Event Type: fundraiser, to, help, continue, building, the, dixon, trail, top, of, cheyenne, mountain!
The 2016 race distance will be at least 9 miles and will increase each year as the trail to the top of the mountain is completed. When the trail is completed, this race will provide runners with a new challenging trail race that will be 12-13 miles long with about 3,000 feet of elevation gain and loss.
The 2016 race will start at the Talon trailhead which is located off the Limekiln trailhead parking lot just past the Cheyenne Mountain State Park Visitors Center and entrace fee gate. The race course continues west on Talon, will turn right onto North Talon and right at about 3.3 miles onto the Dixon Trail. The race will continue up the Dixon trail to the turnaround which will be the end of the completed trail at race day. The race will return on the same course back to the Limekiln trailhead. There will be water stops at the Talon/Sundance and North Talon/Dixon trail junctions so that participants will have four water stops. There will not be water at the turnaround on the Dixon trail. Runners will need to cary their water on this section of the race.
The 5K race will start at 10:15 AM and will follow the Talon trail to the Sundance trail junction at about 1.5 miles. The 5K race will turn right onto the Sundance trail and return to the finish at the Limekiln trailhead. This is a loop course with one water stop at the Talon/Sundance junction.


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One of the most important things I do as a U.S. Representative is help people with federal problems. Although I cannot override the decisions made by a federal agency, I can often intervene on a person's behalf to answer questions, find solutions, or just cut through the red tape. Below you will find a list of agencies that I can help you with. However, regardless of which agency you need help with, I need a completed privacy authorization form to comply with the provisions of the Privacy Act. Please fill out this form to get the process started, and my staff will reach out to you on next steps.


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Q: How come injection @Resource works outside the container? I'm testing webservices in Java SE, and I see that @Resource does work, wasn't this true only within a Container ? or with CDI ? why does it work in SE also !?
@WebService
public class Teams {

    @Resource
    private WebServiceContext context;
}

I'm publishing using Endpoint.publish("http://localhost:9876/teams", new Teams());

A: Not true. Container will inject the instance of the resource on any EJB component.
http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/5/api/javax/annotation/Resource.html

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How novel X-ray technology made in Waterloo can help COVID-19 patients
A detector from Waterloo, Ontario's KA Imaging allows for clearer visualization of a patient's lungs.
The top 10 science and environment stories of 2018
If you didn't get the chance to read as many science stories as you would have liked in 2018, fear not: CBC has compiled its top 10 list just for you. From the discovery of an ancient Mayan city to evidence of Planet X, there's no shortage of fascinating stories to review.
Student-made robot sets new world record for solving the Rubik's Cube
Since its invention in the 70s, the Rubik's Cube has entertained, challenged, and frustrated users around the world. Last month, a pair of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devised a robot capable of solving the popular 3D puzzle in an astounding 0.38 seconds. Read the full story – and watch a video that shows the robot in action. http://news.mit.edu/2018/featured-video-solving-rubiks-cube-record-time-0316
Seaweed: From superfood to superconductor
Seaweed, an edible algae with a long history in Atlantic Canada (e.g. dulse seaweed) and some Asian cuisines, could turn out to be an essential ingredient in another trend: the development of more sustainable ways to power our devices. Researchers are using a seaweed-derived material to replace traditional non-renewable carbon materials to help boost the performance of superconductors, lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells in a sustainable way.

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I am looking at doing some multi day trips around South East Alaska and would like to know what systems everybody is using.
There are a number of Garmin Bluechart G2 software charts. Specifically, HXUS039R covers the whole US. See on Amazon.


Would love to see the addition of XL split king sheet sets. With so many of us now buying this type of bed, it is hard to find sheets that fit.
I am so moved by the fact that you would take the time to post such beautiful comments about my attempt at expressing my appreciation for and to Heidi! Isn't she simply marvelous?!!
I really cannot say thank you enoughfor making me feel that something I said was meaningful to you.
It's difficult to say everything we would like to say to those we may never meet, yet admire. It was such a humbling opportunity to have those few minutes to talk to her. I wish I could talk with her, and hear all the things she has to say. She is so full of love, light and life!!
We are so lucky, that she is one of our contemporaries, and we have the opportunity to watch her grow and create, and can take part in her success, by purchasing and wearing her wonderful pieces.
I will never forget your precious comments. It was truly an honor for me to read these from you all.
i had to figure out how to find them again, so that I could respond and show you the respect that you so deserve by acknowleging all you said, and thanking you from the bottom of my heart!
Wishing you every blessing in each day of your lives!
Yes, that was so beautiful it should have been recorded! How I would love to hear those words again from that lady named Shawn. It is highly unusual for me to be up this late & today is the first I have ever watched a Heidi show & purchased my 1st piece last night and a couple today and that lady that called in was just outstanding!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Viruses and malwares can spread from computer networks to mobile networks with the rapid growth of smart cellpone users. In a mobile network, viruses and malwares can cause privacy leakage, extra charges, remote listening and accessing private short messages and call history logs etc. Furthermore, they can jam wireless servers by sending thousands of spam messages or track user positions via GPS. Because of the potential damages of mobile viruses, it is important for us to design a realistic propagation model to observe and understand the propagation mechanisms of mobile viruses. In this paper, we propose a two-layer model to simulate the propagation process of BT-based and SMS-based viruses in mobile networks. Different from previous work, here we focus on the impacts of human behavior, i.e., human operations and mobility patterns, on virus propagation. Through simulations, we aim to gain some insights into how human behavior affects the dynamics of virus spread in mobile networks. © 2011 IEEE.


Any incident involving Crisco cannot be a good incident.
We've got a whole bunch of t-shirts (including the first batch of Irony Ts) coming within the next couple of days. People awaiting orders should have them shortly thereafter. Thank you for your patience!
It says something about me that I was more interested in going to see Mark Knopfler play at the park in Northampton in a couple weeks than I was in seeing Modest Mouse play there tonight. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Modest Mouse, but imagining the mix of intolerable frat boys screaming "PLAY FLOAT ON!!!" and intolerable hipsters more interested in looking cool than listening to the music, I decided to give it a pass.
Cristi has declared that AC Newman is basically a modern version of The Kinks, and as such she prefers the original deal. Dating someone unafraid to cast a jaundiced eye upon indie rock is an exciting thing!


You don't expect a pickup truck to be great to drive, but the segment is changing. The 2018 Ram 1500 was quite good, but the new one is that much better thanks to serious improvements under the skin.
Ride Quality: Excellent ride thanks to an updated suspension and improved, lighter ladder frame chassis. The ride borders on creamy, absorbing bumps very well.
Acceleration: Our optional 5.7-liter HEMI V8 engine was impressively strong. It pulls hard, and the transmission shift smoothly and without hesitation. 0-60 comes in the mid sixes, and that's pretty quick for something this big.
Braking: The brakes are strong (thanks to larger front rotors) and progressive, and we love the adjustable pedals.
Steering: Steering is surprisingly precise for a pickup truck, but the effort is on the light side.
Handling: There's some lean you expect from a tall truck, but thanks to the relocated roll bar, the Ram 1500 manages things very well.
You don't have to pony up big bucks to get the Laramie in order to have an excellent infotainment experience. So, the Big Horn doesn't get the enormous 12-inch screen, but the Uconnect system in our tester was simply excellent.
Infotainment System: The optional 8.4-inch screen in our Big Horn was vivid, responsive, and now comes with an indicator that shows when you've pressed a selection. Genius.
Controls: The on screen controls work well, but it's the presence of large knobs for audio and climate that make us really happy. Everything works very well. We did have some hiccups with the rotary shifter, but you get used to it.
The Big Horn isn't super fancy outside, but the sleeker (but still plenty rugged) exterior makes it seem more upscale than before. Even the basic interior is still quite nice.
Front: Ram's new grille gets better the more you look at it. There's a lot of chrome going on, but it still looks good.
Rear: There's not a ton you can do with a pickup tailgate, but FCA manages to do it up nicely with some taillight styling, tailgate contours, and two very nice round exhaust tips.
Profile: It's well balanced now that the Ram 1500 only comes in crew and quad cab trims.
Cabin: There's a lot of gray and black, but they balance each other well. The interior seems far less clunky than GM and Ford offerings, making the Ram Interior one of the best. It's well-styled and even refined for something that's meant to take punishment.
You usually expect that biting low rent feel when you don't have leather, but such is not the case with the 1500 in Big Horn trim. The cloth seats look and feel great, and there's just a ton of features inside that are superb for this trim level.
Front Seats: Big, wide, and comfortable, the seats are very good for long haul driving, and there's a lot of headroom and legroom. The grey cloth is grippy and high quality.
Rear Seats: Though we didn't have the executive seating, the Ram 1500 crew cab has best-in-class legroom, and it shows. This thing is seriously spacious. The rear top part of the LATCH system is hard to use with only fabric loops to secure baby seats to the headrests.
NVH (noise/vibration/harshness): It's rock solid inside with only the guttural growl of the big HEMI engine. Even at highway speeds, it's pretty quiet.
Visibility: The truck is tall, so getting around parking lots can be a challenge. The cameras and sensors are a must.
Climate: The climate system is easy to use and powerful. We never had an issue getting the heat fired up.
The new Ram 1500 hasn't been crash tested yet, but it does have some good standard safety features.
Standard Tech: The Big Horn comes standard with Parkview backup camera, Ready-Alert braking that reduces braking distances in emergency situations, Rain Brake Support, Tire-Fill Alert, and Electronic Roll Mitigation.
The Ram 1500 is brilliant in terms of storage capability. It's actually one of the best we've seen with ingenius use of internal storage capacity.
Storage Space: Not only is the center armrest and cubbies huge, they also fold back to provide a middle seating position in the front row. Our tester did not have the Class Executive Reconfigurable Center Console, but it held our gear incredibly well. The flat load floor in the rear lets you hold a ton of cargo. too.
Cargo Room: Cargo volume is 61.5 cubic feet.
Ram has worked hard to make its big truck more efficient. It has a 2-degree change in windshield angle, a roof design that helps airflow over the truck bed, an air dam that lowers at speeds above 35 mph with temps above 38 degrees, and new grille shutters. The 2018 model got 13 city / 18 highway / 14 combined, but the new truck improves on that with 15/21/17. That's pretty close to the V8 Ford F-150's 16/22/18.
Driving Factors: We spent most of our time on local roads driving with a heavy foot, which accounts for the low gas mileage.
The Big Horn's stock audio system works fine. We didn't notice anything particularly great or poor about the sound, and for a pickup truck, it's decent. The sound is clear, and the volume has good range with no hint of distortion.
Final Thoughts The Big Horn shows buyers that you don't have to plunk down top dollar to get a great truck. This is the one where you want a balance of technology, power, and reasonable affordability. It drives well, has gobs of room, and feels rather refined inside. Ram didn't go on the cheap with the Big Horn, and that's a very good thing for a pickup truck that didn't crack $50K, even with a host of great options.


The Arab tourism sector has recorded a $ 15 billion loss as a result of the Arab Spring, in addition to the loss of around 10 million tourists, according to Bandar Al-Fuhaid, director of the Arab Tourism Organization (ATO).
"We expect that global expenditure on tourism will be around $ 570 billion and provide more than 450 million jobs. We also expect that there will be more than 1 billion international tourist arrivals worldwide by the end of the year," he said.
"Many people have lost their jobs in the tourism sector as a result of the Arab Spring. This has prompted the ATO to hold conferences in an attempt to arrive at solutions to cut losses in the sector," he said.
A number of activities were announced on the sidelines of the visit of Mamdouh Aquz, governor of Isparta in Turkey, to the city of Taif. These include an agreement between Turkey and Saudi Arabia to initiate training and educational exchange programs. In addition, Isparta will provide training in the production of rosewater.
"At the beginning, we will invite 10 investors to be trained in the latest technology for the production of rosewater. There are 5 million domestic tourists who visit Isparta every year and we hope that we can get the same number of international tourists," he said.
"Cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Turkey will not be confined to the rosewater industry. There is also a project in aviation, with a budget of 30 million euros. Another project in the pipeline is to guarantee investments launched by the Islamic Development Bank to protect investor rights in case of political crisis," he said.
"Saudi Arabia sees investment in Turkey as a strategic step," he concluded.
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For most of my writing career I wrote about things and about how people related to things. About seven years ago I became comfortable writing about people without the things, and writing fiction as well as non-fiction. This coincided with my reconnecting by email with "D," a girlfriend from college whom I thought would become my wife.
This important evolutionary development coincided with my reconnecting with "R." She was a very important girlfriend from high school, and the first woman I thought about marrying. She has become my most powerful muse and is responsible for what I consider to be my completion as a writer.
I've been married for over 40 years, but I never thought my wife was my muse. Perhaps because I did win her heart and we did marry and are still together, there's less urge to please her. Perhaps her daily physical presence weakens the more spiritual connection necessary for musing. I don't know. Maybe she really has been one of my muses but I just didn't realize it.


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+ Chasing a Civil-Rights Era Cold Case: Racist Bombers, Missing FBI Files, and the Problem with FOIA Requests
Chasing a Civil-Rights Era Cold Case: Racist Bombers, Missing FBI Files, and the Problem with FOIA Requests
Betsy Phillips
A Nashville historian digs into a series of unsolved bombings from the era of integration and discovers a trove of suspects, an oddly recalcitrant law enforcement agency, and a wall of silence.
Z. Alexander Looby (public domain image)
Nashville, Tennessee, had three integration-era bombings that remain unsolved: Hattie Cotton Elementary School on September 10, 1957, the Jewish Community Center on March 16, 1958, and the home of Nashville city councilman and famed Civil Rights lawyer Z. Alexander Looby on April 19, 1960.
I assumed these were "unsolved," in the sense of most Southern bombings of that era—everyone knew who did it; nobody bothered to prosecute them. So I thought my task would be easy. I'd just need to find the right circle of gossip, and I could write a little something up for the Nashville Scene about what had actually happened in time for the 60th Anniversary of the Hattie Cotton bombing.
The Weird Wall of Silence
It turned out, no one did seem to know who did it. Worse than that, the police files are missing. Not just these bombing files, but everything from before 1963, with the exception of a few murder cases, is gone. And, let me be clear, this includes the Looby bombing file—an unsolved assassination attempt on a sitting U.S. politician. Not normally the kind of thing you'd expect to ever get chucked in the trash.
Tennessee had an overarching law enforcement unit at the time, the Tennessee Bureau of Criminal Inquiry (TBCI), which was part of the Department of Safety. If you look on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's website, the TBI clearly views the TBCI as an early iteration of the TBI. But I couldn't find anyone who knew where the TBCI's files were—or, if they even still existed, if I would be able to request them. If they exist and someone knows where they are and they're considered Department of Safety documents, maybe I could make an argument that they should be available to me. But if the TBI insists those files (should I ever find out they exist) are theirs, then, because of Tennessee law, they wouldn't be available to the public.
Where do you start investigating unsolved crimes when you can't find any useful witnesses, gossip fails you, and there aren't any police files?
So, where do you start investigating unsolved crimes when you can't find any useful witnesses, gossip fails you, and there aren't any police files?
I did two things: I flooded the FBI with as many FOIA requests as I could think to make, and I started going through old newspapers looking for patterns.
The Suspects
My assumption was, and is, that it's very, very unlikely that one person or one group of people bombed one building in Nashville and then went back to their ordinary lives. Either these bombings were connected to each other, or they were connected to other acts of racial terrorism, or both. If I could figure out the pattern, it might point me to a perpetrator or perpetrators.
The first question I asked was "Did Nashville have any known bombers at the time?" It turns out we had one bomber who was known to local police: Jesse Wilson. Wilson, the head of a local trucking company, had blown up two sets of truck scales and his own warehouse. He hired thugs to beat up a couple of his employees and then tried to bomb the home of those employees' attorney, former Nashville mayor Thomas L. Cummings. He also was plotting to bomb the home of Silliman Evans, the publisher of the Tennessean, because he didn't appreciate the paper's coverage of his earlier bombings.
Okay, well, truck scales are government property. A school is government property. A mayor is a political figure. A city councilman is a political figure. Maybe? Except that Wilson went to jail in 1956, which rules him out of the Hattie Cotton bombing, which means the patterns don't fit.
I found two people who were living in Nashville in the 1950s who went on to become racist bombers—Robert Pittman Gentry and Gladys Girgenti. Could our bombings have been heretofore unknown early works of one or both of them?
When the JCC was bombed in 1958, a man called Rabbi Silverman's home and said, "I am a member of the Confederate Union. We have just dynamited the Jewish Community Center. Next will be The Temple, and next will be any other nigger-loving place or nigger-loving person in Nashville. And we're going to shoot down Judge Miller in cold blood." In phone calls he placed to the media, he identified himself as a member of the Confederate Underground. Judge Miller, as a side note, was the judge overseeing Nashville's school integration. Councilman Looby was the lawyer for the family who had sued the city to desegregate Nashville schools.
In 1981, Gladys Girgenti led a group she named the Confederate Vigilantes in an attempt to bomb The Temple, the next target on the Confederate Underground's list. She failed only because her bomb maker was an ATF informant.
The FBI rejected my FOIA request on her because she was still alive (which was a nice bit of information to have). When I went to talk to her, she denied any involvement in the earlier bombings, but she told me she was old friends with J.B. Stoner, an attorney from Chattanooga, who had been kicked out of the Klan in Chattanooga for being too anti-Semitic. If his name sounds familiar, it's because he was James Earl Ray's attorney.
I do think it's unlikely that Girgenti was involved in these earlier bombings. By the end of the '50s, she had moved to Detroit and had young children. But I do think it was a missed opportunity in '81, when the Klan was disavowing her and her feelings were hurt, to not see if she had any Klan knowledge she wanted to share.
J.B. Stoner (public domain image)
Robert Pittman Gentry is a different story, though. He grew up in the Nashville area and moved to Florida in 1961, after all our bombings. He claimed he didn't get involved in Klan activities until he moved to Florida, but his Florida Klan years put him in the middle of some really bad stuff. In 1966 he told the House Unamerican Activities Committee that he had been in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963, during the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, but he never would say why. In 1964, he was arrested for bombing the home of Donald Godfrey, the first grader integrating Lackawanna Elementary School in Jacksonville, Florida.
The lawyer who beat that charge for him? J.B. Stoner. The lawyer who advised him and sat next to him in front of the HUAC? J.B. Stoner.
The Disappeared Files
My FOIA request for Gentry's file was denied because the FBI claims they destroyed his file in 2005.
Which is the same reason they gave me for denying my FOIA request for the FBI file on the Looby bombing, which they told me they'd destroyed in 1996.
I don't know enough about Gentry to say if it's really that weird that his file was destroyed, but someone tried to kill a sitting U.S. politician and that case was never resolved, and the FBI destroyed the file? That seemed really, really weird to me. But, perhaps naively, I believed it.
But then, I ran into Keel Hunt, who had worked for Lamar Alexander back when Alexander was Tennessee's governor and had remained friends with Senator Alexander. I thought, if anyone could give me some insight into why the FBI would have destroyed those files, either Hunt could do it, or he could tell me who could.
He was taken aback. I might even call him alarmed.
He told me to immediately call Hal Hardin, who had been a U.S. Attorney (and, in fact, prosecuted Girgenti). He, Hunt told me, would have some insight into why the FBI would have destroyed those files.
"I don't believe it," Hardin said. I wasn't sure if he meant that he didn't believe what I was telling him or if he didn't believe the files had been destroyed. He meant the latter. They simply would not have been destroyed.
He told me to call John Lewis. Yes, THE John Lewis. Civil Rights icon and U.S. Representative John Lewis. Lewis's civil rights person apologized to me because they could not open an inquiry with the FBI on my behalf because I wasn't Lewis's constituent. I attempted to explain that I didn't need an inquiry, I just needed insight, and she apologized again and explained again that they could not open an inquiry.
Oh, okay, got it.
The National Archives: TMI
I contacted my Representative, Jim Cooper, and his chief of staff got back to me in about ten minutes. They were in.
Long story short, after he and his staff spent months investigating and asking questions, Cooper wrote the nerdiest and most badass letter I have ever read to the head of the FBI demanding an explanation for why the file was destroyed.
Within weeks the FBI admitted that the file still existed and was at the National Archives.
National Archives (photo: David Samuel)
I had already searched the National Archives website numerous times for files that might be pertinent, and I can tell you, I never once saw the Looby bombing file in the search results.
But, okay, fine. They had it now. I FOIA-requested it. I also took the opportunity to FOIA-request everything else I could think of, whether or not I'd seen it in the search results on their site. I was especially interested in getting my hands on J.B. Stoner's file, because I had discovered he was the mastermind behind the Confederate Underground bombings—which meant he was ultimately behind the JCC bombing here in Nashville—and I had learned that he was in Nashville in the days before the Hattie Cotton bombing.
I also wanted to get my hands on the FBI's Dixie Knights file. The Dixie Knights were a rogue Klan group, made up of the old Klavern No. 317 in Chattanooga (J.B. Stoner's old Klavern), the Middle Tennessee Klaverns, which had left the KKK when 317 got kicked out of the Klan in 1957, and perhaps Kenneth Adams and his crowd down in Anniston, Alabama (which, if you know your Civil Rights history, is the group that assaulted the Freedom Riders). The Dixie Knights in Chattanooga had bombed a school, a desegregated religiously-affiliated community center (the YWCA), and the home of a black civil rights attorney. Chattanooga's pattern was Nashville's pattern, and J.B. Stoner seems like a link between the two.
Ah, but here's where we go from too little information to too much. When you FOIA-request old FBI files from the National Archives, they have to be reviewed before you get them. Anything you're legally not allowed to see needs to be redacted. If you're asking for fewer than 500 pages, this process takes roughly two years. If you need to see more than 500 pages, your wait time is over a decade.
J.B. Stoner's file is 3,000 pages. The Dixie Knights file is more than 30,000 pages. With Stoner's file, in order to get something I could see relatively soon, I narrowed my request to just the time of these bombings. With the Dixie Knights file, I asked for the first five hundred pages. That, apparently, covers roughly the first four or five months of their existence. I'm in the process of waiting on those.
This would be frustrating in any circumstance, but especially in this case, where this is the only source of information on the investigations into these bombings. It's not just that the wait time (and then the cost of getting the copies) is onerous; it's that there's no good index of what FBI files are in the National Archives. They might have files even more pertinent to my project, but since I don't know they're there, I don't know to ask for them. This is certainly frustrating for me as a researcher.
While I wait, I keep thinking of what I found down in the Birmingham police files: comment after comment about how terrified other Klansmen were of Jack Brown, the head of the Dixie Knights. They warned each other not to cross him, because he killed people.
How many families, who are missing loved ones, might find answers in those old FBI files—but because of the time and cost, those files are basically unavailable? Or what if they've been told those files were destroyed, but they don't have a congressman willing to take on their cause?
Still, I wait to learn the truth. And so do those grieving families.
D.C. march in memory of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing victims, 1963. (public domain image)
Betsy Phillips lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She's written for the Nashville Scene and the Washington Post. Her book on these bombings, Dynamite Nashville, will be out from Third Man Books as soon as she gets that Looby bombing file and can finish it up.
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Pet Shop Boys and Poker... no clue.
My take on what texting is doing to the language. i AM clueless.
You just got me to listen to a techno song--twice. Once to see the lyrics while the song played, a second time to see the original video. Not my kind of music.
"Integral" by the Pet Shop Boys--it's taken straight from "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin (the "first" dystopian novel). The song makes me think of "Another Brick...2" by Floyd (lyrics, not music).
That is a really clever cartoon. You could not have picked a better QR code as commentary for "modern" times. How did you know about it? If you picked it at random, it will blow my mind.
FWIW, I don't have a device that reads QR codes. Donkeyrock's comment pointed me in the right direction.
Met up with a friend I hadn't seen in 7 years. Went to the local Starbucks for coffee and conversation. Place was like a library. Everyone, even those at the same table, had their heads buried in their iPhones.
Sunday went to the local mall. Almost got run over by a mother and her two teenagers - all walking along with their heads buried in their techno-gear.
Scanned the code, checked out the result.
The QR was random pull from google images. I have no way to know where that visual link leads.
You know what started all of this?
Obviously Devin is the only one qualified to comment. LQTMST.
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Vatican City is all contained within a two-mile-long border; it is the smallest country in the world. It may be the smallest city, but it also ranks amongst the most sacred places in all of Christendom. At the center of this collection of architectural and cultural masterpieces is St. Peter's Basilica, the largest building in the world dedicated exclusively to religion.
The best way to see and learn about this city-state is to participate in small group Vatican tours.
The best guides know things about the Vatican that are not well publicized. It is not well known that St. Peter's Basilica sits on what was once a Roman cemetery. In 64 A.D., rather than take the blame, Nero accused the Christians of starting the blaze that almost leveled the city. Nero then set about executing Christians in the most horrific fashion, including crucifixion. Peter, Christ's disciple and leader of the Apostles, was one that died on the cross and is supposedly buried in this necropolis, a site known then as Vatican Hill. The original basilica was started in the fourth century when Emperor Constantine officially recognized Christianity. What people see today dates back to the 1500s; it sits over the grave of St. Peter.
The Sistine Chapel is known throughout the world for the collection of Renaissance art it holds, and especially for the ceiling which was painted by Michelangelo. The chapel was originally built by Pope Sixtus IV, hence its name. Botticelli and Rosselli were commissioned to paint the chapel, leaving the ceiling blue with a few stars.
Michelangelo began work on the ceiling from 1508 to 1512. It was not until twenty years later that he was commissioned to paint "The Last Judgment" behind the main altar. By the time the fresco was completed in 1541, Michelangelo was well into his 60s.
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Telemundo Plans Social Firsts for Billboard Latin Music Awards
Telemundo has partnered with Klout, Trendrr and Shazam for the awards show on Thursday
Lucas Shaw | April 24, 2012 @ 4:21 PM	Last Updated: April 24, 2012 @ 4:24 PM
Telemundo has announced a series of social TV firsts for the Billboard Latin Music Awards, airing April 26 at 7 p.m.
The Hispanic broadcaster has partnered with three heavyweights in the social community – Shazam, Trendrr and Klout – for a series of initiatives it champions as a landmark for the U.S. Hispanic audience.
"This is an overload of social experiences," Borja Perez, SVP of Digital and Social Media for Telemundo Media, told TheWrap. "We're extremely committed to social media and it's not us, it's the consumer. The U.S. Hispanic community is uber-social.
"What well see the night of the Billboards is really cool," Perez added. "It's the first time it's been done in the U.S. Hispanic market."
So what is Telemundo doing?
It has partnered with Klout in naming the top 12 scorers influencers in "the music, entertainment and Latino categories." Klout analyzes a user's engagement across social networks and gives them a ranking based off that.
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Those influencers will spend Thursday with Telemundo Media, meeting various executives and talent. The hope is that those influencers will then talk about the show online.
Telemundo has also partnered with Shazam, the music and TV discovery app, making this the first Shazam-able show on the network.
Sponsored by State Farm, viewers can Shazam interviews with the talent attending, such as Pitbull and Shakira. Once they Shazam the show, viewers can access information about their favorite artists on the talent, including videos and pictures.
As for Trendrr, a social media analytics company, Telemundo will partner with them to offer a ranking of the most buzzed-about celebrities the night of the show.
Trendrr will not only help Telemundo measure the social sentiment around the show but will curate a ranking of the hottest topics and top five artists during the show. Trendrr's service filters data from Twitter and Facebook in both Spanish and English.
"When we saw the Oscars and how they were creating these raknings, I met with my team and said, 'How and when can we do something like this?" Perez said.
Now they have, but the real test will be whether this builds buzz around and ratings for the show, which has aired on Telemundo since 1999.
And what does the growing Spanish-language network think all these social intiatives will do?
"Right now, we are totally in the development phases of our strategy, working very close with the NBC Universal team," Perez said. "My role is, I want to deliver the maximum amount of engeagement between platforms."
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Relevance of the Tempest in the Modern World
Category: The Tempest, Greed
The son and father of English literature, William Shakespeare wrote over forty plays in his life and through those creations has proved an always relevant, valuable author to millions of readers and scholars. It is evident through his works never- ceasing popularity and analysis of such that in their often ancient seeming context his use of core themes and language features, often hidden create links to the modern world of which we live, thus creating a footbridge of familiarity from his world to ours.
Four hundred years ago, Shakespeare wrote the Tempest, a dramatic fantasy still valued for it's language and relevance today as are all Shakespearian plays. Focusing on power through dictatorial characters and greed, the Tempest is shown to be continuously valued for it's timeless characterizations and use of naturally occurring themes of human nature. The character of Prosper demonstrates best the use of power through dictatorial characterization in the Tempest through the power he holds over his daughter, Ariel his servant and over the storm which brings his master plan into play.
From his first appearance, we understand that Prosper is in control of his daughter Miranda; 'Be collected: No more amazement: tell your piteous heart' is the first line we hear him speak, his response to his daughter whose 'piteous' thoughts for those many 'strangers' lost at sea have already confirmed that her character, through her concern and Shakespearean use of patronizing language in Prosperous treatment of her, was a stereotypical woman of the time, not necessarily stupid though ignorant enough to let her fathers plan subconsciously guide her to his thought-out life for ere.
The use of anisotropy by Shakespeare has also been inserted to instate the educational advantage Prosper holds over Miranda, another form of power. This ultimate power over Miranda is shown once again when Ferdinand offers to make Miranda the Queen of Naples, and Prosper tells lies about suspecting him a spy from Naples and threatening to "manacle thy neck and feet together: sea water shall thou drink", simply so he can test Ferdinand love.
His use of statements as orders through direct language show Prosper already as the most powerful character in he Tempest, and later on in scene II this theory is only strengthened as we see the verbal interactions of Prosper with Ariel, his reluctant servant: '"If thou murmur's, I will render an oak, and peg thee in his knotty entrails, till thou hast howled away twelve winters. " This use of blatant intimidation through threat of physical harm shows the real power behind Prosper, as Ariel runs off to do his bidding momentarily we understand this was a true threat, that must have been proven before.
Prosper is a man with magical abilities, he brought the ship to be wrecked n act I to his island, bent on avenging his crown by his brother Antonio who did steal the title and banish his brother to the land years ago with intelligence, described by Prosper his methods; "A mark so bloody on the business, but With colors fairer painted their foul ends. " This assonance is used by Shakespeare to create rhythm in his text, while allowing Prosper to explain his brothers cunning in hiding his intentions with 'colors fairer'.
Through this theme of power we find that the Tempest has been valuable to the world since it's creation;dealing with dictatorial errors such as Prosper, his methods of intimidation and condescending behavior could easily be compared to many of the dictators of the 21st century such as Nicholas Tsar of Russia in the early asses, and whose meddling behaviors could be held in any parliament in the modern world. This theme shows Shakespearean understanding of human nature, a trait valuable in any author, allowing him to see indirectly the forces of humans, what we are capable of and what we will continue to do for centuries to come.
One of the deadly sins, greed has been a common theme in many works of literature nice the time of Shakespeare, in any context it is versatile and easily interpreted by humans, as we so often fall victim to it. In the Tempest greed is best exercised as a sin by Antonio, Prosperous brother and wrongful king. As supported by the text, Antonio is not only greedy though psychologically cunning as Prosper describes; "To credit his own lie, he did believe, He was indeed the duke " The use of end rhyme makes this sentence roll off the tongue while enforcing Prosperous belief that his brother was mentally devious.
Later in the play, we see Antonio poison Sebastian tit his greed, convincing him that in the sudden death of Alonso he will become King of Naples; "Here lies your brother, No better than the earth he lies upon,elf he were that which now he's like, that's dead; Whom l, with this obedient steel, three inches of it, Can lay to bed for ever; " In this bout of persuasive language, the personification used in 'obedient steel' shows Notation's comfort in dealing with such things; this evidence that he values his sword as an obedient friend allows us more information abut this character than meets the eye.
Later used in the Picture of Dorian Gray, the reason for too many wars and a theme found dipping in and out of most lives, greed will always be relevant as it is a characteristic of human nature, found in all of us. As both power and greed would be relevant anyway, the floral language used by Shakespeare to convey these themes is only one reason why we will continue to value his works; the use of techniques, characterization and human nature are merely the vessels upon which we will interpret his ideas as they continue to be read all over the world.
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Ancient Ruins Found in Antarctica
By Science News Staff Mar. 31, 1998 , 7:30 PM
Enjoy this 1998 edition of our annual April Fools' Day science story!
DURAK, ARGENTINA--Scientists have uncovered the remains of a massive stone structure and other artifacts, estimated to be 4000 years old, in a remote corner of Antarctica. The find, announced at a press conference here today, is the first evidence of ancient civilization on the icy continent and is being hailed as one of the most important archaeological digs of the century.
Working in dwindling light just before Antarctica's first sunset of the year in mid-February, a team led by geologist Scott Amundsen of Wyoming State University came across the rubble of a stone building roughly the size of Rome's ancient amphitheater. "One of my students tripped over a squat pentagonal block while we were hiking up near Doubleday Glacier," Amundsen says. Doubleday has been receding at an estimated 3 meters per year for the last century, and the last geologic expeditions visited the site in the 1920s. "Previous researchers could have easily missed it," Amundsen says.
The team worked deep into March, well after the normal end of the field season. "We survived on show tunes and s'mores," Amundsen says. "And of course the anticipation of what we'd find the next day." So far the researchers have uncovered the foundations of a massive columned structure that may have stood as high as 30 meters, says group member Harvey Sampson, who last year had proved by DNA analysis that Piltdown Man was not an elaborate hoax but in fact the skeleton of the murdered St. Nicholas, the last Russian Tsar (ScienceNOW, 1 April 1997).
Antarctica's bone-dry atmosphere has also preserved many artifacts, including coins that feature penguins and an unknown reptile, peanut shells, sticks resembling baseball bats, and seal-hide balls. "I know they couldn't have been playing baseball back then," says Sampson. "But we were so elated that we sung the national anthem anyway." He speculates that the thin air above Doubleday Stadium--the team's nickname for the site--"must have made it a hitters' park. The ball would have sailed."
The find has stunned experts, who had presumed that no person had set foot on Antarctica until the 1800s. "I simply don't believe it," says archaeologist H. P. Lovelock of the University of Dallas, Fort Worth, well known for his work in the Transantarctic Mountains. Other experts laud the discovery. Says Joe Konyu of the Southwest Archaeological Institute, "Forget Noah's Ark and Atlantis: this is as good as it gets."
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Looking for a powerful blessing and reward on your home? Provide hospitality for a prophet, a righteous man, or a disciple of Yeshua.
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Finding and Losing Life
The Master set aside His ominous warnings about the future and turned His attention back to the immediate mission at hand. Matthew 10:40 resumes exactly where Matthew 10:15 left off: He had just said that whoever does not receive His disciples will suffer a fate worse than Sodom. Returning to that subject, He continued by speaking about the reward due to those who do receive the disciples. Note the continuity:
Whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words … (Mathew 10:14)
[But] He who receives you receives Me … (Matthew 10:40)
The Master regarded a person who hosted His disciples and heeded their words as if he or she had hosted Him and listened directly to His teaching. The apostles officially represented Him, and receiving an apostle is the same as receiving the one who sent him. In a similar way, the Father sent Yeshua as His apostle. This explains why the Master said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me" (John 13:20).
He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. And whoever in the name of a disciple gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water to drink, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward. (Matthew 10:41-42)
In other words, "He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward." Likewise, he who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man receives the reward of a righteous man. That is not to say that hosting a prophet or righteous man will earn a person the reward due to the prophet or the righteous man in the Messianic Era or the World to Come. Rather, the act of hospitality will earn the gratitude of the prophet or righteous man, and he will bestow a reward.
With these words, the Master alluded to the story of Elisha the prophet and the Shunnamite woman. Second Kings 4 tells the story of a childless woman from Shunem who hosted the prophet Elisha in her home. In reward for hosting her, Elisha bestowed a blessing upon her, granting her a son.
The reward for hosting one of the Master's disciples extends even to the simple act of giving a cup of water to one of the least of His disciples. The Master told his disciples, "Whoever in the name of a disciple [i.e., because he is a disciple] gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water to drink, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward" (Matthew 10:42). "Little ones" does not refer to children, it refers to young, inexperienced, novice disciples.
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10 trophies in 16 seasons – the start of Arsenal's glory.
I am not sure how many Arsenal fans truly understood the extent of Arsenal's rise to the top from 1930 onwards, and how it took in three full time and one temporary manager. Nor indeed how when it came to an end, we came upon The Big Sleep (as John Sowman's wonderful book on 1953 to 1970 calls the era).
But it is worth considering that period as we remember Tom Whittaker on the date of his birth.
In 1930 Arsenal won the FA Cup – their first major trophy. In the 16 seasons from 1930 to 1953 (remembering of course football stopped for the second world war) Arsenal won the FA Cup three times and the league title seven times. Ten major trophies in 16 seasons, having never won a single major trophy before that. And then it all stopped again.
Two of the managers of the era (Chapman and Whittaker) died in their post, both having won the league twice and the FA Cup once. In between came the man who started writing the Arsenal programme in 1910 – George Allison, who won the league and cup the same number of times – two leagues and one cup. The other league title was won in the season Chapman died – the manager for the remainder of the season was Joe Shaw, although it appears he was guided by George Allison.
So 16 seasons of unrivalled triumph and then just about the same time of absolutely nothing. It just shows nothing lasts for ever, and Arsenal certainly don't have any automatic right to be at the top.
Here are the anniversaries.
21 July 1898: Tom Whittaker born in Aldershot. His prime interest in his early days was in being a marine engineer, but he was spotted playing football while serving his country, and in 1919 signed for Arsenal. As Arsenal manager after the second world war, he won the league twice and the Cup once, as did Allison and Chapman before him.
21 July 1953: Brian Talbot born in Ipswich. He started his career with Ipswich Town in 1968 before graduating to the first team in 1972 playing 177 games for the club.
21 July 1987: Alan Smith's first appearance for Arsenal, in the Barrie Vassallo Testimonial. He had transferred from Leicester City where he had played alongside Gary Lineker, but was immediately loaned back to the club until the summer of 1987.
21 July 2000: Tommy Black and Julian Gray released to Crystal Palace. Black played in the Youth League winning side of 1998 and both players won promotion with Palace in 2004.
21 July 2005: Samir Nasri fractured his right fibula during a training session while playing for Marseilles.
21 July 2014: Wellington Silva loaned to Almeria until June 2015. He was then able to obtain a Spanish passport through length of residence meaning he could play anywhere in the EU.
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EARLS, BESSIE (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named LINDA G. FOREHAN on 26 June 1949 in Kenton County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
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EARLS, BESSIE (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named STEPHEN M. FORCHAN on 20 March 1948 in Kenton County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
EARLS, BESSIE died 4 August 1933 at age 48 in Carter County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
EARLS, BESSIE was born 6 March 1903, received Social Security number 587-58-6022 (indicating Mississippi) and, Death Master File says, died December 1985
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EARLS, BESSIE was born 8 March 1897, received Social Security number 357-16-0009 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died September 1983
EARLS, BESSIE was born 18 September 1910, received Social Security number 544-24-9928 (indicating Oregon) and, Death Master File says, died April 1973
EARLS, BESSIE B. was born 15 January 1910, received Social Security number 245-36-3082 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 25 May 2004
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EARLS, BESSIE L. of Jefferson County, Kentucky died 6 June 1996 at age 91 in Jefferson County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
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EARLS, BESSIE M. was born 25 July 1904, received Social Security number 403-60-2076 and, Death Master File says, died 15 June 1996
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EARLS, BETTY (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named RONALD G. GARNETT on 18 January 1950 in Kenton County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
EARLS, BETTY (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named THOMAS H. RICKETT on 11 September 1951 in Bell County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
EARLS, BETTY was born 22 September 1952, received Social Security number 544-66-4969 (indicating Oregon) and, Death Master File says, died February 1983
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EARLS, Betty married in 1945 in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, U.S.A. a groom named Perley Adkins.
EARLS, BETTY A. was born 16 June 1910, received Social Security number 552-07-2697 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 24 October 1992
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EARLS, BETTY A. was born 29 August 1945, received Social Security number 448-42-0578 (indicating Oklahoma) and, Death Master File says, died 1 December 2005
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EARLS, BETTY J. (bride) of Kenton County, Kentucky, who was 39 years old, White, with one previous marriage, and DON W. BERRY of Kenton County, Kentucky, who was 57 years old, White, status 3 (Last marriage ended by divorce) with 2 previous marriages, had a wedding ceremony 10 October 1992 on a license issued in Kenton County, Kentucky, U.S.A. (Certificate number 36450) with the intention of residing in Kenton County, Kentucky.
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EARLS, BETTY J. was born 18 January 1921, received Social Security number 443-52-5015 (indicating Oklahoma) and, Death Master File says, died 5 June 2008
EARLS, BETTY J. was born 22 August 1938, received Social Security number 448-38-1220 (indicating Oklahoma) and, Death Master File says, died 22 March 1997
EARLS, BETTY J. was born 28 July 1933, received Social Security number 416-36-6634 (indicating Alabama) and, Death Master File says, died 9 June 2009
EARLS, BETTY L. was born 13 March 1922, received Social Security number 513-18-8534 (indicating Kansas) and, Death Master File says, died 29 April 2009
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EARLS, Betty Lou married in 1966 in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, U.S.A. a groom named Harmon Welsey Cremeans.
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EARLS, BEULA was born 16 December 1928 to LAURA MCINTEER (possibly her maiden name) in Adair County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
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EARLS, BEVERLY A who was 18 (born ABT 1964) married 3 FEB 1982 in DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named TALMADOE E JR BOLDING who was 26 (born ABT 1956).
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EARLS, BEVERLY A. (bride), who was 23 years old, White, with one previous marriage, and NICHOLS J. FREEMAN, who was 23 years old, White, status 1 (Never married) had a wedding ceremony 1 April 1987 on a license issued in Kenton County, Kentucky, U.S.A. (Certificate number 08622) with the intention of residing in Campbell County, Kentucky.
EARLS, BEVERLY G who was 25 (born ABT 1969) married 5 NOV 1994 in HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named CHARLES W ARNOLD who was 25 (born ABT 1969).
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EARLS, BEVERLY G who was 30 (born ABT 1970) married 15 JAN 2000 in HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named SEAN E DAILEY who was 30 (born ABT 1970).
EARLS, BEVERLY J. (bride), who was 37 years old, White, with one previous marriage, and JOHNNIE W. EAGAN, who was 42 years old, White, status 3 (Last marriage ended by divorce) with 5 previous marriages, had a wedding ceremony 25 June 1988 on a license issued in Campbell County, Kentucky, U.S.A. (Certificate number 20781) with the intention of residing in Campbell County, Kentucky.
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EARLS, BEVERLY NADINE died 8 October 2013 in Missouri, U.S.A. Special thanks to Reclaim the Records. Please consider donating to them.
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EARLS, BILLIE (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named DIANE ROBERTSON on 9 May 1953 in Whitley County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
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EARLS, BILLIE (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named EDWARD D. ROBERTSON on 14 September 1949 in Whitley County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
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EARLS, BILLIE J. was born 17 October 1941, received Social Security number 415-68-0109 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died 20 January 2000
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EARLS, BILLY was born 3 June 1925, received Social Security number 236-34-4145 (indicating West Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died April 1987
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EARLS, BILLY was born 10 July 1947, received Social Security number 348-38-9580 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died January 1986
EARLS, BILLY was born 11 April 1938, received Social Security number 455-60-8164 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 13 September 1992
EARLS, BILLY was born 14 April 1932, received Social Security number 448-24-5600 (indicating Oklahoma) and, Death Master File says, died March 1969
EARLS, BILLY who was 51 (born ABT 1938) married 12 JUL 1989 in HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named JUDY MCGOWEN who was 44 (born ABT 1945).
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EARLS, BILLY, and his bride FIDELLA, born ABT 1928, married 17 MAR 1965, and they had no children under 18 when they got divorced in HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. on 25 JAN 1989.
EARLS, Billy married in 1946 in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, U.S.A. a bride named Ivalee Cyrus.
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Earls, Billy Dean, Rank: PFC, Branch: US ARMY, War: VIETNAM, was born 10 July 1947, died 5 January 1986, and was buried in Section Y, Site 417 in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
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EARLS, BILLY G. was born 22 October 1927, received Social Security number 405-24-3807 and, Death Master File says, died 2 March 1997
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EARLS, BILLY J. (groom) of Kenton County, Kentucky, who was 30 years old, White, status 1 (Never married) and GAYLA L. HOWARD of Boone County, Kentucky, who was 25 years old, White, with no previous marriage, had a wedding ceremony 29 April 1989 on a license issued in Boone County, Kentucky, U.S.A. (Certificate number 06981) with the intention of residing in Kenton County, Kentucky.
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EARLS, BILLY J. was born 1 July 1936, received Social Security number 412-56-7794 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died 26 February 2011
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EARLS, BILLY J. was born 18 August 1933, received Social Security number 563-44-7992 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 30 May 2002
EARLS, BILLY JOE was born 21 June 1974 in Missouri, U.S.A. Special thanks to Reclaim the Records. Please consider donating to them.
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EARLS, Billy Joe (son of Eva Brothers (mother) and Wm. Charles Earls) was born ABT 1930;; died 3 Oct 1930 in Cabell, West Virginia.
EARLS, Billy Joe was born ABT 1930 in Huntington, W. Va.;; died 3 Oct 1930 in Cabell, West Virginia.
EARLS, Billy Joe was born ABT 1945 in Huntington, W.V.;; died 16 Mar 1945 in Cabell, West Virginia.
EARLS, BILLY L. was born 4 October 1942, received Social Security number 429-80-7336 (indicating Arkansas) and, Death Master File says, died 7 February 1994
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EARLS, BILLY TYLER was born 2 April 1991 to GAYLA L. HOWARD (possibly her maiden name) in Kenton County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
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EARLS, BILLY W. was born 5 November 1928 to DAISY NEWMAN (possibly her maiden name) in Whitley County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
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EARLS, BIRDIE was born 13 October 1888, received Social Security number 562-10-4720 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died December 1967
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EARLS, BIRMINGHA was born 3 July 1906, received Social Security number 427-34-3388 (indicating Mississippi) and, Death Master File says, died 15 January 1993
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EARLS, BIRMINGHAM was born 11 November 1941, received Social Security number 427-86-7206 (indicating Mississippi) and, Death Master File says, died 19 October 2013
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EARLS, BLANCHE was born 7 January 1923, received Social Security number 407-30-2324 and, Death Master File says, died 19 April 2008
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EARLS, Blanche (daughter of Tip Earls) was born ABT 1919 in Kentucky and she was in the 1920 census in Whitley County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
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EARLS, Blanche married 29 Dec 1927 in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, U.S.A. a groom named Lawrence Robbins.
EARLS, BLANCHE M. was born 14 June 1915 to ELIZABETH BUNCH (possibly her maiden name) in Whitley County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
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EARLS, BLANCHE M. was born 14 June 1915, received Social Security number 405-09-7066 and, Death Master File says, died 17 December 1998
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EARLS, BLANCHE MARRON was born 10 December 1933 to MOLLIE SIZEMORE (possibly her maiden name) in Leslie County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
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EARLS, BLANCHE MORROW was born 10 December 1933 to MALLIE SIZEMORE (possibly her maiden name) in Leslie County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
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EARLS, BLANCHE O. was born 9 February 1909, received Social Security number 275-42-7868 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 19 June 2001
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EARLS, BOB 1. was born 15 July 1930 to FLORENCE DICKENSON (possibly her maiden name) in Harlan County, Kentucky, U.S.A.
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EARLS, BOBBIE was born 10 November 1958, received Social Security number 409-04-0649 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died January 1985
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EARLS, BOBBIE was born 26 May 1929, received Social Security number 411-34-3284 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died December 1969
EARLS, BOBBIE A. was born 27 December 1947, received Social Security number 466-82-0856 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 29 November 1995
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EARLS, BOBBIE J who was 32 (born ABT 1939) married 24 MAR 1971 in DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named GERALD A LYNCH who was 37 (born ABT 1934).
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EARLS, BOBBIE J who was 51 (born ABT 1939) married 2 JAN 1990 in VAN ZANDT COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named RAY A GIPSON who was 26 (born ABT 1964).
EARLS, BOBBIE J. was born 26 August 1966, received Social Security number 336-68-7176 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 12 November 2012
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EARLS, BOBBY was born 14 September 1943, received Social Security number 255-66-5664 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died December 1983
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EARLS, BOBBY E. was born 15 February 1955, received Social Security number 447-56-6211 (indicating Oklahoma) and, Death Master File says, died 13 July 2003
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EARLS, BOBBY J. was born 16 June 1930, received Social Security number 251-44-0835 (indicating South Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 9 October 2001
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EARLS, BOBBY L JR who was 19 (born ABT 1973) married 22 SEP 1992 in TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named FELICIA M WASHINGTON who was 18 (born ABT 1974).
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EARLS, BOBBY L JR, born ABT 1973, and his bride FELICIA M, born ABT 1974, married 24 SEP 1992, and they had three children under 18 when they got divorced in TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. on 4 JUN 1996.
EARLS, BOBBY L who was 24 (born ABT 1977) married 10 MAR 2001 in SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named MICHELE JIMENEZ who was 27 (born ABT 1974).
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EARLS, BOBBY L, born ABT 1948, and his bride GLORIA, born ABT 1948, married 28 FEB 1971, and they had two children under 18 when they got divorced in TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. on 26 OCT 1973.
EARLS, BOBBY LEE who was 33 in 2010 (born about 1977) married 10 March 2001 a bride named MICHELE L who was 35 in 2010 (born about 1975) on 10 March 2001 and they had no children under 18 when they got a divorce 14 May 2010 in SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A.
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If you work in a restaurant, finding a large amount of cash on the table might be one of those moments where you think you've just lucked out and scored a huge tip from some abnormally generous person, and you figure the money is yours to keep. Or, if you're like one Applebee's server who recently discovered $32,000 left behind, you turn it in and save the day.
A mother and daughter who went ate at an Applebee's in Fresno, CA this week had made a few stops that day, including a bank, reports KFSN. They hadn't planned on carrying around all that dough all day, but that's how it worked out.
"We were going to deposit it to the safe box and they told us they didn't have any available," the daughter explained. She thinks her mother took the cash out of her wallet when it was time to pay for their meal, and didn't put it back in her bag.
By that night, they realized the money — savings from the family's business — was gone, and figured it wasn't coming back.
The server who'd waited on them found the money left behind at the booth and turned it in, and police matched up the money with the family after they described the bag it was in and the denominations included. The family is planning to thank the server and police for reuniting them with their money, and hopes that the server will accept at least a little something as a reward.
But he doesn't want to speak publicly about his good deed, his managers said, and might not take any reward he's offered.
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2. With a sharp knife, slice evenly into the side of each breast to make a pouch. Do not cut through the other side or through the still-connected ends.
3. Stand your chicken breasts up so that the pouch you just created forms a boat. Yes, a chicken boat. Best kind of boat if you ask me. Now that you've got your chicken standing up with flat bottoms and open tops, season liberally with salt and pepper, then fill the breasts with cheese and top with the sauteed mushrooms.
4. Get out two medium-sized bowls and fill one with your breadcrumbs and the other with your eggs.
5. Beat the eggs well, then use your hand to coat only the chicken (you don't need to worry about the filling).
6. Shake off the excess egg and coat the chicken lightly with breadcrumbs.
7. Shake off the excess breadcrumbs and gently transfer the chicken breasts to a large, greased, foil-lined baking pan.
8. Top with some extra cheese. Be messy about it.
9. Spray liberally with olive oil cooking spray, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and bake at 185 c for 35-40 minutes, or until cooked through.


In this exercise we shall sign and verify messages using the ECDSA digital signature algorithm and the NIST P-521 curve. The NIST P-521 elliptic curve, known also as secp521r1 is 521-bit ECC curve, suitable for ECDSA digital signatures and ECDH key agreement. It uses 521-bit private keys (encoded as 65-66 bytes, 130-132 hex digits) and 1042-bit public keys (uncompressed, encoded as 130-131 bytes, 260-261 hex digits). The produced signature is 132 bytes (264 hex digits).
Write a program to sign a message by given private key. The input consists of 2 text lines: message and private key. The message is given as text and the private key is given as hex string (130-132 hex digits). Use the ECDSA deterministic signing (following RFC 6979) and the curve NIST P-521, which also known as secp521r1. Print the output as JSON document, holding the input message + the public key of the signer (as hex string, uncompressed) + the ECDSA digital signature (as hex string).
Write a program to validate the ECDSA digital signature, created by the previous exercise. The input comes as JSON document, holding the message + the public key (uncompressed, hex string) + the signature. Use the P-521 elliptic curve (secp521r1). Print as output a single word: "valid' or "invalid".


The Ioway chief known as Na-Che-ning-a or Notchininga (No Heart of Fear) was the uncle of his predecessor, Mahaska II (White Cloud). Mahaska's father, also Mahaska [1784-1834], died in 1834 and the hereditary position fell to the son.
A member of the leading Bear Clan, White Cloud served as second in command to Mahaska II and chief speaker for the Ioways beginning in 1848. He became head chief after White Cloud died, in December of 1851.
According to Ioway legend, the tribe was founded by four animals, brothers, who became human beings. Leadership was hereditary in Ioway government, passing along the male descendants of the four main clans (Bear, Buffalo, Pigeon, and Elk). If a chief died, his eldest living son succeeded him, and if he had no sons, his daughter's son or niece's son followed.
1837 Charles Bird King painting.
Civil matters were conducted by the two most important clans of the Ioway, the Bear and Buffalo clans, who were said to have founded the tribe. The Bear clan ruled during the fall and winter, and managed the hunt; while the Buffalo clan ruled the spring and summer, managing the corn planting and harvest. When traveling, a leader of the day was selected, to take care of the tribe during the day, and to select the campsite for the night, making sure it was secure.
As a Bear clan leader of the early 19th century, and like his nephew White Cloud before him, No Heart of Fear was much involved in the business of treaty cessions and the complex and difficult changes in the society caused by the growing influence of the Euro-Americans.
He was involved in negotiations over several treaty cessions; his first trip was the 1837 council for which the map was produced.
1926. Ethnology of the Ioway Indians. Bulletin of the Milwaukee Public Museum Volume 5. Milwaukee.
Portrait by George Catlin, early 1830s, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.


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Notes and Letters
on classical music in society and culture
In Praise of (the antifragile) Andre Rieu
July 30, 2017 August 18, 2017 ~ Robert Clark
I'm currently reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's fascinating book Antifragile, and I'm finding it has wide ranging implications, including for classical musicians.
Taleb's definition of 'antifragile' is anything "that gains from disorder." He is careful to point out that it is the exact opposite of fragile, which isn't – as you might first think – 'robust' or 'resilient.' Given that fragile things "hate volatility" because they are damaged by it (think of a glass cup), antifragile things love it because it makes them stronger; better; improved. So that's one step beyond 'robust', which just means that volatility and disorder fails to alter the status quo.
In the front of the book, Taleb includes a large table that rates a number of items and classifies their different "types of exposure" from Fragile, to Robust, to Antifragile. Under the heading of "Reputation (profession)," he lists the following:
Fragile: "Academic, corporate executive, pope, bishop, politician"
Robust: "Postal employee, truck driver, train conductor"
Antifragile: "artist, writer"
That made me pause. The artist's reputation as 'antifragile'. I must confess I probably would have classified it as 'fragile'. If you are attacked critically, how are you going to get hired again? What will your audience and/or clients think?
But Taleb makes a good observation.
Under the heading 'Please Ban My Book: The Antifragility of Information', the author explains that "books and ideas are antifragile and get nourishment from attacks." He goes on:
"Criticism, for a book, is a truthful, unfaked badge of attention, signalling that it is not boring; and boring is the only very bad thing for a book."
Now, Taleb uses books as a good example, but he is referring to art and artists in general. Replace the word 'book' with 'artist', or indeed 'musician', and it still very much rings true. Unlike the professions listed as 'fragile' above, where criticism and scandal can cause long-lasting and irreversible reputational damage, the artist can thrive on it.
It's easy to think of pop musicians who have profited from criticism in an antifragile fashion: Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Robbie Williams, and on and on and on. But it made me wonder, are there any examples in the classical world?
Well, yes. And the most antifragile of them all has to be this guy:
From my experience in the classical music industry, I know that Andre Rieu (pictured) is almost universally shunned. His two most common pejorative labels in the media seem to be "The Schmaltz King" and the "Liberace of the Violin" (ouch). And then there's this article in the Irish Times by critic Donald Clarke, which is simply a masterclass in vitriol (one of his more elegant jabs is that the Dutch impresario "essays a class of decaffeinated classical music that makes Richard Clayderman seem like Karlheinz Stockhausen."
Rieu's typical response to those attacks from critics is that they are "snobs", and it's interesting that he never comes across as bitter. When asked about the 'schmaltz' tag in a 2016 interview with the New York Times he remarked, "I rather see it as a compliment". Such defiance no doubt exacerbates his critics and fuels more scorn from them, which in turn gives him more publicity.
Indeed, Teleb says it's "quite perplexing" that we often benefit far more from "those who have tried to harm us" than those who have "tried to help us."
But perhaps the most antifragile thing about Rieu is how he thrived after financial ruin. In 2008 he had a marvellous time performing in front of the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, and, in what can only be described as a moment of mad hubris, decided to build a full-scale replica for his upcoming world tour, replete with "fountains, an ice rink, a ballroom full of dancers, [and] a state carriage covered in real gold." (Liberace, anyone?). When the dust settled he found himself €34 million in the red and had to declare bankruptcy.
Of course the media hyperventilated about the Schmaltz King going under, and we in the Industry, who "knew all along" he was a charlatan, laughed heartily. And how did Rieu respond when asked about this seemingly fatal error of judgement?
"But it was such good advertising that all concerts were sold out the next year, and the next year I had €20 million plus"
There you go. Not only did Rieu rebound from the adversity, he benefited from it, so he goes beyond mere robustness and sits firmly in the antifragile category. No doubt about it.
I think there's a couple of big takeaways from Taleb's concept of antifragility and the example of Rieu, regardless of what you might think of him (and I wouldn't call myself a fan).
Firstly, it's worth remembering that if you're an artist, you're uniquely placed to benefit from criticism and attacks, which definitely isn't the case for everyone. If you've been anxious about whether or not your ideas are too conservative or too outrageous for the "experts" or traditionalists, Rieu's example might help to steal your resolve.
And secondly, we're reminded that there's only a narrow margin of conformity in the classical music world (something I'll expand on in future posts). Bar the odd film or pop song arrangement, Rieu and his orchestra perform standard repertoire in a very conservative manner. Sure the frocks are a bit outrageous, but he's hardly swinging naked on top of wrecking balls. In the pop world you're expected to be subversive and edgy, which means you have to do really extreme things to raise eyebrows (like, well, swinging naked on wrecking balls). But that's demonstrably not so in the classical world. So, good news if you're an artist in that sphere: it's not too hard to be controversial!
Finally, Andre Rieu is a good example of how the artist can use volatility to its advantage. As Taleb points out, volatility forces artists to "adapt and change continuously under pressure to be fit", and it's this "continual supply of stressors" that provides valuable information about what works and what doesn't. Comfort just creates atrophy, and if you're not facing any resistance to your art, you could be in danger of becoming that "very bad thing" for an artist: boring.
So there's another reason why adversity is perhaps something to be relished rather than feared.
Thanks Andre. I, for one, salute your antifragile ways.
(but I'll never forgive you for this album cover):
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I was besieged with inquiries from all quarters in regard to the various railway enterprises with which I was connected.


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Thank you St Jude for answering my prayer that my son did well on his Optometty exam.
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This song has been in the works for a long time. We waited for it to arrive, and now it has. The video for "Selense" by BBNaija 'Shine Ya Eye' winner, Whitemoney is a must-watch for fans of an inspirational success story. It is present to everyone who voted for him and helped to make his life better.
The video begins with a clip of the final announcement at the Big Brother Naija Season 6 show. Then it switches to various .s of fans who loved, voted and prayed for him.
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