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Friday, August 24, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Ebo Whyte At It Again With ?Don't Mess With a Woman?
There are several reasons why people would enter into a relationship, but for most people, it is because they hope it will end in marriage.
So what do you do when after years of courtship, your relationship rather leads another person to the altar?
It might seem weird but that was the experience of Naa. She has been in a relationship with her boyfriend Tony for 5 years but throughout
their courtship, her man never registered his readiness to settle down.
Thus, it was a big shock for Naa when her friend Yaa informed her that Tony was getting married to none other than her best friend, Cynthia. This opens a new chapter in the lives of these four persons in the latest play from the stables of Roverman Productions titled ?DON?T MESS WITH A WOMAN?.
The play, written and directed by renowned playwright Uncle Ebo Whyte takes a closer look at the intricacies of relationships like that of Naa and Tony which ended without one party in the know.
Whiles for Tony, the relationship was over, Naa was sure the relationship was just going through a crisis which would be resolved with time.
If the saying ?hell hath no fury than a woman scorned? is anything to go by, then Naa?s reaction to her boyfriend?s marriage to her best friend will either prove or dispel this assertion.
?Don?t mess with a woman? opens to the public from Saturday September 1 2012 to Sunday September 2, 2012 at the National Theatre in Accra. There will be two shows each day at 4pm and then at 8pm.
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Source: http://highlifetoday.com/news/?p=10145
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Friends tweet before dying in Md. train derailment
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) ? They were seemingly ordinary tweets from two friends hanging out on a railroad bridge in their hometown, enjoying one last summer night together before heading back to college.
"Drinking on top of the Ellicott City sign," read one. "Looking down on old ec," read another. Accompanying photos showed their view from the bridge and their bare feet, one with painted blue toenails, dangling over the edge.
Minutes after those messages were sent, a CSX freight train loaded with coal barreled down the tracks and derailed, killing the 19-year-old women and toppling railcars and coal on the streets below.
Investigators were still trying to figure out what caused the derailment. It appeared the women were sitting on the edge of the bridge as the train passed a few feet behind them, Howard County police said. At some point, the train derailed and the women's bodies were found buried under coal.
It wasn't clear whether the woman's presence on the tracks had anything to do with the derailment.
Killed were Elizabeth Conway Nass, a student at James Madison University in Virginia and Rose Louese Mayr, a nursing student at the University of Delaware.
The railroad is easily accessible from picturesque downtown Ellicott City and generations of young people have played and partied along the tracks. The railroad was completed in 1830 and crosses over Main Street in the city's historic district, following the route of the nation's first commercial railroad, according to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum.
"We grew up running on those tracks," said Ellicott City native Bridgette Hammond, 25. "It's actually really beautiful up there."
Nass and Mayr graduated from Mt. Hebron High School in Ellicott City and planned to finish college in 2014, according to their Facebook pages.
One of Nass' sorority sisters, Donya Mossadeghi, called her "a joy to talk to" and someone who "would never say a bad thing about anybody." Nass made the dean's list in the fall in the fall of 2010 and 2011, according to a university spokesman.
Tori Mace, of Ellicott City, knew Mayr through mutual friends. "She was really fun, really friendly," Mace said. Another college friend said Mayr loved to dance and joined a dance group at the school.
A person who answered the telephone at Nass' home declined to comment, as did a family member who answered the phone at a number listed for the Mayr family.
The pictures and the tweets from Mayr were no longer publicly available Tuesday afternoon, but friends confirmed they were hers and police said they were aware of the posts and looking into them.
Residents described hearing the derailment. Jill Farrell, who lives across the street from the tracks, said she heard what sounded liked squealing brakes and then a crash, followed by silence.
Benjamin Noppenberger was getting ready for bed when he and his wife heard what sounded like gunshots. They waited about 10 minutes before going outside.
"We could see all the cars that fell over. I just saw catastrophe," he said.
CSX spokesman Bob Sullivan said that the train was traveling from Grafton, W.Va., to Baltimore. It had two train operators, who were not harmed.
Jim Southworth, investigator in charge for the NTSB, declined to speculate on a possible cause. He said the train was equipped with video recording devices that investigators will review to help them determine what happened. He said the train was going about 25 miles per hour but would not say whether that was an appropriate speed limit for the area.
The train had two locomotives, was 3,000 feet long and weighed 9,000 tons, he said.
Environmental officials also responded. About 100 pounds of coal the train was carrying spilled into a tributary of the Patapsco River, a major Maryland waterway that parallels the tracks. Maryland Department of the Environment spokesman Jay Apperson said much more coal lay along the edge of the tributary, raising concerns it could boost the acidity of the water or otherwise threaten aquatic life. The agency will direct CSX's environmental consultant to test the tributary for pollutants, Apperson said.
Eric Weiss, an NTSB spokesman, said investigators will be on the scene for several days, possibly a week. Weiss says he does not know how long it will take to clear the tracks.
The derailment damaged some of Verizon's equipment, disrupting land-line telecommunications services to clients, including some government customers.
The problems reached all the way to the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where pretrial hearings were delayed for a day for five men charged with orchestrating and aiding the Sept. 11 attacks because files on government servers were temporarily unavailable.
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Gresko reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Matthew Barakat in Ellicott City, David Dishneau in Hagerstown, Md., and Karen Mahabir in Washington contributed to this report.
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Online:
Mayr's Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/r0se_petals
Nass' Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/LizNassty
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/friends-tweet-dying-md-train-derailment-201914665.html
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Mars rover Curiosity zaps ?Coronation? rock with rapid-fire laser (+video)
Using a rapid-fire laser and telescope instrument called ChemCam, Mars rover Curiosity zaps its 'Coronation' rock, creating sparks of ionized gas that will be used to measure the rock's chemical contents.
This image, taken prior to the test on Sunday, shows the 'Coronation' rock (previously 'N165') chosen as the first target for the Mars rover Curiosity to zap with its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument.
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EnlargeNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has zapped its first rock in what scientists elatedly declare a successful test of ChemCam, a laser-and-telescope combo designed to uncover the chemical composition of rocks on the Red Planet.
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Built by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the ChemCam is designed to use imaging and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy to determine rock and soil compositions on Mars, up to 9 meters from the rover.The instrument is set to play a key role in helping scientists fill in Curiosity's rock-hunting agenda over the next two years.
"After eight years building the instrument, it's payoff time!" said Roger Wiens, a physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., and the instrument's lead scientist, in a statement.
The rover's broad mission is to search for clues that might show whether Gale Crater and its three-mile-high summit, Mt. Sharp, hosted an environment hospitable for life some 3 billion to 4 billion years ago. Those clues, if they exist, hide in the chemical make-up of the rocks and soils at Curiosity's new home ? especially rocks in the layered foothills of Mt. Sharp, the rover's ultimate destination.
ChemCam's ability to sample rocks from a distance of up to 23 feet will help researchers decide which rocks they want Curiosity to drive up to and analyze in more detail.
For Sunday's test, researchers aimed ChemCam at a rock roughly 3 inches across and located about 9 feet from the rover. The team initially tagged the rock with the prosaic label N165. But researchers finally settled on a name for it: Coronation.
Curiosity tickled Coronation with 30 laser pulses during a 10-second test ? each pulse lasting for about 5 billionths of a second and depositing more than a megawatt of power on a spot the size of a pinhead.
From ChemCam's vantage point some 7 feet above the surface atop Curiosity's mast, the rapid-fire pulses generated what looked like a series of sparks at the rock. Each spark, in fact, was a tiny burst of hot, ionized gas known as a plasma. The telescope associated with the laser captured that light, sending it through fiber-optic lines to spectrometers inside Curiosity's body. The spectrometers hunted for the fingerprints of chemical elements encoded in the plasma's light.
The science team is still analyzing the results. But "we got a great spectrum of Coronation ? lots of signal," Dr. Wiens said. "Our team is both thrilled and working hard, looking at the results."
Indeed, in some important respects, ChemCam is performing better on Mars than it did in tests on Earth, added Sylvestre Maurice, with the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie in Toulouse, France, and the instrument's deputy lead scientist.
It's delivering more usable data, compared with potentially confounding background "noise," on Mars that it did on Earth.
The results are "so rich, we can expect great science from investigating what might be thousands of targets" over the next two years, Dr. Maurice said in a statement.
Indeed, researchers have noted that the instrument is primed for taking as many as 14,000 samples over the course of Curiosity's initial two years on Mars. ChemCam is designed to analyze spectra at 6,144 individual wavelengths that range from infrared light through ultraviolet light.
In addition to teasing the rock's chemical composition from the Coronation's spectra, scientists will be looking for changes in composition with each pulse. They already had thought of using the laser as a high-tech whisk boom, clearing away loose material on a rock's surface to get at the rock itself. But the team also is interested in analyzing the loose surface material itself.
During a briefing on Aug. 17, Dr. Wiens noted that by analyzing such material, researchers can build a picture of the weathering processes affecting a rock over the long period of time it has been exposed on the surface.
More details from the test are likely to emerge Tuesday afternoon during the mission's next scheduled briefing.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Darla Moore known for breaking gender barriers
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ? Busting into an all-boys club has never been a problem for Darla Moore.
The Wall Street wizard with rich Southern roots made a name for herself in the male-dominated world of finance as executive vice president of one of the largest private investment firms in the United States. She was the first woman featured for a cover story by Fortune magazine in 1997, and at one point, she was the only woman on the board of trustees at her alma mater, the University of South Carolina.
Moore broke another gender barrier Monday when the exclusive Augusta National Golf Club, which hosts the Masters tournament each year, asked her and former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to become its first women members.
"Augusta National has always captured my imagination, and is one of the most magically beautiful places anywhere in the world, as everyone gets to see during the Masters each April," Moore said in a statement.
Moore, 58, rose to prominence in the 1980s with Chemical Bank, where she became the highest-paid woman in the banking industry. She is vice president of Rainwater Inc., a private investment company founded by her husband, Richard Rainwater, whose net worth was $2.3 billion as of March, according to Forbes magazine.
She has served on a number of corporate, medical and university boards, but she is perhaps best known in South Carolina as a philanthropist. Moore is the top donor to the University of South Carolina, pledging $75 million since 1998, when the business school was named after her. She also donated $10 million to her late father's alma mater, Clemson University.
Much of her philanthropy is done behind the scenes, as she eschews the spotlight. She declined an interview request for this article, instead choosing to release a short statement.
"She loves to do her work under the radar. It's the people around her she wants to highlight and put out there. She doesn't want it to be about her," said Jim Fields, the executive director of the Palmetto Institute, a nonprofit research group Moore founded in 2002 that is committed to improving South Carolinians' economic well-being.
Moore is known for her ability to get things done, whether it's raising money or making decisions in the board room. Fortune called her the "the toughest babe in business" in 1997.
"She's very direct in her thoughts and opinions and doesn't mind telling you, and she's extraordinarily proud of her roots in South Carolina and Lake City," Fields said.
The institute is using her native Lake City, a rural town in the northeast part of the state, as a petri dish for how to improve a distressed economy.
That includes turning the former bean market, once one of the world's largest for string beans, into a community center, complete with geothermal heating and cooling.
Moore worked quietly through her foundations to renovate the 35,000-square-foot building after former Gov. Mark Sanford called the project pork in a proposed state budget.
Restoring the 1930s-era building was a passion of her father's, Gene Moore, that she wanted to complete, said Joe Rogers, chief operating officer of the Lake City Partnership Council, co-founded by Darla Moore.
"She's a very loyal friend, just an incredible person," Rogers said. "She's smart, funny, intense, incredibly high energy; she's unconventional in a very good way."
Moore was the governor's appointee to the University of South Carolina board between 1999 and 2011, and for at least several years, was the only woman on the board.
Gov. Nikki Haley summarily ousted Moore last year and replaced her with a campaign donor, saying it was time for a change and no one was entitled to public office. Moore's removal prompted a protest from students and alumni.
In her only response to the flap, Moore held a news conference to announce a $5 million pledge for a new aerospace research center at the university. The Republican governor had convinced legislators to remove funding for the center.
It wasn't clear whether the dust ever settled between the two, but the governor did congratulate Moore and Rice on their memberships.
"Today is a great day for Augusta and for America, as another gender barrier falls. I commend the leadership of Augusta National on their decision," Haley said.
One of Moore's passions is gardening, and she's even turning the acreage around her Lake City home ? the one her father was born in ? into a botanical garden, with 5,000 species of plants and trees, in hopes it could be a tourist attraction for Lake City.
Her other nonprofits include the Charleston Parks Conservancy, which she endowed with a $10 million donation five years ago. The conservancy's 600 volunteers, called park angels, have so far improved 26 parks in downtown Charleston, where she has a home.
"She's an implementer. She knows what needs to be done. When she makes up her mind, it happens," said Scott Parker, a conservancy board member.
Moore was mentioned as a possible Augusta National member during the height of the all-male membership debate in 2002. She and former club chairman Hootie Johnson worked on the university's $300 million capital campaign in the late 1990s.
"I am fortunate to have many friends who are members at Augusta National, so to be asked to join them as a member represents a very happy and important occasion in my life," she said in her statement.
The true extent of her philanthropy is unknown, and she likes it that way.
"I have never heard Darla use the words never or can't or won't. She's pretty amazing to watch work," said Karen Fowler of the Lake City Partnership Council and director of Lake City Art Fields.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/darla-moore-known-breaking-gender-barriers-211722128.html
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