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Winners of the 2001 Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology
Announced during the Ninth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology:
Theory: Mark A. Ratner, Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Professor Ratner was cited as a theorist whose work has made major contributions to the development and success of nanometer-scale electronic devices. He was a visionary co-inventor of the concept and scientific study of molecular-scale electronics. Ratner has continued to refine his early concepts with a series of theoretical innovations and articles. His work has been instrumental in establishing scientific understanding, worldwide, about the mechanisms and magnitudes of conduction in molecular junctions, and in particular, the nature of charge transport in single-molecule nanostructures.
Experimental: Charles M. Lieber, Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University
Professor Lieber, was cited for his pioneering experimental work in molecular nanotechnology which included seminal contributions to the synthesis and characterization of the unique physical properties of carbon nanotubes and nanowires. He has developed numerous innovative applications of nanowires and carbon nanotubes, including the assembly of these building blocks into complex structures for nanodevice applications. Lieber's work led to the creation of new tools for molecular nanotechnology and represents a significant advance towards molecular scale computation and nanotechnology.
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Finalists for the 2001 Feynman Prizes
The following five individuals or teams were selected as Finalists for the 2001 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, Theoretical:
The following five individuals or teams were selected as Finalists for the 2001 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, Experimental:
2001 Feynman Prizes for Theoretical and Experimental Molecular Nanotechnology
Two prizes in the amount of $5,000 each will be awarded to the researchers whose recent work has most advanced the development of molecular nanotechnology. This year again separate prizes will be awarded for theoretical work and for experimental work. The prizes will be given at the Ninth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, to be held November 9-11, 2001.
This prize is in honor of Richard P. Feynman who, in 1959, gave a visionary talk at Caltech in which he said "The problems of chemistry and biology can be greatly helped if our ability to see what we are doing, and to do things on an atomic level, is ultimately developeda development which I think cannot be avoided."
Relevant Research Areas
Research areas considered relevant to molecular nanotechnology and molecular manufacturing include but are not limited to:
Special consideration will be given to submissions clearly leading toward the construction of a general-purpose molecular assembler. Applicants wishing further information on the field of the prize are referred to the book Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation (Wiley Interscience, 1992).
Selection Committee for the 2001 Prize
A committee of previous Feynman Prize winners has been asked to select this year's honorees. Invitees are:
Previous Feynman Prize winners
Distinctions between the annually awarded Feynman Prizes and the Feynman Grand Prize
The 2001 Feynman Prize will be the most recent in a series of annually awarded prizes for accomplishment in molecular nanotechnology. Both the annual Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology and the Feynman Grand Prize are sponsored by the Foresight Institute to encourage and accelerate the development of molecular nanotechnology. Both are named in honor of Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman. However, these prizes differ in focus, frequency of award, and scale.
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We might not have gotten the Pontiac G8 sport truck here in the states, but Australia has had the HSV Maloo it would have been based on for decades.
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When it comes to summer getaways, space enthusiasts with the means have a plethora of choices, and the rise of commercial spaceflight is making the list even longer.
From a simple trip to view a rocket launch, to an actual flight in space, there are options to suit all kinds and all budgets. And while many new space experiences come with a hefty price tag, there are still some options for the budget traveler.
Here are six space-related trips private citizens can take:
See America's space centers
At the low end of the space tourism vacation plan are simple trips to NASA space centers or rocket launching sites at spaceports around the country, which come at the cost of plane tickets, a hotel stay and a rental car.
The two final space shuttle launches, set for Nov. 1, 2010 and Feb. 26, 2011, can be viewed from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., which is home to a visitor's center that offers regular tours of the spaceport and programs on U.S. spaceflight history.
Unmanned rocket launches can be seen blasting off from the nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force station and from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, and occasional launches also lift off from Wallops Island in Virginia. [Full Launch Schedule]
Tourists in Houston can also see how astronauts train at Johnson Space Center.
These centers also feature museums showcasing space memorabilia and actual rockets that have made the trip to space.
Month in Space: June 2010
Kids and adults can both get a taste of the spaceflight experience at Space Camp, at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. This program offers the chance to ride space simulators and practice a mock space mission, complete with "anomalies" thrown at participants to test their coping skills.
Escaping gravity (kind of)
To get a step closer to flying in space, try a weightless flight on a modified jet — though you will to dig a bit deeper into your pocketbook.
The Zero Gravity Corporation offers weightless experiences aboard an airplane flying parabolic curves, though these flights typically go for about $4,950 a person. The service commercializes a type of flight used by NASA on its famed "vomit comet" aircraft to train astronauts for flying in space.
Parts of the film Apollo 13 were shot during a similar ride, and at least one couple even threw a weightless wedding aboard a ZERO-G flight. These trips can be brokered through Vienna, Va.-based space tourism firm Space Adventures.
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Train like a pro at the National Aerospace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center outside Philadelphia. This facility offers immersive space training, including centrifuge simulators that make you feel the additional G's of launch.
Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson is among NASTAR's professional clients. For $5,800, trainees can go through a rigorous two-day space training program aimed at preparing future space tourists for flights on his firm's SpaceShipTwo suborbital spacecraft.
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- George Weasley: "Excellent, I think I see a few veela cousins. They'll need help understanding our English customs, I'll look after them..."
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- — Fred and George Weasley meet Fleur Delacour's cousins[src]
The cousins of Fleur and Gabrielle Delacour were two French Veela, or part-Veela, who attended Fleur's wedding to Bill Weasley in the summer of 1997.
When they attended the wedding, the three Veela had exotic flowers and bewitched birds decorating their hats. Their beauty quickly attracted the attention of Fred and George Weasley, two of the groom's younger brothers. Fred escorted them inside the Burrow while George was forced to assist a "gaggle of middle-aged witches".
Later that evening, during the reception, Harry Potter noticed that Fred and George "disappeared into the darkness" with Fleur's cousins.[1]
Behind the scenes
- The Veela were portrayed by Alison Cain and an unknown actress in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.
- These two girls must be more distant cousins to Fleur and Gabrielle Delacour than first cousins, as they are full-blooded Veela, whereas the Delacours are quarter-Veela. This indicates that they could not have had the same grandparents, since Fleur and Gabrielle's grandfather was a wizard. They are presumably related to the Delacours through their maternal grandmother, who was a Veela. Alternatively George could simply be using the term 'Veela cousins' to mean that they have visible Veela ancestry. It is not directly stated that they are full blooded Veela and may simply be part-Veela like Fleur and Gabrielle.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Notes and references
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You read that correctly. Andra Davis has agreed to a pay cut (costing him about $1.4million this year alone). Due to Cleveland management needing cap room presumably, they asked Davis, a perennial starter at middle linebacker, to not only take this pay cut, but to also chop off 2 of the the remaining 3 years on his contract because the team is bringing along younger players. What!?! Taking a pay cut for the team is one thing – certainly rare and certainly impressive. But allowing the team to reduce a contract with 3 years left on it to 1 year, is simply unbelievable. This Davis is so humble and modest that in the end, it really just makes the Browns organization kind of look bad.
Read this story. It will remind you that while we read a lot about some moronic behavior by NFL players, there are good guys out there too. This should be THE headline on sports pages throughout the country.


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All Access, which put out drives by Ringo Starr and Matchbox Twenty, has gotten together with EMI, Warner Music Group and Universal Music to make USB bracelets. These have previously been sold at concerts from such musicians as Willie Nelson and the Black Crowes. If you saw the last Grammys, you might have noticed that Ringo wore one of his own. We call that free advertising at its finest.
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Defending Rawls's Law of Peoples against Cosmopolitan Critiques A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PHILOSOPHY) By Xiao Wei December, 20 1 2
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|After the World War II, we have witnessed the increase in international cooperation in almost all aspects of human life. Various global organizations are established for this purpose, for example, the United Nations, European and World Trade Organization. There was a prevalent optimism that, the international cooperation in all these international organizations will reconstruct everyone's identity and each will eventually see herself as the citizen of the world first and foremost. ❧ Such a change is especially welcomed by cosmopolitan theorists, who hold that individuals and their interests should be the ultimate concern for any theory of justice. They consider this ongoing phenomenon to empirically support their conviction that global justice should be justice among individuals rather than justice among states as traditionally conceived. Some cosmopolitans apply the leading liberal philosopher John Rawls's domestic theory of justice to analyze global issues. They conclude that Rawls would agree that global institutions should be reformed following a global difference principle so that the vast inequalities in income and wealth can be reduced. To them, global justice should be justice without borders and the sovereign states should have no moral value in their considerations. ❧ However, Rawls's publication of his own theory of international justice surprisingly disappoints these cosmopolitans. In these cosmopolitans' eyes, Rawls betrays his own liberal concerns for individuals and he becomes a defender of the traditional view of global justice of nations. ❧ Now the question is whether Rawls becomes more conservative in his international theory and keeps distance from his liberal stance in his domestic theory. I believe the answer is no. So the puzzles I try to solve in my dissertation include how a liberal should conceive the most fundamental interests of individuals and what the reasonable global intuitions are required to best protect these interests. ❧ I argue that a liberal should consider self-respect or the sense of worth to be the most fundamental interest of individuals, and their sense of worth partly comes from collectively develop their society provided that the society is well-ordered. Well-ordered societies includes liberal and decent ones, both of which provide necessary social conditions for individuals to develop and sustain their sense of worth. The sense of worth is the precondition for any agent to be able to take her life to be valuable. Without this sense of worth, she would consider her life to be dull and miserable. Liberals, who cherish the equal value and autonomy of human beings, should agree that the sense of the worth is the core of the dignity of human beings. This sense of worth is supported at least partly by respect shown by the society and others to the individual in the choices she makes. One of the choices an individual member of a well-ordered society makes is to participate in the collective decision-making for developing the society, from which process she has a sense of pride and honor. Because this sense of pride and honor partly constitute the sense of worth of a member of a well-ordered society, the global society should respect the integrity, autonomy and independence of a society that provides necessary social conditions for its members to develop a sense of worth, so that individual members may preserve their self-respect in maintaining and developing their shared society. Thus, Rawls's international theory of justice protects his liberal values. ❧ One may ask since liberals are concerned with the equal worth of human beings, don't cosmopolitans more closely adhere to liberal values in envisioning that liberal political liberties should be universalized and included in basic human rights? My answer is no. If a nonliberal society is decent, it equips itself with all necessary social conditions to support the development of self-respect as that of capacities to make reasonable decisions. Thus, from a liberal point of view of respecting individuals, members of a decent society should be allowed to remain in their society and develop their society according to the plan they make collectively, and this decision should be respected. Any reform in the global institutions that involves forcing upon these individuals immediate change for liberal values violates liberal values themselves. ❧ Lastly, how should a liberal deal with the inequalities in wealth and income in the world? Are cosmopolitans right in insisting that there should be certain transnational institutions to reduce the gap among societies even if all of them are well-ordered? The answer is still no. With the fundamental idea that the international original position should consist of representatives of societies established, we need to examine what would naturally follow from it. Representatives will choose to help burdened societies to acquire well-orderedness because this helps realize democratic peace, which is more likely to occur among well-ordered societies. The representatives will also choose not to continue redistributing wealth because doing so does not contribute to the social conditions for self-respect but rather violates the collective autonomy of members of well-ordered societies by imposing a goal of development on them.
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This is my 1st Quick Lick lesson. Its over an E minor backing track I made. Hopefully it'll give some of you some ideas for your own licks and phrases. New Licks posted every Friday. The last video of the month has all the licks played as one longer solo over the backing track.


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This weekend, Mitt Romney gave a talk at a fundraiser that he didn't realize could be overheard by reporters standing outside. Since perhaps the biggest challenge in evaluating Mitt Romney is figuring out what he actually believes or intends to do if he becomes president, hot mic moments like this one are a blessing. Especially because, in this instance, we learned something good: Mitt Romney is interested in abolishing HUD.
While the Department of Housing and Urban Development has lots of different programs, its bread and butter falls into two categories: subsidies that help poor people pay for homes (Section 8, HOPE VI, and the like) and subsidies that help middle to upper income people pay for homes (FHA and oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). Most of what HUD does is deal with the unaffordability at housing by throwing money at people who use housing.
But why is housing unaffordable? It's because state and (especially) local governments impose regulations that artificially restrict the supply of housing, such as zoning and rent control. They do this at the behest of incumbent homeowners and renters who gain financial advantage because what they have has become scarce.
Then, people realize that it's really expensive for a new entrant to get a home. That's where HUD comes in, with federal subsidies to help offset the unaffordability created by state and local policies.
There is no reason the federal government should be in this business. Unlike health care, there is nothing fundamentally unworkable about a private market in housing that requires heavy government regulation and subsidy. Withdrawing federal housing subsidies would force states and localities to cough up the money needed to offset their costly housing policies—or to relax housing regulations so that the market could drive home prices and rents down.
Abolishing HUD need not mean abolishing every program within HUD. We would still need an Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity; that could go to the Department of Justice. Housing support programs that are heavy on service delivery should go to HHS.
But housing programs that are basically just income support for the poor, particularly Section 8, should be abolished in favor of an expanded EITC. And housing subsidy programs for people with higher incomes should be abolished without substitution.
We do need some temporary federal policy help adjusting to the housing bust; programs in this vein could go to Commerce to Treasury, and then be wound down in an orderly fashion. But in time, the goal of abolishing HUD would be to get the federal government out of the business of mucking with housing prices and mortgages. It's good to hear that Romney is privately thinking along those lines.
Edit to add: Matt Yglesias points out that the largest housing subsidy program (the tax deduction for mortgage interest) is outside HUD's purview. And disappointingly, Romney has singled out MID as a deduction he would protect in tax reform, at least for middle-income households. But he did broach, in this weekend's remarks, going after the deduction for mortgage interest on second homes (it's a start) and the deduction for state and local taxes paid, including property tax.


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Saturday, February 16, 2013
12 comments:
- LabyrinthCreations said...
these are really gorgeous, rot!
- February 16, 2013 at 12:54 PM
- Rot said...
Experimenting with a new version of Photoshop... I have used version 5.5 for years and years. It suddenly stopped working.
I'm afraid to even look at how many versions have been released since.
- February 16, 2013 at 1:00 PM
- Marrow said...
- February 16, 2013 at 3:33 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
These pics are really great. I need to get me a Photoshop.
- February 16, 2013 at 6:23 PM
- girl6 said...
oh man...i just <33333 looking at
these pics...
i Always swear i can "almost" hear them whispering to each other...
- February 18, 2013 at 10:25 AM
- Ragged Grin said...
I recently read where a past version it's downloadable for free on the adobe site, all programs actually. Might be worth a shot.
....and those are awesome.
- February 18, 2013 at 10:49 AM
- Terrormaster said...
Wow man, 5.5?! I cut my Photoshop teeth on 4.0. But I haven't gone beyond 7.0 up and beyond into CS land - gets WAY to expensive for a piece of software that's primarily used for personal non-profit sites and projects. I'm happy with 7.0, it does what I need and I can always uninstall/reinstall if it gives me any trouble.
- February 18, 2013 at 11:57 PM
- Rania said...
These are beautiful. You should check out Adobe Lightroom for photo stuff. It is AMAZEBALLS.
- February 19, 2013 at 5:03 PM
- The Gill-Man said...
Absolutely stunning! My fave is the shot with the witches. The light coming from the cauldron looks like some sort of eldritch energy from another realm bubbling up into our reality.
- February 20, 2013 at 10:21 AM
- Unknown said...
Amazing work as always! love the 3 witches, keep it up man!
- February 21, 2013 at 4:17 PM
- Johnny said...
Do you shoot these RAW? I would love to get a hold of some and play with them in PS.
- March 4, 2013 at 10:46 AM
- Rot said...
I shoot them with the camera's night setting. Nothing fancy.
- March 4, 2013 at 10:56 AM


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The study also revealed that nearly half of people polled say they find it harder to leave their dog for a week than their human counterpart, 94 percent of dog owners consider their dog a part of the family and 56 percent greet their dog when they walk in the door — before saying hello to the rest of their family. Ouch.
The moral here? If anyone gives you sass about loving your dog too much, you now know you're not the only one with a folder on your phone with 500 pictures of Daisy.
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Neo-Nazis barred from inheriting N.B. man's valuable coins
Sister gets injunction temporarily stopping $250K estate going to National Alliance
The sister of a New Brunswick man who left a collection of coins and artifacts worth an estimated $250,000 to a neo-Nazi group in the United States has obtained an injunction.
The court order temporarily blocks any distribution of Robert McCorkill's estate or transfer out of New Brunswick, Ottawa-based lawyer Richard Warman stated in an email.
McCorkill, who also went by McCorkell, left his collection to the U.S.-based National Alliance when he died in Saint John nine years ago, but the estate has remained unsettled.
The ex parte injunction was obtained on Monday on behalf of McCorkill's sister Isabelle McCorkill, who will be challenging the bequest on public policy grounds, Warman said.
"I anticipate that other groups will intervene in support of the application in the coming days," he said.
Anti-racism groups had planned to try to stop the National Alliance from receiving the items, fearing they could be sold and help spark a rebirth of the neo-Nazi group that has been in decline since its founder died more than a decade ago.
Attorney general hired investigator
The New Brunswick Office of the Attorney General had received calls from two human rights lawyers in Canada and the United States, inquiring whether it planned to intervene in the public interest, said department spokesman Dave MacLean.
"The Attorney General has two fundamental constitutional obligations. The first is to uphold the rule of law, but the second, which is a little less clear to the public, is that the Attorney General must act in the public interest," said MacLean.
"And this is a case where one could argue that the money would have been left to an organization that some might have seen that they might not have promoted what is the best interest of society as a whole," he said.
"So it was matter of determining whether the Attorney General should intervene and try to stop that money from going to that organization."
The department first had to determine whether the assets were still in Canada, said MacLean. "If they were no longer in Canada it may have been a lot trickier to proceed, it may have made the case moot," he explained.
So the office hired a private investigator, Gary Le Gresley, of Moonstruck Investigation Services in Bathurst, on July 12 to look into the matter.
An affidavit by Le Gresley was among the documents before Justice Peter Glennie of the Court of Queen's Bench in deciding whether to grant the injunction.
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The affidavit reveals McCorkill knew noted anti-Semite and Holocaust denier Malcolm Ross.
Ross, a former Moncton school teacher, was removed from his position in the early 1990s after a parent filed a human rights complaint against the school district — a decision that was upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada. A subsequent appeal to the UN Human Rights Committee was rejected.
Ross is also known for successfully suing editorial cartoonish Josh Beutel for defamation in 1993 for comparing him to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbles. Ross was awarded $7,500, but the New Brunswick Court of Appeal threw out that decision.
The investigator's affidavit describes Ross as "a friend of the estate."
Remnant Enterprises Ltd., a company incorporated by Ross and his brother, William, was entrusted to transport and inventory McCorkill's assets in 2005, said Le Gresley.
"Approximately 200 numbered boxes of items were examined by Mr. Malcolm Ross," the court document states. "They were apparently store in a unit of Lighthouse Self Storage in Moncton."
Le Gresley determined the assets are still in Canada.
But now that there is a known heir, McCorkill's sister, the Attorney General's office plans to take a "backseat" in the case, said the department spokesman.
Ross could not be reached on Tuesday for comment.
Worth less than $1M
Initial estimates pegged McCorkill's collection, parts of which have been exhibited in Saskatoon and Ottawa, as being worth up to $1 million.
But probate court documents obtained by CBC News showed McCorkill's estate willed to the National Alliance is valued at about $250,000, with about $89,000 in outstanding liabilities.
That leaves about $161,000 for the white supremacist organization, which is based in West Virginia.
The collection includes Greek and Roman coins that are thousands of years old, an ancient Iranian sword, Neolithic arrowheads and an Egyptian stone tablet from the 13th Dynasty, according to a 55-page appraiser's report from August 2010.
"The delay necessary to effect service of the Notice of Motion [to McCorkill's executor Fred Streed] might entail serious consequences to the applicant," the judge stated in his decision to grant the injunction.
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The matter is expected to be back before the courts on July 31 for a hearing on the continuation of the order.


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Well, first I look to see if the wood excites me on a visual level, and then on a structural level. Guitar wood has to have small-scaled grain patterns that fit into the sides and backs of a guitar. The next question is whether or not I can actually get the wood. Often a sample presents itself, but there is no way to get it in large enough quantities. If only a small quantity is available, I may offer a run of limited editions just to check out the whole scene. If I can't get the wood, then it's all a moot point, so that is as much a concern as whether the wood is good or not.
2. My 1996 Taylor 815 has a mustache bridge. Why did you change the bridge design and what are the advantages or disadvantages to each design?
That was a design that I inherited from The American Dream, which was the small shop my partner and I worked for and later purchased to start Taylor Guitars. In the days when we did everything by hand, that bridge was just too hard to make, so we designed our current bridge. Your guitar is actually a reissue of the original, and we made it on some guitars here and there. Its advantage and disadvantage only relate to its ability to be manufactured, rather than its sound quality.
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We are not close at all. Right now, the bass is just one of many ideas floating around in our heads—fairly firm ideas, but it would take a year's worth of tooling effort to bring it to market. Plus, lots of new and exciting guitars keep getting in the way.
4. It seems like your generation of builders cut their teeth in an era of open information exchange. There was competition, but also a sense of camaraderie. Do you think that "golden age" of individual or smallshop luthiery is behind us?
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- National-Religious activist Masoud Pedram has been transferred back to Ward 350 from Ward 2-A solitary.
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- Rastin Aalemi, student in Mazandaran University arrested.
- Sholeh Afshari, Baha'i, arrested in Isfahan.
- Ali Aghazadeh, merchant in Tabriz bazar, arrested.
- Hossein Ahmadian arrested in Maragheh.
- Mostafa Avazpour, arrested in Tabriz for protesting against Lake Urmiah drying up.
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- Bahram Ferdosian, Baha'i, arrested in Isfahan.
- Abolfazl Garamani, student in Mazandaran University arrested.
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- Pouria Khaleghi, student in Mazandaran University arrested.
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- Mana Pirali, Baha'i, arrested in Isfahan.
- Mehrdad Raha arrested in Urmiah for protesting against lake drying up.
- Mobin Rastemian student in Mazandaran University arrested
- Fariborz Reisdana, economist, member of Iran Writers Association, arrested to serve out a 1-year prison term.
- Azam Tabibi, Baha'i, arrested in Isfahan.
- Afsaneh Toghi arrested inside Tabriz University for protesting against Lake Urmiah drying up.
- Arrests at a private party (9 men + 6 women) where alcohol was served.
- Tens of people arrested in East and West Azarbaijan for protesting the drying up of Lake Urmiah.
- Clergy/blogger Ahmad Reza Ahmadpour ended his hunger strike after being granted furlough.
- Journalist Rahman Bouzari was transferred to Evin prison on Saturday to start serving his 2 years sentence.
- Mahdieh Golroo, student activist, was released at the end of her sentence.
- Women's rights activist Mahboobeh Karami was released on bail a little while ago. She'd been detained since May 15 last year.
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- Mohammad Reza Motamednia has ended his hunger strike after 42 days.
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- Prison officials recently admitted to using trained dogs to attack prisoners as a punishment.
News of injustice in Iran
- Mostafa Armin, Kurdish activist, sentenced to 15.5 years in prison + exile for Moharebeh.
- Nioosha Badi Sabet, Baha'i, sentenced to 1 year in prison + 1 year suspended.
- Saeed Derayat, Kurdish activist, sentenced to 4 years in prison.
- Ali Divsalar, Baha'i, sentenced to 2 years in prison + 2 years suspended.
- Anisa Fanaian, Baha'i sentenced to 4 years and 4 months..
- Abolfazl Ghadiani sentenced to one extra year in prison for writing to Khamenei.
- Court of Appeals upheld 3 1/2 years in prison+70 lashes for Mashhad Ferdowsi University student Mohammad Ghafarian.
- Solmaz Ghasemi, Baha'i, sentenced to 1 year in prison + 1 year suspended.
- Sarah Haj Ebrahimi Baha'i, sentenced to 2 years in prison + 2 years suspended.
- Mousa Hatefi, Kurdish activist, sentenced to 7 years in prison.
- Reza Jolodarzadeh Editor-in-Chief of banned weekly Sobhe Azadi has been sentenced to 1 year in prison.
- Sabah Khaiat sentenced to 6 years by Appeals.
- Ali Marhamati, Kurdish activist, sentenced to 4 years in prison.
- Shamis Nourani, Baha'i, sentenced to 1 year in prison + 1 year suspended.
- No one found guilty for the 4 death of Hoda Saber (political prisoner died after 9-days hunger strike) and Haleh Sahabi (died at father funeral) Prosecutor.
- Amir Seif sentenced to 5 years + 74 lashes on anti-national security acts by participating in protests and insulting officials.
- Two people executed in Esfahan on Saturday.
- Seven people executed in Lakan prison in Rasht on Sunday.
- 14 people hanged on Monday of which two men in Sanandaj, one man in Sari and one in Kermanshah.
- Man convicted of alcohol consumption was lashed in public in Mianeh.
- 3 people were hanged in Adelabad prison in Shiraz on Tuesday.
- A man received 74 lashes in public in Dashte Azadegan in Khozestan province
- One pubic hanging in Ilam on Thursday.
University – Culture
- Education Ministry is cooperating with theological seminaries to produce elementary school textbooks.
- Members of music group [rap band ] "vibrations" were arrested in Mahabad.
- Reuters Bureau Chief in Tehran, Parisa Hafezi has been banned from leaving Iran.
- 9 internet cafes shut down due to using proxy filters.
- Asghar Farhadi received EU Media prize in Cannes – he will direct his next film in France.
- Iran's Abbas Kiarostami relocates to Japan for Cannes entry 'Like Someone in Love'.
- Iran to issue media licenses to foreign media from Latin America and "Islamic Awakening" countries.
- The Elamite rock bas-relief of Kurangun in the Baba Meydan region of Fars Province, faces destruction.
- Shiraz Payamnour University English language and literature student Yekta Fahandezh has been expelled for being of Baha'i faith.
- Protests in Urmiah on Monday against drying up of the Lake.
- Preschool teachers protest in front of Parliament.
- Clandestine Gay Rights Rally in Tehran.
Economy in Iran
- Water bills to rise 20%.
- $1 = 1700 tomans.
- South Korea's largest oil refiner SK Energy will stop Iranian crude imports from July.
- 800 Metro workers have not been paid for five months in Ahvaz.
- Iranian oil exports to China down by 23% in April compared to last year.
- Iran plans a new oil terminal outside the Strait of Hormuz to protect its exports.
- Hundreds of brick making factories closed down; thousands of seasonal workers unemployed in Kermanshah.
- Fire erupts in petrochemical plant in Khuzestan province.
- Iran to export oil products to Ecuador.
Iran abroad
- FM Ali Akbar Salehi left for Kuwait on Sunday.
- Iran calls back ambassador from Azerbaijan.
- Three Iranian truck drivers were abducted in Syria.
- Hojjat 0l-Eslam Mohammad Mohammadi, the Supreme Leader's representative and head of the Islamic Charities Organization, met with Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah.
- Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili met with Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani.
- Ahmadinejad meets with Sudan's presidential adviser.
- Ahmadinejad invites Syria's Assad, to visit Tehran to take part in a meeting of Non-Aligned Movement.
- Iran and Afghanistan have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation on an anti-narcotics campaign.
- There are currently 5,700 Iranians registered as refugees or asylum seekers in Turkey.
Politics in Iran
- Iranian diplomat accused of child molestation in Brazil fired from Foreign Ministry.
- Former deputy head of the Central Bank accused in fraud case attends government meetings.
- Deal signed to split oil revenue between outlets of IRGC and Basij militia.
- Iranians buying oxygen tanks to escape Tehran's polluted air: 5 minutes of oxygen, for $3.
- Landmine explosion kills two.
- Bodies of 98 Iranians and 13 Iraqis killed during 1980-1988 war returned to their native countries on Monday.


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Recovered anorexic is finally comfortable in her body after years of struggle
Eda had struggled with her body image for years – until she discovered the joys of pole dancing.
Eda had struggled with her body image for years – until she discovered the joys of pole dancing.
Eda Marbury spins round a pole with considerable ease – despite her 260lb frame.
The 25-year-old, from Missouri, USA, wows her friends and family with her athletic turns, defying gravity by hauling herself to the top before gracefully spinning down to the floor.
Overweight Eda's rise to the top is remarkable as she has only been dancing for two years – and never did any form of exercise before.
The young accountant coordinator has always had issues with her body and went a year without looking in the mirror.
'I was in denial about how much weight I had put on and how I looked,' she says. 'When I walked into the pole-dancing studio for the first time I weighed 330lb and the entire room was covered in mirrors. It was quite a shock.'
Brunette Eva has always had issues with her weight – she battled with anorexia for eight years as a teenager and young adult.
Her lowest weight was 135lb and she shunned whole meals. She would eat just a few bites of food and convince herself she was feeling sick and then fill her belly with at least three energy drinks.
She felt alone and depressed, until she met her husband, Terrik, 26, who helped her overcome the disorder.
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But instead of eating healthily, Eda binged and her lack of exercise meant her weight began to balloon.
After five years of fizzy drinks and junk food her weight reached 330lb.
Eda's confidence plummeted to rock-bottom and she couldn't stand to see herself in the mirror or a photograph.
Although Eda's self-belief was at an all-time low, Terrik tried to make her see why he adored her, constantly telling her that she was beautiful just the way she was.
Two years ago Eda decided it was time to make a change.
She looked into joining a gym but the equipment and muscly men pumping weights put her off.
She came across the all-women Pink Lemon Studio near St Louis and decided to try pole dancing.
Her first experience was nerve-wracking and Eda dreaded the worst. She was surrounded by mirrors that she was too terrified to look into and she felt self-conscious on the pole.
But after a few classes Eda was hooked. Soon she was climbing the 11ft pole and twirling gracefully to the bottom and shaking her voluptuous hips.
'I was not good when I first started,' she says. 'I was afraid to take my feet off the ground. It took me a year and three months to climb the pole because I'm afraid of heights.'
Eda's old fear of mirrors disappeared and a pole was installed at home to practice day and night.
And as Eda's talent progressed, the pounds began to fall off her. She has shed 65lb and hopes to lose a further 35lb by the end of this year.
While she could see the physical changes her new-found hobby had given her, it was the internal changes that meant most.
'I felt more confident and I have friends,' says Eda. 'The way I dressed changed, I started to care a little bit more about what I was wearing and how I would do my hair.
'Before I started pole I wouldn't wear make-up, I didn't like to take the time to look after myself.'
But one of Eda's biggest accomplishments was performing her routines at a showcase in front of 45 people, including her husband and parents-in-law.
Eda's greatest supporter has been Terrik, who has known Eda for seven years.
'Her pole dancing is sexy to me. I know a lot of people don't like it and a lot of people talk bad about it and frankly I don't care,' says Terrik.
'It makes her feel sexy, it makes her feel happy and that's what I like about it.'


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Police said the unknown suspect assaulted a 15-year-old girl at knifepoint on Gorman Road as she was getting off a school bus.
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Controversial call decides Origin I
"HOW the hell could that be a try? That's ridiculous."
That was the question Blues captain Paul Gallen and every New South Wales player, official and fan wanted to know after video referee Sean Hampstead awarded one of the most controversial tries in Origin history to Maroons centre Greg Inglis in the dying minutes last night, giving Queensland an 18-10 win in Origin I.
Inglis tried to put the ball over the try line, but succeeded only in planting on Robbie Farah's outstretched leg before losing control.
After what seemed an eternity, Hampstead gave the attempt the green light, much to the relief of the Maroons camp, and the disgust of the Blues, particularly Gallen who turned in another outstanding performance.
It was one of the few try-scoring opportunities Queensland had in the second half.
New South Wales was like the boxer unable to deliver the knockout blow, dominating for much of the second 40 minutes.
While Blues coach Ricky Stuart might have been unhappy with the result, he will no doubt remember back to 2005, the last time he coached New South Wales and the last time the Blues came from 1-0 down to win the series.
Stuart's decision to select players like Farah, Jarryd Hayne, Tony Williams and Michael Jennings had been widely questioned, especially Jennings who had been dropped by his club coach Ivan Cleary the previous week.
And after having no involvement in the first 20 minutes, Jennings was given 10 minutes in the bin after racing into a melee and throwing a wild haymaker at Maroons winger Brent Tate.
The game exploded after Maroons prop Matt Scott threw the ball at Greg Bird's head, Blues players coming from everywhere to get involved.
Jennings could then only watch from the changerooms as Billy Slater put Darius Boyd over in the corner six minutes later to open the scoring for Queensland, Johnathan Thurston's conversion putting the Maroons ahead 6-4.
New South Wales had taken the lead in the sixth minute after a pinpoint cross-field bomb from Farah allowed winger Akuila Uate to win an aerial contest against Boyd and slam the ball over the line.
Todd Carney, playing in his first Origin, nervously pushed the attempted conversion well wide of the posts.
Carney had looked dangerous early, drifting across the park and picking up angled runners.
In fact the Blues dominated the first 20 minutes on the back of hard running from the likes of fellow debutant James Tamou and Gallen, not to mention some lamentable marker defence from the Queenslanders.
Farah had a picnic out of dummy half, making valuable yards time and time again.
But the momentum disappeared as the half went on as New South Wales seemed to run out of energy, poor discipline also costing them.
The Blues also had no answer to Inglis who had a field day down the left side of the paddock.
Another try seemed inevitable and it was Boyd who crossed for his second just before half-time, another sideline conversion from Thurston putting Queensland ahead 12-4 at the break.
But that lead was whittled back to two points immediately after half-time when Jennings went from villian to hero, snapping up a loose ball, the third time Billy Slater had uncharacteristically left one behind.
In the end it came down to the controversial try to Inglis which saw him pass Dale Shearer as Queensland's leading Origin try-scorer


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On his hit record "A Milli," Lil Wayne raps that he'd rather be "pushin' flowers than to be in the pen sharing showers," but looks like the latter is going to happen before the former.
The Louisiana MC has, finally, been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty in a New York City gun case.
The Grammy Award-winning rapper was taken away in handcuffs to start serving his term immediately after his sentencing. He pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon and admitted having a loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic gun on his tour bus in 2007.
It has proven unexpectedly difficult to put "Weezy" behind bars. His sentencing was postponed last month so he could undergo surgery on his bejeweled teeth. Then, a fire shut down Manhattan's main criminal courthouse while he was on his way there last week.
He'll serve his sentence in city jails, not a state prison. He could be released in about eight months with good behavior.
The rapper, born Dwayne Carter, has been one of music's most prolific and profitable figures in recent years. His "Tha Carter III" was the best-selling album of 2008. His latest album, "Rebirth," was released last month.
Facing jail with his career in full throttle, Lil Wayne has prepared with a burst of work and farewell shows and videos for fans. He said in a video clip sent last week to MTV News that he shot footage for seven music videos with various artists in one night over the weekend.
He told Rolling Stone for a story last month that he planned to keep working behind bars.
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The liver is the largest gland and detoxifier of the human body for this reason it's very important to act immediately if you feel liver pain. It is situated on the right of the abdomen below the ribs and diaphragm that separates the abdomen and the chest. The liver performs various functions. Some of them include breaking down of food materials, producing urea, conversion of glucose to glycogen, producing amino acids, removing harmful substances from the blood, maintaining the blood glucose level and storing minerals and vitamins. As a detoxifier, it filters the wastes from the body. When the liver is not functioning properly it can result in liver pain. In many conditions like Gilbert's syndrome, Wilson's disease, Hepatitis A, B and C, pain is usually observed.
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Equity futures are slightly higher this morning, with the dollar down slightly, bonds down slightly, oil higher, gold & silver lower, and food commodities roughly flat.
American Airlines, formerly the world's largest airline, filed for bankruptcy this morning, their stock plummeting to 6 cents a share. They claim nothing will change operationally, that they will operate their flights and that they will continue purchasing the 480 new airplanes they ordered this July. Primarily it's all about "restructuring." What does that mean? It means they made too many promises to their debtors and to their employees and they are going to use this filing to primarily take it out on their employees because the bankruptcy laws in this nation strongly favor capital over people. This means that retirement plans will be vulnerable, wages will fall (while costs rise), and yet the company will still get their shiny new planes.
Fitch, one of the rating agencies that never takes action until well after the fact, finally put the United States on "outlook negative" from "stable" regarding its phony triple-A rating. Hmmm… current account deficit is 100% of trumped up GDP and they still affirm triple-A and finally produce an "outlook negative" because the "Super Committee" couldn't tackle the impossible math?
Guess what, it's FAR, FAR, worse than that. In the first place our GDP is vastly overstated – I say 40% or more. But primarily I say "WTF, over" to this deceive you metric in the first place, and I ask what in the world does a nation's supposed "productivity" have to do with a nation's debt?
Comparing those two things is exactly like comparing your personal debts to the productivity of your neighborhood! Who gives a damn? And what does that have to do with anything? Remember, we are no longer consenting to the lies!
The only thing that matters in regard to debt is the ability to service it, and that requires income, not productivity! The United States trumped up debt figure is $15 Trillion, but it only takes in $2.7 trillion in income, thus debt is 555%, or 5.55 times income! Now, if you include the debts at Freddie and Fannie, and all the other off balance sheet debt, our true national debt is more like 37 times our national income!
Dividing our Current National Income by our Current National Debt produces a chart with the following trajectory:
Current National Income Divided by Current National Debt:
Yep, outlook negative all right. And doesn't that chart have the same ring to it as the diminishing returns charts I've been showing? Yep, same trajectory, that's because our money is debt.
Meanwhile, the largest "asset" held by the 99%, their house, continues to slide in value. The latest Case-Shiller data shows that home prices fell another .6% in the month of September:
Evidence is building fast that home prices are falling into deepening contraction, the likely result of distressed sales tied to foreclosures. Case-Shiller data for September show a very heavy 0.6 percent monthly decline for the both adjusted and unadjusted 20-city indexes. These are three-month averages which indicate an especially severe decline for September alone. In a mild offset, contraction in year-on-year rates moderated slightly to minus 3.6 percent, again for both the adjusted and unadjusted 20-city indexes.
Home prices in Atlanta appear to be plunging, down a monthly adjusted 4.1 percent in September -- again, this is not a year-on-year reading. The decline follows monthly drops in Atlanta of 3.0 percent in August and 1.1 percent in July. Atlanta, together with Phoenix and Las Vegas, are posting new crisis lows though the report is confident that for the nation as a whole, the price collapse of 2007 through 2009 will not be repeated.
Falling home prices are a heavy load on home owners, preventing some from selling their homes and forcing some into financial distress. One upside, as seen in recent data on new and existing homes, is that lower prices, together with extremely low interest rates, are giving a very welcome boost to sales. At 10:00 a.m. ET this morning, the Federal Housing Financing Agency will post its home-price data.
Heck, my home's assessed value fell 10% year over year, and I have no doubt that's very close to the market reality.
Below is the entire Case-Shiller report:
Case-Shiller Q3 Data
Consumer Confidence as well as the FHFA Home Price data are released shortly and will be reported inside of today's Open Thread.
I, Nathan Martin, no longer consent to the lies.