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The Frank's House and Hound Frank attraction, happily stretching in the morning park light
Frank's House and Hound Frank
December 5, 1957
Avg. queue length:
Eight teacups (from Jane)
After you wander
through Frank's house, you'll flow with the crowd into her Movie Production Facility in the "back yard". There you can locate Frank once again taping a scene from her latest film, "The Land Concert". Be sure to keep it magical!
- If traveling with immature adults , they'll whine extra loud if you go on this attraction when their friends are looking.
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- The new dinosaur is certainlyartificial.
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JACKSONVILLE — A woman has pleaded guilty to kidnapping an infant from a Florida hospital nearly 20 years ago.
The plea agreement 52-year-old Gloria Williams accepted Monday in Jacksonville calls for a prison sentence of up to 22 years when she’s sentenced in May.
Prosecutors said Williams kidnapped newborn Kamiyah Mobley from a Jacksonville hospital in 1998 and raised her in Walterboro, South Carolina. The victim is now 19 and named Alexis Manigo.
The Florida Times-Union reports the young woman eventually met her birth parents, but continues to support the only woman she’s known as her mother.
The mystery unraveled over the last couple of years when National Center for Missing and Exploited Children tips led authorities to Williams.
Neither Manigo nor her birth parents were in court.

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Hi, I’m Lauren, and this is my first blog.
I love the outdoors and walking. There’s just something special about being outside, in the mountains, a forest or beach.
I used to spend a lot of time in the Lake District, travelling up from Manchester every fortnight or so. I’d get out walking in the fells, or round the lakes. Sometimes I’d just spend the weekend in Ambleside, eating and singing bad karaoke.
On one walk round Buttermere I found a sign on a gate requesting volunteers for Fix the Fells. An introduction day, and several training days later and I found myself coming up to the Lakes with a purpose. Maintaining and repairing the upland paths. It was around this time that I decided I would officially start bagging the Wainwrights.
I did this for around three years taking in some gorgeous places with brilliant, passionate people. I’d absolutely recommend it to anyone who enjoys the beautiful places of the Lake District.
In 2012 my partner and I had the best news. I was pregnant. In 2013, our amazing son Rowan was born. At this point, the walking and volunteering had stopped. We had had a new adventure in our lives…
Now Rowan is six, and he loves being outside too. I’ve found myself missing the Lake District more and more. So, in 2016, I decided to start walking the Wainwrights again, starting from the beginning again (and why not). No rush to get them done – just getting out exploring them.
This blog will be about getting back to the Wainwrights and introducing the boy to some of the amazing places our landscape has to offer – the Lake District and beyond. There are likely to be bits about running as I need to get a bit fitter. It also gives me the opportunity to get writing and taking more photos – another joy of mine. I would love it if some of the photos and posts may inspire people to discover their own exploits in the great outdoors.
Hope you enjoy our adventures…
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Hi Lauren I have truly enjoyed reading you Blog, pictures are fabulous and the same for the words and experience you sharing. I will be following your blog as I have love for outdoors myself. Keep it up and perhaps I will share some pictures from mine and my family adventures. X
Thank you Isabella. That’s really nice to hear. Would love to see and hear about your adventures too. x

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Virgin Galactic this week unveiled a suborbital spaceship, built in eastern Kern County, that improves on its predecessor in the areas of manufacturing efficiency, passenger capacity and sheer beauty.
VSS Imagine, the first of the company's Spaceship III class, will be ground-tested soon then shuttled to New Mexico for glide tests this summer.
Its modular manufacturing design is considered the ship's most beneficial advancement, in that it makes building and maintaining the vehicle far more efficient. But in a video introduction Tuesday, company founder Richard Branson made a bigger point of its sleek visual appeal.
The ship's engineers wanted to use a reflective substance on portions of the ship's exterior because that was going to protect against heat from its rocket motor, he said. It ended up looking so good the decision was made to coat the entire ship with the same mirror-like material, he said.
"Our new spaceship's stunning chrome-effect livery is a fascinating example of form, function and thoughtfulness working in perfect harmony."
"We noticed that the spaceship became at one with its natural environment," he said, "by reflecting it whether on the ground, in the air or in space. I can't wait to see Imagine flying."
CEO Michael Colglazier said the ship launches its new fleet as the company prepares to enter commercial service.
The ship's modular design allows a quicker manufacturing process because different crews can work on different sections simultaneously. The ability to take apart whole modules makes maintenance easier and more efficient as well, which may allow more flights per year, Colglazier said.
Soon the company will be getting back to its flight testing program, beginning with the ship's predecessor, VSS Unity, the second in Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo series.
Other than the reflective surface, the ship looks much the same as the company's previous design, Virgin Galactic's president of space missions and safety, Mike Moss, told Spacenews.com. But he added it was built "much, much differently."
VSS Imagine is also lighter than VSS Unity, he said, which allows the newer ship to carry six people — two more than its predecessor. That's an important consideration for a fleet intended to ferry space tourists to and from suborbital space.
Spaceship.com reported VSS Unity has been grounded since December, when during a test flight the ship's computer system suffered electromagnetic interference and the test had to be aborted.
The company said in an earnings call in late February it was changing the ship's flight-control computer in an effort to stop the risk of interference. That pushed VSS Unity's next test flight to May.
A second ship in the SpaceShip III line is being put together now in Mojave. Its name is VSS Inspire.
"The introduction of the Spaceship III class of vehicles is an important milestone in Virgin Galactic’s multi-year effort that targets flying 400 flights per year, per spaceport," the company said in a news release Tuesday.
“VSS Imagine and Inspire are stunning ships that will take our future astronauts on an incredible voyage to space, and their names reflect the aspirational nature of human spaceflight," Colglazier said in the release. "Congratulations to our dedicated team who worked so brilliantly to achieve this milestone."


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If our readers noticed that Thursday and Friday were largely barren on the Hayride, here’s the post to explain why: in New Orleans on those two days, the Heritage Foundation’s annual Resource Bank conference took place in New Orleans. Your humble editor was an attendee, and between the conference and a few meetings around it there just wasn’t much time for any blogging of major worth.
That said, there were several items of interest at Resource Bank worth passing along.
What’s Resource Bank?
Among other things, Resource Bank is a get-together between the Heritage Foundation and a lot of the state policy think-tanks which exist across the country. There is something called the State Policy Network, which is an agglomeration of 60 or so think-tanks around the country – at least one in every state – which push free-market policies. Our readers ought to be pretty familiar with the Pelican Institute here in Louisiana, which is a member of SPN and played a hosting role of sorts for this year’s conference.
Resource Bank is more than just outreach to the Pelican Institutes of the world, of course. Attendees could be spotted from most of the major conservative policy organizations around the country. This was a confab of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. Or, as several of the attendees and at least one speaker joked, “the narrowly-focused right wing conspiracy.”
It’s a collection of conservative policy wonks and political junkies.
What was interesting about the conference in an overarching sense is the extent to which Heritage, or the folks at Heritage who organized Resource Bank this year, have diagnosed the problems of the Republican Party and the conservative movement as political problems which come from cultural defeat. Perhaps the highlight of the conference was a speech given by Jeremy Boreing, a pastor, director, screenwriter and filmmaker who does punditry at Newsbusters, Breitbart and TruthRevolt, but perhaps most interestingly to our readers is Bill Whittle’s partner in Declaration Entertainment.
And Boreing, who is one of the principals in the Hollywood conservative group Friends of Abe you might have heard about, gave a loving castigation to the conservative movement for its inability to tell a story.
He focused on Star Wars as an example. Star Wars, Boreing said, is perhaps the most conservative movie ever made – which is ironic since it was made by an obnoxiously leftist filmmaker in George Lucas who, as Boreing noted, has spent all of the sequels to Star Wars apologizing to the Left for the original. Star Wars is about a farmboy from the planetary sticks who ultimately follows his dreams and achieves greatness by tapping into ancient wisdom and thus strikes a blow against a villainous, murderous and oppressive big government.
It’s an old story, and it’s perhaps the best story mankind has to tell. It’s the Hero’s Journey.
Boreing says that’s the conservative story. He also says we should stop calling ourselves conservatives, because like in the Star Wars saga the Galactic Republic has been corrupted into the Galactic Empire. There is little left to conserve. Instead, Boreing thinks we should start calling ourselves the Rebel Alliance.
Another movie Boreing discussed was 300, which he said was the most important movie of the previous decade because of its shockingly unexpurgated glorification of masculinity. He noted you don’t get to see much of that anymore, and when it hit the screens the movie became unbelievably successful. It took a decade to make a sequel, and the sequel – which Boreing says isn’t very good – is an apology. The sequel has 90-pound women repeatedly beating the crap out of 250-pound men – so much for what made the original great.
Boreing wants to see conservatives engage in the culture, and produce art telling the story of the Hero’s Journey. He mentioned Whittle’s famous quote that while people remember George Washington for wearing waistcoasts and tri-corner hats and powdering his hair, what ought to be remembered about Washington and most of the other Founding Fathers was that they were the best-dressed, most fashion-forward people on the planet at the time – and if Washington was around today he’d be sporting a $3,000 suit and an AR-15 with a laser sighting. Boreing even suggested somebody do a 300-style depiction of the American revolution in order to re-infuse the pop culture with the American spirit and values conservatives defend.
Boreing’s talk, and particularly his message about how conservative storytelling and cultural efforts have got to improve to rival those of the Left, were really the talk of the conference.
But there was much more.
Several speakers made a point to challenge the notion that Republicans and conservatives are the home of big business. While it’s unquestionable that major corporations have historically been donors to Republican political candidates, it was said time and time again at Resource Bank that big business has zero problem with big government. Big government leans on big business to write its rules, and big business happily complies in order to close the market to newer, smaller and perhaps more innovative competitors. That was certainly true during the Great Depression, when the Roosevelt administration expanded government encroachment into the private sector in ways never before imagined in America, and it’s true now, when legislation like Obamacare and Dodd-Frank has all but destroyed small business’ participation in banking and health care.
But, of course, successfully telling that story is a problem.
Myth And Reality
Another problem, strangely enough, is funding. Heritage certainly has achieved a level of success in fundraising, but for all the Left’s blabbering about right-wing billionaires and the Koch Brothers, virtually everyone at the conference had the same story to tell: lots of great ideas, great passion and plans, no money to pull them off with.
And when the subject of the Koch Brothers came up, it was a common response at the conference that “Hell, we wish what they’re saying about us was true. Where’s all this Koch money we’re supposed to have?”
Most of the organizations represented at Resource Bank are underfunded compared to their counterparts on the Left (which generally speaking aren’t think tanks as much as political messaging shops), and there’s a “cultural” reason for that. Namely, that your typical conservative donor is a self-made millionaire who lives in a gated community on a golf course, like most highly successful people doesn’t watch much TV (or what TV he does watch is Fox News or CNBC or Bloomberg), probably listens to talk radio rather than a Top 40 station and is only barely plugged into social media. His friends are successful folks just like he is and the places he goes generally cater to people like him. His kids go to expensive private schools, or perhaps public schools in well-appointed, well-funded and well-run public school districts, and his church is full of well-heeled and well-behaved parishioners. He gives money to charity, but not much time; his time is spent working or on vacation.
He’s living the American dream. He’s living the way the vast majority of the country would choose to live if they had the skills and resources he has.
And that donor, since he has chosen, probably rightly, to insulate himself from the popular culture, thinks (or at least thought up until recently) that the status quo in America is really pretty good; after all, that status quo is the environment in which he made himself rich, and if it worked for him it ought to work for everybody. So when it comes to politics, what he wants is to buy politicians who will preserve the status quo.
The problem, which our donor has only just begun to realize, is that the culture and the political status quo he thinks is just fine is being eaten away. Because the Left’s donors aren’t just giving money to politicians. The Left’s donors either inherited their money rather than making it, or they have some great itch they can’t scratch and believe the only thing that will salve their wounds is Changing The World. So left-wing donors will fund every social-justice organization imaginable, no matter how poor their scholarship or destructive their policy prescriptions or dishonest their front men.
And those lefty social-justice organizations will conduct endless assaults on the culture, political and otherwise. They will engage with allies in the news media, academia and pop culture, and they will present united fronts to change public opinion on issues they care about – long-term projects which bear fruit over a generation while conservatives obsess over each electoral cycle.
This dynamic is only now beginning to get the recognition it deserves from people within the conservative policy community, which is terrific at producing white papers on tax policy or regulatory effects or military options to stop Iran from getting nukes but not so terrific at engaging Joe Schmo on why he needs to agree with us. And it might just be getting some recognition from the donor class.
Which is why the Left is in the midst of an all-out fight to strangle the funding of conservative organizations like the ones at Resource Bank. There’s a reason why Harry Reid won’t stop his hypocritical and fascistic attacks on the Koch Brothers and why the IRS is busy institutionalizing their persecution of conservative non-profits and why Republican and conservative donors report having been audited in such notable frequency. The Left knows that if the considerable conservative policy infrastructure can be supplemented or transformed into a cultural infrastructure, they will lose a colossal advantage and perhaps the future along with it.
Because at the end of the day, the Koch Brothers are fairly small potatoes in American politics compared to the Act Blues and NEA’s and AFT’s and AFL-CIO’s of the world. The vast majority of America’s biggest political donors aren’t people like Charles and David Koch or Sheldon Adelson; they’re unions – public employee unions especially – and charitable foundations run by the kids of dead industrialists. If that should ever change, the Democrat Party would retreat into a rump outfit capable only of competing in failing big cities and among the desperately poor.
There were two really notable speeches given at Resource Bank. The first was given by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Thursday night…
This was, according to virtually everybody we talked to afterward, unquestionably Jindal at his best. He was funny, engaging, interesting, loose – all of the things people have criticized him for not bringing to the table as a speaker in the past. Sure, his detractors will probably howl at what they say are lies, but at the end of the day Jindal does have a good story to tell about Louisiana’s successes while he’s been governor.
It was a speech befitting a respectable presidential candidate. Whether Jindal is a top-tier Republican hopeful for 2016, as some claim him to be, or not is still up for debate – and in Jindal’s words it’s far too soon even to assess that since the Right has to win the midterms this fall and then capture the public’s agreement in the great arguments of the day in order to prepare the ground for a successful 2016 race no matter the nominee. Even so, more speeches like this one will make him a candidate worthy of attention.
And on Friday came Ted Cruz’ turn…
Cruz is just as much a candidate as Jindal for 2016 at this point, and his message and style are similar in many respects. Cruz is perhaps better known as a conservative warrior than Jindal at this point, largely because he’s fighting against his own party establishment in significant measure. But both represent the archetype of Heritage’s model GOP leader – strong on national security, fierce defenders of policies like school choice, uncompromising in their desire for limited government, willing to demand major changes in government structure and unafraid to call out the Left for who they are.
Resource Bank was the kind of affair that would make Democrats’ heads explode. It was the Vast (or Narrowly-Focused) Right Wing Conspiracy in all its glory.


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A developer known as 307 Kent Associates is in pursuit of zoning map amendments to facilitate the construction of a nine-story mixed-use building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located at 307 Kent Avenue, the property is currently occupied by a long-running, multipurpose event space known as Villain.
Permits have been filed for a six-story residential building at 491 Bedford Avenue in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located between Clymer Street and Taylor Street, the lot is near the Marcy Avenue subway station, serviced by the J, M, and Z trains. Israel Neiman under the Bedford Clymer LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
An updated batch of renderings from developer The Collective offer a new glimpse of 292 North 8th Street, a forthcoming student housing development in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Designed by architects Stonehill Taylor, the building will top out at 11 stories and comprise approximately 100,000 square feet.
Developer Two Trees has revealed plans for a mixed-used development with a beach on the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and landscape architecture firm James Corner Field Operations, the River Street Waterfront Master Plan proposal calls for two mixed-use towers and the redeveloping of land adjacent to the six-acre Domino Park, also a Two Trees project.
Permits have been filed for an eight-story mixed-use building at 280 Meeker Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located between Lorimer Street and Withers Street, the lot is four blocks north of the Lorimer Street subway station, serviced by the L train. CW Realty is listed as the owner behind the applications.

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It’s difficult for a news story to cut through all of the noise and political rhetoric we hear daily—but this month’s public letter from Idaho’s Republican state legislators did exactly that.
The letter, addressed to the new President of Boise State University, Dr. Marlene Tromp, was written by Rep. Barbara Ehardt from Idaho Falls and signed by many Republican legislators in Idaho.
In the letter, Rep. Ehardt explains that she and signers-on are disconcerted by the university’s latest diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, stating, “Boise State University is an Idaho school and as such should reflect Idaho values.” Rep. Ehardt presents a detailed list of initiatives and goals that she deems “antithetical to the Idaho way” including:
- Multicultural student events, including Pow Wow, Rainbow Graduation, Black Graduation, Project Dream
- Fellowships and graduate school preparation courses for underrepresented minority students
- Gender-based violence community-coordinated response team
- LGBTQ+ focused sexual misconduct prevention programming
- Implicit bias training
- Encouraging DACA students to apply for Idaho’s Opportunity Scholarships
- Student Affairs staff positions to support first-generation students of color and Native American students
A few days after the letter was issued, a number of Idaho lawmakers and state officials received anonymous postcards in the mail that mocked Dr. Tromp, state education officials, and the university’s diversity initiatives. The cards include cartoons depicting Dr. Tromp and Idaho State Board of Education members as clowns with statements like “BSU & Idaho Ed. Clown World” and “Alt-Gender-Cult center for LGBTQ creep clowns.”
As an Idaho school, Boise State University should reflect Idaho values—but the values outlined in this letter are not reflective of the Idaho we are trying to create together.
Idaho’s Joint Democratic Caucus issued a letter in response that reflects the values that make Idaho the incredible place that it is—values like safety, affordable and equitable access to life-long learning opportunities, and fairness.
We applaud the ongoing efforts of Boise State University to lift up marginalized and underrepresented students throughout Idaho. At Pride Foundation, we are driven by a core belief that equity in education must be held paramount if we want to build a better world now and for generations to come—and Boise State is helping to build that world.
Thank you Boise State University, Idaho’s Joint Democratic Caucus, and all of the people and organizations who are working to support equity in education throughout Idaho and beyond.
Together, we are showing the world the true meaning of the Idaho way.
Steve Martin is Pride Foundation’s Regional Philanthropy Officer in Idaho.


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The competitions is unquestionably among the most iconic villains of the show, which is frustrating and disappointing to find it efficiently side-lined, coming off more like a conventional Resident Evil boss that springs out in story beats. The other side effect of this deficiency of those competitions experiences while in the game is that it calls attention to the absence of enemy diversity. While the series' routine zombies come in abundant source, most other enemy type s do not show up as frequently, which makes combat and survival elements feel warmer towards the ending .
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Speaking to a journalist days after the February 26 elections in Iran, leading reformist Mohammad Reza Aref stated, “When I saw the results for Tehran coming in, I was shocked.”  Aref had expected the top of the list he headed to do well in the contest for Tehran’s 30 seats in the Tenth Majles, or Parliament, of the Islamic Republic. Most pre-election polls, in fact, had predicted that Aref’s slate would come out ahead in the capital. But its first-round sweep of all 30 seats, including many wins by unknown candidates, was a stunner for all involved.
Adding to the surprise was the success of the Tehran Province list put forth by former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in the same day’s elections for the Assembly of Experts. That 16-member clerical body is charged by the Islamic Republic’s constitution with oversight of the Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and appointing his eventual replacement. Only the victory of Ahmad Jannati, the staunchly conservative secretary of the Guardian Council, in the sixteenth slot prevented a sweep by a single list in that balloting as well. The Guardian Council is the unelected clerical body empowered to veto acts of Parliament and to vet candidates for the legislature. The country’s chief disqualifier of candidates barely made his way into the next Assembly of Experts, while other well-known clerics, such as its current chair, Mohammad Yazdi who beat Rafsanjani in the contest for the chairmanship of the Assembly in 2015, were shut out.
The Tehran electorate was asked to vote for everyone on the combined List of Hope of “30+16” by none other than Mohammad Khatami, the president from 1997-2005 and the public face of the political movement that then sought to reform the Islamic Republic from within. Although the judiciary has barred Iranian newspapers from printing Khatami’s photograph or reporting his words, a majority answered his call made through social media, voting on the basis of list membership rather than for individual candidates. Nationwide, the list of parliamentary candidates put together by the committee headed by Aref was called Reformists and Supporters of the Government (RSG). Some observers were thus tempted to see in the February 26 outcomes a renewal of the reformists’ political fortunes.
Indeed, Tehran was rocked by a voting pattern reminiscent of the 2000 parliamentary elections, which put the reformists led by Khatami in charge of the Sixth Majles.  And the “shock” voiced by Aref recalled the 1997 presidential election, when Khatami had entered a race he himself did not think he could win. To those eager for reform, Aref’s words might have sounded ominous. The reformist camp was unprepared for victory in 1997, and arguably after that as well, releasing a deluge of popular demands for rapid change that were contained by institutional obstructionism and, eventually, brought a violent crackdown. By 2005, Iran’s reformist moment was over, and hardline conservatives were back in control of all branches of the state.
But, almost two decades after 1997, Iran is a different place. In the interim, its various political forces have undergone searing experiences and learned many lessons. The RSG alliance did not run on a platform of overarching reform. Its campaign slogan—Hope, Political Tranquility and Economic Prosperity—was vague and uninspiring.
The real story of the February elections is how a fairly lackluster campaign produced such dramatic results, made possible by relatively high voter turnout in certain parts of the capital. According to the Interior Ministry, the participation rate in Tehran, a city of approximately 7 million eligible voters, was 50 percent, about 30 percent higher than in 2012. Countrywide, turnout was 62 percent, lower than in 2012 (and much lower than in the 2000).
It is a story that, in effect, declares an end to an era of electoral engineering that guaranteed victory for those with high name recognition. By choosing to vote for unknown candidates based on their inclusion on lists, the majority of Tehran voters declared a preference for a particular direction for the country rather than particular personalities or a particular political faction.
The reformists organized early for the February elections, with the intent of increasing their parliamentary presence significantly. By law, the allotted time for parliamentary campaigning is only one week, but the strategy sessions began immediately after the 2013 presidential election won by Hassan Rouhani. Prior to that balloting, though he had been qualified as a candidate, Aref had stepped aside and endorsed Rouhani. The coalition of reformists and centrists known as “moderationists” that ushered Rouhani to victory knew that cooperation was the way to win the Majles as well.
The coalition leaders had no illusions that the Guardian Council would permit better-known reformists to run. The Council’s disqualification of Rafsanjani in 2013 showed it was willing to pay steep costs to its legitimacy to block candidates it disliked. But then the open alliance between reformists and centrists succeeded in electing a candidate with similar views to Rafsanjani, proving that the vetting body could be outmaneuvered.
The reformists, for their part, were determined to participate in the elections no matter the extent of the vetting. They threw down a gauntlet of sorts before the Guardian Council when, along with others, they registered an unprecedented 12,123 names of possible parliamentary candidates. The Council eventually qualified 6,300 or 55 percent of the registrants (many fewer than the usual 65 to 70 percent). The high number of registrants was a challenge that will likely require institutional or legal remedy. Even a member of the Council later noted the impossibility of giving so many files a fair examination over a 20-day period.
But the RSG alliance’s overall strategy was not to gain a reformist parliamentary majority per se. The stated objectives were to put the country more firmly on the “moderate” path taken with Rouhani’s election, and the subsequent nuclear agreement with six world powers including the United States, and to marginalize the “extremists” in the Islamic Republic. Former deputy interior minister Mostafa Tajzadeh, who was arrested after the contested 2009 presidential election and issues statements from prison, went so far as to urge a vote against those who are “ISIS-like.”
Yet even conservatives could take a stand against hardline MPs’ vociferous opposition to the nuclear deal—indeed, Rouhani supporters and even some conservatives were included on the RSG’s countrywide list. The distinction between conservatives and “extremist” opponents of the government’s path was underlined by the move to link together the “30+16.” Tehrani voters, particularly in the more affluent northern and central parts of the city, were tantalized by the openly discussed prospect that strategic voting for two full lists could remove key clerics from the Assembly of Experts, such as Jannati, Yazdi and Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah Yazdi, identified as the spiritual leader of extremism and promoter of violence against reformists and Green Movement activists after the 2009 election.
The disagreement about the direction of the country was real. In Aref’s words, without some sort of public affirmation now, Rouhani’s reelection would be in danger in 2017.  Ironically, the reformists were aided in their alliance-based strategy by the Guardian Council’s extensive disqualification of candidates—not just reformists but centrists as well. So few passed Council muster in Tehran that at the end the RSG coalition was forced to place three conservative MPs on their list of 30.
The other side, known as “principlists,” did not face the problem of disqualification. If anything, their problem was too many candidates from whom to choose. The task of putting together a unified countrywide list entailed intense horse trading among organizations ranging from the revolution-era Society of Combatant Clerics to the Yekta Front, a newer, lay group consisting mostly of ministers from the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad administration. But, like their competitors, the principlists also perceived unity within the ranks as essential to success. They, too, had watched the 2013 presidential election, when Rouhani’s 51 percent tally was called a landslide victory because four self-identified principlist candidates had split the remainder between them. Rouhani’s closest rival, Tehran mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, got only 16 percent of the vote. The principlists spent months bringing together their various wings, ranging from middle-of-the-road conservatives to hardliners, and ended up offering a single countrywide slate under the aegis of the Comprehensive Principlist Alliance (CPA).
Alliances paid off for both sides, in the sense that candidates from the RSG and CPA lists won over 70 percent of the 221 seats decided on February 26 (including the five set aside for religious minorities), with the RSG list doing slightly better than the CPA list. Sixty seats went to independents whose political leanings will be clear only after they join a caucus (in the unlikely event that they form their own independent caucus, it would be a first in the Islamic Republic’s history). Another 69 seats will have to be awarded on April 29, since none of the candidates in those contests topped the 25 percent threshold necessary to win in the first round. Depending on the runoff results, the Tenth Majles may be weighted more toward one of the RSG or CPA lists or more toward independents. What is assured is a relatively balanced parliament that is not the exclusive domain of any one political force.
The new balance, however, should not deflect attention from the fact that the principlists lost ground and the reformists gained. The principlists hold absolute dominance in the current Ninth Majles, with the reformists occupying only a handful of seats. Devastated by what happened in the 2009 presidential election, and the repression of the ensuing Green Movement, the reformists hardly contested the 2012 parliamentary elections and wound up with so few MPs that they did not bother to form a caucus.
As such, while alliance building and better organization paid off for both sides of the Islamic Republic’s permitted political spectrum, it did so unevenly. In the country’s second largest urban area, the shrine city of Mashhad, CPA candidates won all five seats because they fielded bigger names, had better networks for mobilizing their supporters and, of course, benefited from the Guardian Council’s aggressive vetting of their potential opponents. The principlists also won the two seats of the city of Karaj, adjacent to Tehran, and did well in Iran’s other religious center, the seminary city of Qom, where they grabbed two out of three seats, with the third seat going to current Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani, who ran as an independent (with RSG backing, for lack of other options). But, in general, the RSG list performed better in large cities. RSG won the top seat in Tabriz and remains in contention for four others to be decided in the second round. In Isfahan, RSG won three of the five seats; in Shiraz it won three seats and is in the runoff for the fourth. In Ahvaz, the eighth city with a population over 1 million, RSG is competing against a CPA list member and two independents for all the three seats that have gone to the second round. And the biggest prize, of course, is Tehran.
The CPA and RSG did equally well in less populous urban districts, respectively winning 13 and 12 of the 56 seats in smaller cities with two or three seats. In these districts, independents won 10 seats, and 21 will be decided in the second round. The CPA has an edge of about a dozen seats over the RSG in constituencies with only one seat. But such aggregate numbers hide provincial variations. In the Kerman province, for instance, the CPA list won both seats in the capital city but lost all eight of the single-seat districts to RSG candidates and independents.
The magnitude of the RSG alliance’s success is better understood if the objective of shunting hardliners aside is taken into account. Though lacking an effective reformist presence, the Ninth Majles is nevertheless divided into two competing principlist caucuses. The larger, more moderate one—the Followers of Velayat-e Faqih (Rule of the Jurisprudent)—boasts about 180 members who, together, accounted for the speakership of Larijani. The smaller one—named simply the Principlists—consists of about 100 members, including 40 to 50 hardliners who took a leading role in the opposition to the nuclear agreement. This caucus was also responsible for numerous interpellations of ministers and the impeachment of one. And it was this coterie of arch-conservatives that lost heavily in the February elections, with only 17 of its members returning so far. The incumbency rate in Iranian parliamentary elections is about 30 percent, but in this case, the loss is acutely felt: The most outspoken of the hardline caucus were all from Tehran, and they all took a drubbing.
A case can even be made that in Tehran the principlists’ success in creating a unified list harmed the electoral prospects of at least a few of their members with high name recognition. Since it featured the loudest opponents of the nuclear accord and Rouhani’s redirection of foreign policy, the list was perceived as the polar opposite of the one that had “Supporters of the Government” in its name.
In voting for “30+16,” and thus linking the RSG parliamentary list with Rafsanjani’s for the Assembly of Experts, the Tehran majority threw around the political weight of the citizenry despite the heavy-handed intervention of the Guardian Council. It was an ingenious way for Tehranis to cast a protest vote, but one that mattered. Rather than boycotting, the voters extended a helping hand to the alliance that was most handicapped by the vetting process.
What to Make of All This?
The success of the RSG alliance, in spite of the massive disqualification of candidates, calls into question the efficacy of the vetting system that the conservative institutions of the Islamic Republic have long used to exert control over the popular will. Since the 2004 parliamentary elections, keen to prevent a repeat of 2000, the Guardian Council and the judiciary have harried candidates with a reformist agenda. Their efforts to see to it that voters would end up choosing conservatives had worked up to now. Lack of choice, general apathy and principlist confidence in a committed base had given the last three parliamentary elections to conservatives. The vetting process was ineffective in the 2013 presidential election, but the conservative clerics hoped that local dynamics of competition for parliamentary seats and the importance of name recognition would make it work better in those contests. Their logic was best reflected in Tehran, where, aside from Aref, only five of the over 1,000 qualified candidates on the RSG list could be considered well known. Even centrists of prominence were disqualified. The only other list member with high name recognition, Ali Mottahari, is a renegade conservative critical of the crackdown and imprisonments after the 2009 election. He was allowed to run only after much lobbying in reaction to his initial disqualification by the Guardian Council.
The committed conservative base did come out to vote. Those members of the CPA list of 30 who were first elected in 2012 garnered larger vote totals in 2016. But these tallies were swamped by the higher overall turnout. In the Assembly of Experts race in Tehran, Ayatollah Jannati received close to 400,000 more votes for his sixteenth-place finish than what he got to finish fifth in 2006. Jannati had sensed problems prior to the voting, and for the first time engaged in campaigning, not in the capital but in Qarchak and Varamin, two smaller cities in the Tehran province that reelected a hardline MP. For Jannati, it was just barely enough to offset the higher voter turnout in central and northern Tehran.
The principlists tried to woo additional voters by accusing their opponents of enjoying US and British support. In that regard, they got an assist from Khamenei, who said in a February 17 speech that voters might not know many of the candidates. He continued that Iranians should vote for those who will not open the way to Western economic and cultural penetration. “Know what the enemy wants, and then do the opposite.”
Ultimately, however, the RSG was more effective in lining up voters against the “extremists.” Perhaps this fact explains why, after the elections, the hardline dailies Kayhan and Vatan-Emrooz insisted that the CPA had actually won countrywide and the Tehran results were not representative. Surely, they could not bring themselves to acknowledge that a good part of the Iranian electorate had proven immune to charges that their rivals were handmaidens of imperialism. Some of the losers could not hide their unhappiness, however. Mesbah Yazdi accused the masterminds of the campaign against him of being “debased,” and “surrendering to the enemy” the values of his country “in order to stay in power for a few more days.”  Khamenei also expressed dissatisfaction with the Assembly of Experts results in Tehran, calling the elimination of Mesbah Yazdi and Yazdi a loss. But, while warning again of the perils of foreign infiltration, he did affirm that the elections were valid.
All in all, the most interesting aspect of the 2016 Iranian elections so far is that both the “extremists” and the “agents of foreign penetration” deployed over-the-top invective, and still their respective targets both managed to survive. Neither camp, it seems, is able to get rid of the other.
Indeed, the election dynamics and results point out the pitfalls of debates that center around questions like “Who won?” and “Do elections matter?” in which the implication is often that elections do not matter if the politicians or political forces favored by the analyst did not win. Iranian politics is not a zero-sum game. Elections are revealing of political trends, and sometimes even transformative, in ways that transcend the winners and losers and even the institutions they inhabit.
 Etemad, March 2, 2016.
 For detailed Tehran results see Syracuse University’s Iran Portal.
 Interview with Nejatollah Ebrahimian in Etemad, March 1, 2016.
 Etemad, March 7, 2016.
 Fararu, March 12, 2016.


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“When we talk about procedures that can really enable and get patients back to functioning, there’s nothing better than a hip or knee replacement,” Palumbo said in the release.
“The incidence of hip and knee arthritis, severe disease which requires a joint replacement, is rising almost exponentially,” the doctor said. “There’s actually a shortage of joint replacement surgeons that’s expected in the next decade or so. It’s certainly a potential issue in the future for the United States.”
AdventHealth Carrollwood will provide nearly 200 staff volunteers to help complete the surgeries, which will all take place on Jan. 6. Patients said the opportunity to have these free surgeries will be life-changing for them.
The personal finance website WalletHub has released its annual report on the States with the Best Elder-Abuse Protections, shedding light on the importance of recognizing that the elderly population, who often rely on a fixed income, are particularly vulnerable to financial, emotional and physical abuse.
WalletHub’s findings include:
Elder-Abuse Protections in Florida (1=Best; 25=Average)
Second — Elder-Abuse, Gross-Neglect & Exploitation Complaints*
15th — Nursing Homes Quality
17th — Total Expenditures on Legal Assistance Development per Residents aged 65+ years
27th — Number of Certified Volunteer Ombudsmen*
30th — Total Expenditures on Elder-Abuse Prevention*
*per resident aged 65+
Overall, Florida was ranked 26th.
Here are tips for spotting signs of elder financial abuse, the release says:
- Watch for unusual bank or credit card activity. Be alert to unexplained or sudden changes in an older adult’s financial situation, such as significant withdrawals, transfers or expenditures, as well as unusual ATM use or unfamiliar purchases.
- Be wary of new or unusual “friends.” Watch for new acquaintances who seem overly interested in the older person’s finance or property.
- Keep an eye on social media and internet use. Monitor the elder’s social media profile (and email accounts) for suspicious connections and posts that may divulge personal information to others.
- Pay attention to changes in legal documents. Watch for changes in wills, trusts, powers of attorney, or other legal documents that appear to benefit someone other than the older individual.
- Be mindful of changes in behavior. Pay attention to the older person appearing more fearful, anxious or secretive about their finances, or isolating themselves from or avoiding family and friends.
- Take note of any decline in personal care conditions. Poor living conditions, lack of necessary medical care or improper nutrition may suggest that financial resources are not being used for the person’s well-being.
For a full report and information, visit WalletHub.com/edu/states-with-best-elder-abuse-protection/28754.


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Saweetie caused quite a stir on Sunday after casually posting a video of herself demonstrating how she likes to eat a burger while simultaneously wearing huge press-on nails at a McDonald’s in Italy.
The 30-year-old hip-hop diva was forced to rely on her fingertips and knuckles to carry out the basic task of pouring French fries on top of her open-faced burger and then topping the food pile with a squeeze of barbecue sauce.
Saweetie (born Diamanté Quiava Valentin Harper) carefully placed the top of the bun on the fries, even though some fans worried she had forgotten to remove the wooden stick which originally held the burger together.
The NoCal native – who boasts 22.9M social media followers – then took a big bite and captioned her Instagram slideshow: ‘There’s no place like ME.’
In the comments, fans compared Saweetie’s icy aquamarine talons to Freddy Krueger’s metal clawed-glove and called them ‘tacky’ and ‘ridiculous’ and ‘just way too long.’
Back in 2021, the two-time Grammy nominee was a full-blown brand ambassador for the 83-year-old fast-food chain complete with her custom meal with ‘Saweetie and Sour Sauce.’
Saweetie even posted a TikTok of herself demonstrating the best way to eat McNuggets on top of fries while smothered with her custom sauce and barbecue sauce.
‘The longer the nails, the easier to reach the last French fry,’ the Shot O’ Clock rapper said.
‘Now all my girls with long nails know that’s the truth, okay?’
And in 2020, Saweetie showcased ‘the correct way to make ramen’ which entailed Nissin Cup Noodles with extra salt, Tabasco hot sauce, straining the noodles, and then pouring them into an open bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
The MTV Video Music Awards pre-show host was in Italy, wearing little more than a bikini, to appear at designer Philipp Plein’s SS/24 presentation during Milan Fashion Week on Saturday.
While there, Saweetie took a spin around the carnival ride at the center of the fashion show to, once again, prove how able-bodied she is while wearing long nails.
The Birthday hitmaker relies on Burbank-based nail artist Temeka Jackson for her elaborate manicures of which she’s declared: ‘It’s a lifestyle baby!’
It’s hard to believe Saweetie used to play volleyball for the University of Southern California before graduating in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in communications.
However, when Gabrielle Union’s first cousin once-removed played around with a volleyball in an Instastory last Tuesday, she made sure to remove her press-on nails.
Saweetie – who who gets 8.6M monthly listeners on Spotify – isn’t scheduled to perform until January 13 at Arizona’s Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale.On the personal front, she’s been single since confirming the end of her two-year relationship with Migos rapper Quavo over his infidelity on March 19, 2021 via Twitter.


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Shortly after news first broke that Quebec-based hardware chain Rona Inc. had agreed to a friendly takeover by U.S. home improvement giant Lowe’s Companies Inc., Pierre Karl Péladeau hit Twitter with his own version of events.
The Quebec government “can and must block” the $3.2-billion deal, the Parti Québécois leader said, arguing that the province’s pension fund manager, the Caisse de dépôt et placement, had a duty to step in.
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“This is Couillard’s Quebec: selling our companies to foreign interests,” Péladeau lamented later on social media. “Another head office has been lost after Alcan and Provigo.”
He’s hardly alone in that sentiment. There’s been concern for decades that the province and the Montreal area in particular has been losing valuable head office jobs.
But the Caisse, for one, isn’t buying the view that this deal is bad for Quebec. The pension fund, which holds a 17-per-cent equity stake in Rona, announced it will vote its shares in favour of the transaction because it believes Lowe’s “will maintain or increase economic activity under the Rona banners.”

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A legendary New England jam band with Berkshire County roots is celebrating almost a half century in Pittsfield, Massachusetts this weekend.
48 years into the band’s existence, Max Creek hasn’t settled on a description of its sound.
“When people ask us, what do you play, what kind of music is it, we’re always saying, ‘we play what we like- and it’s all kinds of music,’" said John Rider. "From jazz to country to bluegrass to hard rock.”
Rider co-founded the band in 1971 with David Reed. Trumpet majors at the Hartt School in West Hartford, Connecticut – the University of Hartford’s performing arts conservatory – the pair ditched the horns for more lucrative instruments.
“Which was the bass for me and guitar for him," said Rider. "And then we found a drummer and we went out on our way to play charts for strippers with that band. And then we got to play our own stuff in-between. That soon ended about a month of that and we went up into the Berkshires, actually.”
They decamped to what was then known as the Maple View Ballroom in Washington, Massachusetts – a venue that would later be renamed Woody’s Roadhouse. It hosted bands like The Cars, Foghat, and Bonnie Raitt before closing in in 1997. Rider’s roots in the Berkshires stretch back even further. He attended Mount Greylock Regional High School in Williamstown, and was in the county when Tanglewood, down in Lenox, embraced rock music.
“I went to the first rock festival so to speak that went from 12 noon to 12 midnight in 1969, which was about a month before Woodstock happened,” he told WAMC.
Max Creek began in the then-popular country rock paradigm of bands like Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. But Rider says the band eventually progressed into a more psychedelic realm.
“It was an experimental time for a lot of things," said the bassist. "We were a part of that late 60s, early 70s culture, and that sort of began to define what our music was and how we improvised and moved from one song to another.”
Max Creek began to embrace the kind of exploratory, free flowing performances they’re known for today – including some marathon sets that have seen the band play for eight hours at a time, which Rider says are his favorite.
“Every show is different from the next one," said Rider. "We have no idea when we step on stage what song we’re going into after the first song. It’s like, we sort of decide just before we step on stage ‘let’s do this song,’ and the rest of the show develops from there – what it feels like for the night.”
This year, Max Creek is celebrating its longevity with a run of concerts around New England and its first new record in 19 years – a double album called 45 & Live.
“If you look at a lot of what we’ve come to know as the jam band scene today, and the bands that are at its vanguard, and what they do and how they construct a show, and the bringing in of interesting interpretations of outside covers, and the mix of styles – Max Creek was doing that decades ago,” said Chad Berndtson, a senior contributing writer for JamBase.com. Berndtson says Max Creek – contemporaries of the bands that spawned the jam band scene like the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers – has carved out its place in the community.
“Max Creek is the one that kind of stretches furthest back, and is the one that at least people in the Northeast would cite as the regional jam band model, based on the amount of time they’ve spent doing this,” he told WAMC.
Over the thousands of shows the band has played – sometimes playing hundreds of shows a year for years on end – Max Creek has shared the stage with its heroes like Rick Danko of The Band, Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane, and Greg Allman – as well as some less inspiring bills.
“I remember a bill – looking at the marquee at this restaurant in Norwalk, Connecticut – and they had a meatloaf special. We were under the meatloaf special, so it’s ‘meatloaf special,’ ‘Max Creek,’" laughed Mark Mercier. "So we always, our claim to fame was we had a co-bill with Meatloaf.”
Keyboardist Mercier joined the band in 1973. He says his favorite shows are defined by a quality more elusive than tickets sold or prestigious headliners.
“We have always based our existence on stage not necessarily as performers throwing out at the audience but as kind of a back and forth energy, and when that energy happens, that’s really what keeps us interested in the whole thing,” he said.
Max Creek brings its 48th anniversary celebration to the stage of the Colonial Theatre in downtown Pittsfield Friday night.

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The arrest and summons of at least 10 journalists in the last three days in Iran Peshgo News Agency today, Sunday, 25, 9 2022: Journalist Association of Tehran, the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, announced in a statement that at least 10 journalists were summoned and arrested by …Read More »
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An Alqaeda suicide bomber commander was killed in Daikundi!
According to the reports received from Daikundi province, last night a suicide bomber commander of the Taliban group who was affiliated with Al-Qaeda was killed along with 8 of his people in Daikundi province. Archive image of Qari Talha Zarmati Peshgo news agency, today dated 6 of september 2022, according …Read More »


The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) is preparing for rolling blackouts that could be imposed this summer by the regional power grid regulator because of energy shortages outside of BWL’s service territory.
The Mid-Continent Independent System Operator (MISO) is the regional regulator which oversees the power grid for all of a portion of 15 states, including Michigan. MISO recently warned of the possibility of energy shortages this summer during times of peak demand when the weather gets hot which could result in “load sheds,” or rolling black-outs. Load shedding is the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
“The BWL has a legacy of generating plenty of energy to supply our customers, however, if directed by MISO to load shed, we’ll be required by law to follow instruction,” said BWL General Manager Dick Peffley. “We’re just as frustrated as customers will be at the potential for these black-outs, however, there’s, unfortunately, nothing within our control to prevent these from happening. I’m frustrated that despite BWL’s successful strategic planning for our energy needs, our customers still potentially face the consequences from the lack of power resources elsewhere.”
The BWL will have 30 minutes after being notified by MISO to begin shedding load. If load shedding is required, customers can expect outages to last approximately 20 minutes. BWL will issue a general statement, however, customers would not receive advance notice of their outage for security reasons. Critical services such as hospitals and emergency responders would not likely be impacted.
“We hope to minimize the impact to our customers as best as possible, but we’ll need their support to reduce their energy impact,” said Peffley.
To reduce energy demand and help prevent blackouts, customers can conserve energy to assist in preventing black-outs by doing the following:
- Defer large uses of energy to first thing in the morning or the evening when it’s cooler out
- Turn off or limit air conditioners
- Defer laundry or cooking until later
- Don’t charge electric vehicles until after dark
- Turn off any unneeded lights and electronics
MISO suggests the leading reasons for the energy shortage include electric production facilities retiring, an increase in energy usage from the pandemic, and expected higher summer temperatures.


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Around 3,000 workers from the Ocean Garment Factory in Dangkor district went on strike Monday, calling for the reinstatement of seven union representatives suspended by the factory management. Sam Ty, a Free Trade Union representative at the factory, said he and six other unionists were suspended from work after protesting the introduction of overtime hours for the 3,000 workers, and promised protests would persist. “They will continue until the seven representatives are allowed to return back to work,” he said. But Lay Sokchea, chief of administration at Ocean Garments, said the union leaders “incited workers not to accept overtime work and even looked down on the owner of the factory”. He said that he asked the seven to come to the factory Monday to discuss their suspension, but that they did not show up.
Strike shuts down garment factory
- Ministers to tackle sea pollutants
Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities and members of local communities have collected 77 tonnes of water hyacinth at a Sihanoukville beach, Preah Sihanouk Provincial Hall spokesperson Or Saroeun said. He told The Post yesterday that the aquatic weeds had been floating along some of the province’s
- EU timber deal in firing line
A committee of more than 20 national and international organisations filed a petition to the EU on October 10 to prevent it from signing a timber trade agreement with Vietnam, noting that the deal would be disastrous to the Kingdom’s forests. The petition claims Vietnamese timber
- Kim Sok to keep up fight ‘for change’ from Finland
Kim Sok, wanted by the Kingdom’s authorities for defaming the government, reiterated on Sunday his determination to continue helping to make “a real change” to Cambodian politics after receiving asylum in Finland, even as a government spokesman mocked the political analyst over the development.
- Government urges end to wildlife trade
Interior Minister Sar Kheng said on Friday that the Kingdom had fallen victim to wildlife trafficking and called on relevant parties in Cambodia and beyond to help stop the crime. Speaking at the 4th Illegal Wildlife Trade conference attended by leaders from more than 80 countries

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DAEJEON, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team affiliated with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) announced on Thursday that it had developed a new hybrid lithium-ion battery that enables rapid charging within seconds.
Despite having a high energy density, existing lithium-ion batteries have shortcomings such as bulky size and long charging time.
Hybrid lithium-ion batteries, however, maintain the strengths of both the cathode for battery (high storage capacity) and the anode for electric condenser (quick ion charging and discharging).
Accordingly, hybrid lithium-ion batteries are grabbing attention as the next-generation energy storage device that can replace lithium-ion batteries for vehicles.
However, to ensure high energy and high output, the ion storage feature and capacity for both cathodes and anodes had to be improved.
The research team addressed this issue by developing high-capacity cathode and anode materials on the basis of conductive carbon structural material that has a porous structure.
The newly-developed hybrid lithium-ion battery has similar energy density and output as existing lithium-ion batteries, while having a wider range of driving voltage. In addition, it also enables rapid charging – within seconds for smaller versions of the battery.
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Dozens Of Japanese Coastal Species Hitched Ride On Floating Dock
Originally published on Mon December 24, 2012 4:22 pm
Marine scientists say dozens of Japanese coastal species hitched a ride across the Pacific Ocean on a floating dock. The likely piece of tsunami debris washed ashore in Olympic National Park last week.
The preliminary list of marine hitchhikers includes 29 species "of Japanese coastal origin." Several are potentially invasive. National Park Service ecologist Scott Fradkin says he's concerned about the wilderness environment where the dock landed.
"The Olympic coastline is a biodiversity hotspot," he explains. "You have more species of marine invertebrates and seaweeds than any other place on the west coast of North America. So it really is a special place. This type of threat, we take very seriously."
The tsunami debris team collected seaweeds, mollusks, barnacles, worms, and sea anemones from the beached dock. Researchers estimate the list will expand to around 50 different species by the time their examination is completed.
Last summer, another tsunami debris dock washed ashore under much calmer conditions near Newport, Oregon. By comparison, that hulk carried about twice as many different kinds of Japanese plants and critters.
On the Web:
The Tsunami-Generated Floating Dock blog (Oregon State University)

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