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The cerebral cortex is a two to four millimetre layer of cells that envelopes the top part of the brain and is involved in cognitive, behavioural, and motor processes.
Researchers analyzed MRI brain scans of 95 preterm infants born eight to 16 weeks too early at BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre between 2006 and 2009. Infants were scanned soon after birth and a second time close to what would have been their due date, the ninth month of pregnancy. These MRI scans allowed researchers to measure the pattern of water movement inside the brain, which normally changes between scans as the brain matures. The researchers also assessed the babies' weight, length, and head size. They found that preterm infants with slower growth had delayed development in the cerebral cortex compared to those infants who grew more quickly between scans.
"These results are an exciting first step because understanding the importance of growth in relation to the brain in these small babies may eventually lead to new discoveries that will help us optimize their brain development," says Dr. Steven Miller, the study's co-lead. Dr. Miller is head of neurology at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), the Bloorview Children's Hospital Chair in Paediatric Neuroscience, professor in the department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto, affiliate professor in the department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and affiliate investigator at the Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI) at BC Children's Hospital. He led the study with Dr. Ruth Grunau, a professor in the UBC Department of Pediatrics and CFRI senior scientist.
"More research needs to be done to understand what is the optimal growth rate for the brain development of these babies," says Jillian Vinall, the study's first author and a UBC PhD student co-supervised by Dr. Grunau and Dr. Miller.
"We're especially grateful to the families for their generous and ongoing participation in this study," says Dr. Miller. The researchers are following the babies through childhood to understand how preterm brain development is associated with their neurodevelopment outcomes.
This work is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Miller was supported by a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Neonatal Neuroscience and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award. Dr. Grunau is supported by a Senior Scientist Award from the Child & Family Research Institute. Jillian Vinall holds a CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Scholarship Masters & Doctoral Award, Pain in Child Health (CIHR Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research) trainee support and CFRI Graduate Studentship.
About The Child & Family Research Institute
The Child & Family Research Instituteconducts discovery, translational and clinical research to benefit the health of children and their families. CFRI is supported by BC Children's Hospital Foundation and works in close partnership with the University of British Columbia, BC Children's Hospital, and BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre (agencies of the Provincial Health Services Authority). For more information, visit www.cfri.ca.
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BC Children's Hospital, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority, is British Columbia's (B.C.'s) only pediatric hospital and home to many specialized pediatric services available nowhere else in the province, including B.C.'s trauma centre for children, pediatric intensive care, kidney and bone marrow transplants, open heart surgery, neurosurgery and cancer treatment. Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children is the provincial facility that offers specialized child development and rehabilitation services to children and youth. For more information, please visit www.bcchildrens.ca.
About the University of British Columbia (UBC)
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is one of North America's largest public research and teaching institutions, and one of only two Canadian institutions consistently ranked among the world's 22 best universities. Surrounded by the beauty of the Canadian West, it is a place that inspires bold, new ways of thinking that have helped make it a national leader in areas as diverse as community service learning, sustainability and research commercialization. UBC offers more than 56,000 students a range of innovative programs and attracts $550 million per year in research funding from government, non-profit organizations and industry through over 8,000 projects and grants. For more information, please visit www.ubc.ca.
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The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is recognized as one of the world's foremost pediatric health-care institutions and is Canada's leading centre dedicated to advancing children's health through the integration of patient care, research and education. Founded in 1875 and affiliated with the University of Toronto, SickKids is one of Canada's most research-intensive hospitals and has generated discoveries that have helped children globally. Its mission is to provide the best in complex and specialized family-centred care; pioneer scientific and clinical advancements; share expertise; foster an academic environment that nurtures health-care professionals; and champion an accessible, comprehensive and sustainable child health system. SickKids is proud of its vision of Healthier Children. A Better World.™ For more information, visit www.sickkids.ca.
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Chelsea 1-3 Manchester United (08-08-10)
The Football Association Community Shield or, if you prefer, the traditional curtain raiser to the sea..(Oh no you don't - Ed.). Pundits have been calling this game the TCRTTS for as long as I can remember but, these days surely that's the Emirates Cup isn't it? Or the Ajax Cup or maybe the Thailand Invitation Cup? Charity starts at the home of football though so we'll stick with this for now.
Chelsea made a whopping 11 (eleven!) changes from the last time I saw them. That was for a league game against Nottingham Forest at Stamford Bridge in 1991 - before Sky invented football a year later. It had been 17 years since I'd seen United, and only Grandad Giggs remained from that FA Cup tie with Brighton at Old Trafford.
You'll gather from those statistics that EFW doesn't pitch up at clubs of this stature very often. We're mainly all about the English Non-League and European football on this site. However, when one gets invited to Wembley and the magic words 'free' and 'beer' are mentioned - we're quite happy to pack our moral compass back in our pencil case for the day.
Chelsea opted for an orthodox approach to this game via of a couple of routine friendlies whereas United chose a less conventional route. Wayne Rooney was out until 5:30am the week before singing football songs and urinating in the street whilst trying to smoke a 'Manchester Ciggy'. He was trumped by Anderson, who saw Rooney's 5:30 and raised him a 7:30am, and wrecked his £125,000 Audi whilst nearly killing himself. Best of all though, Fuelish Gary Neville put petrol in his diesel car, had to call Neville Neville to help him out and "Everyone laughed because Gary has a reputation for being serious and he was left looking dozy."
Anyway, enough of sadistic rumours of footballers private lives - did someone say free beer? Mr Fuller and I were smuggled into Wembley via a back door - in wigs and sunglasses - in case we were noticed by the Non-League fraternity. I didn't even have time to grab a team sheet on the way through but did mange to get my secret stash of Diarylea cheese slices past security - saves 50 pence at every Non-League game. You can have that tip for nowt.
It was interesting to note the behavioural patterns of the stars outside Wembley. Pat Jennings was the first chap we saw. He signed a few autographs with those huge hands as he pushed through to the front. Next up was Sir Bobby Charlton. Hats off to him as he signed every single autograph and posed for countless photos - with a smile. Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush didn't have time for anyone, unlike Doug Ellis who was bemused but delighted that anyone had actually noticed him.
The full 5 (five) FIFA stars to Sir Bobby for signing everything.
EFW were here as guests of Ericsson. Their big cheer confetti campaign for the World Cup had been a huge success thanks to our new best friend Adam Lloyd. If you think we're going to start saying Ericsson are shaping the future of mobile and broadband Internet communications you've got another thing coming. What's that? The very same executive box is available for the Wembley Muse gigs? Ericsson, Ericsson, Ericsson (repeat to fade).
If the World Cup taught us one thing, it was that every football match should start with the referee plucking the ball from a plinth as the teams march onto the pitch. Sad but inevitable then that the FA suits have been slow to react yet again. As per bloody usual the ball arrived at the centre circle in willy-nilly fashion and backwards officials have missed yet another trick.
In the United end Wembley officials pulled down a few 'Love United, Hate Glazer' green and gold banners. Why? I thought we lived in a democracy - obviously not. The Chelsea fans opposite seemed happy to milk the 'Stand up for the Champions' song with every sinew. Once they tired of that they bizarrely started singing the Arsenal ditty 'Stand up if you hate Tottenham'. Both sets of fans were in good voice, probably the cheap ticket prices meant they had a few bob spare to spend on a couple of pints in the newly errected fan zones outside the stadium.
You don't need me to tell you about the match. Reports from it are all over the Internet. One thing is for sure though, Carlo Ancellotti wouldn't have said anything interesting afterwards. Evidently, he's a nice chap off the camera. But quotes like "Joe Cole is Joe Cole and Yossi Benayoun is Yossi Benayoun" are hardly Hollowayesqe are they? Apparently, after the fun and games they had with the special one, Chelsea have inserted a clause in his contract in which he's not allowed to s..(that's enough of that - Legal Ed.).
"Joe Cole is Joe Cole" Thanks for that old chap.
When Nani met Danny. By the look of his face he was quite shocked to see EFW.
Looks like I wasn't the only one on the beer.
So how do we top a day of luxury at the home of football? One in which we dined on roast beef, a selection of cheeses, pie (pie!) and an unlimited supply of free beer and wine? One which was bookended by meeting Pat Jennings and Nani? There's only place to head to, and that place is Wheatsheaf Park. Next Saturday Lewes will be there to open their Conference South season against Staines Town. Massive.
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The state of Georgia has begun to consider Rapid Sequence Intubation for field level Paramedics. RSI has long been a tough topic to approach for many different reasons. Medical Directors are ultimately responsible for the well being of the patient. If a Paramedic gives inappropriate care to a patient, the Medical Director is left with all the liability. If the outcome of the care causes death, there is a possibility that he or she could loose their medical license.
Rapid Sequence Intubation requires everyone to be very cognitive of their skill level and mind set. When the Paramedic delivers the paralytic agents, the patient looses his or her respiratory drive and as a result they stop breathing. At this point, it is the Paramedics responsibility to to control the patient's airway and to provide rescue ventilation via a Bag Valve Mask. The RSI medication allows the muscles in the oral pharynx to relax so that the medic can pass a breathing tube into the trachea.
This step listed above is the most critical element of the procedure. Should the medic cause damage to the mucosa membrane in the mouth the amount of bleeding could be tremendous. Blood in the mouth is a bad thing and not to mention that the fluid obstructs the airway. There should be a Medical EMS Protocol available that would allow the paramedic to perform Advanced Cardiac Life Support if the need should arise. The American Heart Association is the leading credentialing agency for ACLS.
Upon passing the endotracheal tube pass the vocal chords, the pilot balloon must be inflated to 10cc of air via a syringe. The additional staff on scene must listen for adequate breath sounds and listen for epigastric sounds as well. The end tidal co2 should be used as a diagnostic tool for successful intubation for confirmation. Capnography is new technology that detects the presence of exhaled co2 which indicates that the endotracheal tube has been placed properly.
Securing the tube in the correct position may be very challenging due to the anatomy of the patient's oral pharynx. A commercial tube holder is available from most med supply vendors. While the tube is being secured, everyone must monitor the cardiac monitor to watch for ventricular fibrillation. Should the patient proceed into cardiac arrest, it is of the utmost importance the paramedic be trained in Pediatric Advanced Life Support in order to resuscitate the patient. As you can see as you read this article, RSI requires many elements to work correctly for a positive patient outcome. The risk versus benefit must be in favor of the RSI protocol prior to initiating the protocol.
The American Heart Association provides excellent information for medical staff to study. Although, the Medical Directors are still reluctant to release Paramedics to begin the RSI protocol. Should we see a change in the future, I believe Baltimore Maryland will be the first city to implement measures. For more information on this topic please visit your local EMS service in your community.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Alumni and friends of King College are invited to join in the upcoming 86th celebration of Dogwood Weekend on April 20-23, 2012. The annual celebration offers classmates and friends of the College opportunities to gather, reminisce, and reconnect.
"Dogwood Weekend is a favorite event of so many, one the King students and alumni look
forward to each year," said Finley Green, director of alumni and career services for King. "We have wonderful, diverse and accomplished alumni, and welcoming many of them home to share in this weekend is a cherished experience."
Events for the weekend include such favorites as the Jay Baumgardner Memorial Golf Classic, Alumni Luncheon, picnic on the Oval, cornhole tournament, alumni volleyball game, catch and release fishing tourney, production from King's Performing & Visual Arts (PVA) department, Hall of Fame induction ceremony, lecture by the New York best-selling author of the Mitford series, and much more.
The Jay Baumgardner Memorial Golf Classic will take place on Friday, April 20 at The Club (Country Club of Bristol). Registration will begin at 9 a.m. with a shotgun start at 10 a.m. and an awards reception at 3 p.m. Each player will receive giveaways and a boxed lunch. In addition to the tournament, there will also be a putting contest with the members of the winning team each receiving a $100 Visa gift card. Members of the winning team for the tournament will win gift certificates to The Club Pro Shop. Other prizes include $10,000 cash prize for a hole-in-one on a designated hole, plus three additional prize holes where a hole-in-one wins either Panasonic 32" LCD TV, Nike Irons, or a $500 Visa gift card.
"We are delighted with the level of participation in this year's Golf Classic," said Chief Development Officer John King. "In addition to a day filled with great camaraderie, tournament funds are designated towards scholarships for area students."
King Theatre closes out its season with its annual Dogwood Playhouse production, the family-friendly musical, "A Year with Frog and Toad." Younger audiences and the young at heart will love the heart-warming and toe-tapping adventures of Frog, Toad, and all their friends.
"I have the best memories of reading the Frog and Toad books with my brother when I was a little girl, and now I am reading the stories to my own kids," said Elizabeth Lee Dollar, chair of the Performing & Visual Arts department and director of the Theatre program at King College. "Having the opportunity to bring Frog and Toad to life on the stage to an even greater audience is an incredible gift. I hope it encourages more folks to read these awesome stories and to find creative ways to bring them to life."
"A Year with Frog and Toad" will run at the historic Paramount Center for the Arts in downtown Bristol. Dates and times are Thursday, April 19 at 7:30 pm, Friday, April 20 at 8:00 pm, and Saturday, April 21 at 2:30 pm. Tickets are $10 general admission, $8 senior citizens, $5 for students, and free with King College ID. Tickets are available at the Paramount Box Office by calling 423.274.8920, or by visiting www.etix.com. For more information, contact Elizabeth Dollar at 423.652.4839.
The weekend's events culminate with the New York Times best-selling author, Jan Karon. Karon will speak at First Presbyterian Church in Bristol, Tenn., on Monday, April 23, as part of the 2011-2012 Lecture Series by the Buechner Institute at King College. Karon is best known for her award-winning series of novels that feature Father Timothy Kavanagh, an Episcopal priest, and the fictional village of Mitford, North Carolina. Additional information on the Jan Karon lecture can be found at www.buechnerinstitute.org, or through contacting the director of the Buechner Institute, Dale Brown, at 423.652.4156.
The full schedule of events is available online at http://dogwood.king.edu. For registration information for the Jay Baumgardner Memorial Golf Classic, visit http://golf.king.edu. Additional information is also available from the King College Alumni Office at 1.800.KINGALM or via e-mail at email@example.com.


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Boy, 7, bitten by shark while swimming in Lake Pontchartrain
A seven year old boy was pulled out of Lake Pontchartrain screaming Friday with a foot pouring with blood after an apparent shark attack.
Trent Trentacosta from Lakeview, Louisiana, was out with his family on a boat when he decided to take a dip.
"It felt like rows of knives sticking in my foot," Trent told WAFB-TV.
His mother Shelly Trentacosta decribed a scene of chaos as her son started screaming the water trying to get away from the attacking shark.
"The kids were bunched up together playing, and Trent just started screaming," Trentacosta told Nola.com. "We started swimming to him, and I didn't know what was going on. I grabbed his leg, and there was a lot of blood."
It wasn't until her son calmed down that he could explain what had happened.
"He said that when he was swimming, something bumped him from the back. He turned around to look, and then he felt it swim around to the front of him, and when he turned again, it charged at him," the boy's Mom told Nola.com
Experts were doubtful that the bite really was from a shark until they saw the gruesome pictures of rows on teeth marks on the boy's heel.
Then marine biologists a the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it was clear it was the bite of a bull shark.
"Without a doubt, it's a bull shark -- probably around 5 feet," Mitchell Chevalier told Nola.com. Chevalier tags sharks for the University of New Orleans and NOAA.
Social media was awash with the story with many people surprised the sharks would be in the lake at all.
Experts point out that Lake Pontchartrain is not a true lake; it is connected to the Gulf of Mexico where any fisherman will tell you there are sharks aplenty.


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Demonstrates the ability and knowledge to independently perform and evaluate diagnostic images within established time frames with accuracy. Functions as a coordinator, facilitator and provider of diagnostic imaging services throughout the Lewistown Healthcare Foundation. Responsibilities include assessment, planning and implementation of patient care, proper utilization of equipment and participation in quality assurance programs as requested. The technologist acts as a patient advocate in meeting the patient's wishes during the hospital experience. The technologist provides for privacy and confidentiality. Responsible for education of the patient, family and other staff is a major focus of this professional.
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New technology firm 3D VisionWorx. Our technology allows us to offer the market better 3D technology than currently available. We are able to bring the market real 3D images with-out any glasses. Since this technology is available in units like 6" TV's or 62" screens and much larger. We can give you amazing never before seen visual experience. Amazing we know. :)
We found ourselves in a time crunch for a guest appearance at the Grammy Awards this weekend. We are in need of a logo fast to represent our company among Hollywoods A- list celebs.
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Mission Statement- setting the standard on 3D marketing options with animation and visiual effects encompassing the many uses of 3D technology.
We would like for the logo to print on business cards emmediately. (we also would like for the logo to look great on a website.
High tech looking, we also liked the idea of our logo eventually being able to Transormer into a robot like "Transormers" But the name of our new company is 3D VisionWorx - we need something that can try to represent our services while giving cool 3D feel and look. Good theme and colors. 3D as everyone knows it is known for red and blue glasses. If you could incorporate those colors in the theme, it would be awesome.
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Just make it cool. You don't have to follo any guidelines. We like #23 because it's clean and corporate looking, the colors also pop out at you. Not what we had in mind,but it's our favorite 3 days into the competition. Our job is guaranteed to pay out. Thanks for your design.
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A Real Ride by a "Country Girl"
It's not hard to figure out why the legend of Sybil Ludington and the Danbury raid became so popular in the twentieth century. It's a good story, with an individual protagonist and a beginning, middle, and end. At sixteen, Sybil was young enough for schoolgirls to identify with her. Most important, her tale is one of the few anecdotes from the Revolution that shows an individual woman contributing to an American military victory through physical activity (though not using weapons herself—heaven forbid!). Sybil's story came to light just as women's suffrage was finally gathering steam, and it served the values of that time and the decades that followed.
We know many other women were active in the Revolutionary movement, but they usually remained in the domestic sphere, worked collectively, and didn't get noticed. (Of course, the same applies to most males. But the exceptional males far outnumber the exceptional females.)
Here's a better documented example of a young woman helping the American forces, a first-person account from the Memoir of Col. Benjamin Tallmadge, published in 1858. In December 1777 Tallmadge (shown here in a portrait based on a sketch by John Trumbull) was a twenty-three-year-old cavalry officer attached to the Continental Army at Valley Forge. His unit received an assignment that called on their ability to travel fast and light:
being informed that a country girl had gone into Philadelphia, with eggs, instructed to obtain some information respecting the enemy, I moved my detachment to Germantown, where they halted, while, with a small detachment, I advanced several miles towards the British lines, and dismounted at a tavern called the Rising Sun, in full view of their out-posts.That was apparently Tallmadge's introduction to the world of intelligence. Eventually that would become a major responsibility for him; as Washington besieged New York, he asked Tallmadge as a Long Islander to run the spy ring inside the city. Tallmadge was extremely circumspect about those activities when he wrote his memoir. Though his other papers include plenty of evidence to confirm his intelligence activities, including a codebook, for his children he wrote only that Gen. Washington "requested me to take charge of a particular part of his private correspondence."
Very soon I saw a young female coming out from the city, who also came to the same tavern. After we had made ourselves known to each other, and while she was communicating some intelligence to me, I was informed that the British light horse were advancing. Stepping to the door, I saw them at full speed chasing in my patrols, one of whom they took.
I immediately mounted, when I found the young damsel close by my side, entreating that I would protect her. Having not a moment to reflect, I desired her to mount behind me, and in this way I brought her off more than three miles up to Germantown, where she dismounted.
During the whole ride, although there was considerable firing of pistols, and not a little wheeling and charging, she remained unmoved, and never once complained of fear after she mounted my horse.
I was delighted with this transaction, and received many compliments from those who became acquainted with it.
The Rising Sun tavern between Philadelphia and Germantown seems to have been a regular rendezvous point for exchanging intelligence in the winter of 1777-78. Commissary of prisoners Elias Boudinot wrote in his journal about rendezvousing there with "a little poor looking insignificant Old Woman" who passed him important news hidden in "a dirty old needle book, with various small pockets in it." (That could have been Lydia Darragh, whose daughter Ann later told much more romantic stories about her mother's spying during that winter. Darragh, born in Ireland in 1729, certainly wasn't a "country girl" or "young damsel," but her daughter certainly wouldn't have depicted her as a "poor looking insignificant Old Woman.")
Who was the brave young woman Tallmadge met south of Germantown? What information did she provide the Continental commanders? I don't know. I don't think anyone does. She was a spy, after all, so she kept her mouth shut. Even Tallmadge, at that stage in his career, probably wasn't privy to all the details. And since we don't know that young woman's name or her mission or the results, we can't make an inspiring "true" story out of her, as people have with Sybil Ludington. Pity.


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Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter: An Era of DynamismPosted: October 14, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: John Glenn, Mercury, NASA, PEGGY NOONAN, Project Mercury, Scott Carpenter, Tranquility Base, United States 1 Comment
Peggy Noonan recalls: Oh what it was like. "Mission Control, Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed." "America on the moon." "Godspeed, John Glenn." "Come on and light this candle." "A-OK." "Four 3, 2, 1, and liftoff, we have liftoff."
Oh, we did. Those are words and phrases of America's space program, especially the Mercury program, one of whose astronauts died this week, 88-year-old Scott Carpenter. In 1962 he became the second American to orbit the Earth. He was the one they couldn't find for a while, when he missed his splashdown point by about 250 miles. It's tempting to write that all of America was on the edge of their seats while Navy planes searched for him and his capsule, but we weren't. We knew it would be fine.
But what an era of dynamism, of breaking through, of pushing out, of daring.
The space program gave us a forward-looking attitude, a sense we could do anything in any area. Especially if you were a kid, as I was, age 11, when Carpenter flew. What a gift it was to be young then—America blasting off, the Yankees or the Dodgers always winning. No one cared about government—what bliss—but to the extent we had one it seemed to work. Respectable people like Dwight Eisenhower were in charge, and then, in '61, the glamour of the Kennedys. People were getting TVs. A whole new way to waste time! But also something else, our culture showing itself to itself, and it didn't look so bad, especially, again, if you were young.
But the point is the era. It was big, expansive, it was pushing against limits, even against gravity. Now we have shutdowns, ceilings, chained CPIs—it's all limits. The head of NASA talks about greenhouse gases.
Our children aren't told by our culture that we can do anything, they're taught to be afraid by people who are afraid—the future can harm you, hunker down, shelter in place. Really, that phrase captures the mood of our time: "Shelter in place." Don't go anywhere interesting, like a planet.
We don't talk greatness now, we talk problems; and we don't solve them, we set up processes to address them down the road.
I don't know who the next American president is, but I know who the next great American president is—someone who remembers and can marshal and bring forth the mood of the old America: "Liftoff, we have liftoff." "We will do it." "Endless horizons." "Home of the brave." Great nations run on spirit. The next great one will know that. Scott Carpenter, steely-eyed rocket man, rest in peace.
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What do you think is going on in this trailer for Jennifer Lawrence's new horror movie The House at the End of the Street? (Which, everybody keeps carefully reminding us, was filmed before she did Hunger Games.) Lawrence and her mom (Elizabeth Shue) move in near a house where a double murder happened, and there's a creepy dude there, and the basement is full of scary, and there are hints that something supernatural might be going on. Might.
But what's with all the time going backwards in the trailer? Is this something that happens in the movie, or are the film-makers just getting arty? And why is Jennifer Lawrence's makeup so 1970s-debutante looking? I'm way more pumped for a horror movie about a monster whose power is time-reversal than I am about another "house where something scary happened in the past, and it's still scary for some reason" movie. [via CinemaBlend]


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Eleven hours and five minutes, spread out over three days, finally produced a winner in what was by far the longest pro tennis match ever.
John Isner defeated Frenchman Nicolas Mahut in the fifth set, 70-68 to close out the record-setting first round match at Wimbledon. After smashing a backhand past his opponent, Isner collapsed on the storied grass court in exhaustion.
The match was suspended twice due to darkness, and the fifth set alone lasted more than eight hours. Play resumed Thursday morning with the score tied at 59.
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"I'm a little haggard," Isner said before completing the match. "I have no skin on my pinkie toes."
Isner finished with 112 aces and Mahut 103. After winning, the 6-foot-9 Isner embraced his vanquished opponent at midcourt.
The grueling duel has already taken its place in tennnis lore, with the sports veterans marveling at the endurance shown by Mahut and Isner.
"This is the greatest advertisement for our sport," John McEnroe told the BBC. "It makes me proud to be a part of it. We often don't get the respect we deserve in tennis for the athletic demands it places on players but this should push that respect way up."
The old record for the longest fifth set was 21-19, when Andy Roddic beat Younes El Aynaoui at the 2003 Austrailian Open. John Newcombe won a fourth set aganist Marty Riessen by a 25-23 at the 1969 U.S. Open.


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Parents beware. As you scan those Halloween aisles in search of makeup, props and masks for your little goblins and ghouls, you should also be on the lookout for other Halloween frights. According to the Philippine environmental group, EcoWaste Coalition, many of the Halloween products on store shelves this year contain scary levels of antimony, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead and mercury.
The group used an X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyzer to screen 60 Halloween costume products sold in cities throughout the Philippines. Seventeen of the 60 products sampled were found to have at least one metal at levels considered harmful. According to the analysis, 10 of the products contained lead up to 2,091 parts per million (ppm). For reference, the standard for lead paint here in the U.S. is 90 ppm. Also, of the 17 products that contained toxic metals, seven had more than one toxic metal, leading to potentially exponential health risks.
To be clear, these products and this research are from the Philippines. There's no word yet that these exact products are on store shelves in the U.S. Several years ago, the Washington Toxics Coalition found similar toxins in products that were sold in the states. It would be nice to think that the companies that make these products have cleaned up their acts, but that is clearly not the case judging by this Philippine study.
Either way, this report serves as a warning to all parents searching for Halloween goodies this season, that we should all be extra careful about the makeup, masks, costumes and props that we buy our kids this season.
Related Halloween story on MNN: Why not make your Halloween costume instead? We've got plenty of ideas.
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Nov 16, 2004 | ISBN 9780385510073
Praise for John Dear's Living Peace
"Living Peace is a deeply moving and profoundly inspiring account of John Dear's journey of enviable courage, boundless faith, unquestioned hope, and unconditional love." —Martin Sheen
"In this inspiring book, John Dear proves himself the William Sloane Coffin of our day." —Publishers Weekly
"Living Peace is a call to the reader that peace is no further away than a prayer to the Lord that He might come." —St. Anthony Messenger
"John Dear is a bright young light in the religious peace movement. Living Peace shows the deep spiritual roots of his commitment." —Jim Wallis, editor in chief, Sojourners


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Discover the Trail
The Delaware History Trail will guide you through the historical crossroads of our great nation. From the meeting place of the Leni Lenape Indians to the site where Delaware was the first to ratify the U.S. Constitution, you will experience a celebration of historic architecture, beautiful estates and one-of-a-kind museums. As you travel back in time, you will become acquainted with Delaware's early settlers, influential patriots and pioneers who fought for the ideals of our nation, and the creative minds driving the Industrial Revolution.
Within the boundaries of our state, your quest along the Delaware History Trail will allow you to explore centuries worth of history while driving from gorgeous country sides to award-winning beaches. We invite you to rediscover the path Delaware has taken during the most significant historic moments of our state and nation.
Below is a complete listing of the 36 sites featured on the Delaware History Trail including; a brief site description, address and contact information. If you're feeling extra adventurous, you may also visit additional historical sites in Delaware known as our "Fabulous Fiftteen" (please note that these locations do not count towards completing the Delaware History Trail). To view county maps highlighting Delaware History Trail and "Fabulous Fifteen" locations, please click here.


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Baconao Park
Roam the cradle of the Cuban Revolution with life-sized dinosaurs.
Santiago de Cuba is known as the "Cradle of the Revolution." The southern city holds a claim to fame in Cuba for being the staging area for Fidel Castro's raid on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. Although the raid led to Castro's arrest, it is accepted as the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.
With this nationalist framework, Baconao Park, 20 kilometers from Santiago de Cuba, has developed as a microcosm of Cuba's history and culture. Although at times the attractions in the park seem unrelated and even a little bizarre, they all recall one of the glories of Cuba's past and they start from the very beginning. One of the main highlights of the park is the Valle de Prehistoria, a few acres of tropical vegetation complete with 200 roaming dinosaurs of the Jurassic Period. Adding to the strangeness of the exhibit, the dinosaurs were all constructed by inmates from a local prison.
Moving chronologically through history, the park also features a lush lagoon and a typical village of the Taino, a pre-Colombian Caribbean people. Visitors can pull up to the Taino village and grab drinks at the bar before taking a dip at the beach nearby. Along with a range of natural history, Baconao also has a collection of 2,500 miniature car models and a museum dedicated to the attack on Moncada.
Although the attractions scattered over 330 square miles draw many visitors, Baconao's focus is always the revolution. Granjita Siboney, a small farm on the land, is the very place where Fidel and his rebels planned their July 26th movement. The farm includes artifacts from the rebels such as weapons, uniforms and what Santiago de Cuba's tourist website describes as "countless memories of those days."
Baconao is filled with untold mystery and a strong Cuban pride and sense of nationalism. How these ideas exactly relate to miniature cars and models of dinosaurs is unclear, but thousands of visitors from across Cuba seem to understand well enough.
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Never before have the opportunities for conscious living been so plentiful, and never before has the need been so great.
Sustainable gardening simply means that you don't use up resources faster than they can be replaced (such as: water, soil, labor, community support/services, etc.).
Organic gardening is growing without chemical fertilizers, naturally building the soil to support healthy plant life.
We believe the evidence supports that organic foods are higher in vitamins and minerals than conventional farm produced foods, because the soil has more diverse and healthy living organisms and trace minerals. A fine page to begin more research on this top can be located at Nutrition and Food Systems
At the heart of all organic growing is the art and science of fertilizing organically. There is no way to garden sustainably OR organically without a proper understanding of the soil in which your garden grows. When a human being lacks essential nutrients, their body weakens and suffers. A plant gains it's strength and nutritional edge from the soil in which it is fed. When your plants don't have nutritious food, you don't have nutritious food.
When the nutrients (plant food) in your soil plays out, your plants do too. One of the largest causes of modern disease is lack of proper nutrition. Just as it is for humans, so it is for food plants. When plants or humans don't receive proper organic nutrients they are unhealthy and fall pray to disease eaiser. One of the main causes of human disease is lack of an organic diet. And it's start is a lack of organic soil.
Building a nutrient rich organic soil is best done by ammending its shortcomings organically, naturally. Chemical ammendments add undesirable nitrates to your garden's soil. Ammonium nitrate is a leading source of environmental waste. They also leave chemical residues in your food. Adding this chemically manufactured, unbalanced stuff to your garden over and over will impair your vegetables and keep them from receiving the healthy nutrients they need to protect themselves from insect attacks and help the plant resist disease. Plants get stressed too and we know what stress does to human beings... plants are no different. They are better equipped to handle stress when they are strong from receiving the proper food they need.
Hormones in milk, food poisoning, mad cow disease, antibiotic resistant bacteria in meat - what has happened to our food? And to make matters worse, the United States is now the fattest nation in the world.
Garden Simply is also a website designed to answer the questions that arise to issues surrounding today´s agricultural system and what is happening with our food. Read here if you are more interested in what is happening to our meat supply.
Our goal is to help you understand the issues, offer suggestions on what you can do, direct you to more in-depth information, and introduce you to the exciting and hugely popular sustainable organic gardening food movement exploding around the world.
|You can increase the amount of organic matter in your soil by adding compost, aged animal manures,
green manures (cover crops), mulches or peat moss. Because most soil life and plant roots are located
in the top 6 inches of soil, concentrate on this upper layer.
|That you can restore weak plants to robust health so they can resist insect attack? The best defense
against insect attack are preventative measures. Don't let plants get stressed out. Don't let them be too wet,
too dry or too hot or too shaded. Design a diverse garden, so that pests of a particular plant won't
decimate an entire section of the garden. Rotate your plant locations within the garden.
Organic methods will help your food taste better and store longer.
|Healthy soil nurtures healthy plants which grow better, taste better, store longer and
have increased resistance to the stresses caused by heat, cold, drought, pests, diseases, rapid
growth, etc. Fertile soil is not only the first step for increasing yields and quality but also for
natural pest control and season extending.
Rather than feeling hopeless over the problems with our food, Garden Simply has been created to reveal realities and help our readers magnify the possibilities of this growing healthy organic movement. After learning about the problems we are all confronted with, you will be introduced to organizations, people and programs that are changing the way we think about food. But HERE, we'll be teaching you methods and organic sustainable gardening tips to teach you how to raise your own healthy food!
We are at a threshold of growth in the shift toward sustainable food systems we hope you'll find the gardening resources here to guide your involvement. Together, we can create healthy compost rich soil, healthy organic food, healthy people, healthy communities and a healthy planet, for ourselves, our children and the generations to come. Join us as we discover new ways to eat healthy, garden smart, and enjoy food whose source we know! Raised the sustainable, organic way!
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Hello there, Shapelings:
• No doubt you remember hearing the story of Samantha Clowes, a British bride-to-be who died of heart failure while sustaining herself on diet of 530 calories a day. Well CNN sheds more light on medically supervised diets with the unintentionally hilariously titled article Extreme diets: Life on 800 calories a day. Life, indeed. The highlights include a quote from VLCD (Very Low Calorie Diet) participant Gordon Heitman who noted:
My hair did thin out and there were other side effects. There were leg cramps … and now they're monitoring me for gallstones.
Other than those minor inconveniences Mr. Heitman says he's thankful for the medical supervision he's received thus far! And really aren't gallstones and thinning hair completely worth it! Ketosis FTW!
•People Magazine is very pleased with Sara Rue's seven pound weight loss in JUST FIVE DAYS. And Sara says:
But there's nothing you can't have on this plan. You just have to remember that nothing tastes as good as the first bite
Oh, Sara!
Do you ever get the feeling celebrity weight loss statements read like Mad Libs?
•Golden Globe nominations are out and Gabourey Sidibe is nominated for her work in Precious. And with that, the 2010 award season begins!
Consider this an Open Thread, but be mindful that mods may not be around every second to keep things in check.


text: No-Win Situation: With the country edging ever closer to civil war, New Yorker Millard Fillmore tried to find compromises between free and slaveholding states. The Compromise of 1850 helped calm the nation at first, but soon Southerners grew angry at their concessions. And Notherners grew increasingly outraged at the Fugitive Slave Act, which promised slaveowners federal support in capturing runaway slaves. The act gave rise to the underground railroad, a system for helping runaway slaves escape from the South. Also during this time, Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was published, stirring the conscience of many Americans concerning the institution of slavery.


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Located in the center hub of Park City, was the Sears Shop Your Way Digital Recharge Lounge. Celebrities, media, and tastemakers flocked to this lounge to not only see what they hype was about, but to get their hands on some great swag that came in handy with the cold weather of Park City, Utah.
With such an assortment of services and products for the celebrities, VIPs, tastemakers, and various forms of press that were in attendance it is no wonder how this is the suite to 'see and be seen'. Broken down into multiple rooms, the Sears Shop Your Way Digital Recharge Lounge was a great way to kick off the week's events for the Sundance Film Festival. Additional sponsors for this event were:
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This brand put a unique spin on getting the low-down on what people prefer 'Shaven or Stubble' with a fun photo booth paired with a quick survey guests were able to snag shave gel and a razor. Couples are invited to kiss in-person – with and without stubble – to uncover which kiss is best: a kiss with stubble or smooth shaven skin. Couples arrived with stubble – first conducting an introductory interview, then kissing with stubble. Men then shaved and the couple kissed again. A short follow-up survey was conducted to determine which was truly more kissable. Gift bags were awarded to all who puckered up: free Gillette swag for the guys and a Covergirl LipPerfection Jumbo Gloss Balm for the ladies!
"I can't believe this is Sears" seemed to be the common phrase at the Sears Shop Your Way Digital Recharge Lounge during the first weekend of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Celebrities flooded into the gifting suite over the course of three days and walked away with fashionable, new winter threads perfect for the chilly Park City weather.
Lipton Ice Tea had their Park City Winter Cider as well as their signature Chai Tea on display for attendees to enjoy, and also assist with staying warm in the freezing temperatures of Park City. Adding to the fun was a cute yellow ski lift which made the perfect photo opportunity!


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Walk-off shot of Coco lifts A's in 12th inning
Oakland forces extras with RBI triples from Cespedes, Fuld
OAKLAND -- An otherwise rough season-opening week just got a whole lot better for the A's.
Having already endured a rainout, a split doubleheader and two disheartening losses in their first three games, the baseball gods of course sent the A's to extra innings on Thursday night at the O.co Coliseum.
Because, why not?
But the club responded in true A's fashion, walking off against the Mariners on Coco Crisp's leadoff home run in the 12th inning for a 3-2 victory, after triples from Sam Fuld and Yoenis Cespedes had brought them from behind.
It was the A's 30th inning played in the past 35 hours.
"We play a day-nighter, and then today felt almost like a doubleheader, so it was nice to squeak that one out," said manager Bob Melvin, "especially the way the game was going early on. We weren't getting too many swings, and to come back like that in that fashion, a little bit of will involved today."
The A's walked their way on base most of the night, drawing 10 free passes against seven Mariners pitchers without cashing in on many an opportunity. Crisp did it three times, and in his sixth plate appearance of the night, decided to go with a different approach.
"My thought process was go up and get a pitch as hard as you can swing at and actually swing as hard as you can," said Crisp. "Probably nine times out of 10 I strike out with that approach."
The veteran outfielder fouled off the first pitch he saw from Hector Noesi, a 91-mph fastball.
"I was swinging as hard as I could," he said. "That's when I stepped out. I was going to go back to my normal approach. Then I was like, 'Nah, I'm just gonna let it fly again.'"
That he did, sending the 93-mph heater over the yellow line in right field for his first career walk-off home run and the A's 24th walk-off victory since the start of 2012.
"You can tell that first swing he was looking for something he could pull and get up in the air, and I think that was his intent," said Melvin. "That's tough to do, especially when you are a leadoff guy, but those are the type of swings he was putting on that at-bat."
It was the first walk-off homer from an A's leadoff man since Eric Byrnes did it in 2004, and for Crisp, it was his sixth career game-ending RBI -- and quite the turnaround of events for the A's, who began the day in the worst of ways.
Making his career debut at first base, Alberto Callaspo watched the first ball in play from leadoff man Abraham Almonte go right through his legs. Second baseman Nick Punto got to it at the edge of the grass, but his wide throw not only resulted in a second error but got away from Callaspo and allowed Almonte to reach second base and later score an unearned run off Jesse Chavez.
Chavez did his job in his first start of the season, which was also his first since 2012 and only the third of his career. Oakland's right-hander, part of a patchwork rotation built by the Jarrod Parker and A.J. Griffin-less A's, allowed the Mariners just one other run on the night in six innings.
The A's bullpen proceeded to fire six shutout innings, allowing just one hit along the way.
"That was amazing what they did," said Chavez. "This all just shows what we're made of. After the long day yesterday, to come back and play extra innings today -- we never gave up, and I think that's kind of our character. No matter how long the day is, no matter how long the game is, we're still going to go out there and give it our all."
Oakland didn't get a hit off southpaw Roenis Elias, who was making his big league debut, until the fifth inning, when Punto reached on a two-out single, his first hit with the A's. That's when Fuld lined one to center field past a diving Almonte and sped around the bases, only to be tagged within a foot of home plate, missing out on an inside-the-park home run.
Cespedes' triple with two outs in the eighth tied the game, leading to the extra-inning dramatics that handed Seattle its first loss of the year.
"These are the games we want to win, for sure," said Fuld. "You play that long and grind it for a couple days at the beginning, you definitely want to be at the winning end. You always do, but it's definitely a lot sweeter when you win a game like this, and it's a lot more painful when you lose a game like this."


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Run-flat tires, also known as self supporting tires, are vehicle tires designed to resist the effects of deflation when punctured. Some can be driven on at reduced speeds, up to 55 mph, and for limited distances of up to 100 miles or even 200 miles depending on the type of tire. Run-flat tires could possibly be driven on for up to 50 miles with no air in them, a feature that has some real safety benefits.
But before you go out and buy a set, consider both the advantages and disadvantages.
Run-flat pros
If you get a flat, you can likely drive to a service station and have the tire changed rather than having to do so yourself under dangerous roadside conditions. In case of a sudden loss of tire pressure while on the freeway, handling remains near-normal. This can help avoid sudden changes in vehicle stability that can turn a tire failure into a tragic accident.
Run-flat cons
Run-flats typically cost more, weigh more, decrease ride comfort and handling somewhat, and are less readily available. Some consumers contend they also wear faster and less evenly than conventional tires.
On a new vehicle designed for such tires, run-flats are well worth considering, especially since run-flat technology is advancing rapidly.
If you don't have run-flats, check your tire pressure often. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, tire industry data show that 85 percent of tire failures are slow leaks, some of which go unnoticed and turn into blowouts. Keeping your tires properly inflated and fixing any slow leaks promptly can dramatically decrease your risk of a blowout or flat, in addition to improving your gas mileage.
For more on tire maintenance, take a look at our 10 Driving Tips for Saving Gas article for more ideas of how to cut down on your driving costs.


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Why you should add Denmark to your Indie/RTW tripDenmark is the smallest and southernmost Scandinavian country. It is also the only one that is not located on the Scandinavian Peninsula. That fact is a microcosm of today's Denmark. It is part of something larger but it is still very distinct.
- Denmark still ranks as one of the happiest place on earth according to a study which takes into account a number of life factors.
- If you like females, Denmark has plenty of them and many of them are stunning to the point of it being distracting. If you like males, the Danes come in that variety too and they are equally pleasant on the eye.
- Copenhagen is gorgeous with a very compact center that can be walked from one end to the other in less than an hour.
- The music scene in Copenhagen is surprisingly strong and even if you have to pay out the nose for alcohol you will find pubs and clubs full of fun seekers.
- The original Legoland is located in Billund, so that's a must if you are going with children.
- Ribe is Denmark's oldest town and the Viking Center there is a fascinating look at the culture that made this one of the richest parts of the world for centuries.


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I saw six sharks being cut up for their fins a few days ago. And as monstrous as it was, I know it won't make headlines, it isn't news. Currently, the fins from an estimated 26 million to 73 million sharks are sold each year, that's up to 8,000 sharks killed an hour.
And the market is booming.
A shark is pulled up as by-catch in the Indian Ocean
It happened during our second ship inspection for the day, this time it was a Japanese longliner that was out for tuna and tuna-like species. We were about 200 km from shore in an area of water that Mozambican officials can't often patrol. Two fisheries inspectors from Mozambique were with us, authorised to inspect what was being caught and to see if it was being recorded in line with regulations.
The crew onboard, about 20 or so, was friendly enough, and they were just getting ready to haul in their lines – their incredibly long lines.
We're talking a fishing line 120 km long with a shorter line leading off it every 40-50 metres. Each of those lines has a baited silver hook on the end; 3,000 hooks altogether.
So the length of the line is an hour's drive in a fast car, passing a hook every 2 seconds. It's fed out the back of the ship early in the day and slowly hauled in just before sunset.
During inspection we found a rack of drying shark fins that had been strung up.
I counted about 30 sets of fins, many of them still fresh. The ship's licence allows for sharks to be caught, but fins cannot be more than 5% of the total shark catch. Technically sharks are still classed as 'by-catch' – on paper they aren't seen as a target species in the way that tuna is.
All too often, sharks are caught as by-catch and finned, helping bolster the economic performance of tuna fishing boats. Greenpeace is campaigning worldwide to change the way fish are caught – we can save our oceans and the sharks if we reduce by-catch.
However, as the demand for shark fin continues to rise, so too does the price, and shark fins have become a hot commodity.
On deck the various tools and implements were all laid out and the wheels started pulling in the line. I was standing up on a raised platform that looked down on the fishing deck; a birds-eye-view of the crew's well rehearsed movements.
There was no talking or shouting. The crew had surely done this dance a thousand times before, and they'd keep doing it for at least the next 12 hours, that's how long it takes to pull in a stretch of line 120km long.
Greenpeace activists, along with Mozambican government officials, inspect a fishing vessel operating in the Indian Ocean.
The first catch was a blue shark, and for this too, the crew has a dance. A group of men huddle together at the place where fish are gaffed and pulled onto the ship.
I wonder about them: how much are they paid to do this, how long are they away from families? One of the men is easily 60 years old and he's doing the same as all the others, pulling, passing, unclipping, packing and working a 12-hour shift. He has a cloth rolled up as a headband and stoops a little when he walks. Perhaps he shows the others how it's done and loves his job. Maybe he hates it.
And the shark, which is pregnant, is dragged onboard, still alive. It's a good catch. Later, when it's all over, the photographer points out to me that the shark's eyes were closed the whole time. But that's surely just instinct, I hope.
Her head is cut off, and then come the fins. A 200 kg animal slaughtered for 1 kg or two, for soup. Like I said, this isn't news. It happens all the time, and it's completely legal.
A shark is butchered for fins, then disemboweled, her pups left wriggling on the deck.
Michael Baillie is currently onboard the Rainbow Warrior in the Indian Ocean but is based in Greenpeace Africa's Johannesburg office in South Africa.
Rainbow Warrior In The Indian Ocean
The Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior is observing fishing activities in the Indian Ocean where poor management has left many stocks over exploited including albacore tuna and many sharks.
The Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior is observing fishing activities in the Indian Ocean where poor management has left many stocks over exploited including albacore tuna and many sharks.
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all I can say is thanks for being there to document all this ongoing atrocity and absolute immoral disrespect for life. Please continue on to enlight...
all I can say is thanks for being there to document all this ongoing atrocity and absolute immoral disrespect for life. Please continue on to enlighten our world with this suffering that has no justification. Sometimes I think without Greenpeace, there would be no hope at all.
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The population of the world was 3 billion in 1960 and now it stands at 7 billion. It is expected to double by 2030. What chance has the wildlife of ou...
The population of the world was 3 billion in 1960 and now it stands at 7 billion. It is expected to double by 2030. What chance has the wildlife of our wonderful planet got?
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please save the sharks because they are animal like us!
please save the sharks because they are animals like us!
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please save the sharks
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8000 sharks an hour! That is disgusting. The fact that they are stupid enough to kill a pregnant one also shocks me. This just seems like a tragically quick way in which these species that they are "finning" will die out.
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eso crueeeeel, debe acabarse!!!!!
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My goal is to add files (in particular, a ringtone) to my LG GS170 cell phone. I'm running Ubuntu linux (and crunchbang on another machine, but the same problem persists there). When I plug the phone into my machine via USB, I see it when I run
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Well, the G20 London Summit has pushed a few doubting Thomases into the believer (or almost-believer) camp. The brazen call by the G20 summiteers for huge new cash infusions ($1.1 Trillion!) for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as well as vast new powers for the IMF to regulate global financial markets, have made Fox TV's Sean Hannity and Dick Morris almost ready (apparently) to join the ranks of "the conspiracy people."
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Dick Morris: There is a big thing that's gonna happen in London at this G20 and they're hiding it, camouflaging it, they're not talking about it: coordination of international regulation. What they are going to do is put our Fed and our SEC under the control, in effect, of the IMF.
Hannity: Oh, C'mon, you believe they'll do this —
Morris: That's what's in the draft agenda. They call it "coordination of regulation." What it really is is putting the American economy under international regulation. And those people who have been yelling, "Oh, the UN is going to take over" --
Hannity: Conspiracy theorists
Morris: They've been "crazy," but now they're right! It's happening!
Hannity: What Geithner said -- he would be open to the idea of a global currency, last week -- those conspiracy people had said, had suggested that for years. They're not wrong!
Morris: They're not wrong. You know what they always do at these conferences. The censored show is over here. But the side show they don't want you to pay attention to. The censored show was the size of the stimulus package; the real show is international regulation of the financial institutions, which is going to happen under IMF control.
As already noted, it's gratifying to see these two sounding the alarm about a very alarming issue. But -- as huge as this story is, their two-minute gab-fest hardly qualifies as a serious warning or expose'. True, Morris did better than the rest of the talking heads in mainstream TV-land, pointing out that the G20 scheme would "put our Fed and our SEC under the control, in effect, of the IMF," and that this would amount to "putting the American economy under international regulation." That issue alone should warrant several weeks of non-stop, day-after-day coverage by Hannity and Morris — or at least as much time as is devoted to examining Barack and Michelle Obama's faux pas with the queen and engaging in the usual partisan carping.
But the G20 program goes far beyond even Morris' dire description. It is the opening phase in a multi-stepped series of moves to transform the IMF into "the" World Central Bank, the global Federal Reserve, which has been formally proposed by American and international financial elites many times since the IMF was launched at Bretton Woods in 1944.
We have been reporting on this in the pages of The New American for the past 25 years, and for many years before that in American Opinion and The Review of the News, the predecessor magazines to The New American. In fact, I provided a detailed report on this very issue — the scheme to create a global currency and a global central bank — in Chapter 10 of my 1992 book, Global Tyranny ... Step by Step: The United Nations and the Emerging New World Order. Entitled "The New World Money System," that chapter surveyed some of the most important efforts by the international policy elites to transform the UN financial system into an unchallenged global monetary authority. I quoted extensively, for instance, from the very important essay by Harvard professor Richard N. Cooper, "A Monetary System for the Future" in the Fall 1984 issue of Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). In it, Prof. Cooper says:
I suggest a radical alternative scheme for the next century: the creation of a common currency for all of the industrial democracies, with a common monetary policy and a joint Bank of Issue to determine that monetary policy. [Emphasis in original]
Dr. Cooper then made some very provocative admissions. Here's a passage from Chapter 10:
"The currency of the Bank of Issue could be practically anything," the Harvard economist continued. "... The key point is that monetary control — the issuance of currency and of reserve credit — would be in the hands of the new Bank of Issue, not in the hands of any national government...." (Emphasis added) The problem, however, is that "a single currency is possible only if there is in effect a single monetary policy, and a single authority issuing the currency and directing the monetary policy. How can independent states accomplish that? They need to turn over the determination of monetary policy to a supranational body." (Emphasis added)
Insider Cooper realized the challenge involved in selling this totalitarian idea to the public. "This one-currency regime is much too radical to envisage in the near future," he said. "But it is not too radical to envisage 25 years from now.... [I]t will require many years of consideration before people become accustomed to the idea." Getting people in the West, and particularly in the United States, warm to the idea of "a pooling of monetary sovereignty" — especially with communist countries — would be difficult. Cooper wrote: "First, it is highly doubtful whether the American public, to take just one example, could ever accept that countries with oppressive autocratic regimes should vote on the monetary policy that would affect monetary conditions in the United States.... For such a bold step to work at all, it presupposes a certain convergence of political values...."
Hmmm. Imagine that. Prof. Cooper wrote that plan in 1984. He prophesied that his proposal was "too radical" to be accepted at that time, but thought that in 25 years Americans might be sufficiently softened up to accept monetary dictation from "a supranational body," i.e., the IMF.
Dang! Here we are in 2009 — 25 years on the spot! Elijah couldn't have prophesied any more accurately!
But what we have here, of course, is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Over the past 25 years, Cooper and his fellow "prophets" at the CFR, Brookings, the Carnegie Endowment, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and similar globalist organizations have kept up a non-stop campaign in elite media, academic, and political circles for this objective. You really didn't think that Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel, and Nicolas Sarkozy and their economic ministers came up with this totally on their own, did you? That's what we're supposed to think, but the facts are they're simply following scripts handed to them by the folks who have been planning this heist for decades. The same folks who are now stepping up the propaganda campaign to "supersize" the IMF.
As we noted on February 9 in "'Supersizing' the IMF," the CFR brain trust was then hard at work, and we cited a number of key editorials, articles, and essays, and op-eds:
All of the "supersizing" propaganda is being put forth as a concerted buildup for the upcoming G20 economic summit in London in April, where panic over the current economic crisis is expected to provide impetus for expanding and empowering global institutions. On February 5, German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a joint news conference in Berlin with the heads of the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the International Labour Organization to say that she wanted these organizations included in the G20 April summit. "We want closer cooperation (of these institutions) in the G20 process," said Merkel.
If this "supersizing" scheme is allowed to succeed, the United Nations will finally have what its designers always intended it eventually to have: its own source of revenue. The intention of Cooper and fellow globalists is that the IMF will become a global Federal Reserve and will issue a global currency and global bonds, creating money "out of thin air." It will no longer have to come to Congress or any other national legislature asking for funds. The IMF — or, more accurately, the bankers who run it — will be in control of the entire economy of the planet.
Hopefully, Sean Hannity and Dick Morris will find that prospect sufficiently horrifying to devote a few more minutes of program time to the subject. But, as penance for their obstinacy in ignoring the obvious for so long, and for pillorying those of us who have been faithfully sounding the alarm, they should be required to stand in Times Square wearing a tin foil hat and a sandwich-board sign declaring "I'm a Conspiracy Whacko Too!"
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