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Since Saturday, residents of Kailuana Place have been dealing with the daily motorcade that leaves sometime after 7 a.m. when Obama heads to the Semper Fit Ultimate Health and Fitness Club located at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, in nearby Kaneohe. Alan Shinn, who lives a block away from the security checkpoint leading to the Obama compound on Kailuana Place, says all day long cars drive down to the checkpoint and are turned away, usually with a passenger holding a camera inside. "Everybody is excited about him being that close," says Shinn, "There are a lot of people walking by, people...
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...thelawyers of ancient Rome who came up with the modern definition of fatherhood: Mater semper certa est; pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant (rough translation: The mother is obvious; the father is the one she was married to when the child was born). The Romans, however, didn't have access to genetic testing. Dylan Davis did. A few months after his divorce in 2000, Davis, 36, a software engineer in Denver, took a DNA test to confirm a nagging suspicion that he was not the biological father of his 6-year-old twins. The negative test results...
...sensor does its job and sends radio signals to a receiver that collects the data. The sensors can be used to adjust shades on a window, measure air pressure in a tire or regulate temperature and humidity in a building. When the city of Dresden began renovating the Baroque Semper Opera House, it wanted to monitor humidity. But regulations protecting historical buildings prohibited opening the walls to lay cable. So Thermokon, the company that provided the humidity sensors, installed 24 EnOcean-powered devices...
...perfect harmony. In the background of some prints are maps of the Middle East; in others, astronomical maps of constellations which resemble bombing targets. Bright, iconic images and words, such as American flags, guns, cannons, excerpts of ee cummings’ poetry, and the words “Semper Fidelis” (“always faithful”), are superimposed upon the maps. Yet these prints are only a part of Stinetorf’s family’s larger effort to make a quilt and tapestry incorporating these images. Although such collaborative work is not common...