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Although the GOP has amassed a laundry list of complaints regarding President Barack Obama's job performance, Republican leaders have praised the White House for its cautious approach to the growing unrest in Egypt.
Many critics, including some Democratic lawmakers, have urged the President to call for the end of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year reign. However, Obama and his cabinet — including Secretary of State Hilary Clinton — instead have advocated for an "orderly transition that is responsive to the aspirations of the Egyptian people."
Appearing on FOX News Sunday on Jan. 30, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said that now is not the time for the United States government to be calling for a new leader in Egypt.
"The administration, our administration, so far has handled this tense situation pretty well," Boehner told the news provider. "Clearly, reforms need to occur in Egypt."
According to media reports, more than 100 people have died since the protests commenced last week. Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 2005, emerged as an unofficial leader of the resistance movement over the weekend. On CBS' Face the Nation, ElBaradei said that Obama and the U.S. government "is losing credibility by the day" by giving "life support to the dictator."


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PP Editor: Finding the hypothetical general area of the original Garden of Eden might be possible, IF there were any landmarks from before the Flood recognisable by Flood survivors. Beka Valley Locals near the huge "Stone of the pregnant woman" in Lebanon, quote legends that the lower walls of the temple there were actual remains of a Pre-Flood structure built by descendants of Cain! In that case survivors would have been able to trace the old map from there. Still the entire Earth had been flooded and covered over with kilometers thick sediment layers that would make things irrecognisable. The Post-Flood Euphrates and Tigris rivers were named after the original two from 'Pangaea' before the Flood, but not the actual rivers themselves. Yet David Rohl believes that he has found Eden's general area. Enjoy!
Wouldn't it be nice to find the actual location of the real Garden of Eden? In theological circles it would be a discovery that could equal that of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Well guess what? Archaeologist David Rohl claims to have found the site described in Genesis as "Eden" in a lush valley beneath an extinct volcano in northern Iran. The Jerusalem Report (February 1, 1999) broke the story in the article – "Paradise Found."
Ten miles from the sprawling Iranian industrial city of Tabriz, to the northwest of Teheran, says British archaeologist David Rohl, he has found the site of the Biblical garden . . . "As you descend a narrow mountain path, you see a beautiful alpine valley, just like the Bible describes it, with terraced orchards on its slopes, crowded with every kind of fruit-laden tree," says Rohl, a scholar of University College, London, who has just returned from his third trip to the area, where mud brick villages flourish today.
"The Biblical word gan (as in Gan Eden) means `walled garden,' " Rohl continues, "and the valley is indeed walled in by towering mountains." The highest of these is Mt. Sahand, a snow-capped extinct volcano that Rohl identifies as the Prophet Ezekiel's Mountain of God, where the Lord resides among `red-hot coals' (Ezekiel 28:11-19). Cascading down the once-fiery mountain, precisely echoing Ezekiel, is a small river, the Adji Chay (the name of which also translates in local dialect as 'walled garden'). The locals still hold the mountain sacred, Rohl says, and attribute magical powers to the river's water.
In order to make the journey to this most remote location, one must travel from western Iran, north through the Zagros Mountains of Iranian Kurdistan, down Mt. Sahand, and into the fertile Adji Chay valley. You quickly discover just how remote this location is when you try to find it on modern maps. The Jerusalem Report article gives a number of geographical locations. However, I did not find a single map that contained them all. I ended up with about five or six maps, each containing one or two of the places I was trying to find.
What made Rohl look in this location in the first place? One factor was that he read about it in ancient Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets held by the Museum of the Orient in Istanbul. The other factor was the work of the late, little-known British scholar Reginald Walker. The ancient tablets described a 5,000 year-old route to Eden. He has been researching the location since the late 1980's through academic documents.
In April 1997 Rohl did something very remarkable to prove his point. He set out from the Iranian town of Ahwaz, near the northern tip of the Persian Gulf, with only his jeep driver for company. According to the article:
They traveled north toward Kurdistan through what Rohl calls `lawless' terrain, trusting to luck to avoid the various guerilla factions active in the region. Rohl followed a route, documented in the Sumerian cuneiform epic `Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta,' supposedly taken 5,000 years earlier by an emissary of the Sumerian priest-king of Uruk. The emissary had been dispatched to Aratta, on the plain of `Edin' – known to Sumerians as a land of happiness and plenty – to obtain gold and lapis lazuli to decorate a temple that Enmerkar was building in Uruk. The cuneiform epic describes the dutiful emissary's three-month trek on foot via seven passes through the Zagros Mountains, to the foothills of Mt. Sahand – the southern edge of Rohl's Eden – and his successful procurement of the required valuable.
Rohl believes . . . the ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians all knew of an earthly paradise that had once lain beyond what they called the Seven Heavens. For them, Eden was still very much an earthly place. Only later Judeo-Christian tradition bestowed heavenly status on it.
The Garden described in the Bible places the headwaters of four rivers in it: the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Gihon, and the Pishon. Obviously, the Tigris and Euphrates are well-known rivers, but the other two have been real problems in the past. Rohl has identified them as the Araxes and Uizhun which puts the headwaters of all four rivers in his Eden. Interestingly, the Uizhun, Rohl's equivalent to the Pishon which the Bibles identifies with gold, is known locally as the Golden River, and meanders between ancient gold mines and lodes of lapis lazuli.
Making his case even stronger, Rohl says that he has found the "Land of Nod" which the Bible describes as "East of Eden." Nod was Cain's place of exile after the murder of his brother Abel. Today the area is called "Noqdi."
But it doesn't end there because a few kilometers south of Rohl's Nod, at the head of a mountain pass, lies the sleepy town of Helabad. Formerly it was known as "Kheruabad," which means "settlement of the Kheru people." He believes that this could be a permutation of the Hebrew word keruvim that is translated as "Cherubs." These people were a tribe of fearsome warriors whose token was an eagle or falcon.
And if this isn't enough to get your attention yet, he has also found what he believes to be the biblical "Land of Cush." No, it's not located down in Egypt as scholars have declared for centuries. It's just north of the Adji Chay river valley and over the Kusheh Daugh – the Mountain of Kush. One of the four rivers described above winds through it.
Modern scholars have argued that the Genesis stories were just myths [PP Editor: "Of course! Didn't expect anything else!] and should be looked upon in an allegorical sense. [Sure!] Rohl's discovery is now essentially seeking to push back the start of history all the way to the beginning of the Book of Genesis. Since the Bible scrupulously documents the specifics of the garden's location and its surroundings, says Rohl, why shouldn't we take those descriptions at face value? "I consider the Bible a historical document just like the writings of Herodotus or a text of Rameses II," says Rohl. "It's ridiculous to throw it in the dustbin just because it's a religious text. If so strong a tradition evolves out of the past, it is likely to have a genuine geographical setting."
Dr. Rohl is returning to Iran this spring, but this time he is taking TV crews from the Discovery Channel and BBC. He plans to also start digging there at that time. His new book – Legend: The Genesis of Civilisation – provides a detail account of his discovery. It is not available yet in the USA. If you don't want to wait for it to be published here and would like order a copy today, go to

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Shoe shopping was transformed on Black Friday 2011, when BeachMint launched ShoeMint, in collaboration with tastemaker Rachel Bilson and celebrity stylist Nicole Chavez. The mission: To bring impeccable quality footwear at insider pricing to women who are as passionate about shoes as we are. Since our launch, the assortment has expanded to include both our own exclusive designs, with more than 30 news styles launching every month, and an edited collection of emerging and established brands. All of which demonstrates our desire to bring the best materials and a slice of the runway to stylish women everywhere. Beyond a place to shop, we are a community where shoe fans can share photos, style notes,and simply obsess over how fabulous shoes are.
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At school, a teacher puts up a question on the board every Friday. Whoever gets it correct, gets to go home early, and stay home till Monday. The teacher puts up questions so hard, that the kids can't answer it.
One day a kid went home, took 2 golf balls, spray-painted it black, put it in a brown bag and went to school. Before the teacher put up the question the boy rolled the 2 golf balls to the front of the room.
The teacher saw it, and asked, "Who's the comedian with the black balls?"" The kidd stood up
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Police say the death of a 19-year-old Nebraska man who shot himself in the head while in an online video chat room has been ruled an accident.
A Florida man who logged on to the chat the next morning reported the shooting in early March. Bellevue Police Chief John Stacey said the Florida man knew the Nebraska man and called police after he logged in to the chatroom the next morning and saw people were talking about it.
Capt. David Stukenholtz says Monday that Bellevue police (Nebraska) decided Trevor George's early March death was not a suicide after interviewing witnesses and reviewing computer records.
Police also determined George wasn't coerced into shooting himself when he held a revolver up to his head and pulled the trigger.
Stukenholtz says several people who were in the Tinychat video chat room George was logged into told police they previously had seen him put a gun to his head. Stukenholtz says it's not clear why the gun was loaded this time.


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John Daniel Mahoney (September 7, 1931 – October 23, 1996) was a New York-based judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Mahoney attended St. Bonaventure University and Columbia Law School and then practiced as a lawyer in New York City for three decades. He was also active in politics and served as chairman of the New York Conservative Party from its founding in 1962 to 1986.
In 1986, U.S. President Ronald Reagan nominated Mahoney to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mahoney served on the court for ten years until his death in 1996.
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Mahoney founded the Conservative Party of New York, with his brother-in-law, Kieran O'Doherty, who served as the new party's first chairman. The Conservative Party was established as a counterweight to the Liberal Party of New York, which endorsed Democrats on the political left. Mahoney authored Actions Speak Louder: The Story of the New York Conservative Party (Arlington House, 1968), which recounts the formation and early years of the party.
Further information regarding Mahoney and the formation of the Conservative Party and its role in the conservative movement through 2002 is available in Fighting the Good Fight, authored by George J. Marlin (St. Augustine's Press, 2002). Marlin was the Conservative Party mayoral nominee in 1993, having been defeated by the liberal Republican Rudy Giuliani.
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Mahoney was born in Orange, New Jersey. He received his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from St. Boneventure University and was Kent Scholar at Columbia Law School. After receiving his law degree he served three years as an officer in the United States Coast Guard.
Mahoney married the sister of Kieran O'Doherty, Kathleen (1931–1997), in October 1955. They raised a family of six (Daniel (1956), Kieran (1957), Francis (1959), Mary (1964), Eileen (1966) and Elizabeth (1974)), and resided in the metropolitan New York area throughout their 41-year marriage.
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Not too long ago we reported on how GMail's effort to kick out "419 fraud" spammers from its networks resulted in a positive decrease. Clearly, this problem is not specific to large webmail providers like GMail or Yahoo!, but is well observed across most of the ISPs with webmail services.
For example, recently I've been tracking down a large number of scam e-mail sent through Free.fr (Proxad) ISP:
Thankfully, the webmail system used (Horde IMP) adds X-Originating-IP header (in addition to the Received chain), which indicates the IP address that the sender used to connect to the web e-mail interface. In the case of "419/Nigerian" scams, these IP usually points to an Internet cafe network somewhere in Africa. But not this time:
Received: from server.unlockweb.org (server.unlockweb.org [188.8.131.52]) by imp4.free.fr (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; ... Subject: Att: Sir/Madam, X-Originating-IP: 18.104.22.168
The IP in question resolves to server.unlockweb.org host, which is a known "free web anonymizing proxy" site. The "web proxies" are the most common technique for end-users to bypass web filtering products and the battle between "proxy owners" and the security labs is becoming increasingly similar to the the anti-spam war.
In SophosLabs we constantly update a list of known anonymizing proxy URLs to use in our Sophos Web Appliance products. Each day we automatically discover and classify many dozens of new "proxy URLs" to use on top of the real-time detection technology available in the product.
It's interesting to see how different aspects of computer security converge and interrelate. The malware and spam problems used to be completely different years ago. Today, they are two parts of the same problem. Now, the "web proxy" owners employ traditional spam techniques (i.e. content obfuscations, domain rotation) to avoid automated detection. And on the other side, 419 spammers rely on proxy sites to anonymously connect to the abused webmail servers. Yet another reason for having an integrated security research and response team to deliver the protection data.
The ISPs around the world should make a serious effort in eliminating outbound webmail spam from their networks. Failing to do so will result in decreasing reputation of their e-mail networks and eventual delivery problems. In this particular case, denying access from known anonymizing proxy sites seems like a "low-hanging fruit" to me. It's not going to solve the problem completely, but will make the scammer's life a little harder and may even push them out of your network. Another focus should be given to things like efficient handling of abuse reports, limiting number of outbound e-mail per account and spam scanning of outbound traffic to flag or prevent the abuse.


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Abstract 16 went under the palette knife (actually I used a brush). It got acrylic dashed and splashed on it. Then I contemplated the results and my inner desires. I put more blue on and the face of the blue angel appeared. Over several days I worked on it and the columns around it, drawing the image out of the chatter. Then it seemed obvious to put a seraph on the right, and I added the third column, as well. Above is Abstract 16, upside down, which is how it was oriented (but with paint all over it) when the angel emerged. Below is the painting it became. Click on the images for closer looks.
I looked at hundreds of photos of angels, in art and other places, and was distressed at how much we prettify them. In actuality few of us, even as we perhaps feel guarded by angels, would care to encounter one. Their first words to humans are frequently, "Be not afraid," or, "Get up off the ground." They're not particularly patient with us (witness Zecharias struck dumb after doubting the word of Gabriel). The children in Fatima were first approached by an angel, who eventually told them he was the guardian of Portugal; their adult word, later in life, to describe how it felt in the angel's presence was, "Annihilation." They're good, if they're working for God - but they're not for the faint of heart. They may be dazzlingly beautiful, but they're not pretty. I can see how people through the ages might have worshiped them. A mistake, but understandable.
So I painted them as powers, as otherworldly, even as they appear with what humans would recognize as faces.
Long before I finished this I realized I'd call it Angels in the Architecture. You can find that lovely phrase in an unlikely spot - here. Listen carefully (it's near the end) - and if you know who this is, the weird thing is who appears to be singing (and who doesn't).
This one and The Storm will take their turn in place of Cats and Koi and Autumn in the frames over my desk at work.
All painting images referenced above are Copyright (c) 2007 or 2008 by Steve Emery.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Angels in the Architecture
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- Some_myrrh said...
Do you know what this reminds me of? Guardian angels like the ones that guard babies in the womb. The blue angel on the left is almost hovering over a stroller. The seraph on the right guards the pillars of the earth, the secret places where we are woven together, an ancient analogy for the womb and creation.
- April 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM
- Steve Emery said...
Thanks! It's fun to know what people see in the paintings. I had never made some of the connections you did here - stands to reason you have a special focus on this sort of symbol right now! I did think of the seraph on the pillar as being like a fundamental supportive force, but I had not thought of that in connection with the womb.
- April 13, 2008 at 9:00 PM
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On March 29/30, 2010 a major Desktop Grid event will take place in Almere, The Netherlands. The event combines:
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Sequential Formation of Coalitions Through Bilateral Agreements in a Cournot Setting
We study a sequential protocol of endogenous coalition formation based on a process of bilateral agreements among the players. We apply the game to a Cournot environment with linear demand and constant average costs. We show that the final outcome of any Subgame Perfect Equilibrium of the game is the grand coalition, provided the initial number of firms is high enough and they are sufficiently patient.
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Cade McCutcheon, 12, has returned to Aubrey, Texas, $41,000 richer than when he arrived in Oklahoma City for the National Reining Horse Association Futurity on Thanksgiving Day.
Texas boy, 12, rides to youth win in Oklahoma City event
In reining — a judged sport that evolved from the moves of the American cow horse — there are many divisions for riders of various ages and skills. Men, women and children compete head to head.
Pedigree makes a difference in the horses and in the riders, too.
Cade is the son of NRHA Million Dollar Rider Tom McCutcheon and the NRHA's only female Million Dollar Rider, Mandy McCutcheon, inducted last year into the NRHA Hall of Fame. She is the daughter of NRHA pioneer, Hall of Fame Member, and Three Million Dollar Rider Tim McQuay of Tioga, Texas.
Along with football and basketball, riding has been part of Cade's life since before he could walk. He's been competing in reining since he was 7. But this week, he put himself and a little red horse with a bold white blaze — named Dually With A Star — into the record books by qualifying for the championship final in the top nonprofessional division of the Futurity.
"He's just my size," Cade said of the horse. "He's really small and he's fun to turn around. I like him."
Cade's grandmother, Colleen McQuay — an accomplished hunter/jumper and wife of Hall of Famer Tim McQuay and mother of Mandy McCutcheon — said Cade probably ran the pattern required for the competition "on his stick horses a hundred times."
All of the horses competing in the futurity are 3 years old, still considered colts and fillies. So it is an exceptional horse that — with only a year in training — can be trusted at a full gallop to a 25-foot sliding stop, and in a 360-degree spin with a child on board.
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Common Sense (1776) helped to establish the rhetorical style of American political writing. If you have been reading American literature chronologically, Common Sense may strike you as verbal revolution, an affirmation of plain speech and simple language as well as of the principles of the rebellion against England. The English language has two great word-streams in it: the Romantic stream, which poured in through Latin and French; and the Anglo-Saxon, which gives us a vast legacy of taut, strong, vivid words. Unlike many of his eighteenth-century contemporaries, Paine favored the Anglo-Saxon--and American public discourse, from the Preamble to the Constitution through the Gettysburg Address and the "I have a dream" speech, has followed his lead.
1. At the opening to Common Sense, Paine tells us that he has "studiously avoided everything that is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well as censure to individuals make no part thereof." Describe the advantages and disadvantages of adopting that strategy in 1776. Describe moments in which American leaders have adopted a similar strategy.
2. At what points in Common Sense do Paine's views of America echo Crèvecoeur's? For example, how does Paine see the American wilderness and its pattern of settlement as an advantage not only in dealing with this crisis but in creating a new and viable nation?
3. Comment on the "common sense" of the paragraph that begins "But, admitting that we are all of English descent, what does it amount to?" Compare Paine's reasoning here to his thinking in other passages in Common Sense.
4. Although Paine is very much an Enlightenment writer, does his prose echo any values or aspirations that you saw expressed in seventeenth-century writers? Are there any connections between the New England Puritan tradition and Paine's writing in Common Sense?


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The Journey creator says that the biggest Kickstarter success was linked with developers who created titles appealing to older gamers who have the money to donate via crowd funding.
He tells GamesIndustry that "And I'm thinking that most of the people who played our games are teenagers and college students. How much money are they going to have to donate? So I think it's not my time yet."
thatgamecompany had severe financial problems during the development process for Journey and Chen has brought in more financing since then, in order to ensure that his team has the resources to create its next projects.


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Sex, Sex, Sex: Up Front In Bookstores Near You
By EDWARD WYATT
Published: August 24, 2004
Porn stars may not keep many things hidden, but whatever secrets they had are now on the shelf at the local bookstore.
A wave of confessionals and self-help guides written by current or former stars of pornographic films is flooding bookstores this year, accompanied by erotic novels, racy sexual-instruction guides, histories of sexual particulars and photographic treatments of the world of pornography.
While many bookstores have long maintained sections devoted to erotica or sexuality, rarely have those books been as prominently positioned as some of the current crop, which have been elbowing their way onto display tables at the front of the major chain bookstores.
Every generation has a book or two that sets pulses quickening and generates frantic debate about pornography, community standards and the lowering of the bar for what is acceptable. But the latest flurry of sex books, coming at a time when sexual images already dominate advertising, entertainment and the Internet, is clearly finding a wide audience.
Publishers, for their part, insist they are not simply churning out dirty books.
''I don't publish pornography,'' said Judith Regan, president and publisher of ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins. ''I publish smart books about sex. A lot of people try to imitate what I do but they don't do it well.''
Ms. Regan's most recent offering is ''How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale,'' a memoir by Jenna Jameson, probably the most successful woman ever in the adult-film business, written with Neil Strauss, a former reporter and music critic for The New York Times.
The book, which is already climbing the best-seller lists, is long (579 pages), graphic (with clinical descriptions of a smorgasbord of sex acts) and bulging with color photos of a mostly nude Ms. Jameson (which led some stores, including Wal-Mart, to refuse to stock it).
Also headed for stores this fall is ''XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits'' (Bullfinch Press) by the photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, with an introduction by Gore Vidal and essays on the intersection of pornography and culture by Salman Rushdie, Nancy Friday, John Malkovich and others.
For history buffs there is ''The Intimate History of the Orgasm'' (Grove Press), as well as histories of prostitution (Grove) and the pornographic film industry (ReganBooks), all currently in stores or coming soon. Atria Books has just issued ''Star,'' a novel by Pamela Anderson with a reversible book jacket that contains a nude pinup of the author on the inside.
''100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed'' (Grove), the sexual memoir of a teenage Italian girl, and ''The Surrender'' (ReganBooks), a former ballet dancer's account of her spiritual awakening through anal sex, are also on the way. Even some mainstream novels are drawing attention for their sexual content, like Tom Wolfe's forthcoming chronicle of the sex-and-beer obsessions of the college crowd, ''I Am Charlotte Simmons'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
''Sex is what is selling these days,'' said Judith Curr, publisher of Atria Books and Washington Square Press, imprints of Simon & Schuster that publish Zane (who will not disclose her real name), one of the industry's top-selling authors of erotica. ''When publishers see that, everybody wants to get into the market.''
The current crop of books was spawned by the success two years ago of ''The Sexual Life of Catherine M.'' by Catherine Millet, a French art critic. The book, published by Grove Press, received mediocre reviews but spent nine weeks on the Times best-seller list, bringing a new air of respectability to the genre.
Bob Wietrak, vice president for merchandising at Barnes & Noble, said that while erotica had been around for years, a big difference now was that it was written by name-brand authors rather than by the ubiquitous Anonymous.
''What we're seeing now in novels is that they're sexy, but they're very sophisticated,'' Mr. Wietrak said. That sophistication has brought greater acceptance, he said, and demand has generated better placement in stores.
Ms. Jameson's book is featured at the front of most bookstores. ReganBooks is also promoting ''How to Have a XXX Sex Life,'' by the Vivid Girls, stars of pornographic films produced by Vivid Entertainment.
The key to her assertion that Ms. Jameson's book is smart, Ms. Regan said, is in the subtitle. ''This is a cautionary tale for this culture,'' she said, referring to the book's frank descriptions of Ms. Jameson's rape by a relative of her boyfriend, her drug addiction and other trials.
''It's the story of what she aspired to and what she's become, and the price she paid for it,'' Ms. Regan said. ''You cannot live a life like this and not pay a price.''
Last week, the book appeared among the top 20 titles on the Amazon.com best-seller list. It also showed up at No.27 on the extended best-seller list of The Times for the week ended Aug. 14, which is notable because the book did not officially go on sale until Aug. 17. (The extended list of 30 best sellers appears at www.nytimes.com; the top 15 of those appear in The Times Book Review on Sundays, about two weeks after the list date.)


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The Kings have a difficult choice to make today on the future of the former college superstar.
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The NBA commissioner sounds pleased about Sacramento's ongoing efforts to build a new arena.
Cowbell Kingdom Podcast Ep 102: Assessing the Sacramento Kings' 2013 NBA Summer League showing
As Summer League winds down, CK weighs in on the Kings' performance.
Sacramento Kings lure away NBA's top marketing executive as new team president
The Kings hire one of the league's top executives to lead their new business operations.
Report: Sacramento must meet NBA "benchmarks" in effort to build new Kings arena
Sacramento has a deadline it must meet when it comes to building a new arena.
Chris Hansen breaks silence on failed attempt to buy and move Sacramento Kings to Seattle
The prospective Sonics owner speaks out for the first time since the end of the saga.
Mark Friedman part of Sacramento's "incumbency" edge in Kings relocation saga
The local developer plays critical role in yesterday's final presentations to NBA board.
Sacramento Kings stay: NBA owners reject relocation of franchise to Seattle
The board of governors made their decision.
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The Republican presidential hopeful believes the Capt. Kirk's "working class" status makes him lean to the right. Then, along came William Shatner.
Fiorina proclaims on her "Carly for President" website that her time at Hewlett-Packard will prepare her well for the White House.
Two Democrats offer a glimmer of hope to Senate Republicans looking to revive a bill that would put the FCC's rules preserving an open Internet into law, but with key differences. But there are major sticking points.
In a last-ditch effort to stop the FCC from adopting regulations to keep the Internet open, the two Republican commissioners are asking the chairman to delay the vote.
Republicans on the Federal Communications Commission and in Congress question the White House's influence over the agency, and claim dire consequences if the broadband industry undergoes stricter regulations.
A bill introduced Friday claims to protect Internet openness without reclassifying broadband as a utility. But it also guts the FCC's regulatory authority.
While the microblogging service trails Facebook in usage and revenue, Twitter's impact on society can't be matched.
In the great American tradition of weird political stunts comes the 8-bit video game "Giopi: 2014 Mission Majority."
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|Birthweight by gestational age in Norway.
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|PMID: 10857867 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|OBJECTIVE: To describe birthweight by gestational age in Norway for the period 1967-1998, evaluate secular trends and provide new standards for small for gestational age for 16 to 44 weeks of gestation. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The analyses were based on more than 1.8 million singleton births, covering all births in Norway for a 32 year period. Percentiles for birthweight by gestational age were estimated using smoothed means and standard deviations. In the preterm weeks, means and standard deviations were carefully screened for birthweight-gestational age consistency, adapting a method of Wilcox and Russell. Differences in birthweight by gestational age for stillbirths and livebirths in extremely preterm weeks (16-28) are presented, and the effects of cesarean section are evaluated. We observed a clear increase in birthweight by gestational age for all term weeks, but a decrease for most of the preterm weeks over the same period. This decrease was related to the increase in deliveries by cesarean section. CONCLUSIONS: Percentiles for birthweight by gestational age are presented for clinical use, based on a current period 1987-98, covering 20-44 completed gestational weeks. In the final standards we excluded stillbirths, infants born with malformations and cesarean sections. Birthweights in the Scandinavian populations are high and standards from other populations may not be representative, especially for the term weeks. Also, the secular changes demonstrated in this study indicate that old birthweight by gestational age standards need revision, especially due to changes in obstetrical routines influencing preterm data.
|R Skjaerven; H K Gjessing; L S Bakketeig
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|Title: Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica Volume: 79 ISSN: 0001-6349 ISO Abbreviation: Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand Publication Date: 2000 Jun
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|Created Date: 2000-06-28 Completed Date: 2000-06-28 Revised Date: 2005-11-17
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|Section for Medical Statistics, and the Medical Birth Registry of Norway, Locus of Registry-based Epidemiology, University of Bergen.
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In 2001, a select few pioneers of mountain biking's freeride movement assembled in the American Southwest to compete in the first Rampage. Wind, rain, and time built the landscape, but it takes pickaxes and shovels to make it go big. This is an excerpt from the full story appearing in @trekbikes Stories 02, available for free at Trek retailers.
Perhaps you have driven through the American Southwest and let your eyes wander just a bit from the road ahead. If you looked away long enough, you may have noticed the towering mesas exposed over eons of geological evolution. To you, and certainly to me, those natural monuments are probably awesome examples of humankind's very small place in the grand scheme of things. And unless you are a student or a scientist, you're likely to take their wondrousness at face value and continue on down the road.
But for a few dozen of the most talented and creative mountain bikers in the world, this rugged vertical landscape represents a canvas on which to paint the most astonishing mountain bike rides anyone could imagine. The riders represent different subsets within mountain biking's gravity culture—freeride, dirt jumping, slopestyle, World Cup downhill—but whatever label they answer to, they are all drawn to an area in southwestern Utah. Uniformly, they'll refer to it as "that zone," as if it has some magical pull or religious significance. The firsthand experience in this zone is so powerful for them that most speak longingly of returning. Yet few spend all that much time there. It's a punishing place.
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