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Ever wonder what a fairy burlesque club looks like?
It's sort-of like Moulin Rouge. But with more men in top hats and twinkly noises. And revelations about what happened to Sookie's parents.
Yup, we're back in fairyland, but it's not quite the bizarro heaven-like fairy world where Sookie lived for a year last season. Instead, fairies have set up shop in an invisible club in the middle of a field (the same field where Jessica was drawn to that man who smelled good).
I mean, if you're escaping vampires, humans and everything else, why not throw in some burlesque? It's a lot more fun than one of those pesky refugee camps.
We're brought to fairyland by Andy and Jason, who are taken to a club as a reward from a corrupt judge whose son got a slap on a wrist for that speeding ticket Andy hid.
At first, things look great — men and women dancing together! Women both interested in Andy and Jason! — but it gets weird quickly.
Jason runs into his cousin Hadley Hale, who's surprised to hear that Sookie is alive and vampires haven't eaten everyone (fairies have some inaccurate newsletters). "We've got to get to Sookie! They'll kill her, just like they did your parents," says Hadley.
Major slip, Hadley. It's always been noted that Sookie's parents died in a flood, but there's been an air of mystery to it. Don't know why vampires would kill the Stackhouses, but in a meandering episode like this one, you take any interesting surprise you can get.
Jason freaks out about the news, tears Andy away from his fairy loving (it's with that same fairy he randomly had sex with awhile back) and is kicked out by mean male fairies. They're pushed out into the field and the fairies shine their fairy hand lights at them.
Who's going to protect Sookie! Because someone (everyone!) has to! She's the golden supernatural child of Bon Temps or the world or something.
Lafayette is tired of saving Sookie, and he turns on his friend a bit this episode. Upset because Sookie told Alcide what really happened with Debbie Pelt (he says he's truly hurt since he sold so many of the peach pies Sookie made, which is one of the more ridiculous things he's ever said), he lets his Mexican black magic warlock persona take over and magically turn Sookie's car into a deathtrap.
Anyone else tired of Lafayette turning into the evil warlock? This is your legacy, dead boyfriend Jesus.
Sookie runs out of Merlotte's because she's saddened after reading the thoughts of all the customers who hate her because of what she did to Tara. The possessed car (even writing this makes me laugh inside) runs Sookie off the road and hits a pole.
Per usual with TV, Sookie knows just how to roll out of a car perfectly before she's hurt. Sure, it was going 80 mph, but Sookie's a stunt woman. Or something.
She decides to drown her sorrows at home, mixing every type of liquor in the cabinet. She also drunkenly sings "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" with hilariously new lyrics like, "If your not into vampires!" instead of "If you like making love at midnight."
Perfect time for Alcide to walk in, fresh from telling Debbie Pelt's parents that it was Marcus Bozeman who killed Debbie and that he killed Marcus. Always covering for Sookie, Alcide.
They drink and drunkenly flirt (Sookie offers him a horrendous drink made from triple sec, amaretto and Bailey's. Kids, do not try this at home) and end up furiously making out on her couch.
I like these two together, drunk or not. Bill, however, is not pleased, as he sees the whole thing go down from outside her window. He decides that Sookie might need to help he and Eric find Russell, and I'm sure that has nothing to do with him still being in love with her.
Speaking of Bill and Eric, they're dropped off by the Authority to begin their quest to find and kill Russell. They clearly don't know what they're doing, as they end up rummaging through Fangtasia and Eric strangling Pam to see if she was the one who let Russell loose (as if Pam would do that).
It's not the homecoming Pam was looking for — and she madly tells Eric that if he doesnt want to be with her anymore than he should free her from the bonds of maker-makee.
Earlier, Pam had freed Tara from a burning suicide under the tanning bed, so Pam is not really feeling too good about maker-makee relations. Still, she has enough heart to start looking after Tara (aw, a coffin next to hers in the basement of Fangtasia), even later offering her some food (i.e.: a woman) and teaching her how to drain properly.
This draining lesson comes after Eric actually does release her. In a heartfelt scene, Eric says that he has to release her for her own protection — he's on a dangerous quest to find Russell and Russell or the Authority will likely end up killing him. Either way, he loves Pam enough not to keep her around.
"You're a maker now. Our blood will thrive. Understand?" Eric tells Pam.
It's interesting to note that now Tara is forever "blood related" to Eric. Pam even at one point tells him, "Congratulations, you're a grandfather." So weird.
Still, I can't wait to see more of Pam's lessons for Tara, who has finally mellowed out a bit and begins to accept her fate. Will she be a good vamp or a bad vamp? Will she work at Fangtasia as Pam's assistant? Will she wear more leather and make sassy Pam-esque comments?
Meanwhile, the Authority vs. Sanguinista plot line continues. Side note: "Sanguinista" may be the least-Google-friendly word of all time. Sanguinista Nora is still being tortured non-stop by Salome and Roman, who decide to give her one last chance to tell them who's in charge of the non-mainstream movement.
Nora is about to accept the True Death, until Roman threatens to kill Bill and Eric with his handy iStake app (how much would that app cost). Salome blood promises (it means something to vampires) that no harm will come to Eric and Bill if she reveals the big traitor.
We don't hear what she tells Salome, but later Roman confronts his Authority chancellors. Nobody does the whole "menacingly walk around a table" action like Christopher Meloni.
There's a traitor at the table, Roman tells them, and their rooms are being searched. I had my money on the crazy Scandinavian dude (because he's crazy and Scandinavian), but it turns out the young boy chancellor took video of himself eating a human and sent the message around the world. He whines a response, but in a truly chilling moment, Roman grabs him and stakes him.
His face covered with blood, the vicious Roman says, "You will fall in line. Am I understood?"
Yes, Meloni!
We also get a brief, but apparently important, plot line with Sam. He's visited by some of his old shifter friends at Merlotte's who want him to rejoin the group and run with them again. He grudgingly agrees, but when he visits the two later, he finds them shot through the head.
Werewolf retribution? But wouldn't they just eat them? Or do werewolves cover up their crimes with gunshot wounds?
And in our weekly visit to Superfluous Plot Starring Terry and Patrick, the two are on the road to visit an old comrade in South Dakota whom they suspect is the arsonist. Terry gets a serious PTSD flashback to Iraq, and we learn his patrol witnessed the murders of an entire family of civilians. Yes, that would be traumatizing.
They end up at the former Marine's house, find a basement filled with eerie drawings and photos of arson and say, "I knew that f---er was sick."
"...and armed," the guy says in the Overly Dramatic Dialogue of the Episode. He holds a gun to them.
Still don't care. But hey, at least we say nearly naked fairies dancing with each other.


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First appearing in 1938, Mary Worth is one of the longest-running continuity strips or "comic-page soap operas" — a genre dedicated to the millions of readers who thrive on continued stories told in brief daily episodes with cliffhanger endings.
Contrary to popular belief, Mary Worth is not a continuation of the Depression Era favorite Apple Mary. The strip was created as a replacement feature offered to newspapers when Martha Orr, who created the dowdy apple peddler, retired. The only thing the new title character had in common with her predecessor was a first name. She appeared as she is today: a well-spoken gentlewoman with a knack for quoting proverbs and surrounding herself with interesting people whose lives reflect the daily concerns of society.
Past stories have confronted social issues, such as juvenile delinquency, unwed motherhood, drug addiction, spouse abuse, alcoholism, infidelity, concerns of the elderly and the generation gap.
The reader is asked to remember that Mary Worth stories are not about Mary. They are about a continuing parade of people who enter Mary's life. If you look closely, you may recognize one of your neighbors — or even yourself.
Mary's close friend and neighbor at Charterstone. Toby is the "thirty-something" second wife of Professor Ian Cameron. Although she is an accomplished artist specializing in miniatures, Toby likes to spend many of her hours at Mary's kitchen table, sipping coffee and discussing neighborhood gossip.
Born "about 60-something years ago" in Jennings, OH, Mary is a graduate of Denison University, a former teacher and the widow of John "Jack" Worth, a Wall Street wizard who left a sensible portfolio providing her with a comfortable if not generous income. Although she once lived in New York City, Mary now makes her home in Santa Royale where she is an active volunteer at the local hospital. Thanks to her long occupancy, neighbors consider Mary the "unofficial manager" of The Charterstone Condominium Complex.
Professor of English literature and creative writing at University of California at Santa Royale. Beneath the bluster and pomposity, this Scottish-born victim of "The Hemingway Complex" is a gentle teddy bear. Ian is the neighborhood "greeter" and, by his own modest admission, the resident expert on everything.
Jeff hopes (perhaps in vain) to become Mary's "significant other" on a permanent basis. The widowed former chief of staff of the local hospital describes himself as semi-retired but continues to occasionally assist his physician children, daughter Adrian and son Drew. After returning from a charity work stint in Vietnam, he has become active in fundraising for overseas medical endeavors.
Mary's friend and neighbor Wilbur is a divorced syndicated columnist and a sympathetic father to college student Dawn. His mild-mannered and sometimes befuddled ways belie a thoughtful and loyal persona.
A college student at the local university, Dawn lives with her father Wilbur at Charterstone. Having endured weight issues and bullying at her former school in Connecticut, she successfully moved on to a new life in Santa Royale that has seen her through several rocky romantic escapades.
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text: Singh was denied his fairytale comeback as the Black Caps fought back in the final overs to claim victory [Reuters]New Zealand pipped India by one run in a thrilling Twenty20 international in Chennai on Tuesday to ruin cancer survivor Yuvraj Singh's return to big-time cricket. Brendon McCullum smashed 91 off 55 balls as the Kiwis posted 167-5 and then restricted the hosts to 166-4 despite Virat Kohli's 70 from 41 deliveries and a valiant 34 from Yuvraj. Yuvraj, who was treated for a rare germ-cell tumour between his lungs earlier this year, bowled two wicketless overs for 14 runs, took a catch and hit one four and two sixes. But it was not enough to secure victory for his team as the Black Caps fought back in the final overs to pull off a brilliant win in front of 25,000 disappointed home fans. Mixed emotions "There are mixed emotions," a visibly moved Yuvraj said later. "We lost a game that we should have won, but for me personally it was a big emotional moment to get on the field. "I had tears in my eyes when we were fielding, luckily the cameras did not catch it. I think I am timing the ball well and it can only get better from here." India were cruising at 120-2 in the 14th over when left-arm seamer James Franklin turned the match around by having Kohli caught in the deep. The dismissal put the brakes on the scoring, leaving India needing 13 runs off Franklin's last over. Franklin bowled Yuvraj with the fourth ball when six more were needed, but new batsman Rohit Sharma could manage only four runs from the last two deliveries. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was stranded at the non-striker's end on 22 not out. New Zealand clinched the two-match series, a tune-up for next week's World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka, after the opening game was washed out in Visakhapatnam on Saturday. "This win will give us a lot of confidence going into the World T20," said New Zealand captain Ross Taylor. "Kohli could have taken it away from us, but Franklin really needs a big pat on the back." Yuvraj, man of the tournament in India's World Cup triumph last year, was recalled to the Twenty20 side despite not having played competitive cricket since November. Ovation The Chennai fans gave Yuvraj a standing ovation when he was asked to bowl the seventh over of the innings by Dhoni. Yuvraj conceded four singles in his first over of left-arm spin and then suffered a hard knock in his bowling hand while trying to take a difficult return catch off McCullum in his second. Having given away 14 runs in his two overs, Yuvraj delighted team-mates and fans as he gleefully caught a skier at cover point to dismiss Franklin. Further warm applause greeted his arrival at the crease to bat and Yuvraj responded by lofting Daniel Vettori and Jacob Oram for sixes. McCullum led the charge for the Black Caps with 11 boundaries and three sixes before he was bowled by left-arm seamer Irfan Pathan. McCullum added 90 runs for the third wicket with Kane Williamson (28) after the Black Caps had lost openers Rob Nicol and Martin Guptill by the second over. Taylor and Oram plundered 21 runs in the last two overs, which proved costly for India in the end. SOURCE: AFP Sport Cricket India New Zealand Sri Lanka


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STOCKTON - Police arrested a man who attempted to beat and strangle someone Saturday morning near Victory Park, authorities said.
STOCKTON - Police arrested a man who attempted to beat and strangle someone Saturday morning near Victory Park, authorities said.
Officers were dispatched to the 1400 block of Picardy Drive about 9:50 a.m. on a report of a disturbance. When they arrived, they learned that Jeffrey Gregg, 34, hit the victim with a chair and began to strangle him, police said.
The victim was taken to a hospital for a complaint of pain, authorities said. Gregg was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon with force likely to produce great bodily injury, police said.
SAN ANDREAS - The California County Sheriff's Office announced Saturday that an elderly Mokelumne Hill man who was reported missing had been found.
Frank Souza, 79, who has dementia, had not been seen since about 6 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. The California Highway Patrol put out a "Silver Alert" for Souza as Sheriff's deputies investigated the case, authorities said. The Sheriff's Office reported shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday that Souza had been located and that he was safe.
STOCKTON - Two men were arrested on suspicion of drug possession early Saturday after drawing the attention of officers working a DUI checkpoint near Weberstown Mall, authorities said.
Officers manning the checkpoint at Pacific and West Yokuts avenues noticed a vehicle approaching at a high rate of speed shortly after 1:10 a.m., police said. They were able to stop the vehicle and contact the driver, who was driving with a suspended license, authorities said. Officers later determined the driver and a passenger were in possession of illegal drugs, including marijuana, ecstasy and cocaine, police said.
The driver, Eric Cruz, 22, and Irvin Gomez, 35, were arrested, police said.


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The medical student (who planned on a career in pain management and anesthesia), enthusiastically described a nerve block procedure that would relieve the pain but, "unfortunately," loss of function of the arm, as well. Information about the experiences at The Center with the control of metastatic bone pain using high doses of intravenous vitamin C was given to the nurse. She was also furnished with references describing the usefulness of Vitamin C in helping cancer patients. One article, from the present authors, (NR, JAJ, HDR)
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vitamin C toward tumor cells, and presented evidence listing the plasma concentrations of vitamin C that would be beneficial as a preferential cytotoxic agent in humans.
The nurse's reaction was less than enthusiastic. She said she would ask the patient if she was interested and would also ask the physician if he would be willing to try something like vitamin C. Since the doses suggested in the article were in excess of 100 grams intravenous per day, and the RDA for vitamin C is 60 mg per day, a positive reply was not expected. Some physicians and health care workers believe (wrongly) that any dose over two grams intravenously will either kill you or make you very ill by inducing an acidotic state. As fate would have it, this patient visited the clinic the next day complaining of a painful, swollen, left arm. A Doppler venogram revealed both subclavian veins to be blocked by blood clots. She was admitted to the hospital and started on anticoagulant therapy. Many staff did not think she would leave the hospital alive.
During clinical rounds, the patient said that she had read the paper on vitamin C and was anxious to try the I.V. C therapy because it offered her some hope. Also, the Home Health nurse said that she and the physician had read the article and were were willing to try the I.V. vitamin C treatments. The physician later said he was enthusiastic to try something that could actually have a positive effect on the pain and disease processes. He also said that he wanted to clear the blood clots before starting the vitamin C treatment. He was concerned that if an embolism occurred and the patient died, it would be blamed on the I.V. vitamin C treatment (obviously an enlightened physician). He did start the patient on oral vitamin C, 250 mg per day, to prevent scurvy, a common occurrence in disseminated metastatic disease. The patient was treated one time with Activase R to clear the clots. An arterial blood sample was drawn from the patient's wrist shortly after the anticoagulant therapy. This resulted in extensive subcutaneous bleeding with bruising of the entire arm, and the site subsequently became infected, swollen, and hot to the touch. She continued to receive small doses of I.V. and oral anticoagulant therapy, antibiotic therapy and oral vitamin C. The infection had not cleared within a week, probably due to poor circulation in the arm and depressed immune system of the patient. The next week, the patient's physician visited Wichita and spoke to H Riordan at The Center. Riordan furnished him with vitamin C to use in the I.V. treatment.


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Devin Brown fashion show
Last year, his designs were inspired by Barbie and the Army. This year, Devon Brown will showcase eye-catching garments in non-conventional prints and a basic color palette. "Valium III -- The Final Dosage," the 26-year-old designer's third show, is a collection that promises to display the Baltimore native's techniques and creativeness. Brown's career has flourished since he started out making garments by reconstructing merchandise purchased by his friends. He regularly participates in local college fashion shows and has even created garments for recording artist Wish, a Baltimore native who has been signed to Jive Records. Attend Valium III -- The Final Dosage on Nov. 13 from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the American Legion, 125 York Road in Towson. General admission tickets are $25; VIP tickets, which include premium seating and a gift bag, are $40. Purchase tickets in advance at Salon Infinity, 2324 N. Charles St. Or call 443-857-0350
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SAP has today used its SAP Insider PLM 2011 conference in Orlando, Florida to unveil the newest release of its product lifecycle management (PLM) offering. The new 7.01 version of the SAP PLM application is designed to act as a software-based solution that companies can use to manage product development processes, from initial ideas through manufacturing to final market deployment.
Equally positioned as a tool for software development ALM needs and wider PLM process management, SAP says that the new product helps break down departmental silos, helping increase margins, shrink research and development costs, and ensure compliance and product safety.
According to the company's website, "SAP PLM empowers companies with a 'single source of truth' connecting all critical business processes and information required to successfully develop and launch new products and services."
The product features what SAP calls 'connected idea management' into the design process so that software developers (and professionals in other disciplines) can capture new ideas and promote open innovation. "Deeper integration of project and portfolio management (PPM) with SAP PLM aligns the design and development processes," says SAP.
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- Integrated product development: Engineering and manufacturing bill of material synchronization supports product development from beginning to end, eliminating manual reporting and freeing up more time for innovation.


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A months-long review of former Terrebonne Parish sheriff Vernon Bourgeois' administration has turned up allegations of financial mismanagement and potential wrongdoing, a written report shows.
A months-long review of former Terrebonne Parish sheriff Vernon Bourgeois' administration has turned up allegations of financial mismanagement and potential wrongdoing, a written report shows.
The draft report, prepared by the certified public accounting firm Kolder, Champagne, Slaven & Co., details more than a dozen "audit concerns," including allegations that could run afoul of the law.
Attempts to contact Bourgeois, who opted not to run for re-election after a single four-year term that ended June 30, were unsuccessful. He did not answer the door at his home, and his cell phone has been disconnected. However, Bourgeois previously denied wrongdoing.
Jerry Larpenter, who was sheriff for decades, called for the audit after returning to the office in July following a four-year absence. He would not release a copy of the report today but called its findings damning.
"If it's not illegal," he said of the audit's allegations, "it's the worst case of mismanagement of public funds I've ever seen."
Among allegations in the draft report, Bourgeois:
• Failed to collect more than $300,000 in taxes from Baby Oil, a Houma-based company owned by Neil Suard.
• Lacked a credit-card policy and proper documentation for thousands in spending, including $646 spent at an out-of-state business. Those receipts — for $249 and $397 — came from a Lincoln, Ala., gas station and were for diesel fuel. A third receipt, not mentioned in the audit, brought the total spent to $867, Larpenter said.
Bourgeois and a deputy used the card to fuel a borrowed RV they took to Talladega Superspeedway for October 2011's NASCAR race, Larpenter said in an interview Wednesday.
Larpenter said multiple Sheriff's Office employees told him about the trip, adding that a bookkeeper's research into the expense proved it to be true.
"It's a known fact that he'd go to out-of-state sporting events three or four days at a time," Larpenter said.
• May have failed to collect $240,000 from Louisiana Workforce, the vendor hired to run the Sheriff's Office's inmate-work-release program, and more than $800,000 in all. The vendor was supposed to pay the Sheriff's Office to use inmate labor to do jobs at businesses across the parish. The program differs from the jail trustees work program run by the Sheriff's Office.
• Left office with a check for about $13,000, money he claimed he was owed for unused vacation pay. But sheriffs aren't entitled to paid vacation days, Larpenter said.
• Failed to follow the state's public-bid law for the purchase of $12,618 worth of equipment.
• Received a $600 clothing allowance to which he wasn't entitled. Other Sheriff's Office employees allegedly did the same.
The draft audit report also says deputies who appeared on "Cajun Justice," the A&E Network show based on Bourgeois, his office and its cases, were paid by the show's producers while on the Sheriff's Office clock. Additionally, the Sheriff's Office may not have received adequate compensation for the use of its equipment and resources.
The report details other, less serious, accounting and procedural shortcomings that its authors suggest should be corrected.
The auditor's report is awaiting Larpenter's response, which he said he plans to forward today.
"I have to answer how we will correct these concerns," he said. "We will correct them by returning to the way we did four years ago — it's called accountability.
The state Legislative Auditor gets the report next and will determine if the allegations outlined by the CPA firm merit further investigation, according to Sheriff's Office attorney Bill Dodd.
Dodd declined to say if Bourgeois could be charged with any crimes based on the allegations in the report.
The auditors "suggested we take steps to ensure, in their opinion, these things don't happen again," Dodd said. "They made recommendations that past practices were not correct, and they want this sheriff to correct that. And he has begun to take those steps."
Larpenter said he plans to ask the state Attorney General to look into the more-serious allegations and, if that office recuses itself, he'll turn to the FBI.
"I believe some things aren't legal, such as the credit-card use on a private RV," Larpenter said, "and I don't know of any other sheriff who paid himself vacation."


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NRA helped spread 'stand your ground' laws across nation
In 2004, the National Rifle Association honored Republican Florida state legislator Dennis Baxley with a plum endorsement: its Defender of Freedom award.
The following year, Baxley, a state representative, worked closely with the NRA to push through Florida's unprecedented "stand your ground" law, which allows citizens to use deadly force if they "reasonably believe" their safety is threatened in public settings.
People no longer would be restrained by a "duty to retreat" from a threat while out in public, and they'd be free from prosecution or civil liability if they acted in self-defense.
Florida's law is now under a cloud as a result of the controversial February shooting of Trayvon Martin, 17, in Sanford, Fla. The 28-year-old shooter, George Zimmerman, who was licensed to carry a gun, said he acted in self-defense after a confrontation with Martin, and some legal experts say Florida's law could protect Zimmerman, who hasn't been charged. Baxley, whose state party has benefited from large NRA donations, contends that his law shouldn't shield Zimmerman at all, because he pursued Martin.
The NRA has been quiet on the matter since the shooting as the nation takes stock — in light of the Martin case and similar examples — of whether "stand your ground" laws are more dangerous than useful to public safety. The gun-rights organization didn't respond to requests for comment. But its silence contrasts with its history of activism on stand-your-ground legislation. Since the Florida measure passed, the NRA has flexed its considerable muscle and played a crucial role in the passage of more than 20 similar laws nationwide.
The Florida law is rooted in the centuries-old English common-law concept known as the "Castle Doctrine," which holds that the right of self-defense is accepted in one's home. But the Florida law and others like it expand that established right to venues beyond a home.
Since Florida adopted its law, the NRA has aggressively pursued stand-your-ground laws elsewhere as part of a broader agenda to increase gun-carrying rights it believes that citizens are rightly due under the Second Amendment.
To gain attention and clout at the state level, the NRA gives money and offers endorsements to legislators from both parties. The NRA and the NRA Political Victory Fund, its political action committee, have donated about $2.6 million to state political campaigns, committees and individual politicians since 2003, according to records compiled by the nonprofit National Institute on Money in State Politics.
And ambitious politicians take note that the NRA is heavily invested and involved in congressional races.
Following the Florida victory, the "Stand Your Ground" movement accelerated. In July 2006, the NRA posted celebratory news on its website, noting that legislators in eight more states — Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and South Dakota — already had followed Florida's lead.
"This train keeps a rollin' — Castle Doctrine Sweeps America," the NRA's 2006 message said. The campaign, the group said, "is turning focus from criminals' rights to those of the law-abiding who are forced to protect themselves."
Since then, a host of other states have passed various laws expanding the Castle Doctrine. Among them: Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington and West Virginia.
To spread the word, the NRA said in an Aug. 12, 2005, website posting, it approached the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, which drafts legislation for like-minded state lawmakers. The council adopted model stand-your-ground legislative language in 2005 after Florida's top NRA representative made a presentation.
Along the way, key lawmakers benefited from NRA support. In Indiana, for instance, GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels, who took office in 2005, received $12,400 in NRA donations from 2004 to 2008. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue got $7,500 from the group from 2004 to 2006. Mark Shurtleff, Utah's attorney general, received $22,500 from 2004 to 2008.
But it hasn't been smooth sailing quite everywhere. An emotional debate in Minnesota this year resulted in passage of a proposal in both houses, which are GOP-controlled, but a veto this month from Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton. A couple of GOP lawmakers changed their votes from no to yes in the course of the legislative process, state records show.
"We had a few people tell us apologetically and privately that they were afraid of the NRA," said Joan Peterson, a Minnesota activist with the Northland chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Proponents didn't get enough votes to override Dayton's veto.
Opposition to the laws has gone beyond gun-control activists. Some of the staunchest critics the NRA has faced while promoting "stand your ground" laws have been state police chief's and sheriffs' associations and district attorneys' groups.
In 2007, the Virginia-based National District Attorneys Association issued a report, "Expansions to the Castle Doctrine," warning that the phenomenon "could have significant implications for public safety and the justice system's ability to hold people accountable for violent acts."
Scott Burns, the association's executive director, said legislators' decisions to buck law-enforcement officials on this issue could be explained only by "the volatile issue of guns rights and the Second Amendment." He said that many of these laws, in his opinion, had nothing to do with the true intent of the Castle Doctrine.
How can the Castle Doctrine apply, he said, seven miles from your home, at a shopping mall?
In Florida, the Tampa Bay Times reported that "justifiable homicides" in Florida spiked after the 2005 law, from an average of 34 yearly to more than 100 in 2007.
Prosecutors said the law permitted gang-related assailants from being prosecuted after a 2008 shootout in Tallahassee that killed a 15-year-old boy, the paper reported. A judge dismissed charges based on the "stand your ground" defense.
In 2010, Trevor Dooley, upset about a skateboarder on a Valrico, Fla., basketball court, marched into a park with a handgun, for which he was licensed and legally able to take into the park. Dooley ended up in a confrontation with David James, who was in the park with his young daughter. Dooley and James scuffled, and Dooley shot James dead. In a case that's still pending, Dooley was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter but he claims he's protected by the "stand your ground" law.
Dan Gross, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, accuses the NRA of "feeding on fear and paranoia" to expand concepts such as the Castle Doctrine. His group's research, he said, shows that politicians can survive without an NRA stamp of approval better than they think, and that his priority is to convince more politicians that the group is a "paper tiger."
"We are behind closed doors with politicians all the time," Gross said, "who say they want to do the right thing, but that the gun lobby will ruin them."
Back in Florida, the soul-searching about the law has extended to the legislature. Baxley, its sponsor, told CBS News that "sometimes the application or interpretation of its use is the problem." He defended the law as important to "law-abiding citizens," but suggested, according to other reports, that perhaps legislators should look at limiting crime-watch volunteers' ability to pursue people and confront them.
"Nothing," he said, "is ever finished in the legislature."
(The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit organization focused on investigative journalism.)
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According to workplace consultant and author Jon Gordon, you don't. In fact, he says, you need to throw the idea of striking a work/life balance out the window, because it's unattainable, and striving for it will lead to nothing but frustration and disappointment. Instead, Gordon advises that you think of it as establishing a natural work/life rhythm, much like the rhythm of the seasons.
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Sweet baby Jesus, here we go again. We are only into the fifth round of the World Superbike Championship, and Effenbert Liberty Racing is having its first (and hopefully last) kerfuffle. Announcing that "the adventure of the team in the WSBK 2013 is not of our further interest" in a press release today, Effenbert Liberty Racing announced that it will no longer race in World Superbike.
Explaining that the team was unable to promote the interests of its sponsors and partners through WSBK racing, the Liberty Racing will skip the Donington Park round, which would have been only the fourth round of the season for the squad, having skipped the opening round at Phillip Island, and starting its season at Motorland Aragon.


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The hit game Doodle Jump was one of the first and most popular games to hit iOS in 2009. Since then many updates have been made to the app enhancing and continuing its platform hopping and monster obliterating gameplay. Just recently the very same developers behind the famous Doodle have released a new app for their fans called Doodle Jump Race. Go head-to-head in online races as you help your doodle come across the finish line first. Do you think you have what it takes to win?
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- Eisenhower family argues for more time to "break the impasse in this process"
- Family does not support a design that utilizes eight-story metal tapestries
- Eisenhower family would support an open competitive redesign
The family of the late President Dwight Eisenhower continued to express disapproval Wednesday for the design of a memorial commissioned to honor the 34th U.S. president in Washington
In a posted letter, Susan Eisenhower, President Eisenhower's granddaughter, expressed the family's gratitude for recent changes by architect Frank Gehry, but opposed the memorial's expansive modern construction and asked that more time be given to the process.
"We are thankful to all the individuals who have contacted us with their views and suggestions. This will be their memorial -- America's gift to future generations. That's why it must be built as part of a transparent public effort that enjoys widespread consensual approval. Until that is accomplished we will argue for more time to break the impasse in this process," the Eisenhower family statement said.
The family of the president known simply as Ike has been specifically concerned with the practicality and symbolism of the eight-story metal, mesh woven tapestries that will surround the new Eisenhower Square near the National Mall.
"The scope and scale of the metal scrims, however, remain controversial and divisive," the family statement continued. "Not only are they the most expensive element of the Gehry design, they are also the most vulnerable to urban conditions, as well as wildlife incursions and ongoing, yet unpredictable, life-cycle costs. This one-of-a-kind experimental technology, which serves as the memorial's 'backdrop,' is impractical and unnecessary for the conceptual narrative. For those reasons, we do not support a design that utilizes them."
Public disagreement between the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission and the Eisenhower family over the design grabbed the attention of Congress in March. The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands held an oversight hearing that heard from representatives of the Eisenhower family and the memorial commission, among others.
"We have one chance to make this correct and do it right," said Rep. Rob Bishop, chairman of the subcommittee.
Following the hearing, achitect Gehry went back to the drawing board and outlined proposed changes in an open letter to the memorial commission on May 15.
"I have very seriously considered the comments made by my Commissioners, the Eisenhower family, the Department of Education, NCPC (the National Capital Planning Commission), CFA (the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts), and noted historians. I love this type of collaboration. It is a process that I think is vital to the success of any endeavor and one that was necessary to make sense of sometimes contradictory characterizations of President Eisenhower," wrote Gehry.
Gehry changed the design to add statues of Eisenhower, who served as supreme commander of allied forces in Europe during World War II, as a general and a president, but kept the steel screens.
"The imagery on the tapestry sustaining the unifying theme of Eisenhower's roots in the heartland -- Eisenhower was so proud to grow up in Kansas -- leaving out this imagery would mean omitting an important part of his story. I think the imagery has a peacefulness and gravitas to it that creates a suitable environment whether you are inside the park or just passing by," according to Gehry.
Susan Eisenhower told the House subcommittee in March, "Critics have noted that we will be putting up an 'Iron Curtain to Ike.'"
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission is expected to decide on a final design this summer and the groundbreaking is scheduled for late 2012. The Eisenhower family is asking Congress and the commission for more time to reach a consensus.
"Since our nation will have only one chance to erect such a memorial in Washington, D.C., no one should compel the Ccommission or Congress to meet an arbitrary deadline. Like countless others, we believe that those with authority for this memorial should take whatever time is necessary to get it right. There is ample historic precedent that supports this principle," according to Susan Eisenhower.
"The decision of 'what's next' belongs to the Eisenhower Memorial Commission. They will approve the design 'as is,' ask for further modifications or decide on a redesign," Susan Eisenhower told CNN Wednesday. "If there is a redesign, we would support an open competitive one."
The memorial commission estimates the construction costs will be $110 million. The project has full federal funding through the design phase and will seek private and public donations through construction.
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial has a tentative dedication date of Memorial Day 2015.


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Magnet Magazine's "75 Lost Classics": We Found Eight of Them
In the new, Spring 2007 issue of Magnet Magazine, there is, fittingly enough (it's their 75th issue), an article entitled "75 Lost Classics." The fine folks at Magnet describe it like so!
They're nobody's buzz bands anymore. But since 1993, MAGNET has discovered and documented more great music than memory will allow. The groups may be broken up or the albums out of print, but this time, history is written by the losers. Here are 75 of the finest albums that time forgot.
Good news, gang! We found eight of them! (Nine, if you count the indie-pop/twee sidebar that featured a picture of Trembling Blue Stars and talked about their Broken by Whispers album from 2000, but actually picked The Lucksmiths' album The Green Bicycle Case…)
And, in even better news, we would like to sell these Lost Classics to you!
Still in print:
Pond Pond (1993) – on CD for $9 and LP for $7.
Velocity Girl Copacetic (1993) on CD for $9 and LP for $7.
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The Spinanes Strand (1996) – on CD for $9 and LP for $7
The Go Whatcha Doin' (1999) on CD for $10.
Beachwood Sparks Once We Were Trees (2001) on CD for $10 and double-LP for $11.
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Jane Margolies, from the New York Times, explores the current status of biking around the outskirt paths and greenways of Manhattan.
She heads along counter clockwise along with one of the creators of this years 2011 free D.O.T. Bicycle map.
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A Feb. 3 letter writer should research her facts regarding Stroudsburg's Board of Historical Architectural Review and its role in the redevelopment of land within the borough's historic district; she is entirely incorrect regarding the projects she cites and the operation of the HARB itself.
First, it is the citizen-elected borough council that makes all decisions — either in agreement or disagreement with HARB's researched and deliberated recommendations, a process analogous to the operations of planning commissions.
The former Weichel Buick building received a demolition recommendation by HARB in 2007 and a subsequent vote of approval by borough council. The would-be developers of a proposed two-story mini-mall then received a HARB recommendation for the replacement project that same year. However, land development plans later submitted to the borough's planning commission differed from the council-approved design, requiring revised approvals that were never sought. The property ultimately was listed for sale and is now under new ownership.
Meanwhile, for better or worse, HARB recommended demolition of the Carlton House in August 2012, but key requirements of the borough's historic preservation ordinance were overlooked, and council requested that a complete application be resubmitted and properly considered.
Other historic district sites in downtown Stroudsburg that were cleared of their former fire-damaged properties by votes of council — including a three-building stretch of the 700 block of Main Street and former Stroud Theater on Sixth Street — remain vacant and undeveloped, no fault of the historic preservation ordinance or HARB. In one case, it has been developer efforts to rewrite downtown zoning ordinances in light of a failed variance request that have held up redevelopment plans.
The role of historic preservation in successful, economically vibrant downtowns remains well documented, as are the mistakes made by communities that are too eager to sacrifice traditional buildings for ill-planned replacements.
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Spitzer launches political comeback
Eliot Spitzer, hoping to upend an already unpredictable 2013 campaign season in New York City, announced plans Sunday to run for city comptroller — a brazen attempt to re-enter political life years after he resigned the governor's office amid a prostitution scandal.
Spitzer announced his intentions in an interview with The New York Times. His decision comes just six weeks after Anthony Weiner, who also fell from grace amid scandal, declared his candidacy for mayor to replace outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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"I'm hopeful there will be forgiveness, I am asking for it," he told the paper by telephone. He did not respond to a POLITICO email seeking comment.
Spitzer has been itching to get back into office since shortly after he resigned. A number of his closest supporters believed he stepped down too soon — he left almost immediately after the Times broke the story about his prostitution use — and he has been eyeing various routes back into office.
( PHOTOS: Scandal pols: Where are they now?)
Spitzer plans to run as a Democrat in the wide-open field for comptroller. The current Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer is the only big-name Democrat running. Kristin Davis, a madam who was linked to the Spitzer prostitution scandal, is running for city comptroller on the Libertarian ticket.
On Twitter, Stringer used his campaign account to tweet out a statement from his campaign manager: "Scott has a proven record of results & integrity + entered race to help NY's middle class regain footing." And Stringer's team went for the jugular immediately, adding, "By contrast, Spitzer will spurn campaign finance program to buy personal redemption with his family fortune. The voters will decide."
Spitzer is leaving himself less than a week to collect the nearly 4,000 signatures needed to get on the ballot; candidates typically collect at least double what's required, to ward off challenges from rival candidates about the validity of signatures.
What may help Spitzer, if he is able to get on the ballot, is the fact that down-ballot races in the city tend to be won largely on name recognition. Stringer is far from the household name that Spitzer is, and voters don't view the job as important as mayor.
What's more, while Weiner's crotch-picture scandal has a creepy factor, Spitzer's involved the world's oldest profession, and he did not exacerbate the personal damage by clinging to his office. And unlike Weiner, Spitzer has a long list of accomplishments in office to point to.
In an interview with the New York Daily News, Spitzer rejected the idea that Weiner's campaign — or, for that matter, Mark Sanford's in South Carolina — inspired him.
"I don't draw conclusions from anyone else's dynamic or situation," he told the paper. "The more people get into politics, the healthier it is. I hope the public gives me a fair shot."


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Examination of nomination of natural, mixed and cultural proprerties to the World Heritage List - Historic Centre and Mount Titano (SAN MARINO)
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-08/32.COM/8B and WHC-08/32.COM/INF.8B1,
2. Inscribes San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano, San Marino, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (iii);
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
San Marino is one of the world's oldest republics and the only surviving Italian city-state, representing an important stage in the development of democratic models in Europe and worldwide. The tangible expressions of this long continuity as the capital of the Republic, its unchanged geo-political context and juridical and institutional functions, is found in the strategic position on the top of Mount Titano, the historic urban layout, urban spaces and many public monuments. San Marino has a widely recognised iconic status as a symbol of a free city-state, illustrated in political debate, literature and arts through the centuries. The defensive walls and the historic centre have undergone changes over time that include intensive restoration and reconstruction between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, a process that can be considered to be part of the history of the property and reflects changing approaches to conservation and presentation of heritage over time.
Criterion (iii): San Marino and Mount Titano are an exceptional testimony of the establishment of a representative democracy based on civic autonomy and self-governance, with a unique, uninterrupted continuity as the capital of an independent republic since the 13th century. San Marino is an exceptional testimony to a living cultural tradition that has persisted over the last seven hundred years.
The Historic Centre of San Marino on Mount Titano includes all the elements which constituted the foundations of this identity and during the medieval period of the Italian city-states. Many elements of the historic centre have been preserved or, if renewed, form part of a long tradition. The interventions carried out during the 20th century could be seen as affecting the integrity, but are also a part of the history of the property. There is a high degree of authenticity of the location and setting of the city of San Marino. With regard to functions and uses, there is a continuity related to the role of the historic city as capital of the small state. Restoration and reconstruction works carried out under the direction of Gino Zani may be considered as a part of the history of the property and an application of the theoretical principles stemming from the Romantic restoration movement. In this case, the idea of the "medievalisation" of the historic centre can be considered as an expression of national identity through the search for an idealised image of the historic centre.
The protection of the property is adequate, although there are a considerable number of legal protective instruments and more specific legal instruments regarding protection of the built heritage and of the surrounding landscape are required. The historic centre has not been subject to major interventions after the 1930s and the public monuments and open spaces are in a good state of conservation.
4. Requests the State Party to:
- a) implement the legal protection as prescribed;
- b) control the potential negative effects of tourism pressures on the material heritage components, including uses of existing buildings and excess of commercialisation;
- c) improve and complete the monitoring system by defining a more comprehensive set of key indicators related to the property's values, integrity and authenticity.
- d) continue the implementation of the management plan in particular with respect to the coordination mechanism between the different governmental agencies involved in the protection and management system.


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By GAYLORD JOHNSON
IF YOU ever attended a performance in a large public planetarium, you probably envied the lecturer's ability to rehearse any part of the drama of the skies at will. Or perhaps you never have witnessed the march of the stars across a giant dome, and are anxious to see a man-made sky in action. At a cost of less than a dollar, you can assemble, from odds and ends, a midget planetarium that will put on a performance right in your own parlor.
When you have completed the simple projector described in this article, you can entertain your friends with an illustrated lecture that reproduces many of the big, $100,000 instrument's astronomical stunts. You can show the nightly procession of the constellations from east to west across the sky. Then, as dawn begins to come, you can make the stars pale and fade out. Across the sky the sun travels along the path of the ecliptic, to set in the west, and in the twilight you can make a young moon appear, just as it does in nature. Your homemade planetarium will enable you to repeat this daily round for your audience as many times as they wish.
Then, simply by changing a little circular projection slide, you can take your audience upon a voyage from your latitude on the earth to the north pole and back to the equator, thence returning to your home location.
You also will be able to use your planetarium to show the seasonal changes in the zodiacal constellations, and how to use the Big Dipper in telling time as both a clock and a calendar.
The images of the night sky are projected on a screen or a light-colored wall from special lantern slides that you can produce photographically, and making these should be the first step in constructing the lilliputian planetarium.
The slides consist of celluloid camera-film negatives glued between one-inch microscope cover glasses. To make them, you will need a camera capable of photographing the circular drawings that accompany this article one-half full size. The films, when developed, will show white lines on a black field, and this is exactly what is desired for projecting pictures of bright stars on a dark sky.
The best kind of camera to use for this purpose is the kind with a ground-glass focusing back, and a long bellows extension. However, with one or two improvisations, you can use an ordinary roll-film camera.
Set the camera up on a rigid tripod or other stand so you can make adjustments without disturbing its position, then stretch a piece of thin tissue or tracing paper in the position normally occupied by the film. With an ordinary camera you will not be able to focus closely enough to get a one-inch image, so tape a reading glass, or other inexpensive magnifying lens, in front of the regular camera lens. This will act as a powerful portrait attachment. Adjust the bellows and move the black-and-white star drawings nearer to or farther from the camera until you get a sharp, one-inch image, then remove the tissue paper, insert a film, and photograph the set of drawings.
It is advisable to use ordinary "colorblind" film rather than panchromatic, because the black-and-white image then will be more contrasty. The ideal negative material is the so-called process cut film; it will give clear, black-and-white star maps. However, you will not be able to use it unless you have a camera equipped with plate holders. In photographing, it is well to cover up everything in front of the lens except the star map itself with black cloth to keep stray light out of the camera, where it would tend to fog the image.
It is not necessary to make the slides exactly one inch in diameter. This dimension is suggested because it is the largest size in which circular cover glasses are readily available. If you cannot get these circular covers, use square pieces of thin glass, and make your film negatives to suit. You will then have to alter the projection apparatus to fit the square slides.
The planetarium apparatus, which rotates the circular slides and projects the pictures upon a white sheet, is in two parts—the slide rotator and the lamp house. The slide rotator can be built easily, as shown in the detailed construction diagram, from two pieces of plywood and a piece of wooden curtain pole.
The curtain pole is bored lengthwise with a one-inch auger, and smoothed up into a hollow cylinder with a rat-tail file and sandpaper. The disk is sawed out of quarter-inch plywood. Its center hole is fitted to the end of the hollow cylinder and glued in place.
The cylinder then is arranged to rotate very easily and smoothly in a felt-lined hole bored through the upright board. The driving crank is built as illustrated. It turns a small wood cylinder covered with a bit of rubber tubing, and this engages a flat ring of fine sandpaper glued to the back of the disk.
A spring made of hard brass wire keeps the slide carrier in contact with the rubber-covered cylinder on the driving crank. It also insures contact with three smooth nail heads, which act as bearings for the disk.
The construction of the lamp house offers no difficulty. I used a child's lunch box bought for twenty cents. A porcelain lamp socket was mounted inside, and supplied with an ordinary frosted thirty-watt bulb. You can, of course, solder up a complete lamp house from tin or sheet brass, and make it large enough to accommodate a more powerful bulb. A brighter light would enable the apparatus to project a larger picture on the screen.
It is advisable to defer the mounting of the lamp socket in the lamp house until the slides and slide-rotating mechanism are complete, as you then can center the brightest spot in the lamp directly in the axis of the lens system, insuring an evenly illuminated screen.
To give the projected star pictures an illusion of realism, an artificial horizon is provided in the form of a mask. This is the sixth of the drawings that are provided for you to photograph. The negative, which will show a clear opening surrounded by a black area, is cemented to a square film of glass with the film side exposed. This piece of glass is fastened to a cardboard mask holder arranged to slide up and down in grooves.
The film side of the horizon mask should come into smooth contact with the surface of the circular slides; this close contact is necessary so that both the rotating slide and the mask can be brought into sharp focus on the screen.
From the mask a strip of stiff cardboard extends upward beyond the top of the lamp house. It acts as a handle, enabling you to frame the picture on the screen. It also is used to raise and lower the horizon during the imaginary voyage from the pole to the equator. A few pencil marks at the edge of the cardboard strip will enable you to put the slide in either of the two standard positions in which the picture is properly framed for the various slides.
The projection lens used in the model illustrated is made from two ten-cent magnifiers bought in the dime store. If you wish, you can use only one lens, but the picture on the screen will be smaller and not so brilliant. If you have any other projection lens (from a magic lantern or standard movie projector), by all means use it.
The lenses are glued into a cardboard tube, which slides smoothly inside of another tube attached to the front of the board in which the slide carrier rotates. You will, of course, have to adjust their exact position when you are ready to start the show, so as to focus the star images sharply in the screen.
In giving your lecture, remember that the stars on the screen must travel from right to left (counterclockwise) for slides showing the polestar and northern stars. With slides showing constellations in the zodiac, the stars on the screen must travel from left to right (clockwise). The star field, of course, travels east to west in both cases. The difference comes from the fact that the spectator views it looking north in one case and south in the other.
The writer has used the most ordinary, makeshift materials in order to demonstrate the ease of building a home planetarium which will duplicate some of the big instrument's effects. However, if you have a turning lathe, and are used to working with metal, you can produce a much more finished job. Another possibility is to use an old magic lantern or toy movie projector as the basis for your planetarium. You may find it easier to alter such a machine so it will take the revolving slide holder than to build the complete projector yourself.
When you have completed the construction of the projector and have made the slides, you are ready to entertain your friends with a realistic pageant of star movements. Of course, unless they, too, are amateur star-gazers, they will be unfamiliar with the different constellations, and you will have to explain each slide to them as you show it. It is a good idea to prepare a little lecture like this, beginning it when you have placed slide No. 1 in position:
"Here, ladies and gentlemen, is the night sky on a clear, starlit evening (Start turning crank very slowly). The stars of the zodiacal constellations are traveling from east to west; new stars rise as others set.
"But now the night is over and the day is at hand. You see the dawn coming up in the east. It brightens, and here, peeping over the horizon, is the sun. The stars all fade out while it crosses the sky and finally sets in the west. Then the stars begin to appear again, and with them comes a crescent moon, which, in its turn, follows the sun over the horizon, leaving the stars to light the night again. (Change to slide No. 2).
"IF YOU were unable to recognize any I of the 'star actors' in the previous act of our little drama of the sky, this slide will enable you to do so (Turn cran slowly). Here you see the daily and yearly processions of the zodiacal constellations across the southern sky. Since the zodiac is the sun's path, you were unable, in the previous slide, to see the constellations nearest to the solar disk, but here the sun is absent, so we view all the groups of stars in rotation. The month abbreviations at the top of the screen show when the constellations underneath them are directly south (on the meridian) at midnight. (Change to Slide 3 and frame picture with polestar halfway up the sky. Start turning crank slowly).
"Here you see the northern constellations revolving around the polestar. They do so because the earth's axis points to it. In our latitude, about forty degrees north, the polestar is about halfway from horizon to zenith. But now let us get on the airplane of our imagination, travel to the north pole, and see what happens (Start sliding mask downward very slowly, still turning crank). As we go further north, the polestar rises higher and higher until, at the pole, it is right overhead.
"Now let us return to the equator (Start sliding mask upward, still turning crank). The polestar sinks toward the horizon as we go southward, until, at the equator, it rests directly upon it. (Change to Slide No. 4).
"YOU are now starting upon the 25,000-mile, round-trip journey which the polar axis of the earth makes among the stars. The present polestar no longer is the nearest to the earth's axis. The axis finally points to Vega. That bright star will be polestar in 13,000 A. D. and will be succeeded by others, until Alpha Draconis will again occupy the position of honor that it did in 2800 B. C, when the great pyramid of Egypt was being so constructed that this star would shine down one of its passages. (Change to Slide No. 5).
"As I rotate this slide slowly, you can see that the line from the Big Dipper to the polestar really is the hand of a great twenty-four-hour star clock. Each quarter of its circuit is completed in six , hours. But you see that the Dipper also,. is a calendar, for, in addition, it revolves very slowly once every year."


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I'm still not getting it, ummmmmmm, maybe some kinda force crystal or something??? idk


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Coach Pete Carroll said Friday that Bryant was held out of practice for a third straight day with a foot injury. Hill went through a workout to test his sore ankle, but how the injury responds will determine if he plays against the Bears. Bryant and Hill are listed as questionable.
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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – While Tech struck first with a run on the board in the top of the first inning of Sunday's series finale, the Governors of Austin Peay worked Tech's first two pitchers of the day for 10 runs on 11 hits en route to a 10-4 victory and 3-0 series sweep.
Ben Burgess ripped a 3-1 count double into right field to score Austin Wulf after he reached on a fielding error to give Tech the 1-0 lead in the top of the first, but the Govs responded in the bottom of the frame with three runs of their own to turn the tables after one.
After inducing fly-outs by the first two batters of the Gov order, freshman southpaw Jake McWhirter surrendered a solo homer to Greg Bachman, followed by a walk and another long ball to Reed Harper to put APSU on top, 3-1.
Bachman would go on to pace the Govs in runs batted in with three on the day as he showcased a 2-for-4 batting effort with one run scored. Eight other Governors combined for the remaining 12 hits, with four additional batters recording multi-hit games.
The Govs continued to carry their momentum through the next three innings, putting up multi-run halves in the second, third and fourth frames to rack up their 10 runs on the day. McWhirter allowed two more base hits and two more doubles – one of which went to Bachman - in the second inning to give the Govs another three runs, putting them up 6-1 in 1.2 innings of work before Jared Dobbs came on in relief.
McWhirter would shoulder the eventual loss, dropping to 0-4 on the season while APSU's Zach Toney improved to 3-2 with the win.
Tech was able to log one-run innings in the third, seventh, and ninth, but could not close the lead to anything less than the four run deficit that they saw in the top of the third inning. The Golden Eagles left 15 runners stranded on the day, including three in the third inning alone, to APSU's nine.
Dobbs was responsible for the final four runs scored by Austin Peay on five hits, but the Golden Eagles final three pitchers in Chad Oberacker, Andy Williams and Burgess, respectively, stifled the line-up for the final four innings of the game.
Burgess went 3-for-5 on the day with one run scored and one RBI. Evan Frazier's 2-for-4 showing yielded two RBI for the Golden Eagles, while Michael Morris chipped in with the final run on his 1-for-3 day at the plate.
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