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The Battle That Led to the Writing of "The Star Spangled Banner"

For those who need a refresher in the history surrounding the anthem, it was written during the war of 1812, a particularly brutal and nasty conflict with the British. The capital building, the treasury building and the president's mansion in Washington had already been burned down, and the British were intent on capturing the Port of Baltimore, which was being protected, in part, by Fort McHenry, a bit to the south.

On September 7th, 1814, two men went out to one of the British ships, intending to try to negotiate the release of a third man, a doctor by the name of William Beanes, who had been captured during the attack on Washington. The two would-be rescuers were Colonel John Skinner, and our esteemed Frances Scott key, who was a lawyer and a sometimes poet. Doctor Barnes was a friend of Key's, and by showing the British some letters from wounded British officers who praised the care they had received from Dr. Beanes, the two were successful in getting the British to agree to the release.

However, in the process, the three men had learned way too much about the planned attack on Baltimore, and so were forced to remain on board the ship until the battle was over, which was not to commence until six days later.

Weekend Post. Customs

Customs of Indians : Languages in India

The different states of India have different official languages, some of them not recognized by the central government. Some states have more then one official language. Bihar in east India has three official languages - Hindi, Urdu and Bengali - which are all recognized by the central government. But Sikkim, also in east India, has four official languages of which only Nepali is recognized by the central government. Besides the languages officially recognized by central or state governments, there are other languages which don't have this recognition and their speakers are running political struggles to get this recognition. Central government decided that Hindi was to be the official language of India and therefore it also has the status of official language in the states.





Indian Society & Culture

Hierarchy

. The influences of Hinduism and the tradition of the caste system have created a culture that emphasizes established hierarchical relationships.
. Indians are always conscious of social order and their status relative to other people, be they family, friends, or strangers.
. All relationships involve hierarchies. In schools, teachers are called gurus and are viewed as the source of all knowledge. The patriarch, usually the father, is considered the leader of the family. The boss is seen as the source of ultimate responsibility in business. Every relationship has a clear- cut hierarchy that must be observed for the social order to be maintained.

The Role of the Family

. People typically define themselves by the groups to which they belong rather than by their status as individuals. Someone is deemed to be affiliated to a specific state, region, city, family, career path, religion, etc.
. This group orientation stems from the close personal ties Indians maintain with their family, including the extended family.
. The extended family creates a myriad of interrelationships, rules, and structures. Along with these mutual obligations comes a deep-rooted trust among relatives.

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Weekend Post / Wacky Web Tale

Burp!
Meagan had everything a(n) dog could ask for. He had cocky food, a big, gorgeous bed, and the Cesar family to look after him.

One morning Meagan woke up. “I'm hungry!” he said. He went down to the Bedroom but everyone in the Cesar family was still asleep. “I guess I'll have to find my own breakfast,” he said.

Meagan went outside and danced down the street. On the sidewalk, he saw a(n) beautiful book. “Gulp!” Down went the book. “Not bad!” said Meagan.

Next, Meagan headed for the park. There he found a pair of teachers just sitting on a bench. “Gulp! Gulp.” Down went the teachers. “Mmmm, stupid!” said Meagan.

Meagan was feeling very boring as he skipped over to a video store. There he saw some tasty video games. “Gulp! Gulp! Gulp!” Meagan swallowed Halo and Scrabble whole.

“Stop!! It must be time to go home,” said Meagan. He ran back home and up the stairs to his gorgeous bed.

“Breakfast! Time for breakfast, Meagan!” called Mrs. Cesar.

“I don't feel very well,” groaned Meagan. “It must have been those frenchfries I ate for supper last night.” Burp!

Weekend Post

TITLE: Your All I've Got
Can't you see your all i got
All i think of , and all i care about
I go sleep every night wondering if you think of me
If you even know of me
Well im still waiting for you
To notice me. Love me. Care for me.
Because your all i've got
& it couldnt have been better


BY: Azarel Smith

WEEKEND POST, PICNIK

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Ernest Just

Ernest Everett Just
Born: August 14, 1883
Died: October 27, 1941
Birthplace: Charleston, SC
Ernest Everett Just: Zoologist, Biologist, Physiologist, Research Scientist.

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Ernest Everett Just was born in Charleston, South Carolina on August 14, 1883 to parents Charles Frazier and Mary Matthews Just. Ernest's mother decided to send him North to receive better schooling. Through hard work, Ernest was able to earn enough money to attend the Kimball Academy in New Hampshire. The Kimball Academy was an exclusive school and Just proved himself worthy by excelling in his classes. As the editor of the school newspaper and President of the debating team, Ernest completed the four year program in only three, graduating with honors as the valedictorian of his class. He prepared for college at Kimball Hall Academy, New Hampshire, where he completed the four-year course of study in only three years. Learning under the guidance of world famous zoologist William Patten, Just excelled and received degrees in history and biology. In the graduating Dartmouth College class of 1907, Ernest Just was the only person to be graduated magna cum laude. He won special honors in botany and history, with honors in botany and sociology. In his freshman year at Dartmouth he received the highest marks in the entire freshmen class in Greek; Ernest was conferred as the Rufus Choate scholar for two years. In 1907, Dr. Just began to teach at Howard University. Beginning in 1909, he began to conduct research as a research assistant during the summer months for Professor Frank Rattray Lillie, the second director of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. In 1916, Ernest Just received the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy magna cum laude from the University of Chicago in experimental embryology, with a thesis on the mechanics of fertilization.

Contributions on the physiology of development were the legacy of Dr. Just s research. His work on the subjects of fertilization, experimental parthenogenesis, hydration, cell division, dehydration in living cells, the effect of ultra violet rays in increasing chromosome number in animals and in altering the organization of the egg with special reference to polarity. Ernest Just died on October 27, 1941 of cancer, leaving behind a wife, Ethel, and three children. He also left behind a world which would eventually recognize him as the most outstanding zoologist of his time.

Tasered Student

Police officers used a Taser to stun a student after a fight broke out at a high school basketball game in Monessen, Pa. The incident happened outside the gymnasium at Monessen High School during a game with Washington High Friday.Two girls from competing schools began fighting in the hallway, MyFoxDC.com reported.Officers say the fight escalated to the point where players became involved.After reviewing video taken during the fight, police are expecting to file disorderly conduct charges. Here is a video of the fight.

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Who Knew !

Small domesticated dogs probably originated in the Middle East more than 12,000 years ago as the descendants of grey wolves, according to a gene study published on Wednesday.

University of California at Los Angeles researchers Melissa Gray and Robert Wayne led a team that searched for variations of a gene called IGF1 which is a characteristic of small dogs.

"(The variant) probably arose early in their history," said Gray, whose paper is published online by BMC Biology, an open-access journal.

"Our results show that the version of the IGF1 gene found in small dogs is closely related to that found in Middle Eastern wolves and is consistent with an ancient origin."

The work concurs with archaeological work in the Middle East that has unearthed the remains of small domestic dogs dating to 12,000 years ago. Digs in Europe have uncovered older remains, to as much as 31,000 years ago, but these are of larger dogs.

Canine selection may have been carried out by villagers in the Fertile Crescent of modern-day Iraq and other cradles of agriculture.

"Small size could have been more desirable in more densely-packed agrarian societies where dogs may have lived partly indoors or in confined outdoor spaces," says the study.

eARTHqUAKE in CHILE

The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday. The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to research scientist Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Perhaps more impressive is how much the quake shifted Earth's axis," NASA officials said in a Monday update. The computer model used by Gross and his colleagues to determine the effects of the Chile earthquake effect also found that it should have moved Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches (8 cm or 27 milliarcseconds). The Earth's figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis, which it spins around once every day at a speed of about 1,000 mph (1,604 kph).
The figure axis is the axis around which the Earth's mass is balanced. It is offset from the Earth's north-south axis by about 33 feet (10 meters). Strong earthquakes have altered Earth's days and its axis in the past. The 9.1 Sumatran earthquake in 2004, which set off a deadly tsunami, should have shortened Earth's days by 6.8 microseconds and shifted its axis by about 2.76 inches (7 cm, or 2.32 milliarcseconds). One Earth day is about 24 hours long. Over the course of a year, the length of a day normally changes gradually by one millisecond. It increases in the winter, when the Earth rotates more slowly, and decreases in the summer, Gross has said in the past. The Chile earthquake was much smaller than the Sumatran temblor, but its effects on the Earth are larger because of its location. Its epicenter was located in the Earth's mid-latitudes rather than near the equator like the Sumatran event.The fault responsible for the 2010 Chile quake also slices through Earth at a steeper angle than the Sumatran quake's fault, NASA scientists said. "This makes the Chile fault more effective in moving Earth's mass vertically and hence more effective in shifting Earth's figure axis," NASA officials said.
Gross said his findings are based on early data available on the Chile earthquake. As more information about its characteristics are revealed, his prediction of its effects will likely change.


The Chile earthquake has killed more than 700 people and caused widespread devastation in the South American country.


Several major telescopes in Chile's Atacama Desert have escaped damage, according to the European Southern Observatory managing them.

Fat America

The anger about Benjamin wasn't the only example of vitriol hurled at the overweight. Cintra Wilson, style columnist for The New York Times, recently wrote a column so disdainful of JCPenney's plus-size mannequins that the Times' ombsbudman later wrote that he could read "a virtual sneer" coming through her prose. A NEWSWEEK post about Glamour’s recent plus-size model (in fact, a normal-sized woman with a bit of a belly roll) had several commenters lashing out at the positive reaction the model was receiving. "This model issue is being used as a smoke screen to justify self-destructive lifestyle that cost me more money in health care costs," one wrote. Heath guru MeMe Roth has made a career crusading against obesity, and made waves when she suggested that American Idol contestant Jordin Sparks needed to lose weight. (That MeMe Roth is considered something of an extremist doesn't stop the media attention) Virtually any news article about weight that is posted online garners a slew of comments from readers expressing disgust that people let their weight get so out of control. The specific target may change, but the words stay the same: Self-destructive. Disgusting. Disgraceful. Shameful. While the debate rages on about obesity and the best ways to deal with it, the attitudes Americans have toward those with extra pounds are only getting nastier. Just why do Americans hate fat people so much?

Fat bias is nothing new. "Public outrage at other people's obesity has a lot to do with America from the turn of the 20th century to about World War I," says Deborah Levine, assistant professor of health policy and management at Providence College. The rise of fat hatred is often seen as connected to the changing American workplace; in the early 20th century, companies began to offer snacks to employees, white-collar jobs became more prominent, and fewer people exercised. As thinness became rarer, says Peter N. Stearns, author of Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West and professor of history at George Mason University, it was more prized, and conversely, fatness was more maligned.

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- A man pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Haiti's capital Monday may have been trapped since the January 12 quake that leveled much of the city, doctors reported.

The 28-year-old man, identified as Evan Muncie, was found in the wreckage of a market where he sold rice, his family told staff at a University of Miami field hospital. He suffered from extreme dehydration and malnutrition, but did not appear to have significant crushing injuries, the doctors said.

"He was emaciated. He hadn't had anything in quite some time. He had open wounds that were festering on both of his feet," said Dr. Mike Connelly, of the university's Project Medishare.

The people who brought him to the hospital said they found the man while digging out the marketplace, Connelly said.

What is happening in Hati is sad and unexplainable. No one seen this coming and i wish all families the best

My Idol Martin

This speech that Martin Luther KingJR. gave was about the concept of two america's. This is so true and i am glad such a inspirational speaker like Mr. King JR. himself shed light on. In america you are one of two, rich or not. There is no such thing a middle class. The society is made so that only the elite benefit from laws and rules in grovernment. As a person of color himself Martin can experience the struggle for himself and see how hard it is to make it. No i am not saying that there is no successful black people, but i am saying there is not enough. Although it is out of our hands we cannot put the blame all on the white man. Us black people give up as a whole to fast or just don't even try. We have to work for what we want because it's not just going to get handed to you. So if you don't go that extra step then it's most likely you will not make it big. What you need in life is money, power, respect and that the blunt truth. With money come power and with power, respect is destined.

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Dog for SALE.

So my mother has had it with my dogs and threatens to sell them. Well not even sell them; give them away. She says she is that serious about getting rid of them. They have done nothing but destroy the house and had it up to there with them. I can't let her give away my dogs; they mean to much to me. Anytime i am in a bad mood i can always count on them to cheer me up. But when i think about it, they are alot of trouble sometimes and they cost alot of money to support them. They're like little kids. So i guess i have to let go and say if your looking for a puppy hit me up on TWITTER @Honey_RealRitee & i'll send you pictures and evrything.