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When the Republican-led U.S. House passed a seven-month spending plan that cuts $61 billion from the current year's federal budget, Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson accused the lower chamber of "blindly slashing programs to posture for 2012 political campaigns."
Now 12 Florida GOP House members — including both Republicans in the Palm Beach County delegation and potential Nelson 2012 challenger Connie Mack — are publicly urging Nelson to support "significant spending cuts" when the Senate takes up a measure to finance the government through Sept. 30.
Says U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Tequesta: "The Senate needs to listen to the American people, who are calling out for significant, immediate spending cuts. If families across Florida can respond to the economic downturn by cutting back and setting priorities in their budgets, why can't the federal government?"
Says Nelson spokesman Dan McLaughlin: "Issuing partisan, political letters and press releases probably isn't the best way to work together to solve the budget deficit."
Read the letter after the jump…
Letter to Sen. Bill Nelson from 12 Florida House GOP members:
Dear Senator Nelson,
As the Senate begins debate on a long-term continuing resolution (CR) to keep the federal government operational, we urge you to be a strong voice in favor of cutting spending significantly while averting a government shutdown. As you know, unless Congress can agree to a CR before March 18, the federal government will essentially close. For the millions of Americans, including many in Florida, who rely on federal services like the Veterans Administration and the Social Security Administration, this shutdown would prove devastating.
Subsequently, over the last two weeks, Republicans in the House of Representatives have approved two measures to keep the government open while meeting the need to cut spending. On February 19, the House passed a long-term CR that would save taxpayers more than $100 billion from the President's budget request over the next seven months. Yesterday, we passed a short-term CR that would cut $4 billion and keep the federal government running for two weeks.
Reducing our out-of-control deficit is the single most important action Congress can take to rebuild our economy and reduce unemployment. Unfortunately, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has indicated that the Democratic leadership will not support the significant spending cuts that the American people have demanded and economists agree our country needs.
The American people have made it clear that the status quo of out-of-control spending and trillion dollar deficits is unacceptable. A spending freeze, as proposed by President Obama and endorsed by some in the Senate, will not solve our fiscal crisis.
We hope you will support our efforts to cut spending and keep the government running. As our senior Senator, your voice and your vote will be critical to passing a long-term CR that includes the level of spending cuts that the people of Florida and voters across America have demanded.
Now that the Senate has passed the two-week, stopgap measure, please use this opportunity to follow the House's lead, and the American people's instructions, and pass a long-term CR that includes significant spending cuts.
Thank you for your consideration, and we look forward to working with you.
The letter was signed by Rooney and GOP Reps. Jeff Miller, Steve Southerland, Richard Nugent, Cliff Stearns, Gus Bilirakis, Dennis Ross, Connie Mack, Bill Posey, Allen West, Sandy Adams and David Rivera.


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LOCAL COLLEGES: Lackawanna College breaks tie in final minute to win
With 51 seconds left and the game tied, Lackawanna College's Tom O'Brien hit a jumper in the key to spark the Falcons to a run that helped them claim an 89-85 victory over Raritan Valley Community College in a Region 19 Division II win.
O'Brien finished with five points and had a team-high four assists as the Falcons broke an 83-all tie in the final minute.
De'Vaughn Jones had a double-double of 26 points and 11 rebounds to lead Lackawanna, which improved to 5-4 in the conference, going above .500 for the first time this season. This is the sixth straight game that Jones has scored 22 points or more. During that stretch he has averaged 27.33 points.
Torre Somerville added 15 points for the Falcons while Charles Cooley had 11 points and Demante McNeil had 11 points and 12 rebounds.
PSU-Scranton 75
PSU-Hazleton 72
Yusef Savage had 24 points and eight rebounds and Kwame Simmons added 18 points as Penn State-Worthington Scranton edged Penn State-Hazleton for the win.
Scranton High School grad Hasiin Dixon had 14 points, seven rebounds, three assists, five steals and two blocks and Shane Letthand eight assists, seven steals, six points and six rebounds for Scranton.
D.J. Davis added nine points, eight rebounds and four blocks for Scranton, which held a 37-32 lead at halftime.
Women's basketball
Riverside graduates Jess Segilia had 18 points and three assists and Kayla Cavanaugh added 15 points, six rebounds and five steals as Penn State-Worthington Scranton defeated Penn State-Hazleton, 71-62.
Abington Heights grad Kim Madensky had 12 points and three assists and Jamie Halloran added 10 points and four blocks as Scranton overcame a 32-30 halftime deficit.
Danielle Segilia, also a Riverisde grad, also had nine points, four assists, two steals, two blocks and eight rebounds for Scranton.
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|The Raw Story
|Sara Barnes admitted she burned down one of the oldest trees in the world while smoking meth
|Sara Barnes being loaded into the back of a Seminole County Sheriff's Department patrol car on Tuesday
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So what? on a long enough time-line... nothing survives. It is only human nostalgia that makes this important. What is the difference between that tree and a younger tree? Maybe that tree occupied the space that a dozen more productive trees could survive in. That is what nature does. If it was destroyed by a bolt of lightning would a hippie cries still be heard? Matter is neither created nor destroyed, the first rule of physics.
That tree was going to die or fall down eventually but meth runs out pretty much the same day.
I can't believe the shit I have read about this woman and what she did. Here is my compassionate sentence- 3 yrs drug rehab (no you can not lv when you dont like it anymore), Chances say she may have children. Five years and if, Grandma wont take those kids and raise them right- foster homes, hatered, temperments from home to home. You all should be ashamed of yourselfs- no better yet- go fuck yourselfs with that tree. LIKE NONE OF YOU DID STUPID SHIT IN YOUR LIVES. Then and when she gets out of prison- she will be more hateful and commit more crimes. Thats not the right thing.for punishment. Ohh- and fuck prohabition too. Time for our ass wipes running our nation to wake up and run our country properly! Obam bam- your a tool- you as with the last 5 Presidents have fucked us and made far to many promises you could not uphold. Go fuck yourself too!
do her a favor give her life
I can't believe the officials believe in jesus
Dumb A$$....that is all......put her away....obviuosly she does not care about herself....why the hell would she give a sh!t about something precious and historic ....unbeleivable.....26yrs old....grow up!!!! actually took pictures and bragged about this??!!? what is wrong with you????????!!
I say just give her enough meth to kill herself! I do not see why anyone does not see this as a potential solution for meth heads!
Straights hate on stoners; stoners hate on tweakers. Now that I've got my dose of moral superiority, I can continue with my day.
kill her with fire.
I think she needs help for her addiction not prison. Hey it was an old useless tree, it was lucky to have survived as long as it had without getting properly wood-chipped.
lol, you have to admit thats pretty funny dude.Total-Privacy dot US
torture that cunt
If this doesn't wake up the world to the dangers of meth and the total failure of the so called war on drugs. Legalize pot 40 yrs ago, and meth would never have arisen in the culture as it has. I pity mankind if this insanity continues. If the broken brained person wanted to smoke poison , and had a 'safe' place to fry her brains instead of inside of a sacred tree, life would have be better for all. She would either die or get treatment. Not destroy the community with her ignorance and lack of respect for herself and others. HEMP4VICTORY!-VICTORY4HEMP!
*** Just Legalize It ! ***
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Please pass this on to anyone you know in Connecticut!
I have deep respect for living things. Not so much for meth heads. If you're a stoner and you condone this, maybe you need to sit down and have a talk with mother earth, preferably with some herb and a spiritual guide.
Dont you have to look at tree rings to know the exact age of a tree? 5th oldest tree in the world? Really? OK. I hate meth heads, but it sounds like she did a service to the community actually, I mean "what about the children?" who could have been playing inside this dried up, old, dead, decaying piece of shit fire hazard and danger to "overall" general public safety, that they call a "tree" and decided to take a cig break and "God Almighty it could have been a real disaster, not to mention the children."
She needs the help of "the Precious". It's the only thing gonna save that child. Sounds like the tree was a fire hazard in the first place as it turns out. William Randolph Hearst didn't do meth, but he ended the life of "many things", trees being just one of those "things". Get off the meth and on the non gateway drug.
Dude. A stunt double for Darth Maul.
Don't hate the players, hate the game/drug.
True but straights hating stoners comes from 70 years of lies shoved down their throats. Every lie from racial fear to sudden addiction for all these years takes a toll on the thinking of normal sheeple. We've only had a few decades of meth and the harms are obvious not to mention they're considered drug users... like cannabis patients or just plain potheads.
Agreed, fully, a tree for a dumb tweak, sounds fair enough.
I don't have to admit nothing. Only that your a piece of shit. Go hack your wares from a storefront brick and mortar operation.
Yes five years is a smack on the rist for this bitch.
we wouldnt have this bullshit if prohibition was illegal.. duhrr duh duhrr
Exactly. The prohibition of Marijuana has led to the creation of some seriously fucked up shit on the streets and in legal headshops/stores since 1971. All of these new synthetic substitutes. Not to mention energy drinks etc...
Freakin methheads.....reminds me of me sister.....lost her kids.... her teeth...her youth... shes 40 and looks 60.
Sad thing is.... methheads have to hit bottom and wantg to quit before you can try to help them.....but then they always go back to the meth....Its their GOD...sad ass shit
I have a deep respect for trees and living things, also. This tree only qualified for one of those categories.
You can't fix stupid,,,punishing stupidity with imprisonment is not the answer,,community service planting trees perhaps would suffice.
I don't condone burning down trees, but 5 years in prison strikes me as extremely disproportionate. How exactly are her actions worse than those of a lumberjack clearcutting forests to make a living?
For our viewers who aren't stoned or on their meds, I'm talking about the picture of the chick being put in the back of the cop car. Is that or isn't that Darth Maul? I thought he got killed by Obi Wan?LOL!!! wtf!
Brainwashing is a terrible thing. And a brain is a terrible thing to waste. Prohibition is a waste of brains. Or should that be Prohibition is a waste of terrible brains?
You do know that meth is available by prescription as Desoxyn, don't you? And that use of Desoxyn under medical supervision doesn't tend to produce the same problems (such as dental issues) that street meth does.
Poverty, depression, and prohibition make up our "meth problem." You'd think medical-marijuana-minded folks would consider the possibility of self-medication and have a heart. Or maybe not.
thats like accidentally dropping a cigerette on the ground by her infant child an was wacked out an went outside to get a rock an shit goes down. stupid fuckin cunt
they hit rock bottom an keep doing. i grew up in the meth capital of the country at one time. there better off with adderral, rittalin, etc. like our CHILDREN RECIEVE FROM THE DOCTORS. fuck the gov't :((((
" 43% of Tweakers Prefer Organic Meth "
Their not.
It's a lumberJacks job to take down specific trees, she is just a dumb meth head tweaker starting a fire because "it was dark" and then not being able to put it out. It's this kind of senseless behavior that is destroying our society and our natural resources. In my 'humbley pist off' posistion I feel five years is a light sentance for such a ignorant crime.
Look at that picture, she looks like a ghoul. Five years would be good, at least she won't be doing meth an killing herself. Let her dry out.
Texas gave 9 years in prison to the guy who almost killed the Treaty Oak in Austin.
looking more like palpatine. the lack of horns and red paint you know..
I didn't know that. Who made their shit first? The street dealers or the Big pharma's? In plain English--Who copied Who?
Really? Meth heads are the prime culprit behind deforestation?
There's plenty of meth in prison.
Don't be ridiculous; there's plenty of meth in prisons.
Prison is too harsh, I admit. At the very least a mandatory addict rehabilitation center would do her good, a minimum of a year. We are not talking about marijuana here. Meth addicts are out of control and self destructive. They cannot quite without help. Their bodies deteriorate quickly, their thinking becomes insane. I have seen this in my extended family after the addict hung himself, before he ruined his families lives. Find some before and after pictures of meth addicts!! Be prepared for a shock.
legalize drugz an let the weak die out.
Remember, children, gouls are people too.
Right, it's done out of love. Spending five years of her life behind bars will be a great thing for this woman. You've convinced me.
Good thing he didn't really kill it.
Look closer at his eyes, it is a maroon/burgundy color.


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The PlayStation 3, or PS3, is Sony's latest gaming console, successor to the PlayStation 2. It features a hard drive (20GB, 40GB, 60GB, 80GB 120GB, 160GB, or 250GB depending on the model), much improved CPU, easy hard drive expansion, high definition graphics, advanced online gaming capabilities, blu-ray media, wireless "SIXAXIS" or "DUALSHOCK 3" controllers, interaction with a PSP system through Wi-Fi and much more. It is also the only current-generation console to offer region-free games. Grand Theft Auto IV was released on April 29, 2008 for the PS3 (along with the Xbox 360).


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North Central College on Friday held a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new Science Center that ranks among the most transformative facility upgrades in the College's 154-year history.
On May 12, North Central College held its 39th annual Honors Convocation, an annual spring event that publicly celebrates student excellence in the academic and co-curricular life of the College. Some 55 students were introduced by faculty members, who recognized them for their academic achievements. In addition, a record 41 College Scholars, eight Richter Grant recipients and some 30 Scholar All-Americans were recognized for their successes.
North Central College welcomes Dr. David Pritchard as keynote speaker for the College's 18th annual Rall Symposium for Undergraduate Research on May 12.
The public is invited to Pritchard's talk at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 12, in the College's Wentz Concert Hall at the Fine Arts Center, 171 E. Chicago Ave. His keynote address kicks off a day of student oral and poster presentations held during the Rall Symposium, a forum for North Central College undergraduate students to present their independent scholarly research projects across all academic areas.
North Central College's new minor in film and screen studies is designed to complement numerous majors and prepare students for a variety of careers.
"Film and screen studies will help students build transferable critical-thinking skills," says Lisa Long, professor of English and chair of the College's Division of Arts and Letters. "It will draw upon traditional theory but help students develop the visual literacy needed in today's world."
Two students who will graduate from North Central College this year have been awarded prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships (ETA).
The latest Fulbright honors for Heidi Nelson '15 of Carol Stream and Kristin Rose '15 of Joliet are the 10th and 11th Fulbright awards earned by North Central College students and alumni. North Central College has been recognized as among the U.S. colleges and universities that produce the highest number of Fulbright recipients for 2014-2015 international exchanges.
North Central College's commitment to sustainability is being recognized with inclusion in "The Princeton Review's Guide to 353 Green Colleges: 2015 Edition."
Registration is underway for summer courses at North Central College, offering students from any college or university the opportunity to earn transferable credits.
A variety of undergraduate and graduate-level courses may be applied toward graduation requirements at a student's home institution. Classes begin June 15 and continue through Aug. 7.
North Central College is one of five institutions nationwide to receive a 2015 Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization.
North Central College has expanded its commitment to sustainability by investing more than $200,000 to replace old fixtures with energy-efficient LED lighting.
The most recent upgrades to lighting in the College's geothermal-controlled, LEED-certified Residence Hall/Recreation Center and in the Harold and Eva White Activities Center are estimated to save the College an additional $35,000 annually in electricity costs. The projects are supported by a $67,989 grant from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation's Energy Efficiency Lighting Upgrade Program.
North Central College prepares students to be informed,
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WXXI News was been granted exclusive behind-the-scenes access to document the project.
Tony award-winning choreographer Garth Fagan and Grammy Award-wining musician and composer Wynton Marsalis joined forces twenty years ago for Griot New York, and now they're doing it again! Lighthouse/Lightning Rod was performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on September 27, 2012. The concept and choreography were created by Fagan. The original music was composed and arranged by Marsalis.
WXXI News will be there, every step of the way, capturing the project to fruition. WXXI News coverage has included a 1370 Connection special with Garth Fagan and his artistic director (9/21), a Need to Know Rochester interview (9/21) plus live reports on AM 1370 heard the week of September 24th.
Coming up...
Friday, October 5 at 8:30 p.m. on WXXI-TV/HD: Need to Know Rochester recaps the opening night in New York City. In addition to the performance, Garth Fagan is being honored for his achievements at a star-studded gala chaired by Marsalis – and WXXI will be there.
Monday, November 26, 8 p.m. – Need to Know Rochester special edition presents an hour-long special with Garth Fagan and Wynton Marsalis which includes footage from the premiere of Lighthouse/Lightning Rod.
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Global Water Ventures of Cleveland
The Cleveland Water Center Feasibility Study
For many years, people in Cleveland have asked, "Why can't we establish a major center for water here and leverage our location on the Great Lakes?"
This study seeks to answer that question. It takes a hard look at global water issues, identifies gaps in current water-related activities and organizations, and proposes an entrepreneurial model for a Cleveland center — a center that can have international impact on the sustainability of freshwater while contributing to the economic development of Northeast Ohio.
Our research, which involved business consultants and an advisory committee of community leaders, came to the following conclusions:
- Freshwater is the substance of life and the world's most vital resource, more important than oil. Human civilization needs to transform its relationship to water.
- Improving access to clean water is essential for the health and quality of life of billions of people around the world. Restoring freshwater ecosystems is essential for the continued existence of millions of plant and animal species. These needs will grow in the 21st century.
- There are gaps in the process of providing water quality products and services — gaps related to research not being linked to user needs, a bias toward high-tech rather than appropriate technologies, insufficient support for product prototyping and field testing, and insufficient financial support and business acumen for commercializing products and services.
- A center in Cleveland can plug these gaps and leverage the region's strengths in water remediation, biosciences, health care, industrial design, polymers, higher education, and other areas.
The center we are recommending has an innovative, nonprofit business model. It focuses on three areas of activity:
- Water intelligence: Understanding stakeholder needs, compiling best practices and innovations, analyzing and identifying market opportunities.
- Incubation: Investing in innovative technologies, assisting the start-up of viable businesses, supporting the prototyping and field testing of new products and services.
- Implementation: Leveraging practical knowledge of real-world conditions and user needs (especially in markets in the developing world) to support business success and growth.
Our study presents a phased business plan for developing this center. The bottom line is that an investment in the range of $14 million could create a nonprofit business center that could be financially self-sustaining at the end of five years from the sale of proprietary information, consulting, licensing fees, conferences, and other revenue streams. Thus, we could create a permanent resource that would make Cleveland a global epicenter for water products and services.
This center will accelerate innovation and have the potential to help millions of people around the world. It also will attract new companies and jobs to Northeast Ohio, strengthening the region's economy while promoting a new consciousness about water — a "water culture" — that will have profound impact.
We are extremely excited by this concept — and we now have a sense of urgency about moving forward. Although Cleveland is well positioned to turn this concept into reality, it is not uniquely positioned to do so. Other cities could seize the opportunity if we delay. Therefore, we hope to move quickly into the next phase of developing Global Water Ventures of Cleveland.
David Beach
EcoCity Cleveland
Paul Alsenas
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission
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text: Photo Gallery New Aurora Pictures: Earth-Shield Cracks Spur Surprises The month's unexpectedly intense displays of northern lights were likely due to cracks in Earth's magnetic shield, scientists say. PUBLISHED Sat Mar 03 06:03:00 EST 2012 0 1 / 8 Shocking Display Brilliant curtains of light shimmer over Norwegian mountains on February 14—part of a recent spate of auroras that caught sky-watchers by surprise. because the displays weren't linked to specific eruptions from the sun.Space scientists think the light shows arose due not to specific solar eruptions but to common—but no less curious—"cracks" in Earth's magnetic shield.Such cracks form when the sun's magnetic field lines interconnect with those of the Earth. For hours at a time, charged solar particles can spill through the openings, slam into atmospheric gas, and put on dazzling displays.(Related: "Magnetic-Shield Cracks Found; Big Solar Storms Expected.")Interactions between the field lines often occur when there's significant solar activity, which is precisely what the sun is experiencing now as it rolls toward solar maximum—the high point in our star's roughly 11-year cycle of magnetic fluctuations. Such peaks can trigger more and stronger outflows of solar particles."That activity is now picking up, and we'll begin seeing more and more of these geomagnetic events and storms than we have in the previous five years," said University of California space scientist Harald Frey, an expert on cracks in Earth's magnetic field, or magnetosphere.—Dave Mosher Photograph by Tommy Eliassen, My Shot Fluorescent "Chimney Smoke" Green "smoke" curls over houses in Bjarkøy, Norway, in a picture of the northern lights taken February 14.Auroras occur when large numbers of charged particles from the sun encounter Earth's magnetic shield. Most of these particles get corralled toward the Poles, where they slam into atmospheric gases such as nitrogen and oxygen.(See pictures of especially colorful auroras seen last September.)"It's the same concept as fluorescent light, really," said space scientist Marc Lessard of the University of New Hampshire. "Electrons in atmospheric molecules get excited, they bump up their energy and, as the atoms and molecules relax, they shoot off photons," creating the colorful light shows."There's a lot you can learn by just looking at the aurora," he added. Photograph by Branislav Glavic, My Shot Sounding Off To better understand how solar storms might interfere with GPS systems, Lessard and his colleagues launched a sounding rocket into the aurora borealis from the University of Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range near Fairbanks on February 18.Sounding rockets are small but powerful suborbital rockets that borrow their name from the marine term "to sound," which means to take measurements.The recent project—conducted with help from NASA-sent the 46-foot-tall (14-meter-tall) rocket 217 miles (349 kilometers) into the aurora-filled sky to measure electrical and magnetic activity during the sky show.(Related: "Aurora 'Power Surges' Triggered by Magnetic Explosions.") Photograph by Lee Wingfield, NASA via AP Going Mobile Reclining on a snowmobile, a sky-watcher in Karasjok, Norway, basks in the glow of the northern lights on February 20.Especially intense auroras are often linked to solar eruptions called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, which blast huge clouds of charged particles into space. Sun-watching satellites can see when a CME is aimed at Earth, often giving a day or two of advance warning for incoming solar storms. (Related pictures: "Huge Solar Storm Triggers Unusual Auroras.")But the mid-February auroral displays occurred without a CME, so scientists attribute the events to a typical but powerful boost in solar activity and associated magnetic cracks. Photograph by Michelle Schantz, My Shot Aurora-Bound A view from outside Fairbanks, Alaska, shows the recent aurora-bound rocket launch as the craft ascends hundreds of miles into the sky.Lessard said the mid-February geomagnetic storm targeted by the launch was the result of an uptick in the part of the solar wind that's aimed at Earth. Solar wind is the flow of charged particles that's constantly streaming from the sun in all directions.(Related: "Solar Storms Are 'Sandblasting' the Moon, NASA Study Hints.")To time their rocket launch, the researchers first looked at data from NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) to spot any disturbances on the sun's surface. When the team suspected an active region might cause an influx of particles, they used NOAA's Advance Composition Explorer (ACE) satellite to get about an hour's warning of the auroral onset."When activity is observed by ACE, that's when we get on the edge of our seats," Lessard said. Photograph by Casey Thompson, Your Shot Barnstorming The sharp angles of a Norwegian barn contrast with the soft glow of northern lights, as seen in a long-exposure picture taken February 12 in the village of Ersfjordbotn.Auroras are most often seen in high latitudes close to the Poles. But under the right conditions, very strong CMEs can trigger the light shows in regions closer to the Equator—a phenomenon that has been happening in recent months as the sun approaches solar max.(See "Aurora Pictures: Rare Northern Lights Seen in U.S. South.") Photograph by Martial Trezzini, European Pressphoto Agency Aurora Gazing On February 19 night-sky fan and Michigan resident Shawn Malone pulled out a seat to capture this unusual view of the auroral display with stars wheeling across the sky."Here the northern lights glow over the frozen shore of Lake Superior," he wrote in an email to National Geographic News about his 17-minute-long exposure."I only stayed seated in my Adirondack chair for half of the exposure, as I had to get up and move around to keep warm, hence the transparent appearance of myself!" Photograph courtesy Shawn Malone More Pictures: Multicolored Auroras Photograph courtesy Michael Ericsson Related Stories Magnetic Letters Taught Us More Than How to Spell How Do Sea Turtles Find the Exact Beach Where They Were Born? Migrating Monarch Butterflies Use Magnetic Compass to Cut Through Clouds


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As with organ donation, the National Donor Family Council (NDFC) of the National Kidney Foundation believes that a crucial element of the tissue donation process is the informed consent of the family. With respect to tissue donation, informed consent must, at an absolute minimum, include a voluntary decision based on full disclosure of the facts.
Full disclosure includes the following elements:
- Families should be given a general explanation of the tissue donation process, including:
- medical and social history
- communicable disease testing
- laboratory testing
- medical suitability
- how tissue is recovered, processed, stored and distributed
- Families must be told what tissue can be recovered from their loved ones based on medical suitability. If heart valves will be recovered, families must be informed that the heart will be removed from the donor's chest and sent to a facility where the valves will be removed. If the entire eye will be removed for corneal donation, families should be informed.
- Families must be informed that tissue can be used or modified in various ways for transplantation in a life-saving capacity, transplantation in a life-enhancing capacity, and medical research or education.
- Families must be told that they have the right to limit or restrict the use of the tissue.
- Families must be told about the likelihood that the donated tissue will be stored, how it will be stored, the duration of storage, and the possibility that the tissue may not be utilized.
- The completed consent form must be reviewed with the family before final consent, and a copy should be offered to the family. Other written material explaining tissue donation should be offered to the family.
- Families must be given the option of receiving acknowledgement of their gifts. This acknowledgement should include disposition and any recipient information available at that time, while protecting the anonymity of both donor and recipient. To obtain additional information about the gift, the donor family should be provided with contact information (including phone number and address) for the recovery agency.
As approved by the NKF National Donor Family Council Executive Committee and the NKF Board of Directors, September 25, 2000.


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The one day seminar will be held in 3 different locations:
– France, on June 7th
– Belgium, on June 8th
– UK, on June 9th
USB 3.0 Technology Overview and Industry update by Jim Choate
Agilent Technologies will present a technology overview and industry update for SuperSpeed USB3.0. USB 3.0 products are finally certified and shipping. However, SuperSpeed USB 3.0 product developers still have many questions about USB 3.0 design and testing challenges. How is transmitter testing performed? What are the biggest challenges for receiver testing? What are some of the biggest design problems that engineers face? What about certification of silicon, end products, and cables/connectors? In this seminar, we will review these topics as well as discuss common compliance testing pitfalls.
Compliance testing and Certification Services by Pascal Berten
USB is a wide spread technology that can be find in the PC world but also in the consumer electronics, automotive, internal bus system, embedded world,… USB is virtually everywhere. Due to this success interoperability testing has become more important than ever to avoid problems in the field. The presentation will cover the USB-IF test procedures and it's most common failures from an electrical, protocol and functional point of view. Furthermore the presentation cover the limitation of the USB-IF procedures and why more testing is required. The presentation will be given by Pascal Berten of Testronic Labs the first USB-IF certification lab in the world and experienced in testing all type of USB products.
Integration and Certification Challenges for Superspeed Host, Hub and Device Solutions by Dan Harmon
Texas instruments will present suggestions on how to overcome some of the challenges of designing SuperSpeed USB Systems. Specific topics will include board layout challenges at 5-Gbps bit transfer speeds, power supply considerations, protection circuitry, and clocking the system. In addition, Texas Instruments will highlight the industry's widest portfolio of SuperSpeed USB 3.0 devices.
Concepts to products: the reality of taking complex USB solutions from development to market by Dan Ellis
(NOTE: This paper will be presented in the UK only)
DisplayLink will provide an overview from a product perspective of integrating USB 3.0. Topics covered will include: FPGA prototyping, ASIC integration, PCB design, Embedded and Host software development. The talk will be focused on DisplayLink's new SuperSpeed device, the latest in a history of products which primarily provide multi-display capability over USB.


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A 32-year-old Ohio woman can finally call herself a high school graduate.
Chayla Wigton lined up Saturday with Brookhaven High School's class of 2014, walked across the stage at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, and received her diploma with a group of students who weren't yet in kindergarten when she was a senior in 2000.
The Dispatch reports that Wigton earned enough credits to graduate 14 years ago, but couldn't get her diploma after failing the math section of the state graduation exam.
After failing four re-takes, Wigton decided to move on with her life.
But last October, Wigton decided she wanted to take the test one more time. She passed.


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Edit: I've posted a follow up to this article including a video demonstration of my Same Instruments, Different Flavor technique as well as reader and friend responses on getting out of the loop.
We've all been there.
You have a sick riff, a killer beat driving it forward, and a sweet bass groove.
And it's looping. Looping… and looping… 8 bars of looping. It keeps playing and playing like a broken record.
You're lost and frustrated. Not sure where to take it, you keep listening and attempt to flesh out the story — but it's simply not happening.
Why do we get stuck in the 8 bar limbo? A few things come to mind.
1). Scarcity Mentality
In my Electronic Music Arrangement eBook that's out now, I have a section dedicated to the concept of an Abundance Mentality.
From the eBook:
An abundance mentality is a perspective where you believe — simply put — that things are in abundance. There's no shortage or drought.
You have to have this perspective towards your art. You need to understand that creativity is infinite. Your creativity is infinite. You will never, ever, run out of the ability to create.
Yes, you reading this right now. You have infinite creative potential. Until the day you die, you'll be able to put forth creativity into this world. Don't doubt that for a second.
And yes, I'm aware some days it'll feel otherwise — but that's a result of a creative block, not a creative absence.
This is important, because you need to be able to let go of your work.
An abundance mentality allows you to do this with ease. It frees you from creative chains.
There's been countless times where I've written a section and had to scrap it completely because it was either bad or unnecessary. Mind you, these sections range from things that took ten minutes to five days to write. You have to be un-attached enough, uninvested enough, to be brutal with editing.
Furthermore, there's an ugly and opposite cousin of the abundance mentality — namely, the Scarcity Mentality.
A scarcity mentality is one in which — simply put — things are scarce. You believe in a shortage, a drought, or an inability.
I could literally re-write that excerpt, but instead of all the positivity I'd switch it all to negatives. That's what a scarcity mentality is. It's a belief that you're not able to create — that your creativity is finite and limited, and I call bullshit on that.
2). "Not Good Enough"
The bittersweetness of the 8 bar curse is that, while it's frustrating because we're stuck, the 8 bars are usually really really good. If they weren't, we would easily toss it aside and move on. That's not the case, though and this is an incredibly aggravating position to be in — you get this sinking feeling that no one will hear your bangin masterpiece. It's dreadful.
The only point here to make is that your whole song does not need to be as good as your wonderful 8 bars.
I understand, when you're sitting on 8 bars of gorgeous material, that it's very hard to make other sections that live up.
Come to terms with the fact that if your 8 bars are so awesome then it can carry the song. The rest of the track will provide the framework and the plot — that magical 8 bars will provide the fuck yea.
And now, without further adieu, the method.
3) Same Instruments, Different Flavor
Exactly as the title says, this technique is to write a new section with the same instruments/sounds as the initial 8 bars.
Let's say you have a sick Massive patch, a killer drumkit in Battery, and a flying lead from Zeta+. Simply build another 8 bars using those exact same tools. Write another bass line, another drum beat, and another melody.
I tend to write harmony-up, meaning I write my chord progressions before anything else. So, for me, I'll take whatever instrument is playing my chords (usually Thor in Reason) and write another progression. From there, I build an entire second section.
There's two important keys to doing this successfully.
The first key is keys — musical keys. If you know what key you're in, then you can continue writing in that key (and, if you know what key you're in, you can then go to a different one intentionally). I'm not going to give you a lesson on music theory right now, but my eBook will have an explanation of this.
The other important point is to not restrict yourself based on your initial 8 bars. Let this new section breathe and be its own beast. When it's finished, you can adjust it to fit better with the initial 8 bars.
I use this technique every day. Off the top of my head, I know I did this in almost every song on Ceremony of Leaves, including Microfracture, where you can clearly hear it — most of the same sounds are used in every section.
And no, this isn't lazy by any means. It's a creative limitation, which allows you to actually be more creative. Think about a typical live rock band — their instruments include two guitars, a bass guitar, a drumset, and a singer. Every single thing they write has these instruments (although piano likes to make an appearance often). This limitation allows them to not worry about sound choices and write some damn music.
An unfortunate side-effect of production software, VST's, and the like is that we're inundated with countless options. There's a gazillion choices to be made. This is harmful to the creative process. This is why I produce in Reason, actually, because my choices are made for me.
"But, what about that instrument?" "Shit, that one sounds better." "Oh wait, I know the right one…" Shut up. Pick one and kill with it. Don't let tools become excuses.
Note that, for someone using pre-made loops, this is wildly more difficult. My advice is to not allow loops to be more than roughly 30% of the songs material — otherwise, you won't have enough control to make different progressions and rhythms.
Furthermore, this technique is best used in something based on Pop Form which entails a verse/chorus structure or an A/B structure. If you're making something like Deadmau5's HR 8938 Cephei then this sort of falls apart because the arrangement in that song is Long Form, a form that subsists primarily on energy evolution rather than distinct sectional differences. I discuss Long Form and Pop Form in my upcoming eBook.


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I upgraded to the opensource 5 RC1 for Fedora 5. The Queues are not working.
It says, "Updated: 12/31/1969 Status: Scan complete." The date on the server is correct. It also shows that there are messages in the que, but the messages are not listed. I can see them enter and leave the que, but can not see the messages that are in the que. Everything else seems to be working great.
During the upgrade I got one error.
Restoring existing configuration file from /opt/zimbra/.saveconfig/config.save...done
chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/conf/nginx.key': No such file or directory
chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/conf/nginx.crt': No such file or directory
Operations logged to /tmp/zmsetup.log.16184
I looked in this folder and did not find these files.
I found an error for sshd in var/log/secure
Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed address already in use


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Possible serial killer active as prostitute found raped, tortured and crucified
Police believe that a serial killer is active in Italy after a prostitute was found stripped naked and crucified under a bridge.
The body of 26-year-old Romanian immigrant Andrea Cristina Zamfir was found in Ugnano, a village near Florence, hanging from a cross.
The brutal killing mirrors another attack on the same overpass last March and is leading officers to suspect a serial killer may be active.
Andrea Cristina Zamfir's body (left)
The victim was found completely naked except for her shoes and had been forced to kneel with her outstretched arms taped to a horizontal barrier under the bridge.
Reports she had been sexually tortured before she was left to die, and bruising showed she struggled throughout the horrific assault.
Ms Zamfir's clothes and purse were found about a half-mile away.
Andrea Cristina Zamfir
In March 46-year-old Alle Bartoline was discovered naked screaming for help, her wrists taped to the same barrier.
She told police an Italian man raped her and stole her purse.
She suffered devastating internal injuries as a result of the attack.
During the past decade, six or seven prostitutes have been killed in the area, Florence investigator Lorenzo Bucossi told reporters.
The overpass is in the same area where police believe the Monster of Florence killed 16 people between 1968 and 1985.
The serial killer's victims, many of them couples, were all shot at point-blank range. No one was ever charged in the murders, and the mystery remains unsolved, reports The Daily Mail.


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October 30, 2010 08:00 AM by Allyson Wells
Former Bachelor star Dr. Travis Stork, and now star of the The Doctors, discovered Brad Womack is returning as The Bachelor. While Travis is totally comfortable appearing on television as a doctor, he says he would never return as The Bachelor.
Before his successful career as a television doctor, Travis got his start on The Bachelor and claims he has nothing but good things to say about the show. Travis ended up choosing Sarah Stone, but the relationship did not work out. Travis told Zap2it on the set of the Doctors, "I just saw Sarah last week. She's doing great. She's happily married. you know what, that's the great thing about that experience-it's different for everyone and I made some great friends. it was a long time ago, but it's been great to keep in touch with some of the women that I met. Nothing but fond memories." In addition to meeting women, Travis also was able to land a gig on the successful Doctors show.
After learning that Brad Womack was returning to do The Bachelor all over again, Travis says he couldn't return to relive the experience. "Let me unequivocally state-I am much more comfortable being a doctor on TV than a bachelor. That's a one time experience." Of course, it is easier for the adorable doctor to say he would not return since he has his successful show. I'm positive he has no shortage of women to date!
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Jimi Hendrix Biopic to Premiere at Toronto Film Festival in September
The long-in-the-works Jimi Hendrix biopic, All Is by My Side, will get its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, which is scheduled to run from September 5 through September 15. The movie stars Andre Benjamin, aka Andre 3000 of the hip-hop duo OutKast, and follows Hendrix as his career catches fire while performing in England during 1967 and '68.
All by My Side was written and directed by John Ridley, whose credits include penning the story for the film Three Kings and serving as head writer for The Wanda Sykes Show. Actresses Imogen Poots and Hayley Atwell portray Hendrix's respective girlfriends Linda Keith and Kathy Etchingham.
Another interesting music-related flick set to premiere at the Toronto fest is Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, a documentary about the man who managed such stars as Alice Cooper, Blondie and Luther Vandross. The movie marks comic actor Mike Myers' first foray into directing.
The complete schedule for the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival will be announced on August 20.
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The temptations of allowing a promotional video to seep inside a genuine non-fiction study nearly overtake "East of Havana" and its look at a bubbling hip-hop culture in Cuba. Like several previous docs on Cuban musicians, dancers and other artists in less-than-ideal conditions, Jauretsi Saizarbitoria's and Emilia Menocal's film serves as a metaphor about artistic freedom and wiliness.
The temptations of allowing a promotional video to seep inside a genuine non-fiction study nearly overtake "East of Havana" and its look at a bubbling hip-hop culture in Cuba. Like several previous docs on Cuban musicians, dancers and other artists in less-than-ideal conditions, Jauretsi Saizarbitoria's and Emilia Menocal's film serves as a metaphor about artistic freedom and wiliness. But it also suggests a distinctly stylish Cubano rap. Pic will energetically represent on the world fest circuit, and should lay down some solid theatrical and vid tracks.Instead of a broader overview of the nature of Cuban hip-hop, "Havana" takes the particular examples of three artists, members of a loose but loyal group of performers called "El Cartel" based in the working-class burg of Alamar. Given their obvious talent, Soandry (nickname for Soandres Del Rio Ferrer), Mikki Flow (or Michel Hermida) and Magyori Martinez Veitia could all be major stars if Cuba had a healthy, open music industry, and they all come across as more reflective and thoughtful than the vast majority of North American rap stars. Pic is bookended by an account of the efforts to stage the 2004 edition of the island's only hip-hop festival, launched in 1998. Although it first appears that the approaching Hurricane Charley is the fest's main threat, it later emerges that Cuban authorities have used the cleanup in Charley's aftermath as an excuse to cancel the annual affair. Mikki, a key organizing force and the film's most incisive spokesperson, says the hip-hop underground will arrange a fest in some other form. The pic never tracks what Mikki and "El Cartel" come up with. Rather, it is emotionally attached to the story of Soandry and his exiled brother Vladimir Abad, who now lives Stateside and hasn't seen his parents in years. As with most doc accounts of life in Cuba, the personal costs of familial separation are never far from any conversation. The doc is far weaker in laying out the music's history, but Mikki does explain that the roots of Cuban rap stem from the so-called "special period" of the 1990s, when Cuba suffered from a cutoff of aid from the former USSR and Cubans had to learn new modes of survival. "It was," says Mikki, "the catalyst for our movement," and it does seem to more relevantly express realities and desires than the older forms of Cuban salsa and jazz. Pic looks almost too cool and dazzling for its own good — Christophe Lanzenberg's video cinematography pops with bright, postcard colors — contributing to an impression that it's functioning as a publicity vehicle for the artists as much or more so than as a true doc. The music hits the ears like a sonic splash, and the "El Cartel" style happily disturbs standard hip-hop patterns with salsa inflections and sophisticated rhythms.
East of Havana
A Denver and Delilah Films Production and Sugar Barons presentation. Produced by Charlize Theron, Clark Peterson, Meagan Riley-Grant, Juan Carlos Saizarbitoria. Directed, written by Jauretsi Saizarbitoria, Emilia Menocal.
Camera (color, DV), Christophe Lanzenberg; editor, Fernando Villena; music, Paul Heck, Federico Fong; music supervisor, Heck; sound, Ricardo "Tato" Peres; supervising sound editor, Chato Hill; associate producers, Menocal, Saizarbitoria. Reviewed at Los Angeles Film Festival (competing), June 29, 2006. (Also in South by Southwest, Edinburgh film festivals.) Running time: 82 MIN.
Soandres "Soandry" Del Rio Ferrer, Magyori Martinez Veitia, Michel "Mikki Flow" Hermida, Vladimir Abad, Daisy M. Abad, Norma Despaigne, Adrian "El Loco" Espronceda Serpa, Pablo Herrera, Ariel Fernandez Diaz, Carlos "Yimi Konclaze" Rodriquez, Reynor Hernandez Fernandez, Karel Betancocet Benitez, Randy Acosta, Humberto "Papa Humbertico" Cabrera, Denis "Deno" Penalver Medina, Carlos A. Cantero, Alexy "Pelon" Cantero, Axel Tosca. (Spanish, English dialogue)


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We are family
God still works through families, despite our feeble attempts to "improve" His design
God could have chosen to make each human being separately out of the dust, observed Martin Luther, as He did Adam. But instead He chose to populate the earth from generation to generation by inventing the family.
When in marriage a man and a woman become husband and wife, they are entering a vocation, a calling from God. This union may well lead to another calling, that of being parents.
For Luther, the doctrine of vocation was not so much a matter of serving God in one's work as it was an understanding of how God works through human beings. God gives us our daily bread through the vocation of farmers, bakers, truck drivers, retailers, and checkout clerks. God heals through doctors, protects by police officers, teaches through teachers, and cares for His people spiritually through pastors.
Though God works through the vocations of even non-Christians to exercise His providential care, Christians all have multiple callings: in the church, in their work, as citizens, and as members of a family.
There are even different callings within the family, each of which is a sphere of love and service to the others: husband, wife, father, mother, son, and daughter. Luther even considered being a child to be a vocation. A man is a husband to his wife, a father to his children, and still a son to his parents as long as they live. Each relationship entails specific kinds of responsibility, love, and service. Each relationship is also a means by which God blesses those who are touched. The husband is to be a blessing to his wife, and the wife to her husband, channels for God's manifold gifts to one another.
Parenthood-though so commonplace as to seem ordinary-may be the most miraculous calling of them all, the one in which God's workings are most dramatically evident. The husband and wife join physically and engender a new human being. Then they must take care of the child, tending to his every physical and emotional need. Then they must teach the child as he grows, showing how he is to treat other people, correcting his bad behavior, shaping his character, explaining what he needs to know, and initiating him into adulthood.
More than that, as Spenser points out in his great wedding poem "Epithalamion," to beget a child is to beget an immortal soul, and parents' larger goal is to fit their children for heaven, "of blessed Saints for to increase the count." To help in that process parents teach their children God's Word, take them to church, make sure they get a godly education, and guide them through the big and small trials of their lives.
This process goes on through time for generations and generations, as children grow up to have children of their own, whereupon they grow up to have children, until both the earth and heaven are indeed filled with a particular couple's "large posterity."
And yet, it is God all along who is working in the family, bringing a man and a woman together and calling them into marriage, creating new life in the mother's womb, providentially caring for children through the sometimes fumbling ministrations of mom and dad.
The family is God's invention. He protects it in the Ten Commandments-"Thou shalt not commit adultery" and "Honor thy father and thy mother"-and His Word uses the family as a way to talk about God Himself. Since our dependence on Him is that of a helpless baby to a loving parent, we are told to address Him as "our Father." Since His relationship to us in Christ is as loving and intimate as that between a groom and his bride, the church is called "the Bride of Christ." Husbands and wives are told to emulate the relationship between Christ and the church in their relationship with each other.
The church is for believers, but God blesses even those who do not know Him with families, which become the foundation for every other social and cultural institution.
This is what the family is, by God's design. Its center is marriage, God's way. But today many people think there is a better idea: marriage, our way.
We live at a time when husbands and wives routinely divorce each other, even though Jesus warns human beings not to break asunder what God Himself has joined. Even when marriages stay together, they are often torn by marital discord, even though it is a violation of God's calling to make each other miserable.
We live in an era of child abuse. Although the popular culture pretends to consider child abuse a terrible thing, the worst form of child abuse is legally and socially acceptable, namely, abortion. It is the vocation of parents to care for their children, not to kill them.
Although the family is the basis of culture, as any anthropologist will say, today parents often find themselves having to protect their children from their own culture. Instead of helping parents teach their children to control themselves, to act morally, and to mature into adults, our society-in its entertainment industry, its schools, and its government-often seems to undermine parents and to be at war against children.
And now we are presuming to re-engineer the family itself. Why should marriage be just for a man and a woman? That isn't fair. Why shouldn't men be allowed to marry men, and women be allowed to marry women, if that is their choice for sex? Vermont has now passed a law allowing homosexuals to form civil unions, and many churches and theologians-whose liberal theology encourages them to throw out Scripture in favor of whatever the dominant culture dictates-are clamoring for same-sex marriage.
People ask, What business is it of the state to regulate people's sexual practices and living arrangements? And if two people love each other, why shouldn't they have the legal benefits of marriage?
The answer is that sex-by God's design for all of His creation-is a family value. That is, sex is designed to engender children. The institution of marriage and the family is about having and raising children. (While it is true that some married couples cannot have children, the structures and the legalities of marriage are still designed around this purpose.)
The state's interest in marriage has nothing to do with people's sex lives, but with the primal social function of bringing children into the world. A family is not just a set of individuals who have sex with each other, nor is it a set of individuals who love each other. Rather, it is a biological unit, grounded in how God made us, and a social unit. The state's authority derives from the family, not vice versa. Human beings-whether state legislators, federal bureaucrats, or church conventions-cannot simply pass a law to change what marriage is.
How have we come to this point? Some of today's confusions about family date from the time when our culture began to treat sex as an end in itself, and to separate it from procreation. People have always wanted the pleasures of sex without its result, namely, children. "Sex without responsibility" captured the unique selling proposition of the prostitution industry. In the latter half of the 20th century, technology made that proposition universal.
One does not have to be a Catholic or to reject birth-control entirely to recognize that contraceptives had a profound effect on the culture's mores about sex. Separating sex from procreation meant that each could go his separate way.
Sex without the family commitments of marriage became socially acceptable. Sex became a matter of recreation, a jolt of physical pleasure, unconnected to family attachments. This led not only to promiscuity but to the acceptance of pornography and the constant sexual stimulation of our entertainment industry, in which sex obviously has nothing to do with having children. Homosexuality too makes perfect sense, if sex is seen as simply a type of pleasure one can have, apart from its biological purpose.
Often, instead of bringing couples into marriage, sex becomes an occasion for breaking up marriages. In their lust for unrestrained sexual pleasure, people consider the marriage bond too constraining and start looking for other partners.
Most seriously of all, the separation of sex from procreation means that when sex by accident does produce a child, it is nothing more than an unwanted byproduct. It becomes perfectly acceptable, under this mindset, to get rid of the unwanted "product of conception" (to use a common medical euphemism) by means of abortion.
Once our culture began approving of sex without procreation, the next phase of our dehumanization could begin: procreation without sex.
It is no longer that unusual to conceive children via artificial insemination in a culture dish. When the sperm and egg are from a married couple and the microscopic baby is planted inside the womb of the otherwise infertile mother, this might be a valid use of the medical vocation. But increasingly, the baby is placed in a surrogate's womb, so that the woman who gives birth to the child is not the biological mother. Another option now available is to buy sperm and eggs from commercial businesses that harvest genetic material from Nobel prize winners or beauty queens, enabling would-be parents to have "designer babies" with no biological heritage from themselves.
As reproductive technology becomes more and more sophisticated, as the human genetic code is cracked, and as genetic engineering becomes bigger and bigger business, expect more to come. Not just cloning, not just the genetic engineering of children according to our consumer preference, but childbirth itself may become a relic of primitive medical practices. Once an artificial womb is perfected, genetic material can be controlled in the lab, in a way it cannot be in the human body. It is understandable that women in labor may well, at the time, wish they could have a baby some other way. In the not too distant future that may become technologically feasible. We have conquered other kinds of pain, transcended the limits of the body in other ways. Freeing women from the pains of childbirth may well be seen as the final step in the emancipation and full equality of women.
At that point, the family will be technologically obsolete. A woman or a man-with no longer any distinction between them-can take a child off the rack, or have one made according to specifications. If individuals are too busy gratifying themselves sexually, the task of repopulating the earth could be taken up by the state, which could manufacture the workers it needs, raise them in 24-hour day-care centers, and socialize them in parentless schools.
The double helix of the DNA molecule may become a microscopic Tower of Babel. On the other hand, God did not let the Tower of Babel stand, and He is unlikely to let us undo His invention of the family.
Since family life is a calling, rather than something we come up with on our own, it has a way of changing people. Rugged independent types find themselves yearning to find someone to marry. And once they are called into marriage, intrinsically selfish individuals find themselves wanting to put another person first for a change. Career couples who never intended to have children suddenly want to have one, and when they do, the baby becomes the most important thing in their lives. Veterans of the sexual revolution, once they have a child, often became moral conservatives. They don't want their child to live the way they did.
The family is under attack. But families are also fighting back. And this is one war in which families really do have God on their side.


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The Cartographers Guild is a forum created by and for map makers and aficionados, a place where every aspect of cartography can be admired, examined, learned, and discussed. Our membership consists of professional designers and artists, hobbyists, and amateursall are welcome to join and participate in the quest for cartographic skill and knowledge.
Although we specialize in maps of fictional realms, as commonly used in both novels and games (both tabletop and role-playing), many Guild members are also proficient in historical and contemporary maps. Likewise, we specialize in computer-assisted cartography (such as with GIMP, Adobe apps, Campaign Cartographer, Dundjinni, etc.), although many members here also have interest in maps drafted by hand.
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Aerie Fief is a region of land held in trust for the the youngest son of Lord Bonelli the Bald. It is a mountainous region with a good river system.
I am looking forward to fleshing out the details of this map.
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Research Update: Fremont General Corp. CreditWatch Implications Revised To Developing From Negative May 07
- May 2007
- Standard & Poors
On May 22, 2007, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services revised the CreditWatch implications on Fremont General Corp. (Fremont) to Developing from Negative. This action follows the announcement of the sale of Fremont's commercial real estate business to iStar Financial Inc. and the proposed minority investment in Fremont by an investor group led by Gerald J. Ford. Fremont is also selling its subprime residential real estate business to Ellington Capital Management. These transactions closing as expected would have a positive impact on Fremont's credit risk profile. The company has already liquidated some of its residential assets, reducing risk on the balance sheet. In addition to the $1.9 billion in upfront cash that the iStar transaction will generate, Fremont will benefit from...
Companies mentioned in this report are: Fremont General Corp.,Fremont Investment & Loan,iStar Financial Inc.
Action: On CreditWatch:Developing
Standard and Poors RatingsXpress Credit Research provides in-depth coverage of international corporates, financial institutions, insurance companies, utilities, sovereigns and structured finance programs. RatingsXpress Credit Research lets users determine the credit rating of holdings and identify key factors underlying an issuer's creditworthiness, distinguishes the different risk exposures for new and existing deals, and provides an understanding of how their analysts interpret key regulatory, political and environmental events and their economic impact.
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Took a buddy of mine out on his first mtb ride. The trail started off with a 3mi climb that gained 1200'. Once at the top we rode around on the fire road there so he could get used to the gearing on his bike, played around with the suspension settings and tire pressures so he could feel what the differences were.
After about an hour we headed back down the way we road up. About 50yrds from the top there is a little drop about 10", not much more then a big curb. He asked me, How do you ride over things like that. I kind of laughed to my self then said as seriously as possible, "As you are rolling towards it sit up and take your hands off the bars about 1/2 inch to allow the front tire to track its own path. When you feel the rear drop off put your hands back on."
Guess what, that is what he did. Now this drop is not that intimidating but it is over a very rocky section with lots of shale and loose rocks. I started laughing before his front tire even hit the bottom because I saw the front wheel start to turn and realized it was going to catch on a rock. Well up and over the bars he went. No damage to his bike, some good bruises and his ego was a bit shot because he thinks he can do anything. Then I said to him, "Now you know why not to do that ."
True story but it happend a few years ago. We both laugh our arses off about it now.


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The 50th anniversary of students attending classes on the current campus of the College of Mount St. Joseph officially kicks off on Monday, August 27 when students return to class for fall semester.
This week is Summer Orientation and Welcome Weekend along with moving day for students who live on campus. The August orientation will have approximately 125 new students and their parents, which is the last of the three summer orientations.
Summer Orientation
Thursday, August 23
8:30-9:00am Check-in
9:00-9:40am Orientation Kick-Off & Candle-Lighting Ceremony
9:50-11:40am Small Group Sessions
11:50am-12:50pm Lunch
1:00-4:55pm Academic Program Information Sessions and other Group Sessions
5:05-5:30pm Welcome Ceremony
5:30-6:15pm Dinner
Friday, August 24
8:30-9:15am Breakfast
9:25am-12pm Small Group Sessions
12pm Lunch
Welcome Weekend
Friday, August 24
1:00-1:30pm Welcome Weekend Check-in (required for ALL new students)
1:35pm-5:10pm Meetings with Academic Advisors and Small Group Sessions
5:15-6:00pm Dinner
6:00-8:00pm Residence Life or Commuter Students Information Sessions
8:00pm Backlight Dance Party
Saturday, August 25
8:00am Breakfast
8:00-12:45pm Service Projects
10:30am-1:00pm Brunch
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We went on a lake excursion on board the modern José Julián Catamaran and visited Lakes Huechulafquen, Epulafquen and a solidified lava river with the best views of the Lanín Volcano. A tour to enjoy with the family, in full contact with nature.
While we were in San Martín de los Andes, we heard about the possibility of going on a lake excursion in the heart of the Lanín National Park, available at all seasons and crossing Lakes Huechulafquen and Epulafquen up to a river of solidified lava known as the Escorial. For such purpose, we had to travel a total distance of 95 km. up to Puerto Canoa and get on board the modern José Julián Catamaran.
The natural environment surrounding the mountain village acquires in summer more intense colors, the sky is cloudless and the wind calmer, which encouraged us to go on the ride. Besides, we had been advised to go on this tour, as we would get an unforgettable panoramic view of the entire Andean Patagonian forest, with the impressive silhouette of the Lanín Volcano in the background.
Where There is a Will, There is a Way
We abandoned the city towards the North along National Route 234. After 42 km., we passed by the District of Junín de los Andes. We continued along the road up to the area where the mountain regiment military area lies and, before crossing the bridge over the Chimehuín River, we turned left into take Provincial Route 61 towards the West. We slowed down because the road is made of rubble in that area, and we traveled 22 more kilometers up to the mouth of Lake Huechulafquen.
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Level of Difficulty: Low.
Duration: Navigation takes 90 minutes approximately.
Recommendations: Only one, remember that you are on vacations. Have a great time and enjoy the scenery. Buy enough photo film. If you are located in San Martín de los Andes should take National Route 40 northbound. After 42 km. you will pass through the town of Junín de los Andes. You should continue along the route to the area where the military zone mountain regiment and before crossing the bridge over the river Chimehuín must turn left onto Provincial Route 61 west. Take this route and do 22 km (10km asphalt, gravel 12km) Chimehuín bordering the river to the mouth of Lake Huechulafquen where the entry of Lanin National Park. At this point you will have the first view of the Lanin volcano and begin to enjoy the diverse landscapes that form the Andean Patagonian forest. Finally you must travel 30 km to Puerto Canoa, enjoying beautiful scenery framed by hills, mature trees populated vegetation (Pehuenes, Coihues etc.) and the Mapuche communities that are stationed there, offering places whose natural beauty will surprise you. Any inquiry are available.
Contact: Catamarán José Julián
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Travel Retail and Duty Free Business Intelligence Wednesday 25 May 2016
Published: 28/11/12
Source: ©The Moodie Report
By Rebecca Mann, Associate Editor
MAC Cosmetics is aiming to make twice its normal impact on World AIDS Day (1 December) by matching all Viva Glam product sales on any of its MAC e-commerce sites, thereby delivering a double donation.
100% of every Viva Glam product is donated to the MAC Aids Fund. As previously reported, the 2012 MAC Viva Glam campaign is being fronted by Ricky Martin and Nicki Minaj. Minajs lipstick is a scene-stealing satin bright yellow pink, while Ricky Martins product is a colourless lip conditioner, presented in a portable tube that goes from day to dance floor, according to the brand.


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Staff Report
Published Dec. 10, 2012
Area officials have renewed efforts for funding a 3.2-mile extension of the John Hardee Expressway, linking cargo operations at Columbia Metropolitan Airport to Interstate 26.
The State Transportation Commission approved a request of local leaders to allow the project to be possibly funded from a 1-cent sales tax hike proposed for Lexington County.
The commission had included the connector project as part of a $344 million bond package to fund five highway projects around the state.
"We were all very pleased the commission unbundled the five bond projects so each could stand on their own merit," said Randy Halfacre, mayor of the town of Lexington and chairman of the MidState Chambers Coalition Commission.
The $76.8 million project would open up 100 acres of airport property for development and offer direct access for cargo carriers like UPS and FedEx to distribution centers near the interchange of interstates 26 and 77.
The first phase of the Hardee expressway, connecting Airport Boulevard and Platt Springs Road, was completed in 2004. Finding money to extend the route from the airport's entrance to the interstate has been a struggle.
Completion of the expressway would improve traffic flow around the airport junction and connect the airport to industrial parks near interstates 77 and 26, according to documents filed by the Central Midlands Council of Governments.
The route would connect the airport to the $313 million manufacturing facility that Nephron Pharmaceuticals is building as well as Amazon's 1.25 million-square-foot fulfillment center at Saxe Gotha Industrial Park.
Amazon is a major UPS customer, the shipping company said.
When Atlanta-based UPS announced in 1994 it was building a regional hub at Columbia, local officials promised that the Hardee Expressway would connect the airport to the interstate, Halfacre said.
"Historically, the commitment to build the connector was part of the negotiations and promise given to UPS," officials said in a letter to the commission.
For UPS, the second phase of the connector could save $500,000 a year in fuel and labor costs, according to studies.
Central Midlands already has approved $13.7 million in support of the project.
Including the first phase of the expressway, more than $41.7 million has been spent on the project. Phase II is estimated to cost $76.8 million, leaving a remainder of $63.1 million to be funded.
Officials say the project is "shovel-ready" and would be a boon to future regional growth as an industrial and distribution hub in South Carolina.


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|Sarah Lawrence College Archives : War Board Scrapbook
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Sarah Lawrence College Student War Board Scrapbook, 1942-1946
This digitization project has been funded in part by the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO).
The Sarah Lawrence College Student War Board Scrapbook, 1942-1946 offers a representative collection of documents, newspaper clippings and photographs related to the Sarah Lawrence College war effort during World War II, particularly the war work of the students. The scrapbook was created by the Student War Board in the Spring of 1945 and was made available for students to peruse after the war ended. It also includes a brief section on the work of the Community House in 1945-46, the successor to the War Board. In recognition of the importance of student war-related activities, Constance Warren mentioned the scrapbook in her President's Report of April, 1945: "A scrapbook showing the War Activities from the inception of the War Board to the present time is being prepared. This will include clippings, pictures, posters, pamphlets, etc. which it is hoped will be of interest in years to come." The digitization of the scrapbook has allowed the interest to extend to a much wider audience for many more years, just as President Warren had hoped.
The scrapbook covers a large portion of the war-related topics, but is incomplete and is missing numerous items. A complete picture of the College's war efforts can be found by perusing various campus publications from the time period including, but not limited to, The Campus (student newspaper), Sarah Lawrence Alumnae Magazine, and the President's Reports.
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Alight, this is my first critique.
Vision: You have made so much stuff going on at once, but at the same time I can tell everything that is going on. Good Job dude.
Originality: Sorry about this one, I've seen plenty of Warhammer 40k pics that do this, yours is the best so far though.
Technique: Like I said in vision, you have so much going on and I can tell everything thats going on. I love your shading and your smoke effects, the gunfire is also awesome.
Impact: Your picture slapped me in the face when I saw it. I nont think I can say much else. It slaps people in the face.
You sir, have earned a watcher.


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Jasper Jones
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Reviewed by Rebecca Starford Craig Silvey showed great promise in 2004 with the publication of his debut novel, Rhubarb. At 22, he had a flair for linguistic experimentation: with tone, rhythms and dynamics. Rhubarb was replete with strange syntax, puns and invented words. Overall, the consensus was that Silvey had talent and, with maturity, he would produce better work.
Susan Wyndham It is a week of honours for Craig Silvey: his second novel is on the longlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and he is among 50 finalists for Cleo magazine's Bachelor of the Year.
Loved this book from start to end. Couldn't put it down. I am sure it will make its way to the VCE reading list in the near future. Lots of layers but highly accessible
I found this one pretty painful to read in all. The 'kidspeak' is ridiculous and very tiresome right from the start - the author is trying way too hard for the vernacular and it misses more than it hits.
You can tell the author wanted to write something with some real meaning and like almost all things that try really hard to be profound, it fails and is the worse for it. The novel works best when it goes for simple sincerity and light humour.
It was entertaining enough jsut as a basic story but Australia reviewers seem to sieze on every vaguely passable effort by local writers and the praise heaped on this by many reviewiers ('the Australian To Kill a Mockingbird' etc) - is laughable. It's simply an OK book in all that doesn't really come close to standing up to the international level for this sort of thing. Try Markus Zusak, say, or Murakami's Norweigian Wood, if you want to read a coming of age type story with a LOT more sophistication.
The Age review is better than most but still a bit generous...
Sounds like bossanova808 is complaining about going to the soda shop and not getting any champagne. Despite some anachronisms I found the 'kidspeak' charming and funny. It added lightness and humour to an otherwise grim tale. Jeffrey Lu is too good to be true, but that doesn't stop me enjoying his character.
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The Margate Independent Supporters Association (MISA) was formed to provide fundraising and help for Margate Football Club and it's supporters.
It regularly organises Quizes and Bootfairs, arranges working parties to spruce up Hartsdown Park and also organises transport for the fans to away games.
MISA works with the club and supporters to provide vital funding and other help to the club. MISA is now - and always - looking for new members.
Here's how supporters can benefit from members and how the club benefits from MISA.
Benefits of MISA membership to the member:
- 10% off purchases made through the Club Shop*
- Opportunity to enter a draw to join other MISA members for a VIP day out as match sponsors at one Margate home match per season. (Margate vs Lowestoft Town on Monday 27th August, 2012.)
- Opportunity to enter a draw for reduced cost coach travel to Margate away matches.
Preferential access to high demand FA Cup or FA Trophy tickets.
*Not applicable to purchases made through the Margate FC on-line Club Shop.
Benefits of MISA to the club:
- Fund raising through events (e.g. Boot Fairs) and the lottery which donated around £30,000 to the club last year.
- Manpower to support the upkeep and maintenance of the stadium.
- Covering the cost of and preparing food for player and sponsor hospitality.
- Running the food outlets in the stadium for the benefit of supporters.
Membership costs just £5 per season for adults (17 - 59 years) and £3 for concessions and juniors under 17. Cheques should be made payable to Margate Independent Supporters Association.
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Lower Elkhorn NRD tables irrigation decision
NORFOLK - Farmers hoping for a decision on irrigation expansion in the Lower Elkhorn Natural Resources District will have to wait at least another month. A motion to allow no new irrigation development in the district in 2014 was tabled Thursday night after a lengthy hearing. Several irrigators shared with the board reasons that variances would be needed in the coming year. Some have land that is considered irrigated for tax purposes, but that because of changes in rental agreements will no longer be irrigated without a variance to grant a new well. Some have removed trees or buildings to make their center pivots more efficient, but cannot irrigate the new acres without a variance. Others have been waiting for two years for a well permit and want to make sure they are on the top of the list if new irrigated acres are ever allowed. A board committee will discuss the issue next month, and that may lead to a directive to staff to draw up some plan for granting variances. The item will be on the agenda for the board's next meeting on October 24th.
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A maneuver where one party inserts fresh Georgia peaches into their rectum until maximum capacity is reached, mashing them up with powerful contractions of their anus, until a delicate paste is formed. A second person then consumes the mashed up fruit using only their face and mouth, as in a traditional pie-eating contest.
Grandma said she was going to teach me how to make her famous peach cobbler, but instead gave me a Saxby Chambliss.
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Daphne Dunn of Pine Bluff was recently awarded an Academic Tuition Scholarship by the Office of Recruitment at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. The scholarship pays full tuition.
The daughter of Carl and Shamika Dunn was an honor student, ranking 17 in her class which graduated in May from Watson Chapel High School.
She was a member of the Chamber Choir, Steppers Dance Team, band and Beta Club and was also selected to be an Arkansas Scholar.
Dunn will major in biology at UAPB and plans to become a pediatrician.


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In 2015, 3.8 billion mobile handsets - more than 60 percent of the installed base of mobile handsets worldwide -- will contain mobile web browsers, according to a new study from ABI Research. That doubles today's penetration rate.
"Mobile browsers are evolving along two paths," says senior analyst Mark Beccue.
"On one hand, highly sophisticated browsers (which we are calling full Internet browsers) will be found in all smartphones and a growing number of enhanced (or feature) phones.
"Such devices can host these browsers because they have advanced application processors, expanded memory capacity and adequate screen size and resolution.
Mobile web browser iPhone
"These full Internet browsers typically require about 64MB of memory to run. A real key to the growth of full Internet browsers in higher-end feature phones is the falling cost of sophisticated applications processors. But there is also a second path.
"Parallel to this development, a new family of browsers has emerged: the proxy-based (or client-server or compression) browser, which is epitomized by the Opera Mini.
"These browsers move some caching and processing off the phone to a nearby server, allowing the browser to run on lower-cost processors and requiring as little as 4MB of memory. That means these browsers can be used on even the lowest-cost phones.
The research indicates that the installed base of full Internet browsers will exceed that of proxy-based browsers sometime in 2012.
This story, "60% of mobile phones have browsers by 2015" was originally published by PC Advisor (UK).


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Prince Philip
Various pictures of Queen Elizabeth's hubby. 23 Photos »
The Queen And The Heir
Elizabeth II inspects Prince William's RAF uniform. 21 Photos »
A Smiling Prince Harry
Prince Harry has fun with the kids at Wellchild awards. 18 Photos »
"She [the queen] will be unhappy about it. She probably choked on her cornflakes when she heard about it."
"But I imagine Prince Philip will probably enjoy it," he said.
-The Sun's Royal Photographer Arthur Edwards to ABC News
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What Is This Mystery Tool?
Good Questions
Q: What is this tool?
Sent by Elissa
Editor: We suspect that it is a pancake mold. You use it by placing the mold on a griddle or frying pan and then pouring the batter in to make a pancake this shaped. The wooden handle makes it easy to lift the mold up.
Readers, do you think this is a pancake mold?
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The Memorial Tournament certainly has a star-studded field and has the feel of the Masters. It will feature some of the best golfers in the world and will be a great tournament for fantasy fans to take part in. Below are my top fantasy golfers for the Memorial Tournament this weekend at Muirfield Village:
1. Luke Donald – How can you pick against the guy who is ranked number one in the world?
2. Phil Mickelson – Mickelson has never won the event, but has been improving each time he plays here.
3. Rickie Fowler – Fowler has four straight top-10 finishes and has become a fantasy star.
4. Tiger Woods – Woods has finished in the top-20 each of his last five appearances at the Memorial; 19th in 2010, 1st in 2009, 15th in 2007, 3rd in 2005, and 3rd in 2004.
5. Rory McIlroy – McIlroy has been playing extremely mediocre over the last couple months, but will pick it up as the summer weather comes along.
6. Steve Stricker – Stricker won the event last with an amazing score of 16 under.
7. Justin Rose – Rose won the event in 2010 and will be watched very closely this weekend.
8. Jim Furyk – "Furious Furyk" is one of the best out of the tee box on the tour and it will keep him ahead of the field for most of the tournament.
9. Adam Scott – Scott posted three straight top-15 finishes before missing the cut at the HP Byron Nelson Championship, so expect him to rebound this weekend.
10. Ernie Els – The "Big Easy" has remained competitive all year and looked outstanding a couple weeks ago when he finished 19 under in a second place finish at the Zurich Classic.


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