National Coming Out Day
A Coming Out Day at the Center for Equality will be held today as part of National Coming Out Day.This is the 30th anniversary of the first march for lesbian and gay rights on Washington, D.C. Another march is planned in the nation's capital this year. The local Coming Out Day activities will begin at 12:30 p.m. at the Center for Equality, 3600 S. Minnesota Ave., with a worship service led by Pastor Don Reusch of St. Matthew the Martyr Church. Lunch will be served from 1 to 3 p.m. with time to visit. Counselors and those who support gay and lesbian rights also will attend to offer support to those ready to declare their sexual orientation to family and friends. From 3 to 5 p.m., Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays will hold its regular meeting, with members sharing personal stories of coming out and family members sharing stories of their experiences. Priceless. Beautiful. Wonderous. Inspiring. I can only hope that all parents can appreciate their child's unique qualities. Wow! Sane and loving parenting. A confident, comfortable, sane young man... Thank you both for sharing your experience with the world.
LGBTI kids!!! What about Q kids! Queer kids, Questioning Kids. What about A kids -- Asexual kids. Allied kids! What about 2S kids? 2-spiritied peoples of the first nation kids! What about SK kids? Straight kinkster kids! What about HGWCTQAAWTGPOMC kids? Heterosexual Girls Who Call Themselves Queer As A Way To Go Poopie On Mommy's Carptet kids?!?! You are so exclusionary and bigoted and need a re-education on inclusion in the LBTQAI2SAQSKHGWCTQAATGGPOMC (and Stu Rasmussen) communities of oppression and misery and victims of gay male power and privilege. That is why they are marching -- to dismantle the gender binary, heteronormativity and the eating of bananas on the subway by non-simian beings. Wow - I so wish my coming out was as sweet as that. He is so lucky to have such a great mom and I am very impressed at how confident & happy he is. I wish it to be this easy for all gay & lesbian youth. Looked great...but I had to stop because I found the (completely unnecessary) background music really distracting. I loved this video clip! I wish everyone had as great a mother as Jack does. Happy coming out day!
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor Drew Barrymore is energy. Pure, almost-scary energy. It's disorienting to watch when one is bleary-eyed and staring at a tiny TV in the wee hours of the morning, but this trademark makes for consistent television-viewing. While the quality of Saturday Night Live's writing may waver from episode to episode, every time Drew Barrymore returns, one can safely expect absolute enthusiasm and a palpable willingness to step back and laugh at herself. All right, little Ms. "I Extra-Love Female Empowerment," prepare for me to work that ego.... Especially when one compares her to the typical "hot girl" host (see: Megan Fox's SNL premiere), Barrymore doesn't box herself in and offers a lot more opportunity for fun characters. Would someone like Fox ever be willing to bolo it up to play Nina Wilkes Booth? I doubt it. This episode was fun, but not all sketches were winners. It felt strong in performance and a little weak in writing. At the top of the show, I got my hopes up a bit. SNL has been doing some great Obama material in the last two episodes, and I'm sure they could have pushed the Nobel Peace Prize controversy even further (though I suppose the did touch upon it more during "Weekend Update"). I loved the idea behind the monologue, as Drew Barrymore impressions are addictive to both watch and try. I once did one during a conversation and, weeks later,
I was still catching myself talking out the side of my mouth occasionally. Apparently that's a side effect. Then, in a strange twist, I actually enjoyed a "Gilly" sketch for the first time in a long time. Barrymore's expressions as Gigli were fantastic and maybe even a little disturbing. Then, after that, the funny kind of dropped a little and rode the "okay" line until the end of the evening, with a few big laughs here and there.The billiards sketch was just an excuse to make tampon jokes that a writer had probably been holding onto for years and was desperate to work into a sketch. I mean, not that I didn't crack up at "Tampax, helping you relax when Mother Nature attacks your slacks." Ohh, menstruation jokes. Barrymore's beau, Justin Long's surprise cameo as Matthew McConaughey during the celebrity ghost stories sketch was a demonstration of another go-to impression that rarely fails (really, you've just got to smirk/grin and growl, "All right, all right"). The Digital Short wasn't nearly as hysterical as Barrymore's first, "Body Fuzion", but that is to be expected, since this one didn't involve 80s-tastic leotards and Kristen Wiig repeatedly winding her legs in a scary way. And, of course, once again Seth Meyers worked the "Weekend Update" desk like he wasn't lonely for a co-anchor. Strong material that wasn't covered in the Cold Open was touched upon here, and it was another pretty solid installment.
Whip Tt Movie
Whip Tt Movie It,” starring the likes of the Oscar winning Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, Daniel Stern and Barrymore herself. The movie has released on the Oct. 2. However, it is not her on-screen romancing that has her in the news for this movie. The “E.T.” star has honed her behind the camera skills and donned the director’s cap for “Whip It”. The comedy drama has Ellen Page essaying the role of the misfit Bliss Cavender, who puts up a tough resistance against her mom’s constant insistence to take part in beauty pageants. She however joins in the Roller Derby league, where she thinks she fits in perfectly. Barrymore has reportedly told the Couriermail, “I always wanted to direct so this is a very wonderful moment for me. I’ve found something very personal and got to put my whole heart in to it.” Her achievements have always been very laudable. Over the years, growing up in front of the public eyes and intense media scrutiny, she has developed from the adorable little Gertie in E.T. to be one among the top ranked actresses in Hollywood. Now, with her directorial debut, she is all set to tread that extra mile.
In between running around for the busy schedule of all the promotional campaigns she is attending for “Whip It,” Barrymore was seen going the easy and low maintenance way, dressed in the “bad lady” attire. The 34 year old actress was spotted in and around the New York City, running errands by squeezing in some time in between talk show appearances. Even more improbably, it stars Ellen Page, the petite, smart-mouthed star of “Juno,” which is a little like a movie about Michael Cera going for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Ol’ Juno MacGuff as a derby queen? Those jocks spit bigger than she is. The gulf between the dream and the reality could be a large part of the humor in “Whip It.” Unfortunately, there isn’t much comedy in the movie at all.
Instead, it just recycles ideas from quirkier indie comedies (the beauty pageants, the schlocky minimum-wage jobs) and more mainstream young romances (the “sensitive” new boyfriend, the follow-your-dream bromides). It’s as if Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine strapped on skates and sailed right into some pat Hollywood comedy. That’s too bad, because Barrymore .
Instead, it just recycles ideas from quirkier indie comedies (the beauty pageants, the schlocky minimum-wage jobs) and more mainstream young romances (the “sensitive” new boyfriend, the follow-your-dream bromides). It’s as if Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine strapped on skates and sailed right into some pat Hollywood comedy. That’s too bad, because Barrymore .
But “Whip It” just moves blandly along, right up to the inevitable “gag” reel under the final credits. The derby scenes are filmed in such tight closeups that we miss out on the plays the women are working so hard to execute; Bliss’ conflicts with her best friend, her new boyfriend and her parents are so obvious they could write themselves. True, the derby dames’ stage names — “Bloody Holly,” “Eva Destruction,” “Smashley Simpson” — are more fun than a roomful of drag queens. The always courageously eccentric Juliette Lewis is terrific as the evil “Dinah Might,” and after her SNL hamming, Kristen Wiig gives a refreshingly restrained comic performance as “Malice in Wonderland.” But Page never convinces as “Babe Ruthless,” her team’s new star. As her emo boyfriend, Oliver, Landon Pigg is, well, just as smoothly charming as his name. And if Barrymore really wanted to do a movie about empowerment — “girls getting to do what boys do,” as she told Time Out New York — why make the team’s bossy coach a man?
Points go to Lewis for bringing all of her fixed-stare intensity to a typical villainous part and elevating it. And credit is owed to some of the supporting performers, including Barrymore who, modestly, settles for playing one of the lesser athletes. But like the sport itself, this movie goes in circles. In the end, it hardly matters who wins.
Points go to Lewis for bringing all of her fixed-stare intensity to a typical villainous part and elevating it. And credit is owed to some of the supporting performers, including Barrymore who, modestly, settles for playing one of the lesser athletes. But like the sport itself, this movie goes in circles. In the end, it hardly matters who wins.
Chicago Marathon 2009
Chicago Marathon 2009 Latest updates about Chicago marathon and chicago marathon street closures, chilly 2009 Chicago Marathon is underway.As many as 45,000 participants from all 50 states and around the world braved sub-freezing temperatures for the city’s 32nd marathon. The runners, handcyclers and wheelchair riders left at 7:30 a.m. for the 26.2-mile jaunt that will take them from Millennium Park north to Wrigley Field, as far west as Damen Avenue, then south near U.S. Cellular Field and up Michigan Avenue to the finish line.While some elite runners are competing for a chunk of the $450,000 in total prize money, most, like 34-year-old Mark Harry of Aurora, are competing against themselves. “It’s cold,” said Harry, “but cold is better. Once we get going it should be OK.”
Harry, a lifelong runner participating in his first marathon, battled the cold with layers of disposable clothes: an old sweatshirt and a garbage bag covering his torso and a tattered towel keeping his lower half warm.
“I’m throwing this all away as soon as the race starts,” he said.
Harry, a lifelong runner participating in his first marathon, battled the cold with layers of disposable clothes: an old sweatshirt and a garbage bag covering his torso and a tattered towel keeping his lower half warm.
“I’m throwing this all away as soon as the race starts,” he said.
He wasn’t alone. Moments before the race began, the starting area more closely resembled the end of a graduation ceremony as disposable clothing like the Harry’s was thrown to the sidelines to be collected and given to charity. After the runners had left, said one volunteer, “it looked like a wasteland.”
On the men’s side, last year’s race was dominated by Kenyans, with five out of the top six finishers in 2008 hailing from the East African country. Evans Cheruiyot won in ‘08, finishing the race in just over two hours.
Russia’s Lidiya Grigoryeva, who won last year’s Chicago Marathon on women’s side, will look to repeat this year. For one runner, the experience running last year’s Chicago marathon was enough to convince her to return.
“It’s an unbelievable feeling to run past all those spectators,” Melinda Schaller, 24, of Detroit said. “That’s what makes Chicago such an amazing race.”
Jeff Butcher, 44, made the trip from Los Angeles to run his 13th marathon. Like Harry, he donned garbage bags and disposable warmup pants to keep warm.
On the men’s side, last year’s race was dominated by Kenyans, with five out of the top six finishers in 2008 hailing from the East African country. Evans Cheruiyot won in ‘08, finishing the race in just over two hours.
Russia’s Lidiya Grigoryeva, who won last year’s Chicago Marathon on women’s side, will look to repeat this year. For one runner, the experience running last year’s Chicago marathon was enough to convince her to return.
“It’s an unbelievable feeling to run past all those spectators,” Melinda Schaller, 24, of Detroit said. “That’s what makes Chicago such an amazing race.”
Jeff Butcher, 44, made the trip from Los Angeles to run his 13th marathon. Like Harry, he donned garbage bags and disposable warmup pants to keep warm.
Charlyne Yi
Charlyne YiAsian-American performance artist, musician, writer, painter and actress Charlyne Yi new film, "Paper Hearts" opens in cinemas on 7 August. Viewers may remember yi brief but memorable appearance in the hit comedy director Judd Apatou in "Knocked Up." In "Paper Heart," Yi stars with Michael Cera and Jake Johnson. The film was directed and produced by Nick Jasenovec Sandra Murillo. Yi I executive produced, along with co-wrote the screenplay and stars as a fictionalized version of themselves. "Hybrid-documentary" as it moves in the search for America to find "love."
According to the filmmakers, as Yi and her good friend (and director) Nick search for answers and advice about love, she talks with friends and strangers, scientists, bikers, romance novelists, and children. They each offer diverse views on modern romance, as well as various answers to the age-old question: does true love really exist?
But shortly after filming begins, Yi meets a boy after her own heart: Michael Cera. As their relationship develops on camera, her pursuit to discover the nature of love takes on a fresh new urgency. Yi risks losing the person she finds closest to her heart.
The movie combines elements of documentary and traditional storytelling, reality and fantasy into a whimsical story that won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
But shortly after filming begins, Yi meets a boy after her own heart: Michael Cera. As their relationship develops on camera, her pursuit to discover the nature of love takes on a fresh new urgency. Yi risks losing the person she finds closest to her heart.
The movie combines elements of documentary and traditional storytelling, reality and fantasy into a whimsical story that won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Today charlyne yi is the hottest topic in blogosphere. This is interesting topic because every one talking about this and you can find them in forum, google news, yahoo buzz. read more. Here some short excerpt and summary you might be interest to read.Paper Heart (2009) — Charlyne Yi interviews Bobcat Goldthwaite for Paper Heart. . Find where Charlyne Yi is credited alongside another name. charlyne yi – In recent years, there been no shortage of well-soundtracked alternative romantic comedies, and most have hinged on a very particular archetype: the unassuming nerd girl… Charlyne Yi Charlyne Amanda Yi (born January 4, 1986) is an American musician, writer, painter, and actress. Her performances do not always include joke-telling as in . Charlyne Yi: Geek Love :: Emergent Features Film amp TV :: Articles I spotted this on Facebook and wanted to help spread the word. Charlyne Yi, the star of this summer Paper Heart, a documentary about the meaning of love, talks about why health care reform is important to her. As she says, Charlyne Yi – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Fort Collins Soccer Club
Fort Collins Soccer Club
Pamela Chappelle Christensen, of Evergreen, Colo., passed away on October 4 from injuries related to a fall. She was the loving wife of David Christensen and devoted mother of Charles Wade Christensen, a second-year cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Pam was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 6, 1947 to Charles and Nettie Chappelle. She was raised in Fort Collins, where her father became a veterinarian after retiring from the Navy. After graduating from Poudre High School, she attended Colorado State University where she graduated with honors in mathematics and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Pam joined the Peace Corps in 1969, learned Swahili and taught mathematics and coached volleyball and track at a girl's high school in Kenya.
Upon her return to the U.S., she spent two years recruiting for the Peace Corps. She then entered law school at the University of San Francisco, where she was a member of the Law Review, worked as a student extern for the California Supreme Court and graduated with honors in 1977.
Pam was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 6, 1947 to Charles and Nettie Chappelle. She was raised in Fort Collins, where her father became a veterinarian after retiring from the Navy. After graduating from Poudre High School, she attended Colorado State University where she graduated with honors in mathematics and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Pam joined the Peace Corps in 1969, learned Swahili and taught mathematics and coached volleyball and track at a girl's high school in Kenya.
Upon her return to the U.S., she spent two years recruiting for the Peace Corps. She then entered law school at the University of San Francisco, where she was a member of the Law Review, worked as a student extern for the California Supreme Court and graduated with honors in 1977.
She joined Pacific Gas & Electric in San Francisco where, for 13 years, she handled civil litigation.
In 1982, she married David Christensen, who was the love of her life. Their son, Charles, was born on March 26, 1990. In 1993, they - along with their two golden retrievers--spent 10 months exploring the country in an RV.
Pam returned home to Colorado in 1994 and the family settled in Evergreen. Over the next 15 years, she was a full-time mother and tireless community leader.
Pam's volunteer commitment was broad and included scouting and school activities. Pam was president of the Stingers Soccer Club, president of the King-Murphy PTA and coach of Clear Creek High School mock trial team. In 2003, she began her volunteer work for CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocate), an organization which represents abused and neglected juveniles.
She and her family traveled extensively in Europe, Alaska, the Caribbean, Africa and Central America.
In 1982, she married David Christensen, who was the love of her life. Their son, Charles, was born on March 26, 1990. In 1993, they - along with their two golden retrievers--spent 10 months exploring the country in an RV.
Pam returned home to Colorado in 1994 and the family settled in Evergreen. Over the next 15 years, she was a full-time mother and tireless community leader.
Pam's volunteer commitment was broad and included scouting and school activities. Pam was president of the Stingers Soccer Club, president of the King-Murphy PTA and coach of Clear Creek High School mock trial team. In 2003, she began her volunteer work for CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocate), an organization which represents abused and neglected juveniles.
She and her family traveled extensively in Europe, Alaska, the Caribbean, Africa and Central America.
Always fit and an avid outdoors-person, Pam bi-cycled across the country in 1976 as part of the Bike Centennial; she also ran the Boston Marathon. She was a lifelong passionate reader. She cared deeply for animals and was committed to the cause of animal welfare.
Pam was a remarkable woman who glowed with life, and the loss to her family and friends is immense.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to CASA or the World Wildlife Fund : The immediate family held a private gathering to honor Pam's memory. A public celebration of her life will be scheduled in the near future. The Christensens hosted foreign exchange students from Uzbekistan, Syria, the Czech Republic and Macedonia.
Pam was a remarkable woman who glowed with life, and the loss to her family and friends is immense.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to CASA or the World Wildlife Fund : The immediate family held a private gathering to honor Pam's memory. A public celebration of her life will be scheduled in the near future. The Christensens hosted foreign exchange students from Uzbekistan, Syria, the Czech Republic and Macedonia.
Thermos
ThermosThere is science behind your thermos, but that is old science. The new science says you can keep your coffee hot for a lot longer using photonic crystals, but that is only a part what this new material could do for us in the future. Keeping coffee hot is step one, using the sun’s heat as energy source is the next step. So far, the vacuum was basically the only and the best insulator that a thermos could use to keep the liquid inside warm. It seems that is about to change as scientists have found another structure, called a photonic crystal, which can keep the heat from dissipating in a better and more effective way than the vacuum can.The team that made this discovery published a fascinating article in the October issue of the “Physical Review B”, where they have explained thoroughly the phenomenon. It seems that these photonic crystals have a lot of potential in the computing and communications technologies and that their thermal properties could be used in the future for capturing the sun’s heat and transforming it into usable energy for everyone. Your normal thermos keeps the liquid’s heat from dissipating by creating a vacuum between the two walls (one inner and one outer).
The process is not perfect because the light that is radiated through the walls (all warm bodies radiate a range of infrared frequencies) will take some energy away with it. And by energy, this time we mean heat. This was the starting point for the team led by Shanhui Fan from Stanford University in California. As photonic crystals are already known light frequency blockers, last year they have wondered if they could make these crystals block the infrared frequencies that a worm body radiates. And by studying different silicon and vacuum layer variations, they have found out that a 100 micron thick stack that alternated vacuum layers and 10 layers of silicon (those silicon layers are 1 micron thick) reduced the thermal conductance to half. This basically means your coffee will stay warm for longer that it does in the thermos you have today. In the paper published this month, the same team took a different approach: rather that studying specific cases, they managed to complete a complete analysis of the matter. And while most scientist that study this problem usually focus on calculating the frequency ranges that are blocked by the crystals (also called band gaps), Fan and his colleagues used a method called statistical theory to calculate the percent of all the frequency that these photonic crystals allow to pass through. The result was highly unusual.
It seems that this percentage does not change depending on the thickness of the layers (which is unusual because the structure is very important when dealing with photonic crystals, as Fan states). Instead, it only depends on the speed of light in the solid layers (also called an index of refraction). This is a big discovery that also puts researchers in a dilemma as they can adjust the conductance only by varying the materials, and not the way the layers are placed. Further on the team plans on studying photonic crystal that have irregular structures. If their assumptions are correct, these crystals can be even more effective insulators. Fan is highly convinced that studying the control of heat flow by using photonic crystal can lead to major breakthrough in the way we can use the sun’s heat as an energy source. I was wondering in times of recession, as municipalities have less and less money to spend on programs and services as do their citizens, why it is that the public libraries whose hours are usually one of the first things to shrink as a money-saving idea, tend to become more popular as those with limited incomes seek entertainment and information. It was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel to find sources to support the level and breadth at which this has been happening across the USA, just by clicking here. At the time I entered the phrase in a search engine (sorry, Bing, you're not my choice), there were 1.4 million mentions identified in less a quarter of a second.
Asolo Italy
Asolo ItalyNoise has been proven to raise stress levels, can potentially cause heart and immune system problems, and raise blood pressure. Some studies even show noise can alter brain chemistry in less than fun ways.
So what can you do about it? Escape into the quiet. Around the world remain places that are surprisingly accessible where the constant din of civilization simply drops away. An hour outside Venice (another carless place that could have made this list), Asolo is a perfect medieval hill town of walls and cobbled streets and afternoons of nothing to do but sip a drink in an open-air café. Once home to Robert and Elizabeth Browning, in Asolo, the only alarm clock you’ll ever need here are the songbirds. According to Dr. Cheryl Fraser, “On a circular hike through the hillside farms and vineyards, over the top of the old castle and down the ancient winding stone path, the predominant sounds are the buzz of various insects (I wonder, do they buzz in dialect?) and the beating of my own heart.” Roads tend to be noisy places. Engines and wheels are not at all kind to the soundscape. But the Troll Ladder has something very few roads do: a soundtrack. Famed Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg wrote his piece
So what can you do about it? Escape into the quiet. Around the world remain places that are surprisingly accessible where the constant din of civilization simply drops away. An hour outside Venice (another carless place that could have made this list), Asolo is a perfect medieval hill town of walls and cobbled streets and afternoons of nothing to do but sip a drink in an open-air café. Once home to Robert and Elizabeth Browning, in Asolo, the only alarm clock you’ll ever need here are the songbirds. According to Dr. Cheryl Fraser, “On a circular hike through the hillside farms and vineyards, over the top of the old castle and down the ancient winding stone path, the predominant sounds are the buzz of various insects (I wonder, do they buzz in dialect?) and the beating of my own heart.” Roads tend to be noisy places. Engines and wheels are not at all kind to the soundscape. But the Troll Ladder has something very few roads do: a soundtrack. Famed Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg wrote his piece
“Hall of the Mountain King” with exactly this place in mind: Hairpin turns so close to a towering waterfall that it’s a good idea to check your brakes and windshield wipers before starting the drive. Norway’s mountains block the horizons in scenery that looks like you thought The Lord of the Rings should have looked like, if the producers hadn’t been from New Zealand. Once you get past the fun of just saying the place’s name — Yap — this Pacific island (take a left at Guam), might just be paradise. It’s a jungle island, with endless coastline, mangrove swamps where giant fruit bats play, and under water, manta rays with 10-foot wingspans glide without a sound. Yap’s entire culture is built on adherence to social peace, so that, according to resident Richard Flow, even playing your car radio too loud when you drive simply isn’t done. “Do it,” he says, “and you’ll come back the next day to find your windshield broken.” So the loudest sound in Yap? Waves hitting the reef, more than a mile from shore. And occasional broken glass. Deep in the rainforests of Olympic National Park, the largest roadless area in the contiguous United States, the Hoh is home of the "One Square Inch Project," a fight to preserve just a single inch of landscape from human sound. Keep that one inch quiet, says founder Gordon Hempton, and the silence will radiate out for thousands of acres. And he’s right: The Inch offers few sounds louder than water dripping from leaves and the occasional clack of a grouse.
Some of the box canyons off the main river have been measured to be half as loud as human breath. But nobody can take that for long, so head back out to the Canyon proper, where the signature sound, says Mike Buchheit, director of the Grand Canyon Field Institute, “as it grows from the graveyard silence of any hike, is the roar of the Colorado River.” Of course, some people come just because they think all the red rocks are pretty. Big Bend is a kind of acoustic greatest hits record. Because the park, located in southwest Texas, has such a diverse landscape — mountains, deserts, river, with more species of birds, bats, and cactus than any other park in the country — only a few minute’s change in location can dramatically change what you hear. And one of the best things about Big Bend? It’s not on very many airplane flight routes. In fact, the sound of planes is still very rare here. And that makes it one of the most unusual, noise-free environments anywhere in the world. Simple math: The greater the distance from people, the quieter a place is going to be. the Kalahari — which lies mostly in Botswana, but also spreads into five other African nations — may be one of the emptiest landscapes on the planet, over 350,000 square miles of low scrub and acacia trees, nibbled on by giraffes. But then, giraffes aren’t noted for being noisy. Photographer Jad Davenport says of the Kalahari, “No sound out there at all. Nothing.”Source: Forbes Traveller.
Google Squared
Google Squared
Google has released a few enhancements to Google Squared, its attempt to build spreadsheets out of search results. Google Squared is a Google Labs project first unveiled in May at its Searchology event and set loose on the world a month later. The idea is to take the search results for a given query, such as "U.S. presidents" or "European countries," and present the results as a table with facts and dates helpfully sorted for easier research. The company announced on Friday "a number of improvements to the amount and quality of information you can find with Google Squared, as well as new tools to sort and export the data," it said in a blog post. For example, Google Squared can now return 120 facts organized in rows and columns, as opposed to just 30 at launch. The filters have gotten better as well, which was a definite problem with the first batch of Google Squared results. It's still not ready for prime time, however: according to Google Squared, the Milwaukee Brewers play home games in both Milwaukee and San Diego. It had no idea what city is home to Yankee Stadium--let alone which New York borough--and it also seemed to miss the grand opening this year of a new Yankee Stadium to replace The House That Ruth Built.
Google said Squared is an experiment in "understanding structured data from across the Web to build new tools for organizing and presenting information." Despite plans to offload its back-end search technology, Yahoo is trying to keep its name in the game as a search company by conducting much of the same research.Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Internet search, including Google, Yahoo, online advertising, and portals, as well as the evolution of mobile computing. He has written about traditional PC companies, chip manufacturers, and mobile computers, spending the last three years covering Apple. E-mail Tom. As we explained when we first launched Squared in Labs this summer, the product takes on a difficult technical challenge. It's a first step towards automatically extracting useful facts from all over the web and presenting them in meaningful way. It has the potential to be particularly useful for research questions where the answers may not live on a single website, but instead must be combined from many different pages.
Rather than return a list of the most relevant websites, Squared returns a "square" (or table) of facts, sourced from across the Internet. For example, if you search Squared for [us presidents], each row on the resulting table represents a particular United States President, and the columns include relevant facts about him, such as date of birth, a picture and a short description. At launch, your first square could include at most 30 facts. With today's update, squares display four times as much data — up to 120 facts. For example, instead of seeing only five presidents and three categories, now you'll see a table with 20 presidents and up to six attributes. The quality of the information is also better, because we're ranking based on both relevance to your query and whether we can find high quality facts. For example, in the past we would show you a column for "First Lady" even if the column only included a couple accurate names. Now we're actively filtering out items (rows) and attributes (columns) from the initial square if we haven't found enough accurate data. Perhaps more interesting, we built Squared to learn from edits and corrections, so as people have been improving their squares, Google Squared has gotten better for everyone.
Baltimore Marathon
Baltimore Marathon
Thousands of runners have started around 8 hours out of the line in Saturday's Baltimore Marathon. Twenty thousand people participate in the five race organizers say is While hundreds of volunteers, Baltimore Running Festival, one of the local volunteers in the Baltimore Marathon, when it comes to responsibility is quite a bit. Legg Mason CEO Mark Fetting public, "Choosing the Baltimore Marathon is". "We are Legg Mason on 6 consecutive years Marathon events will be invited" WBAL's Scott Fetting Way is proud nose. "And we support our currency." The other six workers and Legg Mason, also handing out water along the race route. Fetting said Legg Mason sees the Baltimore Marathon as a starting point for a major corporate effort to help Baltimore City Schools.
Legg Mason is sponsoring a school spirit contest where Baltimore City schools along the race route will have students out to cheer on the racers.
The company has employees in the race, as well as employee volunteers who will be stationed near the new Legg Mason headquarters building at Harbor East working a water station for the runners. The Baltimore Sun has been good enough to provide a map in order to help you, the spectator or Michael Phelps, not get killed while in Baltimore for the Baltimore Running Festival. who might win the Baltimore Marathon, but here are a few of the elite runners you might want to keep your eye on, race organizers say:Ndereba, 32, was born in Kenya and lives in Philadelphia. His personal best half marathon time is 1:01:56, set in Philadelphia last month. This is his marathon debut.
The company has employees in the race, as well as employee volunteers who will be stationed near the new Legg Mason headquarters building at Harbor East working a water station for the runners. The Baltimore Sun has been good enough to provide a map in order to help you, the spectator or Michael Phelps, not get killed while in Baltimore for the Baltimore Running Festival. who might win the Baltimore Marathon, but here are a few of the elite runners you might want to keep your eye on, race organizers say:Ndereba, 32, was born in Kenya and lives in Philadelphia. His personal best half marathon time is 1:01:56, set in Philadelphia last month. This is his marathon debut.
Chirlee, 29, is from Kenya. His current marathon PR (2:12:10) was achieved at the 2007 Rock 'N' Roll Marathon. His marathon victories include: 2006 Rocket City Marathon - 2:23:32; 2007 ING Georgia Marathon - 2:19:17; 2008 Deseret News Salt Lake Marathon - 2:18:16 Berkele, 27, is from Ethiopia and lives in The Bronx. He won the Columbus, Ohio half marathon in 2009 with a time of 1:00:38.5 Portilla, 36, is from Peru, and won last year's marathon with a time of 2:36:32. Her personal best was set at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games; 2:35:22. Her marathon victories include: 2008 Baltimore (2:36:32); 2008 Salt Lake City, Utah (2:39:39); 2007 Salt Lake City, Utah (2:39:00)Runner no. 70: Natalia Sokolova Sokolova, 27, is from Russia. Her personal best marathon is 2:32:01, when she won the 2008 California International Marathon in Sacramento. She's also won the 2008 St. Petersburg, Russia Marathon with a time of 2:38:12. Pushkareva, 24, is from Russia. Her marathon personal best is 2:34:55, and she placed 4th in the 2008 San Antonio Marathon in addition to winning the 2007 Tyumen Marathon in Russia with a time of 2:39:08.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow WilsonMaybe I'm just old-fashioned or just plain old, but when I awoke this morning to news that Barack Obama had been selected to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, something didn't feel right.
Having worked for six secretaries of state and four presidents and watched them struggle with a cruel and unforgiving world, sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, it occurred to me that today's announcement was seriously out of whack. A young president, barely in the 10th month of his first year in office, is receiving an internationally sanctioned peace prize when the vast majority of his predecessors, some of whom actually achieved extraordinary success in foreign policy (Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush), did not.
Teddy Roosevelt, who was the first American president to receive a Nobel in 1906, actually brokered a Russo-Japanese treaty; Woodrow Wilson, whose search for a League of Nations got him the prize in 1919, probably accelerated his later stroke and death in a heroic effort to realize his dream. Even Jimmy Carter, who eventually got his prize in 2002, didn't get it when it was warranted in 1979 for brokering an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty.
Having worked for six secretaries of state and four presidents and watched them struggle with a cruel and unforgiving world, sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, it occurred to me that today's announcement was seriously out of whack. A young president, barely in the 10th month of his first year in office, is receiving an internationally sanctioned peace prize when the vast majority of his predecessors, some of whom actually achieved extraordinary success in foreign policy (Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush), did not.
Teddy Roosevelt, who was the first American president to receive a Nobel in 1906, actually brokered a Russo-Japanese treaty; Woodrow Wilson, whose search for a League of Nations got him the prize in 1919, probably accelerated his later stroke and death in a heroic effort to realize his dream. Even Jimmy Carter, who eventually got his prize in 2002, didn't get it when it was warranted in 1979 for brokering an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty.
What was happening here? Was this the Nobel committee's down payment, in an effort to encourage the president to actually achieve something in foreign policy?
Was it a not-so-subtle slap-down of the Bush administration's war presidency in favor of the Obama administration's "we can fix things and be loved by the world" strategy? Or was I just missing something? Had the president's accomplishments merited the award? here's no doubt that the Obama administration has begun to create a better image for America abroad. When you're in a hole, the adage goes, at least stop digging. The administration and the president personally have worked hard on this. Obama is the Energizer Bunny of American foreign policy, even overshadowing a very talented secretary of state. He's everywhere, in Cairo making nice to the Arabs and Muslims; in Buchenwald and Normandy wrapping himself (quite appropriately for a president) in history; at the G8 and G20 massaging the allies; negotiating arms control with the Russians; and trying to get the Iranians off of a nuclear weapons program.
Was it a not-so-subtle slap-down of the Bush administration's war presidency in favor of the Obama administration's "we can fix things and be loved by the world" strategy? Or was I just missing something? Had the president's accomplishments merited the award? here's no doubt that the Obama administration has begun to create a better image for America abroad. When you're in a hole, the adage goes, at least stop digging. The administration and the president personally have worked hard on this. Obama is the Energizer Bunny of American foreign policy, even overshadowing a very talented secretary of state. He's everywhere, in Cairo making nice to the Arabs and Muslims; in Buchenwald and Normandy wrapping himself (quite appropriately for a president) in history; at the G8 and G20 massaging the allies; negotiating arms control with the Russians; and trying to get the Iranians off of a nuclear weapons program.
All of this is good and may prove consequential. But it is hardly determinative, particularly in a world in which diplomatic achievement will be extremely difficult to attain. To pronounce and hail the president as a peacemaker based on process, effort and a change of tone is a stretch.
Maybe Obama will emerge as a consequential foreign policy president. But raising the bar on his accomplishments now actually lowers it for all of us, diminishes what he's actually accomplished and undermines the concept of excellence.
The award says more about the world's love affair with Barack Obama and its collective sigh of relief that George W. Bush is gone than it does about the president's substantive foreign policy accomplishments. And in the end, America doesn't want to be loved by the world; we want to be admired and respected, and that will depend not on celebrity, process or celebration that the Democrats are back in office, but on real foreign policy accomplishments.A beaming Obama told reporters in the White House Rose Garden that he wasn’t sure he had done enough to earn the award, or deserved to be in the company of the others who had won it before him.
Maybe Obama will emerge as a consequential foreign policy president. But raising the bar on his accomplishments now actually lowers it for all of us, diminishes what he's actually accomplished and undermines the concept of excellence.
The award says more about the world's love affair with Barack Obama and its collective sigh of relief that George W. Bush is gone than it does about the president's substantive foreign policy accomplishments. And in the end, America doesn't want to be loved by the world; we want to be admired and respected, and that will depend not on celebrity, process or celebration that the Democrats are back in office, but on real foreign policy accomplishments.A beaming Obama told reporters in the White House Rose Garden that he wasn’t sure he had done enough to earn the award, or deserved to be in the company of the others who had won it before him.
Matt Holliday
Matt HollidayMatt Holliday in the Cardinals vs. Dodgers NLDS game 2 yesterday? If not, take a look at the video below. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth and the St. Louis Cardinals up 2 – 1 a routine line drive was hit to left field. Game over right? The Cardinals have stolen one in L.A. and now head back home with a chance to take the series with two wins at home. Not so fast. Holliday seemed to be stuck between a regular catch and basket catch as the line drive was coming in around waist level. So what did he do? Basket catch? Nope, he decided to completely miss it and try to catch it with his man parts. It didn’t work out so well as the baseball ricocheted off his cup and fell to the Dodger Stadium turf. James Loney stood at second and the Dodgers had hope. From there it looked like Cardinals pitcher Ryan Franklin was rattled by the error and he walked the next batter to put men on first and second. He then gave up a solid single up the middle to Ronnie Belliard which brought in the tying run. But the Dodgers weren’t done as they moved runners to second and third on a pass ball and loaded the bases on a walk. Then Dodgers manager Joe Torre made the call to send up 38 year old Mark Loretta to pinch hit. Watching this game I had to do a double take to check the name.
Mark Loretta? He’s still in the league? I thought he was done after his stint with the Red Sox years ago. I didn’t get a chance to see many Dodgers games and didn’t realize L.A. had picked him up.
Anyway, good thing they did pick him up as Loretta delivered big time with a quick swing cleaning out an inside pitch. The hit dropped into left center field and bought in the winning run as the Dodgers won in walk off style 3 – 2. Loretta got mobbed by his teammates while Holliday and the rest of the Cardinals walked off the field looking dazed and confused. I don’t know if you ever read ESPN columnist Bill Simmons but in a classic Page 2 post he breaks down bad losses into different levels of pain. Check it out here. I would categorize this loss by the Cardinals as a combination of Level III: The Stomach Punch and Level XI: Dead Man Walking. It's going to be hard for the Cardinals to come back to win three straight games after such a devastating loss. They will have the day off on Friday to regroup and try to take the first step in the comeback on Saturday at 6:07 p.m. EST on TBS.
Anyway, good thing they did pick him up as Loretta delivered big time with a quick swing cleaning out an inside pitch. The hit dropped into left center field and bought in the winning run as the Dodgers won in walk off style 3 – 2. Loretta got mobbed by his teammates while Holliday and the rest of the Cardinals walked off the field looking dazed and confused. I don’t know if you ever read ESPN columnist Bill Simmons but in a classic Page 2 post he breaks down bad losses into different levels of pain. Check it out here. I would categorize this loss by the Cardinals as a combination of Level III: The Stomach Punch and Level XI: Dead Man Walking. It's going to be hard for the Cardinals to come back to win three straight games after such a devastating loss. They will have the day off on Friday to regroup and try to take the first step in the comeback on Saturday at 6:07 p.m. EST on TBS.
With two outs in the bottom of the ninth and the Cardinals leading 2-1, Matt Holliday lost a sinking line drive in the lights, couldn’t track the ball, and instead of catching it, appeared to take it square in the nuts. Most reports are saying the ball hit Holliday in the stomach, but I think they are trying to avoid adding insult to injury, because if you watch the above video replay (with bonus Couples Retreat preview! You haven’t seen that before!), it’s pretty clear that the ball drilled him square in the junk. The Dodgers capitalized on the error, scoring two runs, including the game-winning single by Mark Loretta that scored Casey Blake to beat the Cardinals 3-2 and take a 2-0 series lead. The Cardinals are perhaps now drowning their sorrows while Matt Holliday is icing his balls.The Rockies evened up their matchup with the Phillies at one game apiece as the series heads to chilly Colorado. Speaking of nuts, after pitching five innings and surrendering four earned runs, starter Cole Hamels departed the game and then had to rush to the hospital after his wife went into labor. I hope the Hamels saved some of the placenta to share with the whole team. If you have never sampled placenta, you must. It tastes delightful on a Chicken in a Biskit.
Moon Crash
Moon CrashA planned one-two punch into the moon to search for hidden reserves of frozen water seemed to have gone off like clockwork. But if the crash kicked up plumes of lunar soil into the sunlight, the plumes weren’t as visible as researchers had hoped.At 7:31 a.m. EDT on October 9, an empty rocket booster was deliberately crashed into Caebus, a shadowed crater near the moon’s south pole where ice is suspected to reside. Astronomers watched through telescopes and the visible-light camera aboard the rocket’s mother ship, NASA’s LCROSS, or Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, spacecraft. Amateur astronomers using medium-sized backyard telescopes have not reported seeing a plume, which had been predicted to rise above the crater rim and be visible from Earth. “It’s hard to tell what we saw there,” commented Michael Bicay as he watched the crash from the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., where he is science director. About four minutes later, just before taking its own death plunge into the same crater, LCROSS did confirm that the crater had brightened at both infrared and visible wavelengths.
The brightening indicated the booster's crash had kicked up material, although no actual plume was recorded by the LCROSS visible-light camera. “It’s a little disappointing,” said planetary scientist Bill Hartmann of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, one of about 200 astronomers in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, attending the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences and who gathered together to view the LCROSS images on a big screen. “It would have been nice to see something,” he added.
But even without a visible plume to ooh and aah over, the data recorded by LCROSS as it homed in on Caebus and flew through the debris from the first impact will still be invaluable for searching for frozen water, said Barbara Cohen of the lunar precursor robotics program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.Astronomers are scrutinizing the data as well as that taken from a slew of other telescopes, including the Keck Observatory atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, to look for the fingerprints of water vapor or for one of its fragments, the hydroxyl radical, which contains one oxygen and one hydrogen.
But even without a visible plume to ooh and aah over, the data recorded by LCROSS as it homed in on Caebus and flew through the debris from the first impact will still be invaluable for searching for frozen water, said Barbara Cohen of the lunar precursor robotics program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.Astronomers are scrutinizing the data as well as that taken from a slew of other telescopes, including the Keck Observatory atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, to look for the fingerprints of water vapor or for one of its fragments, the hydroxyl radical, which contains one oxygen and one hydrogen.
The presence of either fingerprints or fragments would indicate that the part of the crater floor impacted indeed contained ice.
Keck astronomers did see a brightening in the spectroscopic readings, indicating that Keck recorded the plume. The astronomers will not know about water vapor, as that data will take a little longer to analyze.
More details are expected after a 10 a.m. EDT press briefing from NASA Ames, the control site for the LCROSS mission.
Astronomers using the 5-meter Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego also saw no plume. By comparison, when the Japan Space Agency’s lunar-orbiting Kaguya spacecraft deliberately crashed into the unlit side of the moon last June, a 4-meter ground-based-telescope could see it. LCROSS’s rocket booster weighed about two tons and might have made a smaller impact than the three-ton Kaguya did.
Keck astronomers did see a brightening in the spectroscopic readings, indicating that Keck recorded the plume. The astronomers will not know about water vapor, as that data will take a little longer to analyze.
More details are expected after a 10 a.m. EDT press briefing from NASA Ames, the control site for the LCROSS mission.
Astronomers using the 5-meter Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego also saw no plume. By comparison, when the Japan Space Agency’s lunar-orbiting Kaguya spacecraft deliberately crashed into the unlit side of the moon last June, a 4-meter ground-based-telescope could see it. LCROSS’s rocket booster weighed about two tons and might have made a smaller impact than the three-ton Kaguya did.
Moon Crash
Moon CrashA planned one-two punch into the moon to search for hidden reserves of frozen water seemed to have gone off like clockwork. But if the crash kicked up plumes of lunar soil into the sunlight, the plumes weren’t as visible as researchers had hoped. At 7:31 a.m. EDT on October 9, an empty rocket booster was deliberately crashed into Caebus, a shadowed crater near the moon’s south pole where ice is suspected to reside. Astronomers watched through telescopes and the visible-light camera aboard the rocket’s mother ship, NASA’s LCROSS, or Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, spacecraft. Amateur astronomers using medium-sized backyard telescopes have not reported seeing a plume, which had been predicted to rise above the crater rim and be visible from Earth. “It’s hard to tell what we saw there,” commented Michael Bicay as he watched the crash from the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., where he is science director.About four minutes later, just before taking its own death plunge into the same crater, LCROSS did confirm that the crater had brightened at both infrared and visible wavelengths.
“It’s a little disappointing,” said planetary scientist Bill Hartmann of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, one of about 200 astronomers in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, attending the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences and who gathered together to view the LCROSS images on a big screen. “It would have been nice to see something,” he added.
But even without a visible plume to ooh and aah over, the data recorded by LCROSS as it homed in on Caebus and flew through the debris from the first impact will still be invaluable for searching for frozen water, said Barbara Cohen of the lunar precursor robotics program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Astronomers are scrutinizing the data as well as that taken from a slew of other telescopes, including the Keck Observatory atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, to look for the fingerprints of water vapor or for one of its fragments, the hydroxyl radical, which contains one oxygen and one hydrogen.
Keck astronomers did see a brightening in the spectroscopic readings, indicating that Keck recorded the plume. The astronomers will not know about water vapor, as that data will take a little longer to analyze.
More details are expected after a 10 a.m. EDT press briefing from NASA Ames, the control site for the LCROSS mission. Astronomers using the 5-meter Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego also saw no plume. By comparison, when the Japan Space Agency’s lunar-orbiting Kaguya spacecraft deliberately crashed into the unlit side of the moon last June, a 4-meter ground-based-telescope could see it. LCROSS’s rocket booster weighed about two tons and might have made a smaller impact than the three-ton Kaguya did. The astronomers will not know about water vapor, as that data will take a little longer to analyze. The presence of either fingerprints or fragments would indicate that the part of the crater floor impacted indeed contained ice.
Lcross Impact Video
Lcross Impact Video The identification of water is very important to the future of human activities on the Moon. LCROSS will excavate the permanently dark floor of one of the Moon’s polar craters with two heavy impactors to test the theory that ancient ice lies buried there. The impact will eject material from the crater’s surface to create a plume that specialized instruments will be able to analyze for the presence of water (ice and vapor), hydrocarbons and hydrated materials.LCROSS will also provide technologies and modular, reconfigurable subsystems that can be used to support future mission architectures.Ames Research Center (ARC) is managing the mission, conducting mission operations, and has developed the payload instruments, while Northrop Grumman designed and built the spacecraft for this innovative mission. Ames mission scientists will spearhead the data analysis. This is a fast-paced, low-cost, mission that will leverage some existing NASA systems, Northrop-Grumman spacecraft expertise, and Ames’ Lunar Prospector experience.
Just like on Earth, water is a crucial resource on the Moon. It will not be practical to transport to space the amount of water needed for human and exploration needs. It is critical to find natural resources, such as water, on the Moon. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission will begin the search for water, leveraging the information we learned from the Clementine and Lunar Prospector missions. NASA’s Lunar Prospector first unveiled that there were hydrogen signatures located in craters on the dark side of the moon back in 1999. Ever since, researchers have eager to verify the presence of water on the moon.
The Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was tasked with uncovering the truth, with millions watching as it happened. NASA's LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite) mission is coming to a glorious end. The mission launched on June 18, 2009 is just minutes away from making dual-impact on the face of the moon.The first impact sees the Centaur craft hitting the surface at a speed of about 1 mile per second ejecting about 350 tons of debris from a crater about 20-30-meters in diameter and 2- to 4-meters deep.
The Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was tasked with uncovering the truth, with millions watching as it happened. NASA's LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite) mission is coming to a glorious end. The mission launched on June 18, 2009 is just minutes away from making dual-impact on the face of the moon.The first impact sees the Centaur craft hitting the surface at a speed of about 1 mile per second ejecting about 350 tons of debris from a crater about 20-30-meters in diameter and 2- to 4-meters deep.
A second Shepherding spacecraft will pass through the debris plume 4 minutes later, collecting and relaying data back to Earth in real-time before meeting its end. With any luck, we'll know shortly if the moon contains the water-ice theorized by scientists... and cheese. While the obvious use of lunar-based water is to sate the thirst of astronauts, it could also be used be make fuel for off-Earth exploration. Hit the read link for live streaming of the mission from NASA -- first impact occurs at 07:31:19 AM EDT. Impact occurred... are we still here? Data is now being analyzed and NASA is expected to know the facts in about an hour. Post-impact news conference scheduled for 10:00 AM EDT. Tom did a great job recording the LCROSS impact, and publishing the video to YouTube. There doesn’t seem to be much of a plume from the Centuar’s impact… okay, I can’t see one at all. We’re waiting for the first analysis of the plume. Either they identify water ice or not; as Tom says either result is scientifically important and interesting.
NASA also has several videos up on YouTube this morning; of the impact and the press conferences. The planetarium plans to show videos of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and its rocket booster smashing into the moon this morning. From the plume created by the impact, instruments aboard LCROSS can tell scientists what's in the moon dust, with the hope of detecting the presence of ancient ice that could be used for future exploration.
NASA also has several videos up on YouTube this morning; of the impact and the press conferences. The planetarium plans to show videos of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and its rocket booster smashing into the moon this morning. From the plume created by the impact, instruments aboard LCROSS can tell scientists what's in the moon dust, with the hope of detecting the presence of ancient ice that could be used for future exploration.
ObamaNobel Peace Prize
ObamaNobel Peace Prize
Obama to get the Nobel for his groveling International Nevile Chamberlain has been comparable to it (which is not) to sign with the Nazis taking over the British stroke of the pen. Such Norwegian "baloney phoney" is taken seriously only after the Liberals - Chris Matthews will be one of Obama tingle running up their leg. Perhaps your client former president may award money acorn. Events in the world is moving so fast. Far from being a nothing President, from day one, Obama has tried to win with ideas, logic and reason instead of bluster, threats and bladder. Is not this kind of world we all want to live in? Gandhi said "Be the change you want to see in the world." Obama was to begin.
Only time will tell when the Nobel Committee made a mistake with the timing. We hoped they were right. This is the news that I saw throughout the year, you must be a stupid thing. My kids have done exactly nothing means anything. And now he "won" is useless. Nonsense. If I were President Obama, I would be shocked and embarrassed.New low and embarrassment - appointed in a few weeks after his inauguration - the liberal obsession and the cult of personality knows no limits - the hero worship is nothing less than sickening - U.S. President during 9 months.
promote the left, and have clearly done well in picking Obama - in the past they had much more credibilty selecting candidates with actual accomplishments or who have survived torture i.e. the Dalai Lama or even President Carter who decades after ACTUAL accomplishments recieved the award. Obama? Nothing other than ambivalence and apologizing on behalf of America - so pathetic its beyond words. Nice way to intervene a faltering administration. Perhaps he can skip some other rules and qualify for canonization and sainthood in his first term also. Also nice to see a President diss and decide not to see a real laureate, Dalai Lama, and for his weakness and capitulation, he is awarded a Nobel Peace prize himself. Pathetic. After the shameful leadership and performance that we and the world have endured for eight years, the contrast is eminently refreshing, which is what this European beacon is signaling. It recognizes that America _does_ have better angels in its nature. Obama has ALREADY done a tremendous amount simply by changing the PARADIGM. We can no longer just run out and "kick butt" somewhere and then run back behind our borders. the only way to get along in this ever-shrinking world is to have a much broader view. We are truly "ALL in this together." It's nice to now feel a part of this wonderful, complicated world, rather than just it's detached ruler...
One of the things that the world and many Americans found so disturbing about the bush cabal was their total disregard for the entirety of the flow of history and their disregard for the internation system of conflict resolution created by the United States in the 20th century. A system and set of ideas and ideals followed by every American president from FDR to Clinton. Every one regardless of party or ideology played from the same rulebook. A rulebook drafted from the foundation of American values and ideals. bush thought all the rules - those ones, the ones in the Constitution, the ones in American law, simply did not apply to him if he wanted to do something outside the rules. THAT is why the nobel commitee was moved to present this award to President Obama. He has moved in a short time, a time when he is also fixing the system of finance left in tatters by conservatives, while he is fixing the health care system left in tatters, the environmental policy of the US also left in tatters, moved in that short time to place the United States foursquare and center back in a place of leadership and moral authority stemming from our adherence to our own system of laws and values. He is leading by example, not by dropping bombs on anyone who dare disagree with him. A much stronger and far reaching way to affect democratic change and bring peace.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
herta mueller
herta mueller
Herta Muller, Romania, Germany born novelist and essayist who has written about the suppression of the dictatorship in her native area and unmoored life of political exile, Thursday won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy described Ms. Müller, “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.” Her award comes on the 20th anniversary of the fall of Communism in Europe.
Ms. Müller was born and raised in the German-speaking town of Nitzkydorf in Romania. Her father served in the SS during World War II, and her mother was deported to the Soviet Union in 1945 and sent to a work camp in what is now Ukraine. As a university student studying German and Russian literature, Ms. Müller opposed the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu and joined Aktionsgruppe Banat, a group of dissident writers who sought freedom of speech.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Nobel PrizeChemistry 2009
Nobel PrizeChemistry 2009medicine and Physics the Noble prize for Chemistry was also declared on Wednesday in Stockholm. Two US citizens Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A Steitz and an Israeli Ada E Yonath won the Noble Prize in Chemistry Royal Swedish Academy said that Nobel Prize was awarded to them” for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”. One of the core processes in life. Ribosomes generated protein, which regulate chemistry in all living organisms. Modern researches for the development of antibiotic are based on their work. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences conducted the Nobel Prize ceremony every year in different fields of chemistry. Nobel Prize is normally awarded for major contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff, of the Netherlands was the first to get Noble Prize in 1901 in the field of chemistry by his work. The 2009 Chemistry Nobel Prize went to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Cambridge U.K., born in India), Thomas A. Steitz (Yale), and Ada E. Yonath (Weizmann, Israel) for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome. That could look like a biological discovery but the methods were pretty "chemical".
Crystallographer Dr Yonath whose victory was correctly predicted by some media broke the 45+ years when women receeived no physics or chemistry Nobel prize. Whether or not she was chosen purely by meritocratic criteria, there's one aspect you could have expected. By pure statistics, it shouldn't be too shocking for you to learn that the first woman to succeed in this way is Jewish. ;-) An Ashkenazi Jew is 40 times more likely to receive the Fields medal than a random non-Jewish white: it may be similar for similar awards. Because there are about 10 million Ashkenazi Jews, you may see that their combined odds exceed those of the non-Jewish U.S. whites. ;-) Let's hope that Israel, an island of relative wisdom, peace, and advanced civilization, will survive in the sea of a relative lack of wisdom, peace, and advanced civilization. ;-) You know, in the Israeli-Iranian nuclear standoff, there's one consideration I view as important while most others don't. Who has the right to possess the nukes? Well, the Jewish scientists have contributed to the science that was needed for nuclear energy much more profoundly than the Persian scientists did. So I find it completely logical and deserved that they can possess the weapons while Iran cannot. They can also be expected to act more wisely with this technology - something we have already checked in the most recent decades.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which selects the winners of the physics award, made the announcement on Tuesday. The academy says Kao was honored for his breakthrough work in fiber optics. Boyle and Smith were honored for inventing an imaging semiconductor circuit. The academy also says this year's winners have created many practical innovations for everyday life and provided new tools for scientific exploration. All three scientists are U.S. citizens. Kao also holds British citizenship while Boyle is also Canadian. The winners will share a $1.4 million prize. Each of them will also receive a diploma and an invitation to the prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on December 10. On Monday, American scientists Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells. That discovery has inspired new lines of research into cancer. The prizes are named after Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite. He established the prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, and peace in his will. The prize ceremonies are held on December 10, the anniversary of his death in 1896.
AOL
AOL
If last weekend's unsolicited posting of about 10,000 supposed Hotmail addresses and passwords to a legitimate developers' Web site did not contain some addresses that were fake, the theory that a hacker may have obtained those addresses through an attack on Microsoft's servers might continue to hold water. That theory lost ground today, after more addresses from major services other than Hotmail -- including Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Earthlink, and Comcast -- appeared without warrant on Pastebin.com, a site for developers to share debugging information. In what could be the first publicly shared forensic report on the original Hotmail list, security researcher Bogdan Calin with server security software maker Acunetix reported that of the 10,028 entries that appeared in that list (which was apparently partial, including usernames that only began with A and B), 185 of the entries actually had blank passwords. That in and of itself could not have come from a server's own list of valid passwords, thus lending much credence to the theory that the responses came from a phishing scam. But not a very sophisticated one, Calin goes on. Without revealing information that would have compromised anyone in particular, he reported that the most commonly repeated passwords he saw in the list, coupled with the nature of the remaining passwords, leads him to conclude that they were obtained from members of the Hispanic community.
The password alejandra, for example, appeared 11 times in the list -- once more than 111111 -- and alejandro appeared 9 times. From time to time, many sequences of password characters appear almost repeated, except with varying capitalization. "What most probably happened, is that the users didn't understand what was happening, and they tried to enter the same password again and again, thinking the password was wrong," Calin wrote. An unsophisticated phisher might have accepted every attempt at repeating a password in sequence; meanwhile, the unsuspecting victim is trying to log in, thinking, "Didn't I capitalize the O?" Paul Dixon, who maintains Pastebin.com, told the press yesterday he's had to take his site down to address the problem more directly, saying, "Pastebin.com is just a fun side project for me, and today it's not fun." This morning, the site was operational. Though Dixon's site bears a strong resemblance to Pastebin.org, which has the exact same purpose, users of the latter site -- which was not involved in the list-posting incident -- began complaining to Dixon last month about problems they were having with that site, not knowing the two were not connected. In a blog post at the time, Dixon wrote that Pastebin.org "seems to have been compromised in other ways, with extra advertising banners and popups...I'm not responsible for that site."
Possible confusion over the two sites' identities could play into the motive for the unknown party posting these apparent phishing entries onto a site that otherwise has perfectly legitimate purposes. As of yet, there is no evidence that anyone -- the original poster or any downloaders -- has attempted to use any of the partial lists posted to Pastebin.com in a security compromise operation directed at password holders. However, the possibility exists that these lists were posted as evidence of the existence of more complete lists, for inspection by underground sources willing to bid for them. After Bogdan Calin's analysis, the bidding may not be all that high. The once highly regarded jurist – and a deft Democratic politician repeatedly elected in an Alabama county that was predominantly White and Republican – Thomas is now a disgraced shell of his former self, accused of sodomy, kidnapping, sex abuse, extortion, assault and ethics violations, AOL News reports. Inmates say that over the past decade Thomas has tried to trade courtroom leniency for sex, that he has forced them to strip down to their underwear and spanked them, and that he forced them to perform sex acts. "Everyone thought he had a lot of concern for people who got into criminal difficulty. All of this was a surprise to everyone," retired Mobile County Circuit Judge Braxton Kittrell told AOL News.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan The prize will be shared equally between the three winnersThe prize is awarded for the study of the structure and function of the ribosome - the cell's protein factory. The ribosome translates genetic code into proteins - which are the building blocks of all living organisms. It is also the main target of new antibiotics, which combat bacterial strains that have developed resistance to traditional antibiotic drugs.
These new drugs work by blocking the function of ribosomes in bacterial cells, preventing them from making the proteins they need to survive. Their design has been made possible by research into the structure of the ribosome, because it has revealed key differences between bacterial and human ribosomes. Structures that are unique to bacteria can be targeted by drugs. The announcement was made during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, during which the three winners were described as "warriors in the struggle of the rising tide of incurable bacterial infections".
Professor Ramakrishnan is based at the Medical Research Council's Molecular Biology Laboratories in Cambridge, UK.
Thomas Steitz is based at Yale University in the US, and Ada Yonath is from the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. The prize is to be shared equally between the three scientists, who all contributed to revealing the ribosome's huge and complex molecular structure in detail. Professor David Garner, president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, described the three as "great scientists" and said their work was of "enormous significance".These scientists and their colleagues have helped build a 3D structure of the ribosome. In doing so, they solved an important part of the the problem posed by Francis Crick and James Watson when they discovered the twisted double helix DNA structure - how does this code become a living thing?DNA is made available to the ribosome by "transcription" of genes into chunks of messenger RNA. In the ribosome, these are read and translated into the various amino acid sequences that make up an organism's proteins By looking closely at its structure, scientists are able to study how this translation process works.
Thomas Steitz is based at Yale University in the US, and Ada Yonath is from the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. The prize is to be shared equally between the three scientists, who all contributed to revealing the ribosome's huge and complex molecular structure in detail. Professor David Garner, president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, described the three as "great scientists" and said their work was of "enormous significance".These scientists and their colleagues have helped build a 3D structure of the ribosome. In doing so, they solved an important part of the the problem posed by Francis Crick and James Watson when they discovered the twisted double helix DNA structure - how does this code become a living thing?DNA is made available to the ribosome by "transcription" of genes into chunks of messenger RNA. In the ribosome, these are read and translated into the various amino acid sequences that make up an organism's proteins By looking closely at its structure, scientists are able to study how this translation process works.
The work is based on a technique called x-ray crystallography - where molecules are removed from cells, purified and made into crystals that can be examined using x-rays. Professor Ramakrishnan told BBC News that until the ribosome's atomic structure was determined, "we knew this was a large molecular machine that translated genetic code to make proteins, but we didn't know how it worked". "We still don't know exactly how it works, but we have made a tremendous amount of progress as a direct result of knowing what it looks like.
"It's the difference between knowing that when you put gasoline in a car and press on a pedal, it goes. But if you know that the gasoline gets ignited and pushes down pistons and drives the wheels, that's a new level of understanding." Addressing the Nobel press conference by telephone, Professor Yonath said that modern techniques were allowing scientists to look at the structures on the atomic scale - individual bond after individual bond. This is the 101st chemistry Nobel to be awarded since 1901, and Professor Yonath is only the fourth woman to win. She joins an illustrious list of female chemists that includes Marie Curie, who also won the physics award.
"It's the difference between knowing that when you put gasoline in a car and press on a pedal, it goes. But if you know that the gasoline gets ignited and pushes down pistons and drives the wheels, that's a new level of understanding." Addressing the Nobel press conference by telephone, Professor Yonath said that modern techniques were allowing scientists to look at the structures on the atomic scale - individual bond after individual bond. This is the 101st chemistry Nobel to be awarded since 1901, and Professor Yonath is only the fourth woman to win. She joins an illustrious list of female chemists that includes Marie Curie, who also won the physics award.
AOL.com Mail
AOL.com Mail
Thousands of users are reporting AOL mail login error, but mine is working just fine at 9:01 AM EDT. Most the of people who are experiencing problem are receiving an AOL Error Code C0FE1701 which is rather weird. Normally we expect Google Mail to go down with error codes, maybe Hotmail, but we surely don’t expect this to happen to AOL. Although we’ve had a somewhat peaceful week, lately these outages have hit Gmail, Hotmail, Netflix, and more, and frankly, we are very tired of them. Most of us use Google Mail and other Google apps, and our work depends on it, but I know there are thousands of AOL mail users who cannot log into their email at AOL.com. At the moment we don’t know if the AOL mail login error code C0FE1701 is in any way related to the phishing attacks that hit Hotmail, Google, Yahoo, Comcast, AOL, and others as the only mail that it’s not working for some is AOL mail. I repeat: at the moment AOL mail works fine as well as AIM. Let me know in comments if you are experiencing issues and I’ll let you know if AOL releases an official statement.
At the official website of AOL.com, see the option of Sign in at the top right side of the page. Click on it and find the next page, enter your E-mail or Screen Name and Password. Then click on Sign in button. If you are not the registered member then at the same page see the option of Get a Free AOL Screen Name Now. Click on it and find next page where you have to enter your personal details to register. Login at AOL.com and enjoy its great features as it allows you to receive and send messages from your mobile device. You can store your precious messages for any period that you want. Tell your friends also to sign up at AOL.com Mail as it is free. Addresses ending in hotmail.co.uk, yahoo.co.uk, gmail.com, aol.com, hotmail.com, aim.com and other domains were posted to the site late last night. Users with accounts at these email sites are strongly encouraged to change their passwords immediately. Initial lists, first discovered by tech blog Neowin, contained accounts beginning mostly with the letters A and B. This new list, however, contains accounts beginning mostly with the letters T to Z. Users whose email addresses begin with these characters are even more strongly encouraged to change their passwords.a
Furthermore, it appears many accounts within these lengthy lists of email addresses are present in other lists now circulating the Internet. Some of these lists appeared as early as 29 September. In an email to CNET UK, Websense Security Labs believes compromised accounts have been used to send spam. "The spam emails are being sent from user accounts to contacts in their address book -- so people will think the email came from a friend or known contact," Websense explained. "[We have] detected a marked increase in the number of spam emails which have been sent from Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail accounts over the last few days." We reported yesterday that we had seen lists containing thousands of usernames and passwords to Hotmail, Google and Yahoo accounts. All three companies confirmed they had taken action to protect the compromised accounts and blamed the leak on phishing attacks."Upon learning of the issue, we immediately requested that the credentials be removed and launched an investigation," Microsoft explains. "As part of that investigation, we determined that this is not a breach of any Microsoft servers."Google assured us its position was similar. "As soon as we learned of the attack, we forced password resets on the affected accounts," it said. "We will continue to force password resets on additional accounts when we become aware of them."
Bai Ling PHOTOS
Bai Ling PHOTOSPHOTOS! Here are pictures of Bai Ling (”A Beautiful Life”) who stars in over eight films this year alone. Bai Ling’s 2002 director from her hit film “FACE” will next direct Edison Chen in his first film since Chen’s 2008 photos scandal, LALATE reported earlier this week. Bai Ling appears in Beautiful Life that opened October 2 opposite Jesse Garcia, LALATE’s fav Dana Delany, and Debi Mazar. Bai Ling is currently in production on Cross. Other 2009 films to be released from Ling include The Lazarus Papers, The Bad Penny, The Gauntlet, and Love Ranch. In 2010 she will appear in The Confidant. Also this year Ling appears in Magic Man, Chain Letter, and Crank. Debroah Calla says of Ling and the Beautiful Life the following: A Beautiful Life, a film that I produced and co-wrote with Wendy Hammond, opens on October 2nd in limited release and stars Jesse Garcia, Angela Sarafyan, Bai Ling, Dana Delany, and Debi Mazar. The film deals with … abuse, love and violence. I’m not going to give the plot away except to say it ends with hope, which is why I spent so many years of my life trying to make it. I understand this story.
I, like Maggie, the main character, am a survivor. I know what made her run and I understand what made her hide and search for a better existence. My wish is for this film to contribute to the continuing dialogue of how to better prevent abuse… We need to know abuse occurs in many forms and many times a day all over this country. It’s hard not to instantly like Bai Ling, with her languid, deep voice and striking fashion sense which she wears with a nonchalant attitude. She also loves to talk — so much so that I have trouble keeping up, especially when she switches subjects mid-sentence. “Kozuki!” she suddenly exclaims, catching the name of a restaurant over my left shoulder. “Sounds Japanese.” It’s easy to classify her as eccentric with her otherworldly ideas of nature and spirits, however, it’s obvious that she’s not affecting a persona; she believes every word she says “I’m totally not in this world,” she admits, “and I feel like I’m not really existing as a human being, but part of me is. I have eight little spirits living inside of me. They’re all different personalities.” According to Bai, most people only know the crazy party girl spirit, with her short skirt and exposed nipples, but that same spirit is fearless and doesn’t care about what anyone else thinks. “She’s fire. She’s a burning fire. That passion, for me, is so magical.”
When it comes to reconciling her natural views with the artificial world of Hollywood, Bai dismisses the premise outright. She doesn’t see obstacles; she sees opportunities. Where others may see problems, she sees puzzles that are fun to solve. “I’m taking all the negative words away from life,” she says. “When you take a situation as a difficulty, you become bitter.” Beyond simply thinking good thoughts, she also tries to view situations fairly from all angles. Recently, she was caught running late for the Toronto premier of her new film, A Beautiful Life, and didn’t have time to find a proper room to slip into her gown. So she used an airport restroom to change, which quickly turned into a bad idea. Women started pouring in, accosting her and wanting to find out if she was Bai Ling. The women pressed her, even after Bai asked them to leave her alone and not look at her while she dressed. Finally, Bai ran flustered to her awaiting limo where she finished getting ready. Then, in a moment rare for most people, she laughed off the situation. “That lady probably thought I was the crazy one since I was naked in the ladies room.”More than just PR for her film, Bai went to Toronto for a humanitarian cause as well. She participated in the Rally for Kids with Cancer, coming in a respectable 9th place out of 21. “I was so busy and tired, but I promised I’d go. I just hope all this money will go to the hospital and to the children. No matter what part I supported, if I’m not there, it’s going to be less. So I’m there.”
Teacup Pigs
Teacup PigsMost of the people to take the economic activities in order to earn a living. Jane Croft made it home bacon. 42-year-old farmer has become the sensation of something in his native England, thanks to its unique line of products: cute-as-button miniature pigs, never grows. Croft is filled with their feet on the Wednesday cross-dressing Stall Waste straw blending of imagination goes a small pig on the market all have a "cup of the pigs," he said today Meredisubiera and Ann Curry - with the warm feeling called to hit UK pet. Their name comes from the size: At birth, children pig weight around 9 ounces and cup size. At full growth at age 2, which is the top 12-16 inches - about knee-high - and medium-weight 65 pounds.
“It’s about the size of a small spaniel,” Croft said. “They make fantastic pets. They’re really clean. They’re highly intelligent and just love to be loved. They give so much back to you.”Pigs are known to be highly intelligent; they beat dogs in animal IQ tests. They’ve also enjoyed surges in popularity as pets before. In the United States, potbellied pigs were something of a fad a generation ago — but their popularity faded when their owners realized that they got rather large and hard to care for. “People love pigs so much, but it’s almost impossible to keep a full-grown pig in the house,” Croft explained. “Now that we’ve gotten them down to this size, they’ve become extremely popular.” Teacup pigs, which are also called micropigs, are a mixture of those potbellied pigs with the Tamworth, Kune Kune and Gloucester Old Spot breeds. When Croft first saw them, she was so smitten she gave up her day job and started breeding them at her Little Pig Farm in England. That was five months ago. In the brief time since, demand has exploded.It hasn’t hurt that celebrities have discovered the endearing critters. Earlier this year, Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley in the “Harry Potter” films, bought two teacup pigs from Croft.
Mind you, this bacon doesn’t come cheap. The piglets cost up to $1,100 each, and Croft sells them only in pairs and only to people she feels are qualified to keep them. In Great Britain, owners must be licensed to keep livestock, as the pigs are considered to be farm animals. “They have to reach very, very strict criteria,” Croft explained. “I won’t sell to anybody who’s going to keep one alone in a house; they have to be home all the time. They have to have a garden. They have to have company. I don’t like them going on their own. They’re only sold in pairs.” Since the pigs are highly intelligent, she said, they get bored easily, which is why she will not sell to people who can’t be home to entertain them. The pigs are also clean. “You can litter-train them like a cat. You can take them for walks,” Croft said. The mini porkers also are said to be good for people who are allergic to dogs or cats, because they have hair instead of fur. So far, the pigs are not officially available in the United States, but it seems just a matter of time before someone starts breeding them. They have the sort of cute quotient that proves irresistible to pet lovers.Curry and Vieira asked if prospective owners need any special skills to raise a teacup pig.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Shyne
Shyne Rapper Shyne is expected to be released from prison today according to online reports. Shyne, real name Jamal Barrow, was sentenced to 10 years in prison following a nightclub shooting involving music mogul Sean Combs and pseudo singer/actress Jennifer Lopez. Sean Combs narrowly missed going to prison on the same gun charges and Barrow ended up taking the fall. It can be said that this incident took the shine off Sean Combs’ sterling reputation. His gal pal Jennifer Lopez unceremoniously dumped Sean after he was acquitted. Will Shyne return to prominence as one of Hip Hop’s most eminent MC’s? Or will he fade into the background of Hip Hop obscurity like Nas and Sean Combs? This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 at 10:49 am and filed under Celeb news, Celebrity Justice, Crime, Law and order, Music news, Throwback/ Old School . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed or Trackback from your own site. This site is Gravatar enabled. Sign up to upload your own avatar.
YAY I :heart: Shyne. I wonder if Diddy is going to get extra security because he totally threw Shyne under the bus in their case IMO.
LOL @ Sandra still going in on Nas. Stealing from another poster yesterday….Damn Sandra, did Nas piss in your cereal or something?
:off topic: Did anyone see that nonsense Cubic Zirconia said about her relationship with Scrappy Do? That 90% crap? That’s what wrong with our young women today. Boo why are you settling for 90%.f shyne comes back to HIPHOP is because he has fans that still fiend for his music. but on the other hand will HIPHOP embrace him..? I read that crap about diamond n her relatioship with crappy, its sad, but thats nothing new woman now adays sum woman are accepting the short end of the stick just so they can say they have a MAN!Everybody wanna Shyne off of BIGGet it, Shyne try-na sound like him when they rhymeYou ain’t a murdererNigga please come off thatI’m next up to bat mother****ers get their jaws tappedBum ass nigga don’t even know how to bust a gun ass niggaYou dumb ass niggaRappers acting out the late Frank White’s pathOnce they get in jail they get ****ed in the assNever snitch, never send a nigga to jailI’d rather find him by a boat doing the deadman’s floatWe gangstersReal gangsters bGun in the greenroom up at BETWe gangsters
LOL @ Sandra still going in on Nas. Stealing from another poster yesterday….Damn Sandra, did Nas piss in your cereal or something?
:off topic: Did anyone see that nonsense Cubic Zirconia said about her relationship with Scrappy Do? That 90% crap? That’s what wrong with our young women today. Boo why are you settling for 90%.f shyne comes back to HIPHOP is because he has fans that still fiend for his music. but on the other hand will HIPHOP embrace him..? I read that crap about diamond n her relatioship with crappy, its sad, but thats nothing new woman now adays sum woman are accepting the short end of the stick just so they can say they have a MAN!Everybody wanna Shyne off of BIGGet it, Shyne try-na sound like him when they rhymeYou ain’t a murdererNigga please come off thatI’m next up to bat mother****ers get their jaws tappedBum ass nigga don’t even know how to bust a gun ass niggaYou dumb ass niggaRappers acting out the late Frank White’s pathOnce they get in jail they get ****ed in the assNever snitch, never send a nigga to jailI’d rather find him by a boat doing the deadman’s floatWe gangstersReal gangsters bGun in the greenroom up at BETWe gangsters
For the longest time I played his album in the car… I hope he at least gives Sean Combs one major bish slap. I don’t know if he can re-ignite his career many of the factors that made him big are no longer there; Biggie’s been dead for so long, how many people will listen to him because he sounds so much like Biggie; how many people are really checking for east coast rap like that? What will his material be? I mean if he comes out talking about bling and what not, who’s going to really believe him? Won’t he have some sort of probation that prohibits travelling freely. Shyne was not that hot of a rapper. He had like one hit before he hit the bricks. He only made as far as he did because he sounded like Biggie and people were still mourning him and wanted to fill that void.
Puffy Pimped him out and ate off of that fact. That’s when Puff had his horns showing foreal.
I read that Cubic mess. What a young dumb girl she is. I wish these record companies get back into grooming artist. She just came across as a young girl with low self esteem. Messing with a dude with no respect for her. Dirty birds belong together. Sandra, fix your stylesheet, the purples from the queen ads is bleeding onto your main page…
Puffy Pimped him out and ate off of that fact. That’s when Puff had his horns showing foreal.
I read that Cubic mess. What a young dumb girl she is. I wish these record companies get back into grooming artist. She just came across as a young girl with low self esteem. Messing with a dude with no respect for her. Dirty birds belong together. Sandra, fix your stylesheet, the purples from the queen ads is bleeding onto your main page…
H1N1 vaccine risks
H1N1 vaccine risks
H1N1 vaccine risks are a major concern for many Americans this flu season. With flu season just around the corner, many people are getting not only the flu shot, but the H1N1 shot as well H1N1 vaccine risks exist. Whenever you inject something in to your body, you are not without risk. The question to ask yourself is this: is theH1N1 Vaccine Risks: A Big Controversy Covers "Life Saving" ShotH1N1 vaccine risks worth the reward of not catching the H1N1 flu virus? The H1N1 flu virus, also known as the "swine flu" has claimed the lives of several individuals. According to the CDC, those at high risk for the H1N1 virus are children under 2, individuals over 65, pregnant women, individuals with certain chronic medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, and HIV, and children under 19 on aspirin therapy For the high risk group, the H1N1 vaccine risks may be worth the reward. The H1N1 virus is more likely to claim the lives of one of the high-risk individuals than it is someone who is completely healthy. Pregnant women and those caring for infants under 6 months of age are suggested recipients of the H1N1 vaccine. The H1N1 vaccine risks may be worth it for those trying to protect their children from the virus.
CBS's The Early Show discussed one of the most disturbing H1N1 vaccine risks. Someone who takes the H1N1 vaccine could develop GBC - Guillian Bar Syndrome. Dr. Jennifer Ashton estimates that this risk is only 1 in a million vaccines. Still, that's one of the H1N1 vaccine risks that freaks people out. According to Dr. Jennifer Ashton, GBS is a "rare, neurologic disorder that has elements of an auto-immune condition in that some trigger (usually an infection or rarely a vaccination against an infection) results in a progressive weakening of nerves. GBS starts in the legs and works its way up the body."
80% of GBS patients have a full recovery about a month after their onset of symptoms. 2 to 3 people can die of this disorder. I will take the risk of getting a bad case of the flu over the risk of getting GBS. The H1N1 vaccine risks are just too high for me. H1N1 vaccine risks exist. Whenever you inject something in to your body, you are not without risk. The question to ask yourself is this: is theH1N1 Vaccine Risks: A Big Controversy Covers “Life Saving” ShotH1N1 vaccine risks worth the reward of not catching the H1N1 flu virus?
80% of GBS patients have a full recovery about a month after their onset of symptoms. 2 to 3 people can die of this disorder. I will take the risk of getting a bad case of the flu over the risk of getting GBS. The H1N1 vaccine risks are just too high for me. H1N1 vaccine risks exist. Whenever you inject something in to your body, you are not without risk. The question to ask yourself is this: is theH1N1 Vaccine Risks: A Big Controversy Covers “Life Saving” ShotH1N1 vaccine risks worth the reward of not catching the H1N1 flu virus?
The H1N1 flu virus, also known as the “swine flu” has claimed the lives of several individuals. According to the CDC, those at high risk for the H1N1 virus are children under 2, individuals over 65, pregnant women, individuals with certain chronic medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, and HIV, and children under 19 on aspirin therapy.For the high risk group, the H1N1 vaccine risks may be worth the reward. The H1N1 virus is more likely to claim the lives of one of the high-risk individuals than it is someone who is completely healthy. Pregnant women and those caring for infants under 6 months of age are suggested recipients of the H1N1 vaccine. The H1N1 vaccine risks may be worth it for those trying to protect their children from the virus. CBS’s The Early Show discussed one of the most disturbing H1N1 vaccine risks. Someone who takes the H1N1 vaccine could develop GBC – Guillian Bar Syndrome. Dr. Jennifer Ashton estimates that this risk is only 1 in a million vaccines. Still, that’s one of the H1N1 vaccine risks that freaks people out. According to Dr. Jennifer Ashton, GBS is a “rare, neurologic disorder that has elements of an auto-immune condition in that some trigger (usually an infection or rarely a vaccination against an infection) results in a progressive weakening of nerves. GBS starts in the legs and works its way up the body.”
Max Cleland
Max ClelandAs a boy growing up in a small town in Georgia, Max Cleland, a former Democratic senator from Georgia, was inspired by the adventures of the Lone Ranger on his TV screen.
Just as the Lone Ranger was motivated by a sense of duty, so was Cleland. As he tells NPR's Renee Montagne, Cleland's parents raised him "to be an eagle, not a sparrow." When he was in college, he joined the ROTC and volunteered to go to war in Vietnam. There, he was brutally maimed by a grenade that a fellow soldierdropped accidentally. The explosion took away both of his legs and his right arm. In his new memoir, Heart of a Patriot, Cleland recalls that moment, and how he overcame the trauma it caused. The book is subtitled "How I Found The Courage To Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove."After his military service, Cleland turned to public service as a way to find meaning in life outside of his own struggles. "It meant survival. It meant a purpose and destiny," he says. His political career spanned four decades, and ended with a loss to Republican Saxby Chambliss in 2002. Cleland says that his opponent — backed by Karl Rove's political machine — questioned his patriotism by airing attack ads that listed his votes on homeland security bills that opposed President George W. Bush's policies.In the TV ads, those questions were accompanied by images of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, followed by photos of Cleland that avoided depicting him in his wheelchair — the visual and physical vestige of his service in Vietnam.
"There are plenty of reasons to go after me, but my military service is not one of them," Cleland says. "Especially when I was running against a guy that had no service in Vietnam and got out of going to Vietnam with a trick knee and multiple deferments. He somehow became the American patriot, and I became somehow less than that." Cleland says that losing his political career left him with nothing but those old memories from Vietnam that he had tried to shut out of his mind. And that, he said, led him to identify with the challenges America's young soldiers face when they return from Iraq and Afghanistan.
"They carry that feeling of helplessness, trauma in their minds. It's stuck there," Cleland says. "That is a terrifying place, and they need some help." Throughout his book, Cleland quotes the fiction of Ernest Hemingway, who had been wounded during service in World War I. In his semi-autobiographical novel A Farewell To Arms, Hemingway wrote: "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
Taking comfort in that, Cleland tells Montagne: "Regardless of what we go through — war, political loss, loss of job, spouse, whatever — it is possible to become strong even at the broken places in our lives." In a phone interview on Monday, former Georgia Sen. Max Cleland was upbeat – "What's goin' on, kid?'' – and quick to laugh. But after losing his U.S. Senate seat to an opponent who ran post-9/11 TV ads that showed the decorated Vietnam vet alongside Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, Cleland fell into a depression he was afraid he might not pull out of. It was public service, he says, that had given his life shape and meaning after he left three limbs on a battlefield in Khe Sanh. But without that role, the old darkness came back. Along with his job and his bearings, he lost his relationship with his fiancée. "That's emotionally and physically over,'' he told me. "That's gone.'' And for a time, he was once again a patient at Walter Reed, where he'd first been put back together nearly four decades earlier – and was now surrounded by vets from Iraq and Afghanistan: "I cried uncontrollably for 2 ½ years.'' "It's been war for me for the last six or seven years, but Obama won – the public saw that Bush was bullfeathers – and that helps me. Public service is who I am and what I do, so I'm coming back to that.''
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