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During his boxing heyday, when he won both the world welterweight and middleweight championships, Emile Griffith was proud to call Hudson County home.
For almost 30 years, Griffith lived on Boulevard East in Weehawken. He also lived for a brief time in Jersey City. He spent a lot of his free time in Jersey City, as a regular at Jack Miller's Pub on Academy Street.
In fact, Griffith spent so much time at the Jersey City establishment that two of his world championship belts proudly graced the walls of Jack Miller's.
It was at Jack Miller's one summer afternoon 25 years ago that I met Griffith for the first time. It was the beginning of a lasting friendship, one that saw Griffith battle his demons and especially later in life, a war with pugilistic dementia. It was that battle that Griffith couldn't win and he died on Long Island Tuesday morning.
Griffith, a member of both the Hudson County Sports Hall of Fame and the International Boxing Hall of Fame, was 75 years old.
Griffith was truly a boxing legend. He was one of only three boxers to hold both the welterweight and middleweight championships of the world. He had a career that spanned an amazing 20 years. He fought for either the middleweight or welterweight titles an incredible 21 times – a record that still stands.
Griffith entered the boxing game after working as a messenger/delivery boy for another Hudson County resident, the late Howie Albert of Secaucus, who owned a hat company in Manhattan at the time. Albert went on to manage Griffith's storied boxing career.
However, there is one glaring moment, one blemish on Griffith's incredible boxing ledger that also made him legendary.
On March 24, 1962, Griffith caused the first live man-to-man killing that was ever broadcast on national television – a full 18 months before Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald in the hollows of a Dallas prison (which happened the day after Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy).
On that fateful day in March, 1962, Griffith fought Benny "Kid" Paret for the welterweight championship of the world in Madison Square Garden.
Just six months prior, Paret had defeated Griffith in a 15-round decision to win the welterweight crown. So this fight was Griffith's chance to gain revenge.
Ironically, when Griffith first won the welterweight title in 1961, he had knocked out Paret in Miami Beach.
The March 1962 showdown was a long-awaited rubber match. Both fighters had one win against each other. This fight would determine which one was truly the better fighter.
At the time, boxing was a highly popular sport on television. Every week, there was a card televised, called "Gillette's Cavalcade of Champions: Friday Night Fights," with famed announcer Don Dunphy on the mike. The boxing cards were watched on a regular basis through the 1950s, into the 1960s, almost as widely viewed as Milton Berle, "I Love Lucy" and "The Ed Sullivan Show."
The third fight between Griffith and Paret was so anticipated that the producers decide to air the fight on a Saturday night, with the attempt of drawing a larger audience, trying to steal Nielsen rating points away from popular variety shows like "The Hollywood Palace" and "The Lawrence Welk Show."
Therefore, the fight was staged before a nationally televised audience in prime time.
There was obviously no love lost between the two combatants, especially after two prior grueling fights.
But things got even heated before the third fight, when Paret took a jab at Griffith's sexual preference in a pre-fight press conference, calling Griffith a "maricon," a word origin that the Virgin Island-born Griffith knew.
There had been some rumors about Griffith's sexual preference. Because he had been spotted in Manhattan gay clubs and because he had a propensity to dress flamboyantly, including wearing high feminine-looking hats that he designed himself, Griffith was labeled as being gay – although at the time, he never once officially came out of the closet.
Only later in life, in fact in an exclusive interview with Bob Herbert of the New York Daily News, did Griffith admit to being gay. But he did not do that at that time.
So when Paret called Griffith a "maricon," a slang Spanish word for a gay man, at the press conference, Griffith was incensed and decided to take his anger out in the ring.
Little did Griffith know that the night would change his life – and the world of professional sports – forever.
In the 12th round, Griffith pounded Paret unmercifully, over and over, in perhaps the most brutal beating ever witnessed in the ring.
Allegedly, Griffith muttered the words, "Who's a maricon now? Who's your maricon now?" with every piercing blow. Referee Ruby Goldstein, who never worked another fight ever again, didn't stop the beating. He allowed Griffith to deliver blow after undefended blow in the corner, while Paret lay defenseless against the ropes.
Griffith delivered 18 punches in a span of six seconds, before Goldstein finally stopped the fight. Paret slumped into the corner and was soon rushed to a hospital in a coma from which he never recovered. Paret died 10 days later.
The brutal fight changed boxing forever. It was banned from live television for more than a decade. Stricter regulations were placed upon referees stepping in and stopping bouts when one fighter appeared defenseless.
Griffith was never the same fighter again. In fact, the term "killer instinct" was rarely used around Griffith because of the fatal fight. He did go on to have a brilliant career, holding six different welterweight and middleweight belts.
When he was a regular at Jack Miller's, either as a patron or as a bartender, Emile Griffith was one of the nicest, sweetest guys in the world. He was cheery, fun-loving, ready to tell a joke and be one of the guys. The rumors of his sexual preference always hovered about, but it didn't change Griffith one iota.
Griffith loved being with the patrons at Jack Miller's and considered the owner to be one of his closest friends. Jack Miller was someone he could rely upon, after being almost totally forgotten by people in the fight game, although he was training former lightweight champion Juan LaPorte out of Gleason's Gym in New York for a while.
Griffith didn't mind talking about boxing, but he never answered questions about the Paret fight that unfortunately became his legacy.
"Some things are too painful to talk about, Jimmy," he said to me when I did an interview with him some 25 years ago. "I don't want to go back there."
In later years, Griffith worked as a corrections officer at the Hudson County Youth House in Secaucus. It's there where he met Luis Rodrigo, who was an inmate at the correctional youth facility at the time. In later years, Griffith legally adopted Rodrigo as his son. The two lived together in Hempstead, Long Island, until Griffith's death Tuesday.
Over the last few years, Griffith battled dementia. He would show up at different boxing affairs and fundraising events, but lost most of his memory – including that fateful night in 1962.
Emile Griffith was a part of the Hudson County sports circles for more than a quarter century and was proud to be a resident of the county. It's a shame that his legacy remains that one brutal fight. – Jim Hague
Jim Hague can be reached at email@example.com.


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Verse 1 (C-Murder)
I guess its bout time for me to pay my dues
Just got shot got blood on my shoes
Two bullets in my chest that I cannot feel
Left the bulletproof vest in the Coup De'ville
I'm steadily getting weaker I don't know what to do
Picked up the mobil phone dialed T-R-U
Drove myself to the clinic with revenge on my mind
Had to stash all my dope and I hid my nine
Killa killa killa killa I'll pull your card
Just got out of jail beat a murder charge
Nigget niggas in the hood don't take no crap
Quick to get the gat and peel your cap
Release from the clinic and now I'm looking for a body
Strapped to the matt like a black John Gotti
Ruthless as fuck and my eyes is red
I wanna put a hollow tip in a motherfuckers head
I got word on the street I got funk with the southside
I'm a show 'em how to do a fucking drive-by
Riggety rolled on them slow in the Cadillac
Silkk behind the wheel, me and King in the pack
Master P in the passenger seat getting ready
Taking out the tech nine putting up the machette
Got close to them fools told Silkk to cut the lights off
Grabbed my sawed off and blew the nigga arm off
Rat-tat-tat tat-tat-tat then we bailed out
Got away clean smoking blunts in the house
I can't trip cause you reap what you saw man
Cause murder is an everythang thang
Its an everyday thang
Verse 2 (Master P)
I couldn't find a job so I started slanging crack
Ten motherfuckers in a one room shack
Chopping up ?? 20's and 50's to get my cash up
?? this fucking bitch to hold my mothafucking stash homie
72 oz's that will be two keys
Cook it up with some cut and turn it into three
Open up shop and start serving double ups
5 days later watch a nigga fucking bubble up
Bitches on my dick cause they know I'm living fat
And get the Lexus painted everytime it gets a scratch
But I ain't even tripping
Cause I know these hoes don't like me
And every fucking day the feds out to indict me
But I ain't going out on know motherfucking bullshit case
I'd rather slang tapes across the world state to state
Look for distributions start up my own company
So the major motherfucking labels they could hump me
No Limit came up quick just like a bullet
But Master P ?? we pull it
And all them playa hating suckes still talking shit
Better check Billboard the number one hit
Still on the hood on the under ??
Cause selling dope is an everyday thang

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Date(s) - 05/10/2017
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Parent Network warmly welcomes parents of children with any kind of additional need or disability.
Parents can choose to attend as many or as few sessions as they wish in any of the Parent Network areas.
Francine and Lesley both have a wealth of experience working with families over the past 20 years. We are passionate about bringing parents together and we pride ourselves on being compassionate and respectful of parents. We recognise the uniqueness of every family and that we all have something of value to offer. Our involvement in education and counselling, and with special needs, has enabled us to develop our own, award winning, parenting programmes for parents of children with additional needs.
How does it work?
The parent network will offer emotional support, information and knowledge in structured, themed sessions such as Managing Challenging Behaviour, Managing Sibling Issues, Managing Sensory Issues, Strategies to encourage and motivate children with additional needs, Solutions to manage difficult behaviours, empathic listening, All about Anger 1 – triggers and understanding why children get angry, All about Anger 2 – Strategies to manage anger and calm down meltdowns, Sharing the Emotional Journey of parents with additional needs, The Task of Adjustment – Understanding the impact of having a disabled child on family relationships and sharing difficult feelings, Managing stress and bringing balance to family life, Siblings issues and effective ways to help siblings, Liaising with schools and professionals who support your child with additional needs, Helping Teenagers with additional needs with transition to adulthood, Plus Outside speakers for Education issues, Law and SEN, Benefits advice, sensory issues etc.
What is a structure themed session?
As a new member you will be welcomed by the host at the start of the session, during which you will have the opportunity to:
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This anime is also known as The Good Mushishi. I almost wish it wasn't so. While that descriptor is true, its existence points out the anime's shortcomings. For all its imaginative moments, it settles into a pattern early on and never deviates. Even the last episodes which aim for some harrowing ends up slotting nicely without breaking up picture.
It's almost like reviewing Mushishi all over again, but the bigger scope makes Kino's Journey better with more apparent flaws. Some anime can make it through with a narrow range of emotions, especially if they're short. Narrow focus on themes is often the source of fantastic exploration of them. By nature, this anime has a wide scope. It follows a person through various countries, each one dominated by a theme.
This anime sets itself up to be big no matter what. The stories aren't small and intimate. They're more about big issues like war, fate, religion and technology than personal issues. A single character from a country may stick out, but everyone in it are mostly the same person. Such shallow characterization can work, but you need someone to react to this symbolism.
Character's views and reactions are integral to exploring themes. It's not enough to just have 'fear' or 'technology' as a dominating presence in your story. You need to connect it to the human condition. You need to show how it affects the people, how they react to it and live with it. The best stories show us characters in such crises, gain their emotional punch from a meaningful struggle.
Kino is better than Ginko, but she shares more with him and not just a similar name. There are literally less than 5 moments in which some kind of personality is hinted at. Mostly, Kino does nothing but observe. When she acts, she's pure convenience. She helps characters solve their problems by being nice, but what's Kino's stake?
Decisions are another way in which we learn about characters. Decisions that relate to themes are even more meaningful. They illustrate a viewpoint and demonstrate it. Kino makes no choices. She comes to a country, observes what's going on, does the thing that causes the least conflict and moves on. It's hard to remember what exactly was Kino's role in many of these stories. In the last episode, she's interchangeable with any passer-by. Nothing about her is important to that story, only her role.
That's a problem you encounter with shitty role-players. A character is far more than their little role. If characters are symbolic of human beings, then human beings have various roles depending on who you ask. Even a soldier trapped in the army will have more roles than just a soldier. He'll be someone's good friend, perhaps the commander's most hated and so on. Kino is defined only by her role as a traveler and does nothing else.
A role can be a part of the personality, but we need to see how Kino views traveling. A soldier can be patriotic or just in it for the money. Both are different takes on the same role that leads to different characters even if they do the same thing and come from the same background. The anime never provides a view about traveling. There's something vague about how the world is both ugly and beautiful and this grey area is appreciated, but what else? What do we do about the grey?
Grey areas are difficult and I don't expect answers, but great storytellers show me how they wrestle with the themes. If you can't answer any questions – and you shouldn't, because there are no definitive answers – at least throw something. A question shouldn't drag itself for 10 episodes. The series barely asks a question, let alone provides angles to look at it. Asking questions is fairly easy. The difficult part is trying to find the answers. That's when you deal with the ramifications. No question has an effect until you check the possible answers.
Some episodes provide moral choices for Kino to make. They're generic, morally clean choices. They don't reflect a coherent moral worldview. Kino only chooses the least offensive path. She doesn't even struggling with these decisions. Remember that this character has been around the world and to many different countries. Traveling and experiencing new worldviews should either give birth to a new, original one or leave you confused and full of doubt. Kino acts instead like a cliched 'wise Zen master', viewing things mostly through indifferent eyes. It's believable, but only if there was a worldview behind it.
The series is capable of darkness. An early episode shows the humanity of slave merchants. Even if it ends by vilifying them, it shows how they can enjoy family and raising kids and company just like us. It's odd that in under 20 minutes they create simple but lively characters. Nothing about the slave merchants is particularly unique, but the juxtaposition of their 'good' and 'evil' side is effective for side characters. Kino never gets such interesting characterization. In the arena episode, she always offers her opponent a chance to surrender. Why?
The slave merchants aren't the only memorable characters here. This is where the series trumps Mushishi. Its side characters are driven, sometimes flawed and sometimes immoral. Many of the stories cannot be re-modeled for Mushishi since they deal with humanity's dark side. The variety in characters and themes also lead to a variety in tones. Although the series is often stuck in its 'contemplative' atmosphere – a style which, except for Haibene Renmei, always comes off as pretentious – it experiments with tragedy, satire and adventure. The anime doesn't dig deep enough. It offers themes but rarely shows their complexity, but the sheer variety of them makes the surface attractive enough.
Some have pointed out that Kino's Journey is very obvious in its themes. Often characters say exactly what the story is about. In one episode, it's cringe-worthy. An oppressed tribe literally admits to killing people for the sake of revenge, because oppression. At this point, it's the artist's critique of an ideology sneaking up into the character's mouth. Imagine if a Nazi in a story admitted how wrong Nazism is, but they have to do it because of economic hardships. It's a lone case. The anime is all surface anyway. The only reason to put things under the surface is because your surface is already full, but Kino's Journey already has little to say. Such an anime shouldn't make the viewer put effort. It's a wise decision to reveal everything, since it prevents an unpleasant air of pretense.
The art is decent, with strong backgrounds and decent character designs. The character designs are distinctive enough. Town folks get different looks and important side characters look like they can be main characters in their own show. It's minimalist almost to a fault – the lack of details don't do anything – but it finds variety in things like mouth size and eye shape. The backgrounds, while similar, capture a unique feeling. A running theme is the idea of the world being ugly and beautiful at the same time. The backgrounds use a mix of bright colors and pretty shapes with a darkened atmosphere to achieve is. It's not particularly impressive, but it's nice to see colors that fit the themes.
Kino's Journey isn't brilliant. Its popularity has more to do with it not being traditional, rather than quality. Some people are just dying for something without fan service. I've seen anime with weirder premises, deeper psychology and better art. Still, the variety in stories and the thematic focus makes it a show that's worth most of its running time. No one yet knows how you achieve the greatest heights in art, anyway.
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The most unruly crowd of cattle we've run into and the herder had a heck of a time trying to keep them off to one side. This bull was about half the size of the car and it was a bit spooky passing. Just glad we didn't run into the crazy moto drivers coming at us.
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IN July 2011, PNA Ministers at their Special Meeting in Apia, Samoa, decided to designate May 2 each year as World Tuna Day.
In doing so they recognised the central role that they play as custodians of the largest tuna fishery in the world and arguably the only remaining healthy tuna stocks in the world. With the exception of bigeye tuna, and to a limited extent yellowfin tuna, the other tuna species are still relatively healthy.
Tuna also is key to relationships between the Pacific Island States and between these countries and the largest richest nations in the world. The PNA member countries have fisheries agreements with the United States, EU, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines. The political economy of this relationship cannot be underestimated. The contrast between the PNA countries on the one hand and these fishing sßtates on the other is between big and small, rich and poor, and weak and powerful.
Relations between the PNA countries and non-PNA countries, and even within the PNA countries themselves, Pacific Tuna & Regional Politics have also been affected by the varying interest that individual countries often have in regards to how they wish to benefit economically from their tuna resources. In recent years, the augmentation of rights-based approaches to tuna management, through the adoption and implementation a Vessel Day Scheme (VDS), has transformed the power of the PNA countries in relation to the fishing states.
Nowhere is this as apparent than the outcomes of the renegotiation of the financial package under the US Treaty. Just two years ago, this treaty was worth $US21 million. In May 2013, because of the VDS, it was increased to US$63 million and this year, it is worth US$90 million. While there is a component of the treaty which the US State Department subsidises (US$21 million), it is argued that without the VDS, it would have been unlikely that such an outcome would have been possible.
The negotiations of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between the Pacific ACP countries and the EU have faltered on account of amongst other issues, tuna. The EU have asked that the negotiations be suspended for 3 years while both sides take stock of their positions in respect of management and conservation of the region's tuna resources.
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WHEN Tonga's Lavinia Vaipuna stretched a 30-second introduction to her regional fisheries meeting colleagues into a seven-minute country report, no one could fault her for making up for lost time.
Travel mishaps meant the Tonga Agriculture and fisheries IT Manager was still en route when FFA's inaugural Regional Information Management Systems (RIMS1) workshop started.
She had waited 20 years for the regional space to open up where she could start talking about the information close to her heart – all the IT and databases challenges that underscore the work against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing, and keeps fisheries management ticking.
"I am so thankful it is finally happening – an IMS workshop where we can address our information management systems issues," she says. Since Vaipuna entered IT work at Tonga's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries two decades ago, she has seen firsthand her nation's entry into the digital and internet ages.
More than most, she is conscious of the challenges involved. "As an IT person collecting all the databases of offshore and inshore work, administration, financial work, observer data, tuna data...it all comes to me. So many (fisheries) journals touch on how information management systems are the key issue for us,whatever direction you look."
In all directions too, fisheries management across the Pacific nations has eyed a growing list of platforms, databases, software, and monitoring and reporting tools to help keep track of fishing activity in their waters.
On top of terms like TUFMAN1, TUFMAN2, TUFMANMCS, VMS, TUBS, eTUNALOG, national fisheries data systems, and newer terms such as iFIMS and the cloud, for many countries, the growing scale of logins and platforms is increasing room for duplication, and highlighting the overlap between systems.
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Joel Nakamura likes to tell the story about the day he was walking across Santa Fe Plaza, close by the Palace of the Governors where Native Americans ply their arts and crafts to tourists passing on the sidewalk. A tourist spied Joel, resplendent in his Santa Fe "uniform"- well-worn cowboy boots, silver and turquoise belt buckle, bolo tie and cowboy hat. The woman, visiting from Texas, approached him and, gently pressing her hand to his arm, asked: "Excuse me sir, which Pueblo are you from?"
Nakamura's reply suggests the depth of his character: forgiving, generous, compassionate, intelligent and, above all, devillishly funny. "Why lady," he said, without skipping a beat, "the Sukiyaki Pueblo." Nakamura then posed cheerfully while she snapped photos, certain that hers was a "real" Native American. Nakamura neither refuted nor affirmed her Southwestern fantasy: he merely participated in it, with a smile.


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WALTHAM - If you think this was a cold winter, consider former Gov. Christopher Gore and his wife moved into their grand Waltham mansion in 1816, nowcalled "the year without summer�� with nearly a foot of snow in June and crop-killing frosts in August.
With spring just around the corner � except for last week�s snow and freezing weather � there�s still time to visit the stately federal-style mansion and see how grand and ordinary folks got through those cold New England winters in days of yore.
A free exhibit, "Over the River and Through the Wood,�� in the historic mansion�s Great Hall showcases rare artifacts including a restored sleigh, period clothing and the handwritten journal of farm manager Jacob Farwell who chronicled three-mile trips to a wood lot in Prospect Hill to keep the home fires burning.
Organized by education specialist Susan Katz, the smallish but fascinating display opens a revealing window � brrrrrr � on a chilly season in the lives of a politician,� businessman, diplomat, farmer and�husband.
Subtitled "An Uncommonly Cold Season,�� it will remind viewers of a time not so long ago before central heat, insulated storm windows and electric blankets.
Program Director Thom Roach said the restoration of the estate�s Carriage House, which held two sleighs and two carriages, inspired staff�to organize an exhibit to show visitors how the Gores and others of their era would have coped with winter 200 years ago.
A "pretty rare sleigh�� with atypical runners of iron rather than wood has been brought inside for the exhibit. He said the carriage had an unusually low step to assist Gore, who suffered from arthritis that made walking increasingly difficult.
Roach explained�the exhibit takes its name from popular poem "Over the River�� by author and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, a near contemporary of the Gores who was born in Medford and buried in Wayland.
Organizing the exhibit, Katz arranged several "vignettes,�� or groupings of objects, that show how Gore, his wife Rebecca and their house staff would have lived during cold weather.
A table divided down the middle lets visitors compare a contemporary breakfast with what the Gores might have eaten in 1816. Katz noted that since hens didn�t lay eggs in the winter back then breakfast consisted "last night�s leftovers,�� such as ham, toast, cheese and butter. Mmmmm, yummy.
Katz said Gore�s letters cited "brutally cold weather�� that kept "Mrs. Gore in her chamber,�� perhaps one of the only heated second-floor rooms, for long stretches of time.
Other displays show what folks wore in the early 19th century when they had to go outside.
A couple of centuries before L.L. Bean fleece jackets and thermal underwear, visitors can check out a quilted woolen petticoat, a woman�s long wool cloak and a fur muff for keeping the hands warm.
Roach said Gore, who followed scientific and agricultural developments, installed one of the country�s first central heating systems in his house.
While scientists�offer many reasons, Roach say most agree the "the year without a summer,�� which dramatically affected crop production throughout New England and around the world, ocurred during an extended three-century period of cooling temperatures known as the Little Ice Age from 1550 to 1850. But he said it�was likely most dramatically affected by the colossal�volcanic eruption in 1815 of Mount Tambora in Indonesia which sent immense amounts of volcanic ash into the atmosphere, blocking sunlight.
Maybe this winter hasn�t been so bad after all.
To accommodate visitors, Katz said temperatures in the mansion are generally kept at 58 degrees, not all that toasty by today�s standards.
"We think we have in so tough,�� she said. "But with the limited means the Gores and their staff had to stay warm, we don�t have much right to complain.��
Chris Bergeron is a Daily News staff writer. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or 508-626-4448. Follow us on Twitter @WickedLocalArts and on Facebook.
"Over the River and Through the Wood: An Uncommonly Cold Season��
WHEN: Through March 31
WHERE: Gore Place, 52 Gore St., Waltham
INFO: 781-894-2798; www.goreplace.org
Baby, it was cold outside in 1816
WALTHAM - If you think this was a cold winter, consider former Gov. Christopher Gore and his wife moved into their grand Waltham mansion in 1816, nowcalled "the year without summer�� with nearly a foot of snow in June and crop-killing frosts in August.


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Battered Fish
From Conservapedia
Battered fish are delicacies normally served to accompany chips and mushy peas. Fish used is primarily cod, but can, in principle be any fish (such as hake, haddock or plaice) which is in plentiful supply.
Battered fish would normally be purchased from a local Fish and chip shop in Britain. Normally the batter is similar to that used to make pancakes, Yorkshire Puddings, toad-in-the-hole and fritters. However, there are many variants on batter recipes, some involving huge amounts of local beer.[1]


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This Week in Auto Racing May 3 - 5
Talladega, AL – When NASCAR comes to Talladega Superspeedway, it's usually a wild weekend of racing. While the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series run at Talladega, the IZOD IndyCar Series heads to Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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NASCAR's new Sprint Cup Series race car, the Gen-6, will be a big topic again this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway.
The Gen-6 wasn't exactly a hit in the first restrictor-plate race of the season, the Feb. 24 Daytona 500. The somewhat disappointing race at Daytona International Speedway featured just 28 lead changes due to a lack of passing. In fact, there were long periods of drivers running in single file before things got dicey in the closing laps.
Talladega and Daytona are both restrictor-plate tracks in NASCAR, but Talladega is slightly bigger and wider than Daytona.
So, will we see more passing and side-by-side racing at Talladega compared to Daytona?
"I would expect the racing to be similar to Daytona," said Matt Kenseth, who won the most recent race at Talladega last October. "Now, I dropped out of Daytona in the last 50 laps (due to engine failure), but I would expect the racing to be similar, because there were no rule changes. The tracks are a little bit different. There's more room at Talladega. I don't think handling will be a huge issue, although it actually kind of was for some cars. I expect it to be the same.
"But I will say that in Daytona, it's not that people don't want to take chances. It's not like you don't want to pass. If everybody could go up there, have a shot at leading, they will go do that. It's just circumstances and the way the car was and the way the draft worked. It just made the racing different. You had to be much more patient than you had to be last year. You had to be much more calculating with your move."
Kenseth, who made his first start in the No. 20 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing in the Daytona 500, led a race-high 86 laps before his engine expired, which resulted in a 37th-place finish.
Sprint Cup teams will find out how fast and how well the car handles at this 2.66-mile track during Friday's practice sessions. Qualifying for Sunday's race is scheduled for Saturday.
"I'm certainly very anxious to see, because it's a bigger, wider racetrack compared to Daytona," said Hendrick Motorsports driver and six-time Talladega race winner Jeff Gordon. "In Daytona, I felt like we learned a lot about being very patient and picking and choosing your moments to try to make passes. I certainly tried to make some that didn't work out and cost us a lot of positions. We saw single file through the middle section of the race, but yet still be extremely exciting in the closing laps. I think that you are going to see certainly that at the end.
"The unknown is with this bigger, wider track. Are we going to be able to complete those passes that we weren't able to do at Daytona? We did see handling be a bigger issue at Daytona, when you were around other cars on the longer runs. That doesn't normally seem to be the case at Talladega, so we won't know until we get there, get in practice, start drafting and run our race."
While there is a lot of curiosity about the car's first time at Talladega, drivers are more concerned about making it through the 500-mile race without being involved in "the big one." When NASCAR comes to this track, you can expect one or more major crashes to occur.
That was certainly the case here seven months ago when a 25-car accident occurred on the final turn of the last lap. Tony Stewart, who was leading at the time, triggered the wreck when he drove down the track and into the path of Michael Waltrip while trying to protect his lead. After Waltrip hit him from behind, Stewart's car spun around and then flipped over onto several other vehicles. Dale Earnhardt Jr. suffered a concussion during that wreck and had to miss the championship Chase races at Charlotte and Kansas.
"Someone described racing on the superspeedways of being a combination of a science project and the luck of a casino, and it's exactly that way," Stewart said. "You do everything in your power to take care of the science or technology side, do everything you can to build the fastest car you've got.
"But if you don't have the luck to go with it, even if you don't have any drama with getting the car touched - nothing happens to the car - if you're just in the wrong spot at the wrong time at the end, it can take you out of whatever opportunity you had. You can have the best race car in the field and not get the chance to get through to the front."
While Kenseth was quickly declared the race winner, it took nearly one hour for NASCAR to review the video of the final lap and determine the finishing order.
"I don't think I've ever seen a race at Talladega that wasn't a great, entertaining, edge of your seat race, so I don't see why that would be any different," Kenseth said.
Kenseth's JGR teammate, Kyle Busch, avoided the big wrecks at Talladega last year, finishing second in the spring race and third in the fall event.
"I would say Talladega is 80 percent mental and 20 percent physical, while most other non-restrictor-plate races are 80 percent physical and 20 percent mental," said Busch, who turned 28 years old on Thursday. "Both races there last year, we survived the big wreck but just came up short both times, so I'm hoping to be in position with our (car) on Sunday to give it another shot at the win."
Danica Patrick will compete in a Sprint Cup race at Talladega for the first time. Patrick, in her first full season in the series, won the pole position for the Daytona 500. She became the highest-finishing female ever in that event with an eighth-place run. She was running in third on the last lap but lost momentum, as she was shuffled back in the pack.
"I feel like I've learned some lessons from Daytona about the draft and how that unfolds at the end, if you are in the right place at the right time," Patrick said. "I think that, when we talk superspeedway racing, there's a lot of luck involved. Like I said, right place at the right time - there are a lot of people who have a good chance of winning Talladega, I think. Hopefully, we are one of them at the end of the race. But, we won't know that until end of the race."
Forty-four teams are on the preliminary entry list for the Aaron's 499.
Nationwide Series
Aaron's 312 - Talladega Superspeedway - Talladega, Ala.
When the Nationwide Series races at Talladega Superspeedway, it's usually a wild affair.
Big wrecks and close finishes generally happen in a Nationwide event at this 2.66-mile racetrack.
The race here two years ago featured a track-record 56-lead changes, 11 cautions and two red flags for extensive cleanup efforts. Kyle Busch was involved in a 21-car accident late in the race, but he somehow bounced back to win it. The event was extended with two green-white-checkered finishes. Busch propelled to the lead on the final lap when Joey Logano bumped him to the front. He remained the leader when the race ended under caution for an accident.
Last year, Logano edged Busch to the finish line by just 0.034 seconds after Logano made a sling-shot pass on Busch for the lead as they approached the line. The race ended in a green-white-checkered finish after a vicious 10-car crash took place on the backstretch in the closing laps. Eric McClure slammed head on into the inside retaining wall at a high rate of speed, forcing NASCAR to halt the event briefly, as track safety personnel attended to McClure. He suffered a concussion during the wreck and missed the next five races.
There are three restrictor-plate races on the Nationwide schedule each season -- two at Daytona International Speedway and one at Talladega. These events feature tight packs of cars, which can be a recipe for disaster.
"I wish I could decide more when and where wrecks are going to happen, but it's always a surprise when they do, and they happen at really random times," said Brian Scott, who drives the No. 2 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing. "It's so hard to miss them when they do, other than the fact that you're running in a pack all close together. I hope that everybody keeps their cool, and we make it to the end of the race before things get wild. And I hope we're in front of it."
When the series competed at Daytona on Feb. 23, a horrifying accident occurred on the frontstretch during the final lap, injuring dozens of spectators in the grandstands. Rookie Kyle Larson flipped around and sailed into the catchfence before coming back down on the track. Race fans were struck by flying debris from Larson's car and the fence. Track personnel worked throughout the night to repair the fence in time for the Daytona 500.
In wake of the Daytona incident, the crossover gate areas at Talladega have been reinforced as part of new safety measures. Daytona will also make the same changes to its fence in time for the July races there.
Logano will try to defend his race win at Talladega. He is making his first Nationwide start this season. It will also be the first time the Penske Racing driver gets behind the wheel of a Ford Mustang.
"It's been a long time coming for sure," said Logano, who won the most races in the series last year with nine. "I really enjoy running in the Nationwide Series, and to sit there and watch all of the races up to this point this season has been hard. I'm a racer, and I just want to be out there running as much as I can. So, I'm pretty excited to finally get a chance to get behind the wheel of the car and check out these Ford Mustangs."
Kurt Busch, Kasey Kahne and Danica Patrick join Logano as those Sprint Cup regulars scheduled to compete in this race. Patrick will drive the No. 34 Chevrolet for Turner Scott Motorsports. She drove that car in the season- opener at Daytona, finishing 36th due to engine failure in the early going. Kyle Busch, winner of four races this season, is not competing at Talladega.
Forty-two teams are on the preliminary entry list for the Aaron's 312.
Sao Paulo Indy 300 - Streets of Sao Paulo - Sao Paulo, Brazil
There have been three IndyCar Series races in Sao Paulo, and Will Power has won all of them.
Power will not only try to win in South America's largest city for the fourth consecutive time but also snap a one-year long winless streak in the series. Once dominant on the road/street courses, the Team Penske driver has not been to victory circle in the last 14 races.
When the series first raced on the 2.536-mile, 11-turn Sao Paulo street circuit in 2010, Power survived a spectacular opening-lap crash and then endured heavy rain before making a winning pass on Ryan Hunter-Reay in the closing minutes for the win. The race was scheduled for 75 laps, but IndyCar officials placed a two-hour limit on the event due to numerous cautions for accidents and a brief halt for a thunderstorm.
With the 2011 race delayed one day due to heavy rain, Power once again survived a rash of accidents and dealt with wet track conditions. He took the lead for good with 10 minutes remaining in the timed-event and then crossed the finish line almost five seconds ahead of his closest competitor, Graham Rahal.
Power continued his dominance in Brazil last year, leading 63 of 75 laps. It was his third consecutive victory of the season. He had won at Barber Motorsports Park and on the streets of Long Beach, Calif. prior to Brazil.
"Brazil is probably the best street course that we go to," Power said. "It has the most passing opportunities, and a massive crowd is there. It's a cool street circuit, and it's a lot of fun."
Power has started on the pole in the last two races in Brazil. He started fifth in the inaugural event.
Right now, Power is eighth in the point standings. He is 37 points behind leader and Penske teammate Helio Castroneves, who is one of three Brazilians competing in this race. Sao Paulo is Castroneves' hometown.
"It's great to be in Sao Paulo, because it's an awesome place," Castroneves said. "The fans love it. The fans going there just shows that Brazilians really love race cars and IndyCar there."
Ana Beatriz, who drives for Dale Coyne Racing, is also from Sao Paulo, while KV Racing Technology driver Tony Kanaan is from Salvador, Brazil.
"I love it, and I love to race in front of my fans, my family and my friends, everybody who doesn't have a chance to come to America and watch us," Kanaan said. "I definitely have the biggest fan base when we go race there."
After scoring his first career IndyCar victory two weeks ago in Long Beach, Takuma Sato moved up to second in the rankings. Sato, in his first season with A.J. Foyt Racing, is just six points behind Castroneves.
"This is just the start," Sato said. "Now we're going back to Brazil. It's a different street course, but I hope we have a strong package and just keep continuing with it."
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Rory Kurtz's images combine the delicacy of watercolour with rich hues that are closer to oils or acrylics, scuffed-up finishes and a precision that is purely digital.
"I painted a bit with watercolour – I loved how watercolour and ink washes let the lines of the drawing show through," says Rory. "However, watercolour doesn't allow for much reworking once it's dried, and it can't effectively be painted over either. Painting digitally allows me to endlessly make adjustments."
Rory recreates the feel of traditional painting alongside using effects that are hard to achieve by classical means. "There's a patina and texture to traditional paint that I bring into the work to keep it from looking too processed and soulless," he explains.
"At the same time, working digitally allows adjustments that you just can't get with paint. Depth of field, tonal shifts and layer masks are techniques that would be laborious with physical paint, and yield spotty results, [but] are a blast to experiment with digitally."
Basic artistry is key. "I still labour more than anything over the drawings that come before the paint. It's pretty difficult to badly paint a well thought- out drawing, but nearly impossible to save a terrible drawing with digital paints."
Working from these sketches, he uses Photoshop for colouring. "Along with the tools Photoshop offers for 'painting', its photographic tools offer solutions that give the art a mixed-media feel," he explains. "I've tried Corel Painter, but the results look... too generically digital. But that's just my knowledge of it."
Rory's trademark precision is the result of painstaking attention to detail: "You don't paint digitally by inches, but by pixels."
He says that digital painting is still in its infancy: "Right now, it's such a new medium with unlimited possibilities."
Looking at Rory's work, that's an exciting prospect.
Step by step: how Rory Kurtz composes a painting
1. Rory says of sketching: "I'm sparse with the lines, allowing for the colour to give it tones and dimension." He redraws images dozens of times to get the perspective and proportions right.
2. "I've got the drawing sitting on the very top of the Layers list in Multiply mode," explains Rory. "From this point on, all the digital paint will be done as a clipping mask to the isolated layers."
3. He created an underpainting using contrasting colours, staying deliberately loose to "see what happy accidents" crop up. He also decided on custom brushes for the finer detailing.
4. Rory's pencil drawing is still on the top layer, which is set to Multiply, while each element is still in its own masked layer, which allowed him to tweak them individually.


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Israel, Hamas begin another three-day cease-fire
Israel and the Hamas militant group accepted an Egyptian proposal Sunday for a new 72-hour cease-fire that allows the two sides to resume negotiations toward a longer-term truce.
The truce began at midnight Cairo time (5 p.m. ET Sunday). A similar three-day truce ended Friday, followed by renewed violence over the weekend.
Sunday's announcement came after hours of talks in Cairo where Palestinian factions accepted the proposal. Israeli officials accepted the deal later. Both delegations were back in Cairo.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said the cease-fire would allow humanitarian aid into Gaza neighborhoods and the reopening of indirect talks on a more lasting and comprehensive deal.
The Egyptian-brokered talks have aimed to jump-start an agreement to end the conflict that began July 8 and has left more than 1,900 Palestinians dead and nearly 10,000 wounded, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. In Israel, 67 people have been killed, including three civilians, according to the Israeli military.
Hamas demands that Israel and Egypt lift their border blockades, while Israel says the militant group that controls Gaza must disarm for any long-lasting agreement to take place.
"We are going to engage in serious talks in the 72 hours to end the blockade and deliver humanitarian materials into Gaza with the hope of reaching a lasting cease-fire," said Qais Abdelkarim, a member of the Palestinian delegation, adding that the aim was to end the blockade, which he called "the reason for the war."
As the two sides continued to trade fire Sunday ahead of the cease-fire, Palestinian medical officials said seven people were killed in Israeli airstrikes while the Israeli military said it hit 20 targets and reported 30 rocket attacks from Gaza.
Earlier Sunday, Palestinians had threatened to leave the negotiations if Israel refused to return. The two sides accepted a similar three-day truce last week, but fighting resumed shortly after it ended Friday.
Israel said it would not return to the negotiation table while rocket fire from Gaza continued.
"Israel will not negotiate under fire," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Sunday.
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Please report any overly-slow GHC-compiled programs. Since GHC doesn't have any credible competition in the performance department these days it's hard to say what overly-slow means, so just use your judgement! Of course, if a GHC compiled program runs slower than the same program compiled by another compiler, then it's definitely a bug.
Use Optimisation
Optimise, using -O or -O2: this is the most basic way to make your program go faster. Compilation time will be slower, especially with -O2.
At present, -O2 is nearly indistinguishable from -O.
GHCi cannot optimise interpreted code, so when using GHCi, compile critical modules using -O or -O2, then load them into GHCi.
Measuring Performance
The first thing to do is measure the performance of your program, and find out whether all the time is being spent in the garbage collector or not. Run your program with the +RTS -sstderr option:
$ ./clausify 20 +RTS -sstderr 42,764,972 bytes allocated in the heap 6,915,348 bytes copied during GC (scavenged) 360,448 bytes copied during GC (not scavenged) 36,616 bytes maximum residency (7 sample(s))
81 collections in generation 0 ( 0.07s) 7 collections in generation 1 ( 0.00s)
2 Mb total memory in use
INIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed) MUT time 0.65s ( 0.94s elapsed) GC time 0.07s ( 0.06s elapsed) EXIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed) Total time 0.72s ( 1.00s elapsed)
%GC time 9.7% (6.0% elapsed)
Alloc rate 65,792,264 bytes per MUT second
Productivity 90.3% of total user, 65.1% of total elapsed
This tells you how much time is being spent running the program itself (MUT time), and how much time spent in the garbage collector (GC time).
If your program is doing a lot of GC, then your first priority should be to check for Space Leaks using heap profiling, and then to try to reduce allocations by time and allocation profiling. If you can't reduce the GC cost any further, then using more memory by tweaking the GC options will probably help.
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GLASFORD — Two men were quickly apprehended with a shoebox full of cash after allegedly robbing Glasford State Bank at knifepoint Thursday morning.
Kevin Angus, 26, of Canton entered the bank about 10:10 a.m. wearing a black hoodie and black pants and used a knife to rob a handful of employees on the main floor of the building, Peoria County Sheriff Mike McCoy said.
An employee in a bathroom in the basement, meanwhile, called 911. Police from multiple agencies rushed to the scene.
Two possible suspects were stopped in Mapleton and on Illinois Route 9 at the Fulton County line, but neither man was connected to the heist, McCoy said.
Within hours, the investigation focused on an unspecified house on Essex Street, just blocks from the bank.
Angus was taken into custody there, along with Josh Wernsman, 24, also of Canton, and an unidentified female. Angus and Wernsman each were booked into the Peoria County Jail on a charge of armed robbery.
The female was questioned by police but was not expected to be charged in connection with the robbery.
"We did this through the help of cameras and surveillance," McCoy said, displaying an orange shoebox full of money that was recovered from the suspects. "This is a good day for the Sheriff's Office — things lined up right."
Angus and Wernsman appear to have previously been arrested together for an armed robbery, according to jail records. Both men were booked on armed robbery charges on Sept. 23, 2008, though details of the incident were not immediately available Thursday.
Wernsman was never charged in that incident, but Angus eventually was convicted of felony robbery and remanded to the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections. His sentence had been discharged by the time of his arrest Thursday.
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Deal would be reciprocal but would be of much more benefit to NZ.
Australia will look at ways of collecting student debt from Kiwis in Australia, doing New Zealand a huge favour by tracking down the large numbers of expats.
New Zealand would also collect student debt through the tax system for the Australian Government. But the deal, if and when it goes ahead, would heavily favour New Zealand.
It is understood early estimates by Australia show Kiwis in Australia owe as much as $600 million in student loans to New Zealand. The Government could collect this, most probably through the tax system.
The student loan debt of Australians living in New Zealand is more like $20 million because far fewer Australians come here.
The Prime Ministers of both countries, John Key and Julia Gillard, asked officials at their annual summit in Queenstown yesterday to work out a way to do it, although that may take a couple of years.
Inland Revenue Minister Peter Dunne and Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce have announced a series of initiatives in the last three years to speed up the repayment of $13 billion in student loan debt, such as legal action and using debt agencies.
But nothing has come close to the scale of the Australian proposal.
It is likely the move will be welcomed by a large number of student debtors who want to pay back their loans as quickly as possible.
But there will also be some who object to the role of Australian authorities enforcing New Zealand obligations.
In August last year, the Inland Revenue Department announced it was cracking down on student loan borrowers across the Tasman. The IRD gained new powers to get a New Zealand court judgment transferred to Australia, where it would be enforced.
Measures involved charging orders on a property, deducting money from a person's salary, hiring debt-collectors, seizing assets such as vehicles and even forcing people into bankruptcy.
New Zealand Union of Students' Associations spokesman Rory McCourt said the Government had already introduced a poorly-publicised system to ensure expats did not have to pay $25 bank fees for transferring their repayments home to the New Zealand IRD.
"The Government should wait and see if that works before puffing out their chests and saying they are going to go after loan cheats when people haven't been given a fair go to pay themselves," he said.
"We would like more carrot and less stick."
However, Joyce said last night that the proposed reciprocal student loan collection deal was the beginning of the process, not the end.
It was, he said, a positive step that could benefit not only the New Zealand taxpayer but also borrowers who wanted a way of making repayments regularly.
There was not much in it for Australia, so it would be doing New Zealand a favour.
He said New Zealand had raised the matter with Australian officials in the past, but it had gone nowhere until Gillard kicked it along yesterday.
"There's nothing like a bit of Prime Ministerial endorsement to get things going," he said.
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IOCS to organize Conference on the life and work of Metropolitan John Zizioulas
Metropolitan John Zizioulas, Lord Rowan Williams, Metropolitan Kallistos Ware and Revd Dr Bogdan Bucur in one-day IOCS Conference (14 June 2014)
The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge is delighted to announce a very important one-day conference on 14 June 2014 celebrating the life and work of world-renowned Orthodox theologian Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon.
Bearing the title 'On Eschatology Today', the conference will take place at Westcott House in Cambridge and will bring together four extremely distinguished speakers. Besides Metropolitan John himself, the Institute will be honoured to also welcome Lord Rowan Williams, Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia and Revd Dr Bogdan Bucur of Duquesne University (USA). The main conference organiser is Revd Dr Liviu Barbu, Visiting Lecturer and Distance Learning Tutor for our Institute.
Please find more information about this conference in the document here which includes a poster for the event, a programme for the day as well as a booking form.
Institute Visiting Professor Publishes Major Study
Father Demetrios Bathrellos, Visiting Professor at the Institute, Distance Learning Tutor, and a Doctoral Supervisor, has published 1 April 2014 a major study of debates at the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1431 -1445) that were concerned with one of the three major issues that divided East and West, the doctrine of Purgatory. Dr Bathrellos suggests that if the Greek position had been accepted, one obstacle to reunion would have been removed, the Roman Church might have repudiated practices that triggered the further splits of western Protestantism, and Christendom could have achieved a common mind that begins to emerge only in the late twentieth century.
The paper is to be found in THE JOURNAL OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES (Oxford University Press) (2014)65 (1),78-121: Demetrios Bathrellos, 'Love, Purification and Forgiveness versus Justice, Punishment, and Satisfaction: The Debates on Purgatory and the Forgiveness of Sins at the Council of Ferrara-Florence
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Mike Mitchell <email@example.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:17:46 -0800, "David Rothgery"
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>>It's more that
>>- VB6 lacked certain basic features necessary to the .NET framework (single
>>inheritence, exception handling, etc.), so the language had to be changed,
>Yeah? So obviously Microsoft went completely the wrong way about it!
>Consider what they could have done.
>1. Concentrate on their Java killer, .Net, and get it to market pronto
>with the one language C#.
>2. Announce at the launch of .Net that their exciting new platform and
>development system for nifty web services - the thing of the future
>(okay, so I wear a different hat occasionally, so shoot me) - would
>include C# out of the box and that they were working on introducing
>other languages on an ongoing basis.
>3. While .Net was bedding down amongst the C# community, produce one
>or more interim versions of VB6, e.g. 6.5, 7.0, 7.5, with each version
>steadily moving more towards the .Net paradigm internally (outwardly
>maintaining full compatibility with previous classic VB versions as
>per usual).
>4. After, say, two years, by which time the new .Net would have been
>seen to succeed and may by now have enjoyed wide acceptance, they
>could have announced VB.Net with as near as dammit full compatibility
>with VB7.5. Result? VB programmers would have not seen anything like
>such an insurmountable problem in moving over to .Net, because they
>would have largely seen the migration as just more of the same kind of
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Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned that 600 pets had died after eating tainted treats. Now, sadly, that number has climbed even higher.
The cause seems to be jerky treats made in China. Thousands of illnesses and more than 1,000 dog deaths have been linked to the treats since 2007, according to an ongoing investigation by the FDA.
The exact cause remains unknown, but the FDA reports that more than 5,500 dogs of all sizes, ages, and breeds have been affected by gastrointestinal illness, as well as kidney and urinary issues, that are believed to originate from chicken jerky imported from China. There have also been 24 cases reported in cats and — mysteriously — three in people.
The FDA did not name the brands involved, and pet owners resolved to stop buying all treats made in China may have a hard time doing so. Pet treats do not need to list the country of origin for each ingredient.
"Packages that do not state on the label that they are made in another country may still contain ingredients sourced from China or other countries that export to the U.S.," said the FDA update.
While individual consumers may be left feeling somewhat powerless, national pet retailer Petco has taken decisive action.
Earlier this week, the company announced that it would stop carrying dog and cat treats from China in all 1,300 of its stores by the end of 2014.
"We know the FDA hasn't yet identified a direct cause for the reported illnesses, but we decided the uncertainty of the situation outweighs the lack of actual proof," said Petco CEO Jim Myers in a statement.
Rival PetSmart told the Associated Press it also plans to stop selling treats from China by March 2015.
In the meantime, officials advise pet owners to monitor pets that are consuming jerky treats and to watch for signs of decreased appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, or increased urination.
The FDA has been working directly with the American Veterinary Medical Association to identify potential cases and is encouraging pet owners to submit complaints.
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Even if you're just a casual diver, you've heard of Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas. The deepest saltwater blue hole in the world, at over 200m, it's a mecca for underwater adventures of any sort – from scuba divers to free divers.
But what many don't realize is the island nation is home to not only this natural wonder, but many more as well. The caves are referred to as the Abaco Blue Holes, it's one of the most diverse and vast cave diving areas in the world – with many caves still unmapped.
That's precisely why Suunto diver Jill Heinerth will join an elite crew of divers in the Bahamas for a massive survey and documentation push on the Abaco Blue Holes.
"I will be joining an elite crew of some of the finest cave diving explorers on the planet, lead by Dr. Kenny Broad, we will be joining Brian Kakuk of Bahamas Underground, and the Friends of the Environment in Abaco," says Jill.
The area is rich in dive history – her partners on the project have been exploring these caves for over two decades. You can make legendary dives through areas like Fangorn's Forest in Dan's Cave, or see artifacts such as 3,000-year-old crocodile skeletons in Sawmill Sink. Of course, diving here is with no small risk – as always with cave diving, the right equipment and a wealth of experience from at least someone on your team are absolute necessities.
What's the occasion for the study? "After over a decade of hard work, these blue holes have recently become protected within a newly designated national preserve," Jill tells us. What's even more interesting is that while this project is an underground operation, it isn't undercover. They'll be broadcasting almost live. "The team also has an aggressive outreach initiative that will include satellite transmissions to classrooms from the field and advanced 3D imaging efforts that will help to develop interactive resources that will help topside visitors get a sense of the beauty that resides beneath their feet."
Things they'll see in the caves include stalactites and stalagmites formed by deposited calcium. They can be rich environments for marine life – Bahamas-based diver Brian Kakuk calls them 'overstocked aquariums' – and they hold unknown potential for research – and it's big win for research. These caves have been important laboratories for climate change science and biological studies and their new added protection will undoubtedly offer many more opportunities for science.
Follow along to see the Abaco Blue Holes project in action!
Watch Jill Heinerth's Expedition files on Youtube.
Get ready for hangouts by satellite: Virtual Field Trips to the Bahamas!
Read more about the project at intotheplanet.com


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Thanks to Tony Carlson of Tech-Hero and Amanda Platt of California Association of Resource Conservation Districts, I
have had the privilege of designing and developing a website for the Elk Grove Greener Gardens Project a few years back. After 5 years of assisting them with the maintenance of and updates to the site to showcase their annual Greener Gardens Tour, I have been able to improve upon my initial efforts so that these
updates are made with much less effort. Read On
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Filtration of water is a method of combating microorganisms. This procedure treats only bacteria which passes the filter. This method should be regarded as a gatekeeper.
Ultrafiltration is used for filtration of incoming water from the water works. Ultrafilters or membrane filters are effective against bacteria, viruses, suspended particles and other unwanted elements from the water.
The pressure loss in the ultrafilter is very high. In many cases it is necessary to install a water boosting system in order to maintain the correct water pressure at the consumers tap.
• Effective against free bacteria floating in the water
• Does not affect smell and taste of the water
• Not sensitive to pH-value of the water
• No chemicals are used
• There is no long term effect on bacteria etc.
• Biofilm in hot water tank and pipes are not affected
• In case of malfunction, a large microbiological population can grow in the membranes.
• Medium life cycle cost


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The video in this post is just me, playing around with a greenscreen for the first time (and playing around with the new Final Cut Pro X – nice app!). So in the video, first you'll see me with a green background. Then I replace the green color with black, and then I replace it with a silly image.
Yay – I figured out how to use our greenscreen!
Towards the end of the video, I show off the beginnings of my library's video studio (and I have to say – I really need to work on my video narration skills. I can do it pretty well when I do a little prep work, but not so much when it's off-the-cuff. Yikes!).
So, our video studio. It's really just some office space we weren't using anymore. We cleaned it out (it had turned into storage), painted one wall with a bucket of chroma key greenscreen paint, and set up a couple of computers in the room:
- Computer #1: A PC that we use for creating screencasts. We use Techsmith's Camtasia.
- Computer #2: an Apple iMac with Final Cut Pro, iMovie, GarageBand, etc on it. We use it for video editing, and for creating our HUSH podcast series.
Assuming our Board of Trustees votes our 2012 budget into existence next month, I'll be able to buy some more video equipment next year! I plan to get a backdrop stand, some backdrops, and a lighting set. Most likely, I'll also buy some microphones – especially some wireless mics. Take a good listen to the audio in my video – adequate, but not great. I used the internal mic on the video camera, which picked my voice up fine … it also picked up a bunch of room sound. That can be easily fixed with better mics!
That's what we're doing, anyway. How are you growing your organization's video setup?


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Good all-around value for the money
Cheap, compact, capable Windows Phone device
Super cheap, Large, expansive screen
Least expensive handset in the Lumia line-up
Sony has done a good job with Walkman and video apps
Intuative interface
Impressive camera for price
Unimpressive performance, Some software bugs
Likeable design, Great screen quality
Slick OS, Good camera, Attractive design
Offers good performance and specifications
Great design and build quality, feels great in the hand
Looks good for a ruggedized phone
Bulky, no 4G, dim screen with muted colors
Sturdy, solid design
Water, dust and shock proof
Dual SIM support for two carrier networks at once
Good qHD display
Snappy dual-core CPU
Sleek, comfortable design
Snappy processor
Blazing speed on 4G, Updated design
Elegant and compact design
Scaled down design, Android Jelly Bean
Android 4.1 with Samsung TouchWiz UI
Great build and nice design
Good screen quality
Vivid screen
Neat, slim design
Compact, affordable, respectable screen size
Good call quality
Excellent mounting bracket
Solid construction, Clear display
Fantastic screen and a two-day battery life
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