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September-October 2012
Volume 100, Number 5
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My first encounter with H2 was typical for a boy in the age of chemistry sets that had some zing to them. My set, made by A. C. Gilbert Co., contained some powdered zinc. It had no acids, but it taught you to generate them from chemicals it included (for instance HCl from NaHSO4 and NH4Cl), or—the manual said—you could buy a small quantity from your local apothecary. Perhaps I got it there, asking politely for the acid in my best accented English a year or so after coming to Brooklyn from Europe. I poured some of the dilute acid on the zinc in a test tube, watched it bubble away, lit (with some fear) a match and heard that distinct pop.
Flammable Air
Next, I encountered the gas, Henry Cavendish's inflammable air, in a high school electrolysis experiment. We ran a current through water with a little salt dissolved in it, collected the unequal volumes of gases formed, each trapped in an inverted tube. Both gases gave small pyrotechnic pleasures—one, hydrogen, with that satisfying pop when a newly extinguished splint came near it; the other, oxygen, revived exuberantly the flame of the same splint.
Primo Levi, in an early chapter in his marvelous The Periodic Table, describes an initiation into chemistry that features the same experiment, with more fearsome results:
I carefully lifted the cathode jar and holding it with its open end down, lit a match and brought it close. There was an explosion, small but sharp and angry, the jar burst into splinters (luckily, I was holding it level with my chest and not higher) and there remained in my hand, as a sarcastic symbol, the glass ring of the bottom.… It was indeed hydrogen, therefore: the same element that burns in the sun and stars, and from whose condensations the universes are formed in eternal silence.
In my high school lab I had no idea that I was reliving, with different methods, part of the experiment Antoine Laurent Lavoisier thought important enough over two days in February 1785 to invite a select group of luminaries of French science to witness. In a tour de force of the big science of his day, using some remarkable instruments he had constructed at his own expense, he decomposed water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen, and followed that by a recombination of the elemental gases thus generated into water. Henry Cavendish had proved that water is formed in the combustion of hydrogen some years before; Lavoisier not only decomposed water, but determined that the cycle of its decomposition and reformation proceeded with conservation of mass. Not everyone was convinced—they should have been—yet with this experiment, a new chemical age dawned. Water and air, those seemingly homogeneous elements of the Greeks, were shown to be a compound and a mixture, respectively.
A Diatomic Molecule
Chemistry and I progressed; it took chemistry a good 75 years from Lavoisier's time to have the macroscopic compounds—there at the beginning, with us today—be joined by a realization of an underlying microscopic reality, imagined well before it was proven, that of molecules. And it took another 65 years (now we're circa 1925) for the new quantum mechanics to be created, explaining the why and wherefore of the molecules of dihydrogen (a nomenclature I will use when I need to distinguish hydrogen molecules from hydrogen atoms). In my education, I made that transition from compounds to molecules, much as chemistry did. Except I did it in three years instead of 140. I encountered the molecule, more precisely the quantum mechanical treatment of H 2 , in a class George Fraenkel taught, and beautifully so, in my last year at Columbia College.
Fraenkel took us through the first calculation on H2 by Heitler and London, in 1927, a calculation parlayed by Linus Pauling into a general theory of covalent bonding. By this time the dissociation energy of H2 (the strength of the bond, the energy needed to take it apart into two hydrogen atoms) was known. It was 4.48 electron volts (eV) per molecule, 104 kilocalories per mole (kcal/mol). If that doesn't touch you, let's begin with the fact that a mole of H2 (roughly 22 liters of it in gaseous form at room temperature) has a mass of 2.0 grams. Not much, that's why it was used in airships. Kcal/mol? To heat a liter (about a quart, 1.057 quarts to be exact) of water from room temperature to boiling (a real-life operation most of us, even men, have done) takes about 80 kcal. That should help—to knock 2 grams of hydrogen molecules into hydrogen atoms takes about the same energy as to heat one and a quarter liters of water to boiling. Except, don't try it on your stove—remember the Hindenburg airship.
The energy of the hydrogen molecule as a function of distance is described by a "potential energy curve" shown in the figure below, a graphical depiction of how the chemical potential energy of the molecule varies with separation of the hydrogen atoms (actually their nuclei) in the molecule from each other. The depth of the well relative to the separated atoms is the dissociation energy I described above. But any molecule is a quantum mechanical entity; so the molecule, in a way as a consequence of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, does not sit still at the minimum of the potential energy curve. The molecule vibrates, the vibrations of the molecule are quantized—and in its lowest energy state the hydrogen nuclei retain some motion (in a way like a pendulum but less deterministically so) around the "equilibrium distance." Sometimes they are a little closer, sometimes a little farther apart, on the average they are ~0.74 × 10–8 centimeter, 0.74 Ångström (Å) from each other. We call that the bond distance.
The bond distance in the H2 molecule and its dissociation energy were known by the time the new quantum mechanics came. Heitler and London got a dissociation energy of 3.14 eV, an equilibrium distance of 0.87 Å. Not too great (compared with experiment) but a remarkable result: For the first time quantum mechanics "explained" the existence of a molecule. Which classical mechanics coupled with electrostatics, try as it might, couldn't.
One could not solve the Schrödinger equation, the wave equation that describes all matter, exactly for H2, but the path down a road of increasingly accurate approximations to the exact solution seemed beautifully logical and enticing to this young apprentice. Fraenkel took us through it first of all by another method, called the molecular orbital (MO) method, pioneered by Friedrich Hund and Robert S. Mulliken. A molecular orbital is a combination of atomic orbitals, an approximate way to describe the location of electrons in a molecule—I will show you one soon. This method eventually dominated chemical thinking from the 1950s through today, but initially gave a poorer description of the H-H bond in H2. Yet both the MO and the Heitler-London methods (expanded into Pauling's "valence bond" [VB] approach) could be systematically, logically improved. We followed and understood that path in our class, culminating in a remarkable 1933 calculation by H. M. James and A. S. Coolidge, using hand-cranked mechanical calculators, that matched experiment.
I would like to show you the molecular orbitals of H2, because (a) they're important, and (b) I can't escape them; they bring to me new chemistry at roughly 25-year intervals. The two 1s orbitals of the individual atoms combine in in-phase and out-of-phase fashion to give molecular orbitals called σg and σu*, shown in the figure below.
The σ and the subscripts and superscripts on it are labels, symmetry labels; what matters is that σg has no node between the nuclei, while σu* does. That puts σg low in energy, σu* high. And, importantly, σg is a "bonding" orbital, if occupied (as it is in H2), the electrons in it bring the atoms together, whereas σu* is an antibonding orbital, any electrons in it (there are none in an unperturbed H2 molecule, at least in the simpolest analysis) pushing the nuclei apart. Interesting that the big guys, the massive nuclei, move where the small electrons tell them to move.
Treat Me Right
I had a small, almost disastrous encounter with the molecule again, right after earning my Ph.D. Well, spiritually, not materially. An approximate molecular orbital method I and some fellow theoreticians working with W. N. Lipscomb had devised, called the "extended Hückel" theory, did well on some larger, organic molecules, giving reasonable geometries and relative energies. But when I tried it on dihydrogen, the molecule collapsed—the calculated internuclear distance going to zero. That was a shock. It took some courage to go on with a method that could not get right (for good reasons, as we found out) the simplest molecule in the world.
Or, just maybe, this small apparent disaster helped. For it made me and my students rely less on numbers than on understanding. On we did go, and got a lot of chemistry with this deficient method.
A Lousy Acid, a Lousy Base
Molecular hydrogen is pretty unreactive, as is methane. Hydrogen burns, of course (with a flame that is nearly colorless but very, very hot). But to get it to burn you need a match, even though the reaction to form water, Cavendish's and Lavoisier's reaction, gives off ~68 kcal/mol of dihydrogen burned. That's chemistry: Things that should spontaneously proceed by the dictates of thermodynamics (like hydrogen burning) actually encountering substantial barriers to doing so.
Chemical reactivity is predominantly that of acids and bases—that is why we spend so much time in introductory chemistry on this property of molecules. A base (ammonia, for example) is a good donor of electrons; in MO terms it has an energetically high-lying filled molecular orbital. An acid (the hydronium ion, the aquated proton, H3O+) is a good acceptor of electrons, as it has a low-energy empty MO. Hydrogen has an occupied MO, just one; you've seen it—it's the σg in the MO picture of the molecule (see figure above). That MO lies low in energy; H2's ionization potential, a measure of the energy of that MO, is large, 15.4 eV. And H2's lowest unoccupied MO, σu*, is relatively high lying—to promote an electron from the filled MO to the unfilled one takes ~11 eV.
Put into plain English, the hydrogen molecule is a lousy base and a lousy acid. The molecule is then relatively unreactive, even as it burns giving off a good bit of heat. Other molecules lack a good handhold, so to speak, on H2.
Döbereiner's Feuerzeug
Yet hydrogen was known to react all along with some metal surfaces. In another column (American Scientist 86:326–329 [1998]) I recounted how Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner discovered in 1823 that hydrogen burned on a platinum surface. This is the first well-characterized catalytic reaction. Döbereiner did not know that there were molecules in his hydrogen gas (generated the same way I did as a boy, from Zn plus an acid, sulfuric acid in his case). And, of course, he did not know in atomistic detail how those H 2 molecules fell apart on his Pt surface, and how they combined with oxygen from the atmosphere. Döbereiner made a Feuerzeug, a source of fire based on hydrogen, that became a household firelighting tool for half a century.
Molecular Complexes of Dihydrogen
By the 1980s there emerged evidence for weak "complexation" (binding) of hydrogen with various metal atoms. And surface scientists were piecing together the mechanism of Döbereiner's seeming magic. Elsewhere, organometallic chemists found some reactions in which hydrogen molecules added to a metal center, the two hydrogen atoms split apart in the process. Experimentalists and theorists begin to view the seeming chemical inertness of dihydrogen as a challenge rather than dogma.
In 1984 Jean-Yves Saillard, a French postdoctoral associate (now at the University of Rennes) and I did a careful study of the interactions of hydrogen and methane with discrete transition metal centers with associated ligands. These MLn (M is a metal atom, L a ligand, say CO or PH3, n the variable number of such ligands) fragments, if carefully chosen to be good bases and acids at the same time, could, in our approximate calculations, bind dihydrogen. The molecular orbital essence of our argument is shown in the figure below; a similar picture and interpretation is there in earlier work of three Alains—Dedieu, Strich and Sevin.
A small interlude here on so-called interaction diagrams, which is what you see in the figure above. These diagrams, my professional bread and butter, show the interaction of the important orbitals of two pieces of a molecule (when it can be taken apart into pieces). That's the way we build understanding, putting together, in LEGO style, the orbitals of a more complex molecule from simpler pieces. The L5M(H2) molecule in the middle (at that time unknown, at least to us) is built from two simpler pieces—an ML5 fragment at left, and my old friend H2 at right.
The orbitals of H2 are easy—you've seen them above, the σgMO, with both of the 1s orbitals of the component H atoms in-phase, at low energy; the σu*MO, unfilled by electrons, at high energy.
On the other side are orbitals of the ML5 fragment, mostly on the metal. They are more complicated (the metal has important 3d orbitals), but the essential feature is that there are orbitals on the metal filled with electrons and some that are empty, and these match in symmetry and overlap reasonably well with the orbitals on the H 2 . The dashed lines in the figure guide us to just these stabilizing interactions.
Here's what happens in this theoretical analysis: The acid function of the ML5 fragment (its empty orbital, called dz 2) interacts with the base σg of H2, the base function of ML5 (a filled dxz orbital) interacts with the σu*, the acid function of H2. (Did I not say that there is a reason for all that seeming torture on acids and bases in first-year chemistry?) Importantly, there are consequences to the strength and length of the H2 as a function of the interaction: As a result of the mixing of MOs of ML5 with those of H2, some electrons are transferred from the σg orbital of H2, depleting its bonding density. And some electrons are transferred in the opposite direction, from ML5 to the H2σu* orbital. Both actions—decreasing bonding, increasing antibonding—will stretch the H-H distance, even as they overall bind H2 to MLn. The figure is for ML5, but the reasoning extends to other numbers of ligands bound to the metal.
Saillard and I made no prediction of specific molecules. What we did not know when we did our work is that the first such "complex" had just been made. Greg Kubas at Los Alamos had synthesized (and with no nuclear reactions involved), the molecule shown in the figure above. It was followed over the years by a significant group of dihydrogen complexes, even ones in which the metal held more than hydrogen molecule.
In time the H-H distance in these molecules was determined accurately (one needs neutron diffraction for that; metric information also comes from nuclear magnetic resonance studies). Kubas understood very well what was going on—his qualitative thinking about what bound H2 in his molecules, quite independently conceived, was similar to ours.
But what fun for us! A theoretical idea about how a molecule could bind—and not just any molecule, but normally inert hydrogen—translated into reality! We were happy. And Kubas deserves all the credit, because science is ultimately about the reality of a compound in hand—theories come and go, the molecule is there.
The First Element under Pressure
In the past few years, my colleague Neil Ashcroft and I have had a fruitful collaboration on the response of molecules and extended structures to extreme pressure. Three years ago we returned to a first love of Neil's, hydrogen. In this we were joined by a talented French postdoc, Vanessa Labet.
Experimentally, one can learn much about matter under pressure (see "The Squeeze Is On," American Scientist 97:108 [2009]) from studies in diamond anvil cells, where in a small reaction volume, between two tough diamonds and enveloped by (one hopes) an unreactive metal, a sample of matter is compressed. At what pressure solid, cold hydrogen (yes, hydrogen freezes, at 14 degrees kelvin) metallizes is the subject of hot, current dispute. But some things people agree on—solid hydrogen retains molecular diatomic units up to pressures such as those at the center of the Earth (3.5 million atmospheres). And from a spectroscopic measurement one can even deduce the internuclear distance in the confined diatomic. As the pressure rises, the H-H equilibrium separation contracts a little, then begins to stretch. The magnitude of the excursion is small, less than 2 percent of the 0.74 Å separation.
There are places in physics and chemistry where theory can afford a clearer picture of a phenomenon, and matter at extreme conditions is one such place. If one can trust the theory.… Vanessa Labet had a numerical laboratory at her disposal of the best structures calculated for compressed H2 by Chris Pickard and Richard Needs. We used that laboratory to get physical insight, to reason out why hydrogen did what it did. The figure below shows the small dance the calculated shortest, intramolecular H-H distance does with pressure—it goes down a little, up for a while, down again, up, down. The discontinuities, the jags in the curve are understandable—they are the consequence of abrupt changes from one preferred form to another, so-called phase transitions. The calculations matched experimental findings pretty well. But what was behind the small dance steps?
We first thought about the effect of confinement, one hydrogen molecule simply squeezed by other hydrogen molecules in that tense space. Now a model for that was already there in earlier work of Dudley Herschbach and Richard LeSar. They looked at the energy levels of H2 confined in a rigid spheroidal box, as the dimensions of the box decreased. As one might expect, the internuclear separation responded by decreasing. Labet probed confinement by a slightly softer box, a hydrogen molecule imprisoned between two helium atoms, the most ungiving chemical walls we could think of. The earlier results were confirmed—such confinement only made the H2 distance contract. What else could it do?
But that's not what our numerical laboratory and experiment showed; in a real and modeled crystal of H2 , the hydrogen molecule shrank, expanded, expanded some more, shrank. By just a little. What could possibly make it grow longer ? As it was squeezed ? At this point I remembered Kubas's wonderful organometallic complexes. In them the coordinated hydrogen molecules expanded, to 0.82–0.89 Å in length. And from the work Saillard and I did, we knew why! The metal fragment provided electrons to populate hydrogen σu*, depopulate σg , both weakening the H-H bond.
In compressed hydrogen, at pressures approaching those at the center of the Earth, there were no metals in sight. But under these extreme conditions, could other hydrogen molecules around a given H2 possibly play that role? We looked at the population of the molecular orbitals of a given molecule, and sure enough the effect was there. Model calculations confirmed that the little dance of H-H separations with pressure that experiment and theory observe in dense, cold H2 was the outcome of two competing effects: simple physical confinement, and the chemical effect of the molecular orbitals of confined and confining molecules interacting, mixing, transferring electrons, stretching that bond. I love it—the same bonding that occurs in discrete transition metal organometallic molecules is there in a highly compressed crystal of pure H2 .
One World
The first element, the simplest diatomic molecule there is—what could be simpler? Hold on—an H2 molecule in solid H2 under pressure, an H2 molecule approaching a Pt surface in Döbereiner's firelighter, the H2 bubbling out of the solution of a 13-year-old boy playing with slightly dangerous chemicals in a Brooklyn apartment, the H2 in transition metal complexes Greg Kubas saw for the first time in the world—of course, each is different, peculiar, set apart by its conditions of generation and preservation. But there can't be different rules of nature operating for one H2 and not the other. The joy is in seeing the connections.
I am grateful to Neil Ashcroft and Vanessa Labet for making me think about something I never thought I'd be working on again, or that I could imagine there was something left to learn about. As there is.
- Kubas, G. J., R. R. Ryan, B. I. Swanson, P. J. Vergamini and H. J. Wasserman. 1984. Characterization of the first examples of isolable molecular hydrogen complexes, M(CO) 3 (PR 3 ) 2 (H 2 ) (M = molybdenum or tungsten; R = Cy or isopropyl). Evidence for a side-on bonded dihydrogen ligand. Journal of the American Chemical Society 106:451–452.
- Labet, V., R. Hoffmann and N. W. Ashcroft. 2012. A fresh look at dense hydrogen under pressure: 3. Two competing effects and the resulting intramolecular H-H separation in solid hydrogen under pressure. Journal of Chemical Physics 136:074503.
- Levi, P. 1984. The Periodic Table, trans. R. Rosenthal. Schocken Books: New York.
- Saillard, J.-Y., and R. Hoffmann. 1984. C-H and H-H activation in transition metal complexes and on surfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society 106:2006–2026.
- Salem, L. 1987. Marvels of the Molecule (Molécule, la merveilleuse. English), trans. James D. Wuest. VCH: New York.


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Ultimate bacon sarnie scrap starts to sizzle
Controversy guaranteed in pinnacle of pork perfection challenge
Our challenge to readers to provide proof of the ultimate bacon sarnie looks set to provoke even more controversy than the matter of the zenith of sliced pork/bread assemblages has already caused.
In case you've missed the porcine polemic, our Bauernfrühstück versus bacon sarnie post-pub nosh deathmatch had experts up in arms as they claimed definitive wisdom in the matter as to just what constitutes the pinnacle of pork perfection.
Accordingly, we threw down the gauntlet for them to provide photographic proof. Sadly, many of you took this as your cue to launch into yet more verbals, without actually putting your money where your evidently ample and salivating mouths are.
You've still got until Friday to get your entries to me right here, so get your acts together.
In the meantime, here's a submission by someone who did manage to overcome his hangover long enough to grab a snap – Bruce L's "some sort of seed-strewn wholemeal bap" creation:
Yes, that's right: this thing they call a "bap" is "seed strewn" and "wholemeal", in direct contravention of the "Thou shalt use only hand-sliced white bread, for it is the Lord's will" bacon sarnie commandment.
Bruce has, however, deployed butter and says that in the matter of the quality of bacon used, it should simply be of high quality and in abundance.
He also notes that any bacon sarnie "must be served with a giant mug of tea". This is "elevated from refreshing but basic hot beverage to nectar of the gods by simple application of: 1) any greasy food, in this case the bacon butty and 2) several pints too many of one's favourite ale (porter for me, Orkney Dark Island if it's on the go), the last of which having been imbibed approximately 10 hours previously".
Provocative stuff. If you think Bruce has committed a heinous sin against the sacred bacon sarnie, you know what you have to do...®


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thirdsystem: Keep us posted on Die Welt ist Klang. I'm tempted to order it, but it seems like a lot of money to spend at once. I suspect if I don't buy it, I'll regret it down the road.
Also downloaded Lee Anthony Norris & Porya Hatami- The Longing Daylight https://carpesonum.bandcamp.com/album/the-longing-daylight. Equally magnificent.
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OR TEXAS HB1830S IS SWINEFLU LEGISLATION, IT'S BEEN INFECTED BY PORK! **UPDATE: It looks like the "vendor language" around Section Six has been struck! Given Bejtlich's recent promises, I thought we'd take a quick but pragmatic look at why risk (…)


text: I now have my Elna up and running, what a great little machine so far. I tried last night to set up the case as pictured but ran into a snag. I was wondering if anyone else had this come up and how they solved it? When setting up the case the little metal prong that is supposed to fit tightly into the rubber/plastic piece on the opposite side will not go in. It will not close for a nice smooth top. If it was originally a semi hard rubber piece it is now hard as a rock. Was there another piece on it that is now missing? Photos added. Thanks for any help in advance.


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- 246 backed bill, 168 voted against it, leaving it short of the two-thirds needed for passage
- Under the bill, doctors who perform such abortions could face up to five years in prison
- Democrats call the bill an unneeded distraction from the economic debate
- The support of two-thirds of House members was necessary for the bill for it to pass
Congress took up one of the most divisive issues in politics Thursday as the House of Representatives rejected a controversial measure banning abortions based on the sex of a fetus.
In the House, 246 representatives backed the bill while 168 voted against it, leaving the proposal short of the two-thirds total necessary for passage. Most Republicans supported the measure; the majority of Democrats opposed it.
Supporters characterized the proposal as a necessary defense of the civil rights of unborn children; opponents called it part of a broader so-called war on women and an ongoing assault on legalized abortion.
The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act would have imposed possible fines and prison sentences of up to five years on doctors who knowingly perform abortions chosen on grounds based on sex.
Abortion providers could also have been subjected to civil penalties, including punitive monetary damages, under certain circumstances.
The issue is about "whether or not in the land of the free and the home of the brave that we are going to allow little girls to be killed before they're born simply because they are little girls," Rep. Trent Franks, R-Arizona, said Thursday morning. Franks was the bill's main sponsor.
"I would suggest to you that if that should become the accepted practice in America -- that we are no longer going to care about that -- then maybe it's time to board (Congress up) and go home and say we did our best but we just didn't quite make it."
Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, said that "most people in government are unaware" that abortion based on the sex of a fetus "is part of a deliberate plan of population control that has now boomeranged and come to our own country."
"This is the real war on women," he insisted.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, argued Wednesday that it's "hypocrisy to say that one is pro-woman and that it's OK to end the life of an unborn child just because of its gender."
"Since when did America subscribe to the idea that males are worth more than females?" she asked. "It's sick, it's discriminatory, it's sexist and it is blatantly anti-woman and anti-human."
Supporters of the measure cited multiple studies to back claims of a growing pattern of abortions based on the sex of the fetus. Opponents, however, took issue with certain interpretations of the studies, and warned of negative ramifications for women's health if the bill becomes law.
Michigan Rep. John Conyers, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, asserted Wednesday that the bill "tramples (on) the rights of women under the guise of nondiscrimination, while doing absolutely nothing to provide women with needed resources for their babies, female and male."
Citing opposition to the bill from groups such as the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, he said, "If this measure is passed into law, we will then require that medical and mental health professionals violate ... doctor-patient confidentiality" and report suspected violations to law enforcement authorities.
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-California, said the bill's backers were "exploiting serious issues like racism and sexism in a backdoor attempt to make abortion illegal."
"Attempts to restrict or deny access to safe abortions is harmful to women's health and would ultimately take us back to the days of back-alley abortions," she said.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, said nobody he has talked to favors abortion based on sex preferences, and the proposal was brought up simply "because somebody decided politically it was a difficult place to put people in."
Drew Hammill, a spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, called the debate over the bill "yet another distraction and yet another day that this Republican majority fails to act on job creation."
But Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Thursday that banning abortion based on the sex of a fetus is an "important issue to the American people."
"This type of sex selection ... most Americans find pretty repulsive," Boehner said. "Our (Republican) members feel strongly about it. That's why it's being brought" to a vote.
Asked why the Republican-controlled House took up an abortion bill at a time when GOP leaders have called economic recovery their top concern, a spokesman for Boehner insisted Wednesday that the party's priorities had not changed.
"House Republicans are focused on the American people's top priorities: jobs and the economy," spokesman Michael Steel said. "Dealing with a bill to prevent sex-selective abortion ... doesn't change that."
While Republican leaders wouldn't say why they brought up the bill under an expedited legislative process requiring a two-thirds vote for House approval, the maneuver avoided an extended argument over a divisive social issue with the potential to sidetrack the economic debate.
Franks' bill came to a vote at a time when abortion, a perennial hot-button topic, has re-emerged as a political focal point. The anti-abortion rights group Live Action released two videos this week that is says shows Planned Parenthood staffers offering advice to a pair of women involved in a sting on how best to proceed with an abortion based on the sex of a fetus.
Planned Parenthood, which provides a range of medical services for women, responded to the release of the videos by noting that one of the staff members in question -- a woman in Austin, Texas -- had lost her job because she failed to follow proper procedures for the organization.
The organization insisted Thursday in a written statement, however, that the second staffer, based in New York, had provided "nonjudgmental, informative services that are in accordance with social work standards for patient interaction."
The statement noted that Planned Parenthood "opposes sex selection abortion and insists on the highest quality care. ... If any Planned Parenthood organization learns of an instance where a staff member has not fully followed policies or procedures, they take swift action and remedy the situation."
At the same time, the statement blasted Live Action's promotion of "a series of hoax patient videotapes related to sex selection."
"Edited videos of hoax patient visits are part of a coordinated campaign over the last several years to distort Planned Parenthood's services, mission and values," the statement said.
Planned Parenthood's leadership jumped into the presidential contest Wednesday, unveiling a roughly $1.5 million ad campaign targeting Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. The ad, which says Romney would deny women critical medical services, is set to run in the battleground states of Florida, Iowa and Virginia.


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Cordova's culinary gain means a loss for the Chickasaw Gardens area after the longtime Grisanti's restaurant location at 2855 Poplar Ave. quietly closed its doors.
Ronnie Grisanti confirmed Wednesday, Feb. 15, that his namesake restaurant in the Chickasaw Crossing shopping center had closed as of Jan. 28, days before he opened his new restaurant in Cordova's Stella Marris nightclub to the public.
Grisanti declined to comment further on the closing.
The sudden closure of the old Grisanti's came as a surprise to some patrons. Maurice Tucker, who owns Tucker Optimal Chiropratic in the same shopping center, said he had a standing reservation at the restaurant for 25 business clients every two weeks.
Tucker said he'd expected to host another dinner there last week, and only found out the restaurant was closed the day before his reservation, when he walked over and read a sign on the door. The news sent him scrambling to find a new venue.
"I already called up my guests and invited them out to Ronnie Grisanti's," Tucker said. "A staple like that, it not only hurts Memphis but it hurts my little shopping center."
This is the second time in a little more than two years a Grisanti's restaurant at that location has closed. Ronnie Grisanti opened the popular Italian eatery in the early 1980s and moved it to the Chickasaw Crossing shopping center, but he announced in August 2009 that it would shut its doors.
Grisanti's son, Judd Grisanti, opened his own restaurant, Judd Grisanti's Trattoria, at the same location a few months later. Ronnie Grisanti returned to the kitchen there in 2010, taking over management and returning his name to the restaurant in 2011.
Grisanti opened his new restaurant Feb. 3 at the Stella Marris nightclub, 7955 Fischer Steel Road in Cordova. Stella Marris has raised the ire of Cordova neighbors who believed owner Steve Cooper planned to turn the location into a strip club, but the introduction of the Grisanti name to the venture had helped ease neighbors' concerns.
Grisanti had told the Commercial Appeal in January that his involvement in the old Poplar location would end and that he was unsure of the restaurant's future.
He said Wednesday that he couldn't be in both restaurants at the same time.
The Grisanti family is a Memphis dining dynasty, lending the family name to a number of current and past restaurants in the area, dating back to 1909.
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Latest news from Mont-Blanc!
The new Gouter Hut gets the green light! The departmental commission for security met on 11th June 2013 and were unanimous in their decision to open the 7 million euro "hut" to the public. The mayor of St-Gervais is expected to sign the minesterial decree in the next few days, after which the Gouter will be able to welcome its first climbers.
Located at 3,835 metres on the classic route to climb Mont-Blanc, this futuristic ovoid construction is an awesome sight. The the hut is designed to function with solar panels, biomass energy using innovating technologies. It fulfils the HQE environmental criteria and sets a benchmark for high mountain building technology.
With a capacity of 120 beds, it will ultimately replace the existing refuge hut, which must be dismantled within a year of the new hut's opening.
An estimated 10,000 people overnight in the hut over the summer season, whilst they attempt to climb western Europe's highest mountain. This is not without its risks and consequences and for the first time this summer, there will be a degree of monitoring by mountain police on both the Gouter (normal) and 3 Monts route to increase safety awareness and to ensure that climbers respect this protected natural site.
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In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus said, "The Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."
"If those who lead you say to you, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you."
In this excerpt from his book, Son of Man: The Mystical Path to Christ, Andrew Harvey describes Jesus' vision of the Kingdom of God which is not about the afterlife, but a new form of society here on earth.
[The radical message and vision of Jesus] menaces both of the predominant modern visions of political organization — the "socialist" and the "capitalist" theories of society.
The socialist vision is "undermined" because the center of Jesus' ideal society remains God, Kingdom-consciousness, and the living experience of love through communion — and not the State or some vague feeling of "fraternity."
Capitalism, both in its historical and contemporary "globalist" and "nationalist" forms, is questioned because its frank advocacy of competition and blatant celebration of power and wealth betray all of Jesus' beliefs about how human beings should live.
Any political vision, in fact, that is not primarily a mystical vision of transformation betrays the fullness and majesty of what Jesus had in mind; any mystical vision of transformation which does not also attempt forcefully to be a political one also betrays his vision.
He urged those who followed him to give generously to beggars, to lend money without expecting any repayment, and to give without anticipating any reward. The Jerusalem church after his death practiced a form of ownership-in-common, which may well reflect Jesus' own beliefs. A kind of mystical "communalism" may be the best analogy we have of what Jesus intended for a society that reflected the egalitarian compassion of the Kingdom.
If everyone was equally welcome at the table of love, and love's healing resources were to be shared equally with everyone, why shouldn't wealth and land also be similarly equally distributed, so that no one need be poor and that everyone could have the chance at a decent life, and not at the expense of others but in admitted interdependence with them?
It is at least probable, even likely, that Jesus' practical picture of the Kingdom on earth would have at its heart a vision of as equal as possible a distribution of wealth and property and access to, and control of, the sources of power.
As the mystic realist he was, Jesus would have known that mystical inner-communion had to be reflected, as exhaustively as possible, in the actual day-to-day relations of society at every level, and that the holy equality of beings to the all-loving eye of God could not simply be "experienced" but had also to be implemented in the life of the world.
To someone who has not seen the Kingdom, the games of power can seem sad but unavoidable rituals in a mostly evil world that needs hierarchy and power elites not to crumble into chaos. But to someone to whom the Kingdom and its glory has been revealed — and to whom the glory of the human spirit and soul have also been revealed — no arrangement deserves to be fostered that does not constantly encourage and inspire the transformation of the human into the divine human and does not constantly invoke the potential splendor of the new world, one in which the glory of God and of the Spirit and of the love between them would not only be honored but actively reflected in every law, every transaction between beings, every concerted "social," "religious," and "political" action.
When Jesus said "my Kingdom is not of this world," he did not mean that it belonged to some purely ethereal realm: he was in not any way an escapist. What Jesus meant was that the Kingdom had nothing to do with this world, the banal, violent world created by human greed, ignorance, and folly; the Kingdom was the hidden soul's reflection in reality and not the reflection of that blind false self that had — goaded on and inspired by evil forces — largely made human history. To make the hidden reflection of the soul "real" was the task of the life that Jesus came to "give more abundantly," of the new being he was trying to inspire into action, and of the living and very heteroclite ("deviating from common rules or forms") community that sprang up around him.
In the Gospel of John, when the Pharisees (religious elite) ask Jesus if he is the son of God, he replies, "It is written in your own scriptures that God said, "You are gods."
We are all the divine children of the Spirit. We must bring the Kingdom of the Spirit into reality. "It will not come by expectation."


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Police release video of University of Oklahoma quarterback's arrest
Police released a video showing the arrest of OU quarterback Baker Mayfield in Washington County, Arkansas.
The Heisman Trophy finalist was arrested in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on misdemeanor complaints of public intoxication, disorderly conduct, fleeing and resisting arrest.
Officers said that Mayfield, 21, was intoxicated, his speech was slurred, he smelled of alcohol and he had difficulty walking down stairs.
When officers attempted to take a statement from Mayfield, who said he was trying to break up an altercation, he started to walk away, according to a booking report. The officer told him to stop, and Mayfield began to run.
An officer tackled Mayfield and gave orders for him to put his arms behind his back, but he did not comply.
"Mayfield kept his arms locked tight and would not allow me to place his arms behind his back," the report said." I eventually forced Mayfield's arm behind his back. I then placed him in handcuffs."
He was booked into the Washington County (Arkansas) Jail and was released a few hours later.
Mayfield, who did not appear in court Monday, has a hearing scheduled for 8 a.m. April 7.


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Web sites need to be able to handle requests for missing content and deal with misspelled or bad URL formats. But how would you handle this in code? In Microsoft Web Forms, a typical solution enforced by the ASP.NET framework defines custom routes for common HTTP codes such as 404 and 403. Whenever users type, or follow, a badly formatted URL, they are redirected to another page where they are informed of the problem that has occurred. The trick works just fine and there's nothing you can complain about from a purely functional perspective. The rub lies with the behavior of such applications when their URLs are requested by search engines.
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Imagine a search engine requesting a URL that doesn't exist in an application that implements custom error routing. The application first issues an HTTP 302 code which tells the caller that the resource has been temporarily moved to another location. The caller makes another attempt and finally lands on the error page. This approach is great for humans who ultimately get a pretty message; it is wrong for search engines which form the idea that the content is not missing at all just harder than usual to retrieve. And an error page is cataloged as regular content and related to similar content.
This approach is good from a coding perspective in that it doesn't require much work. One alternative is writing a runtime filter an HTTP module to validate the incoming URL, then return HTTP 404 right away. Starting with .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1, Microsoft incorporated the routing module with the ASP.NET platform. The routing module is just an HTTP module that can be used for many different purposes, including filtering incoming requests based on routes. Honestly, the routing module is more helpful in ASP.NET MVC than in Web Forms when it comes to handling missing content. In Web Forms, in fact, it has to redirect to another resource. In ASP.NET MVC, it can serve a 404 status code right away with no additional roundtrip.
What's the best practice in ASP.NET MVC? I recommend completing the route collection in global.asax with a catch-all route that traps any URLs being sent to your application that haven't been captured by any of the existing routes. For obvious reasons, the catch-all rule must be placed at the very bottom of the list since routes are evaluated from top to bottom and parsing stops at the first match. The catch-all route simply maps the request to an
Error controller. The controller, in turn, looks at content and headers and decides about which HTTP code to return.
Error controller must be manually added to the project and to some extent its structure is still a matter of preference. The
Error controller code here is a minimal implementation:
public class ErrorController : Controller { public ActionResult Missing() { HttpContext.Response.StatusCode = 404; return View("Missing"); } }
The missing .aspx view will contain any UI you want to show to users. This approach weds the best of SEO with coding effectiveness. Search engines quickly get a 404 and can use that information for the best. Users get a pretty message and can check if they did something wrong. For developers, it's not a huge amount of work.
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Everyone loves to Zimride in style, which is why it's important to show off your car on your profile. We asked an amazingly talented Zimride driver, Matt L, to share his pro advice so you can get that perfect shot.
I Zimride in a 1996 Subaru Legacy Outback that I've customized heavily, so I like to show off my hard work when I get a chance. Here are some tips on how to take fantastic photos of your car with minimal gear.
Tools of the Trade
- Any camera (one that can do manual settings is best)
- A tripod or something like a bag of rice to keep a camera steady
- A nice, interesting background
- Good light
Location, Location, Location
First park your car in a nice location and make sure the environment fits the car. For example, park an outdoorsy car in the wilderness or a sports car in a city environment.
The Golden Hour
The "Golden Hour" is the hour right after sunrise or the hour just before sunset. Try to take your photos at this time—it makes everything look magical.
Get Down Low
You can emphasize the awesomeness of your car by eliminating any distractions in the background. The easiest way to accomplish this is dropping down on a knee or lying on the ground.
Position yourself and your camera at about a 45 degree angle to the car or 90 degrees depending on the look that you want to achieve.
Manual Mode
Check if your camera has a manual mode "M". When your camera is on manual mode, set the aperture (f/"something") to around f/8. This will give you an in focus image from foreground to background. If you're using a DSLR, then you'll want to switch to f/11.
Adjust the shutter speed so that the part of the car facing you is properly exposed. You'll also want to keep your ISO as low as possible to get the best image quality.
If you are using a simpler camera without manual features such as a phone, put the box (or tap the screen) on the part of the car closest to you until it is the proper brightness. You may want to use exposure compensation (+2 to -2) to adjust this if your camera offers this feature.
After you have your settings dialed in, hold steady and blast away!
Experiment, Experiment, Experiment
Try different angles and position the car differently in the light. I like to place the car diagonal with the wheels pointing out towards the camera to make the car more engaging.
If you are feeling adventurous and want to experiment with some different techniques, take your car somewhere totally dark, leave your camera on a tripod, set your aperture to f/8 and your shutter speed to 30 seconds or as long as it will allow. After you snap your photo, but before the shutter closes, take a flashlight and "paint with light" on the car and around it. You'll be surprised at the results.
Ask for Feedback
Share your awesome car photos with your friends and family and get their feedback. It's important to practice!
Thanks for all the fantastic tips Matt! If you're interested in checking out more of his work, please visit his Web site.
Got any shots of your car? You can share them with us by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or Share with us on our Facebook page!
Happy Travels!
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MARTIN, Tenn. – The UT-Martin Skyhawks bounced back from a double loss yesterday to hand the Golden Eagles their first in-conference loss in 12 OVC contests.
Today's loss breaks Tech's 11 game win streak in the Ohio Valley Conference and prevented the fourth straight series sweep for the Golden Eagles, who's domination over EIU, Morehead State and APSU fueled them to second place in the OVC.
Martin's left-hander Brendan Lozupone got off to a rough start on the mound, hitting Tech leadoff batter Austin Wulf and no. 2 hitter Tate McMillan. Chad Oberacker's base hit through the right side scored Wulf from second for the first run of the game.
The Skyhawks responded when Cody Terry singled to singled and advanced on a fielder's choice play when Ty Nelson grounded out to second. Wes Patterson's single up the middle tied the game at one all before the game-breaking second inning.
The Golden Eagles came out strong in the second inning with quick singles from Devin Rivers and Frankie Beech. A groundout by Wulf advanced both runners into scoring position for McMillan, who's base hit through the right side scored Rivers. With runners on the corners, A.J. Kirby-Jones walked to load the bases, and Oberacker stepped up to rip a neat single up the middle for two more runs, giving Tech a 4-1 lead. Oberacker went 3-for-4 on the day with three RBI's and a walk.
The bottom of the second was critical for Tech however as Martin batters worked freshman Tristan Archer for six runs on seven hits. Singles from Drew Mason, Matt Young and Cory Stooksbury, the first three batters in Martin's second inning lineup, loaded the bases for Trey Karlen. Archer got Karlen swinging, but gave up a two run double to Cody Terry. Ty Nelson's single advanced Terry and scored Young, while Wes Patterson brought Terry across the plate with a double down the left field line. Archer induced a groundout from Jordan Owen for out number two of the inning, but with runners in scoring position Brent Morris singled up the middle for two more RBI's, giving Martin a 7-4 lead. Nick Price came in to relieve Archer and stranded two men on base after walking Drew Mason and pitching a pop-up foul out to Stooksbury.
Tech rallied in the third and fourth innings to tie the game at eight all. With two outs in the third inning, Chad Hayes singled to left field and Beech walked, setting Austin Wulf up for a deep double to right center field that would score both base runners. Hayes went 3-for-4 and contributed one RBI on the day. Martin responded with a homer from Trey Karlen to make the score 8-6 in their favor, but Tech capitalized on an error by Karlen and hits from Casanova Donaldson, Hayes and Beech for two more runs to tie the game.
Chason Choate kept UT-Martin scoreless through the fourth and fifth innings and only allowed a single run in the bottom of the sixth to put the Skyhawks up by one. Tech added a run in the top of the eighth, but Martin secured the game in the bottom of the eighth by earning three runs on three hits off of Choate and an error.
Tech boasted 14 hits for the game, but couldn't respond in the top of the ninth for the win. Choate, having pitched five innings, was charged for the loss bringing his record to 2-3. Drew Flaniken earned the win for the Skyhawks, who had 19 hits.
The Golden Eagles will return home for a mid-week game against Western Carolina on Tuesday, May 18.


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King Tut replica tomb opens to public in Egypt
By Barry Neild, CNN • Updated 2nd May 2014
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It's not quite the Mummy Returns -- more like an attempt to stop the Mummy disappearing in the first place.
Archeological experts have built an exact, full-sized replica of King Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt, recreating every tiny detail to save the original from being destroyed by visitors.
The replica tomb opened this week near the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, where tourists flock to see the ancient Valley of the Kings complex that houses the young pharaoh's actual resting place.
Laser scanners and high definition printers were used to recreate the precise textures and colors of wall murals depicting the afterlife.
King Tutankhamun's original tomb, built following the 19-year-old ruler's death in 1327 B.C., was discovered almost intact by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.
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But decades of tourism have taken their toll.
Moisture from the breath of visitors has damaged the murals and walls, while temperature fluctuations have caused paint to flake off and cracks to expand.
The replica is an exact copy of Tut's tomb
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Luckily, dampness isn't an issue in the new tomb -- some Egyptologists attending an official inauguration reportedly burst into tears when they saw how accurate it was.
The facsimile tomb recreates the paintings -- which depict the young pharaoh's journey into the afterlife -- in their existing damaged form from images taken in 2009.
Carved masonry inside the structure, including the sarcophagus in the middle of the burial chamber that once contained King Tut's mummy, have been recreated using resin.
Both the tombs are currently open to the public, but the plan is eventually to close the original to allow for conservation work.
And, no doubt, offer some peace and quiet to Tutankhamun, whose remains are still there, protected by a glass case.
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The new tomb also help safeguard one of the Egypt's key attractions at a time when social and political turmoil is wreaking heavy damage on its tourism industry, pushing takings down by 43% according to some reports.
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"Our heritage is something that gives Egypt its unique identity; preserving it through such projects is vitally important," said Omayma El Husseini, a spokesman for Egypt's tourism board.
Sob story: The replica is said to have reduced some to tears
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"They also ensure visitors have the opportunity to experience pharaonic sites of significance, allowing them to stay for longer periods to fully appreciate the importance and relevance of such projects."
The $690,000 replica is the work of Factum Arte, a Madrid-based conservation team also engaged in similar projects to recreate the important tombs of Queen Nefertari and Seti I.
"This remarkable project is a fine example of how new technology can preserve and indeed promote Egypt's rich archaeological heritage," James Moran, the European Union's ambassador to Egypt, said at the ceremony to open the new tomb.
"It should also help to revive much needed tourism in the unique area of Luxor, something that is badly needed for the development of Upper Egypt."
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Panko fried Cod, Lime Red curry, and Herbed Basbati rice
Yield: 6
Panko fried Cod ingredients:
1 lbs cod fillets, cut into 6 equal pieces
1 lime
6 tsp salt (1 tsp per fillet)
3 tsp black pepper (1/2 tsp per fillet)
3 eggs, lightly beaten
Canola or vegetable oil for frying
- Squeeze lime juice over cod fillets and let it sit for about half hour in the fridge.
- Season fillets with salt and pepper
- In 3 separated wide bowls, prepare one for flour, one for beaten egg, and one for panko
- Dip each fillet in flour. Shake out excessed flour. One at a time.
- Dip the fillet into beaten egg, then onto panko. Set aside.
- Repeat this for 6 fillets.
- Heat oil to 375 F and fry each fillet until golden brown.
- On a hot pot, add 2 Tbs coconut milk and curry paste. Stir it together to get a flavor and smell out off curry paste. Add ginger and red onion. Cook for a min or so. Add the rest of coconut cream and palm sugar. Cook until sugar has dissolved. Add bell pepper. Turn off the heat. Add lime juice and basil. Adjust to taste.
- On a hot pan, stir in red onion. Cook until it's translucent. Add garlic and cook for a min. Add sake. Cook until it's reduced. Add spinach, salt, and pepper. Turn off the heat. Stir everything together.
Chopped green onion and minced red basil
- Let the rice rest 15 mins in water before cooking. Add oil and chicken stock. Bring it boil. Then simmer with a lid on for 35 mins or follow package instruction. After it's done, sitr in green onion and basil to mix.
- Plate rice on a plate. Add curry around it. Place spinach over rice and top with fried cod. Garnish with lime zest and minced basil.
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Paul and Shark has a long and illustrious history of producing some of the finest knitwear for men. Founded in 1921, the company was originally a knitting mill producing garments and trading under its own name. The Paul and Shark brand developed in the mid 1970s, specifically to develop sportswear for men. The success was in adding Italian flair and style to men's sportswear and making the transition from the arena to the street.
Paul and Shark is typically European in its approach to style – understated elegance and sophistication are top concerns. Particularly popular amongst the yachting fraternity, the brand has continued to establish a name for quality sports and casual wear that doesn't look out of place on board a million pound yacht or at the bar in the clubhouse. It's this Italian sophistication that has made Paul and Shark a byword for elegance and quality products. The attention to detail is precise, uncompromising and a driving factor in all their collections. This is a brand that doesn't need to shout its presence in the marketplace. It quietly gets on with things, infinitely practical, utterly stylish and very desirable.
The label's heritage shines through with every collection and new designers have brought a freshness and novelty to the brand that has brought it right up to date and very 21st Century. A dedicated army of followers is never disappointed and those numbers are growing with every collection that the label releases.
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From Shailene Woodley and Vin Diesel to Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart, the stars of March and April movies run the gamut. Sean Penn will play a former special ops agent his very dramatic way — just what you'd expect from a two-time Oscar winner. Fans of fantasy can look forward to "Tris" Prior in "Insurgent," and there are also tales of immortality and intense crime. Here are eight of the biggest films of the season.
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Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing, November 1995
This is a rare view of Saturn's rings seen just after the Sun has set below the ring plane.
This perspective is unusual because the Earth is slightly above Saturn's rings and the Sun is below them. Normally we see the rings fully illuminated by the Sun. The Hubble telescope photograph reveals three bright ring features [moving from the outer to the inner rings]: the F Ring, the Cassini Division, and the C Ring. The low concentration of material in these rings allows light from the Sun to shine through them. The A and B rings are much denser, which limits the amount of light that penetrates through them. Instead, they are faintly visible because they reflect light from Saturn's disk.
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Esta lista es una muestra de los títulos disponibles. Los bibliotecarios te pueden sugerir más títulos y después dinos cuáles son tus favoritos.
- ABCDrive!
A car trip takes one boy and his mother past many familiar City sights.jPS HOWL
- Barrio: José's neighborhood
Eight-year-old José explores the cultural life of his Mission District neighborhood. Also available in Spanish.j979.461 ANCO
- The cable car and the dragon
The late, great San Francisco columnist's only book for children brings together San Francisco favorites – fog, a cable car, and the Chinese New Year parade.jPS CAEN
- The City by the Bay: a magical journey around San Francisco
Tour San Francisco's varied neighborhoods and famous landmarks via colorfully whimsical collage art. Also available in Japanese.j917.9461 KLEV
- Celebrating Hanukkah
The daughter of a local rabbi, 11-year-old Leora describes how and why her family observes this Jewish holiday.j296.435 HOYT
- Dancers in the garden
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- Earthquake
The 1906 earthquake and fire force a Chinese American girl and her family to temporarily move from Chinatown to Golden Gate Park.jPS Lee
- Goodnight San Francisco
For the youngest listeners, the City is presented throughout a day of sightseeing.jBOARD
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Based on her own childhood, the author tells about coming to San Francisco from Taiwan and anxiously awaiting the green cards that would make it legal for her parents to work.jPS YANG
- He's got the whole world in his hands
The well-known spiritual is set visually in San Francisco.jPS NELS
- Humphrey, the lost whale: a true story
Citizens unite to attempt rescue of the humpback whale that swims into San Francisco Bay by mistake. Also available in Japanese. .jPS TOKU
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New Beer: Firestone Walker Double DBA
The brews we're sipping, one by one.
This double-strength version of Firestone Walker's Double Barrel Ale pours maple-syrup brown, and smells a bit mapley as well—deeply rich and sweet with hints of caramel corn and bourbon. With twice as much malt and hops as the original DBA recipe, this Imperial Special Bitter was partially fermented in oak barrels and then aged for a year in those barrels as well as some retired bourbon barrels.
Though the first sip seems as sweet as you'd expect from the scent, there's a bitter layer too that holds the sugar in check. (Firestone Walker always manages to get their beers in balance, and though this one is heady, heavy stuff, it's not way out of line with their other brews.)
You'll notice a little smoke and a little vanilla from the barrels—it's as if bread pudding with whiskey sauce has been recreated in beer form. It's an obvious match for creme brulee, but don't be afraid of opening it earlier in the evening and serving it with a savory dish. Try pork belly or roasted goose, a salad with pecans and blue cheese, or go with Peking duck—yes, you can make that at home.
Have you tried this limited release from Firestone Walker? What did you think?
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