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we just gonna pretend tebow didnt take a 1-4 team to the playoffs?
I turn on ESPN 2 to watch Mike & Mike and...
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How does this look ?
I can't discuss sports on any other board now
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Stream for Pats game?
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Any brahs use sportbook.com? Kinda wanna start betting..
you've changed bro.
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Tournament Tomorrow
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Aerobic mats
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And the home of the...
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2013 preseason week 1 AP poll
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Skip Bayless
GOAT Play in NCAAF last season
Overheard this gem at work last night(gtfih)(srs)(Montana Brady Young)
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Lettuce be reality about the NFL
100 rebounds 100 steals 100 assists and 100 blocks in 1 season
2k reps for cowboys preseaon game stream
Lets see how good this Arizona defense really is
Bad news Bills
can u brahs critique my fantasy team second ever draft
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2001 Lakers vs. Kings on Hardwood Classics...
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Blaine Gabbert just...
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Yeah guys mariners dont score runs for felix guys
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Wtf with the reem?
Derek Wolfe possibly with a cervical spine injury
How are you liking Fox Sports 1 so far?
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If this was a regular season game, Broncos/Hawks would have a record for penalties.
sports misc i can barely think straightq
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Post your 3 favorite players in the NFL
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Anyone just see Pam Oliver get blasted in the face just now?
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Brian Urlacher shouldn't be on TV
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first five that dont get negged
Wrestling: Skinny Male vs Female
Explain to me how A-Rod is still allowed to play?
Who is your favorite tall (6'0+) NFL player?
If posting on the sports misc was a sport id be the GOAT
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Dear sports misc,
Because it all comes down to Monday night...
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NFL season is like a week away and I'm not pumped for it
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Official predict the final BCS standings 2013 thread
Anybody have a link to the Bengals Hardknocks episodes? 22k reps
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crowd goes wild is painfully bad
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This article is about the city in Ireland. For other uses of the name, see Dublin (disambiguation).
Area: 114.99 km²
County: County Dublin
Population: 495,781 (2002)
Province: Leinster
Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey in the County Dublin. The name Dublin derives from the Irish Dubh Linn ("the Black Pool"); the modern Irish-language name Baile Átha Cliath ("The City of the Ford of the Reed Hurdles") refers to the settlement which adjoined the Black Pool.
The earliest reference to Dublin is in the writings of Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), the Greek astronomer and cartographer, around the year A.D. 140, who calls it Eblana.
Dublin has a population of some 495,000 (CSO Census 2002) within the official city boundary, though such a definition has become largely meaningless with the development and spread of suburbs and satellite towns over a wide surrounding area. The population of the city and county is in excess of 1,100,000 (CSO Census 2002). Though there is no exact agreed definition of the "Greater Dublin" area it would be generally accepted as including all of the city and county and parts of counties Wicklow, Kildare and Meath with the limits of the commuter belt stretching to a much greater distance.
2.2 Exhibitions
2.3 Northside vs Southside
2.4 Dublin 4
3.5 Communications
4.8 City Government
4.9 County Dublin
4.10 National Government
5 Famous Dubliners
5.11 Writers and composers
5.12 Entertainers
5.13 Politicians and Leaders
6 More Images
6.14 Further images
8 Additional reading
Main article: History of Dublin
Dublin has its origins back in the 10th century in the Viking settlement of An Dubh Linn (Black Pool) and the Celtic settlement Áth Cliath ("hurdle ford"). The modern city retains the anglicised Irish name of the former and the Irish of the latter. After the Norman invasion of Ireland Dublin displaced the Hill of Tara as Irelands capital, much of the power centering on Dublin Castle until independence. From the 17th century the city expanded rapidly helped by the Wide Streets Commission. The Easter Rising of 1916 left the capital in an unstable situation and the Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War left the capital in ruins, with many of its finest building distroyed. The Irish Free State rebult much of the cities buildings but took no bold tasks such as remodelling, it moved parliament into Leinster House. After The Emergency Dublin remained a capital out of time, modernisation was slow, the 1960s saw change start. In recent years the infrastructure has been changed immensly. The Dublin Area Rapid Transit allowed the city to have a transport system suited for any modern European city.
Since the beginning of English rule in the twelfth century the city has served as the capital of the island of Ireland in the varying geopolitical entities that existed; the Lordship of Ireland (1171-1541) and the Kingdom of Ireland (1541-1800), the island within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801-1922) and the Irish Republic (1919-1922). From 1921, following the partition of Ireland, it served as the capital of Southern Ireland (1921-1922) and the Irish Free State (1922-1937). (Many of these states co-existed or competed within the same timeframe as rivals within either British or Irish constitutional theory.)
Dublin is a major cultural centre in Ireland. Temple Bar is an important place for night life and often people from the UK and beyond visit for the weekend. Dublin is the origin of some prominant artists, the Dubliners is an anthology of short stories by James Joyce about Dubliners. Ulysses also by James Joyce, a novel set in Dublin, and it is full of topographical detail and is both aclaimed and controversial. The National Print Museum of Ireland and three centers of the National Museum of Ireland are located in Dublin.
1853 - Great Industrial Exhibition (1853)
1865 - International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures (1865)
Northside vs Southside
Traditionally a north versus south division has existed in Dublin, with the dividing line provided by the River Liffey. The Northside (written as one word) is generally poorer and more working class, while the Southside is seen as middle and upper class and wealthier. This is also reflected by Dublin postal districts, with odd numbers being used for districts on the Northside, e.g: Raheny is in Dublin 5, and even numbers for ones on the Southside, e.g: Sandymount is in Dublin 4.
This division dates back centuries, certainly to the point when the Earl of Kildare built his residence on the then less regarded Southside and was promptly followed by most other Irish peers. Paradoxically, while the Southside is wealthier, the President of Ireland's residence, Áras an Uachtaráin, is on the Northside, however its postal district is Dublin 8 which is a Southside number. The residence of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, and his Church of Ireland counterparts until the 1920s, are also on the Northside, whilst one of Dublin's wealthiest suburbs, the Hill of Howth is also on the Northside. The Southside also has many working-class suburbs, like Palmerstown, Crumlin, and Ballyfermot.
Dublin's middle class liberal elite are often described as Dublin 4, referring to one of the city's wealthiest postal districts, in which the studios of Radio Telifís Éireann (Ireland's main broadcasting network) is located, as are a number of elite schools. (The modern campus of University College Dublin is located on the boundary of Dublin 4.) Many politicians and political commentators live in Dublin 4, while Dublin 4 traditionally takes a strongly liberal stance in referenda on issues like abortion, divorce, etc.
Radio Telifís Éireann is Irelands national state broadcaster, has its main offices and studios in Dublin. Fair City is the broadcasters capital based soap, located in the fictional suburb of Carraigstown. TV3 the states only private television broadcaster is also located in the capital, much of its programming is imported, it aims to attract a young audience. The main infrastructure and offices of An Post and Eircom as well as Vodafone and mmO2 are located in the capital. The capital is also the location of important national newspapers and radio stations.
Dublin is the center of education in Ireland, having three universities. The University of Dublin is the oldest university in Ireland dating from the Trinity College, Dublin established by Royal Charter under Elizabeth I. The National University of Ireland has its seat in Dublin as well as the location of the associated constitutent university of University College Dublin. Dublin City University is the most recent university created in Ireland and specialises in business, engineering and science courses which are relevant to industry and prides itself on its research record. Dublin Institute of Technology is a modern technical college and is the countries largest non-university third level institution, it specialises in a wide technical but also has unique arts courses. Their are also various other smaller specialised colleges, including private, in the city.
Dublin is the center of the transport system in Ireland, see Transportation in Ireland. The Dublin Area Rapid Transit system is the states only electrified system and runs at regular intervals on the railway line along the east coast. The Luas light rail opened in June 2004 and it is hoped that it will usher a new era for south city and county Dublin, if successful a metro system might follow. Dublin Airport is the most important airport in the republic and the bulk of passenger traffic travels through the airport.
The 18th century Four Courts
The headquarters of Ireland's High and Supreme Courts.
Dublin City is governed by Dublin City Council (formerly called Dublin Corporation) which is presided over by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, who is elected for a yearly term and resides in the Mansion House, which first became the residence of the Lord Mayor in 1715. Dublin City Council is based in two major buildings. Its headquarters is in Dublin City Hall, the former Royal Exchange taken over for city government use in the 1850s. Many of its administrative staff are based in the controversial Civic Offices, built on top of what had been one of the best preserved Viking sites in the world. The Corporation's (as it was then) decision to bulldoze the historic site proved one of the most controversial in modern Irish history, with thousands of people, including medieval historian Fr. F.X. Martin and Senator Mary Robinson (later President of Ireland) marching to try to stop the destruction. The destruction of the site on Wood Quay and the building of a set of offices known as The Bunkers (because of how they looked) is generally seen as one of the most disastrous acts against Ireland's heritage since independence, with even Dublin Corporation admitting subsequently that it was ashamed of its action.
For centuries the city was administered by Dublin Corporation. The county containing Dublin, known as County Dublin, covers an area of 922 km² and contains over a million inhabitants. In 1994 the Dublin County Council (the area excluding the city) was divided into three districts, each with county-level status and its own administration, namely:
Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown
Leinster House
18th century ducal palace now the seat of parliament.
formerly the Royal Exchange
The Republic of Ireland's National Parliament (called Oireachtas Éireann) consists of the President of Ireland and two houses, Dáil Éireann (the House of Representatives) and Seanad Éireann (Senate). All three are based in Dublin. The President of Ireland lives in Áras an Uachtaráin, the former residence of the Governor-General of the Irish Free State in the city's largest park, Phoenix Park. Both houses of the Oireachtas Éireann, meet in Leinster House, a former ducal palace on the south side of the city. The building has been the home of Irish parliaments since the creation of the Irish Free State on December 6, 1922.
The Irish Government is based in the Irish Government Buildings, a large building designed by Aston Webb, the architect who created the Edwardian facade to Buckingham Palace. Initially what is now Government Buildings was designed for use as the Royal College of Science, the last major building built by the British administration in Ireland. In 1921 the House of Commons of Southern Ireland met there. Given its location next to Leinster House, the Irish Free State government took over part of the building to serve as a temporary home for some ministries. However both it and Leinster House (originally meant to be a temporary home of parliament) became the permanent homes of the government and parliament respectively. Until 1990, the Irish government shared the building with the Engineering Faculty of University College Dublin, which retained use of the central block of the building, However following the building of a new Engineering Faculty at the UCD campus in Belfield, the Government took entire control, and remodelled the entire building for governmental use.
The previous old Irish Houses of Parliament of the Kingdom of Ireland is located in College Green.
Famous Dubliners
Writers and composers
Jonathan Swift - writer, satirist.
Oliver Goldsmith - writer.
John Field - pianist, composer, wrote the first nocturnes.
Bram Stoker - novelist.
Oscar Wilde - playwright, author, poet.
George Bernard Shaw - playwright.
William Butler Yeats - poet, playwright.
John Millington Synge - playwright.
James Joyce - author, poet.
Samuel Beckett - playwright, novelist, poet.
Brendan Behan - poet, short story writer novelist, playwright.
Gabriel Byrne - actor.
The Dubliners - folk and ballad group (Luke Kelly, Ronnie Drew, Barnie McKenna, John Sheahan).
Bob Geldof - Boomtown Rats lead singer and Live Aid organiser.
Bono - lead singer with U2 and campaigner on world debt.
Sinead O'Connor - singer.
Gay Byrne - longtime presenter of the Late Late Show, the world's longest running chat show.
Politicians and Leaders
Theobald Wolfe Tone - revolutionary, leader of the United Irishmen.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington - soldier, politician, British Prime Minister.
Sir Edward Carson - leader of Irish unionism and British cabinet minister.
Patrick Pearse - writer, leader of the Easter Rising.
Sean Lemass - Taoiseach (prime minister) from 1959-1966.
Garret FitzGerald - Taoiseach.
Charles Haughey - Taoiseach.
Bertie Ahern - Taoiseach.
Jim Mitchell - youngest Lord Mayor of Dublin (aged 29).
Ha'penny Bridge. Beyond it, the dome of the eighteenth century Custom House and Liberty Hall, Ireland's tallest building.
Christ Church Cathedral, founded c.1030. Seat since the 16th century of the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.
Áras an Uachtaráin
Áras an Uachtaráin (sometimes spelt Árus an Uachtaráin, and translated as the President's house) has been the state residence of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland until 1922, two of the three Irish Governors-General, and since June 1938 all eight Presidents of Ireland. (See Áras an Uachtaráin for the full history.)
Government Buildings, formerly the Royal College of Science, was built in the first decade of the twentieth century. Its foundation stone was laid by King Edward VII in 1904 and was officially opened by King George V in 1911. (ER and GR meaning Edward Rex - King Edward - and George Rex - King George - are carved on the exteriors of different wings of the building.) In June 1921 it was the venue for the abortive meeting of the Senate and House of Commons of Southern Ireland. In 1922 the new Irish Free State took over two wings for government offices, with the centre block remaining the home of the Royal College of Science (which merged later with University College Dublin). In 1989, UCD finally moved out of the building and the entire building was renovated and turned into a state of the art Government Buildings. Aston Webb, who designed the edwardian facade to Buckingham Palace, was the main architect for this building.
Trinity College Dublin, the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin. is the oldest of Dublin's three universities. (The others are University College Dublin and Dublin City University). It was founded by Queen Elizabeth I in the sixteenth century. (See Trinity College Dublin)
Dublin Castle
Old Irish Houses of Parliament
St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral
Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church
Maurice Craig, The Architecture of Ireland from the Earliest Times to 1880 (Batsford, Paperback edition 1989) (ISBN 0713425873)
Frank McDonald, Saving the City: How to Halt the Destruction of Dublin (Tomar Publishing, 1989) (ISBN 1871793033) foreword by Bob Geldof
Edward McParland, Public Architecture in Ireland 1680-1760 (Yale University Press, 2001) (ISBN 0300030641)
Hanne Hem, Dubliners, An Anthropologist's Account, Oslo, 1994
Explanation of English and Irish language names of the city
A Ten Year Strategy For Dublin City
Dublin Spire
Dublin City Collective - Online community for Dubliners.
Dublin City ( Northside, Southside) | Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown | Fingal | South Dublin
Cities in the Republic of Ireland
Dublin | Cork | Limerick | Galway | Waterford | Kilkenny
Cities in Northern Ireland
Belfast | Londonderry | Armagh | Newry | Lisburn

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by Bob Geary
We observe that you are closing your psychiatric hospitals and placing the mentally ill in your prisons. Is mental illness now considered a crime?
No. You must be confused by the fact that, in Raleigh, we are closing Dorothea Dix Hospital at the same time we are building a new mental health facility at Central Prison, which is across the road on Western Boulevard. Or perhaps you read about the U.S. Department of Justice study that found that more than half of our prison and jail inmates suffer from some form of mental illness. In fact, about the same proportion of adults are "institutionalized" today in America as 40 years ago, when we started closing mental facilities in the first wave of "deinstitutionalization," according to University of Chicago law professor Bernard Harcourt. The difference is that the vast majority used to be in hospitals, and less than 200,000 were imprisoned. Now, the reverse is true, and the prison population is over 2 million. "Though troubling, none of this should come as a surprise," Harcourt says. "[We] dismantled a colossal mental health complex and rebuiltbed by bedan enormous prison." It shows our "schizophrenic relationship to deviance," he adds. Meaning we'd like to be sympathetic, but we just aren't.
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Christopher Jones in an undated family photo. (Courtesy photo, Capital Gazette)
Their case might finally be over nearly four years after their 14-year-old son was fatally beaten.
On Monday, county Circuit Court Judge Pamela North entered a $1.75 million judgment against Aneta George and her son Javel, one of two young men responsible for the May 30, 2009, killing of Christopher Jones in Crofton. The judgment was in favor of his parents, Jennifer Adkins and David Jones, and Christopher's estate.
The decision came after an hour-long hearing in county Circuit Court in Annapolis. George, now 19, and his mother did not appear.
"I honestly wasn't prepared to see him," Adkins said.
She hopes to never be back in court again.
"This closed a big chapter in my life," she said. "The judgment was more than we expected. Collecting is a whole other story ... But to get a judgment like that against him was a big victory for us. For the rest of his natural life it will impact him tremendously."
North made her decision after hearing hour-long testimony from Adkins and Jones.
Both wept as attorney Richard Jaklitsch described how Christopher was riding his bicycle from the community pool when he was approached by six teens. Two of the teens punched the boy, rupturing the vertebral artery in the back of his neck.
Christopher, who never threw a punch, tried to ride away on his bicycle, but fell to the ground after pedaling for about 20 seconds.
Adkins said she tried to reach her son on his cellphone but had no luck. She was alerted to the assault by a man at the scene who had picked up Christopher's phone.
Adkins rushed to Nantucket Drive, where she saw paramedics working on Christopher in the street. She waited in the ambulance and called Jones.
Jones followed the ambulance to Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie. Christopher was taken off life support and pronounced dead about two hours later.
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The two talked about making a road trip once Christopher got his driver's license.
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module LocalLinksManager
  class DistributedLock
    attr_accessor :lock_name, :redis_lock

    APP = "local-links-manager".freeze
    LIFETIME = (60 * 60) # seconds

    def initialize(lock_name)
      @lock_name = lock_name
      @redis_lock = Redis::Lock.new(Redis.new, "#{APP}:#{lock_name}", owner: APP, life: LIFETIME)
    end

    def lock(lock_obtained:, lock_not_obtained:)
      redis_lock.lock
      Rails.logger.debug("Successfully got a lock. Running...")
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    rescue Redis::Lock::LockNotAcquired => e
      Rails.logger.debug("Failed to get lock for #{lock_name} (#{e.message}). Another process probably got there first.")
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    end

    def unlock
      redis_lock.unlock
      Rails.logger.debug("Successfully unlocked #{lock_name}")
    rescue StandardError => e
      Rails.logger.error("Failed to unlock #{lock_name}\n#{e.message}")
    end

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end

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It's time for the Fantastical Food Fight hosted by Sarah of Fantastical Sharing.
This month theme or food I should say is all about Bananas. The 21st of the month is the International Banana Festival and it's being celebrated in not only Fulton, KY but also in South Fulton, TN. I wonder how close those places are to each other. I guess I could google it, but I want to finish off here before I get distracted, again.
I was inspired by this recipe Banana Bundt Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze from Celebrating Sweets.
I think I've been watching too many episodes of the Great British Bake Off Master Class, cause Mary Berry keeps giving me ideas. In this case I actually beat the egg whites and then folded them in for a lighter touch to the cake. It worked.
This is also the cake I made for the Legion Cake Raffle a couple weeks ago. I bake and donate a cake every other week for them to raffle off. The money raised goes to various needed projects in our community. The people who win the cake usually share it, but sometimes they take it home and keep it all to themselves. And that's what the winner did last week. He took it home.
I made a killer toffee sauce to pour over it, and in fact, cheated a little and took some of the batter and baked it in a small (4inch) springform pan. And I'm so glad I did.
Cause that way I got to taste it and I can say without any doubt, I'm making this again. I poked holes in the cake before pouring the hot toffee sauce over it, thinking it might make the sauce soak in, but instead it soaked in from the bottom and after taste testing it I got a WOOHOOOO sugar rush.
This cake is nothing like regular Banana Bread. It's not that dense and holds up beautifully.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, grease a 12 cup bundt pan. Set aside.
Separate the eggs, and beat the egg whites until stiff. Set aside while you prepare the rest. Mix the dry ingredients together, set aside while you cream the butter, sugar and egg yolks together, until the sugar has broken down a little. Add the mashed bananas and mix well. Then add the sour cream and flour in two parts, alternating each one. At the end, fold in the egg whites, carefully but making sure to blend them without leaving any little bits of egg. Pour the batter into the bundt pan and smooth the top a little.
Bake for 55 minutes and check for doneness after 50 minutes, increasing the baking time by 5 minutes at a time.
Turn out onto a wire rack and remove the pan. Let cool.
Make the toffee sauce while the cake is baking. In a large sauce pan or pot, melt the butter over medium heat, then add the brown sugar. Whisk together until the butter and sugar are well combined, let it cook for 3-4 minutes, then whisk in the heavy cream. Continue to cook, letting it come to a boil. Stir it constantly and let it continue to cook for an additional 5 minutes or so. Take off of heat and allow it to cool. This mixture will bubble up and almost double in size as it's cooking so it helps to have it in a larger pot than you think you'll need.
As soon as the cake is cooled, pour the still warm toffee sauce over the cake in a pleasing pattern and serve. If you wish you can keep some of the sauce back to serve with the cake.
It was very moist, nothing like a banana bread and with the toffee sauce, deadly. Well, delicious.
I did it so that the bundt cake wouldn't overflow, lol. But am going to be doing this from now on. I made a Lemon cake last week, and did the same thing, and I'm just doing that from now on. Besides which, this way I get to taste the cake as well. Win win situation.
What a great idea to make a little "reserved" cake for tasting! This one sounds amazing with that killer toffee sauce!
It seems like my bundt cakes like to overflow, so from now on, I'm making me a 'personal' cake. The sauce though, OMG was so good.
those towns are right across the border from each other. i live in nashville so i definitely looked up directions to see how far away i am. it's about 2 1/2 hours so doable. not this year but sometime in the future. this cake looks fantastic!
A little too far north for me to travel but what a fun idea. The cake was very tasty.
I think attending the banana festival would be super fun! This cake sounds super yummy! I love banana in baked goods.
I think so as well. The cake was good, and even better with the toffee sauce on it. I'm not super fond of banana in baked goods, but this is not the last time I make this cake.
A small taste tester cake is so smart! I'd love a slice with a hot cup of coffee!
From now on I'm baking a 'personal' cake each time. And next time, I'll have some with a cup of coffee.
This cake looks so good! That toffee!! Yes, please.
Honestly, I could have just eaten the toffee sauce all by itself, but I restrained myself and actually poured it on the cake (s).
Your Banana Bundt Cake look fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday and sure hope you have a great weekend!
Looks PERFECTLY banana-licious!! Thanks for sharing at Friday Frenzy! PINNING!


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Recap of 2018 Academy Awards with GIFs!
Posted on March 5, 2018 March 5, 2018 by bailsofhemp
Well, nobody messed up the envelopes this year. That's nice.
Jimmy Kimmel returned to host the 90th Annual Academy Awards, and like the previous year, he was a decent host. He made cracks about last year's Best Picture gaffe and Harvey Weinstein. Much like Seth Meyers at the Golden Globes, he had his little quips, but ultimately he played it safe. Check out the opening monologue…
Kimmel also had Lakeith Stanfield from Get Out help award winners know when their speeches were running too long by screaming "Get Out" at them. (Sadly, they didn't actually do this during the ceremony, and I kind of wish they had.)
And because it's Kimmel, he did one of his late-night bits, where celebrities interact with "normal people." This time, Oscar guests brought snacks to a crowd at a nearby movie theater. Gal Gadot totally narced on some people, Armie Hammer was having a blast shooting hot dogs, and oh my god Guillermo del Toro bringing in a sandwich was adorable.
Now, let's get into the rest of the show! The E! Network made the horrible decision to have human coconut water Ryan Seacrest show up on the red carpet for interviews despite the allegations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment coming out about him. And GODDESS Taraji P. Henson was not going to let that slide. HEX HIM, GIRL!
Everyone's new best friend Tiffany Haddish came out to present with Maya Rudolph, and we need a buddy comedy with them RIGHT NOW. (Also, Tiffany gave an excited shoutout to Meryl, who was sitting right in front of her.)
And if you're like "Where have I seen that Alexander McQueen dress before?" Tiffany wore it at the Girls Trip premiere AND when she hosted SNL because she's getting her money's worth!
The performance of Coco's "Remember Me" brought a normally boring awards show to freaking life, and it took home the award for Best Original Song!
Your hipster dreams came true as Sufjan Stevens performed "Mystery of Love" from Call Me By Your Name with St. Vincent, Moses Sumney, and Chris Thile. AND THAT BLAZER.
And Broadway's Keala Settle performed a heartfelt, non-circus version of "This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman. Viola Davis was feeling it.
The cast of Star Wars: The Last Jedi came out to present an award. BB-8 and Oscar Isaac were adorable, and Mark Hamill's ad lib was better than any of the material on the teleprompter.
Jane Fonda and Helen Mirren gave us age goals. Seriously, 80 and 72. HOW.
Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence had a gag about Meryl Streep taking out her competitors Tonya Harding-style. (But for real, was Jodie actually on crutches, or was it a comedy prop?)
One of the biggest moments of the evening was Jordan Peele winning Best Original Screenplay for Get Out. He's the first black screenwriter to win the award, and he was stunned. Guys. This was his FIRST major film project, and he won an Oscar. Dude's going to go far.
Emma Stone pulled a Natalie Portman à la Golden Globes while presenting Best Director.
Even though Greta Gerwig (first woman to be nominated for Best Director in eight years) didn't take home any awards for Lady Bird, she was all in for Guillermo del Toro.
And Frances McDormand sent everyone on a mass Google search for "Inclusion Rider" after winning Best Actress. (Note: An inclusion rider is when an actor says they won't work on a project unless a determined percentage of cast and crew are women, people of color, LGBTQ+, etc.). That's awesome, and I hope people follow her advice.
After Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty returned to redeem their screw-up from last year, Guillermo del Toro double-checked the envelope to make sure he did, in fact, win Best Picture for The Shape of Water.
Oh, and Mark Bridges, costume designer for Phantom Thread, had the shortest speech of the night, so he won the coveted "Short Speech Jet Ski" (Helen Mirren not included).
Below is the list of winners (with the exception of Best Animated Short, Best Live-Action Short, Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short, or Best Foreign Language Film since I didn't predict those). Let's see how well I did with my predictions…
Best Picture = WELL, SHIT
Best Actor = NAILED IT
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Best Actress = NAILED IT
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post
Best Supporting Actor = NAILED IT
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Supporting Actress = NAILED IT
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
Best Director = NAILED IT
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
Best Original Screenplay = NAILED IT
Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of Water
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Adapted Screenplay = NAILED IT
James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist
Scott Frank, James Mangold, & Michael Green, Logan
Aaron Sorkin, Molly's Game
Virgil Williams & Dee Rees, Mudbound
Best Cinematography = NAILED IT
Best Production Design = WELL, SHIT
Best Visual Effects = WELL, SHIT
Best Film Editing = WELL, SHIT
Best Sound Editing = NAILED IT
Best Sound Mixing = WELL, SHIT
Best Original Score = NAILED IT
Best Original Song = WELL, SHIT
"Mighty River" from Mudbound, Mary J. Blige
"Mystery of Love" from Call Me by Your Name, Sufjan Stevens
"Remember Me" from Coco, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez
"Stand Up for Something" from Marshall, Diane Warren, Common
"This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul
Best Costume Design = WELL, SHIT
Best Makeup & Hairstyling = NAILED IT
Best Animated Feature = NAILED IT
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If you're wondering how well I did by numbers: NAILED IT (12), WELL, SHIT (7). How did you guys do with your predictions?
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I thought you all might find this amusing or maybe even useful. I have a really small shop so I wanted to fit a dust cyclone underneath my Sawstop. The big DustDeputy didn't fit, and the small one didn't have enough capacity, so I figured I'd use four!
They're mounted on an MDF box with handy windows in the ends so I can see whether it's full. And the cyclones are linked to 2.5" hoses via 2" ABS connectors. Then it wyes back into a 4" hose.
Byron Brummer In theory, if Dyson's science is correct, you should get better separation performance with that setup than with a single big cyclone. And the setup looks slick, I dig it!
Owen Howlett So, more small cyclones are better than one big cyclone? I didn't know that. I kind of figured they might be better, because cyclones seem to rely on the internal surface area to slow down and drop out the dust, so smaller cyclones = more surface area = better collection…?
Byron Brummer According to Dyson's write-ups the idea is the smaller the cyclone diameter the faster the air spins, which increases centrifugal force on the particles increasing separation rates. That's why they build their vacuums with more and more smaller cyclones. The newest models have a cluster of a few dozen tiny cyclones and almost nothing gets to the final filter.
I've been wanting to try scaling the idea up to see if it holds at shop DC scale so I'm very curious how well your design works out.
Owen Howlett Aha, of course, centripetal force F = mr(omega^2), so because the force increases with the square of angular velocity (omega) but only proportionally with r, smaller cyclones exert bigger forces than large cyclones. Whaddaya know?
Owen Howlett Here are some photos showing how the lid works; it's just a 3/4 piece of MDF with a rabbet around the edge so it fits snugly into the top of the box. I wanted the lid to be heavy so the weight of the hoses wouldn't tip it over.
It's connected to a 1hp grizzly wall mount vacuum. The Grizzly pulls up to 540 cfm and the Dust Deputies need at least 50 each, so I figure they re a good match.
Owen Howlett [snip] in terms of construction, the layout of the cyclones was determined by the ABS connectors. So I connected them all up and then traced the outlines of the cyclone bases on to the MDF, then cut the 3" holes and the 1/4" bolt holes. Then I cut the MDF down to the smallest rectangle that would fit around all those holes The cyclones aren't symmetrically laid out, because the input connectors are off to one side.
If you have questions, go ahead and leave a comment below. I'll see if we can work out a way for Owen to get notified of your questions, but don't be surprised if you don't get a response right away, if at all.


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Pakistan sets 4% GDP growth target for 2020 ahead of austerity budget
ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday Pakistan faced "unprecedented economic crisis" as his government forecast growth of 4% for next year ahead of an austerity budget aimed at securing a $6 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund.
The new growth forecast for the fiscal year to June 2020, was approved during a meeting of the government's National Economic Council that signed off on measures including a five-year economic plan.
"The Prime Minister during the meeting said that the country was facing unprecedented economic crisis," his office said in a statement, calling on provincial governments to join forces with the Islamabad government.
While 4% growth would represent a marked slowdown from growth rates above 5% in the previous two years, it is still well above the IMF's own forecast of 2.8% next year.
The de facto finance minister, Hafeez Shaikh, is due to present the budget in parliament on June 11 and has already indicated it is likely to raise taxes and squeeze spending to meet the expected terms of the draft IMF bailout accord.
Khan's government came to office last year facing an imminent balance of payments crisis and a ballooning budget deficit that forced it to seek Pakistan's 13th IMF bailout since the late 1980s.
The IMF agreement reached earlier this month still requires approval from the Fund's board in Washington but it has already stipulated that Pakistan must take painful measures to cut a fiscal deficit expected to top 7% of gross domestic product.
Under the accord, Pakistan agreed to cut its primary budget deficit - not including interest payments - to 0.6% of GDP from a currently forecast 2.2%. With an economy of some $315 billion, that implies finding some $5 billion in extra revenue or spending cuts.
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With the end of the season right around the corner, numerous teams are still fighting to make it into the playoffs. Actually, with week 15 approaching, not a single team has clinched a playoff spot as of yet. The Arizona Cardinals can take one spot this weekend with a win over the St. Louis Rams and a bit of help. The Rams, on the other hand, need a lot of help and would likely need victories in their final three games of the season to get into the postseason.
Dan Fouts of CBS Sports took some time to speak with us about the upcoming NFC West match-up, and how things are looking for both the Cardinals and the Rams. All four teams are still alive in the NFC West, and the Rams know that this is a necessary game for them if they want their season to continue. Even with that a priority, on the horizon is next season and what may be to come.
Until the loss of Carson Palmer, the Cardinals looked like the top team in the NFC. How far do you think they can go in the playoffs with Drew Stanton?
Dan Fouts: "First of all, he's got to get them into the playoffs. Once there, it all depends on who they end up playing and where they play as well. That won't be known for some time and Stanton has done a good job, but he's going to have to do even better. It's not easy in the playoffs because you never know where you're playing and who will be there. First of all, it's going to be interesting to see how he does against a strong Rams defense on Thursday.
St. Louis has outscored their last two opponents 76-0, what kind of game plan do the Cardinals need to put some points on the board?
DF: "Number one, they've got to control the pass rush. They have to protect Stanton and give him time to pass the ball and find his weapons down the field.
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Cass Sunstein wants to re-educate you
By Compound F
Cass Sunstein, professor of law at Harvard and Obama's "Information Tsar," gets his proto-fascist freak on in Conspiracy Theories, wherein he forwards the thesis that, conspiracy theorists are bad, because they endanger government anti-terrorism policy, whatever that policy may be, therefore conspiracy theorists need to be thwarted by a strategy of government-sponsored infiltration and re-education. Government needs to fight back against independent public thinking! I kid you not.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/fac…
Sunstein's full list of publications does not list "conspiracy theories" among them, at least not over the past couple of years. It is definitely a topic he has written about before. I wonder if this paper I linked is a forgery attributed to him. That is first and foremost on my mind.
Update 2My second guessing was a mistake. We've got a live one. His Harvard web page does indeed list the paper and was published as, Vermeule, Adrian & Cass R. Sunstein. "Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures," 17 Journal of Political Philosophy 202 (2008).
h/t soilyeti.
The existence of both domestic and foreign conspiracy theories, we suggest, is no trivial matter, posing real risks to the
government's antiterrorism policies, whatever the latter may be.
Sunstein does not argue the merits of government anti-terror policies, nor does he argue the demerits of alternative theories of government behavior to any extent. These are assumed. Government policy (whatever it may be) is good. Counter-vailing interpretations are bad.
Our primary claim is that conspiracy theories typically stem not from irrationality or mental illness of any kind but from a "crippled
epistemology," in the form of a sharply limited number of (relevant) informational sources. Those who hold conspiracy theories do so because of what they read and hear. In that sense, acceptance of such theories is not irrational from the standpoint of those who adhere to them. There is a close connection, we suggest, between our claim on this coun and the empirical association between terrorist behavior and an absence of civil rights
and civil liberties.10 When civil rights and civil liberties are absent, people lack multiple information sources, and they are more likely to accept conspiracy theories.
Apparently, Cass Sunstein believes that the prevalence of conspiracy theories in the US must be due to a lack of civil rights, liberties, and varied sources of information. Quite an indictment of America, Cass. His reasoning? Many Muslim countries have even fewer rights and information sources than America, and they have more anti-American conspiracy theories than we do! What an epistemologist par excellence!
a conspiracy theory can generally be counted as such if it is an effort to explain some event or practice by reference to the
machinations of powerful people, who have also managed to conceal their role.
If I understand Sunstein correctly, certain theories concerning the collapse and subsequent bail-out of Wall Street may be construed as CT, owing to the indignation regarding the virtual complete non-disclosure of the entire event by the most powerful people in the world.
Of course some conspiracy theories, under our definition, have turned out to be true…
…Our focus throughout is on false conspiracy theories, not true ones.
Hale Epistemologist, please tell us how you distinguish between true and false conspiracies! Uh okay, that must be the focus of your next paper.
Anyway, back to 9/11, which is really what I, Cass Sunstein, am talking about:
In a closed society, secrets are not difficult to keep, and distrust of official accounts makes a great deal of sense. In such societies, conspiracy theories are both more likely to be true and harder to show to be false in light of available information.21 But when the press is free, and when checks and balances are in force, government cannot easily keep its conspiracies hidden for long. These points do not mean that it is logically impossible, even in free societies, that conspiracy theories are true. But it does mean that institutional checks make it unlikely, in such societies, that powerful groups can keep dark secrets for extended periods, at least if those secrets involve important events with major social salience.
That must mean that 9/11 conspiracies are as good as dead in our free and open society, so there's no reason to continue writing the paper on why and how conspiracy theories must be stopped by government intervention in our free and open society, because either the society is relatively open and free of conspiracy theories or it is closed and constrained and becomes a petri dish of conspiracies. Sunstein seems to think we are an unmentioned third variety of society, a free and open petri dish of conspiracy theories variety. Remarkable! Sunstein's "logic" would seem to suggest that the obvious remedy is to become more free and open, but Cass Sunstein has a slightly more interventionist attitude to the non-problem, that is nonetheless non-trivial and poses great risks.
II. Governmental Responses
What can government do about conspiracy theories? Among the things it can do, what should it do? We can readily imagine a series of possible responses. (1) Government might ban conspiracy theorizing.
Yes, yes, yes, but wait: that might run afoul of the first amendment bullshit that "Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Repealing the First Amendment might be seen as "heavy-handed."
(2) Government might impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories.
Effing, brilliant, professor! Tax free speech not occurring in the free speech zones. Except the real hardcore fascists will label you as a tax and spend liberal, which is an unbeatable argument. Also, first amendment concerns? Or perhaps you were thinking about an executive order that circumvents congress? Fuck if I know, I just hope you make it to the Supreme Court.
(3) Government might itself engage in counterspeech, marshaling arguments to discredit conspiracy theories.
Marshaling actual arguments is great in theory, but discovery can be messy, once you break out the black boxes, and such. Unless you're talking about pure propaganda, in which case, nevermind.
(4) Government might formally hire credible private parties to engage in counterspeech.
Mouthpiece mercenaries? Counterspeech commandoes? Yes, Yes, YES! When in doubt, privatize all government function. Or are you just looking for a job when your current gig runs out?
(5) Government might engage in informal communication with such parties, encouraging them to help. Each instrument has a distinctive set of potential effects, or costs and benefits, and each will have a place under imaginable conditions. However, our main policy idea is that government should engage in cognitive infiltration of the groups that produce conspiracy theories, which involves a mix of (3), (4) and (5).
Sunstein doesn't say why he even brought up Strategies 1 and 2 in the first place, but abruptly abandons them with a vague reference to effects, costs, benefits, and "that each will have a place under imaginable conditions." Instead, he long-windedly moves on to what he regards as a currently acceptable purpose of overt and covert propaganda and "cognitive infiltration:"
3. Cognitive infiltration
Rather than taking the continued existence of the hard core as a constraint, and addressing itself solely to the third-party mass audience, government might undertake (legal) tactics for breaking up the tight cognitive clusters of extremist theories, arguments and rhetoric that are produced by the hard core and reinforce it in turn. One promising tactic is cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. By this we do not mean 1960s-style infiltration with a view to surveillance and collecting information, possibly for use in future prosecutions. [Nor do we mean that agents provocateurs will incite violence or other illegal acts in order to discredit them…but, hey, why NOT?] Rather, we mean that government efforts might succeed in weakening or even breaking up the ideological and epistemological complexes that constitute these networks and groups. How might this tactic work? Recall that extremist networks and groups, including the groups that purvey conspiracy theories, typically suffer from a kind of crippled epistemology [because I said they did, without proof or reason. Plus, I'm not a psychologist or sociologist.]. Hearing only conspiratorial accounts of government behavior, their members become ever more prone to believe and generate such accounts. Informational and reputational cascades, group polarization, and selection effects suggest that the generation of ever-more-extreme views within these groups can be dampened or reversed by the introduction of cognitive diversity [cognitive diversity? Sounds a little PC to me]. We suggest a role for government efforts, and agents, in introducing such diversity. Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action. In one variant, government agents would openly proclaim, or at least make no effort to conceal, their institutional affiliations. A recent newspaper story recounts that Arabic-speaking Muslim officials from the State Department have participated in dialogues at radical Islamist chat rooms and websites in order to ventilate arguments not usually heard among the groups that cluster around those sites, with some success.68 In another variant, government officials would participate anonymously or even with false identities. Each approach has distinct costs and benefits; the second is riskier but potentially brings higher returns. In the former case, where government officials participate openly as such, hard-core members of the relevant networks, communities and conspiracy-minded organizations may entirely discount what the officials say, right from the beginning. The risk with tactics of anonymous participation, conversely, is that if the tactic becomes known, any true member of the relevant groups who raises doubts may be suspected of government connections. Despite these difficulties, the two forms of cognitive infiltration offer different risk-reward mixes and are both potentially useful instruments.
I honestly don't know why Cass Sunstein is pussyfooting around with complex theories, however sound. If government exists to execute the will of the people, there are plenty of other ways to do that.
Cass Sunstein, cognitive infiltration, conspiracy theories, WTF?
Compound F on January 15, 2010 at 9:06 am
EJvH on January 15, 2010 at 10:54 am
my god, CF. i can't believe you really said what you said.
your post was more damaging to me than BushCo. I expected that kind of shit from them. but YOU? people like you? i thought some of us were better. i guess not. i guess not.
pouring your anger out and singling out JEW and ZIONIST.
my god. i just can't believe it.
sadly, i agree with your assessment of Obama and Sunstein. but what you said… i just still can't believe it.
Lasthorseman on January 15, 2010 at 11:54 am
it turns into incoherent rant.
https://www.docudharma.com/diar…
As to the prospect of this particular paper being forged,planted, a dis-information psy-op or cointelpro operation the message is still the same thing. People are obviously NOT HAPPY about the current state of affairs.
ek hornbeck on January 15, 2010 at 12:59 pm
other than having a little trouble picking up your editorial content (the brackets are just not contrasty enough for my eyes) this is a really good piece.
Though I'm just not sure what all the fuss is about.
Edger on January 15, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Just how does Sunstein suggest infiltrating and discrediting himself and the administration, anyway? 😉
"A Great Little Racket": The Neocon Media Machine
Access to the gates of mainstream media has enabled the movement to actually implement and market its objectives to America.
The attainment of this power owes a great deal to the early neocons who saw value in becoming "gatekeepers" of information and ideas. Starting with Irving Kristol's early days at Commentary, the movement gained a voice, but one largely aimed at intellectual and academic elites. In fact, the evolution of the neocon movement parallels the growth of its founders as publishers and media figures. Later, when Bill Kristol founded the Weekly Standard, the neoconservatives could present specific policy objectives to Washington elites.
Not by any accident, the neoconservatives' time of greatest influence on U.S. foreign policy coincided with the explosive growth of mass media outlets from which they could promote their policies. The omnipresent fluttering American flag on Fox News exemplifies the new über-patriotic packaging through which the invasion of Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq, and the escalation of tensions with Iran are marketed packages.
When asked why the Weekly Standard and Fox News have increased in popularity over the past few years, Matt Labash, a senior writer at the Weekly Standard responded that it was "because they feed the rage. We bring the pain to the liberal media. I say that mockingly, but it's true somewhat. We come with a strong point of view and people like point of view journalism. While all these hand-wringing Freedom Forum types talk about objectivity, the conservative media likes to rap the liberal media on the knuckles for not being objective. We've created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective. It pays to be subjective as much as possible. It's a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket. I'm glad we found it actually."
to discredit Sunstein?
Are you some kind of cognitive infiltrationist planted here to fight back against independent public thinking?
Scott Ritter, former chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-98, is facing charges involving internet sex with a 15 year old. It was a sting.
"The officer assumes the identity of a minor," said Assistant District Attorney Michael Rakaczewski, who is prosecuting Ritter's case. "What happens is [the detective] basically waits for an individual, such as Mr. Ritter, to contact him. From there he engages the defendant in sexually explicit situations, and in this case it culminated in the defendant exposing himself."
Ritter has for years been highly critical of US foreign policy, the invasion of Iraq, and more recently Obama's AfPak "surge" and his expansion of predator drone strikes…
pfiore8 on January 15, 2010 at 8:47 pm
do we let them get away with this? cause they've been doing a heck of a job following this line of thinking. they've been working it for eight years now and counting.
and i ask again: who are the real terrorist?


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New paper finds algae have to manufacture their own CO2 due to a paucity in the atmosphere
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A paper published today in Nature finds that marine algae, which evolved and thrived with atmospheric CO2 levels 15 times higher than the present, required a novel adaptation to adjust to the relatively low CO2 levels during the Cenozoic era, when CO2 levels were still more than twice current levels. According to the paper, this novel adaptation was to manufacture their own CO2 at the reaction site for photosynthesis, required due to a paucity of CO2 in the atmosphere. Algae evolved more than 500 million years ago, when CO2 levels were ~15-17 times higher than the present; current CO2 levels are near the lowest levels of the past 500 million years.
Algae evolved more than 500 million years ago, when CO2 levels were ~15-17 times higher than the present.
Late Miocene threshold response of marine algae to carbon dioxide limitation
Clara T. Bolton
& Heather M. Stoll
Nature 500, 558–562 (29 August 2013) doi:10.1038/nature12448
Coccolithophores are marine algae that use carbon for calcification and photosynthesis. The long-term adaptation of these and other marine algae to decreasing carbon dioxide levels during the Cenozoic era1 has resulted in modern algae capable of actively enhancing carbon dioxide at the site of photosynthesis. This enhancement occurs through the transport of dissolved bicarbonate (HCO3−) and with the help of enzymes whose expression can be modulated by variable aqueous carbon dioxide concentration, [CO2], in laboratory cultures2, 3. Coccolithophores preserve the geological history of this adaptation because the stable carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions of their calcite plates (coccoliths), which are preserved in the fossil record, are sensitive to active carbon uptake and transport by the cell. Here we use a model of cellular carbon fluxes and show that at low [CO2] the increased demand for HCO3− at the site of photosynthesis results in a diminished allocation of HCO3− to calcification, which is most pronounced in larger cells. This results in a large divergence between the carbon isotopic compositions of small versus large coccoliths only at low [CO2]. Our evaluation of the oxygen and carbon isotope record of size-separated fossil coccoliths reveals that this isotopic divergence first arose during the late Miocene to the earliest Pliocene epoch (about 7–5 million years ago). We interpret this to be a threshold response of the cells' carbon acquisition strategies to decreasing [CO2]. The documented coccolithophore response is synchronous with a global shift in terrestrial vegetation distribution between 8 and 5 Myr ago, which has been interpreted by some studies as a floral response to decreasing partial pressures of carbon dioxide ( ) in the atmosphere4, 5, 6. We infer a global decrease in carbon dioxide levels for this time interval that has not yet been identified in the sparse proxy record7 but is synchronous with global cooling and progressive glaciations8, 9.
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"Deputy Flick was an outstanding member of my agency and he will be missed," Elder said.
One boy, the same age of the deputy's daughters, watched the procession with his father.
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Colorado Springs Police Chief Pete Carey also said during the press conference that the officers were responding to a motor vehicle theft, encountered a suspect, struggled with him and then gun shots rang out around 4 p.m. local time. A civilian was injured and rushed to a local hospital. Two El Paso County Sheriff officers were struck and are hospitalized. A male suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Carey said it was a tough day for all law-enforcement agencies.
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper released a statement Monday to say the deadly violence against officers is having a grave impact on the state and that Flick's death was a "senseless act of violence."
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