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Where are all the sand hill cranes?
In the mean time...
What can I say, I have a fairly unhealthy fixation on birds the last year or two, in particular, sand hill cranes.
For the last month I have been impatiently awaiting the arrival of the ancient ones to Central New Mexico. I have seen huge flocks of birds flying high above the Rio Grande in recent weeks, coming in for the winter.
They blot out the sky. Some of them look like cranes. I love cranes.
Unfortunately, I am always going 80 mph on the freeway and can't look too long. For this reason, I cannot confirm whether or not I've seen one yet. This is probably how I'm going to die, staring up at the sky trying to identify migrating bird species. I can think of worse ways to go.
I don't want to say I've seen them until I'm sure I've seen them. Speculating will get you into trouble fast in this business. For this reason, I'm waiting until the three-foot-tall, dinosaur-like creatures are standing on the ground in a field somewhere, the crimson feathers on their heads plainly visible.
I can't wait.
In the mean time, here is a picture of some pelicans in Chile, graciously sent by Mr. Paul Rust of Lawton, Okla. Thanks, Paul. You are tiding me over.


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Examines the role of sex and gender in organizations. Special attention is given to topics relevant to women working in organizations, such as sex and gender differences in career/job preferences, advancement and pay, teamwork, leadership, sexuality in the workplace, and work-family balance. Other topics addressed include hostile vs. benevolent sexism, as well as practices designed to increase diversity within organizations. Class is conducted in a seminar format. Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor's permission. Same as MGMT-468. 2 SH. CC: Diversity Intensive.


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Read: Reading God's Handwriting: Poems
By Philip Kolin (Kauffman Publishing, 2012)
Philip Kolin's Reading God's Handwriting: Poems is a book of action, not of superheroes swooping down on comic book pages to save the day, but of a real God purposefully scribing his truth through scripture, nature, and our lives. In turn, God's handwriting or, as Kolin portrays it, "God's hand, writing," calls us to action through lectio divina, the vigorous spiritual ritual of communing with the living word by reading, contemplating, and acting on the sacred words of scripture.
To Kolin, "Be still and know that I am God" is a call to energetic contemplation. In each section the insightful, accessible poems spur kneeling and doing. In Oremus (the invitation to prayer), "the calligraphy/Of creation and apocalypse [is] both/Light and wounds/The one in the other when/The Word enters in silence. . . . adjectives/Seeking the only noun that counts."
Kolin brings us face to face with the epiphanies and human cries of such prophets and saints as Habakkuk, Job, Ezekiel, Joseph, and Anne. With them, we "feel [God's] voice/Cleaving cloud and sky," our "skin sinks in sackcloth," and we "[w]alk west in the wind and let/astonishment speak." He immerses us in Mary's soulful meditations and in focused reflections on holiness, nature, and faith, the last of which Kolin deems "the love affair/between your soul and God's will." Throughout he demonstrates how the Almighty's handwriting begins in scripture, steals between lines, and marches past margins to redeem all our empty spaces.
We live in a "world of soiled rain," fallen heroes, and tragic victims. Too often, it seems, "our tears turn to dust." Reading God's Handwriting stands as both petition and encouragement. It also calls us to live the word through God's words, to firmly grasp "the sword of the spirit." And, ultimately, isn't this our best defense?
This article appeared in the October 2012 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 77, No. 10, page 51).


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It's no surprise that the E92 M3 can incinerate its rear tires, what with its 400-odd horsepower V8. But sweet baby drifting Jesus, this thing can go sideways.
Clearly, this BMW owner prayed to Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, who most definitely did not fail him.
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Ethical behaviour and prayer are vital tools in the struggle against climate change, according to an interfaith panel at the COP18/CMP8 Doha meeting.
Negotiations in Doha have achieved little to achieve a binding treaty to reverse the current trends in climate change, a churches' delegation says.
The Trade Justice Movement has warned that a push to complete Dohan World Trade Organisation talks, called for by the G20, would place people all around the world at risk.
Millions of people will lose their jobs in developing countries and millions more in Europe under free trade plans to be promoted by British prime minister Gordon Brown at the G20 summit of the world's leading economies, say campaigners.
A high level United Nations conference in Doha has proved a lost opportunity for instituting reforms to the global financial system to help poor countries, say leading development agencies Christian Aid and ActionAid.
As world leaders and finance ministers meet this weekend to discuss funding for poorer countries, two leading development agencies are calling for major reforms of the global financial system.
As world leaders gather for make or break talks about halving extreme global poverty, development agencies, including Britain's Christian Aid, warn that progress is being hampered by the activities of rich countries and big business.
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Martins Beach fight heads to state Capitol
Sacramento --
The fight over access to the picturesque Martins Beach near Half Moon Bay moved to the state Capitol, as lobbyists and activists attempted to sway state lawmakers ahead of a crucial vote Wednesday on a bill to reopen the sandy haven to the public.
The bill by Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, would require the State Lands Commission to buy a road or obtain access rights so that the public can use Martins Beach. A Senate vote on the bill is scheduled for Wednesday. If it passes, it would move on to the state Assembly for consideration.
Billionaire property owner Vinod Khosla, who purchased the land containing the only public access road to the beach - and then closed the road - has been locked in a court case with the Surfrider Foundation over access.
Khosla hired top-tier lobbyists from California Strategies to defeat Hill's bill. That prompted proponents of Hill's bill to head to Sacramento as well.
"We aren't taking any chances," said Rob Caughlan, former president of the Surfrider Foundation. "When Khosla put all that money into lobbying, we thought, 'Oh, we better get to Sacramento.' "
The Surfrider Foundation accused Khosla in a March 2013 lawsuit of flouting the California Coastal Act by blocking public access to the beach, located about 6 miles south of Half Moon Bay.
Steven Baugher of Martins Beach LLC, the company Khosla established to purchase the beachfront land in 2008 for $37.5 million, is listed as hiring California Strategies on May 20. The lobbying firm includes former Assemblyman Rusty Areias, who was a California Coastal commissioner, and former Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Winston Hickox.
An opposition letter Areias gave Hill's office says California was asked multiple times if it wanted to buy private property for public access to the beach, but passed. The letter says Martins Beach is private, from the sandy beach to submerged tidelands seaward of the mean high tide and therefore the state's coastal public access policies don't apply. Caughlan called that claim "bogus."
The opposition letter, which The Chronicle obtained, also says Hill's bill would be more costly than current legislative estimates show. Policy analysts estimated California would have to pay "hundreds of thousands of dollars to low millions of dollars." Opponents peg the cost at tens of millions of dollars.
"For this guy to buy Martins Beach and deny the public access is an outrage," said former Peninsula Rep. Pete McCloskey, who enjoyed the beach growing up and is part of the Surfrider legal team. "The coastal plan calls for this to be public."
The lawsuit filed by the Surfrider Foundation against Khosla, who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, is pending in San Mateo County Superior Court.
To see the lobbyist letters, go to:
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TEDxOilSpill Expedition is a week-long project to document the current situation in the Gulf of Mexico and bring a first hand report back to the TEDxOilSpill event in Washington, D.C. on June 28.
The expedition is working on land, air, and maybe even on boat. The team is composed of several talented photographers and videographers. In addition to documentation of oil on the water and on the beach, the team is particularly interested in the human side of the equation and will be talking to some of the people most affected by the catastrophe in the Gulf. They'll also be documenting any and all evidence of media interference by BP, the Coast Guard, or other officials.
Learn more about TEDxOilSpill: Speakers – Registering – Attending the event – About TED
TEDxOilSpill Expedition blogs are being reblogged on Nat Geo News Watch.
Tri-State Fisherfolk Rally in Biloxi, MIssissippi – TEDx Oil Spill Expedition
originally posted June 17, 2010
The recent Oil Spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has been on everyone's mind and media outlets for the past month. Between horrifying photos, misleading information and many failed attempts at stopping the gushing oil well, a growing national frustration has mounted into a direct collective responsibility that something has to be done.
Seagulls gather for rest on dock posts in Dauphin Bay, Alabama – TEDx Oil Spill
A group of environmentally passionate geeks gathered together to organize a TEDxOilSpill that is scheduled to happen in Washington, DC on June 28th. This TED inspired event will bring together the powerful voices that have responded in a call to action over the various facets that amounted to our current oil crisis, including our dependency to fossil fuels, our irresponsibility to our environment and the unregulated parade that is environmental policy.
Pinar Ozger shooting stills from the Ferry
As a precursor to the June 28th event, an TEDxOilSpill Expedition team of photographers, writers and videographers has been sent to the Gulf to capture footage and media. The team consists of Static Photography photographer Kris Krüg, TED photographer Duncan Davidson, videographer Pinar Ozger and WWF writer Darron Collins.
An Almost Perfect Landing by a Brown Pelican in Alabama
The team is scheduled to be covering the coastal areas for a full week, witnessing and documenting the local response to the oil spill, the effect it has on the local coastal communities and the general hold that BP has on the Gulf itself since April 20th. The team has been on the ground for just two and half days yet has covered over 600 miles of the coastal Gulf between Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Perdido Beach, Alabama
The next few days on the Gulf will prove to be trying and crucial for the TEDxOilSpill Expedition team. They are scheduled to take to the air and to the deep waters covering remote areas of the Louisiana marsh. One of the tested areas that the team will be visiting is the original location of the Deepwater Horizon oil well, known to the Gulf coastal communities as merely 'the Source'.
Do Not Enter – Perdido Beach, Alabama
The Expedition team is carrying the responsibility of bearing witness to the effects that the size of this disaster has caused while reporting back a responsive catalog of media that includes comprehensive footage of what is sensationally neglected by various controlled news filters.
Here is the first collection of photos from photographer Kris Krüg from his journey on the TEDxOilSpill Expedition:
A small quote of inspiration to the affected fishing community at a bait and tackle shop on Dauphin Island, Alabama – TEDx Oil Spill
The entire gulf coast is peppered with oil rigs surprisingly very close to the shoreline. Here two oil rigs sit side by side just off the coast of Alabama.
Many wildlife, including various types of seabirds, have felt horrific effects from the Gulf oil disaster. A team of EPA workers checks on some various seabirds, including the recently removed from the endangered species list Brown Pelican on Dauphin Island, Alabama.
Large fisherfolk communities have been displaced from their livelihood of fishing as an effect of the oil spill. Pictured here are various boats, having been docked for weeks in Biloxi, Mississippi.
The initial first line of defense for the coastlines is excessive miles of protective boom that acts as a superficial means of stopping the approaching crude oil. Every body of water in the Gulf area has boom laid within it.
The TEDxOilSpill Expedition team holds an evening meeting to discuss the day's findings as well as the upcoming schedule for the next few days.
A most distressing apparent fact is that many of the seabirds photographed are not actually diving into the water, with good reason. Here a flock of Brown Pelicans catch some rest on some rocks in Alabama.
An environmental cleanup boat is docked in Alabama, awaiting departure; massive storm clouds torment the crisis ridden Gulf; a very brave Brown Pelican attempts a dive along side an oil rig.
Whatever oil touches it stains a deep rust color. In the areas where massive collections of crude oil are not present, the effects of the oil saturation in the Gulf of Mexico can plainly be witnessed.
A 3-State Fisherfolk Press Rally gathered in Biloxi, Mississippi and was largely organized by the displaced Vietnamese fisherfolk communities. Youth leaders and activists created signs with major concerns that need to be addressed by the communities that are being affected.
Local celebrity Billy the Exterminator came out and supported the 3-State Fisherfolk Press Rally in Biloxi, Mississippi. Billy, alongside his Louisiana based exterminator company Vex Con, has a reality television show on A&E called the Billy the Exterminator.
Brown Pelicans perch upon random signs and posts throughout harbors and bays in the Gulf; a sky view of a New Orleans bridge.
An American Pollution Control boat carries what appears to be hundreds of feet of boom in a small harbor in Biloxi, Mississippi. Often faulty the boom is the first line of defense for targeted coastlines.
Road signs in Alabama. In just over two days the TEDxOilSpill Expedition team covered over 600 miles of the Gulf coast.
Boats in Mississippi supervise boom laying; photographer Duncan Davidson carries the tools of the trade; beaches in Alabama are stained with the effects of the oil spill.
A biblical quote offers some religious solutions to the crisis stricken communities in the Gulf states.
The normally white sands of Perdido Beach in Alabama were stained with the rust of oil ridden waters. Each wave that broke upon the shore brought more oil and tar balls.
Photographer Duncan Davidson takes a moment to cool off in the sweltering southern heat; a crew member from the Vex Con exterminator company; a crowd gathered for the 3-State Fisherfolk Press Rally in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Many unused, docked fishing boats are lining the harbors of Gulf coastal towns. Very large areas of the Gulf have been deemed unsafe for fishing and drastically cut into the economic livelihood of many families.
Beautiful blue Gulf coastal waters are outlined by red lines of boom. Just off the coast of Alabama a large collection of crude oil is waiting to hit the shores. Whenever a portion breaks off and travels the 3-5 miles to shore, beach cleanup crews are ready and waiting.
One of the many oil rigs that sits in the Gulf of Mexico; a Brown Pelican soars high above the waters; rescue boats organize boom in Mississippi.
Local media interviewed participants of the 3-State Fisherfolk Press Rally in Biloxi, Mississippi.
This devastating and ominous sign hung along the wooden walkway at Perdido Beach in Alabama. Not only is the gulf being contaminated by thousands of gallons of crude oil, but the already compromised environment is being furthered polluted by harmful chemicals as a means for cleanup. Unfortunately the toxicity of the oil mixed with cleanup chemicals is worsening the state of the Gulf of Mexico.
The Expedition continues on in the Gulf. Be sure to check back to the official TEDxOilSpill Expedition website for more photos and thoughts from Pinar, Duncan, Darron, and Kris as we continue to document what's going on with the oil disaster in the Gulf.
All photos in this essay credit: Kris Krüg.
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I sometimes blame the fact that I'm a Gemini (on the one hand..., but on the other...) for my inability to simply, uncategorically make choices without second-guessing, regrets or what-ifs. But whether it's the stars or my parents or my second-grade teacher who's to blame for my wavering, I seem stuck with it. I can barely decide whether to buy the generic toilet paper or pay extra for the name-brand, let alone whether to stick with my unfaithful spouse and keep my family intact, or make for the hills.
Which is why I found the following (thanks to Martha Beck's Finding Your Own North Star) so interesting:
Your social self lives by what psychiatrist Alice Miller sees as the cardinal rule of all repressive social systems: "Thou shalt not be aware."... Don't know what you know, and don't feel what you feel.
Once you've learned to obey this rule, you can easily lose access to your own experience of joy and desire, loathing and revulsion... Since the only way to find lost feelings is to feel for them, the search for your own heart is always a blind one. Instead of any clear impulse, you register only flat nothingness, a hollow, yearning ache that doesn't lead you clearly in any direction at all.Wow. Sounds a whole lot like me. And, likely, a lot like you if one of the ways you coped with your spouse's betrayal was to stop feeling.
Cutting yourself off from feeling can work in the short-term. It can get your kids to soccer practice. It can get you to your desk. It can get dinner on the table.
What it can't do is get you to your next step. At least not decisively.
It's taken me a few years of putting in time to realize this. Of not feeling and simply moving along in my life and marriage. Not so much deciding what I want in my life as letting life decide for me. Which isn't a bad thing for a period of time. It can make sense to simply bide your time until choices become clear. But they won't – can't – become clear if you're so divorced from your own feelings that you don't even feel them anymore.
What Beck suggests sounds rather odd. She maintains that the answers rest in your body. Literally. That by taking an inventory of your body parts and soliciting their opinions (I'm not kidding here!), you'll find your answer. She takes her view on this from Asian philosophy which, as she points out, insists that it's our bodies that hold the answers, not our minds, which bend and change to all sorts of untrustworthy beliefs.
It's an interesting exercise and one that I recommend, if only because it can't hurt and doesn't cost a thing.
Get as relaxed as you can without the benefit of drugs/alcohol. Try and still the mind, which, if yours is as annoyingly toddler-like as mine, is no easy task. Then start paying attention to your body, starting with each toe. (Settle in, this is going to take awhile.) Ask yourself what it's feeling, Beck suggests. Hot, cold, itchy... "Don't think," she admonishes, "just describe." Again, if you're like me, you'll likely start to notice, if you don't on a regular basis, that certain parts of your body are...tense or tight. Beck advises us that there's likely a lot of information being stored in those parts.
Think of these tense parts as frozen. Try and breathe warmth into them and let them thaw.
This is where the exercise can get uncomfortable emotionally. Locking feelings up keeps us safe from them. And letting them out releases the capacity to once again feel pain. And as we all know far too well, pain sucks. A lot.
The thing is, NOT feeling pain doesn't serve us either. It keeps us alive...but not living.
The time will come when you have to let it out. Sadness, anger, hatred, fear. You have to allow the feelings to breathe...and within them to find your answers.
You'll also be surprised to discover that, rather than paralyzing you with pain (though it can be excruciating to feel them) these feelings will actually make things a whole lot clearer. You might not miraculously know what the rest of your life will look like, but you'll be far clearer about what you want it to look like. And therefore, what you should do to create it.
It's not magic. And it takes a certain conviction, not to mention suspension of judgement to undertake such an exercise.
But if you stick with it (even making it a daily practice, as Beck does), you just might find your answers aren't in the stars at all...but in your kidney.


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I can't see the necklace on Monica (must be blind) but I'm 100% positive nobody else has it on in that video, which only leaves her...
I guess Tyson is staying under the radar in terms of a IC monster. He was pretty much unstoppable in Tocantins. It took a BS IC followed by a necessary blindside to get rid of him. Man what could've been had he and Rob made the merge a year later (a great head to head run, IMO). But that's for another time, and elsewhere.But IMO, it's a combination of keeping a low profile and Monica being real good. I guess only time will tell whether he'll compete or not.
i've looked at some of the pictures very closely and it looks like Ciera won Individual Immunity, it could be speculating but I've tried to compare the necklace and what I saw and I think I might be right
Gervase won immunity
Where did this whole 'voted aren't drawing' thing start? In 'Marquesas', the three of them drew rocks, maybe that's just because it was final four, but i don't think it would make sense.Also, thanks for the welcome.And in the preview, Katie and Tyson are for sure drawing rocks
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Small steps are the key to success
One of the most important pieces of advice we can give anyone striving for weight loss or muscle building success is to take small steps.
You should be trying to make changes to your body (and life) that you can sustain for life and not give up on after 4 weeks, the best way to do this is to start slowly, despite how enthusiastic you may feel, you are a lot more likely to achieve your goals if you pace yourself and introduce any changes slowly.
How to change your eating habits
If you plan to make big changes to your eating habits then make 2 or 3 small changes per week rather than changing your whole diet in one go. Start off with introducing more water into your diet, it could be as easy as just drinking one glass of water when you first get up in the morning. Ensure you eat some breakfast before leaving home in the morning - you get the idea - SMALL STEPS
Introducing exercise into your life
If you are not used to exercising then don't start with 5 sessions in your first week, not only would you suffer from some seriously achey muscles but you would more than likely get bored of it very quickly. Start with 3 a week for the first couple weeks, with a day gap in between, then go to 4 times a week and then 5 - you get the idea - SMALL STEPS....


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Genomics have the potential to push the beef industry into a new frontier.
By: Duane Dailey, University of Missouri Extension
Selecting breeding animals on how they look, by phenotype, worked for centuries. Progress in improving cattle was made just on appearance.
Now genotype pushes phenotype back to horse-and-buggy days. It's data and what's inside that counts.
Arrival of huge computers and sequencing of the bovine genome changed all. "There's a better way of selecting," said Jared Decker, University of Missouri geneticist, at a Cattlemen's Boot Camp, July 14 in Columbia, Mo.
Training by MU scientists was sponsored by the American Angus Association with MU. The Cattlemen's Boot Camp is a national program.
Things changed in the 1970s with statistical models that predicted EPDs (expected progeny differences). Then software was developed to combine many EPDs into a single economic index number.
Indexes help herd owners search a sire catalog to match a bull's traits needed to improve a farmer's cow herd profits.
"We must still look at bulls and cows," Decker assured his audience of mostly Angus breeders. "Phenotype still counts, as there's no EPD for feet and legs."
Genomics tells a lot about calving ease, weaning weight, carcass weight or carcass grade. But there is no index for feet and legs.
The eye of the stockman still plays a role in breeding. However, on traits of economic value, there are genetic tools.
Plain EPDs will fade away as breeders learn more from the DNA of individual animals. A calf's genes at birth predict much of what that animal will do in a lifetime.
New tools provide genomic-enhanced EPDs. A GE-EPD cuts time spent waiting for EPDs from data collection.
EPDs are based on production records of offspring from a sire, for example. Those require recording weights at various stages of life. A growing calf is weighed and data collected. Not on just one offspring, but hundreds.
If a thousand calves are tested, accuracy goes up for EPD predictions for a sire. A thousand tests are better than a hundred.
Proven EPDs enhance breeding selections, but take time and money.
A bull might be 20 years old before it gains high-accuracy proof, Decker said.
Some EPDs—meat tenderness, marbling of rib-eye or carcass grade and yield—can only be collected after harvest. "Some data collection is very invasive," Decker said. "You can't collect and use semen to breed from that slaughtered steer.
"You buy a young sire, with few records, expecting high growth rate, but find after a year of use that actually it's a low-growth bull."
EPDs on young animals have low accuracy. There are no or few progeny to test. However, genomics improve accuracy on the young. Such a DNA test is like having 20 offspring to start.
Available tests range in price from $17 to $75, depending on depth of data.
Genomic tests five years ago tested one gene on one trait. Those were misleading, but new tests are useful, Decker said. "One trait, such as weaning weight, may be influenced by tens of thousands of genes."
With today's genomics, DNA can be collected and tested at birth for new herd replacements. DNA in a drop of blood can be tested with a chip called a "snip" or SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism). That gives more accurate answers from the whole genome.
A new University of Missouri SNP chip has 50,000 genetic markers.
Researchers at the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources study three areas in cattle: embryonic death, feed efficiency and resistance to bovine respiratory disease.
Decker told producers: "It's not all genetics. Environment and management still count. Genomics offer much for herd improvement to meet consumer demands."


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News Release 13-109
New Zealand Coroner Rules Officially That January Plane Crash Killed Antarctic Twin Otter Crew
Plane was flying from NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to Italian research station
June 18, 2013
This material is available primarily for archival purposes. Telephone numbers or other contact information may be out of date; please see current contact information at media contacts.The deaths of three crew members of a Twin Otter aircraft that crashed into a mountain in Antarctica in late January have been officially attributed by a New Zealand coroner to injuries sustained in the crash.
New Zealand's Chief Coroner Judge Neil MacLean issued his judgment in Auckland District Court on June 12 (local time). He officially declared that Pilot Bob Heath, 55; first officer Mike Denton, 25; and engineer Perry Anderson, 36, were killed when the Twin Otter crashed into Mount Elizabeth, in the Queen Alexandra Range of the Transantarctic Mountains.
Acknowledging that no postmortem examination could be carried out because the bodies of the crew could not be recovered from the aircraft wreckage, MacLean said that "…the cause of death was clearly multiple injuries sustained when the aircraft impacted at speed into the upper slopes of Mount Elizabeth, and there is no indication on the available evidence that there was any possible medical condition that was applicable."
The cause of the crash itself remains under investigation by the Transport Accident Investigation Commission of New Zealand and the Canadian Transportation Safety Board.
The aircraft belonged to Kenn Borek Air Ltd., a Canadian company whose aircraft are chartered by several national Antarctic programs, including the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP). The National Science Foundation, through its Division of Polar Programs. manages the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) in accordance with a 1982 Presidential Memorandum Regarding Antarctica.
The hearing was streamed live to Canada to allow the families of the crew to observe.
At the time of the crash, the plane was flying in support of the Italian Antarctic Program and the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA). The aircraft was en route from NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to the Italian research station at Terra Nova Bay when contact was lost.
On the afternoon of Saturday, Jan. 26, local time, a ski-equipped LC-130 aircraft, operated by the New York Air National Guard for the USAP and flying from McMurdo Station, overflew the last known position from the aircraft emergency beacon and spotted the aircraft tail at an elevation of about 3,900 meters (13,000 feet) on Mount Elizabeth.
Subsequently, a Twin Otter carrying U.S. and New Zealand search-and-rescue personnel conducted an aerial survey of the site and determined that a landing at the site by fixed-wing aircraft was not possible.
Later, two helicopters--one under New Zealand charter and the other flown for the USAP by PHI, Inc., of Lafayette, La.--arrived at a small camp established roughly 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the crash location to support the operation.The search for the aircraft involved flights by the 109th Airlift Wing of the New York Air National Guard, PHI helicopters as well as weather forecasters, mountaineers and numerous other support personnel with the U.S. Program, and their counterparts with Antarctica New Zealand. The crash investigation is also an international effort.
According to MacLean, "this has been in my view an exemplary operation of the sort of cooperation that often happens, particularly in Antarctica, in the spirit of the Antarctic Treaty; close cooperation between a wide range of agencies."
A joint search-and-rescue effort by the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) and Antarctica New Zealand managed to place experts at the crash site to examine the wreckage. But examination of the plane indicated that it would be unsafe to further disturb the wreckage, which was largely embedded in snow and ice on a steep mountain slope.
The team was able to recover some equipment from the exposed tail of the deHavilland DHC-6 Twin Otter, including the cockpit voice recorder. However, the team was unable to safely recover the remains of the crew. At the time, with the advent of the Antarctic winter and the generally poor weather conditions at the crash site, the effort to recover the remains was halted.
Any future effort to recover the remains would need to address the significant logistical challenges and safety risks of the extreme terrain and isolation of the site.
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Julia Bloch
Laura Vrana
Eunsong Kim
Walt Hunter
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When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American poetry is being read today, offering its own reading as a roadmap.
While focusing on the work of five contemporary Asian American poets—Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, John Yau, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and Pamela Lu—the book contends that aesthetic forms are inseparable from social, political, and historical contexts in the writing and reception of all poetry. Wang questions the tendency of critics and academics alike to occlude the role of race in their discussions of the American poetic tradition and casts a harsh light on the double standard they apply in reading poems by poets who are racial minorities. This is the first sustained study of the formal properties in Asian American poetry across a range of aesthetic styles, from traditional lyric to avant-garde. Wang argues with conviction that critics should read minority poetry with the same attention to language and form that they bring to their analyses of writing by white poets.
Winner of the 2016 Best Book in Literary Criticism Award, sponsored by the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS).
Honorable Mention in the 2014 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, sponsored by the Poetry Foundation.
"Dorothy Wang provides an extraordinarily rich reading of minority discourse among experimental Asian American writers. In this theoretically sophisticated study, Wang reads identity as a function of specific linguistic, rhetorical practices that force us to re-think normative attitudes towards racial formations. Rather than discover 'Asianness' through thematic content, Wang studies ethnic identity in linguistic deformations, rhetorical figures, and idioms, which bear the weight of historical marginalization and silencing. It is a brilliant effort, theoretically sophisticated yet grounded in focused readings of individual works."
—Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego
"Can race sit at the poetry table? Wang's passionate meditation on the inseparability of aesthetics and politics in poetry and poetics will fundamentally transform the ways in which we think racial difference and form in the literary. We will never approach metaphor, irony, parody, or contingency in the same way again. This is a fearless defense of poetry, race, and reading."
—David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania
"The tendency not to address the formal properties of Asian American poetry—not to take it seriouslyas poetry, in Dorothy Wang's trenchant words—is rigorously corrected in her readings of John Yau, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and others. This corrective is augmented by a theoretical assertion that demands that mainstream poetry be taken seriously as a record of the complexities of racial formation, and the racialized formation of personal and poetic identity, in the United States. Wang forcefully demands that we become better readers while carefully and generously showing us how to do just that."
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Guy Impersonates 29 Celebrities in One Original Song [VIDEO]by Maggie Malach | PopCrush
We never thought we'd hear Kermit the Frog singing alongside Christina Aguilera, Adam Sandler, Britney Spears and … Flipper? Yet in a new original song, YouTubers Rob Cantor and Andrew Horowitz manage to combine 29 spot-on celebrity impersonations!
'Perfect' is just that — an unbelievably accurate portrayal of a ton of our favorite stars as they "sing" along to the piano-based track. Rob seamlessly transitions from Louis Anderson's deep rasp to Shakira's sultry warble to Gollum's breathy whisper from 'Lord of the Rings.' There's truly something for everybody!
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It's that time again – delicious cookies, pies, chocolates and treats of all types are constantly swirling past, in a holiday smorgasbord of epic proportions. It's delicious – but we all know we'll be waking up a few pounds heavier on Jan. 2. So – what does all the holiday excess do to your body? For that matter, what effect does all the holiday stress have on your brain?
Find out in BODY WORLDS 2 & The Brain – our Three Pound Gem, now on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. You can see exactly where all those holiday goodies go after you're through enjoying them – and learn how your body functions in general, as well as examine the latest neuroscience research into the brain.
Check out this video for a sneak peek into the exhibit:
BODY WORLDS 2 is just one of the fun and fascinating family events at the Houston Museum of Natural Science during the holiday season. In a take-off of everyone's favorite holiday classic, The 12 Days of Christmas, we've got 12 ideas for fabulous family fun this holiday and we'll be sharing the possibilities here every day until Christmas Eve. Best of all, most are activities that last past the holiday season – some, year round. You can also check them all out now at the spiffy new 12 Days of HMNS web site.
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On the first day of HMNS, explore The Birth of Christianity.
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On the third day of HMNS, meet Prancer the reindeer.
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Falling home prices in California are at the heart of the persistent economic difficulties here. Job loss has been particularly high in enterprises related to housing and construction.
But if you're listening to experts talk about the state needs to repair its housing market and its economy, you might well be confused.
Some experts say California needs a recovery of housing prices to boost construction and its economy.
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But other experts note that the state's housing prices are still relatively high compared to its neighbors -- and those high prices -- not high taxes -- are why many middle-class Californians are leaving. (There's an interesting new report on this subject here).
So which is it that we want? Higher housing prices, or lower housing prices.
It's a tough question to answer. For now, here's the best I can do: we want a little bit of both.
In coastal areas, the state needs lower housing prices that will draw in buyers and keep them from leaving for states where housing is cheaper.
But in inland areas where housing prices have dropped and left many homeowners underwater and in debt, houses are too easy to come by.
California could use greater demand, less new supply -- and ultimately higher prices.
A policy that does different things in different parts of the state is a complicated policy.
And the federal government and state government, which would have to take dramatic action and cooperate to address the housing problem, seem incapable of enacting and carrying out complicated policies.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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The «Rik» table comes in four different heights and can be used as a salon, occasional, bistro and high table. Depending on the table top selected, it is suitable for indoor and outdoor use. Thanks to its weight, the elegantlywaisted cast-iron base is also extremely stable on three legs. Synthetic resin Fenix, black or white Ash solid wood, bleeched lacquered Muirapiranga solid, nature lacquered Aluminium, radiated black anodized Mineral composite, black or white Granite or marble PK 4 Ø 52, h 39cm Ø 65, h 39cm Ø 52, h 52cm Ø 52, h 65cm Ø 52, h 106cm
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The Superlight is the bike that launched Santa Cruz into the stratosphere. It was a combination of low weight and capable full suspension performance. It blended technology and reliability and offered it at reasonable price. Well those qualities are still important so Santa Cruz is offering the Superlight with 29er wheels now. Travel is 100 mm or 4 inches and geometry is optimized for a 4 inch travel fork with the head angle at 71 degrees.
Here's the specs and available kits:
Claimed frame weight is 5.9lbs for a medium with shock.
Frameset with shock is $1,050
$1,850 for the D/XC build
$2350 for the R/XC with a Deore/XT/SLX mix with Reba RL fork
Complete bikes are available very soon. Framesets will be available after the complete bike orders are filled.
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We've been wanting to build this bike for a while now. Combining the proven value and performance of the legendary Superlight with the smooth rolling stability of larger wheels, we present the Superlight29. Custom hydroformed aluminum tubing, a reliable, efficient, responsive single pivot suspension design offering 100mm of travel, terrain eating 29″ wheels and kickass value for money all add up to a timeless sweetheart of a bike. The big wheel Superlight is also available in a small size with the lowest standover in this class of bike, and is packed with features that would be at home on much more expensive bikes:
S, M, L, XL sizes (note that the 22.2″ top tube length and 27.3 standover on our small is shorter than what some other folks are calling "extra-small", and lower than anything else in this class)
- Hydroformed top- and downtubes
- Tapered headtube
- Replaceable derailleur hanger
- 100mm travel
- 7.875×2″ shock and "large" swingarm for L and XL sizes
- 6.5″x1.5″ shock and "small" swingarm for S and M sizes (better for standover clearance)
- 15mm collet axle pivot hardware
- Custom tuned Fox Float RL shock
- Continuous cable routing, dropper post routing
- Threaded bb shell (we think this is still the best, most user-friendly, widely compatible, globally serviceable way to install a bottom bracket.)
Available complete starting at $1850 (D/XC kit)
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BOTH of these new models are in stock at Santa Cruz and ready to ship. Contact your local Santa Cruz dealer and get ready to spring forward (okay, technically that doesn't happen this year until March 11th, unless you live in Arizona where it doesn't happen at all, but it's close enough for us. Yes, we also know that was a really hokey way to end this news blast. Couldn't help ourselves, sorry)!
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NASCAR driver Michael Annett has a fracture and dislocation of his sternum that will require surgery. Aric Almirola will replace him in the Nationwide Series this weekend at Phoenix.
Annett was injured in a wreck during the Nationwide Series race Saturday at Daytona. He spent one night in the hospital, but was seen Tuesday by two different doctors in North Carolina who diagnosed the injury.
Annett will not be able to compete for an indefinite amount of time. Almirola will drive the No. 43 Pilot Flying J Ford, and Richard Petty Motorsports will evaluate its options moving forward.
Annett was injured in an accident that stopped the race for nearly 20 minutes. It was before the last-lap accident in which debris from a car injured more than two dozen fans.


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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A police department in Oregon will investigate whether an Alaska assistant high school football coach assaulted a player on a school-sponsored team trip to a summer camp last year.
Police in Juneau announced Monday they are turning the investigation over to the Gold Beach, Ore., Police Department to determine if a Thunder Mountain High School coach assaulted a player during an informal boxing match on the trip.
Juneau police spokesman Sgt. Chris Burke said that his department conducted a preliminary investigation and will continue to have a role because most witnesses are in Alaska.
"We are going to assist them in anything they need in their investigation," Burke said.
Gold Beach Police Chief Dixon Andrews will determine if there was a criminal violation, the department said in an announcement.
Two Juneau football coaches were placed on administrative leave over the weekend.
School administrators said they reported the matter to police after learning of the boxing match.
One piece of evidence police are looking at is grainy video that appears to show the incident. It was posted on YouTube but has since been removed by the website as a violation of its anti-bullying policy.
The video showed a boxing match with two people wearing gloves. The smaller boxer was hit in the face. After turning away, the smaller boxer was punched from behind and floored as those watching cheered. It's not clear who shot the video.
The boy's father told the Juneau Empire (http://bit.ly/10wjrk0 ), which first reported the story, he was provided a copy of the video by Juneau school officials when he was called in to be told of the incident by Thunder Mountain principal Dan Larson and a Juneau Police Department school resource officer. The Associated Press is not identifying the father or son because the boy is a minor who might be the victim of a crime. Attempts to reach the father Monday were not immediately successful.
Juneau School District administrators on Sunday said they had just found out about the incident.
"We are deeply concerned about these allegations and the details that are emerging regarding this incident," Superintendent Glenn Gelbrich said in a statement. "We are concerned further that this incident went unreported for nearly nine months. The Juneau School District has higher expectations of our staff and coaches who we entrust with our students."?
The school district has not identified the coaches on leave.
Juneau Police Sgt. Burke told the Empire that school administrators filed a complaint with the department and made them aware of the video.
Thunder Mountain head football coach Bill Byouer was on the Oregon trip but said he was not aware of any video. He heard about it, he said, from a Juneau Empire reporter.
"I think that what we have is a set of allegations that, if true, are very disturbing and that would not meet our expectations," Gelbrich told the Empire. "But what we have to do is we have to establish what the facts are. We certainly have been told how people characterize what went on there and, if that is true, than obviously we are very disturbed by that."
Gelbrich said once school officials have established the facts in the case, "we'll take the appropriate action. If these things are true than obviously we have some pretty serious work to do."


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Bargain Box Board president Sheila Shkor presented $375,000 in grants to 35 Beaufort County nonprofits this month. The funds were earned by more than 15,000 hours of work by about 300 volunteers.
Shkor cited this as a time to celebrate the winning partnership of the Bargain Box with the 35 organizations which provide programs for the neediest of Beaufort County. Grants are awarded on the basis of need and impact in the community.
Since 1965, the Bargain Box has returned more than $12.9 million to Beaufort County in cash grants and in-kind donations.
Organizations receiving cash grants include: Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Bluffton-Jasper County Volunteers in Medicine, Bluffton Self Help, Born to Read, Boys & Girls Club of Hilton Head Island, Child Abuse Prevention Association, the Children's Center, Citizens Opposed to Domestic Abuse, Coastal Discovery Museum, The Deep Well Project, Family Promise of Beaufort County, Fastlane Track, First Presbyterian Day School, Heritage Library Foundation, Heroes on Horseback, Hilton Head Choral Society, Hilton Head Island Safe Harbour, Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, Hope Haven of the Lowcountry, Backpack Buddies of HH, Hilton Head Island Recreation Association, Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry, Lowcountry Legal Volunteers, Meals on Wheels, Med-i-assist,Inc., Memory Matters,NAMI, Penn Center, Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Coastal Empire, Sandalwood Community Food Pantry, Second Helpings, Special Olympics Area 8, The Sandbox, Hilton Head Volunteers in Medicine Clinic, YANA.
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Exelon Nuclear's Braidwood Generating Station will be working in the Kankakee River this week, cleaning the area in front of the station's water intake structure.
BRACEVILLE, Ill. (June 22, 2009) - Exelon Nuclear's Braidwood Generating Station will be working in the Kankakee River this week, cleaning the area in front of the station's water intake structure.
Today workers will begin removing the build-up of riverbed silt and debris in the area. Water is brought in through the intake and fed into the station's cooling lake, where it is used to cool the plant during electricity generation.
Exelon will use newer technology to perform the work, making as little impact to the environment as possible. Workers will operate a vacuum system from an adjacent barge to clear the path in front of the structure. The material removed from the river will be placed in a retention pond near the intake. The displaced water will then flow back into the river while the silt and debris remain in the pond.
Information about the project was submitted to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. A permit for the work, which will last about a week, has been secured through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
"We will take great measures to protect the surrounding environment as we make improvements to the area in front of the river intake," said Braidwood Station Site Vice President Bryan Hanson.
The station periodically performs this work, last doing so in 1999.
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Veggie-heaven: Gliding oil the way to Alaska
While the crusted grease receptacle behind many restaurants [see story below] won't win any beauty contests, several Charlottesvillians say it's what's inside that counts. And what's inside is a cheap alternative to diesel fuel.
Earlier this year, Scott Wilcox, along with siblings Luke and Emily Scruby, rigged a 20-year-old green school bus to run on vegetable oil, and the trio set off on a cross-country adventure.
Although the fuel was free and the bus spewed fumes smelling something like a french-fry stand, the engine was the thing that fried. The bus, affectionately named Doris Cooper, sputtered to a halt somewhere in Missouri in early June, Wilcox says.
Even with a new fuel pump, the bus, its odometer registering seven digits, was stripped by her creators and towed away. And the trio headed back to Virginia with Doris's innovative and aromatic power plant packed in a rented U-Haul.
Just a few weeks later, the team retrofitted a 1976 Mercedes-Benz with a veggie-oil system. New car, same goal: make it across the continent to Alaska on recycled vegetable oil and one tank of diesel fuel.
Emily Scruby bailed out to pursue other interests, but six days, 4,000 miles, and one tank of diesel later, Wilcox and Luke Scruby made it to Alaska.
"We drove every road in Alaska," Wilcox says– "all of 'em."
The two pioneers made it all the way to the Arctic Circle, where grease is simply stored in five-gallon buckets and reused for bear bait.
With a successful trip and a young bio-diesel fuel-producing company in their future, Scruby, a UVA senior, and Wilcox, beginning his last year at Auburn University, have no intention of shifting gears.
"We're trying to switch more to education and research. Do some research into bio-diesel production," Wilcox says. "We're going to take it as far as we can go with it."
Luke and Emily Scruby and Scott Wilcox headed west in late May.


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Roasted pumpkin puree
Smooth and delicious roasted pumpkin puree. Add it to muffins, pies, cookies, soups, use it as baby food, or eat it right out of the jar!
First cut the pumpkin in half, scoop out the seeds and "guts". Cut into quarters and place on a baking tray with a 1/4 cup water. Foil over top and bake at 425 for 40 minutes, or until soft.
Let cool and scrap out the flesh. You can either leave it like this or puree it a food processor until smooth.
Put in mason jars and freeze! Fresh pumpkin all year round.
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This week in the world of cartoons, we revisit the era of the VHS tape on Regular Show, the Avengers release a few deadly prisoners, and Finn smooches with the Flame Princess.
Tired of the Olympics already? I don't blame you. To make up for the Michael Phelps love fest on television, I'm including a nearly ancient G.I. Joe clip from one of their most bizarre episodes ever.
Gravity Falls is off, but will return in early August. Tron Uprising is absent too, but check out the San Diego Comic-Con preview of the next episode, "Scars", below.
As always, minor spoilers ahead!
Adventure Time – "Burning Low"
Princess Bubblegum is not happy with Finn. The princess thinks he is spending a little too much time with the Flame Princess.
Princess Bubblegum might have reason to be jealous based on this clip, which features Jake explaining the "tiers" (or bases in our realm) of dating to Finn.
Ultimate Spider-Man – "Snow Day"
And lo, Spider-Man will fight a child! Sandman takes the form of a child in this clip and threatens Spider-Man's band of merry men and women as they take a vacation on a deserted tropical island.
I've never heard of super-teams taking vacations together. Do they do team building exercises on the island? That could make for one hell of a trust fall.
Regular Show – "The Best VHS in the World"
Well, this episode puts a chronological lynchpin in the series. Rigby and Mordecai have lost a VHS tape and accrued over a grand in late fees, putting their memberships at the Movie Shack Hut in jeopardy.
Roger Craig Smith voices the Movie Shack Hut manager in this clip. Smith is the voice of Chris Redfield in Resident Evil 5 & 6 and Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the Assassin's Creed series.
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes – "Assault on 42"
In this episode, the Avengers escort super villain Whirlwind to 42 — a near impenetrable prison akin to "The Vault" in the Marvel Comics Universe. During their time in 42, Annihilus attacks and traps the Avengers in the prison.
The Avengers choose to make temporary alliances and free several imprisoned within 42, making for some awesome cameo opportunities in this clip.
Tron Uprising – SDCC "Scars" Preview
We've been without Tron Uprising for a few weeks, so here's a mix of finished and in-progress animation previewed at last month's San Diego Comic-Con.
An official return date for the series has yet to be announced. In the meantime, watch Wilfred.
G.I. Joe – "The Gods Below"
"The Gods Below" originally aired on November 11, 1985. This nearly twenty-seven year old episode blew my young mind when I viewed it in re-runs on USA. Decades later, this damn episode still doesn't make any sense.
In the episode Cobra breaks into Osiris' temple and hunts for treasure. Alright, I'm fine with that plot point. But before the end of the episode, we see giant snakes give speeches, Baroness pull one over on the Egyptian god Seth, and G.I. Joes dressed as members of the Crimson Guard fly around on a giant ankh. All of this bizarre action is presented in its classic VHS-recorded glory in this clip.
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Who: Homeland's Morena Baccarin
Where: At the People Choice Awards 2013, which were held last night at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles
Wearing: A smokey white strapless Donna Karan Atelier jumpsuit, featuring a stone encrusted corset, draped waisted and and silk crepe pants, teamed with a Swarovski clutch
Verdict: I do love seeing jumpsuits on the red carpet especially during award season, do you remember Rose Bryne at the SAG Awards last year, well I think this Donna Karan Atelier beauty on Morena Baccarin is just as stunning and daring.
For me this look is all about that corset, the stone embellishments really do stand out, and really gives this jumpsuit a red carpet feel. I am also pleased that it was in white, as it could have so easily been done in black, which I just think would have been a little too safe.
The only thing that could have made this my best dressed look over Taylor Swift would have been if the trouser length had been a little shorter, it just makes me think she changed her heels at the last minute to ones that weren't as high.
But trust me that is just me being extra picky as I am always pleased to see Donna Karan Atelier on the red carpet – I can't wait to see what the Golden Globes brings!!!


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A 15-year-old Boston Public School student says the Dean of Students at the Urban Science Academy in West Roxbury pushed her out into the rain and threatened to kill her.
A 15-year-old Boston Public School student says the Dean of Students at the Urban Science Academy in West Roxbury pushed her out into the rain and threatened to kill her.
According to Boston Police, the suspect has acknowledged a statement he made to the student was "was inappropriate."
When Shekila Butler got sick last week at the Urban Science Academy, she did what the school required. She waited in an office at the West Roxbury Education Complex for a dean to give her a pass that would excuse her from classes after her mother picked her up.But Butler never got the pass.
Instead, the 15-year-old ninth grader from Roxbury was allegedly harassed and assaulted.
The girl said she was sitting in the school's administrative office on Wednesday, Feb. 13, when she said something about oral sex that Dean Walter Hilliard found offensive.
"He came out of his office yelling, 'Who said that?' and I said 'I did' and he automatically jumped up and flared up," said Butler, adding that the administrator seemed upset because her comments were made in the presence of a secretary.
Butler who said that she calls all adults "sir" and "ma'am," immediately apologized, but it reportedly was not enough. Hilliard then allegedly told the teenager to get out, but couldn't because she had nowhere to go, was waiting for her mother and needed a pass that would prevent her from an automatic suspension for skipping class.
Hilliard then, according to Butler, "pushed and shoved" the student after she announced that she would ask the nurse for the necessary note.
"I told him not to force me. I told him he was putting his hands on me," said Butler of the incident in which the dean allegedly wouldn't move his hands from her shoulders. She also said he grabbed her arm.
Knowing that she had no way of retaliating, Butler fought back verbally.
"I said to him, 'What would you do if I smacked you?'" said Butler.She said his response shocked and scared her.
"He said, 'Then you'll die right here little girl," said Butler.
Butler's recollection of the incident is corroborated by a police report filed after the incident in which Hilliard was interviewed.
Headmaster Rasheed Meadows did not respond to a message left on his cell phone. Hilliard who has been neither charged nor arrested for his reported behavior.
A Boston Public Schools spokesman said the department was looking into the matter.
The suspect, as police referred to Hilliard, "stated his statement was inappropriate." In police reports, Butler is referred to as the victim.
In addition to threatening a student, Hilliard also allegedly pushed his way to what he wanted — he kicked the 15-year-old out of the school before her mother's arrival.
"I was trying to find my cell phone and call my mother when he pushed me out of the school doors," said Butler, an asthmatic who found herself outside in the rain with no place to go.
After making her way to Home Depot, she called her mother, Nichole Butler, who phoned Boston Police and the school to talk with Hilliard.
Hilliard, according to Nichole Butler, allegedly told her that he did not have time for her.
"I called back and he answered, 'I'm too busy to deal with this,'" said Nichole Butler of the conversation she tried to have as she drove across Boston to get to her daughter.
Once inside the school, the Butlers sat down with Headmaster Rasheed Meadows and Hilliard. Two BPD detectives who were in the building for an unrelated incident were also on hand.
"[He first] said he never put his hands on my daughter, but I told him that my daughter would not lie to me. I said that she may lie to you but never lies to me. Then I said to him, you're lying and I'm right here," said the mother, who was shocked by Hilliard's next alleged admission.
"She must have pulled his manhood because he said, 'Yeah I did it," said Nichole Butler, who then left the school after her daughter provided a written statement of the incident.
A school police officer who witnessed Hilliard's alleged confession, also provided a statement according to the victim's mother.
BPD detectives also visited the family's home the night of the incident.
"She [the detective] was like, 'we're sorry for what happened' and handed me a police report. She said we'd get another police report and a court date, but we haven't received anything else," said Nichole Butler, whose daughter will return to school on Monday for the first time since the incident.
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Although the Tesla Roadster is a sexy car perfect for a single person or a family without kids, not all Tesla owners are child-free. One member of the Tesla family, Alison Suttles, has a family of her own. Although Alison and her husband Doug have taken their daughters on drives in the Tesla Roadster, the family is looking forward to a time when all four of them can fit into a Tesla. Thankfully for the Suttles' family, that time is coming up quickly as they hold reservation number 287 for the new Tesla Model S sedan.
In a recent email interview, Alison shared her thoughts about Tesla as a company, electric vehicles in general and had some wise words for consumers concerned about the often over-hyped issue of range anxiety.
MNN: What led you to purchase the Tesla Roadster in March 2010?
Alison Suttles: Honestly, two things. First, because we could. I know that sounds terribly pretentious, but we had an opportunity to buy a fun, fast car and we jumped on it! That said, the reason we chose a Tesla over other options out there that might've been just as fast but cheaper is because we believe in the company and the technology. Basically, Tesla needed (and needs) people like us who are willing to take on those initial costs to support a company we believe in. Doug and I feel strongly that this world needs to embrace zero emissions, and Tesla is doing an excellent job of ushering in the era of very cool electric cars.
What is your overall impression of the Roadster? Of Tesla Motors as a company?
The Roadster is an insanely fun car. I liken it to riding a roller coaster. Until you get used to the feeling of fast acceleration with no shifting, it will make you giggle uncontrollably every time you hit the acceleration pedal. I've seen it happen to friend after friend who goes for their first ride in the car. You just can't help but laugh at the feeling. Plus, it feels great to be riding in a vehicle that idles quietly and accelerates with just a whine to tell you something is happening.
As for the company, they've always taken excellent care of us and our car. Obviously, we are early adopters to technology that will have quirks to work out. When something happens or they discover a flaw in the system, even if it hasn't impacted us, they are quick to upgrade, replace or otherwise fix our vehicle. I'm sure there will be changes as more people own Teslas, but right now being a Tesla owner is like being a part of a family. We went to the Model S Test Ride event last fall. It was so much fun to talk to others who have preordered their Model S vehicles. Even having never met these people before, we were able to discuss the different electric cars we've seen, how excited we are about our eventual cars and how important this movement is.
Why did you decide to reserve the Tesla Model S?
We didn't reserve the Model S right away. We toyed with the idea, but in the beginning, it was hard to part with cash more than a year before you stood a chance of getting a vehicle. But you know what the biggest motivator was for finally making that decision? My daughter being in preschool. Every morning, I hop into a gas vehicle to drive her to school. Some days, I'll get into the car, turn the key and realize I don't have enough gas to get her to school. Talk about range anxiety! I turn on the little range gauge to find out how much further my gas will take me. Can I get to a gas station? Somehow, we always manage to make it, but sometimes it means we're late to school. With an electric vehicle, every day starts fresh. You charge over night and don't even have to worry about whether your car can get you there in the morning.
Which version of the Model S will you choose and why?
We decided to go for the Model S Signature. We are #287 so I have my fingers crossed will have a car in September/October of this year. As I mentioned before, we are early adopters. We don't mind being the ones to test out new technology, and we trust them to find fixes for anything that goes wrong. Plus, we want Tesla to succeed, so we want to be a part of the group that helps them make the best Model S they can. Because we're getting the Signature model, it will have the longest range available. I want this to be our primary car, and 300 miles will take us most places we want to go including down or up the west coast with occasional recharge stops.
Why have you chosen to purchase electric vehicles over traditional gasoline powered or even hybrid vehicles?
In the interest of full disclosure, we currently own two gas vehicles. The Roadster is a great vehicle, but it's not practical for a family. The Model S will replace our sedan, but we'll still have an SUV in the mix for trips to the mountains and hauling bigger items. There are some great hybrids on the market, but so many of them are marketing tools that don't really do much for your MPG.
And yes, those are mostly excuses. The truth is it's hard to reconcile the desire for a cool, fast, fun car with the current hybrid/electric market. We are human, and we are Americans. While I'd like to say our reasons for purchasing electric vehicles was completely due to our desire to be environmentally responsible, one of the reasons we bought a Model S was because it is an awesome looking car. That it is also an excellent electric vehicle makes it even better.
I sometimes wonder if we would be EV owners if it weren't for Tesla. I like to think we would be, but I really don't know. Thankfully, we don't have to imagine a world without Tesla. I feel confident that as Tesla introduces their take on EVs to the general public, other auto makers will embrace the idea that you can make EVs that everyone will want to drive because they are great cars, not just because they are electric cars.
As an existing EV owner, what words of advice would you give to the general public on the topic of range anxiety?
Be realistic. Take a close look at the distance you drive on an average day. You'll probably discover that you don't go as far as you think you do. Start now while you don't have an EV, and then realize how many times you push that gas refill to the last possible moment and find yourself with a gas-induced range anxiety. With an EV, you start over every morning with a full range that costs you a fraction of what filling up with gas would. Unless you are driving to sales calls all day long, you're probably going to be just fine.
Plus, Tesla is taking EVs into a whole new world. Their base model vehicle will take you well over 100 miles on a charge. Those of us living in metropolitan areas won't have to worry at all when we need to get to the other end of the city or out to the suburbs. If you get the top model, you get 300 miles to work with! With the introduction of rapid charge stations, even the road warriors will find it possible to use a Tesla all day long.
Know that the more of us that embrace this technology, the larger the charging network will become. Supply and demand, folks! Ultimately, it's up to us - the consumers - to make this change happen. There are options for us out there. We just have to be willing to "take a chance" on new technology and realize that maybe, just maybe, our anxieties are unfounded.
Thank you Alison for sharing your insights as an early electric vehicle adopter.


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Another Tough Extra-Inning Loss
Two of out three is a must as the Phillies climb a steep mountain the rest of the way. Yet, settling for two of three is shallow when you have a chance to sweep, something the Phillies haven't done this year. Yep, no three-game sweeps so far.
A Cliff-Kershaw pitching duel loomed and was exactly that. Cliff was outstanding, 89-pitches, two hits over eight innings.
One out away from that sweep, a bloop and two infield singles score two to tie in the last of the ninth. Perhaps the baseball gods were getting even for the Phillies two runs in the top that inning, three walks and Hunter's two-run single.
So, a seven-game winning streak in Dodger Stadium goes out the window in extra innings. Phillies have eight, extra-inning walk-off losses, tough to take.
Today is a day off before the pitching-tough, first-place Giants come to town for three this weekend.
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**Lehigh Valley lost by 2 runs for the second straight night in Durham, 6-4. LF Domonic Brown, 2-4, 11th double, RBI. 5-9 since returning to the lineup on Tuesday. RHR Justin DeFratus, AAA debut for this season, 2 strikeouts, 1 inning.
**Reading, after pounding out 15 hits in an 11-2 romp on Monday, was shut out for the second straight game, 12-0, at Portland. Scoreless streak is now 20 innings. RHS Trevor May (7-7) walked 8 in 5 innings. Tied for second in the league in walks (56) and the leader in strikeouts (101).
**Clearwater's game was suspended by rain, 3-3, after 5.5 innings.
**Lakewood was idle.
**Williamsport lost, 7-5, at Auburn. SS Roman Quinn, 6th triple, 2 RBI.
**Gulf Coast League Phillies split a pair vs. Pirates, 6-3 L, 3-2 W. 1B William Carmona, 5-8 in the DH. OF Andrew Pullin, 4-7.
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Why are our highways built the way they are? What makes driving safe, or at least safer? Is speed alone dangerous, or is it contextual?
Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What it Says About Us) is one part research investigation, one part history, one part psychological analysis, one part cultural analysis, and 100% fascinating. As a fellow amateur transportation enthusiast, I admire Vanderbilt for his drive to self education on the systems we all participate in.
I highly recommend the book to the transportation enthusiast and casual reader alike. The book does far more than describe our roads and how they work. Vanderbilt shares dozens of fascinating tidbits that will amuse and amaze you and your friends. More importantly, he sheds light on human behavior and American culture. Roads in and of themselves are rather characterless; what matters is how we use them and how those roads shape us as individuals and as communities.
After all, is there really a difference between old suburban and city roads with their right angle intersections and roads and communities developed over the last 50 years with their sweeping gentle curves? Is one safer than another? After all, all roads with cars traveling on them are inherently dangerous. Cars are multi-ton machines carrying delicate human cargo, all while moving at speeds evolution did not prepare our bodies to handle. Our bodies are not evolutionarily designed to handle the challenges of observing our surroundings at those speeds, or handling the trauma of collisions at those speeds.
It turns out that the old roads are safer, with their definite intersections, because cars are forced to stop and look, rather than casually yield. Similarly the straight roads typically leading to these intersections provide for better sight lines when looking down the road and anticipating oncoming traffic. All of this means that our older, pre-automobile designed roads are actually safer – for both the driver and the pedestrian – than the road designed with modern cars in mind.
Vanderbilt peers inside the mind of the driver and exposes just how amazing it is that we can drive at all. It is amazing what we can see when we are driving, and how we can coordinate our sight and muscle movements at the fast speeds of the interstate. However, with such miracles come some real challenges. This book will be sure to make you rethink not only how you drive, but why you drive, and how our policy shapes our communities.
Traffic does not preach and does not lecture. Vanderbilt's adventures with bureaucrats, scholars, and business people illuminates what makes driving fantastic, what makes it dangerous, and how our culture is shaped by an activity we largely all take for granted.
On a different note, I apologize for my extended absence from this blog. My last semester of law school took control of my life. I will be working rather than studying this semester and anticipate dedicating much more time to this blog. Thank you for your patience and continued patronage.


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Resisting Chauvinism In Everyday Life
The plain English of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear madam, the humblest of your servants. Be so good as to allow me to be your Lord and Master.
—Samuel Richardson
On the one hand, chauvinistic males are everywhere. On the other hand, you're advised not to try to change a man with whom you are having an affair. How then are you to live with chauvinism? The answer is simple: change yourself, not him.
The secret to male domination, at one level or another, is that it's domination by consent. If he says, "Be so good as to allow me to be your lord and master," you don't have to allow it. Women agree to being placed in a secondary role; they submit to being governed. If you don't comply, he cannot make you obey.
To this generalization, there are two important exceptions. First, obviously, he can make you do anything he wants if you have to deal with physical domination and abuse. You can do nothing in that situation except to leave as soon as possible. Second, and less obviously, he can make you do many things if you are economically dependent upon him. If, however, you have your own resources inside or outside marriage, then most of the domination that is involved is a combination of traditional authority and psychological intimidation.
While each new relationship brings out in a personality something slightly different than any other relationship, the problems you encounter with one man often tend to reoccur in subsequent ones. A young woman friend of mine used to wail to me as she found herself in the midst of all-too-familiar hassles, "Why does my life keep repeating itself?" My less than sympathetic response to her, "Because, my dear friend, you keep making the same mistakes!" A new love affair gives you a chance to start over. A new love affair gives you a chance to stop making the same mistakes . . . as long as you remain self-aware of your own previous detrimental patterns.
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7 Days 6 Nights Discover Kenya Safari
Day 1: Nairobi - Tsavo East
Pick up from your Nairobi hotel or Airport in the morning drive to Tsavo East national pack which is renowned for its large numbers of elephants and the famous man eating lions Game en route to Ashnil Aruba lodge .Check in and have lunch at your lodge. In the afternoon, another game drive at the park later returns to your lodge for dinner and overnight at the Ashnil Aruba lodge.
Day 2: Tsavo East - Tsavo West
Early morning game drive return to your lodge for breakfast, after breakfast leave Tsavo East for Tsavo West Game en route to Ngulia lodge. Check in and have lunch. In the afternoon, visit the rhino sanctuary and return to the lodge where there is usually a leopard trap and if you are lucky you will see it. Dinner and overnight at the Ngulia safari lodge
Day 3: Tsavo West-Amboseli
Early breakfast, then proceed for a morning game drive with a visit of Mzima Springs, where you can see hippos and fish in crystalline clear water. There are possibilities of seeing crocodiles and monkeys. Later proceed to Amboseli National park arriving in time for lunch and check in at Ol Tukai Lodge. Afternoon game drive within the Amboseli which lies at the floors of Mount Kilimanjaro. Mount Kilimanjaro offers scenic backgrounds for photography. Elephants, Lions, Cheetah, Buffalo etc. can be seen at the swamp area. Dinner and overnight at Ol Tukai Lodge.
Day 4: Amboseli - Lake Nakuru
Early morning breakfast game en-route leave Amboseli for Lake Nakuru arriving in time for lunch with a short game drive and check in at Lake Nakuru Lodge have lunch and relax. Later afternoon game drive to see one of the largest ornithological spots, Flamingo, and a variety of wildlife not forgetting the famous white Rhino and black rhino found in this park. Dinner and overnight at Lake Nakuru Lodge
Day 5: Lake Nakuru - Masai Mara
Early morning breakfast. After breakfast leave Lake Nakuru for Masai mara arriving in time for lunch. Check in at Ashnil Mara camp or Mara Sarova Camp and have lunch. Afternoon game drive through the park in search of the Lion, Cheetah, Elephant, and Buffalo. Dinner and overnight at Ashnil Mara camp or Mara Sarova Camp.
Day 6: Masai Mara
Early morning game drive game drive return back to camp for breakfast. after breakfast Full day spend in the park with packed lunch in search of its popular residents like the well-known predators and their opponents like the Zebra, Wildebeest, Giraffe, Hippo and the dangerous Crocodiles with a visit to Mara river. Meals and overnight at Ashnil Mara camp or Mara Sarova Camp.
Day 7: Masai Mara - Nairobi
Early Morning breakfast at your camp check out of the camp and park and Drive to Nairobi arriving in time for lunch. Lunch at carnivore afterwards drop off at your respective hotel or Airport.
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