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America's way of war: from shock-and-awe to forewarn-and-irritate.
By Bret Stephens, WSJ Opinion, Sept 9, 2013
So much for John Kerry's "global test," circa 2004. So much for Barack Obama slamming the Bush administration for dismissing "European reservations about the wisdom and necessity of the Iraq war," circa 2007. So much for belittling foreign leaders who side with the administration as "poodles." So much for the U.N. stamp of legitimacy. So much for the "lie/die" rhyme popular with Democrats when they were accusing George W. Bush of fiddling with the WMD intelligence.
Say what you will about the prospect of a U.S. strike on Syria, it has already performed one useful service: exposing the low dishonesty, the partisan opportunism, the intellectual flabbiness, the two-bit histrionics and the dumb hysteria that was the standard Democratic attack on the Bush administration's diplomatic handling of the war in Iraq.
In politics as in life, you lie in the bed you make. The president and his secretary of state are now lying in theirs. So are we.
And then some. All Americans are reduced when Mr. Kerry, attempting to distinguish an attack on Syria with the war in Iraq, described the former as "unbelievably small." Does the secretary propose to stigmatize the use of chemical weapons by bombarding Bashar Assad, evil tyrant, with popcorn? When did the American way of war go from shock-and-awe to forewarn-and-irritate?
Americans are reduced, also, when an off-the-cuff remark by Mr. Kerry becomes the basis of a Russian diplomatic initiative—immediately seized by an Assad regime that knows a sucker's game when it sees one—to hand over Syria's stocks of chemical weapons to international control. So now we're supposed to embark on months of negotiation, mediated by our friends the Russians, to get Assad to relinquish a chemical arsenal he used to deny having, now denies using, and will soon deny secretly maintaining?
One of the favorite Democratic attack lines against the Bush administration was that it was "incompetent." Maybe so, but competence is also a matter of comparison.
So let's compare. The administration will be lucky to win an unbelievably thin congressional majority for its unbelievably small plan of attack. By contrast, the October 2002 authorization for military force in Iraq passed by an easy 77-23 margin in the Senate and a 296-133 margin in the House.
The administration also touts the support of 24 countries—Albania and Honduras are on board!—who have signed a letter condemning Assad's use of chemical weapons "in the strongest terms," though none of them, except maybe France, are contemplating military action. Yet Mr. Bush assembled a coalition of 40 countries who were willing to deploy troops to Iraq—a coalition Mr. Kerry mocked as inadequate and illegitimate when he ran for president in 2004.
Then there's the intel. In London the other day, Mr. Kerry invited the public to examine the administration's evidence of Assad's use of chemical weapons, posted on whitehouse.gov. The "dossier" consists of a 1,455-word document heavy on blanket assertions such as "we assess with high confidence" and "we have a body of information," and "we have identified one hundred videos."
By contrast, the Bush administration made a highly detailed case on Iraqi WMD, including show-and-tells by Colin Powell at the Security Council. It also relied on the testimony of U.N. inspectors like Hans Blix, who reported in January 2003 that "there are strong indications that Iraq produced more anthrax than it declared," that his inspectors had found "indications that the [nerve agent VX] was weaponized," and that Iraq had "circumvented the restrictions" on the import of missile parts.
The case the Bush administration assembled on Iraqi WMD was far stronger than what the Obama administration has offered on Syria. And while I have few doubts that the case against Assad is solid, it shouldn't shock Democrats that the White House's "trust us" approach isn't winning converts. When you've spent years peddling the libel that the Bush administration lied about Iraq, don't be shocked when your goose gets cooked in the same foul sauce.
So what should President Obama say when he addresses the country Tuesday night? He could start by apologizing to President Bush for years of cheap slander. He won't. He could dispense with the talk of "global norms" about chemical weapons and instead talk about the American interest in punishing Assad. He might. He could give Americans a goal worth fighting for: depose Assad, secure the chemical weapons, lead from the front, and let Syrians sort out the rest. Well, let's hope.
In the meantime, Republicans should ponder what their own political posturing on Syria might mean for the future. When a Republican president, faced with a Democratic House, feels compelled to take action against some other rogue regime, will they rue their past insistence on congressional approval?
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Ducks win third straight to put Kings on verge of elimination
Between the 20-year-old goalie with 39 saves and the 21-year-old forward with two goals, Teemu Selanne wasn't sure which youngster deserved the most credit for propelling the Anaheim Ducks' veterans to the brink of the Western Conference finals.
Selanne is only certain the Ducks' youth movement is happening at an ideal time for their Stanley Cup hopes.
John Gibson was outstanding in his second career playoff start, and Devante Smith-Pelly scored two goals 1:23 apart in the second period of the Ducks' 4-3 victory over the Los Angeles Kings in Game 5 on Monday night, putting Anaheim up 3-2 in the second-round series.
Selanne is older than Gibson and Smith-Pelly combined, but the Finnish Flash knows the kids are why the Ducks are in position to finish off their Southern California rivals in Game 6 on Wednesday after a raucous meeting at Honda Center.
"They answered the bell again," said Selanne, who had a sublime assist on Smith-Pelly's first goal. "Devo has all the tools. Gibby is rock-solid. They're pretty special players, and they both took care of it for us tonight. You need special contributions from everybody to do what we're trying to do."
Nick Bonino and Jakob Silfverberg also scored for the Ducks, who jumped out to a three-goal lead in the second period and hung on behind their rookie goalie, earning the first home victory by either team in the series.
Smith-Pelly is the Ducks' unlikely leader with five postseason goals after a superbly energetic effort in Game 5. He has three goals in the past two games, capitalizing on his promotion to Anaheim's top line with captain Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry after scoring just two goals in his 19 regular-season appearances for the Ducks.
"We're just having a lot of fun," Smith-Pelly said. "This is what you dream about, playing in the playoffs."
The Ducks also got another standout game from Gibson, who shut out the Kings in Game 4 to even the series in his Anaheim playoff debut.
"I think I got tested more," Gibson said. "It's fun. I'm just trying to take it all in and win some hockey games."
Gibson's fifth career NHL appearance was tougher than the first four — but his teammates also helped out much more this time, scoring four regulation goals against the Kings for the first time in the rivals' 10 total meetings this season.
Marian Gaborik scored his NHL-best seventh and eighth goals of the postseason for the Kings, including a redirection with 5:48 left to trim Anaheim's lead to one goal. Los Angeles pressed throughout the final minutes to finish with a playoff-high 42 shots, outshooting the Ducks 14-2 in the third period, but couldn't beat Gibson for the equalizer.
"We were talking about how we have to get to Gibson, and if we do, things are happening," Gaborik said. "If we get shots through and try to go to the net, rebounds are there, and we got some chances. We have to keep doing that and we have to clean a lot of stuff up. We're coming home. We're confident we can win and come back here."
Trevor Lewis also scored and Jonathan Quick stopped 20 shots for the Kings, who will face their fifth elimination game of the postseason at Staples Center on Wednesday. They're on their second three-game skid of the playoffs — bookending a six-game winning streak.
The road team had won every game in the first series between these rivals separated by 30 miles of freeway, but the Ducks snapped the Kings' four-game road playoff winning streak dating to their 0-3 comeback in the first round against San Jose.
"Tonight isn't about the third (period), it's about the second," Kings captain Dustin Brown said. "We made too many easy mistakes, and we had to try to come back the way we did. It's too hard."
After Bonino and Lewis traded goals in the first period, Anaheim took the lead for good 1:11 into the second when Mathieu Perreault's shot off Selanne's pass glanced off Smith-Pelly's toe in the crease.
"I didn't really do anything," Smith-Pelly said with a grin.
Smith-Pelly then broke in alone on Quick 83 seconds later when Getzlaf intercepted Martinez's pass in the neutral zone, and Silfverberg put the Ducks up 4-1 midway through the period.
The Kings gathered themselves and finally capitalized on a double-minor by Smith-Pelly when Gaborik scored in front, getting his fourth goal in the series' three games in Anaheim.
After several minutes of fruitless work for the Kings, Brown shoveled a backhand at the net and Gaborik redirected it home.
NOTES: Perreault returned to Anaheim's lineup after missing Game 4 with an injury, and rookie Rickard Rakell was scratched. Ducks F Matt Beleskey missed his second straight game after getting hurt in Game 3. . . . F Jordan Nolan replaced Kyle Clifford in the Kings' lineup. Nolan hadn't played since Game 3 of the first round against San Jose, sitting out eight straight games. . . . The Kings are still without two key veteran defensemen. Willie Mitchell missed his sixth straight game, and Robyn Regehr sat out his fourth.

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Every Hayniac would dissolve into a puddle if Hunter Hayes serenaded them with his new hit 'Tattoo.' In his new music video, he sings the catchy (and utterly adorable) song to a gorgeous brunette, and he seems so smitten with her it seems that he'll be the one to dissolve into a puddle just by looking at her.
Hayes' mid-tempo song sets an upbeat tone for the simple music video. Set in an abandoned warehouse, the country star sings the lyrics "Your name, your name sounds so good next to mine, just saying / And I think, I think I'm gonna put it in all my rhymes, baby" to the adoring gal who plays his love interest.
They play with paint, playfully swiping paint on one another, grab a Samsung tablet and take goofy selfies, and gaze into each other's eyes while Hayes sings. He described the music video earlier as mimicking the feeling of "meeting the person you're crazy about" and pulled it off with flying colors.
And the graffitied boom box that Hayes hinted at? It's life-like and totally inventive, seemingly coming alive throughout the video as he shreds out on guitar in front of it. This music video is like nothing the singer has done before
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The university said his suite mates called 911 early Sunday morning after they couldn't wake him. Police have found no indication of foul play. The Burlington Free Press reports that the investigation into his death is continuing.
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I'll just take your word for it and avoid exposing myself to such drivel. I kind of like the 'preppers' a bit - if they aren't too overboard. I'm a little OCD about being prepared for anything. I always keep a few gallons of water on hand in the house just in case there is a disruption in service - things like that. I know what you mean about some of those people, though - totally whacked out with 5 million rounds of ammo.
I'm not hearing much about 21/12/12 - I think big business has a vested interest in suppressing such nonsense as it may impact Christmas sales, :D
Didn't know about this! I'm going to try to make it to the next one! Thanks!
There was no "reply" thing on your last comment on the "Not in NH" thread, so I figured we'd reached some limit of how far a thread can be hijacked or something like that.
I am trying to get active. I have a half-composed email to the NH Senate Education Committee I've been working on related to those idiotic science education bills.
And now they're trying to take away funding to Planned Parenthood in NH! I am really frightened for Americans. There are so many fronts on which I want to fight.
Mostly I have to remember to take care of myself and my kids, and generally have a good time.
You'll have to let me know how the protest went! I was too young for the protesting in the 60's and 70's, and now I have too many responsibilities. My daughter, who is in her second year of college in Philadelphia, went to the Rally for Sanity with Jon Stewart, or whatever it was called with Steve Colbert in Washington D.C. last year. I was so envious.
I will write my email in protest, though, and keep fighting the good fight in whatever ways I can.
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In 1976 Pabst Blue Ribbon ran this TV ad of a man flying effortlessly with a jetpack.* Though the man we see at the end who takes off his helmet is just an actor, the man who actually flew in the ad was none other than William P. Suitor.
You know how we'll know when we're living in the future? When we finally see public service announcements warning us of the dangers of drunk jetpacking. Until then, just keep chugging hipster juice until your bed feels like a giant spinning hoverboard. Drink your way to the future!
*Technically, it's a rocket belt, but I'll let you nerds fight over that in the comments. Nerds.
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- Disneyland Jetpack (1966)
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Thresia Elskamp (Potosi, Wis.) poured in 20 points Saturday afternoon as the Georgia College women's basketball team (11-8, 7-5 PBC) downed the visiting Columbus State University Cougars (11-9, 7-6 PBC) by a final score of 71-67.
The 20 points is a career-high for Elskamp, after scoring 18 earlier this season. Elskamp did her damage on 6-of-11 shooting from the field and 4-of-8 from behind the arc. She also added four rebounds, three assists and four steals.
Shanteona Keys (Roswell, Ga.) finished with 16 points and seven rebounds. Enisha Donley (Loganville, Ga.) scored 11 points and pulled down three boards.
Sadona Floure (Covington, Ga.) chipped in seven points, two rebounds and a season-high eight assists. The eight-assist plateau is the highest for any Bobcat during the 2012-13 campaign. Abby Slocumb (Suwanee, Ga.) filled the box score with six points, eight rebounds, three blocks and a steal.
In a one-possession game with less than a minute left, head coach Maurice Smith sent in senior Shalisa Ponius (Detroit) to pressure the in-bound pass. Ponius would force a five-count and get the Bobcats the ball back with seconds left in the game, helping cement the win.
The Cougars were led by Taren White, who scored 15 points off the bench. Chatil Bradford scored 12 points and pulled down eight rebounds.
As a team, the Bobcats shot 23-of-50 from the field and 6-of-14 from downtown, compared to the 27-of-55 and 7-of-14 from the Cougars. The difference in the game was the Bobcats getting to the line 29 times and converting 19 of them, compared to the Cougars shooting 6-of-11 from the charity stripe.
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I have a very dear friend who happens to be a really good artist. She can do quick character sketches for about $20. Partially to build her portfolio. Partially because her kitty is pretty sick and she's going to have to make payments on his medical care (and much as that cat could drive me nuts when we roomed together, I love him to bits). Last time she offered commissions, our WoW RP site didn't give her too many hits, so I'm trying to help her network a bit.
Her DeviantArt gallery is here. For the $20 character busts, you're likely to get something like this or this (both of those are characters of mine; she's done a few others of mine in that DA gallery too). I don't know if you could convince her to do more with more money. She uses PayPal.
Things to keep in mind:
These factors may slow her work.
She's normally got a pretty quick turn-around--the 2 quick sketches I linked, she did in about 2 hours each--and is familiar enough with fantasy concepts, since she does a lot of WoW art. I dunno about more scifi techy concepts or armors though.
It's a thought, if you've got a character you'd like to see portrayed! I mean, how long have some of the characters from Adventurers' Escapades been around, anyway? Or maybe from other games, or stories...
If you can't drop her a DA note, let me know via PM (so I'm more likely to get a notice) and I'll see if I can't arrange a contact for you, depending on how busy she is. There may be a waiting list.
*Leaves a sacrifice tied out just in case*
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The concept of disabling vehicles' electronic system with microwaves was first tested in 1997 by the U.S. Army using bulky and heavy military equipment. But the Eureka Aerospace system is only six to eight feet long (antennae included) and not quite three feet wide. "It is much more efficient and compact than anything previously used in military vehicles," says Tatoian.
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I think Steelers fans should take a knee and pray.
Even if the Steelers somehow win the AFC North, they still need one more loss out of the Patriots or Texans to get a first-round bye in the playoffs.
The Steelers would lose a three-way tie with the Patriots and Texans.
Today's game in Denver is probably the Steelers' best hope for a Patriots or Texans loss for the rest of the season.
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In March of 2012, NASA successfully launched five rockets from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The launch was part of NASA's Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment, or ATREX, which will help scientists better understand the jet stream. Jack Vieira, range project manager for the ATREX mission, helped to launch five suborbital rockets more than 60 miles above Earth.
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Journal of the South African Veterinary Association
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J. S. Afr. Vet. Assoc. vol.81 no.2 Pretoria Jan. 2010
First report of oligodendroglioma in a sheep
A DerakhshanfarI,*; A A MozaffariII
IDepartment of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran
IIDepartment of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran
Oligodendrogliomas occur most commonly in the dog, but have also been reported in cattle, horses and cats. A 1-year-old sheep with neurological disturbances, including blindness, ataxia, circling and incoordination was referred to the veterinary clinic of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. Following euthanasia and necropsy, a soft, relatively well-demarcated mass was observed in the white and grey matter of the right cerebral hemisphere, close to the sylvian fissure in the right cerebral hemisphere. Microscopic examination revealed a sheet of densely packed tumour cells with hyperchromatic nuclei, lightly staining cytoplasm and characteristic perinuclear halo effect which is consistent with a diagnosis of oligodendroglioma. This is the 1st report of oligodendroglioma in sheep.
Keywords: oligodendroglioma, sheep.
Oligodendrogliomas are derived from oligodendrocytes4. Oligodendroglioma occurs most commonly in the dog but has also been reported in cattle and cats8.
Oligodendrogliomas are generally located in the white or grey matter of the cerebral hemispheres, with decreasing frequency caudally from the olfactory bulb, frontal, temporal and piriform lobes to the parietal and occipital areas. They rarely occur in the brain stem or spinal cord4. In humans 5 % of gliomata that arise from the oligodendrocytes are termed oligodendrogliomata7.
A 1-year-old male Iranian fat-tailed sheep slowly developed progressive neurological disturbances consisting of difficulty in moving and coordination. It was referred to the veterinary clinic of Shahid Bahonar Universtiy of Kerman. The patient suffered from fever, blindness, ataxia, hypermetric gait, depression, facial paresis, head tilt, strabismus, nystagmus, unilateral loss of menace reflex and circling. Because of the neurological disorders and poor prognosis, the owner elected for euthanasia. Following euthanasia, the animal was submitted for complete necropsy. At necropsy a soft and relatively well-demarcated yellow-greyish mass measuring 0.5 × 0.5×1cm was observed in the white and grey matter of the cerebral hemisphere close to the sylvian fissure (Fig. 1). No significant macroscopic findings were observed in other organs. Brain and representative samples of other tissues were fixed in 10 % buffered formalin and 1 week later the brain was sectioned transversely at 3 mm intervals. These and other tissue sections were routinely processed, embedded in paraffin, cut at 5 µm, stained with haematoxylin and eosin, and examined under a light microscope.
Microscopic findings included a cellrich, non-encapsulated tumour, composed of a diffuse sheet of round to slightly ovoid cells. Tumour cells had hyperchromatic nuclei with a variable amount of lightly staining cytoplasm and prominent cytoplasmic borders. The tumour was densely cellular with almost no stroma. A characteristic perinuclear halo effect was created. There were no mitotic figures or necrosis. The tumour was infiltrated by a fine, proliferative microvasculature (Fig. 1). Based on the these histopathological findings, oligodendroglioma was diagnosed. No significant histological findings were detected in the remaining brain parenchyma, spinal cord and other organs.
Oligodendroglioma is the easiest of the glial tumors to recognise, even when growing rapidly. Mucinous degeneration, cyst formation, haemorrhage and dystrophic calcification may occur in some of these tumours2,3. There are no clear indices of malignancy, although all must be regarded as clinically malignant2. Sudden unexpected death in a horse due to a cerebral oligodendroglioma has been reported6. The main differential diagnosis that needs to be considered, particularly in a tumour with intraventricular growth is the central neurocytoma, but this rare tumour has so far only been identified in humans. This tumour of neuroectodermal origin has been reported in a French bull dog, a cat, and a Japanese black heifer1,5,9. It seems that clinical signs are mostly due to the space-occupying effect of the tumour3.
1. Dickinson P J, Keel M K, Higgins R J, Koblik P D, Le Couteur R A, Naydam D K, Bollen A W, Vernau W 2000 Clinical and pathologic features of oligodendroglioma in two cats. Veterinary Pathology 37: 160-167. [ Links ]
2. Jubb K V F, Kennedy P C, Palmer N 1993 Pathology of domestic animals Vol. 1 (4th edn). Academic Press, San Diego [ Links ]
3. Mamom T, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Hewicker-Trautwein M, Baumgartner W 2004 Oligodendroglioma in the cervical spinal cord of a dog. Veterinary Pathology 41: 524-526 [ Links ]
4. Meuten D J 2002 Tumors in domestic animals (4th edn). Iowa State Press, Ames, Iowa [ Links ]
5. Park, C H 2003 Oligodendroglioma in a French bull dog. Journal of Veterinary Sciences 4: 195-197 [ Links ]
6. Reppas G P, Harper C G 1996 Sudden unexpected death in a horse due to a cerebral oligodendroglioma. Equine Veterinary Journal 28: 163-165 [ Links ]
7. Ritchie A C 1990 Boyd's Text book of pathology (9th edn). Lea & Febiger, Michigan [ Links ]
8. Storts R W, Montgomeri DL 2001 The nervous system. In Mc Gavin M D, Carlton W W, Zachary J F (eds) Thomson's special veterinary pathology. Mosby, London [ Links ]
9. Uchida K, Muranaka M, Murakami T, Yamaguchi R, Tateyama S 1999 Spinal oligodendroglioma with diffuse arachnoidal dissemination in a Japanese black heifer. Journal of Veterinary Medical Sciences 61: 1323-1326 [ Links ]
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Matzo Pizza
The celebration of Passover is this week and that means no bread, cake, cookies, cereal or pasta for me. (It's basically the original Atkins diet.) But what I can eat is matzo…and lots of it. For those of you who don't know, matzo is an unleavened bread aka a big, large cracker. I hosted a little matzo pizza party last night and put out various toppings (turkey pepperoni, mushrooms, etc…) and even made a gourmet-ish, "grown up" version with a fried egg on top. I actually like matzo pizza all year long – perfect for an afternoon snack, a healthier alternative to real heavy pizza and it's especially fun for kids to make…and eat.
Box of matzo
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Shredded mozzarella cheese
Grated parmesan cheese
*Egg and any other toppings are optional. It's delicious just on it's own with sauce and cheese!
1. Spread tomato sauce on matzo.
2. Top with mozzarella and parmesan cheeses.
3. Add additional toppings like pepperoni or mushrooms if you like.
3. Bake at 400 degrees on a baking sheet (covered with aluminum foil) for 7 minutes, until cheese melts. Remove from oven.
4. Fry egg in pan.
*HOW TO FRY AN EGG: Heat skillet on medium heat for about 1-3 mins. Add a little butter or olive oil to the skillet (your choice) and then crack the egg directly into the skillet and let it be (don't mess with it!) Turn down heat to low. Add salt and pepper directly on the egg. When egg turns all white and is cooked through, it's done. Add fried egg on top of pizza.
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Sure, I'd seen the S around. I'd peered in its windows when it was parked in a mall garage and taken in its cavernous luxury. I'd glanced longingly at its sleek, understated profile the few times I'd sidled up next to it on Interstate 5. Still, it never reciprocated my interest, probably because I was with my usual ball and chain: The Nissan Leaf.
For the last year or so, the Leaf has been my trusty steed, sticking by my side through Slurpee spills, BMX lessons and slogs to school and work. Traveling just 75 miles per charge at a top speed of 90ish mph, it didn't always get me where I needed to go, but if I could find a plug, it always came through in the end. For this devout greenie, my Leaf has really been my rock, as far as guilt-free driving goes.
So when I was finally able to meet the S this week, I expected to be wowed by its capabilities if put off by its ego and Lothario status. Since its introduction last fall, the S, which can travel 130 mph and 265 miles per charge with its 85-kilowatt-hour battery pack, has become an automotive superstar, mostly celebrated (but sometimes vilified) by the media. It had palled around with Motor Trend and scored its 2013 Car of the Year award, only to fall into the arms of The New York Times and be pilloried for suffering from the cold and stranding its driver.
Southern California, and its temperate, battery-preserving climes, seemed an ideal place for our tryst. I met the Model S Performance version in its swanky space-age digs, just off Rocket Road in Hawthorne, where it was plugged in to the Tesla Supercharger that can rejuvenate it with 150 miles of range in a mere 30 minutes. It's one of 100 Superchargers Tesla plans to have installed around the country by the end of the year to enable even longer-distance driving.
Pressing the Tesla-shaped key fob, the car's handles ejected from their door-panel flush mounts, enabling access to its shockingly roomy interior.
Its 1,000 pounds of lithium-ion batteries are spread like a pancake at the base of the car, and used to form part of its structure, which not only aids its performance by lowering the center of gravity to improve handling and isolating road noise from the chassis, it opens up so much space that a third-row children's jump seat can be had as a $1,500 option in what would ordinarily be the cargo hold.
Sliding into its leather bucket seat and pressing the brake pedal brought life to the S, the controls for which are mostly tactile. There are no buttons, just a 17-inch touch screen that offers similar functionality to an iPad and various stalks mounted off the steering wheel to put the S into gear and signal.
The S informed me I had 271 miles of rated range when I took the controls, which I promptly eroded when I peeled out of the parking lot and used its access road as a drag strip.
I knew from the 10,000 miles I've put on my Leaf that I'd pay the price for such behavior with slightly less range, but I didn't care. I had a full day and 271 miles to dispense with on the coast and in the Malibu canyons, and the S was more than wiling to oblige with 443 foot-pounds of instant torque that, unlike my front-wheel-drive Leaf, didn't make the steering go wonky when I stomped it. The AC induction motor on the S powers its rear wheels with a single-speed gear box. No shifting is required.
As I wheeled out of the parking lot, there was an audience. The S is such a cad.
Iron Man's definition of himself as a genius billionaire playboy philanthropist seemed equally apropos for the S, except it isn't made from iron. It's lightweight aluminum.
For the next two hours, the S was the perfect gentleman as I crawled through traffic on the 405 in quiet comfort, then exited at Sunset to enjoy its many S turns on my way to the coast and inland through my favorite twisties.
All the while, I did things with the S I would never attempt in my Leaf. I drove further afield and flogged it without fearing I'd run out of charge. Traffic willing, I floored it on the straightaways and swooped through turns that had the S simultaneously cradling and thrilling me with air suspension that was compliantly responsive.
Alas, after two hours I needed to stop at the radio station that inspired this torrid encounter, but I really couldn't wait to be alone with the S once more.
After a final go on Angeles Crest, I was forced to separate from the S for the night so both of us could get some rest. I'd traveled 115 miles, according to the odometer, but I had eaten up 144 miles of the car's range.
Oh, EVs. They're so much like men. They talk a big range game, and when you take them up on it, the reality of their longevity doesn't quite live up.
The S spent the night coupled with my Blink charger, with the help of a J1772 adapter, but I wasn't jealous. I was enjoying our one-night stand, even though it did get me thinking: Should I dump my Leaf? It is, after all, just a boyfriend. I'm leasing.
The Tesla Model S really does feel like The One, though he does seem pretty unavailable. There are 13,000 back orders for the $106,000 car.
Maybe today there will be 13,001.
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ZORB Rotorua
Rolling down a hill in a ball filled with water is definitely fun.
My next stop was Zorb. You could easily go there by bus as well. Before you go there make sure you have your swimsuit with you, so you can decide on site if you want to do the wet or the dry ride.
The first thing you have to do is to complete a completed the ZORB Safety Training And Ride Terms (S.T.A.R.T), for which you will get your certificate printed afterwards, or you can decide to get it send via email. After finishing this, it is time to get dressed. Put on your swimsuit or just take of your shoes for the dry ride and nothing can stop you from rolling down one of the three tracks, anymore. A jeep takes you up the hill where you have a nice view over the tracks you will roll down any minute. They don't really look steep or dangerous but as soon as you are in one of the Zorb balls you feel different. To get in there you have to go back few steps, run and then take a header ball through tiny whole. The landing is wet and soft since the ball is filled with air and they put water in there before they let you jump in. The next thing that happens is that the only exit out of the ball is closed and you are told to sit back and relax. A few seconds later you have already forgotten about that and lost the feeling of up and down. You are sliding and screaming, water everywhere, even if it seemed to be such a little amount when you were still on top of the hill. There are three different tracks on which you can enjoy the bumpy ride. As soon as you arrive at the bottom, the staff opens the door, take a picture of you and tell you to come on out, feet first. Some more pictures of you in front of your ball and then it is carried back up.
If you decide for the dry ride, you are secured in the ball, so you are turning with him, being upside down half of the trip. Even if it seems like it that doesn't happen when you are in one of the wet rides. Your body always slides to the side of the ball that is closest to the ground.
No matter what kind of ride you choose to do, I can definitely say you will have fun either way.


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Weak China data, falling US stocks push oil lower
NEW YORK (AP) — Weak manufacturing data from China and falling U.S. stock markets pushed oil to its biggest one-day decline in five weeks Wednesday.
Benchmark crude for September delivery dropped $1.84, or 1.7 percent, to close at $105.39 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That's the biggest percentage decline since June 21.
Another decline in U.S. supplies failed to give oil a jolt. U.S. crude oil inventories declined by 2.6 million barrels, bringing the four-week drop to nearly 30 million barrels. Still, at 364.2 million barrels, the nation's oil supply is in the upper half of the average range for this time of year. And gasoline supplies remain above year-ago levels, according to the Energy Department.
Jim Ritterbusch, president of energy consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates, said that supplies of oil and refined products remain high, and fundamentals don't support current prices.
"It is becoming increasingly difficult to construct a bullish argument that would support triple-digit crude pricing in either key benchmark," Ritterbusch said in a note to clients. He was referring to West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark for the U.S. crude, and Brent, the benchmark for international crudes.
Brent crude, traded on the ICE Futures exchange in London, fell $1.23 to finish at $107.19 a barrel.
An HSBC survey released Wednesday showed China's manufacturing at an 11-month low this month, a disappointing performance that puts pressure on Chinese leaders to reverse a deepening slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.
"A further slowdown in the manufacturing sector added to investor unease ... putting further pressure on labor markets and reinforcing the pessimistic outlook for demand growth" in China, said a note from Sucden Financial Research in London.
China also impacted U.S. stock markets. Besides the manufacturing data, China's slowing economy dragged down earnings at Caterpillar, the world's largest construction equipment company. Shares of Caterpillar, a component of both the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index, dropped 2.7 percent.
In other energy futures trading on the Nymex:
— Wholesale gasoline lost 0.4 cent to end at $3.05 a gallon.
— Heating oil lost 2 cents to finish at $3.05 a gallon.
— Natural gas fell 4.5 cents to end at $3.70 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Pablo Gorondi in Budapest contributed to this report.


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Shalom, and welcome to the Hebrew Division of the Department of Classical and Oriental Studies.
The Hebrew program at Hunter, founded in 1941, offers a language sequence for newcomers to Hebrew, as well as literature courses for students with prior background. Other offerings address Hebraic and Judaic history and culture more generally, including text courses in English translation.
The division offers a major in Hebrew; and two minors, one in Hebrew concentrating on language and text study in the original, and the other in Hebraic Studies concentrating on culture and literature in translation.
The two-year sequence of Elementary and Intermediate Hebrew (HEBR 101-102 and 201-202) may be used to fulfill the Hunter College language requirement.
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First a confession: A couple weeks ago I was driving back from Trader Joe's when I pulled over to the side of the road two blocks from home. There was a bag of lettuce sitting in the passenger seat. Caroline was home with Jay and Wally. I opened the latest issue of The New Yorker, which I'd grabbed from the mailbox on my way to the car, and commenced to reading about the goings on at Davos. After a long day I wasn't quite ready to rejoin the family fray.
Recently I wrote about "priming effects"—the ways in which Caroline and I influence each other's attitudes towards Jay and Wally. When I reflected on my roadside detour, it occurred to me that maybe I'd been primed to want to spend some time alone by the book Going Solo, which I'd recently reviewed for The Christian Science Monitor.
Going Solo was written by NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg and it details "the extraordinary rise and surprising appeal" of living alone in America. Today, 28 percent of all American households are single people living alone – or "singletons" as Klinenberg dubs them – which, is more than triple the rate of fifty years ago. As Klinenberg writes, "People who live alone … are now tied with childless couples as the most prominent residential type – more common than the nuclear family, the multigenerational home, and the roommate or group home."
In Going Solo Klinenberg uses interviews to sketch what solo living looks like for people at different stages in life: 20-somethings, middle-aged people who divorced or never married, and the elderly whose partners have died. The interviews are engrossing and reminded me all over again why I love good ethnography so much.
I won't get too into the interviews here (my review has more detail and I'd certainly recommend reading the book which isn't too long and reads quickly). But I will quote from one of Klinenberg's subjects, a 52-year-old Manhattan singleton named Charlotte who maybe was in the back of my mind as I pulled to the side of the road. "When you live alone, there's no compromising," she said. "I do everything I feel like doing. And it is totally self-indulgent. It's just all about you…I don't think I want to tend to a living thing ever again."
I spend a good number of hours each day tending to two living things. And for the most part I don't find myself yearning for more time alone than I have. I get five mostly quiet hours to myself each morning when the boys are with their nanny, I get an hour in the late-afternoon to run, and I get 15 minutes at the end of each day while waiting in bed as Caroline goes downstairs to dream-feed Wally. It's this last little block of alone time that I enjoy the most: the day, done, and a few quiet minutes to myself before lights out.
That said, I still struggle sometimes with the more general need that arises as part of a family: the need to compromise when making major life choices. The other night Caroline and I were watching an early episode of Breaking Bad in which the main character, Walt, argues with his wife after revealing to her that he has advanced lung cancer. Walt wants to opt-out of treatment altogether, saying that he wants to feel as good as he can during whatever time he has left. His wife responds by saying that Walt owes it not only to himself, but also to her and to their son to do everything he can to beat the disease.
As Caroline and I watched this together I found myself identifying strongly with Walt. It seemed to me that at this most personal and pivotal moment in his life, he should get to decide for himself how he lives and dies. Caroline had a different take. She thought that as a husband and a father, Walt had obligations to other people, and that the choice was not entirely his own to make.
So it's hard for me sometimes to accept that compromise in the context of a family means more than meeting halfway on the type of milk we buy (I'd opt for 2%, Caroline would prefer skim): It also means compromising on more fundamental issues, too, like how many kids you have, or where you live, or how much time each partner devotes to his or her career.
Of course it helps when both partners in a marriage and all parties in a family share common views about what's important in life. But no alignment is ever perfect. A few months ago Caroline and I spent an evening talking about our "escape fantasies"—the lives we'd choose for ourselves if all of a sudden we didn't have any family obligations. Caroline imagined she might move to Manhattan and rent a small apartment. I said I'd abscond to the Himalayas. So, our underlying dispositions are different even as we meet on the common ground of family life in suburban Ann Arbor.
I've written previously about how I value the friction that comes from being a part of a family. Getting married and having kids means adding friction and giving up complete freedom of choice in exchange for the opportunity to share in some of the most meaningful relationships one can have in a life.
I'd take that trade nine ways to Sunday, even as I have moments like the other week when I'm not quite ready to go home yet.
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FRIDAY, Feb. 13, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- Most hospital patients cannot identify -- by name or role -- the doctors assigned to their care, a new case study of one urban hospital suggests.
"The majority of hospitalized patients we looked at were not able to name anybody in charge of their care," said study author Dr. Vineet Arora, associate program director at the University of Chicago's internal medicine residency program. "And when they did name somebody, they got it wrong, incorrectly naming their primary care physician or some specialist. This reflects the fact that patients are seen by a lot of different doctors and teams, and they may simply not know who's in charge of their care."
"Of course," Arora added, "it's hard to know how generalizable this is, as we only looked at one institution. But I suspect that the findings are probably reflective of the current situation at a lot of urban teaching hospitals."
The authors noted that the institution used for the new study, the University of Chicago, is what's known as a "teaching hospital." Such hospitals "not only care for patients but also train the students and residents who are there under the supervision of a board-certified faculty physician," Arora explained.
Patients in teaching hospitals are typically attended to by larger teams of caretakers than at non-teaching hospitals. And Arora said that handoffs among assorted teams of health-care providers -- including physicians, interns, sub-interns, fellows, attending residents and medical students -- can present incoming patients with a "confusing environment."
For the study, Arora and her colleagues interviewed 2,807 people admitted to the inpatient general medicine service at the University of Chicago in 2005 and 2006. Three-quarters of those surveyed were unable to name anyone in charge of their care. Of those who gave at least one possible name, 60 percent gave an incorrect answer.
Yet, 56 percent of the patients said their understanding of their doctor's role was either "very good" or "excellent."
The University of Chicago team reported its findings in a research letter published in the Jan. 26 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
A number of factors -- both patient-related and hospital-related -- seemed to influence a patient's inability to identify caretakers. Blacks, the elderly, those with less than a high school education and unmarried people had more difficulty identifying their physicians. Also, people admitted in an emergency room setting or at night by a graveyard shift (or "floating" team) were less likely to be able to identify their caregivers, the study found.
Still, 64 percent of the 1,901 patients who participated in a follow-up interview a month after being released from the hospital said they were "very satisfied" with their doctors.
The study authors said that teaching hospitals should nonetheless devote more attention to improving patient awareness of their caretaking team and the roles played by individual physicians.
"I'm a medical educator -- I teach students and residents," Arora said. "And I think it's important that we teach them to actively introduce themselves in a way that patients can understand what their role is."
But patients should also act to empower themselves by taking a proactive approach to identify those caring for them, she said.
She noted that some states have made a concerted effort to help patients in this way. The Lewis Blackman Hospital Patient Safety Act in South Carolina, for instance, mandates that "all clinical staff, clinical trainees, medical students, interns and resident physicians of a hospital shall wear badges clearly stating their names, their departments and their job or trainee titles -- in terms or abbreviations reasonably understandable to the average person."
But, one expert suggested that such consumer-friendly steps aren't enough, and that the responsibility for addressing the problem lies with medical professionals -- not patients.
"So the hospital staff -- and that means the doctors, the nurses, the residents and even the guy who cleans the room -- simply has to explain to patients again and again and again who they are and what their role is, whenever they go into the room," said Dr. Herbert Cushing, chief medical officer of Indiana University Hospital, which is a teaching hospital, and associate dean of student affairs at the university's School of Medicine.
More information
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I bought this item at an auction 15 years ago and I haven't been able to determine what it is. I'm hoping someone out there can help me identify it.
It's a blue glass urn or container with raised white decorations on 3 sides. It measures 5" tall and has a silver cap. Shortly after I acquired it, I removed the silver cap which was sealed. It was quite difficult to remove and on the inside of the cap there's a moving part. I'm not sure what this moving part is, except my thoughts are a type pressure relief valve, but that's just a guess. What I found inside the container was a very strange substance. The best way I can describe it is, that it was like a black tobacco like substance. Is it possibly that this is a cremation or burial urn and the substance inside was cremation ashes?
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Dr. Tina Kiesler assumed the title of CSUN's Faculty Athletics Representative prior to the start of the 2010-11 academic year.
Doctor Kiesler joined the faculty of Cal State University Northridge in 2002. She is currently an Associate Professor of Marketing and the Director of the Business Honors Program.
Before joining CSUN, she was a faculty member or visiting faculty member at the University of Southern California (USC), Rutgers University, New York University (NYU), Universidad Catolica Portuguesa, Yale, UCLA and Columbia University.
Doctor Kiesler received her bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Michigan and her PhD in Marketing Management from UCLA's Anderson Graduate of Management.


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PHILADELPHIA - The Sixers didn't shoot the lights out Wednesday night, but maybe all the misses amounted to a scoreboard outage.
The stat screens that offer reporters and in-arena guests a glimpse into who's scoring what for whom weren't functioning. You could call it a coincidence, though poetic might be the more-appropriate word.
The Sixers' offense failed them during an 88-69 walloping issued by the visiting Indiana Pacers.
This matchup, on paper, seemed to have favored them - the suddenly hot Sixers (21-27), on a three-game winning streak, during an eight-game homestand, squaring off with an Indiana team that was playing its third game in three days.
Instead, the Sixers couldn't get shots to fall, even with Jrue Holiday and Nick Young getting to their spots. That backcourt pair shot a combined 3-for-18 in the first half, with the Pacers owning a 37-34 edge at that point, and only building upon it from there.
Even those who turned out to Wells Fargo Center expecting some more magic from the recently hot Sixers started heading for the exits with more than half the fourth quarter remaining. And those remaining couldn't even muster the strength to lob a few catcalls toward the arena floor.
In a bid to slow the bigs for Central Division-leading Indiana (31-19), the Sixers did two things: they went to the biggest lineup they had, starting Kwame Brown and Spencer Hawes, while flashing into a zone defense that begged the Pacers to make jumpers.
Neither plan worked. The Pacers canned back-to-back 3-pointers, courtesy D.J. Augustin and Orlando Johnson, to stake their first double-figure lead of the game early in the second quarter.
From there, the Sixers had their moments. Like when Dorell Wright and Lavoy Allen combined for three blocked shots on one possession, or when Wright found that shooting stroke that had gone missing for so many weeks, or when Arnett Moultrie turned in his best game of the season.
The silver lining in the streak-busting defeat was Moultrie. The rookie big man, who had scored 18 points all season, totaled 10 points before the third quarter had come to a close. He finished with 12 points.
Moultrie made hard cuts, he finished at the rim, he cleaned up the glass on both ends, he played defense … and did everything to earn another chance to play. Moultrie is expecting more playing time in the next three weeks, with Thad Young rehabbing a hamstring strain.
He did everything right. Well, almost. Down 10 points in the fourth quarter, the Sixers needed a high-percentage shot. They got a 16-footer from Moultrie that rimmed in and out - and Moultrie got an earful from Sixers coach Doug Collins.


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Cashier's Check Fraud
Scammers take advantage of the trust people place in cashier's checks to steal money from your account or to avoid paying you for goods and services. It is difficult to detect fraudulent cashier's checks. When you deposit a fraudulent check into your account, the law requires your bank to make the funds available within a specific period of time even if the check has not yet cleared through the banking system. Once the check is returned unpaid, your bank, generally, can reverse the deposit to your account and collect the amount of the deposit from you. To learn more, read Avoiding Cashier's Check Fraud and Answers about Cashier's Checks.
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I first discovered Rotary in 1998, when I joined the Rotary Club of Quebec City. For the past six years, I have tried to take part in a polio immunization trip every year, with the latest this July to Pakistan.
From 12-22 July, a team of three Rotarians from Quebec City, Canadian polio survivor and Rotarian Ramesh Ferris, and four Rotarians from the United States took part in immunization efforts in Karachi. Aziz Memon, chair of the Pakistan PolioPlus Committee, and Shaikh Jalaluddin, governor of District 3271, took care of our team from the minute we arrived. All eight members stayed together as a family, it was like we had known each other for a long time. But you know, it is easy if you share the same goal, to End Polio Now.
On the ground, we are moved by what we see. There are still cases of polio. The challenges are the same in many of the endemic countries: fighting myths about the vaccine, maintaining the cold chain, reaching all children with the drops.
While in Karachi, we watched a wonderful video Pakistan Rotaractors have made to promote polio vaccinations. Thanks to all the Rotarians in the world who are helping make a difference. We are united with the same goal of Peace Through Service.
I am proud to be a member of Rotary, one of the largest volunteer organization in the world. With your help, we will win the fight against polio.