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February 6th, 2013
The highs and lows of the 'Smash' premiere
[Editor's Note: If you haven't seen the season premiere of "Smash" and are sensitive about spoilers, you should skip this post.]
Whether you've enjoyed watching "Smash" or just live to "hate-watch" it, there was something for everyone in Tuesday night's season premiere, including a lot of changes.
It was also a roller-coaster ride of an opener, with its fair share of high points and lows. Here's a breakdown:
High No. 1: J.Hud
It wasn't exactly a shock that Jennifer Hudson's performances were a big highlight of the premiere. Her character, Broadway star Veronica, has so far existed to provide career advice to Karen and to perform a few show-stopping numbers. She easily succeeded at both. Now we just need to see what her role as a recurring character will be in the show going forward.
Low No. 1: A case of really bad timing
When Tom found out that Julia's husband was cheating on her (a convenient way to write him off the show, of course), he struggled to work up the nerve to tell her.
After some encouragement from Sam, he told her .... but at a party for "Bombshell," in the middle of Karen and Veronica's big duet. That guaranteed a confrontation in the middle of the event that not only caused a scene, but the end of their marriage. Would anyone actually pick that moment to drop that - no pun intended - bombshell? Way to go, Tom!
And if that wasn't enough, Eileen's ex-husband leaked information to the government about the show's finances, effectively shutting it down. (Well, that was one way to keep the show from being a Broadway success, which would probably have made for a boring season.)
High No. 2: Derek finally gets his comeuppance...
Bravo to "Smash" for finally making Derek see some consequences for his womanizing ways. It seems he's got a bad rap now due to sexual harassment complaints.
Low No. 2: ...But it was via a bad ripoff of Robert Palmer
Did we have to suffer through another "fantasy" sequence, like last season's Broadway number? A drunk Derek imagined Karen, Ivy and other women he'd wronged as a Robert Palmer music video, with supermodels singing "Would I Lie to You?" Next scene, please!
High No. 3: A new addition
With the loss of Michael the show was short on male talent, so the character of Jimmy stepped in (played by Broadway vet Jeremy Jordan).
Karen overheard him perform "Broadway, Here I Come" at the bar where he worked, and she suddenly had a new musical project. Jimmy (who is actually not from midtown Manhattan, wow!) was hesitant at first, but Karen was determined to work with Derek to get his show seen.
Low No. 3: What to do with Ivy?
Ivy, rejected by a show that no longer exists, was stuck in a rut. She had to return to auditioning, and was thinking of quitting acting altogether. (Of course, she got a fair warning from Bobby with this all-too-obvious bit of dialogue: "If I were you, I'd keep an eye on my back. Make sure there's no target on it.")
When she had to step in for Karen at an impromptu "Bombshell" performance - an effort by Tom and Karen to somehow keep the show alive - she got something of a life preserver.
She also had an honest moment with Derek about the end of their relationship, but she still seemed extremely jealous at the end of the episode because he was working with Karen on Jimmy's project. Get over it, Ivy!
So here's hoping they can find something better for her character as the season progresses. There's some potential here that season two can be better than the first - they definitely addressed a few problems, like Julia's scarves (thank you, Tom!).
But for those who like to "hate-watch," there is plenty for you to feast on.
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A friend and I are working on a project in T3D (3.10) for which I've attempted to produce a player model. However, I am unable to get the model to light properly in T3D when I export it as a dts. The model looks great in Milkshape, and looks fantastic exported as a .dae, but the lighting breaks when I export as a dts.
The model on the left was simply exported as a dts using the latest dts plus exporter. The model in the middle was one of my experiments, where I exported first as a Half-Life SMD, which I imported back into Milkshape, then immediately exported using the dts plus exporter. The one on the right was exported as a Collada .dae. The problem with the SMD trick is that it combines all of my materials that use the same texture (as well as their meshes). This is a problem because at some point I need to be able to color the individual parts of this model which, from what I understand, can only be done per material. I tried exporting the SMD with every material set to a different texture (thus preserving my meshes and materials), then restoring the original texture assignments before exporting as a dts, but that results in the same broken lighting seen on the left. The problem with exporting as a .dae is that I lose my skeleton, which is pretty important for a player model.
I spent a week creating this model and the last 6 hours trying to get it to light correctly in T3D. If anyone has any idea what I'm doing wrong, or what can be done to fix this model, I'd appreciate it.
This is the ms3d, as well as the exported dts's and .dae.
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It's That Time Again: Choose My Haircut
We have very important superficial things to discuss today people. Namely, my hair. AND HOW IT MUST BE CUT.
If you remember, the last time we had this discussion was in May of this year, so it is HIGH TIME for a haircut. I'm pretty sure normal people do not go 7 months without getting their mops chopped, but I've never been one to be normal.
Here is the current lowdown on my hair. It's longer than usual and sort of blah. This pic is from right after Thanksgiving:
This is also the picture that made me fantasize about Juvederm or other injectible things POURED INTO THE WRINKLES IN MY FACE OMG. But that is another blog post altogether.
Anyway, back to the hair. It's not horrible, it's just currently in that unruly state where it takes A LOT of work to get it to look only ok. And I prefer to have hair that is fun instead of just hair that is constantly pulled back into a ponytail. Though I am a sucker for ponytails with bangs, but we'll talk about that in a minute.
I like hair that actually has a style. It's okay if it take a lot of styling products and a hair dryer and looks fabulous, but I'm not that into hair that requires multiple tools and a prayer just to look "decent." In my vast 34 years of mop chopping experience there are two things I do with my hair that fit those requirements.
A. Bangs
I like bangs. Blunt Bangs. Choppy Bangs. Swoopy Bangs. They're just fun! But yes, they do become annoying after a while and then one must grow them out. First world problems and all that. But I do love a good ponytail with bangs, which might be a nice way to not cut off a lot of length, but still have a fun hairdo that is more functional. I just said hairdo. Do people under 80 still say hairdo?
For your reference: Me with bangs (Please ignore Garrett's caveman beard. I don't know what was up with that.)
B. Shorter Hair
Shorter hair is fun and sassy. It looks good straight, lends itself well to curling and always looks like it was cut to be in that particular style. But it can be a pain for workouts, and I haven't learned how to expand my short hair repertoire beyond A-line bob. I'm up for suggestions.
For your reference: Me with my most recent shorter hair (Man, that photo makes me miss summer and sunshine.)
So. here we sit, two roads diverged in a yellow wood. Take a vote and let me know what you think.


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We try to answer the question What is the Role of a Parent? by taking into analysis the biological, psychological, social and financial dimensions. The parents' roles are of the maximum importance for personality development of the children. Basic traditional roles of being a parent are: nurture and educate children, discipline them, manage home and financially support family. Modern roles brought an active participation of fathers in children care. The main idea is that parents must be child centered and should aim to optimal growth and development of their children, to help them have satisfactory biological, social, psychological and emotional growth.
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It would be easier to use drag & drop to add a URL from a browser to Quickr.
An Internet shortcut is created when I do a drag & drop from my browser to my Windows desktop, why not creating a link document in Quickr when doing the same kind of action using the Quickr Connector?
Now you have to open a Quickr place via the browser in order to create a link document.
For an end user it would be far more easier to add links (or bookmarks) this way.


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Boy denied having service dog at school
Letter from Broward County Public Schools district says service animal needs liability insurance
SUNRISE, Fla. – A woman said Friday that the Broward County Public Schools district won't allow her 5-year-old son to bring his service dog with him when he begins kindergarten at Nob Hill Elementary in Sunrise on Monday.
"He don't want to go to the school [without the dog]," said Monica Alboniga, whose son Anthony suffers from cerebral palsy.
Alboniga showed Local 10 a letter from the Broward County School Board that said they needed liability insurance for Anthony's service dog, Stevie. The doctor-recommended canine alerts people to the boy's frequent seizures.
"He need the dog. He need the dog with the school with him," she said.
Matt Dietz, a leading attorney on the Americans with Disabilities Act, said the school board is breaking the law.
"There's no reason why his service animal shouldn't be allowed to be in school with him, just like any other place, whether it's a courthouse, whether it's a shopping mall, whether it's a playground," he said. "They should be welcoming this as a way to increase [the] knowledge and understanding of kids that have disabilities."
Dietz said the family could make a legal challenge. Alboniga said her son will go to school Monday with or without his dog.
According to a spokeswoman for Broward County Public Schools district, insurance isn't required for a service animal to be approved. However, the service animal must:
- Be properly vaccinated;
- Be under the control of a handler who is not a school board employee. If the handler is not the student, the handler must meet the requirements of the Jessica Lunsford Act (Level II Background Screening);
- Be trained to perform a specific service for the student which cannot be accommodated in the education setting.
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The Tampa Bay Rays: The Pitchers 1998-2012: Part 3 Of A 5 Part Article Series
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Friday, December.28, 2012
Note from Chuck Booth: I am attempting to bring the history for each of the 30 MLB Franchises into a 5 part series that will focus on 1. The teams history. 2. The hitters 3. The pitchers. 4. The Teams Payroll going into 2013 and 5.The Ball Park that they play in. (The stadium articles will all be done next summer when I go to all of the parks in under a month again.) Be sure to check my author page with a list of all of my archived articles section here.
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The Rays had several lean years of pitching before a starter really made his mark. Out of the gate, Roberto Hernandez had helped the team with closing at least. In the early years, the best pitching was done by Rolando Arrojo, followed by Victor Zambrano, before he was traded for Scott Kazmir. The Mets/Rays trade was the foundation for the pitching staff finally evolving. Soon James Shields was up with the big club. In 2008, the teams 5 starters towed the hill for all season in what would be an eventual World Series Birth. Newly acquired Matt Garza, joined Shields, Kazmir, Edwin Jackson and Andy Sonnanstine for double-digit wins and winning records.
David Price was next to join the staff in 2009 and he has not looked back since. Jeff Niemann, Wade Davis, Jeremy Hellickson and Matt Moore joined the pitching staff in the next few years after that. The stable of bullpen relievers keeps coming and going. J.P. Howell has been the biggest mainstay there. Even with departing starters of Davis and (the Franchise Leader in several pitching categories) Shields, the team is not bare at the kitchen cupboard. The Rays finished 1st in Team Pitching ERA last year for all of the MLB. The next closest team in the AL was the Oakland – at almost a third of a run more.
The Rays have been blessed with some great years recently out of lower salaried closers. Whether it was Troy Percival, Kyle Farnsworth, Rafael Soriano or Fernando Rodney, Andrew Friedman has had a knack for gluing together a bullpen on a shoestring budget. With David Price winning the Cy Young Award in 2012, the best pitching may be yet to come for the AL East Team. Honorable Mentions went to these players, but they were not the same caliber as everyone else: Esteban Yan, Andy Sonnanstine, Kyle Farnsworth SP/RP Rick White RP Lance Cormier and RP Jim Mecir.
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Franchise History: The Tampa Bay Rays: The Franchise 1998-2012: Part 1 Of A 5 Part Article Series
The Hitters The Tampa Bay Rays: The Hitters 1998-2012: Part 2 Of A 5 Part Article Series
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The Atrium (or Attrium) is a building in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, located in eastern Commerce, Los Santos.
The building appears during the Big Smoke mission Just Business. Although little is known about the interior, it has several stories and has a statue depicting a man touching himself inappropriately. Some statues facing the one touching himself have their hands over their eyes. There is a body armor in this building and several unusable lifts.
- Leaving the building through one of the doors (only one works) then entering it backwards with a pistol aimed forwards will enable the player to "ghost" through the door and into the actual interior, rather than the separate one. The floor here is, aside from a small square by the door, not solid, and the player can fall through it, entering Blue Hell.
- Similarly, if the player enters the building and then leaves doing the same thing, they will go back outside to Los Santos, however the game will detect that the player is still inside, and thus, no vehicles will be loaded and the entire San Andreas apart from the area immediately surrounding the building will become invisible (although still solid). All pickups, collectibles etc. will still be there and, by going back into the Atrium and out again, or any other interior for that matter, the glitch will be eliminated.
- When the player enters through the northern door, the in-game text says that the building is called the Atrium. When they enter from the west, it says Attrium, which likely is a text error.
- In biology, the atrium is a part of the heart where blood flows through. In architecture, it is a large air or skylight-covered place surrounded by a building.
- If the player leaves a vehicle outside the front of the Atrium, at least in front of the 2 escalators, and the player enters then exits the interior of the Atrium using the glitch mentioned above, then the vehicle will be outside in the place the player left it. It is enterable and controllable, but it is invisible. However, navigation through the city is difficult, as the whole state is invisible, as is the car.
- The statues inside the Atrium were destructible in PS2 (except the masturbating one). But cannot on the PC version of the game.
- There is a Varrios Los Aztecas tag on the left side of the Atrium.
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Driver charged in fatal Miami Gardens bus bench crash
Mark Derefaka charged with vehicular homicide, driving without a valid license
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – A man police say was responsible for plowing his car into a bus stop in Miami Gardens last week, and killing one person in the process, was arrested Tuesday evening.
Mark Derefaka, 29, will face multiple charges that include vehicular homicide and driving without a valid license.
Miami Garden police believe speed was the cause of the accident that killed 83-year-old Mary Smith and injured five more.
Derefaka's car crashed into a bus bench outside a CVS pharmacy at Northwest 199th Street and 2nd Avenue last Tuesday.
Police believe Derefaka's white Nissan Maxima was speeding and swerved around a slower moving black Nissan Altima, hit it, and then plowed through a bus stop where four people were waiting, including Smith. Both cars were going eastbound on 199th Street.
Several Good Samaritans heard the crash and ran in to help. Several people freed a man who was trapped underneath the car, leaving it on its side.
Derefaka already has a criminal history.
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Oil Spill Prevention Law Helps Contain Leak at Shell Puget Sound Refinery
The Washington Department of Ecology responded to an oil spill that took place Friday night when a Crowley Maritime Barge was transferring five million gallons of oil to the Shell Puget Sound Refinery, CNN reported.
Around 20 gallons spilled, of which five entered the water, and that oil was contained within an area that was boomed before the transfer began. The cleanup was completed by 8:30 a.m. Sunday, the department said.
"There were no impacts to the shoreline or wildlife," department spokeswoman Cheryl Ann Bishop told CNN in an email.
The spill occurred at around 11:45 p.m. in Anacortes, Washington, according to the department. The barge was transferring an Alaska North Slope crude-oil blend at the end of a pier that extends into Fidalgo Bay when crew members saw oil spilling from the barge, The Seattle Times reported.
An oil sheen was visible on the water inside the containment boom, which covered an area of 225 by 30 feet, roughly the size of a tennis court.
Washington state law requires that containment booms be put in place before transferring oil over water as a preventative measure, and Bishop told CNN that the law was one reason the spill was so successfully contained and cleaned.
"In this case, it was pre-boomed, as it's supposed to be," Ty Keltner, the Department of Ecology's communications manager for spill response, told The Seattle Times.
The crew identified the cause of the spill as a pressure relief valve that was then secured, stopping the spill.
"No oil in the water is acceptable for any of us who do this kind of work," Suzanne Lagoni, deputy public information officer for Shell Puget Sound Refinery, told KOMO News. "It's not acceptable to the people of Washington or to the people of Anacortes."
Shell said that there were no injuries as a result of the spill, and that it did not impact air quality, The Seattle Times reported.
The Shell refinery where the spill took place was opened in 1958 and was originally owned by Texaco. It currently processes around 5.7 million gallons of crude oil from Alaska and Central and Western Canada daily.
The risk of more oil spills is one reason why environmental advocates and indigenous groups oppose the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, which would lead to a seven-fold increase in the number of oil tankers moving through the Salish Sea between Washington State and British Columbia, according to Earthjustice.
"The Tulalip Tribes are extremely disappointed with Prime Minister Trudeau's approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline," Tulalip Tribes Chairwoman Teri Gobin told Earthjustice after the approval was announced in June. "We face the very real threat of an oil spill that puts the Salish Sea at risk. We will continue to oppose this and other projects that threaten our ancestral waters in the Salish Sea."
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Back From Extinction: Returning Threatened Pangolins to the Wild
By Alexander Richard Braczkowski, Christopher O'Bryan, Duan Biggs, and Raymond Jansen
Pangolins are one of the most illegally trafficked animals on the planet and are suspected to be linked to the current coronavirus pandemic.
A Cute But Threatened Species
Pangolins are the only mammals wholly-covered in scales, which they use to protect themselves from predators. They can also curl up into a tight ball.

They eat mainly ants, termites and larvae which they pick up with their sticky tongue. They can grow up to 1m in length from nose to tail and are sometimes referred to as scaly anteaters.

But all eight pangolin species are classified as "threatened" under International Union for Conservation of Nature criteria.

There is an unprecedented demand for their scales, primarily from countries in Asia and Africa where they are used in food, cultural remedies and medicine.

Between 2017 and 2019, seizures of pangolin scales tripled in volume. In 2019 alone, 97 tons of pangolin scales, equivalent to about 150,000 animals, were reportedly intercepted leaving Africa.

Reintroduction of an Extinct Species
Each year in South Africa the African Pangolin Working Group (APWG) retrieves between 20 and 40 pangolins through intelligence operations with security forces.

These pangolins are often-traumatised and injured and are admitted to the Johannesburg Wildlife Veterinary Hospital for extensive medical treatment and rehabilitation before they can be considered for release.

In 2019, seven rescued Temminck's pangolins were reintroduced into South Africa's Phinda Private Game Reserve in the KwaZulu Natal Province.

Nine months on, five have survived. This reintroduction is a world first for a region that last saw a viable population of this species in the 1980s.

During the release, every individual pangolin followed a strict regime. They needed to become familiar with their new surroundings and be able to forage efficiently.

A 'Soft Release' in to the Wild
The process on Phinda game reserve involved a more gentle ease into re-wilding a population in a region that had not seen pangolins for many decades.

The soft release had two phases:

a pre-release observational period

an intensive monitoring period post release employing GPS satellite as well as VHF tracking tags.

Why Pangolin Reintroduction is Important
We know so little about this group of mammals that are vastly understudied and hold many secrets yet to be discovered by science but are on the verge of collapse.

The South African and Phinda story is one of hope for the Temminck's pangolin where they once again roam the savanna hills and plains of Zululand.

The process of relocating these trade animals back into the wild has taken many turns, failures and tribulations but, the recipe of the "soft release" is working.

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By Jake Johnson
In a move that environmentalists warned could further imperil hundreds of endangered species and a protected habitat for the sake of profit, President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation rolling back an Obama-era order and opening nearly 5,000 square miles off the coast of New England to commercial fishing.
Fresh fruits and vegetables are a healthy way to incorporate vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants into your diet.
Why You Should Wash Fresh Produce
Global pandemic or not, properly washing fresh fruits and vegetables is a good habit to practice to minimize the ingestion of potentially harmful residues and germs.

Fresh produce is handled by numerous people before you purchase it from the grocery store or the farmers market. It's best to assume that not every hand that has touched fresh produce has been clean.

With all of the people constantly bustling through these environments, it's also safe to assume that much of the fresh produce you purchase has been coughed on, sneezed on, and breathed on as well.

Adequately washing fresh fruits and vegetables before you eat them can significantly reduce residues that may be left on them during their journey to your kitchen.

Summary

Washing fresh fruits and vegetables is a proven way to remove germs and unwanted residues from their surfaces before eating them.

Best Produce Cleaning Methods
While rinsing fresh produce with water has long been the traditional method of preparing fruits and veggies before consumption, the current pandemic has many people wondering whether that's enough to really clean them.

Some people have advocated the use of soap, vinegar, lemon juice, or even commercial cleaners like bleach as an added measure.

However, health and food safety experts, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC), strongly urge consumers not to take this advice and stick with plain water.

Using such substances may pose further health dangers, and they're unnecessary to remove the most harmful residues from produce. Ingesting commercial cleaning chemicals like bleach can be lethal and should never be used to clean food.

Furthermore, substances like lemon juice, vinegar, and produce washes have not been shown to be any more effective at cleaning produce than plain water — and may even leave additional deposits on food.

While some research has suggested that using neutral electrolyzed water or a baking soda bath can be even more effective at removing certain substances, the consensus continues to be that cool tap water is sufficient in most cases.

Summary

The best way to wash fresh produce before eating it is with cool water. Using other substances is largely unnecessary. Plus they're often not as effective as water and gentle friction. Commercial cleaners should never be used on food.

How to Wash Fruits and Vegetables With Water
Washing fresh fruits and vegetables in cool water before eating them is a good practice when it comes to health hygiene and food safety.

Note that fresh produce should not be washed until right before you're ready to eat it. Washing fruits and vegetables before storing them may create an environment in which bacterial growth is more likely.

Before you begin washing fresh produce, wash your hands well with soap and water. Be sure that any utensils, sinks, and surfaces you're using to prepare your produce are also thoroughly cleaned first.

Begin by cutting away any bruised or visibly rotten areas of fresh produce. If you're handling a fruit or vegetable that'll be peeled, such as an orange, wash it before peeling it to prevent any surface bacteria from entering the flesh.

The general methods to wash produce are as follows:

Firm produce. Fruits with firmer skins like apples, lemons, and pears, as well as root vegetables like potatoes, carrots, and turnips, can benefit from being brushed with a clean, soft bristle to better remove residues from their pores.

Leafy greens. Spinach, lettuce, Swiss chard, leeks, and cruciferous vegetables like Brussels sprouts and bok choy should have their outermost layer removed, then be submerged in a bowl of cool water, swished, drained, and rinsed with fresh water.

Delicate produce. Berries, mushrooms, and other types of produce that are more likely to fall apart can be cleaned with a steady stream of water and gentle friction using your fingers to remove grit.

Once you have thoroughly rinsed your produce, dry it using a clean paper or cloth towel. More fragile produce can be laid out on the towel and gently patted or rolled around to dry them without damaging them.

Before consuming your fruits and veggies, follow the simple steps above to minimize the amount of germs and substances that may be on them.

Summary

Most fresh fruits and veggies can gently be scrubbed under cold running water (using a clean soft brush for those with firmer skins) and then dried. It can help to soak, drain, and rinse produce that has more dirt-trapping layers.

The Bottom Line
Practicing good food hygiene is an important health habit. Washing fresh produce helps minimize surface germs and residues that could make you sick.

Recent fears during the COVID-19 pandemic have caused many people to wonder whether more aggressive washing methods, such as using soap or commercial cleaners on fresh produce, are better.

Health professionals agree that this isn't recommended or necessary — and could even be dangerous. Most fruits and vegetables can be sufficiently cleaned with cool water and light friction right before eating them.

Produce that has more layers and surface area can be more thoroughly washed by swishing it in a bowl of cool water to remove dirt particles.

Fresh fruits and vegetables offer a number of healthy nutrients and should continue to be eaten, as long as safe cleaning methods are practiced.

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A New Hybrid Fungus Found in Hospitals Is Linked to Lung Disease
By Jacob L. Steenwyk and Antonis Rokas
From the mythical minotaur to the mule, creatures created from merging two or more distinct organisms – hybrids – have played defining roles in human history and culture. However, not all hybrids are as fantastic as the minotaur or as dependable as the mule; in fact, some of them cause human diseases.
When Looking Through a Microscope Isn't Close Enough.
For the last few years, our team at Vanderbilt University, Gustavo Goldman's team at São Paulo University in Brazil and many other collaborators around the world have been collecting samples of fungi from patients infected with different species of Aspergillus molds. One of the species we are particularly interested in is Aspergillus nidulans, a relatively common and generally harmless fungus. Clinical laboratories typically identify the species of Aspergillus causing the infection by examining cultures of the fungi under the microscope. The problem with this approach is that very closely related species of Aspergillus tend to look very similar in their broad morphology or physical appearance when viewing them through a microscope.

Interested in examining the varying abilities of different A. nidulans strains to cause disease, we decided to analyze their total genetic content, or genomes. What we saw came as a total surprise. We had not collected A. nidulans but Aspergillus latus, a close relative of A. nidulans and, as we were to soon find out, a hybrid species that evolved through the fusion of the genomes of two other Aspergillus species: Aspergillus spinulosporus and an unknown close relative of Aspergillus quadrilineatus. Thus, we realized not only that these patients harbored infections from an entirely different species than we thought they were, but also that this species was the first ever Aspergillus hybrid known to cause human infections.

Several Different Fungal Hybrids Cause Human Disease.
Hybrid fungi that can cause infections in humans are well known to occur in several different lineages of single-celled fungi known as yeasts. Notable examples include multiple different species of yeast hybrids that cause the human diseases cryptococcosis and candidiasis. Although pathogenic yeast hybrids are well known, our discovery that the A. latus pathogen is a hybrid is a first for molds that cause disease in humans.

(Left) Candida yeasts live on parts of the human body. Imbalance of microbes on the body can allow these yeasts, some of which are hybrids, to grow and cause infection. (Right) Cryptococcus yeasts, including ones that are hybrids, can cause life-threatening infections in primarily immunocompromised people. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Why certain Aspergillus species are so deadly while others are harmless remains unknown. This may in part be because combinations of traits, rather than individual traits, underlie organisms' ability to cause disease. So why then are hybrids frequently associated with human disease? Hybrids inherit genetic material from both parents, which may result in new combinations of traits. This may make them more similar to one parent in some of their characteristics, reflect both parents in others or may differ from both in the rest. It is precisely this mix and match of traits that hybrids have inherited from their parental species that facilitates their evolutionary success, including their ability to cause disease.


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Apple's next big event, where it will likely unveil its new iPhone, will be held on Sept. 9, according to reports.
Apple's usual big media events unveil new devices, and this one possibly will show the new iPhone 6 in two new sizes, according to 9to5Mac. The two new phones are rumored to have displays of 4.7 and 5.5 inches, and if Apple does this event according to previous events, it would be available to consumers by Sept. 19.
The only problem has been persistent reports that Apple has been having trouble getting the bigger iPhone to market -- because production hasn't kept up with demand. Insiders at Apple also say that there should be more products coming down the pipeline and that the new iWatch may also make an appearance, as well as iPads with Touch ID sensors.
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Apple's so-called iWatch needs to make an appearance. It's been about three years since the project has been rumored, and Apple needs to deliver soon or risk losing all momentum to its rivals.


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I'm only a little addicted to Pinterest. It is such a fun way to find ideas I didn't know I needed and an even better way to organize and remember where things are on the Internet. I like to think of it as an amped up "Favorites" list since I can actually see what the link is about.
Through the summer, I pinned library ideas like crazy. I kind of feel bad for the people following me – 99% of whom are not librarians – because they got flooded with library and book related pins! Of all the things that I found on Pinterest, below are the things that I have been most excited to learn about – either from the pin itself or from browsing the linked site a little more.
1. Evernote – I honestly don't remember where I first saw this productivity tool – but since I downloaded it and began using it, I've seen it mentioned numerous times. Evernote is a way to keep track of notes, lists, food experiences etc. You can download it to your desktop and download the app for your smartphone and link your accounts so that you can access your notes anywhere. I have it on our home computer, my phone and on my school computer so that I can keep track of things from anywhere. This has been extremely helpful to me as I've started back for the school year and have needed to keep track of to-do lists, lesson ideas, links – and I use Evernote Food to keep track of recipes that I love. I've even got a shared notebook with my husband and we keep track of our grocery list on it – so if one of us is at the store, we know what we need to pick up.
2. PowToon – if you've read any of my other posts, I guess it's probably clear that I'm really obsessed with this right now! It's been such a fun way to engage students. I used it as a preview of an introduction to who I am (since I'm new to my school this year) and I just finished creating a PowToon of the nonfiction section. The kids really love the cartoon quality – and think I'm a tech genius. The folks over at PowToons have really done a good job of helping make me look smart to the third graders ;)
3. LiveBinders – I really wish I had known about this site sooner. LiveBinders is a great way to create electronic binders that contain content that can be easily shared. Binders have always been my choice of organization strategy – over file folders. When I come across something I really like, I make sure I link it as a resource in one of my binders. The purpose of the site is similar to Pinterest – it allows users to create a platform on which they can organize ideas and content. The bonus here is that you can upload documents and include links that don't have a picture to pin. I created a Technology binder to help keep track of articles and tools I really like, and it's something that I could share with my faculty once I have more content in it.
4. E2Bn - East of England Broadcast Network – has some pretty cool online collections (Myths and Legends & History's Heroes) and tools that I cannot wait to try out. Discovery Box especially seems like a great way to share research projects, and I hope to use it in some way with my 4th and 5th graders. There's also Picture Teller, Story Creator and Speech Maker to round out the available resources.
5. 50 Education Technology Tools Every Educator Should Know About- I just recently pinned this one (Evernote is on it) and as I was looking through the list, I realized there were a lot of sites I needed to study up on! This is one of those that I think I will keep coming back to as I work on discovering new things.
6. Tech Talk for Teachers: Let's Get SMART – 21 tips for using a Smart Board. Many of these are ones that I already knew, but number 7 – directions for inserting images without backgrounds into Smart Notebook files; number 19 – directions for dual display that allows you to show something on the Smartboard, while you work on something else on the same computer;, number 20 – with the newest version of the Smart Notebook software you can insert a web page into the notebook file; number 21 – an intro to using Voki with Smart Notebook 11.
7. 67 Books Every Geek Should Read to their Kids Before Age 10 This list is such a great mix of classics and newer fiction and poetry. It really does a good job of covering all of the different genres as well – you'll find books by Kinney, DiCamillo, Tolkien, Silverstein, Gaiman and more. This is one I plan to keep handy at the circulation desk as quick recommendations for kids when I'm blanking outJ
I know there are a ton more than this, ones that I'll rediscover or make use of later this year – especially because I end up being in the "pin now read later" category more often than not. With so many ideas floating around out there in cyberspace, I am glad to have found such a fun way to learn about new ideas and pin things down that I want to try or read more about.
What have you found on Pinterest that has helped you?
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A New Jersey man faces up to life in prison after being convicted of killing and dismembering another man who authorities say was his live-in boyfriend.
Jurors deliberated for less than two hours in Hackensack Tuesday before pronouncing Pedro Garcia of Cliffside Park guilty of murder and disturbing the remains of a victim.
Prosecutors alleged the 36-year-old Garcia was in a relationship with Francisco Gonzalez Fuentes but became enraged when Fuentes told others the two were romantically linked.
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Authorities said Fuentes was stabbed to death in January 2011 and his body was cut up by Garcia and another man and put in five garbage bags that were dumped in different locations.
The Record reports Garcia denied during the trial that he was gay and implied the killing was fueled by passion.


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Gold rose to a record $1,607.70 an ounce, heading for the longest rally in 31 years, as debt concerns in Europe and the U.S. boosted demand for the metal as a haven.
President Barack Obama is pressing congressional leaders for a multitrillion-dollar agreement in talks on cutting the deficit. A default would cause more panic than the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in 2008, Larry Summers, a former Treasury Secretary, told CNN in an interview broadcast yesterday. The euro fell as European leaders plan to meet again on the debt crisis.
"There's just a lack of confidence in government and currency," Frank Lesh, a trader at FuturePath Trading LLC in Chicago, said in a telephone interview. "There's a flight-to- safety into gold. When Europe fixes their house and the U.S. fixes our house, maybe then there'll be in a correction in gold."
Gold futures for August delivery rose $9.60, or 0.6 percent, to $1,599.70 at 10:35 a.m. on the Comex in New York. The metal climbed for the 10th straight session, the longest rally since January 1980, when the price rose to $873, a record at the time.
UBS AG said in a report that its Zurich sales desk on July 15 had the biggest gold-coin demand in a year. The metal denominated in euros and pounds jumped to records after European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet reiterated his opposition to any restructuring of Greek debt.
"Europeans primarily are fearful about the future of their currency and are exiting positions there for Swiss francs and gold," Dennis Gartman, an economist, said in his Suffolk, Virginia-based Gartman Letter. "Were we a German lawyer, or doctor, or small business owners, we'd be buying gold."
Gold has doubled since early December 2008 as the Federal Reserve kept interest rates at a record low and governments spent trillions of dollars to prop up the economy after the most-severe global recession since World War II.
The Treasury Department has warned the U.S. debt ceiling must be lifted by Aug. 2 to avoid default. Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service may downgrade the government's credit rating if Congress doesn't act.
Silver futures for September delivery rose $1.574, or 4 percent, to $40.645 an ounce. The price jumped 9.6 percent in the previous three sessions. On April 25, the price reached $49.845, a 31-year high.
Palladium futures for September delivery rose $10.80, or 1.4 percent, to $780.65 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Platinum futures for October delivery rose $19.60, or 1.1 percent, to $1,775.10 an ounce.


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TaiwanFest necesitaba un nuevo diseño de camiseta y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 216 diseños de 74 diseñadores freelance.
TaiwanFest is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. In commemoration of this milestone, we want to host a t-shirt design contest.
The objective of this contest is to take our festival concept and create your own t-shirt design.
You are welcome to modify it however you like. Mold it in your own creative way. Make it contemporary, edgy, abstract, funny, romantic, thought provoking, anything you can imagine it to be. Have fun!
Files available for download in brief.
Rating methodology for reference:
1 star - I would like to see it further developed.
2 stars - Made use of festival concept but lacking in creativity.
3 stars - Creative use of festival concept but needs some development.
4 stars - Creative use of festival concept.
5 stars - Creative use of festival concept and has "perceivable" connection with festival metaphor. (Cacti becoming Diamond)
2009 TELUS TAIWANfest
TaiwanFest is an annual festival dedicated to promoting Taiwanese Arts and Culture. We focus on contemporary artistic expressions and present programs that reflect today's Taiwan.
The 2009 festival will be exploring the concept of marriage utilizing the visual metaphor of cactuses and diamonds. This is to imply that a new journey of love is full of joy and sorrow. Like a cactus in a desert that must find strength to deal with the adversities. They develop a soul that is crystal clear and full-of-life in that process.
The objective of this t-shirt design contest is to create a t-shirt design using the provided files.
Files are available for download below.
- Illustrator TELUS TAIWANfest Brand Name
- Illustrator T-shirt Template
- Illustrator Festival Concept - White
- Illustrator Festival Coneept - Black- Download EPS Package of above files (2.2 MB)
- Download Photoshop CS3 Package of above files (3 MB)
- Use the official festival brand name as provided in file. ("2009 TELUS TAIWANfest")
- "A New Journey" can be rearrange as you please.
- Make use of the festival concept.
- We want designs suitable for all ages and gender.
- Make use of the front of the t-shirt only.
- The colour of the t-shirt can be black or white.
- The t-shirt design can be in full colour.
- The winner must deliver the final design as Adobe Illustrator vector files or 300ppi Photoshop file
- Raster effects should be set to a minimum resolution of 300ppi.
- Be creative!
- Cannot contain third-party logos, trademarks or copyrighter material.
- No pornography, obscene violence, drugs, racism, etc.


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Houston secures No. 1 spot in draft with loss to Tennessee
Nashville, TN (SportsNetwork.com) - Neither team had a chance to make the playoffs, so they played for pride and possibly their jobs.
The contest was highlighted with records and milestones but one record stood out the most, it was for the Houston Texans. They fell to 2-14, to match the franchise worst record, and secured the No.1 spot in the upcoming draft.
"The season has been very disappointing, and I think it was something no could foresee. We got in a whirlwind and it never ended." said Texans interim head coach Wade Phillips.
Chris Johnson ran for 127 yards and a touchdown on 27 carries to lead the Tennessee Titans (7-9) to a 16-10 win over the Texans. Ryan Fitzpatrick completed 15-of-24 passes for 166 yards and an interception.
Johnson became the sixth player in NFL history to record 1,000 rushing yards in each of his first six seasons with his effort.
In his first career start Jonathan Grimes carried the ball 16 times for 50 yards and a touchdown for Houston, which moved the franchise worst losing streak to 14 games. Matt Schaub was 22-for-34 with 229 yards and two interceptions.
"I don't want to say it's a relief because you live to play football, it's only a relief because the losing streak is over and we can start from scratch." said Houston center Chris Myers about the season ending.
On the Texans first touch of the third quarter Schaub was intercepted by Akeem Ayers. Five plays into the ensuing Titans drive, Fitzpatrick completed a 9-yard pass to Delanie Walker for his 60th reception of the season.
Walker became the only other Titan/Oiler tight end with 60 receptions in a season joining Frank Wycheck, who did it five straight years (1997-2001).
Two plays later Johnson rushed 11 yards for the game-winning score and the 50th rushing touchdown of his career with 5:39 left in the third.
"I never got done this early." said Walker about what its like to not make the playoffs.
The Titans took over after a three-and-out by Houston and on the third play of the drive J.J. Watt sacked Fitzpatrick to get to 10 1/2 for the season. With that sack Watt registered back-to-back seasons with 10 sacks and joined Mario Williams as only the second player in franchise history to complete that feat.
A muffed snap exchange by Schaub three plays into the fourth gave Tennessee the ball on the Houston 33-yard line. The Titans got to the 19-yard line before Rod Bironas put through a 37-yard field goal.
"It's been a very strange year, it's hard to put into words all the things that have taken place on our team." said Schaub.
Tennessee led 16-7 with 10:44 left in the game.
Houston notched the final points of the game with 2:53 left to play. They drove eight plays for 89 yards before Randy Bullock kicked through a 19-yard field goal.
With just over a minute left in the game the Texans took over on their own 9- yard with no timeouts. On 1st-and-10 Schaub threw a prayer downfield and was intercepted by Michael Griffin.
Grimes put Houston on the board first, with 9:37 left in first quarter, after he ran three yards for his first career touchdown. The touchdown was only the seventh time this season the Texans scored on the ground.
The Titans first drive of the second quarter took them 32 yards on seven plays to set up Bironas for a 42-yard field goal.
Grimes fumbled after a hit by Ayers, on the ensuing possession, before Zach Brown recovered for the Titans. Tennessee took over with 6:55 left in the first half, however, Fitzpatrick was intercepted by Brice McCain just over three minutes later.
The Texans next drive stalled and Tennessee took over on its own 5-yard line after a Houston punt. Johnson ran for 23 yards, on the first play of the drive, and eclipsed the 1,000 yard mark.
Bironas ended the drive and first half with a 55-yard field goal to bring the Titans within one, 7-6.
Game Notes
Johnson joined Marvin Harrison as only the second player in NFL history with four seasons of 100-plus receptions and 1,400-plus yards ... Johnson had six catches for 49 yards and Grimes added six catches for 76 yards for the Texans ... Kendall Wright caught five passes for 50 yards and Walker had three receptions for 29 yards for Tennessee.


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After clearing the first hurdle in some of the most delicate legislative jockeying in recent memory, advocates of a comprehensive immigration reform bill are already looking to the next stage of the legislation's progress as it heads toward a high-profile airing in the full Senate.
While some groups aligned with Democrats failed to secure their desired changes to the sweeping Senate legislation as it worked its way through 30 hours of debate in the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month, many are looking to the floor debate as a second shot to include their priorities in a final bill.
And Republicans who are supportive of the reform effort, led by Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, are all but certain to support changes to the bill's border security provisions in the effort to bring more conservatives into the fold.
Mindful of how previous attempts to overhaul the nation's immigration system disintegrated under pressure, however, all sides are proceeding with caution to maintain an underlying framework of compromise that -- so far -- remains unscathed.
"The center has held, so part of the calculation going forward is how to make it through the Senate floor in the same fashion," said Clarissa Martinez De Castro, the director of immigration policy for the National Council of La Raza.
Her organization, along with other immigrant advocacy groups, had lobbied for provisions to allow more flexibility for family members of U.S. citizens to become eligible for visas.
One amendment -- considered the most politically palatable of the possible options -- would have restored visa eligibility for the adult children or siblings of citizens if separation would mean "extreme hardship" for the family. But despite an emotional push by sponsor Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, the provision failed by a 7-11 vote in committee.
Mee Moua, the executive director of the Asian American Justice Center, said that the defeat of that amendment was "short-sighted" but that her group is hopeful for a second chance.
"We feel that there's actually been some space that's been created for us to continue the conversation," Moua said. 'We're hopeful that the floor process -- with 100 senators -- means there's still an opportunity for us."
LGBT activists also suffered a defeat Tuesday night when ally Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy -- acknowledging his colleagues' fears that it would splinter the bill's underlying compromise -- pulled an amendment that would have recognized same-sex marriages in immigration law.
But their fight to write the protections into the final bill may depend as much as on the Supreme Court's calendar as it does on Senate politics.
Voto Latino's Maria Teresa Kumar, Politico's Rachel Smolkin and RSLC President Chris Jankowski join The Daily Rundown to discuss the next steps for immigration reform, President Barack Obama's speech on counter terrorism, and give their shameless plugs.
The Supreme Court is expected to hand down its decision on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act at the end of its term in late June or early July. A favorable DOMA decision for gay rights activists would largely resolve what they see as discrimination written into immigration law now.
But that ruling is no guarantee.
"Our position today is if the bill is moving towards the vote and we do not have a Supreme Court ruling in hand -- or we have a bad ruling in hand -- we'd certainly want to look at the options for an amendment on the floor," said Steve Ralls of Immigration Equality, one of the groups that excoriated Gang of Eight Republicans for labeling the LGBT measure a deal-breaker, leading Leahy to withhold it. "If we don't have a resolution from the court, the Senate has a responsibility to our families to support a floor amendment."
Unions may also push to change provisions inserted Tuesday to win the support of Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, who secured the relaxation of hiring regulations for high-tech firms seeking temporary skilled workers from abroad. After winning the changes -- which were panned by the AFL-CIO, which worked on the bill's original compromise language regarding temporary workers -- Hatch announced that he would vote for the bill in committee but that he could still vote against it once it comes to the floor.
There will also be a slate of amendments from the other side of the aisle, both from Republican opponents of the bill attempting to gut its central tenets and from those hoping to woo more conservatives to vote for the final product.
Republicans who support the bill's framework are considering amendments that tighten security provisions in a way that remains compatible with the bill's proposed path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. That effort is likely to include amendments that would shift responsibility for border security planning and enforcement from the Department of Homeland Security -- the object of mistrust by many conservatives -- into the hands of Congress.
House Speaker John Boehner says that while good work has been done in the Senate on an immigration plan, the House will not be rushed into approving anything.
Even if the bill passes the Senate with a large bipartisan majority, with activists setting their sights as high as 70 or 75 votes, it faces uncertainty in the Republican-controlled House.
After seeming on the brink of collapse late Thursday, members of a House bipartisan group said they were still on track to introduce their own compromise legislation next month.
And House leaders, led by Speaker John Boehner, wrote Thursday that they will not vote on a Senate-passed measure without input from the lower chamber.
"The House remains committed to fixing our broken immigration system, but we will not simply take up and accept the bill that is emerging in the Senate if it passes," they wrote. "Rather, through regular order, the House will work its will and produce its own legislation."
But exactly what that House legislation will look like -- or if it will be palatable to a majority of lawmakers -- remains unclear.
Related stories:
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- Immigration bill clears hurdle with 13-5 approval by Senate committee
- Reid signals delay in potential fight over Senate rules change
- Senate panel gives green light to test biometric exit program
- Conservative talkers, grassroots groups push anti-immigration reform effort
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Your morning roundup for May 26, the day after Disney realized that it probably wasn't the best of ideas to trademark American heroes for profit.
What we watched: Wilson Valdez, backup second baseman to Chase Utley, went 3-for-6 in last night's 5-4 win over the Cincinnati Reds. As for his other numbers when he took the mound in the 19th inning to become the first position player to register a win since 2000, he hit Scott Rolen with a pitch (good stuff) and needed just nine more pitches to close out a game Roy Halladay started six hours and 11 minutes earlier.
Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard put his mitt over his face to hide his smile when Valdez shook off his catcher.
"I was like, 'What is he going to throw? What does he have?' " Howard said. "It was funny, but he got it done."
Both teams scored a run in the 10th inning. A 1-for-8 Raul Ibanez closed it out with a sac fly at 1:19 a.m. Here's Valdez's post-game money quote:
"They asked me if I could pitch. I said, 'Yeah, why not?' ... I was trying to throw a strike. That's the only thing."
What we're watching: It was only a matter of time before someone illustrated the NCAA as an organization that, fueled by Sarah "Famous For Two Months" McLachlan pity pleas, engages crack babies in athletic competition for the profit of everybody but the crack babies. This is what South Park did last night.
Kyle: "I got a job, Stan. I'm making tons of money with some really cool stuff."
Stan: "Doing what?"
Kyle: "Crackbaby Basketball."
Stan: "Dude."
Kyle: "No, no, it's not how it sounds. Check it out. See, we just videotape the babies fighting over a ball full of crack. It's really getting popular! [Video of crack babies fighting over a ball full of crack.] I mean, it's cool because like the commercial said, crack babies had nothing before. It's, it's great, because everyone wins. See that, two million hits!"
Which is to say if anybody has video of crack babies fighting over a ball of crack, please send them my way. The Bumfights DVD has gotten boring.
Mavs advance, become "America's sweetheart": "It wasn't only the Western Conference championship, it wasn't only a return to the NBA Finals, the Dallas Mavericks also achieved another franchise milestone on Wednesday night. They now become the most beloved basketball team in the world. Over the next few weeks, even Mark Cuban will be considered cuddly. Imagine that." [Star-Telegram]
The Bruins can still prove they're not Scott Norwood on Ice: The Tampa Bay Lightning are 3-0 in Game 7 playoff games. The Boston Bruins are 10-10. Thanks to Steven Stamkos, Marty St. Louis, and Vinny Lecavalier combining for eight points in a 5-4 home win, we'll know Friday whether Tampa will remain undefeated or if the Bruins can break the .500 mark. Winner faces the Vancouver Canucks for Stanley Cup name-etching rights. [Tampa Tribune]
No lead is safe for Kim Clijsters: Over at the French Open, Kim Clijsters was up a set, had a 3-0 lead in the second and ultimately had two match points. Then, she lost to Arantxa Rus, the 114th ranked entrant, who advances to the third round. [BBC Sport]
Hallmark-created milestones: Mariano Rivera became the first pitcher in MLB history to appear in 1,000 games with the same team. Which is cute because that means they consider the Orioles a major-league franchise. [New York Post]
And the Lakers forge ahead with the final piece of a dynasty in the making: The guy who used to answer to LeBron took a job answering to Kobe. [L.A. Times]
NFL bosses try to stick it to the NFL bosses' bosses: In filing a brief with the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, NFL coaches sided with their underlings rather than their overlords because, well, the owner-imposed lockout puts their jobs in jeopardy. Defying the people who signs their checks apparently doesn't. "Owners and fans increasingly demand immediate success, and coaches whose teams cannot fulfill such severe expectations face likely dismissal, which means the uprooting of families, economic dislocation, and a significantly less promising career path," NFLCA lawyers wrote. [ESPN]
Ben takes care of those who took care of him: A Pittsburgh newspaper has reported that Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger provided "perks" for his cop friends/(alleged) rape-room bouncers. Seats in his luxury box. Showing up at their charity events. That kind of noble stuff: "While state police couldn't prove that [Trooper Ed] Joyner was Roethlisberger's bodyguard, a violation of state police policy, Skonier wrote that he ruled against Joyner in part because it became 'difficult to determine where the "job" ends and the friendship begins.'" [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
Tony Romo's wedding represents the lone exception to lockout restrictions: "At the NFL owners meetings Wednesday in Indianapolis, [Jerry] Jones said that he'll attend Romo's wedding Saturday in Dallas. 'I've gotten special permission,' Jones said. 'But more than anything, [I got the] right ticket from him and his fianceé — Romo's wife-to-be. [It's] one of prettiest invitations I've ever seen. So, yes, I will be there and [I'm] proud for him. He's got the best end of this deal.'" [ESPNDallas]
Acts of contrition: West Virginia's football-coach-in-waiting Dana Holgorsen was quite sorry for getting all fired up at the Mardi Gras Casino & Resort last week: "The Nitro Police Department responded to a 911 call from the casino at 3:13 a.m. because an apparently intoxicated customer was 'refusing to cooperate with the casino's management,' according to Metro 911 dispatch logs. Casino supervisors had the customer detained after he declined to leave." [Charleston Daily Mail]
Protector of children: So, 47-year-old Mirko Samardzic apparently didn't like how his son got treated during a Vermont high-school soccer game. He now stands accused of "jumping a fence at the end of a playoff game, striking Burlington goalie Amir Pasic and another player, Mohamed Mohamed, and also being disorderly by fighting." Trial started yesterday. There's fight video on the link. [Burlington Free Press]
Bars and stripes forever: Here's everything you wanted to know about the "Rise and Fall of Zubaz." Just one thing's missing, though: Zubaz never fell. Zubaz's remain the apparel of true royalty. [Mental Floss]
Your UEFA Mini-Roundup: Masked men traveling together in a van-bound wolfpack have taken to attacking paparazzi's cars outside Ryan Giggs's house [Sky News].
Just two months after having a tumor removed from his liver, Barcelona defender Eric Abidal expects to play this weekend. [NYT].
And: "Park Ji-Sung has revealed that frog juice is the bizarre secret behind the lung-bursting energy that makes the South Korean a key part of Manchester United's bid to beat Barcelona in the Champions League final on Saturday." [AFP]


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Infinite and yet an infant.
Eternal and yet born of a woman.
Almighty, and yet nursing at a woman's breast.
Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother's arms.
Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter's despised son.
That man should be made in God's image is a wonder,
but that God should be made in man's image is a greater wonder.
That the Ancient of Days would be born.
That He who thunders in the heavens should cry in the cradle?
—Thomas Watson
Man's Maker was made man
that the Bread might be hungry,
the Fountain thirst,
the Light sleep,
the Way be tired from the journey;
that Strength might be made weak,
that Life might die.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,
and we have seen his glory,
glory as of the only Son from the Father,
full of grace and truth."


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Simpson and Bowles offer modified budget plan
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairmen of President Barack Obama's 2010 fiscal commission are wading back into Washington's budget wars with a revised, somewhat milder plan to rein in intractable federal deficits.
The plan released Thursday by and former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., and former Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles would lop more than $5 trillion from deficits over the upcoming decade when combined with the deficit-cutting steps enacted in fits and starts since his 2010 proposal.
It's unclear what impact the updated plan will have on a capital that's bitterly split over taxes, spending and government debt. The initial Simpson-Bowles plan won warm reviews from deficit hawks but got a chilly reception from Obama and much of the rest of official Washington for its tough mix of tax increases and cuts to benefits programs like Medicare and Social Security.
The revised plan by Simpson and Bowles reveals a familiar mix of revenue collected by cleansing the tax code of deductions, cutting agency budgets and curbing the growth of Social Security and Medicare. It would set a top tax rate of 28 percent, paid for by repealing many itemized deductions, limiting the mortgage interest deduction and would gradually phase out the generous tax break for employer-subsidized health care.
Simpson and Bowles would add $2.5 trillion in new deficit cuts over 2014-2023 on top of about $2.7 trillion estimated to have already been enacted through cuts to agency budgets and January's tax increase on wealthier earners. It assumes $1.2 trillion in across-the-board spending cuts imposed for the failure of Washington to replace them are repealed.
The revised blueprint arrives as Washington is familiarly gridlocked over the budget. January's tax deal has stiffened GOP resolve against further tax increases. Obama's recently unveiled plan for lower inflation increases for Social Security recipients -- an idea embraced by Bowles and Simpson -- has landed with a thud among most Democrats.
Obama and the top GOP negotiator, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, stopped talking after failed talks in 2011 and late last year. It's commonly assumed that the need this summer for must-pass legislation to increase the government's borrowing cap will draw the weary combatants back into negotiations.
The revised Simpson-Bowles plan proposes more than $700 billion in increased taxes over the coming 10 years on top of the $600 billion-plus signed by Obama in January, another $600 billion or so in cuts to Medicare, and deeper cuts to domestic agencies and the Pentagon than proposed by the president.
Simpson and Bowles believe it's crucial to get the government's debt below 70 percent of the size of the economy, something that Obama's budget fails to do.
Obama and Boehner have twice seemed close to a budget bargain, but Boehner walked away from the talks both times after detecting resistance from top Republicans.
"The last two years have been marked by fiscal brinksmanship," Simpson and Bowles said in a statement. "Instead of enacting a comprehensive deficit reduction plan ... policymakers have jumped from crisis to crisis, waiting until the last moment to do the bare minimum to avoid catastrophe."
The original Simpson-Bowles plan arrived in late 2010 after midterm elections in which Republicans took back the House. The new version contains smaller tax increases than called for in the original plan and added greater protections for low-income seniors under plans to curb Social Security cost-of-living increases.
The new plan calls for $385 billion in cuts in agency budgets passed by Congress each year, with more than half coming from the Pentagon.
"We are bearing a disproportionate responsibility for global world peace and I don't think we can afford to be the world's policeman," Bowles said.
It would also gradually increase the Medicare eligibility from 65 to 67, an idea vehemently opposed by Democratic supporters of the program. But the duo believes that seniors need to contribute more toward the benefits they receive from the government.
"Sixty percent of the nation's budget in some way is going to people over 60," Simpson said Friday.
The duo would cut $585 billion from health-care spending, including requiring more affluent seniors pay more for their Medicare benefits, an idea that has backing by both Democrats and Republicans but has never come to pass. They would also cut farm subsidies significantly more than either Republicans controlling the House or the Democratic-led Senate.


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Mo Money, yeah
Mo Money, Blow Money, Show Money
Party Money, Side Ho Money, Dope Money
New Clothes money from shit that I wrote money
So much money I don't know who stole from me
Hard to keep track I'm used to having no money
Still broke compared to niggas with old money
I mean the type of niggas that laugh at Hov money
Billionaires with petroleum and coal money
Probably kill they selves if they had Cole money
Talk shit and I'mma see you like you owe money
I'm wrapping up the album, fourth quarter I'm so money
I'm overseas looking for trees to grow money
Peter Pop off, robbing people for hope money
Prostitutes collecting that "let me stroke" money
Put up a couple dollars for the liquor store money
Used to dread the strip club cause I couldn't throw money
Now the strippers give a nigga the throat for no money
How mama gonna teach you how to save your money
When she barely on the boat, got stay afloat money
Blacks always broke cause we don't know money
Spend it 'fore we get it and could never hold money
No wallets, nah, nigga we'd rather fold money
Money control niggas, white man control money
Laughing like "yeah yeah my nigga get your money"
The track's title is a reference to The Notorious B.I.G.'s hit song "Mo' Money Mo' Problems". Meanwhile Cole's "money" flow here is seemingly an ode to verse 1 of Jay-Z's "Imaginary Player".
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Don't believe the parenthetical in the song title. This is a real song, albeit, a relatively brief one. While eerie theremin sounds intertwine, Cole raps about greenbacks, skilfully ending each line with money. It's one of the most quotable verses on the album, and will be an inevitable street favorite.


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What is brazilian butt lift beachbody and why is it so popular?
Ivo Pitangay – the world-famous Brazilian plastic surgeon who devised the brazilian butt lift beachbody operation, died in early August at the age of 90 – the day after he carried the Olympic flame across the Rio. However, thousands of surgeons around the world continue his work.
The legacy of Pitangai has inspired many plastic surgeons around the world. And such procedures as brazilian butt lift beachbody gained incredible popularity among patients.
The American Society of Plastic Surgery called 2015 the next year of the back side, bearing in mind that among patients, procedures of surgical enlargement of the buttocks were especially popular(brazilian butt lift beachbody)
What is a brazilian butt lift beachbody or an increase in the buttocks?
According to the website of the American Society of Plastic surgery, buttock augmentation(brazilian butt lift beachbody) – a change in the size and shape of the buttocks of the patient or by moving and fat injections, or by implantation of silicone implants.
So, brazilian butt lift beachbody is a procedure that implies exactly the movement and injection of adipose tissue. The patient undergoes an operation on liposuction, when fat deposits are pumped out of his abdomen, thighs and thighs. Then the drained fat is implanted into the buttocks.
In turn, the usual tightening of the buttocks reduces their volume by removing excess skin and fat. This procedure is usually carried out on those people who have lost a significant amount of weight.
Many patients who undergo brazilian butt lift beachbody surgery consider it an investment in their appearance and improved self-confidence. brazilian butt lift beachbody may vary from $ 2,000 to $ 10,000.


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People in the Ural Mountains region of Central Russia woke up Friday to a meteorite streaking across the sky, exploding with a brilliant blast of light and sending powerful shock waves that shattered windows, damaged a factory's roof and hurt hundreds.
The meteorite appeared to be the largest recorded object to hit the earth since 1908, an astronomer told Nature.
The event was caught on video by dozens of witnesses in Chelyabinsk who documented what appeared to be the meteorite's arrival in the lower atmosphere, lighting up the dawn, and leaving massive trails of smoke.
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Then, as they gazed up in wonder, the blasts came—first one big one, then smaller ones. Glass smashed, car alarms began bleating, and people streamed out of buildings, trying to figure out what was going on.
Hundreds of people were reportedly hurt, most of them suffering minor injuries as a result of the breaking glass. The roof of a zinc factory was reportedly damaged, but did not collapse.
A sampling of purported footage of the event from YouTube:
In this video, taken from a camera inside a car, the driver listens to the radio when a flare appears on the horizon, then burns brighter as it zooms overhead.
This view shows the meteor brighten an otherwise calm, pre-dawn sky.
A driver documents the aftermath at a Zinc factory and the trail of smoke overhead.
From inside the building, a witness looks up at the trails of smoke, then the shocks rock the air, breaking the window.
A similar perspective, only from outside a building.
Another witness films the blasts and their aftermath and joins the evacuation of buildings.
Local news coverage describes "burning objects raining down from the sky."
An amateur compilation of witness footage.
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But, when the holidays come we have all these reasons to bake, create, cook - and eat! Chocolate! Dark chocolate please. Not only does it have those antioxidants, that inherently dark, slightly bitter taste is intoxicating when you adjust from milk chocolate. Interestingly, though I used to love milk chocolate years ago, I wouldn't care for it now. Even very delicious vegan milk chocolates... they're wonderful, but I find them sickly like milk chocolate.
These recipes are not new as such - they are either in my current books or I've posted them before. But, I know that they have been loved by others for gifting (as well as enjoying all your own), so I am sharing them again...
First up, Chocolate Mint Melties from eat, drink & be vegan
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This luxurious hot cocoa will warm you from your nose to your toes! It uses a light coconut milk to give it a more velvety texture without being too heavy. Kids will love it, guests will love it.
And, okay, I cannot leave without giving you something festive that isn't chocolatey. So, I have reposted my Gingerbread Folks from my newest book Let Them Eat Vegan - out this Spring guys!
I really hope you enjoy making, sharing, and eating these holiday recipes. Christmas blessings to you. :)


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In the late 1960s, Curator Emeritus Niles Eldredge was a graduate student with a passion for trilobite eyes. He had been taught to expect slow and steady change between the specimens of these Devonian arthropods he collected for his dissertation. Only his trilobites were doing one of two things: staying the same, or evolving in leaps.
Several years later, Eldredge turned his observations into a theory known as "punctuated equilibria": the idea that species stay relatively the same, or at equilibrium, throughout the fossil record save for rare bursts of evolutionary change. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark 1972 paper on the theory, Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism, which Eldredge wrote with the late Stephen Jay Gould, a noted evolutionary biologist who also served as the Museum's Frederick P. Rose Honorary Curator in Invertebrates starting in the early 1990s.
The theory was over a century in the making. In On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin argued that species evolve slowly and gradually. With this view of evolution's pace, he was haunted by how spotty the fossil record seemed, with its many "missing links" and lack of soft transitions between species.
Eldredge and Gould disagreed with Darwin on this point, arguing that many of the fossil record's "gaps" reveal how evolution really works.
"The fossil record is a lot better than what people give it credit for," says Eldredge. According to "punk eek," as the theory came to be nicknamed, species evolve when small groups of organisms are separated from the main population by something as vast as an ocean or as simple as a river. Geographically and reproductively cut off, this fringe group evolves rapidly, and if it migrates back to its ancestral range, it will look dramatically different and appear as a "jump" in the fossil record.
Eldredge and Gould were the first to show that stasis, not continuous change, is the rule of the fossil record. (Another of their innovations was applying allopatric speciation, a theory on how species evolve in geographic isolation developed by Museum Curator Ernst Mayr and Theodosius Dobzhansky, to paleontology.)
"A lot has been added to the theory since then," says Eldredge. "Molecular research is independently corroborating it by showing that significant genetic change occurs at the point where species diverge from each other. And we're now talking about entire faunas and biotas, not just single lineages the way we did in the original paper."
The theory may have particular import in an age when species' habitats are radically altering. Historically, extinction events have ushered in dramatic evolution, since rapid change can take place within newly isolated groups of animals. More time will be needed to see if the so-called sixth mass extinction, the ongoing loss of countless modern species worldwide, could lead to the emergence of new organisms.
"It's far too soon to tell," says Eldredge, "but there's lots of genetic divergence out there in response to human alteration of the environment. However, evolution usually kicks in when the vector causing extinction, such as a meteorite, goes away. And right now, that's us. We're unlikely to see much recovery while the extinction event is in midstream."
Eldredge and Gould, who died 10 years ago this month, met as graduate students at Columbia University and would attend seminars together at the Museum, riding the bus back to Columbia and heatedly discussing paleontology and evolution along the way.
Those early bus rides and their collaboration on "punk eek" evolved into a lifelong working relationship. In fact, it was Eldredge who recommended Gould as a columnist for Natural History magazine, which was then published by the Museum. Gould's columns gained a large following and were subsequently collected in books of popular science.


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Hi there! My name is Lizzy Hill & I began scrapping in 2009 after coming home from a trip overseas. Mum encouraged me to 'give it a go' as a way of getting my photos sorted. It opened up a whole new world which I just adore. Blogging seemed to be a natural extension of scrapping – thus I've managed to combine a whole pile of 'loves' - photography, writing & scrapping!
I've got a couple of grown sons, as well as a cute Grand Boy for me to scrap!!! I used to be a hairdresser [decades ago!] then an English teacher, but these days I'm pretty much enjoying the Good Life at home….My style is madly eclectic. I'll give anything a go…including 'whimsical' for this challenge, which I might add, I'd not tried before & I absolutely LOVED doing!!! I scrap pages, cards, Off the Page projects as well as dabbling in Art Journaling. I love doing multi-photo pages as much as single ones & I'll do A4s as well as 12x12 LOs – nothings safe!! My usual way of scrapping is to start with the photos, & they seem to dictate the colour combo.
My fave embellies are masks, mists & badges atm. Gelatos are way high up on the List, too, as you can see from this page.This is my 2nd term on the Scrap Friends Design Team, & I'm on the first ever The Trinket Track team, which are both a REAL blast…..& I've been published in Scrap365 [UK mag] as well as a fair bit in the Australian mag Scrapbooking Memories.
I feel so honoured & tickled pink to be joining ARTastic as GD this month…I really LOOOVE the variety on this challenge blog…..hope you do too
Please call past my blog and see more of my work.
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A bicycling organization has been formed to promote and increase cycling in the Estes Valley.
The Estes Park Cycling Coalition (EPCC), which formed last fall, is planning to cultivate a biking culture in the community and make the Estes area a destination for cyclists.
Organizers say they hope to accomplish this through advocacy, education, partnerships and community building.
The organization's elected officers are: Greg Sampson, EPCC President; Alicia
Mittelman, Road Biking Vice President; Glenn Case, Mountain Biking Vice President; and Thad Eggen, Secretary.
EPCC has had monthly meetings since November, 2013 with approximately 30 members at Twin Owls Steakhouse.
The meetings typically start with some socializing and games or short presentations related to cycling. The group then divides into two groups based upon road biking and mountain biking interests. Those groups then work to develop ideas of how to facilitate making road biking and mountain biking more integral parts of our community, and how to most effectively advocate for these interests.
After the two main groups have had substantial discussion of ideas, the coalition reunites to table the ideas which have developed.
Some of the main points that have emerged at the meetings include: cyclist/traffic safety in recreational road biking and commuting, trail reconstruction and engaging in the overall community flood recovery efforts as an organization, development of new trail systems and connectivity, and moving towards making Estes Park a viable destination for bicycle tourism.
As the most recent meeting, EPCC joined the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA).
EPCC officials also have engaged in dialog with Estes Valley Parks and Recreation District (EVPRD) Director Skyler Rorabaugh, and had some input in the Town of Estes Park Transportation Advisory Committee meetings via EPCC and Transportation Advisory Committee liaison, Belle Morris.
If you have an interest in bicycling and want to engage in an organized effort to advance cycling quality and opportunities in the Estes Park community, you are encouraged to attend the next EPCC meeting on Wednesday, July 16 at 7 p.m. at Twin Owls Steakhouse.
If you want to learn more about EPCC, Estes Park Cycling Coalition has a Facebook Page, and a website (bikeestes.org) which includes recommended rides and trail maps, news, classified ads, forum, comments, events, cycling tips, meeting minutes and more.
Group rides for both road cycling and mountain biking are announced at the meetings and posted on the website and Facebook page.
At Bike to Work Day on Wednesday, June 25, from 6-9 a.m., members of the Estes Park Cycling Coalition will be on hand to explain cyclists' rights and responsibilities and distribute educational materials on the subject, free of charge.


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Sandra Bullock made an unexpected appearance – her first public outing since the Academy Awards and her breakup with husband Jesse James — at Spike TV's "Guys Choice" awards, The Associated Press reported.
The star, 45, who recently won an Oscar for "The Blind Side," was at the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City last night to accept the "Troops Choice Award" for Entertainer of the Year from presenter Robert Downey, Jr. Military members voted on the honor.
"Let's be honest here, just for a moment," Bullock told the audience, as reported by People magazine. "We're all going to be honest, right? "Did I win this for being entertainer of the year, or did I win this because of the spectacular I.E.D. [improvised explosive device] explosion that became my personal life?!"
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Bullock, who received a standing ovation, added: "No, it's okay. Because I would do it over again if it was to entertain our troops, and our extraordinary troops deserve something much more than some actress in a tight dress talking herself."
U.S. Army 1st Sergeant Nicholas McClain, who shared the stage with the star, told People: "It was a great honor. She's a beautiful woman and a great supporter of the military."
The actress slated appear at the MTV Movie Awards where she will receive the Generation Award.
Spike TV's "Guys Choice" awards program will air June 20.


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How's this for a catch of the day? Nearly 8,000 pounds of marijuana were found bobbing off the coast of Dana Point, Calif. yesterday.
California's Coast Guard, U.S. Border Patrol and local authorities retrieved around 160 bales of weed 15 miles outside Orange County, which sits on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles. Totaling more than 7,263 pounds, the stash's value was estimated at $3.6 million.
(MORE: Study: Smoking Marijuana Not Linked with Lung Damage)
How the marijuana ended up in the ocean is still in question. In most cases, the dumped weed was a result of drug boats trying to unload their cargo to prevent being caught. (Pot smugglers of the 1970s referred to such floating bales as "square grouper.") As Border Patrol representative Michael Jimenez told the Orange County Register:
"At other events, they've dumped the bales to get rid of weight if they're being chased. Generally in these cases we're aware they're being dumped. What's more unusual is that the bales were floating with no boat in sight."
(MORE: Are Medical Marijuana Raids the Price We Must Pay for National Health Care?)
California authorities still haven't made any arrests in connection to the mysterious discovery. Still, it can't be as weird as catapulting things over the border.
Erica Ho is a contributor at TIME and the editor of Map Happy. Find her on Twitter at @ericamho and Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.


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Professor Sarro's doctoral studies concentrated on population biology. Under the mentoring of Dr. Calvin and Linda Heusser, he wrote a dissertation on the reconstruction of the vegetation of Japan during the last 80,000 years.
Professor Sarro is involved in a number of ornithological studies taking place at the Mohonk Preserve. These include spring/summer breeding bird censuses, Christmas Bird Count, fall hawk migration, and breeding studies on Peregrine Falcons.
Professor Sarro is also continuing several long term vegetation studies at the Preserve. He currently is a member or serves on: