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The Copper Wiring SAVANT dual relay sensors are the perfect solution for single point control of two loads from one location and offer unmatched flexibility with nightlight, universal load and wiring compatibility and numerous mode features. This Occupancy Sensor Dual Switch uses advanced Passive Infrared (PIR) technology to sense the movement of heat-emitting bodies. It provides Auto-on/Auto-off or Manual-on/Auto-off operation. This sensor automatically turns lights off after a space becomes vacant and a preset time delay elapses. The dual switch feature allows for control of two different loads from a single location. It provides single-pole (single-location) and 3-way (multi-location) wiring and works with all lighting load types (INC, MLV, ELV, FLR, CFL, LED). A selectable and dimmable LED nightlight is provided. The Cooper OS310R sensor is compatible with any decorator-style or decorator screwless wallplate.
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Specifications Manufacturer Cooper Wiring Devices Manufacturer Product No OS310R-V UPC 032664710933 Model Savant Color Ivory Wiring Single Pole or 3-Way Power 8.3A (1000W) 120V AC 60 Hz. Load Types Incandescent, Magnetic Low Voltage (MLV),
Electronic Low Voltage (ELV), Fluorescent,
Compact Fluorescent and LED
Field of View 180 degree over 1,000 Sq Feet Switch Style Decorator Style Rating 15A, 120V/AC Manufacturer Warranty Two Year Limited Warranty
- 1x - Occupancy Sensor Dual 3-Way Switch with Nightlight
- 1x - Decorator Style Trim Plate
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A semi-wealthy town, comparable to most towns in westchester county, right in the beginning of putnam county. Originally, Mahopac was
strictly a vacation town for wealthy people from New York City. Now, it is a fully active suburban town teeming with soccer moms. It is a town known for nothing more than its beautiful lake, great lacrosse program, and its fruitful abundance of the delicious vodka called Popov.
I spent the majority of my senior summer wasted on lake Mahopac.
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A middle class suburban down in Mahopac, New York, named after the once toxic lake in which the students of the middle school currently reside. It is a uncultured town, filled with Guido Italians, pot smoking skater kids, and snoody rich white folk. Joe Torre once lived there while he still coached the New York Yankee's but since his career was going to the back nine, he moved, leaving the town with its only source of interest. What remains is a large group of teenage children who are usually bored and think that by drinking alcohol in their parents basement, hanging out at the Stop And Shop, or the McDonald's parking lot gives them some sort of "cool" factor. They fail to realize that this is just a precursor to their eventual downfall in society. Basically, it blows.
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a middle-class town in putnam county new york where there is an exorbitant amount of guidos, druggies and just an assortment of uneducated and uncultured people. The public school systems used to be fairly decent, but every year they get worse, especially Mahopac High School. However, there are a good amount of decent people, but the town in general is boring, uneducated and undeveloped, much unlike the very nice westchester county to the south.
Unfortunately, most people in the town do not yet posess the knowledge that they live in a shithole.
Unfortunately, most people in the town do not yet posess the knowledge that they live in a shithole.
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Mooresville, NC – As expected, Joey Logano is heading to Penske Racing to drive the No. 22 Ford in the Sprint Cup Series, starting next year.
Penske announced on Tuesday that Logano has signed a multi-year agreement with the team. The announcement came hours after Joe Gibbs Racing introduced Matt Kenseth as driver of the No. 20 Toyota for the 2013 Sprint Cup season. Logano has driven the No. 20 car for JGR since his 2009 rookie-of-the-year season.
Logano will become the fourth different driver in Penske's No. 22. Sam Hornish Jr. has been driving car on an interim basis since A.J. Allmendinger was placed on suspension by NASCAR the first weekend in July for violating its substance abuse policy. Allmendinger was later released from the team after he failed his second drug test and therefore had his NASCAR suspension status elevated from temporary to indefinite. Allmendinger replaced Kurt Busch in the 22 following Busch's release from the team at the end of the 2011 season.
Penske is switching from Ford to Dodge starting next season. Shell-Pennzoil will continue its sponsorship with the No. 22 team.
"I am very excited to join Penske Racing and begin the next phase of my career," Logano said in a team statement. "I am looking forward to the opportunity, as it will be an honor to drive for Roger Penske and race for wins and championships. I am also proud to represent Shell-Pennzoil, as they are a respected global brand that does a great job of activating in the sport on and off the track."
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With Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe about even and neither of them popular in a new statewide poll, Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis is gleaning enough support to potentially affect the Virginia governor's race.
Quinnipiac University's poll shows 44 percent of 1,005 likely voters favored McAuliffe, Cuccinelli had 41 percent, and little-known Libertarian Robert Sarvis took 7 percent. Six percent were undecided and 1 percent preferred candidates other than the three specified in the poll.
The results for the major party candidates are within the margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. They are based on live interviews with voters on land lines and cellphones from Sept. 9-15.
The new results show that what had been a clear 6 percentage point lead for McAuliffe in a Quinnipiac survey a month ago has been cut in half. No previous Quinnipiac poll included Sarvis.
If Sarvis can hold at 7 percent or increase his share, it would be a milestone for independent or third-party candidates in Virginia gubernatorial elections. The last such candidate, Republican former state Sen. Russ Potts who ran as an independent, got just 2 percent of the vote in 2005.
If he can exceed 10 percent, Sarvis could earn official recognition under Virginia law for the Libertarian Party and assure its nominee a spot on the statewide ballot in the next general election.
The poll, taken amid an increasing exchange of negative television advertising by major party candidates and allied groups, shows voters view neither man favorably.
Thirty-eight percent viewed McAuliffe favorably but the same percentage viewed him unfavorably. Fifty-one percent held an unfavorable opinion of Cuccinelli - 10 percentage points more than in the last poll - while 34 percent saw him favorably.
Nor was either major party candidate viewed as a model of virtue. Only 39 percent felt McAuliffe is honest and trustworthy to 42 percent who believe he's not. Thirty-nine percent also believed Cuccinelli to be honest and trustworthy, but 49 percent said he isn't.
"Voters are not wild about either man, and that may be one reason why ... Sarvis is running so well,'' said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
Cuccinelli, the current attorney general, got the upper hand over McAuliffe on experience, with 58 percent saying he has the background to be governor to 47 percent who felt McAuliffe has the right experience. Yet when asked whether they approved or disapproved of Cuccinelli's performance as attorney general, 42 percent approved and 49 percent disapproved.
How Sarvis' candidacy might influence the election's outcome is not clear from the polling, Brown said. The influence of third-party candidates tends to ebb as election day nears, he said, and 38 percent of those who support Sarvis also said there's a good chance they'd later change their minds.
Three percent of Republican respondents supported Sarvis as did 2 percent who said they were Democrats. Among independents, however, 14 percent chose Sarvis. Unaffiliated voters are clearly the wild card, with McAuliffe and Cuccinelli claiming 37 percent apiece among independents. Sarvis' healthy bloc of independent support makes it even wilder.
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Sarvis' greatest obstacle is his lack of recognition by voters. Eighty-five percent said they hadn't heard enough about the 36-year-old Harvard- and Cambridge-educated mathematician with a law license and an economics degree. And with only $19,109 in the bank as of Labor Day, there's little his campaign can to do make him better known.
Candidates in down-ticket races also struggled with name recognition. Seventy-two percent never heard of Republican lieutenant governor candidate E.W. Jackson while 87 percent never heard of his Democratic opponent, state Sen. Ralph Northam. Eighty-eight percent considered the Democratic attorney general nominee, state Sen. Mark Herring, an unknown, and 79 percent didn't know his GOP foe, state Sen. Mark Obenshain.
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photo: Romanesco broccoli
I started playing with fractal shaders and in particularity I wanted to reproduce romanesco broccoli in SL. At first it was just a simple experiment but after each obstacle I got more persistent so eventually I discovered the world of calculus.
I'm going to skip the theory part about phyllotaxis, Fibonacci etc and get straight to the shader math. Good site that explains it all is: http://www.math.smith.edu/phyllo/
Most of the math was found on Wolfram and WikiPedia pages
First off we need to convert our UVs from cartesian to polar coordinate system
r = sqrt( pow( x, 2 ) + pow( y, 2 ));
theta = atan( x, y) + PI;
// Note that PI offset has been added for polar translation
// equation to work (for secondary florets)
Next, Golden Angle for distribution pattern.
golden = PI*(3-sqrt(5));
To draw a secondary florets or a circle on polar coordinates we can use polar translation equations
r2 = sqrt(r*r-2*r*r0*cos( theta-th0 )+r0*r0);
r = sqrt( pow( x, 2 ) + pow( y, 2 ));
theta = atan( x, y) + PI;
// Note that PI offset has been added for polar translation
// equation to work (for secondary florets)
golden = PI*(3-sqrt(5));
r2 = sqrt(r*r-2*r*r0*cos( theta-th0 )+r0*r0);
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I've translated Malcolm Kesson's Cellular Automata SL into a Houdini VOP RSL Network (no reason). You can find the original SL on his website: http://www.fundza.com/rman_shaders/cellular/index.html
Main difference is that Houdini VOPs don't support Arrays so I used multiple connections and 8 texture calls instead of a for loop. Let me know if there is some better way of querying neigbours.
Original shader cell size and count is dependant on micropolgyons and controlled by shading rate. I've set the shading rate to a very high value and the cell count is controlled by geometric subdivision instead. That meant I couldn't use random function for initialization so I replaced it with cellnoise shadeop.
OTL library contains digital assets:
cellular - Object type digital assetbake3d - shadeop for pointcloud bakingtexture3D - shadeop for pointcloud readingcellnoise - rendermans cellnoise functioncellular_automata - cellular.sl VOP node version. Just a direct implementation of the code. Not used for anything.
Cellular is Object Type Digital Asset that contains shaders, geometry and ROPs for 'out of the box' test.
Download OTL cellular.otlDownload ZIP cellularotl.zip
Have fun.
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The Hope College choirs and Symphonette with guest artists will perform a combined concert on Tuesday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Together the College Chorus, Chapel Choir and Symphonette will perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Requiem." Soloists include Hope College faculty member Linda Dykstra, soprano; Wheaton College faculty member Sarah Holman, mezzo soprano; Western Michigan University faculty member Ken Prewitt, tenor; and Grand Valley State University faculty member Dale Schriemer, bass.
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Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., at the corner of 12th Street and College Avenue.


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Basketball season is right around the corner, and if you're dancing like this girl, then you are showing the appropriate level of excitement. This time around, we get a full season of play, which should be good for those of us who like to occupy our time on fantasy sports sites. These rankings are the result of much deliberation, analysis, praying to various gods, and human sacrifice. Having just read that, please be advised that these are always subject to change. Someone could get injured, traded, molested, whatever, and then things may need to be adjusted. Nevertheless, consider this a handy guide. My word is not gospel, my word is not law, but I will be right 9 times out of 10 (note: 1 out of 10 I'm wrong may be me saying I'm right 9 times out of 10; whoa, logic twister!). Let's cut the male cattle excrement and get down to business.
1. LeBron James – Rings are pretty, rings are nice, but they mean bupkis for fantasy value. I like James because he is a high level, all around player, period. Kevin Durant could have easily gone here, and some of us in the Razzball Offices argued just that. However, James offers a tremendous advantage with assists, and that to me gives him the edge. Durant could outscore James with an extra 5 ppg, and I would still (likely) go with James. I don't think you can possibly go wrong with either guy, but I will go James first. Projections: .520 fg/.750 ft/1.4 3pg/28.2 pts/7.8 rbd/7.1 ast/1.8 stl/0.8 blk/3.5 tov
2. Kevin Durant – He may very well be the most prolific scorer in the league, with solid percentages and a good source for threes, rebounds and all the other little categories. He's still very young with room to grow, which is appetizing. Durant has the possibility to really distance himself from James in blocks and threes, which are obviously two of the juiciest categories. Next year he probably ranks above James, but for now he's a definite #2, maybe even so far as a #1b. Projections: .480 fg/.880 ft/1.7 3pt/29.0 pts/7.5 rbd/2.9 ast/1.3 stl/1.1 blk/3.3 tov
3. Kevin Love – A very reasonable argument can be made that Power Forward is the deepest position right now, but my heart aches for Love. He is a big man with a nice perimeter shot. He is dominant on the boards with solid shooting percentages. It'd be nice if he could give you a block per game, but that is the only real weakness in his game. I wouldn't take him before James and Durant, but if you told me you did, I don't think I could fault you. Projections: .460 fg/.840 ft/1.5 3pt/27.0 pts/14.0 rbd/2.3 ast/0.7 stl/0.5 blk/2.5 tov
4. Chris Paul – With Derrick Rose out until January or February or worse, Chris Paul easily earned the #1 spot for Point Guards. I like him this high overall, too, as he is surrounded by solid players he can dish the ball to. In addition, he led the league in steals and can continue that again with the same determination as the thief in the Cookie Crisp commercials. He had surgery on his thumb in August, so it's possibly he starts slowly, but I would still take him in the first round. Projections: .482 fg/.870 ft/1.2 3pt/21.2 pts/3.9 rbd/9.9 ast/2.5 stl/0.1 blk/2.4 tov
5. Dwyane Wade – A few people will probably call me nuts for putting Wade this high, particularly since he is such a drain for threes, and not in the good way where he actually drains them. He only attempted 56 threes last season, and only made 14. However, I am willing to write off last season as the Twilight Zone episode it was. If he can reach 200+ attempts as he has done for many seasons prior, he should be able to average between 0.5 and 0.8 3PG. Putting that aside, his knee is better, he should return to form, and he will be a balanced source of stats across the board. Projections: .505 fg/.784 ft/0.6 3pt/23.9 pts/4.7 rbd/4.9 ast/1.6 stl/1.0 blk/3.0 tov
6. Russell Westbrook – Westbrook stopped handing out so many dimes and starting taking the shot more, which actually translated well for him. Although it hurts his assists, I like that he is a better source of threes and field goals. He is on the Thunder, which is of course one of the best teams to have a fantasy player from. He is leading an offense that will dominate its competitors, and fantasy owners can harvest the benefits. Turnovers are a concern, but if he can keep those down, good things are yours to have. Projections: .461 fg/.830 ft/1.0 3pt/24.2 pts/4.8 rbd/6.9 ast/1.8 stl/0.3 blk/4.0 tov
7. Josh Smith – Witness Projection Member "Josh Smith" wasn't on many people's radars, but he was a basically averaged a double-double a night with solid assists and blocks, plus low enough turnovers for a Power Forward. He may not have the flash of a Blake Griffin, but he has better ratios. I have Smith ranked this high, but it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't go until the third round. Like a children's TV host visiting a farmer's market, he should be berry, berry good. Projections: .460 fg/.645 ft/0.4 3pt/19.5 pts/10.2 rbd/4.0 ast/1.4 stl/2.0 blk/2.7 tov
8. Dwight Howard – You would think Dwight Howard stole $1,000 from you and knocked up your sister the way he's fallen out of favor in the fantasy community. I know everyone, EVERYONE, is ranking Andrew Bynum in the top ten and #1 overall in Centers. Not me. I could very well be wrong, but you look at the history of those two players and you tell me that Howard can't produce better. Yes, Howard is on a team surrounded by All-Stars. That's perfect. Picture this: Dwight blocks the shot, Lakers recover, move down the Court, Kobe Bryant takes the shot, misses, Howard rebounds, passes back to Byrant, shoots and scores. Well, well, we just earned a block, an offensive rebound, and an assist all in 35 seconds. SUCK IT. Projections: .596 fg/.575 ft/0.0 3pt/23.3 pts/15.3 rbd/1.7 ast/1.4 stl/2.9 blk/4.1 tov
9. Pau Gasol – Well, with Howard on the Lakers, Gasol is going to lose a little bit, but you know what? He shared the big man spotlight with Bynum last year, so to hell with it, I still like Gas-hole. He's solid all around, and at 32, he is only about to begin his descent. Grab him while he's still near the peak of his prowess. Projections: .520 fg/.809 ft/0.0 3pt/18.8 pts/10.1 rbd/3.9 ast/0.5 stl/1.8 blk/2.3 tov
10. Al Jefferson – He has the name that makes me think he can bring the funk, and so long as that funky music includes a double-double per night and a couple of blocks, I'm happy. Yes, I'm ranking him higher than Bynum (who is easily in my top 20, relax). He is easily going to put up better percentages than Bynum, just like he did last season. For a Center, his free throw percentage is actually quite decent, and he is solid with FG% and assists as well. There's a lot to like about Jefferson, and he's moving on up. Projections: .495 fg/.770 ft/0.0 3pt/20.1 pts/9.9 rbd/1.9 ast/0.6 stl/1.8 blk/1.3 tov


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Edward Clark was appointed Architect of the Capitol Extension in 1865 by President Andrew Johnson to fill the vacancy caused by Thomas U. Walter's resignation. Under way for over 14 years, the interior of the U.S. Capitol extension was at this point complete, and only the outside porticoes needed to be finished.
In 1867, with the completion of the U.S. Capitol Building's extension fast approaching, Congress directed Clark to take over the Capitol-related responsibilities formerly held by the Commissioner of Public Buildings. Thus, he would take responsibility for the care and maintenance of the U.S. Capitol and its grounds. Clark's title soon changed to Architect of the Capitol, dropping the word "Extension" to reflect the broader responsibilities of the new office. Clark is considered the first Architect of the Capitol as the term refers to the head of a congressional agency.
Born in Philadelphia in 1822, Clark came to Washington as an architectural student in Walter's office and served in various capacities during his master's tenure. In his own term, he completed the U.S. Capitol extension and new dome projects and oversaw the construction of the western terraces that were designed by Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Also during his administration, the Library of Congress moved to its own building, and the west central interior of the U.S. Capitol was reconstructed. Clark died in 1902 while still in office.


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Some of my favorite foods were homemade ravioli, spaghetti, halupkie, fashnachts, etc. Probably the most incredible thing after listing those foods is that we're not Italian, Polish or German. My hubby's German, but never had a fastnacht before I made one for him...I guess it was regional German! Anyway, my mom is 100% Irish and never an Irish dish found it's way to my plate. At least with my knowledge. As an adult I can kind of see why. I've attempted to eat and attempted to make, corned beef and cabbage. It was not pretty nor pleasant in any way. So I'll stick to scones and colcannon for now...
The recipe I'm going to share is my mother's for Spaghetti and Meatballs. It's comfort food for me. I omit the green peppers when I make it because they're one of the few things my husband doesn't eat. I hated the sausage when I was younger (especially the hot sausage), but adore it now! It adds flavor even if the kids won't touch it.
So here it is. Alice Brown's Spaghetti and Meatballs!
The Sauce:
1 small onion, minced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 green pepper, diced (optional)
1 tbsp dried sweet basil
2 tbsp dried oregano
4 (14.5 oz) cans diced tomatoes
1 (29 oz) can tomato sauce
1/2 c. grated Parmesan cheese
2 tbsp olive oil
1/3 c. red wine
1 lb. sweet Italian sausage, cut into pieces
1 lb hot Italian sausage, cut into pieces
Meatballs (recipe follows)
In a large soup pot over medium heat, warm the olive oil. Saute the onion and garlic (and green pepper if using). Add the basil and oregano and stir. Pour in the tomatoes and tomato sauce and stir. Add the cheese, wine, sausages and meatballs. Lower the heat to medium-low and cook until meatballs and sausage are cooked through.
1 lb ground beef (chicken or turkey may be substituted)
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tbsp dried sweet basil
2 tbsp dried oregano
2 eggs
1/2 c grated Parmesan cheese
Italian Bread Crumbs
Salt and Pepper
In a large bowl place the meat, garlic, basil, oregano, eggs, Parmesan cheese and a few dashes of salt and pepper. Pour bread crumbs down the center of the meat in the bowl (I do not have a measurement for this, nor do I want to guess at it. My mom gave me these instructions and they work. Maybe someday I'll measure. If I had to guess I would say that it's about ¾ cup.). Mix with hands. Form into balls and place in spaghetti sauce to cook.
Prepare pasta according to directions on box and serve with sauce, sausage and meatballs.


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Ruffin, Thomas
9 Sept. 1820–18 Oct. 1863
Thomas Ruffin, attorney, congressman, and Confederate officer, was born in Greene County not long before his parents, Henry John Gray and Mary (Polly) Tartt Ruffin, moved to their new plantation near Louisburg in Franklin County. After attending a private academy, he received a B.A. degree from The University of North Carolina in 1841 and then studied law under George E. Badger of Raleigh before beginning his practice in the new town of Goldsboro.
Having decided to try his fortune in the Ozark region of Missouri, Ruffin became circuit attorney for the Seventh Judicial District there and attained considerable recognition in 1844–48 as a fearless upholder of law and order despite the considerable personal risk. In 1846 The University of North Carolina awarded him an M.A. degree. On 31 August he became first lieutenant of the Ozark Mountain Guards, First Infantry Regiment, which had been organized for the Santa Fe Expedition and continued to campaign in the southwest, without actually crossing the border, during the course of the Mexican War.
Returning to Goldsboro by 1850, Ruffin resumed the practice of law and became active in local Democratic affairs. The wealthy and childless Dr. Josiah O. Watson, who had married a sister of Ruffin's mother, thought so highly of him that Watson's will of 1852 enriched Ruffin with a large plantation in Johnston County and fifty-one slaves. The uncle's generosity was not misplaced, because his admired nephew served as a representative to the U.S. Congress from 4 Mar. 1853 to 3 Mar. 1861 and to the special Peace Congress of 4–27 Feb. 1861. Ruffin resigned shortly after the secession of North Carolina and represented the Second North Carolina District in the Provincial Congress of the Confederate States held at Richmond during the period 18 June–25 July 1861.
On 16 May 1861, after declining the rank of colonel of an infantry regiment, Ruffin became captain of Company H, Ninth North Carolina (First Cavalry) Regiment, Confederate States of America. He was actively engaged most of the time until captured on 29 June 1862 at Willis Church, Va., and confined briefly at Fort Warren near Boston before being exchanged at Aiken's Landing on 5 August. In a fierce cavalry charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, he received a serious saber cut on the head but shot and killed the Yankee officer who had inflicted it.
Ruffin had been elevated to the rank of major on 29 June but was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 23 July, the day after being admitted to the military hospital at Richmond. On 15 October he was "mortally wounded during a successful charge" at Auburn's Mill, near Fairfax Court House, where he fell from his horse and was captured with a minié ball in his forehead. He died unmarried in the Federal Military Hospital at Alexandria. His remains were placed in a private vault at the hospital, and all his personal effects were carefully preserved by some Southern women until they could be returned safely to his family in Franklin County.
Clement A. Evans, ed., Confederate Military History, vol. 4 (1899).
North Carolina Biography, vol. 3 (1928).
A Biographical Directory of the American Congress (1971).
Additional Resources:
"Ruffin, Thomas, (1820 - 1863)." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Washington, D.C.: The Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000499 (accessed April 5, 2013).
Barringer, Rufus. "Ninth Regiment (First Cavalry)." Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina, in the great war 1861-'65: Volume 1. Raleigh [N.C.]:E.M. Uzzell. 1901. 417. http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p249901coll22/id/265086 (accessed April 5, 2013).
Cheek, W.H. "Additional Sketch Ninth Regiment (First Cavalry)." 445. Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina, in the great war 1861-'65: Volume 1. Raleigh [N.C.]:E.M. Uzzell. 1901. http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p249901coll22/id/265116 (accessed April 5, 2013).
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Vannerson, Julian. "[Thomas Ruffin, Representative from North Carolina, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-length portrait]." Photograph. McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress. Washington, D.C.: McClees & Beck, [1859]. 143. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010649182/ (accessed April 5, 2013).
"Hon. Thos. Ruffin of N.C." Photograph. Brady-Handy Collection. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/brh2003003198/PP/ (accessed April 5, 2013).
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Vantilla Ruffin was married
Vantilla Ruffin was married to my Great-Granduncle Starkey Smith Cowan of Windsor. I am the Great Grandson of Charles Edward Cowan, a brother of Starkey Smith Cowan. My great grandmother was Elizabeth Wynns. Through her I am a first cousin seven times removed to Congressman Thomas Wynn-DR from North Carolina. He father was Col. Benjamin Wynns who founded Winton.
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We are looking for a logo with clean design elements for a new company that makes nutritional supplements. The logo should help convey a solid company that consumers can trust.
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This should be a clean design that is reminiscent of a solid pharmaceutical company. (We are not pharmaceutical at all, but we want the logo to convey a solid image and brand.) We are working in some exciting areas that may lead to a supplement that causes cancer to go into remission without radiation, toxic chemotherapy or surgery. The logo should convey
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he Legend of Love was the second ballet by the young Leningrad choreographer Yuri Grigorovich staged at the Kirov – now Mariinsky – Theatre, and it was a ballet that was to change both his life and the destiny of Soviet ballet. As with The Stone Flower – his first production at the Kirov Theatre – Grigorovich created The Legend of Love together with Simon Virsaladze. The designer executed the sets in the form of an old book, the pages of which are adorned with Arabic script. The characters in The Legend as if come down to us from the pages of this book – the proud, cruel and deeply passionate Queen Mekhmeneh Bahnu, who pays the price of her own unparalleled beauty to cure her dying sister Shyrin and the artist Ferkhad, who is captivated by the young and gracious Shyrin and who spurns Mekhmeneh Bahnu's love...
The crowd scenes of processions and dances of courtiers are mixed with a truly tender duet between Ferkhad and Shyrin which in turn resounds as a provocative contrast to the pitifully frenzied choreographic monologue of Mekhmeneh Bahnu. The scene of Mekhmeneh Bahnu's pursuit of Ferkhad and Shyrin who have fled the palace to save their love is rhythmic and drama-filled. But the inner lives of the protagonists and the tortuous trials of the spirit that their love must endure are exposed in the trios of the entire three acts with Mekhmeneh Bahnu, Ferkhad and Shyrin: the action literally freezes and only the protagonists remain in the limelight.
The choreographic text of the ballet is based on classical productions. But the classical pas are as if seen through the prism of some oriental plot – the typical poses of the arms, the carrying dance motifs of Persian miniatures and the capricious ornamental script in the lace-like tracery of the Arabic alphabet. In 1961 this ballet restored symphonic dance to the Mariinsky Theatre, linking Grigorovich with the great master of the previous century – Marius Petipa, who created such grand dance and symphonic tableaux.
Libretto: Nazim Khikmet
Scene 1 The royal apartments of Queen Mekhmene Banu are plunged in mourning - her young sister, Shireen, is dying. The Vizier and the courtiers are full of anxiety. Mekhmene Banu is in despair. A Stranger, who appears out of the blue, says he will cure the Princess but, in return, Mekhmene Banu must sacrifice her beauty. In order to save the life of her sister whom she loves deeply, Mekhmene Banu accepts the Stranger's cruel terms. Shireen is brought back to life.
Scene 2 In the palace garden, the young court painter, Ferkhad, suddenly comes across Queen Mekhmene Banu and Princess Shireen who are taking a walk, surrounded by courtiers and the palace guard. The two sisters exchange gazes with Ferkhad and love for the young painter is born in their hearts. The procession moves off. Ferkhad is entranced by the beauty of the young Shireen. In the hope of seeing Ferkhad, Shireen secretly returns to the garden The two young people are greatly attracted to each other.
Act II
Scene 3 Mekhmene Banu is overcome by passion for Ferkhad. Nothing can distract her thoughts from the handsome youth. She realizes in despair that now she has lost her beauty, she will be unable to win his love.
Scene 4 The young Shireen dreams of happiness with her loved one: the thought that they may soon meet gives her great joy and also fills her with anxiety. Ferkhad makes his way into Shireen's chamber and the lovers elope from the palace. Torn by jealousy, Mekhmene Banu orders that the lovers be seized. The fugitives are caught. The lovers' pleas that they be granted their happiness are in vain. Mekhmene Banu sets Ferkhad an impossible task: in order to win Shireen, he must first bore a hole through the iron mountain which blocks the way to a water source. For the sake of his love, Ferkhad is willing to attempt the impossible. He bids farewell to Shireen.
Act III
Scene 5 The populace are tormented by thirst. As each day passes there is less and less water. And without water there can be no life. In order to attain water the mountain has to be destroyed.
Scene 6 Ferkhad, who is in the mountains, dreams that he has gained access to the water and before him he sees his beloved Shireen.
Scene 7 Mekhmene Banu is tormented by her passion and love for Ferkhad. She dreams she is beautiful again and that Ferkhad loves her. Shireen breaks into Mekhmene Banu's reveries. She implores her sister to recall Ferkhad.
Scene 8 A great hope has brought the populace to the mountains. If Ferkhad manages to accomplish the impossible, their lives will be saved. Queen Mekhmene Banu and Shireen appear surrounded by their suite. Overcome by happiness at their meeting, the lovers throw themselves into each other's arms. The Queen is prepared to give Ferkhad the hand of Shireen, but the former feels that he cannot go back on his duty. Mekhmene Banu and Shireen are full of respect for the great altruism of Ferkhad who is ready to sacrifice his personal happiness for the sake of his people.


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Researchers at SLAC Test Collider Closer to Creating Fully Coherent X-rays
Researchers at SLAC Test Collider Closer to Creating Fully Coherent X-rays
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Many advanced laser technologies, such as laser spectroscopy, that use precise wavelengths of infrared, visible or ultraviolet laser light could benefit from using X-ray light as well. But to reach its full potential, that X-ray light must be just as coherent as the light from the optical lasers now in use – a requirement beyond current X-ray laser technology.
Now researchers at SLAC's Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA) have reached a milestone in the Echo-7 experiment that marks an important step towards creating a fully coherent X-ray laser beam. The researchers described their results in a paper recently published in Physical Review Letters.
The Echo-7 project began in 2009 in response to SLAC beam theorist Gennady Stupakov's ideas for imprinting – or "seeding" – an electron beam with laser light, and then manipulating the individual bunches that make up the beam to make X-rays instead of the ultraviolet light it would have originally generated – and do all this without destroying the laser's coherent imprint. This technique was dubbed echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG).
The imprint of the seed laser is seen in the wavelengths of light the electrons generate: They're always harmonics, or precise fractions, of the original beam. The higher the harmonic number, the shorter the wavelength; a harmonic number of 2 means a wavelength half as long, a harmonic number of 3 means a wavelength one third as long, and so on.
"EEHG has remarkable frequency up-conversion efficiency such that one can generate fully coherent X-rays directly from an ultraviolet seed laser," said Dao Xiang, a SLAC accelerator physicist who has played a leading role in the project since the beginning. "However, there is no free lunch." Implementation of EEHG is extremely challenging "because it involves a long-term memory of beam phase-space correlation." In other words, the Echo-7 team must preserve some very delicate properties of the electron beam as they take it apart and put it back together.
The team adopted a phased strategy in order to demonstrate the technique. During Phase I in 2010, they hit their first milestone: boosting their output beam to the fourth harmonic of the seed laser beam. This result demonstrated that EEHG works – the Echo-7 team could, indeed, take apart a beam of light and reassemble it into one having a shorter wavelength.
In 2011's Phase II, the team upgraded the NLCTA facility, which enabled them to further reduce the ratio of energy modulation to energy spread – packing the electrons into even tighter micro-bunches – while at the same time generating the seventh harmonic wavelength of the seed laser, which pushed the beam farther into the ultraviolet. This result – along with giving the project its name – provided the first evidence that EEHG could indeed generate the higher harmonics necessary while preserving the integrity of the electron beam, as Stupakov had predicted.
"However, there is still a long way to go to reach X-rays," Xiang said: Jumping from ultraviolet to X-ray energies requires generating a beam with a wavelength 50 to 100 times shorter than that of the original seed laser. During Phase III, the team will pursue EEHG into that much higher harmonic regime.
"In successfully completing the first two phases of the Echo-7 experiment, we've created a unique facility for accelerator and free-electron-laser R&D, as well as establishing a team of experts who can execute such a program. If we have additional funding for the next three years, we'll be able to explore this technique in the very high harmonic regime, which will be crucial to realizing next-generation X-ray sources," said Tor Raubenheimer, principal investigator of the Echo-7 project.
"NLCTA enables us to test EEHG in the high-harmonic regime with minimal investment, thanks to our existing hardware and radio-frequency sources," said Carsten Hast, head of the Test Facility Department. The Echo-7 team expects to generate more echoes in the NLCTA tunnel, with frequencies several octaves higher than what has already been achieved. "Then we'll need to rename the project to, maybe, Echo-75," Hast said.
The Echo-7 team includes members of SLAC's Beam Physics Department, Test Facilities Department and Advanced Accelerator Research Department. This work was supported by the U.S. DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences using the NLCTA facility, which is partly supported by U.S. DOE Office of High Energy Physics.


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The American woodcock is one of two shorebird species that can be hunted in Kansas. Like snipe, woodcock are short-legged, large bodied shorebirds (11 inches long, 7 oz), but they are much less abundant in Kansas than snipe. Woodcock occur in more wooded or shrubby habitat than snipe and are concentrated along riparian areas. This habitat preference substantially reduces their distribution in Kansas and eastern Kansas is on the western edge of this species' range. Woodcock use their long bill to probe in the soil for animal foods, primarily earthworms.
Woodcock nest in Kansas and breeding activity begins in early spring with courtship. Males select one or more singing grounds, but focus their activity at one main site. At dawn and dusk, males perform ground and aerial displays for females. Ground displays involve making their trademark "peent" call every few seconds for about a minute. Then the male makes spiral flights over the singing ground. While flying, the male sings a more melodic song and makes a unique sound with its wings.
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Jane Harvey, a jazz musician who recorded with the likes of the Benny Goodman Orchestra and Les Paul died at her home in Los Angeles. She was 88.
Harvey, born Phyllis Taff, died Friday of cancer, Playbill reported.
Harvey began her career just out of high school by performing regularly at Greenwich village nightclub Cafe Society. The owner there, Barney Josephson changed her name before she took the stage for the first time.
She was soon hired to record with Benny Goodman, singing on the record, "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me." She would go on to record several tracks with the orchestra over the course of the next six months.
In 1946 she joined the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, recording "Mi Vida" and "A Rainy Night in Rio," and performing regularly at Circo's.
She performed for troops with the USO in 1948 and made her Broadway debut in 1950 with "Bless You All."
Harvey retired temporarily to raise her son, but by 1958 she was recording with the Duke Ellington Orchestra and produced a number of albums on her own, including "Leave it to Jane" and "I've Been There."
In 2011, Harvey took up her cabaret career again with appearances at New York's Feinstein's and Los Angeles' Catalina Jazz Club. She reissued several of her albums, including an unreleased session with guitarist Les Paul.
Harvey is survived by her second husband, William King, her son, Bob Thiele Jr., his wife, Amy Kanter Thiele and grandson Owen Thiele.


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When I sent my middle son to college, I had the normal worries associated with a loved child's departure from home – would he eat enough? Rest enough? Study enough? One thing I never asked myself, though – is he fast enough if he had to outrun a gunman? This, sadly, is what American parents now are facing when it comes to their college students attending schools all over the country.
When I sent my middle son to college, I had the normal worries associated with a loved child's departure from home – would he eat enough? Rest enough? Study enough? One thing I never asked myself, though – is he fast enough if he had to outrun a gunman? This, sadly, is what American parents now are facing when it comes to their college students attending schools all over the country. My son will be on his way home tomorrow – classes are cancelled at his school, which has received a threat of violence from a shadowy figure(s) police have not yet found, and maybe never will. Recently, a young, educated man opened fired at Northern Illinois University, killing five students where they sat, notebooks open, probably wondering what they were going to eat for lunch, or thinking about calling home. A student was shot in the parking lot at University of Arkansas-Little Rock this past Wednesday, and Framingham State in Massachusetts had a bomb threat this week, while Bridgewater State College's president and student body were threatened with a multiple handwritten messages. Ferrum College in Virginia reported a gunman this month, and parents streamed to campus to try to retrieve their children. Lockdown is becoming as familiar a phrase as meal plan or advanced degree, and parents can now have potential threats texted to their phones. Kids who were in middle school during the time of Columbine and 9/11 are now college-age and under fire – literally. My son will be home tomorrow, leaving a mostly empty campus behind as worried students and parents make the decision that safe is better than brave, sometimes. The problem is, this could happen over and over again; we might be at the mercy of someone's idea of a joke. Where is their power? In our very understandable fear. The discussion on campus shootings is oddly reported – the details are given, in terms of deaths and circumstances, but there as of yet is not too much discussion on why this is happening – what is it that has gone wrong in society? To have an open discussion on this is threatening to some, because we don't want freedoms taken away or questioned. But college violence once or twice is an aberration, while shootings this many times is a pattern, and should be fairly examined as a pressing issue of a complex society. America is a place of free ideas and free speech. We can take you to the mountaintops, with soaring rhetoric and scenes of cinematic grandeur, and we can lead you to the valley, with movies, music and Internet ramblings so dark, so disturbing, that the off-centered and disturbed are among those who venture within. It is here that they can be fueled, supported, and energized in their strange ideas and careening isolation – instead of facing the light of a helpful and resourceful society, where hope lives. Our free speech, I believe – our right to put it all out there "creatively" and be protected, no matter how violent or disturbing - has helped to create a new species – the deadly young. We are the most wonderfully free nation on earth, it is true. We have young people of amazing depth, creativity and character within our borders who are stretching their wings away at school, realizing just who they can be. Their achievements and contributions can and will change the world – for the better. If given the chance they will cure disease, help the global needy, and literally reach for the stars through scientific exploration and discovery. This cannot happen, however, if they become increasingly afraid on their way to class, or in a lecture hall, or in their dorm. We may instead see a future where college kids have an option to learn at home instead of on campus, if the emotional toll of increasingly common threats becomes too high. A mind is a terrible thing to waste – and it's terrible to scare it to death, too. We may have to consider restrictions on the truly vile and violent "artistic expression" as one important step against the violent young – if we want to protect society. You can't legislate what is art or expression or communication in a free country, you may say. It's not black and white, you will remind. Maybe not, but what is black and white are trains and cars being boarded hurriedly because kids are coming home afraid. And kids are dying. That is as black and white as a rational person needs. I don't have the answers. But I am looking forward to seeing my son's face. You can contact Deirdre at www.exhaustedrapunzel.com.


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For sale: Historic local home that's a lesson in making a small house a work of art
One of the three Frank Lloyd Wright houses in the Puget Sound area is on the market, a perfect time to wander through it and wonder why its ideas are being neglected in this century's thirst for reasonably priced, modestly scaled homes.
Although the asking price of just under $2 million is a giant step out of the middle-class leagues, this house wasn't conceived as a baronial estate. Original owners Ray and Mimi Brandes wrote to Wright in 1951, asking him to design a small house for a "simple unaffected servant-less life." Jack Cullen, Ray Brandes' stepson and the present owner, says they envisioned it as a showcase for their contracting business.
It was, though for a reason they didn't expect. "He said it was the most complex project he'd ever built," says Cullen.
This is one of Wright's 50-odd Usonian houses, a brand the architect devised in the 1930s and continued to design until his death in 1959. "Usonia" was Wright's pet term for an America that might be perfected by his grandiose but populist vision. The idea behind these small houses was to offer beauty, practicality and affordability to families of average means. In practice, "affordability" never quite meshed into the equation, but Wright remains conspicuously alone among A-list architects who actually have tried to improve the state of middle-class single-family homes.
The Usonians weren't stock plans. Wright designed each one uniquely, right down to the furnishings and light fixtures. They were rectangular or L-shaped in plan, generally constructed of concrete block and redwood, with lavish window areas and lovely but fussy detailing that kicked up the cost. Living rooms were large and bedrooms minuscule, but built-in plywood furniture made excellent use of space. Wright also invented the carport for the Usonian house, and it spread to the suburban "ranch" houses of the '50s.
The rumor that Wright's roofs chronically leaked has been repeated so often it's imbedded in cliche -- and it's true. "It leaked up until two years ago," Cullen confirms. "Three different roofing engineers worked on it. Finally we had a 'torch-down' layer (rubber vulcanized onto fiberglass) put down and by God fixed it."
The Brandes house occupies three wooded acres on the Sammamish Plateau. It's very compact by modern standards -- 1,600 square feet plus a 300-square-foot guesthouse -- but it feels astoundingly spacious when you walk in and settle down in the living room. A wall of windows on one side, French doors on the other, and clerestory windows surrounding a ceiling recess flood the room with daylight and connect it to the outdoors.
The house exudes quiet dignity, and yet it's bristling with quirks. The kitchen features a custom-fabricated stainless steel countertop with five electric burners, a forerunner of modern cooktops. The two children's bedrooms open onto a micro-hall barely 18 inches wide. The likely reason was to allow the children an intermediate degree of privacy without shutting their doors -- Wright loved to experiment with familial social engineering in his house designs. The guesthouse enjoys a fireplace in a miniature den, which Cullen uses as an office, but oddly, there's no plumbing.
The welcoming mood of the house, though, is remarkable. Typical of Wright's residences, it doesn't feel pompous or self-consciously arty; an ordinary family and its clutter could move right in and feel welcomed. Amend that: an ordinary family and a fraction of its 2007 clutter. There's no basement, no "bonus room" and no garage, and the closets are just cabinets.
Cullen spent his teen years in the house and later raised his own two children in it, and he thinks its refusal to engorge too much stuff is a positive quality. "You just don't let clutter accumulate. The kids recycled their toys instead of letting them pile up. When you come across something you haven't used in five years, you know it's time for it to go to a garage sale."
He's selling it, he says, because his kids are grown and it's time for a change in his life. The house has been on the market for several months, obviously in search of a special buyer. The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, a non-profit that fights to preserve the architect's work, holds a preservation easement, which means that future owners will have to get conservancy approval for alterations. Updating kitchen or bath in appropriate style probably would be OK'd; grafting on an addition or plastering over the concrete block would not.
"Generally, people who are interested in buying a Frank Lloyd Wright house don't want to make radical alterations," says Ron Scherubel, the conservancy's executive director. "They like the design and appreciate its historic significance. But I'm always telling people, 'Don't buy a Frank Lloyd Wright house by mistake.' "
Despite his endless idiosyncracies and frequent crackpot pronouncements, Wright held to a noble belief that all people, regardless of their resources, deserved to have their lives uplifted by beauty. This house does so not with bombast but with many small details that enrich the quality of its space. Brendan Gill, Wright's most penetrating biographer, said it perfectly: Even a casual visitor to a Wright house feels an "expansion of spirit" because of the dramatic manipulation of space and dazzling geometry.
For example, the mitered glass windows that turn the corners subtly erase the sense of the house as an enclosure walling off the surrounding woods; it feels an integral part of its environment. The wedge-shaped redwood dentils on the fascia create a clicking visual rhythm that abstracts the geometric cycles of nature: solid and void, bounty and bust.
Of course all this came at a price. Ray Brandes bled out of money before he got to those finicky dentils; Cullen finally added them according to the blueprints a few years ago. "A carpenter spent 2 1/2 weeks routing them, then I finish-sanded each one," he sighs. "It was a mammoth undertaking."
Many ideas here could easily translate into contemporary homebuilding: the quality of the daylighting, the efficiency of the built-in furniture, the richness of interior textures in the concrete block and honest wood paneling. But the most important point is that a house's square footage is irrelevant to the quality of life that it engenders. Wright himself proclaimed that "a house is more a home by being a work of art." That can be taken as elitist, but it also can be an argument for small, unpretentious, quietly beautiful buildings just like this.


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For Danika, the only thing worse than going commando while wearing a fugly, silver bodysuit, was dealing with her deadbeat, ex-husband James. Catcalls, unwanted groping and lecherous stares weren't really her cup of tea either, but she'd endure all of it and more if her new job serving cocktails at Masquerade meant ridding herself of his mountain of debt. It was just a job, after all, and what choice did she have with James' creditors breathing down her neck? What she didn't bargain for, however, was falling heels-over-head in lust with a two-hundred-plus pound, shape-shifting immortal from Ancient Greece.
On a mission to take down a parasitic demon, Ty doesn't have time for distraction. Not even when that distraction could prove to be his possible life mate in the form of sweet, innocent, yet sexy-as-hell Danika. But when the leech he's hunting goes after the cocktail waitress, all bets are off. Unable to resist her siren call any longer, Ty surrenders himself to Danika, body and soul, treating them both to a night they'll never forget.
Bloody, dismembered bodies never got easier to look at. No matter how many millennia you roamed the earth. Ty stood from the cluster of torn limbs and viscera, disgust coating his stomach. Glass, splintered wood, and torn, blood-soaked paper littered the hardwood floor, every inch of the taupe walls in the small upscale apartment spattered with gore.
"It happened maybe an hour ago. Two at most." Athena stood from where she knelt, her long, jet-black hair cascading across her black leather jacket like a shiny curtain. "The scorch mark is still fresh."
Ty stared at the large circular burn mark on the floor and gnashed his teeth. He'd seen enough inter-dimensional landing pads to last him a lifetime—a thousand lifetimes. It was always the same: some hopped up demon, drunk on his own power, would decide he was the exception to the rule and cross over into the mortal realm, usually through a crack between dimensions.
Ty glanced over his shoulder toward the pile of female parts littering the sofa and floor. The underworld visitor had hit pay dirt, landing in the middle of what looked like some sort of book club gathering. Red wine mixed with blood seeped into the oriental throw rug; some type of uptight, crudités appetizer peppered the carpet along with a few well-manicured fingers.
"Great Zeus above…" Ty shook his head. It had been a bloodbath. The poor women never stood a chance.
Demons weren't permitted out of Tartarus, and for good reason. Hungry for both flesh and innocent souls, they treated the human population like an all-you-can-eat buffet.
This, of course, was where he came in. Leader of The Order of Seven, and a favorite of Athena despite his outward hatred of her, he'd been summoned to the grisly scene just moments before.
Plucked from the bowels of Hades by the goddess herself, Ty and each of his six warrior brothers had been saddled not only with the lovely gift of immortality, but with an inner beast, a fierce mythological creature that would lie dormant within until it came time to battle. Ty's beast, a Nemean lion, was especially vicious. Three times the size of a normal lion, it sported an enormous jaw that could pulverize steel and claws that could cut through the thickest armor. Even more astonishing was its fur. A deep burnished gold, smooth and thick, it was impervious to mortal weapons, making it virtually indestructible. Unearthly handsome in his mortal form, and blessed with the strength of a thousand men, he was the perfect warrior—cunning, lethal.
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The slick, pink fold-out brochures started appearing on front doorknobs across Western New York in late March.
The promotional army behind "Shen Yun," which has shown itself to be a propaganda and fundraising vehicle for the Falun Gong religious movement masquerading as a Chinese dance spectacular, has spent untold amounts of money advertising its Wednesday stop at Shea's Performing Arts Center.
In addition to traditional advertising techniques like billboards and full-page newspaper ads, the promoters of the show have staffed eye-catching kiosks at local malls and papered neighborhoods with brochures hung from front doorknobs in order to stand out from mailed advertisements.
But in order to ensure their message gets out with little to no interference, the master propagandists behind "Shen Yun" have resorted to some ethically questionable approaches. Search for the dance company's name in Google News, for instance, and you'll get hundreds, if not thousands, of articles from a newspaper called The Epoch Times and an outfit called New Tang Dynasty Television.
Both organizations were founded by the Falun Gong movement (also known as Falun Dafa) more than a decade ago to promote its agenda. These nominal media organizations contain a seemingly endless supply of positive "reviews" of "Shen Yun," calling the show, among other things, "the profound, quintessential end of perfection of the human spirit" and "nothing short of a miracle."
You have to dig deep to find any skeptical coverage of the show or the movement, or even any positive coverage from independent media outlets. It's clear that the promoters of the show have engineered it this way. (An email to the local Falun Dafa group responsible for promoting the show seeking comment about its religious content went unanswered.)
Whatever you think of "Shen Yun," the fact that an organization would manipulate Internet search results to this degree should raise a red flag.
When I saw the show at Shea's in 2009, it struck me as a thinly veiled advertisement for the Falun Dafa sect and a political response to the brutal treatment of its followers at the hands of an oppressive Chinese government. It did contain many bright costumes and some classical Chinese dance, but these elements were clearly secondary to the religious and political message the show was designed to promote.
My heart genuinely goes out to the members of the Falun Gong movement, thousands of whom have been forced out of their native country.
To be sure, the persecuted Falun Gong movement is within its rights to promote its agenda. Through The Epoch Times and other means, it has worked hard to expose human rights abuses at the hands of the Chinese government that has mercilessly suppressed the movement's spread. Many of the goals of Falun Gong followers are laudable, and its religious tenets – while perhaps striking Westerners as odd – seem to be generally focused on meditation and moral teachings.
But none of that excuses its creation of one of the most brazen and deceptive theatrical infomercials ever conceived.
An argument could be made that this critique of "Shen Yun" could just as easily be applied to Christian art and music – say, the spiritually inflected work of Bach, Mozart or Handel. But those works make no bones about what they are by pretending, for instance, to be about baseball or science. "Shen Yun" sets out from the very first to deceive those who would spend up to $120 to see it, and anyone headed to Shea's this week should be aware of that.
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The absence of a distinctly defined role of employees and an amorphous perception of their roles and responsibilities in the organization may have a downturn effect on the employees' morale and self-esteem. Role Perception of the employees acts as one of the most critical components in the workplaces today. It also plays a key role in an individual's performance. A misty perception of the role may also lead to underperformance by and underutilization of the potential of the individual. Consequently, the organization may lose not only some vital man-hours but also some of the most competent employees, in the long run. It is, therefore, in the organization's interest to provide a clearly-defined role to every employee as a step towards combating the ever-increasing competition in the global milieu.


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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
• When asked if all the hooker stuff swirling about him has taken a toll, Manchester United's cheeky lil boy Wayne Rooney said, "I can't say yes and I can't say no but I just need to try to get back to doing what I do best — playing football. I'm only a human being. I hurt as well." [DailyMail.uk]
• Speaking of prostitution, Cowboys WR Miles Austin is having problems coping with Kardashian-love lost.
"Sitting on the floor of the Lakers game with her (Kim Kardashian) was better than any commercial of him that would ever run," an insider told the website. [FoxSportsSouthwest]
• Here's an NL playoff-possibilities breakdown:
If the Padres win and Braves win Sunday, there will be a three-team tiebreaker — the first in Major League history. The Giants would face the Padres on Monday in San Diego for the NL West title. The loser travels to Atlanta for a game Tuesday with that winner being the Wild Card entry.
If the Padres win and Braves lose, the Padres and Giants would tie for the West title. But because the Padres own a better head-to-head record against the Giants in 2010, the Padres would win the NL West and have home-field advantage in the first round against the Reds. In this scenario, the Giants would be the Wild Card entry.
If the Giants and Braves win, the Giants win the NL West and the Braves are the Wild Card entry. The Padres would be finished for the season.
If the Padres and Braves lose, the Padres would travel to Atlanta for a one-game playoff Monday to determine the Wild Card entry. That team would then face the Phillies in the first round. [MLB.com]
UPDATE: The general consensus is that the league post from which this is excerpted is incorrect. If the Braves advance, they can't play the Phillies in LDS, as the Giants and Padres couldn't play in the first-round, either.
• Here's an AL playoff-possibilities breakdown:
... the Yankees need to beat the Red Sox today and the Royals to top the Rays in Kansas City to [win] the East and open the ALDS against the Rangers at home Wednesday. ... If the Yankees don't finish ahead of the Rays who hold the tiebreaker, they will start the ALDS against the Twins in Minnesota Wednesday. [New York Post]
• The New England Patriots' schedule is apparently more important than the children of Foxboro's ability to go door-to-door for candy. Wonder whether this will inspire any yoots to wear a Cuckold Brady costume. [Fox25]
• Lane Kiffin: Still a failure. [Los Angeles Times]
• LeBron doesn't really respond to Charles Barkley's assessment that playing the race card was "more stupid" than "stupider." [South Florida Sun-Sentinel]
• Oh look, 9/11 talk has crept into the Ryder Cup because Corey Pavin brings soldiers in for pep chatter.
In the aftermath of the terrorist atrocities of September 2001, America's golfers postponed the Ryder Cup because they felt 'unsafe' and too frightened to travel. ...
Yes, it was the American team's right not to travel. But it does make all the war talk and swanning about in Top Gun bomber jackets with their names embroidered on the back look even more preposterous.
There is no war here. The best team will win. [DailyMail.uk]
• Whatever. Here's a guide to Ryder Cup Wags. [It's Always Sunny in Detroit]
• Rafael Nadal didn't have a good day in Thailand. [Bangkok Post]
• Sheer quality, indeed ...
• And, finally, from the "Hickey's Biased" coverage files … The Phillies don't know who they'll be playing in the NLDS yet. But, Roy Halladay's pitching Game One [Philadelphia Inquirer]. The Cubs' Tyler Colvin's still bouncing back from when that shattered bat collapsed his lung [Chicago Tribune]. Fightin' Blue Hens go to 5-0 on a last-second FG [BlueHens.com]. Fightin' Irish 31, Boston College 13; so, Frank Spaziani's safe, for now [Boston Globe].
Morning. Happy you made it back. Let's see what we can learn amongst ourselves before I head down to the bar a few blocks from where Clubber propositioned Adrian to watch McNabb v. Vick I.


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"I'm welding a very fine protective coating onto a component of a Bombardier CRJ900 brake system. It's a demanding task that requires maximum precision and can be done only with the aid of a computer-guided laser welding machine. The circular component that I've attached to the welding machine at chest height holds the disc brake assemblies in place. When an aircraft brakes, it's not just the brake assemblies that become worn, but also the thin metal bars on which they sit. Although bar wear is minimal, at a certain point, bars do require repair. This is what I set up the welding machine to do; everything else is automatic. The ferrous material on the spool level with my forehead is unreeled and then heated by laser beam for 15 milliseconds so that it melts; a layer precisely one millimeter thick can then be applied. Now the machine moves on to the next position and repeats the process. A good ten hours later, the entire component has been repaired."


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Obling, Anne Roelsgaard (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis is the result of an ethnographic fieldwork at a major university hospital in Denmark that I undertook between June 2009 and January 2011. I was an 'embedded' observer in a cancer clinic and entirely dependent on the staff – administrative and clinical – for access to facilities, people and diseases. That said, I was never asked to modify my writings in any way or to show the content of my field notes or tape recordings. Neither does the hospital have any formal share in the overall thesis. The responsibility for the final outcome is on my shoulders alone. As an embedded observer I was to handle personally sensitive data, such as specific details in patient records, with confidentiality. There is no information in my writings which can be traced – directly or indirectly – back to individual patients or relatives at the hospital and hence disclose their identity. My observations lasted anywhere from 20 minutes (the length of a typical staff meeting) to five working days in a row. During a day of observation, I followed doctors from they arrived in the early mornings; when they attended the morning conferences, until they left the hospital in the late afternoon after hours of clinical work in the outpatient clinic. I also followed them in their offices and in the operation theatres. Many tableaux from the thesis you are reading now were recorded in my notebook and then reconstructed in the later writing. Wherever possible, I have used my free access to the hospital to check the accuracy of my writing, for example by procuring typical situations more than once or by going through precarious details with involved staff members. Statements that appear in quotation marks ('…') were recorded directly on my tape recorder or in my notebook while the person was speaking, or immediately hereafter. Through the process I have shared my ideas with the staff members involved to make sure that they understood the purpose of my work and also in order for them to have a chance to feel comfortable with my presence. Throughout the thesis, I have shortened quotes from documents and interviews in order to make the text more readable. In addition to my fieldwork at the hospital, I have worked with the sociologist Nanna Mik-Meyer. In her work, Mik-Meyer has focused on general practitioners and their preoccupation with patients who attend the consultancy with medically unexplained symptoms. Parts of the raw data material from some of her previous studies became the basis of a co-authored article, which is included in this thesis. Utterances from individuals described in this article are directly quoted from a larger quantity of interviews with general practitioners in primary care medicine. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8419
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Abstract: In encounters between general practitioners (GPs) and patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), the negotiation of the sick role is a social process. In this process, GPs not only use traditional biomedical diagnostic tools but also rely on their own opinions and evaluations of a patient's particular circumstances in deciding whether that patient is legitimately sick. The doctor is thus a gatekeeper of legitimacy. This article presents results from a qualitative interview study conducted in Denmark with GPs concerning their approach to patients with MUS. We employ a symbolic interaction approach that pays special attention to the external validation of the sick role, making GPs' accounts of such patients particularly relevant. One of the article's main findings is that GPs' criteria for judging the legitimacy of claims by those patients that present with MUS are influenced by the extent to which GPs are able to constitute these patients as people with social problems and problematic personality traits. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8857
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