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From: European Space Agency
Posted: Friday, April 2, 2004
18 - 24 March
Now that my flight is getting closer, journalists naturally want to talk to me. That was why the Dutch press visited Star City last week. There were journalists from newspapers and magazines, radio broadcasters and also TV crews from NOS, RTL and SBS6.
On Wednesday, we all dined together at the National Hotel in Moscow and on Thursday we met up at the cosmonaut training centre. I was just cycling to work, when all of a sudden a whole group of photographers were awaiting me around the corner. They asked me to go back and cycle up again because it made such a good shot.
I showed them the spacesuit and took my place in the Soyuz simulator. One by one, journalists came to interview me and take photos. The newspaper and magazine press were even able to get in next to me and feel what it is like to sit in a spacecraft. I always really enjoy explaining how space travel works and how you train for a space mission as an astronaut. Sometimes there is simply not enough time, but this time everyone was pretty satisfied. It does feel rather strange to have so many visitors, with TV equipment and all, but never to see anything of it yourself. I used to follow all the news about space missions avidly, but now I am going in person there is just not enough time any more. Also, a lot of interesting talks are being given in the Netherlands about the DELTA Mission, and at one time I would definitely have attended these. I feel as if I am missing out on a lot of things...
On Friday, I went to TsUP, the mission control centre in the Moscow suburb of Korolev. That is where the people work who control our flight and also set the schedule for our work. I discussed this schedule with them on a minute-by minute basis, covering everything that will happen in the Soyuz and on board the Space Station. The definite day for landing has also been announced. I am coming back to Earth on 30 April instead of the twenty-ninth. We will then land on the 'terminator', the borderline between day and night. This means that it will be dark at first on our return journey, and the Sun will rise just as we land.
I spent the weekend with my girlfriend. At the same time, I still had to get all kinds of things ready, such as the music that I want to take up with me. I had to take all my discs in for checking. Naturally enough, the Russians want to check that the discs contain no computer viruses that could disrupt the Space Station.
Music is very important to me, especially in combination with the view. Then I can just daydream and enjoy everything. Not just in space, by the way; I do the same on Earth. In the mountains, or visiting ancient ruins where nobody else is about... then I listen to the powerful, swelling music: glorious!
I had exams on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, I performed the laser range measurement that I would have to do if the radar system malfunctions as we approach the Space Station. We had only just begun a simulation when the equipment failed. I thought it was a test, just like the ones I have often had before. But then I had a good look around and noticed that a cable had come lose. The instructors had not planned this event. I plugged it in again and we were able to carry on. As you can see, real problems can arise even in simulations.
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The exam in the centrifuge followed on Tuesday. In there, you have to pay close attention to how you simulate landing a Soyuz spacecraft. If you get something wrong, you either find more G-force bearing down on you - in reality this can amount to up to eight times the Earth's gravity - or you land too far from the expected landing site. Fortunately, everything went well. Better still, I made the best landing of my entire training course and got an 'excellent' mark five times in a row. For me, it is just like a computer game. You try to get the highest possible score. The only difference is that you are really being thrown about.
After the exams, we had a 'standard day in the Space Station' on Wednesday. That involved us doing everything, for an entire day, that we would do as a crew up there. For me, this meant carrying out a lot of experiments. In the morning, I was busy with the 'amateur radio', then I ran through the procedures for the educational activity VIDEO-3 and collected bacteria from all over the Space Station using cotton buds. After lunch, I did the Eye Tracking Device (ETD) experiment. This involves measuring the interaction of the eyes with the internal balance mechanism. I had just finished this when (of course) something went wrong. After all, it was a training exercise. We had all laid bets on whether it would be pressure loss or a fire. It was pressure loss.
At a time like that, you have to check the Soyuz first; if the leak is not there, you have to comb through the entire Space Station. You always keep the Soyuz behind you, because that is your lifeboat. In an emergency, you have to be able to use it to evacuate the Space Station. The leak turned out to be at the coupling between the Russian modules, Zvezda and Zarya - a very awkward place. We had to seal off the Zvezda, because there is no Soyuz attached to it. The Zvezda, or Service Module, is the main section of the Station, with all the monitoring and air purification equipment, plus the water and the toilet. Carrying on without a service module is pretty difficult, and in the end we abandoned the ISS.
Next week, we will do another simulation in the Space Station and the day after we will have a whole day in the Soyuz. These will not be training exercises but the main exams. I feel confident that we, as a crew, will also pass this final test with flying colours. After that, before all the official ceremonies begin, we will have a big party and a short holiday. This is known as 'crew rest': three days in which we do not have to think of work at all and can relax after an extremely hectic period.
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I'm currently engaged in a project looking at our communication with postgraduate research students, along with other colleagues in Library and Learning Services at De Montfort University. In order to get an understanding of the literature on this topic, we each took an element to investigate. I was looking at the literature on communication in libraries and thought it might be useful to share an overview and some references.
The literature indicates that communication between librarians and researchers isn't seen as perfect by either side (Brown and Swan, 2007), and there is some evidence (and some speculation) that face-to-face contact is the most effective method of communication and promotion the Library has (Sadler and Given, 2007; Carter and Seaman, 2011). The most common methods used for communication between liaison librarians and researchers are email, face-to-face, telephone, and web-based subject guides (Arendt and Lotts, 2012; Henry, 2012).
Although web 2.0 is seen as a huge international trend in library communications (Tripathi and Kumar, 2010), most library uses of web 2.0 technologies for communication seem to lack the two-way interaction that defines web 2.0 (Adams, 2011; Aharony, 2012; Gerolimos, 2011). However, using web 2.0 technologies could nonetheless reinforce a library's innovative brand (Brewerton and Tuersley, 2010) and offer a convenient format for sharing advice and news (Adams, 2011).
If I was to pick one article to read on this topic, I'd strongly recommend Sadler and Given's (2007) article (although I don't quite agree with their definition of 'affordance'). This highlights some of the discrepancies between librarians' preferred communication channels and the channels to which postgraduate research students pay attention. They found that the library website and teaching sessions were used heavily by librarians to communicate, but the students had 'tunnel vision' when it came to reading the library website, and didn't see library teaching as important or relevant.
Or, if you're a librarian looking for a good excuse for a knees-up, then Strittmatter's (2008) article on the use of cocktail parties as liaison tools might be more tempting…
- ADAMS, R. (2011) Building a User Blog with Evidence: The Health Information Skills Academic Library Blog. Evidence Based Library & Information Practice, 6 (3), 84-89.
- AHARONY, N. (2012) Facebook use in libraries: an exploratory analysis. Aslib Proceedings, 64 (4), 358-372.
- ARENDT, J. and LOTTS, M. (2012) What Liaisons Say about Themselves and What Faculty Say about Their Liaisons, a U.S. Survey. Portal: Libraries & the Academy, 12 (2), 155-177.
- BREWERTON, A. and TUERSLEY, S. (2010) More than just a logo – branding at Warwick. Library & Information Update, 9 (9), 46-48.
- BROWN, S. and SWAN, (2007) Researchers' use of academic libraries and their services: a report commissioned by the Research Information Network and the Consortium of Research Libraries [WWW]. Available from: http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/using-and-accessing-information-resources/researchers [Accessed 18 January 2013].
- CARTER, T.M. and SEAMAN, P. (2011) The Management and Support of Outreach in Academic Libraries. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 51 (2), 163-171.
- GEROLIMOS, M. (2011) Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments. D-Lib Magazine, 17 (11), 4.
- HENRY, J. (2012) Academic library liaison programs: four case studies. Library Review, 61 (7), 485-496.
- SADLER, E. and GIVEN, L.M. (2007) Affordance theory: A framework for graduate students' information behavior. Journal of Documentation, 63 (1), 115-141.
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State officials released a School Bus Safety Study Friday to the Iowa legislature.
The report is required by Kadyn's Law. It was conducted by researchers at Iowa State University and The University of Iowa.
The study addressed three specific safety elements including use of cameras on school buses stop arms, student being dropped off and picked up on the side of the road where their home is and school bus safety as a priority in driver training classes.
The study found 20 districts are using the stop arm cameras.
It also found the the process of identifying stop-arm violators -- people who drive past a stopped school bus with it's lights flashing and stop sign deployed -- "is a laborious task for all parties involved."
The study found that while Kadyn's Law imposes a mandatory minimum fine of $250 for the first offense, records show that 65 percent of fines imposed between Aug. 15 and Oct. 31, 2012, were less than the minimum.
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For most of the first three seasons of AMC's "Mad Men," adman Don Draper exerted near total control over his world, if not always over his appetites.
It seemed like a preternatural force somehow kept everything going in his favor, even if undeservedly at times.
But in last week's episode – maybe the best yet from the strongest TV drama since the hey-day of "The Sopranos" – when he tells his wife Betty after the Kennedy assassination, "Everything's going to be fine," you don't believe him.
More importantly, neither does she – setting the stage for this Sunday's season finale.
This season has centered on loss and the unraveling of the kind of American Dream-like illusions that Draper peddles in the advertisements he concocts at Sterling Cooper.
Closeted art director Salvatore Romano lost his job, indirectly because of his sexuality, just as he's about to hit it big as a TV commercial creator. Overly ambitious account manager Pete Campbell, who tried to use his father's death in a plane crash to gain business, loses out on the promotion he's schemed for and becomes disillusioned with the rat race.
Draper loses the secret of his past – uncovered by Betty in a box of mementos – tearing through the proverbial gray flannel suit that's both his costume and armor.
It's Betty who experiences perhaps the most profound loss and change. After her father dies, she sheds the girlish sing-song voice that was the soundtrack of her proto-Stepford wife existence. She's empowered by her discovery that her marriage is built on a lie – and by her increasingly dangerous flirtation with an older, suave aide to Gov. Rockefeller who wants to marry her even as he pushes Rocky's presidential aspiration in a post-JFK world.
Suddenly, she's a woman in control, delivering the series' most devastating line to Don – "I don't love you" – in a moment of realization, calculation and liberation.
Meanwhile, secretary-turned-copywriter Peggy Olson, whose love-child secret mirrors the clandestine past of Draper, her mentor in advertising and denial, may be set for some changes of her own. She's having an odd affair with former Sterling Cooper rainmaker Duck Phillips, who got her into bed and is trying to woo her to his new firm.
Peggy hasn't figured into this season quite as much as in the past. Maybe her moment will come Sunday – Matthew Weiner's brilliant drama, after all, is full of surprises.
The only clues about the finale come from AMC's website: the intriguing title of the show – "Shut the Door. Have a Seat" – and the rather mundane description: "Don has an important meeting with Connie. Betty receives some advice. Pete talks to his clients."
"Mad Men," thankfully, will be returning for a fourth season – ostensibly in 1964 when the world will begin to change in ways that Don Draper could never have imagined and certainly won't be able to control.
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In yesterday's Disunion in the New York Times, Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman shared a piece entitled "Partners in Iniquity." It basically explores how the northern states were complicit in and benefited from slavery throughout its existence. This is a fact well-known to the historical profession, but not as well-known outside it, so this blog appearing in the Times is both useful and timely (just as the continuing focus of Disunion on slavery in the Civil War has been salutary).
Beckert and Rockman write, "Historians increasingly understand that slavery was not just important to one region of the United States, but to the economic development of the United States as a whole. This realization changes everything: by recognizing the economic interdependence of North and South and slavery's centrality to American capitalism itself, it becomes possible to see the outbreak of the Civil War as more surprising than predictable." From this perspective the Civil War was not an irrepressible conflict, but an avoidable war which business interests ultimately proved unable to prevent.
What the authors don't write about is that the interdependence they discuss continued even after April 1861. A trade existed, both legal and illegal, between North and South throughout the Civil War. Northern businessmen, operating under licenses issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, acquired cotton and other commodities from Confederate sources in exchange for manufactured goods, including military supplies.
Although the Lincoln administration wanted to strangle the southern economy and mounted a naval blockade of Confederate ports, they recognized that it would be useful to allow some cotton to continue to flow out of the South to discourage European powers, such as Great Britain and France, from intervening in the conflict even if it meant some military goods made it back into the Confederacy. The Confederate decision early on to embargo exports of cotton to pressure the Europeans toward intervention actually assisted the North before the naval blockade became more effective in reducing but not extinguishing the Confederacy's international trade.
Allowing a limited trade with the South also served the goal of encouraging Unionist sentiments there. It was Lincoln's hope to reconcile southerners to the Union by reviving the cotton trade in areas of the South that came under occupation by federal forces. (Indeed, this was one reason for exempting Union occupied areas of the South from the Emancipation Proclamation–planters there needed to be able to keep their slaves to grow cotton.) Particularly if the Federals could capture a major southern port, which they did with biggest one of all–New Orleans–on May 1, 1861, they could use it to draw southern interests in its hinterland back toward the Union with trade. But accomplishing this goal required allowing southern cotton planters, not only in areas under occupation, but also in areas still under Confederate sway, to be able to sell their cotton. Which was accomplished officially via the Treasury Department license system and unofficially via trade that took place by evading or with the tacit approval (often greased by bribes) of federal authorities.
The Lincoln administration also had to permit some trade with the South so New England textile mills could continue to function (including clothing Union forces) and to allow the North to maintain its trade with Europe, which before the war had often involved northern merchants purchasing European goods with cotton they had acquired in the South.
So a dirty fact, if not exactly a dirty secret, of the Civil War was that the North continued to be complicit in the southern slave economy until the last days of the war. The volume of the trade fell significantly compared to before 1861, which served Union military interests of strangling the Confederacy economically. But even as it extinguished slavery, the North continued as a "partner of iniquity" until the end of the peculiar institution.


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July 12, 2013
Software giant Microsoft worked closely with the National Security Agency in its effort to surveil the American public, according to The Guardian. The British newspaper cites documents provided by on-the-run whistleblower Edward Snowden.
In particular, the technology company permitted the NSA to skirt the encryption used on its Outlook.com email service. It also made it easier for the agency to surveil its cloud system, SkyDrive, and Skype video, a recent Microsoft acquisition. SkyDrive has approximately 250 million users worldwide.
Data captured by the NSA was routinely passed on to the FBI and the CIA, according to the report. "Prism is a team sport!" is how one NSA document described the relationship between intelligence agencies and corporations.
In April, Microsoft launched a public relations campaign claiming it protects customer data. "Your privacy is our priority" is the campaign's tagline.
Microsoft and other technology companies were quick to deny roles in NSA surveillance after Snowden made his revelations public beginning in June of this year.
"All the major tech firms are lobbying the government to allow them to disclose more fully the extent and nature of their co-operation with the NSA to meet their customers privacy concerns," Glenn Greenwald writes. "Privately, tech executives are at pains to distance themselves from claims of collaboration and teamwork given by the NSA documents, and insist the process is driven by legal compulsion."
Earlier today, we reported on Microsoft's intimate relationship with the NSA and the military-intelligence complex.
Greenwald's latest report underscores the fact transnational technology corporations are indispensable to the government's surveillance of the American people.
In short, when you use products produced by these corporations you are consenting to the act of being surveilled.
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A new report on the "war on drugs" has lent weight to calls from a top North policeman for a new approach to the control of narcotics.
Durham Chief Constable Mike Barton caused a storm at the weekend when he wrote that decriminalisation was the best way to wrestle power away from criminal gangs and said that the NHS should supply class-A drugs such as heroin and cocaine to addicts.
Now a scientific report says that street prices of illegal drugs have fallen in real terms since 1990 while the purity of the substances has generally increased, a sign of increased availability.
Research published in the online journal BMJ Open says that most national drug control strategies have focused on law enforcement to curb supply despite calls to explore other approaches, such as decriminalisation and strict legal regulation, the report said.
The BMJ Open study looked at data from seven international government-funded drug surveillance systems which had at least 10 years of information on the price and purity of cannabis, cocaine and opiates, including heroin.
The report said "the global supply of illicit drugs has likely not been reduced in the previous two decades" and added "the data presented in this study suggest that the supply of opiates and cannabis have increased, given the increasing potency and decreasing prices of these illegal commodities".
It concluded: "These findings suggest that expanding efforts at controlling the global illegal drug market through law enforcement are failing."
Co-author Dr Evan Wood, scientific chair of the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy, said: "These findings add to the growing body of evidence that the war on drugs has failed.
"We should look to implement policies that place community health and safety at the forefront of our efforts, and consider drug use a public health issue rather than a criminal justice issue. "With the recognition that efforts to reduce drug supply are unlikely to be successful, there is a clear need to scale up addiction treatment and other strategies that can effectively reduce drug-related harm."
The United Nations recently estimated that the illicit drug trade is worth at least 350bn US dollars (£217bn) every year.
The BMJ Open study also reviewed the number of seizures of illegal drugs in drug production regions and rates of consumption in markets where demand for illegal drugs is high. Among the findings, the report said in Europe, the average price of opiates and cocaine, adjusted for inflation and purity, decreased by 74% and 51% respectively between 1990 and 2010.
Danny Kushlick, head of external affairs at think-tank Transform Drug Policy Foundation, said: "This research should serve as a wake-up call to policymakers to legally regulate drugs as an urgent priority.
"It's way past the time for our political leaders in Europe to explore effective alternatives to the war on drugs, which has been proved a catastrophic failure. Billions of dollars and millions of lives are at stake if they fail to act."
Mr Barton did not want to comment on the new report when contacted by The Journal yesterday.


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Hussein Ibish is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine. His most recent book is What's Wrong with the One-State Agenda? Why Ending the Occupation and Peace with Israel is Still the Palestinian National Goal. He has a PhD in comparative literature from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Benny Morris teaches history at Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba, Israel. He is the author of Righteous Victims, A History of the Arab-Zionist Conflict, 1881-2001.
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Clock Changes in Aleppo, Syria (Halab)
Mar 27
Forward 1 hour
Mar 27, 2020 - Daylight Saving Time Started
When local standard time was about to reach
Friday, March 27, 2020, 12:00:00 midnight clocks were turned forward 1 hour to
Friday, March 27, 2020, 1:00:00 am local daylight time instead.
Sunrise and sunset were about 1 hour later on Mar 27, 2020 than the day before. There was more light in the evening.
Also called Spring Forward, Summer Time, and Daylight Savings Time.
Oct 30
Back 1 hour
Oct 30, 2020 - Daylight Saving Time Ends
When local daylight time is about to reach
Friday, October 30, 2020, 12:00:00 midnight clocks are turned backward 1 hour to
Thursday, October 29, 2020, 11:00:00 pm local standard time instead.
Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour earlier on Oct 30, 2020 than the day before. There will be more light in the morning.
Also called Fall Back and Winter Time.
Daylight Saving Time in Other Years
DST changes do not necessarily occur on the same date every year.
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|DST End (Clock Backward)
|Friday, March 29, 12:00 midnight
|Friday, October 25, 12:00 midnight
|Friday, March 27, 12:00 midnight
|Friday, October 30, 12:00 midnight
|Friday, March 26, 12:00 midnight
|Friday, October 29, 12:00 midnight
|Friday, March 25, 12:00 midnight
|Friday, October 28, 12:00 midnight
|Friday, March 31, 12:00 midnight
|Friday, October 27, 12:00 midnight
|All times are local for Aleppo. Current year is highlighted.
Data for the years before 1970 is not available for Aleppo, however, we have earlier time zone history for Damascus available.


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After revealing that she worked with Ed Sheeran on a track last year, on Monday the actress-singer shared a snapshot of herself making funny faces with Tove Lo. Although its unclear exactly where they are, were hoping its a recording studio and that the Habits (Stay High) singer is lending her songwriting talents to Hil.
At the same time that Hilary posted her photo on Instagram, Tove uploaded a similar shot, albeit a more serious one.
Last July, Ed confirmed that he and Hilary had spent some time in the recording studio for a song on her delayed comeback album that was first supposed to come out last fall.
The only time I was available was 1 a.m. and she was a trooper, Ed explained at the time. She came in, she vocaled it, and yeah, Im very, very happy with the results. And I hope she is too!
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At this site we maintain a list of the 5000 Largest Known Primes which is updated hourly. This list is the most important databases at The Prime Pages: a collection of research, records and results all about prime numbers. This page summarizes our information about one of these primes.
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Proof-code(s): (*):L1430 : Schwieger, TwinGen, PrimeGrid, LLR
Decimal Digits:388342 (log10 is 388341.24139274)
Rank (*):8157 (digit rank is 139)
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A Toronto man is hoping to orchestrate a series of trades that will allow him to parlay a tiny toy car into a ticket into the city's red-hot real estate market.
Charles Moffatt really wants a condominium.
But he doesn't have much money and is still paying off university debts. And he's skeptical about the health of the condo market in Toronto. The average price of a condo across the 416 and 905 area codes was $339,978 in April, up four per cent year over year, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board.
"I don't really want to get into the condo market right now, because I think it's going to burst in the next couple of years," he told CBC's Metro Morning in a Thursday interview.
"For me, it I think it would be much more logical for me to trade my way up into it rather than buy into it and then lose half my money when the market collapses."
The starting point for Moffatt was a Hot Wheels 2008 Dodge Challenger.
Moffatt concedes his idea isn't original – Montrealer Kyle MacDonald was able to go from a red paper clip to a two-storey farmhouse in Saskatchewan in 14 trades almost six years ago.
But Toronto's real estate market is very different from rural Saskatchewan's.
"I'm just setting my goal a lot higher, literally and figuratively," Moffatt said.
He has already made two trades. In April, he traded the toy car for a Mastercraft digital multimetre kit, a tool commonly used by electricians.
This weekend, he traded the kit for a Raleigh Mixte bicycle that he believes is worth about $150.
Someone has already offered to trade him an older iPod for the bike, but he doesn't think that trade works for him. Moffatt is aiming in each transaction to double the value of the item he traded away.
The trick in finding a trading partner is to locate someone who has something they don't use or need any more.
If he is able to manage that, he figures should be able to by a condo after about 17 trades.
"It might take me 20 or 30 trades to do it because as you get higher up the rankings … it might become more difficult," he said.
"And to actually find someone who's willing to trade a condo — there are people out there who trade real estate, but it just doesn't happen very often. But maybe if the market collapses, there will be a whole bunch of people who are looking for a way out and they are trying to get rid of a property that nobody wants to buy."
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Team USA wins silver women's 4x100m freestyle relay (34 points)
LONDON – A beautiful day in London greeted swimmers and fans for another busy day at the aquatics center that was highlighted by two silvers and one bronze for U.S. swimmers.
"It took all of us to get this silver," said Anna Eames (Golden Valley, Minn.). Eames and her teammates, Susan Beth Scott (Cape Girardeau, Mo.), Victoria Arlen (Exeter, N.H.) and Jessica Long (Baltimore, Md.) swam a powerful race in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay (34 points) bringing home the silver in a time of 4.24.57. While each of these swimmers has experienced individual successes, winning a relay is a different feeling.
"It so much fun to be in the ready room together," said Arlen. "We knew we each had a role to play and getting a silver to share with each other is pretty awesome."
An elated Cortney Jordan (Henderson, NV) came into the women's 100m freestyle (S7) final as the reigning silver medalist in this event from Beijing. Ranked fourth after this morning's preliminaries she swam a 1.11.63 to finish second.
"Getting the silver again is awesome," said Jordan. "I wasn't feeling great today and really didn't know how the race would go, this is too good – silver is my favorite color."
Jordan has already won a bronze in London in the women's 100m backstroke (S7).
Lantz Lamback (Colorado Springs, Colo.) took his first medal of the Games, a bronze in the men's 100m freestyle (S7) with a time of 1.01.50. The close race was a great fit for this experienced swimmer.
"I got an American record, swam a personal best time and got a bronze in what is probably my last Games, it's just really great," said Lamback.
Navy Lt. Bradley Snyder (St. Petersburg, Fla.), who has already won a gold and silver at these Games, put in a solid performance in the men's 100m breaststroke (SB11) finishing sixth in a time of 1.19.48. Snyder will hit the pool again later this week in the 400m freestyle (S11), 100m butterfly (S11) and 200m individual medley (SM11).
"I have the next two days off," said Snyder. "Ideally I will get some downtime, then a loosen up swim, then back at it hard on Thursday."
Letticia Martinez (Las Cruces, N.M.) also swam in the finals tonight finishing eighth in the women's 100 breast (SB11) coming into the wall in a time of 1.41.10.
Team USA competes again Tuesday at the Aquatics Center.


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Gaucho wrote:You obviously know more about language and the evolution of it than any linguist.
Gaucho wrote:Pipes Hochuli wrote:late to the party, but props to bhaw in this thread.
IMO, anyone beyond a teenager that still uses the word in this discussion is a dolt that I wouldn't like to be associated with. A total display of stupidity and ignorance.
You must be old, otherwise you would know that, thanks to excessive usage by ignorant and dumb teens, the word does not mean what it means anymore.
Physical_Graffiti wrote:It's more like "I'm too sensitive to think about what's actually being said to fully grasp it". If I were to refer to DJs as "spinsters" older women shouldn't be offended by it, because it literally has nothing to do with them.
shafnutz05 wrote:lolololol wow nice popped collar brah
Briere says Avery's claims against Simmonds were because he was motivated by banana-throwing incident
Kaizer wrote:is that SDG?
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Gaucho wrote:Exactly. This "generational" stuff is utter BS. Words do change their meaning, but it's a dynamic process that happens over time. You can't just take a word and claim that is has a new meaning all of a sudden, as if language was arbitrary. It is not.
doublem wrote:bhaw, is Cooke scum too? I want to know what players you think are scum?
Draftnik wrote:Laws vary from state to state or in this case province to province. What passes for disorderly conduct or mischief in one place might not in another.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Ontario try to revise their definition of mischief. The London police have gone to a lot of trouble to publicize this crime and subsequent arrest. If somebody threw the banana at a white player it never would have been known by anybody not in attendance that evening.
bhaw wrote:doublem wrote:bhaw, is Cooke scum too? I want to know what players you think are scum?
Give me an instance you want me to review and I will give you my scum-o-meter reading, if you so please.
Perhaps you would prefer if I called Simmonds a lying coward who is too much of a **** to own up to what he said? Referring to this instance, of course.
If you are trying to pin me into the "you're being a homer" scenario, I'll have you know that there are many players we have employed over the years who I disliked the way they played but glad they were with us and not against us.
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A day after his death-defying jump over the fountains at Caesars Palace, Travis Pastrana is keeping the drama alive in Las Vegas.
Bally's announced Monday that Nitro Circus, co-created by Pastrana, will arrive in spring 2019 for a new residency stage show on the Strip.
"I am so psyched about this show," Pastrana said in a statement. "It's going to be totally different from anything we've done and unlike anything ever staged before in action sports. Fans are going to have a blast with the show setup."
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The Nitro Circus was created in 2010 and has toured the globe since then. Organizers say the Las Vegas show will bring the biggest and most progressive tricks in freestyle motocross and BMX for a theater setting.
The show will be a co-production of Nitro Circus, BASE Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment.
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Players and coaches from both teams have warned against expanding the women's State Of Origin concept too quickly following the Blues' gripping 16-10 win over Queensland in the inaugural fixture on Friday.
The match was played as a one-off fixture with 30-minute halves.
Previous interstate challenge games have been played with 40-minute halves, although never before has the game been so intense in the wake of last year's Women's World Cup and in the lead-up to the forthcoming four-team premiership competition later this year.
For all that Friday's spectacle produced in front of almost 7000 fans at North Sydney Oval, women's rugby league is still a semi-professional pursuit, as evidenced by Blues captain Maddie Studdon's stunning revelation after full-time that she had lost her job during the week after being told she wouldn't be allowed time off to prepare for the match.
And while Friday's standalone was a ground-breaking success for the sport, NSW coach Ben Cross said it was crucial not to rush in expanding the game.
"For now I think the one Origin is a good concept. We're still in the infancy of knowing how the female rugby league athlete responds to these intense games, so trying to get them to back up in another two weeks for something of the same intensity is something that we probably need to work on with the NRL," Cross said.
"You've just got to wait for the game to grow a little bit. We don't want to accelerate the women's game too fast. It needs that underlying competition.
"Once that happens, maybe three, four to five years, I think three games."


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Wood's strong showing not enough vs. Nationals
Quiet Braves offense unable to overcome left-hander's one mistake
WASHINGTON -- Although they accomplished their goal to win this weekend's series against the Nationals, the Braves exited this three-game set knowing they had squandered the opportunity to claim yet another sweep against their division rivals.
As the Braves prepared to travel back to Atlanta following Sunday afternoon's 2-1 loss to the Nationals at Nationals Park, they were left to ponder the fact that missed opportunities put Alex Wood in a position where he could not overcome the one costly mistake he made to Ian Desmond.
"I knew right when [the pitch] left my hand that it wasn't going to be a very good outcome," Wood said in reference to the first-pitch fastball Desmond deposited into the seats to begin the bottom of the seventh inning.
Desmond's decisive solo home run provided the Nationals a lead they would not relinquish on the way to claiming just their seventh win in the past 22 games against the Braves. Atlanta was bidding to claim its third series sweep at Nationals Park since the start of the 2013 season.
"It was an all-around good game," Braves catcher Gerald Laird said. "They scored one more run than us. We really only made one mistake."
Wood surrendered three hits, including two infield singles before recording his first out of the afternoon. But he then retired 18 of the next 19 batters he faced before missing his spot with the fastball that jumped off Desmond's bat and traveled toward the left field wall in no-doubt fashion.
Desmond's home run forced the Braves to pay for the fact that they went 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position. The game concluded with Nationals closer Rafael Soriano stranding a pair of runners with a strikeout of Jason Heyward.
"The Braves are a really good team," Nationals manager Matt Williams said. "They've got a lot of ways to beat you, exceptional bullpen. We were in two of the three, really. With the exception of yesterday, we were one swing away from that one, too. That's good. Guys are fighting hard."
Eleven of the past 19 games played between the Braves and Nationals, including two this weekend, have been decided by two runs or fewer. The two clubs exited this series tied for second behind the Marlins in the National League East standings with 4-2 marks.
When the Braves began a season-opening six-game road trip that started in Milwaukee, there was reason to be concerned about their injury-depleted pitching staff. But through the season's first six games, Atlanta has yet to allow more than two runs.
Unfortunately for Wood, two runs was enough to blemish his stellar effort. The only baserunner the Nationals produced between their fortune-filled first inning and Desmond's home run came courtesy of Chris Johnson's fifth-inning throwing error.
"[Wood] was dominant, really," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "That's just the way it goes. We didn't score runs. We had some opportunities, and we only got one. They got one more run than we did."
Wood battled through a long 21-pitch first inning that included Williams disputing two calls at first base. But the only damage Wood incurred came courtesy of Jayson Werth's RBI infield single that could have resulted in at least one out had Dan Uggla allowed Andrelton Simmons to field the chopper behind the second base bag.
Simmons was shaded toward third base and did not think he could have gotten to the ball in time to turn a double play. But he was ready to field a toss to second base as Uggla instead made an off-balance throw that eluded first baseman Freddie Freeman and allowed Anthony Rendon to score on the play.
"[Wood] battled today," Laird said. "He had really good stuff. After that first inning, we cruised pretty much through the innings. He had all three of his pitches working. He was working in and out. That's a good lineup over there. He threw the ball really well today and quieted a good lineup. He made one mistake today, and they beat us."
Nationals starting pitcher Taylor Jordan surrendered one earned run and six hits over 6 1/3 innings. Jordan escaped a bases-loaded, fourth-inning threat and kept the Braves scoreless through the first five frames. Atlanta mounted a threat in the sixth inning when Freeman singled and Johnson doubled to put runners at second and third base with just one out. But after Justin Upton struck out, the only run Atlanta produced came via Uggla's sacrifice fly that Nationals center fielder Denard Span caught just shy of the warning track.
After issuing a pair of walks and allowing Uggla to record an infield single in the fourth inning, Jordan quieted the threat by striking out Laird.
Along with striking out with two on to end the game, Heyward also fanned while facing left-handed reliever Jerry Blevins with Simmons on second base in the seventh.
Heyward tweaked his neck during his first plate appearance on Saturday night and then proceeded to go hitless in 10 at-bats during the final two games of the series.
"We had opportunities to win," Heyward said. "We played well enough to win the game. That is all you can ask for each day."
While the Braves can be pleasantly surprised by what their pitching staff has done thus far, there now has to be some concern about an offense that has scored two runs or fewer in four of the season's first six games.
"We're playing OK," Simmons said. "We could swing the bats a little better. We're playing pretty good defense. We just need to swing the bats a little better, but that will come."


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I've long been aware that Walt Disney knew Spencer Tracy. There's a 1938 photo of them together with Tracy in polo togs and I knew that Disney also played polo. Having read the excellent Spencer Tracy: ABiography by James Curtis, I learned that the relationship was longer and deeper than I knew.
While the Tracys and Disneys knew each other from polo, the Tracys also entertained the Disneys at their home.
Perhaps the greatest link was John Tracy, Spencer and Louise Tracy's son, who was born deaf. John had an interest in art and as a child started a newspaper. The first issue sported a Mickey Mouse cover with an inscription by Disney which read, "Good Luck to Johnny Tracy."
Louise Tracy spent a great deal of her life establishing the John Tracy Clinic for families with deaf children. Having struggled to understand the best way to educate her son, she wanted to provide the best medical advice to other parents in the same situation. Disney donated $100 at the clinic's inception and was a member of the original board of directors. When Disney toured the facility in 1043 and saw that the children were napping on mats on the floor, he donated cots and at Christmas sent over "a truck load of gifts – puppets and toys, all Disney-licensed, that could be used in teaching."
Disney later funded a $12,000 short film, Listening Eyes, made by the clinic to explain its procedures and supplied the director, Larry Lansburgh, from his studio.
When the Disneys sailed on the Queen Elizabeth to Europe in July of 1952, Spencer Tracy was also on board and they socialized during the trip.
In 1957, Disney hired John Tracy, who by then had attended Choinard, to work at the studio. He eventually was in charge of the cel library. John left Disney when his sight deteriorated and he was no longer able to do the job.
In 1961, Disney was on the ticket sales committee for a fundraiser for the John Tracy Clinic and in 1967 after Walt's and Spencer's respective deaths, the Disney Foundation donated $100,000 to the John Tracy Clinic.


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A University of Minnesota study released last week played nicely into the hands of the anti-ethanol crowd and upset the state's powerful corn lobby, which extols the corn-based gasoline supplement as a cleaner-burning domestic fuel that is blended with gasoline sold in Minnesota.
The university study found that corn-based ethanol, including the environmental effects of growing and harvesting, is no better an energy alternative than gasoline and it may be worse for air quality.
The corn crowd should get over any umbrage. The U's Institute on the Environment study won't put ethanol out of business. At the same time, another ag-research institution released an encouraging study about the environmental and fuel-replacement strides made by corn ethanol.
The University of Nebraska research reveals that the latest crop of efficient corn-ethanol refineries has helped cut greenhouse gas emissions to half that of gasoline and the industry now is producing up to 1.8 units of energy through ethanol for every unit of energy used to produce it. That's quite a leap in efficiency for an industry that early on had efficiency ratios that barely exceeded 1 to 1.
"Critics claim that corn ethanol has only a small net energy yield and little potential for direct reductions in greenhouse gas emissions compared to the use of gasoline," said Ken Cassman, a University of Nebraska scientist. "This is the first peer-reviewed study to document that these claims are not correct."
In short, the Nebraska researchers found that claims of ethanol inferiority were rooted in corn-production statistics, ethanol plant performance and byproduct use that dates back years. By the end of 2009, Cassman said, newer and renovated plants will account for 75 percent of ethanol production. They increasingly use alternative fuels, are more productive and efficient and are located close to livestock for efficient use of the residual distillers grains as feed.
Finally, the Nebraska study estimates that up to 19 gallons of ethanol are produced for every gallon of petroleum used in the entire corn-ethanol production cycle.
The Minnesota study concluded that ethanol made from switchgrass and other plant material that requires less energy and that doesn't compete with food is far better for the planet than corn ethanol or gasoline.
Still, government-subsidized corn ethanol was the politically doable way to start producing alternative fuels. It's just the beginning.
"We could, as a society, chase our tail for a good long time about the merits and demerits of corn ethanol," said Rolf Nordstrom, executive director of the Minneapolis-based Great Plains Institute, which had a role in the Nebraska study and is leader in bringing divergent players together with the goal of a cleaner, domestic-fueled economy over the next generation.
"My personal frustration is that the 'what-do-we-do-to-replace-gasoline [goal]' has been wrapped around the axle while this corn-ethanol debate goes on. Even the boosters of corn ethanol who are making a handsome profit will tell you that it's not the only answer.
"Folks need to stop arguing over whether corn ethanol is good or bad and get along to what's next -- a suite of fuels that can add up to a 100 percent solution."
To wit: The dirtiest and most expensive fuel, particularly when you add in related defense spending, is oil, two-thirds of which we import at a cost of something like $400 billion annually. The money goes to mostly government-owned monopolies, and some of those countries are hostile to the United States.
Only in the last few years, when the cost surged to $3 or more per gallon, did Americans feel the pain in the wallet sufficiently to change their driving habits. Although fuel prices have dropped in recent months, even Detroit has given up the notion that gas-guzzlers will be the industry's future.
Moreover, consumers, government and carmakers seem to have learned that we can transport ourselves just as well with hybrid-battery vehicles that get 50 miles per gallon and the plug-in electric cars that soon will debut on showroom floors.
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EPA Awards $400,000 to University of Minnesota Sea Grant Program
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced that University of Minnesota Sea Grant Program is receiving a $400,000 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) grant. The money will be used to help reduce the rate at which human activities spread aquatic invasive species throughout the Great Lakes region.
"Sea Grant's commitment to cooperation, raising awareness, and to protecting America's waters from pollutants shines through in this project," said Jeff Gunderson, director of Minnesota Sea Grant. "Just like chemical pollutants, biological pollutants such as zebra mussels and Eurasian watermilfoil need to be managed by all of us in ways that ensure our choices aren't damaging our friends, neighbors, and futures."
Aquatic invasive species have been economically and environmentally damaging in the Great Lakes basin. To curb the damage, Minnesota Sea Grant plans to extend the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network's campaigns to prevent the introduction and spread of harmful non-native plants and animals. Besides adding momentum to the recreational boater campaign "Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers!" and the youthful "Nab the Aquatic Invaders!", the new GLRI funding will fuel more outreach through "Habitattitude" and "AIS-Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point", two effective campaigns that target the aquarium/water garden trade and the aquaculture industry, respectively.
Through the multiple campaigns, principal investigator and Minnesota Sea Grant's aquatic invasive species program coordinator, Doug Jensen, expects that messages about preventing the spread of unwanted aquatic species will be viewed almost seven million times over the next three years across the Great Lakes region. The ultimate campaign goals are to promote awareness, protect water resources and save taxpayers' money. Keeping species like zebra mussels out of lakes with drinking water or power generating facilities can save $30,000 per lake per year according to a 2007 article published in Environmental Management.
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People Behind KDE: Debian Qt/KDE Packagers
A special treat on tonight's People Behind KDE as we bring you the Debian Qt KDE Packagers. A whole seven interviews in one! How are those packages made and kept up to date? What would the packagers like in KDE 4? What customisations do Debian's finest make to their own desktops? And do they prefer RMS or Linus? Find out on the Debian Qt/KDE People Behind KDE interview, the answers may not be what you think.
Pierre Habouzit and Josh Metzler are twins, or why do they have the same face? =D
Nice read. =)
By ac at Sun, 2005/12/18 - 6:00am
Re: So...
By KDE User at Sun, 2005/12/18 - 6:00am
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By Jonathan Riddell at Mon, 2005/12/19 - 6:00am
Nice :)
Really nice interview and suprising one. As a Debian user I can't thank enough Debians QT/KDE team for their efforts. Good job. It's always nice to run dist-upgrade next day after amaroK released and find out that Debian has it already :)
If somebody had not noticed the KDE 3.5 packages are in http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.5.0
ps. RMS > Linus ;)
By Petteri at Sun, 2005/12/18 - 6:00am
Re: Nice :)
Already in experimental ;-)
By Michael at Tue, 2005/12/20 - 6:00am
very nice reading
it's always fun to read about kde devs's life. you get the chance to know some great people... thanks for all your work -- kde is kde because it's made of people like you!
By ac at Mon, 2005/12/19 - 6:00am
Favorite T shirt is nice and all...
But I'd like to see these interviews deal with more specific issues relative the developers in question as opposed to this generic template stuff.
By Sander at Mon, 2005/12/19 - 6:00am
Re: Favorite T shirt is nice and all...
Yes, KUbuntu KDE packages are based on the ones created by the Debian Qt/KDE team. Jonathan Riddell adds some KUbuntu artwork and other modifications after that.
I'm going to upload Adept really soon now (as soon as some debtags thing gets fixed). When KDE 3.5 enters Sid, Adept will enter too.
Best regards
By Isaac Clerencia at Mon, 2005/12/19 - 6:00am
Re: Favorite T shirt is nice and all...
Interviews are meant to get to know the people behind KDE, not the technical issue that thrives them. All too much people hide behind their code, it has always been fun to get to know the more day to day stuff of the people involved in KDE.
It's also meant to lower the threshold for new developers/contributors, I always hoped that new people would discover that people participating in the project are just like you and me, so it's nice when they tell more about how they got started participating within KDE and what the challenges were they came across.
Interviews are suppose to be nice, funny and on the light side, there are already more than enough technical reviews and presentations about technical issues. Interviews are suppose to be entertaining and are not limited to coders but will cover all aspects of participating within KDE.
I personally enjoy every one of them and I think they're doing a great job!
By Tink at Mon, 2005/12/19 - 6:00am
Re: Favorite T shirt is nice and all...
> Interviews are meant to get to know the people behind KDE
I agree completely. The technical stuff is everywhere, and usually
/Goran J
By Göran Jartin at Mon, 2005/12/19 - 6:00am
some weird dependencies
I'm using the KDE 3.5 Debian packages from Alioth and wonder why kdebase-dev depends on konqueror-nsplugins, ksysguard and ksysguardd ?!?!?
I don't want to have some daemons running that I'm not using, and I can't see why I need to install Flash support (to distract my eyes) to Konqueror when I want to compile my own apps against KDE.
BTW: because those packages are on Alioth and not (yet) in Sid I cannot file a Debian bug :-(
By Holger Schurig at Mon, 2005/12/19 - 6:00am
Re: some weird dependencies
To compile your own KDE applications you don't need kdebase-dev but kdelibs4-dev.
You need kdebase-dev if you want to program Kate plugins, Kicker plugins, KSysguard plugins, ... and that's the reason why kdebase-dev installs kicker, ksysguard, ... Of course, we could split the package but it takes only 73.9Kb so it's not worth independent packages.
FYI, the packages have already been uploaded to experimental.
Best regards
By Isaac Clerencia at Mon, 2005/12/19 - 6:00am
good job guys
I'm glad to see the team packaging is still working out great for Debian. Hopefully it will alleviate the burn out that the previous maintainers felt.
By Chris Cheney at Mon, 2005/12/19 - 6:00am
What would the packagers like in KDE 4?
"What would the packagers like in KDE 4?"...is it just me or was this question neither asked or answered? Anyway I'm always starved for kde4 news so look forward to hearing more articles on the matter.
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Yahoo will launch a new logo on Sept. 5, but until then the tech company plans to show off one possible new logo a day. However, the exclamation mark and the color purple will be featured in all of them.
Yahoo will release one logo a day for the next 30 days and ending in the unveiling of its new logo on Sept. 5, according to a Yahoo blog post. It says the new design will be modern and "more reflective" of its experiences.
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"We also want to preserve the character that is unique to Yahoo! — fun, vibrant, and welcoming — so we'll be keeping the color purple, our iconic exclamation point and of course the famous yodel. After all, some things never go out of style," Kathy Savitt, Yahoo's chief marketing officer wrote.
Not surprisingly, the blog post was written on Yahoo's official blog now on Tumblr, which it acquired in June for $1.1 million, according to The Next Web, likely for its hot property as well as its technical team.
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text: Digital A Regis & Kathie Lee Reunion, Plus Harold Ford Jr., Carl Bernstein and Star Jones By Diane Clehane|May 2, 2012 Share By Diane Clehane|May 2, 2012 Share I love it when Michael's is firing on all cyclinders. After a nasty bug kept me away from 55th Street last week, it was good to see the dining room jam packed with celebs of all stripes. Everywhere you looked there was a famous face — Kathie Lee Giffordwas first on the scene and did double duty. She had a glass of wine at the bar with Eduardo Verastegui and then joined the party celebrating Charlene Nederlander's birthday in the dining room. Between bites, she caught up with her former co-host Regis Philbin, who was today's most popular celeb among the high-wattage crowd and was nice enough to pose for a whole lot of pictures.While waiting for my lunch date, I chatted with my Greenwich neighbor Kathie Lee about her kids (son Cody Gifford is graduating from USC Film School and Cassidy Gifford is graduating from high school). We both agreed that kids today are under more pressure than ever before and are being buried under mountains of homework (my first grader gets an hour's worth every night). Kathie Lee told me her honor student daughter has passed up numerous opportunities to pursue her love of acting in order to keep her grades up in school. But Kathie Lee has always made a practice of taking her kids out of school when there was an opportunity to experience something not found in books. "I think that's so important for kids. Some of the most important things I learned as a child I learned outside the classroom. We're not letting kids be kids." I couldn't agree more.When Kathie Lee went off to join her pals, I watched the dining room fill up with plenty of boldface names, including Harold Ford Jr., Star Jones and late arrival Carl Bernstein. I grabbed Harold before he sat down to lunch to ask him what he thought of the heat the president is getting from his opponents for his secret trip to Afghanistan on the anniversary of the killing of Bin Laden. "I think the race will pivot on the issues of the economy and jobs," he told me. "But I'm all for defining what the ten year plan with Afghanistan will be. If there's one thing that both republicans and democrats agree on it's getting out of Afghanistan. If the media wants to blow up one issue, that should be it." Eduardo Verastegui, Kathie Lee Gifford and Regis Philbin I was joined today by Bernard Clair, one of Manhattan's most sought after divorce lawyers among the one percenters. Bernard grew up on Long Island, attended Adelphi University on an athletic scholarship, and graduated from St. John's University School of Law. Bernard and his law partner penned what came to be regarded as the definitive book on the legal issues facing couples who decide to live together, Love Pact. In a bit of fortuitous timing, Bernard met famed matrimonial attorney Marvin Mitchelson whose claim to fame at that moment was creating 'palimony' and found himself handling the Mitchelson's New York based cases by the ripe old age of 30. Bernard, who has consistently been named one of the city's "Best Lawyers" by New York magazine, has handled plenty of headline-making cases, representingCarolyne Roehm, Georgette Mosbacher and Jocelyn Wildenstein (aka The Cat Lady) when their marriages imploded.There's been so much talk about celebrity hookups and uncouplings lately that I hardly knew where to start, so I decided to jump in with deconstructing the upcoming Brangelina nuptials. "I'm sure there's a 500-page pre-nup," Bernard speculated, "which makes sense when there's 1,200 kids in the mix. I have no doubt in the world that the timing for the wedding will depend on when the prenup is executed." On the Kim Kardashian–Kris Humphries 72-day publicity stunt wedding, Bernard offered this: "She's not necessarily upset it's being held up because of his claim of fraud that he was bamboozled. It's keeping her name in the papers." As for the hapless basketballer's hopes of getting his $2 million ring back, he can forget it. "You never get the engagement ring back." Oh, well. Better luck next time.Continue Reading Pages: 1 2 3 Share http://adweek.it/2kcWaU5 copy Adweek Adweek


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Pub Owner Publicly Shames Dirty Patron After Nasty Yelp Review
When the four-star British-style Texas pub Ten Bells Tavern suddenly received a strikingly nasty one-star review on Yelp, owner Meri Dahlke thought something didn't quite smell right.
"I...really wanted to like this place," wrote Yelp user Mark G. "But, frankly, it smells. Maybe if you sit outside you can't smell the nastiness, but inside is gross. It smells like it has been there for 50 years and never been clean, but it is a newer place. Some of the staff look cracked out. Looks like something you'd find a seedy part of town. I will avoid this place in the future. There are plenty of other places in the area to have a better experience."
The reason Mark's excoriation seemed so out of place to Dahlke is because it was: Out of the 45 reviews published since the restaurant opened last year, the vast majority are very good and above.
In fact, Mark is the only customer to date to leave a one-star review.
There was another reason for Dahlke to suspect Mark wasn't being entirely truthful in his comments: Because she knew the real reason he was so pissed, and proceed to tell everyone else in an official response to his review.
Hi Mark G.
Thank you so much for the valuable input. Quick question for you!
Which part made it smell worse? The part where we didn't serve you any alcohol or the part where you harassed the female staff by exposing your chest hair in lieu of showing your ID? Next time you want a Miller Lite, please bring the appropriate ID that is required when you go to a bar and we'll gladly serve you.
Dahlke later confirmed on Reddit that she was indeed behind the response to Mark G., and offered a free beer to anyone who comes in to Ten Bells Tavern and declares "mark g. is a dick."


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I'll have to disagree with you there.
I don't think there would be peace, because not ALL wars are based on religion. Sure, a lot of them are, but there also were a lot of wars over pure economic or territorial reasons. WW1 and WW2 weren't over religion. (At least, not that I know of)
But still, the world would be a better place, according to me. Not a utopia, but still a great place.
Hmm...Bad Example, indeed.
But at least World War 1 wasn't.
Just trying to say here, that not ALL war is based on religion, only about 99.9%.
Because I really don't believe that mankind can ever live in peace. Emotions like jealousy, hate, anger, and others will still continue to exist, with or without religion.
This is very hard to imagine. Even back before the modern religions came about, humans worshiped powerful nature: the sun, the moon, the sea and the stars. And since humans anthropomorphize, they gave those natural powers human characteristics and names.
I agree with the other posters that science would be more advanced than it is now, but I think that humans would still be superstitious to a high degree. That said, I don't think that superstition would be mandatory, but some people would be upset when others do things that go against their superstitions/beliefs.
I'm just brainstorming here, so not sure if that made any kind of sense.
One word: beautiful.
Now...I need to read the responses....
To answer more thoroughly than the immediate mental imagery...
A world without *god* (by whatever name) would mean -hopefully- a world without people committing atrocities in the name of said god. Human animals, being what we are and acting according to our nature, are capable of some rather horrific things without religion as a justification. Religion is one of those weird things that has evolved on a global scale - depending where on earth (and what point in history) we consider. Getting rid of religion / god alone, though, is not enough.
Have to get rid of adversarial politics, too. That, however, is not something I see ever happening. We are political animals - and there is a divide, from my perspective. The divide is between people who may dislike change, but are willing to roll with it...and those who fear change, and are willing to kill&die to preserve the status quo. In the United States, for instance, we've been contending with this dichotomy since before the Civil War. The teabag brigade is a prominent example of this dichotomy...the mentality of the vast majority of the teabaggers are devout (specifically SBC) and racist - they fear and loathe change...and are fighting to "take the country back" - to some time before 1959, if not straight back to the Stone Age.
A world without god will be like China. Main objective in life=power. Strong will survive, weak will die.
Large scale Racism. People will form groups based on race, creed and colour.
Human experimentation will be the norm.
Physically, mentally strong people will rule.
Money=main reason for living.
People will get freedom to do anything or everything they like.
Sounds to me like you're actually describing a world with religion.
No, I am describing a world without religion. I currently live in a society which is almost without religion. People near me make fun of God here. I used to do that too(untill I became a victim myself).
At that time, I didn't discriminate people on the basis of religion.But on the base of race.
Racism is the biggest disease/threat for humanity.
Well old superstitious beliefs like 'god' are a joke here where I live, and people are nothing like you described. There is racism, I'm certain, but it isn't a strong component of this community at all. When you say human experimentation, I can only think of some strange sci-fi movie concept, not the world in which I live. Physically/mentally strong people ruling has always been the way of things for us - these days it's far more about mental strength than physical though. Money is too high of a priority for a lot of people, as everywhere, but it certainly isn't the only reason people have for living. Surprisingly, with religion dying out here, laws aren't being erased at all.
I think you have no idea what you are talking about - it sounds to me as though you suffer from god-psychosis.


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If all 50 details that Stephen Totilo noticed about Assassin's Creed III didn't satisfy your hunger for knowledge, check out the video above for a look at the death-dealing tools the threequel's hero will use during the Revolutionary War.
The series' signature hidden blade is still in effect and it'll be interesting to see if the pistols function any differently than they did in the Assassin's Creed that starred Ezio. Look for more on Assassin's Creed III on Kotaku in the coming days.


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I have been asked to post this info about a day course being offered by Ormsary Jogscotland group.
Chi running workshop in Ormsary on the 16th of September (the 15th as well if we have enough interest)
Trainer is from North of England who does workshops in Edinburgh and Glasgow so we invited him over here.
Full day 9.30a.m. til 4.30p.m. at a cost of £60 a head suitable for any level of runner.
His website at www.soulinmotion.co.uk
Could anyone interested please book through the website and then let myself know you have booked to allow Dinah to keep up with numbers.
I have been hearing more and more of this recently and if my memory serves me right there was an article highlighting the benefits featured in jogscotlands last edition of Stride.


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