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Road to THON Celebration honors volunteers, starts countdown to THON Weekend
Road to THON Celebration honors volunteers, starts countdown to THON Weekend
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In less than three weeks, THON Weekend 2014 will commence at Penn State, and more than 700 dancers will stand for 46 hours in the Bryce Jordan Center. As part of its annual countdown, and to honor extraordinary volunteer contributions, hundreds of THON volunteers gathered Thursday (Jan. 30) for its annual Road to THON Celebration dinner at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel.
The event brings together key student volunteers, University liaisons, community and corporate partners and friends of THON -- just a fraction of the 15,000 Penn State students University-wide and thousands more supporters across the Commonwealth who offer their time, in-kind resources and financial donations to help children, families and their medical teams fight pediatric cancer.
The evening celebration began with good news. "During fiscal year 2013, THON was able to donate 95.89 percent of its total funds raised, or $12.4 million, directly to The Four Diamonds Fund," Jessica Steciw, THON special events director, said.
Several annual Four Diamonds-themed THON awards were given to exceptional student, University employee and other volunteers for their contributions to THON:
-- Chelsea Pierce, who oversees family meals as part of THON 2014's hospitality committee, received the Diamond of Courage Award;
-- Ned Brokloff, a Penn State alumnus and Penn State Engineering Alumni Society board member, was honored with the Diamond of Wisdom Award;
-- Alex Radkoff, executive chair of Ohana, a THON special interest organization, was awarded the Diamond of Honesty;
-- Kayla Nakonechni, a Penn State student who danced independently in THON 2013 and in August 2013 was diagnosed with a stage four malignant brain tumor, was recognized with the Diamond of Strength;
-- Frank Pope, events parking coordinator with Penn State's Transportation Services, was honored with the Four Diamonds Award;
-- Brad Wagner, HUB facilities supervisor, was awarded the Kevin A. Steinberg Memorial Award;
-- Kathryn Hartigan, a Penn State Altoona THON 2013 dancer and soccer team captain, received the Courtney O'Bryan Volunteer Award;
-- Steven Patrick, a Schreyer Honors College senior and Atlas special interest organization dancer in THON 2013, was honored with the Rick Fund Scholarship Award.
The evening's keynote speaker offered a highly personal perspective. Lauren Schildt Libhart, a 2012 Penn State graduate who now is a Penn State Hershey registered nurse, is also a Four Diamonds child. She shared her personal story about pediatric cancer, beginning with her 1999 diagnosis of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), a rare form of leukemia, at 8 years old.
Schildt Libhart thanked the crowd, saying that she didn't know where she would be today "if it wasn't for all of your hard work and dedication to children like me."
During the Schildt family's first visit to Penn State Hershey Medical Center, they were introduced both to their dedicated social worker, provided through the Four Diamonds Fund, and to the Penn State Dance Marathon. In February 2000, about six months after her final chemotherapy treatment, Schildt Libhart attended her first THON.
"I was such in awe of all the college students helping out kids like me," she said, adding, "By the end of the weekend I was running around and enjoying every moment." Eight months later, following a year of a recently developed treatment of cancer therapy using retinoic acid capsules, she was declared in remission.
In the years following her cancer, Schildt Libhart realized she wanted to help others in her career. She attended Penn State Altoona and immediately began her involvement with THON as a student volunteer.
"My senior year at Penn State, one of my ultimate dreams came true when I danced in THON 2012," she said. She danced independently in honor of two Four Diamonds families, with whom she still keeps in contact. One of the girls has been in remission for more than four years, while the other relapsed in fall 2013 and recently recovered from a bone marrow transplant.
Following her graduation from Penn State with a nursing degree in May 2012, Schildt Libhart married her high school sweetheart and now works as a registered nurse at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. "Because of you, I was able to do something positive with my life," she said.
The 42nd annual Penn State Dance Marathon, better known as THON, will commence 46 hours of a no-sitting, no-sleeping weekend to celebrate the lives of children and families affected by pediatric cancer at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, at the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus.


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My home LAN (Local Area Connection) is consisted of several computers connected to The Internet via a router with a single IP Address, therefore obviously NAT is required. With NAT, there are two types of IP Address, local and global address(es). The computers in my network use local addresses which are only recognized inside my network. On the other hand, the router uses both address, so that it is possible to reach the router from local network or from the internet. I want to use one of my computer as an FTP server that can be accessed from outside my local network. The problem is that with only local address, the computer I used for FTP server couldn't be accessed from outside the local network.
In active mode, client is the one responsible in opening ports for data transmission. However, in passive mode (which is more popular), this responsibility is taken care by server. This is a similar problem from the previous one. The ports which are opened by the server are only available for those in the local network since it is using a local address.
Solution: Port Forwarding
In order to make the local FTP server available for anyone connected to the internet, a port forwarding must be applied to the router. For active mode, you just simply add port 21 (the default port for FTP) and forward it to the FTP server address. For passive mode, the same thing also have to be applied. In addition, several other ports are also need to be opened for data transmission.
I'm using the very common router (LinkSys WRT54GL) with local address 192.168.1.1. I want to open the port 21 and another ports from 60000-60050 for data transmission (this is actually up to you, pick anything above 1024). Open the router's interface from browser: http://192.168.1.1. Open the Application & Gaming -> Port Range Forward and fill in as follow (192.168.1.100 is my FTP Server's local address).
FTP Server Application
Another important thing that you need to do when using passive mode is setting up the FTP Server application itself. I think most of the FTP server application supports the usage of FTP server behind NAT. I'm going to use the free FileZilla FTP server as an example. In order to make the FTP Server works, you need to let it know about its global address. If you have a fixed address then you just have to tell the application about it, otherwise you will need another tool to retrieve the global address such as the one provided by FileZilla: http://ip.filezilla-project.org/ip.php.
To set up the FileZilla FTP server, open the Edit -> Settings menu and choose "Passive mode settings". If you have a fixed IP address (like in my example is 22.214.171.124), fill in the "Use the following IP" field, otherwise (or if you're not sure), just tick the "Retrieve external IP address from" and fill it with "http://ip.filezilla-project.org/ip.php". Tick both "Don't use external IP for local connections" and "Use custom port range". Fill the port range with the same range that you have filled in the router settings.

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New Ophidia bag from Gucci in sky blue satin variant with delicate floral motif and tone-on-tone leather details. Removable gold shoulder strap.
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Thanks to Alessandro Michele, the Gucci brand has been able to bring a wave of innovation in the world, but above all in the culture of fashion, within a brand that was in decline in the recent past. The contemporary style mixed with vintage taste has brought Gucci back into the limelight, giving it the title of the most loved by millennials and the most desired brand in the world: the combination of philosophy, pop culture, music and cinema references conquers all and highlights the beauty ideal of Michele.
What we like most about Gucci is that it always manages to be actual and to move with the times while not renouncing to educate the public and respecting the heritage that the brand has been pursuing for almost 100 years. With this approach, fashion returns to a dimension that we are no longer used to, and that is that fashion is a way of being more than a way of appearing, a universal language, a critical point of view, what we need to express.


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Cross cropped blouse: Romwe
Floral mesh bomber jacket: Bershka
Studded denim shorts: Romwe
Studded boots: Ash
Sunglasses: Romwe
This look is definitely more urban like, but it includes my favorite pieces. This beautiful jacket is one of my shopping findings I bought when I was in Frankfurt, I love the sheer material and the roses! Even if it's colorful, it's still dark and I fell in love with that floral rose print. And yeah - I'm wearing the RADEST sunnies ever. These are SO cool and I always enjoy the people looking at me when I'm wearing these sunnies. My cropped blouse adds a quite chic touch to the whole look and my studded and shredded denim shorts make it look more grungy and punky.


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"People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does."
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
For about 4 years now, I've been experimenting with an assignment of remix in writing and other practices in my classroom where students emulate and replicate being consumers of their own productivity inside a given text or framework. I was in a course exploring how one can be empowered by ANY communication, verbal or non-verbal. It was not an academic training, thankfully, but it was a 10 month course with a weekend long training in Los Angeles once every two months and meetups with local participants here in NYC every week for, yes, 10 months. The meetups were practice sessions for completing homework between the five weekends. The course was called Partnership Explorations.
If anyone knows me personally, they know that for years I've said that academia beat my love of reading out of me. Perhaps it started earlier when being book smart and "talking like white people" made me assign a separation from my people to reading. I loved Shakespeare as a teen and wanted to read Freud by my mother thought it was taboo for some reason she never really explained back when I was 14.
By the time I reached the Partnership Explorations course in 2004, I was eight (8) years into being a tenure-track professor. I taught at NYU then and I hated reading books and never read anything outside of work needs. I loved the Internet and probably read as much online as some do from hardback novels. But I resisted reading. Always fell asleep. LOL. I read from cover to cover one book in maybe 10 years, a confession no self-respecting professor should probably make, but it's true. [The book was The Funeral Planner by Lynn Isenberg, a womanist entreprenurial comedy based around my alma mater, University of Michigan. It was mature, sophisticated Chic Lit.]
So when the course instructor of Partnership Explorations said there were 5 recommended books I confronted my bias. I loved the course but reading books… Each of the weekends involved sharing individually to a group of 300 participants about what you were learning about yourself and your conversations with 20 people we were expected to track in our lives.
I read one book completely. Dire Mastery: Discipleship from Freud to Lacan and I read the first 50 pages of The Order of Things: The Archeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault. Not unlike in the halls of academia, everyone in the course found the book confounding and many hated it. Though I had exposure to Foucault's work on sexuality and liked it in grad school, this was different. I LOVED it. But still didn't finish it. My habits were then not servicing any interest in reading more. But the preface of that book wOw-ed me.
Thus began an experiment with slow learning for me. Teaching students to replicate the preface of the book (found here: The Order of Things, 1970) in my African American music courses, my jazz course and my hip-hop courses. I have them do it early, the first weeks of class, to throw them into the world of their own thinking and sorting – reordering the mental maps of the subject they are about to encounter newly and in new ways hopefully.
In all the years since 2005 when I began assigning it, I have never written my own version but I have meticulously edited over 200 versions, I'd say. Often rewriting it for them to see other ways of thought, to instigate and agitate their thinking (vs. thoughting). Yesterday I wrote my first draft. Today my second.
From my non-academic training, I often challenge myself to do the work that I assign in my classes. It should be a requirement, I have learned from this practice. It was my students' experimenting this winter intercession that inspired me to share my own version. I've learned so much from my students in this and other assignments about the "sociology" of people's experiences with black women in hip-hop. It's like taking a sociological sampling of culture. I wrote them earlier today: "It's your mind each of your need to consider learning more about and intervening in the social constructs you simply inherited that were begun by people long dead and gone but that we transmit and carry on unthinkingly about race, gender and music-making. This is your opportunity to shine! Here is mine…"
Prof. G's Foucault Remix (2nd draft):
This began as a riff off a intellectual rhymebook not well known, nor understood, inside the ivory towers of its social commons where even PhD students front in abstractions, wastin their breathe on what they "took away" from some book as if they were jookin on a basketball court (not!). It began out of a non-academic course I took on discourses and the partnership of language to uncover what's unsaid and unknown. It arose out of the pain that shattered, as I read my participation in academia, all the familiar landmarks of my former thought — black and female thought, the thought that brands the video vixen of our hip-hop age and our corporate geography — breaking up all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with which I as a black woman, a performer, and a scholar had become accustomed to tame the wild profusion of existing racist and sexist things students carried with them, and continuing long afterwards to disturb and threaten with collapse their age-old distinction between desire and ambition.
This riff quotes a 'certain true mathematics encyclopedia' contributed to by the fellowship of Bernice Johnson Reagon (If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me), Audre Lorde (The Uses of the Erotic read here in her own words), Tricia Rose (Black Noise and Hip-Hop Wars), Jeff Chang (Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of a Hiphop Generation), Joe Schloss (Making Beats and Foundation), and many other oracle mathemeticians, an encyclopedia in which it is written that 'humanity in hip-hop is divided into: (a) true to Rha Goddess not Gangsta, (b) masculine masoleum, (c) domesticated pornography sold to the white masses selling black behinds, (d) Sucka MCs, (e) a Blige(d) or Beyonce(d) , (f) Fiiiiiine!! (with an extreme nasal sound to intensify meaning and syncopation), (g) rhyme retreatists, (h) not included in the present classification = invisibilified, (i) dope fiends diggin in the crates, (j) bounce, bass, snap, house, (k) Is that your real hair cuz I can't get a comb through it?, (l) whatevah, (m) just breaks on the Billboard charts that won't last long if they hear its a female, (n) that from a long way off look like I got fries to go with dat shake and imma reach out and take that junk in the trunk public violence.
In the wonderment of this taxonomy, the thing black women, women and girls everywhere as well as conscious fathers, apprehend in one great leap, the thing that, by means of a rhyme and a video screen, is demonstrated as the exotic charm of patriciarchal and post-colonial system of hegemonic thought, is the limitation of our my own thinking, the stark impossibility of ever being without that.
The source of my remix/sample is the "Preface" from Michel Foucault's The Order of Things (1970).


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Monday, January 16, 2006
The sun, the moon and the stars
What do I mean by this and why would I stick my hand into such a bee's nest?
First, I am an agnostic: perhaps God/some omniscient all-powerful being exists out there somewhere (or everywhere), perhaps not. I just don't know. I have no personal experience that this is the case, no convincing proof, and no faith.
Second, I am a militant agnostic, because not only do I not know about the existence/non-existence of God, but I also am convinced that no one else knows either. You might believe, you might have faith, but that is different from knowledge.
And now...why would I get into this highly contentious issue? Because I actually took some time to read a little bit of the Torah/Old Testament the other day. This is not something that I usually do. In fact, it is likely something that I will do only when I am really bored and the only thing to read is the Torah.
Hey, that must mean I was in a synagogue recently!
Yes, that is indeed the case. I attended the Bar Mitzvah of my cousin, Matthew. Now, don't get me wrong: I was very proud of Matt and very happy to be there. And when he sang the mitzvot, the blessings, and read his Haftorah, I was paying full attention. In between those high points, however, there were some, let us say, less enthralling moments. And so I turned to the Torah, and where else to start but at the beginning?
So I start reading about creation and soon was stunned to come across the following passage:
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/genesis.html)
This seemingly direct translation is commonly interpreted as follows: On the fourth day God created the sun, moon, and stars. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis#Creation)
Now, I understand that there are many, many (some might say "too many") people in this world (referred to as "fundamentalists") who believe that the Torah is the very word of God, to be followed strictly and literally, not interpreted, not put into "context" or relativized for the changing times. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist)
Well, for those people I have a question: do you actually believe, as this portion of the Book of Genesis baldly states, that the moon is a source of light -- and do you believe that God has this same understanding? Way back when, as in thousands of years ago, human beings thought that the moon was just like the sun: a source of light. One source illuminated the day (the sun) and the other illuminated the night (the moon). Now humans generally understand and accept, so far as I know, that the Moon simply reflects light from the sun; it does not provide any light of its own.
I can certainly understand that the humans of 2000, 5000 or 10000 years past would not have known this. But surely God, the all-knowing, all-powerful whatever-it-is that supposedly created the sun and the moon, knew that the moon wasn't spewing out any lumens of its own.
Am I missing something here, or does the Book of Genesis clearly and unambiguously reveal its human authorship?
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- earlcoombs said...
Hi Steven,
Very interesting. I guess I believe that the Bible/Torah originates from oral tradition. Stories passed from generation to generation by the guy who had that job in the tribe/clan before they had writing(probably a good job - didn't have to go on all the hunts). So perhaps the Book of Genesis did have human origin.
- Kenshi said...
Ah, religion... On most forums where I participate the question usually pops up every month or two, resulting in 15 to 30 pages of arguing between people who won't hear each other.
We know for sure that bible was written by humans to control other humans. Religion had it's role in society 1000 years ago, but today, people still believeing this... Never stops to amaze me. Why don't they believe scientology too... At least it's more fun!
IMO, IF God exists - he sure hate people A LOT! He hates Americans (WTC and all the hurricanes) and he hates even more the rest of the world. He hate the most starving people in Africa! AIDS for 30% of population, no food, and the can't find relieve even in death - they guaranteed to go to hell because they don't know about Christian God!
So even if we assume God exists, I don't see how all the religios people hope that afterlife will be cool... Based on what's going on on in this world, I'd approximate that it's tough on the other side too. But that's just me, who'd rather base a guess on what I see, than on some book. I realize that many people in America don't have the luxury of a choise. If you are born in a religious family and you brainwashed since 2, what chanse of making your own desisions you have?
Religion is a huge business in America and Church needs every soul they can get! Competition is tough... I have preset on my car radio for some Christian station. The things those guys say is often better than the comedy show (that's why I listen). And they never forget to ask for money every 15 minutes. Once they even prooved base on a bible that a believer should give to church 1/3rd of a family income. All that in serious voice!
- Steven Feuerstein said...
Sent to me by a reader and I decided to post it:
Steven -
It certainly is stunning. The revelation that God created everything is stunning to many people...
You are certainly missing something here. It does NOT say the moon creates light. It says it is a source of light. And yes, it does reflect the light of the sun. But at night, in the dark, the moon is a source of light.
What does it matter if it is reflected light?
So what is your feeble point here?
- Steven Feuerstein said...
I don't think you can reasonably interpret "reflector" as "source". A reflector reflects light from the source. Source clearly and directly implies origination. A mirror is never a source of light. The moon is never a source of light.
My feeble point? Simply, that it would seem rather obvious that either (a) the Torah is not the word of God and should not be interpreted literally (if we humans could ALL agree on this simple point, lots of misery could be avoided), or (b) God isn't running on all cylinders.
Like I said, if someday it becomes clear to me that God created everything, well, that will be very exciting. Not sure how much it will change my life, but it will be very exciting.
- SydOracle said...
Isaac Asimov did an interesting book on the bible book of Genesis, covering its origins and areas of agreement/disagreement with current scientific theory.
- Kenshi said...
Check this interview with Asimov:
- thinkaboutitabit said...
Don't you think it's a little silly to read a few lines of the torah that has been passed down and observed for thousands of years, and decide that your analysis is intelligent? You instantly assume that everybody, including all of your ancestors, are less intelligent and/or honest than you? Making a conclusion in this way just means that you had already made up your mind. You already know that it is all balogney. But why would you analyze a few lines out of thousands which have been analyzed and understood for thousands of years, and decide that yours is sensible? The only honest way to approach it is to go to the experts of the ones who support it and can explain the analysis based on the most knowledge of the subject, and doing the same for the opposition, and deciding which makes more sense. But to come to conclusions this way, I don't think is honest. People come to all kinds of conclusions about torah based on next to zero actual knowledge of it's contents or claims and traditions, and then start searching for supporting evidence, and joining with other critics in mocking how stupid those who believe are(people generally spend time mocking others because they feel insecurity, it helps subdue the part of us that thinks, maybe they know something i don't know). And most people go a lifetime without really challenging their beliefs and underlying assumptions.
- commonsensemom said...
I SO agree with you. I totally agree with what Kenshi said about the bible being written to control other humans (and by homophobic men at that). I have used the argument many times that if there is an all-powerful god out there then what's up with all the starving, AID's-riddled people in Africa. Wow~ I sure could do a much better job as a god than this supposed one is doing. I would NEVER 'give my children' something to 'handle' ~ You know that ultra-idiotic saying "god never gives you more than you can handle". There is NO good reason to afflict your children with something horrible for ANY REASON. And if that statement were true anyway why is there suicide? I am embarassed by people who believe this malarky. Why can't people just admit that NOBODY knows and just live according to what you know is right and wrong.
- Shiggity said...
"You might believe, you might have faith, but that is different from knowledge."
No one really "knows" anything. I can say I "know" Australia exists or that I "know" I'm currently leaving a comment on the Internet, but these all beliefs also. Ergo, a Christian may say he "knows" God exists, but I would take that in the only sense where it would have meaning - a strong belief therein.
- Steven Feuerstein said...
Well, Sniggity, I would like to think that the difference between "knowing" Australia exists and "knowing" God exists is rather clear. One is provable (I can travel -- indeed, I have traveled -- to Australia and confirm for myself that it exists). The other is unprovable.


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SAN DIEGO (AP) – John Fox sent text messages to several Denver Broncos on Sunday morning, wishing them good luck against the San Diego Chargers.
The Broncos will reciprocate by giving a game ball to their coach, who's at his offseason home in Charlotte, N.C., recovering from heart surgery.
With interim coach Jack Del Rio in charge, Peyton Manning threw for 330 yards and four touchdowns, three to Demaryius Thomas, as he efficiently led the Broncos to a 28-20 victory in their first game since Fox had his aortic valve replaced last Monday. Fox was released Friday and will continue his recovery at his offseason home.
"We look forward to giving it to him in person," Manning said.
Manning said he spoke with Fox by phone on Saturday before the Broncos flew to San Diego.
"I told him not to be yelling at me during the game. It's not good for his blood pressure," Manning said. "I'm not sure we'll see if he did or didn't. But he was in our thoughts. Coach Del Rio has done a good job all week keeping us updated on coach Fox."
Fox planned to watch the game on TV there, a team spokesman said. If he watched, he probably didn't like seeing Manning hurting his right ankle when he was hit by Corey Liuget as the Broncos ran out the clock in the closing minutes. Manning stayed in the game.
Manning wouldn't be specific about his injury, but said he was "pretty sore" and that he planned to have an MRI on Monday.
Manning was hurt after completing a pass to Thomas with 1:44 left.
"We were playing aggressively to win the game right there," Del Rio said. "He made a throw, D.T. made a catch and that was the ballgame. He got up and didn't want to come off – very proud guy – and closed out the game for us."
Asked about playing in the Broncos' showdown with AFC West leader Kansas City (9-0) next Sunday night, Manning said: "I totally plan on it."
Manning kept the Broncos (8-1) rolling. He threw touchdown passes of 11, 7 and 34 yards to Thomas on consecutive drives spanning the second and third quarters, staking the Broncos to a 28-6 lead.
Julius Thomas had a 74-yard catch-and-run on Denver's first drive, turning a short pass into the second-longest play by a tight end in team history.
Liuget said it wasn't an intentional hit. "I was trying to get to him because I knew how critical it could be to us as a defense to get to him. I was just working it and trying to be the guy. I'm not sure how I caught him but I hope he is OK. It's not anything that is going to stop him from being Peyton Manning."
The Broncos' scoring drives lasted 57 seconds; 2 minutes, 27 seconds, 1:25, and 3:26.
"You knew it wasn't going to be many possessions and we had to be efficient when we had the ball," Manning said.
Manning has thrown for 3,249 yards and 33 touchdowns in nine games. He completed 25 of 36 passes against the Chargers.
The Chargers (4-5) closed the gap late in the second half but couldn't catch up.
The Chargers were inside the Denver 23 three times in their first four possessions and had to settle for field goals of 26 and 40 yards by Nick Novak. Novak was wide left on a 37-yard attempt with 1:38 left before halftime.
"Three opportunities, you get six points and they score 28," said Chargers rookie coach Mike McCoy, who was Denver's offensive coordinator the past four seasons. "As you go along that is critical. When you play Peyton you have to get touchdowns. We've just got to do a better job."
Manning's big afternoon was marred only when rookie linebacker Tourek Williams hit Manning from behind and knocked the ball loose, with Donald Butler recovering at the Denver 11 midway through the third quarter. Two plays later, Philip Rivers found Danny Woodhead for a 7-yard scoring pass.
The Chargers pulled to 28-20 on Ryan Mathews' 1-yard touchdown run on third down with 10:42 to play.
A week earlier, the Chargers had the ball first-and-goal from the Washington 1 before Woodhead was stuffed and Rivers threw two incompletions before settling for a field goal to force overtime. The Redskins won 30-24.
Novak's miss late in the second quarter gave Manning enough time to move the Broncos 73 yards in nine plays, all passes, capped by his 7-yard scoring throw to Demaryius Thomas for a 21-6 lead before halftime. Manning threw only one incompletion that drive.
The Broncos got the opening kickoff of the second half and went 78 yards in eight plays, with Thomas' 34-yard TD catch giving the Broncos a 28-6 lead.
"So it's a 14-point swing – the difference in the ballgame," Manning said.
The Chargers finished the game without left tackle King Dunlap, who sustained his third concussion this season, and center Nick Hardwick, who had a stinger. Rookie right tackle D.J. Fluker moved to left tackle.
Rivers completed 19 of 29 passes for 218 yards.
NOTES: The Broncos have scored 371 points, the most through the first nine games of a season in NFL history. The previous high of 358 was by the 1950 Los Angeles Rams. …Broncos LB Nate Irving injured a shoulder. … The Chargers said LT King Dunlap had a concussion, his third this season. Other Chargers injured were C Nick Hardwick (stinger), LB Larry English (bicep) and fullback Le'Ron McClain (ankle). … It was the 300th win under Broncos owner and CEO Pat Bowlen.
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an odorless, colorless gas, CO2, resulting from oxidation of carbon, formed in the tissues and eliminated by the lungs; used in some pump oxygenators to maintain the carbon dioxide tension in the blood. It is also used in solid form; see carbon dioxide snow and carbon dioxide slush.
carbon dioxide combining power the ability of blood plasma to combine with carbon dioxide; indicative of the alkali reserve and a measure of the acid-base balance of the blood.
carbon dioxide content the amount of carbonic acid and bicarbonate in the blood; reported in millimoles per liter.
carbon dioxide–oxygen therapy administration of a mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen (commonly 5 per cent CO2 and 95 per cent O2 or 10 per cent CO2 and 90 per cent O2); used for improvement of cerebral blood flow, stimulation of deep breathing, or treatment of singultation (hiccupping). Carbon dioxide acts by stimulating the respiratory center; it also increases heart rate and blood pressure. Therapy is given for 6 minutes or less with a 5 per cent mixture and 2 minutes or less with a 10 per cent mixture. Potential adverse effects include headache, dizziness, dyspnea, nausea, tachycardia and high blood pressure, blurred vision, mental depression, coma, and convulsions.
carbon dioxide slush solid carbon dioxide combined with a solvent such as acetone, and sometimes also alcohol; used as an escharotic to treat skin lesions such as warts and moles and as a peeling agent in chemabrasion.
carbon dioxide snow the solid formed by rapid evaporation of liquid carbon dioxide, giving a temperature of about −79°C (−110°F). It has been used in cryotherapy to freeze the skin, thus producing local anesthesia and arrest of blood flow. See also carbon dioxide slush.
car·bon di·ox·ide (CO2),
the product of the combustion of carbon with an excess of oxygen; in concentrations not less than 99.0% by volume of CO2.
Synonym(s): carbonic acid gas, carbonic anhydride
carbon dioxide
A colorless, odorless, incombustible gas, CO2, that is formed during respiration, combustion, and organic decomposition, is an essential component in photosynthesis, and is used in food refrigeration, carbonated beverages, inert atmospheres, fire extinguishers, and aerosols. Also called carbonic acid gas.
carbon dioxideCO2 Physiology A metabolic byproduct of carbohydrate metabolism; it accumulates in tissues, is released to the blood in veins, and is eliminated via the lungs
car·bon di·ox·ide(CO2) (kahr'bŏn dī-oks'īd)
The product of the combustion of carbon with an excess of air; in concentrations not less than 99.0% by volume of CO2, used as a respiratory stimulant.
carbon dioxideA compound in which an atom of carbon is linked to two atoms of oxygen (CO2 ). Carbon dioxide is a colourless, odourless gas and is one of the chief waste products of tissue metabolism.
carbon dioxidea colourless, odourless gas, heavier than air, produced in respiration of organisms, and utilized to form sugars in PHOTOSYNTHESIS. Formula: CO2 .
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A heavy, colorless gas that dissolves in water.
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The presence of a raised carbon dioxide content or tension in a milieu (e.g. blood, tears). Contact lens wear tends to give rise to this condition, especially lenses of low gas transmissibility. See acidosis.
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Thousands of fans camped out in Westwood for a week, magazines featuring Twilight stars are flying off the shelves, and the midnight showing of New Moon broke box office records.
But how do R-Patz and K-Stew know they've really arrived? When the Vatican has something to say.
The Vatican has released its review of the latest installment in the vampire saga, and it's not good. In fact it's "deviant" and a "moral vacuum." That hurts more than a werewolf bite.
The governing body of the Roman Catholic Church objects to the supernatural references in the Twilight series.
"This theme of vampires in Twilight combines a mixture of excesses that, as ever, is aimed at young people and gives a heavy esoteric element," said the Vatican's culture council leader, Monsignor Franco Perazzolo.
The Vatican's stance on the film comes as a bit of a surprise since they have recently taken a more relaxed approach to Hollywood blockbusters. The latest Harry Potter movie, which clearly involves the supernatural, has been approved and even the sequel to The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons was labeled as "harmless entertainment."
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The Neo-Classical Japanese instrumental rock band MONO performed Saturday Oct.6th 2012 at the Bootleg theater in Los Angeles.
The band consists of Takaakira Goto (electric guitar, glockenspiel), Hideki Suematsu (electric guitar, glockenspiel), Tamaki Kunishi (bass guitar, electric guitar, piano, glockenspiel), and Yasunori Takada (drum kit, glockenspiel, synthesizer) and was formed in Tokyo in 1999.
Mono has since released five studio albums of which the latest is titled For My Parents.
The band's style of music is influenced by the genres of experimental rock and shoegazing, as well as by both the classical and contemporary classical periods of classical music, and also by noise and minalism. Mono's sound is characterised by the lead and rhythm guitars of Goto and Yoda respectively, both of whom make extensive use of reverb, distortion and delay effects. Their live performance captivated the audience with such intensity, one was amazed by the devotions of the fans listening to this spectacle of playing and in the dynamics.
The newest album For My Parents is one of their greatest works and best selling so far.
Written and arranged with a hopeful, romantic narrative in mind, the songs string together like chapters in an epic love story. The music is naturally majestic, the instrumentation vast, incorporating sounds of glockenspiel, drums, synthesizer, electric- and bass guitar.
There is an intimacy captured here that is at once beautiful and a little terrifying. The maturity to balance the cinematic drama so masterfully has become MONO's strongest virtue in this album.
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Exercising is an important part of daily life; it both strengthens the body and provides relaxation and recreation. As such, it is no surprise that exercise is enjoyed by people from all walks of life. Many see exercise as both a method of self-improvement and an escape from daily stress, so they make it one of their primary hobbies. From these fitness enthusiasts, communities arise that welcome newcomers and push members to reach their full potential, important functions that help grow the hobby and allow people to achieve their goals and have fun. Additionally, fitness communities have become a popular way to make friends that extend beyond the gym. Because of the benefits exercise can bring both physically and socially, many veterans turn to fitness after coming home. Here to help veterans get into fitness and feel accepted is BARIV5, a fitness brand that wants to give back and help veterans fully enjoy the world of fitness.
BARIV5 is wholly committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming community that gym goers can join and thrive within. This commitment goes doubly so for helping veterans, which stems from its owners, who themselves are veterans. BARIV5 achieves this goal through their two main branches: their fitness clothing and social app. BARIV5's clothing line is made up of high-quality fabrics, which ensures the best possible performance during gym sessions, and features the BARIV5 logo, which helps community members identify each other and feel like a part of the larger community. Meanwhile, the BARIV5 app allows users to post pictures from their workouts both on the app's integrated photo sharing service and on popular social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. The app also allows users to view other members of the BARIV5 community in their area and communicate, which helps members come together and become closer. These functions help people interested in fitness, especially veterans, meet one another and feel like a part of a bigger community. This feeling is very comforting for many people, especially to the many veterans that may feel alienated after returning home. And it is because of this that BARIV5 has committed itself to creating the products that help veterans feel welcome.
With initial work completed on both the BARIV5 clothing line and app, only one barrier stands in BARIV5's path to success: funding. The BARIV5 social app has not reached its full potential yet, so the BARIV5 team has turned to Kickstarter to generate the money needed in order to implement the features that will help round out their app and make it as great as possible. With reader support, BARIV5 can perfect their app, allowing them to create a community that will help veterans feel welcome and purposeful.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ? A convicted rapist accused of killing a 16-year-old girl he met online pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder Wednesday, several days after authorities found the girl's body in a blue, plastic barrel in western Arkansas.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A convicted rapist accused of killing a 16-year-old girl he met online pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder Wednesday, several days after authorities found the girl's body in a blue, plastic barrel in western Arkansas.
A judge appointed a public defender to represent Lloyd Jones, 36, in the case of Angela Allen's death. The public defender's office said an attorney hasn't yet been assigned.
He was being held at the Sebastian County jail on $1 million bond.
Allen went missing Feb. 10 after telling a relative she was going for a walk. Her body was found Friday inside the barrel on land owned by Jones' brother near Lavaca.
Authorities said Jones told investigators that he picked the teenager up Feb. 10 at a hospital parking lot in Van Buren and took her to the Arkansas River. Court documents allege he told investigators he decided not to take her to his home in nearby Lavaca because "his girlfriends might become upset with him."
According to the documents, Jones said he was making out with Allen, but then "violently pushed her into the water and left her there" after she told him her age.
Sheriff's deputies searching land owned by Jones' brother found a body and identified it as Allen using dental records. A preliminary autopsy showed she died of strangulation and that no fluid was in her lungs.
Officers tracked down Jones after finding multiple text messages on the teen's cellphone from his number, a sheriff's investigator wrote in an affidavit. Authorities discovered that Jones was convicted of rape in 2001 and found him by tracing his cellphone.
Sheriff's spokesman Maj. Kevin Nickson said Jones was living with his parents, girlfriend, ex-girlfriend and nephew.
One of the girlfriends told investigators that Jones would take his laptop to Starbucks to talk to people through social networking websites.
Jones told authorities he used one site, Mbuzzy.com, to communicate with Allen, who also had an account with that site, sheriff's investigator Anthony Sacco wrote. Court documents allege that Jones also told investigators that when he and Allen were at the river, he hit her in the chest and knocked her into the water.
"He thought that (Angela) might have been unable to swim, because her arms might have been injured when she was struck," Sacco wrote.
One of Jones' girlfriends told authorities that his clothes and shoes were covered in mud when he came home that night.
Authorities arrested him last week in connection with Allen's disappearance. While he was in jail, authorities said, Jones' father stopped by and asked him what was going on.
During the recorded visit, authorities allege that Jones asked, "Did they find her?" and said, "I panicked — I did it."
Court records filed in 2001 show a jury found Jones guilty of rape after a prosecutor said he held a box cutter to a woman's throat, duct-taped her mouth and sexually assaulted her. A judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
He was paroled in 2008 and discharged in 2010, according to a prison spokeswoman.
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Welcome to the Red Maple Inn
Our unique Amish Country Ohio bed and breakfast is a peaceful destination for rest and relaxation that you will never forget. Overlooking the rolling farmlands and forests of Geauga County, you can enjoy a complimentary hearty Amish breakfast and visit a vast array of one of a kind shops and attractions. The Red Maple Inn is nestled in historic Burton Village and is less than one hour from Cleveland, Warren, and Youngstown.
Located in the fourth largest Amish community in the world, The Red Maple Inn Ohio bed and breakfast is a country inn described as a "small hotel." Our 17 rooms and one suite, all on the second floor, accessible by elevator, are individually decorated and have their own private entrances and personal baths. Featuring Ohio Amish handcrafted furniture, DVD players, Jacuzzi Tubs, and educational Amish heritage literature and videos; you will feel a world away from the stresses of everyday life. We have a small fitness center, balconies, game room, fireplaces, rocking chairs, Wi-Fi access, and a friendly staff that makes the Red Maple Inn offer a variety of amenities setting us far apart from any hotel.
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Anne Wivel Buck, 77, a community volunteer, died Feb. 29 of a neuromuscular disease at her home in Wyndmoor.
Mrs. Buck had long been active in the community as a volunteer for a variety of local organizations. She had been chairwoman of June Fete, a benefit for Abington Hospital, and a chairwoman for the American Heart Association's annual Chestnut Hill Fundraiser.
She also had volunteered for many years at two local historical sites: Cliveden in Germantown and The Highlands in Fort Washington.
She had also worked part-time as a real estate agent and accountant for businesses in Wyndmoor, Flourtown and Erdenheim.
After starting their family in the Abington area, Mrs. Buck and her husband, the late Richard Edwin Buck, moved to Wyndmoor in 1965.
Raised in Prospect Park and Ridley Park, she was a graduate of Ridley Park High School. She received a bachelor's degree in English and American literature from Pembroke College of Brown University. As a young woman, she spent summers with her family in Beach Haven, N.J., working at restaurants and sailing with the Spray Beach Yacht Club.
She is survived by sons Richard, of Manchester, Mass., Steven, of Chester Springs, and David, of Broad Axe; daughters Tricia Horter, of Chestnut Hill,Karin, of Ambler, and Lesley, of Mt. Airy; a brother, W. Burns Wivel, of Grasonville, Md., and 18 grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 10, at Manufacturers' Golf and Country Club, 511 Dreshertown Road, Fort Washington, with a reception to follow immediately after the service.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to LifeChoice Hospice Nurses Benevolent Fund in memory of Anne Buck, 200 Dryden Road, Suite 3300, Dresher, PA 19025, or the Wind River Cancer Wellness Retreats and Programs, 430 Larsen Lane, Tryon, N.C. 28782 www.windriverservices.org. – WF


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Emulation is the sincerest form of flattery and Microsoft's not afraid to follow in Apple's footsteps. The Mac App Store's success is another home run for Apple and what does that mean for Microsoft's next Windows 8 OS? It's getting an App Store too.
Microsoft's always believed that digital distribution is the future, that's why it started the ill-fated WebTV and built services like Xbox Live and Xbox Marketplace: to deliver content without physical media.
Downloading bite-sized apps on your smartphone is one thing, but delivering larger-sized apps is trickier. Just ask this guy who downloaded OS X Lion from the Mac App Store. On his Internet connection, it took him FOUR days to download the operating system update.
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Will the world's broadband speed suddenly jump in speeds by next year when Windows 8 is expected to drop? It's highly unlikely. Those with a fast connection like FIOS will be in heaven; they'll never have to go to a retail store to buy software ever again. But those with the slow connection, well, they're going to be screwed, unless all they're downloading is Angry Birds.
A Windows App Store isn't completely unexpected, given how Windows 8 will run on both x86 and ARM architecture. As you may know, ARM processors are inside of many of the world's mobile electronics; used by companies like Samsung, Apple, LG, etc. Its architecture isn't designed to run standard x86 apps. An App Store could help make finding software for the two different architectures less confusing for the end-user.
And as Intel pushes more of its thin CD/DVD-less "Ultrabooks," a centralized way to download apps quickly and as pain-free as possible is going to be necessary.
So, welcome App Stores. We welcome thee to our laptops, gaming towers, netbooks and any other PC.
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The Wounded Warrior Project hosted the Style & Beauty Suite at Avalon Hollywood on Friday, September 20th that honored not only celebrities on this Emmy Awards weekend, but it was an event to always gift and pamper wounded service members and their families.
The day was truly a celebration of the Wounded Warriors and their families. The Wounded Warrior Project is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to honor and empower Wounded Warriors and this day was the perfect day to do just that. For more information visit Wounded Warriors.
iniiJin was gifting women's and men's footwear along with women's apparel. The iiJin footwear is famous for their signature invisible wedge and they come in everything from sandals to stylish sneakers and boots. iiJin will soon be opening their flagship store at 116 S. Robertson Blvd. in Los Angeles. For more information visit iiJin.
Alicia Mohr was gifting to the Wounded Warriors and celebrities items from Ali's Collection. Ali's Collection was showing off their latest design, the Supernova Necklace. Guests, including Linda Cardellini of Mad Men, loved the Ali's Collection unique line of jewelry. For more information visit Ali's Collection.
Guests were gifted the beautiful eco-friendly bags from Vine StreetMarket, USA that is based right here in Los Angeles. Vine Street has a style for everyone, beautiful designs and material that range from canvas to vegan fur. For more information visit Vine Street Market.
The Original Retro Brand was gifting their stylish t-shirts that not only had a vintage look and feel, but they also had some of the leading brand names in sports. These were a huge hit and you will certainly be seeing Retro Brand shirts all over the streets of Los Angeles. For more information visit Retro Brand.
100% Gumdrop was gifting a unique necklace that was created by owner and designer Sarah Litt Cole just for this special to honor the Wounded Warriors. For more information visit 100% Gumdrop.
Not only do This Bar Save Lives taste amazing, they do more than any other bar on the market. For each bar you buy, they givea packet of life-saving food to a child in need. Guests were treated to an assortment of bars. For more information visit This Bar Saves Lives.
AQUAhydrate was providing everyone with plenty of there water that contains performance-grade electrolytes and a pH level that is higher than 9. If you are looking for something to refresh you during your next workout, AQUAhydrate is it. For more information visit AQUAhydrate
ATZEN Skincare was gifting their skincare products that avoid the toxins that so many other products contain. If you are looking to get rid of those wrinkles, blemishes or sunspots, ATZEN was made for you. For more information visit ATZEN Skincare
David Bacco chocolatier was gifting an assortment of his unique chocolates. Some of the tasty flavors that David has created include; Montserrat which contains Caribbean spices, Cantare that gives you the floral essence of jasmine and Nyeri with 100% Kenya coffee infusion. For more information visit David Bacco
DiaNoche Designs was gifting gift certificates for the their unique and stunning pieces of illuminated art. For more information visit DiaNoche Designs
To make sure every man in attendance looked their best, EVOLUTIONMAN was gifting their line of men's skincare products including their new cleanse and shave combo product. For more information visit EVOLUTIONMAN
For those with a sweet tooth, Fond of Cake was treating everyone to a wide assortment of their tasty cupcakes. Fond of Cake also created a stunning cake that was a tribute to the Armed Forces. For more information visit Fond of Cake
You might not recognize the name Funrise, but you will certainly know the toys that they manufacture and distribute. The long list includes; TONKA, My Little Pony, Baby Alive and Furby just to name a few. Funrise was gifting some of their fun toys to guests in attendance. For more information visit Funrise.
Get Shaved was treating everyone in attendance to a refreshing treat as they were making their way through style and beauty suite as they were serving a number of great flavors of their shaved ice that is paired with ice cream and assorted toppings.For more information visit Get Shaved.
Koostik was gifting their Apple IPhone and IPad that are made from finely crafted wood. Not only will Koostik amplify the sound you are getting, but they make for a beautiful piece to have in any home. For more information visit Koostik.
If you are looking for an easy way to customize a bedroom or change any room decor Mona MELisa Designs was made for you. They were gifting an assortment of peel and play wall sets that allow you to create almost any setting for boys or girls. For more information visit Mona MELisa Designs.
The most creative product of the day came from Zumer Sport. They created athletic bags out of actual sports balls. If you love tennis, your tennis bag is made out of tennis balls. These are so eye-catching you will have to have one. For more information visit Zumer Sport.
Honest Tea was on giving everyone plenty of their healthy and organic drinks. Honest Tea comes in a wide assortment of flavors and it is the perfect drink to open at any event or occasion and you can feel good about what you are drinking. For more information visit Honest Tea.
In addition to gifts and pampering experiences, guests were also treated to some amazing speakers including snowboarder Kevin Pearce. Kevin suffered a traumatic brain injury while snowboarding and recently had a documentary about his recovery released.
Each VIP in attendance also received a gift bag with products from the following sponsors; Ambush Board Co., Bebe Bella Designs, Dream Water, Fearless Chocolate, Flipper Toothbrush Holder, GoGo squeeZ, Healthy Surprise, Hillside Farms, HuMn Wallets, John Paul Pet, Kai Fragrance, Katz Gluten Free, Ketzali, The Knot Genie, Women Wipes by LADYGROOMER, Liddabit Sweets, Make My Day Beautiful, Biz Wipes by MANGROOMER, Milktape, Moxie Jean, OPI Products Inc., PAK, Plomo Shoes, Promax Fit 'n Crisp, Puppy Luv Glam, Sabi, SCOUT by Bungalow, SHANY Cosmetics, Shutter Huggers, Skin Authority, Sylca Designs, UrgentRx, Vapur and Yelp.


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Women's Golf Set Sights on F&M Bank APSU Intercollegiate
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee State women's golf team returns to action after three weeks off from tournament play. The Tigers will travel to Clarksville for the F&M Bank Austin Peay Intercollegiate. Play will feature 18-holes of play on each day of the two-day event at the Par-72, 5,960 yard Clarksville Country Club.
The Tigers will join fellow Ohio Valley Conference opponents Austin Peay, Belmont, Eastern Illinois, Eastern Kentucky, Jacksonville State, Murray State, SIU Edwardsville, and Tennessee Tech for the classic. Houston Baptist, Lipscomb, Northern Kentucky, Radford and Towson complete the field of participants.
Head coach Parris McGrath will send out sophomores Laura Bremer, Amelia Dap, Kelly Merkel, and Sarah Needleman; along with freshman Natalie Spicer.
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"It's so modern!" exclaimed a friend after her first trip to Bangkok. Initial impressions of Thailand's capital, with its sprawling population of seven million, shopping malls and famous traffic congestion can come as a shock to those expecting the unknowable East.
Yet Thailand remains a place of old traditions, where strangers say "Sawadee," (Hello) and smile, hands upright in the wai position, palms pressed together, bowing slightly.
We chose our family-owned hotel, Aurum the River Place, for its nearness to Bangkok's oldest thoroughfare, the Chao Praya River. Our mornings began outdoors, plotting the day's adventures over the breakfast of our choice: western or Thai. At sunset we enjoyed entrancing views of the Khmer-style towers of Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn) glowing golden on the river's far shore.
As for mystery – it was all around us. As Lunar New Year celebrations continued throughout the city, we stumbled on street temples, breathed clouds of incense, jumped at the sound of bursting firecrackers, and joined the queue as an elderly monk splashed water on the faithful while ribbons of cash – offerings to the gods – wafted in the evening breeze.
One of Bangkok's enduring mysteries is open year-round. On the last leg of our trip, we sampled midtown chic at the Vie Hotel, close to the well-known house of the famous CIA agent, Jim Thompson, who is credited with reviving the Thai silk industry in the decades after World War II.
Masterpieces of Buddhist statuary, Ming porcelain and sparkling Burmese embroideries make Thompson's house a rare sanctuary in this city of high rises and swanky hotels. Tours of the canal-side teakwood structure (actually several houses joined together) attract those eager to glimpse life as it was lived by this legendary expatriate.
When we were told that Thompson disappeared in 1967, I overheard a woman whisper to her son that our guide must be delicately referring to his death. Yes and no. Thompson did disappear. He vanished into thin air during a holiday in the Malaysian highlands, but he has never been confirmed dead. No trace of him has ever been found.
Thompson was one of the good guys; a Princeton grad who believed that democracy was a real possibility for emerging southeast Asian nations. After working for "Wild" Bill Donovan's Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to the CIA) in the war, Thompson was posted to Bangkok, where he lived for the remainder of his life.
Travelling widely in the region, he fell in love with Thai and Lao cultures, and encouraged silk-weaving families to continue their dying art by founding a silk business that became a global phenomenon. When Thompson's silks appeared in Vogue magazine or in popular Broadway plays like The King and I, the shimmering fabric seduced customers in the west while reviving its popularity in Thailand.
Over time, Thompson lost touch with Washington, driven by the Communist scare that led to his country's growing military presence in Southeast Asia. No one knows what happened on the day Thompson vanished, despite several thorough investigations into his disappearance. One thing is certain: the Thompson legend lives on. Today, a charity for the blind benefits from the tourists who pay to visit his Bangkok house.
"We, Thais, don't like broken things," observes our guide to the Thompson house, gesturing toward an imposing stone statue, minus an arm. "We believe they're bad luck." It's as good a theory as any for the fate that befell Thompson. Yet the silk business he encouraged flourishes in grand shops such as the one in the courtyard of his house and in the boutique brand known as JT.
When Thompson was launching his silk business, the place to be seen in Bangkok was the lobby of the Oriental Hotel. The venerable Oriental lobby is brighter than it once was, and its past is lovingly showcased in the Author's Wing, a sun-filled homage to guests Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Noel Coward and Gore Vidal – all of whom have suites named for them.
Air-conditioned shops in the hotel and in an adjoining building showcase antiques, jewelry, silks and tribal weavings. The Oriental is still the best place in town for high tea (Asian or English style) or for a relaxing meal at sunset. Folks gather on the riverside terrace, gazing at the passing traffic: rice barges, water taxis, tourist crafts, and speedy long-tail boats, a scene unchanged in 40-odd years.
Other timeless attractions are the city's glittering temples, known as wats. In the old commercial district near the river, we grew fond of Wat Po, a teaching centre associated with philosophy, literature, and the healing arts. Home to traditional Thai massage, a vigorous form of acupressure, Wat Po welcomes everyone to its massage clinic, where an aromatic massage makes for an inexpensive and soothing treat.
Wat Po – like so many major temples – is in fact a sprawling compound of monks' residences, open plazas and dazzling art. Dating from the 17th century, its centrepiece is the Reclining Buddha, 45 metres long, whose mother-of-pearl feet portray the 108 auspicious signs of Buddhism. Bas-reliefs once functioned as medical teaching tools. A courtyard is dotted with larger-than-life statues, and foreigners are notable for their western-style hats. More than 80 rishi (hermit) figures demonstrate stress-relieving positions.
Massage was once an integral part of Thai family life, a letting-go of daily stress. In today's metropolis, a riverboat ride offers another relaxing respite. At the River Pier, close to the Grand Palace, boats can be hired for river cruises that pass the spectacular gold-and-black collection of Royal Barges, still used by the King in his yearly Chao Praya river procession.
For centuries, Bangkok was a city of stilt houses on rivers and canals. Even today, riverside dwellers enjoy a range of services such as mail delivery, trash collection, banking and medical care, while their children take boats to and from school. Floating vendors sell groceries and ice cream on quiet klongs (canals) that seem a world away from city streets.
In recent years, urban planning has improved too, with a new expressway, a light rapid-transit system called Sky Train, and an 18-station subway route. Its first passenger was the king of Thailand. In the unlikely event that Thompson should return – despite the hopes of a few old acquaintances – he'd doubtless be astonished by today's Bangkok. Yet he'd be pleased to know that the Thai silk company he founded – along with his priceless art collection – have survived, and that his own legend has been woven into the fabric of the city he loved.
If you go: Tourism Authority of Thailand, www.tourismthailand.org. For more on Jim Thompson, see The Ideal Man, by Joshua Kurkantzick, John Wiley & Sons.


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LinkedIn will get only a quarter of its projected $100 million in revenue this year from ads. (It places ads from companies like Microsoft and Southwest Airlines on profile pages.) Other moneymakers include premium subscriptions, which let users directly contact any user on the site instead of requiring an introduction from another member.
A third source of revenue is recruitment tools that companies can use to find people who may not even be actively looking for new jobs. Companies pay to search for candidates with specific skills, and each day, they get new prospects as people who fit their criteria join LinkedIn.
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In it, you'll see Jeff Glass of Bain Capital — which led the $53 million financing — David Sze of Greylock Partners, Mark Kvamme of Sequoia Capital, and David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners heap so much praise on LinkedIn, and on themselves for identifying this "multibillion opportunity," that watching the video reminded me of a late-night infomercial. (Not the pornographic kind. The kind where you end up with some crap abdominal cruncher because seemingly respectable people testified that it had given them six-pack stomachs and in your fatigued state, you believed them.)
I could only make it through the first three minutes and nine seconds of the five-minute-long production, creatively titled "Bain Capital Ventures Joins the LinkedIn Team." But that was long enough to hear about LinkedIn's "genius," "revenue growth," and "future revenue growth," as well as for Cowan to go so far as to call it a "bargain," and Sze to say, in earnest, that "if you look at the user growth and the scale of the markets they're in, I think it could be a valuation that we look back and say, wow, that's one of the cheapest things those investors ever did."


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In 20 years on the road, I've toured in configurations ranging from three sweaty guys in a working man's pickup to 10 people bunking down in a 45-foot Prevost. In the band that's improbably become my day job for the last decade, the Mountain Goats, lately we've opted for Sprinters. You can't overnight in them as you can on a bus, but, outfitted like executive jets, they're roomy, comfortable and easier on the nerves than the loosey-goosey 15-passenger vans that are the next most obvious choice. (Twenty-plus mpg isn't bad, either.) Still, I'm not immune to occasional bouts of nostalgia for some of the less-accommodating rides of my checkered career.
Here a few that stand out in the memory bank:
There are a handful of experiences I'd wager pretty much everyone who toured in independent bands in the 1980s or '90s has in common. Getting royally screwed using a calling card at a pay phone. A really unpleasant night at the hands of a certain promoter in Pittsburgh. And enduring long hours in the back of a hot, smelly, windowless panel van. Somehow I was lucky enough to escape the last.
Nothing Painted Blue was smart. The first band I ever went out with; our drummer's mom had a 1985 Chevrolet Suburban she was willing to rent us. It was fantastic: gear, merch and bags all fit in the back. Up front, we rode in a level of comfort unimaginable to our peers. It was civilized. It also possessed certain range-boosting and time-saving features that weren't always obvious. On overnight drives, for example, the two back-seat passengers could stretch out, one across the bench, the other occupying the floor, and actually sleep. We called it "the double-barrel"—not exactly Emirates business class, but it worked. Similarly, we discovered that it was entirely possible with the cruise engaged to switch drivers without stopping. (Professional driver on a closed course. Please do not attempt.)
There was also, of course, the time the Turbo-Hydramatic self-immolated and we found ourselves trying to douse a raging underhood inferno with fistfuls of dirt—well, everyone except Franklin, who stood on the shoulder clutching his pillow—but that's a story for another day.
It wasn't long after that that my band, the unfortunately named DiskothiQ (don't ask), hit the road for the first time, and we tapped our drummer and his beloved 19861/2 Nissan Hardbody. Under a slick camper shell, we Tetrised the gear so that everything fit perfectly on one side of an imaginary line longitudinally bisecting the bed. A fat slab of six-inch-thick foam from the local army surplus was then cut down to fit the unoccupied side, creating, well, a bed (and a long bed, at that).
There were three of us. While two rode up front in the cab, the third could lean back, stretch out and enjoy gentle spring breezes through the sliding side glass of the camper. The tour itself was kind of a bust, as most of them were in those days, but I sure remember some of those drives—the Nissan's three-liter SOHC V6 making short work of Devil's Tower, Yellowstone and the Mongolian steppe–like expanses of eastern Washington—fondly.
Fun fact: It was the only vehicle in which I've ever toured North America that wasn't an automatic!
Chrysler didn't offer a stick in its 2001-07 RS-platform minivans to my knowledge, which—well, look, everyone hates a minivan, right? Everyone, that is, except people who actually use them. Thing is, Gen Xers' rejection of their parents' minivans in favor of burly SUVs was as silly and misguided as boomers' rejection of their parents' station wagons before them. The wagon stigma seems to be going away, finally. Next reclamation project: the minivan.
The Mountain Goats have used them on countless occasions, and over tens of thousands of miles our Dodge Grand Caravans and Plymouth Voyagers and Chrysler Town & Country rentals acquitted themselves with the effortless poise that comes with utter competence. There's nothing stupid or annoying about them. No one will mistake one for a driver's car, but it's not supposed to be. And as I discovered one afternoon in central Florida, when an E39 BMW 5-series blew past and provided me with a rabbit for the next hundred miles of I-75, it is a vehicle that's capable of carrying four people and a tour's worth of equipment, merch and personal effects in perfect comfort and safety at extralegal speeds for extended periods with so little fuss that no one else in the van so much as looked up from his laptop. They just wondered how we got to Tallahassee an hour early.
Also, a Nobel Prize for the guys who invented Stow 'n Go. Seriously.
For the first five years that I toured with the Mountain Goats our requirements were unusual. We were a duo, so we toured in regular old automobiles. I'd Hotwire a "standard car," resulting in an endless series of truly awful Chevrolet Impalas and only slightly less dismal Ford Tauruses, with the occasional humiliating curveball thrown in. (I once got an e-mail from a guy who'd seen us in San Francisco, complaining not about the show but rather that we'd pulled up outside the Bottom of the Hill in a champagne Buick Rendezvous.)
Fed up after years of this, in a final pre-band-expansion concession to my enthusiast tendencies (and our dignity), I skipped the online bargain crapshoot and called around instead to see about reserving something that didn't completely suck. We ended up with a silver 2006 Dodge Magnum. It looked great, and even with its gutless fleet-spec six it drove like a big long-wheelbase RWD American car should. We loved it. And I'll never forget stopping to fill up somewhere outside of Erie, and the lady behind the counter looking me up and down, batting her eyes, and asking, "That your car?"—a question I'd never been asked on tour before, and haven't since.
Finally, there's the 2012 Skoda Octavia in which, somewhere between nursing a hangover and still foggily buzzed from the bison-grass vodka and Belorussian comradeship of the night before, I'm currently hurtling across eastern Poland. I'm being driven by a guy who has a head the approximate size and shape (and, one might guess, density) of a bowling ball—and, judging by his throttle and brake inputs, feet to match—whose idea of funny is awakening his passengers upon arrival at the airport by violently swerving to avoid invisible obstacles. Hilarious, bro. I now make you famous on the American Internet.
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Kiyoshi Ueda graduated Kyoto University in 1977 and completed a graduate course of Kyoto University in 1982 receiving his PhD. Since 1982, he has been working at Tohoku University, as a research associate (1982-1990), as an associate professor (1990-2003), and as a full professor (2003-present). He was also a visiting scientist at University of Maryland in the United States (1985-87), an invited senior scientist at Daresbury Laboratory in the United Kingdom (1992-1993), and an invited professor of Universite Paris Sud in France (1998). Also he has been occasionally playing a role of an opponent for the PhD thesis in some foreign universities such as Uppsala University in Sweden, Turku University in Finland, etc.
He has been in the field of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, being the author or coauthor of about 400 papers including more than ten review articles and chapters of books. He has been giving more than 100 invited and plenary lectures in international conferences, workshops, symposiums, and seminars.
His research centers photoionization and photofragmentation of atoms, molecule, and clusters by synchrotron radiation, femtosecond lasers, and short-wavelength (EUV to X) free-electron lasers (FELs). Areas of special emphasis include ultrafast dynamic imaging, probing ultrafast electron and nuclear dynamics, characterizations of transient excited states and their decaying processes, and developing the new spectroscopic methods for these studies.
In the last decade, he has been organizing a series of international conferences and workshops on the relevant subjects such as photoionization, intense field phenomena, ultrafast phenomena, electronic spectroscopy, many particle spectroscopy, etc. and also serving as an international advisory board member and/or a program committee member for many international conferences that include VUVX (international conference on physics of vacuum-ultraviolet and X-ray physics), ICPEAC (international conference on photonic, electronic and atomic collisions), ICESS (international conference on electronic spectroscopy and structure), etc. He has been serving also as a program/proposal review panel for FEL facilities such as LCLS, FLASH, FERMI, and SPring-8, as one of a few experts on FEL science, and as an advisory and/or review board for relevant facilities. He is also serving as an editorial board for J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., occasionally organizing a relevant special issue as a guest editor.
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Being as a physicist for more than 30 years in Japan, and having about a couple hundred collaborators from more than ten different countries all over the world, I can say that physics is becoming more and more international and borderless. Whenever we carry out experiments at large-scale facilities in the United States, in Europe, and in Japan, we are working together as an international team with many scientists from all over the world, sharing common scientific interest. Also, Asian scientists are not really behind to American or European scientists any more. One can see it not only from publications from Asia but also from the fact that most of the major international conferences came and are coming to Asia.
Another point I have been aware of in my scientific life is that scientific fields are also becoming more and more borderless. Being as s physicist in the field of atomic, molecular, and optical physics, I have been collaborating not only with physicists in the same field but also in other fields of physics such as high energy physics and solid state physics. Also I have been collaborating extensively with a lot of chemists in the entire field of chemistry, as well as with structure biologists. We physicists can learn a lot from other fields and more importantly we can make an impact to other fields.
During my research career, I have been aiming at making a bridge among scientists all over the world and among scientists from different fields, whoever who share common interest, believing in that sharing different ways of thinking brings us a breakthrough in science. This kind of personal activities is, however, limited. I feel it is very important to make a common platform among the physicists in United States, Europe, and Asia. APS, EPS, and Physical Society of Japan can play major roles for that. I would be happy if I could contribute to it.