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There are multiple routes a backup quarterback can take to a starting job.

In the case of Green Bay?s Graham Harrell, he will likely have to take a road familiar to the passers who have played behind Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers in the last 20 years. In short, Harrell?s going to have to show enough in limited playing time, whether in the preseason or in a rare regular-season stint, to attract interest from another club, for the Packers have their starting quarterback in Rodgers.

Harrell is 28, and he is restricted free agent at season?s end. If he progresses in 2013, he could draw a solid tender offer next offseason from Green Bay. Perhaps even a trade market could develop for him.

First things first: Harrell needs to secure the top depth-chart spot behind Rodgers once again. In a feature published Monday, Harrell told Weston Hodkiewicz of the Green Bay Press-Gazette that he?s become more well-versed in the Packers? offense than ever this offseason.

?As a backup, you really get more reps now than you get anytime else,? Harrell told the?Press-Gazette.??I think that?s one of the biggest things and I feel more comfortable now than I?ve ever felt, knowing the protection, pretty much the O-line?and feeling good with protections, because routes when you play quarterback at some point you check defenses similar ways no matter what system you?re in.?

Per the Press-Gazette, Rodgers believes Harrell has taken a step forward like former backup Matt Flynn did in his time in Green Bay.

?I think he?s really improved,? Rodgers told the paper. ?I think you saw it last year throughout the season as he became more comfortable. I look at him as being in the same spot that Flynn was when Flynn was in his last year with us. We?re very confident in the offense and it means more to him to be successful every day in practice like you saw just a slight shift with Matt, and it was no surprise when Matt got a chance to play how well he played.?

Flynn parlayed his rare opportunities to play ? with his 2011 performance vs. Detroit his audition tape ? into a free-agent deal with Seattle. To take the next step up the ladder in his career, Harrell needs to hold off B.J. Coleman and hold his spot as the top backup to Rodgers.

And when it comes to play, Harrell needs to put something good on tape for evaluators to consider.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/01/hearing-could-send-hernandez-to-general-population/related/

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Paint Made From People: The Fascinating History Behind Extinct Colors

You?d think a paint named ?mummy brown? would be the product of good marketing. In fact, it dates back to the 16th century, when actual mummies were ground up and sold as paint. On Hyperallergic today, Allison Meier takes a look at the surprisingly riveting history of extinct pigments.

It?s common knowledge that certain pigments?including the green paint that likely killed Napoleon?were eventually discovered as toxic, and abandoned. But there are plenty of common colors that went extinct for other reasons. A few highlights from Meier's list:

• Indian Yellow, unique because it contained the urine of Bihar province cows that were fed only mango leaves and water (it was eventually outlawed).
• Lapis Lazuli, the deep ultramarine that Yves Klein must?ve admired, made from the ground-up, eponymous precious gem (today, it goes for $360 per five grams).
• Mummy Brown, the aforementioned pigment made from the ground-up remains of actual Egyptian mummies (both of the human and cat variety). ?By the 16th century, despite legal restrictions, exporting mummies from Egypt to Europe to be ground up and used as ?medicine? was big business,? explains Art in Society. It was used up until the 19th century, when the supply of mummies ran dry.

It?s also worth pointing out that there?s a whole industry dedicated replicating these colors, if only just for preservationists working on restoring great works that used them. NPR did a great story on the topic last year, but meanwhile, Meier is updating her post with new colors as the tips roll in?so be sure to check it out. [Hyperallergic]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/paint-made-from-people-the-fascinating-history-behind-650844628

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UAE sentences 69 in mass coup plot trial

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ? More than 65 suspects accused of plotting an Islamist coup in the United Arab Emirates received prison sentences of up to 15 years on Tuesday in a mass trial that underscored the widening crackdowns on perceived Arab Spring-inspired dissent across the entire Gulf Arab region.

Rights groups have accused the UAE of widespread violations, including jailhouse abuses against the 94 suspects on trial. The suspects included teachers, lawyers and even the cousin of one of the UAE's rulers.

Authorities have rejected the claims and have moved ahead with further arrests sweeps targeting suspected groups linked to Islamist networks such as Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

The UAE ? which allows no political parties ? has not faced any street protests or direct pressures since the Arab Spring uprisings began in the region more than two years ago. But Western-backed officials have turned their attention to suspected Islamist cells and online activists who have called for a greater public voice in the tightly controlled country.

The official news agency WAM said prison terms of 15 years were given to eight suspects tried in absentia. Ten-year sentences were handed to 56 others, including Sheikh Sultan bin Kayed al-Qasimi, who was head of a group known as al-Islah, or Reform. He is a cousin of the ruler in Ras al-Khaimah, the northernmost of the UAE's seven emirates.

Five suspects received seven-year terms. Another 25 people were acquitted. Earlier, prominent rights activist Ahmed Mansoor said 26 people were cleared based on preliminary information from the court.

Security was tight with many foreign journalists, family members and observers blocked from the session. The Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National reported that chants of "Allahu Akbar," or God is Great, came from defendants and some relatives as the verdicts were read.

Mansoor said at least two brothers of the suspects were detained hours before the verdicts were handed down, reflecting wider trends across the Gulf as leaders attempt to quash any challenges to their rule.

Dozens of people have been jailed across the Gulf for blog posts and Twitter messages deemed offensive to rulers. Authorities in the Gulf also have claimed to have dismantled alleged espionage rings ? some accused of links to rival Iran or its proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council is expected to meet Thursday in Saudi Arabia to discuss further measures against Hezbollah for sending fighters to Syria to aid their ally President Bashar Assad. Already, the Gulf states have moved to expel suspected Hezbollah supporters and strip licenses from groups believed to be backing the Shiite militant group.

But the UAE has been the most aggressive in moving against suspected threats from Sunni Islamist groups.

Last month, UAE officials said they plan another high-profile trial against 30 Egyptian and UAE suspects for alleged coup plots linked to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

The case raised tensions with the Brotherhood-led government of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi who is now under extreme pressure at home from protesters and military officials calling for him to step down.

In the Emirates' case against the 94 suspects, prosecutors claimed that the group al-Islah ? which was headed by the ruler's cousin al-Qasimi ? was influenced by Muslim Brotherhood ideology to oppose the Western-oriented system in the UAE.

The suspects rejected the claims, saying the group only supported Islamic viewpoints and conducted needed social outreach in poorer areas of the country beyond the skylines of Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Al-Islah has operated openly for decades in the UAE under the tactic agreement that members would not get involved in political affairs.

In London, the director of the Emirates Center for Human Rights said the aim of the trial was to "silence political activists and intimidate others who may support democratic reforms."

"Allegations of torture remain without investigation and numerous fair trial standards have been violated," said Rori Donaghy.

"UAE authorities must quash these verdicts, release these individuals against whom they have presented no credible evidence and investigate the allegations of torture that have been made," Donaghy added.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uae-sentences-69-mass-coup-plot-trial-111900114.html

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'For now, we mourn': Few answers after 19 killed in Arizona wildfire

Governor Jan Brewer says her heart is breaking over the unimaginable loss of the firefighters, and for their families, friends and community.

By Erin McClam and Ian Johnston, NBC News

Arizona authorities struggled for answers Monday after 19 highly trained firefighters were trapped and killed by a windblown wildfire ? a blaze the governor vowed to stop ?before it causes any more heartache.?

One day after the worst loss of life for an American fire department since Sept. 11, investigators said they had not figured out why the men were unable to retreat to a safe zone or otherwise survive the inferno.

?For now, we mourn,? Gov. Jan Brewer said.

The fire, sparked by lightning on Friday, raged uncontrolled for a fourth day. By afternoon it had destroyed more than 200 buildings in Yarnell, a town of about 700 people northwest of Phoenix. It was described as at least 13 square miles and ?zero percent? contained, though more than 400 firefighters were trying.

The wildfire claimed all but one member of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team of elite firefighters known for extensive training and a demanding fitness regimen. Officials said only that the survivor might have been repositioning equipment.

Wade Ward, the public information officer for the Prescott Fire Department in Arizona, talks about the tragic loss of 19 firefighters in a massive wildfire, saying "it had to be the perfect storm in order for this to happen."

?We can honor their service with our gratitude and prayers,? Brewer said, ?and through our steadfast dedication to do whatever is necessary to bring this fire under control before it causes any more heartache.?

Mary Rasmussen, a spokeswoman for Prescott National Forest, said it appeared the 19 were engaged in a ?direct attack? ? getting close to the fire and trying to create a break to starve it of fuel.

She described the maneuver as ?one foot in the black and one foot in the green,? and said it was only done when the flames were 5 feet high or less: ?They?re right up against it.?

The conditions Sunday were extreme, with unusual wind, she said, and authorities were checking what other factors might have contributed.

Temperatures soared into the 110s in Arizona over the weekend, and National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Klimowski told The Associated Press that there was a sudden increase and shift in the wind at about the time the men were lost Sunday afternoon.

Art Morrison, a state forestry spokesman, told The Associated Press that the men had been forced to deploy emergency fire shelters ? individual, portable cocoons meant to protect breathable air and shield them from the heat.

Tom Harbour, national fire director for the U.S. Forest Service, said the shelters had saved hundreds of lives over the years. But he said some fires are strong enough, and move quickly enough, to overwhelm them. The fire was the deadliest wildfire in the United States in 80 years.

From the few known details, he said it was not clear that anyone did anything wrong.

?It?s way, way too early to be drawing any conclusions,? said Harbour, who said he had not seen anything like this fire in his 44-year career. ?The only conclusion right now is that souls are dead and half the town of Yarnell is gone.?

David Kadlubowski / The Arizona Republic via AP

Nineteen firefighters - all members of an elite response team - were killed Sunday battling a fast-moving wildfire in Arizona, marking the deadliest single incident for firefighters since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, officials said.

Hotshot fire crews often hike into the wilderness lugging 40 or 50 pounds of equipment, including chain saws and other heavy gear, to clear brush and trees and anything else that might feed the flames.

The Granite Mountain crew had battled blazes in New Mexico and elsewhere in Arizona in recent weeks.

?If you ever met them, you would meet the finest, most dedicated people,? Prescott Fire Chief Dan Fraijo said. ?They?ll sleep out there as they try to develop fire lines and put protection between homes and natural resources and still try to remain safe.?

President Barack Obama, in a statement, described the fallen men as ?heroes,? and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said it was ?as dark a day as I can remember.? Arizona Sen. John McCain said the men?s sacrifice would not be forgotten.

Authorities said they would release names of the dead later. Juliann Ashcraft told the website of The Arizona Republic and NBC affiliate KPNX that she and her four children were watching the news when they learned her husband, Andrew, was among the dead.

?They died heroes,? she said through tears. ?And we?ll miss them. We love them.?

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Police questioning of Zimmerman grew more pointed

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? Jurors in the George Zimmerman trial on Monday listened to a series of police interviews with detectives growing more pointed in their questioning of the neighborhood watch volunteer's account of how he came to fatally shoot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

Prosecutors played audio and video tapes of the interviews that Zimmerman had with Sanford Police investigators Doris Singleton and Chris Serino in the hours and days after he fatally shot the Miami teen.

In an early interview, just hours after the Feb. 26, 2012, shooting, Singleton recounted that Zimmerman noticed a cross she was wearing and said: "In Catholic religion, it's always wrong to kill someone."

Singleton said she responded, "If what you're telling me is true, I don't think that what God meant was that you couldn't save your own life."

But in an interview several days later, Singleton and Serino suggest Zimmerman was running after Martin before the confrontation. They also ask the neighborhood watch volunteer why he didn't explain to Martin why he was following him. The officers insinuate that Martin may have been "creeped out" by being followed.

"Do you think he was scared?" Singleton asked Zimmerman in one video interview.

Under cross-examination, though, Serino said Zimmerman seemed straightforward in his answers and didn't show any anger when talking about Martin. Serino said the increasingly pointed questioning was a tactic known as a "challenge interview" where detectives try to break someone's story to make sure they're telling the truth.

Zimmerman has said he fatally shot the teen in self-defense because the Miami-area black teenager was banging his head into the concrete sidewalk behind the townhomes in a gated community.

Zimmerman, 29, could get life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder. The state argued during its opening statement that Zimmerman profiled and followed Martin in his truck and called a police dispatch number before he and the teen got into a fight. He has denied the confrontation had anything to do with race, as Martin's family and their supporters have claimed.

In his first interview at the police station, Zimmerman said he saw Martin walking through his neighborhood on a dark, rainy night while Zimmerman was driving to the grocery store. He told Singleton that he didn't recognize Martin and that there had been recent break-ins at his townhome complex.

"These guys always get away," Zimmerman told Singleton, a statement similar to one that prosecutors have used previously to try to show that Zimmerman was increasingly frustrated with the burglaries and his encounter with Martin was a breaking point.

Zimmerman told the police officer that he lost track of Martin and got out of his truck to look for a street name he could relay to police dispatcher. When the dispatcher suggested Zimmerman didn't need to follow Martin, Zimmerman started to head back to his vehicle. At that point, Zimmerman said Martin jumped out of some bushes, punched him and he fell to the ground.

Zimmerman said that Martin began hitting his head against the sidewalk as Zimmerman yelled for help and that Martin told him, "You're going to die tonight."

With Zimmerman's shirt and jacket pushed up during the struggle and his holstered gun now visible, he thought Martin was reaching for his firearm holstered around his waist. Zimmerman told the officer that he shot Martin and the teen said, "You got me."

In a written statement, Singleton read in court, Zimmerman refers to Martin as "the suspect." Singleton said it didn't appear that Zimmerman showed any anger when talking about the teen. Prosecutors must show that Zimmerman acted with ill will or a depraved mind in order to get a second-degree murder conviction.

Zimmerman also acted surprised when Singleton told him Martin was dead.

"He's dead?!" Singleton recalled Zimmerman saying, before he lowered his head toward the table in the interrogation room.

Earlier Monday, prosecutors called FBI audio expert Hirotaka Nakasone to focus on the issue of who was screaming for help on 911 calls during the confrontation. Jurors were played the 911 calls several times last week.

The recordings are crucial pieces of evidence because they could determine who the aggressor was in the confrontation. Martin's family contends it was the teen screaming, while Zimmerman's father has said it was his son.

Even though he was a pre-trial witness for the defense, prosecutors called Nakasone to set up later testimony from either the teen's mother or father that they believe it was their son yelling for help.

During his pre-trial testimony, Nakasone testified that there wasn't enough clear sound to determine whether Zimmerman or Martin was screaming on the best 911 sample, an assertion he repeated Monday.

The FBI expert said that it's easier for a person with a familiarity of a voice to identify it than someone who has never heard it previously. That is especially true if the recording is of a subject screaming and the person trying to identify the voice has heard the subject under similarly stressful circumstances previously, Nakasone said.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/police-questioning-zimmerman-grew-more-pointed-215311801.html

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Local teams eliminated at Dizzy Dean state baseball tournaments

by Scott Herpst Cat Walk Chatt

The weekend was a tough one for local 6-under, 9-under, and 11-under baseball clubs as teams from Catoosa and Walker Counties managed to win just two total games in their respective Dizzy Dean State tournaments.

In the 6-under sanctioned tournament in Gordon County, the Chickamauga Dodgers dropped their opener to the Winston All-Stars on Saturday morning. The Dodgers bounced back to beat Ringgold in their second game, but were eliminated from the tournament with a loss to the Canton Stingers.

Ringgold had lost its initial game to the Acworth Warriors. Boynton lost to the Rome Wolves and the East Cobb Cobras, while LFORA went 0-2, falling to Eastside and Midway.

At the 6-under invitational tournament in Canton, the LaFayette All-Stars ? the area?s lone representative ? was sent home with a pair of losses to Paulding County and Whitfield County.

Back up the road in Rome, LaFayette fared no better in the 9-under sanctioned tournament. The Orange-and-Black dropped their first game to Canton on Friday night before being eliminated by the Winston All-Stars on Saturday.

Ringgold also lost its tournament opener to Alpharetta before rebounding to beat Hobgood. However, Ringgold was also sent packing on Saturday night with a loss to Canton.

And in the 11-under sanctioned tournament at the South Cherokee Recreational Complex in Woodstock, the Rossville Braves quest for a state title was short-lived after back-to-back Saturday losses to the Eastside Hurricanes and the Buckhead Bombers.

Source: http://walkermessenger.com/bookmark/23020724

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NASA turns off it?s Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) Spacecraft

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Pasadena, CA ? NASA has decommissioned its Galaxy Evolution Explorer after a decade of operations in which the venerable space telescope used its ultraviolet vision to study hundreds of millions of galaxies across 10 billion years of cosmic time.

?GALEX is a remarkable accomplishment,? said Jeff Hayes, NASA?s GALEX program executive in Washington. ?This small Explorer mission has mapped and studied galaxies in the ultraviolet, light we cannot see with our own eyes, across most of the sky.?

A speeding star can be seen leaving an enormous trail in this image from NASA?s Galaxy Evolution Explorer. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Operators at Orbital Sciences Corporation in Dulles, VA, sent the signal to decommission GALEX at 12:09pm PDT (3:09pm EDT) Friday, June 28th.

The spacecraft will remain in orbit for at least 65 years, then fall to Earth and burn up upon re-entering the atmosphere. GALEX met its prime objectives and the mission was extended three times before being cancelled.

Highlights from the mission?s decade of sky scans include:

• Discovering a gargantuan, comet-like tail behind a speeding star called Mira.
• Catching a black hole ?red-handed? as it munched on a star.
• Finding giant rings of new stars around old, dead galaxies.
• Independently confirming the nature of dark energy.
• Discovering a missing link in galaxy evolution ? the teenage galaxies transitioning from young to old.

The mission also captured a dazzling collection of snapshots, showing everything from ghostly nebulas to a spiral galaxy with huge, spidery arms.

In a first-of-a-kind move for NASA, the agency in May 2012 loaned GALEX to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, which used private funds to continue operating the satellite while NASA retained ownership. Since then, investigators from around the world have used GALEX to study everything from stars in our own Milky Way galaxy to hundreds of thousands of galaxies 5 billion light-years away.

In the space telescope?s last year, it scanned across large patches of sky, including the bustling, bright center of our Milky Way. The telescope spent time staring at certain areas of the sky, finding exploded stars, called supernovae, and monitoring how objects, such as the centers of active galaxies, change over time.

GALEX also scanned the sky for massive, feeding black holes and shock waves from early supernova explosions.

?In the last few years, GALEX studied objects we never thought we?d be able to observe, from the Magellanic Clouds to bright nebulae and supernova remnants in the galactic plane,? said David Schiminovich of Columbia University, New York, NY, a longtime GALEX team member who led science operations over the past year. ?Some of its most beautiful and scientifically compelling images are part of this last observation cycle.?

Data from the last year of the mission will be made public in the coming year.

?GALEX, the mission, may be over, but its science discoveries will keep on going,? said Kerry Erickson, the mission?s project manager at NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA.

A slideshow showing some of the popular GALEX images is online at: http://go.nasa.gov/17xAVDd

JPL managed the GALEX mission and built the science instrument. The mission?s principal investigator, Chris Martin, is at Caltech. NASA?s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, developed the mission under the Explorers Program it manages.

Researchers sponsored by Yonsei University in South Korea and the Centre National d?Etudes Spatiales (CNES) in France collaborated on the mission. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

Graphics and additional information about the Galaxy Evolution Explorer are online at: http://www.nasa.gov/galex

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Alan Buis
NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

J.D. Harrington
NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

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Source: http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2013/06/30/nasa-turns-off-its-galaxy-evolution-explorer-galex-spacecraft/

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