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State fair exhibit features Reiman Gardens
Iowa State is bringing a Reiman Gardens-style oasis to the state fair this year. The university exhibit will be at the northeast end of the Varied Industries Building.
Astronaut to join ISU scientists at fair
Astronaut and ISU alumnus Clayton Anderson will visit the Iowa State Fair Aug. 16. He'll join ISU scientists to talk about the "soybeans in space" program, a project at ISU's NASA Food Technology Commercial Space Center and give a children's presentation.
Committee named to conduct search for AD
A five-member committee will conduct the search for a new Iowa State University athletics director.
Van De Velde announces resignation
Bruce Van De Velde, ISU athletics director, announced Monday (Aug. 8) that he is resigning, effective at the end of the year.
Cindy Browne
Browne appointed public radio director
Cindy Browne, a Minnesota-based public broadcasting consultant and former executive vice president for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, has been appointed executive director of Iowa Public Radio, effective Sept. 1.
Charges to go
Iowa State researchers are hoping to make Iowa-made solar technology wearable. The result would be a convenient way to charge your electronic devices.
Colletti named to interim Ag post
Joe Colletti, professor and interim chair of the department of natural resource ecology and management, has been named interim senior associate dean of the College of Agriculture.
Professor named engineering fellow
Mechanical engineering professor Atul Kelkar has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International.
ISU can help businesses find R&D support
Iowa State University can assist small Iowa companies and faculty startup businesses looking for federal grants to fund research and development work.
Find out about latest technologies
Sign up online and Iowa State's Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer will automatically e-mail updates about the newest technologies developed on campus.
Great moments in Trice Stadium
Cast your vote for the greatest moment in the 30-year history of Jack Trice Stadium. Fans' picks will be revealed at home football games.
U.S. Rep. Tom Latham (left) and aerospace engineer Fred Haan
Latham on campus
Fred Haan, an assistant professor of aerospace engineering, explains wind tunnel operations to U.S. Rep. Tom Latham on Aug. 9. Latham visited campus to speak with researchers about their work in wind engineering, virtual reality, biorenewables, nondestructive evaluation and plant sciences.
Unity Mural
Students put finishing touches on mural
Design students are putting the finishing touches on a mural outside the College of Design entry. The mural's theme of "One Community" promotes the partnership of ISU and Ames.
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Smooth scoops
The New York Times
Two engineering students who built a flash-freeze ice-cream making machine at Iowa State in 1999 will be scooping up their smooth concoction at the state fair for the sixth year.
Madison Co. bridge watch
USA Today
Iowa State engineers are using high-tech surveillance to protect Madison County's covered, wooden bridges from vandalism.
Gene organizes corn kernels
San Francisco Chronicle
Two scientists -- Eric Vollbrecht, Iowa State University, and Robert Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, recently identified the gene responsible for orderly rows of kernels on corn.

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Fed Faces Tough Sell on Low-Rate Strategy
Steadying Economy Poses Test on Key Easy-Money Policy
Federal Reserve officials face a communication challenge explaining their interest-rate plans when they gather for a policy meeting this week.
Their updated economic projections could show an economy that appears back to normal by 2016, but their projections of where short-term interest rates will be could show rates still quite low by then. Their challenge: How to justify the low interest-rate plan when their own estimates suggest an economy regaining its health....


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AMSTERDAM (AP) — Ratings agency Fitch has downgraded the Netherlands' outlook from stable to negative while reaffirming the country's AAA rating.
The agency has cut the outlook based on the country's troubled housing market, where prices are falling fast, the level of public debt, and weaknesses in the country's banking sector that was highlighted by last week's nationalization of SNS Bank.
Fitch said Tuesday the nationalization was not enough to merit downgrading the country's long-held AAA sovereign rating.
The agency says the "housing market correction" is worse than it had previously expected and will continue to weigh on consumer spending.


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Twin of odd New London-built structure said to be linked to Google
The structure on a barge in San Francisco Bay that appears to be a twin of one built on a barge in New London is linked to Google, CNBC is reporting.
A Coast Guard spokesman in California told CNBC, "We can confirm that Google is involved or associated with" the barge, but said he couldn't say more because of a nondisclosure agreement.
That barge is reportedly owned by the same company as the barge that was in New London before it was towed to Maine earlier this month, and reports have contained speculation that the similar structures on both barges could be floating data centers owned by Google.
The Day reported Sept. 28 that no one involved with the construction in New London harbor would say or even knew the mysterious structure's purpose. The four-story building, apparently made up of container units, attracted attention all summer.
Lt. Jeff Janaro, spokesman for Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound, said Wednesday he could not say whether Google was involved with the structure built in New London.
"The Coast Guard is currently working with the owners of the barge to exercise our regulatory authorities as we do on many different types of vessels," he said in a statement. "Due to issues of commercial confidentiality, we are unable to disclose any more information at this time."
Janaro said he could not provide any additional information. The Day is waiting for the Coast Guard to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request filed Sept. 27 for documents related to the Coast Guard's review of the plans when the barge was in New London.
Turner Construction leased space at the Admiral Harold E. Shear State Pier in New London from Logistec USA sometime around May to build the structure on the barge, but never told Logistec exactly what it was building.
Two barges of equal size docked at the pier and container units to make up the building were brought in. A tugboat from Portland Tugboat LLC led the barge down the Thames River Oct. 9, en route to Maine.
In Portland, Cianbro Corp. will install undisclosed technological equipment inside the building, according to the Portland Press Herald.
The barges have drawn national media attention because of their similarities and Google's rumored involvement. Google has not commented on the matter.
New London mystery solved: Floating structure linked to Google
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Space shooter remake.
Developer website: Erich Kohl
Astrosmack is a clone of "Astrosmash," which was a game that was popular on the Intellivision game console of the early 1980s. The objective is simple: Earth is being bombarded by asteroids and various enemies, and your goal is to shoot them all! Features music, sound effects, customization, keyboard/joystick control, and high score tracking. Created with Game Maker.
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Eric Rund got oddball soil-test results a few years ago from a strip-till cornfield. Some of the nutrient levels were higher than the Pesotum, IL, farmer expected.
Now near the end of a four-year soil test variability study with University of IllinoisExtension Soil ScientistFabian Fernandez, Rund hopes they're getting closer to answers from Rund's farm and others on how best to manage soil-test variability on band-applied fields.
"I was getting unexpected phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) soil-test levels which I attributed to inadvertently pulling samples from a previous year's strip," says Rund, who raises food-grade corn and seed soybeans. He's been strip-tilling corn for 15 years; the last six applying a full corn maintenance level of P and K in the fall, the spring or both.
RTK technology places the fertilizer precisely, "but we may need to use a different method when soil testing where fertilizer has been banded," he says. "The question is where to place the fertilizer. Is it best going back into or very near the old strip to build up a hot spot, or should subsequent bands be moved a certain distance from the old row?"
Rund's soil tests have been drawn every 7.5 in. across four-row sections at three different depths to gauge nutrient levels. The goal is to see what nutrients exist where in the field, and where plant root masses lie in relation to the nutrients.
Banded fertilizer can be as effective as broadcast applications in helping maximize P and K use by corn plants, according to Fernandez's research.
Subsurface banding can reduce nutrients in the soil surface where they're most susceptible to runoff losses. But to determine ideal application rates, soil-test variability must first be minimized, Fernandez says.
Soil tests are still the most important guide to determining the fertility status of a field as long as sampling minimizes errors in the test, Fernandez says.
No universally accepted method for collecting soil samples exists for banded fields, he says. Fernandez recommends using a tube to sample, although a spade or soil auger will work as long as the sample width is constant for the entire sample depth. In fields where exact band locations are known, he suggests staying a few inches away from the band or taking a large number of samples off the band for each sample taken in the band. If the location of the band is unknown, he advises increasing the number of cores making a sample to 20 or 30. Vary sampling positions, so the band does not bias test results.
"When collecting soil samples, take fewer samples with more cores rather than more samples with fewer cores," Fernandezsays. "If you do take one core in the band, take five or six cores outside the band to make a sample for analysis.Soil-test P and K levels tend to increase in the band and decrease everywhere else in the field. If you always sample in the band, you may not apply enough fertilizer. Sampling between rows would probably mean test levels lower than actual fertility and over-fertilization."
George Rehm, University of Minnesota nutrient management specialist (retired), agrees. "Studies over the years show that in ridge-till and strip-till, soil testing is not easy or straightforward," he says.
If you know where the row is,Rehm says collect cores from 6-8 in. on either side of the row and 6-8 in. deep.
Minnesota field research results indicate the sampling procedure provides the best prediction of required P and K rates when they're applied in a band. RTK provides better results and allows samples in the same location every year, Rehm says. Rows can be placed so the band is not disturbed.
"K is more variable and harder to accurately measure than P," says Fernandez. "Potassium is in the crop and in the residue after harvest but quickly leaches out into the soil with rain. Fall is the most practical time for sampling and applying P and K because it's not as busy as the planting season and soil conditions are more favorable. The K soil test tends to be cyclic, typically with low test levels in late summer and early fall and high test levels in late fall to early spring (see chart). P and pH levels are generally not seasonally affected in most soils."
Fernandez encourages farmers to always sample the same time of year and under similar moisture conditions to get more consistent results.In addition, soil-test results should be compared to previous results to be most useful. To minimize variability, use the same test lab every time. "Understanding how various factors can influence the outcome of test results is critical so you do not become overly concerned when the final report is not what you expect," Fernandez says. "You need to look at a test value; not as an absolute number but rather a number in the center of a range of values."
Banded Application Tip
Eric Rund, Pesotum, IL, farmer, considers the RTK units on both his tractor and implements essential for a successful strip-till system.
"I can be more successful staying on the strip where fertilizer has been applied using RTK. I'm aware of one farmer that tested turning the RTK off and on alternately on rows across an 80-acre field. He was sometimes 6-8 in. off the strip where he turned off the RTK, and saw an average 5-bu./acre lower yield on those strips. Clearly guidance pays for itself in these situations," he says.


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Car Donations
1. Verify that the recipient organization is tax-exempt as a charity at www.irs.gov/app/eos. Or ask the organization for a copy of its tax-exempt status determination letter. (Churches are not required to apply for tax-exempt status and may not have such a letter or be included in the IRS site above. A car donation to a church, however, would still be deductible.)
2. Check out the charity that's soliciting or is advertised as the one your donation will benefit. Contact it directly, or go to its website. The names of well-known charities are sometimes used without permission, and the named groups may not benefit.
3. See if the charity is registered with the government agency in your state that regulates charities (usually a division of the office of the state's attorney general). Click http://www.nasconet.org/documents/u-s-charity-offices for the relevant office in your state.
4. Understand deductibility details. Most cars donated to charity are sold at auction, and the donor's tax deduction is limited to the gross proceeds from the sale. The charity must provide that amount to the donor in writing. Donors can claim the car's full fair market value only in certain conditions, such as when a charity uses a car in its program or gives it to needy individuals.
5. Ask how much goes to the charity. The amount a charity receives for an auctioned car varies according to its arrangement with the company hired to handle the collection and sale. It may be a percentage of the sale or a fixed amount per vehicle.
6. Check IRS guidelines in ADonor's Guide to Car Donations (Publication 4303), at www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p4303.pdf (or call (800) 829-3676). If you are claiming a car donation of over $500, you will need to complete and attach IRS Form 8283 to your tax return. If the car is worth more than $5,000, you will need a written professional appraisal.
7. Transfer the car's title to the charity's name and keep a copy of this record. The title change will help you avoid potential problems if the car is somehow parked illegally by the organization or is involved in an accident or other mishap before the charity sells it.
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The Undead Zone
Why realistic graphics make humans look creepy.
In 1978, the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori noticed something interesting: The more humanlike his robots became, the more people were attracted to them, but only up to a point. If an android become too realistic and lifelike, suddenly people were repelled and disgusted.
The problem, Mori realized, is in the nature of how we identify with robots. When an android, such as R2-D2 or C-3PO, barely looks human, we cut it a lot of slack. It seems cute. We don't care that it's only 50 percent humanlike. But when a robot becomes 99 percent lifelike—so close that it's almost real—we focus on the missing 1 percent. We notice the slightly slack skin, the absence of a truly human glitter in the eyes. The once-cute robot now looks like an animated corpse. Our warm feelings, which had been rising the more vivid the robot became, abruptly plunge downward. Mori called this plunge "the Uncanny Valley," the paradoxical point at which a simulation of life becomes so good it's bad.
As video games have developed increasingly realistic graphics, they have begun to suffer more and more from this same conundrum. Games have unexpectedly fallen into the Uncanny Valley.
Consider Alias, the new title based on the TV show. It's a reasonably fun action-and-puzzle game, where you maneuver Sydney Bristow through a series of spy missions. But whenever the camera zooms in on her face, you're staring at a Jennifer Garner death mask. I nearly shrieked out loud at one point. And whenever other characters speak to you—particularly during cut-scenes, those supposedly "cinematic" narrative moments—they're even more ghastly. Mouths and eyes don't move in synch. It's as if all the characters have been shot up with some ungodly amount of Botox and are no longer able to make Earthlike expressions.
Every highly realistic game has the same problem. Resident Evil Outbreak's humans are realistic, but their facial expressions are so deadeningly weird they're almost scarier than the actual zombies you're fighting. The designers of 007: Everything or Nothing managed to take the adorable Shannon Elizabeth and render her as a walleyed replicant.
The Uncanny Valley can make games less engrossing. That's particularly true with narrative games, which rely on believable characters with whom you're supposed to identify. The whole point is to suspend disbelief and immerse yourself. But that's hard to do when the characters create goosebumps. You fight searing battles, solve brain-crushing puzzles, vanquish enemies, and what are you rewarded with? A chance to watch your avatar mince about the screen in some ghoulish parody of humanity.
The screwiest part of this phenomenon is that game designers pridethemselves on the quality of their sepulchral human characters. It's part of the malaise that currently affects game design, in which too many designers assume that crisper 3-D graphics will make a game better. That may be true when it comes to scenery, explosions, or fog. But with human faces and bodies, we're harder to fool. Neuroscientists argue that our brains have evolved specific mechanisms for face recognition, because being able to recognize something "wrong" in someone else's face has long been crucial to survival. If that's true, then game designers may never be able to capture that last 1 percent of realism. The more they plug away at it—the more high-resolution their human characters become—the deeper they'll trudge into the Uncanny Valley.
Instead, maybe they should try climbing out, by going in the opposite direction and embracing low-rez simplicity. Roboticists have begun doing this. Like Mori, they've learned that a spare, stripped-down robot can seem morelifelike than an explicitly humanoid one. I own a Roomba, one of those Frisbee-shaped vacuum robots, and it doesn't look even vaguely human. Yet as it zips around my living room, it seems amazingly alive, and I can't help but feel warmly toward it. This is because of another quirk of our psychology: If something behaves in only a slightlyhuman way, we'll fill in the blanks—we'll read humanness into it. (That's partly why our pets seem so intelligent and humanlike.)
Comic-strip artists have known this for years. As comic-book theorist Scott McCloud points out, we identify more deeply with simply drawn cartoon characters, like those in Peanuts, than with more realistic ones. Charlie Brown doesn't trigger our obsession with the missing details the way a not-quite-photorealistic character does, so we project ourselves onto him more easily. That's part of the genius behind modernist artists such as Picasso or Matisse. They realized that the best way to capture the essence of a person or object was with a single, broad-stroked detail.
Some of the best game designers understand this, too. Jet Grind Radio, the old Fear Effect * series, and the more recent Viewtiful Joeall use the chunky style of cel-shaded animation to create characters who are cartoonish yet vividly alive. Lara Croft is another good example. Even as her games became more graphically precise, the designers left Croft as a very stylized figure, the better to have players identify with her. And the only game designer who has produced a 20-year string of popular characters is Shigeru Miyamoto, the architect of Nintendo's Disneylike visual style.
Unfortunately, though, gaming's Uncanny Valley could be here to stay, simply because players have become used to it. In the real world of plastic surgery, face-lifts used to look horrifically strange but now go unnoticed. Likewise, we've played with dead, fish-eyed characters for so long that they seem kinda normal. Creepiness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Correction, June 10, 2004: This piece originally described the Fear Effect series of games as the "Fear Factor" series.(Return to the corrected sentence.)


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What: "Our Neighbors, Ourselves" multimedia art exhibit
Where: CORE New Art Space, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver
When: Friday, Jan. 4, through Sunday, Jan. 20; gallery hours: noon-6 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, noon-9 p.m. Friday, 1-4 p.m. Sunday
Info: 303-297-8428, corenewartspace.com, artdistrictonsantafe.com
Etc.: To learn more about Project Worthmore, visit projectworthmore.org
A fortuitous meeting with one family in her community compelled Carmen Melton, a Denver-based artist, to take a closer look at the people and individuals around her.
And what she discovered inspired her to organize "Our Neighbors, Ourselves," a multimedia art exhibit. The exhibit, benefiting local nonprofit Project Worthmore, runs Friday through Jan. 20 at CORE New Art Space in Denver's Art on Santa Fe District.
Melton was first introduced to Project Worthmore when she met the founders, Frank and Carolyn Anello, at her daughter's school. Project Worthmore is dedicated to providing support for the more than 2,000 refugees from war-torn Burma now living in the Denver area, and the Anellos' work inspired Melton to offer support of her own.
"I've always tried to find a way to do something with my work that was more far-reaching -- a special impact kind of thing," Melton said. "It struck me that this was this thing that I wanted to do."
After meeting several Burmese refugees and families, Melton decided to transform her upcoming art exhibit at the CORE New Art Space to show images and portraits of the Burmese people that have become her friends and neighbors. Through her many nationwide connections in the art community, Melton was able to encourage more than 50 artists to donate work, all of it interpretations of images of the Burmese people. The art is based mostly on photography featured on the Project Worthmore website done by Steve Gumaer, co-founder of Partners Relief and Development, a registered charity also focused on assisting the people impacted by the war in Burma.
Melton said the artwork donated for the upcoming show has been inspiring and is some of the best work she's seen from artists who typically create custom artwork based on commissions.
"When you're doing something that you know is going to be donated to a cause, you're not worried about making it perfect," Melton said. "People are freer to do their best work when they don't have something imposing on them."
All proceeds from "Our Neighbors, Ourselves" will be donated to Project Worthmore.
The exhibit will kick off during the Art District on Santa Fe's First Friday Art Walk, 6-9 p.m., with light appetizers and drinks available.
Melton hopes that "Our Neighbors, Ourselves" will inspire others to take a closer look into their own communities.
"People don't have to travel thousands of miles or pay thousands of dollars to do humanitarian work," she said, "it's right here in our own backyard. We just need to open our minds and our hearts to what's going on around us."


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|Intel Core i5-750 Processor BX80605I5750
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Intel Core i5-750 Processor
When it launched last year, the Core i7 platform redefined Intel's high-end processor segment. Unfortunately, the platform was also accompanied by high-end prices. As such, it has seen only a minimal share of the desktop market. Today, however, Intel is releasing a new platform that it claims will bring the performance of Nehalem to mainstream price points. Referred to as Lynnfield, the new platform shares its core microarchitecture with the i7-900 series, but introduces a completely new chipset and socket design. This means that not only will we see new processors, but new motherboards as well. Benchmark Reviews has been testing several of these new items and will be covering the launch in detail over the next few days. In this article, we examine the Intel Core i5-750 Quad Core Processor model BX80605I5750.
The Intel Core i5-750 is one of three processors launching today under the Lynnfield platform, the others being the Core i7-860 and Core i7-870. All three chips are based on the same die, feature 8 MB of share cache, and are packaged using the new LGA 1156 socket. They also feature a new version of Intel's Turbo Boost Technology that dynamically overclocks the individual processor cores depending on workload. As the naming scheme suggests, however, the Core i5-750 is the low end part out of the three. This is in part due to clock speed, as the i5-750 runs at only 2.66 GHz compared to 2.80 GHz for the i7-860 and 2.93 GHz for the i7-870. The key difference, though, is the lack of Hyper-Threading. According to Intel, all of the Core i5-700 series processors will be limited to one thread per core, while the Core i7-800 series, will be capable of two threads per core. We'll see how much of an impact this has on performance when we get to the benchmarks a little later on.
The Core i5-750 may be the underdog of the Lynnfield launch, but with a launch-MSRP of $199 for the BX80605I5750 kit, it's certainly not a budget processor. The good news is that the new P55 chipset from Intel should offer a considerable price break compared to the X58. Intel moved the bulk of the Northbridge functions to the processor and combined the rest with the Southbridge to deliver a single chip solution called Ibex Peak. The memory configuration has also been reduced, from triple-channel to only dual-channel support. We'll cover this in more detail in the P55 motherboard reviews. However, let it suffice to say that the new chipset should bring system prices down quite a bit. Whether or not they'll be the mainstream prices Intel claims remains to be seen.
About Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation is the world's largest semiconductor company founded by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove, Intel combines advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge manufacturing capability. Originally known primarily to engineers and technologists, Intel's successful "Intel Inside" advertising campaign of the 1990s made it and its Pentium processor household names.
Intel pushes the boundaries of innovation so our work can make people's lives more exciting, fulfilling, and manageable. And our work never stops. We never stop looking for the next leap ahead-in technology, education, culture, manufacturing, and social responsibility. And we never stop striving to deliver solutions with greater benefits for everyone. Intel is making PCs more accessible and affordable through innovative PC purchase programs. Through public and private collaboration, Intel has worked closely with government and industry leaders to develop more than 200 programs in 60 countries. With the onslaught of wireless broadband communication technologies like WiMAX, Wi-Fi, and 3G and wireline ADSL and cable, Intel in collaboration with local governments is connecting more people in more places than ever before-no matter how remote.
Intel is committed to improving education on a global scale. With an ongoing focus on students and teachers, we're making an impact with technology solutions that support the development of 21st Century skills, including digital literacy, problem solving, and critical thinking. As citizens use the Internet, the need to create localized content is the key. Intel-sponsored programs provide localized content and services to connect technologies to villages, suburbs, and cities around the world to deliver access to community information, education, and healthcare.


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Author Notes: This chicken and chicken liver pate can be made peppery or very peppery by adding an extra teaspoon of black pepper.... we like it very peppery! —inpatskitchen
Food52 Review: Inpatskitchen's (Very) Peppery Pate is a wonderful recipe to add to your repertoire. This pate has great flavor and texture. It is wonderful on crackers or toast points. I substituted dried green peppercorns that I soaked in cognac. Once drained, I used that cognac and added to it to come up with the 2 tbsp needed for the second part of the recipe. I think my salt pork was pretty salty because the pate ended up a bit saltier than I would like. The next time I make this I will add only ½ teaspoon of salt to the chicken thighs, then add more if needed once the pate is all mixed together. I made the less peppery version, but served some with lots of additional cracked pepper to simulate the very peppery version. Both are wonderful! —Helen's All Night Diner
Makes: many servings
For the chicken
ounces boneless skinless chicken thigh meat cut into 3/4 inch cubes
large garlic clove, very thinly sliced
teaspoon salt
teaspoon black pepper
pieces of salt pork about 1 inch square and 1/4 inch thick
Olive oil to cover ( 5 -6 tablespoons)
- Toss the chicken pieces with the salt, pepper and garlic and pack into a ramekin about 5 inches in diameter. Place the salt pork pieces on top and add enough olive oil to just cover.
- Cover tightly and roast at 275F for 1 to 1 1/4 hours. Set aside.
For the pate
pound chicken livers, cleaned and rinsed
tablespoons salted butter
tablespoons cognac
cup light cream
tablespoons drained green peppercorns in brine
tablespoons softened butter
teaspoon cracked black peppercorns (optional if you want very peppery pate)
- In a large saute pan, melt the butter and saute the chicken liver for 6 or 7 minutes until barely pink inside. Take the pan off the heat and stir in the cognac. Cool the mixture a bit.
- In the bowl of a food processor, add the chicken, salt pork and garlic along with a tablespoon or 2 of the olive oil that the chicken was cooked in.
- Add the liver along with all the accumulated juices, the cream and butter and process until very smooth.
- Add the green peppercorns and the cracked black pepper if using and pulse until well combined. Taste and add more salt if you feel it's needed.
- Store covered in the fridge overnight. Bring to almost room temperature for serving with crackers, pita chips or little toasts.
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Spicy Recipe
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Charcuterie / The Charcutepalooza Grand Prize Challenge
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ENG361 European Literature
A survey of great books of European literature such as Dante's Divine Comedy, Boccaccio's Decameron, Machiavelli's The Prince, Voltaire's Candide, Goethe's Faust, and novels by Stendhal, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Mann. The works are read in English translations.
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3d model of a OTs-14-4A "Groza-4" – assault rifle, usefull for various purposes.
- poly count: 1245 Polys
- Formats: Max /OBJ /fbx/3DS/DXF
- High detail was preserved with 2048×2048 textures
- Maps included ( all in 2048×2048 ): diffuse +specular +normal
This is a low polygonal, easy to animate, game ready model. Ready to be place in the game.


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The Greatest Photo Ever Taken.
Can we just survey the beauty of this shot for a moment? It may be my most favorite photo ever taken. I love it more than my most cherished family photo. I love it more than my family themselves. Whilst celebrating the opening of a restaurant called "Bodo's Schloss," which sounds like a cruel nickname for a nasally-impaired Jew, Gwynnie was positively radiant from tip to toe-feathers.
Starting with her face. A vision. She looks like she just let out a silent but deadly fart whilst gleefully plotting our death. If this doesn't become her signature look I will be more devastated than Long Island after Hurricane Sandy. Too soon? Too bad. Long Island is Manhattan's chubby, ginger cousin; you don't really wish it ill-will but you don't want to be seen near it and you most certainly are going to talk shit about it.
Anyway, let's move down to her jacket...her sweater? ...Her sweater jacket? I don't know what the fuck it is but it is probably expensive as shit. Like St. John or Lanvin or that expensive kind of Donna Karan they don't sell at the JC Pennys. It looks like something my grandmother would wrap up in because the towelheads weren't going to get her gas money or because the gays were causing global warming or because old people are just generally cold all the time because death is slowly creeping up upon them. I can only hope that this look means Goopy Goop has also adopted my dear, bigoted Grams' scent; an intoxicating blend of Vicks Vapo-Rub, moth balls and hatred of all other cultures.
Now let's get into Gwyneth's pants...I mean TO her pants...not that I don't want to get in her pants...I just don't think I could, they'd be a few sizes too big. After all, Gwynnie is a pleasantly plump size 4 and I am a perfect 000 (size 00 positively swim on me, I must have them tailored down). But I digress, don't you just love the satin pajama pants Gwynnie has decided are suitable for public wear? I love the way the iridescent fabric makes her chicken-like thighs look like California Condors; massive and bulging and ready to attack at a moment's notice. It's terrifying. And sexy. It's terrifyingly sexy. like vampires or cage fighters or Mexicans.
And finally we end with her feathered hooves. They make her look like Big Bird's goth cousin. Or like a transitioning werewolf. Or like it's her turn to be the Black Swan!!! Whatever the reason she wore these Jimmy Choo's, I approve. They are the perfect end to a perfect outfit. Like a warm bath after a long day's work or a perfect chocolate morsel after a delicious meal or a, oh who am I kidding? I don't work or eat. I'm a goop reader after all. The shoes are perfect because they are worn by Gwyneth. And that is really all they need to go from practically poop to perfectly goop.


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AUBURN – The Auburn Tigers held a Thanksgiving morning workout in shorts at the Auburn Athletics Complex Practice Fields, wrapping up preparations for Saturday's Iron Bowl at Alabama before dismissing for family dinners Thursday afternoon. The Tigers will leave Friday afternoon for the Iron Bowl contest.
"It's a very unique game, so I think that there's an extra focus and an extra intent in terms of just being ready to prepare. Our team looks at this game differently," said Auburn head coach Gene Chizik. "We don't take that lightly. We feel a great sense of responsibility because of so many people that will be affected by this game around the state come Sunday morning. "
This is the 77th renewal of the Iron Bowl rivalry; the game will be televised by CBS with a 2:30 CT kickoff. The Iron Bowl will also be the final collegiate game for 13 Auburn seniors: Daren Bates, T'Sharvan Bell, DeAngelo Benton, Emory Blake, Jonathan Evans, Philip Lutzenkirchen, Onterio McCalebb, Ikeem Means, Anthony Morgan, Ashton Richardson, Travante Stallworth, John Sullen and Jamar Travis. They come into the contest with a career record of 33-18.
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Bike blog CycleLove (http://www.cyclelove.net/) is turning one, and hosting a ride, meetup and charity raffle in aid of Cyclists Fighting Cancer to celebrate!
So, if you like bikes, design, photography, beer or any combination thereof, you should head down to London's finest cycling cafe to meet some similarly lovely bike-minded folk — and win some fantastic prizes.
The CycleLove 1st Birthday Bash Meetup
Tuesday 29th of January, 6.30-10pm
Look Mum No Hands, 49 Old Street, London
New: Pre-meetup ride leaves at 6pm sharp from Look Mum No Hands, see Facebook (link below) for details
To stay updated, join the guestlist at https://www.facebook.com/events/406456379435195/
I've lined up some amazing goodies which you can win in a charity auction/raffle — tickets for which will be available on the night.
All proceeds from the raffle will be going to the brilliant charity Cyclist Fighting Cancer, which gives bikes, adapted trikes and tandems to children and young people whose lives have been affected by cancer.
You'll be able to buy raffle tickets for any prize, which you then drop into the hat for the items which tickle your fancy... here's the full list of the great prizes you could win:
— A beautiful Quarterre 'Hood' bike wall-mount (a very special, one-off, black version)
— Lights from Knog
— A copy of the brilliant 'Made in England' frame-building book
— Limited edition CycleLove musettes, specially crafted by Il Soigneur for the occasion
— An Ally Capellino 'Tommy Dispatch' messenger bag
— CycleLove t-shirts and prints
— A DVD of Bill Cunningham New York (the documentary which inspired CycleLove)
— Customised leather toe straps courtesy of Major Taylor
— An Otto London poncho
— Caps, a t-shirt, sweater, lock holster and straps from Yorkshire's Restrap
— Road Rags Holborn merino leggings with integrated skirt
— A Milltag Reflective Cap
— Treats from Saddle & Spoke and Rouleur Magazine
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In 2009, Alison Sudol (who records under the name A Fine Frenzy) released "Bomb in a Birdcage," a catchy and charming electro-pop album whose songs earned placement in work like the Selena Gomez film "Monte Carlo" and Zac Efron romance "The Lucky One."
Her gorgeous, quiet new album "Pines" is just a bit different. Well, a lot different.
"I thought everyone would think I was crazy and wrote a record about a tree," Sudol says of "Pines," which indeed is about a tree. "I was very aware of how nuts that sounded!"
While in Chicago to perform at the Vic Theatre, the 27-year-old singer-songwriter talked about being dangerous on a bike, listening to "Pines" in the forest and why she'd be a terrible judge on a TV singing competition.
Click here to watch video from this interview
You tweeted earlier that you wanted to rent an old bike from someone today. How come?
That's a secret. [Laughs] [I want to] borrow a bike for a little project that I'm doing.
I'll assume you can ride a bike and play piano simultaneously at your shows.
I can barely ride a bike period. Yeah, I actually only learned like four years ago.
Was it challenging to learn as an adult?
Very. And humbling. And also I did it in Amsterdam. I just decided to rent a bike in Amsterdam and it's pretty much the worst place [for that] … If you're going to learn how to ride a bike as an adult, do it somewhere where there's no people in the middle of the countryside. Don't do it where people are born on bikes basically. I actually hit a whole group of people on bikes on my bike. [Laughs] It was awesome.
What did they say?
I was so horrified … [I said], "I've never ridden a bike, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." They're like, "It's ok. Leave. Go away."
What can people expect from your live show tonight?
It's quite a different sort of show. The first half is very intimate and very quiet and quite dreamy almost. And then the second half is very wild and fun. The whole thing is a journey. It's sort of a condensed version of the record, which is a story. So it's like a little storytelling experience.
You have such a gorgeous voice. How often you give yourself chills?
Uh. No. [Laughs]
You've never heard yourself and said, "Wow, that was pretty good"?
Sometimes I'm like, "OK, that's fine. I can listen to that." I think this record is the proudest I've ever let myself be mainly because I know how far into unknown territory I went. I didn't play it safe on this record, and I think I'm proudest of that. That I sang things that I wasn't sure if I could. And so whenever I hear something like that, I'm like, "That's cool. That was a learned skill."
Do you know another major label artist that's released an album about a tree? Has it happened before?
Uh, I don't think it's common. [Laughs] It's not really common subject matter for an entire record. There's been different kind of concept records. There was Harry Nilsson, (singing), "Me and my arrow." There's really not that many. You have to be kind of bananas or so obsessed with a story, and that's what it was for me.
What's the ideal listening environment for "Pines"? Have you listened to it in the forest yet?
I have. Actually right after I finished the record, it wasn't mixed yet but I went up to the redwoods and started listening to it in different environments. And I was listening to it walking through the redwoods which was pretty magical, and also I drove from Mendocino through Napa down to my grandparents' house and it was raining and there were beautiful fields with farmhouses and vineyards and hills and forests and I was driving listening to the record. That was a pretty powerful way to listen.
So that's what you'd recommend to people?
Yeah. It's also great to listen to just when you're at home in front of the fire. But it's definitely that's good to have quiet. There's a lot of really still moments in it, and if you're trying to run around you might be like, "Ahh, it's too slow."
Why did you think people would laugh when you said the album was somewhat of a fable?
I just didn't know what to expect. I was so vulnerable with it. And cared so much that I think I just didn't know how people would take it. I just didn't want to get deterred. I think it was more just if someone happened to say something, because on the previous record there were three or four comments made that were very offhand that rattled around in my brain for such a long time. I'm really sensitive when I'm writing.
About the material on the last album?
Yeah, when I was writing. And it really stuck with me and it caused me a lot of pain, so I just figured this time around I would just not even risk it.
I don't want to make you relive anything, but can you give any sense of what those comments were or why they struck such a chord?
It doesn't really matter what the comments were because it's more the effect they had on me. And I think the only reason they had such an effect on me is because emotionally I wasn't really stable. I wasn't centered. And that had nothing to do with anybody else. That had to do with me and my life and having gone through quite a huge life transformation from writing songs in my parents' garage and living at home to touring all over the place and having major pressure and being looked at and not necessarily being a private person anymore and being really hard on myself. I was so raw by the time I started writing that record and was trying to not be raw so I was trying to just be like, "No, I'm fine. Good. I'm going to just make another record," and it put me in a very weird mental space. It wouldn't have mattered; someone was going to say something that was going to mess with my head. It doesn't have anything to do with anybody else. Now I realize that now that I've gone through this whole process. No one can shake you unless you let them shake you.
Does this new one feel more personal, more vulnerable? Or is it just a different side and you feel that way about all of the albums?
It is more personal because it's gone deeper into different areas of my life that I never explored before, and it is more vulnerable on the one hand. But there's a strength in that vulnerability because I feel like when you let yourself be vulnerable all the way down to your truth, all the way down to your core, you're impervious because you're so honest it's just freeing. It doesn't really matter what anyone else says or does. I don't know how to say it without sounding weird. It's like you're humming with your own rhythm. It's something like that. You're so full of that strength and certainty that you have when you're being authentic that people can say whatever they want and they can't rock it.
Is this direction something that took hold now and is out of your system, or is it something you don't go back from, and the poppier stuff of the earlier records is a thing of the past?
I never really intended to be poppy anyway. I just didn't really know how to convey what I was thinking as well. I think on "One Cell [In the Sea]"l I explored it and I hit it in a lot of places but I was so young I didn't know what I was doing. [Laughs] I was just blindly hitting upon things. And then in "Bomb [In a Birdcage]" I was just exploring other places. I think musically I'll probably do lots of different things in the future, but one thing I don't have now is fear of going to the left and letting songs breathe. I'm not a pop star no matter what. And I think just embracing that is cool.
You're doing passionate, personal, beautiful stuff, and lately all you hear is Britney, Nicki and Christina being attached as judges on "The Voice" and other shows. How do you feel about that trend of musicians moving on to being not recording artists but vocal judges?
I think it's all just different choices. I would be just the worst judge. Well, first of all that's not the way that I approach music anyway so I would just gravitate toward all the people that would [make people] be like, "Why are you going for this person?" [Laughs] I think it's great to grow. I think it's great to expand. I wrote a book and I made a film and that was so wonderful and challenging, and at the end of the day music is my center. It's my core. I think everyone has their own path.
Why wouldn't you be a good judge? All due respect to Britney Spears, but you can actually sing.
Mmm. Thank you. I think judging has nothing to do with singing. I don't know that Simon Cowell sings. And I think that I approach music as an art form and I believe in singing from the heart, and I don't think it's necessarily who can hit the highest note or the longest note or the loudest or do the most runs or be the most showy. For me that's not what music is about, but that's not necessarily what will win you a competition. I don't even watch them. There's a singer-songwriter guy that won one of the things, right? I don't know. It's all changing. I would just hate it, to be honest. [Laughs] I can't imagine telling people they're not any good. It's so sensitive and so hard. I couldn't compete in one of those things. I wouldn't get past the first thing.
What else do you want to do that you haven't yet?
Oh, there's so many things. I feel like my life has just begun in a funny way at 27. I want to do way more with the environment. I want to find more ways of planting trees and helping fight against deforestation. I want to do more stuff with kids. I love working with kids. The record and the book and the film too are all very centered around children and appealing to kids. I want to travel more and see more of the world.
Where do you want to go?
Iceland. Japan. South America. Australia. Scandinavia.
Will you avoid riding your bike to be safe?
I will avoid riding my bike pretty much everywhere. Unless there's an area with nothing happening. [Laughs]
On time in Chicago: "Right now we're looking out at the lake and it's stunning. Every time I come here I want to just get in there and I never have time. I've explored a little bit and what I've seen has been really cool."
The most time she's spent roughing it: "You mean like camping? Probably like a week. I haven't camped in a while but I do go out in the woods and stay in a cabin by myself or with my fella sometimes. But it's usually like a week. I would spend more time--I can't usually get people to leave me alone [Laughs]. Which is great, it's a great problem to have. I'd get into a lot of trouble if I start disappearing too often."
On the children's novel she wrote: "I have to edit it because it's just way too long. It's like 400 pages or something like that. It's meaty. It needs to be pared down. It was my first real foray into prose, and I was so excited about having freedom that I was like, 'I can do as many words as I want!' Because in songs you only have so much space. And so I need to just take out the red pen … The book is called 'Three Sails and the Family Moss.' It's a fantasy adventure along the lines of a 'Narnia' or a 'Hobbit.' Two kids going into another world of talking animals and their parents get kidnapped and they have to go search for them. They end up going up into the clouds and they find these weird manor houses and cloud castles and there's weird stuff going on up there and they have to go down into the ocean in a bubble. It's a big wild adventure … I think at the time, I started writing that when I was writing 'Bomb in a Birdcage' and I think it was very soothing to me. Children's literature is something that I think has a lot of power and it's also very warm. And I needed warmth and I needed comfort and a sense of wonder, and that's what the book is filled with."
On the film script she wrote: "The script is totally different. The script is called 'The Wild and Wonderful World of Scarlet Barrow.' [Ed. Note: This is a guess at the spelling.] It is totally different. That's like a grown-up film … There are some animated bits. But it's got like adult—not like too risqué or anything but it's definitely adult. It will be a side of me that people have only gotten to see a little bit so far."
Guilty pleasure movies: "[Laughs] We just watched 'House Bunny' on the bus. [Laughs] It's so funny. It's so ridiculously funny. I laughed so hard. That was embarrassing but so good. I love 'Talladega Nights' too, it's quite funny. '40-Year-Old Virgin' always gets a giggle … I do like a good rom-com too. I think I've seen 'Sleepless in Seattle' like 40 times … I've seen 'Harold and Maude' like 50 times probably … I love in 'Harold and Maude,' I think Harold makes her a ring or it's a coin or something and she takes it and she holds it to her. And then she just throws it into the lake and says that now she'll always know where it is."
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BEIJING (AP) — China's trade growth surged in January but much of the increase was driven by the traditional Lunar New Year holiday.
Exports soared 25 percent over a year earlier, up from the previous month's 14.1 percent, as companies rushed to fill orders before shutting down for a holiday break of up to two weeks, data showed Friday. Import growth rocketed to 28 percent, more than quadruple the previous month's 6 percent.
China's trade growth has rebounded in recent months in a sign of economic recovery but longer-term trade measures are likely to show lower growth than January's double-digit increase.
"Seeing the underlying trend is a little difficult. Nevertheless, the data were above expectations and seem generally positive," said Moody's Analytics economist Alaistair Chan in a report.
Last year's Lunar New Year shutdown began in January, leaving fewer work days and boosting this year's figures by comparison. This year's holiday falls entirely in February, which will make this month's trade look unusually weak.
Once holiday distortions are factored out, trade growth for the first three months of the year should be in high single digits, said Goldman Sachs economists in a report.
China's economic growth ticked up in the final quarter of last year from a three-year low. Analysts say a recovery in the world's second-largest economy still is shaky and will be too weak to drive a global rebound without a turnaround in the United States and Europe.
The World Bank and private sector forecasters expect economic growth of about 7.5 percent this year. That would be stronger than the West and Japan but China's weakest performance since the 1990s.
A slowdown in Chinese demand could hurt trading partners from Africa to Australia to Brazil where exports of oil, iron ore and other raw materials to China's factories have fueled an economic boom.
Beijing is pinning its hopes for recovery on government-driven investment and domestic consumer spending that is rising but not as fast as authorities want. Officials warned last year that global demand was so weak that trade would contribute little or nothing to overall economic growth.
The country's global trade surplus widened 6.5 percent from January 2012 to $29.2 billion. Exports were $187.4 billion while imports totaled $158.2 billion.
The politically volatile trade surplus with the United States, which has temporarily overtaken the struggling European Union as China's biggest export market, narrowed by 2.8 percent from a year earlier to a still-hefty $17.2 billion.
The trade surplus with the 27-nation EU contracted 10.9 percent to $12.3 billion. Exports to France fell 6.4 percent and shipments to Italy were off 2.8 percent.
Analysts warn China's recovery could be vulnerable if trade weakens or the government fails to pump enough money into the economy through investment. Societe Generale said last month there still is a chance of a "hard landing" this year, with growth dropping below 6 percent — dangerously low for China.
"A deceleration is likely by the end of the year if further stimulus measures are not forthcoming, which they probably won't because of latent inflation pressures," said Chan of Moody's. "Exports are expected to record moderate growth as the global economy recovers."
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Dec 27, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced its first confirmation of a human case of H5N1 avian influenza in Pakistan, in a young man who was part of a family cluster of suspected cases and died of the disease.
The man was one of several brothers who fell ill after caring for another brother—a veterinarian who had become ill after helping to cull chickens in the Peshawar area. The WHO's announcement today thus signals not only Pakistan's first confirmed human case, but also a rare instance of apparent human-to-human transmission. The WHO said the virus did not spread beyond the family.
The WHO posted a brief statement today saying the agency's H5 reference laboratory in Cairo and its Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Influenza in London identified the H5N1 virus in samples from one member of the family group of patients. The agency said additional analysis, including gene sequencing, is under way.
Citing information from Pakistan's health ministry, John Rainford, a WHO spokesman in Geneva, identified the man as a 25-year-old from the Peshawar area who became ill on Nov 21, was hospitalized Nov 23, and died Nov 28.
"He is the third of four brothers who developed proven or suspected pneumonia with illness onset dates between 29 October and 21 November," Rainford told CIDRAP News. "The brothers provided care for one another and had close personal contact in both the home and hospital."
According to previous reports, the family group was among eight people in Pakistan's North-West Frontier province, near the Afghan border, who were previously diagnosed with avian flu on the basis of preliminary tests in Pakistan. The eight included four brothers and a cousin from the same family, plus three other people. Another brother also had a flu-like illness but died without being tested.
The other patients who tested positive have been described as a man and his niece who were involved in poultry culling, plus a male farm worker.
The WHO said previously that limited person-to-person transmission might have occurred among close contacts in the Pakistan situation. Today the agency stated, "The preliminary risk assessment found no evidence of sustained or community human-to-human transmission.
"All identified close contacts including the other members of the affected family and involved health care workers remain asymptomatic and have been removed from close medical observation," the WHO added.
Rainford today suggested the possibility that none of the other apparent cases in Pakistan will be confirmed by the WHO. "We've got a host of technical issues," he said. "There are practicalities of samples breaking down over time in the transportation."
However, a lack of further confirmations would not change the assumption that person-to-person transmission probably occurred among close contacts, he added. "The clinical evidence is that they did match the case definition of H5N1, so the risk assessment is unchanged."
Rainford said the problems with sample quality could also affect the effort to further characterize the virus through genetic sequencing.
Meanwhile, he said another suspected H5N1 case has been found in the same region of Pakistan as the recent cluster but with no known connection to it. The suspected case is in an 8-year-old who had contact with sick poultry before falling ill, he reported.
"The new case is in the same region, but there's no epidemiologic link to the other cases," Rainford said, adding that he didn't know the specific location.
The WHO's case confirmation came on the same day as the assassination of Pakistan's former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, which sparked unrest in the country. Rainford said he couldn't speculate about how the assassination and related events might affect Pakistan's response to the H5N1 threat.
"There might be implications for investigations or movement of samples, but I really couldn't say at this point," he said. He said a special WHO team that helped investigate the human cases in Pakistan returned to Geneva "sometime ago."
Today's WHO announcement makes Pakistan the 14th country with confirmed human H5N1 cases. The WHO's global case count has reached 343 cases with 212 deaths.
Meanwhile, Egypt's health ministry reported two more human H5N1 cases in the country today, a day after the WHO confirmed Egypt's 39th case, according to a Reuters report. Amr Kandeel, head of communicable disease control, said the patients were from Damietta and Menoufia and were both hospitalized, the story said.
The state news agency, MENA, identified the Menoufia patient as 22-year-old Nora Aboul Abbas Mohamed but gave no details on the other patient, Reuters reported.
The WHO has not yet recognized the two cases, which would bring Egypt's total to 41, with 16 deaths.
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The final beam has been lifted into place for an arena that will house the University of Nebraska-Lincoln basketball program.
The topping out ceremony Wednesday included recognizing hundreds of construction workers who are helping to build the Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln. Hundreds of people signed the beam last week.
The ceremony included appearances by state and city officials, and a performance by the UNL Cornhusker Pep Band.
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Preliminary Investigation of Apparent Hydrothermalism Associated with a Long-Lived Detachment Fault at Kane Megmullion
DOEI Project Funded: 2007
Within the past decade it has been discovered that very long-lived (~1-2 m.y.) normal faults can form at slow-spreading mid-ocean ridges. These 'detachment' faults slip at low angles (20°-30°), and the rollover of the fault footwalls forms corrugated, domed edifices termed megamullions. Most studies of these features have been structural, but recent discoveries at LostCity and TAG show that major detachments can be intimately linked with hydrothermal flow. The former is low-temperature, serpentinite-hosted, and precipitates carbonates and brucite, while the latter is high-temperature, basalt-hosted, and precipitates sulfides and anhydrite. We believe that we may have discovered a third type of association, namely probably low-temperature hydrothermal precipitation of Fe- Mn-carbonate associated with a dominantly ultramafic substrate. During a recent cruise (KN180-2), we discovered evidence that there may have been significant flow of hydrothermal fluids along the detachment fault that formed Kane megamullion. The evidence for hydrothermal fluids is primarily in the form of cones of basaltic debris that are highly cemented by Fe-Mn oxyhydroxide-carbonate deposits. The cones are scattered across the megamullion footwall, which is dominantly serpentinized peridotite. This is the first reported instance of apparent, Fe-Mn hydrothermal deposits from a dominantly ultramafic-hosted system. We hypothesize that the cones were formed where hydrothermal fluids flowed up the shear zone of the detachment fault, percolated through the basaltic hanging wall, and caused cementation of basalt debris. These cemented zones were then rafted with the footwall as it was exhumed, while mass wasting transported the surrounding, un-cemented debris down the fault slope. Carbonate sediments on the megamullion surface also exhibit unusual cementation and coloration patterns, and this may reflect further effects of hydrothermal alteration.
Here we propose to conduct mineralogical, chemical, and stable isotope (ä18ï and ä13C) analyses of authigenic and sedimentary samples from the cones and surrounding sediment to test our hypothesis. This will establish whether they are associated with hydrothermal fluid flow, and will document the nature (e.g., T, pH, Eh) of the discharging fluids. In addition, the form and distribution of the cones will be mapped from KN180-2 Jason and ABE data and integrated with the analytic results to document the character and a real distribution of fluid flow from the detachment fault and megamullion surface. This research will have wide-ranging implications for understanding the geometry and chemistry of fluid flow associated with major normal fault systems.
Significance and Relation to Other Work
The proposed work relates directly to the DOEI theme of fluid flow in geologic systems. It provides a unique opportunity potentially to document that fluid flow from major normal faults in ocean crust is a significant process, as well as to document the chemical character and spatial scale of venting in such systems. This will have wide-ranging implications for the role of fluids in altering and weakening rocks within fault shear zones, in creating possible overpressure that facilitates fault slip, and thus in explaining why detachment faults are abnormally long-lived and also appear to slip at anomalously low angles. In addition, it will provide the first data on Fe-Mn deposits from a dominantly ultramafic-hosted hydrothermal system.


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Hey guys. I just started reading Death Note the other day and I must say, I have become completely addicted. Obata Takeshi doesnt fail to amaze me in this work. I made this thread to discuss the manga and here your opinions on it. I think that the plot in this is pure genius. Raito versus L. The battle wits to see who can outdue the other to succede in their plans. The morals and internal conflict that the characters experience is truly unique in the sense that its used. (Okay, not completely but you know where I'm comin' from)
Edit (Posting quick summary of what its about): Basically, its about this Shinigami who drops his "Death Book" in the human world and a high school student picks it up. With it, you are able to kill anyone you want by just writing their name in it and thinking about their face. The real story picks up when this guy named "L" makes an effort to stop the main character, Raito, from killing people. (Even though he was only really killing criminals to try to make the world a utopia) The story is about their conflicts and trying to stop each other to insure the success of their own goals.
|2004-06-22, 02:03
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I do enjoy the battle between Raito and L. Both of them are so clever that they think about questions more deeply than ordinary people.
In the latest Page 27, the owner of the second deathnote told Raito the day and the place they are going to meet each other. The story gets much more interesting. Can't wait to see the next Page.
|2004-06-22, 10:14
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What chapter are you talking about that has "the owner of the second deathnote told Raito the day and the place they are going to meet each other. The story gets much more interesting. Can't wait to see the next Page."
I've only read up to 24.
Edit: Nevermind about that. I didn't know 25 was released.
Anyhow, yea, the cleverness of them is really astonishing.
|2004-06-23, 08:42
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**Note to mods: If the series becomes licensed I'll remove the name of the group who is translating it.
I would like to know from which group Kaka gets it because he seems to have later chapters than I do.
|2004-07-07, 21:05
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chinese groups tend to have a higher efficiency in translation stuff ^^bb
I can show you the link if you can read chinese or interested to see it ~
btw, I am a she ^_^
|2004-07-10, 04:07
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Does anyone agree with me that this is the best manga ever? Previously, I believed that 20th Century Boys held that spot, but after reading Death Note I was left shellshock.
Anyone knows of what other works Ohba Tsugumi has done before? He must be an incredible writer to come out with a story like death note.
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|2004-07-10, 12:22
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Location: Europe
Two things you should know:
1) Tsugumi Ooba is most likely a woman.
2) Rumors are abounding within the Japanese manga community that "Tsugumi Ooba" is just a penname of Yuuko Asami, a Shounen Jump artist responsible for such titles like "Wild Half," "Romancers" and "Jump Run." "Death Note" is supposed to be her first "gensaku"-work, which was why she changed her name to be credited as an author.
|2004-07-10, 18:20
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Location: good 'ole US of A
So there's a mystery and hidden name situation behind the creators themselves lol. Curiouser and curiouser.
Can you explain "gensaku" to an idiot like me who left her Japanese dictionary in storage?
|2004-07-11, 21:26
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Join Date: Apr 2004
I read the first 27 chapters today and WOW. This story is awesome and with the HikaGo artist doing the artwork Death Note has just vaulted itself into my top three manga. This manga is just crazy good. I could not stop reading it!
The funny thing is I read the pilot earlier and thought the actual manga would be trash since I felt the pilot was just plain ridiculous and too kiddy. The real thing has turned out so much better.
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art GENIUS.. not really.
Join Date: Apr 2004
I was really impressed by both the plot and the art. I'm convinced that the writer is some kind of genius. The character design is amazing; L totally wins me over with his terrible posture and fondness of sweets.
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Hmm... it's indeed very shoujo like... especially with the introduction of Misa...
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Thanks so much for your reply. It does help. I'm just concerned with competing against the other law schools in the Chicago area for jobs after law school. Case has a bit more of a "reach" when compared to Kent. Kent seem to be known only in Chicago. I'm from Ohio originally too....Cincinnati....so I know how boring OH can be. Thanks again for your insight.
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Wanda Sykes :: Free to be who she wants to be
That Wanda Sykes turned up on Entertainment Weekly's 25 Funniest People in America in 2004 should surprise no one. The stand-up performer, writer, actress and LGBT activist has made her mark in American pop culture from acting in films like "Monster-In-Law;" performing character voice-over works in animated hits like "Rio" and "Ice Age: Continental Drift;" lending support to Julia Louis-Dreyfus on "The New Adventures of Old Christine;" hosting a late night talk show on Fox; writing best-selling books; appearing on HBO and Comedy Central specials; and continuing with stand-up in venues throughout the country. She comes to San Francisco on October 20 to perform at the Nob Hill Masonic Hall.
Sykes made headlines in November, 2008 when, while speaking at an anti-Prop 8 rally in Las Vegas, announced that she's a lesbian. The month prior had married her wife, Alex, whom she met in 2006, in California, making the couple one of valid gay marriages not affected by the Prop 8 referendum. The couple has two children.
As an actress, BeBe was introduced to film with a lead role in the independent film "Under One Sun" with her character dealing with religious, racial and gender issues. Additionally, she appeared in the campy musical "Devious, Inc" (Australian Film Festival, San Francisco Short Film Fest) also adding additional vocals to the musical soundtrack. Both of these performances led to her selection for a lead role in Aisha Media's next short film series, "Con-tin.u.um" to be released in 2012.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Colton Chapple matched a school record with five touchdown passes and the Harvard football team held Bucknell to 140 yards and caused five turnovers en route to a 42-3 win Saturday at sunny, windy Harvard Stadium.
Chapple accounted for 247 yards of offense, including 71 on the ground, despite sitting out the final 25 minutes of game play. He threw two touchdowns each to Cameron Brate and Kyle Juszczyk, along with one to Alex Sarkisian. He became the first Harvard quarterback to throw for four or more touchdowns in consecutive games and the second to throw for five in one game. The lone previous five-score passer was Carroll Lowenstein '52 ('54) in 1953. A total of 544 Harvard games had passed since Lowenstein threw five touchdown passes against Davidson.
Meanwhile, in front of a home crowd of 16,236, the Crimson (4-1) totaled 223 rushing yards against a Bison squad (4-3) that entered allowing an average of 62.3 yards per game on the ground. Seitu Smith III added 114 kick-return yards, with 91 coming on a third-quarter touchdown, just the 10th return of 90 or more yards in Harvard history.
Then there was the defense. Harvard limited Bucknell to five first downs, with just one coming before the final 90 seconds of the third quarter. The Crimson held Bucknell to -5 rushing yards, sacked Bison quarterback Brandon Wesley four times and intercepted four passes, including three inside its own 5-yard line. Alex Gedeon registered 11 tackles, seven solo, notched 2.5 tackles for loss and recovered a fumble.
The Crimson outgained Bucknell by a 294-31 margin in the first half and earned 16 first downs to the Bison's one. Chapple threw four first-half touchdown passes for a 28-0 lead.
After Gedeon ended consecutive Bucknell drives with a fourth-down stop and a third-down sack, the Crimson took a 7-0 lead. A 26-yard pass to Brate got Harvard in the red zone, and an 11-yard strike over the middle to Juszczyk opened the scoring on the final play of the first quarter.
The Crimson built on its lead quickly. Wesley threw a deep ball that Brian Owusu intercepted on his own 4-yard line and ran back to the Bison 38. Two plays later, Chapple lofted a pass over a defender to Alex Sarkisian in the back right corner of the end zone for a 14-0 edge.
Bucknell could not handle the ensuing kickoff, and Gedeon recovered the ball for the Crimson at the Bucknell 13. Chapple soon connected with Brate on a corner route for a nine-yard score. The fourth scoring drive of the half started with consecutive runs of double-digit yardage for Treavor Scales. Chapple then moved Harvard down the field by connecting with Brate for 30 yards and rushing up the left side 23 yards to the Bucknell 7. Chapple and Brate then hooked up for a four-yard scoring play.
After Chapple capped his day by finding Juszczyk for a 25-yard score, the big plays in the second half belonged to the defense and special teams. In the third quarter, Nnamdi Obukwelu batted a pass out of the air that was picked off by Brian Reilly. Drew Orth got the Bison on the board with a 23-yard field goal, but his kickoff was run all the way back by Smith.
The Bucknell offense showed some life late in the third quarter, but on consecutive drives to start the fourth, Norman Hayes picked off Wesley at the Harvard 1 after an Adam Riegel defelection and Brian Splinter made an interception in the end zone.
Jacob Dombrowski pinned the Bison at their own 1-yard line with a third-quarter punt and at their 10 in the fourth quarter. He averaged 41.8 yards on six punts.


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Her career began, however, by writing dialogue for talking dragons, superheroes and magical genies. Melody wasn't hallucinating, she was writing animation. Among her many credits are Rugrats, Teen Titans, and Stuart Little for which she wrote the pilot and served as showrunner. Highlights included guest actors Michael Chiklis and Mark Hamill playing surly, cartoon alley cats, and a Humanitas Prize nomination.
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I wrote here about the Freedom Club's annual spring dinner, featuring Steve Forbes. At the dinner, a few of us were steered in front of a camera to free associate about the club. That led to this short video, "Why the Freedom Club?", which I think you will enjoy:
The Freedom Club is a model, I think, for what can be done in other states. (There are, of course, some states that have similar organizations.) By banding together, a group of the state's principal conservative donors have increased their clout and had a real impact on local, and to a lesser extent national, politics. Of course, we haven't been able to turn Minnesota red; not yet, anyway. But if you are a Minnesotan and a donor to conservative politicians, I would urge you to consider joining the club. If you are not a Minnesotan or are not interested in joining the club, but would like to contribute to the club's efforts, you can do that at the Freedom Club web site. Small contributions are more than welcome, and the cause is worthy. Thanks!


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NEW YORK (AP) — When "Glee" star Chris Colfer was 8, he began writing a novel. He wrote two pages, called it the first chapter and proudly showed it to his grandmother.
"She said, 'OK, could use some development,'" laughed Colfer in a recent interview.
That memory was worked into his script for the movie "Struck by Lightning," which premiered at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
Colfer wrote and stars in the movie. He plays Carson, an ambitious high-school senior who blackmails his fellow students into helping him get into Northwestern University.
The 21-year-old actor came up with the idea for the story when he was a teen as a way to vent about his teachers and classmates. He then taught himself how to write a screenplay.
"I would go to my local Borders in Fresno (Calif.) and I would study Sofia Coppola's 'Marie Antoinette' published screenplay. I'd sit there — 'cause I couldn't afford it — and I'd read it and I'd read it and I'd teach myself how to screenwriter and how to, you know, frame everything."
Allison Janney plays his mother, and Colfer says he always pictured her in the part.
"I always had her voice in my head for some reason. Always, always," he said.
Janney said she was unaware the part was written for her, but loved it immediately.
"I was blown away by Chris' script," she said. "The writing has always been the most important thing to me, and I had an instant connection to his script. The characters were funny and flawed, especially the part of his mother. Then I met with him and was completely charmed by him. ... How can he be so talented and accomplished and charming and be so impossibly young? I can't wait to see what's next for him. Maybe directing?"
Dermot Mulroney, Christina Hendricks and Sarah Hyland ("Modern Family") also star in the movie.
Colfer has just finished a psychological drama he hopes to shoot independently this summer. He also adapted a pilot for the Disney Channel based on Florence Laughlin's children's book "The Little Leftover Witch."
He also inked a deal to publish two children's books. "The Land of Stories," which will be in bookstores in July, is essentially the completion of that story he began writing when he was 8.
"It came from me being a young, curious kid holding a book in my hand and wishing with all my heart that I could just fall into the book and go on these adventures with all the characters," he said.
Colfer said he told his parents when he was growing up that he was going to write and act, and he has made good on those bold declarations. His portrayal of gay teen Kurt Hummel on the Fox show "Glee" has earned him a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy nominations.
Despite the opportunities he's had since "Glee," Colfer says he cannot ever really get used to fame.
"I don't think anyone can prepare you for it. ... You find different ways of dealing with it and getting used to it, but it's not something you can totally settle your mind into. For me, I always feel like I have this massive responsibility because of the kind of platform that 'Glee' gave me. I can never do anything that disappoints anyone. That's my biggest fear — disappointing those people who look up to me."
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Iowa driver dies in crash after her SUV hits deer
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A 26-year-old driver has been killed and her passenger injured in a rollover crash caused by a collision with a deer in southwest Iowa.
Atlantic radio station KJAN reports that the accident occurred around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday on U.S. Highway 34, west of Red Oak.
The Iowa State Patrol says Shawna Curtis was driving east with 9-year-old Lydia Powell, both of Creston, when the SUV struck a deer that was crossing the roadway. The patrol says the deer was flipped up, and it came through the vehicle windshield, striking Curtis.
Curtis lost control of the SUV. It ran off the highway into a ditch and rolled twice.
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Netflix Cues Up Facebook, Twitter for Disclosure
Netflix Inc. is making it official: It "likes" social media.
The streaming-video service, which recently dodged a bullet from the Securities and Exchange Commission over a Facebook posting, told investors Wednesday in a regulatory filing it may use the social-networking site or Twitter to disclose material information.
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