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Potato soups seem to generally come in two varieties. You can either have a triple bypass or a quadruple bypass/heart transplant combo deal. And a side of lifelong statin therapy.
You know, for what you'll eventually have to go through if you eat them on a regular basis.
Thanks, but no thanks.
I have a half marathon (donate to fight cancer!) to run in just a week and a half and I'd prefer not to collapse in the middle of Times Square or somewhere along the dregs of the West Side Highway due to cardiac failure. No matter how appealing eating a bowl of soup made up entirely of carbs sounds at the moment.
I was working on accepting the fact that my potato soup dream was never quite going to happen. (At least not in a non-artery clogging kinda way.) And then, when I least expected it, into my life fell this potato-kale soup from Cooking Light. And it was like all of my carb-filled dreams came true in one fell swoop.
Between the gruyere topping (swoon) and the kinda-caramelized onion base, it tastes almost like a good French onion but with all the heartiness that potato has to offer. And it's filled with a truckload of kale. Which, in my kitchen…is always a good thing.
One year ago…Seared Bean Sprouts with Tempeh and Sesame-Orange Sauce, Snickerdoodle Biscoff Sandwich Cookies
Three years ago…Sausage and Eggplant Polenta
Potato-Kale Soup with Gruyere
Serves 6, adapted from Cooking Light October 2002
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 7 cups vegetable broth
- 2 lb Yukon gold potatoes, peeled and chopped
- 1/4 tsp salt, plus more to taste
- 1 bay leaf
- 6 cups chopped fresh kale (about 3/4 lb)
- 1 tsp tuscan seasoning
- 9 tbsp (about 2 oz) shredded Gruyere cheese
- Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and cook for 8 minutes or until tender, stirring frequently. Add the garlic and cook for 30 seconds, stirring constantly.
- Stir in the broth, potato, salt and bay leaf. Bring to a boil and then cover, reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes or until the potato is tender.
- Stir in the kale and dried herbs. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes or until kale is tender. Discard the bay leaf. Partially mash the potatoes with a potato masher until thick and chunky. Season with salt to taste.
- Top each bowl with the cheese before serving.
I am submitting this to Deb over at Kahakai Kitchen for Souper Sundays!
Now. Can we also talk about juice? It's kind of a point of contention between The.Boy and I because he can't live without it and I pretty much refuse to drink my calories in a sugar-filled way (because I'd always rather have ice cream. Duh.).
Needless to say, we were both pretty psyched when we heard about Ocean Spray's new line of Diet Juice drinks. They come in a ton of flavors (cranberry, cranberry with lime, cranberry-grape, cranberry-lemonade, cranberry-pomegranate, cranberry-cherry, blueberry, blueberry-pomegranate) and even in sparkling varieties! Each serving provides 100% of the vitamin C you need for the day for a fraction of the calories of regular juice. So if you're a juice fiend or just like a drink with flavor as an alternative to water every once in a while, these are great options.
While The.Boy was perfectly happy to drink his juice plain with dinner, I decided to try mine in a smoothie. I blended the diet cranberry juice with frozen cherries, black cherry greek yogurt, and banana which resulted in a nutrient-dense, protein-rich and absolutely delicious smoothie! It was the perfect healthy after-dinner treat and definitely helped to curb my ice cream cravings.
Mixed Berry Smoothie
Serves 1-2, adapted from Ocean Spray
- 3/4 cup Ocean Spray light cranberry juice
- 3/4 cup frozen mixed berries (I used frozen cherries)
- 1 (6 oz) container berry yogurt (I used nonfat black cherry greek yogurt)
- 1/2 banana, sliced
- Combine all ingredients in a blender or food processor and pulse until well-blended. Drink up!
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Even though the White House Office of Administration (OA) has complied with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for decades, a court yesterday supported the Bush administration's claim that the OA is not a federal agency and therefore not subject to the FOIA. The Bush administration made the claim last August. The court dismissed a case brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which was using the FOIA to seek documents from the OA about missing White House emails. The decision means the OA will not have to release its documents to CREW, which had hoped to use them in a separate lawsuit that aims to force the recovery and preservation of any missing emails.
While the ruling is a setback for CREW and the National Security Archive (NSA), its co-plaintiff in the White House emails lawsuit, the battle is far from over. CREW plans to appeal this decision. In the meantime, the main lawsuit, which focuses on the recovery and preservation of the emails, will carry on without the OA documents. CREW and the NSA already have access to some information about the OA's email failures because House government oversight committee chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif) obtained and released some of that information earlier this year. Recent developments in the main lawsuit have favored the plaintiffs, with a magistrate judge issuing recommendations that the White House didn't like, including one that suggested the White House be ordered to secure portable devices, like BlackBerrys, that could contain versions of some of the missing emails. The judge in that case could still force the OA to take measures to recover and preserve missing emails. But each day that goes by until then will make any deleted emails present in "slack space" on hard drives harder to recover, and get the Bush White House one day closer to running out the clock.

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Today, I got a request to appear on the Amiga Roundtable Podcast. I am all over this, as the Amiga still represents, to me, the apex of computing, and is still central to my happiest computer memories. Actually, I've got so many Amiga memories to share, those guys are never going to get me to shut up. :)
That said, I am out of touch with what's going on in the Amiga community these days so I started looking around. And I discovered something wonderful. About a month ago, Amiga.com started offering 12 classic Amiga games--some by Cinemaware--for just $4.99. There are definitely some worth checking out, including the classics "Wings," "It Came From the Desert" and "Sinbad." Wings, especially, is a fond, fond memory.
Classic stuff. I'll link to the podcast whenever it happens. I can't wait.


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FedEx fighting charges in online pharma deliveries
SAN FRANCISCO, California—FedEx Corp, the latest company accused in a US federal probe involving illegal online pharmacies, says it will fight the charges that it knowingly shipped drugs to people who lack valid prescriptions.
The company says it would have to invade the privacy of customers to stop such deliveries.
By contrast, UPS Inc paid $40 million last year to resolve similar allegations and vowed to overhaul its procedures and work with investigators to detect suspicious activity.
The contrasting responses to the decade-long federal probe of the prescription drug black market underscore the difficulty shippers have in determining how far to go to ferret out illicit online pharmacies among their customers and to alert the government.
Wall Street analysts, legal experts, anti-drug crusaders and the companies themselves are split on the issue.
FedEx could face $1.6 billion in penalties after its July 17 indictment on charges that it conspired with illegal online pharmacies to deliver prescription drugs to customers it knew lacked valid prescriptions.
The federal investigation of the two package delivery giants stems from a blitz against online pharmacies that was launched in 2005. Since then, dozens of arrests have been made, thousands of websites shuttered and tens of millions of dollars and pills seized worldwide as investigators broadened the probe beyond the operators.
Google Inc in 2011 agreed to pay $500 million to settle allegations by the US Department of Justice that it profited from ads purchased by online pharmacies that the search giant knew was improperly selling prescription drugs.
Many online pharmacies fill orders without following proper prescription protocols, often requiring a customer to simply fill out an online form that is reviewed remotely by a physician.
"The advent of Internet pharmacies allowed the cheap and easy distribution of massive amounts of illegal prescription drugs to every corner of the United States, while allowing perpetrators to conceal their identities through the anonymity the Internet provides," said San Francisco-based U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag
Companies up and down the online pill supply chain have been grappling with defining their duty to uncover and report questionable Internet pharmacies.
"We are a transportation company—we are not law enforcement," said FedEx spokesman Patrick Fitzgerald. He said FedEx has often worked with investigators to thwart illegal drug activity during the company's 43-year history.
Fitzgerald said that to comply with Drug Enforcement Agency demands to determine and then disclose to the agency customers who are illegally shipping prescription drugs would require the company to violate the privacy of its customers.
The Memphis, Tennessee, company is echoed by Wall Street analysts and some legal experts who argue that FedEx, which handles 10 million packages daily, is not equipped or responsible for playing a leading role in investigating online pharmacies.
The company was indicted in San Francisco federal court on 15 felony counts of conspiring with two illicit online pharmacies.
"This is an unprecedented action by the DEA," said Larry Cote, a former DEA lawyer now in private practice. "This will definitely have a chilling effect on the industry as a whole. And it's a very slippery slope the DEA is going down. Do they go after utilities and banks next?"'
At the opposite end of the spectrum is FedEx rival UPS. To avoid similar criminal charges, the Atlanta-based company agreed last year to pay $40 million and change its policies and procedures, including appointing a compliance officer to monitor online pharmacies.
The officer's job is to report suspicious activity to senior executives and federal investigators. UPS was also required to hire an outside auditor to oversee the compliance officer and both appointments were approved by the DOJ, UPS spokeswoman Susan Rosenberg.
"The issue of illegal online pharmacies is not about privacy but a matter of supply chain integrity and the creation of processes to ensure that illegal activity is not facilitated," Rosenberg said. She said the agreement with the government doesn't require UPS to search packages.
Rosenberg declined to specify how UPS is checking out online pharmacies, but the company's agreement with the DOJ said screening can be as simple as an online search of the pharmacy's website.
Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor now in private practice, said FedEx and its competitors have an obligation to not ship things that they know are contraband.
In the FedEx indictment, prosecutors cite several instances in which they allege the company was warned that it was engaged with suspect pharmacies.
The Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies, launched in 2010, includes Google, Facebook, UPS and other companies that share data about suspect pharmacies and puzzle over solutions for dropping illicit shipments.
"The shipping question is a very hard one to answer," said centre chief Marjorie Clifton. "They can't open every package."


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Here are some basic rules that children should be learning in school, but unfortunately don't. Not all of these have to do with academics.
Rule #1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase, "It's not fair" 8.6 times a day.
Rule #2: The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain it's not fair.
Rule #3: Sorry, you won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a label.
Rule #4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask you how you feel about it.
Rule #5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grand-parents had a different word of burger flipping. They called it "opportunity". They weren't embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.
Rule #6: It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it, or you'll sound like a baby boomer.
Rule #7: Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't. In some schools, they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone's feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
Rule #8: Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don't get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on. While we're at it, very few jobs are interesting in fostering your self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to self-realization.
Rule #9: Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs. Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston.
Rule #10: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.
Rule #11: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.
Rule #12: You are not immortal. If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.
Rule #13: Enjoy your youth time while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school is a bother and life is depressing but someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now.
By Charles J. Sykes
Printed in San Diego Union Tribune
September 19, 1996


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Box 1 Alexander, Dr. A.S. "The Inquiring Mind and the Seeing Eye" -- Correspondence, 1913.
Box 2 Correspondence, 1914 -- Letters to Farm Folk
Box 3 Newspaper Clippings -- Speeches, 1913.
Box 4 Speeches, undated -- Wallaces' Farmer.
Oversized Folder Wallaces' Farmer.
Henry Wallace was born in 1836 on a farm in Pennsylvania. A Presbyterian minister, Wallaces first church was in Monroe County, Iowa, in 1862. The following year he married Nancy Cantwell, and they moved to Rock Island, Illinois, where he had congregations on both sides of the Mississippi River. His next two pastorates were in Morning Sun and Winterset, Iowa. Having contracted tuberculosis, Wallace (or Uncle Henry, as he was commonly known) retired from the ministry and began farming full-time in Winterset. He began to write about farm subjects, including livestock breeding, soil conservation, and crop rotation. As his health improved, he began making speeches about farm issues. He was invited to become a columnist and farm-editor for the Winterset Madisonian and later for the Chronicle. In 1883, he began writing for the Iowa Homestead, a Des Moines paper. He quit in 1895, after having some of his editorials censored. In 1896, he founded Wallaces Farm and Dairy with his two sons, Henry C. and John. The publication changed its name to Wallaces Farmer in 1899. Working with his sons and grandson, Uncle Henry remained editor until his death in 1916.
Despite the success
of Wallaces' Farmer, Henry Wallace is probably best known as the father
of Henry Cantwell Wallace (Secretary of Agriculture under President Warren G.
Harding) and as the grandfather of Vice-President Henry A. Wallace (who also
served as Secretary of Agriculture under President Franklin D. Roosevelt).
The papers of Henry
Wallace consist of 2.5 linear feet of manuscripts dating from 1860 to 1924.
They are arranged alphabetically subject file. Included are speeches, sermons,
diaries, photographs, published and unpublished writings, genealogies, obituaries,
and newspaper clippings. There are correspondence files which include letters
from: James Wilson, Daniel A. Wallace, Gifford Pinchot, Theodore Roosevelt,
Walter H.Page, Charles W. Fairbanks, Albert B. Cummins, John P. Wallace, Nannie
C. Wallace, and Henry C. Wallace.
Alexander, Dr. A.S. "The Inquiring Mind and the Seeing Eye" Better Crops with Plant Food, vol. 18, no. 1 (April - May 1932) pp. 14 - 16, 59 - 61. Article about Henry Wallace
Ashby, Harriet Wallace
"Nannie Cantwell Wallace" Typescript of a biography"Uncle Henry Wallace" Typescript of a biography
Ashby, Wallace Little. Newspaper clipping on wedding
Biography of the Wallace family done in pictures by Nannie Cantwell Wallace, 1894
Christensen, Chris L. "Twenty-Five Years After. The Roosevelt Country Life Commission" 1934
Class of 1859 -- Jefferson College by Henry Wallace
1860 -- 1899. Including letters from James Wilson1900 -- 1907. Including letters from James Wilson
1908 -- 1910. Including letters from: Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, Albert B. Cummins, James Wilson, Walter H. Page, and Daniel A. Wallace
1911 -- 1912. Including letters from: Theodore Roosevelt, Charles W. Fairbanks, Walter H. Page, and Daniel A. Wallace
1913. Including letters from Gifford Pinchot and Daniel A. Wallace
Correspondence (cont.)
1914 -- 1915. Including letters from: James Wilson, Daniel A. Wallace, John P. Wallace, and Henry C. Wallace1916 -- 1936. Including letters from Daniel A. Wallace
Death announcements of Henry Wallace, 1916
Henry Wallace1854 -- 1858. Student diary1862
Nancy Wallace
1891Josephine Wallace
1911Nannie C. Wallace
Farmer's University Needed. Brochure, reprinted from Wallace's Farmer.
"Good Farming, Clear Thinking, Right Living" by Henry Wallace, 1916
The Henry Wallace Calendar, 1917
to Farm Folk. Publicity
Newspaper clippings
By or about Henry Wallace, 1910 -- 1916Concerning the deaths of Henry Wallace and Henry C. Wallace, 1916 and 1924
Photographs. (6 folders)
Phrenology report on Henry Wallace by Prof. O.S. Fowler
By Henry WallaceBy Nannie C. Wallace
Sermons written by Henry Wallace, 1868. Incomplete.
1863 -- 19121913
Speeches (cont.)
Undated. (2 folders)
Student essays by Henry Wallace, 1858 -- 1859
Uncle Henry's Own Story by Henry Wallace
Typescript carbon draft with corrections and revisions, pp.1 -- 153Typescript carbon draft with corrections and revisions, pp. 171 -- 360
Typescript carbon draft with corrections and revisions, pp. 361 -- 511
Wallace, Josephine. Clippings, etc.
Wallace, Nannie Cantwell. Funeral service, 1909
Wallaces' Farmer. Bills,
1903 -- 1905
Wallaces' Farmer:
Vol. 41, nos. 9, 10, and 11, 1916Vol. 42, no. 8, 1917
Our Weekly Sabbath School Lesson
Click here for inventory of Sabbath School Lessons by Henry Wallace.
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OpenSSO enables 30,000 new Google Apps business users at Valeo
Among the OpenSSO-related news items that popped up while I had my head down over the past few weeks, I noticed the Google Blog entry and Valeo press release concerning the global industrial group's Google Apps deployment - 30,000 Valeo employees now have access to a new communication and collaborative working platform based on Google Apps Premier Edition and supported by Capgemini, one of the largest enterprise deployments of Google Apps to date.
It's not mentioned in either story, but, if you a regular reader of Superpatterns, you'll already know that Capgemini deployed OpenSSO at Valeo to handle single sign-on, allowing Valeo employees to access their email at Google via their Valeo credentials, without having to manage a separate Google username/password.
If you're looking at Google Apps, click here to download the 'starter kit' we recently produced, which explains exactly how to set up single sign-on to Google Apps using OpenSSO.
Thanks for the very useful information.
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Spoilers ahead. You have been warned.
Deep Breath, the first episode of series 8 of new Doctor Who, starts off with a bad case of Did Not Do The Research by writer Steven Moffat. The story begins in Victorian London, with a ludicrously big Tyrannosaurus Rex having been accidentally transported there after getting the TARDIS caught in its throat like some sort of time-travelling toffee. This ridiculously large dinosaur is shown close to the height of Big Ben, or 315 feet (nearly 16 stories). In reality, T Rex was large, but not anywhere near that size: 13 feet tall, not that much bigger than the TARDIS itself.
The opening credits have been reworked. Gone is the wormhole through space, in its place we now have clockwork gears and a spiral marked with Latin numerals like the face of an old-fashioned clock, rather suggestive of H.G. Wells' Time Machine. I thought that the look of it was quite good, although I haven't made up my mind about the theme music. If this is an indication that the Doctor is going to return to his old-fashioned Hartnell-esque roots (only, you know, better), I look forward to it. Unfortunately there is no sign of it in this episode. The newly-regenerated Doctor, played by the talented Peter Capaldi, spends most of the episode behaving erratically. He's unsure of who or what he is, uncertain why he has the face he has, and confused beyond measure. Even when he recovers he's not quite the Doctor. He's just some guy. Although he does have possibly the best line in the show:
It's spreading! You all sound all...English. No, you've all developed a fault!"
I'm not familiar with Capaldi as an actor, but Mrs Impala has followed his work for many years and thinks very highly of him, which made this performance all the more disappointing. She tells me that this is the first time that a new Doctor has failed to "sell" the role in the opening episode, and considering what the BBC made Colin Baker do, that's saying something. I have to say I agree: whoever Capaldi was playing in Deep Breath, we haven't yet seen him play the Doctor.
It's always fun to watch the Paternoster Gang, Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint, and Strax, and it would be awesome if they got their own spin-off. Strax in particular is always good for a few laughs, although I really hope that the writers don't continue to make him nothing but a buffoon. He is, after all, a Sontaran officer, smart, strong and dedicated, and if he's acting like a clown it's almost certainly to lull his foes (i.e. everyone who isn't a Sontaran) into a sense of false security.
Despite the impressive visuals of the opening, the T-Rex plays no real part in the story, existing only to show off Team Who's rather large budget for special effects. There are a few wise-cracks about the dinosaur, and a complete failure to consider what a cranky and hungry tyrannosaur is likely to do in the middle of London (all you can eat buffet comes to mind). There's a brief interlude where the Doctor (who apparently "talks dinosaur") makes a moving translation of the Rex's roars, and for all of five seconds I can almost believe the T Rex is a sentient being. And then it spontaneously combusts, thus neatly providing the hook for the Doctor to begin investigation and solve the problem of what to do with such an unfeasibly large carnivore. Ultimately, the Rex was nothing more than ridiculously implausible and unnecessary plot device.
The main plot of the episode was a weak re-hash of The Girl In The Fireplace, right down to the Doctor rushing off on horseback (although not by crashing through a mirror). Clockwork robots seeking to return to "the Promised Land" rebuild themselves with human body parts. The Girl In The Fireplace was charming and beautifully made, but in Deep Breath Moffat displays one of his major weaknesses: returning to the well after it's dry. He has a real talent for ideas which drip style and imagination, but don't stand up to a second look (e.g. the Weeping Angels), and then returning to them for a second or third look. And so it is here: clockwork robots stealing body parts are cool once but the concept is not strong enough to survive a second look. We're expected to believe that these robots have the knowledge and dexterity to somehow plug human body parts into their clockwork mechanisms and keep them alive and working indefinitely, but that they aren't able to make replacement gears. Oh rly?
There were a few genuinely suspenseful moments, like the restaurant scene, but I felt that the rest of the episode fell flat. The fight scene between the Paternosta Gang was disappointing, Vastra and Jenny seemed stilted and clumsy, as if they hadn't rehearsed their action scenes. The Doctor makes a big production over the "axe of my grandfather" paradox, insisting that it is not the same axe (or in this case, broom). I hope that Moffat intended it as an ironic counterpoint to the episode's theme that this is still the same old Doctor even though he no longer looks like, acts like, or sounds like the previous Doctor, but the cynic in me fears that the writing team simply failed to notice that the Doctor's remarks apply to himself. Or, for that matter, everybody else.
And then we come to the epilogue. In it, we are introduced to "Missy", a mysterious and obnoxiously saccharine Mary Poppins like character. Missy claims to be in heaven, and describes the Doctor as her boyfriend. Presumably she will be the Big Bad antagonist of the series, or at least the red herring to distract us while Moffat sneaks in a completely different Big Bad. Some fans have speculated that Missy is short for Mistress, and she is a new, female, regeneration of the Master. I fear that she will turn out to be some sort of lame-duck character like the Celestial Toymaker or the Master of the Land Of Fiction. Either way, it gives a dark hint that the series 8 story arc is going to be even more cringe-worthy than the "silence will fall" arc turned out to be. I hope to be proven wrong, but the epilogue feels like fan-fic of the worst kind. Overall, despite a few good moments, I think the episode was a failure, and can only give it a single star.
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The Water Planet
Detailed Description
Viewed from space, the most striking feature of our planet is the water. In both liquid and frozen form, it covers 75% of the Earth's surface. It fills the sky with clouds. Water is practically everywhere on Earth, from inside the planet's rocky crust to inside the cells of the human body.
This detailed, photo-like view of Earth is based largely on observations from MODIS, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, on NASA's Terra satellite. It is one of many images of our watery world featured in a new story examining water in all of its forms and functions.
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LUBBOCK, Texas — Seth Doege passed for six touchdowns and a career-high 504 yards while Texas Tech's defense shut down Geno Smith and No. 5 West Virginia as the Red Raiders upset the Mountaineers 49-14 on Saturday.
Red Raider fans stormed the field after the win, the most lopsided Texas Tech victory ever over a team ranked in the top five.
Texas Tech's defense consistently stymied West Virginia's offense. Heisman Trophy hopeful Smith completed 29 of 55 passes for 275 yards but couldn't get the ball in the end zone.
The Red Raiders offense had no such trouble.
"When you don't have a pass rush it's a lot easier to make your reads," said Doege, who threw TD passes of 39, 19, 16, 2, 29 and 7 yards. He completed 32 of 42 passes and the six touchdowns matched his career-high. Darrin Moore caught three touchdown passes, which tied his career-high.
Texas Tech (5-1, 2-1) had 18 plays of 15 yards or more, including a 61-yard pass to Jace Amaro and a 53-yard touchdown run by SaDale Foster.
"I thought Seth did a tremendous job running our offense," Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville said. "He's hard-nosed and he ran the ball."
Amaro finished with five receptions for 156 yards.
The Mountaineers (5-1, 2-1) last week converted all five fourth-down tries in their 48-45 win at Texas, but against the Red Raiders they made just two of seven.
"Those guys did a great job of just attacking us," Smith said. "They attacked us the entire game."
Doege had one interception, an improvement over the five he'd thrown in the previous two games.
"He came out and played loose and he was on-point today," Texas Tech offensive coordinator Neal Brown said.
The win for Texas Tech was the second over a top 10 team in as many seasons. The Red Raiders beat then-No. 3 Oklahoma 41-38 to break the Sooners' 39-game win streak in Norman.
On seven first-half possessions the Red Raiders scored touchdowns on five. Texas Tech wasn't as efficient in the second half but by then they were so far ahead it didn't matter.
The Mountaineers fell short of their scoring average (52) by 38 points and got just one touchdown in the second half and that came when the game was already out of reach.
Dustin Garrison scored on a 2-yard run in the fourth quarter to make it 49-14.
The Mountaineers had the third-worst pass defense coming into the game (336 yards) and didn't do anything to improve on that.
The Red Raiders, meanwhile, started fast and kept the Mountaineers off balance. By the time it was all over, they had 168 rushing yards on 29 carries and passed the ball 43 times.
After the Mountaineers failed to convert on fourth-and-3 deep in Texas Tech territory, Doege needed just three plays to get his third touchdown of the game. The senior quarterback first connected with Amaro on a short pass along the near sideline and the receiver turned it into a 61-yard gain — Texas Tech's longest play from scrimmage this season — to the Mountaineers 21.
Two plays later, Doege hit Marcus Kennard for 16-yard touchdown pass to put the Red Raiders up 21-7.
Texas Tech's offense already was in rhythm by then, going up 14-0 in the first quarter. Doege hit a wide-open Amaro over the middle at about the 20-yard line and he ran it in for a 39-yard touchdown on the Red Raiders first possession.
Doege then found Eric Ward on a fade route on the far corner of the end zone to put Texas Tech up 14-0.
The Mountaineers answered, momentarily. Smith started with a short field after the Red Raiders squibbed the kickoff. Five plays later Stedman Bailey dived to pull in a 7-yard touchdown pass from Smith and pull West Virginia within 14-7. The drive included a 38-yard pass from Smith to Tavon Austin.
Texas Tech upsets No. 5 West Virginia
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With much of the same technology as the Sennheiser Digital 9000 system, including AES-256 encryption, the Digital 6000 series includes a range of handheld or belt-pack transmitters with automatic frequency set up, specific to the frequency range required for the application.
The Digital 6000 series are offered in component form.
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This true-diversity, 2-channel, fixed receiver is in a 1U rack mounting chassis. Using digital technology, the EM6000 combines two receiver paths to provide a more solid reception with less risk of dropout. An Audinate Brooklyn II card provides the DANTE connectivity feature set required to successfully integrate into a new or an existing DANTE network.
The rear panel houses the AC power inlet, RF I/O for channels A and B via BNC connection, transformer-balanced audio output via a 3-pin XLR and 6.35mm jack sockets for channels 1 and 2, word clock I/O via BNC, 48/96kHz 24-bit AES3 digital audio output via 3-pin XLR, Ethernet connection via RJ-45 network connection, and 48/96kHz 24-bit DANTE connection also via RJ45 socket. The front of the receiver has two OLED displays, one for each of the two channels, showing information including name, RF signal, AF level, transmitter battery status, frequency selection, group, and menu functionality. Controls per channel include a rotary control to navigate through the menu, and four preset buttons to 'escape' (ESC), save, sync, and monitor. A 6.35mm jack headphone output is situated on the left, along with a rotary headphone volume control. A power button is located on the right side of the front panel.
Power source: 90-240V AC, 50/60Hz, 35W maximum. Dimensions: 483 x 373 x 44 (WxDxH)mm. Weight: 5.2kg, approximately.
Included accessories: 1x UK mains cable, quick guide, safety guide, 2x antennas, 2x 50ohm BNC antenna cables, 2x rubber feet.
This has all the features of the EM-6000 DANTE with the exception of the DANTE capabilities. This model can not be upgraded to add DANTE functionality.
The SKM6000 is a handheld transmitter with a magnesium housing, designed for vocal whether singing or speaking. The body-only transmitter is compatible with optional capsules from the 2000 series, Digital 9000 series, Neumann KK204/205 series and Sennheiser Evolution G4 series, see SENNHEISER MICROPHONES - Headworn. Optional battery packs are available as either the B-60 which takes 2x AA option cells or the BA-60 Lithium Ion battery pack, which gives up to 5.5hours of operation. The power button is situated at the bottom of the front side of the microphone.
A low cut-off frequency can be adjusted in steps from 60/80/100/120Hz, with a capable audio frequency response of 30Hz to 20kHz (3dB). Audio gain can be adjusted in steps of 3dB from 0dB to +62dB can be set by the operator for maximum compatibility for the attached capsule. A screen is situated on the main body of the handheld transmitter, displaying important information including frequency, signal, battery life, grouping and more. Three cursor buttons are situated near the base of the microphone allowing the operator or engineer to navigate the menu and adjust settings to their requirements.
The transmitter is offered in three frequency bands:
Power consumption: 960mW. Operating time: 5.5 hours (with LI battery pack). Dimensions: 270 x 40 (LxD)mm. Weight: 350g, approximately, with BA60 battery pack and microphone head.
Included accessories: 1x MZQ 9000 microphone clamp, safety guide, quick guide.
This moisture and sweat resistant bodypack transmitter has been designed to be 'ultra-compact' and lightweight for use in musicals, theatre and broadcast applications. The physical design has rounded corners for easy concealment under or within clothing. SK6212 is operational for up to 12hours with the optional BA-62 lithium-polymer rechargeable battery. A 'Long-Range' RF mode enables the user to combine within a system of Digital 9000 or EK6042 slot-in type receiver. The Beltpack transmitter uses AES256 encryption for the 14mW RMS (standard more) or 4mW RMS (low power mode) radio frequency transmission. SK6212 is capable of tuning in 25kHz steps for 'intermodulation-free' transmission.
Like the SK6000 the SK6212 features a display on the front with three buttons for up, down, and select/enter. A power button is located above the screen on the front facing side. A green LED signifies power on. Both aerial connection and 3-pin locking microphone connector are positioned on the top edge of the Beltpack transmitter. The included antenna is removable via threaded connector. Both horizontal and vertical orientation belt clips are included to suit a wider range of positions. These belt clips are also available as spares as 508570 (horizontal) and 508571 (vertical).
The transmitter is offered in three frequency bandwidths:
Dimensions: 63 x 47 x 20mm (HxWxD). Weight: 112g.
Included accessories: Belt clip, aerial, carry case.
With many of the operating features as the SKM6000, the SK6000 is a belt pack transmitter housed in a lightweight magnesium casing. It has a Sennheiser, 3-pin, locking connector for use with lapel microphones such as the MKE 2-4 GOLD-C or MKE 2-4-3 GOLD-C. The CI 1-4, cable can also be used to connect to high output instruments such as electric guitar. It can be powered by the B-61 battery compartment for 2x AA 1.5V batteries or the BA-61 Lithium Ion battery pack to provide up to 5.5 hours of operation. The transmitter is capable of an audio frequency response of 30Hz to 20kHz (3dB); a low-cut frequency can be adjusted in steps from 30/60/80/100/120Hz.
Like the SKM6000 the SK6000 features a display on the front with three buttons for up, down, and select/enter. A power button is located on the top side along with audio input and antenna connection. A removable, push-and-turn antenna can be removed for storage.
Power consumption: 960mW maximum. RF power output: 25mW RMS, 50mW peak. Input impedance: 22k ohms, microphone; 1M ohms, line. Dimensions: 76 x 62 x 20mm (HxWxD) with BA-61 battery pack. Weight: 147g, with BA-61 and belt clip.
Included accessories: 1x belt clip, 1x antenna, safety guide, quick guide.
Battery compartment holds 2x AA 1.5V batteries. This is compatible with SKM6000 handheld transmitter.
Battery compartment holds 3x AA 1.5V batteries. This is compatible with SK6000 belt pack transmitter.
Rechargeable Lithium Ion 1600mAh battery for SKM6000 handheld transmitter.
Rechargeable Lithium Ion 2030mAh battery for SK6000 belt pack transmitter.
Rechargeable Lithium Ion 1180mAh battery for SK6212 belt pack transmitter.
This is a 1U rack-mounting battery charger to house up to four LM6060/6061 charger cores. Three colour LEDs indicate battery charge status and an RJ45 Ethernet connection allows control via external WSM (Wireless Systems Manager) software.
Battery charger core to accommodate 2x BA-60 batteries. Compatible with the L-6000 rack-mounting charger.
Battery charger core to accommodate 2x BA-61 batteries. Compatible with the L-6000 rackmount charger.
Battery charger core to accommodate 2x BA-62 batteries. Compatible with the L-6000 rackmount charger.
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NY Lawyer With Sexxxy Side Business (S&M performer) Suspended From Job
New York state Attorney General's Office lawyer Alisha Smith has been suspended without pay from her $78,825-per year post "pending an internal investigation," but probably because she's got a side job as Alisha Spark, heart-shaped pastied S&M performer extraordinaire. Or so theNew York Post has learned!
It's not the pasties part of Smith's business that troubles her employer, say sources, but the potential profit-making aspect:
It is common in the S&M community for dominatrixes to receive payment for appearances at fetish parties, where they unleash tawdry torments on eager submissives.
Sources cited a standing executive order in the Attorney General's Office that requires employees to "obtain prior approval from the [Employment Conduct Committee] before engaging in any outside pursuit … from which more than $1,000 will be received or is anticipated to be received."
So it seems that you can be a dominatrix-lawyer for the state of New York, as long as youvolunteer at the fetish parties. For all you budding lawyers out there, questions about this issue appear on the professional responsibility test.
One of the highlights of Smith's lawyering career is that she won a $5 billion securities fraud settlement from Bank of America three years ago. Do you think somebody on Wall Street wanted to get her into trouble for being too effective? Speculate in the comments.


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Registerfly on the fly, ICANN on the run
This domain will self-destruct in five seconds
"In the past couple of weeks, over 70% of the non-jurisdictional contacts my Office has received have concerned registerfly… In most circumstances, the matter would be refered to Mr. Mike Zupke, ICANN's Registrar Manager, and he would in turn pass along consumer concerns to the registerfly contact… If, however, Mr. Zupke determined that the matter you are complaining about is unrelated to the Registrar's Accreditation Agreement, or any other ICANN policy, he will likely encourage you to work out the situation with the registrar..." ICANN Ombudsman's Blog, February 12, 2007
In light of the current fiasco involving ICANN sanctioned domain registrar Registerfly, readers may be forgiven for asking themselves - just what is ICANN responsible for, anyway?
Judging by the overwhelming attempts to contact Frank Fowlie, the ICANN Ombudsman, regarding the chaos surrounding registerfly.com, and the way he quickly washed his hands of the matter, not a whole lot.
Registerfly is an ICANN-approved provider of internet hosting and domain name registration services based in New Jersey that controls approximately two million domain names for 900,000 different owners. Unfortunately for those whose domains seemingly are disappearing into the ether by the day, the company appears to be coming apart at the seams, with no resolution or government action in sight.
An apparent power struggle between two partners in the company has left customers scrambling to recover domains that were not automatically renewed as agreed, or were paid for and for no apparent reason allowed to lapse well before the agreed upon expiration date.
And what of ICANN's decision to simply refer customers back to Registerfly, when the reason they are contacting ICANN in the first place is for a problem concerning domain registration that Registerfly either cannot or will not resolve on its own? If ICANN itself is either unable or unwilling to handle a problem of this magnitude, what is the point of having ICANN around?
After all, the most immediate concern of domain holders is holding on to their domains, or reclaiming their domains before they are lost forever – the rest can be sorted out later.
As ICANN's own website helpfully notes:
What is ICANN?ICANN is a technical coordination body. Our primary objective is ensuring the stability of the Internet's system of assigned names and numbers. This objective is furthered by the requirement that every business desiring to become a registrar with direct access to ICANN-designated top-level domains must first become accredited for this purpose by ICANN.
Issues concerning proper domain registration would seem to be the very core of ICANN's mission, if ICANN's own site is to be believed.
The chaos surrounding the split between Kevin Medina, who now resides in a luxury condo in Miami Beach, and his former business partner, John Naruszewicz, has customers burning up two separate customer service lines – one in Jersey and the other in Miami – trying to figure out what is happening to their domains. If they can get through to customer service, they are told that the servers are down and that Registerfly's own tech support cannot even access the back end of their own system. The problems are legion – enough so that an entire website, www.registerflies.com, has been set up to provide a forum for angry customers.
One irate Reg reader complained over the phone about trouble tickets being immediately bounced back as "completed", without any action being taken. The charade of disingenuous tech support and inaccessible "downed" servers has been going on since Monday, 12 February.
Now one of the largest registrars on the internet, Registerfly for years acted as a reseller for eNom.com, until splitting off on its own and receiving its own accreditation from ...ICANN. What amounts to "accreditation" at this point is anyone's guess.
Problems initially started surfacing months ago, but eNom only terminated its reseller agreement with Registerfly last week, leading to massive confusion about just where the domains were actually registered – apparently over the course of the year during which Registerfly broke away from eNom, many customers were unknowingly still being registered with eNom through Registerfly.
With ICANN watching from the sidelines, customers can only hope that local or federal authorities will step in. Stay tuned. ®


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deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence on a global oil market dominated by dwindling reserves in the most unstable region of the world, and the economic risks of sending hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas in return for that oil. And we would still trail China in the race to develop smart grids, fast trains, solar power, wind, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy — the most important sources of new jobs in the 21st century.Let us examine this energy and alternative energy job claim for a moment and then I will move on the global warming issues. He complains that we have a growing dependence on oil from the most unstable region of the world. Well, Iraq is embarking on an ambitious program to expand its oil production to exceed that of Saudi Arabia [The Economist, 20-26 Feb 2010]. It may not accomplish this quickly, but if it even comes close to matching the output of Saudi Arabia, the cost of oil will remain very reasonable for many years to come and the alternative energy companies Al Gore has invested heavily in will not be able to compete, even with much larger government subsidies than our government drowning in debt can provide. OK, yes, Iraq is still in this volatile region, but every additional supply of oil adds to our energy security. Of course, one can also ask Gore why he and his Progressive friends who care so much about energy security and who do not want to pay for oil abroad will not allow us to explore, drill, and develop oil fields in our own off-shore waters and in the ridiculously innumerable acres of government-held land in the U.S. Neither does he explain why taxing the oil companies more heavily will help them to find more oil in the U.S. and abroad. Neither does he explain why sending money abroad to buy oil is somehow worse than sending money abroad to buy any other goods, services, or resources. We live in a global economy, which he seems to disparage with his fear of depending upon a global oil market, which in fact is a great advantage to us in stabilizing the price of oil and assuring its availability.
Next he makes the outrageous claim that we trail China in the race to develop smart grids, fast trains, solar power, wind, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy. I really do not know what he is basing these claims on. It is true that China is rapidly increasing its output of cheap, inefficient solar panels largely for sales to countries with mandates requiring that they generate power with expensive solar power plants. The technology is more advanced in the U.S., but our costs of production are rather high. Perhaps Al Gore should call for a steep reduction in our absurdly high corporate income tax which makes it very difficult for American companies to compete in the global markets Al so fears. After all, the U.S. and Japan, whose economy has not been able to get out of the starting blocks for the last 15 years, have the highest corporate taxes in the world today and Obama wants to make them higher! Of course, Al would probably want a tax reduction only for his solar power companies, being a crony capitalist. Then he also claims that he has enumerated the most important sources of jobs for the 21st Century. What do you suppose the track record Teddy Roosevelt would have had for predicting the main sources of jobs in the 20th Century in 1910? Or, you may substitute the name of any politician of that time you might prefer.
Al Gore goes on to say:
I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In fact, the crisis is still growing because we are continuing to dump 90 million tons of global-warming pollution every 24 hours into the atmosphere — as if it were an open sewer.I have dealt enough with the scientific scandal of the claims made by the catastrophic man-made global warming alarmists that I will not lay out the magnitude of the problems here again, though I will continue to discuss those problems in other posts. I am just going to say that this attempt to minimize the scientific problems of the global warming alarmists has not held up in Australia or now in the United Kingdom and is beginning to collapse on the heads of such alarmists in the U.S. also. Many comedians are now picking up on this fraud and that is usually the end of any theory being taken seriously! So, Al Gore shows himself here as an ostrich with his head in the sand. Perhaps this is a delaying tactic, so he will have time to unload his alternative energy stocks on other Progressive suckers.
It is true that the climate panel published a flawed overestimate of the melting rate of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayas, and used information about the Netherlands provided to it by the government, which was later found to be partly inaccurate. In addition, e-mail messages stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain showed that scientists besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics may not have adequately followed the requirements of the British freedom of information law.
By the way, when I tried to warn other alumni of Brown University and Case Western Reserve University of how the scientific argument for man-made global warming had fallen apart and that the alternative energy companies were going to have a very hard time of it as a result a couple of months ago, I was called rude, trailer trash, a flat-earther, and many other names by a great many alumni. Some of them had invested in alternative energy, one planned to work for such a company when he finished his graduate studies, one was an associate professor whose research grants depended upon the scare, and many others were just being good religious Progressives.
Al goes on to say:
the panel's scientists — acting in good faith on the best information then available to them — probably underestimated the range of sea-level rise in this century, the speed with which the Arctic ice cap is disappearing and the speed with which some of the large glacial flows in Antarctica and Greenland are melting and racing to the sea.The record of the UN IPCC reports has been to consistently overestimate the sea level rise and there is no reason known to me to think that more recently they have underestimated sea level rise to come. The Arctic ice cap expands and contracts mostly due to winds and not due to melting, so it is rather insensitive to any modest warming, such as that since the end of the Little Ice Age. In any case, if sea ice melts, it does not change the sea level! The ice on Baffin Island and on Greenland can cause the sea level to rise, but there is no reason to think all that ice is going to melt either. This is just more groundless alarmism perhaps issued to help his stocks hold value until he can unload them. As for Antarctica, most of the continent has been experiencing ice expansion, not contraction, in recent times and again there is no reason for alarm. Furthermore, there is no link to man's CO2 emissions here.
Then he makes the claim that
January was seen as unusually cold in much of the United States. Yet from a global perspective, it was the second-hottest January since surface temperatures were first measured 130 years ago.And this is almost certainly nonsense also. The official NOAA land surface temperature data has been so badly manipulated to make it seem as though the world has been warming that we now know that data is useless for establishing whether a given month or year is one of the warmer months or years in the last 130 years. Absolutely a meaningless claim. This is the word of an inveterate liar, so that everything such a liar has to say must be taken as meaningless. How naive does Gore think the American People are?
Now let us examine a perfectly illogical statement Al made:
Similarly, even though climate deniers have speciously argued for several years that there has been no warming in the last decade, scientists confirmed last month that the last 10 years were the hottest decade since modern records have been kept.Prof. Phil Jones, the former head of the CRU at the University of East Anglia and a stalwart alarmist, recently stated that there has been no significant global warming since 1995. Since 2001, there has been a slight cooling, if anything, though this may also be regarded as insignificant. Now, if there was warming from 1990 to 1995 and then the warming stopped, the decade from 2000 to 2010 would be the warmest decade in recent history, even though no warming had occurred since 1995. But, Al wants us to believe that the claim that the last decade was the warmest means that warming has not stopped. This does not logically follow Al. You should have taken a philosophy course in remedial logic at Yale, Al. The claim that the last decade has been the hottest since modern records have been kept is also based on the warming manipulated surface temperature records, which disagree with the satellite temperature records which are more accurate and have not been tampered with to try to create an exaggerated warming.
Al goes on to make the argument that the recent heavy snowfalls are the result of global warming causing an increase in winter humidity. I have already debunked this argument in an earlier post.
Al's specious claims continue:
Here is what scientists have found is happening to our climate: man-made global-warming pollution traps heat from the sun and increases atmospheric temperatures. These pollutants — especially carbon dioxide — have been increasing rapidly with the growth in the burning of coal, oil, natural gas and forests, and temperatures have increased over the same period. Almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are melting — and seas are rising. Hurricanes are predicted to grow stronger and more destructive, though their number is expected to decrease. Droughts are getting longer and deeper in many mid-continent regions, even as the severity of flooding increases. The seasonal predictability of rainfall and temperatures is being disrupted, posing serious threats to agriculture. The rate of species extinction is accelerating to dangerous levels.The global warming pollutant is primarily CO2 and it is not a pollutant any more than water vapor is. By far the most ice is in the Antarctic and it is not melting as claimed. Other ice-covered areas are growing and contracting from year to year as they usually do, but perhaps with a very slight tendency to melt due to the recent end of the Little Ice Age. But, the seas are actually rising at a very slow rate compared to the average rise since the end of the last major Ice Age. While some have rashly predicted that hurricanes will become stronger, there is no evidence in history to support this and the likelihood is disputed by the best experts on violent storms. Last I knew, there was also no reason to believe that flooding and drought were significantly worse than at other times in history. I have no idea where Gore got that claim. As for the seasonal predictability of rainfall and temperatures, these go through cycles historically and there is no link to the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. Where does Al get all of this nonsense? Probably from his day dreams, which he spent so much time doing when he got a D in the course of the global warming advocating professor he now claims was so important to him when he was at Yale.
Gore now ramps up the scale of human misery to be caused by global warming:
the displacement of hundreds of millions of climate refugees, civil unrest, chaos and the collapse of governance in many developing countries, large-scale crop failures and the spread of deadly diseases.If the world were to become slightly warmer, life in most of the world would become easier, not harder. There might be some civil unrest in Florida and Arizona, since fewer people from New England, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota would choose to move there upon retirement! Any slight extension to the growing season would be welcomed, not feared, in those cooler places which the greatest warming has been occurring, if you could actually believe the claims that it has, which you cannot. The increase in deadly diseases idea does not hold water either. For instance, it is claimed malaria will spread north. Nonsense, malaria was widely in the north in the 1800s when it was colder than now. It moved south mostly because swamps and marshes in the north were drained and because DDT was widely used there in earlier decades.
Next Al Gore informs us about his political, ethical, and human race assessments. This is interesting. He bemoans the fact that the economy is now largely global, that the industrial countries do not want to lose their jobs, and that the emerging economies have rising expectations. He goes on:
The decisive victory of democratic capitalism over communism in the 1990s led to a period of philosophical dominance for market economics worldwide and the illusion of a unipolar world. It also led, in the United States, to a hubristic "bubble" of market fundamentalism that encouraged opponents of regulatory constraints to mount an aggressive effort to shift the internal boundary between the democracy sphere and the market sphere. Over time, markets would most efficiently solve most problems, they argued. Laws and regulations interfering with the operations of the market carried a faint odor of the discredited statist adversary we had just defeated.Apparently, he thinks the world should be bipolar and that communism somehow made it more properly bipolar. He thinks a strong belief in market economics is hubris. He claims that government is the democracy sphere and that it is in opposition to the market sphere. This is really weird. Government, even when largely democratic, does not allow everyone the freedom to buy whatever goods and services they choose individually or allow them to start their own business or allow them to work freely for anyone who wishes to hire them. Government, even so-called democratic government, always tends to interfere with these personal decisions. There is no more democratic way for a free People to live than in a free market economy. Yet, Gore tries to make us think that the one-size-fits-all-decrees of government make for a more democratic society than does a free market society. Hogwash.
Next, Gore sets out on a tirade against television:
Simultaneously, changes in America's political system — including the replacement of newspapers and magazines by television as the dominant medium of communication — conferred powerful advantages on wealthy advocates of unrestrained markets and weakened advocates of legal and regulatory reforms. Some news media organizations now present showmen masquerading as political thinkers who package hatred and divisiveness as entertainment. And as in times past, that has proved to be a potent drug in the veins of the body politic. Their most consistent theme is to label as "socialist" any proposal to reform exploitive behavior in the marketplace.This is a bit strange too. The heyday of television for the news was prior to the recent period when Gore wanted carbon cap and trade and restrictions on energy use. Pretty much all but one news network (Fox) have been touting the Progressive line on global warming and the nefarious role of the industrialized humans, anyway. One would think he might be railing against the Internet, which he invented, for its role in helping to expand opposition to the Democrats cap and trade schemes, disseminating the evidence that the catastrophic global warming claims were false, enlarging the Tea Party revolt, and getting out the information in the Democrat bills they did not want the People to know about until after they became law. Oh, but of course, he cannot rail against the Internet, because he invented it! Then, it is curious that he talks about exploitation of the ignorant and easily victimized People in the same sentence in which he tells us that calling the Progressive program "socialist" is unfair. I still find the very words exploitation and solidarity sickening after decades of hearing them pour out of the mouths of socialists, Marxists, and communists!
Now the elitist Progressive comes forth strongly again:
From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption.Yes, of course, we cannot allow the People to make their own choices in the free market, because we must use the force of government to redeem these sorry sinners. We, the elitist Progressives, must use the force of government to enforce myriad laws to make the People do what they will not choose to do individually in their own lives. Of course, many of them are not college educated and many who are did not go to Ivy League quality universities, so we brilliant and well-studied elite will so manipulate the government that these unwashed peasants will do as we tell them to, while we all pretend this was democratically decided. The People will not make the right personal choices, so we will deceive them into thinking they made the very laws which they would not obey except for the fact that the government will force them to do so. Government must constrain the private sector to redeem the sinning People. Government is the Messiah or the elitists who manipulate its levers are the Messiahs.
This sort of manipulation has been going on for a long time. For most of this time, this caused many people simply to feel disenfranchised. But, finally, the people became angry about it and they decided they had to do something about being taken advantage of by those who manipulated the levers of government in order to redeem them from the things and actions they loved. The People have responded with the Tea Party movement. It is now clear that very many of the People have seen through the Al Gores, John Kerrys, Obamas, Pelosis, Reids, Waxmans, and their ilk.
Perhaps the day of big government redeeming the People will finally come to an end and the People will finally redeem their government. To do that, they must force it to obey the Constitution, which will take some doing. But once you see through the obscurantism of the Gores, this becomes a lot easier. The man behind the curtain has finally been seen and he is not impressive at all.


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KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Union Media Release |
No: KZNCU2122 |
03 Aug 2021 |
Embargo : None |
Written by: Dave Macleod |
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The Valais features exciting elite events from all areas of culture and sport. Everyone will find something here – as a passive observer or an active participant. Every event is the best in their class. Sports fans, cultural aficionados, music lovers and other connoisseurs will all get their money's worth. Events are perfectly organised and staged in a wonderful atmosphere, surrounded by breathtaking scenery. A visit to one of the Valais' elite events is always worth it.


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T2K Latest News
T2K Back In Business
After a fantastic effort by the beam group at J-PARC the T2K accelerator is back in action after the devestating earthquake of March 2011 and this month the experiment will be returning to full physics operation.
The Linear accelerator was running on 6th December, before the year was out, and protons were making it all the way down to the T2K target by the end of January - as evidenced by the attached display showing the near detector's first neutrino interaction! Although not suitable for our physics analyses, January running even produced a neutrino interaction in the far detector, Super Kamiokande (see the news item on t2k-experiment.org).
It's widly expected in the neutrino community that this will be the year when the important parameter θ13 - which governs how often neutrinos change types - will be measured by some of the many experiments seeking it. So exciting times ahead!
Neutrinos Breaking All The Rules!
Recent results from another neutrino experiment have brought neutrinos into the spotlight once again reminding us once again that neutrino physics is one of the most exciting areas of research in physic today!
The results come from the OPERA experiment, which uses a beam of neutrinos fired from CERN in Switzerland 700km to a laboratory in Italy known as Gran Sasso. Like T2K the experiment was built to measure neutrino oscillations (see our public overview to learn more).
But this time it isn't the oscillations which are catching the headlines. By combining sophisticated timing equipment and high-precision distance measurements the experiment has been able to measure the speed with which the neutrinos make the 700km journey through the Earth to Italy.
The result shocked the world because the measurmed the neutrinos as travelling faster than the speed of light! According to Albert Einsteins famous theory of relativity, this is something that no particle should be able to do. The speed of light is a sort of "Universal speed limit" which nothing should exceed.
The result revealed only a small increase over the speed of light - the neutrinos arrived only 60 billionths of a second early - and making a measurment that precise is incredibly difficult. None the less if it were proved to be correct the foundations of modern physics wouuld need to be re-thought.
The world will be watching over the coming year to see if any one can explain the result, and other experiments such as T2K will consider upgrades to their equipment so that they too can cross-check the OPERA result. But regardless of the outcome this surprising result has once again highlighted the exciting physics being done by neutrino experiments accross the world!
T2K Public Website Goes Live
The T2K experiment now has it's very own public website!
The site is filled with useful information aimed at a general audience about the experiment and the history and physics of neutrinos, the mysterious particles which we study.
Additionally there are many useful resources for other physicists interested in neutrinos who might want to know more about our latest results.
The site went live on Monday 24th October so head over and take a look: http://t2k-experiment.org.
First result gives hint of neutrinos changing!
The T2K experiment today released their first ever physics result which has also given us our first evidence of a previously unseen phenomenon.
The experiment studies the Universe's most mysterious particles, known as "neutrinos", which exhibit a behaviour known as "neutrino oscillations". There are three distinct types of neutrino (electron, muon and tau) but as they travel they can change back and forth from one to the other. So just because you had a muon neutrino to begin with, you might not have a muon neutrino later!
In T2K, an accelerator on Japan's East coast produces a beam of muon neutrinos, then fires them almost 300km through Japan to a detector at Kamioka. What the experiment has observed, for the first time, is a hint that some of those muon neutrinos are oscillating into electron neutrinos. With many experiments around the world racing to be the first to observe this effect, T2K's publication of this hint will be a significant result in the particle physics community.
Measuring such oscillations is a crucial step in our attempts to explain why the Universe is now made almost entirely of matter and not equal amounts of matter and anti-matter, as it was at the big bang: the biggest open question in particle physics.
If it were not for the devastating earthquake earlier this year, T2K would have most likely been able to confirm this result, instead of seeing just a hint, so all eyes will be watching for what happens when the experiment restarts in the near future!
If you'd like someone to comment on this significant result, Warwick's Dr Gary Barker and Dr Steve Boyd have been working on T2K for over 6 years.
- Read our description of T2K and its physics goals
- Download the paper
- Read the UK press release
- Read the Japanese press release (in English)
- Read the article on BBC news
T2K's First Paper Online
T2K's first paper as a collaboration is now available!
The 'first paper' is a significant milestone in a collaboration's history, marking a definite departure from construction and preparation into producing physics results.
The paper, which describes the experiment's construction and operation, will be published in the journal Nuclear Instruments and Methods next month. Until then you view it on the arXiV at the following address: http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1238
Warwick has 9 authors listed on the paper including our technicians who were instrumental in our construction of the P0D ECal detectors.
Japanese Earthquake Halts T2K
As most will be aware, the east coast of Japan was recently struck by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, resulting in a devestating tsunami and great loss of life.
An additional (though relatively minor) consequence of the disaster has been the closing of J-PARC, the complex at which T2K's accelerator and Near-Detector are based. The earthquake was still above magnitude 6 when it struck the facility, though fortunately none of our colleagues on-site were injured. As a result, the T2K experiment has been halted until the facility can be recovered to operational condition.
The T2K group at Warwick send our deepest condolances to those affected by this terrible tragedy, and wish the Japanese people all the best in their recovery efforts.
T2K reaches milestone
During running last week the T2K experiment reached a notable milestone in its quest to study the elusive neutrino.
The T2K neutrino beam is made by colliding high-energy protons with a carbon target, and last week we reached 1020 (that's 100 billion billion) protons-on-target!
T2K's precision will ultimately be limited by the number of neutrinos it produces, so the experiment is continuing to push hard until the summer shutdown. Meanwhile the first papers from last year's data are in the final stages of approval.
This data run is also the first to include the P0D ECal detectors built here at the University of Warwick. Here's one contributing to the tracking of a cosmic-ray muon:
(The P0D ECal detector can be seen as the 6 green bars at the top)
T2K at Manchester Science Festival
If you're planning on visiting the Manchester Science Festival this year you're in for a treat!
T2K representatives from around the UK, including Warwick, will be on hand at a special exhibition: "Super K Sonic Booooum".
The exhibit takes visitors through the Super-Kamiokande detector, accompanied by T2K particle physics experts: "On the journey they learn of neutrinos, their role in the Universe and how scientists detect them. This installation is designed to deliver physically thrilling experiences; emerging the audience on a journey through the physics of the Universe"
Visit the Super K Sonic Booooum or Manchester Science Festival websites for more information, or read more about Super-K on our overview page.
Warwick T2K on the BBC
After covering the construction of six detector modules here at Warwick, BBC reporter David Gregory has been following up the T2K experiment's progress. Dr Gary Barker hosted him in Japan at J-Parc: home of T2K's accelerator and near-detector, where the Warwick modules are being installed. Those watching BBC News this week will have seen his reports and interviews with Dr Barker.
Communicating the work that T2K is doing is an important part of our work: bringing the benefits of research to the whole of society, and national news coverage is one of the best ways we can do that!
Check out the article on the BBC news website, and read about David Gregory's impressions of science in Japan and funding in the UK on his blog.
If you missed the original report you can watch it on our resources page.
Graduate students learn about T2K
Students at this year's SLAC Summer Institute were treated to a talk on the T2K experiment by Warwick's Dr Phill Litchfield. The talk covered all the requirements that T2K must meet and how they come together to make a world leading measurement of neutrino oscillations!
The SLAC Summer Institute is an annual summer school held at the Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory in California, USA. Students attend a mixture of lectures, tours, discussions and seminars.
To see the talk, you can download the slides from our T2K Resources page.


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24 form tai chi
24 form tai chi competition clips
The tai chi form is practiced throughout the out the world by ordinary folk doing it becuase they like it. And many people also like to swim or cycle or ski. But we all know that there is a world of difference between the performance of the Olympic athlete and the rest of us.
Tai chi is no different, so, this section is dedicated to those who take it further.
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Tai Chi 24-Form performed by Lightning Tai Chi at the 1st Tai Chi World Cup in Taipei, Taiwan in Nov. 2006.
I love this - especially with the music. And the poise and balance shown on the kicks. Switch to the full screen mode - the faces will be fuzzier but you can see the details of the moves much more clearly.
Tai chi to aspire to .
wushu cutie
Ok - ok I know this is not the 24 form - it looks like free style but really .. 6 years old Abigail Chu competes at the Quebec Wushu Championship in Montreal. This is her optional Chanquan form


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Working in Winter Weather
When Working in the Cold, Be Prepared and Be Aware
Some cold-weather dangers are obvious, but others are harder to see. When you must work in the cold, always remember to be prepared and be aware.When workers do their jobs in the cold, they face many risks. Some cold-weather dangers are obvious, but others are harder to see. Sometimes you might not even think it's very cold, but a cold-weather injury can still harm you.
When you must work in the cold, always remember to be prepared and be aware.
Be Prepared
Workers who must be out in the cold should wear warm clothing that is right for the weather. Wear several layers of loose clothing. Layering provides better insulation.Gloves should protect the hands, and a hat and/or hood should protect the head. In wet conditions, shoes should be waterproof and have good traction. Make sure that your cold-weather gear does not restrict your movement or block your eyesight.
Be prepared for working in the cold, even if the cold is not extreme. It's obvious that bitter cold and howling winds can harm you, but did you know that you could suffer cold-weather injuries when it is as warm as 60° F?
Be Aware
One of the biggest dangers from working in the cold can be the hardest to detect. Hypothermia happens when your body temperature drops below 95° F. Mild hypothermia can make you feel confused, and you may not think anything is wrong until it is too late. Being too cold can also cloud your judgment and cause you to make mistakes while you work, and mistakes can sometimes be deadly.Early symptoms of hypothermia include shivering, feeling tired, being clumsy, and being confused. As your body loses more heat, the shivering may stop, your skin may turn blue, the pupils of your eye may expand, your pulse and breathing may slow, and you may pass out.
You can avoid becoming too cold by wearing clothing that is right for the cold weather.
For more information about hypothermia and other cold weather injuries, see the NIOSH Fast Facts card, Protecting Yourself from Cold Stress [PDF - 576KB].
Many parts of the body are prone to frostbite, including your fingers, toes, nose, and ears. Frostbite happens when a part of the body freezes, and this can damage tissue. If the tissue can't be saved, the body part may need to be removed to prevent even worse health problems. Warning signs of frostbite include numbness or tingling, stinging, or pain where you are most exposed to the cold. Avoid frostbite by being aware of the weather and wearing protective clothing such as warm gloves, insulated shoes, and warm hats. The colder it is, the faster frostbite can set in, and so you shouldn't stay in the cold any longer than you need to.
Other Cold Weather Injuries
You can get trench foot when your feet are wet and cold for too long. Moisture causes your feet to lose heat, and this can slow the blood flow and damage tissue. Trench foot can happen when it is as warm as 60° F.
Sometimes cool weather can damage your skin and cause chilblains. This problem can cause broken skin, swelling, blisters, redness, and itching. It can also happen when it is as warm as 60° F.
Be Ready for the Cold
If you have to work in the cold, always wear clothes that are right for the weather. Remember that you may not think it's that cold, but your body could be stressed enough that you make poor decisions or react more slowly than normal. Tell your supervisor if you are not dressed warmly enough. Pay attention to warning signs of hypothermia, frostbite, or other cold-weather injuries.


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Okay, I'll admit it, I kind of like Jessica Simpson. I mean, she's not my favorite celebrity or anything, but the girl makes a damn fine shoe and I feel like if we hung out together we'd probably get along really well because of our mutual love for makeup. I might even be holding on to one random chocolate scrub from her now defunct Dessert line because it smells SO good and I just can't bring myself to use it and not have any left. Sad, I know. I also own most of her perfumes, so of course I was going to want to get my hands on the new one, Vintage Bloom, even though I'm not normally in love with floral scents.
I have to say though, after smelling it, I almost think the name is a little misleading because it definitely doesn't seem like a true floral to me. It opens with notes of Calabrese lemon and Caipirinha lime zest and since that's exactly up my fragrance alley, I kind of loved it at first sniff. The mid notes include raspberry bloom, a floral accord and stardust peony, and the base notes are crisp cotton musk and Indian sandalwood. I have to be honest, I kind of thought I would hate this one based on the name and it's turned out to actually be my favorite Jessica Simpson scent so far. It's really light and fruity, but it does have a hint of freshness and warmth to it too. (Also, on a totally shallow note, the bottle's really cute, right?) I would definitely wear this one a lot - it's a nice change from the purely fresh scents I usually wear without being too strong or flowery. Nice work, Jess!
Note: A sample of this product was sent to me by a PR representative working with Vintage Blooms


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SNOW HILL- The Maryland State Police made a significant drug and weapons bust this week after stopping a vehicle passing through Worcester County on its way to points north for a routine equipment violation.
A little after 11 p.m. on Tuesday, a Maryland State Police trooper from the Berlin barrack working routine patrol on Route 13 near Pocomoke observed a 2007 Dodge Charger with an equipment violation. The trooper pulled over the vehicle for the equipment repair order and found the driver had not license and noticed both the driver and the passenger acting suspiciously.
Additional units were requested and responded to the scene of the traffic stop. A K-9 unit dog was brought in to scan the vehicle for illegal controlled dangerous substance. The dog alerted positively either in the vehicle or recently in the vehicle. Both the driver, identified as Umar Yunsuf Adams, 22, of Jamaica, N.Y.; and the passenger, identified as Michael Thomas Jamison, 23, of Virginia Beach, was found to be concealing large amounts of crack cocaine on their persons.
The total weight of crack cocaine seized during the search of the suspects came to about 258 grams. The estimated street value of the seized crack cocaine came in between $20,000 and $30,000.
The suspect's vehicle was towed to the Maryland State Police barrack in Berlin for a more thorough search. During the search, troopers found a hidden compartment in the center console of the vehicle and inside the compartment was a loaded handgun.
Adams and Jamison were each charged with transporting crack cocaine across state lines, possession of large amounts of crack cocaine, possession with intent to distribute controlled dangerous substance and possession of a loaded handgun. Both Adams and Jamison are being held in the Worcester County Detention Center of $500,000 bonds.