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Learning a new language can prove challenging if the right tools are not available. However, not all tools meet the needs of learners in specific situations. Before worrying about learning tools, look carefully at all the different learning options offered to make sure you select the one best suited to your learning style. Tools that work well as supplements for audio courses, for example, may not be ideal for individuals using Rosetta Stone or some other computer-based learning system. While some mixing and matching may work, examine the different options before purchasing anything.
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At least 40 visible sea stars were alive and well in the Treasure Island tide pools in South Laguna at noon this past Saturday. But by 3 p.m., eight had disintegrated like wet bread.
An epidemic, which has destroyed sea stars along the West Coast beginning last June, has reached the shores of Laguna Beach.
Snorkelers reported finding sea star legs piling up in underwater rocky crevices near Crescent Bay and Shaw's Coves in North Laguna and rolling eerily along the ocean bottom. The limbs will eventually wash up on shore.
Of 76 sea stars spotted last Sunday at Treasure Island, a quarter of the population exhibited signs of what scientists have named sea star wasting disease, said Jeff Rosaler, director of education and research at the Laguna Ocean Foundation and a Treasure Island tide pool educator.
Scientists categorize sea stars as a "keystone" species, which means they keep their prey – mussels, snails and urchins — in check. Without them, as with the extinction of other species, the balance of nature runs amuck. Urchins have been known to overpopulate and do deadly damage to local kelp forests.
In the tide pools on Sunday, observers watched as legs fell off the sea stars, their bodies split in half, small lesions became rips in the sea stars' spiky skin, and white flesh and orange gills spilled out.
An octopus, about 15 inches long, crept out from under a nearby rock and tore a dangling leg off a melting sea star. The next day, only the empty external skeleton of two limbs remained. Seagulls fought and feasted over other dismantled sea stars lodged in rock crannies.
While the affliction is not an anomaly, scientists are stumped and finding the massive outbreak "particularly troubling," said Pete Raimondi, of UC Santa Cruz, who is the lead investigator into the disease.
In the past, unusually warm water caused the wasting of sea stars, particularly during an El Nino, but that's clearly not the case this time, said Raimondi. "That's what's so concerning about this. In the past, when the die-off was associated with warm water, you had this idea that things would get back to normal. But it's not warm water. We're in a cool water period." Sea stars usually thrive in normally cool Pacific Ocean temperatures.
Also disturbing to Raimondi is how far the disease is spreading and the number of sea stars it's affecting.
The culprit is believed to be an infectious microorganism, which appears to be attacking a specific marine species and would not likely affect humans, scientists say. Raimondi said researchers are "pretty clear" what the infectious agent is but they are unsure of its origin and decline to disclose whether it's naturally occurring or manmade.
"These guys are epidemiologists and they have a protocol that they follow," said Raimondi. "They don't release anything until they follow the protocol. They're in the process now of challenging organisms. Once that work is done, they'll be able to release the information."
The sea star death-rate along the West Coast was described as "catastrophic" by Ian Hewson, an assistant professor in microbiology at New York's Cornell University, who is collaborating with Raimondi in collecting data and testing possible causes of sea star wasting. Raimondi contributed to a report released last month, published by UCSC's ecology and evolutionary biology department's Pacific Rocky Intertidal Monitoring project.
Hewson is overseeing experiments at UCSC and the University of Washington to establish the suspected cause of the disease. Scientists are inoculating two healthy sea stars with possible infectious agents. If healthy sea stars also contract the disease, which could be as soon as two days, the cause will then be definitive and results will be published in scientific journals before being released to the public, which could take up to six weeks.
Tsunami debris and radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear power plant melt-down in Japan have not been entirely ruled out as a cause Hewson said, but Raimondi called it unlikely.
"The path of the debris and presumably the radiation is far to the north of here," said Raimondi. "It's mostly in the Pacific Northwest. No one's been able to detect levels of radiation that are even above background in North America. There's no possibility at this point that the stuff has gotten here."
Hewson added that human pollutants are also being considered. "The ocean is really subject to a great deal of human influence," he said, "everything from run-off and fertilizer use to actual toxicants in various products and treatments that end up in the sea. We haven't been able to disprove any of these pollutants as a cause."
Signs of the current epidemic in Laguna were noticed last fall, when water temperatures were more summerlike, hovering around 70 degrees, said Laguna Ocean Foundation's chair, Louise Thornton.
Over the past two weeks, the mortality rate has become epidemic, said Rosaler, the tide pool educator.
Former episodes of the wasting disease occurred in the early 1980s and late '90s. Warm El Nino currents washed in from Mexico and destroyed sea stars as well as the local kelp forests, which were scavenged by ravenous sea urchins that had lost a once-abundant food source.
Biologist Nancy Caruso, who helped replant the 100-acre kelp forest now flourishing off Laguna's coastline, doesn't expect a surge in the urchin population or damage to kelp forests because of the die-off of sea stars.
"I don't see anything going on with the kelp," she said. "It's a stress-induced problem with the sea stars and we need to figure out what the stress is."
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Hazoor continued with the subject of the Exalted Divine quality Al-Mutakabbir and with reference to it, man's arrogance, in his Friday Sermon today. Explaining the lexical meanings of the root-words Kibr and Kibriya Hazoor said that they denote an expression of exaltation and greatness and as all mankind is equal the word could only ever be truly applicable to Allah.
Hazoor began by citing several Quranic verses that illustrate the negative and admonitory aspect of arrogance and egotism and went on to further elucidate the subject through ahadith. Hazoor said that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be on him) told us that prayer was the original form of worship and that if one has arrogance equivalent to a tiny seed in their heart they cannot enter paradise and if one's faith is equivalent to that of a seed they will not enter fire and said that the inhabitants of the fire will be hard-hearted, arrogant people. The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be on him) defined arrogance as not recognising what is the truth and to look down on people with contempt.
Further explaining through the writings of the Khalifatul Masih 1st (may Allah be pleased with him) and the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) Hazoor said that Iblis (Satan) was the original disobedient among creation and that his rebellion was based on arrogance. Hazoor said that some people are boastful and conceited in their claims and assertions but one should always be mindful that without Allah's decree nothing could be achieved. Besides shirk (associating partner with Allah) there was no evil like arrogance. Hazoor said that there is much impurity in the self that incites to evil and that the impurity of arrogance was the worst, he said there are many moral sins, like anger, passion, hypocrisy and arrogance etc. and that they lead to hell. Hazoor explained that arrogance was of different kinds, of sight, speech and hands and feet and a believer should aim to avoid them all, and that man possesses much wickedness as regards lower morals and that arrogance was the hardest of these wickedness's to be rid of.
Hazoor related that the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said that those who become Allah's with each particles of their being are bestowed with greater blessings and those who do not consider that each particle of their being belongs to Allah are the arrogant and in actual fact reject Allah's profound favour.
Hazoor concluded with a few Urdu verses by the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace). I present an attempt to depict their essence below:
The conceited cannot seek "that Beloved"
The Beloved is accessible to one who negates oneself in humility
How foolish are the arrogant and the astray
That they let their selves go off course
Ever keeping an eye on the vice of others
Whilst oblivious of one's own iniquity!
The Jumu'ah (Friday) prayer is one form of congregational worship in Islam. It takes place every Friday. Regular attendance at the Jumu'ah prayer is enjoined on the believer. According to a Saying of Muhammad(sa) this congregational prayer is twenty-five times more blessed than worship performed alone. (Bukhari)
"O ye who believe! When the call is made for Prayer on Friday, hasten to the remembrance of Allah, and leave off all business. That is best for you, if you only knew." more
"… (He who) offers the Prayers and listens quitely when the Imam stands up for sermon, will have his sins forgiven between that Friday and the next" (Bukhari)


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New Research Opportunities in the Earth Sciences at the National Science Foundation
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Dr. Thorne Lay
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University of California, Santa Cruz
Thorne Lay is Distinguished Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he was Founding Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and is currently Director of the Center for the Study of Imaging and Dynamics of the Earth (CSIDE). His primary research interests involve analysis of seismic waves to interrogate the deep structure of the Earth's interior and to study the physics of earthquake faulting. This involves imaging structures associated with internal dynamics of the mantle, particularly the core-mantle boundary region and the vicinity of subducting lithosphere. Earthquake-related investigations include waveform modeling of body and surface waves to determine the nature of faulting and to develop seismic models for the entire rupture process. He also studies nuclear explosion sources to provide improved means for monitoring low-threshold test ban treaties. Dr. Lay has over 230 peer-reviewed publications, received the Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union in 1991, and is a Lifetime National Associate of the National Academies of Science. He is also past Chair of the Board of Directors of Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) and previously held a faculty position at the University of Michigan from 1984-1988. Dr. Lay received a B.S. from the University of Rochester in 1978 and an M.S and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1980 and 1983.
Dr. Patricia L. Wiberg
University of Virginia
Patricia L. Wiberg is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, where she has been since 1990. Her research focuses on sediment transport dynamics on the continental shelf and tidal salt marshes and in lagoons and the effects of climate change on coastal systems. This includes the post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, the transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and the evolution of lagoon bottom habitat. Dr. Wiberg has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Sedimentary Research and Journal of Geophysical Research ? Earth Surface, served on the MARGINS steering committee, and is Chair of the NSF Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System Executive Committee. She also chaired the AGU Information Technology Committee. Dr. Wiberg received a B.A. in mathematics from Brown University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington.
Dr. Ho-kwang Mao
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Ho-kwang (Dave) Mao is a Geophysicist and Senior Staff Scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, where he has been for his entire career. His research involves the development and application of ultra-high-pressure technology to physics, chemistry, materials sciences, geophysics, geochemistry, and planetary sciences. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2007 Inge Lehmann Medal from the American Geophysical Union and the 2005 Roebling Medal from the Mineralogical Society of America. Dr. Mao earned a B.S. in geology from the National Taiwan University in 1963 and a M.S. and Ph.D. in geology from the University of Rochester in 1966 and 1968.
Dr. Michael L. Bender
Princeton University
Michael L. Bender is a Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University, where he has been since 1997. His research focuses on glacial-interglacial climate change and the global carbon cycle. This involves measuring gas properties in ice cores to date critical climate changes of the ice ages. His carbon cycle research involves studies characterizing the fertility of ecosystems at the global scale, at the scale of ocean basins, and at regional to local scales within the oceans. Dr. Bender is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and recipient of the Patterson Medal of the Geochemical Society. He has served on numerous editorial boards and committees including Chair of the NOAA CO2 Observations Advisory Group (1999-2001) and the NSF Ice Core Working Group (1990-1997). Prior to joining Princeton, he was a Professor of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island (1972-1997). Dr. Bender received a B.S. in chemistry from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1965 and a Ph.D. in geology from Columbia University in 1970.
Dr. Isabel P. Montanez
University of California, Davis
Isabel P. Monta�ez is a Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Monta�ez is a field geologist and geochemist whose research focuses on the sedimentary archive of paleoatmospheric composition and paleoclimatic conditions, in particular in reconstructing records of greenhouse gas-climate linkages during periods of major climate transitions. Her past work has involved study of marine and terrestrial successions of Cambrian through Pleistocene age. Dr Monta�ez is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and received her Ph.D. in geology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Dr. Kenneth A. Farley
California Institute of Technology
Kenneth A. Farley is Chair of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences and W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where he has been since 1993. His research is focused on the use of noble gas concentrations and isotopic ratios and addresses problems in a range of Earth science disciplines. Current interests include (1) the development and application of techniques for assessing the cooling history of rocks from the ingrowth and diffusion of radiogenic Helium-4, (2) improved analytical techniques for the measurement of cosmogenic noble gases and experimental investigation of the processes by which these isotopes are produced, and (3) identifying major events in the recent history of the solar system using extraterrestrial Helium-3 in seafloor sediments. He was the Director of the CalTech Tectonic Observatory and was the recipient of the Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union in 1999 and the National Academy of Science Award for Initiatives in Research in 2000. Dr. Farley received a B.S. in chemistry from Yale University in 1986 and a Ph.D. in earth science from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego in 1991.
Dr. Suzanne Carbotte
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Suzanne Carbotte is a Heezen Senior Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, where she has been since 1993. Her research focuses on the formation of oceanic crust at the global mid-ocean ridge using a variety of marine geophysical techniques. Current work involves the application of seismic methods to study the alteration of the crust that occurs as a result of fluid-rock interactions on the Juan de Fuca plate and the origin of the segmentation of mid-ocean ridges. Nearer to shore, Dr. Carbotte applies marine geophysical techniques to study sedimentary processes and characterize benthic habitats in the estuarine setting including the linkages between rising sea-level and climate fluctuations with the changing faunal populations documented in the river sediments. She has served on numerous national committees including the NSF funded Ridge 2000 steering committee (2002-2007) and ORION Cyberinfrastructure Committee (2005-2007). Dr. Carbotte received a B.S. in geology and physics from the University of Toronto in 1982, an M.Sc. in geophysics at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario in 1986, and a Ph.D. in marine geophysics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1992.
Dr. Paul E. Olsen
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Paul E. Olsen is the Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University?s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, where he has been since 1984. His research focuses on the evolution of continental ecosystems, especially the pattern, causes and effects of climate change on geological time scales, mass extinctions, the effects of evolutionary innovations on biogeochemical cycles, and evolution of the Solar System as revealed by geological records. He is the author of over 170 publications and has appeared in numerous documentaries on the history of life and climate. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Drilling, Observation and Sampling of the Earths Continental Crust (DOSECC) and has served on numerous NSF panels and steering committees. He received a B.A. in geology and a Ph.D. in biology from Yale University in 1978 and 1984.
Dr. David R. Montgomery
University of Washington
David R. Montgomery is a Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, where he leads the Geomorphological Research Group and is a member of the Quaternary Research Center. Dr. Montgomery?s research addresses fluvial and hillslope processes in mountain drainage basins, the evolution of mountain ranges (Cascades, Andes, and Himalaya), the analysis of digital topography, and the evolution and near-extirpation of salmon. Current research includes field projects in eastern Tibet and the Pacific Northwest of North America. Dr. Montgomery is the author of two popular books including the well-received Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (2008), which won the Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction. He won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008. Dr. Montgomery received a B.S. in geology from Stanford University in 1984 and a Ph.D. in geomorphology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991.
Dr. Peter L. Olson
Johns Hopkins University
Peter L. Olson is Professor of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, where he has been since 1977. Dr. Olson combines theory, numerical models, and laboratory fluid dynamics models to interpret global geophysical data pertaining to the Earth?s deep interior in order to better understand how the mantle and the core interact to produce plate tectonics, deep mantle plumes, and the geomagnetic field. Dr. Olson has served on numerous national and international committees including the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics Executive Committee and the U.S. National Committee on Studies of Earth's Deep Interior. Dr. Olson is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, an Honorary Fellow of the European Union of Geosciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Olson received a B.A. in geology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1972 and an M.A. and Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974 and 1977.
Dr. Timothy Lyons
University of California, Riverside
Timothy Lyons is a Professor of Biogeochemistry in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Riverside, where he has been since 2005. His research interests are in marine geochemistry, biogeochemical cycles through time, earth history and paleoclimate, and astrobiology linked by career-long interest in anoxic marine environments. Recent research focuses on the development of geochemical proxies in modern settings and the pursuit of big questions about the ancient ocean and atmosphere. Dr. Lyons is a fellow of the Geological Society of America and the AAAS and recipient of an NSF CAREER Award. He has been a visiting Scholar at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research, the University of Queensland, the University of Tasmania (Comet Fellow), and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (Hanse Fellow), and the first Agassiz Lecturer at Harvard University. Dr. Lyons has served on numerous steering and organizing committees, including service to the Goldschmidt Conference of the Geochemical Society and the IODP and funding panels spanning four programs within NSF, two within NASA, and one within the American Chemical Society. Dr. Lyons has served in seven editorial positions, including a long-standing affiliation with Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, and serves on an AGU editorial advisory board. He is active within the NASA Astrobiology Institute, the Agouron Institute, and the Southern California geobiology community. Dr. Lyons received a B.S. in geological engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, a M.S. in geology from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. in geology/geochemistry from Yale University.
Dr. Kristine M. Larson
University of Colorado at Boulder
Kristine M. Larson is a professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Larson?s research focuses on using high-precision GPS techniques to address a range of geophysical issues that include measuring and interpreting crustal deformation as well as using geodetic techniques for measuring soil moisture variations, snow depth, and vegetation. She has studied plate boundary zone deformation in Alaska, Nepal, Tibet, Ethiopia, California, and Mexico. Dr. Larson?s research has also emphasized engineering development by pushing the temporal sampling of GPS to subdaily intervals for studies of earthquakes, volcanoes, and ice sheet dynamics. She served as editor of Geophysical Research Letters from 2002-2004. Dr. Larson received her A.B. in engineering sciences from Harvard and her Ph.D. in geophysics from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Michael Manga
University of California, Berkeley
Michael Manga is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been since 2001. His research focuses on processes involving fluids, including problems in physical volcanology, geodynamics, and hydrogeology using combinations of theoretical, numerical and experimental approaches. His research integrates lab and field observations (both of active processes and recorded in the geologic record) with theoretical and model results and typically involves new contributions in applied fluid mechanics. He is author of over 130 peer-reviewed articles and the recipient of the Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union in 2002, the Donath Medal from the Geological Society of America in 2003, and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2005. He has served on numerous editorial boards (Reviews of Geophysics, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geology). He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon from 1996-2001. Dr. Manga received a B.S. from McGill University in 1990 and an S.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1992 and 1994.
Dr. Dongxiao Zhang
University of Southern California
Dongxiao Zhang is the Marshall Professor of Water Resources & Petroleum Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where he has been since 2007. His research focuses on the stochastic uncertainty quantification for hydrology and petroleum reservoir simulations, multi-scale modeling and simulation of flow in porous media, and geological sequestration of carbon dioxide. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the author of two books, and serves as Associate Editor for five journals including Water Resources Research and the Journal of Computational Geosciences. Dr. Zhang was a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1996-2004) and held the Miller Chair at the Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (2004-2007). He also served as a Chang Jiang (guest chair) Professor at Nanjing University and is a founding Associate Dean at the College of Engineering of Peking University in China. Dr. Zhang received a B.S. in engineering from Northeastern University, Shenyang, P. R. of China and a M.S. and Ph.D. in hydrology from the University of Arizona.


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The owner of The Examiner has purchased a website for user-generated news in a deal estimated to be worth $25 million.
Vancouver-based NowPublic.com makes it easy for casual observers of important events to contribute their knowledge to public discourse.
The Examiner empire -- now owned by telecom billionaire Philip Anschutz and much reduced from its days as San Francisco's "Monarch of the Dailies" -- is comprised of two kingdoms: a red Examiner that employs experienced reporters to print day-old news on plastic-bagged sheets of paper, and a blue Examiner that aggregates chatter from thousands of hobbyists.
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It's the blue Examiner that is expected to benefit from the sale, with Examiner officials expressing interest in NowPublic's ability to rapidly gather and distribute conversations. Whether news readers are interested in "conversations" remains to be seen.
The blue Examiner has come under fire for the quality of its content -- some of which is simply copied and pasted from other websites and, occasionally, completely false -- and its "penny per pageview" payscale.
NowPublic users tend to see their work as contributing towards a public good, so it will be interesting to see how they respond to the blue Examiner's penchant for copypasta.


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Having just returned from a visit to the Pacific Northwest where I lugged suitcases across Oregon and Washington, I have baggage on my mind. Currently, my unpacked suitcase is swollen with my finds from the Portland Saturday Market and Pike Place Market. And dirty laundry. Ah, if only it were filled with Voodoo Doughnuts, but those don't travel so well. Alas, my suitcase will be far easier to unpack than the baggage that comes along with words. While away, a lively debate ensued among some feminist friends of mine about the word "Slut" and its usage in the many SlutWalks taking place around the world. As I missed this glorious and erudite debate, I am posting this carry-on- size food for thought about words and baggage. (For some posts on Slutwalk, see here, here, here, here, here, and here)
Before my holiday, I posted on what I saw as the unnecessary (and sexist) use of the term pussy in Super 8 ("Super 8 and The Monstrous Pussy" at Womanist Musings and "Super 8's 'Super Pussy'" at Ms. Blog). Reading through the comments, especially those at the Womanist Musings thread, which include many claims that the use of the word is "historically accurate," got me thinking – can words ever truly be "reclaimed" or, to stick with the baggage metaphor, unpacked? Granted, Super 8 is not trying to unpack the word "pussy" – rather, the film uses it in its common sexist meaning – i.e. pussy=coward=being like a woman.
But, could "pussy" be put in a pleasant new bag, one with nice polka-dots or a furry peace sign? Some think so. Some also think "cunt" could be repackaged into a term of feminist empowerment.
As for myself, I think it is difficult to entirely reclaim words as they cannot be drained of their historical baggage.
Words matter.
In fact, they matter so much that they almost have a material weight to them – a baggage that cannot simply be ignored or erased.
Words are like suitcases, carrying with them all manner of meanings and socio-historical links.
I don't think we can easily "reclaim" words any more readily than we can "reclaim" lost baggage at the world's most disorganized airport.
(And, as for Speilberg and Abrams, well, they likely travel first class and don't have to think about the "baggage" some of us on the other side of the privilege matrix must lug around. And their baggage, is of course, filled with BALLS, not pussy – which, are, I might add, far more vulnerable than the mighty pussy! Thus, isn't "Don't be such a testicle" more apt? I would love to hear that in a summer blockbuster sometime!)


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I saw some of "The Crow" on cable the other day, and I was surprised at how dated it looked. It was made just 16 years ago. I swear it was only yesterday I was screaming along with Stone Temple Pilots' "Big Empty" in my grandma's Oldsmobile. But anyway, that movie remains more notable for the strange circumstances surrounding star Brandon Lee's on-set death than the movie itself. Which is perhaps the reason why director Stephen Norrington ("Blade") has decided to remake the movie. And now producer Edward Pressman has given MTV more details about the upcoming production.
According to Pressman, Norrington's screenplay is finished and, apparently, "terrific." After collaborating on some illustrations with "Avatar" production designer Rob Stromberg — illustrations that are "quite different from Alex Proyas' approach with the original 'Crow,'" Pressman said — Norrington's vision is inching much closer to reality, with casting announcements on the way and filming beginning this year.
"[We've got an offer out] to a major actor and things are moving ahead very aggressively, with the aim of doing the film this year," Pressman told MTV News…
"The setting is the southwest — the Mexico/Arizona area — and an urban [setting], Detroit or Pittsburgh or something like that," he described. "There are two locations that the film is set. Its initial platform is in the southwest and then it moves to the big city in the north, middle or eastern America, and then back."
That sandwich of settings is part of what distinguishes this "Crow" from previous visions, as is Norrington's treatment of the "Crow" mythology. "The Crow itself is a creature in this movie — it's not just a bird," said the producer. "It's got a personality and a character. Not like Godzilla exactly, but it's very different [and has] a more active role in the story."
So Pressman has teased us a bit here. The question here is… which "major actor" was offered the role? Was it Robert Pattinson? I bet it was Robert Pattinson. It's so obviously Robert Pattinson. No role is custom-made for teenage heartthrobs quite like the Crow.
There were three crummy sequels made to "The Crow." Each time, the title character was played by someone new: Vincent Perez ("The Crow: City of Angels"), Eric Mabius ("The Crow: Salvation"), and Eddie Furlong ("The Crow, Wicked Prayer," or "Crow 4: Let's Get Silly"). It takes a big man to step into Brandon Lee's shoes. Not only because Lee was a gifted a young actor and the son of an onscreen legend. But also because of the whole "killed by a gun everyone thought had blanks in it" thing. None of the other actors to play The Crow were killed on set. But they did end up making horrible sequels (two of which went straight to DVD), and that may be a worse fate.
This remake promises to be different. It's part of the whole reboot trend currently ravaging Hollywood, and there's little doubt that Heath Ledger's Joker in the "Dark Knight" helped inspire Hollywood to start up "The Crow" once more, what with the "handsome fella in crazy makeup" theme both characters share. It's a worthy story that deserved better than a string of lousy sequels. We'll see if Norrington and his mystery leading man are up to the challenge.


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Public Comment
New: Yes,the Fiscal Sky May Be Falling: Moody's is Examining Berkeley for a Rating Downgrade
Berkeley's fiscal hawks, often accused of undue pessimism, inhumanity, and an unseemly low civic boosterism level, are being vindicated by the hard cold facts.
For years we "hawks" (BASTA, Budget Watch, Berkeley Budget SOS, Committee for FACTS) have warned about the high level of unfunded liability, the decline of services, excessive City employee consumption of our budget, wasteful spending, and unwarranted burdens placed on generous taxpayers. We have pored over arcane City budgets, analyzed a plethora of taxes, tried to educate the public, put forth sensible initiatives. Very few officials listened and, because they disliked the message, continually tried to marginalize the messengers.
Thankfully, the day of reckoning may be hand. We truly need to reckon so that we can get a clear picture of the problem and move ahead with the hard and painful job of real solutions. This is the biggest issue facing Berkeley. If we have no money and few services, and our infrastructure continues its decay, what kind of Berkeley are we leaving our children?
In a Wall Street Journal Market Watch article on October 10, entitled "Moody's Reviews 32 California Cities' Ratings" Nathalie Tadema advises that Moody's is reviewing 32 California cities "mostly for potential downgrades". The particular cities to be reviewed for downgrade were especially chosen out of 95 rated California cities, and Berkeley is among the chosen. Tadema continues "In contrast, the ratings for Los Angeles and San Francisco are on review for an upgrade…" because of their economic resiliency.
This election cycle, Berkeley voters have a chance to opt for politicians and measures that focus on our fiscal health. Jacquelyn McCormick has been at the forefront of the fiscal accountability effort and deserves our vote for mayor. Meanwhile Tom Bates continually tells us that Berkeley is in good financial shape and Kriss Worthington is willfully ignorant and ignoring of the problem. After observing most Council meetings for the last fourteen years (!) I still do not know what Kriss really stands for. Councilmember Anderson thinks we have bigger fish to fry than the City debt!
Voters should also vote yes on Measure V, the FACTS fiscal accountability citizens initiative, and no on the three ill-conceived tax measures M, N and O.
It's time for a reality check.


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GreenTurtle necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 59 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
Green Turtle - http://www.greenturtle.net
We are the two founding members of Green Turtle, a service that will make the delivery of your online purchase more convenient while reducing the environmental impact of the shipment.
Our primary target audience is 18 to 49 year old online shoppers who can't wait at home for package deliveries, and when they miss the delivery because they were not at home, find that picking up the package at the place where the postal service or courier leaves it is an inconvenience as well. The service will also appeal to those who care about the environmental impact of their purchases.
We are looking for a fun and friendly logo that represents our passion and vision for Green Turtle.
1) The logo will not only represent our brand, but will serve as the image for a mobile app. Thus we want a vector image that is flexible to scale both on the web and as a mobile app. The logo will also be utilized on shipping labels and on store displays so it needs to work with both full-color and spot color.
2) While turtles are often thought of as slow, it is important that our logo offsets this perception, by portraying the turtle as diligent, but also speedy.
3) Shades of green seem logical, but other colors are fine. we'd like the logo to incorporate the name yet be able to use the logo with and without the name where appropriate.
4) Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
5) Please don't make the turtle similar to the designs from Super Mario Bros.
Thank you. We look forward to seeing your designs.
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Land of delights Local truffles, oysters and goat's cheese – a mouthwatering marathon across the northern Croatian peninsula of Istria.
You could, of course, simply spend your time here lazing on the beach, eating ćevapčići and quaffing cheap red wine. But you would miss out on pretty much everything Istria has to offer. With its mountains, villages and medieval towns, the Croatian peninsula is very like Tuscany in Italy – but with an untamed, unspoilt quality all its own. Rich soils and clean water provide the basis for excellent ingredients, and many people here are dedicated to good taste. Time to pay them a visit on a culinary journey of discovery.
1 OYSTERS in Vrsar
It's six o'clock in the morning on Lim Fjord, an inlet that stretches a good ten kilometers inland, in the west of the peninsula. All is still until one of the men starts up the engine and the floating workshop moves off. It's really a raft with a roofed section that doubles as a coffee-making area and office. Beside it is a stainless steel bench for cleaning the catch. All around us are hoses, lines, plastic baskets and basins suspended from hooks. There's a steady wind blowing, and it's cold. Three men in oilskins and gumboots are on board. Iván Bratović, 37, with laugh lines and short, cropped hair, is one of them. The head of the crew, he and two friends took over the Istrida shellfish farm 11 years ago. They sell mussels and clams, but their most valuable product is the European oyster, which requires particulary clean water.
Oysters have long been a delicacy in Istria, and have been farmed on Lim Fjord since ancient times. The men reach one of the bays in which today's harvest has been grown. Blue, green and black buoys indicate where the oysters lie, in baskets of 100 apiece. Others grow on vertical lines let down in the water – the traditional form of cultivation with which the men occasionally experiment. Using hooks and a winch, they haul the crop out of the water: black lumps covered in reddish-yellow seaweed, two-and-a-half years old. It's the best age for an oyster. Bratović pulls out a knife, frees three oysters of the roughest dirt and opens them. A squirt of lemon juice to underscore the mineral flavor – perfect!
2 Wine in Krasica
Is there a secret to good wine? Rubbish, no such thing, says Giorgio Clai. "It's simply a question of the time you devote to the wine, how closely you scrutinize it, feel it, smell it, taste it." Clai produces varietal wines and cuvées, and all of them are organic. His specialty are ancient Istrian grapes: the white Malvasia and the red Refosco, which he ferments on the must and entirely without additives. This allows the wild yeasts contained in the skin to become active. The result is "nature wine" to some, to others "orange wine." Clai, 59, gray-haired with a pepper-and-salt, five-day beard, states simply: "I just call it wine."
The man is stubborn and enjoys playing the rebel. He cares nothing for awards and prizes, although he has amassed quite a few. To Clai, what's more important are "the people who come to me and try my wine, the conviviality. That's what wine is for, isn't it?" If there's an accolade he can accept, then it's this: "That at the end of their visit, people place an order for their wedding."
Natural winegrowing methods fell by the wayside for a while in Istria because they allow for less control, which makes planning more difficult. How the yeasts develop depends on the sun in summertime, on the temperature of the wind in the fall, and on the rainfall in-between times. But it's that interplay of nature and coincidence that Clai adores – along with experimenting. What happens if we leave the grapes on the vine one week longer? Sometimes hail will destroy an entire crop and all of the work invested will have been in vain. That's why some people call him a freak or a crazy hippie. But he is not alone in his quest. Dimitri Brečević, 38, who has his own small vineyard nearby and also works for Clai, is a "comrade in arms." "Sometimes we feel like inmates in a mental institution," he says, "we look out the window and say: Luckily we're not out there with all the crazy people." What comes next? Clai produces a wooden board with smokey bacon and cheese, then fills our glasses: a cuvée of Malvasia, Pinot gris, Chardonnay and Sauvignon. The wine is the color of pale copper and wonderfully multilayered in flavor. These crazy hippies are absolutely right!
3 Truffles in Paladini
For a long time, the farmers of Istria had no idea what to do with the strange-smelling tubers they found growing in the ground. They called them "devil's potatoes" and left them to the wild pigs. In the late 1920s, a visiting Italian enlightened the locals about the value of the truffles lying right at their feet in the forests all around. Today, there is hardly a corner of Central Istria where you won't find a couple of truffle hounds yelping in their kennels. These animals are kept busy practically all year round, with black truffles in season from April to August, and the more costly white truffles in season and ready for harvesting from September to January.
The dog owners always hand a good portion of the truffles they find to the Karlić family in the tiny village of Paladini. Father, mother and son Ivan all trade in the tasty tubers. The boy, now 23, had only just learned to walk when she started taking him with her into the woods to hunt for truffles, says mother Radmila, 45. She taught him to look under hazelnut and oak trees especially, because that is where the best specimens are usually found. At the age of 14, Ivan bought himself his first bicycle with the proceeds from the sale of his largest truffle discovery to date, a white specimen weighing 203 grams. Now Ivan scours the woods every day with his dogs and sometimes, he also takes visitors along.
Back at the family shop, Radmila sells not only fresh truffles, but also truffle liqueur, truffle pesto and their latest product, Truffella, a kind of chocolate spread laced with truffle. At the end of a truffle hunt, successful or not, Radmila always makes scrambled eggs and serves them with a centimeter-thick layer of grated fresh truffle – what else?
4 Goat's cheese in Krnica
Aleš Winkler's pastures cover 260 hectares of land and extend between the tiny villages of Mutvoran and Krnica on the quieter, eastern side of Istria. His 250 goats graze there. Graze? In these meadows, the grass is lavishly interspersed with wild rocket, sage, mint and thyme, which furnish almost all the seasoning needed for the cheese Winkler makes from his goats' milk. He adds just one ingredient to a single variety of cheese, and that's a handful of saffron.
Once a lawyer practicing in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, Winkler upped sticks nine years ago and moved with his wife and two very small children to this remote corner of Croatia. They began their new life in a dilapidated farmhouse, where they set up the first organic cheese dairy in Istria. Winkler does not like to talk about his old life, divulging only this: "At 20, you don't know what you'll be doing at age 30. At 30, you don't know what you'll be doing at age 40. At 40, you have an appallingly clear idea of what you'll be doing for the rest of your life." These days, he thinks up something new each year to make sure they don't fall into a rut. At the weekly market in Pula, 20 kilometers away, he has rented a stall, where he now also sells Croatian-Asia crossover fare: his cheese, combined with Korean kimchi and Japanese ramen noodle soups.
You cannot order Winkler's cheese and have it sent to you. "We want people to come to us," he says, his arms folded across his chest. Those who do are richly rewarded: Konoba Primitiva (which translates as "simple restaurant") is Winkler's latest concept. Instead of choosing their food from a menu, diners eat what the chef puts in front of them on the huge wooden table on the terrace: delicious pasta followed by fish a friend caught that morning, local ham and, of course, Winkler's aromatic homemade cheese. And as we feast, the evening sun bathes the hills around us in golden light.
More gourmet tips
Olive oil
The Ghiavalon brothers win awards for their pure, organic product.
Konoba AstArEa
Delicious fish and clams baked in a wood-fired oven. Usually very crowded.
Bar Valentino
Cocktails? With the option of diving into the Mediterranean on the doorstep – beforehand.
A culinary guide to the best restaurants, cafés and markets. In German.


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You're going to have to wait until June 24th to actually hold iPhone 4 in your hands, but you can place a pre-sale order at Best Buy starting tomorrow, June 15th.
Might be a good option for those who don't want to be stampeded at Walmart or waste an afternoon in line at the Apple Store:
Best Buy® Launches Pre-Sale Offer for Apple® iPhone™4
Starting June 15, Customers Can Reserve an iPhone 4 at Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile Stores Nationwide
MINNEAPOLIS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Beginning June 15, Best Buy Mobile, the mobile specialty retail unit of Best Buy Co. Inc (NYSE: BBY), launches its pre-sale of iPhone 4 from Apple. Pre-sale orders can be placed at any Best Buy or Best Buy Mobile standalone store nationwide. The iPhone 4 will land in Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores June 24.
"Adding the iPhone 4 to our stores alongside other great smartphones like the HTC EVO from Sprint and HTC Incredible on Verizon, gives customers a great opportunity to view each side-by-side and get the mobile phone that works best for them."
Consumers who purchase the iPhone 4 at Best Buy can avoid dealing with mail-in rebates and get help from a highly-trained staff of specialists at Best Buy Mobile. Combine all of that with a tremendous assortment of accessories and customers can get everything under one roof.
"Offering the iPhone 4 to consumers is just the latest example of how Best Buy Mobile has become the place to go for the best smartphones. It's exciting to have an opportunity to launch this iconic device with this pre-sale," said Shawn Score, president of Best Buy Mobile. "Adding the iPhone 4 to our stores alongside other great smartphones like the HTC EVO from Sprint and HTC Incredible on Verizon, gives customers a great opportunity to view each side-by-side and get the mobile phone that works best for them."
The iPhone 4 key features include:
* 16GB and 32GB in both white and black
* 9.3MM thick – 25% thinner than existing iPhone
* 4X better screen resolution than current iPhone (Retina Display)
* Scratch proof glass on front and back of phone
* Improved processor (A4)
* Quad band HSDPA 7.2
* 802.11n WiFi
* Dual microphones
* 2 cameras (one front facing) with 5MP, LED flash, 5x digital zoom
* 720HD video recording at 30fps, tap to focus, built in video editing, one click sharing
* Multitasking with new 4.0 software
* Micro Sim
* 7 hrs of talk time
* Video conference calling over WiFi
Best Buy Mobile has become a leading destination for smartphone purchases, in part because of the promises the store offers its customers: better choice of phones and networks; impartial, informed advice; straightforward pricing; and someone to be there for the life of the phone.


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Paul Gollash necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 71 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
I recently left a position working in investments for the venture capital arm of Richard Branson's Virgin group, where I conceived, incubated and launched a boutique/lifestyle hotel chain. I love to travel, am passionate about languages and spent a large part of my professional life living and working in South America and Spain. Some website designs i like are Mint.com, hulu.com, groupon.com.. I love the virgin logo, the FedEx logo, and the crowdfusion logo, and the logo for needakick.com. haha. seriously, i do like that logo a bit. though without the gray background.)
Anyone who wants to learn a language... (and i have never seen a resume that doesn't mention the desire to speak a language!)
Phase one market is the Hispanic market in the US, though the brand and logo need to be aspirational and appeal to many more markets. The company aims to be the largest consumer brand in the language learning space. While Rosetta Stone is static, boring lessons, and priced at the high end of the market, Voxtrot is a fun, easy accessible option
Here is my best stab at a creative brief.
Voxtrot means ACCESS:
… 1) understanding a language OPENS your mind to a new the new world around you (through the looking glass.... through the keyhole... a glimpse)
….2) MOBILITY. freedom. the ability to learn the language lessons you chose anytime and anywhere. And lessons will always be relevant to you - wherever and whenever you study
Voxtrot= VOX plus TROT
- Find your voice
- Vox = voice (Voz in spanish)
- communicate
- understand the world around you
- turn up the volume of the world around you
- An effortless movement
- agile and quick
- Trot through the language game and your lessons
- Trot through life while you study and play the game
- implies speed, facility
- trotting isn't running; its moving quick, but still enjoying
- dance is communal - a form of intuitive communication
- movement
- army langyage symbol for F
- easy to say and spell
- clean and sounds fast
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Each year, new stars are carved into the marble of the CIA's Memorial Wall in the agency's main lobby. Each represents an employee who died while carrying out his or her duties, often clandestine.
When it was first dedicated in 1974, there were 31 stars. After a ceremony held Monday, the number is 125. As is true almost every year, some of the new stars honor fallen officers whose names and operations remain classified.
Four of the eight new stars represent officers whose names if revealed might unveil classified operations.
A fifth was added to honor Mark S. Rausenberger, an 18-year agency officer who died while serving overseas. The circumstances of his death remain classified.
In the past, the agency has reviewed the history of clandestine operations to determine if a name can be declassified. The identity of the man honored with the first star, Douglas Mackiernan, wasn't revealed until 2006, 56 years after his death.
The three other new stars pay tribute to David Bevan, Darrell Eubanks, and John Lewis. All died when their plane crashed while carrying out a mission for Air America, the CIA's Vietnam-era "airline," in Laos in 1961.
In remarks to those assembled before the wall Monday, including families of the fallen, CIA Director Mike Pompeo said that each star represents "a life that is dear to us … We remain forever devoted to them, as they were to us. And we will strive to make them proud of us, as we are of them."
Two U.S. defense officials confirm that North Korea's launch of a KN-17 missile last Sunday was successful and that the missile's re-entry vehicle did successfully re-enter the atmosphere.
The re-entry was controlled and the vehicle did not burn up, the officials said. It landed in the sea near Russia.
The KN-17 is a liquid fuel single-stage missile. In boasting of the successful launch, the North Koreans called it a "medium long-range" ballistic rocket that can carry a heavy nuclear warhead.
The U.S. officials characterized Sunday's launch as an advancement for the North Korean missile program.
North Korea also launched one in mid-April, but it exploded seconds later.
The Treasury Department announced new sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program Wednesday, but also said it will continue to waive sanctions as required by the Iran nuclear deal.
"The Treasury Department is imposing new sanctions on Iranian defense officials, an Iranian entity, and a China-based network that supplied missile-applicable items to a key Iranian defense entity,'" said a statement released by the Treasury Department. "The action reflects concern with Iran's continued development of ballistic missiles, which is in inconsistent with United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231.
The statement also said the waiver of sanctions "does not diminish the United States' resolve to continue countering Iran's destabilizing activity in the region. ... [A]bove all, the United States will never allow the regime in Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon."
A former senior National Security Agency official who consults with the agency told NBC News that it's true, as cybersecurity researchers report, that the WannaCry ransomware epidemic is the result of a software vulnerability identified and stockpiled by the NSA. And it became public when it leaked as part of the Shadow Brokers disclosures.
The NSA releases 90 to 95 percent of the software vulnerabilities it discovers, he said, but it sits on the rest for use in hacking and spying activities. In other words, it doesn't tell Americans about software holes that make them vulnerable -- so it can exploit those weaknesses to spy on foreigners.
In this case, after the leak, the NSA warned Microsoft and other companies, the official said. Microsoft released a patch in March.
But not everybody patches, and those running outdated systems may not even be able to.
The former official said some people would like the NSA to alert industry to every software hole it finds. But then, he said, the NSA would lose intelligence collection. And hackers would still find holes to exploit, because such holes are inevitable.
That said, he praised a new system in the UK, where spies sit with private researchers and share vulnerabilities in real time. That doesn't mean the Brits don't keep some secret, he added.
He sees a Russian hand in the Shadow Brokers disclosures, which would be ironic if true. Russia has suffered heavily from the ransomware attack because it uses pirated and outdated software.
Some media reports about the ransomware -- called WannaCry -- that rocked the UK health system, Spain's telecom industry, and other targets in Europe Friday say that hackers pulled it from a leaked NSA tool kit.
That's not really accurate.
Instead, computing experts say and a review of the computing code shows, the leaked NSA tool kit demonstrated to the hackers how they could attack these systems. The hackers didn't use NSA code, but they did copy something from the tool kit.
"WannaCry ransomware uses one of the exploits released recently by Shadowbrokers in the leaked NSA tools archive," said Andrew Komarov, chief intelligence officer for the cybersecurity firm InfoArmor. "This is pretty normal practice, where cybercriminals are using the latest vulnerabilities in order to increase the efficiency of their malware."
The name of the NSA tool that the hackers drew on to develop the new ransomware is called "Eternalblue".
The software fix for the vulnerability that the ransomware exploits came out in March, before the Shadowbrokers leak, so experts say there was theoretically time to patch systems in advance of an attack.
Komarov said there was no indication that WannaCry or Friday's attack had anything to do with the NSA "or any other state-sponsored cyber offensive activities."
The Agency announced late Tuesday that it has established a "Korea Mission Center" to "harness the full resources, capabilities, and authorities of the Agency in addressing the nuclear and ballistic missile threat posed by North Korea." The CIA also announced that Director Mike Pompeo has named a "veteran intelligence officer" to run the center — but declined to name the officer for security reasons.
Both publicly and privately, the agency has said North Korea has been one of, if not the most, difficult of intelligence targets.
"Creating the Korea Mission Center allows us to more purposefully integrate and direct CIA efforts against the serious threats to the United States and its allies emanating from North Korea," said Pompeo. "It also reflects the dynamism and agility that CIA brings to evolving national security challenges."
Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden says he will block the nomination of Donald Trump's pick to be the top Treasury intelligence official until Treasury's anti-money-laundering agency produces documents requested by the Senate Intelligence Committee related to Trump.
Sen. Wyden says he will maintain a hold on the nomination of Sigal Mandelker to be under secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence until the documents are produced.
This week, Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, announced that the committee had asked the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) for records relating to President Trump and his associates.
"I have stated repeatedly that we have to follow the money if we are going to get to the bottom of how Russia has attacked our democracy," Wyden said. "That means thoroughly review any information that relates to financial connections between Russia and President Trump and his associates, whether direct or laundered through hidden or illicit transactions. The office which Ms. Mandelker has been nominated to head is responsible for much of this information."
Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia told NBC News the Senate Intelligence Committee is meeting today to review material about Russia's meddling in the U.S. election — and that today is also the deadline for former Trump aides Mike Flynn and Carter Page to provide documents requested by the committee.
"The first round of information requests we made to General Flynn and some of the others were due today and we're going to be discussing first steps," said Warner, the committee's ranking Democrat.
"We've gotten word that we're getting some [documents]. Obviously some of the others, like Flynn, I'm not holding my breath on."
Three senior defense officials report that Iran test-fired a high-speed torpedo near the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday.
The Hoot torpedo is still in the testing phase, the officials report, but once it is fully operational it should be able to travel about 12,000 yards (approximately six nautical miles) at a speed of about 200 knots per hour (approximately 250 miles per hour). None of the officials could say whether the test was successful or not.
The USS George HW Bush strike group is in the Gulf right now but all three officials said the test did not pose a threat to U.S. ships or assets in the region.
Two of the officials said that the Iranian military last tested this torpedo in February 2015.


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In a surprise move, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta removed the military ban on women in combat on Wednesday. Lifting the ban will open service on the front lines to thousands of women.
According to the Associated Press, the move was recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and overturns a 1994 rule banning women from being assigned to smaller ground combat units. Smaller exemptions to the rule were passed in 2012, but the new decision opens up 238,000 positions where women were formerly banned.
Women have been traditionally barred from serving in ground combat units, such as infantry, artillery, armor or as special operations commandos. However, women have been serving in combat roles for years as well, as recent conflicts have blurred the lines of combat and non-combat duties. While the ACLU last year sued the Pentagon for the right for women to take up positions on the front line, and the Marines recently began allowing women to serve as officers, the timing of Panetta's announcement comes as a surprise.
Some Republicans have opposed putting women in combat because of alleged physical inferiority to men. However, a survey of several NATO allies with women in front line roles in Afghanistan indicated that, far from causing problems, female officers actually performed better in intelligence-gathering roles than their male counterparts.
Military chiefs must report their initial implementation plans by May 15, and can request special exceptions until January 2016 for any positions they feel cannot be open to women.


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Free Upcoming Webinar! Financial Literacy Materials for Adults with Limited English Reading Proficiency
Submitted by Dorjan Chaney on May 8, 2013 - 12:52pm
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Save the date for a free LINCS Community webinar on Thursday, May 30, 2013 from 2-3PM EDT. Log in info will be emailed directly to registered participants as we approach the webinar date.
Deborah Kennedy and Miriam Burt of the Center for Applied Linguistics, as well as Jennifer Leach of the Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection will host a 60-minute webinar. The purpose of this event is to share free, downloadable instructional and informational materials for practitioners working with adult learners with low literacy in English – both native and non-native English speakers. These materials can be used in classrooms, in one-on-one tutoring, or even by students themselves working online.
Registration is closed. Thank you for your interest.
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Some of the banks in the Chicago area have some great materials for financial literacy, but they seem to written at 6.0 grade level. I have used them, but have had to rewrite. Some of the problems arise because the vocabulary needed to work with banks, credit cards, etc is very difficult for those who are reading at high level let alone below 6.0. I am looking forward for the materials that will help explain the needed vocabulary.
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Hi Debra,
Yes, we'll be providing login information to those who RSVP.
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Pleas sign me up for this event. Jim Mohr, firstname.lastname@example.com
Will we receive a link or something to give us access?
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I would like to attend this webinar. Please send me login (linc) info. Thank you!
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Hello everyone,
This group is a wonderful way to inform us about webinars and other opportunities - so I wholeheartedly advocate that. BUT.... could the providers of webinars please provide SEPARATE registration contact info, e.g. "Please register by emailing Jane Doe at email@example.com." In other words, please do not use the group/list itself for the actual registration.
We are being absolutely inundated by people posting "Please register me for this webinar" because people were asked to register this way. Those of us who get each post via email are swamped by dozens of emails saying "I would like to attend." Threads should be used for discussion of professional topics, not registration for a webinar.
Hope that LINCS administrators will actively support this request - thanks much!
Betsy Rubin
Literacy Works
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A HUGE THANK YOU to all of you who have indicated interest in the upcoming financial literacy webinar. We apologize for any inconveniences caused by the RSVP/registration instructions for this event. We will be exploring different RSVP/registration avenues for future events so as not to disrupt groups' professional discussions and members' email accounts.
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I would like to participate in the webinar! We offer financial literacy in our ESL classes, but it has been difficult to get bankers to incorporate the English our students need into the FDIC Money Smart curriculum or other curriculums that the different banks use. Our local literacy coalition will be working with United Way to try to have trainings for bankers to understand what adult learners need most.
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Hope I am not too late - your jsut closed! Count me in if you can. If not, do you have resource material to share?
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I appreciate the offer to share materials, please add my name to the list.
Thank you,
Carole Fuller
Carlos Rosario Charter School, Washington, DC
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I just joined the LINCS community today and happen to be working on developing a Financial Literacy curriculum for my organization. I was sad to see that this webinar was last year; I think it'd be very helpful as I tackle this project. Where can I find the shared materials from this webinar?
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Dear DF (and all),
Thank you for your interest in last year's webinar on financial literacy materials. Please check out this website: www.consumer.gov
for materials you can download or use right online for students with limited literacy in English.
Miriam, SME Adult ELL CoP
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Hi, all.
Looking forward to "talking" with those of you who have registered for the Webinar tomororw at 2 PM, EDT on ! Financial Literacy Materials for Adults with Limited English Reading Proficiency.
There will be time during the webinar for discussion. I hope we can continue the discussion here on the ELL forum afterwards.
Miriam Burt
SME, Adult ELL CoP
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Anderson Island's pristine Lake Josephine is in her full glory with the return of spring. On the lake you'll likely catch some enticing aromas wafting across the water as new restaurant manager, Troy McCulloch and staff, cook up a storm for their new menu.
Troy joined the Riviera Community Club this March. This capable chef has a reputation for excellence and creativity from his eight years as restaurant manager at Little Creek Casino near Shelton, and with other premiere destinations from Seattle to the Olympic Peninsula to Northern California.
We visited with Troy recently to see what's new at the Lakeshore Restaurant. Troy was glad to talk up some of their new culinary delights –small plate appetizers, fresh and seasonal entrées more fish and appealing deserts. Not content with mere talking Troy and his assistant Carolyn brought ought some new creations we found decidedly tasty as well as appealing to the eye… pork sliders, tender steak with roasted garlic, fresh salmon and a gourmet pizza. At 11:00 am, my brain had told me I wasn't hungry, but my stomach soon convinced the brain otherwise.
Upon taking the helm at the Lakeshore Restaurant this March, Troy immediately set upon implementing his vision: equipping his staff to create an enhanced the guest experience, from point of sale, to servers and back kitchen; introducing healthy choice—tasty pestos and sauces that emphasize flavor over heavy creams, and more seafood, less fried food. Consistency in preparation is a priority as well.
So make it a great day at the Riviera at Anderson Island. Your sunny, waterside morning begins on the deck with fresh coffee and eggs benedict, home-made cinnamon rolls, scones, fruit-yogurt parfait or a traditional breakfast. Later in the day explore the new lunch and dinner choices. Enhance your meal with our updated selection of quality Northwest and Washington wines, or interesting local micro-brews on tap. The Lakeshore Restaurant now also offers wine by the bottle–to go, and your favorite beers in growlers! Numerous fun events are also in store. Come be our guest and enjoy yourself.


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In Tefilas Geshem we say "Al HaSela Hach Vayeitzu Mayim"
translated by Artscroll as:
Remember the one [Moses] drawn forth in a bulrush basket from the water. They said, 'He drew water and provided the sheep with water.' At the time Your treasured people thirsted for water, he struck the rock and out came water.
So far I know, Moshe Rabeinu was taken to task over hitting the rock. Then why do we pray that in this Zechus we should get water???


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Patricia "Tricia" M. Martin
March 7, 1995-Sept. 14, 2012
Pleasanton, California
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Patricia M. Martin (Tricia), 17, moved on to paradise on Sept. 14, 2012. Born in Walnut Creek, CA, she is survived by Kathleen Martin (mother) and preceded in death by Brian Martin (father). Tricia's short life was filled with trips to the beach and Disneyland, and cruises to the Caribbean, Mexico, Alaska and Hawaii. She loved listening to music, creating art, watching scary movies and hanging with friends. Tricia also loved animals including her three cats Sparklie, Herbie and Zephyr and her dog Kimmy (big black kitty).
A celebration of her life will be held on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, at Graham-Hitch Mortuary, 4167 First Street, Pleasanton, CA.
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In the greatest cathedrals.
In the smallest churches.
On wave-swept shores.
From high mountain tops.
Today, Christians the world over proclaim the central message of their faith:
Christ is risen!
The words ring out with joy that God in human form died, then rose to a new life, and in doing so brought the promise of everlasting life to believers.
Even for those who reject the belief or view it only passively, there is no denying that Easter is the season of new beginnings.
Days grow longer, temperatures warm � yes, even from late cold snaps � and the earth awakens.
The grass turns a vibrant green.
Trees burst with blooms and sprout tiny leaves.
Bulbs, dormant in the cold ground, push though the soil to tell the Easter story in their unique way.
Christ is risen!
At Easter, nature proclaims her triumph over the killing weather of winter as Christians proclaim Christ�s triumph over human death.
The symbolism of this centuries old message does not end with nature.
During His life on earth, Jesus preached a message of love and the promise of life in the Kingdom of the Almighty � a subversive message, to be sure, to the powers of the time who were concerned only with their own kingdoms.
So they killed Him, nailing Him to a cross to suffer the most humiliating execution.
Then He rose from the tomb, victorious over death as well as over the authorities of this world.
The Resurrection would seem to defy understanding to the strongest of believers. It is faith that makes them sure of the promise of a life to come.
Within the Easter story is Christ�s symbolic triumph over earthly authority, suggesting that humans ruling other humans is not the way of God.
Those in power today who use their power to define morality, to enforce their definition, to deny individuals the right to make their own decisions on moral issues, will find a symbolism not always spoken in the Easter message.
At this time in America as yet another issue of morality comes before the supreme judicial power, it is a symbolism worth pondering as the familiar words ring out this Easter.
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!


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Everything you need to know about Question time can be summed up in the supplementary asked today by Julie Bishop to Kevin Rudd
"Will the Foreign Minister advise the House when he intends to return to Bougainville?"
Some background. Firstly Bishop had sought to ask Rudd a long question about why he hadn't visited Indonesia, East Timor, Malaysia or PNG to repair the relations that have supposedly been destroyed recently (I guess she is discounting the possibility of Scott Morrison's little jaunt to Malaysia this weekend helping things).
Rudd pretty much took her to school. Malcolm Farr watching in the press gallery tweeted:
Julie B might not quite be in her weight division
That is – she was a light weight battling a foreign policy heavyweight.
But the question we soon discovered was not a real question anyway. It was just a set up for her supplementary:
"Will the Foreign Minister advise the House when he intends to return to Bougainville?"
Ok. Let me walk you though it… Apparently Kevin Rudd now calls the lodge "Boganville" because there are so many coups in Bougainville and because he probably thinks Gillard is a bogan. So she was really saying when do intend to return to the Lodge.
*taps microphone* Is this thing on?
The only reason we know Rudd thinks this is because Senator Brandis mentioned it in Senate Estimate and Niki Savva also mentioned it in her most recent op-ed piece in The Oz.
So that includes about as large a percentage of the population as Alan Jones thinks a carbon tax will reduce world temperatures by.
The Liberal side of the House laughed. Rudd had a bit of a smirk. And the rest of Australia thought, who are these children?
On the ABC, Jeremy Thompson thought it pure gold, writing:
Like a good fast bowler, Ms Bishop had "softened up" Mr Rudd earlier with a series of bouncers about why he had not visited Jakarta, Dili, Port Moresby and Kuala Lumpur, before she unleashed the yorker.
And she hit middle stump.
Which is I guess a good analogy if you ignore that Rudd put the first delivery over the fence.
Personally I agree more with Farr's assessment on his rolling news.com. blog:
The Opposition has engaged in an elaborate set-up for a joke most members of the public did not get.
Yep. It was a indulgent in-joke. Audiences just love those.
First rule of comedy – you better not need to explain your joke in order for people to get it.
But it got a run in the media because, well it's a sideshow.
Yesterday in the Senate, in giving his valedictory speech Senator Alan Ferguson had a bit to say about Question Time:
Firstly, if it were up to me, I would abolish question time as it is currently structured. It is a total waste of time and, dare I say it, not much better in the other place, if not worse.
We have in the Australian parliament the worst question time of any parliament throughout the world that uses the Westminster system. I recently went to hear Prime Minister David Cameron answering questions in Prime Minister's question time in the House of Commons. He answered 25 questions in half an hour, and answered every question. In Canada ministers get 35 seconds. In New Zealand they have up to 61 questions in the day, and each one is answered.
There is one difference, and I have talked this over with Senator Faulkner on occasion at the procedure committee: every question is a question on notice, followed by supplementaries. I think the only way that we can ever get some order into this place or into question time is if questions are placed on notice and anybody in the chamber is allowed to ask a supplementary question. It means that there is no such thing as a dorothy dixer, a chance for a minister to then explain at length an answer to that question, because someone on this side of the chamber can add a supplementary and make it a more interesting debate.
I think there has never been a greater waste of time in the Public Service and in ministers' offices than question time as it is currently structured. Ministers, staff and departmental officials spend many, many hours—I do not know just how long, because I have never been in there—preparing for answers to questions in the Senate and in the House of Representatives—questions that may never be asked, because they are not on the Notice Paper and nobody knows exactly what the topic of the question is going to be on the day or whether a certain minister is going to be questioned.
So can I say that I think that in its current form question time in both chambers does us a disservice. Name me one person in the community who is not frustrated by watching question time and seeing questions asked that are never answered. It is a generally known standard: the opposition ask questions they hope the government cannot answer, and the government ask questions where they have already prepared the answer. I have never seen a more farcical waste of time in my life, and I think it is something that ought to be changed as soon as is practically possible, but it will take goodwill on both sides because both parties have been guilty of encouraging and maintaining the current system.
He makes some excellent points. Whenever people praise the glory of the UK system, however, they often forget to mention the PM only needs to front up once a week. I like that the PM is here everyday – though I also understood what Keating was trying to do when he tried to have a day off each week so that Ministers were in the forefront.
But he is right about Dorothy Dixers.
Get rid of them. Wayne Swan today struggled to keep directly relevant to his own Dorothy Dixer, and even ran out of time!
I like Ferguson's idea that if Government MPs are allowed to ask questions that anyone can then ask a supplementary. That would make things rather interesting.
But to be honest it is not so much the rules in place at the moment, but the attitude. The Libs don't give a damn about order. Chris Pyne loves being the a pest and thinks disrupting the House with endless quorum calls is all jolly good japes. I guess when you don't have any policies, you are only left with stunts to pass the time.
Clowns the lot of them.
One thing did happen in Parliament today of note. Here it is:
Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2011
The order of the day having been read for the resumption of the debate on the question—That the bill be now read a second time, 9:24:11 AM—
Mr Bandt dissenting—Bill agreed to, 11:01:05 AM.
Consideration in detail concluded.
That was the Bill that Abbott and Hockey attacked with vigour and venom after the budget because it would "strip" benefits from needy middleclass families. Remember how the Government wasn't making the real tough cuts? Remember how it was turning its back on good, honest, families.
Here was Joe Hockey the day after the budget:
JOE HOCKEY: You have to make hard decisions and this Government instead is penalising nearly 2 million Australian families. It is penalising over 2 million Australian small businesses. Michael, the Government is claiming to deliver a surplus in two years time but the Budget deficit this year is at a record level, the Budget deficit next year was meant to be $12 billion, it is now $22 billion. The Government is spending $18 million a day on interest alone for the next four years on their debt.
Here was Joe at the Press club:
The Coalition in the last twelve months has announced over $52 billion of savings in detail.
So why did the Liberals let his Bill pass without even a vote? Here's Sue Dunlevy of The Oz quoting Opposition families spokesman Kevin Andrews:
the Coalition did not oppose the measures that will save the government $2 billion over four years because "we couldn't find equivalent savings measures"'.
Wow. From $52 billion to zero in one month. That takes skill.
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Mark Calcavecchia shot a 6-under 66 Friday and was tied atop an American-dominated leaderboard with Michael Allen and David Peoples after the first round of the Songdo IBD Championship.
The trio shares a one-stroke lead over Mark O'Meara, who finished at 5-under 67 at Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea. The $3 million purse is the largest of any official Champions Tour event.
Six players, including Australian Peter Senior, the only non-American in the top-10, are tied for fifth at 4-under 68.
Peoples' round included five birdies and an eagle at the par-5 15th, where he hit a 3-wood to 10 feet and holed the putt. His lone bogey came at hole No. 6.
"I didn't putt well today and the ones I made I didn't expect to," said Peoples, who began the day using a cross-handed grip before switching to a regular grip after three-putting the sixth hole. "I've struggled more with my putting than I did at a younger age."
Calcavecchia had eight birdies and two bogeys and is seeking to become the first player to win back-to-back starts on the Champions Tour this year after capturing his first title at the Boeing Classic in his last start.
John Cook was the last player to win back-to back titles -- the 2010 Charles Schwab Cup Championship and the season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship in Hualalai this year.
"I hit very few bad shots all day," said Calcavecchia, who admitted he got a great break when his tee shot at the driveable par-4 14th hole hit a rock in the adjacent creek and popped out, leading to a birdie. "I made eight birdies and five of those were tap-ins."
Allen started on the back nine and, like Peoples, also recorded five birdies, an eagle and a bogey. He made the turn at 2-under 34 after a birdie on No. 18 and followed that with a birdie, birdie, eagle stretch over the next three holes.
Defending champion Russ Cochran is tied for 11th after opening with a 3-under 69.
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Photo on Flickr by John Thurm
It has been a week since EVO sessions have finished and I haven't had time to post. I haven't finished all my Classdigitools assignments and I am really planning to. Once I finish all Week 5 projects, I will post about them here.
I have, however, completed all my Podcasting tasks and I proudly give you Natasa's Podcasting Blog. The blog, exactly as it is, is the final product of the workshop, an eportfolio. This doesn't go to say that it will always remain as it is now. I am planning to add more pages once I start working on my future podcasting projects, but at this stage, everything you see there has been created during the workshop.
Here is a preview:
The blog contains three pages - About Me, My Podcasts and My Podcast Projects. I will share some highlights here:
Here is something about me, but I mostly talk about my school:
My interview with Janet Bianchini:
Podcast Powered By Podbean
My Mystery Person:
My future podcasting plans:
Finally, my "Animotocast":
It is not difficult to create an "Animotocast". You just create an Animoto clip the usual way and, instead of choosing their audio, you upload your own. The trick is to have enough photos ready to last you until the end of your audio. Otherwise, your podcast will be cut short. It goes both ways, so be prepared to sacrifice some of your photos if the audio is short.
You can create the audio for your Animoto using any of the podcasting tools, but I am hooked on Audacity. If you think Audacity is scary or too difficult to use, I advise you to attend the next Podcasting EVO session. You won't regret it. I feel that
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A Concord, N.H. middle school student was suspended for five days after posting that she wished Osama bin Laden had killed her math teacher.
The 13-year-old girl, Shayne Dell'isola, is now embarrassed to go back to class and face her teacher, the New York Daily News reported. Her mother, Kimberly Dell'isola, said that her daughter posted the statement while at home and it should have been taken care of at home, not the school.
"You are denying her an education based on something she did at home. That's my business, not your business," she told Fox affiliate WVCB-TV, referring to Rundlett Middle School. The mother also said her daughter is now "mortified" about the posting.
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The school was notified by a parent of one of the 13-year-old's friends.
All I can say is that there must not be much misbehavior at this middle school if a routine "I hate my teacher" comment gets five days' suspension. The likelihood is that this school has a zero-tolerance policy on "violence" and the threat of killing, even by the phantom of Osama bin Laden, has to be have a minimum punishment.
But as we learned yesterday with young Vito Lapinta, Jr., who was interrogated by U.S. Secret Service, children need to know their messages will be seen by more than just friends.