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Diamagnetic levitation of pyrolitic graphite over a single magnet achieved

Aug 28, 2014
Three pieces of pyrolytic graphite are levitated freely over a single multipole NdFeB magnet

Diamagnetic levitation of pyrolitic graphite over a single magnet has been achieved, using commercially available magnetic field domain printing technology. Using this approach, levitation applications, including bearings and sensors, could be realised without the use of complex magnet arrays.

Intrinsic reaction

In diamagnetism, a material creates a repelling in reaction to an applied magnetic field. The strength of the effect is highly material-dependent; in diamagnetic materials it is the dominant form of magnetism and can be strong enough to allow of some materials, including water, bismuth and graphite.

The repelling magnetic field, produced by a modification of the orbits of the electrons in the diamagnetic material, allows levitation that does not need energy input, nor feedback control, and so is of interest for applications including bearings and MEMS sensor systems. Recent research has included its use in a levitated flywheel battery and nanoforce sensors.

Typically, an array of magnets arranged in a chessboard pattern of alternating magnetisation directions is used to achieve stable diamagnetic levitation. This pattern creates the necessary strong magnetic field and field gradient. Such arrays take time to assemble and the brittle NdFeB magnets often used can be damaged in the assembly process. Before assembly, each magnet needs to be machined, magnetised and coated individually, making array manufacture time-consuming and costly.

Printed patterns

Magnetic field domain pattern of a printed multiple NdFeB magnet, revealed by magnetic field viewing film

In this issue of Electronics Letters, Gerald Küstler, an independent researcher based in Germany, reports the use of an existing, commercially available magnet production technology to eliminate the need for a magnet array in diamagnetic levitation.

"I recognised that magnets with printed magnetic field domains can be used to realise diamagnetic levitation over a single magnet," explains Küstler. "The technology of printing magnetic field domains was just recently developed by Correlated Magnets Research LLC. Their aim is to provide magnets with very specific and improved properties and behaviour. However, as far as I know, diamagnetic levitation applications were never in their focus."

Normal magnetisation technologies use a set of magnetisation coils arranged to achieve a single specific magnetisation pattern. This allows simple magnetisation patterns like linear or radial opposite patterns to be made, for example, the alternating parallel rows of magnetisation of a fridge magnet.

More complex patterns with undisturbed closed loops, such as an opposite, nested ring pattern, can't be made this way, as there must always be an access for the current feeding wires at one point of the loop. Building a custom magnetisation coil for a new specific field pattern also means a significant investment of money and time.

The process adopted by Correlated Magnetics Research LLC uses an impulse magnetiser and a linear stage which moves a small magnetisation coil above the surface of the magnet to be magnetised. In this way, the necessary, detailed, magnetic field domain pattern can be built up step by step.

Using this technology, Küstler was able to obtain the necessary pattern to achieve diamagnetic levitation using a single magnet, eliminating the costs and complexities of array manufacture. He expects that this approach to creating magnetisation patterns will provide researchers in diamagnetic levitation with much more flexibility, making it possible to create and test different patterns quickly, and accelerate the research and development process:

"Researchers will be able to print field patterns needed for diamagnetic levitation tracks, bearings or sensors with a free floating seismic mass. Field pattern design and printing could be iteratively adapted to specific requirements in a matter of minutes. So, in the short-term, I would see a benefit in cut-down development times and in the long-term, it would be imaginable that such monolithic magnets for diamagnetic levitation will be mass produced."

A strong future

Küstler has since been investigating single magnet diamagnetic levitation using different multipole magnetisation patterns and has demonstrated levitation of multiple objects at the same time (see main image).

He has also investigated the levitation of a 25 µm thin graphene sheet, which suggests another possible long term application. "From the literature, it is known that by heating up a diamagnetic sheet partly with a laser beam, it can be moved over the surface of a magnet array. So, by combining the most recent developments in this field, it is possible to imagine a monolithic multipole magnet where one can move tiny sheets of graphene using lasers. That would be a step in the direction of micro-robots. Approaches in this field were also reported recently," says Küstler.

"Lab-on-chips would be another long-term topic. Personally, I'm keen to see the development of much stronger permanent magnets than we already have. Nanocomposite magnets or iron nitride magnets are already in development and promise an enormous increase in energy density compared to state-of-the-art NdFeB magnets. With such magnets, the levitation height and load bearing capacity in diamagnetic levitation applications could be significantly increased."

Explore further: Researchers devise several ways to orient nonmagnetic objects in 3D space using magnetic levitation

More information: "Diamagnetic levitation of pyrolytic graphite over monolithic NdFeB magnet." G. Küstler Electronics Letters, Volume 50, Issue 18, 28 August 2014, p. 1289 – 1290. DOI:  10.1049/el.2014.2332 , Print ISSN 0013-5194, Online ISSN 1350-911X

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Thales Alenia Space kicks off Euclid construction

July 9th, 2013 in Astronomy & Space / Space Exploration
Artist’s impression of Euclid. Credit: ESA - C. Carreau

Artist’s impression of Euclid. Credit: ESA - C. Carreau

The construction of ESA's Euclid space mission to explore the 'dark Universe' will be led by Italy's Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor, beginning the full industrial phase of the project.

The announcement follows that of last month when Astrium Toulouse was confirmed to build the – the telescope and optical bench carrying the .

Euclid will be launched in 2020 to explore the roles played by dark energy and dark matter in the evolution of the Universe since the Big Bang and, in particular, in its present accelerating expansion.

Dark matter is invisible to normal telescopes, but acts through gravity to play a vital part in forming galaxies and slowing the expansion of the Universe.

Dark energy, on the other hand, causes a force that overcomes gravity and that is accelerating the expansion seen around us today.

Together, they are thought to comprise 95% of the total amount of mass and energy in the Universe, with 'normal' matter – from which stars, planets and we humans are made – making up the remaining small fraction. But their nature remains a profound mystery.

"We are pleased to confirm the prime contractor for this exciting mission. With the support of European space industry, we are a step closer to revealing the darkest secrets of the Universe," says Professor Alvaro Giménez, ESA's Director of Science and Robotic Exploration.

"This is a long-awaited milestone after the mission concept was first proposed to ESA in 2007, and we are delighted to see that the spacecraft construction can now begin," says Yannick Mellier, who leads the Euclid consortium, comprising scientists from 13 European countries and the US.

The consortium will provide Euclid's two state-of-the art scientific instruments: a visible-light camera and a near-/spectrometer. Together, they will map the 3D distribution of up to two billion galaxies spread over more than a third of the whole sky.

Light from the most distant galaxies streaming towards Earth is slightly bent by gravity as it interacts with matter along the way. This is dominated by dark matter, whether associated with galaxies and galaxy clusters, or in isolation. Thus, by measuring distortions in the shapes of those background galaxies, astronomers can construct a 3D map of the in the Universe.

Furthermore, by assessing how the distribution of galaxies and galaxy clusters has changed over cosmic time, scientists can infer the role and evolution of from the dawn of the Universe until today.

The results will help to answer one of the most important questions in modern cosmology: why is the Universe expanding at an accelerating rate today, rather than slowing down due to the gravitational attraction of all the matter in it?

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"Thales Alenia Space kicks off Euclid construction." July 9th, 2013. http://phys.org/news/2013-07-thales-alenia-space-euclid.html

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Pioneer DJ announces a new glossy white version of its popular S-DJ05 active reference DJ speakers. The white color version, model S-DJO5-W, offers the same excellent sound quality and superior operability of the original model, making it an ideal speaker monitor for DJs and audio professionals looking to obtain the most accurate sound reproduction.

S-DJ05-W features include:

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The S-DJ05-W speakers are available in December 2011 with a suggested retail price of $899.

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Suspected Drunk Driver Damages Cars From Pittsburgh To Penn Hills

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — About a dozen cars were damaged as a suspected drunk driver led police on a chase from Pittsburgh to Penn Hills.

Investigators say it all started when the suspect hit a car in the city where Pittsburgh police spotted him.

When they lost him, the suspect went on the Parkway East where he hit three or four more cars.

He then took the Rodi Road exit, hitting eight or nine cars along the way, including several police cars.

He then drove into a parking lot. An innocent bystander walking into his dentist office had to run full speed and dove into bushes to avoid being hit.

The suspect tried to kick out a window in his car to escape, but police captured him and took him to jail.

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If you’re a promising young politician living on a continent rapidly shifting towards Islam, touting a pro-Israel stance isn’t the best public foot to put forward when looking to win an election.

But Zambian presidential hopeful Dr. Saviour Chishimba is putting caution aside as he kicks off his 2011 election campaign.   He’s decrying Islamic terrorism — not a tough principle to support in the wake of the recent U.S. air scare and fear surrounding the current era of urban warfare — and he’s specifically targeting Hamas-sponsored attacks against Israel. In fact, Chishimba is building an election platform that includes promoting reinstatement of full Israel-Zambia ties cut in 1973 and partially reestablished earlier this decade.

A member of Zambia’s royal family and the country’s majority Bemba tribe, Chishimba hails from a legacy of politickers and freedom fighters, including relatives who fostered the country’s breakaway independence from Rhodesia in 1964.

Zambia’s political history has been sprinkled with corruption and cronyism, and 36-year-old Chishimba, a former MP and current leader of the United Progressive People’s Party, sees himself as the gateway to the future, the new face of hope, and the pathfinder of global relations.

Said Chishimba over a cup of hot tea with fresh mint in a Tel Aviv restaurant earlier this month: “The current leadership stands for outdated politics. It’s time to form international contacts with bodies and leaders who have a broader understanding of business and democracy. Like parliamentarians in the UK and business leaders in the U.S., I want to form different types of networks and get away from the old ways of thinking.”

What Chishimba specifically means is that he will weaken ties with Iran, and specifically Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. This currently prompt eyebrow-raising over the African country’s covert uranium trade.

“A pro-Iran, anti-Israel regime in Zambia is very dangerous,” Chishimba remarked. “Iran is determined to wipe Israel off the map and that can only be done with nuclear capability. Facilitating transport of uranium to Iran is very, very dangerous.” Despite a 2008 law implemented to control uranium mining and export, Zambia continues doing business with Iran.


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The Russian Navy has named the 4th of its Borei class SSBNs after a saint — Santa Claus to be exact. The Strategy Page says, “no one has ever named a nuclear submarine after Saint Nicholas before.” What could be more ridiculous than naming a boomer after Santa Claus? How about calling a health care “reform” bill a “a core ethical and moral obligation” and likening it to a religious crusade even as senior clerics of the Catholic Church denounce it as a Trojan horse for taxpayer funded abortion? The New York Times says: Some Catholic Bishops Assail Health Plan. By that they mean this:

The bishops’ opposition — published in diocesan newspapers, disseminated online by conservative activists, and reported in a Roman Catholic newspaper to be distributed this weekend at churches around the country — is another setback for Mr. Obama’s health care efforts. His administration has been counting on the support of Catholic leaders to help rally believers behind his health care plan. Just last week, he held a conference call with 140,000 religious voters to appeal to what he called their “moral convictions.” …

In an Aug. 11 letter to Congress, Cardinal Rigali of Philadelphia, head of the bishops’ anti-abortion efforts called the proposed division of funds “an illusion,” arguing that taxpayers would still indirectly help cover abortion. He urged lawmakers to block the current House legislation from coming up for a vote unless it can be amended to expressly prohibit financing for the procedure.

Gee, do you think? Things aren’t always what they seem. If “personal is political”, the religious can be political too. The lines criss-cross and nothing has to make sense. If today’s progressive cause needs to invoke religious authority where yesterday it eschewed it, if it invokes feminism at one instant and rejects it the next, then so what? Situational ethnics means never having to say you’re sorry. Rightgrrl recalls how the apparent religious, political and feminist contradictions that played out in the Monica Lewinsky case were only apparent. Those on the Left intuitively understood that Bill Clinton got a pass on anything because his politics were correct.

“I’d be happy to give him [oral sex] just to thank him for keeping abortion legal.” Those were the enlightening words uttered by former Time contributor and White House correspondent Nina Burleigh in an interview in Mirabella magazine, as reported by Howard Kurtz in a Washington Post Article. However, it was learned on 07/16/98 that her comment was a little different from that. Nina Burleigh has now filled in what word she really used in the spot the Post bracketed and revealed her next sentence to Kurtz, that he did not share with readers.

Her full quote: “I would be happy to give him a blowjob just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. I think American women should be lining up with their presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs.”

Winston Churchill used to say ‘The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet‘. Today politicians are on their knees to get things off their backs.  None of this is madness; just politics. The Russians have gone off and named a nuclear missile sub after Santa Claus but who’s to say there won’t be federally funded abortion clinic named named after another saint. Ridiculous? Don’t count on it.

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The philosopher Hannah Arendt once observed that it was arbitrariness, not necessarily severity, that distinguished totalitarian from law-abiding states. Stalin may have had his Gulags, Hitler his concentration camps, but the key to understanding the exercise of totalitarian power there and elsewhere lay in its capricious, unpredictable application, not its harshness. The operation of law is public, regular, knowable in advance.  The eruption of the totalitarian impulse inserts a vertiginousness element of whim. That’s part of what makes it terrifying. In a free society governed by the rule of law, people know where they stand. In the normal course of affairs, most people will never directly experience the coercive power of the state. They are not subjected to harassment at the arbitrary direction of state officials. With the erosion of the habits of liberty, however, everything changes. Now the state tends to regard the people first of all not as its raison d’être but as a potential threat. The result is a sharp contraction of that latitude that free societies allow their citizens.

I thought about these melancholy truths when a friend told me the alarming story of Robin Fleming, a 70-year-old glider pilot and instructor from South Carolina. On July 26, 2012, Mr. Fleming was out for a leisurely flight when, late in the afternoon, the tranquility of the day was suddenly broken by a radio call from local enforcement officials barking orders that he land his glider immediately. “The presumed offense,” the magazine Flying reports in a story called “Pilot Arrested, Charged for Doing Nothing,” “was his briefly flying over a nuclear power plant at approximately 1,000 feet AGL [i.e., above ground level] while looking for lift.”

According to Flying, “Local law enforcement cannot, for the record, order any pilot of an airplane in flight to do anything.” What the magazine meant, alas, is that local law enforcement agencies may not so order a pilot.  That they can do was demonstrated by the unhappy case of Mr. Fleming on that otherwise pleasant summer say.

Mr. Fleming landed. His plane was instantly surrounded by 17 police vehicles. He was “detained on the spot, brought to jail, held overnight on a charge of ‘breach of peace,’ and not released until he was bailed out late the next day.” It might have been worse. According to another report from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, one officer spoke of “commandeering the airport.” “He was running around . . .saying  ‘We were going to shoot him down.’”  Yikes. In the event, the Darlington, South Carolina, sheriff’s office wouldn’t let Fleming call anyone, so members of his flying club were alarmed when he didn’t return as scheduled from his flight. Eventually, they organized a search for him.

The sheriff’s office claimed that Mr. Fleming had violated a “no fly” zone. The problem, as Flying points out, is “there is no such kind of zone, no such regulation and no such offense.”

Robin Fleming was arrested and thrown into jail on the initiative of  some hysterical local law enforcement—no, make that “law perversion”—officials.

As Flying observes, “It’s hard to read this case any way other than that Fleming was arrested falsely.” Indeed.  The actual charge that was brought—“breach of peace”—was a pathetic afterthought, an effort to paper offer a gross violation of the law with a catch-all pseudo-violation. “After all,” Flying asks, “how could it have been breach of peace for Fleming to do something that he was perfectly within his rights to do? It’s equivalent to someone being arrested for going 50 in a 55 mph speed limit zone and then being arrested for not breaking the law that led to the arrest.”

Adding insult to injury, the sheriff’s office reportedly demanded that Mr. Fleming agree not to sue them in exchange for having the charges against him dropped. Flying concluded that the sheriff’s office ought to have issued an apology, not an arrest warrant.

The charge was an absurdity, an assault on Mr. Fleming’s good name and an insult to all aviators. An apology was what the sheriff’s office should have issued, not an arrest warrant. True. They should then have fired anyone involved in that sorry case of justice miscarried.

Does this make your blood boil? It should. In July, it was an innocent glider pilot who was summarily arrested, jailed, and forced to forgo his right to redress. Tomorrow it might be an innocent housewife who committed the non-crime of snapping a picture of the local constabulary at work or an artist who committed the non-crime of sketching a bridge or some other municipal subject or a student who committed the non-crime of taking out too many books on a sensitive subject from his local library.

The capricious intrusion of the state into our daily lives has become an intolerable nuisance. The question is whether we have the collective will to stop it before it blossoms into something even worse.

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The era big government may be over, but the era of HUGE government has barely begun.

In a unanimous 12-0 vote, the council approved a resolution Friday endorsing the “meatless Monday” campaign and asking residents to make a personal pledge to ditch meat for one day a week.

The resolution makes L.A. the largest city to     sign on to the international “Meatless Mondays” campaign, which aims to reduce meat consumption for health and environmental reasons.

It also comes two years after L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told The Times that he had cut meat from his Monday diet as part of his health regimen.

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sql-oo: An persistent layer for particularly constructed objects

_sql-oo: An persistent layer for particularly constructed objects_

By Jay McCarthy (jay at kenyamountain dot com)

Keywords: _io_, _db_

After developing an SQLite interface, I found it convenient to abstract the details of loading objects to and from the SQL database. Due to this development order, the library currently only works with SQLite, pending an abstraction of SchemQL and a general SQL interface.

This file defines the main objects and methods. Require it like this:

> (require (planet "" ("jaymccarthy" "sql-oo.plt" 1)))

It provides the follow procedures:

> (db-class@ table-name (field ...)) syntax -> unit

This syntax will return a unit, with the signature db-addon^, that contains the following symbols:
     <%> : The interface that provides "field" and "field!" for each field given. And is a subinterface of db-object<%>
     % : The object that is a subclass of db-object% that implements the above methods in such a way as to abstract that the object is stored in a database. This object must be instantiated with a 'db' initarg that is an SQLite handle and a '_path' initarg that is a string identifying the object. (However, you should not need to instantiate these objects on your own.)
     mixin-maker : A function that given a class that implements <%>, will provide a mixin that expands objects that implement sql-oo<%> to allow % objects to be stored in the table 'table-name'

> sql-oo<%>

This interface specifies the operations:
     get-db : -> db-handle
	    This should return a db handle.
     init-sql : -> (listof string?)
	    This should return a list of SQL expressions that initialize an empty database to store the objects that the class supports
     init-db : -> integer
	    This runs the init-sql on the database. (You must pass it the symbol 'really for it to actually run it, due to the unsafe-ness of deleting the database.)
     object : path [table-name] -> object
	    This returns an object corresponding to the given path, if it resides in the database. If not, #f is returned.
	    If the optional table-name argument is passed, then the object must implement be in this table (and thus be of a particular type.) However, in this case, if the object does not yet exist, it will be created.
     type->class : table-name -> class
	    This returns the class that implements objects residing in the 'table-name' table.

> sql-oo%
An implementation of sql-oo<%>

> (apply-units base% . unit@-list) -> object

This method requires that base% implements sql-oo<%> and returns an object that also implements sql-oo<%>. If all the units in the unit@-list have the signature db-addon^, then they will be used (in order) to extend the base% class to support the object types they specify.

(require (lib "")
(prefix sql-oo: "../"))

(define wiki@ (sql-oo:db-class@ "object_wiki"
		     (author body last_changed)))
(define the-sql-oo%

See the code in the tests/ directory, for how to use such objects.

See the yppdb package for an extended example.

Notes and Limitations

As mentioned above, it really only works with SQLite. And it doesn't generate much management code for defining searches and relations.

v1.1 :: June 14th, 2005
	* Added caching via hash-tables for objects and the database as a whole.

v1.0 :: April 7th, 2005
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Join Beverley Forbes and her team for a taste of the Caribbean in the heart of Bristol.

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Choose from our Buffet or A La Carte Menu and enjoy a great Caribbean meal. Want something special because of an allergy or other condition, just ask

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Great Music

Join us on a Friday & Saturday night for a wide range of Caribbean and similar music. Join us from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. and soak up the atmosphere and join the fun.

I came on Saturday and was so glad we booked our table because I saw people being turned away. We had a great time. You came up to us before we left to say goodbye, it's a shame that we couldn't stay to hear Troy play. Thank you for a great night and for the hug you gave us, you made us feel really special
I'll be back with more friends who I know will love the place as much as I do. Keep up the good work

We came at 8pm on Saturday and we enjoyed everything, from the welcome to the final good night at 3am!!!!. The food was amazing! The White Jamaican divine! Keep up the good work

A very tired but very happy

Simon & Sharon
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Having a party, celebration, wedding or anniversary and want to celebrate in style. Then why not book Plantation Caribbean Bar and Restaurant and let us host your event. Seats 150 people

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Having a party and need someone to provide great Caribbean food, then you are in the right place. Call us today on 0117 907 9732 and let us quote you for great food ready to eat.

Had the buffet, was too scared to try the goat, but loved everything. My boyfriend thought the jerk chicken was too spicy, what a whimp! I loved it so ate his. The Spanish waitress sorted out some mild chicken from the kitchen for him. please thank her. I've never had Plantain chips cooked like that before, they were lush. Wish I could've eaten more

Thanks for a great night

" ah you cook that food? It was BOOM! Mi go to nearly all di Caribbean restaurants dem in Bristol, but your food tastes like food mi used to eat a Jamaica. Girl mi bringing mi family here fi a party. Well done, well done. Jah Bless...." Precious "

Baby girl the Jerk Chicken was the bomb. How you get it fi taste so good?"

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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Squeezing in a Few

We started school recently after being out of town for a week, so I haven't had much time for blogging. It's a pity, too, because there's plenty to tell -  especially about the dogs, but also about life in general, house guests, and what we've been doing with waffles.

I have quite a sewing task list, and I can't wait to get to it! Most of it is pretty easy stuff that just requires staying in my sewing room long enough to make it happen. Before digging into what is really necessary, I felt that I needed to get myself geared up to start checking off my list.
(Remember the "Round, round, ready, write!" warm-up from elementary cursive class? It's sort of like that.)

Pictured above is a little gift set I threw together for my dear cousin in Pennsylvania. She recently spent her 60th birthday in the hospital after having a second brain tumor surgery. This little gift seems rather lame in light of that, but she liked it, and I loved making something for her.
(She's one of those hard-to-buy-for people. You know, the ones who have everything already.)

I actually forgot to take photos of her gifts before mailing them, so she sent me a photo from her phone. Anyway, the long rectangular solid is a rice-filled heating pad. I bought that adorable Paris fabric at Hobby Lobby a couple of months ago, and my mom mentioned that Dee would love to have something made with it. She took a trip to Paris last year, and recently she bought a French Bull Dog and named her Paris.

I couldn't resist using the black Eiffel Tower fabric for a coordinating lavender-scented eye mask. It's a small gift, but I assure you that it was made with love, fervent prayer, and a longing to be by Dee's side through this harrowing time.

On a much, much lighter note, while doing some necessary cleaning/organizing, I unearthed a coffee stamp that I've had for a number of years. I have a vague memory of making either invitations or place cards for an Army wives' get-together (which we called a "coffee") at our house in Ft. Benning, GA, back in 2001. It hasn't been used since then.

As soon as I looked at that stamp, I knew what I wanted to do.

I had some leftover burlap from our favorite coffee shop in Maputo, Moçambique. All that was needed was a fabric ink pad.
 I've wanted to make a mug rug for my friend, Terri, but these burlap coffee-stamped coasters seemed more fitting for her style.
I love them, and so does she!

Once I had finished the burlap set for Terri, I just had to keep going. I wanted to try a different fabric and make a set without frayed edges. The fabric below is leftover from Craig's Africa wallhanging.

The backing is leftover from a messenger bag.

All of this coaster-making is becoming addictive and has my creative juices flowing. Inspired by a travel cup I bought recently at the science center - and being a nerdy homeschool mom - I dusted off my hand embroidery supplies and transferred the molecular structure of caffeine onto some squares for another set:

I think this is my favorite set.

I'm posting this in hopes that Amy will do a Sew & Tell this weekend for August. If not, that's OK. At least I will have mustered up a blog post! I have a lot of catching up to do.

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I ran it this year too. It was a great race - my fastest finish ever.

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Backfire Moto

Discussion in 'Westside' started by soopahok996, Jun 4, 2012.

  1. Does anyone from PNW riders go to, or has been to, one of these?

    I'm scrambling to finish my cafe project to try to make it to the next Backfire bike night.

    Also, is there anyone in the Maple Valley - Auburn - Renton area that would like to get together and ride to Ballard for the June 20th Backfire?
  2. I go to backfire moto. If you see me, come say hello and check out some cool cafe racers with me.
  3. I was talking to a guy yesterday about it and would like to go. He was saying there can be upwards of 1000 bike there....that seems like a stretch but I would like to see for myself. I am 88% in depending on work
  4. If you do a search there are a couple of posts about this...I go myself and on nice days there are tons of bikes. Good times! 8)
  5. I took the day off work to go so I am all in!

    Does any know of any other vintage or cafe bike events or get togethers? I'd love to get to check out some real life vintage bikes instead of just on BikeEXIF or Return of the Cafe Racers websites. It seems everyone I know and ride with has modern bikes.
  6. Is it going on this week?
  7. every 3rd the 20th right?
  8. Third Wednesday of every month, so its the 20th this month.
  9. Thank You Capt. Obvisous! crackup:
  10. I'll be heading down for sure.
    1000's of bikes is a stretch....but 100's fer sure.
    I usually leave Renton about 4ish.
    Very few bikes are there before 4.
    Should be on my cafe Beemer for this one. (It'll be her 1st Backfire):mrgreen:
    If you wanna ride down together send me a PM.

    There is a newer bike-night that I haven't been to yet called Capitol Hill Climb. First Wednesday of the Month @ Moe Bar.
    If you go, post up. Let me know how it was.
  11. Just go and don't be shy....Lots of rat bikes, and associated clubs, just ask guys/gals.

    If the weather is great, you see a lot of bikes, not 1000's, but a lot....

    Stay for the moped burn out competition... :mfclap:
  12. Wyckedan

    Seattle, Wa
    I Ride:
    RSV4 Factory
    Always seem to go down the night before a trackday. If you see a taped up all black R6, that'll be me!
  13. Hey look at that, I've been promoted from Lt Oblivious to Capt Obvious!

    Thanks for the feedback, let's hope mother nature complies.
  14. 1st Wednesday of each month on cap hill...

    First Wednesday of the Month @ Moe Bar
    $2 Rainiers

    Motorcycles arent just machines, theyre symbols of freedom. Freedom to do what we want. The culture that grows from the love of this freedom comes in every shape and form. From period authentic restorations and classic 60′s choppers to cafe-racers and modern bikes the Seattle motorcycle scene houses every genre and expression of this labor of love. Come help us celebrate pacific northwest motorcycle culture the first Wednesday of every month at the Capitol Hill Climb. Capture the moment with us as we display some amazing bikes, swap awestriking stories and wash it all down with $2 Rainiers.

    Seattle Capitol Hill Climb 2012.

  15. This used to be EPIC, but I haven't been down there (the Seattle one) but twice last year... and it was rather slow, turn-out-wise. Showed up a tad late once, and they were rolling up the sidewalk. As in, shutting down. Not... oh, crap, never mind, you mean what I know.

    BUT: A damn worthy club!!!!

    Seattle VME meetings are held the first Wednesday of every month at Bogart's Tavern, 3924 Airport Way, Seattle at 7 pm. (not far from Smarty Pants)

    VME South Sound meetings are held on the third Thursday at Mona Italian Restaurant, 6104 6th Ave in Tacoma, 7pm. (love those mona's!)

    VME North Sound meetings are held on the third Saturday at Firewheel Books and Beans, 2820 Oakes Ave., Everett at 10:30 a.m. (can't see to read for all the tooting going on, it's blinding!)

  16. Trying to get my BSA finished, but I doubt it will be by the next one. Probably the July one.
    Posted via PNW Riders Mobile
  17. Well, i got the old CB running for the first time in a year. Started the second push of the button! Sounded great and warmed right up until the seal on the oil filter gave out and it barfed oil all over the place. And the fuel valve has a slow weeping leak. No luck for me.

    Still scrambling, still hoping to make it.
  18. I've been to a few of there before and since the weather is forecasted to be nice I plan to go and might do little ride beforehand.

    Don't have a cafe racer but go to see some real cool looking bike, see and be seen. See you there.
    #18 Diva, Jun 17, 2012
    Last edited: Jun 17, 2012
  19. I try to go any time it's nice out, don't really have a café racer either but the ones I have seem to fit in.:scratchea

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Cierrah Smiles

Alone - Poem by Cierrah Smiles

Walking down a large hallway using all my might to keep whats left of my eyes shielded from the rest of the world,
Listen to the talk and laughter wonder if their laughing at you,
You open your eyes cause you can't hold it any longer,
No laughter,
No comment for you feel so alone,
So blocked from the world,
Cause it can't let you in no matter your cry's,
1000s of people look at you and you don't feel so alone but crowded by people who couldn't care less,
You take a deep breath and take a couple step,
isn't so hard till you take another breath

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  • Gold Star - 30,424 Points Gangadharan Nair Pulingat (9/8/2014 11:58:00 PM)

    Loneliness and feeling alone in the world is a sad thing and here a beautiful poem and it is liked.. (Report) Reply

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    It reminds me of the book Skinny by Donna Cooner. If it rhymed it would be more powerful. (Report) Reply

  • Gold Star - 4,937 Points Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi (9/8/2014 10:53:00 AM)

    it is nature's great law to get used to the loneliness. at first we may feel the loneliness and then it will become the part of our 'normal' life.. (Report) Reply

  • Gold Star - 32,133 Points Chinedu Dike (9/8/2014 5:11:00 AM)

    Nice poem. The greatest crime against fellow man is neither HATE nor LOVE but an attitude of INDIFFERENCE. Thanks for sharing. (Report) Reply

  • Bronze Star - 2,271 Points Bernard Snyder (9/8/2014 2:00:00 AM)

    Nice poem. Sometimes, being alone gives us a better perspective about life! Thanks for sharing! (Report) Reply

  • Freshman - 558 Points Tribhawan Kaul (9/8/2014 1:35:00 AM)

    Loneliness perfectly expressed. Congratulations it being selected as poem of the day. (Report) Reply

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    You are never alone if you stand by yourself (Report) Reply

  • Veteran Poet - 1,022 Points Leslie Philibert (9/8/2013 3:59:00 AM)

    A very brillant poem, written in perfect English... (Report) Reply

  • Gold Star - 10,063 Points Heather Wilkins (6/22/2013 10:55:00 AM)

    a good write. expressing loneliness. enjoyed (Report) Reply

  • Rookie - 26 Points Anita Sehgal (9/8/2012 2:21:00 AM)

    alone and lonely in a crowd... great share (Report) Reply

  • Silver Star - 4,272 Points Howard 'the motivational poet' Simon (8/10/2012 9:51:00 PM)

    Loaded with lonliness. Thanks for sharing (Report) Reply

  • Rookie - 48 Points Joe Foster (5/13/2012 12:12:00 AM)

    Thats deep. nice poem. (Report) Reply

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Poem Edited: Monday, April 9, 2012

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Stay Away From The Pub - Poem by Philip Carter

The message I got was simple
Direct and to the point
If I turned up at the pub
My nose would out of joint
Whether that means I will be hit
Or just be in the way
The threat seemed to imply
That in someway I will pay
This warning came from a friend
Who I'm sure is on my side
But just in case he isn't
In my fears I won't confide
So for lunch I will go
To a different place
In the hope, no one there
Will punch me in the face.

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This poem came to me, when I was told not to go to a certain pub, on a particular day.

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Inexorable Journey

Usually I put a quote of the week at the bottom of my blog, but this week, the quote is the blog.

This comes from material that the author, agent, and teacher Donald Maass said at a workshop over the weekend.

Writing is about custom-building the hardest journey our protagonist can make. Too many writers write what happens next. This is a plot journey, which is a skeleton. Plots and skeletons are important, but if all you have is the skeleton, the story is going to be boney and incomplete.

The inner journey is an inexorable voyage from one strongly-held mindset to an even better and, usually, more flexible world view, equally strongly-held, but which requires more compassion, understanding, and humanity than the protagonist though him or herself capable of possessing.
~ Condensed from presentation by Donald Maass, 2013 May 4

I believe this is true. Care to discuss it?

How do we switching from writing plot-based stories to journey-based stories?

Leslie Budewitz said...

Sharon, I love this. I attended Don's week-long Breakout Novel Workshop last year, and it changed my writing in ways I never imagined. Not always easy to apply some of his lessons in the confines of cozy mystery -- but I'm working on it! Thanks for sharing this.

Sharon Wildwind said...

This was my 3.5 time in one of his workshops. The 0.5 was an abbreviated presentation at a convention. I always learn SO MUCH each time.

I think what's different in traditional mysteries is how the focus is applied. In The Black Moment that he talks about, my character's black moment isn't going to have the same characteristics as say Harlan Coben or Stieg Larsson, but it will still be a moment that changes my character's life direction.


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Technical Machines (TMs)
# Name Type Location
1 Focus Punch Fighting Route 115: Surf north.
2 Dragon Claw Dragon Meteor Falls (Requires Surf and Waterfall)
3 Water Pulse Water Sootopolis Gym: Defeat Gym Leader
4 Calm Mind Psychic Mossdeep Gym: Defeat Gym Leader
5 Roar Normal Route 114: Talk to the old man next to the Poochyena.
6 Toxic Poison Fiery Path (Requires Strength)
7 Hail Ice Shoal Cave: Ice section.
8 Bulk Up Fighting Dewford Gym: Defeat Gym Leader
9 Bullet Seed Grass Route 110: Trick House
10 Hidden Power Normal Slateport City: Sold in shop after obtaining 4th badge.
11 Sunny Day Fire Route 120: Inside Cave (Requires Surf)
12 Taunt Dark Route 110: Trick House
13 Ice Beam Ice Mauville City: Game Corner; Abandoned Ship (Requires Dive)
14 Blizzard Ice Lilycove City: Department Store
15 Hyper Beam Normal Lilycove City: Department Store
16 Light Screen Psychic Lilycove City: Department Store
17 Protect Normal Lilycove City: Department Store
18 Rain Dance Water Abandoned Ship (Requires Dive)
19 Giga Drain Grass Mt. Pyre: Girl next to three Berry trees.
20 Safeguard Normal Lilycove City: Department Store
21 Frustration Normal Pacifidlog Town: Once a week if your Pokemon doesn't like you.
22 Solar Beam Grass Safari Zone (Requires Surf)
23 Iron Tail Steel Meteor Falls
24 Thunderbolt Electric Mauville City: Game Corner; Help Mauville Gym Leader by going to New Mauville.
25 Thunder Electric Lilycove City: Department Store
26 Earthquake Ground Route 128: Seafloor Cavern
27 Return Normal Pacifidlog Town: Once a week from person with 2 Azurill.
28 Dig Ground Route 114: Talk to the little kid inside the house.
29 Psychic Psychic Mauville City: Game Corner; Champion Road
30 Shadow Ball Ghost Mt. Pyre
31 Brick Break Fighting Sootopolis City
32 Double Team Normal Route 113: Press "A" against the bump next to the little house.
33 Reflect Normal Lilycove City: Department Store
34 Shockwave Electric Mauville Gym: Defeat Gym Leader
35 Flamethrower Fire Mauville City: Game Corner
36 Sludge Bomb Poison Dewford Town: House above Pokemon Center.
37 Sandstorm Ground Route 111: South of sandstorm section.
38 Fire Blast Fire Lilycove City: Department Store
39 Rock Tomb Rock Rustboro Gym: Defeat Gym Leader
40 Aerial Ace Flying Fortree Gym: Defeat Gym Leader
41 Torment Dark Slateport City: Win Contest
42 Facede Normal Petalburg Gym: Defeat Gym Leader
43 Secret Power Rock Route 111: Talk to guy facing the trees.
44 Rest Normal Lilycove City: Obtain from old man in the east.
45 Attract Normal Route 110: Trick House
46 Thief Dark Slateport Museum: Talk to Team M/A member.
47 Steel Wing Steel Route 106 Cave: Talk to person at end of the cave.
48 Skill Swap Psychic Mt. Pyre
49 Snatch Dark Man in Ferryboat.
50 Overheat Fire Lavaridge Gym: Defeat Gym Leader

Hidden Machines (HMs)
# Name Type Location
1 Cut Normal Rustboro City: Old man in the house next to the Pokemon Center.
2 Fly Flying Fortree City: Beat Rival.
3 Surf Water Petalburg City: House besides the gym.
4 Strength Normal Rusturf Tunnel: Smash rocks and talk to Karate Person.
5 Flash Electric Route 106 Cave: Talk to person near entrance.
6 Rock Smash Fighting Mauville City: Talk to person in the house to the right of the PokeMart.
7 Waterfall Water Kyogre/Groudon Lair
8 Dive Water Mossdeep City: Steven's house.


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#073 Tentacruel 073 Type WaterType Poison
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Stephan's Zebstrika
Kenyan's Zeburaika
Trainer: Stephan
Ability: Unknown
Debut: BW031: Oshawott's Lost Scalchop!
Episode captured: Prior to BW031
Caught where: Unova
Current location: With Stephan
Evolved: 10 as a Blitzle
Evolves In: Prior to BW041

Stephan's Zebstrika is the first Pokémon Stephan was revealed to have who first appeared as a Blitzle and was revealed to have evolved in to Zebstrika during the Don George Club Battle Tournament.

Zebstika's first appearance was in "Oshawott's Lost Scalchop!" as a Blitzle battling against Ash's Oshawott twice. The first time it was called off due to Oshawott's Scalchop being lost, but the second time, it had to cope with a heavy rock scalchop made by Cilan's Dwebble. While that schalchop broke, Oshawott's training to cope with the new Scalchop made him much faster without it. In the end, Oshawott's uncontrollable Aqua Jet and Blitzle's Flame Charge are side to side, heading for a rock. However, Oshawott randomly veers to the side, which left Blitzle to crash into the rock.

800px-Kenyan Blitzle

As a Blitzle

When Stephan next appeared, Zebstrika was newly evolved and battled Bianca's Minccino in the first round of the Don Battle Tournament. It was laughing hard from Tickle, followed by suffering from Hyper Voice. However, Zebstrika lands a Double Kick, and finishes him with Stomp.

It next battled against Ash's Palpitoad in "Strong Strategy Steals the Show!," and hit it with a Double Edge and crushed him with Stomp. Palpitoad then came back and did massive damage with Sludge Wave, and also poisoned Zebstrika. Zebstrika suffered, but fought back with Facade which did double the damage due to the poison. However, a second Facade is countered with Supersonic, causing Zebstrika to bash his head into a wall, and then scored a direct hit with Hydro Pump. After Zebsrika struck him hard with Giga Impact, Palpitoad fought back with Mud Shot, which knocked Zebstrika out. However, Mud Shot propelled Palpitoad backwards and crashed him into a wall, resulting in a double KO.

Known moves

Move Episode
Stephan Zebstrika Shock Wave
Shock Wave Oshawott's Lost Scalchop!
Flame Charge Oshawott's Lost Scalchop!
Double Kick Oshawott's Lost Scalchop!
Stomp + Oshawott's Lost Scalchop!
Thunderbolt + Curtain Up, Unova League!
Giga Impact + Curtain Up, Unova League!
Double-Edge + Strong Strategy Steals the Show!
Facade + Strong Strategy Steals the Show!
+ indicates this Pokémon used this move recently.*
- indicates this Pokémon normally can't use this move.

  • When Zebstrika is mentioned in the game, it says it knows Flame Charge, even if not used in the anime after BW031.
  • Zebstrika is Stephan's #1 partner but Sawk is stronger in comparison.
  • Zebstrika is extremely related to Morimato's Zebstrika:
  1. It's at high level
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Waterfall Colusseum is a Colosseum in Pokémon Battle Revolution. This Colosseum can be unlocked when completed the Gateway or Main Street Colosseum, the rule conditions in Waterfall Colosseum is a Team Battle where you and your opponent have to select their pokemon in numbered order but cannot switch out. By defeating 6 trainers you'll face the Colosseum Leader: Marina

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These trainers appear under this colosseum and also appear later in the difficult ranks.

  1. Damon: PIKACHU Fan
  2. Harry: Bug Catching Man (Bug Type)
  3. Desiree: Leader-In-Training
  4. Sierra: Swimming Club Member
  5. Ruben: Passionate Rider
  6. River: Youthful Couple
  7. Marina: Colosseum Leader

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These trainers appear in the difficult ranks once beaten the game.

  1. Blake: Traveling Guy
  2. Savannah: Three Sisters (Ghost Type)
  3. Alan: Challenger
  4. Ciara: Leader-In-Training
  5. Chris: Fighting Man (Fighting Type)
  6. Tiana: Twins
  7. Micah: Three Brothers (Fighting Type)
  8. Penny: High Tech Maniac
  9. Steven: Magician's Apperentice
  10. Tiera: Twins
  11. Buck: Lone Wolf
  12. Dexter: Timber Kid (Grass Type)
  13. Leslie: Hiking Club Member
  14. Martin: Hiking Boy
  15. Audric: Surfing Guy (Water Type)
  16. Hugh: Expedition Member
  17. Erick: Pokeball Collector
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The Legislative Ethics Commission filed a “notice of reasonable cause” Tuesday against a lawmaker for just the second time since it was created in 2007, claiming Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland’s relationship with a hospital in his district may have violated the state’s ethics law.

Boyland, a Democrat, was charged along with Sen. Carl Kruger, D-Brooklyn, in federal court in March with two counts of conspiracy and one count of money laundering in connection with the alleged scheme. The U.S. Attorney’s Office claims the duo in March, saying they participated in bribes, kickbacks and influence peddling to drive state contracts to their various interests, including the Brookdale University Hospital.

The commission said Boyland “maintained a financial relationship” with the hospital “which constituted a substantial conflict of interest” for the Assemblyman.

Tuesday’s charge marks the first time the commission has acted against a sitting lawmaker, and its first action since filing a similar claim against already ousted (corrected) Sen. Hiram Monseratte, alleging that the senator solicited contributions to his legal defense fund from clients and lobbyists. Monseratte was previously ejected from the Senate by his colleagues after he was convicted of a misdemeanor following a domestic violence incident.

The Legislative Ethics Commission was established in 2007 in an attempt to beef up the state’s legislative ethics laws. It’s headed by Sen. Andrew Lanza, R-Staten Island, and Manhattan Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, a Democrat.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been pushing for an ethics overhaul for the Legislature, pushing for an independent panel to oversee lawmakers while blasting the current form of “self-policing” as ineffective at stops around the state.

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Obama scored two endorsements from papers in key states.

(CNN) - Barack Obama scored endorsements from The Denver Post and the Miami Herald Saturday, two major newspapers in key battleground states.

In an editorial posted on the paper's Web site and set to run in its Sunday edition, the Denver Post praised the Illinois senator as "the right man to lead America back to prosperity."

"In unsteady times, it may seem obvious to gravitate toward the veteran politician, but in this campaign, it's been the newcomer who has had the steady hand," the paper's editorial said.

The Denver Post also praised Obama's history as a community organizer and said it well prepared him to lead the country through its current financial woes.

“Republicans love to mock Obama's history as a community organizer," the paper said. "But here was a man with no money to offer, no patronage to dispense, no way to punish his opponents. All he could do was to work with people from all walks of life, liberals and conservatives, business people and the unemployed, and bring them together in common cause for a better community. Could there really be better preparation to reunite a worried and divided America to again pursue our "more perfect union"?

The Miami Herald lauded Obama's handling of the nearly two-year long presidential campaign and said he offers "pragmatic solutions for problems instead of relying on ideology and worn-out slogans."

"Sen. Obama represents the best chance for America to make a clean break with the culture wars and failed policies of the past, and begin to restore the hope and promise of America as the world's greatest democracy," The Herald wrote.

The Denver Post endorsed President Bush's reelection bid in 2004 while the Miami Herald endorsed Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign.

With polls showing a tight race in both Colorado and Florida, the Obama campaign will certainly welcome any extra support in those states. But on the whole, newspaper editorials haven't shown to make much of a difference on the presidential level, CNN Senior Correspondent Candy Crowley said.

"They don't really tend to move voters one way or the other," she said. "I think they take the editorial page for what it is."

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Conservative support is splintering in the Shires, a poll placed before ministers earlier this month has revealed.

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    Blair warns of limit to Post Office support

    The government will do what it can to stop the decline of the UK's post offices but "there is a limit" to the amount of financial support it can give, Tony Blair has said.

  • Farmers had paid up to £22.5 million because of payment delays, auditors said

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    The delays in delivering the single farm payment scheme left English farmers with a bill of between £18 million and £22.5 million, a new report warns.

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The Voice‘ is trouncing ‘X Factor‘ in the ratings, and it looks to be pulling out all the stops for its finale, attracting top-level talent to perform. The final episode of Season 5 of the super popular singing show will feature Lady Gaga and Celine Dion performing, along with Ne-Yo and OneRepublic.

That’s a “can’t miss” cast of performers.

USA Today reports that Gaga will perform her latest romp ‘Do What U Want,’ while Dion and Ne-Yo will duet for ‘Incredible,’ which appears on the Canadian singer’s ‘Loved Me Back to Life’ album. OneRepublic will rock ‘I Lived.’

Apparently, they won’t be the only ones performing. More artists will be announced in the next few days. So even if you’ve not watched this season and its heated competition, you have at least three reasons to tune in!

The two-hour finale is set for Tuesday, Dec. 17 at 9PM ET. That’s when we find out who will take the crown for the fifth season. The show is enjoying an increase in viewers on both nights that it airs, ensuring that it’s here to stay!

Make that ‘hear’ to stay, since we’ll be hearing plenty of new voices in the upcoming seasons.

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We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again– hell hath no fury like a Taylor Swift scorned. The ACM Awards were kind of a rough night for T. Swizzle who was none too happy that her ex John Mayer was also in attendance.

According to a source, when Taylor learned that Mayer would be taking the stage first, she was ticked off and insisted her performance with Tim McGraw and Keith Urban precede John’s. The insider said, “John just being there irked her.” Here’s our advice to the ’22′ songstress, perhaps calling out the name of your ex-boyfriend in song (see: ‘Dear John’) will make your inevitable encounters with them markedly less awkward.

However, even though award show producers cowed to Swift’s demands, another insider said Taylor was not a happy camper because she didn’t win any of the five awards she was nominated for. Don’t worry, Taylor, you can practice your surprised face at the billions of other award shows you’ll appear at from now until eternity. Plus, she’s won like a bajillion awards now. Let someone else have a chance! Being a good loser is as important as being a humbled winner.

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Methanex Corp. of Canada, a manufacturer of MTBE, a carcinogenic gasoline additive that has been leaking into ground water in California and elsewhere, has filed suit with an international trade tribunal to force California to reimburse the corporation for losses after Gov. Gray Davis ordered a phaseout of the chemical by 2002. Methanex says under the North American Free Trade Agreement, if government carries out the ban it will have to pay the corporation for lost profits estimated at $1 billion.

Robert W. Benson, who teaches international trade and environmental law at Loyola Law School and is co-director of the National Lawyers Guild's Project for Human, Economic and Environmental Defense, wrote June 24 in the Los Angeles Times, "The company's suit would be tossed out of any federal court because under the Constitution, government doesn't have to pay for lost business expectations when it regulates. In fact, Republicans failed to get a 'regulatory takings' bill through the last Congress that would have reversed that rule; opponents pointed out that the fanatical bill would either bankrupt government or force repeal of most regulations.

"Methanex, however, is not in federal court. It is in the quiet, confidential dispute resolution process set up under the North American Free Trade Agreement. The free-trade ideologues who drafted NAFTA saw nothing fanatical about putting a regulatory takings clause into the treaty. Now the price is being paid."

In a case much like Methanex's, the Ethyl Corp. of the United States sued Canada for banning Ethyl's toxic gasoline additive, MMT. Advised that it would lose the NAFTA case, Canada apologized to Ethyl, paid $13 million to settle and repealed its law.

In similar cases, a California company, Metalclad, is suing Mexico for $90 million for the lost business opportunity to run a hazardous waste dump in San Luis Potosi after angry residents objected. S.D. Myers Inc., an Ohio firm that incinerates PCBs, is suing Canada for $20 million in lost business after Canada, as part of an international environmental treaty, forbade shipments of PCBs out of the country. A Canadian funeral business, Loewen Group Inc., is suing the U.S. for $725 million because a Mississippi jury found it had engaged in fraud. The civil court system of Mississippi amounts to an unfair burden on its business, Loewen claims, entitling it to compensation under NAFTA from the U.S. government.

"The regulatory takings clause is but one of numerous provisions in NAFTA assuring that, when trade clashes with the environment or social values, trade always wins," Benson wrote. "The same is true of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the proposed Africa trade bill [which the House approved on July 16] and proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment. The drafters of these documents, ignorant of basic ecological economics, assumed that we would always be better off if trade trumped all other values, including Mother Nature. The environment, labor and human rights are systematically subordinated to trade in all these laws. Thus, under the GATT, we have recently lost challenges to our federal laws on dolphins, sea turtles and dirty imported gasoline."

President Clinton told the World Trade Organization last year that "we must do more to ensure that spirited economic competition among nations never becomes a race to the bottom -- in environmental protections, consumer protections or labor standards." But neither Clinton nor Vice President Al Gore propose to repair the gaping loopholes in the trade treaties.

California Dems Kill Green Bills

Audie Bock's sponsorship of a bill to create a resource center on workplace safety for young people apparently was enough to usher the otherwise uncontroversial bill to a graveyard committee of the California Assembly. Democratic lawmakers simply couldn't allow the nation's first-ever Green Party lawmaker to build a record of accomplishment on which to seek re-election next year.

The labor-supported measure had no organized opposition, it did not require a lot of money -- $250,000 -- and it had support from a broad coalition of employers, labor groups, students and educators. Bock and some Democrats believed the bill would easily win approval. Instead, it was sent to the Assembly Appropriations Committee's "suspense file," where many costly and controversial bills languish.

Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa, D-Los Angeles, denied that Democratic leaders plotted to block the measure. "I've got to believe her

legislation is treated no differently from Democratic or Republican legislation," he told the Oakland Tribune. But several Democrats in the Legislature privately told the Tribune that the bill was defeated because party leaders wanted to deny Bock, a 53-year-old single mother and political newcomer who pulled a stunning upset over former Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris in March, any accomplishments in her first term.

Already, several Democrats -- including Harris -- have announced they'll seek to challenge her next year in the predominantly Democratic district.

Among Bock's supporters is Dick Floyd, a maverick Democratic Assemblyman from Wilmington who was her seatmate during Bock's first day in the Legislature. The pair were separated the next day because they were getting along too well, Floyd told the Tribune. Floyd said Bock is being stymied by Democrats because her election in a district where Democrats outnumber Greens 49-1 was viewed as a colossal embarrassment. Democrats, who control both houses of the Legislature, are going out of their way to make Bock look ineffective so she won't have anything to bring back to voters in her district, he said. But it may backfire. "(They're) not damaging her,' he said. "(they're) damaging the voters in that district, the citizens of that district. Not just the voters, the schoolchildren, everybody who resides in that district."

Bock sponsored two bills after she arrived in April following the special election. One was the juvenile workplace safety bill and the other was a measure that would have tightened reporting requirements of toxic dioxin emissions at medical waste incinerator plants. The dioxin measure was defeated on the Assembly floor in a 23-38 vote as 18 Democrats abstained from voting, despite a Democratic Party analysis recommending an "aye" vote on the bill.

"I'm told not to take it personally because everybody gets here and loses two-thirds, three-quarters, ninety percent of what they put forward as bills," Bock told the Tribune. "But on the other hand, I only had two bills. So for me, it was very significant that the choice was made to kill both of them when one had no opposition and the other had opposition only from Republicans."

Prisoners Replace Workers

A South Georgia recycling plant fired workers hired off welfare to sort trash for $5.25 an hour, replacing them with free convict labor, bypassing a Georgia law that prohibits prisoners' taking the place of paid employees. Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor acted as an intermediary between the Georgia Department of Corrections and the Crisp County Solid Waste Management Authority to send 36 inmates from the women's prison in Pulaski County to work at the plant eight hours a day, five days a week, sorting recyclables from garbage trucked in from dozens of nearby towns and counties, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported June 19. Ten of the 35 workers who were fired are back on welfare, the paper reported. Taylor said he did not know the inmates would be taking jobs away from Georgians coming off government assistance.

20% Had Difficulty Satisfying Basic Needs

One in five Americans lived in a household whose members had difficulty satisfying basic needs in 1995, according to the Census Bureau.

The report, Extended Measures of Well-Being: Meeting Basic Needs, 1995, takes a look at households who didn't make mortgage or rent payments, failed to pay utility bills and/or had service shut off, didn't get enough to eat, needed to see a doctor or dentist but didn't or otherwise could not meet essential expenses.

"For most of those who had difficulty meeting a basic need in 1995, it was not an isolated incident," said report author Kurt Bauman. "More than half (54 percent) experienced more than one of these problems."

More than one-third (18.1 million) of all people living in households with unmet basic needs were children (under 18 years old).

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Taking Aim's Mya Shone and Ralph Schoenman interview Ralph Poynter, husband of attorney Lynne Stewart who is currently a political prisoner in the Carswell Federal Prison facility outside of Fort Worth, TX.
Please watch this important video on Politube for further information about Lynne, her appeal, and these events.
About the Court Argument on the 29th of February(From Lynne's Website)
By Lynne Stewart

After the disaster in July 2010, when Judge Koeltl, following the directives of the Second Circuit increased my sentence from 28 months to 10 years, our righteous indignation fueled this appeal. The government's argument will center on my testimony at trial and the alleged perjury. All of those facts were before the Court at the time of the 28 month sentence and were not the basis then of a double digit sentence.

Our Brief attacks the increased sentence on two different fronts -one on a doctrine of "substantive unreasonableness" meaning it's just too much of an increase, five fold ? given the circumstances. Secondly, we argued that the only "new" information before the Judge were my statements after my first sentence in October of 2008 and remarks I made on the Courthouse steps before I surrendered to prison. We contend strongly that this is protected speech under the First Amendment of the Constitution, and cannot be used to increase or as a basis for sentencing. (even if they hate it !!!)

The same group of 3 Judges that heard and decided the original appeal will also hear the arguments on the 29th. The government is not asking for more time; they are satisfied with their pound of flesh but it is not likely that this Court will take any action that will help me. The times are askew for prisoners and their lawsuits.

The lawyers that argued in July of 2010 will be on board with the addition of Herald Price Fahringer, an eminent attorney in the First Amendment field (the win in the Larry Flynt Hustler case in the US Supreme Court was his. He was also in the line of fire (no injuries) when the shooting took place.) He will enthusiastically present our case. I will not be present -not unusual once imprisoned. But my spirit will be there to inspire !!!

Of course, my case has always been government firing warning shots to Lawyers, that a vigorous defense, of certain clients, if not conforming to government specifications, will be punished severely . This chill effect in these days that we are confronted with Grand Jury investigations and dismantling of Occupations is not something we should contemplate with anything less than alarm. I have just finished David Gilbert's book (Love Struggle) and the intercession of lawyers when there are arrests of designated enemies of the "state" are the only meaningful protection available.

A Large Outpouring of Support in Foley Square and Tom Paine Park and in the Courtroom will signal to these arbiters of "Justice" that attention must be paid, the 99% are watching them with suspicion and tallying up the roads not taken.

Lynne's appeal will begin at 10 AM on Wed, Feb 29, 2012 and people are encouraged to participate in the following events to stand up for "The People's Lawyer", Lynne Stewart: (1) Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 5 PM - at Tom Paine Park (AKA: Foley Square Park), just beside the Federal Courthouse at 500 Pearl Street where Lynne's appeal will be heard: OCCUPY TOM PAINE PARK!!! Come out and stay over night in the park to let the government know that we dissent from the use of incarceration as a tool of political terror.

(2) Wed, Feb 29, 2012, 10 AM - at 500 Pearl Street, the Federal Courthouse: RALLY TO FREE LYNNE STEWART AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!!!

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Human evolution: Oldest human remains found in Israel?

Daniel Estrin reports for MSNBC ( 12/27/2010 ),
JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists said Monday that they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern humans, and if the find is confirmed, it could upset theories of the origin of humans.

A Tel Aviv University team excavating a cave in central Israel said teeth found in the cave are about 400,000 years old and resemble those of other remains of modern humans, known scientifically as Homo sapiens, found in Israel. The earliest Homo sapiens remains found until now are half as old.

"It's very exciting to come to this conclusion," said archaeologist Avi Gopher, whose team examined the teeth with X-rays and CT scans and dated them according to the layers of earth where they were found.

He stressed that further research is needed to solidify the claim. If it does, he said, "this changes the whole picture of evolution."

The accepted scientific theory is that Homo sapiens originated in Africa and migrated out of the continent starting sometime around 80,000 years ago. Gopher said if the remains are definitively linked to Homo sapiens, it could mean that modern humans in fact originated in what is now Israel.
Well, then, we all have the right of return, I guess.

On the other hand, most of these types of claims, the early press notices are the last you ever hear of them.

From Uncommon Descent: Falls da rain. People are starting to talk openly about Darwinism’s failures

30 December 2010

New Peer-Reviewed Paper Challenges Darwinian Evolution
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Over recent months, papers challenging key elements of Darwinian theory — the kind of papers which are supposed not to exist — have increasingly been slipping through the net and finding their way into the peer-reviewed literature. One such paper, “Is gene duplication a viable explanation for the origination of biological information and complexity?,” authored by Joseph Esfandier Hannon Bozorgmeh and published online last week in the journal, Complexity, challenges the standard gene duplication/divergence model regarding the origin of evolutionary novelty. Read more here
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Bozorgmehr winds up drawing similar conclusions to those drawn by Behe in his recent Quarterly Review of Biology paper: While many mutations can, at first glance, appear to have resulted in evolutionary novelty (such as in the case of antibiotic resistance), closer inspection reveals that the selected adaptations do not, in fact, result in novel genetic components. Bozorgmehr explains that "[i]n many instances...a loss of function and regulation in a harsh or unusual environment can have a beneficial outcome and thus be selected for -- bacteria tend to evolve resistance to antibiotics in such a way through mutations that would otherwise adversely affect membrane permeability," (see Delcour 2009). One example cited in the paper concerns the acquisition of organophosphorus insecticide resistance in blowflies, which is conferred by a single amino acid substitution in a carboxyl esterase. But this insecticide resistance -- though adaptively selected -- is not a case of neo-functionalization, but rather a loss in enzyme activity (Newcomb et al. 1997).
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I wonder if they’ll force this guy to recant. Maybe not. It would sound a bit tinny just now, wouldn’t it?

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Barbara Forrest, has explored what she believes are the religious implications of neo-Darwinism and astronomy in her article, “The Possibility of Meaning in Human Evolution,” Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 35.4 (Dec 2000), 861-889. She writes (p. 862, notes omitted):

We have established scientifically some disquieting facts: (1) human beings have evolved from nonhuman life forms, meaning that (2) at one time we did not exist, and that (3) according to paleontological and astronomical evidence, at some time in the future we shall cease to exist. Furthermore, from a scientific standpoint, there is no discernible reason that we had to evolve in the first place, and there is no guarantee that we shall continue to evolve successfully; more hominid species have become extinct than have survived. The price of such knowledge has been the gnawing question of whether human existence has genuine meaning if it was constructed with cranes rather than supported by skyhooks, as Daniel Dennett says.

The problem of meaning is easily resolved for those who embrace a preconstructed system of meaning such as religion. However, religion cannot help us find meaning in any honest sense unless it can assimilate the truth about where human beings have come from, and the only real knowledge we have about where we came from we have acquired through science.
It’s convenient for Forrest - who has been accused of making her living by bashing design principles without understanding them - that no religion other than Darwinism would thrive by assimilating the “truth” that she imagines to be established “scientifically.” Actually, Dennett, whom she mentions, doesn’t seem sure that the human mind really exists, a position which ends the problem altogether, I guess.

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The Biggest Egg Of Them All

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The NRG electric generating station in Dunkirk seems to be the basket in which we have too many eggs....

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