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Malabo International Airport

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Malabo International Airport
Aeropuerto de Malabo
Aeropuerto Malabo.jpg
Malabo International Airport, June 2007
SSG is located in Equatorial Guinea
Location of airport in Equatorial Guinea
Airport type Military/Public
Operator Aeropuertos De Guinea Ecuatorial (ADGE)
Serves Malabo
Location Bioko, Equatorial Guinea
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 76 ft / 23 m
Coordinates 03°45′18″N 08°42′31″E / 3.75500°N 8.70861°E / 3.75500; 8.70861
Direction Length Surface
ft m
05/23 9,647 2,940 Concrete
Statistics (2009)
Passengers 283,991
Exterior of airport; December 2007
View from runway; June 2010

Malabo Airport or Saint Isabel Airport (IATA: SSGICAO: FGSL) (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Malabo), is an airport located at Punta Europa, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. The airport is named after the capital, Malabo, approximately 9 kilometres to the east. Until the discovery of oil within the borders of Equatorial Guinea during the mid-1990s, the airport was a tin-roofed shack that only had one international flight, the government was the main user of the airport. Today it is used mainly by two opposing groups; the petroleum industry and conservationists. The airport is also used by the few aircraft belonging to the armed forces. During the Nigerian Civil War of the late 1960s, the airport was used as a base for flights into Biafra.

The old tin shack that used to greet arrivals has been replaced by a modern airport lounge. The airport now receives a comfortable amount of foreign traffic, although parts of the runway are in need of repair. Despite recent progress, Malabo airport is one of only two paved airports in Equatorial Guinea, according to the CIA world factbook's entry for the country, with the other being Bata Airport, located on mainland Africa. The hangars can accommodate large aircraft such as the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 or the C-130 Hercules. In 2001, the airport served 34,500 passengers and that number has since risen.

Airlines and destinations[edit]

Airlines Destinations
Africa's Connection STP[2] São Tomé[3]
Air France Douala, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Camair-Co Douala
Ceiba Intercontinental Airlines Abidjan, Accra, Bata, Brazzaville, Cotonou, Douala, Libreville, Lomé, Pointe-Noire
Ceiba Intercontinental Airlines operated by White Airways Madrid[4]
Cronos Airlines Bata, Cotonou, Douala, Mongomeyen, Port Harcourt
Douniah Airlines[5] Libreville
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa, Douala
Iberia Madrid
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Punto Azul Bata, São Tomé, Accra
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca

Airlines Destinations
DHL Aviation Lagos
Sky Gabon Libreville
World Airways Ostend-Bruges

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National Seven Universities

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The National Seven Universities (国立七大学 kokuritsu nana-daigaku?) is formally used to refer to seven public institutions of higher education in Japan. The term "Former Imperial Universities" (旧帝大 kyūteidai?) is commonly used for these seven universities, as they once constituted the Japanese Imperial University system, formed prior to World War II.

These universities are known for their great successes in research activities, in particular natural sciences and engineering, and hence the entrance examination is extremely competitive.

Most of research grants given by the Japanese government are taken by them.

The term is also used to refer to the annual athletic competition among these seven schools. The athletic competition started under the sponsorship of Hokkaido University, formerly known as Seven National Universities Athletic Competition (全国七大学総合体育大会 zenkoku nana-daigaku sōgō taiiku-taikai ?) in 1962. The Japanese name of the athletic competition was later recoined as 国立七大学総合体育大会 (kokuritsu nana-daigaku sōgō taiiku-taikai) in 2002. The competition is commonly called Imperial Competition of Seven Universities (七帝戦 shichi-tei sen?)

In a wider sense, the term is used to refer to the social group once strongly associated with these seven schools, including Gakushikai, the alumni clubs.

Institution Location Full-time enrollment Founded Chartered
Hokkaido University Sapporo, Hokkaidō 11,153 1876 as Sapporo Agricultural College, 1918 as Hokkaido Imperial University
Kyoto University Kyoto, Kyoto 13,064 1897 as Kyoto Imperial University
Kyushu University Fukuoka, Fukuoka 11,689 1911 as Kyushu Imperial University
Nagoya University Nagoya, Aichi 9,818 1939 as Nagoya Imperial University
Osaka University Suita, Osaka 12,229 1931 as Osaka Imperial University
Tohoku University Sendai, Miyagi 10,692 1907 as Tohoku Imperial University
University of Tokyo Bunkyō, Tokyo 14,711 1877 as Imperial University

The total number of full-time enrollment of all seven universities amounts to 83,356.

Nine Imperial Universities (帝國大學 teikoku daigaku?) were founded by the Empire of Japan between 1877 and 1939, seven in Japan, one in Korea and one in Taiwan. They were run by the imperial government until the end of World War II. The seven Japanese universities are collectively known as the National Seven Universities (國立七大學, kokuritsu nana-daigaku). The universities are:

  1. ^ Changed its name to Kyongsong University after World War II, and dissolved on August 22, 1946, by U.S. Military Ordinance No. 102.
  2. ^ The Chinese (Kuomintang) government took control of the university and renamed it.

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North American Debating Championship

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The North American Debating Championship is the official university debate championship of North America, sanctioned by the national university debating associations in the United States and Canada, the American Parliamentary Debate Association and the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate. It has been held on an alternating basis between the United States and Canada since 1992. The host university arranges all judging and is not allowed in the competition. The most frequent hosts have been the University of Toronto and McGill University, which have each hosted the championship three times. Bates College, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and Queen's University have each hosted twice.

Since 1992, the most successful university overall has been the University of Toronto, with six championship victories. It is followed by Yale University, with four victories. After that, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and McGill University have two championships each, and no other university has won more than once.

No team has ever repeated as the top team at the championship. Three individuals have won the top team award twice: Matthew Wansley of Yale University won back-to-back championships from 2005-2007. Prior to that, Nathan MacDonald and Robert Silver won first together for the University of Western Ontario in 1997-1998, then MacDonald for the University of Guelph in 1998-1999, and Silver for the University of Ottawa in 1999-2000. Three people have won the top individual debater award twice: Casey Halladay of the University of Ottawa in 1997-1998 and 1999-2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004-2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010-2012.

Year Host Top Team College Top Debater College
2014 Canada Ottawa & Carleton Kaya Ellis & Louis Tsilivis Canada Toronto Michael Barton United States Yale
2013 United States Syracuse Coulter King & Josh Zoffer United States Harvard Coulter King United States Harvard
2012 Canada Toronto Simon Cameron & Romeo Maione Canada Carleton Kate Falkenstien United States Yale
2011 United States Fordham Nate Blevins & Pam Brown United States Yale[1] Kate Falkenstien United States Yale
2010 Canada York Adam Goldstein & Bill Magnuson United States MIT[2][3] Richard Lizius Canada Toronto
2009 United States Amherst Grant May & Andrew Rohrbach United States Yale Mark Samburg United States Harvard
2008 Canada Carleton Jon Laxer & Jason Rogers Canada Toronto Josh Bone United States Yale
2007 United States Bates Dylan Gadek & Matthew Wansley United States Yale Ian Freeman Canada Carleton
2006 Canada Toronto Ben Eidelson & Matthew Wansley United States Yale Rory Gillis United States Yale
2005 United States Cornell Joanna Nairn & Melanie Tharamangalam Canada Toronto[4] Rory Gillis United States Yale
2004 Canada Queen's James Renihan & Gordon Shotwell Canada McGill Greg Allen Canada UBC
2003 United States Hopkins Phil Larochelle & Patrick Nichols United States MIT [5] Emily Schleicher United States NYU
2002 Canada McGill Rory McKeown & Aaron Rousseau Canada Toronto[6] Ranjan Agarwal[7][8] Canada Ottawa
2001 United States Cornell Storey Clayton & Adam Zirkin United States Brandeis David Silverman United States Princeton
2000 Canada Queen's Casey Halladay & Robert Silver Canada Ottawa Casey Halladay[8] Canada Ottawa
1999 United States Smith Nathan MacDonald & Averill Pessin Canada Guelph Jason Goldman United States Princeton
1998 Canada McGill Nathan MacDonald & Robert Silver Canada Western Casey Halladay[8] Canada Ottawa
1997 United States Hopkins John Oleske & Niall O'Murchada United States Princeton John Oleske United States Princeton
1996 Canada Toronto Matt Cohen & Jamie Springer Canada McGill Ron Guirguis Canada Guelph
1995 United States Penn Jeremy Mallory & Neal Potishman United States Swarthmore Michael D'Abramo Canada Toronto
1994 Canada Dalhousie Randy Cass & Avery Plaw Canada Toronto Avery Plaw Canada Toronto
1993 United States Bates Jason Brent & Thomas Meehan Canada Toronto Marc Givens Canada Queen's
1992 Canada McGill Marc Givens & Elicia Maine Canada Queen's Ted Cruz United States Princeton

North American Public Speaking Championship[edit]

Every year from 1992-2001, and biannually from 2003-2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event at US tournaments. No individual ever repeated as North American Public Speaking Champion. McGill University and the University of Ottawa each had three public speaking champions, the most of any university.

Year Winner College
2007 Vinay Kumar Mysore Canada McGill University
2005 Jason Rogers Canada McGill University
2003 Stuart Savelkoul[9][10] United States Dickinson State University
2001 Aidan Johnson Canada University of Toronto
2000 Jeremy Holiday United States Middlebury College
1999 Mark Bigney Canada McGill University
1998 Michael Podgorski Canada Queen's University
1997 Jordan Mills United States University of New Mexico
1996 Shuman Ghosemajumder Canada University of Western Ontario
1995 Marika Giles Canada Concordia University
1994 Jake Irving Canada University of Ottawa
1993 Michael McKneely United States Colgate University
1992 Awanish Sinha Canada University of Ottawa

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Ocean Beach, New York

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Ocean Beach
Incorporated Village of Ocean Beach
Location of Ocean Beach
Ocean Beach is located in New York
Ocean Beach
Ocean Beach
Location within the state of New York
Ocean Beach is located in Fire Island
Ocean Beach
Ocean Beach
Location on Fire Island
Coordinates: 40°38′52″N 73°9′28″W / 40.64778°N 73.15778°W / 40.64778; -73.15778Coordinates: 40°38′52″N 73°9′28″W / 40.64778°N 73.15778°W / 40.64778; -73.15778
Country United States
State New York
County Suffolk
 • Total 0.2 sq mi (0.4 km2)
 • Land 0.2 sq mi (0.4 km2)
 • Water 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Elevation 3 ft (1 m)
Population (2010)
 • Total 79
 • Density 510/sq mi (200/km2)
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP code 11770
Area code(s) 631 Exchange: 583
FIPS code 36-54430
GNIS feature ID 0959211
Website villageofoceanbeach.org

Ocean Beach is a village in the southern part of the Town of Islip, on Fire Island, within Suffolk County, New York, United States.

The Incorporated Village of Ocean Beach is a popular tourist location, due to its popular nightlife and variety of stores and restaurants. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 79.[1]

Ocean Beach was incorporated as a village in 1921. It was the location of Fire Island's first elementary school, which opened in 1918. The community was once popular with celebrities such as Fanny Brice, Carl Reiner, and Mel Brooks.[2]

The American actor Brett King was born there in 1920.[3]

There are four ways to get to the community (and the island in general). Travel by car (restricted), ride the Fire Island Ferries, take a water taxi, or arrive by private boat. It is also possible to reach Ocean Beach by foot or bicycle from other Fire Island communities, by one of the inland walks or on the beach.

As of the census[4] of 2000, there were 138 people, 61 households, and 35 families residing in the village. The population density was 967.1 people per square mile (380.6/km²). There were 595 housing units at an average density of 4,169.6 per square mile (1,640.9/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 96.38% White and 1.45% Asian. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.17% of the population.

There were 61 households out of which 29.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.9% were married couples living together, 8.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.6% were non-families. 29.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.26 and the average family size was 2.91.

In the village the population was spread out with 21.7% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 32.6% from 25 to 44, 31.2% from 45 to 64, and 9.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 126.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 120.4 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $48,125, and the median income for a family was $49,375. Males had a median income of $41,719 versus $28,750 for females. The per capita income for the village was $28,782. There were 15.2% of families and 11.5% of the population living below the poverty line, including 21.6% of under eighteens and none of those over 64.

  1. ^ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Ocean Beach village, New York". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
  2. ^ Koppelman, Lee; Forman, Seth (2008). The Fire Island National Seashore. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. p. 10. ISBN 0-7914-7342-2. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
  3. ^ "Brett King". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
  4. ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.

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PLEX (programming language)

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Paradigm(s) procedural, imperative
Developer Göran Hemdahl
Appeared in 1970s
Dialects Plex-C, Plex-M
OS Ericsson APZ
License Proprietary

PLEX (Programming Language for EXchanges) is a special-purpose, pseudo-parallel and event-driven real-time programming language. Dedicated for AXE telephone exchanges, it was developed by Göran Hemdahl at Ericsson.[1] Originally designed in the 1970s, it has been continuously evolving since then.[2] The language has two variants: Plex-C used for the AXE Central Processor (CP) and Plex-M used for Extension Module Regional Processors (EMRP).[3]

Several precompilers or code generators exist, to produce source code in Plex-C from higher level languages or graphical models[citation needed]. These can generate Plex-C from:

Source code in Plex-C is compiled into the assembly language ASA210C. The binary form of ASA210C is either interpreted by a combination of hardware and microcode, or is compiled by a Just-In-Time compiler into native machine code for a high-capacity microprocessor.

Code execution is triggered by specific events, encoded as signals.[3]

See also[edit]

  1. ^ Joe Armstrong. "A History of Erlang". Ericsson AB. Retrieved 2009-03-07.
  2. ^ Johan Erikson and Björn Lisper. "A Formal Semantics for PLEX". Mälardalen University. Retrieved 2009-03-07.
  3. ^ a b Johan Erikson and Bo Lindell. "The Execution Model of APZ/PLEX - An Informal Description". Mälardalen University. Retrieved 2009-03-07.


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Painters Painting

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Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 is a 1972 documentary directed by Emile de Antonio. It covers American art movements from abstract expressionism to pop art through conversations with artists in their studios. Artists appearing in the film include Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofmann, Jules Olitski, Philip Pavia, Larry Poons, Robert Motherwell, and Kenneth Noland.

Further reading[edit]

  • Emile de Antonio and Mitch Tuchman. Painters Painting: A Candid History of the Modern Art Scene, 1940-1970. Abbeville Press, 1984. (ISBN 0-89659-418-1) Compilation based on transcripts of interviews from the film.

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Paul Cloke

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Paul J. Cloke is a Welsh author and professor of geography. He is known as the founding editor of the international and multidisciplinary academic Journal of Rural Studies, published by Elsevier Science.[1] As of 2012, he is a faculty member of the Department of Geography at the University of Exeter.[2]

Educational background[edit]

Cloke attended the University of Southampton, graduating with a Bachelors degree in geography. He went on to Wye College (University of London), where he earned his Ph.D, followed by a transfer to the University of Bristol, where he earned his Doctor of Science. His academic area of expertise focuses on human geography.[2][3]

Professional background[edit]

Following his graduation from Bristol, Cloke joined the staff of St David's University College, Lampeter (University of Wales). While at Lampeter, he was part of the Lampeter Geography School. He has also served as a professor of geography at the University of Bristol. As of 2012, he is a staff member with the University of Exeter and Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is known as the founding editor of the Journal of Rural Studies, published by Elsevier.[2]

Honors and awards[edit]

Published works[edit]

  1. ^ Oakes, Tim; and Price, Patricia Lynn. The Cultural Geography Reader, Taylor & Francis, page 233, 2008. ISBN 978-0415418737
  2. ^ a b c "Staff profiles - Geography - University of Exeter". Retrieved 2012-06-22.
  3. ^ "QMUL > Department of Geography > Homeless Research > Homeless Places Project > Project team". Retrieved 2012-06-22.
  4. ^ "Academy of Social Sciences". Retrieved 2012-06-22.
  5. ^ "Royal Society elects 10 scientists to prestigious science academy". 2005-11-16. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
  6. ^ "Elections to the Fellowship 2009: Professor Paul Cloke". Retrieved 2013-04-20.


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{{Infobox prepared food | name = Pogača | image = Poğaça bread.jpg | caption = | alternate_name = | country = Balkans, Greece, Hungary, Turkey | region = | creator = | course = | type = Bread | served = | main_ingredient = White flour or whole-wheat flour, usually yeast, Egg, Butter | variations = Karaköy | calories = 196kcal per 45 gr [1] | other =

The Pogača or Pogacha (Hungarian: Pogácsa, Greek: Μπουγάτσα, Cyrillic: погача, Turkish: poğaça) is a type of Balkan, Hungarian and Turkish bread traditionally baked in the ashes of the fireplace, and later on in the oven, similar to focaccia, with which it shares the name (through Byzantine Greek: Πογάτσα). It can be leavened or unleavened, but only experienced cooks can make good quality unleavened pogača, while the pastry with yeast is easier to make. It can also be made from white flour, whole-wheat flour, and a mix of two thirds to three quarters of wheat flour and the rest either barley, or (less frequently) rye. It can have potatoes or cheese inside and it also have some grains and herbs like sesame, black sesame, dried dill mixtured with its flour.

Traditional Bulgarian Pogacha

The word derives ultimately from the Latin panis focacius, i.e. bread (panis) baked on the hearth or fireplace (focus), via the Italian focaccia.

It also called as pogačice (diminutive form), is a type of puff pastry eaten in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Hungary (see pogácsa) and Turkey (where it is called poğaça) with variations like karaköy and kumru. It is called pogatschen in Austria, "pagáče" in Slovakia.

The pastry[edit]

Serbian Pogaca

Every place makes its own version, or more than one variety, and so they come in all different textures and flavors across the country. Some pogača are only one inch around and one inch high; others are much larger. Some have a crumbly scone-like consistency inside, while others are more tender like a fresh dinner roll or croissant. More specifically, in Hungary this snack food or meal item is typically 3 to 10 cm in diameter, though they range in size from the smaller, crispier scones-like "buttons" through to the larger fluffier versions. One Debrecen variety is a foot in diameter, probably the world's largest biscuit that is commonly made. They are traditionally eaten alone as a snack or, especially bigger ones, with a stew such as goulash.

Home made Hungarian Pogácsa

Pogácsa in Hungary are made from either short dough or yeast dough. As with scones and biscuits, eggs and butter are common ingredients, as is milk, cream or sour cream. Many traditional versions exists, with size, shape—the most common is round—and flavor variations in each region/city of Hungary.[2]

A dozen different ingredients can be found either in the dough, sprinkled on top before baking, or both: medium-firm fresh cheeses, aged dry hard cheese(s), pork crackling (tepertő), cabbage, black pepper, hot or sweet paprika, garlic, red onion, caraway seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds or poppy seeds.

Pogača is sometimes served hot as an appetizer and/or bread. Hot pogača filled with sour cream (or curd and feta cheese in Turkey and Bulgaria) is considered a particularly delicious specialty.

See also[edit]

  1. ^ Poğaça Kaç Kalori | Besin Değeri | Diyet & Egzersiz | Diyetkolik
  2. ^ Hungarian cuisine, József Venesz ISBN 963-13-0219-9: Corvina Press 1977

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Putative marriage

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A putative marriage is an apparently valid marriage, entered into in good faith on the part of at least one of the partners, but that is legally invalid due to a technical impediment, such as a preexistent marriage on the part of one of the partners. Unlike someone in a common-law, statutory, or ceremonial marriage, a putative spouse is not legally married. Instead, a putative spouse believes himself or herself to be married in good faith and is given legal rights as a result of this person's reliance upon this good-faith belief.

Putative marriages exist in both Catholic canon law and in various civil laws, though the rules may vary. In some jurisdictions, putative marriages are a matter of case law rather than legislation. In many jurisdictions, under civil law, the marriage becomes valid if the impediment is removed. If it is not removed, the innocent spouse, at least, is often entitled to the protections of a divorce for division of property and child custody.

Catholic canon law[edit]

In Catholic canon law, there are a number of requirements for a valid Catholic marriage. However, a Catholic marriage is considered valid unless and until it is proved otherwise.[1] In consequence, children born as a result of a marriage which is found to be void are considered legitimate, and the spouses cannot marry others without first obtaining an annulment by proving its invalidity. If the invalidity is proven, an annulment can be granted.

If the impediment is removed, or a dispensation granted, and if consent perdures, the marriage can be convalidated.

Putative marriage in the United States[edit]

Many U.S. states have a concept of a putative spouse.

A number of states followed the example of the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act (also sometimes called the Model Marriage and Divorce Act) to establish the concept of a "Putative Spouse" by statute. The concept has been codified in California, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota and Montana.[2] Case law provides for putative spouse rights in Nebraska, Washington state, Nevada,[2] Texas [3] and Louisiana. Colorado and Montana are the only U.S. states to have both common law marriage and to formally recognize putative spouse status. Putative spouse concepts, called "deemed marriages" are also recognized under the Social Security program in the United States.[4]

In Colorado, which is typical, "Any person who has cohabited with another person to whom he is not legally marriaged in the good faith belief that he was married to that person is a putative spouse until knowledge of the fact that he is not legally married terminates his status and prevents acquisition of further rights." Section 14-2-111, Colorado Revised Statutes.

Putative spouse status is a remedial doctrine designed to protect the reasonable expectations of someone who acts on the belief that they are married, and generally entitled a putative spouse to the rights a legal spouse would have for the period from the putative marriage until discovery that the marriage was not legal. It is possible that a person could have both a legal spouse and someone is a putative spouse, as when a person remarries, not realizing that the divorce decree had not been made final for his original marriage; in which case, courts are directed to do what seems appropriate in the circumstances.

Unlike a common law marriage, which is possible only when both spouses are legally eligible to marry, putative spouse status can be unilateral. For example, if a husband is married, but goes through a marriage ceremony without informing the woman with whom he goes through with the ceremony of that fact, the husband is not a putative spouse, because he knows that he has no legal ability to marry. The wife however is a putative spouse because she in good faith believes that she is legally married, and has no knowledge that she is not legally married.[5]

In the example above, the putative wife who believed she was married could seek the property division and alimony awards that a legal spouse could have, when the putative spouse discovers that she is not legally married, but her husband could not seek a property division in the putative wife's name or alimony from her, because he knew that their marriage was not legal.

If, on the other hand, the husband had had reliable but incorrect information that his first wife was dead, both the husband and the wife would have the status of putative spouse.

See also[edit]

  1. ^ Canon 1060.
  2. ^ a b Nevadalawjournal.org
  3. ^ Davis v. Davis, 521 S.W.2d 603 (Tex. 1975)
  4. ^ Cornell.edu
  5. ^ See, e.g. Carndell v. Resley, 804 P.2d 272 (Colo. App. 1990) and Williams v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co., 670 P.2d 453 (Colo. App. 1983).

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Quilty, County Clare

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Quilty Church
Quilty Church
Quilty is located in Ireland
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°48′58″N 9°27′20″W / 52.8162°N 9.4555°W / 52.8162; -9.4555Coordinates: 52°48′58″N 9°27′20″W / 52.8162°N 9.4555°W / 52.8162; -9.4555
Country Ireland
Province Munster
County County Clare
Elevation 17 m (56 ft)
Population (2006)[1]
 • Total 194
Irish Grid Reference R016751
Website www.clarelibrary.ie
Clare County Library

Quilty (Irish: Coillte, meaning "woods"), historically Killty,[2] is a small fishing village between Milltown Malbay and Doonbeg in County Clare, Ireland. Lobster, salmon, bass, herring and mackerel are landed at Quilty, formerly known for its curing industry.

The name is thought to come from coillte, meaning woods.

The Catholic Church is the most prominent building, its round tower being visible for miles around the flat countryside. It was built in remembrance of the Leon XIII rescue.

Leon XIII[edit]

On 2 October 1907 a French three-masted barque, the Leon XIII, was driven up on some of the very rocky reefs on Quilty Bay. All seemed lost for the ship and crew. The local fishermen however went out to sea in their currachs – risking the equinoctial gales and Atlantic breakers in small open boats. They reached the wreck and somehow managed to save the crew and bring them safely ashore.[3]

The church porch contains a replica of the Leon XIII in a glass bottle, and the ship's bell stands in front of the altar.

Mutton Island[edit]

Across the bay from Quilty is Mutton Island. St Senan founded a church here in the early 6th century but by 1887 little remained except the Bed of St. Senan, a shattered cross and a gable of his oratory. A signal tower built in the early 19th century was designed to give warning of invasion during the Napoleonic period but was also used by the coastguard to prevent smuggling. In the early 20th century Mutton Island was used as a prison; during certain tidal conditions, it is possible to walk along a path of limestone from Seafield (near Quilty) to Mutton Island.

Tromoroe Castle[edit]

Tromoroe Castle lies about 3 km from the village. It witnessed a number of battles in the 16th century, the most notable when Teigh Caech McMahon with the help of the Earl of Desmond stormed the castle on the 17th February 1599. The next attack was by O'Flaherty from Connacht on 1 May 1642, when Peter Ward, his wife and heir were slain.

Notable people[edit]

See also[edit]

  1. ^ "Census 2006 – Volume 1 – Population Classified by Area" (PDF). Central Statistics Office Census 2006 Reports. Central Statistics Office Ireland. April 2007. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
  2. ^ Placenames Database of Ireland (see archival records)
  3. ^ O Rourke, Mick (2008). "Leon XIII (+1907)". Oostende, Belgium: The Wrecksite. Retrieved 14 May 2011.

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Rampart, Alaska

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Dleł Taaneets
Location of Rampart, Alaska
Location of Rampart, Alaska
Coordinates: 65°30′26″N 150°8′55″W / 65.50722°N 150.14861°W / 65.50722; -150.14861Coordinates: 65°30′26″N 150°8′55″W / 65.50722°N 150.14861°W / 65.50722; -150.14861
Country United States
State Alaska
Census Area Yukon-Koyukuk
 • Total 168.8 sq mi (437.2 km2)
 • Land 168.8 sq mi (437.2 km2)
 • Water 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Population (2010)
 • Total 24
 • Density 0.14/sq mi (0.055/km2)
Time zone Alaska (AKST) (UTC-9)
 • Summer (DST) AKDT (UTC-8)
ZIP code 99767
Area code 907
FIPS code 02-64820

Rampart (Dleł Taaneets[pronunciation?] in Koyukon) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 24 at the 2010 census.

Cabin in Rampart, owned by novelist Rex Beach.

Novelist Rex Beach moved to Rampart during the Klondike Gold Rush; although his prospecting efforts were of little success, the experience led to the publication of The Spoilers, one of three novels written by Beach that made it to Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1900s. Film adaptations of The Spoilers were released in 1914, 1923, 1930, 1942, and 1955.

In the 1950s, a large hydroelectric project called the Rampart Dam was considered for the Yukon River near the village. Had the project been completed, it would have created the largest man-made reservoir in the world. Owing to popular protest, however, the project was never begun.

Rampart is located at 65°30′26″N 150°8′55″W / 65.50722°N 150.14861°W / 65.50722; -150.14861 (65.507350, -150.148496)[1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 168.8 square miles (437 km2), all of it land. Minook Creek is just east of Rampart. Baker Creek is to the south.

As of the census[2] of 2000,[dated info] there were 45 people, 20 households, and 10 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 0.3 people per square mile (0.1/km²). There were 46 housing units at an average density of 0.3/sq mi (0.1/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 88.89% Native American, 6.67% White, 2.22% from other races, and 2.22% from two or more races.

There were 20 households out of which 40.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 30.0% were married couples living together, 20.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 50.0% were non-families. 35.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.25 and the average family size was 2.90.

In the CDP the age distribution of the population shows 28.9% under the age of 18, 4.4% from 18 to 24, 37.8% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 8.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 114.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 113.3 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $22,813, and the median income for a family was $23,438. Males had a median income of $53,750 versus $21,250 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $12,438. There were 18.2% of families and 17.9% of the population living below the poverty line, including 18.2% of under eighteens and none of those over 64.

  1. ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
  2. ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.


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Kids Against Hunger

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Kids Against Hunger is a nonprofit organization with the mission to significantly reduce the number of hungry children in the USA and to feed starving children throughout the world.[1] This is being achieved by getting volunteers involved, and by setting up food packaging satellites in the USA, and through partnerships with humanitarian organizations worldwide[2][3] - enabling Kids Against Hunger to deliver its specially formulated rice-soy casserole to starving children and their families in over 60 countries.[4] The Kids Against Hunger network currently includes about 100 food packaging centers with the goal to establish 500 packaging centers in all 50 U.S. states.[5]

Kids Against Hunger was started in March 1999 by Richard Proudfit, a Minnesota businessman,[6] under the name Feeding Children International. He eventually set up a program under this organization called “Kids Against Hunger”.[7] This name is now used to identify the company.

Since its start in 1999, Kids Against Hunger has provided a total of 162 million meals to children and families in need in 65 countries.[8]

The organization is also actively involved in the hunger relief efforts following the recent earthquake in Haiti by providing millions of meals to the victims.[9] [10] [11]

Kids Against Hunger's meals have been formulated by food scientists to provide a rich source of easily digestible protein, carbohydrates, and vitamins needed by a malnourished child's body and mind. The food also accommodates to the broad diversity of ethnic tastes and religious differences around the world. In 2012, Proudfit received the Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged due to his work with the organization, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.[12]

Kids Against Hunger's meals offer all nine of the essential amino acids required for complete nutrition — something that can't be said about other typical food relief sources such as rice or beans alone.[13]

The vitamin formula is a proprietary formula and is the "secret sauce" that goes into the food. It includes 21 vitamins and minerals, and each bag of our food contains six servings of the dehydrated food which when boiled will feed six children. According to the food scientists developing the food, it supplies the optimum amount of nutrition for a malnourished child. It provides not just a meal, but better health to starving children. Additionally, the bags are specifically made from moisture-proof and odor-proof material to prevent spoilage and insect or rodent problems. The food bags are also three-ply for strength. Kids Against Hunger's life-saving meals have a shelf life of at least three years.[14]

Each Kids Against Hunger food packaging satellite is able to choose where its packaged food will be distributed. The International Headquarters office recommends that approximately two thirds of the meals be shipped internationally, and that the remaining third be distributed locally, but allocation varies based on each satellite’s location and global/local need. Some satellites focus almost exclusively on shipments to a particular country – while others put a higher emphasis on helping those in need within the local community where the food is being packaged.[15]

Feeding Partners:

Kids Against Hunger does not usually ship the meals packaged by volunteers directly to foreign countries. Instead, the organization relies on the expertise of trustworthy feeding partners whom it has long-standing relationships with and can count on for getting the food safely to its destination.

Kids Against Hunger works closely with its distribution partners - churches and other nonprofit organizations, and U.S. government agencies operating in foreign countries - to manage the distribution of its meals and seeks out organizations that have a proven track record of successfully getting the food to the children, distributing it properly, and being able to handle the responsibilities of a feeding program – all while keeping the food out of the hands of corrupt government officials and criminals. The organization requires its feeding partners to document how they distribute the food and to provide it with testimonials and pictures of the children who receive the meals whenever possible.[16]

While Kids Against Hunger’s main objective is to provide meals for starving children,[17] the organization believes it is also essential to involve the local community where the meals are packaged. Whether we like it or not, we live in a culture of instant gratification. Through its volunteer-driven effort, Kids Against Hunger is able to mobilize the energy of Americans of all ages on behalf of starving children worldwide, and to satisfy their desire to be a part of something meaningful, something larger than themselves.

When volunteering at one of Kids Against Hunger’s many locations, children learn about world hunger, to look beyond themselves, and that it is possible to accomplish seemingly overwhelming tasks if they are willing to work together. At the same time, these “leaders of tomorrow” discover the importance of service and how everyone can be involved in some way helping others. This enforces in a very tangible way Kids Against Hunger’s motto: "When you feed a child, you feed our future".[18]

Kids Against Hunger currently has 100 Locations in 27 U.S. States and two in Canada.[19] Increasing the number of Kids Against Hunger meals depends upon increasing the number of "satellite" packaging locations. Each Kids Against Hunger satellite is an independent nonprofit organization licensed through the Headquarters office in New Hope, MN, to use the Kids Against Hunger name, meal formula, and food packaging process. The actual food packaging is done by volunteers, and each Satellite Director determines where the meals his/her team packages are distributed - with a portion donated to local food shelves and the remainder sent overseas.[20]

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Sanctuary (short film)

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Directed by Michela Ledwidge
Running time approx. 10 min.
Country United Kingdom, Australia
Language English

Sanctuary, is a re-mixable science fiction film which, in 2005, became the first production to sign professional union actors to Creative Commons licensing terms. It is set in Head Bin, a fiction universe created by MOD Films for their remixable movie experiment.

The film was completed in 2009. Most production assets, including principal photography shot on 35mm film and digitised, have been cleared for free-for-non-commercial use. The project is a superhero origin story, as well as a pilot for a massively multi-player feature film and an open interactive story format, the RIG, being developed by MOD Films in London.

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Southland District

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Southland District
Land area 30,400.94 km² (11,737.87 sq mi)
Population 29,800 (June 2013 estimate)[1]
Seat of District Council Invercargill*
*not part of Southland District

Southland District is a territorial authority in the South Island of New Zealand. Southland District covers the majority of the land area of Southland Region, although the region also covers Gore District, Invercargill City and adjacent territorial waters. It has a land area of 30,400.94 km2, excluding inland waters such as Lake Te Anau, Lake Manapouri, and Lake Hauroko.

Southland District contains the towns of Winton, Riverton, Lumsden and Te Anau, and the islands south of Foveaux Strait:

The seat of the District Council is Invercargill, which, however, is not part of Southland District, but a territorial authority in its own right.

Two of New Zealand's largest national parks are within the boundaries of Southland District: Fiordland National Park, and Rakiura National Park (which covers most of Stewart Island/Rakiura).

The current district mayor is Gary Tong. He has held this position since 2013.

Made up of twelve elected members, from ward areas, and is elected every three years.

Sister cities[edit]

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Coordinates: 45°38′00″S 167°55′00″E / 45.6333333333°S 167.916666667°E / -45.6333333333; 167.916666667


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Sudanese kinship

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Main article: Kinship and descent

Sudanese kinship (also referred to as the Descriptive system) is a kinship system used to define family. Identified by Lewis Henry Morgan in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family, the Sudanese system is one of the six major kinship systems (Eskimo, Hawaiian, Iroquois, Crow, Omaha and Sudanese).[citation needed]

The Sudanese kinship system is the most complicated of all kinship systems. It maintains a separate designation for almost each one of Ego's kin, based on their distance from Ego, their relation, and their gender. Ego's Father is distinguished from Ego's father's brother and from Ego's mother's brother. Ego's Mother is similarly distinguished from Ego's sister and from Ego's father's sister. For cousins, there are eight possible terms.

The system is named for the peoples of South Sudan, Africa. The Sudanese kinship system also existed in ancient Latin-speaking [1] and Anglo-Saxon [2] cultures. It exists today among present day-Arab and Turkish [3] cultures. It tends to co-occur with patrilineal descent, and it is often said to be common in complex and stratified cultures.[4]

Balkan kinships such as Bulgarian, Serbian, Montenegrin and Bosniak follow this system for different patrilinear and matrilinear uncles but collapse mother's sister and father's sister into the same term of "aunt" and Croatian and Macedonian further collapse the offspring of the uncles into one term.

On the opposite side, Chinese system often makes a distinction between older and younger sibling of the parent (it is impossible to just say e.g. "father's brother", it is either "father's older brother" or "father's younger brother"), as well as of the subject. This applies to both uncles and aunts, both patrilinear and matrilinear.

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  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ [2]
  3. ^ "Turkish Kinship Terms", University of Manitoba
  4. ^ "Nature of Kinship", University of Palomar


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Theodore Paul Wright

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Theodore Paul Wright (May 25, 1895 – August 21, 1970) was a U.S. aeronautical engineer and educator.

He was born in Galesburg, Illinois on May 25, 1895. His brothers were the geneticist Sewall Wright, and the political scientist Quincy Wright.

He served as administrator of the Civil Aeronautics Administration during 1944 - 1948.[1]

He served as acting president of Cornell University in 1951.

He died on August 21, 1970.

See also[edit]

  1. ^ Wilson,John R. M.. Turbulence Aloft. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Transportation, 1979.

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Tidewater Community College

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Tidewater Community College
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Motto From here, go anywhere
Established 1968
Type Public University, Community College
Endowment $3.8 million[1]
President Edna V. Baehre-Kolovani
Undergraduates 44,393
Location Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
Campus Urban, Suburban
Colors Blue, White          [2]
Athletics NJCAA
3 varsity teams
Nickname TCC
Mascot Storm
Website TCC.edu

Tidewater Community College, also known as "TCC," is a two-year higher education institution in South Hampton Roads with campuses in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award the associate degree; among two-year institutions in the U.S., it is the 19th largest associate degree producer.

TCC is the largest provider of higher education and workforce development services in southeastern Virginia, enrolling nearly 47,000 students annually—the second largest undergraduate student body in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The 11th largest public two-year community college in the entire nation, TCC is among the 50 fastest-growing large two-year institutions. During the 2011-12 academic year, 51 percent of South Hampton Roads residents who enrolled in higher education did so at TCC. The school offers a variety of vocational and transfer-oriented degrees and certificates for prospective students, including a nursing school and culinary arts degrees. The school also offers several career programs in marine trades and logistics.[3] It is the second-largest community college in the Virginia Community College System and the 37th largest in the United States.

The school was founded in 1968, when a local philanthropist, Fred W. Beazley, closed the existing Frederick College and deeded the land to the Commonwealth of Virginia for the creation of Tidewater Community College. With the support of Hampton Roads' municipalities, TCC quickly expanded to Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, and in the 1990s, it helped revitalize downtown Norfolk by establishing a campus in former department store buildings. In 2010, the Portsmouth campus relocated to a new site within the city.

Edna V. Baehre-Kolovani took office as the college's fifth president in July 2012.[4] She succeeded Deborah M. DiCroce, who had served for 14 years.

Tidewater Community College's mascot is Storm,[5] and the school colors are royal blue and white.

Tidewater Community College has four campuses:

  • Fred W. Beazley Portsmouth Campus, which opened in 2010 and has four buildings
    • Student Center
  • Norfolk Campus, which opened in 1997 and has five buildings
    • Andrews
    • Martin
    • Walker
    • Roper
    • Student Center
  • Chesapeake Campus, which opened in 1973
    • Academic Building
    • Student Center (opening Spring 2014)
  • Virginia Beach Campus, which opened in 1973 and has 11 buildings including
    • The Advanced Technology Center in partnership with the City of Virginia Beach and Virginia Beach City Public Schools
    • Joint-Use Library in partnership with City of Virginia Beach [6]
    • Student Center

Tidewater Community College also has several centers:

  • Regional Workforce Development Center, on the site of the original Frederick campus in North Suffolk
  • The Jeanne & George Roper Performing Arts Center, located in downtown Norfolk
  • The Center for Military & Veterans Education, including a Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) office, located on the Virginia Beach campus
  • Regional Health Professions Center, located on the Virginia Beach campus
  • Visual Arts Center, located in downtown Portsmouth
  • Regional Automotive Center, located in Chesapeake

In addition, the Joseph N. Green Jr. District Administration Building houses TCC's administrative offices in downtown Norfolk. Classes are also offered at the Old Dominion University Tri-Cities Center.

Literary Festival and Journal[edit]

Tidewater Community College publishes an annual literary journal called the Channel Marker. Submissions are accepted in the fall semester and the publication is released in the spring (usually April) in conjunction with TCC's Annual Literary Festival.[7]

Let's Grow: The 2013 Jobs Summit[edit]

Tidewater Community College hosted its first jobs summit on August 6, 2013. One of the signature events during TCC’s 45th anniversary, the event brought together local CEOs, industry leaders and the major candidates for governor of Virginia for discussion on two questions: Where will jobs come from in the next five years, and how should the workforce be prepared? Virginia’s gubernatorial candidates, Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe, used the opportunity to outline their jobs platforms for the Commonwealth.[8]

  1. ^ As of June 30, 2009. "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2009 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2008 to FY 2009" (PDF). 2009 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments. National Association of College and University Business Officers. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
  2. ^ "Usage Guidelines". TCC Visual Identity Standards. Retrieved 2013-01-09.
  3. ^ Marine Career Programs
  4. ^ "New president named at TCC". WAVY News 10. April 16, 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  5. ^ "Artwork Standards". TCC Visual Identity Standards. Tidewater Community College. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  6. ^ "TCC Libraries". Joint-Use Library. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  7. ^ Channel Marker homepage
  8. ^ Council, Jared (July 5, 2013). "Business leaders, governor hopefuls to discuss jobs at TCC summit". The Virginian-Pilot. Retrieved 9 January 2014.

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Tom Cousins

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Thomas Grady Cousins (born December 1931) is a prominent real estate developer, sports supporter and philanthropist, primarily based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Commercial career[edit]

Cousins graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in 1952 from the Terry College of Business at The University of Georgia in Athens. He and his father started their real-estate company in 1958. During the 1960s, Tom Cousins moved from real-estate to property development and sports franchising.[1]

He developed buildings such as the CNN Center, the Omni Coliseum, 191 Peachtree Tower, the Pinnacle Building in Buckhead and the first phase of the Georgia World Congress Center.[2] He and competitor John Portman completely remade downtown Atlanta in the 1970s and 1980s.

He also helped revive and redesign the home course of golfing great Bobby Jones, East Lake Golf Club, which had fallen into disrepair. He hired Rees Jones (no relation to Bobby) to redesign the golf course, which has since hosted the PGA Tour's season ending Tour Championship several times, and become one of the leading golf courses in Atlanta. Cousins and his family financed the project to the tune of about $25 million.[3][4] This was part of a greater revitalization of the East Lake Meadows housing project in the East Lake neighborhood around the golf course.

He retains air rights over the CNN Center parking deck in Atlanta's massive railroad gulch.

He stepped down as head of Cousins Properties in January 2002.

Philanthropic works[edit]

In 1995 Cousins founded the East Lake Foundation in Atlanta.[5] The Foundation partnered with the Atlanta Housing Authority[2] to build a mixed-income apartment block in a local low-income area with a high crime rate and put additional resources into education options and job provision for the tenants. Columnist Leonard Pitts Jnr. noted that these changes saw "violent crime down 96 percent" and "78 percent of kids passing the state math test when only 5 percent could do it before".[5]

Based on the results of the East Lake Foundation project, Cousins, with partner Warren Buffett, created the Purpose Built Communities organization which is currently attempting to replicate the project at a site in New Orleans.[6]

Sporting franchises[edit]

In April 1968 purchased the Hawks basketball team and moved them from St Louis to Atlanta, renaming them the Atlanta Hawks. At the time Atlanta did not have pro-ball facilities, but Cousins was building a local arena complex.[7] Cousins also owned the Atlanta Flames until he sold them in 1980 for approximately $16 million to a consortium from Calgary.[8] He purchased the original Atlanta Chiefs soccer club of the North American Soccer League from the Braves in 1973, during this time they were renamed the Atlanta Apollos.

In 1993 Tom Cousins was the recipient of the Bill Hartman Award which recognises former varsity athletes from the University of Georgia who have demonstrated excellence in their profession.[9] On March 8, 2010, Cousins was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Atlanta Sports Awards for his role in promoting sports in Atlanta.[10]

Awards & honors[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods Alexander Von Hoffman.[12]


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Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine

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Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine
Compilation album by The Doors
Released January 1972
Recorded 1966–1971
Genre Psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues rock, hard rock
Length 99:02
Label Elektra
Producer Paul A. Rothchild (tracks 1–5, 7–14, 16–17, 20–22) and Bruce Botnick & The Doors (tracks 6, 8, 15, 18, 19)
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Other Voices
'Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine'
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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars link
Robert Christgau B−[1]

Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine was The Doors' second compilation album (following 13) and first to be released after the death of Jim Morrison. The album's title is a lyric from the song "The End". The album was released on compact disc for the first time on 19 May 2014 (almost exactly a year after keyboardist Ray Manzarek died). The album was certified Gold by the RIAA. The album cover was designed by Bill Hoffman, with inside band shots by Joel Brodsky.

Two of the songs on the compilation, "Who Scared You" and "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further," were originally released as B-sides to 1969's "Wishful Sinful" and 1971's "Love Her Madly," respectively. They were not included on albums until "Who Scared You" appeared in the The Doors: Box Set in 1997 and "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further" appeared in the 2006 Perception box set.

The version of "Who Scared You" that was released on the The Doors: Box Set is an edited version, as part of the last verse is omitted. The full length song was released in 1999 on Essential Rarities and later on the 2006 remastered release of The Soft Parade as a bonus track.

Record Store Day reissue[edit]

The album was reissued for the first time in over 40 years by Rhino Records, on special amber colored vinyl as part of Record Store Day on 19 April 2014,[2] and as a double CD (for the first time) on 19 May 2014.

Track listing[edit]

All tracks written by Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore, except as indicated.

Side one[edit]

  1. "Break on Through" – 2:25
  2. "Strange Days" – 3:05
  3. "Shaman's Blues" (Jim Morrison) – 4:45
  4. "Love Street" – 3:06
  5. "Peace Frog/Blue Sunday" (Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger) – 5:00
  6. "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)" – 4:12
  7. "End of the Night" – 2:49

Side two[edit]

  1. "Love Her Madly" – 3:18
  2. "Spanish Caravan" – 2:58
  3. "Ship of Fools" (Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger) – 3:06
  4. "The Spy" (Jim Morrison) – 4:15
  5. "The End" – 11:35

Side three[edit]

  1. "Take It as It Comes" – 2:13
  2. "Running Blue" (Robby Krieger) – 2:27
  3. "L.A. Woman" – 7:49
  4. "Five to One" – 4:22
  5. "Who Scared You" – 3:51 (Wishful Sinful single B-side)
  6. "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further" (Willie Dixon) – 3:37 ("Love Her Madly" single B-side)

Side four[edit]

  1. "Riders on the Storm" – 7:14
  2. "Maggie M'Gill" (Jim Morrison, The Doors) – 4:25
  3. "Horse Latitudes" – 1:30
  4. "When the Music's Over" – 11:00

Additional Personnel[edit]

Year Chart Position
1972 Billboard Pop Albums 55

Organization Level Date
RIAAU.S. Gold September 15, 1980

See also[edit]

13 - The Doors' first compilation released in 1970.

  1. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine". Robert Christgau.
  2. ^ "Record Store Day 2014". Record Store Day 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2014.


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YAK (cryptography)

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The YAK is a public-key authenticated key agreement protocol.[1] It is considered the simplest among the related protocols, including MQV, HMQV, Station-to-Station protocol, SSL/TLS etc. The authentication is based on public key pairs. As with other protocols, YAK normally requires a Public Key Infrastructure to distribute authentic public keys to the communicating parties. The author suggests that YAK may be unencumbered by patent.

Two parties, Alice and Bob, agree on a group G with generator g of prime order q in which the discrete log problem is hard. Typically a Schnorr group is used. In general, YAK can use any prime order group that is suitable for public key cryptography, including elliptic curve cryptography. Let g^a be Alice's long-term public key and g^b be Bob's. The protocol executes in one round.

One round: Alice selects x \in_R [0, q-1] and sends out g^x together with a zero-knowledge proof (using for example Schnorr signature) for the proof of the exponent x. Similarly, Bob selects y \in_R [0, q-1] and sends out g^{y} together with a zero-knowledge proof for the proof of the exponent y.

The above communication can be completed in one round as neither party depends on the other. When it finishes, Alice and Bob verify the received zero-knowledge proofs. Alice then computes K = (g^{y} g^{b}) ^ {x + a}= g^{(x + a) (y + b)}. Similarly, Bob computes K = (g^{x} g^{a}) ^ {y + b} = g^{(x + a) (y + b)}. With the same keying material K, Alice and Bob can derive a session key using a cryptographic hash function: \kappa = H(K).

Security properties[edit]

Given that the underlying zero knowledge proof primitive is secure, the YAK protocol is proved to fulfill the following properties.

  1. Private key security - An attacker cannot learn the user's static private key even if he is able to learn all session specific secrets in any compromised session.
  2. Full forward secrecy - Session keys that were securely established in the past uncorrupted sessions will remain incomputable in the future even when both users' static private keys are disclosed.
  3. Session key security - An attacker cannot compute the session key if he impersonates a user but has no access to the user's private key.

  1. ^ F. Hao, On Robust Key Agreement Based on Public Key Authentication. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Tenerife, Spain, LNCS 6052, pp. 383-390, Jan, 2010.

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Forest Grove-McMinnville #1 Wood Pole Replacement Projects
CX(s) Applied: B1.3
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Location(s): Oregon, Oregon
Offices(s): Bonneville Power Administration

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MA1124 Calculus II

Credits: 4.00

This course covers definite integrals, theorems about integrals, anti-derivatives, second fundamental theorem of calculus, techniques of integration, introduction to ordinary differential equations, improper integrals, numerical methods of integration, applications of integration, sequences, series, power series, approximations of functions via Taylor polynomials, Taylor series.

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Gains in Reform Discussed at Education Forum

NYU-Poly President Jerry Hultin poses with Dennis Walcott, Lester Young, Jr., and John B. King, Jr., at Friday's Forum

Last Friday, the Polytechnic Institute of NYU (NYU-Poly) hosted the forum “Improving School Outcomes for Black and Latino Males: The Vision,” sponsored by the Black Male Donor Collaborative, the Brooklyn Community Foundation, the JP Morgan Chase Foundation, the Adelaide L. Sanford Institute and NYU-Poly.

The forum featured John B. King, Jr., Commissioner of Education and President of the University of the State of New York, and Dennis Walcott, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education. Lester Young, Jr., Regent at Large for the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, moderated the event focused on calling to action education professionals to reduce the achievement disparities of Black and Latino males in New York City schools.

Jerry Hultin, president of NYU-Poly, welcomed the more than 250 attendees and briefly outlined the Institute’s initiatives in supporting underserved minorities both through K-12 programs and through NYU-Poly’s degree programs, in addition to highlighting NYU-Poly’s financial support of its student body and the resulting earning power of its graduates.

NYU-Poly has long been an advocate for invigorating student interest in science, technology, engineering, and math in city schools, most notably with in-school robotics programs and summer institutes focused on enriching educators’ understanding of STEM curriculum. President Hultin addressed these achievements and the cascading effects of enlivening a child’s interest in math and science early in their educational career, as young as third grade. Also noted were the efforts of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), of which President Hultin serves as a Trustee, in helping minority students to enroll in and complete their college education.

The opening statements of their respective visions by Commissioner King and Chancellor Walcott were followed by an engaging and lengthy off-the-record question and answer session.


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Ahana Deol engaged to Delhi-based businessman

Veteran actress Hema Malini's younger daughter Ahana Deol will soon tie the knot with Delhi-based businessman Vaibhav Vora.

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Mumbai: Ahana Deol, an Odissi dancer and a keen fashion designer, is engaged to Vaibhav Vora. The engagement was a private family affair, said a source.

They exchanged rings on Friday evening, confirmed the source, who is close to the family.

"Ahana got engaged to Delhi-based businessman Vaibhav last evening at Hemaji's Juhu residence. It was a very private affair with only close family members," the source added.

The wedding date is yet to be fixed. Ahana is Hema and Dharmendra's second daughter after Esha, who was married in June 2012.

"Dharamji and Hemaji will decide on the wedding date and they will make an announcement," said the source.

Ahana and Vaibhav are said to have met during Esha's wedding with businessman Bharat Takhtani.

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Can Tradition Accomodate Division?

"For the story of my life is always embedded in the story of those communities from which I derive my identity. I am born with a past; and to try to cut myself off from that past, in the individualist mode, is to deform my present relationships. The possesion of an historical identity and the possession of a social identity coincide. Notice that rebeillion against my identity is always one possible mode of expressing it." (221)

Enlightenment mechanization of human action & surveying society as a mechanism >>> Social theory gets ambitious and pretends to have the authority of a physical science >>> Planners (in state and in corporations) pretend to be able to know causes of and to predict outcomes of social activity >>> Self-defeating bureaucratic structures

Total control and genuine efficacy are NOT compatible

Characteristics of Successful Organizations

"efficient and effective, capable of dealing with its highly original task of surviving in the very environment which it is committed to changing." (106)

"total or near predictability on the one hand and organizational effectiveness on the other, turn out on the basis of the best empirical studies we have to be incompatible." (107)

To define the "conditions of effectiveness in an environment that requires innovative adaptation" (106), these characteristics are needed:

* continual redefinition of individual task
* communication of information and advice rather than instructions and decisions
* knowledge available anywhere in the network, not horaded or parsed out

Desiderata for an Organization

* individual initiative must be permitted
* flexible responses to changes in knowledge
* multiple centres for problem-solving and decision-making
* tolerate a high degree of unpredictability within the organization

Deleterious Effects of Micromanaging

* monitoring all the time is counterproductive
* trying to make activity of others predictable leads to
- routinization
- supressing individual intelligence and flexibility
- subordinates spending energy frustrating projects of some superiors
"Since organizational success and organizational predictability exclude one another, the project of creating a wholly or largely predictable organization committed to creating a wholly or largely predictable society is doomed and doomed by the facts about social life." (106)

Plato Feared Actor Politicians, we have Actor Managers

"The effects of eighteenth-century prophecy have been to produce inoti scientifically managed social control, but a skillful dramatic imitation of such control. It is histrionic success which gives power and authority in our culture. The most effective bureaucrat is the best actor." (107)

(Please do not include Garrick in this dismal crew)

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Alasdair MacIntrye: O Fortuna

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"I conclude therefore that, fortune being changeful and mankind steadfast in their ways, so long as the two are in agreement men are successful, but unsuccessful when they fall out." (The Prince, Chapter 25)

[M.'s misogynistic conclusion to the chapter is brutal, but it reveals a great deal about the assumptions of the writer and his audience, as well as providing something to think about when reading the figure of Lucrezia in M.'s Mandrake and the philosophy dudebro joshing between Hamlet, Rosenkranz and Guildenstern]

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"... Fortuna is ineliminable" (105)

Consequences of Fortuna

[1] "[a] One of the problems created by the conventional philosophy of science is that it suggests to scientists in general and social scientists in particular that they should treat predictive error merely as a form of failure, except when some crucial question of falsification arises.[...]

[b] If instead we kept careful records of error, and made of error itself a topic for research, my guess is that we should discover that predictive error is not randomly distributed. [...]

[c] To learn wheter this is so or not would be a first step ... to talking about the specific parts played by Fortuna in different areas of human life rather than merely about the general role of Fortuna in all human life." (105)

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[Was it the inevitable outcome of the work of prior physics, or can prior physics be called the "necessary" and/or "sufficient" conditions only in retrospect?]

"[a]... if we regard the principles and categories of Newtonian mechanics as satisfying the requirements of rationality-as-such, we shall obscure precisely that about them which rendered them rationally superior to their only available rivals in the actual context of physical enquiry in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

[b] What rendered Newtonian physics rationally superior to its Galilean and Aristotelian predecessors and to its Cartesian rivals was that it was able to transcend their limitations by solving problems in areas in which those predecessors and rivals could by their own standards of scientific progress make no progress. So we cannot say wherein the rational superiority of Newtonian physics consisted except historically in terms of its relationship to those predecessors and rivals whom it challenged and displaced. Abstract Newtonian physics from its context, and then ask wherein the rational superiority of one to the other consists and you will be met with insoluble incommensurability problems. Thus knowing how Newton and the Newtonians actually came to adopt and defend their views is essential to knowing why Newtonian physics is to be accounted rationally superior. The philosophy of physical science is dependent on the history of physical science. But the case is no different with morality.

[c] Moral philosophies, however they may aspire to achieve more than this, always do articulate the morality of some particular social and cultural standpoint: Aristotle is the spokesman for one class of fourth century Athenians, Kant ... provided a rational voice for the emerging social forces of liberal individualism. ... [but] Moral philosophies are, before they are anything else, the explicit articulations of the claims of particular moralities to rational allegiance. And this is why the history of moraity and the history of moral philosophy are a single history. It follows that when rival moralities make competing and incompatible claims, there is always an issue at the level of moral philosophy concerning the ability of either to make good a claim to rational superiority over the other." (268)

MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. 2nd ed. Notre Dame (IN): U of Notre Dame P, 1984.

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After Virtue: Sidelights

I am reading Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue as a supplement to the logic of action addressed by G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright.

But MacIntyre works out the implications for his Aristotelian/Thomistic take on action in his criticism of post-Enlightenment culture.

The next few posts will bring out some of his drive-by blasts delivered in the course of his sweeping critique.

I am open to MacIntyre's Aristotelianism as well has his anti-mechanistic take on human action. His social critique touches on many themes to which I am sympathetic, particularly a skepticism about "rights" discourse as a guide to moral and political action. But his insistence on the centrality of teleological thinking to all of human endeavour, and the unity of all discrete goals in an over-arching movement towards the highest good, that's another matter.
   A logic of human action can render human goal-directed action intelligible and the logic worked out by Wright and Anscombe is compatible with some of Aristotle's analyses of it. But that logic does not necessitate extending telos and intentionality to all forms of human interaction, or to proposing a unitary narrative arc to history, institutions, or practices.
  What virtues might be in an account informed by a logic of human action unencumbered by reductionism or the supposition of a unified higher good is, to say the least, a puzzlement. Virtues presume a thread of continuity or a projection into past and future, and are not intelligible in terms of a "basic" or "atomic" action. And they presume enduring-and-changing contexts of communities and institutions as well as endurance across the incidents of a human life. W. Benjamin recommended the recollection of defeats as a salutary discipline for radical action. There is a past out of which resistance can spring and resistance need not depend on the moment of decision or the catastrophe or the state of emergency to generate unheralded innovations. Maybe there is something to be leared from a philosopher that recommends Eleanor Marx and Trotsky, as well as St. Bernard and Benjamin Franklin, as moral exemplars that should displace Hume, Kant, and Sartre.

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Employing social media for lead generation services is becoming yet another fast-growing business trend involving the internet. For consumer-oriented businesses, creating a product page that doubles as a fan page for those who use it can make for an interesting Client Relations tool. It’s apparently quite easy too.

However, what about B2B companies like those in ERP Software? Tech-savvy they may be, it’s easy to make a mistake of creating a page for your products on Facebook only to see that it’s not getting as many views as you expected.

This is most likely because the few but important people that might benefit from B2B software are people too busy talking on their phones and discussing things in meetings to surf on Facebook. This isn’t to discourage you from trying out social media, however it’s always best to combine something new with what is tried and true.

Telemarketing can work real well with social media for generating software leads. Be it via outbound telemarketing and getting prospects to look up your firm on Facebook or inbound, where it’s good to have professional agents on standby to take their calls. Combining both can really help cover all your bases when it comes to full communication with the people you want to sell to.

In fact, there are even telemarketers who also do a bit of social media marketing on the side. If you outsource to them now, you can save yourself the costs of creating an in-house team yourself and while guaranteeing both you and your clients all the means of talking with each other.

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Bench brigade playing with swagger

January, 13, 2013
Jared Wickerham/Getty ImagesBoston's bench has given the team plenty to celebrate recently.
WALTHAM, Mass. -- The Celtics' bench -- much like the team as a whole -- has been striving for consistency all season, but legitimate signs of progress were often marred by injuries and rotation shakeups over the first 30 games of the 2012-13 campaign.

With Avery Bradley now back in the fold and the team almost completely healthy (Chris Wilcox, nursing an injured right thumb, returned to practice on Sunday), the likes of Jason Terry, Courtney Lee, Jeff Green, and Jared Sullinger are establishing more solidified roles, and the last three games have seen Boston's reserves come through with arguably their finest production of the season.

In Boston's latest three victories -- all part of a larger five-game winning streak -- the bench has come through with an average of 42 points per game, providing the potent scoring output and support Rajon Rondo, Paul Pierce, and Kevin Garnett had been seeking the first two months of the season.

"I think they have a certain swagger about themselves right now that we're just following -- this kind of pattern right now, this beautiful pattern," Garnett said before practice on Sunday. "So, right now, I'm telling you, our bench is coming in and giving us unbelievable spark, so it's a good balance right now."

Though they had to fight off a late Houston run in their 103-91 victory over the Rockets on Friday, the Celtics opened things up in the second frame behind the play of a Terry-Lee-Green-Sullinger-Garnett lineup. Boston embarked on a 10-0 run midway through the quarter, with Green stuffing home two loud dunks and Terry and Lee each putting in a 3-pointer. Boston emerged from the scoring burst with a 13-point cushion.

Evident throughout the run was the swagger Garnett alluded to. The bench brigade -- or "Gangster Squad" as Terry has referred to them -- fed off of one another, channeling the momentum into better play on both ends of the floor.

"[The bench has] multiple ball-handlers and then you've got a tough, dirty work guy like Jared Sullinger on the inside that gives us a strong presence," Terry said. "So, we're scrappy. We're a scrappy bunch that knows how we like to play, and it's uptempo, and it's get in your face defensively."

Jeff Green expanded on the chemistry of the unit that was on display in Friday's victory.

"It's basketball, man. We love playing basketball," Green said. "And we know in order for us to do good on the court, we've got to play together. So, we're enjoying what we have, using all the weapons that we have. We're just maximizing it and just putting each other in the best position for this team to succeed."

Head coach Doc Rivers pointed to the defense of the bench for the recent turnaround, acknowledging that securing stops has allowed the unit to make use of its versatile and athletic components. By slowing opponents down on one end, the reserves have been able to speed things up for themselves.

"I think defense is No. 1," Rivers said Sunday. "Then their ball movement. They are spacing the floor. They run. We really have them -- if there’s one word, it would be pace. They are playing at a great pace, and that’s one of the things we’ve talked about every day and you can see they have that pace that we want to play at. And they understand, they want to play at that pace, but they finally understand you have to get actual stops on defense to play at that pace."

The defensive efforts of Terry, Lee, Green, and Sullinger have certainly been aided by Garnett's presence. Garnett has shared the floor with those four players for over 70 total minutes this season, and the unit has been outscoring opponents by an average of 44.4 points per 100 possessions, according to Basketball-Reference's lineup data.

But even with Garnett contributing to the bench's efforts on certain nights, he and the rest of the starters still reap the benefits of improved play from the reserves. Sometimes it results in fewer total minutes for Boston's first five, and sometimes it's just a greater weight off of their shoulders.

"[The bench has] been huge for us in this winning streak," Pierce said after Friday's win. "I mean, they've been not only able to sustain the lead, they've been able to come in and push leads. I'll come out the game and we're down three or four and then I come back in and we're up 10. So that's a lot of pressure off of me and the rest of the starters when you've got a bench that's playing so confident, playing great defense and moving the ball."

Terry and Green were in agreement Sunday that in addition to enjoying sharing the floor together, the reserves take pride in spelling the starters for longer stretches and are using it as motivation to continue their consistency.

"Those are our guys, those are our horses," Green said of the starters. "They're going to keep us in games, they're going to win games for us. We want them fresh, and in order for them to be fresh, we've got to continue to do what we're doing, and that's putting pressure on the opposing team and their second unit. I feel like with our second unit, we can start on any team in this league, and the way we've been playing, it's hurting the second units of opposing teams. So we've just got to continue to do that."

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Karl Ravech and Justin Havens put Clayton Kershaw's scoreless innings streak in perspective with Buster Olney and discuss the rash of injuries around MLB. Plus, Derrick Goold on Yadier Molina's injury and Alex Speier on the Red Sox.

Baseball Tonight

Buster Olney and Tim Kurkjian discuss the rosters for the Home Run Derby, Jon Lester's future and more. Plus, Indians P Corey Kluber on his All-Star candidacy and Tigers P Joba Chamberlain.

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ReboundsJ. Sullinger 8.1
AssistsR. Rondo 9.8
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Regular Season Series (Game 2 of 4)

Series starts 12/19

Game 1: Wednesday, December 19th
Game 2: Friday, December 28th
Game 3: Monday, January 14th
Game 4: Friday, March 29th

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Wizards 105

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    WSH 25 29 26 25105

    Top Performers

    Orlando: J. Redick 23 Pts, 4 Reb, 4 Ast, 2 Stl

    Washington: J. Crawford 27 Pts, 6 Reb, 6 Ast, 1 Stl

    Jordan Crawford, Wizards top Magic to snap 8-game losing skid

    Associated Press

    WASHINGTON -- Fans chanted "R-G-III!" when Nene was at the free throw line in the fourth quarter, sort of the new equivalent of "M-V-P!" in a city obsessed with Washington Redskins rookie Robert Griffin III.

    If it helps the Washington Wizards win, they'll take it -- because it doesn't happen very often.

    Jordan Crawford scored 27 points, Nene added season highs of 23 points and 11 rebounds, and the worst-in-the-NBA Wizards showed they can still come out on top every once in a while, breaking an eight-game skid Friday night with a 105-97 victory over the Orlando Magic.

    Washington overcame another horrible start -- trailing 25-8 in the first quarter -- and won by its largest margin of the season. The game represented one-quarter of the win total for the 4-23 Wizards, who have been stymied in part by the knee injury that has kept franchise player John Wall on the sidelines.

    "Obviously, a lot of satisfaction in the win, but the way we won it -- with what this team's gone through at the start of the year, to go down 25-8, ... for our guys to not put their heads down and grind it out," Wizards coach Randy Wittman said. "We kept saying every timeout: 'Long game. Long game. Next timeout let's make it closer.' And they did."

    Wittman was so excited he could hardly wait to get on the plane for Saturday's road game against the Chicago Bulls, who haven't played since Wednesday.

    "They're going to be rusty. That's good for us," Wittman said. "We've got to win. We're feeling good. We played well. Let's play again. I don't worry about Chicago."

    Crawford's point total tied the high for any Washington player this season, but he was more ho-hum than his coach. He spoke about the game as if it were a routine trip to the gym, repeating the phrase "making shots" several times when asked how the victory came about.

    "I mean, we're supposed to win," Crawford said. "We've got good players."

    Still, it was the first Wizards home win since Dec. 4, when Griffin sat in the front row and cheered on an upset of the Miami Heat while serenaded with the now-familiar "R-G-III!" No, he wasn't at Friday's game, but the chant was.

    "I guess we'll have 'R-G-III' whenever we win," Wizards guard Bradley Beal said.

    Arron Afflalo scored 26 points and J.J. Redick added 23 for the Magic, who have lost four straight since Glen Davis sprained his left shoulder in the final minute of a win over these same Wizards last week. The Magic ended an NBA-best 12-game streak of holding opponents under 100 points, while Washington hit the century mark for the first time in 12 games.

    "Every team in the NBA is capable of scoring," Redick said, "if you don't play D."

    Early on, the sound of "Three points -- Jameer Nelson" came from the public address announcer as if on a continuous loop. Nelson made a trio of 3-pointers in less than a minute, and the Magic built a 17-point lead less than 7 minutes into the game.

    "Fool's gold," Orlando coach Jacque Vaughn said. "We relaxed a little bit."

    Crawford and Garrett Temple, who was signed earlier this week, came off the bench to dominate the second quarter. The Wizards led 54-51 at halftime and never trailed again.

    "Garrett (doesn't) know half of what we're doing," Wittman said. "I'm throwing him out there to the wolves, and I couldn't be more proud of him."

    Game notes

    Orlando G E'Twaun Moore sprained his left elbow in the first quarter and did not return. ... Nelson went 1 for 9 over the final three quarters and finished with 16 points. ... Magic F Hedo Turkoglu, out since breaking his left hand in the season opener, made the trip and took part in the morning shootaround but did not suit up for the game. ... The Magic were called for a rare six-men-on-the-court technical in the third quarter. "It's Christmastime, and my wife spent a lot of money," Vaughn said. "I'm going to refrain from what I really want to say about that six-person foul. ... There should be 10 men on the floor, and I sent two guys to the table to check in and one they did not let in. I'll keep it that way."

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The headlines you may have missed from the Free State, home of the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens.

By Patch Staff

Ravens Win Over 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII

In one of the most unusual games in Super Bowl history -- one that included a power outage in the New Orleans Super Dome -- the Baltimore Ravens took the Super Bowl 34-31 over the San Francisco 49ers. Check out all the Maryland Patch coverage, including profiles of the Harbaugh family, here.

In his seventh State of the State speech, Gov. Martin O'Malley urged lawmakers to pass his offshore wind bill and find more money for transportation projects—an address seen by many as a prelude to an expected run for president in 2016.

The Anne Arundel County Council no longer needs to vote on the removal of County Executive John Leopold from office after a judge found him guilty this week of two counts of misconduct.

Hearing Reveals Dark Details On Accused Perry Hall Student Shooter

Testimony Wednesday revealed that as a young boy, accussed Perry Hall High shooter Robert Gladden was exposed to suicide and death, and exhibited threatening behavior and suicidal thoughts.

CDC: New Norovirus Strain Picking up Pace

This year, a new strain of the virus, first seen in Australia, has been making its way through the United States. Currently this new strain – GII.4 Sydney – is the leading cause of norovirus outbreaks in the country, according to the CDC.

Patapsco River Goes 'Completely' Over its Bank in Ellicott City

Parts of Main Street and Frederick Road in Ellicott City were closed Thursday morning after heavy rains caused the Patapsco River to flood.

School Start Times Under Review for Howard County Schools

The Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) announced it will be taking a “comprehensive look at the opening time of schools and the impact that an early opening has on the health and well-being of high school students."

Joppa Mother Charged With Murder In Infant's Death

A 9-month-old child's death was deemed suspicious Tuesday. Later in the day, the mother—who was in critical condition after attempting suicide—was charged with the infant's murder, police said.

Mount St. Joe Principal Resigns Amid Alleged 'Inappropriate' Communications With Students

Barry Fitzpatrick was the principal at Mount St. Joseph High School, an all-boys private school in Baltimore.

U.S. Cyber Command at Fort Meade in Anne Arundel County will expand from about 900 workers to 4,900 over the next several years, according to The Washington Post.

Bradley Cooper Screens 'Silver Linings Playbook' for U.S. Military Personnel at Walter Reed Bethesda

Actor Bradley Cooper attended a screening of the Oscar-nominated Silver Linings Playbook for U.S. servicemen and women at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda Thursday evening. In the movie, Cooper plays a man suffering from bipolar disorder. The screening was organized by Bethesda non-profit Give an Hour, which provides free mental health services to U.S. military personnel.

Report: ICC Could See Speed Limit Raised to 70 MPH

A House bill co-sponsored by Del. Aruna Miller (D-Dist. 15) of Darnestown and Del. Neil Parrott (R-Dist. 2B) of Hagerstown could force a change in the speed limit on the Intercounty Connector.

Costco Confirms Wheaton Opening Date

Costco has announced the opening date for its store in Wheaton, after keeping Montgomery County residents in suspense for months. The Costco in Wheaton originally was scheduled to open in October 2012, but construction issues caused delays.

Contractor Blames Montgomery County for Silver Spring Transit Center Delays

The general contractor of Silver Spring's $108 million transit center, which has yet to open after years of construction, filed a claim against Montgomery County government officials alleging a lack of cooperation and communication on their part.

Making Buildings (Look) Smaller in Chevy Chase Lake

Nany Chevy Chase residents are unhappy with the building heights proposed to be allowed in the Chevy Chase Lake Sector. Some say the county planners' recommended heights are too tall. In response, county planners are releasing design guidelines suggesting ways to make new buildings in the sector appear smaller than they really are, through design tweaks, the use of traditional materials and other design methods.

University Park Mayor Wants Cafritz Apology

Mayor, town council call for reforms and greater oversight after confusion over authorship of letters of support for controversial development.

Anne Arundel County police say a man shot his estranged wife and himself in the early morning hours of Jan. 28. Read more on Bowie Patch.

Patuxent River Flooding Forces Evacuations in Laurel

WSSC released water from two dams near the city of Laurel Thursday to relieve pressure from excessive rainfall overnight, leading to evacuations of residents and local businesses along Main Street.

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Comprising vocalist Christo Bowman, drummer Miles Morris, guitarist Ray Libby, and bassist Gavin Bennett, Bad Suns formed in 2012 in Woodland Hills, California. The bandmembers were all relatively young, ranging in age from 19 to 22, but had taken cues for their sound from '70s and '80s post-punk pioneers like the Cure and Elvis Costello....
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April 25, 2012

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Well, Owl's do really have a cute and very lovable eyes to look at. I have seen one on our forest in Florida. I love them too!

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The story of your book "The Littlest Owl" is really very heart touching. To believe in yourself is the main key to live happily and confidently. I also like owls very much. Thanks for sharing.

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