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1. The shooting of Reeva Steenkamp by her boyfriend, Olympian athlete Oscar Pistorius, has put guns and gun ownership in South Africa in the spotlight again. The weapon used was a 9mm Parabellum.
2. In January, Pistorius applied for six more firearm licences. They were for three shotguns (a Maverick, a Winchester and a Mossberg), two revolvers (a Smith & Wesson 500 and a .38 Special) and a Vector .223 rifle.
3. GunPolicy.org estimates that there are six million guns in South Africa, roughly 12 for every 100 people. The latest (August 2011) figures from the Central Firearms Registry report about 2.9-million firearms registered to about 1.5-million owners. Anti-gun group Gun Free South Africa says this is a substantial decrease since 1994, when 3.5-million firearms were licensed to about 2.4-million individuals. The law allows an ordinary citizen to possess four guns. The military is estimated to have about 350000 guns and the police about 260 000.
4. The Firearms Control Act of 2000 made the qualifications for private gun ownership stricter than they had been, including a competency test. The law came into full effect in 2004. Gun Free South Africa said that gun-related deaths decreased by nearly half between 1999 and 2009.
5. Gun Free South Africa also says, however, that "Since 2012, trauma surgeons … have noted a spike in gun injuries. The organisation believed this spike is related to the fast-tracking of gun licences after the minister of police promised in November 2010 to deal with a backlog of licences by mid-2011."
6. The law gave gun owners five years, from January 2005, to relicence or surrender their guns. Police said 180000 guns had been surrendered by the end of 2009.
7. According to Gun Free South Africa, both South African and international statistics show that gun owners are four times more likely to have a firearm used against them than they are to use one successfully in self-defence.
8. The South African Gunowners' Association says it is more about the person than the gun, and that "education not regulation" is the key. It believes the claim that "gun control equals crime control" is false.
9. As a manufacturer of guns, South Africa is rated "medium" in size by GunPolicy.org.
10. According to the World Bank's Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City, the most recent study of the subject, the price of an illegal AK-47 in South Africa was $180 (about R1600 at current exchange rates). By contrast, an AK-47 cost about $500 on the American black market.


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The RFC had the absolute pleasure of visiting Cy Bearer on his farm in Louisa County. I'm sure you have all seen, and hopefully tasted, Cy's local honey before. You can find it pretty easily at area markets including Whole Foods and Ellwood Thompson's.
We met Cy on the farm on a sunny Saturday afternoon, after a few wrong turns we found his decidedly nondescript drive off of a winding country road not too far from 64W in Louisa County. Cy owns a near twenty acre farm and is proud to call himself a "home owner" to a beautiful historic ruin on the property, originally one of the oldest farm houses in the county. He keeps a number of hives here on this property and also maintains hives in other rural locations as well as many urban hives in the city.
As a new beekeeper myself, it was a pleasure to watch Cy open and tend to his hives. He has a real ease with his lady bees and is no doubt a confident and studied beekeeper. Beekeeping is a long tradition in his family. His uncle is also a honey producer and vends his honey locally at South of the James Market.
Listening to Cy talk about his craft is a testament to his success as a beekeeper. He understands the simplicity of allowing the hive to do what it does naturally while also grasping the subtleties of when and how to intervene in their process. He values the meditative process of hive management, and you can sense that he equally reveres the land and the solitude that it gives him.
Cy is one of those farmers who has very intentionally designed his life to fit into his work. And he'll readily admit that running this small farm is hard work. Maybe it's his piece of land, maybe it's this guy but something is really working for him.
"I've always known that being outdoors was the secret to being happy. And I've learned that actually producing something and then taking it to market is an extremely rewarding way to make a living. Working on parts of things can be unfulfilling." -Cy Bearer

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David Deutsch (born 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is a physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory. He pioneered the field of quantum computers, and is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
The Fabric of Reality (1997)[edit]
- Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.
- Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...
- The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy—but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.
- The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
- A prediction, or any assertion, that cannot be defended might still be true, but an explanation that cannot be defended is not an explanation.
- To say that prediction is the purpose of a scientific theory is to confuse means with ends. It is like saying that the purpose of a spaceship is to burn fuel. … Passing experimental tests is only one of many things a theory has to do to achieve the real purpose of science, which is to explain the world.
- Ch. 1
- The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations. It is the explanation—the only one that is tenable—of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality.
- Ch. 2
- Reality contains not only evidence, but also the means (such as our minds, and our artefacts) of understanding it. There are mathematical symbols in physical reality. The fact that it is we who put them there does not make them any less physical.
- Ch.3
- Think of all our knowledge-generating processes, our whole culture and civilization, and all the thought processes in the minds of every individual, and indeed the entire evolving biosphere as well, as being a gigantic computation. The whole thing is executing a self-motivated, self-generating computer program. More specifically it is, as I have mentioned, a virtual-reality program in the process of rendering, with ever-increasing accuracy, the whole of existence.
- It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.
- Ch. 6
- Since building a universal virtual-reality generator is physically possible, it must actually be built in some universes.
- Ch. 6
- Quantum computation is … nothing less than a distinctly new way of harnessing nature … It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes, and then sharing the results.
- Ch. 9 : Quantum Computers
- The next chapter is likely to provoke many mathematicians. This can't be helped. Mathematics is not what they think it is.
- Ch. 10
- Mathematical knowledge may, just like our scientific knowledge, be deep and broad, it may be subtle and wonderfully explanatory, it may be uncontroversially accepted; but it cannot be certain.
- Ch. 10
- Necessary truth is merely the subject-matter of mathematics, not the reward we get for doing mathematics. The object of mathematics is not, and cannot be, mathematical certainty. It is not even mathematical truth, certain or otherwise. It is, and must be, mathematical explanation.
- Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
- Ch. 12
- Kuhn's theory suffers from a fatal flaw. It explains the succession from one paradigm to another in sociological or psychological terms, rather than as having primarily to do with the objective merit of the rival explanations. Yet unless one understands science as a quest for explanations, the fact that it does find successive explanations, each objectively better than the last, is inexplicable.
- Ch. 13; commentary on the ideas of Thomas Kuhn, as presented in the book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Deutsch's Law[edit]
This was Deutsch's response to the 2004 Edge Annual Question: "What is Your Law?"
Deutsch's Law: Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.
- Corollary #1: Inherently insoluble problems are inherently boring.
- Corollary #2: In the long run, the distinction between what is interesting and what is boring is not a matter of subjective taste but an objective fact.
- Corollary #3: The problem of why every problem that is interesting is also soluble, is soluble.
- As I understand it, the claim is that the less you use Homeopathy, the better it works. Sounds plausible to me.[1]
TED Talks[edit]
- The rational thing for a layperson to do is to take seriously the prevailing scientific theory.


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16.12.2013 - Stamp Fair and Bargain Sale in Geest (Germany)
On 29 December 2013 the stamp and coin collectors club of Geest-Harsefeld (near Hamburg, Germany) will organize its second stamp fair, coupled with a bargain sale.
13.12.2013 - German Christmas Train will leave twice on December 24
Are you interested in a cover that has been transported by the special Christmas Child Railway?
01.12.2013 - ASCAT-Grand Prix awarded to Dr. Jacques Rogge in Monaco on 5th December 2013
11.11.2013 - Long term planning for the International Stamp Fair Munich
The organizers of the annual stamp fair in Munich (Germany) are planning ahead: terms for the International Stamp Fair in the years 2015 2016 and 2017 have been set.
06.11.2013 - Commemorate Han Vermeulen
05.11.2013 - Roland Meiners announces major auction
04.11.2013 - Sieger-price for philatelic literature 2013 for Dr. Andreas Birch and Hans-Henning Gerlach
09.10.2013 - World Stamp Show New York 2016 website is open !
08.10.2013 - Raid on coin dealer
07.10.2013 - SCHWANKE Auction 343 - 21-23 November 2013
06.10.2013 - 53. AIXPHILA-Auction on 29. and 30. November 2013
03.10.2013 - Alan Holyoake presents his\"Grand Prix collection\" \"The first stamps of the world\" in Berlin on 21 October 2013
01.10.2013 - New FEPA Board elected in Madrid!
23.09.2013 - 27th Autumn meeting of the Study group \"Ottoman Empire / Turkey\"
22.09.2013 - UNPA / Special personalized sheet for the Stamp Fair at Sindelfingen
21.09.2013 - Alben und mehr supports youth activities
20.09.2013 - Soester Gespräche were very successful
14.09.2013 - Worlds Largest Stamp Gallery Opens Sept. 22, 2013
13.09.2013 - From IPHLA 2012 to the ISS!
12.09.2013 - Dr. Albert Louis Archive of The Netherlands\" to Amstelveen (NL)
03.09.2013 - International Fair of Stamps and Coins Fair - Antwerp - September 28-29, 2013 shows 4 Inverted Dendermonde
19.08.2013 - Baden - Handbuch, volume II presented in Mulheim
18.08.2013 - MICHEL insists on his copyright for his catalogue numbers!
04.08.2013 - Hunziker Medal 2013 awarded to Robert P. Odenweller
The Hunziker Medal 2013 was awarded by the A.I.E.P. to Robert P. Odenweller RDP, ...
10.07.2013 - CORINPHILA presents Alemanys Dom Pedro-Brazil collection on September 2013 Auction
Birgit and Karl Louis, co-owner of the "Global philatelic network" by Heinrich Köhler/Corinphila met the son of Luis Alemany Indarte, Ignacio Alemany in Denia/Spain.
27.05.2013 - Hans SCHWARZ and René HILLESUM elected for Academy of Philately (AEP)
AIJP-treasurer Hans SCHWARZ and new-elected AIJP-director René HIILLESUM elected members of the European Academy of Philately
17.05.2013 - LONDON 2015 EUROPHILEX: Competition Rules Now Available
The international stamp show LONDON 2015 EUROPHILEX is pleased to advise that the rules for competitive exhibits are now available at www.london2015.net
13.05.2013 - Berliner Sammler-Verband under a new name
The Berliner Sammler-Verband(Association of Berlin Philatelic Societies) has changed its name on 20 April 2013.
10.05.2013 - Dr. Albert Louis dies aged 88
Only a few weeks ago, Dr. Albert Louis was honoured in the German town of Wiesbaden, where he received the SAVO Plaquette.
08.05.2013 - AIJP remains on the right track!
On 4 May 2013 members of the AIJP, the World Association for Philatelic Journalists and Authors, attended at this year's annual congress in Essen (Germany).
06.05.2013 - Åland Post to enter the stamp traders market
At first glance it seems not that spectacular: Åland Post to enter stamp traders market.
03.05.2013 - German magazine philatelie: Index 2012 published
The German magazine philatelie is one of those publications that you will often find in bound form, each volume covering a year.
01.05.2013 - A historic postcard for Ernesto Marini
The wonderful hobby that we call philately not all too often tastes the pleasure of being honoured on stamps or other postal material.
24.04.2013 - ROSSICA 2013 in Moscow (27.29. September, 2013)
One hundred years ago, Russia issued its first commemorative postage stamps.
22.04.2013 - Five distinguished philatelists to sign the Roll in June
The "Roll of Distinguished Philatelists' (RDP) was founded in 1921 by the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain and was launched with the approval of His Majesty King George V, the first signatory.
19.04.2013 - 100th Edition of MICHELs Germany Catalogue includes special issue
To mark the anniversary of the 100th Edition of MICHELs Germany catalogue the publisher will include a separate appendix dealing with the topic "fraud prevention".
17.04.2013 - SAVO Plaque for Dr. Albert Louis, Netherlands specialist
On 23 March 2013 Dr. Albert Louis was surprised twice.
15.04.2013 - Round 3 for the Rauhut Award!
For the third year in succession, philatelic study groups in Germany may apply for the Rauhut Award.
12.04.2013 - Dutch leading magazine Filatelie: a new Editor
Filatelie, the leading Dutch philatelic magazine, has appointed a new Editor; his name is René Hillesum.
10.04.2013 - AIJP to organise a symposium during Brasiliana 2013
The World Association for Philatelic Journalists and Authors (AIJP) is in the process of organising a symposium during the upcoming philatelic exhibition Brasiliana 2013.
08.04.2013 - PHILA HISTORICA takes its first hurdle!
The Editor of PHILA HISTORICA, a new and free digital magazine, would have been very happy with 500 readers.
05.04.2013 - Multilateral Exhibition 2014: Bulletin 1 and web site are ready
The so-called Multilateral Exhibition of 2014 will take place in the Ohrelandhalle of the German City of Haldensleben.
03.04.2013 - German magazine philatelie: Index 2012 published
The German magazine philatelie is one of those publications that you will often find in bound form, each volume covering a year.
01.04.2013 - Famous cartoonist Uli Stein signs autographs!
Germany's most famous and most successful cartoonist, Uli Stein, will be present at the International Stamp Fair in Essen!
29.03.2013 - Pope Benedict: farewell greetings
On 28 February 2013, on the last day of his reign in the Vatican, the German-born Pope Benedict, took his live with an appropriate farewell in the form of an official last day cover.
27.03.2013 - Survey to find 2011s most beautiful stamp on aviation
The German study group Motiv-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Luftfahrt invites everybody to participate in a survey to find the most beautiful aviation stamp of 2011.
25.03.2013 - In memoriam Amedeo Missaglia
Those philatelists and collectors who are wont to travel across their country borders will certainly recognize Amedeo Missaglia as a household name.
22.03.2013 - Dieter Hartig awarded with the FEPA Medal 2012
The President of the Federation of German Philatelists (BDPh), Dieter Hartig, has been awarded with the FEPA Medal for exceptional contributions to the world of the organized philately.
20.03.2013 - AIJP invites members and guests to its annual conference
On Saturday 4 May 2013 members and guests of the AIJP (the World Association for Philatelic Authors and Journalists) will gather in Germany.
18.03.2013 - A soothing shower of books
Hundreds of books worth many thousands of dollars have been offered recently free of charge - to the important German philatelic libraries.
15.03.2013 - Critical reviews IPHLA 2012 deserve a response
After the conclusion of the international literature exhibition IPHLA 2012, a number of German exhibitors and officials voiced some critic.
13.03.2013 - Experts galore during Stamp Fair Essen (Germany)
Collectors should mark 2, 3 and 4 May 2013 on their calendars.
11.03.2013 - South Korea: once again time for a presidential stamp
Every five years, on 25 February, the postal administration of South Korea issues a special presedential stamp.
08.03.2013 - Deadline for Brasiliana 2013 has been extended!
The German commissioner for Brasiliana 2013, Wolfgang Maassen, has already received more than sixty applications.
06.03.2013 - Showing One\'s Teeth in Sindelfingen (Germany)
The area for young collectors that can be found at every edition of the International Stamp Fair in Sindelfingen (Germany) certainly is something very special.
04.03.2013 - The German Posthorn Issue of 1951/52
Twelve years ago a book was published bearing the title Die Posthornserie 1951/52.
01.03.2013 - PHILA HISTORICA unveils its contents
For several weeks now, a comprehensive description of the contents of a new digital medium, Zeitschrift für Philateliegeschichte und Literatur is available.
27.02.2013 - Philatelic Nobel Prizes 2011-2013 awarded in Berlin
In 1909 the renowned philatelist Marcellus Purneil Castle described the Lindenberg Medal instituted only three years earlier as The Nobel Prize of Philately.
25.02.2013 - MONACOPHIL 2013: one week later
The MONACOPHIL edition of this year will not be held from 29 November until 1 December, but from 5 until 7 December.
22.02.2013 - AIJP to support Multilateral Event in Haldensleben (Germany)
Its a well-known philatelic phenomenon: the so-called Multilateral Exhibition.
20.02.2013 - AIJP grants its patronage to EUROPHILEX 2015 (London)
EUROPHILEX 2015, a FEPA exhibition that will be held in London, has acquired the patronage of the AIJP, the world association for philatelic authors and journalists.
18.02.2013 - A donation of $ 500 000 for the new Bill Gross Stamp Gallery
In September 2013, the National Postal Museum (part of the famous Smithonsonian) will inaugurate its new William H. Gross Stamp Gallery.
15.02.2013 - AIJP lends its patronage to the International Stamp Fair in Sindelfingen
The well-known yearly philatelic event in Sindelfingen (Germany) has received the patronage of the AIJP.
13.02.2013 - A new edition of MICHELs Gulf States Catalogue
In 2005, the first edition of MICHELs so-called Gulf States catalogue (in English) was published.
11.02.2013 - AIJP to occupy a LONDON 2015 booth
The AIJP, the World Association of Philatelic Journalists, will be present at EUROPHILEX (London, May 2015) with its own booth.
08.02.2013 - An interesting experiment in Munich
There are still the usual sceptics that paint the definitive downfall of the stamp exhibition world as a nightmare scenario, but their view has long since become outdated.
06.02.2013 - Large collectors fair in Ettelbrück (Luxembourg)
The new Däich Hall in the Luxembourg town Ettelbrück is the place where, on 10 March, a large collectors fair will be held.
04.02.2013 - Online Philatelic Exhibition Private Mail
Its still some time away, but the German Freundenkreis (circle of friends) of Private Mail (PIN) will organise a digital exhibition in the fall of 2014.
01.02.2013 - Schaubek: a change in management
For a period of seven years, Stefan Lutter has been managing director of the Schaubek firm in Großlehna (Germany).
30.01.2013 - Drugstore chain dm gives its loyal customers a treat
With the new year yet to begin, the German chain of drugstores dm has sent a nice little gift to its loyal customers.
28.01.2013 - Exhibition HAP Grieshaber in Nürtingen (G.): a philatelic touch
In the Kreuzkirche on Nürtingens Schillerplatz (G.) about 120 objects of the German artist and woodcutter HAP Grieshaber (1909-1981) are on display.
23.01.2013 - EUROPHILEX 2015: Englands next big exhibition
Englands next big stamp exhibition will be EUROPHILEX 2015, an event to be held from 13 until 16 May 2015.
21.01.2013 - German Private Post Organisation brings stamp in Braille
PostModern, a private post organisation in Germany, has issued on 15 October a stamp that provides information for blind people, in Braille.
18.01.2013 - The beloved dolls of Dr. Heinz Jaeger are for sale
Former President and current Honorary President of the German BDPh and Consilium Philatelicum has a legendary topical stamp collection about dolls.
16.01.2013 - FESOFI promotes philatelic literature in digital form
The FESOFI, the Spanish Federation of Philatelic Associations has presented a number of evaluation rules regarding digital media and publications that have been enrolled for philatelic exhibitions.
14.01.2013 - BRASILIANA 2013 is on its way!
The rules and guidelines for the international philatelic exhibition BRASILIA 2013 have been announced recently.
11.01.2013 - Farewell Otto Hornung
On 8 January of this year long-time President of the AIJP, the World Association of Philatelic Journalists and Authors, Otto Hornung died.
09.01.2013 - MICHEL supports New Jazz School Munich (G.)
For several years now, the German publishing house of Schwaneberger (famous for its MICHEL catalogues) has, on the occasion of Christmas, been supporting various social and cultural institutions and promoting projects.
07.01.2013 - Berliner Philatelisten-Klub 125 years old
In about a months time, the Berliner Philatelisten-Klub in Berlin (Germany) will celebrate a special anniversary.
04.01.2013 - A new magazine for philatelic literature buffs and historians
Having published several books under the heading Chronik der deutschen Philatelie (History of German Philately), its author, Wolfgang Maassen (picture), now has set his sight on the publication of a new professional magazine.
04.01.2013 - A new magazine for philatelic literature buffs and historians
Having published several books under the heading Chronik der deutschen Philatelie (History of German Philately), its author, Wolfgang Maassen, now has put his sight on the publication of a new professional magazine.
21.12.2012 - MBE for David Beech, for services provided to philately
Only recently, David Beech has been awarded the MBE for services to philately; his name is can be found on the Birthday Honour List of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II.
19.12.2012 - Dieter Michelson now a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society, London
In our days the Philatelic Society of London, which was founded in 1869, is regarded as the worlds oldest philatelic society.
17.12.2012 - MICHEL publishes Philatelic Atlas of Germany!
The German publishing house Schwaneberger Verlag of Unterschleissheim has published the third edition of its Philatelic Atlas of Germany.
14.12.2012 - Grugel Collection will be auctioned on 2 February 2013
German philatelists describe the last stamp issue of the German Empire of the 19th Century as the Krone-Adler (Crowned Eagle).
12.12.2012 - Brasiliana 2013 postponed
It was originally scheduled for 11 until 17 November 2013, but it has now been postponed: Brasiliana 2013.
10.12.2012 - MICHEL to enter the eBook era
The renowned German catalogue publisher Schwaneberger is about to expand its traditional niche of ink-to-paper publication by introducing its own e-books.
07.12.2012 - Rather pricey: gold winners on stamps
Many collectors are aware of a recent project of the English post, concerning stamps commemorating the gold winners of the recent Olympic Games.
05.12.2012 - Triple 12: Deutsche Post uses special date stamps
On the occasion of the special triple 12 date 12 December 2012, German Post has prepared six date stamps (three of them embellished with an illustration) that will be in use Berlin, Bonn and Weiden.
03.12.2012 - Auction interrupted: sabotage or formalism?
An interesting question arose on 22 November 2012 in Hamburg, when auctioneer Hans-Joachim Schwanke saw a part of his auction aborted.
30.11.2012 - German Philatelic Foundation and German Youth Philatelists: expanded cooperation
The German foundation Deutsche Philatelie (German Philately) has always had a soft spot for the country's philatelic youth.
28.11.2012 - MONACOPHIL 2013 invites to a worldwide literature show!
Fifty display cases and almost as many frames can be admired, about a year from now, in Monte Carlo (Monaco).
26.11.2012 - High demand for digital archive of philatelie (Germany)
Many people were surprised by the demand for a new product for collectors: the digital archive edition of the German stamp magazine philatelie.
23.11.2012 - Sieger Literature Prize awarded to Dr. Ernst Schlunegger
Those collectors who have pledged their hearts to topical stamps will certainly know the name of Ernst Schlunegger.
21.11.2012 - W h GmbH to support Bücher-MICHEL database
After a lot of planning and intensive programming efforts, now a databank called Bücher-MICHEL has been implemented.
19.11.2012 - Rossica 2013 in Moscow
On 27, 28 and 29 September 2013 the "First International Academic Philatelic Exhibition" will be held in Moscow.
16.11.2012 - A most welcome donation: 15,000 Euros for upcoming IPHLA exhibitions
During the festive evening and Palmarès of IPHLA 2012 in Mainz Consul Hermann Walter Sieger of Lorch (Germany, see picture) came with a special surprise.
14.11.2012 - Favourable response to the successful IPHLA 2012 exhibition in Mainz
Immediately after the last minute of the IPHLA 2012 in Mainz (Germany) expired an unstoppable stream of compliments broke loose.
12.11.2012 - Stamp album fetches an impressive 16 000 Euros!
On 3 November 2012 the auction house of Heinrich Koehler organised a philatelic literature auction in the City Hall of Mainz (Germany).


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Sterling College hosts Governor's Institute on Farms, Food and Your Future
by Bethany M. Dunbar
CRAFTSBURY COMMON — Toby Marx-Dunn, a high school student from Jericho, was listening to National Public Radio one day, and it got him thinking about the food he eats. He decided he wanted to know more and get better, healthier food. This impulse led him to sign up for a brand new summer Governor's Institutes of Vermont — one called Farms, Food and Your Future.
Last week the impulse left him standing behind the back ends of a pair of large, patient workhorses in a farm field at Sterling College.
Sterling was one of the hosts of this year's institute, the first one to focus on these subjects. Mr. Marx-Dunn seems to be not alone in his impulse, judging by admissions numbers at Sterling. Last year the college — which teaches sustainable agriculture and food-related topics — had about 90 students. This fall the doors will open to a full class of 110. Tim Patterson, director of admissions and financial aid, said the dorms are full.
The Governor's institutes are residencies for high school students with accelerated learning on college campuses in specific subject areas. This year's institutes included ones on the arts, engineering, information technology, mathematics, and Asian cultures.
On Wednesday, July 31, Toby Marx-Dunn picked up the handles of a plow behind two big horses named Daisy and Rexi. His new job was to try to make the thing go straight.
"It doesn't go straight by itself," he reported shortly after plowing his very first two furrows. Asked if it was fun, he said vehemently, "No."
Not fun, Mr. Marx-Dunn explained, because it's much harder than it looks.
Even so, Mr. Marx-Dunn and a dozen other high schoolers did get the basics on how fields are plowed, and why good soil is important, and how Sterling plans to enrich the soil on the particular field they were plowing that day. Draft horse manager Rick Thomas explained that plows can only dig so deep, and the soil was hard below the furrow. In order to loosen it up and add some organic matter to the hardpan, they would plant daikon radishes as a cover crop. These radishes grow fast and have deep roots.
Also that day, the students met a flock of young turkeys destined for a flock of Thanksgiving tables, and they learned about the difficulty of growing turkeys to the right weight, why pasture is good for them and why they are good for pasture, and a little about heritage breeds.
Sterling raises 1,000 birds a year on its farm. The young turkey poults the students saw that day had already grown 12 pounds in a month and a half, so the farm manager explained they would have to be processed and frozen well before Thanksgiving, so they would not be too big to fit into a regular oven.
In between these outdoor adventures, the students heard about how the cafeteria works at Sterling College.
The college grows 20 percent of its own food, and 44 percent of the food in the cafeteria is grown on local farms. Faculty, staff, and students all eat together and each helps with the work of putting that food onto the tables.
Anne Obelnicki, director of food systems, explained to the group that last year the college grew 760 pounds of rutabagas and because of the skill of cooks at Sterling, no one got sick of rutabaga. She said they used it in all sorts of unusual ways, even mashed as an ingredient in cake.
"I think that deliciousness is part of sustainability," she said. If the food doesn't taste good, people won't keep eating it.
She said another part of sustainability is making the food affordable.
"The food at Sterling doesn't cost any more than at any other college," she said. She said people are always saying local food is more expensive, but it doesn't have to be. Sterling has great cooks, she said, who can make a delicious meal out of rice and beans, for example.
Ms. Obelnicki passed out free samples of salami made at Sterling, which she explained is made with raw meat and bacteria so it will ferment.
At Sterling, she said, "We don't just eat to eat. We eat because we're trying to live our education here."
Ms. Obelnicki said students at some colleges have started a "real food" challenge. They go into their college cafeterias and start asking questions about how much of the food is local, organic, and fair trade. If a series of questions can be answered in the affirmative, she said, the food can be called real. The students who came up with the idea set a goal, she said, "Let's get real food into our college — 20 percent by 2020."
Under these guidelines, Sterling's cafeteria has about 70 percent real food, one of the highest percentages in the country.
Jonathan Kaplan, lead faculty for the Governor's Institute on Farms, Food, and Your Future, teaches biology and history at Lyndon State College. He is a former state advisor for the Future Farmers of America (FFA). Lyndon State is also a participant in the real food challenge.
After hearing Ms. Obelnicki's discussion of Sterling's food system, he told the students they might want to take that real food challenge back home with them.
"There's nothing stopping you from going back to your high school and making this happen," he said.
Christian Feuerstein, director of communications for Sterling, noted the college now offers minors in draft horse management, climate justice, and sustainable food systems.
contact Bethany M. Dunbar at [email protected]
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Collaborative grant program brings American and U.K. scholars together
The hand-written annotations Charles Darwin made on 700 of the books in his personal library were painstakingly transcribed in the 1980s. Now, thanks to high-resolution digital imagery and an international partnership between the Darwin Digital Library of Evolution at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the University of Cambridge (U.K.), the Natural History Museum in London, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (a collective of ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions in the U.S. and U.K.), Darwin's marginalia will be digitally married to the texts they describe, allowing students to learn his thoughts on a wide range of topics.
The project is supported by the JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration grant program offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), a joint committee of the U.K. further and higher education funding bodies. The grant program funds collaborative projects undertaken by scholars from the U.S. and U.K. who are working to develop new digitization projects and pilot projects, add important materials to existing digitization projects, or develop infrastructure (either technical "middleware," tools, or knowledge-sharing).
"The development of digital tools has made cultural materials globally accessible, making scholarship a worldwide enterprise," said NEH Chairman Jim Leach. "Recognizing these new technologies, we at NEH are committed to facilitating international scholarly collaborations."
Last year, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that British and American universities should cooperate "at a far higher level" than they currently do.
"The first phase of JISC/NEH projects is generating substantial benefits for research communities on both sides of the Atlantic, not just in terms of the resources created but also in the skills shared between the communities," said JISC program manager Alastair Dunning. "The second phase will build on this, giving further evidence of the advantages to be gained through international collaboration."
Additionally, other grants recently awarded through the JISC/NEH program will allow researchers to have access to archaeology collections previously separated by the Atlantic and a shared online reading room for Islamic manuscripts.
Awards for the projects range from approximately $200,000 to $300,000 (£135,000 to £200,000) for a period of eighteen months starting September 2009. Details about the other projects are below:
Arizona State University and the University of York (U.K.) are bringing together two large digital libraries related to archaeology so that both libraries can be searched simultaneously.
A web services application will be developed to allow researchers to cross-search metadata records held by The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) in the U.S. and Archaeology Data Service (ADS) in the U.K., covering the archaeology of the United States and England.
In a second stage, a richer and deeper cross-search web facility will be developed for databases recording animal remains in the United States and England, providing a valuable research tool for archaeologists in both countries.
Yale University is working with the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London to bring ancient resources to life through a virtual reading room for Islamic manuscripts; these will include Arabic and Persian manuscripts by Arab philosophers, physicians, and scientists alongside relevant reference materials.
The project will build a suite of tools that will analyze the digitized manuscripts and cross-reference them with supplementary materials, an infrastructure which will serve as a model for other special collections and libraries rich in manuscripts and related reference materials.


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Dr Paul Jelfs, head of the Social, Health & Labour Division at the ABS, said the results from the ground-breaking biomedical collection in the Australian Health Survey allows us to look 'under the skin' of Australians to see how healthy they really are.
"We know from our survey that around four per cent of Australian adults have been told they have diabetes. The voluntary blood test results showed that an extra one per cent had diabetes but were not previously aware of it. This suggests that there was around one newly diagnosed case of diabetes for every four diagnosed cases," Dr Jelfs said.
"The results also showed that a further three per cent of adults were at high risk of diabetes. This means that there were an extra three people at high risk of diabetes for every four people who had been diagnosed.
"In 2011–12, people who were obese had much higher rates of diabetes than other Australians. In fact, they were seven times as likely as those who were of normal weight or underweight to have the condition," Dr Jelfs said.
The results also revealed that many people with diabetes also had signs of other chronic conditions. Nearly one in four people with diabetes had albuminuria, an early indicator of kidney disease, and around half had lower than normal levels of good cholesterol.
Further information is available in Australian Health Survey: Biomedical Results for Chronic Diseases, 2011–12 (cat. no. 4364.0.55.005) available for free download from the ABS website (www.abs.gov.au).
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Presidents With The Grizzlies – or at least Presidential last names
Today is Presidents' Day, or officially known as Washington's Birthday. For some, it's that second Monday they have off in February. In reality, though, it is a day that honors the 44 Presidents of the United States. The day was first celebrated as a federal holiday on the birthday of George Washington in the 1880s.
Thank the Uniform Monday Holiday Bill from 1968, though, for the Monday off. The bill moved a number of federal holidays to Mondays so workers had some long weekends.
To help get you through your day off – and in honor Presidents' Day – here is a list of former Fresno Grizzlies who share a surname with past POTUS (or is it POTUSi?).
Josh Tyler (1998, 2000-01)
Shares name with the 10th US President, John Tyler (1841-45)
Tyler was a utility player for the Grizzlies during their inaugural season in 1998 and again later in 2000 and 2001. Tyler even made three appearances for the Grizzlies as pitcher over the 2000 and 2001 seasons. He allowed three runs over four innings in the three games. In fact, during the 2000 season, Tyler played every position except shortstop. His last professional season was with Fresno in 2001. He batted .287 in 77 games with the Grizzlies in 2001, but he carried a .404 batting average in August, his final month in pro baseball.
John Tyler could be viewed as utility player for the United States government. Tyler manned many different positions, including state legislator, governor, US representative, US Senator, Vice President, and then, of course, President. Tyler was the first person to succeed as President of the United States due to the death of the incumbent as William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia while in office.
Brian Johnson (1998)
Mike Johnson (2003)
Share name with 17th US President Andrew Johnson (1865-69) and 36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-69).
Two Presidents had the last names Johnson as did two former Grizzlies. First up is Brian Johnson. The catcher appeared in five games with Fresno on MLB Rehab. He had two home runs in his short time with the Grizzlies, including one of his homers being a part of back-to-back-to-back home runs to begin the fourth inning on August 4th. Among Giants fans (and Dodgers fans for that matter), Brian Johnson is remembered for this.
Mike Johnson spent parts of five seasons in the Majors (1997-2001) with the Baltimore Orioles and Montreal Expos. He was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 17th round of the 1993 Draft. The native of Edmonton spent all of the 2003 season with Fresno, making 30 appearances (including four starts) and going 4-3 with a 3.72 ERA. Mike Johnson closed out his career pitching in Korea and independent leagues, including his hometown club Edmonton in 2007, 2009, and 2010.
Andrew and Lyndon were Presidential relievers as both took over as President due to their predecessors' assassinations.
Lyndon has a more direct tie to the game of baseball: he played in high school.
Brian Wilson (2005-07)
Shares name with Woodrow Wilson, 28th President (1913-21)
Brian Wilson's time with the Grizzlies was pre-beard; some fans might not be able to recognize the tenure in more ways than one. Wilson was a standard arm out of the bullpen in his first season with Fresno in 2005, making nine appearances and going 1-1 with a 3.97 ERA and no saves. In 2006 and 2007, however, Wilson's role as a closer began to take shape as he saved 18 games for the Grizzlies over the two seasons.
Woodrow Wilson is recognized for being a leader of the Progressive Movement, helping see legislation pass such as Federal Reserve Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, Federal Farm Loan Act, and an income tax. While Brian isn't necessarily a leader in baseball's progressivism, his actions are seen as newer to the traditional ways of baseball (i.e. The Beard).
Darren Ford (2011)
Shares name with Gerald Ford, 38th President (1974-77)
These two Fords can be known for one thing: quickness. Darren was 10-for-10 in stolen base opportunities with the Grizzlies in 2011. He primarily served as pinch runner for the Giants in 2010 and 2011 due to his speed on the base paths.
Gerald's time in office can be described as quick in that his 895-day presidency is the shortest of all US Presidents who did not die in office.
The two also share the bond of football. Gerald was star linebacker and center for the University of Michigan's national championship teams in 1932 and 1933. Darren, meanwhile, was a standout in football as well as baseball – and track – at Vineland High School. Darren received his fair share of college letters for football, baseball, and track.
Evan Bush (2006)
Shares name with George H.W. Bush, 41st President (1989-93) and George W. Bush, 43rd President (2001-09).
The father-and-son presidential duo has direct ties to baseball. George H.W. played for the Yale baseball team and participated in the first two College World Series. George W. was part owner of the Texas Rangers, serving as managing general partner for five years.
Evan Bush was one-and-done when he came to his baseball career. After being drafted by the Giants in 2006 out of Alabama, Bush played in 32 games with Short-Season Salem-Keizer. He played in three games for the Grizzlies that same season as a late-season replacement while other Grizzlies were summoned to San Francisco for a round of September call-ups.
Evan Bush quit pro baseball after one season in 2006. Since, he has been a collegiate coach, earning top junior college and top assistant coach honors from the Alabama Baseball Coaches Association. He is currently an assistant baseball coach at the University of Alabama-Huntsville. Prior to UAH, Evan coached for three seasons at Bevill State Community College in Fayette, Alabama.
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Who: Brian Wilson nicknamed "B-Weezy", friend/neighbor of "The Machine".


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We've been hearing for months all about a new super media player from Cowon that has an almost-high-definition 4-inch 400 x 800-pixel screen, so it's a relief to confirm that it's finally about to go on sale.
According to AV Watch in Japan, Cowon is set to make the A3 PMP official on 20 December. It will come in 30GB and 60GB versions, costing ¥49,800 (£220) and ¥59,800 (£265) respectively.
MPEG-4 video
The usual audio and video formats are all supported, but it's the ability to handle MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video that is garnering all the attention. Technically, that means 720p HD TV can be played back on the A3, but we'll have to reserve judgement on how good it looks until we see it in the flesh.
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Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House
I'm wondering when my mansion will be ready. Because in 4th grade, I played a killer game of MASH, and I'm still waiting for any of the results.
MASH, if you were born before 1975, is a TV show about the Korean War. But to anyone younger than 30, MASH is a game that determined our future – where we'd live and in what kinds of houses, what occupations we'd have, what cars we'd drive, and most importantly, what cootie-ridden members of the opposite sex our friends teased us about for the next year.
MASH typically stood for "Mansion – Apartment – Shack – House," though I've heard slight variations. The idea was to have four choices in each category--one wonderful, one tolerable, one awful, and one preferable. Let's say you had five letters in your name, or your birthday was the fifth, or you cheated by placing every bad option in every fifth place. You'd cross off every fifth choice until you were left with one option in each category, which you were then contractually obligated to pursue. Each one of us, at some point, was expecting to be a doctor living in a mansion in Paris with a Lamborghini in the garage. All cootie-ridden members of the opposite sex were equally wonderful and frightening.
Since we were so young, our choices were often limited to the only stuff we'd heard of. The professions were usually things like doctor, lawyer, teacher and garbage man, with teacher being the awful choice (Come on, we were eight!). Cities typically included wherever you were from, followed by a combination of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, and Paris (even though many of us did not know what country housed London, Paris, or Los Angeles). And of course, our cars: ranging from Lamborghinis to station wagons, with little in between. Not many 8-year-olds know much about Camrys or Sentras.
When we graduate college, we should play MASH again, with the choices changed to be a bit more realistic. The game for anyone in their early twenties should be called RASH, where the choices are Railroad Apartment, At Home With Our Parents, Studio, and Homeless Shelter.
Beating out MASH for the most popular future game was the Fortune Teller, an origami-esque contraption that put each of us at the whim of whoever wrote it. After a few number-based options, we were left with one of 8 or 16 fortunes, that typically weren't fortunes at all. A desirable "fortune" would say something like, "You're a rock star" whereas a less desirable one might suggest the chooser had some sort of odor problem.
Often, we'd find entire Fortune Tellers with similarly negative fortunes, or compliments so cheesy they should be on massed produced Valentines. ("You're A-OK, sport!") I preferred the Magic 8-ball, which made you return another time and ask again more often than it gave you a definitive answer. Which is much like the first realtor you deal with while deciding between a studio and a homeless shelter.
I am in possession of a sarcastic 8-ball, which gives you answers like, "Yeah, sure" and "If you say so, buddy." I love it – maybe because it reminds me of the Fortune Tellers I used to write. (I once created a Fortune Teller with all the same answers. It took seven tries for a friend to catch on.)
My game of choice, however, came slightly later in life, once our cooties cleared up and our parents allowed us to drink more soda. My game of choice was Poptop.
The rules were simple: take the tab on a can of soda and bend it back and forth, which each bend representing a letter of the alphabet. Which ever letter you say when the tab comes off was the first letter of the person you'd end up with. 5 bends? Find someone named Emily or Evan. 10? Josh or Julia. I, however, spent a great deal of 7th grade admiring someone named Sari. And so I did what we all did – I cheated.
19 bends almost every time, the first 16 of which were very light. Then, with increasing force came Q, R, and S. I had to be careful though – I didn't want to accidentally pop at R or miss it and land at T and get teased for the rest of the year. If I was going to be teased, at least let it be for Sari, since everyone knew I liked her anyway.
Our willingness to cheat at these games was incredible. Those that liked a girl with an A name would even rip the top off in one shot. Which looked a bit obvious, but we used that to our advantage. "Due to my incredible strength, the top just popped off! Did you see that, Allison? (FLEX)" Of course, there's also the route of going through the alphabet a full time to land on the second A. But that's like not being able to get the wheel around on the Price is Right. If you're so weak that 26 tries can't pop the top off, that "A" is going to stand less for "Allison" and more for "Alone."
It'd be nice to be able to answer our current questions like this. Find out where we're going to live, who we're going to end up with, or whether or not those of us that are called "sport" are indeed, A-OK. I asked a few friends if they wanted to play any of these with me. One of them, who has a particularly busy summer, said it best:
"Reply hazy, try again."


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A Los Angeles-area mother and a family friend have pleaded not guilty to hiring a hit man to kill her daughter's boyfriend.
City News Service reports 45-year-old Adelina Cristobal of Lawndale and 34-year-old Antonio Quevedo of Hawthorne entered their pleas Friday.
They are charged with using interstate commerce facilities - the cellphone - for murder-for-hire
Prosecutors say the pair offered to pay $6,500 to have the boyfriend "disappear," but it turned out that the hit man they hired was an undercover officer working for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives along with LAPD's Harbor Division.
Courts documents say Cristobal wanted the boyfriend killed because he owed her money, was romantically involved with her daughter and had allegedly threatened her husband.
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I'm hoping you're enjoying counting down the days until the end of the year by counting down my favorite movies of the decade! If you haven't read previous posts, use the links below to see the other movies on the list so far, and get ready for the top ten, soon to be unveiled!
#25: (500) Days of Summer (2009)
#24: FLOW: For Love Of Water (2008)
#23: In The Bedroom (2001)
#22: House of Sand and Fog (2003)
#21: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003)
#20: Wo Hu Cang Long (2000)
#19: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (2007)
#18: Hable con Ella (2002)
#17: The Wrestler (2008)
#16: Revolutionary Road (2008)
#15: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
#14: Hotel Rwanda (2004)
#13: Elephant (2003)
#12: Moulin Rouge! (2001)
The highest movie/musical on my list, even though almost all the songs are not original to the movie itself. I pretty much love everything about this movie: the music, the story, the fun had by all. While it may not be all fun and games (I mean, you need some conflict to drive any story), it's commitment to beauty, freedom, truth, and love throughout is ultimately uplifting. "Come What May," my favorite song in the movie (and an important part of the plot), recognizes the challenges of love and relationships and the sadness that can happen when love is lost. Ultimately, it's a movie for the romantic and the realist in me, which really is a perfect combination.
#11: Juno (2007)
When I read the brief review of this movie in Entertainment Weekly (this was before it blew up), I knew it sounded like the kind of movie I'd enjoy. When I saw it in the theater (still before its huge popularity), I was not disappointed. It's an eccentrically funny movie about a serious topic: teen pregnancy. It has the quick wit and sardonic wisdom of the Gilmore Girls (a favorite TV show of mine) with dialogue you'd never heard in real life. You laugh at and with the quirky characters as they make the best out of the situations set before them. Ellen Page and Michael Cera make a great "couple" as Juno and Bleeker, stumbling through a challenging situation neither of them signed up for. I saw this movie three times in a theater and a few times on video now, and it still makes me smile – a good indicator for any movie. (It has a pretty sweet soundtrack, too.)


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Evans lifts D-backs to 4-2 win over Rockies
DENVER (AP) The Arizona Diamondbacks finally gave Paul Goldschmidt a night off, and recent call-up Nick Evans filled in quite nicely for the first baseman.
Evans and Chris Owings hit back-to-back homers, rookie Chase Anderson won his fourth straight start and the Diamondbacks beat the slumping Colorado Rockies 4-2 on Tuesday.
The solo shot by Evans in the fourth was his first homer since Sept. 3, 2011, when he was with the New York Mets. He wasn't sure if a moment like this would ever arrive again, especially after missing most of 2012 with a broken hand and not having a job last season until the Diamondbacks called a few days before the season - with only a spot open at Double-A Mobile.
The veteran still jumped at the chance.
''You start to question,'' said Evans, who was recalled from Triple-A Reno last week. ''It's not easy to get here. ... This is definitely satisfying.''
Evans was in the lineup because manager Kirk Gibson decided it was a good time to rest Goldschmidt. It was the slugger's first day off of the season after 59 straight games, one shy of the club record of 60 set by Travis Lee in 1998.
Maybe another break for Goldschmidt on Wednesday?
''Yeah, I wouldn't count on that,'' Evans said. ''If I was a betting man, I'd count on him being in there.''
Anderson (4-0) was hardly intimidated by hitter friendly Coors Field or one of the top lineups in the league. He didn't overpower the Rockies so much as keep them guessing, throwing six effective innings in his longest outing since he was recalled from Reno on May 6. He becomes the fifth rookie since 1998 to win his opening four starts.
The right-hander allowed four hits and one run - a homer by D.J. LeMahieu - to help the Diamondbacks stop a three-game skid.
''I tried to stick with my game plan, pitch off that,'' Anderson said. ''If you try to pitch to the park, sometimes you're not very successful.''
Jorge De La Rosa (6-4) settled down after a shaky start, giving up three runs in seven innings. The hard-throwing lefty didn't have a strikeout for the first time this season, and his six-game winning streak came to an end.
Evans' homer came on a fastball, and then four pitches later Owings hit a cutter into the stands.
''I didn't have my best stuff,'' De La Rosa said. ''I just kept trying to work my way through and go as far as I can. I think I did a good job.''
The Rockies opened a 10-game homestand with their fifth straight loss. The best-hitting team in baseball just finished a dismal road swing in which it went 2-7 and averaged less than three runs a game.
If this bad stretch wasn't bad enough, the Rockies could be losing one of their top players. Outfielder Carlos Gonzalez was removed in the sixth after irritating his left index finger. He just might be headed for the disabled list in order to give a finger that's nagged him most of the season a chance to heal.
''We're at a point where we've got to make a decision on this and see what's best for him and what's best for our club,'' manager Walt Weiss said.
Colorado struggled against Anderson, who mixed a fastball that barely crept into the 90s with a sharp curve and a splendid changeup. Anderson also benefited from an overturned call at the plate in the second that kept the game scoreless.
Wilin Rosario was ruled safe by umpire Jerry Layne after sliding past the tag of catcher Miguel Montero. As Montero protested, Gibson trotted out of the dugout to challenge the play. The call was reversed when replays showed Montero tagged Rosario on the back before touching home.
''That was awesome,'' Anderson said. ''I saw that Miggy did tag him, but I wasn't sure if it was in time. Luckily, it was in time.''
NOTES: Arizona recalled INF Didi Gregorius from Triple-A Reno and placed INF Cliff Pennington (sprained left thumb) on the disabled list. Gibson said Pennington will undergo surgery. ... It was the third time this season the Diamondbacks have hit back-to-back homers. ... Owings also added an RBI double and finished a single shy of the cycle. ... The umpires used replay to check the count in the fourth.


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WATCH ABOVE: Two 12-year-old girls are accused of luring their friend and viciously stabbing her in an attempt to ingratiate themselves to a fantasy figure. Robin Stickley has the details.
MILWAUKEE – A 12-year-old girl accused of plotting to kill a friend to curry favour with a fictional Internet character shows signs of mental illness and should be in a hospital, her defence attorney said Tuesday.
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The girl and another 12-year-old have been charged as adults with first-degree attempted homicide in a stabbing that nearly killed another child the same age. The two girls told investigators they plotted for months to kill their friend because a character called Slenderman required them to kill someone before they could become his "proxy."
Anthony Cotton, an attorney for one of the girls charged in the stabbing, said her parents called him while she was being questioned at the police station because officers had rejected their request to see her. Police read the girl her rights but were not required to have a parent or lawyer present if she didn't ask for them, he said.
Cotton said he would push to get the girl's case transferred to juvenile court, where more social services and mental health treatment would be available.
"She's 12 and she has mental health issues," Cotton said. "There's no question that she needs to go to the hospital."
The girls are being held at a juvenile detention centre after a court commissioner set bail at $500,000. Cotton said his client's family can't pay that, and a judge already rejected his first motion to move the girl to a hospital. He said he'll seek a mental health evaluation as a first step toward a second request.
The girls told investigators they read about Slenderman on the horror website creepypasta.wikia杭州夜网. It's not clear whether they got access to the website at home or at school, but a school administrator said employees were reviewing various websites to see if they should be blocked after the stabbing.
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According to court documents, the girls told investigators they invited their friend to a sleepover at one of their houses on Friday and planned to duct tape her mouth while she was sleeping, stab her in the neck, put the covers over her to make it look like she was sleeping and run away to Slenderman's mansion.
They backed out of that plan, deciding to kill her on Saturday in a nearby park bathroom so blood would go down the drain. They convinced the girl to go to the park with them and got her into the bathroom. One of the girls handed the knife to the other but she couldn't bring herself to stab the victim, she said. She gave the knife back to the other girl but she couldn't go through with it either, the complaint said.
They went into the woods, where one girl pushed the victim down and sat on her. The girls then traded the knife back and forth between them before one of them finally tackled the victim again and began stabbing her, according to the complaint.
The girls left the victim lying in the woods. She crawled to a road where a bicyclist found her lying on the sidewalk. Police arrived and she gave them the name of one of the girls who attacked her.
Richmond reported from Madison, Wisconsin.
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Rowan Joffé's adaptation of "Brighton Rock" marks the second time in film history Graham Greene's novel has been adapted for the big screen. Unfettered by censors and modern morality in general, Joffé's adaptation is allowed to more fully portray the gritty realism that surrounds the film's protagonist, Pinkie Brown (Sam Riley) while simultaneously advancing the setting of the film forward three decades adding an additional layer of subtext over the story, making "Brighton Rock" not only an admirable character study but a commentary on the decline of a specific breed of British gangster. Unfortunately, the film has more in common with Joffé's screenplay for "The American" when in fact, it could have gained something from borrowing kinetic energy from his earlier work on "28 Days Later."
"Brighton Rock" is a film full of atmosphere, which initially suits the character of Pinkie Brown quite admirably. Riley's performance is one of moods, building a level of uncertainty and dread on the sheer force of his quiet thousand-yard stares. As a result the audience is easily able to sympathize with his unwitting romantic interest Rose (Andrea Riseborough) who is simultaneously terrified of Pinkie and entranced. Given the circumstances of their meeting, a brutal murder committed by Brown, Joffé's first misstep threatens to derail the whole film. The screenplay does a poor job of establishing that Brown and Rose are teenagers and sadly, some who view the character as an incredibly dense adult may dismiss Riseborough's brilliant and tragic performance. Riley fares a bit better by the sheer sinister nature of his character and it's a credit to the sparks of earnestness Riley brings to the role that we are never fully sure if Pinkie is in fact, a remorseless adolescent sociopath or a wayward youth desperately trying to keep the only way of life he knows afloat in changing times.
While Pinkie's gang if firmly rooted in 30s and 40s tradition, the 60s is fast encroaching, punctuated by a quiet background plot of Rockers versus Mods that gives "Brighton Rock" one of it's most memorable visually competent set pieces. As strong as the films moody nature takes off, Joffé doesn't fully take advantage of a remarkable supporting cast until well into the eleventh hour. John Hurt is poorly integrated as a shopkeeper menaced by Pinkie who turns to Colleoni, a gangster played by the always stellar, Andy Serkis. Most criminal of all misuses of cast, is Rose's employer, Ida (Helen Mirren) who is supposed to be on Pinkie's trail and looking out for Rose's best interest; whether an original novel element or purely artistic decision, Ida's penchant for hanging out in a hotel bar that may or may not be owned by Colleoni, muddles her intentions in the same way the lack of knowledge that Rose and Pinkie are teens muddle their actions.
Far from a dismal failure, this latest incarnation of "Brighton Rock" commits one a grave cinematic sin that sullies its overall level of quality: it refuses to be truly ambitious. While Joffé refuses to shy away from the violence that infests Pinkie's life, Joffé's spin on things relies too much on quiet atmosphere or at least, doesn't do a good job of keeping the pace in between critical plot developments steady. "Brighton Rock" is stylish and ultimately satisfying, but simultaneously tedious and frustrating. A subplot involving Pinkie taking over as leader of his gang is incredibly rushed and throws the film's remaining dramatic weight in the laps of Riley and Riseborough who can only do so much with too little.
The 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer is overlaid with a fine level of consistent grain/noise that in no way detracts from the film's solid, cold English color scheme nor strong levels of detail. There's little to nothing to complain about with this transfer, which also sports great contrast and only a few softer looking shots.
The Audio
The Dolby Digital English 5.1 audio track is well mixed and a clear track, but overall, less aggressive than the story demands in key sequences and in the end serviceable at best. Surrounds are used to moderate effect and the low-end is on the weaker end of the spectrum. English SDH and Spanish subtitles are included.
The Extras
"Brighton Rock's" extra features included your standard promotional featurette, a behind-the-scenes gallery of fly-on-the-wall footage, a collection of interviews with the principal cast and crew, and the original trailer.
Final Thoughts
Rowan Joffé's "Brighton Rock" falls short of modern masterpiece status by a slightly overindulgence of style; it's a story that tries to show too much, when it could have told us a few key factors. Ultimately it survives like many merely average stories do, by the strengths of its cast, with Andrea Riseborough actually stealing thunder from Sam Riley and yes, Helen Mirren. Recommended.


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DNA and Mutations :
Mutations are random
For example, in the U.S. where people have access to shampoos with chemicals that kill lice, we have a lot of lice that are resistant to those chemicals. There are two possible explanations for this:
Scientists generally think that the first explanation is the right one and that directed mutations, the second possible explanation relying on non-random mutation, is not correct.
Researchers have performed many experiments in this area. Though results can be interpreted in several ways, none unambiguously support directed mutation. Nevertheless, scientists are still doing research that provides evidence relevant to this issue.
In addition, experiments have made it clear that many mutations are in fact random, and did not occur because the organism was placed in a situation where the mutation would be useful. For example, if you expose bacteria to an antibiotic, you will likely observe an increased prevalence of antibiotic resistance. Esther and Joshua Lederberg determined that many of these mutations for antibiotic resistance existed in the population even before the population was exposed to the antibiotic and that exposure to the antibiotic did not cause those new resistant mutants to appear.
The Lederberg experiment
In 1952, Esther and Joshua Lederberg performed an experiment that helped show that many mutations are random, not directed. In this experiment, they capitalized on the ease with which bacteria can be grown and maintained. Bacteria grow into isolated colonies on plates. These colonies can be reproduced from an original plate to new plates by "stamping" the original plate with a cloth and then stamping empty plates with the same cloth. Bacteria from each colony are picked up on the cloth and then deposited on the new plates by the cloth.
Esther and Joshua hypothesized that antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria surviving an application of antibiotics had the resistance before their exposure to the antibiotics, not as a result of the exposure. Their experimental set-up is summarized below:
When the original plate is washed with penicillin, the same colonies
(those in position X and Y) live even though these colonies on
the original plate have never encountered penicillin before.
So the penicillin-resistant bacteria were there in the population before they encountered penicillin. They did not evolve resistance in response to exposure to the antibiotic.
Read how others have recognized the Understanding Evolution website.


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Former U.S. Comptroller General of the United States David Walker (pictured) just finished another tour across the country promoting "fiscal reform and responsibility," according to Forrest Jones, writer for MoneyNews.com. And what he learned is that most people are frightened at the immensity of the fiscal and financial challenges facing the country, but almost no one has any confidence that things can be fixed.
As the current CEO of the Comeback American Initiative, named for his 2010 book, Comeback America, he called it the "$10 Million a Minute Tour," which he estimates is how fast unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are increasing. After touring 16 states and the District of Columbia, Walker said:
We found out [that] 97 percent of the people we interacted [with] believe our fiscal challenge is a major challenge and should be a top priority for the presidential candidates as well as other candidates for office, yet only 8 percent have confidence in their ability to work together to get something done in 2013....
Eighty-five percent believe that it's going to take a combination of spending reductions and additional revenues to get the job done. We talked about reforms in eight different areas, including social insurance programs, taxes, defense, budget controls, political reforms — the minimum support we got for the reforms was 77 percent....
[Unless something is done the country faces] not just the fiscal cliff, [but] the fiscal abyss.
This is called "controlling the conversation," a tactic employed for years and continually being refined by the establishment as the country races toward the fiscal cliff on January 1.
Walker is the perfect man to do it, too. A man of boundless energy along with extensive establishment connections, he has taken on the task of directing the conversation into "reforms" and "controls" and "revenues" in order to solve the nation's economic crisis.
Walker has the requisite background and experience. Holding a Government Certificate from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, he served as secretary of commerce under President Richard Nixon. Following that he served as a partner and global managing director of Arthur Andersen LLP and five years as a Public Trustee for Social Security and Medicare. Then he served in the Reagan administration as assistant secretary of labor for Pension and Welfare Benefit Programs. From 1998 to 2008 he served as the U.S. Comptroller General.
In 2008, he caught the attention of Peter G. Peterson, and was invited by Peterson to head up his foundation, which Peterson funded with $1 billion of his own money. Walker served as CEO until October 2010 to start his own venture, the Comeback America Initiative.
Peterson is a certified member of the Establishment, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), considered to be "the nation's most influential foreign-policy think tank" and publisher of Foreign Affairs, also considered to be "the nation's most influential foreign-policy journal." The CFR has successfully been exposed by James Perloff, in his book Shadows of Power as the American Establishment, working to shape domestic and foreign policies for its own ends since 1921.
Peterson created his foundation, in the words of its mission statement:
To increase public awareness of the nature and urgency of key fiscal challenges threatening America's future and to accelerate action on them. To address these challenges successfully, we work to bring Americans together to find and implement sensible, long-term solutions that transcend age, party lines and ideological divides in order to achieve real results.
He explained his purposes more fully in an editorial in Newsweek's Daily Beast blog. Now that he was wealthy, he said
I was joyless....
So I started looking at the lives of other billionaires. Almost all the ones I most admired were major philanthropists: Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Mike Bloomberg, George Soros, Eli Broad — each with a passion to do good, each getting so much pleasure from giving their money away. I decided that's what I wanted to do. But to which worthy cause would I direct my money?
For the first time in my memory, the majority of the American people join me in believing that, on our current course, our children will not do as well as we have. For years, I have been saying that the American government, and America itself, has to change its spending and borrowing policies: the tens of trillions of dollars in unfunded entitlements and promises, the dangerous dependence on foreign capital, our pitiful level of savings, the metastasizing health-care costs, our energy gluttony. These structural deficits are unsustainable.
So in his quest for meaning, and to support the goals of the establishment to which he belonged, Peterson hired Walker. Among their first efforts was the purchase and distribution of a documentary, I.O.U.S.A., based loosely on the book Empire of Debt, written in 2006 by Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin of Agora Financial. It premiered in August 2008 and was broadcast in its entirety on the establishment media outlet CNN in January 2009.
To make the film politically correct and acceptable to the establishment, a critical piece of it was edited out before its premier in 2008: Wiggins and Bonner had included an audiotape of President Nixon conspiring with his advisors to blame his decision to "close the gold window" in 1971 on "speculators" rather than on the reality of government overspending, funded by the Federal Reserve, which was putting the nation's stockpile of gold at risk. The final cut of the film instead blames the inflation that inevitably followed on Arthur Burns, then-chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Once the film was sanitized, it was easy for Walker and Peterson to enlist the assistance of other establishment figures and CFR notables in supporting the film and its message: Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan, Paul O'Neill, and Robert Rubin (chairman of the CFR), along with Senators Kent Conrad and Judd Gregg.
The next major effort in directing the conversation about the "fiscal cliff" and now the "fiscal abyss" was Walker's book Comeback America, published in September 2010 and containing the same message: The country is in real difficulty, but it can be fixed with increased taxes and reforms. On the flyleaf, the book "includes bold ideas to control spending, save Social Security, dramatically alter Medicare, and simplify the tax code…"
Various establishment voices lined up in support of the book:
• "Please read this book...." — Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve chairman and CFR member
• "David Walker shows us how to regain fiscal sanity...." — Bill Bradley, former liberal senator and CFR member
• "Comeback America is a ... highly readable account of ... what we should do in the future...." — Carla Hills, U.S. Trade Representative under President George W. Bush and CFR member
• "Every American should read David Walker's clear analysis...." — Robert Rubin, co-chairman of the CFR and former Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration
Note please that there is not one word about the constitutionality of these welfare state programs that are bankrupting the country. Not one word about the funding mechanism that continues to provide the financing for them — the Federal Reserve System. Instead, there are platitudes about "revenues" and "reforms" that can make the unsustainable programs last a little longer while reducing Americans' freedoms and slowing further the already heavily burdened economy.
Yes, it's a "fiscal abyss," brought on by the actions of the very people now offering statist solutions on how to fix it.
Photo of David Walker: AP Images


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Honda Aircraft Company, Inc. today began sales of HondaJet at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) convention with the announcement of the price, specifications, and a sales and service network for the production version of its advanced light jet. Scheduled to go into production in the U.S. in 2010, pricing is set at $3.65 million for HondaJet in its standard configuration.
Honda also took another step toward the market introduction of HondaJet with the announcement that it submitted, on October 11, its application for FAA type certification of HondaJet. The company anticipates achieving both type and production certification within 3 to 4 years.
"A passion for aviation propelled HondaJet into the air, but a strong business case is what is taking it to the customer," said Takeo Fukui, president & CEO of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. "In every one of our business activities, our goal is to create new value for the customer. HondaJet meets this challenging objective."
Key specifications and performance figures establish HondaJet as the fastest and most fuel efficient aircraft in its class, while setting a new standard for interior space and comfort. HondaJet features a class-topping cruise speed of 420 knots with an IFR range of 1180 nautical miles(1), and a 30-35 percent gain in fuel efficiency at cruise speed versus other jets of comparable performance. HondaJet's cabin is about 1-foot longer than even larger 'light jet' offerings and features a fully-private lavatory along with a spacious 57-cubic foot aft cargo hold.
Sales and Service Network
HondaJet will be sold through five regional sales groups -- HondaJet East, HondaJet Southeast, HondaJet Midwest, HondaJet Southwest and HondaJet Northwest -- operating 14 offices around the country to provide HondaJet customers' with a truly superior sales and ownership experience. The HondaJet dealer network was developed in collaboration with Piper Aircraft, Inc., as a result of a business alliance announced in July 2006. Honda Aircraft Company will also seek to establish a network of service facilities within 90-minutes flight time from any location in the U.S. to further advance its goal of creating a new level of customer service and support.
"Just as we have targeted real innovation with HondaJet design itself, we are equally committed to creating an innovative sales and service network," said Michimasa Fujino, president & CEO of Honda Aircraft Company, Inc. "We will be working with our retail partners to ensure that every HondaJet customer is the recipient of unprecedented levels of sales and service for the life of their ownership experience."
HondaJet innovation
HondaJet sets new standards for performance, quality and comfort with a series of new technologies and design features that signify a revolutionary departure from conventional light jet designs. It's most unique and recognizable feature -- the over-the-wing engine mount (OTWEM) configuration -- liberates precious fuselage space by eliminating the carry-through structures of conventional fuselage-mounted engine designs while significantly reducing aerodynamic drag at high speeds. Its natural laminar flow (NLF) wing and fuselage nose further reduce drag, contributing to HondaJet's class-topping speed and fuel efficiency.
HondaJet's all-composite fuselage uses a combination of honeycomb sandwich and stiffened panel structures cured integrally using a patented co-curing process. This unique construction results in lower fuselage weight and larger cabin while contributing to HondaJet's unusually sleek and smooth appearance.
An advanced, customized, all-glass cockpit based on the state-of-the-art Garmin avionics platform, will boast new features and capabilities unique to HondaJet.
HondaJet Performance
With a top speed of 420 knots, a 43,000-foot service ceiling and a 30-35 increase in fuel efficiency versus comparable light jets, HondaJet embodies Honda's commitment to superior efficiency and performance through the application of advanced technology. In addition, HondaJet's optimized control surfaces results in a highly refined, sporty and responsive flying characteristic.
Two GE-Honda HF120 turbofan engines, each rated at 1880 pounds (at take- off thrust) deliver higher fuel efficiency and the lowest engine emissions and quietest operation in their thrust class(2).
HondaJet Comfort
HondaJet will be offered in two interior configurations: with seating for seven (2 pilots and 5 passengers) in standard configuration; and with seating for eight (2 pilots and six forward-facing passenger seats) in air taxi configuration.
HondaJet's cabin offers its passengers unprecedented levels of comfort with as much as six inches more leg room (per passenger) than competitive offerings. HondaJet's 57 cubic-foot aft cargo hold is as much as 50 percent larger than other jets in its class. Additional cargo storage is provided by a nine cubic-foot nose cargo hold.
HondaJet Quality
HondaJet was developed with Honda's legendary commitment to quality and world-class engineering. Attention to detail in every aspect of its design, testing and construction ensures an aircraft of the highest quality and design integrity. To date, HondaJet has logged more than 260 hours of in-flight testing with superior results.
Production Plans
HondaJet will be produced in the United States beginning in 2010 with a projected production volume of 70 jets per year. The company will maintain a significant degree of flexibility in its production plan and will continue to evaluate demand as it moves closer to actual production.


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Sports Field Rules
Reservation Rules
- The reservation is for the field only. The park grounds area and all other park facilities will remain open to the general public. Reservation includes your time to set up and clean up.
- Park hours are from 6 a.m. to midnight.
- Department Director or designee has the right to refuse rental if the proposed event conflicts with scheduled events of the department or is in conflict with a confirmed reservation.
- Applicant must be age 21 or over to reserve this facility. Two chaperones, age 21 and over, shall be required for youth (age 18 and under) functions. Youth groups larger than 50 are required to have one additional chaperone for each additional 25 youth.
- Reservation cancellations must be received one week in advance of scheduled use date. With proper notification a refund in the amount of 75% will be made. If notice is given less than one week of reservation date, all rental fees will be forfeited. If department initiates cancellation due to park closing (i.e. flooding, damage, etc.) lessee will be notified as far in advance as possible. Lessee will be permitted to reschedule reservation. If lessee is unable to reschedule, full refund will be made. Note: Department will not initiate cancellation of reservation due to rain or inclement weather on scheduled use date. Refunds will not be made due to rain or inclement weather.
- All litter generated by lessee usage shall be placed in proper receptacles.
- Alcoholic beverages, gambling, and amplified exterior loud speakers are prohibited.
- Lessee shall be responsible for payment of repair costs for damages to park property and equipment caused by lessee's using the facility.
- It is unlawful to offer any goods, services, or thing for sale within parks, parkways, or other recreation facilities, or on public streets and rights-of-way within 300 feet of the boundary of the same, unless specifically authorized by the Department.
- Motorized vehicles are not allowed on unpaved park areas.
- All other park rules, regulations, and City of Garland Ordinances apply to usage of this facility.


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- Home
- Dance
- Worlds Apart
- I Was Born To Love You
I Was Born To Love You
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(Georg Friedrich Haendel / Isaac Watts)
Ⓟ 2003 Led Records (song under public domain elaborated by L. Stanga - D. Di Marcantonio)
Comin' through
*I was born to love you
With every single beat of my heart
Yes, I was born to take care of you
Every single day... of my life
You are the one for me
I am the man for you
You were made for me
You're my ecstasy
If I was given every opportunity
I'd kill for your love
So take a chance with me
Let me romance with you
I'm caught in a dream
And my dream's come true
It's so hard to believe
This is happening to me
An amazing feeling
Comin' through
I wanna love you
I love every little thing about you
I wanna love you, love you, love you
Born-to love you
Born-to love you
I was born to love you
Born-to love you
Born-to love you
Every sing day-of my life
*Repeat (x2)
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