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The main mix (and for once, the instrumental here really is just the original with the vocal removed, rather than some alternate dub version) is a slow-burning, almost doleful, affair for the most part. It begins with a chattering military march which grabs hold and doesn't let go. Around it unfurls cascades of low-register bass, an ethereal plink-plonking piano motif and Little Bear's near hymnal-like vocal delivery.
On the remix, promising Dutch-based Dane Uffe Christensen promotes the vocal more prominently in the mix but its primary features are a throbbing Death Star alarm, rickety, woody percussion and a melody struck on a glockenspiel. Little more than a year into his production career, it's further evidence that Uffe is developing a singular, exciting style.
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Tue / 4 Dec 2012
Words /
Stephen Worthy
Tracklist /
01. The 508
02. The 508 (Uffe Remix)
03. The 508 (Instrumental)


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In case you're wondering, no, I'm not ripping apart pieces of cold roast chicken and dipping them into a jar of mustard vinaigrette, licking my fingers before swiping them on my pants and reaching for another key stroke. No. No, I'm not.
Ok, I am.
But hear me out. It all started with a date that never was. It was a blind one, and we had planned to meet at Buvette for coffee. I waded through the humidity from Union Square, and just a few blocks from the gastrothèque, I received this text: "This is too far west. Can we meet at Starbucks in Union Square instead?" Um, no. And I politely replied, "Let's do it another day." We rescheduled.
By this time, I was at Buvette's door and, date or not, I wasn't going to pass it up. Taking refuge from the swamp called July in New York, I pulled myself up to the bar for a glass of bibonade, Jody Williams' rosé infused with fruit – in this case plums – poured over ice and topped with champagne. As I tried to find a comfortable perch on the wobbly wooden stool, a plate of bread doused in olive oil was placed in front of me followed by a fresh salad of lettuces, watercress, radishes, cucumbers, potatoes, and thin haricot verts (both ends snipped as only the French do) liberally drizzled with a mustard vinaigrette.
I set to work on the salad, pushing vegetables onto the oyster fork-sized fork with the butter knife-sized knife. Everything is diminutive at Buvette, from the name itself to the menu booklets that fit in your palm to the tables for two that encourage knee bumping and hand grazing. (I'll have to come back with a date who actually shows up.)
The heavy cooking takes place downstairs, and as the menu shifted from lunch to dinner around 4 pm, a parade of aprons ascended with large bowls of prepared ingredients that were passed over the bar to white oxford-clad ladies and gents. As I nibbled with abandon with my mini-silverware, I watched servers thinly slice piles of translucent Prosciutto onto toast, grill croques of all types, and scoop lightly marinated shredded carrots onto a plate.
There was no dessert menu – just a glistening tarte tatin and a bowl of chocolate mousse. I love a good tatin (be it apple or pear or tomato or, well, tomato), but some days, only chocolate will do. Amidst the silver platters, below the pressed iron ceiling times, just a little too close to my neighbors, I nursed my coffee along with a plate of nearly-noir haphazardly-heaped mousse topped with whipped cream. As I lingered, I flipped through a copy of the Buvette cookbook and within minutes, had it added to my bill, paying extra for the immediacy, a signature, a hole drilled through the nearly 300 pages, and a leather strap laced through.
On my way out the door, I said au revoir to no one in particular. A bientôt. I'll be back soon.
Inspired by my visit, I invited friends over for dinner later in that week. On Friday afternoon after work, I filled my canvas bag with greenmarket goodies, stopped by Breads, and felt like a Frenchie with the crisp pointed edges of a pair of baguettes threatening to poke someone if I turned around too quickly. I snapped off a quignon as I walked to the subway, gnawing away at the crust as I dug for my metrocard. When I got home, I roasted the chicken that the night before I had seasoned with herbs and salt, washed some leaves, sliced some vegetables, grated some carrots, and rolled out dough for a rhubarb galette (based loosely on Alice Water's recipe). We drank a delicate rosé from France (Olga Raffoult Chinon Rosé). And then a more assertive one from South Africa (Mulderbosch Cabernet Sauvignon Rosé).
And I left the dishes for the morning and the bottles on the table, and I ate leftover salad for breakfast in the middle of the mess.
If you want to hear Jody Williams speak about her cookbook and restaurants (she opened a Buvette in Paris too!), listen to her interview on Radio Cherry Bombe. And just a few days ago, Sam Sifton published in the New York Times a few more recipes from the cookbook – here you go. You're welcome!
Roast chicken salad and haricots verts with mustard vinaigrette
Adapted from Jody Williams' Buvette: The Pleasure of Good Food. The only change I made was to add cucumbers (the photo above doesn't have potatoes). I used a variety of lettuces that I found at the greenmarket – I think that a little endive or radicchio would be really nice too.
Serves 4 (you may have some leftover chicken)
– 8 small waxy potatoes
– coarse salt
– 3/4 lb haricots verts or regular green beans, both ends trimmed
– 4 large handfuls of salad greens – I used Boston/bibb, red leaf, and some watercress micro greens
– freshly ground pepper
– 1/2 C mustard vinaigrette (recipe below)
– 3 Persian cucumbers or one large English seedless cucumber, thinly sliced
– 4 radishes, thinly sliced
– 1 small roast chicken, still warm (recipe below)
Boil. Place the potatoes in a saucepan, cover with cold water, and add a spoonful of salt. Bring to a boil and cook until the potatoes are tender, around 20 minutes. Check for done-ness with the tip of a sharp knife. Using a slotted spoon, remove the potatoes from the cooking water and set them aside to cool. Keep the cooking water at a boil for the haricots (see below). When cool enough to handle, break the potatoes in half and set them aside.
Blanche. Add the green beans and boil until they are just tender, about 5 minutes. Drain them and transfer to a bowl to cool.
Put it all together. Arrange the greens on a large platter and sprinkle them with salt and pepper. Drizzle the greens with one-third of the dressing. Toss the potatoes and green beans with another third of the dressing and lay them on top of the dressed greens. Tear all of the meat and skin from the chicken in largish pieces and scatter over the vegetables. Drizzle the whole thing with the remaining dressing, scatter the cucumbers and radishes over the top, and serve immediately.
Poulet rôti (roasted chicken)
Adapted from Jody Williams' Buvette: The Pleasure of Good Food. This is the simplest way I have ever made a chicken and the last three sentences of the recipe capture the essence of the process: "No need to truss, baste, anything. Just season and cook. End of story." Just make sure to leave enough time for the salt and seasoning to really sink into your chicken – I rubbed my chicken down on Thursday evening and let it sit in the fridge for about 16 hours before bringing it to room temperature for an hour and then roasting.
– 1 T herbes de Provence
– 1 T coarse salt
– 1 3- to 4-lb chicken, patted dry with paper towels
Pound. With a mortar and pestle or coffee grinder, coarsely grind the herbs de Provence and salt.
Season. Evenly season the chicken with the mixture, inside and out, really massaging it into all the crevices. Let the chicken sit for at least one hour at room temperature or in a sealed plastic bag in the refrigerator for up to three days.
Roast. If you have refrigerated your chicken, take it out and let it sit, uncovered, at room temperature for about an hour. When you are ready to cook the chicken, preheat the oven to 425ºF. Place the room temperature chicken in a skillet or a roasting dish and set it in the oven. Roast until the thigh registers 165ºF on a meat thermometer, about 1 hour and 15 inures. Let the chicken rest at least 10 minutes before carving (ripping) and eating it.
Mustard vinaigrette
From Jody Williams' Buvette: The Pleasure of Good Food. OK, so this vinaigrette makes everything taste French. And by French, I mean good. And by good, I mean dip a piece of chicken in it and lick your fingers good. Don't say I didn't warn you.
– 2 large shallots, peeled and very finely chopped
– 1 t fresh thyme, finely chopped
– 1 small garlic clove, finely grated on a Microplane grater
– 3 T sherry vinegar
– 1/3 C extra-virgin olive oil
– 1 T water
– 2 T smooth Dijon or whole-grain mustard
– pinch sugar
– 1/2 t coarse salt
– a few grinds freshly ground pepper
Mix. Shake all the ingredients in a jar until they're well combined. Store in the refrigerator for up to a month.

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By constantly repeating, "I am free, I am free," a man verily becomes free. On the other hand, by constantly repeating, "I am bound, I am bound," he certainly becomes bound. The fool who says only, "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," verily drowns himself in worldliness. One should rather say: "I praise the name of God. How can I be a sinner? How can I be bound?" Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886)
Choose the path and teachings of a Guru who meets your liking and interest. Don't say bad things about other Gurus. Each Guru is special. Guru is God. God is Guru. The God to whom we pray comes in the form of a Guru. If we badmouth Gurus, we are bad-mouthing God. Sri Narayani Amma, head of the Narayani Peedham of Thirumalaikodi, Tamil Nadu, India
Is there a deeper tragedy than that of a man immersed in the pursuit of the not-self who has no time to realize the Divine Self within? Sadhu Vaswani, (1879-1966) founder the Sadhu Vaswani Mission
No idea has ever been defeated by force. To defeat an idea, you have to offer a better idea, a more attractive and acceptable one. Amos Oz, Israeli writer
When you give of yourself, you always receive more than you give.
Take up one idea and make that your life-- think of it, dream of it, live on it. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. One single soul with good motives, sincerity and infinite love can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes. Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), disciple of Sri Ramakrishna
Begin the day with love, spend the day with love, fill the day with love, end the day with love. Swami Bua Ji Maharaj (ca 1890-2010), Hindu of the Year 1998, spiritual teacher and extraordinary hatha yogi. Though he never disclosed his exact birth date, devotees say he reached 120 years, the ideal human lifespan mentioned in Hindu scripture.
It is Divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts. Your duty is to treat everybody, including yourself, as a manifestation of the Lord. Swami Sivananda (1887-1963), founder of the Divine Life Society, Rishikesh
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwrite
The reason I sanitized [Hinduism] is there's a lot of junk in it. Deepak Chopra, writer, as quoted by Newsweek
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, and that the living spring from the dead. Socrates, (470-399 bce) Greek philosopher
In between births we rest and learn and plan our next life. We all came here to do something. So do it and don't fool around!
Because I am finally beginning to notice some improvement. Master cello player Pablo Casals (1876-1973), when asked why he continued to practice at age 93
If numbers on the calendar were that significant, somewhere in the mid-morning of March 14, 2015, we would all become cosmically aware of pi (3.14.15, 9:26:54 am).
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The Bluebirds head into the Barclays Premier League encounter at the Cardiff City Stadium in desperate need of points having won just one of their last 12 league games.
Last weekend's 1-0 defeat at Tottenham was their fourth straight loss and left Cardiff just one point and one place off Fulham, who lie at the foot of the standings.
Cardiff are three points adrift of 17th-placed West Brom, who hold the last position of safety.
"It's the biggest game for us," Solskjaer said to www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk.
"Obviously, this game is massive
You just want your players to go out there, play and express themselves with no fear."
Solskjaer expects a battle against a Fulham side that have failed to win since beating West Ham on January 1.
"At this stage of the campaign, you look at the form and confidence and I don't think any of these two teams can say we are in top shape," he said.
"I don't think either side would be happy with a draw
There will be two teams that have to go out there and try to win the game
I think you will see some positive football from both sides.
"But we are at home
We've played some good games at home lately even though the Hull game (a 4-0 loss) was disappointing
"But we have dominated some games here and we should have scored two or three goals.
"Hopefully, this time we will get the rewards for all the work we have done."
Cardiff possess the least prolific attack in the division alongside Crystal Palace, with 19 goals scored in 28 games.
Moreover, the Bluebirds have failed to find the back of the net in their last four league games.
"You need goals to take points," Solksjaer said.
"We need to score goals
To get a win, you need to perform.
"You have to earn the right to win a game by doing the hard work and you have to get the quality there, especially going forward.
"Against Spurs we had so many one-on-one chances against the 'keeper, four times at least we should have been through.
"It's that little bit of extra quality that will get us some points."
Fortunately for Cardiff, Fulham have the leakiest back line in the Premier League with 62 goals given away.
Jordon Mutch is expected to start for the Bluebirds after he shook off a hamstring problem and played as a substitute at Tottenham
Felix Magath believes there is greater pressure on Cardiff than his Fulham side as the Welshmen are at home
Magath has emphasised the importance of home games as he hopes to overturn the one-point deficit to Cardiff to improve the rock-bottom Cottagers' predicament in the Premier League.
Magath refused to describe Saturday's match as a "must win", instead suggesting Cardiff have more to lose if the result does not go their way.
"Cardiff is in the worst situation, because Cardiff have a home game and they have to win," Magath said.
"They are one point better than us
It's not enough for them to avoid relegation.
"They have to win, so it's a good situation for us
I'm convinced that will give us a chance, with counter-attacks, to create chances and to score.
"In our situation you have to especially take care of the home games.
"You have to win the home games, with support from the fans
If you go away it is very difficult to say you must win."
Magath recognises the boost his side would take from winning at Cardiff.
"It's very important for us to have the first win," he said.
"Teams who have not won so much in the last games need confidence
The best confidence you can get is if you win.
"Now we are behind the other teams
That is more difficult than to be in 17th place or 18th or 19th place, when you left teams behind you.
"We have all the teams above us
We need to make the first step, to get one place higher and that will give us confidence."
Magath admitted following last week's loss to Chelsea that his side's defending must improve if Fulham are to avoid relegation.
He is certain they will and has confidence his team can their build on their first-half defensive display against Chelsea.
He added: "We stopped defending last week in the second half.
"What a team can do for 45 minutes a team is able to do for 90 minutes.
"We have to make it for 90 minutes, not only till half-time."
Striker Kostas Mitroglou could feature despite concerns over his hamstrings and match fitness.
Midfielder Scott Parker (knee) is out and winger Damien Duff (knee) has likely played his last game of the season, and possibly for the Cottagers as he is out of contract this summer.
Defender Fernando Amorebieta is still out, while William Kvist is likely to miss out with hamstring problems, despite playing 90 minutes for Denmark at Wembley on Wednesday night.
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Cut from near the top of the chuck, arm roast holds a large round bone and many small muscles.
Cross Rib Roast
Also called Boston cut or English cut, this is a square roast with two or three ribs and a pocket of seam fat. When boneless, it's called an English roll.
Chuck-Eye Roast
Made up of a single muscle, this is one of the more tender chuck roasts.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Infection is a stronger trigger of stroke death in African- Americans than in whites, a University of Michigan study shows.
African-Americans were 39 times more likely to die of a stroke if they were exposed to an infection in the previous month when compared to other time periods while whites were four times more likely and Hispanics were five times more likely to die of stroke after an infection, according to the findings that appear online Feb. 7 in Neurology.
The most frequent infections were urinary, skin, and respiratory tract infections and occurred within 30 days of a stroke.
"Infection before stroke appears to be most lethal for black Americans," says lead author Deborah A. Levine, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of medicine in the division of general medicine in the U-M Medical School. "We know that African- Americans have a much greater risk of dying from a stroke than white Americans, and we wanted to know if infection – which research suggests is a stroke trigger – might contribute to this disparity."
Infection is believed to promote the formation of blood clots and fat buildup in arteries, which block the artery and stop the flow of blood to the brain causing a stroke.
Racial disparities in stroke death continue to widen in the U.S. where blacks are twice as likely to die from stroke as whites. The new findings show that all ethnic and racial groups had a higher risk of stroke following an infection but there were significant disparities in subsequent stroke deaths.
Infection appeared to be a trigger of stroke death in whites and Hispanics as well, but it was particularly potent in African-Americans.
Infection also occurred more often before stroke death in black Americans, with 70 percent experiencing an infection in the 30 days before stroke death compared to a frequency of 15 percent in months that were not followed by a stroke death. Infection occurred less often before stroke death in white Americans, with 45 percent experiencing an infection in the month before stroke death compared to a frequency of 19 percent in months that were not followed by a stroke death.
Although earlier studies suggested that respiratory infections are the most potent triggers of stroke, Levine and colleagues found that urinary tract infections and skin infections seemed to be just as strong of triggers.
The study was based on data from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally-representative sample of older Americans that is conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research on behalf of the National Institute of Aging.
"Because of the higher stroke mortality rate among black Americans, there has been much attention on racial differences in vascular risk factors, like hypertension, and health behaviors but less attention on acute exposures that might contribute to racial differences in stroke deaths," Levine says.
"It is unclear why acute infection is more common, more lethal, or a more powerful trigger for stroke death in black Americans. Genetic risks, clinical, economic or environmental factors, and differences in access to health care are potential reasons. We need further studies to better understand this disparity so we can prevent more black Americans from dying of stroke, particularly after infection," Levine says.
Additional Authors: Kenneth Langa, M.D., Ph.D. and Mary A.M. Rogers, Ph.D., both of U-M.
Disclosures: None
Funding: National Institutes of Health Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (R21HL093129)
Reference: "Acute Infection Contributes to Racial Disparities in Stroke Mortality," Neurology, Feb.7, 2014.


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Bella Luna & The Milky Way offer a diverse array of music programming in Boston. Our programming is inclusive, fun, purposeful with a welcoming party atmosphere. We offer dance nights and live music everything from GLBTQ friendly dance nights, reggae, soca, dancehall, afrobeat, hip-hop, indie rock, latin, folk and more!
Who's performed here: Ed OG, Kumani Marley, Dead Prez, Anthony B, Eli "Paper Boy" Reed, Le Tigre, Dennis Brennan and more!
All shows Thu-Sat after 9PM are 21+.
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"The Mountaintop" has begun a potential ascent to box office heights, climbing steadily in a frame when most of the Main Stem remained flat.
The Angela Bassett-Samuel L. Jackson starrer, which opened Oct. 13 to a mixed bag of reviews, climbed by about $130,000 to $789,727 in Week 21 (Oct. 17-23), playing to about 94% of capacity. Among plays, that puts "Mountaintop" second only to "War Horse" ($985,848).
Several of the Rialto's previewing plays also posted rises, although most of those boosts could be attributed to the fact that those plays increased the number of performances they played to the standard eight.
The majority of Broadway productions barely budged, with most sales fluctuations unremarkable, and a few close to imperceptible. Cume rose a slight $200,000 to $21.5 million for the 26 shows on the boards.
Attendance stepped up slightly to 232,997, or 88%, well ahead of the 79% logged during the same frame last year.
The 19 musicals grossed $17,744,606 for 82.4% of the Broadway total, with attendance of 187,059 and an average paid admission of $94.86.
The seven plays grossed $3,783,343 for 17.6% of the Broadway total, with attendance of 45,938 and an average paid admission of $82.36.


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The iconic rock band ASIA will take to the stage of the Pullo Family Performing Arts Center (The Pullo Center) at Penn State York at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17. Ticket prices are $49.50 and $39.50 and are on sale now at The Pullo Center Box Office, charge by phone at 717-505-8900, or online at http://pullocenter.yk.psu.edu. Penn State York students can purchases one ticket at the special price of $20.
Well-known British rock band ASIA is about to embark on its 2014 Gravitas World Tour, incorporating visits to Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. The band is taking to the road in support of its acclaimed new CD, Gravitas, introducing its newest member, guitarist Sam Coulson.
ASIA's debut album exploded onto the music scene in April 1982, with several Top 10 singles including "Heat of the Moment" and "Only Time Will Tell". It became the best-selling album in the World in 1982. Featuring Geoff Downes on keyboards, Sam Coulson on guitar, Carl Palmer on drums and John Wetton on lead vocal and bass, ASIA was the logical successor to their collective bands of the 70s – Yes, ELP, King Crimson, UK, and The Buggles.
ASIA became one of the most played acts during the first year of MTV. Throughout most of 1982, Asia ruled the radio airwaves and MTV, selling out every date on tour as the debut album crushed all the competition in record stores around the World.
For ASIA's long-devoted fans, the band's return to the concert stage cannot come soon enough.
Drummer Carl Palmer said, "Performing on stage is where this band truly comes into its element. Seeing the fans reacting to our music is what makes it all worthwhile. It is the fuel that drives this train we call ASIA."


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The Great Art of Embarrassment
Writing Home
The Madness of King George III
The Madness of George III
Sydney and Linda are characters in a play by Alan Bennett, entitled Kafka's Dick.1 Sydney, like Kafka, is an insurance man. He is interested in books, or, more precisely, in the people who write them. He likes biographies: "I'd rather read about writers than read what they write." Linda, his wife, does not share her husband's literary interests. But she has picked up one or two tidbits; she knows that Auden wore no underpants, and that "Mr. Right for E.M. Forster was an Egyptian tramdriver." Some day, she says, she'll read and "learn the bits in between." Sydney, exasperated by his wife's obtuseness, explains why she has missed the point: "This is England. In England facts like that pass for culture. Gossip is the acceptable face of intellect."
Two years ago the book at the top of the British best-selling lists was Alan Clark's Diaries, a banquet of social and political gossip. The bestselling book last year was Writing Home, a collection of Alan Bennett's diaries, articles, and notes. This was also the pundits' first choice in the annual lists of best books of the year. The second choice was a new biography of Evelyn Waugh. Sydney was right: the thirst of the British public for gossip is unslakable. The popular press thrives on sensational tittle-tattle about the private lives of public figures. The more upmarket papers publish ever more "profiles." And British publishers produce an endless flow of letters, diaries, biographies, and autobiographies. There is no life in this nation of rather diffident and private people that is not worth prying into.
What makes Alan Bennett's stylish and witty diaries so remarkable is that this ostentatiously diffident and private playwright has turned himself into a public act. Alan Bennett is having a fantastic success playing Alan Bennett. His act is studied, but also intimate. As a man, who, in his own words, "can scarcely remove his tie without first having a police cordon thrown round the building," he tours the country, from bookshop to bookshop, reading, quite beautifully, his private thoughts to a huge audience. He has created a person, in his diaries, his television appearances, and his readings, who is both real and utterly theatrical. As well as being a playwright, Bennett is a fine actor, who started his career in 1960, as a member of the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe. His public rendering of his private thoughts is far from being an exercise in "letting it all hang out." With Bennett, self-deprecation is a form of self-control.
Bennett's public role happens to be one the British adore: the most successful playwright of his time as a nebbish with bicycle clips. Public envy, so easy to ignite, is undercut by his self-presentation as a socially crippled eccentric in tweeds and owlish glasses. Here he is, remembering his early days in Beyond the Fringe (you must imagine a…
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text: FIFA President Sepp Blatter (R) says football reflects all aspects of society, including violence [AFP]Richard Nieuwenhuizen was doing what he loved: Watching his son play football and helping out his local club by running the touchline as a volunteer linesman.On Monday, the 41-year-old father's passion for football cost him his life.Prosecutors announced on Tuesday they are charging three players, two 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old, with manslaughter, assault and public violence for alleged involvement in a vicious attack on Nieuwenhuizen after a youth match between two local clubs, Buitenboys and Nieuw Sloten. The players, whose identities have not been released, will be arraigned on Thursday at a closed-door hearing. The Dutch football association has cancelled all amateur matches for the coming weekend as a mark of respect for thevolunteer.The Royal Netherlands Football Association says that professional teams will hold a minute's silence before their weekend matches and players and officials will wear black armbands.Prosecutors have released no details of a possible motive and Buitenboys club chairman Marcel Oost said the reason for the attack was not certain. "We still don't have a clear picture yet," prosecution spokeswoman Brigit Haan said.The deadly assault sent shock waves through the football-mad Netherlands, with the sports minister, football association and coach of the country's most storied club, Ajax, expressing disbelief and discontent.The attack hit at one of the foundations of Dutch youth sport - the participation of parents.On any given weekend, at thousands of sports grounds across the Netherlands, parents are the engine that powers youth sport. They volunteer for everything from brewing tea to marking out lines on fields and wielding whistles and flags as referees and linesmen.In the overwhelming majority of matches, players and parents enjoy the sport and then have a drink together in the clubhouse.But sometimes frustrations boil over into violence after the final whistle. History Amsterdam alderman Eric van der Burg, whose portfolio in the city covers sports, said the team from Nieuw Sloten had been in trouble twice before, once for verbally abusing a referee and once when a player got into a fight with a spectator. The player involved in the fight was suspended by the club, Van der Burg said in an email. He said the city already has an agreement from four-time European champions Ajax at the top all the way down to small local clubs to prevent aggression on and around fields."It's important that parents but also the professional players give good examples how to behave," Van der Burg said. "Sports should be fun." "Football is a mirror of society and sadly, the same ills that afflict society - in this case violence - also manifest themselves in our game" FIFA President Sepp Blatter Even FIFA President Sepp Blatter weighed in on the national debate about how such an attack could happen."Football is a mirror of society and sadly, the same ills that afflict society - in this case violence - also manifest themselves in our game," Blatter said on Tuesday in a statement. "Nevertheless, I remain convinced that football - through the example set by the tireless efforts of people like Mr.Nieuwenhuizen - is a force for good, and we must continue to use its positive example to educate people against these wrongs."Prosecutors say a group of Nieuw Sloten players surrounded Nieuwenhuizen after the match Sunday, kicking and punching him.Nieuwenhuizen initially appeared to have recovered from the assault at the club whose fields are squeezed into an industrial neighborhood of Almere, a fast-growing commuter city just outside Amsterdam. He went home and lay down, but returned later to watch another game. It was then that he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital.A day later, with his family surrounding his hospital bed, he died. A few hours later, decorations marking Wednesday's St. Nicholas day - a national celebration similar to Christmas - were still hanging at the Buitenboys clubhouse as team members wept and consoled one another. SOURCE: AP Sport Football


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Welcome, Everyone! And welcome, Historical Romance/Suspense Writer, J Carol Nemeth!
This week we chat with J Carol Nemeth, an inspirational writer of historical romances with some suspense thrown in. Carol tells a fascinating life story, so let's circle up and make a new friend.
Carol is offering one of her books as a give-away, so be sure to comment below to be included in the drawing.
The winner of one of Carol's books—Dedication to Love—is Diana Corsiber!! Congratulations, Diana. Thanks for participating in the chat. Please come again.
Pre-Author Life of J Carol Nemeth
A North Carolinian through and through, I was born in Burlington to the best parents in the world. My father pastored a country Baptist church, so I was raised in church and at the age of six I came to know Christ as my savior. I have an older sister and a younger brother and, as a family, we traveled around the southeastern United States, camping wherever we went. That's where I acquired my love of camping and the outdoors.
J Carol Nemeth's College and Early Career
After graduating from Centerville Christian School in South Boston, VA, I attended Bob Jones University and studied art. Although it wasn't the Lord's will for me to continue in that field, He opened different doors.
As a Park Aide for the National Park Service in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, I worked at Twentymile Ranger Station and at the Deep Creek Campground and Ranger Station. I absolutely loved my job. My favorite duty was horse patrol and caring for my tall four-legged friends, Billy Boy, Blackie and Fargo.
A Change of Path for J Carol Nemeth
Once again, the Lord changed my path. I joined the US Army. Trained in communications, I worked in the COMM center at Camp Darby, Livorno, on the Mediterranean coast of Italy, a few miles from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. I traveled to thirteen countries while stationed in Europe. I planned to return to college for a degree in Parks and Recreation and return to the Park Service.
However, God planned otherwise, and I'm so thankful He did. I met my husband, Mark, while stationed in Italy; he was also active Army. I resigned from the Army, and Mark and I married. He's the love of my life and my best friend and we've been married for almost thirty-two years. (Tweet That!)
Family Life of J Carol Nemeth
We lived in various locations, including North Yorkshire, England, where our daughter was born. We now live in West Virginia, where, in our spare time, we enjoy camping and sight-seeing. Mark and I are very active in our church and we love spending time with our two grown children Matthew and Jennifer and our son-in-law Flint, and spoiling our three grandchildren Martin, Ava and Gage.
J Carol Nemeth's Debut Author Experience
First, my writing career began in junior high school but would take a long time to come to fruition. I started many books but never fully completed any.
Then, after the birth of my daughter in 1990, I wrote a novel set in North Yorkshire, England where we lived. I submitted it to various publishing companies but, after receiving many encouraging words, still no one wanted to publish this new author. I found out just how difficult it is to pitch a story to a publisher and that it is far easier to write the story.
Thereafter, I tried to get an agent, but no one was interested. Discouraged, I questioned if writing was truly my calling as I'd thought. I rewrote and revised several times but no one wanted to take a chance. I continued writing other stories, while waiting, but found it difficult to finish them. What was the point if no one would publish them?
But in March of 2016, I read a book written by an author friend of mine. I noticed a web address for Forget Me Not Romances. Having never heard of them before, I decided to look into it further. I sent my proposal to Cynthia Hickey, the editor, and within three days had an offer to publish my first novel, Yorkshire Lass. (Click to Tweet!) She was willing to take a chance on me, and I'm very grateful for that opportunity. It was a long twenty-three year road to publication, but our time is not God's time and His timing is perfect.
What's Up With Carol Nemeth Now?
In February, I published the novella Dedication to Love as a stand-alone book. It's a historical novella set in 1940 in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is now part of a historical collection entitled A National Park Romance by Forget Me Not Romances that released earlier this month.
Currently, I'm working on my Faith in the Parks series, four full-length suspense/romance novels set in different National Parks
Where Can Readers Find J Carol Nemeth?
Facebook: @J.CarolNemeth
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Lord, we continue to be awed by Your providential ways. In particular, we applaud Carol's inspirational writing that points the way to You. Bless Carol's every effort for You. ~ For Jesus' sake
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Hello Carol so nice to meet a new author. Historical fiction is one of my favorite genre to read and your book and novella along with the National Park Collection series sound like great ones to read. Your travels has taken you many places. I was in West Virginia for a wedding a couple years ago (friend was from Illinois who was getting married) and she loves living in WV now. Beautiful country with the scenery. I'll look forward to reading your books–my TBR list keeps growing.
Hi Marilyn. We've lived in WV for 18 years and love it. It truly is a beautiful state. I'm originally from NC and that's where my heart will always be, but WV comes in a close second because I love the mountains. They remind me of my favorite Smoky Mountains. I do hope you get a chance to read my books and enjoy them. The novella and the first of the Park series are set in the Smokies. Book one is finished & I'm working on book two. I don't have a release date yet, but keep watching for it. When it's ready for release, I'll announce on Facebook first. Thanks for stopping by! Nice to meet you!
Great interview! I love getting to know more about authors!
Hi, Diana! So glad you stopped by. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. I'll do my best to answer them. I enjoy meeting fellow book lovers!


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|Match the people to the correct task!
The matching of shapes seems like a simple concept. Fitting pieces into a puzzle requires matching shapes if you want to see the final picture. Putting Legos together to make a recognizable form requires a bit of skill and vision of what the final product should look like. Building a home or office building requires planning the assembly of the pieces to achieve the final stable and attractive form. The matching of pieces of something is critical to building everything. This includes building a startup.
Entrepreneurs spend time studying to prepare the business plan and slide show. They obtain the IP rights required to own the technology. They carefully select advisors and mentors. The assembly of the business structure and form is like putting a puzzle together. Matching square pegs to square holes and round pegs to round holes.
Once the business is ready, the entrepreneur starts to recruit top employees to create a team. Some entrepreneurs have prior experience recruiting and managing personnel, while others have NONE. Recruiting and managing personnel is more than picking the best and brightest. The matching of skills and personalities is just as critical to proper team construction. Place the wrong people in the wrong spots and they will be unhappy, perform poorly, or be disruptive. Hire poorly and you can end up with a very dysfunctional team: read "Supervising Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs."
Some of the best people may be terrible fits for your startup. They have the skills but are unable to adapt to the environment. The personalities may mismatch with the team. Your lack the ability to place them in the correct job or your management style is bad for that employee. The meshing of people to the correct positions and ensuring a highly functional team takes practice and tuning. Hiring them and assigning a role followed by lack of monitoring can lead to disaster.
A recruiter once stated that a question asked during the hiring process is, "What do you need to do your job?" Running a lean startup is different from working in a Big Company. A tentative employee that provides a laundry list may need that level of support. An employee that says a checkbook and a rolodex might be a better fit. Hiring a project manager is important in some companies. Project managers keep projects moving properly and meet the milestones on time. Hiring an imaginative, inventive, idea person for this position may be a horrible fit because they require a more creative role. Tasking them with a job requiring a high level of focus on detail and timing will be boring and constrain them.
Keep in mind that building a business does require fitting the pieces together and placing them appropriately. This includes the PEOPLE! The team should be highly functional and mesh well. They need to work and play well with each other. This requires a great fit for all to ensure they are happy and productive.
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When injuries deprived pre-season favorite Haverford School of an All-American goalie and one of its top scorers during the first month of the soccer season, the quest for the 2010 Inter-Ac League title became a wide-open race.
No one school had an overwhelming amount of talent, so the team that could maintain its focus and muster just a little more desire than its rivals would have a good chance to claim the championship. That team turned out to be William Penn Charter, which won the league outright this fall thanks to a 3-2 victory over Germantown Academy in the final game of the season on November 13.
The Quakers finished with an Inter-Ac record of 6-2-2, which translated into 20 points in the league standings, where three points are awarded for a win, and one point for a tie. In another November 13 contest, Haverford defeated Episcopal Academy, 2-0, to wind up just one point behind PC, with a record of 6-3-1.
At 4-5-1, GA and Episcopal tied for third place, then came Malvern Prep at 3-5-2 and Chestnut Hill Academy, at 2-5-3. On November 5 CHA helped Penn Charter's cause by coming from behind to tie Haverford, 1-1. The Quakers also played to a stalemate that day (1-1 at Episcopal), but still remained one point ahead of the Fords in the standings.
When Charter topped Chestnut Hill, 3-1, in the next-to-last game of the season, the Quakers were in control of their own destiny and would win the league if they prevailed against the Patriots on November 13. The pivotal contest was part of the annual GA-PC Day celebration, and this guaranteed a large crowd of the teams' customary supporters along with plenty of returning alumni.
U.S. Olympian Chris Albright, a 1997 graduate of Penn Charter, was on hand. In fact, Quakers' coach Bob DiBenedetto reported, "Chris was around all week. He talked to the kids at halftime of one of the games and he was just very encouraging and supportive. I really appreciated it and I know it meant a lot to our guys."
GA had beaten Charter 1-0 in their first encounter this fall, and the Patriots scored the first goal in the rematch two weekends ago. The Quakers knew that Germantown, like most of PC's opponents, would be keeping a close watch on Rob Friskey, a senior who has committed to Cornell University.
Coach DiBenedetto explained, "Friskey had so many goals in the preseason that teams in the league just homed in on him, and Michael Goldman was smart enough to take advantage of that."
Goldman, whose college short list includes the University of Pennsylvania, proceeded to score a natural hat trick in the final game, putting the Quakers up 3-1 at halftime. What appeared to be a fourth goal for the PC senior was wiped out by an offsides call.
On a direct kick with about three minutes remaining Germantown made it a one-goal game, 3-2, and that's how it ended as Charter's senior goalie, Michael Baron, logged eight saves for the day. Baron, who's headed south for Emory University, accumulated eight shutouts this season, four of them in league games. He was named the Inter-Ac League MVP for 2010.
"It's impossible to replace the seniors we're losing," stated DiBenedetto. "You have a guy like Dan Schuman, who's been there at sweeper for three years and has done a great job. Jeff Blechschmidt, in the middle of the field, is as good as any player in the league, in my opinion."
Also among the departing upperclassmen are Max Mandelbaum and Perry Rosenberg, along with Grant Guyer and Tyler White, who will both be playing lacrosse at Dickinson College.
"In a school this size, you're not going to have an entire team of guys whose main sport is soccer," said DiBenedetto. "But those guys who only play soccer during the school season were just as committed as the ones who play all year. The older guys who didn't start and didn't get a ton of playing time were always enthusiastic and encouraged the younger guys. We needed that because we started six or seven sophomores and freshmen, depending on the line-up on a given day."
Back-up goalkeeper Ben Krieger was the only junior on the roster, and looks to be the lone senior starter next season. Sophomores Sam Agre, Josh Cannon, Ray Vandegrift and Zach Weinberg regularly appeared in the starting line-up, and were spelled by classmates Etienne Dumas, Ted Foley, and Ed McLaughlin.
As the Quakers' primary marking back, Agre was usually assigned to guard the opposing team's top scorer, and DiBenedetto pointed out "In the league games he didn't give up a goal to any of the kids he was marking."
Ninth graders Sean O'Brien and Matt Sullivan started in the midfield, and Cole Brown was usually the first freshman off the bench. The other rookies who made the varsity squad were Brad Jones and Ian Reagan.
Penn Charter laid the foundation for a successful run the in league by playing non-league clubs such as nationally-prominent St. Benedict's Prep (Newark, NJ), Delaware power St. Mark's, and strong Philadelphia Catholic League squads like Archbishop Wood and St. Joe's Prep.
On October 2 the Quakers' overall record stood at 5-5; from that point on they would go 8-2-2 to finish with a mark of 13-7-2.
"Winning the first two games in the league was huge," said DiBenedetto, referring to 1-0 victories over Episcopal and Malvern. Then came a 1-0 setback against defending champion GA, a game which the PC mentor admitted his team did not deserve to win.
"GA played a good game and we didn't respond," he stated. "I was so sick to my stomach after that game I couldn't go to work the next day. I thought it might have cost us the league."
His players, especially the seniors, were also upset by the letdown. They redoubled their efforts and PC only lost one game the rest of the way, a 2-0 decision at Haverford that put the Fords one point behind the Quakers. Next up was the rematch with Episcopal on November 2, and while the game was still in progress (and tied 1-1), DiBenedetto learned that the CHA-Haverford game that same afternoon had ended in a tie.
"Rather than gamble going for the win, we played it safe because a tie would still keep us ahead in the league," the PC mentor said. "The kids weren't necessarily happy with that at the time, but I told them that it would work out in the end."
That game took place on November 5, and three days later DiBenedetto's wife, Adrienne, gave birth to their fourth child.
"I was at the hospital for a couple of hours and then she let me go," he said. "She's a soccer wife, and she knew I was itching to get out to practice."
The following day the Quakers defeated Chestnut Hill, setting the stage for the title-clinching showdown against GA.
"Seeing the seniors' faces after we won the league was priceless, and I told them 'You guys will remember this forever.' " DiBenedetto related. "All season long the kids did everything that we [the coaches] asked them to do. It doesn't happen that much in high school, but I was lucky enough to have a group of kids that just stuck with the plan."


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An ex-interrogator talks about torture
11 May 2012
In what promises to be a challenging Sydney Writers' Festival event, Danielle Celermajer, director of the University of Sydney's Torture Prevention and Human Rights programs, will be in conversation with Glenn Carle, a former CIA interrogator and the author of The Interrogator: A CIA agent's true story.
The session will pose the questions: how is it that our supposedly liberal democratic governments engage in torture? What does it say about our political culture that this is an acceptable way to fight terrorism?
"Many people think of torture as something evil people do - people who exist in a different universe and are contaminated with some type of metaphysical taint. But again and again we see torture is committed by normal people in an environment where abhorrent behaviours are normalised," said Celermajer.
"US citizens think of themselves as moral, upstanding, civilised people, but now we have a situation where there is a broad acceptance for torture committed by the United States military and CIA."
Her co-presenter at the event, Glenn Carle, is a strong critic of US government practice. He was a member of the CIA's Directorate of Operations for 23 years and worked in a number of posts on four continents. His last position was as deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats, where his office was responsible for strategic analysis of terrorism, international organised crime and narcotics issues. He retired in March 2007.
"Glenn was horrified at the way torture came to be normalised in the CIA and accepted in a post-9/11 world," said Celermajer, an associate professor in sociology and director of two European Union-funded programs, one exploring more effective approaches to torture prevention, which focuses on the military and police in Sri Lanka and Nepal.
Celermajer says the discussion will focus on how cultures of violence develop.
"We will talk about his experiences as outlined in his book The Interrogator, but I want to tie the discussion back to questions that are directly relevant to Australians, such as how we have also imperceptibly created permissive environments for human rights violations to happen," she says.
"For example, the systematic violations against Indigenous people and against people who come to this country seeking asylum. Those violations are happening right under our noses - on our watch.
"How does it happen that we silently change our world and that we cannot see the violence committed in our name? We also consider ourselves ethical people, and if we looked at our own situation from the outside we would be saying 'oh my God, that's intolerable'."
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Iowan creates music-inspired perfumes
An Ames woman took a make-your-own perfume kit, a birthday present from her husband, and turned it into a business.
Amanda Freeley said she uses music to inspire her own natural perfumes. She now had 13 different perfumes.
Freeley works at her dining room table mixing the fragrances using drop by drop of oils.
"It's a matter of study and experimenting," said Freeley.
Feeley's not just creating a perfume, she's composing music for the nose.
"Composing perfume is so much like that because you have notes and you have chords and you have composition, and you want it to be well-balanced," said Freeley.
A classically trained vocalist, Feeley felt an instant connection to the art of perfumery after finding a chart from an 18th century English perfumer that identified scents as musical notes.
"They talk about a light bulb moment, well that was my light bulb moment," said Freeley.
With her musical background, it only seems fitting that Feeley's scents were selected as a gift for the artists at this year's Country Music Awards.
She had to submit samples of her work to first be reviewed before being selected.
"I felt that was a really big feather in my cap, you know, this quality work that I'm doing and they saw the value in that," said Freeley.
The value, Feeley believes, comes from using all natural products. She has shelves of oils that she blends together to hit all the right notes for her customers.
"It's not just that you're putting on something that smells good. You're putting on something that makes you feel good," said Freeley.
Unlike many commercially made perfumes, Feeley said it's a feeling intended just for the person wearing it.
"Nice thing about natural perfumes is they're not something that, nobody's going to smell you as soon as you walk in the door and they're not going to smell you for 20 minutes later," said Freeley.
Feeley said that's a good thing.
You don't have to be a country music star to try one of Feeley's perfumes. You can buy them at the Artisan Peace Store on Main Street in Ames or online at http://esscentualalchemy.mysupadupa.com/


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…from the 2010 Raid at Martin's Station.
The fort's website has posted a slew of fine images, including some photos of the artillery in action, with your humble blogger making an appearance. Here we are maneuvering the grasshopper into position, and here we're giving the Indians a dose of canister. Note the fellow with the wide-brimmed hat, dark waistcoat, green breeches, and fingertips hardened from blogging.
I had a glorious time, gained a new perspective on Revolutionary-era warfare, and did not blow my own face off. HUZZAH!
While browsing around the web in search of photos of the event, I also ran across a few items posted by participants with their own historical blogs, which I've added to my blogroll here. Let me direct your attention to a series of posts (here, here, and here) by a physician who was on hand to tend to the wounded and instruct the young in the art of eighteenth-century medicine.
While I was standing inside the fort with the rest of the cannon crew before we went into action, I spotted an intrepid frontierswoman shouldering a firelock in order to head out and do battle with the menfolk. It turns out she has a blog, too, and you can read her account of the raid here.
Finally, you'll find a number of additional photos by browsing through recent threads at this discussion forum, which is well worth your time.
My thanks to the park staff and all the living historians who were present for making a first-time reenactor feel welcome. When do we get to do it again?


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Is failure not an option? Are you always trying to be perfect? According to therapist Ann Smith, author of "Overcoming Perfectionism: Finding the Key to Balance & Self-Acceptance," the need to be perfect can be both physically and emotionally damaging.
"The stigma of perfectionism isn't as bad as other compulsions such as smoking, gambling, or alcoholism, but it can cause someone to be physically ill, lead to depression, shame and in some cases even suicide," Smith said.
According to Smith, there are two types of perfectionism — the overt and the covert.
"The overt or the visible perfectionists are the ones who are very organized, put together and on time," she said. "Then there are the covert perfectionists, who may not look very put together, but their mental sense of themselves is very critical. Their self-talk is negative. 'I'm never enough. I can't do it right.' They compare themselves to others all the time. They will often have friendships with people who they perceive to be better than them and they try to live up to it, but they fall short. So it's perfectionist thinking rather than perfectionist behavior."
Smith said perfectionists are born with the tendency to want things to be in order, and that circumstances such as family trauma, addiction, marital troubles or poverty can magnify the compulsion.
"For children who are in these circumstances, they will often start to use order to comfort themselves," she said. "If they feel anxious, they will literally put things in order, line things up, make thing symmetrical. Then they will isolate and won't tell people that they are struggling or feeling lonely and exhausted."
Smith said a combination of awareness, balance and self-acceptance can help fight the need to be perfect.
Here are some of Smith's tips to overcome perfectionism:
Slow down.
"Do this right now," she said. "Walk slower, talk slower, be slower about accomplishing what's on your list. Act like there is no hurry to get there. Perfectionists are always thinking, 'After I get this done then I will breathe,' and they never get around to it because there's always something else to do."
Put people first.
"You could walk in your office and just rush to your desk and do your email. But if you could connect just a little bit to a person, and do this on and off all day, you will be better off. Focus on your relationships. Just say, 'Hi.' Then when you get home, touch somebody important to you. Check in with them. This will fill up your emotional bank account."
"We need to stop complicating things by bringing in people you don't really need to have in your life," she said. "This can be with things as well. If you are buying books that you never read and you don't get rid of the ones you did read. Things keep coming in but nothing is going out. Be more selective in every category."
Express your concerns.
"A perfectionist can't ask you to be perfect with them," she said. "If someone in your life is being compulsive about perfectionism, tell them, 'If this is how you need to be, then I'm not going to participate in it.' Tell them how it feels to be around them. Be honest. What makes people change is when they see their values are out of line with their perfectionism. That is why I see people making the change — when other people, especially their children — are being harmed by the behavior."
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Love yourself.
"All of this pushing for approval is really about love. When you look at your child and you see the things that are unique to your child that are different from other children — his strengths and weaknesses and his cuteness and his way of thinking, even his appearance — you adore it all. That's his essence. We need to do that with ourselves. Find your essence or your temperament — and know that all those traits are unique. Everybody has different traits and some of them are easy to live with and some are not but you are who you are. You need to love all the pieces, because it's through the struggles that we discover our strengths."
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XMM-Newton celebrates decade of discovery
ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory is celebrating its 10th anniversary. During its decade of operation, this remarkable space observatory has supplied new data for every aspect of astronomy. From our cosmic backyard to the further reaches of the Universe, XMM-Newton has changed the way we think of space.
On 10 December 1999, an Ariane 5 blasted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, carrying the 10 m-long XMM-Newton satellite. It spent eight days manoeuvring into its operational orbit around Earth, a highly elliptical circuit that reaches a third of the way to the Moon. XMM-Newton's three gold-coated mirror modules began focusing X-rays onto its five instruments soon afterwards. An optical monitoring camera allows astronomers to pinpoint their targets. What began as a steady stream of new data turned into a flood, with more than 2200 research papers now published based upon XMM-Newton's observations.
"10 years is a long time for a space mission; we have made progress in all aspects of astronomy," says Norbert Schartel, ESA Project Scientist for the mission.
X-rays from space are usually produced under the most extreme conditions, often from dramatic celestial events. They can be generated in the intense gravitational and magnetic fields surrounding celestial objects such as neutron stars and black holes, or when gigantic clouds of gas collide within clusters of galaxies.
XMM-Newton has excelled at studying black holes or, more accurately, their environment. By identifying X-rays given off by iron atoms, it has probed the way black holes twist the fabric of space-time around themselves. It has also revealed the way in which supermassive black holes grow and drive the evolution of the most massive galaxies in the Universe, and it has traced the development of the largest structures in space: galaxy clusters. It has tracked the production and dispersal of heavy chemical elements by exploding stars, and measured powerful magnetic activity coming from young Sun-like stars.
Closer to home, XMM-Newton has discovered that Mars has a vastly larger atmosphere than previously thought. The Red Planet's tenuous outer layer, known as its exosphere, extends to six times Mars' radius. It has shown that icy comets from the outer Solar System give off X-rays. Perhaps one of the most extraordinary results has been that XMM-Newton pinpointed a hot spot on a neutron star, 552 light-years away. The hotspot was just 60 m across, a minuscule patch to see so clearly from Earth orbit. The satellite then went on to make similar discoveries on two other neutron stars.
XMM-Newton has played its part in the study of dark matter, the hypothetical substance thought to outweigh normal matter by five to one. The favoured variety of dark matter would release X-rays or gamma rays if a particle decays. XMM-Newton has looked for these 'decay lines' in galaxy clusters but not found anything, helping theorists to constrain their ideas.
Today, XMM-Newton remains at the forefront of astronomy, supplying data to some 2000 astronomers around the world, who currently produce around 300 refereed papers every year. Every second of observing time is highly contested, with astronomers regularly requesting seven-fold the amount available every time the project team asks for new observing proposals.
As for the future, there is plenty left to study. The earlier Rosat telescope catalogued 125 000 X-ray sources, whereas XMM-Newton has studied only about 4300 of them. Even after its decade in space, the satellite remains in excellent shape. "Technologically, there's nothing to stop us continuing for another decade," says Schartel.
For more information:
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I think "social processes" should not be a main category. I think it should be a sub-category of social psychology. (I suppose that it could also be simultaneously a sub-category of sociology, but that's a secondary concern.) Comments? Jaywin 04:57, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
I have always been uncomfortable with the distinction between social processes and social psychology, partly because I have never been clear of the distinction. I have always thought this was due to my own ignorance and oneday we would find somebody who would sort this out clearly. Its really a distinction inherited from PsychInfo.
Could we try to mock up the categories and see how it looks. I sort of understood that social processes were a meta-level above social psychology which showed how the processes are expressed in psychological, as opposed to sociological terms.So a social process is say group dynamics. This can be studies from a psychological point of view in terms of Asch experiments or in sociological terms such as in analysis of the rise of Nazism, both expressing the force of the trend to conformity which would be the basic social process.
Is the above your understanding and how does this help? Dr Joe Kiff - User:Lifeartist (talk) 23:55, 20 August 2006 (UTC)


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"The BBC reporter who busted Katherine Harris' fake felon purge tells weird, hilarious and sick stories of the billionaires who are bankrolling the GOP; with hot new info on the Koch Brothers as well as the filthy rich you've never heard of from his new book & film." —Buzzflash
"Palast's prose has a zippy, breathless quality that might put you in mind of Michael Moore—'How does a ballot get spoiled? Not by leaving it out of the fridge'—but he's also an expert in statistics who reports regularly for the BBC, Rolling Stone and other outlets." —New York Times
"The most terrifying book a Democrat could read. Billionaires & Ballot Bandits delineates the potential theft of democracy." —Huffington Post
"A practical primer on how to exercise your right to vote on Election Day in the face of a calculated Republican multi-pronged plan to prevent you from casting a ballot by any means necessary." —News Blaze
"Palast … chronicles how many of America's super rich — the Koch brothers, hedge fund titan Paul Singer, Texan corporate raider Harold Simmons, among many others — have been patiently and prodigiously subsidizing campaigns not to 'get out the vote,' but to keep it down." —Too Much
"If you really want to understand the forthcoming US presidential election, read this book." —Green Left


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ABC is cutting the dance party short in the fall.
"Dancing With the Stars," the network's reality hit, will on longer air on Tuesday nights, with ABC condensing the performance show and results show into Monday's two-hour show.
ABC revealed its primetime schedule for the fall and in addition to "DWTS'" downsizing, sitcom "The Neighbors" has been moved to Fridays and "Suburgatory" being held for midseason.
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Plus, the network's two biggest new series of the fall "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," from Avengers director Joss Whedon, and "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland" received coveted timeslots...
NEWS: Check out Fox's fall schedule
8 p.m.: "Dancing With the Stars": Performance Show and Results Show
10 p.m.: "Castle"
8 p.m.: "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
9 p.m.: "The Goldbergs"
9:30 p.m.: "Trophy Wife"
10: 00 p.m.: "Lucky 7"
NEWS: NBC unveils its fall schedule
8 p.m.: "The Middle"
8:30 p.m.: "Back in the Game"
9 p.m.: "Modern Family"
9:30 p.m.: "Super Fun Night"
10 p.m.: "Nashville"
8 p.m.: "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland"
9 p.m.: "Grey's Anatomy"
10 p.m.: "Scandal"
NEWS: Meet the 25 guys competing for Desiree's love on "The Bachelorette"
8 p.m.: "Last Man Standing"
8:30 p.m.: "The Neighbors"
9 p.m.: "Shark Tank"
10 p.m.: "20/20"
8 p.m.: "Once Upon a Time"
9 p.m.: "Revenge"
10 p.m.: "Betrayal"
Midseason: Set to debut at midseason are new series "Mixology," "Resurrection," "Mind Games" and "Killer Women," along with returning series "Surburgatory."


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Mission Genealogy Club, British Columbia presents "Over and Under the Radar" with well-known Mission citizen Neville Cox, speaking about his experiences during WWII as a radar technician in the Royal Canadian Navy.
The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Oct. 27 at the Mission Library, 33247 Second Ave.
Everyone welcome.
If you want to find out about the Mission Genealogy Club, go to http://missiongen.8m.com/index.html.
They have a history of the club, what is included in their holdings (including family histories), and their library.


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Have raised $600+ for the CC foundation
Discussion Board › Forums › General Discussion › Have raised $600+ for the CC foundation
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Hello everyone, This foundation and the members of this website are like family to me. Without you all I would not have survived the 11 months my father lived after his diagnosis. I may not sign in much anymore but pray daily and in every business transaction CC foundation gets my money. My customers receive a special thank you card to show exactly how much money from the business goes to this organization.
In addition to donating money from every sales transaction thru my business I am selling beautiful hand beaded bracelets made by the women of Nepal. The women are being taught to make the bracelets in order to help provide for their families. You see in Nepal families are selling their young, young girls to business of sex trafficking in order for them to be able to provide for their families. Please visit http://www.friendsofmaitinepal.org/ for more information. Also look up the video called "The Day My God Died" a PBS documentary that exposes what is happening in Nepal. It follows a young 6 year old girl who was sold to this trade and it a very tragic situation.
My heart cries out for these families and young girls. Their life expectancy averages 6 more years after they enter into this trade. I purchase these bracelets with my own funds then turn around and sell the bracelets for $10 if you buy 2 or more bracelets. The full $10 is being donated to the CC foundation. Since I only learned of all this in July 2012, I have raised $600 for CC foundation. My goal is to raise a minimum of $5,000 by the end of this year to give to the CC foundation. This is in addition to the monies I donate when you purchase something from on-line retail store.
Help me exceed my $5,000 goal by purchasing a bracelet at $10 if you buy two or more bracelets. You can see the beautiful bracelets and the amount of work that goes into these bracelets on this website http://www.fairtradefashiondesigns.com/photos/.
When you order the bracelet, it matters not the color that you get. For in giving this $10/bracelet you will have helped save a life of a young girl and at the same time have donated that $10 to this foundation. You see I believe in a cure and will not stop working to raise money to help find that cure. You can buy the bracelets at http://www.maggiescollectibles.net or by emailing me at firstname.lastname@example.com
These bracelets travel with me and sell themselves. I am very honored to be able to help two very important causes near and dear to my heart.
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Spring Training Day 2
Like I mentioned yesterday, I decided that I didn't want to waste four hours of my day standing around at a run down parking lot behind the left field wall of McKechnie Field. With my girlfriend Amy, we decided to make better use of our time in Florida and head to a different beach.
There were thousands of sea shells on the beach, so we wrote something in 'shelligraphy.' Here's the finished product. I wrote 'Amy.'
After some beach fun, which included swimming in a cold, empty ocean, we headed to the Orioles Spring Training complex on the way to Bradenton.
He and some coaches were picking up the balls in the outfield.
I called out to one of the coaches and asked if he could toss a ball over. He did.
Then he asked, "How tall are you?" "About 6'5" I answered. I must've looked way taller because my whole head was above the six foot fence. I think there must've been a tiny mound or something I was standing on. "You look way taller than that!" The coach replied.
Not sure who he is, but thanks.
There was nothing else going on at this point, so we walked around and took some photos.
There were some cool trees bhind the center field wall:
And a woodpecker that kept drilling holes in the trees above us:
A view of Ed Smith Stadium off in the distance:
A look at the area behind the fences:
A baseball graveyard, protected by barbed wire:
One that didn't make it:
Here's a short video of the area where I got the ball at:
After a few minutes, we headed back to our illegally parked car (we weren't going to pay $9 for 15 minutes of standing outside of a baseball practice field). We then made the trip to Bradenton.
When we arrived, these are the lineups that both teams would put on the field today:
The Red Sox lineup was pretty disappointing – no David Ortiz, no Carl Crawford, no Adrian Gonzalez, no Dustin Pedroia.
We got there just as the game was starting and Mike Cameron was digging in for the Red Sox.
Here was a view of our seats. Notice the large crowd? It was the largest crowd ever in McKechnie Field's 42 year history.
Here's some pictures from the game, taken courtesy of Counting Baseballs' official blog photographer, Amy:
Jose Tabata, the Pirates starting left fielder, awaits a pitch. Hopefully Tabata can improve on his power numbers this year:
Josh Beckett, Boston's ace, took the mound for the Red Sox.
Here's a short video of Josh Beckett battling Garrett Jones:
Panorama of a packed house at McKechnie Field:
Pedro Alvarez prepares to react to a pitch:
The Grandstand at McKechnie Field:
John Bowker's home run swing, as he watches a towering fly ball clear the right field fence:
Brad Lincoln delivers a pitch:
JD Drew, one of the very few regulars from the Red Sox, at the plate:
Another long time Red Sox player, Jason Varitek:
Before we left, we checked out the Pirates' clubhouse store. Check out the new Pirates hoody this year. Amy is going to get it for me at PNC Park and use my Pirates' clubhouse store discount.
After the game, we headed back to the ocean for some beach fun.
Later, we had an epic game of miniature golf. On the way back to the hotel, we passed a miniature golf place. Trash talking ensued, and it was on.
The course had a big lake with fountains in the middle of it along with live gators.
By the third hole, I had a slim lead, and was feeling confident.
However, Amy, who typically slugs the heck out of the ball as if it were a driving range, started putting like a PGA pro golfer.
This video just demonstrates my bad luck:
I managed to hold a three stroke lead through the first 9 holes. I had a little bit of trouble in one of the mini golf caves,
but bounced back with a ridiculous hole in one soon after, the only one of the day.
I managed to keep a two stroke lead through most of the game, but started to get too overly confidant.
Another cave brought more bad luck for me.
I tried to distract Amy by pretending that I thought that the caves were actually real and that the golf course was built around the caves. The distraction didn't work, as she worked her magic and tied up the score.
The game came down to the very last hole. The score was tied up. I went first and the ball came to rest several feet from the hole. Amy came up and used pin point precision to put the ball 8 inches from the hole. It was an easy tap in for her. There was no way she could lose. I had to sink a long put just to tie and keep my non-losing streak in tact. I can't remember ever losing in miniature golf to a girl. That would all change today, I missed the putt, lost the game, and a private bet between Amy and I.
It was almost 11, so we went back to the hotel to relax before another day in Florida tomorrow.


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With the holidays approaching, tech news has been heating up. This week, we reviewed the Kindle Fire from Amazon and covered the important Stop Online Piracy Act hearings in Congress. But because this is Ars, we also ripped out a personal Web server and replaced it with something faster.
Here's the week's top tech news:
Don't call it a tablet: the Kindle Fire reviewed: The Kindle Fire has landed, and several of Amazon's promises have gone unfulfilled. But it's not bad so long as you keep repeating this mantra: the Kindle Fire is not a tablet.
A faster Web server: ripping out Apache for Nginx: Sometimes Apache can be overkill. Here's one man's tale of replacing his Apache install with a lightweight speed demon of a Web server called Nginx.
Kindle Fire first impressions: The Amazon Kindle Fire has arrived at the Ars Orbiting HQ, and so begins our intense media browsing, downloading, and consuming journey.
At Web censorship hearing, Congress guns for "pro-pirate" Google: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) had its first House hearing today, one arranged around a key goal: whacking Google and anyone else who objects to "common sense" Internet censorship.
Google releases Android 4 source code, but true openness still elusive: Google has announced that it is publishing the source code of Android 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. The code drop will also include the Honeycomb source history.
4chan hit by DDoS attack, struggling to get back online: The website 4chan was taken offline Sunday by a distributed denial-of-service attack, and the team behind 4chan is still struggling to get back online. 4chan was also hit by DDoS attacks almost a year ago.
It's official: America a land of young, casual pirates: 70 percent of young Americans have pirated content, but many are changing their ways in response to better legal offerings, and almost none are hardcore infringers.
Clickjack attacks plaguing Facebook with 4chan-like porn, violent imagery: A social engineering attack is spreading offensive images—including photoshopped images of Justin Beiber in compromising positions.
RIAA wants ReDigi out of the business of selling "used" iTunes tracks: A company that bills itself as "the world's first online marketplace for used digital music" just got a cease-and-desist letter from the Recording Industry Association of America.
Google opens music download store, welcomes artists to upload directly: Google Music is now open to the public and its streaming features will remain free. But that's not all: Google has also decided to begin selling music downloads directly to customers, and will even let artists upload their own content, bypassing music labels.


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I need an algorithm that can compare two text files and highlight their difference and ( even better!) can compute their difference in a meaningful way (like two similar files should have a similarity score higher than two dissimilar files, with the word "similar" defined in the normal terms). It sounds easy to implement, but it's not.
The implementation can be in c# or python.