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Spider web
A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, or cobweb (from the archaic word coppe, meaning "spider")[1] is a device created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey.
Spider webs have existed for at least 100 million years, as witnessed in a rare find of Early Cretaceous amber from Sussex, southern England.[2] Insects can get trapped in spider webs, providing nutrition to the spider; however, not all spiders build webs to catch prey, and some do not build webs at all. "Spider web" is typically used to refer to a web that is apparently still in use (i.e. clean), whereas "cobweb" refers to abandoned (i.e. dusty) webs.[3] However, "cobweb" is used to describe the tangled three-dimensional web[4] of some spiders of the theridiidae family. While this large family is also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, they actually have a huge range of web architectures.
Silk production
When spiders moved from the water to the land in the Early Devonian period, they started making silk to protect their bodies and their eggs.[3][5] Spiders gradually started using silk for hunting purposes, first as guide lines and signal lines, then as ground or bush webs, and eventually as the aerial webs that are familiar today.[6]
Spiders produce silk from their spinneret glands located at the tip of their abdomen. Each gland produces a thread for a special purpose – for example a trailed safety line, sticky silk for trapping prey or fine silk for wrapping it. Spiders use different gland types to produce different silks, and some spiders are capable of producing up to 8 different silks during their lifetime.[7]
Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, each having its own function – there are also spiders with just one pair and others with as many as four pairs.
Webs allow a spider to catch prey without having to expend energy by running it down. Thus it is an efficient method of gathering food. However, constructing the web is in itself an energetically costly process because of the large amount of protein required, in the form of silk. In addition, after a time the silk will lose its stickiness and thus become inefficient at capturing prey. It is common for spiders to eat their own web daily to recoup some of the energy used in spinning. The silk proteins are thus recycled.
The tensile strength of spider silk is greater than the same weight of steel and has much greater elasticity. Its microstructure is under investigation for potential applications in industry, including bullet-proof vests and artificial tendons. Researchers have used genetically modified mammals to produce the proteins needed to make this material.[8][9][10]
Types of spider webs
There are a few types of spider webs found in the wild, and many spiders are classified by the webs they weave. Different types of spider webs include:
- Spiral orb webs, associated primarily with the family Araneidae, as well as Tetragnathidae and Uloboridae[11]
- Tangle webs or cobwebs, associated with the family Theridiidae
- Funnel webs, with associations divided into primitive and modern
- Tubular webs, which run up the bases of trees or along the ground
- Sheet webs
Several different types of silk may be used in web construction, including a "sticky" capture silk and "fluffy" capture silk, depending on the type of spider. Webs may be in a vertical plane (most orb webs), a horizontal plane (sheet webs), or at any angle in between. It is hypothesized that these types of aerial webs co-evolved with the evolution of winged insects. As insects are spiders' main prey, it is likely that they would impose strong selectional forces on the foraging behavior of spiders.[3][12] Most commonly found in the sheet-web spider families, some webs will have loose, irregular tangles of silk above them. These tangled obstacle courses serve to disorient and knock down flying insects, making them more vulnerable to being trapped on the web below. They may also help to protect the spider from predators such as birds and wasps.[13]
Orb web construction
During the process of making an orb web, the spider will use its own body for measurements.
Many webs span gaps between objects which the spider could not cross by crawling. This is done by first producing a fine adhesive thread to drift on a faint breeze across a gap. When it sticks to a surface at the far end, the spider feels the change in the vibration. The spider reels in and tightens the first strand, then carefully walks along it and strengthens it with a second thread. This process is repeated until the thread is strong enough to support the rest of the web.
After strengthening the first thread, the spider continues to make a Y-shaped netting. The first three radials of the web are now constructed. More radials are added, making sure that the distance between each radial and the next is small enough to cross. This means that the number of radials in a web directly depends on the size of the spider plus the size of the web. It is common for a web to be about 20 times the size of the spider building it.
After the radials are complete, the spider fortifies the center of the web with about five circular threads. It makes a spiral of non-sticky, widely spaced threads to enable it to move easily around its own web during construction, working from the inside outward. Then, beginning from the outside and moving inward, the spider methodically replaces this spiral with a more closely spaced one made of adhesive threads. It uses the initial radiating lines as well as the non-sticky spirals as guide lines. The spaces between each spiral and the next are directly proportional to the distance from the tip of its back legs to its spinners. This is one way the spider uses its own body as a measuring/spacing device. While the sticky spirals are formed, the non-adhesive spirals are removed as there is no need for them any more.
After the spider has completed its web, it chews off the initial three center spiral threads then sits and waits. If the web is broken without any structural damage during the construction, the spider does not make any initial attempts to rectify the problem.
The spider, after spinning its web, then waits on or near the web for a prey animal to become trapped. The spider senses the impact and struggle of a prey animal by vibrations transmitted through the web. A spider positioned in the middle of the web makes for a highly visible prey for birds and other predators, even without web decorations; many day-hunting orb-web spinners reduce this risk by hiding at the edge of the web with one foot on a signal line from the hub or by appearing to be inedible or unappetizing.
Spiders do not usually adhere to their own webs, because they are able to spin both sticky and non-sticky types of silk, and are careful to travel across only non-sticky portions of the web. However, they are not immune to their own glue. Some of the strands of the web are sticky, and others are not. For example, if a spider has chosen to wait along the outer edges of its web, it may spin a non-sticky prey or signal line to the web hub to monitor web movement. However, in the course of spinning sticky strands, spiders have to touch these sticky strands. They do this without sticking by using careful movements, dense hairs and nonstick coatings on their feet to prevent adhesion.[14]
Some species of spider do not use webs for capturing prey directly, instead pouncing from concealment (e.g. trapdoor spiders) or running them down in open chase (e.g. wolf spiders). The net-casting spider balances the two methods of running and web spinning in its feeding habits. This spider weaves a small net which it attaches to its front legs. It then lurks in wait for potential prey and, when such prey arrives, lunges forward to wrap its victim in the net, bite and paralyze it. Hence, this spider expends less energy catching prey than a primitive hunter such as the wolf spider. It also avoids the energy loss of weaving a large orb web.
Some spiders manage to use the signaling-snare technique of a web without spinning a web at all. Several types of water-dwelling spiders rest their feet on the water's surface in much the same manner as an orb-web user. When an insect falls onto the water and is ensnared by surface tension, the spider can detect the vibrations and run out to capture the prey.
Uses by humans
Cobweb paintings, which began during the 16th century in a remote valley of the Austrian Tyrolean Alps, were created on fabrics consisting of layered and wound cobwebs, stretched over cardboard to make a mat, and strengthened by brushing with milk diluted in water. A small brush was then used to apply watercolor to the cobwebs, or custom tools to create engravings. Fewer than a hundred cobweb paintings survive today, most of which are held in private collections.[15]
In traditional European medicine, cobwebs are used on wounds and cuts and seem to help healing and reduce bleeding.[16] Spider webs are rich in vitamin K, which can be effective in clotting blood. Webs were used several hundred years ago as gauze pads to stop an injured person's bleeding.[17]
Adhesive properties
The stickiness of spiders' webs is courtesy of droplets of glue suspended on the silk threads. This glue is multifunctional – that is, its behavior depends on how quickly something touching it attempts to withdraw. At high velocities, they function as an elastic solid, resembling rubber; at lower velocities, they simply act as a sticky glue. This allows them to retain a grip on attached food particles.[18] The web is also electrically conductive which causes the silk threads to spring out to trap their quarry, as flying insects tend to gain a static charge which attracts the silk.[19]
Communal spider webs
Occasionally, a group of spiders may build webs together in the same area.
Massive flooding in Pakistan during the 2010 monsoon drove spiders above the waterline, into trees. The result was trees covered with spider webs.[20]
One such web, reported in 2007 at Lake Tawakoni State Park in Texas, measured 200 yards (180 m) across. Entomologists believe it may be the result of social cobweb spiders or of spiders building webs to spread out from one another. There is no consensus on how common this occurrence is.[21]
Outside influences
Administering certain drugs to spiders affects the structure of the webs they build. It has been proposed by some that this could be used as a method of documenting and measuring the toxicity of various substances.[22][23]
Low gravity
It has been observed that being in Earth's orbit has an effect on the structure of spider webs in space.[24]
Spider webs were spun in low earth orbit in 1973 aboard Skylab, involving two female European garden spiders (cross spiders) called Arabella and Anita, as part of an experiment on the Skylab 3 mission.[25] The aim of the experiment was to test whether the two spiders would spin webs in space, and, if so, whether these webs would be the same as those that spiders produced on Earth. The experiment was a student project of Judy Miles of Lexington, Massachusetts.[25]
After the launch on July 28, 1973, and entering Skylab, the spiders were released by astronaut Owen Garriott into a box that resembled a window frame.[25] The spiders proceeded to construct their web while a camera took photographs and examined the spiders' behavior in a zero-gravity environment. Both spiders took a long time to adapt to their weightless existence. However, after a day, Arabella spun the first web in the experimental cage, although it was initially incomplete.
The web was completed the following day. The crew members were prompted to expand the initial protocol. They fed and watered the spiders, giving them a house fly.[26] The first web was removed on August 13 to allow the spider to construct a second web. At first, the spider failed to construct a new web. When given more water, it built a second web. This time, it was more elaborate than the first. Both spiders died during the mission, possibly from dehydration.[25]
When scientists were given the opportunity to study the webs, they discovered that the space webs were finer than normal Earth webs, and although the patterns of the web were not totally dissimilar, variations were spotted, and there was a definite difference in the characteristics of the web. Additionally, while the webs were finer overall, the space web had variations in thickness in places: some places were slightly thinner, and others slightly thicker. This was unusual, because Earth webs have been observed to have uniform thickness.[27]
In popular culture
Spider webs play a crucial role in the children's novel Charlotte's Web. Webs are also featured in many other cultural depictions of spiders.
Artificial spider webs are used by the superhero Spider-Man as a method of quick transportation.
The notable tensile strength of spider webs is often exaggerated in science fiction, often as an plot device to justify the presence of artificially giant spiders.
See also
- ↑ Compact Oxford English Dictionary: cobweb
- ↑ Brasier, Cotton & Yenney 2009
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- ↑ Kaston, B.J. (May 1964). "The evolution of spider webs". American Zoologist. 4 (2): 191–207. doi:10.1093/icb/4.2.191. JSTOR 3881292.
- ↑ Blackedge, T. A.; Scharff, N.; Coddington, J. A.; Szuts, T.; Wenzel, J. W.; Hayashi, C. Y.; Agnarsson, I. (2009). "Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106 (13): 5229–5234. Bibcode:2009PNAS..106.5229B. doi:10.1073/pnas.0901377106. PMC 2656561. PMID 19289848.
- ↑ Craig, C. L. (1997). "Evolution of arthropod silks". Annual Review of Entomology. 42: 231–267. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.42.1.231. PMID 15012314.
- ↑ "GM goat spins web based future". BBC News. 21 August 2000. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
- ↑ Becker, Nathan; Oroudjev, Emin; Mutz, Stephanie; Cleveland, Jason P.; Hansma, Paul K.; Hayashi, Cheryl Y.; Makarov, Dmitrii E.; Hansma, Helen G. (2003). "Molecular nanosprings in spider capture-silk threads". Nat Mater. 2 (4): 278–283. Bibcode:2003NatMa...2..278B. doi:10.1038/nmat858. [Elastic character Lay summary] Check
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- ↑ Connor, Steve (18 January 2002). "A spider's web that could catch an F-16". The Independent. Independent News and Media Limited. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
- ↑ Bond, J. E.; Opell, B. D. (1998). "Testing adaptive radiation and key innovation hypotheses in spiders". Evolution. 52 (2): 403–414. doi:10.2307/2411077.
- ↑ Penalver, E.; Grimaldi, D. A.; Delclos, X. (2006). "Early Cretaceous spider web with its prey". Science. 312 (5781): 1761–1761. doi:10.1126/science.1126628. PMID 16794072.
- ↑ Blackledge, T.A.; Coddington, J.A.; Gillespie, R.G. (January 2003). "Are three-dimensional spider webs defensive adaptations?". Ecology Letters. 6 (1): 13–18. doi:10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00384.x.
- ↑ Briceno, R.; Eberhard, W. (2012). "TSpiders avoid sticking to their webs: clever leg movements, branched drip-tip setae, and anti-adhesive surfaces". Naturwissenschaften. 99: 337–341. doi:10.1007/s00114-012-0901-9.
- ↑ Hock, Lauren (November 13, 2008). "Cobweb Art a Triumph of Whimsy Over Practicality". Northwestern University. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
- ↑ "German pharmacist used cobwebs". Channel 4. September 10, 2008. Archived from the original on June 16, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-10.
- ↑ Jackson, Robert R (1974). "Effects of D-Amphetamine Sulphate and Diasepam on Thread Connection Fine Structure in a Spider's Web" (PDF). North Carolina Department of Mental Health.
- ↑ Sahni, Vasav; Blackledge, Todd A.; Dhinojwala, Ali (2010). "Viscoelastic solids explain spider web stickiness". Nature Communications. 1 (2): 1. Bibcode:2010NatCo...1E..19S. doi:10.1038/ncomms1019.
- ↑ Whipple, Tom (17 January 2014). "The shocking secret of a spider's web". The Times: Nature. Times Newspapers Limited. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ↑ Than, Ker (31 March 2011). "Trees Cocooned in Webs After Flood". National Geographic.
- ↑ "Spider web engulfs Texas park trail". Associated Press. August 30, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
- ↑ Noever, R.; Cronise, J.; Relwani, R.A. (1995). "Using spider-web patterns to determine toxicity". NASA Tech Briefs. 19 (4): 82.
- ↑ "Spiders on speed get weaving". New Scientist. 29 April 1995. Retrieved 2006-09-08.
- ↑ Witt, P.N.; Scarboro, M.B.; Peakall, D.B.; Gause, R. (1976). "Spider web-building in outer space: Evaluation of records from the Skylab spider experiment" (PDF). Am. J. Arachnol. 4 (2): 115–.
- 1 2 3 4 Burgess, Colin; Dubbs, Chris (2007). Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle. Chichester UK: Praxis. pp. 323–6. ISBN 0-387-36053-0.
- ↑ "Spiders in Space on Skylab 3". About.com. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
- ↑ http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/search/Details/Earliest-spider-web-in-space/63486.htm
- Spiders on Skylab-3
- Ed Nieuwenhuys,The Spider Web and thread, December 2011
- Guinness World Records. Guinness World Records 2007. Guinness World Records Ltd., 2006.
- Brasier, Martin; Cotton, Laura; Yenney, Ian (2009). "First report of amber with spider webs and microbial inclusions from the earliest Cretaceous (c. 140 Ma) of Hastings, Sussex". Journal of the Geological Society. 166 (6): 989–997. doi:10.1144/0016-76492008-158.
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- Oldest known spider web A 110 million-year-old web preserved in amber
- Giant Spider Webs — Photos and story on BadSpiderBites.com (2007)


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An NFL source tells Aaron Wilson of the National Football Post that the Browns have had "preliminary discussions" with the Eagles about acquiring the outside linebacker.
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A trade would not be surprising at all, and it will be interesting to see if Gocong finds success rushing the quarterback in a different system.
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Ubuntu, which in October arrived in Version 12.10, is one of the flavors of Linux that is approved for government agencies, although that doesn't mean it's in wide use in the public sector. And although agencies are moving to mobile in a big way, the field is already crowded with adoption on Apple iOS, Android and, potentially this year, BlackBerry 10 devices.
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It is not Microsoft's idea to have one OS for all devices. Ubuntu is trying for that more than 2 years, since Unity was first introduced.
Also Windows is a totally different OS on PC and on Mobile Phones. Ubuntu is still the same, using only a different environment and different or modified applications.
The system will be out for Android phones later this month.
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|2012-12-02, 21:26
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Now that they decide to make Sasami route sometimes later, I strongly believe they are going to adapt SS2 later. Then it should be the combination of Rin2, Refrain & EX Routes.
But at this time, LB anime should seriously includes more fun things in the game like Newspaper Blade Battle, Kick the Can, Puppet Show, etc. Unless it will make the plot too weak for audience, especially for those who already finished VN.
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I feel like Mio's route will end without any loops.
If her route does not end with a loop, I believe that all the non-Rin routes will go in a linear format, ending with the world falling apart in Kurugaya's route. After a loop, Rin's route will be next and Refrain will start after another loop.
I really don't appreciate Kurugaya jumping in and fixing the situation (finding Mio's book, helping Mio with her cell phone) as it is contradicting what I believed about Kurugaya in the vn. I believed that she knew the Secrets of the World (well, I believe everyone does) and the plan about strengthening Riki and Rin and thus wanted to contribute so she pushed Riki to get stronger (reason why she told Riki that he must do it).
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After watching Mio's arc, just like Komari's arc, they do a great thing about her parts not to be forgotten and replaced with Midori. Even though they cut a lot of event between Riki and Midori, I still believe Mio's arc passed most of my expectation.
However, since the anime cuts the plot about romance between Riki and Mio, it raised me a question why Riki has yearned for her so much like that. If this plot is used to Rin I won't doubt since they know each other since they were young, but for Mio, Riki (in the anime) just really talked to her a little while ago and it just not like Riki and Mio harbor something special to each other much like in the game. Even though the climax change to that Riki compare Mio to himself when before he met Kyousuke, the anime plot is not make-sense to me just like the game did
Anyway, I still like the final scene when it changes from Riki & Mio to Little Busters! & Mio, even though I just prefer Riki be more close to Mio just like in the game. This arc just only romance plot was cut off but everything is really good
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Somehow I don't think Rin1 will be included in this season. The next episode seems to be another common route event, and of course we can't forget about the baseball game (there is no way you can conclude the common route without the game).
It's possible that the anime will do Kurugaya's route last, with the world falling apart, then the next season will be a loop. Alternatively, All five routes will conclude before the baseball game (somehow...), and the big baseball game, plus Riki and Rin getting together will conclude it. I feel the former is more likely; they may then skip Rin1 and for the next season, start from the beginning and go through with Rin2, then Refrain.
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We'll see what we must see, you know. And as far as I'm concerned, whoever is directing LB! is improving somehow.
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Riki blinks his eyes for the third time just as expected, if Haruka routes is in the next episode and longs for 3 eps, next time should be on eps19.
Noticing the changes in OP and pattern, it looks like the pattern is going to be somewhat 3-eps for girl's arc then 1-ep for something in common route. If this pattern is valid, then I think it would be something like this.
16-18 Haruka's Arc
19 Some Common Route Stuff
20-22 Kud's Arc (Maybe since some change in OP shows about Haruka and Kud)
23 Some Common Route Stuff
24-26 May be some Common Route Staff with Rin1 or Kurugaya's Arc?
But if they broke of the pattern and decide to run everything for 3 girls in one stroke then another of my speculation should be 19-21 for Kud, 22-24 for Kurugaya and 25-26 Rin1
(Just my speculation, but I'm still looking forward how anime will progress.)
By the way, since there are change in OP, so there is one thing I am always doubting will change or not, the number of light's orb floating from the Riki hands. I already forgot whether the game removes one of each orb when we finished one routes (except Komari since her route is still accessible even completion) or not. But since the anime finished Mio's arc, I can still counting total 8 orbs. Not sure whether this is related to why Mio is still with the group or in the game didn't remove the orbs until Refrain?
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I also think that it will be Haruka's then Kud's route next, since the OP is changed specifically for them. What is actually left to show in the common route? From what I remember, it's:
Kick the can
Sasami vs Rin fights
Rin learns Raging Meow Ball
Kengo, the girl, and his arm
Puppet Show (Rabbit, Joe, Alien)
Mask the Saito (the name is going to be inconsistent with certain subs tho...)
Baseball match
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Spoiler for Haruka:
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But from my understanding, only Masato and Kengo are really privy of the details, whereas it seems the girls have some sort of "understanding" what is happening but nothing much past this point.
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Obviously. I didn't mention him because he is the one who created the dream world to begin with. But only the other guys are the pawns that actually know the true nature of the world.
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Huh? I'm pretty sure it wasn't even hinted as an "event" from any loop. In fact, it could be a random event exclusive to the anime that explains how Haruka met Riki the very first time.
Haruka implied that it was a while ago, so perhaps 1 or 2 years. We never had any information how Riki met Haruka in the first place.
Edit: Well the game actually confirms my thoughts: in Kanata's route, Haruka reveals to Riki that she talk to Riki the very first time when she was sitting on that bench.
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CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says he's "deeply concerned" about the welfare of unaccompanied children who've crossed the border into the United States.
The Chicago Democrat's statement follows federal data released Thursday showing Illinois this year has received 305 unaccompanied children stopped at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The U.S. has been grappling with a surge in the number of children arriving on the border from Central America fleeing violence. Children are placed in government shelters and then released to sponsors while they go through deportation proceedings.
Quinn met with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell last week in Washington. He says "leaders of conscience must cooperate to protect the vulnerable" and described Illinois as "prepared to help in whatever way necessary to preserve the well-being of these children."
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T-Dex Temporary Dining Facility, Colorado State University
CSU took charge of the construction of a temporary dining facility.
Lategan says he structured the hot options at the facility after the traditional Southern "meat and three."
"We call it a 'main and three,'" Lategan says. "A main would be the entrée, like pizza, a hot sandwich or a chef's salad. Then you can get three sides with that. The sides could be a drink, fries, granola bar, etc. So for one meal swipe you get a main and three. Then we have a hungry one where you can get two mains and one side."


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Fresh start for Suarez
Liverpool forward Luis Suarez insists he has drawn a line under last season's controversies and is looking for a fresh start in the 2012/13 campaign.
The Uruguay international has had his fair share of problems since moving to Anfield in January 2011, most notably the alleged racial abuse of Manchester United defender Patrice Evra which resulted in an eight-match ban for the 25 year old.
However, he recently signed a new long-term contract with Liverpool, and told various newspapers: "We are professional footballers. We play football on the pitch. Like any other problem someone has, you put it behind you and move on."
He added: "Carlos (Tevez) had some problems as well. But he is a mature person and has sorted out those problems. He is an excellent player and everyone in England is enjoying watching him play at this moment.
"There were clubs who wanted to sign me but my priority was always to stay and sign for Liverpool. I am very happy here and the manager said he wanted me to stay because he was happy with me as a player.
"That gave me confidence. The club have trust in me because of the work I do on the football pitch and what happened in the past is in the past. It is over."
Suarez also revealed Manchester City striker Tevez is the reason he chose to leave Dutch side Ajax and move to the Barclays Premier League.
"I watched Tevez when I was playing in Holland and I could see he was doing really well," said Suarez. "That was one of the things that really motivated me to come and play in the Premier League.
"I thought that if Tevez can do really well, then I could do too because I have a similar physical stature.
"South American players should have no problems whatsoever settling into the English game."


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The Xfce project just announced the first maintenance release of the Xfce 4.4 branch, Xfce 4.4.1. There is a changelog, and you can download it from the Sourceforge download page. In case you lived under a rock the past few years: "Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use."


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New Yorkers now have a "Low Cost Vet Mobile" – a new mobile veterinary clinic created to help cash-strapped New Yorkers at risk of having to give up their companion animals because they can no longer afford their veterinary care. The program, developed by Garo Alexanian of Companion Animal Network and staffed by local veterinarians, will provide pet owners with affordable, preventive veterinary care and also a first step in developing relationships with veterinarians within their community.
The Low Cost Vet Mobile made its debut at the Animal Care & Control (AC&C) Manhattan shelter, located at 326 East 110th Street, on Saturday, July 25 at 12:00 noon.
Traditionally, many low-income pet owners do not seek preventive veterinary care for their pets, and when their pets become ill, they surrender them to AC&C. In today's particularly challenging economy, the number of these animals arriving at AC&C shelters has skyrocketed. "The mobile clinic will help so many pet owners that are having trouble making ends meet and caring for a sick pet at the same time," says Richard Gentles, AC&C's spokesperson. "We applaud Garo's initiative, and the timing couldn't be better."
By providing another means of access to affordable veterinary care to low-income New York City pet owners, the Low Cost Vet Mobile is expected to substantially reduce the number of animals surrendered to city shelters, which already are at full capacity. "I expect the program will prevent approximately 5,000 surrenders over the course of a year," says Alexanian. "This can translate to a 12-15 percent reduction in shelter intakes."
Stemming the tide of preventable pet surrenders is crucial to the success of current efforts underway in New York City to reduce, and eventually end, the killing of healthy and treatable cats and dogs at city shelters simple because they do not have homes, according to Jane Hoffman, President of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals – the organization that spearheads the city's efforts to become a no-kill community under a multi-million-dollar grant from Maddie's Fund®, the Pet Rescue Foundation. "The Low Cost Vet Mobile provides another important alternative for our city's pet owners who don't want to part with their companion animals." Among other programs currently available to these pet owners are the Safety Net/Pets for Life NYC program, low-cost vet care at the Humane Society of New York Veterinary Hospital in Manhattan, and the Bensonhurst Low Cost Animal Clinic in Brooklyn.
Going forward, the Low Cost Vet Mobile's location will alternate between Animal Care & Control's Manhattan and Brooklyn locations, where it will provide assistance to pet owners at two of the busiest points of entry to the New York City shelter system.


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Adventures in local history
It's hard to describe what I've been doing in my blogging time. lately. It's been both fascinating and frustrating. I began with a topic that I thought would be quite simple, and instead, it has branched in a dozen different directions.
It started in early April when I got an e-mail from a reader of the blog. He suggested that I might enjoy visiting the Chapel Hill Church and cemetery in the Barker's Mill community of southeast Christian County, Kentucky.
I found the Barker's Mill Road on my map of Christian County, and late one afternoon, I drove down there. I should have left earlier in the day, because it took longer than I expected to reach the area. It was quite dark by the time I crossed the bridge over the West Fork, and I didn't even see the church and cemetery. I was too busy following Barker's Mill Road, I guess.
I was a little surprised when Barker's Mill Road went over a large 4-lane highway, but I knew it had to be I-24. The subdivisions surprised me too. Soon, my road intersected with a heavily-traveled road whose name I recognized -- Tinytown Road in Montgomery County, Tennessee. I followed it to Fort Campbell, and went home from there.
I learned a few things on that trip, even though it was too dark to see much. I learned that the southeast corner of Christian County is much closer to Clarksville, Tennessee, than it is to Hopkinsville, Kentucky. I also learned that the West Fork is a river of some consequence. And I learned that on the backroads, there's no indication of the state line between Kentucky and Tennessee.
On my several trips to the area since then, I had plenty of daylight. I enjoyed driving the roads of the area. I saw the remains of Barker's Mill, and I visited the Chapel Hill Church (originally called Carneal's Chapel). The Chapel Hill cemetery is probably the most peaceful, beautiful country cemetery I've ever visited. I will write more about all of this later.
I drove into southern Todd County and saw some of the fine farmland and old country mansions in that area. I also located Glenburnie, a large plantation home that is on the historic register and saw other large, old homes on the Christian County side of the West Fork community.
Glenburnie was the home of one of the Barkers who once owned Barker's Mill, so I decided to do a little research about the Barkers. It turns out that there is a good deal of information about the Barker family on internet genealogical sites, in old books available through Google, and in the Christian County history books that I own myself. It has been fascinating to learn about the generations of Barkers who were wealthy landowners and prominent citizens of the West Fork area. I see their history as not just a story of Christian County, but a story of the South.
That brings me to the point where I am currently. I've been writing and writing about the Barkers, and if I ever get all those words condensed down to something of a reasonable length that might be of interest, I'll post it.
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Benny Torres didn't mind how many people took photos with this year's costume. In fact, he insisted upon it.
The 27-year old from Noble Square was, however, surprised at how much attention his "Che Guevara T-Shirt" costume got after he posted it on Reddit's r/Chicago, where it quickly rose near the top of the submissions on the subforum of the link-sharing site. The costume was simple, and cheap he said. He cut a hole in a red T-shirt, and kept a beard from running a recent marathon--the facial hair had co-workers commenting he looked like the former Argentine revolutionary. With a little foam, he emulated the iconic T-shirt commonly worn as a political statement, and let people "wear" him for photos.
"It just seemed like a piece of pop culture just known enough that people would smile at it," he said.
And they did. Co-workers at his downtown marketing firm instantly recognized the apparel, and clamored for pictures. When he went to parties later, he said there was just as much buzz.
"Chicagoans seem to get it, maybe it's the hipster element," he said.
Torres wasn't the only one getting attention on the web for a unique costume. Chicago designer and part owner of Wicker Park's "Corsetiere" boutique Heather Garry, 28, of Humboldt Park, had a hand in helping a few friends with their outfits--so much so that she barely spent time on her own this year.
"I've been making costumes for my friends for a while now," she said.
One, she said, was inspired by an obscure reference to "The Simpsons," the leggy dancing can of Goya brand beans from "The Simpson's" Bumblebee Man show. Since nothing even close existed in stores, she used a combination of foam, fabric, irrigation tubing, stencils and "a lot of hot glue" to put the costume together for her friend Tavi. It was another hit on r/Chicago.
"The reactions we got were completely out of this world," she said.
Another odd one? A "BearSharktapus" she put together for another friend. It's described as a giant bear head and body, with shark teeth and a fin and tentacles for arms.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Assailants on Tuesday fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the headquarters of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party and hurled two hand grenades at the Justice Ministry's parking lot, slightly wounding one person, officials said.
Interior Minister Muammer Guler said no one was injured in the attack on the ruling Justice and Development Party headquarters, while the spouse of a Justice Ministry employee was treated for a slight injury in the second assault.
Guler said the attack on the party headquarters shattered windows but caused no major damage. Erdogan had left Turkey hours earlier for a visit to Denmark.
The minister said a terrorist group was responsible for the attacks, but he declined to identify it.
The attacks follow a police crackdown on a banned left-wing group, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front . That group, autonomy-seeking Kurdish rebels and Islamic militants have all carried out attacks in Turkey.
Tuesday's grenade attacks came as Turkey is holding peace talks with the Kurdish rebels' jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, in a bid to end a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people since 1984. Turkish leaders had warned of possible attacks aimed at derailing the talks.
"We were expecting possible sabotage attempts," Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin told reporters after inspecting the damage at his ministry. "(But) no sabotage attempt can turn us back from this path."


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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Opera Cake
When I was in Milwaukee, Kelly and I planned to do so many things. We were going to bake, bake, bake beautiful things for her to photograph and me to blog about. We did bake a lot, but not nearly as much as we planned to. One big thing we did make was an opera cake. Almost. If you don't know what an opera cake is, it's an almond sponge cake (called a joconde, which is what the Mona Lisa is called in French), which is wet with a syrup, then layered with a buttercream, then on top of the last layer is a mousse, topped with a glaze or ganache. It is a production, but it one of the best cakes I've ever had once it was finished. The joconde uses a dozen eggs, so it's pretty serious.
Photo by Kelly
Kelly and I started the cake, and when it was time to peel the paper off the cake, it was stuck. Forever. We had substituted wax paper instead of parchment paper, and had greased it, but the cake was stuck. The paper was coming off in shreds. So we scraped pieces off and ate them, but scrapped the project for that night. We tried again a few days later, and instead of the extravagant dozen eggs, we decided to make a simple sponge cake for a jellyroll. I actually thought it tasted a lot better than the other recipe. The recipe we used did make a smaller cake than you are supposed to make with an opera cake, which was fine for us. I bet the cake recipe could be doubled, though, if you want to make a bigger one.
We decided to flavor our cake with lemon, which Kelly had a bag full of in the fridge, and white chocolate, which I really like. It was heavenly. During the course of this recipe, Kelly learned that egg whites are not something to be scared of.
Almond Sponge Cake
4 eggs, separated
3/4 c sugar
1 T vanilla
3/4 c almond flour
3/4 t baking powder
1/4 t salt
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a large jelly roll pan (or your biggest cookie sheet) with parchment paper, or if you don't have any, use aluminum foil. Lightly grease. Beat egg yolks until light, add sugar and vanilla, then the almond flour, baking powder, and salt. In another bowl, beat the egg whites to fairly stiff peaks. Fold into the yolk/flour mixture, spread into your prepared pan, and bake 8-10 minutes, until lightly browned and spongey feeling. Let cool. Cut into quarters (you may notice we only cut ours into thirds and only had 3 layers of cake. We should have done quarters).
1/2 c water
1/3 c sugar
juice of 1 lemon
1 t vanilla
Mix everything together in a small pan, heat until sugar is dissolved, and remove from heat.
This is very complicated and we didn't do ours right. Google buttercream and use your favorite. Add in some lemon juice at the end.
Lemon White Chocolate Mousse
1 c plus 2 T heavy cream
1/4 c white chocolate chips
juice and zest of 1 lemon
2 T sugar
Melt 2 T cream and white chocolate (I microwave), and stir in lemon juice and zest. Whip cream with sugar until stiff (we accidentally overmixed by a little, so it was very thick, but we thought it was perfect) and then fold in chocolate lemon cream. Keep in the fridge until it's time to use.
White Chocolate Glaze
1/2 c white chocolate
2 T heavy cream
Don't do this until you are ready to use it!!!! Melt together the chocolate and cream. Stir until smooth.
To Assemble:
Place one layer of cake on your cake plate. Spoon (or brush if you have that kind of thing) 1/4 of the syrup over, then spread with 1/3 of the buttercream. Repeat for the next two layers. After finishing the buttercream on top of the third layer, add the last layer of cake. Spread mousse over the top, then smooth as much as you can with a spatula or tool of your choice. Pour the warm chocolate glaze over the top, spreading with a knife or spatula so it's even and fairly smooth. Let the glaze harden in the fridge, then devour.
5 comments:
Kelly- I'm so mad we didn't make it earlier, I wish I had gotten to eat more of it! Ugh so delicious. Maybe I'll make another one.ReplyDelete
Dana - It was a Daring Baker's challenge a few months ago, so I keep stumbling upon pictures and posts from then and it looks like something delicious and beautiful. It was even more delicious than it looks!
Katie - Thanks for stopping by!
Sweetpea- Try it! It's so worth it, and I think it sounds a lot more complicated than it is. I want to make another one asap because of how incredible it tasted, like something from, like you said, a Paris bakery!
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister on Tuesday voiced deep skepticism about the new Iranian president's outreach to the West, saying the world "should not be fooled" and must keep up the pressure on Tehran's suspect nuclear program.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued his warning in response to Iranian President Hasan Rouhani's address to the General Assembly. In his speech, the Iranian leader said his nation is ready to restart stalled negotiations over its nuclear program. He also called for moderation and rejected violence.
Israeli officials believe Iran is trying to develop a nuclear bomb and fear that Rouhani's gestures to the West will lead to an easing of international pressure. Netanyahu's statements, issued both before and after Rouhani's speech, were meant as a counterweight to the growing enthusiasm in the West over a series of moderate overtures by Rouhani. He also said Rouhani offered no plans to halt his nuclear program.
In comments likely to play into Israel's fears, President Barack Obama told the U.N. on Tuesday that he had instructed Secretary of State John Kerry to explore contacts with Iran.
"Israel would welcome a genuine diplomatic solution that truly dismantles Iran's capacity to develop nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said in a videotaped statement ahead of Rouhani's speech. "But we will not be fooled by half-measures that merely provide a smokescreen for Iran's continual pursuit of nuclear weapons. And the world should not be fooled either."
After Rouhani's speech, Netanyahu showed no signs of softening his position. He said the address was filled with "hypocrisy," saying that while Rouhani was talking of peace, Iranian forces were participating in the large-scale slaughter of civilians in Syria, a close ally. He also accused Iran of using terrorism in "dozens" of countries, developing long-range missiles, denying the Holocaust, calling for Israel's destruction and pushing forward with its nuclear program.
"It is no coincidence that the speech lacked both any practical proposal to stop Iran's military nuclear program and any commitment to fulfill U.N. Security decisions," he said.
"This is exactly Iran's strategy — to talk and play for time in order to advance its ability to achieve nuclear weapons," he added. "The international community must test Iran not by its words, but by its actions."
Netanyahu said he would discuss the matter with Obama at a White House meeting next week, and welcomed Obama's pledge that Iranian words be matched with "transparent and verifiable" action.
Iran denies accusations by Israel and Western countries that it is seeking nuclear weapons, saying its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Israel considers a nuclear-armed Iran to be a threat to its very existence, citing Iran's repeated calls for Israel's destruction, its sophisticated arsenal of weapons and its support for Israel's bitterest Arab enemies. Hezbollah in Lebanon, to Israel's north, and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, on Israel's southern flank, possess tens of thousands of rockets and missiles provided by Iran.
Netanyahu has issued four demands for halting Iran's nuclear program. He says Iran must stop enriching uranium, a key step in developing a nuclear weapon; ship its stockpile of enriched uranium out of the country; close a heavily fortified underground enrichment facility; and not make plutonium, another possible path to nuclear weapons. He also says any diplomatic activity must be accompanied by a "credible" military threat.
In the current diplomatic environment, it seems unlikely the West will insist on such conditions. Israel has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran, unilaterally if necessary, if it concludes diplomacy has failed.
Netanyahu instructed Israel's U.N. delegation to boycott Rouhani's speech and walk out of the General Assembly. Israel has strongly objected to efforts by its enemies to boycott it in international bodies, as well as attempts by pro-Palestinian activists to boycott Israeli businesses and products.
"As the prime minister of Israel, the state of the Jewish people, I could not allow the Israeli delegation to be part of a cynical public relations ploy by a regime that denies the Holocaust and calls for our destruction," he said.
After Rouhani's speech, Israeli Cabinet minister Yuval Steinitz, who is responsible for monitoring the Iranian nuclear program, met with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and urged the international community to avoid the same mistakes that enabled North Korea to develop nuclear weapons. In a statement, Steinitz said North Korea developed its weapon despite two signed agreements that were enthusiastically welcomed around the world. He said that as a South Korean citizen, Ban had a special understanding of the danger.


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RYE, N.Y. -- Sustainable Playland Inc. announced Tuesday that it will not participate in the review of its Playland Improvement Plan until Westchester County resolves outstanding issues with the City of Rye and a lawsuit filed by County Legislator Ken Jenkins.
The move was precipitated by a letter that the City of Rye sent to the Westchester county attorney last week, saying that because Playland falls within the city, the Playland Improvement Plan (PIP) is subject to review and approval by Rye municipal authorities.
"New York law does not exempt county-owned land and county projects from municipal zoning and planning requirements," read the letter from Michael B. Gerrard, an environmental attorney retained by the city. "The City Council currently intends to designate itself as the lead agency in view of the fact that PIP falls entirely within the City's borders and its impacts are primarily of local significance."
The letter, coupled with the lawsuit filed by Jenkins in January against the county's agreement with SPI, prompted SPI President Kim Morque to send a letter to County Executive Rob Astorino and the Board of Legislators, saying that the legal actions caused too much uncertainty. Morque said that SPI would not continue with the review process until the issues were resolved.
Geoff Thompson, a spokesperson for SPI, said that the non-profit is seeking a resolution to the lawsuit, and for the county and the city to sit down and come to an agreement.
"This needs to be resolved. The question is, who is the referee for this game? That's not a question that SPI can answer," Thompson said.
In a statement, Astorino called on Rye Mayor Joe Sack and Board of Legislators Chairman Michael Kaplowitz to meet with him to see if the issue can be resolved.
"We have reached the point that litigation now threatens our improvement plans and the park itself. It is now time for elected leaders to do everything in their power to resolve the legal impediments that tand in the way of moving forward on saving Playland for future generations," Astorino said.
"Essentially the letter maintains the city's position that we have actual approval authority with regard to the proposal at Playland park," said Sack. "What the city is intending to accomplish by sending this letter is to ensure that the views of all Rye residents are both represented and addressed with regard to the changes that are being proposed at Playland park."
Thompson said that SPI has not backed out of its plans to take over management of Playland, and is hopeful that the matter can be resolved quickly so review of the plan can continue. He said that SPI would not have a problem if it was decided that Rye would have some input on the approval process.
"But to have things up in the air like this, and total uncertainty, is not an acceptable atmosphere to be operating and spending money and time," Thompson said.
The PIP is currently under review by the Board of Legislators Committee on Labor, Parks, Planning and Housing. The committee was set to review the legal and environmental issues at its meeting Tuesday morning, but without the participation of SPI the discussion was put off. Committee Chair Peter Harckham said hopefully the issues would be resolved quickly, so the committee could continue its review of the plan.
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text: My fellow Americans: Today I am announcing that I am not testing the waters. I am not forming an exploratory committee. I am not studying the possibility. I am not embarking on a listening tour. I am running for president of the United States. I am not running in order to end the war in Iraq, although I think that's a swell idea. I am not running to heal the divisions that have torn at this country, to stop corporate malfeasance, to put the brakes on global warming, to balance the budget, to end faith-based policymaking or to put the White House on a vegetarian diet, although anybody who wants to accomplish those things will have my full-throated support. I am running to lead by example. As Americans see their livelihoods and futures diminished by downsizing and outsourcing, by the looting of pension funds, the shriveling of health care benefits, I have concluded that the only way to ensure that I can get decent health and retirement benefits is to hold elected federal office -- the only job in the nation with rock-solid, guaranteed health care and pension benefits. Americans who have clamored to cut politicians' salaries and perks have been going at it all wrong. Congress would never vote to stitch its own pockets closed. Instead, it's time for the rest of us to cut ourselves in. As president, I intend to set a standard that I hope thousands of Americans will follow. According to "How to Be President," a fine book I consulted thoroughly before making my decision, the president gets such perks as a free commander-in-chief terry-cloth robe, free cable and high-speed Internet, free phone service and M&M packs printed with the presidential seal. Yet the real benefits are these: a doctor's office in the White House basement, all medical bills paid, a free annual top-to-bottom physical exam, free prescriptions, free psychiatric visits -- anything the president needs. No deductibles, no long forms to fill out, no waiting for an approved referral to a specialist, and no being turned down because of a pre-existing condition (not even if you're Dick Cheney). Harry Truman left the White House in 1953 and lived mostly on his $112.56-a-month World War I Army pension. Once I'm a former president, my $186,000 annual pension would kick in -- starting with a half-day's pay when the new president's clock begins ticking at noon on Inauguration Day. According to a 1974 Justice Department opinion, I could walk off the job after three months and still get the full pension, plus an office and staff allowance, travel expenses, free mail and phone calls and not quite free but still top-drawer health care. And an all- expenses-paid funeral. Naturally, once I got mine, I would want all my fellow citizens to have a chance at this kind of safety net. We can't all be president, but thousands of us could belly up to the federal benefits buffet. Thus, the one law I would propose, come January 2009, is a constitutional amendment limiting all 535 seats in the House and Senate to one term, with full benefits accruing after that single term -- a political revolving door so that all of you could have a shot at the same salaries and old-age health care afforded to members of Congress. In the real world, cost-of-living adjustments on pay are becoming as rare as WMD in Iraq, but Congress gets them automatically -- unless it votes not to (oh, you heard that one at the Laugh Factory, did you?). The National Taxpayers Union, which dogs politicians' benefits, says that congressional pensions are two or three times more generous than you'd get on an equivalent salary in the real world (if your bosses are still providing pensions). In office, members pay trifling amounts for the best of medical care, and if they hang on to the job at least five years, they can get subsidized health care until they reach Medicare age. Even Randy "Duke" Cunningham, the San Diego ex-congressman now serving eight years in the slammer for bribery and corruption, will get a pension check for perhaps $36,000 a year for his decade and a half in the House, plus his military pension. Congress voted last month to revoke pensions for their fellows convicted of bribery and corruption -- but not retroactively. So let's do the math: 435 new House members every two years, 100 new senators every six years -- in 30 years more than 7,000 Americans could be enjoying a comfortable and secure retirement. And those benefits can't vanish unless, like a corporation, the country itself goes broke. You think it might? For nearly seven years, that possibility hasn't troubled this administration -- why should we start worrying now? Patt Morrison is a Los Angeles Times columnist and frequent commentator on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition." His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Pakistan today rejected offers of assistance in investigating the murder of Benazir Bhutto. That strikes me as entirely appropriate. Hillary Clinton, as I noted yesterday, committed an appalling faux pas in saying that "there is no reason to trust the Pakistani government." If Clinton were President, this would be a major diplomatic blunder.
Pakistan's government says it intercepted a call from an al Qaeda chieftain that proves al Qaeda was behind the assassination. Today, a spokesman for the terrorist denied any involvement, in a phone call–fittingly–to the Associated Press. The al Qaeda spokesman said, "The fact is that we are only against America, and we don't consider political leaders of Pakistan our enemy." That is ridiculous, of course. Al Qaeda has carried out any number of terrorist attacks against Pakistan and many other countries.
Bhutto's supporters are accusing the government of a "cover-up," mostly because of uncertainty about the exact cause of Bhutto's death: was it a bullet wound, shrapnel from the bomb that the murderer exploded, or hitting her head on part of the sunroof of her vehicle? In principle, it shouldn't be hard to answer this question, but I haven't seen any explanation of why it makes any difference. She obviously died as a result of the terrorist's attack, and why the government would have an interest in "covering up" the precise mechanism is a mystery.
The fact is that it doesn't make any difference how competent and thorough the investigation into Bhutto's murder is, nor does it matter whether it is carried out with or without international assistance. Millions of Pakistanis will subscribe to rumors and conspiracy theories, no matter how baseless they may be. The example of John Kennedy's assassination is a depressing precedent. There is no event in human history which is known and understood with more certainty or in more detail than Oswald's murder of Kennedy. Yet millions of Americans believe in various dumb conspiracy theories. It is too much to expect that Pakistanis will be more rational.
So it seems that if al Qaeda or another radical Islamic group killed Bhutto in order to sow disorder and undermine Musharraf's government, that purpose is likely to be achieved to a considerable degree.
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5 notebooks x 5 cities = 25 notebooks on show in Dakar during the 2010 Biennial of Contemporary African Art.
The myDetour 5x5 is a project aimed at those who wish to display their creative talent through Moleskine notebooks; illustrated, inscribed, painted or however else freely interpreted.
It's a creative relay with 5 Italian laps, held from April to November 2009, with a finish line in Africa. The author of the best notebook will fly to Dakar in May 2010.
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HONG KONG— Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS 0.89% is selling its remaining shares in Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. for about $1.1 billion.
The stock sale, Goldman's sixth since 2009, completes the firm's exit from China's biggest lender ahead of new international capital rules that ratchet up the cost of holding stakes in other financial companies.
Goldman bought a 4.9% stake in ICBC for US$2.58 billion in April 2006, before the Chinese bank went public in Hong Kong. It has been a lucrative deal for the firm. Including the latest sale, Goldman had raised about $10 billion from sales of ICBC shares, more than triple its initial investment.
But the stake was a conspicuous, and at times volatile, item in Goldman's quarterly results. And like Western firms' cross-border investments into Chinese banks, Goldman's ICBC stake never fulfilled its promise as a potential gateway to a much bigger slice of the investment-banking market.
Many Western banks had once viewed their stakes in Chinese counterparts as more than just a savvy investment in the nation's future.
"The American banks wanted to get a piece of Chinese banks because they knew the Chinese were quite capable of avoiding Wall Street to raise capital," said Charles Geisst, a finance professor at Manhattan College and the author of several books on Wall Street history. "This was a way of getting in."
A person familiar with the Goldman's views said its relationship with ICBC did help the firm's understanding of the Chinese market.
Goldman now has 300 employees in mainland China and operates a joint venture with a Chinese securities firm.
But last year Goldman ranked 10th in fees from advising Chinese companies on mergers and underwriting their stock and debt offerings, according to Dealogic. In 2005, the last full year before the firm's initial ICBC investment, Goldman ranked fifth.
Unable to reap any meaningful strategic value from these deals, many U.S. and European banks increasingly looked at their Chinese stakes solely as financial investments, according to several legal advisers to large banks.
With new capital rules looming, and China's banking system grappling with slowing profit growth and the potential for more bad loans, the ICBC sale appeared inevitable, they said.
The sale will help boost Goldman's capital levels. International regulations known as Basel III will increase the costs of holding minority stakes in financial institutions, forcing big banks to set aside more capital in order to maintain regulators' key measures of balance-sheet strength.
The ICBC stake has also affected Goldman's earnings. Volatility in ICBC's shares led Goldman to report a full-year net loss in Asia in 2011, its first since the 2008 financial crisis.
Goldman isn't the first foreign strategic investor that has exited from its investment in a Chinese bank. After the global financial crisis, UBS AG and Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, for instance, both sold their stakes in Bank of China Ltd., another large state-controlled Chinese bank, as they sought to bolster their capital.
Bank of America Corp. has pared its stake in China Construction Banks Corp., while Citigroup Inc. exited from its investment in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank .
In some cases, Chinese regulators have been unhappy with deals that have netted foreign banks major financial gains but failed to realize the potential long-term benefits of partnership that Beijing had originally hoped for.
Goldman is selling the Hong Kong-listed shares in range of 5.47 Hong Kong dollars to HK$5.50 (70 U.S. cents to 71 U.S. cents), representing a discount of 2.5%-3% to Monday's closing price of HK$5.64, according to a term sheet seen by The Wall Street Journal on Monday.
ICBC shares have risen 7% in the past month but are up just 2.5% year to date.
The sale could be the fourth-largest share placement in Asia so far this year. A US$3.1 billion share sale by Chinese oil giant China Petroleum & ChemicalCorp., or Sinopec, in early February is the biggest such deal so far this year.
The Goldman sale comes after U.S.-based fund house BlackRock Inc. BLK 0.45% sold 27.4 million shares in ICBC, according to a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange. The 0.04% stake sale trims its holding in the Chinese bank to 5.99%.
Goldman Sachs is the sole bookrunner for Monday's share sale, the term sheet said.
—Lingling Wei and Fiona Law contributed to this article.


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Schiff: Adviser's testimony gives insight on Russian efforts
The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee says testimony from a former foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump's campaign gives new insight into Russian efforts to influence Trump's operation.
In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, California Rep. Adam Schiff said "more and more pictures of the puzzle" were coming together after testimony from Carter Page, the former foreign policy adviser, and a guilty plea from George Papadopoulos, another foreign policy adviser to Trump's Republican campaign.
Page, an unpaid adviser who left the campaign before Trump was elected, acknowledged in closed-door testimony to Congress last week that he had contact with a high-level Russian official while in Russia last year, according to a transcript released Monday. He told the House intelligence panel that he "briefly said hello" to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich when he traveled to Russia for a speech.
Under repeated questions about the contact — which he had at times denied in the past — Page said he had spoken to Dvorkovich after his July 2016 speech at Moscow's New Economic School.
Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference. Court documents unsealed last week reference a professor who told Papadopoulos in April 2016 that the Russians had "dirt" on Democrat Hillary Clinton in the form of emails.
"You have these two efforts in parallel going on with two of these advisers," Schiff said. "You have them both reporting back to the campaign. ... I hardly think that these are coincidental."
Page called his words with Dvorkovich a "brief interaction," but Schiff and other Democrats on the panel were skeptical.
According to the transcript, Schiff produced a campaign email during the questioning in which Page had written to other Trump advisers that Dvorkovich had told him "in a private conversation" that he had expressed support for Trump and the desire to work together. Page responded that the conversation had been less than 10 seconds long.
The testimony was part of the House committee's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether it is linked to Trump's campaign. Page's trip raised questions just as the FBI began its counterintelligence investigation into the Russian meddling, and he has offered contradictory accounts about whom he met there — at one point telling the AP that he hadn't met with Dvorkovich. But his testimony on Thursday was under oath.
The House panel released the transcript as part of an agreement with Page, who had been subpoenaed by the committee. Parts of the transcript are redacted.
Page told the panel he had informed some members of the Trump campaign about the trip, including then-Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions. He said he mentioned in passing to Sessions, who is now U.S. attorney general, that he was preparing to visit Russia and Sessions "had no reaction whatsoever."
The testimony could raise more questions about the extent of Sessions' knowledge about interactions between Trump campaign aides and Russians. Sessions recused himself from overseeing an investigation into the Trump campaign in March after acknowledging two previously undisclosed conversations with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the campaign. Since then, Sessions has downplayed his own knowledge about communications between campaign aides and Russian officials and intermediaries.
Page has insisted — and continued to insist in the interview — that the trip was personal and not campaign related.
However, the committee produced an email in which Page wrote to campaign officials and asked them to let him know "if you have any reservations or thoughts on how you'd prefer me to focus these remarks," apparently referring to the speech he was giving in Moscow.
He also suggested that Trump take his place at the speech — a suggestion that appeared to go nowhere.
Schiff pressured Page on what the congressman suggested were inconsistencies in his testimony and past statements, noting that Page told the committee that he had met only one Russian government official during his July 2016 trip to Russia, and yet had told campaign officials in an email that he had received valuable insights from legislators and senior members of the Russian presidential administration.
"Are you being honest in your testimony?" Schiff asked. "Because it doesn't seem possible for both to be true."
Page said the insights he was referring to were based on materials he had read in the press, "similar to my listening to President Trump in the various speeches that I heard of his."
In a statement prepared for the committee, Page insisted that he had no personal information that the Russian government or anyone affiliated with it played any role in the 2016 presidential campaign. He said he was not approached by anyone during the trip who led him to believe they were planning to interfere in the election. He depicted himself as an unpaid member of a campaign foreign policy team that met infrequently and provided him with no direct access to Trump.
"I have never met him in my life," Page said of Trump. "I've been in a lot of meetings with him, and I've learned a lot from him, but never actually met him face to face."
Page said he had no direct relationship with the Russian government, though he conceded that he may have spoken with different Russian government officials over the years.
Page said he had "very limited" interaction with Papadopoulos and suggested that the last time he had seen him was in June 2016 at a dinner organized by Sessions, who at the time was a prominent Trump campaign aide and supporter.
Associated Press writers Chad Day and Tom LoBianco contributed to this report.


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It's often been said that if Johnny Depp and Christopher Nolan ever teamed up the world would explode from all the hot action that would be produced. Well folks get ready for the end of time because it's happening. The movie is "Transcendence" and I think it has something to do with a super computer that gets put inside a dead person or something. I'm not really sure. Truth be told I started reading the description and I started to daydream about Depp's gentle soft smile.
Gillian Anderson has been confirmed to be taking on a multi-episode role in the upcoming NBC show "Hannibal". The show is based on the much loved Hannibal Lecter character and Anderson will play the role of the good doctor's therapist. Funny story. I always get Gillian Anderson and Marlee Matlin mixed up so for a second I thought Lecter's therapist was going to be a deaf woman which I thought was kind of crazy. Good story huh?
ABC has given the thumbs up to a new zombie outbreak series titled "The Returned". Based on a novel by Jason Mott the show will focus on a small town in the Midwest where the dead return to change the lives of those they left behind. Kind of like "Pushing Daises" I'm guessing, only still on the air.
Want to know even more casting news for "Insidious Chapter 2"? Well Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson and Andrew Astor will all be returning for the second installment of the film and I have absolutely no idea who they are or what roles they played. They all have really weird names though huh? Angus. Sounds like dangus. That's funny.
What do you get when a spelling mistake in the word "public" gets run in a newspaper ad? You get a "Pubic Charter School" of course. You also get hilarity.
An Oregon woman took the law into her own hands when she broke into the home of a woman she suspected of having relations with her husband and then tried to run down said husband with her pickup truck. I mean she's in jail now but still, taking the law into your own hands always sounds really bad ass.


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Man attacks grandmother with machete
PLANT CITY, Fla. —
Deputies arrested a man who is accused of attacking his 75-year-old grandmother with a machete during a dispute at her home near Tampa.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says 34-year-old Anthony Griffith got into a physical dispute with Barbara Harvey on Saturday afternoon. He then grabbed a machete and slashed her face and upper body.
According to an arrest report, Griffith called 911 after the attack and explained what he had done. Deputies responded and arrested him without incident.
A sheriff's spokeswoman says Harvey was in intensive care on Sunday night at Florida Hospital.
Her grandson faces charges of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon on a victim over 65.


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Hey just popping in to say a quick hi. I have three paid editing projects and they are all full length manuscripts so I may not be able to pop in as much as i want. I do believe holly's birthday is Saturday and since i missed sweet barb's I want to make sure I remember Holly's.
Also I am praying about whether or not i should even think about going to the conference. Doors have open and made it a possibility where before i knew I could never afford it because we are hurting so bad financially. But things have worked out in a way where it is possible though now I have to decide if my body can handle it. i'd have to get there at least one if not two days early just to veg out so I could function. I can't go alone though. It would be too dangerous with health problems and my severe panic attacks. Becky would you ever consider going? Maybe we could somehow work it out that you could fly with me? Though my panic attacks get bad. I end up scratching myself, and I don't realize it until the blood is dripping all over. I'm sure that will make becky say Yay! Sure I'd love to go with you! I'm afraid what would happen if I lost it in front of TSA too. I haven't flown since 9/11 and it was bad then!


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Just wanted to report that Beneath a Steel Sky seems to be broken in latest OpenPandora port of ScummVM. The game files are available for free at GOG.com.
Launching the game within OpenPandora crashes ScummVM and returns to desktop without any error message.
Please let me know if I can provide further information. Is there some log I could look at?
Update: I've tested OpenPandora ScummVM version 1.5.0 with the same result.
The latest release version for OpenPandora is v1.7.0 (which is still behind the current stable release of v1.8.0). Download and install this and try again:
I've already tested it in 1.7.0 and 1.5.0, with the same result.
I recall having played Beneath a Steel Sky perfectly on the GP2X port several years ago. So I don't think it's an issue of the ScummVM version but something intrinsic to the OpenPandora port.
Just trying this as I am working on 1.8.1 builds but normally BASS is on my test list, odd as I am sure I tested it with 1.7.0.
I'll dig out the OpenPandora and have a test at some point this week.
Thank you very much! I have the 1Gz Pandora, and I update the OS often. Maybe some package update broke it?
Please let me know if you need further information or I can help you in some way.
Just wanted to let you know that I've found the issue. "MT-32 Device" was set to "Timidity". This setting works with other games, but causes ScummVM to crash to desktop when launching BASS. Setting MT-32 to any other option works fine.


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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia's embattled prime minister has refused to step down despite the breakup of his ruling coalition, saying an election now would be a bad solution for the small European Union nation that is struggling to avoid an international bailout.
Janez Jansa said Thursday he will stay on until removed from the post in a no-confidence vote or as the result of a wider political agreement. He said "Slovenia cannot afford to hold early elections at this point."
Slovenia has introduced reforms and austerity measures to cut costs amid a deep financial crisis linked to the eurozone's debt crisis. It is among the 17 nations that use the common euro currency.
The Civic List party quit the ruling coalition Wednesday after Jansa refused to resign over corruption allegations against him.


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Welcome from the Dean
An introduction to Bowdoin's academic program from Dean Elizabeth F. McCormack.
The Common Good
A commitment to the common good isn't just about giving back.
Statement on a Liberal Education
A liberal education cultivates the mind and the imagination; encourages seeking after truth, meaning, and beauty; awakens an appreciation of past traditions and present challenges;


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The Week Ahead: Hurlers aim for repeat performances
This week brings us to the middle of May. This means the 2013 season is almost a quarter of the way over. This means the plot is thickening throughout Major League ballparks.
What will we see this week? Too much to talk about, but based on what we saw last week, a few things leap to the forefront, including some really good pitching that's coming right after some record-setting pitching.
This week brings us to the middle of May. This means the 2013 season is almost a quarter of the way over. This means the plot is thickening throughout Major League ballparks.
What will we see this week? Too much to talk about, but based on what we saw last week, a few things leap to the forefront, including some really good pitching that's coming right after some record-setting pitching.
Cardinals teammates Shelby Miller and Adam Wainwright made some history last week by retiring 40 Rockies hitters in a row between Friday and Saturday, matching an all-time mark for most consecutive hitters retired by one team against another, according to Elias Sports Bureau.
Miller threw a one-hitter, Wainwright a two-hitter, and one has to wonder what's coming this week, with Miller slated to go Wednesday and Wainwright on schedule to pitch Thursday, both against the Mets.
"When you follow Roger Clemens in the rotation like I have been, it makes you focus a little bit more," Wainwright said, referring to Miller. "These young guys are pushing me. And I appreciate it."
The White Sox appreciate their lefty ace, Chris Sale, who threw a one-hitter on Sunday and will follow it up this week.
And what about Alex Cobb? The Rays right-hander also made some history, striking out 13 Padres in his last outing in only 4 2/3 innings. It marked the first time in Major League history that a pitcher fanned 13 batters in an appearance lasting fewer than five innings.
"It was weird; obviously that's not my goal," Cobb said. "[I] never go into a game trying to strike everybody out. But I was trying to put balls over the plate and have them make weak contact, and they were swinging and missing.
"So, you know, the first and second strike, I'm just trying to have them put the ball into play. Once I get to that point, I'm trying to finish them off. I can't really explain why or how that happened; it was just one of those weird days."
This week, Cobb is set to face the Red Sox and early-season American League Cy Young Award contender Clay Buchholz on Thursday at home.
And for the struggling Dodgers, some good news might very well come in the form of Zack Greinke, who is ready to pitch a month after breaking his left collarbone.
"It won't be his decision," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "It's not so much that he's ready to pitch here, it's that they're willing to take the risk of everything that could happen while he's pitching here. I think we would all like it to be here. But I'd also like him to be totally ready."
Speaking of ready, how about Curtis Granderson? The Yankees have been doing quite well without their dynamic outfielder, but Granderson has been rehabbing for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and is getting very close. Maybe close enough to come back this week, even, but he'll have to build up the stamina.
"Back-to-back nine-inning games are going to be big," Granderson said. "At-bat wise, we originally talked about 50 at-bats. Right now, I'm approaching 40. Those two things are going to be the big thing for me, then we should be really close. I'll have evaluations with the team after the series, and then we'll go from there."
So will the Red Sox in their first week without Joel Hanrahan. The reliever will undergo season-ending surgery next week to repair a damaged flexor tendon in his throwing arm. Boston will continue to use Junichi Tazawa as its closer for the time being, while Andrew Bailey recovers from a right biceps strain.
In healthier news, Braves outfielder Jason Heyward is on his way back after emergency appendectomy surgery on April 23 and could be with Atlanta soon. He enjoyed his best rehab game to date, racking up two hits for Triple-A Gwinnett on Sunday. Heyward's return would be a welcome sight for Atlanta, which enters the week on a three-game losing streak but remains atop the National League East because Washington has lost two in a row.
Elsewhere, the resilient Yankees continue to confound, bringing a five-game winning streak into the week, and the Rangers continue to cruise in the AL West, having won four in a row entering Monday.
As for those defending World Series champion San Francisco Giants, well, they're not doing too shabby, either. They've won three in a row to open up a two-game lead in the NL West, and on Sunday, they got a terrific start from Tim Lincecum, which will not bode well for the rest of the NL if it continues. Lincecum pitched seven shutout innings against Atlanta, struck out seven and improved to 3-2 while lowering his season ERA to 4.07.
"I'm not jumping up in the air right now," Lincecum said. "... It's a work in progress. I'm still working to get better."
The next outing in that progression is scheduled for Saturday against the Rockies in Colorado.
It's just one of many intriguing developments in what should be a full week of baseball in the middle of May.
Doug Miller is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @DougMillerMLB.


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False alarms dogging Do-Right in Newfoundland
More than 12,000 false alarms in one year, including 81 from just one address? It's enough to make a deputy reach for the Screech.
For those who think our neighbors to the north don't have security-related problems, think again. In St. John's, Newfoundland, police have their hands full in a way that would have many of their U.S. brethren nodding sadly in agreement.
According to a report last week by CBC News, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary is being overwhelmed by false alarms. In 2012, they accounted for almost a quarter of the calls that the RNC handled in the St. John's area.
"It has a dramatic impact on our service delivery," Ab Singleton, deputy chief of the RNC, told the CBC.
The refrain will sound familiar to anyone who has dealt with the issue south of the border: Each of the 12,000 calls went to the RNC's Communications Centre, where a dispatcher created a file, notified the alarm company and moved the call through the RNC system. An officer then responded unnecessarily, taking him away from other enforcement duties.
Singleton said the biggest problem with false alarms can be traced to a small number of businesses that have not trained their employees to properly use their security system, or have not replaced malfunctioning systems. The top six offenders in 2012 accounted for 344 false alarms, he said.
"The people either owning or operating the system, or the business, does not take the alarm or the work that we do seriously," Singleton told the CBC.
The resulting waste of resources is unlikely to be stemmed any time soon. Police said the problem is getting worse, with more calls coming in and the percentage of false alarms rising. An increase in new homes pre-wired for alarm systems has been partly to blame, they said.