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A former girlfriend of Glee star Mark Salling is accusing the actor of sexual battery stemming from an incident in March 2011, ET has learned.
According to court documents filed January 18 in Los Angeles, Salling's ex Roxanne Gorzela alleges that sexual battery, assault and battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress occurred while the two were dating.
Related: Mark Salling Fractures Pelvis
Specifically, Gorzela claims that Salling engaged in unprotected sex with her when she expressly communicated to him that he wear a condom while they were intimate. Following the alleged incident, Gorzela claims that she confronted Salling about his actions. At this point, she claims he pushed her to the floor causing injuries to her head and knees. A police report was filed on March 25, the day of the alleged attack.
UPDATE: Saturday morning, Salling took to Twitter and said, "I always have and always will appreciate your support. Terror and intimidation are things ill never subscribe to. Love y'all so much." Friday night, Salling's rep released the following statement: "There is no truth to this. It's the textbook case of a disgruntled girl looking to cash in on a TV star's success. We turn the rest over to Mark's attorneys and have no further comment."
Gorzela is asking for unspecified damages. Court documents state that the pair began dating in 2010.

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Even if you're generally in tune with your eating M.O., there are a few less-obvious factors impacting your appetite that you may not even be aware of. Lisa Young, Ph.D., R.D., author of The Portion Teller Plan, explains four surprising things that may be making you hungrier. Beware of these sneaky weight-loss roadblocks.
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You know how you end up eating more in the winter and may even gain a few pounds between November and February? Well, if you spend your summer months blasting your a/c to escape the heat, you may see something similar happen. "We tend to eat more in cold temperatures because our bodies are trying to keep warm," says Young. Try opening a window to get some fresh air instead of blasting your air conditioning 24/7. Your wallet and your waistline will thank you.
MORE: 8 Tips That Make It Easier to Stop Eating When You're Full
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Your Meds
Certain prescriptions, especially anti-depressants, could increase your appetite, says Young. "Of course, everyone reacts to medications differently—but generally speaking, anti-depressants in particular have been linked to increased appetite." Your best bet: Be sure you ask your doctor or dermatologist about all of the side effects of your medications so you know exactly what you're working with. While your overall health is obviously more important than whether or not you gain a few pounds, your doctor may be able to switch you to a different Rx that doesn't have appetite-stimulating results.
Like prescriptions medications, supplements can affect people in different ways. "Certain dietary supplements and herbal supplements—i.e., the over-the-counter vitamins you get in health stores—have been shown to increase appetite in some people," says Young. If you start popping any new pills, be sure to monitor your hunger levels closely to see if they appear to be affected.
MORE: The Secret Ingredient That Can Help You Lose Weight
Changing Your Exercise Routine
It's a good thing to vary it up—changing your workouts keeps things fresh, which helps you keep up your fitness habit in the long run. That said, trying new exercises could also increase your appetite. "Changing your workout pattern could make you feel hungrier initially, simply because your body is acclimating to a new normal and that can impact your appetite," says Young. Try keeping a food and exercise journal so you're better able to track how much you're eating in relation to how much you're working out.
MORE: 4 Food Journal Mistakes You Might be Making
Annie Daly is a fourth-generation freelance journalist based in New York City. A former editor at SELF, Cosmopolitan, BuzzFeed Travel, Yahoo! Travel and Good Housekeeping, she has also written about wellness and travel for AFAR, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Lonely Planet, Women's Health, and more. Destination Wellness is her first book.


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Marcel-Paul Schützenberger:
Until his death, the mathematician and doctor of medicine Marcel-Paul Schützenberger (1920-1996) was Professor of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Paris and a member of the Academy of Sciences. [See "From the Editors" for additional biographical information.] In 1966, Schützenberger participated in the Wistar Symposium on mathematical objections to neo-Darwinism. His arguments were subtle and often misunderstood by biologists. Darwin's theory, he observed, and the interpretation of biological systems as formal objects, were at odds insofar as randomness is known to degrade meaning in formal contexts. But Schützenberger also argued that Darwin's theory logically required some active principle of coordination between the typographic space of the informational macromolecules (DNA and RNA) and the organic space of living creatures themselves -- which Darwin's theory does not provide. In this January 1996 interview with the French science monthly La Recherche, here published in English for the first time, he pursued these themes anew, finding inspiration for his ideas both in the mathematical ideas that he had pioneered and in the speculative tradition of French biological thought that stretched from Georges Cuvier to Lucien Cuenot. M.P. Schützenberger was a man of universal curiosity and great wit; throughout his life, he was both joyful and unafraid. The culture that he so brilliantly represented disappears with him, of course. It was his finest invention and it now belongs to the inventory of remembered things.
Q: What is your definition of Darwinism?
S: The most current, of course, a position generically embodied, for example, by Richard Dawkins. The essential idea is well-known. Evolution, Darwinists argue, is explained by the double action of chance mutations and natural selection. The general doctrine embodies two mutually contradictory schools -- gradualists, on the one hand, saltationists, on the other. Gradualists insist that evolution proceeds by means of small successive changes; saltationists that it proceeds by jumps. Richard Dawkins has come to champion radical gradualism; Stephen Jay Gould, a no less radical version of saltationism.
Q: You are known as a mathematician rather than a specialist in evolutionary biology...
S: Biology is, of course, not my specialty. The participation of mathemeticians in the overall assessment of evolutionary thought has been encouraged by the biologists themselves, if only because they presented such an irresistible target. Richard Dawkins, for example, has been fatally attracted to arguments that would appear to hinge on concepts drawn from mathematics and from the computer sciences, the technical stuff imposed on innocent readers with all of his comic authority. Mathematicians are, in any case, epistemological zealots. It is normal for them to bring their critical scruples to the foundations of other disciplines. And finally, it is worth observing that the great turbid wave of cybernetics has carried mathematicians from their normal mid-ocean haunts to the far shores of evolutionary biology. There up ahead, Rene Thom and Ilya Prigogine may be observed paddling sedately toward dry land, members of the Santa Fe Institute thrashing in their wake. Stuart Kauffman is among them. An interesting case, a physician half in love with mathematical logic, burdened now and forever by having received a Papal Kiss from Murray Gell-Mann. This ecumenical movement has endeavored to apply the concepts of mathematics to the fundamental problems of evolution -- the interpretation of functional complexity, for example.
Q: What do you mean by functional complexity?
S: It is impossible to grasp the phenomenon of life without that concept, the two words each expressing a crucial and essential idea. The laboratory biologists' normal and unforced vernacular is almost always couched in functional terms: the function of an eye, the function of an enzyme, or a ribosome, or the fruit fly's antennae -- their function; the concept by which such language is animated is one perfectly adapted to reality. Physiologists see this better than anyone else. Within their world, everything is a matter of function, the various systems that they study -- circulatory, digestive, excretory, and the like -- all characterized in simple, ineliminable functional terms. At the level of molecular biology, functionality may seem to pose certain conceptual problems, perhaps because the very notion of an organ has disappeared when biological relationships are specified in biochemical terms; but appearances are misleading, certain functions remaining even in the absence of an organ or organ systems. Complexity is also a crucial concept. Even among unicellular organisms, the mechanisms involved in the separation and fusion of chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis are processes of unbelieveable complexity and subtlety. Organisms present themselves to us as a complex ensemble of functional interrelationships. If one is going to explain their evolution, one must at the same time explain their functionality and their complexity.
Q: What is it that makes functional complexity so difficult to comprehend?
S: The evolution of living creatures appears to require an essential ingredient, a specific form of organization. Whatever it is, it lies beyond anything that our present knowledge of physics or chemistry might suggest; it is a property upon which formal logic sheds absolutely no light. Whether gradualists or saltationists, Darwinians have too simple a conception of biology, rather like a locksmith improbably convinced that his handful of keys will open any lock. Darwinians, for example, tend to think of the gene rather as if it were the expression of a simple command: do this, get that done, drop that side chain. Walter Gehring's work on the regulatory genes controlling the development of the insect eye reflects this conception. The relevant genes may well function this way, but the story on this level is surely incomplete, and Darwinian theory is not apt to fill in the pieces.
Q: You claim that biologists think of a gene as a command. Could you be more specific?
S: Schematically, a gene is like a unit of information. It has simple binary properties. When active, it is an elementary information-theoretic unit, the cascade of gene instructions resembling the cascade involved in specifying a recipe. Now let us return to the example of the eye. Darwinists imagine that it requires what? A thousand or two thousand genes to assemble an eye, the specification of the organ thus requiring one or two thousand units of information? This is absurd! Suppose that a European firm proposes to manufacture an entirely new household appliance in a Southeast Asian factory. And suppose that for commercial reasons, the firm does not wish to communicate to the factory any details of the appliance's function -- how it works, what purposes it will serve. With only a few thousand bits of information, the factory is not going to proceed very far or very fast. A few thousand bits of information, after all, yields only a single paragraph of text. The appliance in question is bound to be vastly simpler than the eye; charged with its manufacture, the factory will yet need to know the significance of the operations to which they have committed themselves in engaging their machinery. This can be achieved only if they already have some sense of the object's nature before they undertake to manufacture it. A considerable body of knowledge, held in common between the European firm and its Asian factory, is necessary before manufacturing instructions may be executed.
Q: Would you argue that the genome does not contain the requisite information for explaining organisms?
S:Not according to the understanding of the genome we now possess. The biological properties invoked by biologists are in this respect quite insufficient; while biologists may understand that a gene triggers the production of a particular protein, that knowledge -- that kind of knowledge -- does not allow them to comprehend how one or two thousand genes suffice to direct the course of embryonic development.
Q: You are going to be accused of preformationism...
S: And of many other crimes. My position is nevertheless strictly a rational one. I've formulated a problem that appears significant to me: how is it that with so few elementary instructions, the materials of life can fabricate objects that are so marvelously complicated and efficient? This property with which they are endowed -- just what is its nature? Nothing within our actual knowledge of physics and chemistry allows us intellectually to grasp it. If one starts from an evolutionary point of view, it must be acknowledged that in one manner or another, the earliest fish contained the capacity, and the appropriate neural wiring, to bring into existence organs which they did not possess or even need, but which would be the common property of their successors when they left the water for the firm ground, or for the air.
Q: You assert that, in fact, Darwinism doesn't explain much.
S: It seems to me that the union of chance mutation and selection has a certain descriptive value; in no case does the description count as an explanation. Darwinism relates ecological data to the relative abundance of species and environments. In any case, the descriptive value of Darwinian models is pretty limited. Besides, as saltationists have indicated, the gradualist thesis seems completely demented in light of the growth of paleontological knowledge. The miracles of saltationism, on the other hand, cannot discharge the mystery I have described.
Q: Let's return to natural selection. Isn't it the case that despite everything the idea has a certain explanatory value?
S: No one could possibly deny the general thesis that stability is a necessary condition for existence -- the real content of the doctrine of natural selection. The outstanding application of this general principle is Berthollet's laws in elementary chemistry. In a desert, the species that die rapidly are those that require water the most; yet that does not explain the appearance among the survivors of those structures whose particular features permits them to resist aridity. The thesis of natural selection is not very powerful. Except for certain artificial cases, we are yet unable to predict whether this or that species or this or that variety will be favored or not as the result of changes in the environment. What we can do is establish after the fact the effects of natural selection -- to show, for, example that certain birds are disposed to eat this species of snails less often than other species, perhaps because their shell is not as visible. That's ecology: very interesting. To put it another way, natural selection is a weak instrument of proof because the phenomena subsumed by natural selection are obvious and yet they establish nothing from the point of view of the theory.
Q: Isn't the significant explanatory feature of Darwinian theory the connection established between chance mutations and natural selection?
S:With the discovery of coding, we have come to understand that a gene is like a word composed in the DNA alphabet; such words form the genomic text. It is that word that tells the cell to make this or that protein. Either a given protein is structural, or a protein itself works in combination with other signals given by the genome to fabricate yet another protein. All the experimental results we know fall within this scheme. The following scenario then becomes standard. A gene undergoes a mutation, one that may facilitate the reproduction of those individuals carrying it; over time, and with respect to a specific environment, mutants come to be statistically favored, replacing individuals lacking the requisite mutation. Evolution could not be an accumulation of such typographical errors. Population geneticists can study the speed with which a favorable mutation propagates itself under these circumstances. They do this with a lot of skill, but these are academic exercises if only because none of the parameters that they use can be empirically determined. In addition, there are the obstacles I have already mentioned. We know the number of genes in an organism. There are about one hundred thousand for a higher vertebrate. This we know fairly well. But this seems grossly insufficient to explain the incredible quantity of information needed to accomplish evolution within a given line of species.
Q: A concrete example?
S: Darwinists say that horses, which were once mammals as large as rabbits, increased their size to escape more quickly from predators. Within the gradualist model, one might isolate a specific trait -- increase in body size -- and consider it to be the result of a series of typographic changes. The explanatory effect achieved is rhetorical, imposed entirely by trick of insisting that what counts for a herbivore is the speed of its flight when faced by a predator. Now this may even be partially true, but there are no biological grounds that permit us to determine that this is in fact the decisive consideration. After all, increase in body size may well have a negative effect. Darwinists seem to me to have preserved a mechanic vision of evolution, one that prompts them to observe merely a linear succession of causes and effects. The idea that causes may interact with one another is now standard in mathematical physics; it is a point that has had difficulty in penetrating the carapace of biological thought. In fact, within the quasi-totality of observable phenomena, local changes interact in a dramatic fashion; after all, there is hardly an issue of La Recherche that does not contain an allusion to the Butterfly Effect. Information theory is precisely the domain that sharpens our intuitions about these phenomena. A typographical change in a computer program does not change it just a little. It wipes the program out, purely and simply. It is the same with a telephone number. If I intend to call a correspondent by telephone, it doesn't much matter if I am fooled by one, two, three or eight figures in his number.
Q: You accept the idea that biological mutations genuinely have the character of typographical errors?
S: Yes, in the sense that one base is a template for another, one codon for another, but at the level of biochemical activity, one is no longer able properly to speak of typography. There is an entire grammar for the formation of proteins in three dimensions, one that we understand poorly. We do not have at our disposal physical or chemical rules permitting us to construct a mapping from typographical mutations or modifications to biologically effective structures. To return to the example of the eye: a few thousand genes are needed for its fabrication, but each in isolation signifies nothing. What is significant is the combination of their interactions. These cascading interactions, with their feedback loops, express an organization whose complexity we do not know how to analyze (See Figure 1). It is possible we may be able to do so in the future, but there is no doubt that we are unable to do so now. Gehring has recently discovered a segment of DNA which is both involved in the development of the vertebrate eye and which can induce the development of an eye in the wing of a butterfly. His work comprises a demonstration of something utterly astonishing, but not an explanation.
Q:But Dawkins, for example, believes in the possibility of a cumulative process.
S: Dawkins believes in an effect that he calls "the cumulative selection of beneficial mutations." To support his thesis, he resorts to a metaphor introduced by the mathematician Emile Borel -- that of a monkey typing by chance and in the end producing a work of literature. It is a metaphor, I regret to say, embraced by Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the double helix. Dawkins has his computer write a series of thirty letters, these corresponding to the number of letters in a verse by Shakespeare. He then proceeds to simulate the Darwinian mechanism of chance mutations and selection. His imaginary monkey types and retypes the same letters, the computer successively choosing the phrase that most resembles the target verse. By means of cumulative selection, the monkey reaches its target in forty or sixty generations.
Q: But you don't believe that a monkey typing on a typewriter, even aided by a computer...
S:This demonstration is a trompe-l'oeil, and what is more, Dawkins doesn't describe precisely how it proceeds. At the beginning of the exercise, randomly generated phrases appear rapidly to approach the target; the closer the approach, the more the process begins to slow. It is the action of mutations in the wrong direction that pulls things backward. In fact, a simple argument shows that unless the numerical parameters are chosen deliberately, the progression begins to bog down completely.
Q:You would say that the model of cumulative selection, imagined by Dawkins, is out of touch with palpable biological realities?
S: Exactly. Dawkins's model lays entirely to the side the triple problems of complexity, functionality, and their interaction.
Q: You are a mathematician. Suppose that you try, despite your reservations, to formalize the concept of functional complexity...
S: I would appeal to a notion banned by the scientific community, but one understood perfectly by everyone else -- that of a goal. As a computer scientist, I could express this in the following way. One constructs a space within which one of the coordinates serves in effect as the thread of Ariane, guiding the trajectory toward the goal. Once the space is constructed, the system evolves in a mechanical way toward its goal. But look, the construction of the relevant space cannot proceed until a preliminary analysis has been carried out, one in which the set of all possible trajectories is assessed, this together with an estimation of their average distance from the specified goal. The preliminary analysis is beyond the reach of empirical study. It presupposes -- the same word that seems to recur in theoretical biology -- that the biologist (or computer scientist) know the totality of the situation, the properties of the ensemble of trajectories. In terms of mathematical logic, the nature of this space is entirely enigmatic. Nonetheless, it is important to remember that the conceptual problems we face, life has entirely solved; the systems embodied in living creatures are entirely successful in reaching their goals. The trick involved in Dawkin's somewhat sheepish example proceeds via the surreptitious introduction of a relevant space. His computer program calculates from a random phrase to a target, a calculation corresponding to nothing in biological reality. The function that he employs flatters the imagination, however, because it has that property of apparent simplicity that elicits naïve approval. In biological reality, the space of even the simplest function has a complexity that defies understanding, and indeed, defies any and all calculations.
Q: Even when they dissent from Darwin, the saltationists are more moderate: they don't pretend to hold the key that would permit them to explain evolution...
S: Before we discuss the saltationists, however, I must say a word about the Japanese biologist Mooto Kimura. He has shown that the majority of mutations are neutral, without any selective effect. For Darwinians upholding the central Darwinian thesis, this is embarrassing... The saltationist view, revived by Stephen Jay Gould, in the end represents an idea due to Richard Goldschmidt. In 1940 or so, he postulated the existence of very intense mutations, no doubt involving hundreds of genes, and taking place rapidly, in less than one thousand generations, thus below the threshold of resolution of paleontology. Curiously enough, Gould does not seem concerned to preserve the union of chance mutations and selection. The saltationists run afoul of two types of criticism. On the one hand, the functionality of their supposed macromutations is inexplicable within the framework of molecular biology. On the other hand, Gould ignores in silence the great trends in biology, such as the increasing complexity of the nervous system. He imagines that the success of new, more sophisticated species, such as the mammals, is a contingent phenomenon. He is not in a position to offer an account of the essential movement of evolution, or at the least, an account of its main trajectories. The saltationists are thus reduced to invoking two types of miracles: macromutations, and the great trajectories of evolution.
Q: In what sense are you employing the word 'miracle'?
S:A miracle is an event that should appear impossible to a Darwinian in view of its ultra-cosmological improbability within the framework of his own theory. Now speaking of macromutations, let me observe that to generate a proper elephant, it will not suffice suddenly to endow it with a full-grown trunk. As the trunk is being organized, a different but complementary system -- the cerebellum -- must be modified in order to establish a place for the ensemble of wiring that the elephant will require to use his trunk. These macromutations must be coordinated by a system of genes in embryogenesis. If one considers the history of evolution, we must postulate thousands of miracles; miracles, in fact, without end. No more than the gradualists, the saltationists are unable to provide an account of those miracles. The second category of miracles are directional, offering instruction to the great evolutionary progressions and trends -- the elaboration of the nervous system, of course, but the internalization of the reproductive process as well, and the appearance of bone, the emergence of ears, the enrichment of various functional relationships, and so on. Each is a series of miracles, whose accumulation has the effect of increasing the complexity and efficiency of various organisms. From this point of view, the notion of bricolage [tinkering], introduced by Francois Jacob, involves a fine turn of phrase, but one concealing an utter absence of explanation.
Q: The appearance of human beings -- is that a miracle, in the sense you mean?
S: Naturally. And here it does seem that there are voices among contemporary biologists -- I mean voices other than mine -- who might cast doubt on the Darwinian paradigm that has dominated discussion for the past twenty years. Gradualists and saltationists alike are completely incapable of giving a convincing explanation of the quasi-simultaneous emergence of a number of biological systems that distinguish human beings from the higher primates: bipedalism, with the concomitant modification of the pelvis, and, without a doubt, the cerebellum, a much more dexterous hand, with fingerprints conferring an especially fine tactile sense; the modifications of the pharynx which permits phonation; the modification of the central nervous system, notably at the level of the temporal lobes, permitting the specific recognition of speech. From the point of view of embryogenesis, these anatomical systems are completely different from one another. Each modification constitutes a gift, a bequest from a primate family to its descendants. It is astonishing that these gifts should have developed simultaneously. Some biologists speak of a predisposition of the genome. Can anyone actually recover the predisposition, supposing that it actually existed? Was it present in the first of the fish? The reality is that we are confronted with total conceptual bankruptcy.
Q:You mentioned the Santa Fe school earlier in our discussion. Do appeals to such notions as chaos...
S:I should have alluded to a succession of highly competent people who have discovered a number of poetic but essentially hollow forms of expression. I am referring here to the noisy crowd collected under the rubric of cybernetics; and beyond, there lie the dissipative structures of Prigogine, or the systems of Varela, or, moving to the present, Stuart Kauffman's edge of chaos -- an organized form of inanity that is certain soon to make its way to France. The Santa Fe school takes complexity to apply to absolutely everything. They draw their representative examples from certain chemical reactions, the pattern of the sea coast, atmosphere turbulence, or the structure of a chain of mountains. The complexity of these structures is certainly considerable, but in comparison with the living world, they exhibit in every case an impoverished form of organization, one that is strictly non-functional. No algorithm allows us to understand the complexity of living creatures, this despite these examples, which owe their initial plausibility to the assumption that the physico-chemical world exhibits functional properties that in reality it does not possess.
Q: Should one take your position as a statement of resignation, an appeal to have greater modesty, or something else altogether?
S: Speaking ironically, I might say that all we can hear at the present time is the great anthropic hymnal, with even a number of mathematically sophisticated scholars keeping time as the great hymn is intoned by tapping their feet. The rest of us should, of course, practice a certain suspension of judgment.
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AS EACH SEASON BRINGS with it a suite of new styles for feet—and the pang that goes with coveting them—one North Portland shop is thriving on some people's commitment to the shoes they already have.
JD's Shoe Repair owner Julie Derrick has long been a believer in fixing old kicks in lieu of buying new ones. And as the recession stubbornly lingers on, her sole-salvation philosophy has gained more Portland converts.
In fact, in November Derrick traded her original N Vancouver Avenue storefront for a new N Alberta Street space triple its size to accommodate a growing load: some 600 pairs per month needing a little—or in some cases, a lot of—TLC.
"It's partly economical. Plus there is a big culture of sustainability in Portland," Derrick says of the boom. "And it's a niche market. There's not a ton of us out here right now; a lot of the older cobblers are retiring."
Derrick specializes in sentimental repairs. She's known among vintage devotees for her work recrafting decades-old flea market boots or a beloved bag passed down from Grandma. And as one of Portland's only female cobblers, she's found a unique customer base: ladies looking for someone with firsthand knowledge of the abuse women's shoes (and sometimes their feet) endure.
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At the beginning of the Civil War it was almost universally agreed that the finest soldier, North or South, was Albert Sidney Johnston. But his Civil War career was a definite disappointment to the Confederacy. The Kentucky-born Johnston was appointed to West Point from Louisiana and graduated eighth in the class of 1826. After eight years of service he resigned to care for his terminally ill wife. A failure at farming, he went to Texas and joined the revolutionary forces as a private. He rose to the forces' chief command as senior brigadier the next year.
He served as secretary of war in the Republic of Texas and commanded the lst Texas Rifles in the Mexican War. Reentering the regular army in 1849 as a major and paymaster, he became colonel, 2nd (old) Cavalry, in 185 5. For his services in the 1857 campaign against the Mormons in Utah he was brevetted brigadier general. He resigned his commission on April 10, 1861, but did not quit his post on the West Coast until his successor arrived.
Relieved, he began the long trek to Richmond overland. Meeting with Jefferson Davis, he entered Confederate service where his assignments included:
As the second ranking general in the Southern army he was given command of the western theater of operations. Establishing a line of defense in Kentucky from the Mississippi River to the Appalachians, he held it until it was broken at Mill Springs in January and at Forts Henry and Donelson in February 1862. Abandoning Kentucky and most of Tennessee, he fell back into northern Mississippi where he concentrated his previously scattered forces.
In early April he moved against Grant's army at Shiloh. In what was basically a surprise attack, he drove the enemy back. While directing frontline operations he was wounded in the leg. Not considering his wound serious, he bled to death. Grant, writing in his memoirs, considered Johnston as having failed to live up to earlier expectations.
(Roland, Charles P., Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Tbree Republics)


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Deputies: 503 lbs of psychedelic mushrooms seized in bust
Additional arrest expected in Clermont Co. investigation
Sheriff's deputies arrested a Clermont County man accused of growing psychedelic mushrooms.
Authorities have been investigating the distribution of significant amounts of the hallucinogenic drug throughout southwest Ohio, and deputies searched a home Friday in the 1300 block of Nicholas Drive in Miami Township.
Images: Psychedelic drugs seized in Miami Twp. bust
Agents said they found a laboratory where the mushrooms, which contain the psychoactive chemical psilocybin, were grown and processed.
Deputies seized 503 pounds of materials containing psilocybin, a Schedule 1 controlled substance, valued at $805,000.
Aaron Gasper, 26, was charged with illegal manufacture of drugs and remains at the Clermont County Jail.
Additional charges and arrests are expected in the case, which deputies said was the largest such seizure in county history.


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Authorities say 37-year-old Thomas Hripto died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Lower Pottsgrove Police Chief Mike Foltz says Hripto had not responded to the National Guard since last Friday, prompting a well-being check Wednesday.
Authorities say they heard a gunshot while responding and weren't sure if he was firing at them, so they called for assistance.
After more than five hours, officers entered the home and found Hripto dead in a second-floor bedroom.
Pennsylvania National Guard officials say Hripto was a member of the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the 28th Infantry.


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Killer is Dead debut trailer evokes Killer7, No More Heroes vibe
Killer is Dead, the latest game from Grasshopper Manufacture, looks to play the team's strengths and experience in this gorgeous, violent and perhaps uncomfortably sexy trailer.
Killer7 and No More Heroes players will pick up on some fairly obvious Grasshopper Manufacture mainstays, but there's a fair bit of Shadows of the Damned in our dashing hero, and the action has a bit of a Lollipop Chainsaw feel, too.
There's no denying Goichi Suda's games walk a troublesome line between exploitation and satire, but it's very, very hard to say no to the luscious art style depicted here.
Killer is Dead was announced in April 2012, and detailed in this week's Famitsu. It's expected in Japan during northern summer, for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but hasn't attracted a western publisher yet.
Thanks, Gematsu.


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In a sea of greasy hair, grunting and twelve-packs, super-popular adult film star James Deen stands out, to say the least. He's relatively vanilla, looks like a guy you could've gone to Hebrew school with, and his talent for connecting with the women he has sex with on camera has garnered him fans from the most unlikely demographic of porn consumers: 18 to 24-year-old girls. (Sorry, you guys, he's dating fellow porn star Stoya.)
Deen spoke to GQ about his so-called "fitness plan," which mostly involves "grazing, not gorging" on a low-sodium, fruit-heavy diet. (I LOLed at his explanation: "I have what is commonly referred to as 'Jew Stomach.' It comes with the religion. It's just where everything goes wrong—you get acid reflux, IBS type of things." As a tribe member myself, I can wholeheartedly confirm this.)
But, yes, most of his technique for staying fit involves having crazy Cirque de Soleil intercourse every day.
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Initially, Deen said, his doctor told him that sex wasn't cardio. Later, after his doctor actually watched one of his scenes, he took it back. Correction: Tired, annoyed, missionary, in-your-gross-old-T-shirt, regular Muggle sex isn't cardio. Porn star sex, on the other hand, is like doing Soul Cycle in the molten-lava center of the Earth:
"Sex on camera can be anywhere from 20 minutes to four hours. It all depends on the production and type of scene. It's also not just standard sex, like, 'Let's just make each others' bodies feel good.' It's physical, entertainment-style sex. So while you might ride a motorcycle in a certain way when you're driving to work, if you're a stunt person and you're going to ride that motorcycle on camera, you're going to do a totally different style of motorcycle riding. My whole point is that because of the on-camera sex, I have this insane style of stunt sex. It actually is very physically strenuous. It's a good workout. All the positioning and weird things."
There you have it. If you're looking for a quick-fix for your bikini body, maybe you should try a gymnastic banging session.
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In brief: The public assertion that a religious statue isn't actually crying has put prominent rationalist Sanal Edamaruku in peril. Arrest warrants have been sworn out and Edamaruku could be picked up at any time — merely for stating the obvious, in the world's most populous democracy.
This isn't about India-bashing — far from it. The contributions of this enormously layered (and oppressed) nation are countless, and indisputable. But the hounding of Edamaruku, at the behest of religious groups using a law that is a remnant of British colonialization, threatens to return their democratic system of justice back to medieval times.
And a man's liberty, to say the least, hangs in the balance.
Rationalism is no stranger to India. The late Basava Premenand, with whom I shared many personal chats about the "godmen" of India, and Abraham Kovoor, whom I never met but who provided me — and the world — with critiques of those same swindlers, rank high among my heroes.
And now I bring your attention to the peril faced by Edamaruku, who is president of the Indian Rationalist Association, editor of the internet publication Rationalist International, and author of 25 books and numerous articles.
Local representatives of the Catholic Church have filed charges under section 295A of the Indian Penal Code which makes it a crime "to outrage religious feelings or any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs."
The outrage? The priest of Our Lady of Velankanni Church, and representatives of the piously incensed Association of Concerned Catholics (AOCC) has demanded that Edamaruku publicly apologize for having the audacity to say out loud that water flowing from a statue in their church was a leak in the sewage system and not — as the Indian media and the Church had loudly proclaimed — a miracle.
Edamaruku has flatly refused to surrender to their demands, so they filed a blasphemy case against him. A Mumbai police official directed him to come to the station to face the charges and be arrested. Charges have also been filed in numerous other police stations. He remains at large.
The threat to arrest a well known and dedicated rationalist who has been exposing "miracles" and superstitious beliefs in his own country for more than three decades is a serious attack on freedom of expression, designed to harass and silence him.
Edamaruku has sought to exercise his constitutional right to develop scientific thinking, the spirit of inquiry, reform, and humanism. We at the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) firmly support these rights.
We can only imagine the conditions of an Indian jail, and we don't want our friend to find out.
Edamaruku is in a real jam now, but this is hardly the first time he's spoken out against belief in miracles. Recently, a wonder-worker named Ajay Kumar Gupta claimed he could cure HIV infection, cancer, tuberculosis or any known disease by splashing the afflicted with a bowl of fresh water. Gupta wanted to prove his claim, so Sanjay introduced him to JREF Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, and briefed him on the terms and conditions to be found there.
For some reason, we haven't received an application from Mr. Gupta.
Now, this sort of really silly claim — throwing water to supernaturally cure any ailment — is not at all unusual to us at JREF. We get far stranger notions offered to us, regularly — everything from the ability to locate buried gold, fresh water or oil with a forked willow-branch, to levitating by thought-waves (or, frankly, any which way), are fantasies we must handle. And though we often think that we've now "heard everything," that notion is dashed daily.
Dear reader, I urge you to visit www.rationalistinternational.net and see the way this remarkable man has fought unreason and prejudice in the Indian continent, often at risk of his well-being. I urge you to drop him a note expressing your support and encouragement, and donate to his legal defense fund if you can.
We need to take every opportunity to promote rationality and science in opposition to blind belief and appeals to ghosts …
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If you expected
std::async to be just syntactic sugar over thread creation, you can stop reading right now, because that's what it is. If you expected more, read on.
Don't get me wrong,
std::async combines several useful concurrency concepts into a nice package: It provides a
std::future for the return value, and hides the
std::promise side of the future. It also provides options to run a task synchronously. (See the Appendix for a short refresher.)
But tasks have a slightly different connotation in parallel programming: they are the basic blocks of task-based parallelism. And C++11 tasks fall short on that account.
Task-Based Parallelism
Tasks are an answer to performance and scalability problems associated with threads. Operating system threads are rather heavy-weight; it takes time and system resources to create a thread. If you have an algorithm that naturally decomposes into a large number of independent computations, a.k.a. tasks, you'll probably get your best performance not by creating a separate thread for each task, but by adjusting the number of threads depending on the amount of parallelism available on your particular system, e.g., the number of cores and their current loads. This can be done by hand, using thread pools and load balancing algorithms; or by using task-based systems.
In a task-based system, the programmer specifies what can be run in parallel but lets the system decide how much parallelism to actually use. The programmer splits the algorithm into tasks and the runtime assigns them to threads — often many tasks to a thread.
There are many implementations of task-based parallelism with varying language support. There's the Cilk language which pioneered this approach; there's the built in support in Haskell, F#, and Scala; and there are several C++ libraries, like Microsoft PPL or Intel TBB.
Unlike thread creation, task creation is supposed to be relatively inexpensive, letting the programmer explore low-level granularity parallelism and take advantage of multicore speedups.
At the center of task-based systems are work-stealing queues. When a thread creates tasks, they are initially queued on the processor (core) that runs the thread. But if there are other idle processors, they will try to steal tasks from other queues. The stolen tasks are then run in parallel.
Notice that tasks must be able to migrate between threads. What's more, efficient use of OS threads requires that tasks that are blocked, for instance waiting for I/O or waiting for other tasks to finish, should be taken off their threads, so that other tasks may reuse them.
C++11 Tasks
My expectation was that C++11 "tasks" that are created using
std::async should be abstracted from threads, just as they are in task-based parallelism. When I started preparing a video tutorial about tasks in C++, I wrote a simple program to demonstrate it. I created async tasks using the default launch policy and waited for them to complete. Each task slept for one second and then printed its thread ID.
int main()
std::cout << "Main thread id: " << std::this_thread::get_id()
<< std::endl;
std::vector<std::future> futures;
for (int i = 0; i < 20; ++i)
auto fut = std::async([]
std::cout << std::this_thread::get_id() << " ";
std::for_each(futures.begin(), futures.end(), [](std::future & fut)
std::cout << std::endl;
The results were surprising. The first six tasks executed in parallel, each in its own thread. But the rest of the tasks executed in the main thread one after another, separated by 1 second intervals. (Note: this behavior was fixed in v 1.7 of Just::Thread — read on).
This approach to parallelism obviously doesn't scale very well.
Then I wrote another program that lists directories recursively, creating a separate async task for each subdirectory. But this time I explicitly requested launch policy
launch::async, which guarantees that each task will start in a new thread. This program worked up to a point, but when I tried to list my whole disk, it failed by exhausting Windows' limited thread creation capability. Again, this approach doesn't scale very well.
What was even worse, when the program didn't fail, it performed better with
launch::deferred policy, which forces all tasks to be executed serially, than with the
launch::async policy. That's because thread creation in Windows is so expensive that it can easily nullify performance gains of parallelism (although Windows 7 supports user-level threads, which might bypass these problems).
My first reaction was to blame Anthony Williams for badly implementing the Just::Thread library I was using. When he assured me that it was Standard compliant, I turned to Herb Sutter and Hans Boehm for confirmation and they sided with Anthony. It turns out that there are serious problems that prevented C++11 from standardizing task-based concurrency.
The Problems
The foundation of task-based parallelism is the ability for tasks to share threads and to migrate between threads. This sharing and migration must be transparent.
The requirements for the default-launch tasks are the following:
- The runtime can either run such task asynchronously or synchronously
- When it's run synchronously, it should be run in the context of the parent thread
- When it's run asynchronously, it should behave as if it were run on a separate thread
Strictly speaking, a task could always call
this_thread::get_id() and fool any attempt at thread sharing or migration by discovering the ID of the current thread. In general, the namespace
std::this_thread, which also contains sleep functions, is thread-bound.
But let's suppose that we only require that asynchronous tasks behave as if they were run on separate threads, except when they call functions in the
this_thread namespace. There are still several problems.
Thread-Local Variables
C++11 introduced a new
thread_local storage qualifier. A thread-local variable is separately initialized and destroyed in every thread. It must not survive thread termination. This requirement complicates thread sharing.
In our exchange, Hans Boehm clarified the termination requirement for tasks: Thread-local variables must be fully destroyed before the owning thread returns from calling
get or
wait on a future produced by the corresponding
std::async; or before the destructor of that future returns, whichever comes first.
This actually leaves some wiggle room: A thread could be reused if the runtime guarantees that thread-local variables of terminating tasks are correctly destroyed. Unfortunately, this might be impossible if the programmer calls OS-specific API, like Windows'
TlsAlloc. Anthony also pointed out that it's not clear how to deal with
DLL_THREAD_DETACH handlers in DLLs, when switching to task granularity.
There's another aspect of C++11 concurrency that is tied to threads — locking. The
std::mutex object is thread aware. It requires that
unlock is called from the same thread as
lock. Why should this be a problem?
I haven't mentioned yet that task migration might be necessary in the middle of execution, but that is what most task-based systems do. It's an optimization in the case when you're dealing with blocking tasks.
There are two major blocking scenarios: external and internal. External blocking happens when a task calls an OS function (directly or indirectly) that may block, for instance waiting for I/O. My directory listing program did a lot of that. Internal blocking, which is potentially easier to intercept, happens when tasks are blocked on futures. My program did a lot of that too, when waiting for the results of tasks that were listing subdirectories of the current directory.
A blocked task doesn't use processor resources, but it does occupy a thread. That thread could be reused to run another task. But that requires a clean way of taking a task off a thread and then restoring its state once the call unblocks. Now, if the task takes a lock on a mutex before blocking, it cannot be migrated to another thread. The unlocking wouldn't work from another thread.
Herb Sutter observed that, if we tried to restore the task to its original thread, we might get into a spurious deadlock, when the original thread is occupied be another task waiting for the same mutex.
The other problem with locks is in the use of a
recursive_mutex. A thread may lock such a mutex multiple times before calling unlock (also multiple times). But if a second thread tries to lock a mutex that's owned by the current thread, it will block. As long as tasks run is separate threads, this works. But if they share the same thread, they may successfully acquire the same mutex and cause data corruption.
Imagine the following scenario. Task A wants to modify a shared data structure and takes a lock on its recursive mutex. It then blocks on some OS call (probably not a good idea in general, but it may happen). The task gets taken off of the current thread, and task B starts executing. It takes a lock on the same mutex — successfully, as it is executing in the same thread, and reads or modifies a data structure that was in the middle of being modified by task A. A disaster unfolds.
Notice that this is not a problem if tasks are run serially in the same thread, as it happens with the
launch::deferred policy, because each task runs to completion before allowing another task to run.
Finally, such migration of running tasks would also wreaks havoc with thread-local variables.
Possible Solutions
Optimizing the Default Launch Policy
The easiest part was to change the implementation of the default policy, to defer the decision whether to run a given task asynchronously or as deferred. Anthony was quick to notice this, and almost immediately released a fix — version 1.7 of Just::Thread.
The idea is simple, you schedule N tasks asynchronously — N being some runtime number dependent on the number of available cores — and put the rest on a queue. When any of the queued tasks is forced (by the call to
get or
wait on its future), it is executed synchronously in the context of the forcing thread — as if the
launch::deferred policy were used. Otherwise, as soon as one of the asynchronous tasks finishes, the next task from the queue is scheduled to run asynchronously. Here's the output of the same test program after the changes in Just::Thread:
This time each task ran in a separate thread, but because of the default launch policy, they ran in small batches that could effectively exploit the parallelism of a multicore machine. Still, without thread reuse, the runtime had to create 22 OS threads. The hope is that the operating system caches thread resources so that the creation of the second batch of threads is substantially cheaper than the first one.
(I suggest running this test when evaluating any implementation of a task library.)
Thread Reuse
The next step in improving task performance would be to use a thread pool and reuse threads instead of creating them from scratch. Because of the problem with thread-local variables, it might be impossible to implement thread reuse without some help from the language runtime. The task library would need hooks into every creation of a
thread_local variable, so it can destroy them at task exit.
That still leaves the problem of tasks calling APIs like
TlsAlloc directly. An atractive option (for library writers) would be to ignore the problem — after all the language provides a portable way of dealing with thread-local storage.
Task Migration
We would like to be able to remove a blocked task from a thread in order to run another task on it. This is not easy because of thread-locals and locks.
The problem with
thread_local variables is that they should really be task-local. Or at least they should behave "as if" they were task-local. So when two tasks are sharing the same thread, there has to be some mechanism for "context switching" between them. The context would have to include the state of all thread-local variables.
Migrating a task that is holding a lock could only be done if locks were task-bound rather than thread-bound. Interestingly, there is a provision in the Standard for this kind of behavior. The definition of Lockable in (30.2.5) talks about "execution agents" that could be threads, but could also be something else. This comment is of particular interest:
[ Note: Implementations or users may introduce other kinds of agents such as processes or thread-pool tasks. —end note ]
However, the Standard Library
mutex is bound to threads, not tasks. The intention of (30.2.5) is that, if you create your own separate task library with your own task-local variables and mutexes, you will still be able to use the standard utilities such as
lock_guard or condition variables. But the implementation of
std::async tasks must work with
thread_local and
Here's a potential scenario where two tasks could deadlock if their threads are reused while they are blocked:
- Task A runs on thread T1, takes the mutex M1, and makes a blocking call
- The runtime takes A off T1 (saves its state, etc.) and puts it in a Blocked queue
- Task B starts executing on the same thread, T1, and tries to take M1, which is locked by A
- In order to unlock M1, task A would have to run on T1 — the same thread the lock was taken on — but T1 is now occupied by B, and A can't make progress
The only way to resolve this deadlock is to take B off the thread. So that's what a task migration system must do — guarantee that any blocked task is taken off its thread.
In general, any spurious deadlock would involve a bunch of blocked tasks. If all of them are blocked on locks, this is an actual deadlock which would happen anyway. If there is at least one task that can make progress when its blocking call returns, it can always be assigned back to its thread, either because the task running on it completes, or because it's blocked and will be taken off of it.
Of course if we allow lock migration, as in associating locks with tasks rather than threads, the problem disappears on its own.
What I learned from this exercise was that
std::async with default launch policy can be made usable. However its strong association with threads makes it virtually impossible to implement full-blown task-based parallelism. A task-based system could be implemented as a library but it would have to come with severe restrictions on the use of
thread_local variables and standard mutexes. Such a system would have to implement its own version of task-local variables and mutexes.
I'm grateful to Anthony Williams, Hans Boehm, Herb Sutter, and Artur Laksberg for enlightening discussions.
async Refresher
Here's some typical code that uses
std::async to start a task:
auto ftr = std::async([](bool flag)->bool
if (flag)
throw std::exception("Hi!");
return flag;
}, true); // <- pass true to lambda
// do some work in parallel...
bool flag = ftr.get(); // may re-throw exception
catch(std::exception & e)
std::cout << e.what() << std::endl;
The code calls
std::async with a lambda (anonymous function) that takes a Boolean flag and returns a Boolean. The lambda can either throw an exception or return the flag back. The second argument to
async (
true, in this case) is passed to the lambda when it is executed.
The value or the exception is passed back to the parent code when it calls the
get method on the future returned by
async. The call to
async may create a new thread, or defer the execution of the function until the call to
get is made.
The same code may be implemented directly using
std::promise, and
std::future but, among other things, it requires modifications to the thread function (here, to the lambda):
std::promise prms; auto th = std::thread([](std::promise<bool> & prms, bool flag) { if (flag) prms.set_exception(std::make_exception_ptr(std::exception("Hi!"))); else prms.set_value(flag); }, std::ref(prms), true); // do some work th.join(); auto ftr = prms.get_future(); try { bool flag = ftr.get(); } catch(std::exception & e) { std::cout << e.what() << std::endl; }


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Rudy Fernandez has won two Olympic basketball silver medals with Spain
Fernandez enjoyed spells in NBA with Portland and Denver
Back injuries have hampered the 27-year-old's recent career
He opted to return to Spain on permanent deal with Real Madrid in 2012
It's the dream of millions of basketball fans around the world – to be an NBA star.
But for Rudy Fernandez, who leapt to fame with his "hellacious" dunk in an Olympic final against the U.S. Dream Team, playing in "the best league in the world" was not enough.
Just 27 years old and reaching his peak as a player, he has bucked convention by leaving the NBA and returning to his native Spain.
"Here probably I'm a better player, I can do everything – not like my years in the NBA," Fernandez told CNN's Human to Hero series.
"The NBA, it's a business for sure, so when you sign a contract you have to know you might get traded to another team, another city. And you start playing 82 games in one season, it's a lot of basketball."
Fernandez moved to the U.S. after the 2008 Olympic final in Beijing, where Spain lost to the Americans, and spent three years with the Portland Trail Blazers.
"They gave me the opportunity to play in the best league in the world," he said.
However, his later move to Denver Nuggets was not a success – partly due to a back injury, and partly due to a league lockout that shortened the 2011-12 season to 31 matches.
In the middle of the NBA pay dispute, he signed an interim deal with Real Madrid – a division of one of the world's biggest soccer clubs – and enjoyed his time back home so much that he later took up the option of a three-year deal worth a reported €8.1 million ($10.5 million).
"I came here to be the leader and win trophies," he announced on his arrival.
Fernandez has proved as good as his word, averaging nearly 17 points per game for Real in the current Euroleague season and winning rave reviews for his performances. Real also top the domestic ACB league in Spain.
Wind the clock back just over four years and Fernandez had arrived in the United States to considerable fanfare after a standout performance for his beloved Spain in China.
Playing against the might of the U.S. – this time dubbed the "Redeem Team" following the disappointment of Athens 2004 – he scored 22 points in 18 minutes of court time.
But it was his audacious dunk over Dwight Howard which was a talking point of the final, eventually won 118-107 by the United States.
Despite the close attentions of the 2.11-meter Howard, Fernandez – a small forward who stands 1.98m – brushed him aside before slamming home the two-pointer.
The effort was described as "hellacious" by one U.S. sports writer, who had clearly run out of superlatives, while Fernandez singles it out as a career highlight.
He played football as a youngster on his home island of Mallorca, but basketball ability was in the family genes with both his parents players, while his elder sister Marta plied her trade in the American WNBA before also returning to Spain with her current club Salamanca.
Spotted by Barcelona-based Joventut, Fernandez was set on the course to be a professional player from his mid-teens and was included in the Olympic squad for the Athens Olympics in 2004 while only 19 years of age.
He went to Portland as the 24th pick in the draft.
"All the community from Portland helped me a lot with the the transition. The first year was difficult, but basketball is basketball," he added.
Averaging 10.4 points and with a formidable conversion rate for three-point efforts and from the free throw line, Fernandez repaid Portland's faith in his abilities during his first season.
His amazing air skills were also noted and he was picked to take part in the four-man NBA Slam Dunk Series at the 2009 All-Star Game.
Fernandez was controversially eliminated at the first round stage but had made a lasting impression, wearing a No.10 Trail Blazer shirt in tribute to former Portland star Fernando Martin, the first Spaniard to play in the NBA.
Martin was killed in car accident in 1989, but had led the way for the likes of Pau Gasol and Fernandez at the highest level of basketball.
He was one of Fernandez's heroes growing up, along with Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.
Gasol, five years his senior, was also an inspiration.
"Pau is probably one of the best players in the world, so he's my reference, and I work every year to be better and better," said Fernandez.
With Portland unable to make it past the first round of the playoffs in his time there, Fernandez went to Denver in a three-way trade.
He needed surgery on his troublesome back problem but recovered in time to play at the London 2012 Olympics.
With Spain fielding the likes of the Gasol brothers, Pau and Marc, Juan Carlos Navarro and himself, they once again came close to upsetting the all powerful U.S. squad.
Gasol netted 24 points and Navarro 21, but the U.S. edged a thrilling gold medal match 107-100, underlining Spain's rise as a basketball power.
"We are probably the second team in the world. I remember a long time ago in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, no team could compete against the U.S. Dream Team, but now there's a little bit of respect paid by them to the other teams," Fernandez said.
He is not the only member of that team to return to Spain from the NBA.
Navarro left Memphis in 2008 after just one season, and has since been an outstanding player for Real's archrivals Barcelona.
"Right now I think Navarro dominates the Eurobasket," said Fernandez.
"He decided to come back to Spain like me and he is probably one of the best shooting guards in the world as he demonstrated in the Olympics and in the world championships."
Navarro and Pau Gasol would both be 36 at the time of the 2016 Olympics, so their participation is questionable, but Fernandez is hoping to go to his fourth Games.
While Spain dominates football, being the reigning world and European champions, its basketball team is not far behind.
With Fernandez on the roster, it has won the last two editions of the European championship and claimed the FIBA World Cup in 2006.
"I'm ready for Rio. I think we have a good team, a young team with Ricky Rubio, Marc Gasol, Serge Ibaka and myself."
There is still the possibility that Fernandez, a passionate music fan who has dreams of becoming a DJ, will have another go at cracking the NBA – if his body can withstand the strain.
"Who knows in two years, three years, I could back to the NBA if I start to feel better about my back."


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Kevin Simon
Graduated December 2007
B.S. Accountancy
Grand Rapids Catholic Secondary Schools
Grand Rapids, MI
Kevin Simon attended Ferris State University beginning in 2004. While at Ferris, he was involved in many groups and organizations. In addition to being in the Honors Program, Kevin was also a member of Student Government and its Finance Division, the Accounting Association, the Newman Center for Catholic Students, the Habitat for Humanity Ferris Chapter, and also the Honors Student Advisory Board. In addition, Kevin worked on campus as an Orientation Leader.
As an undergraduate, Kevin had the opportunity to represent the Ferris State University Honors Program at The Washington Center's "Leaders on Leadership" Academic Seminar in Washington D.C. This six-day seminar included representatives from over 100 different college Honors programs across the United States.
Being in Honors has had a large influence on Kevin in his life. The cultural events and community service requirements were great opportunities to become a more diverse and appreciative person. Living in an Honors hall allowed Kevin to be in an environment that promoted learning and building relationships with the other Honors students. Some of Kevin's greatest friendships were a result of living in the Honors halls. He also met his wife Jennifer, an Optometry student at Ferris, in the Honors Program.
During college, Kevin was an intern with BDO Seidman, USA in their tax department. Upon graduation in 2007 from Ferris, he continued to work at BDO while pursuing his Masters Degree. In August 2009, Kevin graduated with his Masters of Science in Accountancy from Grand Valley State University.
In 2010 Kevin transitioned to Nienhuis Financial Group in Grandville, MI where he specialized in business management and consulting. In 2013, Kevin became the business manager/CFO if the Grand Rapids Catholic Secondary schools, overseeing the financial management of Catholic Central High School and West Catholic High School in Grand Rapids, MI. In 2016, he was promoted to the Comptroller position for the Diocese of Grand Rapids, overseeing the accounting and financial reporting for the diocese.
He is more than happy to speak with past, present, and future Ferris students regarding the Honors Program or the accounting field. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com and http://www.dioceseofgrandrapids.org/diocese/Administration/Pages/Finance.aspx#.VwU6K_krJhE.


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Magenta Moon
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A serene landscape under a magenta moon.
Classes are BYOB. Painters aged 13-17 may paint alongside a parent that is also painting. No one under age 12. No observers.
The Perfect Night Out
Enjoy drinks, upbeat music and hanging out with your favorite people while you paint! It's as fun for first-time painters as it is for experienced artists.
Fun Atmosphere
From the moment you walk in, the mood is light, the music is fun and the conversation comes easy!
Easy to Do
You don't need to be a seasoned painter — we make it easy for everyone to find their inner artist!
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You'll get seats with all your friends, even if you book separately. Just tell us your friends' names when you register.
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There's no rule that says you have to follow the artist's steps. It's your art, so paint it however you like!
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Check out our FAQs to learn more about what to expect from your Pinot's Palette experience or feel free to call the studio to speak to a member of our staff.
What are your studio office hours?
Studio office hours are 11-4 Wed through Fri and 11-3 on Sat.
How do I sign up for a class?
Signing up is easy. Go to website and tap "register now" on the upcoming event you are interested in or the calendar image on the day you plan to attend. Follow online instructions. Contact us if you have trouble completing your order and we will walk you through the process.
What days are classes held?
Classes are typically held on Wed, Thurs, Fri, and Sat evenings. We also have Family Fun with Little Brushes on Sat and Sun afternoon. Check calendar for specific dates.
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Our calendar generally posts a month in advance. Join our email list and receive a link each month to the new calendar.
What does a class cost?
2 hour classes cost $37-$40 per painter. 3 hour classes cost $45-$50 per painter. Family Fun Days are $25 per painter. Project Pet is $65 per painter.


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Philadelphia abuzz over possible 2015 visit by Pope Francis
Though the Vatican hasn't made an official announcement, news that Pope Francis may visit Philadelphia in 2015 has generated buzz among the Catholic community and city residents.
Vatican officials told the National Catholic Reporter on Friday that Pope Francis intends to attend the World Meeting of Families, a global Catholic event that aims to "support and strengthen families."
The event is held every three years and is scheduled to take place Sept. 22-27, 2015, in Philadelphia. It has been held in various parts of the world since it was launched under Pope John Paul II in 1994.
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is "eagerly anticipating" the event, said Kenneth Gavin, director of communications for the archdiocese.
"The World Meeting of Families has traditionally been attended by the Holy Father," Gavin said in an email statement to the Los Angeles Times. "We are planning as if Pope Francis will be with us and have no indication he will not attend."
However, Gavin reiterated that reports "circulating widely today" that Pope Francis is expected to attend "are not official."
Donna Crilley Farrell, executive director of the World Meeting of Families, said excitement for the Philadelphia conference has been building since the end of the most recent meeting of families in Milan, Italy, in June 2012.
The Milan conference had about 12,000 attendees but close to 1 million people showed up for the closing Mass, she said.
"We would expect similar numbers if Pope Francis came to Philadelphia," she said.
The last pontiff to visit the city was Pope John Paul II in 1979.
"There were at least a million people here on the Ben Franklin Parkway for his Mass," she said. "I think there is still an impact on the city from that visit."
If Pope Francis were to come, it would be a "real gift for Catholics" in the area, she said.
Tourism officials at Visit Philly, the region's official destination marketing organization, tweeted: "Big news! Pope Francis is planning to visit Philadelphia in 2015" with a link to an article.
Many people retweeted or replied with responses such as "we'd better get moving on those new hotels!" and "I'm excited but would wait for confirmation from Philly and Vatican officials."
Victoria Harris, 27, took to Twitter to express her enthusiasm. Though she is Christian but not Catholic, she thinks the pope's potential trip to Philadelphia will have a positive influence for the city overall.
"I love the city and I tell everyone I know all the great things about it," she told The Times. "I think having the pope come will be big because a lot of people will come and see him and it will showcase the city."
Mark McDonald, press secretary for Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, said the city, which has a large Catholic and Christian population, would be excited to welcome the Pope. According to Pew Research, 29% of U.S. adults in Pennsylvania are Catholic.
"If and when it is confirmed from the Vatican that the pope will be visiting ... there will be a tremendous welcome for him," he said.
Vatican City announced its decision to hold the meeting in Philadelphia in February 2013, just before Pope Benedict XVI's resignation.
McDonald said city officials were pleased by Pope Benedict's decision to host the next meeting in Philadelphia.
"We've been simply waiting since then to see whether Pope Francis will be able to place it on his itinerary at that point in time," he said. "It would simply be a wonderful event for Philadelphia should he be able to come."
If Pope Francis does attend the 2015 conference, it would be his first official visit to the United States.
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Divergent fans hit the theaters to the tune of $56 million this weekend, making it the number-one movie in the country!
Even better news? Divergent's success means the sequel Insurgent got the go-ahead to start filming, so Shailene Woodley and Theo James will be back on screens as Tris and Four in March of next year!
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THE DRIVE: Dems push for independent Russian probe; DeVos booed; Dakota Access leaks
Pelosi pushes for special panel on Russia probe
WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is threatening to use a parliamentary maneuver to force a vote on a bill that would create an independent panel to investigate possible contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
Pelosi says in a letter Wednesday to House Democrats that they'll file a discharge petition if Speaker Paul Ryan doesn't call up the legislation "immediately upon our return next week." The House is on recess this week.
A discharge petition allows a measure to be brought straight to the floor, bypassing consideration by committee. But successes are rare through this approach because a majority of House members must sign the petition.
Pelosi says the "fireworks at the Department of Justice demand that we remove the investigation from the Trump-appointed Justice Department leadership."
Dakota Access pipeline leaked 84 gallons of oil in April
BISMARCK, N.D. — The Dakota Access pipeline leaked 84 gallons of oil in South Dakota early last month, which an American Indian tribe says bolsters its argument that the pipeline jeopardizes its water supply and deserves further environmental review.
The April 4 spill was relatively small and was quickly cleaned up, and it didn't threaten any waterways. The state's Department of Environment and Natural Resources posted a report in its website's searchable database, but it didn't take any other steps to announce it to the public, despite an ongoing lawsuit by four Sioux tribes seeking to shut down the pipeline.
Brian Walsh, an environmental scientist with the agency, said Wednesday that the state doesn't issue news releases on spills unless there is a threat to public health, a fishery or a drinking water system. He said there was no such threat with the Dakota Access leak, which happened nearly 100 miles east of the Missouri River's Lake Oahe reservoir, which is the tribes' water supply.
DeVos booed speaking at historically black university
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Many of the graduating students turned their backs on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and boos nearly drowned out her commencement speech Wednesday at Bethune-Cookman University.
DeVos carried on with her keynote address to the historically black university, praising its founder Mary McLeod Bethune as someone who "refused to accept systemic and repulsive racism," and had "the courage to change old ideas."
"Let's choose to hear one another out," DeVos said, reading her prepared text in a measured tone despite continuing waves of boos, catcalls and scattered applause.
As the crowd kept trying to shout her down, university president Edison Jackson briefly took over the microphone to lecture the students before she continued.
"If this behavior continues, your degrees will be mailed to you. Choose which way you want to go," Jackson warned.
US risks a backlash for its growing role in Syrian conflict
BEIRUT — With the Trump administration's decision to supply Syria's Kurdish fighters with heavier weapons, U.S. troops inside Syria are in the crossfire between Turkey, a powerful NATO ally, and the Kurdish fighters that Ankara deems as terrorists.
In only a few months under President Donald Trump, the U.S. has almost doubled the number of troops in northern Syria, taking a highly visible role that also risks a backlash from militants such as the Islamic State group and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, and even pro-Turkey Syrian fighters angered by the U.S. move to arm the Kurds.
Tuesday's decision to arm the Kurds is a public rebuff to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a week before he meets Trump in Washington. For months, Erdogan has been trying to convince the U.S. to cut off its support for the Kurds and partner instead with Turkey-backed fighters to liberate the Islamic State group stronghold of Raqqa.
The dispute could ignite more fighting between Turkey and the Kurds as they gear up for a major operation to retake the city, with U.S. troops smack in the middle.


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A primer on the right way to use a gun
By Sarah Kucharski
On a chilly, rain soaked Sunday morning the last weekend of January I stood under a peaked, sheet metal roof at the Moss Gap shooting range on the Jackson/Macon line, staring down at a loaded Glock Model 19 in my hand.
The gun was solid, heavy and black. Simply holding it was the closest I'd ever come to actually using a firearm. Not that I hadn't been around them. Oh no, on the contrary. The problem was that growing up most of my experiences had involved how not to use a gun.
There was the time my friend's father got drunk at her birthday party and he and his best friend sat up on the porch shooting at a for sale sign across the neighborhood. He and my friend's mother are now divorced.
There was the time my uncle (by marriage, not by blood) thought it would be great fun to ride down I-40 waving his pistol at passing cars and laughing. He and my aunt are now divorced.
And then about 15 years later, there was the time I was at a party out in Cruso when my boyfriend decided to fill everyone in that I'd never shot a gun. Despite all the party's requisite inebriation, it didn't stop a partygoer from dragging me into the back bedroom, pulling out a pistol and begin loading it — which is precisely the moment the phrase "I'm gonna die, today I'm going to die" began repeating in my head.
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I was unceremoniously dragged onto the porch and ordered to fire at the gas can, a can sitting rather immediately next to the campfire mind you. Rather than heed the advice "all you have to do is squeeze it," I cowered around the side of the house with my hands over my ears and waited until they ran out of ammo.
That boyfriend and I are no longer seeing each other.
Not surprisingly, I have been what could loosely be described as "terrified" of guns. Granted, in each of the aforementioned situations it was the people involved, not the weapon itself that posed the danger. How these people remain a part of the gene pool never ceases to amaze me.
Having spent the better part of a year covering crime at a previous newspaper job down in South Carolina, and having come back home to Western North Carolina where guns are more of a way of life than a lifestyle, I thought it was high time I conquer my fears.
I'd met Sgt. Scott Buttery, a certified firearms instructor, at the Jackson County Sheriff's Office about a year ago while working on a story. I explained my desire to learn how to properly use a gun; he said he'd be happy to teach me.
And so there I was, wrapped in an extra camouflage raincoat, surrounded by lockboxes of ammunition, the shots of our fellow marksmen Kevin and Jennifer seeming to reverberate off my teeth each time they fired.
Jennifer, a Western Carolina University grad student and Southwestern Community College employee, had purchased a gun for her husband at Christmas. They'd both enjoyed it so much, she decided to go out and get her own. She was in the process of applying for a concealed weapons permit.
Unable to put off the inevitable any longer, I raised the Glock, closed my left eye and slowly, steadily squeezed the trigger. The gun bobbed slightly upwards. I squeezed again. And again.
Stopping to look at my target, a torso-shaped piece of cardboard with a black and yellow target in the middle of its chest, I was disappointed. My bullets had not pierced the intended area. But Jennifer, seemingly an eternal optimist, chimed in.
"You did good," she exclaimed. "You killed him."
I looked again. She was right. While I had not hit the target, I had shot my cardboard man in the head and chest — twice.
And so, with the sun breaking through the clouds overhead, I began a three and a half-hour long session, running through a clip, reloading, running through another clip, reloading .... The beauty of the sport is that despite the weapons' awesome power, they are designed for precision. It is a competition against fellow shooters and against oneself — hit the target, hit the target more often, hit the target faster.
I shot the Glock, the MP5-K — a submachine gun, and the same model Sheriff Jimmy Ashe carries — the M4 — an assault rifle — the M1A — a military style rifle and my personal favorite, the Kimber 1911 (see target). When all was said and done, my arms were sore and I needed a nap.
Spending time at the shooting range has not become a regular sort of thing, which my mother greatly appreciates, but I'm not ashamed to say I had fun. So until next time — lock and load.


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On Thursday, a New Zealand court decided to reschedule the extradition hearing sought by the US for Kim Dotcom. The hearing is now set to take place in August 2013, after being postponed once already.
Dotcom, who was arrested in his New Zealand home in January for alleged copyright fraud, was supposed to appear in court in August 2012 for the extradition hearing. Instead, the hearing was put off until March 2013 due to issues concerning the disclosure of evidence. At the time, the New Zealand High Court ruled that the FBI had to provide Kim Dotcom's lawyers with more of the evidence they had collected against him before he could stand trial for extradition.
A spokeswoman for one of Dotcom's lawyers confirmed the change but did not provide a reason for it, according to the AFP.
Dotcom is currently living free on bail in New Zealand, and although he was originally barred from using the Internet, the Web mogul has since launched a new site that functions as a heavily encrypted service similar to Megaupload. That leniency somewhat reflects the momentum of the case against Dotcom: in September, New Zealand authorities found that the country's Security Bureau had illegally spied on him, putting another roadblock up in the effort to convict Kim Dotcom for piracy.


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The allure of sliding doors in Milford is one of those things that is difficult to ignore. There are a lot of people who have been in a good position to benefit from the installation of these doors for different reasons. When you have the sliding doors installed at home, they give your home a more natural appeal, considering the ease with which you can have light entering into your house. Your home will also feel more spacious than it really is, which is another issue that you need to consider. Think about the large glass panels that are often installed with these sliding doors and the sturdy frames. When you do this, you have a better chance of having a simple and modern touch to the home than you will get anywhere else. To be precise, sliding doors are one of the easiest ways to give your home a complete makeover and to make it look amazing while you are at it.
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While Milford sliding doors are an incredible concept, you also need to think about the cost of getting these doors installed in the first place. There are many things that go into the design of the doors that will affect the cost. First of all, you have to pay attention to the workmanship. If you need to get the best results, it is always wise to hire an expert to assist in the installation of these doors. It sounds good because of the assurance that you will get incredible results. On the other hand, professional services for sliding doors do not always come cheap, so make sure you budget accordingly.
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"I believe great relationships cultivate great stories. My first job is to listen and my second is to tell your story with compassion and respect."
Royale Dá (pronounced "Day") returned to her home of New Mexico in April 2008.
Royale is experienced in both broadcast and print journalism. Prior to joining the Action 7 News team, she worked as an anchor/reporter at KOLN-TV in Lincoln, Nebraska; anchor/reporter KBJR-TV in Duluth, Minnesota; and reporter at the The Miami Herald.
She graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities with a degree in professional journalism, and is a member of the NAHJ (National Association of Hispanic Journalists) and NAJA (Native American Journalists Association). Her outstanding work has also been recognized by the Associated Press; she earned a first place award in series reporting for "Help From the Heartland - Hurricane Katrina."
One of her passions in life is supporting Special Olympics. She volunteered extensively for the organization before moving to New Mexico, and plans to continue doing so in New Mexico.
Royale is elated to be back home in the Land of Enchantment. Her father is from the San Ildefonso Pueblo (in Santa Fe County), her mother is from Pecos, and she has relatives across the state.
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Good news today! I'm so happy to be giving away a spot in Becky Higgins' class, Project Real Life at Big Picture Classes! This is a four expert class and I know it's going to be amazing. Becky will be sharing her philosophy behind Project Life which is all about cultivating a better life with a practical approach to documenting the everyday. The class starts October 4th and lasts 12 weeks. The last day to register will be October 10.
To find out more about the class or to sign up click here:
Here's a more detailed description of what Project Real Life is all about...
Class Description
Come join Becky Higgins for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend some time with her during the last quarter of 2012. As Becky goes about preparing for the holidays, organizing around her home and documenting her family's story along the way, she'll be sharing ideas to inspire you, tips to motivate you, and real-life suggestions on how to cultivate the life you want.
Whether you're a long-time Project Lifer or you're just now hearing about Project Life, you will love learning about the guilt-free philosophy behind this system of memory-keeping. While Becky will give you plenty to think about and do during the 12 weeks of this workshop, she firmly believes that there isn't a person that exists who "does it all" - and it should be the last thing we expect from ourselves.
Becky's class includes:
- An exclusively-designed set of Project Life cards (3" x 4" and 4" x 6") that will not be available anywhere else!
- Access to a pre-classroom with a presentation from Becky upon registration for class
- Colorful instructional handouts with step-by-step instructions for each lesson/project
- Voice messages, slideshows and videos throughout class
- Three live chats with Becky
- Welcome notes from Becky in the classroom
- Reminder emails when the classroom is updated with new materials
- Message board to share your thoughts with your classmates
- Private posting gallery to share your work and view the work of your classmates
- Supply list with live links to product resources
You have until this Thursday morning to enter by leaving a comment. I'll come back and update this post with the lucky person's name at that time. Good luck!
**The winner is Lindsey Marie! Congrats to you! Please email me so I can tell you how to claim your prize.