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Koo Nimo is a living legend from Ghana, playing multiple forms of traditional music, as well as new music, informed by Western influences. Nimo (also known as Daniel Amponsah, from his days in London) grew up as part of the royal family of Ghana (his sister married the king), where he learned to play the traditional red and black kete drums of the royal ensembles. By the time he was 19, he was teaching drumming, guitar, and brass band music in his native village of Foase. While in London thereafter on a chemistry scholarship, he took formal instruction in guitar. After returning to Ghana, he took a position as chief laboratory technician in the chemistry department of the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi (where he retired in 1998). He remained an active musician during this time and was the head of the Musicians Union. In 1957, he formed the Ghanaian roots ensemble Adadam Agofomma, which received considerable acclaim. Along with the kete drumming he learned in his youth, he became a virtuoso in the palmwine guitar style, a complicated pattern of two-finger picking. It is this palmwine style for which he is most famous. His playing is influenced heavily by brass band highlife (an earlier phenomenon in urban Africa), American giants such as Charlie Christian, as well as Spanish guitar styles. He is one of the most respected artists in African music, though he ignores the Afro-beat style. He was the first Ghanaian to release a CD, Osabarima. He has received the Grand Medal for Lifetime Service to Ghana, and huge acclaim worldwide, playing in Europe, Africa, and America (Lincoln Center in 1988). He is currently holding a position as Visiting Artist in Residence at the University of Washington's ethnomusicology department. ~ Adam Greenberg, Rovi
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Shortly after he got to JPL, Murray set up an advisory council for women because there were hardly any women engineers, Casani said. He chose a group of 12 women to help him get the word out and recruit, changing the women on the board each year.
More women today are employed at JPL, in all positions, than any other NASA center, Casani said.
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HTML5 is the fastest growing web development trend and
HTML5 video as a part of HTML5 becomes the new natural way to show video online.
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Do Students Need a 'Union'?
Henry Hill studies Journalism in Manchester and is a Contributor at TSJ. He is the 8th ranked Conservative blogger in the UK.
Pretty much every university student must be at least passingly familiar with their student union. Although the quality of such establishments – and it is as establishments that they are most widely known on campus – varies enormously from place to place, let nobody think that I want to get rid of the student union in its familiar, homely on-campus sense.
But do students really need the other aspects of a union? I mean, they're called trades unions for a reason, and the student-college relationship is fundamentally different to the employee-employer one.
The relationship between a business and its employees is that the business buys labour with wages. In this relationship the business is the consumer, not the worker – hence the term 'labour market'. As I explained in my Young Writer on Liberty submission, trade unions parallel business cartels by seeking to restrict supply of a good (labour) in order to inflate prices (wages).
The student-college relationship differs from this in that it is the student, not the college, that is the consumer. We purchase a university education, including access to teachers, libraries and online material, from a university via our tuition fees. This would suggest that what students need is not a 'union' but a 'Which?'-style consumer champion.
Is this distinction important? Or am I simply playing around with semantics?
During my time at the University of Manchester I got quite well-acquainted with the workings of the fairly large executive council of the student union. I found that these positions could be divided between the useful - those that focused on students' relationship with the university, each other, oversaw events and societies or governed welfare – and the big-budget playthings of political poseurs.
On the one hand, it is certainly true that the work of the former – the welfare, student societies and academic-related offices – could be carried out as effectively under the auspices of a 'union' as anything else.
On the other, in my view many of the problems in the 'student movement' – another awful term – stem from the casting of student interests in the trades union mould. Student leaders fundamentally misinterpret the nature of student problems – and the solutions to those problems – by viewing the issue through the prism of labour relations rather than consumer relations.
For example, student political leaders often support lecturer strikes and other measures out of 'solidarity' when they are not in the interests of current students as consumers of education. A lecturer strike in defence of their pension could knock out a lot of a student's teaching time on a particular module and cause them to fail an exam, severely harming their long-term prospects.
The relationship between students and professors puts them on different sides of the producer/consumer divide, and they have divergent interests. The fact that university professors have an employee/employer relationship with the university is totally irrelevant because students do not have a similar relationship with either. It is only the framing of student issues through an inappropriate parody of trades union activism that allows illusory parallels between the two to be drawn and acted upon.
As I argued in the Manchester student paper, the idea of a student 'strike' having any discernible impact on a university is absurd because students pay universities once a year and aren't willing to get kicked out for non-payment. What then is the student equivalent of a withdrawal of labour?
A total waste of money, that's what. A student on 'strike' is simply not using an educational product for which they've already paid.
If tuition fees have been as hard on students as claimed by their 'representatives', such wastage should surely be recognised as totally anathema to student interests. Yet it isn't, because so hard-nosed a cost/benefit analysis doesn't fit the image of students as oppressed workers. Which we're not, no matter how many placards we wave to the contrary.


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By Sam Miguel for Gameface.ph (as published in the homepage)
What makes a rivalry?
How about a good deal of animosity, brinkmanship, history and two colors that, ironically, when combined make up a color associated with whimpering, sniveling, fear?
After a year off the books the greatest rivalry in these beautiful islands will once again come to a head this Thursday, 26 July 2007.
Ateneo De Manila and De Lasalle will go to battle, the latest installment in what can only be described as the second-longest war in modern existence (the two Koreas take the dubious cake for longest, but I digress).
Lasalle has had it all over Ateneo ever since both schools made the jump from the storied NCAA to the then-fledgling UAAP over two decades ago. Thats a fine irony considering in the NCAA the two schools were not really rivals. San Beda and Ateneo were the hot and dirty rivals then, with the action spilling out of the court and even well into the bars and beer gardens of the day.
It was inevitable however that the two most expensive and most exclusive schools for boys would eventually cross paths, cross swords (figuratively) and yes, cross defenses on the basketball court. Lasalle has had more opportunities to bring home the annual bragging rights in UAAP basketball, having won more than twice as many titles as Ateneo, including an astounding four straight titles from 1998 2001 in the Don Allado-Renren Ritualo era. Lasalle also had a practically unbroken streak of wins against Ateneo in the decade of the 1990s, during the so-called dark ages of Ateneo basketball.
Ateneo however has the edge in terms of head-to-head match ups in the Finals, having beaten Lasalle two (1988 and 2002) out of the three (Lasalle won in 2001) times theyve met in the UAAPs biggest stage.
So how do things look after a year?
Offense: Lasalle leads the league in scoring with over 84 points per game. Their transition game is unmatched thanks to the versatility and athleticism of all their players across the board. They also lead the league in team shooting percentage, and they can score on a variety of ways either in the open court or on the set up. Rico Maeirhofer is a double-double machine who rules the inside for Lasalle, together with tough new recruit Brian Ilad. JV Casio and TY Tang are two of the best outside shooters in the UAAP. Cholo Villanueva and James Mangahas fill it up wherever needed.
Ateneo on the other hand is groping for form after so-so wins against opening day assignment Adamson University and most recently against National University. Averaging barely 70 points per game as a team, and lacking any clear leader to show the way and lead their attack, Ateneo is having a hard time producing points consistently from anybody. Chris Tiu is supposed to be the King Eagle this season, but so far it has been the unspectacular Ford Arao who has been delivering the goods, at least up to the UE game.
Advantage: Lasalle
Defense: It may not be the old full court press but it is still the Lasalle full court press, meaning it is still one of the toughest defenses to break. With quick and athletic veterans anchoring one of the most legendary defenses in college basketball it is small wonder Lasalle is also among the league leaders on defense. And just to keep things honest, Maeirhofer is among the best shot blockers in the UAAP.
Ateneo however is no slouch on defense, ranking among the best in team defense in terms of points allowed as well as opponent field goal shooting. Ateneo employs a total team effort on its defensive rotation, operating like clockwork on the extended foul line. Scampering quick guards like Eric Salamat, Eman Monfort and Ken Barracoso allow Coach Norman Black a lot of flexibility in defending the perimeter, a must in stopping any offense.
Advantage: None
Post Players: Maeirhofer had a great off-season showing in all of the big non-UAAP tournaments, and he is on track for his first ever MVP award. He has improved a lot since coming in as a gangly forward-center some four years ago. Now he is a better-rounded player with a whole range of skills, able to operate in the post and away from it. He is one of the best rebounders and shot blockers in the UAAP and is a superb athlete.
After him however the Lasalle frontline thins considerably. As experienced as Ilad is he is still a UAAP rookie who will make his share of mistakes in his first ever Ateneo-Lasalle game. PJ Walsham may be a veteran but he is basically a rotation player only. Kish Co is still a little undersized as a UAAP 5 and 4.
Arao and Raba Al Hussaini are two of the biggest players in the UAAP, and two of the best-coached classic back-to-the basket post players in the league. But they are not the big man All Stars of Ateneo teams past. Still, they work efficiently and their overall size and strength does not allow any team to take them lightly.
Helping them out in the frontline are UAAP returnee Jobe Nkemakolam and Visayan recruit Nonoy Baclao. Nkemakolam and Baclao are polar opposites In terms of build and playing style but are definitely more talented than Arao and Al Hussaini, and they have proven fearless regardless of the opposition with their relentless rebounding and physical defense.
Advantage: Ateneo
Perimeter Players: This is where things swing drastically over to the green side. TY Tang, JV Casio, Cholo Villanueva, James Mangahas, PJ Barua and OJ Cua are a bunch of battle-tested and highly skilled players who can hurt opponents in a variety of ways. Tang has developed into one of the top three guards in the UAAP, and has gotten stronger and wiser; ditto Casio, whose overall game has improved considerably since coming in as a three-point specialist. Villanueva is at times the best player on a talented team with his guile and court smarts. Mangahas is having a career year.
Ateneo on the other hand is playing small ball in the backcourt over 80% of the time. While Monfort and Jai Reyes are deadeye shooters, it is painfully obvious that they are not real point guards, and neither is Salamat. Tiu and Barracoso carry the cudgels for Ateneo and they have been woefully inconsistent thus far. Rookies Kirk Long and Bacon Austria have size and some skill but may not see much time against the battle-tested Lasalle backcourt.
Advantage: Lasalle
Outlook: Ateneo has not scared any one thus far in UAAP Season 70. Lasalle on the other hand, in spite of the setback against UE, is still one of the most feared and aggressive teams in the league. While they match up well on defense, Lasalle simply has much more weaponry than Ateneo on offense.
Ateneo is simply overmatched in the backcourt in terms of size and speed, a distinct liability against the fast and aggressive Lasalle press. Ateneo had a tough time breaking the UE and NU presses, what more Lasalles. And they are not going to stop Lasalles own backcourt men either.
Perhaps Ateneos best chance is to slow the game down and pound the ball into the post where they have an advantage in terms of size and depth. But to get that done the guards have to find a way to get around the Lasalle defense first, which once again puts the onus on the Blue Eagle guards.
We see a 14-17 point win by Lasalle with Ateneo making a game of it only in a few stretches.


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Background and Design: A retrospective study involving 20 patients with melanoma with clinically suspicious lymph nodes was conducted to compare the diagnostic validity of fludeoxyglucose F 18 positron emission tomography (PET) and real-time ultrasonography in lymph node metastases of malignant mela
Results: A total of 83 lymph nodes were assessed with ultrasonography and PET. Imaging results were confirmed by histologic studies or close follow-up ultrasonographic examinations. Positron emission tomography revealed a sensitivity of 74% and a specificity of 93%. Both investigative methods show comparative sensitivity and specificity.
Conclusions: Ultrasonography is much easier to perform, less time-consuming, and less expensive than PET and it is nonhazardous; therefore, it is ideal for follow-up procedures. Since in routine staging procedures, only sites of expected lymph node involvement are examined, there is a risk of metastases being missed in cases of atypical drainage patterns. Fludeoxyglucose F 18 PET can image proliferating tumors in multiple organ systems and lymph node sites in one session, making it suitable for screening in primary staging procedures and for monitoring response to therapy. Since it is based on metabolic changes, there is good differentiation between scar and tumor tissue. Major disadvantages are restricted access to investigation centers, high imaging costs, and limited anatomical location of metastatic lesions. We conclude that PET does not offer significant advantages in the diagnosis of lymph node metastases compared with ultrasonography.(Arch Dermatol. 1995;131:1394-1398)
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Last week happiness and women seemed to be a very hot topic. I wrote about my newfound happy and Sallymandy wrote a very thoughtful post, "Why women are unhappy" in which she quotes two of my favorite saucy redhead writers, who I feel sure are both pretty happy women, write about happiness and how women are generally not as happy as they used to be. Saucy redhead # 1, Arianna Huffington, wrote, The Sad, Shocking Truth About How Women Are Feeling and Maureen Dowd, saucy redhead #2 wrote "Blue is the New Black" . Both articles are fascinating and worth reading even though I am feeling uncharacteristically happy and was slightly worry that Huffington and Dowd might impinge on my hedonia. They didn't. Rather in reading why women are feeling so unhappy I was left feeling very happy to have a He-weasel husband who shares the housework and that I, unlike the women that Huffington and Dowd write about, feel like I have lots of choices, freedom and time to pursue what I want.
As one who has had a long term case of the baby blues, I was especially struck by this quote in "Blue is the new black": "Across the happiness data, the one thing in life that will make you less happy is having children," said Betsey Stevenson, an assistant professor at Wharton College who co-wrote a paper called "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness."
Really? Can it be true? Sure, I have heard this research before but I was always unhappy when I heard it and dismissed it as statistics can be manipulated and I try to be cautious about who was producing the studies and what their motives were. I was much more influenced by the irrefutable hard science of Johnson and Johnson's ad campaign that "having a baby changes everything" and/or Faith Hill's lyrics.
Dowd's article, and Stevenson's quote in particular, got me to Googling to find more on the impact of those who talk goo-goo-ga-ga on glee and I found an article in Newsweek,by Lorraine Ali, "Does having children make you happy?". Ali writes about the childless couple on her childhood street:
"When I was growing up, our former neighbors, whom we'll call the Sloans, were the only couple on the block without kids. It wasn't that they couldn't have children; according to Mr. Sloan, they just chose not to. All the other parents, including mine, thought it was odd—even tragic. So any bad luck that befell the Sloans—the egging of their house one Halloween; the landslide that sent their pool careering to the street below—was somehow attributed to that fateful decision they'd made so many years before. "Well," the other adults would say, "you know they never did have kids."
All through infertility treatment, each time we would fail to become pregnant, I would think of that couple. No, not the Sloans. I had my own version of the Sloans. Lynne and Lenny; Mirjam and Paul; He-weasel's Aunt and Uncle. They were all that sad couple, that sad childless couple with no children that I pitied. They were the couple I didn't want us to be. I wanted to be the couple with the house filled with kids, bikes on the lawn, and a tree house in the yard. We would not be the couple who spends holidays at others homes—we would have a family, or so I thought.
Lorraine Ali continues: "Each time I visited the Sloans, I'd search for signs of insanity, misery or even regret in their superclean home, yet I never seemed to find any. From what I could tell, the Sloans were happy, maybe even happier than my parents, despite the fact that they were (whisper) childless." It is this and the research that makes Ali conclude that having children does not lead to happiness; the statisticians agree with her:
- Daniel Gilbert, the Harvard professor of psychology and the author of "Stumbling on Happiness," claims that marital satisfaction decreases dramatically after the birth of the first child. The happiness rate, according to Gilbert, increases only when the last child has left home.
- Gilbert claims that studies show that parents are happier when eating, exercising, shopping, napping, or watching television than when they are spending time with their children. Arthur C. Brooks, the author of "Gross National Happiness" reports that parents of children are nearly seven percentage points less likely to be happy than their childless counterparts.
- Robin Simon, a sociology professor at Florida State University, finds that "Parents experience lower levels of emotional well-being, less frequent positive emotions and more frequent negative emotions than their childless peers."
- The National Survey of Families and Households done in 2005 looked at data gathered from 13,000 Americans, concluded, according to Simon, "No group of parents—married, single, step or even empty nest—reported significantly greater emotional well-being than people who never had children. It's such a counter-intuitive finding because we have these cultural beliefs that children are the key to happiness and a healthy life, and they're not."
- According to the National Marriage Project's 2006 "State of Our Unions", parents have significantly lower marital satisfaction than non parents because they experienced more single and child-free years than previous generations.
I share all these statistics not to make the argument that my new found happiness is caused by my childlessness, especially as for so long I have been very unhappy just because we couldn't have kids. Truly, if I could, I would give happiness in order to have the "unhappiness" that comes from having children. Lorraine Ali concludes her article by saying that even if having children doesn't make you happy, "Parents still report feeling a greater sense of purpose and meaning in their lives than those who've never had kids." Purpose and meaning, at least for me, are a better and more noble pursuit than happiness. Don't get me wrong, happiness doesn't suck. I am grateful for the happiness I have and all the freedom, choice and sleep I have. I really am. And even though I am happy, I do ache knowing I will never know how having a baby changes everything.


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Buckeye Book Community 2012-2013 About The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Skloot takes readers on an extraordinary journey, from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers filled with HeLa cells, from Henrietta's small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia, to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew. It's a story inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we're made of. David Lacks and Rebecca Skloot to visit campus! Rebecca Skloot Registration and tickets First-year students: register on the success series webpage beginning August 20. About the author and the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot's debut book, took more than a decade to research and write, and instantly became a New York Times best-seller. She has been featured on numerous television shows, including CBS Sunday Morning, The Colbert Report, Fox Business News, and others, and was named One of Five Surprising Leaders of 2010 by the Washington Post. The Immortal Life was chosen as a best book of 2010 by more than 60 media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly; USA Today; O, the Oprah Magazine; Los Angeles Times; National Public Radio; People Magazine; New York Times; and U.S. News and World Report. It was named The Best Book of 2010 by Amazon.com and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick. It has won numerous awards, including the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and two Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and Best Debut Author of the year. It has received widespread critical acclaim, with reviews appearing in The New Yorker, Washington Post, Science, and many others. Skloot lives in Chicago but she regularly abandons city life to write in the hills of West Virginia, where she tends to find stray animals and bring them home. Additional links:
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Paris Fashion Week: John Galliano Fall 2009
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>> INSIDER WIRE —Recession schmecession. Cathy Horyn has a list of some of her Fall 2009 Paris favorites, along with their prices — those thigh-high Stella McCartney boots, for instance, will run $1,145-$1,635. As for the opening beaded tops that were paired with draped satin skirts at Balenciaga? The long-sleeve versions will be . . . wait for it . . . $50,000. And they say Balmain is pricey. [On the Runway]
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John Galliano Fall 2009 Redeems Itself from "Toxic" Snow with Gauzy Gowns
>> John Galliano took his audience to a Winter wonderland — literally, there was no heating, wind swept through the show space, a fog crept over, and snow fell — and it was beautiful. Not everything was perfect, however: the fake snow caused coughing fits in the front row, and photographers revolted beforehand, because they were left waiting outside for hours; but Galliano's take on Ukranian virgin brides, replete with tinkling coins, carved wood lace-up platform heels with pom poms attached, and heavy embroidery, dazzled. By contrast, the eveningwear was light — a standout gray fringe dress — and in lots of cases, almost nonexistent in sheer chiffon; Galliano seems to have a new thing for the bared tush, which appeared a few times here, like it did earlier in the week at Dior. Harvey Weinstein, who was front row, didn't mind: "It was fantastic, theatrical, brilliant."
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>> INSIDER WIRE — Gareth Pugh surprised editors and buyers alike last week when they showed up for his runway show and instead got a video presentation with Natasa Vojnovic marching and contorting in the clothes. Dazed Digital scored a behind-the-scenes video of the shoot, and got Pugh to explain his reasoning for the switch: "First and foremost was the fact I had just done this big menswear show in Paris four weeks before the women's show. At a time when everyone is worried about money, I didn't want to come over as being overly brash by doing two big shows." [Dazed Digital]
Marios Schwab to Halston? Brands Increasingly Looking For One-Label Designers
>> An in-house team has produced the last two Halston collection since Marco Zanini left, but the search is still on for a creative director. Sources say that young London talent Marios Schwab might be the man — he's apparently been in talks with the brand — but Bonnie Takhar, Halston CEO, wouldn't confirm anything. "We have been looking at all options in the market, but we have made no decisions."
If Schwab were to take the job, would he be required to shutter his eponymous label? Increasingly, brands are looking for devoted creative directors who don't have to split time between labels; in fact, a lot of brands are digging up designers who have never helmed a label before: Vionnet just hired Prada alum Rodolfo Paglialunga, Nina Ricci is supposedly going with Louis Vuitton-trained Peter Copping, Valentino recently promoted accessory designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli, and Chloe decided on alum Hannah MacGibbon.
Coutorture Community Must Reads 03/11/09
The Coveted visited the studio of artist Orly Cogan, who embroiders on vintage textiles...
Fashion Binge saw the Agatha Ruiz De La Prada collection, and a Skittles jacket that just might fit in.
Couture Cult scoped out all of the great Urban Outfitters offerings for spring.
For Final Fashion, a contributor created a sketch inspired by Gareth Pugh's Fall 2009 collection.
Today's Shows: Fall 2009 Paris Fashion Week
We're so impressed with UK jewelry designer, Maria Lau, and her usage of hosiery as a material in woven jewelry. If we remember correctly, a few other designers have been playing around with this concept recently, but Maria Lau's inventive pieces are surely all her own. What makes us really want to run out and buy one is seeing them styled (left) with an all-nude ballerina-like outfit. There couldn't be a stronger look for summer and a statement necklace is definitely an important element in making it happen. Click on the link above to shop Lau's jewelry.


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For those looking for the postcard England of little villages, the northwest region of England might not appear at the top of a sightseeing list. Manchester, Britain's third-largest city, bustles with redevelopment, and Liverpool is undergoing significant revitalization. However, the 200 years of smokestack industry that abated only in the 1980s have taken a toll on the east Lancashire landscape. The region does have lovely scenery inland, in Derbyshire (pronounced Dar-be-sheer)—notably the spectacular Peak District, a national park at the southern end of the Pennine range.
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I'd have to agree with Jess. I have an iPod nano (even tho mine is a 2GB), and it serves me well. For that amount of cashola, I could buy myself a few Mac Pros, MacBooks and possibly one of my $7,000 vices (but I'd rather not tell), and also max out the memory in the MacBooks and Mac pros.
Sorry, $20 grand for a one gigabyte MP3 player is just not enough for me. IMHO, it would have to have at least a *terabyte* of memory to justify that cost.


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There's no such thing as an "accidental" gunshot. I don't pretend to know what firearm was involved although from the stock photo WISH-TV would have you believe it was a Glock semi-auto.
One should never carry a semi-auto with a round chambered nor a revolver with a live round under the hammer. In this manner one could drop their weapon all day without an "accidental" discharge. Firearms that discharge while cleaning, handling, dropping, showing off or simply left unattended for any neophyte to pick up and fire are not accidents, they are the careless and uneducated handling of firearms. Take a firearms safety class folks it's the best investment of your time you'll ever make. Take one even if you never desire to own a firearm of your own. Education never stops, I for one learn something new every day.
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> The inescapable fact is that he obtained the guns illegally to do what he did.
No, the inescapable fact was that his mother obtained those weapons legally and all he had to do was pick them up in his own house.
> True, his mother may not have had those particular guns around. But, that does not guarantee that she would not have any any guns around.
The discussion was about THOSE kind of guns.
All you do is dance around refusing to start ANYWHERE.
Meanwhile, another massacre with these inoffensive legal weapons happened in New Mexico.
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Journalist Mona Eltahawy was arrested in New York City Tuesday for defacing one of several Islamophobic posters paid for by right-wing radio Patricia Geller. Though the arresting officer never answered her question, Eltahawy was indeed charged–she revealed on Twitter that she was booked for criminal mischief, a misdemeanor.
Geller, who helped popularize the "Ground Zero Mosque" myth, has been shown by at least one study to be part of the dog-whistle playlists that make up much of the conservative airwaves.
And if you thought photographer Patricia Hall's attempt to block Eltahawy in the name of "free speech" was dubious, you're not wrong: Reuters columnist Anthony De Rosa pointed out that last month, Hall posted a bizarre photo essay trailing Muslims in Times Square asking, "Is Sharia coming to America?"
You might also recall Eltahawy gaining attention earlier this year for "Why Do They Hate Us?," her cover story for Foreign Policy magazine:
Name me an Arab country, and I'll recite a litany of abuses fueled by a toxic mix of culture and religion that few seem willing or able to disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend. When more than 90 percent of ever-married women in Egypt–including my mother and all but one of her six sisters–have had their genitals cut in the name of modesty, then surely we must all blaspheme.
Both Eltahawy's piece and the "Naked Burka Woman" image that accompanied it prompted more than their share of responses–Muslimah Media Watch's Editor-In-Chief Krista Riley noted that the magazine alone ran six of them. MMW also did a roundtable about the issue, including this observation from Nicole Cunningham Zaghia:
She says that all she does it "amplify" the voices of women in the region. What she forgets is that she is where she is–a mainstream media darling–specifically because she DOES speak for people. And let's face it: sometimes Mona is the only one on TV talking for an on behalf of Arab/Muslim/Brown people. All my respect for that. But instead of using her power as a mouthpiece to write thoughtful, reasoned pieces that reflect the true feelings of women in the region (not speaking for them here, this is as evidenced by the number of counter pieces) or those of Muslim women (of which I am one), she took her voice too far in "Why do they hate us?" Why? Because the article was remarkably simplistic and Orientalist in tone–it is something straight out of Bernard Lewis. That's not fair to us, but it is exactly what the mainstream media ordered.
Guest Contributor Sara Yasin passed along her own more lighthearted protest against Geller's advert:
Speaking of what the media orders, Tuesday's confrontation came less than a week after Newsweek's infamous "Muslim Rage" piece by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. On the bright side, though, when the magazine asked for "a conversation" on Twitter using the hashtag #MuslimRage, it got more than it probably bargained for in a slew of satirical responses that earned notice on CNN, Al-Jazeera, NPR, and–of course–Tumblr.
Gawker also got in on the act with a photo essay, including this shot, which it posted with the caption, "A wrathful Jordanian girl":
And our own Fatemeh Fakhraie also got some media attention for some of her contributions to the trend:
But let's get your take on the events of the past week, readers. Consider the floor yours.
Does the fact that there are no comments mean people are just 'blah' about Muslims being in the press?
That photo essay site by Hall is thoroughly disturbing. Racist, offensive assumptions and just downright creepy and sinister.
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Modelling was no complex at all. Thanks to God I have a decent library of objects and VfR materials that I collected through the years and that helped me in speeding up the process. I knew the most important thing had to be lighting. Besides that there should have been a particular material that had to stand out ,so I decide to put my efforts in the wood flooring. Actually the beauty of this image (in my opinion) is the lighting and how it reacts with materials, not the model complexity.
Let's Begin:
The model consists of a Room quite detailed (but not too much), surrounded by a cylindrical background, were I put an exterior image. I decided not to put the background in Photoshop as I wanted the reflections to come out of that background and reflect inside the room.
I tried to make more 3D possible in this particular scene in order to get the light to react with more possible objects. However that is not the workflow I usually do, it depends on time, and deadlines. I love doing things in 2D. As you can see I modelled even the floortiles. I don't like how 2d surfaces display with bump or displacement. Well, it depends on the quality you want to reach. I use both of course, depending on a particular project, but this time with this render.
I was after Hyperrealism. I aslo put a tree to cast some shadows from it's leaves.
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I tried to be quite accurate with window frames and Stuccos, and last but not least with the furniture. Really important were the fillets and Chamfers over the objects. Any CG expert knows that realism begins from that.
I aslo wanted to use Vitra Eames chair which I already mapped, textured with advanced materials. I think they reacted pretty well in the scene. They all feature advanced metals. If you look closely you'll see scratches, fingerprints, dirt on it. It's a feature we've brought to vray for rhino recently as nobody bugged to do it :-)
The Floor:
I wanted it to be the most interesting part of the scene, so I modelled every plank and then started to unwrap them in the UV editor in order to have a part of wood showing differently in every part of the planks. It's not a difficult task, it's only time consuming!
I think the most interesting material was the wood flooring. I must point out that in this render I used Ultra-High glossiness parameters. I reached 64 subdivs in many materials. It was a try I made, but I warn you to avoid it. In daily render I'm far from those values.
The Wood:
Actually this flooring is not very complex, the beauty comes from it being 3D. It has a simple diffuse and bump as seen in the image above, plus fresnel reflection with IOR value of 2.0. It has some glossiness, but here the subdivs are high: 32. The materials with the max subdivisons (64) are all the steels. In VfR, we are still far from able to re-create believable steels, as we would need more material properties and ability to map channels with more options. I think anyway I did the best I could. By the way the new Vray has a WARD options for reflections. Remind to use it to reach better quality in metals than BLINN shader.


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Billy Smith of Sterling stopped to get gas at about 10 p.m. Tuesday at the Farmers Co-op, 1200 W. Fourth Ave. in Hutchinson, when he saw glass falling from the front window.Smith, who is a laborer at the co-op, said he got gas just minutes after vandals shattered the window with a BB gun.
"(Officers) told me from the camera time that I'd just missed them," Smith said Wednesday as he helped customers at the co-op. "I don't know what's wrong with people."
The local co-op was among at least five businesses and 13 residents across town who reported their windows being damaged by vandals. Many residents were cleaning up a mess of broken glass Wednesday morning after discovering the damage.
Hutchinson police suspect the vandals traveled around town, shooting BB guns from a vehicle.
Ten Hutchinson residents reported windows were broken on their vehicles between 8:15 p.m. and about 11 p.m. Tuesday, according to police reports. Other businesses that reported windows broken on buildings include: First National Bank, 14 S. Washington St.; the Hutchinson Zoo, 6 Emerson Loop; the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, 1100 N. Plum St.; and Bill's Appliances and Furniture, 1212 W. Fourth Ave. An employee with Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co. also reported damage to a company van in the 1500 block of Carey Boulevard.
Police Lt. Thad Pickard said typically such damage occurs in one section of town, "but it looks like they were all over the place."
"They were pretty mobile," Pickard said. "The majority (of windows) were shot at from a vehicle, but some businesses we believe they would've had to been on foot for."
Vernetta Rogers, owner of Bill's Appliances and Furniture, which is next to the co-op on West Fourth, doubted she would report the damage to the front window to the insurance company, because a claim "would be costly." The pellet holes in the store's front window didn't break the glass.
She expressed frustration over trying to make ends meet and then having to deal with vandalism.
"They don't realize what it costs to replace that," Rogers said of the vandals. "They're just out galavantin' around.
"We're trying to have a ma-and-pa business and meet our financial needs every month and then people drive around and do this to you. It's unreal."
Cosmosphere President Jim Remar said replacing the space center's shattered front window, which is about 4 feet by 6 feet of tinted glass, "obviously isn't going to be cheap," although he didn't have an estimate. One pane on the double-pane window was found broken by a maintenance employee, he said.
Police continue to investigate, and Pickard said there are likely some residents who have yet to discover and report the damage.
Officers believe the same suspect or suspects are responsible for the damage, and they're working on some leads but are asking anyone with information about the crimes to contact the police department at (620) 694-2834. Callers can remain anonymous and could be eligible for a cash reward by contacting Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).


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OP-ED COLUMNIST– Is It Weird Enough Yet?–
Every time I listen to Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota talk about how climate change is some fraud perpetrated by scientists trying to gin up money for research, I'm always reminded of one of my favorite movie lines that Jack Nicholson delivers to his needy neighbor who knocks on his door in the film "As Good As It Gets." "Where do they teach you to talk like this?" asks Nicholson. "Sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up here."
Thanks Mr. Perry and Mrs. Bachmann, but we really are all stocked up on crazy right now. I mean, here is the Texas governor rejecting the science of climate change while his own state is on fire — after the worst droughts on record have propelled wildfires to devour an area the size of Connecticut. As a statement by the Texas Forest Service said last week: "No one on the face of this earth has ever fought fires in these extreme conditions."


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Hello, This is the new version of the patch. Your patch introduced new WAL record type XLOG_END_OF_RECOVERY to mark the chenge point of TLI. But I think the information is already stored in history files and already ready to use in current code. I looked into your first patch and looked over the discussion on it, and find that my understanding that TLI switch is operable also for crash recovery besides archive recovery was half wrong. The correct half was that it can be operable for crash recovery if we properly set TimeLineID in StartupXLOG(). To achieve this, I added a new field 'latestTLI' (more proper name is welcome) and make it always catch up with the latest TLI with no relation to checkpoints. Then set the recovery target in StartupXLOG() referring it. Additionaly, in previous patch, I checked only checkpoint intervals but this ended with no effect as you said. Because the WAL files in pg_xlog are preserved as many as required for crash recovery, as I knew... The new patch seems to work correctly for changing of TLI without checkpoint following. And archive recovery and PITR also seems to work correctly. The test script for the former is attached too. The new patch consists of two parts. These might should be treated as two separate ones.. 1. Allow_TLI_Increment_without_Checkpoint_20120618.patch Removes the assumption after the 'convension' that TLI should be incremented only on shutdown checkpoint. This seems actually has no problem as the commnet(This is not particularly critical). 2. Skip_Checkpoint_on_Promotion_20120618.patch Skips checkpoint if redo record can be read in-place. 3. Test script for TLI increment patch. This is only to show how the patch is tested. The point is creating TLI increment point not followed by any kind of checkpoints. pg_controldata shows like following after running this test script. Latest timeline ID is the new field. > pg_control version number: 923 > Database cluster state: in production !> Latest timeline ID: 2 > Latest checkpoint location: 0/2000058 > Prior checkpoint location: 0/2000058 > Latest checkpoint's REDO location: 0/2000020 !> Latest checkpoint's TimeLineID: 1 We will see this changing as follows after crash recovery, > Latest timeline ID: 2 > Latest checkpoint location: 0/54D9918 > Prior checkpoint location: 0/2000058 > Latest checkpoint's REDO location: 0/54D9918 > Latest checkpoint's TimeLineID: 2 Then, we should see both two 'ABCDE...'s and two 'VWXYZ...'s in the table after the crash recovery. What do you think about this? regards, -- Kyotaro Horiguchi NTT Open Source Software Center == My e-mail address has been changed since Apr. 1, 2012.
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The Prince George RCMP has a new workhorse in its stable.
The first of what will be a growing number of Ford Taurus police interceptors was unveiled to local media Tuesday at the detachment.
The car features a 3.5-litre, 280-horsepower V6 engine, a six-speed automatic transmission, four-wheel disc brakes and all-wheel drive.
The all-wheel drive was particularly notable for Prince George RCMP Cpl. Craig Douglass, who said the system will be well suited to the gravel and snow local police often deal with in this region.
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