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The historic Oakwood Cemetery at 763 Portage Road in Niagara Falls is proud to be part of the 2012 "Wreaths Across America" remembrance ceremony as one of the two designated locations in Western New York. At noon on Saturday, Dec. 15, Oakwood Cemetery will lay seven ceremonial wreaths honoring each branch of the military, including Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Merchant Marines and POW/MIAs.
The ceremony is open to the public and local officials and dignitaries are invited. The Patriot Guard Riders, several American Legions and VFW posts, and the Niagara Falls Veterans Memorial Commission will be represented. The City of Niagara Falls Police Honor Guard will present the colors; the national anthem will be sung; and Taps will be played. There will be one minute of silence to remember the fallen; the prisoners of war; the missing in action; and to honor those who have served and are serving in this nation's armed services.
"Wreaths Across America" is a non-profit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. The ceremonies symbolizes that, by gathering at memorial sites across America to remember U.S. veterans, citizens show they are united as one nation under one flag.
All "Wreaths Across America" ceremonies are carried out by coordinating with the Arlington National Cemetery ceremony at noon on the second Saturday of December. Wreaths are simultaneously laid in designated cemeteries across the U.S.
The mission of the "Wreaths Across America" organization is to remember, honor, teach. "Wreaths Across America" began in 1992 when Maine businessman Morrill Worcester found that his business, the Worcester Wreath Company of Harrington, had a surplus of wreaths at the end of the holiday season. With the help of Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, arrangements were made for the wreaths to be placed at Arlington National Cemetery.
In 2005, U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jim Varhegyi took a picture of the wreaths placed on the graves at Arlington National Cemetery. The picture went viral on the Internet with hundreds of people asking if they could have a ceremony in their area.
Oakwood Cemetery is a not-for-profit organization. All contributions to the Oakwood Cemetery Preservation Fund through purchases could be tax deductible, but check with your accountant to be sure. The proceeds support the work of restoring and preserving historic Oakwood Cemetery. Wreaths are in limited numbers.
For more information and to purchase a wreath to remember your loved one, visit www.myoakwoodcemetery.com or call 716-284-5131.


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Of course.
Of course Ohio State football would go undefeated this season, the one year they're ineligible for a BCS bowl game. Of course they can't play this postseason—the first year they'd be playing for a National Championship since 2007. Obviously. Why wouldn't this happen?
Of course, Ohioans have all kinds of other great sports stuff to look forward to this season, from the Browns smashmouth season of 3-9 brilliance to the Cavaliers rip-roaring 3-10 start, so it's not like this is my only chance to watch a team I root for actually score more points than the team they oppose in any given contest (okay, there is 3rd-ranked Ohio State basketball, but you know what I mean).
And I know it's utterly pointless and pissy to whine about this, but it's more the nature of the Buckeye's penalty that bothers me. This scab got picked when Jim Tressel and the 2002 National Championship team showed up at the last game of the year against Michigan. Tressel got a standing O, as he should have, and everyone got reminded about what total bullshit his "scandal" was.
After all, Ohio State will not be playing in the National Championship against Notre Dame because Tressel lied or covered up the whole Terrelle Pryor et al tattoos-for-signatures deal. However, I don't even view his lie as an unethical act. The NCAA's rules governing the economic activity of players are the biggest farce in American sports. I view Tressel's "lies" as the equivalent of going to confession and failing to mention that I frequently have vulgar, disgusting pre-marital sex with body fluids ending up in all kinds of places the Catholic Church never intended, and even when they do end up where the Catholic Church intended, my partner and I exterminate any possibility of blossoming life with some vicious contraceptives.
In other words, if a rule exists that is so obtuse, so obviously stupid, I refuse to fault anyone for breaking that rule or lying about it for expediency. This doesn't just apply to Jim Tressel. I feel the same way about marijuana dealers and every gay or lesbian who ever got kicked out of the military.
Anyway, that was a bit of a breathless rant, but in the post-Sandusky era, it just gets my goat that my team's "scandal" was initiated when the star quarterback logically decided that trading his signature for a tattoo was a perfectly fine and legitimate exchange that would have been viewed normally by every civilization from ancient Sumeria to the Stalin-era Soviet Union with the exception of high-profile NCAA athletics.
Possibly the worst part is that for whatever reason I have more friends who are Notre Dame fans then seems logically possible, and if they win the National Championship, I'll be hearing about it for at least the next decade. Then again, an Alabam win might be exponentially more insufferable.
Asterisk, anyone?

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What is GeoSciML?
GeoSciML is a way of identifying and classifying bits of information with geological content in a uniform way allowing a wide variety of different sources of information to be used together without the need for reclassifying them. For more detailed information please click here.
What sort of map do I need?
It is possible to use any type of map, from the scanned paper image to a fully digital format. The target scale is 1:1 million, however any existing map coverage will be possible. It will be up to the contributor to decide ultimately. Map specifications.
What scale of map do I need?
Any existing geological map coverage. As a priority, work will be to enable access to ~1:1 million geological map data. Technical specifications.
What technical expertise/knowledge is required?
No specific knowledge is required, however you will need authority to be able to make decisions for your organisation. It would be beneficial if you have a nominated technical expert who has some experience of GML, however assistance and advice will be available. Please see the technical pages for further information.
What permissions/copyright do I need?
Map data distributed as part of OneGeology will remain in the ownership of the originating geological survey or organisation, and ideally be available at no cost. You will need authority to be able to provide the map for OneGeology use.
How can I get involved?
To fully participate in OneGeology you ideally need to be a member of an organisation that is responsible for geological maps for your nation or region, as the aim of the project is to provide access to geological map data. If you would like more information please contact us, sending your details and we will be in touch soon.
Is my country already involved?
You can check to see whether your country has already registered by visiting the participating countries map or via the participants page.
Can I attend a meeting?
You need to be registered with the OneGeology secretariat. If you are the nominated representative of your country you will be contacted with updates and invited to any meetings and workshops. All meeting delegates must be registered in advance.
Who do I contact within my region?
In the first instance, please contact the OneGeology Secretariat who will be able to deal with your enquiry.
Can I work for you?
The initiative is a collaborative effort of geological organisations and will draw on their existing data and expertise. We therefore do not have any requirement for, or facility to take on, employees.
What if my country hasn't registered involvement?
Please click here for details on how to get involved.
My country is already registered but I think I/my organisation
should be involved
Please contact us.
How much does it cost to participate? How is OneGeology funded?
There is no charge for participation however, OneGeology is a geological survey initiative that depends upon geological survey data and resources. In the Brighton Accord it was agreed that OneGeology and its participants will seek funding to support its work and goals and also develop strategies to provide mutual assistance to implement OneGeology and build participant capacity.
What are the benefits of this project to the participating
The benefits are many and wide ranging, including increased accessibility to information that will help mitigate natural disasters, increase interest in natural resources, benefit economies and development, bring together organisations and encourage further collaboration, plus many more reasons.
This looks very technical/requires technical skills or facilities
that we do not have
Surveys and organisations must not be hesitant or put off by the technical aspects as a system to ensure support and advice is currently being arranged. A series of step-by-step 'cookbooks' are also being written to take you through the whole process from collating your data to 'serving' it on the web via the Portal.
What is a cookbook?
A cookbook is a best practice manual 'containing a straightforward set of already tried and tested recipe or instructions for a specific activity'.
What is OGC?
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organisation that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services and it's home website containing all its published specifications and standards can be found at www.opengeospatial.org.
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc (OGC) is an international industry consortium of more than 300 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that 'geo-enable'; the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
What is ISO?
The International Standards Organisation (www.iso.org). ISO is the world's leading developer of International Standards. ISO standards specify the requirements for state-of-the-art products, services, processes, materials and systems, and for good conformity assessment, managerial and organisational practice. ISO standards are designed to be implemented worldwide.
What is interoperable/interoperability?
The capability of different software and datasets to communicate with each other.
What is XML?
eXtensible Markup Language is a World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3c.org) recommended way of exchanging a wide variety of data on the Internet. By defining a Markup Language using XML suitable to a type or domain of data to allow the computer production and exchange of data documents in that specified Markup language over the Internet. An XML based markup language describes structure and semantics but not formatting.
What is GML?
The OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Specification is an XML encoding for the modeling, transport and storage of geographic information including the spatial and non-spatial properties of geographic features.
What is a web service?
An OGC web service (OWS), or open web service is a 'self-contained, self-describing, modular application that can be published, located, and invoked across the web. Web services perform functions that can be anything from simple requests to complicated business processes. Once a web service is deployed, other applications (and other web services) can discover and invoke the deployed service.' (Ref: OGC).
Typically a web server is a computer placed on the Internet that offers an OGC web mapping service or WMS (responds to requests from a computer client to send a map in the form of a raster or image over the Internet) and/or an OGC web feature service or WFS (responds to queries from a computer client to send an application of GML representation of some data often with a geographic part in an XML document based on a schema such as GeoSciML).
The OGC WMS specification standardises the way in which web clients request maps. Clients request maps from a WMS instance in terms of named layers and provide parameters such as the size of the returned map as well as the spatial reference system to be used in drawing the map.
The OGC WFS specification supports INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, QUERY and DISCOVERY of geographic features. WFS delivers GML representations of simple geospatial features and other feature attributes in response to queries from HTTP clients. Clients access geographic feature data through WFS by submitting a request for just those features that are needed for an application.
What is IUGS-CGI?
The International Union of Geological Sciences Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (http://www.cgi-iugs.org/).
Some Common Questions about OneGeology (as heard at the IGC in Norway)
How can I get my/my organisations geological maps in OneGeology?
Firstly, your organisation needs to be a registered participant. Secondly, you will need to provide your map in digital format according to the OneGeology conformance guidelines in the Cookbooks. The map can be anything from the scanned paper image to a fully digital format. Please see the Cookbooks (instruction manuals) for further information.
Who can help me get my data in OneGeology?
In the first instance, the series of step-by-step 'cookbooks' should be referred to. These will take you through the whole process from collating your data to 'serving' it on the web via the Portal.
In addition, a system to ensure support and advice is in place and you can request more information or assistance.
If you have further enquiries please contact email@example.com
Who should I talk to get more information about OneGeology?
In the first instance, the OneGeology Secretariat will be able to provide advice and put you in touch with the right people. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com
What is the purpose of OneGeology?
OneGeology's aim is to create dynamic digital geological map data for the world. It is an international initiative of the geological surveys of the world who are working together to achieve this ambitious and exciting venture. Behind OneGeology was a set of principles: Geological surveys and geoscientists around the world have a responsibility to:
- make accessible the best geological map data they have now.
- work towards consistent standards for data access – schematic interoperability.
- enhance and increase the use and usability of their data.
The objectives of the initiative follow logically from there:
- make existing geological map data accessible in whatever digital format is available in each country.
- transfer know-how to those who need it, adopting an approach that recognises that different nations have differing abilities to participate.
- stimulate a rapid increase in interoperability, achieved through the development and use of the web mark-up language, GeoSciML. Find out more about GeoSciML.
Why is OneGeology data not harmonised?
OneGeology is a dynamic set of geological map data served mostly on a national basis by individual geological surveys and other bodies (e.g. the polar and marine surveys and research bodies) to a web portal and as such will be frequently updated and improved by them and reflect the most up to date data they possess. Because of the diverse nature and the variety of data served, attempting to harmonise it would be a lengthy and difficult task. OneGeology's aims are to make data accessible in the best format currently available.
What is the relationship between OneGeology and CGMW/ICOGS?
The project is a truly multinational and multilateral venture. It involves many different stakeholders working together: the network of geological surveys around the world; the international umbrella organisations of the Commission for the Geological Map of the World (CGMW), International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE), International Consortium of Geological Surveys (ICOGS) and United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the International Framework of the International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM). All these have acknowledged their support for the OneGeology Initiative. It is hoped that we will attract other relevant bodies as the project moves forward.
Who "runs" OneGeology? Who provided the resources/server/manpower?
The OneGeology secretariat is currently managed by the British Geological Survey (BGS) in the UK. The OneGeology Portal is currently being developed and managed by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) in France. This facilitation has been agreed until December 2009, at which point the organisation and management will be reviewed.
My organisation/staff is interested in OneGeology, can someone come to visit us and explain how we can get involved?
Many organisations around the world are currently involved in OneGeology so there may be someone nearby that we can put you in touch with. Please contact the Secretariat in the first instance who will be able to help.
Who will load my maps in OneGeology for me?
If you have a server, you will be able to serve your own maps to the Portal. See the Cookbooks for further information. If you do not have access to a web server, you should complete the online request form. The secretariat will then contact you with relevant information, usually details of a registered 'buddy' – a neighbouring organisation who is offering to serve data on behalf of others.
Why only 1:1M scale data? I want to make my detailed maps available?
There is no restriction to the scale of data that you can serve, 1:1M is an initial target scale but you are very welcome to serve data at other scales.
Who has authority in overlapping/boundary/contentious areas? What do you display?
Currently we allow overlap of maps so that people have the choice of which map to view. OneGeology does not determine where boundaries should lie.
What do you do at boundaries where the geology does not match?
Miss-matching boundaries are highly likely and cannot be excluded due to the vast amount of data, the variety and the different categorisations (lithological, stratigraphical, etc) as well as language differences. OneGeology cannot tackle these issues. This of course does not mean that the data is incorrect; it is just portrayed in different ways.
Does OneGeology only cover the landmass or is marine geology included?
OneGeology would like to include marine data. We are currently trying to contact the official national 'providers' of marine geological data. If you have any appropriate contacts or links please let the Secretariat know.
Does OneGeology serve bedrock, superficial, or both types of data?
All types of data are/can be included; it is entirely up to the individual organisation.
I am not a geological survey, can I serve my/our data to OneGeology?
At the moment, to fully participate in OneGeology you ideally need to be a member of an organisation that is responsible for geological maps of your nation or region. The aim of the project is to provide access to the official geological map information. However, we hope to be able to accept a wider range of map data in the near future. Please add your details to our mailing list by completing the form so that we can keep you up to date with progress.


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Well the Alvaro Morata to Arsenal story didn't last that long did it? Several sources are saying that Arsene Wenger has no interest in the player who was apparently heading for a few months on loan to provide back up for Olivier Giroud.
There are still plenty of names being linked with Arsenal. Pato – though that seems very unlikely – and this morning Paul-Georges Ntep. However it does feel as if there is a lot more journalistic guesswork going on than hard actual facts.
There is still a school of thought that suggests that Arsenal don't need a striker and that Wenger wouldn't buy one anyhow. With Walcott back, Podolski in light training and Sanogo back soon (Wenger namechecked him again this week) maybe the team have that forward berth covered.
Surely though if the Gunners go into the second half of January either leading the Premiership or in striking distance of the top two clubs it would be madness for Wenger not to invest in his squad.
So who would fit the bill? Here are a few suggestions
Christian Benteke – The perennial suggestion. Pros are that he could play in the Champions League and has a good record of scoring in the Premiership. On the downside his form hasn't been quite as scintillating this season as the last. There's a bit more buzz about him moving to Arsenal today.
Loic Remy – I thought that the Frenchman would have been a perfect back up for Giroud, and could have been bought relatively cheaply. It seems though that Wenger who has expressed an interest in the striker, may have been put off by his personal situation. That seems to have resolved itself, while Remy has been banging them in for fun at loan club Newcastle. Quite how it would work if Arsenal bought him in the window is anyone's guess because of the loan deal, but I am sure that the three clubs could sort it out if there was a will on all sides.
Paul-Georges Ntep – The Auxerre striker has also been making noises about a prem move but suggest that he doesn't want to come to sit on the bench. He has been a bit of a revelation this season and it would provide excellent cover for his fellow Frenchman, but I wonder if he is more one for the future than for this window. This year's Wilfried Bony? Maybe?
Edin Dzeko – Still a long shot as Pellegrini has stated several times he wants to keep the Bosnian and only stupid clubs let their strikers go to Premiership rivals (!), but I do wonder if Wenger could pull off a loan deal for the player who has been a long term target.
Dimitar Berbatov – Not as daft as it sounds, as he could do a job and not upset Giroud too much. He might not be as mobile as he once was (mind you was he mobile ever?) but he is a great finisher and think of the service he'll get. Cheap loan deal, can play in Champs League etc Long shot but you never know.
Anyhow – who do you think Wenger should add to the mix?


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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah school district that came under fire for taking away $2 school lunches from about 32 students is announcing new policies it says will prevent a similar situation.
The Salt Lake City School District issued a statement Friday that says students will always be given a full meal, even if they owe money on food accounts.
District officials apologized last week and put two employees on leave after students at Uintah (yoo-IN'-tah) Elementary had their lunches seized and thrown out because of overdue accounts.
The district said Friday that schools will flag accounts once they are $10 or more overdue, and principals will work to help notify parents.
Officials also say all communications about payments and accounts will made directly to parents rather than sent through students via notices.


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Outdoor Furniture and Decor
Decorating your home and getting the right outdoor furniture has never been easy. You have to find the right balance between a number of different things in order to get the right combination. At Re-Nest, we enjoy lounging about in our gardens during the summer months. This gets a lot easier when you've found or cobbled together the best outdoor furniture possible without breaking the bank. Here are our picks for 2010.
• 1 Green Style: Outdoor Furniture from Scout Regalia
• 2 Vintage Patio Sets and Garden Furniture
• 3 How To Make An Outdoor Pallet Lounger
• 4 How to Create an Outdoor Living Room
• 5 7 Eco-Friendly Outdoor Sofas
• 6 Sustainable Outdoor Furniture from HOM and Cisco Brothers
• 7 Furniture Finds from the Land of Lakes
• 8 Hot Tip: Use a Potting Bench as a Party Station
• 9 Park It Here! Eco-Friendly Outdoor Tables
• 10 10 Outdoor Showers for Summer
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Buccaneers counting on CB Banks to make an impact
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Johnthan Banks isn't making any bold predictions about the impact he'll have as a rookie with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The soft-spoken, second-round draft pick out of Mississippi State is being counted on make a difference in a leaky pass defense this year. However, the rangy cornerback wants to make an impression with strong play rather than words.
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The Bucs are confident Banks has the skills and maturity to develop into a top-notch pro, and he is ready to take advantage of an opportunity to contribute right away.
"I'm not going to put myself out there like that," Banks said of his chances of becoming an immediate starter in a defense that nearly set a NFL record for passing yards allowed last season. "I'm coming in here willing to work hard — special teams, defense — and do anything I can to help."
Tampa Bay selected the 2012 Jim Thorpe Award winner 43rd overall despite trading its first round pick to obtain three-time All-Pro cornerback Darrelle Revis in a deal with the New York Jets.
Revis is generally regarded as the best player at his position in the game. Banks is looking forward to learning from him while competing with another veteran, Eric Wright, for playing time in a revamped secondary that also will feature another newcomer, All-Pro safety Dashon Goldson.
At the very least, Banks is expected to begin his rookie season as the fifth defensive back in passing situations.
After playing four seasons in the Southeastern Conference, routinely being assigned to cover opponents' top receivers, the 6-foot-2, 215-pound native of Maben, Miss., feels he's more than capable of holding his own in the pass-happy NFC South, where the Bucs face Drew Brees, Matt Ryan and Cam Newton twice a year.
Although he's not the fastest defender, the Bucs like his aggressive style and versatility. His 16 career interceptions tied a school record at Mississippi State.
"Everybody can look at my tape and tell I'm not a 4.6 guy. My tape don't lie. It speaks for itself," Banks said. "I played in the SEC four years. I played against Cordarrelle Patterson, who runs a 4.47, and he didn't really do anything against me. … I think I have good game speed."
Patterson, who played at Tennessee, was a first-round pick of the Minnesota Vikings.
"We ask our corners to do a lot, everything from press to bail to baiting, to playing off, rotating. He's done all that. He's shown that he can do that. I really likes the way he plays the game," Bucs coach Greg Schiano said.
"He was the captain. He was the guy who makes their defense go, period," Schiano added. "You love that, especially in a corner. That doesn't happen very often."
In addition to being attracted to his toughness and ball skills, the Bucs also cite the 23-year-old maturity as a major asset. Banks is married and has a young son who turns 2 on May 11, the same day the cornerback will graduate from Mississippi State.
"I think his maturity is probably more advanced than a lot of guys his age. He has his own family," Schiano said. "He's played a ton of football. So football-wise, he's mature as well. He's a guy that I really think fit exactly what we're looking for as a player and a person."
Banks said his wife and son, K.J., mean everything to him and help inspire him to be successful.
"Growing up as a kid, I didn't have a lot. So I always said if I ever had a kid and a wife, I was going to make their life as easy as possible so they didn't have to struggle like I did," Banks said.
"Being mature and having responsibility," he added, "I think it even makes my game better, being willing to put the time in and work in that it takes to be a good football player."


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Kateri Stone had 22 points, 5 steals, 5 rebounds and 4 assists and Lea Kerstein 15 points, the two combining to hit nine 3-pointers in No. 1 Montini's 68-42 win over Moline on Friday at the Sterling Shootout. Sara Ross added 10 points and Malayna Johnson 8 points, 9 rebounds and 5 blocks for the Broncos (11-0), who rolled out to a 23-6 lead after a quarter.
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Lori Obendorf powered in 24 points and 12 rebounds for the No. 17 Mustangs in St. Charles. Nia Flowers had 6 assists and Anna Petersen 4 steals for Metea (8-3), which won its fourth straight.
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Kate Slattery scored 18 points and Aly Germanos 17 for the Spartans (4-7, 4-1 Suburban Christian Conference), who won for the fourth time in five games and eclipsed last year's win total.
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Kelli LeGrand scored 15 points and Kaitlyn Gehrke 12 for the Trojans (5-5, 4-2 Metro Suburban Conference) in Elmhurst. Tina Guarino tallied 17 points and Sidney Montano 9 for Fenton (8-3, 3-2).
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Kelsey Horvath powered in 16 points and Claudia Denigris 15, carrying the Blazers (4-7, 1-5 West Suburban Gold) in Addison. Tory Busse chipped in 10 points.
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Toni Romiti tossed in 15 points, and the Hornets (5-3, 4-0 West Suburban Gold) tuned up for tonight's matchup with conference co-leader Willowbrook with a big win.
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The NSF Blue Ribbon Task Force on Digital Preservation has released its Interim report, which sets the conceptual framework for a second report in about a year. That report will complete the NSF brief, with recommendations and strategies for an overall approach to preserving public digital information. This initial report is a fine piece of work that will inform the national agenda on digital preservation for the foreseeable future. It synthesizes a broad spectrum of testimony by practitioners and embeds that testimony within principles of sustainability and business models that are the central core of the problem. And there is a lot of data, as well... tables summarizing notable preservation activities in many countries that are navigating uncharted waters.
In 2007 we passed a major inflection point. According to IDC analysts, quoted in the report (page 10),
And the discrepancy is projected to grow, leaving half of all digital information without a permanent home by 2011 [seen through the perspective of someone who has jettisoned a third of his life 'cargo' in the past year, this is not an unalloyed tragedy]. The question becomes one of selection and election… How do we choose what to save, and how do we pay for it?
The features of the vulnerable datasets give texture to what otherwise might easily be a dull abstraction (however important). The task force entertained testimony from managers of data with wildly different characteristics and value propositions, including:
• Scientific data sets, including the Protein Data Bank and the ICSPR data repository
• Commercial endeavors (Boeing, RealNetworks, Microsoft)
• Libraries
• Think tanks and educational organizations (IDC, the Wharton School of Business)
• Public Television and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• The Internet Archive , Portico, and LOCKSS
To bring the issue home (literally)… do you know who is charged with the responsibility for looking after all those great public television shows you grew up with? No one… not stations, not the creators of the work, not the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, not PBS… no one. In fact, the pervading climate is one of resistance to preservation, or at least to the expenditure of scarce resources on then when the now is hard enough to pay for. At least for some of these materials, there are resale markets (be part of the solution… go buy some DVDs from your local PBS station!). The rest is teetering on the edge of digital oblivion… or already gone. And this is the stuff that has presence in the public mind.
The problem gets harder for more obscure data (that is, almost everything else). The then versus now issue is core. Though a portion of this report speaks of the tension between 'dividing the pie' to include preservation (and doing less of something else), versus 'growing the pie', this seems a hollow distinction. Make the pie bigger, and you still have an allocation problem. The question will always be what part of the budget must we allocate for preservation, and, more to the point, what portion of current production must be foregone in order to do so?
Beyond the cost issues there lie systemic organizational and social issues which will be difficult to solve, paraphrased here from the executive summary:
• Funding models which do not match long term needs
• Unclear preservation responsibilities among various stakeholders
• Inadequate incentives for collaboration among the stakeholders
• Complacency – we shouldn't feel desperate yet
• Fear – we feel too desperate – there is no solution!
This report is a lucid characterization of the problem, and documents the current state of affairs well. It deserves careful study (my own efforts in that direction will be noted in additional posts here). The next part – actionable strategies and recommendations -- is going to be far harder still.
Congratulations to the task force on their achievements to date.
I've lost the view that afforded images of The Mountain like this for the paltry cost of turning my head as I awoke in the morning. I wonder if I'll ever have it again? Seattle is a great city... even (especially?) kneeling in the snow.


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Law Enforcement Torch Run began in Wichita, Kansas, in 1981 when Police Chief Richard LaMunyon saw a need to raise awareness of and funds for Special Olympics. He conceived the idea of the Torch Run as a way to involve local law enforcement with Special Olympics and local communities by running the torch in intra-state relays that converge at Summer Games.
Now a global event, all 50 states and more than 30 foreign countries participate in Law Enforcement Torch Run. In Oregon, more than 1,500 law enforcement personnel from federal, military, state, county, and local agencies participate in the year-round Torch Run campaign.
Law Enforcement Torch Run is a three-pronged year-round program:
Adding much to the joy of Special Olympians, Torch Run Oregon volunteers participate in Awards and Games Ceremonies throughout the year at all Regional and State Competitions.
In the summer, Torch Run Oregon volunteers and Special Olympians carry the Flame of Hope through more than 30 counties statewide. A Relay Celebration is held in the city hosting Summer Games to cheer on all the runners.
Fundraising is done throughout the year to ensure Special Olympians can participate in the program free of charge. Funds are raised in many different ways, including: Polar Plunges, recruiting sponsors, T-shirt sales, Relay Pledges, Tip-a-Cops, the Harley Raffle, and Cops on Shops. Funds raised by Torch Run support Local Programs and Regional & State Competitions so that athletes can take part in the sports that they love.
2019 Registration will open soon. In the meantime, it's not too late to donate to the 2018 Polar Plunge for Special Olympics Oregon.
Polar Plunge is a wild, zany and fun opportunity for you to support Special Olympics Oregon athletes by getting your friends and classmates to join you in your plunge into an icy Oregon body of water. Click here to learn more
What is the Super Plunge? Over a 24 hour period, Super Plungers will take 24 icy dips (once every hour) in the height of winter. All Super Plungers will live in a heated shelter during this intense, fun and wild round-the-clock adventure. Click here to learn more.
You can still make a positive impact by joining a team or raising money for Special Olympics Oregon. Register, and when it asks if you are a plunger or a chicken, give the honest answer. Click here to learn more.
The Special Olympics Oregon mission is to provide year-round sports and athletic competitions in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other athletes and community. In Oregon, Click here to learn more.
Thank you for your bravery and support!
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Vita titles discounted in next US PS Store update
Ten Vita titles will be discounted as of the coming week's US PlayStation Store update.
CVG reportsLittle Deviants, Reality Fighters, Hot Shot Golf: World Invitational, MLB 12: The Show, Reality Fighters, Wipeout 2048 and ModNation Racers will be available for $17.99.
Unit 13, Resistance Burning Skies and Smart As will be discounted to $26.99, while Uncharted: Golden Abyss is dropping to $35.99.
It's not clear if the discounts are a sale or permanent price reductions. The US PlayStation Store updates on Tuesdays.


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Chris Brown Shares New Rap Song
When Chris Brown is not getting a controversial tattoo placed somewhere on his body, he's working on his rapping skills. The R&B singer recently posted a WhoSay video of himself in the studio working on a new rap song.
In the clip, a shirtless Breezy is sitting in a dimly-lit recording booth spitting rhymes over a head-nodding beat produced by the Drumma Boy. We don't know what the song is called but the blond-haired crooner is bragging vaingloriously on the track.
"N—as stop looking at my pockets / They filled up with knots / You mechanical, I will damage you / I'm something your not / These b—-es compliment my tendencies / Tattoos and nose rings / This is how we ride on our enemies," he raps.
On the chorus Brown repeats, "What they don't know / Welcome to the life of a young n—a."
It's unclear where this song will end up, but it will most likely appear on the 'Fan of a Fan 2′ mixtape with his good friend Tyga. But don't worry, Brown is still on his R&B grind. The 'Beautiful People' singer is scheduled to drop his new video for the ballad 'Don't Judge Me' from his 'Fortune' album.
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Bahrain telcos told to block online terror forums
Manama, August 14, 2013
Telecom companies in Bahrain have been urged to block websites and online forums that promote and fund terrorism by the Minister of State for Communications.
Shaikh Fawaz bin Mohammed Al Khalifa met top Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), Batelco, VIVA, Zain and Menatelecom officials, reported the Gulf Daily News, our sister publication.
A special team, comprising representatives from the ministry and telecom firms, has been set up to monitor websites and social media networks 24 hours a day.
Shaikh Fawaz directed the TRA to take legal action against companies which fail to follow the new regulations.
He also called on communication companies to take action against text messages sent from abroad that promote violence.
The ministry has been tasked with overseeing a multi-agency effort to halt social media abuse and access to websites that encourage acts of terrorism.
It follows recommendations issued by Bahrain's National Assembly during an extraordinary session last month to implement stronger anti-terrorism measures.
A hotline (80008885) and an e-mail account (email@example.com) have already been set up to receive complaints about the abuse of social media to incite violence and encourage terrorism.- TradeArabia News Service


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I admit, at this point, that Japanese food is kind of old hat. You know when any concept has been made into a nationwide chain (Benihana, in this instance), it's lost that quaint quality of being truly foreign. Now I'm not going to stay on my soapbox for long, because I've never actually been to a Benihana. But I have an innate suspicion of huge corporate chains, probably stemming from a traumatic Chili's experience. I reserve a special animosity for those that try to sell themselves as representing any kind of foreign cuisine. Do you think Olive Garden bears a passing resemblance to anything that really exists in Italy?
Sushi bars, Japanese steakhouses, and teppanyaki grills are scattered around just about every big American city now, but not all of them owe their success to the increasing popularity of chains. Japanese food has a distinct style all its own, no more similar to Chinese or Vietnamese than it is to French. As luck would have it, Oklahoma's only Japanese restaurants are locally owned. So I decided it was high time to write about this unique cuisine, which is really too important to be overlooked.
The quintessential Japanese restaurant in the city has to be Musashi's. They cover all of the bases: teppanyaki, sushi, even the robata grill. What's teppanyaki? Why, it's the big table that doubles as a flat-top grill! You've seen it. I myself have spent many a birthday watching the show where the guy sets the onions on fire and flips an egg into his hat. If you feel like you've been there done that, where this place really shines is a little alcove of the restaurant called "The Fire Room." It's an open-kitchen bar/grill/patio with a menu separate from the rest of the restaurant. While the main dining room has a Kill Bill vol. 1 vibe, this area is a little more fun and casual, the walls adorned with cases of sake and little wooden "boats" in which sushi is served. Eating here again, I found myself smiling at just how different the food is from anything else you can find in the city.
I'll start with what isn't so exclusive to this place, which is the sushi. Musashi's is right across the street from (and shares a lot of its menu with) its sister restaurant, Sushi Neko. Can you guess what they specialize in? Now I know what you're thinking: This can't be! Sushi in Oklahoma? Before you coastal dwellers recoil in terror, I can tell you I've had it on a good many occasions and it's never made me sick. Thanks to fossil fuels and modern refrigeration, we can have our fish shipped in from the same body of water you get it from, and with the illusion of being just as fresh.
On this particular occasion I had the yellowtail sashimi. Those who have had sushi will understand how hard it is to describe to anyone who hasn't. All I can say is this was some of the best I've had (and I've had quite a bit at my university in Norman, OK, scary as that may be). It's fatty, soft, without any of the rubbery briny-ness you might expect from raw fish, and sublime with a dab of soy sauce and wasabi.
The fire room specializes in small plates, or what they call "Japanese Tapas," so in addition to the sushi, my mom and I shared some edamame and "Lobster Shooters." Edamame are whole steamed soybeans, salted, healthy (high protein, folks!), and even a little fun as you pop the beans out of their pods.
Lobster Shooters have a very clever sake-style presentation. Each cup contains a little ball of lobster meat, arrayed neatly around a spicy coconut and curry sauce. Pour the sauce in, then eat each cupful as the name implies: bottoms up!
But the crowning dish of this meal, the reason for coming back, was the Black Cod: a buttery, soft white fish that falls apart beneath your fork, its crispy skin charred and caramelized on the robata grill. It's sweet and rich, without even a hint of salt; about as far from fishy as you can get, standing in stark contrast to the light, chilled sashimi; the fish equivalent of a good seared foie gras.
There's a lot to The Fire Room I haven't tried and wouldn't have nearly enough space to mention here. If you want to have some fun with your food, try "The Rock." No, not the bemuscled movie star with a facial expression deficiency, but a literal, scalding hot rock brought to the table, on which you can cook your own little sizzling strips of raw meat. The sushi menu is very extensive (keep in mind they can fill a boat with it!) and they have all sorts of grilled goodies to blacken on the robata grill. It's a fast and reasonably priced place, and perfect if you're into the tapas-style sampling of many small dishes. Japanese food is truly unique amongst Asian foods, and deserves, chains or not, to be revered in a league of its own.
*Musashi's is open for lunch Tuesday-Saturday, and dinner Tuesday-Sunday.


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While many of these traits can be ascribed to lots of dogs, all of these – and TONS more – are definitely true of pit bulls!
What thing do you know to be true of your pit bull?
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66 thoughts on "5 Things You Know if You Own a Pit Bull"
You can walk out the door for only five minutes, but when you return they act like they have not seen you in years and they could not be any more excited.
They truly know when you are having a bad day and they will not leave your side.
They take over the bed!
They are big lap dogs!
So true!
They can have a full blown conversation. They are very chatty. #LyricThePit
Yup!!! All true!!! Except Bella doesn't care much for toys, she'd rather sleep in your lap.
Lap dog
Alberto Vargas
I never could believe it, but I do now. Could I ask for a repeat of the many things they do?
Ohhh the gas! lol
Cuddle bugs for sure !
Biggest love bug ever.
Love my beautiful granddog Ginger she is awesome loving and hogs the bed with my two little dogs getting her the week!!!
Beverly Ann Eberhardt
They are immovable when they lie behind a door and have the heaviest heads immaginable.
Omg! That is so very true. Mine does not look like he is as heavy as he feels trying to get him from behind a door. Oh so heavy.
Yes they are.
Amen on this.
The best cuddlers!
Best companions in the world thank tou GOD FOR DOGS
Pit bulls are not the problem.Its the owners who turn them into something there not used to.ANd If I had Pit bull he can sleep in my bed
Dian Myers
Squeenie Toad
Shaun Branch
Lorna Ashby-Bacon
Their life's work is to watch your every move and study you and your habits like they are writing a thesis on YOU.
All true and don't forget that sense of humor.
Pit bulls are dogs too! It's people who ruin there spirit!
Their never far from your side 🙂
Chris Anemouri
Take the whole bed, and brother's too!
They have a lot in common with rottweilers!
Norma Cameron Andrea Main How cute are these doggies hehe and its all so true haha
I love this pic…..
My baby
My babies name is sunny! He is the the smartest , funniest dog ever!he has taught me a lot. How to be a better human being, how to give and receive unconditional love and how to just be silly. Life is not so tough when you have a true friend who is always there for you. Pitbulls are the best
Luv them
Thanks for the likes!
That's my Dozer. I rescued him at seven weeks young. I had never seen myself wanting a pit. But he needed rescuing so I did. I've been amazed ever since. It's not the breed it's how you raise them.
Thank you for the rescue of that Pitt, because they are the ones that doesn't get rescue much and yet they are very SWEET and KIND, so thank you so much again for not being afraid, and thinking "outside of the box," or giving to all the ppl who bad mouthing about pitt bulls that are mean and aggressive due to their abusive owners.
So thank God for you and here am praying and hoping there are more people like you:))))
Kylie Soanes
They wait patiently until you are done working…
Loves to snuggle ❤
Jeanette Ramos, this is cute.
super sweet-lovable-huggable fur-babies..
Archer here is part pit. I didn't see anything about their horrific gas though. Seriously, he could clear out a room.
I LOVE bull breeds. I'm a champion of them for sure. Mine is half Staffordshire bull terrier and she loves people and tennis balls best lol 🙂
And they love eating books
Harriet Wilkinson ❤❤❤❤
Paul Robertson
They love cuddles.
Angel Vergara this is funny!
This video is so true!
Tracie Pouncy Lawrence
Sabine Schepers die dicke ist auch so 🙂
Matt Ulrich
Powers Shannon & Carnt
Great pics of all pitties. Oh yes, my kids call their terrible gas , drive bys, cuz they will fart, then turn ,look at u like I didn't do that. Yes my pit is a ham, spoiled rotten, but I wouldn't trade her for anything, I love her.even if she is a pain in my ass.
This was great! Danielle. And so very true


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The University at Buffalo will celebrate Homecoming and Family Weekend Oct. 4-6 with a variety of activities to be held on the North Campus.
Each year, homecoming brings together students, alumni, family and friends - all decked out in blue and white - to celebrate UB spirit. And the UB Alumni Association, UB Athletics, student life and the undergraduate student association are taking this year's event to another level.
"The campus is going to be alive that weekend and we want to show it off. We want to give UB alumni the opportunity to share their UB pride with others," says Erin Zack, associate director for affiliate programs in the Office of Alumni Relations. Events will include a window-painting contest in the Student Union, pregame radio show, homecoming carnival, fireworks and a giant bonfire.
The main event will take place on Saturday in UB Stadium, where fans will gather to cheer on their UB Bulls as they face Eastern Michigan at noon. Prior to the game, Stampede Square - located in the stadium parking lot between the stadium and Millersport Highway - will come alive with family-friendly entertainment, interactive activities, live music and giveaways, all part of UB Athletics' new initiative to improve the fan experience at the home football games this year.
UB will welcome two-time Grammy Award-winner Kool & the Gang to the "UB Tailgate Concert Series" for homecoming weekend. The funk/pop group, known for the hit "Get Down on It," will perform a free concert on Saturday in Stampede Square before the Bulls take the field. Following the concert, fans can listen to the football pregame radio show on 1270 AM The Fan, which will be broadcast live from Stampede Square.
Homecoming and Family Weekend highlights also will include a comedy show featuring Ben Bailey, winner of two Daytime Emmy Awards and host of NBC's "Who's Still Standing?" and the Discovery Channel's "Cash Cab," who will perform at 7 p.m. Friday in Alumni Arena; and the student association's homecoming carnival, pep rally and bonfire. SA's events will run from 5-10 p.m. Friday on the shores of Lake LaSalle.
For a complete listing of events or for more information about homecoming weekend, visit the Homecoming and Family Weekend website: http://www.buffalo.edu/ub-homecoming.html.


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DescriptionThe fastest land mammal in the world, the cheetah has many adaptations that allow it to sprint across the plains; the rangy frame supports long limbs and a deep chest cavity together with a small waist and extremely flexible spine (3). Unlike other cats, the claws are not retractable providing further grip on the ground. The large nostrils allow greater amounts of air to enter the lungs and the tail is particularly long to provide extra balance when cornering (3). The coat is a yellowish colour with black spots (5) and a paler, whitish underbelly (3). Genetic colour morphs with large, blotchy markings that can merge into stripes occasionally appear in the population; these 'king cheetahs' as they are known were once considered to be a distinct species (6). The small head has high-set eyes and small, flattened ears (2) and is instantly recognisable by the black tear lines running from the corners of the eyes to the muzzle (3). Cubs have a 'mane' of tufty pale hair on the back of their neck, which sticks upright (2).


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The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today urged the Government of India to grant political asylum to Edward Snowden, a former technical contractor of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States.
According to Wikileaks, Snowden has sought political asylum in 19 countries including India.
The United States is seeking extradition of Snowden after charging him under the Espionage Act for leaking information about a variety of classified intelligence programs, including the interception of US and European telephone metadata, PRISM and Tempora Internet surveillance programs by the NSA.
"Mr Snowden has exposed a crime committed by the United States officials in clear violation of the US laws on which US director of national intelligence, James Clapper had effectively lied before the US Senate Intelligence Committee on the issue. Mr Snowden is a whistleblower in classical sense and has exposed illegal acts of the United States because of his political belief. His disclosure has neither harmed anybody nor put any person at risks except himself but it has helped many governments to take necessary measures to ensure respect for the right to privacy of their citizens. Therefore, he deserves political asylum," said Suhas Chakma, Director of Asian Centre for Human Rights.
"The Government of India, which has given asylum to leaders like His Holiness the Dalai Lama despite opposition from the Government of China, should also grant political asylum to Mr Snowden irrespective of the opposition of the United States. India should bear in mind that the United States has allowed former Joint Secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) Mr Rabinder Singh to escape to the United States. Therefore, there is no reason as to why India cannot grant political asylum to Mr Snowden," he added.(ANI)


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Cassini is taking our picture on Friday, but how much light do we humans actually reflect? We've crunched the numbers, and the answer may surprise you.At 5:27 p.m. EDT on Friday, NASA's Cassini imaging team is asking people to look at Saturn in the eastern sky and wave for an interplanetary photo session.
It's called the Wave at Saturn program, the brainchild of Carolyn Porco, lead scientist of Cassini's imaging team. This isn't the first time a NASA spacecraft has snapped Earth's photo — just think of Carl Sagan's famous Pale Blue Dot, or the Apollo 17 Blue Marble, or Cassini's own spectacular image here from 2006. But this (along with a separate effort by the Messenger orbiter at Mercury) does mark the first time NASA has told the human race in advance, letting us pose for the shot.
But what — we wondered in a fit of whimsy — are the actual odds that in the flood of photons Cassini records, one of them will actually have bounced off your waving arm? And of course, once we realized we could calculate the odds — very roughly — we did just that.
Everything's Shiny, Cap'n!My outstretched arm and hand take up an area of about 1 square foot. That's 0.093 square meter — call it an even 0.1 m² for our simple estimate. In the battle between photons to register at Cassini, it's your arm versus every other square meter of the illuminated Earth (let's ignore the night side).
So how much is illuminated? In a mockup of Friday afternoon using the software Stellarium, about two-fifths of Earth is reflecting sunlight. But a slice of that is in twilight and not as bright, so let's say a quarter of Earth is illuminated. Close enough for this back-of-the-envelope scribbling!
The effective reflecting area of Earth is then simply one-quarter of the familiar πr², where r is the radius of Earth. So what's the percentage of the lit Earth taken up by your arm?
About 0.0000000000003%, or roughly 1⁄300 trillionth.
Assuming human skin is about as reflective as Earth's overall albedo, 37% (according to this article in Journal of Human Evolution, it varies from 10% to 60%) a photon from your friendly wave then has 1 chance in 300 trillion of reaching Cassini.
But just how many photons is Cassini receiving? We need to take into account the strength of visible sunlight hitting Earth from the Sun (about 600 watts per square meter), the current distance between Earth and Saturn (9.7 astronomical units, or 1.45 billion km), and the size of the telescope (Cassini's telephoto lens has a 19-cm aperture). Since most of the Sun's light is emitted at visible wavelengths, let's assume for simplicity's sake that we're dealing with a single color of light — call it 500 nm, close to the Sun's peak wavelength in green light.
By my reckoning, Cassini will gulp in a steady stream of about 72 million Earth photons every second. Over the course of 15 minutes of exposure time, that amounts to 65 billion photons!
Is This Thing On?But just because a plucky, salutatory photon streams into the telescope tube doesn't mean that the camera's coupled-charge detector counts it. "The 15 minutes is not pure exposure," explains Matt Hedman, a Cornell scientist on Cassini's imaging team. "It also includes time for reading the CCD, writing files, etc." That leaves perhaps only 3 minutes of actual light gathering. A photon also has to make it through the various filters used to obtain color information. Finally, the CCD itself is not perfectly efficient — as many as 90% of the photons, having crossed the solar system, will die on its silicon surface, failing to convert into a detectable signal.
All told, we're looking at a total photon count as low as 400 million.
So getting your photons counted is like rolling a 300 trillion-sided die 400 million times. Might at least one of those photons be from your arm? Binomial probability gives you a one-in-a-million chance — if you wave the entire 15 minutes. (For comparison, the annual odds of getting hit by lightning is about one in 500,000, according to the National Weather Service.)
But there's strength in numbers. The combined area of, say, 1 million waving arms gives about a 70% chance that at least one photon gets counted by Cassini! And of course, even if people don't wave, the sheer number of them who will be out and about in the sunlight practically guarantee that some of the photons Cassini gathers will have bounced off of people!
Consider Again That DotNow, if you want to stack the odds in your personal favor, you could wrap your arm in tinfoil to raise your reflectivity. But you don't have to take it that far — it's not exactly the point of this exercise. You could do as Porco suggests: "I hope, at the appropriate time, regardless where or on which side of the planet you are, that you stop what you're doing, go outside, gather together with friends and family, contemplate the utter isolation of our world in the never-ending blackness of space, relish its lush, life-sustaining beauty, appreciate the rarity it is among the Sun's planets, and marvel at your own existence and that of all life on planet Earth." For me, knowing through science that in fact we are counted — physically counted — only adds to that rush of wonder.
Of course, there is an easy, tinfoil-free way to double your odds: wave both arms.
You can join the wave by documenting yours on the #waveatsaturn hashtag on Twitter or by submitting your pictures to the event's Flickr page. Cassini scientists will host a live stream, and you can view Saturn itself via The Virtual Telescope Project's stream.
Porco's Diamond Sky Productions is also running two contests in conjunction with today's event. One, called "Earth Beheld", asks: "If you could take one picture to show an extraterrestrial, what would it be?" Your photo must be taken today (July 19th) — details and rules are here.


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STATEN ISLAND, NY -- As our nation marks the completion of 40 years since Roe vs. Wade, Priests for Life will release a new, powerful project next month in conjunction with Life Dynamics and Operation Rescue.
"The abortion industry and its advocates are not very good at playing defense," stated Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life. "Once we release this project, the public will see how true that is. This is going to make them look pretty bad."
"Moreover, this project will provide pro-life people new tools to keep the abortion industry on the defensive for a long time to come."
Details of the project are confidential until it is fully deployed. Fr. Frank will be available for interviews on this project once it is announced.
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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Garry Rayno's State House Dome: Battle over casinos far from overBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
March 17. 2013 12:55AM
THE HEAT IS ON: Expanded gaming proponents are feeling the momentum and are a bit more positive after last week's votes in Salem and the Senate.
By a two-to-one majority, with bipartisan support and multiple reasons, the Senate voted two-to-one for SB 152, which would establish one casino with up to 5,000 video slot machines and 150 table games.
Salem voted four-to-one in favor of allowing a casino in the community.
Now the real work begins as proponents try to convince enough House members that gambling is the only sizeable and reliable revenue source for funding the services they believe in: increased aid to higher education, improved mental health services and help for hospitals owed large sums for charity care.
Gov. Maggie Hassan, who has budgeted $80 million in casino licensing fee revenue, visited the House Democratic caucus Wednesday, pushing the bill, with many detractors in the majority caucus.
According to several caucus members, the reaction to Hassan's pitch was robust, as was reaction to a later pitch from a representative opposing gambling.
The essence of Hassan's pitch was the same as it has been since her budget speech last month, if you want more money for higher education, mental health, Children in Need of Services, to end the developmentally disabled wait list and for hospitals you need to support gambling.
Without the new revenue, she told the caucus and in a press release, "we will risk falling behind economically, we will risk losing out on good jobs and innovative businesses, and we will risk letting the people of our state be denied access to the basic services needed to support their health and safety."
Several Senate Democrats gave the same reason for voting aye, particularly David Watters of Dover, who opposed expanded gambling as a House member; Molly Kelly of Keene, and Senate Minority Leader Sylvia Larsen of Concord. All said if there were another revenue source, they would support it.
Gambling supporters and opponents acknowledge the pressure is on.
Segments of the state Republican hierarchy see an opportunity to keep Hassan from achieving her top priorities by eliminating the gambling revenue. They are working their side of the aisle by appealing to party loyalty and future success.
Jim Rubens, chairman of the Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling, said people are coming out of the woodwork to oppose the bill knowing what is at stake.
"We're hearing more than ever before in opposition and the intensity on our side is the highest it has ever been," Rubens said. "It is going to be a heck of a fight."
"They can do horse trading inside the budget. We can't do that," Rubens said, "but we have people who passionately want to protect their communities, their families and their quality of life."
He said the governor has invited representatives of his organization to meet with her Monday.
"This is the first time casino supporters ever asked us to confer with them, but we will not change our minds," Rubens said. "They might be counting the House votes the same way we do and realize they do not have votes, but we're not backing off. No casino of any kind at any time."
Not only has Hassan's office contacted the coalition against gambling, it has reached out to the mental health community, saying if you want the $28 million for improved services, you need to support gambling.
Hassan also has others working lawmakers. Former state Senator Mary Louise Hancock of Concord has been calling Merrimack County representatives. Similar calls are being made in other counties.
Most expect this fight to go on for the next few months with little incentive to bring the bill to a vote this early in the session.
There will be gambling votes in the House, including two this week that are expected to be killed. The vote that really matters is after Senate and House budget writers negotiate the next biennium's budget. The final vote on the budget will be the final word on expanded gambling.

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RIGHT-TO-KNOW: And Hassan has urged some of her department heads to make themselves available to answer gambling questions from lawmakers, which had state Republican Party Chairman Jennifer Horn jumping into the gambling fight last week.
Horn filed right-to-know requests with Hassan's office and then with the Lottery Commission.
The dispute began with emails from two members of the House Ways and Means Committee, which will decide on SB 152 before the House acts on it. Both Chair Susan Almy, D-Lebanon, and David Hess, R-Hooksett, are long-time opponents of expanding gambling.
The emails concern Lottery Executive Director Charlie McIntyre's calls to several members of the committee offering to meet with them and answer any questions they might have about the bill.
An awkward exchange between NH Public Radio reporter Josh Rogers and Hassan caught on tape prompted Horn to seek "all records from your office regarding any attempt made by you or your staff to compel the New Hampshire Lottery Commission to lobby legislators to support casino gambling. This includes any written or electronic communications from you and your staff."
Hassan chief of staff Pam Walsh quickly replied that there are no written or electronic communications on the subject and said Horn was misinformed because the governor encourages her department heads to reach out to legislators and make themselves available to answer questions on many issues not just gambling.
She said the governor has not had any recent discussions with the lottery director, but did encourage him to reach out to lawmakers to be a resource on SB 152.
Walsh called such outreach "an important tradition and one we intend to continue in order to ensure the collaborative process between branches that is needed to best serve the people of New Hampshire."
Horn retorted that Walsh had acknowledged Hassan urging department heads to lobby lawmakers on the gambling issue.
"Your decision to use the Office of the Governor to compel Executive Branch officials to lobby the legislature on your irresponsible and illegal $80 million revenue scheme raises serious ethical questions," Horn wrote.
Horn asked the Lottery's McIntyre to "provide me with all records from the New Hampshire Lottery Commission regarding Governor Hassan's ethically questionable, Executive Branch casino lobbying effort."
Horn cited RSA 15:5, which states "no recipient of a grant or appropriation of state funds may use the state funds to lobby or attempt to influence legislation, participate in political activity, or contribute funds to any entity engaged in these activities."
The 2006 law was intended to stop groups receiving state contracts from using state money to lobby legislators. The law includes a provision saying the groups could do lobbying work if they segregate the state funds from lobbying efforts.
State department heads have long lobbied lawmakers, mainly on the budget, but also on policy issues. Attorneys general, for example, have a long history of opposing expanded gaming.
Receiving her due: Last week the House overwhelmingly approved a joint resolution telling the Legislative Historical Committee to acquire and display a portrait of Marilla Marks Ricker, the first woman to vote in the United States.
Ricker lived in Dover when she cast her first ballot in 1871. Ricker was born in New Durham and educated in New London where she met her husband, John Ricker. Eventually they settled in Dover.
When her husband died at an early age, she became a lawyer and fought for women's suffrage.
A similar bill was approved about a decade ago when U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was governor, but it was never funded.
Now the Legislative Historical Committee has the money to buy or commission a portrait, but is working on a project to repair State House portraits in dire need of rehabilitation.


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I've gotten a few emails lately asking about my qualifications and laboratory experience etc., This has ranged from a polite inquiry into my basis for my last post to rude, abrasive demands for degrees and proof of my "cures", whatever that may mean.
Ok folks, I'm a traditional herbwife in a particularly eclectic folk tradition I have dubbed the Medicine Woman Tradition. I have no degrees (well, actually I have half a degree in Painting, half a degree in Literature and half a degree in Computer Programming), no official training (besides studies with Susun Weed, Michael Moore, lots of rambling correspondence with other herbalists and hard earned experience), and no letters after my name (except for ones I make up, like AMW for Anima Medicine Woman or WW for Wild Woman). I don't belong to any club, and I don't desire to. This is, as Rebecca Hartman puts it, herbalism from the grass roots.
My findings as reported on my blog, unless noted otherwise, come purely from personal empirical experience. In other words from the experiments I try upon myself, my friends, family, colleagues, students and clients. I report just what I find, and I am in no way an expert in botany, disease or other related medical type things.
I'm just a woman listening to the plants, and having a damn fine time doing it!
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Hell, yeah. I second that. Hoorah for real learning.
Amen to that!!
Herbalism as it was born to be!
nicely put.
If we all keep up on this approach, maybe we can get our own quackwatch pages…
Kiva: "I'm just a woman listening to the plants, and having a damn fine time doing it!"
Crowfot sez: Yes, Kiva, yes! Listen! Listen strong! Listen deep! Say hello for all of us to the gentle greenbeings, yes from all of us who can not just now go so deep, can not go so strong into the vast seas of living greenbeings all around us, singing! Singing great gentle greenbeings… Yes go, good woman, go!!!
As Paracelsus said, "Read from the book of Nature". Empiricism is the only way!
That's awesome. Thank you for stating your most excellent qualifications.
I want my own quackwatch page!
I learnt my herbal skills from acollege and have all the"necessary" letters after my name—but how I would have prefered to have learnt about the plants from my family.Good for you Kiva and thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
Bright Blesings
Good for you Kiva! Experience and the plants are the best teachers anyway! Besides, anyone who has really taken the time to read your beautiful writing would know that what you so freely and eloquently share with us is something no "college" can teach. It comes from the heart & soul and the earth.
hmmm… I wonder if you can petition the nutjob at quackwatch for your own page?
thats why i love your writings!
Beautifully amazing, you are a real inspiration and now I've read this I think you are even more inspiring! 🙂


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ARLINGTON, Texas — "What's in a name?" So the line goes in the famous play about those star-cross'd lovers, Romeo and Juliet. But it's an applicable question especially in the sports world.
"It's the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back," legendary Penn St. coach Joe Paterno once said, but what if you never had one on the back to begin with? This is the predicament walk-on guard Lexx Edwards found himself in. A walk-on with a brother who played for Florida's 2008 national champion football team, Edwards was awarded an academic scholarship to come to Gainesville. He followed in the footsteps of his grandfather and aunt as well as his brother by attending UF to "challenge himself academically," per the school's website.
As soon as he's asked about Edwards, assistant coach Matt McCall lights up. This is the general first reaction to a question about Edwards. "Two-X Lexx" he calls out to the stoutly built 6-foot-2 guard, who sits in his locker on the opposite side of the dressing room quietly listening to music, minding his own business.
"As a walk-on, it's not always glitz and glamour," McCall said. "You're asked to do a lot of different things. You're asked to guard like you can't believe in individual instruction, dummy defense and do all kinds of things that aren't very glamorous. And then to be able to be a part of something like this is special and I couldn't be happier for him."
He's a cool customer, on the court he says he wants to be an "everyday guy," consistent and always doing the right thing. Off the court he endeavors to be a positive influence, and a good role model staying on top of his teammates when it comes to their schoolwork and social lives.
A walk-on's life is an interesting one, not granted the perks of an athlete on full scholarship but often pushed to work just as hard doing yeoman's work behind the scenes. There are no All-American accolades, no throng of media following him around and little fame to be had.
During an open locker room media session at Florida's opening round tournament site in his hometown of Orlando, Edwards actually got up to move to allow more room for media members encroaching on his personal space while attempting to get center Patric Young on camera. "Don't worry about it," he responded to the reporter's "are you sure?" as he moved to the other side of the room. That is who he is, selfless, in McCall's words: "a big time human being, which is what you want out of your walk-on position."
He didn't dress for any games as a freshman but practiced and then, because of roster numbers, wasn't with the team in 2012-2013. He came back to the Gators in 2013-2014, and this time he wasn't watching games from home when the team was on the road.
Addition to the #Gators dress roster today, #11 Lexx Edwards, RS Soph. walk-on guard from Orlando (Jones HS). @LexxEdwards_2
— Gator M-Basketball (@GatorZoneMBK) November 16, 2013
"I realize I don't have to be here," Edwards said. "Coach [Billy] Donovan didn't have to let me be apart of this, so that's why I appreciate the chance and the opportunity. At any given moment I could have been let go, or I could have sat out so I treat every day as if it was my last."
The original jersey they got for him didn't even fit the right way when he was told he'd be able to suit up against Arkansas-Little Rock. He ended up dressing, of course, and even though the jersey may not have fit, his shoes did. A social media cult following began surrounding Edwards' eclectic footwear selections:
#LexxEdwardsShoeWatch @LexxEdwards_2 pic.twitter.com/L5cBVO8JqE
— Gator M-Basketball (@GatorZoneMBK) March 8, 2014
@LexxEdwards_2 always had the shoe game on point! He's gonna make it big one day! #FloridaBasketball pic.twitter.com/FDA3Hjw6Wz
— Jordan Bryant (@Jordan_Bryant13) March 4, 2014
I forget to tweet #LexxEdwardsShoeWatch one game & he ditches the bright kicks for black & white… @LexxEdwards_2 pic.twitter.com/Tf8q5DyLi2
— Gator M-Basketball (@GatorZoneMBK) February 19, 2014
My boy @LexxEdwards_2 has the best shoe game in all of the SEC.
— Jonathan Lowrance (@j_low_fasho) February 5, 2014
Main consideration in @LexxEdwards_2 shoe selection: being noticeable, I think. I can respect that. pic.twitter.com/XyeCnPbOyq
— Gator M-Basketball (@GatorZoneMBK) January 30, 2014
My boy @LexxEdwards_2 always has the freshest kicks for the Gators
— Marshall (@MarshHurley) February 5, 2014
The shoes were part of his ensemble but the name still wasn't, until finally in February after a simple shipping of the jersey to Nike, manager Colby Donovan presented Edwards with a game jersey that featured his name on the back.
"I guess it was kind of in the making for awhile and I just didn't know," Edwards said. "It just took awhile for it to happen. Like the night before the game Colby showed me that it was on there, so I wasn't annoyed about it, I was just happy to even have a jersey, a lot of people didn't have one."
Both Colby and junior Jacob Kurtz remember his emotions around the time he received his named duds. Donovan said he tried to play it cool, but he knew that Edwards was excited. Kurtz, a walk-on himself, also echoed a similar sentiment.
"He looked at it," Kurtz said. "You know it was pretty cool to see, he can take off his warmup and you know it says Edwards on the back. It was good for him, I'm happy for him."
Lexx Edwards is one of those guys that plays for the name on the front of his jersey. He's not selfish, not on the team to grasp for glory, he has a role he's content to fill, and he does it well. Edwards certainly doesn't play for the name on the back, but that doesn't mean it isn't nice to have it on there.


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We were rapt that our close neighbours, phil&teds most excellent buggy company, took us over which has meant that we've been able to continue operating out of Wellington, New Zealand. YEEHAA!
So we're still creating jobs here with 90% of a product's development lifecycle remaining in New Zealand: research and development, design, marketing, finance, sales, logistics and operations. The need for mountain buggy to be commercially viable led us to move the manufacturing to phil&teds best in class (ISO 9001) facilities in China.
Some bold decisions have had to be made to get the business back on its feet and there hasn't been a lot of sleep, much less time to read the latest snow report and head for the mountains. We've been hard at work rationalising the range, enhancing our great products, developing phenomenal new ones and developing a new look and feel to the brand.
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If you loved your Sidekick, then T-Mobile has a new sleek phone to meet your needs. The T-Mobile Dash was designed to be appealing to the people who loved the Sidekick. This phone has been rubberized, rounded and better fit for being placed in your pocket. This phone works great for emailing and has Wi-Fi capabilities; you can also view documents with the office software. The phone doesn't let you edit documents. The keyboard has tiny buttons that can make it hard to type on if you are not used to them.
There is a lot of entertainment software available on the T-Mobile Dash. There is a media player and a microSD expansion slot. This will allow you to add music from your computer to your phone via this expansion slot with the purchase of an external memory card. The battery, when tested in the lab, will last for 10 hours. Calls can be heard loud and clear. There is no on-screen dial pad so you are unable to dial the digits by their letter alternatives. Even with this downfall, this phone is a strong contender with all the PDAs on the market.
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Britney Spears: A Baby Girl Will Make Me Feel Less Alone
Britney Spears looks beautiful on the cover of InStyle's January 2014 issue, on newsstands December 13.
Here is what the 32-year-old singer had to share with the mag:
On wanting to have a baby girl: "I would like to be busy the first couple of years, but then I would really like to have another baby, a girl. I think she would be like a mini-me. I think it's going to be crazy. I'm not going to feel as alone in the world anymore. I'm going to feel like I have a second person, like, that's me."
On her skin care: "I just bought the new Shiseido face wash and moisturizer. I have no problem trying new brands. A doctor I see, [Beverly Hills plastic surgeon] Dr. [Raj] Kanodia, does fun stuff to me sometimes – I've had lip injections before. He has this peptide-based face-care product; it's green and slimy, and you mix it together and put it on your face. It does wonders. You leave it on overnight. Can you tell I love skin care?"
On the most challenging part of being a parent: "As a mom, you have all these situations you go through, and you're like, 'What is going on? Is this normal? Is this a phase? Or what is this?' and then you feel silly for asking questions because you think, I'm a mom, I'm supposed to know these things, but you don't. You're human. To be honest, I wish I had more mom friends."
FYI: Britney is wearing a Dior dress and a Zoe Chicco necklace.
For more from Britney, visit InStyle.com! Bigger cover photo inside…