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In the wake of the upset in the GOP DE-Sen primary, there's been a lot of chatter about what the Tea Party means, vis-a-vis the Republican Party. One of the most compelling takes, in my opinion, is that the Tea Party represents a decentralized web of Republican supporters, and that decentralization is the cause of much of the intra-TP conflict and the difficulty the Republican establishment has in co-opting that passion and using it to benefit their preferred candidates (See: Grayson, Trey; Castle, Mike).
This isn't a new story, though it may be one the Republicans haven't heard yet. The Democratic Party has already undergone many of these changes. The growth of online communities like DailyKos, Democratic infrastructure like ActBlue, and eventually the Obama wave had a lot of inputs–minority status and the old saw about necessity and invention, frustration among the base and Americans broadly–but the key point is that growth was largely uncoordinated. The rebranding of the DNC is a recognition of that reality, Natalie Foster, the DNC's New Media Director, told TechPresident's Nancy Scola:
It's not just about the DNC anymore. It's about the Democratic Party. […] This could become that something that any kid could
draw in chalk in front of their house, that any college kid could riff
That was my first thought as well, which is why I was surprised to see Ben Smith snark "this will turn things right around." While we're only a few weeks out from the election, the point of changes like these isn't to tip the scales in pivotal house races, it's to build a party that is tune with the changing tenor of American life. The same could be said of the growth of grassroots fundraising, or the White House's embrace of non-traditional media outlets. (Also, in fairness, Ben picked up Nancy's take.)
To return to my original point, while there may be an equivalence in process between Democrats and Republicans, I don't mean to suggest an equivalence in content. The Republican embrace of Kristolismo over the past two years has radicalized their base in a way that the Democratic resurgence did not. Embracing a base conditioned by years of opportunistic fear-mongering about "socialism," Islam, the deficit and terrorism seems likely to produce legislative outcomes that are significantly less benign than the healthcare reform bill.


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The majority of Sonoma State's sophomores, junior, seniors, and graduate students live in the local community. They live in a variety of locations; e.g., Rohnert Park, Petaluma, Santa Rosa. Even though a large percentage of the student body lives off-campus, students are very active with their campus life. While living off campus students get and stay connected in many ways, such as campus employment, participating in collegiate level athletics or intramural sports, joining a club or Greek sorority or fraternity, academic study groups and clubs, or pursuing leadership opportunities and student government. You will feel more connected to SSU and have a more fulfilling college experience if you get acquainted with the Student Involvement, see the endless opportunities available to SSU students.
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During the Spring, we host an off-campus housing fair for students. This is an opportunity for property managers and landlords to provide information about their properties and makes it an easy way for students to gather off-campus housing materials. Information is also distributed through our resident newsletters, a resource booklet with local apartment complexes, and other informational sheets. We hope you will find our services useful and if you need any additional help please feel free to contact Campus Housing at (707) 664-2541 or email us at email@example.com.
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"I thought Oil and Water was a plot that didn't need to be revisited. Turns out I was wrong. Oiater is a fresh look at a classic effect. It is well written, contains new moves for the move monkeys, and new plot ideas for workers. I can't wait for the sequel".
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"...Chicago Winters and Oil and Water are the reason tourists don't come back. However, the work within this manuscript is a step in what I believe is the right direction for the plot. The key word in that last sentence is 'step'. Progression is the goal that those who have partaken in this project gazed affectionately towards."
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Thus begins "Oiater" (pronounced oy-AHTER) a 47 page manuscript examining theatrical handlings of the classic oil and water plot. Within this manuscript you will find 2 complete routines; Tom Dobrowolski and Jeremiah Zhang's ROW and Curtis Kam's POW.
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Share our conservation work at Fighting Extinction HQ
Healesville Sanctuary has a long and proud history of conservation work and breeding threatened species. In the past the majority of this critical work has happened 'out the back', out of the view of our visitors. Cool Conservation brings our Fighting Extinction work out into the Sanctuary, allowing visitors to meet some of our most endangered local species, and to learn about some of their stories which have never been shared before.
Saving the Mountain Pygmy-possum and Southern Corroboree Frog
This exciting and engaging new space gives visitors the chance to see the breeding programs in action for two of our threatened alpine species; the Mountain Pygmy-possum and Southern Corroboree Frog. These breeding facilities are all on display, allowing visitors to see the real work happening to save these species from extinction, and to watch our expert keepers in action. The alpine home of these wonderful and unique little animals is also brought to life with stunning images, soundscape, and video stories about our work in the field. Test out your frog finding skills with the pop up Southern Corroboree Frog enclosure which allows a unique viewpoint of these stunning little frogs, or search for the shy Mountain Pygmy-possums among the rocks. Learn about how amazing these animals are and what you can do to help save them from extinction!
Saving the Helmeted Honeyeater and Orange-bellied Parrot
To find this alpine conservation space you need to wander through an aviary with two of Australia's most critically endangered bird species – the Helmeted Honeyeater and Orange-bellied Parrot! And if you catch the 11am Keeper Talk you can see them right up close as they fly down for a nectar treat!
And just out front of this aviary is our Fighting Extinction HQ where there are more keeper stories and interactive fun. Kids can get their secret mission from Zooperman and join our Extinction Fighting team!


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A rare life-size statue of an Australian Light Horseman was unveiled while guns still fired. The monument was erected in riverside Mowbray Park in August 1917, and is the first of Brisbane's WWI memorials.
Initiated by the East Brisbane Cadet Committee, it set out to honour the 520 early enlistments from Kangaroo Point and East Brisbane. Additional plates bearing more names were added during and after the war.
Annerley monumental mason Alfred Batson carved the soldier statue from Helidon sandstone. The memorial is flanked by two cannons, reputedly part of Thursday Island's 19th century defences.
To enable the expansion of the Bowling Club, the memorial was moved in 1974 to its present position to the east on the central path at the Lytton Road end of the 3.2 hectare park.


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Luke Rosiak at the Washington Examiner filed a report late last week on a little recognized, but important congressional practice: proposing open-ended spending. In the last Congress, fully 700 bills proposed spending without limits. That's a lot.
A quick primer: congressional spending is a two-step process. First, there must be an authorization of appropriations. Then Congress appropriates funds, providing actual authority for executive branch agencies to spend.
The committees in Congress are divided by type between authorizing committees and appropriations committees. Authorizers are supposed to do the bulk of the oversight and authorize spending at amounts they determine. Appropriators would then dole out funds specifically. But over the years, the division of labor has shifted and power has collected in the appropriations committees, whose members are often referred to as "cardinals" … like "College of Cardinals."
Backward incentives explain this. Members of Congress who authorize spending naturally appear to be pro-spending, which has political costs. The costs are at their worst when a specific amount is involved. "Senator So-and-So wants to spend $50 million on what?!" So many authorizing committees shirk their duties by eschewing reauthorization of the agencies in their jurisdiction. And sometimes the trick is authorizing spending of "such sums as may be necessary," which doesn't provide as good an angle for political attack.
That would make appropriators the only drag on spending, but it doesn't because of a second perversion in politics. Appropriators get good enough at gathering the political emoluments of spending that they overcome the negatives and become an institutional pro-spending bloc. As Mike Franc of the Heritage Foundation put it in 2011, "appropriators, their professional staff, and legions of lobbyists serve as a mutually reinforcing triad bent on increasing spending today, tomorrow, and forevermore."
Rosiak notes that the House Republican leadership cautioned against open-ended spending proposals at the beginning of the 113th Congress. Consequently, Republican blank-check bills are more rare. The top open-ended spenders are all Democrats, and they're all on the party's left wing.
So what's to be done?
In 2010, the Senate joined the House in banning earmarks. This came after a few short years of applied transparency in the earmark area, including a contest to gather earmark data conducted by yours truly on WashingtonWatch.com. A group called Taxpayers Against Earmarks (now Ending Spending) applied some direct pressure. And a host of other groups were involved, of course.
The practice of proposing open-ended spending could similarly be curtailed with public oversight and pressure.
So who should do that work?
We've already started. Rosiak's story was produced using the Cato Institute's Deepbills data.


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NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre: "Boston proves" gun control is dangerous
National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre linked the April 15 Boston bombings with the ongoing struggle over gun laws in America on Saturday, asking the audience at the annual NRA convention in Houston, "How many Bostonians wish they had a gun two weeks ago?"
"Imagine living in a large metropolitan area where lawful firearms ownership is heavily regulated and discouraged," LaPierre said. "Imagine waking up to a phone call from the police, warning that a terrorist event is occurring outside and ordering you to stay inside your home."
"I'm talking, of course, about Boston, where residents were imprisoned behind the locked doors of their homes, a terrorist with bombs and guns just outside," he said. "Frightened citizens, sheltered in place, with no means to defend themselves or their families from whatever may come crashing through the door."
"How many Bostonians wished they had a gun two weeks ago?" he asked. "How many other Americans now ponder that life-or-death question?"
LaPierre, perhaps the most aggressive public face of an organization that has determinedly fought efforts by President Obama and Congress to strengthen gun laws in America, reiterated his belief that "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
"Boston proves it," he said. "When brave law enforcement officers did their jobs so courageously, good guys with guns stopped terrorists with guns."
LaPierre said the administration and "Washington elites" are interested only in "demonizing law-abiding gun owners," accusing them of exploiting tragedy "by choice, for political gain."
- New NRA leader James Porter has history of controversial rhetoric
- Ted Cruz invites Biden to debate him on gun laws
LaPierre has previously drawn the ire of gun-control opponents for his provocative rhetoric. Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who was shot in the head and nearly killed during a 2011 shooting in Tucson, Ariz., wrote an op-ed for the Houston Chronicle prior to the NRA's convention. In it, he called for a "new generation of leaders within the NRA," arguing that LaPierre and other leaders within the gun-rights organization had abandoned the interests of their members to instead defend the profit margins of the gun industry - all while enriching themselves.
Kelly, also the head of Americans for Responsible Solutions, an organization seeking to reduce gun violence, wrote, "The NRA used to be a great organization." But now, Kelly argued, "The NRA leadership's top priority is to make sure the corporations that make guns and ammunition continue to turn huge profits."
Citing LaPierre's $1 million annual salary, Kelly argued that the NRA "turned their backs on the very safety measures, like background checks, that the organization used to stand for - in exchange for cold, hard cash."
In April, the Senate, at the urging of the NRA, voted down a proposal that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers.
"It seems to me that the time is right for a new generation of leaders within the NRA," Kelly wrote.


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Frank Rudolph Wolf (born January 30, 1939) is the U.S. Representative for Virginia's 10th congressional district, serving since 1981. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Wolf was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He overcame a speech impediment, a stutter, early in life. He attended Pennsylvania State University where he was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity and earned a degree in political science. He received a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. He then joined the United States Army as a reservist and became a lawyer for the military.
Wolf got his start in politics when he became a legislative assistant to U.S. Representative Edward Biester, beginning in 1968. From 1971 to 1975, Wolf served as an assistant to Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton.


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The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will host an OPCW Conference on International Cooperation and Chemical Safety and Security on 12 and 13 September 2011 in the context of the International Year of Chemistry. The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed (resolution 63/209) the year 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry.
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) represents the singular legal instrument comprehensively banning chemical weapons and the misuse of chemistry, while ensuring that it is used only for peaceful purposes. CWC has the essential and unique role of ensuring that chemistry is exclusively used in the service of human kind. Bearing this in mind, our Conference is intended to promote the goals of the CWC by highlighting both the achievements of OPCW and the challenges that lie ahead. The Conference will seek to enhance support for the Convention's objectives, including in the area of international cooperation with major stakeholders (United Nations, State Parties to the Convention, regional and international organisations, the chemistry industry, the IUPAC, non-governmental organisations, academic institutions and think tanks).
Given the comprehensive prohibition of the CWC on chemical weapons, OPCW envisions this conference as a forum for exploring sustainable ways and means of sharing knowledge and best practices to protect chemical plants from potential security threats.
The Conference will be held in The Hague at the OPCW Headquarters on the 12-13 September 2011. We expect Member States, governmental agencies involved in the monitoring and control of toxic chemicals, and members of the chemical industry (including associations, international organisations, NGOs, academia, independent experts, laboratories).
Some of the themes we expect to cover includes:
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Tonight is the night I have been dreading for 17 years now; the night that Joe Sakic is officially retired from the game of hockey as his glorious #19 is raised to the rafters of Pepsi Center. To be honest, I don't even know how to explain the rush of all kinds of emotions that I am feeling at this moment. I will be at Pepsi Center for the ceremony and game tonight, and will do my best to write up a more meaningful entry about Joe and all he has done for myself and the game of hockey very soon.
The only good thing about tonight is that hockey season is upon is!!!!!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Thank you, Joe.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Async in Clojure: Playing with Agents, Part II
In the last post, we took a look at basic usage of Clojure's agent function. In this post, we'll dive a little bit deeper
We glossed over the options that you can define when creating an agent; one of them is the validator which one can use to check before the agent is updated with the passed value.
If we want to make sure that our read-agent always gets a string value, this is all we have to do:
Similarly, any function that takes a single value as a parameter can be used here. As you can see, we had to change our default value for the agent from nil to "" since there is now a string validator. If we hadn't, any time we tried to use that agent, we'd get java.lang.IllegalStateException.
When Things Go Wrong
Another option you can set when defining an agent is the error handler. This will be used in the event of an error, including if a value fails to be validated by your validator function. Here's an example:
With both of these options, you don't have to set them when the agent is defined; you can do it later with a function call, if you so desire (or if needs demand it):
Watch This!
So, we've got an error handler but no event handler? Yup. However, you can actually get callback-like behavior using watches. Check this out:
Now, any time our agent's state changes, the function passed to the watch will fire. As described in the docs, the parameters are: the agent, a key of your devising (must be unique per agent), and the handler that you want to have fired upon state change. The handler takes as parameters: the key you defined, the agent, the agent's old value, and the agent's new value.
All Together Now
With all our example code in place, we can now exercise the whole thing at once. Here's the whole thing:
To simply demonstrate the async nature and the callbacks in action, let's run the following:
Eventually, our callback will render output very much like the following:
Do note, however, that if we called a series of send-offs with different times (using the same agent and watch), we wouldn't see the ones with shorter times come back first. We'd see the callback output in the same order we called send-off. This is because the watch function is called synchronously on the agent's thread before any pending send-offs (or sends) are called. In future posts, I'll cover ways around this (constructing agents on the fly as well as exploring alternative solutions with external libraries).
Regardless, with these primitives, there are all sorts of things one can do. For instance...
To close, check out this neat little bit of code that sends 1,000,000 messages in a ring. This code creates a chain of agents, and then actions are relayed through it (taken from the agents doc page):
Kicking this puppy off, our million messages finish in about 1 second :-)
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There's an esoteric-sounding word echoing across campuses and board rooms this winter.
Like many colleges and universities across the country, Middlebury College is suddenly facing demands from students, faculty and alumni about "divestment": withdrawing investments from companies whose primary business is the production and sale of fossil fuels. UVM is facing similar demands.


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Physical Therapy (PT) is an integral part of Kessler's comprehensive approach to medical rehabilitation. This individualized treatment regimen helps to optimize muscle control, balance, flexibility and mobility, as well as to build strength and endurance.
Our highly trained physical therapists evaluate and treat the complex physical and functional challenges that result from a spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, amputation, orthopedic injury, musculoskeletal condition or neurologic disorder.
Using a "high tech-high touch" approach, Kessler's physical therapists apply the evidence-based techniques and advanced technologies to restore as much function and independence as possible.
In addition, physical therapy is effective in treating a wide range of conditions that result from sports- or work-related injuries and common medical conditions including strains and sprains; muscle, tendon and ligament tears; arthritis; bursitis; tendonitis; joint inflammation; fractures and breaks.
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A petite pave diamond disc (10mm) with a rose gold fill plating over sterling silver has been accented with a beautiful and delicate chain. The chain is rose gold filled, with tiny sterling silver beads accenting it. This beautiful mixed metal look is classic and contemporary. Wear the pendant alone as a delicate minimalist look, or layer it with other pieces for an ultra luxe bohemian vibe. ***I have a perfect accent piece for it that I will list soon***
Chain measures approximately 16" in length, and closes with a rose gold filled lobster claw clasp.
Your pave diamond disc necklace will ship USPS Priority Mail with tracking in the US. Please contact me for shipping upgrades for international mail, should you want tracking.
Your necklace will be presented in a beautiful gift box, ready for gift giving or storage for oneself.
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Many people have misconceptions about vermeil, because they confuse it with "gold plate". However, they are vastly different! Vermeil must meet the FTC standard of 100 millionths of an inch (2 ½ microns) of fine gold layered over sterling silver. In order for a piece to be labeled legally as "vermeil", the item must not be less than 10 karat gold and have a substantial thickness, with a minimum thickness of 2 ½ microns. In contrast, "gold plating" is a miniscule layer of solid gold applied to a brass base. The plating does not compose any measurable proportion of the product's total weight, and is estimated to be 0.05% or less of the metal product. Gold plating will wear off rather quickly and expose the brass base product.
No! Gold-filled is constructed in two or three layers. The core metal is jewelers' brass. The gold alloy is then bonded to one or both surfaces of the brass core with heat and pressure. The bonded raw material is then sold as sheet or wire to jewelry manufacturers for use in designs. Gold-filled is legally required to contain 5% or 1/20 gold by weight. This 5% is then described by the karatage of the gold alloy. Most gold-filled is 12kt or 14kt gold-filled. All of the gold-filled used in my designs is 14kt. It is a beautiful and affordable alternative to solid gold.
Artisan jewelry is not mass produced, and needs to be cared for properly. Please do not wear your jewelry to sleep, bathe, or swim in. A great rule of thumb is to accessorize with your jewelry last! Be sure to apply perfume and hair products before putting on your precious jewels. Vermeil and sterling silver jewelry will tarnish, so to help keep that to a minimum, please store your jewelry in the box provided when not worn. While gold fill jewelry does not tarnish in the same way, it is a good idea to also protect it in a box, to help prevent scratching or damaging of any wire wrapped pieces. To clean, you can use a mild jeweler's cleaner that is safe for gemstones and gold. Please do NOT dip pearls, opals, or any other porous stone.


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Caribbean Sea, suboceanic basin of the western Atlantic Ocean, lying between latitudes 9° and 22° N and longitudes 89° and 60° W. It is approximately 1,063,000 square miles (2,753,000 square km) in extent. To the south it is bounded by the coasts of Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama; to the west by Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico; to the north by the Greater Antilles islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico; and to the east by the north-south chain of the Lesser Antilles, consisting of the island arc that extends from the Virgin Islands in the northeast to Trinidad, off the Venezuelan coast, in the southeast. Within the boundaries of the Caribbean itself, Jamaica, to the south of Cuba, is the largest of a number of islands.
Together with the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea has been erroneously termed the American Mediterranean, owing to the fact that, like the Mediterranean Sea, it is located between two continental landmasses. In neither hydrology nor climate, however, does the Caribbean resemble the Mediterranean. The preferred oceanographic term for the Caribbean is the Antillean-Caribbean Sea, which, together with the Gulf of Mexico, forms the Central American Sea. The Caribbean's greatest known depth is Cayman Trench (Bartlett Deep) between Cuba and Jamaica, approximately 25,216 feet (7,686 metres) below sea level.
Physical features
The geologic age of the Caribbean is not known with certainty. As part of the Central American Sea, it is presumed to have been connected with the Mediterranean during Paleozoic times (i.e., about 541 to 252 million years ago) and then gradually to have separated from it as the Atlantic Ocean was formed. The ancient sediments overlying the seafloor of the Caribbean, as well as of the Gulf of Mexico, are about a half mile (about one kilometre) in thickness, with the upper strata representing sediments from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras (from about 252 million years ago to the present) and the lower strata presumably representing sediments of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras (from about 541 to 66 million years ago). Three phases of sedimentation have been identified. During the first and second phases the basin was free of deformation. The Central American Sea apparently became separated from the Atlantic before the end of the first phase. Near the end of the second phase, gentle warping and faulting occurred, forming the Aves and Beata ridges. Forces producing the Panamanian isthmus and the Antillean arc were vertical, resulting in no ultimate horizontal movement. The sediment beds tend to arch in the middle of the basins and to dip as landmasses are approached. The younger Cenozoic beds (formed during the last 65 million years) are generally horizontal, having been laid down after the deformations occurred. Connections were established with the Pacific Ocean during the Cretaceous Period (from about 145 to 66 million years ago) but were broken when the land bridges that permitted mammals to cross between North and South America were formed in the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (about 23 to 2.6 million years ago).
The existing sediment cover of the seabed consists of red clay in the deep basins and trenches, globigerina ooze (a calcareous marine deposit) on the rises, and pteropod ooze on the ridges and continental slopes. Clay minerals appear to have been washed down by the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, as well as by the Magdalena River in Colombia. Coral reefs fringe most of the islands.
The Caribbean Sea is divided into five submarine basins, each roughly elliptical in shape, which are separated from one another by submerged ridges and rises. These are the Yucatán, Cayman, Colombian, Venezuelan, and Grenada basins. The northernmost of these, the Yucatán Basin, is separated from the Gulf of Mexico by the Yucatán Channel, which runs between Cuba and the Yucatán Peninsula and has a sill depth (i.e., the depth of the submarine ridge between basins) of about 5,250 feet (1,600 metres). The Cayman Basin, to the south, is partially separated from the Yucatán Basin by Cayman Ridge, an incomplete fingerlike ridge that extends from the southern part of Cuba toward Guatemala, rising above the surface at one point to form the Cayman Islands. The Nicaraguan Rise, a wide triangular ridge with a sill depth of about 4,000 feet (1,200 metres), extends from Honduras and Nicaragua to Hispaniola, bearing the island of Jamaica and separating the Cayman Basin from the Colombian Basin. The Colombian Basin is partly separated from the Venezuelan Basin by the Beata Ridge. The basins are connected by the submerged Aruba Gap at depths greater than 13,000 feet (4,000 metres). The Aves Ridge, incomplete at its southern extremity, separates the Venezuelan Basin from the small Grenada Basin, which is bounded to the east by the Antillean arc of islands.
Subsurface water enters the Caribbean Sea across two sills. These sills are located below the Anegada Passage, which runs between the Virgin Islands and the Lesser Antilles, and the Windward Passage, which stretches between Cuba and Hispaniola. The sill depth of Anegada Passage is between 6,400 and 7,700 feet (1,950 and 2,350 metres), whereas that of the Windward Passage is between 5,250 and 5,350 feet (1,600 and 1,630 metres).
North Atlantic deep water enters the Caribbean beneath the Windward Passage and is characterized by its rich oxygen content and by a salinity of slightly less than 35 parts per thousand. From there it divides to fill the Yucatán, Cayman, and Colombian basins at depths near 6,500 feet (2,000 metres). This Caribbean bottom water also enters the Venezuelan Basin, thus introducing high-oxygen water at depths of 5,900 to 9,800 feet (1,800 to 3,000 metres). Subantarctic intermediate water (i.e., water differing in several characteristics from the surface and bottom layers of water that it separates) enters the Caribbean below the Anegada Passage at depths of 1,600 to 3,300 feet (500 to 1,000 metres). Above this water, the subtropical undercurrent and surface water enter. The shallow sill depths of the Antillean arc block the entry of Antarctic bottom water, so that the bottom temperature of the Caribbean Sea is close to 39 °F (4 °C), as compared with the Atlantic bottom temperature of less than 36 °F (2 °C).
Surface currents, bearing both high- and low-salinity water depending on the source, enter the Caribbean mainly through the channels and passages of the southern Antilles. These waters are then forced by the trade winds through the narrow Yucatán Channel into the Gulf of Mexico. The wind-driven surface water accumulates in the Yucatán Basin and the Gulf of Mexico, where it results in a higher average sea level than in the Atlantic, forming a hydrostatic head that is believed to constitute the main driving force of the Gulf Stream. Of the water passing through the Yucatán Channel each second, only about one-fourth represents the deeper Subantarctic intermediate water. The remainder is the surface water that passed over the Antillean arc at depths of less than 2,600 feet (800 metres).
The climate of the Caribbean generally is tropical, but there are great local variations, depending on mountain elevation, water currents, and the trade winds. Rainfall varies from about 10 inches (25 cm) per year on the island of Bonaire off the coast of Venezuela to some 350 inches (900 cm) annually in parts of Dominica. The northeast trade winds dominate the region with an average velocity of 10 to 20 miles (16 to 32 km) per hour. Tropical storms reaching a hurricane velocity of more than 75 miles (120 km) per hour are seasonally common in the northern Caribbean as well as in the Gulf of Mexico; they are almost nonexistent in the far south. The hurricane season is from June to November, but hurricanes occur most frequently in September. The yearly average is about eight such storms. The Caribbean has fewer hurricanes than either the western Pacific (where these storms are called typhoons) or the Gulf of Mexico. Most hurricanes form in the eastern Atlantic near the Cape Verde Islands and follow the path of the trade winds into the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, although the exact path of any hurricane is unpredictable. In 1963 one of the deadliest hurricanes on record, Flora, caused the loss of more than 7,000 lives and extensive property damage in the Caribbean alone. Such storms also have been a major cause of crop failure in the region.
Economic aspects
While the vegetation of the Caribbean region is generally tropical, variations in topography, soils, rainfall, humidity, and soil nutrients have made it diverse. The porous limestone terraces of the islands are generally nutrient-poor. Near the seashore, black and red mangroves form dense forests around lagoons and estuaries, and coconut palms typify the sandy vegetation of the littoral. Both the Central American region and the Antillean islands are on the routes of birds migrating to or from North America, so that large seasonal variations occur in the bird populations. Parrots, bananaquits, and toucans are typical resident Caribbean birds, while frigate birds, boobies, and tropic birds can be seen over the open ocean.
The shallow-water marine fauna and flora of the Caribbean centres around the submerged fringing coral reefs, which support diverse assemblages of fishes and other forms of marine life. The marine biota is derived from the Indian and western Pacific oceans via the Panamanic Seaway, which was closed by the rise of the Isthmus of Panama some four million years ago. Coral reef growth throughout the Antillean region is favoured by uniformly warm temperatures, clear water, and little change in salinity. Submerged fields of turtle grass are found in the lagoons on the leeward sides of reefs. Sea turtles of several species, the manatee, and the manta (devil) ray (Manta birostris) are also characteristic of the region. The spiny lobster is harvested throughout the Caribbean and is sold mainly to restaurants and tourist hotels, while the queen conch and reef fishes are local staples.
Fishes of commerce are sardines from Yucatán and species of tuna. Among common game fish are the bonefishes of the Bahamian reefs, barracuda, dolphin, marlin, and wahoo.
Since the signing of the Law of the Sea Treaty in the early 1980s, no part of the Caribbean remains outside the extended mineral, fishing, and territorial zones of the sea's bordering countries. Explosive human population growth and the overexploitation of marine resources in the region have stimulated international initiatives toward managing and preserving the environment. The Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (Cartegena Convention) was adopted officially by about half of the countries of the Caribbean in 1983, but its measures have since been implemented more broadly across the Caribbean community. The Cartegena Convention calls for its signatories to provide—individually and jointly—protection, development, and management of the common waters of the wider Caribbean. Three protocols have been developed and launched under the framework of the convention: cooperation on combating oil spills (1983); establishment of specially protected areas and wildlife (1990); and prevention, reduction, and control of land-based marine pollution (1999).
Tourism is an important part of the Caribbean economy, serving primarily the populations of the United States and Canada to the north and Brazil and Argentina to the south. Connections by air and sea between the Caribbean and North America are generally more developed than are interisland connections. With its typically sunny climate and recreational resources, the Caribbean has become one of the world's principal winter vacation resort areas.
Trade and transportation
The Caribbean has a complex pattern of trade and communications. The volume of trade per capita is high, but most of this trade is conducted with countries outside the region. Each Caribbean country tends to trade with countries elsewhere that share a common language. Cuba, an exception, trades with a variety of countries, trade with former communist-bloc countries accounting for much of the total. Intra-Caribbean trade is small, owing to limited industrial resources and the monocultural economic pattern. Goods and commodities exchanged within the Caribbean economy are relatively few—rice from Guyana; lumber from Belize; refined petroleum from Trinidad and Curaçao; salt, fertilizer, vegetable oils, and fats from the eastern islands; and a few manufactured products. A lack of capital and limited natural resources generally have discouraged industrial development, although low labour costs and tax incentives have attracted some industry. Markets for most Caribbean products are in the United States and Canada, which import bananas, sugar, coffee, bauxite, rum, and oil. All Atlantic-Pacific shipping via the Panama Canal passes through the Caribbean.
Study and exploration
The first European to enter the Caribbean Sea was Christopher Columbus, who made landfall in the Bahamas in 1492 convinced that he had discovered a new route to Asia. He continued south to found a key Spanish colony on the island of Hispaniola (now divided politically between Haiti and the Dominican Republic). In his subsequent three voyages, Columbus discovered the major features of the region.
The study of Caribbean natural history began with observations published by early voyagers, notably those of the English buccaneer and explorer William Dampier in the late 17th century. The British Challenger Expedition briefly passed through the Caribbean in 1873, followed by more-extensive American expeditions (1877–89) on the Blake. Danish and American expeditions from 1913 to the late 1930s initiated the systematic research of the basin that has continued to the present day, with periodic expeditions mounted by various countries.
The invention of scuba equipment, the development of research submarines, and the establishment of marine research laboratories in a number of countries in the Caribbean region led to a rapid increase in the level of scientific activity in the second half of the 20th century. One of the more-recent areas of research has focused on coral "bleaching" events, including those in 1995 and 1998 off the coast of Belize (on the largest coral barrier reef in the Northern Hemisphere) and in 2005 on the reefs near Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Coral bleaching occurs when the animals that constitute the reef expel associated algae in response to changes in water chemistry (temperature, salinity, acidity, or increases in silt or pollution). The process ultimately kills those animals. One of the leading hypotheses for this phenomenon has been that Caribbean waters have increased in temperature, perhaps as a result of global climate change.Robert James Menzies John C. Ogden The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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mountain: The Caribbean chains…of a phase when the Caribbean Sea was subducted southward beneath Venezuela and where rocks were folded along east–west axes. Right-lateral strike-slip faulting and rather slow mountain building occur there today, as much by slight vertical displacement on predominantly strike-slip faults as by slow obliquely oriented folding and thrust faulting…
ocean basin: Evolution of the ocean basins through plate movementsThe Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico formed as a result of the relative movement between North America and South America. The seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico began forming some 160 to 150 million years ago. A proto- or ancient Caribbean seafloor also was…
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Venezuela, country located at the northern end of South America. It occupies a roughly triangular area that is larger than the combined areas of France and Germany. Venezuela is bounded by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Guyana to the east, Brazil to the south, and…
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Buckle your seat belts. Number one New York Times bestselling author, Janet Evanovich, is moving into the fast lane with Metro Girl, a thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot nights, cold-blooded murder, sunken treasure, a woman with a chassis built for speed, and one very good, very sexy NASCAR driver who's along for the ride.
"Wild" Bill Barnaby's dropped off the face of the earth and big sister Alex heads for Miami, Bill's last known sighting, on a harrowing hunt to save her brother ... and maybe the world. Truth is, Alex has been bailing her brother out of trouble since they were kids. Not that Bill's a bad sort. More that he acts first and thinks later. Unfortunately, this time around, Wild Bill will be Dead Bill if Alex doesn't find him in time.
Alex blasts through the bars of South Beach and points her search to Key West and Cuba, laying waste to Miami hit men, dodging Palmetto bugs big enough to eat her alive, and putting the pedal to the metal with NASCAR driver Sam Hooker.
Engaged in a deadly race, Wild Bill's "borrowed" Hooker's sixty-five foot Hatteras and sailed off into the sunset ... just when Hooker has plans for the boat. Hooker figures he'll attach himself to Alex and maybe run into Bill. Maybe Hooker can salvage what's left of his vacation. And maybe Hooker'll get lucky in love with Bill's sweetie pie sister. After all, Hooker is NASCAR Guy. And NASCAR Guy is good at revving a woman's engine.
The race to the finish is hot and hard, taking Alex and Hooker into international waters, exposing a plot to grab Cuban gold and a sinister relic of the Cuban missile crises.Creative cussing and sexual innuendo included.
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"A mysterious romp involving cold-blooded murder and a sexy NASCAR driver."
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"Clever, approachable characters."
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"A spunky heroine....cheery."
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"The characters are breezy and spontaneous....Evanovich's story has attitude."
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"A rib-splitting debut."
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"This is a bright and breezy book, and a welcome change for Evanovich fans."
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Accident Sends Three People to the Hospital
SIOUX FALLS - On Monday three people were injured when a car and a truck collided at the intersection of Tea-Ellis Road and West 69th.
According to reports, when fire crews arrived on the scene they found two cars involved in the accident with three injuries. Two of the patients had to be extricated from the vehicle.
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The Cal State San Bernardino men's basketball team is at a crossroads and it has barely started CCAA play.
The Coyotes (3-5, 1-1) will host Cal State Stanislaus and Chico State this weekend at Coussoulis Arena. Those are bottom-feeder teams. Teams any team that is going to challenge for a conference title should throttle, especially at home.
The Coyotes have the talent. They were ranked nationally the first week of the season and they were the coaches pick to win the title. But coach Jeff Oliver's team has not lived up to that billing.
Oliver looked on as the Cal Poly Pomona men were playing a nonconference game earlier this week and talked about his team, in a not so complimentary fashion. The biggest problem is what he perceives as lack of hustle and intensity. The Coyotes just don't seem to be really fighting for a rebound, diving for that loose ball.
It has gotten so bad Oliver is starting walk-on Michael Lucas, one of the few guys that appears to be playing hard. If you're going down, you might as well go down with the players that care.
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Mole City is not in the tradition or deviating from the tradition – it is the tradition. After two decades of launching drums, guitars and pianos through the shifting interzones between harmony and chaos (moonlighting along the way with the likes of Sleater-Kinney, Wild Flag, Elliott Smith, Built to Spill and a long list of others), Quasi are a genre of their own - they write songs in the style of Quasi, and Mole City is the Quasi Song Book: Parlour Sing-alongs for the Last Century.
Quasi release Mole City on September 30th 2013 and also head out on a UK tour throughout December. Listen to 'You Can Stay But You Got To Go' HERE and watch the trailer HERE.
Now in their 20th year as a band, and a two-piece once again, Sam Coomes and Janet Weis hand-deliver the double album/Liberation Cookbook/Encyclopedia of Kicking Ass, Mole City, to those of us who still care about well-built, homemade objects crafted with integrity, spirit, fire, and skill.
This is the music at an agnostic afterlife juke joint where lysergic teardrops are cried into sweating mugs of high octane hellfire, the bartender can see clear through to your every thought, fear and desire, the upright player's head is locked into a guillotine, and the guys next to you are whispering conspiratorially about how to fix their time machine. Shakin' blues, precision freak-outs, air-guitar-worthy riffs, heavy round droplets of time, fuzz everything, wah wahs, ya yas, ooh ahs, grunts, shuffle struts and chiming minor seventh chords - this is rock n roll.
Mole City will be released on CD (WIGCD312), LP (WIGLP312) and digitally (WIG312D) on September 30th. Pre-order HERE.
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Mole City Track Listing:
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2. You Can Stay But You Got To Go
3. See You On Mars
4. Blasted
5. Chrome Duck
6. Chumps Of Chance
7. Fat Fanny Land
8. Nostalgia Kills
10. Headshrinker
11. Bedbug Town
12. The Goat
13. Geraldine
14. Loopy
15. Double Deuce
16. Gnot
17. Dust Of The Sun
18. Mole City
19. An Ice Cube In The Sun
20. One And Done
21. The Dying Man
22. Clap Trap
23. New Western Way
24. Beyond The Return Of The Sun Of Nowhere
Below are the tour dates, and you can find the ticket links HERE
05/12/13: The Fleece - Bristol (UK)
06/12/13: Brudenell Social Club - Leeds (UK)
07/12/13: Broadcast - Glasgow (UK)
08/12/13: Deaf Institute - Manchester (UK)
09/12/13: Hare & Hounds - Birmingham (UK)
10/12/13: Colchester Arts Centre - Colchester (UK)
11/12/13: Shepherds Bush Empire - London (UK)
12/12/13: Norwich Arts Centre - Norwich (UK)
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Harvey pitches, hits Mets past Cubs
Chicago, IL – Matt Harvey drove the go-ahead run in the seventh inning and pitched 7 1/3 solid frames as the New York Mets defeated the Chicago Cubs, 3-2, in the opener of a three-game series.
With one on and two out in the top of the seventh, Harvey singled to left and brought Rick Ankiel home to break a 2-2 tie.
"It was awesome," said Harvey. "I think we've been fighting to be able to do that for awhile. So, that was huge. Huge for me. Obviously, I was able to drive that run and we've got two in a row. We got to keep things going and go after them tomorrow."
Harvey (5-0) had six strikeouts and allowed two runs on five hits in his outing. Bobby Parnell pitched a flawless ninth to notch his fifth save.
David Wright and Daniel Murphy each hit solo home runs for the Mets, who snapped a six-game losing streak with a 5-2 win in St. Louis on Thursday.
Cubs starter Edwin Jackson (1-6) gave up three runs on seven hits and a walk in 6 2/3 innings. Alfonso Soriano had an RBI and Anthony Rizzo scored on a throwing error by Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada.
"I think it's just been a mechanical thing," said Jackson. "I've been feeling pretty good mechanically ... but regardless how I feel, regardless how I looked, regardless how I pitched, the objective is to come out and win a game. And we battled today, but we came up short."
Wright's home run with two outs in the first gave the Mets an early lead.
The Cubs responded by scoring two runs in the home half. With one out, Castro singled and Rizzo ripped a double to left to put runners in scoring position. Soriano then hit an infield single that plated Castro, and Rizzo was able to score when Tejada's throw to first hit the dirt and got away from Ike Davis.
Murphy's leadoff homer in the fourth tied the game.
After Harvey's RBI single, the Cubs had an opportunity to tie the game in the eighth. Darwin Barney singled to start the inning and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Julio Borbon. Scott Rice then came in to relieve Harvey, but gave up a single to David DeJesus. However, Barney was out at the plate thanks to a great throw by right fielder Marlon Byrd, who came in as a replacement for Jordany Valdespin.
Parnell pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to end the game.
Game Notes
Wright was 3-for-4 with a stolen base ... Davis snapped a 0-for-24 streak with a single in the sixth inning ... Rizzo has not struck out in his last 35 at- bats. His last strikeout came in the sixth inning against St. Louis on May 7.


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Overlord II (PlayStation 3) review
"Pastoral scenes and even the menacing fairytale forest are gone, replaced by environs that seem to have been drawn with no discernible rhyme or reason from a hat labeled "whatever was left." The icy village that you once called your home is improbably bordered by a tiny cave that leads almost immediately to a lush forest populated by elves who preach peace and love for all creatures. In effeminate voices they protest your vile actions (which literally include sending your minions forth to club baby seals) as you break apart pots and vases and swing the camera around wildly in an effort to see through thick foliage presented as an assortment of paper-thin textures."
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We left campus and were told we had until 9 a.m. to sleep. We all took advantage of that! After all, we all knew our day would be a long one, and rest would be necessary. At 9, a wake-up call was given for the players on the bus and we were to stay awake for the remaining time, it was just a little over an hour. At this time, we were given our orders for our lunch-Lenny's subs…sounds good huh?! Well, not exactly at 9 in the morning, but when you know you will not have another chance to eat until after 3, and that food will be necessary for energy, it wasn't too bad.
At sometime between 9:30 and 10:00, we arrived and were shown to our locker room. It was the track locker room, but it was huge! It had a lobby with a number of nice chairs, two couches, and through a glass door, were the actual lockers. Needless to say, I was astonished. After all, I'm from a very small private high school where our locker room was nothing special and this was my first experience with something like this. Sure, it's just a locker room, but I was still impressed.
After changing and getting ready, we went out onto the floor to warm up. The second my foot hit the floor, a knot began forming in my stomach. I realized how nervous I was. I had never experienced anything like this before. I was beginning to feel sick. I was psyching myself out because I was so nervous to actually have this opportunity to play another team! The first half of our four-hour scrimmage was to be controlled scrimmage settings with coaches stopping play to give instructions. I was the first player to be subbed in and I was so anxious and nervous, it was almost as if I had forgotten everything I had ever learned about the game. After, a time out call and a quick snap back to reality from my coaches, I was ready to get back in!
After everything was done, we loaded back up on the bus, grabbing the food they got for us. We were we so excited about eating. All that play made us really hungry (then again, I am a post player and I have a tendency of being hungry all the time!) We had chicken wings, chicken strips, macaroni and cheese, fruit cups, and baked beans (most of us decided not to eat those, after all we had a four hour trip back on a bus with each other and well…you get what I'm saying..) So we all ate on the bus, and most of us went right to sleep. We were exhausted. Some talked of how we did, how sore we were gonna be the next day and some napped, and the bus ride was pretty much over. Although it was a great experience for us as a team, we still cheered when the bus took the exit to get back to campus. The day was a success as a whole and allowed us to see what we needed to work on and get ready for our season to get started!!
Jess Reece is a freshman post player. This is her first journal of the season.


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- Deidre Robinson went from a size 24 to a size 2 and opened a fitness studio
- Robinson's family didn't understand why she was overweight growing up
- Her daughter encouraged her to get fit so they could participate in activities together
Deidre Robinson's cheeks flushed as two ride attendants tried to push her safety guard into the lock position.
At 310 pounds, Robinson knew she'd have restrictions at the theme park, but that didn't make her feel any less humiliated when she was told she couldn't ride the roller coaster with her daughter.
"There was a big guy next to me and his snapped," she said. "I thought, 'There's something wrong with that.' Obviously I was a lot bigger than he was."
The 2007 event was one of several turning points for Robinson, now 31, who was eventually inspired to join Weight Watchers and start doing Zumba, a Latin-inspired dance fitness class, in February 2009.
Less than two years later, the South Carolina native had dropped more than half her body weight -- going from a size 24 to a size 2 -- and was ready turn her healthy lifestyle into her livelihood.
Childhood scars
"My mom always called me thick," Robinson said. "Back in the fourth grade, I remember my mom measuring my cereal ... three-fourths a cup of Cheerios."
Nobody in her family had ever battled weight problems, she said. They couldn't understand why she gained weight while eating the same things as her sister, who "to this day is just genetically thin."
By high school, she had tried just about every diet out there: from eating only chicken and rice every day for a month to "the no-carb thing."
The quick results were nice, she said, but nothing ever stuck.
Things didn't get any easier after graduation. Robinson's parents and sister, who she said she's very close with, tricked her into attending a weight intervention under the false pretense of discussing a bill.
She showed up with her boyfriend at the time, who wasn't overweight.
A few years ago, they tried again, giving Robinson a gym membership for Christmas.
"For my family to come at me like that ... they didn't intentionally try to hurt my feelings, but they were trying to wake me up," Robinson said. "They didn't know what it was like. They never had weight problems. They ate the same food (as me). They're the ones who took me to the restaurants."
Robinson said her family's well-meaning gestures did nothing to motivate her to lose weight. Rather, they made her defensive and caused tension.
Robinson's dad wasn't overtly hard on her, but she could tell he was disappointed -- "like he thought I let myself go," she said, which might have been unfair considering he had his own vice.
Just as Robinson considered eating a habit that she had little control over, her dad had smoked cigarettes since he was 20. He died at 45 in 2004 from coronary artery disease, five years before Robinson lost the weight.
"The one thing I hate the most is that my dad never got to see (me thin)," she said. "I know how proud he'd be that I got that weight off. He was always so proud of me for my job accomplishments, but he could never understand why I couldn't get that part right."
The tipping point
From what she could wear and drive to where she would sit at restaurants, Robinson's size dictated many aspects of her daily life.
"I didn't have one pair of shoes that had laces," she said. "It put me out of breath to tie them. ... I would go into a restaurant already determining in my head whether I'd need a table or booth. I couldn't drive a sports car. I literally couldn't fit behind the wheel."
And the theme park incident is just one bad memory of a too-snug safety belt.
Robinson hadn't been on an airplane in about five years when she jetted off to Miami for a work trip with her husband in 2005. She cringed as a flight attendant yelled out for someone to bring a seat belt extension over.
"In that situation, you almost feel like ... yes, you are a human being, but not only do you not fit into society because you look different and you stand out, but you literally do not fit," she said. "I wouldn't even go to a concert because the seats (were) too small. You don't want to put yourself in those situations because they're so embarrassing."
Robinson said her daughter McKenzie, who turns 10 in November, is the main reason she ultimately decided to get fit.
Up until McKenzie was 6, Robinson hadn't been in a pool with her because she didn't feel comfortable in a bathing suit. "She started asking me, 'Mom, why are you not swimming with me?' "
And as parents slid down the giant slide at the carnival with their children, Robinson waited for her daughter at the bottom.
"Why won't you go down with me?" McKenzie would ask her mom.
"I felt like I was missing out," Robinson said. "I was there. I would take her to the events, but I couldn't participate. I'm at all the events, but I'm in none of the pictures."
Shake it
Thanks to Weight Watchers and Zumba DVDs, the weight started to fall off, Robinson said.
After losing 30 pounds and gaining confidence, she began taking Zumba classes at a gym. She started going a few times a week and loved it so much she continued to go every day. More than 150 pounds later, Robinson decided to open her own fitness studio in Greenville, South Carolina.
Within two months of opening Fitness Shakers in May 2011, Robinson said she quickly lost another 15 pounds -- bringing her total weight loss to 170 pounds in two years -- just from being the only instructor at the time.
"It's amazing to think I used to have these huge round chubby thick arms and now I've got this muscle definition," she said. "Pounds don't even bother me anymore. Now it's body fat percentage."
Her studio, as well as her story, now helps inspire others to be active and healthy, if the testimonials on her website are any indication: "I could never thank Dee Dee Robinson and her team enough for all they have done for me through Fitness Shakers," Jessie E. writes. "I immediately felt love, support, and acceptance walking into my first class."
"They trust me because they know where I've been," Robinson said of the members at her gym. "They know I can relate."
She now has a staff of 10 and a second location in Taylor, South Carolina, which opened in November 2011.
"I work out every day of my life," Robinson said, who also credits her fit physique to knowing what foods to eat. Salmon is one of her favorites because it's filling, yet low on the Weight Watchers' PointsPlus system.
"Do I have my one cheat day a week? Yeah," she said. "Is one cheeseburger going to make me gain weight? No."
Robinson has also noticed some other positive changes in her life since losing the weight. In addition to strengthening the bond she has with herself -- gaining confidence and happiness -- she said her relationship with her family has flourished.
"They say, 'We finally got our Dee back. Her personality is back. She's her bubbly normal self,' " Robinson said. "We're definitely closer."
She said she used to remove herself from situations, such as family cookouts, because she wasn't comfortable with her size, but now she's a lot more involved.
"I did it for me," Robinson said of losing the weight. "But maybe this whole weight loss process wasn't just for me. Never did I think I could inspire others. ... I get more gratitude from that than just knowing what I've done for myself."
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Carl Von Hassler, "The Seven Cities of Cibola" Mural photos
These murals on the lobby walls of the KiMo represent the mythical 'Seven Cities of Gold' searched for by Francisco Coronado during the time of the conquistadors.
For reference purposes, in this photo murals 1, 2 & 3 are out of sight behind the columns on the left. Murals 4 & 5 are in the center, 6 is on the right. Mural 7 is out of the picture on the right. Mural 8 no longer exists but a small rendering of it is located on the wall above the wooden bench on the left side of this picture, opposite mural 5. Mural 9 is out of the picture on the wall opposite mural 3 at the far left end of this picture.
The murals are actual depictions of existing pueblos and ruins that still exist in the Southwest.
Individual Mural Photos
White House' ruin, Canyon de Chelly
Acoma 'Sky City' Pueblo
Acoma 'Sky City' Pueblo
Taos Pueblo
Bandelier Monument ruin
Rendering of the original mural
For many years Von Hassler had a studio on the third floor of the KiMo Theatre. It was during this time that he, with the help of a few students, painted "The Seven Cities of Cibola" on the mezzanine level of the theatre lobby. He spent many years painting the Southwest, and died in Albuquerque in 1997. Many of his works are held in private collections around the world. Two smaller canvasses titled "In the Valley" and "Winter in the Valley" are also on exhibit in the lobby.


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Tamils secretly flown to Nauru had only recently arrived in India: lawyers
Tamil asylum seekers sent to Nauru by the Australian government had only recently arrived in India and had no work, schooling or residency rights there, lawyers claim.
The Australian government secretly flew 157 asylum seekers, held on the high seas for three weeks, to Nauru on Friday night, after they refused to meet with Indian consular officials at the Curtin detention centre.
The group includes 50 children, whom Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said could have returned to India, where they had family and were attending school, under his "unique" offer.
But lawyers acting for the asylum seekers said some of the Tamils had fled Sri Lanka and arrived in India in recent months, and faced a "precarious existence" if returned.
At least four families had arrived in India in the past 15 months and been unable to "register", educate their children or work, while one individual had arrived six months ago. Others had returned to Sri Lanka from India, been tortured and fled to India again.
The lawyers also rejected claims by Mr Morrison they had advised the asylum seekers to refuse to return to India.
Hugh de Kretser, executive director of the Human Rights Law Centre, said the lawyers had been given access to only 20 asylum seekers and had spoken to just four by telephone last week.
"The allegation is false," said lawyer George Newhouse. "We have always stood ready to work co-operatively."
Mr Newhouse produced letters sent to the Indian High Commission and the federal government on July 27 that show the lawyers had sought access to all 157 asylum seekers due to be interviewed by Indian officials at Curtin and were prepared to work with Indian lawyers.
Mr Morrison had travelled to India to broker the deal for the Indian government to consider accepting the asylum seekers who had left India by boat.
"It is very disappointing that, after having had access to their legal representatives on July 29, all 157 IMAs coincidentally chose not to talk to Indian consular officials," he said in a statement.
If the decision was taken on advice of lawyers, they had been "let down by those who are supposed to be looking after their best interests", he said.
Mr de Kretser responded: "The secret overnight transfer is a deliberate move to prevent legal scrutiny. It highlights the government's deception, secrecy and willingness to undermine the rule of law in Australia."
He said at 4.30pm on Friday, two clients had asked him to examine legal options to prevent a transfer to Nauru or Manus Island. The lawyers read about the Nauru transfer in Saturday's newspapers.
Mr Newhouse said a High Court case sparked by the group's detention on the boat would continue.
Labor's immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, criticised the "merry-go-round" the asylum seeker children had been subjected to; being shifted from an Australian customs vessel to the Cocos Islands, Curtin detention centre and now Nauru.
"The only reason they have been put on this wretched roller coaster is to protect Scott Morrison's personal political scoreboard," Mr Marles said.
Mr de Kretser said the children transferred to Nauru included one unaccompanied minor.


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Read Jonathan Rothberg's paper in Nature titled An integrated semiconductor device enabling non-optical genome sequencing describing the technology behind semiconductor sequencing, which was used to sequence the genome of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 2011, marking the first time a human genome has been published using semiconductor sequencing.
In Chip chips away a the cost of a genome Nature News profiles recent developments in semiconductor sequencing, including the use of the Personal Genome Machine for cancer research in Tasmanian devils, as well as for publishing the genome of the e.coli involved in the recent outbreak in German in a record three days.
Read the PLoS ONE paper from the University Münster, Münster, Germany, titled Prospective Genomic Characterization of the German Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O104:H4 Outbreak by Rapid Next Generation Sequencing Technology detailing the origins and evolution of the e.coli outbreak in Germany that caused 46 deaths since May 2011. The story was also covered by the BBC.
Forbes Magazine does a cover story titled Gene Machine on the launch of the Personal Genome Machine, discussing personalized medicine and genome sequencing as the next $100 billion technology market, featuring Jonathan Rothberg and semiconductor sequencing.
FThe New York Times takes a look at semiconductor sequencing in a feature titled Decoding DNA With Semiconductors noting the technology was used to sequence Gordon Moore's genome. The Times also did a feature on the launch of the Personal Genome Machine, titled Taking DNA Sequencing to the Masses.


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Boehner, Cantor to meet Newtown kin
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) will meet this week with the families who lost relatives in the Newtown, Conn., shooting.
The meeting will be Thursday, during the group's most recent swing through Washington, D.C.
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"Speaker Boehner's heart goes out to the victims of this senseless tragedy, and their families," Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said. "He wants to hear their stories and talk about ways to reduce the culture of violence in our country."
The Republican House hasn't attempted to tighten gun laws in the wake of the shooting — and has shown little appetite to do so. GOP leadership has prepared some options if the Senate passed tighter gun restrictions, but a move to tighten background checks on commercial gun sales failed in March.
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House Republicans have privately considered renewing the current background check system, promoting legislation to deal with violence in society. They would also consider moving a Republican gun control bill drafted by Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Chuck Grassley (Iowa).
Families of several Sandy Hook shooting victims arrive on Capitol Hill this week to try and resurrect the gun control debate.
A nonprofit group called Sandy Hook Promise, which was created in the wake of the shootings is intended to spark a legislative dialogue and action on guns, is bringing to the Hill members of seven families of Sandy Hook Elementary School victims, a spokeswoman confirmed to POLITICO.
The families will meet with members of both the House and the Senate and will be pushing the background check legislation and the House companion bill. The families will also begin discussions with lawmakers on mental health legislation.
The nonprofit will host Nelba Marquez-Greene, Neil Heslin, Nicole Hockley, Terri and Matthew Rousseau, Bill Sherlach, David and Francine Wheeler, and Mark Barden, whose family was the subject of a long profile in The Washington Post on Sunday.
The return to Washington by the families will occur on Tuesday and Wednesday and was first reported by The Associated Press.
The Capitol Hill lobbying comes the same week as the six-month anniversary of the mass shooting. Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, will lead a moment of silence for victims in Newtown on Friday at 9:30 a.m., which will kick off a national bus tour by Mayors Against Illegal Guns to lobby members of Congress to support background checks.
The Senate's background check legislation authored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) failed in April, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has indicated he plans to huddle with Manchin and Vice President Joe Biden on ways to revive the legislation.