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Oregon Commission Misses Opportunity to Invest in Solutions to Climate Change
Just a few days after my last post on the unfolding Boardman Coal Plant drama, there is a new major development to report. Despite public concern over the Boardman Plant's contribution to pollution and climate change, as well as convincing evidence that keeping the plant open another ten years in not in the best interest of ratepayers, Oregon's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has decided to "acknowledge" Portland General Electric's plan to burn coal at Boardman until 2020.
By acknowledging the "2020 plan," the commission gives its stamp of approval for PGE, the utility owner of the Boardman Plant, to sink ratepayer money into upgrades required to keep it open another ten years. The PUC failed to seize this opportunity to require PGE close its coal plant sooner—an option that is actually less costly for ratepayers. By transitioning off the Boardman Plant sometime between 2015 and 2018, PGE could save ratepayer money by avoiding some of the most expensive future plant upgrades. This would make good economic sense: by getting off coal as soon as possible Oregon can invest in green jobs and ensure its place in the clean-tech economy—not to mention fight climate change and air pollution.
The PUC's decision to disregard earlier closure options seems to be based on an assumption that closing the coal plant before 2020 would expose ratepayers to "risk." PGE's spokespeople have painted a dire picture in which hasty closure this medium-sized power plant results in blackouts and spiking energy rates throughout the Portland area. This image of the future is absurd: even if PGE can't get new energy infrastructure off the ground fast enough to replace the Boardman Plant by 2015, other options exist for ensuring a reliable electricity supply. Other power companies in the Northwest have indicated their willingness to enter into power purchase agreements with PGE, thereby ensuring the Portland area reliable electricity while replacements for the Boardman Plant are brought on-line.
All such utility jargon aside, there's enormous public support for transitioning off the Boardman Plant well before 2020. At a Public Utilities Commission hearing in June, around three hundred people turned out to support a much earlier closure date. The vast majority of PGE's own ratepayers who testified at the hearing called on the commission to not let ratepayer money be invested in expensive new pollution controls. The message from PGE's customers has been loud and clear: Transitioning off coal will be good for the economy and help reduce the effects of climate change, and Oregonians want to take this step as soon as possible.
The Public Utilities Commission chose to brush aside such considerations and approve PGE's own plan for the coal plant. Yet while this is a blow to Oregon's green economy and efforts to fight climate change, it doesn't mean the Boardman Plant's future is decided. Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality and Environmental Quality Commission have their own decisions to make regarding the coal plant's fate. Meanwhile the federal Environmental Protection Agency has found the Boardman Plant to be violating the Clean Air Act, and could also take action that would help shut the plant down.
Here's hoping other decision makers won't emulate the disappointing example of the Public Utilities Commission. It's now more important than ever they take decisive action to fight climate change by moving Oregon beyond coal.
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Star Exclusive: Dancing Couple Caught Cheating! (Star)
[quote] Dancing with the Stars has been rocked by a major sex scandal involving two of its most popular contestants — married dad Drew Lachey and his partner Cheryl Burke.
The Season Two champion couple had an affair during the show's nationwide tour which ended last month, insiders tell Star.
"They didn't go very far to cover it up," one tour insider says. "Cheryl was constantly draped all over Drew. They held hands, had their legs intertwined and were always touching inappropriately."
Cheryl's then-boyfriend Matthew Lawrence discovered his girlfriend was cheating when he walked in on the pair, catching them in the act, according to several sources!
Sources say Matthew found his girlfriend cheating when he went to retrieve something from her dressing room as the tour hit Jacksonville, Fla. on January 22, an eight-week-long Star investigation uncovered. They say he ran out screaming after seeing Cheryl and Drew having oral sex. [/quote]
Is it also true that Sara Evans had an affair with Tony Dovolani which caused her divorce? Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff had a torrid affair. And Julianne Hough already stopped two marriages — her own, and Helio's! OMG — I love Dancing with the Stars!!!

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U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Brian Zamiska, the company first sergeant for Delta Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team "Rakkasans," 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), pulls security with a U.S. Air Force working dog, Jan. 6, 2013, during a patrol with the Afghan Border Police in Tera Zeyi district, Afghanistan. The ABP were looking for locals suspected of creating improvised explosive devices. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Alex Kirk Amen, 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
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Do you have a favorite part of the train?
My favorite is the swimming pool section. I just imagine what it would be like to go through a snowy landscape looking out the window, and swimming inside of a moving train. Actually, in the graphic novel there's a movie theater section and they're watching "Casablanca" and a lot of couples are kissing and having sex. So if that existed, I would have [included that]. And actually, in South Korea, there is a train called the cinema train. It's not the whole train, but one section, they show the movie inside the train from Seoul to Paju. The funny thing is, I was in the cinema train and I saw the movie "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." And in the beginning of the movie, there's a subtitle [that said] "This movie has been re-edited for the train's duration." So, for the length of the train ride, they cut it down. They should have just found a shorter movie. I was really pissed off. [laughs]
Were there any plans to include a cinema train, or any other sections of the train that didn't make it into the final version?
As far as anything that was in the final script, I shot, and all the stuff I shot is in the film. But just imagining it in the writing process, because the budget was so limited, I willingly thought about it and took things out and added things and really tried to figure out what was absolutely necessary. There is a section in the comic book that I thought about using but then didn't shoot. It's a lookout tower section and it's like a rounded top where you can see through the glass outside.
There was a zoo section that I thought about shooting, but for various reasons, it was difficult and I ended up shooting the section where you see the meat hanging on the hooks. Just shooting a zoo with real animals or visual effects animals would just be so costly. I thought about elephants and lions and giraffes could be in the section. But in the end, I just felt like it was too much like Noah's Ark. And of course the film ends on a polar bear, and I didn't want to show a living animal beforehand.
A lot has been made about the negotiations between you and Mr. Weinstein on the final cut of the film. Going in, did you realize what kind of discussions would be involved in terms of the release of the film in the U.S.? Were you aware of his reputation?
Of course I heard and knew that he changes a lot of films before they're released. But it's actually not just TWC. For example, Park Chan-wook made a film ["Stoker"] with Fox Searchlight and Kim Jee-woon made ["The Last Stand"] with Lionsgate, and during the editing process they had many, many comments. It's just sort of a reality of the U.S. film industry where a director getting final cut is such a hard and rare thing. Just the process, though, it was released in Korea and I was on promotion in different territories, so this process with the company that was based in the U.S. just took a long time. And it's true that a 20-minute shorter version was tested, but it was just sort of a slow and long period because there were other things going on with the release in other countries. A lot of these stories are exaggerated, like we were physically fighting or things were just really acrimonious, which is just not true. In the end though, it's the director's cut so I am very happy that the same version is going to be released all over the world and that was a decision that the Weinstein Company made, because I didn't have final cut, so I am very thankful about that.
There was a plan for a wider release in the States originally, right?
So as far as the business stuff, how big or small the release was, I wasn't really involved with those discussions. That was between CG Entertainment and The Weinstein Company. I was mostly involved with the editing process. But it all resolved itself and I feel like releasing the movie the way I wanted it to be seen, that's the great thing and I am happy with the situation.
Would you work with Mr. Weinstein again?
Of course. Even from when I was young, I admired the films that he produced and released, like "Pulp Fiction" and recently "The Master." So if there was ever a chance for a story to come up, I would jump at the chance.
You mentioned working with a limited budget on this film, though compared to your earlier works, it is large. Not only that, it's the most expensive South Korean production ever. Did you find that you had more freedom with this film to play around than your previous work?
Yeah, of course if you look at it from that point of view, it is the biggest budget in South Korea. But the film kind of has two identities. For example, when Chris Evans appears on TV, he says "I am working on a small but very unique sci-fi movie," and he's right from his point of view. But just having to shoot this particular story where the world is frozen outside and people are stuck on this train and they're fighting on this train and they are the last survivors of humanity, was it enough money? It was very, very limited. If you take $10 million and you're going to shoot an action movie or a romantic comedy, it's a totally different thing. So I had to really meticulously plan it out in advance with the script and the storyboards. I was able to shoot and execute my vision, but I also had to think how to be as cost-effective as possible. Of course, every director is like this, like If I only had $100,000 more or $1 million more. Of course I had those thoughts, but I accepted those limitations and just worked within them.
Was it logistically difficult to film the scenes since it was such a narrow and enclosed space?
So that was the challenge, that was the excitement, to shoot inside a train for the entire movie, and I felt like yeah, I am going to make the best train movie ever and had all this anticipation. But right before the shoot started, I got really scared. Just the idea of shooting in a narrow and long moving space, something that's living with the light and tunnels was very excited initially. But a few weeks before shooting me and my DP just got really scared. One of the reasons is the pre-production offices was located inside the Barrandov Studios at the top floor. And there's a long hallway on that floor, like an 80-meter long hallway, and the DP nudged me and said "Oh, are we shooting a hallway movie? How are we going to do this for two hours?" But we tried to overcome it with the camera and the various movements and just the actors moving within the space. There's just so many characters in the film, so many different types of characters, so we tried everything to make it as alive as possible.
Alex Suskind writes about culture for Vulture, Esquire, VanityFair.com, and The Daily Beast. You can reach out to him on Twitter.


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gabby, you were gifted the title by seat tactics, nothing else! just as bad as the french quali for world cup!! cheating stinks!


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Hydrogen Energy California is a project for converting fossil fuels to hydrogen in order to generate clean power and manufacture low-carbon fertilizer products. HECA will be one of the first industrial complexes combining a large, commercial scale power plant and a low-carbon footprint fertilizer manufacturing facility, while capturing the carbon dioxide (CO2) from the fossil fuel to hydrogen conversion process. Utilizing the CO2 for fertilizer production and enhanced oil recovery increases domestic energy security, while simultaneously storing the captured CO2 permanently in the geologic formations where the oil was extracted. It is a project that offers California, the nation, and the world progress toward controlling global climate change, while providing enormous economic stimulus through construction and related jobs over the intermediate term and permanent manufacturing and related jobs over the long term.


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A NATION CHALLENGED: THE NEW, OLD ORDER; Afghan Warlords and Bandits Are Back in Business
By NORIMITSU ONISHI
Published: December 28, 2001
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 27— Abdul Aziz found himself driving an 18-passenger bus one recent afternoon on southern Afghanistan's main highway, on a particular stretch that is the no man's land between the fiefs of two rival warlords.
Suddenly, five men in a Toyota Landcruiser, armed with Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades, began chasing the bus and firing. One bullet fatally struck a passenger in the back of the head, as Mr. Aziz kept driving and eventually eluded the gunmen.
In Dilaram, a town 150 miles west of here in the bailiwick of the Herat-based warlord Ismail Khan, Mr. Aziz reported the attack to the local authorities.
''But they told me it was not their responsibility to secure the road and told me to go to Gul Agha,'' Mr. Aziz, 30, recalled, mentioning Gul Agha Shirzai, the warlord based here in Kandahar.
As warlords have carved out chunks of Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, the lawlessness that gave rise to the strict Islamic movement in the mid-1990's has begun to spread, once again, across this country. The United States-led military campaign that began on Oct. 7 has succeeded in eradicating most of the Taliban and Al Qaeda from Afghanistan, but it has returned to power nearly all of the same warlords who had misruled the country in the days before the Taliban.
The warlords have all pledged loyalty to the interim government in Kabul. But the government is dominated by ethnic Tajiks from one division of the Northern Alliance. It is headed by the one fresh face in an old roster, Hamid Karzai, a previously little-known figure nationally who controls no real army of his own and no territory, but was handpicked by the United States.
As power has shifted back to the regional warlords away from Kabul, the absence of a strong central authority has brought back anarchy to southern Afghanistan. Bus drivers from Kandahar said soldiers at checkpoints, allied with bandits, were robbing and killing travelers. Many buses were still unaccounted for, they said.
One particular stretch of road, into the southwestern province of Nimruz, has become so dangerous that bus drivers at the station were now refusing to go there.
''The situation is worse than it was before the Taliban came to power,'' said Muhammad Zahir, 38, a ticket collector for the Kandahar-Herat line. ''Before they were taking cars and money. But now they are also killing people.''
''I'm not missing the Taliban,'' he added. ''But security was very good under them. Now there is not one person in charge, and there is no security.''
Some of the new authorities -- men who have spent a generation fighting outsiders or one another -- insist that there will be peace now.
''We have learned from the experience of the last seven years when the Taliban were in power,'' said Khan Muhammad, the defense minister for the four provinces under Mr. Shirzai's control. ''We can work together now. The United States is supporting us. The United Nations is supporting us. It is a new process now.''
''All the people are supporting Hamid Karzai now,'' he added.
It may seem churlish to insist on that point at a checkpoint with armed gunmen of unknown affiliation. Even in Kandahar Province, where virtually everybody has professed fealty to Mr. Karzai, not everybody respects the wishes of the governor, Mr. Shirzai. At the bordertown of Spinbaldak, for instance, the Noorzai and Achakzai tribes assert their control by levying tolls.
Earlier this week, the United Nations' World Food Program said it had been unable to deliver food to Kandahar because militiamen were stopping their trucks and demanding $100 each to pass.
Despite the situation in Spinbaldak and in other pockets of resistance, Mr. Shirzai controls one of the biggest swaths of Afghanistan, including the ethnic Pashtun provinces of Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul and Uruzgan. As the governor of Kandahar before the rise of the Taliban, Mr. Shirzai had been known for his cruelty and for letting his unruly men run free.
His allies are expected to become governors of the three other provinces under his control. The former governor of Uruzgan, Jan Muhammad, is expected to reclaim his position soon. In Zabul, another former governor, Hamidullah, has already been appointed. The former governor of Helmand died during the Taliban years, but his nephew, Mullah Sher Muhammad, is now in charge.
In western Afghanistan, Mr. Khan, a Tajik, and his allies control five provinces: Herat, Badghis, Ghowr, Farah and Nimruz. A top commander in the Northern Alliance, he has long dominated the Persian-speaking region. His tenure before the Taliban was remembered for its corruption and the palace he built overlooking Herat.
In the north, Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, an Uzbek, brutally ruled much of the region for the eight years before the Taliban takeover there in 1997, and established an enduring reputation for treachery. His militia, called the Jowzjanis after their province of origin, was one of the most feared in the country.
He is now said to control most of five provinces, including Balakh, Jowzjan, Fariab, Sar-i-Pul and Samangan. This week, Mr. Karzai appointed General Dostum as deputy defense minister, in a clear move to win his support. In an interview after his appointment, General Dostum talked of extending his influence to three provinces east of his fiefdom: Takhar, Kunduz and Baghlan.


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Laurie Holden's "Fave Pic of All Time" Is This Great Shot With The Walking Dead Cast
Last year around this time we were still trying to wrap our zombie-loving heads around the idea that Andrea (Laurie Holden) was killed in The Walking Dead Season 3 finale. Say what? She died? Hasn't anyone read the comics?!
As we wait for Season 5 to arrive in October, and look ahead to potential TV versions of the Dale/Hunters/Alexandria Safe-Zone storylines, we can't help but miss Andrea and wonder how the show is going to remix things to fill the void of her absence.
Of course, in addition to Andrea the character, we also miss Laurie the actress. She'll be in the Dumb and Dumber To sequel and was cast in TNT's Major Crimes, but she was a big part of TWD Family for three seasons — she's an Atlanta OG! — and it's not the same without her.
Laurie may have been feeling a little nostalgic herself, since she shared this tweet last night, featuring members of the original cast, plus a walker buddy:
My fave pic of all time . pic.twitter.com/VrOYHp0ymx— Laurie Holden (@Laurie_Holden) August 12, 2014
Awww. That is an awesome photo. Look at Norman Reedus's (Daryl Dixon) short hair and Andrew Lincoln's (Rick Grimes) lack of scruff! And it's always good to see Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori) and Jon Bernthal (Shane) again. Love everyone's expressions too. It's sad to think only two actors from this group are still on TWD. It just reminds us that (almost) no one is safe.
Do you miss Andrea/Laurie on TWD? Do you love this photo too?
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Chiropractic Adjustment –
What is that Popping Sound?
The sound of relief in a chiropractic adjustment. Pop Pop. Who knew the sounds of relief from back and neck pain could sound so good?
Those that are new to chiropractic treatment may find the sounds of an adjustment to be nerve wracking when actually the cause of the popping sounds is quite simple. Known as a cavitation event, the small popping and cracking you hear is the sound of bubbles in fluid surrounding the joint in the cavity popping. This is normal. In fact, some people's joints crack when they simply move about.
However, when joints don't move, or don't move well, a chiropractic adjustment can can restore proper alignment and give the joint better motion. This popping noise should actually be music to your ears if you suffer from back, joint, or neck pain of stiffness. When you receive a chiropractic treatment from Dr. Steven Schram you can relax because the pain in your joints from a misalignment is about to be relieved.
In simple terms, the sound of cavitation means that the vertebrae are being gently and properly realigned. The sound of dissolved air bubbles in the fluid around the vertebrae releasing is what makes the pop. The end result is less pressure, less pain and more importantly, allowing the nerve energy to flow more freely. This allows the area, including the joint and the muscle and tissue surrounding it to heal.
Chiropractic Treats More Than Just Back Pain
Chiropractic treatments can help more than just back pain. Knees, elbows, wrists and even knuckles and fingers can exhibit discomfort when they are not properly aligned. These moveable joints connected with a slick material that helps the bones to move without friction. This is lubricated by the synovial fluid, which has dissolved air in it. A cavitation sound, which occurs when a bubble pops, occurs when moving the joint back into alignment. This is what creates the audible popping sound-which means that relief and increased mobility is on its way.
Not every chiropractic spinal adjustment or neck adjustment is noisy, as all patients (and joints) are not created equal. If your synovial fluid is silent that doesn't mean the adjustment isn't working. It simply means your fluid has fewer air bubbles. Even if you don't POP, the realignment of the joint increases the flow of fluids and the revitalization of your back, joints and neck has begun.
Gentle and Targeted Pressure
Direct, targeted gentle pressure is the hallmark of a chiropractic treatment from Dr. Steven Schram. His spinal adjustments will correct and align your vertebrae and joints in a way that brings relief and freedom from stiffness, whether you POP or not! Restore harmony to your system and help you live life in this great city, pain free.
For over twenty five years, Dr. Steven Schram has helped his clients live pain free, fuller lives. He continues to research and study the latest techniques in chiropractic adjustments, care and acupuncture.
Call Dr. Schram today at (212) 696-4426, for a consultation and take the first step toward letting your body heal itself.
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Cape schools Ursuline 23-3 in girls' lax semifinalCharter beats Archmere 15-11, will face Cape for state title
Cape went off in the semifinal round of the DIAA girls' lacrosse tournament, running the mercy clock on Ursuline Academy in the first half, leading 15-2 at intermission.
"I wasn't expecting such a dominating performance," coach P.J. Kesmodel said. "All our athletes played hard and played well."
Cape closed out Ursuline 23-3 and will play Charter at Dover High School at 6 p.m., Thursday, May 22 for the state championship.
Cape played with a running clock and went spread red - hold the ball and don't shoot - for the final eight minutes of the game.
"We get Charter, whom we haven't played this year, in the state title game Thursday," Kesmodel said. "One more practice and one more game and hopefully state title number six. That has been the quest since we walked off the field last season."
Jordan Brown led Cape's scoring with 5, followed by Kat Judge with 4, Allie Yeager 3, Sarah Tappan 3, Tess Bernheimer 2, Karalyn Joseph 1, Lizzie Frederick 1 and Katie Klabe 1. Assists came from Lizzie Frederick with 3 and Alison Palmer with 2 as Maggie Delp, Karissa LeMaire, Yeager, Tappan, Lexi Woodruff, Bernheimer and Cam Wick each contributed 1.
Ursuline goals came from Brooke Schmeusser, Laura Huff and Erin Joyce. Joyce and Madeline Hughes had assists.
The Vikings outshot the Raiders 32-9. Goalie Erin Davis had 9 saves for the Raiders while Sam Broadhurst had 4 saves for Cape.


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I don't know if this is the right forum. But I will search anywhere to solve my problem. I needed my pc for my final presentation for school. But when I drove back home, there needs to be something damaged. When I connected my pc at home, he wouldn't start at all. So I took every single pice of hardware out of my pc and build it again. Then it started but not for long. Few seconds after I loged on it shuts down. The second time it was faster and the thirth time after a few seconds.
I have a Intel E8400 3.0 Ghz with standard cooler, Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5, Kingston HyperX 4GB DDR2-1066 CL5 kit, XFX Radeon HD 4890 X-Pack 1GB, Cooler Master Real Power M620, 3 HDD of 250GB, 500GB en 1TB.
That should be the basic stuff. My case, dvd or screen wouldn't be the problem. I hope someone out there can help me solve this problem. I don't like to bring my pc to a shop, this expensive and there is a chance that it's still not solved.
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Jupiter's moon Callisto is the most heavily cratered object in the solar system. It also has the oldest landscape. It is thought to be a long dead world, with hardly any geologic activity on its surface.
CREDIT: NASA/NSSDC Photo Gallery
Facts about Callisto
Age: Callisto is about 4.5 billion years old, about the same age as Jupiter.
Distance from Jupiter: It is the outermost of the Galilean moons. Because of its orbiting distance from Jupiter (about 1,168,000 miles) it takes about seven Earth days to make one complete orbit of the planet. It also experiences less tidal influences than the other Galilean moons because it orbits beyond Jupiter's main radiation belt.
Size: At 3,000 miles (4,800 km) in diameter, Castillo is roughly the same size as Mercury. It is the third largest moon in the entire solar system. It has the lowest density of the four Galilean moons.
Temperature: The mean surface temperature of Callisto is -218.47 Fahrenheit.
The Discovery of Callisto
Callisto is the fourth of Jupiter's moons to be discovered by Galileo Galilei on Jan. 7, 1610. The discovery, along with three other Jovian moons, was the first time a moon was discovered orbiting a planet other than Earth. Galileo's discovery eventually led to the understanding that planets orbit the sun, instead of our solar system revolving around Earth.
Callisto's Name
Galileo called this moon Jupiter IV. When the numerical naming system was abandoned in the mid-1800s, the moon was named after the daughter of the King of Arcadia, Lycaon, who was a companion of Artemis, the chaste hunting goddess. Like all of the Greek mythological figures used to name the Jupiter moons, Callisto was seduced by Zeus and became pregnant. To protect Callisto and their son from his jealous wife, Hera, Zeus transformed them into bears and positioned them in the sky where he could watch over them.
Exploration of Callisto
Several spacecraft have flown by Jupiter and its moons. Pioneer 10 arrived first, in 1973, followed by Pioneer 11 in 1974. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 returned striking photos during their flybys. The Galileo spacecraft passed as low as 162 miles (261 km) over the surfaces of the Galilean moons and produced detailed images.
Characteristics of Callisto
The most prominent feature of Callisto is its craters, as it has the most craters of any object in the solar system. Scientists also estimate that it has the oldest surface of any object in the solar system. There are no signs that its geological landscape has changed in 4 billion years, which has sparked keen scientific interest in the planet.
Without the impact of plate tectonics or volcanoes to change the surface, it is believed that any changes in the surface have come as the results of being hit by objects. Distinguishing features of Callisto's surface include multi-ring structures, impact craters of varying shapes, and lines of craters known as catenae. Icy peaks also dot the moon's surface.
While craters are Castillo's signature feature, its surface coloring is also the darkest of all of the Galilean moons. Castillo's composition is about half water ice and half rocky material, which consists of magnesium- and iron-bearing hydrated silicates, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and possibly ammonia and other organic compounds.
The likely presence of an ocean within Callisto leaves open the possibility that it could sustain life. Because of its low radiation levels, Callisto has long been considered the suitable place among the Galilean moons for future exploration.
Callisto's Atmosphere
Callisto's thin atmosphere is composed of carbon dioxide and likely some molecular oxygen. Callisto is thought to have formed as a result of slow accretion from the disk of gas and dust that surrounded Jupiter after its formation.
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I have Specialized Crossroads EX tires on my pavement only commuting bike. These tires have a directional tread and an arrow for direction of rotation.
The rear tire is mounted the wrong way.
I personally don't think it should make a notable difference. I don't want to take it off and remount it until I have a flat (none yet after 900mi) - why mess with something that works. I think it was put on backwards by the LBS when I had a rear spoke replaced. Actually they put it on wrong at one point since they mounted the tire when it was new as well and its never been off otherwise.
Would you remount it the right way, or wait till a flat? Do you think it would make any notable difference on pavement?


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We've been impatiently waiting for our ewes to pop some babies, and the last couple of weeks have been rewarding!
Here's a video where you can see all three new babies frolicking and getting to know one another:
This little cutie was the first to be born:
Followed by a black one and a white one born to Big Mama. They were tiny and it was cold in the beginning, so they got to wear little sweaters.
I caught them both baaing at me:
This one is particularly noisy:
Hi Big Mama!
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I´m going to Denver tomorrow and will be there for only one day. I´m interested in finding a good camerashop there , preferably close to the city center. Best if it has both New and Used lenses. Interested in finding some nice lenses for my Olympus OMD.
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All of Mel Gibson's troubles could have been avoided if he'd just made those calls with the iPhone 4. None of them would have gone through.
O.J. Simpson's lawyer, Robert Shapiro, has agreed to represent Lindsay Lohan, but only if she agrees to go to jail. Where was this deal when O.J. was on trial?
Dick Cheney is recovering from heart surgery in the hospital. I understand Fox sent flowers, and MSNBC sent a large pepperoni pizza with extra cheese.
A new study says that having a cat makes you 40 percent less likely to die of a heart attack. Not that the cat would care one way or the other.
It's so hot in New York City that conservatives have started the "Iced Tea Party."
In this heat, you start seeing mirages. It was so hot I thought I saw LeBron James in a Knicks jersey.
Mel Gibson is thinking about moving back to Australia. Luckily, his phone plan includes unlimited long distance rants.
Mel wants to move back to Australia because he feels it's time to start insulting the Aborigines.
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Apparently BP's containment cap is leaking. When asked if the rumors are true, a BP spokesman said, "Aren't there any more Mel Gibson tapes?"
There are reports that Mel Gibson is moving back to Australia and Australians aren't happy with that. They're like, "Why do you think we sent him to you in the first place?"
If Mel does go to Australia, he better be careful, because a kangaroo will punch him back.
July is National Ice Cream Month. Baskin-Robbins celebrated by retiring five flavors. That's like celebrating Arbor Day by starting a forest fire.
If you've been anywhere near the Internet, you've probably heard what sounds like Mel Gibson having angry conversations with his girlfriend Oksana. He thought he was talking to Osama, which explains why he was so upset.
There have been rumors that Mel Gibson might leave the U.S. for Australia. He has to get rid of his mansion in New York, his place in Malibu, and his Thunderdome.
BP finally plugged the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, but they're detecting sewage and seepage, which is very unusual outside of Larry King's underpants.
The Obamas invited Broadway stars to perform at the White House. Unfortunately, things got a little awkward when Barack told one lady how great she was in "Wicked," then realized it was just Nancy Pelosi.
Bristol Palin wants Levi Johnston to wear a camouflage vest at their wedding next month. When she heard that, Sarah Palin was like, "That's fine, I wasn't planning on aiming that high anyway."
Malia Obama is about to go to summer camp for the first time. And you can tell that Michelle picked out the camp, because whenever they make s'mores, they just melt zucchini in between two Wheat Thins.
It's rumored that Mel Gibson may permanently move to Australia. Which, of course, raises the question: When you flush a career down the toilet there, does it go in the opposite direction?
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Innovations That Come From Wars
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Is war the mother of invention? Or, is invention the mother of war? Christopher Freeman, a British economist with an interest in technological innovation, has argued that the timing of new technologies is a consequence of long economic cycles called Kondratiev waves (named after the Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratiev who was executed during Stalin's purges). These economic 'waves' are of about 45 to 60 years' duration. Whether we accept the concept of long waves or not, it is undeniable that there have been marked spurts of innovation in the last 250 years which can be called 'industrial revolutions'. Each of these bursts of innovation began in a recession and was followed by a boom. More interestingly from our point of view, they were also followed by wars. The Industrial Revolution was followed by the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the so-called Second Industrial Revolution by the Crimean War and then the Franco-Prussian War, and the third Kondratiev wave by the First World War. The Second World War began a bit too soon for the fourth wave (although it clearly took advantage of the initial innovations of that wave) and should probably be considered the second half of the third-wave war, much as the Franco-Prussian War followed on from the Crimean War and the Austro-Prussian War. This suggests that the real fourth wave war was the Cold War, which accelerated existing technologies in much the same way as conventional wars. If this correlation is valid, why do wars break out during the initial boom of the Kondratiev cycle? Recessions are a common link between innovation and war. Governments often use rearmament as a way of getting out of recessions. Recessions also come to an end when innovations promote production and improve productivity. There is also a psychological element – countries with a strong record of innovation become more confident about taking on other countries who are lagging (or appear to be lagging) in the technological race. This confidence is rarely tied to a particular advance, but to a more general belief in technological superiority. Even if the hard evidence for Kondratiev waves is weak, and it is easy to manipulate dates to fit a preconceived notion, it can still be argued that innovations and military build-ups tend to occur during recessions, and the subsequent wars push the expansion of these innovations more quickly than peacetime conditions. A 'real' war is not always needed; a surrogate, such as the Cold War, the Space Race or perhaps even a 'war on terrorism' can work just as well. Is this a necessary state of affairs or can we find less destructive ways of promoting new technology? No-one who has seen the classic film The Dambusters can have any doubt that the Second World War was the driving force behind many new inventions. Some of these inventions, such as ships made from sawdust and ice, were just potty, but others have changed the world. For example, we are told that the race to the Moon began when a V-2 landed in Chiswick in September 1944. The jet engine, another wartime invention, has enabled us to take affordable holidays in far-away places. The Dambusters' bouncing bomb was a wartime invention, but how far is this true for more important developments? The first tanks were used during the Battle of the Somme in September 1916, but were based on pre-war armoured tractors, which had hitherto aroused little interest. The basic concept of radar is almost as old as radio itself, and the first working demonstration using aircraft took place at Daventry in 1935. Two years later, the first jet engine was tested (on the ground) at nearby Rugby. Although the first experimental V2 (initially called the A4) was not launched until 1942, the key technologies involved had been developed by the German Army – working with amateur enthusiasts – in the 1930s. Even the atomic bomb was not completely a wartime development – atomic fission was discovered in December 1938 and the early American work preceded the United States' entry into the war. Can the development of key inventions encourage a country to go to war? In 2002, the United States and Britain were concerned that Saddam Hussein would use newly-developed weapons of mass destruction on neighbouring countries, a concern which led to the Second Gulf War of March–April 2003. The Haber-Bosch process is frequently mentioned as a breakthrough which enabled Germany to go to war in 1914. This chemical process produced ammonia from coal, air and water, which was converted into nitric acid, a crucial material for the manufacture of high explosives such as TNT. Through the Four Year Plan of 1936, Nazi Germany set out to arm itself for war by developing new technologies and boosting production. However, in different ways, these examples show how rarely technology affects the timetables of political leaders and their military advisors. Far from seizing the opportunity offered by the Haber-Bosch process, Germany's military command had not given any thought to the supply of nitrogen at all. It was only after the war began that attention was given to the development of a war economy. Initially, the Haber-Bosch process could produce only a small proportion of Germany's needs for nitrogen-based explosives, and other sources were more important until 1917. Two decades later, the Four Year Plan aimed to make Germany self-sufficient in various sectors, including synthetic rubber and synthetic fuel. These new technologies had been developed in the 1920s, but were still at the pilot plant stage. Although the Four Year Plan would not be completed until 1940, Hitler aimed to start a war as early as 1937 and the new industries were still under development when war broke out. Neither opportunism nor rational planning of new technologies sits easily with military planning, which has its own dynamic and its own timetable. A country is rarely (if ever) in a position to declare war on a rival as soon as it has made a technical breakthrough. The classic example is America's failure to make war on the Soviet Union while it had a monopoly of nuclear weapons. Similarly, the Germans did not use nerve gas during the Second World War. Fortunately, it appears that international law can limit opportunism. The usefulness of technology in a war usually comes about as a result of a frantic scramble to enlist all available technologies after the war has begun. The Second Gulf War could be considered to be an exception. It was the continuing development of technologically advanced weapons by the two allies, while Iraq was constrained from rearming by international sanctions, that enabled the Second Gulf War to take place. Allied military planners were confident that the pinpoint use of munitions on a massive scale ('shock and awe') would cause the rapid collapse of the Iraqi armed forces with the minimum loss of allied personnel. While inventions can have a major impact on war, they are rarely, if ever, the direct causes of war. Here are some of the things that were invented:
The cavity magnetron was developed for radar use in 1940, but now forms the power source of the domestic microwave oven.
The telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse in 1844, and telegraph wires soon sprang up all along the East Coast. During the war, 15,000 miles of telegraph cable was laid purely for military purposes. Mobile telegraph wagons reported and received communications from just behind the frontline. President Lincoln would regularly visit the Telegraph Office to get the latest news. The telegraph also enabled news sources to report on the war in a timely fashion, leading to an entirely new headache for the government: how to handle the media.
Both sides used hot air balloons for aerial reconnaissance of battlefields during the Civil War. A Balloon Corps was established by President Lincoln early on. The maiden voyage of the first official Union balloon occurred in late August, 1861. Balloon operators used another wartime innovation, the telegraph, to let commanders on the ground know of Confederates movements. This allowed Union guns to be repositioned and fired accurately at troops more than three miles away-a first in military history.
The Civil War was the first war to use railroads, encouraged by President Lincoln — himself a former railroad lawyer — who understood how vital they were for moving men and supplies. The North had a distinct advantage, with superior infrastructure (20,000 miles of track), better equipment and their own locomotive factory. Whereas the South had just 9,000 miles of track and had converted its locomotive works into an armaments factory. The trains allowed generals to move their soldiers, supplies and armaments to where they were most needed. Rail centers and railroad infrastructure soon became targets for attack. While the South's rail system was weak, they were the first to use trains to their advantage, transporting supplies and soldiers to vital areas. The North was stymied by railroad owners more concerned with how much they could charge, than how quickly they could aid the cause. In fact, Secretary of War Simon Cameron was forced to resign when it was discovered he was trying to profit from War Department contracts for railroad shipping.
Jonathan Letterman, Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac, was responsible for creating the first organized transport of the wounded. Ambulance units usually consisted of a ragtag group of soldiers who were otherwise unfit for fighting. Letterman innovated and regimented the process. The ambulances of a division moved together under the direction of a line sergeant, with two stretcher-bearers and one driver per ambulance. They would go into the field, pick up the wounded, deliver them to dressing stations and then to field hospitals. To this day the military bases its ambulance system on Letterman's ideas.
Prior to the Civil War, most combatants used smooth-bore muskets which had a maximum range of about 300 feet. However, shortly before the start of the war, the invention of rifling (grooves in the musket barrel) meant bullets could spin and travel up to 900 feet. This was an important defensive development and increased the range and accuracy of muskets. The Mini bullet made defense even safer. When used in the rifled musket it spun faster, traveled further and was five times more accurate than any single-man weapon. Able to kill at half a mile, it was the largest contributor to battle wounds (more than 90%).
The ancestor of the modern machine gun, it was the most successful of several rapid-fire guns that were born before the war. Richard Gatling invented the gun in the hopes that a weapon so catastrophic in its damage would convince men to stop waging war. Unfortunately, its efficiency in killing only made war more deadly. It was not used extensively during the Civil War.
At the start of the Civil War the North had a distinct naval advantage as the South didn't have a dedicated Navy. Both recognized the importance of armor-cladding their ships. The first engagement between two iron-clad ships was between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. The first fight between iron clad ships of war, in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862, in which the Monitor whipped the Merrimac and the whole school of Confederate steamers. Naval mines were developed by the Confederates in the hopes of counteracting the Union's blockades of Southern ports. Mines and later, torpedoes, were very effective sinking 40 Union ships. The success of these mines led to the creation of land mines and grenades that would be used in later wars. And also for us some interesting things like: 1) Feminine Pads and Tampons (World War I) The biggest problem with war is that it tends to put holes in people, thus encouraging blood to take a scenic stroll through places it's not supposed to visit. Especially during World War I, when the dead and wounded toll hit the double-digit millions. And especially when a cotton shortage made the bandaging of dying soldiers a pain in the neck. At the time, Kimberly-Clark was a paper mill company that realized you could do more with wood pulp besides just make it into paper. In fact, if you prepared the right combination of pulp, you could get a material that was five times more absorbent than cotton, yet significantly cheaper to produce. Kimberly-Clark named their newly discovered material cellucotton and the Allied Forces were on it like white on rice. Guess who else was on cellucotton like white on rice? Allied nurses on their lady-days. It turned out those super absorbent bandages worked really well as disposable sanitary napkins, something that was not readily available to women at that point. Back then, most women were forced to use literal rags, sponges or a whole mess of nothing during their periods. So once the war ended, Kimberly-Clark had a ton of blood bandages on their hands and no one's blood to soak up. Until someone remembered that unlike the war, menstruation wasn't going to end anytime soon, and that those nurses LOVED using their bandages during their periods. With a quick re-branding that actually capitalized on their product's origin, Kimbery-Clark packaged cellucotton as feminine hygiene products and was hailed as the saviors of women everywhere.
2) Twinkies (World War II) There is something about eating a Twinkie that just lets the world know you're not too keen on self-respect. Maybe it's because under "expiration date" Hostess just prints "LOL." Or maybe it's because you're eating something called a "Twinkie" and you're not five-years old. We're not judging; this is being typed one-handed, and there are Twinkie marks all over the space bar. So why do we have Hitler to thank for them? Well, back in the 1930s, a baker named James A. Dewar invented a sort of strawberry shortcake snack for Hostess; yellow sponge cake with strawberries crammed inside. Because strawberries were only in season a couple of months out of the year, they eventually switched it up and filled them with bananas instead. People didn't exactly go crazy for them. But then WWII began. The government started rationing all sorts of goods, so they could be used to fight the Nazis instead. Bananas were among these items, because apparently you can't stop a blitzkrieg without bananas. Maybe by littering the battlefield with peels so the Wehrmacht would slip hilariously on them. Whatever the reason, Dewar and Hostess were clearly screwed. No strawberries, no bananas; all they had was their stupid empty yellow cakes. Dewar finally decided screw it, leave out the fruit completely and squirt some cheap cream filling in there. What else was he going to do? People went absolutely nuts for it. Sales exploded, and the modern Twinkie was born.
3) A Bunch of Classic Toys (World War II) In 1943, naval engineer Richard James was working on a doozy of a problem. Delicate equipment aboard battleships had this way of getting knocked the hell around during high seas. So James was messing around with springs to support the phonogram machines or whatever, when what do you know? He dropped one of the springs. And instead of just sitting there like a punk, the little spring kind of stepped away in a very slinky-like manner. Knowing that there was nothing kids loved more than coiled metal, James figured he just might have invented the world's greatest toy ever. Within two years, James found the perfect metal for his toy idea and scored a $500 loan to build his first batch, which he sold in 90 minutes. A few years later, probably still haunted by his failure to actually keep the battleship equipment safe, James gave it all up and ran away to join a cult. Go figure. While the Slinky was discovered by accident, tons of government dollars worth of research were poured into Silly Putty. In 1943, the wartime rubber shortage was so bad that the government asked private companies to create a synthetic rubber substitute. General Electric had a whole team of scientists throw together every chemical they could think of in hopes that it would create something rubber-like. One squishy mixture proved to have surprising qualities: It bounced and stretched, it would not stick and it only melted at very high temperatures. Things were looking up until someone pointed out that you can't make tires out of something with the malleability of wet chewing gum, even if it can totally copy the newspaper. It was so useless at replacing rubber that GE tried to send it to scientists around the world in hopes that someone, anyone, could figure out something to do with it. Eventually, a toy manufacturer mentioned that little kids will pretty much play with any goddamned thing you give them. He figured that he might as well try to sell the stuff by packing it in small eggs and advertising it through novelty catalogs. The rest is history. Cheap, $2 in a pink plastic egg history. Finally, there's Walter "Fred" Morrison. Fred, like most other college kids in the 1930s, spent a great deal of time throwing around pie pans from the Frisbie Baking Company. But it wasn't until he joined the Air Force that he learned about aerodynamics and he realized he was doing science during those pan-flinging sessions. So, Fred took what he learned about basic aerodynamics from the Air Force and made a prototype of a better flying disc, that didn't have bits of pie crust stuck to it. And instead of tin, he went with plastic. He dubbed his creation the "Pluto Platter," which was ultimately renamed the "Frisbee" and went on to provide hardcore leaping motivation for extreme college kids everywhere.
4) Tabasco Sauce (The Civil War) If you're thinking that you're about to hear Tabasco sauce was originally brewed as a cannon lubricant or some kind of chemical weapon, relax. The Civil War gave us Tabasco in a much more roundabout way. Edmund McIlhenny was a self-made man, the kind of guy who picked himself up by the bootstraps, worked 12 hours a day and became a prominent New Orleans banker, just in time for the American Civil War to erupt and destroy everything he'd worked so hard to achieve. Once Union soldiers invaded his town, McIlhenny fled with his family to his wife's home at a place called Avery Island, which wasn't actually an island at all, unless you consider a big ol' salt dome an "island." McIlhenny started a new life helping to run the family salt mines, which was actually pretty good business. The Avery Island salt mine provided the Confederacy with 22 million pounds of salt during the war, and before he knew it, McIlhenny was back on his feet! That is, until Union forces mounted an attack on his salt mine and he had to flee once more. This time they went to Texas, where the McIlhennys wisely stayed put until the end of the war. And while the cat's away, the Union soldiers will plunder your plantation and burn your crops to the ground, as the McIlhenny family discovered upon their return. Everything had been destroyed, Yankee-style, and the only crops that seemed to thrive in the ashy, salty soil were some pepper plants... from the Mexican state of Tabasco. Thanks to the war, in 1868 those peppers were pretty much the only thing McIlhenny had going for him. So, he mixed them up with some Avery Island salt, vinegar, other peppers and wham! Tabasco sauce was born. He bottled his concoction in some old perfume bottles and started shipping to them grocers around the country. Two years later he got a patent, and the McIlhenny family has been running the Tabasco brand ever since.
5) Nylon Stockings (World War II) In case you haven't figured it out yet, war has a way of gobbling up resources. It's bad enough when you can't have a salted banana every morning for breakfast, but it's downright HELL when you can't get some silk for your pantyhose. Which is exactly what happened to American women once the Japanese decided the Americans weren't on the right side of the World War II. And remember, this is the 1940s. Women wore dresses all the damn day long, but they wanted their gams covered. Specifically, covered with silk. So when Japan cut off the West from their silk, American women freaked the hell out. Women put money into grabbing the last silk pantyhose at a time when they had to grow their own food and turn over their kitchen grease for the war effort. That's how important silk was. It was about that point that American ladies got good news and bad news. The good news was that back in 1935, DuPont hired the brightest chemists of the day to work on synthetic polymers to replace the silk they knew they weren't going to be able to get once Japanese relations soured, and what they came up with was nylon. Nylon was stronger than silk and totally awesome for covering bare legs. The bad news was that, oh yeah, the war effort really needed all of America's nylon for parachutes and tires and flak vests. So the ladies got their nylon hose for about two weeks, then they were cut off once more. But by the end of the war three different companies were producing versions of nylon, improving on the original until they could mix it with cotton fibers in order to create easy to wash, wrinkle free shirts. And more importantly, cranking out those sexy pantyhose. And we all know what happened when soldiers came home to see their wives wearing the miracle material that had saved so many lives during the war.


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How many of you 50+rs need to have your bicycle PERFECTLY, ABSOLUTELY quiet when you ride?
It drives me nuts to have any chain noise or rattling of any kind when I take a ride.
What my goal is is a totally quiet ride on a lovely trail. I even carry a small bottle of chain lubricant, just in case I forgot to lube the chain enough and I start getting just an inkling of that "dry" chain sound.
I want to be a totally "stealth" bike, no matter which bike I ride.
Okay, am I nuts? Or is anyone else the same way (and perhaps also nuts)?


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#MM5: Meal of Sides + Cardigans + Lucy + French Navy
Megaphone Marathons - NOLA
Sunday, July 27, 2014 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (CDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
This show is presented by Improv Wins!
Meal of Sides (ATX)
Meal of Sides is an ensemble cast of veteran performers at TNM including G-Su Paek (Judge G-Su, The Megaphone Show), Karen Early (Liar Liar, The Megaphone Show), Elizabeth Nowrouz (Part II, Tourceratops) and Allen Edgar Rogers (Nixon, Bananas Foster Wallace). Playing their own version of Close Quarters--a pithy, Pulp Fiction-esque show form--Meal of Sides offers the audience everything from teeming, show-stopping, cerebral brilliance to the lowest form of primordial comedy--the pun. Most of all they have fun and you will too.
Cardigans, much like their closet-staple namesake, are all about the basics. Getting to know each other and forming life-long friendships/rivalries. Cardigans are a shoulder to lean on and wipe your sniffly tequila nose. We're your best frienemy. We perform long-form improv in a montage style.
Troupe members: Allison Griffey, Caitlin McNally, & Regina Melo.
LUCY is: totally in love with each other, best friends for life, and partners in crime.
LUCY likes: performing character driven improv together, finishing each other sentences, and making out on the beach. LUCY will: bring the comedy, start the party and probably close down the party.
We are Adam Artho, Stephanie Huerta Lujan, Atticus Rowe, and Sheila Ray
French Navy (NOLA)
The French Navy is a New Orleans-based comedy collaboration between CJ Hunt and James Hamilton. This dynamic duo brings a show that is fast-paced, surprising, and truly one-of-a-kind. The French Navy can be seen regularly at TNM New Orleans, has been featured in Hell Yes Fest and Megaphone Marathons, and hosted "The French Navy presents."
$7 online/$10 door
Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?
We can't sell alcohol at our venues, so it's BYOB. However, if the event states that we're giving out free booze (which sometimes happens), you'll have to show a 21+ ID to get in the doors.
What is the refund policy?
If you buy an online ticket, you should arrive 30 min before the start of the show to guarantee getting a seat because we also sell tickets at the door and usually have a crowd waiting for no-show seats. If you don't arrive at least 10 min before the show, your seats could be given out to people on our waiting list, and if that happens, you will not be entitled to a refund since we don't offer refunds after the show has started.
When & Where
The New Movement Nola
1919 Burgundy
New Orleans,
Sunday, July 27, 2014 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (CDT)
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Megaphone Marathons - NOLA
The comedy event of the Summer is back! The New Movement celebrates 6 years of being the nerve center of the Austin comedy scene with a week-long comedy marathon featuring the best of New Orleans improv and sketch, special guests from TNM Austin, and other surprises (and lots of partying).


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Despite an 18-percent cut to its budget last year, as well as indications City Council may consider cutting off its funding entirely, the Wheeling Human Rights Commission plans to ask for a $27,000 increase to its budget next fiscal year.
The additional funds would allow the commission to hire a part-time office assistant. Since July, when the commission was forced to dismiss its longtime assistant due to a lack of funds, Executive Director Theresa Garrett has been the commission's only paid employee.
Commissioners voted to submit two separate requests for $92,942 - one seeking money from the city's general fund budget, and another asking the funds from the city's annual share of Community Development Block Grant. The commission has been funded solely through the CDBG program for quite some time, but in its early years it received support from the general fund.
However, that funding source was called into question after Mayor Andy McKenzie notified council of correspondence he received from Wheeling Health Right asking that City Council restore CDBG funding to it and other public service agencies that were cut off last year due to decline in the city's overall entitlement. A majority of council members said they would strongly consider that request, and the commission since has established an ad hoc committee charged with seeking alternative funding sources, but with little success.
The budget request includes $69,450 for personnel - including $38,273 for Garrett's salary, $11,000 for the part-time assistant and the remainder for Garrett's benefits. The rest, $23,492, would be for other costs such as office rent, supplies, postage and travel expenses for commissioners to attend conferences and training events.
Garrett told commissioners that if they wanted to hire a full-time office assistant, the budget request would rise to $118,814. They agreed to seek funds for a part-time employee only from council.
Fact Box
- The next meeting of the Wheeling Human Rights Commission is set for 3 p.m., Feb. 25 at the Ohio County Courthouse Annex.
"Wishing and hoping that they're going to double (our current budget), I don't think it's going to happen. ... I think to get back to where we were would be a major accomplishment," said Commissioner Chuck Hood.
Garrett said she received a formal complaint last week, has two pending complaints that need to be filed and recently received an inquiry that likely will lead to a formal complaint. She said not having someone to answer the phone and perform other secretarial work is causing her work to pile up.
Commissioner the Rev. Robert Romick suggested seeking volunteers to do office work. But Commission Chairwoman Rabbi Beth Jacowitz Chottiner said it's difficult to find volunteers who are available consistently.
"If we are going to function in a proper manner, we are going to need a paid person in this office on a full-time basis," Jacowitz Chottiner said.
Garrett said she would welcome letters of support from the community to include along with the budget request. Hood noted the city has scheduled a meeting at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 12 at which residents will have the opportunity to voice their opinions on how this year's CDBG funds should be distributed.
"If the general public supports the Human Rights Commission and what we do, I would suggest they go there and relay that support to the mayor, city manager and members of council," Hood said.


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Now starting its 16th year, the Rooftop Film Summer Series kicked off last Friday and continues through mid-August. In the words of founder and artistic director Mark Elijah Rosenberg, the series brings "underground movies outdoors" with their curated mix of non-traditional venues and a selection that brings together independent features alongside short films, documentaries and fiction films, American and international, and films with and without distribution.
Putting together the programs along with finding suitable venues is a process Rosenberg likens to "a cross between writing an essay and being a DJ." The first screening was a program called "This Is What We Mean By Short Films" at one of the series' signature venues, the Open Road Rooftop on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Saturday night featured a screening of the indie drama "Think Of Me," starring Lauren Ambrose, at the same venue.
"I think one of the really special things about Rooftop is that it's different from just going to a movie in a movie theater or even at most festivals," said Rosenberg. "A different venue is paired specially to the film with live music beforehand, filmmaker Q&As, an after party that everyone is invited to. Every screening is unique."
This year's program contains a strong selection of films that have been making their way around the festival circuit, including "An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty," "Fat Kid Rules The World," "Gayby," "Welcome To Pine Hill," "Grandma Lo-Fi," "The Imposter," "Kid-Thing," "Kumare," "Heavy Girls," "Sun Don't Shine," "The Comedy," "The Sheik And I" and "Detropia."
Some audience members even take on the event-oriented aspect of the screenings as a way of rolling the dice on something they might not be willing to check out in a more traditional screening set-up.
"If you're sitting outside and you attention does wander you're not cooped up in a theater wondering, 'How much longer do I have to be here?'" said Rosenberg. "You're outside and it's a beautiful night. I think many films benefit from the interaction with the night sky and the lights of the city… from not being in a generic black box."
Rosenberg is particularly excited about the use again this year of The Brooklyn Grange, no mere flower garden but a fully-working rooftop farm in Queens, where viewers will be sitting amidst the rows of crops for a program of nature-themed shorts on August 5. New venues this year include MetroTech Commons and the Dekalb Market, both in Brooklyn. The Dekalb Market is constructed from salvaged shipping containers, and Rosenberg thinks the venue will fit well with Rooftop.
"One of the missions of Rooftop is always to revitalize spaces," he said, "to think environmentally and conscientiously about that as much as we can. The idea of using discarded industrial materials is an exciting place for us to be doing screenings."
Among some of the more community-based screenings will be a showing of "Brooklyn Castle," Katie Dellamaggiore's doc about a local middle school producing chess champions and "Inocente," directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine. "Inocente," about a homeless teenage girl who finds her way through art, will be presented as a series of screenings paired with art workshops for young and old alike.
"We want to have a mix of genres, styles, subject matter, filmmakers," said Rosenberg. "New York City is so diverse, and one of our missions is to move from neighborhood to neighborhood, community to community to show films that are of interest to different people."


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Ted Janes
Ted Janes, 68, of Albert City, Iowa passed away Friday, June 13, 2014 at St. Luke's /Unity Point Hospital in Sioux City, Iowa.
Services will be 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at the Carlsen Funeral Home in Le Mars with Reverend John Mayer of Our Saviors Lutheran Church, Albert City, Iowa officiating. Interment with military honors provided by the Wasmer American Legion Post #241 of Le Mars will be at Resthaven Memory Gardens Cemetery. Visitation with the family present will be from 10:00 a.m. until service time Wednesday at the funeral home. Expressions of sympathy can be extended to the family through http://www.carlsenfuneralhome.com Arrangements are with the Carlsen Funeral Home of Le Mars.


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2012-2013 Oregon Battle of the Books 3rd-5th Grade
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The Castle Corona
Creech, Sharon.
Two orphaned peasant children discover a mysterious pouch, the contents of which lead them to the majestic Castle Corona, where their lives may be transformed forever.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dahl, Roald.
Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.
How to Steal a Dog
O'Connor, Barbara.
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
Journey to the River Sea
Ibbotson, Eva.
Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River.
The Lemonade War
Davies, Jacqueline, 1962-
Evan and his younger sister, Jesse, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for fourth grade and as the end of summer approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn 100 dollars. Includes mathematical calculations and tips for running a successful lemonade stand.
The Maze of Bones
Riordan, Rick.
At the reading of their grandmother's will, Dan and Amy Cahill are given the choice of receiving a million dollars or uncovering the 39 clues hidden around the world that will lead to the source of the family's power, but by taking on the clues, they end up in a dangerous race against their own family members.
The Mysterious Howling
Wood, Maryrose.
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.
The Night Fairy
Schlitz, Laura Amy.
When Flory the night fairy's wings are accidentally broken and she cannot fly, she has to learn to do everything differently.
One Crazy Summer
Williams-Garcia, Rita.
In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
Out of My Mind :
Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
Ray & Me
Gutman, Dan.
After recovering from being hit in the head during a baseball game, Stosh travels back in time to try to save Ray Chapman, a batter who was killed by a pitch in New York in 1920.
Rowan of Rin
Rodda, Emily.
Because only he can read the magical map, young, weak and timid Rowan joins six other villagers to climb a mountain and try to restore their water supply, as fears of a dragon and other horrors threaten to drive them back.
Star in the Forest
Resau, Laura.
After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return.
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Angleberger, Tom.
Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.
Turtle in Paradise
Holm, Jennifer L.
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Freddie Ramos Takes Off
Jules, Jacqueline, 1956-
Freddie finds a mysterious package outside his apartment containing sneakers that allow him to run faster than a train, and inspire him to perform heroic deeds.
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Notable CDs
Notable CDs | Five new country CDs
Ghost on the Canvas
Campbell announced last June that he has Alzheimer's and that this album would therefore be his last. So it would feel haunted by intimations of mortality even if nearly every song and the titles of Roger Manning Jr.'s instrumental interludes (e.g., "The Rest Is Silence") didn't address the subject. But because Campbell, 75, is a Christian, the mood doesn't coagulate into gloom. Rather it culminates in hope. And because he's humble, he never lets on that he's headed toward a "better place" for any other reason than grace.
Clancy's Tavern
If these songs are any indication (and with one called "Made in America" they had better be), Toby Keith's Southern-Democrat politics are simply what would've passed for common national sentiments back when his grandmother, the bar-tending "Clancy" of the title track, was keeping her blue-collar patrons' beer glasses full. And although a Puritan might've viewed her tavern as a den of iniquity, Keith remembers it as a macrocosm of a democratic bonhomie unique to this great land. Give him that, and he's a happy man.
Own the Night
Their first album not to include an instantly irresistible single (unless their Christmas album counts) is also their first to suggest that they'll never turn into the country Fleetwood Mac. The problem is greater than that Charles Kelley is no Lindsey Buckingham and that Hillary Scott is no Christine McVie or Stevie Nicks. It's probably more a case of their being so content as actual human beings that their artistic personae can't help lacking the subtextual tension that transforms high-quality popular entertainment into something more like art.
Four the Record
If only for the energy, humor, and intelligent sympathy that went into it, this album deserves the acclaim it's received. But it's not energetic, funny, or intelligently sympathetic enough to justify its nearly one-hour length. Crossover potential notwithstanding, it's country enough to have benefitted from playing by the country rules, one of which is that if you can't bowl 'em over inside 30 minutes, maybe you deserve to be passed over by posterity for the music that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were making at your age.
If Miranda Lambert's latest album is too long for what's good about it to shine as brightly as it should, Hell on Heels (Sony Nashville) by her side project with Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe-Pistol Annies-is, at 30 minutes, too short. The obvious solution would've been to extract the solo-Miranda songs most in keeping with her intimate and/or wild side ("Look at Miss Ohio," "Fastest Girl in Town," respectively) and to have used them to put some meat on the Pistol Annies' bones.
On the other hand, lean and mean is what the Annies are all about, the better to drive home the pointedness of their mini morality tales. The title cut serves fair gold-digger warning to middle-aged rich guys intent on adding a hot young wife to their trophies. And "Takin' Pills" and "Housewife's Prayer" elucidate more consequences brought on by the sexual revolution than Hugh Hefner could shake a paradigm shift at.


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Employees' job satisfaction declines the longer they work for their employers, according to one new study.
The finding is in a new book, The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want by David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind and Michael Irwin Meltzer of Sirota Consulting. The book is based on research by Sirota Consulting, including a survey of about 1.2 million employees, mainly in large companies, between 2001 and 2004.
According to Sirota's research, there is some improvement in the satisfaction of employees with more than 10 years' experience with their employers, but it's not as high as when they started on the job.
The company finds that employee job satisfaction (on a 100-point scale) averages out as follows:
- Employees with an average of six months with employer: 80
- Employees with one to five years working for employer: 69
- Employees with six to 10 years working for employer: 68
David Sirota says that the declines in satisfaction are even greater than the numbers show. That's because the unhappy employees often leave and are no longer included in the data.
In many cases, Sirota believes, the low morale is a result of a gap between what a company says its goals are and the message it really sends to its workforce. A firm might say "quality is job one," according to Sirota, but managers may leave employees just enough time to get the product out the door, regardless of its quality.
About 10 percent of companies, he says, buck the trend. These "super-high-morale organizations," he says, include the Barron's division of Dow Jones (Barron's is "incredibly engaged," he says), as well as Intuit, the Mayo Clinic, Southwest Airlines, Crescent Real Estate Equities, Continental Airlines and FedEx. "Their honeymoon lasts through employees' careers." These organizations, Sirota says, generally have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and fairly flat structures. Lower-level employees sense that they are treated pretty much the same way senior managers are.
This sense, he says, is passed down by the CEO. Southwest Airlines, for example, has a highly unionized workforce, but customers can't help but notice the employees' high morale. Employees' feelings about the company stem from a sense that the company is a positive influence in the community and is concerned about its customers.


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