Storm Spotter Survives Direct Hit from EF4 Tornado

HARRISBURG -- A storm spotter who was caught in the tornado feels blessed to be alive.

Harrisburg volunteer firefighter Brandon Culkins had been looking for a funnel cloud that morning, when he pulled over at a gas station.

His jeep was soon hit by the tornado and blown over.

"I had my seatbelt on," said Culkins. "The seatbelt saved my life, as well as the Good Lord. If I didn't have my seatbelt on or Him with me, no telling where I'd be right now."

Culkins walked away with bruises and cuts, but his gear, including his helmet, gloves and a boot, were missing.

Earlier this week, students found Brandon's helmet while clearing debris.

"I know it's sturdy if it can go through a tornado," said Culkins.

Yesterday, the fire department gave him a new helmet and let him keep the old one as a souvenir.

Culkins had been a certified storm spotter for five years, but after his close call he plans to take a short break from watching the skies.

Source: http://www.wsiltv.com/news/local/Storm-Spotter-Survives-Direct-Hit-from-EF4-Tornado-142129103.html

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Gaza violence spikes, Netanyahu warns militants

Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed three Palestinians on Sunday, raising the toll to 18, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed no let-up against rocket-firing militants.

Hamas said it was talking with Egyptian officials in a bid to reach a truce with Israel, but warned that it expected the Jewish state to hold fire first and that talks had so far been unproductive.

And Islamic Jihad, which claimed responsibility for most of the rockets fired from Gaza in recent days, warned its operation would continue "whatever the price."

Violence has spiked since Friday when Israeli jets raided the Gaza Strip, killing the head of a militant group and prompting barrages of rocket fire into the Jewish state.

Palestinian medics said 18 people had been killed in Israeli air strikes since Friday, and Israel said more than 120 rockets had landed in its territory, wounding four.

Both sides issued tough statements, with Netanyahu saying operations "will continue as long as necessary."

"I have given orders to strike all those who plan on attacking us," he said during a tour of southern Israel, public radio reported.

"The Israeli army has already dealt heavy blows to the terrorist organisations," he added.

Islamic Jihad quickly issued a statement in response, vowing that "operations will continue whatever the price."

"Escalation will be met with escalation, and what is coming is even greater," the group said.

After more than 48 hours of fighting, Israel's top military officer said there would be no end in sight while rocket fire continued.

"The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) has been responding, and will continue to do so with strength and determination against any firing of rockets at Israel," said Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Benny Gantz.

Anyone who tries to harm Israeli citizens will face "severe consequences," he warned in a statement communicated by the military.

On Sunday, Israel carried out four air strikes killing three Palestinians, including 12-year-old Ayub Asaliya, killed on his way to school in Jabaliya refugee camp.

Medics named the other fatalities as 60-year-old Adel Saleh al-Issi and Ahmed Salim. They described Issi as a civilian but Salim's status was unclear.

Israel's defence ministry said Gaza militants had fired at least 124 rockets at the Jewish state since Friday, including 68 Qassams and 44 longer-range Grads, with Israel carrying out 26 air strikes on Gaza.

Since Friday, the Iron Dome air defence system set up around the southern cities of Ashdod, Ashkelon and Beersheva had intercepted 37 rockets, the army said.

In Israel, four people were injured on Saturday, and several others were treated for shock after two Grads hit Beersheva on Sunday afternoon, medics said.

One hit a road in a residential neighbourhood, while a second landed next to a school, which was empty at the time because of a blanket closure imposed by the education ministry on schools within rocket range of Gaza, police said.

The rockets caused shrapnel damage to cars and buildings.

The violence erupted on Friday afternoon when an Israeli strike killed Zuhair al-Qaisi, the head of the militant Popular Resistance Committees group.

Additional strikes brought the death toll in Gaza to 15, including five PRC militants and 10 from Islamic Jihad, in the deadliest 24-hour period in and around Gaza in more than three years.

In response, armed groups lobbed a barrage of rockets into Israel, most of them claimed by Islamic Jihad's armed wing.

The Israeli army said Qaisi was involved in planning a deadly August 2011 deadly attack in which militants sneaked across the border from Egypt's Sinai and killed eight in Israel's southern Negev desert.

And it said he was planning a similar attack "in the coming days."

The violence prompted concern from the United States and the European Union but there was no sign that a truce was on the horizon.

Hamas officials said on Sunday that intensive efforts were under way with Egypt to reach a mediated truce, but that they expected Israel to hold fire first.

"The Israeli aggression started this three days ago and before any talk about a truce, the Israeli side should stop," spokesman Taher al-Nunu told AFP.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-air-strikes-kill-17-gaza-071001454.html

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Raquel Welch rips today's sex-crazed culture

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Actress Raquel Welch in 2010.

By Us Weekly

She's widely regarded as one of the most beautiful women of all time, but Raquel Welch was never as overtly sexual as today's starlets.

"I think we've gotten to the point in our culture where we're all sex addicts, literally," Welch, 71, tells Men's Health. "We have equated happiness in life with as many orgasms as you can possibly pack in."

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"I think this era of porn is at least partially responsible for it. Where is the anticipation and the personalization? It's an exploitation of the poor male?s libidos. Poor babies -- they can't control themselves!"

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The "One Million Years B.C." actress, who has been married four times, knows her views may seem outdated.

"I don't care if I'm becoming one of those old fogies who says, 'Back in my day we didn?t have to hear about sex all the time.' They're ruining us with all the explanations and the graphicness," she tells Men's Health.

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Says Welch: "Nobody remembers what it's like to be left to form your own ideas about what's erotic and sexual."

Welch guest stars on CBS' "CSI Miami" Sunday at 10 p.m. EST.

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Meteorites reveal another way to make life's components

ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2012) ? Creating some of life's building blocks in space may be a bit like making a sandwich -- you can make them cold or hot, according to new NASA research. This evidence that there is more than one way to make crucial components of life increases the likelihood that life emerged elsewhere in the Universe, according to the research team, and gives support to the theory that a "kit" of ready-made parts created in space and delivered to Earth by impacts from meteorites and comets assisted the origin of life.

In the study, scientists with the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., analyzed samples from fourteen carbon-rich meteorites with minerals that indicated they had experienced high temperatures -- in some cases, over 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. They found amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins, used by life to speed up chemical reactions and build structures like hair, skin, and nails.

Previously, the Goddard team and other researchers have found amino acids in carbon-rich meteorites with mineralogy that revealed the amino acids were created by a relatively low-temperature process involving water, aldehyde and ketone compounds, ammonia, and cyanide called "Strecker-cyanohydrin synthesis."

"Although we've found amino acids in carbon-rich meteorites before, we weren't expecting to find them in these specific groups, since the high temperatures they experienced tend to destroy amino acids," said Dr. Aaron Burton, a researcher in NASA's Postdoctoral Program stationed at NASA Goddard. "However, the kind of amino acids we discovered in these meteorites indicates that they were produced by a different, high-temperature process as their parent asteroids gradually cooled down." Burton is lead author of a paper on this discovery appearing March 9 in Meteoritics and Planetary Science.

In the new research, the team hypothesizes the amino acids were made by a high-temperature process involving gas containing hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen called "Fischer-Tropsch" -type reactions. They occur at temperatures ranging from about 200 to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit with minerals that facilitate the reaction. These reactions are used to make synthetic lubricating oil and other hydrocarbons; and during World War II, they were used to make gasoline from coal in an attempt to overcome a severe fuel shortage.

Researchers believe the parent asteroids of these meteorites were heated to high temperatures by collisions or the decay of radioactive elements. As the asteroid cooled, Fischer-Tropsch-type (FTT) reactions could have happened on mineral surfaces utilizing gas trapped inside small pores in the asteroid.

FTT reactions may even have created amino acids on dust grains in the solar nebula, the cloud of gas and dust that collapsed under its gravity to form the solar system. "Water, which is two hydrogen atoms bound to an oxygen atom, in liquid form is considered a critical ingredient for life. However, with FTT reactions, all that's needed is hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen as gases, which are all very common in space. With FTT reactions, you can begin making some prebiotic components of life very early, before you have asteroids or planets with liquid water," said Burton.

In the laboratory, FTT reactions produce amino acids, and can show a preference for making straight-chain molecules. "In almost all of the 14 meteorites we analyzed, we found that most of the amino acids had these straight chains, suggesting FTT reactions could have made them," said Burton.

It's possible that both Strecker and FTT processes could have contributed to the supply of amino acids in other meteorites. However, evidence for the FTT reaction would tend to get lost because FTT reactions create them in much lower abundances than Strecker synthesis. If an asteroid with an initial amino acid supply from FTT reactions was later altered by water and Strecker synthesis, it would overwrite the small contribution from the FTT reactions, according to the team.

The team believes the majority of the amino acids they found in the 14 meteorites were truly created in space, and not the result of contamination from terrestrial life, for a few reasons. First, the amino acids in life (and in contamination from industrial products) are frequently linked together in long chains, either as proteins in biology or polymers in industrial products. Most of the amino the amino acids discovered in the new research were not bound up in proteins or polymers. In addition, the most abundant amino acids found in biology are those that are found in proteins, but such "proteinogenic" amino acids represent only a small percentage of the amino acids found in the meteorites. Finally, the team analyzed a sample of ice taken from underneath one of the meteorites. This ice had only trace levels of amino acids suggesting the meteorites are relatively pristine.

The experiments showing FTT reactions produce amino acids were performed over 40 years ago. The products have not been analyzed with modern techniques, so the exact distributions of amino acid products have not been determined. The team wants to test FTT reactions in the laboratory using a variety of ingredients and conditions to see if any produce the types of amino acids with the abundances they found in the 14 meteorites.

The team also wants to expand their search for amino acids to all known groups of carbon-rich meteorites. There are eight different groups of carbon-rich meteorites, called "carbonaceous chondrites." The new work adds two additional groups to the three previously known to have produced amino acids, leaving three groups to be tested. These three remaining groups have a high metal content as well as evidence for high temperatures. "We'll see if they have amino acids also, and hopefully gain some insight into how they were made," says Burton. When the team began looking for amino acids in carbon-rich meteorites, it was considered somewhat of a long shot, but now: "We would be surprised if we didn't discover amino acids in a carbon-rich meteorite," says Burton.

The research was funded by the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI), the Goddard Center for Astrobiology, and the NASA Cosmochemistry Program. NAI is managed by NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. Dr. Burton was supported by the NASA Postdoctoral Program, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities through a contract with NASA. Meteorite samples were provided by Dr. Kevin Righter of NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.

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  1. Aaron S. Burton, Jamie E. Elsila, Michael P. Callahan, Mildred G. Martin, Daniel P. Glavin, Natasha M. Johnson, Jason P. Dworkin. A propensity for n-?-amino acids in thermally altered Antarctic meteorites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 2012; DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2012.01341.x

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Tips for home improvement ? Design Like A King

Everyone has experienced at time when one has wanted to change the look of his/her home but is too clueless to find a starting point because of the enormity of the project. You might have been bored with the house looking the same but do not know how to go about altering it in a cost effective manner. When thinking about home improvements, many are apprehensive about the amount it might cost them, and ultimately shrink away. However, with some planning and imagination, home improvements can be done with minimal costs, with glowing results.

If you are thinking of re-decorating rooms, then there is much that can be done with just some rearrangements. Firstly, determine the purpose of the room. What has the room been used for so far? Would you like to change the feel of the room so as to fix its function? A room that has till now only been a vague living/sitting space can be converted to a ?family? room.

Transform it according to your family. If you have young children, put a lot of huge soft cushions for them to play around. You can use brightly colored covers. If you have a television here, try mounting it on a wall so that it does get damaged when the kids are horsing around. Put a rug as well on the floor. The whole feel of the room will become warm and welcoming for children and their friends. If your budget allows you, you can try painting the walls in warm colors like pale orange or brown too.

Kitchens are one place that we think of altering very frequently. This is probably because we spend a lot of time there, especially if the dining area is connected to it. One of the major changes that can be done here is changing the cabinets. Cabinets have the capacity to start looking stolid too soon. If the entire cabinet area cannot be changed, you can try just painting its doors, and you will see an immediate transformation. Adding extra drawers or shelves will also increase your space, giving you room on the counter for more working area.

Lighting also creates dramatic effects. Consider adding or changing the placement of lights at your home. If you have any pictures or paintings, put a soft focus light above them to emphasize them. You can soften a room by adding a lamp or two with a low intensity bulb. Get lighting that can be twisted around to focus on the area where you are working.

One instant and inexpensive way of perking up the look of an area is putting plants. You can pick from a variety of indoor plants. For a functional area that has much furniture or where you need a moving space, pick plants that do not have many leaves or branches. It should be straight growing. If you want to fill in a space, pick leafy plants. Either way, a warm feeling will enter your home.

Instead of changing windows entirely, replace your plain glass with tinted or stained glass. The colors that filter in along with sunlight will drastically brighten up any room. Team this up with striking curtains to complete the look.

In these ways, big changes can be made with little investment to your home d?cor resulting in stylish and beautiful living spaces.

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Could the Gender Gap Save Affirmative Action? | brazenandtenured ...

Abigail Fisher sued the University of Texas, Austin, arguing that UT?s admissions policies violate the Equal Protection Clause of the XIVth Amendment. Abigail Fisher is white. UT automatically accepts Texas residents who graduate in the top 10% of their high school class, irrespective of race or ethnicity. After that, UT admits students relying on multiple factors, including race and ethnicity, to fill out the class. Fisher was not in the top 10%, so had to compete with everyone else (athletes, alumni kids, African Americans, Latinos, disabled students, etc.) to get a spot. She did not succeed, and matriculated at an institution in another state, from which she is about to graduate. ? Fisher lost her case in the lower courts, and the Supreme Court has decided to review it next fall.

Fisher is arguing that UT?s policies exceed the narrow use of race and ethnicity to achieve a diverse educational environment that the Supreme Court approved in?Grutter v. Bollinger. Fisher is also arguing that?Grutter should be overturned. ?Justice O?Connor, now retired, authored the 5-4 decision in Grutter. ?She has been replaced by Justice Alito. ? ?Three of the four dissenters (Kennedy, Scalia and Thomas) remain on the Court. One, Justice Rehnquist, has been replaced by Chief Justice Roberts. It is not hard to imagine five Justices voting to ban all use of race and ethnicity for all purposes in the admissions process.

What might persuade one or more of the five to pull up short from ending all forms affirmative action in higher education? In?Grutter, the military and several business organizations submitted influential briefs supporting the benign use of race consciousness to build more diverse, responsive, and better work forces. Maybe what worked before will work again? I am not betting on it. Another possibility is that educational administrators will paint a vivid picture of the context-based nature of the admissions process, which (1) relies on race and ethnicity only as plus factors in a holistic evaluation of the candidate, and (2) does not place any greater weight on those plus factors than it does on others (e.g, class, alumni status, athleticism, etc.), and (3) evaluates how the applicant?s race and ethnicity has shaped her experience in such a way as to augment the educational environment. If educational institutions can get these points across clearly, then they can make the subsequent one, which is that banning all reference to race and ethnicity will essentially impose a form of censorship on admissions offices that applies only with respect to this one characteristic. ?Admissions committees will be able to talk about everything except?race and ethnicity?that might have shaped an applicant?s experience, from the trivial (how the applicant was traumatized when she lost the fourth grade spelling bee) to the profound (how the applicant graduated from high-school despite taking care of her three younger siblings and working 20 hours/week.) ?Sounds convincing to me. ?But for the target audience, the odds seem even worse on this one.

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What about this? Within the last five or so years, girls have been surpassing boys in educational achievement. ?The new pro-girl gender gap?has caused some colleges to admit lower-achieving boys in the interest of ?balancing? the class. If the Court bans all forms of affirmative action in University admissions, will their sons, grandsons, and nephews face the consequences? One way to keep affirmative action for boys, while still killing it for members of racial and ethnic minorities, would be to rely on the intermediate standard of review that applies to classifications based on gender. But is it possible that at least one Justice (ok, Kennedy), might have a twinge of conscious about this? ?Can it really be alright to allow ?balancing? for boys, who have not suffered systematic forms of exclusion, discrimination, or implicit bias, but to disallow a similar flexible admissions approach for racial and ethnic minorities? For some, the answer will be ?oh, sure it is!? But maybe, just maybe, one fellow in DC will wonder? is this distinction defensible, can I stomach it?

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Awkward Photos Of Politicians Eating

When you enter into a career in politics, you should know that you will be photographed doing everything.

Since you need to eat, you will be photographed doing that too, and those photos can be unintentionally hilarious.

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