Ohio State beats Syracuse 77-70 to reach Final 4

March 26, 2012 marview funny stuff

BOSTON (AP) ? Ohio State coach Thad Matta sized up his team in the middle of the season and had it figured for a first-weekend loss when the NCAA tournament came around.

He’s never been so happy to be wrong.

Jared Sullinger recovered from first-half foul trouble to score 19 points and grab seven rebounds, helping Ohio State beat top-seeded Syracuse 77-70 on Saturday to advance to the Final Four. The second-seeded Buckeyes will play the winner of Sunday’s Midwest Regional final between North Carolina and Kansas.

Deshaun Thomas scored 14 with nine rebounds for Ohio State (31-7), which led by eight points with 59 seconds to play and held on after the Orange cut it to three. The Buckeyes made 13 of 14 free throws in the final 68 seconds and 31 of 42 from the line in all.

The Buckeyes are making their first trip to the Final Four since 2007, when they lost in the national championship game to Florida.

Brandon Triche scored 15 points and Baye Keita had 10 rebounds for Syracuse (34-3). The Orange were hoping for a return trip to New Orleans, where they won their only national championship in 2003.

In a tightly officiated game that left Sullinger on the bench in foul trouble for most of the first half and Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim not-quite muzzled after picking up a technical foul, it came down to free throws. Syracuse was called for 29 fouls ? its most in more than three years ? despite playing its usual 2-3 zone.

The Orange went to the line 25 times, making 20 foul shots.

The frequent whistles left both teams struggling to get into a groove in the first half ? there were only four baskets in the last 9:30. That seemed to be good news for Ohio State, which managed to stay with the No. 1 seed despite getting only 6 minutes from Sullinger, the star of the Buckeyes’ East Regional semifinal win over Cincinnati.

Syracuse was already without 7-footer Fab Melo, who missed the tournament with academic issues, and replacement Rakeem Christmas picked up two quick fouls early in the second half to leave him with four.

Ohio State opened a 46-36 lead with under 14 minutes to play. Syracuse scored eight of the next nine points to make it a one-point game, but the Orange could never get back in the lead.

They trailed by eight with 59 seconds left and cut it to three, but they needed the Buckeyes to miss free throws, and that didn’t happen.

The loss ended a tumultuous season for Syracuse that began with accusations by two former ball boys that they were sexually abused in the 1980s by Bernie Fine, a longtime Syracuse assistant coach. Boeheim vigorously defended him, but later walked back his support in the face of new information. Fine, who was fired Nov. 27, has not been charged and has denied any wrongdoing.

The school also revealed this month that it had self-reported possible violations of its internal drug policy by members of previous teams; the NCAA is investigating.

But the biggest hit might have been the loss of Melo, Syracuse’s leading rebounder who also averaged 5.8 points per game. Even without him, the Orange beat North Carolina-Asheville and Kansas State to earn a trip to Boston, then survived a pair of potential game-winners to beat Wisconsin 64-63 on Thursday and advance to the regional final.

Ohio State reached the round of eight by beating Loyola of Maryland and then Gonzaga before winning a Battle of the Buckeye State against Cincinnati in Boston on Thursday night. The Buckeyes were one of four teams from Ohio in the round of 16, and the only ones to make it to the regional finals.

Ohio State is also the last remaining team from the Big Ten, which placed six teams in the NCAA tournament and four in the round of 16.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ohio-state-beats-syracuse-77-70-reach-final-013747961–spt.html

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Oldest US natural history museum offers rare peek

March 26, 2012 marview funny stuff

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? The Academy of Natural Sciences has never been one to brag.

Its 225,000 annual visitors may associate the nation’s oldest natural history museum solely with dioramas and dinosaurs, but behind the scenes there is groundbreaking research conducted by world-renowned scientists and an enviable collection of some 18 million specimens representing all manner of animal, vegetable and mineral.

In celebration of its bicentennial this year, the museum has finally decided that it’s OK to boast a little. For what’s believed to be the first time in 200 years, curators will bring the public into the labyrinthine museum’s normally off-limits nooks and crannies for daily tours.

“This is a rare opportunity to get a firsthand look at some of the most stunning, and sometimes bizarre, creatures you’ve ever seen,” said Academy president and chief executive officer George Gephart Jr. “We can’t wait to open our doors and show off nature’s, and the Academy‘s, wondrous bounty.”

The Academy will highlight a different part of its collection starting with minerals in April and ending with fossils in February 2013. Other months will focus on birds, fish, insects, mollusks, amphibians and reptiles, plants and mammals.

“We’ve done behind-the-scenes tours with school groups, and with donors and members, but not anything like this,” said Ned Gilmore, an Academy collections manager.

Depending on the tour, visitors might see drawers filled with exotic colorful birds, cabinets holding polar bear skeletons, jars of preserved snakes, boxes of beautiful shells that when alive can kill a human, a wall of enormous elk skulls, a narwhal tusk and a mounted ? and extinct ? Caribbean Monk Seal.

An accompanying exhibition, “The Academy at 200: The Nature of Discovery,” puts dozens of the academy’s show-stopping treasures on public display ? many for the first time ? and highlights research that museum scientists are conducting worldwide on hot topics of climate change, biodiversity, water quality and invasive species.

The tours, exhibit and other events in the coming year aim to shift some focus from the museum’s storied past to its present and future. As in the natural world, the axiom “adapt or die” applies to the Academy, which like many museums has struggled in the past decade with a shrinking endowment and greater competition for philanthropic dollars.

New initiatives include an affiliation forged last year with Drexel University for collaborative education and research efforts and a popular lecture series on environmental issues and policy. A five-year institutional plan to be completed by June will examine additional ways to keep the museum relevant entering its third century, said Sara Hertz, vice president for strategic initiatives.

Founded in 1812 by a group of naturalists seeking to advance a scholarly view of the world, the museum is like a library of life on earth with holdings of a mind-boggling size and scope. Thousands of birds, bugs, reptiles, fish, mollusks, fossils and plants are meticulously catalogued and stored in jars, shelves and cabinets. Its many historic collections include Thomas Jefferson’s fossils, Lewis and Clark’s plants, and bird skins from naturalist John James Audubon.

Alongside the preserved skins and skeletons of centuries past, Academy researchers are studying avian flu in Vietnam, testing streams in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale gas drilling region and examining oysters for environmental fallout of the Gulf oil spill. Others are developing pain medicine from cone snail toxin and examining whether biofuels can be developed from the wood-digesting enzymes of ship worms.

As species continue to become extinct, the images and specimens preserved in the Academy’s collections will become even more crucial, said Doug Wechsler, head of the museum’s Visual Resources for Ornithology (VIREO), the world’s most comprehensive collection of bird photographs with 150,000 images and growing.

“There’s enough here to keep us busy for a very long time,” said malacology collections manager Paul Callomon.

The 20-minute guided tours start April 15 and continue every Thursday through Monday at 11 a.m. They are limited to a maximum of 10 people, ages 8 and up; more tours will be added when demand dictates. Tickets are $7.50 and can only be purchased at the museum on the day of the tour.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/oldest-us-natural-history-museum-offers-rare-peek-162619484.html

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Obama gets personal over killing of black Florida teenager

March 25, 2012 marview funny stuff

WASHINGTON/SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) – President Barack Obama weighed into the controversial killing of a black teenager in Florida in very personal terms on Friday, comparing the boy to a son he doesn’t have and calling for American “soul searching” over how the incident occurred.

Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin, dressed in a “hoodie” hooded sweatshirt, was shot dead a month ago in Sanford, Florida by a 28-year-old white Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer who said he was acting in self-defense.

“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” Obama said in his first comments about the shooting, acknowledging the racial element in the case.

“Obviously, this is a tragedy,” Obama told reporters. “I can only imagine what these parents are going through.?And when I think about this boy, I think about my own kids.”

The case has galvanized the nation and prompted rallies protesting the failure of police to arrest the shooter, George Zimmerman, and more broadly, a pattern of racial discrimination that black leaders cite in Sanford and elsewhere in the country.

Obama, the first black U.S. president, made his remarks at a White House event to announce his pick to lead the World Bank, waiting briefly after the announcement to take a reporter’s question about the incident.

Martin’s parents thanked the president for his words.

“The president’s personal comments touched us deeply and made us wonder: If his son looked like Trayvon and wore a hoodie, would he be suspicious too?” they said in a statement.

Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law allows people to use deadly force in self-defense.

Similar laws are in effect in at least 24 states including Florida, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Calls are mounting to repeal them. Earlier this week, a Florida state senator said he was drafting new legislation to drastically change the law in Florida.

A South Carolina state representative said on Friday he had introduced a bill to repeal his state’s law.

RACIAL DIVIDES

Bakari Sellers, a black Democrat and gun owner, said he wanted to prevent an incident like the Trayvon Martin shooting happening in his state. “I’m six-five and a black guy,” he said. “I just know that it could have been me.”

Obama said the “Stand Your Ground” laws should be studied.

“I think all of us have to do some soul-searching to figure out how does something like this happen.?And that means that we examine the laws and the context for what happened, as well as the specifics of the incident,” he said.

“Every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this, and that everybody pulls together – federal, state and local – to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened.”

Obama, the son of a white mother from Kansas and black father from Kenya, does not comment frequently on race, a sensitive topic in the United States, which still grapples with a legacy of slavery, segregation and discrimination.

Early in his White House tenure, Obama inflamed another racially tinged incident by declaring police had “acted stupidly” when arresting a well-known black documentary filmmaker, Henry Louis Gates, after an altercation at his home.

Obama later invited Gates and the white police officer, Sergeant James Crowley, to the White House, where the men shared a drink in what became known as the “beer summit.”

In Sanford, Norton Bonaparte Jr., the city’s manager, acknowledged tensions between the black community and police “go back many, many years.” “The trust that existed is gone, so we have to start from ground zero,” he said. Sanford’s police chief and a Florida state prosecutor overseeing the case stepped aside on Thursday as criticism grew over police handling of the investigation.

The state’s new special prosecutor, Angela Corey, arrived in Sanford after Gov. Rick Scott appointed her on Thursday night.

“We appreciate that an investigation was already done. We are going to review what was done. We are going to continue to investigate and then we’ll proceed from there,” Bernie de la Rionda, an assistant state attorney with Corey’s team, told reporters outside the police department.

SUSPENSION, HISTORY

The U.S. Justice Department is also investigating. Senior officials from the department met with the Martin family in Florida on Thursday, along with their lawyer.

A Justice Department spokeswoman said early in the week that they must collect evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was or was not intent to violate civil rights laws.

And a Florida college announced it had suspended Zimmerman’s enrollment.

Zimmerman was working toward an associates degree in arts at Seminole State College in Sanford. He previously earned a vocational certificate in an insurance field, the school said. “Due to the highly charged and high-profile controversy involving this student, Seminole State has taken the unusual but necessary step this week to withdraw Mr. Zimmerman from enrollment,” a statement dated Thursday said.

Zimmerman has not commented publicly about the shooting and his whereabouts are unknown. His father has said he is being unfairly vilified.

On Friday, Florida court records reviewed by Reuters showed Zimmerman was involved in at least two previous legal incidents, including a 2005 domestic violence case with his former fiancee.

Zimmerman, who at the time worked at an insurance agency, and his ex-fiance both sought restraining orders against each other after getting into a pushing match. In her complaint, Veronica Zuazo said the two had been involved in two physical fights in 2002 and 2003.

Zimmerman was also arrested and charged with resisting a law enforcement officer with violence in 2005. The case was eventually dropped after he completed a program to avoid being formally charged.

(Additional reporting by Barbara Liston, Jeremy Pelofsky, Deborah Charles, Samson Reiny, Kevin Gray, Harriet McLeod, Colleen Jenkins; editing by Mary Milliken and Todd Eastham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-gets-personal-over-killing-black-florida-teenager-001542033.html

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Albuquerque police union payments of $300-$500 to officers involved in shootings called bounty

March 25, 2012 marview funny stuff

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Albuquerque police officers involved in a rash of fatal shootings over the past two years were paid up to $500 under a union program that some have likened to a bounty system in a department with a culture that critics have long contended promotes brutality.

Mayor Richard Berry called Friday for an immediate halt to the practice, which was first reported in the Albuquerque Journal ( http://bit.ly/GTwMq7) during a week in which Albuquerque police shot and killed two men. Since 2010, Albuquerque police have shot 23 people, 18 fatally.

“The administration has nothing to do with how the union conducts their business,” Berry said in a statement, “but I was shocked yesterday when made aware of this practice. I cannot stand aside and condone this practice ? it needs to end now.”

Although the union said the payments were intended to help the officers decompress from a stressful situation, one victim’s father and a criminologist said it sounded more like a reward program.

“I think it might not be a bounty that they want it for,” said Mike Gomez, the father of an unarmed man killed by police last year, “but in these police guys’ minds, they know they are going to get that money. So when they get in a situation, it’s who’s going to get him first? Who’s going to shoot him first?”

Maria Haberfeld, chair of the Department of Law & Police Science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said she found the program disturbing.

“I’m not a psychologist. I’m a criminologist. But if you give somebody a monetary incentive to do their job, usually people are tempted by the monetary incentive,” she said. “To me, this is a violation of professional ethics.”

Other law enforcement officials called speculation of a bounty system ridiculous, but acknowledged the payments could be poorly perceived.

“Frankly, it’s insulting and very insensitive that somebody would believe that a police officer would factor in a payment for such a difficult decision,” said Joe Clure, president of the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association.

Clure said his union gives officers who fire their guns in the line of duty a $25 dinner card and a few movie tickets. On rare occasions, the union will give as much as $500 for a hotel room and travel for an officer who is having an especially difficult time in the aftermath of a shooting, although he doesn’t recall that happening in about 10 years.

In Idaho, State Police Cpl. Fred Rice, chairman of the Idaho State Police Association, said his organization made a conscious decision not to give cash or checks.

“That would almost look like to me, if I gave every time an officer involved in a shooting a $500 check, someone might think, `Oh, that’s a quick way to make money,’” he said.

Rice said his organization takes steps to help officers involved in shootings on a case-by-case basis, usually selecting something specific to help that officer unwind and relax, like a weekend ski trip or dinner with their spouse.

“The requests are usually brought to our board anonymously, by people who know them and know they might need a break. It may be nothing more than to go and have dinner with them,” Rice said.

David Klinger, a former police officer who is now a criminologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, said he saw no problem with the program, noting the officers already have administrative time off and need to deal with a very stressful situation.

“I’ve been through it,” he said. “And if someone wanted to say, `Hey, Dave … we want you to go hang out in San Diego and sip sarsaparilla on the seashore,’ I think that would be a grand idea.”

The Journal reported that 20 of the 23 officers involved in 20 police shootings in 2010 and 2011 received payments of either $300 or $500 each, which the union said were meant to help them and their families “find a place to have some privacy and time to decompress outside the Albuquerque area.”

Three more men have been shot by Albuquerque police this year, all fatally. It was not known if they had received the union payment.

Source: http://www.startribune.com/nation/143986956.html

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    Work begins on London, Ontario Carpenters’ union training centre

    March 25, 2012 marview funny stuff

    March 23, 2012

    Work is underway on a new 25,000-square-foot training centre for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local 1946 in London, Ontario, designed by architects at Tillmann Ruth Robinson.

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    Work begins on London, Ontario Carpenters? union training centre

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    Work is underway on a new 25,000-square-foot training centre for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local 1946 in London, Ontario.

    The $8 million centre will also serve as the administration offices for the local, says Kevin Hoy, Union Coordinator and Local president.

    ?It will be about 25,000 square feet, 10 times bigger than the centre we have now,? said Hoy of the building which is located on Highbury Ave near Highway 401.

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    It will have dedicated areas for all three union-incorporated trades, carpentry, drywall and flooring as well as workshop areas.

    ?We?ll have training in everything from forms and trim, to drywalling techniques to carpet, tiles and so on,? he said.

    With the new space, he hopes to boost the amount of trainees able to go through the centre from 400 to 500 to close to a 1,000 a year.

    ?We?re also working with local schools to provide safety training for their shop programs,? said Hoy.

    The Local has long had a relationship with the schools and he hopes to invigorate that connect with the benefits of the new facility.

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    The centre is slated to be open in December, he said, lighting speed considering they only broke ground officially Feb. 29.

    Architect McMichael Ruth of architects Tillmann Ruth Robinson said the Local did not cut corners in commissioning the design which takes it well beyond the standard slab and steel siding facility.

    ?The atrium is two storeys with a staircase and a glass curtain wall right at the front where you walk in,? he said. ?Also, there are glue-laminate exposed beams with wood siding where there is not glass.?

    There is also a green roof, with a vegetative area and a light reflecting membrane expanse.

    ?It?s quite state of the art,? he said.

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    North Korea meetings set to boost young leader’s power

    March 24, 2012 marview funny stuff

    SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Saturday it will hold a special parliamentary session next month during which the reclusive country’s new young leader, Kim Jong-un, is expected to be given a top title aimed at consolidating his grip on power.

    The North has planned a series of events next month to mark the centenary of the birth of the state’s founder, Kim Il-sung, including a rare ruling party conference and the controversial launch of a ballistic rocket it says will carry a satellite.

    Experts say the young Kim, believed to be in his mid to late 20s, could be given two of the countries’ senior most titles during the celebrations — secretary general of the party and chairman of the defense commission.

    The North’s state media said on Saturday the Supreme People’s Assembly, which has the formal mandate to appoint the chief of the National Defence Commission, the state’s supreme military body, would meet on April 13.

    The Workers’ Party conference is also scheduled for the middle of next month.

    The young Kim’s appointment to the top posts would cement his position as paramount leader and ease lingering fears of a power struggle plunging the country into turmoil.

    Kim took power after his father died in December and many analysts had feared a chaotic succession.

    The young Kim only holds a military post in the ruling party. His father was chief commander of the 1.2 million-strong armed forces and general secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea.

    ROCKET LAUNCH WARNING

    The United States has warned that the North’s rocket launch next month will impact an area between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines, an Australian newspaper reported on Saturday.

    The Sydney Morning Herald said that U.S. envoy Kurt Campbell on Friday briefed Australia’s Foreign Minister Bob Carr on the ballistic missile’s southward trajectory from a North Korean launch pad.

    “If the missile test proceeds as North Korea has indicated, our judgment is that it will impact in an area roughly between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines,” the paper quoted Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific, as saying.

    “We have never seen this trajectory before. We have weighed into each of these countries and asked them to make clear that such a test is provocative and this plan should be discontinued.”

    The North has said the rocket’s trajectory will be southwards and that will not impact neighboring countries.

    North Korea wants to use the celebrations around Kim Il-sung’s birthday on April 15 to showcase its emergence as a “strong and prosperous nation”, even as millions go hungry and it begs for international aid.

    Its vow to fire a rocket carrying a working satellite has put in jeopardy a deal struck in February with the United States to get food aid in return for a moratorium on long-range missile and nuclear tests.

    The North’s Foreign Ministry warned that it was “intolerable double standards” for some countries to assert that the North was the only nation not allowed to launch satellites while for the same countries, satellite launches were commonplace.

    “If there will be any sinister attempt to deprive the (North) of its independent and legitimate right and put the unreasonable double standards upon it, this will inevitably compel the (North) to take countermeasures,” the ministry said in a statement late on Friday.

    PHILIPPINES ON ALERT

    An Australian foreign ministry official told Reuters Canberra has expressed concern about the flight path which “suggest a southerly trajectory for the missile, with booster rockets landing in the Yellow Sea and off the coast of the Philippines”.

    Philippine Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said this week the North’s launch was “unacceptable”, and that it was relying on U.S. help to track it. Indonesia has also condemned it.

    North Korea has conducted two similar launches. The last one, in 2009, provoked outrage in Tokyo because the rocket flew over Japan. As it did three years ago, Japan says it is prepared to shoot the rocket down if it threatens its territory.

    The rocket launch, which the United States and other countries say is the same as a ballistic missile test, is banned under U.N. resolutions.

    Even China, North Korea’s main ally, has expressed its worry over the launch, scheduled for between April 12 and April 16, and has urged the North to “stay calm and exercise restraint and avoid escalation”.

    The secretive North has twice tested a nuclear device, but experts doubt whether it yet has the ability to miniaturize an atomic bomb to fit inside a warhead.

    The North’s rocket launch is expected to be one of main issues up for discussion when about 50 world leaders gather in Seoul on Monday for Nuclear Security Summit. Among those attending are China’s president, Hu Jintao, and U.S. President Barack Obama.

    (Additonal reporting by Manila, Canberra and Jakarta bureaus; Editing by Jack Kim and Robert Birsel)

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-hold-first-parliament-session-under-leader-060840175.html

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    How to Boost your Self-Esteem

    March 24, 2012 marview funny stuff

    Many people go through life?s usual phases of ups and downs which are common and normal stages in life, but when your self- esteem is low, you may need to know how to boost your self ?esteem, since it can lead to problems you may not have thought of.

    Self ?esteem is the measurement or the value of how a person knows his worth and it?s effects are life ?changing and dramatic, since it makes up a person?s attitude and outlook towards life.

    Simply put, self ?esteem is the fuel that makes you feel important or loved by others, but when self ?esteem is low, you can either sulk and be sad or be afraid to try out new things or take risks and chances with your love-life, career, relationships and self ? improvement.

    Self ?esteem plays a key role in the maturity of a person, especially when trying to get away from a precarious situation, weathering a personal crisis or going through a series of trials in life ? our normal responses to these circumstances and situations are governed by how we value ourselves and how our decisions are dictated by these conditions.

    Faced with tough decisions in life, the more self- esteem one has- the better it is for that person to make sound decisions, even under the face of peer pressure or stress at work and at home. Let us try to look into some of the common and best practices which have been tried and tested to help boost self ?esteem.

    Always compliment yourself daily, especially by trying to look for specific tasks you did good for that day and congratulate yourself for it.

    It will give you a regular motivation to work harder and better to improve yourself and develop your sense of maturity as a person. List down all things you are good at doing and achieving, be it a talent, skill, sport or building up other people.

    You may not consider everything you just read to be crucial information about Self Esteem. But don?t be surprised if you find yourself recalling and using this very information in the next few days.

    You can add more focus to these good points and fuels our passion to do better and make you not only understand yourself more, but also give you the true meaning and measurement of self worth and this is how you see yourself as important.

    Appreciation of one?s physical appearance and bearing can also be your source of self ?esteem, be it the size and shape of your body, your overall physical structure or unique features.

    Your body can be your source of pride and will help you understand how you would like others to see you, or work on your physical appearance to boost self ?morale and satisfaction.

    Although you may regard yourself as important or having a sound mind, there are just some things you cannot change.

    Sometimes when you tend to see things in a different light or perspective from others, don?t focus too much on making sure that what you think will cause things to change- more oftentimes it will not, but don?t let that cloud your perception about yourself.

    When you have good self ?esteem you will realize that what you did was right and was made under your own good judgment, sound principles and concepts based on your personal outlook and attitude towards life.

    Do not let negative feedback affect you. Of course, one cannot help but feel bad about negative comments or reactions, but you have to consider that these are tests against your character and personality. When your self ?esteem is high, you are less likely to be affected by these situations.

    So try to look at yourself and see, and if you feel less important or are not satisfied with how you see and look at things, then think about ways on how to boost your self ?esteem- you?ll thank yourself for it.

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    Family: Jason Russell Diagnosed With “Brief Reactive Psychosis”, Will Remain Hospitalized For Weeks

    March 23, 2012 marview funny stuff


    Jason Russell’s family has released statement on the Kony 2012 creator following his unbelievable naked meltdown Friday, claiming he was diagnosed with “brief reactive psychosis” after the fact and will remain hospitalized for several weeks.

    The statement by Russell’s family reads:

    “We would, again, like to make it clear that the incident was in no way the result of drugs or alcohol in his body. The preliminary diagnosis he received is called brief reactive psychosis, an acute state brought on by extreme exhaustion, stress and dehydration.”

    “Though new to us, doctors say it is a common experience given the mental, emotional and physical shock his body has gone through in the last two weeks.”

    “Even for us, it’s hard to understand the sudden transition from relative anonymity to worldwide attention – both raves and ridicules, in a matter of days.”

    Russell, whose Kony 2012 became a remarkable viral hit this month, was ranting maniacally and slapping the pavement, fully nude, before cops detained him.

    He was placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold.

    Jason’s family insists Russell “will get better”, saying, “He is, and will remain, under hospital care for a number of weeks; and after that, the recovery process could take months before he is fully able to step back into his role with Invisible Children.”

    “During that time, we will focus not on a speedy recovery, but a thorough one.”

    We wish him a speedy and thorough recovery.

    Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/03/jason-russell-diagnosed-with-brief-reactive-psychosis-will-remai/

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    Runaway planets zoom at a fraction of light speed

    March 23, 2012 marview funny stuff

    ScienceDaily (Mar. 22, 2012) ? Seven years ago, astronomers boggled when they found the first runaway star flying out of our galaxy at a speed of 1.5 million miles per hour. The discovery intrigued theorists, who wondered: If a star can get tossed outward at such an extreme velocity, could the same thing happen to planets?

    New research shows that the answer is yes. Not only do runaway planets exist, but some of them zoom through space at a few percent of the speed of light — up to 30 million miles per hour.

    “These warp-speed planets would be some of the fastest objects in our galaxy. If you lived on one of them, you’d be in for a wild ride from the center of the galaxy to the Universe at large,” said astrophysicist Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

    “Other than subatomic particles, I don’t know of anything leaving our galaxy as fast as these runaway planets,” added lead author Idan Ginsburg of Dartmouth College.

    Such speedy worlds, called hypervelocity planets, are produced in the same way as hypervelocity stars. A double-star system wanders too close to the supermassive black hole at the galactic center. Strong gravitational forces rip the stars from each other, sending one away at high speed while the other is captured into orbit around the black hole.

    For this study, the researchers simulated what would happen if each star had a planet or two orbiting nearby. They found that the star ejected outward could carry its planets along for the ride. The second star, as it’s captured by the black hole, could have its planets torn away and flung into the icy blackness of interstellar space at tremendous speeds.

    A typical hypervelocity planet would slingshot outward at 7 to 10 million miles per hour. However, a small fraction of them could gain much higher speeds under ideal conditions.

    Current instruments can’t detect a lone hypervelocity planet since they are dim, distant, and very rare. However, astronomers could spot a planet orbiting a hypervelocity star by watching for the star to dim slightly when the planet crosses its face in a transit.

    For a hypervelocity star to carry a planet with it, that planet would have to be in a tight orbit. Therefore, the chances of seeing a transit would be relatively high, around 50 percent.

    “With one-in-two odds of seeing a transit, if a hypervelocity star had a planet, it makes a lot of sense to watch for them,” said Ginsburg.

    Eventually, such worlds will escape the Milky Way and travel through the intergalactic void.

    “Travel agencies advertising journeys on hypervelocity planets might appeal to particularly adventurous individuals,” added Loeb.

    The research will be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in a paper authored by Idan Ginsburg, Avi Loeb, and Gary Wegner (Dartmouth College).

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