office deputies received call around 2 p.m. in regards to a reported single vehicle traffic crash on Grasshopper Road.
Deputies responded to the 5900 block of Grasshopper Road and located a vehicle traffic crash involving a 1996 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck driven by Billy Leroy (59) of Birchwood, Tennessee.
Investigator Todd Cook says Leroy was traveling east on Grasshopper Road went off the roadway while turning left on a curve.
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Thelma L. Gregorski, 65, of Strongsville, went to heaven to live with God, who always watched over her and her family. She was our angel. She cared for all of the living, and enjoyed spending time taking care of the birds and animals. She loved holidays and football, but most of all loved being with her family. She fought a long and courageous battle with rheumatoid arthritis and enjoyed every day of her life to the fullest despite her circumstances. She always had a smile and kind word for everyone.
Thelma was the mother of eight and raised them on her own. Her patience, kindness and desire for life touched everyone she met. She was a hero and saint to all of those who knew her. Her spirit will live in all of us.
She was the loving mother of daughters, Katherine Pennell, Charlene (Jason) Schraibman, and Jamie Gregorski; sons, Kevin (Tracey), Kenneth (Sema), Keith (Lisa), Thomas and James Gregorski; beloved grandmother of eight; dear sister of Irene Morris; and aunt of Rick and Greg.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Richard and Vernell Barton.
She will be terribly missed by her family and friends. She will be watching over us always.
A Celebration of her Life will be held from 2 to 7 P.M. Sunday, October 7, 2007, (with a Prayer Service being at 2 P.M.) at Waite & Son Funeral Home, 765 N. Court St., Medina.
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Leaning on the Love of God
"One of the most important lessons for the spiritual life is that we must try to maintain unaltered evenness of spirit. We need to remain constantly fixed in our desire to seek God alone, no matter if everything within us and around us is confused. Our heart must unceasingly lean on the love of God, its Creator, whether our soul is overwhelmed with sorrow or with joy, with peace or anxiety, with temptation or with repose." St. Francis de Sales
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
The Beautiful Struggle
"…I am joyful, for example, about you. I see your struggles and do you know why seeing your struggles makes Me joyful? Because you are trying to be good. We, in heaven, observe the struggle for improvement and We send you all manner of little rewards and assistances. We are with you in your struggles, more than you can imagine. My heart beats with such tenderness for you when you struggle. My child, you must not take this struggling as a sign that you are failing, but rather as a sign that you are succeeding. There is little struggle in badness, you see. There is a quiet, ominous acceptance or acquiescence. So do not be afraid. As long as you have the desire to serve Me, I will meet you there, at that initial desire, and I will bring with Me everything you need to succeed. My child, I will make it easy for you. It is not in My nature to confuse, so you must believe that confusion does not come from Me. Bitterness, hatred, deceit do not come from Me. Does that mean you will never experience these things? No. It is part of your earthly cross that you will encounter these things. What I am telling you is that you must bring these things to Me. I will take them from you and you will be free of them. You may encounter these things again, perhaps within the hour. Come back to Me, in your heart, where I remain, and I will take them from you again. You see, My little dear one, your struggles are Mine now. I am stronger, wiser, more able for these things and I want to remove any negative thoughts from you. I seek to heal you and renew you. I can do this if you will let Me. I do not make this promise for now, this moment. I make this a lifetime pledge to you. When you experience a difficulty with your emotions, you bring it right to Me. And that's where it will end. I do not want My children troubled by obsessions. And because you belong to Me, and seek to serve Me, this is a right I bestow upon you. You may think of it as an advance on your eternal inheritance. I intend to give you a portion of the peace We enjoy in heaven. This is my gift to you and is a special concession for the difficult times you are living. Bring your troubles to Me, little soul of My heart. I, your God, wish to bring you relief."
-Volume Two of "Directions for Our Times As Given to 'Anne,' a lay apostle - Conversations with the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus."
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
A 25 Year-old's take on Sacrificial Love
Heather King, mystic and all-around lover of humanity, posts an email she received from a young man who sees himself and others clearly. A quote:
"...he came to save us. Saved? Saved from whom? In my estimation—ourselves."
"Every so often, out of the blue, I receive an email so beautiful, so true, so painful, and so.." Read the rest there.:
"...he came to save us. Saved? Saved from whom? In my estimation—ourselves."
"Every so often, out of the blue, I receive an email so beautiful, so true, so painful, and so.." Read the rest there.:
Thursday, September 26, 2013
What is Pope Francis doing?
Yesterday, Zenit published three really good articles. Two, by Father Frank Pavone and Archbiship Chaput, explicitly address Pope Francis's Big Interview while the first is an address the Pope himself gave on church unity.
Pope Francis believes in the unity of the church. He asks, "Do I live this unity? Or don't I care because I'm closed in in my small group or in myself? Am I one of those who "privatize" the Church for my own group, my own nation, my own friends?"
We all can fall into the trap of "privatizing" the church, making it a church of our own image. Whether our priorities are "traditional" liturgy, guitar masses, pro-life work, women's rights, gay rights, feeding the poor...whatever it is, there is a danger in making your work the work of "your" church. I'm reminded of the saying that there are ditches on both sides of the road. We always must remember that the road, that is, the way, is Jesus Christ, who is the way, the truth and the life.
The church, as the body of Christy, is bigger than us, bigger than our goals and agendas. It is the Sacrament of Salvation through which Christ has established his field hospital (in the words of Pope Francis, which is such a terrific image).
On the Unity of the Church
VATICAN CITY, September 25, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Here is the translation of Pope Francis' address during his weekly General Audience today held in St. Peter's Square.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In the "Creed" we say "I believe in One … Church," that is, we profess that the Church is one and this Church is, in herself, unity. However, if we look at the Catholic Church in the world we discover that she has almost 3,000 dioceses scattered in all the Continents: so many languages, so many cultures! Yet the thousands of Catholic communities form a unity. How can this be?
We find a synthetic answer in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which states: the Catholic Church spread around the world "has only one faith, only one sacramental life, only one apostolic succession, one common hope, the same charity" (n. 161). Unity in faith, in hope, in charity, unity in the Sacraments, in the Ministry: they are as pillars that support and hold together the one great edifice of the Church. Wherever we go, even in the smallest parish, in the most isolated corner of this earth, there is the one Church; we are at home, we are in the family, we are among brothers and sisters. And this is a great gift of God! The Church is one for all. There isn't a Church for Europeans, one for Africans, one for Americans, one for Asians, one for those who live in Oceania, but it's the same one everywhere. Read the rest there...
Pope Francis and 'The Interview'
"we need to open our hearts all of us and let God lead us where he needs us to go through the words of the Holy Father"
By Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
PHILADELPHIA, September 25, 2013 (Zenit.org) -
Some people grasped at the interview like a lifeline – or a vindication. One person praised the Holy Father for stressing that the "Church must focus on compassion and mercy, not on enforcing small-minded rules." She added that "we're at last free from the chains of hatred that have ruled the Catholic Church for so many years and led to my unease in bringing my own children into that Church."
More common though were emails from catechists, parents and everyday Catholics who felt confused by media headlines suggesting that the Church had somehow changed her teaching on a variety of moral issues.
I heard from a mother of four children – one adopted, another disabled from birth — who'd spent years counseling pregnant girls and opening prolife clinics. She wanted to know why the Pope seemed to dismiss her sacrifices. Read the rest on Zenit's site.
Priest for Life Director: I Am Not Alarmed by the Pope's Interview
Says Francis' Comments Strengthen, Not Weaken, Church's Abortion Stance
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 25, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Here is a reflection written by Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life.
From the beginning of his pontificate, I have been encouraged by the approach of Pope Francis to pro-life issues. For him, it is all about integrating the Church's teaching and practice of faith and morals, and it all centers on connecting with the human person as we connect with Christ. His desire to wash the feet of prisoners and walk among the poor is precisely the spirit that connects him and all of us with our poorest and weakest neighbors, the unborn. The Pope's emphasis on "context" and "balance" is precisely what prevents us from saying that his focus on the poor and marginalized means less focus on the unborn. This is precisely the kind of disconnected thinking the Pope opposes. Read more there...
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"Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet to let others judge us in any way they like. O blessed silence, which gives so much peace to the soul!" St. Therese of Lisieux
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Edith Stein on the intersection of Truth and Love
St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross says to us all: Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks love. And do not accept anything as love which lacks truth! One without the other becomes a destructive lie.
Friday, February 22, 2013
"...in the silence of the heart..."
"God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be...."
- Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Mark Shea at his best...
...drawing a parallel between the relationship between the sacraments and the matter of the sacraments and the faith and the pope in charge of passing on the faith.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Sacred vs. Secular Music?
From "The Chant Cafe":
Sacred vs. Secular Music
What does the church have to say about the music for mass?
Sacred vs. Secular Music
What does the church have to say about the music for mass?
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Hey Kyle,
Lots of good advice using spirals and S-turns.
Spirals can be a little disorienting with the goggles on.
I just built an EZ* https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show....php?t=1182769
The one thing I wanted to try was large flaps.
I have a similar problem in that all the places I fly seem to be surrounded by tall trees.
The flaps I installed can also rise 20 degrees like spoilerons. That definitely kills lift but the plane still flies pretty hot on landing after a steep descent.
At 40 degrees of flaps I can easily use IBCrazy's method above. Once I clear the trees I can shove the nose over and with all the drag coming from the flaps I don't exceed 20 mph. Then close to the ground flare out and it just drops on to the grass.
You might be able to use a v-tail mixer to get your existing ailerons to become flaperons. Just be careful about adverse yaw. Too much deflection down on an aileron on a high aspect wing can actually cause enough drag to cause the plane to turn the opposite direction of intent.
I have lots of trouble learning to land too (note current tense!). My Zeph with me behind the sticks at low speeds is sketchy at best.
I cant find a 'hot' landing clip, but thats what I've worked out to suit me best, push in over the trees, level out, and skid her in.
You see from the clips that trying to come in slow, for me, is asking for a cartwheel of destruction.
(in my defence, it was windy!)
My 2 cents:
First off you must know your airplane and be able to land it in third person without complications.
Do 4 or 5 touch and go´s but pay a lot of attention to the attitude of the plane while landing.
A lot comes in to play depending the lens you are using (wide or narrow) but try to imagine yourself inside the airplane while doing the third person landing practice.
Now strap on your airplane and fly FPV.
Do a couple landing procedures but without actually landing.
Sense the attitude of the plane during a gentle descent (at a medium speed try to go faster than what you would normally do) and see where the horizon is leveled in the image. That is what you should see during the FPV landing.
If you already feel comfortable then go ahead do a full landing touching the tarmac but sparing enough speed to go back up to the air if necessary.
If everything went well, then kill the engine, keep your tracking within the runway and the plane will come down to a stop.
After 2 or 3 landings you will see it is much easier landing FPV than landing TPV (third person view)
See a few videos of my touch and go´s:
Practice practice practice..
That and knowing where your plane is going rather than paying attention to where
the nose is pointed. Realize that your view is a 2d representation of a 3d world
and use that to your advantage. Whenever the plane is flying and you're looking forward
there is some part of the screen where pixels appear to be moving "down",
and another where they appear to be moving "up". In between them is a point
that is not moving up or down, but just getting bigger (closer).
That point that is neither moving up or down, is where the plane is going.
That seems obvious but most people don't recognize that or use it. This is
true whether you can see the nose or not, whether the camera is angled up or
down a bit, whether the power is on or off, or you're at a high angle of attack.
The point that is not moving up or down in your view, is where the plane is going.
When you cut the power and let the airspeed drop until you're on a stable descent path
simply find that point in the frame, which is somewhere on the ground if you're descending,
that is not moving up or down and that's where you'll end up landing.
If that point is beyond your target LZ, then either do S-turns to burn up
the altitude quicker, or go around for another approach and start descent further
back or with less power. If you're coming in a little short then increase power just
enough to make that point that doesn't move rise a bit in the frame and then just
hold steady low power on that path until you intersect where you want to.
Practice just doing descents and finding that non-moving point in the frame and
trying to place it on the ground where you want to land without actually landing.
And if you have a tight LZ surrounded by trees, don't make your approach flying
straight and level over the trees. Start higher and further back and adjust
your descent to put the non-moving point right at the tops of the trees.
You want to be on a low airspeed, high angle descent that causes you to just clear
the tips of the trees and continue down at the same rate to the ground.
The problem with coming in level over the trees is that you'll likely have
too much airspeed because you need to fly faster to stay level. You
chop the throttle and it takes time to establish a stable descent and you end up
running long of the LZ.
Another way to deal with a line of trees is to come at it parallel. Come in
parallel and close to the trees on the LZ side, 90 degrees from your final approach,
descend until you're actually below the tops of the trees, and then make a tight 90
degree turn onto final which will burn up some more altitude and drop you where you
want to be.
Lastly, learn how to fly a conventional landing pattern.
Downwind (not always downwind, but is always opposite direction as final), base, final.
Establish your decent rate on the downwind leg. Turn 90 degrees to base
when you feel as though the combination of the distance of base and final will put
you where you want. If you're high on downwind, then just go further before turning
to base and final. That way you're not trying to make all your airspeed and decent
angle decisions on final (as many people do). Realize also that if you are
flying a true downwind leg and final is upwind, that you're effective descent angle
will increase as you turn to final, because your ground speed will decrease.
That means you can be a little high on downwind and base and
still drop it in on final. Or you know you can fly downwind and base as though
there is no wind, and then increase power slightly on final to decrease descent
rate to get you to the LZ.
While I fly planes with power, virtually all my landings are dead stick. I rarely
land more than 50-100 feet from my base station. One advantage to always
gliding in for a landing is that you generally *will not* stall once a stable descent
is established. Many people stall because they're trying to fly level or at
too low a decent rate for the given power. They're trying to pull up
to go up instead of powering up to go up. If you take away the power
then there's no ambiguity about what the descent rate needs to be. Then just
adjust approach pattern to make it longer or shorter until you intersect the
ground where you want.
BTW, Flaperons on EZG or similar are not a great idea. It'll reduce
aileron effectiveness and increase chance of tip stalls.
Spoilerons (both ailerons up) is more useful. You won't tip stall, and it will increase
your descent rate when you need it.
great plane...great flying...great landing!
Yep, you can do the same thing in a full scale aircraft by holding your head still
and sighting on that non-moving spot through the windshield.
And if you see the nose going up but the static visual point is going down,
then you're approaching a stall.
I've been meaning to put some of my landing clips together so here was a convenient
excuse to do so.
Notice how I'm usually flying at least two legs of the landing pattern but the legs can be
of varying lengths as I will turn when I think I'm on the right glide slope to make the landing
where I want.
Keep an eye out for the non-moving visual point whenever I'm lined up on final and
see if you can predict roughly where I'll touch down. I often aim a little short
but carry enough airspeed to ride the ground effect a bit long, and I can drop it
anywhere in between.
I've got a couple of landing videos of a sr. telemaster. My landing pretty much consist of skimming the tree tops then diving down once clear and modulate the elevator for a soft landing.
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You won't find any angst-ridden, pimply faced, teenagers populating Lejeune. The Washington, D.C., based, indie pop band is made up of five 30-somethings.
Applegate eager to get on with the show
There's something about Christina Applegate. The luminous actress who first seized our attention as ditzy Kelly Bundy in "Married ... With Children," is once again on a TV high.
Renowned Athens author motivates others to his craft
Slip off your shoes one hour a day, at work if possible, he says. Then slip the words "crying for escape" onto the white computer screen called a page. That is where the characters living threadbare in your brain can breathe, as your imagination outfits them anew in the creative form known far too simply as fiction.
Keira transformed
LONDON - Keira Knightley has come of age. The 22-year-old star, who played a soccer-loving teenager in "Bend it Like Beckham" and a swashbuckling gentlewoman in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, enters a world of adult sacrifice and betrayal in "Atonement."
Beautiful landscapes
Athens artist Philip Juras' landscape paintings breathe with life. A collection of his new work will be on display at Aurum Studios, 125 E. Clayton St., beginning Sunday and continuing through the end of the year, with an opening reception from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Caine: Hope is reason for season
Edward Hicks was a carriage maker, living in the early 1800s, who converted to Christianity after years spent in wild living, hard drinking and bar room brawls. Troubled, he went to a Quaker meeting, and intrigued by the peace he found there, he gave up his drinking and fighting, to become, for awhile, a part-time preacher.
Cedar Shoals' JROTC teams compete at state
Cedar Shoals' JROTC teams recently competed at the Georgia State Raider Championship held at Thunder Scout Reservation in Molena.
Quick Glimpse
Andy Mandell, aka Mr. Diabetes, recently walked through Madison on his 10,000 mile perimeter trek across the United States to raise diabetes awareness. For more information, visit www.DefeatDiabetes.org.
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Geoff and Lisa Pickett's Open House Pottery Sale
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Geoff and Lisa Pickett's Open House Pottery Sale
Don Chambers and Goat offer southern gothic greatness
Don Chambers laughs a bit at the title of his new self-released CD, "I Got the Recollection of the Blood of the Lamb." "It's more than a mouthful," he says.
Applegate eager to get on with the show
There's something about Christina Applegate. The luminous actress who first seized our attention as ditzy Kelly Bundy in "Married ... With Children," is once again on a TV high.
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Fourth Annual Harvest for the Homeless
Vols stomp Cajuns
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Tyler Smith scored 22 points to lead five Tennessee players in double figures, and the No. 11 Volunteers beat Louisiana-Lafayette 98-70 Friday night for their 22nd straight home victory.
James sparks Eagles in rout
MILWAUKEE - Dominic James scored 22 points and backcourt mate Jerel McNeal added 16 to power No. 13 Marquette to a 100-65 rout of cross-town rival Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Friday night.
Suspects in death of student stay jailed
PERUGIA, Italy - A University of Washington student and her Italian ex-boyfriend - both held in connection with the slaying of a 21-year-old British student - must remain in jail, a court ruled Friday.
Israel leader invokes apartheid
JERUSALEM - In unusually frank comments, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned in an interview published Thursday that "the state of Israel is finished" if a Palestinian state is not created, saying the alternative was a South African-style apartheid struggle.
Bin Laden message aimed at Europeans
CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden called on Europeans to stop helping the United States in the war in Afghanistan, according to excerpts of a new audiotape broadcast Thursday on Al-Jazeera television.
Daredevil Evel Knievel dies at 69
CLEARWATER, Fla. Evel Knievel is dead. That sentence probably should have been written in 1968, when the daredevil crashed his motorcycle spectacularly as he jumped the fountains at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and wound up in a coma.
Musharraf vows to lift state of emergency
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pervez Musharraf, newly sworn in as a civilian president and minus his trademark general's uniform, promised Thursday to lift the state of emergency by Dec. 16 and restore Pakistan's constitution ahead of parliamentary elections.
Two to be released in missing teen case
ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Two brothers re-arrested last week as suspects in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway will be released from jail, a prosecutor said Friday.
Iraqi refugees find new challenges upon return
BAGHDAD - One woman returned from Syria to find her neighborhood a maze of checkpoints and her house gutted by fire. Another woman's home was spared, but it's now in the shadow of 10-foot blast walls encircling the streets.
Bush seeks security grant cuts
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration intends to slash counterterrorism funding for police, firefighters and rescue departments across the country by more than half next year, according to budget documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Iraq wants custody of three sentenced to die
BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister has appealed to President Bush to hand over Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as "Chemical Ali," and two other former regime officials sentenced to hang for a 1980s crackdown against Kurds, two government officials said Thursday.
Talks aimed at easing mortgage crunch
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration and the mortgage industry, trying to combat a massive wave of foreclosures, are hammering out a proposal to temporarily freeze interest rates on certain troubled subprime mortgages. If adopted, it would be the biggest action taken to cope with the unfolding crisis.
Italy death brings to light dark side of study abroad
PERUGIA, Italy - For many college students, a year abroad is an experience of a lifetime - an opportunity to learn a new language and live in a new culture. But it's often just as much about partying in a place where alcohol and drugs are readily available.
Man surrenders in hostage siege at Clinton office
ROCHESTER, N.H. - A distraught man wearing what appeared to be a bomb walked into a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office Friday and demanded to speak to the candidate during a hostage drama that dragged on for nearly six hours before he peacefully surrendered.
Night shift to be noted as 'probable' cause of cancer
LONDON - Like UV rays and diesel exhaust fumes, working the graveyard shift will soon be listed as a "probable" cause of cancer.
Pope criticizes atheism in his second encyclical
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI strongly criticized atheism in a major document released Friday, saying it had led to some of the "greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice" ever known.
Officials: Tasering of driver 'reasonable'
SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah trooper who used a Taser to subdue a stubborn motorist who was walking away from him during a traffic stop acted reasonably, state officials said Friday.
Opposition leader mounts campaign 'under protest'
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Benazir Bhutto presented her election manifesto Friday, dimming the prospect of an opposition boycott that could undermine President Pervez Musharraf's efforts to show Pakistan is returning to democracy.
EU-Iran talks break up with no compromise on uranium
LONDON - Talks between Iran and the European Union broke up Friday without compromise on Tehran's refusal to freeze uranium enrichment, and the top EU foreign policy envoy said he was disappointed at Tehran's refusal to budge.
Foreign adoptions in U.S. down for third straight year
NEW YORK - The number of foreign children adopted by Americans has dropped for the third year in a row, a consequence of tougher policies in the two countries - China and Russia - that over the past decade have supplied the most children to U.S. families.
Fund pays phone bill for woman hit with medical costs
Alicia had to pay her telephone bill, but rising medical costs took so much of her money she couldn't afford it.
High court judge to settle ethics charges
ATLANTA - Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Sears will pay $3,100 to settle charges that she violated the state law governing the ethics of elected officials.
Police question mom in stabbing deaths
AUGUSTA - A 22-year-old woman was being questioned by police Thursday afternoon in the fatal stabbing of her two children, ages 1 and 3, at a south Augusta convenience store.
UGA student dies of meningitis
A University of Georgia student died in a local hospital Saturday morning of an infection doctors diagnosed as bacterial meningitis, university officials said.
Two Vick co-defendants sentenced
RICHMOND, Va. — Two of fallen NFL star Michael Vick's co-defendants were sentenced Friday to 18 months and 21 months in prison on federal dogfighting conspiracy charges.
Court won't revisit reservoir ruling
The Georgia Court of Appeals has refused to reconsider whether to overturn a lower court's ruling that Walton County can borrow money to build Hard Labor Creek reservoir with Oconee County.
Officer out for role in ex-chief's case
A Jefferson police sergeant was forced to resign Thursday after officials learned he was investigating ways to discredit a fellow officer who was called to testify in the criminal case against former Police Chief Darren Glenn.
A helping hand with heating bill
Rebecca was homebound and confined to a wheelchair, and though she often had trouble getting by financially, she didn't like asking for help.
Seven injured in explosion at Manchester plant
MANCHESTER - An explosion rocked a metals plant in west Georgia early Thursday, leaving seven people injured, authorities and witnesses said.
Barrow superintendent named state's best
The Barrow County School System has grown 6 percent a year for the last decade - springing up from about 7,400 students in 1998 to more than 12,000 today.
Interim dean named for education college
University of Georgia Provost Arnett Mace Thursday named Arthur M. Horne, an emeritus professor, as interim dean of the College of Education.
In the crosshairs
GeorgiaCarry.org, a pro-gun citizen advocacy group, has lobbied a number of communities in Georgia to repeal laws banning firearms in parks, contending the bans violate state law. Those that decline face lawsuits. Here's the status of the cases, drawn from the organization's Web site.
Parade-goers catch the Christmas spirit
Children cry out for candy as parade floats pass in Thursday night's annual Parade of Lights in downtown Athens.
Gun group targeting local ban
A gun rights group is challenging an Athens-Clarke County law barring people from carrying guns in parks.
Vaccine company looking past Athens
An international drug company seems to be shopping for an architect to build a $300 million vaccine plant in Birmingham, another sign that Alabama is edging out Athens, the other finalist for the plant.
Thoughts of 'what if' follow teens' horrific wreck
Emergency workers rolled up on a sickening sight last weekend - five boys thrown from a wrecked car, all sprawled on Jefferson Road.
School made new, but history retained
Even veteran Chase Street Elementary School teachers were welcomed to the school as if for the first time this week. The north Athens school will reopen in January after an $8.5 million, sales tax-funded reconstruction project, and teachers and staff previewed the revitalized campus Thursday.
LRA forms nonprofit for homeless aid
The Navy School Local Redevelopment Authority has officially formed a nonprofit to oversee development of shelters, clinics and other facilities on North Avenue as part of a deal to turn the Navy Supply Corps School over to the University of Georgia for a medical campus.
Norwood aide to bid for House
SAVANNAH - A former congressional aide to two Georgia Republicans said Thursday he'll seek the GOP nomination for the 12th Congressional District seat held by Democratic U.S. Rep. John Barrow.
State taking hard look at license plate prefixes
MACON - A central Georgia driver's discovery that his license plate contained an anti-Semitic message has prompted the state to stop issuing personalized or hobby plates that suggest the word "hate."
Three Georgia nursing homes listed among nation's worst
WASHINGTON - Fifty-four nursing homes are being told by the government that they're among the worst in their states in an effort to goad them into improving patient care.
Nursing home taken off national 'worst' list
ATLANTA - A Georgia nursing home listed among the 54 worst in the nation should not have been included, a federal agency said Friday.
Ethics defendants waive state hearings
Two men accused of ethics violations by Madison County Commissioners did not argue their cases before the State Ethics Commission Thursday and likely will negotiate consent orders with the state board.
Five years into initiative, more black men in college
ATLANTA - Thousands more young black men in Georgia are in college today because of an initiative aimed at growing their ranks in the state's colleges and universities.
Barrow schools super named top in state
Barrow County Schools Superintendent Ron Saunders was named Superintendent of Year this afternoon by the Georgia School Superintendents Association
Trio charged after fake cash found in printer
AUGUSTA - Police say three people wanted some easy money, but instead they gave authorities an easy catch.
Police still seeking shooting suspect
Police continued Thursday to search for the man who shot a 27-year-old Athens man nearly three weeks ago during a fight outside a northside restaurant.
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There's reason for hope in Iraq, but for how long?
Things are better ... That's the cautious word I'm hearing out of Baghdad and other towns from Iraqi friends and colleagues.
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Haas: Keep congressional race inside the 10th
A friend recently showed me an unsolicited invitation to a local fundraiser for Barry Fleming, Republican candidate for Georgia's 10th U.S. Congressional District, the seat currently held by Dr. Paul Broun Jr., an Athens native who now is a Watkinsville physician. Fleming currently is the state House of Representatives majority whip and hails from the Augusta suburbs.
Forum: Expanding state's sales tax, with conditions, makes fiscal sense
Like love and marriage, tax and spending go together like the proverbial horse and carriage. Absent spending controls, any major "reform" proposal in Georgia's tax code - particularly a shift in revenues among different levels of government - becomes a masquerade that would increase the size of government. The American tradition of limited government cries out that you can't have one without the other: Fiscal reform requires spending controls and transparency.
State legislators shouldn't control local spending
Maybe it's time to start calling it the great shrinking tax plan. By the time it's put in front of state legislators several weeks from now, Georgia House Speaker Glenn Richardson's GREAT (Georgia's Repeal of Every Ad valorem Tax) proposal is certain to be far less than the massive overhaul of the state's tax system Richardson began touting some months ago.
Burgess' 15 sparks Spartans
Jeremy Burgess scored 15 points and Matt Lo Parco added 12 poinits as Athens Academy beat GMC 50-28. Georgia Military was led by Jansen Thomas with 15. Athens Acedmy (1-1) plays on Tuesday at Oconee County.
Family ties: Football bonds Gunns
Coach Michael Gunn made the call. Carter Gunn released a pass to Chandler Gunn while Cody Gunn held his breath as he stood on the sidelines.
Hart signs with Kennesaw State
Franklin County senior Peyton Hart signed in mid November to play baseball with Kennesaw State University.
Iannone: Season passed far too quickly
Three months can breeze past fairly fast. It feels like yesterday I was at the first day of high school football practices.
Turner leads Spartans back to Atlanta
Athens Academy's passing game sputtered through a series of missed passes and dropped catches for most of the Spartans' state quarterfinal game against Brookstone.
No. 5 Brookstone at No. 9 Athens Academy
When and where: 7:30 p.m. at Slaughter Field
Freeman sisters lead Madison County to victory
DANIELSVILLE - The Freeman sisters combined for 33 points Friday as Madison County defeated Monroe Area 54-41 to keep its record perfect at 4-0.
Governing body shakes up prep regions
Several area schools' regions were shuffled when the Georgia High School Association on Thursday announced its alignments for 2008-10.
Iannone: Turner is heart of the Spartans
Athens Academy strayed from its usual calm, cool and collected demeanor.
Baker earns NSCAA coaching honor
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - The National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) announced this week that Georgia coach Patrick Baker was selected the Division I South Region Coach of the Year.
Baker receives 3-year extension
The Georgia Athletic Association gave soccer coach Patrick Baker a three-year contract extension, Director of Athletics Damon Evans announced on Thursday.
Celtics blast Knicks
BOSTON - The New York Knicks' brief winning streak is history, and the Boston Celtics nearly made history ending it.
Phillips still close to Packers' Thompson
GREEN BAY, Wis. - By his own admission, Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson isn't much of a chatterbox.
Taylor's teammates unwilling to look at locker
ASHBURN, Va. - Sean Taylor's locker has been sealed in Plexiglas. The contents haven't been disturbed, and the stool with his name on it still sits in front.
Falcons' Weiner out for year with knee surgery
FLOWERY BRANCH - Atlanta Falcons right tackle Todd Weiner is out for the rest of the season with a knee injury.
Roddick gives U.S. 1-0 lead in Davis Cup
Andy Roddick got the United States off to a fast start in the Davis Cup final, beating Russia's Dmitry Tursunov 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 in the first match Friday.
Braves offer salary arbitration to Mahay
ATLANTA - The Atlanta Braves offered salary arbitration to left-handed relief pitcher Ron Mahay on Friday and, as expected, declined to offer arbitration to centerfielder Andruw Jones.
Vick cohorts get nearly two years
RICHMOND, Va. - A federal judge made clear his disdain for animal cruelty when he sentenced two of Michael Vick's dogfighting cohorts to 18 months and 21 months in prison Friday.
Hornets continue dominance over Hawks
ATLANTA - The New Orleans Hornets like playing on the road this season. They like playing the Atlanta Hawks anywhere.
Twins trade Garza
MINNEAPOLIS - For the past two years, the Minnesota Twins have refused to part with promising young pitchers to bring in hitting help.
Bauerle announces 10 swimming signees
The Georgia swimming and diving teams signed 10 prospects to national letters of intent, coach Jack Bauerle announced on Thursday.
Four swimmers qualify automatically for invitational
Four Georgia swimmers recorded NCAA automatic qualifying times on Friday in the Georgia Fall Invitational.
Call to save water gets reaction
A University of Georgia class project to promote water conservation landed some students in hot water with UGA administrators Friday, at least for a while.
Interim dean named for education college
University of Georgia Provost Arnett Mace Thursday named Arthur M. Horne, an emeritus professor, as interim dean of the College of Education.
Finalists named for external affairs
Longtime University of Georgia administrator Tom Landrum and three others were named finalists Friday for senior vice president for external affairs, who is responsible for overseeing UGA development, alumni relations, public affairs and special events units.
Assistant dean picked for Tifton campus
Joe West, an animal and dairy sciences professor with the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, was named assistant dean of the ag school's Tifton campus.
Campus colors: Red, black & green?
The University of Georgia won't just mount a campuswide effort to save water in the face of Georgia's unprecedented drought - it should become a national leader in the wise use of energy and other resources, President Michael Adams said Thursday.
UNLV runs to upset win
NEW ORLEANS - UNLV overcame a 24-point halftime deficit thanks to some stellar second-half defense and strong shooting, upsetting No. 16 George Washington 62-61 at the Four Points by Sheraton Invitational on Friday night.
Upset averted: Lady Bulldogs rally after half
As she has so many times throughout her career, senior Tasha Humphrey carried her team on her back Thursday night at Stegeman Coliseum.
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Six MIT projects named best inventions of the year by Time Magazine.
City Car
Foldable electric vehicles may cut pollution, ease congestion
The Smart Cities group at the MIT Media Lab is working on two low-cost electric vehicles that it hopes will revolutionize mass transit and help alleviate pollution. The group aims to mitigate pollution with electric power, expand limited public space by folding and stacking vehicles like shopping carts, and alleviate congestion by letting people rent and return the vehicles to racks located near transportation hubs, such as train stations, airports, and bus depots.
Float Couture
One giant leap for space fashion
Professor Dava Newman's prototype BioSuit is not your grandfather's spacesuit--it's more Spiderman, and less John Glenn. The sleek spandex and nylon spacesuit is designed to allow superior mobility when humans eventually reach Mars or return to the moon. Traditional bulky spacesuits "do not afford the mobility and locomotion capability that astronauts need," says Newman. "We really must design for greater mobility and enhanced human and robotic capability." Newman anticipates that the BioSuit could be ready by the time humans are ready to launch an expedition to Mars, possibly in about 10 years.
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto
Assistive robot adapts to people, new places
The vision of robotic housekeeping popularized by "The Jetsons" may still be decades away, but a new MIT robot named Domo shows promise as a household assistant for the elderly or wheelchair-bound. Other potential applications include agriculture and space travel. "The real potential of robots in the future is going to be realized when they can do many types of manual tasks," including those that require interaction with humans, said MIT postdoctoral associate Aaron Edsinger, developer of Domo.
Fluid notion of architecture
'Digital Water Pavilion' set to make a splash
Imagine a building made of water. It features liquid curtains for walls - curtains that not only can be programmed to display images or messages but can also sense an approaching object and automatically part to let it through. MIT architects and engineers have designed such a building, and it will be unveiled at next year's Expo Zaragoza in Spain. "The dream of digital architecture has always been to create buildings that are responsive and reconfigurable," explains Carlo Ratti, head of MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory. "Think about spaces that can expand or shrink based on necessity and use. It is not easy to achieve such effects when dealing with concrete, bricks and mortar. But this becomes possible with digital water."
One Laptop Per Child
Giving every child the tools they need to learn
The goal of One Laptop Per Child is to provide the nearly two billion children of the developing world with a means for learning, self-expression and exploration in the form of a low-cost laptop.
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Robotic ankle research is a major step forward
MIT Media Lab Professor Hugh Herr and his team of researchers have developed the world's first robotic ankle -- an important advance for lower-limb amputees. The prototype device reduces fatigue, improves balance and provides amputees with a more fluid gait. It could become commercially available as early as the summer of 2008.
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Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global Challenges Foreword by Kofi A. Annan
(Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001; 256 pp.)
"With the publication of the first volume in the United Nations Intellectual History Project, a significant lacuna in twentieth-century scholarship and international relations begins to be filled," writes UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the book's foreword. In Ahead of the Curve?, authors Emmerij, Jolly, and Weiss (Presidential Professor in political science and director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies) analyze the evolution of key ideas and concepts about international economic and social development under UN auspices since 1945.
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Steve Gillmor provides an insightful but at times bizarre stream of consciousness analysis of former Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi's keynote at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, which was held in San Diego earlier this week*.
In a techno-zealous tone reminiscent of Dave Winer, Gillmor concludes the article with, "Trippi is not yet willing (at least publicly) to separate the candidate from the insurgent technology that launched him. But if there was a daily RSS briefing circulating to that new Insurgent Party campaign, you might be reading a more blunt assessment.When that feed exists, and comments are routed into relevant threads by social software dynamics, whichever candidate leverages the platform will have my vote." My emphasis.
"The Platform", you ask? Do Winer and Gillmor belong to the same secret society as Bush and Kerry? I mean, what kind of rational person chooses a candidate based on whether or not they adopt a certain set of technologies to run their campaign? Are Gillmor's "platform" and Winer's "voter support system for the rational person's party" (VSSRPP:-) the product of the same persistent techno-socio-political meme? Perhaps. Gillmor shares Winer's disdain for comments in blogs--a view that places them in the distinct minority among bloggers and the people who spend their free time thinking about what makes blogs work.
"Trippi correctly recognizes the tactical power of the onliner tools—blogs, wikis, the loose federation of emerging "social software." But as a straddler of both constituencies, he may be missing the political dynamics of the Internet world and technology's impact on the field troops in the campaign.
Take blog comments—please. The CTOs of the various campaigns defend their use as a simple user interface for casual involvement by newbies. But converting the undecided into active offline participation involves more than just the harvesting of good ideas. Comments destroy the signal to noise ratio of blog brands, trading the appearance of democratic participation for muddied messaging and vulnerability to comment spamming.
Instead, authenticated private RSS feeds could replace e-mail and public blogs as a collaboration engine, routing separate comment feeds via group filtering to allow good ideas to bubble up and noise to wash out of the system. Dynamic group formation and attention feedback loops such as Technorati's attention.xml service could be harnessed to manage rapid response teams, monitor media trends and squeeze more strategic business intelligence out of the information firehose."
Gillmor also seems to be an advocate of the RSS, a blog syndication format that Winer passionately defends against newcomer, ATOM, behind which Google threw its support recently. Gillmor's mention of RSS would not have been noteworthy had it come a month or two ago.
*Scoble, Microsoft's blogger laureate, attended the Trippi keynote as well and reports in Comparing "spin" from bloggers and Reuters that Reuters' coverage of Trippis speech may have missed the mark... by a mile. Go figure. More thoughts on the Reuters flub via Winer's blog: http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/02/14/reuters_wrong.html.
Reuters vs. Bloggers: sydicator vs. syndicator. Folks, this is a story is worth watching.
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