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Ph. D. Studentship - Trace element- and isotope geochemistry of biogenic and abiogenic carbonates
Place of employmentDepartment of Geological Mapping.Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Ministry of Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Date of employmentfrom March 1st, 2005 until 28th February 2008
Job descriptionWe are looking for a Ph.D. student with training in geology/mineralogy/geochemistry to work within the CASIOPEIA project of the EUROCLIMATE research programme. The main goal of the CASIOPEIA project is the investigation of the thermodynamic and paleo-oceanographic principles of trace element and Ca-isotope fractionation during biogenic and abiogenic precipitation of calcium carbonates. CASIOPEIA is a multidisciplinary, collaborative research project between IFM-GEOMAR Kiel (Germany), Free University Amsterdam (Netherlands), Graz University of Technology (Austria), and GEUS.
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This project allows the succesful candidate to learn and apply state-of-the-art theoretical and analytical techniques in a multidisciplinary, international research environment.
The availability of this position depends on the funding of all four institutions involved by their respective funding organisations in the CASIOPEIA project.
QualificationsPreferred candidates should have a diploma or MSc degree in geology, paleontology, mineralogy, geochemistry or equivalent. A keen interest in applying geochemical and thermodynamic methods to marine geochemistry is important; training and experience in either analytical-, theoretical-, or marine geochemistry and thermodynamics are an advantage, but are not a prerequisite.
Department of Geological MappingThe department comprises sixteen geologists and technical academic staff and an administrative and technical staff of nine. The department has a scanning electron microscope, a thin section laboratory, and a chemical laboratory with an XRF spectrometer and both a quadrupole and a high-resolution ICP-MS with laser ablation facilities. Within its geodata and computing centre, GEUS is providing state of the art computer modeling facilities.
GEUS is part of Geocenter Copenhagen, which has a large common pool of research facilities including a new electron microprobe, a multi-collector ICP-MS, two thermal-ionization MS, and XRF facilities. The Department of Geological Mapping has extensive collaboration with scientists from universities and research institutions both in Denmark and abroad.
Salary and employment conditionsTerms of payment and appointment according to agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The appointment will be on the basis of scientific qualification.
The Ministry of Environment and Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and women are especially encouraged to apply.
ContactFurther information about the vacant position can be obtained from Head of Department Christian Knudsen (phone +45 3814 2250; email firstname.lastname@example.com), or senior advisor Dirk Frei (phone +45 3814 2264; email email@example.com)
ApplicationApplications marked 'Ph. D. Student GEUS j.no. 0361-020' must be available at GEUS no later than January 31th, 2005, at 12.00 Danish time. Material received after this time will not be taken into account. Applications via email will be accepted with the same deadline and should be sent to email@example.com.
The application should include a statement of research interests, a CV, sufficient information about your scientific training, and names and addresses of potential referees. All the above material is to be submitted in four copies. If you do not have 4 complete copies we urge you to send just one copy printed on one-sided paper and unstapled. A committee of three scientists will evaluate the qualifications of all applicants.


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Ryan Garko was traded to the Aints for Scott Barnes, no relation to Priscilla. Not sure why the Indians traded a cheap guy with 11 homers and a .285/.362/.464 line. Maybe the Giants offered some trinkets to the Indians. Besides his season line, Garko has been hot recently (.429 in his last seven games with two homers). Pac Bell/AT&T/The Fridge That Sandoval Raids is not a hitter's haven, but Garko should hit in the heart of the order and see every day playing time. Definitely worth pursuing in NL-Only leagues and 12 team leagues, if you're hurting at corner. The other name worth mentioning is Andy Marte, who was called up by the Indians yesterday. In Triple-A this year, Marte has a .329/.366/.590 line with 17 homers in just under 300 ABs. Not too long ago, Marte was a blue chip prospect in the minors. But Marte's middle name may as well be Prospect-Shmespect. As in, show it in the majors, Prospect-Shmespect. Marte may get that chance again, but outside of very deep mixed leagues (15+ teams) and AL-Only leagues, you need to take a wait and see approach. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Josh Hamilton – Dropped to 7th in the order. We may need to start calling him Josh 20081stHalfilton. Where's Brokeback Hamilton?
Daric Barton – Headed to the DL. I've already talked too much about this schmohawk.
Bronson Arroyo – The Yankees denied interest in Arroyo. Nice neg.
Jonny Gomes – 2 HRs yesterday vs. two righties. Will be harder for Dusty to bungle The Gomes Situation™ with Dickerson on the DL. Gomes should get the majority of starts… Oh, who am I kidding, Dusty will still find a way.
Tommy Hunter – 7 IP, 1 ER. He could've pitched a shutout and I'd be saying the same thing here. Don't go near him. His minor league stats are yawnstipating. He will leave you crying in the corner of your cubicle.
Billy Butler – 5-for-5, Voice from the future, "Next year Grey will be excited about him in the preseason."
James Shields – 5 1/3 IP, 5 ER. He's gonna need a freakin' shield if I ever run into him on the street. Can't start him away, can't start him at home… How does he have a 3.87 ERA on the year? When did he ever pitch good? I don't remember that. Yesterday, I said to Rudy over IM, "Shields is getting rocked again. What else is knew (sic)?" Rudy, "He usually waits until the 6th or 7th inning."
Pat Burrell – HR yesterday. Hasn't gotten hot like I would've thought, but there's still time.
Nick Swisher – 2 HRs. He dedicated both homers to his fallen comrades (his sideburns).
Robinson Cano – I never watch the Yankees because everyone knows about them and ESPN does a fine job of covering every one of their moves/non-moves/possible moves, but I watched them yesterday (cause of freakin' Shields). Anyway, Cano tried to steal 2nd. He was out by five steps. I have a new contest for next year's All-Star game festivities, Guys Who Look Fast But Are Remarkably Slow Race Against Guys Who Look Slow But Are Fast. First heat, Cano vs. Pablo Sandoval. Like you wouldn't watch this.
Randy Wolf – 6 IP, 2 ER. Of course he got no run support. Unlucky like a Wolf.
Josh Beckett – 7 IP, 3 ER, 10 Ks and his 12th win. My AL Cy Young prediction doesn't look too bad so far. Will depend on how much imagination capturing Greinke's still doing.
Adam LaRoche – 2-for-4, with two half-homers. Has now started three days in a row. Meanwhile, Lowell trimmed his goatee.
Everth Cabrera – HR yesterday, while Kyle Blanks stole a base. That was nice of Homer Bailey to let Everth hit from second and give Blanks a 59 foot lead off first.
Homer Bailey – 7 1/3 IP, 3 ER. He's trying to sucker you in. Don't fall for it.
Ryan Zimmerman – HR yesterday. Might be finally getting hot again. Took about 2 months. Maybe it was my snide comparison of him to Kouzmanoff yesterday (who also homered).
Josh Willingham – Two grand slams yesterday and 4 homers in the last 7 games. When they're hot, and this even goes for Nationals players, they're worth owning everywhere. BTW, with 8 RBIs yesterday, guess how many RBIs Willingham has on the season? 39. He recorded a fourth of his RBI total in one game… In almost August. That's incredible, and not the good kind of incredible.
Garrett Atkins – Started at first, and since Helton usually bats third, Atkins batted third. Jim Tracy must be a disciple of Leyland.
Corey Hart – He gets sizzling. Why do I tell you this? Because he has two homers in the past two games.
Jeff Francoeur – 3 homers and batting .429 in the last seven games. I fully expect him to fall on his face again, but maybe Frenchy's not toast.
Alfonso Soriano – Grand slam yesterday. He also gets scalding hot for extended periods of time. Or see Hart, Corey, or two above.
Carlos Lee – And another guy who's finally picking up the pace with 3 homers in his last 7 games.
Wandy Rodriguez – 7 IP, 1 ER, 7 Ks. He deserved more offense. He also deserves the award for Even His Owners Can't Believe He Has a 2.65 ERA.
Kendry Morales – 2 HRs yesterday. As someone in the comments pointed out the other day, April Grey had Kendry as a sleeper, July Grey had Kendry as a Sell. April Grey says to July Grey, "You're a moron."
Brian Fuentes – 4 earned and no outs recorded. Ow… Wait, what? Ouch…
Gordon Beckham – Now has two homers in the past two games. C'mon, Ozzie, move him up in the order!
Garrett Jones – When I saw he had one RBI, I thought for sure he hit a homer and Yahoo just hadn't scored it. Alas…
Tim Lincecum – 9 IP, 0 ER, 15 Ks. He would've had 18 Ks, but Adam LaRoche was in Boston.
Adam Lind – The Jays scored 11 runs, Lind went 0-for-4 — Ticker Tease!
Nolan Reimold – 2-for-3 as he stole his sixth base yesterday. I get it, Michael Bourn is Fred Savage and he's Judge Reimold.

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text: Crime / Julie Schenecker Father of Teens Killed by Mom: 'I Don't Hate Julie' Parker Schenecker says his accused wife suffered from chronic depression By Matt Cantor, Newser User Posted Apr 21, 2011 2:36 PM CDT Copied Photographs of Powers, left, and Calyx Schenecker are displayed on a video screen at their memorial service at the Christ Chapel Bible Church in Fort Worth. (AP Photo/ Ron T. Ennis, Pool) View 2 more images (Newser) – The Tampa mother who allegedly killed her two teens battled depression, her husband tells People. "We were a typical American family," says Col. Parker Schenecker, who was deployed in Qatar when he heard about his children's deaths, "but we had a sick member." Julie Schenecker had "a chronic mental illness that we've been dealing with for 20 years in the family," he says. story continues below But "I never had any indication that she would harm the children, or that she would ever think of taking the children's lives." Julie received treatment for depression and bipolar disorder, but privacy laws meant "I had no access to her medical records at all," Schenecker adds. "I didn't know what was going on." He's divorcing his wife, but "I don't hate Julie," he says. "I feel for her. I'm going through my hell; she's going through her own hell." (Read more Julie Schenecker stories.) View 2 more images


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Along U.S. Highway 50 west of Fallon, a historical marker designates the site of old Ragtown/Leeteville. Although neither survives today, they were of paramount importance to early-day Nevada travelers. At the end of America's westward push, Ragtown was little more than a seasonal tent city, born each spring and torn down each fall by enterprising men hoping to profit from the transcontinental wagon-train trade. California-bound emigrants, weary from their crossing of the dreaded Forty-Mile Desert, found their first water, grass, shade, and rest along the banks of the Carson River.
Lahontan Dam and Reservoir stores the natural flow of the Carson River and additional waters diverted from the Truckee River via Derby Dam and the Truckee Canal. It is the distribution point of irrigation waters that make the desert bloom. Located in Churchill County, this key feature of the Truckee-Carson Irrigation Project is now known as the Newlands Project. Lahontan Dam was built during the early years of the twentieth century in response to the 1902 passage of the Federal Reclamation Act. Construction on the dam proper began in 1911 and was completed in late 1915.
Lahontan City thrived from 1911 to 1915 during the construction of Lahontan Dam. Built to house and accommodate the federally employed workers and their families, the town sprang from the desert floor almost overnight. The dam was important to Nevada because it was designed to reserve water in the Carson River for irrigation and was the first federally funded western reclamation project of its kind.
Carroll Station is located in Lander County along Nevada State Route 722 near the Churchill County line. The town site of Carroll was a mining boom town, purportedly named after the miner Charlie Carroll who made the original discovery at the site in 1911. The stage road over Carroll Summit passed nearby. Though the town was short-lived, it survives in that it has given its name to Carroll Summit and Carroll Station—a Texaco Service Station that was a respite stop for Highway 50 motorists.
Frenchman's Station was located in the center of Dixie Valley (Churchill County), east of the salt flats. The property was originally taken up by a man named Aime "Frenchy" Bermond, a native of France who came to Nevada in 1899. The station, a stage stop and relay point along the freight route between Fallon and the mining camps of Fairview and Wonder, was established in 1904.
Churchill County was an original county formed when the Nevada Territory was established in 1861. The population at that time was small, and, for governing purposes, Churchill was attached to Lyon County, with the county seat being established at Buckland's Station. From 1861 to 1865 the county seat remained there.
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The NFL's Courtroom Playbook
As Ex-Players Sue Over Head Injuries, Questions Mount; Should Kickers Get Money Too?
Whether you believe the National Football League blatantly misled its players about the dangers of concussion, or whether you think anyone who straps on a helmet ought to know he's taking a risk, this much is clear: The looming legal battle between the NFL and its former players over the effects of head injuries is shaping up to be one of the more complicated tort claims in recent times.
It isn't the number of plaintiffs or potential financial magnitude that's unprecedented. Class-action suits over things like poorly built cars have attracted far more complainants than the roughly 4,200 former NFL players who are suing the league. And no amount paid out by the NFL could approach the $206 billion tobacco companies agreed to pay in 1998 to settle claims that they misled the public about the health risks of smoking cigarettes.
What makes this litigation so complex are the tricky questions it poses. For example, is someone's mental deficit the result of injuries sustained in professional football, injuries from some other level of football, or just the vicissitudes of old age? And should former players who are asymptomatic be allowed to sue the NFL on grounds of potential future suffering?
Also yet to be settled: Should the more than 200 cases filed against the NFL—many featuring duplicate plaintiffs—be consolidated into one? And doesn't the act of rejoining the NFL after filing suit against it—as some plaintiffs have done—diminish the unforeseen-risk argument?
After all this is settled, and assuming the NFL is found liable, we'll have to wade into another issue: How much, and under what formula, should the victims be compensated?
By all accounts, any trial is probably years off. But lawyers for the NFL and the plaintiffs will square off for the first time next month before Judge Anita B. Brody in federal court in Philadelphia. The focus will be the NFL's motion to dismiss the case. It argues that the suits involve issues that should be handled through collective bargaining—an assertion the plaintiffs' attorneys dispute.
Should the suits go forward, the first order of business will be which plaintiffs to include. Within that collection of 4,200 plaintiffs there are linemen who banged their heads on practically every snap during a 15-year career and famous quarterbacks like the 53-year-old former Chicago Bears star, Jim McMahon, whose early-stage dementia has made him one of the faces of the concussion litigation.
But there are also some 400 plaintiffs who never played a single down in a professional game, but participated in training camps or served time on a practice squad.
"You've got situations where cases could be sent back from one court to another because the plaintiffs have such wildly different circumstances," said Gabe Feldman, director of the Tulane Sports Law Program.
So far, publicity around the litigation has centered on players who incurred countless blows to the head and have been diagnosed with dementia and memory loss. So vulnerable are quarterbacks that in recent years the league has imposed new rules to protect them.
But the list of plaintiffs seeking damages for repeated mild traumatic brain injuries also includes roughly 50 former punters and kickers—men who spent the bulk of their time standing on the sidelines for all but a few plays each game, and often took no hits at all.
The punters and kickers argue that even occasionally taking a block or tackling a returner poses an extraordinary risk. "I weighed 142 pounds and I didn't wear many pads," said Garo Yepremian, the 5-foot-7 field-goal specialist who played 15 years in the NFL.
"Every hit was like a car crash. Maybe you only get hit eight or 10 times a year, but if you experience eight auto crashes a year you're going to feel it."
Although free of dementia symptoms, and although medical tests have yielded no diagnosis of brain injury, Yepremian, a plaintiff against the league, said he suffers from mood swings that he says may or may not be related to football injuries. Sometimes, he said, he'll be sitting with his wife of more than 40 years and "the slightest thing gets me so aggravated. I'll throw a tantrum for 45 minutes, screaming and shouting."
Another former kicker who has joined the litigation is 43-year-old Scott Player, who punted 727 times during a 10-year career ending in 2007 and served as a holder on field goals. Player said he suffered his most devastating hit on a blown field goal against the Detroit Lions in 1998. Seeking to recover a ball that ricocheted near the sideline, he said he took a helmet-to-helmet hit on his ear hole.
"I don't know what happened after that," he said. "I just remember my jaw was on fire." Player made his way to the bench and finished the game.
Plaintiffs' attorneys are seeking not only damages for diagnosed brain injury but also funds to create a monitoring system for retirees who are largely asymptomatic.
The looming threat of possible future symptoms is what prompted Player, now a salesman for a Florida air-conditioning company, to sign on. He said he wants to protect himself if he begins to experience what other retirees are going through.
"I'm just trying to cover my bases," he said.
It's possible the suit will be thrown out next month, although the plaintiffs would likely appeal. The NFL has won dismissal before on grounds that a matter belonged not in the courts but as part of the collective-bargaining process between the league and its players.
Most notably, it won that argument after the filing of a wrongful death claim by the widow of Korey Stringer, the Minnesota Vikings lineman who died of heatstroke during training camp. The league's lawyers will also argue that the number of suits and the disparate circumstances of the plaintiffs make the case too varied to qualify as a class action.
"These claims—like personal injury claims generally—cannot be decided on a class-wide basis because they turn on individual issues such as each player's medical condition and injury history," NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said.
In arguing for class-action status, players' lawyers allege that the NFL misled athletes about the dangers of repeated concussions, thereby committing fraud and voiding any chance for these questions to be folded into collective bargaining.
The NFL vehemently denies that it misled any players.
Plaintiffs' lawyers also say that many of their clients played before the first collective bargaining agreement was reached in 1968, or from 1987-1993, when there was no CBA.
"It's a great sport," Yepremian said. "I just wish we'd had better supervision."
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Putin meets Obama and Poroshenko on sidelines of D-Day commemorationsComments
Key diplomatic meetings have taken place against the backdrop of D-Day commemorations.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin held face to face talks with Petro Poroshenko for the first time since his election as Ukraine's new president.
Meeting at the Chateau de Benouville in Normandy where international leaders had lunch, they reportedly shook hands. They also called for a halt to the bloodshed in eastern Ukraine, according to Russian media, citing the Kremlin. The short meeting came as deadly violence continued on the ground.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
We Are Seeds
I certainly hope so
Somos Semillas
The young people were 'normalistas', that is they attended a so-called Escuela Normal, schools which were set up to train young people from small farming families to become teachers and to help to emancipate their communities from oppression and poverty. They have a long tradition of fighting for democratic education and of training new young teachers to work with their communities. More recently they have been in the forefront of the struggle against the kind of reforms which see education as a purely economic process, to produce 'human capital' for corporations.
For this reason many normal schools have been closed, those that remain have been starved of cash and students have been subject to oppression by local and national state forces. It was to collect money to keep their school viable that the young people had gone to the town of Iguala on that fateful September day.
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3 comments:
- norm said...
Kent State was founded as a normal school and we all know that lament about "four dead in Ohio" . The shootings at Kent changed our nation, the 34 killed in Mexico will have the same effect
- November 11, 2014 11:14 AM
- sparks said...
Kent State was about Vietnam protests wasn't it? The war is over but the US is still a police state.
Change Mexico in any meaningful and long term way .... I really doubt it.
- November 11, 2014 11:52 AM
- norm said...
I believe in tipping points. The lad landing a private plane next to Red Square caused heads to roll in the Soviet Army, the trial of Lieutenant Cali changed people's views of what we were doing in Vietnam. I suspect the Mexican government is going through some introspection over its role in these killings.
As to the US being a police state-no truer words have ever been spoken.
- November 11, 2014 2:51 PM
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Students as young as 5 may get annual sexual assault protection training in Texas
House approves measure that would start anti-rape training in kindergarten
AUSTIN - Using teddy bears, bathing suits and puppets as tools, students as young as 5 years old could be required to undergo annual sexual assault protection training in school as a growing number of children fall prey to sexual offenders.
The Texas House last week approved the idea, which comes as sexual assaults against children have risen to a high of 51,000 allegations in the last fiscal year, along with increased reports of human trafficking and record numbers of teachers accused of having inappropriate relationships with students.
"It's unbelievably sick when you think about what's happening in society, my friends," said Rep. Tan Parker, a Republican from Flower Mound.
In a move to counter that trend, the Texas House passed House Bill 1342, a bill supported by anti-sexual assault groups around the state that say children should be learning in school to say no to unwanted touch and feel empowered to tell a teacher or parent when someone steps over the line. Action is pending in the Senate, which would have to approve the measure before it goes to the governor's office for his consideration.
The annual trainings are much like "stranger danger" lessons, experts say, although 95 percent of sexually abused children were assaulted by someone they knew, such as a relative or a neighbor.
"It's soul murder," said Madeline McClure, a former therapist who said she counseled victims as young as 2 years old as they worked through sexual assault trauma.
Now the president and CEO of Tex Protects, which focuses on child abuse and prevention, McClure is pushing the bill, which would allow the Texas Education Agency to select age-appropriate researched-based curriculum counselors would present to students every year from kindergarten to 12th grade.
For example, one second grade lesson would teach students the difference between safe touch, like a wanted hug, and an unsafe touch, like a pinch, and an unwanted touch, like covering someone's eyes in an unwanted game of Guess Who.
"How do you talk about that to kids? We have puppets," said Sylvia Orozco-Joseph, national director of WHO, or We Help Ourselves, and director of the Adolescent Symposium of Texas.
'Think their way out'
WHO offers curriculum in use in Texas, including the Houston area in Cypress-Fairbanks, Spring and Fort Bend independent school districts. The lessons, which are broken up into different age levels, rely on playing out scenarios, like analyzing why one of three boys are opposed to visiting a teacher's house, or what to do when the father of a child an eighth grader baby-sits puts his hand on her shoulder in the car before driving her home.
"That's what we want kids to do - to think their way out of a situation," said Orozco-Joseph, who said high school lessons include dramatizations about date rape and teen dating violence.
In the lower grades, she uses puppets, like Kimberly Koala, who helps kids talk about not keeping secrets from adults, and Billy Brown Bear, who talks about touch.
The state would have the power to review curriculum like this and other programs that rely on animated video lessons or scripted instruction for school districts to choose.
"I have really mixed feelings about it," said Sarah Becker, an active parent at Houston Independent School District, after putting her 6, 4 and 2-year-old children to bed. "I would argue we should be teaching people not to rape people, not teaching people how to avoid it."
HISD does not provide this kind of training yet and declined to comment for this story. But to Becker, requiring high school students learn how to avoid sexual assault equates to sex education, which is a good thing, and needs to be more comprehensive.
Not sex education
Lawmakers in the House sent the bill to the Senate on a 128-15 vote last week, but not before stripping language that referenced combating child pregnancy as part of the purpose to make the bill more palatable to Republicans.
"This is not about sexual education training," said Parker, who sponsored the bill. "That is not what this is; not at all, no way, shape or form. It is exclusively training to prevent child sexual abuse. Period."
Roughly 10,000 girls under 18 gave birth in Texas in 2014, the latest year which data is available, according to the Wright Family Foundation, which focuses on education for at-risk youth. Of those pregnancies, nearly 500 were to girls between 10 and 14 years old.
While the number of accusations of sexual assault has climbed in recent years, the number of confirmed cases of abuse have slowly dropped to 5,640 from 5,721 last year, leaving mounds of debunked and unconfirmed cases behind. The last year saw 283 allegations of child sex trafficking, 25 of them confirmed.
"It is a very touchy subject, but we cannot run from the seriousness of this issue," Parker said. "We can't sweep it under the carpet. This is very real."


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text: UAVCORP 0 Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 (edited) Hello All, I'm developing a new UAV company and I'm offering a $5000 reward for the best design of a UAV. There are several design criteria that I will include here and I'll pick (and pay) the user that best meets my needs. I'm not asking for you to purchase any equipment or make any type of investment. I'm simply in need of a starting point for products I intend to offer for sale through my company. If your design best meets my requirements, I'll mail you a check for $5000 dollars and possibly use you as a consultant on future designs. This is no joke and I'm very serious about my intentions. If you think you have what it takes to come up with a good design, please participate. What I need is a list of the electronic components (flight model is already in-house) to make the UAV flight worthy. I also need the program(s) you came up with to get the UAV to operate. I'm asking you to make a list of all the electronic components and provide me with the programs you made so they can be installed in the electronics. This way I can take your electronic design and install your program(s), install the entire assembly in my UAV, and fly it. You provide a list of the components and the software, I pay you for it...it's that simple. The following are the requirements for the electronics: Very simply... 1. Take-off autonomously 2. Land autonomously (ultrasonic altimeter below 15 feet AGL, other method above 15 ft) 3. Capable of 50 waypoints (w/altitude) guided by GPS 4. Flight model is capable of 30-hour endurance so electronics must last 33 hours 5. Must include telemetry (altitude, airspeed, GPS coordinates, flight direction, and calculated fuel load). The requirements are very basic and there may be additional information you may need get started, so let me know. I'm looking to program my UAV to TO, fly to several waypoints, report back where it is and how it is performing, then land back at its starting point and come to a stop. The entire flight will last 25 hours with a maximum range of 25 miles LOS. Contest ends 5-01-2007 Let me know what additional information you need. Joe Edited January 4, 2007 by UAVCORP Quote Link to post Share on other sites


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It's music to the ear of any cancer patient: "Your scans are clear." It means you've won, and the treatments you've endured have driven cancer from your body.
But once you hear those four magic words, are you also free of the need for future scans? There's an argument to be made that continued scanning or surveillance imaging is a good thing. After all, if you have a relapse, you want to detect it as early as possible.
But that argument may not hold up in the face of data. Continued imaging can be expensive, can expose survivors to additional radiation, can have false positive results leading to additional worry and unnecessary medical care, and may not be any better at detecting tumor relapses than a physical exam or simply a survivor's feeling that something is "wrong."
Stephan Voss, MD, PhD, the director of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and chief of Oncologic Imaging at Boston Children's Hospital, decided to crunch the numbers, using Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) as a model for testing whether post-treatment surveillance with computed tomography (CT) scans makes clinical sense. His conclusion: not really.
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TORONTO, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index ended up on Friday, with broad gains led by modest moves higher for its heavyweight energy and financial sectors while gold miners weighed.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index unofficially closed up 33.79 points, or 0.21 percent, at 16,108.09. It added 0.7 percent over the course of the week. (Reporting by Alastair Sharp Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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This week's Gazette is on sale now bringing you all the news, views and opinions from across the borough along with all the best sport and leisure and entertainment coverage.
And this week don't miss some great offers inside the paper, including sail to France for £7.50 and the chance to go on a £500 Christmas spending spree in Debenhams in Uxbridge.
There is also a money off voucher for Tchibo in the Mall Pavilions shopping centre in Uxbridge.


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Architecture That Looks Like 9/11 Attacks
A Residential Skyscraper Design That Looks Like the 9/11 Attacks on the Twin Towers — Can We Say Bad Idea?
A Residential Skyscraper Design That Looks Like the 9/11 Attacks on the Twin Towers — Can We Say Bad Idea?
While I admire the Dutch for their forward-thinking designs, this proposed residential towers design from Dutch firm MVRDV seems a bit too risky from my point of view. I actually liked the look of the towers — until their resemblance to the exploding towers of the World Trade Center during the 9/11 attack was brought to my attention.
I'm not the only person concerned by this proposed design, to say the least. According to World Architecture News,
. . . The pair of South Korean residential towers for the Yongsan Dream Hub Corporation may take the title of most controversial concept. The design has been met by fury from those who have termed the release of these designs 'a cheap publicity stunt' to the point where MVRDV has admitted on its Facebook page that 'we receive threatening emails and calls of angry people call us Al Qaeda lovers or worse'. Several hundred users of the social media site have left their heartfelt comments under a recent post on MVRDV's Facebook page.
Keep clicking for more images of the proposed South Korean residential towers and to take my poll. I want to know what you think of the design, too.


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Vienna Data Science Group – Knowledgefeed vol. 18
Dear Community,
get ready for the 18th Knowledgefeed of the VDSG!
Please note, that we are meeting at a different location this time. For this Knowledgefeed we will be meeting in
the offices of Parkbob CIR Lab at Medical University of Vienna, Anna Spiegel Forschungsgebäude, (Building 25), Entrance: Level 3, north side of the building (map) Thanks again guys for sharing the spirit!…


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- Wedding: July 2016
I went to the MAC store to try their BB cream I'm turning 35 soon so I figured I should start wearing make up regularly. Before the make artist starts to applyit, she asks me if I already have make up on…I thought that was strange since I didn't have on any make up, so that is my 1st question…do they usually ask that question? I loved how the bb cream made my skin glow and covered up my imperfections. So I see my mom and a friend later on that day and I ask them if they notice the difference and they said they didn't. I was totally confused, I saw the difference right away. So my friend kept telling me that I don't need make up anyway that I look really pretty without it. So I wash off the the bb cream and show my mom and friend the difference, they both said my skin looks the same….uummm how is that??? That brings me to my second question, does it mean that the bb cream did not cover up my imperfections well enough or that the imperfections I clearly see on my face are just made up in my mind lol? I'm so confused, I've even worn false lashes before and no one noticed and even after I pointed them out my friends said "oh they look natural", huh? They see me often so how could they not tell that my lashes were longer…I don't wear make up often, so why are those closest to me NOT noticing when I do wear it, am I doing something wrong?
I kept asking them how could they not notice the difference withthe bb cream and all they told me was "we just don't, you don't need make up anyway…" uughh


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Umpire of Appreciation & Umpires of the Month (June)
Umpire of the Month is a part of our new initiative to recognize our club's amazing umpires. Georgia Lemaire is our umpire of the month for June!
Georgia started playing with the club 10 years ago. Since then she has joined the coaching and umpiring team, currently coaching with her younger brother Malcolm. Georgia is a keen young umpire that has stepped up many times. She umpired 13 games this spring season. Currently, she has a community umpiring rating and hopes to upgrade to a provincial. Georgia also plays for her High School field hockey team at Dr. Charles Best Secondary School. Next year she will be entering grade 12. She hopes to continue building her skills as a player, coach and umpire.
Thank you Georgia!
At this time, I would also like to thank our whole team of umpires this Spring season. This season we had a total of 27 active umpires, including 12 mentors. Without them our games would not be possible. Thank you to each and every one of you.
This season we also recruited two new umpires, and completed five community assessments this season. To these seven individuals, I would like to say welcome to the team, and congratulations!
Welcome to the Umpiring Team, New Umpires
Abbie Collett
Malcolm Lemaire
Heidi Mueckel
Jade Lew
Jessica Martin
Jewel Lew
Rachel Hall
Once again, a huge thank you to all our umpires. We look forward to working with you in the Fall and next Spring!


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The ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) officially launched its Macquarie University Research Node, at a formal event today in Sydney.
This official launch was attended by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bruce Dowton, a number of distinguished guests and a large contingent of CNBP researchers from all three Research Nodes, as well as members of the CNBP International Advisory Committee.
In helping launch the node, Professor Mary O'Kane, NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer said, "Physics, biomolecular sciences and nano-technology are key research strengths at Macquarie University."
Professor Piper noted that over fifty researchers, staff and students from the University, spanning a wide range of disciplines, would contribute to CNBP activity.
Said Piper, "The technologies and tools that the team is developing will help us better understand a wide range of human related conditions and offer many opportunities for commercialisation, benefiting the Australian economy.
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text: PC Case for Demanding GamersOrderliness is paramount: The Sharkoon DG7000-G, designed specifically for gamers, impresses with its unique appearance and astounding functionality. The ATX MIDI tower, made from robust materials, is suitable for first-class gaming PCs. Thanks to an optimized cable management system the DG7000-G always ensures a tidy appearance, which is viewed through the extra-large side panel made of tempered glass. Even the 3.5" hard drives and power supply can be installed behind a stealthy panel on the bottom of the case. Two pre-installed 140 mm LED fans are concealed behind the stunning front with mesh elements, a 140 mm LED is installed in the rear panel. The DG7000-G is available in red, blue and green versions, each with matching colored LEDs, LED fans and interior painting.


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BizBash, the leading voice of innovative meetings, events, and conferences in North America in collaboration with Events DC, the official convention and sports authority for the District of Columbia, announced its first class of event professionals to be inducted into the BizBash Hall of Fame, Washington, DC. Events DC will host the ceremony, to be held at Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Square on November 4, 2015.
In making the announcement, BizBash C.E.O. and founder David Adler stated, "Our mission at both BizBash and with our event partner, Events DC, is to celebrate the power and impact of live experiences to not only the greater community but also the next generation of event and meeting professionals. Our first class of inductees represents a group of connectors, marketers, and collaborators who have been improving the fabric of our society for years."
"In a spirit of partnership with BizBash, Events DC is honored to induct Washington, DC's inaugural class into the BizBash Hall of Fame," said Gregory A. O'Dell, president and chief executive officer of Events DC. "This first class in DC represents the best and brightest of the local events industry across various lines of business, from entertainment, conventions and meetings to sporting and cultural events, and we are grateful to help celebrate their accomplishments and contributions at the Hall of Fame Awards. There is a tremendous amount of excitement about the District's vibrant event industry, and the BizBash Hall of Fame Awards is the perfect complement to continue highlighting and recognizing Washington, DC on a national stage."
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· André Wells, founder and creative officer of Events By André Wells, is being inducted as a pioneer in event design with global clients in the world of government, society, major corporations, and Hollywood. Wells maintains his longtime roots in Washington, serving numerous hours volunteering in inner city schools.
· Bill Homan, co-owner of Design Cuisine, is being inducted for his dedication to raising the level of events and catering in Washington, for more than 35 years with smart execution and constant innovation. Holman has an intuitive sense of what works and how to wow by building on his experience and talents.
· Carla Hargrove McGill, president of Hargrove Inc., is being inducted for her inspiring leadership of an iconic, woman-owned, third-generation company in the event space. McGill is a continuous example to event professionals, showing the event industry's growth and the increased value of meetings, events, and trade shows. A Washington icon, along with companies such as Geico and Marriott, Hargrove has expanded their definition of events globally, by producing world-class event and exceptional entrepreneurship.
· Carolyn Peachey, president of Campbell Peachey & Associates, is being inducted as the ultimate connector and event "Yoda." For more than 40 years she has been at the forefront of some of the most prestigious events in the D.C. market, including the creation of the Kennedy Center Honors. With hundreds of events under her belt, Peachey is just warming up, providing wisdom and continuously showing how to effectively create value from live gatherings.
Lisa Block, vice president, meetings and conferences at Society for Human Resource Management, is a life-long Washington resident and true people person. Block is being inducted in honor of her 25-year career leading event strategy and execution for the meetings industry, as a meetings advocate and for bringing the 2016 SHRM Annual Conference and Exposition back to our nation's capital.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Wondolowski is headed to his fifth MLS All-Star Game.
MLS All-Star coach James O'Connor added the San Jose Earthquakes striker to the star-studded roster that'll take on Atletico next month. O'Connor also added forwards Josef Martinez (Atlanta) and Diego Rossi (LA) to the squad, along with 10 others.
Earlier this season, Wondolowski, 35, passed Landon Donovan as the league's all-time leading goal scorer with a four-goal performance May 18 against the Chicago Fire. This will be his fifth appearance on the MLS All-Star roster.
And according to Wondolowski's father, he hopes it won't be his last.
"If it were up to him, he would play next year and he would like to play in San Jose," John Wondolowski said Monday.
Retiring Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando was also added to the Major League Soccer All-Star roster on Monday by Commissioner Don Garber.
The all-time @MLS leading goal scorer is headed to Orlando! ⭐
Congratulations to @ChrisWondo on being named to the 2019 #MLSAllStar Team! https://t.co/Szxy24dGjD pic.twitter.com/VCwEXyBrbc
— San Jose Earthquakes (@SJEarthquakes) June 24, 2019
Rimando turned 40 last week and is in his 20th MLS season. He holds the league record for games (497), shutouts (146) and saves (1,662).
Paxton Pomykal, a 19-year-old midfielder developed by the Dallas academy and a member of the U.S. Under-20 team, also was put on the 26-man roster by Garber.
MLS All-Stars will play Atletico Madrid on July 31 at Orlando, Florida.
Atlanta leads with five All-Stars and LA has four.
The roster (x-selected in fan vote):
Goalkeepers: Andre Blake (Philadelphia), x-Brad Guzan (Atlanta), Nick Rimando (Salt Lake)
Defenders: Matt Hedges (Dallas), Kemar Lawrence (New York Red Bulls), Romain Metanire (Minnesota), x-Leandro González Pírez (Atlanta), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Chicago), x-Walker Zimmerman (LA), x-Graham Zusi (Kansas City).
Midfielders: x-Ezequiel Barco (Atlanta), Diego Chara (Portland), x-Jonathan dos Santos (LA Galaxy), Mark Anthony Kaye (LA), Nicolas Lodeiro (Seattle), x-Gonzalo Martínez (Atlanta), Maxi Moralez (NYC), x-Nani (Orlando), Paxton Pomykal (Dallas), Alejandro Pozuelo (Toronto), Diego Rossi (LA).
Forwards: x-Zlatan Ibrahimovi? (LA Galaxy), Josef Martinez (Atlanta), x-Wayne Rooney (D.C.), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose), x-Carlos Vela (LA).
Bay Area News Group's Elliott Almond contributed to this report.
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story said 2019 is Wondolowski's final season in MLS, but he has not announced whether he will retire at the end of the Quakes' season.


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The Next Time I Go Crazy by John Patrick Robbins
I sat there speechless words are wasted on those already convinced you're insane .
I had suffered a mental breakdown before but it was hidden from most due to the fact my girlfriend at the time looked after me .
This time it was in full view of everyone .
The doctor looked at me as I assume I was just one of many freaks he saw in a day.
You ever want to know what it is to be powerless .
Be locked in a mental ward .
I tried to commit suicide but being you're reading this as you can tell I failed .
"So Mr Robbins how are you feeling today?"
"Well besides the fact you have me on enough meds to keep most numb to the world , Honestly I feel like shit, how bout you doc"?
The doctor didn't reply .
He simply looked at me.
I was a waste of air to him we were all cattle and he after dealing with people's bullshit far to long had long since lost all sympathy.
"So why did you try to hurt yourself "?
"Well there really wasn't anything on TV and I figured I would mix things up by opening up my wrists".
"You know Mr Robbins you have serious issues and your substance abuse is not helping your depression ".
"Your right doc I mean whoever would imagine drinking till you blackout would be unhealthy for you ".
The doctor was not amused by my humor .
"This really isn't a laughing matter, what if you had died "?
"Then this conversation would be kind of awkward wouldn't it? ,
I mean don't you treat people for talking to invisible people in here"?
"Mr Robbins is this a game to you"?
"If it were I certainly would be losing doc ".
I replied .
It went on like that for awhile they asked the questions till they got the answers they wanted to hear .
Then turned you lose gave you some scripts for shit that had worse side effects then the crap the were treating you for.
You had to be controlled before they turned you loose and I was smart enough to understand the game for what it was .
On the day I was released the same Doc came and spoke to me .
"Mr Robbins I do wish you luck and hope to never see you here again".
"Thanks ".
Was all I said .
"So what's your plans "?
"Well doc honestly to get drunk and get as far away from here as possible ".
"You do realize the booze doesn't help your depression"?
"Neither does the shit that makes me feel nothing at all".
"But the medication serves a purpose ".
"So does the booze ".
"You know if you continue down this road nothing good will come from this".
"Well honestly doc if I walk around a overmedicated zombie I can't see how that's any better ".
"Least you will be alive ".
"Breathing only means your continued existence I have no desire to simply exist cause I can".
I was annoyed ready to leave and far more ready to drink .
I was out the door I didn't say goodbye for I knew this wasn't my last visit .
"Be well the doc said as I was leaving ".
I stopped looking back with a smile upon my face .
"Doc when I'm not trust me you will be the first to know ".
Unfortunately are paths would cross again .
©2018 John Patrick Robbins
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I've seen tanks in the street - Rome '77 Aldo Mora, Italian vice-presiden, killed by the Red Brigade. And an earthquake, rumbling, ground shaking - no, the tank brigade mobilizing at the base in Aviano. And I've seen troop carriers, all my life in the US; soldiers scurrying hither and yon. For what? Bottom line, people are stupid. We need to educate them. George Will? He's the leader of the stupid; blood is money to him. Don't doubt that for a second.
Who better than the Shaken and Stirred columnist for the Sunday Styles section of the Times to review a book about Robert Frost? I can't imagine why the New York Times Book Review would have chosen this critic for Fall of Frost, an impressionistic novel by Brian Hall that imagines details in the life of the poet, though of course I'd happily concur if Jonathan Miles had shown any sensitivity towards either the novel's goals or its achievements. But the review is a straight-up hatchet job, mocking Hall for creating scenes where the poet Frost encounters forks in roads or walls that need mending. It's a strange critique, since readers who choose a novel that imagines the life of Robert Frost would likely be disappointed if the novelist didn't bother to speculate about the origins of the poet's best-known works. Miles clearly has no sympathy for the very idea of a novelization about the life of Robert Frost, which leads me to ask again, why was Jonathan Miles considered the right choice to review this book?
One simply wonders about these things. We're on much better poetic footing when David Orr digs into Helen Vendler's analytical study Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. I've had problems with David Orr in the past, and, yes, he once again gets off to a bad start with an opening sentence that exaggerates for effect but states a clear untruth:
The critic is the only artist who depends entirely upon another art form, which means that part of his job is to determine the nature of the relationship.
Tell that to Chip Kidd, or Lorenz Hart, or Bob Fosse, or any art museum curator or Hollywood costume designer or ... must I go on? But Orr's article improves greatly after the first sentence. He enjoys Vendler's book, though more for the ride than for the destination, since he demonstrates that her logical findings are more likely the result than the cause of her aesthetic reactions. I like the close analysis he performs on one of her suppositions, and I like it that he bravely provides his own (doggerel) poem to make his case (though little harm is done to Vendler's book in the process).
There are several good fiction reviews here: Ben Macintyre on Richard Bausch's Peace, Maggie Scarf on Andrew Sean Greer's The Story of a Marriage, Penelope Green on Meg Wolitzer's Ten Year Nap, Bruce Barcott on Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves. I'm less impressed by David Leavitt's thoughts on William Styron's essay collection Havanas in Camelot (Leavitt faults Styron for failing to mention James Baldwin's homosexuality, which makes me think Leavitt must have been struggling to find anything at all to say about this book) or Rachel Donadio's endpaper about the highbrow critical reaction to the Beat Generation in 1958, which reads like a page in a dull textbook.
And then there's the cover article: conservative columnist George Will on Nixonland, a history book by Rick Perlstein. Perlstein's thesis is that Nixon's presidency defined the cultural division between "left" and "right" that still drives American politics today. The very mention of Richard Nixon, though, seems to set George Will off on a tear (like many other conservatives today, Will seems to subscribe to the simple historical mantra "Nixon bad, Reagan good"). His article sets Perlstein's thesis aside, focusing instead on Will's own ideas regarding Nixon and the Vietnam War era. The results are highly questionable, and I'd like to take a cue from David Orr and subject George Will's article to my own close analysis.
First, it's clear that Will has many things on his mind here, all of them predating Rick Perlstein's book. Take the fourth paragraph in this article, which talks about Barry Goldwater, James Reston, Richard Hofstadter and Daniel Bell. Where did Rick Perlstein go? Where did Richard Nixon go? Will is apparently still fighting a battle with historian Richard Hofstadter, though only a tiny fraction of NYTBR readers will care.
When George Will gets around to reviewing Rick Perlstein, it's mainly to make fun of his purplish prose, which does (to be fair) seem a bit excessive. Will quotes many of Perlstein's unfortunate sentences, but smacks himself with his own shovel when he quotes Truman Capote's already incredibly over-quoted insult to Jack Kerouac ("that's not writing, that is typing"). Can George Will actually not know that this line is beyond stale? Even Rachel Donadio knew better, in her article about the Beats, than to serve up this well-worn insult.
George Will factual claims in this article are also weak. This is ironic because his factual claims are meant to discredit Perlstein's factual claims, but repeatedly fail to do so:
Perlstein says that before the Kent State violence, "citizens were thrilled to see the tanks and jeeps rumbling through town." There were no tanks there.
That's interesting, since the definitive history book on the 1970 Kent State shootings, Kent State by James Michener, contains a sub-chapter titled "A Rumble of Tanks" which describes the National Guard's troop carriers -- "big, lumbering, ominous" -- rolling through town. Technically, Will is correct that these troop carriers did not amount to the arrival of a panzer division, but Michener does make it clear that observers believed they were seeing tanks, which is exactly what Perlstein repeats.
Will attempts a similar sleight of hand here:
For example, Perlstein writes about some military policemen in 1969 wondering why they were on 24-hour alert at an airbase in New Jersey: "A team of soldiers stood guard around two B-52s. Their pilots sat in the ready room carrying guns. An M.P. madly scanned the newspaper in vain for some international crisis. He knew what it meant when B-52 co-pilots started carrying sidearms. It was for one co-pilot to shoot the other if he was too chicken to follow orders and drop the big one."
Well. Leaving aside the adolescent language ("chicken," "the big one"), perhaps there really was a madly scanning M.P., but an Air Force historian laughed when asked about the idea that crews carried guns aimed, so to speak, at one another.
Well. An Air Force historian laughed -- so what? That doesn't mean what Perlstein said is not true. Furthermore, what exactly is an "Air Force historian"? If this refers to an official representative of the US Air Force, then George Will's judgment in consulting this source for a candid answer is more laughable than anything else here.
I've said before that the New York Times Book Review really needs to move past the hoary typewriter warriors of the William F. Buckley generation when it assigns reviewers for political books. George Will reached his creative peak during the Reagan presidency, as far as I can tell, and the problem with assigning reviews to old battle-axes like George Will -- or Leon Wieseltier, or Christopher Hitchens, or Henry Kissinger -- is that these writers show up carrying so much baggage that the books they review barely stand a chance. When George Will or Leon Wieseltier or Christopher Hitchens or Henry Kissinger reviews a book, it's invariably all about George Will or Leon Wieseltier or Christopher Hitchens or Henry Kissinger. This may play well in the New York Times executive offices, but it's not what NYTBR readers want or enjoy.
We want newer, more ideologically diverse political voices (Samantha Power, a year ago, was a rare step in the right direction). Today's Book Review also includes an article by Josef Joffe on Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World that summarizes the USA's current problems:
There is certainly plenty to bemoan -- from the disappearing dollar to the subprime disaster, from rampant anti-Americanism to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that will take years to win.
"That will take years to win"? It's a subtle point, but language like this shows just how deeply the NYTBR's editorial leadership has isolated itself in a neo-conservative bubble. Most Americans have long ago stopped thinking about the Iraq or Afghanistan wars in the illusory terms of "victory". We yearn instead for an administration that understands the power of diplomacy.
It's a very sharp and deftly deployed needle, Levi, that you used to puncture the pompous windbag otherwise known as George Will.
For the record, it's Nixon bad, Reagan worse, Bush (fils) the ultimate evil. Its like a series of horror movies, each one more terrifying than the next.
While there may be some truth to Perlstein's Nixon theory, keep in mind that Nixon worked harder than anyone to end the Vietnam war. From 1968 onward, Nixon repeatedly said he wanted to "end the war and win the peace in Vietnam." He pushed for the peace agreement of January 27, 1973, and had it not been for Watergate, Nixon would have been President when the Vietnam war finally ended in 1975.
Also, according to Marvin Olasky's book The Tragedy of American Compassion, more programs to help the poor were funded and carried out under Nixon than under Kennedy or Johnson.
I'm not excusing Nixon for Watergate. I'm just saying.
Bill, of course I haven't shared my own thoughts about Richard Nixon here -- that's something that will take me a while to express (he's a fascinating, very complex subject).
I do think there is a growing tendency among modern Republicans to totally "disown" him, though -- a conservative friend of mine speaks of Nixon in the same tone as George Will does here. Interestingly, Watergate is not considered his biggest crime, according to this meme -- rather, it's his "liberal" economic policy (price controls, etc.) and his now increasingly questionable China policy that earns him strong conservative dislike. Like I said, the mantra goes "Nixon bad, Reagan good". It's not my mantra, but I hear it more and more.
Yeah, well, Republicans can "disown" their own asses for all I care.
To me, the worst thing about Nixon is that, apparently, he was willing to screw up the lives and reputations of his opponents if he couldn't beat them any other way. I can't overlook that. But still, I don't know, there was something about Nixon I liked. Check out this Mother Jones article. I love this excerpt from a transcript of a Nixon tape recording.
Until I saw Oliver Stone's film Nixon, I had always thought of him as the cynical amoral Tricky Dick. At the end of the film Nixon, there is an afterword where Nixon is credited for OSHA, the Clean Water Act and other environmental legislation andmuch civil rights legislation.
After Nixon's fall from grace, he authored many books.
Give Reagan his due: he is responsible for our current state of affairs. The American on the street is also guilty for failing to participate more in the system.
"To me, the worst thing about Nixon is that, apparently, he was willing to screw up the lives and reputations of his opponents if he couldn't beat them any other way"
Dude, this is the credo of the Republican Party! Let's talk Swift Boat! Let's talk about Reagan's manipulation of the Iran Hostage affair to make Jimmy Carter look bad! Let's talk about the Republif*cks hiring a special prosecutor to go after the Clintons until, after years of dredging up stuff, they finally found Monica Lewinski. Let's talk about stolen votes in Florida during the shameful stealing of the election by Bush fils. These people are not politicians, they are criminals. Yeah, Nixon was actually a liberal, but he got caught. The rest of them learned from his mistakes. I've said this before, if there is a god or a God, a Republif*ck will not be elected president for the next 100 years.
Good points, Michael. Good points.
It's terribly sad that while Nixon was outwardly doing some good things, he was secretly doing some reprehensible things.
Let's not give Nixon too much credit, a lot of the things that came into being during the Nixon administration were forced upon it by ideas spreading out of the 60's. If there was no anti-war movement would Nixon have wnated to bring an end to it (lets remember his anti-communist origins), if there was no ecological movement would he have signed the clean air act? The Endangered Species act?
Nixon wrote books before becoming President also.
Despite his faults.and they were many, Richard Nixon is the only president since WW2 to fully comprehend the fact that the USA lacks a coherent forign policy. A situation he tried to remedy, before the fall.
The USA is an arrogant upstart, admittedly possessed of a brilliant arrogance, on the world stage
The worlds needs America, and it would be lovely if Amerca knew it needs the world. These are not times for introspection.
Brian Hall was a college classmate of mine, though I knew him only slightly. I haven't looked at his novel on Frost, but I thought his novel on Lewis and Clark (I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company) was excellent. I read it after reading the Lewis and Clark diaries and thought he filled in the blanks well while keeping the essence of the story and the personalities. (The diaries should be read with the original spelling retained, by the way. It's not only fascinating to see how many ways William Clark can spell Sioux -- none of them we way we do today -- but you may conclude, as I did, that his writing had more vigor and juice than that of the better-educated Lewis.)


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Anyone need an Evan fix? Here is a good 4 minutes of Evan being his cute self. Sometimes it's hard to turn of the camera when he is being this cute! :o)
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Ahhh….the sweet sounds of a baby's own special language! I love it!
Sounded like half a mama (mah) somewhere in there. The motorboat bubbles are so cute. Almost time for one of those tub toys? Love y'all, Ree
We are always ready for an Evan fix. Looks like somebody is teething big time. Everything goes in his mouth EXCEPT rice cereal!!! BTW, he has a more extensive wardrobe than I do.
And I think he is talking…. we just can't understand him yet.
love, Ann
what a delight! watching and listening to him brought this HUGE smile to my face, which remains as i type these words, envisioning him in my mind's eye.


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Province backing away from subway upload: Tory
It's all aboard for a new downtown Ontario Line and the Scarborough subway.
Ontario Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney and Toronto Mayor John Tory announced Wednesday that they have reached a tentative deal to proceed with both projects as envisioned by the provincial government — a three-stop, $5.5 billion Scarborough subway extension and a $10.9 billion Ontario Science Centre-to-Ontario Place downtown relief line.
Ontario taxpayers could be on the hook for up to $212 million in sunk costs already spent by the city, largely on developing a one-stop Scarborough subway and shorter relief line.
At the same time, the Ontario government is backing away from its plan to take over Toronto's existing subway lines.
Mayor John Tory said the city never believed that it was a good idea to break up the TTC, and now finally the provincial government agrees.
"Last December, we were faced with a provincial government that was committed to uploading our entire subway system — they were prepared to break up the Toronto transit system and impose a split system that in my view, and in the view of the council, would not have worked for the average rider," Tory said.
Tory said that the deal, which still needs to go before full city council for support, would leave ownership of the new subway lines in Ontario hands.
The city would be allowed to spend the funds it budgeted for transit expansion — more than $5 billion — on upgrades for existing systems and to pursue other parts of its own transit plan, he said.
Mulroney said the provincial government had promised to upload the new and existing subway system but now believes it can deliver on four priority projects quickly and efficiently by working with the city.
In addition to the Ontario Line and Scarborough subway, the province wants to extend the Yonge Line to Richmond Hill and the Eglinton Crosstown West deep into Etobicoke to link up to Pearson Airport.
"I think that people have been playing politics around transit in this city for a very long time," Mulroney said.
"And today is a great day where the provincial government and the municipal government have come together with a proposal that the Mayor and city staff support… I think there's an opportunity here to stop playing politics."
The federal Liberals issued a statement saying they would support Toronto's transit infrastructure priorities.
The federal Conservatives say they would pick up Ottawa's share of the Ontario Line and the Yonge Street extension.
What's Being Said
Ontario NDP MPP Jessica Bell: "We have some considerable concerns about the Ontario line. We do have a lot of unanswered questions about whether this will truly benefit commuters in Toronto."
Ontario Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner: "It's great that the city and province are no longer at loggerheads, but the Premier has some explaining to do. For over a year, he railed against Toronto, telling Ontarians that wrestling control of the TTC was the only way to get shovels in the ground. Now it looks like those threats were simply a ploy to pressure the city into endorsing Ford's pet transit line."
Ontario Premier Doug Ford: "I welcome today's announcement from Mayor Tory and the City of Toronto to move forward with a new and ground-breaking partnership to transform transit in Toronto and get shovels in the ground as soon as possible on these critical projects. I also welcome commitments from federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer to fund their fair share of our subways program and work with the province and the city to get the Ontario Line built."
Toronto City Councillor Joe Cressy: "In my 5 years at City Hall I've been through three different announcements of new transit deals. While there are certainly pros, cons, & unanswered questions today, let's take the time to study the whole proposal before signing-off on yet another new transit plan."
What's Coming Down The Track
Ontario Line: Ontario Science Centre to Ontario Place, relieving pressure on Line 1, $10.9B budget, target completion date of 2027
Scarborough Subway Extension: extending Line 2 from Kennedy Station to McCowan Station, three stops, $5.5B budget, target completion date of 2029-30
Yonge North Subway Extension: extending Line 1 beyond Finch Station to Richmond Hill Centre, $5.6B budget, target completion date of 2029-30
Eglinton Crosstown West Extension: extending Eglinton Crosstown west along Eglinton Avenue to Renforth Drive, $4.7 billion budget, target completion date of 2030-31


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lesbian.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who is addicted to tribady.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a female homosexual
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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very NSFW . . . well, it's a short for tribadism after the old term tribade, lesbian, and describes the practice of rubbing female genetalia against each other.
This called for that once a month specialty, tribade toast.
Second, I wonder whether or not it makes sense to attempt to construct, from whatever resemblances there might be between "the tribade" and
Hence the male féminisme whereby the man becomes patiens as well as agens, and the woman a tribade, a votary of mascula Sappho,364 Queen of Frictrices or Rubbers.
Moreover, Lanser seems to be elaborating the tension that Traub discerns in English Renaissance discourses between the figure of the tribade and the figure of the friend, the former being a monstrous image of sex and gender deviance while the latter embodies the possibility of a female homoeroticism contained within the bounds of virtue and the canons of femininity.
The Republican Party known for its tribade salaciousness and back door buggery took another severe hit today after the president came out of the closet and admitted to an affair with former Florida congressman, Mark Foley.
Madame de Lamballe, who was guillotined at the Revolution, was popularly regarded as a tribade, and it was said that on this account her charming head received the special insults of the mob.
I sometimes think that historical research on early modern Europe relies so heavily on forensic archives that it seems to retry accused sodomites (and the occasional tribade).
At the same time she gently placed her hand on Ethel's cunt, and commenced to suck one of her nipples, whilst one finger was titillating her companion's incipient clitoris, which, although so small as to be scarcely visible, was tremendously sensitive to these tender and lascivious touches by such an experienced tribade.
The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies
''Lacedæmonius for a pathic and other writers apply it to a tribade.


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LADERA RANCH, CA --/PRNewswire/ -- EmiSense Technologies, LLC announced it has closed its third round of funding. The investment round was led by strategic investor 9th Street Investments. EmiSense will use the US $6.5M in new funding to launch products, continue research and development, and support validation testing with global customers.
"We are very happy to receive the investment and validation of our technology and business model," states Patrick Thompson, CEO of EmiSense. "The investment underlines the great progress we have made since the company was founded in 2009.
"EmiSense continues to hit critical technology milestones, and we are pleased to support the next stage in the company's development," states Doug Coors, Manager at 9th Street Investments, and Executive VP of CoorsTek.
EmiSense is developing improved electrostatic Particulate Matter (PM, or soot) sensors, simplified NOx (oxides of nitrogen, or smog) sensors, exhaust and intake oxygen sensors, and hydrocarbon sensors. "Right now, our primary focus is on the PMTrac technology," explains Mr. Thompson. "Combustion-generated nanoparticles are a major air-quality and health concern all over the world. Current technologies are struggling to meet the regulatory deadlines just a few years away. PMTrac delivers a combination of durability, sensitivity, and low cost to meet the needs of industry," he continues.
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With all her current professional success Brandi Glanville has a lot to be happy about these days, but none of that can fill the emptiness she feels when she is without her two boys – Mason and Jake – especially on special occasions like Halloween. Brandi took to her Twitter to share the sadness she felt at not being able to spend Halloween with them:
It is safe to assume that Brandi thought back to all Halloweens memories she once shared with her boys, before her and Eddie Cibrian divorced and began the often difficult road of co-parenting. As a mother I empathize with her sadness, as I know many of you do too.
There was at least one person who didn't empathize with Brandi, and actually seemed to revel in it – per usual – and that person was none other than the now infamous LeAnn Rimes; once famous for her singing, but now famous for her bad behavior.
It is no secret that LeAnn seems to stalk Brandi's Twitter page, and a source told Star Magazine that she doesn't just troll Brandi's page but that, "LeAnn goes out of her way to torment Brandi, like when she tweets about Brandi's sons (Mason and Jake)." LeAnn proved this source right, and also showed us once again why she is consistently voted one of the most hated celebs when she started tweeting (the first one less than an hour after Brandi's tweet) about being with Brandi's kids on Halloween.
Brandi has explicitly asked LeAnn in the past not to post about her sons, but of course LeAnn does it anyway because she respects no one especially not her stepsons' mother. She clearly enjoys hurting Brandi, and Twitter is her weapon of choice. For her part Brandi has continued to just ignore her, which I am guessing makes LeAnn even more obsessed because she is looking for a fight and being met with indifference, and nothing says I couldn't care less about you than indifference.
Besides tweeting about Brandi and Eddie's children, she tried really hard to squash those pesky divorce rumors by showing us what a happy home and marriage she has with this tweet:
Oh LeAnn, poor poor delusional LeAnn – I believe that Eddie is the male Martha Stewart, just as much as I believe that you are one of the greatest female country singers. But thanks for the laugh. You're always good for one. Pumpkin Liquor anyone?
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