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I have come across the following Canadian websites, social media items, and newspaper articles this past week that were of interest to me, and I thought you might be interested in them, too.
History Week in Canada
In 1780, Benedict Arnold escaped one day after his treason came to light in what was to become the United States. Arnold, a major-general, and commander of the American Fort West Point, had planned to surrender the fort to the British. He became a colonel in the British army, and later lived in Saint John, New Brunswick. He then returned to England, where he died in 1801.
For more information, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold
In 1962, the "Garden of the Provinces" in Ottawa was opened by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.
To read more about this park, that is opposite the Library and Archives Canada, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_the_Provinces_and_Territories
Social Media
(Blog) The Recipe Project
Valarie J. Korinek is the author of this blog, and a Professor of Canadian History at the University of Saskatchewan.
Nova ScotiaDelegates visit area for N.S. Heritage Conference
Pictou County, Nova Scotia hosted the Nova Scotia Heritage Conference.
History-Ed Coleman: First World War humour in Hansford's stories
Born in 1899, the former Wolfville barber, Cecil Hansford, was 16 when he joined the Canadian Army to fight in the First World War.
Lighthouse mural by Yarmouth artist an attraction for Nova Scotia visitors
A Yarmouth artist has painted a mural of 144 Nova Scotia lighthouses that will meet everybody who takes the ferry from Maine to this Nova Scotian town.
New Brunswick
N.B.'s 104th finally gets its due
Regiment's War of 1812 efforts shown to be more than a footnote.
QuebecThe Treaty of Paris is in town
Quebec City (Quebec) 23 September, 2014 – The Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War between France Britain and Spain. The actual treaty, that was signed on February 10, 1763, is on display at the Musée de la Civilisation starting today, September 23 until October 2nd.
OntarioExcerpt #6 – The First World War: Excerpts from the diary of Woodman Leonard
For links to the other installments, visit last week's CWR post at -
Canadian government joins 11th-hour search for John A. Macdonald's precise birthplace
Barely 100 days before planned celebrations to mark the bicentennial of Sir John A. Macdonald's birth in Glasgow, Scotland, the Canadian government has joined in an 11th-hour search for the precise birthplace of the country's founding prime minister.
Science and Technology museum closed until 2015
The Canada Science and Technology Museum will remain close until at least January 2015 because of mould.
Health unit looks back at its history
A painstaking account of Sudbury's environmental history, going back to 1883, when Sudbury was only a Canadian Pacific Railway Outpost.
Here are the details on the RCAF's new uniforms and ranks
The Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) new uniform respects the contributions and sacrifices of airmen and airwomen who served – and continue to serve – with pride and professionalism.
Afghanistan added to Tillsonburg's cenotaph, dedication ceremony planned Oct. 7
Local residents are invited to a special dedication ceremony at the town cenotaph on Tuesday, October 7th to honour members of the International Security Assistance Force who served in Afghanistan.
Can we save McKay Avenue School? Or is our history doomed to be history?
McKay Avenue School, built in 1904, also played host to Alberta's first legislative assemblies. Today, it's a school museum, and on the endanger list to be torn down.
Alberta Aviation Museum receives historic air mail letter
The letter was part of the very first air mail delivery in Western Canada, flown from Calgary to Edmonton on July 9th, 1918 by Katherine Stinson, in an insubstantial wood and fabric aircraft.
Bison treaty signed by Alberta, Montana tribes
1st treaty among tribes and First Nations in the area since the 1800sNative tribes from the U.S. and Canada signed a treaty Tuesday establishing an inter-tribal alliance to restore bison to areas of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains where millions of the animals once roamed.
British Columbia
Aboriginal tourism operator rebuked for opening burial boxes for travellers
The actions of an aboriginal tourism operator in British Columbia who gave some travellers access to ancient burial boxes, including revealing the skeletal remains inside, have been condemned by his fellow First Nations.
Story of the Week
The society's webpage is changing
In years gone by, I used to go to a society's website to see what was new with the organization, as well as its events, latest publications, and their yearly executive.
There was so many changes I used to highlight it on my old news summary every week, and later, the Canadian Week in Review, but as time marched on, websites became less and less important, while on the other hand, the Member's-Only webpages in the majority of a society's website were becoming more important.
Then, about three years ago or so, the use of blogs by societies became the go-to media of choice for societies. But blogs quickly went out of style, mainly because they needed someone to look after them as people naturally graduated toward them. They needed someone to update them on a daily basis, and it became a hard job to find somebody within the society to take on that responsibility. And then Facebook came into the picture!
In a way, Facebook is their saving grace, because it can do everything that a webpage can do, plus it can add photos, videos, and other people can quickly comment on the posting, so it's an "everybody" page. People have a feeling that the society belongs to them; whereas, the webpages and even blogs seemed somewhat distant, and there has to be a reason why only about 10% of the genealogy audience reads blogs, while as many as 70% read Facebook to see what is going on (according to a recent survey).
And now Google+ is making inroads on Facebook, although I believe that people are so used to Facebook now, it will be difficult to switch over to Google+. Most of the genealogists I know use Goggle+, along with a combination of Facebook, and yes, even blogs to keep up the date on genealogy news. And with the acquisition of YouTube, and video "Hang Outs", where you can actually listen to a person or people talk about one's favourite subject – Genealogy – it makes for a good combination.
So that is where I see genealogy going these days, until a new idea comes along.
How about you? Have you found that genealogy is cha
Let me know your thoughts, and I might post them in a future issue of CWR!
I can be reached at email@example.com
Reminder: Check the Canadian Week in Review next Monday for the latest in Genealogy, Heritage, and History news in Canada. It's theONLY news blog of its kind in country!
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A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America on Wednesday, collapsing some houses, blocking highways and causing panic, but officials said there was only one reported death, from a heart attack.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered about 38 miles from the town of Liberia. The magnitude initially was estimated at 7.9, but was quickly downgraded. Local residents said it shook for about 30 seconds.
While officials cancelled an initial tsunami warning, local police supervisor Jose Angel Gomez said about 5,000 people — 80 percent of the population — had been evacuated from coastal towns in the Samara district west of the quake's center several hours after the quake struck at 8:42 a.m. (10:42 a.m. EDT). He said water was receding from the shore.One man died of a heart attack caused by fright, said Carlos Miranda, a Red Cross worker in Liberia, but there were no reports of deaths directly caused by the quake.
A preliminary review revealed some structural damage near the epicenter, but no deaths or injuries, said Douglas Salgado, a geographer with Costa Rica's National Commission of Risk Prevention and Emergency Attention.
The review also uncovered a landslide on the main highway that connects the capital of San Jose to the Pacific coast city of Puntarenas, Salgado said. Hotels and other structures suffered cracks in walls and saw items knocked off shelves.
"There's chaos in San Jose because it was a strong earthquake of long duration," Salgado said. "It was pretty strong and caused collective chaos."
The quake was also felt in neighboring Nicaragua, which cancelled schools in some areas, and in Panama.
Rosa Pichardo, 45, who lives in Samara, was walking on the beach with her family when the quake hit.
"When we felt the earthquake, we held onto each other because we kept falling," Pichardo said. "I've never felt anything like this. We just couldn't stay standing. My feet gave out under me. It was terrible, terrible."
In the town of Hojancha a few miles from the epicenter, city official Kenia Campos said the quake knocked down some houses and landslides blocked several roads.
"So far, we don't have victims," she said. "People were really scared ... We have had moderate quakes but an earthquake (this strong) hadn't happened in more than 50 years."
Michelle Landwer, owner of the Belvedere Hotel in Samara, north of the epicenter, said she was having breakfast with about 10 people when the earthquake struck.
"The whole building was moving, I couldn't even walk," Landwer said. "Here in my building there was no real damage. Everything was falling, like glasses and everything."
In the coastal town of Nosara, roughly 20 miles southwest of the epicenter, trees shook violently and light posts swayed. Teachers chased primary school students outside as the quake hit. Roads cracked and power lines fell to the ground.
Costa Rican television station Canal 13 reported that numerous homes, schools and a hospital on the peninsula were damaged, and it said the country's congress cancelled a session planned for later in the day.
Wednesday's quake occurred in a seismically active zone where the Pacific tectonic plate is diving beneath Central America.
"All along the Pacific coast of Central America, you can expect fairly big earthquakes," said seismologist Daniel McNamara of the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake was fairly deep — 25 miles below the surface. Deeper events tend to be less damaging than ones closer to the surface, but more widely felt.
"If it was a shallower event, it would be a significantly higher hazard," he said.
The last deadly quake to strike Costa Rica was in 2009, when 40 died in a magnitude-6.1 temblor. The last similar-sized quake to hit the country was in 1991 when 47 people were killed in the Limon-Pandora area.
While there was no immediate evidence of tsunami waves, a regional warning was issued based on the quake's strength.
"We're erring on the side of caution until we know for sure," said Mike Angove, acting director of the tsunami program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Abraham Lincoln and the case of the mysterious letter
Papers of
Abraham Lincoln determines who wrote mouse-eaten letter found in
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[January 11, 2014]
SPRINGFIELD — More than 25 years
ago, workers repairing Abraham Lincoln's former home found part of a
letter in the walls. Although stained by time and damaged by mice,
the letter had clearly been sent to the future president in 1846.
But just who had written it was a mystery.
McDermott compared the handwriting on
the letter found in Lincoln's home with another letter Johnston
wrote to Lincoln in 1865 and to a note Johnston wrote in 1872 on an
old letter from Lincoln. The handwriting was a perfect match.
"Discovering the identity of the author and connecting the letter
to a part of Lincoln's life about which we know very little
illustrates the importance of the editing work we are doing at the
Papers of Abraham Lincoln, and it is an example of why I love my
job," McDermott said.
Johnston, a native of Richmond, Va., published the Quincy Whig
and was, like Lincoln, a member of the Whig Party in the 1840s. He
was also an uncle of George Pickett, a young man who got into West
Point with the help of Lincoln's law partner and went on to become a
Confederate general. Today, he is best remembered for leading the
doomed "Pickett's Charge" at the Battle of Gettysburg.
The mystery letter was found in 1987, when the Lincoln Home
National Historic Site underwent a full restoration. Fragments of
Johnston's letter and several others were in an old mouse nest in
the kitchen walls.
The editors of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln scanned the document
in 2006 and transcribed it as best they could in 2007.
What was left in the fragments were passages like this: "... ur
letter, enclosing the poe ... earnest ... th undiminis ... once ...
lson's house, where I happ ... to be ... ter. My auditors were as
much pleased ... ll agreed that the author of su ... poetry ."
The letter's mention of poetry pointed toward Johnston as a
possible author. He and Lincoln exchanged several letters about
poetry and politics.
Lincoln had written to Johnston on Feb. 25, 1846, to send him a
piece of poetry that Johnston had requested. He also asked if
Johnston would like to see a poem he was completing.
The letter found at the Lincoln home is Johnston's response,
dated March 10, 1846. He thanks Lincoln for the poem and asks if
Lincoln was the author.
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Lincoln responded on April 18 that he was not but would "give all I
am worth, and go in debt, to be able to write so fine a piece as I
think that is." Still, Lincoln's poetry was good enough for
Johnston, who published Lincoln's "My Childhood-Home I See Again"
and "Matthew Gentry" in April of 1847.
Piecing together the exchange between Lincoln and Johnston
required studying documents from three separate sources – Princeton
University, which has the first letter; the Lincoln Home and its
fragments of Johnston's response; and an early collection of Lincoln
documents that transcribes Lincoln's reply. (The original of that
third letter is now in the hands of an unknown private collector.)
"This discovery shows the value of careful examination of
individual documents, the handwriting on them and their relationship
with other documents," said Papers of Abraham Lincoln Director
Daniel W. Stowell.
"Though the document itself is incomplete, it nonetheless gives
us a more complete picture of one of the most remarkable literary
correspondences in Lincoln's life," said Samuel P. Wheeler, research
historian with the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
and an authority on Lincoln's poetry.
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln is dedicated to identifying,
imaging, transcribing, annotating and publishing all documents
written by or to Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime (1809-1865).
The project is administered through the Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Library and Museum, and is co-sponsored by the Center for State
Policy and Leadership at the University of Illinois Springfield and
by the Abraham Lincoln Association.
The Lincoln Home National Historic Site preserves, protects and
interprets the Abraham Lincoln home for current and future
generations. He and his family lived in the Springfield home from
1844 to 1861. The home and surrounding neighborhood became a part of
the National Park Service in 1972.
[Text from
Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
file received from the
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency]
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Drift It! for Huawei Ascend P1 XL
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How to download free Drift It! for Huawei Ascend P1 XL
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To find Android version: go to "Settings" - "About the phone" - "Android version"
Installation options
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Follow the link to Google Play and click "install"
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Enter link in your mobile browser or scan the QR-code
Guides: «How to create a Google Play account», «How to purchase apps in Google Play»
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Read the review Drift It!
«A fun game marred by obnoxious video ads»
Author: Brandon Girod 16 Apr 2017
Steady stream of unlocks, simply controls, good aesthetic
Insane amount of ads, inconsistent timing for some of the drift patterns
One-button arcade games are definitely dominating the Android gaming platform, and I'm still unsure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. On one had, there never seems to be a shortage of new games to play. On the other, you'll get constant clones o...


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We encourage our employees to progress professionally within the group. Our global mobility charter creates bridges between our offices and across business lines. A single internal platform was created to provide employees with information about opportunities throughout the Group. Today, about a quarter of our positions are filled internally.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) plays an important role in our Group. Employees are encouraged to get involved with these activities. The PasserElles programme was initiated by the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations in partnership with the Mozaïk RH firm.
Its goal is to facilitate the professional integration of young minority women. The Group has sponsored the programme since 2011 to provide employees with an opportunity to mentor these young women. In addition, the Bootstrap programme lets our employees help the young women on a more occasional basis via their network and expertise.
Our focus on achieving excellence in our business to ensure optimum client satisfaction is a constant in an ever-changing environment in which we deal with increasingly difficult and complex challenges.
We provide our employees with a range of customized individual and collective solutions to support their development and ensure that they reach their full potential. We listen and provide the personalized support best suited to their professional aspirations within our group.
Our entrepreneurial culture promotes accountability and encourages our employees, who are in charge of their own career development, to take all available training opportunities. We provide a series of tools for each initiative, creating new opportunities for development.
It is very important to ensure the transfer of know-how and expertise, in line with the group's values.


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Fourth member of 'Greensburg 6' sentenced in torture, murder of Jennifer Daugherty
Amber Meidinger sentenced to 40-80 years after guilty plea
The second female member of the "Greensburg 6" entered a guilty plea Wednesday afternoon and was immediately sentenced to prison time.
Amber Meidinger will spend 40-80 years in prison and will have to split a $25,000 restitution fee with her co-defendants in the 2010 torture and murder of Jennifer Daugherty.
Westmoreland County Judge Rita Hathaway told Meidinger that she did not believe Meidinger was an evil person, but had done an evil thing. "I know your remorse is genuine," Hathaway said.
Meidinger addressed Daugherty's mother, stepfather and sister from the witness stand. While crying at times, she told them repeatedly she was sorry and asked for their forgiveness.
"It might not ever come, but I ask today for forgiveness from your family. I'm so sorry for what I've done," Meidinger said. "I completely understand I deserve every little piece of sentence I get. I deserve that. There's no justification for that. Please try to find in your heart forgiveness for me."
Police say Meidinger and five others -- the so-called "Greensburg 6" -- tortured Daugherty for more than two days in a North Pennsylvania Avenue apartment before killing her and dumping her body in February 2010. Daugherty was living with a mental disability.
SLIDESHOW: Photos From The Jennifer Daugherty Case
One co-defendant, Angela Marinucci, was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. Another defendant, Melvin Knight, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to die. Ricky Smyrnes was found guilty and sentenced to death after his trial. Peggy Miller and Robert Masters are scheduled to enter guilty pleas on Dec. 19, concluding the case.
Daugherty's sister, Joy Burkholder, read a prepared statement to the court before Meidinger's guilty plea was accepted by the judge.
"She may have helped prosecute the others, but nothing will change the fact that she helped kill my sister," Burkholder said. "Amber Meidinger should spend as much time in prison as possible."


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A collection of what other media outlets are saying as the Ravens prepare to play against the New York Jets on Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium.
* ProFootballTalk's Michael David Smith talks about Ravens running back Ray Rice's success against the Chicago Bears, but he cautions against thinking it'll happen again this week.
Unfortunately for Chicago, the Bears' defense has been allowing big holes all season. (The hole Packers running back James Starks ran through might have been the biggest I've ever seen.) The Ravens' line won't have such an easy time opening holes for Rice this week, against a very good Jets run defense.
* Jamison Hensley of ESPN.com wonders if the Ravens offensive line liked Rice's joke about having "a hole that big" against the Bears.
My guess is no one on the offensive line was laughing after Rice said this. The offensive linemen have heard for 11 weeks about how bad their run blocking has been that they probably didn't need to be reminded of this after helping Rice to 131 yards rushing, his most in a regular-season game since December 2011.
* On FoxSports.com, NFL rules expert Mike Pereira explains the thought process behind suspending Sunday's game between the Ravens and Bears.
The decision when to restart the game is made by a group of people, which includes the referee, who have the ultimate authority. But he'll get input from the stadium operations people who have access to the Doppler radar system. Also, the referee will get input from the officiating supervisor in the press box, who will be in contact with the game operations dept. in the NFL offices in New York. With input from all of those people, they will make a decision on when it's safe to resume. If it can't be today, then they will include the commissioner on what the next step should be.
* Monday Morning Quarterback's Peter King wishes the NFL would have more games played in extreme conditions, like the Ravens-Bears game Sunday.
But with about nine minutes left in the fourth quarter, I went down to the field to watch the rest of the game from a tunnel. The wind was howling, with gusts up to 40 miles an hour. Players ran carefully, so as not to slip and fall. The field was a cow pasture, and players, officials and (during TV timeouts) the grounds crew tried to tamp down the turf after the torrential rain ruined it. And I thought: How great it is to see a game in the elements like this. You hate to make the fans wait out a two-hour delay, but would it have been more inconvenient, say, to reschedule the game for Monday at noon? Of all the games I've covered, only a Giants preseason game at foggy, rainy Cleveland in the '80s, at the old Cleveland Stadium, was like this one. I was looking for the ghost of Jim Brown that day; and Sunday, I wondered how many of these games Luckman, Sayers and Butkus played in.
* In John Breech's "NFL division power rankings" on CBSSports.com, the AFC North remains at No. 4. And he says the NFC North should thank Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco for not going winless in Week 11.
The NFC North should send Joe Flacco a 'thank you' card this week because if he would have led the Ravens to a touchdown against the Bears on the final drive of regulation on Sunday, Chicago would have lost and the NFC North would have gone 0-4 in Week 11. Instead, Flacco couldn't get the Ravens in the end one and the Bears won in overtime. Actually, instead of a 'thank you' card, the NFC North should send Flacco a McDonald's gift certificate so he can buy some Mighty Wings, that way Flacco can concentrate more on his playbook and less on looking for Mighty Wings with Colin Kaepernick.
* Greg A. Bedard of Sports Illustrated's Monday Morning Quarterback includes a completion for the Bears in overtime among his Week 11 decisive moments.
An NFC North team, looking to get into game-winning field goal range, aligned in a 3 x 1 set with a running back left in to block against the Ravens, who were bringing an extra rusher in Cover 1 (one deep safety), took advantage of a size mismatch to target the tight end on a big gain.
NFL power rankings roundup
* The Ravens fall to No. 25 in ProFootballTalk's list, down four spots from last week.
Maybe they'll replace Jim Caldwell with Cam Cameron in December.
* On FoxSports.com, former Ravens coach Brian Billick puts the Ravens at No. 23, five spots lower than last week.
At least they figured out how to get Ray Rice going, but now it's Joe Flacco that needs a kick in the rear. Flacco has five picks in the last three games and his passer rating has decreased in each of the last five.
* The Ravens drop to No. 20 in ESPN.com's rankings, down two spots from last week.
Ray Rice had 131 yards and a touchdown Sunday. Rice's first rush of the game was a 47-yarder, a bigger total than seven of his eight games this season.
* Hensley explains the Ravens' ranking on ESPN.com.
Their place in the rankings doesn't add up when you look at their results this season. The Ravens are ahead of the Cleveland Browns (No. 23) and Buffalo Bills (No. 25) despite losing to both teams and having the same number of wins as both of them. Among the teams with losing records, the Ravens are the third-highest-ranked team, behind the San Diego Chargers (No. 18) and Pittsburgh Steelers (No. 19).
* CBSSports.com's Pete Prisco ranks the Ravens at No. 22, two spots lower than last week.
Their hopes of repeating are slipping away by the week. Can they turn it around?
* NFL.com's Elliot Harrison lists the Ravens at No. 19, down one spot from last week.
At this point, it will be tough for the Ravens to catch the Bengals. In other news, the 1-hour, 53-minute weather delay in Chicago left many with much time to think:
Ray Rice: So this is what it feels like to be a lead running back.
Ravens fans: We're watching a $100 million contract at work.
Joe Flacco: Who's Deonte Thompson? Oh, one of my receivers. I knew that.
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* The Ravens rank at No. 19 in the Associated Press Pro32 poll, two spots lower than last week.


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'Astronomer In-Residence' Dr. Richard Crowe joins staff at Imiloa Astronomy CenterUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii
HILO, Hawaiʻi — University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Chancellor Rose Tseng and ʻImiloa Astronomy Center Director Peter Giles together have announced the appointment of Dr. Richard Crowe, professor of astronomy at UH Hilo, to become the Center's first ʻastronomer-in-residence.'
In this newly-created position as ʻImiloa's astronomer-in-residence, Crowe will assist the Center's education department in developing astronomy-related public and educational programs, deliver talks and planetarium programs, and serve as liaison with the observatories based in Hawaiʻi as well as with the University's Department of Physics and Astronomy, where Crowe will continue as faculty on a half-time basis during the school year.
"We are pleased to create this new position that strengthens the ties between the UH Hilo faculty, the new ʻImiloa Astronomy Center, and the observatories," said Dr. Tseng in announcing the appointment. "Dr. Crowe is both a scholar and educator with a passion for working with the community here in Hilo."
The new ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaiʻi, which opened its doors in February, 2006, is a new educational center and visitor attraction in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, that bridges Hawaiian culture and traditions with science and astronomy. The Center is a part of the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.
Peter Giles, the Center's director, called the appointment an important next step for ʻImiloa. "Dr. Crowe brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the Center's staff, providing expertise to review and update its astronomy exhibits, to train staff and volunteers, and work collaboratively with the 13 world-class observatories on Mauna Kea. We are delighted at this new addition to our staff. "
As an educator long engaged in stimulating interest in science, Crowe has been a frequent speaker on astronomy, and has delivered over 50 StarLab portable planetarium presentations to public and private schools in the last five years. He regularly trains university student observers using the 24-inch UH telescope atop Mauna Kea.
He recently completed the revision of the popular book, Stars over Hawaiʻi, which integrates Polynesian skylore, voyaging and Hawaiian culture into astronomy. He has also been involved in two nationally-funded programs that encourage local and Hawaiian students to enter careers in space science as well as in the Journey through the Universe program.
Crowe has conducted extensive research and published papers on pulsating stars, stellar evolution and spectroscopy. He joined the UH Hilo faculty in 1987, teaching a range of classes from introductory physics and astronomy to senior level astrophysics and quantum mechanics. He has been a strong advocate of building bridges between Hawaiian cultural specialists and Mauna Kea astronomers. A Canadian by birth, Dr. Crowe received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Active in the local Hilo community, he has sung in the University Chorus, the UH Hilo Chamber Singers, and the Kanilehua Chorale, and has played clarinet in the Hawaiʻi County Band for 18 years. He is also the president-elect of the Rotary Club of Hilo Bay.
For more information, visit: http://www.imiloahawaii.org


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I was looking for a way to get regular updates from a job site about a particular category even though the site doesn't offer any sort of feed.
Then I stumbled upon a site called Feedyes.com.
What I basically did was to have an RSS feed ready for the site. It's pretty elementary with the help of the above site really. You don't even need to register in order to create an RSS feed for a certain site.
Only problem was that I didn't have the RSS feed in XML format. I had to go to the web site to view so. Also the feed couldn't really be customized in any ways.
There's another site named Page2rss.com which does pretty much the same. Mind you none of the above sites are perfect yet they do a reasonable job of it.
So I googled a bit more and stumbled upon Feed43.com which let me actually write expression for creating the feed.
Here's what I came up with as an RSS feed version of this page. It lets you use 'search patterns' using regular expression and 'output templates'. It's a handy site even with all its limitations for unpaid package like polling intervals, maximum feed limit etc. Do give it a try.
I know there are several good articles like Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool, When RSS Fails: Web Scraping with HTTP and How To: Scrape a Web Page to RSS Feed for doing the kind of the same.
What's more I don't know if you know this but both Yahoo! and MSN provides search result in RSS format.
Here's the result using Yahoo! web search service for ASP.NET MVC and here's MSN's version for the same.
But of course, it would help if Google was to have an XML feed of their normal Search engine positioning (SERPS) like Yahoo! & MSN do.
What it does provide though is an RSS feed for searching blogs. Try this.
There's another gem I figured which actually lets you run XPath query for scraping into a web page for RSS. It can be used to search in an HTML document in a pretty straightforward way.
Well this has been a very long ride for scraping your way to another site but what if you want to stop others doing the same :). Enough of RSS Scraping, Scavenging, Stealing, and Content Theft, no? Talk about having a dose of one's own medicine, right?
Anyway, have a look at What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content or better still have a read about the antonym of Scraping in IT terminology Information Trapping.
To wrap things up, do remember there are words like Copyright and Intellectual property / Intellectual Property Protection in the dictionary :). So use it in a positive way and enjoy the Scrapventure!
Update on 9th April, 2009: It was unfair on my part to leave off tools like Yahoo! Pipes and Feedity.com. While Yahoo! Pipes is a less than straightforward means to achieving our objective, it has powerful features like Visual query development which are missing from the rest. But I think what makes Yahoo! Pipes unique is that you can chain together arbitrary number of previous queries (pipes) and thus mash them up into one which would have all your filters/queries. It also provides input facilities. More on Yahoo! Pipes later on subsequent post perhaps when I would guide you through the process. Feedity.com, on the other hand, is a very straightforward means to achieving what we want. It's quite efficient and intelligent with parsing too. Give it a try.
Update on 16th April, 2009: Microsoft Popfly mashup creator is another candidate for honorable mention 🙂


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2007 News Releases > February 2007 > WBU Graduate to Sign Copies of Book During Homecoming
WBU Graduate to Sign Copies of Book During Homecoming
PLAINVIEW – Kathie Turner Jackson, a 1974 graduate of Wayland Baptist University, will be signing copies of her book, "So Great a Heritage" during the weekend homecoming festivities at Wayland.
Book signings are scheduled in the University Store, located in the McClung Center, on Saturday, Feb. 24 from 9-11:30 a.m. and again from 1-2 p.m. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at that time as well.
Jackson, a teacher in Perryton, wrote the book based on a set of 150 letters written by her father, longtime Hale Center farmer Cecil Turner, to his parents during World War II. Released in mid-2006, the book is a testimony of a Christian soldier's experiences in the war. She said she wrote the book in order to connect readers with this pivotal period of the nation's history "so we know whom to thank for the blessings we all enjoy today."
Jackson and her husband Mike, superintendent for the Perryton Independent School District and former superintendent in Olton, have three children, all of whom have attended Wayland. Matt graduated in 1999, and April Chancler graduated in 2005. Daughter Bekah is currently a junior at Wayland.


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very violent, isnt it? almost inciting violence.
Gav 11:04pm Tue 14 Apr Report Abuse
Dreadful narration
What language is the prat who does the narration (lee boardman?) speaking? It's not English is it. Is he making it up as he goes along?
P V 9:02pm Sat 23 Dec Report Abuse
Cant dance cant sing are you sure she is real ? Carries on like a right idiot
big c 10:30pm Sat 12 Jul Report Abuse
Road Wars
I can't stand Lee Boardmans phoney Yob accent.He originates from the Manchester area. The programme is very interesting but why the constant Yob lingo.I end up switching off after 5mins
Les 1:19pm Sat 12 Jul Report Abuse
Bring back Lee
Lee Boardman's commentary was part of the fun of Road Wars -it was real 'switch off' TV. Not the same since we got Claire Goose doing the voiceover. We've switched over to Traffic Cops for our chav tv fix now I'm afraid ...
BadKat1974 9:09pm Tue 13 Aug Report Abuse
love road wars
well I did till Claire goose took over from the sexy lee boardman (jez quigley from corrie)wont be watching road wars no more, she spoils it..bring back street wars plz:(
jackie 5:01pm Fri 12 Jul Report Abuse
Mancunian accent
The narrator really adds to the show - everyone who is complaining, what would you like to hear? Dominic Littlewood? or perhaps a generic BBC accent? I get sick of hearing 'cockneys' on this sort of show so the (I presume) Mancunian accent makes it more interesting
Tom Day 11:16am Tue 29 Jan Report Abuse
Give a moronic thug a uniform and a bit of power and they will always abuse it. Always.
Plod 5:41pm Fri 14 Dec Report Abuse
Who votes for this sort of show?
All these types of shows are so obviously fake that the only people who can possibly think they are any good are the uniformed muppets who fake it in the first place.
Robert Peel 5:38pm Fri 14 Dec Report Abuse
what about the dog?
Tonights episode showed a uninsured Asian male with his wife & 3 kids, she was dragging around a terrified staffy on a lead. Was anyone concerned about the dog?
kb 12:43am Wed 12 Dec Report Abuse


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PHILADELPHIA - Studies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine on brain electrical signaling offer a fresh perspective on vertebrate evolution, provide additional evidence supporting Darwinian views of evolution, and may also lead to more effective treatment of epileptic seizures in infants. Researchers discovered how evolutionary changes produced a series of improvements in molecules generating electrical signals in nerves between 550 and 400 million years ago. By making nervous systems faster and smarter, these innovations appear to have contributed to the evolutionary success and diversity of vertebrate animals.
In an evolutionary comparison of nerve cell genes appearing in PLoS Genetics last month, Penn scientists show that improvements in the molecules that govern rapid nerve impulses occurred at major turning points in evolutionary history. By making nerve signals faster and more controllable, these innovations appear to have contributed to the building of smarter brains, and perhaps even to the success and diversity of vertebrates. In other experiments presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in November and soon to appear in the Annals of Neurology, the scientists found that the same electrical signaling molecules appear to be an effective target for anti-seizure drugs for human newborns.
The electrical signaling molecules at the center of both studies are two related types of nerve cell proteins called sodium and potassium channels. A decade ago, researchers found that mutations in genes for these molecules were a cause of some forms of epilepsy in newborn babies and infants. Sodium channels were already targets of anti-epileptic drugs. The team led by Assistant Professor of Neurology Edward C. Cooper, MD, PhD, focused on the potassium channels for therapeutic development.
Epilepsy is a common condition in which seizures, involuntary attacks of loss of awareness and bodily control, are experienced recurrently. Epilepsy can begin at any age, but incidence is highest in the vulnerable first few weeks of life and remains elevated in later infancy and early childhood.
Initial work by the Penn team showed that the potassium and sodium channels were clustered together in small patches on the long fibers, called axons, which transmit electrical impulses between nerve cells. This raised several questions about the evolutionary and clinical underpinnings of this line of research: First, how did these two types of channels evolve to become so tightly paired at these patches on nerves? Second, is the development of these clusters over time important for understanding how channel mutations cause epilepsy? Third, clinically, since the potassium channel mutations linked to newborn epilepsy decreased channel activity, could drugs that increased the potassium channel activity be effective for seizure prevention?
Anchoring Sequences
Sodium and potassium channels are proteins embedded in the nerve membrane, with a part of each channel exposed to the cell's interior. In 2006, Cooper's team showed that the intracellular parts of the potassium and sodium channels possessed similar amino acid sequences. The shared sequences contained instructions specifying that the channels should be anchored together at spots along the axon.
They also found that these anchoring sequences were conserved in the potassium and sodium channels of vertebrates over 350 million years of evolution, from fish to humans. However, the channels of invertebrates, including fruit flies, worms, and squids, lacked the clustering sequences. In addition, some mutations causing epilepsy in infants prevented the channels from assuming their clustered positions within the patches.
"Finding that the sodium and potassium channel clustering required nearly identical sequences that seemed to have evolved at the same time was very surprising" said Cooper. "The similarity in anchor sequences could not arise by chance. Seeing them in both channel types was comparable to a person arriving at a new job, and seeing that their new coworker wore exactly the same clothes, drove the same model and color of car, and had a spouse and children with the same names. It seemed inexplicable."
To solve the mystery, the researchers studied the channels of classes of animals that evolved earlier than vertebrates, including sea urchins and primitive organisms related to vertebrates called lancelets, sea squirts, and lampreys. The project received a boost, because the genomes of each of these organisms are currently being sequenced, supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute. Analysis of the channels from these primitive organisms solved the mystery.
The Rise of the Sodium Channel
The new findings, reported in the December 26th issue of PLoS Genetics, show that the sodium channel anchor sequence arose much earlier than previously known, at perhaps the most important turning point in biological history, the beginning of the so-called Cambrian Explosion (550-530 million years ago). During the Cambrian Explosion, all the major groups (or phyla) of animals alive today suddenly - in an evolutionary time scale - appeared. The new analysis showed that all members of the phylum Chordata, which includes lancelets, sea squirts, and lampreys, as well as vertebrates, have sodium channels with the anchor sequence.
The sodium channels of nonchordates (including invertebrates such as insects and mollusks) lacked this clustering sequence. This is important because sodium channel clustering makes nerve signaling much more rapid, reliable, and energy-efficient. As chordates evolved into vertebrates, they relied on the sodium channel clusters as components of increasingly complex systems for sensation, brain computation, and control of body movement. All other animals, lacking the ability to generate such rapid signals, generally relied on smaller body size and simpler nervous systems.
Potassium Channels as Shock Absorbers
Potassium channel clustering arose later and complements sodium channel signaling. Unlike sodium channels, none of the potassium channels of very early chordates had the clustering sequence. Potassium channel clustering sequences first appeared in a vertebrate ancestral to sharks, "only" around 400 to 450 million years ago.
The clustered potassium channels serve an important supporting function, making nerve signals that are started by sodium channels more controllable. "Sudden openings by a lot of sodium channels clustered together can be jarring and unpredictable for the nerve cell, like a car hitting a bump in the road." says Cooper. "The potassium channels are like the shock absorbers on the car's suspension--they dampen some of the oscillations caused when the sodium channels open and calm the nerve, just as shock absorbers reduce bouncing and help maintain control on a bumpy road." The fact that this combination of channels clustered together on nerves has been completely conserved for about 400 million years in all types of vertebrates underlines its importance, as does the fact that epilepsy results when the clusters are disrupted.
In related studies, the researchers tested whether a drug that causes increased openings by the axons' clustered potassium channels might be effective in preventing seizures in newborns. They found that an opener, called flupirtine, was more powerful in preventing seizures than either of two drugs now in frequent clinical use, phenobarbital and diazepam. These experiments used established models of neonatal epilepsy, performed on immature rats. Next steps include additional tests of the safety of flupirtine in immature animals, and then, consideration of possible trials in human infants.
The Need for Speed
In an often-quoted section of the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin expressed his complete inability to explain why such a diversity of animals appeared so rapidly in the Cambrian period, the so-called Cambrian Explosion. Scientists have more recently advanced theories for this based on changes in the Earth's environment, or evolution in the genes controlling animal body form. The new PLoS Genetics study, suggests Cooper, points to an additional factor that might come into play: evolutionary changes to the nervous systems of early animals, such as sodium channel clustering, which led to new behaviors such as improved swimming and predation.
This research provides a vivid example of the ability of evolution to build very complex structures through a series of incremental steps. "The vertebrate axon is elegant and extremely intricate, with a central fiber contributed by a neuron and a jelly-roll like myelin wrapping made by other cells called glia," says Cooper. It was previously unknown which came first, the channel clustering on the neuron, or the myelin wrapping.
"Our studies show that the sodium channel clustering evolved first, perhaps 100 million years before myelin," says Cooper. "Myelin appeared, like potassium channel clustering, in an ancestor of the shark. This interval provides plenty of time for the molecules necessary for myelination to evolve. Each step made the nerve faster, and more reliable and efficient, because the sodium channel clusters were already present on the axon."
This work was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, The Roy and Diana Vagelos Scholars Program, The Human Frontiers Science Program, and the Miles Family Fund.
Penn co-authors are Alexis Hill, Guixin Zhang, Michael Selzer and David Lapides. Yogendra Raol and Amy Brooks-Kayal of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (now at the University of Colorado) coauthored the flupirtine therapy study. Koichi Nakajo of the Japanese National Institute for Physiological Sciences, and Atsuo Nishino and Yasushi Okamura of Osaka University co-authored the channel evolution study.
This release and a related image can be viewed at: http://www.
PENN Medicine is a $3.6 billion enterprise dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. PENN Medicine consists of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Penn's School of Medicine is currently ranked #4 in the nation in U.S.News & World Report's survey of top research-oriented medical schools; and, according to most recent data from the National Institutes of Health, received over $379 million in NIH research funds in the 2006 fiscal year. Supporting 1,700 fulltime faculty and 700 students, the School of Medicine is recognized worldwide for its superior education and training of the next generation of physician-scientists and leaders of academic medicine.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) includes its flagship hospital, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, rated one of the nation's top ten "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S.News & World Report; Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation's first hospital; and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. In addition UPHS includes a primary-care provider network; a faculty practice plan; home care, hospice, and nursing home; three multispecialty satellite facilities; as well as the Penn Medicine at Rittenhouse campus, which offers comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation facilities and outpatient services in multiple specialties. )


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Chef's Table, set in the heart of prestigious restaurant kitchens around the world, is an exclusive culinary experience where guests are invited to dine from a bespoke menu, prepared in front of them and personally for them, by the chef.
Cannes Festival Jury members including two time Palme d'or Winner, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, and actress Arsinée Khanjian enjoyed a menu prepared by Electrolux Michelin Star partner Chef Bruno Oger.
When asked how good the desserts were, Film Director Karim Ainouz said: "They were so good... Like sex!"
Usually only available to close friends and connections, Electrolux is using its 90 years of expertise and its relationships with 50% of Europe's Michelin starred restaurants to open up the kitchens of some of the best restaurants in Europe, starting with the Agora. "The Agora kitchen is fitted with Electrolux appliances and home to award-winning chefs who use our products in their own kitchens", said Frederique Pirenne, Electrolux PR Director Europe. "It's the perfect place to launch The Chef's Table as it's a Michelin star dining experience that demonstrates how we support these chefs to create culinary masterpieces for guests expecting the very best."
The Chef's Table by Electrolux will be open for online bookings across Europe later in 2012.Amuse-bouches des Anges
The Exclusive Menu - "Angelic" Amuse-bouches
First Course
Fois Gras de Canard, Meringue au Citron et Limoncello
Fois Gras with Lemon Meringue and Limoncello
Second Course
Loup Pays sur la Peau, Asperges à l'Amande, Sauce Chablis Grand Cru
Locally caught bass with asparagus in almond and Chablis sauce
Biscuit Mandarine Grand Marnier, Rectangle Givré Cacao Clémentine
Mandarin and Grand Marnier cake with Cocoa Frosted Clementine
Les Délices des Anges
"Angelic" Delights


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History of the Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher Distinguished Civilian Humanitarian Service Award
In 1996, the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and the Air Force approved the establishment of the Zachary and Elizabeth Award for Distinguished Civilian Humanitarian Service.
The award was named in honor of Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher, both of whom had contributed extensively to the support and welfare of members of the U. S. Armed Forces and their families. The inaugural Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher Distinguished Civilian Humanitarian Award was presented to the Fishers at the Army-Navy football game in December 1996.
The Army, acting as executive agent, published a joint service regulation in 1998, establishing the award as a multi-service recognition to be given to an individual or organization demonstrating exceptional patriotism and humanitarian concern for members of the Armed Forces or their families. The recipient must exemplify Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher's personal qualities of patriotism, generosity, and selfless dedication to improving the quality of life of members of the Armed Forces of the United States.
The Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher Distinguished Humanitarian Award consists of a large commemorative trophy with the annual recipient's name engraved on brass plates. This trophy remains on display in the Pentagon and is removed only for the annual presentation ceremony. Medallions and lapel pins are presented to each annual recipient.
Previous recipients of the Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award have been as follows:
Johnny Mac Soldiers Fund | 2017
USO Guam | 2016
Carlene Joseph | 2015
Karen Guenther, Founder of Semper Fi Fund | 2014
Bonnie Carroll, Founder of TAPS | 2013
LEEK Hunting and Mountain Preserve | 2012
Chris Sehman | 2011
John Gonsalves, Founder of Homes For Our Troops | 2010
Dr. John Schupp | 2009
Iraq Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund (Nancy Berg lass) | 2008
Julie DeMaria | 2007
GySgt. Mario Monaco, Jr., USMC Reserves, Retired | 2006
Harry and Sharon Rideout | 2005
Blanche Glymph | 2004
Mrs. Dorothy Hunt Finley | 2003
Frank J. Uddo | 2002
Military Affairs Committee, Great Falls (MT) Chamber of Commerce | 2001
Harold U. Littrell | 2000
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen | Special
Janet Langhart Cohen | Special
David W. Hearn, Jr. | 1999
Christina McCall | 1998
Zachary and Elizabeth M. Fisher | 1996


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Manu finds something to shout about
We begin another week with the joyous news that MKR is to cross over with Deal Or No Deal, beginning the process of MKR-ification by which the show will eventually subsume every aspect of our lives and render us lifeless, witless slaves to the kitchen machine. But tonight we have bigger fish to fry: Manu is going to shout about something! Knowing this adds a frisson of danger to every moment.
We begin with a reminder of what happened on the last episode, and just how terrible all these people are when placed in a kitchen environment. But tonight, teams get their first taste of KITCHEN HEADQUARTERS, a secure compound in which top kitchen agents work on kitchen intelligence and create bigger and better kitchens for weaponising by governments around the world.
Then there's the theme song, which goes "This is the best night of my life" in what now has to be seen for what it is: needlessly vicious sarcasm.
And so we see the teams enter Kitchen Headquarters, which has scared the bejeesus out of everyone, because it contains cooking utensils and heat. Angela and Melina are buzzed about winning the people's choice, but Sophia is gutted that they did so. "I actually have met children more intelligent than those two," she snipes, but that's not surprising – she's hardly likely to meet many grown-ups.
Manu and Pete enter, looking oily and terrifyingly evil respectively, and Pete babbles the rules at them. Basically there will be two cook-offs: first, the "rapid cook-off", and then the decider for the bottom four teams, and then the bottom placed team will cook off against Kieran and Nastassia. So there'll be three cook-offs and Pete is a liar.
Off go the teams to the benches to put on their aprons and film cutaways. Andi isn't feeling like herself, which you'd think would be a plus. The ingredients are to be found under the bench: they are various green things. All Andi can see is coriander, because she has a lazy eye. Jake and Elle want the coriander too, which is ironic because Jake doesn't know what coriander is, and eagerly grabs the thyme.
There is little time to dwell on Jake's hilarious stupidity though, because Andi is having a nervous breakdown after seeing the coriander cruelly snatched away from her, after a lifetime of hoping and dreaming and waiting for that one perfect coriander to come along. She begs Sam and Chris to give her the coriander, and so Sam and Chris face their Sophie's Choice: do they enable Andi's unhealthy monomania, or do they tell her to get a freaking grip? In the end they enable. Andi takes their coriander and Sam and Chris get mint. Sophia then begs them for their mint, but they refuse, because it's Sophia and come on.
Now it's time for everyone to rush into the pantry and try to inflict soft-tissue injuries on each other. Jake informs us that he "channelled Usain Bolt", presumably in terms of ego.
Meanwhile Jenna and Joanna are making minty salmon, probably to be seasoned with Jenna's tears after her attempt at a salmon cupcake collapses.
Everyone is busy cooking, so this part of the show is fairly boring, although things perk up a bit when Jake comments snidely on Sam and Chris: "sounding a bit confident there, fellas," he whines, terrified lest someone steal his crown as the most unjustifiably arrogant cast member.
Over at Kerrie and Craig's bench, everyone is trying to remember who Kerrie and Craig are – of course they were the first couple to serve dinner, back at series' beginning in early 1994. They are struggling with their sardines: the scales are difficult to remove, and also sardines are gross. Kerrie has never scaled a sardine before, which I think is pretty admirable. Craig is more expert at scaling sardines: in his old fishmonging days, he did things he's not proud of.
"We're not going to sudden-death babe," says Ashlee suddenly, in a tone of voice carefully calibrated to make you want to put your head in a bucket of acid. They are curing their beef – of boredom, hopefully – and since basil is not traditionally South-East Asian, they are doing fusion cooking, rather than, for example, cooking something other than South-East Asian food. These girls were hired to be stereotypes, and they are committed to their job.
Jake makes some Thai puns and everyone wants to kill him, and we move on. Fifteen minutes to go, Sam and Chris are feeling good, and Jake is bossy, and Ashlee and Sophia are clattering around madly, and –
WAIT! Manu has yelled! "Stop the clock!" he shouts, probably. Hard to tell really, in his accent. But yes, everything has stopped. Because there is going to be a MASSIVE TWIST. "One of those classic My Kitchen Rules twists," says Luke, exaggerating wildly. What it is is, for the last fifteen minutes only one member of each team may cook. Truly, never in the history of reality TV have the stakes been so dramatically shifted slightly sideways.
And so we enter … endgame. Which will be followed by beginning of another game, of course.
Craig knew there was going to be a twist, but "this one's a big twist," he opines, although not really. There could have been a bigger twist. I'd have released a water buffalo into the kitchen.
Dan takes the reins at his bench. "It's my time to shine," he declares, but since he's not making a sausage he may find himself both well out of his depth and with nothing to talk about.
Meanwhile Andi is begging Josh to talk to her, God knows why. In fact I'm not even sure which one of them is supposed to be cooking, as Andi peers in bafflement at the frying pan and Josh stands a few inches behind her rubbing his beard on the back of her neck. "She can handle it, I know she can," says Josh in a cutaway recorded some time after he was proven incorrect.
Sam and Chris are doing fairly well though. Kieran and Nastassia are intimidated by their confidence, though to be fair Kieran and Nastassia should be intimidated by anyone with opposable thumbs.
Over at Jake's station, Elle gives him advice but Jake ignores her because he's concentrating on remaining utterly unsympathetic to the entire world.
Joanna is salting and peppering her salmon, while Jenna watches her drunkenly, on the verge of tears. "We need crispy skin, Jo!" cries Jenna, probably referring to the fish. It doesn't work though: the skin has stuck to the griddle. Jenna collapses in a puddle of tears and begins rubbing cupcakes all over herself.
Ashlee and Sophia have cured their beef and are squeezing the dirty dishwater out of it. They prepare their sauce via the meticulous method of repeatedly calling each other "babe".
"We're cooking basil sardines and green couscous," says Kerrie at her bench, as if that's not the most disgusting thing ever. Meanwhile Dan is moving at a glacial speed, having lost all his zip due to the absence of sausages. He's better off than Josh though, who is unable to reassure Andi, who for her part now hates Josh with the fire of a thousand suns.
We then cut to an ad for My Kitchen Deals, in case we'd forgotten about it and were briefly starting to consider the possibility that there might be a god.
Back in the kitchen, there is much concern for Joanna, who not only has the misfortune of having to hang around with Jenna, but has been crouching over the salmon, staring madly at it, for sixteen hours, while everyone else packs up and goes home.
Oh no, apparently we're still going, and with one minute left Jenna tells Joanna that her salad is too salty. Joanna gives up and ritually disembowels herself. "I need a spoon!" she squeals, having lost all contact with reality. Meanwhile at his bench, Jake yells, "Where's the paprika?" which is some kind of sleeper-activation code-word I guess.
TIME'S UP! Meaningless hugs all round, euphoria shattered by the sudden stomach-churning recognition of failure. In Joanna's case, she has put a wet salad on her crispy skin – every woman's worst nightmare, am I right ladies?
Pete and Manu taste Jake and Elle's dish. "You're saying you used THYME in this dish?" asks Pete incredulously, the unspoken implication being, "You're sure you didn't use WALLABY URINE?"
The judges spend just a moment undermining Sam and Chris' confidence before moving on to Ashlee and Sophia. "Did you try the dressing?" asks Manu, clearly hinting that if they had they would be in hospital right now.
And then on to Joanna and Jenna, who stand with expressions on their faces that speak volumes of their desire for a quick death. Pete asks them to get up on the stage – WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? On to Kerrie and Craig who have provided a veritable explosion of basil in Pete and Manu's mouths. Unfortunately they also provided an explosion of sardine scales: will the massive basil overdose be enough to overcome the utter awfulness of the fish?
On to Dan and Steph, and Dan is as usual struggling to stay awake. "Interesting," says Pete, clearly meaning, "Nauseating", and they move on to Josh and Andi, who have made a deconstructed taco, which is like a taco only messier. Pete notes that Andi doesn't seem very happy, but he should be used to people not seeming very happy around him by now. "For me there's no hope," says Andi, sprinkling coriander on her head and leaping off a bridge.
It is judgment time. Pete explains that adapting to the unexpected is something that every great chef must be able to do. This sounds a bit like a lie: I don't think any great chef's job involves having to cook a meal in 30 minutes, halfway through which his support staff quits.
First up, Andi and Josh are not safe, confirming all Andi's fears about her failings as a cook and as a human being. However, Ashlee and Sophia ARE safe, having made a "clever" dish and disappointed a nation. "I am so happy," says Sophia in that way that just gets right under your skin. Next, Sam and Chris, and Pete explains how when they said, "simple is great", they actually meant, "simple is not great and you suck". Not safe.
Dan and Steph, who impressed Pete with their composition and not making sausages. They're safe. Dan is so relieved he almost regains consciousness.
Kerrie and Craig, who by all appearances have made a plate of deer vomit. Pete thinks they could have had a fantastic dish there, if it weren't for the fact that they didn't. He doesn't like eating scales, which is a bit uppity of him given our knowledge of the weird crap he DOES eat, but nevertheless Kerrie and Craig are not safe. Jake and Elle are in trouble because Pete and Manu didn't taste the thyme, although Manu did taste the hallucinogenic substance which made him believe he was travelling to the Middle East. Jenna and Joanna, however, are also in trouble, because they didn't taste their food before serving it and therefore didn't notice it was drenched in brake fluid. But they're still safe, because when Pete doesn't taste thyme, he holds a grudge.
And now it's time for THE SHOWDOWN. Which is where the unsafe teams cook again to try to avoid having to cook yet again. The showdown task is to make a spicy dish. They have an hour to do so. "It's gonna be a spice train of spices," says Jake, and he and Elle burst out laughing as if he just made a joke. These are two young people whose parents complimented them way too much as children.
And so back to the cooking. Everyone grabs some ingredients and begins scattering spices and Elle starts naming geographical regions and Jake says he feels like he's walking the streets of Istanbul and clearly everyone is on drugs by now.
In the gallery, Luke is waxing lyrical about the right way to make a curry. He is apparently a curry expert all of a sudden, and fears the dire consequences if the curry doesn't turn out right. "I don't know what's gonna happen!" he exclaims in terror, visions of carnage rising before his eyes.
Meanwhile Craig is swearing because seriously wouldn't you.
Josh and Andi are cooking spiced lamb with cauliflower two ways, because cooking something one way just won't cut it in today's modern multi-faceted wifi-capable world. Meanwhile Angela and Melina are mocking Jake and Elle in the manner of two women who have already forgotten how revolting their pop-up restaurant was. Elle is hurling spices left and right, cackling like Frankenstein as she strives to create a curry hotter than man has laid tongue on before. "They thought me mad, but I shall show them all!" she shrieks as lightning cracks overhead. There is method in the madness, though: she knows that the hotter it is the harder it will be to discern the appalling flavour.
With half an hour left, Pete announces there's half an hour left, and everyone claps and cheers, their enthusiasm for the concept of measurable time palpable.
Sam and Chris are working hard, and so Pete comes over to delay them. "Tell me about your dish," he says, but Sam and Chris are too polite to tell him to faff off. Sam wisely observes that as long as the dish is perfect it shouldn't be too bad.
Over at Jake and Elle's, Manu questions the siblings' decision to try to assassinate the judges. Elle explains it's how they were brought up – "we just put everything in a pot" – so clearly they're well-placed to create fine dining experiences.
Kerrie and Craig are making some yellow balls or something, I don't know, who cares. Josh is staring into the oven, bewitched by the mesmeric flame within. Worse is happening with Sam though, as he checks his curry and discovers that it has turned into an omelette. This may be because the flame was turned off. Cooking: the bete noire of many a cook.
Everyone's panicking by this stage though: Elle tells Jake to cook more, Kerrie's done something wrong with her peas, and Sam and Chris have become committed nihilists. Kerrie and Craig are shouting at each other for comic relief. Jake is squealing about prawns. The judges are counting down. Josh has lost his mind and is dementedly tipping olive oil over everything. The centre cannot hold. Things fall apart. A rough beast slouches towards Bethlehem to be born.
Time is up, and Elle reveals that they don't want "hot hot hot, hot that blows your head off", which makes her decision to tip several kilos of spices into the dish somewhat curious. Manu isn't sure. "There's a fine line between creativity and confusion," says Pete, recalling the time he told a Sunday newspaper what he ate for breakfast.
Next up is Josh and Andi, who is now more sweat than woman. Their dish is much better than their first one: it's almost like they had twice as long to cook it and didn't get a nasty surprise in the middle this time.
Time for Sam and Chris' butter chicken/omelette, which triggers an interrogation as to what spices they put in. I'm not sure but I think Sam says it contains "Nigella seeds" – the seeds of the cleavage tree? Sam is worried that turning the burner off might have ruined their chances: he is an expert enough cook to know that not cooking things is often a mistake when cooking things.
Kerrie and Craig step up and make Pete go "Wow" and use the phrase "dancing on my tongue", so the drugs are really kicking in for him too. Kerrie is happy: in fact she says she's "aesthetic", and it's heartwarming to see her so full of joy and poor pronunciation.
Cut to an ad break, where we are once again reminded that Subway renders anyone's efforts to become a skilled chef utterly pointless.
Back in Kitchen Headquarters it is time, after this gruelling eight-week challenge, to decide who will go into the sudden-death cook-off to decide who will win the challenge. Finally, some penultimateness! "I'm feeling very nervous about this," says Kieran, as well he might be. "There are some very strong teams in that bottom four," says Nastassia, lying pathetically.
Josh and Andi cooked a good meal so they seem safe. So did Kerrie and Craig, who impressed Pete in particular with their ability to make him taste the food that was on his plate. Like magic. However, Jake and Elle may be in trouble for using too many spices. "We want you to be creative," says Pete, immediately following Manu's lecture on why they shouldn't have been creative. Thence to Sam and Chris, who in sharp contrast to Jake and Elle's insane spice rampage, failed to make the judges taste any spices at all.
And the loser is …
The viewers because we're still waiting for Manu to finish his sentence and the dramatic music won't stop.
The loser is…
Sam and Chris! So too much spice beats too little, and these two are really wishing they hadn't been so nice to Josh and Andi at the start.
And so we look forward to sudden death. "It's time to unleash the beast," Kieran says coquettishly, although one feels that unleashing some kind of cooking ability might be more beneficial. In any case, it all comes down to Sam and Chris versus Kieran and Nastassia, and may the best team (Sam and Chris) win! Join us tomorrow for the race to the bottom!


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You're going to recognize the person auditioning in this first clip from "The Voice" season 10: Alisan Porter, a.k.a. the former child actress known for playing Curly Sue in the movie "Curly Sue" and for vomiting all over Steve Martin in the movie "Parenthood."
The now-34-year-old has taken a few years off from showbiz and started a family with her husband of nearly four years – but she's ready to get back in the spotlight, this time pursuing her true passion: singing. The Broadway vet auditioned for the landmark 10th season of "The Voice," and – spoiler alert – she's incredible. You can watch her full audition in the video above.
She's so great, in fact, that Porter gets a coveted four-chair turn for her rendition of the classic "Blue Bayou," and each of the coaches – Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Pharrell Williams and Christina Aguilera – has to give their best pitch to get her on their team.
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Levine goes for flattery and sex appeal, while Aguilera lays the girl power on thick. They were both on "Star Search" as children, so that's a plus in her corner, but Shelton reminds the singer that he's the most fun.
Porter tells the judges that one of the most important influences in her life was becoming sober nearly eight years ago, allowing her to start a family and get to a place in life where she is now able to pursue the thing that she loves to do.
You'll have to wait to find out which coach she chooses when "The Voice" season 10 premieres on Monday, Feb. 29 at 8 p.m. on NBC.
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Battle For Solitude
Battle For Solitude is the last quest of the Stormcloaks' side of the Civil War Quests. It completes the entire questline and the ongoing Liberation Of Skyrim.
- Get your orders from Ulfric Stormcloak
- Force General Tullius to surrender
When you first start the quest, you will be in Windhelm so the fastest way would be to Fast Travel to the city. Once you get to Solitude, the only guards you should focus on are the ones at the main gate. In the city, Ulfric and his soldiers will take care of most of them.
Do not go up the first set of stairs you see because those gates to the Castle Dour will be locked down. Rather you should keep going until you see the huge gate to the Castle Dour, where you will have to take out a few barricades.
Once you get into the castle you should kill any guards attacking you, then wait for Ulfric and the other guy. You will then follow them to General Tullius, and will end up killing his right-hand-man first then before you kill Tullius.
Ulfric will give you the options to: Let him go, Have Ulfric kill him, or you finish him. After that, you just go with Ulfric for his speech. Congratulations! You are a High Officer of the Stormcloaks.
After you have completed the Stormcloak questline you can still liberate small Imperial camps and outposts that are scattered throughout Skyrim, even though it is nonessential to any story line, they can still be killed, although the leader of the camps are Legates and are essential to storylines, and therefore may not be killed. The easiest way to liberate the camps is assasinate the soldiers then injure the Legate which will stagger him long enough for you to leave and get on with life.


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Fatcat Studios (aka Jenny Brown) is selling a Kokeshi Boba Fett doll. "This is the bad guy we all love to hate. He is so bad he's good. I got in an elevator once with the guy who played him. I'm so nerdy that I had to tell him how much cool he was in Star Wars. I am not ashamed! Maybe a little." View all of the Star Wars characters.
The doll is only $12, comes with a super-awesome cape, and is available through Etsy.
Update: Also check out the other Kokeshi Boba Fett also on Etsy! Made by artist Craig Galentine a.k.a. Muluc, it's got a different paint job and no cape for $30.


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Pear & mincemeat crumble cake
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- kcal442
- fat25g
- saturates12g
- carbs50g
- sugars36g
- fibre2g
- protein7g
- salt0.56g
For the pears
- 4 firm pears, peeled, cored and cut into thumb-size pieces
Like apples, to which they are related, pears come in thousands of varieties, of which only a…
- 3 tbsp golden caster sugar
- 1 tsp mixed spice
For the cake recipe
- 250g pack salted butter, softened (use a tiny bit for greasing)
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 250g golden caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla paste
- 5 large eggs
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 200g self-raising flour
- 100g ground almonds
Almondarr-mund or al-mund
Sweet almonds have a subtle fragrance that lends itself well to baking and also works well with…
- 7 tbsp plain flour
- 6 tbsp mincemeat
It's a classic ingredient at Christmas in…
Put pears into a non-stick frying pan with 2 tbsp sugar and 2 tbsp water. Cover, then cook over a medium heat for 10 mins until just tender, stirring every so often. There shouldn't be juices once the pears are cooked. Add the spice; leave to cool.
Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Butter then line the base and sides of a 20cm round, deep cake tin. Put butter, sugar, vanilla and ¼ tsp salt into a large bowl. Beat with an electric hand whisk until pale and fluffy. Add eggs and flour, beat until smooth, then fold in almonds with a spoon. Remove 85g batter and put into a small bowl. Into this add the plain flour and chop into the mix with a cutlery knife to make a soft, crumbly-looking mix.
Spoon half the cake mix into the tin, top with half the pears, dot over half the mincemeat, then dollop the rest of the cake mix on top. Scatter with remaining pears, mincemeat, then the crumble mix. Sprinkle with final 1 tbsp sugar. Bake for 1½ hrs, covering with foil after 1 hr, until golden, risen and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 10 mins, then cool on a rack. Keep it in the lining paper, as this will help it stay moist. Will keep, well wrapped in an airtight tin, for 5 days. Freeze for 1 month.


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Sarah Polley's transition from actress to writer-director began rather auspiciously with "Away from Her," starring Julie Christie as an Alzheimer's patient who moves into a home, whereupon she quickly forgets her husband and falls for another man.
Now Polley's back, with another look at infidelity. "Take This Waltz," starring Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen as a young couple whose relationship is threatened by a hunky new neighbor, has been generating huge buzz since its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film this past weeks finally delivered a trailer:
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This one looks like it's gonna be tough to watch, and frankly we don't like our boy Seth's chances of coming out on top in this one. Rounding out the cast are Luke Kirby (Lindsay Lohan's love interest in "Labor Pains") as the interloper, and Sarah Silverman as Rogen's recovering alcoholic sister.
You can see more clips from "Take This waltz" at the film's website, but be warned, there's some grown-up language.
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[May 07, 2014]
LINCOLN - The Tuesday,
April 20th regular meeting of the Logan County Board began as usual
with Sally Litterly-Turner ordering a call to order, "Oh yea, Oh
yea, oh yea; the Logan County Board is now in session pursuant to
adjournment, the honorable Robert Farmer presiding."
Chairman of the board, Farmer, asked everyone to
sit. He then read some highlights of lifetime contributions made by
former board member Bill Martin.
Farmer began by saying, "Our fellow board member,
Bill Martin Jr., 67, died at his home in Atlanta on Wed., March
26th, 2014."
In summary, Farmer said that Martin was a 1964 grad
of the Atlanta High School, served our country four years in the
navy on the U.S.S. Chicago up to June 1972.
He went on to say that Martin served our communities
for many years since that time including 11 and one-half years as
the mayor of Atlanta; served on numerous Logan County committees
that included the Logan County Regional Planning Commission,
Development Partnership, Regional Economic Development Council.
Martin was elected to District 1 of Logan County in
2008. He also served on the Christian Child Care board and Life
Pointe Church of God council; was a member of the American Legion,
Post 314, Atlanta; an avid fan of the Cubs and Duck Dynasty.
"Bill will be fondly remembered by the board, and
the citizens of Logan County will miss him," Farmer said.
Dan Fulscher added that Martin had formed the
Atlanta Emergency Disaster Service, an all volunteer group under the
county's Emergency Management Agency. This was the only
municipality in the state of Illinois to do so, Fulscher pointed
Martin was also avid in bringing along the mobile
command unit. "He was very much involved in supporting weather
spotting and training in Atlanta, even before he came on the county
board," Fulscher said.
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Farmer said, Martin was the one who got the big guy
with the hot dog.
Fulscher added, "And a smile on the water tower."
Board member Jan Schumacher said, "I think we all
feel like we appreciate what he said. He didn't go along with
everybody just to go along. But, when he spoke, it was well thought
County Clerk and Recorder Sally Litterly-Turner said
that when the county voted in 2000 to redistrict, it meant going
from at-large to districts. Martin was on the committee to do that
work. "We worked tirelessly to figure out where our districts
should lie, and Bill was a big part of that," she said.
"Anything I ever asked of him and he was ready to
go," Chairman Farmer said. Farmer then asked everyone to stand for
a moment of silence in Martin's memory.
In tradition, Martin's chair was draped in black in
April. In honor of his civil service, there was also a memorial
table set up in the Logan County Courthouse rotunda. His picture
sits in the shadows of the statue of Abraham Lincoln.
[By JAN YOUNGQUIST]
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The Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa held its second bi-annual meeting in Arusha, The United Republic of Tanzania from 21 to 22 November 2012. During the meeting the Working Group was briefed by indigenous peoples rights activists on the situation of indigenous peoples in some African countries. It also considered some working documents, assessed its performance during the intersession, and planned for the next intersession.
The Chairperson and the Working Group also considered and accepted the resignation application tendered by one of the long serving members of the Working Group, Mr.Zephyrin Kalimba from Rwanda. He resigned as a result of his appointment as a Senator by the President of Rwanda. The Chairperson and the Working Group appreciated the work done by Mr. Kalimba and wished him well in his new endeavors. The Working Group decided to advertise the post to fill up the vacant position.
On 21 November 2012, the Working Group met with the Registrar of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, Dr. Robert Eno, who received the delegation on behalf of the President of the Court, who had to travel few days before the meeting to attend to some urgent matters. The Working Group and the Registrar discussed possibilities of future collaboration between the Working Group and the Court in areas of common interest.
On 23 November 2012 the Working Group in collaboration with PINGOs Forum, its local partner in Tanzania, officially launched in Tanzania its promotional video film entitled "A Question of Justice: Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Africa". The launching brought together represntatives from various government offices including the Office of the Prime Minister and Ministry of Constitutional and Legal Affairs, Judge of the High Court of Arusha, members of the civil society, indigenous peoples representatives and other stakeholders.
The Chairperson of the Working Group, Commissioner Soyata Maiga made the keynote address followed by presentations on the Protection of Indigenous Peoples' Rights under the UN system and the African Commission by Advocate William Nysha, and on the Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Tanzania by Mr. Edward Porokwa. The video film was also shown to participants, followed by discussions.
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Application analysis company Cast Software has this month released its Appmarq study, which it says is based on an examination of the structural quality and integrity of 686 applications currently in use by some 145 companies. With over 320 million lines of code to scrutinize, Cast's study has examined programming carried out in COBOL, Java, J2EE, and .NET environments and encompasses a range of industry verticals from banking and finance to manufacturing and the utility business.
Cast determines an application's structural quality to be a result of five factors (or pillars if you will): robustness — in terms of availability and ability to avoidance of outages; performance efficiency — dictated by speed of response, especially with regards to increasing workloads; security — in terms of protection against unwanted intrusion and data theft, etc.; transferability — in relation to the speed with which a new team can understand an app; and finally changeability — the ease (or lack of ease) of making changes to the application.
According to Cast software chief scientist Bill Curtis, "The effects of low structural quality and high technical debt are in the news almost every day. But these problems can be measured and managed." Speaking in an interview with Dr. Dobb's held this week in London England, Texan-born Curtis went on to explain the concept of "technical debt" much beloved by application analysis companies today. He said that software systems today are becoming so complex that (with the increased use of Agile methodologies) there will always be a certain amount of errors and bugs, but that fixing them now is always better than later, as technical debt incurs interest and so future repayments will always be higher.
Curtis, who coauthored the software application development Capability Maturity Model (CMM), has suggested that his company's study shows that there is no obvious decrease in application quality as a) an application gets larger and b) an application relies on more components from outsourced programmers or some other third-party resource. The reasons that this is so (he says) come down to modular construction in the application architectures in question.
In other findings, Cast has pointed to the perhaps unsurprising fact that public sector applications are still (as also shown in last year's study) the hardest to change once they are in a live production environment. Reasons for this, says Curtis, include the fact that the public sector will typically use a higher degree of application components (and complete applications) that have originated from contractors — and that the agreements which cover the supply of these apps does not typically provision adequately for ongoing maintenance. We await next year's survey with interest.


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Vintage Russian Razor Packaging
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Illustration by Rob Bailey
Rob Bailey is a graphic designer & illustrator from Manchester, England who has a way with creating facial expressions and emotion in his work. I gathered some of his posters that he's done as well as a set of posters titles "Seit Magazin" that focuses on illustrating famous friendships. I'm also big on dogs, and love his German Shepherd and Collie action shots.
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U.S. Paralympics Alpine Skiing National Teams named
Laurie Stephens returns to the slopes after winning nine medals during the 2011-12 World Cup season.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — U.S. Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee, announced today that 26 athletes and guides were named to the 2012-13 U.S. Paralympics Alpine Skiing National Team. An additional five athletes and guides made the 2012-13 U.S. Paralympics Alpine Skiing National Development Team roster.
"I'm very excited for the 2012-13 season. The return of veteran skiers including Allison Jones, Stephani Victor, Scott Meyer and Jasmin Bambur will add some depth to our already strong Nation's Cup winning team," said Kevin Jardine, High Performance Director for U.S. Paralympic Alpine Skiing. "I expect this to be a breakthrough year for Stephen Lawler, Melanie Schwartz and Stephanie Jallen, and am excited to see how they will perform. We are looking forward to numerous podiums at the 2013 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Championships in La Molina, Spain, and IPC World Cup Finals in Sochi, Russia, this March."
The 2012-13 World Championships are Feb. 18-27 while the World Cup Finals are March 7-12.
The national team is highlighted by 12 athletes and guides who competed at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, including medalists Mark Bathum (Seattle, Wash.) and guide Slater Storey (Sun Valley, Idaho), Alana Nichols (Farmington, N.M.), Laurie Stephens (Wenham, Mass.), Danelle Umstead (Park City, Utah) and guide Rob Umstead (Park City, Utah) and Victor (Park City, Utah). Alpine skiers combined for 11 medals in Vancouver, the most of any program.
Team USA made the World Cup podium 39 times last season, with the United States capturing the overall Nations Cup. Nichols led the Americans with 10 World Cup medals while Stephens and Umstead won nine medals each. Tyler Walker (Franconia, N.H.) finished the season with four World Cup medals.
Both Heath Calhoun (Clarksville, Tenn.) and Lindsay Ball (Benton, Maine) also contributed to the team overall Nations Cup title with break through performances at the end of the year. Each earned a bronze in giant slalom at the Winter Park, Colo., World Cup.
Athletes on the 2012-13 U.S. Paralympics Alpine Skiing National Teams:
2012-13 U.S. Paralympics Alpine Skiing National Team
Lindsay Ball (Benton, Maine) and guide Diane Barras (Bethel, Maine)
Jasmin Bambur (Granby, Colo.)
Mark Bathum (Seattle, Wash.) ^* and guide Slater Storey (Sun Valley, Idaho)^*
Heath Calhoun (Clarksville, Tenn.)^
Ralph Green (Brooklyn, N.Y.)^
Stephanie Jallen (Harding, Pa.)
Allison Jones (Colorado Springs, Colo.)^
Andrew Kurka (Palmer, Alaska)
Stephen Lawler (Burlington, Vt.)
Jon Lujan (Littleton, Colo.)
Scott Meyer (Frisco, Colo.)
Alana Nichols (Farmington, N.M.)^*
Patrick Parnell (Columbia, Conn.)
Gregory Peck (Wasilla, Alaska)
Caitlin Sarubbi (Brooklyn, N.Y.)^ and guide Jamie Sarubbi (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Melanie Schwartz (Toronto, Canada)
Laurie Stephens (Wenham, Mass.)^*
Joe Tompkins (Juneau, Alaska)^
Stephani Victor (Park City, Utah)^*
Tyler Walker (Franconia, N.H.)^
Chris Devlin Young (Campton, N.H.)^Danelle Umstead (Park City, Utah) ^* and guide Rob Umstead (Park City, Utah)^*
2012-13 U.S. Paralympics Alpine Skiing National Development Team
Meghan Erickson (Somerset, Wis.)
Sarah Holm (Baraboo, Wis.)
Staci Mannella (Randolph, N.J.) and guide Kim Seevers (Averill Park, N.Y.)
James Stanton (Oakland, Mich.)
^ = 2010 U.S. Paralympian
* = Medalist at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games
For more information on the U.S. Paralympic alpine skiing athletes or program, please contact Kevin Jardine at 970-429-8324 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Lotus and HARMAN create next generation intelligent pedestrian warning system, integrating the advanced HALOsonic sound synthesis system with video technology.
This cutting-edge enhanced version of the HALOsonic safety system incorporates input from imaging sensors to enhance the quality of the sound synthesis system. HALOsonic has been developed specifically for electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, and will have its first public demonstration on the Lotus Engineering cutaway hybrid Evora 414Evolution exhibit at the 81st International Motor Show in Geneva.
The system on this latest version of HALOsonic, a collaboration between HARMAN and Lotus uses a single camera to determine the distance, trajectory and speed of pedestrians and other road users, calculating the risk of collision by comparing this information with the car's path. The new HALOsonic system uses this data to actively control the volume of the External Sound Synthesis to warn pedestrians of the vehicle's location, thereby improving pedestrian safety and reducing noise pollution. Under certain conditions the system will generate an audible and visual warning for the driver using the Internal Sound Synthesis and instrument panel.
The new active system is optimised to operate in urban environments where there is the greatest risk of a collision with a pedestrian. It is calibrated to actively control the volume and pitch of the sound synthesised while the vehicle is travelling from 0 - 75 km/h, continually evaluating the risk of a pedestrian collision and operating in an area up to 60 metres ahead of the vehicle. All of the HALOsonic systems are designed to use low levels of power and with the new active version there will be less power consumed as the system will only increase the volume when there is a risk of an impact.
This innovative new active safety system is integrated into the HALOsonic range of products, which includes: External Sound Synthesis, Internal Sound Synthesis, Road Noise Cancellation and Engine Order Cancellation. The HALOsonic range has been designed by Lotus Engineering and HARMAN Automotive and offers a production ready technology as a stand-alone or integrated ICE system solution.
Governments around the world have acknowledged the increased risk posed by almost silent vehicles and are in the process of drawing up legislation to compel car manufacturers to equip vehicles with pedestrian warning systems like the HALOsonic system.
Colin Peachey, Chief Engineer, Control and Electrical, Lotus Engineering said, "The integration of video technology into the HALOsonic system illustrates the flexibility of the technology to evolve new features and functionality; offering a system that is more intelligent and produces less unwanted noise while using less power! This is just one of the several enhanced functions we are currently developing for HALOsonic that is now the global benchmark pedestrian safety system of this type, and which is receiving a lot of attention from large vehicle manufactures keen to meet the upcoming legislation in the US and Japan. The HALOsonic system offers the ability to tune the sound synthesis to a manufacturer's requirements, giving the capability to synthesise anything from a conventional engine sound to a very futuristic Sci- Fi designer sound."
"The latest active HALOsonic system is the most advanced system on the market and meets all the proposed legislation, providing the benchmark for this type of system" said HARMAN's Rick Kreifeldt, Vice President of Global Automotive Research.
Lotus Engineering cutaway hybrid Evora 414Evolution exhibit
The cutaway hybrid Evora 414Evolution exhibit will be displayed at the 81st International Motor Show in Geneva and demonstrates Lotus Engineering's technical expertise in: Lightweight Architectures, Efficient Performance, Driving Dynamics and Electrical and Electronic Integration. The new intelligent HALOsonic system is displayed in the cutaway hybrid Evora 414Evolution exhibit along with the supercharged production Lotus Range Extender.
Dr Robert Hentschel, Director of Lotus Engineering, said "Lotus Engineering is one of the world's most dynamic automotive engineering consultancies. We are rapidly expanding into new regions and investing heavily in facilities, personnel and our world leading technologies. One example of this investment in technology is the cutaway hybrid Evora 414Evolution exhibit, which showcases the advanced series hybrid drivetrain, with the production Lotus Range Extender and intelligent HALOsonic technology. It is anticipated that these technologies will, in conjunction with our technical partners, be in production vehicles in the near future".


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Overall: [47-24] Last week: [5-1]
The good news is that I'm one game behind Shawn now
Colorado 14 – Arizona 38: Arizona will probably run up the point total. Rich Rod can coach.
Arizona State 27 – USC 42: There have been some pretty entertaining games this year. USC losing last year in Tempe was kind of a weird game. I still can't get over this interception.
Oregon State 27 – Stanford 21: I think Oregon State has too much speed on the outside for Stanford to contain. Plus we've seen more from Cody Vaz than we've seen from Stanford's backup QB.
Oregon 52 – California 14: I won't even try to pick an upset. I'll be happy if we can cover the 28 point spread.
UCLA 28 – Washington State 13: UCLA might be able to legitimately make the Pac-12 Championship game this year, but they need to win in Pullman first.
Utah 21 – Washington 24: I really have no feeling on this game so I'm going with the hometown team.


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Apple is working on a mini iPad that would sell for around $299, a price that would make it competitive with Amazon's Kindle Fire -- and keep Apple in the e-book game.
According to a translation from the website, Kotaku, Apple's Chinese supply chain is preparing 6 million for launch by September. But what would an iPad Mini look like anyway? According to reports, the typical iPad 9.7-inch display would be whittled down to a 7.86-inch screen, which is too big to fit in one's pocket and may be too small for serious gamers or downloaders.
So who is this iPad Mini for? It seems Apple is going after Amazon's base because the Kindle Fire has a 7-inch display, and bigger is always better, right? Apple seems to believe those using an Amazon Kindle or Kindle Fire will be charmed and wooed away by the iOS, especially when it's half the price.
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