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Asian giant hornets and other terrifying creatures
By Mike Leahy and CNN staff • Updated 4th October 2013
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have killed at least 42 people in China since July and left more than 1,600 injured and dozens more suffering from multiple organ failure and severe allergic reactions.
But the Asian giant hornets aren't just a problem in China -- they're also found in other countries, including nearby South Korea and Japan.
Travelers would do well to know how to behave if they're faced with these deadly creatures (tip: walk away, don't run).
While it's easy to assume that the relevant vaccinations -- and maybe an anti-malarial medication or anti-histamine -- would keep us safe on our overseas travels, such an assumption can be dangerous.
There are plenty of unexpected threats out there that could turn your vacation into a nightmare --- and possibly kill you. Here are 10 of the more treacherous creepy-crawlies out there.
Swarms of aggressive hornets have killed dozens and injured over a thousand people in China.
10. Loa loa
This disease is spread by the bite of the innocuous mango fly, but can leave victims with worms crawling out of their eyeballs. (Google "Loa loa" at risk, the images are graphic.)
It's only number 10 on this list because it won't kill, and may not even blind, but it's still pretty freaky.
For travelers to sub-Saharan Africa the best protection method is to cover up with long sleeved clothing and consider using insect repellent.
9. Assassin Bug
The Assassin Bug first finds its sleeping victim using its natural thermal-imaging camera, then a chemo-sensor that can detect carbon dioxide.
The Assassin Bug on the writer's face.
courtesy Mike Leahy
Once it lands on the face the bug feeds on blood from the lips or eyelids -- without its victim even knowing it's there. As the insect feeds it also defecates, and that's how a tiny single-celled parasite can leave the assassin bug and enter your bloodstream, leading to Chagas Disease.
Over the years Chagas Disease can lead to the stopping the muscular contractions of the guts, leading to the body filling up with its own waste products, or it may simply cause heart failure. The bite of an infected Assassin Bug supposedly killed Charles Darwin, after decades of suffering.
Although present in the United States, this bug, and the disease it carries, is normally only a problem in Central and South America. Sleep in a romantic thatched beach hut at one's peril, because assassin bugs love making their homes in such places.
8. Botflies
If you knew that there was a large, slow-moving fly at large in South America, and that if it landed on you it was likely to lay eggs onto your skin that would hatch immediately and release larvae that would burrow into your flesh and eat you alive, then you'd probably squash it.
But the botfly has evolved to avoid this response by "kidnapping" other innocuous flies or mosquitoes and laying eggs on them instead of its intended host.
When the "kidnapped" fly lands on the skin, the eggs drop off, larvae burrow into the skin and make it their living dinner -- without the parent fly ever being at risk.
A botfly infestation might not kill, but is messy, and it hurts. Doctors will usually cut out the larvae pustule and prescribe antibiotics to clear it out of the system.
Again, the best protection is to cover up.
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7. Intestinal worms, roundworms, hookworms and tapeworms
These creatures rarely kill, but they will cause discomfort and embarrassment. In more severe cases, they can grow in the brain, causing fits and seizures.
Tapeworms are usually contracted when eating under-cooked meat, whereas the larvae of hookworms and roundworms don't even need to be eaten. They can access a body by burrowing through skin, without the victim noticing.
Once in your body, roundworms share their victims' ingested food (although they can also block the intestines). The hookworm, however, feasts on the blood.
Don't eat under-cooked meat and never walk barefoot in developing or tropical countries because the roundworm ascaris lumbricoides is said to infect 75% of the world's population.
6. Irukandji
The Irukandji jellyfish, considered by researchers to be one of the world's most poisonous creatures, is only the size of a thimble.
The Irukandji jellyfish is only the size of a thimble.
courtesy Mike Leahy
A tiny jellyfish that is almost invisible, the Irukandji has a painless sting, but can cause massive pain and suffering afterward.
The threat is not just for swimmers. It's been reported that a 45-year-old Filipino was stung by an Irukandji while fishing from a bulk carrier.
The man, who was airlifted to hospital, was 25 meters above sea level when stung. It's thought that the creature was blown up with sea spray. Jellyfish nets aren't effective either because this tiny animal can slip through.
Wearing a "stinger suit" is advised when swimming in Queensland or the surrounding region during Irukandji season, and never swim on beaches without lifeguards with reliable local knowledge.
This little beast is most problematic around the east coast of Australia.
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5. Wandering spiders
One of the most venomous and dangerous spiders in the world is the Brazilian "wandering spider," or "banana spider," although its bites are also famous for another nasty side effect.
The venom can cause involuntary and long-lasting priapism for men.
Chances are the victim won't be able to put it to good use before he dies from the other components of this potent toxin.
4. Bloodworms
The very name "bloodworm" sounds macabre. But the damage they can do to the human body, and the sheer scale of the problems caused by these tiny parasites, is far scarier.
The larvae (cercaria) of these little animals live in freshwater snails, usually in relatively clear water. But when they sense a warm-blooded host, such as a human being swimming past, they swim towards it, penetrate the skin, move around the body, and finally make their home in the intestines, or the bladder, where they can live and reproduce for up to 12 years gradually destroying the organ that they made their home.
It sounds like something out of a sci-fi film, but it is definitely not rare. Up to 200 million people suffer from schistosomiasis (bilharzia) worldwide and a large proportion of these will die prematurely from the illness.
The solution -- don't swim in slow moving fresh water anywhere in sub-Saharan Africa or South America. In other places check first. People have even contracted the disease in un-chlorinated swimming pools in Rio de Janeiro.
3. Sand flies
In South America a sand fly bite can lead to the eyes or nose being eaten away by bacteria, and in the Indian sub-continent the disease that they carry can (and often does) kill.
The tiny flies don't make a buzzing noise and can sneak through mosquito nets, making any form of defense difficult.
Insect repellent, long-sleeved clothing and avoiding sand fly habitats are the best tactics.
2. Day-biting mosquitoes
Researchers are working on a dengue fever vaccine. For now, the only protective measure is to cover up and wear repellent.
Day-biting mosquitoes can spread a disease called dengue fever, otherwise known as "break-bone fever.
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Most of us know that we should avoid going out at night without some form of protection against evening-biting mosquitoes, whether that is in the shape of long-sleeved clothes, insect repellent or simply staying inside.
However, day biting mosquitoes can spread a disease called dengue fever, otherwise known as "break-bone fever."
The first time the victim contracts it, he or she will probably survive. The second time it's possible to develop dengue hemorrhagic fever, in which case one's organs can turn to mush and bleeding proceeds from every orifice -- and there's a good chance of death.
Dengue is widespread across most of the tropics, with cases often occurring among backpackers on idyllic Southeast Asian islands, but if that's not bad enough daytime biting mosquitoes can also spread tiny worms that cause lymphatic filariasis.
Also known as "elephantiasis," the worms block the lymph nodes of the body's drainage system" causing testicles to swell to the size of beach balls and legs to resemble tree trunks.
In areas of India up to one third of the population may be infected, and the disease is essentially incurable.
So, cover up in the day time as well as the evening, unless you know that it's safe to bare your flesh.
1. Candiru fish
Candiru fish attacks are not a regular occurrence, but the consequences are so dire that it definitely merits its place as the No. 1 craziest threat when traveling.
The way to avoid this blood-sucking fish's unwanted attentions -- don't pee in the Amazon.
Though there's much debate about this fish and alleged tales of its attraction to urine, no man wants one stuck in their urethra, as happened to at least one poor chap in recent years.
Once inside, it will feed on flesh before surgery is required to get it out.
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As it stands right now, there are three biggish stories going on in the information policy world right now. As is usual with the IPC, access to information is our unifying thread.
First the World Intellectual Property Organization's treaty that wants to ensure print-disabled citizens can't have access to materials for them. That's going on right now. In Canada library organizations are urging Canada's negotiating team to argue for certain positions:
- That authorized agencies have the right to bypass a technological protection measure to make alternate format available to another authorized agency or qualified individual worldwide.
- That the treaty not include a "commercially available" restriction on the cross border supply of alternate formats. This would have the effect of placing cumbersome, if not unworkable, requirements authorized entities and severely impede the availability of content to all, especially in underdeveloped and developing countries.
- That cumbersome and unnecessary treaty language referencing other legislative (US fair use) or treaty (Berne's 3 step test) regimes is unnecessary.
CULC's full letter is available here. One of the issues with these treaties and negotiations has to do with our old friend Digital Rights Management (or TPM in Canada) and how the language of these agreements (and Canadian laws) are set up to benefit well-resourced lobbying groups even while there's some reasonable lip-service paid. So this is an issue.
There's also rumbling about Library and Archives Canada putting up paywalls on digitized materials. This one doesn't have anything official out there yet, so we'll just link to some preparatory ire.
And then thirdly there's the big American news about the NSA keeping databases of phone calls and the program PRISM that gives the NSA access to internet companies' information and just today Edward Snowden came forward as the leaker of that NSA information.
There's a lot out there on these things to read. David Simon (of The Wire fame) wrote about how this PRISM thing isn't a scandal because this is how the law works. Warrants are still necessary, and do you really want to take these tools out of law enforcement's hands?
Frankly, I'm a bit amazed that the NSA and FBI have their shit together enough to be consistently doing what they should be doing with the vast big-data stream of electronic communication. For us, now — years into this war-footing and this legal dynamic — to loudly proclaim our indignation at the maintenance of an essential and comprehensive investigative database while at the same time insisting on a proactive response to the inevitable attempts at terrorism is as childish as it is obtuse. We want cake, we want to eat it, and we want to stay skinny and never puke up a thing. Of course we do.
Others are talking about what shoddy journalism these leaked stories are since all the tech companies are denying that they're participating. And there's some indication that all these companies are doing is just making the NSA's job easier within the bounds of the law.
I have some sympathy with David Simon (and John Scalzi, for that matter) when they say that this whole thing is just how the world works and pretending to be surprised now is bullshit. Money and Power and all that. These are the laws we made to create a legal surveillance state. But that doesn't make it right. (It's also impossible to feel any sympathy for (and infuriating to see) a government who is trying to make itself out as the gut-wrenched victim though.)
There'll be more coming. But one of the things to be aware of here is that even though it's possible the only person who did anything illegal in regards to this whole NSA program is Edward Snowden for leaking it (and it is very interesting that Hong Kong is where he's hoping to avoid being extradited; the Chinese probably have more clout on that than they were portrayed as in The Dark Knight) that's a huge problem. We wouldn't be able to talk about what these surveillance laws hath wrought if someone hadn't snuck them out. This just highlights the importance of challenging and changing laws to fit the needs of citizens instead of law-enforcement and spy agencies.
Of course, it is possible to talk about these policies even without a scandal of illegality. Michael Geist has a great post (filled with links and analysis) talking about how the issues raised by PRISM apply in Canada:
Does this mean Canadian authorities are engaged in similar forms of surveillance? That phone companies such as Bell and Telus are subject to warrants similar to those faced by Verizon? That Internet companies co-operate with Canadian authorities? That Canadian and U.S. authorities share information obtained through programs such as the Verizon meta-data program or PRISM? That Canadians are targeted by the U.S. programs?
The law would suggest that all of these things are entirely possible. Given the integrated communications networks and the increased information sharing, it seems very likely. Yet since virtually everything remain shrouded in secrecy, Canadians don't know for sure.
That "shrouded in secrecy" is the problem in all three of these issues we're talking about today. As information professionals we need to push for more transparency in our laws. We also need to be working with organizations pushing for more privacy for individuals and more openness for governments (and other powerful organizations). This is one of those times we need to be supporting OpenMedia and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Last word for today comes from Edward Snowden:
The primary lesson from this experience was that "you can't wait around for someone else to act. I had been looking for leaders, but I realised that leadership is about being the first to act."
What do you think we should do?

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Thursday, July 22, 2010 Last Updated: 2010-07-22 13:00:30 -0400 (Reuters Health)
By Amy Norton
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study finds that the percentage of U.S. blood donors with evidence of hepatitis C infection is substantially lower now than in the early 1990s -- in what researchers say probably reflects an overall decline in the infection rate among Americans.
The findings also hint at a link between multiple pregnancies and the virus, and of a protective effect of obesity, although it's too soon to tell whether these associations will hold up.
Hepatitis C is a viral infection passed through contact with infected blood -- most often by sharing tainted needles -- though a small number of cases are sexually transmitted or passed from mother to baby during childbirth.
In a minority of people, the body is able to clear the virus soon after infection. However, the infection becomes chronic 75 percent to 85 percent of the time, often leading to liver damage such as chronic inflammation, scarring of the liver tissue (cirrhosis) and, in some cases, liver cancer. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that between 1 and 5 percent of people infected with hepatitis C eventually die of cirrhosis or liver cancer.
Since 1992, the U.S. donor-blood supply has been screened for hepatitis C, and the risk of receiving a donation carrying the virus is now estimated at one in 2 million, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Based on studies from the early 1990s, about a half a percent of U.S. blood donors between 1992 and 1993 harbored antibodies to hepatitis C -- which indicates either a chronic infection or a past infection that cleared.
The rate in more recent years had been unclear, however.
In the new study, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers analyzed samples from nearly 960,000 donors who gave blood at six U.S. blood banks between 2006 and 2007.
They found that less than a tenth of a percent of donors tested positive for antibodies to hepatitis C.
"It's a strikingly lower prevalence" compared with 1992-1993, said lead researcher Dr. Edward L. Murphy, of the University of California, San Francisco.
The decrease, Murphy told Reuters Health, likely reflects, in part, an overall decline of hepatitis C infection among relatively younger Americans. The "Baby Boomers" born between the late 1940s and early 1960s had higher rates of injection-drug use than subsequent generations, and therefore a higher risk of carrying hepatitis C.
In support of such a "birth cohort effect," Murphy's team found that in 2006-2007, donors in their 40s and 50s had the highest rate of hepatitis C compared with other age groups. In the early 1990s, the highest rates had been seen among donors in their 30s and 40s.
The findings, according to Murphy, suggest that the Baby Boomer generation is likely to have the highest rate of hepatitis-C- related liver disease, and that the rate will decline among younger Americans.
"I think the message here is a positive one," he said.
Of course, Murphy added, the rate of hepatitis C among blood donors would not be reflective of that among injection-drug users, who continue to have the highest risk of hepatitis C infection among Americans.
The study also found two "novel" factors associated with a higher risk of hepatitis C infection among blood donors.
Among women, the odds of having antibodies to the virus climbed along with the number of children they'd had. Of women who had never given birth, only about one in 3,300 had antibodies to hepatitis C, compared to one in 1,600 among women who'd had one child. The highest rate - about one in 1,000 -- was seen among women who'd had five or more children.
Murphy cautioned that "you don't want to put too much into one finding," and said that further studies are needed to confirm the association between childbirth and hepatitis C. But the finding, he said, raises the possibility that some women acquire the infection during childbirth -- via contaminated instruments or during C-section, for example.
The other new finding was that obese adults were less likely than their normal-weight counterparts to have hepatitis C antibodies. And among people with antibodies, obese individuals were less likely to have genetic material that signals the ongoing presence of the virus; the implication is that obese people may be more likely than thinner ones to clear the infection.
Murphy called that finding "surprising," and said that, as with the findings on pregnancy, more research is needed to confirm the association.
As for why obesity would potentially protect against hepatitis C, Murphy noted that obesity is believed to involve a chronic state of low-level inflammation in the body.
That inflammation is usually considered a negative thing, as it may contribute to diseases like diabetes and heart disease. But, according to Murphy, it's possible that when it comes to hepatitis C infection, inflammation involving increased production of certain immune-system substances is protective.
If further studies confirm the link between body weight and hepatitis C infection, he said, it will be important to weed out why.
SOURCE: http://link.reuters.com/muk98m Journal of Infectious Diseases, online July 9, 2010.


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For some time now, a cold war has been rumbling on between India and China – Asia's biggest economic powerhouses, and the predicted future global superpowers.
While tensions between these two nuclear neighbours have yet to reach USA – Soviet levels, there has been a long term antagonism between them as each strives for dominance in a new world of global economics.
One of the principal factors in the war has been commodities, both states are large scale producers of raw materials, as well as having massive amounts of cheap labour. The ability to vertically integrate production of items such as clothing for the export market has been massive for both China and India in terms of development and financial growth.
As I referred to clothing there, the obvious commodity which comes into play is cotton, the world's most successful commodity. It is grown on vast scales in both countries by both small holder cooperative type arrangements, and monocultural agri-business.
But China has always grown much more cotton than India – there are various reasons for this – now the main one now seems to be that Indian cotton is generally hand picked, as opposed to the machine picking which is done in countries like Australia (reportedly the world's most productive cotton country), the USA, Brazil, and indeed China.Even if this were to change, it seems unlikely that Indian soils, water supplies and farming practises would be able to sustain a greater level of production.
Per hectare Chinese cotton farmers may be able to plant more than ten times the amount of cotton plants than their Indian counterparts. This has an obvious affect on output. Production yield per hectare then is about 1,301 kg in China, compared to a 2008 high of around 554kg per hectare in India, which has now dropped to 475kg.
This low level production, along with a dry year, a drop in global cotton prices and a corresponding likely future decline in acreage under cultivation means that for India to maintain or increase its garment production levels, it is likely to move from being an exporter of raw cotton, to needing to import cotton in only a few years.
Added in to the mix is the factor of a growing battle for acreage between cotton producers and food grain producers – the latter being likely to secure better subsidies, thereby luring farmers away from cotton. India's growing demand for meat (as it develops a more western lifestyle) means greater demands on grains to be used as animal feed. That's not even taking the population growth into account.
We may note that some experts have also suggested that India's disasterous introduction of BT cotton into Maharashtra has also spoiled its chances of gaining dominance in the area of organic cotton production, this is my own area of particular interest – but not the subject of this article.
When it comes to textiles, China is the world's largest exporter, with a global market share of 28.3 percent in 2010, approximately 7 times the size of India's share of 4.3 percent.
It's massive export volume requires China to maintain a huge cotton processing industry, and as that grows its reliance on imported cotton, particularly from the USA, will grow. For India to continue to try and compete with China, it will have to go toe to toe in the search for sources of cotton to import. This may be good news for some of the South East Asian countries looking for cash crops, but India is way behind China in terms of its cultural outreach – Chinese influence and financial clout has seen it extend agriculturally into countries as far away as Africa.
As these two antagonistic neighbours both seek new sources of raw cotton, I predict that by 2020 we will see a marked rise in demand for conventional cotton from places like Central and South East Asia, and Northern Africa.
But despite China's dominant market share, India is used to pushing the odds, and to punching hard. Its vast population continues to grow exponentially and its financial muscle grows daily. If there is to be a cotton war, which seems highly likely to me, it could get very nasty, much may yet depend upon the USA's relationship with China, and how it's commitment to massive cotton subsidy holds up in the teeth of ongoin recession and growing demand for both bio fuels and food crops.
sources: Economic times; Tirupur exporters association; South Asian Idea
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Like a lot of kids who came of age in the 1960s, Rocky Powell would often grab his Super 8 camera and film everything from the happenings outside his house to the surfers in the waters off the San Diego County coast.
Some five decades later, the Emmy Award-winning Oceanside resident is poised to join the ranks of Hollywood movie directors.
His first feature-length movie — a romantic comedy filmed in New York, Illinois and Texas — has won the Best Picture Award at the California Independent Film Festival and the Audience Favorite Award at the San Luis Obispo Film Festival.
"Language of a Broken Heart" will make its Oceanside debut today at the Regal Oceanside Stadium 16. For showtimes, visit www.fandango.com/92054_movietimes
"Making a feature film has always been in my blood," said Powell, 58. "It's just taken a while."
Powell owns a beach home off Cassidy Street in Oceanside, but spends much of his time in Dallas. He grew up in Pasadena and spent many of his summers surfing in North County.
Powell began his career as a commercial photographer with a niche in advertising.
His production company, Rockhouse Films, specializes in commercials, and its client list includes heavyweights such as Walmart, Southwest Airlines and Lowe's Home Improvement stores.
He earned an Emmy in 2009 for his work on the "I Am CNBC" promotional campaign.
How did he go from commercials to a movie? "It was a lot of things coming together," Powell said. But he gives much of the credit to screenwriter and lead actor Juddy Talt.
Talt is the son of a good friend, Powell said, and was looking for a role after graduating from USC with a degree in theater and film. He decided that the best way to land a job was to write a script and cast himself in the lead.
Powell was game. Problem was, the movie would be a road-trip flick, the type of movie that can cost far more money than Powell had raised.
Talt came up with another idea.
"He had just gone through a pretty bad breakup with a girl," Powell said.
Suddenly, a new script was crafted. The movie would be about a best-selling author on love who reflects on his numerous romantic failures after finding his fiancée with another man.
"It was perfect timing," Powell deadpanned about Talt's breakup. "He couldn't have had better timing."
"Language of a Broken Heart" was filmed in 18 days and cost less than $500,000 to produce. Cast and crew were on location for two days in New York and one day in Rockford, Ill. The rest of the movie was filmed in and around Dallas.
Much of the preproduction work took place in Powell's Oceanside home, a modest abode that he has owned for more than 30 years. Break time was mostly spent surfing.
Reviews haven't been great, but they haven't been horrible, either.
The New York Daily News wrote, "Nothing terribly special here, but perfectly played and a spiritual cousin to such early '90s indies as "Naked in New York" and "Ed's Next Move."
A New York Times reviewer said the movie "eventually drowns in clichés and predictability, (but) it has a few decent moments of humor and some appealing performances that make it marginally better than most vanity projects."
Some scenes — including an after-breakup, time-lapse sequence of Talt in Times Square, set to music by Paul Simon — are especially impressive.
And the cast includes Oscar Nunez of "The Office" and Tony Award-winning actress Julie White, who also was featured in the "Transformers" blockbusters.
Powell says he's pleased with the film. "The audience response has been great," he said.
And when he puts together his next production, he'll have many lessons to draw from. Among them: Surround yourself with experience; make sure you have more than enough money; make certain the music is taken care of; and do your homework.
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But Powell isn't making any excuses — there's no need.
"We were told this would never be seen in any of the theaters," he said. "We were told, 'This isn't something that will end up on the big screen because you don't have any big stars.'
"But we did it. It's been screened in New York, Chicago, Denver."
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Santa María de La Rábida Monastery
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21819 Rabida, La, Palos de la Frontera, Huelva (Andalusia)
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Franciscan Monastery
La Rábida monastery has been a Franciscan community since the 13th century. It was declared a Historic-Artistic Monument in 1856.
It was constructed over La Rábita, a small Almohad building that gave it its name. It became a monastery in 1261, as shown in a papal bull from Benedict XIII allowing Fray Juan Rodríguez and his companions to set up a community. The Franciscans exerted a great influence in the area. The building is in the Gothic-Mudejar style and is for the worship of the Virgen de los Milagros, of whom there is a 14th century alabaster statue. Columbus took refuge in the monastery in 1490, after being told that the Catholic Monarchs had rejected his petition to mount an expedition to look for the Indies. The prior and Queen Isabel's confessor, Juan Pérez, persuaded them to listen to the proposal.
- Construction: Monastery
- Artistic period: Mudejar
- Historic period: 14th century
- Setting: Los Descubridores Column, "Santa María de la Rábida" Ibero-American Centre at the International Andalusian University, Monument to Plus Ultra, replicas of the Santa María, Pinta and Niña ships in the dock, Plaza de Macuro.
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By Scott Corrales
Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic UFOlogy
UFO Digest Latin America Correspondent
In 1972, astronomer and UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek created a classification system that while not widely mentioned these days, remains the general rule-of-thumb that governs descriptions of unidentified flying objects and attendant phenomena. This "taxonomy" constituted the backbone of Hynek's landmark The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry (NY: Ballantine, 1974), in which the author had the following to say about close encounters of the second kind: "The physical effects reportedly include tangible marks on the ground that can remain in evidence for days or even months, and come ostensibly from physical contact of the craft with the ground, scorching or blighting of things (particularly plants and trees), discomfort to animals as evidenced by their behavior, and such physical effects on the human observer as temporary paralysis, numbness , a feeling of heat and other discomfort."
UFO historian Jerome Clark, on approaching the subject of CE-II's decades later, has the following to say in his The UFO Book (Visible Ink, 1997):" By their nature, CE-IIs ought to be the most important of all UFO cases," (p.83) given the fact that the physical traces left behind by putative alien craft may actually lead to a better understanding–if not prove–the phenomenon's existence and origin." Overshadowed by more compelling accounts of alien contact and abduction, CE-IIs have been relegated to "supporting actor" status and have played a minor role throughout the 1990s and into the first decade of the 2000s.
A notable – and overlooked – CE-II occurred in the city of Poza Rica, Veracruz, on 22 May 1992 and involved multiple witnesses (a detail of particular importance in a field in which "one witness is no witness at all", or so it is argued): a teacher and the twenty children that excitedly made her aware of the situation.
Second grade instructor Zita Azuaria described the case to reporters from the Mexican tabloid INSOLITO, who covered the event. She indicated that it was a very warm, sunny day and that the time was 10:30 a.m., when all the children were enjoying recess by playing in the school's basketball court. According to Ms. Azuaria, a number of children soon approached her, claiming to have seen a bright flash produced by what they held to be a spacecraft.
"The children were telling me: "Maestra, it's a flying saucer!" but I paid them no attention. They came to find me at least two or three times and event then I paid them no attention. It wasn't until eleven o'clock, when we were heading back to the classroom, that I noticed all of them looking skyward. Once inside the room, I started assigning work, but noticed that a few students were missing."
Upon asking their whereabouts, Ms. Azuara was told by the other children that they were outside looking at the flying saucer. Intrigued, she decided to take a look for herself, followed by the students.
"It wasn't saucer-shaped," she told journalists. It resembled a wall-like structure, like a highly polished mirror, at least three meters tall. It was at least three kilometers away from our location, and there are small hills and a lot of vegetation in between."
Ms. Azuara detailed some of the children to inform one of her colleagues to witness the event. When the colleague arrived, the scintillating structure wobbled and appeared to have been sucked into the ground. It emerged once more to everyone's amazement, and then vanished into the ground once more. "Later that afternoon," she continued. "the authorities phoned me at home and asked me to retell my experience for the record. I insisted that it may have been nothing at all anomalous, but an experiment of some sort that was being conducted."
A number of strange circles were found on the soil at a nearby ranch known as "El Edén", which lasted eight days before being engulfed by the local vegetation. Ms. Azuara believed that the circles had been produced by the strange, shining object that her students had seen on May 22nd. Visiting the ranch personally, she complained of feeing a strange sensation within her body, leading her to suspect that there might have been some form of residual radiation in the area that no one had bothered to check. Other visitors to the ranch had indicated that the stones within the scorched circles appear to have melted and bubbled, as would a piece of metal heated to its melting point in a furnace.
Another multiple witness event sure to satisfy even the most conservative researchers occurred on October 7, 1993, when hundreds of people attending a fair honoring of St. Francis in the city of Pachuca, state of Hidalgo, were stunned to see a massive fireball streaming across the skies headed in a southerly direction. A group of musicians who were among the entertainers present at the event indicated that they had seen similar fireballs in the town of Valle del Mezquital, not far from the ruins of Tula. The musicians added that after the event, imprints allegedly made by the "landing gear" of a strange device were discovered.
Carried by the Light
This account takes us from Mexico to the Southern Hemisphere–namely Tandil, Argentina–where UFO activity restarted in earnest in early 2000, attracting national and international attention.
On Tuesday, May 9, 2000, Hugo Macías, 60, faced the task he had been performing–some might say heroically–for the past 37 years: delivering the city of Mar del Plata's La Capital newspaper to a number of locations along national highway 226. As he woke up in the pre-dawn hours to do his job, Macías began his paper route at the Gendarmería Nacional (national police force) building in Puerta del Abra on the road between Tandil and Mar del Plata. After dropping off copies of the paper, Macías drove on for a quarter of a mile when he felt a loud, unusual sound approaching him from behind. He stated that a cylinder of light "encircled" his vehicle, and placed the light's diameter at some 50 meters (160 feet). The unknown beam of energy "seemed to pierce the rooftop", according to the deliveryman.
At that point, explained Macías to an interviewer from the Diario de Tandil newspaper, his car radio inexplicably shut off, with the vehicle's engine and headlights following suit. Despite the engine shutdown, the cone of light transported the car an estimated 600 meters (1700 ft.) before abruptly disappearing and leaving the automobile by the roadside. "Everything came back to life," stated Macías, referring to his vehicle's electrical system, "and I found myself staring into a dark but starry night. In the sky above, [at an altitude] of some two thousand meters (6000 ft.). I could see a cylinder-shaped light heading toward a nearby mountain range…the whole ordeal lasted a matter of seconds, but they seemed endless. There were no other vehicles on the road that night: I may have passed two cars during the remainder of the trip."
Macías retold his experience to a group of friends and an Army officer. The duty officer at the Gendarmerie building later advised him that similar phenomena had been seen "five or six times" and that a burned circular shape had been found in a nearby prairie.
But the deliveryman was also made privy to a highly intriguing piece of information that appears to be a constant factor in Latin American UFO cases. The Gendarmerie, he was told by a local sheriff, discourages talk of UFOs out of a fear that stories "will attract NASA's attention, a fact which creates disturbances [given the fact] that NASA has an airplane with six scientists and an all-terrain vehicle which can go anywhere in the world to inspect different sites…many locals are troubled by the presence of such strangers." Stories of official-looking foreigners flashing NASA credentials and in clearly marked vehicles constitute a common experience in UFO cases from Mexico to Puerto Rico to the Southern Cone. Does the great esteem in which the U.S. space program is held outside the country represent a perfect cover for military or governmental investigators?
Hugo Macías cherished his brush with the unknown, and was proud of "having the satisfaction of having been contacted by something which many researchers would like to see and yet never have." His only complaints in the wake of the CE-2 were of a physical nature: while he felt no bodily effects at the moment of the incident, he came down with a migraine, laryngitis and a number of other ailments two days later. Such side effects have been reported in cases around the world: during a wave of "boomerang"-shaped saucers in Pennsylvania and western New York (1994), many eyewitnesses complained of similar physical maladies (cold or flu-like symptoms).
Out of Control in the Snow
Our friends at Grupo G.A.B.I.E. have submitted another fascinating account of strange events in Argentina – this time involving a electromagnetic phenomenon that could be construed as a CE-2 were it not for the absence of any discernible unidentified object or anomaly. Suffice it to say that Patagonia has always been a prime locale for high strangeness events and this is clearly one of them. The event occurred on 13 July 1988 in one of the southernmost communities on the South American landmass: Ushuaia, in the Argentinean province of Tierra del Fuego
While aboard Frigate Q-2 (ARA Libertad), a vessel employed in training Marines for the Argentinean Navy, Ocampo suffered injuries that would trouble him for the rest of his life, leaving him unable to use his left leg and hip and forcing him to walk in crutches. Since that time – the mid-1980s – he has lived in Usuaia, Tierra del Fuego, where he runs a food and beverage establishment on 25 de Mayo street.
In spite of his injuries, he was able to acquire a vehicle in neighboring Chile that was customized to his needs, allowing him to get around. During a particular morning in 1998, Mr. Ocampo boarded his vehicle to head to his business.
It was around seven o'clock in the morning when he drove along a snow-covered road, lined by many trees native to the area. He remembers listening to a local station when it dawned on him that he had forgotten his eyeglasses back home. He turned around and embarked upon the return journey – a distance of approximately 15 blocks – along open snowfields at the edge of the Olivia River.
At some point during the return trip, the radio suddenly went silent, just as the car made a sudden stop. Ocampo tried to re-start the car but obtained no response whatsoever. When he tried to use his cellphone, he found it was also out of order.
He tried starting the car repeatedly, wondering what was going on, until he finally succeeded. The radio died again, but the car remained in motion – only its driver had no control over the vehicle. The brakes and steering were inoperable, and it wasn't long before the vehicle left the road, as if guided by an invisible force. It plowed through a snowfield until it came to rest before a stand of cypress trees. Ocampo experienced injuries as a result of this and was rescued by a passing motorist. A tow truck eventually pulled out his car.
A series of stunning discoveries were made when the vehicle was inspected at a mechanic shop the next day: the car's battery had melted along with the entire electrical system. The instrument panel had been ruined as well. Not a single electrical device was salvageable. The battery of Ocampo's cellphone – which had refused to operate the day before – refused to take a charge and was also declared ruined.
"We believe that several things are described in this report," states Grupo G.A.B.I.E.'s report. "A clearly electromagnetic manifestation affected the vehicle's electrical system and all of its devices. The action was directed at Mr. Hugo Ocampo. It should be noted that at no time was another vehicle – 300 meters away from where Ocampo's vehicle drove off the road – was affected at all."
UFOs, wrote Professor Hynek, appear to regard cars as creatures to be investigated, and the UFO Enigma contributes the following words of wisdom in this regard: "One remarkable reported physical effect involves interference in electrical circuits, causing engines to cease functioning temporarily, radios to cut out or exhibit uncommon static, car headlights to dim or be extinguished for a short while, and, on occasion, car batteries to overheat and deteriorate rapidly." One can be almost certain that Mr. Ocampo would have wanted to hear something a bit more reassuring – if only to tell his insurance agent!
Electromagnetic effects on automobiles are not restricted to the Americas, either. In April 1974, a young couple strolling along the beach at Valdelagrana (Cadiz, Spain) noticed a luminous object a few hundred feet in the air and only several hundred feet away as it engaged in a slow descent behind a treeline. Feeling particularly adventurous, the young man and woman ran back to their car and decided to approach the alleged landing site. As they approached, they were rewarded with the sight of a static, luminous object some twenty feet off the ground. The unknown object gave off green and orange flashes from its lower section.
Their sense of adventure gave out at exactly the same moment that their car's engine shuddered and died. Despite their best efforts, the engine wouldn't turn over. Fear of the unknown washed over them as the object rose gently into the air, emitting a low, buzzing sound. Determined to drive away from the otherwise desolate location, the couple eventually got the engine to run, but noticing that it operated hesitantly. The battery was nearly drained, and the entire sighting of had lasted less than eight minutes.
Another intriguing Spanish case occurred during the Galician UFO Flap of 1995-1996. Andres Landeira, a resident of Galicia, Spain's northwestern corner, had no idea he was about to become a protagonist of UFO drama when on the night of February 26, 1996 he found that his car was unable to climb the steep hill which led back to his home in the city of Lugo.
The perplexed driver changed gears, but the sedan refused to budge. It was then that Landeira realized that the car was rising into the air. Panicking, he opened the door, hoping to jump to safety from whatever nameless fate awaited him, but he realized he was well over thirty feet in the air. "I held on to the steering wheel with all my might," Landeira would later tell UFO investigator Manuel Carballal, "I forced my back into the driver's seat and thought I was going to die, being taken to God knows where…Hell! I was really scared."
But the car was not spirited off into the black skies. Landeira observed that whatever had picked him up deposited him back onto the road just slightly ahead of his original position, but sideways. Aside from being badly frightened by the experience, the driver wasn't negatively affected. The only reminder of the event was the car's dashboard clock, which froze at precisely ten minutes before two o'clock in the morning.
Electromagnetic Effects in the Caribbean
Puerto Rican UFO researcher Sebastián Robiou, the tireless documenter of the UFO activity that overwhelmed the Spanish-speaking Caribbean in the early 1970s, looked into an alleged case of electromagnetic interference from an unknown source in his book Manifiesto OVNI.
In August 1973, a young man by the name of Antonio Jusin, driving a standard shift 1963 Impala, had no idea that he was about to entered in the annals of ufology. It was a Friday evening, shortly before midnight, and Jusin and a friend had set out from the town of Sabana Grande to Maricao in the southwestern corner of Puerto Rico – one of its most active areas for all manner of anomalies.
Driving his oversized car along the narrow mountain roads, Jusin noticed a light hovering over a nearby mountaintop. He made a comment to his friend, who dismissed it as a "beacon". Wending their way through the mountains, they saw the object again – this time larger than before. Startled by the sight, Jusin put the car into second gear…but the Impala stalled. Its driver was unable to make it go backward or forward.
Something prompted the alarmed driver to turn on his high beams, and the unknown light responded with a blast of light that turned night into day for at least a mile around, according to Jusin. The object advanced until it hovered directly over the Impala and its now-terrified occupants, descending. Nearly blinded by the light, Jusin was nonetheless able to see that his car's electrical system had died out – no lights, no radio. His friend struggled to keep him from abandoning the car and running for cover in the vegetation. Both men agreed to put the car in neutral and coast downhill to the nearest house; along the road, a friendly motorist in a Jeep offered to tow the stricken car back home.
"Upon arriving," Jusin told Robiou during an interview held in May 1976, "I opened the hood and saw that the battery had melted down to chewing gum, a rubbery mess. It was completely melted. I could also tell that the wiring was burned, completely charred. The lighting system was damaged. The starter was no good; the alternator, the horn, nothing. Neither the radio nor the tape player worked, or the clocks. That object ruined everything."
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Kathua is a city in J&K. The word "Kathua" is derived from the word "Thuan" in Dogri which means "Scorpions". Some believe that its name is derived from the name of Rishi Kashyap who disguised himself as a tortoise (kashua) for strong meditation. Kathua is also called 'the city of Sufis' owing to the presence of large number of Sufi Shrines of Peers.
Owing to the existence of a large number of Sufi shrines, Kathua is dubbed as the City of Sufis. The city is beautifully situated on the bank of river and offers itself as one of the best places to visit in Jammu & Kashmir. True to its title, Kathua houses several religious places including Jasrota temple (inside Jasrota fort), Mata Sundrikote, Mata Bala Sundri, Sapt Sarober and Airwan temple. A recreation park called Dream has also been set up in Kathua promising an enthralling rafting experience. The Ujh Barrage located 20kms away from Kathua is an idyllic picnic spot. Kathua also invites the history lovers to Jasrota Fort to witness the grandeur built tastefully by Maharaja Ranbir Singh. Also the temple of Maha Kali in the Jasrota village has emerged as a popular pilgrimage centre in the region. Kathua is a perfect blend of culture and tradition and offers an authentic picture of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Dustin Johnson has a game that fits perfectly with Augusta National.
He finally brought it with him to the Masters.
Johnson grabbed a share of the lead Friday with back-to-back birdies around the turn, pulling into a tie with 18-hole co-leader Marc Leishman at 6-under par.
Sergio Garcia, who had been tied with Leishman, dropped back after making three bogeys over the first 11 holes - quite a change from the previous day, when he had his first bogey-free round at Augusta since 2002 on his way to a 6-under 66.
Meantime, 14-year-old Guan Tianlang kept up his solid play after an opening 73, playing his first 15 holes Friday at 2 over. That gave him a shot at making the cut, which would be like a win for someone in the eighth grade.
Johnson's booming power and ability to hit high, right-to-left shots, would seem to make him a natural to contend at Augusta. But this is the one major where he's never been much of a factor, his best finish in three previous appearances a tie for 30th.
He missed last year's Masters after injuring his back lifting a jet ski.
"I've played OK here in the past, just not great," Johnson said. "It feels good. I've been working hard on the game the last month or so."
A native of Columbia, S.C., just an hour east of Augusta, he's always considered the Masters his favorite tournament. So, why has it been a bit of a struggle in other years?
"This is one of those courses, the more you play it, the more you get to know it," Johnson said. "When you get in trouble, you kind of know where you need to hit it so you actually have a chance to get up-and-down, or you know what side of the fairway to miss it on at certain flags. Every time you play here, you learn something about the golf course."
Garcia has always had more of a love-hate relationship with this place, and his mood was taking a turn for the worse when he struggled Friday to follow up his brilliant opening round.
He bogeyed the 350-yard third hole - the shortest par-4 on the course, dropped another stroke at the par-3 fourth and slipped again with his third bogey of the round at the 11th. In the process, he dropped three strokes behind Johnson and Leishman, an Australian who teed off right around lunchtime and kept up his solid play with three straight pars.
Of course, there's still a long way to go before the contenders are sorted out. Tiger Woods, the overwhelming favorite and right in the thick of things after starting with a 70, was one of the last players to tee off Friday. He's been cheered on by his girlfriend, Olympic ski champion Lindsey Vonn.
While plenty of eyes were on Woods and Vonn, the most compelling story Friday might be the youngest player in the field - heck, the youngest player in Masters history.
"The people here are very nice, rooting for me, and I feel comfortable on the course," Guan said Thursday.
One of his playing partners was certainly impressed. Two-time Masters champion Ben Crenshaw led the cheers for Guan, and the youngster relied heavily on the 61-year-old for advice as he made his way around Augusta.
"He played about four of the most beautiful, delicate pitches you've ever seen," Crenshaw said. "It must help to have 14-year-old nerves. I'm telling you, he played like a veteran."
Speaking of veterans, Fred Couples, the 53-year-old wonder playing his favorite tournament, was right in the thick of things again. He opened with a 68 and was still at 4 under through 12 holes Friday, just two strokes off the lead.
Rickie Fowler also opened with a 68, while 2011 Master champ Charl Schwartzel surged into contention Friday with an eagle at the second and a birdie on the next hole to get to 4 under.
Matt Kuchar, Jim Furyk, Brandt Snedeker and Justin Rose were among those joining Garcia at 3 under.
The second round began under cloudy skies, after overnight rain soaked the course. There was another round of showers for the early players, but the sun broke through around noon and the temperature was expected to rise into the upper 70s. The scoring chances were clearly more limited than they were the day before, when plenty of players took advantage of their gentle conditions.
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Liz Harper is an internationally renowned palaeontologist with an expertise in bivalve molluscs both fossil and living. She has a long association of some 34 years with the Department ever since she was an undergraduate at Gonville and Caius College. Her association with the Sedgwick Museum and its collections also dates back some 30 years since her postgraduate research on post-Palaeozoic fossil bivalves.
Liz's research was recognized in 1990 with the President's Award of the Palaeontological Association and the Annual Award of the Malacological Society of London in 1991. Subsequently she was awarded a Research Fellowship at Gonville and Caius in 1992. Her connection with the college has continued ever since. She was elected a Fellow in 1994, a College lecturer and Director of Studies in Earth Sciences since 2004.
Over the years, the continuing significance of Liz's research has been supported by grants from NERC and the EU Marie Curie network. She has been awarded visiting fellowships to the Smithsonian Institution, the Australian Museum (Sydney) and the University of Hong Kong. Altogether her research has led to the publication of some100 papers.
Liz Harper's contribution to malacology and palaeontology in general has been recognized within the profession by her election to the Council of the Malacological Society of London, the Vice-Presidency of the Society in 2000 and election to the Council of the Palaeontological Association.
Her connection with the Museum was formally established in 2004 when she was made an Honorary Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology. And in 2016 she became temporary director of the Museum whilst Dr Ken McNamara was on sabbatical leave.
Liz's research has given her an extensive practical experience of using museum collections both at home and abroad. Her long experience of the Department of Earth Sciences and the Sedgwick Museum has given her an understanding of the workings of an established University museum with large historic collections.
Liz replaces Dr Ken McNamara who has been Director of the Museum since 2011 and is now retiring and returning to Western Australia. Amongst his many achievements as Director, Ken made new appointments to the staff, which have helped improve the visitor experience and enabled a program of new exhibits. The exhibits showcase research in the Department and display material from the Museum's extensive collections.
Ken's tenure has also instigated a number of high profile digital projects. They include an interactive gallery display of fossils from the collection of the Renaissance artist Agostino Scilla, which are part of the Woodwardian collection. An eBook of Scilla's treatise on palaeontology 'Vain Speculation Undeceived by Sense', is available as a free download from the Museum website.
Although retiring as Director, Ken continues his researches on a wide range of palaeontological topics and his biography of the founder of the Museum - John Woodward.
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Harvard's beloved blonde takes the stage by pink storm in this fun, upbeat musical about self-discovery. Based on the adored movie, LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL stays true to form with a peppy score and playful book. This musical is ridiculously enjoyable from start to finish.
Elle Woods appears to have it all. Her life is turned upside-down, however, when her boyfriend dumps her so he can start getting serious about his life and attend Harvard Law. Determined to get him back, Elle uses her charm to get into Harvard Law. At school, she struggles with peers, professors, and Warner Huntington. With the help of Paulette and Emmett, though, Elle quickly realizes her potential and sets out to prove herself to the world.
This musical is relatively new to the theatre world, catering to the present-day's generation and culture. LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL is perfect for high school and community theatre, featuring a large ensemble and several big song-and-dance numbers.


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|A purple and gold flame
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|Astral Plane & Material Plane (Spiritveil)
|True Neutral
|Afterlife, Experience, Knowledge, and Undeath.
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Summary::Unborn god of the hevier, and supposed spirit of the material plane.
A god which does not quite exist yet, and at the same time is. Bardo Atman is the ultimate realization for the hevier, who believe their necromany tainted souls not only belong on the material plane, but ultimately will combine into a unliving god of the material plane. It is a subject which gains many enemies. While it is not known if their attempts at creating a god deep in some hidden, unknown vessel within the spiritveil are actually working, it is certain their beliefs have condensed upon the astral sea into a vague psychic storm of "ghostly purple flame and shafts of golden light". Though this collection of belief, which the hevier believe to be a reflection of the still forming god on the astral sea, a mere shadow of what is there, this thing is currently the source of all manner of faithful's spells.
Some claim that the diety is not only there, but sentient and aware, and has appeared upon the earth as an weaker, mortal avatar, as a stranger with burning eyes of purple flame.
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To experience life to its fullest and obtain knowledge is the code of the faithful, for they say when the spirit dies, if not granted the power to experience life beyond death, then that spirit will collect into Bardo Atman. Eventually Bardo Atman will awaken from his dream of thousands of dead souls, and the hevier will achieve their final state, a single, immortal collective godmind, a god upon the material plane.
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It is said that Bardo Atman will not awaken until he has obtained all that there is to know and experience, and so their followers are varied, curious, and never slothful. Something must always be done. Clergy adorn themselves with purple and gold colors, white bones, and hoods. Their cerimonies seem grim due to a large amount of bones and other marks of death being used, but for the faithful death is neither to be feared nor rejected, it is as basic as growing up.
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wilshergroup necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Around this time of year (i.e. the end of it), film fans usually trot out their "Best of" Lists. As much as I'd like to do the same, I don't even think that I saw ten films this year. Of those I really enjoyed only a few which is why I don't ever make these lists but I'm always looking for more films to love.
Part of the problem is that I rarely see what end up being my favorites in the year that they're released -- does anyone? About 10,000 films were released on the planet so how do people find their favorites before the planet goes full circle around the sun... and how are those films supposed to find their fans that fast?
Of the films that I saw, I quite liked The master although though, as with most PT Anderson films, felt like it gave me more to hold onto than truly admire. Skyfall was mostly satisfying although the pacing allowed my mind to repeatedly dwell on Bond's waxed cotton jacket more than the story. I thought The Dark Knight rises, though deeply silly and self-serious, was really exhilarating. Flight, on the other hand, was deeply silly and self-serious yet not exhilarating at all after the opening scene -- for some reason I've seen nearly every Robert Zemeckis film despite having not honestly liked any since 1985's Back to the future. As someone who can't get enough Middle Earth I thought The Hobbit: an unexpected journey was flawed but enjoyable ...and frequently just... too much. I remember The campaign and Wanderlust both being pleasantly diverting when I saw them but now they've almost entirely extricated themselves from my memory. Tim and Eric's billion dollar movie was bizarre and should've been annoying but was mildly amusing. Casa de mi padre was bizarre and should've been amusing but was mildly annoying.


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Never in the history of the automobile have engineers worked so hard to use so little fuel. With a 54.5mpg corporate average fuel economy mandate looming in the next 12 years, all have begun development of new technologies that will help cut gasoline consumption. Many new engines now employ direct injection fuel delivery, cylinder deactivation, and variable cam timing.
Some use turbochargers to provide a boost only when it's needed, thereby minimizing engine displacement. Many companies are also building transmissions with eight or more speeds as a means of wasting as little energy as possible.
Here, we offer a collection of some of the engine and transmission technologies shown at the recent 2013 North American International Auto Show. From tiny three-cylinder engines to massive V-8s, it demonstrates that fuel efficiency is the biggest motivator for automakers going forward.


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A friend tweeted me last week about a recipe for Glazed Chocolate Bundt Cake and said she thought of me when she saw it. I knew it was something I had to make once I read it. Right up my alley! Thanks for thinking of me, Erin! The original recipe comes from Eating Well, but I modified it to be gluten-free. Look at this yummy goodness…
Glazed Chocolate Pumpkin Bundt Cake
Makes 16 servings
1 3/4 cup gluten-free flour mix*
1 3/4 tsp. xanthan gum
1 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, (not Dutch-process) *I used Hershey's Special Dark
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice (I used 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp ginger, 3/8 tsp nutmeg & 3/8 tsp of all spice)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup nonfat buttermilk
1 15-ounce can unsweetened pumpkin puree
3/4 cup dark brown sugar, packed
1 large egg, at room temperature
1 large egg white, at room temperature
1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup light corn syrup (I used Agave Nectar)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup packed confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon nonfat buttermilk
2 tablespoons mini chocolate chips, or toasted chopped nuts
1. Preheat oven to 350. Spray your bundt pan with Pam or other cooking spray.
2. Whisk together all the dry ingredients, except the brown sugar; set aside.
3. Mix 1 cup buttermilk, pumpkin puree and brown sugar in a large bowl with an mixer on low speed. Beat in egg and egg white. Stir in oil and agave nectar. Gradually add the dry ingredients and mixing just until combined. Pour into the bundt pan.
4. Bake in the oven for 1 to 1 1/4 hours or until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out with just a few moist crumbs.
5. Let cool on wire rack for about 15 minutes and then remove from the pan and let cool for another 1 -2 hours. I put the plate that I wanted the cake on upside down over the pan and then turned upside down to limit the chance of any breakage.
6. Stir together the ingredients for the glaze & drizzle over the cake. Add the chocolate chips and/or nuts before the glaze hardens.
7. Enjoy!
Hannah wanted to help me out with the glaze. We thought the end product looked perfect for Halloween. Kind of like a spider web! 🙂 She is a great helper!
*Flour Mix – From Carol Fenster's 1,000 Gluten-free Recipes
1 1/2 cups sorghum flour
1 1/2 cups potato starch
1 cup of tapioca flour
This makes 4 cups. I store in a tightly sealed Tupperware container in my pantry.
Make sure to head over to check out Amy's Blog – Simply Sugar & Gluten-free for Slightly Indulgent Monday.
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I was preparing for a talk I'm giving on diaries and manuscripts and came across this site, which is part of a larger one on e-scrapbooking. This diary begins in 1916, when Louise was still in high school and ends it in 1919.
When Larry Johnson saw it on E-bay, it caught his interest and he purchased it. He and his wife(Annette Lamb) then set about finding out everything they could about the person who kept the diary and the environment she lived in. Using official records, yearbooks, books that covered the history of the events of that time, census records and a variety of other sources, they created a vivid and detailed account of the life of a young woman.
It turns out that Louise Hancock is no one's direct ancestor. She married in 1922, but suffered from tuberculosis and died at the age of 25 in 1924, leaving no children. Larry Johnson and Annette Lamb brought her back to life... and on their site they tell how they did it. It's a great site... combining human interest, inspiration and instruction.
Friday, November 17, 2006
Putting an old diary online --the diary of Louise B. Hancock
Posted by Bobbie at Friday, November 17, 2006
1 comment:
- Larry Johnson said...
Thanks for your great summary of our website on Louise Hancock. Annette and I are just starting to scan the pages of the diary and add those to the website.
I like your blog,
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When we created Kinja, we created it using Zurb Foundation, a responsive CSS framework. It was at version 3 back then and we used that version for a long time, for so long that Foundation 5 was almost public when we started to upgrade our own instance. Almost, but still not. That's why we started the upgrade process using the already available version 4. It seemed to be a good idea knowing changes from v4 to v5 will be less serious than from v3 to v4 anyway.
However, we needed a codename for the new design. For the Foundation 4 mockups Etele started working on I came up with Phantom and people around really liked it. I didn't tell everyone but I named it Phantom because Foundation 4 can be abbreviated as F4, and then there you are, F-4 Phantom II. When Zurb pushed Foundation 5 live two weeks later, it was an obvious choice to rename the project to Tiger.
At a later point Péter Orosz sent me this piece about codenames and it was pretty interesting to read it. Phantom was a good codename for an in-between product that never went live, while Tiger was also a good codename for something strong and faster, something roaring. Both codenames were emergent. Also the nerd factor was given with these NATO codenames. And now? I hope we'll still be using Foundation when Foundation 6 arrives.


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You create a "set" which is comprised of backgrounds and any items that you may want to add via different shopping websites. There are probably a million items to choose from. Anything from shoes, handbags, cosmetics, different fonts, fabric swatches and clothing. All to help you complete your virtual trend board. As a creative person who loves fashion, this is like a dream come true!!!
The site is unbelievably easy to navigate and once you create a "set" it will be saved to your account. When your set is done and published to the site, it lists all of the items you used on your set and what websites you can purchase them from. It's like having a personal shopper online!!!
If you are looking for a little inspiration for a special event, comment below or on Scout's Facebook page and I will put together a Polyvore set for you. The set that I am going to post was inspired by a friend who is taking a trip to Miami. If you want to see some of my other creations you can go to Polyvore.com
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Slain soldier's father protests NJ flag-lowering
John Burri lost a son in Iraq and believes lowering flags to half-staff should be done to commemorate those who gave their lives in service to the United States, not celebrities like Whitney Houston.
On Saturday, the 60-year-old spent US$12.95 on a three-by-five-foot replica of New Jersey's state flag and burned it on his outdoor grill in protest of Governor Chris Christie's decision to mark Houston's death by lowering flags in her native state.
"This was a person who was a great entertainer and a great voice," said Burri, who lives in the city of Wyoming in western Michigan. "But this was not someone who gave their life and shed their blood for our country."
Army Specialist Eric Burri was a gunner on a Humvee when he was killed in 2005 after an explosive device detonated near his vehicle in Baghdad. Then-Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm ordered flags lowered in his memory.
Houston died February 11 in Beverly Hills, California. A cause of death has not been released. Her funeral was held last Saturday. Flags were flown at half-staff at New Jersey state government buildings that day at Christie's orders.
The New Jersey Governor defended his decision to remember Houston in that manner, noting the 48-year-old icon was born in Newark and raised in nearby East Orange. Her music career spanned nearly three decades until deteriorating as she struggled with drug addiction.
"I am disturbed by people who believe that because of her ultimate demise - and we don't know what is the cause of her death yet - but because of her history of substance abuse that somehow she's forfeited the good things that she did in her life," Christie said last week. "I just reject that on a human level."
Christie should have found another way to honour Houston, Burri said.
"It was a slap in the face for every family out there who has lost a loved one in the war," he said. "It's a watering down of what it means to be a hero."
After buying the New Jersey flag Saturday, Burri said he tied it to the back of his car and dragged it around two Grand Rapids-area veteran's memorials and the cemetery where his son is buried.
"It wasn't a thing to do to degrade the people of New Jersey," he said yesterday.
"This is just how much it hurt, and sometimes you have to do something a little tragic to get your point across."


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Today the My Favorite Things team is sharing samples of two fun new Die-namics/Stamp sets — Jersey and Bookmark. I took this opportunity to make a card for my nephew's birthday.
Today I've used Jersey Stamp/Die-namics set, new Retro Squares and Notched Tag Die-namics with Hot Fudge cardstock.
I used the Retro Squares strip to frame the "Happy BD" message. The little star separating the words is from Lisa's Circus Spectacular.
The star tab is actually a Notched Tag, upside down. I die-cut the star from the "patterned" tag, then layered that tag atop a die-cut brown tag.
After die-cutting the jersey, I stamped the 16 (because my nephew is 16…wow) using Amuse Studio French Roast ink. The brown lines were drawn in with a marker (by simply following the embossed lines from the die-cut). I then layered the jersey atop two layers of die-cut tablet backing and adhered to the card using foam boosters.
I "borrowed" the idea from Lisa to use this sentiment from My Favorite Sentiments. She had used it inside a birthday card and I thought it was perfect. (Plus it's a nice, large sentiment. And this is a rather large card.)
Here are the details about the upcoming release:
- You can attend the New Release Party on August 7th from 8-10 PM EST here in the MFT forum where you can enjoy fun, games and PRIZES!
- The MFT release, including all new stamp sets and Die-namics, will take place August 7th at 10 p.m. EST. You'll find all the newest products here at release time.
- The guest designer contest is ON! Check out the forum for details on how YOU can win over $200 in stamp sets and Die-namics and play along with the MFT Design Team for a month.
- Teaser prizes continue so be sure to leave comments as you look! You can find direct links to all participating DT HERE. Each day, two prize vouchers are held by two members of our design team. You'll have all week to comment on each of the posts and all winners will be posted on Kim's blog on Tuesday, August 7th around 7:30pm.
I'll be back tomorrow with one of my favorite preview days — à la modes!
Thanks for stopping by!
Stamps: My Favorite Things "Jersey" Ink: Amuse Studio French Roast and Burano Paper: MFT Hot Fudge cardstock, Echo Park Paradise Beach (6×6) Accessories: MFT Jersey, Retro Squares and Notched Tag Die-namics, 7/8″ grosgrain ribbon, brads, foam boosters. Finished size 6 1/2″ x 5″.


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We love our electronics, but the increasing demands of high end gadgets put a huge amount of stress on their Li-ion batteries, to the point where it's not uncommon to have to charge your smartphone every day, and your laptop every couple of hours. We keep waiting for the next big thing in batteries, but what might make your gadgets keep going even longer could be a small tweak from an unexpected place.
Current battery electrodes are made from graphite, but it's hoped by switching to silicon, larger capacity and longer life Li-ion batteries could be a reality. The only problem is that we need to find something that can can bind effectively onto silicon electrodes. Current batteries use Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) which in addition to being toxic isn't very good at binding to silicon.
Luckily, they've found something that works better, and is substantially more environmentally friendly. Alginate is a polymer harvested from fast growing brown seaweed, and it's more efficient than PVDF with both silicon and graphite. The way it works is that the alginate forms a protective film on top of the silicon electrode to stop the electrolyte solvent from washing onto the surface of silicon particles, preventing the battery from decomposing.
"We specifically looked at materials that had evolved in natural systems, such as aquatic plants which grow in saltwater with a high concentration of ions," said Igor Luzinov, a professor in Clemson's School of Materials Science and Engineering. "Since electrodes in batteries are immersed in a liquid electrolyte, we felt that aquatic plants — in particular, plants growing in such an aggressive environment as saltwater — would be excellent candidates for natural binders."
With any luck, this will mean better, longer lasting batteries, and they might even be cheaper, too.


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The Supreme Court's decision to review two landmark cases that deal with same-sex marriage could determine the future of gay rights in all 50 states. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
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Updated at 6:50 p.m. ET: The Supreme Court's announcement Friday that it will take up two same-sex marriage cases this term gave advocates on both sides something to cheer about.
The court picked cases involving two measures that defined marriage as being between a man and a woman: the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law, and California's Proposition 8, a ballot initiative approved by state voters in 2008.
Nearly two decades of legal skirmishing over the question has left supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage alike hoping for clarity from the Supreme Court, which has never before considered the topic.
"We are delighted that the nation's highest court will decide whether to uphold the will of more than 7 million Californians who voted to preserve the unique definition of marriage as only between one man and one woman," said Andy Pugno, general counsel of Protect Marriage, which sponsored Proposition 8 and petitioned the court for a hearing after it was struck down as unconstitutional by a federal court.
US Supreme Court to take up same-sex marriage issue
"Arguing this case before the Supreme Court finally gives us a chance at a fair hearing, something that hasn't been afforded to the people since we began this fight," Pugno said.
At the same time, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who opposed enactment of the initiative, also welcomed the news, saying that "for justice to prevail, Proposition 8 must be invalidated so that gay and lesbian families are finally treated with equality and dignity."
Rick Jacobs, founder of Courage Campaign, a California group that campaigned vigorously against Proposition 8, said the Supreme Court hearing would hasten the day when the law would "catch up with the American public."
Supreme Court to hear gay marriage cases: Your view
"Sooner than later, no one will care about loving gay and lesbian couples marrying any more than they care about their straight counterparts doing so," Jacobs said in a statement. "Each day of delay brings more suffering and hardship."
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Edith Windsor challenged the Defense of Marriage Act after she received a $363,000 estate tax bill when her spouse died in 2009.
The case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, which President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1996, was brought by Edie Windsor, 83, of New York, who was assessed a $363,000 estate tax bill after Thea Spyer, her partner of 44 years, died in 2009.
The Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, made it illegal for the State of New York to recognize the women's marriage in Canada. If Spyer had been married to a man, the estate she left Windsor wouldn't have been liable for taxes.
"When Thea and I met nearly 50 years ago, we never could have dreamed that the story of our life together would be before the Supreme Court as an example of why gay married couples should be treated equally and not like second-class citizens," Windsor said Friday.
"While Thea is no longer alive, I know how proud she would have been to see this day," she added. "The truth is, I never expected any less from my country."
Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said the cases "present the Supreme Court with a monumental opportunity to affirm our Constitution's promises of liberty, equality and human dignity."
"The journey is not finished, for as long as DOMA remains intact, then true equality remains out of reach," she said. "The clock is ticking on DOMA — it's time the Supreme Court strike down DOMA and Proposition 8, once and for all."
But Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian advocacy group, said he was confident that the court "will recognize that DOMA is supported by numerous legitimate legislative purposes — all of which are consistent with our principles of federalism."
"The argument that the authors of our Constitution created or even implied a 'right' to redefine 'marriage' lies outside our constitutional law," Perkins said. "Additionally, we believe that the people's vote on Proposition 8 should be respected."
The court has never before waded into the highly contentious issue of same-sex marriage.
"This is a monumental action by the Supreme Court, because we know they're going to say something about gay marriage for the first time ever," said Tom Goldstein, publisher of the closely watched SCOTUSBlog. (SCOTUS is shorthand for Supreme Court of the United States.)
Michael Klarman, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, said he thought it was likely that the court would invalidate DOMA.
"There is some chance the vote won't even by 5-4, as some conservative justices who don't necessarily think there is a right to same-sex marriage will be troubled by the federalism implications of Congress' defining marriage rather than deferring to the states on this issue," Klarman, author of the forthcoming "From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage," told NBC News by email.
As for the Proposition 8 case, Klarman was less willing to make a prediction, saying the justices could "reject the argument that same-sex marriage is constitutionally protected, they could accept that argument or they could narrowly affirm the 9th Circuit and invalidate what California has done in a way that has no implications for any other state."
He said the last option was unlikely, which means "I would guess they will either broadly embrace a right to same-sex marriage or reject it."
Arguments are expected in March, with rulings likely by June.
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January 20, 2012
Beau Russell won an important decision for McGeorge's Immigration Law Clinic late last semester. Working with Professor Blake Nordahl, the third-year Day Division student was able to prevent a young father of two children from being deported back to Angola.
The client came from the war-torn African nation to Sacramento in his early 20's to go to college. Short of funds after one semester, he dropped out — leaving his immigration status in jeopardy. He applied for asylum, fearing a return to Angola, but in the meantime he met and married a U.S. citizen and they had two children. He dropped his asylum case and applied for immigration status through the marriage with his wife. Unbeknownst to him, however, the government had already begun deportation proceedings after a failure to appear in court following notice being sent to the wrong address. He discovered the deportation dilemma while appearing for a meeting in Sacramento concerning a petition based on his marital status.
"At the time, we took the case and appeared on behalf of the client in San Francisco Immigration Court," Russell said. "We informed the court of our desire to continue the process toward a green card based on the client's marriage to his wife. Our clinic prepared an adjustment of status petition, which included obtaining various documents, affidavits and other evidence.
"After filing the petition with the court, we again appeared on behalf of the client at an individual hearing," Russell said. "At this hearing, we called and questioned the client as a witness and defended the evidence presented in the filing. The judge held that the petition was satisfactory for an adjustment of status filing. We then registered the judgment with the Sacramento office, and the client received a green card a few weeks later."
It was another happy ending for the Immigration Clinic, which in its four years of operation has helped scores of clients navigate the complexities of American immigration law. Russell joined the clinic in spring 2011, and Nordahl kept him on in the summer as a team leader/student manager for the operation. Russell, a San Diego State University graduate and member of the McGeorge Rugby Football Club, has continued his role as team leader for both semesters of the current academic year.
"The clinic has been a rewarding experience, coupling substantive law with active case work," Russell said. "This case was especially rewarding because it allowed me to advocate for a father and husband who can now legally reside in the United States and be with his family."


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The eighth season of The Bachelorette vows to be unlike any other. The famewhore making the decisions this season is Emily Maynard. America's sweetheart, America's famewhore, same difference. You probably remember Emily from Brad Womack's second season. Brad's the frequent-flyer bachelor who handed out roses in both seasons 11 and 15 of The Bachelor. His second attempt at true love ended with him proposing to Emily. Emily accepted Brad's proposal, but her ridiculously high expectations and naiveté quickly wilted the relationship.
Emily is a single mom. And, I don't know if you've heard, but she was engaged once before Brad. She was engaged to Ricky Hendrick, of NASCAR fame, in 2004. Sadly, on a rainy Sunday afternoon in October of the same year, Ricky boarded a plane sans an ill-feeling Emily. The plane crashed, leaving behind a pregnant Emily. Now, Emily is a single mom looking for true love on The Bachelorette. Even though it didn't work for her the first time around, she "knows the series works." Because, you know, that 17% success rate is a great testament of the true love that comes from appearing on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. I'm obviously grading on a curve, here. I'm including Trista Sutter, Jason Mesnick, by way of U-turn, Ashley Hebert, and Ben Flajnik, who is still collecting money on the deal.