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This portrait of President Barack Obama was created by artist George Vlosich using an Etch-A-Sketch toy. The picture took 80 hours to draw using the two dials in one, unbroken line. In addition to this piece, the artist has created several more portraits that are equally impressive, although trying to duplicate them might take some work. Check out the link below for some more examples of his work.
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A mother in Utah taught both of her children to sign using American Sign Language before they could speak. What she didn't expect was for her son to use his skill to communicate that he really didn't enjoy sitting in Santa's lap.
Kerry Spencer told "Today" Parents that she didn't see Samuel's ASL sign for "help" until after the photo was taken.
Her family has been laughing about the picture for years, but this year the Stevenson University professor, now living in Maryland, decided to tweet the photo. It's now gone viral, being retweeted thousands of times.
Spencer told "Today" that, strictly speaking, the sign is "mispronounced." The thumb should be up, not sideways.
The latest news from around North Texas.
"Babies learning to sign often mispronounce words, but it is the sign he always made when he needed help," she said


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Joe Woityra was first a student of Denny Davis at Lake Orion, then an assistant coach for his softball program, and then ultimately the successor to Davis when he retired as varsity head coach following the 2009 season.
Through all his interactions with Davis at Lake Orion, Woityra said he was always first and foremost about the kids he mentored.
"He was just a great guy," Woityra said. "He loved to be around kids. The most important thing for him was being around the kids and having fun with them and teaching them things. He was always quick with a joke. He was always a Dragon through and through. He bled green. That's where his heart and home was."
Which is why there are a lot of heavy hearts around the Lake Orion community after Davis died suddenly of a heart attack on Sunday morning.
He was 65 years old.


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This week, makers and sellers of consumer-electronics devices will begin releasing their earnings reports for the latest quarter. The reports will generally cover the July-September period, though some companies have fiscal quarters that depart from that.
Here's a schedule for selected companies that report unit sales on phones, tablet computers and other devices. Some companies including Samsung Electronics Co. do not release data on unit sales.
— Thursday: Microsoft Corp., Nokia Corp.
— Oct. 24: AT&T Inc., Nintendo Co.
— Oct. 25: Apple Inc.
— Oct. 30: TomTom
— Oct. 31: Garmin Ltd.
— Nov. 1: Sony Corp.
— Nov. 20: Hewlett-Packard Co.
— Dec. 20: Research In Motion Ltd.


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Jersey City Artist's Studio Tour, Saturday, October 13 @ 2 PM:
For the Backstory on 111 First Street – NJ Room
JERSEY CITY, N.J. October 2, 2012 – Calling all local arts aficionados! The New Jersey Room at the Main Library, 472 Jersey Avenue, 3rd Floor, is the place to be at 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 13, the first day of the 2012 Jersey City Artist's Studio Arts tour, when urban historian David Goodwin will be presenting, Enter the Artists: The Early Years of 111 First Street.
In the late 1980s, a community of artists began gathering in a former tobacco factory and warehouse at 111 First Street and provided a spark to ignite the arts and culture scene in Jersey City. Unfortunately, the artists of 111 First Street were forced from the building in 2005 after a long, bitter struggle involving the building's ownership as well as the city. This discussion introduces the tangled story of 111 First Street as a studio building and a cultural community and presents a history of the building and its residents from the 1980s through the 1990s, when the arts emerged as a pivotal force in a renascent Jersey City. [Synopsis by John Beekman, assistant manager, New Jersey Room]
"We are thrilled to offer the artist community and its supporters the history of one of Jersey City's missed opportunities, 111 First Street," said Cynthia Harris, manager of the New Jersey Room.
This presentation is based on Goodwin's Masters thesis. His thesis Abstract, verbatim: "For nearly twenty years, 111 First Street, a former tobacco warehouse, stood as the vibrant center of the arts community in Jersey City, New Jersey. The owner of 111 First Street evicted its resident artists in 2005 and demolished the building in 2007. Artists are often viewed as an integral component to the gentrification process. However, the case of 111 First Street suggests a possible alteration to the typical, gradual process of gentrification and challenges the established scholarship on the relationship between artists and gentrification. This thesis will use interviews and original research to recreate the narrative and history of 111 First Street, focusing on the events surrounding its demise and its ultimate destruction. Additionally, this thesis will utilize 111 First Street to highlight any resulting gaps in current gentrification theory."
David Goodwin's interest in 111 First Street originally occurred from a purely random, transitory perspective, described here: "When I first moved to Jersey City, I would often ride the light rail and I witnessed the gradual demolition of 111 First Street from my seat on the train. At that time, I knew nothing of the history of the building and its community of artists. Several years later, I read a short article on 111 First Street in a local magazine and I found myself wanting to know more about the building. Eventually, I realized that the story of 111 First Street was destined for the proverbial dustbin of history unless someone began documenting the building. This prompted me to weave 111 First Street into a seminar paper. My professor suggested that I expand it into a thesis.
"I approached the story of 111 First Street from the point of view of an urban historian. I also consider myself an urbanist; that is, I believe that cities at their best offer their residents variety, culture, community largely absent from the suburbs. Arts and artists hold a valuable place in the urban landscape and can potentially change the composition and essence of an area for the better."
David Goodwin is an urban historian and a librarian at Fordham University School of Law. He holds degrees from St. Bonaventure University, Drexel University, and Fordham University. He lives in the Heights section of Jersey City.
For the latest on programs, events, and special announcements please follow the Library on Facebook or Twitter at Jersey City Free Public Library. Visit us on the web at www.jclibrary.org for all information on the Library, including all press releases in The Press Room. As of today, October 2, 2012, the Jersey City Free Public Library has 219,415 valid card members.


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Running Tips and Training Programs for Beginners to Marathon Runners
At Tips4Running, we focus on providing runners with running tips on workouts, races from the 5k to the marathon, cross country running, gear, and much more. In addition to countless articles on all things running, we have two fantastic comprehensive plans for a
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. Get out the door! It is better to run for one mile than to think about running five.
. Set your goals high. Make sure you have a running goal to accomplish. This will keep you focused. I suggest take it further and write goals for everything in life, from work to family.
. Try some different running workouts. Add some intervals, a tempo runs, fartleks, a long run, or progressive runs to your routine.
. Get a running watch. Keep track of how long you have ran and how much time it took. You could even get a GPS watch that stores all this running information for you.
. Hit the trails. Running on grass instead of pavement can help prevent injuries. Your legs will thank you.
. Strengthen that core. Sit-ups can help prevent the dreaded side stitch. Also, drink more fluids to help with cramp prevention.
. Keep track of your runs. Log how far you have run, and how long it took you. You can do this in a running journal, or a running log online. You'll learn what running tips work for you, or don't work for you when you look back at your recorded runs.
. Get a running buddy. It is easier to stay motivated if you have a friend or if you are part of a team.
. Buy a pair of running shoes. Running is a relatively inexpensive activity. The only thing you really need to invest in is running shoes. Find a good pair. If you know your foot type, you can find good deals online by comparing prices of Men's Running Shoes or Women's Running Shoes.
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The program is designed to help you walk or run to lose weight and get in great shape. There are four different step-by-step schedules that gradually build up your fitness while making running an enjoyable experience. Watch the video for more information.
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I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of this plan, and there is nothing else like it on the market. This program is more than just a list of running tips. The 100 Day Marathon Training Plan covers all the bases. It has training plans based upon your goal time, making it right for everyone. You get training schedules from day one to race day.
Marius Bakken, a two time Olympic distance runner, created the plan to help people get in great shape and avoid injuries during training. In addition to eight training schudules, it includes workouts based on your specific running times or heart rate, 15 instructional videos, and 120 pages that walk you through the entire marathon preparation process.
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Even though running is a pretty straightforward activity, any level of runner can benefit from more running tips. If there is one tip that is the most important thing that any runner needs to know, it is this. "It is better to run one mile, than to think about running five."
You can read all the information you want about running. You can change your diet. You can try the latest cross training fad. All these things are wonderful, but the best way to improve dramatically at running is by running.
That is the focus of tips4running.com. I want you to stay motivated, and be ready everyday to get out that door and start running. In addition to the beginner plan, and the marathon plan that is sold here, there are countless articles for many different aspects of running.
For recreational runners, read the sections about running to lose weight, cross training, or how to deal with different aches and pains you might experience as you get in shape. The truth be told, you will lose weight if you start up running and you haven't been very active in the past. Most people who begin running don't start eating more to make up for all the calories that are burned off by running. In actuality, many people who start up running actually adopt a healthier diet.
For competitive runners, make sure you check information on running the 5k, running cross country, and track and field. There are lots of running tips for those that are into maximizing their performances. I also suggest looking at the running interview section. Many fantastic runners have stopped by tips4running and shared their running tips with the rest of us.
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This past Tuesday was a beautiful day in Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota. On this day I, along with a few other NRPA staff, had the pleasure of visiting park and recreation agencies in the Twin Cities that are providing free meals and snacks to children through the USDA Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). We saw firsthand how special these programs are for the children and the park and recreation professionals involved. Not only that we were able to witness what happens when you demonstrate the impact these programs have to elected officials too!
Joining us on this visit were special guests Congressman Keith Ellison and representatives from Senator Al Franken and Senator Amy Klobuchar's offices.
Our first stop was Dayton's Bluff Recreation Center.
Toni Smith the Programming Supervisor for Saint Paul Parks and Recreation and Linda Flynn, the Service Area Coordinator provided us and our friends from the offices of Senator Franken and Senator Klobuchar's offices, a tour of the Recreation Center and highlighted the lunch that was being served through the USDA Summer Food Service Program. There we met a fun group of kids that were enjoying their lunch.
Saint Paul Parks and Recreation has been serving summer meals for more than 25 years through a partnership with the Saint Paul Public Schools Nutrition Services.
With more than 80 percent of the youth who attend public school in the area qualifying for "free" or "reduced" lunches, all Saint Paul Recreation centers are now involved in the program to meet the high demand. It was powerful for us and the Senate staff to see and hear how summer meals and after school snacks have become an important component of the recreation services for youth and are sometimes the only regular meals these children are receiving. The team that runs the programs knows many of the kids by name and you can see the mutual trust that has been built over time; these kids know they have a safe place in the community.
Our next stop was at Farview Park and Recreation Center in North Minneapolis.
It was a busy day as usual with children doing what they should be doing on a summer's day, enjoying the sunny weather. But what makes this so special is that you can tell these children have a real trust that this place is safe and that they get to enjoy healthy meals or snacks when they are there.
Farview is one of 35 sites in Minneapolis that, in partnership with the Minneapolis Public Schools, serve summer meals to school-aged children. In the summer of 2013 alone, nearly 125,000 meals and snacks were provided. Jayne Miller, CPRP, Superintendent of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, welcomed Congressman Keith Ellison and the Senate office representatives to the park to see the facility and programs. The kids got to interact with the Congressman and show off the SFSP in action.
Congressman Ellison's kids grew up playing sports at the very park, and he shared some of his fond memories and experiences that he and his family had in the park system. He also shared his appreciation for Jayne and what she and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board have accomplished since she started as the Superintendent, four years earlier.
Looking at the programs and relationships here, it is a bright example of what these types of partnerships in communities can provide for the constituents they serve.
You never know what personal stories your own representatives may have of your local park and recreation systems. They may be a champion of your issues and ready and willing to be an ally, if you make or further those connections. With the reauthorization of the legislation that funds the SFSP and other food programs due in 2015, it is a critical time to build those relationships with your Congressional leaders and highlight to them the great work you are doing in your community.
We encourage NRPA members that run Summer Food Service Programs to host your Senator or Representative next summer or during the school year if you participate in after school meal and snack programs through the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
We've even created a step-by-step guide on how to host your Senator or Representative for a site visit of your summer or after school food programs. Additionally, the NRPA Public Policy team is always ready and willing to help with advocacy and congressional outreach on this or any other issue. Reach out to us!
How have you made connections with your elected officials over the years? Leave a comment below or tweet us your thoughts using #SummerMeals.
Sage Learn is NRPA's Government Affairs Manager.


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I am walking with Concern America in the annual Walk Out of Poverty to bring health care, clean water, education, and economic opportunities to impoverished communities in Latin America. Concern America trains people to be health care providers, build water systems, be teachers, and form income-generating cooperatives in their own communities. Please donate or join me on April 4th, so that together we can walk for people to transform need into self-sufficiency.
About Concern America:
Concern America is a globally-focused community development organization that transforms need into self-sufficiency in economically impoverished regions so that community members themselves are the agents of change.


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U.K. fight fans will be able to watch next month's UFC 127 preliminary-card bout between British fighter Ross Pearson and fellow lightweight Spencer Fisher.
The UFC UK's office today confirmed the plans via its Twitter account, though an official told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) details for the live ESPN U.K. broadcast still are being finalized.
Another source told MMAjunkie.com that in the U.S., Spike TV won't carry a "UFC Prelims" special in conjunction with the Feb. 27 event.
UFC 127 takes place at Acer Arena in Sydney Olympic Park in Australia. The night's main card airs live on pay-per-view in the U.S. (on Feb. 26 in its normal Saturday-night timeslot due to the time difference) and ESPN in the U.K.
The UFC and Spike TV recently announced that 12 "UFC Prelims" specials will air this year on the organization's longtime cable partner. UFC 127 won't be one of them, but the organization could go an alternate route, such as UFC.com, Facebook or ION Television, which all recently aired preliminary-card fights.
Pearson, who won "The Ultimate Fighter 9" in 2009, is part of the Team Rough House camp in East Midlands. Whether on main or preliminary cards, Pearson's fights usually are aired in some form in his home country. UFC 127 will be no different.
Pearson opened his UFC career with wins over Andre Winner, Aaron Riley and Dennis Siver (which earned a "Fight of the Night" bonus). But in his most recent bout, his four-fight win streak came to a halt with a submission loss to Cole Miller.
Meanwhile, after a three-fight win streak in the UFC, which included wins over notables Caol Uno and Jeremy Stephens, Fisher dropped consecutive losses to Joe Stevenson and Siver. But he then signed a new UFC deal and got back in the win column with a unanimous-decision victory over Kurt Warburton in October at UFC 120.
For more on UFC 127, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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Guy Somerset – Taki's Mag August 25, 2011
On July 18, 2011, Sean Hoare was found mysteriously deceased by London police. This is notable for two reasons.
The first reason is that Hoare was a primary whistle-blower in the unfolding crisis at News Corporation. The scandal has implicated multitudes in illegal and immoral electronic eavesdropping on everyone from an abducted teenager to Prince William and his brother.
The second and far more ominous reason is because Sean Hoare's demise was not suspicious in any way. The London police, though already implicated in the scandal for widespread corruption through bribe-taking and callow complicity in shuttering earlier eavesdropping investigations, assure us it is so.
Naturally, only the pitifully paranoid or unsettlingly obsessed would doubt this claim.
Everyone knows whistle-blowers are by far the most likely people to generally have poor timing in all matters of corporeal termination. At the most inopportune times they are prone to hang themselves, have inconvenient heart attacks, overdose on pills, and get into car accidents in which the other parties mysteriously vanish.
Thus, absolutely no one else was involved in Sean Hoare's accident. It is a certainty that this will be deemed a former narcotics abuser's drug overdose. Simple as that. We know this because we are told so (and we know to heed the master's halt). Here are a few historical examples to erase all doubt.
Dr. David Kelly was a British scientist and expert in biological warfare employed by the British Ministry of Defence. He also became a very inconvenient figure when he met for an unauthorized discussion with a BBC reporter about the true state of the government's dossier concerning Iraq's supposed stockpiles of chemical weapons.
Dr. Kelly disputed claims that Iraq had the capability to fire biological weapons within 45 minutes, a major British argument for invading Iraq the second time. While Kelly said he believed it likely Iraq secreted some modicum of chemical weapons following international inspections, he was dubious as to their extent and immediate threat. Following his own inspections in Iraq, Kelly became more certain of his suspicions and spoke to a reporter from The Observer to state that Iraq did not possess mobile germ-warfare laboratories and that Iraqi claims of such devices being innocuous hydrogen-balloon production facilities were entirely accurate.
Yet what might have turned into an embarrassment for the British government and a serious impediment to its second war on Iraq was all but erased from memory when Dr. Kelly decided to kill himself. Despite numerous supportive letters and emails, a supposedly despondent Kelly went for his usual evening walk and ingested 29 painkiller tablets. Then for good measure, he cut his wrists. No one saw him do it and his family says they didn't believe it, but what would they know? Kelly was gone, along with any hope of others in similar positions coming forward to prevent thousands of deaths and billions squandered. Naturally, Dr. Kelly's keen sense of timing made it a good day for government and gun-sellers the world over.
Ron Brown was United States Secretary of Commerce in the first Clinton Administration, appointed following exceptionally successful fundraising. He perished in a 1996 air crash near Croatia. Weather was claimed to have been the cause, though anyone who took the extra step of investigating would have learned the storms were not nearly so severe as initially stated. Following the accident, no public contact was made for a full 10 hours. Rescuers, much as they would later be during the JFK, Jr., disappearance, were directed toward the opposite direction of the crash site. When they finally reached the scene, a flight attendant was said to be upright and conscious (but died of a broken neck before reaching the hospital).
When additional rescue crews arrived, everyone was dead. Witnesses at Brown's autopsy claimed he had what appeared to be a bullet hole in his temple region. Obviously, they must have been mistaken. It was merely the age-old "Whistle-Blowers' Malady" which had struck. Ron Brown (who had already stated if he was going to jail, he wasn't "going alone") had been under investigation by US independent counsel and nearing indictment before Congress to answer charges of corruption followed up with widely rumored interrogation regarding the Clintons' questionable financial dealings.
Karen Silkwood was a woman who worked at the Kerr-McGee nuclear plant near Crescent, Oklahoma. As a member of the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union's bargaining committee, she was assigned to investigate health and safety issues. Apparently there were innumerable violations at the plant, most notably those of exposing workers to contamination. As a consequence, Silkwood testified before the Atomic Energy Commission. Later that year, she was found to have plutonium contamination 400 times the legal limit. Following decontamination she was deemed to have similar levels of poisoning the next day, despite having been assigned only paperwork at the plant. On a third day her levels of radiation were even higher, to the point she expelled contaminated air from her lungs as she breathed. A decontamination team was sent to her home, which was determined to be heavily exposed to radiation.
Silkwood by then had assembled a wealth of paperwork on the conditions at Kerr-McGee, including her own plutonium poisoning, which was found to have originated from a section of the plant she had not been able to access for at least four months. A meeting was set with a reporter from The New York Times and a national official from her union. Yet that night, as she drove en route from a local union meeting, she had a fatal car accident. Naturally, sleeping pills were found on the scene and the police deemed the cause due to a weary driver. Certainly no official report has ever been altered and no surreptitious injection ever made to a person's body.
Authorities discounted skid marks on the road, damage on the rear of Silkwood's auto, and microscopic paint chips belonging to another vehicle. All the documentation she was carrying concerning Kerr-McGee's supposedly dangerous and criminal operations mysteriously disappeared. Still, only the paranoid regard this case as other than an accident. In no way related to the abuses she helped expose, grounds at the plant were still being decontaminated 25 years on.
Rudolf Hess was the longest-held prisoner of World War II. He was interned at Landau Prison until 1987 when, like all inconvenient figures, he hanged himself with electrical cord. Nothing should be made of the fact that the 93-year-old Hess was physically unable to raise his hands above his head. No mention should be made of the overwhelming evidence that in 1941 he had embarked from Germany on his way to Scotland to meet with members of the highest levels of British establishment after the fall of France in an attempt to end the war before it reached catastrophic levels of devastation. (The earliest period of that conflict was called the "Phoney War.")
Moreover, one is requested to ignore the verified reports that not long before the incident, even Winston Churchill's cabinet came quite close (save Winston) in voting to end hostilities and sue for peace before widespread destruction ensued. As to Hess, upon landing short of his destination he requested to be taken to the Duke of Hamilton.
Unfortunately for the course of Western Civilization, this was denied and his cache of documents was removed from him. For the next several decades he was held (in isolation) far longer than those who actually committed wartime atrocities. As a possible release neared, he killed himself with no witnesses, though in 2008 Hess's medical caretaker publicly stated the British SIS had aided Hess in exiting the mortal plane. Though immediately fired for this outrageous act of honesty, that man has thankfully not otherwise suffered.
All of the above people died by accident. Although they knew things that powerful people preferred they did not know, none of them was inconvenient to the powers that be. None of them had millionaires and politicians as enemies.
This is clearly the best of all possible worlds. Neither business nor government has any but the noblest intentions. Decent people are always rewarded justly and richly, and no one ever gets killed for doing the right thing.
Thus, we know that the one man with a semblance of conscience in the Murdoch hacking case had a simple narcotics overdose. Any contrary notion is idiotic, conspiratorial, and laughable.
In novels and films the hero is lauded for his efforts at illuminating this world's evils. In reality the hero is usually not identified at all, except perhaps by his remains.
And now if the author will be excused, one must need return to bright coloring books, composition of cheerful songs concerning equality, and the reading of fairy tales and fables


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[October 12, 1931 - June 29, 2002]
Professor Ole-Johan Dahl was a Norwegian computer scientist and is considered to be the father of Simula and object-oriented programming, together with Kristen Nygaard.
Dahl is a member of the small group of scientists who will be regarded as founders of their own field of science. His field was informatics and he won the two most prestigious international prizes specific to that field: The ACM A.M. Turing Award (considered to be the "Nobel Prize of Computing"), in 2001 and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal. He was made Commander of The Order of Saint Olav by the King of Norway in 2000, and received a number of other signs of recognition.
With Kristen Nygaard, he produced the initial ideas for object-oriented (OO) programming in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center (NR - Norsk Regnesentral) as part of the Simula I (1961-1965) and Simula 67 (1965-1968) simulation programming languages
Dahl and Nygaard were the first to develop the concepts of class, subclass (allowing information hiding), inheritance, dynamic object creation, etc., all important aspects of the OO paradigm. Their work has led to a fundamental change in how software systems are designed and programmed, resulting in reusable, reliable, scalable applications that have streamlined the process of writing software code and facilitated software programming. Current object-oriented programming languages include C++ and Java, both widely used in programming a wide range of applications from large-scale distributed systems to small, personal applications, including personal computers, home entertainment devices, and stand-alone arcade applications.
Dahl became a full professor in 1968 at the University of Oslo, creating the discipline of computer science here. He was the first professor of informatics, responsible for establishing research and education programs in this rapidly expanding field. Here he worked on Hierarchical Program Structures, probably his most influential publication, which appeared co-authored with C.A.R. Hoare in the influential book Structured Programming of 1972 by Dahl, Dijkstra and Hoare, perhaps the best-known academic book concerning software in the 1970s.
In his University career, Dahl focused on the use of formal methods, to rigorously reason about programs. Unlike many theoretical computer scientists at the time, his work had a solid motivation in practical applicability and implementation experience. With Owe, who became his closest collaborator, he investigated languages, specification, verification and related tool development, in the long term ABEL project, and in the development of formal methods for object-orientation. His research is today represented and continued by the PMA research group.


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As we will see, God's authority supersedes the authority of the civil government, so we must have a nuanced view of civil obedience and disobedience. Still, that the Lord establishes civil governments reveals that government is not evil in itself. ...Read More
The Parable of the Tenants
The parable of the tenants was a prophecy to its original hearers of the death of Christ, but it also shows us how much unredeemed people hate God. As Dr. R.C. Sproul points out in his commentary Mark, that ...Read More
An Assault on God's Glory
That the first-century Jewish leaders were unprepared for the return of the glory of God to the temple serves as a warning to us. Christ, the glory of God, is coming again in glory to consummate His kingdom (Acts 1:6–11). ...Read More
Judgment on the Temple
Dr. R.C. Sproul writes in his commentary Mark, "The Jews hoped that the Messiah would cleanse the temple of Gentiles, but Jesus cleansed the temple for the Gentiles." Christ judged the wicked and showed grace to His chosen in ...Read More
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The people on the first Palm Sunday did not understand the nature of Christ's kingdom or salvation. Nevertheless, they were correct to acclaim the Davidic king as the bringer of salvation. Only Jesus the Messiah can redeem us from all ...Read More
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When Christ opens the eyes of our hearts to see Him in all His glory, we are moved to serve Him out of gratefulness for His salvation. If we would grow in our obedience this day, we must see Jesus ...Read More
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(The Root) — Just before the Supreme Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act in March, I asked Cecilia Munoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, if the Obama administration had a plan B if the high court struck down the law's individual mandate. She wouldn't divulge.
"We're not thinking about or planning for a moment when those provisions are not in the law," she said perkily. "We really are quite confident that the Supreme Court is going to uphold it."
Turns out Munoz was right. On Thursday the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Affordable Care Act 5-4, arguing that, yes, the federal government can require you to buy health insurance or face a fine.
In upholding the health care reform law's individual mandate, the court cast the penalty for those who refuse to purchase health insurance as a tax, arguing that Congress has that authority.
As Chief Justice John Roberts said in the decision: "Our precedent demonstrates that Congress had the power to impose the exaction in Section 5000A [the individual mandate] under the taxing power, and that Section 5000A need not be read to do more than impose a tax. This is sufficient to sustain it."
With regard to the other part of the law that was in question — ACA's expansion of Medicaid, to cover anyone with incomes of less than 133 percent of the poverty level — the court ruled that the expansion is constitutional, but only with conditions.
Under the U.S. Constitution's Spending Clause, the federal government has the power to give the states more money for Medicaid, in return for the requirement that they provide more low-income people with access to health care. What the court ruled that the government is not allowed to do, however, is strip states of their existing Medicaid funding if they do not expand Medicaid. Those states, in other words, can continue to receive funds for the rest of the program.
As Justice Roberts put it: "Nothing in our opinion precludes Congress from offering funds under the ACA to expand the availability of health care, and requiring that states accepting such funds comply with the conditions on their use. What Congress is not free to do is to penalize States that choose not to participate in that new program by taking away their existing Medicaid funding."
So in the end, the entire Affordable Care Act is constitutional. Although the Supreme Court rejected the government's argument that the individual mandate is fair game under the Commerce Clause (the part of the Constitution that gives the federal government authority to regulate multistate economic activity), it was nonetheless allowed to stand on the grounds that the penalty that one must pay if one refuses to buy insurance is a tax that Congress is authorized to impose.
Full implementation of the law will continue, and the plan for barring insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions is still on track. The 3.1 million young people who are already being allowed to stay on their parents' health care plans will remain insured, and seniors who have already been receiving 50 percent discounts on brand-name drugs will keep those discounts.
Glenn Cohen, professor of law and co-director of the Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard University, reasoned that, even if the court's specific rationale was not ideal for the Obama administration, it's still a victory for him.
"The best possible thing would have been for it to have been upheld as an exercise of the Commerce Clause power because now Mitt Romney gets to say, 'Look at the president increasing taxes — he didn't want to call it a tax before, but the Supreme Court called it as it was,'" Cohen told The Root. "But at the end of the day, this is a very good day for the president."
Cynthia Gordy is The Root's senior political correspondent.


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An unexplainable thrill courses through the human body when this fantastic symbol of Freedom turns to the call and voluntarily returns to the Falconer.
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An unexplainable thrill courses through the human body when this fantastic symbol of Freedom turns to the call and voluntarily returns to the Falconer.
13 comments:
- b13 said...
What a fantastic image. Camouflaged against the horizon its prey doesn't stand a chance.
- March 24, 2008 at 1:36 PM
- Stacey Olson said...
Thanks b13, These birds amaze me each and every time we go out..
- March 26, 2008 at 7:35 AM
- Jotter Jan said...
Stacey...my sister and I have always had a love for birds of prey! Her husband use to be a falconer and had a Red-tail...it was beautiful to watch!!! Stop by my sister's blog if you get a chance...I think you'll enjoy it. I know she'll love yours!!!
BTW...thank you for the kind words you had to say about my blog.
My sister's blog is:
Thanks Again,
Jan from North Carolina
- March 27, 2008 at 7:42 PM
- Stacey Olson said...
Jotter Jan, Thanks for the link.
I will go check it out.. It is always nice to find other falconers out there in this big old world..Thanks
- March 29, 2008 at 6:33 AM
- Lori Schmidt (LoriProPhoto) said...
I think it is a redtailed Hawk that we have that hangs around here but has only once given me an opportunity to take a quick snap of it and then it was really far away and the focus wasnt great so I am still not sure if it is what I think. We live right on the ourskirts of the town so every time I see a deer, bird, squirrel or any other wild animal I consider myself fortunate. A lot of the times I dont have my camera with me when I see these animals but I have the pictures etched in my mind!
- March 29, 2008 at 8:55 AM
- Stacey Olson said...
We are moving closer to town for our children as soon as our house sells, but fortunatly I have some great places to go to get photos, and I think our new place will have alot more small game oportunities minus the local chukar flock that lives by us now.. Thanks for all the wonderful comments. and besides even if you don't see many wild animals you are blessed with some FABULOUS horses to photograph..:)
- March 29, 2008 at 9:52 AM
- Dave Coulter said...
Yes...I imagine it is the "return flight" that is most gratifying!
I'm pretty sure I saw a Cooper's hawk ripping through the treetops on my morning hike today. He/she was in a BIG hurry. :)
- March 30, 2008 at 11:47 AM
- Wren said...
Wonderful picture! I've never been able to get birds in focus.
We had a wounded kestrel in our yard one year, and took it to a local wildlife rehab person. Unfortunately it was too damaged and had to be euthanized. I was so impressed with her work and the patients in her care.
- March 30, 2008 at 10:59 PM
- Stacey Olson said...
Dave, and Wren, Thanks for taking the time to comment! It is amazing just how many raptors are out there once you start noticing them. Sorry that the little Kestrel didn't make it, they are such sweet little warriors.
- March 31, 2008 at 5:49 AM
Hi, Stacy, Thanks so much for your kind comments and questions. Feel free to email me since my answers will probably become kind of long for a blog. How jealous I am that you have that gorgeous wildlife around you in your state and your falconry work is so wonderful! Re the TC question:
I tried two teleconverters: a 1.7, then a 1.4. The 1.7 was always a little soft which bugged me, but the 1.4 is beautiful. The original lens must be sharp as well and it is better if the original lens is f4.0 or less so you don't lose too much light when adding the TC (mine is 2.8, but you could get away with 4.0 since for birds we don't usually go below 5.6 unless they're really small . I always had this thought in the back of my mind, though, as to whether something was wrong with my 1.7, so I would like to repair it and try again (last summer my camera+lens+TC slipped off of the tripod--what a nightmare--and I repaired the lens $$!, but not the 1.7 TC yet) but the 1.7 always seemed a little loose...anyway, feel free to email so I don't take up all the space on your blog. Brenda
- March 31, 2008 at 9:10 AM
- Stacey Olson said...
Thanks Brenda.. I will be contacting of you..:)
- March 31, 2008 at 9:18 AM
- Sandpiper (Lin) said...
Beautiful shot! I can only imagine what the experience must be like. Thrilling!
- March 31, 2008 at 3:17 PM
- Reflections Magazine editor said...
You have an amazing blog. The photos are magnificent. It sounds like you are living a pretty wonderful life...
- March 31, 2008 at 8:57 PM


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Engineering is the silent E in STEM subject areas. While science, mathematics, and technology are often topics of content area lessons, engineering is often ignored. However, engineering is inclusive of all STEM subjects because engineers use science, mathematics, and technology to solve problems. Engineering careers are diverse, spanning many different technologies and disciplines, such as agricultural engineering, aerospace engineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, and chemical engineering. Each of these jobs involves a rich, highly-specialized vocabulary. In this lesson, students are introduced to the vocabulary of engineering careers by reading informational websites. After learning the terminology, they use discipline-specific vocabulary words to create poems about engineering careers.
Baumann, J.F., & Graves, M.F. (2010). What is academic vocabulary? Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 54(1), 412.
Educators should help students identify domain-specific vocabulary: the content-specific words used in disciplines like biology, geometry, civics, and geography (p. 6) and help students to gain literacy skills about academic vocabulary.
Frye, E.M., Trathen, W., & Schlagal, B. (2010). Extending acrostic poetry into content learning: A scaffolding framework. The Reading Teacher, 63(7), 591595.
- It can be difficult to teach poetry to students.
- Teachers may find structure and support in formula poems. Writing poems about content area topics can help students to integrate discipline-specific vocabulary and knowledge.


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(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - Jeanette Rodriguez (Coral Springs, Fla. / USA Judo National Training Site at North Miami) became a little bit older and a lot more credentialed when she turned 17-years-old and won bronze in the 48kg division on Sunday at the Pan American Games.
"As a birthday gift, this was pretty good. It could've been better if it were a gold, of course, but I'm happy," Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez began her day with a win over Johana Orozoco (COL).
After three scoreless minutes, Rodriguez threw Orozoco; however the referees gave the waza-ari (half-point) score to the Colombian. Then they conferred and awarded the score to Rodriguez and continued the match for 30 more seconds at which time they reconvened and took the score away entirely.
Orozoco then immediately threw Rodriguez for a koka (smallest points) to take the lead, but Rodriguez was determined to get the win and threw Orozoco for a yuko (quarter-point) with just over 20 seconds remaining in the match.
In her next match with Zuleyma Garcia (ESA), Rodriguez was up by yuko and koka scores, but got thrown for a waza-ari in the last minute.
"That'll be the match I always remember," Rodriguez said. "I had it and then just did something stupid."
She rebounded in the repechage where she fought Gerdine Mathieu (HAI). Neither player was able to score until nearly the last minute when Rodriguez threw the Haitian for ippon with an o soto gari (outer leg throw).
"At first I was kinda bummed out after I lost in the second match, but I knew it was not over yet, that I still had a chance for bronze," Rodriguez said. "I knew I had to put my guts on the line and recover what I lost."
In the bronze medal match Rodriguez threw Glenda Miranda (ECU), a bronze medalist at the Pan Am Championships in May in Montreal for a yuko score in the fourth minute. The throw was originally deemed an ippon (instant win), but was then downgraded.
"I heard them say ippon and I was so relieved, but then my coach said it was a yuko and I was disappointed, but knew I had to keep going," Rodriguez said.
Although the match went the full five minutes, Rodriguez held Miranda off from larger scores and won her first Senior Pan Am medal.
"I told myself 'that's it. You're not leaving home today without a bronze,'" she said.
The win also will give the United States valuable points toward qualifying the division for the 2008 Olympic Games as this event is the largest of five qualifying tournaments for athletes in the Pan American Region.
Rodriguez's medal also brings Team USA's total to six, including three golds, one silver and two bronzes - representing the best gold medal count for a USA Judo Team since the 1991 Games in Havana.
In other divisions, Justin Flores (Glenville, N.Y. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Jason Morris Judo Center) and Taraje Williams-Murray (Bronx, N.Y. / NYAC / Spartak Sports Club) each placed seventh in the 66kg and 60kg divisions, respectively.
Flores threw Sasha Mehmedovic (CAN), a two-time Pan Am Championships medalist, in the first round for both waza-ari and then ippon in the fourth minute.
In the quarter-finals Flores was up by a koka and waza-ari when Roberto Ibanez (ECU) threw him for ippon halfway through the match.
Flores dropped down to the repechage, but lost to Ludwing Ortiz (VEN), a silver medalist at the 1999 and 2003 Pan American Games, by a penalty.
Williams-Murray was thrown after a first-round bye with a te guruma (hand wheel throw) by eventual champion Miguel Albarracin (ARG).
He took his first repechage match by a penalty given to Melvin Leocadio (DOM) in the last 25 seconds of the match.
Williams-Murray's next match ended with a penalty as well, but this one wasn't in his favor as he lost to Javier Guedez (VEN).
Grace Ohashi (Colorado Springs , Colo. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Olympic Training Center) was competing on her first U.S. Team as an 18-year-old in the 52kg division. Although she forced
Melissa Rodriguez (ARG), the 2006 Pan Am Championships silver medalist, into two penalties and threw her for a koka, Ohashi ultimately was thrown for a waza-ari that would end the match.
Rodriguez lost her next match to eventual Champion Sheila Espinosa (CUB), eliminating Ohashi from the tournament.
Complete results are as follows:
Men's 60kg
1. Miguel Albarracin (ARG)
2. Yosvany Piker (CUB)
3. Alexandre Lee (BRA)
3. Javier Guedez (VEN)
5. Frazer Will (CAN)
5. Juan Postigos (PER)
7. Taraje Williams-Murray (Bronx , N.Y. / NYAC / Spartak Sports Club)
7. Douglas Arevalo (GUA)
Men's 66kg
1. Joao Derly (BRA)
2. Roberto Ibanez (ECU)
3. Yordanis Arencibia (CUB)
3. Ludwing Ortiz (VEN)
5. Juan Carlos Jacinto (DOM)
5. Felipe Novoa (CHI)
7. Justin Flores (Glenville, N.Y. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Jason Morris Judo Center)
7. Carlos Figueroa (ESA)
Women's 48kg
1. Yanet Bermoy (CUB)
2. Daniela Polzin (BRA)
3. Jeanette Rodriguez (Coral Springs, Fla. / USA Judo National Training Site at North Miami)
3. Paula Pareto (ARG)
5. Glenda Miranda (ECU)
5. Zuleyma Garcia (ESA)
7. Milagros Gonzalez (VEN)
7. Gerdine Mathieu (HAI)
Women's 52kg
1. Sheila Espinosa (CUB)
2. Erika Miranda (BRA)
3. Maria Garcia (DOM)
3. Flor Velazquez (VEN)
5. Adriana Negrete (MEX)
5. Melissa Rodriguez (ARG)
Also Competed: Grace Ohashi (Colorado Springs , Colo. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Olympic Training Center), 0-1


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Model Mama Miranda Kerr was seen with her gorgeous son Flynn, 22 months, in New York today (November 21).
Miranda Kerr's gorgeous guy!
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The Kardashian's take Miami
Kourtney Kardashian was seen with her partner Scott Disick and their son 2-year old son Mason in Miami, CA on Monday (November 19). Kourtney's sister,Kim, was also seen with the trio.
Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp's beautiful rose!
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13-year old Daughter of Actor Johnny Depp and French Actress and Singer Vanessa Paradis, Lily-Rose, was seen eating with a body guard at a French Restaurant in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday (November 18).
Jennifer Garner's a movie star mama!
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Rachel Zoe's takes her cool kid to lunch
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Description: When I uploaded baby Po from Kung Fu Panda, there was a comment that said I still didn't have lessons on Mantis or Crane. At first I was like, "yes I do", but after looking through the site I came to the conclusion that I did not have either one of those characters as lessons. So here is "how to draw Mantis", or Master Mantis, step by step from both Kung Fu Panda, and Kung Fu Panda 2. I actually went to go see the movie on Wednesday, and I can see why so many people asked for a tutorial on baby Po. Anyways Master Mantis is one of the Furious Five, and even though he may be the smallest of the five, he is definitely the strongest. Aside from being a highly skilled and strong master Kung Fu artist, he is also an acupuncturist. If you remember KFP one, you might recollect that Mantis was the first of the five to accept Po as an individual, instead of a noodle making dreamer. I have always liked Mantis, and in the second part to KFP, Master Mantis' background is explored and brought to the viewer's eyes. I do hope you like this tutorial on "how to draw Mantis", and if you stick around you will also have fun with even more tutorials that will be on their way shortly. Adios people and enjoy!


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PRINCETON, N.J., Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc. (RPI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (RLL), has launched the authorized generic cevimeline hydrochloride 30 mg. capsules in the U.S. market, under an agreement with Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.
Cevimeline hydrochloride is indicated for the treatment of symptoms of dry mouth associated with Sjogren's syndrome, an autoimmune disorder affecting the moisture-producing glands, and is presently distributed by Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. under the brand name Evoxac®. Evoxac® generated total annualized sales of $62.4 million in the U.S. (IMS – MAT June 2012).
Bill Winter, Vice President, Trade Sales and Distribution, North America, said, "Ranbaxy is pleased to announce the launch of cevimeline hydrochloride in 30 mg. capsules, as the authorized generic of Evoxac® in the U.S. This launch further underscores Ranbaxy's resolve to bring high quality, affordable generic medicines to the U.S. healthcare system to meet the growing needs of patients and prescribers."
Regarding the launch, Arun Sawhney, CEO and Managing Director of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, added, "We welcome the opportunity to launch cevimeline hydrochloride in the U.S. market. This authorized generic form of Evoxac is an excellent example of optimizing operational synergies that exists between Ranbaxy and Daiichi Sankyo, while accelerating our global business efforts. We see a continuing opportunity to leverage our combined strengths of innovation and the manufacture and marketing of affordable, high quality, generic medicines through this collaboration."
Commenting on the launch of an authorized generic of Evoxac, Tsutomu Une, Ph.D. Chairman of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, said, "We refer to the strategy of optimizing the diverse assets of both companies as our Hybrid Business Model, that will allow both organizations to effectively seize opportunities across the full pharmaceutical value chain and product life-cycle, by leveraging the R&D and manufacturing of both Daiichi-Sankyo and Ranbaxy. As such, we will continue to reinforce our respective business platforms over the longer term through this hybrid strategy."
Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc. (RPI) based in Jacksonville, Florida, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (RLL), India's largest pharmaceutical company. RPI is engaged in the sale and distribution of generic and branded prescription products in the U.S. healthcare system.
Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, India's largest pharmaceutical company, is an integrated, research based, international pharmaceutical company producing a wide range of quality, affordable generic medicines, trusted by healthcare professionals and patients across geographies. Ranbaxy's continued focus on R&D has resulted in several approvals, in developed and emerging markets many of which incorporate proprietary Novel Drug Delivery Systems (NDDS) and technologies, developed at its own labs. The company has further strengthened its focus on generics research and is increasingly working on more complex and specialty areas. Ranbaxy serves its customers in over 125 countries and has an expanding international portfolio of affiliates, joint ventures and alliances, ground operations in 43 countries and manufacturing operations in 8 countries. Ranbaxy is a member of the Daiichi Sankyo Group. Through strategic in-licensing opportunities and its hybrid business model with Daiichi Sankyo, a leading global pharma innovator headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Ranbaxy is introducing many innovator products in markets around the world, where it has a strong presence. This is in line with the company's commitment to increase penetration and improve access to medicines, across the globe. For more information, please visit www.ranbaxy.com.
* Evoxac® is a registered trademark of Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.
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You may have seen our Flash Player 11 announcement earlier today. In addition to the major advancements for gaming, media and data-driven applications, this new version of Flash Player, which will be available in early October, will include several important new privacy and security features. We'll start with privacy:
Extending Key Privacy Capabilities to Mobile Devices
Adobe has been working hard to make it easier for users to control their privacy and privacy settings on their desktops. We added support for the private browsing feature found in many Web browsers when we introduced Flash Player 10.1, created a desktop version of the Flash Player Settings Manager (aka a native control panel) and redesigned the Flash Player Settings Manager interface in Flash Player 10.3. And we worked closely with the browser community to allow end-users to clear their Local Shared Objects (LSOs) through their existing browser controls—functionality that was also introduced in Flash Player with the release of Flash Player 10.3.
With Flash Player 11, we are extending key privacy capabilities to tablets and mobile devices. Privacy is important regardless of the device you are using. With the release of Flash Player 11, we are bringing support for private browsing mode (aka incognito mode)* and a mobile control panel to Android devices. This means that end-users will be able to leverage the same private browsing mode protections available to them on their desktops today on their mobile devices, while the new mobile control panel will make it easier for them to manage their Flash Player privacy settings on their Android devices. (*Private browsing mode, or incognito mode, is supported on Android Honeycomb.)
The mobile control panel will launch the browser on the device and take the user to the online mobile settings manager, which allows users to control two of the mobile Flash Player features:
- The first are the settings for controlling Local Shared Objects (LSOs). Users can choose to "always" allow local storage, allow local storage "only from sites I visit" or "never" allow local storage. The settings manager also provides a handy "clear [all] local storage" option.
- The second feature that can be controlled is peer-assisted networking which allows Flash Player to use connection sharing to provide a better media experience.
New Security Features in Flash Player 11
On the security front, we are introducing several new features that will allow developers to better protect customer data. The first major new feature we are adding is support for SSL socket connections, which will make it easier for developers to protect the data they stream over the Flash Player raw socket connections.
We are also adding a secure random number generator. Flash Player previously provided a basic, random number generator through Math.random. This was good enough for games and other lighter-weight use cases, but it didn't meet the complete cryptographic standards for random number generation. The new random number generator API hooks the cryptographic provider of the host device, such as the CryptGenRandom function in Microsoft CAPI on Windows, for generating the random number. The native OS cryptographic providers have better sources of entropy and have been peer reviewed by industry experts.
Lastly, the introduction of 64-bit support in Flash Player 11 brings with it some security side-benefits: If you are using a 64-bit browser that supports address space layout randomization (ASLR) in conjunction with the 64-bit version of Flash Player, you will be protected by 64-bit ASLR. Traditional 32-bit ASLR only has a small number of bits available in the memory address for randomizing locations. Memory addresses based on 64-bit registers have a wider range of free bits for randomization, increasing the effectiveness of ASLR.
Overall, our security and privacy roadmap still has much more to come, and we are already working on the next generation of features for upcoming releases. To take a look at the many new features in Flash Player 11—whether it be the advancements for gaming, media and data-driven applications, the security enhancements or the new mobile privacy features—check out the release candidate of Flash Player 11 for desktops now available on Adobe Labs or watch for an announcement once Flash Player 11 for desktops and Android devices becomes available in early October. We look forward to your feedback!
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Looking forward to the release of a real multichannel mix of "Amused To Death"!
The Q-Sound processed CD already adds quite a bit of surround effect but it would be great to finally hear true discreet multichannel out of this classic album.
Sorry to hear about the loud volumes used for playback. Did others in the audience complain? Maybe deafness due to excess ipod white headphone usage!


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Belgium, Spain, Greece protest austerity measures on eve of European Union economic summit
BRUSSELS -- Protests against austerity measures being imposed in the eurozone were held in Belgium, Spain and Greece on Wednesday, a day ahead of a European Union summit aimed at tackling unemployment and boosting economic growth in the region.
In front of European Union headquarters in Brussels, hundreds of union protesters demanded drastic policy changes from the summit leaders, and representatives of the European Trade Union Confederation met with EU President Herman Van Rompuy to push their demands.
Instead of the stinging austerity measures that have hit workers in their wallets, the unions seek a financial transaction tax, a clampdown on tax evasion and a pooling of debt through the use of eurobonds.
"Enough is enough. Austerity measures do not work," said ETUC leader Bernadette Segol. "We have alternatives, and Europe must work for employment and social justice. And we haven't had that until now," Segol said at the demonstration.
EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso acknowledged on the eve of the two-day summit that the sacrifices needed to overcome the financial crisis must be better spread around if Europe wants to hold onto its cherished welfare state model of government.
"Sacrifices are being made on an unfair basis," Barroso said after meeting with leaders of the trade unions and employers federations in Brussels. He said he is looking to fight tax evasion and boost a financial transaction tax.
He said the crisis has put pressure on Europe's social welfare model since the austerity cuts in nations such as Greece and Ireland have pushed people over the poverty brink. At the same time, more taxes on companies could well undermine their international competitiveness.
"It is very difficult to establish this balance. We want to keep our social model, but at the same time there is a need to reform," Barroso said.
In addition to the several hundred international demonstrators outside EU headquarters, well over 1,000 Belgian union activists protested outside the national bank.
In Greece, unions in the crisis-hit country held a three-hour work stoppage and planned rallies in central Athens in opposition to painful new austerity measures that saw the government this week enforce a 22 percent cut in the minimum wage, as well as slash benefits and pensions.
In Spain, thousands of high school and college students demonstrated in cities against cutbacks in education in a country with nearly 29 percent unemployment and a major deficit crisis. Civil servants in the central region of Castilla La Mancha also were called to strike to protest wage cuts of up to 8 percent.


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The Circumstellar Disks and Binary Companions of Be Stars
Drew Chojnowski, NMSU
Tremendous progress has been made over the past two decades toward understanding Be stars, but a number of key aspects of them remain enigmatic. The unsolved mysteries include identification of the mechanism responsible for disk formation, the reason this mechanism occasionally turns off or on unexpectedly, the source of viscosity in the circumstellar disks, and the cause of slowly precessing density perturbations in the disks of many or most Be stars. On a deeper level, the origin of Be stars' near-critical rotation is unknown, with one possible explanation being spin-up due to interaction with a binary companion. A better understanding of these stars is needed, with a particular focus on high-mass binaries being warranted in the age of gravitational wave astronomy. In this dissertation, I will extend the knowledge and understanding of Be stars through a series of three projects. First, I will present and describe the largest ever homogeneous, spectroscopic sample of Be stars to date. I will then focus on investigation of a rare class of Be stars found in binary systems with hot, low mass companions. The second project will present detailed characterization and modeling of HD~55606, a newly discovered member of this class. Finally, I will discuss the results of spectroscopic monitoring of seven newly discovered systems and establish or place limits on the orbital parameters of the binary components.
Metal Absorption in the Circumgalactic Medium During the Epoch of Reionization
Caitlin Doughty, NMSU
The characteristics of metal absorption arising from the circumgalactic medium of galaxies have been demonstrated to be related to conditions in the galaxy which sourced them, as well as to the ambient ultraviolet background. I propose a three- pronged thesis in order to better understand and utilize these relationships. First, I will explore whether the spectral energy distributions of binary stars, incorporated into a custom version of GADGET-3, can explain the discrepancy between observed and simulated absorber statistics. Second, I will study the relationship between neu- tral oxygen absorbers and the neutral hydrogen fraction in simulated quasar sight- lines and relate the results to observations of neutral oxygen at z ≥ 4.0. Third, I will study the relationships between the emissive properties of galaxies, stemming from their nebular gas, and the metal absorbers which they source. Taken as a whole, this thesis will improve the ability of cosmological simulations to reproduce realistic metal absorption, probe the local progress and topology of reionization, and under- stand what emissive galaxy traits we expect at z > 5 based on observations of metal absorbers.


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