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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Utah congressman introduced legislation Wednesday to scrap the design for a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, citing objections from Ike's family and the project's cost.
Republican Rep. Rob Bishop is proposing a new design competition and seeks to eliminate $100 million in future funding for the current design by architect Frank Gehry.
Eisenhower's family has called Gehry's design "too extravagant." Gehry proposed a memorial park with statues of the president and World War II hero, framed by large metal tapestries depicting Ike's boyhood home in Kansas. It's projected to cost $142 million, some of which would come from private fundraising.
Bishop said lawmakers need to reevaluate the project in hopes of finding consensus. The bill would also authorize for three years the use of the planned site for the memorial, which is at the base of Capitol Hill near the National Air and Space Museum.
"It is important that we get this project right and presently, there are far too many outstanding concerns including the controversial design and rising costs," Bishop said in a statement.
Eisenhower Memorial Commission chairman Rocco Siciliano, who served as a special assistant in the Eisenhower White House, said he was "saddened" by the bill and defended the Gehry design and the commission's work.
"This bill by Congressman Bishop insults their efforts and the great legacy of Eisenhower," Siciliano said in a statement.
Susan Eisenhower, a granddaughter of the former president, said the family would not comment. A hearing has been scheduled for next week in a House subcommittee, and Susan Eisenhower is scheduled to testify.
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Call to strictly regulate Mediterranean offshore oil exploitation
14 September 2012 | Article
IUCN's Members Assembly has adopted a recommendation aimed at strictly regulating the development of offshore oil exploitation policies and projects in the Mediterranean.
The motion was proposed by Fondation pour la nature et l'homme with the support of 16 other organizations, including Pro-natura International and Réserves Naturelles de France. All are deeply concerned about the increase in offshore drilling for oil and gas production and the numerous serious accidents that have occurred since 1976 on oil platforms in the Mediterranean.
The Mediterranean Sea includes the Mediterranean Basin, the Azores islands, Madeira and the Canary Islands and is one of the world's 34 biodiversity hotspots.
Through this motion, the World Conservation Congress asks the Mediterranean coastal States to regulate the development of offshore oil exploitation policies and projects in several ways including:
- to apply the precautionary principle to offshore development projects for remarkable and sensitive natural environments as well as protected areas;
- refuse to allow gas, oil or any other kind of exploration or exploitation permits for areas near natural sites which have national or international importance should any impacts be identified and
- reinforce prior scientific studies on the study of coastal and marine environments.
The motion also promotes both the development of renewable energy sources as an alternative to the exploitation of fossil fuels and the conservation of natural environments in order to establish a sustainable and coherent plan for the future of the Mediterranean.

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AUSTIN, Texas - It was nothing more than a play in practice, one of tens of thousands of repetitions similar to what any football team goes through.
In a passing drill during Texas' first practice Monday, quarterback David Ash fired a quick out to a well-covered Kendall Sanders. The sophomore wide receiver had to plant hard, turn and stretch out. The ball smacked into his hands and went no further. Completion.
Ash, who was replaced in the drill by another quarterback, made his way from the middle of the field to the side where Sanders had returned to the line. The quarterback fist bumped his receiver, then patted him on the back and the helmet.
The Longhorns' junior quarterback is the team's quarterback and offensive leader. After two seasons of a muddled QB situation that saw Ash and senior Case McCoy sharing the position, UT entered preseason camp with no doubt as to its starting quarterback.
"He's stayed on track and gone through the process, we've seen him turn into a man," UT offensive lineman Mason Walters said. "He's gone through the progress, the maturing that's happened at a lot of positions on this team."
While there are positions with question marks – the run-blocking power in the offensive line, play makers on the defensive line and linebacker – no position makes a difference like quarterback. Vince Young led the team to the national championship in 2005 and four years latr Colt McCoy led Texas to the title game.
"We're a quarterback-driven league, and if you just look at the last ten years, this league has been known for the best quarterbacks in the country and the best passers and the best offenses," UT coach Mack Brown said. "So the fact that we've struggled at quarterback for two years on and off is a true fact that we've struggled as a team some because he touches it every time.
"So when you think about the importance of that player at all levels of our game, it is really, really key, and that's why we're so excited to have David with experience, with maturity, with confidence not only in himself but in his team. He's leading the team much better, and they believe in him right now."
At Big 12 media days last month, Ash appeared comfortable and confident. He led the team to a come-from-behind victory in the Alamo Bowl, an outcome that helped erase some of the disappointments of 2012.
"When you're a freshman you know about 30 percent of what you should know and you are faking the other 70 percent," Ash said. "When you are a sophomore it is about 50/50. Now I'm on the other side of that and I know what I'm doing and my team has to understand that I know and believe in me."
Ash finished his sophomore season ranked 15th nationally in completion percentage (67.3) and 21st in passing efficiency. He was impressive in victories over Ole Miss on the road and against Oklahoma State but struggled against Oklahoma and at Kansas.
Ash's confidence and experience will be crucial to the Longhorns' plans to play at a faster tempo. UT used a no huddle attack to spark the rally against Oregon State in the bowl game. Only Kansas State in the Big 12 ran fewer offensive plays than Texas last season.
"The kids are in a good place. They know nine (wins) is not enough for Austin," Brown said. "They know nine is not enough for Texas, it's not enough for them and it's not enough for me. It's not that the fans don't like nine – the players don't like nine. They've talked about it. We've played very poorly and not represented Texas well."
Quick Slants
* Texas coach Mack Brown might be carrying a heavy load of pressure going into this season, but he's also carrying around less weight. Thanks to diet and exercise, Brown has lost 25 pounds.
* Position updates: Brown said that Jalen Overstreet has moved from quarterback to running back and will also work as a slot receiver. Duke Thomas will start practice as a defensive back but could see time at wide receiver. Chevoski Collins will be at receiver but could also work some in the secondary.
* Deep snapper Nate Boyer graduated and June and then spent nearly two months with the Special Forces in Afghanistan. He's back in Austin and pursuing a graduate degree. Boyer served as a Green Beret before walking on at Texas in 2010. Boyer had no football experience, but became the long snapper last year and earned a scholarship.
Offensive lineman Mason Walters:
"I really think we had such a great summer. As leaders we sat down and defined our goals and what we want as a team. We're an older team, so we have a lot of guys that have been here and know what we want."
Quarterback David Ash on the first day of practice:
"I felt great. I was excited about what we were doing and I have been excited all summer to go out there and finally kick it off. We've been waiting for this all summer and it's here. It's a one-time opportunity. Look forward to making most of it."
Coach Mack Brown:
"I am more confident this will be the best team we've had in three years. Now we've gotta shut up and do it. … I like fixing things. I don't like messing them up, and obviously I was involved in messing it up for whatever reason."


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I've been putting off writing this post for awhile now, but honestly, it's come to the point of merely delaying the inevitable. I think it's time to close the doors on future development of the WoW-GPS project. Make no mistake, although this may seem abrupt, this has not been an easy decision to make. This is a project that I've personally invested hundreds of hours in, personal resources, and to not be able to see 2.0 come to full fruition is particularly disappointing. I'll try to spell out of
A few weeks ago, I outlined some tentative plans for the future of this project. Although I wasn't very specific, it's been something I've been thinking about a lot and really wrestling with the past couple weeks. I started playing D3 again last week, thinking it might help to rekindle some interest/motivation to get back into WoW. After put a lot of thought into it, here's where I'm at in term of WoW, specifically in regards to gold-making:
Back when I first started getting into
2014 has been quite a whirlwind as far as API Web Projects are concerned. I thought I'd take some time to recap some of what's happened and (since I know it's been quite awhile since my last blog post) setup some of what's still to come in 2015.
2014 has seen:
- A new vision for the WoW-GPS project
- TUJ close
- TSM launched a new API-driven website
- TUJ reopen, with a new look and some different features
- Wowuction was updated for WoD, keeping
Just wanted to throw up a quick post with a little preview of what I was thinking for the new, dynamic shuffler.
Here's a jsfiddle with the basic framework: http://jsfiddle.net/kqyg9my7/21/ (updated)
A few notes:
1) There's a lot missing, UI-wise, from this example. Each of the items will obviously have some sort of valuation to visually help process data, and also a toggle to either include/exclude specific routes.
2) With the new account setup, I'd
Well, I took a bit of a detour there to develop a separate, AH notifications application: http://alerts.wow-gps.net/. Things seem stable, and the application is currently not costing anything to support/maintain, and I've just opened up the BETA for everyone, so I'm going to leave that alone for now and shift my attention back to the main 2.0 project. If the usage on the notification app starts creeping up towards the free limits for the server(s) and resources, I might have to pop back over to


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I'm looking at putting a new game together and would love some community feedback.
"Barbarians of the Seventh Seal is an anime stylized pen-and-paper role playing game built on the rules chassis of the hit game Barbarians of Lemuria. BotSS reveals a world in chaos, ravaged by the Great War, Armeggeddon, the Contagion and an intergalactic invasion. From this disastrous begining, though, emerges a new breed of hero. Forged in the fire of war, fueled with old testament faith, alien weaponry and psionic mutations these heroes fight to bring order out of chaos, to rebuild and protect their world, and to overthrow the Leviathan. So don your power suit, say your prayers, grab your lucky plasma rifle and your psionic friend, too, and let's kick some demon ass!"
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is this material unique or too familiar?
My main goals are to add the Armeggeddon vibe and faith powered heroes as an option for post-apoc rpg. I also want to add firm story goals, which seems to be the biggest drawback of most current post-apoc games. This differs from Barbarians of the Aftermath in that it is a game, not a tool box, it has a firm narrative and story goals, and it is closer to the crunch level of BoL than BotA. Any help is good!


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(Going) Settipane, 78, passed away peacefully at home on Dec. 10, 2011, surrounded by her family. Born in Providence, she was the daughter of the late John Christopher Going and Isabelle Marie (Burke).
The things she cherished most in her life were faith, family and friends, including those from Classical High School '51 and Brown University '55 and beyond. She is survived by her four sons: Robert J. Settipane, M.D., and his wife, Lisa; Russell A. Settipane, M.D., and his wife, Karen; attorney Guy J. Settipane and his wife, Linda; and attorney Joseph M. Settipane, all of Rhode Island. She is also survived by her 10 grandchildren. She was the sister of John Going, M.D., Mary Crawford, the late Anne Gallo and the late attorney Joseph Going. She was the former wife of the late Guy A. Settipane.
Burial is private. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 30, at St. Thomas Church, 65 Fruit Hill Ave., Providence. Memorial donations may be made in her name to Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, 399 Fruit Hill Ave., North Providence, RI 02911.


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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police have fired tear gas to push back nearly 200 protesters at the U.S. Embassy in the capital angry over Israel's offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza.
Members of the Islamic Student Association rallied Wednesday in front of the embassy in Jakarta, waving Palestinian flags and holding banners that read: "Save Palestine from Israel, the terrorist."
Jakarta police spokesman Col. Rikwanto said protesters hurled rocks and eggs outside the embassy, forcing the anti-riot squad to fire tear gas to disperse the crowd. Twelve students were detained for questioning. No injuries were reported.
The weeklong Israeli offensive against militants in Gaza has killed more than 130 Palestinians. Militant rocket fire into Israel has killed five Israelis.
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"We had a wonderful stay at the Palmer House, 4-1 thru 4-4. We were celebrating our anniversary and could not have been more pleased. The wine and cheese reception when we arrived on Fri. evening was a relaxing treat, then a short walk into town for dinner. We returned to find our bed was turned down and there were chocolates by the bed. On Sat. evening we returned to our room to find a bottle of chilled champagne and truffles waiting for us. There is also lots to do and see in the area. A lot with in walking distance. The Inn is large and spacious, The common rooms on the first floor are large and welcoming, home baked cookies each afternoon around 3:00PM, are a great touch after a day of touring. It felt like coming home. I would recommend this Inn, having stayed in a few B&B's this is by far the best. We will be back.
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TOKYO (AP) — China and South Korea reacted strongly Friday to visits by three Japanese Cabinet ministers to a Tokyo shrine that honors the war dead including convicted war criminals, although Japan's prime minister stayed away.
Keiji Furuya, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, one of the three ministers who visited Yasukuni Shrine, said it was "only natural as a Japanese" to honor those who had given up their lives for their country.
Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshitaka Shindo told reporters his visit was a vow to never wage war again, and shrugged off concerns it may set off a diplomatic row.
"If it does, the government should give a clear and good explanation," he told reporters after praying at the shrine. A third official, Administrative Reform Minister Tomomi Inada, visited later Friday.
China lambasted the visits as proof of Tokyo's incorrect understanding of history, calling Yasukuni "a spiritual tool and symbol for the Japanese militarists."
"Sino-Japanese relations can develop in a healthy and stable way only if Japan can face up to and reflect on the history of invasion and make a clear break with militarism," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in an online statement.
In Seoul, South Korean President Park Geun-hye said some Japanese politicians were acting in a way that hurts both South Koreans and Japanese and further pushes the countries' people apart.
In a speech marking South Korea's independence from Japanese colonialism, Park also asked Japanese leaders to act wisely and expressed hopes that next year the countries will move together toward friendlier ties.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did not go to the shrine, but sent a gift through an envoy. His visit to Yasukuni in December drew widespread criticism, including from the U.S., Japan's most important ally.
Abe signed the gift as head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and not as prime minister, a party official said.
The enshrinement of Class-A war criminals, such as wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, among the 2.5 million dead at Yasukuni Shrine makes the visits a target of condemnation from China and South Korea, which suffered from Japan's aggression and see the shrine as a symbol of brutality.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga defended the visits as religious freedom, noting that praying for the war dead is natural for any country and that the ministers acted in a private capacity.
Dozens of lawmakers from various parties visited the shrine, wearing dark suits and outfits.
At a ceremony commemorating the end of World War II at a Tokyo hall, attended by thousands of people, Abe said later Friday that the sacrifices of the previous generation brought "peace and prosperity" to Japan.
"We will never forget that," Abe told the crowd, noting that Japan must "humbly face up to history."
Emperor Akihito, whose father surrendered at the end of World War II, also offered prayers at the ceremony on a stage covered with chrysanthemums, flanked by his wife Michiko.
Although extremist nationalists throng Yasukuni, wearing old uniforms and tooting bugle horns, thousands of regular people also go to the shrine on Aug. 15, the anniversary of the end of the war.
Veteran Shirataka Kuribayashi, 88, was among those lining up to bow and pray for no more wars.
"The memory fades away, and people forget about the war. I think we need to stop that," he said.
Associated Press news assistant Zhao Liang in Beijing, APTV journalists Kaori Hitomi and Emily Wang, writer Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo and researcher Jung-yoon Choi in Seoul contributed to this report.
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By Ned Rozell
SAN FRANCISCO — Last July, while we Alaskans enjoyed another warm day, the surface temperature dropped to minus 135.3 degrees Fahrenheit in an icy trough on a south-facing ridge in western Antarctica. According to the man who noticed the temperature, Ted Scambos at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., that and another day during Antarctica's polar night are the coldest surface temperatures yet recorded on Earth.
"It's more like what you would see on Mars on a summer day," Scambos said during a press conference here at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Scambos is one of more than 20,000 scientists who will attend the week-long gathering of Earth and space scientists. His subject was apt as the San Francisco area experienced clear skies and what local meteorologists termed a "cold snap," with low temperatures below freezing and the patchy formation of sidewalk ice, a foreign substance in the Bay Area.
Scambos noticed the unearthly temperatures while looking at data from remote sensing satellites, including the new Landsat 8, launched last February. The satellite orbits over Antarctica (and Alaska) and has a sensitive temperature sensor onboard.
With it, Scambos saw the cold temperature from this July and an even lower minus 136 degrees Fahrenheit on Aug. 10, 2010.
The official world record is the minus 128.6 Fahrenheit recorded at the Russian Vostok Research Station in East Antarctica in 1983. Scambos said the satellite records won't be official because the Vostok record was from a thermometer mounted about 6 feet off the ground, as is the standard for meteorologists.
"The air would probably be 1 or 2 degrees warmer at 2 meters," he said. If someone were to install a similar weather station at the sites the satellite measured, its temperature sensor would probably knock off the Vostok record.
"There's a record yet to be measured," he said. "I'm confident these places are the coldest pockets on Earth," he said. "We're talking about temperatures 50 degrees colder than anything seen in Alaska or Siberia."
The cold spot intrigues Scambos because it makes him wonder if there's a physical limit to how cold Earth can get. The Antarctic cold spots are just off Dome A at about 15,000 feet elevation. The coldest air forms when already chilled air slides down the mound and settles in pockets, where it cools further. Weather systems that buttress the pool of cold air and prevent it from sliding probably intensify the cold, Scambos said.
Because the satellite also passes above Alaska in its orbit, Scambos said it might be possible to use it to find Alaska's cold spots, though he's going to concentrate on Greenland and Antarctica.
Making this possibility enticing is that Alaska's all-time low of minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit, recorded Jan. 23, 1971 at Prospect Creek, is just one degree off North America's all-time low. Canadian meteorologists measured that at a now-defunct airstrip at Snag in the Yukon Territory, just 15 miles from where the Alaska Highway passes near Beaver Creek in the Yukon. The 81 below measured there happened on Feb. 3, 1947.
Alaska has come close to that revered number in the recent past, making meteorologists think 81 below could be bested if a thermometer sat in the right spruce bog. On Jan. 27, 1989, Galena dropped to 70 below, McGrath 75 below, and Tanana 76 below. Weather observers Dick and Robin Hammond of Chicken, Alaska recorded minus 72 degrees Fahrenheit during their 8 a.m. thermometer check on Feb. 7, 2008. Two days later, Larry and June Taylor — also official observers for the National Weather Service — recorded the same temperature at O'Brien Creek off the Taylor Highway.
Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.
PHOTO CAPTION/CREDIT: Ice fog forms in Fairbanks at about minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit and colder. A researcher recently recorded a temperature 100 degrees colder in Antarctica. Photo by N. Rozell.


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Whisky Review: McClelland's Speyside Single Malt
Posted by Arctic Wolf on April 12, 2010
Today I am returning to my review series on McClelland's Single Malt Whiskies. This week I am tackling the McClelland's Speyside Single malt.
The Brand is owned by Morrison Bowmore Distillers and this whisky in their McClelland's line up is distilled in the region for which it is named, Speyside.
I found the McClelland's Single Malt Speyside to be an accurate expression of a typical Speyside whisky. It has a typical Speyside character with a spicy yet floral palate very typical of Speyside whiskies I have tried in the past.
Here is an excerpt from the review:
"The whisky is somewhat of a medium orange/gold colour in the glass. When I swirl the glass I notice only a light oil and very skinny legs on the sides of the glass. I receive distinct floral notes combined with honey and oak spices. A vague anise licorice and a hint of cocoa lie behind the floral tone, and if the glass is left to sit, the aroma of oak tannin becomes stronger in the glass…"
You may read the entire review here:
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It'll be years before you can fill up on hydrogen at your local Gas N Go. But in the meantime, BMW is offering a luxurious V-12 preview of our carbon-free future.
(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- "It's the car of the future that you can drive today!" says the BMW executive delivering to me a Hydrogen 7, the first hydrogen-powered luxury vehicle in the world. Or, rather, I could drive it today, if he hadn't just run over a nail, now embedded nastily in the sidewall of the H-7's left rear tire.
BMW (Charts) has spent three decades and untold millions - literally untold, since the company won't tell me - creating one of the most advanced vehicles in the world, only to have it hobbled by a 10-penny nail.
Need I note the irony? Probably not.
Also, that would be cruel, since the noble goal of the H-7 is, at heart, to save the earth. Petroleum-fueled vehicles pump more than 10 billion metric tons of carbon into our ever-warming atmosphere each year, and the H-7 represents a baby step toward reducing that figure.
Unlike fuel-cell vehicles in development by Ford (Charts) and GM (Charts), which use compressed hydrogen gas to charge batteries that then power electric motors, the H-7 employs a combustion engine modified to burn gasoline and hydrogen. This bi-fuel approach is, in part, simply practical: There are just three hydrogen filling stations in the United States, and BMW wanted to create a car that could serve as a transitional vehicle while the nation builds a hydrogen infrastructure, something experts say will exist by 2027. (The company is working on a hydrogen-only version of the H-7, for those happy days.)
In the near term, however, BMW will dispatch refueling tankers to top off the 25 H-7s slated for U.S. release this year. This is less a sound business decision than a sort of environmental outreach program, of which the H-7 is the shiniest component. The automaker intends to lend the cars to hydrogen evangelists - people with enough influence or fame to effectively sell skittish Americans on the notion of hydrogen as an energy source.
This can be a tough transaction. To wit: About 18 pounds of the stuff is currently tucked behind the backseat of my test H-7, ominously percolating in the warm San Francisco sun.
Hydrogen is a volatile, occasionally unstable fuel, which is why BMW forbids the car to be parked in closed garages (lest gaseous vapors pool and ignite), and why, during testing, luckless fuel tanks were set ablaze and shot full of bullets in attempts to ignite the H▓. Hydrogen, the company concluded, is actually safer than gasoline - and any hand-wringing over the H-7 is wrongheaded. As Andreas Klugescheid, the BMW executive, says, "It's not the Hindenburg."
He's right, of course: That German conveyance carried 97 passengers, while the H-7 seats but four. Also, the zeppelin was filled with hydrogen gas, whereas the H-7 uses the liquid form, which is kept at minus 423 degrees in a thermos-like double-walled stainless-steel vacuum tank that provides the insulating equivalent of 56 feet of Styrofoam. (Your morning cup of coffee would remain hot in the tank for 80 days.)
The H-7's array of NASA-style sensors monitor its tanks, fuel lines, and interior for leaks, and should a breach be detected, the car kills the engine and swiftly vents the gas. Nevertheless, I do notice a fire extinguisher beneath the car's front passenger seat - a somewhat unsettling accessory.
The future is not for the timid, however.
I decide to take the H-7 for a spin, blowouts be damned. Basically, this is akin to driving a plain-vanilla 760Li. The H-7 is outwardly a clone of BMW's flagship sedan, with only a slightly higher hood line and an extra fuel valve to provide clues to the car's special nature. (Well, that and the enormous "Clean Energy: Hydrogen" decals affixed to its sides.)
The interior is almost identical, the most noteworthy difference - excluding the extinguisher - being a button on the steering wheel labeled "H▓." Press it and the H-7's engine seamlessly switches from gas to hydrogen, or vice versa. The engineering that allows each fuel to independently share a single V-12 combustion engine is impressive and daunting, and beyond the ken of the typical car columnist.
Let's just say that BMW seems to have it all well in hand. The H-7 can do 143 mph, has a range of 435 miles (310 using gas, another 125 using hydrogen), and, when in H▓ mode, emits virtually no carbon dioxide. Its twin tailpipes blow water vapor, which, should you choose to taste it, contains the merest hint of savory aluminum.
And although the engine is a bit noisier in hydrogen mode, there's no real performance difference between gas and H▓. (Because hydrogen has a slightly lower energy density than gasoline, BMW "detuned" the V-12 to 260 hp, to better match the fuels.) Punch the throttle in either mode and the car rockets right away. And indeed, if not for its use of a virtually unlimited, potentially renewable, nonpolluting energy source, the H-7 would be just another well-executed German luxury performance saloon. Or, as Klugescheid says, "It's a completely unspectacular spectacular car."
Like every German, he's too modest. I spend the afternoon touring the hills north of the city, skirting a stand of ancient redwoods and lacing through fingers of coastal fog, and to do so in a hydrogen ride feels absurdly altruistic.
Such self-satis-faction lasts until, pulling into my drive, I realize that the H-7 is low on H▓, with the nearest hydrogen station some six hours away - assuming the punctured sidewall holds. Hopping out to check the tire, I kneel at the car's fender, breathing gentle puffs of steam. Klugescheid approaches and begins to study the nail, while I become lost in a what-if moment of ecological reverie.
Just then he speaks. "Maybe," he says, hesitantly, "we should leave well enough alone."
"Actually," I reply, "maybe we shouldn't."
John Tayman, a contributing writer for Business 2.0, is the author of "The Colony" (http://www.johntayman.com/).
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(May 31, 2002) — Graduate students from East Carolina University have begun the partial excavation of an American Civil War gunboat that has rested in the murky depths of a Tar River tributary for more than 130 years.
For the second consecutive year, students in a summer field school for ECU's program in Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology have worked at the shipwreck site on Chicod Creek near Grimesland in Pitt County. The project is aimed at assessing the overall condition of the vessel.
The Confederate Navy built the gunboat in Washington, N.C., but scuttled it in the creek before completion to prevent its capture by Union forces. The vessel sits in the narrows of the winding, dark-water creek, covered by mud, silt and 15 feet of water.
Dr. Larry Babits, an ECU nautical archaeologist, is leading the team that is studying the site. He said he hopes to determine how much of the ship remains in the creek and make an assessment of its overall condition. The students will make repeated dives at the site and produce detailed drawings of the ship's structure. The work will also involve some excavation of the hull and the possible recovery of artifacts.
"We have a fantastic opportunity to examine an important part of history right in our own back yard," said Babits. "The Chicod Creek site should tell us about local shipbuilding methods and materials that were used during the American Civil War," he said.
The ECU graduate program in Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology conducts a field school each summer to give students experience in the methods of researching and uncovering historical shipwreck sites. The work at the wreck site began on Monday (May 27) after two weeks of classroom lectures and practice with a shipwreck model in the school's diving tank. The study ends on June 17.
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Serial rapist sentenced to 410 years in NC prisons
A serial rapist is starting a sentence of more than 400 years in North Carolina prisons.
An Onslow County jury on Friday convicted 34-year-old Willie Abner Brown of Jacksonville on dozens of criminal charges, including six counts of first-degree rape.
Brown attacked four women in 2011 and 2012, two of whom he raped multiple times on the same day. Two of the victims testified they were pregnant at the time. One woman testified Brown raped her while her baby was in the house, then forced her to drive to a cash machine to withdraw $600.
Brown said he was innocent and the jury was wrong, but that he was sorry about using one of the victim's stolen credit cards.


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Claire (the acquaintance, in her 40's, mother of 4) and Annie (the stranger, early 20's) were talking about kids.
Annie (to me): How many do you have?
Me: four
Claire (smiling, friendly, to Annie): Yeah, but 2 of hers are adopted.
Me: Yup, but they still add up to 4.
Claire (to me): Tell Annie their names.
Me: Devyn is our oldest and...
Claire: No, not the girls, tell her the boys names.
Me: Mikias and Jemberu are our sons.
Claire: Tell Annie where they're from.
Me: Ethiopia (beginning to feel like a spectacle rather than a mom having a conversation about kids).
Claire: (still smiling and friendly, to Annie) You should see her family!
Me: (starting to smile because I am vain, I know she is going to say that my kids are beautiful)
Claire: Seriously, you should see them around town or wherever. They stick out like a sore thumb!
Me: A sore thumb?
Claire: (more to Annie than to me) You should see them, this fair skinned, beautiful all-American family. Her daughters are really beautiful and then you see these boys. They stick out like a sore thumb!
Me: (to Annie) My sons are beautiful, too.
Claire: Oh yeah, they really are!
Later that day I was watching the boys play baseball. Isabelle (no need to change her name), the sixth grade sister of one of the boys on the team, was asking me a few questions about the boys. How old were they when we got them and so on. She asked "Are they blood brothers?" I told her that they were not biological brothers but they are completely brothers. She smiled and nodded, I could tell that she totally got that already.
Isabelle was curious. I loved that she felt comfortable asking me about the boys. She was sweet and respectful of our family. She got it. So many adults don't get it. I can't count the number of times I have been asked if the boys are brothers. Not biological or blood brothers, they ask if they are brothers. It always makes me cringe. Isabelle asked in a way that showed a real sensitivity. She knew that Mikias and Jemberu were brothers. Of course they're brothers, they are in the same family, they share parents, sisters, a dog and a last name. She just wondered if they were always brothers or if they became brothers when they were adopted. She asked in a way that showed that she didn't see our family any differently than she saw her own.
Although my conversation with Claire and Annie was a little crazy, it didn't make me mad. Claire is nice. What she said sounds mean spirited, but it really wasn't. Sure, she made my family sound like some kind of freak show, but she had no idea. She is not mean. She is clueless. You can tell the difference.
Claire didn't make me mad. But Isabelle, that girl made my day.


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For the second time in as many days, the Georgia Southwestern men's soccer team dropped a 1-0 decision at Hurricane Field. Sunday afternoon a converted penalty kick by Eckerd College in the 16th minute was the difference.
At the 15:43 mark, Eckerd's Luke Sheekey made the most of a dubious GSW foul in the box by converting a penalty kick for what turned out to be the lone score of the match. The foul was one of only four committed by the Hurricanes on the afternoon.
Both sides played a man down the final 26 minutes of the match after a pair of red cards were handed out over a two minute span in the second half.
Eckerd outshot GSW 15-8 and held a 6-1 advantage in corner kicks.
GSW goalkeeper David Porley stopped six. EC goalie Domenic Spedaliere recorded the shutout with three saves.
Jesse Davis and Taylor Jennings led the 'Canes offense with two shots apiece.
Game three of the Hurricanes four-game homestand is Wednesday against Brewton-Parker College at 4 p.m.
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Police say the cause of death and circumstances preceding the death are still being investigated.
The man whose body was found Tuesday afternoon outside a parking garage near Shands at the University of Florida has been identified as Michael M. Kronewitter, 54, of Gainesville, police said.
University of Florida Police Department Maj. Brad Barber said on Wednesday that a cause of death and the circumstances preceding the death had not yet been determined.
The department received a call around 1:30 p.m. from a person who discovered a body lying on the ground behind a parking garage on Southwest 13th Street near the Shands Cancer Hospital. Emergency workers responded and declared the man dead.
Barber said detectives continue to investigate.
"They continue to look at this as a death investigation where he had fallen from somewhere on that garage," Barber said. "They were not even able to track down next of kin until late last night."
Barber said he didn't know what floor of the garage Kronewitter had been on or whether any surveillance video from the garage shows Kronewitter.
Barber added he had no indication of whether Kronewitter had been in Shands or was going to Shands.
Kronewitter's car was found in the garage but Barber said detectives had not revealed what was in it.
An autopsy was scheduled for later Wednesday, Barber said, adding it might give an indication of whether Kronewitter had been using alcohol or drugs.
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The Acer Iconia W700 is a hefty 11.6-inch tablet that runs the Windows 8 operating system. It can be paired with Acer's own wireless Bluetooth keyboard and a cradle dock, turning this portable tablet into a full-fledged mobile office.
Available on October 26, the Iconia W700 comes in three versions. Two models both have 64GB of storage, but the $750 version runs on an Intel Core i3 Ivy Bridge processor while the $850 is equipped with an i5 CPU under its hood. The 128GB model, which houses an i5 processor too, is estimated to cost between $950 to $1,000.
All three versions of the Acer Iconia W700 sport an 11.6-inch, 10-point touch screen. The IPS 1080p Full HD display has a resolution of 1,920x1080 pixels, and when I handled the device, text and pictures were rendered crisply and brightly. On the left side, it has a Micro-HDMI output and a USB port.
As mentioned above, the tablet can be paired with a wireless Bluetooth keyboard, as well as a cradle dock. The dock includes three more USB ports, and it can tilt the Iconia W700 either 70 degrees or 20 degrees, depending on how you want to use it.
By itself, the W700 weighs 2.3 pounds and is easy to hold and navigate. It can easily fit into a large shoulder bag or backpack without taking much space. Its silver aluminum build keeps it lightweight, but it's also attractive. The smooth finish gives the tablet a more luxurious feel, and I appreciate the simple and sleek aesthetic.
The tablet runs on the Windows 8 OS, meaning you'll get your usual slew of Microsoft staples like the live-tile start screen, Internet Explorer, Xbox Live, Zune music and video portals, access to SkyDrive cloud computing, and Skype.
Keep in mind that not all Iconia W700 tablets have the same CPU. Again, one of the two 64GB models features an Intel Core i3 Ivy Bridge processor, while the other runs on the faster i5 CPU. The 128GB unit is equipped with an i5 as well.
All three units, however, sport an Intel HD Graphics 4,000 chipset with 4GB of memory and promise 8 hours of overall usage time and 7 hours of Web browsing. They also feature Dolby Home Theater v4 audio-enhancing technology and Bluetooth capabilities.
On the back of the device is a 5-megapixel camera, capable of recording 1080p HD video. The front-facing 1-megapixel camera can record in 720p HD.
Though I've only spent a short amount of time with the tablet, the Acer Iconia W700 looks promising. Its graciously sized screen is vivid, the processor's performance was zippy and quick, and it's always interesting to see more Windows 8 devices hit the market.
However, there are some huge drawbacks. Its clunky cradle accessory is cumbersome to use and, most importantly, its nearly $1,000 price tag (for the 128GB model) is hefty. That alone may be enough to discourage the average customer from biting.


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GameZone writes, "Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 may have earned over $500 million worldwide when it launched last week for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, but it seems the game is struggling to catch on with Wii U players. It's likely that we won't hear specific figures regarding the Wii U version of Activision's biggest launch title of the year for quite a while, but upon signing in to online yesterday we noticed a startling number: only 600-some players were online at the time."
There's probably multiple reasons.
1. It's a brand new console so the fanbase isn't there yet.
2. People probably aren't buying a wiiu to play CoD. People are buying it to play mario and zombiu.
3. Shooters aren't really that popular with the Nintendo crowd.
4. Not a lot of advertising for the wiiu version.
5. Most people who buy the wiiu already have another console. Therefore, the people who wanted CoD already bought it.
Just my thoughts...
This game shouldve been 50,000 strong by now on wii u.. Being a new console or not, COD sells on ALL platforms.. Its over 5 mil on original wii with that crappy port
The game is boring that's why it's just the next wave of $60 dlc that millions of unsuspecting buyers bought into once again. Personally im not sure why i bought it, and zombies might be the saving grace for the game.
"I am LOVING ZombiU! Nice to see a true survival/horror game."
yeah dud ur right this is the first game that i have played in long time that's been giving me trouble on how exactly how to approach certain situations in the game.
They are still downloading their 5gb mandatory update for online features.
Yeah 75 million consoles versus ~1 million sold. Many aren't even in their hands yet.
People have to remember if you pre-ordered it, odds are, it still hasn't arrived to your house. Mine doesn't arrive until the 27th.
For 360/ps3 owners you don't have a brand new library of games diverting people's attention, you have Dishonored and Halo 4, both of which launched weeks ago. For Wii U, you have 20 something games a couple of days ago.
You have the updates, which are slowing people down from getting to playing. How many people that got a console on Sunday, couldn't play until Monday? Tons.
You also have people playing the single player and not the multiplayer.
Also since the 360/PS3 version came out earlier, theirs already arrived via mail, and the big initial campaign beater wave has already passed, leaving those players to focus on multiplayer.
So yeah, there's lots of reasons. The Wii U version is going to keep adding people every day through the end of the year at least.


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Cigarette alternatives, widely perceived to be safe, are often addictive and can be stepping stones to cigarette smoking, according to a scientific review published online in the journal Clinical Reviews in Allergy and Immunology.
The evaluation — which focused on electronic cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco and hookahs — was conducted by UC Davis pulmonary physicians hoping to guide health-care providers in helping patients reduce, or eliminate altogether, their nicotine consumption.
"I talk with patients all the time who want to quit cigarettes or who want the stimulant effects of nicotine while avoiding the harmful effects of cigarettes, and they think these alternatives can help," said Michael Schivo, assistant professor of internal medicine at UC Davis and the lead author of the review. "No tobacco or nicotine product should ever be considered safe, but we wanted to know if four of the more popular cigarette alternatives were safer than cigarettes."
E-cigarettes and snus: Unclear risks compared to cigarettes
Based on current research, electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes) and snus (pronounced "snoose"), a form of smokeless tobacco made in Sweden, have been suggested to have lower health risks than cigarettes. That's because there is no tobacco (but there typically is nicotine) in e-cigarettes and the tobacco used in snus is not cured, leading to fewer carcinogens and other compounds linked with cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart disease and other smoking-related conditions.
E-cigarette use is rapidly increasing, especially among youth. Research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that e-cigarette use doubled among students in grades 6 to 12 from 2011 to 2012. Part of the attraction, according to Schivo, is the lower cost of e-cigarettes and belief that they are less toxic than cigarettes.
If a patient asked for help kicking his or her cigarette habit, however, Schivo said he would likely recommend snus over e-cigarettes. Most snus users — unlike users of American smokeless tobacco — tend to be non-smokers. In addition, snus use is increasing in Sweden, while the country's rates of lung cancer and cardiovascular disease are not.
"There isn't enough research yet on the comparative risks or benefits of e-cigarettes, making it difficult to have meaningful conversations with patients about whether or not they are appropriate alternatives to conventional cigarettes," he said. "There is compelling data, however, showing that snus is not as harmful as cigarettes."
One problem with snus, Schivo said, is that it is not widely available in the U.S., where smokeless tobacco has higher levels of carcinogens than the Swedish version.
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The success and toxicity profile of established tobacco cessation aids, such as nicotine patches, make them a more appropriate and accessible first choice to help patients quit smoking.
Cigars: Just as bad as cigarettes
Based on their review, Schivo and his colleagues regard cigar smoking as just as dangerous as cigarette smoking.
"There are abundant data to strongly suggest that cigar smoking confers substantial health risks," he said. "Like cigarettes, cigars contain over 3,000 compounds, many of which are capable of causing cancer."
Another troubling fact is that cigar smoking is increasing among the educated and affluent, which has also made it more attractive to youth. The 1999 National Youth Tobacco Survey showed that while cigarette smoking decreased by 18 percent among adolescents, their cigar smoking increased by 115 percent.
Hookahs: Worse than cigarettes
The team's top concern was waterpipes — also called hookahs — which are gaining in popularity around the world, especially among young people. The CDC estimates that 17 percent of high school seniors and up to 40 percent of young adults in the U.S have used hookahs.
"Waterpipe smoking is an increasingly appealing social practice," said Schivo. "It involves cheaper and more flavorful forms of tobacco than cigarettes, and it is becoming more convenient, especially around universities where hookah bars are often located."
In waterpipes, smoke produced by burning tobacco with coal or embers is drawn through a pipe connected to a liquid-filled base. The smoke passes through the liquid before being inhaled through a hose and mouthpiece into the lungs. The result is a smooth and easy-to-tolerate smoking experience, leading users to assume it is also safe. Research included in the review, however, showed that the effects could actually be worse than cigarettes.
Deeper inhalation of tobacco toxins
Waterpipe users inhale tobacco smoke more deeply and longer than other types smoking, exposing them to noxious particles in lower portions of the lungs. Although nicotine content in waterpipe smoke is reduced, levels of arsenic, chromium and lead are higher. Contrary to common belief, the liquid through which the smoke passes does not serve as a filter and, in fact, the combustion process adds many of the toxins found in cigarette smoke.
While the health effects of waterpipe smoking have not been well researched, there is growing evidence that it has negative cardiovascular effects and the same risks as cigarettes for lung cancer, COPD and chronic bronchitis. The communal nature of waterpipe smoking may also lead to infectious disease transmission.
Despite these concerns, the government does not currently regulate waterpipe smoking.
"It doesn't make sense that a package of cigarettes has warning labels regarding their harmful effects, yet none of the same warnings apply to hookah tobacco," said Schivo. "Given that waterpipe use has the potential to be the next big tobacco epidemic, education efforts should focus on informing the public of its harms and reducing access among minors."
Schivo's collaborators on the review, titled "Non-Cigarette Tobacco and the Lung," were his UC Davis colleagues Mark Avdalovic, assistant professor, and Susan Murin, chair of the Division of Pulmonary Medicine.


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Cowboys News: Gramatica Released
The Cowboys released Martin Gramatica today after spending less than a month on the Injured Reserve list. Gramatica injured his hamstring during the third preseason game in Houston and was placed on the IR to open a spot on the 53-man roster.
Gramatica can sign with another team at this time, but if he does he risks any grievance pay from the Cowboys. He received a $200,000 signing bonus in the offseason.
During Training Camp and Preseason, Gramatica had some competition for starter kicker with rookie Nick Folk. Nick Folk has been amazing in his first 3 starts, completing 6 of 7 field goal attempts (his only missed field goal was blocked).
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Amari Cooper isn't ready to declare his Alabama career a success just yet.
The second-ranked Crimson Tide star is one of the nation's top wide receivers and a highly regarded NFL prospect, but he's also coming off a season when nagging injuries, frequent double teams and inconsistency contributed to a rough start.
So motivation isn't a problem.
"I don't know if I've had a lot of success," Cooper said. "I don't look at it like I've had a lot of success. I'm always anxious to do more. Break records."
Teammates and coaches have praised his focus and work ethic leading up to the Aug. 30 opener against West Virginia in Atlanta, and Cooper was the leading vote getter on the media's preseason All-Southeastern Conference team.
While it remains unclear who will be throwing passes for Alabama, Jacob Coker or Blake Sims, Cooper seems a safe bet to be catching many of them.
He's the headliner of a deep receiving corps that also includes players like Christion Jones and DeAndrew White, plus tight end O.J. Howard. Cooper got excited when he looked at numbers produced by some of new offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin's receivers at Southern California like Marqise Lee and Robert Woods.
Kiffin's early impression of Cooper, meanwhile, wasn't about the 6-foot-1, 210-pounder's talent but his work ethic during offseason workouts.
"I thought it was a really hard workout we were doing but he worked out two hours before that," he said. "What you realize about Amari is there really isn't any off-field stuff. Amari is completely dedicated to being the best football player that he can. He's completely focused so he's great to work with. He wants to be great, and he also wants to expand his game."
Statistically, Cooper took a step backward last season, especially early. Plagued by foot and toe injuries that sidelined him against Colorado State, he was largely a nonfactor in the Tide's first five games before totaling 15 catches and 299 yards in the final two, including a 99-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter against Auburn.
His 45 catches, 736 yards and four touchdowns represented a drop-off. Cooper had broken Julio Jones's Alabama freshman records with 59 catches for 1,000 yards and set a school mark with 11 touchdown receptions.
Cooper also had some drops, and he said he's gotten better at mentally bouncing back from such mistakes.
"It gets under my skin less now than it did before," Cooper said. "Drops are a part of football too. You just have to play the next play but you have to practice like you want to be perfect. But once you drop that ball, just play the next ball. You'll be all right."
Alabama defensive backs who face Cooper routinely in practice praise his explosiveness and quickness.
Jarrick Williams calls him "amazing" and offers some not so helpful advice to opposing cornerbacks.
"You've really got to try to get your hands on him to try to affect him," Williams said, "but that pretty much doesn't do anything anyway."
Landon Collins calls Cooper one of the Tide's hardest workers and said he usually finishes first or second in runs.
"His mindset is to be the best player he can be, be that top-notch receiver, catch every ball and try to score," said Collins, a Dutchtown High graduate. "That's his mindset. If it's in the air, he's going to get it. He won't let any ball that's within reach get away from him. That's what I love about Cooper. He makes all of us a better player."


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After this there will be just one further exercise.
I. 1. Galli locis superioribus occupatis itinere exercitum prohibere conantur.
-Having taken possession of the higher positions the Gauls try to keep away the army.
2. Omnes oppidani ex oppido egressi fugá petere inceperunt.
-All the townsmen who had moved out of the town began to attack with a flight...
(This one is not right I know)
3. Caesar docet se militum vitam sua salute habere multo caiorem.
-Caesar teaches that he has the life of soldiers much dearer than his own safety.
4. Cum celerius opinione pervenisset, hostes ad eum obsides miserunt.
-Since he had arrived more swiftly than all the people's belief, the enemy sent hostages to him.
5. Vicus in valle positus montibus altissimis undique continetur.
-The village which had been placed in the valley was held together by very high mountains.
6. Plurimum inter Gallos haec gens et virtute et hominum numero valebat.
-Most among the Gauls this tribe was strong because of both courage and number of men.
7. Secundá vigiliá nullo certo ordine neque imperio e castris egressi sunt.
-During the second watch they moved out in no certain order nor by any command.
8. Duabus legionibus Genavae relictis proximo die cum reliquis domum profectus est.
-Having left behind two legions at Geneva, he set out for home with the rest on the next day.
9. Erant itinera duo quibus itineribus Helvetii domo exite possent.
-There were two marches by which the Helvetii might be able to go forth from home.
(why is there another 'itineribus' here? Or have I it totally wrong?)
10. Rex erat summá audaciá et magná apud populum potentiá.
-The king was of great boldness and great power amongst the people.
11. Galli timore servitutis commoti bellum parabant.
-The Gauls moved by fear of slavery prepared for war.
12. Caesar monet legatos ut contineant milites, ne studio pugnandi aut spe praedae longius progrediantur.
-Caesar advises the lieutenants to keep the soldiers together, lest they should advance too far for zeal of fighting or the hope of booty.
13. Bellum acerrimum a Caesare in Gallos gestum est.
-A very eager war was waged upon the Gauls by Caesar.
II. 1. The lieutenant after having seized the mountain, restrained his men from battle.
-Legatus monte capto suos a proelio prohibuit.
2. All the Gauls differ from eachother in laws.
-Omnes Galli legibus inter se differunt.
(or is it "ab se"?)
3. This tribe is much braver than the rest.
-Haec gens est multo reliquis fortior.
4. This road is ten miles shorter than that.
-Hoc iter est decem milibus passuum illo brevius.
5. In summer Caesar carried on war in Gauls, in winter he returned to Italy.
-Aestate Caesar bellum in Galliá gessit; hieme ad Italiam rediit.
6. At midnight the general set out from the camp with three legions.
-Mediá nocte imperator cum legionibus tribus a castris profectus est.
7. I fear that you can not protect yourself from these enemies.
-Vereor ut te defendere possis istis hostibus.
8. After the battle was finished peace was made by all the Gauls.
-Proelio pugnato Gallis ab omnibus facta est pax.
Peace out Pax extra


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HIS365 Jihad and Crusades
Were the medieval crusades an exemplary Christian project or a series of conquest failures? We investigate religious zeal (jihad and holy war) and the political ambition that activated both Muslim and Christian sides of the fighting.
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When Terry Tse was growing up in Hong Kong, her bedroom was always full of plants. Living in the midst of this exciting yet chaotic city, Tse knew that plants brought tranquility.
"Flowers make you calm," she says.
Today, Tse is helping clients of the Delaware Psychiatric Center discover the uplifting benefits of nature. She and fellow University of Delaware Master Gardeners assisted in the development of a therapeutic garden at the center two years ago.
The project has grown to include a sensory garden for the visually impaired and a farmer's market that sells produce fresh from the garden. And that's just some of what was accomplished at the Department of Health and Social Services New Castle campus. Plus, the Master Gardeners helped to establish a garden at the Delaware School for the Deaf in Newark.
For their efforts, this Master Gardener team received a Governor's Outstanding Service Award at a ceremony held this past Thursday. In addition to Tse, recipients included Fred Hillegas, Mary Ellen Hillegas, Bill Horne and Carmela Simons. Duane Ashley, who is not a Master Gardener but was an active project volunteer, also shared in the award.
"The Master Gardeners were immediately interested in this project and the potential that these gardens had to impact the clients and staff at these sites," says Carrie Murphy, horticultural agent for New Castle County Cooperative Extension. "They provided both technical expertise and educational programming. They presented workshops for clients and staff on topics like composting, identifying garden pests and how to enjoy a sensory garden."
The Master Gardeners also rolled up their sleeves and got their hands dirty. Bill Horne offered his creative skills for the therapeutic garden's design but he also pulled weeds and harvested vegetables. Mary Ellen and Fred Hillegas helped the center's clients run the farmer's market on Fridays, and when they couldn't make it, Tse filled in. In the last two years, the market sold 1,693 pounds of produce and what wasn't sold – 525 pounds in all – was donated to the Food Bank of Delaware.
From the get-go, the Master Gardeners knew that they wanted these projects to be driven by the needs and desires of the clients. At the Delaware Psychiatric Center, a residential client named Jack wanted popping corn in the vegetable garden. Others requested tomatoes, pumpkins, sweet corn and peppers. Clients also helped with the selection of ornamentals. One individual fondly recalled lilac from a childhood home so the Master Gardeners included a lilac bush in the garden design.
As for the sensory garden, it's a feast of sounds, fragrances and textures, as well as sights. In winter, switchgrass rustles in the wind. In spring, the velvety leaves of lamb's ear plant beg to be touched. Come summer, the earthy smell of basil entices. And in fall, black seedpods of baptisia rattle loudly at the slightest shake.
Some of the clients who come to the Division of Visually Impaired's New Castle office for vocational rehab or independent living services are in wheelchairs or have other physical limitations. So the Master Gardeners designed wider pathways to allow for wheelchair access, and many of the beds are raised and feature a grid pattern.
"With a grid pattern, a blind or visually impaired person can, for example, count two squares down and three over and know they've found the mint that they wanted to pick," notes Horne.
The vegetable garden at the Delaware School for the Deaf was installed last November. Tied into grade-level curricula, the garden promotes healthy eating habits and new vocational options.
Mary Ellen Hillegas, who was a counselor at the school before retirement, says the garden also serves an important social function. "Ten to 12 students will be in the garden at any given time and they'll need to come to consensus on planning tasks and sharing tools and other cooperative behavior," she says. "The garden has tremendous possibilities as a teaching tool."
Organizations that collaborated with the Master Gardeners include UD's Center for Disabilities Studies, Delaware Center for Horticulture, the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Delaware Department of Agriculture. For the school garden, the nonprofit group Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids partnered with the Master Gardeners.
Delaware Department of Agriculture staffer Faith Kuehn spearheaded the therapeutic garden projects and she nominated the Master Gardeners for the Governor's Outstanding Service Award.
"What impresses me most about these Master Gardeners is that it comes from the heart," says Kuehn. "They aren't doing it for the volunteer hours or the recognition. They really want to make a difference."
Jack, who grew his own popping corn this summer, and other individuals who have benefited from the gardens, would say that the Master Gardeners are doing exactly that.
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AT LEAST THEY LOOK AT PICTURES: New York magazine will reverse the usual print-to-Web trajectory by spinning off some of its online fashion coverage into a semiannual magazine. The visually driven New York Look will debut in November with an emphasis on the magazine's "5 x 10" format — five examples of 10 trends that comprise "incredibly ruthless distillations of the trends of the season," according to editor in chief Adam Moss. He argued this "elegant sorting" offered an editorial authority unavailable online, as well as the "tactile experience" of print. The magazine will appear soon after the New York and European shows, and will be a combination of controlled circulation and selective newsstand sales. Produced by New York magazine's existing fashion staff with the aid of freelancers, Look will have little writing and no portfolio photography, only runway shots.
If all of this sounds like an inexpensive pursuit with high ad-grab potential, Moss doesn't dispute it (although he insisted it will be nothing like its prospective competitor, The New York Times' advertising driven T). "I hope it's good for advertising, and it's not going to be very expensive to produce, but we will take our money and spend it on beautiful design," he said. "It will not look like a supplement. It will look like a beautiful magazine." — Irin Carmon
ABOUT TIME: Time Inc. on Monday made two major moves in its corporate ranks: Howard Averill was named chief financial officer, while Mitch Klaif was appointed the publisher's senior vice president, information technology. Time Inc. had not had an official cfo since Richard Atkinson, who left the company in December 2005 during a corporate reorganization where 105 executives were let go. Since that time, Howard Rosen had been acting cfo in addition to his role as controller. Averill joins Time Inc. from NBC Television Group, where he was executive vice president and cfo. He takes his new position June 6. Klaif, meanwhile, was promoted from vice president of Global Magazine and Digital Technology and replaces Paul Zazzera, who is leaving the company. — Stephanie D. Smith
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MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE: A hazmat suit isn't normally on the racks for a magazine shoot, but there are exceptions. When House & Garden was photographing painter Kehinde Wiley for its annual Tastemakers issue, the photo team decided Wiley's equestrian subject matter and the converted church that he uses for a studio were ideal for shooting him on a horse. The problem was that photographer Jeff Riedel is debilitatingly allergic to horsehair — hence the hazmat intervention. House & Garden celebrated its Tastemakers at a party last Wednesday. — I.C.
JOINING HEARST: Stefanie Rapp has replaced Lesley Campoy as advertising director for Town & Country magazine and its additional titles, Town & Country Travel and Town & Country Weddings. Campoy left to become publisher of C Magazine in Los Angeles. Previously, Rapp was the beauty sales development director at W and, before that, a luxury and grooming director at Details. Jim Taylor, publisher and vice president at T&C, boasted that with Rapp's help, he aims to boost beauty pages from less than 100 annually to approximately 200 to 300. "It won't happen overnight but that's what were aiming for," he said.
And the title will need all the beauty pages it can get. In the first half, T&C's pages decreased 2.2 percent to 773, according to Media Industry Newsletter. Taylor pointed to June as a particularly difficult month for the magazine. "The auto business has been tough and we were a little off in fashion," he added, noting fashion should rebound during the second half. — Amy Wicks
BUILDING A NEW PROPERTY: As details emerge of The New York Observer's partnership with Cushman & Wakefield for a weeklong fashion and arts event, the newspaper's repositioning under newish owner Jared Kushner is phrased more bluntly than ever: The first sentence of the press release calls the weekly "New York City's newest real estate read." (The Kushner family's real estate firm, Kushner Properties, is increasingly making its presence felt in New York; 26-year-old Jared bought the paper last year). Taking place during the second week of June, the fashion and arts event will include an exhibit of "customized fashion forms" by the likes of Benjamin Cho, Libertine and Ruffian, as well as screenings and parties at Cushman & Wakefield's 21 Mercer Street. The event's working title, The New York Observatory, has accordingly given way to Location, which also is the name of the Observer's new real estate section. The Observatory is now the name of an event subtitled "Testimonials From the Newsroom," which will be Observer writers giving firsthand recaps of their experiences. — I.C.


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Bill Koch, associate vice chancellor for environmental health and safety at ECU, accepts the StormReady designation from the National Weather Service on behalf of ECU May 28. Only 29 universities in the country have earned this distinction. Photo by Cliff Hollis.
GREENVILLE, N.C. (May 28, 2009) — While no university can be storm proof, East Carolina University has earned the distinction of being storm ready.
NOAA's National Weather Service recognized ECU as a StormReady university after a yearlong process that evaluated and strengthened the university's ability to protect life and property during severe weather incidents.
Representatives of the National Weather Service (NWS) visited campus May 28 during National Hurricane Awareness Week to present ECU officials with a certificate and two signs bearing the StormReady logo.
"It has been wonderful working with ECU," said John Cole, warning coordination meteorologist at the NWS's Newport office. "We have found out some wonderful things about ECU and how prepared they are to deal with hazardous weather. I am so impressed by the plans they have in place."
The StormReady program helps communities, universities and businesses implement procedures meant to reduce the effects of dangerous weather. ECU is among just 29 universities in the country to have earned the designation. Only one other university in North Carolina, the University of North Carolina Wilmington, has completed the program.
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SAP NEWSBYTE — Insurers are seeking speed and agility throughout their infrastructure for innovative product development and an enhanced customer experience, reveals a survey by SAP SE (NYSE: SAP). The survey of 200 insurance executives at the IASA Annual Conference held in June found a number of factors motivating insurers' innovation strategies. Thirty-four percent of respondents indicated that rising consumer expectations are their primary driver for new product development, followed by changing regulatory demands (22 percent) and availability of new technologies (20 percent).
Insurers are in agreement that the growing customer base of millennials — generally considered those born between the early 1980s to the late 1990s — has heightened expectations for their carriers. Fifty-five percent of respondents cited convenience as millennials' top priority when seeking insurance products, with low cost (22 percent) and relationships with their agent (16 percent) followed by brand recognition (8 percent).
This has forced many insurers to consider a more adaptable product strategy. More than half (52 percent) of respondents noted that their primary strategy to reach millennials has focused on investing in online, mobile and social technologies to reach customers across channels. Twenty-one percent indicated they are tailoring products to suit millennials' unique needs and 12 percent are investing in data analytics to segment and target communications.
Yet while insurers remain focused on the customer experience, updating their back-end infrastructure continues to be a priority as they seek to inject agility and speed throughout their processes. Fifty-one percent of respondents indicated their organization has adopted cloud computing in some capacity. While nearly half of these respondents have implemented cloud-based systems for back-office functions — anecdotally citing HR, accounting and procurement — others have adopted cloud for mission-critical functions like policy administration (18 percent), product development (seven percent), claims processing (six percent) and risk management (six percent).
"Cloud computing has matured and we're seeing insurers shift from leveraging the cloud for just back-office functions to implementing cloud across the entire organization," said Ross Orrett, global head of Insurance Industry Innovation and Development, SAP. "Insurers are becoming more adaptable and laser-focused on meeting changing customer needs. To be innovative in its products and the way it serves agents/brokers and customers to meet these demands, carriers are investing in industrializing the back-end with integrated, agile infrastructure while innovating across these systems."
Insurers also acknowledged the barriers to cloud adoption in their organizations. One-third of respondents (34 percent) cited security concerns as the primary challenge for adopting cloud computing. Lack of internal buy-in was another key factor (28 percent), followed by budget and financial concerns (13 percent), unstable technological infrastructure (13 percent) and lack of time (12 percent).
For more information, visit the SAP News Center. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.
The survey was conducted via in-person interviews held at the 2014 IASA Annual Conference in Indianapolis, IN, from June 8-10, 2014. The sample includes 200 insurance executives in both life and health and property and casualty who attended the conference.
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Honda Motor Co. just released its sales figures for motorcycles in 2010, and surprisingly the Japanese company has done very well during an otherwise dismal year for the motorcycle industry. The secret to Honda's success? The Asian market. Eight out of ten motorcycles Honda produces, ends up in Asia…and this figure excludes motorcycles sold in Japan and China.
Honda sold 14.3 million motorcycles in what it calls Asian countries last year (17.7 million globally), a record for the company, and a figure that is 23% higher than the previous record, which was set last year (another horrible year for the motorcycle industry we might add). Compare that staggering quantity to the 1.3 million units sold in China (the largest single country for Honda sales), 261,000 units sold in Europe, and 210,000 in North America, and the true value of the growing Asian economy becomes apparent.


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A list of the movies being shown in the official program at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, which runs Feb. 7-17.
In competition:
"Dolgaya schastlivaya zhizn" ("A Long and Happy Life"), director Boris Khlebnikov.
"Prince Avalanche," David Gordon Green.
"Uroki Garmonii" ("Harmony Lessons"), Emir Baigazin.
"Vic+Flo ont vu un ours" ("Vic+Flo Saw a Bear"), Denis Cote.
"W imie ..." ("In the Name of"), Malgoska Szumowska.
"Camille Claudel 1915," Bruno Dumont.
"Elle s'en va" ("On my Way"), Emmanuelle Bercot.
"Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza" ("An Episode in the Life of an Iron
Picker"), Danis Tanovic.
"Gloria," Sebastian Lelio.
"Gold," Thomas Arslan.
"La Religieuse" ("The Nun"), Guillaume Nicloux.
"Layla Fourie," Pia Marais.
"The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman," Fredrik Bond.
"Nugu-ui Ttal-do Anin Haewon" ("Nobody's Daughter Haewon"), Hong Sangsoo.
"Paradies: Hoffnung" ("Paradise: Hope"), Ulrich Seidl.
"Parde" ("Closed Curtain"), Jafar Panahi and Kambozia Partovi.
"Pozitia Copilului" ("Child's Pose"), Calin Peter Netzer.
"Promised Land," Gus Van Sant.
"Side Effects," Steven Soderbergh.
Out of competition:
"Before Midnight," Richard Linklater.
"Dark Blood," George Sluizer.
"Night Train to Lisbon," Bille August.
"The Croods," Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders.
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A cameo by actor Nicolas Cage lent some pizazz to a hearing in the Nevada Legislature on Tuesday about a bill proposing tax incentives to entice filmmakers to the Silver State.
In a three-piece suit with slightly rumpled hair, Cage guest-starred in the Senate Finance Committee meeting as Sen. Aaron Ford, D-Las Vegas, urged his colleagues to pass the film tax legislation.
The Las Vegas resident who won an Academy Award in 1996 for "Leaving Las Vegas" also spent time advocating for film tax credits in private meetings with Gov. Brian Sandoval and lawmakers.
"Nevada is an untapped resource in terms of its natural beauty and, frankly also its style and culture," Cage told The Associated Press. "There's a magic in Nevada that applies to filmmaking in an excellent way."
Despite the allure of filming in Nevada, the failure of lawmakers to include some sort of incentive for the film industry has resulted in lost revenue as the state continues to pull out of a recession, Ford said.
"Nevada should be a top destination for films, but unfortunately we are letting other states pass us by," the freshman lawmaker told the committee.
The proposal would allow filmmakers to apply for up to $6 million in tax credits per production. If approved, the filmmaker could then sell that tax credit to another Nevada business to use as a discount on their taxes.
Each year, up to $35 million in tax credits could be distributed. Despite the lost tax revenue, supporters said the effort would boost the overall economy.
Cage said the lack of incentives is keeping him and other filmmakers from making more large-scale productions in the state.
"I have four scripts right now that could be shot in the state of Nevada," Cage told lawmakers. He added that other directors are "tired of filming in other states. They want to show something new."
The states filmed in American movies become the world's picture of the United States, and states are being chosen now based on where the incentives are, said Cage.
"I want to request we make our beautiful state the new America to the international community," Cage said.
But not everyone is singing praises of the bill. Some say the grandiose economic projections are really a fantasy that will end up costing the state.
"The tax credits are now coming under scrutiny in other states," said Carole Vilardo of the Nevada Taxpayers' Association.
News, weather, political advertisements, sporting events and other live shows would not qualify for the tax credits, but Vilardo said video games and mobile apps would be part of the law. Films would need to spend at least $500,000 in direct expenses and production costs to be eligible.
Vilardo said lawmakers may not be considering all the potential effects of the bill, which has the support of Assembly leadership and more than half the Senate.
"I got the feeling it's like a steamroller and it's going to pass," Vilardo said.
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Yong Joo is Named Fuller Chair
Yong L. Joo, Professor in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been appointed the BP Amoco/H. Laurance Fuller Professor.
The chair was established in 2000 by BP Amoco in honor of Mr. Fuller's years of service. Fuller was employed by Amoco Corporation, or its affiliates, from the time of his graduation from Cornell University in 1961. In 1991, he became chief executive officer of the company. In August 1998, Amoco Corporation merged with British Petroleum Co. to form BP Amoco Plc. Fuller served as co-chairman of the combined company until his retirement in April 2000.
Joo's research focuses on experimental and theoretical studies on advanced, scalable manufacturing processes based on the flow instability such as gas-assisted electrospinning, air-controlled electrospray and Taylor-Couette (T-C) reactors with axial flow. These newly developed processes offer fundamental studies on controlling the assembly of polymers, ceramics, metals and their hybrids at nanoscale for energy storage applications.


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Indiana University East welcomes community supporters to the Spirit of Philanthropy Luncheon to thank these individuals for their contributions to scholarships, internships, leadership experiences and community service opportunities for students. The luncheon is from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 17, at Forest Hills Country Club in Richmond. The event raises funds for scholarships and other community involvement experiences that provide important skill-building experiences for students.


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Ratings for Game of Thrones' Return Are Huge
A third season is pretty much in the bag now.
You can go ahead and start planning your season-three Game of Thrones premiere party now. HBO's epic adventure series returned Sunday to dragon-size ratings, attracting a series-best 3.9 million viewers with its season-two premiere. That's up a whopping 53 percent from the show's season one finale, indicating plenty of folks spent the past year catching up via DVDs and HBO Go. It also puts GoT in the same ballpark as the network's other monster hit, True Blood, which began its most recent season with just over 5 million viewers. (Add in Sunday's same-night repeats of the GoT premiere and tune-in soars to over 6 million.) There's no doubt the seven gods who rule HBO are quite happy today. The only question now isn't whether HBO will order a third season of the show, but rather, will the network double down and do a two-year renewal, allowing producers to spread the filming of George R.R. Martin's really, really long third novel (A Storm of Swords) over two seasons.