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These floating figures of death and rebirth return people to life where their spirit stands.<ref name="WoWOSG 28">''[[WoWOSG]]'', pg. 28</ref> They are usually encountered at a [[graveyard]] after death. Although it can't be seen while dead, a Spirit Healer has blue skin and white wrappings. Its wings are a paler blue. == Info == Spirit Healers are able to [[resurrect]] players at the cost of 25% [[durability]] loss to all items (both equipped and in inventory) at the graveyard where they are found. In addition, if you are resurrected by a Spirit Healer, you will suffer from [[Resurrection Sickness]]. As of [[patch 2.4]], players that have the resurrection sickness debuff are worth no honor. This debuff decreases all of your [[attributes]] and damage dealt by 75%, and has a duration that varies depending on your level: *Characters level 10 and under will NOT gain resurrection sickness. *Characters level 11-19 will gain one minute of resurrection sickness for each level above 10 (i.e. a level 12 character will get 2 minutes and a level 15 character will get 5 minutes). *Characters level 20 and up will gain 10 minutes of resurrection sickness. Normal Spirit healers do not appear in the Death Knight Starting Zone. They are replaced by [[Val'kyr Battle-maiden]]s. ::''The Spirit Healer's imagery is an adaptation of the archangels from Blizzard's [[Diablo]] series; in both cases, the "wings" of the beings are in fact tendrils of energy arranged in a wing-shaped configuration.'' == Named == *[[Koiter (NPC)|Koiter]] *[[Anara]] {{C-inline}} == Notes == * If you run to a Spirit Healer at another graveyard and ask her to bring you back to life she will do so, but the resurrection sends you back to the graveyard at which you originally spawned as a ghost.{{fact}} * The Default Spirit Healer for Alliance is in Sentinel Hill,{{fact}} alternatively the Horde's is in the Crossroads.{{fact}} If you die in an uncharted location or location otherwise unlinked to a Spirit Healer, your spirit upon release will be at the default graveyard,{{fact}} in many cases the only way to rez is via rez sickness. == Trivia == * Shortly after the game went live, some players claimed that the Spirit Healer whispers a coherent sentence that is hard to hear:{{fact}} **"Play World of Warcraft" **"Give us your money" **"That's right customer" **"It's not that much" * While Spirit Healers do emit strange, whispery sounds at low volume, Blizzard insists that they are just random vocal effects and that there is no scripted statement to be heard. * Before October 2010 if you were to log out and log back in, you would no longer be linked to the spirit healer you spawned at, thus allowing you to go to a different spirit healer and spawn in another location. == Patch changes == *{{Patch 1.5.0|note=When a player dies in an instance and then uses the spirit healer, the body in the instance now turns to bones.}} == References == {{reflist}} == See also == *[[Spirit of Redemption]] == External links == <!-- Read http://www.wowwiki.com/WoWWiki:External_links before posting your links here. 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As CEO and president of Good Times Restaurants, Boyd Hoback oversees a two-concept public company with wide-open expansion prospects and little of the financial trauma deviling higher-profile operations. Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard has been one of the few QSRs to see traffic grow, with same-store sales for the quarter ended Sept. 26 rising by 3.9%. Rarer, full-service concept Bad Daddy's Burger Bar bucked casual dining's malaise to post a 1.4% rise.
Yet, the spotlight has missed Hoback, even when he made moves that presaged what would establish CEOs of bigger operations as industry oracles.
It was Hoback, the one-time busboy, whom principals of full-service burger chain Round the Corner tapped to head a convenience-driven spinoff. The idea: a QSR serving burgers of a quality associated with full service, but with moderate prices. It was essentially the rationale for the better-burger fast casuals that would follow.
Hoback would steer Good Times through the Great Recession, which walloped the brand. But Hoback and his team forged ahead with a bet that the public would embrace a burger made with additive-free beef from ranches that used no hormones.
The move became a point of distinction. "We look at what the big guys can't and won't do," Hoback says. "The supply chain wasn't there for the big guys to go to all-natural."
Years later, looking to diversify, Hoback took a peek behind the curtain of a full-service burger restaurant by Dennis Thompson, co-creator of Lone Star Steakhouse, Fox & Hounds and Bailey's, that was getting attention in the Carolinas. Hoback saw a differentiated concept with high volumes (it averages about $2.7 million in annual unit sales), healthy margins (now at about 20%) and a modest footprint. Casual dining was tanking, but Bad Daddy's presented strong unit economics.
Good Times acquired 48% of Bad Daddy's, and, after liking what it saw, bought the other 52% for $21 million.
Hoback emphasizes maintaining two distinct cultures. A QSR chain like Good Times "is really a lot of little factories. We're really process-driven," says Hoback. "Bad Daddy's, on the other hand, is a very hospitality-driven experience. It's an hour visit."
Operationally, there's a challenge to not let things get wobbly, particularly at the unit level. Hoback says the guiding principle is "fun and firm"—"fun at the unit level, but with firm boundaries and expectations in place."
The approach echoes what Hoback says is his business philosophy: "Our bottom line is process-driven, our top line is people-driven."

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on November 7, 2019
Hey, we're under the weather this week, so we need to delay the comic until next week.
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Starting tomorrow, I will be returning back to DD but I miight always write in my journal on the same day. I will be writing in my journal on a daily basis and inputing the information on a later date. I have not been here for a while because I have been busy with my educational endeavors and my personal life that writing in my journal here at DD has been put on hold. However, if any of you have a yahoo address or a yahoo account, you can find me at Yahoo 360 with my user name being kristimary70. I do know for a FACT that if I have something very personal to write about, I will write it here and NOT at Yahoo 360 for personal reasons of protecting my friends and family, and my journal entries here at that time will be for my friends only. If I write something very personal and wish not to have anyone see it, it will not be readable to any of my DD, but I still love all of my friends. Please take note of the changes and remember I am kristimary70 at Yahoo 360. I also be assured that I am doing just fine and with winter coming just around the corner, my entries will be sporatic but most of them readable so please do not leave me. I have comfort and security with all of you. Thanks!! I love ya guys very much!
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Once again I know it has been a while since I had written but the month of August was not the greatest month I experienced. It was an emotional month for me and believe me, I think I am still having some side affects from the emotional turmoil I felt last month. Today I feel a little paranoid for some reason and it is all because of a tenant meeting that is going to be taking place at 5 p.m. this evening. It seems like these tenant meetings turn into "bitch" sessions among tenants because of the fact that they just do not get along with everyone. What is happening to people in today's world? Satan is getting a hold of many of them and turning them against God for those who believe in Him. I also feel that God is very powerful and He knows what He is doing and why he is doing what he is doing but sometimes I do wonder if I am falling down so much because I am not relying on God everyday like I once did. I do not remember the last time I went to church with my friend PK and I know I should be going, and living at TM has not been the greatest until three months ago when we got our new management and maintenance person in June. However, I have been attending church on Sundays with friends of mine but yet I did not go much last month either or this past weekend. I do have to admit that I have down and anxious about a lot of things. The tenants who live here now have made me realize that trust is a big issue and I do not trust many tenants here anymore. The tenants I do trust are JS, the manager and her husband, and JS's parents. That is only one tenant in this building I can fully trust.


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They're used to a bit of turbulence on the court.But NBA stars Oklahoma City Thunder were left battled as they disembarked a private charter plane late on Saturday night to discover its nose had been entirely indented mid-flight.
They were traveling from Minneapolis where they had earlier been defeated by the Minnesota Timberwolves when the damage was caused.
They noticed the damage after landing at Chicago's O'Hare Airport at 1.30am.
New Zealand player Steven Adams shared photographs of the damage after arriving at Chicago's O'Hare Airport at 1.30am on Saturday after their flight from Minnesota.
'We had a rough flight to say the least,' said Adams, 24.
Incredulous, he called on NASA and famous scientists Bill Nye and Neil Tyson to shed light on what may have caused the dent.
Adams' superstar teammate Carmelo Anthony also shared a photo of the plane on social media.
In an image posted to his Instagram account, Anthony asked 'what possibly could we have hit in the sky at this time of night?'.
Some mischievously suggested the damage was caused by 'Superman' while others pointed to the more likely explanation that it was a bird which struck the aircraft.
Player Patrick Patterson fed fans' fun.
When you accidentally hit superman while flying,' he said on Instagram. He assured fans that all passengers on the plane were safe.
On Sunday, Delta confirmed the damage and that all players and team staff were safe.
They said it was likely caused by a bird striking the nose of the aircraft.
'Delta flight 8935, operating from Minneapolis to Chicago-Midway as a charter flight for the Oklahoma City Thunder, likely encountered a bird while on descent into Chicago.


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It started when he was 12. His older sister Karen used to have slumber parties where she'd invite friends from school to watch horror movies and pig out on the sorts of foods one might expect. Young Karl was always drawn to these gatherings, both as a boy on the cusp of manhood who felt strange stirrings within him at the sight of so many nubile girls in their underthings, and as a pudgy youngster with a taste for popcorn and Twizzlers. At first Karen and her friends tried to drive the young male intruder away, but he was persistent and refused to be dissuaded by tactics ranging from purple nurples and wet willies to epic wedgies that would often tear his tight white underpants asunder. It was after one such wedgie that a party attendee, one Melinda Casey, mockingly suggested that she would get some underpants to replace Karl's torn ones and pulled a pair of Karen's from the drawer, stretching them over his head. From the first scent of his sister's freshly washed white cotton panties Karl was intoxicated. He happily sat and watched the movie alongside the girls, making no attempt to remove them from his large round head.
This begat a tradition wherein each of Karen's friends would bring a pair of panties, sometimes fresh, sometimes soiled, to the slumber parties and they would take turns sliding them over Karl's head as he sighed contentedly. Sometimes they would cover him with more than one at a time, and on several occasions he was forced to wear panties tied across his nose and mouth, like a desperado's bandanna when they were watching a western. The girls found it amusing to humiliate their friend's young brother, but Karl was having the erotic time of his life. He made attempts to cover up the hardness within his pants by wearing loose trousers or sitting with his hands in his lap, but occasionally the girls would notice and they would mock him and laugh long and hard at his expense. Karl, for his part, would sit there unmoving, breathing deeply of the scent of young womanhood enveloping his head and face.
Eventually Karen moved away to college and Karl found himself both alone and desolate. He had come to depend on those weekly sessions with her friends as almost his sole source of sexual stimulation. Young Karl was not considered handsome, and though his parents wondered why he didn't date they assumed that it was because he was a late bloomer. In fact Karl had tried to go on dates, but found them profoundly unsatisfying. After spending evenings ensconced in the silky underpants of a dozen older girls Karl simply good not get excited about a burger and shake with one his age, even if it was followed by some light petting and awkward kissing. The first time a girl put her tongue in his mouth Karl recoiled, it was strong and slimy, like an angry slug. No comparison for the elegant smoothness of a pair of silk panties, delicately flavored with the taste of pretty Melinda's womanhood.
Junior year of high school was lonely for Karl, but then came senior year and an opportunity. The girls field hockey team needed an equipment manager, and while it was assumed that the ideal candidate would also be a girl none stepped forward, and Karl was able to get the position. As an equipment manager Karl was pretty effective. He always had the goals set up before practice, the sticks polished and ready, and spares of everything in case of a problem. His only flaw was that he tended to lose pieces of the uniforms he was supposed to launder, specifically panties and sports bras. When asked where the undergarments had gone he would shrug and say he must have left it in the Laundromat, or maybe one of the girls had accidentally taken it home with him. Mrs. Werner, the team's coach, suspected the truth but she didn't want to have to bother with all the equipment herself, and Karl was such a bright and friendly young boy, that she never brought it up. For his part Karl found himself in heaven, rescuing precious under panties from the team hamper and taking them home with him in plastic bags, to preserve the sweat and other fluids they had soaked up while on the bodies of the sweaty, hardworking girls. He would get to his room, lock the door, open the bag, take a deep, satisfying, whiff and masturbate furiously. Soon he had a collection of panties and bras from each of the girls on the team, and he kept them under the mattress of his bed, where other boys might keep Playboys. One day after his mother came in to clean he found his collection gone and had to rebuild it from scratch, but Mrs. Rove never brought it up and neither did Karl. Besides, it was exciting to get an entirely fresh batch, each panty scented with an intoxicating mix of vaginal lubricants, sweat, and fresh mowed grass. He tried to stay clear of the panties of girls who were menstruating at this point, and the occasional fecal streak left him with mixed feelings. It would be years before he fully appreciated the varying smells that could come from a single woman's nether regions.
College was a rude awakening for Karl. All the women's teams had female equipment managers, and it was hard for a pudgy socially insecure freshman like him to strike up even an acquaintanceship with a pretty woman, let alone a relationship strong enough for him to be left alone in her room with her underwear drawer. He was kicked out of his first school for getting a girl he was 'studying with' drunk and rifling through her and her roommate's underwear drawers, sticking his head in among the soft cotton panties and stuffing some mementos in his pockets. The roommate and her boyfriend walked in on him doing the dirty deed, and after a brief trial he was asked not to return for the spring semester.
What followed was a series of transfers to various institutions, each of which would accept him on the basis of his strong academic record and charming personality, only to be forced to expel him (or place him on academic probation) shortly afterwards as his campus antics became known. This was a difficult time for Karl. Nobody seemed to understand his need, and while perhaps it could be argued that breaking into the girls' dorm to pillage their laundry room was uncouth, nobody had gotten hurt. He felt dejected and rejected by both society at large and women in particular. Ironically the only thing that could get him out of his funk was the scent of a soiled panty, bringing him back to the halcyon days of his youth and his sister's slumber parties.
Eventually Karl found his way to small Cedar State College in Southern Illinois, where he first encountered the college Republicans. They were to be his saviors. Karl had already become a conservative, as many young men who don't fit in or feel unappreciated do, and so he went to the first meeting looking just to maybe meet some friends and perhaps get a glimpse of the promised land up the skirt of a woman or two. What he found was a group of men, only men, who were in the midst of planning something. Not a campus election or fund-raising activity, not a strategy session or speaking event, but a panty raid.
Rove knew he had found a home.
Using his considerable brainpower Karl Rove managed to convince the CR leadership to let him head up the raid, and based on his experience as a lone operator he was able to draw up plans and strategies that nobody else there had even thought of. The first raid was on the Sigma Delta Pi sorority, and with Rove's strategies in play the Republicans managed to capture over 80% of the panties in the house, with only casualty, a freshman who slipped on a silk brassiere left on the floor and fell down the stairs. He survived but had a broken collarbone. The men returned to the CR home base to divide the booty, and as the leader Karl got the pick of the littler. He ended up with a pair of unwashed panties that had belonged to the head cheerleader on campus and several interesting garments belonging to bookish girls, whose smell he was particularly fond of.
Rove's Raiders, as they became known, continued their efforts in the coming months and were successful on a scale that no panty pirates were before or have been since. At one point their activities were so frenetic that half the girls at Cedar State had to go to classes with no panties on at all. Needless to say this endeared them to the other men on campus and their ranks swelled.
Republican strategist Lee Atwater heard of Rove's successes as an organizer and tabbed him as a potential head of the College Republicans on a national basis. After a fierce campaign against Terry Dolan, Rove was declared the winner after rumors spread that Dolan liked to wear women's underwear. Of course these were based on panties found in Dolan's room, planted by Rove allies from his considerable supply. Rove learned a lesson about the value of dirty play on that day that he would not forget.
Eventually Rove left Cedar State to become a full time political strategist, going from campaign to campaign down in the South helping Republicans win office. Rove was an effective campaign worker, and much in demand, but he had the peculiar stipulation that any campaign that hired him would have to provide him with a steady supply of soiled panties during his stay. Some on the Christian right found this deplorable, but you couldn't argue with Rove's success, so most agreed to his demands.
Rove eventually went to work for the Bush family, lured by a box of Jane Fonda's used underpants that Bush operatives had bought from the North Vietnamese. He was assigned to work with a troubled scion of the great political machine, George W., who was an alcoholic at the time. Karl had a rapport with Bush, since they both suffered from a debilitating addiction, Bush to alcohol and Karl to 'white cotton bliss' and they bonded instantly. During this time Rove married a woman named Valerie Wainright. The marriage didn't last because Wainright grew tired of being forced to go commando almost every day thanks to Karl's insatiable appetite. She also didn't appreciate sharing the house with his collection. "Most men have a mistress" she is reported to have said "Karl has a thousand mistresses, and he licks and sniffs at them almost every night. I can't handle it." When the union was dissolved the official word came to be that Rove was too intensely into politics. Insiders have long laughed at this theory. "If by politics you mean French cut underwear stolen from the locker room of the local country club I guess you could say that." Says one source.
One good thing did come out of the marriage. While Rove had sniffed enough panties, tens of thousands by now, to be able to tell a lot about a woman (Weight, height, ethnicity, point in her reproductive cycle, activity level) by just the scent of her vaginal secretions, his pallet became even more subtle during his time with Wainright. He learned to detect a woman's mood just from how her panties smelled and were bunched in the hamper, and even to a degree what kind of thoughts she had been having. Serious or frivolous? Was she pondering or daydreaming? All this Rove could tell with just a few licks on a fresh pair of panties, and perhaps some sleeping underwear for comparison's sake. This was a skill that came in quite handy during the eventual campaign against Ann Richards.
Eventually with Rove's help Bush got clean and began to climb the ladder of the Texas business community, after failing with a bid for the House of Representatives in '78. Rove was by his side, helping him any way he could, and Bush appreciated that, making sure that Rove was never pantiless. It was a match made in heaven.
Together Bush and Rove managed to defeat incumbent Texas Governor Ann Richards and claim the statehouse for Bush. At this point Rove was already remarried, to a woman who could tolerate his peculiar predilection, and firmly established as a political mastermind. There were rumors that Bush and Rove had had a mole in the Richards camp telling them what she was thinking. In fact what they had done was pay off an employee of Richards favorite Laundromat to give Rove access to her underwear, from which he could piece together what her thoughts of the time were. Nobody caught on.
Rove and Bush ran Texas for 6 years before ascending to the White House in the famous campaign of 2000. At this point Rove's love of panties was an open secret in Washington, and indeed during the first term it was known that if you wanted access to Bush you need to contribute to two funds. His campaign war chest and Rove's panty collection. Women throughout the D.C. area found themselves being propositioned on the street by lobbyists wanting to buy their underpants to send to Rove, and soon his office was flooded with them. Eventually he had to move some of his collection to a nuclear bunker intended for use by the Minority leadership in the House and Senate in case of an attack.
Meanwhile in the White House Rove became more and more arrogant and demanding. Female members of the administration were routinely stopped in the hall and asked to surrender their undergarments to him, and those who refused faced censure or worse. It was rumored that Christine Todd Whitman, a woman he particularly admired, refused to give in. She didn't make it to Bush's second term as EPA administrator.
The re-election of Bush, despite a staggeringly awful first term as president, has cemented Rove's status as a mastermind and given him virtual Carte blanch on the panty-sniffing front. Believing that nothing can hurt him now Rove has not only stepped up his acquisitions but also for the first time openly admitted to some of his behavior. For example Rove says that his entire office is appointed in unwashed, used, women's underpants. The chair upholstery, the carpeting, even the curtains, sewn together from thousands of pairs of panties. He also has said that the military requires female soldiers and officers to completely change their underwear wardrobe every 28 days, sending the discards to be "Recycled" which is code for sent to Rove. "There's something deliciously sweet about the lubricants of a woman who has served in Iraq. I don't foresee us leaving there any time soon." Says Rove. Rove has also had "sniffers" as he calls them sewn into the lapels of all his suits. He was caught recently licking the inside of his jacket on camera, after which he smiled sheepishly and flashed a bit of red velvet fabric.
Does Karl Rove have any regrets about his panty sniffing? "I hate thongs" says Rove. "They get far up into the crack, sure, but there's not enough material to really collect a true scent. It's a very disturbing trend how popular they're getting. We may have to ban them." A trend that some blame Rove for starting, at least in D.C. Several young interns say that they were tired of political operatives stealing their garments to send to Rove and that with thongs at least they don't have to worry about that, even if the coverage isn't as great.
For his part Rove remains defiant to those who call him a deviant. "I have an unusual lifestyle but I am an unusual man. Who is to say that panty-sniffing hasn't made me the man I am today."
Does Rove have a favorite panty or type of panty? "White cotton is always a classic, as are the lacy ones from Victoria's secret, they're so delicate against the nose and on the tongue, something really special there. As for a type of woman, well, a Filipina in her 30's is probably the ideal. They have this citrusy scent that's simply superb, but I don't discriminate. African American, White, Pre-Teen, Octogenarian? Constipated, incontinent? As long as they are female and they wear panties I will sniff them and enjoy them."
As for technique? Rove says it depends on how soaked and soiled a pair is, but normally he likes to stretch a pair of panties out on a flat surface and lower his nose to it, inhaling deeply. After that he makes a few passes over it sniffing, and then licks it gently with his tongue. If it is a particularly nice pair he will lift it with his hands to his face and place it over his nose for a few breaths, or stick a corner into his mouth to get the full flavor. Occasionally the whole panty will go in, but he doesn't like the way cotton and silk threads feel on his palette so that is the exception rather than the rule. After the first sniff a pair of panties will either go into his current rotation drawer, which he uses during the day from time to time, or into storage in the bunker in case it is needed later. He never throws a pair away, considering each pair of panties both a gift from god, and a memory to be treasured forever.
Rumor has it that Rove has even started accepting underpants belonging to transsexuals and the transgendered, but he loudly denies them. Meanwhile Karl Rove continues his life as one of America's best-known political operatives, and the undisputed worldwide king of panty sniffing.
Long may you reign sir, long may you reign.


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Podcaster: Morgan Rehnberg
Title: Monthly News Roundup: Goodbye, Cosmos
Link : http://cosmicchatter.org
NRC: http://cosmicchatter.org/news/2014/6/5/should-nasa-go-all-in-on-mars
Laser Comms: http://www.space.com/26167-nasa-laser-hd-video-from-space.html
Space Fence: http://www.space.com/26113-lockheed-martin-air-force-space-fence-contract.html
Cosmos: http://cosmicchatter.org/news/2014/6/9/critiquing-cosmos-episode-13
Description: Cosmos winds down while some programs are just getting started. A new report doesn't look so good for NASA.
Bio: Morgan Rehnberg is a graduate student in astrophysics and planetary science at the University of Colorado – Boulder. When not studying the rings of Saturn, he develops software to help search for asteroids that might hit the Earth. He blogs and podcasts about astronomy and space science at http://cosmicchatter.org.
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You're listening to the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast for June 29, 2014. I'm Morgan Rehnberg and this is the Monthly News Roundup. This episode was recorded June 17th from York, Pennsylvania.
Our top story this month is a troubling report for NASA issued by the National Research Council. A branch of the US National Academies, the NRC spent eighteen months and more than three million dollars studying the US human spaceflight program. Their 286-page report concludes that NASA is neither on track nor properly funded to put humans on the surface of Mars.
Why even go to the Red Planet? The report concludes that Mars is the only fiscally-justifiable goal for manned spaceflight. By stepping back and examining the last few decades of human missions, the NRC found that the research and technology benefits of crewed spaceflight do not justify its cost. That being said, space exploration has proven to be a powerful inspiration for generations of scientists and engineers and has also generated substantial goodwill for the United States on the international stage. Only with these benefits included in the equation is human spaceflight justifiable. Because of this, the NRC suggested that NASA must aim for the inspirational target most technically feasible: Mars.
So the question now becomes, is NASA equipped to go to Mars? Again, the report answers this in the negative. The study is particularly critical of President Obama's plan for astronauts to study a captured asteroid. This mission, while perhaps challenging, will not result in the development of technologies useful for travelling to, landing on, or working at Mars.
Tying together this whole discussion is the question of cost. Human spaceflight is among the most expensive endeavors we've ever performed. Landing men on the Moon cost us about 170 billion dollars. Maintaining the International Space Station has cost about 150 more. Almost assuredly, going to Mars would require an even greater sum. And that's a budget that NASA simply does not have. In a political climate in which the space agency projects flat budgets for the foreseeable future, the National Research Council estimates that travelling to Mars demands budgetary increases on the order of five percent per year.
So, should we even be going? I think so, but only if we're willing to fully commit. Human exploration of space is the ultimate go-big-or-go-home scenario. The United States must decide whether it wants to be a space-faring nation. If so, let's get the ball rolling. If not, there's a ton of other great science and exploration we can be doing.
Next up this month, a look at progress on the next generation of deep space communication. Since the dawn of the space age, we've communicated with satellites and spacecraft using radio waves. Giant dishes located around the Earth send and receive messages from across the solar system and every spacecraft includes a bulky antenna to do the same. Hopefully, that will soon be unnecessary.
The technology that promises to make this possible is laser communication. Lasers offer several distinct benefits over traditional radio communication. Much more focused than a flashlight-like radio beam, lasers can provide the same signal with just a fraction of the electrical power and in a much less bulky package. To top it all off, laser communications could offer hundreds of times faster bandwidth over which to transmit data.
The first-ever deep space laser test was carried out by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, but it was last year's LADEE mission that first proved the system could operate reliably. Earlier this month, the International Space Station joined in on the action when it transmitted a 22 megabyte video to the Earth in just 3.5 seconds. To transmit an identical copy via the ISS radio comm system would have taken more than 10 minutes.
With a peak transmission rate of 50 megabits per second, it's clear why NASA desires to implement this technology in future missions. Some hurdles remain, however. Because a laser beam is so small in comparison to a radio beam, extremely accurate pointing must be achieved in order for a connection to be established. This will likely restrict future use of this system to spacecraft within the inner solar system. Ships at Jupiter and beyond are simply too far away for such a tiny target to be hit. Advances must also be made in error correction to account for atmospheric disturbances within the beam.
Once these barriers are overcome, laser communication systems like the ones found on LADEE and the ISS promise to revolutionize our ability to collect data in space. No longer will missions be restricted by the amount of information they can return to the Earth. Instead, high frequency, high resolution observations may become the norm. And when that happens, we'll unlock a whole new world of science.
Looking up at night, space seems incredibly empty. And it is, but lurking nearby is an enormous population of hidden dangers. More than sixty years of space exploration has left low-Earth orbit littered with debris. Tens of thousands of golf ball sized objects and hundreds of thousands of coin-sized objects orbit within just a few hundred kilometers of the Earth's surface. And the threat posed by these objects is not merely academic – the International Space Station has had to dodge several pieces of trash over the years
Where did these objects come from? Some are leftover upper stages from spent rockets. A few others are objects which have drifted away from the International Space Station. But most are the result of a couple of collisions between objects in orbit. Objects this size might not seem that dangerous, but with speeds of more than 27,000 kilometers per hour, an impact between a satellite and even a small piece of debris would be catastrophic.
To understand the risk posed by these objects, the United States Department of Defense has taken the lead in tracking space debris. The military provides a mostly-public database of all objects in orbit about the Earth, but thus far technological limitations have kept our knowledge of these objects incomplete. A contract awarded this month to Lockheed Martin should be the first step in correcting this deficiency.
Lockheed will spend the next four years and about a billion dollars building the Air Force's so-called "Space Fence." Basically a more powerful radar system and some corresponding tracking software, the Space Fence will greatly enhance our ability to detect and track tiny pieces of space junk. Once fully operational in 2022, the system will nearly double the region of space monitored and increase the number of observations made ten-fold.
What can we do once we have this information? Not as much as we'd like. For now, there remains no practical way to clean up space. Instead, we have to focus on reducing our future contributions to this mess. If we don't, every future trip to space will be just a little more dangerous than the last.
Finally, this month marked the end of Cosmos. In thirteen spectacular episodes, Neil deGrasse Tyson and friends took us from deep within the atom to far outside the Milky Way. We encountered scientists obscure and famous, overcame controversies past and present, and discovered how the scientific method works to combine the fragmented work of many into a towering description of our world for all.
The original Cosmos was a landmark of science education. Perhaps for the first time, an actual, honest-to-God scientist sat us down and showed what made science powerful, beautiful, and personal. Carl Sagan showed us that scientists were people, too, and that science was, in every way, a *human* endeavor. It's a message that is desperately needed and one that this year's show once again offered in full force.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey was a heck of a ride and one that I surely will not soon forget. Importantly, though, the end of this series must not mark the end of big-time science on big-time TV. If Fox or ABC or CBS can run dozens of dramas, comedies, and reality shows every single year, it shouldn't be unreasonable to expect them to air science content as well. After all, science is the ultimate reality show. As scientists, we may be uncomfortable embracing such an intrusive idea, but embrace it we must. After all, nearly ninety percent of all people on Earth live in a household with a television. That's an audience that science cannot afford to ignore.
Thanks for listening to this episode of the Monthly News Roundup. For more astronomy news and commentary, visit http://cosmicchatter.org or follow @cosmic_chatter on Twitter. As always, you can contact us with your comments and corrections at firstname.lastname@example.com . See you in July!
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I Didn't Know
I had always been a brooding sort. Happy and cheerful on the outside, but alone and in secret pain on the inside. Forever alone even in a crowd.
Jobs never held much particular affection for me. They came. And while I had them, I satisfied my needs and desires with the money I made. Living hand to foot, from paycheck to paycheck. Inevitably circumstances would occur and the job would end. On I'd go then, to find other employment.
So it was I found myself working for a warehouse corporation. The kind that sells frozen steak patties in bulk, or plasma screen Televisions for ashamedly low prices. I worked the computer section and kept my area tidied up and stocked for customers each day, rushing about to and fro trying to stay busy. I'd talk and be friendly with other employees. Laugh and joke with them. But always feeling alone and unable to communicate my true inner feelings and nature. Talk of cars, sports events, and alchohol consumption. The hollow and meaningless things to pass the hours of standing on foot bruising concrete.
A year of this progressed. People came and went. It was a job like any other. Then one day, as I wandered to the newly constructed break room area, I noticed her. Had the cigarette counter been in it's usual place near the front entrance, another year might have passed and I might never have seen her. But this strange chance took possession of my eye.
Outwardly a girl of clean, pretty limbs. I remember her hands so distinctly. They looked soft and caring. Her face had an innocent quality to it that nested in my heart immediately, made me want to pour all my inner secrets out. The soft, soulful brown eyes that looked at mine, and the long, straight brown hair that framed that face. Even in the awful company covering she wore, I could see that her figure was supple and lean in the tapering of her waist and hips, and rose to breasts which were full and warm looking.
Her nametag said "Tammy".
I don't smoke. It has always been my habit to feel disgust at the weakness for someone else's addictions. And so I never had cause to pass by the cigarette counter. But today I stopped.
The voice was a sweet as the face, and looking at her this closely I could see only a subtle hint of cosmetic. So natural was her radiance that she needed no further enhancement beyond some simple eye makeup. Her sweet mouth, not kissed by lipsticks, opened and she said, "Hey there!"
Something in that simple greeting struck me, and I smiled (which is something I rarely do and mean) back, "Hey. I haven't seen you around before."
She nodded,"Yeah I just started. My mom works here."
The conversation quickly steered itself to the subtle probing questions that people who've only just met ask each other. In a short time I learned Tammy was local and had a child out of wedlock. She was staying with her mother and working while she got her life back together. Not a new or uncommon story for a girl in these parts. I commented on my own lack of companionship, and she offered a caring response. I felt as though any kind word from her were spoken from the lips of an angel sent to comfort me in my pain, and I grew more and more fond of her as we talked.
But as always the fifteen minutes of break time was passed and it was with a remorseful heart that I returned to my posting in the electronics area across the other side of the gargantuan structure. But as I worked, I felt something within.
My heart lifted and suddenly the work lost it's drudgery. Here was something to look forward to each day! Tammy worked at the cigarette counter at the same hours each day and so I would be able to see her anytime I worked.
The next few weeks were blurred as each day I came, and would tell her hello and pause for a few moments to ask her how her day was going, on my way to punch in for the day's work. Each break in the eight hour cycle found me wandering to the cigarette counter to talk to her. Cursing the insensitive customers who purchased their nicotine laden boxes in bulk cartons and chipping away into my precious fifteen minute reprieves with their addictions.
A day came when through fortune, Tammy and I sat in the breakroom, on half-hour lunch. I asked the usual questions about her son and how things had been going with her.
She cheerfully told me about some of her activities and showed me her new manicure. I gently took her hand and felt the touch of human warmth and contact that had so long been missing from my life. Her hand was as soft and gentle as I had secretly imagined it all those months. I looked into her eyes, and beheld no glimmer of revulsion or uncomfortability, merely innocent interest.
I released her hand, reluctantly in my own heart, then smiled, "Nice".
Weeks passed and time again gave us our opportunity to talk in the breakroom. The usual pleasentries were exchanged and as always I asked, "How have things been?" I had not seen her in a few days, having called in ill on account of a common malady. She spoke to me of the events of her life, and how she was glad to be working in such a depressed economy. Then came a crushing revelation: "Nick's been seeing me again".
My heart turned to stone as I thought of Nick. This was the man who had given her a child out of wedlock and whom she'd shared a brief interlude. Now he had returned from whichever Hell had spawned him to gnaw upon the edges of my hope.
My hollow smile returned as I said, "Ah, well that's good. Everything's going alright then..."
The work became a burden again, and though I always made the same efforts to talk with Tammy, day after day the knowledge that her child's father now occupied her off-time hours felt like a crushing weight behind my eyes. I wanted to grab her and scream, "He can never love you as much as I have loved you in secret!"
But no such drama ever occurred. Time went on, and my days missed from work piled on. My despair being broken only by an occasional interlude with another woman. Always though, the sweet, kindness of Tammy lingered in my mind, and so even with these others, I still felt alone and unfulfilled. The feeling of detatchment within me grew, even as our bodies formed the mutual attatchment of our joy sessions. Life outside my window was black and white and I felt like a gray man wandering through it. Tammy was the only color my eyes would recognize.
Times at the cigarette counter were still enjoyed, only now I would ask every once in a while about Nick. Hoping secretly that he would do something to destroy their relationship. And though she told me of problems they were having occasionally no such earth-shaking development ever occurred. Life went on, largely as it always had. The time away from that counter reminded me of my weaknesses and aches and I despaired privately even as I smiled phonily and asked the usual question, "May I help you Sir?" to the overfed masses of bargain hunters who pillaged the store like a Mongol Invasion.
Finally came the day when my employers told me they were forced to let me go from the company. I had missed too many days of work and they were left with no choice, due to company policy. I was numb inside, and asked if I could say my last goodbyes to the people I'd come to know in the store, and they assented to this request.
My "friends" in the meat market, the tire shop, optical clinic, and around the store. I knew I'd never see them again. Friends only as long as we were working together, strangers outside of employment. I would never see them again, except in passing about town. I stopped for the last time at the cigarette counter.
"Tammy, they let me go. I guess I won't be seeing you anymore". The words left a taste of acid in my mouth and I smiled ruefully at her.
She looked a little saddened and replied, "Awww. I'm sorry Lee."
From around the counter she came and hugged me. My heart soared as it hadn't before. Here was the affection and feeling I'd longed for in all the weeks of working! This touch, this emotion, this feeling of connection to another, warm, loving person! And the irony that only in my leaving I could attain it stung me bitterly.
It was within me to cry out, "Please! I want to see you outside of this place! I want you to give me the chance to be a better man than Nick!". But no such cry came forth. In my heart I could not bring myself to infringe on the happiness she had with her child's father. And so I left. The loss of the job had been anticipated and not altogether troublesome. Only the knowledge that I would now lose any chance of ever seeing that sweet face again. The store was "members only".
Time passed. Jobs came and went. My life remained unfulfilled. Burden with the pain of opportunities lost and desires unrequited, I began to sink into the subtle villanies of a middle-aged man. Alone and working at another miserable job, meant there was money in my pockets and so I went out to shop one day.
I wandered through the aisles of stacked consumer lust. Not unlike my old job, but catering to the super grocery store fetishism so prevalent to the masses of instant gratification people. I saw an older gentleman and a woman of many years in a lonely corner of the store. He was wheeling her along in a chair and as always when encountering another human being I smiled the hollow smile and gave word of false greeting. Yet...
The features of the woman. The long, gentle slope of her nose, the soft soulful brown eyes, and the peaceful expression. Could it be?
"Pardon me", I started, "Are you related to Tammy Ryan, who worked at Planet Warehouse?"
The old woman said nothing but continued to look on as though seeing a vision of Nirvana I would never be privy to.
The older gentleman looked at me and a glimmer of recognition crossed his features, "You're Lee aren't you? This is my mother, Tammy"
I looked at him with a curled lip of disbelief, "How is that possible? Tammy was younger than I, and it was only 5 years ago that I saw her last!"
He nodded, "Yes. You met Tammy 2. My creation."
I felt stunned. I felt as if someone had whispered an otherworldly secret to me which man was not meant to hear. I felt my mind teetering on the edge of a void from which darkness swallows all life. My mouth agape, I regained control of myself, "You mean Tammy was an android?"
I had heard of such creatures. In a world possessed of such self-absorbtion and mass consumerism, the revelation did not stun me as it might have any other. Truly I had always in my heart figured my only true love could come from one of these creations of plastic and silicon, for real people are such complicated and ultimately disappointing things. Real people always let you down. Never had I imagined the state of technology to be of sufficient advancement as to produce the beautiful ray of sunshine that Tammy 2 had been in my life.
Again he nodded, "Yes, my name is William. I'm a robotics engineer and programmer. I based Tammy 2 on my mother here. Gave her the memories and personality of my mother."
My heart soared anew. Here was the man who created the angel I fell in secret love with all those years ago. And there the revelation that all the talk of Nick and her son was mere memory anagrams and programmed responses. Her life had been as false and hollow as mine! And yet in the moments I spoke with her, she was more alive, more beautiful, and more real than any of the other false people I had known.
Quickly I asked, "Where is she now? Can I see her? I...if you know me you must have known. Known what I felt. You must have seen it. Must have seen it in my eyes..." I stammered and the light of hope danced in my soul. I leaned forward towards him, as if not to miss even a single nuance of his response. As I teetered it seemed as though the joyful melodies of the Beethoven's ninth symphony worked it's way into my staggered consciousness. This was my second chance! My opportunity to set the wrong things right! The place where joy meets the soul in blissful union of harmony!
He sighed a little and spoke, "Water."
I was puzzled, "Water? You're thirsty?" What nonsense was he speaking? Was he remembering something on his grocery list? Then a glimmer of detection passed through my brain. His posture, his manner. I became aware that the forthcoming answer would not have a good effect. I felt the echoes of Beethoven die away to be replaced by the dissonant strains of a single violin.
He shook his head, "She had an accident one day. Water shorted out her systems. It crashed her programs, fused her circuitry and destroyed my work. She's gone".
I stood up straight. A lump formed in my throat. The humors of my eyes turned vitriolic and my lip trembled. My Legs wobbled a little as he continued, "She was one of a kind. I've never been able to reproduce the success in other models that I had with her. I think it may have been in large part to you. Because you took the time to talk to her and make her a real person."
A sudden wave of dizziness, nausea and anguish washed over me. Angels fell off their perches and I stumbled, tears falling from my eyes. A sudden wrenching of my soul forced me to collapse amongst a heap of empty boxes stacked in a filthy corner. My body was wracked in sobbing and pain as I gripped a flimsy side of cardboard to my face, wetting it with my sorrows. I kneaded the thing in my hands as my sobs shook my body.
I think William must have tried to console me, but I would have none of it. My pain and anguish had reached full circle in the strange, cosmic joke life plays on us. She had been a souless creation of a man's vanity in his attempt to be like unto God. And through the investiture of my battered, tormented soul, taken on a true life of her own. Undone by the substance of life itself.
I cried and cried, and at random intervals could say only the three words that mark this greatest tragedy, and despair of my life: "I didn't know...I didn't know...I didn't know!"


text: Celina Jaitley at Paying Guests film premiere. Celina Jaitley was a finalist in the Miss Universe 2001 contest. In addition to her title of Femina Miss India Universe, Celina has won the Miss Margo Beautiful Skin, Indiatimes Surfer's Choice, and MTV's Most Wanted award. In 2003, she made her debut in the movie industry with Feroz Khan's 'Janasheen'. In 2007 she shot her first international movie 'Love Has No Language', a romantic comedy.


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There's no truth in saying United States President Donald Trump has an affinity for telling the truth.
Trump has been president for over 263 days now, and more often than not, he can be heard spouting - or tweeting - lie after lie.
In fact, there's so many of them that we've decided to cut it down and give you 5 of the most outrageous lies he's told during his presidency so far this year (and this doesn't even account for the ones he told during his campaign):
1. Whoa, he's signed more bills than any other president within six months?
No. Let's start right off the bat and say: this is just not true.
On July 17 of this year, Trump may have gotten a bit overzealous in bragging about his accomplishments as he talked about his and Vice President Mike Pence's work.
"In just a few months and moments, I will say what we've done over a short period of time and what we're going to be doing over the next six months will be incredible. We've signed more bills -- and I'm talking about through the legislature -- than any president ever," he said.
On that day, which was his 178th day of office, Trump's signed bill count was way behind multiple presidents' spanning the past several decades.
Sorry Trump, but unless Clinton, Bush, Nixon, Carter, Kennedy, AND Eisenhower are all figments of everyone's imagination, I think you may be a little off.
PolitiFact's ruling: Trump said: "We've signed more bills -- and I'm talking about through the legislature -- than any president ever." The 42 bills he had signed into law through 178 days in office trails the number signed by at least six other presidents at that point in their presidencies. We rate Trump's statement False.
2. CNN ratings are at an all-time low?
Trump has never been too happy about his media coverage - especially from outlets like CNN.
So of course when you don't like something and you're Trump, you bash it. He tweeted this about their ratings in June:
Fake News CNN is looking at big management changes now that they got caught falsely pushing their phony Russian stories. Ratings way down!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
However, are they really? According to statistics from Nielsen Company, CNN ratings this year are the highest in five years.
So maybe next time Trump wants to bash something, maybe a least be right about it?
PolitiFact's ruling: Trump said CNN's ratings are "way down." In fact, CNN is at a five-year high in several key categories, according to data provided by the Nielsen Company. We rate Trump's statement Pants on Fire.
3. The United States has highest murder rate in 47 years?
Trump LOVES to claim that the United States has the "highest" anything. He's also especially convinced that crime is at an all-time high.
After inviting a group of county sheriffs to the White House in February of this year, Trump went on a rant about how the murder rate in the country was the highest it's been in years - 47 to be exact.
"The murder rate in our country is the highest it's been in 47 years, right?" Trump said. "Did you know that? Forty-seven years. I used to use that -- I'd say that in a speech and everybody was surprised, because the press doesn't tell it like it is. It wasn't to their advantage to say that. But the murder rate is the highest it's been in, I guess, from 45 to 47 years."
47 seems like such a specific number that you kind of want to believe it, right? But sadly, it's just not true.
In fact, the murder rate hit its peak in the 1990s and continued to fall until 2014. So, while it has been rising, it's nowhere near the peak of the 1990s.
PolitiFact's ruling: Actually, the highest murder rates in recent memory occurred during the early 1990s; after that, the rate fell dramatically until 2014, at which point it ticked up. That uptick did represent the biggest single-year rise in more than four decades, but that's very different than what Trump said. We rate his statement False.
4. Trump didn't know Steve Bannon before he hired him?
Trump's best lies come in the form of him contradicting something he's already said.
As controversy milled around Steve Bannon's role as Trump's aide in April of this year, Trump was quick to distance his relationship with the aide.
"I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late," Trump said. "I had already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn't know Steve."
"...didn't know Steve," is that right?
Not if you asked Trump a few months earlier. When Trump announced that he was hiring Bannon in August 2016, his statements reflected a different story.
"I have known Steve and Kellyanne both for many years. They are extremely capable, highly qualified people who love to win and know how to win," Trump said.
"...known Steve... for many years," wait what?
So what is it? Either you didn't know him at all before your campaign started or you knew him for years before?
The two statements completely contradict themselves, but which Trump is right?
The New Yorker reported that old Trump was right and he had met Bannon in 2011.
"In 2011, David Bossie, the head of the conservative group Citizens United, introduced Trump to Bannon; at the time, Trump was thinking about running against Obama. Bannon and Trump met at Trump Tower and discussed a possible campaign," the report said.
Real easy to forget you've known someone when he's in a bit of a scandal, right Trump?
PolitiFact's ruling: Trump said that before the presidential campaign, "I didn't know Steve," referring to Steve Bannon. That's contradicted by Trump's own words and independent reporting. We rate this claim Pants on Fire.
5. Russia's interference in election was a "made-up" story by bitter Democrats?
In May of this year, Trump sat down in an interview with NBC news anchor Lester Holt where he blatantly dismissed Russia's involvement in the election.
"This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story," Trump said. "It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should've won."
...Democrats were so mad about Hillary's loss they made up a thing with Russia? Yeah, no.
While there is still controversy on whether or not Trump's campaign worked with Russia, there is no doubt that Russia interfered with the 2016 election.
A report was issued from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in January of this year stating just that.
"We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election," the report said. "Russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary (Hillary) Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump."
So, sorry Trump, but no the Russia scandal wasn't "made-up" by bitter sore-loser Democrats.
PolitiFact's ruling: Trump said, "This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should've won." The record shows that credible evidence led the FBI to begin investigating possible ties between the Trump team and Russia in July 2016. That is the start of the story, more than three months before the election. The American intelligence community expressed with confidence that Russia aimed to interfere in the election to harm Clinton and help Trump. Democrats did not create the story, nor do they control the agenda of the House and Senate committees which are conducting their own investigations. We rate this claim Pants on Fire.


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Mexicans march against violent crime surgeComments
People in Mexico have taken to the streets en masse in a nationwide protest against a surge in kidnappings and brutal murders. More than 150,000 demonstrators, clad in white, took part in marches, calling on President Felipe Calderon to meet his promises to crack down on violent crime.
The protest was sparked by a recent case in which a 14-year-old boy was kidnapped and murdered, even though his father had paid a ransom. Mexico has one of the highest abduction rates in the world.
One demonstrator in Mexico city said: "We can't let another four years pass and then have another demonstration like this. We need changes now. I want to live again in the Mexico that I experienced as a kid, when my mum let me play in the street. I love my country and I want a Mexico free from violence."
Kidnappings have jumped by 40 percent in the past four years. Much of the violence is drug-related. More than 2,300 people have been killed this year alone. Most crimes go unsolved and analysts say the problem in compounded by corrupt police and justice officials.


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I have never spoken about my friendship with Pedro Zamora until now.
I met Pedro at a treatment activist conference a few years before he became a public person. He was a member of ACT UP Miami, and I was a member of ACT UP New York.
We became very close and dated for a while. In 1990, '91 or '92, Body Positive in New York City had a fundraiser and was honoring activists living with HIV and educators for their work in the community. Pedro and I were honored. I was the editor of SIDA Ahora (the first AIDS magazine in Spanish, by the People With AIDS Coalition [PWAC] in NYC) and Pedro was doing a lot of AIDS education in schools all over the country.
At the time, I did not know Paul Kawata. But a day or two before the fundraiser, he called me to get some "dirt" on Pedro. Somebody told him we were dating and, as the person presenting Pedro with the award, he was looking for something funny to say.
Our long-distance relationship didn't work, but we remained very close friends. He always looked for my support and would ask me for advice on his health, life and work. By then I was living in D.C. and working at NMAC for Paul. Pedro was becoming a giant, and one day he called, letting me know he was going to be in D.C. and he needed to talk to me about something big that was going to happen to him -- life-changing kind of stuff.
We met at Union Station for lunch. He looked exhausted and sad. He was burned out and not feeling well. He had just been cast for the San Francisco MTV Real World and had been offered a part in the show.
He was debating about the opportunity. He was tired, but he also knew that the opportunity would allow him to realize his dream and goal to educate mainstream America about HIV/AIDS. He asked me what to do.
He told me that intellectually he knew he needed a break, but his heart was telling him that being in the show was going to be his legacy. My first response was for him to rest, to take a break -- but also I understood what it meant to be a young person with HIV and wanting to leave a legacy, to be remembered.
I was worried about his health, but I could not talk him out of pursuing his dream. I warned him about his health and told him to follow his heart. This was 1993, before the new medications. He followed his heart and he realized his dream.
In 1994, he got sick in New York City while filming Real World. I got a call from his family that he needed to go to a hospital. I was in NYC and contacted another giant: Dr. Gabriel Torres, director of the Saint Vincent Hospital AIDS clinic. They made the arrangements to receive Pedro.
Once all was ready and Pedro was assigned a room, I went to see him and his sister to make sure that they had what they needed. Pedro was surrounded by many of his Real World friends. I touched base with his sister and stayed back, looking for his eyes. We found each other's eyes; he smiled and was going to get up to reach out, but did not have the energy to get through the people around his bed.
He opened his almond eyes big, smiled and waved at me. I smiled and waved back, knowing that this would be our last time connected in this life. He always was and always is in my heart.
Moisés Agosto-Rosario is a longtime treatment advocate and educator for people living with HIV. Mr. Agosto-Rosario has played a crucial role in ensuring that communities of color have equal access to care, treatment and lifesaving information and has won numerous awards for his work with the HIV community. He is currently the director of treatment for NMAC, formerly known as the National Minority AIDS Council.
This article has been adapted with permission from his Facebook page.


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The hotel only accepts children over 12, and features a great restaurant, small outdoor swimming pool, free Wi-Fi and the use of complimentary bikes.
It has opened a spa across the road which is a haven of tranquillity, offering a variety of treatments, hot and cold pools and daily yoga.
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Workshop for Zalau
PUBLISHED: 11:49 24 August 2006 | UPDATED: 11:59 04 May 2010
AN Isleham woman who was inspired to raise money for a Romanian hospital after a skiing holiday 12 years ago is running a water-colour workshop next month. While on holiday in the central Romanian resort of Sinaia, in 1994, Liz Howe learnt from her skiing
AN Isleham woman who was inspired to raise money for a Romanian hospital after a skiing holiday 12 years ago is running a water-colour workshop next month.
While on holiday in the central Romanian resort of Sinaia, in 1994, Liz Howe learnt from her skiing instructor about the struggles of a hospital in the north Romanian city of Zalau. Then, after visiting the hospital herself, and meeting with a doctor, she decided to raise money to help.
Ms Howe said: "The doctor would just tell me what was needed and I would raise the money to pay for it through the painting classes and selling things on craft stalls."
Ms Howe visits the hospital for one week every year, and she will travel there in November.
She said: "When I visit the hospital I take my art materials with me and spend time drawing and painting with the children. Last year's trip was wonderful; I saw that the children's ward had been fitted with proper flooring and curtains, where there was nothing before, and this had all been paid for with the money that I had raised."
This will be the sixth water-colour workshop that Ms Howe has run, and she usually raises around £1,000 from them. The money now goes to a Girton- based charity called Medical Support in Romania. The charity sends a group of specialists to the same Zalau hospital twice a year and they make assessments of the areas that need help and support in conjunction with the wishes and needs of the hospital staff.
During the past 10 years many projects have been completed in various departments including emergency, x-ray, ophthalmology, maternity, stores and the laundry. The charity works towards projects that are sustainable, for the long-term benefit of the hospital and its patients.
Ms Howe is now looking for people to sign up for the class, which is being taken by professional tutor, Jane Barribal.
Ms Howe said: "The course will be tailored to suit everyone, with plenty of time for individual help. It will be a light-hearted weekend focusing on learning the fun way.
"Every penny that we receive goes towards the charity and people have a great time and receive professional tuition, so everyone wins."
INFO: The course will run on September 9 and 10, from 10.30am-4.30pm, at Selwyn College, Cambridge, CB3 9DQ. The cost is £60 and this will include tea or coffee and biscuits. To book a place contact Liz Howe on 01638 781225.
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Actually, that's a lie. I tried to blog in Memphis, but the hotel we stayed at, Heartbreak Hotel just outside Graceland, only provided internet service on two public computers in their lobby. I guess they figured if Elvis didn't need internet access, neither do guests.
We were pressed for time and so we didn't take the official tour of Graceland. My friend, Jenna, provided me with a popup book of Graceland, however, which in many ways is even better than the real thing. Here are two photos of me freezing my ass off at 8:30 a.m. yesterday in front of Graceland. It was about 35 degrees and the wind was blowing hard, but doggone it, there were pansies alive and well in the planter by the sign (mine in PA died weeks ago with the first frost) and I figure if they can stand the cold, so can I.
I'm actually blogging from Bella Vista, Arkansas, this morning. We arrived last night and are staying with Larry's sister. His other sister lives here, too, but the real reason for our visit is to see his mother, Lillian.
Lillian is in the late stages of Alzheimer's Disease. She hasn't known anyone for years, but now she isn't able to walk or speak. She can still swallow, which is often the last motor function to fail. This will not be an easy day for my husband. He tries to tell himself that he said goodbye to her when she didn't recognize him anymore, but she is still alive, she's still breathing and existing, and she's still his mother. How do you say final goodbyes to the living?
The three-day drive out here reminds me of the geography book we studied in fifth grade. It chronicled a family on vacation, driving coast to coast in their big old station wagon in the 1960s. I remember making a topographical map of the United States using paper mache and markers. When Larry and I drove across the Cumberland Gap I about wet my pants I was so excited. "I read about this as a kid!" I told Larry. He looked at me like "How old are you?" He looked at me the same way when I exclaimed, "Hey, there's a cotton field!" And, "Look! Rice!"
The Mississippi delta in all its flatness reminded me of growing up on the plains. I felt free and open as we drove through it. I could stretch out unconfined. In the hills of western Pennsylvania where I live and all through the Appalachians I feel claustrophobic. They are narrow, and even though they are much bigger than me, I feel my movement restricted, like I have to make myself smaller to move between them. On the plains and in the delta, I can take up as much space as I want to, stretch out between the sky and the ground with plenty of room to spare.


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The Best Coffee Brewing Methods for Every Situation
You don't need a special occasion to brew yourself a stellar cup of coffee, but a different occasion can call for a different approach. We all have our go-to methods of preparing coffee to our liking, but with a little exploration we have the power to bring out entirely different flavors and qualities in the coffees we love and even make coffee possible in a variety of different situations (camping trip, anyone?).
In this month's blog we'll explore seven of our favorite coffee brewing methods that, when done properly, will give you great cups of coffee suited to your taste and convenience.
Great for: Travel, flexible brewing, retention of oils
Aeropress is a handy portable coffee maker that will be a staple for frequent travelers, campers, or people who perhaps want a little more control over the office's coffee offerings. The device works much like a single-serve French press, capable of producing 1-3 high-quality cups of coffee in about a minute — an espresso, by default, and an Americano with a little hot water added.
The coffee is smooth and low in acid, while still retaining the coffee oils that enhance flavor and aroma (and add many health benefits as well).
Clever Coffee Dripper
Great for: Beginner coffee-brewers, low-hassle almost-foolproof brewing, travel, clean taste
As with all steps in the coffee preparation process, brewing is an art — there numerous ways patience, creativity, and attention to detail can impact the end result. While this is great for coffee enthusiasts, casual drinkers may find it frustrating trying to brew a cup of coffee that tastes good, but isn't a whole production.
Clever Coffee Dripper answers this call. This innovation on the classic pour-over cone, is what's called a full-immersion brewer, which means that all of the coffee and all of the water meet at the same time and stay that way throughout the entire brewing process. The end result is a much fuller-flavored cup of pour-over coffee that's extremely forgiving and easy to produce. Because the cone does use traditional paper filters it doesn't capture very much coffee oil, which may matter to coffee buffs.
Clever Coffee Drippers come in two sizes, big and small — using #4 and #2 filters respectively. The larger is perfect for two and the smaller will get you a solid single serving.
Great for: Making four to six cups at a time, creating rich coffee without oil or sediment
If Clever Coffee Dripper is a beginner-level pour-over method, Chemex and Kone (to be discussed below) represent the more advanced and nuanced options. The Chemex brewing system has become very popular in recent years and for good reason. The device works with filters that are 20-30% heavier than most standard pour-over filters. This means a longer, slightly more involved brewing process, but one that ultimately results in far richer and more flavorful coffee. Water passes through the filter more gradually and in multiple pours, making this method better for a laid back weekend brewing as opposed to a quick pour before the commute.
Get the best out of your Chemex with our hands-on video tutorial below:
Great for: Making four to six cups at a time, retaining body and oils in coffee, minimal waste
Kone is more a modification to the Chemex process than its own completely distinct brewing method, but nevertheless the difference it makes is noteworthy. As its name implies, Kone is a stainless steel reusable cone filter that one can use at anytime with a Chemex instead of its traditional paper filters.
Other than sustainability perks, what's the difference? Unlike with paper filters, Kone allows oils to pass through into your cup, which gives your homebrew all of the flavor, aroma, and health benefits we discussed above.
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Great for: Making clean cups with good temperature and agitation, entertaining guests, coffee as an activity
Earning OWR's "Favorite Weekend Prep" honor, the siphon method looks an awful lot like chem class and the similarities to beakers and bunsen burners aren't accidental — the siphon takes the "coffee as a science" approach to its logical extreme.
Siphon method gives the brewer maximum control of temperature, brew duration and ultimately the quality of the brewed coffee. This means those of us with patience and deep curiosity about the process will find the siphon to be a coffee-brewing amusement park and great way to entertain guests at weekend brunch. However, the 10-minute-plus brew time and more involved clean up may be more work and attention to detail than most are looking to devote on a regular basis.
With that said, the quality and flair of a good siphon brew will impress just about anyone.
Auto Drip
Great for: Quantity once dialed in, speed and efficiency for morning prep
Ahh the old-fashioned auto-drip coffee maker … this method may not win favor with proud members of the coffee snob community, but as much we love to fuss over the details, sometimes practicality really matters and in that realm the auto-drip reigns supreme.
When brewing up a lot of coffee quickly is the main concern, auto drips are hard to beat. While offering little control over the brewing process relative to most of the other approaches we've discussed, the auto drip can still produce good cups of coffee if extra care is taken up front with ingredients and pre-brewing preparations (using whole beans, getting a good medium grind, using filtered water in proper ratio to coffee).
French Press
Great for: Parties, impressing guests, making great full bodied coffee with a thick sediment type feel, minimal waste
For rich, full-bodied excellence French press coffee is our method of choice and favorite brewing style at our cafe. Not everyone is fond the thick sediment feel of French press coffee, and that's certainly a matter of taste, but the retention of oil and very fine ground residue can turn a properly brewed French press cup into an overwhelming sensory experience ... or in simple language … an unforgettable cup of coffee!
Plus, a French press looks great on the table and is great for company. And no filters means very little waste. French press is all around a great choice that is widely available and easy to use with just a little patience.
To make sure you're doing right, have a look at our handy French press brewing video below:
Brewing It Right
Which coffee brewing method most excites you? Coffee is for everyone and no one method is "right" or "wrong" — it's all a matter of what you want out of your experience. Nevertheless, we encourage you to try something new and push yourself out of your routine and comfort zone. Try a new method above and let us know what you think — and if we missed one you love, also let us know!
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