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It wasn't clear that any baked-goods-as-projectiles video could ever top the Cupcake Cannon, but this video gets close. The official video for Autoerotique's track "Turn Up The Volume" features similar slow-motion explosions, flying icing bits, and frightened, overly hip people, but the ante has been upped.
Now entire cakes are exploding, rather than cupcakes being propelled at high speeds into people. After all, a cake missile could be downright dangerous. Protective eyewear is still recommended, though people seem to be much more casual about their ocular safety this time around. The white background is still there though, so we can see the full devastation wrought by the Cake Cannon.
Interestingly this video doesn't seem to have been made by the Cupcake Cannon crew. It was directed by Miles Jay and Derek Blais and produced by Eric Sim for Dim Mak Records and Autoerotique. No information was posted on the tech, but it very well could have been filmed with a Phantom slow-motion camera just like the Cupcake Canon (which used the Phantom HD Gold).


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GWEN IFILL: The Supreme Court handed down three decisions today.
Ray Suarez has that story.
RAY SUAREZ: The justices ruled on major cases involving the sentencing of juveniles and sexually dangerous offenders. Plus, they looked at the boundaries of an international child custody treaty.
And, as always, Marcia Coyle of "The National Law Journal" was at the court, and is now here to walk us through today's decision.
Marcia, how did the court break down when ruling on life-without-parole sentences for people who committed the crimes as minors, short of homicide?
MARCIA COYLE, "The National Law Journal": The court ruled 6-3 that that sentence violates the 8th Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The three dissenters were Justices Thomas, Scalia, and Alito.
RAY SUAREZ: Answering very broadly the question, can you ever impose a life sentence without parole for crimes short of murders on a minor, or ruling very narrowly in the case of this one man, Terrance Graham?
MARCIA COYLE: It was not a narrow decision, Ray. The court announced the categorical rule that this sentence violates the Constitution.
But Justice Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion, said, this doesn't mean that a juvenile may never spend life behind bars. He said that the decision means that a state must give a reasonable opportunity, some meaningful opportunity, to the juvenile to show that the juvenile has matured and has been rehabilitated.
He said that the Constitution simply says the courts can — or — and the states cannot make the decision at the outset. There has to be some opportunity while in prison to show rehabilitation.
RAY SUAREZ: And, in the case of murder, life without parole stands unchanged?
MARCIA COYLE: That's correct.
RAY SUAREZ: Now, at the same time, as it was blocking such sentences with this ruling, the court was also dismissing an appeal from a man with a similar case, now an adult, but he was serving life without parole for a rape committed when he was 13. It seems sort of contradictory.
MARCIA COYLE: Well, it really isn't.
Joe Sullivan's case was dismissed today. And the problem with Joe Sullivan's case was a procedural problem that prevented the court from getting to the merit. But, conceivably, Joe Sullivan could try to take advantage now of the ruling in Terrance Graham's case.
RAY SUAREZ: So, bring it back to a lower court, and, in light of the Supreme Court's ruling today, say, hey, this means I should be able to be released?
MARCIA COYLE: That's right. It would probably be a resentencing hearing, in which the juveniles — they are no longer juveniles — would have to show that they have been rehabilitated and matured.
RAY SUAREZ: Let's move to the case giving states more power in retaining in prison convicted sex offenders. What was the ruling today?
MARCIA COYLE: Well, this was a 7-2 decision. And the court, in an opinion again by Justice Kennedy, said that Congress had the authority to enact this law.
And it was an examination of a rare clause in the Constitution, the necessary and proper clause, which authorizes Congress to enact laws to help it enforce, implement powers that are specifically named in the Constitution. And the court upheld this law.
It was the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. The challenge was brought by five federal prisoners. And they challenged it on various constitutional grounds. The — Justice Kennedy, in his majority opinion, he said that — oh, I'm sorry — I think Justice Breyer wrote the majority opinion. Excuse me.
Justice Breyer said in his opinion that this law was actually a reasonable and modest addition to the mental health, prison-related statutes that have been on the books for decades. And it was necessary and proper to the implementation of those laws that the federal government have the authority to confine these men beyond their prison sentences.
RAY SUAREZ: So, you serve your full-time that are you given for the commission of a crime after you are found guilty, and now a state can legitimately continue to hold you if they, what, determine that you remain a danger to the community?
MARCIA COYLE: Well, states have that power now, Ray, even before the Supreme Court decision. This was a federal case, federal law.
So, now the federal government clearly has the authority to do that, as a result of the opinion today.
RAY SUAREZ: So, 7-2, that means some people who don't normally vote with each other must have voted together today?
MARCIA COYLE: It does. The only dissenters were Justices Thomas and Scalia. And Justice Thomas, in his dissent, said that he didn't see any specific power in the Constitution that delegated the authority to Congress to enact this law.
He said, sexual abuse is a despicable act, but he said the Constitution doesn't protect society from every bad act.
RAY SUAREZ: Did the ruling require that there be some uniformity of assessment, so that, once you serve your time, there has to be a way they figure out whether you are still dangerous, or it's just one person's decision?
MARCIA COYLE: No, there is a civil commitment procedure that takes place in federal court. And the government has to meet certain requirements under the law in order to confine these inmates beyond their sentences.
RAY SUAREZ: And, finally, a ruling involving international custody disputes, what did the justices rule in this case?
MARCIA COYLE: This was another Justice Kennedy opinion, this today. This case involved an American woman who was married to a British man. And they were living in Chile with their son when they had some marital problems. They separated. The mother did receive almost full custody of the child. The husband received visitation rights.
But he also got, under Chilean law, something called a ne exeat order, which gave him the right to refuse or consent to the child's removal from the country. The mother eventually returned to the United States with the child. The father found them in Texas and moved to enforce that ne exeat clause.
So, the Supreme Court had to decide under this international child abduction treaty whether that clause gave the father a right of custody or whether it was just a right of access. And it was — the difference was important, because, if it was a right of custody, the father could move, under the treaty, to have the child returned to Chile.
Today, Justice Kennedy, looking at the text of the treaty, looking at other courts, foreign courts, how they had interpreted it, and also looking at the U.S. State Department's interpretation, said that it was a right of custody. So, the father can now petition our courts to return the child to Chile.
RAY SUAREZ: Marcia Coyle, thanks for being here.
MARCIA COYLE: My pleasure, Ray.

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Facebook plans to build a solar system on the rooftop of its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., from startup Cogenra Solar, that will generate both electricity and heat. The system will be built on the company's fitness center and in addition to electricity, will provide heat for the showers and will displace 60 percent of the building's natural gas needs.
Cogenra is a VC-backed Valley startup that has designed a hybrid solar system that uses both mirrors and solar cells to generate electricity and useful heat. The system uses a single-axis tracker, and relies on glass mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto silicon solar cells to produce electricity. In the same region where the cells reside is a fluid-containing tube that absorbs the heat produced from the process of electricity production.
The fluid, a glycol mixture that is freeze-resistant and commonly used to transfer heat in cars and liquid-cooled computers, is then piped to a holding tank for heating water (see diagram below). In settings that require hot water around the clock, a boiler remains necessary for the final heating.
CEO Gilad Almogy founded the company (previously called SkyWatch Energy), and Congenra has raised at least $10.5 million from investors and counts Khosla Ventures among its backers. Cogenra has also installed a 272-kilowatt system at the Sonoma Wine Company in Graton, Calif.
A panel filled with silicon solar cells typically can convert around 16 percent of the sunlight that falls on it into electricity. The rest of the solar energy becomes heat, which is commonly dissipated and can also threaten the performance of solar cells. A growing number of companies, like Cogenra, PVT Solar, Cool Energy and Conserval Engineering, are looking at ways to make use of the heat, while also generating electricity. Cogenra's system can turn 75 percent of the solar energy into useful electricity and heat.
Internet and clean power
Internet giants are starting to pay closer attention to clean energy, as both a new source of electricity for their power-hungry data centers, as a PR opportunity, and as a way to save money on power costs for their operations. Google put solar panels on its rooftop (s goog) several years ago. Facebook says it's the first of its peers to embrace this type of hybrid solar design.
Facebook says the Cogenra solar system has less than a fiv- year payback period, which is significantly shorter than many traditional solar rooftop systems.
Solar systems built near data centers have gained prominence this year, too. Apple (s AAPL) has plans to build a solar system next to its mega data center in Maiden, N.C., which will partly power iCloud. Google has invested hundreds of millions in clean power projects — both wind and solar — in an effort to boost the market for clean power and also to make a long-term low-risk return (solar projects can deliver something like 12 percent return over 20 years).
As Greenpeace has said before, Internet giants — in particular consumer-facing brands like Facebook and Apple — can use their prominence, leadership and large balance sheets to build new clean power systems and also ask utilities for clean power when they construct their data centers.


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Shaft's latest magical girls get the Nendo treatment
Magical Suite Prism Nana is a relatively new anime but that hasn't stopped Good Smile Company from choosing the show's three heroines to be Nendoroids. Prototypes of the firey Itaru, earth-embued Asuka, and water-wielder Kotone have been spotted over at Comiket 83 in Japan. Even though the show hasn't made it to the English-speaking market yet, I am sure many of you have seen promotional images of for the anime (if you haven't there is a display is the gallery). Hopefully the finished figures will have the same bold, brilliant colors as those I associate with the girls' outfits.
What is your take on this, readers? Are you excited for these latest prototypes?
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Elmo's World Birthday Cake
This is my most recent cake, number 5. I absolutely loved how it turned out. I made the little girls Birthday outfit and that was my inspiration for the cake. It's full of so many colors and 3D items. everything is edible and fondant, (only because I haven't perfected making modeling chocolate and such) It served 42 and was very heavy!!


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Vandana Shiva: A city that functions like a cluster of villages
Vandana Shiva, an internationally recognized Indian activist and philosopher, explains that planning for the human being rather than the automobile can liberate space and create community within a city. In her opinion, a sustainable city should operate as a self-reliant and self-sufficient cluster of villages.
What are the qualities that should characterize a
sustainable city?
"In my opinion, a sustainable city is really a city that functions like a cluster of villages, in the sense that each part of it is self-reliant and self-sufficient, that you should be able to walk out of your house and find your groceries, and the laundry, and everything else that you need for everyday living. Basically a density of occupation, a multi-functionality and density of use, both to liberate space and to create community."
What are the challenges that top the to-do list of cities around the world?"I think that the biggest challenge that we face is that the modern city has grown around the automobile. Of course, all you have to do is to look at Los Angeles to see that nothing is a neighbourhood, which is then what also lends itself to cities of violence, cities of non-neighborliness. I personally feel pain that today Delhi is trying to mimic Los Angeles by thinking that the car should design the city rather than the human being. I don't know where this misguidedness in urban design comes from, but every good designer, architect, is tearing their hair apart at what Delhi is being transformed into."
What are the most promising initiatives that would make living in cities more sustainable?
"I think urban gardens are very, very exciting. Even a few years ago, you couldn't have imagined that this could happen, that people could tear down parking lots and create gardens rather than tear down gardens and create parking lots. If you want to create an urban garden, make it organic; don't douse urea and spray pesticides."
'Green' mobility
"Linked to urban gardening is the 'green' version of mobility in terms of celebrating walking, in terms of celebrating biking."
"The Delhi I knew would be a very good role model. Old Delhi
qualifies for many of these things. Not the Delhi transformed under
the Commonwealth Games [taking place in Delhi 3-14 October 2010,
ed.]. I think that for mobility for sure Copenhagen takes the cake.
In terms of urban gardens, I find that Berlin is the place, partly
because it's taken a new life after the wall came down, partly
because it has so many migrants from so many cultures and there is
much more of a creative, innovative instinct in the citizens.
Gardening really has become the way to reclaim citizenship."
About Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is an internationally recognized Indian activist and philosopher. After earning a PhD in physics from the University of Western Ontario, she has campaigned tirelessly on issues related to agriculture and food, property rights, and gender. She has assisted grassroots movements in countries around the world.
Dr. Shiva has advised the International Forum on Globalization, a citizens' group that monitors the impact of globalisation; the Women's Environment & Development Organization, an international organization focused on gender equality; and the Third World Network, a network of individuals and organizations that addresses environmental issues and development in the Third World. In 1984, Dr. Shiva founded Navdanya, an organisation that works to promote biodiversity, farmers' rights, and organic farming. In 1993, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize, "for placing women and ecology at the heart of the modern development discourse."
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Syrian refugees cause problems in Europe
According to official EU figures, 24, 000 Syrian refugees sought asylum in the EU countries in 2012 . This year there is a growth tendency, which so far remains moderate. In the light of a potential military strike on Syria, German Chancellor Hans-Peter Friedrich spoke in favor of conducting a pan-European conference on the issue of Syrian refugees. The German authorities officially expressed their willingness to give asylum to 5, 000 Syrians. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, over a thousand refugees submitted requests for asylum in August. Refugees continue to illegally cross the German border ever since the conflict began.
The Swedish authorities decided to grant permanent residence permits to the Syrians who are already on the territory of the kingdom, as well as to give them the right to move their families to that country. We are talking about 8, 000 people who arrived in Sweden in 2012 and have been issued three-year residence permits.
Meanwhile, not all of the residents of Syria who have reached Europe are happy with their situation given the difference in social and economic environment, as well as language barriers. Here is what Jikhan, the wife of one of the Syrian refugees, has to say:
"It is hard for us here. We fled our country because of the war. If there had been no war, we would have not fled".
In the EU the refugees from Syria also seek asylum in Greece and Bulgaria, where the refugee camps are full. That is why many Syrians have to be housed in detention centers where the conditions leave much to be desired. Syrian refugees get into Greece and Bulgaria via Turkey. At the same time, the Cyprus authorities closed off their country for Syrians to work and study there and absolutely refuse to accept refugees fearing their uncontrolled inflow.
Despite the accusations coming from the European human rights organizations of being indifferent and refusing to accept refugees from Syria, over 50 thousand Syrians have already been granted asylum in the EU countries. According to Sebastien Brabant, a spokesman of the European Commission, the EU has already allocated dozens of millions of Euros to provide humanitarian assistance to the Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
«The financial assistance of 58 million euro is allocated to Lebanon in order to react as a medium and long-term program of serving the needs of Syrian refugees in that country, as well as the needs of the communities receiving them».
In the near future the European Commission will approve another tranche of assistance for the population of Syria itself, as well as for the Syrian refugees in Jordan.


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"There, on the gleaming tiles in front of a row of plasma-screen TVs, was an enormous human turd." — Entire article worth it for just this sentence.
From "It's a vagina, madam, not a clown car" to "It's so cute when couples have matching hairdos", these are the photos of our Seventies.
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Since you liked that first article, I think you will also dig this one: Disgusting Sights at Wal-Mart (similar stories from customers and employees of Wal-Mart). Really, if you have not witnessed Wal-Mart yourself, you should drop by one the next time you're in the US, just to stare at the mutants.
The Comedy Goldmine has a lot of similar installments, most nearly as good as that one. (Other installments aren't anecdotes, and tend to not be as amusing).
The Olan Mills photos had me and the missus pissing in our pants.
Thanks, Jeff!


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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Kickstarter profile) has invested in a crowd-funding project called Kano. Kano is a do-it-yourself computer kit that is powered with the $35 Raspberry Pi computer. Kano wants to make computers as easy and accessible as Legos. You can buy the Kano now for $119.
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Career Stats | Game-by-Game Stats (2010-14)
CAREER: Ranks 20th on the all-time scoring list with 1,398 points... Has 861 rebounds, which ranks 12th in SJU history... Is second in career field goal percentage, hitting 57.0 percent of his attempts.
2013-14: Atlantic 10 All-Conference Third Team selection.. Named to the 2014 Atlantic 10 All-Championship Team as he helped the Hawks to the league title... All-Big 5 Second Team honoree... Co-recipient of the John P. Hilferty Award as SJU's Most Valuable Player... Participated in the Slam Dunk Championship at the NCAA Final Four... Selected to the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament... Second on the team in both scoring and rebounding, with 14.4 points and 7.4 rebounds... Tallied double figures in 22 games... Scored 15 points and had 11 rebounds in A-10 title-game win over VCU... Made 4-of-6 shots en route to 12 points and eight rebounds in A-10 Semifinal vs. St. Bonaventure... Scored 11 points, hitting 5-of-8 from the field, in A-10 Quarterfinals vs. Dayton... Hit for 16 points on 7-of-8 shooting from the floor and grabbed eight rebounds at George Washington... Notched game-high 22 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the floor in win over Dayton... Registered 18 points on 7-of-12 shooting from the floor and nine boards at Rhode Island... Hit for 15 points of 5-of-9 shooting from the floor and blocked three shots at La Salle... Boasted game-high 19 points on 6-of-10 shooting from the floor to go with nine rebounds against #13 Saint Louis... Notched 17 points on a season-high 9-of-12 shooting from the free throw line in win over #21 UMass... Led all scorers with 20 points on 7-of-9 shooting from the floor and added nine rebounds against Rhode Island... Missed George Mason and Duquesne games due to back spasms after suffering the injury at UMass... Pulled down season and game-high 15 boards in win over Denver... Hit for 19 points on 7-of-14 shooting from the floor in win over Boston University... Scored team-high 20 points in win over Loyola... Had 12 points (4-of-5 FG) and pulled down 8 boards against Villanova... Posted 12 points (5-of-13 FG) and eight rebounds at Temple... Averaged 20.0 ppg on 26-of-38 shooting from the floor, 7.0 rpg, and 1.7 bpg at the Old Spice Classic... Posted second double-double with 21 points and 10 rebounds against Washington State... Hit 19 points on 9-of-13 shooting from the floor in win over Siena... Scored 1,000th career point with 21-point effort (9-of-13 FG) against LSU... Hit 13 points on 4-of-6 shooting from the floor against Creighton... Notched double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds in win over Marist... Posted 21 points on 8-of-13 shooting from the floor and added nine boards in season-opening win over Vermont... Named to the Old Spice Classic All-Tournament Team... Atlantic 10 Player of the Week (3/3, 12/2)... Big 5 Player of the Week (3/3, 12/30)...Tri-captain.
2010-11: Played in all 33 games... Made 12 starts, with 11 in the final 12 games of the year... Recipient of the O'Neill Award as the Hawks' Most Improved Player... Averaged 6.4 points while shooting 53.8 percent from the field... Scored a career-high 19 points on 9-for-11 shooting in the A-10 Quarterfinal win over Duquesne... Scored double figures in three of the last five games... Had 10 points and five rebounds against Richmond... Scored nine points and had a team-high seven rebounds against Massachusetts... Grabbed a career-high 11 rebounds in win over Fordham... Scored 17 points vs. Temple... Had 12 points and five rebounds against La Salle... Scored 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds in first career start vs. Penn... Had team's only double-double with 13 points and season-high 10 rebounds against Duquesne... Posted 10 points and seven rebounds against Princeton.
High School/Personal: All-State Third Team selection from Saint Peter's Prep... Averaged 19.0 points, 12.0 rebounds and 3.5 blocks as a senior... Helped Saint Peter's to a 24-5 record and the number six ranking in the state... Recorded 18 double-doubles on the season... Earned a spot on the All-Non Public Second Team in 2010... Two-time Hudson County All-Area First Team honoree... Led Saint Peter's to back-to-back county championships... Served as team captain as a senior... Attended Bayonne High School before transferring to Saint Peter's his junior year... Communications major.
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Resilience key to survival
August 27, 2014
A few weeks short of 20 years ago, Gardnerville residents experienced a magnitude 6 earthquake centered in Double Spring Flat.
To this day you can do a Google search for "Gardnerville Earthquake," and a Nevada Geology article comes up on the front page.
Sunday's earthquake in Napa is a reminder that danger lurks all around us from both the Earth below and the skies above.
The year 1994 was also significant because that was the year the big summer floods hit Johnson Lane.
Flooding on the alluvial plain is a little bit like an earthquake in that there's little warning, but an analysis of the terrain can indicate the possibility.
Carson Valley is home to the Genoa Fault, located at the base of the Carson Range. The 50-foot rock wall across from Walley's Hot Springs resulted from several earthquakes along the fault.
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Geologists believe a magnitude 7.5 earthquake has occurred on the fault over the last few hundred years. The springs itself is an indication there is an active earth below.
Likewise in the north Valley there are great piles of dirt extending out of the mouths of large washes indicating that water had moved at least some of that material down hill at some point.
We survive and thrive at the mouths of these canyons and in the shadows of these mountains because human memory is blessedly short. People place a bet when they set down roots in a place that nothing bad will happen while they or their descendants are living there. When trouble comes, people pick up the pieces, make a decision to stay or go, and then move on with their lives. That's called resilience.
We expect the same thing will happen in the north Valley with the recent flooding, in Napa with the earthquake and with whatever catastrophe occurs, wherever it may happen.


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More Robinson: Dolphins season preview
CANTON, Ohio – When Nick Saban was asked Monday night if there had been any new revelations about his Miami Dolphins after a 27-24 loss to the Bears in the Hall of Fame game, he paused. Then he stared at his podium for a few seconds, finally rubbing his hand over his face.
Maybe he was collecting his thoughts. Or making a mental list. Whatever he was doing, he gave off the vibe of a frustrated parent who had learned his eldest child had dented the family car.
The preseason opener for both teams exposed some of Miami's dings – imperfections that Saban already knew were there. The real problem was that the first quarter (i.e., the really important 15 minutes) punctuated a reality that can only be fully grasped away from the practice field: The 2005 Miami Dolphins are probably going to suffer many of the same problems as the 2004 Miami Dolphins.
Stop Saban if you've heard this one before:
"It's disappointing that we weren't able to run the ball a little bit better," he said. "They played a lot of eight-man fronts and dared us to throw it, and we did. … We didn't create the positive down-and-distance situations that we would like to by running the ball. We're going to have to have a lot more balance in our offense to be successful offensively down the road."
For all the talk about the defense's age, the return of Ricky Williams and the uncertainty at quarterback, it wasn't hard to see that the offensive line may once again be the component that makes or breaks the Dolphins. If Monday's first quarter and early second-quarter action was any indication, there's plenty of work to do.
- Against the Bears' formidable front seven, the offensive line appeared to have noticeable backward momentum on running plays – something that typically indicates the line didn't play physically enough to get a push. Miami's top two running backs on Monday's depth chart, Lamar Gordon and Williams, combined for seven yards on eight carries.
- While the passing game was strong, the tackle spots still look shaky. Second-year man Vernon Carey had all kinds of problems with Bears defensive end Adewale Ogunleye, who bowled through him at one point and forced A.J. Feeley to step up into the pocket – where Feeley was obliterated by Chicago linebacker Brian Urlacher. Feeley was knocked out of the game (and one of his shoes) on the play. On the next snap, Carey committed a false start penalty, backing Miami to its 2-yard line.
On the other side of the line, free-agent pickup Stockar McDougle's mistakes weren't quite as bad, but he failed to see blitzing cornerback Nathan Vasher twice when he could have at least gotten a hand on the pursuer to slow his momentum. Both times, Vasher made it to the quarterback unobstructed, disrupting a pair of passing plays.
- The line still doesn't appear to be set, as shuffling continued with Rex Hadnot starting at center over Seth McKinney. John St. Clair unexpectedly started at right guard, and there's no guarantee that more changes won't continue to come after Monday's struggles.
Saban mostly bit his lip when it came to the line, and he said at one point that he preferred to see the film before he made any judgments about breakdowns. But he clearly wasn't happy with the way the offense performed, even with a good passing performance by Gus Frerotte (11 of 17 for 143 yards and one touchdown), who engineered an encouraging 12-play drive that ate over five minutes and ended in a 26-yard touchdown pass to Bryan Gilmore.
Even that play had an element of luck. Frerotte admitted after the game that he was trying to throw the ball to a tight end, but the ball slipped from his hand and ended up with Gilmore at the goal line.
Considering their plight last season, the Dolphins will take whatever lucky bounces they can get. Still, they can't afford to hope for such good fortune with the offensive line. With new line coach Hudson Houck getting paid a staggering salary – reportedly $800,000 a year – to shore things up, Miami's line is facing plenty of pressure. It's hard to argue that Houck isn't worth every penny after seeing what he did with an average offensive line in San Diego last season, but that group was pristine compared to the tattered line he has inherited with the Dolphins.
Miami's offensive line may have been the worst in the NFL last season, possibly even more feeble than the Giants' maligned unit. The group allowed the second-most sacks in Dolphins history (52), paved the way for a paltry 3.5 yards per rush and generally undermined the offense last season. While Miami's lackluster group of running backs didn't help, the return of Williams and the drafting of Ronnie Brown won't matter if they have no holes to run through.
And while the problems against Chicago could be passed off as chemistry issues because of the shuffling of Hadnot, McKinney and St. Clair, that was a notion dispelled in the locker room.
"We all practice. We're all in the same meeting rooms," St. Clair said, insisting chemistry shouldn't be a problem. "We all know what's going on. … We'll just have to look at the film and see what went wrong."
It's only one preseason game, but you get the feeling you've heard this problem before.


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SCOTTS VALLEY - Nearly eight classified employee positions at Cabrillo College were eliminated or reduced at Monday's Board of Trustees meeting.
Among those whose positions were eliminated is Stephanie Stainback, an instructional assistant and president of the Cabrillo Classified Employees Union.
Cabrillo's president, Brian King, previously said he had hoped some concessions could be made during contract talks to prevent additional layoffs. One of the concessions sought was pension costs. Cabrillo pays the entire cost of the classified union staff pensions. Both sides remain in negotiations.
Ahead of the vote, Eireann Del Bonta, a union representative and public safety program coordinator - whose hours were also cut - told the board they were "losing more of our union" than at any other time. Stainback did not attend the meeting.
Board member Gary Reece said Stainback was not targeted, rather her position "was identified as less critical than other positions."
Another board member, Susan True, added that all employee groups, including faculty, have had to make concessions at a time when the college was tasked with trimming more than $2 million from the 2011-12 budget to keep from entering 2012-13 with a roughly $5 million deficit.
"Even if Brian, on his worst day, was out to get (the union) ... it wouldn't get us to our budget reduction goal," she said.
The board also adopted a preliminary budget that goes into effect July 1 and has a $3.2 million deficit. A fourth round of layoffs will be discussed when the board meets in August.
The preliminary budget is based on the assumption that voters approve Gov. Jerry Brown's tax hike initiatives. Neither have qualified for the ballot, but if voters approve them, those funds will help the state's struggling schools.
But King cited a recent poll that showed only marginal support for the measures, adding that 52 percent approval "before any negative campaign has even begun is a very low watermark."
The board will adopt a final budget in September that assumes those initiatives will fail, but that the state will come up with another way to raise funds. Under that scenario, Cabrillo's budget could be cut $3 million starting in January.
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If I execute several queries that only have a small difference near the end of the query, it's not possible to tell which tab corresponds to which query without counting (which is hard if you can't see all the tabs at once). If hovering over the tab showed the full query instead of truncating it to a certain width, that would be great.
Even better, if double clicking the tab selected that particular query in the editor (or put the cursor at the beginning of it... that would be very helpful.


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There's still plenty o' festival action this June in a post-Bonnaroo world. Let's take a gander at the mid-month weekend picks:
The Electronic Revolution Continues
Electric Daisy Carnival may have wrapped up in Vegas this past weekend, but there's still plenty on the EDM horizon. Spring Awakening on Chicago's Soldier Field will be the city's largest dance-only festival ever while California's Bounce Festival will provide a more organic experience.
Get Back to Nature
The Frendly Gathering in Vermont is your best bet for chill vibes in the prettiest state in the US (okay, I did grow up there). Railroad Earth, Dr. Dog, and Mason Jennnings will be on hand to provide the chill tunes. Need some more electronics, light shows, and amateur Big foot hunts in our weekend? Check out Impulse down in Georgia.
Lighten the Wallet
One of our picks for best free festivals, Make Music Pasadena, takes over the streets on Saturday. Group Love, Grimes, Cults, Dengue Fever, and more play on a variety of stages around downtown Pasadena.
Europe Rocks
You know the Azkena Rock Festival in Spain and Provinssirock in Finland are gonna to rock because the word is in the name of the music festival.
Fill Up in the Big Apple
The Northside Festival in Brooklyn is one of those fests where you won't be able to see everything. It's a music festival, a film festival, an art show, and an entrepreneruship trade show all wrapped up in on massive eight day show. The music kicks off this weekend with 350+ acts.
The Canadian Weekend
Speaking of all-you-can-hear buffets of music, North by Northeast finishes up its weeklong feast of 625 artists on 57 stages. Yeah, it's a fripping huge festival. Speaking of huge, the D-Tox Rock Fest will tear up a tiny town in between Montreal and Ottawa.
Best Festival Name of the Week — This week it's a tie between Hellfest and Lovebox.
Music Festivals This Weekend:Â June 14-16, 2012
North By Northeast (NXNE) 2012Â -Â Toronto, ON
10 Giorni Suonati 2012Â -Â Vigevano, Italy
Azkena Rock Festival 2012Â -Â Vitoria, Spain
BamaJam 2012Â -Â Enterprise, AL
Sónar Barcelona 2012 - Barcelona, Spain
Hultsfred Festival 2012Â -Â Hultsfred, Sweden
Glade Festival 2012Â -Â Norfolk, UK
The Frendly Gathering 2012Â -Â Windham, VT
Northside Festival Brooklyn 2012Â -Â Brooklyn, NY
Beverley Festival 2012Â -Â Beverley, UK
Gold Coast Oceanfest 2012Â -Â Croyde, UK
Hellfest 2012Â -Â Clisson, France
Northside Festival 2012Â -Â Aarhus, Denmark
Provinssirock 2012 - Seinäjoki, Finland
Impulse Music and Arts Festival 2012Â -Â Union Point, GA
The Bounce Festival 2012Â -Â Belden, CA
Summerburst Festival Stockholm 2012Â -Â Stockholm, Sweden
Lovebox 2012Â -Â London, UK
D-Tox Rock Fest 2012Â -Â Marina de Montebello, QB
Clearwater Festival 2012Â -Â Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Vans Warped Tour 2012Â -Â USA Tour
Spring Awakening Music Festival 2012Â -Â Chicago, IL
Make Music Pasadena 2012Â -Â Pasadena, CA
Rock The Garden 2012Â -Â Minneapolis, MN


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Bill would put rules in place for published arrest photos
Would ban web publishers from charging removal fee
DENVER — Commercial websites that post arrest photographs and then charge people to have them taken down would be barred from that practice under a bill that won preliminary approval Monday in the Colorado House.
Under HB1047, introduced by Rep. KC Becker, D-Boulder, anyone who publishes such mug shots about an arrested person must remove that photo, for free, within 30 days upon request of that person if he or she is not charged, had charges dismissed or was acquitted.
Supporters of the measure say it's an unfair business practice to hold someone's reputation hostage, and require them to pay a fee to recover it.
But getting that Internet publisher to comply is problematic at best, opponents of the bill said.
Additionally, they are businesses trying to make a profit and should be allowed to do so, said Rep. Libby Szabo, R-Arvada.
"These are legal businesses, none of them we have found reside in our state," she said. "I don't know if we can affect other states or other countries, and it violates the First Amendment."
The only recourse in the bill that would help a person to getting a website publisher to comply would be to bring them to civil court, Becker said.
"As long as any business is considered to have minimum contact for doing business in this state, then the long-arm statutes would allow that person to be held accountable to our courts," Becker said.
The practice of posting such photos on the Internet is a recent thing, according to the Denver-based National Conference of State Legislatures.
While some will take down certain information for free, others charge a fee. Still, there's no guarantee that would be the end of it, according to a December NCSL report on the issue.
Once such information reaches the Internet, it can be distributed to other groups, none of which are under any obligation to remove them if the arrested person pays that fee to the first website, the NCSL report says.
As a result, several states beyond Colorado have been considering similar measures. To date, five states, including Utah, have banned the practice.
Rep. Chris Holbert, R-Parker, said there may be a better way to get at the problem.
"I do recognize that there's a problem here, but I believe the right answer is to restrict government, in this case law enforcement, as to when those mug shots are put on publicly accessible websites and why," Holbert said. "To take this public information and then limit how the public can use that public information, I think is the wrong answer."
The measure requires a final vote, which could come as early as today, before it can head to the Colorado Senate for more debate.


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Toni Braxton Reveals She Has Lupus
Toni Braxton has had a myriad of health problems throughout her life so it's unfortunate and sad that she's announced yesterday that she is battling lupus, a potentially deadly autoimmune disease.
The singer revealed the news at a luncheon benefiting lupus awareness and told the crowd, "Take a look, this is what lupus looks like."
Braxton accepted one of two Women in Achievement awards at the 8th Annual bag Ladies Luncheon. (Rachel Zoe received the other one.) Lady Gaga, who spoke up earlier this year about testing 'borderline positive' for lupus, bought ad space for Braxton in the event, writing the message, "Toni, your strength is admirable. As a woman whose family has been affected by lupus, I understand your struggle and have you in my thoughts. —Gaga."
Braxton, a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association, suffers from pericarditis, an inflamation of the heart lining that has left her prone to high blood pressure and heart palpitations. She also had a benign tumor removed from her breast shortly after appearing on Dancing With The Stars in 2008.
Our thoughts go out to Toni. Stay strong!


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Woman accused of vehicular homicide
Montegut parade time changes
Offices, services affected by holiday
Levee board meets Monday
Wildlife, Fisheries to hold meeting
Late fees lifted at Lafourche library
HOUMA -- A Houma woman tested positive for alcohol the night her passenger was killed in a one-car wreck and now faces vehicular-homicide charges, according to State Police.
Danae Robards, 39, was arrested at her home at 1104 Houma Highlands Court on Wednesday. She is additionally charged with improper-lane usage.
Robards was driving on La. 308 just after 9 p.m. Nov. 12 when she ran off the road, hitting a fence, utility pole and a tree. She was injured; her passenger, Craig Perque, 46, died.
Police said immediately after the crash that alcohol use was suspected but they had to wait for blood-alcohol tests to confirm their suspicions.
MONTEGUT -- The Krewe de Bonne Terre in Montegut will parade at 4 p.m. Feb. 8, not 3 p.m. as previously reported. Krewe officials said the parade's start time had been changed.
HOUMA -- The following is a list of closings related to the New Year's Day holiday.
Garbage pickup: SWDI will not pick up garbage in Lafourche, Terre-bonne or the city of Thibodaux today.
The U.S. Postal Service's offices is closed today. Only Express Mail will be delivered.
Schools: Terrebonne public schools will resume classes Monday. Lafourche public schools resume classes Tuesday. Catholic schools will resume classes Monday in both parishes.
Terrebonne libraries will be closed today. The Main Library will be open 2-6 p.m. Sunday.
CHAUVIN -- The Terrebonne Levee and Conservation District Board of Commissioners will hold its monthly Finance Committee and Planning and Projects Committee meetings Monday night at the district office in Chauvin.
The agenda for the Planning and Projects Committee meeting includes engineer reports on a list of local projects, including the Bayou Black Levee and pump station and portions of the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane-protection system.
The Finance Committee meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the district office, 5500 La. 56 in Chauvin.
The Planning and Projects Com-mittee meeting will immediately follow the Finance Committee meeting.
BATON ROUGE -- The state Wildlife and Fisheries Commission plans to hold its first public board meeting of the year Tuesday morning in Baton Rouge.
The agenda includes special announcements, December enforcement and aviation reports, considering offshore territorial sea-shrimp closure, amendment of bylaws, the election of a chair and vice-chair, and an update on a lawsuit involving the department and St. John the Baptist Parish.
Also on the agenda -- declarations of emergency for the Red Snapper recreational season, Reef Fish commercial seasons and King Mackerel commercial season.
The meeting begins at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Wildlife and Fisheries Building, located at 2000 Quail Drive in Baton Rouge.
An article published Friday in The Courier incorrectly stated that the Lafourche Library system is searching for a new director. The error was due to technical difficulties.
THIBODAUX -- It's time to dig out that overdue library book you've hesitated returning for fear of paying heavy fines. Bring it back this month and you owe nothing, according to the Lafourche Parish Public Library.
Fines are being waived for January and previous months as well, according to the library.
In conjunction with the monthly program, library patrons are encour-aged, but not required, to bring canned goods or money to the library for distribution at local food banks


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My Manuscript Coach
This is for writers with completed manuscripts who are looking for a publisher and/or representation. The first three online lectures cover topics such as marketability and courting your target audience; the fourth session includes a discussion with your coach in person, by phone, or by video.
At a glance
What: My Manuscript Coach
When: Start anytime, complete within 1 year
Where: Online
Cost: $150
Continuing education credit: 10 hours (1.0 CEU)
Instructor: Laurie Scheer
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So you have written your manuscript. Lots of blood, sweat, and tears went into the journey of completing your manuscript. Now what?
Are you going to let it sit on the shelf for only your grandchildren to read or are you going to get it out into the buyers' arena for it to be published?
The staff here at UW-Madison Continuing Studies Writing programs hope your grandchildren will one day enjoy your manuscript...along with the rest of the world that has read the best-selling editions of your work!
What this course covers
The first three lectures will cover topics such as marketability, target audience, creation of loglines, synopsis and selling materials, branding yourself alongside your manuscript, and up-to-date resources for you to follow to educate yourself as you become part of this world.
The final fourth lecture is an in-person, by phone, or via video chat (Skype, iChat or FaceTime) with your coach as you practice your pitches one-on-one.
Your manuscript coach will
- break down the myths of selling to the publishing world.
- give you solid marketing feedback regarding your manuscript's genre.
- guide you to the right editors, publishers, and agents.
- be there for you as you take those steps to get your work out into the world.
How this course works
You can start this writing course anytime, and there are no required hours to participate. It's all done with one-on-one correspondence with the instructor using email. We have writers from around the world participating in our workshops. A lot of great writing gets accomplished via email. Because of the one-on-one nature of our workshops, you'll find them an excellent "coaching" or mentoring situation that will keep you going. And if you want to just work on your own – hey, that's fine too. Of course you can do the suggested exercises on your own without the feedback if you'd rather do that. We're also here throughout the year if you have questions.
Review the current technical requirements for students in Learn@UW online courses.
There's no need to be afraid
Know that there are publishers, editors, and agents that want your book proposal – it is up to you to let them know who you are. Taking advantage of the pearls of wisdom you'll learn within this course, you'll be armed with research, inspiration, and ways to make educated decisions regarding the next steps for your manuscript.


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SHANE MCLEOD: Science researchers at a big Melbourne university say job cuts will compromise cutting-edge scientific research.
More than 400 staff at Monash University have been made redundant over the past 18 months.
Staff are being asked to volunteer for another round of payouts.
Liz Hobday reports.
LIZ HOBDAY: Physicist Dr Lincoln Turner measures atoms at minus 273 degrees Celsius - or close to absolute zero.
LINCOLN TURNER: So these are the coldest things in the universe that we know of and at these temperatures atoms behave extremely differently.
They cease to behave as distinct individual atoms and condense into a large quantum object that actually would be big enough to see with your eyes if it wasn't a transparent gas. But we have special ways of seeing these things.
LIZ HOBDAY: His work will lead to the technologies of the future with applications in areas such as satellite navigation.
But Dr Lincoln says the equipment he needs has to be built by highly specialised technicians.
LINCOLN TURNER: In my field we have to build most of our tools. We require lasers that are incredibly precise and accurate and stable and so precise that really you can buy the best laser in the world and then you still have to do extra work yourself to make it better.
LIZ HOBDAY: The university says at least another 16 staff will be made redundant in the Faculty of Science, among them specialised technical support staff.
And Dr Lincoln says for researchers like him the loss will be critical.
LINCOLN TURNER: They've worked in university environments in the laboratories for decades and developed very, very specialised skills. These aren't your average fitters and turners.
So these technical staff are really critical to us doing the sort of research that we need to do.
Unfortunately we have lost several of these technical staff in the recent cuts and that's going to delay our research, make doing our research a lot harder.
LIZ HOBDAY: Associate Professor Phil Andrews is from the Department of Chemistry and is the president of the Monash branch of the National Tertiary Education Union.
He says staff are angry about the cuts.
PHIL ANDREWS: Well the previous round lasted about nine months from its inception until end and there was a significant number of staff left.
People expected that that was going to be the end of the process and that what was going to happen was a period of renewal and building within the faculty.
Unfortunately that's not happened.
I would say that most people are pretty angry about it and quite amazed that there was another round of cuts that came on the back of last year.
LIZ HOBDAY: The Faculty of Science has increased both student enrolments and government funding. And its projected budget surplus is $2.4 million.
But professor Andrews says the university wants a budget surplus of almost $4 million.
PHIL ANDREWS: The university itself is requiring the faculty to generate a surplus and it's the shortfall in the surplus which is creating the problems.
The faculty itself still is in the black, still generates a surplus and therefore covers all its teaching and research requirements.
But it's the amount of money which has to be returned to the university which is in question and that's what's driving the current round of cuts.
LIZ HOBDAY: The Dean of Science at Monash professor Scott O'Neill was not available for interview.
But the university issued a statement saying the faculty has needed more than $10 million in budget support over the past three years.
SHANE MCLEOD: Liz Hobday.
The full story...
Monash Uni slashes jobs
Liz Hobday reported this story on Friday, July 22, 2011 12:26:00
SHANE MCLEOD: Science researchers at a big Melbourne university say job cuts will compromise cutting-edge scientific research.
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PHILADELPHIA – January 3, 2013 — The Kansas City Chiefs are on the verge of a deal to make Andy Reid their next head coach, ESPN's Chris Mortensen and Adam Schefter reported on Thursday morning, citing league sources.
There still are minor details to work out but after nine hours of meetings Wednesday, one source involved in the talks said "the major issues have been discussed and agreed upon."
One source close to Reid said this morning, "This is going to happen fast."
The two sides spent the day Wednesday meeting at a private airport in the Philadelphia area. Reid had been scheduled to fly to Arizona to speak to Cardinals officials about their head coaching opening, but talks progressed with the Chiefs to the point where no hangups are expected.


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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
Viewing 31–40 out of 14,143 events
from February 16, 2013 (x) to December 15, 2018
Friday, August 19, 2016
Family Camping: Bronx
at Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx
7:00 p.m.–7:00 a.m.
We camp to create lasting memories, connect with the natural world, and bond with our families. Pre-registration is required.
Category: Nature, Family Camping
Lola Star's Dreamland Roller Disco Party: Soul Train
at Lefrak Center at Lakeside (in Prospect Park), Brooklyn
7:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Dress up and come skate along to house, soul, and 80s club music.
Category: Dance
Arts, Culture & Fun: Labyrinth
at Hunts Point Recreation Center, Bronx
7:45 p.m.–9:45 p.m.
Bring a blanket, chair and friends and enjoy movies outdoors. In case of rain the event moves indoors.
Category: Accessible, Art, Festivals, Film, Free Summer Movies, Seniors
Screening: Here on Staten Island
at Alice Austen House Museum (in Alice Austen Park), Staten Island
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Alice Austen House and Aquehonga Cinema present a selection of short independent films by local filmmakers relating themes relevant to Staten Island today.
Category: Film
Movies Under The Stars: Finding Nemo
at Astoria Heights Playground (JHS 10) (in Astoria Heights Park), Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks and the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film!
Category: Film, Free Summer Movies, Movies Under the Stars
Movies Under the Stars: Jurassic Park III
at Playground 103 CIII, Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks and the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film! This movie is held outdoors. Sam Neill returns as Dr. Alan Grant, a scientist…
Category: Film, Movies Under the Stars
Act One
at Festival Site (in Flushing Meadows Corona Park), Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Few have captured the magic of the theater better than Moss Hart, a poor kid from the Bronx who became a lion of Broadway.
Category: Film
Petr Cancura's Down Home at Live at SeaGlass
at SeaGlass Carousel (in The Battery), Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Enjoy Americana and jazz music by Petr Cancura's Down Home.
Category: Best for Kids, Free Summer Concerts, Waterfront
Movies Under the Stars: Inside Out
at John Hancock Playground, Brooklyn
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Inside Out introduces us to Riley (Kaitlyn Dias), a happy, hockey-loving 11-year-old Midwestern girl. But, her world turns upside-down when she and her parents move to San Francisco.
Category: Accessible, Film, Best for Kids, Free Summer Movies, Movies Under the Stars
Movies Under the Stars: Grease
at Lost Battalion Hall Recreation Center, Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks and the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film!
Category: Free Summer Movies, Movies Under the Stars
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PARIS (Jan. 13)
A Shiite terrorist group in Lebanon announced Monday that it "executed" another Jewish hostage, Yehouda Benesti, 70. He is believed to be the ninth Lebanese Jew murdered by the group which calls itself "The Organization of the Oppressed (Mustadafin) in the World."
He is also believed to be the father of two other murdered Jewish hostages; Ibrahim Benesti, 34, who was killed on February 15, 1986, and Youssuf Benesti, 33, murdered on December 30, 1986.
The exact identity and relationship of the victims is not entirely clear because there is no organized Jewish community in Beirut. Jewish organizations here have only sketchy documentation on missing Jews believed taken hostage.
The Mustadafin said it executed its latest victim because of his activities "on behalf of Israeli intelligence." It released a photograph of an elderly bald-headed man with a well-trimmed white beard.
According to the group's announcements, 10 Lebanese Jews were taken prisoner during the last 20 months and nine have been killed. Only three bodies have been recovered, however. Those were identified as Haim Cohen, 38, kidnapped on March 30, 1985 and murdered on December 24, 1985; Isaac Tarrab, 70, murdered in late December 1985; and Ibrahim Benesti.
The French Jewish community has appealed to the French government and to President Amin Gemayel of Lebanon to try to secure the release of Jewish hostages still alive and the return of the bodies of those put to death. Shiite gangs are presently holding 19 French nationals hostage.
Neither the French Government nor Gemayel seems to have influence with the Shiite extremists in Lebanon. Terry Waite, the Englishman representing the Archbishop of Canterbury in trying to secure the release of hostages in Lebanon, has intervened on behalf of the Jewish victims, so far without success.
He told a press conference in Beirut Monday night that he was also trying to act on behalf of Israeli prisoners of war in the hands of various groups in Lebanon but could do nothing unless Israel "stops bombing (south Lebanon) and opens the way to a peaceful solution" in that region.
Shiites claiming to speak for the Mustadafin were quoted as saying they would return the bodies of the slain Lebanese Jews only if Israel releases Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners in custody of the Israel-backed South Lebanon Army (SLA).


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SHOW TYPE: Musical
The following is a list of songs in the show or that have been included in the show in various versions:
Main Program
Where or WhenBabes in ArmsI Wish I Were in Love AgainAll Dark Peoplea.k.a. All Dark People Are Light on Their FeetWay Out WestMy Funny ValentineJohnny One-NoteJohnny One-Note BalletImagineAll at OncePeter's Journey BalletThe Lady Is a TrampYou Are So Fair
Added to the 1939 film version
Good MorningI Like Opera, I Like SwingYou Are My Lucky StarFigaroBroadway RhythmI Cried for YouMinstrel Show: Daddy Was a Minstrel ManCamptown Racesa.k.a. De Camptown RacesOh! Susannaa.k.a. Oh, SuzannahIda, Sweet as Apple CiderOn Moonlight Bay
Added to the film version
I'm Just Wild About HarryGod's Country
Added to the 1979 revival
'Cause We Got Cakea.k.a. Because We Got CakeI Like to Recognize the Tune
Added to the 1985 revival
Mountain GreeneryManhattanYou're NearerI Didn't Know What Time It Was
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Anyone use a body sox with their kiddo? Owen has been using one at therapy for a little while now and it works WONDERS. I'm amazed at how quickly he can go from being out of control, overstimulated, kicking, hitting, pinching to completely calm after climbing inside it. We are ordering one for home.
My questions is, his therapist and I were brainstorming, trying to come up with ways to calm him when he gets overstimulated in public (happening more and more lately ). She suggested keeping the body sox in my purse and using it in public if he gets overstimulated. I agreed, knowing how much he loves the body sox and how well it works for him. But then DP and I were talking about it and he kinda flipped. He thinks people are going to see it and think we're abusing ds. We never force him in it if he doesn't want to be in it. We never put him in it and walk away. We never force him to stay in it if he wants to get out. It's not abusive at all. But you know how other people can be, looking at the situation without any knowledge of what's going on. I certaintly don't need to deal with the police/CPS if someone sees this and thinks I'm abusing him, kwim? But I need to find some way to help ds. It's not fair to him to refuse to let him use a theraputic tool that we know helps him, just because other people might not like it.
Have you/would you use a body sox in public?
Any other suggestions?
You know, if my kid needed that kind of assistance in public and someone was curious or concerned, I'd be quite flat out with them - "my son is autistic, he's overstimulated by the XYZ right now and this is one of his favorite ways to calm down. They're really awesome, and lots of fun even for kids without sensory issues. If you're interested, I can give you an internet website link that explains them!".
They sell them at Oriental Trading Company as a toy, so I'd imagine many people would think you're just letting your kid play. You could always take him off to a private area (which helps him when he's overstimmed anyhow) to reduce the number of people asking questions.
I just ordered one from oriental trading too. I'm waiting quite impatiently for it to arrive.
I say if that if it's your get out of meltdown free card then use it!!
I think it sounds like a good idea. I might try it too. What are body sox called at oriental trading company? I'm having trouble finding them.
To find different sizes go to "teaching supplies", "active play" and then "movement and dance".
ooh yay! I've been meaning to order one for ds, but I'd forgotten all about them. I just ordered it and we're both excited. Now, hopefully I can get him to use it.
Hello, Being the creator of Bodysox it is always good to hear how it continues to have positive impact on calming. Have you trieda weighted vest to see if it has same effect? It may be less intrusive to an unknown viewer's when you are in public. If it is the visual overstimulation then it may not be effective but if he craves the tactile, sensory input then it may work. We also have a variation of the Bodysox that wraps around the shoulders and feet that may not appears as "restrictive" to the untrained eye if it is the tactile input that is helpful to your son. "Stretch-eze" ..just another option.
Good luck..thank you for finding BodySox.
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EPA needs rural input, Tipton says
The Environmental Protection Agency should seek out rural Americans as it considers new regulations on power plants, said U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Colo.
The EPA is conducting 11 public listening sessions across the country and the only one in Colorado is scheduled for Wednesday in Denver.
"I fail to see how meeting during business hours, in a major metropolitan area that is hundreds of miles from some of the communities that will be most directly affected by the proposed regulations, furthers transparency or includes real stakeholder engagement," Tipton wrote to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. "This proposed listening session doesn't allow for sufficient input from rural America and people that have traditional job hours."
Tipton's 3rd Congressional District includes most of the Western Slope and much of southern Colorado.
McCarthy had promised greater transparency in hearings, Tipton said.
Regulations proposed by the Obama administration already have had "devastating effects on our economy and killed good paying jobs," Tipton wrote, noting that more than 200 plants have closed since 2009.
"Residents and businesses in rural America will suffer the most as a result of these new proposals and they deserve to be heard," Tipton wrote.


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Ravi Bopara needs time to settle to be a big Test Match player for England
Many people will see
Ravi Bopara's failure against South Africa as further proof he doesn't have what it takes to be a successful Test cricketer, but the 27-year-old needs time and patience if he is to realise his potential.
Those same people will also tell you he averages only 14.66 in the ten Tests he has played against teams other than West Indies, against whom he has scored three centuries.Then these naysayers will tell you the Essex batsman must be dropped for the second Test against South Africa at Headingley next week.But that would be the worst thing England could do – Bopara needs time and patience if he is to realise his potential. He certainly has the ability to make the No.6 position his own. He just needs a decent run in the side.That's something he has never had, with his 13 Tests coming over five years since making his debut against Sri Lanka in December 2007. The 27-year-old needs not only the rest of this series to prove himself but also at least the four Tests in India that follow, especially having missed the tour against Pakistan earlier this summer.Bopara did have a more prolonged spell in the side during 2009, playing in the series' against West Indies and the successful Ashes campaign, but he was then absent from Test duty for a further two years., making his return against India at Edgbaston last summer.No good comes from chopping and changing, so just give Bopara a chance – a proper chance – and if he still fails, fair enough. But until then it's time to reserve judgment.


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ENCINITAS - Administrators from Vista and Contra Costa County have accepted positions as principals at two Encinitas Union School District elementary campuses, officials announced Wednesday.
Angelica Lopez, principal of Beaumont School in the Vista Unified School District, will serve as Ocean Knoll School's principal. Cheryl Ward, a former program improvement and leadership coach from the West Contra Costa Unified School District, will become principal at Capri School.
Both are scheduled to begin work in Encinitas next month, said Dan Grider an assistant district superintendent. The Encinitas district serves 5,600 students in nine schools, with five campuses in Encinitas and four in south Carlsbad.
The new principals' experience and training place them at the top of the district's pay scale for principals, which provides yearly salaries of $103,000 plus benefits, Grider said.
For Lopez, working in the district will be a kind of homecoming -- years ago, she attended Capri School.
Lopez is fully bilingual and rose through the ranks in Vista Unified as a teacher, English development coordinator, assistant principal and principal.
Lopez replaces Leslie Harden, who worked as a principal for the district for about 10 years, first at Park Dale Lane School and then at Ocean Knoll. Harden left Encinitas in June to become principal of Calavera Hills Elementary School in Carlsbad.
Ward, the new Capri principal, brings administrative experience she has acquired from throughout the state.
Before working in Contra Costa County, she served as director of academic initiatives for the Long Beach Unified School District, where she also worked as a principal and vice principal. She served as a principal in the Pasadena Unified School District and a dean of students and teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Ward is a member of the California Content Standards for English, Language Arts Review Panel. Her professional accolades include a STAR Schools Award, Governor's Performance Award and the USC Meritorious Award for Dissertation of the Year.
Ward is the wife of Randolf Ward, who began work in June as superintendent of schools for the San Diego County Office of Education.
Cheryl Ward replaces Capri School's former principal, Emily Andrade, who joined the Encinitas district 17 years ago and has accepted a job as assistant superintendent of educational services for Santee School District.
Grider said the Encinitas district's board of trustees and administration are excited about the new hires.
"They are outstanding," he said.
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I have built the website http://www.acumen2012.com
There is a problem with the 3 companies on the right beside the logo - whenever the site is viewed in IE8 they do not show up.
What can I do to fix this?
I have found a short term workaround
my head is fried
Glad you sorted it but remember to tell us what the solution was in case someone has a similar problem - even if it was just a typo
Basically I had three logos floated in a div to the right.
As the site has been built with responsive media queries; I wanted to use one image containing 3 logos, with image maps.
I used these so when the site was resized on a small screen they resized in line, proportionally.*
They didn't show up at all in IE8, so I reverted to floating the images right with a margin to push them down.*
On a small screen I set the div to display none to get rid of stacking problems.*
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George Harrison Hologram Would Be 'Unkind and Unfair,' Says Olivia Harrison
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How can you mend a broken heart? If you're a Bee Gees fan, it's by picking up the band's albums in tribute to late singing sibling Robin Gibb.
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Featuring poet & printmaker Kevin Bradley on April 4
Kevin Bradley, talented poet, printmaker and co-owner of Yee-Haw Industries, will be the featured author at the April 4 WRITERS IN THE LIBRARY event. Bradley will read his poems and talk about the process of hand-printing giant versions of the poems on a letterpress. Some of these 9-foot-high creations – which Bradley calls "storetry" – will be on display at the reading.
Yee-Haw Industries, owned and run by Kevin Bradley and Julie Belcher, is located on Gay Street in downtown Knoxville. Yee-Haw is famous for letterpress posters and woodcut prints.
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Firefox 13 smooth scrolling changed?
Discussion about official Mozilla Firefox builds
I'm guessing this is an addon bug. Can anyone seeing it post what extensions they're using?
It's not addons. The issue seems to be that the new smooth scrolling behavior includes an acceleration mechanic that causes an awkward burst of page redraws. Setting the minimum and maximum speeds to the same value, thereby removing the acceleration, fixes the chopping and more or less makes firefox act the way it used to.
It's like they didn't test this feature before adding it.
Can you tell us, please, how you set min/max speeds?
Fx 16.02 -//- Fx 19α x64 -//- Win 8 Pro x64 -//- CPU: i5 2500 -//- GPU: 7950 -//- RAM: 8GB
From the first page. It doesn't have to be 150, I use 200, and there doesn't seem to be lag at all. Just make sure its the same.
When Firefox 13 was released I used the following which does make scrolling more responsive without the annoying drift of the default settings:
general.smoothScroll.durationToIntervalRatio = 100
general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMaxMS = 150
general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMinMS = 150
...but that never got rid of the stuttering/lag. Recently I discovered that the layout.frame_rate setting was able to resolve that remaining problem.
Setting layout.frame_rate to monitor refresh rate x 4 makes a massive difference, at the expense of a couple percent higher CPU usage when scrolling.
As an added bonus, it also seems to increase responsiveness and reduce lag of the UI in general.
If you have a 60Hz LCD, try setting layout.frame_rate = 240.
Be careful with this setting though, since after you pass a certain threshold (which was around 375-400 on my PC), CPU usage will skyrocket and performance will become significantly degraded.
A value of 240 which is essentially a 4.16ms rendering timer should be safe and stable enough in Firefox if you have a decent computer.
I don't suppose anyone has written up precisely what each of these configuration options does?
general.smoothScroll.durationToIntervalRatio, general.smoothScroll.lines.durationMaxMS, general.smoothScroll.other.durationMinMS, etc
"Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference." -Calvin
Also, I can't seem to increase the number of lines Firefox scrolls by. Even with mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines set to false and mousewheel.withnokey.numlines set to 20, the mouse wheel still only scrolls by a few lines.
edit: many thanks!
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"Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference." -Calvin
It's mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y now. It's a percentage. 100 = system number of lines, 200 would double that, etc.
thanks for this cyberbeing, I went from esr to 15.0.1, and immediatly noticed the scrolling was weird in a negative way with extra jerkyness.
Setting the settings you posted has improved it somewhat. I find myself wondering what goes on inside the dev's minds, everytime I upgrade firefox there is something to fix.
the jerkiness is actually a bug in aurora and nightly, that Mozilla QA can't for the life of them reproduce for some reason.
it occurs when certain addons that use frequently updating ui controls are installed and you maximise the window (and subsequently remains after unmaximising past a certain window dimension)
Beta does not have this problem.
Keep in mind, though, if you care for efficiency, this is extremely inefficient. Default smooth scrolling adds noticeable load on GPU ( in comparison to non-smooth scrolling ), but the clocks remain in idle mode -it's O.K.
If you set 240Hz, the clocks are -almost constantly- in 3d mode. With a little scrolling on Reddit, for instance, temps go up by 6-7 degrees. Of course it adds responsiveness.
By the way, on 16 beta the default settings aren't bad... In Nightly the problem appears.
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Speaking of scrolling I began to notice in the last week or so a slight delay in scrolling when a new page opens up. When I go to a a page and scroll using my wheel there is a pause of 1-2 seconds until the page scrolls. I don't recall this happening until recently. Any insight into this?
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I haven't noticed any difference on 2D/3D clocks, since my GT 440 DDR5 would enter 3D Mode whenever scrolling even with default settings. You're correct that GPU load is much higher though, but at least on this GPU it has nearly no effect on temps (+1° C) which maintains the lowest auto idle fanspeed of 25%. I'll agree that this isn't efficient, but until Mozilla achieves similar smoothness and responsiveness with a 1:1 ratio of layout.frame_rate:refresh_rate, I find it to be an acceptable solution on my PC. For laptop users on battery power, maybe not.
Firefox may be in need of something like a smoothscroll event timer which is set higher for responsiveness and works independently of the VSync rendering rate.
The page probably wasn't fully rendered, but I've also seen issues with Firefox scrolling in general where scrolling will stall slightly or slow down when it hits certain image or content heavy page elements. This seems to happen even without smoothscrolling though.
potentially, but also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781414
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In the course of developing my XML parser hooks I've been using an external XML parser (expat) which is built as a shared library. The C functions I'm writing need to access functions within that library. Is it OK just to link the .so of my backend function against the expat library? i.e. to do gcc -shared -lexpat -o pgxml.so pgxml.o as the link stage (it seems to work fine) -or is there a portability problem with this? IF this is OK, would it be sensible to change the platform-specific makefile %.so rule to allow the specification of extra instance specific flags i.e. (example from Makefile.linux) %.so: %.o $(CC) -shared -o $@ $< changed to: %.so: %.o $(CC) -shared $(DLLINKFLAGS) -o $@ $< or something similar, which would prevent me from having to override the global rule and allow greater portability. Thanks John
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My dermatologist/surgeon wants to use CO2 laser for acne scarring. The scarring is not too extensive or extremely severe, but needs to be improved. I'm concerned mostly about hypopigmentation. I am a white male, 37, with fair to somewhat darker skin tone. I think my dermatologist called it a 2 out of 5? What should I know about the possible permanent change in skin color?
What Should I Know About Hypopigmentation Before a CO2 Laser Correction for Acne Scarring?
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Fractional non-ablative Erbium laser resurfacing is more effective for acne scars
CO2 laser resurfacing treats the surface of the skin and does carry a 10% risk of hypopigmentation and demarcation lines next to untreated areas.
Correction of acne scars requires the production of new collagen in the deep skin layers.
New fractional non-ablative 1540 Erbium laser resurfacing is much more effective at building new collagen in the deep skin layers, and thus is much more effective at correcting acne scars.
Non-ablative fractional 1540 Erbium laser resurfacing is also much safer, with minimal or no risk of hypopigmentation and a much more benign recovery. The skin is not ablated thus there is no open wound and no long recovery.
Modern results with non-ablative 1540 Erbium laser resurfacing for treating acne scars are excellent and this is my preferred method of laser resurfacing for acne scars.
Learn more: http://drseckel.com/scar-removal/new-laser-scar-removal-treatment-with-starlux-1540-non-ablative-fractional-laser/
Hypopigmentation has a low risk
Hypopigmentation after CO2 laser skin resurfacing has a low risk. This is especially true if done in a fractionated manner and not one laser treatment under general anesthesia. The chances of getting hypopigmentation are low, but not zero. You should always take the risks into consideration before undergoing any procedure. Have a good conversation with your dermatologist about your concerns before making your final decision. Good luck.
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Hypopigmentation is less likely to occur in Type 2 skin than in a darker pigment. The Fraxel 1540 laser-although called nonablative is mildly ablative but I have not seen any cases of permanent discoloration. The Pixel CO2laser has also drastically lowered the risk of discoloration which I have not seen to date but can occur. There is always a risk of skin color change but use of Hydroquinone and sunscreens may further lessen the risk.
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Hypopigmentation after CO2 laser no longer an issue.
The original CO2 lasers (15 years ago) did a nice job on wrinkles and acne scars but did cause loss of pigment in a large minority of patients. The pigment loss generally did not appear for a year after the CO2 laser treatment. This is no longer a problem with the fractional CO2 lasers. The fractional lasers (Active FX, Fraxel and others) treat less than 100% of the surface area of the face leaving untouched cells that result in rapid healing and elimination of the hypopigmentation problems.
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The Flawed Plane Congress Loves
By LESLIE WAYNE
Published: March 24, 2005
It is hard to imagine an airplane with more problems than the C-130J, the latest version of the venerable workhorse the Air Force uses to drop cargo and paratroopers into global hot spots.
The C-130J has so many flaws that it cannot fly its intended combat missions. It is unable to drop heavy equipment, operate well in cold weather or perform combat search-and-rescue missions. Paratroopers cannot jump out of it without risk of banging up against the fuselage.
Still, the C-130J has one important fan: Congress. Powerful members of both the House and Senate want to spend $5 billion to acquire even more C-130J's for the Air Force, at a cost of $66.5 million a plane. For all the C-130J's shortcomings, lawmakers love to buy the plane and dole it out to National Guard and Reserve bases around the country, using its deployment as a justification for keeping local bases open.
But, in what could be the nastiest Pentagon budget battle this year, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has vowed to kill the C-130J as part of a larger plan to upgrade the military. In doing so, he is backed by two recent studies -- from the Pentagon's inspector general and from its top weapons tester -- that concluded the C-130J is unfit for duty.
''It's going to be a battle royale,'' said Dov Zakheim, the Pentagon's comptroller and chief financial officer from April 2001 until May 2004. ''In other years, Congress went and put money back in the program in spite of the Pentagon. So it shouldn't come as any surprise Congress would not take these cuts sitting down.''
The Air Force and the Marine Corps have acquired 50 C-130J's, at a cost of $2.6 billion, out of a planned total purchase of 117. The planes are the latest version of the celebrated C-130 Hercules E and H models, now in Iraq and Afghanistan, and previously used in Kosovo and Somalia. Yet, the Jmodel of the C-130 Hercules, which shares fewer than 30 percent of the parts of the earlier workhorse models, is a pale version of its predecessors, according to Pentagon reports. For the moment, the Pentagon relies on the roughly 485 E and H models for combat missions, while the J version only can fly within the United States.
The Lockheed Martin Corporation, which makes the plane, declined to comment on the fight over the C-130J, but issued a statement suggesting that any final decision about its fate is a long way off. Mr. Bush's 2006 budget only ''marks the first step in a process of review and analysis'' of Pentagon needs, the company said.
Mr. Rumsfeld's recommendation is also being challenged by the Air Force, which says many of the C-130J's problems have been fixed. The Air Force, worried about a rapidly aging fleet of planes of all sorts, has switched from being cool to the plane to supporting it on Capitol Hill.
''As the administration becomes less enamored of the C-130J, the Air Force has now decided it likes it,'' said Loren Thompson, an analyst at the Lexington Institute, a nonpartisan research group in Arlington, Va., that generally supports Pentagon spending.
Across the country, C-130J's sit at Air Force Reserve bases and are assigned to light duty at Air National Guard squadrons since they cannot drop combat troops and heavy equipment because of design deficiencies. Even the specially equipped C-130J ''Hurricane Hunters'' intended to monitor storms -- eight of them have been delivered to Keesler Air Force base in Biloxi, Miss. -- are not cleared to fly in hurricanes because of inadequate radar. In Iraq, two C-130J's are part of a demonstration project, but neither is allowed to drop cargo while airborne.
Given all these problems, some military planners, including Michael Wynne, the Pentagon's acting acquisition chief, have questioned whether the military even needs large numbers of cargo aircraft to haul equipment, or whether it could turn instead to high-speed ships and other methods of transportation.
''All this has caused us to re-examine the C-130J,'' Mr. Wynne said at a recent conference in New York, ''and what is the right number of them and whether we can do without them.''
The inspector general's report, issued last July, found deficiencies in the aircraft that, if left uncorrected, could ''cause death, severe injury or illness, major loss of equipment or systems.'' The report concluded that ''Lockheed Martin has been unable to design, develop or produce a C-130J aircraft that meets contract specifications in the eight years since production began.''
The Pentagon's chief weapons tester, Thomas Christie, reported in January that the C-130J was ''neither operationally effective nor operationally suitable''' and has ''failed to meet operational requirements.''
Another problem, identified by Ken Pedeleose, a senior engineer at the Defense Contract Management Agency in Marietta, Ga., where the C-130J is made, is that the planes' engines are so powerful they flatten the craft's propeller blades on takeoff, making it vulnerable to stalls.
This problem also makes it difficult for paratroopers to jump out of the plane without being in danger of being pulled back to the fuselage, said Mr. Pedeleose, whose contentions about the C-130J led to the inspector general's report.


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Watch the latest posters of 'Chinnadana Nee Kosam'. This Nitin's upcoming Telugu film is directed by A. Karunakaran. The film is produced by Nikita Reddy and it features her brother Nitin and Mishti Chakraborty in the leads. The film's title is taken from a hit song of Nitin's earlier 2012 hit Ishq. The film is scheduled for release on December 19, 2014. One has to wait and see if Nitin's success continues at the box office.