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NEW YORK -- James Caan was born in the Bronx during Spring Training 1940, a rare year that did not result in a World Series title for the Yankees team he has loved ever since.
The legendary actor and former semipro infielder dropped by the MLB Fan Cave to pose for a photo with the World Series trophy and promote Caan's first role in a baseball-themed production: "Back in the Game," which was set to premiere Wednesday night on ABC.
It just so happened that on the same night, his Yankees were in position to be officially eliminated from postseason contention. The Red Sox and Dodgers, two teams he grew to hate, already have clinched. He has clearly already moved on to 2014.
Caan regaled the three remaining Cave Dwellers -- April Whitzman, Danny Faris and Mina Park -- with stories about glory days watching Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra and even persuading a Montreal Expos club official to show an umpire's missed call on the Olympic Stadium scoreboard. Best known for his Academy Award-nominated role of Sonny Corleone in the 1972 film "The Godfather," Caan won acclaim a year earlier playing a sports figure in the TV movie "Brian's Song," as dying Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo.
Now, at last, he gets to wear a baseball cap. Caan plays Terry "The Cannon" Gannon Sr., a crusty former Minor Leaguer who coaches a team of misfits called the Angles, your average T-shirt order typo. His daughter Terry, played by Maggie Lawson, is a former All-American softball player who coaches the team and turns to him for help. Terry's son Danny (Griffin Gluck) is on the team.
"No. 1, it's funny," Caan said. "The writers and creators are all guys that belong in a home. They're that ridiculously funny. Baseball literally is the background, but it's about this family that was brought together by baseball and separated by baseball, and then trying to be brought together again through baseball through the daughter, the father and the grandson.
"I play this horrifying coach, and she plays my beautiful daughter who still has a little of my blood in her, and I'm teaching the kid how to be me so eventually she'll have two of us to deal with."
What does it mean to finally play a baseball role?
"It's important, because I know about it," he said. "I have my own little coaching methods. My son Scott, he was really good. I coached kids for six years, and I thought I had front-row seats at Yankee Stadium because he had scholarships. But he decided to become a ... thespian."
He longs for the days when starters always went the distance and players stayed with the same team. And he hopes for the Yankees' captain to be back strong next season in the Bronx.
"Derek Jeter will be back next year," Caan said. "He's got tremendous talent. On top of that, he's a really nice guy."


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Depression is a quaint term for mental hijacking. It's a misnomer. Imagine inertia, being stuck, no happiness, sourceless despair, fugacious moments of just normal. Anhedonia. Serotonin and dopamine askew. Vicissitudinal emotion. You're a prisoner of your brain. And what word do we use? Depression. The term used when the Mets lose. Sad. Down in the dumps. That doesn't even approximate the hell the clinically depressed experience.
Everything you think and feel is brought to you synaptically through a series of carbon-based neurotransmitters. Everything. And with that comes the concomitant concern that Big Pharma and its SSRIs and psychmed witches brew, admittedly a life savior to so many, may tamper with and tweak the critically sensitive balance of the mind. After all, why is there literature that warns against suicide in cases where people seek the very medication to stave off and prevent suicide? Can you say irony?
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's campaign plans to air advertising in Michigan beginning Wednesday touting the president's support of the auto industry, responding to Republican ads criticizing the president.
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Ron Jeremy is up — in more ways than one.
You may recall that the almost 60-year-old porn legend, aka The Hedgehog, was near death last month after suffering an aneurysm near his heart. Multiple surgeries later, he's out of critical condition and ready to resume his day job.
TMZ caught up with him on Thursday in L.A. He's a little fuzzy on the details of what went down inside the operating room, but his face lights up dramatically when discussing his future, um, fitness: "They said to me at the clinic that if you can walk up two flights of stairs you're able to have sex — so I walked up two flights of stairs and three additional stairs."
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Ever met a Guitar Hero salesman? Me either. Vince Vaughn's character in "Couples Retreat" was made one, however, because he and co-screenwriter John Favreau adore the series. And, how about that, it crowbared a few buxx out of Activision marketing.
Activision joined an all-star list of brands such as Bud Light, Captain Morgan's and Crunch Gym in paying for product placement, but no one got the treatment like Activision, in which a Guitar Hero showdown acts as a key plot device moving the story forward. Variety talked to Will Kassoy, the senior vice president of publishing for Guitar Hero, who said he "laughed hysterically," when he found out co-stars Vaughn and Favreau wrote "Guitar Hero 5" into the script.
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It hasn't done too bad, though. "Couples Retreat" pulled in $34 million in its first weekend.
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We recently featured a gallery of horrifying electrical inventions designed to keep human and horse libidos in check. John Ptak, the curator of that previous gallery of terrors, has shown us more ridiculous electrical devices from the late 1800s-early 1900s.
Here's a curious casket that William J. Gouhin of Ashtabula, Ohio filed for a patent in 1935. Can you guess what it does?
This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in burial caskets of the type having means for sealing the lid to the casket for the exclusion of air, moisture, and the elements.
Okay, that's a little weird, being vacuum-sealed like a package of astronaut ice cream for all eternity, but I supposed stranger things have happened. Let's delve into some quackier inventions, like this little 1898 number from M.N. Clarke of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania:
My improved electrical apparatus comprises an electrode consisting in a plate of conducting metal perforated throughout its area, the perforations being preferably countersunk on one or more side of the plate. I have found in practice that charges of electricity may be administered by means of my improved electrode without shock or inconvenience to the patient [...and] what otherwise might prove a shock becomes an otherwise pleasant sensation.
Wait, what's this device called? "An electrode for medical purposes?" Oh my, we're looking at a vibrator that electrified women to prevent "female hysteria." Moving right along.
Here's another casket from P.J. Backus that was patented in 1913. The idea behind this invention was that you monitored the comatose/dead person's vitals from outside the casket. No use throwing the baby out with the bath water!
If they were definitely dead, you just left them inside the casket to rot. Totally effortless! And here are some more anti-live-burial technologies that may be of interest.
Here's a mildly terrifying device known as simply as "The Electrical Spray And Vapor Bath." It did what it said on the tin, but did not come equipped with that disconcerting naked man.
You can see many more of the odd contraptions — including a rather ghoulish device for electroplating human bodies (top) — over at Ptak Science Books' Electro-LUXurious round-up.


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Industry trade groups, consumer advocates and advisor partners are gearing up for the House Financial Services Committee's hearing Wednesday on Rep. Spencer Bachus' bill calling for a self-regulatory organization (SRO) to oversee advisors.
Their collective rallying cry: an SRO isn't needed—particularly if that SRO is the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). What to do instead? Fund the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) so that it can conduct more frequent advisor exams.
But FINRA will have a chance to defend itself as an official from the regulator is slated to testify. Others testifying include David Tittsworth, executive director of the Investment Adviser Association (IAA), as well as officials from the Financial Services Institute (FSI), the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), and the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA).
Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade Institutional were both encouraging advisors who custody assets with the firms to "get involved" and write their representatives telling them why an SRO for advisors is a bad idea.
Bernie Clark, executive vice president and head of Schwab Advisor Services, sent a letter May 30 to all of the principals at each of the 7,000 firms that custody at Schwab, telling them that he would be joining the IAA's annual lobbying day Thursday on Capitol Hill.
This year's focus, says Tittsworth: "voicing opposition to the Bachus SRO bill," the Investment Advisor Oversight Act of 2012, H.R. 4624.
Clark asked advisors in his letter to write, e-mail or tweet their representatives about the negative effects of an SRO.
The "resolution" of whether there should be an SRO for advisors "could have a substantial impact on your business," Clark said in the letter. "Most notably, Bachus' proposed legislation—if passed—would subject advisors to oversight by an SRO and regulation very similar to that which broker-dealers face."
Skip Schweiss, managing director of advisor advocacy and industry affairs at TD Ameritrade Institutional, says that while there is a "general acknowledgement" that exams of advisors "needs to improve, we think there are ways to do that different than another regulatory layer" via an SRO.
"Advisors should take the time and be heard on this issue" buy contacting their representatives, he said.
Senate Banking Committee chairman Tim Johnson, D-S.D., has expressed his lack of appetite for creating an advisor SRO, "but it's impossible to speculate," Schweiss said. Issues get attached to other pieces of legislation, and "who knows, next thing you know [an SRO for advisors] is law."
Indeed, former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt, who's now CEO of Kalorama Partners in Washington, told AdvisorOne that "FINRA's success or failure in becoming the regulator for advisors will depend on its ability to persuade Congress that having an existing infrastructure already in place, and having the resources to devote to expanding [its] internal assets" makes it the better choice than creating a new SRO from scratch.
Barbara Roper, director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), told Bachus, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and other committee members on Monday that while she's disappointed the hearing on Wednesday will focus on just the SRO option, not the other two options that have been proposed, user fees and funding the SEC, she is a "realist." CFA, she said, is "prepared to consider an SRO as a meaningful improvement over the status quo if that SRO is appropriately designed. After all, one of the advantages of an SRO is that it is not subject to the vagaries of the congressional appropriations process."
Unfortunately, Roper continued, "as currently drafted, H.R. 4624 does not meet the standard of an appropriately designed SRO." She told committee members that "rather than moving forward with a bill that clearly fails to solve the issues it is intended to address, we urge the Committee to conduct an objective review of the available alternatives in order to arrive at an approach that increases the quality of oversight at a reasonable, and equitably shared, cost to the investment advisor community and their clients."
With votes to be taken in the House Financial Services Committee likely before July, Tittsworth of IAA adds that "in and of itself that is something that we and the advisory community should be concerned about." While it "may be unlikely that the Senate will consider similar legislation this year, it would be foolish to be complacent when elected officials start casting votes on an issue that is not likely to go away."


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Holy crap we can not wait for you guys to get a load of Lockout and its script made entirely of snarky clips. Do you miss the tongue-in-cheek heroes from the 80s and 90s? Then wait until you get a load of this movie, which is essentially Escape from New York in space, but instead of the President being captured it's his hot daughter. Watch now or piss off!
Lockout will be in theaters on April 13th.


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Zeidan vows to remove protesters from Libya oil ports
TRIPOLI - Libya plans to remove protesters who have seized eastern ports vital for lucrative oil exports within the next few days, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said on Sunday.
But he did not say whether force would be used, telling Libya's al-Ahrar news channel that he did not want the country to plunge into civil war.
Since the summer, a group of heavily-armed demonstrators has occupied three eastern oil ports which together accounted for 600,000 barrels per day of exports, in a bid to force the Tripoli government to give it political autonomy.
"In the next days we're about to clear the ports of the protesters unless they leave them," Zeidan said.
He added that tribal leaders were still holding talks to try to end the standoff peacefully. When pressed for details he replied: "I cannot discuss state affairs on television."
Tribal chiefs have so far failed to persuade the group's leader Ibrahim Jathran to end the siege of the ports, which has contributed to a halving of oil production since August, when the protests began, and put a huge strain on the budget.
The government has warned it will be unable to pay public salaries if the demonstrations continue. Several deadlines set by Zeidan have passed without any action.
Authorities are struggling to rein in militias and tribesmen who helped topple Muammar Gaddafi in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011.
Zeidan accused the Muslim Brotherhood and another Islamist group in the General National Congress (GNC) assembly of trying to topple his cabinet by pursuing a parliamentary non-confidence vote against him.
On Tuesday, former militiamen briefly stormed the GNC building and fired shots in the air to try to force a non-confidence vote against Zeidan.
Libya's transition to democracy has been paralyzed by infighting between the government and rival factions inside the GNC, but even Zeidan's opponents agree there is no one to replace him for now.
When asked whether he was worried he might lose a confidence vote, Zeidan said: "I would be happy if the vote went through. I don't cling to power."
Zeidan also said the security situation in the restive south had calmed after days of fighting between rival militias in the main city of Sabha, which the government has blamed on Gaddafi loyalists.
Libyan war planes attacked targets to regain control of an air base near Sabha, the defence ministry said on Saturday.


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MOSCOW — Russia's transport minister, citing a "black box" recording from one of two planes that crashed minutes apart last week, said Monday there was no evidence of a hijacking attempt or any other disturbance before the explosion aboard the jetliner.
The conversation inside the cockpit of the Tu-154 plane indicated the crew was unable to contact traffic controllers and tried to manage the jet for some time after the blast on board. "The words spoken by the crew members among themselves are (about) work by the crew to save the plane," the minister, Igor Levitin, said.
Also, new details emerged about two Chechen women who are the focus of suspicions that the planes were blown up by terrorists. All 90 people aboard the aircraft were killed.
Gen. Andrei Fetisov, chief of the scientific department at the Federal Security Service, said there was no longer any doubt that "both planes crashed as a result of explosions," the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Monday. He reiterated that traces of the high explosive hexogen were found in the wreckage.
How the explosive may have been brought on board the planes that took off from Moscow was still unclear, however, and investigators were scraping for clues about Amanta Nagayeva and S. Dzhebirkhanova, two Chechen women whose names were listed on tickets for the flights.
The crashes happened just five days before presidential elections in Chechnya, where separatist rebels have been fighting Russian forces for five years. Officials had warned that insurgents and their supporters could commit terrorist acts to try to undermine the vote.
Tickets bought last minute
Nagayeva, 30, and Dzhebirkhanova, 37, aroused accident investigators' suspicions because they purchased tickets at the last minute — and because they were the only victims about whom no relatives inquired after news of the crashes.
At the same time, the women's bodies have not yet been identified. Officials were considering two scenarios: Either Nagayeva and Dzhebirkhanova were indeed suicide bombers, or their passports were used by other women, the newspaper Izvestia reported, citing Chechen law enforcement officials.
Nagayeva and Dzhebirkhanova, who lived in an apartment in Grozny, Chechnya's war-shattered capital, were seen on Aug. 22 leaving by bus from the town of Khasavyurt in the neighboring province of Dagestan, the newspaper said. They were believed to be en route to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, where they often bought clothes and other commodities to sell at the Grozny market.
The women's destination on the bus was not known. They were accompanied by two apartment mates and co-workers — Rosa Nagayeva, Amanta's sister, and Mariyam Taburova, the newspaper said.
Nagayeva was single, and Dzhebirkhanova had been divorced. Nagayeva's brother disappeared three years ago in Chechnya; the family believes he was abducted by Russian forces. A brother of Dzhebirkhanova, who had been an Islamic court judge under Chechen separatist president Aslan Maskhadov, was killed in 1998.
No past terror ties
An unidentified Chechen Interior Ministry official was quoted as telling Izvestia that both women were "clean" of demonstrable rebel ties. Relatives of both said they were unaware the women were engaged in any activity connected to rebels or terrorists, Izvestia reported. Nagayeva's mother said her daughter had never flown on an airplane.
According to the investigators, if the two women were indeed terrorists and had traveled from Grozny to Moscow, Taburova and Nagayeva's sister also could be suspects and be in the capital, Izvestia said.
Several suicide bombings in recent years have been blamed on Chechen women who lost husbands or brothers in the war and chaos that have plagued the southern republic for most of the past decade.
A Web site connected with militant Muslims posted a statement Friday from the "Islambouli Brigades" claiming responsibility for the crashes. It warned that the group supported the Chechen rebels, and that the attack marked just the first in a series of planned operations. The claim's veracity could not be confirmed.
A group called "the Islambouli Brigades of al-Qaida" claimed responsibility for last month's attempt to assassinate Pakistan's prime minister-designate.
Russia claims that the Chechen rebels have been joined by hundreds of foreign Islamic fighters, many of them al-Qaida or with links to the terrorist group led by Osama bin Laden.
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With the recent acquisition Sun has made (you heard about that, right?), there's tons of resources in the open source community that are talking about it, lots of them are more PHP-specific. Cal Evans has put together a list of some of the PHP bloggers/community memembers that have posted some of their thoughts on the purchase.
With all of the buzz floating around yesterday on this topic, I decided to let some of the dust settle before posting. From everything I've seen, the PHP community is largely positive about the news. [...] As I said, the community at large seems to be pleased with this news. Here are the links I've collected so far.
Names in the list include Andi Gutmans, Lukas Smith and Jaremy Zawodny. There's also a list of some comments from the "pundits" as to what this purchase could mean for the web as a whole.


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First Lady Laura Bush's Education Initiatives
Bringing What Works to Parents
|"As parents, the most important thing we can do is read to our children early and often. Reading is the path to success in school and life. When children learn to love books, they learn to love learning."
In 1998, in our highest poverty schools, 68 percent of fourth graders could not read at the basic level. Over the last 15 years, 15 million students have graduated from high school without the ability to read at the basic level.
Learning to read starts long before a child enters school, and reading is what helps turn a child into a good student. Reading is the skill that makes all other skills possible.
Unfortunately, not all adults know how important it is to read to very young children, and not all children have the advantage of owning and enjoying books of their own. Too many children begin elementary school ill prepared for successful reading and learning. They lack important basic skills.
In 1989, a team of pediatricians from Boston City Hospital created a program that incorporates early literacy efforts into standard pediatric care. They named the program Reach Out and Read (ROR).
Building on the trusting relationship parents have with their children's physicians, ROR uses regularly scheduled well-child visits to help parents understand the importance of reading to their young children.
In ROR clinics, doctors and nurses actually prescribe that parents read to their children. Volunteers in the waiting rooms show parents creative ways to use books with their children, and after each visit, every child leaves with a new book. By the time a child enters school she will have a collection of her own books.
In 1997, Laura Bush helped initiate the Reach Out and Read program in Texas. With Mrs. Bush's support and funding from private foundations, more than 60 Reach Out and Read clinic sites were opened around the state.
Reach Out and Read is a wonderful contribution to the effort to help children arrive in school prepared to read and learn. The First Lady is committed to supporting and expanding this vital program in communities across America.


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A major grant to Hope College from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) will enable the college to strengthen existing relationships and build new ones as the college continues to emphasize its acclaimed model of teaching through faculty-student collaborative research in the sciences.
HHMI has awarded Hope a $1.4 million, four-year grant, part of $60 million in grants to 48 institutions in 21 states and Puerto Rico. The recipients include three colleges from Michigan, all from the west side of the state: Hope, Calvin and Kalamazoo.
The new grant to Hope will fund multiple initiatives, many building on the success of efforts that have been supported by a $1.5 million, four-year grant that the college received from HHMI in 2004. Emphases will include enhancing research efforts in the biomedical sciences at Hope, with particular attention to collaborations with other institutions; increased emphasis on training K-12 science and mathematics teachers; increasing diversity in science, both at Hope and beyond; and initiating and participating in efforts to promote and develop scholarly lessons concerning teaching and learning at the college as well as within the broader higher education community.
The previous HHMI grant had emphasized developing interdisciplinary research experiences between the individual programs in the natural and physical sciences at Hope, according to Dr. Joanne Stewart, who is a professor of chemistry and the program director for the new grant program. She noted that the new award will help the college extend the interdisciplinary focus to other departments at the college while also finding new ways to connect with other programs and institutions.
"The current program has been very much about building relationships across the division," Stewart said. "So the next logical step is to turn and look outward. That's very much the theme of the new proposal: to take the hard work that we've done and build relationships between Hope and outside organizations."
The effort in the biomedical sciences will focus on both research and the training of future biomedical scientists. The college will use the grant to develop new research relationships in the biomedical sciences between departments within the college in addition to building connections with the growing regional biomedical community including the Van Andel Institute and the new Michigan State University medical school in Grand Rapids. In addition to departments in the natural and physical sciences at Hope, programs within the college that will be involved will include education, kinesiology and psychology. The initiative will also support six students each year during multi-week summer research or internship experiences.
To help enhance K-12 science education, the college is placing additional emphasis on the training of future K-12 science teachers and on developing additional connections with the area schools in providing research and professional development activities for local science teachers as well as opportunities for students in the local schools. The program will support six Hope education students each summer in participating in research so that they can in turn bring insights from their own experience with research-based learning to their teaching of younger students, and will also provide opportunities for area in-service teachers to become involved in summer research projects at the college, both efforts that have been on-going. The college will also hire a new faculty member in the fall of 2009 who will hold a joint appointment in both education and either one of the science disciplines or mathematics and will focus on helping future teachers learn to teach science and will also conduct research in K-12 science education.
The emphasis on increasing the number of underrepresented minorities who pursue science careers will focus on high school students, college students and faculty members alike. The grant will support the college's "REACH" (Research Experiences Across Cultures at Hope) program, through which area minority high school students have been conducting summer research at the college since 2006. Working with other programs at the college, the science division will also intensify its recruitment of minority students, with a focus on the area schools. Working with a consortium of other schools, Hope will also hire minority scientists and mathematicians for two-year post-doctoral appointments during which they will receive mentoring from experienced faculty. The diversity efforts will be directed by Dr. Karen Nordell Pearson, who holds a part-time appointment at the college and has already been directing the REACH program and is also director of the Pew Midstates Consortium for Math and Science.
Hope will work to bring the lessons of collaborative faculty-student research to the classroom by encouraging the development of research-like exercises. The faculty-development program, based on findings from the multi-institution, HHMI-supported Classroom Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE) assessment project, will be led by Dr. Lorna Hernandez Jarvis, professor of psychology. Among other participants, the initiative will include the college's statistics program, through which students will work with data, particularly biomedical data, gathered through Hope research projects. Hope will be creating a statistical teaching and research computing laboratory for the program.
HHMI invited 224 colleges with a track record of preparing undergraduate students for research careers to submit proposals. The 2008 grant winners were selected through a stringent review process by distinguished scientists and educators that narrowed the 192 applicants down to 48 winners. The awards range from $700,000 to $1.6 million.
HHMI is the nation's largest private supporter of science education. It has invested more than $1.2 billion in grants to reinvigorate life science education at both research universities and liberal arts colleges and to engage the nation's leading scientists in teaching. In 2007, it launched the Science Education Alliance, which will serve as a national resource for the development and distribution of innovative science education materials and methods.
One of the world's largest philanthropies, HHMI is a nonprofit medical research organization that employs hundreds of leading biomedical scientists working at the forefront of their fields. HHMI has an endowment of approximately $18.7 billion. Its headquarters are located in Chevy Chase, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C.
The new grant marks the second time during the current academic year that Hope has received major program support from HHMI. This fall, Hope was one of only a dozen colleges and universities nationwide and the only institution in Michigan selected by HHMI to implement a new genomics course developed by HHMI's Science Education Alliance which will involve incoming freshmen in cutting-edge research during their first semester in college.


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In 1927, famed American painter N. C. Wyeth completed a series of five murals for Hubbard Memorial Hall, the National Geographic Society's first formal library. The Map of Discovery: Western Hemisphere, published in January 1929, is one of those outstanding murals. It features Poseidon and a mermaid keeping watch over the oceans as well as the routes of explorers and dates of expeditions.
Coverage Area: Western Hemisphere, including North America, South America


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ONE of the Government's most senior cabinet ministers has made no promises of extra cash after visiting flood-hit Oxford yesterday.
While Prime Minister David Cameron vowed at a press conference yesterday that "if money needs to be spent it will be spent", the Communities and Local Government minister Eric Pickles was less forthcoming.
As he surveyed anti-flood measures off Botley Road, he pledged to look at what could be done after a summit next month on long-term plans to tackle flooding – but offered nothing up front.
When asked by the Oxford Mail whether more money was on the way, he refused to give a clear commitment, but said: "We've got to look to the future in terms of looking at other schemes to answer this."
The minister made no pledges committing the Government to fund a £123m flood relief channel, called the Western Conveyance as he visited on a day when the county was poised to deal with more bad weather this week.
This came despite the Prime Minister calling for talks to be held on the scheme – and after Mr Cameron yesterday said money was no object in tackling the national flooding crisis.
Mr Pickles met flood-affected residents on Bullstake Close, off Botley Road, and was told by one resident to take action as soon as possible.
But although he offered no guarantees of help, he did praise the work being done on the city route – and said it should be used nationally to tackle floods.
The Conservative MP said: "In fairness to the authorities here, these are pretty exceptional weather conditions and I have got nothing but praise for the fire service and the councils for the way they have worked together.
"I have been briefed about the Western Conveyance by the Environment Agency and there is a flood summit taking place next month, so we will look to see what comes out of that.
"I have been very impressed in terms of keeping Botley Road open and the firefighters are using a very unusual method of using high-pressure hoses to keep the water at bay and I think it may well have other applications elsewhere.
"I would say to residents that it is dreadful being flooded and I know from my own patch [Brentwood and Ongar] what it is like to deal with."
He said the city's way of keeping the floods at bay was so unique he was considering rolling it out across the country and referred to it as the "Oxford Method".
Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service has set up makeshift barriers at three locations along Botley Road – at Bridge Street, Bullstake Close and McDonald's – which are made of three hoses full of water, weighing around a tonne each, piled on top of each other.
So far this has managed to keep Botley Road open.
But Bob Price, the leader of Oxford City Council, said the only long-term solution would be to create the flood relief channel around the city to the west. He said: "The Western Conveyance is the only scheme which will reduce to risk of flooding to one in every 75 years, according to Environment Agency calculations.
"They are very confident it will be successful and it will make flooding a thing of the past."
While visiting Bullstake Close, Mr Pickles met Jalal Khan, 49, who has lived there for around 14 years.
Mr Khan said: "Since I moved here in 2000 it has flooded three times and it is very stressful.
"I told Mr Pickles that we need some sort of permanent barrier against this because we need this matter solved as soon as possible."
Another Bullstake Close resident, 67-year-old Clive Soames, said: "In 2007 we had no chance, but this time the guys have been absolutely fantastic. They cannot do enough for you. "I told Mr Pickles they are doing a fantastic job."
Mr Pickles also visited the incident command unit in the Toys 'R' Us car park along Botley Road, from where the efforts to prevent flooding in the area are being coordinated.


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Did you see the Times of 17th February which devoted part of its front page, a whole double-page spread and an editorial to gambling and specifically the FOBT machines? It is good to see the issue getting the publicity it deserves. People keep on adding comments to the Gambling Watch UK site talking about their own or a family member's problems with the machines. Much of what The Times said on the subject was very much what we have been saying for the last three or four years, such as the Responsible Gambling Trust's inherent conflicts of interest, and the lack of independence of research.
But there were some bits that were new to me or which put a new angle on it. One was the calculation that on average each FOBT makes a profit of £48,000 a year - they literally are money-eating devices which extract £s from some people in order to put it in the pockets of others. Another revelation to me was the wealth gambling has generated for the family (uncles, brother) of our Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, and the excessive amount of hospitality the minister responsible for gambling received from the industry between 2010 and 2012, not to mention the apology MP Philip Davies had to make after not declaring hospitality from Ladbrokes. The conflicts of interest of parliamentarians when it comes to gambling need looking into more closely. Celebrities queuing up to be paid for advertising gambling was a feature as well; several were named. I also learnt from The Times about the clever way in which FOBT roulette is used to launder large quantities of money.
As might be expected, the Association of British Bookmakers (ABB), the industry-led Responsible Gambling Trust, and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, all part of what I call the British Gambling Establishment, commented that there was no evidence gambling problems had increased and that stronger regulations were now in place such 'putting an end to unsupervised stakes above £50 on FOBTs' - which we know is feeble and doesn't work.
More interesting has been the response of the new Chief Executive of the Gambling Commission (GC), Sarah Harrison, who responded on the Commission's website and later in a speech to the ABB on 14th March. She wanted to correct the 'misrepresentaion' that GC's role included the promotion of growth in gambling, which she says it definitely does not. That is a very welcome statement, a much clearer statement than I have seen previously. Except that, in practice, I am not sure it can really be believed. The GC is required to permit gambling, and inevitably therefore growth of gambling, provided it does not contravene the licensing objectives of keeping gambling fair and crime-free and protecting children. She also emphasises that GC will 'put consumer interests at the heart of regulation'. That sounds good but of course it begs so many questions: whose interests and which interests will be given priority?


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Efficient manipulating of 2D cubic bezier curves.
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Module documentation for 0.6.0.6
This version can be pinned in stack with:
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This library supports efficient manipulating of 2D cubic bezier curves, for use in graphics or typography. Supported features are:
Evaluating bezier curves and derivatives, affine transformations on bezier curves, arclength and inverse arclength, intersections between two curves, intersection between a curve and a line, curvature and radius of curvature, finding tangents parallel to a vector, finding inflection points and cusps.
It also supports polynomial root finding with Bernstein polynomials.
The module
Geom2D.CubicBezier exports all the cubic bezier functions. The module
contains general 2D geometry functions and transformations.
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Friday, July 11, 2008
Pumpkin Seed Flatbread with Feta and Sweet Onions - A Delicious Treatment for Insomnia, Anxiety, and Fear of Public Speaking!
That's right, as I researched the health benefits of these pretty green seeds, I discovered that not only did they have lots of nutritional benefits, but also contained large amounts of tryptophan, yes, that tryptophan, the "turkey valium" that you read about every year. While that nap you take after the thanksgiving meal is probably more from the massive amount of starchy food, than the tryptophan, there is a definite sleep/relaxation connection, as it aids in the brain's production of serotonin.
The following is from the Whitby Mental Health Centre website:
"A new study released in the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology suggests that a Functional Food made primarily of pumpkin seeds could be an efficacious treatment for anxiety disorders… The study, entitled "Protein-Source as an Efficacious Treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder", describes that gourd seeds contain the highest concentration of tryptophan, the same amino acid found in milk and turkey, but at much higher levels. "
"One single gram of pumpkin seed protein contains as much tryptophan as a full glass of milk. In this study, subjects suffering from Social Anxiety Disorder were significantly less anxious when asked to speak in front of others one hour after eating the Functional Food rich in tryptophan in comparison to placebo. This finding demonstrates that tryptophan does more than induce sleep. In high light conditions, it is quickly converted to serotonin, which significantly reduces daytime anxiety levels."
So, if you're all tense about that big presentation, forget popping pills - go with a few slices of this flatbread recipe! I also believe it treats hunger as well. Enjoy!
prepared pizza dough (enough for 1 large thin pizza)
1 large onion
2 tbsp olive oil
salt to taste
black pepper
1/2 cup raw pumpkin seeds, or as much as you like
4 oz Greek feta
1/3 cup Parmesan
21 comments:
Oh how delicious!
- July 11, 2008 at 7:26 PM
Yes, delicious is "the word!"
Yesterday, while visiting with Chef John to celebrate his birthday (which is actually today), he shared this treat with us, before we went to dinner. Until now, I didn't know they were so good for me, however, I had no trouble sleeping in the car, all the way home afterwards.
Happy Birthday John.
- July 11, 2008 at 8:20 PM
- p said...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHN!!!! Have a wonderful weekend!
- July 11, 2008 at 8:51 PM
- Chef John said...
- July 11, 2008 at 9:11 PM
This is the best flat bread I have ever had! Perfect timing to post the video. I was making spaghetti with your Beef Braciole, and it was the best dinner I've had in a while.
- July 11, 2008 at 10:09 PM
To the best brother in law and of course the greatest chef ever.
We hope you have a wonderful Birthday celebration! ENJOY!
Lots of love, Nina and Tom
- July 11, 2008 at 10:18 PM
- Chef John said...
N&T - Thanks for the card, and B-day wishes! Love, J
- July 11, 2008 at 11:44 PM
So your birthday is July 12th?! Wow small world! Mine is no where near that!
Have an udderly Happy Birthday!
- July 12, 2008 at 3:19 PM
- Chef John said...
thanks, its the 11th
- July 12, 2008 at 3:40 PM
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- July 12, 2008 at 4:13 PM
- Connie T. said...
I will have to try that. Oh and Happy belated birthday to you. I love your blog and videos.
- July 12, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Looks & sounds delicious, will definitely be trying this. I was wondering if baking this destroys the beneficial "raw pumpkin seed" effect?
- July 13, 2008 at 12:27 PM
- Chef John said...
probably some, but thats why so important to start with raw.
- July 13, 2008 at 1:00 PM
- Unknown said...
Happy Belated Birthday Chef!! It looks like you had a great birthday dinner!
May I ask what difference cooking at the bottom and the middle of the oven makes? Is it just less hot at the bottom? or has it got something to do with air circulation?
- July 14, 2008 at 3:06 PM
- Chef John said...
the surface of the oven bottom is very hot and crisps the bottom of the crust.
- July 14, 2008 at 10:58 PM
- Unknown said...
What kind of mains go well with this fabulous flatbread? Kebabs or meat stew?
- December 3, 2009 at 1:45 AM
- Chef John said...
everything goes with this!
- December 3, 2009 at 1:52 AM
- Unknown said...
That's good to know...in that case, i'll eat it with beef rendang and peranakan chicken curry. Btw, these are some favourite dishes of southeast asian countries! :)
- December 4, 2009 at 4:05 AM
This is very good, yellow raisins were a nice addition if i do say so.
- February 15, 2011 at 8:57 PM
Happy b-day!
- July 9, 2012 at 9:53 PM
This is the best flatbread! Happy birthday.
- July 9, 2012 at 9:54 PM


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Insulator of the Week
From Insulator Wiki (Wikilator)
Initiated by Dwayne Anthony on December 26, 2007. In his words:
A "Topic-master" would post a short intro on a different, randomly selected CD style each week. The chosen CD style would then be open for general discussion by all ICONers, with encouragement to contribute general comments, informational data, research, patent info, etc., plus post photos of favorites from your collection. Many CDs are listed with several manufacturers and may need to be divided into subgroups, whereas others are so similar that they can be combined. Not limiting the IOTW to just CD styles, we could even throw in a porcelain U or M number once in a while for our porcelain collectors, as well as an LRI style, radio strain, etc. Actually, many CD styles carry over into porcelain, so our porcelain collectors could contribute at such times, as well.
So, with considerable thought, I'll put my money where my mouth is and volunteer to give this a shot myself. If it is considered successful within the first few weeks we'll continue on with it indefinitely. I feel this will be a good opportunity for many of us to contribute information about our specialties, but more importantly, a good excuse to post photos of favorites from our collections (or from elsewhere with permission). I will not attempt to provide in depth information with each IOTW posting--that will be up to you. To lead the discussion, I will simply choose the insulator/CD style, provide a brief intro and possibly a photo or two.
I'll leave this open to your thoughts and comments before posting the first IOTW topic in the next day or two. I'll probably focus more on North American glass insulators at first. If this appears to be a successful endeavor, someone may consider becoming a topic-master for "Foreign Insulator of the Week", "Porcelain Insulator of the Week", etc.
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Item #1 of 2 THEBLAZE.COM – A Texas man's pregnant wife made it clear she was against having a firearm in their house. However, the husband insisted she learn how to use a gun to protect herself just in case. In fact, it was just a few months ago that he took her out to […]
Did you know these crime statistics ? ? ?
Likely not, because the media never will tell you. It's not PC to speak the truth in America since the 1960's and surely the race-baiters like Jessee Jackson, Al Sharpton, Al Farrakan and Spike Lee won't tell you.
The Uniform Crime Report of 2009 shows that among people 18 or younger, blacks were charged with 58 percent of murder and non-negligent manslaughter, 67 percent of robberies, 42 percent of aggravated assaults and 43 percent of auto thefts.
According to the 2010 U. S. Census Bureau 12.6% of the population is black.
Why Trayvon Martin is the new Rodney King
This whole race brouhaha is not about a Hispanic shooting a black anymore than showing the Rodney King video tape ad nauseam on every news program was about getting justice for a well-known law-breaker "Can't-we-all-just -get-along" Rodney King. King's video created race riots in LA. King was awarded millions from the taxpayers of LA, that he went on to squander in his crime-infested lifestyle. If you don't recall, just Google "Rodney King." You'll come up with a gazillion stories.
Trayvon/Zimmerman is in the news ad nauseam because this inflammatory story advances the evil agenda of the powerful to enact stricter gun laws to reduce the threat of anyone being armed to stand up for themselves to force the masses to rely solely upon Big Brother to protect them. It is about getting the law revoked that allows for a man or woman to protect themselves in public if they feel threatened.
Long before Trayvon and King, there was Bernard Goetz on a subway in NY. Don't recall? Google Bernard Goetz.
It is the same story over and over again about the huge, overbearing government hoping to take away our 2nd amendment rights. This is about taking away the power of an armed citizenry and giving all the more powerful ammunition to the central powers, stemming from local governments to the highest in the land. Even the UN is getting in on this one, demanding reparations for Trayvon's family. That is truly insane!
This contrived outrageous reaction has been aided and abetted by the complicit, left-leaning mainstream media adding fuel to the fire of hatred. It fits the agenda of the communist Obama administration and the far-left socialist Democrats. The communist 5th column in government at every level is who is causing this uproar. They want to demonstrate that they are heroes to their black-base of voters, to look like they actually care about them! If they cared about black folks, they would stop abortion now, because 1 out of every 3 black babies are aborted in horrible procedures in bloody abortion mills all across the USA. If they truly cared about black people, they'd take notice of all the black on black crime and clean up the "hoods" instead of accepting the payoffs to look the other way while drugs are distributed openly.
The Trayvon/Zimmerman free-for-all is about creating black hatred for whites initiated by the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Al Farrakhan, et. al. to keep their donations flowing into their coffers.
Spike Lee and the rest of the race baiters are following an agenda to ensure that Americans never unite as one people because it is to their advantage for us decent folks to always remain locked into groups keeping an eye not on them and their sins, but walking with trepidation and suspicion and fear of other groups who don't look like us.
If Americans unite, we'll stop looking at each other and start noticing what evil lurks in the policies and actions of the law-makers and the powerful from local councils and mayors to the US Congress, including the Executive Branch and Oval Office, the Judicial branch of government extending from every lower court into all the higher courts.
None of the politicians want to be scrutinized, so they stir up the race baiters and then sit back and laugh while they spend our hard-earned tax dollars on extravagant trips to Las Vegas and hookers.
The media is the most complicit, worthless, evil agent of all. We Americans believe that the media is the watchdog. That's a joke on us! The media doesn't represent the people. The puppet media represents the views of their handlers, the anti-American ultra rich and the left-winged ultra powerful. The media is controlled and does not represent what is best for America, nor do they want the U.S. Constitution upheld.
They have been educated in institutions filled with professors who are the proponents of communism and believe that communism is the way to utopia. It is not. Communism has failed every time it's been tried.
But even more than communism, they want to be left to continue in their godless pursuit of evil, sinful pleasures. They do not want god-fearing folks to look at their disgusting acts of wanton sin and debauchery.
Keep looking at Zimmerman and Trayvon and forget all about them.
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2012 by Donna Calvin
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- What the media never tells you about crime!
- Zimmerman charged with second degree murder
- "I am the real George Zimmerman…"
- Man tells police group yelled 'Trayvon,' then beat him
- Political Cartoon – Zimmerman and NBC
- Mainstream Media: Selective Editing, Rushing Judgment, Stoking Anger, Fake Photos, Incendiary Stumbles
- Political Cartoon: Hoodies
- Hoodie-Wearing Gunmen Kill 1, Wound 5 in Bobby Rush's Chicago District (Bobby, former Black Panther wears hoodie in US House)
- Hotzone Oxycodone: Crime Stats of Area Where Zimmerman encountered Trayvon (Sanford, FL & Twin Lakes)
- Coincidence? Obama camp peddles 2012 'Hoodies' (Cleveland Councilman sports hoodie at Cleveland Meeting)
- Dems Throw Hispanic Vote Up for Grabs – Bringing Trayvon Martin's parents to Capitol Hill
- Trayvon Martin – 3 Time Loser at School (Daily Mail Reporter)
- Spike Lee Retweets George Zimmerman's Home Address
- Zimmerman & Family Get Death Threats, Moved to Undisclosed location
- Eye for Eye! Black Panther offer $10,000 Bounty for Zimmerman
- Police Report: Zimmerman's Account (Corroborated by witnesses)
- Trayvon's Mother Seeks to Trademark Her Son's Name
- Former NAACP leader accuses Sharpton, Jackson of 'exploiting' Treyvon Martin, says C.L. Bryant
- 'Cracker' T-shirt hits Florida streets – You never want a serious crisis to go to waste!
- Witness Says Trayvon Martin Attacked George Zimmerman
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Judge seals search warrants related to Newtown shooter Adam Lanza's home
A judge has sealed search warrant documents related to Newtown gunman Adam Lanza's home and two family vehicles for an additional 90 days.
"The court finds that due to the nature and circumstances of this case and the ongoing investigation, the State's interest in continuing nondisclosure substantially outweighs any right to public disclosure at this time," Judge John Blawie wrote, in issuing the orders Thursday.
The search warrant applications and affidavits were initially in place for a two-week period, but Danbury State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky III requested a 90-day extension, to late March.
On Dec. 14, Adam Lanza fatally shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, at their home at 36 Yogananda St., Sandy Hook, then drove to the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He opened fire there, and killed 20 children and six adults. When police arrived and closed in, Adam Lanza killed himself.
One Dec. 14 search warrant deals with a black 2010 four-door Honda Civic that was parked in front of the 12 Dickinson Drive elementary school. Four other search warrants, dated from Dec. 14 to Dec. 16, deal with Nancy and Adam Lanza's Yogananda Street residence, a two-story Colonial-style house. In one, police also got permission to search Nancy Lanza's silver 2009 BMW, which was located in the house's garage.
Sedensky made the same argument to keep all search warrant documents sealed for another 90 days, that the unsealing of them would "adversely impact" an ongoing investigation.
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