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Damien Hirst, the 46-year-old enfant terrible of the British art scene, last week opened a mid-career retrospective at the Tate Modern in London, England, running until 9 September 2012.
The show has received mostly unfavorable reviews from London's art elite. One critic, Julian Spalding, wrote an incredibly vitriolic review in the Independent:
Damien Hirst isn't an artist. His works may draw huge crowds when they go on show in a five-month-long blockbuster retrospective at Tate Modern next week. But they have no artistic content and are worthless as works of art. They are, therefore, worthless financially."
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Canada should vote to legalize pot too, says former B.C. AG
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A former attorney general wants an end the criminalization of marijuana in Canada, on the back of Tuesday's announcement in Washington and Colorado to approve the legalization of its recreational use for adults.
Geoff Plant has joined other British Columbians in support of de-criminalizing the use of marijuana and is optimistic Canada will eventually relax its laws.
"Still a long road to go here in Canada , but it's a big boost," he told Power Play on Thursday. "Now it looks as though the American voters are getting ahead of at least the government in Canada. So I feel encouraged by what happened this week."
An Angus Reid report revealed 75 per cent of B.C. residents feel that the government should legalize the use of marijuana and that it should be taxed.
"We have mainstreamed the conversation. We have identified the people who are part of this movement. What we have to do now is figure out how to mobilize our energy and cause federal politicians to pay attention," said Plant. "The prime minister is a very smart politician. One day he'll wake up and realize he is swimming against the tide of Canadians on this issue and we'll see change. I believe it. "
If a law was passed to legalize the use of marijuana for adults in Canada, Plant said there would be an impact, but not quite as disruptive as people think.
"There are maybe four or five hundred thousand British Columbians who know use marijuana now even though it is illegal," he said. "So the prohibition in Canada is not having a deterrent effect on consumption here in B.C."
The former provincial attorney general said there is a multi-billion dollar underground economy in support of organized crime control over the cannabis market -- a market Canadian businesses could make a profit from.
"The next step is for business communities to wake up and realize you got to normalize that part of our economic activity," he said. "There's a huge untapped source of revenue available if we can just make this policy change."
A former Vancouver police officer is also pleased that voters in Colorado and Washington state have voted in favour of legalizing marijuana, and he hopes that Canadian laws are next to change.
Kash Heed, now an MLA for Vancouver-Fraserview, says it's time Canada changed its laws too, because the war on marijuana is simply not working.
"We have been fighting a losing cause for quite some time," he told CTV's Canada AM from Vancouver Thursday. "I've witnessed it on the streets of Vancouver. We continue to try to arrest our way out of the problem. We continue to allow criminal organizations to benefit from marijuana prohibition. We should actually be regulating and taxing it."
Heed, who spent more than 30 years in law enforcement, says he's been watching the marijuana movement in the U.S. for some time and is not surprised Washington and Colorado voted the way they did.
"They want to stop chasing criminals around and treating people as criminals for the possession of marijuana. Instead, they want to regulate the industry, tax the industry and take the profits away from criminal organizations that are involved in the black market of marijuana," he said.
If pot does become legal in Colorado and Washington, it will eventually benefit B.C., Heed says.
"Whenever you're able to remove the illicit market … such as the large demand we have for the marijuana from B.C. that heads to the United States, where criminal organizations make a significant amount of profit and then exchange it into cocaine and guns and bring it back into Canada -- it will have a direct effect here on B.C.," he said.
Heed's feelings about marijuana laws started to change about 20 years ago, he says.
"In the early '90s, I started to realize we really weren't having any success with marijuana prohibition here in Vancouver and B.C. because we had a perpetuating gang violence problem that was leading to a very public display of violence," he said.
"It wasn't until 2001 when I was a commanding officer of a drug unit for the Vancouver police department that I realized our record-breaking arrests and interdictions of marijuana and other illicit drugs weren't really making any difference."
Heed later testified in front of a Senate committee looking into marijuana and he told them that he no longer felt that marijuana prohibition was working in Canada, that it never would work, and that it was time to look at other approaches.
Heed has since joined Stop the Violence BC, a group of academic as well as legal, health and law enforcement experts who want to see pot legalized.
The group recently released the results of a poll it commissioned from Angus Reid that found that 75 per cent of B.C. residents agree that arresting pot producers and dealers is ineffective and society would be better off taxing and regulating pot's use among adults.
Heed says he hopes that he hopes that lawmakers here in Canada start to open their minds to new approaches.
"I'm hoping that Canadian politicians will pay attention to the evidence that's out there and change and develop contemporary policies."
Vancouver Police Department Chief Constable Jim Chu said marijuana is not a priority issue for Canadian police chiefs right now.
"It's not a priority to ask the federal government to do anything different than what they are already doing now," he said. "We'll have to see what shakes out in Washington State. I know a local decision was made, but also federal law is in play. We'll follow it and see what happens over time."
Chief Const. Chu said marijuana possession in B.C. is rarely charged and often it's a secondary offence, such as an impaired driver who may also be carrying the substance.
"Sole possession charges, we rarely do that in Vancouver, "Chief Const. Chu said. "It's been talked about, but really hasn't been a priority for the Canadian chiefs of police."
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Major Section: RULE-CLASSES
See rule-classes for a general discussion of rule classes and how they are
used to build rules from formulas. Here we describe the class of
rules, which is fundamentally quite different from the more common class of
rewrite rules. Briefly put, a
:rewrite rule replaces
instances of its left-hand side with corresponding instances of its
right-hand side. But an
:elim rule, on the other hand, has the effect of
generalizing so-called ``destructor'' function applications to variables. In
essence, applicability of a
:rewrite rule is based on matching its
left-hand side, while applicability of an
:elim rule is based on the
presence of at least one destructor term.
For example, a conjecture about
(car x) and
(cdr x) can be replaced
by a conjecture about new variables
x1 and
x2, as shown in the
following example. (Run the command
:mini-proveall and search for
CAR-CDR-ELIM to see the full proof containing this excerpt.)
Subgoal *1/1' (IMPLIES (AND (CONSP X) (TRUE-LISTP (REV (CDR X)))) (TRUE-LISTP (APP (REV (CDR X)) (LIST (CAR X))))).The resulting conjecture is often simpler and hence more amenable to proof.
The destructor terms (CAR X) and (CDR X) can be eliminated by using CAR-CDR-ELIM to replace X by (CONS X1 X2), (CAR X) by X1 and (CDR X) by X2. This produces the following goal.
Subgoal *1/1'' (IMPLIES (AND (CONSP (CONS X1 X2)) (TRUE-LISTP (REV X2))) (TRUE-LISTP (APP (REV X2) (LIST X1)))).
This simplifies, using primitive type reasoning, to
Subgoal *1/1''' (IMPLIES (TRUE-LISTP (REV X2)) (TRUE-LISTP (APP (REV X2) (LIST X1)))).
The application of an
:elim rule thus replaces a variable by a term that
contains applications of so-called ``destructor'' functions to that variable.
The example above is typical: the variable
x is replaced by the term
(cons (car x) (cdr x)), which applies a so-called ``constructor''
cons, to applications
(car x) and
(cdr x) of
destructor functions
car and
cdr to that same variable,
But that is only part of the story. ACL2 then generalizes the destructor
(car x) and
(cdr x) to new variables
x1 and
respectively, and ultimately the result is a simpler conjecture.
More generally, the application of an
:elim rule replaces a variable by a
term containing applications of destructors; there need not be a clear-cut
notion of ``constructor.'' But the situation described above is typical, and
we will focus on it, giving full details when we introduce the ``General
Form'' below.
The example above employs the following built-in
:elim rule named
Example: (implies (consp x) when (car v) or (cdr v) appears (equal (cons (car x) (cdr x)) in a conjecture, and v is a x)) variable, consider replacing v by (cons a b), for two new variables a and b.where
Notice that the situation is complicated a bit by the fact that this replacement is only valid if the variable being replaced a cons structure. Thus, when ACL2 applies
car-cdr-elimto replace a variable
v, it will split into two cases: one case in which
(consp v)is true, in which
vis replaced by
(cons (car v) (cdr v))and then
(car v)and
(cdr v)are generalized to new variables; and one case in which
(consp v)is false. In practice,
(consp v)is often provable, perhaps even literally present as a hypotheses; then of course there is no need to introduce the second case. That is why there is no such second case in the example above.
You might find
:elimrules to be useful whenever you have in mind a data type that can be built up from its fields with a ``constructor'' function and whose fields can be accessed by corresponding ``destructor'' functions. So for example, if you have a ``house'' data structure that represents a house in terms of its address, price, and color, you might have a rule like the following.Example: (implies (house-p x) (equal (make-house (address x) (price x) (color x)) x))The application of such a rule is entirely analogous to the application of the rule
car-cdr-elimdiscussed above. We discuss such rules and their application more carefully below.
General Form: (implies hyp (equiv lhs x))
equiv is a known equivalence relation (see defequiv);
is a variable symbol; and
lhs contains one or more terms (called
``destructor terms'') of the form
(fn v1 ... vn), where
fn is
a function symbol and the
vi are distinct variable symbols,
v1, ...,
vn include all the variable symbols in the formula,
fn occurs in
lhs in more than one destructor term, and all
occurrences of
x in
lhs are inside destructor terms.
To use an
:elim rule, the theorem prover waits until a conjecture has
been maximally simplified. It then searches for an instance of some
destructor term
(fn v1 ... vn) in the conjecture, where the instance for
x is some variable symbol,
vi, and every occurrence of
vi outside
the destructor terms is in an
equiv-hittable position. If such an
instance is found, then the theorem prover instantiates the
:elim formula
as indicated by the destructor term matched; splits the conjecture into two
goals, according to whether the instantiated hypothesis,
hyp, holds; and
in the case that it does hold, generalizes all the instantiated destructor
terms in the conjecture to new variables and then replaces
vi in the
conjecture by the generalized instantiated
lhs. An occurrence of
is ``
equiv-hittable'' if sufficient congruence rules (see defcong) have
been proved to establish that the propositional value of the clause is not
altered by replacing that occurrence of
vi by some
If an
:elim rule is not applied when you think it should have been,
and the rule uses an equivalence relation,
equiv, other than
it is most likely that there is an occurrence of the variable that is not
equiv-hittable. Easy occurrences to overlook are those in
the governing hypotheses. If you see an unjustified occurrence of the
variable, you must prove the appropriate congruence rule to allow the
:elim to fire.
Further examples of how ACL2
:elim rules are used may be found in the
corresponding discussion of ``Elimation of Destructors'' for Nqthm, in
Section 10.4 of A Computational Logic Handbook.


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Soon after the New Orleans Saints drafted safety Kenny Vaccaro in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft, the speculation started about veteran safety Roman Harper. Could he be released? Could he be forced to take a pay cut?
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q: has been improved to succeed much more often. The algorithm is based on the work of Cliff Reiter on elliptic curve and other auxiliary factoring techniques as detailed in http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~reiterc/j/vector/factor_ecj.html. The algorithm starts to lose effectiveness on hard factorizations (that is, involving just two primes) of numbers with 25 digits. For example:
x=: 8191068869406862657520989247075401x q: x 8191068869406862657520989247075401 q: x* p: 1e7 179424691 8191068869406862657520989247075401 q: x*x |break | q:x*x
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2 bodies at crash site
2 bodies at crash site, Remains of two bodies have been found in the wreckage of a U.S. military plane that crashed in Kyrgyzstan, and authorities are still looking for a third person who was on board, officials said.
The refueling plane exploded in mid air when its cargo of fuel ignited on its way to Afghanistan on Friday, accident investigators said.
Experts were still trying to work out what led up to the crash, said Kuvan Mamakeev, the Kyrgyz state prosecutor responsible for investigating transport crimes and accidents.
"It could be because of the fuel, because of the engine, the weather conditions or the human factor," he told Reuters.
Remains of the two bodies were found on Saturday, and a third person on board was still unaccounted for, Kyrgyzstan's Minister of Emergency Situations, Kubatbek Boronov, added.
The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker took off from the U.S. military transit center at Kyrgyzstan's Manas airport, which U.S. forces maintain for operations in Afghanistan, with around 70 tonnes of fuel on board, a local ministry official said.
The wreckage of the plane was scattered over a 4 to 5 km area in a mountainous area near the Kyrgyz village of Chaldovar, the official added.
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I'm currently working on a palette for an historic home in DC where we are using "color" on painted cabinetry. Of course, many cabinet lines offer the option of custom color. Crown Point Cabinetry even offers milk paint finishes and colors in the historic Farrow & Ball range. These images caught my eye. The cabinetry is classic but casual and the colors are soft and pleasing to the eye.
I'm also loving the used of "mixed" cabinetry here- saturated color on base cabinets with white and glass above.
Here, simple open shelving is combined with base cabinets painted in "butter".
And here, a lively combination of Benjamin Moore 'Stratton Blue' on upper cabinets is paired with 'Pale Avocado' below. The dark countertops, floors and ceiling make this combination sing.
The last image of cabinetry is from Plain English ( "bespoke" and from the UK, of course). And the kumquats are the perfect dollop of complementary color.


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The fact that former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden decided to go public with his grievances against the U.S. government is certainly brave and bold.
People can and will accuse Snowden of many things. But no one will ever accuse him of not having the guts to stand up for what he believes.
Whether or not Snowden should be regarded as a "hero" for exposing what he believes is horrible intelligence gathering abuse by the U.S. government, however–as some are already suggesting he should be–remains to be seen.
Snowden has certainly made some startling claims about the scope of the U.S. intelligence and surveillance programs.
Most notably, Snowden claims that, as a 29 year-old security contractor, he had both the legal authority and the technological ability to "wiretap anyone — from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President."
If that's true, that is indeed very startling.
Snowden also claims that the National Security Agency now intercepts and records almost all global communications, and that these recorded communications can be easily accessed:
"…the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested [by the NSA] without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards."
Now, the NSA–or FBI, DOJ, or even your local police department–have always been able to get access to all of this information for U.S. citizens, provided they have a warrant from a judge allowing them to do so and provided you or your service providers have retained these records. But what seems new, based on Snowden's description, is that the government is now maintaining its own records of all this information and, if I understand Snowden correctly, can now access and use any of it without a warrant.
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But, I, for one, would like some confirmation that what Snowden is saying is true before I denounce the government.
And some of the other things that Snowden has said have certainly made me wonder whether he isn't just viewing all this from a perspective that mainstream Americans might consider, well, extreme.
Asked why he decided to leak classified information to the media, for example, Snowden said the following:
"I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things … I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."
Asked whether surveillance might help deter or prevent terrorism, Snowden appeared to suggest that we shouldn't pay so much attention to terrorism:
"We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism. Boston was a criminal act. It was not about surveillance but good, old-fashioned police work. The police are very good at what they do."
Asked whether he sees himself as "another Bradley Manning," the U.S. Army private who sent a boatload of classified U.S. documents to Wikileaks, Snowden expressed nothing but admiration for Manning:
"Manning was a classic whistleblower. He was inspired by the public good."
To address these statements in reverse order…
Bradley Manning may have been "inspired by" his own personal view of the "public good." But, personally, I'm not convinced that what Bradley Manning did was actually good for the public. I don't think it was terrible for the public. And it was certainly interesting to read some of those diplomatic communications. But I didn't see anything in them that made me think they were so important that they were worth Manning breaking the law and risking a lifetime in jail to make them public.
(And, for what it's worth, I do think that some things should be classified.)
I also confess that I am happy that there has not been another 9/11 since 9/11, and I wish the FBI had stopped the deranged Tsarnaev brothers before they allegedly killed four innocent people in Boston and maimed a few dozen others. I understand that the authorities will never be able to eliminate terrorism entirely, but I am glad that they've limited it as much as they have.
And, lastly, although I don't relish the thought of having the government intercept and record all of my communications, I want to find out whether it's actually true that the government is doing this before I freak out about it. Also, because I am not a terrorist, because this country has a well-developed legal system, and because I do not instinctively regard all government employees as evil power-hungry scumbags, I would also like to believe that, even if the government is recording all of my communications, this won't necessarily wreck my life.
All of which is to say…
I'm not yet ready to pronounce Edward Snowden a "hero."
I understand that he means well.
And I understand that he may think he's a hero.
But he hasn't persuaded me of that yet.
SEE ALSO: Edward Snowden Claims He Had Mind-Blowing Power As A Low-Level Spy
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If you can't switch from in-game chat to party chat on your Xbox One console, there may be a problem with the Xbox Live service or your network connection.
Solution 1: Check Xbox Live status
If you see any alerts here, wait until the service is up and running and try again:
Solution 2: Check the network statistics
Check the statistics for your network. Here's how:
Solution 3: Have everyone in the party test their Xbox Live connection
Someone in your party might have a Network Address Translation (NAT) problem. To find out, have everyone test their connection. Here's how:
Solution 4: Restart your Xbox One console
Note If the console appears to be frozen, press and hold the Xbox button on the console for 10 seconds, until the console turns off. After the console shuts down, touch the Xbox button on the console again to restart.
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Well, the first section after the 700 and some odd "Cocktails" is, drumroll…
Non-Alcoholic Cocktails
Actually, I wish there were some more exciting cocktails here, but most seem to have been cribbed from a "Clayton's Kola Tonic" brochure.
"Claytons. The drink you have when you're not having a drink."
Clayton's Pussyfoot Cocktail
1/4 Sirop-de-citron. (Sirop-de-Citron, homemade)
1/4 Orange Juice. (Blood Orange Juice)
1/2 Kola Tonic. (Clayton's Kola Tonic)
Shake well and serve in cocktail glass. (Or build in a short glass and top with chilled soda water.)
These sorts of cocktails, with my really intense and sweet Sirop-de-Citron, I just find to be too concentrated in flavor to be served as "up" cocktails. I much prefer them built with soda water instead, even over ice.
The Clayton's Pussyfoot is actually darn tasty. I might, or might not, recommend slipping a splash of Rye Whiskey in there, just to juice it up, but certainly, not very much, especially with that name.
Hey, check out the new Schott-Zwiesel glassware. It's from the Schumann Basic Bar collection. I really like these little glasses. Perfect size for a 19th Century highball or a glass of vermouth while making dinner. They really remind me of some of the vintage highball glassware I've seen. Also, they were on sale, so cool!
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the drinks in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, the, uh, Sauterne Cup.


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This is a Hummel stitchery that my Grandmother used to have in her house. There are several of them and they fill my laundry room.
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My Mom, your grandmother, would be thrilled to see the Hummel stitchery's on display in your laundry room. They do look really nice in there and I love to peek in and see them when I am there : )
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iCade Jr. Mini Arcade Cabinet for iPhone
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- Miniature playable arcade cabinet for your desk. Just add iPhone!
- Fit iPhone 4/4S or iPod Touch 4th gen
- Hundreds of compatible games!
Miss the days of hours long marathons of Tetris, Pac-Man, or Space Invaders? Nostalgic for feeding your hard-earned quarters into arcade games as your friends gathered around to watch you try for a new record? Remember those sweaty, cramping, aching hands frozen in position on that shiny red joystick? We bet you 50 cents you do.
Ion Audio and ThinkGeek have collaborated to adapt their popular iCade, designed for the iPad, to fit your iPhone. With the iCade Jr., you can take your newest most favorite-est toy, your iPhone, and turn it into your oldest most favorite-est toy, an arcade game. Designed specifically to fit your iPhone or iPod Touch, the iCade Jr., allows arcade-like game play of hundreds of games using that shiny red joystick and buttons. No quarters needed.
Product Specifications
- Miniature playable arcade cabinet for your desk. Just add iPhone!
- It's the iCade, scaled down!
- Sized for safe, secure fit for iPhone 4/4S or iPod touch 4th Generation
- Fits iPhone 5 if you leave the top lid hinged back
- Features arcade-style joystick, four front and rear buttons
- Works with hundreds of game including iCade Jr. compatible games from the App Store
- Rotating cradle allows for landscape and portrait viewing
- Connects using wireless Bluetooth technology (set up once and you're good to go!)
- True control with eight action buttons and two-axis directional pad
- Safety & Warranty Manual and Quickstart Guide included
- Batteries: 2 x AA (included)
Numerous iOS developers have built in iCADE support. In all, over 150 apps have announced support for the iCADE standard.
Here is a list of some of the best iCade games. Search keyword "iCade" in the app store to find more.
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Are you an iOS developer? - If you're supporting the iCADE, let us know about it! Just email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Developer Support
- Official ION Documentation! - The team at ION has made their official iCADE Developers Resource available for download without an NDA and we're please to offer it here as well! iCADE Developers Resource [PDF].
- Stuart Carnie of manomio software has released an Open Source SDK for adding iCADE support to iOS apps. The open source iCADE SDK can be downloaded here.
MAME Support
iOS: If you've taken the step of Jailbreaking your iPhone, the iMAME4all app adds MAME awesomeness to your iCADE gaming stack. While we can't recommend jailbreaking or unlicensed ROMs, we can certainly confirm that it does indeed work and it works quite well. :)
Android: By popular demand, Seleuco added iCADE support to MAME4droid
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The iCADE uses the U.S. Hardware Keyboard Layout. International Users can switch their iPhone to this layout by following thee steps:
- Launch Settings app on your iPhone
- Select 'General'
- Select 'Keyboard'
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A three Michelin-starred chef who, along with her father, interprets modern Basque cooking with often astounding technique, Elena is the fourth generation of the Arzak family to head the kitchen at their inspirational and ground-breaking restaurant. Her approach to food is equal parts chef, historian, scientist and alchemist. "We like taking risks because without risks you don't move forward", she says. She could also have added that without risks, you won't be counted among the world's best.
Sam Bompas and Harry Parr, have been called "the most fashionable figures on London's food scene right now". The self-titled jellymongers invented a walk-in cloud of breathable gin and tonic, created a jelly banquet for 2,000 people, flooded a building with four tonnes of cognac punch that visitors then boated across before drinking and have made the humble jelly a substance of subtlety and wonder.
We are very pleased to announce that our spectacular jelly event with the Jellymongers, Bompas & Parr has now SOLD OUT! The Espy will be packed out on the 10th of March this year and we want to thank everyone who has supported this event. Sorry to anyone who has not been able to secure a ticket, we tried to extend the tickets for the event but it is now full and we have a waiting list that is growing.
All is not lost though if you had your heart set on seeing Bompas & Parr as there are still a few tickets available for the hugely popular 'Theatre Of Ideas'. Plus, not only will you get to see the Jellymongers but Chef Elena Arzak from the feted 3 michelin restaurant, 'Arzak', will be making the long trip from her home in San Sebastian to attend as a special guest.
Here is an official comment from Melbourne Food & Wine and we hope to see you there!!!
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Theatre of Ideas rolls into town during Melbourne Food and Wine Festival dishing up a titillating selection of names that are kneading and shaping the world of food as we know. Enjoy a morning of cerebral gastronomy and food-meets-kooky-art starring Elena Arzak and Jellymongers Bompas & Parr. A chance to get up-close and personal with the London food scene's hottest tickets and a woman regarded as the "most exciting female chef on the planet."
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Phil DeVita has been living at 57-27 59th St. for 48 years. In recent years, a string of heath issues has left him unable to venture far from his home. He takes solace in sitting on his porch and looking at the Bradford Pear tree in front of his home.
"I watched it grow as a sapling and it was a source of shade and comfort," he said. "It's a good place to sit during my recuperation from paralysis and surgeries."
Roughly two months ago a truck backed up and hit one of the lower branches, causing it to sever from the tree. DeVita said that after many phone calls a city agency came to clean up the fallen branch.
DeVita said that he came out of his home to see that all of the branches had been cut from the tree. One bystander said that a Parks Department employee said the tree was scheduled for demolition.
"The tree was still healthy and thriving and it kept growing," DeVita said. "There was no damage other than losing that branch."
The tree is on city property and is the responsibility of the Parks Department. A spokesperson for the department said a tree would be removed if it is severely damaged and determined to be dangerous.
"They just come and do what they want to do," DeVita said. "And you can't do anything about it."
On the other hand, residents Nancy and Robert Telesca, who have lived on Hamilton Pl. since 1979, say a tree was planted next to their home that they fear will cause damage to their residence.
They said that when they first moved to the neighborhood, the Parks Department had to remove a tree from the same spot.
"My husband and I had to go through a lot of money to fix the sidewalk and they had to chop out all of the roots because it was going into our trap," Mrs. Telesca said. "We would get floods down in the basement."
Their neighbor also had to pay to replace the sidewalk because the roots of a tree, owned by the city, had pushed it up.
Mr. Telesca said his biggest frustration was not being told that the city wanted to plant the tree. He said he could have explained to them that planting a tree in the location could do harm to his home.
"Street trees are planted in large tree pits to avoid lifting up adjacent sidewalks," said a spokesperson with the Parks Department. "Their roots cannot damage intact pipes and can only intrude if there is a pre-existing crack."
Although the spokesperson said that residents can request a free inspection of a tree by calling 311 Robert is still unhappy with the new addition to the side of his home.
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Special features of the new SPX 4260 Patriot sprayer from Case IH range from improved ergonomics in the cab to the latest agronomics at the boom.
The most notable upgrade is a cab adapted from the company's Steiger 4-wd tractors. It gives the operator increased visibility through 67 sq. ft. of glass. The seat features air-ride suspension to make the long hours of application less exhausting. An optional trainer seat is also available to improve training for new operators.
The steering wheel also is built for operator comfort, with both tilt and telescoping functions. The console is a modified version of the control console found in Case's Axial-Flow combines.
A new air filter on the sprayer exceeds requirements for particulate reduction and vapor absorption, making the cab safe for operators. The cab meets the rigid requirements for ASAE S525 certification that exempts applicators from wearing personal protective equipment while in the cab.
Quick fill
Operators can now fill the main tank, rinse tank and soap tank all from one location on the left side of the sprayer. Company officials claim that the new 3-in. hose can fill a 1,200-gal. tank in approximately 10 min. Operators can transfer water from the rinse tank into the soap tank by simply transferring the water and adding a few pumps of soap. A storage locker includes an instruction decal, located inside its door, for the service center.
Managing droplet size
Another major improvement on the SPX 4260 sprayer is the Ag Information Manager (AIM) Command system. "The AIM Command spray system manages droplet size by varying pressure independent of speed or flow [with] the pulse-width modulation technology," explains Karen Meuwissen, manager of marketing and after-market support, Case IH application equipment. Effectively managing droplet size leads to better drift management and better field applications.
With the AIM Command option comes the Combo-Rate nozzle body system from Wilger. The Combo-Rate system allows applicators to switch among three different nozzles in about 5 min.
The SPX 4260 Patriot sprayer houses a Case 8.3L turbocharged engine rated at 260 hp, a 160-gal. fuel tank and either a 60/80-ft. combo boom or a 60/90-ft. boom. Application speed is usually from 12 to 14 mph, and road speed for the sprayer is 30 to 32 mph.
Suggested retail price is $195,000, plus $11,000 for the AIM Command system. Contact Case Corp., Dept. FIN, 260 Hwy. 12 S.E., Benson, MN 56215, 800/328-9128, www.caseih.com or circle 196.


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Planetary nebula, any of a class of bright nebulae that are expanding shells of luminous gas expelled by dying stars. Observed telescopically, they have a relatively round compact appearance rather than the chaotic patchy shapes of other nebulae—hence their name, which was given because of their resemblance to planetary disks when viewed with the instruments of the late 1700s, when the first planetary nebulae were discovered.
There are believed to be about 20,000 objects called planetary nebulae in the Milky Way Galaxy, each representing gas expelled relatively recently from a central star very late in its evolution. Because of the obscuration of dust in the Galaxy, only about 1,800 planetary nebulae have been cataloged. Planetary nebulae are important sources of the gas in the interstellar medium.
Forms and structure
Compared with diffuse nebulae (see H II region), planetary nebulae are small objects, having a radius typically of 1 light-year and containing a mass of gas of about 0.3 solar mass. One of the largest-known planetary nebulae, the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) in the constellation Aquarius, subtends an angle of about 20 minutes of arc—two-thirds the angular size of the Moon. Planetary nebulae are considerably denser than most H II regions, typically containing 1,000–10,000 atoms per cubic cm within their dense regions, and have a surface brightness 1,000 times larger. Many are so far away that they appear stellar when photographed directly, but the conspicuous examples have an angular size up to 20 minutes of arc across, with 10–30 seconds of arc being usual. Those that show a bright disk have much more-regular forms than the chaotic H II regions, but there are still usually some brightness fluctuations over the disk. The planetaries generally have regular, sharp outer boundaries; often they have a relatively regular inner boundary as well, giving them the appearance of a ring. Many have two lobes of bright material, resembling arcs of a circle, connected by a bridge, somewhat resembling the letter Z.
Most planetaries show a central star, called the nucleus, which provides the ultraviolet radiation required for ionizing the gas in the ring or shell surrounding it. Those stars are among the hottest known and are in a state of comparatively rapid evolution.
As with H II regions, the overall structural regularity conceals large-scale fluctuations in density, temperature, and chemical composition. High-resolution images of a planetary nebula usually reveal tiny knots and filaments down to the resolution limit. The spectrum of the planetary nebula is basically the same as that of the H II region; it contains bright lines from hydrogen and helium recombinations and the bright, collisionally excited forbidden lines and faint recombination lines of other ions. (Recombination is the process in which an atom at a high stage of excitation captures a lower energy electron and then drops into a lower stage of excitation.) The central stars show a much greater range of temperatures than those in H II regions, ranging from relatively cool (25,000 K) to some of the hottest known (200,000 K). In the nebulae with hot stars, most of the helium is doubly ionized, and appreciable amounts of five-times-ionized oxygen and argon and four-times-ionized neon exist. In H II regions helium is mainly once ionized and neon and argon only once or twice. This difference in the states of the atoms results from the temperature of the planetary nucleus (up to about 150,000 K), which is much higher than that of the exciting star of the H II regions (less than 60,000 K for an O star, the hottest). High stages of ionization are found close to the central star. The rare heavy ions, rather than hydrogen, absorb the photons of several hundred electron volt energies. Beyond a certain distance from the central star, all the photons of energy sufficient to ionize a given species of ion have been absorbed, and that species therefore cannot exist farther out. Detailed theoretical calculations have rather successfully predicted the spectra of the best-observed nebulae.
The spectra of planetary nebulae reveal another interesting fact: they are expanding from the central star at 24–56 km (15–35 miles) per second. The gravitational pull of the star is quite small at the distance of the shell from the star, so the shell will continue its expansion until it finally merges with the interstellar gas around it. The expansion is proportional to the distance from the central star, consistent with the entire mass of gas having been ejected at one brief period from the star in some sort of instability.
The distances of planetary nebulae
Estimating the distance to any particular planetary nebula is challenging because of the variety of shapes and masses of the ionized gas. There is uncertainty about the amount of ionizing radiation from the central star that escapes from the nebula and the amount of hot low-density material that fills part of the volume but does not emit appreciable radiation. Thus, planetary nebulae are not a homogeneous class of objects.
Distances are estimated by obtaining measurements for about 40 objects that happen to have especially favourable properties. The favourable properties involve association with other objects whose distance can be estimated independently, such as membership in a stellar cluster or association with a star of known properties. Statistical methods, calibrated by these objects, provide rough estimates (about 30 percent errors) of distances for all others. The statistical method involves assuming that all shells have similar masses when all of the shell is ionized and correcting for the fraction that is neutral for the rest.
From the best available distance determination, the true size of any nebula can be found from its angular size. Typically, planetary nebulae are a few tenths of a light-year in radius. If this distance is divided by the expansion speed, the age of the nebula since ejection is obtained. Values range up to roughly 30,000 years, after which the nebula is so tenuous that it cannot be distinguished from the surrounding interstellar gas. This lifetime is much shorter than the lifetimes of the parent stars, so the nebular phase is relatively brief.
Chemical composition
Planetary nebulae are chemically enriched in elements produced by nuclear processing within the central star. Some are carbon-rich, with twice as much carbon as oxygen, while there is more oxygen than carbon in the Sun. Others are overabundant in nitrogen; the most luminous ones, observed in external galaxies, are conspicuous examples. Helium is modestly enhanced in many. There are objects that contain almost no hydrogen; it is as if the gas had been ejected from these object at the very end of the nuclear-burning process. Planetary nebulae also show a clear indication of the general heavy-element abundance gradient in the Galaxy, presumably a reflection of the original composition of the stars that gave rise to the present nebulae.
As in the case of H II regions, planetary nebulae show discrepancies between the determinations of abundances of heavy elements from faint recombination lines as opposed to those determined from collisionally excited lines, but in a much more severe form. There are some nebulae for which the two methods give the same abundances. However, the most extreme discrepancies are factors of 30 or more in the oxygen abundances. Perhaps this wild variation in planetary nebulae is not surprising, since they surely have regions of material that are strongly enriched in heavy elements and deficient in hydrogen. These regions originate in the complicated nuclear processing of the expelled material ejected from the evolved central star. They would have strong cooling from the heavy-element emissions and thus much lower temperatures than the regions of normal composition. These regions would contribute very little to the hydrogen emission lines because they are hydrogen-poor.
Some, but not all, planetary nebulae contain internal dust. In general, this dust cannot be seen directly but can be detected from the infrared radiation it emits after being heated by nebular and stellar radiation. The presence of dust implies that planetary nebulae are even richer in heavy elements than gas-phase abundance studies suggest.
Among nebulae so far discovered, two are particularly deviant in chemical composition: one is in the globular cluster M15 and the other in the halo (tenuous outer regions) of the Galaxy. Both have very low heavy-element content (down from normal by factors of about 50) but normal helium. Both objects are very old, suggesting that the primeval gas in the Galaxy had a low heavy-element content but an almost normal amount of helium. The origin of most helium in the Galaxy was the big bang, the initial explosion of the universe itself.
Positions in the Galaxy
One of the best indicators of the average age of astronomical objects is their position and motion in the Galaxy. The youngest are in the spiral arms, near the gas from which they have formed; the oldest are not concentrated in the plane of the Galaxy, nor are they found within the spiral arms. By these criteria, the planetaries reveal themselves to be rather middle-aged; they are moderately but not strongly concentrated in the plane; rather, they are concentrated toward the galactic centre, as the older objects are. Their motions in the Galaxy follow elliptical paths, whereas circular orbits are characteristic of younger stars. They belong to the type of distribution often called a "disk population," to distinguish them from the Population II (very old) and Population I (young) objects proposed by the German American astronomer Walter Baade. There is a wide variation in the ages of planetaries, and some are very young objects.
Evolution of planetary nebulae
A description of the evolution of a planetary nebula begins before the ejection of the nebula itself. As will be discussed below, the central star is a red giant before the ejection. In such a phase it experiences a rapid loss of mass, up to 0.01 Earth mass per day, in the form of a comparatively slowly expanding stellar wind. At this stage the red giant might be heavily obscured by dust that forms from the heavy elements in the wind. Eventually the nature of both the star and its wind changes. The star becomes hotter because its hot core is exposed by the loss of the overlying atmosphere. The inner gas is ionized by radiation from the hot star. The ionization zone moves steadily outward through the slowly moving material of what was formerly the stellar wind. The expansion speed of the gas is typically 30 km (19 miles) per second. Nebulae in this stage are bright but have starlike images as seen from Earth, because they are too small to show a disk. The gas is at a relatively high density—about one million atoms per cubic centimetre—but becomes more dilute as the gas expands. During this stage the nebula is surrounded by neutral hydrogen. It appears to expand faster than the individual atoms of gas in it are moving; the ionized shell is "eating into" the neutral material as the density falls.
The middle stage of evolution occurs when the density has dropped to the point at which the entire mass of gas is ionized. After this stage is reached, some of the ultraviolet radiation escapes into space, and the expansion of the nebula is caused entirely by the motion of the gas. Most planetaries are now in this middle stage. Finally the central star becomes less luminous and can no longer provide enough ultraviolet radiation to keep even the dilute nebula ionized. Once again the outer regions of the nebula become neutral and therefore invisible. Eventually the gas is mingled with the general interstellar gas. A curious feature of several planetaries is that faint rings surrounding the bright inner nebula can be observed; they are the remnants of a previous shell ejected earlier by the star.
The central stars
Many central stars are known from their spectra to be very hot. A common type of spectrum has very broad emission lines of carbon or nitrogen, as well as of ionized helium, superimposed upon a bluish continuum. These spectra are indistinguishable from those from the very bright rare stars known as Wolf-Rayet stars, but the planetary nuclei are about 100 times fainter than true Wolf-Rayet objects. The stars appear to be losing some mass at the present time, though evidently not enough to contribute appreciably to the shell.
The presence of the nebula allows a fairly precise determination of the central star's evolution. The temperature of the star can be estimated from the nebula from the amounts of emission of ionized helium and hydrogen by a method devised by the Dutch astronomer H. Zanstra. The amount of ionized-helium radiation is determined by the number of photons with energy of more than 54 electron volts, while hydrogen is ionized by photons in excess of 13.6 electron volts. The relative numbers of photons in the two groups depend strongly on temperature, since the spectrum shifts dramatically to higher energies as the temperature of the star increases. Hence, the temperature can be found from the observed strengths of the hydrogen and helium lines. The rate of evolution of the stars can be determined from the sizes of their nebulae, as the time since ejection of the shell is the radius of the nebula divided by the expansion rate. The energy output, or luminosity, of the central star can be estimated from the brightness of the nebula, because the nebula is converting the star's invisible ultraviolet radiation (which contains the greater part of the star's luminous energy) into visible radiation.
The resulting theoretical description of the star's evolution is quite interesting. While there seem to be real differences in stars at a given stage, the trends are quite clear. The central stars in young planetary nebulae are about as hot as the massive O and B stars—35,000–40,000 K—but roughly 10 times fainter. They have half the diameter of the Sun but are 1,000 times as luminous. As the nebula expands, the star increases its brightness and temperature, but its radius decreases steadily. It reaches a maximum energy output when it is roughly 10,000 times as luminous as the Sun, about 5,000 years after the initial expansion. This is a very small fraction of the star's age of several billion years; it represents a period equivalent to about half an hour in a human life. From this point on, the star becomes fainter, but for some time the temperature continues to increase while the shrinkage of the star continues. At its hottest the star is more than 200,000 K, almost five times hotter than the hottest of most of the stars. It then cools and after about 10,000 years becomes a very dense white dwarf star, scarcely larger than Earth but with a density of thousands of kilograms per cubic centimetre. From this point it cools very slowly, becoming redder and fainter indefinitely.
While there is not yet a very detailed theoretical picture of this contraction, a few results have emerged rather clearly: (1) white dwarf stars must obtain nearly all their energy from the contraction noted above, not from nuclear sources; therefore, (2) they must contain practically no hydrogen or helium, except perhaps in a very thin shell on their surfaces. These conditions would have to be met for the evolution to take place so quickly.
The absence of hydrogen in the star's interior is quite surprising; the planetary nebulae are all found to have a normal hydrogen abundance of about 1,000 times as many hydrogen atoms as heavy elements, such as oxygen. Thus, the mechanism of expulsion of the envelope must be very efficient at ejecting the hydrogen-rich outer layers of a star while leaving heavy-element-rich material behind.
The nature of the progenitor stars
The progenitor must have mass not much in excess of a solar mass because of the distribution of the planetaries in the Galaxy. Very massive stars are young and more closely confined than are nebulae to the galactic plane. Also, the mass of the nebula is roughly 0.3 solar mass, and the mass of a typical white dwarf (the final state of the central star) is roughly 0.7 solar mass. Next, the expansion velocity of the nebula is probably comparable to the velocity of escape from its progenitor, which implies that the progenitor was a red giant star, large and cool, completely unlike the small, hot, blue, nuclear star remaining after the ejection. Likely candidates are members of the class of long-period variable stars, which have about the right size and mass and are known to be unstable. Symbiotic stars (i.e., stars with characteristics of both cool giants and very hot stars) also are candidates. Novae, stars that brighten temporarily while ejecting a shell explosively, are definitely not candidates; the nova shell is expanding at hundreds of kilometres per second.
The cause of the ejection is the outward force of radiation on the outer layers of red giant stars. The ejection is triggered by a rapid variation in the nuclear luminosity in the interior of the giant, caused by instability in the helium-burning shell. The ejection takes place during more than one phase of the giant's evolution. Nitrogen-rich nebulae develop during an early episode when convection inside the star carries nitrogen, produced from carbon in a series of nuclear reactions (i.e., the carbon-nitrogen cycle of hydrogen burning), to the surface. A later ejection takes place with an enrichment of both nitrogen and helium, which also is produced by hydrogen burning. A still later phase occurs when convection carries carbon, the product of helium burning, to the surface.
Learn More in these related Britannica articles:
Milky Way Galaxy: Planetary nebulaeThe gaseous clouds known as planetary nebulae are only superficially similar to other types of nebulae. So called because the smaller varieties almost resemble planetary disks when viewed through a telescope, planetary nebulae represent a stage at the end of the stellar life…
nebula: Classes of nebulaePlanetary nebulae are ejected from stars that are dying but are not massive enough to become supernovae—namely, red giant stars. That is to say, a red giant has shed its outer envelope in a less-violent event than a supernova explosion and has become an intensely…
H II region: Chemical composition of H II regions…class of ionized nebulae, the planetary nebulae, show the same effect. The local estimated abundances (say, for the Orion Nebula) are roughly solar. The abundances of heavy elements per million hydrogen atoms are 500 for carbon, 80 for nitrogen, 600 for oxygen, and 100 for neon. There is a gradient…
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Walter Ryan Macapaz, 34, Tony David Maldonado, 31, Buffy Marie Lawrence, 40, and Lisa Carol Ross, 49, two Houston, Texas, businessmen, a mortgage company loan officer, and a title company attorney and escrow officer have been indicted for their alleged involvement in a scheme to defraud residential mortgage lenders of more than $22 million in loans.
The defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Macapaz, Maldonado, and Lawrence are expected to surrender themselves to federal authorities next week. Ross is currently being held in the Harris County Jail on unrelated state charges and is expected to be transferred into federal custody to answer the charges in the near future.
According to the indictment, from November 2005 through October 2008, Macapaz and Maldonado recruited straw borrowers to obtain mortgage loans to purchase condominium units in the Commerce Towers building located on Main Street in downtown Houston as well as residential homes in the Houston area. A straw borrower is paid money to allow his name and credit history to be used to obtain a mortgage loan to purchase a home when the person has no intention of actually living in the home or having any responsibility for making the mortgage payments.
Macapaz and Maldonado allegedly used fraudulent documents to help the borrowers qualify for the loans including documents with false and misleading information about the borrowers' income, assets, liabilities, employment status, bank deposits, rental payments, intent to use properties as a primary residence and source of funds used to close the real estate transactions. Lawrence, a loan officer for mortgage broker Mortgages First Real Estate Services LLC, allegedly assisted the borrowers to obtain the loans. Ross, an attorney and escrow officer for Vision Title LLC, allegedly arranged for disbursements from the title company to be turned into cash and money orders and distributed to the involved parties. According to the indictment, the mortgage loans allegedly totaled more than $22 million.
The maximum penalty for each wire fraud and conspiracy count is 20 years in prison as well as substantial fines. A conviction for money laundering conspiracy carries the most significant fine of $250,000 or twice the amount of the criminally derived property, whichever is greater.
The investigation leading to the charges was conducted by the FBI, IRS-CI, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – Office of Inspector General, and Houston Police Department. Assistant United States Attorney John Lewis is prosecuting the case.
United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced the indictment along with FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen L. Morris and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Rodney E. Clarke.


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Peter Beagrie is here every week on skysports.com answering YOUR Football League questions.
The former winger, who played over 770 games, representing clubs in all four tiers of the English footballing pyramid, including Manchester City, Everton, Bradford, Sheffield United, Scunthorpe, and Grimsby, forms part of the Sky Sports punditry team for all the big matches in the Championship, League One and League Two.
Still: left Dagenham dugout to take over at Luton
So if you have a poser for Peter, whether it's about your team, a player, match or incident that has caught your eye, or a wider point on the Football League, make sure you send it in.
Read below for this week's column where Beags gives his take on new Luton manager John Still, York's appoitment of Nigel Worthington, and Tranmere tyyro Max Power.
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Hi Peter, Hi Peter, What do you make of John Still's move from Dagenham to Luton? Cheers, Natalie Govan (Dagenham fan)
BEAGS SAYS: I think, Natalie, that John felt that he had earned, and owed himself, one last hurrah at a club with a rich tradition. He probably thought that the age of 62 he would not be offered another job that would excite and re-energise him like this one. I know he leaves a huge void at your club but the sequence of results between September and December has put you in a good position, considering the budget Still has had to operate with. John will feel that he has left Dagenham in far better state than he found them and I agree.
Hi Peter, What do you think of Nigel Worthington's appointment at York? Seems like a great catch to me! Thanks, Ben Symes (Norwich fan)
BEAGS SAYS: Capturing the services of Nigel is a major coup for York in their first season back in the Football League, Ben. Worthington has been out of the game since leaving his international post with Northern Ireland in 2011 but has moved quickly to compensate for any rustiness by securing the services of ex-Darlington goalkeeper and Bury coach Fred Barber as his number two, and York, four points off the relegation zone, will expect Nigel to have an instant impact. The 51-year-old, who takes over a side winless in their last 11 games following Saturday's home defeat to Bradford, is more at home in his tracksuit than answering his phone in the office, and has been in a relegation battle before; he managed to keep Norwich in the Championship prior to leading them into the Premier League in 2004. Former manager Gary Mills can count himself unlucky to lose his job, but I understand the York board making a change; they have seen the side pick up six points from 33 and are desperate to safeguard their League status after years of trying to attain it.
Hi Peter, Blackburn manager Michael Appleton has suggested he's going to have a complete clear-out over the summer, but how would you go about building a side from scratch to compete for the Championship promotion places? Cheers, Sam Halling (Blackburn fan)
BEAGS SAYS: A massive clear-out can only happen if contracts are up, Sam, as most clubs will not pay the large salaries of players who have suffered Premier League relegation and then underachieved in the Championship. But to launch a promotion charge you need a mixture of experience in the spine of your side - which comes from games, not just age - and pace and athleticism in the wide areas through wingers and full-backs. If you have a consistent goal-scorer, as well, then you are laughing and Blackburn already have one in Jordan Rhodes, who is always hungry to listen and learn. Blackburn are a massive club and although not without their problems, I am led to believe that they have the sufficient finances to build a squad capable of challenging for promotion next season.
Hello Peter, Hull seem to be firing on all cylinders again and with George Boyd in our side I'm dreaming of us not only getting an automatic-promotion place but pipping Cardiff to the title, too! What do you reckon? Max Harris (Hull City fan)
BEAGS SAYS: Cardiff's wobble has seen their 10-point lead at the top of the table halved and Hull fans must be confident of an automatic promotion following the new signings Steve Bruce has bestowed upon them. Gedo and George Boyd are natural finishers and will ensure Hull's creativity, which has been there all season, leads to goals; Gedo, who has netted 17 times in his 31 appearances for Egypt, hit the ground running with five goals in his first five games, while the arrival of Boyd, a wonderfully balanced and gifted individual who will flourish in the wide open spaces of the KC Stadium, is very much Hull's gain and Peterborough and Nottingham Forest's loss. The last game of the season, against Cardiff, looks like an interesting one and could be a decider of sorts, but Tuesday night's 4-2 defeat at Crystal Palace proves you cannot take your eye off the ball and must take things one game at a time. Hull have a chance of being champions but you write off Watford, who the Tigers face at home on April 2, and Palace at your peril, Max.
Hi Peter, it might not be enough and it may be too little too late, but what did you make of Portsmouth's first win in 23 against Crewe at the weekend? Thanks, Mike Jones (Portsmouth fan)
BEAGS SAYS: I punched the air when Portsmouth beat Crewe, such was my delight. I really feel for the Pompey faithful who have had various false dawns and many dreams and promises broken due to people at the top of the hierarchy gambling with the club's future. However, the fight has to go on until the end and I just hope Pompey exit administration before the end of the season and survive expulsion from the Football League; relegation is, I fear, inevitable but it is not as damning as going out of business. Portsmouth must have a League team and I wish the Pompey Supporters' Trust all the best for the biggest battle the club has ever faced on or off the pitch. Keep the faith, Mike.
Hi Peter, Max Power has a great name but could he cut it in the Championship if Tranmere get promoted? Thanks,Will Brown (Tranmere fan)
BEAGS SAYS: That is a big 'if' on one count and an even bigger 'if' on another, Will. I would love to see Tranmere's players and fans have a right royal knees up at the end of the season as, against all the odds, Ronnie Moore has managed to keep Rovers in the top six all through the campaign and in a top-two position for the majority of it. The Birkenhead side have not had the best of luck since goal-scoring sensation Jake Cassidy returned to Wolves and have been overhauled by some of the clubs with larger squads, but they remain in the play-off places at the expense of moneybags Bournemouth. As for Power, it would be a tall order for a player who only made his debut last season and accrued just 22 appearances this, to take the Championship by storm. The 19-year-old's chances have been limited by the performances of Sheffield Wednesday loanee Liam Palmer and captain James Wallace in the middle of the park, but with the latter now out until the end of the season, Power will get a chance to show his credentials; he must control his aggression and discipline, but I like what I have seen so far.
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This computer simulation shows the gravitational interaction of two young star clusters in a nearby star-forming region. The three and a half million years of the encounter have been compressed into just 27 seconds. The smaller star cluster approaches from the left, has its trajectory bent strongly as it swings by the larger cluster, and then returns for a second pass. The visualization then zooms in and dissolves to a Hubble Space Telescope image of a suspected pair of interacting star clusters in 30 Doradus (also known as the Tarantula Nebula) located 170,000 light-years away. After a partial zoom out, the simulation moves forward in time for another 1.4 million years to show the clusters merging into a single cluster.
At the start of the simulation, the smaller cluster is not gravitationally bound to the large cluster. After the first interaction, the cluster pair become gravitationally entwined and destined to merge together. A noticeable byproduct of the encounter is that interactions between stars efficiently eject massive stars from the smaller cluster. In addition, the stars in the smaller cluster are one million years older than those in the larger cluster. While all the stars shown are initially hot and blue, some reach the end of their lives during the simulation and evolve to cooler red giant stars.
Visualization: NASA, ESA, M. Gieles (University of Cambridge, UK), and F. Summers (STScI);
Science: NASA, ESA, E. Sabbi and D.J. Lennon (ESA/STScI), M. Gieles (University of Cambridge, UK), S.E. de Mink (STScI/JHU), N.R. Walborn, J. Anderson, A. Bellini, N. Panagia, and R. van der Marel (STScI), and J. Maíz Appelániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CISC, Spain)
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Lotus Biscoff No Bake Pops
Review Recipe3 stars based on 3865 votes
Graceful and easy to prepare pralines that you can turn into cake pops!
To prepare the balls:
- Place Biscoff Cookies, almonds, Biscoff Cookie Butter, cream cheese and powdered sugar into a bowl and blend uniform.
- Refrigerate for 30-60 minutes until the dough cools.
- Form balls 1 inch in diameter and place them in a dish lined with baking sheet.
- Skewer each ball on a stick then place in the freezer for 30 minutes.
To coat and decorate:
- Melt chocolate in a double boiler or in the microwave at 50% power and mix well.
- Dip balls in chocolate, place a baking pan lined with parchment or waxed paper and sprinkle immediately with a few Biscoff crumbs. The chocolate hardens very quickly, so make sure to sprinkle cookies on immediately. If the chocolate hardens too quickly, heat the balls in a microwave for a few seconds to soften.
- Place in a refrigerator and cool. Store covered in the refrigerator up to a week.


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I wrote this poem one weekend in April of 1970. I had the duty. My wife and I would be married one year on the 19th of April. Although we lived off base, I had the duty so I had to stay (sleep) on that barge. I wrote this poem one night after I got off the SMAW watch.
One Year
One year has passed
Since you became my wife;
What a difference it brought
To this man's life.
Each memory is numbered
In a precious book of gold
As a lasting reminder
When days grow old.
One year has passed
Bringing this joy I feel:
A new world discovered,
The first year I've lived.
©August 2013 Roy Mack Bowen
SSBN627 Overhaul Electric Boat Groton, New London, CT
10 April 1970
One Year
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Beautiful Roy. That was the month and year I reported on board. Being single, I lived on that barge. Fresh out of Sub School and finally on a "real" submarine. Brings back many memories. I recall that the coffee in the galley got awfully strong in the evening. Spent many a night sitting topside with a cup of coffee just watching the lights and traffic on the river. I remember one evening sitting in an empty gun turret sharing a bottle of Okadama wine with one of the NavET's. Roy, I always picture you standing on the missile deck by the mr1 hatch in a black wet-suit and dive gear. Thanks for the memories! JT
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A Hobby of Murder
Retired professor Andrew Basnett has finally completed writing the biography of Robert Hooke which he started at the beginning of his retirement and he is looking for a new interest to occupy his time. During a visit with friends in the village of Lower Milfrey, he meets people with many interesting hobbies such as photography, magic, bird-watching, and embroidery. At a large dinner party given by Sam Waldron, whose hobby is cooking, one of the guests di...
A Murder Too Many
Retired botany professor Andrew Basnett has returned to Knotlington University where he had taught for many years to attend the Conference of the Botanical Association. He is drawn, rather unwillingly, into investigating a murder which occured at the university two years previously. Carl Judd, an artist, was murdered, and Stephen Sharland was convicted of the crime and is currently in prison serving his sentence for the murder. There are, however, still...
Something Wicked
Retired professor Andrew Bassnet is staying in his nephew's house in the village of Godlingham while his nephew is in Paris. Andrew enjoys the quiet village and the company of his new neighbors. Then, during a heavy snowstorm, the electric power goes off, and Andrew finds a dead body in his cold, dark house. This murder bears a remarkable resemblance to an unsolved murder which took place in the village ten years before, and Andrew is drawn into searchin...


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Judge Bettina Borders, of Bristol County Juvenile Court, was named 2012 SouthCoast Woman of the Year. She made "contributions to the community as a justice and activist," according to the New Bedford (MA) Standard-Times. Her work includes making use of alternative sentencing programs such as Changing Lives Through Literature.
Read reporter Natalie Sherman's full article about this amazing Woman of the Year.
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The Roy R. Charles Center for Academic Excellence
The Charles Center supports faculty development, student research and engaged learning, honors and interdisciplinary studies.
The Charles Center, founded in 1986, has played a pivotal role in establishing William & Mary's well-deserved reputation as a "Public Ivy." The Center is dedicated to expanding the number of high impact research and interdisciplinary opportunities that are available to students, and to supporting faculty efforts to adopt new teaching methods to integrate the teaching and research missions of the university.


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Palm Desert Real Estate Update
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Located just outside of Palm Springs, Palm Desert has faced its fair share of real estate struggles since 2007, even prior to the economic recession that began in 2008, which only worsened the situation for the Palm Desert real estate market. Nevertheless, recent months have offered optimistic views of the future of the Palm Desert real estate. Real estate experts have noted that the Southern California region has posted increases in both home sales and median sales prices, with both actually reaching year-over-year gains. Experts are also confident that the federal tax credit for first-time homebuyers, as well as the greater affordability of housing in the region and the easier access to credit will allow for the recovery of the Palm Desert real estate market in the coming months.
According to DQNews.com, the Southern California region has posted increases in both its home sales and median sales prices, with home sales maintaining year-over-year gains for the 18th consecutive month and median sales prices reaching year-over-year gains for the first time since the summer of 2007. During December of 2009, Southern California posted a total of 22,238 new and resale houses and condos sold, which was a 16.4 percent increase from the 19,181 sold during the previous months, and a 12.1 percent increase from the 19,926 sold in December of 2008. The median sales price for homes sold in Southern California during December of 2009 was $289,000, a slight 1.4 percent increase from $285,000 of the previous month, and a 4 percent increase from $287,000 of the December of 2008.
The Desert Sun has also reported that the Palm Desert real estate market for apartments has improved over the past few months as many previous homeowners were displaced from homes that were foreclosed on. Realtors have reported that many previous homeowners have opted for apartments, increasing the demand for apartments significantly over the past few months. Realtors have also noted that the affordability of the apartments has also been a major incentive for attracting prospective investors.


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The culprit:
|Chocolate Cointreau Ganache Mousse with Cream
Don't say I didn't warn you.
It will call you from the refrigerator at the most inconvenient times, tempting you to have that second taste of its wicked goodness. Yes, it was love at first sight.
Mousse recipe adapted from Taste
300g good-quality dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
3 eggs, separated
125ml (1/2 cup) light olive oil
60ml (1/4 cup) Cointreau liqueur
50g cream
150g extra chocolate
cocoa powder to dust
Melt 300g chocolate in the microwave, checking every 20 seconds to ensure it does not burn. Stir until the chocolate is smooth. Set aside to cool.
Meanwhile, melt extra chocolate in a separate bowl. Spread generously into four cup molds, ensuring the sides are thick, as well as the bottom. Refrigerate until set.
Beat the egg whites in a clean dry bowl until firm peaks form. Add the egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition until combined.
Add the melted chocolate and beat until combined. Gradually add the oil and Cointreau, beating until well after each addition.
Gently remove the set chocolate cups from their molds.
Spoon the chocolate mixture into each chocolate cup. Cover and place in the fridge for 4 hours or until firm. Serve with cream and a sprinkling of cocoa or chocolate curls on the top.
NOTES: this recipe can be made one day ahead. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
Another naughty version of this amazing cointreau mousse:
Shortbread Tart Cases:
125g butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup pure icing sugar
1 tsp. vanilla essence
1 cup plain flour
1/4 cup cornflour
Using an electric beater, beat butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Add flours, and stir until well combined. Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead until smooth. Roll with a rolling pin and press our 20 circles. Place each in the bases of a greased muffin tray. Bake for 25-30 minutes until golden. Cool.
Using the above mousse recipe, pipe chocolate mousse into each shortbread case when cooled. You may find this easier after refrigerating the mousse for several hours prior to piping.


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Shade tree choices: Red Maple
|Red Maple
|Fall Color
Common name: Red Maple
Botanical name: Acer rubrum
Flowers: N/A
Fall color: Various
Soil moisture: Moist soil, well drained
Growth rate: Fast
|Minimum Planting Distances
|from SMUD pad mounted equipment (such as a transformer mounted on a concrete pad):
|8 feet
|from a building foundation:
|15 feet
|from walks and driveways:
|8 feet
|from an air conditioner:
|8 feet
|from a fence:
|6 feet
|from a utility offset (such as an underground line, pipe or cable):
|6 feet
|from a utility overhead (such as an overhead power line):
|30 feet
|from a swimming pool:
|25 feet
|from a septic system:
|30 feet
|between trees*:
|25 feet
|* To calculate the planting distance between different size trees, add the distances between each species in the column and divide answer in half.
Example: the distance between a Red Maple (large tree) and Amur Maple (small tree) is calculated: 25 feet + 15 feet = 40 feet ÷ 2 = 20 feet. The distance between these two different size trees should be 20 feet.


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The whole idea of being married seems like ancient history now. Like the Middle Ages, with just slightly less bubonic plague. In fact, we're within a month of what would have been our 14th anniversary, which means both Moxie's and my cells have utterly regenerated twice over since that fateful day in 1998. We've each become two entirely different people!
What seems like an eternity is actually just under 5-1/2 years since our initial estrangement. And I feel very grateful to tell you we've reached a degree of stasis. We've found houses that are a walking distance apart, in an area safe enough to let the boys walk to and from whenever they like. From all accounts — *knock every piece of wood within arm's length* — the kids are doing OK. And now that I'm sitting here on the other side, in the relative calm after the tempest, I can look back on the decisions I've made and think, "I guess that sort of … worked?