Mrs. Flinders decided to have her portrait painted. She told the artist, Paint me with diamond earrings, a diamond necklace,rift gold emerald bracelets and a ruby pendant.
But you're not wearing any of those things.
I know,rift gold said Mrs. Flinders. It's in case I should die before my husband. I'm sure he'd remarry right away, and I want her to go nuts looking for the jewelry.
2011年4月29日星期五
Movies Ratings
Ratings provide a form of self-censorship that the media industries apply after pressure from the public and the government. The Hollywood Production Code of the 1930s was negotiated to handle issues from sex and violence to religion for mainstream cinema. With the break up of studio control rift gold and cultural changes of the 1960s, the Motion Picture Association of America switched from self-control to consumer advising, instituting a four-part system that tended to exclude children on the basis of language, sexual content and occasionally onscreen brutality but also left open the negotiation of parental control and responsibility. While the G rating (associated with Disney or family films) was suitable for all, other categories sought parental guidance and parental responsibility to attend with a child (R, and, after 1984, PG-13 as well). The X rating (eagerly extended in pornographic film advertising to double and triple X) proved most troubling, leading eventually to an NC-17 rating that sought to distinguish big-budget films with sexual content from pornography. Still, the NC-17 rating greatly diminishes the number of Eyes Wide Shut (1999), digitally inserted figures screens available for a movie. Hence, in Kubrick’s blocked key actions from American audiences to obtain an R.
This rating was flagged of course as an immediate temptation for adolescents, especially as video rentals imposed controls on parents rather than theaters. Nonetheless,rift gold it remains a model for similar systems to rate television, records and computer products, where sex and language still dominate issues of violence, although the latter has become more critical in music and computer games. Other rating systems have been devised that look at overall morality (Catholic Legion of Decency), as well as critical evaluations (by stars, thumbs, age appropriateness and even grades) that classify films for a continually competitive marketplace.
This rating was flagged of course as an immediate temptation for adolescents, especially as video rentals imposed controls on parents rather than theaters. Nonetheless,rift gold it remains a model for similar systems to rate television, records and computer products, where sex and language still dominate issues of violence, although the latter has become more critical in music and computer games. Other rating systems have been devised that look at overall morality (Catholic Legion of Decency), as well as critical evaluations (by stars, thumbs, age appropriateness and even grades) that classify films for a continually competitive marketplace.
I Want Her to go Nuts
Mrs. Flinders decided to have her portrait painted. She told the artist, Paint me with diamond earrings, a diamond necklace,rift gold emerald bracelets and a ruby pendant.
But you're not wearing any of those things.
I know,rift gold said Mrs. Flinders. It's in case I should die before my husband. I'm sure he'd remarry right away, and I want her to go nuts looking for the jewelry.
But you're not wearing any of those things.
I know,rift gold said Mrs. Flinders. It's in case I should die before my husband. I'm sure he'd remarry right away, and I want her to go nuts looking for the jewelry.
Film Noir
Film noir was also highly urban, underscoring the economic and moral tensions of the postwar city Warehouses, waterfronts,rift gold nightclubs and dangerous streets set the stage, although directors also used monumental architecture like train stations, skyscrapers and bridges. New York City, NY, Chicago, IL, and Los Angeles, CA became key noir cities, while “sunny sites” like amusement parks (Strangers on a Train, 1951) or California beaches took on destructive meanings (Kïss Me Deadly, 1955). Women evidenced new power in film noir. While often duplicitous or even villainous, they moved the action along at the expense of men who were lost, confused or ignorant (Barbara Stanwyck versus Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity). The femme fatale’s slinky costumes, posture and inevitable cigarette identified her as openly sexual—the antithesis of the bright, cheerful suburban housewife. Men, by contrast, were baggysuited detectives, reporters, lawyers, insurance agents or policemen—trapped and destroyed rather than liberated.
Although film noir is identified with B-movies, Orson Welles produced one of the last great noir films in Touch of Evil (1958),rift gold while Hitchcock shared elements of noir style. Moreover, noir continues to fascinate audiences and film-makers as diverse as Godard, John Woo and Wim Wenders. Both the style and the moral ambiguity of noir are used in later American movies like Chinatown (1974), Blade Runner (1982) and LA. Confidential (1997).
Although film noir is identified with B-movies, Orson Welles produced one of the last great noir films in Touch of Evil (1958),rift gold while Hitchcock shared elements of noir style. Moreover, noir continues to fascinate audiences and film-makers as diverse as Godard, John Woo and Wim Wenders. Both the style and the moral ambiguity of noir are used in later American movies like Chinatown (1974), Blade Runner (1982) and LA. Confidential (1997).
Bruce Lee (Lee Yuen Kam)
Growing up in Hong Kong, Lee returned in 1959 to his birthplace, San Francisco’s Chinatown, and established the Jun Fan Kung-Fu Institute,rift gold teaching martial arts to people of any race (most Asian Martial Arts schools generally taught people of their own nationality or race). Lee then began to develop Jeet Kune Do, a syncretic art that includes techniques from all types of fighting—boxing, Thai kick-boxing, Japanese karate,rift gold etc. After playing the part of Kato in The Green Hornet (ABC, 1966–7), Batman and a Lone Ranger clone, Lee was enticed to make several movies in Hong Kong that became extremely popular in the United States. Lee died just prior to the release of Enter the Dragon (1973), which cemented his reputation and mystique.
2011年4月28日星期四
Anderson Silva More Interested in Fighting Roy Jones Jr. Than Jon Jones
Of the Joneses, UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva is much more interested in the boxing great as an opponent than the current UFC light heavyweight champion.
Silva has made it clear it's his dream to fight his idol Roy Jones Jr. and at 36 with "maybe five more years" in the MMA game, Silva still has the desire to box the 42-year-old Jones Jr.
"Maybe finish my contract for UFC, finish my fights in MMA, I'll go," Silva said Monday on The MMA Hour. "This is my goal for my career. TERA Gold It's my dream -- is to fight Roy Jones and boxing."
Although Jones' best boxing days behind him, Jones' decline hasn't stopped Silva from wanting the fight. In 2008, Silva expressed interest in fighting Jones Jr. and a year later the two engaged in discussion of a potential fight. However, UFC president Dana White squashed any immediate possibility of it by saying the fight won't happen as long as Silva is under contract with the UFC.
Silva, who won the UFC belt in October 2006, as the champion, is tied to the UFC. Since the talks of the Jones Jr. fight, RIFT Platinum Silva has defended his belt another three times and is scheduled to put his belt on the line against Yushin Okami at UFC 134 in August. -- Not that Silva is in a hurry to leave the UFC though. Silva previously stated he wanted to retire at 35, but after speaking with his family and training partners, could be fighting for another five years.
For 2011, rift gold when it came to talks about super fights, it's been about the possibility of Silva facing Georges St-Pierre. That matchup now seems unlikely with St-Pierre not ready to move up to middleweight and the general fan interest swaying towards a different opponent. Ever since Jon Jones dismantled Mauricio "Shogun" Rua to win the light heavyweight belt in May, fans have drummed up interest for a Silva vs. Jones "dream matchup."
On The MMA Hour, RIFT Platinum Silva didn't have much to say about a fight against Jones, but instead showered the 23-year-old champ with praise.
"Sometimes I look at Jon Jones fight and I remember me when I started to fight." Silva said. "I remember. I like Jon Jones. He's a good guy. He has great focus for training, for working. That's it. My opinion is Jon Jones is staying with the belt for a long time."
Silva no longer wants to fight at 205, as to not interfere with Black House teammates such as Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante, Rift Gold Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Lyoto Machida. So despite two spectacular performances at 205, Silva will stay in the division he made his name in.
"I finish my career in my class," Silva said.
Silva has made it clear it's his dream to fight his idol Roy Jones Jr. and at 36 with "maybe five more years" in the MMA game, Silva still has the desire to box the 42-year-old Jones Jr.
"Maybe finish my contract for UFC, finish my fights in MMA, I'll go," Silva said Monday on The MMA Hour. "This is my goal for my career. TERA Gold It's my dream -- is to fight Roy Jones and boxing."
Although Jones' best boxing days behind him, Jones' decline hasn't stopped Silva from wanting the fight. In 2008, Silva expressed interest in fighting Jones Jr. and a year later the two engaged in discussion of a potential fight. However, UFC president Dana White squashed any immediate possibility of it by saying the fight won't happen as long as Silva is under contract with the UFC.
Silva, who won the UFC belt in October 2006, as the champion, is tied to the UFC. Since the talks of the Jones Jr. fight, RIFT Platinum Silva has defended his belt another three times and is scheduled to put his belt on the line against Yushin Okami at UFC 134 in August. -- Not that Silva is in a hurry to leave the UFC though. Silva previously stated he wanted to retire at 35, but after speaking with his family and training partners, could be fighting for another five years.
For 2011, rift gold when it came to talks about super fights, it's been about the possibility of Silva facing Georges St-Pierre. That matchup now seems unlikely with St-Pierre not ready to move up to middleweight and the general fan interest swaying towards a different opponent. Ever since Jon Jones dismantled Mauricio "Shogun" Rua to win the light heavyweight belt in May, fans have drummed up interest for a Silva vs. Jones "dream matchup."
On The MMA Hour, RIFT Platinum Silva didn't have much to say about a fight against Jones, but instead showered the 23-year-old champ with praise.
"Sometimes I look at Jon Jones fight and I remember me when I started to fight." Silva said. "I remember. I like Jon Jones. He's a good guy. He has great focus for training, for working. That's it. My opinion is Jon Jones is staying with the belt for a long time."
Silva no longer wants to fight at 205, as to not interfere with Black House teammates such as Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante, Rift Gold Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Lyoto Machida. So despite two spectacular performances at 205, Silva will stay in the division he made his name in.
"I finish my career in my class," Silva said.
Nutrition: Carbohydrates in Food
Overview
Calories in your diet come from carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Rift Gold Carbohydrates supply four calories for every gram of carbohydrate consumed and are an important part of the diet. Carbohydrates can be found in many different food sources and provide energy which the human body can use quickly. Eating too many carbohydrates, on the other hand, can be bad for your health.
Carbohydrate Types
All carbohydrates are essentially made up of one or more sugar molecules chemically linked together. There are two main kinds of carbohydrates from your diet: simple and complex. Simple carbohydrates come in the form of monosaccharides or disaccharides, depending on whether they contain one or two sugar molecules. RIFT Platinum Complex carbohydrates are larger and contain many different sugar molecules linked together -- for example, starch and glycogen are two common complex carbohydrates.
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Carbohydrates and Glucose
Carbohydrates are fairly rapidly broken down by your digestive tract into monosaccharides. Your body then converts these sugar molecules into glucose, which gets into the blood. Different types of carbohydrates are converted into glucose at different rates, which can be measured using the glycemic index. rift gold The higher the glycemic index, the faster the carbohydrates in a food are turned into blood glucose. When blood glucose levels rise, your pancreas secretes a hormone known as insulin, KidsHealth.org notes. Insulin causes your muscle, fat and liver cells to pull up excess sugar from the blood.
Carbohydrate and Diet
According to the Mayo Clinic, between 45 and 65 percent of your calories should come from carbohydrates. If you are consuming 2,000 calories per day, this translates to between 900 and 1,300 calories from carbohydrates each day, or 225 to 325 grams of carbohydrates. RIFT Platinum Consuming more than this can cause your blood glucose levels to get too high, which can cause you to develop type 2 diabetes. High carbohydrate intake can also lead to high levels of triglycerides, a type of fat that can predispose you to cardiovascular problems.
Fiber
Fiber is a unique type of carbohydrate found in foods that come from plants. TERA Gold Your body cannot break down and absorb fiber, so this type of carbohydrate passes through your digestive tract unchanged. Soluble fiber dissolves in water to form a gel-like substance; foods with this type of fiber can lower your blood glucose and cholesterol levels. Insoluble fiber, on the other hand, adds bulk to your stools and relieves constipation.
Calories in your diet come from carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Rift Gold Carbohydrates supply four calories for every gram of carbohydrate consumed and are an important part of the diet. Carbohydrates can be found in many different food sources and provide energy which the human body can use quickly. Eating too many carbohydrates, on the other hand, can be bad for your health.
Carbohydrate Types
All carbohydrates are essentially made up of one or more sugar molecules chemically linked together. There are two main kinds of carbohydrates from your diet: simple and complex. Simple carbohydrates come in the form of monosaccharides or disaccharides, depending on whether they contain one or two sugar molecules. RIFT Platinum Complex carbohydrates are larger and contain many different sugar molecules linked together -- for example, starch and glycogen are two common complex carbohydrates.
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Carbohydrates and Glucose
Carbohydrates are fairly rapidly broken down by your digestive tract into monosaccharides. Your body then converts these sugar molecules into glucose, which gets into the blood. Different types of carbohydrates are converted into glucose at different rates, which can be measured using the glycemic index. rift gold The higher the glycemic index, the faster the carbohydrates in a food are turned into blood glucose. When blood glucose levels rise, your pancreas secretes a hormone known as insulin, KidsHealth.org notes. Insulin causes your muscle, fat and liver cells to pull up excess sugar from the blood.
Carbohydrate and Diet
According to the Mayo Clinic, between 45 and 65 percent of your calories should come from carbohydrates. If you are consuming 2,000 calories per day, this translates to between 900 and 1,300 calories from carbohydrates each day, or 225 to 325 grams of carbohydrates. RIFT Platinum Consuming more than this can cause your blood glucose levels to get too high, which can cause you to develop type 2 diabetes. High carbohydrate intake can also lead to high levels of triglycerides, a type of fat that can predispose you to cardiovascular problems.
Fiber
Fiber is a unique type of carbohydrate found in foods that come from plants. TERA Gold Your body cannot break down and absorb fiber, so this type of carbohydrate passes through your digestive tract unchanged. Soluble fiber dissolves in water to form a gel-like substance; foods with this type of fiber can lower your blood glucose and cholesterol levels. Insoluble fiber, on the other hand, adds bulk to your stools and relieves constipation.
Britney Spears Strips Down For V Magazine
Sultry and half-clothed on the cover of V Magazine, Britney Spears declares, Rift Gold "The b***h is back and better than ever!" The fierce pop singer, whose seventh studio album, 'Femme Fatale,' lands March 29, talks openly about her album, boys and fame, adding that she has moved past the media scrutiny that plagued parts of her career.
"I try to block it all out and not pay attention to anything they write about me in the magazines or online. I'm done with that," Spears told V Magazine. RIFT Platinum "I have learned to always stay true to myself and never let what other people say about me change who I am. It's a really important lesson that took me a long time to learn."
On her new album: I think 'Femme Fatale' speaks for itself... I wanted to make a fierce dance record where each song makes you want to get up and move your body in a different way. That's what I want from the music I listen to. rift gold This record is for the clubs, or something you play before you go out at night. It's definitely my edgiest and most mature sound yet.
Why she's more guarded about her personal life: I think it's easier to let people in when you're younger, but when I became a mother I wanted more privacy for myself and my children.
On her talents and interests that might surprise people: I love to cook, RIFT Platinum especially for my boys. I also make a mean Southern sweet tea from a recipe my mom passed on to me. It's really good. I love it. I make it for my boys all the time.
What she'd do if she gave up show businesses: I'd be a full-time mom, which would be cool. TERA Gold I'd miss my fans and all of the love the most, but I definitely would not miss having my picture taken everywhere I go.
"I try to block it all out and not pay attention to anything they write about me in the magazines or online. I'm done with that," Spears told V Magazine. RIFT Platinum "I have learned to always stay true to myself and never let what other people say about me change who I am. It's a really important lesson that took me a long time to learn."
On her new album: I think 'Femme Fatale' speaks for itself... I wanted to make a fierce dance record where each song makes you want to get up and move your body in a different way. That's what I want from the music I listen to. rift gold This record is for the clubs, or something you play before you go out at night. It's definitely my edgiest and most mature sound yet.
Why she's more guarded about her personal life: I think it's easier to let people in when you're younger, but when I became a mother I wanted more privacy for myself and my children.
On her talents and interests that might surprise people: I love to cook, RIFT Platinum especially for my boys. I also make a mean Southern sweet tea from a recipe my mom passed on to me. It's really good. I love it. I make it for my boys all the time.
What she'd do if she gave up show businesses: I'd be a full-time mom, which would be cool. TERA Gold I'd miss my fans and all of the love the most, but I definitely would not miss having my picture taken everywhere I go.
UFC Hopeful of October Return for Heavyweight Champ Cain Velasquez
TORONTO -- RIFT Platinum UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez is progressing well while rehabilitating from shoulder surgery, and the UFC is hopeful for an October date for his first title defense.
UFC president Dana White shared the recovery timeline following a UFC 129 press conference.
"Cain's good," he said. rift gold "He's coming along great. Actually he's going to be here for this fight."
Velasquez suffered a torn right rotator cuff during his UFC championship win over Brock Lesnar last October. RIFT Platinum His expected return is right around the projection first laid out when the injury was first disclosed in late December. Velasquez will take on the winner of June's UFC 131 fight pitting Lesnar against Junior Dos Santos.
The 28-year-old Velasquez remains unbeaten in his MMA career, Rift Gold improving to 9-0 after his first-round TKO victory against Lesnar.
Exactly which card Velasquez will return on remains undecided. The UFC has yet to officially announce an event in October, though on Wednesday, MMA Fighting confirmed that the promotion is expected to host a card in Liverpool, England during the month.
A Velasquez title defense on that card seems unlikely, though not impossible. Historically, UFC championship fights have been relatively rare outside of North America. Since the start of 2008, TERA Gold only three title fights have occurred outside of the US and/or Canada. The last two took place at UFC 112 in Abu Dhabi, with lightweight champ BJ Penn losing his belt to Frankie Edgar and middleweight king Anderson Silva defeating Demian Maia. The last UK title fight took place at UFC 80, when Penn successfully defended his belt against Joe Stevenson.
Velasquez will be in Toronto during the weekend as the UFC gathers all seven champions together in one place for the first time.
UFC president Dana White shared the recovery timeline following a UFC 129 press conference.
"Cain's good," he said. rift gold "He's coming along great. Actually he's going to be here for this fight."
Velasquez suffered a torn right rotator cuff during his UFC championship win over Brock Lesnar last October. RIFT Platinum His expected return is right around the projection first laid out when the injury was first disclosed in late December. Velasquez will take on the winner of June's UFC 131 fight pitting Lesnar against Junior Dos Santos.
The 28-year-old Velasquez remains unbeaten in his MMA career, Rift Gold improving to 9-0 after his first-round TKO victory against Lesnar.
Exactly which card Velasquez will return on remains undecided. The UFC has yet to officially announce an event in October, though on Wednesday, MMA Fighting confirmed that the promotion is expected to host a card in Liverpool, England during the month.
A Velasquez title defense on that card seems unlikely, though not impossible. Historically, UFC championship fights have been relatively rare outside of North America. Since the start of 2008, TERA Gold only three title fights have occurred outside of the US and/or Canada. The last two took place at UFC 112 in Abu Dhabi, with lightweight champ BJ Penn losing his belt to Frankie Edgar and middleweight king Anderson Silva defeating Demian Maia. The last UK title fight took place at UFC 80, when Penn successfully defended his belt against Joe Stevenson.
Velasquez will be in Toronto during the weekend as the UFC gathers all seven champions together in one place for the first time.
2011年4月27日星期三
King Log and King Stork
What a rat looked like
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Rodents had overrun a posh private school near New York City. So the headmaster, a friend of mine, asked a health inspector to deliver a slide presentation to teachers and students, showing how to remedy the situation, i.e., stow trash, no food in class, etc.
The following day, a teacher had her very young children write a letter to the inspector, thanking him for the visit. One of the students wrote, "Dear Mr. Johnson, Thank you for coming to my school. Until I saw you, I didn't know what a rat looked like."
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Rodents had overrun a posh private school near New York City. So the headmaster, a friend of mine, asked a health inspector to deliver a slide presentation to teachers and students, showing how to remedy the situation, i.e., stow trash, no food in class, etc.
The following day, a teacher had her very young children write a letter to the inspector, thanking him for the visit. One of the students wrote, "Dear Mr. Johnson, Thank you for coming to my school. Until I saw you, I didn't know what a rat looked like."
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Would you care to hold?
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There I was, my first day On the Job as a receptionist, handling one phone call after another like an old pro, when an employee stopped by my desk. "Have you ever done this before?" she asked. "No," I said. "Thought not. You just told that caller, `The person you want is on vacation. Would you care to hold?'"
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There I was, my first day On the Job as a receptionist, handling one phone call after another like an old pro, when an employee stopped by my desk. "Have you ever done this before?" she asked. "No," I said. "Thought not. You just told that caller, `The person you want is on vacation. Would you care to hold?'"
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2011年4月26日星期二
Stat Of The Night: Tough Breaks For Braddock
If you watched tonight's game, you saw the Brewers suffer a tough, 4-3 extra inning loss. rift gold You might not have known it, but you also witnessed a small piece of history.
Think back, for a moment, RIFT Platinum to the Nationals' half of the tenth inning:
- Rick Ankiel flied out.
- Jayson Werth reached on an error, and advanced to second.
- Werth stole third.
- Werth scored on Adam LaRoche's fielder's choice.
Zach Braddock was the pitcher for this inning, and somehow he picked up the loss without allowing a walk or a hit. He's the only pitcher in Brewer history to do that.RIFT Platinum And, perhaps most amazingly, he's done it twice.
On September 6 of last season, Braddock entered a game against the Cardinals in the eighth inning in relief of Yovani Gallardo. Rift Gold He faced two batters, retiring one on a groundout and hitting the othe. That runner (Jon Jay) eventually came around to score the winning run.
The run that night was earned. As such, tonight Braddock became the first Brewer in franchise history to pick up a loss without allowing a hit, walk or earned run.
Think back, for a moment, RIFT Platinum to the Nationals' half of the tenth inning:
- Rick Ankiel flied out.
- Jayson Werth reached on an error, and advanced to second.
- Werth stole third.
- Werth scored on Adam LaRoche's fielder's choice.
Zach Braddock was the pitcher for this inning, and somehow he picked up the loss without allowing a walk or a hit. He's the only pitcher in Brewer history to do that.RIFT Platinum And, perhaps most amazingly, he's done it twice.
On September 6 of last season, Braddock entered a game against the Cardinals in the eighth inning in relief of Yovani Gallardo. Rift Gold He faced two batters, retiring one on a groundout and hitting the othe. That runner (Jon Jay) eventually came around to score the winning run.
The run that night was earned. As such, tonight Braddock became the first Brewer in franchise history to pick up a loss without allowing a hit, walk or earned run.
How to Modify Child Custody Without a Lawyer
Overview
Making the decision to modify child custody requires you to undertake one of the most legally complex and emotionally challenging of all family law proceedings. Despite the difficulty of child custody modification proceedings, you have the right to embark on such a case without legal representation. Before taking action, you need to understand the basic elements associated with how to modify an existing child support order without the benefit of legal assistance.
Step 1
Go to the clerk of the court. Obtain a motion to modify child custody form. Rift Gold Court clerks typically maintain the forms needed to address a variety of custody issues. In some locations, you can download these forms from the court's website.
Step 2
Complete the motion to modify child custody form, taking care to follow the instructions provided by the court clerk.
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Step 3
Include in the motion reference to "material change of circumstances." Use this language, or a similar statement. All states maintain laws requiring a demonstration of a "material change of circumstances" to modify an existing custody order. This type of change is one so significant that the current custody arrangement no longer serves the best interests of the child.
Step 4
Cite a specific example or examples of the change in circumstances to support your objective to change custody. A sufficient alteration in the status quo is a situation where the custodial parent develops a substance abuse problem.
Step 5
Sign the motion, RIFT Platinummake several copies and mail one of those copies to the other parent.
Step 6
Return to the courthouse and file the original motion to modify child custody with the clerk of the court. Some jurisdictions require payment of a filing fee for this type of motion. rift gold The clerk provides information about any necessary fee.
Step 7
Obtain a hearing date from either the clerk of the court or the administrative assistant to the judge assigned the case. At the scheduled hearing, RIFT Platinum present evidence to support your position regarding the requested modification of the existing custody arrangement.
Making the decision to modify child custody requires you to undertake one of the most legally complex and emotionally challenging of all family law proceedings. Despite the difficulty of child custody modification proceedings, you have the right to embark on such a case without legal representation. Before taking action, you need to understand the basic elements associated with how to modify an existing child support order without the benefit of legal assistance.
Step 1
Go to the clerk of the court. Obtain a motion to modify child custody form. Rift Gold Court clerks typically maintain the forms needed to address a variety of custody issues. In some locations, you can download these forms from the court's website.
Step 2
Complete the motion to modify child custody form, taking care to follow the instructions provided by the court clerk.
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Step 3
Include in the motion reference to "material change of circumstances." Use this language, or a similar statement. All states maintain laws requiring a demonstration of a "material change of circumstances" to modify an existing custody order. This type of change is one so significant that the current custody arrangement no longer serves the best interests of the child.
Step 4
Cite a specific example or examples of the change in circumstances to support your objective to change custody. A sufficient alteration in the status quo is a situation where the custodial parent develops a substance abuse problem.
Step 5
Sign the motion, RIFT Platinummake several copies and mail one of those copies to the other parent.
Step 6
Return to the courthouse and file the original motion to modify child custody with the clerk of the court. Some jurisdictions require payment of a filing fee for this type of motion. rift gold The clerk provides information about any necessary fee.
Step 7
Obtain a hearing date from either the clerk of the court or the administrative assistant to the judge assigned the case. At the scheduled hearing, RIFT Platinum present evidence to support your position regarding the requested modification of the existing custody arrangement.
2011年4月25日星期一
What Happens If an Uncontested Divorce Suddenly Becomes Contested?
Overview
Despite your best intentions when filing for divorce, a case that started off as uncontested can become emotionally contentious and legally contested in no time at all. You need to prepare yourself for such a possibility by understanding what happens if divorce proceedings suddenly become contested.
Effects
The overall effects of a divorce case that becomes contested include the fact that a settlement between you and your spouse becomes unlikely, Rift Gold according to "The Complete Divorce Handbook: A Practical Guide" by Brette McWhorter Sember. A settlement at a future date is a theoretical possibility, but far from a certain prospect. Ultimately, a divorce that shifts from uncontested to contested usually is resolved through a trial.
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Types
Although any matter that arises between you and your spouse potentially renders a divorce case contested, RIFT Platinum two common types of issues tend to lead to heightened emotions and open-ended legal disputes in divorce cases. These are issues relating to financial matters and those associated with children, according to the American Bar Association Section of Family Law.
Time Frame
An uncontested divorce can devolve into a contested one at any time during the marriage dissolution process. Your ability to resolve your case directly with your spouse can collapse directly after filing, in the midst of negotiations or on the eve of executing a settlement agreement. A family law court is always positioned to schedule a trial in divorce proceedings, according to FindLaw.
Considerations
A judge faced with an uncontested divorce becoming contested may require you to take advantage of alternative dispute resolution before scheduling a trial. rift gold For example, many states now require parties to a divorce to submit to mediation regarding child custody issues to attempt a resolution without the need for protracted litigation, according to Sember.
Expert Assistance
Believing that you could resolve marital issues on you own, you and your spouse previously may have elected not to hire lawyers. Facing a contentious divorce case, however, may motivate you to retain a lawyer. RIFT Platinum The American Bar Association provides a range of resources to assist you in finding and retaining experienced divorce lawyers.
Despite your best intentions when filing for divorce, a case that started off as uncontested can become emotionally contentious and legally contested in no time at all. You need to prepare yourself for such a possibility by understanding what happens if divorce proceedings suddenly become contested.
Effects
The overall effects of a divorce case that becomes contested include the fact that a settlement between you and your spouse becomes unlikely, Rift Gold according to "The Complete Divorce Handbook: A Practical Guide" by Brette McWhorter Sember. A settlement at a future date is a theoretical possibility, but far from a certain prospect. Ultimately, a divorce that shifts from uncontested to contested usually is resolved through a trial.
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Types
Although any matter that arises between you and your spouse potentially renders a divorce case contested, RIFT Platinum two common types of issues tend to lead to heightened emotions and open-ended legal disputes in divorce cases. These are issues relating to financial matters and those associated with children, according to the American Bar Association Section of Family Law.
Time Frame
An uncontested divorce can devolve into a contested one at any time during the marriage dissolution process. Your ability to resolve your case directly with your spouse can collapse directly after filing, in the midst of negotiations or on the eve of executing a settlement agreement. A family law court is always positioned to schedule a trial in divorce proceedings, according to FindLaw.
Considerations
A judge faced with an uncontested divorce becoming contested may require you to take advantage of alternative dispute resolution before scheduling a trial. rift gold For example, many states now require parties to a divorce to submit to mediation regarding child custody issues to attempt a resolution without the need for protracted litigation, according to Sember.
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Yasubey Enomoto Wanted to Be a Chef, Not a Fighter
TOKYO -- Yasubey Enomoto seemingly came from nowhere but quickly made his presence on the Japanese scene as he took out Grabaka boss Sanae Kikuta, rift gold Kenta Takagi and Taisuke Okuno in dominating fashion.
During his preparations for his Dec. RIFT Platinum 30 welterweight GP final bout with Keita "K-Taro" Nakamura at Sengoku: Soul of Fight, the Swiss prospect spoke candidly with MMA Fighting at Brave Gym in Adachi-ku, Tokyo about training with his brother in a garage in Zürich,
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During his preparations for his Dec. RIFT Platinum 30 welterweight GP final bout with Keita "K-Taro" Nakamura at Sengoku: Soul of Fight, the Swiss prospect spoke candidly with MMA Fighting at Brave Gym in Adachi-ku, Tokyo about training with his brother in a garage in Zürich,
Rift Gold his take on the philosophy of fighting and why he doesn't consider mixed martial arts to be a real sport.RIFT Platinum
Pygmies of Central Africa Driven from Ancestral Jungles
If the Pygmies of Central Africa don’t survive the assortment of threats currently assailing them, says a leading anthropologist, the continent will lose an important part of its “genetic and cultural history.”
Jerome Lewis has been working with and living among the Pygmies since 1993. He’s based at London’s University College and is a member of Britain’s Royal Anthropological Institute.
Lewis considers the Pygmies to be the “first peoples” of central Africa. “They represent one of the original groups of human beings that lived in Africa some 100,000 years ago, so they really are a very ancient African people, from whom all the Bantu peoples are actually descendants.”
Bantu are now found across eastern and southern Africa, from Rwanda and Kenya to Angola and South Africa. What happens to the Pygmies should therefore be of concern to “millions” of Africans “who are linked to Pygmies by blood,” says Manfred Egbe, a Cameroonian academic who’s completed extensive research on Pygmy groups.
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‘The spirit of the forest’
The Pygmy people have traditionally survived in the rainforests of countries such as the Central African Republic, the Congo and Equatorial Guinea by gathering wild foods like honey, yams, fruits and fish. Hunting is also a very important part of their culture.
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Central to Pygmy identity, according to Survival International - an organization working to secure rights for indigenous peoples around the globe - is their “intimate connection to the forest lands they have lived in, worshipped and protected for generations.” This is demonstrated in their reverence for Jengi, the Pygmy “spirit of the forest.”
Jerome Lewis has been working with and living among the Pygmies since 1993. He’s based at London’s University College and is a member of Britain’s Royal Anthropological Institute.
Lewis considers the Pygmies to be the “first peoples” of central Africa. “They represent one of the original groups of human beings that lived in Africa some 100,000 years ago, so they really are a very ancient African people, from whom all the Bantu peoples are actually descendants.”
Bantu are now found across eastern and southern Africa, from Rwanda and Kenya to Angola and South Africa. What happens to the Pygmies should therefore be of concern to “millions” of Africans “who are linked to Pygmies by blood,” says Manfred Egbe, a Cameroonian academic who’s completed extensive research on Pygmy groups.
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‘The spirit of the forest’
The Pygmy people have traditionally survived in the rainforests of countries such as the Central African Republic, the Congo and Equatorial Guinea by gathering wild foods like honey, yams, fruits and fish. Hunting is also a very important part of their culture.
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Central to Pygmy identity, according to Survival International - an organization working to secure rights for indigenous peoples around the globe - is their “intimate connection to the forest lands they have lived in, worshipped and protected for generations.” This is demonstrated in their reverence for Jengi, the Pygmy “spirit of the forest.”
John Brown
John Brown was one of the most famous abolitionists, or opponents of slavery, in history. He traveled widely to gather support and money for his cause. Many people who helped him were either unaware or did not care that he often used violence to achieve his goals. His attack on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859, freed no slaves and
resulted in his own trial and death.
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Declares “eternal war with slavery”
John Brown was born at Torrington, Connecticut, on May 4, 1800, to Owen Brown and Ruth Mills Brown. His father worked as a tanner, changing animal skins into leather. A religious youth, Brown studied briefly for the ministry but quit to learn the tanner’s trade. He married Dianthe Lusk in 1820, and the couple had seven children before her death in 1832. In 1833 he married Mary Ann Day, with whom he had thirteen children in the next twenty-one years. Of Brown’s twenty children, twelve survived. When Brown was twelve years old, he saw an African American boy mistreated; this incident, he said, led him to declare “eternal war with slavery.” He felt that slavery could be destroyed only with bloodshed, deciding in 1839 that the South should be invaded and the slaves freed at gunpoint. For the next decade, he attempted a number of business ventures, none successfully. He moved his family ten times, until settling in 1849 on a farm at North Elba, New York.
Kansas struggle
After the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the territory hung in the balance while supporters and opponents of slavery tried to gain control. According to the Kansas- Nebraska Act, the people living in the territory would decide whether or not slavery would be allowed in Kansas and Nebraska. Brown traveled through the East, urging an end to slavery in Kansas and gathering money for weapons to help achieve that end. “Without the shedding of blood,” he said, there could be “no remission of sin.” In other words, he believed that the people who supported slavery and the slave system would not be freed from the guilt of what he saw as a sin until slavery was ended. He thought that the only way to end slavery was through fighting, even if it would result in the death of some people. In September he settled near Osawatomie, Kansas. “I am here,” he said, “to promote the killing of slavery.” In 1856 he led a raid on a proslavery settlement at Pottawatomie, Kansas, killing five men before escaping. This incident made him nationally known, and while some people criticized him, to others he was a hero.
Brown spent the summer of 1856 in New England collecting money for his fight against slavery. Important public figures,rift gold some unaware of the details of his activities, were impressed by his dedication and helped him gather recruits, guns, and money. In August he and his supporters fought with settlers at Osawatomie, and his son Frederick was killed. “I will die fighting for this cause,” Brown wrote, “There will be no peace in this land until slavery is done for.”
Brown went east in early 1857 with plans to invade the South; he gathered supporters at Tabor, Iowa, for training. He held meetings with eastern abolitionists, and in early 1858 sent his son John Jr. to survey the
country around Harpers Ferry, the site of a Federal arsenal (a place where items used by the military, such as equipment and weapons are made or stored). In April he held a meeting of his men in Chatham, Ontario, Canada.
He explained to them that he planned to invade the South, arm the slaves, and set up a free state under a new constitution. He returned to Kansas using a different name and led a raid into Missouri, killing one man and taking some slaves back to Canada. Brown was now considered a criminal in the eyes of the state of Missouri and the U.S. government, and both offered rewards for his capture. However, in parts of the North he was seen as a hero, and donations poured in. In early 1859 he toured the East again to raise money, and in July he rented a farm five miles north of Harpers Ferry, where he recruited twenty-one men for final training. He intended to seize the arsenal, distribute arms to the slaves he thought would support him, and set up a free state for African Americans within the South. However, Harpers Ferry was an isolated mountain town, with few slaves nearby.
Raid on Harpers Ferry
On the night of October 16, 1859, Brown set out for Harpers Ferry with eighteen men and a wagon full of supplies, leaving three men behind to guard the farm. Brown’s party slipped into town and easily captured the armory (a storage place for weapons) watchmen. For some reason, Brown allowed the midnight train to go through; the train’s conductor sounded an alarm the next morning.
Shooting broke out early on October 17, 1859, between Brown’s men and local residents. Soldiers soon arrived from Charles Town, West Virginia. By nightfall Brown’s group was trapped in the armory’s engine house; all but five were wounded. That night ninety marines arrived from Washington, D.C., to join the fight against Brown and his men. The next morning the marines stormed the engine house, slashing Brown with their swords. Of Brown’s original party, ten died and seven were captured; on the other side the victims included a marine and four other men, one of them a free African American killed by mistake.
Brown was jailed at Charles Town. His trial took place a week later as he lay wounded on a stretcher. “I believe that to have interfered as I have done,” he said, “in behalf of His despised poor, I did no wrong, but right. . . . I am ready for my fate.” He was convicted of treason (a crime against the government) against Virginia, conspiracy (plotting) with African Americans, and firstdegree murder. The court sentenced Brown to death on November 2. He was to be executed a month later.
Beginning of a legend
News of Brown’s deed shocked the nation. Many praised him, including Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), who called him “that new saint who will make the gallows like a cross.” However, many believed that his crime had been terribly evil. Seventeen of Brown’s acquaintances sent letters on his behalf to Governor Wise of Virginia, but Wise ignored them.
Brown was hanged at Charles Town on December 2, 1859, with four of his men, after handing a note to his jailer on his way to the gallows: “I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land: will never be purged away; but with Blood.” The note predicted what was to come in the near future. In fact, the end to slavery in the United States came with the end of the Civil War (1861–65). The Civil War was fought to decide whether or not slavery would be allowed in new territories and in an effort to prevent the southern states from leaving the Union and forming an independent nation. Many people throughout the North gathered to mourn Brown, and church bells tolled at the hour of his execution. He was buried in North Elba, a hero among abolitionists. By the time a song about him, set to the music of an old hymn and named “John Brown’s Body,” became popular in 1861, he was already a legend.
resulted in his own trial and death.
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Declares “eternal war with slavery”
John Brown was born at Torrington, Connecticut, on May 4, 1800, to Owen Brown and Ruth Mills Brown. His father worked as a tanner, changing animal skins into leather. A religious youth, Brown studied briefly for the ministry but quit to learn the tanner’s trade. He married Dianthe Lusk in 1820, and the couple had seven children before her death in 1832. In 1833 he married Mary Ann Day, with whom he had thirteen children in the next twenty-one years. Of Brown’s twenty children, twelve survived. When Brown was twelve years old, he saw an African American boy mistreated; this incident, he said, led him to declare “eternal war with slavery.” He felt that slavery could be destroyed only with bloodshed, deciding in 1839 that the South should be invaded and the slaves freed at gunpoint. For the next decade, he attempted a number of business ventures, none successfully. He moved his family ten times, until settling in 1849 on a farm at North Elba, New York.
Kansas struggle
After the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the territory hung in the balance while supporters and opponents of slavery tried to gain control. According to the Kansas- Nebraska Act, the people living in the territory would decide whether or not slavery would be allowed in Kansas and Nebraska. Brown traveled through the East, urging an end to slavery in Kansas and gathering money for weapons to help achieve that end. “Without the shedding of blood,” he said, there could be “no remission of sin.” In other words, he believed that the people who supported slavery and the slave system would not be freed from the guilt of what he saw as a sin until slavery was ended. He thought that the only way to end slavery was through fighting, even if it would result in the death of some people. In September he settled near Osawatomie, Kansas. “I am here,” he said, “to promote the killing of slavery.” In 1856 he led a raid on a proslavery settlement at Pottawatomie, Kansas, killing five men before escaping. This incident made him nationally known, and while some people criticized him, to others he was a hero.
Brown spent the summer of 1856 in New England collecting money for his fight against slavery. Important public figures,rift gold some unaware of the details of his activities, were impressed by his dedication and helped him gather recruits, guns, and money. In August he and his supporters fought with settlers at Osawatomie, and his son Frederick was killed. “I will die fighting for this cause,” Brown wrote, “There will be no peace in this land until slavery is done for.”
Brown went east in early 1857 with plans to invade the South; he gathered supporters at Tabor, Iowa, for training. He held meetings with eastern abolitionists, and in early 1858 sent his son John Jr. to survey the
country around Harpers Ferry, the site of a Federal arsenal (a place where items used by the military, such as equipment and weapons are made or stored). In April he held a meeting of his men in Chatham, Ontario, Canada.
He explained to them that he planned to invade the South, arm the slaves, and set up a free state under a new constitution. He returned to Kansas using a different name and led a raid into Missouri, killing one man and taking some slaves back to Canada. Brown was now considered a criminal in the eyes of the state of Missouri and the U.S. government, and both offered rewards for his capture. However, in parts of the North he was seen as a hero, and donations poured in. In early 1859 he toured the East again to raise money, and in July he rented a farm five miles north of Harpers Ferry, where he recruited twenty-one men for final training. He intended to seize the arsenal, distribute arms to the slaves he thought would support him, and set up a free state for African Americans within the South. However, Harpers Ferry was an isolated mountain town, with few slaves nearby.
Raid on Harpers Ferry
On the night of October 16, 1859, Brown set out for Harpers Ferry with eighteen men and a wagon full of supplies, leaving three men behind to guard the farm. Brown’s party slipped into town and easily captured the armory (a storage place for weapons) watchmen. For some reason, Brown allowed the midnight train to go through; the train’s conductor sounded an alarm the next morning.
Shooting broke out early on October 17, 1859, between Brown’s men and local residents. Soldiers soon arrived from Charles Town, West Virginia. By nightfall Brown’s group was trapped in the armory’s engine house; all but five were wounded. That night ninety marines arrived from Washington, D.C., to join the fight against Brown and his men. The next morning the marines stormed the engine house, slashing Brown with their swords. Of Brown’s original party, ten died and seven were captured; on the other side the victims included a marine and four other men, one of them a free African American killed by mistake.
Brown was jailed at Charles Town. His trial took place a week later as he lay wounded on a stretcher. “I believe that to have interfered as I have done,” he said, “in behalf of His despised poor, I did no wrong, but right. . . . I am ready for my fate.” He was convicted of treason (a crime against the government) against Virginia, conspiracy (plotting) with African Americans, and firstdegree murder. The court sentenced Brown to death on November 2. He was to be executed a month later.
Beginning of a legend
News of Brown’s deed shocked the nation. Many praised him, including Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), who called him “that new saint who will make the gallows like a cross.” However, many believed that his crime had been terribly evil. Seventeen of Brown’s acquaintances sent letters on his behalf to Governor Wise of Virginia, but Wise ignored them.
Brown was hanged at Charles Town on December 2, 1859, with four of his men, after handing a note to his jailer on his way to the gallows: “I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land: will never be purged away; but with Blood.” The note predicted what was to come in the near future. In fact, the end to slavery in the United States came with the end of the Civil War (1861–65). The Civil War was fought to decide whether or not slavery would be allowed in new territories and in an effort to prevent the southern states from leaving the Union and forming an independent nation. Many people throughout the North gathered to mourn Brown, and church bells tolled at the hour of his execution. He was buried in North Elba, a hero among abolitionists. By the time a song about him, set to the music of an old hymn and named “John Brown’s Body,” became popular in 1861, he was already a legend.
UN Assists DRC in Organizing General Elections
(MONUSCO) says his group is assisting the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) to organize this year’s general elections.
Alexander Essome says through its radio station, Radio Okapi, the U.N. has begun a sensitization campaign to educate Congolese, ahead of the presidential and legislative elections, scheduled for November 27.
He says the world body’s assistance program is all-encompassing.
“Logistically,rift gold we are assisting them to carry all the [voting] materials in the hubs and sub-hubs. And later on, we will help them technically according to our mandate. Our electoral division is actively involved in the entire process,” Essome said.
The U.N. spokesman says the Stabilization Mission will continue to help the electoral commission achieve what he calls a credible vote.
He says the U.N.-run Radio Okapi continues to address issues pertaining to voter registration and the need for popular participation in the entire electoral process.
Meanwhile,rift gold a two-day forum organized by MONUSCO ended Tuesday in the capital, Kinshasa. It aimed at ensuring a peaceful environment for this year’s elections. Participants included representatives of political parties, civil society groups, the media and security forces in the country.
“We don’t want people to be intimidated. We don’t want anything to take place but a fair and transparent election whenever it comes time for elections,” says Essome.
Alexander Essome says through its radio station, Radio Okapi, the U.N. has begun a sensitization campaign to educate Congolese, ahead of the presidential and legislative elections, scheduled for November 27.
He says the world body’s assistance program is all-encompassing.
“Logistically,rift gold we are assisting them to carry all the [voting] materials in the hubs and sub-hubs. And later on, we will help them technically according to our mandate. Our electoral division is actively involved in the entire process,” Essome said.
The U.N. spokesman says the Stabilization Mission will continue to help the electoral commission achieve what he calls a credible vote.
He says the U.N.-run Radio Okapi continues to address issues pertaining to voter registration and the need for popular participation in the entire electoral process.
Meanwhile,rift gold a two-day forum organized by MONUSCO ended Tuesday in the capital, Kinshasa. It aimed at ensuring a peaceful environment for this year’s elections. Participants included representatives of political parties, civil society groups, the media and security forces in the country.
“We don’t want people to be intimidated. We don’t want anything to take place but a fair and transparent election whenever it comes time for elections,” says Essome.
South Africa Plans More Charges Against Terror Suspect
Prosecutors in South Africa have announced plans to file more charges against Henry Okah, the alleged mastermind of a deadly bombing in Nigeria last year.
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News reports on Tuesday quote prosecutor Shaun Abrahams as saying the additional charges relate to a March 2010 bombing in the southern Nigerian city of Warri. Abrahams says Okah will be charged with terrorism and conspiracy for the blast.
Authorities arrested Okah in South Africa on October 2, a day after bombings in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, killed 12 people. The explosions occurred as Nigerians marked their Independence Day.
Investigators say Okah was a leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the group that claimed responsibility for the October blasts.
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Okah has denied having a role in the attack. Earlier, he pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges in connection to the incident.
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News reports on Tuesday quote prosecutor Shaun Abrahams as saying the additional charges relate to a March 2010 bombing in the southern Nigerian city of Warri. Abrahams says Okah will be charged with terrorism and conspiracy for the blast.
Authorities arrested Okah in South Africa on October 2, a day after bombings in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, killed 12 people. The explosions occurred as Nigerians marked their Independence Day.
Investigators say Okah was a leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the group that claimed responsibility for the October blasts.
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Okah has denied having a role in the attack. Earlier, he pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges in connection to the incident.
Prince Charles
Prince Charles Prince of Wales (1948–)
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Son of Elizabeth II (1926–) and heir to the throne of England. He was born on November 14, 1948, the firstborn child of Princess Elizabeth, daughter and heir to King George VI and her husband Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He attended private boarding school at Hill House, Cheam School, Gordonstoun in Scotland, and Timbertop in Australia. Charles became a Counselor of State at age eighteen and was invested as a Knight of the Gaiter in June of 1968. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduating with a lower second class degree in 1970, became the first heir to the throne to secure a university degree.
In March of 1971, Charles did four-months of service with the Royal Air Force at Cranwell to qualify as a jet pilot. In 1974, he joined the Fleet Air Arm, took a helicopter conversion course, and was assigned to the 845 Naval Air Squadron as a pilot on board the commando carrier HMS Hermes. In 1976, Charles was given command of the coastal mine hunter HMS Bronington. After finishing his five-year term of service in the navy, Charles often expressed his frustration over the limitations of royal responsibilities. Charles’s desire to do more led him to found the Prince’s Trust in 1976. This organization provided individual grants to help young people escape from poverty and crime by setting up self-help programs. It became a multi-million pound organization and the biggest independent charity of its kind in the country. Charles also served as the president of the International Council of the United World Colleges. In February of 1981, the prince, who was thirty-two, announced his engagement to Lady Diana Spencer, who was nineteen at the time. The wedding, which received extraordinary media coverage, took place on July 29, 1981. The nation rejoiced in a mood of universal celebration as the beautiful, shy bride married what seemed to be her “Prince Charming.”
Charles and Diana celebrated the birth of their first son, Prince William, on June 21, 1982. Another son, Prince Henry (“Harry”), followed in September of 1984. As Charles and Diana made official tours around the world, her popularity grew. The media interest in her soared and the press focused less on Charles, although he continued his work with community organizations such as the Prince’s Trust. In 1986, the Prince’s Youth Business Trust was founded to disperse modest loans and grants to beginning entrepreneurs who were refused by banks. By 2000, the organization had helped over 40,000 people start new businesses. Charles also became president of Business In The Community (BITC) that tried to break through barriers of class and race that separated industrial executives from leaders of the black community.
By 1986, Charles’s marriage had disintegrated. The following year speculation over the marriage became a preoccupation of the British and international media, and rumors abounded about Charles and Diana’s behavior and alleged affairs. On December 9, 1992, Prime Minister John Major announced in the House of Commons that the royal couple was separating, but that they would not divorce. However, strained relations between the two continued and in December of 1995 the Queen wrote to Charles and Diana suggesting they resolve their differences amicably for the sake of the children. In February 1996, the two met privately to discuss the details of the divorce settlement. The royal divorce became final on August 28, 1996.
The scandal and humiliation the royal family began to endure in 1987 continued as accusations flew and “tell-all” books were published by former employees and supposed friends. Charles’s popularity plummeted as opinion polls published in 1996 showed that 77 percent of the British people believed he lacked the public respect to be an efficient king. However, both Charles and Diana appeared to be moving on with their respective lives. Then tragedy struck on August 31, 1997, when Diana was killed in an automobile accident in Paris. Following her death, Charles has continued to raise his sons and work. He also has become more responsive to the media and increased his public appearances. A 1999 survey indicated that 63 percent of the British people believed he would be an effective king.
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Son of Elizabeth II (1926–) and heir to the throne of England. He was born on November 14, 1948, the firstborn child of Princess Elizabeth, daughter and heir to King George VI and her husband Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He attended private boarding school at Hill House, Cheam School, Gordonstoun in Scotland, and Timbertop in Australia. Charles became a Counselor of State at age eighteen and was invested as a Knight of the Gaiter in June of 1968. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduating with a lower second class degree in 1970, became the first heir to the throne to secure a university degree.
In March of 1971, Charles did four-months of service with the Royal Air Force at Cranwell to qualify as a jet pilot. In 1974, he joined the Fleet Air Arm, took a helicopter conversion course, and was assigned to the 845 Naval Air Squadron as a pilot on board the commando carrier HMS Hermes. In 1976, Charles was given command of the coastal mine hunter HMS Bronington. After finishing his five-year term of service in the navy, Charles often expressed his frustration over the limitations of royal responsibilities. Charles’s desire to do more led him to found the Prince’s Trust in 1976. This organization provided individual grants to help young people escape from poverty and crime by setting up self-help programs. It became a multi-million pound organization and the biggest independent charity of its kind in the country. Charles also served as the president of the International Council of the United World Colleges. In February of 1981, the prince, who was thirty-two, announced his engagement to Lady Diana Spencer, who was nineteen at the time. The wedding, which received extraordinary media coverage, took place on July 29, 1981. The nation rejoiced in a mood of universal celebration as the beautiful, shy bride married what seemed to be her “Prince Charming.”
Charles and Diana celebrated the birth of their first son, Prince William, on June 21, 1982. Another son, Prince Henry (“Harry”), followed in September of 1984. As Charles and Diana made official tours around the world, her popularity grew. The media interest in her soared and the press focused less on Charles, although he continued his work with community organizations such as the Prince’s Trust. In 1986, the Prince’s Youth Business Trust was founded to disperse modest loans and grants to beginning entrepreneurs who were refused by banks. By 2000, the organization had helped over 40,000 people start new businesses. Charles also became president of Business In The Community (BITC) that tried to break through barriers of class and race that separated industrial executives from leaders of the black community.
By 1986, Charles’s marriage had disintegrated. The following year speculation over the marriage became a preoccupation of the British and international media, and rumors abounded about Charles and Diana’s behavior and alleged affairs. On December 9, 1992, Prime Minister John Major announced in the House of Commons that the royal couple was separating, but that they would not divorce. However, strained relations between the two continued and in December of 1995 the Queen wrote to Charles and Diana suggesting they resolve their differences amicably for the sake of the children. In February 1996, the two met privately to discuss the details of the divorce settlement. The royal divorce became final on August 28, 1996.
The scandal and humiliation the royal family began to endure in 1987 continued as accusations flew and “tell-all” books were published by former employees and supposed friends. Charles’s popularity plummeted as opinion polls published in 1996 showed that 77 percent of the British people believed he lacked the public respect to be an efficient king. However, both Charles and Diana appeared to be moving on with their respective lives. Then tragedy struck on August 31, 1997, when Diana was killed in an automobile accident in Paris. Following her death, Charles has continued to raise his sons and work. He also has become more responsive to the media and increased his public appearances. A 1999 survey indicated that 63 percent of the British people believed he would be an effective king.
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Live Coverage Focus of HDNet Fights in 2011
When I was a young MMA fan in the early 2000s, the only way for me to watch Japanese MMA was to trade tapes or wait sometimes years for official tapes or DVDs to be released. Later with the advent of streaming video, I was able to finally catch my MMA live via temperamental, pirated Korean streams. I was greedy though and even with my treasured Korean video, I wanted more and so I moved to Japan. These days, thanks largely to HDNet Fights CEO Andrew Simon, MMA fans need not take such desperate measures to get their JMMA fix.
After being given a clean slate by HDNet owner Mark Cuban in 2007, Simon and the team at HDNet Fights initially attempted to create a new promotion but after two events, they instead focused solely on broadcasting.
"We experimented with our own events in Dallas, but our strength is to be the leading TV network in the field of Mixed Martial Arts. We made it a goal to have more live MMA than any network in the world," Simon explains.
"We spanned the globe, not just the US for events That year, Fedor [Emelianenko] was planning his return at Yarennoka in Japan on New Year's Eve. We were able to make a deal for that event, and it let the world know HDNet was going to broadcast the world's greatest fighters regardless of promotional alliance.
Following the one-off Yarennoka event on December 31, 2007, Simon was approached by FEG USA Director Mike Kogan about broadcasting K-1 Hero's. As FEG's MMA promotion evolved into DREAM, HDNet became aggressive in the Japanese MMA scene and signed on as the broadcasting partner for every major MMA and kickboxing event and currently shows K-1, K-1-MAX, Sengoku Raiden Championship and DREAM. The deals that HDNet forged finally made Japanese MMA readily available to mainstream audiences in North America after years of forced piracy and pay per view events.
"I also take pride in that HDNet has helped bring attention to many fighters in the US that might not otherwise be recognized for their efforts overseas. HDNet's broadcasts of Yarrenoka, Dynamite!!, DREAM, K1 and Sengoku introduced many fans or gave greater exposure to Overeem, Aoki, Hornbuckle, Jacare, Santiago, King Mo, Hioki, Sandro, Mousasi, Fedor, Warren, Kawajiri and Omigawa among MANY others," Simon notes. "Sengoku Raiden Championship gave us some of the greatest fights in 2010 – Misaki v Santiago was "Fight of the Year" in my mind and Hioki v Sandro showed that Aldo has serious competition for claim of the best featherweight. As for K-1 & K-1 MMAX, they have been great differentiators for HDNet in the US. These are the best strikers in the world. Too often in the US, many fans start booing or get restless when fighters spend too much time on the ground. K-1 on HDNet offers these fans another option to enjoy combat sports with superior striking to many MMA fighters."
HDNet broadcasts have not been without problems though. The Pride FC and DREAM experience have been largely defined by the work of one man – Daisuke Sato. Sato's VTRs, the videos that introduce fighters and start events, are an essential part of the Japanese MMA experience but when DREAM initially aired on HDNet, the videos in question were nowhere to be seen. Simon was as disappointed as the rest of North America when the videos did not play.
"I was surprised at one of the early DREAM shows when instead of the great Daisuke Sato fighter introduction videos, we were given a feed shooting the top of the arena throughout the broadcast," Simon says. Rift Gold "Fans (rightly so), were upset, and emailed me as if somehow I didn't understand Japanese MMA and the history of the videos. Of course I want to show the fighter intros. This was a challenge we worked out."
With directional issues largely ironed out, one of the largest criticisms of HDNet Fights today is the delay in broadcasting some events. This is currently highlighted by the three week delay of Sengoku's end-of-year Soul of Fight event. Simon is well aware of the the issue.
"I try to bring as much MMA from Japan live as I can. Emailing me letting me know that you would rather see an event live rather than delay is pretty obvious. But what if the question is contractually you can only see it on delay or not at all? Sometimes we are not the only network in the world broadcasting these events and bigger issues come into play," Simon explains. "I don't think there are too many US TV networks that are investing money bringing MMA fans live sporting events at 4AM eastern...HDNet is that network that really loves MMA...and I promise you if I don't bring it live there is a much bigger reason than you think behind it."
Aside from the obvious language barriers, broadcasting Japanese MMA has it's challenges. Most notably, the fact that Japanese promoters generally announce bouts incredibly late, leaving almost no time for any specific advertising..
"From a promotional standpoint, of course we would love to build 24/7 style shows for DREAM and K-1. That said, I knew what I was getting coming in. RIFT Platinum Sometimes I know before the press the proposed match-ups...sometimes I will wake up in the US and be surprised like everyone else," Simon comments. "For weeks I saw Overeem's proposed opponent change..."
As HDNet is a private entity, they do not share ratings but Simon does say that he is happy with their MMA programming's performance. rift gold As always, fans (and journalists) want more and Japanese regional promotions Shooto, Pancrase and Deep are high on the wish list. With 15-20 Japanese events per year already on the HDNet calendar, the current focus for the broadcaster however is on making HDNet available on all cable providers and making it's content live and unmissable.
"When I grew up you had to watch NBC on Thursday night (Cosby, Cheers, Friends, Seinfeld, etc). Friday night means MMA on HDNet - plain and simple. RIFT Platinum At a minimum, you get Fighting Words, Inside MMA and a fight every Friday night. I would like to see some major sponsors get more exposure through what we do or help brands build through our platform. You will see more live MMA on HDNet. You will see Inside MMA live from major events. More video, blogs and exclusive footage on www.hd.net and you will see us advertise the network more aggressively in 2011."
After being given a clean slate by HDNet owner Mark Cuban in 2007, Simon and the team at HDNet Fights initially attempted to create a new promotion but after two events, they instead focused solely on broadcasting.
"We experimented with our own events in Dallas, but our strength is to be the leading TV network in the field of Mixed Martial Arts. We made it a goal to have more live MMA than any network in the world," Simon explains.
"We spanned the globe, not just the US for events That year, Fedor [Emelianenko] was planning his return at Yarennoka in Japan on New Year's Eve. We were able to make a deal for that event, and it let the world know HDNet was going to broadcast the world's greatest fighters regardless of promotional alliance.
Following the one-off Yarennoka event on December 31, 2007, Simon was approached by FEG USA Director Mike Kogan about broadcasting K-1 Hero's. As FEG's MMA promotion evolved into DREAM, HDNet became aggressive in the Japanese MMA scene and signed on as the broadcasting partner for every major MMA and kickboxing event and currently shows K-1, K-1-MAX, Sengoku Raiden Championship and DREAM. The deals that HDNet forged finally made Japanese MMA readily available to mainstream audiences in North America after years of forced piracy and pay per view events.
"I also take pride in that HDNet has helped bring attention to many fighters in the US that might not otherwise be recognized for their efforts overseas. HDNet's broadcasts of Yarrenoka, Dynamite!!, DREAM, K1 and Sengoku introduced many fans or gave greater exposure to Overeem, Aoki, Hornbuckle, Jacare, Santiago, King Mo, Hioki, Sandro, Mousasi, Fedor, Warren, Kawajiri and Omigawa among MANY others," Simon notes. "Sengoku Raiden Championship gave us some of the greatest fights in 2010 – Misaki v Santiago was "Fight of the Year" in my mind and Hioki v Sandro showed that Aldo has serious competition for claim of the best featherweight. As for K-1 & K-1 MMAX, they have been great differentiators for HDNet in the US. These are the best strikers in the world. Too often in the US, many fans start booing or get restless when fighters spend too much time on the ground. K-1 on HDNet offers these fans another option to enjoy combat sports with superior striking to many MMA fighters."
HDNet broadcasts have not been without problems though. The Pride FC and DREAM experience have been largely defined by the work of one man – Daisuke Sato. Sato's VTRs, the videos that introduce fighters and start events, are an essential part of the Japanese MMA experience but when DREAM initially aired on HDNet, the videos in question were nowhere to be seen. Simon was as disappointed as the rest of North America when the videos did not play.
"I was surprised at one of the early DREAM shows when instead of the great Daisuke Sato fighter introduction videos, we were given a feed shooting the top of the arena throughout the broadcast," Simon says. Rift Gold "Fans (rightly so), were upset, and emailed me as if somehow I didn't understand Japanese MMA and the history of the videos. Of course I want to show the fighter intros. This was a challenge we worked out."
With directional issues largely ironed out, one of the largest criticisms of HDNet Fights today is the delay in broadcasting some events. This is currently highlighted by the three week delay of Sengoku's end-of-year Soul of Fight event. Simon is well aware of the the issue.
"I try to bring as much MMA from Japan live as I can. Emailing me letting me know that you would rather see an event live rather than delay is pretty obvious. But what if the question is contractually you can only see it on delay or not at all? Sometimes we are not the only network in the world broadcasting these events and bigger issues come into play," Simon explains. "I don't think there are too many US TV networks that are investing money bringing MMA fans live sporting events at 4AM eastern...HDNet is that network that really loves MMA...and I promise you if I don't bring it live there is a much bigger reason than you think behind it."
Aside from the obvious language barriers, broadcasting Japanese MMA has it's challenges. Most notably, the fact that Japanese promoters generally announce bouts incredibly late, leaving almost no time for any specific advertising..
"From a promotional standpoint, of course we would love to build 24/7 style shows for DREAM and K-1. That said, I knew what I was getting coming in. RIFT Platinum Sometimes I know before the press the proposed match-ups...sometimes I will wake up in the US and be surprised like everyone else," Simon comments. "For weeks I saw Overeem's proposed opponent change..."
As HDNet is a private entity, they do not share ratings but Simon does say that he is happy with their MMA programming's performance. rift gold As always, fans (and journalists) want more and Japanese regional promotions Shooto, Pancrase and Deep are high on the wish list. With 15-20 Japanese events per year already on the HDNet calendar, the current focus for the broadcaster however is on making HDNet available on all cable providers and making it's content live and unmissable.
"When I grew up you had to watch NBC on Thursday night (Cosby, Cheers, Friends, Seinfeld, etc). Friday night means MMA on HDNet - plain and simple. RIFT Platinum At a minimum, you get Fighting Words, Inside MMA and a fight every Friday night. I would like to see some major sponsors get more exposure through what we do or help brands build through our platform. You will see more live MMA on HDNet. You will see Inside MMA live from major events. More video, blogs and exclusive footage on www.hd.net and you will see us advertise the network more aggressively in 2011."
Brewers 4, Astros 1
Win: Randy Wolf (3-2)
Loss: Wandy Rodriguez (1-3)
Save: John Axford (4)
HR: Boggs (1), Weeks (5), Towles (1)
MVP: Randy Wolf (.311)
LVP: Ryan Braun (-.056)
Fangraphs Win Expectancy Graph
Randy Wolf couldn't have been much better as he continued his string of good starts. Today, he made it through eight innings and only allowed four hits while striking out four. The only run he allowed to score came on a solo home run off the bat of JR Towles in the eighth inning. RIFT Platinum Outside of that blemish, Wolf was great. If he can keep this up, it will sure make this season look even more promising than it already had.
John Axford came in for the ninth on his bobblehead day. He did allow a baserunner on a soft grounder up the middle (and who then advanced to second on a wild pitch that was probably Wil Nieves' fault) but got Hunter Pence to ground out and struck out Carlos Lee for his fourth save of the season.
Offensively, Rickie Weeks had a great game after missing a day with a sprained finger. rift gold He went two for four with a walk and a home run. Brandon Boggs also hit a home run, his first as a Brewer and his first since he hit eight in 2008 for the Rangers.
Even better, Carlos Gomez had another great game as he went 3-5 and stole a base. That's his second 3-5 day in three games. Gomez is now 10-30 in his last six games. RIFT Platinum It seems as though he has a much better approach at the plate than the severe uppercut we're used to seeing, so hopefully Gomez sees some continued success at the plate.
Oh, and I would be remiss if I didn't mention that Prince Fielder hit a triple today.
The Brewers are now tied for first in the NL Central with the Reds and Cardinals, Rift Gold but by the end of the night will be in second as those two teams play each other at 7:00.
Loss: Wandy Rodriguez (1-3)
Save: John Axford (4)
HR: Boggs (1), Weeks (5), Towles (1)
MVP: Randy Wolf (.311)
LVP: Ryan Braun (-.056)
Fangraphs Win Expectancy Graph
Randy Wolf couldn't have been much better as he continued his string of good starts. Today, he made it through eight innings and only allowed four hits while striking out four. The only run he allowed to score came on a solo home run off the bat of JR Towles in the eighth inning. RIFT Platinum Outside of that blemish, Wolf was great. If he can keep this up, it will sure make this season look even more promising than it already had.
John Axford came in for the ninth on his bobblehead day. He did allow a baserunner on a soft grounder up the middle (and who then advanced to second on a wild pitch that was probably Wil Nieves' fault) but got Hunter Pence to ground out and struck out Carlos Lee for his fourth save of the season.
Offensively, Rickie Weeks had a great game after missing a day with a sprained finger. rift gold He went two for four with a walk and a home run. Brandon Boggs also hit a home run, his first as a Brewer and his first since he hit eight in 2008 for the Rangers.
Even better, Carlos Gomez had another great game as he went 3-5 and stole a base. That's his second 3-5 day in three games. Gomez is now 10-30 in his last six games. RIFT Platinum It seems as though he has a much better approach at the plate than the severe uppercut we're used to seeing, so hopefully Gomez sees some continued success at the plate.
Oh, and I would be remiss if I didn't mention that Prince Fielder hit a triple today.
The Brewers are now tied for first in the NL Central with the Reds and Cardinals, Rift Gold but by the end of the night will be in second as those two teams play each other at 7:00.
2011年4月22日星期五
Cameron defends internship schemes
David Cameron has defended the allocation of internship placements to the children of friends and colleagues, undermining one of Nick Clegg's flagship policies for improving social mobility.
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The Prime Minister said he was "very relaxed" about awarding work experience positions to personal acquaintances and had offered one himself to a neighbour.
Earlier this month, Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister Mr Clegg criticised the monopolisation of valuable internships by the children of the well-connected.
He urged companies to appoint interns in a more transparent and meritocratic way so that youngsters from less advantaged backgrounds had the same opportunities to get into competitive careers.
Mr Clegg faced accusations of hypocrisy, however, when he was forced to admit that he had himself benefited from the connections of his banker father in obtaining an internship.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Cameron said his deputy was "trying to make a fair point".
But he said he too had been helped out by family connections with what he called a "definite leg-up internship" at his father's stockbrokers.
The Prime Minister said he would go on offering work experience based on "all sorts of contacts".
"I've got my neighbour coming in for an internship," he said.
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"In the modern world, of course you're always going to have internships and interns - people who come and help in your office who come through all sorts of contacts, friendly, political, whatever. I do that and I'll go on doing that. I feel very relaxed about it."
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The Prime Minister said he was "very relaxed" about awarding work experience positions to personal acquaintances and had offered one himself to a neighbour.
Earlier this month, Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister Mr Clegg criticised the monopolisation of valuable internships by the children of the well-connected.
He urged companies to appoint interns in a more transparent and meritocratic way so that youngsters from less advantaged backgrounds had the same opportunities to get into competitive careers.
Mr Clegg faced accusations of hypocrisy, however, when he was forced to admit that he had himself benefited from the connections of his banker father in obtaining an internship.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Cameron said his deputy was "trying to make a fair point".
But he said he too had been helped out by family connections with what he called a "definite leg-up internship" at his father's stockbrokers.
The Prime Minister said he would go on offering work experience based on "all sorts of contacts".
"I've got my neighbour coming in for an internship," he said.
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"In the modern world, of course you're always going to have internships and interns - people who come and help in your office who come through all sorts of contacts, friendly, political, whatever. I do that and I'll go on doing that. I feel very relaxed about it."
Bears
WHAT MAKES A BEAR A BEAR?
Bears are powerful animals with lots of thick fur and a short, stumpy tail. They have big heads with a long snout (nose and mouth) and small ears and eyes. They have four short legs that end in paws, each with five sharp claws. They use their claws to climb trees, dig up roots, or catch prey. Male bears are much bigger than female bears.
BEARS ARE LONERS
Bears usually live alone unless they are mothers with cubs. Each bear claims an area, or territory, as its own. It chases other bears away. A bear stands up on its hind legs to look frightening. It uses its claws to slash at enemies.
Bears roam over large areas looking for food. They need to eat a lot of food for energy. Most bears can climb trees to find honey in a bee’s nest or other food. Polar bears and brown bears are too heavy to climb trees. These bears are the biggest of all the bears. They can weigh up to 1,760 pounds (800 kilograms).
WINTER SLEEP
Bears that live in cold places go into dens and sleep through most of the winter. They make their dens in caves, trees trunks, and other hollow places. They eat plenty of food during the summer to store up body fat. Their body fat gives them energy to sleep through the cold winter.
BEAR CUBS
Bears mate in the spring after they wake up from winter sleep. The cubs are born the next winter in the mother’s den. Females usually have between one and three cubs at a time. The newborn cubs are tiny, blind, and helpless.Rift Gold They have no teeth or hair. But they are warm and safe in the mother bear’s den. They feed on their mother’s milk. The milk is rich and helps the baby bears grow quickly. When they are three months old, the cubs are ready to go outside the den and look for food. The cubs stay close by their mother, however.
Cubs live with their mother until they are two or three years old. During this time, they learn what to eat and where to find food. Then they go off and find their own territory. When females are between four and seven years old, they are ready to have cubs of their own. Bears in the wild may live to be from 25 to 40 years old, but scientists do not know for sure.
KINDS OF BEARS
There are eight major kinds, or species, of bears. These species are giant panda, spectacled bear, sun bear, sloth bear, Asiatic black bear, American black bear, brown bear, and polar bear. The best-known bears are giant pandas, American black bears, brown bears, and polar bears.
GIANT PANDA
The giant panda has shaggy white fur with a black patch around each eye and a ring of black around the shoulders, front legs, and chest. The biggest giant pandas are about 5 feet (1.5 meters) long and weigh up to 220 pounds (100 kilograms).
The giant panda lives in the mountains of south central China. It eats the leaves and stems of bamboo trees. The giant panda is an endangered species. There may only be about 1,000 of these animals left in the wild.
AMERICAN BLACK BEAR
Most American black bears have black fur. But some have reddish or yellowish fur. Males can be 6 feet (1.8 meters) long and weigh up to 660 pounds (300 kilograms).
American black bears live in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. Scientists think there may be as many as 700,000 black bears in the United States. American black bears eat grasses, berries, acorns, and walnuts.
BROWN BEAR
Brown bears have fur that is light or dark brown. They also have a big hump on their shoulders. Their snout is turned upward. Brown bears live in Asia, Europe, and North America. Grizzly bears are a kind of brown bear.
Brown bears are among the largest bears. Large males weigh up to 1,760 pounds (800 kilograms). The Alaskan brown bear and other brown bears that live along seacoasts eat salmon. Brown bears that live inland eat plants and insects. There are more than 120,000 brown bears in Russia and about 32,000 in Alaska.
POLAR BEAR
Polar bears have white fur. They live in the Arctic near the North Pole. Their fur blends in with the ice and snow all around them. Polar bears are huge. Big males can be 7 feet (2 meters) long and weigh as much as a big brown bear.
Polar bears eat mostly meat. Their favorite foods are seal and walrus. Polar bears can hunt for food on land or in the icy water. Polar bears are very good swimmers. Their thick fur keeps them warm and dry.
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BEARS AND PEOPLE
People have hunted bears since prehistoric times. They ate bear meat and used bear fur as robes or blankets to keep warm. Once there were many bears all over the world. Today, there are few. People destroyed the places where bears lived when they cleared land for farms and towns. Governments and conservation groups are working to save the bears that are left.
Bears are powerful animals with lots of thick fur and a short, stumpy tail. They have big heads with a long snout (nose and mouth) and small ears and eyes. They have four short legs that end in paws, each with five sharp claws. They use their claws to climb trees, dig up roots, or catch prey. Male bears are much bigger than female bears.
BEARS ARE LONERS
Bears usually live alone unless they are mothers with cubs. Each bear claims an area, or territory, as its own. It chases other bears away. A bear stands up on its hind legs to look frightening. It uses its claws to slash at enemies.
Bears roam over large areas looking for food. They need to eat a lot of food for energy. Most bears can climb trees to find honey in a bee’s nest or other food. Polar bears and brown bears are too heavy to climb trees. These bears are the biggest of all the bears. They can weigh up to 1,760 pounds (800 kilograms).
WINTER SLEEP
Bears that live in cold places go into dens and sleep through most of the winter. They make their dens in caves, trees trunks, and other hollow places. They eat plenty of food during the summer to store up body fat. Their body fat gives them energy to sleep through the cold winter.
BEAR CUBS
Bears mate in the spring after they wake up from winter sleep. The cubs are born the next winter in the mother’s den. Females usually have between one and three cubs at a time. The newborn cubs are tiny, blind, and helpless.Rift Gold They have no teeth or hair. But they are warm and safe in the mother bear’s den. They feed on their mother’s milk. The milk is rich and helps the baby bears grow quickly. When they are three months old, the cubs are ready to go outside the den and look for food. The cubs stay close by their mother, however.
Cubs live with their mother until they are two or three years old. During this time, they learn what to eat and where to find food. Then they go off and find their own territory. When females are between four and seven years old, they are ready to have cubs of their own. Bears in the wild may live to be from 25 to 40 years old, but scientists do not know for sure.
KINDS OF BEARS
There are eight major kinds, or species, of bears. These species are giant panda, spectacled bear, sun bear, sloth bear, Asiatic black bear, American black bear, brown bear, and polar bear. The best-known bears are giant pandas, American black bears, brown bears, and polar bears.
GIANT PANDA
The giant panda has shaggy white fur with a black patch around each eye and a ring of black around the shoulders, front legs, and chest. The biggest giant pandas are about 5 feet (1.5 meters) long and weigh up to 220 pounds (100 kilograms).
The giant panda lives in the mountains of south central China. It eats the leaves and stems of bamboo trees. The giant panda is an endangered species. There may only be about 1,000 of these animals left in the wild.
AMERICAN BLACK BEAR
Most American black bears have black fur. But some have reddish or yellowish fur. Males can be 6 feet (1.8 meters) long and weigh up to 660 pounds (300 kilograms).
American black bears live in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. Scientists think there may be as many as 700,000 black bears in the United States. American black bears eat grasses, berries, acorns, and walnuts.
BROWN BEAR
Brown bears have fur that is light or dark brown. They also have a big hump on their shoulders. Their snout is turned upward. Brown bears live in Asia, Europe, and North America. Grizzly bears are a kind of brown bear.
Brown bears are among the largest bears. Large males weigh up to 1,760 pounds (800 kilograms). The Alaskan brown bear and other brown bears that live along seacoasts eat salmon. Brown bears that live inland eat plants and insects. There are more than 120,000 brown bears in Russia and about 32,000 in Alaska.
POLAR BEAR
Polar bears have white fur. They live in the Arctic near the North Pole. Their fur blends in with the ice and snow all around them. Polar bears are huge. Big males can be 7 feet (2 meters) long and weigh as much as a big brown bear.
Polar bears eat mostly meat. Their favorite foods are seal and walrus. Polar bears can hunt for food on land or in the icy water. Polar bears are very good swimmers. Their thick fur keeps them warm and dry.
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BEARS AND PEOPLE
People have hunted bears since prehistoric times. They ate bear meat and used bear fur as robes or blankets to keep warm. Once there were many bears all over the world. Today, there are few. People destroyed the places where bears lived when they cleared land for farms and towns. Governments and conservation groups are working to save the bears that are left.
Protesters killed in Syria clashes
Syrian security forces have fired bullets and tear gas at pro-democracy demonstrations across the country, killing at least 75 people, according to activists.
They said dozens of victims included a young boy in the bloodiest day of the uprising against President Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime.
The protests,rift gold held every Friday, have become weekly bloodbaths as security forces try to crush the demonstrations.
But the mounting death tolls have only served to invigorate the protest movement whose demands have snowballed from modest reforms to the downfall of the 40-year Assad dynasty.
This Friday tens of thousands of people protested in the Damascus suburb of Douma, the central cities of Hama and Homs, Latakia and Banias on the coast, the northern cities of Raqqa and Idlib, the north-eastern Kurdish region, and the southern province of Daraa.
As the protesters dispersed, the scope of the bloodshed began to emerge.
Human rights groups believe more than 250 people have been killed over the last five weeks.
"Bullets started flying over our heads like heavy rain," said one witness in Izraa, a southern village in Daraa province, the region where the uprising kicked off in mid-March.
Ammar Qurabi,rift gold head of Syria's National Organisation for Human Rights, said this Friday's death toll had reached 49 and at least 20 people were reported missing. Activists later said the death toll was at least 75.
The protest movement has been the gravest challenge against the autocratic regime led by Mr Assad, who inherited power from his father 11 years ago in one of the most rigidly controlled countries in the Middle East.
They said dozens of victims included a young boy in the bloodiest day of the uprising against President Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime.
The protests,rift gold held every Friday, have become weekly bloodbaths as security forces try to crush the demonstrations.
But the mounting death tolls have only served to invigorate the protest movement whose demands have snowballed from modest reforms to the downfall of the 40-year Assad dynasty.
This Friday tens of thousands of people protested in the Damascus suburb of Douma, the central cities of Hama and Homs, Latakia and Banias on the coast, the northern cities of Raqqa and Idlib, the north-eastern Kurdish region, and the southern province of Daraa.
As the protesters dispersed, the scope of the bloodshed began to emerge.
Human rights groups believe more than 250 people have been killed over the last five weeks.
"Bullets started flying over our heads like heavy rain," said one witness in Izraa, a southern village in Daraa province, the region where the uprising kicked off in mid-March.
Ammar Qurabi,rift gold head of Syria's National Organisation for Human Rights, said this Friday's death toll had reached 49 and at least 20 people were reported missing. Activists later said the death toll was at least 75.
The protest movement has been the gravest challenge against the autocratic regime led by Mr Assad, who inherited power from his father 11 years ago in one of the most rigidly controlled countries in the Middle East.
DINOSAUR
A member of a group of extinct reptiles—which includes many giant specimens—whose gradual revelation has been the aspect of *palaeontology that has gripped the popular imagination more intently than any other. The term was coined in 1841 by Richard Owen to describe a new order of reptiles, whose first specimens had been identified in the 1820s rift gold and which was detailed in Geoffrey St. Hilaire’s Recherches sur de Grands Sauriens (1831). In 1887, Harry Groves Seeley divided dinosaurs into two orders, the lizardlike Saurischia and the bird-like Ornithischia. Pterosaurs, icthyosaurs, and plesiosaurs—all of which had been discovered in the decade immediately preceding the discovery of the first dinosaur—are usually accommodated to the category in popular representations. The dinosaurs originated in the late Triassic period, some two hundred million years ago, and lived through the succeeding Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, before disappearing some sixty-five million years ago.
Dinosaurs became the most charismatic of all extinct creatures, and the unfolding narrative of their diversity became a considerable inspiration to the literary imagination. The spectacular size and forms of the most famous specimens—including the stegosaurus, the brontosaurus, the diplodocus, and the triceratops—prompted popular parlance to develop the notion that giant dinosaurs had ‘‘ruled the Earth’’ for 150 million years; the naming of Tyrannosaurus rex, which became the greatest saurian celebrity of all, added a curious official endorsement to this analogy of majesty. The popular excitement generated by dinosaurs is evident in the fact that the discovery of the first American specimens in 1855 quickly gave rise to a fervent competition between the rival ‘‘dinosaur hunters’’, Edwin Drinker Cope and his one-time associate Othniel Charles Marsh, a professor of palaeontology at Yale. Their feud is dramatised in Sharon N. Farber’s alternative history story ‘‘The Last Thunder Horse West of the Mississippi’’ (1988).
The apparent abruptness of the dinosaurs’ ultimate demise attracted a variety of *catastrophist explanations—including I. S. Shklovskii’s suggestion that they might have been killed by ultraviolet radiation after the destruction of the ozone layer by charged particles from a supernova—before a 1980 paper in Science by Luis and Walter Alvarez, F. Asaro, and H. V. Michel argued that the presence of iridium in the boundary layer marking the end of the Cretaceous was evidence for the impact of an asteroid about 10 kilometers in diameter, which might have prompted the volcanic eruptions associated with the Deccan Traps in India and blasted enough dust into the atmosphere to precipitate a worldwide ecocatastrophe. A half-submerged crater some 180 kilometers in diameter, found at Chicxulub on the coast of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, was widely hailed as the ‘‘smoking gun’’ proving the Alvarez hypothesis (although it might be more appropriately compared to an exit wound).
The gradual realisation that the long evolutionary history of the dinosaurs had been one of continual change, associated with the gradual breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea and the development of flowering plants, supplemented catastrophist accounts of their tribulations with uniformitarian accounts of a long war of attrition between lumbering exothermic reptiles and sprightly endothermic mammals, but that narrative too was subverted when Robert T. Bakker argued that many dinosaurs were, in fact, endothermic— a thesis popularised by Adrian J. Desmond’s The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs (1977). Bakker followed up his own account of The Dinosaur Heresies (1986; rev. 2001) with the documentary fiction Raptor Red (1996); his argument lent support to the notion that the group had not been wiped out at all, the bird-like Ornithischia being the ancestors of modern birds. The principal problem afflicting the fictional representation of dinosaurs is that of bridging the temporal gap that separates them from human observers. Stories that adopt dinosaur viewpoints, such as Harley S. Aldinger’s ‘‘The Way of a Dinosaur’’ (1928), Duane N. Carroll’s ‘‘When Reptiles Ruled’’ (1935), and Fredric Brown’s ‘‘Starvation’’ (1942), have limited appeal, and stories that feature extraterrestrial visitors to the Mesozoic Earth, such as Philip Barshovsky’s ‘‘One Prehistoric Night’’ (1935), are similarly esoteric. Early fiction featuring dinosaurs usually cast them as exotic survivors lurking in remote enclaves, as in Jules Verne’s Voyage au centre de la terre (1864; trans. as Journey to the Centre of the Earth), Robert Duncan Milne’s ‘‘The Iguanodon’s Egg’’ and ‘‘The Hatching of the Iguanodon’’ (both 1882), E. Douglas Fawcett’s Swallowed by an Earthquake (1894), Wardon Allan Curtis’ ‘‘The Monster of Lake La Mettrie’’ (1899), Charles Derennes’ Le peuple du poˆle (1907), and Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (1912).
Although the Verne and Doyle classics became significant models for imitation in boys’ books and pulp adventure fiction, including numerous fantasies by Edgar Rice Burroughs, this tradition grew thinner as the twentieth century progressed, eventually receiving nostalgic treatment in Greg Bear’s sequel to The Lost World, Dinosaur Summer (1998). Such survivals were, however, extensively featured in the ‘‘fringe science’’ of cryptozoology, marine species akin to dinosaurs being routinely cited as hypothetical explanations of mythical lake creatures like the Loch Ness monster, but the possibility that dinosaur numbers might one day increase again is rarely entertained; Terence Roberts’ Report on the Status Quo (1955) treats the notion satirically. An enclave of Cretaceous dinosaurs in the Palaeolithic era is featured in Piers Anthony’s Orn (1971).
When twentieth-century science fiction pressed the facilitating device of time travel into use, the age of the dinosaurs became one of the standard destinations of time machines. The prospect of hunting dinosaurs exerted a particular fascination,rift gold reflected in Eden Phillpotts’ ‘‘The Archdeacon and the Deinosaurs’’ (1901), Ray Bradbury’s ‘‘A Sound of Thunder’’ (1952), L. Sprague de Camp’s ‘‘A Gun for Dinosaur’’ (1956) and its sequels, Brian W. Aldiss’ ‘‘Poor Little Warrior!’’ (1958), and several novels by the French writer Henri Vernes, including Les chasseurs de dinosaures (1965; trans. as The Dinosaur Hunters). The imagery of the hunting party continued to crop up in such stories as David Drake’s Time Safari (1982; rev as Tyrannosaur, 1994).
Other notable expeditions to the era are described in Pauline Ashwell’s ‘‘The Wings of a Bat’’ (1966) and ‘‘Boneheads’’ (1996)—both by-lined Paul Ash— Steven Utley’s ‘‘Getting Away’’ (1976), Harry Turtledove’s ‘‘Hatching Season’’ (1985), Tim Sullivan’s ‘‘Dinosaur on a Bicycle’’ (1987), Joseph H. Delaney’s ‘‘Survival Course’’ (1989), Robert J. Sawyer’s End of an Era (1994), Stephen Dedman’s ‘‘Target of Opportunity’’ (1998), and Michael Swanwick’s Bones of the Earth (2002). In Charles L. Harness’s time travel fantasy ‘‘A Boost in Time’’ (2000), an asteroid diverter is used in an attempt to save the dinosaurs from extinction. John *Taine’s Before the Dawn (1934) is painstakingly restrained in employing a technology that can merely see through time, while Robert Chilson’s The Shores ofKansas (1976) features parapsychological exploration.
Cinema, with its ready-made accommodation of impossibility, saw no need for such facilitating devices as time travel; the anachronistic representation of prehistoric men living alongside dinosaurs became so commonplace as to rate as a cliche´, and one of the most glaring of all ‘‘scientific errors’’ in cinematic science fiction. D. W. Griffith’s blithely absurd Man’s Genesis (1912) was remade by Hal Roach as One Million B.C. (1940; aka Man and His Mate and The Cave Dwellers) and as a straightforward drama by Britain’s Hammer films as One Million Years B.C. (1966), although the juxtaposition reverted to joke status thereafter, in such parodies as A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell (1991) and a sequence of TV commercials for Volvic mineral water (2004–2005). The notion of dinosaur ‘‘survivals’’ acquired a spectacular new variant when the possibility of ‘‘resurrecting’’ dinosaurs by *cloning their DNA was raised by L. Sprague de Camp in ‘‘Employment’’ (1939). An article by Charles Pellegrino prompted Michael Crichton to write Jurassic Park (1990), which was filmed by Steven Spielberg in 1993; other dramatisations of the notion include Gregory Benford’s ‘‘Shakers of the Earth’’ (1992). Tiny dinosaurs had previously ‘‘synthesised’’ from bone fragments in Brian W. Aldiss’ ‘‘The Tell-Tale Heart Machine’’ (1968). Other images of present-day dinosaurs include Allen Steele’s ‘‘Trembling Earth’’ (1990). The notion that dinosaur evolution might have continued had it not been for their catastrophic destruction, so that they rather than their mammal rivals became ancestral to an intelligent species, is elaborately explored in numerous exobiological fantasies and alternative prehistory stories, including Norman L. Knight’s ‘‘Saurian Valedictory’’ (1939), Anne McCaffrey’s Dinosaur Planet (1978), Damien Broderick’s The Dreaming Dragons (1980), David F. Bischoff and Thomas F. Monteleone’s series begun with Day of the Dragonstar (1983), Harry Harrison’s series begun with West of Eden (1984), Ward Hawkins’ Red Star Burning (1985), Barry B. Longyear’s The Homecoming (1989), Robert J. *Sawyer’s Quintaglio trilogy (1992–1994), James Kelly’s ‘‘Think Like a Dinosaur’’ (1995), Ken MacLeod’s Cosmonaut Keep (2000), Stephen Baxter’s ‘‘The Hunters of Pangaea’’ (2002), and Kathleen Ann Goonan’s ‘‘Dinosaur Songs’’ (2004).
The notion of alternative dinosaurs, including intelligent species, was extensively developed in Dougal Dixon’s illustrated book The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution (1988). It achieved best-seller status in a similar format in James Gurney’s Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time (1993), in which dinosaur intelligence does not require any modification of the familiar forms. Dinotopia’s abundant spinoff included Gurney’s own sequel Dinotopia: The World Beneath (1995), Alan Dean Foster’s Dinotopia Lost (1996), and a TV miniseries (2002). In combination with a spinoff from Jurassic Park, such material constituted a significant fad, satirised in Ian McDowell’s ‘‘Bernie’’ (1994) and in Richard Chwedyk’s account of the marketing of cute miniaturised ‘‘saurs’’ in ‘‘The Measure of All Things’’ (2001) and its sequels.
Dinosaurs became the most charismatic of all extinct creatures, and the unfolding narrative of their diversity became a considerable inspiration to the literary imagination. The spectacular size and forms of the most famous specimens—including the stegosaurus, the brontosaurus, the diplodocus, and the triceratops—prompted popular parlance to develop the notion that giant dinosaurs had ‘‘ruled the Earth’’ for 150 million years; the naming of Tyrannosaurus rex, which became the greatest saurian celebrity of all, added a curious official endorsement to this analogy of majesty. The popular excitement generated by dinosaurs is evident in the fact that the discovery of the first American specimens in 1855 quickly gave rise to a fervent competition between the rival ‘‘dinosaur hunters’’, Edwin Drinker Cope and his one-time associate Othniel Charles Marsh, a professor of palaeontology at Yale. Their feud is dramatised in Sharon N. Farber’s alternative history story ‘‘The Last Thunder Horse West of the Mississippi’’ (1988).
The apparent abruptness of the dinosaurs’ ultimate demise attracted a variety of *catastrophist explanations—including I. S. Shklovskii’s suggestion that they might have been killed by ultraviolet radiation after the destruction of the ozone layer by charged particles from a supernova—before a 1980 paper in Science by Luis and Walter Alvarez, F. Asaro, and H. V. Michel argued that the presence of iridium in the boundary layer marking the end of the Cretaceous was evidence for the impact of an asteroid about 10 kilometers in diameter, which might have prompted the volcanic eruptions associated with the Deccan Traps in India and blasted enough dust into the atmosphere to precipitate a worldwide ecocatastrophe. A half-submerged crater some 180 kilometers in diameter, found at Chicxulub on the coast of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, was widely hailed as the ‘‘smoking gun’’ proving the Alvarez hypothesis (although it might be more appropriately compared to an exit wound).
The gradual realisation that the long evolutionary history of the dinosaurs had been one of continual change, associated with the gradual breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea and the development of flowering plants, supplemented catastrophist accounts of their tribulations with uniformitarian accounts of a long war of attrition between lumbering exothermic reptiles and sprightly endothermic mammals, but that narrative too was subverted when Robert T. Bakker argued that many dinosaurs were, in fact, endothermic— a thesis popularised by Adrian J. Desmond’s The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs (1977). Bakker followed up his own account of The Dinosaur Heresies (1986; rev. 2001) with the documentary fiction Raptor Red (1996); his argument lent support to the notion that the group had not been wiped out at all, the bird-like Ornithischia being the ancestors of modern birds. The principal problem afflicting the fictional representation of dinosaurs is that of bridging the temporal gap that separates them from human observers. Stories that adopt dinosaur viewpoints, such as Harley S. Aldinger’s ‘‘The Way of a Dinosaur’’ (1928), Duane N. Carroll’s ‘‘When Reptiles Ruled’’ (1935), and Fredric Brown’s ‘‘Starvation’’ (1942), have limited appeal, and stories that feature extraterrestrial visitors to the Mesozoic Earth, such as Philip Barshovsky’s ‘‘One Prehistoric Night’’ (1935), are similarly esoteric. Early fiction featuring dinosaurs usually cast them as exotic survivors lurking in remote enclaves, as in Jules Verne’s Voyage au centre de la terre (1864; trans. as Journey to the Centre of the Earth), Robert Duncan Milne’s ‘‘The Iguanodon’s Egg’’ and ‘‘The Hatching of the Iguanodon’’ (both 1882), E. Douglas Fawcett’s Swallowed by an Earthquake (1894), Wardon Allan Curtis’ ‘‘The Monster of Lake La Mettrie’’ (1899), Charles Derennes’ Le peuple du poˆle (1907), and Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (1912).
Although the Verne and Doyle classics became significant models for imitation in boys’ books and pulp adventure fiction, including numerous fantasies by Edgar Rice Burroughs, this tradition grew thinner as the twentieth century progressed, eventually receiving nostalgic treatment in Greg Bear’s sequel to The Lost World, Dinosaur Summer (1998). Such survivals were, however, extensively featured in the ‘‘fringe science’’ of cryptozoology, marine species akin to dinosaurs being routinely cited as hypothetical explanations of mythical lake creatures like the Loch Ness monster, but the possibility that dinosaur numbers might one day increase again is rarely entertained; Terence Roberts’ Report on the Status Quo (1955) treats the notion satirically. An enclave of Cretaceous dinosaurs in the Palaeolithic era is featured in Piers Anthony’s Orn (1971).
When twentieth-century science fiction pressed the facilitating device of time travel into use, the age of the dinosaurs became one of the standard destinations of time machines. The prospect of hunting dinosaurs exerted a particular fascination,rift gold reflected in Eden Phillpotts’ ‘‘The Archdeacon and the Deinosaurs’’ (1901), Ray Bradbury’s ‘‘A Sound of Thunder’’ (1952), L. Sprague de Camp’s ‘‘A Gun for Dinosaur’’ (1956) and its sequels, Brian W. Aldiss’ ‘‘Poor Little Warrior!’’ (1958), and several novels by the French writer Henri Vernes, including Les chasseurs de dinosaures (1965; trans. as The Dinosaur Hunters). The imagery of the hunting party continued to crop up in such stories as David Drake’s Time Safari (1982; rev as Tyrannosaur, 1994).
Other notable expeditions to the era are described in Pauline Ashwell’s ‘‘The Wings of a Bat’’ (1966) and ‘‘Boneheads’’ (1996)—both by-lined Paul Ash— Steven Utley’s ‘‘Getting Away’’ (1976), Harry Turtledove’s ‘‘Hatching Season’’ (1985), Tim Sullivan’s ‘‘Dinosaur on a Bicycle’’ (1987), Joseph H. Delaney’s ‘‘Survival Course’’ (1989), Robert J. Sawyer’s End of an Era (1994), Stephen Dedman’s ‘‘Target of Opportunity’’ (1998), and Michael Swanwick’s Bones of the Earth (2002). In Charles L. Harness’s time travel fantasy ‘‘A Boost in Time’’ (2000), an asteroid diverter is used in an attempt to save the dinosaurs from extinction. John *Taine’s Before the Dawn (1934) is painstakingly restrained in employing a technology that can merely see through time, while Robert Chilson’s The Shores ofKansas (1976) features parapsychological exploration.
Cinema, with its ready-made accommodation of impossibility, saw no need for such facilitating devices as time travel; the anachronistic representation of prehistoric men living alongside dinosaurs became so commonplace as to rate as a cliche´, and one of the most glaring of all ‘‘scientific errors’’ in cinematic science fiction. D. W. Griffith’s blithely absurd Man’s Genesis (1912) was remade by Hal Roach as One Million B.C. (1940; aka Man and His Mate and The Cave Dwellers) and as a straightforward drama by Britain’s Hammer films as One Million Years B.C. (1966), although the juxtaposition reverted to joke status thereafter, in such parodies as A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell (1991) and a sequence of TV commercials for Volvic mineral water (2004–2005). The notion of dinosaur ‘‘survivals’’ acquired a spectacular new variant when the possibility of ‘‘resurrecting’’ dinosaurs by *cloning their DNA was raised by L. Sprague de Camp in ‘‘Employment’’ (1939). An article by Charles Pellegrino prompted Michael Crichton to write Jurassic Park (1990), which was filmed by Steven Spielberg in 1993; other dramatisations of the notion include Gregory Benford’s ‘‘Shakers of the Earth’’ (1992). Tiny dinosaurs had previously ‘‘synthesised’’ from bone fragments in Brian W. Aldiss’ ‘‘The Tell-Tale Heart Machine’’ (1968). Other images of present-day dinosaurs include Allen Steele’s ‘‘Trembling Earth’’ (1990). The notion that dinosaur evolution might have continued had it not been for their catastrophic destruction, so that they rather than their mammal rivals became ancestral to an intelligent species, is elaborately explored in numerous exobiological fantasies and alternative prehistory stories, including Norman L. Knight’s ‘‘Saurian Valedictory’’ (1939), Anne McCaffrey’s Dinosaur Planet (1978), Damien Broderick’s The Dreaming Dragons (1980), David F. Bischoff and Thomas F. Monteleone’s series begun with Day of the Dragonstar (1983), Harry Harrison’s series begun with West of Eden (1984), Ward Hawkins’ Red Star Burning (1985), Barry B. Longyear’s The Homecoming (1989), Robert J. *Sawyer’s Quintaglio trilogy (1992–1994), James Kelly’s ‘‘Think Like a Dinosaur’’ (1995), Ken MacLeod’s Cosmonaut Keep (2000), Stephen Baxter’s ‘‘The Hunters of Pangaea’’ (2002), and Kathleen Ann Goonan’s ‘‘Dinosaur Songs’’ (2004).
The notion of alternative dinosaurs, including intelligent species, was extensively developed in Dougal Dixon’s illustrated book The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution (1988). It achieved best-seller status in a similar format in James Gurney’s Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time (1993), in which dinosaur intelligence does not require any modification of the familiar forms. Dinotopia’s abundant spinoff included Gurney’s own sequel Dinotopia: The World Beneath (1995), Alan Dean Foster’s Dinotopia Lost (1996), and a TV miniseries (2002). In combination with a spinoff from Jurassic Park, such material constituted a significant fad, satirised in Ian McDowell’s ‘‘Bernie’’ (1994) and in Richard Chwedyk’s account of the marketing of cute miniaturised ‘‘saurs’’ in ‘‘The Measure of All Things’’ (2001) and its sequels.
Aardvark
The unusual mammal called the aardvark was named by South Africans in the early 1800s. In the local language, Afrikaans,rift gold “aardvark” means “earth pig.” This name aptly describes a large, heavily built animal with thin hair and short, stumpy legs. The scientific name of the aardvark is Orycteropus afer. Aardvarks live in dry places in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. The aardvark can reach a length of 6 feet (1.8 meters). Its head has huge donkeylike ears, a long snout, and drooping eyelids with long lashes. During the day aardvarks sleep in underground burrows. At night they dig underground for their favorite food, termites. They break open the termites’ nests with their massive, flattened claws. Then they suck up the insects with their long tongue.
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Female aardvarks give birth to one baby per year. After a few weeks the baby begins to follow its mother around. It goes off on its own before it is 1 year old. Aardvarks can live for more than 20 years in zoos.
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Female aardvarks give birth to one baby per year. After a few weeks the baby begins to follow its mother around. It goes off on its own before it is 1 year old. Aardvarks can live for more than 20 years in zoos.
2011年4月21日星期四
Vitor Belfort vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama Set for UFC 133 in Philadelphia
Vitor Belfort will look to bounce back into the win column after suffering a loss in his recent middleweight championship fight, RIFT Platinum when he takes on Yoshihiro Akiyama at UFC 133.
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The match was confirmed by UFC president Dana White to ESPN UK.
White also confirmed the event would take place in Philadelphia on August 6, rift gold as first reported by MMA Fighting back in February.
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Sexual Satisfaction And The Myth Of The Female Orgasm
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Are women having orgasms in bed? Men seem to think so. According to the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, Rift Gold conducted by the Center for Sexual Health Promotion, 85 percent of men believe their partner climaxed during their most recent love-making session.
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What's more, an online survey over at SkinnyScoop.com reveals that a whopping 80 percent of women would prefer a massage to sex with their partner.
This doesn't seem all that shocking to me. On most days, I'd prefer a box of Cheez-its to another round of unsatisfying sex.
Why? In the 11 years since I first became sexually active, I have never experienced an orgasm during intercourse.
Not to say that I've never experienced an orgasm. One ex-boyfriend had magical fingers. RIFT Platinum One particularly bumpy bus ride brought me to a surprise climax. And my clitoris is having an intense love affair with my vibrator.
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2011年4月20日星期三
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It's interesting that back in the days of "Stay Hungry" and "Pumping Iron," when the big meccas of bodybuilding like World Gym and Gold's Gym in Venice were home to such legendary bodybuilders as Arnold Schwarzenneger and Franco Columbo, everybody trained on an empty stomach. RIFT Platinum Bodybuilders of that era believed that you were more likely to mobilize your fat stores for fuel if you didn't have to burn off a whole bunch of carbs that you just scarfed down for breakfast. We now know that they were mostly right.
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Bottom line: It's an individual thing, and no one prescription is going to work for everyone.
But for those who want to try it (and who don't get lightheaded or dizzy), working out first thing in the morning on an empty stomach might be just the thing to stop weight gain in its tracks. It did in the Belgian study, RIFT Platinum and those folks were purposely eating a really bad diet. It should work even better if you also couple it with a diet designed to help you reach your goals.
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What the USDA Dietary Guidelines Got Wrong
5 Easy Ways to Reach Your Weight Loss Goal
It's interesting that back in the days of "Stay Hungry" and "Pumping Iron," when the big meccas of bodybuilding like World Gym and Gold's Gym in Venice were home to such legendary bodybuilders as Arnold Schwarzenneger and Franco Columbo, everybody trained on an empty stomach. RIFT Platinum Bodybuilders of that era believed that you were more likely to mobilize your fat stores for fuel if you didn't have to burn off a whole bunch of carbs that you just scarfed down for breakfast. We now know that they were mostly right.
So should you forgo eating before working out? Not necessarily. rift gold "If you're interested in performing better -- like if you're training for an event -- you might want to eat first," said exercise physiologist and That's Fit expert Liz Neporent. "But for weight loss, evidence does seem to be trending towards not eating before working out."
Neporent pointed out that as a practical matter, there are going to be a fair amount of people who don't do well when they don't eat before working out. "They get dizzy, sick and even faint sometimes," she said. "But I've also had people eat right before working out that have felt exactly the same way!"
Bottom line: It's an individual thing, and no one prescription is going to work for everyone.
But for those who want to try it (and who don't get lightheaded or dizzy), working out first thing in the morning on an empty stomach might be just the thing to stop weight gain in its tracks. It did in the Belgian study, RIFT Platinum and those folks were purposely eating a really bad diet. It should work even better if you also couple it with a diet designed to help you reach your goals.
Jonny Bowden, author, nutritionist and weight loss coach, cuts through all the misconceptions about diet and fitness to help you transform your body,
Rift Gold your health and your life. Visit his website to learn more or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jonnybowden. You can also download his free audio course, "7 Supplements You Need Now."
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For as long as I can remember -- from the first time I set foot in a gym, actually -- I've been listening to folks debate the question: When is the best time to exercise?
Now a new study may finally shine some light on the matter.
Rift Gold Researchers found that exercising before eating has several beneficial effects, including preventing weight gain and maintaining insulin sensitivity.
Researchers in Belgium took 27 healthy young men and fed them all a horrible diet high in sugar and fat and calories. The particular diet was chosen because it was just about guaranteed to create both weight gain and a reduction in insulin sensitivity. RIFT Platinum Insulin sensitivity is something good -- it's when the cells respond well to insulin, meaning that insulin does an excellent job of removing excess sugar from the bloodstream and getting it into the cells where it can be "burned" for energy. When someone is said to be insulin resistant, on the other hand, the system doesn't work well, and the person winds up with high blood sugar and high insulin -- a path to either metabolic syndrome or diabetes. Most diabetics are insulin resistant, and most people who are insulin resistant are overweight, since insulin "shuts down" the fat-burning process.
In the Belgian study, the researchers divided the men into three groups. One group did nothing but eat the terrible diet. The second and third group exercised and did the exact same workout, but the second group exercised after breakfast and the third group exercised before breakfast.
The results were both surprising and dramatic. The control group gained a lot of weight and also saw their insulin sensitivity plunge (meaning they became much more insulin resistant -- not a good outcome). The group who exercised after eating also gained weight but not nearly as much as the control group. And the group's insulin sensitivity went down, just as with the control group.
But the group who exercised before eating was a whole different story. This group, despite eating a horrible, weight gain-inducing diet, did not gain weight. rift gold Not only that, but the group's insulin sensitivity remained high and the bad diet did not make the group insulin resistant. "This study for the first time shows that fasted (empty stomach) training is more potent than fed training to facilitate adaptations in muscle and to improve ... glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity," said the study's authors.
Conventional wisdom holds that it's always best to eat something before working out. Proponents point out that you need energy for working out -- energy that comes from carbohydrates. RIFT Platinum "Fat burns in a flame of carbohydrate," they say.
The problem is conventional wisdom is wrong.
For as long as I can remember -- from the first time I set foot in a gym, actually -- I've been listening to folks debate the question: When is the best time to exercise?
Now a new study may finally shine some light on the matter.
Rift Gold Researchers found that exercising before eating has several beneficial effects, including preventing weight gain and maintaining insulin sensitivity.
Researchers in Belgium took 27 healthy young men and fed them all a horrible diet high in sugar and fat and calories. The particular diet was chosen because it was just about guaranteed to create both weight gain and a reduction in insulin sensitivity. RIFT Platinum Insulin sensitivity is something good -- it's when the cells respond well to insulin, meaning that insulin does an excellent job of removing excess sugar from the bloodstream and getting it into the cells where it can be "burned" for energy. When someone is said to be insulin resistant, on the other hand, the system doesn't work well, and the person winds up with high blood sugar and high insulin -- a path to either metabolic syndrome or diabetes. Most diabetics are insulin resistant, and most people who are insulin resistant are overweight, since insulin "shuts down" the fat-burning process.
In the Belgian study, the researchers divided the men into three groups. One group did nothing but eat the terrible diet. The second and third group exercised and did the exact same workout, but the second group exercised after breakfast and the third group exercised before breakfast.
The results were both surprising and dramatic. The control group gained a lot of weight and also saw their insulin sensitivity plunge (meaning they became much more insulin resistant -- not a good outcome). The group who exercised after eating also gained weight but not nearly as much as the control group. And the group's insulin sensitivity went down, just as with the control group.
But the group who exercised before eating was a whole different story. This group, despite eating a horrible, weight gain-inducing diet, did not gain weight. rift gold Not only that, but the group's insulin sensitivity remained high and the bad diet did not make the group insulin resistant. "This study for the first time shows that fasted (empty stomach) training is more potent than fed training to facilitate adaptations in muscle and to improve ... glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity," said the study's authors.
Conventional wisdom holds that it's always best to eat something before working out. Proponents point out that you need energy for working out -- energy that comes from carbohydrates. RIFT Platinum "Fat burns in a flame of carbohydrate," they say.
The problem is conventional wisdom is wrong.
Yasubey Enomoto, Rift Gold the runner-up in Sengoku's 2010 Welterweight Grand Prix, recently signed an exclusive contract with the M-1 Global promotion and already has a title shot lined up.
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M-1 Global announced the signing Wednesday and MMAFighting.com has also learned that Enomoto's deal is for a total of six fights in a two-year period.
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Zavurov won the 2010 M-1 Selection: Eastern European Tournament last July and then captured the M-1 belt with a fourth-round TKO over Abner Lloveras in December. Zavurov, who was 9-0 in 2010, RIFT Platinum successfully defended his belt last month against Tom Gallicchio at M-1 Challenge 23.
Violent accident leaves six dead
The car was completely destroyed. Six people died instantly yesterday afternoon, when the car they were traveling in crashed against the head of the bridge over the river Capira. Several bodies were thrown from the vehicle and ended up lying on the pavement. At about 6:00 pm the driver of the car carrying three men and three women,rift gold including a minor, lost control and flipped several times on the road. Witnesses said the car slid on its side about 100 meters near the entrance of Campana, until it crashed violently against the bridge. A cooler, speakers of all sizes the glass of the Nissan Sentra B-13 were destroyed as part of the tragic scenario that was observed at the site. Two of the women and one man lay dead on the pavement on the bridge and the rest of the bodies were in the car. Speeding might be the cause of this fatal accident, rift goldaccording to preliminary reports given by authorities.
Fuel Tanker Trucks Prevent Riot Police From Opening Road in Pacora
In Pacora bus drivers are demanding better compensation. The road has been closed since 6 am. More than five hours have passed since the bus drivers on the routes to Pacora closed the Inter American Highway near the bridge over the Pacora river. The drivers are demanding that the agreement they had with the ATTT be satisfied, which says that the Metrobus system will rift gold not be implemented in Pacora or Felipillo. This action comes because a few days ago the company installed the new Metrobus signs at the bus stops in the village of Pacora, violating the agreement they had signed earlier. After an hour of dialog with the drivers, it was agreed they would send a commission formed by President of the group, Idaira de Leon, and other bus owners to the Ground Transit and Transportation Authority, where they were invited by the director Ricardo Fabrega, to address the situation. While this Committee is talking to Fabrega, the rest of the drivers are keeping the road closed while awaiting for a response. At this time all four lanes of the Inter American highway remain closed at Pacora. Two gasoline tanker trucks are caught in the closure,rift gold and this is one reason why the riot police have been unable to clear the road. For the time being they are waiting for a response.
International Communication
I recently read an article called So Many Englishes by Paul Roberts, in which he argues for the "abolition of the native speaker assistant rift gold or the abolition of the native speaker assistant or the native speaker teacher." He bases this on the idea that "Paradoxically, perversely, even, it makes a lot more sense for a class of Milanese or Parisian or Berliner students to have, for example, a Russian, Chinese or Brazilian English teacher." This is justified on the rather flimsy grounds that they are more expert at international communication in English.
He then takes his argument further and suggests that English should be renamed International Communication as a subject, although he does admit that this suggestion may "seem to be a wander into absurdity." This also shows a simplicity and paucity of thought- the skills in using English are more diverse than he seems to acknowledge. Would it make more sense to have a Chinese or Brazilian teacher for students studying pre-sessional courses to get into British or American universities, where they are learning not just the language, but also the cultural norms of academic work, which are rule-bound and specific? That is not to say that a Brazilian or a Russian teacher could not do this, but there is much to be said for teachers who are very familiar with what is expected in the target universities.
I find these conclusions rather bizarre. Claims that native speaker teachers can be detrimental seem strained and forced, though he has a point that monoglot teachers will lack a knowledge of how other languages can work, though most of the teachers I have come across in the last couple of decades were not monoglot. Monoglot or not, to jump from this to the conclusion that their positions should be abolished strikes me as just plain wrong. His paradoxes are artificial and just show the 'imp of the perverse' rather than a great deal of thought. Firstly, practicalities will kill his scheme straight away- students generally think of native speakers as the real McCoy. I work in a place that has both native and non-native teachers and the latter group find it harder to be accepted as authorities than the former. It is also rather insulting to believe that language teachers have little knowledge of language or international communication, especially in an area where many live outside their own country.
I'm afraid that the author wandered into the realm of the absurd before he got to his final point in my opinion. To call for the 'abolition' of thousands of teachers on the basis of their being native speakers of the language to be taught strikes me as ill-thought out,rift gold and a dreadful conclusion to reach. It is utterly impractical, and would be illegal in most countries under equal opportunity legislation. It also displays a pathetic self-loathing that is extended to others of his kind, and saying that by doing this he is putting his future job on the line does not make this acceptable. I find the ideas he sketches out worrying and rather pathetic. However, as he works as an academic, it as particularly unpleasant as it carries the acceptability of university employment.
He then takes his argument further and suggests that English should be renamed International Communication as a subject, although he does admit that this suggestion may "seem to be a wander into absurdity." This also shows a simplicity and paucity of thought- the skills in using English are more diverse than he seems to acknowledge. Would it make more sense to have a Chinese or Brazilian teacher for students studying pre-sessional courses to get into British or American universities, where they are learning not just the language, but also the cultural norms of academic work, which are rule-bound and specific? That is not to say that a Brazilian or a Russian teacher could not do this, but there is much to be said for teachers who are very familiar with what is expected in the target universities.
I find these conclusions rather bizarre. Claims that native speaker teachers can be detrimental seem strained and forced, though he has a point that monoglot teachers will lack a knowledge of how other languages can work, though most of the teachers I have come across in the last couple of decades were not monoglot. Monoglot or not, to jump from this to the conclusion that their positions should be abolished strikes me as just plain wrong. His paradoxes are artificial and just show the 'imp of the perverse' rather than a great deal of thought. Firstly, practicalities will kill his scheme straight away- students generally think of native speakers as the real McCoy. I work in a place that has both native and non-native teachers and the latter group find it harder to be accepted as authorities than the former. It is also rather insulting to believe that language teachers have little knowledge of language or international communication, especially in an area where many live outside their own country.
I'm afraid that the author wandered into the realm of the absurd before he got to his final point in my opinion. To call for the 'abolition' of thousands of teachers on the basis of their being native speakers of the language to be taught strikes me as ill-thought out,rift gold and a dreadful conclusion to reach. It is utterly impractical, and would be illegal in most countries under equal opportunity legislation. It also displays a pathetic self-loathing that is extended to others of his kind, and saying that by doing this he is putting his future job on the line does not make this acceptable. I find the ideas he sketches out worrying and rather pathetic. However, as he works as an academic, it as particularly unpleasant as it carries the acceptability of university employment.
All Foreigners Promoting Mining Order To Leave Indian Country
The Minister of Government, Roxana Mendez, announced yesterday that all foreigners who are promoting mining activities in the NgäbeBuglé area must leave the region within two weeks. Mendez, who is part of a committee appointed by the government to negotiate with the ngäbes, said through a brief, four paragraph press release,rift gold that they have taken this measure in order to prevent people from outside of the tribe from generating anxiety, disturbing the peace and tranquility enjoyed by the community Ngäbe. Zorel Morales, the executive director of the Mining Chamber of Panama (CAMIPA), said he does not understand the measure that is being taken,rift gold because right now in the area of the district there are no mining activities of either exploration or exploitation.
Eyes Out of the Woodlands
[1959] He hid in the woods, watching his father and sister, what they were doing. So we heard that, that is. Most of us felt, and all of us gossiped, he was up to no good. Here he lived an estranged life, hidden in the thick of the deep, like a recluse.
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At times it was said, you could smell his cooking of venison, or spot him driving his 1952-pickup to town, dilapidated. His one room shack remained on the 1400-acers his father owned, and there he lived quietly, out of sight and out of the minds of the people in town, except for the intermit conversations, and gossip.
His sister, Victoria, remained with her father year after year, her father selling lumber to the highest bidder. He had some tourist cabins also, down by the lake for the fish folks that came up from the big city year-round.
Why Ambrose was the opposite of his sister no one knew. He wanted to sell his one third of the 1400-acers, or perhaps it was one half of his fathers land, and god knows what he wanted to do with the money. But the old man said ‘No!’ harshly, said ‘No!’ after he had left, once and for all. Nine years he was gone, deserted his wife and kid, and went on back to that shack to wait for his father to die, and leave him the land. His sister still there, but the old man never forgave his son, who took a wife, had two grandkids, and left them someplace; he’d never get to see them. But the old man just left well enough alone. Virginia remained single.
We all said, Vera would marry after the old man died, then Ambrose would come out of the woods from his self imposed hibernation, and claim what he felt was his.
2
Nobody really knows what the other person is thinking, yet we guessed at it a lot, and maybe a few of us in town did know; as they say, ‘pride comes before destruction,’ and we all could see it coming.
Vera was gentle, soft spoken, always thinking, or so it seemed, perchance five foot two inches, short, and cute. She was forty years old now, so the cuteness was leaving her, the old man was sixty-seven, and like Ambrose, the older of the two, by two years, was moody and high spirited like his father—stubborn.
“Why don’t you get married?” the old man said one day to Virginia. What ruffled his feathers I don’t know, but Vera became dumfounded. (This of course is speculation and what we put together).
“If you’re waiting for my wooded lands, you’ve got a long wait,” we all heard him mumble that as he walked out of the grocery store in town one Saturday afternoon with his daughter, and put the groceries in his new truck, 1959 (Ford I think), and headed out of town to his huge log cabin, more like a lodge (yes, a lodge you could call it), in the woods, with six-bedrooms, and five bathrooms. She did say something sitting in that front seat, I heard her, before they took off:
“I have no time for a husband, taking care of you, the bookkeeping, cleaning the house; I’ve earned my share when you pass on.” The old man didn’t say a word, he perhaps knew she’d leave; the shape of things would drastically change then, then what [?] That was conceivably the last he ever said on the matter to her for a spell, and she remained living her old life, her old self at the house, a mild cool mannered life, sedate, and watchful as if with long-sided cat eyes.
3
I suppose if there was any respect between Ambrose and Mr. Beck, it was in that Ambrose left the old man alone; respect, or regard for the other, can and did come in that direction.
The old man must have been thinking (so we thought), Ambrose was brave enough to confront his greedy-design, whereas, Vera was willing to subdue hers, and just wait it out. Yes indeed, it was that way, and whatever was on Vera’s mind, she was not spending any of her money her mother had left her and Ambrose, whom gambled his mother’s inheritance away long ago, had none to worry about.
Then I thought, as many did, the old man would kick her out some day—not that he wanted to, but his temper, his nature, would put her in harms way, and he’d have no choice. And that is exactly what happened, what took place was this: the old baldheaded, bulldog of a man, Mr. Beck short and stocky, like a prize fighter one day opened the door and shoved her down the few steps there were on the porch, saying:
”Spend my money if you can when I’m dead!” And she left his house, just like that. She kept her regular reserved composure, and mild manner, which, strange to say, but true, she was crying, we didn’t think less of her for those tears, but it didn’t quite fit.
4
She had never cried before, in fact I always saw her as a pillar of strength. Much in control of herself, her emotions: therefore, if she was anything, she was a much deeper fish than her brother, and perhaps equal in shrewdness to her father: I don't know, but I’d say, a dangerous combination.
During the following years, a few years that is, two years to be exact, rarely did anybody stop to see the old man, he paid his taxes as usual; hired some help with the land, and boats he rented to visitors, and cabins he rented to the same folks: Vera now lived with her Aunt and uncle about five miles down the road. And Ambrose, well, he still lived in the woods, checking on what his father was doing, going back to his shack, drinking a pint of whisky now and then, making some home made stuff to boot.
Now and then the old man walked into the woods near the shack, but not too near, a glance towards it, and perhaps he saw Ambrose, perhaps not: he’d then go kill a few animals to eat, and paid it no more attention that that.
Then as Ambrose went one day to see what his father was up to, he saw him lying stone-still, dead on the ground, he knew he was dead; he was near the steps of the porch, as if he could have fallen. There was Aunt Betty’s 1960-ford, it took off quickly by the fence, which was by the side of the road, some woman was driving it, and it wasn’t Aunt Betty, unless she got her haircut short recently, and she hadn’t.
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The county health officer showed up, and reported to the officials it was death by accident. He had tripped on a loose step attached to his porch; he even fixed it while waiting for the sheriff. The sheriff talked to Ambrose, and then they buried old man Beck by the shack, it was where Ambrose wished it to be. Vera showed up at the funeral, Ambrose did not. Victoria moved into the house and left the door unlocked for her brother Ambrose, but he never again walked through those doors—Victoria often stood under the arch of the doorway looking into the woods as if Ambrose would show up, she stood in that doorway until she died of old age—waiting, looking.
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At times it was said, you could smell his cooking of venison, or spot him driving his 1952-pickup to town, dilapidated. His one room shack remained on the 1400-acers his father owned, and there he lived quietly, out of sight and out of the minds of the people in town, except for the intermit conversations, and gossip.
His sister, Victoria, remained with her father year after year, her father selling lumber to the highest bidder. He had some tourist cabins also, down by the lake for the fish folks that came up from the big city year-round.
Why Ambrose was the opposite of his sister no one knew. He wanted to sell his one third of the 1400-acers, or perhaps it was one half of his fathers land, and god knows what he wanted to do with the money. But the old man said ‘No!’ harshly, said ‘No!’ after he had left, once and for all. Nine years he was gone, deserted his wife and kid, and went on back to that shack to wait for his father to die, and leave him the land. His sister still there, but the old man never forgave his son, who took a wife, had two grandkids, and left them someplace; he’d never get to see them. But the old man just left well enough alone. Virginia remained single.
We all said, Vera would marry after the old man died, then Ambrose would come out of the woods from his self imposed hibernation, and claim what he felt was his.
2
Nobody really knows what the other person is thinking, yet we guessed at it a lot, and maybe a few of us in town did know; as they say, ‘pride comes before destruction,’ and we all could see it coming.
Vera was gentle, soft spoken, always thinking, or so it seemed, perchance five foot two inches, short, and cute. She was forty years old now, so the cuteness was leaving her, the old man was sixty-seven, and like Ambrose, the older of the two, by two years, was moody and high spirited like his father—stubborn.
“Why don’t you get married?” the old man said one day to Virginia. What ruffled his feathers I don’t know, but Vera became dumfounded. (This of course is speculation and what we put together).
“If you’re waiting for my wooded lands, you’ve got a long wait,” we all heard him mumble that as he walked out of the grocery store in town one Saturday afternoon with his daughter, and put the groceries in his new truck, 1959 (Ford I think), and headed out of town to his huge log cabin, more like a lodge (yes, a lodge you could call it), in the woods, with six-bedrooms, and five bathrooms. She did say something sitting in that front seat, I heard her, before they took off:
“I have no time for a husband, taking care of you, the bookkeeping, cleaning the house; I’ve earned my share when you pass on.” The old man didn’t say a word, he perhaps knew she’d leave; the shape of things would drastically change then, then what [?] That was conceivably the last he ever said on the matter to her for a spell, and she remained living her old life, her old self at the house, a mild cool mannered life, sedate, and watchful as if with long-sided cat eyes.
3
I suppose if there was any respect between Ambrose and Mr. Beck, it was in that Ambrose left the old man alone; respect, or regard for the other, can and did come in that direction.
The old man must have been thinking (so we thought), Ambrose was brave enough to confront his greedy-design, whereas, Vera was willing to subdue hers, and just wait it out. Yes indeed, it was that way, and whatever was on Vera’s mind, she was not spending any of her money her mother had left her and Ambrose, whom gambled his mother’s inheritance away long ago, had none to worry about.
Then I thought, as many did, the old man would kick her out some day—not that he wanted to, but his temper, his nature, would put her in harms way, and he’d have no choice. And that is exactly what happened, what took place was this: the old baldheaded, bulldog of a man, Mr. Beck short and stocky, like a prize fighter one day opened the door and shoved her down the few steps there were on the porch, saying:
”Spend my money if you can when I’m dead!” And she left his house, just like that. She kept her regular reserved composure, and mild manner, which, strange to say, but true, she was crying, we didn’t think less of her for those tears, but it didn’t quite fit.
4
She had never cried before, in fact I always saw her as a pillar of strength. Much in control of herself, her emotions: therefore, if she was anything, she was a much deeper fish than her brother, and perhaps equal in shrewdness to her father: I don't know, but I’d say, a dangerous combination.
During the following years, a few years that is, two years to be exact, rarely did anybody stop to see the old man, he paid his taxes as usual; hired some help with the land, and boats he rented to visitors, and cabins he rented to the same folks: Vera now lived with her Aunt and uncle about five miles down the road. And Ambrose, well, he still lived in the woods, checking on what his father was doing, going back to his shack, drinking a pint of whisky now and then, making some home made stuff to boot.
Now and then the old man walked into the woods near the shack, but not too near, a glance towards it, and perhaps he saw Ambrose, perhaps not: he’d then go kill a few animals to eat, and paid it no more attention that that.
Then as Ambrose went one day to see what his father was up to, he saw him lying stone-still, dead on the ground, he knew he was dead; he was near the steps of the porch, as if he could have fallen. There was Aunt Betty’s 1960-ford, it took off quickly by the fence, which was by the side of the road, some woman was driving it, and it wasn’t Aunt Betty, unless she got her haircut short recently, and she hadn’t.
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The county health officer showed up, and reported to the officials it was death by accident. He had tripped on a loose step attached to his porch; he even fixed it while waiting for the sheriff. The sheriff talked to Ambrose, and then they buried old man Beck by the shack, it was where Ambrose wished it to be. Vera showed up at the funeral, Ambrose did not. Victoria moved into the house and left the door unlocked for her brother Ambrose, but he never again walked through those doors—Victoria often stood under the arch of the doorway looking into the woods as if Ambrose would show up, she stood in that doorway until she died of old age—waiting, looking.
Police Searching For Narcos on Cébaco Island After Drug Bust
Three drug traffickers are being sought by the National Air Service (SENAN) following the seizure of 1,354 kilos of cocaine hidden in a speedboat that was beached on Cébaco island in the province of Veraguas. According to the secretary general of the SENAN, Commissioner Jeremiah Urrutia,rift gold they received intelligence information on Monday night that there was a drug trafficking boat located one hundred nautical miles, specifically in Punta Mariato in the province of Veraguas. At dawn on Tuesday they managed to locate the speedboat and its occupants, and when they saw the SENAN troops were after them, they decided to abandon the boat and drugs on the beach on Cébaco island and flee. Officials said operations continue in an attempt to to locate the suspects who are still hiding on the island. To date,rift gold in just 56 days the SENAN has seized about 6,192 kilos of drugs in several operations on both coasts, and have arrested two people.
2011年4月19日星期二
Cung Le has been less and less visible in the MMA world over recent months. rift gold He's fought just twice in the last three years, splitting a pair of memorable matches with Scott Smith.
Le was a building block of Strikeforce's early success, but these days, fans are more likely to ask if he's retired rather than who he might be fighting next. RIFT Platinum Though we haven't seen him in the cage since a June 2010 win over the aforementioned Smith, he hasn't just been sitting around getting out of shape. In fact, he's been quite busy making movies in both the U.S. and Hong Kong.
Whether or not the 38-year-old returns to compete under the Strikeforce banner remains to be seen, Rift Gold but company CEO Scott Coker told MMA Fighting that he plans to talk to Le in the coming days and find out just what his fighting future holds, or if he has one at all.
"Now that he's back from Hong Kong an China, we're scheduled to talk next week," he said. "If Cung wants to fight, the invitation will be there. RIFT Platinum Hopefully he'll want to continue because he's an amazing athlete and fighter. He's been one of the pillars of Strikeforce in building this company. I certainly hope he continues to fight."
Le (7-1) currently has three movies in various stages of production: "Dragon Eyes," with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Peter Weller; "The Man with the Iron Fists," with Russell Crowe; and "The Grandmasters," with Ziyi Zhang. rift gold In "Dragon Eyes," Le has the starring role in a film overseen by legendary Hollywood producer Joel Silver. It's all part of a booming new career for the flashy kickboxer turned mixed martial artist.
That busy schedule doesn't seem to leave much room for the grind of a 6-to-8 week fight camp, but Coker is hopeful that Le will come back into the fold for at least one more match.
"He's doing very well with the Hong Kong and Chinese film markets, as well as some projects in America," he said. "So it's a scheduling thing. RIFT Platinum It's going to be something that could happen. He'll have to determine if he wants to, and if he has the time."
Le was a building block of Strikeforce's early success, but these days, fans are more likely to ask if he's retired rather than who he might be fighting next. RIFT Platinum Though we haven't seen him in the cage since a June 2010 win over the aforementioned Smith, he hasn't just been sitting around getting out of shape. In fact, he's been quite busy making movies in both the U.S. and Hong Kong.
Whether or not the 38-year-old returns to compete under the Strikeforce banner remains to be seen, Rift Gold but company CEO Scott Coker told MMA Fighting that he plans to talk to Le in the coming days and find out just what his fighting future holds, or if he has one at all.
"Now that he's back from Hong Kong an China, we're scheduled to talk next week," he said. "If Cung wants to fight, the invitation will be there. RIFT Platinum Hopefully he'll want to continue because he's an amazing athlete and fighter. He's been one of the pillars of Strikeforce in building this company. I certainly hope he continues to fight."
Le (7-1) currently has three movies in various stages of production: "Dragon Eyes," with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Peter Weller; "The Man with the Iron Fists," with Russell Crowe; and "The Grandmasters," with Ziyi Zhang. rift gold In "Dragon Eyes," Le has the starring role in a film overseen by legendary Hollywood producer Joel Silver. It's all part of a booming new career for the flashy kickboxer turned mixed martial artist.
That busy schedule doesn't seem to leave much room for the grind of a 6-to-8 week fight camp, but Coker is hopeful that Le will come back into the fold for at least one more match.
"He's doing very well with the Hong Kong and Chinese film markets, as well as some projects in America," he said. "So it's a scheduling thing. RIFT Platinum It's going to be something that could happen. He'll have to determine if he wants to, and if he has the time."
Alzheimer's disease is often and easily misdiagnosed in the elderly, a new study shows -- raising new doubts about existing detection methods for the traumatic, memory-loss illness.
Early findings suggest that older people who had their brains examined after death during autopsies had often been incorrectly diagnosed with Alzheimer's while they were alive.
"This is true of every population of Alzheimer's patients," Peter Davies, the director of the Litwin-Zucker Center for Research in Alzheimer's Disease, told AOL Health. "The diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease cannot be made with certainty in life. The definitive diagnosis can only be made with autopsy."
The study looked at the brain autopsies of 426 Japanese-American men who'd lived in Hawaii and died at age 87 on average. Of that population, RIFT Platinum 211 had been told they had dementia when they were alive, and most of the diagnoses blamed the condition on Alzheimer's disease.
The study is troubling because there are several other causes of dementia in the elderly, including depression, overmedication, thyroid problems, vitamin B-12 deficiency and vascular disease, which can cause mini strokes and block blood flow to the brain. Typically, those kinds of dementia are more easily treated than Alzheimer's.
"There are a dozen common ways to get to a demented state," Davies said. "A good diagnosis is essential because you don't know what you're dealing with without that. You may have something treatable."
About half of those autopsied for the study were informed that they had the disease while alive, rift gold but didn't have enough brain lesions at death to confirm the diagnosis, according to researchers at Kuakini Medical System in Honolulu.
In that vein, the authors of the paper believe that more trials are in order to minimize the misdiagnoses.
"Larger studies are needed to confirm these findings and provide insight as to how we may more accurately diagnose and prevent Alzheimer's disease and other principal dementing disease processes in the elderly," said White.
Most of those who'd been misdiagnosed did have one or a combination of other kinds of brain lesions that would explain the dementia. Rift Gold But their scans didn't show sufficient evidence for the more serious condition of Alzheimer's.
The problem, explained Davies, is that many other forms of dementia and memory impairment can appear to be Alzheimer's to a less experienced practitioner.
"Now Alzheimer's is such a popular topic, it's really overdiagnosed," Davies, a longtime specialist in the disease who practices at North Shore hospital, told AOL Health. "Probably 25 percent of the people in the community diagnosed with Alzheimer's don't have it."
Furthermore, the likelihood of an incorrect diagnosis rose with age, the Hawaiian scientists found.
"Diagnosing specific dementias in people who are very old is complex," study author Dr. Lon White said in a statement. RIFT Platinum "With the large increase in dementia cases expected within the next 10 years in the United States, it will be increasingly important to correctly recognize, diagnose, prevent and treat age-related cognitive decline."
Davies said that Alzheimer's comes with a very specific set of symptoms and behaviors, including severe memory loss, an inability to process thought fully and an impairment in intellectual functioning. rift gold The impact on memory and thinking goes way beyond everyday forgetfulness and haziness, he said.
"Alzheimer's is not just a memory disorder. It affects the ability to think things through," he said. RIFT Platinum "This is a serious inability to learn new information -- serious enough to really impair your job or your social life."
The research, funded by the National Institute on Aging and the Department of Veterans Affairs, will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting in April.
Early findings suggest that older people who had their brains examined after death during autopsies had often been incorrectly diagnosed with Alzheimer's while they were alive.
"This is true of every population of Alzheimer's patients," Peter Davies, the director of the Litwin-Zucker Center for Research in Alzheimer's Disease, told AOL Health. "The diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease cannot be made with certainty in life. The definitive diagnosis can only be made with autopsy."
The study looked at the brain autopsies of 426 Japanese-American men who'd lived in Hawaii and died at age 87 on average. Of that population, RIFT Platinum 211 had been told they had dementia when they were alive, and most of the diagnoses blamed the condition on Alzheimer's disease.
The study is troubling because there are several other causes of dementia in the elderly, including depression, overmedication, thyroid problems, vitamin B-12 deficiency and vascular disease, which can cause mini strokes and block blood flow to the brain. Typically, those kinds of dementia are more easily treated than Alzheimer's.
"There are a dozen common ways to get to a demented state," Davies said. "A good diagnosis is essential because you don't know what you're dealing with without that. You may have something treatable."
About half of those autopsied for the study were informed that they had the disease while alive, rift gold but didn't have enough brain lesions at death to confirm the diagnosis, according to researchers at Kuakini Medical System in Honolulu.
In that vein, the authors of the paper believe that more trials are in order to minimize the misdiagnoses.
"Larger studies are needed to confirm these findings and provide insight as to how we may more accurately diagnose and prevent Alzheimer's disease and other principal dementing disease processes in the elderly," said White.
Most of those who'd been misdiagnosed did have one or a combination of other kinds of brain lesions that would explain the dementia. Rift Gold But their scans didn't show sufficient evidence for the more serious condition of Alzheimer's.
The problem, explained Davies, is that many other forms of dementia and memory impairment can appear to be Alzheimer's to a less experienced practitioner.
"Now Alzheimer's is such a popular topic, it's really overdiagnosed," Davies, a longtime specialist in the disease who practices at North Shore hospital, told AOL Health. "Probably 25 percent of the people in the community diagnosed with Alzheimer's don't have it."
Furthermore, the likelihood of an incorrect diagnosis rose with age, the Hawaiian scientists found.
"Diagnosing specific dementias in people who are very old is complex," study author Dr. Lon White said in a statement. RIFT Platinum "With the large increase in dementia cases expected within the next 10 years in the United States, it will be increasingly important to correctly recognize, diagnose, prevent and treat age-related cognitive decline."
Davies said that Alzheimer's comes with a very specific set of symptoms and behaviors, including severe memory loss, an inability to process thought fully and an impairment in intellectual functioning. rift gold The impact on memory and thinking goes way beyond everyday forgetfulness and haziness, he said.
"Alzheimer's is not just a memory disorder. It affects the ability to think things through," he said. RIFT Platinum "This is a serious inability to learn new information -- serious enough to really impair your job or your social life."
The research, funded by the National Institute on Aging and the Department of Veterans Affairs, will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting in April.
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