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A shop in Maryland, we do all of the dollhouse building and finishing ourselves. In business for nearly 20 years, Forever Friends carries a full line of 1/24 and 1/12 scale dollhouses, furniture, accessories, lighting, building and finishing supplies
Williamson Walton Marble
Judee Williamson and Nicole Walton Marble, both I.G.M.A. Artisans,
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IGMA Fellow Carol Wagner's miniature climbing roses, plants, bushes, vines, and accessories for dollhouses and miniature landscapes.
Joyce Bernard Miniatures
Handcrafted miniature leather trunks, miniature luggage and other leather goods. I also make miniature fashions from several eras, miniature hats, and miniature handbags. Offering handcrafted boutique items, miniature men's clothing.
Betsy Niederer Miniatures
IGMA Fellow Betsy Niederer, makes miniature dollhouse food; cakes, breads, pastries and meals. Also how-to instructions and real food recipes.
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Karen Benson Miniatures
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Rocky Mountain Miniatures
Colorado dollhouse shop will help you build, decorate, furnish, and exhibit your miniature project. We will buy your miniature collection.
Vynette's Miniature Dolls
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Valbuena Miniaturas
Miniatures. Accesories for dollhouses.Hand crafted miniatures accessories for your doll house.Many items hand made and painted by the well known Miniaturists Valbuena and Losada. 1/144 scale furniture kits.
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M J Miniatures
Quality laser kits to make miniature furniture, accessories and flowers in all scales. Punches and supplies to make flowers are also available.
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De Cave Design
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Store online for sales of miniatures for house of dolls.
McQueenie Miniatures
Makers of 1/12 and 1/24 scale kits and furniture. Gypsy caravan kits.
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Social media's widespread appeal has captured the attention of terrorists who are increasingly exploiting the networks to disseminate graphic videos, images and messages.
The dark side of social media — and human nature — was on display this week when the gruesome beheading of an American journalist and its fallout played out across the world's most popular networks.
As social media has become a staple of everyday Western life, its widespread appeal has captured the attention of terrorists who are increasingly exploiting the networks to disseminate graphic videos, images and messages from around the world.
"Social media is at the heart of their jihad," said Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute.
The posts are intended to instill fear, attract new recruits and raise money on a global scale — and have forced tech giants into the difficult position of weighing the public's freedom to communicate against the need to censor troubling material. Three of the largest platforms — YouTube, Facebook and Twitter — all chose to police posts on the beheading, removing the most extreme examples.
"Terrorist organizations have moved their online presence to YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other social media outlets," Gabriel Weimann, a University of Haifa professor, said in a recent report on terrorism and social media. "They have turned to the new media not only because counterterrorism agencies have disrupted their traditional online presence but also because the new media offers huge audiences and ease of use."
On Tuesday, a video released by the militant group Islamic State displayed the beheading of James Foley, a freelance American journalist who disappeared in Syria nearly two years ago. Islamic State is the radical military group behind the latest violent insurgency in Iraq.
In the four-minute, 40-second video, posted on YouTube, Foley kneels in the desert in an orange uniform as a masked man cloaked in black stands beside him. Foley recites a statement calling the U.S. government his "real killers" and disavowing his American citizenship before he is beheaded.
News of the beheading spread like wildfire across social media, with users viewing the video and sharing the link on other sites. "James Foley" almost immediately became a trending topic on Twitter.
Twitter and Facebook users soon began posting impassioned pleas to not watch the content, calling it horrific, sickening and shameful. "#ISISMediaBlackout" became a popular hashtag. The White House reached out to social media networks asking them not to allow the posting of the video.
After it was flagged by users, YouTube quickly replaced the video with a message that said it violated the company's policy on violence. The Google-owned video network has been clear that while it defends "everyone's right to express unpopular points of view," it draws the line on several subjects, including pornography and bomb making.
"YouTube has clear policies that prohibit content like gratuitous violence, hate speech and incitement to commit violent acts," a company spokesperson said. "We also terminate any account registered by a member of a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and used in an official capacity to further its interests."
Still, the footage was reposted around the Internet and is easy enough to find. Screen grabs showing the beheading made their way onto Twitter, along with tweets from users who praised the killing.
Many of those tweets began disappearing and Chief Executive Dick Costolo took to his own account early Wednesday to address the issue. "We have been and are actively suspending accounts as we discover them related to this graphic imagery. Thank you," Costolo tweeted.
Terrorists' use of the Internet to spread fear is not new. After 9/11, terrorist groups established thousands of websites to promote their messages and activities. Governments launched online attacks to shut down password-protected forums where terrorists once mingled online.
That pushed the groups to social media websites, which have presented an even more attractive medium.
With millions of connected users, these sites have the benefit of reach, interactivity and frequency of use. Users don't need to seek information, it's often blasted directly on their news feeds, making it easy to view and share.
Much of the content posted by terrorist networks is now well edited and comes in English, lending a level of sophisticated polish that has led to increased efficacy. Videos generally are far better produced than those released just a few years ago.
Islamic State, in particular, has been releasing videos and photos that feature punishment based on radical Islamic tenets, Stalinsky said.
He and a team of about 15 researchers have seen executions, beheadings, the cutting off of hands, people set on fire and women stoned to death. The images and videos get posted to social media websites and then are immediately saved on Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library.
Even when accounts are shut down or content removed, they quickly resurface elsewhere in what can often feel like a futile game of whack-a-mole, Stalinsky said.
Islamic State has sharpened years of social media trials to become the most aggressive and successful terrorist organization on the Web, analysts said.
"We're seeing the full-fledged blossoming of all the lessons they've learned, and it's disturbing," said Evan Kohlmann, chief information officer at Flashpoint Global Partners, a research firm that has worked with Google Inc. on how to root out cyber-jihadism on YouTube.
Terrorists are also using social media to spread propaganda images of beautiful landscapes and happy camaraderie designed to lure Westerners to join Islamic State, he said.
"The real dramatic shift is not a technological shift, it's a shift in content and it's smart," Kohlmann said.
The terrorists are even adept at search-engine trickery. J.M. Berger, an analyst who tracks extremists on social media, said Islamic State supporters mentioned "Ferguson" in their posts so Americans searching for news about the chaos in Ferguson, Mo., would see the beheading video.
But Kohlmann warned that "there's a cost" to such methods and noted that in recent years, Al Qaeda began moving away from execution videos because they were alienating viewers, such as potential recruits.
"If you're fighting for human rights, how can you glorify spilling the blood of people like animals?" Kohlmann said. "It doesn't scream trustworthiness. It projects an image of chaos, and one that Al Qaeda didn't want to cultivate."
Although the negative attention surrounding such videos has forced social media companies to step up their efforts at combating misuse of their sites, Stalinsky said many just aren't acting swiftly or effectively enough.
"Why aren't they taking this more seriously? It's a national security issue," he said.
Facebook faced a rash of beheading videos late last year and deals with each on a case-by-case basis, spokeswoman Debbie Frost said.
"Facebook has long been a place where people turn to share their experiences, particularly when they're connected to controversial events on the ground, such as human rights abuses, acts of terrorism and other violent events," Frost said. "Our goal has always been to strike an appropriate balance."
Facebook has teams around the world who are reviewing activity related to Foley's beheading, and the company is removing posts in some cases. But in other situations -- such as when a user posts a condemnation of the act alongside an edited snippet of Foley's statement that omits the killing itself -- Facebook has allowed the posts to remain.
Marvin Ammori, a 1st Amendment scholar and a fellow at the New America Foundation, said social media networks have to grapple with being the modern town square. Because it's possible that the companies eventually could come under legal scrutiny for materially supporting terrorist organizations, he said, it's imperative that they find a way to restrict expression.
"If the speech there is not what we consider core to democracy, then they have to make a judgment based on the core values of their platform: free expression with some boundaries," he said. "The problem is the boundary is hard to define."
©2014 Los Angeles Times. Distributed by MCT Information Services.
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Drivers are encouraged to avoid the five streets targeted for street work weekdays between Thursday and Wednesday, July 11-17. Chip seal work is planned on Leftwich St.
south of Rutherford St. as well as on Andrew, Dunlap and Grady streets. Milling to the base rock and repacking of Turner St., between Leftwich and Miller streets is set. For more information, see the July 11 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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Apparate! TLC Location Report, Photos from Day Two of London Filming for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Apr 22, 2009
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As we noted below, day two of location filming for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows took place last night again in London, England. TLC staffer James attended the event (detailed report below!), and reported security was heavy for the second night of filming, but pointed out the highlight of the night was filming of the Trio Apparating at Piccadilly Circus area of London. Check out this adorable photo of the Trio holding hands for this scene. Update: As noted by James in the report below, the Trio almost get hit by a bus for the scene; you can see how they react to the "close call" here in this photo. Emma Watson then later enjoys a warming cup of coffee with producer David Heyman here. You can also see many more new Day 2 photos here in our galleries and at The Bad and Ugly.com. Our vast collection of filming from Day One in London can be seen here.
Thanks go to our Order Partner RupertGrint.net who were able to obtain location filming photos as well, notably director David Yates at work on location, as well as some videos of filming over the past two days, such as this, via their YouTube channel. Thanks so much Claire, Steph and RupertGrint.net and all who emailed!
UPDATE: TLC staffer James has just sent us his eyewitness accounts of filming in London that went on until the very early hours of this morning. Thanks ever so much to James for the following:
size="3″ face="Times New Roman">For the second day of location
shooting, the principal trio were once again all on set ' even if
only briefly, along with a cast of hundreds of extras (and what felt
like even more security)
size="3″ face="Times New Roman">They recorded several shots,
firstly of the Trio, and their doubles, walking along the top of Shaftesbury
Avenue off of Piccadilly Circus, just along from where they were last
night, with the extras making up the general background of what London's
busiest thoroughfare is.
size="3″ face="Times New Roman">Fans craned around the heads
of the security as they saw what appeared to be the trio walking through
the crowd ' only for a collective but silent sigh as they get closer
and everyone realises its only the doubles. Five minutes later though, with
the scene reset, and this time it's the real deal, with Emma leading
the trio through the street, looking (as one may expect for someone
who has just heard that the Ministry has fallen) rather shaken. If this
few seconds was anything to go by, this could be a good film for Emma
to shine.
size="3″ face="Times New Roman">After a few more takes of this
sequence the crew moves onto the very corner of Piccadilly Circus, where
the road is temporarily blocked, and the trio take to the center of
the road, as a London double-decker bus drives straight at them, stopping
in the nick of time. One can only assume that this is the actual Apparition
sequence, and that instead of the Tottenham Court Road setting of the
book the movie makers have made this into a much bigger sequence, setting
it in the instantly recognisable Piccadilly Circus (which makes more
sense anyway given that it's the first place Hermione is supposed
to think of and TCR always seemed a strange choice)
size="3″ face="Times New Roman">At this point the principals
get into a black cab and drive away, but the doubles stay to pick up
shots for other angles of the bus sequence ' one picture of which
you can see in TLC's galleries, with the trio facing the bus itself.
size="3″ face="Times New Roman">Because of the IMMENSE levels
of security surrounding the second day of shooting many fans stood behind
the barriers couldn't see much of what was going on, and so it can
only be expected that the photographic evidence of the shoot last night
will not be spectacular from anyone not using a giant zoom lens standing
above the barricade (of which several paparazzi chose to do anyway)
size="3″ face="Times New Roman">While we expected to see the
actual café attack sequence filmed here tonight a crew member informed
me that they were unable to get a license from the City Of Westminster
for even controlled explosions ' so are we to assume the "London
café" will actually be a set at Leavesden, and all we will see of
real London will be the sequences of them wondering through the streets
towards and away from the café?
size="3″ face="Times New Roman">So all in all, the second night
of shooting seemed to pick up where the first left off ' lots of walking
up and down Shaftesbury avenue, just this time with the additional shots
of the apparition sequence for fans to really sink their teeth into
(either complaining that "That's not what happens in the book!?!?"
as I heard someone say, or "No¦but it does sort of make more sense
this way" as another said.) whatever your outlook, as has been mentioned
above, the real star tonight was Emma Watson, who, despite only acting
for all of 5seconds the whole night did honestly make you believe in
those Five seconds that she was scared.


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No-till Shows Benefits when Switching from Grasses to CornBy Dennis O'Brien
May 27, 2009
The national push for biofuels may encourage farmers to plant corn where environmentally friendly grasses are now grown. But those making the switch can still sequester soil carbon and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by not tilling the soil, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.
Ron Follett, a senior supervisory scientist at the ARS Soil Plant Nutrient Research Unit in Fort Collins, Colo., spent six years monitoring levels of soil organic carbon in a Nebraska field where bromegrass was grown for 13 years and the field then was converted to no-till corn.
The effort is one of the most comprehensive field studies yet to address a major issue in agriculture: the effects of replacing native grasses with corn. Bromegrass became a popular alternative in the 1990s for Midwestern farmers trying to save erodible soils, enhance habitats and increase soil organic carbon. Under conventional tillage, much of this carbon is released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. Nationwide, there are 35 million acres of bromegrass and other plants grown in exchange for $1.8 billion in annual payments as part of USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).
But as demand for biofuels raises corn prices and CRP contracts end, farmers may replace grasses with corn.
Follett and his team used herbicide to kill the grass in the fall of 1998 and planted no-till corn the following spring. They collected soil samples at three depths to analyze the total amount of soil carbon at each depth and determine whether the carbon was previously sequestered by bromegrass or newly sequestered by the corn.
Follett's results, recently published in Agronomy Journal, show the benefits of no-till when making the switch. The researchers found yields were decreased because of extended drought conditions, but the total amount of carbon didn't change. The rates of loss of soil organic carbon previously sequestered in the top two depths by the bromegrass were offset by similar rates of increase in newly sequestered carbon from the corn. There also was little or no change in the amount of soil organic carbon from either the bromegrass or the corn at the third depth.
ARS is the principal intramural scientific research agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.


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How, when and where a pathogen is transmitted between two individuals in a population is crucial in understanding and predicting how a disease will spread. New research has laid the foundation for a new generation of zoonotic disease spreading models, which could allow for more targeted prevention strategies.
By using novel complexity sciences tools the study, published in Physical Review Letters, outlines a predictive model of a spatial epidemic spread in a population of territorial animals.
By quantifying the instances of transmission events, the research team, Dr Luca Giuggioli, Senior Lecturer in Complexity Sciences in the Department of Engineering Mathematics and the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol, and Dr David Sanders and Master's student, Sebastian Pérez-Becker, from UNAM, Mexico, have determined the propagation speed of a pathogen based on the knowledge of the demography of a species, the way animals wander and the degree of contagiousness of the disease.
As a large percentage of new and reemerging human infectious diseases are of animal origin, models that track how pathogens hop from one animal host to another will help develop more effective control measures that are capable of identifying specific individuals or class of individuals rather than ineffective and costly widespread culling procedures of an entire population.
Dr Luca Giuggioli said: "The research findings have the potential to be applicable to various populations of territorial animals worldwide including in the UK bovine Tb in badgers, which has enormous economic implications for the cattle industry."
Bovine tuberculosis (Tb) in badgers, which affects cattle, the farming industry and has become a political issue, is an example of how the model could be used. Badgers are territorial animals and do transmit the infection by passing the bacterial pathogen to individuals in neighbouring territories, which is what the researchers have quantified in their model.
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LEWISTON, Idaho - (Box Score) Miguel Beltran, Chad Carmen and Jonathan Sigado made sure on Friday night people don't forget that Oklahoma City has the bats to go with its strong pitching staff.
With the win, the Stars advance to play the winner of No. 2 Lee (Tenn.) and No. 7 Point Park (Pa.) at 6:30 p.m. PDT on Monday, May 28. Lewis-Clark State plays Saturday at 12 p.m. against College of Idaho.
All three hit home runs to back the pitching of Rich Hawkins and Ryan Gibson and help third-seed Oklahoma City University defeat No. 6 Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 7-2 in the final game of the opening round of the Avista-NAIA World Series at Harris Field.
Oklahoma City entered the series with the focus on its pitching staff, which threw three straight shutouts and allowed only two runs over the last 36 innings at its NAIA Opening Round tournament. And while Hawkins and Gibson didn't disappoint, it was the power surge Oklahoma City put on that stole Friday's show.
Beltran hit his NAIA-leading 26th home run on the season, a three-run shot in the third inning, to give the Stars the lead for good. Carmen hit a two-run blast in the top of the ninth inning for insurance, while Sigado put the Stars on the board in the second inning with a solo home run. In all, six of Oklahoma City's seven runs came via the long ball.
Hawkins, a senior left-hander, struggled early in the game, but then allowed only two hits after the third inning to improve to 12-2 on the season. Trailing 5-2, Lewis-Clark State put runners on the corners with one out in the bottom of the eighth, but Gibson came on to strikeout the next two batters. He then retired the side in order in the ninth.
The win gives the Stars (48-10) a pair of days off. Oklahoma City receives a bye on Saturday and will play Monday at 6:30 p.m. against the winner of Saturday's Lee-Point Park contest.
Lewis-Clark State, which was playing its first game in 19 days, fell to 42-12 on the season and now faces the tough task of having to win six straight games to claim its 17th national title. The Warriors faces fellow NAIA West member College of Idaho in loser-out play at noon on Saturday.
Despite the layoff, it was the Warriors who struck first in the contest with a run in the bottom of the first inning. Connor Moore started the rally with a one out walk and moved to second when a grounder to third hit by Trent Bridges was thrown away by Oklahoma City third baseman Jonathan Sigado. A single by Alfonso Casillas scored Moore and the Warriors loaded the bases on a single by Braxton Miller. Hawkins got out of the jam with a fly out to short center and a strikeout.
Sigado made up for his throwing error in the top of the second when he smacked a two-out solo home run, his fourth of the season.
Oklahoma City then took the lead for good in the top of the third with help from a couple of Warrior errors. Brian Fisher reached first on a wild throw by Lewis-Clark State third baseman Billy Silvestri on a grounder, but he was forced out at second on a ground ball by Cody Ferrell. Chris Munoz then singled, but Carman lined out for the second out. Fisher moved up to third on another Warrior error, but it was Beltran's three-run home run that cleared the bases and put the Stars ahead 4-1.
The Warriors cut the lead to 4-2 in the third when Kyle Knigge, who struck out with the bases loaded in the first, came through with the bases loaded and one out in the third. But bad baserunning cost the Warriors' from scoring more. Knigge hit a shot over Ferrell's head in center field, but Miller, who was on second, didn't get a good jump on the ball because he thought it would be caught. Oklahoma City took advantage of his hesitation and was able to throw him out at the plate.
Pitching dominated the next four innings as the two teams combined for only three hits. Each team had only one baserunner reached as far as second.
The Stars made it 5-2 in the top of the eight. Beltran started the rally with a two-out double and was replaced by a pinch-runner. A walk and a hit batter loaded the bases and an infield single by Sigado drove in the run.
After Ferrell was hit by a pitch in the top of the ninth, Carman smacked his 11th home run of the season and 91st of the season for the Stars.
Sigado finished 3-for-4 with two RBI for the Stars, while Beltran was 2-for-5 with three RBI. Carmen went 2-for-5 with two RBI. In all, the three had seven of the team's nine hits and all seven RBI.
Lewis-Clark State, which left six of its nine base runners stranded in the first three innings, had two hits apiece from Miller and Silvestri. Starting pitcher Michael Noteware pitched a complete game, allowing nine hits and four earned runs. He struck out nine and walked one.


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A wet chemise contest?
That ought to attract a few new guests to this year's Thistle Ridge Civil War event in Fayette this weekend.
It's true, says Jana Beaverson, an organizer of the annual reënactment event, women will compete in a wet chemise contest at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, but she's not saying ahead of time just how the competition will proceed. You'll have to come and see.
There are several other events on the schedule to offer amusement, such as the frying pan toss at 10:30 Saturday morning and the speed shooting contest at 11, when participants match their skills at firing and reloading muzzleloaders.
A kids' drill is scheduled in the afternoon where kids can choose a wooden replica gun from a crate of play weapons and practice marching drills.
A vintage baseball game is scheduled, with the Wood County Infirmary Inmates taking on a pickup team among the visiting soldiers.
A baked goods auction is on the agenda Saturday afternoon. Beaverson will bake gingerbread following Mrs. Robert E. Lee's recipe and pies will be baked in Dutch ovens over campfires.
Don Stiriz's copper kettle will be transported to the battle site for soup as Beaverson cleans out her freezer. Ladies from the 21st Ohio Civilian Reënactors will feed troops throughout the weekend.
It's a growing event, Beaverson said. The first year drew only about 35 soldiers and last season's group numbered just over 50.
As of Saturday, said Tom Spiess, another organizer, the fourth annual battle this year has 95 registered from seven reënactment groups.
Battles will represent the Miller Cornfield fight at Antietam and the Hornet's Nest event at the Battle of Shiloh.
The original 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry drew residents from this part of the state, Beaverson said, as Pres. Lincoln called for troops after the firing on Fort Sumner. The volunteers served a 90-day commitment before returning home. Many ended up reënlisting.• The Thistle Ridge events are scheduled in the fields and woods north of the swimming pool and water treatment plant in Fayette.
10:30 a.m. – Frying Pan Toss
11:00 a.m. – Speed shooting contest
11;30 a.m. – Wet Chemise Contest
1:00 p.m. – Officers meeting
2:00 p.m. – Battle of Antietam-Cornfield
2:30 p.m. – Baked Goods Auction (under tent)
Kids drill with 21st OVI
3:00 p.m. – Guest speakers Don and Diane Allison (under tent)
3:30 p.m.—Kids drill and receive Muster papers
4:00 p.m. – Vintage Baseball Game featuring Wood County Infirmary Inmates
5:00 p.m. – Camp closed to public
9:30 a.m.—Camp open to public
10:30 a.m.—Church services (under tent)
1:00 p.m. – Officers meeting
2:00 p.m. – Battle of Shiloh - Hornet's Nest
3:00 p.m. – Kids drill by 21st OVI
4:00 p.m. – Camp closed
The Thistle Ridge Reenactment is planned rain or shine. The public is invited to visit, observe and learn about an important period in our nation's history.


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Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, what a guy. Befitting his eternally-brilliant-child-trapped-inside-acid-washed-adult self, he has built a fantastic looking Guitar Hero guitar mod that melds a Korg Kaoss pad, a working GH controller and a beautiful white Gibson double-neck guitar-a rig he's using to film a brief 8-second spot for NBC, of all things. The question is, how will Wayne's GH mod face off against Dwight Schrute's recorder? "I've constructed this great looking Guitar Hero double-necked guitar thing here because there's a lot of kids out there that think this is actually how you play guitar now — that you just press a series of four or five buttons and and sort of different sort of sequences and it makes every sound that the guitar can make," Uncle Wayne says (will you be my uncle?) in this video for Entertainment Weekly (fast forward to the 2:00 mark). The Kaoss pad (a cool touchscreen-powered effects/sampler/sound processor, famously used by Radiohead on "Everything In Its Right Place" among others) is used to control a pretty gnarly synth tone, which can be modulated in true Guitar Hero fashion by the five colored neck buttons. Whether he's using this on tour or not I'm not sure (anyone seen the Lips recently?), but it looks like it will be showing up playing the three-note NBC chime in a promo spot to be played during, hopefully, the two NBC shows I actually watch-The Office and 30 Rock. Now if we could just have a Schrute/Coyne duet, please. [EW Video - Direct Link via Listening Post]
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Sasha Allen Offers Unique Take on Dixie Chicks' 'Not Ready to Make Nice' on 'The Voice'
Sasha Allen performed a totally non-country version of Dixie Chicks' defiant ballad 'I'm Not Ready to Make Nice' on Monday's Blind Auditions episode of 'The Voice,' which caused all four of the coaches to turn their chairs around for her. She took some liberties with the song, but she slayed it.
Allen, a part-time singer but a full-time dedicated mother of two who went to performing arts school in New York, is a belter with a room-filler of a voice -- the kind that judges and viewing audiences for these types of shows absolutely love.
Her version was devoid of any twang or country leanings, but it was still memorable. If you didn't already know it was a Dixie Chicks song, you wouldn't have known it was a Dixie Chicks song, since Allen gave it a makeover, turning it into a vocal powerhouse track and making it her own.
She was eventually selected by Team Adam, who fended off his fellow coaches to bring the much-desired singer onto his team so they could really work together to turn her into a star.
It was refreshing to hear a diva-like vocalist grab a country song and have her way with it on the show.


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Happy New Baktun!
The Great Return Conference in Copan:
December 1, 2012. (10 Ajaw). KGNU Radio appearance in Boulder.
December 6, 2012. Boulder, Colorado. A presentation and conversation with John Major Jenkins at the Boulder Evolver Spore, 8 - 10 pm. 20th & Pearl St. Sliding scale by donation. http://www.evolverboulder.net/john2012/
December 9, 2012. Red Ice Radio Interview, with Henrik Palmgren. The 11th hour discussion on John Major Jenkins' 26 years of Maya cosmology and pioneering 2012 research: http://www.redicecreations.com/
December 10, 2012. Little Rock, Arkansas. John Major Jenkins gives two presentations on this date (audio was recorded). For the "12-12-12" Conference which runs over four days, December 9-12. A big event with Graham Hancock, David Hatcher Childress, Dr. Semir Osmanagich and others. http://www.earth-keeper.com/earthkeeper.shtml
December 12, 2012. 8 Batz Initiation Day. Manifest Destination benefit event in Fort Collins, Colorado, organized by Teal Jandrain. Showing of exceprts from the film 2012: The Beginning.
Week of December 15-22: Print interviews apear in the U.K. Guardian and the San Francisco Guardian. Filming and tour at Izapa, December 15-16. John gives a talk at the Jades S.A. museum and store in Antigua Guatemala, on December 18th.
December 21, 2012: Broadcast and release of mini-documentary on Gaiam TV (footage taken at Izapa and environs on December 15-16, 2012).
The ultimate 2012 Tour-Conference program, Dec 18 - 22, 2012, at Copan, Honduras! "The Great Return" with Barbara MacLeod, David Sedat, Michael Grofe, John Major Jenkins, and many others. Included a showing of the film 2012: The Beginning to a crowd of over 1000 people on December 20th. http://www.jbjourneys.com/content/Maya_2012_Tour_Copan_Honduras
Previous events of 2012:
This FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, at 7 p.m.
October 15, 2012: New Book! Reconstructing Ancient Maya Astronomy: The Field of 2012 Studies in 2012. Order here: A limited edition release, special offer.
New Resource: READINGS from the writings of John Major Jenkins. Five hours of free excerpts read by the author, 1982 - 2012. Listen in and support the ongoing work. Launched in May 2012.
Speaking at the Symbiosis Gathering, Pyramid Lake, Nevada. May 17 - 21, 2012.
First Izapa Round Table Conference (June 19-21), and informal tour with John Major Jenkins (June 22-25), Tapachula Mexico.
Telluride Mushroom Festival, August 16-19, 2012
I will introduce a showing of the film 2012: The Beginning at the Nomad Theater in Boulder, Colorado, September 28, 2012
Attending the premier of 2012: The Beginning in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, October 24.
October 28, 2012. Presentation and film showing (of 2012: The Beginning) in Winnipeg, Canada, at Convocation Hall.
November 16, 2012. Fort Collins. A $5 event! 2 hours, presentation and film.
My new book, Lord Jaguar's 2012 Inscriptions (2011) is now available in a limited edition release. Order your copy today.
My recent book, The 2012 Story: The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth Behind the Most Intriguing Date in History, was released on October 15, 2009. Check out the new Web Site. The book was released in paperback in October, 2010.
Special offer: 3-CD audio program (Unlocking the Secrets of 2012) with free book.
addition, I have launched new Web Sites:
The 2012 Movie
Guess What? There is ZERO evidence that the ancient Maya predicted the end of the world in 2012. The Maya calendar does not END in 2012. DOOMSDAY-2012 is a fallacious construct, a projection of exploitative and underinformed writers and Western nihilistic fantasy. A huge publicity campaign has begun for Hollywood's 2012 catastrophe movie, to open November 13, 2009. Is this Hollywood appropriation of 2012 mere harmless entertainment? At the very least, this entertainment comes at a price, and that is: the complete and utter misrepresentation of what 2012 meant to the creators of the 2012 calendar. I write about this in my new book, The 2012 Story. My nine books on Maya cosmology and tradition going back to 1989 explore the facts, the evidence, and the reconstruction of a lost paradigm.
Update: I was invited by Sony Pictures to attend and be interviewed at press conferences for the 2012 movies release, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and on the red carpet in Hollywood, November 3, 2009. I took the opportunity in the hopes that a shred of truth could be conveyed to the public. Alas, although I was interviewed by CNN, BBC, MTV, NBC, CNBC, ABC, CBS, and dozens of other news outlets, what I had to say ended up on all the editing room floors. Why? Because I reported the truth: There is no evidence that the ancient Maya predicted the end of the world in 2012. The Hollywood illusion machine was working overtime on quelling this truth, but luckily my stealthy associates and I were able to record this mini-movie at the red carpet. It's amazing what one has to do in order to get the simple truth across to a media that is choking on its greedy obedience to falsehood, deception, and disinformation.
My appearance on the Sean Hannity program on Fox News, August 2009
My appearance at the Hollywood red carpet premiere of the 2012 movie (be forewarned: it's an exercise in stealth journalism).
My appearance in ABC Nightline's 2012 report, November 2009
Documentary film accurately reports
my pioneering work:
See the Youtube clip of my presentation at Unveiling the Portals of 2012 (an event in Fort Collins, Colorado January 2008).
In a special edition of December, 2007, The U.S. News and World Report included coverage of my 20 years of work to reconstruct ancient Maya cosmology and the importance of 2012.
My interview with Henrik at Red Ice Creations radio in Sweden is now featured on their website: http://www.redicecreations.com. The main one-hour interview is immediately available for listening. Please subscribe to Red Ice to access part 2, in which we explore more deeply the implications of the galactic alignment.
July 1, 2007. My work is featured in a piece on 2012 in the New York Times, Sunday Magazine. The piece is also available to view on the New York Times website.
January 2007. Results of my trip to Izapa in December 2006. Confirmation of the ballcourt alignment, and invitation to move the discussion forward. The azimuth gnomon, an astronomical instrument I designed for the Izapa trip. This self-funded research as an independent scholar led to being accepted as a National Fellow in The Explorer's Club (founded by Sir Edmund Hillary).
My comments on the new discovery at Tak'alik Ab'aj
Confused about the Galactic Alignment? It's an astronomical fact, but it has nothing to do with our orbit around the Galactic Center: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYbg3_GHZ5Y
Here is my Fox News interview clip, recorded at the 2012 conference in Los Angeles, March 1, 2008.
Since 1998, I have appeared in many documentaries including Earth Under Fire (1998), The Fifth Gate (1999), The Discovery Channel's "Places of Mystery series (in 2000)," and many others too numerous to list. An unfortuante trend since about 2005, especially evident in the 2012 documentaries produced by 1080 Productions for the History Channel, is the unethical and inaccurate co-opting of my work, enslaving it to the fantasies of doomsday pimps. Unfortunately I was hoodwinked several times by lying producers and my work as it appears in the mainstream marketplace is now confused with pole flips, Nostradamus prophecies, solar flares, and other manifestations. 2012 has become sticky paper for irrational and poorly researched oddities and unethical documentary producers who, despite my clarifications which were offered to them during the interviews, chose to misinform the public about the facts of the Maya calendar. I wrote about this problem in my op-ed piece "How Not To Make a 2012 Documentary."
Over 2,000 years ago the early Maya formulated a profound galactic cosmology. They saw that the sun, on the winter solstice, was slowly moving toward the heart of the galaxy. Naturally enough, with their uncorrupted intelligence intact, they suspected that the world would go through a transformation when the solar and the galactic planes aligned. They devised their Long Count calendar to target when the cosmic alignment would maximize, and that time is AD 2012. We are lucky that the brilliant skywatchers who devised the 2012 calendar left carved monuments for us to decode, and that they have survived the decay of centuries, so that we can know exactly what they prophesied and believed about 2012.
Incredibly, at the early Maya site of Izapa in southern Mexico, the galactic cosmology and a profound spiritual teaching are preserved. Izapa speaks to us of the Galactic Alignment in 2012 as a transformative nexus in time, a still-point turnabout, inviting us to reconnect with our cosmic heart and eternal source. With the Divine Wisdom. But how can that be achieved? What is the original, undiluted, prophecy for 2012, divined by those ancient mystics and stargazers who invented the 2012 calendar?
Izapa's carved monuments provide the answersnow, for the first time in two millennia, the secrets of Mayan sacred science have been decoded. Now, we can directly read the 2012 revelation right at its source.
Here are a few indispensibly important gateways into the Galactic Alignment, 2012, and the importance of Izapa:
What is the Galactic Alignment?
Izapa: The Origin Place of the 2012 Calendar and the 2012 Prophecy; Izapa 2; Izapa 3.
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July 7, 2007. The Pyramid of Kukulcan at Chichen Itza is included in the new list of the Seven Wonders of the World. The shadow serpent that appears on the equinox is no doubt the reason. But how many know about the even more profound alignment to the sun and the Pleiades in the zenith that I decoded in my 1998 book Maya Cosmogenesis 2012?
Report on the summer EVENTS 2007 (West Coast and Maya Tour 2007)
I was honored to be asked by Joscelyn Godwin to endorse his new book The Golden Thread (Quest Books).
Three interviews with Tiokasin Ghosthorse on WBAI radio, New York City. Listen to the three programs: March 15, March 22, and March 29, 2007. Other archived programs. Visit First Voices Indigenous Radio. Thursdays at 10 a.m.
Interview with Daniel Giamario, early expositor of the Galactic Alignment and founder of ShamanicAstrology.com. Interview took place on his Portland Radio program, February 2007.
Comments on Apocalypto and Aronofsky's The Fountain.
Radio interviews with Mike Hagan in 2006-7 are archived at Mike Hagan's RadiOrbit program. Access the first interview streaming or MP3 download.
John's video interview with The Broad Band Learning Channel was posted on February 1st, and is free to view. Other DVDs available.
Geoff Stray's important book, Beyond 2012. More info.


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Can you think of an evolutionary reason for this?
- This topic has 10 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 3 years, 3 months ago by GeniusIsDisruptive.
August 26, 2012 at 4:43 pm #16779immunogoblinParticipant
I'm reading an article on the growing rate of early puberty amongst girls, here's an excerpt:
"Girls who from an early age grow up in homes without their biological fathers are twice as likely to go into puberty younger as girls who grow up with both parents.Some studies show that the presence of a stepfather in the house also correlates with early puberty. Evidence links maternal depression with developing early. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/magaz … ted=4&_r=4
Any thoughts on what the evolutionary advantage of this situation would be???
for the first one: the presence of a biological father would prevent early fertility simply because it might not actually lead to greater fitness (complications of young pregnancies). On the other hand that pressure has to balanced out with "letting the daughter out of the prepubescent nest" …
how would this adaptation develop and how would it work…
puts a new spin on parent offspring conflict : P
September 14, 2012 at 11:54 am #112343possibilitymagazineParticipant
Brilliant connection there bro!
September 28, 2012 at 11:35 am #112487
I tried to click the link but took me to a log in page so couldn't really read what it is all about but sort of get the gist, it's a really interesting question and I think there is definitely some sort of link as I have noticed it but have absolutely no idea and can only guess.
As you probably know already to trigger sexual development hormones are released that are received by the pituitary gland this in turn triggers the rest, yes this is a hard one to answer I love these sort of questions as it gets you thinking and hopefully someone can answer it as I would like to know also.
All that I can think of is it would definitely be something to do with pheromones, really it was not that long ago scientists discovered VNO which are very tiny receptors in our noses, you have heard the term "the chemistry was right" between a couple it is the VNO that is responsible for that I cannot remember what it stands for now the O stands for "organ" veranonasal or something similar just google it, actually I am pretty sure I responded to a post on this forum that involved VNO or was that another biology forum? 🙂
Anyway without the presence of a male in the house the preteen would not be receiving male pheromones and that would have something to do with it for sure, it sort of reminds me in a way of women that are completely developed and they all live in the same house eventually they will all go into sync with ovulation and also their periods all at the same time, anyway that's another story.
Hope you find an answer immunogoblin as it is an interesting occurrence.
September 28, 2012 at 3:12 pm #112490CatParticipantquote immunogoblin:I'm reading an article on the growing rate of early puberty amongst girls, here's an excerpt:
"Girls who from an early age grow up in homes without their biological fathers are twice as likely to go into puberty younger as girls who grow up with both parents.Some studies show that the presence of a stepfather in the house also correlates with early puberty. Evidence links maternal depression with developing early. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/magaz … ted=4&_r=4
Any thoughts on what the evolutionary advantage of this situation would be???
for the first one: the presence of a biological father would prevent early fertility simply because it might not actually lead to greater fitness (complications of young pregnancies). On the other hand that pressure has to balanced out with "letting the daughter out of the prepubescent nest" …
how would this adaptation develop and how would it work…
puts a new spin on parent offspring conflict : P
This whole thing is nonsense. Study is correlation NOT cause and effect. I hate correlation studies done on humans as they are rarely done correctly and people reading them usually dismiss part of the information for greater effect. In the study mentioned, STRESS in the childhood correlates with early puberty. "Biological fathers" and "stepfathers" etc. are irrelevant.
From the same article (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/magaz … ed=4&_r=5&):
"Bruce Ellis, a professor of Family Studies and Human Development at the University of Arizona, discovered along with his colleagues a pattern of early puberty in girls whose parents divorced when those girls were between 3 and 8 years old and whose fathers were considered socially deviant (meaning they abused drugs or alcohol, were violent, attempted suicide or did prison time)."
With this information you can correlate biological fathers' "socially deviant" behavior with early puberty which would be nonsense as well…
September 28, 2012 at 9:08 pm #112499RapParticipant
Even then, the correlation between stress and early puberty does not imply causation. A twin test might help. If you had two twins separated at birth, one raised in a low stress environment, the other in a high stress environment, and the high stress twin reached puberty significantly earlier, then you would begin to reasonably expect causation. If both twins reached puberty early , and then both went on to raise their children in high-stress environments, you would start to think maybe the situation was genetic rather than environmental.
September 28, 2012 at 10:11 pm #112501CatParticipant
Exactly, Rap. Not the kind of experiments you can actually perform due to ethical repercussions.
October 1, 2012 at 12:22 am #112526
Yes it is only really a hypothesis but it is interesting, by the looks of it researchers are saying it is pheromone related, took me a while to find but I knew there would have to be something out there on the subject http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/19 … 064822.htm to me it all adds up and the pieces fall into place.
October 1, 2012 at 2:44 pm #112530RapParticipant
Yes, and its when all the pieces fall into place that you have to be careful, especially if it is a result that supports your value system, i.e makes you feel good, or puts money in your pocket.
If you are going to be truly scientific, you not only have to verify that the facts fit your theory, but that they falsify other theories. This is hard, because it might not make you feel good or might cost you money, and scientists are human. Einstein made that mistake when he introduced the cosmological constant into his cosmology. He "valued" a stationary universe which required the constant. When Hubble experimentally discovered "Hubbles law" – the increase of redshift of celestial objects with distance, Einstein abandoned it.
You have to "falsify" the genetic theory before accepting the environmental theory. Well, its not that cut and dried, but you have to show the relative influences of genetic and environmental factors before accepting the "its almost entirely environmental" theory. From what I can see, the scientists in the article you refer to have not done that.
Also, a good way to evaluate a theory is to see who the scientists who support it are being funded by. I have worked in the climatology field, and there is a process that occurs that is counter-scientific. If a scientist delivers results that indicate "no problem", their funders say "thank you very much, bye", but if the scientist delivers results that indicate "big problem" the funders throw money at them, saying "go for it". Its like going to the doctor, if the doctor says you are healthy as a horse, you go home and relax, if not, you ask for a second opinion. It's not a right-left problem, its a human nature problem.
The scientists who wrote the article you refer to were funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Look at their web page and ask yourself what would have happened if the researchers had come up with any other result? If the researchers had been funded by, oh, I don't know, the Institute for the Elimination of Genetic Defects, how long would their funding last after publishing this article?
Good science ain't easy, especially if you have an axe to grind or want to be rich and famous. Or even consistent.
October 1, 2012 at 9:42 pm #112532
Gday Rap
Completely understand and very well explained/ written, yes correct it does not take much to apply for a research grant and be accepted. I have seen some absolutely ridiculous amounts paid out for the most ridiculous research and to top it of it was mostly pseudoscience anyway, but it did not stop the money pouring in.
Anyway, the whole topic is extremely interesting as there is definitely some link whether it be environmental or genetic, I am hanging my money on the pheromones theory as to me that is what adds up, it just amazes me at how many of these little hidden biological triggers are actually hardwired into us and as you say you hate correlation studies I agree they are not an accurate answer but they are a stepping stone in the right direction after all that is what science is, all about asking questions, getting results that usually lead to more questions.
This is not a question any scientist is going to have an answer for overnight but it is going to be interesting what results they come up with as I am not funding it they can take as long as they like and I am sure they will 🙂 I say this bearing in mind your last paragraph 🙂
February 3, 2017 at 3:56 am #116163joemastersParticipant
I have worked in social departments in the past and I can say (as a correlation, not causation) that children who tend to grow up with less "parenting" tend to hit the puberty mark earlier in general. Whether or not this has to do with pheromones is debatable, although I believe they may play some part in it. But for the most part, this seems to be a case of nature vs nurture, but nobody can say with absolute certainty.
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles. … heromones/
July 10, 2017 at 11:54 pm #116239GeniusIsDisruptiveParticipant
Correlation is not causation, notwithstanding the outrageous pronouncements of the climate change sharia.
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August 18, 2012 | By Bruce Martin
With just four races left in NASCAR's "Race to the Chase," time is running out for four drivers with strong Brickyard connections.
South Bend, Ind., native Ryan Newman has one win this season, which could help him claim one of the two wild-card" positions in the Chase. He is 49 points out of 10th place in a Stewart-Haas Racing car owned by two-time Brickyard 400 winner and fellow Indiana native Tony Stewart.
Only the top 10 in points advance into the Chase after the Sept. 8 race at Richmond International Raceway. The final two positions go to the drivers with the most victories that are in positions 11-20 in points.
Four-time Cup champion and four-time Brickyard 400 winner Jeff Gordon appeared to be in great shape to claim one of the two wild-card positions heading into last weekend's race at Watkins Glen International but was involved in a final-lap crash when his No. 24 Chevrolet hit oil that had been sprayed on the race course by another car. His crash dropped him to a 21st-place finish, and he is fourth in the wild-card standings with one victory and 59 points out of 10th.
Paul Menard won the 2011 Brickyard 400 but is eighth in wild-card standings with no victories and 64 points out of 10th. Nothing short of a three-race winning streak could guarantee him a position in the 12-driver Chase. And 2010 Brickyard 400 winner Jamie McMurray is 10th in wild-card standings with no wins and a whopping 152 points out of 10th place. He is another driver that needs a motorsports miracle to advance into the Chase lineup.
Former USAC star Kasey Kahne has one of the two wild-card positions with two victories. He is 11th in points. Newman is 13th in points, Gordon 15th, Menard 16th and McMurray 20th.
The pressure is on these Brickyard stars this weekend at Michigan International Speedway, site of the Pure Michigan 400 at the recently paved 2-mile oval. Fan favorite Dale Earnhardt Jr. drove to victory here in June.
"Oh, it's going to be an interesting weekend with everything that happened the last time that we were here, with tires," Gordon predicted during his Friday media availability at MIS. "This is one of my favorite tracks and always has been. It's big and fast. The repave and then having a test here a couple of weeks ago and then the start of the day was very exciting and interesting with the lack of grip and then all the issues those guys had putting fluid down on the track, so it made for a very challenging day to start, that's for sure. There toward the end, the track starting getting grip back and we started seeing the speeds get faster and faster. "
Gordon has two wins, 18th top-fives and 25 top-10 finishes in 39 starts. But his last MIS win was ancient history, all the way back in June 2001. He has finished sixth in his past two races at this track.
He qualified 11th Friday.
Gordon was visibly upset NASCAR did not throw the caution flag on the final lap at Watkins Glen even though race leader Kyle Busch and others already had spun with oil on the track.
"I can't change the outcome," Gordon admitted. "If I felt like there was a way to change the outcome and take back that last corner, I certainly would. I mean, I was as dejected at just the fact that it happened, as I was at that they kind of allowed the car out there without really throwing a caution. It cost, I think, Kyle (Busch) the win. It possibly cost the No. 2 (Keselowski) the win because I think he might have hit something going into that bus stop. It certainly cost us a lot of positions.
"But that's racing. Yeah, I'm going to be mad about it at the time and not happy with some of the things. I felt like I could have been a little bit more conservative in that last corner and come home eighth or ninth; and that would have still been a pretty solid day for us. But I was racing hard and probably harder than I should have been, and I felt like we also probably could have given me a bit more information on that last lap about what was going on. But I talked to the team and they were like, 'Hey, we didn't want to break your rhythm. You were racing hard for position. You were moving forward, and we didn't want to say anything. So you can't blame them for that. It was a great finish. Gosh! I went home and watched it and I thought, 'Wow, that was exciting; that was cool.' So, you hope the sport can gain from that."
Newman is another two-time Michigan winner with wins in this race in 2003 and in the June race in 2004. Those two wins are included in his five top-five and six top-10 finishes in 22 starts. He was fifth in this contest last year and 15th back in June as he battles to make the Chase.
"I think making the Chase is big for me personally, for our team and for our organization," Newman said. "We've made it, and we've not made it. When we don't make it, it's frustrating to go through those last 10 races. In the past it hasn't changed our perspective on the next season, but this year I think it's a little bit different. So, yes, it has weight but it doesn't change the way I race, and it doesn't change my mentality when I get in the race car or when I get out of the race car. It's all about my job as a driver. I've done it for the last 10 years in this sport, and every day is the same when it comes to that."
Newman lines his No. 39 Chevrolet 15th on the grid Sunday.
Menard has never won at Michigan and has just one top-five and one top-10 finish in 12 starts. He was 26th last August and 22nd in June. He will start 10th on Sunday.
"We ran out of fuel on the last lap, and that cost us seven positions," Menard said. "We ran between 10th and 15th all day. We felt really good about the car after testing and practice, and then Goodyear changed the left-side tires. We had a hard time figuring out the balance of the car with the new tires, so that put us behind for the race. We did not have a good practice on those left-side tires. When the race started we made some good adjustments and the car was competitive. I felt like at the worst we were going to finish 14th, but I think we could have gotten a top-10 finish."
Although he is nearly out of any serious consideration for a wild-card position, McMurray looks forward to the race Sunday at Michigan where he has no wins, one top-five and four top-10 finishes in 19 starts. He was 23rd last August and 14th in June.
"I am looking forward to going back to Michigan," Menard said. "It was incredible how smooth and fast the track was for the first race on the new surface in June. We had a decent car there and had a top-15 finish, but we know that we can be better. We tested in Nashville this week to try a few things take back to Michigan."
McMurray qualified 24th Friday.
While there four drivers are scrambling just to get into the Chase, the rest of the "Brickyard's Best" are in much better shape. Four-time Brickyard 400 winner Jimmie Johnson leads the Cup standings for the first time this season and is up by one point over Greg Biffle and two over Matt Kenseth. Johnson qualified third Friday. Stewart is eighth in points and 63 ahead of 11th place. He qualified the same as his car number – 14.
Kevin Harvick, the 2003 Brickyard winner, is ninth in points and 57 points ahead of 11th.
As the "Race to the Chase" kicks into high gear, expect a driver with strong connections to the Brickyard to play a major role in the outcome.


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We have some new friends in the area who have a fossil rich creek running through their property. It's a five minute drive to reach the creek, or a mile and a half walk as the bird flies. Some days, the older boys take off through the woods, equipment in tow, and spend hours on an adventure, coming home with muslin bags full of shark's teeth and other little fossils. As a family, we started fossil hunting five or six years ago. We have favorite spots that we visit regularly (all requiring a drive) and my oldest son, Seth, follows the adventures of other fossil hunters online. To have discovered fossil hunting grounds so close to home after all these years has been a really exciting turn of events for him, and the other kids as well.
Saturday afternoon, Seth was hoping to spend some time in our friends' creek, and I volunteered to drive him and Keats over and drop them off. I had things to do at home, but didn't mind the quick drive. Beatrix wanted to go too and I told her she could could ride along, but wouldn't be able to stay without an adult, and I definitely couldn't stay (that spring to-do list!) I hadn't yet actually seen this creek and Seth really wanted to show it to me. So, I told Beatrix that she could have a few minutes of hunting for sharks' teeth before we headed back home. That few minutes quickly became an hour as Beatrix was so engrossed in her task, shoveling gravel into her sifter and hunting for teeth, that I just couldn't stop her. She felt so grown up, like one of the big kids. The rare and good find in this creek is the Otodus shark's tooth. Only a few have been found and the boys always hope for one on these hunts. Of course Beatrix mimics them and made it clear that her hope was to find a nice big Otodus as well. In one of her last sifter's full of gravel, she found her Ototdus, the only one found that day.
Bea didn't complain at all when I told her it was time to go home a little while later, and I didn't regret spending my time with her in the creek, rather than accomplishing the tasks I had planned for that Saturday afternoon. I can still hear her happy exclamation of, "My whole ever life, I've been wanting to find an otodus, and I did!"
"Her whole ever life": such a Beatrix thing to say. She's still singing about that tooth.


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Moscow artist Olga Chernysheva seeks out moments of awkwardness and discomfort that arise when reality falls short of the imagination. Whether working with oils or watercolors, analog photography or digital video, Chernysheva uses a plain, unaffected style, deliberately constructing her compositions to be as inconspicuous as she is when fixing her voyeuristic gaze. Tonight at 7:00 p.m. she will present a screening of video works at the Museum of Modern Art. Rhizome Curatorial Fellow Brian Droitcour met with Chernysheva in her Moscow studio.
There's a park in the north of Moscow called VVTs, or All-Russia Exhibition Center, but Muscovites persist in referring to it by its old name, VDNKh, the Exhibition of the People's Economic Achievements. Neither name is a good fit. The old one sounds clumsy and communist. The new one seems too ambitious, since most commercial fairs prefer newer, centrally located facilities to VDNKh's whimsical and ill-equipped pavilions, which were built in the 1930s to showcase products of the Soviet republics or economic sectors whose names they still bear. Today most of them are improvised stores, with plastic banners stretched over marble and gilded facades to advertise the inexpensive goods for sale inside, such as furniture, seeds, radio parts, and honey. As a metaphor for the collision between a Soviet "bright future" and the present's imperfections, VDNKH seems almost too pat to exist. But this juxtaposition is alive in the experience of the thousands of shoppers and strollers who congregate there every day.
Olga Chernysheva usually looks for material in her neighborhood, and at the VDNKh, just a few kilometers north along a major Moscow thoroughfare, which has provided her with inspiration on many occasions. The park's mixed roles -- as a place of business, an amusement park, a relic of Stalin's imperial vision -- make it rich in the quirks and dissonances that her work thrives on. Chernysheva's Panorama (2006) was inspired by VDNKh's cinema-in-the-round, which continues to screen the same handful of films made for its opening in 1959; the paintings in that series highlight the discoloration and fissures in the theater's curved screens and the idealized images of Soviet life flickering across them. The photographs in Alley of Cosmonauts (2008), taken near VDNKh, feature a silvery, soaring rocket monument and the adjacent walkway, where busts of rocket scientists and space explorers are wrapped in plastic as the alley undergoes renovations. The site honoring past heroes, closed to the public and dusted with snow, looks like an alien landscape.
But Chernysheva's interest is not limited to ruins; recent developments are just as important to her. The lobby of a new Moscow high-rise is the setting for a photograph in the series Moscow Area (2008); it shows a fountain shaped like a nude girl pouring a jug of water over herself. The sculptor may have aspired to recreate the grace of Greek sculpture, but the result is kitschy, even vulgar. Chernysheva's video Brand Like a Friend (2007) is an anthology of corporate anthems, sung by uniformed employees. Many singers bungle the lyrics, and shy giggling betrays their discomfort at the imposition of camaraderie through music. The video March (2005) captures what Chernysheva calls the collision of the "American" and the "Soviet." Prepubescent boys in military uniforms should be standing at attention, but they steal glances at cheerleaders shimmying their bare midriffs a few meters away. They are framed by balloons emblazoned with corporate logos and blunt, quasi-Soviet slogans. The event, Chernysheva says, was planned to celebrate Moscow's winning bid to host the 2012 Olympics, and was held even after the city lost in the first round of voting.
The Soviet relics and other exotic images of Russia in Chernysheva's works can distract a foreign viewer's eye, and tend to engender readings that cleave to a master narrative about a nation's struggle to cope with historical catastrophes. But the monuments of VDNKh or the jaunty patriotic tune in March are not keys to a political allegory; the associations with the idea of failed utopia that these details evoke simply add depth and resonance to Chernysheva's specific vignettes about the gap between the real and the ideal. Nor can her work be described as critical of "Wild East" capitalism, since her documentary works pass over the many scenes of Moscow life that would make for much more cutting critique. Instead, Chernysheva's art represents a soft, sympathetic humanism, both appreciative of the imagination's heights and grounded in its flawed manifestations.


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It's going to be a shit day. After experiencing my boy having to have a blood test its clear I don't do well with hearing him in pain. His dad is definitely the stronger one so will be there on Monday holding my hand and being the amazing support we will both need.
Looking back through this process, it's been long and arduous. Getting appointments, getting answers, understanding more about this condition, it's all been a little stressful. But I truly believe that the world throws you things for a reason.
Through this process we have learnt that although my son has the all clear, I actually do have Von Willebrands Disease. I'm not a carrier, I actually have it.
It's surprising to the Dr that through numerous surgeries I've had and through my labour, I never experienced a bleeding issue. I've had my tonsils, appendix and wisdom teeth out – all operations that do cause concern for people with VWD. Every time, I've been fine. I'm so thankful for this and it also gives me great hope for my little niece (who at 9 years of age, also has VWD to the same level that I do). She had a traumatic bleed after her tonsils were removed last year and the Dr has warned of issues surrounding her periods and surgeries moving forward. I have always had very light and easy to manage periods and no bleeds at all, so it makes me think, maybe she will be the same moving forward. I hope so.
So once again the universe has played its cards. Its provided me with a challenge and allowed me to come out the other side unscathed and with knowledge that I needed.
It's a clever place this universe of ours….


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At a hearing today in Staunton Circuit Court, the pending obscenity trial of Manassas-based adult video retailer Rick Krial got some legal star power, despite the prosecutor's attempt to block famed First Amendment lawyer Paul Cambria– most famous for representing Hustler publisher Larry Flynt since he was first brought up on obscenity charges in the '70s.
Staunton Commonwealth's Attorney Ray Robertson argued that since Cambria represents nearly all of the producers of the videos undercover officers purchased at Krial's store, After Hours Video, Cambria could not provide his client unbiased advice.
"How in the world can the defendant respond to my plea offer, which would require him to testify against his distributors, if the attorney advising him is representing the distributors?" Robertson asked in court.
Cambria responded by stating that Krial's decision to reject Robertson's plea deal happened well before he entered the picture. "I didn't have anything to do with advising him," said Cambria, adding that, "If there was something like that of substance, rather than disqualify me, another lawyer should advise him, and I think Mr. [Tate] Love [Krial's Staunton-based co-counsel] has filled that role."
As prosecutor Robertson continued to paint hypothetical scenarios of future plea bargaining, federal investigations, and appeals of guilty verdicts, Judge Humes Franklin Jr. asked Robertson no less than four times, "Where are your facts?"
To this, Robertson pointed to the possibility that parties in the porn industry other than Krial were paying Cambria's hefty fees. The judge, however, pointed to a sworn affidavit in which Krial states he alone is paying Cambria.
"How does he know?" asked Robertson, as Cambria rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"He's paying; he ought to know," replied the perturbed judge. "That's almost like saying 'What does know mean?' It's on the face of it."
Following the hearing, Cambria told reporters he's looking forward to arguing Krial's case in the Shenandoah Valley town.
"There's so much culture here, and it's a sophisticated city, and sophisticated people are not afraid to make choices," said Cambria. "Anytime a person's ability to make a choice is on the line, it's worth it to lend whatever competency you have."
Should pretrial proceedings move along as scheduled, Cambria said Stauntonians can expect the case to go to trial around Valentine's Day, as he smiled and added, "an appropriate day."
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Ray is one of the more visible village idiots in a town that has always had more than their fair share of them over the years. I grew up in that backwater burg; it's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. Actually it might be a good future home for Camblos. After Ray fumbles and stumbles his way through this case, he may find himself out of a job. Camblos would be a perfect match for that job in that town.
That Ray Robertson sounds like a a real ass.


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|Augyva Mining Resources Inc.
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TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – June 1, 2016) – Augyva Mining Resources Inc. ("Augyva") (TSX VENTURE:AUV) today announced that it has filed audited financial statements for the year ended February 29, 2016. The statements together with the Management Discussion and Analysis can be found on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, and on the company's website at www.augyvamining.com.
The Company is currently pursuing a range of prospective transactions and will provide an update, if any, to shareholders in due course.
About Augyva Mining Resources Inc.
Augyva is an exploration and development company holding properties located in the James Bay regions of the Province of Quebec. Its major project is its interest in the Duncan Lake Iron Property located in the western part of the La Grande Greenstone Belt. The property is accessible by road and covers approximately 7,921hectares. Augyva received the results of a National Instrument 43-101 compliant Preliminary Economic Assessment prepared by Met-Chem Canada Inc. in March 2013. The property is subject to an option and joint venture agreement between Augyva and Canadian Century Iron Ore Corporation.
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On the title page to the book, the author outlines his intention to instruct on 'all the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman.' These 'virtues' include 'physick' (medical remedies), the ordering of great feasts, making cloth, brewing and baking.
About Countrey Contenments
Countrey Contentments or The English Huswife was written by Gervase Markham in 1615, and was a best-seller of its time - reprints continued up until 1683. In fact, Markham did not write most of the recipes contained in the book: he admits in the preface 'this is no collection of his whose name is prefixed to this worke, but an approved Manuscript which he happily light on, belonging sometime to an honorable Personage of this kingdome, who was singular amongst those of her ranke for many of the qualities here set forth.' Later editions of the book attribute the recipes to 'an Honourable Countesse.' It was not uncommon for male cookery book writers to transcribe recipes found in unpublished manuscripts, many of which would have been written by aristocratic women, who would have had regular access to key ingredients.
However, Markham did adapt these recipes to suit the fashions of the day. Many of his sauces contain a combination of sweet and sour flavours (mixing vinegar and wine with sugar or fruit for instance), a style that was very much in vogue at the time. Butter was also a key ingredient, as were fresh herbs which were beginning to replace spices in English cookery. Markham also includes French, Spanish and Italian recipes.
Although the title of the book suggests that it is written for a female readership, it is thought that very few women (between 5 and 10%) were literate at the time. Historians believe that most readers would have been members of the clergy, the gentry and the professions.
Markham (1568-1637), poet and writer, was the third son of Sir Robert Markham of Gotham, Nottinghamshire. He served in the army in the Low Countries and then in Ireland, he spoke several modern languages, and was knowledgeable on the subjects of horse-breeding and forestry. His work included various tragedies and comedies, a study of horsemanship, an account of his military experiences, and a number of books on managing a country household.


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Eating sunup to sundown in Bologna, Italy
By Pamela Berger, Special to CNN • Published 5th November 2012
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Incredible architecture and art are splendid and interesting enough but when I go to Italy, I want to eat.
Which is why, after a dozen trips to the country, I decided to settle into the city of Bologna for a few weeks and consume as much as I possibly could.
Now, every Italian will tell you that their region makes the best food. But for many, the best Italian food comes from the region of Emilia-Romagna, of which Bologna is the capital. Meat ragu, tortellini, lasagna, parmigiano cheese, mortadella, coppa and balsamic vinegar -- all have roots here and the resulting regional dishes are truly sublime.
Through dozens of meals at dozens of restaurants, I compiled this one-day dining guide to the culinary and sensory overload that is Emilia-Romagna. The only two requirements? Bring extra cash and arrive hungry. Really hungry.
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A light, social start
The Italian breakfast or colazione, is much lighter than the American version. It involves a simple coffee and a pastry, often filled with custard, cream or chocolate. My Italian friends, Odette and Mauro Messori, took me to their favorite breakfast stop one morning.
For four years, every single day, the Messoris have walked 15 minutes downtown to the Fashion Café (Via Massimo D'azeglio 34). This modern and unusual version of the typical Italian coffee shop is situated inside a bookstore. Mauro peruses books and orders his daily macchiato while Odette prefers a frothy and creamy cappuccino estivo.
"Le gente," or the people, however, are what Mauro loves most about his breakfast stop. In Italy, breakfast is more a social event than anything else, where you catch up with friends and start the day with hugs, handshakes and small talk. Pastry and coffee is more of an afterthought, but a really tasty one.
I also stumbled upon a wonderful coffee bar during my stay, called Le Petit Café (Strada Maggiore 25), just a few minutes walk east of downtown. The coffee is excellent and prepared with great care, made better with a slice of fresh bread topped with a dollop of locally made marmellata. Delizioso.
The real eating begins
Lunch in Italy was once regarded as the most important meal of the day. Now, as the cities and towns modernize and more of the younger people are working in offices rather than the fields, lunchtime has become less complex and time consuming. Unless of course, you're a tourist like myself and want to eat till your belly extends and your breath shortens. If that's the case, many restaurants still oblige.
One such restaurant is
All'Osteria Bottega
(Via Santa Caterina 54), about a 20-minute walk from downtown on a quiet unassuming street. Plan to take your time here and arrive ravenous.
My friend Vanessa and I ordered a regional white wine and enthusiastically awaited our antipasti: homemade pickled vegetables in olive oil which were perfectly balanced and not too acidic. Next arrived the famous Culatello di Zibello or regional Parma ham aged for one year along the Po River -- an area whose winter fogs and humid summers make the air unlike any other in the world, plus the local Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, aged 30 months. To taste the finest parmigiano cheese is not understood until tried, savored.
Vanessa's stuffed zucchini with meatballs evoked memories of how her own Italian grandmother used to cook, while my freshly made rigatoni with a white ragout of small sausage meatballs, cannellini beans and rosemary was by far the most memorable pasta experience I had in Emilia-Romagna. You just can't believe food can taste this good. (Delicious local dishes tortellini in brodo and tagliatelli al ragu are also on the menu here.)
Satiated, we passed on a second course in exchange for the hot chocolate cake with red currants. One fork piercing elicited a liquid chocolate so good I couldn't speak. I just about licked my plate clean, like any good Italian.
An irresistible snack
Get up slowly. With a satisfied lethargy, walk along the pretty porticoes that are the backbone to this cosmopolitan city. After 30 minutes or so, I like to think you've walked long enough to deserve a gelato.
Dating back to the 16th century in Italy, gelato is made primarily with milk rather than cream, giving it a lower milk-fat content than ice cream. It's denser than American ice cream with less air whipped into it, which intensifies the flavors.
Stefino Bio
is an innovative gelato shop, situated on Via Petroni close to the University, that uses all organic ingredients. Their specialties include chocolate and pistachio-based flavors. Try the wasabi gelato or chocolate with ginger.
To eat more at this point seems almost inconceivable, but it's amazing what a late day leisurely stroll and an espresso can do. You sit down to rest in a pretty piazza, the stomach growls slightly and your next thought appears with an anxious, slow smile, "Time for dinner!"
One more delicious meal
"To give is to receive," is the mantra followed by the owner of
Ristorante da Fabio
, a cozy family-run restaurant that's located in the Castiglione area. Gluttons find true bliss here as dishes are brought out in succession, delivered in big, family style bowls. If any meal felt like an Italian feast, it was this dinner.
Mozzarella di bufala, ricotta cheese, crusted bread, liver pate, baked tomatoes with cheesy breadcrumbs, celery salad, grilled eggplant, braised endive, roasted zucchini, mortadella, prosciutto ... Yes, we ate all of that, and that was just the antipasti.
Great Italian food forces you to stop and take your time. We savored every bite, paused for audible and elongated 'mmmms,' and pressed on with mushroom risotto and fettuccine with pumpkin and pancetta. Both dishes reminded me that if you take deep breaths, you might make room for a little more. We drank, ate, drank, ate and finished our plates. Breathe ...
In Bologna, you can get around quite well with English. But it is wise to learn a few words and phrases, like "Basta" (stop) "Sono piena" (I am full) or "No ce la faccio piu" (I can't take anymore).
Feast in all these restaurants in just one day and you'll be repeating every one of these phrases. But the peculiar thing is, you'll head home, have a good slumber, wake up and want to do it all over again. Pasticcini anyone?
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