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From San Francisco to Jerusalem, museums are bustling with new construction – and new visions, strategic plans, and ambitious initiatives, not to mention visitors. This attendance surge is fueled somewhat by the attractively low entrance fees in these tough times.
But the boom in reinvention is powered in larger part by a profound and permanent change going on between museums and their constituents, say directors, educators, and curators. The graying of the traditional museum patron, the shifting global demographic mix, and the new cultural consumption habits of a younger generation are forcing most museums to make fundamental and not always comfortable changes – refashioning themselves from bastions of remote culture into social centers and community hubs.
"It's not about the collections anymore," says strategist James Chung of ReachAdvisors, who consults for cultural institutions around the globe. "It's about community."
Whether it is the impending, state-of-the-art Museum of Tolerance rising in Jerusalem (geared toward unifying a fractured city) or a new museum in the heart of strife-racked Colombia (aimed at helping the town of Medellín heal after years of narco-warfare), community relevance is the new museum mantra.
"We did not want to be just static artifacts from the past," says Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center behind the Israeli project, which will feature participatory, constantly updating exhibits, as well as a conference center where the community can gather to address current issues. "Museums must deal with yesterday, but today and tomorrow as well."
With the rise of powerful social-network tools on the Internet and a generation weaned on collective participation and decisionmaking, institutions must adapt or die, says Emlyn Koster, president of New Jersey's Liberty Science Center, which just completed a $109 million renovation to increase its communitywide value.
"This generation is about social relevance and global connection," says Mr. Koster, who calls this the third stage in modern museum evolution, following the 19th-century model of the curio cabinet guarded by experts, which gave way to an emphasis on interactivity in the 1960s.
Few museums have the luxury of a total shutdown to reorient, points out Elizabeth Merritt, director of the newly created Center for the Future of the Museum at the American Association of Museums in Washington. The center was founded as a think tank for the roughly 17,500 museums in the United States (only 3,000 of which are members of the AAM). It grew out of the group's centennial celebration in 2006 at which "we realized the pace of change has accelerated much more rapidly than most museums are able to adapt." The message, she says, is that museums must think holistically, with attention to social, political, and environmental factors.
Museums worldwide have taken a page from this new operating manual. Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum of Wales is part of Stories of the World (SOTW) – a major project for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. This unites 59 museums, libraries, and archives across the United Kingdom to create more than 35 exhibitions for 2011-12 that will reconnect museum collections with the people and communities from which they came. The SOTW project in Wales, "Bling," which examines the history of precious metals, draws on disadvantaged youths from all over the region to take the lead in creating the show. They will create connections between artifacts around the world and modern fashions.
While community disengagement affects the small or mid-size museum more immediately, even singular, encyclopedic destinations such as New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art are not immune, says director Thomas Campbell. Noting the problems inherent in making a collection of well over 2 million objects in some 20 databases accessible and engaging to every type of visitor, Mr. Campbell says the Met has just launched a two-year initiative to redesign its website to, among other things, allow users to "tag" and create dialogues around individual pieces in the museum. "We're working hard to appeal not just to the sophisticated museum visitor, but the beginner as well," he adds.
Engaged participation, the key to developing community, is a lesson that is now tumbling from the education wings of many museums into mainstream curatorial practices, says Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) curator Charlotte Cotton. "Our education wings have always known the importance of hands-on learning because they deal with schoolchildren," says Ms. Cotton, but now "the larger museum world is seeing that we're all dealing with education with a soft 'e.' "
The new LACMA mandate is to be seen as a "town center," she says, a locale in which every segment of the city's population plays a part. She points to last November's Machine Project event as a tipping point in the museum's journey to a new relationship with the town. It was a day-long "art happening," in which artists traipsed through galleries filled with more than 5,000 visitors, inventing as they progressed.
"There were a lot of concerns from people within the museum about vandalism and damage, but it turned out wonderfully, and nothing was hurt," Cotton says. She actively seeks ways to incorporate community input as part of the curatorial message of a show. This past year, she oversaw "Urban Light," a permanent installation of 202 vintage streetlamps along the museum's facade. Angelenos began photographing the lamps, and soon LACMA realized it had an event on its hands and organized an online competition. The best photos subsequently were compiled into a print-on-demand book, still available online.
Cotton's next show pushes the vision of shared curatorial input even further. "Eat LACMA," which launches next spring, will invite groups citywide to create food diaries to be used to create an art event drawing on food themes in the museum's collections. "Eat" will culminate with a harvest festival in October.
When the Oakland Museum of California reopens in 2010 after a $56 million renovation, it will feature many participatory elements such as interactive journals, in which visitors can converse with each other and the museum curators. In an early demonstration, museum education curator Barbara Henry says these journals were "wildly popular." The team drew on lessons from an earlier show, "Cool Remixed," which tapped local at-risk youth to create exhibits based on their own experiences. Ms. Henry points out that reaching out to nontraditional audiences is vital. "If we don't cultivate these connections, we will be a dying institution of older white people," she says, noting that soon the US will be a country of majority minority populations.
As budgets have tightened throughout the ranks, museums are looking to maximize their resources, says New York Institute of Technology professor Stan Silverman. He works with museums from the Met to the smallest local institutions to give them the latest tools, such as Elluminate VCS, a new desktop videoconferencing program that allows real-time field trips for schools for not much more than the price of a USB cord. "If we can't help the next generation tap into the kind of deep learning that they need, we will lose them," he says.
Even within museum walls, technology is "teaching," enabling crowds to make connections for themselves. In Nicole Cohen's "Please Be Seated," a recent exhibit at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the artist placed white chairs in a room with monitors. Commissioned by the Getty to expand understanding of its antique furniture collections, software "placed" visitors who sat in the chairs among digital recreations of the historical milieus in which the ornate furniture collection would have existed. People could sit in the chairs and watch themselves on screen.
"It's empowering," says Ms. Cohen, by phone from Germany where she is based, "because the real chairs are too fragile to touch, but this way people can feel and see themselves in these exotic worlds where the furniture actually functioned."
Across the country, Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History is in the midst of a long-range strategic plan. Director Samuel Taylor says this generation will not get involved if it can't participate. "One of our most important recommendations will include inviting local graduate students to plan exhibitions and contribute to the curatorial process," he adds.
In one of the most extreme examples, the 40-year-old Fuller Art Museum in Brockton, Mass., closed and then, phoenixlike, reappeared as the Fuller Craft Museum, now one of the premier craft museums in the nation based on collections with established connections to a constituency. Roger Sametz, of Sametz Blackstone Associates, a marketing firm, advised on the transformation. People want a personal, relevant connection, he says, whether through technology such as Twitter or Facebook or physical participation. "It's all about making personal, meaningful connections with a community, now."


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On 10 April 2005, the Government of Nepal signed an agreement with the High Commissioner on Human Rights to establish an office with a far-reaching mandate on human rights. After the Commission for Human Rights welcomed the agreement, OHCHR deployed an assessment mission to Nepal . The High Commissioner's representative arrived in Nepal on 7 May 2005 with a small start-up team of human rights officers.
OHCHR Nepal's offices are now established in Kathmandu (central region), Nepalgunj (far-western region), Pokhara (mid-western region) and in Biratnagar (eastern region).
The Office aims to reduce impunity on both sides of the conflict by: monitoring the human rights situation and observance of international humanitarian law; investigating and verifying allegations of human rights abuses; setting up regional offices for the deployment of international human rights officers throughout the country; encouraging all relevant actors to observe international human rights law and international humanitarian law; informing the competent authorities of human rights violations and other abuses; and maintaining communication with all competent government agencies and civil society organizations.
The programme also aims to strengthen the national capacity to protect human rights by: advising the executive branch of the Government on human rights policies and how to implement them; advising the legislative and judicial branches of the Government; identifying capacity-building measures to remedy critical weaknesses; ensuring that recommendations and decisions made by United Nations bodies and organizations are taken into account by the Government; advising and assisting the National Human Rights Commission; and advising and liaising with civil society organizations on national protection mechanisms, particularly as they affect vulnerable groups.
Office staff will work with international and national organizations to build capacities in support of the peace process, coordinate activities among national and international stakeholders, and enhance the protection of internally displaced persons and children in conflict.
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The club's founder Daniel Wu will sit in on an hour of today's practice before heading to the screening of his new film "Overheard 2" at the Regal Valley River Center Stadium. Wu is visiting as a special guest of the annual Cinema Pacific Film Festival. Pictures and video will definitely follow the event, but for now here's an article highlighting Wu's visit in The Register-Guard and a 2007interview conducted by Brandon Sugiyama, another former member and coach who Wu trained.
UPDATE: A big thank you to Daniel for taking the time to visit us and. We really can't thank you enough, and it was definitely an honor and inspiration to meet you. We'd also like to thank Henry Ho for sending us pictures of the practice.


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I gave up on this game in the 16th. If only the Orioles were so sleepy, they could have been spared two further innings and grief. And, who knows, maybe if it ends in 16, Kelly Johnson here doesn't get drilled with DeJesus's helmet after a celebratory heave. But that's baseball: unpredictable. Sometimes it takes two full games to decide who wins and sometimes it doesn't even take one.
With the help of a 2-1, rain-shortened victory, the Indians could have jumped to the top of the wild card standings with a Tampa Bay loss, edging the Rays by a half game. Instead, Cleveland ousted the Rangers, who began the night tied for the wild card but lost to the Royals and now sit a half game out. The Rays, eventually, kept pace and kept the rest of the dreamers in the American League from creeping further up the standings. The Royals and Orioles are two-and-a-half games out and the Yankees three.
I don't know, either.
Not much is likely to change in the standings this weekend, though, unless two team gets particularly hot or cold; everyone is playing each other. (Except Cleveland, who are riding some kind of karmic train right through the worst teams in baseball; after they finish up with the Astros this weekend, they've got the White Sox and Twins.) Rays-O's and Royals-Rangers will make it hard for anyone to run away with a playoff spot (or lose out on one)—someone's got to win and someone's got to lose—but next week the only intra-wild-card matchup will be the Yankees and Tampa Bay. That's when moves, if they're to be made at all, will be made.
That, of course, is the genius of the second wild card spot. This weekend is likely the calm before next week's storm. The New York Yankees, who—despite Alex Rodriguez's slap grand slam last night—look like the fictionalized Indians before Jake Taylor and Wild Thing got their shit together, are still technically alive. If they can string a few hits together and hold serve they will be playing high-stakes games in the last week of the season. The Rangers, who have pissed away a six-and-a-half game lead with a 4-14 September, are still right there. The Royals—holy shit, the Royals—could be playing for a playoff spot for the first time in almost 30 years. All the Indians have to do is show up against the Sox and Twins and they'll be good to go.
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Daimler chairman Dieter Zetsche has become involved in resolving the damaging spat between warring Mercedes teammates Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton.
As team chiefs Toto Wolff, Paddy Lowe and Niki Lauda work to safeguard Mercedes' overwhelming title prospects amid an escalating driver feud, Lauda revealed that Zetsche has been moved to intervene.
"Naturally we have to report to him," the F1 legend and team chairman told the German weekly Bunte.
"We have a need for clarification. It (the F1 project) is all about building credibility for the brand."
Until now, although there have been efforts to cool the heat in the wake of last Sunday's incident, the clear finger of blame has been pointed at Rosberg for causing the lap 2 crash at Spa that left Hamilton almost 30 points behind in their title fight.
Lauda, for instance, admitted to Bunte that even the German driver's post-race explanation of what happened was "not understandable to me".
A key meeting to plot a way forward will take place at the team's Brackley base on Friday, Germany's Sport Bild reports.
"I will not be there," Lauda confirmed, "but Toto, Paddy and the two drivers will be."
It is possible that Zetsche, who has always argued against team orders, will ask for any solution to the problem to not involve ending Mercedes' policy of 'free racing'.
Indeed, on Twitter on Thursday, Mercedes asked its half-million followers to vote for either "team orders or free racing".
"This is a chance to have your say," the team tweeted.
The predictable and overwhelming response saw 92 per cent support for free racing, with Mercedes going on to ask for suggestions for potential penalties for breaching the "no contact rule".
"Would you suspend a driver for a race and not maximise constructors' points? Perhaps you'd set the order at qualifying slots?" the team twitterer wondered.
Lauda tipped Mercedes to ultimately keep the faith and refrain from playing safe and introducing team orders for the rest of the 2014 battle.
"Nothing changes," he said, "although it is important to avoid unnecessary risk.
"But I do not want to prejudge the meeting tomorrow (Friday)," Lauda added. "Let's see what the decisions look like."


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James Bond has still got it.
The iconic secret agent, who recently celebrated his 50th birthday, debuted atop the box office once again this weekend. Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig as 007 for a third time, grossed an estimated $87.8 million, according to Box Office Mojo. Skyfall broke the record previously held by Quantum of Solace for biggest opening ever for a Bond film ($67.5 million). That $87.8 million is on top of the $428.8 million Skyfall has already taken in overseas.
Coming in a distant second, Wreck-It Ralph drew $33.1 million to fall to No. 2. Flight followed in third place with $15.1 million. At No. 4 and No. 5, Argo and Taken 2 earned $6.7 million and $4 million, respectively.
Wreck-It Ralph destroys the weekend box office
At No. 6, Here Comes the Boom snatched $2.55 million. Cloud Atlas followed close behind in seventh place with $2.52 million.
Rounding out the top 10: Pitch Perfect (No. 8, $2.50 million), The Man with the Iron Fists (No. 9, $2.4 million) and Hotel Transylvania (No. 10, $2.3 million).
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The biggest addition to Rock Band 3 is Pro Mode, which essentially lets you play the game with a real guitar. We had a chance to rock out with the Fender Mustang Pro controller, a $150 peripheral from Mad Catz, and now the "realest" Pro guitar has been given a release date and price: the Squier Stratocaster from Fender.
The guitar features an Agathis wood body with a polyester finish, a maple neck with 22 frets, custom bridge pick up and truss rods, and it's compatible with Ableton Live Lite 8 recording software. The Squier will also require the Mad Catz $40 MIDI adapter that's sold separately.
The Squier is available for preorder right now, but it won't be shipped until March 1. It's exclusive to retailer Best Buy, and if you thought the Mustang was expensive, get ready for this: the Squier will run you $279.99.
March might be pretty far off, but if you're looking for the highest quality guitar to play Pro Mode with, it looks like this may be your best option. You can pre-order the Squier here.


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In its 10th edition this year, the Vertical Blue competition is comprised of three depth disciplines: Constant Weight, Constant No-Fins and Free Immersion (CWT, CNF, FIM respectively). #VB2017 is an AIDA sanctioned event which offers competitors six official dives to challenge themselves to obtain the coveted title of "Champion" at the most elite freediving competition in the world.
William's rival in free immersion, Miguel Lozano of Spain, will also be on hand to conquer new territory, as well as diving legends Davide Carrera & Homar Leuci of Italy. Heating things up for the ladies are world record holder Sayuri Kinoshita of Japan and first-time attendee (but renowned Italian mistress of the deep) Alessia Zecchini.
Over the course of the next 10 days freediving fans around the globe can watch the record-breaking battles among the world's most talented athletes, who are literally pushing the limits on what was once thought impossible for the human body to do.
Stay tuned here and via the Suunto Diving + Vertical Blue Facebook pages, the VB event website, Suunto & VB Instagram, the VB Youtube Channel, Trubridge's Twitter feed as well as the Vertical Blue twitter handle & hashtags #VB2017 and #verticalblue for a live feed from the platform, amazing videos & images and results.
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As promised! It's my first day back from vacation, and it's a new year, and I'm about to fulfill my resolution of creating a FAQ thread that people can refer to in order to figure out how to do stuff.
Since I don't want a FAQ thread to be bogged down by discussion, I'm going to create this thread for people to post questions they have about how to use the new babble software, or to post suggestions for things they think we should include in the FAQ thread.
Then I'm going to create the actual FAQ thread itself, make it "sticky", keep it limited to moderators only, and post instructions there, based on the questions and suggestions we get in this thread.
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Followed by the One-Hour LIVE Reunion Show, Hosted by Jeff Probst
The winners of THE AMAZING RACE and SURVIVOR: BLOOD vs. WATER will each be revealed in special two-hour finales in December.
The season finale of THE AMAZING RACE will be broadcast Sunday, Dec. 8 (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT). The final four Teams start in Tokyo where they'll find themselves rolling through a human bowling competition and stripping down for a phone call at the bottom of a giant fish bowl. Ultimately, the final three Teams will sprint to the finish line in Alaska for the one million dollar prize. This season's edition is averaging 9.67 million viewers, 2.4/06 in adults 18-49 and 3.2/07 in adults 25-54.
After a battle consisting of former players competing with - and against - their loved ones, the sole Survivor will be named on the finale of SURVIVOR: BLOOD vs. WATER, Sunday Dec. 15 (8:00-10:00PM ET/PT). The finale will be followed by the one-hour live reunion show, hosted by Jeff Probst, where all the castaways and their loved ones will be reunited for the first time to share their thoughts on the season.
SURVIVOR is the #2-ranked reality franchise on broadcast television in adults 18-49, winning its time period in viewers (10.86m), adults 25-54 (4.0/11) and adults 18-49 (3.0/09).
Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster, Jonathan Littman, Elise Doganieri and Mark Vertullo are the executive producers for Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Earthview Inc. in association with ABC Studios and Amazing Race Productions. Phil Keoghan hosts. THE AMAZING RACE was created by Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri. THE AMAZING RACE is a nine-time Emmy Award winner for "Outstanding Reality Competition Program."
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Wow! Google's Awesome New Maternity Leave Policies
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It's a good time to work at Google. The company has changed its maternity leave policy, in hopes of keeping more women with the company.
This change came after executives realized there were far fewer women working for the company than men. After data analysis, Google's execs pinpointed two big issues that influenced women to leave the company or not accept a job there. One was being unsatisfied with the maternity leave situation. The other was the lack of interaction with other female employees.
The New York Times reports that number of women leaving the company after having a child was twice that of other employees. As a response, Google increased the maternity leave from three months to five months. The company also changes its pay policy, providing women on maternity leave with full pay. As a result, the number of women leaving decreased by 50 percent.
The extended maternity leave adds to Google's other family friendly benefits. New dads can take up to seven weeks of paid paternity leave. The company also provides a $500 stipend for takeout meals after baby's born (love that!) and offers dry cleaning at the office so families don't have to run one extra errand outside work hours. What more could a new mom want?
How does your maternity policy compare to Google's? Did it affect your decision to accept a job or to return after baby's birth?


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I'm not sure if you meant to say objective reality. I'm assuming you meant conventional or relative reality. In any case, Mahayana doctrine states that buddhas perceive both conventional and ultimate reality simultaneously. They know the true nature of all phenomena and all knowable things at once. When we explain conventional and ultimate reality, we have to split them up and explain them separately because it is beyond the capacity of the conceptual mind to know their inseparability, as it is. This can be "known" by non-dual, non-conceptual primordial wisdom only. So, in fact, this "ultimate truth" we speak of by separating conventional and ultimate to explain the two is really only an "approximate ultimate," which some masters do call it, and the non-conceptual inseparability of conventional and ultimate is the "actual ultimate truth."Dexing wrote: How many different explanations of that have we heard?? At the end, everyone still says form is always objective reality, only...
This isn't saying anything different than what I said. The forms clearly appear, but they do not truly exist by their own power. Therefore they are emptiness. The fact that forms do appear means emptiness is form. In the same way, sounds are clearly heard, but cannot be found to be existing from their own side. Therefore they are emptiness. It can't be denied that they are heard though, so emptiness is sound.Dexing wrote: But here is what the Shurangama Sutra has to say on the Form Skandha;
This is the proper understanding of "form is emptiness, emptiness is form".Shurangama Sutra: Chapter 2 wrote:Ananda, suppose a person with clear vision were to gaze at clear bright space. His gaze would perceive only clear emptiness devoid of anything else. Then if that person for no particular reason fixed his gaze, the staring would cause fatigue. Thus in empty space he would see illusory flowers and other illusory and disordered unreal appearances. You should be aware that the form skandha is like that.
I would pay more attention to this statement, in light of the above.Pema Rigdzin wrote:One one will certainly not find any truly existing, immutable particles, much less clay or cups.
The last comment of mine that you quoted doesn't contradict the Shurangama sutra at all. I simply said that no truly existing particles, truly existing clay, or truly existing cups will be found through analysis aimed at the ultimate.


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On October 1, 2011, "redesignated" HUBZone areas will expire. These areas were previously set to expire at earlier dates, but in 2004, Congress extended and "grandfathered" their HUBZone status until the results of the 2010 Census were published. The original "redesignated" expiration date was June 1, 2011, but it was extended and now will take effect on October 1, 2011. The Small Business Administration is encouraging all currently-certified HUBZone concerns to assess the impact expiration of "redesignated" areas will have on their eligibility to remain in the HUBZone program, whether a concern's principal office is currently located in a "redesignated" area or if it relies upon the employment of residents in redesignated areas to meet the "35%" rule.
The HUBZone program does not require termination of existing HUBZone contracts if a concern is no longer eligible after October 1, 2011. However, because a concern must be properly certified and eligible as of the date (a) it submitted its initial offer for the contract and (b) the date the contract was awarded, expiration of "redesignated" areas may impact pending offers. Also, regardless of whether a current HUBZone concern has an offer pending for a federal contract, it must always notify the SBA of any "material" change which could impact its HUBZone eligibility. Firms that will no longer qualify for the HUBZone program as of October 1, 2011, can voluntarily de-certify. If that is not done, the SBA will send proposed de-certification letters which must be responded to within thirty (30) days.
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Here's another alternative for DH/Freeride body armor.
I just picked one up from Nathan (owner and nice guy) off Ebay because this appears to be one of the few ones with Collar Bone protection. I'm not sure if this will make it a bit warmer I presume since quite a bit of heat escapes around the neck and shoulder area, but, I don't want to break a collar bone either! It also protects the lower rib area pretty well too as well as the scapula area. The back does not use the articulated plastic like some do but still has excellent padding and it keeps the jacket light .
I've got a couple of rides on it and it was pretty cool. I almost didn't notice it after a while. It's also got a double sided zipper which is nice. It's also very light for free ride and weighs about half as much as the Fox Launch Suit. It doesn't have the full arms but I like being able to run without them or take them off easily so I use the 661 full forearm pads. I think it compares a bit more to the 661 Jacket really and has the shoulder pads which are plastic and that's exactly what I wanted.
I emailed mtbr.com to have them put it up for review because I think this is a nice alternative to some of the bigger guys and has some unique features. They also make other armor products as well such as shorts, knee pads, and elbow pads. I would say that the sizing runs a tad small as I considered myself at the bottom end of a large and it fits pretty snug. Use the sizing guide as it was pretty accurate.
If you're interested or have questions, shoot Nathan an email at [email protected]. He answered my questions immediately. I also called him to check on sizing and he picked up immediately which was nice. He's in San Ramon so if you're a CA DH guy like me, you'll have it in a day or two at most!


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El Gran Escape: Mass Prison Break On Texas Border
132 inmates escape through tunnel in Mexico.
Sept. 18, 2012 -- Authorities have launched a massive manhunt for more than 130 inmates who made a daring daylight escape from a Mexican prison using a tunnel equipped with ropes and electric cables.
More than half of those who escaped from the prison in Piedras Negras, just across the border from Eagle Rock Texas, were serving time for federal crimes, including drug trafficking. Though drug gangs are often tied to prison escapes in Mexico, authorities have not yet linked the escape to a specific gang.
The attorney general of Coahuila state, Homero Ramos Gloria, said that three employees of the prison, including the director, were being questioned about the potential involvement of staff in the mass break-out. According to Mexican media reports, a dozen guards were also detained.
Ramos told a Mexican television station that the 21-foot-long tunnel, which was four feet in diameter , "was not made today. It had been there for months." Ropes and electric cables were also found nearby.
"We have 132 inmates escaping through a tunnel," said Ramos, "and it doesn't make sense." The number has also been reported as 129 and 134 in the Mexican press.
According to Mexican media reports, the escape occurred just after 2 p.m. Monday and took 15 minutes. The inmates overpowered guards in the prison's watchtowers, escaped through the tunnel and cut through a chain link fence into a vacant lot. No alert was sounded until an hour after the inmates, who represented a fifth of the prison's total population, had escaped.
More than 5,000 police and soldiers are now searching for the escapees. In an emailed statement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it had been made aware of the escape and was in touch with Mexican officials.
"CBP is aware of the reported jail break in Northern Mexico, and out of an abundance of caution, has placed its officers and agents in the Eagle Pass, Texas area on alert," said spokesman Dennis Smith. "At this point, CBP has no reports of escapees attempting to cross the border."
"We remain in communication with our law enforcement partners in Mexico and maintain a shared interest in keeping our mutual border secure," said Smith.
In 2010, more than 150 inmates broke out of a prison in Nuevo Laredo, across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. Forty-one guards were charged with aiding in that escape, the largest in Mexico in recent years.
During a 2009 escape at a prison in Zacatecas, 30 men dressed as federal police officers raided the prison and liberated more than 50 members of the Zetas drug gang.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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The Human Factor: Chapter FourWednesday, September 7, 2016
Photograph: Jim Harris
And Then it Bites—by David Page
ADAM CLARK is a world-class ski photographer who lives down the hill from McLean in Salt Lake City, in a scruffy old suburban neighborhood set at the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon. His friends call him A.C. He has an overgrown apricot tree in his backyard, a deck in the front with no railing that features two reclining camp chairs with an unobstructed sunset view, a spare room for his camera gear and another in the basement that he lends or rents to pro athletes and other friends passing through. Like McLean, Clark has skied all over the world. He's spent enough time in big terrain to know his way around avalanche paths. According to his editors, he's not only one of the best photographers in the business, he's also one of the most thoughtful and cautious.
Last winter, on a sunny day in early December, Clark got up early and drove to Alta. He skied all day with friends and shot some photos in 16 to 24 inches of blower pow. "It was all time," he told me. "All smiles." In the afternoon, he met up with Kalen Thorien, another local pro, and Amie Engerbretson, who came out from drought-ridden Tahoe to host the 14th Annual Powder Awards. They got some great shots off the top of the Wildcat lift. The light just kept getting better. "We were on the wave of a perfect powder day," Clark recalled. "We didn't want to quit."
He suggested they head to Grizzly Gulch, whose north-facing lines just above the parking lot catch late afternoon light. Amie was ready. This is sweet, she thought. Kalen got a POWDER cover shot there in 2012. And so did Caroline Gleich the following year. It seemed like a recipe for magic.
They stopped by the car to grab their backcountry packs. Clark didn't have his: no beacon, no shovel, no probe. He'd read the forecast that morning, calling for extreme avalanche danger on north-facing slopes above 8,000 feet but hadn't planned on going out of bounds. He didn't think of Grizzly Gulch as avalanche terrain. It was so small, so close. He'd skied it hundreds of times, ever since he was a kid, and had never seen it slide. And yet in retrospect the terrain trap is deadly obvious, a series of steep rollovers funneling into a deep creek bed.
"What was I thinking?" he said to me later. "How did I get to this conclusion that we should be skiing on this terrain that nobody should've been skiing on?"
It wasn't even a 10-minute hike from the car. At the top of the boot track, Amie and Kalen got ready, and then Kalen realized that she didn't have her beacon in her pack. Clark skied a few turns down to set up below a clump of pines. There was an avalanche course in progress just above them, on the slope facing the ski area. Across the ravine, a pair of backcountry skiers paused to watch. One of them pulled out his phone to get some video. "That is not a good slope to ski," he said to his buddy.
Clark called 10 seconds on the radio. Amie had offered to let Kalen go first because she'd done it before and knew exactly where to sink the turn. But Kalen wanted Amie to get the shot. "Dropping!" shouted Amie, straightlining down along the ridge, under the powerlines, to get speed for the turn. With Clark's camera clicking away, Amie nailed the perfect deep-pow turn in the perfect spot. And then, with all her momentum scrubbed, the slope shattered beneath her.
To read the rest of The Human Factor: Chapter 4, visit http://www.powder.com/human-factor/#


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Recommended Prospects, Recommended Reading (Updated)
Funny that with all the big names moving before the deadline, the number of primo prospects was actually pretty low. I was particularly unimpressed with what the Indians got for Cliff Lee (and Ben Francisco) although I am only about ten percent insufficiently skeptical to address the Lee deal as I did the McLouth one – that the trading team was selling a guy, if not at peak value, then at the last moment he would be seriously overvalued, and were doing well to get anything hopeful back.
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I hope that Appel's book also serves the purpose of detailing the "real" Munson: a proud man, a great player, a devoted family man, but also a troglodyte in some ways. I've noticed a tendency to make him a nicer guy than he actually was. Ideally, it's a warts-and-all portrait.
But, Keith, you open yourself up to an argument. Granting Kirby Higbe's wonderful book–Higbe was a great pitcher and probably a greater character–some would point to Jim Bouton's Ball Four as a more important book and possibly a greater book. Any thoughts?
And it's too late to make lame jokes about watching Blake DeWitt play the Cards on the shores of Lake DeWitt in St. Louis.
The Pirates fans who actually understand what the front office is doing–in that they are only trading players who wouldn't have been more than bit players on the next contending team anyway–applaud the trades, especially the Sanchez-for-Alderson one. (What was Sabean thinking?) Of course, most of us probably also subscribe to Baseball Prospectus or similar publication, so we're bound to have a bit of a different take on things than the average "Can't we just break the losing streak?" fan. And we remember the Tony Pena for Lavalliere, Van Slyke, and Dunne trade and know that sometimes you have to trade your best player to get the next division champ in return.
Of course, we also understand that we may have gotten a lot of nothing out of those trades, too. Basically all of the players have question marks surrounding them, reasons that the other team was willing to give them up. Are Clement's knees so bad that he won't be able to play the field anymore? Can Milledge finally leave his attitude behind and play some ball?
You should read "Faith & Fear In Flushing." It's by one of the writers at the great Mets blog of the same name and it captures the heart of being a true fan.
Indeed, it's Francisco of Frisco, but that's the Rangers AA affiliate. AAA is in Oklahoma City.
… but it's never too late to go on a tangent and make lame jokes about former MLB players (& brothers) Herb and Chan Perry, who both work in the family bovine concern in northern Florida … the Perry Dairy. (I can only hold out hope that someday Braves pitcher John Halama will start a llama ranch.)
The high praise for Justin Masterson is comforting; it wasn't a good couple of days for Indians fans. Saturday night was (naturally) Victor Martinez bobblehead night at Progressive Field, and then to read Keith's assessment of the Cliff Lee/Ben Francisco deal … oy, while you're at it, why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it?
Ideally, I hope that Masterson's capacity for inspiring hope in others will also work on a civic level. In almost every way — not just sports — Cleveland is a city in desperate need of hope and confidence.
JoPo has a new book coming out, which is worth the time reading for any baseball lover…
Oh, great. I've spent the past two weeks away from the computer, clearing through a fraction of my book collection, culling, cataloging, making decisions to get rid of quite a few baseball titles, and now three recommendations! I've got to have the Polo Grounds title for my Giants collection. *shakes fist at Keith*
My goodness, I missed the Munson anniversary. My dad & I were on a summer road trip; I was twelve, and we were in a little burg in Eastern Oregon when the news came on TV. I'd cheered like hell for the Yankees against the Dodgers in the '77 Series and had gotten to "know" Munson then. It was devastating news to me, and years later when the newspaper clipping of his death showed up in the final shot of Bull Durham, I wept. The power of baseball…


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07 January 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Aussie firm Mayne to acquire GSK's Kapanol
Kapanol is a modified release oral opioid used for the relief of chronic, moderate to severe pain
Singapore: Australia's Mayne Pharma plans to acquire Kapanol and related assets in Australia from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
Under the terms of the agreement, Mayne Pharma will acquire the Kapanol trademark, marketing authorisations, product dossier, technical data and product inventory. The existing licence arrangement between Mayne Pharma and GSK will be amended so that Mayne Pharma acquires the rights to sell Kapanol in Australia.
Kapanol is a modified release oral opioid used for the relief of chronic, moderate to severe pain. Mayne Pharma originally developed Kapanol in the 1990s in collaboration with GSK and currently manufactures the product for GSK which distributes it in Australia and other international markets. For the 12 months to 31 October 2012, Kapanol generated gross sales of A$5.5 million in Australia.
Mayne Pharma CEO Mr Scott Richards said, "Kapanol represents a natural bolt-on opportunity for Mayne Pharma enabling us to now market and distribute this product in Australia in addition to manufacturing it. We know the product well and have been manufacturing the product for GSK for almost 20 years. We are very attracted by the underlying fundamentals of the opioid analgesic market and see Kapanol as providing the foundation to establishing a specialty product franchise in Australia."
"Kapanol provides us with the necessary scale to invest in a sales force which will reinvigorate sales of Kapanol and support our other existing products such as Astrix, Doryx, Eryc, and Magnoplasm, as well as positioning Mayne Pharma as a more attractive in-licensing partner for international specialty pharmaceutical companies and their products," added Mr Richards.


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Canada's Fura Gems eyes foray into Indian gems market
India is the third largest jewellery consuming country in the world and a hub for gemstones.
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In this strategy guide, you'll learn how to organize students and instruction to establish a sense of purpose for reading authentic texts in the content areas.
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Content area teachers in middle and high schools face sometimes misguided pressure from administrators to include more reading in their instructional activities. While its likely that being asked to read (with reasonable support) in every classroom would improve standardized test scores, thats a side benefit to the real reasons to make sure that reading is a part of students content area learning.
- Reading is a way to gain exposure to and develop tentative understandings of content. Teacher talk, even when supported by audiovisual aids, tends to dominate content area instructionoften at the expense of engaged student learning. Reading diverse and provocative texts from your content gives students another way to interact with the key information and ideas about which theyre learning.
- Reading is vital means of exposing learners to what thinking in your content area looks and sounds like. Exposing students to well-chosen readings lets students in on important conversations in your field and provides models of what it means to think and talk like a scientist, historian, psychologist, musician, and so forth.
- Asking students to read widelybeyond the textbookis a highly regarded strategy of giving students access to the language and ideas that all students need to be successful in school and beyond. Teachers dont have enough time to tell student everything they need to know, and students cant learn it well enough just by listening and writing.
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Students are unlikely to be convinced or adequately motivated by these pedagogical reasons for reading in every content area classroom. Teachers need to set authentic purposes for reading that pique students curiosity and prepare them for the information ideas theyre going to read about.
- Offer students the chance to read beyond the textbook. Popular content area journals, newspapers, trade nonfiction, and online resources provide teachers with access to reading material that can provide depth, authenticity, and timeliness that textbooks simply cannot. Work with colleagues who teach the same course or in your department to establish a library of texts that engages students in the key ideas and information of your content.
- Have students participate in setting purposes for reading by using anticipation guides . After youve selected a text for students to read, go over it carefully and make a list of the key ideas they will encounter. Provide students with a list of statements based on your list and have them rate their level of agreement or disagreement before they read. (This guide then becomes a powerful tool for assessing learning or changed attitudes after reading and discussion as well).
- Focus on surprising facts or information, controversial ideas or points of view, and content about which students likely have misconceptions. In preparation for a reading on bacteria and viruses in a biology class, for example, students might be asked to respond to statements such as A typical square inch of human skin hosts thousands of bacteria, A population is stronger when there are a number of viral and bacterial diseases present within it, and Viruses can be killed using antibiotics. Students could then assess their beliefs after reading the article or chapter, noting the sections in the text that influences their thinking.
- Organize the classroom to motivate reading and discussion. Use a technique such as jigsawing to create an authentic knowledge gap in your classroom. Have small groups of students read and discuss a handful of different texts with complementary or contrasting views on a question or issue from your content area (differing points of view on the American Revolution; multiple reviews of a book, film, piece of music or art; sections of a chapter that can be understood independently). Then reshape the groups to include students who have each read one of the different texts. Students are then challenged to share an overview of their reading and synthesize the varying content they collectively read.
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On April 3, Mike Torres announced on Windows Blogs that the SkyDrive app for iOS was updated to v3.0 and was available in the iTunes store.
Some of the changes and additions in this update are:
- Support for iPhone 5 and iPad Mini
- Updated app icons and user experience
- Works better with your photos:
- Download full resolution photos to your iPhone or iPad
- Control the size of photos you upload and download
- Photo metadata is retained when you upload to SkyDrive
- Opening and saving files to SkyDrive works better with other apps on your iOS devices
- Many other small changes, bug fixes and performance improvements
Given that the last update to the app was about a year ago, this news is very welcome for those who use SkyDrive.
What was not mentioned in the change log was that the option to buy additional storage on SkyDrive has been removed. This is because as per Apple's App Store policies, if any app provides such functionality or even a link to their own site, the company has to pay 30% fee to Apple.
In fact, it is widely believed that the app was held back from being released because the negotiations between Microsoft and Apple were not going anywhere. Microsoft was trying to convince Apple that this is a special case and they should not be charged the 30% fee for the functionality. Clearly, Apple did not budge and Microsoft had to remove the link.
However, the silver lining here is now that Microsoft has published the SkyDrive app, we may not be too far away from Office on iOS making its appearance. The generally believed theory among those who watch Microsoft is that Office on iOS (specifically, iPad) is going to be free apps with read-only functionality unless a user has a Office 365 subscription. If they sign in with their Microsoft account tied to the subscription, they will be able to edit the Office files on iPhone and iPad. Given how important the "real" Office is for consumers and enterprises alike, it is natural that Microsoft would not want to pay 30% of the entire Office 365 subscription fee to Apple. Here's hoping there was a good deal worked out between Cupertino and Redmond so end users like us can finally see Word, Excel, PowerPoint (and wishfully thinking, Outlook) on the iPad.
Do you use SkyDrive? Do you use it on iPhone/iPad? What do you think of the latest update? Let me know!
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Not the Religious Type
- Dave Schmelzer Author
- 2008 3 Jul
I'm in the middle of the novel How to Be Good, by Nick Hornby, and I can't say I'm enjoying it as much as I'd hoped to. It's about a demoralized London doctor and her angry husband, who undergoes a strange conversion and becomes utterly good—selfless, concerned about the wider world, sacrificial. But rather than being comic, as Hornby customarily—and brilliantly—is, he strikes me here as grim. The world he paints offers two choices for our lives: guilt-ridden, culturally savvy liberalism or humorless, scarcity-obsessed goodness. It's as if we can (a) write for the New Yorker or (b) lead the Bolshevik Revolution.
Not that this has an entirely unfamiliar feel to me. In my teen atheist years, my mom tried to convince me to go to church because it could offer me "a good thought for the week." She's a great lady, but this didn't do it for me. Like all people, I was already sold on my goodness, if not my happiness. (Al Capone infamously saw himself as a selfless champion of the little people.)
Of the hundreds of people I've seen encounter God over the last few years, one thing nearly all of them have in common is that they never—never—saw themselves as the religious type. I live in the shadow of Harvard, where almost no one sees himself or herself as the religious type. (A 1995 survey—hard to pin down but widely quoted—found that only 2 percent of folks living in my city went to church on a given week, compared to 35 to 40 percent nationwide.) But my friends would, almost to a one, tell you that what's happened to them has had very little to do with making them better people, as happy as that thought might be.
For instance, I asked some of them to take a minute and write down what has happened to them on a napkin-sized piece of paper. I got responses like this:
"Me before: No friends, into pornography, broken marriage, horribly burdened at work, couldn't sleep at night, detached from my own emotions, complete lack of hope for the future, favorite saying (no joke): 'Every day is worse than the one before.'
"Me after: Great friends, incredible hope, sexually pure, conversations with my Creator, sleeping eight hours a night, improved relationship with my ex-wife, have seen my family find God, seeking God's will in my life and knowing he will fulfill it."
"I prayed that I would be healed from anorexia and am now at a healthy weight and have rejoined the track and cross-country teams at my college."
"I found out that my aunt and uncle's marriage was unraveling due to an affair. I fasted and prayed for them. After thirty-eight days, I was contacted by my uncle. He was about to sign a lease on an apartment to move in with his lover. Before he could sign, he felt an almost audible voice in his head say, "stop." He went back to my aunt and started to see how their marriage could be saved. She found a way to forgive him. He was calling me to find out whether this voice was Jesus. It's been about three years and my aunt and uncle are happily together (and my eleven-year-old cousin is doing great). They are both following God now and have since then encouraged me in faith."
When people find out where I live and the types of people I spend my days talking to, they assume that I have a lot of heady conversations about truth and proofs and theorems. But I really don't have heady conversations very often (though I am trying to learn a little more about physics so I can nod at the right place in conversations).
What I do talk about again and again is one particularly depressing day I had as an atheist when I spun around to see if there was anything else out there—and seemed to slam straight into a God bent on giving me all sorts of incredible and unexpected things.
I recently was reminded about a Hebrew word—hesed—that, when applied to God, gets translated as "mercy" or "kindness" and tells us two things: (1) God will keep his end of the deal, and (2) God will blow us away with shocking acts of kindness, love, and power when we least expect them. My friends and I tell stories along these lines quite a bit.
I've got a lot of problems, trivial and otherwise, as I'll talk about soon enough. So on the mundane side, I used to be thinner than I am now, which feels discouraging. And then there was the day when my baby daughter went from being this vibrant little girl to being—as I was told by the cardiologist who checked her in—maybe the sickest child in a hospital where people bring the sickest kids from all over the world.
And you've probably noticed that the world has a lot of problems. I've spent time in Lebanon, and I have a few friends there. As I write this, Lebanon is being bombed into rubble, and I'm getting e-mails each day about my friends' harrowing attempts to get out of the country alive. You've noticed similarly wrenching items in your morning paper. In the face of problems like this, perhaps the only appropriate response would be a permanently furrowed brow, as if God himself must live a righteously grim life.
And yet there are very few times when, as I'm lying down for the night, I don't think about what's happened to me and shake my head in wonder. How I got to this point has felt like one strange journey.
From Not the Religious Type. Copyright © 2008 by Dave Schmelzer. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188.


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IndyCar releases Lotus from engine supply contract
IndyCar has released Lotus from its contract, leaving Chevrolet and Honda as the only two engine suppliers for the upcoming season.
Lotus struggled tremendously in its debut season, and was down to only one team after the Indianapolis 500.
Lotus chief operating officer Aslam Farikullah said Friday the decision to ask to be released from its IndyCar contract was not easy, and the manufacturer has not ruled out someday returning to the series. He said Lotus will focus for now on core businesses, including its sports cars.
Lotus entered IndyCar late and was never on the same pace as Chevy or Honda. It opened the season with five cars, but was not competitive and all but one team defected before the 500.


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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
My potential new favorite TV show Nashville will finally premiere on ABC on Oct. 10. And one of the stars, Hayden Panettiere, claims that her character is nothing like Taylor Swift, even though that's the gossip on the street.
"I've heard the Taylor Swift [comparison] quite a bit. I think aside from being about the same age and blond — and not even the same height at all! — once you get to see Juliette you'll disagree wholeheartedly. I think Taylor would disagree. She's much nicer than my character," Panettiere said at a press event.
I've never thought Panettiere was going to play a version of Swift, because I'm so convinced she is going to play a version of Chiles Stanton from the Country Strong movie. Remember her? The snotty, back-stabbing beauty with so much to learn, played by Leighton Meester?
Yes, I firmly believe that Nashville is going to play out like a sequel to Country Strong and I cannot wait. Connie Britton plays the industry veteran Rayna James, just like Gwyneth Paltrow played Kelly Canter. And hopefully, as long as I'm drawing film-to-TV comparisons, Eric Close will play the level-headed husband as well as Tim McGraw did.


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The Crisper Whisperer: Go Stuff a Squash, Why Don't You
Cook through your crisper surplus with ease.
You may know Carolyn Cope as Umami Girl. She stops by on Tuesdays with ideas on preparing the abundance of fruits and vegetables you might get from your CSA or the market. —The Mgmt.
Let me begin by saying this: If you're a squash, you'd better start sleeping with one eye open. And if you wake up in the morning full of savory, custardy bread cubes or currant-studded farro, don't say you weren't warned. At least you'll finally agree with me that it ain't called dressing.
It's not a novel concept, stuffing squash. But I don't think enough people do it on a regular basis, given how easily it elevates an otherwise simple meal to something-special status. I know I haven't always thought to do it as often as I could. But look out, squash. Those days are over. You won't be overlooked, or under-stuffed, again.
Speaking of overlooked and under-stuffed, how about those vegetarians on Thanksgiving, eh? (See how I did that just then?) They're the reason I've been thinking about stuffed squash more than usual recently. Instead of encouraging the beloved veg-heads at your Thanksgiving table to "just pick the bacon out of the Brussels sprouts," wouldn't it be nice to present them with an all-out meatless main dish in the shape of a cartoon flower, like it's no big thing? Who wouldn't be thankful for that?
The beauty of winter squash stuffing is that it's just as flexible as stuffing itself.
Start with the squash. If there's a variety of edible winter squash that doesn't lend itself to stuffing, I'm not familiar with it. Small squash such as the sweet dumplings pictured above, delicata, and acorn squash are perfectly sized for individual portions of savory stuffings. If your stuffing contains some protein, like nuts, eggs, or quinoa, you've arguably got a whole meal in one gorgeous, edible bowl—not that I'd ever be caught dead recommending anyone forgo side dishes on Thanksgiving. Larger squash, especially those with thicker skins, like sugar pumpkins, kabochas, and their many relatives, can be hollowed out and used to serve soups and stews whose ingredients include the squash flesh. I know you already know that, but when was the last time you actually did it?
For most squash, the least wasteful and most convenient method of prepping is to cut the squash in half. For oblong squashes such as butternuts and delicatas, cutting from stem end to root end is the only viable choice. But for acorns, dumplings, and other rounder varieties, you can also cut across the middle to yield a prettier cross-section. Just trim a thin slice off the pointy end, and trim the stem if necessary, to create a stable base. Remove the seeds and pulp, and you're ready to roast.
To roast, preheat the oven to 400°F with a rack in the center. Lightly oil the cut sides of the squash, and place them cut-side down in a roasting pan just big enough to accommodate them. Roast until the flesh is fork tender, anywhere from a half-hour to an hour or more, depending on the size of the squash. If you want to bake your stuffing in the squash, chances are you'll still need to start the squash on its own and flip and stuff it partway through, according to the cooking time on the stuffing recipe.
The delicate flavors of most winter squash can accommodate a wide variety of stuffings. Two of my favorite bread-based vegetarian stuffings, which would stuff a squash beautifully on Thanksgiving, are this one and this one.
What about you? Are you a squash stuffer? If so, please share your best squash stuffing tips in the comments.
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|2009-08-02, 05:45
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Age: 35
Fate/Stay Night - Unlimited Blade Works Movie
This is thought to be an Anime, but all that is really known is that a site has been launched with the non-gears "Unlimited Blade Works" backdrop (without any characters present) with a "more information later" message.
The choice in backdrop could be either very telling or a red herring... no hard information being available as of yet.
|2009-08-02, 06:27
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Age: 31
this is going to be a joyride if they do an adaption on one of the other routes from the VN. or heck, even the prequel to fate/stay night. can you imagine how awesome that would be? but here is to hoping they don't hire the same people who did the episodes for the TV series. everything was just a mess on trying to combine all three routes into one with some scenes here and there.
|2009-08-02, 06:45
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The Shadow of Twilight
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btw, does anyone know what the icon "for mobile" in the left down corner means?
|2009-08-02, 07:58
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Junior Member
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Age: 35
Well, this is getting even more hopeful, but they could go the Kara no Kyoukai route and make it a movie series.
|2009-08-02, 08:23
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Koh nara dekiru!!!
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Location: August 17th - 31st
|2009-08-02, 08:51
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Mad Scientist #0000
There's many possibilites for the movie:
A.)UBW one which the mayority believes.
B.)Heavens Feel(If we neglect the background pic)
C.)anime-original story, including the mixture of the route.(for example a HF-UBW mix, instead of the Fate-UBW mix in the TV series)
D.)Archer's route. A story telling us how did the Holy Grail War happen in his world.
I really hope it'll be a HF one. Because this is the only route didn't shown outside of the game. Fate has most of the anime. UBW has a whole manga, but HF has nothing(That "Dark sakura" scene in the anime was a mayor dissapointment). I know, HF's going to be depressing and angsty, but that's why it would be good. It's a nice change compared to the lighter aura of the other two stories.
|2009-08-02, 11:01
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Not an expert on things
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|2009-08-02, 12:34
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Bittersweet Distractor
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 28
UBW was my favorite route, though HF is a close second. If they just choose to reanimate Fate I would get pissed. I've always felt Fate was the weakest arc.
Besides the awesome fights and great display of GAR, I also like UBW because Shirou ends up with Rin, so I guess I a little biased.
According to the game though, HF is the true ending of Fate Stay Night....
|2009-08-02, 12:44
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Mad Scientist #0000
(sorrily, for Sakura-chan) No. All of them(Fate, UBW, HF, Hollow Antarxia, Archer's, Illya's dropped one) are somewhat equally cannon. All of them are paralell words. Like in UBW Shirou 's training were more successfull than in Fate or HF. Or Shirou's feelings regarding Sakura in HF. They're happenings before the start of the story, so there's no way for them happening because of your actions in the game.
Anyways, I thought HF was the most rational one. Especially the finale.
|2009-08-02, 13:10
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King of Heroes
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Age: 34
I always thought Fate was the best arc. I haven't gotten to HF though. But it feels like a lot of the fleshing out they do in the other routes are only possible because they've already established the world like they do in the Fate arc.
|2009-08-02, 13:40
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Mad Scientist #0000
Interesting, but this isn't the game discussion thread. I think we should continue the discussion(if you want to) in the Game thread or the general discussion.
Anyways, HF is the most serious of the 3 routes with a more maturely acting Shirou. And the creators designed the game that way to every new route builds on the previous one. So they're leaving out detailed developments and explanations already included in the previous routes and they only imply or briefly mention them. So if you have the game then try HF out too. I think HF is a route advisedn to finish twice because you start to see things differently and notice things after you know some details.
|2009-08-02, 15:15
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Homo Ludens
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Canada
Age: 31
I'd vastly prefer an HF movie to an UBW movie, but considering how popular UBW is I think that's what we'll be getting.
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Happy Birthday Vincent Van Gogh! The Impressionist master was born 159 years ago today in 1853 and what a better present than to give the world another Van Gogh painting.
Researchers in the Netherlands recently confirmed that a painting long to be thought to be done by an anonymous artist is a genuine Van Gogh.
Authenticity was disputed because of a number of uncharacteristic qualities including the large scale of the piece and the busyness of the brush work. Deep x-ray technology has revealed that the large floral painting was painted over a depiction of two wrestlers. Experts suspect Vincent painted the underlying work during his time of study at the Antwerp Academy. Letters to Vincent's brother Theo confirmed that he did indeed make paintings of wrestlers during period in question and that the exuberance of the subsequent painting could have been an attempt to completely cover the previous painting.
Read a more in depth account of the discovery and authentication in the Times News here
Read about where Vincent spent the last 3 months created and an incredible 77 works at Artwife Needs a Life
See the Van Gogh painting I copied here


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SAN JOSE, Calif. – When the 2010 MLS schedule came out, it seemed like an odd quirk that the Los Angeles Galaxy and San Jose Earthquakes, rivals for a dozen different reasons, wouldn't play each other until the season was halfway gone.
Now, it seems like someone had a keen sense of the dramatic.
By the time the intrastate clubs renew their acquaintance at the Home Depot Center on July 22, the Quakes may have cemented their status as the primary challenger to the Galaxy's domination of the Western Conference.
Heading into this weekend, San Jose are tied for second in the West with 16 points, but hold a game on Real Salt Lake and two on Houston. They're also riding a four-game shutout streak and hold a 5-1-1 record since opening night.
So while the Quakes will jump to tell you that they're not looking past their upcoming stretch of three matches in eight days—including Eastern Conference-leading Columbus, the only team with more points than San Jose—they're still keeping tabs on the Galaxy's position in the MLS firmament.
"Don't think that we're not seeing LA killing everyone, and everyone's crowning them champs already," Quakes right back Chris Leitch told MLSsoccer.com. "We see that, for sure. We just know that we have a lot of games before we play them. I know it's a cliché, but you've got to take it one game at a time.
"With that said, I'm sure that LA game is going to be a highly anticipated game, especially for us. They're our rivals and we're going to look to see if we can't slow that run they're on right now."
Quakes coach Frank Yallop, who coached the Galaxy in 2006 and '07, is studiously avoiding scrutiny of the Western Conference standings, choosing instead to focus on meeting his own internal goals.
"I want to make sure we maintain a good standard of play," Yallop told MLSsoccer.com. "We can't look at all of what we've done so far. We've got to keep going and get as many wins as we can. I just look at us, what we're doing and how many points we have. We have a target in my mind, what we need to get to in terms of wins and points."
Yallop declined to reveal his personal benchmarks, but it's safe to assume that their current pace—which would get them to 60 points if it extended for a full season—has been deemed suitable.
It's a start that has helped put to rest memories of early-season stumbles by the Quakes in each of the last two years.
"What we've done this year is really focus on us as our team, and not really look too much into other teams and worry about what they're bringing to the table or their results," Leitch said. "We've really looked within ourselves and said, 'What can we do to position ourselves so that we don't do what we did last year?'
"I'm sure once it starts getting deeper and deeper into the season, we'll start looking around a little bit more and saying, 'OK, where do we stand?'"
Geoff Lepper covers the Earthquakes for MLSsoccer.com. He can be reached at email@example.com. On Twitter: @sjquakes


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Despite signs that Spain's crippling recession might be easing, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy looks to have no easier a year in 2013 as austerity bites, Catalonia bucks, and corruption lurks.
It looks like 2013 is going to be another hard year for Mariano Rajoy.
Despite modest signs that his government's draconian austerity program is helping ease Spain's harsh recession, the Spanish prime minister faces a host of challenges in his second year. The economic crisis still has not bottomed out, the threat of secession in Catalonia is growing, Mr. Rajoy's popularity is plummeting, and now a court-led investigation has uncovered a 22 million euro corruption scheme with his Popular Party (PP) that promises to further erode its already fading public support.
"The diagnosis is clear," says Jaime Pastor, political science professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia and an expert in mass movements. "Rajoy has portrayed himself as the leader who averted a bailout, but instead he is not only facing the territorial challenge of Catalonia, but also infighting from the more radical right wing."
"We are looking at more political and social instability ahead. If investors' trust erodes, if the cost of borrowing increases again, we are looking at a severe political crisis," Dr. Pastor says.
A hard road
Rajoy's political woes stem from a grueling economic crisis that began in 2007 when a housing bubble burst, catalyzing a broader recession in every sector that greatly outstripped the state's ability to confront soaring poverty. The central government, as well as regional and municipal governments, turned to credit, and the deficit ballooned to dangerous levels, threatening the broader EU economy.
Rajoy came to office a little over a year ago, after his party swept regional and national elections. The PP won on the national level with a 16 percentage point difference (45 percent to 29 percent) over the runner-up Socialist Party, and with more than enough parliamentary seats to pass any legislation.
But his government has had only limited success in dealing with the debt crisis. Spain's economy contracted for the fifth consecutive year in 2012, by 1.4 percent, and 2013 is forecast to be worse. The ranks of unemployed, which are expected to continue to swell, have already reached 26 percent – the highest in Spain's history – and account for one-third of all jobless Europeans. Meanwhile, evictions continue to skyrocket, and the dramatic social plight is only compounded by unprecedented public spending cuts and tax hikes that have eroded the country's safety net.
Still, there have been modest positive signs. Rajoy has, so far, successfully managed to delay for months what appeared to be an imminent bailout of the Spanish economy, which could yet threaten the European and global economy. His government's draconian austerity measures are showing early positive signs at a macroeconomic level, even if they are far from trickling down, and the market's rates to lend money to Spain have dropped significantly in the past few months.
But even taking into account Spain's economic plight and the backlash that was sure to accompany the government's harsh remedies, Rajoy is still rapidly losing political support, even within his own party, as scandals and a secessionist drive in Catalonia undermine his ability to govern.
Support for the PP has plummeted 14 percentage points since the November 2011 elections, from 44 percent to 30 percent, while center and more radical left parties have more than doubled their followers, according to a recent poll by newspaper El País. Rajoy's approval rating is now only 21 percent, down from 35 percent in March 2012, and 84 percent of Spaniards say they don't trust his leadership.
Tense relations with Spain's European partners over crisis management have diplomatically hurt Rajoy, and rich but indebted Catalonia, the country's economic motor, is also trying to pummel through a secessionist path that is threatening Spanish cohesion.
The Catalonian parliament last week approved a bill legally embarking the region on a path to independence and on a constitutional collision course with the central government. The outcome is uncertain. A new regional leadership in the Basque Country also wants to redefine its ties to Spain, but it insists it will negotiate, rather than impose a path to independence.
Corruption scandal
But now a years-old court investigation into the PP finances, which has so far incriminated the party's former treasurer and other top leaders, has uncovered a corruption scheme that allegedly involved millions in kickbacks to PP parliament members and former government officials.
Private donations, many apparently from some of the country's main construction firms, were reportedly funneled as monthly cash envelopes sourced from a 22 million euro ($30 million) secret Swiss bank account held by the PP's former treasurer, according to a rare public acknowledgement by a former PP member of parliament in El País last week.
In an effort to control the fallout, Rajoy promised an internal investigation into the PP's finances and external audit, and he has distanced his government from implicated party officials and promised full collaboration with courts, regardless of the consequences.
The court investigation is ongoing and no top government official has been implicated, but it has severely damaged the government's credibility and its ability to govern. And with the rival Socialist Party still mired in its own infighting and unpopularity, there is no obvious alternative to the PP, should the scandal bring it down.
"We will witness the government's loss of legitimacy, but with no alternative from the left, popular disaffection will increase along with the fear of a social explosion," Pastor says.
Government shakeup?
Dropping lending rates, which allow the government to finance public spending, indicate markets are confident the reforms and EU support are enough to avert a bailout. Exports are growing, the deficit appears manageable, and a recovery could begin in 2014.
But it's all riding on the assumption that the government can deliver on still-pending reforms, which in turn depends heavily on the internal political stability.
In this scenario, analysts are betting a government shakeup to incorporate apolitical technocrats, as opposed to the ideologically-driven PP politicians, will be required to restore credibility.
"I think it's more probable that technocrats are involved to regain public trust, rather than a change of government," Pastor says. "The government will have to curb its spending cuts, though, in this political situation, and the challenge is convincing those outside Spain that the crisis is under control."
EU and European Central Bank officials will visit Madrid in coming weeks to review Spain's economy, and Rajoy has decided to delay intervening in the Catalonian defiance until the region legally makes an unconstitutional move.
Reining in PP infighting will be trickier, though, depending on the court's findings, a debilitating process that could still take months to resolve.
Regardless, Rajoy is running out of political capital, and Spain's ability to return to economic growth will depend on his ability to manage popular frustration, regional defiance, and now his own party's unity.


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