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Environmentalists also good for Young Bros. In 2005, Young Bros. raised its rates 5.5 percent. In 2006, it raised its rates another 5.5 percent. Now, it raised them another 7.51 percent, plus a new fuel surcharge (Star-Bulletin, Oct. 16 ). I'm sure it has good reasons, but it's not like it has to pay for an environmental assessment to transport goods and cargo between the islands. Whenever you need to ship a car or truckload of goods interisland, remember to thank the Supreme Court and hug an environmentalist for limiting your choices. Business will be good at Young Brothers Ltd. By all means, let's save the environment I just received my Bachelor of Science degree as an Environmentalobstructionist from the University of North-East Kaneohe and I'm here to help you. Forget about the Superferry. There are bigger fish to fry. My proposals include: » Set the speed limit on all "H" freeways at 25 mph. Think of all the lives and gas we'll save, and the lower insurance premiums, as well. » At the entrance to all freeways, set up an inspection that will bring tears to the eyes of the TSA. Confiscate all cell phones, electric razors, women's beauty aids (including plug-in electric curlers), tweezers, reading material and everything else that should be in the trunk. » Close all swimming areas (which will also save lifeguard salaries.) » Shut down all sports venues. This will save on beer, fights in the stands, and protect innocent coaches. » Confiscate all commercial and private boating operations, marinas and yacht clubs. No fishing from the shore. If I've forgotten anything, I'm sure the Legislature will sort it out. Make developers build shorter and prettier Please don't let them build taller buildings. One need only to drive makai on Pensacola Street to see the effect of "progress." Where once was open sky now stands a wall of high-rises. A Hawaii Kai developer offers two choices: a pretty, higher structure or a shorter, box-like eyesore. What's wrong with a pretty, shorter structure? Sure, it will have fewer units but the developer is going to make his money regardless. It might be less money than he'd hoped for, but we who live in "paradise" will pay the ultimate cost. What makes Hawaii attractive will be again lessened, a foot at a time. If the developer says a lower structure makes developing the site unfeasible, another developer is waiting to snatch up the property and make a profit under the shorter height guidelines. Draw a line, Hawaii. Generals risk their jobs if they speak out In response to "General should have said something earlier" (Letters, Oct. 16 ): Have you ever wondered why generals do not speak up until they retire? To do so while you are active duty, you risk losing your job. That's why we rarely hear from active duty military personnel who have serious misgivings about the Iraq war. The Sept. 23 San Diego Union-Tribune talks about the "Revolt of the Generals" who came "in their own ways to the agonizing decision to defy military tradition and publicly criticize the Bush administration over its conduct of the war in Iraq." Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez joins an increasing list of more than 20 (yes, more than 20!) distinguished retired generals who dare to express their opposition to the Iraq war, including Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, Maj. Gen. John Batiste, Brig. Gen. John Johns and Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni. It is not our generals who have let us down. It is President George W. Bush. Military Families Speak Out-Hawaii Know the story behind Armenian massacre This may help in forming a context to better understand some current headlines concerning Turkey's massacre of Armenians in 1915. The large Armenian enclave in Istanbul -- many residents with prominent positions in the Ottoman government -- rose up in revolt as that government tottered on the edge of collapse near the end of World War I. In an attempt to suppress the uprising, the professional Turkish warriors, the Janissaries, were ruthless. This led to even greater support and ever harsher repressive tactics, and finally to expelling the entire Armenian ex-patriot community. As they fled cross country, they were harassed by both the Janissaries and much of the native populace and indeed thousands were killed. This occurred prior to the collapse of the Ottoman government, prior to World War I, prior to the civil war that assured Turkish independence from grasping Europe -- and prior to the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, whose current representatives refuse to apologize for the excessive policies and actions of its predecessor. The massacre cannot be legally defined as genocide because the Ottoman government did not set out to exterminate all Armenians, only the rebels. The country of Armenia exists today. By any definition the killing was horrible, but not an issue to risk destruction of our relationship with the current Turkish government -- the only friendly Islamic one. Gene J. Parola	<urn:uuid:6d57ef85-92a6-4686-9348-ed09e333af4f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://archives.starbulletin.com/2007/10/18/editorial/letters.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.946772	1,082	1.578125	2
Below you'll find references for terms frequently used in this site. Many of these terms are referenced in documents from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Alternate Base Period The last four completed calendar quarters prior to the quarter in which a valid claim is filed. The determination of the amount of premiums due based upon available information when an employer fails to file his quarterly Wage Reports (LB-0851) and Premium Reports (LB-0456). Back Pay Award Wages paid retroactively as a result of a determination by a judicial or quasi-judicial body. May be as a result of a wrongful discharge or the difference between wages already paid an employee and higher wages granted retroactively. Base Period Employer Any employer employing the worker during the worker's base period. Unemployment insurance payments to eligible claimants. The seven-day period ending Saturday at midnight. The 52-consecutive-week period beginning with the first day of the calendar week in which an individual files the first valid claim for benefits. An acronym for Benefit Year Ending. It is the date where an unemployment claim expires. Under normal circumstances, when your BYE ends, you cease to be eligible for benefits on the claim you are drawing upon and must file a new unemployment claim. Because of all the federal extensions, if you file a new claim after your BYE ends, if you are not eligible for a new claim, you can be placed back on to your old claim to receive Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC). A period of three months ending March 31, June 30, September 30, or December 31. The seven-day period ending Saturday at midnight. An individual who has applied for unemployment insurance benefits. The commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. December 31 of each year. The reserve ratio computed as of this date is applicable for a 12-month period beginning the following July 1. The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Any employing unit that has met a condition of liability for unemployment insurance. Employer Account Number The eight-digit number (0000-000-0) assigned by the department that is used for recording and filing all premium and benefit information related to each employer's account. Enter your Employer Account Number on all remittances to the department and refer to this number in all correspondence concerning an account. Employer Accounts Auditor An employer's personal contact with the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. There are approximately 60 auditors working out of the eight Employer Accounts Offices throughout Tennessee. One is assigned specifically to your area. An employer accounts auditor's duties include the auditing of employer's records, collecting delinquent monies and reports, determining employer liability, keeping the employers in his area updated on changes in unemployment insurance laws and policies, and assisting employers with problems or questions concerning unemployment insurance. Call your employer accounts auditor when you need assistance. Your auditor will be happy to help you in any way he can. Employer accounts auditors carry identification issued by the department. Employers should not hesitate to ask for proper identification. Employer Accounts Office Office from which employer accounts auditors work. See a directory of the eight Employer Accounts Offices. A system under which premiums collected are related to benefit costs and taxable wages to determine premium rates. Benefits payable for up to 13 additional weeks during periods of high unemployment. Extended benefits are payable to individuals who have exhausted their entitlement to regular benefits. The Federal Unemployment Tax paid to the federal government by the employer. The commissioner, the claimant, the separating employer, and all base period employers. Labor and Workforce Development Local Office The local office where an unemployed worker goes to file a claim for unemployment insurance benefits and/or to register with Job Service for assistance in finding employment. Most local offices are both claims offices and Job Service offices. Labor and Workforce Development Toll-Free Help-Line Number: 1-800-344-8337 The toll-free automated attendant number for you to call if you have questions concerning unemployment insurance, need forms, or want to report cases of claimant or employer fraud. This automated attendant can be called weekdays between 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. eastern time and between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. central time. A deduction from a claimant's unemployment benefits to satisfy an overpayment of previously received unemployment benefits. An employer-filed claim for an employee who worked less than full-time and earned some wages, but less than the employee's weekly benefit amount. Payments made by the employer into the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund. A request for review of any decision made regarding a claimants eligibility for benefits or regarding an employer's liability status, or any action affecting an employer's account. The difference between premiums paid and benefits charged divided by the average annual taxable payroll for the three most recent calendar years ending on the computation date. Same Party(ies) of Interest A successor controlled directly or indirectly by an individual, type of organization, or employing unit, having a commonality of beneficial interests of those of the predecessor. The worker's most recent employer prior to his filing a claim for benefits. The separating employer may or may not be a base period employer The Rules and Regulations of the Tennessee Employment Security Law require every employer to furnish a Separation Notice to each employee whose employment has terminated or who is separated from his employment for an expected duration of seven days or more. Standard Base Period The first four of the last five completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the establishment of a claimant's benefit year. An employer that has acquired the organization, trade, business or substantially all the assets of an employer. Successor of Interest : See Same Party(ies) of Interest Tax (Federal) See FUTA Tax(State) See Premiums All Taxable wages paid by an employer to all employees during a calendar year. The Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund established by the Tennessee Employment Security Law to which all state unemployment premiums are paid and from which all unemployment benefits are paid. A worker is considered "unemployed" in any calendar week during which he earns no wages or in any calendar week of less than full-time work during which he earns wages that are less than his weekly benefit amount. The joint federal-state program that provides for payment of benefits to the unemployed and collects premiums and wage information from employers to pay for the benefits and to determine an individual's eligibility for unemployment benefits. An investigation initiated by a claimant who believes his wages were not reported correctly All remuneration paid for personal services from whatever source (salaries, commissions, bonuses, drawing accounts, fees, vacation pay, and wages in lieu of notice) are considered "wages" for unemployment insurance purposes. Payments made to employees in a medium other than cash are also considered "wages", except for meals, lodging, and clothing when furnished for the employer's convenience and on his premises The calendar week, after filing a valid claim that establishes a benefit year, during which the claimant received no wages or has received wages less than his weekly benefit amount. No benefits are paid for this period. The claimant will get credit for the waiting week that ends on Saturday at midnight regardless of the day of filing the claim during the previous week. Week of Unemployment A calendar week during which a worker performed less than full-time work and earned less than his weekly benefit amount.	<urn:uuid:0d70f27b-b1f3-4a8f-8311-02b8adb5086f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.state.tn.us/labor-wfd/glossary.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.944772	1,547	1.65625	2
Malacath is the Daedric Prince whose sphere is the patronage of the spurned and ostracized, the keeper of the Sworn Oath, and the Bloody Curse. Malacath was created when Boethiah ate the Altmeri ancestor spirit, Trinimac, although Malacath himself says that this tale is far too "literal minded". Trinimac's devout Elven followers became the Orsimer ("Pariah Folk" in Elvish), or Orcs. Some disagree, claiming that Trinimac still exists and Malacath is a separate entity. Malacath is not recognized as a Daedric Lord by his peers, which fits his sphere perfectly. The Dunmer say he is also Malak (or Malauch), the god-king of the Orcs and one of the Four Corners of the House of Troubles that tests the Dunmer for physical weakness. Other names include "Mauloch", the "God of Curses", "Orkey", or "Old Knocker". Malacath spurns physical weakness, hence the above-average strength of the creatures associated with him. The hideous and stupid Ogrim are the servants of this "bad daedra". Malacath is allied with Mephala and his enemy is Ebonarm. His summoning day is 8th of Frost Fall. His plane of Oblivion is Ashpit, which is described as consisting only of dust, palaces of smoke, and vaporous creatures: "anguish, betrayal, and broken promises like ash filled the bitter air". Levitation and magical breathing are necessary to survive there. Malacath's shrine in Cyrodiil, where he is depicted as a muscular Orc ready to strike with a heavy weapon, is patronized entirely by Orcs who hate "beautiful people". Many accounts paint Malacath as a Prince who is very possessive of his followers and who becomes vindictive when they are wronged. The Hero of Daggerfall quenched Malacath's thirst for vengeance by killing an ungrateful suitor who had spurned Malacath after receiving his gifts. Malacath once asked the Nerevarine to seek revenge on behalf of an Orc adventurer who was denied his rightful fame and glory after vanquishing a great threat when his Dunmer partner took all the credit. Though both the original Orc and Dunmer were long dead, Malacath's ire was so great that he requested the Nerevarine slay the Dunmer's only remaining descendant (although, in reality, another relative - who may or may not be a direct descendant - lived on in Cyrodiil). Malacath has been known to send agents to free enslaved ogres, since ogres should not be servants to anyone except Malacath. This may imply that Malacath merely uses trolls, orcs, and ogres instead of respecting them as his followers. However, he has been heard to call ogres his "little brothers". Followers of Sheogorath report that their Prince has mentioned Malacath is "not popular at parties" and that the symbolic "backbone" of Malacath's plane of Oblivion is an actual backbone. Sheogorath tricked Malacath into decapitating his noble son Emmeg Gro-Kayra with a special blade called Neb-Crescen. Sheogorath then stole Emmeg's head, trapping his soul in the Shivering Isles forever. Saviour's Hide Scourge (also known as the Daedric Scourge or Scourge, Blessed of Malacath) is a legendary Daedric artifact. It was forged from sacred ebony in the Fires of Fickledire, and is associated with Malacath. It is a fierce weapon, and takes the form of a steel or ebony mace. Malacath dedicated it to mortals, and any daedra who attempts to invoke its power will be banished to the Void. It is the bane of the Dark Kin, and has the ability to banish daedra to the Void with a single blow. It also has the power to conjure daedra from Oblivion to do the wielder's bidding; specifically, Dremora and Scamps can be summoned. It has been described as a "bold defender of the friendless", which can be related to Malacath's role as the Daedric Prince of Outcasts. Scourge was once used by Mackkan, who banished many of Mehrunes Dagon's minions with it. The mace eventually came into the possession of the Third Empire. It was hung in the armory of the Battlespire, and used in the name of the Emperor by the Shadow Legion against the Daedric Lords. In the aftermath of Dagon's invasion of the Battlespire during the Imperial Simulacrum, the hidden mace was recovered from the Caitiff section of the Battlespire by a battlemage apprentice and used to help fight back against the retreating Daedric forces. Scourge survived the ensuing destruction of the Battlespire, and was returned to Tamriel. It now wanders the land with adventurers. The mace once came into the possession of Divayth Fyr, who kept it in Tel Fyr, a Telvanni wizard tower in Morrowind's Zafirbel Bay. The Nerevarine supposedly liberated the weapon from Fyr's collection in 3E 427. Volendrung, also known as the Hammer of Might, is an ancient artifact created by the Rourken clan. In appearance, it is a large ebony warhammer, although it may sometimes take the shape of a blade. For unknown reasons, Volendrung became a Daedric artifact of Malacath. It is enchanted with the power to paralyze foes and drain them of their strength, conferring it to the wielder. The hammer is prone to disappearing like its Dwarven creators, sometimes resurfacing in days, sometimes in eons. The hammer originally belonged to the chieftain of the Rourken clan. When his clan refused to join the other Dwemer in the First Council, the chieftain threw his hammer across Tamriel, promising to settle where ever it landed. The hammer landed in western Tamriel, and the Rourken called the land Volenfell, literally "City of the Hammer". This area later came to be called Hammerfell. The Rourken's journey across Tamriel is depicted in many of the ruins of the region, Volendrung appearing as a shining star showing the way. Sometime after the Dwemer disappeared in 1E 700, Volendrung ironically came to embody the power of Malacath, one of the Dwemer's most bitter foes. The hammer was uncovered during the Imperial Simulacrum by the Eternal Champion in either Morrowind or Hammerfell (reports vary). In the events leading up the Warp in the West, an agent of the Blades summoned Malacath seeking power, and a worshipper of the Prince gave the agent Volendrung in return for slaying a Daedra Seducer who had betrayed him. Volendrung later came into the possession of Divayth Fyr of Tel Fyr, Vvardenfell. He kept it in a locked chest in his Corprusarium, near Yagrum Bagarn's living area. A hobby of his was to invite thieves to steal from his chests to amuse him, as they would often fail. In 3E 427, the Nerevarine succeeded in unlocking the chest and liberating Volendrung. In 3E 433, the Champion of Cyrodiil summoned Malacath and was tasked with freeing the ogre slaves of Lord Drad from his mines. In return, Malacath gifted the Champion with Volendrung. Circa 4E 201, the Orcish settlement of Largashbur began to be openly attacked by the giants in the area. The giants had desecrated a shrine to Malacath and taken possession of Shagrol's Warhammer, a mundane hammer. Malacath cursed the tribe for its weakness, and the Orcs asked how they could obtain forgiveness. Chief Yamarz was tasked with clearing the giants from Malacath's shrine by the Prince. He was accompanied by the Last Dragonborn, but he was a weak leader and was slain when he turned on the Dragonborn. Malacath praised the Dragonborn for killing Yamarz. He then ordered the Dragonborn to return Shagrol's Hammer to Largashbur. Malacath transformed the hammer into Volendrung and gave it to the Dragonborn, while naming Gularzob as the new chief of the tribe. As seen in Daggerfall His statue in Morrowind His statue in Oblivion His statue in Skyrim Scourge, as seen in Morrowind Volendrung, as seen in Daggerfall Volendrung, as seen in Morrowind Volendrung, as seen in Oblivion Volendrung, as seen in Skyrim - ^ The Book of Daedra - ^ a b c d e The True Nature of Orcs - ^ a b The House of Troubles - ^ a b Varieties of Faith in the Empire — Brother Mikhael Karkuxor - ^ Lord of Souls — Greg Keyes - ^ a b Pocket Guide to the Empire, 3rd Edition: Orsinium — Imperial Geographical Society, 3E 432 - ^ Book Four of 2920, The Last Year of the First Era-Rain's Hand — Carlovac Townway - ^ Darkest Darkness - ^ a b The Doors of Oblivion — Seif-ij Hidja - ^ Shobob gro-Rugdush's dialogue during the Oblivion Crisis. - ^ a b Sixteen Accords of Madness, v. XII - ^ Malacath's dialogue with the Nerevarine. - ^ a b Malacath's dialogue during the Oblivion Crisis. - ^ Sheogorath's dialogue during the Oblivion Crisis. - ^ Tal Marog Ker's Researches — Tal Marog Ker See Also - For game-specific information, see the Daggerfall article.	<urn:uuid:9e91b433-eb67-4094-a193-58679fa0dc35>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Malacath	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.951442	2,120	1.570313	2
An early charter shows it has staying power Sheryl Marshall found Walden Green Montessori in the Yellow Pages as she researched schools for her two young children. She applied in 1994, knowing that her family couldn’t afford the then-private school’s tuition. But in 1995 she received a telephone call from Jean Hicks, the school’s founder. Walden Green had received authorization to operate as one of Michigan’s first charter schools, making it a tuition-free public school academy. Were the Marshalls interested? "It was like the answered prayer," Marshall said. More than 10 years later, her younger child completed eighth grade at Walden Green this year, the highest grade offered. "We wish that they would go to 12th grade." Families choose Walden Green for different reasons, according to Tom Hicks, Jean Hicks’ son and now the school’s director. Jean Hicks continues at the school as a teacher. Like the Marshalls, some parents are familiar with Montessori philosophies and want that atmosphere and approach for their children. Others want a small school. Still others have heard about the school’s high test scores. Walden Green has ranked first among Michigan charter schools for two consecutive years in the Michigan Educational Assessment Program. The school achieved nearly a 90 percent proficiency rate in reading, writing, science and math on the latest tests. Whatever the reasons, the school’s enrollment has grown from 65 students in its first charter year to 170 this year and an anticipated 196 next year. Hicks expects to reach 220 students the following year, about as many students as will fit comfortably into their new building in Spring Lake, near Grand Haven. The school is authorized by Central Michigan University. Like its growing enrollment and low student turnover, the new building is a sign of the school’s staying power. Walden Green is financing the facility through a $4.3 million bond issue. "All our bonds were sold locally," Hicks said. "We had somebody ready to buy them based on the reputation of the school." Montessori education rests on the work of Dr. Maria Montessori, who lived in Italy in the early 1900s. Her teaching method emphasized children’s ability to teach themselves, given uninterrupted time and a prepared environment. "It’s choice and ownership in education," Hicks said. "We give kids choices within boundaries." Children in Montessori classrooms study typical subjects like math, English and science, he explained, but they are given leeway to choose when and, to some extent, how they study each subject. Rather than having all children working on math, in their seats, at the same time every day, a Montessori teacher would more likely present a new math concept to small groups or individuals. The students would then work on those concepts individually, at a time they choose, using materials provided in the room. Instead of everyone moving on to the next subject according to the clock, the Montessori method allows a child uninterrupted time to work on a task. "You don’t have to sit down at 10 o’clock and do social studies if your mind is on science," said Sandra Kuhn of her four children’s experience at Walden Green. "Montessori teaching methods have grabbed each of them in different ways and taught them." "It’s a participatory kind of learning," said parent Jolanda Westerhof-Shultz, whose daughter completed third grade this year. Westerhof-Shultz is an associate professor of education at Grand Valley State University, a former middle school teacher and a new school board member at Walden Green. "There’s an emphasis on quality, not just on getting the work done, but also on the handling of the work and tools." The Montessori environment is different from most conventional classrooms. There are tables and chairs instead of desks, but many younger children choose to work on the floor. The furniture, including cabinets and counters, are child-sized. Hands-on materials are set out by subject throughout the room, so that in one corner, for example, a child may be tracing wooden cutouts of the countries of Africa, and in another corner another child may be identifying geometric shapes. Generally, the younger the children, the larger the classroom, Hicks said, recognizing that younger children are still developing large motor skills. Each room can cost up to $20,000 to equip, he said. In addition to working with children individually or in small groups, teachers follow each student’s progress through the child’s written work plan, a list of the tasks that need to be done that day or week, and through weekly assessments. Montessori advocates say this system allows children to learn at their own pace and also fosters love of learning, self-discipline and initiative. "The Montessori method fits in well with my children’s personalities," Marshall said. "They were able to move around and use tactile materials." Her son disliked math, she said, but he understood that math assignments handed out on Monday had to be completed by Thursday. If he finished his math work plan on time, he got extra gym time on Friday. In addition to time and environment, the third key component in the Montessori method is the teacher, Hicks said. Walden Green teachers have standard teaching certification through the state of Michigan, but additional training in Montessori methods. Training focuses heavily on children’s developmental stages and their needs at each stage. One of the teacher’s key roles is to link each child with the learning material that matches his or her development and interests. Children in Montessori classrooms study typical subjects like math, English and science, he explained, but they are given leeway to choose when and, to some extent, how they study each subject. "It’s all individualized because it follows the child," Westerhof-Shultz said, in contrast to what she called the "egg crate" approach of teaching all children the same thing at the same time. There are few middle-school Montessori programs and even fewer Montessori high schools, Hicks said, partly because Dr. Montessori primarily worked with younger children and died before developing programs for adolescents. Walden Green uses a theme-based approach with its seventh- and eighth-graders. They study a selected topic for four weeks, are tested during the next week, and then spend "Immersion Week" at a camp on the shores of Lake Michigan where they apply what they’ve learned. That might include putting on a play, conducting science experiments or rock climbing, Hicks said. Dr. Montessori stressed the importance of practical living skills, so the students also plan and prepare their own meals and help with maintenance and upkeep at the camp. Middle-school students also spend time in community service work, partly because they are at a time in life when they want to know where and how they fit into society, Hicks said. Walden Green’s new facility sits on nearly five acres of partly wooded land. The building features floor-to-ceiling windows in many spots, some spanning more than one level. A system of ramps, rather than stairs or an elevator, stretches between levels. There is no gymnasium or media center, but there are "common areas" — open areas of space — where children from different classrooms can meet to work. The design takes into consideration Montessori practices, but also the bottom line, Hicks said. "We wanted to build a building that was relatively maintenance free." Public school academies cannot levy millage to pay for bonds, so the money for the building comes out of the school’s per-pupil state aid allowance. The bond payments are roughly $22,000 a month, Hicks said. “I’m not much of a big fan of standardized testing. It’s nice that the scores are high. It gives some minimal form of assurance.” Walden Green is one of a growing number of public school academies who are selling bonds to finance facilities or renovations, according to Thomas Letavis, executive director of the Michigan Public Educational Facilities Authority, within the state Department of Treasury. The Walden Green tax-exempt bonds were issued through MPEFA. It’s difficult for a start-up charter school to attract investors, Letavis said, but, like Walden Green, more academies today can point to growing enrollment, a waiting list, high MEAP scores and reauthorizations of their original charter. Those items make the bonds more attractive and also bring down the interest rates, he said. But high MEAP scores are more a byproduct at Walden Green than a goal, several parents said. "I’m not much of a big fan of standardized testing," Kuhn said. "It’s nice that the scores are high. It gives some minimal form of assurance." Westerhof-Shultz said one reason she and her husband chose Walden Green was that the school did not emphasize standardized tests. "For some reason they figured out how to jump through that hoop, but not be controlled by it," she said. As a professor of education, she said she hears reports from student teachers that districts worried about MEAP scores now spend the first month of each new school year reviewing for the tests, an approach she believes fails to foster a child’s curiosity. Kuhn tracks her children’s progress through their weekly work plans, homework and communication with teachers. Like most parents, Kuhn and Marshall volunteer at the school regularly and see firsthand what happens in the classrooms. Kuhn helps in the special needs program and Marshall is a volunteer art instructor. "Walden Green is a pretty high parental involvement school," Kuhn said. "It wouldn’t throw anybody off to see a parent walk in." Walden Green’s objective is to grow, but slowly, Hicks said. Instead of accepting the maximum enrollment possible this year and next, "We talked the bank and the bondholders into saying we’ll grow in steps." One of his challenges is helping families make the transition from a non-Montessori school, he said, and "to open the doors and double enrollment would have cheated the parents already here."	<urn:uuid:9f85a7be-3180-4587-bed2-a0853b04bbad>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.mackinac.org/8834	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.97111	2,156	1.835938	2
For Obama's second inauguration, a subdued, less crowded Washington WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It is one of those occasions that is quintessential Washington: the inauguration of a president, a multi-day festival of patriotism, politics, optimism and self-congratulation. All of that will be on display on January 21, when President Barack Obama is publicly sworn in for his second four-year term. But this inauguration will be far less grand than Obama's first in 2009, when a record 1.8 million visitors flooded the city to see the nation's first black president take office. This time the celebration is likely to attract no more than 800,000 or so guests, city officials estimate. As a result, some luxury hotel rooms and coveted tables at high-end restaurants are still available, less than a month before the inauguration. The swanky Mandarin Oriental Hotel, with its sweeping views of the National Mall, initially required inauguration guests to make reservations for four nights. Now it has relaxed that requirement to three nights to try to fill its rooms. But the "inauguration markup" still applies: The Mandarin's least expensive room, normally available for $295 a night, starts at $1,195 a night during the long inauguration weekend. Even so, the demand for hotel and restaurant reservations for this inauguration pales compared with the rush that followed Obama's first election. Back then, the scramble for accommodation was so desperate that homeowners and renters in Washington and its Maryland and Virginia suburbs leased their homes for the inauguration, creating a vast secondary market in housing that week. Hundreds of those homeowners - including former Tennessee senator and actor and Fred Thompson, who offered to rent out his condominium for five days for $30,000 - sought to profit from the festivities and leave town to avoid the crowds. Today the website Craigslist shows only a few dozen ads offering housing for the inauguration. "They swarmed to the market last time," said real estate agent Hill Slowinski, who deals in luxury properties. "We are not seeing the same level of interest" this year. The story is similar at the Palm restaurant, which offers a $54 rib-eye steak and is a favorite of Democratic power brokers. Some tables are still free for Sunday night, January 20, the evening before the ceremony. Looking over the reservations for that night, Tommy Jacomo, who has run the restaurant for four decades, said: "It's mediocre. Nothing out of the ordinary." Jacomo said that for many of Obama's supporters, the 2009 inaugural celebration was a history-making one that can't be topped. "The second time, it's always not that big," he said. That has been the case in recent second-term inaugurations, particularly Republican Ronald Reagan's in 1985. Thanks to brutally cold weather, that became a mostly-indoor affair in which Reagan took the oath of office and delivered his inaugural address in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda rather than outside the Capitol. For Obama's second inauguration, the thrill might be lessened further by the fact that he will take the official oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts in a closed ceremony the day before the public festivities - on January 20, as required by law. Because that day falls on a Sunday, the public events - the swearing-in outside the Capitol, Obama's inaugural address, the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House, and the inaugural balls - will be held a day later. Hans Bruland, the general manager of the Hay-Adams Hotel who is working his fifth inauguration, said the lack of excitement for a president's second time around should be expected. He said the ongoing negotiations between the White House and Congress over looming tax increases and budget cuts - and the threat of economic calamity if some sort of deal isn't reached - are clouding the mood in Washington and could be affecting the plans of some potential celebrants. Obama's first inauguration took place as a worldwide financial crisis was unfolding, but his history-making ascent to the White House seemed to trump such concerns, at least for a few days. "Oftentimes, we don't remember what normal feels like," Bruland said. "People tend to panic a little." FEWER INAUGURAL BALLS Such economic jitters are one reason Obama's second inauguration will feature just two official balls, rather than the 10 that were held in 2009. Both will be at the Washington Convention Center on January 21. One ball will be for the public and guests, the other primarily for military families and veterans. There will be a few unofficial balls held by various groups, but this will be the fewest number of official inaugural balls by any president since Dwight Eisenhower's first term in 1953 - a reflection of Obama's effort to keep the celebration low-key at a time when many Americans are struggling financially. For all that relative austerity, there will be plenty of opportunities for big-spending Obama supporters to wrap themselves in luxury. For $60,000, guests can stay four nights in the Mandarin Oriental's presidential suite, with 24-hour butler service and a private dining room. A champagne cork's flight from the White House, the Hay-Adams is renting its largest suite for $7,900 a night. Before the 2009 inauguration, Obama and his family occupied an entire wing of the hotel before he was able to move into his new digs at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. One early indication that there will be fewer visitors filling such expensive beds - and contributing to the festivities - was the president's decision to widen the search for funds for his second inauguration. In 2009, Team Obama raised a record $53 million for his inauguration, without donations from corporations, lobbyists, and political action committees as part of a "commitment to change business as usual in Washington." This time, Obama supporters have welcomed donations from such groups. A spokesperson for the presidential inauguration committee, which manages the effort, declined to comment on the pace of fundraising so far. In 2009, the maximum donation for individuals accepted by the committee was $50,000. This year, Obama's fundraising committee is encouraging gifts of $250,000 from individuals. That kind of generosity will earn givers access to VIP receptions, reserved seats for the inaugural parade and other benefits. THE FIRE STILL BURNS There is one group that appears to be fired up and ready to go to Washington: his former campaign workers. One volunteer, Catherine Lyons, a phone bank coordinator in Emeryville, California, said she was so excited that she bought plane tickets for Washington before Obama's re-election was assured. On the morning of November 6, Election Day, Lyons went online and bought a seat for a cross-country flight. "It was a little risky," Lyons, 25, said. "Bravery or a little stupidity, however you want to see it." Also heading to Washington will be Shomari Figures, 27, a lawyer who was a field organizer for Obama's campaign in Akron, Ohio. "The excitement," Figures said, "is still there." 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Copiapo, Chile (CNN) -- Military choppers are on standby to swoop into the heliport. Motorcycle police are on alert to escort a fleet of ambulances. And a throng of electric beds with crisp white sheets stand vacant and ready. This is part of the contingency plan to rush 33 trapped miners from the spot where many hope they will be pulled out of the earth to a hospital in Copiapo, the nearest town to the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine. "We've been ready since Day One of this disaster," said Hernan Rojas, director of Copiapo Regional Hospital. "We expected injured miners to start coming in soon after the collapse, but this has dragged out." Government rescue coordinator Andre Sougarret said by the end of this week, he will commission the construction of three cage-like capsules that will haul the miners back to the surface. The government forecasts a rescue in early November. However, speculation is growing that a rescue could come much sooner, as three drills work around the clock to punch a man-size shaft through half a mile of rock into the cavern where the 33 men have been holed up since the August 5 cave-in. President Sebastian Pinera, during a visit to the mine Sunday, fueled anticipation when he told media, "We don't know when, but it will be much sooner than you expect." At the publicly funded Copiapo Regional Hospital, Rojas is fine-tuning his emergency response teams. "We will be ready from the moment they extract the miners," he said. "They will come out one-by-one, and we will get communication that the miners are on their way. At that stage, we activate our internal plan." As he strolled around a recently completed "special care unit," Rojas described how the freed miners would first be examined at a field hospital set up at the mine. "There's going to be a field hospital. I don't know exactly what functions it will have, but there will be triage system to identify the most complex cases," he said. Once triage is complete, the plan calls for flying the men aboard military helicopters to a heliport at the Chilean Army's 23rd Infantry Regiment based in Copiapo. That flight could take 15 or 20 minutes. The heliport is about 300 meters from the hospital. The journey through the streets is about 800 meters. Rojas said police would seal the streets, and motorcycles would escort ambulances to the emergency department of the hospital. "The alarm will be raised. The hospital goes on alert, and the patients will be brought in via the emergencies department, which is open 24 hours," Rojas said. The hospital director said some of the miners might not need special monitoring. Such miners would be accommodated in wards on the second and fourth floors. But there is space for up to 10 of the men to be interned in the newly inaugurated special care unit -- a unit intended for closely monitoring patients except those with life-threatening conditions. "Don't look at this as a bed -- consider it a patient unit," Rojas said proudly as he showed CNN around the special care unit Wednesday. Green lights blinked on a series of buttons on the foot of the bed, and instructions for lowering and raising appeared in three languages on the bed frame. If any of the miners' lives appear to be in danger, they will be taken directly to the intensive care unit once extracted, Rojas said. So far there's no indication that will be necessary, but Rojas said his team is prepared with traumatologists, brain surgeons and ophthalmologists. "People ask, 'They've been so long underground, could their eyesight be damaged?' I don't know the answer right now," Rojas said. He said the core team in the 10-bed special care unit would consist of a staff nurse and three paramedics per shift plus a doctor making rounds. Specialists would visit the miners in that unit on an as-needed basis. If any of the miners refuse hospital treatment in favor of simply trying to head home with their loved ones, they will be dissuaded, Rojas said. "That will be the basic task of the frontline medical team up at the mine. The people from mental health and the psychologists will have to use their charm on the miners to persuade them to get checked over before they discharge them," Rojas said. The special care unit at Copiapo Regional Hospital still smells of fresh green paint. White sheets are covered with rolls of clear plastic to stop dust settling. Heart monitors are off, and suction pumps and oxygen lines remain silent. This ward has never been used before. It was completed two months before the San Jose mine caved in. With their hospital located in the heart of one of Chile's major mining regions, staff members at the Copiapo facility have treated miners from accidents before. But none of the accidents have attracted this level of worldwide attention. "We're used to treating the local people and not making much noise or fuss about it. But this is different," Rojas said. As he showed off pristine white forms to record the miners' vital signs and other medical notes, Rojas fidgeted in his suit pockets. "The only thing I'm still missing is the pen," he said. And, of course, 33 would-be patients who remain trapped half a mile underground.	<urn:uuid:c17d7f2e-94da-4544-b192-a505ac341ada>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/09/23/chile.miners.hospital/index.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.965336	1,131	1.601563	2
The African Community Center for Unity and Self-Determination/Atlanta under the authority of the elected Unity Council is providing leadership in helping to establish and maintain a Metro Atlanta Council of African Elders. This Council is to serve our community in at lease two ways, 1) provide counsel and guidance to the Unity Council and our Community on matters of vital interest to our people and 2) help resolve conflicts/disputes/contradictions in the Community and help build and maintain a system/process for this purpose. The following points reflect our current thinking on how we will assemble the Council, its structure or makeup and how the Council will function to serve our Community. Please understand that this process should and will grow. We call on every person in the Community to contribute to this important and necessary project. All suggestion, corrections and/or criticisms should be sent to our email address at: email@example.com or given directly to any member of the Council of African Elders or any member of the Unity Council. – This effort can only be successful if you and others care enough to help think through this process and offer your frank suggestions for improvement. (1) What is an Elder? A person, senior in years, who is highly respected in the Community for their character and spirit, demonstrated through their behavior, good judgment and sensitivity to the needs of our community and people. An elder is normally a person of influence in their family and community and is often used to help maintain balance and peace. An elder would include both men and women. (2) Age of Council Members: For our purposes, age fifty-five (55) is the threshold age: 55 and older. This age is suggested because it should give us a large enough pool (brothers and sisters in that age range) from which to draw. Selecting an age older (60 or 65) would possibly not give us a large enough pool from which to draw or pull from. (2a) Age Levels of Council Members: 55 to 65, Jr. Elder 65 to 75, Sr. Elder 75 and older, Paramount Elder (3) Size of Council: There would be no upper limit to the number of members of this council. It could be as large as 50 or more members. Having a large council makes it more likely that a panel (7, 9 or 12 members) could be assembled when needed. Having a large council also allows for rotation; not calling on the same elders, over-and-over. (4) Composition of the Council: When possible, an equal number of women and men would be the body of the council. Women and men would hold an equal (and equitable) role within the council. Where there are matters which specifically deal with one gender the appropriate gender would convene to respond and resolve the issue. The other gender may share any constructive input or feedback to the gender deliberating on the issue. It is recommended that each Elder partner with at least one youth for the purpose of intergenerational transfer/transmission of information and wisdom. The details of such a union are to be developed. (5) Selection of Council Members: As persons are recommended from the community to serve on the council, staff and volunteers of the African Community Center would contact those recommended to let them know that their names had been submitted, inform them of the responsibilities of Council membership and assess their ability and willingness to serve. The staff person or volunteer would secure enough information to draft a comprehensive bio. The potential Elders’ name and bio would be placed before the elected Unity Council for approval or disapproval. Unless compelled to do otherwise, the Unity Council would approve those recommended from the community who meet the basic requirements. It should be very rare that anyone recommended, willing and qualified would not be approved for membership on the Council of African Elders. (6) Recommendation Process: Anyone in our community (Metro Atlanta) can recommend a senior (55 or older) for placement on the Council. This is done by completing a short form for this purpose at: http: //www.unity4power.org/elder-form. (7) Length of Service: Lifetime: Brothers and sisters serving in this very vital role should be encouraged to continue to serve for as long as they possibly can. Natural turnover will occur as new elders are recommended and approved and current elders leave for any number of reasons. - Our community must show high respect to all our elders, but special respect is to be shown to the brothers and sisters who give of themselves to serve as a member of the Council of African Elders. (8) Support for our Elders: It has been recommended that, as a community, we seek ways to build and maintain a monetary fund to support our Elders in times of need. A small committee could be commissioned to research and make recommendations to the community as the process develops. (9) Trained Mediators: As a part of our community, there already exist several brothers and sisters who have training in mediation and arbitration. These few will be commissioned to establish a training process to add to their numbers. The goal of this process is to train several new mediators each year. The objective is to assign a trained mediator to each panel of Elders in session. The mediators would facilitate sessions, but would not be a part of any decisions. The mediators’ role is to skillfully get both sides of a concern/conflict fully exposed so that there might be healing and/or to aid the Panel in making sure the deliberation remains focused and progresses appropriately. – There could be cases where agreement/resolutions is reached between conflicting parties (with the aid of a trained mediator) before it ever reaches the Council of African Elders. (10) The Council of African Elders as Advisers: In their role of providing counsel and guidance to the Unity Council of the African Community Center and our Community in general; the Council of African Elders would function as a panel (small number) or as a council-of-the-whole depending on the need. As council-of-the-whole, all members are to deliberate. Any recommendation from the Council of African Elders wherein ¾ or 75% of the members in attendance and satisfying requirements for a quorum (50% of total membership), would be considered official. Any individual or organizational member of our community would be able to call on the Council of African Elders for guidance. Specific process to be established: (11) The Council of African Elders in helping resolve conflicts/disputes/contradictions: In their role of helping to resolve conflicts/dispute/contradictions, the Council of African Elders provides the community with a venue to attain resolution without (or before) having to bring in outside judiciary systems that do not have our best interest at heart. In this role, the Council of African Elders would divide itself into panels (7, 9 or 12). A panel with a trained mediator would be used to help restore unity/harmony to any matter correctly brought before the Council. The details of this process are a work in progress. (12) Trigger: When an individual, organization or institution in our community has a concern it wants to bring before the Council, they can reach out to any member of the Council or call the African Community Center at 404-344-5454. That concern (w/contact info) would be communicated to a committee (3 to 5 members) of the Council for review and appropriate action. (13) Organizing Process: This document has been and continues to be disseminated throughout our community. Everyone is strongly encouraged to share it with others and also to respond with recommendations to strengthen this document and process. (14) What’s needed from you now?!!!? As a receiver of this document, you are being entrusted with the responsibility to do the following two things: 1) forward/share this document with brothers and sisters you know and 2) respond with your recommendations for Elders to serve on the Council of African Elders and also with suggestions to help strengthen this process. (15) Urgent Appeal: Please do not take this effort lightly; our youth are watching and future generations will judge us. This is a clear opportunity for us to build (collectively) an institution/process that meets a real need and at the same time is a bold statement of our determination to be free of exploitation and domination by others. Unity, Self-Determination and Love for our People,	<urn:uuid:20d73420-0be7-43bf-a088-e56ac0c0bfc8>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.unity4power.org/basedoc	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.962131	1,754	1.570313	2
Torresol Energy, a joint venture between Spain’s Sener and Abu Dhabi’s Masdar, plans to invest up to $5 billion in the short-term to build concentrated solar power plants (CSP) in Spain, the United States and the Middle East, its president said on Wednesday. Enrique Sendagorta said the company was aiming to add about 6,000 megawatts (MW) of capacity over the next three years and that one of the plants could be built in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. “We are developing a pipeline of projects in Spain, the U.S. and in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region,” he told Reuters at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. “The investment would range between $3.5 billion to $5 billion,” he said. Tendagorta said the firm is optimistic of securing funding for the upcoming projects despite tough market conditions. “Foreign banks are financing solar plants because it represents a steady cash flow,” he said. Torresol Energy, a 60/40 joint venture between Sener and Abu Dhabi government owned green energy firm Masdar, connected two new 50 MW solar plants in Spain to the grid earlier this month. Between them, Valle 1 and Valle 2 are expected to produce 160 gigawatt hours (GWh) of carbon-free electricity a year. Oil-rich Abu Dhabi is aiming to get 7 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2020. Abu Dhabi will host an international summit on water next year, Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, the head of a project to build a zero-carbon city on the outskirts of the UAE capital, said Wednesday. “It gives me a great pleasure to announce (the) launch of the International Water Summit 2013 that will take place in Abu Dhabi next January,” Jaber told reporters at the World Future Energy Summit in the Emirati capital. “As countries... seek to prosper to raise their standard of living and provide their communities with health and security, we are all facing serious challenges,” he said. “In our tireless effort to develop, we have consumed and almost exhausted our water resources,” said Jaber. The Middle East and North Africa are home to 6.3 percent of the world’s population but have just 1.4 percent of the globe’s renewable fresh water, Jaber told the conference. “We have to launch studies in order to find new solutions to satisfy the needs of our future generations,” said the UAE’s environment and water minister, Rashed Ahmad bin Fahd. The Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD) warned in 2009 that water resources in the capital may face depletion in 50 years unless prompt action is taken. The emirate, which sits on some 95 percent of the country’s oil, aims to be a center for renewable energy, through projects such as Masdar City, which is to be powered solely by renewables. Masdar, a government initiative established in 2006 to advance renewable energy and sustainable technologies, is building the zero-carbon city as an example of future eco-friendly cities. But the development has slowed down, pushing its completion date from 2016 to between 2020 and 2025. The estimated cost of the city has also dropped from $22 billion to no more than $19.8 billion.	<urn:uuid:c706d5db-34a4-467d-89f2-2e5acfc28438>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/01/18/189086.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.941615	720	1.8125	2
Obama’s DoJ sues South Carolina over new immigration law By: Jim Kouri, CPP The Obama administration, through Attorney General, Eric Holder,Â on MondayÂ filed a lawsuit againstÂ a new immigration law, this time inÂ South Carolina. The White House isÂ accusingÂ that stateÂ of interfering with the federal government’s authority on immigration policy.South Carolina now joins Arizona and Alabama in being civillyÂ prosecuted for attempting toÂ haltÂ the flow ofÂ illegalÂ aliens into the state. The Justice Department alleges that portionsÂ of the South Carolina’s law are “unconstitutional,” and the state should not be allowed to implement the popular newÂ law that’s scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2012. As with the AlabamaÂ statute, theÂ law requires local law enforcement officials to check the immigration status of everyone they detain, a policy thatÂ progressives, illegal alien supporters and Democrat lawmakersÂ sayÂ will result in the harassment and detention of legal aliens. “Today’s lawsuit makes clear once again that the Justice Department will not hesitate to challenge a state’s immigration law … if we find that the law interferes with the federal government’s enforcement of immigration,” said Attorney General Eric Holder. “It is understandable that communities remain frustrated with the broken immigration system, but a patchwork of state laws is not the solution and will only create problems,” he added. However, the cities and states declaring themselves sanctuaries for illegal aliens, while violating federal law, remain free from civil litigation by the Obama Justice Department. Recently, Washington, DC, and New York City officially announced their “sanctuary” status and constraints placed on police officers’ interaction with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Even more troubling is the Obama Administration’s lack of resolve in making certain all states and cities comply with immigration laws and policies, a former NewÂ York City police official told the Law Enforcement Examiner. “Usually, Obama’s minions are more interested in harassing and denigrating states and cities that attempt to enforce immigration laws,” said former NYPD detective and security firm owner Sidney Franes. “But they turn a blind eye to those who obstruct justice in the name of ‘sanctuary’ for criminal aliens.” The Center for Immigration Studies released aÂ new report onÂ in OctoberÂ titled, “Which Way, New York: Will Feds Tolerate Local Interference or Assert Their Authority?“Â It is available online at: http://cis.org/nyc-local-interference . The CIS reportÂ examines New York City’s policies and practices and the effect they have on public safety and federal enforcement efforts. It alsoÂ questions the federal government’s passive acceptance of these sanctuary policies and recommends actions that can be taken to discourage such developments. - Three-quarters of all foreign-born arrests in the entire state of New York occur in New York City (NYC). In 2008, the latest year for which data are available, local officers arrested 52,827 immigrants in NYC. - For at least 20 years, NYC has had official policies impeding the enforcement of federal immigration laws. City policies prevent ICE agents from receiving notification of arrested aliens before their release from police custody. - In September 2009, NYC’s Department of Correction adopted, and has since maintained, particularly obstructive policies and procedures for immigration officers and agents attempting to access criminal alien inmates housed in its detention facilities. Jail staff are required to follow procedures that actively encourage aliens to refuse to speak with ICE agents. - Since the implementation of these procedures, the number of aliens charged with immigration violations at the city’s main detention facility has been cut nearly in half. - Notwithstanding its lack of cooperation, NYC has garnered millions of dollars each year in federal SCAAP (State Criminal Alien Assistance Program) funds since the inception of this program to reimburse jurisdictions for the costs of incarcerating illegal aliens criminals. - Despite all of the above facts, the federal government has never taken action to overcome the obstacles placed in its way by NYC â€“ either through lawsuits, withholding of funding, or executive action â€“ so that it can perform its job of immigration law enforcement in the most effective and efficient way possible. Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a columnist for The Examiner (examiner.com) and New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he's a blogger for the Cheyenne, Wyoming Fox News Radio affiliate KGAB (www.kgab.com). Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty. He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer and columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. Kouri appears regularly as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Fox News Channel, Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, etc. To subscribe to Kouri's newsletter write to COPmagazine@aol.com and write "Subscription" on the subject line.	<urn:uuid:5eb8a10f-2245-44ef-a41b-b820ce1fd9c2>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2011/11/04/obamas-doj-sues-south-carolina-over-new-immigration-law/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.934139	1,207	1.570313	2
Geographical Index > Canada > Ontario > Report # 16853\| Submitted by witness No on Tuesday, December 05, 2006. Roadside sighting by a father and son north of Brockville (Show Printer-friendly Version) LOCATION DETAILS: Near Highway 29, north of Brockville, on the way to Graham lake. NEAREST TOWN: Brockville(large) NEAREST ROAD: Highway 29 North OBSERVED: My father (75) was driving to Addison (town) to see his mechanic to give him an early Christmas gift. I (49) was sitting in the passenger seat (front) of a 2002 Montana van. We were approaching a curve in the road with a house on the left with two large cedars, when I noticed a large dark brown object (furry, like an otter coat) run behind a billboard sign (LUCKY LOON CAMPGROUND) into the brush and wooded area. I saw it for about five seconds as it made its way over the crossroad. I estimated its size by comparing it to the cedars that were on the property, and it was more than half the cedar's height of around 16-17 feet (so approx. 8-9 feet). It appeared to be running upright like a man with a swinging motion. Thick body (trunk 3-4 feet wide). Arms held tightly to side of body-no visible hands. Rear view only. Appearance of shoulders and head. There was newly fallen snow from the night before, but it seemed that the object jumped over the shoulder of the road and left an impression on a small rise (or bank) toward the bush. It seemed as if the impression was an irregular shaped large peanut shape with snow in the center where the arch would be of a foot. Nearby there were broken cedars, and a newly formed path through the bush was evident. Did not report event to authorities, but mentioned it to residents (husband and wife) who came walking by later. Told them to be careful. Talked to two friends as well about the incident. ALSO NOTICED: Imprint(?), broken cedars and branches, path through brush. OTHER WITNESSES: (1) ME... looking at roadway and wooded area to the left. (2) My father was looking right at the roadway, and did not see the event occur, but witnessed the impression and the cedar and brush damage. OTHER STORIES: No. TIME AND CONDITIONS: Clear, suuny, bright ENVIRONMENT: Brush, wooded, relatively flat Follow-up investigation report: The witness saw the creature for about 5 seconds, as he described above, until it disappeared into the forest. The sighting took place at 11:20 am in an area that is very light in vehicle traffic. After a careful analysis of the immediate area, the witness is convinced that it's height had to have been at least 8 - 9 feet. He initially thought what he was looking at was a "bison" that escaped from a local zoo due to it's considerable bulk. However, he quickly dispelled that thought when he realized that it was travelling upright on two legs. He describes its coat as "otter-like" with a shoulder width of about 5 1/2' tapering slighting down to about 4' at the waist and the coat colour as being dark brown above the waist and a lighter brown from the waist down. It moved in a slightly hunched over "jiggling" motion as if it's two hand were clutching something to it's chest and the outer elbows were protruding outwards. He says that the only physical evidence left at the scene was a slight soft-mud print and a matted down area in a high grass section off the shoulder of the road. The indent in the grass was in a type of "L" configuration suggesting a fetal type position created by whatever was laying there. He also noted that last year the local paper mentioned an unknown animal was killing cattle from nearby farms. Some locals believe it to be a cougar, but given the fact that cougars are generally not found this far south this seems unlikely. These incidents will be further investigated.	<urn:uuid:a56438f6-41cb-4002-9cb2-cb8e1fb98f11>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=16853	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.977196	894	1.601563	2
A fight over posting calorie counts for popcorn is just one example of the clash between the White House and the agency charged with protecting public health. Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, the F.D.A. commissioner, was forced to scrap plans to have calorie counts posted for foods served in movie theaters and on airplanes after a phone call from the White House deputy chief of staff in 2010. From the article: "White House officials describe their disagreements with the F.D.A. as part of the normal, constructive give-and-take over policy that has never undermined the agency’s mission. 'Under President Obama’s leadership, the Food and Drug Administration has new authority and resources to help stop kids from smoking, protect our food supply and approve more affordable prescription drugs,' said the White House press secretary, Jay Carney. The administration also views the agency’s hostility to its oversight as hopelessly naïve, given a 24-hour news cycle and a ferocious political environment that punishes any misstep. 'They want a world that doesn’t exist anymore,' an administration official said."	<urn:uuid:237c36f9-4371-4c32-9e25-271e84236ffc>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/03/1727249/the-politics-of-the-fda?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2FslashdotPolitics+%28Slashdot%3A+Politics%29	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.94541	224	1.632813	2
When the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall opens its doors for tomorrow's concert, it hopes to see a change in the face of its audience. Mixed in with the older, mostly white crowd that normally frequents performances at Baltimore's modern, 2,400-seat concert hall, the symphony hopes to entertain a significant number of African-Americans. With a series of shows beginning tomorrow by an all-African-American troupe called Soulful Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is embarking on a campaign to attract a more diverse audience. Its subscriber base mirrors most symphonies around the country, with about 2 percent African-American and Latino listeners and 3.5 percent Asian patrons. With orchestras facing budget deficits, bankruptcies and audiences that are aging and dwindling, several - from Oakland to St. Louis - are finding ways to attract crowds that long have been ignored. The BSO's diversity effort is part of a broader plan by the 88-year-old ensemble to reinvent itself as it tries to earn a profit and boost attendance. The BSO has seen an average 2 percent decline in its audience each year for the past decade. To address a deficit expected to reach $12 million by 2008, the symphony in September announced an innovative financing plan to, in principle, sell its Baltimore concert hall to its own nonprofit subsidiary and use the proceeds to pay off debt and pay for programs. In an effort to expand its base, the BSO has launched one of the country's most aggressive diversity recruitment efforts, according to people who track symphonies nationally. In May, it took under its umbrella Soulful Symphony, a 75-member orchestra of African-American musicians led by composer-conductor Darin Atwater. Soulful Symphony will perform four concerts, starting with tomorrow's show at 8 p.m. In January, it will perform with the BSO, which is providing administrative and fund-raising help. The subsequent shows will be in February and April. The Eddie and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation, whose founders have been active in promoting the arts to minorities, have put up $300,000 that has to be matched 2-to-1 by the BSO board, the African-American community and the community at large in the three years. So far, 20 percent has been raised. Unlike traditional symphonies that play mostly classical music, Soulful Symphony adds the sounds of reggae, blues, jazz, gospel and Afro-Cuban. One of its performances will meld in African proverbs and the poetry of James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes. "This is pretty innovative, what they're doing in Baltimore," said Melinda Whiting, editor-in-chief of Symphony Magazine, published by the industry group American Symphony Orchestra League. "It promises to introduce their regular patrons to something new that ... brings in a whole new audience." Symphony watchers point to various reasons, past and present, for weak minority attendance. During segregation, blacks were banned from symphonies and, therefore, were introduced late to the style. Minorities don't see themselves on symphony stages - the BSO has one black musician. And as cuts at schools target music and arts, particularly in the largest cities, students aren't being exposed to symphonic music. "The tragedy of the last generation is that they're growing up empty-handed in terms of musical education," said Patrick Williams, artistic director for the Henry Mancini Institute, a nonprofit that provides music education and performances to under-served youth and communities in Los Angeles. "You're not going to have an audience of any knowledge or sophistication if they've been deprived of any musical education." Symphonies also do a bad job at marketing themselves to diverse audiences, some in classical music contend. Just as car or clothing companies tailor ads to different segments of the population, symphonies need to do the same. "Classical music has presented itself and sometimes presents itself in a very elitist way that is unwelcoming," said Aaron Dworkin, founder and president of the Sphinx Organization, a Detroit nonprofit that exposes and trains black and Latino youth in classical music. "You have to find ways to make classical music more welcoming." To promote its diversity initiative, the BSO crafted a marketing campaign that is much more grass-roots than past strategies. For the past six months, BSO "foot soldiers" have visited churches, black sororities and fraternities and other social groups representing African-Americans trying to sell the idea. Last month, symphony staff met with the Baptist Ministers Conference of Baltimore and Vicinity, a group of local pastors, to stoke interest. "Baltimore is a diverse community and the symphony should have a diverse audience," said Jerome Stephens, a deacon at New Shiloh Baptist Church.	<urn:uuid:d5b0eb40-9daf-4986-9da6-905774e67812>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2004-11-12/news/0411120185_1_soulful-symphony-symphony-orchestra-baltimore-symphony	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.960442	998	1.734375	2
Since September 2010 the 30 minute long radio programme ‘Airing Pain’ has been broadcast by APMA’s British counterpart Pain Concern. The programmes are broadcast on the internet, then made available as podcasts and CDs. They remain available to listeners as a ready support system. Every listener will find some support, some inspiration, and some practical help that will ease their lives. This magazine style programme looks at a wide range of topics including: It works like an APMA pain support group, packed with information and support - only you don’t have to leave your home! “Let us remind ourselves... of the Chinese doctrine of recruiting the patient as a member of his own treatment team, so that patients and therapists become comrades in the best sense of the word, with its connotations of shared respect and responsibility... We shall never abolish pain... What we can overcome is a hopeless, helpless imprisonment within immutable pain.” Defeating Pain, the War against a Silent Epidemic: Patrick Wall.	<urn:uuid:68112954-e081-48cf-90a2-bc4361158455>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.painmanagement.org.au/airing-pain-radio-programme	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.948784	211	1.6875	2
FDA rejects Watson/Columbia premature birth drug (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators have rejected a vaginal gel from Watson Pharmaceuticals and Columbia Laboratories aimed at reducing the risk of premature birth, the companies said on Monday. The Food and Drug Administration told the companies that the data was not strong enough to support approval of the Prochieve drug and that they needed to do additional clinical studies, Watson and Columbia said. "We have formally requested an end-of-review meeting with FDA to determine if a viable path forward can be established for this application," Watson Chief Executive Officer Paul Bisaro said in a statement. The decision was not a major surprise after an advisory panel to the FDA recommended in January that the agency reject the drug, already used in some other countries, because there was not enough data to show it worked. The vaginal gel, which contains the hormone progesterone, is meant for women with a short cervix, who have a higher risk of premature birth. Preterm birth affects 10 percent to 12 percent of all pregnancies in the United States, and babies born early have a higher risk of early death and long-term health and developmental problems. A similar drug called Makena, from K-V Pharmaceutical Co, is already approved in the United States to prevent premature birth in women who have a history with the condition. But there is currently no other drug approved for women with a short cervix, who may be at higher risk of preterm birth but have never had problems before. In a preliminary review of the gel, FDA staff said Prochieve did not work as well for women in the United States, and the drug's overall success may have been influenced by high performance in countries such as Belarus and South Africa. The rejection is a setback for Watson, which is one of the world's biggest generic drugmakers and is also developing a brand-name pharmaceutical franchise in men's and women's health products. $INS01; Line LNY Insave:- TI line name (Map report) - Tweet this - Share this - Digg this	<urn:uuid:7f09bd37-43b4-4509-9ae4-fbb03e5593a4>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/27/us-fda-birth-drug-idUSTRE81Q1LO20120227	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.964818	429	1.523438	2
Winter storm, snow possible for Oklahoma on Christmas Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? If so, you might be in luck. Forecasters say a large winter storm could hit Oklahoma and Texas on Christmas night. Photo via Accu Weather Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? If so, you might be in luck. Forecasters say a large winter storm could hit Oklahoma and Texas on Christmas night. Some areas could even experience blizzard conditions, according to the National Weather Service. A rapidly evolving upper storm system will move into the Rockies early next week near Christmas Eve. The storm then appears it will move across portions of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas late Christmas Night through Wednesday. There have only been 11 days in which a trace or more of snow fell on Christmas in Oklahoma City. In 1983, Oklahoma City had the coldest Christmas on record when the temperature fell to minus 1 degree. On Christmas Eve in 2009, a blizzard warning was issued for Oklahoma and blanketed the state with 1 to 14 inches of snow. Travel became nearly impossible that Christmas, and hundreds of vehicles were left stranded on roads. Weather blogger Bryan Painter reports the storm we might see this year could delay travel plans on and after Christmas. Watch a winter weather Google+ hangout below for more information on snow predictions and travel safety. Are you going to cancel your travel plans because of the winter storm prediction? How will you spend the holiday? Share your thoughts below.	<urn:uuid:b68cf14b-d115-4f1c-9c74-0a9757158594>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://newsok.com/winter-storm-snow-possible-for-oklahoma-on-christmas/article/3738657	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.932343	298	1.75	2
When you are considering a career in the UN make sure you bring some patience for the process because applying will take you effort and time. But before we start, let’s clarify, that this post is neither trying to criticize nor defend the UN’s recruitment policies but merely outlining some of the elements of the process. Also, understand that I’m not representing the UN in any way and the information provided below is merely information from my experience running the UN Job List. To begin with, let’s be clear that there is not just one organization being the UN but rather a family of different organizations forming the UN. Consequently, there is also not only one recruitment experience, so things can vary from organization to organization and even within organizations based on duty station or department. What are the key factors that influence the time it takes for recruitment for an applicant? - Advertisement period: To be fair to applicants and to achieve a wide circulation of vacancies most job adverts come with a closing date. This closing date depends on the nature of the recruitment, the different agencies etc. An overview over the differences in advertisement periods can be found on here. Time frame: 2 weeks to many months as announced in the vacancy - Long listing: A typical next step in the process is to take all applicants and sort out the candidates that are not fulfilling the requirements. This is the step where the formal requirements for a job are checked. This may include the years of experience, the educational requirements, checking for relevant work experience etc. Depending on the post advertised, this can be a very long and tedious job since there are cases with hundreds and even thousands of applicants and some of the checks will take some time. In some instances long listing is done by a panel of staff to ensure fairness. This may add additional time to the process as it takes time to coordinate the panel members’ schedules. Time frame: form a few days to several weeks depending on number of applicants and job requirements - Short listing: After the long listing the list of applicants is still very long. In the short listing the challenge is to ensure that the most suitable candidates are invited for a written test. This means that the long list is gone through in more detail and applicants are compared against each other in terms of their qualification and experience. In most cases short listing is done by a panel of staff to ensure fairness. This may add additional time to the process as it takes time to coordinate the panel members’ schedules. Time frame: typically anywhere between one week to many weeks - Written Test: To not rely on interviews only in some cases applicants are required to pass a written test. Designing, administering, correcting and scoring the test can be a task taking several weeks if the job is complex and applicants are scattered around the world. Time frame: a few days to several weeks - Interview: This point is relatively straight forward in terms of what needs to happen. One key challenge is to get all the right people, i.e. all applicants, all panel members into the same time zone and make sure they are reachable i.e. not traveling, being in a location with connectivity etc. Depending on the complexity of the job, several rounds of interviews can be conducted. Time frame: from a day to several weeks - Post interview processing:In this period, some UN internal process steps have to be completed. Firstly, a decision for a recommended candidate based on test results and interviews has to be made, secondly the documentation has to be completed, thirdly there is typically in independent review of the application process in the UN to make sure that the process was transparent and fair and lastly the offer has to be produced and signed. Time frame: from one week to several months depending on the post - Contacting the preferred candidate: What happens next is that the preferred candidate is offered the job. Sometimes by that time the preferred candidate is not available any longer and the second (or even third) in line is contacted if these candidates are found to be fit for the job. It can happen that none of the candidates is fit for the job at which point in time the process starts all over from the beginning. You can identify these cases if you see a vacancy saying “re-advertised”. There is no need to re-apply for re-advertised posts if you already applied for that job in the first round. Time frame: a few hours to several weeks The above outlines what happens in cases when we are talking about a standard recruitment. The process may be quite different for programmes like the Young Professional Programme (YPP) in the UN or the Junior Professional Programme (JPO) and may be very different for very high level posts. If you want to make sure you understand the process that would apply to your application, check with the organization which advertises your job. A few considerations to keep in mind during this process: - Unless you are short listed and invited for an interview you are not likely to hear anything from the UN. I don’t know the details of why this is the case but it is wide-spread practice so it’s best to anticipate not getting a regret letter if you consider applying. - Even if you had an interview, you may not be hearing anything for quite a while after your interview: The reason is simply that aside from internal process review time and the contract administration time regret letters are only sent when the recommended candidate signed the contract. This is to avoid sending a regret letter to the second candidate and then offering a contract in the case of the first candidate not being available for the job. - Processes can take a while if things need to be coordinated internationally. Trying to get experts for an interview panel from New York, Geneva and Nairobi to have time to interview an applicant from New Zealand can be quite complicated, especially since most people involved have a regular job and are not dedicated recruiters. - The above outlines the regular case. If there are any challenges in the process (e.g. a short listed candidate can’t be reached to get the interview date confirmed etc.) additional delays may be incurred. The bottom line is: If you apply for a job in the UN do some research on the recruitment time of your organization. When applying, be patient it can take a little while. Also, once you are done with your application, keep applying to relevant other vacancies and don’t be discouraged if it does not work out on the first try. Good luck!	<urn:uuid:0452face-f76c-4f30-b29b-7e8051856929>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.rottmair.de/2011/08/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.957863	1,331	1.78125	2
Canadian Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney will be visiting California’s Silicon Valley on Friday for a four day trip intended to promote Canada as a place to live for the region’s entrepreneurs. According to an article in San Jose’s Mercury News, a billboard is currently appearing near Silicon Valley advertising Canada to foreign tech workers struggling with H-1B visa restrictions: On Tuesday, just days before Kenney was set to tour San Francisco and the South Bay to promote his new visa for startup entrepreneurs, a giant red maple leaf emerged on a billboard off Highway 101 on the route from San Francisco to the heart of Silicon Valley, part of a Canadian advertisement encouraging tech workers here temporarily to migrate north permanently. Modeled on an idea first introduced but never passed in the U.S. Congress, Canada’s new “startup visa” grants permanent residency to entrepreneurs who can raise enough venture capital and start a Canadian business. “H-1B problems?” asks the South San Francisco billboard, referencing America’s temporary visa for skilled foreign workers. “Pivot to Canada.” Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) hopes to capitalize on the frustration tech companies in the U.S. are feeling over immigration restrictions on foreign technology workers and encourage them to relocate to and invest in Canada. The eventual goal is to help foster the development of a Canadian equivalent to Silicon Valley. One challenge that CIC faces in this mission is the country’s top marginal income tax rate, which is significantly higher than that of the U.S. A Canadian entrepreneur can look forward to paying about 50 percent of their income to the government if they succeed in joining the top bracket of income earners. Compensating for this disadvantage, the federal government is offering a perk that no other advanced economy offers foreign entrepreneurs: permanent residency status. For foreign tech workers in the U.S. anxiously awaiting the six year limits on their H-1B visas, immigration to Canada offers a chance of stability that only permanent residency can provide. Also working in Canada’s favor is the perception of being a safer country than the U.S., with significantly lower violent crime rates, particularly homicide rates. A better fiscal situation, with a much lower deficit to GDP ratio than the U.S., also gives foreign nationals more confidence in the country’s economic future. Regardless of how successful CIC’s headhunting campaign in Silicon Valley ends up being, the federal government has a lot of ground to make up for, with total venture capital funding in all of Canada in 2012 coming to $1.5 billion -less than 15 percent of the $10.9 billion worth of deals that happened in Silicon Valley last year.	<urn:uuid:a7aa6996-1dca-433f-b98e-970f229f4335>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.cicsnews.com/?cat=665	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.932399	571	1.679688	2
Nintendo Lets You Beat your Children "Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day" for the Nintendo DS is a clever collection of puzzles and tests that "is designed to keep people's minds active with fun mental workouts that incorporate the user-friendly voice-command and touch-screen capabilities of Nintendo DS." It's difficult enough for me to get a physical workout. A mental workout seems even less likely. But, actually, I've had the chance to play "Brain Age" several times now, and I must say that it's pretty addictive. It includes challenges such as memorizing words, counting and tracking people as they enter and exit a house, drawing lines to connect letters and numbers in alphabetical and numeric order, rapid-fire simple math, sudoku, and a cool test that makes you say the color of the letters making up a word for a different color. When all is said and done, the system gives you a "brain age" that's not meant to humiliate you (although it did in my case) but assist in your quest for better brain functioning. The game is the U.S. version (simplified, no doubt, for us stupid Americans) of brain-training software that's already sold more than 2 million copies in Japan. Quite frankly, blinded by Sony's glitzy PSP, I had ignored Nintendo's DS as a mere toy. "Brain Age", though, has opened my mind as to how sophisticated the little dual-screen device is. Voice and handwriting recognition? Touchscreen capability? Amazing. If it didn't have that funky kid's-only cosmetic design, I'd say even aging baby boomers (who Nintendo claims began turning 60 in January of this year) would want one. With "Brain Age" available, they're going to have to buy one "for the grand kids" - but keep it at their house so "it's always here when you come to visit." Nintendo says the game cartridge will sell for "as low as $20". Go ahead. Get it. Play it. Feel those little grey cells burn...	<urn:uuid:e6787bf9-b36e-49d6-b275-9a0d5913f464>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.hometheater.com/content/nintendo-lets-you-beat-your-children	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.964836	431	1.835938	2
Friday, September 24, 2010 I don’t know if The Dunning Letter has coined a new word in “appathizers,” but it is the perfect term for the citizens of Bell, California. They are the victims of a city government that mismanaged over $50 million in bond money, and paid its eight city leaders more than $5.8 million in compensation this past year. Robert Rizzo, former city manager, was paid a salary of nearly $800,000 a year. Bell had a population in 2009 of 36,552. And all this happened because the people of Bell weren’t paying attention to where bond and tax money was going. And if they were, they voluntarily ignored the graft, or were possibly paid off to keep their mouths shut. A despicable example of a citizenry that doesn’t give a damn and ends up suffering the consequences. Apathy is everywhere. One of the most dramatic examples is those who think identity theft will never happen to them, and do nothing to protect their personal data. And then it happens. But Bell, California, a blue collar community, has let all this happen at a time when they can least afford it during the economic downturn. What were they thinking when people were losing their jobs, and Rizzo was raising his salary to almost $800,000? The city had almost no control over spending. State Controller John Chiang said that one man was in charge of the purse-strings, Robert Rizzo, running the general fund like petty cash. The people of Bell were after blood when all of this was discovered and brought into the open. Where were they when it all was being put in place and carried out? Residents apparently demanded no checks and balances, thus, they ended up wallowing in ignorant bliss. You have to wonder just how much this is going on in other towns and cities nationwide, maybe not up to this level, but a fraudulent government in some measure. Some politicians have always been on the take, but Bell, California has shown us how they can make it their life’s work. Posted by Jack Dunning at 6:00 AM	<urn:uuid:6cd220bf-ea1e-4aca-81be-377f7e34e944>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://thedunningletter.blogspot.com/2010/09/appathizers-at-their-worst.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.987053	446	1.640625	2
Financial institutions which were not in compliance with the Financial Intelligence Act can breath a sigh of relief - for now - as the compliance date was extended from 4 May 2012 to 5 October 2013. The new extension date, although not yet official, gives accountable institutions plenty of time to verify their clients' accounts and comply with the Act. The Financial Intelligence Act (Act No 3 of 2007) came into operation on 5 May 2009. All accountable institutions as highlighted in the Act, were given three years from the date on which the Act came into operation to identify the clients they already had on their books at that date. All clients belonging to any accountable institutions should register and be identified with their respective institutions by providing their identification and proof of income in order for the institutions to obtain certain information in respect of their clients and keep a record of it. According to Bank of Namibia, failure to provide documents will result in compulsory restriction of accounts. This means that accountable institutions are not allowed to carry on a business relationship with a client that has not been "identified" in terms of the Act. The three-year period ran out on 4 May 2012. Ndangi Katoma, Bank of Namibia's director: Department of Strategic Communications and Financial Sector Development, said that as a result of difficulties experienced by accountable institutions in finalising the registration process, a recommendation was made by the Bank of Namibia to the Ministry of Finance, that the above period be extended to 5 October 2013. "Whilst no official approval for extension has been granted as yet, the matter is receiving urgent attention from the Ministry. Given the above, it is expected that this will allow clients as far as reasonably possible to assist Accountable Institutions to comply with requests issued for purposes of identification," says Katoma. Although many institutions have not yet registered all of their clients, some accountable institutions such as Nedbank and Bank Windhoek have already introduced communications strategies to inform their clients on the importance of complying with the Act.	<urn:uuid:e7ef8558-ad34-42fe-96be-3a0082d545d9>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://allafrica.com/stories/201205110952.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.975883	403	1.625	2
Just stating the question in the manner I did shows my bias; however, the phrasing came from a recent conversation on LM_NET about "Teacher Interference." (Be sure to visit the archives periodically and scan the topics of which we’ve been chatting.) During the discussion Barbara Braxton, Australia, shared her stand and wrote: teachers do not have the right to determine what a child chooses to read during non-instructional time. So I would ask how you would respond to a hypothetical situation such as this … Imagine your child has chosen to read The Bible or the Koran and takes it to school, or borrows it from the library, to continue reading during silent reading opportunities in the class. You support his/her choice. But the TEACHER refuses to let the child read it simply because he/she disagrees with its subject matter because of his/her personal beliefs. Would you support the teacher’s decision? Would you defend your child’s choice? Is such a situation not censorship? Does it not conflict with the individual’s right to read which I think is guaranteed in your Constitution somewhere? I personally have witnessed teachers trying to refuse to allow students to check out the following: - drawing books - joke books - I Spy/Waldo books - Egyptian mummies - easy nonfiction - biographies of people they don’t approve - shrunken heads - Guinness World Record books - Ripley’s Believe It or Not - Harry Potter - long books - short books - sports record books - paranormal topics - not at their "AR level" I do not allow teachers to override student choice. What I will do is if a teacher insists a child must check out a chapter book (or other qualification), I will allow the student an additional title of his or her choice. How would you feel if you wandered your public library gathering a pile of books then were forbidden to check out any titles that were not intended to make your life more intellectual or wholesome? One of my jobs as teacher-librarian is to enable students to learn how to make life-long choices. We librarians knew how to recommend books before strict "reading levels" were thrust upon students. I do not have a canned reading program this year and reading is occurring in record numbers. I will continue to teach students "how" to find books that match their interests. What will you do? Okay, with all of that said, I do have a relatively safe library collection. I’ll be fair and open the conversation up to more gray areas in considering the issue of whether you believe you have the right or obligation to "interfere" or intercede. What exactly is non-instructional time? Do you consider any time that a student is at school to be instructional time? If that’s the case, then do you control what students read during SSR or DEAR times? Do you dig through a student’s backpack to make sure they don’t bring anything controversial to school? What if a child brings in a bodice-ripper novel? Do you take offense and rip it from their hands? Do you tell them it’s trash and demeaning to women? Does your opinion change if the child simply reads it on their own or if the child causes a near-riot from sharing it with everyone? What if a child brings in a catalog of AK-47′s and armour-piercing bullets? What if the child is reading something that is illegal for minors to possess such as pornography? While you think about these issues, I hope you received notice of this event to occur during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago this summer.	<urn:uuid:a1d77000-d8f1-449a-9f7b-a668d3ce6a85>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://blogs.slj.com/practicallyparadise/2008/12/07/do-you-interfere-with-student-choices/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.95754	792	1.828125	2
Suhaib Webb is an American Muslim Imam,thought leader and educator. After his conversion to Islam, Webb left a career in the music industry and pursued his passion in education. He enrolled at the University of Central Oklahoma, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Education. While pursuing his bachelor’s degree Imam Webb studied privately with a renowned Muslim Scholar of Senegalese descent. After intense private training in various Islamic sciences Imam Webb was hired as the Imam of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, where he not only provided Khutbas (Sermons) and religious classes but also counseled families and young people. After serving as Imam, Imam Webb decided to further his education and training in Islamic Law and various other Islamic sciences. He enrolled at the worldrenowned Islamic educational institution Al-Azhar University in the College of Shari ʿah. There he also studied privately with leading Islamic thinkers of Islam. After years of study in the Arabic language he was appointed head of the English translation Department at Dar al-Ifta al-Masriyah as a Mufti (Jurist). He completed his memorization of Qur’an there as well. Imam Webb strongly advocates for an authentic articulation of the American Muslim identity. He is a proponent of understanding the various challenges facing the American Muslim community and finding solutions based on an Authentic American Muslim experience. In 2009 his website www.suhaibwebb.com won the Brass Crescent’s best “Blog of the Year” award. Recently he was part of a delegation that visited Auschwitz to develop better understanding between Muslim and Jewish Americans. He was named by the British Government as a “Moderate Muslim leader” and was named one of the top 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center 2010-2012. He currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts, where he serves as the Imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center and is the founder and an instructor at Ella Collins Institute of Islamic and Cultural studies. Ella Collins Institute aims to provide intellectually, spiritually and socially stimulating courses that will develop a culture of civic engagement and empowerment by collaborating a classical understanding of Islam with modern scholarship.	<urn:uuid:6728e5a0-811e-470b-bc93-d1e66d44bb0e>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://icnaconvention.org/imam-suhaib-webb/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.967527	455	1.570313	2
A Near Miss In K-19: The Widowmaker, Harrison Ford, who played the President of the United States in Air Force One, switches gears by taking on the role of an iron-willed Soviet submarine captain during the height of the Cold War. And heís just as convincing, even though the movie sabotages his efforts with unnecessary political gibes and a schmaltzy tacked-on ending. Inspired by a true incident from 1961, this dramatic thriller also stars Liam Neeson Ė doing his best to hide an Irish brogue beneath his Russian accent Ė as the more cautious captain Fordís character replaces. How well I remember teaching my students to "duck and cover" back in the early Ď60s. It became part of our daily classroom routine. At that time in history, everyone feared some nuclear catastrophe was about to take place. Both the United States and Russia had enough firepower to destroy the world, and they kept stockpiling more. K-19: The Widowmaker brings back painful memories of those dangerous days. Now that Soviet Communists are no longer a threat, the real-life story behind a potential disaster involving Russiaís first nuclear submarine can be told. Iím glad I didnít know what was happening in that underwater Widowmaker on its test run. Iíd have been scared out of my wits. "The story had all the elements for a dramatic movie," says director Kathryn Bigelow (Strange Days), who went to Russia prior to filming to talk with K-19ís survivors and their families. "It had a built-in Ďticking clockí suspense factor; that is, a nuclear submarine with an impending reactor meltdown that could cause catastrophic global reactions. It had, at its center, a ferociously dedicated and charismatic captain, whose bold decisions under pressure saved the boat and its crew. And, above all, it had the courageous young submariners themselves, who knowingly subjected themselves to a lethal dose of radiation to repair the damage and fend off disaster." In other words, K-19 should have been a great film. What spoils it? Superfluous digs at Russian Communism, which come across like kicking a dead horse, are part of the problem. Scenes of Soviet bureaucratic incompetence and religious suppression appear at the oddest moments and seem out of place in a movie celebrating the heroism of this courageous K-19 crew. I was also put off by Fordís character calling the U.S. rescue forces "jackals." And, the filmís ending looks suspiciously like an afterthought. I can just hear filmmakers saying, "Let's add a speech about how the sailors' bravery emerged in daring actions to help their comrades, not to support any political principles. That worked well for Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers." Another disappointment to me involved my lack of feeling trapped in a submarine while watching the film. Most of the excruciating suspense in U-571 and Das Boot came from the sensation of actually being enclosed in an underwater craft. Perhaps K-19ís sequences depicting repair of a nuclear reactor detracted from the traditional submarine movie atmosphere I expected. Nevertheless, Ford and Neeson (Schindler's List) soar above all these negatives by demonstrating considerable acting chops in their adversarial roles here. Fordís Russian accent sounds quite natural Ė not a bit exaggerated. And his intense facial expressions say so much, he probably doesnít need to talk at all. Neeson plays the more sympathetic role with a believable mixture of concern and passion. Itís also difficult not to admire filmmakers for creating a movie about the courage it takes not to go to war. Unfortunately, K-19: The Widowmaker, a tribute to unsung Russian heroes who prevented a nuclear disaster, is far from perfect. (Released by Paramount Pictures and rated "PG-13" for disturbing images.)	<urn:uuid:de64db0e-41c7-4b7f-afd9-d7dfef139f2e>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.reeltalkreviews.com/browse/viewitem.asp?type=review&id=262	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.9617	793	1.757813	2
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian labor union on Sunday suspended a nearly weeklong strike in an impoverished central town after the national government agreed to remove a local governor. Over 300 people had been injured in clashes with police this week in Siliana, 75 miles (120 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Tunis. The Regional Workers Union called a strike last week to protest the area's economic problems, its lack of government investment and the imprisonment without trial of 14 activists for the last year and a half. The strike degenerated into daily clashes between stone-throwing youths and police, who responded with tear gas and buckshot. The U.N. Human Rights Commission criticized police for using excessive force and the ministry of health announced Saturday that two civilians had lost an eye from the buckshot. Before hundreds of supporters in Siliana, union official Ahmed Chafei announced the "provisional suspension" of the strike to "test the seriousness of the promises made by the government." "The governor will never again set foot in Siliana, he has truly left and if he returns we will restart the strike," he told the cheering crowd. Unrest in the poor regions outside Tunis has particular resonance, for it was there that a young man selling vegetables burned himself to death, setting off protests that toppled Tunisia's longtime dictator in January 2011. That in turn set off what is now known as the Arab Spring revolutions. Since then, however, Tunisia's economy has struggled, especially with the economic crisis in Europe, its largest trading partner. High unemployment and low investment continue to plague interior regions.	<urn:uuid:2f12e408-ecd8-4101-baa5-6a9ea62607a4>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1738152-union-calls-strike-restive-tunisian-town.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.957169	328	1.53125	2
Born in Knoxville, TN, on June 2, 1924, Carl Butler blended the popular honky tonk style prevalent in the '50s with the mountain harmony of his Tennessee upbringing. Though his early recordings were as a solo act, most of his popular material was performed with his songwriting wife, Pearl. Carl grew up influenced by the Opry's Roy Acuff as well as the old-timey music and bluegrass prevalent around his home. He began singing at amateur dances at the age of 12, and after service in World War II, he sang with bluegrass bands such as the Bailey Brothers and the Sauceman Brothers. In 1950, Butler began singing as a solo act at a Knoxville radio station; he signed with Capitol and began recording in his bluegrass style, but later changed to a honky tonk sound inspired by Lefty Frizzell and Hank Williams, who were then tearing up the charts. Though the sides weren't successful, he did meet Pearl Dee Jones at the time; she shared composing credits on his "I Need You So," and the two were married by 1952. Carl moved to Columbia that same year, recording solo and with the Webster Brothers throughout the '50s. By the end of the '50s, Carl Butler still hadn't produced a charting single, though he had recorded steadily for almost a decade. Finally, in late 1961, his single "Honky Tonkitis" made it to number 25 on the country charts. The Butlers joined the Grand Ole Opry the following year, and the exposure helped them push "Don't Let Me Cross Over" to number one. Their first single as a duo, it spent almost three months at the top of the charts, and led to an appearance in the film Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar in 1963. Carl and Pearl continued to chart as a duo throughout the '60s, hitting the Top Ten with "Too Late to Try Again" and number 14 with both "Loving Arms" and "I'm Hanging Up the Phone." The Butlers had worked with Dolly Parton around Knoxville for quite a while beginning in the late '50s, and they were her biggest initial supporters when she became popular in 1967. They continued to release Columbia albums during the '70s and also recorded for Chart and CMH, but retired in the '80s. Carl Butler attempted something of a comeback in 1990, two years after Pearl's death, but it proved unsuccessful and he died in 1992. ~ John Bush, Rovi	<urn:uuid:639d8a54-db7c-4885-bb3b-1f59e47c73a7>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.pandora.com/carl-butler	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.990991	518	1.632813	2
Global corporate divestment study Global M&A volumes have significantly declined from pre-crisis years. In 2012, total deal value was an estimated US$2.25 trillion, a drop of 47% from 2007, and 12% lower than 2011. Volumes also fell 21% between 2007 and 2012.1 Macroeconomic concerns, including US debt levels, tax increases and the ongoing Eurozone crisis, now weigh heavily on corporate buyers' minds. This has reduced appetites for large transformational deals, with many companies adopting a "wait-and- see" approach. Until now, the economic environment has also dampened appetites among sellers. In the immediate wake of the financial crisis, many observers predicted a wave of divestments as companies sought to free up cash, repair balance sheets and cure debt covenant violations. For the most part, this didn't materialize as many companies waited for improved economic growth. However, we seem to be entering a period of prolonged low growth. "The number of acquisition opportunities available to strategic and financial buyers is low, so when they come up for sale they inevitably attract a lot of interest and often sell for high multiples."– Paul Hammes, Americas, Ernst & Young Why companies shouldn't "wait and see" Many companies that have pursued divestments have achieved the value they sought. With M&A volumes down, there is often strong competition for a limited supply of good assets. Forty percent of study respondents stated that buyer competition helped drive up divestment values. An executive from an industrial products company told us that postponing a sale to await a more buoyant market may be the wrong decision. "You always wonder whether holding onto an asset a little longer would have enabled you to grow it or even achieve a higher valuation," he said. "But you really have to weigh that against the opportunity costs of having monetized the asset for other purposes. In addition, if that asset is already attracting less capital as part of the resource allocation process, then it will be difficult to fund any kind of growth." Growing appetite for divestments Companies are refocusing on divestments. Our study finds a growing appetite among corporates to divest assets, with more than three-quarters of respondents saying that they intend to accelerate their divestment strategy over the next two years. Sectors most likely to divest include power and utilities, and consumer products. For many, though, the economic environment remains a concern. More than half of respondents said that they would ramp up divestments but were concerned about the impact of weak economic conditions. Many were concerned that unexpected events could cause buyers to renegotiate or terminate a deal. A challenging divestment environment With buyers and sellers facing significant uncertainty, there is an understandable emphasis on rigorous preparation,due diligence and reassuring external stakeholders about the rationale for the divestment. Almost half of respondents said that the level of stakeholder scrutiny on both the buy side and sell side has increased. For many, this scrutiny has increased the time, resources and preparation required to successfully complete a divestment. But spending more time on divestments when so many other priorities are clamoring for attention can be a real challenge. 1 Source: Thomson Reuters	<urn:uuid:a5bfc067-1bbf-4a79-8f7c-269db6c75c0f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.ey.com/GL/en/Services/Transactions/Global-corporate-divestment-study---Divestment-environment	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.962253	657	1.515625	2
The focus in fitness these days is functional exercises — exercises that simultaneously use multiple muscles and joints to improve muscular endurance, overall strength, coordination, balance, posture and agility — to get a challenging, effective and fun full-body workout as well as prepare the body for everyday, real-world activities. You'll get a dynamite — and functional — workout with these 10 full-body exercises. Medicine ball squat with overhead lift Functionality: Even though you lift your kids and groceries with your arms, your legs and back are also key players. This exercise strengthens your legs, glutes, lower back, arms and shoulders. Exercise: Stand with your feet wide, holding a light medicine ball in front of you in both hands. Squat down, moving your rear back and keeping your knees over your ankles, and lower the medicine ball to the floor, keeping your head up and back straight (don't hunch). Return to a start position and lift the medicine ball over your head. Repeat the squat and lower ball to the ground. Perform three sets of 10 repetitions. Increase the weight of the ball as you get stronger. Up next: More functional exercises for full-body fitness >> The opinions expressed in this article are of the author and the author alone. They do not reflect the opinions of SheKnows, LLC or any of its affiliates and they have not been reviewed by an expert in a related field or any member of the SheKnows editorial staff for accuracy, balance or objectivity. Content and other information presented on the Site are not a substitute for professional advice, counseling, diagnosis, or treatment. Never delay or disregard seeking professional medical or mental health advice from your physician or other qualified health provider because of something you have read on SheKnows. SheKnows does not endorse any specific product, service or treatment.	<urn:uuid:c66d53bb-e0bb-41d7-a618-e6d8f29ce26c>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.sheknows.com/health-and-wellness/articles/806681/top-functional-exercises-for-fullbody-fitness?utm_source=crowdignite.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=crowdignite.com	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.941479	376	1.71875	2
Jewish World Review March 8, 2004 / 15 Adar, 5764 Events beyond control Who in November thought that in February the Bush administration would take on a third nation-building adventure, the one in Haiti? Or that John Kerry would say of the Aristide regime in its death throes, "This democracy is going to be sustained"? If time flies only when you are having fun, time has been limping for the Bush campaign. As the Democrats made news pummeling the president, he, obedient to the axiom "if you don't like the news, make some of your own," began using the executive's power to do so with mixed results. Until December, when Congress added the prescription drug entitlement to Medicare's menu, the president's signature domestic achievement was the No Child Left Behind (NLCB) law, which contains elements of accountability for elementary and secondary schools. But by the time presidential muscle passed the drug entitlement, NCLB was becoming weight in the president's saddlebag. Revolts against the law's mandates were simmering in states from coast to coast, including in the Republican-controlled legislatures of Utah and Virginia. Regarding the drug entitlement, Bill McInturff, a respected Republican pollster, found that 49 percent of those polled had an unfavorable opinion of it. Just 39 percent viewed it favorably. McInturff says recent polling shows the law remains a net negative. Pluralities also are unfavorably disposed toward the president's proposals to liberalize policy regarding illegal immigrants and to create a manned base on the moon. In February the president said he is running as a "war president." But the country decreasingly feels at war. That is a tribute to the president's defense of America since Sept. 11, 2001 perhaps the most successful 30 months of national security policy in American history. But it also is a political problem for the president. In December, McInturff found that among voter concerns, "affordable health care" ranked as high as "terrorism and national security" and well behind "the economy and jobs." When Massachusetts's highest court injected same-sex marriage into the issues mix, it seemed to be a reasonable surmise that this might be more of a problem for Kerry than for George W. Bush. It still may be. But that surmise seemed less certain after the mayor spoke. No, not San Francisco's grandstanding mayor. In that city, where same-sex marriage is probably considered the right-wing option, Gavin Newsom ordered the wholesale issuance of marriage licenses in defiance of state law. He thereby became the most flamboyant scofflaw in an American elective office since George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door. More telling was Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's casual statement that he would have "no problem" with Cook County issuing such licenses. Daley, whom you might send to Mars to show Martians what a typical American is like, is about as radical as a grilled cheese sandwich. His reaction to same-sex marriage is evidence that the American center has no stomach for what looks increasingly like a struggle over mere custody of the word "marriage." At this point it seems probable that the president's proposal to amend the Constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman would not be ratified by three-quarters of the states even if it could which seems unlikely muster two-thirds support in both houses of Congress. In California, where one-eighth of all Americans live, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opposes the amendment, which would be the first since the 18th it of fragrant memory, prohibiting the sale of "intoxicating liquors" to constitutionalize a social policy. After a 1956 event the Suez crisis made Harold Macmillan Britain's prime minister, he was asked what would determine his government's course. He replied, "Events, dear boy, events." In the 240 days until Nov. 2, there will be events. Imagine the capture of Osama bin Laden, or a terrorist attack in America, or one in Baghdad on the scale of the 1983 attack on the Marine barracks at Beirut Airport, or four or five consecutive months with heartening or discouraging job creation figures. Events are certain to be a valuable reminder to both candidates of how little they control the unfolding of history. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in Washington and in the media consider "must reading." Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here.	<urn:uuid:abc5fe3c-d055-42e3-bf62-1ed1e8e08ec7>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will030804.asp	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.961676	919	1.585938	2
Duke in China Duke University, in partnership with the city of Kunshan, China and Wuhan University, is forming a new Joint Venture University to be named Duke- Kunshan University (DKU). The Academic Council has discussed the plans for the campus since November of 2009. In December of 2009, the Academic Council issued the following statement “The Academic Council supports Phase I of the China Opportunity for Duke, which will allow the Fuqua School of Business to offer the existing degree of Masters of Management Studies (MMS) in China. The Council also supports Fuqua’s goal of using the facilities in Kunshan to enhance its Global Executive MBA and Cross-Continent Programs and to provide incubator space to other Duke schools for faculty to explore complementary research and educational programs. The Academic Council is not prepared to endorse future plans of the program until the faculty have had more time to understand fully what it means in terms of cost and other commitments to establish high-quality educational programs in China beyond those already proposed by Fuqua.” In January 2010, Duke entered into an agreement with Kunshan in which Kunshan committed 200 acres to a campus and to build the initial campus facilities and Duke committed to establish a Chinese Joint Venture University and to carry out an educational program. Kunshan has begun construction of the campus, expected to be completed by Fall, 2012. In January 2011, Duke entered into an agreement with Kunshan in which Duke and Kunshan agree to share responsibility for providing operating subsidies to supplement campus-generated income during the first six years of operation. This agreement is renewable in principle. At the same time, Duke entered into an agreement with Wuhan University, which has agreed to serve, as required by Chinese law, as our “education partner” in forming the new Joint Venture University. Wuhan has agreed to the name Duke Kunshan University (DKU). As currently envisioned, Wuhan will not have a financial interest in the new university but will have seats on its Board. While significant steps have taken place, DKU is still under significant discussion. In particular, no academic programs have been proposed, formally. These programs, once proposed will need to be approved by the various schools and University committees before they can be submitted to the Board of Trustees. In addition, the Council has created the Global Priorities Committee. The Global Priorities Committee (GPC) is an advisory body to the Vice President and Vice Provost for Global Strategy and Programs (VP &VP for GSP) and the Provost. The GPC is charged with reviewing and refining Duke’s global strategy and assessing university and academic programs and activities operating globally, both when they are being created and in monitoring ongoing performance. More recently, the China Faculty Council was created. This body brings together faculty with expertise in China, or significant interest in developing programs in China or nearby countries, to advise the Provost and the Vice President and Vice Provost for Global Strategy and Programs on program development opportunities in China, including for Duke-Kunshan University. The following information should help faculty understand Duke’s motivation for the venture and the discussions to date in the Academic Council. Relevant Academic Council Minutes Other relevant information President Brodhead’s address to the faculty giving the motivation for the venture, February 17, 2011 President Brodhead’s address to the faculty with a mention of agreement with Kunshan, February, 10, 2010 Selected Articles and Editorials Time for Trustees and Faculty to reflect (4/27/2011) Brodhead defends China Campus Initiative (4/27/2011) Faculty Split over planned China Campus (4/25/2011) Second Thoughts on China (4/25/2011) Get Faculty on board with Kunshan (4/7/2011) Initial DKU phase to cost Duke $37M (3/25/2011) Duke looks to build bridges to China (12/6/2005)	<urn:uuid:5ad675be-617f-4a09-894d-83d5dfd182be>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://academiccouncil.duke.edu/duke-in-china/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.953843	837	1.5625	2
<a href="http://www.atheistexile.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/apologia.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2219" title="Christian Apologia" src="http://www.atheistexile.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/apologia.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="480" /></a> Many Christian apologists try to give the impression that slavery was only upheld in the Old Testament. The fact is, it was also upheld – by none other than Jesus himself – in the New Testament. It's gospel! Here's the verse (Luke 12:47) . . . "Beat slaves who did wrong with many stripes, unless they knew not their wrong, then few stripes." . . . Paul also upheld slavery in the New Testament. Come to think of it, there's not a single word against slavery in the entire Bible. There's all kinds of immoral acts condoned, upheld or even encouraged in the Bible. But, as far as I know, human subjugation (slavery and male dominance over women) is the only one endorsed by BOTH the Old and New Testaments. This fact is important because it preempts the old apologist cop out: "That was the old covenant of the Old Testament but Jesus changed things with his new covenant of the New Testament". They can discount the Old Testament all they want but slavery is also upheld in the New Testament by the ultimate authority: Jesus himself . . . God in the flesh. Once you slam that door on the apologist, he’ll attempt to claim that slavery was kinder and gentler back in the Biblical era. The other day, one such apologist claimed that slaves were better treated because their masters knew that, by law, they had to manumit their slaves after 7 years . . . and that kind of foreknowledge will temper one’s temper. However, that was a conscious, calculated, misrepresentation. The fact is: only indentured Jewish slaves – those who sold themselves into bondage because of extreme poverty or debt – had to be manumitted. But non-Jewish slaves (mostly Canaanites) were chattel for life and could be passed from generation to generation through inheritance. The bottom line is that real slaves (not the indentured, Jewish, slaves) were property for life and could be whipped or raped at the discretion of his/her master. Chattel slavery is chattel slavery: human subjugation is not kind or gentle. Or moral. The final, desperate, maneuver of the Christian apologist is to claim that the "culture" or "prevailing attitudes" were different in the Biblical era. And that is the final nail in the coffin of the hapless apologist. By suggesting that slavery is morally relative – justified by prevailing attitudes – one is admitting that the immutable word of God is subjective, not objective, and not immutable or perfect or moral after all. Besides, God had always upheld the legal institution of slavery . . . nobody needed “prevailing attitudes” to make it okay. Apologists can't have it both ways. Either God’s word is immutable or it’s not. Either God is good and perfect, or he's not. Either God is the source and final arbiter of morality or he's not. Either the Bible is true and divinely inspired or it's not. And if God and the Bible are moral, true and perfect, then so is the slavery they uphold. But we know better. Don't we? Slavery can no longer be upheld. We've grown beyond that. There's no way in hell that we will ever renormalize slavery in order to align mankind's morality with God's morality. That ship has sailed. It's over. This fact puts slavery out of reach of Christian apologetics. Anybody can see – unless they refuse to – that if God's morality grows outdated, it was never true or perfect to begin with. God's word is not the objective truth. In fact, God stands corrected by us ALL: believers and nonbelievers alike. Clearly, if we can overrule God, he has no power over us. We don't need him. We never did. The single issue of slavery is all it takes to prove that God is not moral, timeless, omniscient, omnipotent or perfect. And neither is his split-personality scripture. If God or his scripture can't stand the test of time, they're frauds. Of course, all this presumes the Biblical God exists in the first place. © Copyright 2012 AtheistExile.com eMail: <a href="mailto:AtheistExile@AtheistExile.com?subject=Inquiry%20from%20Copyright%20Link">AtheistExile@AtheistExile.com</a>	<urn:uuid:dcd4fa06-b51a-44e7-b3a6-a6b87287a5df>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.atheistexile.com/member-forum/freethought-group3/the-apologist-challenge-forum16/the-death-of-christian-apologetics-thread5.0/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.944297	1,038	1.695313	2
I recently had reason to include some verse in a page I was working on. Markup and styles for modern browsers were a breeze. IE was a royal PITA. I wanted to center the verse, but IE just wouldn't cooperate. My methods degraded gracefully, leaving IE typographically OK, but not centered. As many of you know, I published a little write-up in July, 2006, on marking up quotes. After my hosting company went belly up, I rewrote it for my new site earlier this year: "How to Mark Up Quotes". Lately I've been having second thoughts about the suggested methods for the element. I added a new section to the article, titled, oddly enough, "Second Thoughts". Compassion is a profound human emotion prompted by the pain of others. More vigorous than empathy, the feeling commonly gives rise to an active desire to alleviate another's suffering. It is often, though not inevitably, the key component in what manifests in the social context as altruism. In ethical terms, the various expressions down the ages of the so-called Golden Rule embody by implication the principle of compassion: Do to others as you would have done to you. Ranked a great virtue in numerous philosophies, compassion is considered in all the major religious traditions as among the greatest of virtues. Back a week or so ago, say in May of 2006, Chris..S brought a problem to the forum, http://csscreator.com/node/16105 In a nutshell, he needed to have multi-line inline elements align themselves centered vertically in the container. Not a problem with modern browsers, but not so easy with IE. The problem was solved when IChao (Ingo Chao*) brought an example and an explanation of some work done by Bruno Fasino. Chris posted a nice demo page, which he seems to have taken down. I have never really got into using CSS specific frameworks or reset files. Drupal, the CMS I usually build website with, is really web development framework so I didn't see the need to look closer at CSS frameworks. Recently I took the time to have a quick look at what's out there.	<urn:uuid:b38ea4ef-2176-43ad-ade3-d83c30ad708c>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://csscreator.com/blog?page=9	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.968553	444	1.5625	2
\|Fighting between rival political groups has killed more than 100 people in Karachi over the last week [AFP] Deadly violence has erupted in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, amid a continuing war of words between members of the country's ruling party and a locally powerful rival movement. Up to 14 people were killed in riots which began on Wednesday, following a speech by Zulfiqar Mirza, Pakistan's provincial minister, in which he criticised Altaf Hussain, the founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). The MQM is the biggest party in Sindh province, of which Karachi is the capital, representing the families of Urdu speakers who left India for Pakistan in 1947. In the speech, Mirza said Hussain was a bigger criminal than the leader of the breakaway Haqiqi party, who split from the MQM in the late 1980s, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported. Afaq Ahmed, the leader of Haqiqi, was arrested in 2003 and remains in prison. "In my view, the real leader of the Mohajir nation is Afaq Ahmed who has been in prison for eight years and not a single case against him has been proved. "In fact next to President Asif Ali Zardari he is the biggest political prisoner of the country," Dawn quoted Mirza as saying while speaking at the residence of Awami National Party leader, Shahi Syed. Mirza, who is affiliated to the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP), said the people of Karachi and Hyderabad should rise up and rid themselves of what he called the "kambakht" - the damned ones - Dawn said. Live ammunition was reportedly fired and vehicles were set on fire shortly after a local news channel aired Mirza's statement. It is unclear if those killed in the riots died of gunshot wounds or other types of injuries. War of words "Another renewed round of violence is happening as the war of words heats up between the ruling government and the MQM," Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder reported from Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. "There has been violence over the past few weeks and all Karachi needed was another spark. It appears that the statements have been that spark." "The PPP and the MQM were major partners in the [governing] alliance. The MQM was backing this particular government. However, they fell out over certain differences and then decided to resign from the government," Hyder said. "The city of Karachi has now been barricaded, each political party which has influence in a certain area has armed its people, so the city has become a very dangerous city. But this is a political battle that is unfolding on the streets of Karachi." Police in the city were ordered to shoot on sight after scores were killed in street violence there last week and 1,000 additional personnel were being deployed to control the violence last Friday, a local minister said. The city is home to more than 18 million people, and has a long history of ethnic, religious and sectarian violence. A recent report from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said 1,138 people were killed in Karachi in the first six months of 2011, of whom 490 were victims of political, ethnic and sectarian violence.	<urn:uuid:3d05ac06-1eea-4f16-bcbc-7fdb37c21252>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/07/20117144836774561.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.985009	674	1.679688	2
France liberates Jesus Phone from Orange Liberté, égalité, l'iPhone disponibilité On 18 September, French mobile-phone carrier Bouygues Telecoms complained to the country's competition council, charging that the agreement between Apple and Orange - the main brand of France Telecom - violates basic principles of competition. Today, the competition council - the Conseil de la concurrence - agreed with Bouygues, a much smaller Orange competitor, and ordered that that exclusivity be immediately suspended, with the result that any French carrier, according to the ruling, is now able to offer l'iPhone. According to CNNMoney.com, the council's reasoning was that the exclusive deal between Apple and Orange "by nature introduces a new factor of rigidity in a sector that already lacks competition." (A French-language PDF of the 48-page decision is available here). The ruling is a temporary one, but will remain in place while the competition council studies the Bouygues Telecoms complaint in more detail. France Telecom, according to a report from AppleInsider, plans to appeal the ruling. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for their response to the ruling - but we assume they're not pleased. ®	<urn:uuid:226ae923-667e-4cd8-a269-5c12909c3140>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/17/french_council_frees_iphone/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.930798	256	1.664063	2
For Sepia Saturday 167 we are beside a river or a bay. There are trees, houses, a pier and a steamer. There is also a powerful clue to the exact location because etched into the emulsion of the glass plate negative is the word "Mosman". Mosman is a suburb of Sydney Australia and in this picture we see it as it was about 100 years ago, long before it was absorbed into the growing city. The photograph is part of the collection of the Powerhouse Museum which has been made available via Flickr Commons. Our thanks to Sepian Kathy Matthews for suggesting this as our theme image for this week. You might want to go with boats, water, steamers, piers or writing on photographs : or you might want to paddle your photographic boat in an entirely different direction. This is Sepia Saturday, the choice is yours. All you need to do is to post your post on or around Saturday 9th March 2013 and then add a link to the list below. And here is our usual preview of what is in store over the next couple of weeks. 168 : Nominated by Sepian John Newmark, this photograph of the Potsdam Conference could make you think of meetings, round tables, famous events, photographers being photographed or almost anything else. 169 : Nominated by Sepian Postcardy, here is a picture of lots of people taking photographs of cherry blossom in Washington. There are all sorts of possibilities here : blossom, monuments, photographers being photographed (again).	<urn:uuid:4e54c9d3-dc20-41b2-b821-0654537825a7>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.co.nz/2013/03/sepia-saturday-167-9-march-2013.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.963069	309	1.8125	2
A diverse, welcoming community of open hearts and minds since 1948 • View the special video of this Sermon: Is There Sex in Heaven?by Rev. Mary McKinnon Ganz Feb. 7, 2010 (Note: due to the snow blizzard of Feb. 5-6, 2010, services were not held on Feb. 7. The sermon was pre-recorded and delivered via the website – UUCA’s online church lives!) Everything is one with everything, whether we think so or Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever Heaven on Earth: Is There Sex in Heaven?by Rev. Mary McKinnon Ganz The subject today is love. Here’s another poem by that great lover, the 14th Century Persian Poet, Hafiz: The subject tonight is Love And for tomorrow night as well, As a matter of fact I know of no better topic For us to discuss Until we all My name is Mary, and I’m an addict -- a Big Love addict. It’s not what you think – “Big Love” is a TV series about a polygamous family in Utah -- one man, three women, umpteen children. I’m feminist, monogamous, Unitarian – and you might well be asking, what possesses her to like this show? I like it because it’s … complex. Certainly the relationships are, the way power ebbs and flows among the three sister-wives, the young adult children, and the often hapless husband. The theology is complex too, and the way religion figures in the lives of the members of this family – caught as they are between a Mormon church that disavows plural marriage, and a fundamentalist sect where marriage has become a grotesque parody of itself, with girl children bought and sold as political capital. This family is trying to live their faith responsibly and consciously. In this show, faith is an actor, and acts the way it often does in real life –- sometimes inspiring good, sometimes becoming a wedge or a cudgel for egocentrism, wealth and power. And love – what of that? The family in this drama has bought into what is called “The Principle,” which has been in force off and on in various sects of Mormonism since its inception in the 19th Century American West. According to adherents of The Principle, the highest realm of heaven is reserved for those who live in plural marriage, creating many many children for the glorification of God. In this version of marriage – and, as I understand it, any marriage sealed in the Mormon Church – “till death do us part” is meaningless. Because in this world view, death doth not part. In a recent episode, the fallen-away-from-the-faith young adult daughter of Wife No. 1 is planning a wedding. Her mother is anxiously pressing her to be married – “sealed” – by a Mormon priest. Legal marriage, she believes, is a temporal thing, but the seal is for all eternity, and all the pleasures of intimacy that a couple enjoy on Earth will be continued and magnified in heaven. “This life goes by so fast,” the mom implores. “How can we live, thinking that’s all there is to it?” Of course this is a question that goes to all of life, and it is one of the great questions to which every religion must offer answer. And it turns out that religious traditions which have a fairly concrete sense of life after death tend to agree that earthly relationships are recreated there, or created anew. And often these relationships in Heaven are said to include sex. In “Here If You Need Me,” UU minister Kate Braestrup tells the story about the Muslim jihadist who dies and goes to heaven. Maybe you’ve heard this story. He’s lived a good and faithful life, as he was given to understand what that was by his faith and his culture; certain promises have been made, and he’s excited to have arrived in Heaven. He gets to the Pearly Gates, and whom should he see walking toward him but George Washington! “What are you doing here?” the Muslim asks, and before George can answer, Dolly Madison appears, followed by George Mason, Sally Hemmings and Robert E. Lee. “Who are these people?” the jihadist demands. “I was supposed to have date palms, rivers of wine, and 72 virgins!” “Oh dear,” the gatekeeper says. “There’s been – a misunderstanding. It’s 72 Virginians!” Unitarian Universalists like this joke, because we tend not to have such concrete visions of an afterlife. We tend to agree that if we put our faith in bliss after death, we risk disappointment. And, whatever we each may believe about an afterlife, we tend to think that heaven is ours to create here on Earth, through acts of love, compassion, and justice. I titled this sermon, “Is There Sex in Heaven?” because it’s a mysterious question. When I went to see what others had written on this topic, I found an essay with the same title by a Christian philosopher. “Heaven is too far away to see clearly and sex is too close to see clearly,” he writes. “Pascal says that the human situation is always in the middle between two extremes or a number of extremes: too much light, too little light; too much distance, too little distance.” So far I’m with him; there’s poetry here. He goes on to note that in the creation story in the Book of Genesis, every one of God’s acts of creation was an act of differentiation – light from dark, sea from land, and ultimately man and woman. This is where he loses me, because the poetry turns rigid in his cosmology: once God has created these separate categories they become fixed and immutable, all the way up to heaven. Here on Earth, this does not match either what science tells us, or our own experience. Even our basic gender identities are not fixed for some of us and are certainly, for humans as a whole, more than binary. I get more meaning from the Jewish mystics’ reading of the Genesis myth – that God existed before this act of differentiation, and God’s separating the light from the darkness and the sea from land were acts of generosity, God withdrawing Godself from Creation to make room for human life. Somewhere deep in human consciousness we remember that we are all one, all part of God. But we live with an illusion of separateness – an illusion that is necessary to preserve in order to live in time and space. Because of this pre-creation memory, according to the mystics, we live with a sense of alienation, a sense of estrangement from the all-in-oneness of God. Are you with me? You might be wondering, what does this have to do with sex? People mate for all kinds of reasons, and sex is of course one. But why do we have sex? –never mind, that’s a stupid question. Actually, though, considered theologically, it’s not. What would happen, Hafiz asks in one of his poems, God leaned down And gave you a full wet Doesn't mind answering astronomical questions You would surely start Reciting all day, inebriated, Devotional poets like Hafiz have known it for centuries: loving God with your mind and heart and loving another human being’s body with your body share more than the word “love.” Loving a body with a body can get you back, for an instant, to that experience of Oneness that mystics believe is the truth of our existence. Can shatter the illusion of separateness, perhaps only for moments -- but in those moments you are outside time and space, aren’t you? This is heaven we can know. This experience – this radical stepping outside our ordinary lives – this is the real reason sex is a power so frightening that families and religions and governments have tried down the ages to control it. In sex, when we are very open and also very lucky, we taste the divine Oneness; we return to a place that, in most of our lives moving through time and space, we barely remember exists. Stepping outside time and space, knowing beyond mind that we are one with the Life Force – this the mystical experience, one I have also had in Zen meditation, when I pay attention to the breath flowing into and out of my body, and open the hand of thought. In “Our Whole Lives,” the Unitarian Universalist lifespan sexuality curriculum, we teach that all of life is sacred, including our sexuality – and I want to draw your attention to a blog on our UUCAVA website, in which June Herold looks at the opera “Der Rosenkavalier” through a lifespan sexuality, OWL-Out lens. In OWL we teach that because our sexual lives are sacred, we handle them with great care and respect. If we enter into a sexual relationship with another person, the other person must also be treated with care and respect, including open communication and rigorous truth-telling. Intimate relationships are so very complex. Forget a “Big Love” style arrangement, one on one is as much as most of us can handle responsibly. Elizabeth Weill wrote last December in the New York Times Magazine about a project she and her husband undertook to improve their already pretty good marriage. They worked on communication skills, dug up buried resentments, and reconfigured their division of responsibilities for the household and the kids. But it was when they began to work on sex that things got particularly interesting, and I’m talking theoretically here. In researching the topic, Weill discovered contradictory schools of thought. One was that couples generally can open to one another easily and create the experience of oneness because of the time they spend together, learning to trust one another. A completely opposite view is that, once early intimacy is established, couples throw up walls to protect themselves from that dangerously unitive experience – I would call it the experience of touching the divine – and settle into a safely boring sexual routine. It is ironic, isn’t it, that the experience of taking down all the walls can be easier with a stranger, or in a low-commitment relationship, than it can be with one’s dearest companion? How to keep the walls down, in the midst of intimacy’s inevitable negotiations and compromises? This is a question for a couple to work on through a lifetime together. Part of what Weill discovered in her own marriage was the continual dance to establish separateness in the midst of unity, or unity in the midst of separateness. How much distance was right? What was that urge to run away after intimacy – was that about the need to re-establish separateness? Was it – and these are my words, not hers – a need to re-enter time and space after a moment of ecstasy? The root meaning of ecstasy, by the way, is moving out of stasis, or moving out of self. Reading Weill’s piece I was reminded of Ranier Maria Rilke’s gorgeous description of mature human love in marriage in “Letters to a Young Poet” as “the love that consists in this: the two solitudes protect and border and greet each other.” We are separate, and we are one. We live within this great paradox. This is human life. When Kate Braestrup wrote about that joke about the jihadist in heaven, she was using it as the lead-in to a sad story from her life as a chaplain to the Maine game warden’s office. She had found herself consoling a young woman whose 17-year-old boyfriend had gotten drunk and walked into a pond and drowned. “What if I live to be 80, and I meet him in heaven and he’s still 17,” she tearfully asked her chaplain. “Will we still be together? And how will that work?” The truth is, none of us knows about the afterlife, how it could possibly work. What we know is what works here on Earth. We know that love is what we are here on Earth for. We know that ecstasy is a grace that we may taste but not possess. We know that our most intimate relationships are a chance for daily practice in loving rigorously and generously. We know that our responsibility to ourselves – as the separate beings that we are and as the connected unity that we are – is to be careful and loving, with ourselves, with one another, and with this great gift of being human. And, in the words of Hafiz – “To whisper, ‘I love you! I love you! I love you!’ to the whole mad world.” This is the great gift of being human – to give and receive love, rigorously and generously. Walk consciously through your life. Hold your love tenderly. Know, in the midst of your separate lives, that we are all one. Rev. Mary Reads Hafiz Poem Part 1: Is There Sex in Heaven? Part 2: Is There Sex in Heaven? Covenant Group Questions Sources and Inspirations	<urn:uuid:fd9610ea-6b39-4258-ad40-dcba3d632a19>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.uucava.org/page/heaven-on-earth-is-there-sex	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.965703	2,888	1.710938	2
The lighting examples from the GLSL Core Tutorial now include point and spotlights. Source code for all light types, including directional, and shading models, is also available. A VS2010 solution is also provided. A small update including two alternatives to read back and reset the atomic counters using glGetBufferSubData and glBufferSubData. A new update to the GLSL Core Tutorial is now available. A new section covers subroutines, a new feature of modern OpenGL that allows dynamic shader behaviour configuration. Also a new example has been added. It covers some ways of dealing with coloring a model, and briefly introduces a debugging strategy. The tutorial is starting to get into shape. A lot of material has been added, and the first, very basic example is now available. More to come soon Flipcode has been down for about 7 years, but it is back since August This was one of the reference sites for people in CG in its glory days. Glad to see you back, and all the best for the site. I’ve added flipcode to the the permanent list of links on the right side of the site. A Lighthouse3D short tutorial on OpenGL atomic buffers is now available in here. The tutorial covers both the OpenGL and GLSL definition and usage. As the official documentation, and demos on the net are not abundant, it is difficult to be too assertive in some issues. Everything on the tutorial has been tested and it works perfectly with recent NVIDIA beta drivers. Unfortunately, a few things seem not to work with AMD catalyst 12.9 drivers. Anyway, check it out, and let me know if I missed something, or if you find any bugs. VSML has been renamed to VSMathLib. Too many libs in the pipeline to keep naming them with a single letter The M stood for Matrix, yet as now the library also contains vector operations, I think the new name fits better with the content. Another addition is the availability of the normal and projection-view-model matrices. These are commonly used in shaders, and it doesn’t make sense to keep computing it for every vertex. Finally, the lib now works with the VSShaderLib to provide a more general method for uniform variable settings. Bug reports are most welcome.	<urn:uuid:e7166e69-e4a0-46e1-832d-3aee62233e21>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.lighthouse3d.com/category/uncategorized/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.945833	478	1.640625	2
Welcome to Germany! In Germany, the "Land of Ideas", we place major emphasis on education, science, research and development. This makes Germany one of the most popular countries in which to study, as well as a site for state-of-the art research and patent development. With its high quality of life, good infrastructure and central location in Europe, Germany is one of the world's most attractive bases for business. Its beautiful urban and rural landscapes, combining age-old traditions and experimental modern culture, make a trip to Germany a unique experience. Germany has something for everyone, so why not pay us a visit? The Embassy will be closed on 20 May 2013 (Whit Monday). German Development Minister Dirk Niebel visited Zimbabwe from 1 to 4 December. His visit focused on talks with representatives of the reform-oriented MDC, the moderate wing of ZANU-PF, civil societ... Minister Niebel in Zimbabwe Germany’s two-year term as a member of the United Nations Security Council came to an end on 31 December 2012. This period was marked by the radical changes sweeping the Arab world. Germany in the UN Security Council Germany's Africa Policy and Zimbabwe-German Relations Africa is on the rise! New guidelines for Germany's Africa policy pay tribute to that. Its principles are crisis prevention, the rule of law and the improvement of the security sector. This new policy also includes "Aktion Afrika", a high-level cultural support programme.	<urn:uuid:da295dee-aec3-4f6c-ac8d-aeb1e44b5dd5>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.harare.diplo.de/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.949781	308	1.523438	2
Ruth Culver Coleman (American) Possibly Sag Harbor, Suffolk County, New York Linen with wool embroidery 80 3/4 x 95 5/8 in. (205.1 x 242.9 cm) Sansbury-Mills Fund, 1961 (61.48.1) This magnificent bed cover and set of bed hangings (61.48.2) (currently sewn together into a second coverlet) are undoubtedly the finest eighteenth-century American embroideries in the Museum's collection. Both a name and a probable location can be assigned to them, but a number of elements in their attribution remain uncertain. Although these pieces resemble work that is generally attributed to Connecticut, in about 1898, Margaret Whiting of the Deerfield (Massachusetts) Society of Blue and White Needlework took photographs of them while on a visit to Sag Harboron the eastern tip of Long Island, New Yorkand identified them as the work of one-time resident Ruth Culver Coleman. Whiting was a crusader in the cause of repopularizing eighteenth-century American handicrafts, especially needlework. The location is plausible when one remembers that there were probably exchanges between the fishing communities on either side of the Long Island Sound. The pieces could have been made in Connecticut and imported with a bride to Long Island, or it is possible that only the patterns of the embroidery designs traveled across the Sound. In 1909, one of these pieces was displayed at the Metropolitan as part of the exhibition that accompanied the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, which commemorated the three hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the river that bears his name and the hundredth anniversary of Robert Fulton's first successful voyage up the Hudson in the steamboat Clermont. Item 592 in the exhibition catalogue notes: "Embroidery. Homespun white linen with elaborate design of flowers and leaves embroidered in crewel work. Designs copied from a piece of French printed cotton in the possession of the owner. American, Eighteenth Century. Lent by Miss Mulford." Miss Mulford was the daughter of Ezekiel and Julia Prentice Mulford of Sag Harbor. Ezekiel was the owner and agent of whaling ships. Julia Prentice Mulford's grandfather was Benjamin Coleman (perhaps the husband of Ruth Culver Coleman), who, after moving from Nantucket, was living in Sag Harbor by 1776. As far back as Benjamin, the family probably made their living from shipping or fishing. Although the 1790 census shows both Colemans and Culvers living in the Sag Harbor area, Ruth Culver Coleman has never been definitively identified. As always, official records of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women who were not heads of households are scarce. Aspects of the objects themselves are also puzzling. Were the designs really copied from a piece of French printed cotton? The reference in the Museum's 1909 catalogue to the fabric in Miss Mulford's possession is enticing in this regard. When were the all-blue wool-embroidered bed hangings made into a bed cover, and were all of the pieces stitched together from the same set? When Margaret Whiting took her photographs in 1898, the all-blue pieces were already sewn together. The illustration shows that the blue coverlet is made up of many lengths of fabric. Some of these base fabrics are all linen; others have a linen warp and a cotton weft. The two long panels at either side of the piece, which may have been the two head curtains, are the most elaborately embroidered and most closely match the motifs on our coverlet. The three smaller pieces at the coverlet's center have a different base fabric, and the embroidered motifs are less confidently wrought. There are three fragmentary pieces at the top right of the coverlet that are of yet another base fabric of a slightly different weave. Because of the variety of base fabrics, it is questionable whether or not all of the pieces are from the same set of bed hangings. If they are all from one set, did Ruth Culver Coleman embroider them all herself? If one considers the diversity of fabrics and designs, it looks as though a number of different hands were involved.	<urn:uuid:19d50948-fe41-4d1a-a90c-1d3c5513a271>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/61.48.1	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.959581	864	1.765625	2
Welcome to Conway Township Conway Township is in the northwest corner of Livingston County. Conway has the second largest farming population in the county. Its agricultural lands are level to lightly rolling and they support a wide variety of crops as well as animal grazing. Parts of Conway Township are heavily timbered with grassy openings. The township has few lakes and streams. The good folks in Conway Township want you to know when you come to Conway Township you should expect a lot of smiles. The estimated population of Conway Township for 2002 is 2,988 citizens.	<urn:uuid:2077cd43-8a17-4b72-842f-e90a3e2c6a2a>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.conwaytownship.com/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.961001	111	1.703125	2
December 4th, 2012 by David E. Williams of the Health business blog House Republicans are suggesting raising the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 67 as part of a plan to avoid the fiscal cliff. It’s not a particularly good idea because it just shifts costs from the federal government onto individuals, state and federal government employers and private employers. Not only that, but total health care costs are likely to rise, since Medicare is fairly cost-effective compared to alternatives. It doesn’t do anything that I can see to improve incentives or take costs out of the system. Also, in case you were still wondering about whether the GOP was a bigger defender of Medicare than Democrats (as Romney & Co. tried to argue) you can now lay your doubts to rest. I’d rather see the age for Social Security eligibility go up, while leaving the Medicare age alone. Doing so would provide an incentive for people to stay in the workforce, thus increasing economic activity, and would broaden the base for the Social Security taxes that fund the program. Come to think of it, this would make Medicare more solvent too, since payroll taxes include a portion that partially pays for Medicare.	<urn:uuid:c125e17a-784a-4682-a284-fd38747fa0dc>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.healthbusinessblog.com/2012/12/raising-medicare-age-to-67-not-a-great-idea/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.972479	241	1.742188	2
The company that was once a part of AMD's chip manufacturing business is now a fully independent organization. In a press release today, Globalfoundries announced that it has acquired the remaining 8.8 percent in stock that AMD owned in the company. This move means that Globalfoundries is free of any direct AMD ownership. The company was first formed in 2009 after AMD decided to spin off its chip manufacturing division. However, AMD still kept an ownership stake in Globalfoundries, along with Abu Dhabi-based Advanced Technology Investment Company. AMD has been lowering its stock ownership of Globalfoundries since that time and now that Globalfoundries is fully controlled by ATIC, it will be able to do more business with other companies. Indeed, it has already started to make chips for IBM at its newest plant in New York. Even though AMD no longer owns any stock in the company, AMD will continue to be one of Globalfoundries' customers. In addition, AMD will pay the company $425 million over two years as part of the stock buyout agreement. Also, AMD won't have to pay Globalfoundries $430 million in 2012 as a result of a chip pricing renegotiation deal.	<urn:uuid:1f89a630-fa22-4fb4-8984-fc01890ea800>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.neowin.net/news/globalfoundries-buys-out-amds-remaining-shares	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.981297	249	1.507813	2
Last post on May 04, 2013 at 2:12 PM You are in the Automotive News & Views What is this discussion about? Oct 31, 2010 (4:19 pm) It IS possible to disagree without being disagreeable. Let's drop the personal edge to this now, please. #1032 of 1067 Morass of Misinformation continues from just one source here! ? Nov 01, 2010 (5:20 am) galonga you are INCORRECT regarding the basics of the various combustion/calories/BTUs/energy-contents. And your arguments are hereby BEATEN LIKE A RENTED MULE: you are INCORRECT when you state that mixing ethanol with gas lowers mpg only in certain vehicles. These laws of physics/combustion/energy-content are hard facts. They apply to all vehicles, regardlesss of their national origin or design or fuel type. Next it seems like YOU are SO VERY WRONGLY alleging that USA ethanol is somehow chemically different than BRAZILIAN ethanol! That seems unlikely, but hey, bust out the chemical formulae and knock our socks off, galonganator man. Give us some real facts instead of pseudoscientific hogwash. Next you are talking about ethanol-only vehicles. I think we do enjoy ethanol-only cars here in USA , I think they are called race cars! (?) Galonga, as an esteemed co-member and a gentleman, you are proposing ethanol-only cars for the street in USA now? Please let's first confirm the abject unequivocal defeat of your arguments on the first few subjects before we try to move forward to your next round of misinformation sir? Nov 01, 2010 (5:31 am) The purpose of these fora as I understand it is a free and open airing of ones personal views regarding the title of the forum. I assume that these discussions primarily relate to subjects in the world of automobiles in America. One of the posters attempted to introduce some international flavor by touting another countries' approach to the use of ethanol. The title of one of his posts was "Too bad if the US chose a lousy solution'. I felt this was a bit edgy in that it attacks our use of gasoline (a remarkable substance). Ethanol / Brazil is quite different from ethanol /US. If the subject of his post had referred to ethanol instead of gasoline he would have been right on, IMHO. I think this forum has completely exposed the folly of our approach to the use of ethanol as a motor fuel; I don't know what more can be said. #1034 of 1067 Like I said... by pf_flyer HOST Nov 01, 2010 (9:16 am) Disageeing about something is fine. We just have to avoid the comments that get aimed at each other on a personal level. I'm sure we can ALL get in the spirit of things and avoid the personal barbs going forward, right? Thanks for your participation and cooperation! #1035 of 1067 Re: Like I said... [pf_flyer] Nov 01, 2010 (10:41 am) Everyone reacts to alcohol differently. #1036 of 1067 Re: Like I said... [pf_flyer] Nov 01, 2010 (6:41 pm) #1037 of 1067 Brazilians lucky to have Flex Fuel Vehicles Nov 02, 2010 (4:17 pm) History repeats itself. The demise of the E100 vehicles came about with a shortage of sugar. Looks like it may happen again. Good luck finding E100 if that is all your car will burn. Sweet could get expensive. Raw sugar prices may rise to the highest level in more than 30 years by March, if dry weather hits the Brazilian sugar crop, broker Newedge USA told Bloomberg News. Sugar prices have more than doubled since May on concern about output in Brazil, Russia, China and Pakistan. "If there's less rain than normal in Brazil until March, you could potentially see a reduction in the cane harvest, and then you have a potentially big problem," Michael McDougall, a senior vice president at Newedge, told Bloomberg News. Also, India may curb its sugar exports as it tries to rebuild its reserves, pushing prices higher. The reserves are currently less than half its preferred level of 10 million metric tons. "Current prices show that the market needs Indian sugar," McDougall told Bloomberg News. #1038 of 1067 From Mr Inconvenient Truth himself Nov 22, 2010 (1:06 pm) Al Gore: Votes, not science, led me to back corn ethanol Report: Al Gore Reverses View on Ethanol, Blames Politics for Previous Support Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore reportedly has had a change of heart on ethanol, telling a conference on green energy in Europe that he only supported tax breaks for the alternative fuel to pander to farmers in his home state of Tennessee and the first-in-the-nation caucuses state of Iowa. Speaking at a green energy business conference in Athens sponsored by Marfin Popular Bank, Gore said the lobbyists have wrongly kept alive the program he once touted. "It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for first-generation ethanol," Reuters quoted Gore saying of the U.S. policy that is about to come up for congressional review. "First-generation ethanol I think was a mistake. The energy conversion ratios are at best very small. "One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa because I was about to run for president," the wire service reported Gore saying. Credits for corn ethanol subsidies expire at the end of the year unless Congress moves to renew the $7.7 billion annual program. Opponents of the corn subsidies say that it removes valuable food products from the table because the U.S. ethanol industry drives up the price of corn. Reuters reported that Gore attributed a variety of factors to the food pricing crisis that has emerged, but that biofuels definitely have had an effect. "The size, the percentage of corn particularly, which is now being (used for) first-generation ethanol definitely has an impact on food prices," he said. "The competition with food prices is real." #1039 of 1067 Re: From Mr Inconvenient Truth himself [gagrice] by pf_flyer HOST Nov 22, 2010 (1:38 pm) I keep channeling Capt. Renault from the movie Casablanca more and more... I'm shocked, shocked to find that politics is going on around ethanol	<urn:uuid:7d071ea6-0c6b-46dc-a041-65876018bd9b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://townhall-talk.edmunds.com/direct/view/.f13a49c.f0d47e8/1029	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.946596	1,420	1.71875	2
Miss Janet Melville bequeathed the Fairy Fountain and Band Rotunda in memory of her brother Andrew who was Mayor of Maryborough in 1863. The entire structure was imported from Scotland in 1890 after the Hon. A.H. Wilson MLA saw it at the Glasgow Exhibition and acquired it as a suitable memorial.... more In 1905, the fountain was moved from under the ornate roof of the rotunda to its present site to allow the use of the rotunda as a performance area. Last Sunday of the Month activities in the park feature live brass bands performing in the rotunda and miniature steam trains.... less Children love to view the Fountain and try to catch the spouting water. Access is available for visitors with a disability. * Please note: These rates are indicative based on the minimum and maximum available costs of listed products and services. To obtain a firm price from the provider, please use the contact the operator. All prices are quoted in Australian dollars.	<urn:uuid:8f5408d2-81d5-4886-8cbd-2eb2e9dc880f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.queenslandholidays.com.au/destinations/fraser-coast/things-to-see-and-do/band-rotunda-and-fairy-fountain/brochure.cfm	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.951566	197	1.617188	2
GRAND RAPIDS, MI –Just a few blocks long, State Street SE seems to have missed out on all the redevelopment in Heritage Hill at one end and the revitalization of downtown at its other end. The street’s pavement is beat up and leads commuters past a couple of small city parks and a hodge podge of party stores, office buildings and parking lots in between. A group of neighborhood volunteers hope to improve the street’s fortunes this spring by hosting a two-day event called “Build a Better Block: re:State.” Held on the weekend of the annual spring Heritage Hill Tour of Homes, May 18-19, the event will create a variety of “pop-up shops” and demonstration projects aimed at temporarily transforming the street into retail corridor rather than a neighborhood connector. Lynee Wells, an urban planner and project manager for Williams and Works, said they hope to gauge reaction to a variety of different uses that could be located along the street, whose history dates backs to the pre-urban days, when it served as a trail for Native Americans. Pop-up developments will include shops, food truck walls and reused shipping containers, park improvements, bus shelters decorated by local artists, bike lanes, crosswalks, rainwater retention islands and signage improvements. A Rapid bus will be on hand to help residents better understand how to use the transit system, according to the organizers. “Quite frankly, I think this is a tremendous opportunity to explore the concept of an urban laboratory,” said Downtown Development Authority (DDA) Director Kris Larson. The DDA is contributing $15,000 towards the project. The “Build A Better Block” program is patterned after similar programs that have been successful in the Dallas – Fort Worth, Texas area, according to the organizers.	<urn:uuid:fe87585b-204b-49fb-90f5-247b374e5e2c>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2013/02/neighborhood_volunteers_hope_b.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.946796	382	1.679688	2
On Tuesday night, November 2nd 1886 nineteen local men gathered in candlelight secrecy to found the Killarney Gaelic Athletic Association. Straight away they looked for and received permission from the Bishop of Thurles and Emly to name the new Club the Dr Crokes and the Bishop also honoured the club when he accepted the position of first Patron. It seems amazing now that a Gaelic Club taking its first steps during English rule could have survived a time that is looked upon as war-torn, with risings against the establishment, a civil War, two World Wars and the ups and downs of Irish lifestyle over the years, could give unbroken service to the Killarney district, the county of Kerry and the Gaelic Athletic Association for so many years. During the early years the Dr Crokes had national heroes in politics and some prominent members spent time in English prisons. One of the highlights of those times was when the Club hosted a Reception and open air town meeting in June of 1894 to welcome back the distinguished Fenian O'Donovan Rossa after 30 years of imprisonment and exile. Reading the Address by the Club Chairman and O'Donovan Rossa's reply on page 21 of the clubs history book - "Dr Crokes Gaelic Century", one can get a clear insight into the thinking of those times. The Club was very much involved in the rise of football in Killarney & Kerry. John Langford, Club Captain, was one of the Committee members at the inaugural meeting of the Kerry County Board. The Club lost the first Kerry County final in 1892 to Laune Rangers in what was agreed by all “to be one of the finest matches ever witnessed”. They won the County Final in 1901 when Dick Fitzgerald made his appearance at 17 years of age, and by keeping that form in the decade, went on to win three more, in 1912, 1913, & 1914. But it was with the County team that the Crokes really came into the National arena, with Dick Fitz & six club mates, Dinny Kissane, Jack Myers, Flor O'Sullivan, Paddy Dillon, Willy Lynch and Dan McCarthy who backboned the team that brought the first All-Ireland to the Kingdom in 1903. Former Club Captain & Chairman, Eugene O'Sullivan, took charge of backroom affairs as Chairman of the Kerry County Board 1903-1908 and this set-up went on to capture four more titles (1904, 1909, 1913 & 1914) that gave the Kingdom a kick start that never slowed down again. Other Dr Crokes players to represent the county on those winning teams were Con Murphy, Tom O'Sullivan, Ned Spillane, Johnny Skinner, Denis Doyle, Johnny O'Mahony, Paddy Healy, Paddy Breen and Jim O'Connell. The Dr Crokes affair with the County team carried on right through the decades, having players on the first 20 winning All-Ireland teams, who were all household legends in their own era - In the 20s/30s we had Paul Russell, Bill Landers, Tim O'Donnell, Dee O'Connor, in the 30s/40s Billy Myers, Teddy O'Connor, Dan Kavanagh and in later years Tadhgie Lyne ('53, '55 & '59), Tom Long ('59 &'62) and Donie O'Sullivan (1962). It also shows that when this futile exercise of picking the Best Teams is pursued the only problem is, not who to select but whom to leave out. Add [Small] Jerry O'Leary to this company through his involvement as a Selector with county teams in early years, being present at the purchase of Jones Road, and as a G.A.A. historian, and Dr Eamonn O'Sullivan who trained eight of those winning teams - 1924, '26, '37, '46, '53, '55, '59, '62. After the death of the great Dick Fitzgerald in 1930, the club officers and members put their full focus and attention into erecting a suitable memorial in his honour and in the process the football side had some lean years. The Secretary, John Moynihan, kept the show on the road until the arrival of Michael O'Connor in the mid-50s and under his stewardship as secretary, the Dr Crokes once again became a strong force in East Kerry and the County. A slight hiccup in the 70s, but lessons had been learned and decisions were made and with a great youth policy in place the Club went on to succeed in the District, County, Province and to win the ultimate prize - the All Ireland Club Title in 1992 . In the Kerry football scene during that period, Eamonn Fitzgerald and Donal Kavanagh won National League medals ('72-'73 & '73-'74), Connie Murphy was awarded an All-Star (1989), and Brian Clarke won an All-Ireland medal (1997). Pat O'Shea followed in Dr Eamonn O'Sullivan's footsteps when he managed the County Team to win a Munster and an All-Ireland title in his two year term (2007-2008) But the wheel of life really turned full circle from the early 1900s when the Club has what must be a clone of Dick Fitzgerald in Colm (Gooch) Cooper, All-Ireland medal winners in Eoin Brosnan, Kieran Cremin and Kieran O'Leary, 3 County Championships in a row (2010, 2011 & 2012) and Patrick "Tatler" O'Sullivan was appointed Chairman of the Kerry County Board in 2012. Dr Crokes have had four green playing fields - the first in the Cricket field, Flesk Bridge up until the 1930s, in 1936 the magnificent Fitzgerald Stadium and in the past 20 years, two new playing complexes have been acquired and developed by the Club atDeerpark & Lewis Road. Lewis Road has in the past couple of years been developed into a state of the art facility to cater for our ever increasing number of teams. Dr Crokes clubmen have published six books - Dick Fitzgerald's “How to play Gaelic Football” (1914); Dr Eamonn O'Sullivan's “The Art & Science of Gaelic Football” (1958); the Club's Histories - “Dr Crokes Gaelic Century” (1886-1986) and “Decade of Glory” (1986-1996); Pat O'Shea's co-authored “Gaelic Football, Training Drills” (1996) & Fr Tom Looney's "King in a Kingdom of Kings 2008". Looking back now in this new millennium, would the men who gathered together under a gas light on November 2, 1886 be proud of the achievements of their club and the way the Association has projected itself? Hopefully they would, and maybe also appreciate the additions to the one Senior Team that started it all. Now the Club has an “A” & “B” Senior Teams, U-21, Minor, U-16, U-14, U-12 & coaching every Saturday morning for the U-6, U-8 & U-10s. Camogie was a game the Dr Croke Ladies were very proficient in, in the 1920's/1930's. Now the ladies are very much into the football, showing the same expertise & skill and forging a name for themselves in the County and already Under Age players have gone on to represent Kerry and have won All Ireland medals U-14 & U-16. Of course, the ladies had always been involved in the administrative side through the years, and also playing a very important role in the social side of the Club. Hurling, which played such an important role within the Club in the 1920' & '30's has been revived and re-organised by a committed and dedicated group who are developing an underage nursery for the future of hurling in the Club. It is worth noting that all teams wearing the Black & Amber of the Crokes have brought honour & glory to the Club by putting Dr Crokes to the forefront of the GAA. In the administration side, where on occasions through the years only one man was running affairs, the Officers now have a number of sub-committees to help stream-line so many aspects of the Club today. 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I spent last week in Israel as part of a delegation and met with Israeli and Palestinian officials. It was not the stalled peace process which was on top of the agenda but the possibility of a nuclear Iran. Israel is acutely aware of the complexity and severity of the situation. A military strike is considered to be highly risky and the Arab Spring makes it even more unpredictable and explosive. But the bottom line is that a nuclear Iran is simply unacceptable. It is no option for Netanyahu’s government. Nuclear weapons in the hands of the regime in Teheran are regarded as an existential threat to the state of Israel. Not because many believe they would use them, in fact that is unlikely, but the possibility that they will pass on their know-how or trigger an unstoppable arms race in the region. The strategic power balance would drastically shift and change. That, too, is perceived as an existential threat. It leaves Netanyahu’s government with little option and he is increasingly under pressure, especially from Barak’s quarter, to deal with the problem. Iran is a master of survival under isolation, which is why sanctions are most likely not going to work and affect the civilian population more than the potency of the regime. Containment and appeasement policy allowed Iran’s arch enemy Saddam to play the international community for over 12 years. Netanyahu does not have the time. In fact, time is running out for him rapidly. Israel must act soon, decisively, and precisely. A military strike against Iran will not necessarily result in a full-scale war. It is possible that Israel will successfully take out strategic targets, vital for developing nuclear weapons, and thus effectively destroy or at least compromise Iran’s nuclear programme for years. But Israel is realistic enough to understand that Iran is not an isolated case. The conflict could easily escalate and spill over to other countries, destabilising the entire region. Iran has been fighting Israel through surrogates ever since the Revolution in 1979 and its firm grip on Hezbollah and Hamas is an important factor in the equation. One Israeli commentator went so far as to predict a Blitz-like attack on Tel Aviv in case of a military strike against Iran. But even under these bleak predictions he concluded that Iran must be dealt with. His opinion mirrored the consensus from across the political spectrum. Israel will rather strike with great risk and might be not as successful as it wishes to be than doing nothing. Netanyahu is not the Prime Minister under whose leadership Iran is going to go nuclear. He is also not the Prime Minister to test whether Iran is a rational or messianic, apocalyptical actor. The stakes are simply too high. If necessary, Israel will act unilaterally. It has the required capabilities and has done so many times in the past. Israel will not put the existence of its state in the hands of a US President who visited the country not once since his election. When it comes to its survival Israel trusts itself – and only itself. An attack on Iran is inevitable. It is not a question of if but when.	<urn:uuid:c6bf10f2-5ec9-4091-9e2d-6f87e9423dac>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://juliesthinktank.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/will-israel-attack-iran/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.967466	626	1.625	2
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June 30, 2009 There should be a litmus test for ethics and integrity so that the landscape of our country could look vastly different. There would be no healthcare crisis, no financial collapse, no housing foreclosures or unnecessary deaths because of pain medication addiction. The misfits seeking positions of power would be duly eliminated before they created havoc. The death of Michael Jackson documented an ever expanding reality that gives me great pain: some doctors will do anything for the pursuit of money, even at the expense of human life. During the course of my medical career, I have witnessed and have had to report colleagues who have crossed the line for the sake of their bank accounts. The colleague who supplied his cocaine habit by doing unnecessary surgery and fraudulent Medicaid billing. The physician who paid his cronies on a per-patient-basis and turned a public funded healthcare facility into a money making factory. The “deals” made by colleagues that violate conflicts of interests. Hippocrates is probably rolling over in his grave. I will not write fictitious sick notes, fraudulent disability claims, fill prescriptions for people without a medical chart and am fiercely protective of my DEA license. My medical degree is not for sale. There are times when I have not been the most popular physician among my colleagues but at least I can sleep at night. I wonder if the physicians of Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole Smith and Michael Jackson can do the same. The seduction of money comes with a heavy price. Just ask Michael Millikan, Ivan Boesky, or perhaps, the clients of Bernie Madoff. Dr. Deepak Chopra had the courage to say “no” to Michael Jackson, despite his celebrity. I only wish more of my colleagues would have the decency to do the same.	<urn:uuid:f77e6d62-f9f0-44fe-aa93-4f17be225555>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://drlindagalloway.wordpress.com/tag/celebrity-doctors/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.960187	361	1.523438	2
it is quite impossible for sexual choice to be genetic. \| love is genetic and it is possible and wonderful that an adult and minor can develop love or play or even just brief curiosity as a result of their emotional interaction to try to reduce this to an unavoidable genetic mechanism is a form of self pity, like saying "I didn't really want to love him or do this, or do that, but my genes made me do it. Have pity on me. I am not responsible." what a pile of crap.	<urn:uuid:df67c690-86b6-454f-bb57-163d03054de5>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://boychat.org/messages/1336481.htm	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.970169	107	1.84375	2
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, the former Utah governor and leading Republican moderate said the party must accept "a strong dose of libertarianism" on social issues and allow state governments to move ahead with gay marriage. Offering his prescription for the party's renewal, Mr Huntsman said the early stages of the Republican presidential primaries rewarded extreme conservatives rather than "long-term competitive candidates" who could effectively take on the Democrats. Barack Obama appointed the Mandarin-speaking 52-year-old US Ambassador to China in 2009, a decision the newly-elected President hoped would keep Mr Huntsman out of this year's election. Obama campaign aides openly acknowledged that they believed the two-term governor would be a difficult general election opponent and possibly the most dangerous Republican in the field. He returned from Beijing in 2011 to media fanfare but his presidential bid collapsed in the early stages as he failed to connect with the conservatives that make up the Republican primary electorate. Mr Huntsman said that his work for a Democrat president, his belief in climate change and his relatively liberal attitude on gay rights had obscured his conservative stances on budgets, gun control and abortion. "You get caught up in a lot of the issues on which you're easily dismissed without people giving you proper consideration," he said. However, the scale of Mitt Romney's defeat in November has left the party reeling and may create a fresh opening for the socially-moderate but fiscally-conservative ideas Mr Huntsman espoused in the primary. "The party right now is a holding company that's devoid of a soul and it will be filled up with ideas over time and leaders will take their proper place," he said. Mr Huntsman urged the party to "reflect a little bit on our winning chapters" and face up to a demographic reality where white conservatives represent a shrinking portion of the electorate. "We can't be known as a party that's fear-based and doesn't believe in math," he said. "In the end it will come down to a party that believes in opportunity for all our people, economic competitiveness and a strong dose of libertarianism." He said he "absolutely" supported individual states being allowed to implement gay marriage, saying that Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, believed that "equality under the law is an American value". Mr Huntsman did not rule out a second presidential run in 2016 but said he was not spending his time "looking for some opening that we can fit in". He said that the three most talked about names for the Republican nomination - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney's former running mate Congressman Paul Ryan - "all deserve high marks individually". However, he declined to support any of them, saying he believed the party needed to go through "a very competitive process in terms of ideas". Mr Huntsman joined with a growing number of Republicans in attacking the use of "straw polls" - small-scale, unofficial voting contests among conservative activists - that gave "little blips of momentum and buzz" to far-Right primary candidates. Both Michelle Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman beloved by the Tea Party, and Herman Cain, the former pizza executive, won straw polls last year but still saw their candidacies implode. "You look back and you realize [the straw polls results are] fairly artificial and ephemeral and really don't speak to long-term competitive candidates that can actually go the distance on the big issues of the day," he said. Mr Huntsman cautioned that the improving economy would put Mr Obama's Democratic successor in a strong position for 2016 but said that eight years of incumbency would take a toll on the President's party. "The one thing that is as sure as the rising tomorrow is that the Democrats will become lazy and they will take their off the ball," he said. "We will see more crony capitalism in Washington as the state grows and that's the kind of thing Americans hate."	<urn:uuid:49c69df1-cf12-4f1e-ac68-8da7b22bdf89>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/republicans/9771589/Republican-party-is-devoid-of-a-soul-says-Jon-Huntsman.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.974459	813	1.515625	2
By Patrick O. Strickland - Jaffa At first glance, it may appear that the demonstrations which alighted across the West Bank on 05 September were routine. Weekly demonstrations, sit-ins, marches, hunger strikes, and graffiti are only a small fraction of the vast reserve of strategic means of rebellion regularly employed by Palestinians. Indeed, the notion of resistance itself has been absorbed as an integral component of society. It is, after all, the 45th year of life under the coerced tutelage of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). The demonstrators who flooded into streets across the occupied territories on Wednesday, however, did not deem Israel as the only barrier standing between them and self-determination. After years of vile corruption and inept incompetency, the Palestinian leadership is being called into question: neither armed struggle nor peace negotiations have achieved the long overdue liberation of millions of Palestinians living under military occupation or in imposed exile. After Hamas, the Gaza-based Islamist party, dominated parliamentary elections in 2006, immense pressure from Israel and its Western backers, coupled alongside the threat of cutting off all funding, prompted Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to dismiss democratically-elected Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. Despite that his Third Way Party received a piddling three percent of the overall votes, Salam Fayyad, a former World Bank economist, was illegally installed in Haniyeh's place. Fighting ensued which led to the division which persists today: Abbas's Fatah party dominates the West Bank, while Hamas controls the Gaza Strip. Once assuming the office of Prime Minister in 2007, Fayyad immediately announced his initiative to build an independent economy through focusing on the development of the Palestinian private sector. If enacted alongside close cooperation with Israel on security matters, Fayyad argued, it would be impossible for Israel to prevent the declaration of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank by 2011. (The Gaza Strip was ostensibly left to be sorted out after independence.) The results have surpassed disastrous. The Palestinian economy remains wholly dependent on Israel and has developed a dangerous addiction to foreign aid, which comes with all the restrictions that Western financer governments choose to tie to it. A horrifying 80 percent of Palestinian exports go to Israel. Purchasing power is lower than it was in 2005—at the tail end of an intifada that toppled the economy—and, once adjusted, barely hovers above that of Sudan and Yemen, neither of which are countries characterized by their economic prosperity. 70 percent of employed West Bank Palestinians survive on unreliable hourly wages, and 25 percent work for the PA, which hasn't been able to deliver paychecks on time or in full for over a year now. Meanwhile, living costs have soared. Fuel prices are roughly three times more than in the United States, and housing and food costs are almost the same as in Israel. Grievances, in other words, have been boiling under the surface for a long while. To make matters worse, with no political progress having been made in years and the rapid expansion of Israeli settlements rendering the two-state solution less viable each day, self-determination seems as distant as ever. Now rage has boiled over and spilled into the streets of cities, villages, and refugee camps across the occupied territories—people want to shake the shackles of the PA as well as Israel. "The Palestinian Spring has begun, and we are in line with what the people say and what they want," announced President Abbas to a meeting of Arab League ministers in Cairo, displaying just how out of line the political elite is. As Fayyad's economic policies largely ignored the agricultural sector, swaths of people desperate for employment have migrated to cities like Ramallah from the rural countryside, most of which falls within the 60 percent of the West Bank under complete Israeli control (Area C). These dubious economics are accelerating Israel's process of ethnically cleansing Area C by further concentrating Palestinians into small, semi-sovereign pockets that are best described as Bantustans. Already withering in the absence of a democratic mandate, the Palestinian street tossed out the last semblances of trust in the PA in July. Hundreds of youth amassed in Ramallah to protest President Abbas's decision to meet with Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz, a former military commander and Defense Minister with a sinister record of human rights abuses. Before the march even began, PA security forces beat, dragged, and arrested several people. The systematic violence of Israel's occupation, it seems, has been outsourced to the PA itself. Hamas has scarcely done a more convincing job in the besieged Gaza Strip. Their inability to stabilize the security situation has provided Israel with ample pretexts to repeatedly shower the territory with bombs that generally claim several civilian lives for every alleged militant killed. Furthermore, a recent UN report concluded that Gaza will be "unlivable" by 2020. On Sunday, a teenager in Gaza, citing his family's fickle financial position, died after dousing himself in gasoline and setting his body ablaze. On Wednesday, two self-immolators followed his lead, one in Ramallah and another in Hebron. On Wednesday, distended streets and alleyways pumped thousands of Palestinians into the centers of cities and villages in every corner of the West Bank—Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, Hebron, and Bethlehem, among others. In Ramallah, drivers parked their taxis horizontally in the streets to barricade Al-Manara Square, the throbbing heart of the downtown area, paralyzing transportation and clogging the city's main arteries. "I can't fuel my car, so Fayyad can take it!" several reportedly chanted. In Hebron, Bethlehem, and several villages, large crowds set tires ablaze and demanded the resignation of Fayyad and his colleagues in the Ramallah-based government. It would perhaps be unwise to merely assume that these demonstrations will grow to the dimensions of the lengthy uprisings of the past, but that they bear all the markings of the First Intifada cannot be overlooked. Wednesday's demonstrations echoed the past: the same spirit which rallied masses in 1987 fueled demonstrators across the West Bank this week. The First Intifada was as much as a revolution against an out of touch leadership as it was against Israel. Many Palestinians no longer see their leadership—neither Fatah nor Hamas—as capable of achieving results that exceed the purely cosmetic. Both parties allowed the desire for hegemony within a system of often petty party politics to eclipse the long term goal of liberation. When outraged demonstrators set both tires and their own bodies ablaze in defiance, they were also burning down the immense post-Oslo illusion that was self-governance. Writing of the First Intifada, Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani penned chilling lines which come to mind again: "Ah, generation of betrayal, of surrogate and indecent men, generation of leftovers, we'll be swept away—never mind the slow pace of history—by children bearing rocks.” - Patrick O. Strickland is a freelance journalist living and traveling on both sides of the Green Line in Israel and Palestine. He is a weekly Israel-Palestine correspondent for Bikya Masr and contributes regularly to Counterpunch.org, Palestinechronicle.com, Socialistworker.org, and NYTexaminer.com. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com.	<urn:uuid:cf29576b-4ea6-44ca-a0eb-d71613d4dc3c>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://palestinechronicle.com/old/view_article_details.php?id=19550	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.959774	1,526	1.820313	2
-Professor Simon Chadwick, Director, Centre for the International Business of Sport, Coventry, UK. The opinions expressed are his own. - There is a famous song, composed in the run-up to UEFA Euro 96, in which the Lightening Seeds, Frank Skinner and David Baddiel refer to England’s 30 years of hurt (the period at the time since England won its one and only World Cup). England recently took a step closer towards addressing their continued failure to win world football’s biggest prize, by beating Croatia 5-1 to qualify for next year’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa. In so doing, the team also overcame its two years of hurt, following a failure to qualify for Euro 2008 at the hands of their Croatian rivals. While the fervent mood amongst passionate English fans and patriots alike will no doubt grow as we progress towards the start of the tournament in June 2010, there is likely to be much more action off the pitch than there is on it – and not necessarily just in England, in all of the countries that have teams which qualify for South Africa. Indeed, as we get closer to the 11th June kick-off, World Cup micro-economies will start emerging domestically and internationally across the world.	<urn:uuid:2dbc615d-3f57-45b4-87d7-ea73056926c1>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/tag/simon-chadwick/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.972257	261	1.726563	2
African-Native American Research Forum Archive Re: Attempt to confirm Choctaw ancestry In Response To: Attempt to confirm Choctaw ancestry () Your message caught my attention and I thought I would give you what little knowledge I have. Since you do not indicate specifically that MORTON was your grandmother's maiden name I have to assume it is. Therefore I would look at the 1900 OK census (soundex) for the name MORTON. This should give you some info on a possible county she/her family was residing. You should take a look at the Choctaw Freedmen Census records for 1896 and see if you grandmother was listed as an eight year old child on a census card. I take it you do not have the name of her mother and father? There is the chance they would have been born at the end of the Civil War or quite possibly the slave of a Choctaw citizen. All of this information is contingent upon your grandmother's parents having migrated to Indian Territory and enumerated on the freedmen rolls. Best regards in your journey [31 May 1999]	<urn:uuid:11f6abcb-8277-4e74-a4ea-84f40ce18e54>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.afrigeneas.com/forumearchive/index.cgi/md/read/id/47/sbj/attempt-to-confirm-choctaw-ancestry/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.956038	226	1.664063	2
By Eli Saslow and Emma Brown The Washington Post NEWTOWN, Conn. — Not long ago, officials here promoted their public schools at conventions and conferences across the state, printing newsletters detailing "the highlight of Newtown." The students were among the state's best; the teachers were highly rated. The town had always revolved around its seven public schools — and that was true again Sunday. One school was the crime scene. One hosted the prayer vigil. One more served as the local "crisis center." And inside another school, located just a mile from Sandy Hook Elementary, the teachers and administrators who had survived a mass shooting gathered for their first staff meeting since the attack. They met in a room in the back of Reed Intermediate School, behind locked doors, state troopers and a flag at half-staff. A team of grief counselors drove from a hospital in nearby Danbury to speak with them. The Red Cross donated trays of food and rolling bins filled with teddy bears. For about two hours, the teachers spoke with counselors and shared in their grief. They remembered the 20 students and six colleagues who were killed Friday. They spoke about the horrors they had prevented and the horrors they had witnessed. And then, near the end of the meeting, they spoke again about teaching. In the days ahead, schools in Newtown will once again become schools, and teachers will once again teach. Administrators at Sandy Hook have already found a likely replacement school — a vacant building that is structurally sound but filled with mothballs in nearby Monroe — where students and teachers will restart class in a few weeks. "Minute by minute, we will try to get back to the familiar," Sandy Hook teacher Janet Vollmer said. But what if the familiar has changed? Across the country Sunday night, teachers and administrators began preparing to return to their classroom Monday morning, a weekly routine that suddenly amounted to an act of resiliency, a small test of courage. Schools across Connecticut arranged for extra security as a precaution. Principals reviewed emergency preparedness documents with their staffs. Teachers in Newtown planned to meet as a group Monday about the best ways to reassure their students, even as they worried about safety themselves. Teaching has never been a dangerous profession, but each mass shooting changes classrooms in subtle ways. Even before Friday's shooting, Sandy Hook adhered to the intensifying security rhythms of American education in the past two decades: More surveillance cameras. More threat codes issued over the loudspeaker. More fire drills. More "high alerts" and "code reds." Sandy Hook practiced lockdowns twice each year, once to prepare for a threat coming from outside the school and once again in case of a shooter inside the hallways. The Sandy Hook principal, Dawn Hochsprung, had recently sent a letter to parents about increased security: "Every visitor will be required to ring the doorbell at the front entrance," she wrote. First-grade teacher Vicki Soto had sent home her own class newsletter, addressed to "Dear Fantastic Families": "All volunteers will need to be fingerprinted before they can volunteer," she wrote. None of it was enough to keep a gunman in a black vest from firing into the school's front entrance and barreling through the door. "How can we put one foot in front of the other?" one Sandy Hook teacher wrote in an e-mail to a friend on Sunday before the staff meeting. "How can we feel safe?" That has become a recurring question in the country's public schools. It has echoed since April 20, 1999, when two armed students killed 12 classmates and one teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. Classes at that school were canceled for two weeks before teachers and students returned to a different building. Teachers had no books or materials. Academics all but ceased. The Columbine community muddled through the rest of the year in the same manner that teachers and students will attempt to endure in Newtown: Awash in grief, and searching for ways to cope. Columbine biology teacher Douglas Craft wanted his students to see that "something in life was good," so he veered from the syllabus and invited a bird lover and her hawk to come to the school auditorium and entertain the teenagers. Teacher Joe Higgins tried to busy his students with constant assignments, but then became more forgiving in his grading. "They were traumatized," he said. "They just couldn't concentrate." English teacher Paula Reed was relieved to go back to school — until she started running into ghosts of her old self in the classroom. She studied the notes that she had written before the shooting in the margins of her planning book. They were so purposeful, so uncomplicated. "It sort of felt like someone I'd known, but it wasn't me anymore," she said. For the next three years, Reed struggled with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Her hair fell out. She broke into hives. She had a tension headache for months and eventually took a leave of absence. Thirteen years later, she is still teaching at Columbine, and she is still spooked by the annual intruder drill that requires her to huddle silently with students in the classroom. "I know how long it lasts, and I know how dark it gets," she said. It was the outcome that teachers in Newtown were already beginning to dread Sunday night. In a house just outside of town, Dori Parniawski prepared to begin her week as a kindergarten teacher at Middle Gate Elementary, just down the road from Sandy Hook. A second-grade teacher, she had spent the weekend trying to avoid the news. Class at Sandy Hook had been canceled for at least a week, but she would be returning the next morning to a school that was in many ways indistinguishable. "Their classrooms look like my classrooms. Their students look like my students," she said. She had friends who taught at Sandy Hook. Her 4-year-old son was about to start school. Throughout the weekend, Middle Gate's administration had been e-mailing her offers of free counseling and advice from therapists about how to discuss "loss, sadness or grief," with 5- and 6-year-olds. Now, as darkness began to fall Sunday night, Parniawski searched her closet for a school outfit and thought about what she would tell her students. "I'm going to look them in the eye and be calm," she said, choosing a jacket. "I'm going to tell them that this world has bad guys, but not very many," she said, picking out matching pants. She had spent eight years turning her classroom into what she called a "safe space," with cushioned mats on the floor and pictures of students and their families decorating the walls. Her original lesson plan for the week had revolved around Christmas. She had bought decorative paper for the students to cut into trees and shapes. They would write their own holiday stories and make crafts to give as presents to their parents. "Can we still do that?" she wondered. She set out her outfit. She read the staff e-mails about the emotions she might encounter on a Monday morning at school. She was ready for grief. She was ready for anger and obliviousness and fear. She was ready for work. Julie Tate contributed to this report.	<urn:uuid:3321dea9-8242-45c0-8b41-bff75264b7a7>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://reporter.net/features/x1752056468/Teachers-prepare-to-return-to-classes-after-massacre/print	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.986283	1,518	1.625	2
The Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium was closed for more than an hour Saturday morning after officials said several African painted dogs got into a backup yard but never got out of their exhibit. Zoo Chief Executive Officer Dr. Barbara Baker said the officials moved visitors and staff inside buildings until all of the dogs were back inside a building inside the exhibit. SLIDESHOW: Photos of the zoo's African painted dogs "An animal escape out of a zoo is definitely not the norm, so we drill for those, though. We drill twice a year. We do an animal escape drill," Baker said. Zoo visitor Bruce Dirden didn't seem worried by the brief escape. "They are wild animals, but I feel confident in the zoo officials and everyone that they can keep everything under control," Dirden said. "I mean, they know what they're doing. They wouldn't be here if they didn't."	<urn:uuid:db65bb7f-1d7b-4832-8b3d-6e7287ae22f1>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.wtae.com/news/local/allegheny/Painted-dogs-prompt-Pittsburgh-Zoo-closure/-/10927008/12572568/-/sywmv5/-/index.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.987474	190	1.710938	2
Elections Official: "How many boxes did you have? About eight?" Campaign Volunteer: "Mm-hmm." Elections Official: "Fantastic." On the very day the Sacramento County Elections Office was shipping out vote-by-mail ballots for the June 5th Primary Election, volunteers wheeled in boxes of signatures for a tax measure that would fund education. Campaign Volunteer: "Yep, it's right here." Three days later, Governor Jerry Brown - and his dog Sutter - stopped by with signatures for their own initiative: Brown: "Well over a million signatures signed by the people …" LaVine: "Basically, we are going to have two staffs working - one on petitions and one on the election at this point." Ben: "And the county pays for it without any reimbursement." LaVine: "That's correct. There is no state reimbursement at all for this process." Extra staff and overtime - all paid for from county general funds. It's especially hard on Los Angeles County, which has the largest population and the most signatures to count. LaVine says it won't be easy and it won't be cheap - but somehow, counties will get it done. LaVine: "We will find a way. It may mean long hours. We may need extra help. But we will find a way." To qualify for the November ballot, a measure must be certified by late June. That's just days before the deadline for counties to certify the results of the Primary election.	<urn:uuid:2484631b-52e8-41c9-b152-87fa975c501d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.capradio.org/172768	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.967133	322	1.742188	2
Game Jam Boston June 2007 In A Nutshell Game Jam Boston June 2007 Where: Olin College, Needham MA When: June 8-10, 2007 (Fri-Sun) Goal: In less than 3 days, create a computer game from scratch that takes advantage of XO hardware. Summary of the event coming here soon. What is a Jam? An OLPC Jam is a content creation crunch that gets participants from idea to reality in just a few days. By the end of the Jam, you'll have something finished to test with local schoolchildren (who serve as judges for the event). It's a great way to get started developing for OLPC. Click here to learn more. I want to participate! Jams are collaboratively organized events, so the best way to get started is to just dive in and introduce yourself. Participating in this Jam? Have ideas? Want to coordinate rides, teams, projects, or talk about the Jam? Edit the Jam Talk Page! About the Game Jam The OLPC Game Jam is a game design and programming event designed to encourage (simultaneously) experimentation and innovation in the game industry and kick off development of open-source games for the OLPC platform (the XO). A group of game developers will get together over a three-day period to make as many innovative games as possible for the laptop, which is being distributed to children in developing countries around the world. Our goal is not just some great games and experimentation for the XO Laptop but also to bring the unique constraints and output of this project to next years GDC Experimental Gameplay Workshop. Code will be released on SourceForge under the GNU General Public License so everyone can freely experiment with the source and games. What we're making The Jam will be split into four development tracks centered around a particular hardware or end-usage aspect of the laptop: - Mesh Networking: Each XO has mesh networking capabilities that allow it to broadcast and connect to any laptop around it, allowing activities to easily be made collaborative. - Camera: Each XO has a videoconferencing-quality camera embedded to the side of its display. - Tablet Mode: The XO laptop has a distinct tablet mode where the screen can output high-resolution b/w graphics in sunlight conditions and features built in game-pad like buttons. This mode might lend itself to specific styles of play including one involving real-world activity beyond a confined space. - Malleable Games for Learning: A key consideration of the OLPC effort is certainly learning. However, more importantly it is hoped that kids can use the laptops to create their own games and experiment deeply with learning games by having access to modify and change them as part of a learning process. This track will elicit games that speak to this ideal. Who we're looking for We were looking for (and found, beyond our wildest expectations) a fantastic group of game developers, art/sound/writing/design/marketing people with game design experience, student volunteers, and educators to join us in creating and participating in the Jam.	<urn:uuid:ce9f403b-57c4-4fea-adb5-d4e7521c4c07>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_Jam_Boston	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.945125	642	1.59375	2
In addition to being an architect and designer, Joaquim Ruiz Millet is also a writer, filmmaker and gallery director. His Manuscrit Rug (2003) is an expression of all of his passions, and features a romantic poem that he wrote in his native Catalan. Featuring the actual handwriting of the designer, the rug is an enlargement of a page in a novel Ruiz Millet is working on. The designer plays with the dual meaning in this piece. On one hand, the rug is visually engaging and functional, while at the same time, it encourages people to walk on his words; a fragment of a work of fiction about power relationships imbued with highly charged eroticism. When selecting people to contribute to her Black on White Collection, Nani Marquina was inspired by the idea that "there's always a reason to create, to laugh and to reawaken," and she invited the contributors to "express their own essence." Together with the nonprofit Care & Fair, Nani Marquina is fighting against illegal child labor in the manufacturing of carpets. The knot count is 4,320 knots/sq. ft. Made in India. Nani Marquina studied industrial design at the Massana School and she began her career with a job in interior design. When she couldn't find rugs that were in tune with a client's space, she filled the gap with her own creations, which led to a new career as an independent textile designer. In 1986, she created her own company and showroom in Barcelona. A superb colorist, Marquina finds inspiration in nature, as well as in the challenge of creating something that hasn't been done before. The designer is also a firm believer that a rug must surprise and captivate, but never be too aggressive. The result is her striking depth in materials, ranging from low pile to long strands of felted wool to die-cut rose petals. In addition to her own work, Marquina's collection includes the work of select contributors, such as Tord Boontje and Joaquim Ruiz Millet. Nani Marquina is known internationally for her textiles and rugs, both of which have been exhibited in New York, Paris, Milan, Berlin, Osaka and Tokyo. Read more >	<urn:uuid:b90b62cb-9005-4621-aa1d-575f8cf84b5f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.dwr.com/product/designers/m-p/nani-marquina/manuscrit-rug.do	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.978439	462	1.773438	2
Alison Redford’s government hopes to “reshape Alberta” by saving more of its cash, building closer ties with Ottawa and continuing the push for pipelines to carry its resources abroad. They just won’t specify how – or when – they plan to do it. In the first Throne Speech since Ms. Redford won the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party last fall, her government outlined “sweeping change[s] to level out the boom-and-bust budgeting the province has long grown accustomed to. To do so, it would sign three-year funding deals with major ministries (such as education), rely less on resource revenues and boost systematic reviews of government spending. The speech came two days before a budget, and two months before an anticipated spring election. It also stressed Alberta will “put aside jurisdictional differences” to collaborate with the federal government, “design initiatives to access global markets” for its energy sector, review its tax structure and expand health-care services – but Ms. Redford wouldn’t provide any details. “There’ll be a budget on Thursday. The picture will become clear,” she said. It’s clear, however, she wants to start putting money in the bank – while leaving the door open to a tax hike. Tuesday’s speech, delivered by Lieutenant-Governor Donald Ethell, praised the vision of the government of Peter Lougheed, the first premier of the dynasty Ms. Redford’s party has enjoyed. The province nurtured its energy sector, invested in the oil sands and created its Heritage Savings Trust Fund, initially pouring a third of all resource revenue into the trust. Ms. Redford’s government hinted at a return to those values of saving, saying in the speech the province relies “too heavily on volatile energy revenue” and will revisit its “entire fiscal framework,” specifically citing personal income taxes and gaming revenue. “It’s going to be important for us as Albertans to think about what our reliance on non-renewable resource revenues will be,” she told reporters. The speech also said the government would prioritize “saving intelligently for your future and for generations to come,” and one of her ministers on Tuesday said the budget would take concrete steps to look at boosting the Heritage Fund. Largely ignored for over two decades, the fund has decreased in inflation-adjusted value, sitting just under $15-billion at the last estimate. Mr. Lougheed had hoped it would have grown by now to nearly $100-billion. “The challenge is: Are we going to keep putting more into the fund?” Ms. Redford said. Annually, more than $8-billion – or 23 per cent – of Alberta’s current deficit budget is funded by non-renewable resource revenue, including royalties from conventional oil, oil-sands bitumen, natural gas and lucrative land-lease sales. If she were to start diverting some of that to savings, as Mr. Lougheed did, she’d either need to make cuts or find new sources of revenue. “Something has to take up that gap,” Finance Minister Ron Liepert said Monday, adding anything is on the table but that major moves won’t be taken until after the election. “There simply isn’t time,” he said. If a move to save non-renewable revenue leads to tax hikes, health premiums or a sales tax, Ms. Redford will be under some pressure at the polls. The Liberals have proposed raising taxes for corporations and people earning over $100,000, but the right-wing Wildrose Party has pushed for axing spending and pledged not to raise taxes. “After months of speculation about how the PCs are going to raise our taxes, we now have a pretty clear road map,” Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith said. “Income taxes are going up. It was very clear in the Throne Speech they'd be looking at ways of increasing revenue.” Ms. Redford dismissed the criticism, but the Alberta government has long been under pressure to rein in spending, reduce its reliance on non-renewable revenue and start saving money again. In its submissions to the government’s budget process, the Calgary Chamber of Commerce called for a cap of just over $5-billion on annual non-renewable resource spending, committing the rest to savings. “We’re really hopeful we’ll see some meaningful change coming from Premier Redford’s agenda,” said Ben Brunnen, the Chamber’s chief economist.	<urn:uuid:ca24e6bb-1fcd-472b-8b00-5717103ce74c>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/throne-speech-leaves-vague-timetable-for-reshaping-alberta/article4171346/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.958251	994	1.546875	2
The USDA’s Food Safety Discovery Zone has finished its spring 2012 tour, taking hands-on food safety lessons across the Southeast. Stopping in the smallest towns and big cities like Dallas, we were able to educate over 175,000 people on preventing foodborne illness. Real food safety experts who work in meat and poultry plants near each town—like veterinarians, investigators, and other FSIS personnel—came out to staff the events. FSIS Administrator Al Almanza even came to the last stop in San Antonio. Here are some of my favorite moments along the way: Read more » The USDA Food Safety Discovery Zone began its spring 2012 tour this past Saturday at Baltimore’s B’More Healthy Expo. Staffed by five food safety experts, the Discovery Zone was arguably one of the top attractions at the expo, giving interactive tours and food safety prizes to at least 5,000 visitors in one day. FSIS’ Bridgette Keefe-Hodgson, who communicates through American Sign Language, captured the attention of deaf and hearing visitors alike with her presentations. Bridgette estimates that about 15 deaf expo attendees stopped by the Discovery Zone, and each stuck around for quite some time to see what they could learn. They were thrilled that FSIS has a series of YouTube videos in ASL, called SignFSIS, on preventing food poisoning, and Bridgette wrote down the URL for her pet project so the videos could be found later. One happy customer told her, “Wow, it is truly fantastic to see a deaf employee working at the FSIS booth. For me, that makes it so much easier to ask food safety questions directly in ASL.” Read more » BAC!®, the Discovery Zone’s “green bacteria” mascot greets Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show attendees as they line up to tour the interactive and educational Food Safety Discovery Zone. Last month, thousands of foodies packed into the Washington Convention Center for the Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show to gain culinary wisdom from icons like Paula Deen, Guy Fieri, Giada De Laurentiis, and… the USDA Food Safety Discovery Zone. Read more » Harvest Festival visitors of all lined up outside the Food Safety Discovery Zone to tour the exhibit, ask food safety questions about their purchases, and win prizes. It was a chilly but beautiful Friday when the Food Safety Discovery Zone joined vendors at the USDA Harvest Festival to celebrate the end of a successful growing season for the People’s Garden. Even among the jazz band, petting zoo, and the smell of kettle corn in the air, the giant yellow Food Safety Discovery Zone was impossible to miss. Designed to make food safety education fun for kids, the 40-foot long mobile exhibit attracted masses of visitors of all ages who wanted to know how to safely prepare the food they were buying at the festival or for the upcoming holidays. Read more »	<urn:uuid:9bbecc82-225f-4147-b16a-564656f492c3>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://blogs.usda.gov/tag/fsdz/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.942017	602	1.835938	2
When I headed to Italy last summer, I knew El Naturalista was the right choice for my Tuscan adventures. I needed comfortable shoes for walking those streets where ancient footprints are everywhere, and since it was Italy, fashion was important too. It takes the sole of a shoe 1,000 years to fully decompose. At Planet Shoes, we don’t take this lightly. We offer many brands with eco-friendly shoes to help you shrink your environmental footprint and stay on top of the latest shoe fashions. As technology and design improve, more and more of our brands are taking the environment into consideration as they make their shoes. This can range from using recycled packaging to creating sandals that will compost in 20 years. However they fit in your lifestyle, the shoes in this shop all include elements that help reduce our environmental impact. Of course, El Naturalista shoes are included in this eco shop! Planet Shoe sent us a pair El Naturalista Iggdrasil N096 Clogs to try. Standing for “The Tree of Life” in Nordic mythology, the El Naturalista Iggdrasil N096 is a classic style in its original clog version, rooted at the center of the El Naturalista universe. Set in a pull-grain leather upper with gorgeous contrast stitching detail, the upper of this women’s clog is treated with river stones to temper the hide naturally, which gives it an attractive rustic look but is softened until optimal comfort is reached. The recycled polyurethane footbed is anatomically-correct for lasting comfort, you’ll never want to take these El Naturalista clogs off. I agree, I never want to take these clogs off! They are so comfortable and perfect with any outfit. Pants or skirts, these styley clogs keep your arches supported with a proper footbed for any activity. From dancing to walking, these El Naturalistas are one of my favorite pairs of shoes! Did I mention I love spirals? They come in many delightful colors too! One thing I love about Planet Shoes is that they do not overpackage their products. I get so annoyed when you order shoes online and they come in a gigantic box full packaging, no matter how “green” that stuff is. Shoes are durable and are already in a cardboard shoe box. They don’t need a whole lot of protection during shipping. Thank you Planet Shoes and El Naturalista! Disclosure: I was sent free samples of these products to review. No prior assurances were given as to whether the review would be positive or negative.	<urn:uuid:9b76b67b-9f2d-430c-9767-13abc690faba>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://ecochildsplay.com/2012/04/12/planet-shoes-and-el-naturalista-recycled-and-eco-friendly-foot-fashion/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.954515	541	1.53125	2
Kansas Historical Quarterly - Introduction - November 1931 (Vol. 1, No. 1), page 2 Transcribed by Lynn H. Nelson; digitized with permission of the Kansas Historical Society. NOTE: The numbers in brackets are links to footnotes for this text. For some years many members have felt that quarterly publication of the historical material printed in the biennial Collections would be of advantage to the Society. This of course was not criticism of the content of the Collections, since their popularity has always testified to their worth, but it was believed that the unwieldiness of the volumes and the infrequency of their appearance set a regrettable limit to their use and value. The Kansas Historical Quarterly was authorized by the directors in the hope of gaining a wider range of usefulness for this type of publication. Every effort will be made to secure articles that are historically sound as well as interesting in style and subject. It is planned to make frequent use of the Society's vast collection of original manuscripts and documents. Over the two-year period the Quarterly will publish approximately as much material as did the biennial Collections. It is printed in larger type and on better paper. Each volume will be indexed. An arrangement whereby members may exchange unbound numbers for bound volumes will be announced later -THE EDITOR.	<urn:uuid:8590bfeb-258f-4d40-8430-a44fd65167e5>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-introduction-november-1931/12526	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.967668	262	1.671875	2
Zapatistas March in Solidarity Against Calderon’s Drug War Posted on: 28/05/2011 by Gloria Muñoz Ramírez This post is also available in: Spanish Editor’s note: This story was first published in Spanish at desinformemonos.org. San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, May 8. A poignantly silent march of the masses, an eloquent speech, a plaza brimming with Zapatistas, and organizations and collectives from The Other Campaign in Chiapas, united in their rejection of Felipe Calderón’s drug war. This, and more, marked the reemergence of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) after more than 5 years without protesting outside of its territory. It was the first time the EZLN has rallied in silence and also, perhaps, its first time participating in a national protest initiated by an individual, the poet and writer Javier Sicilia, who is fueling a countrywide movement against the president’s violent drug war strategy. In what turned out to be one of the Zapatistas’ biggest rallies in more than 17 years of public struggle (more than 15,000 supporters according to conservative estimates), the top brass of the EZLN’s Clandestine Indigenous Revolutionary Committee-General Command, including comandantes David, Tacho, Zebedeo, Bulmaro, Guillermo and Miriam, made an appearance. It was Comandante David, of Los Altos, who read the EZLN’s communiqué to a plaza overflowing with Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Chol, Zoque, Mame and Mestizo Zapatistas from Los Altos, la Selva and the North of Chiapas following the recital of the national and Zapatista anthems, listened to with striking solemnity. “This is not about seeing who wins between Catholics, Evangelicals, Mormons, Presbyterians, non-believers or followers of any other religion,” he read. “It’s not about finding out who’s indigenous and who isn’t. It’s not about seeing who’s rich or poor. This isn’t about who’s on the left, center or right. Nor is it about deciding which is the best political party between the PAN, PRI, PRD and whoever, or if they’re all equally bad. It’s not about who’s Zapatista and who isn’t, and it’s not about supporting organized crime or the disorganized crime of this administration. No. This is about how people can choose to be whomever they want, believe or not believe, choose any ideological, political or religious belief, and have arguments, agreements or disagreements, all because of peace, liberty and justice.” After many hours of travel from their communities, the Zapatistas marched around the Central Plaza with composure and discipline. The space was once again theirs, but this time they were dramatically united with other people and organizations, with an entire nation that has declared itself hasta la madre, fed up. This significant demonstration unveiled the new generation of Zapatistas, many youths who were born after the armed revolt of 1994 and raised alongside the practice of alternative organizational forms and day-to-day operations. The Zapatistas made clear that their support for the national protest, and particularly their silent presence in San Cristobal de las Casas, was not intended to point to a course of action nor answer to the question of what comes next. “We are not here to speak about our pain, our struggles, our dreams, our life or death…” they said. “Today we are here representing tens of thousands of indigenous Zapatistas, many more than you see here today, in order to tell those marching in dignified silence that in their demand for justice, their fight for life, their dream for peace, their call for freedom, we understand and support them. Today we are here to respond to the call of those who fight for life, to which the government responds with death.” The importance placed on the movement by EZLN was made clear by the more than 30 comandantes and comandantas occupying the platform in front of the Cathedral of Peace. From there, Comandante David explained that the call for a national march came from people who “aren’t calling on us or trying to convince us to adopt a religion, idea, political thought or stance on social issues. They aren’t calling on us to remove one government in order to install another. Nor are they telling us to vote for this person or the next. They’re calling on us to fight for life, and life does not exist without freedom, justice and peace. That’s why this is a fight between those who want life and those who want death.” Carrying thousands of cardboard signs bearing the slogans “No more blood,” “We’re fed up,” and “Stop Calderon’s War,” the Zapatistas also raised enormous banners with the following messages: “Brothers and sisters, we feel the pain for the loss of your family members caused by Calderon’s cruel war” and “Long live life, freedom, justice and peace.” Diverse organizations and collectives came together for the march: neighborhoods and districts of the city, indigenous and peasant communities from Chiapas and internationalists from many parts of the world. Their banners demanded justice and peace for different issues and sectors On one side of the plaza a group of children yelled, “we want peace, we want peace, let me speak, we want peace.” The protest was also a reunion, a convergence of organizations and people who put their differences aside to come together as they had not done in some time. With covered faces and a renowned discipline, they marched by rank from the Indigenous Center for Integral Training (Cideci), in the outskirts of the city, all the way to the plaza of peace four hours later. As the front of the contingent stepped into the plaza, the road to San Juan Chamula, the neighborhood of San Ramon, el Puente Blanco and Diego de Mazariegos Street were packed with Zapatistas. Near the end of his speech Comandante David repeated seven times a message directed to all the victims of Calderon’s war and their families, a slogan that the Zapatistas have used for more than 17 years and which, on this occasion, they let loose in a single shout, with their left fist raised, in one of the most emotional moments of the gathering: “You are not alone.” “Now we’ve said what we had to say. We are tired, but that’s how the struggle goes,” said the master of ceremonies towards the end. Referring to the translations in tzotzil, tzeltal, tojolabal and chol, she pointed out with Zapatista humor, “we know you didn’t understand anything, but, oh well, you had to sit through it. Thanks for your patience.” Then, she said goodbye, “Just as we came we will leave.” Gloria Muñoz Ramírez is the director of the news and analysis website desinformemonos.org. Translated by Brandon Brewer	<urn:uuid:dcdd75ab-ae06-4faa-8806-487318a87c60>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/4673	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.946191	1,608	1.671875	2
A new 20-minute video that depicts how police agencies, fire departments, emergency responders and school personnel should react to “active shooter” situations in schools is now available to districts across Bergen County, NJ.com reported Tuesday. “Lockdown,” which was produced by the County Prosecutor’s Office and filmed at New Milford High School over a year ago, simulates a two armed attackers breaking into the school with rifles and a homemade bomb, the report says. According to NJ.com, the video shows how two teachers react to the situation differently, and points out which reaction is better, and why. "There have been so many [school shootings], and no two are ever identical," said Bergen County Police Sgt. John LaDuca explained in the article. "There's always something new about each one, so we just tried to take aspects from each of them and combine them into one." The video may become a resource for schools across New Jersey if it is approved by the state Department of Education, the report said. School safety and preparedness for active shooter situations have been major concerns of local parents, school officials and law enforcement agencies since a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., claimed the lives of 26 victims. At a School Safety Summit for Bergen County School Boards Association members held in Mahwah last week, the township's police chief Jim Batelli said being prepared with an active school shooter emergency response plan is one of the most important measures an agency can take.	<urn:uuid:fe78b81a-94d9-4dc2-aace-756c08ec6d7c>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://teaneck.patch.com/articles/report-active-shooter-training-video-available-to-bergen-schools-db89c81f	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.969534	316	1.664063	2
Luzerne and Wayne in human services pilot HARRISBURG - Luzerne and Wayne counties were selected Thursday to participate in a new block grant project for distributing state money for human services programs. The state Department of Public Welfare approved pilot programs for 20 of the state's 67 counties, the number authorized under the current state budget. Thirty counties had applied last month to participate, including Lackawanna and Schuylkill. The program will give counties some flexibility to shift money among seven programs to meet specific needs for services or do things more efficiently with fewer paperwork requirements. The seven programs include community mental health services and mental disability services, the human services development fund, homeless assistance, child welfare grants, the Behavioral Health Services Initiative and Act 152 drug and alcohol programs. The state budget cut aid for these programs by 10 percent, or $84 million. Counties in the pilot program are barred from completely defunding any of the seven programs. The counties will get state funds based on the current allocation formula. With each year, pilot counties will be able to use a larger percentage of their human services money in a flexible manner. "This program will ensure more funding makes it to our recipients and less is spent on red tape," said Gov. Tom Corbett. DPW Secretary Gary Alexander said he is committed to getting legislative approval next year to expand the program to include all counties. The 20 counties were selected based on several factors, including geography, size, poverty level and ability to manage the block grant, officials said. At a House committee hearing earlier this month, several lawmakers said more tracking is needed of the impact of the cuts to human services programs. Contact the writer: email@example.com	<urn:uuid:8e7f8f2e-e8a4-490e-8eaa-40bd70f57a9f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/luzerne-and-wayne-in-human-services-pilot-1.1380089	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.952848	358	1.578125	2
by J J Cohen [Thought you might enjoy this short paragraph from the talk I gave at ICFA. I'm reworking the piece into an essay to be published in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.] Zombies are proliferating at the same time as our reigning fad diet is the Paleolithic, extolling the consumption of raw foods. Meat loving and contemptuous of grains, the Paleo Diet renounces agricultural humanity for a fantasy of primal hunter-gatherers who devoured what they killed or snatched with their own hands. Everyone was supposedly healthier when they resembled Bear Grylls, despite the fact that most hunter-gatherers probably lived very short lives that terminated in the stomachs of predators. Like the “Born to Run” movement, this diet is propelled by a fantasy that the past was a better space, and that the current imperfections of our bodies were in the distant past its flawless adaptations. The Paleo Diet, like the Zombie Diet, imagines that it is best to consume without adding culture to your food (do not process what you devour), and that what we eat should arrive through no intermediary (nature offers bounty enough). We might even be tempted to label both the Paleo and Zombie diets green: what could be more natural, more eco-friendly, than a culinary regime that leaves so small an environmental footprint? In the end, however, zombie diets are actually the more sustainable, since humans are in fact the most neglected meat in a flesh-loving culture. Zombies know that deer, horses, and humans all make good eating, and they were early practitioners of snout to tail dining.	<urn:uuid:c00f37df-17bb-451a-a47c-ce51b1af64f2>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2012/03/paleo-diet-and-zombie-diet-coincidence.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.968524	335	1.75	2
Drama under the big top in the first Desilu produced series in color for ABC "The Greatest Show On Earth" was based on the 1952 Oscar winning movie that was directed by the great Cecil B. DeMille and starred Charlton Heston,Cornel Wilde,along with James Stewart that became one of the highest grossing films of that year. Fast forward to 1963. The television series "The Greatest Show On Earth" was one of the lost and somewhat forgotten shows of the 1960's,and for good reason. This series was big on budget,big on cast and was in full color for ABC-TV. The series within itself also marked Desilu Productions' first-ever series to be produced,and filmed in color for a major television network long before "Star Trek",and "Mission:Impossible" made the jump to color some four years later. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz made a wise investment with this series when they made the sales pitch to network executives at ABC-TV which made it work. Before this series,Desilu's shows(which were comedies and dramas)were mostly seen in black and white before this series came along. Color was the selling point of this short-lived series that lasted no more than one season at ABC-TV from its premiere episode on September 17, 1963 until the final episode of the series on April 28, 1964. Only 30 episodes were produced. Produced by Desilu in cooperation with the assistance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus,"The Greatest Show On Earth" gave audiences an inside look at the goings on within the day-to-day operations of a big time circus. Jack Palance(in his first-ever television role)played Johnny Slate who was the director and manager of the circus who became involved in all the drama and excitement that surrounded him,his personal assistant,Otto King(Stuart Erwin),and all of the other performers of the circus. Slate was ready to jump in and help in anyway he could while running the circus whenever possible. Some episodes had some high drama and intense excitement that included some acts that were the feature highlight of the show including "lion taming acts","trapeze acts",and "acts of darring-do",and whatever else that was included. Toward the end of the episode,the manager and all of the performers would move from town to town in just about every episode with all the drama and excitement they could muster. Jack Palance was basically known for playing villains mostly as the gunslinger baddie in several theatrical films("Shane"),but within his first television starring role here he became a likable character. "The Greatest Show On Earth" during its first season faced competition during the 1963-1964 season from two situation comedy programs that were on CBS: "Petticoat Junction",the burgeoning spin-off of "The Beverly Hillbillies",and the long-running "The Jack Benny Show". It was also up against NBC's dramatic series "The Richard Boone Show". The series was canceled after one season. Some of the guest stars that appeared on "The Greatest Show On Earth" included Harry Guardino, Dwayne Hickman,Tuesday Weld,Tony Dow,Annette Funicello,Russell Johnson, Bradford Dillman,Arthur O'Connell,Yvonne De Carlo,Jack Lord,Bruce Dern, Ricardo Montalban,James Coburn,Agnes Moorehead,Edgar Bergen,Dabbs Greer,Julie Newmar,Ellen Burstyn all the way to Fabian to name a few. Even Lucille Ball appeared in the episode "Lady In Limbo"(12-10-1963) with special guest star Robert F. Simon. The final episode of the series featured Joan Blondell along with Joe E. Brown,and the great Buster Keaton in the episode "You're All Right Ivy"(4-28-1964). 2 of 2 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?	<urn:uuid:05585054-fb25-4bd6-b9be-cf3125086b84>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056762/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.976355	832	1.828125	2
Toddlers are curious little people and can scale a bookcase with ease when they eye something up high that they just have to have. Just last week, a neighbor's son opened his dresser drawers and climbed up a dresser at 4 a.m.! Luckily he was not hurt, but last year some 10,000 kids visited the emergency room after climbing a large furniture item and getting pinned under it. A handful of children died from such accidents. Here is a video with details on an easy project that will keep your climbers safe and give you peace of mind.	<urn:uuid:dcafc521-7450-4167-9b55-9b79024b6662>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://horsham.patch.com/blog_posts/does-your-little-one-climb-furniture-like-a-monkey-keep-them-safe-with-this-easy-diy-project	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.979169	116	1.726563	2
Send us news by text, start your message CN News and your send photos and videos to 80360 Students have their say on town’s future 7:30am Wednesday 17th October 2012 in News COLLEGE students were given the chance to shape Crewe’s future through a consultation scheme which is being rolled out by Cheshire East Council. Students were asked what improvements they would make to Crewe and how they would like to see the town look in 2030. The group wore bright orange T-shirts to promote the initiative and handed out ‘How Will Your Town Look in 2030?’ postcards which gave students who shared their views the opportunity to win a pair of Alton Towers tickets. They are also visiting other organisations across Cheshire to help shape the future of other towns including Nantwich, Macclesfield, Handforth, Knutsford and Poynton. Ideas will help to form Cheshire East Council’s new Local Plan which will form the basis of planning decisions until 2030. It will play a key part in delivering Cheshire East Council’s ambitious plans for the future setting out where new homes should be built, employment should be located and how the physical and social infrastructure will support new development. Clr Michael Jones, leader of Cheshire East Council, said: “Many people have seen controversial site allocation outlines. “Instead of opposing things, I want to hear people say what they support and what they want to see happen in their communities.” - For more information about South Cheshire College, please call 01270 6545654 or visit s-cheshire.ac.uk	<urn:uuid:a7fa0a00-465d-4b63-83c1-d9e4a6e80333>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.creweguardian.co.uk/news/9985768.Students_have_their_say_on_town___s_future/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.958411	346	1.695313	2
Welcome to A Wonderful Life! By BrendaAnn Seay Have you ever noticed that the only person who really stops us from having all we want and attaining our dreams is ourself? It may seem that there are people and situations in our life that are difficult or even impossible. Yet it is our belief about ourself that is the cause of our circumstances. This is a different point of view for many people. Yet I have found it to be true over and over again in my own life, as well as with other people I know and work with. When we change our mind about how we think and feel about ourself, our outer life circumstances miraculously change. Many of us have spent years trying to change the outer circumstances of our lives with poor results, resulting in frustration and feeling even worse about ouselves. Change is an inside job that extends from within ourself outward to our life experiences. So how do I change my mind about myself? After all, I have known myself for a significant amount of time. A brief explanation of the steps to changing our mind follows: 1) The willingness to change — Are you really willing to make the changes you want enough to give up your comfort zone? Our old habits and behaviors are more comfortable simply because we are so used to them. Your readiness to make changes is something you can review honestly with yourself. 2) Acquire the belief that change is possible — Many of us do not believe we really can make the changes we want to make or that we can have a fulfilling life. You can further examine your thoughts about this and ask why you believe you can or can’t change. Look for examples of others who have made these changes. 3) Deepen the connection with our real Self — Our inner connection with our creation of perfection, innocence, goodness, and wholeness gives us the strength, momentum, and motivation to move through any obstacles we may encounter. A daily practice to deepen this inner connection really does create miracles. 4) Identify untrue beliefs — When we feel challenged or negative in any way, we can examine our thoughts and feelings to discover what is true and what is not true. Many beliefs we hold are simply notions we have had for so long we do not even question them. They seem so real to us, but as we learn to look at them from an observer perspective, we begin to see what is really true. 5) Accept myself without judgment — We keep ourselves stuck by holding judgments against ourselves for any mistakes or for things we haven’t accomplished. We may not realize this until we pay attention to it. When we lovingly accept where we are now in this moment, we actually create a space to move forward. 6) Make new choices — As we define what we really want, if we have taken the previous steps we begin to see the real possibilities in achieving our new choices. 7) Create what you want — By focusing our attention on new choices daily, we bring them into being. When we actually see, hear, and feel them in our minds they become our reality. 8) Daily living experience — All these steps occur in a moment-to- moment life experience. As we continue to make new choices and release unhelpful patterns daily, a wonderful life occurs. Now you are allowing yourself to be all that you are and were truly meant to be. Welcome to a wonderful life! BrendaAnn Seay is a Personal and Professional Life Coach in Huntington Beach, CA. She assists people in applying principles of wisdom to daily life situations. She also presents classes, groups, and workshops. For further information, please contact BrendaAnn at (714) 962-5344 or e-mail: email@example.com . Return to the January/February Index page	<urn:uuid:6ec23f9b-2109-4f7f-a8aa-6c4a45ee656a>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://awarenessmag.com/janfeb0/JF0_WELCOME.HTML	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.95135	782	1.835938	2
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said his upcoming budget would increase the number of US soldiers, state the true cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and cut "Cold War-era" weapons programs. Setting out his priorities for military spending, Obama said late Tuesday in his first address to a joint session of Congress that he wanted to provide relief to men and women in uniform with higher pay and a larger ground force. The statements come amid news reports that Obama is set to order the bulk of US military forces to withdraw from Iraq by August 2010. "To relieve the strain on our forces, my budget increases the number of our soldiers and Marines," Obama said in the speech. "And to keep our sacred trust with those who serve, we will raise their pay, and give our veterans the expanded health care and benefits that they have earned." More than seven years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq have put unprecedented pressure on the all-volunteer military and their families, with top officers blaming a recent spike in suicides in the army on the relentless pace of deployments. Obama's promise to raise the number of soldiers and Marines appears in line with the military's plans to expand its ground forces by nearly 100,000 troops. Vowing to restore "honesty and accountability" to government spending, Obama said his budget "for the first time includes the full cost of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. "For seven years, we have been a nation at war. No longer will we hide its price," he said to applause. Obama's jab at former president George W. Bush referred to his predecessor's controversial method of accounting for the cost of the two wars through "supplemental" funding requests outside of the main defense budget. He said his administration would scrap wasteful contract work in Iraq and impose tough scrutiny on mammoth weapons systems that grew out of the Cold War, though he offered no specifics. "We'll eliminate the no-bid contracts that have wasted billions in Iraq, and reform our defense budget so that we're not paying for Cold War-era weapons systems we don't use," Obama said. The 612 billion dollar defense authorization bill signed by Bush in September represented the largest in real terms since World War II, and probably the peak of a seven-year buildup dating to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. With a grave economic crisis and an expected 1.3 trillion dollar deficit, big cuts are expected in the vast US defense budget -- which represents more than 40 percent of the world's total military spending. Administration officials hope some of the savings will come from a withdrawal of troops from Iraq, where 142,000 troops are stationed. Obama is close to issuing an order to withdraw the bulk of US military forces from Iraq by August 2010, the New York Times reported Wednesday, citing senior administration officials. The order would give the US military 19 months to pull out, three months more than the promise Obama made while campaigning for president in 2008. However tens of thousands of US troops - it is unclear exactly how many - would remain "to continue training Iraqi security forces, hunt down foreign terrorist cells and guard American institutions," the Times reported. The president has not made a final decision, administration officials told the Times, but could complete the review and announce the plan later this week. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has already warned of major budget cutbacks, citing expensive weapons programs such as the F-22 fighter aircraft as possible targets. "It's obviously one of the programs that, along with a number of others - many others - that we will be looking at," Gates said earlier this month. The United States cannot "eliminate national-security risks through higher defense budgets, to do everything and buy everything," Gates wrote in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs. The military has struggled to strike a balance between the demands of counter-insurgency warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan and the need to prepare for conventional warfare as a hedge against rising powers like China. Gates has made clear that counter-insurgency is the immediate priority, and that new ships, sophisticated aircraft and a network of hi-tech army vehicles may be of little use in Iraq and Afghanistan. Candidates for possible cuts include the F-22 Raptor fighters, which cost about 350 million dollars each; the F-35 and F-18E/F aircraft; the Navy's new generation destroyer; and computer-linked Army vehicles known as Future Combat Systems. © 2009 Agence France Presse. All rights reserved.	<urn:uuid:aa5cb917-d323-421d-b8ee-be4a80a7e6dc>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.newsmax.com/US/obama-increase-US-troops/2009/02/25/id/328446	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.969319	926	1.820313	2
Tuesday , May 3 , 2011 IN TODAY'S PAPER CITIES AND REGIONS Since 1st March, 1999 > Patna Diary Taxing task for legislators Legislators of Bihar were extremely pleased when the Nitish Kumar government announced a hefty pay —hike - a salary of over Rs 80,000 per month. Some of them openly declared that they would have been happier had the amount exceeded Rs 1 lakh per month. However, few of them realised that with their basic salary of Rs 25,000 a month their income will now be taxable. arlier, a legislator’s basic salary was Rs 8000 per month, keeping him/her off the tax bracket. “It’s simple. You will just have to pay about Rs 12,000 as income tax (I-T) and if you purchase NSCs or mutual fund, you will not have to pay even that,” explained a legislator to another colleague. However, the colleague still appeared unhappy. “This hike was supposedly given because our local development fund was taken away. The kickbacks from the local fund were much simpler. We did not have to go through the complex process of filling forms,” he said. A good number of legislators are businessmen and are hence quite familiar with the process of paying I-T and filing returns. However, for some hardcore politicians I-T is as complicated as information technology. “When the government decided to provide laptops to legislators, they organised a training session. Perhaps they should hold a training session on how to file I-T returns,” quipped an MLA. Cadre versus caste The BJP appears to be following the footsteps of its ally JD (U) in holding functions to celebrate icons of Bihar. These functions, however, have clear caste undercurrents. Within one week, the BJP organised two events - one to celebrate Vijayutsav in the memory of Veer Kuer Singh and the other, birth anniversary of Baba Chauharmal. Present state BJP president C.P. Thakur insisted that these functions had nothing to do with caste appeasement. However, the hardcore RSS group within the BJP are unconvinced. “We have been a cadre-based party and our cadres come from all castes. The series of caste shows are harming our cadre base. The JD (U) can afford to host these caste shows but not the BJP,” said a BJP leader with a strong RSS background. Till now, the state BJP is sticking to the rule -- follow the leader (Nitish Kumar). Food for thought The crowd brought to SK Memorial Hall by political parties is mostly lured with the promise of free transportation to the venue and free food (sometimes even money). However, the “bait” got the better of the meet agenda at a recent BJP function. Even before the main speaker, deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, could speak, there were whispers in the hall that food was being served to the visitors. Within few minutes, the strength of the hall was reduced to half as people rushed towards the food corner. BJP leaders loyal to Modi alleged the whispering campaign about the food was triggered off by his adversaries within the party. Deputy leader of the NDA in the Legislative Council and BJP leader Ganga Prasad is often referred to as an ageless wonder”. Thin and it, Prasad often makes ther leaders wonder what his real age is. At a recent unction at the house f an MLC to celebrate the arriage silver jubilee of the legislator’s kin, a few ministers remarked that Ganga Babu would be celebrating 50 years of his marriage soon. Road construction minister Nand Kishore Yadav went on to suggest the party leader may celebrate his 60th marriage anniversary. Ganga Prasad, however, refused to give way his age. Copyright © 2013 The Telegraph. All rights reserved.	<urn:uuid:49b244a6-26c0-4fe6-83c5-2066209daf56>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110503/jsp/bihar/story_13931327.jsp	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.967718	819	1.757813	2
Dallas-Based Breast Cancer Organization Honors Work of 125 Affiliates DALLAS – March 24, 2010 – Under the rallying cry of “Impact. Make One,” nearly 1,000 breast cancer advocates, survivors and partners gathered in Dallas to share inspiration, knowledge and strategic plans to realize the vision of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, the world’s largest breast cancer organization, of a world without breast cancer. The gathering also served as the launch platform for a new book, Promise Me: How a Sister’s Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer , by Komen founder and CEO Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker. The book, available for pre-order through online retailers, chronicles the Promise that Brinker made to her sister, Susan G. Komen, and Brinker’s courageous journey to launch the global breast cancer movement in 1982. For more information go to komen.org/promiseme Since 1982, Komen has played a critical role in every major advance in the fight against breast cancer transforming how the world talks about and treats this disease and helping to turn millions of breast cancer patients into breast cancer survivors. Since its inception, there has been significant progress, including a 98 percent five-year survival rate for breast cancer, when caught early before it spreads beyond the breast, compared to 74 percent in 1982. At the conference, Brinker urged attendees to continue to lead the breast cancer fight in their local communities. “Last year alone, Susan G. Komen for the Cure provided funding for nearly 500,000 screenings. These led to 5,000 women being diagnosed with breast cancer and able to begin treatment,” said Brinker. “At the same time, demand for our work is growing, and needs are going unmet. Last year, our Komen Helpline received an 86 percent increase in requests for financial assistance. But we only had the funds to help 1 out of 8 callers.” Komen for the Cure hosted its annual Affiliate Leadership Conference Mar. 18-20 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas. The three-day event united nearly 1,000 Komen for the Cure U.S. and international advocates, including 200 breast cancer survivors, and representatives from the more than 200 corporations and non-governmental organizations who partner with Komen. Attendees also heard from Komen chief scientific advisor, Dr. Eric P. Winer, director of the Breast Oncology Center and the Thompson Senior Investigator of breast cancer research at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. In addition to Komen leadership, conference-goers received fundraising and community outreach guidance from Affiliate representatives and were energized by Rene Syler, nationally-known TV personality and Komen celebrity ambassador. Introduced at the 2008 conference, attendees at this year’s all-day Public Policy Forum learned about the expanding role of Komen’s advocacy work under the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Advocacy Alliance, the organization’s 501(c)(4) entity. Throughout the past year, Komen advocates across the country have worked tirelessly to increase government investment in vital programs to close the gaps in research and access to breast health services that prevent people from getting the care they need. Komen presented a number of awards, each bestowed annually, to recognize the extraordinary efforts of Komen advocates who selflessly commit their lives to serving those affected by breast cancer.	<urn:uuid:232dc879-6b87-4475-87a9-ee623f2be7df>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://ww5.komen.org/News/WelcomedNearly1000SurvivorsAndActivistsFor14thAnnualLeadershipConference.aspx	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.936149	713	1.59375	2
§ Mr. Gordon Prentice To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what caused the release into the atmosphere of material being processed at Solrec at Heysham; and what action he has taken to prevent a recurrence. § Mr. Clappison On 19 August 1996 there was an unauthorised release from the process for the application of steam distillation to produce solid residues at Solrec in Heysham. This process is used for solvent recovery. The unauthorised release was caused by a runaway exothermic552W reaction in a vessel, which caused pressure to build up in the vessel, resulting in a controlled release via a safety device. As a result of the incident, the Environment Agency served a prohibition notice on Solrec Ltd. under part I of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. This prohibits the company from operating the process until it has produced a procedure to demonstrate that the process can be performed without producing exothermic decomposition of the residues. I further understand from the Environment Agency that Solrec intends to abandon the particular process which gave rise to the unauthorised release.	<urn:uuid:874383b0-9b52-4f10-b6d6-b060fc67669b>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1996/nov/20/solrec-heysham-air-pollution	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.942818	227	1.835938	2
When shooting with live view, image quality degrades as the sensor heats up. This is just a guess as to why the first lens might be producing excellent results, and following lenses poorer results Another issue is that you need to place the target closer with the 40mm lens than with the 70-200 because the AF sensor needs a sufficiently large target relative to the field of view of the lens. Usually it is positioned at a distance that is a fixed multiple of the focal length, like 50x (which would be 2000mm or about six and a half feet). 5DIII, 5DII, 7D x5, 6D, T2i, T3, 1D X, 10-22mm, 16-35mm II, 18-55mm II, 18-135mm IS x2, 70-200mm f/2.8L II, 24mm f/1.4L II, 50mm f/1.4, 50mm 1/1.8 II x2, 85mm f/1.8 x2, 100mm f/2 x2, 135mm f/2L x2, 200mm f/2.8L II x2, 1.4X III, 2.0X II, 60mm f/2.8 Macro, etc. only had room to list a few Canon items	<urn:uuid:ebcb1879-031c-4280-b4e7-1fa0143c5f1a>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=12172.msg218593	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.935751	279	1.671875	2
Dozens of financial institutions downgraded by S&P The front of the New York offices of Standard & Poor's August 18, 2011 in New York. Steve Chiotakis: Banks today are reeling, just a day after Standard & Poor's downgraded not one, not two -- but dozens of financial institutions all around the world. Here in the U.S., that includes Bank of America, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. And Marketplace New York bureau chief Heidi Moore reports, some people say it's a long time coming. Heidi Moore: After the financial crisis, ratings agencies were slammed for not sounding the alarm on toxic securities that nearly took down the banking system. So, this year, Standard & Poor's announced it was going to be tougher on banks in its ratings. The results are in: S&P downgraded dozens of banks, based everywhere from the U.S. to Argentina to Europe to China. James Angel: So it's not as if one bank suddenly go into trouble; it's a sign that the entire banking system is in murkier waters these days. That's James Angel, who teaches finance at Georgetown. He says downgrades are no reason to panic. Angel: A downgrade is a signal that their reputation is not as strong as it was. So this is not, you know, clearly good news, but it's not a catastrophic end of the world. As Italy and Greece face new troubles every day, rumors and fears about banks keep scaring the markets. So the question is this: is S&P late to the game again by warning us about banks now? Angel: Well, you never really know, because banks are fundamentally very opaque. Meaning, banks don't like to share every detail of what's on their books. The market has already made its decision -- several big banks have hit record lows in their stock prices this year. In New York , I'm Heidi Moore for Marketplace.	<urn:uuid:ba7c991a-a9a5-4aaf-8fea-ec0956b8c477>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/dozens-financial-institutions-downgraded-sp	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.968454	404	1.632813	2
To everything there is a season, but air-drying herbs and flowers extends their beauty and fragrance well beyond the days of summer. In the off-season, fresh herbs can be costly and hard to come by. Air drying provides an easy and inexpensive year-round alternative. And rest assured, dried herbs do not diminish the flavor of a dish; by allowing moisture to evaporate slowly and naturally, herbs retain their essential oils. With their fragrance and flavor fully intact, air-dried herbs beat out the store-bought variety in every way. (Paula’s note: Substitute 1 teaspoon of dried herbs for 1 tablespoon of fresh) Harvesting herbs for drying requires little more than timing. It is best to cut herbs as flower buds appear. This is when the leaves contain the most oil, which maximizes flavor and fragrance. You can harvest after flowering occurs, though doing so may compromise the quality. Cut plants in the late morning–after the dew has lifted, but before the sun is at its highest. Substantially cut annual herbs–1/3 to 1/2 of the plant–and cut as much as 1/3 of perennial plants, but avoid large harvests of these in the late summer or fall. Select only healthy branches and discard any dry or diseased leaves. Remove the lower leaves about an inch from the stem’s base. Rinsing the plant with cool water should remove any dust, insects, or pesticides, though it’s important to dry gently to prevent bruising but thoroughly to avoid molding. Mold spreads quickly and will destroy the entire batch of herbs. Bundle 4 to 6 branches together and secure tightly with a string, keeping in mind that the stems will shrink upon drying. Then place the bundle upside down into a paper bag with holes for ventilation. The herbs should have ample space to allow for airflow, and they should not touch the sides of the bag, which could absorb their essential oils during the process. Tie the bag closed with the ends gathered and hang in a warm (70–80˚F), dry place. Herbs can dry outside if the humidity is low but they should be out of direct sunlight. Attics and linen closest are excellent indoor locations, and the aromatic scent nicely compliments any kitchen pantry. Allow 2–4 weeks for herbs to dry completely. You can crush herbs before placing them in airtight containers, though whole leaves keep their flavor longer. Drying flowers is a similar process. Harvest flowers just before or just as they begin to bloom because they will continue to open during drying. Remove all leaves and gather the stems into a small bunch about 1/2-inch in diameter. Secure your bouquets tightly with string and hang them upside down so the stems do not bend. Like herbs, dry flowers in a cool, dry place. Flowers can take up to 4¬–6 weeks to dry, depending on the flower’s water content. Because of their long drying time, consider displaying your bouquets on an outdoor drying rack. As long as the humidity is low and it isn’t in direct sunlight¬ (which causes fading) a drying rack can give any home a rustic and quaint look. Air drying works best with more sturdy herbs such as bay, dill, marjoram, oregano, rosemary, summer savory and thyme. Tender-leaf herbs that retain more water–basil, chives, mint and tarragon–are best preserved in a dehydrator. Blue, orange and pink flowers best retain their color when dried. And a flower boasting a low-water content dries well (this includes cornflower, lavender, marjoram, pompon Dahlias, poppy seed-heads and roses). If you’re only interested in drying flower heads, lay them on a window screen to allow air to circulate around them.	<urn:uuid:078977fc-7a8f-4fe6-afe7-09624ab04bc4>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.pauladeen.com/print/kitchen_basics/1543	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.947033	811	1.835938	2
The PV market has been a minefield in recent years, with shrinking margins, fluctuating subsidies and trade conflicts keeping executives across the globe awake at night. Beneath it all, the market has continued to grow, and will continue to do so in the next 5 years but with markedly different and healthier dynamics. Due to the extreme price pressure experienced by manufacturers today, many will not survive the next two years. Uncompetitive tier-2 and tier-3 manufacturers, and some tier-1 manufacturers like Suntech, either will dissolve or be acquired. As a result, global module capacity will decrease from 65 GW in 2013 and 2014 to 58 GW in 2015. With demand increasing to 52 GW in 2015, overcapacity is reduced to 12%. As overcapacity shrinks, manufacturers will save up to $0.09/W by increasing utilization from 55% to 90%. Since prices remain mostly stable, manufacturers will be able to return to profitable gross margins. Projecting even further forward, with the U.S., China, Japan, and India taking over where Germany and Italy left off, companies looking for growth need to look no further than the PV global demand doubling from 31 GW in 2012 to 62 GW in 2018. These projections depend on multiple large movements within the market, such as financing innovation for distributed projects, governments fast tracking utility-scale project development in emerging markets and discontinued government support for failing tier-3 manufacturers. Importantly, manufacturers will also need to reduce costs to maintain low prices while improving margins. These near-term incremental cost reductions will come from innovation such as double printing cell metallization to create thinner, deeper line widths and reduce silver paste use, or upgrading wafer saws to structured or diamond wire to reduce kerf loss and/or reduce wafer thickness. Business models need adjustment to not only survive the next two years, but also to adapt to the future market and come out on top in 2015. Companies need to invest in their future now to develop products for the next generation of solar – the generation in which differentiated products such as back contact modules, passivated emitters, kerfless wafers, copper zinc tin sulfide modules, and numerous other technologies can earn large margins in a $155 billion market. Successful companies in the long-term will absorb cheap IP now and accelerate development. Source: Lux Research report “Market Size Update 2013: Return to Equilibrium” — client registration required.	<urn:uuid:8541a703-e234-44fb-86fd-5d55f020d6f5>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.luxresearchinc.com/blog/author/edward-cahill/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.941978	497	1.539063	2
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Unemployment in South Carolina edged up slightly in December, rising to 10.7 percent. The Department of Employment and Workforce said Tuesday that South Carolina's jobless rate increased from 10.6 percent in November. Total employment increased by nearly 4,400 last month, but it wasn't enough to drop the jobless rate. The national unemployment rate in December was 9.4 percent. Most of the increase came in retail, education and health, and professional and business services. The biggest drops came in tourism-related businesses. Marion County had the highest unemployment rate in December at 19.7 percent. Lexington County had the lowest rate at 8 percent. (Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) Have information or an opinion about this story? Click here to contact the newsroom. Copyright WRDW-TV News 12. All rights reserved. This material may not be republished without express written permission.	<urn:uuid:23bdb70d-cad9-4490-bca2-58e0cf512669>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.wrdw.com/money/jobs/SCs_unemployment_rate_edges_up_in_December_114572439.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.955287	212	1.835938	2
Vets Under Veterans Affairs' Medical Care Can Use Pot In California Following criticism from medical marijuana advocates, particularly those based here in Los Angeles, the Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday reversed course and stated it will allow vets being treated at its medical facilities to use cannabis in states like California, where it's legal to do so. dey via Flickr The new policy is expected to take effect next week and cover those 14 states where medical pot use is allowed. V.A. doctors, however, still won't be able to prescribe marijuana in those states. More from the New York Times.	<urn:uuid:64bc69bf-d868-48d1-b59e-801cef4e6d31>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2010/07/veterans_can_use_pot.php	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.959689	121	1.523438	2
Tips On Feeling Safe And Secure At Home For safety’s sake, don’t brag about your vacation and think twice before posting news of upcoming trips on Facebook or Twitter. (NAPSI)—If you are like most homeowners, you know that few things are as satisfying as the sense of security that comes from being in your own home. For many, that’s a feeling that comes from being able to close the door, turn the key and relax, knowing the dangers of the world are locked away. A recent survey found that 70 percent of American homeowners say having deadbolt locks on their entry doors makes them feel safe and secure when at home. The survey also revealed that 44 percent of respondents feel that having more than one deadbolt lock on their entry doors makes them feel safe and secure when at home. Kwikset, the leader in smart, simple security, conducted the Harris Interactive survey to learn more about what makes Americans feel safe in their homes. Tips to Feel Safe and Secure at Home To help you and your family feel safer in your home, here are five simple safety tips from the experts at Kwikset: 1. Not all locks are created equal. Make sure you have quality locks. For maximum safety, choose high-security locks. For example, look for locks that feature BumpGuard technology, such as the Kwikset SmartKey Deadbolt, which protects against drilling and picking. 2. Light it up! Illuminate your home, inside and out. A timer or solar-powered light on the front, back and side of a house makes it more difficult for burglars to hide and gives the impression that someone is home. Install a lamp or TV timer when away so it appears someone is inside after dark. 3. Mow your lawn already! Overgrown grass is a sure sign that no one is home. Don’t give the impression that your house has been left vacant for an extended period of time. 4. Don’t brag about your vacation. Think twice before posting upcoming trips on Facebook or Twitter. According to a study out of the United Kingdom from Credit Sesame, approximately 78 percent of ex-burglars use Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook to single out empty homes. A good way to counter the technology used by the bad guys is to upgrade your own equipment. Using wireless technology like Kwikset Home Connect can protect your home by integrating a home automation system to monitor who enters and exits your home from your smartphone or Internet connection. 5. Remember to protect your spare key and your goods. Leave one with someone you trust. Never leave it on the property. Keyless entry locks with electronic keypads are another option to consider. You can learn more about locking in safety and security at www.kwikset.com and (800) 327-5625.	<urn:uuid:991f44eb-718e-4b38-ba7a-f5fb7d70cb81>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://carmichaeltimes.com/your_home/tips-on-feeling-safe-and-secure-at-home.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.949071	599	1.828125	2
A Ball-jointed doll sculpting project for my senior exhibition at Stevens Institute of Technology, exploring Muse and trad. sculpture. About Senior Exhibition Every year, Stevens' Seniors - regardless of major - have a design project to accomplish by the end of their last semester. Being a double degree (Computer Engineering / Art & Technology), I have already completed one Senior Design project. This would be my second. Due to the limited funding in the College of Arts and Letters (CAL), there is not much available for funding the individual senior ArtTech and MusicTech projects. Also, due to the recent changes in the CAL program, this senior exhibition will be the most promoted and senior-integrated exhibition that Stevens has yet to see. No pressure. With all that said, here's where you come in: The Ball-Jointed Doll For my Senior Exhibition, I chose to sculpt a Ball-Jointed Doll using Apoxie Sculpt and other materials, following various tutorials which I have found online. My exhibition also plays a part with my senior thesis, which argues that sculpture is directly affected by the society, materials available, and the environment which the artist is located. Inspired by Hans Bellmer, I have decided to take a more internal approach to the exhibition: As an artist, what drives me to continue to pursue traditional sculpture? How does the Muse play a part in my creationary process? Lastly, I intend to explore the doll-making process, and the complexities of traditional doll creation and assembly. What I Need... I need about $300 for not only the Apoxie, but the fabric for the clothes, the books for in-depth research, the polystyrene, the tools, eyes, hair...and other things that come with doll making. It's not just money either - if you have any books, resources, or anything that could help accomplish this goal, do let me know! (via the email below) If you have any more questions for me about this project, pictures of the work in progress, or just want to give some advice, feel free to email me at aclybur1(at)stevens(dot)edu. Have a question? If the info above doesn't help, you can ask the project creator directly. pledged of $300 goal seconds to go Mar 21, 2012 - Apr 20, 2012 (30 days) Pledge $1 or more On May 3rd at the CAL Senior Exhibition, your name will be featured on my thank you poster. It will be in the tier "Every Contribution Counts" as a contributor.Estimated delivery: May 2012 Pledge $10 or more Similar to the $1 reward, your name will be featured in the "Every Contribution Counts" with a golden star next to it.Estimated delivery: May 2012 Pledge $25 or more Not only will your name be featured as a contributor (with a fancier star), but you'll also receive a print photograph of the finished doll.Estimated delivery: Jun 2012 Pledge $50 or more Your contribution will be fancily displayed on the poster in the "Every Contribution Counts" tier. You will receive a print (larger size) of the finished doll, and a small pamphlet of the doll's work in progress, including photos and artists comments.Estimated delivery: Jun 2012	<urn:uuid:0a3b80b3-7aad-45f0-a43f-d11b4dbc6504>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1246934701/senior-exhibition-ball-jointed-doll	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.940604	705	1.59375	2
We all love cookies but there is something special about Christmas cookies because they are an important part of Christmas celebration! Christmas cookies are traditionally sugar biscuits and cookies (though other flavors may be used based on family traditions and individual preferences) cut into various shapes related to Christmas. The tradition of serving cookies is as old as the Christmas and there’s nobody who is unaware of how special are the Christmas cookies! In the United States, since the 1930s, children have left cookies and milk on a table for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, though many people simply consume the cookies themselves. The cookies are often cut into such shapes as those of candy canes, reindeer, and holly leaves. Here are some of the best stores online where you can find best quality Christmas cookies, recipes, cookie making ideas and lots more. Christmas decorations include Christmas lights, wreaths, garland, ornaments, window decor, tree toppers, tree skirts and lots more. This article will introduce you to the best Christmas decoration stores where you can find the best decorations for Christmas at lowest prices. These are some of the most popular Christmas online stores where you can purchase almost anything related to Christmas. Some of these stores are among the best Christmas tree stores where you can buy the best trees at low prices. These stores are fully tested, trust worthy, provide top quality merchandise and best customer service. Explore traditional and modern world decoration ideas mentioned on these online stores. Christmas tree is among the most important items for Christmas celebrations. Although there are many Christmas tree stores where you can purchase trees but there are a few stores that have the best trees. I have compared the prices, quality and service of these stores with hundreds of other stores and found these to be the best. If you are looking for online stores to buy Christmas trees, then read below and find the top Christmas tree stores in the US. Also, we will discuss some wonderful information about Christmas trees! Cheer up, its Christmas! Christmas is special and Christmas brings joy to everyone’s heart. And, it is time to go shopping! Although there are thousands of Christmas stores where we can shop and buy our favorite gifts but let me share the best Christmas stores of 2010 with you. Why I think these stores are the best? The reason is simple, I have rated these stores on various scales: quality, price, service, shipping, support, merchandise and more. These stores have the best Christmas gifts, trees, decorations, costumes and other items that we normally shop during Christmas. So, go ahead and explore these Christmas online stores and save money on shopping. Get new articles in your email! Enter your email below to subscribe to our feed.	<urn:uuid:0fe060e9-2536-46e7-95b7-28a05a69b834>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.toptenservices.net/tag/christmas-stores/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.941125	549	1.507813	2
Weigh the figs after topping and cleaning the bottoms. Determine the proportional amount of sugar required. Mash or cut figs into chunks, choose how chunky you want your jam to be. If the skins are greenish and hard, cut into small pieces. Ripe fig skin will soften nicely while boiling. Add spices, lemon juice and rind. Cover with sugar and allow to sit for 2 hours. Slowly bring the mixture to the boil over 15-20 minutes. Slowly boil for 1 hour. Cool and slowly boil for 15 minutes the next day. Cool. Pour into air tight container that has been scorched with boiling water. Refrigerate. For variations add freshly roasted or dry fried almonds. Notes: It is pectin in fruit that makes it set when making jam. The green figs contain more pectin than the ripe fruits, so it may help to include some slightly green fruit. If you jam still won't set you can rescue your batch by adding some Jam Setta from your supermarket. Jam Setta is basically powdered pectin. I have always found that there is enough pectin in my figs, but you might find a bit of Jam Setta is needed. For those in non metric kitchens, 1kg = 2.204lb or 1lb = 0.454Kg	<urn:uuid:10cf1667-4be1-4646-8290-880d66d2a027>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://members.iinet.net.au/~dp/figjam.htm	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.934226	281	1.5	2
A new thruster system offers an alternative to a conventional installation. After ending yet another day on the water with a frustrating battle against wind and current while backing into your slip, you’ve made up your mind to get a bow thruster. It’s a decision you’ve made many times before, but the thought of cutting that big hole in your bow, laminating a tube in place, and then having to worry about improper sealing has always forced you to reconsider. So has the amount of time your boat might be out of the water. Finally, an aternative has arrived, though. The same company that developed the Yacht Controller remote docking system is now importing a clever new kind of thruster—developed by the Austrian company Marinno—that mounts on the bottom of your boat’s hull, not in it. “It’s the first thruster system designed from a clean sheet of paper,” says Gerald Berton, president of The Berton Group in Coral Gables, Florida, which owns the Yacht Controller and distributes Yacht Thruster in this country. Since the unit is constantly submerged, it’s in a sense water-cooled, at least where water temperatures are not overly high. This can prolong running time for up to seven minutes without overheating, according to Berton. Typical electric tunnel-style thrusters, most installers will tell you, tend to shut down in three to five minutes, depending on whether the unit has a temperature-based or time-based cutoff. (Overheating, of course, is not an issue with hydraulic thrusters, although such systems are usually found on boats larger than 60 feet.) In addition, the Yacht Thruster is housed in a stainless steel structure with a tapered shape. Berton says this reduces hydrodynamic drag significantly and also makes the unit rugged enough to withstand a grounding. Also, because its motor is comparatively compact and light, the Yacht Thruster draws a nominal current that’s less than a more conventional unit’s, according to Berton. He has one on his 37-foot Intrepid and says he ran it for 30 minutes straight without depleting the battery. Generally speaking, customers are demanding better response from thrusters these days. So manufacturers of tunnel-style models have been developing ever-larger units. For the boat owner, this means less stowage space under a forward berth, where thruster motors are typically housed. Also, when engaged, these larger units are also much louder, which is unsettling for anyone relaxing belowdecks. Marinno recorded sound levels at the helm of a test boat. The Yacht Thruster was 14 decibels quieter than a tunnel thruster and 9 decibels less than a retractable model. And finally, power units for traditional thrusters are typically housed in a small confined area and may eventually succumb to corrosion caused by humidity and moisture buildup. On extremely hot days, they will also overheat that much more quickly. While the price of the Yacht Thruster ($4,000 to $6,000 depending on the installation and size) might seem steep, you may save considerably in labor because there’s no fiberglass laminating required. Installation is fairly simple. For a bow-thruster application, one hole is cut with a holesaw for the through-hull as far forward as possible and then two more are cut for mounting studs that attach the unit to the hull bottom. Stern-mounted units are fixed low and as close to the boat’s transom as possible. It’s important for both to use the proper sealant between the running surface and the thruster and to properly tighten the bolts on the studs. The install kit comes complete with a backing plate and vibration dampeners. The final steps are easy. You simply run a wire harness from the thruster to a set of relays and from there to a control panel on the dashboard (an optional remote is available) and connect the power cables to the batteries. DIY? As a reasonably handy guy, I’d feel comfortable doing an installation myself. Several models are available, in both 12- and 24-volt versions. Configurations include bow thrusters, stern thrusters, and even a duplex thruster, which has two units in one housing, for larger boats. For smaller vessels (to 35 feet or so), Berton says you can simply piggyback off the power feed from an anchor windlass. Just remember to follow ABYC guidelines and use a marine-grade splash-proof bus or terminal strip in your anchor locker. Bottom line? If you’re really getting tired of struggling with the elements while docking your boat at day’s end, but you’re a little leery about what you see as the complexities of conventional thruster installation, cheer up. The new Yacht Thruster may be your answer. Yacht Thruster, 888-898-8608; www.yachtthruster.com This article originally appeared in the July 2012 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.	<urn:uuid:4a16d61a-e3b1-406b-b2ea-8ea3e4b5e051>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.powerandmotoryacht.com/node/159045	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.945384	1,073	1.804688	2
Digital discontinued their "Universal Desktop Box" systems in the summer of '96, which put about 8000 UDB systems on the market, initially at the not-overly-princely sum of $800. (Original cost was about $4500; these are seriously overengineered little puppies.) They were designed with essentially the same purpose as today's Network Computers; they are: Relatively small/compact units; Have limited local disk resources; users are really intended to store data on servers elsewhere; Don't have really powerful CPUs, anticipating that major applications will run remotely. Shortly after these models were discontinued, Oracle took up a not-dissimilar vision, pushing NCs. At $800, the Multia would have been a decent seller, being significantly more powerful (at least in concept) than Oracle's NCs. Unfortunately, that $4500 cost leaves it about ten times too expensive... I have since seen price quotes as low as $450. Vendors of course quote the original $3500 price tag as the number to compare to. There may be a few new units around, but all that seems to be left is the secondary market... CPU upgrades: The CPU and cache are soldered in (i.e. you can't upgrade). The unit was designed as an X-server, so presumably there has been some effort put into making the graphics hardware fast. It seems pretty quick, with the downside that it only supports 8 bitplane mode. Memory upgrades: There are 4 slots, currently they are fully occupied by 2x8M and 2x4M SIMMs. Any upgrade will require removing some of these SIMMS. At the trade-in price for SIMMS, you may as well keep them and put them in any other machine (they are standard JEDEC 72 pin 70nsec SIMMS). There is a space in the case that can accept either a short PCI card or a 3.5" hard drive. Size is a factor; it may need to be a very short height (1/3 height?). Note that there is enough x86 emulation on board the CPU that it is possible to boot up with bigger and better video cards that assume you have an x86 CPU to run onboard BIOS code. Eric Smith has collected a lot of information about Digital UDB Board Jumpers which should prove useful if there is need to reconfigure the hardware. There are two versions of the motherboard - one with soldered in 166mhz CPU and cache and one with a ziff socket and the ability to run up to 300mhz parts (even though they were never released), and a user upgradable cache (from 256 to 1meg). The second motherboard is also able to accept some flakey 12meg simms in the first 2 memory banks. For Alpha assembly aficionados, documentation was collected for the NetBSD Project that may prove useful. If this was useful, let others know by an Affero rating	<urn:uuid:acd411e5-0512-4fd7-bf7c-698bc0d049e3>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://linuxfinances.info/info/alphamultia.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.975204	619	1.65625	2
I am currently reading 42 Rules of Product Management. It is a great read and I highly recommend that you buy it. - It is product management’s responsibility to identify customer problems worth solving. It is engineering’s role to identify technical solutions to those problems. - Research helps you understand: 1. Your customers,2. Your competitive marketplace, 3. Competitors, 4. Your own product - Be careful. Requirements are like chili powder. A little goes a long way, and too much spoils the pot. (This refers to the market research requirements but we know that it applies to project/product requirements as well). - To scope market research, you ask yourself - What are my questions?what am i going to do with the answers? - Two week rule (by Marty Cagan author of Inspired- How to Create Products People Love ) - Never go more than two weeks without putting your product ideas in front of real users and customers - Steve Blank’s quote in the book ”In a startup, no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.” Each chapter (a Rule) is filled with lots of golden nuggets. If you are doing a startup and building a product, you can learn a lot from this book. I have only covered the first 10 chapters here. Expect more posts as I read through the rest of the book.	<urn:uuid:9e13f31c-d71b-4a2c-8c1b-4f8e31c2f19f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://dorai.me/2012/04/24/rules-of-product-management-notes-from-the-book/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.949285	286	1.617188	2
Last Friday, Treasurer Rosie Rios participated in the TEDxWomen conference in Washington, DC, where she presented a "TED Talk" as part of the "Poverty and Plenty" session that featured speakers exploring "the space between having a little and having a lot." Rios, who has served as Treasurer since July 2009, shared her unique perspective on Treasury efforts to reach consumers, small business owners and struggling homeowners following the recent financial crisis: “Treasury rose to the occasion and came up with many programs designed to help people. I still believe that human capital is the best investment that we can make so when I look back at the past four years, our housing program has helped over one million families save their homes. Our Small Business Lending Fund helps community banks lend to small businesses to help them grow. Our State Small Business Credit Initiative provides economic development resources for programs designed to create jobs. And even with financial reform we now have more transparency in the financial system, we now have more capital requirements for financial institutions. That same financial reform established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to help markets provide better resources for products and services that help Americans make better decisions. And even today, I came directly from an event sponsored by Treasury that connected technology companies with government data agencies to see if these companies can come up with applications or other technologies to help Americans and all consumers make better financial decisions.” Treasurer Rios also spoke about the changing demographics in government representation and how these new voices at the table reflect the deepest virtues of democracy, saying “different voices mean a different conversation with different outcomes.” “So I challenge all of you to find that voice, own it, embrace it, advance it and inspire the voices of the next generation. Our daughters, our sons and those we mentor. That will lead to empowerment. And it will be those voices in this age of democracy that will narrow the space between having a little and having a lot.” Watch the full video of Treasurer Rios' "TED Talk" below: Anthony Reyes is the New Media Specialist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.	<urn:uuid:caa65411-8104-491f-af9b-b59ff736a170>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Pages/rios-ted.aspx	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.954853	437	1.523438	2
Which author had the heaviest brain? What was the original title of 1984? When did cigarettes first appear in English literature? Who wrote the first Western? And is there any link between asthma and literary genius? John Sutherland's irreverent literary exploration illuminates topics from author advances to Civil War literature, from Victorian sex to odd things eaten by literary characters, and from famous misquotes to the biggest blunders in print. "Clever, offbeat, and funny; the ideal companion for those who take their literature far too seriously—and for those who don't take it seriously enough."—Guardian (London)	<urn:uuid:430daf36-41e9-4c3a-9a8e-63e3fa82b455>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.daedalus-books.com/Products/Detail.asp?ProductID=94495&Media=Book&SubCategoryID=2171&ReturnUrl=%2FProducts%2FDetail.asp%3FProductID%3D100726%26Media%3DBook%26SubCategoryID%3D2171%26ReturnUrl%3D%252FProducts%252FSpecial%252FDefault.asp%253FMedia%253DBook%2526Special%253DGD	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.965259	127	1.617188	2
Starting a Business Things may be turning around for small businesses, which could result in more entrepreneurs incorporating Optimism is on the rise among small business owners, reaching its highest level since November 2007, according to the National Federation of Independent Business' Optimism Index. Although figures are up, they still remain weak historically. The report revealed that optimism has increased for four consecutive months and has risen from 1.5 points to 93.2 points. Despite the increase, the reading remains closer to that of a recession as opposed to a recovery. "Although the November reading is higher than the prior 34 months, it is still lower than the November - December, 2007 readings by over a point, and those were the lowest 2007 readings as the index fell all year signaling the coming end to the expansion in December," the report said. "So the index has climbed from its recession low of 81, but is far short of even the average value of the index prior to the start of the recession and far below values that have typified a recovery period," it added. Many of the results had to do with business expectations, asmost small businesses didn't see their sales or earnings increase significantly last month. This article is brought to you by Vcorp Services – specializing in the review and preparation of entity formations . From obtaining a tax identification number to preparing Articles of Incorporation , Vcorp Services can get your business off the ground. Vcorp Services assists in the creation of new businesses and helps maintain existing businesses in all 50 states. Quick, accurate and at the lowest rates, Vcorp's knowledgeable and experienced staff has helped form thousands of new businesses including: LLCs, S-Corporations, C-Corporations, Partnerships, Non-Profits and Professional Corporations. Vcorp works with entrepreneurs, legal and tax professionals, as well as real estate experts to set up and maintain businesses across the country. Vcorp also specializes in helping small businesses to get started, grow and remain in compliance with federal and state regulations.	<urn:uuid:96c2d24c-c168-4160-b302-2d0cd70d3fa0>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://vcorpservices.com/newsroom-detail/800088498/Starting-a-Business/800291538/independent-member-overview.php	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.968789	429	1.601563	2
This amazing trip is dedicated to building homes for children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS crisis in Mozambique. Join our team and you will make a difference and as well as new friends from around the globe. No construction experience is required, but having a fun, easygoing and keen-to-help personality is! Apply to the team! Mozambique is a country of great potential and contrasts. It is bordered on one side by the beautiful Indian Ocean, but its population is strikingly young, with children accounting for half of the 20 million population. As a generation of parents die to the HIV/AIDS crisis, they are leaving behind orphans. Habitat Mozambique is answering that challenge by building with the Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project, which gives homes to orphans and their caretakers. The program includes legal and health education so that the children will have a secure, stable life ahead of them. About Habitat for Humanity Mozambique Habitat Mozambique has been active since 2000. We have built more than 2,000 homes and housed more than 7,500 people, most of them children. Habitat works with the local community to build housing and supply sanitation facilities, mosquito nets and certeza, a water-purifying liquid that makes water safe to drink. Each house is protected by a legally enforceable will that prevents property grabbing and ensures that children will have the legal right to remain in the home even if their caregiver dies. Habitat houses are made with cement blocks, concrete floors, and metal roofs. Without any major maintenance these homes will last for more than 20 years. Type of construction for volunteers Along with skilled laborers, volunteers will build simple cement-block homes of one to three rooms, depending on family size. Friday, August 2: Depart from the U.S. Saturday, August 3: Arrive in Maputo; transfer to the hotel for dinner and overnight. Sunday, August 4: Breakfast at the hotel; lunch and travel to project site; welcome and orientation with local staff; dinner with national office staff; overnight at hotel. Monday, August 5-Thursday, July 8: Breakfast served before traveling to work site; work from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. with lunch on-site; free time after work to clean up; dinner; time for team activities. Friday, August 9: Breakfast served before traveling to worksite; work in the morning if necessary; farewell celebration; dinner and overnight. Saturday, August 10: Breakfast at hotel before traveling to Maputo; check in at Maputo hotel; free time in the afternoon; farewell dinner with HFH Mozambique staff; overnight. Sunday, August 11: Breakfast at hotel; depart for home. The team will stay in modest hotels/guesthouses throughout the entire trip. Rooms are shared and have electricity, showers and toilets. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided for all workdays; one meal is provided for arrival and departure days. US$2,100 per person (For more details about what is included in this cost, visit Global Village program cost.) Increase your impact: Take the GV Challenge Habitat for Humanity is accelerating its work to end poverty housing, and we need Global Village teams to help. Set a goal and fundraise to make your impact last longer than the days you’re in the field. Your support builds more homes, creates resource centers, educates families, and advances our projects to build sustainable communities. We’ll even provide tools to make fundraising easy. Take the GV Challenge—join us in sharing our story and building a better world. Gina Ebbs is from the UK and based there, but she began volunteering for Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans, rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina in 2006. She then branched out to the Global Village program, joining build teams in Ethiopia and Mongolia. Gina has now led teams to Malawi and China. For more information, or if you are interested in joining this team, please email Gina at email@example.com.	<urn:uuid:36f668ed-fe9f-4979-966d-d1d511e7bacb>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.habitat.org/gv/trip/GV14111	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.943098	854	1.554688	2
Killearn is a village and parish of approximately 2,500 souls nestled under the Campsie Fells in West Central Scotland. We live right on the Highland Line and boast the most southerly Highland Malt Distillery in Scotland at Dumgoyne. From 1889 to 1893 Excise Officer Tedder worked at the distillery and his son, the late Air Marshall Lord Tedder, was born in the Customs House (which is now a rose garden). His son became Professor of Chemistry at St. Andrews University. The West Highland Way passes through the parish but the standard route bypasses the village by about a kilometre. As our local song writer famously wrote we have "four churches, three tennis courts, two public houses and a Spar!". For a map of the Killearn area just click on the link to "Multimap" but do remember to come back! Our main link to the rest of the world is the car but there are regular bus services from Glasgow and Stirling. Timetables are available on the "Transport" page on the site. Bookmark the site and visit us regularly! Two of our four churches with the Glebe in the foreground and the Campsie Fells in the background. We think our Glebe has the best view of any in Scotland. Click here to see the view! The Glebe is owned by a local charity called The Second Killearn Trust. The Buchanan Monument in the centre of the Village with a corner of the Black Bull Hotel. The Buchanan Monument was erected in 1788 by private subscription. It commemorates George Buchanan (born 1506 died 1582) who was a great scholar and tutor to James VI of Scotland (and I of England). George Buchanan was born at The Moss in Killearn and started his education in the village before studying in St. Andrews and Paris. Buchanan's quincentenary was celebrated in September 2006. Events included a walk in Buchanan's footsteps, a ceilidh, a concert, a commemorative church service, afternoon tea at The Moss and the planting of a memorial tree and a time capsule. Since then the monument and surrounds have been refurbished and two new descriptive plaques have been installed. Three books by local authors have been produced :- These may be obtained from shops in Killearn, local libraries in the area, or by order through any bookseller.	<urn:uuid:d6435891-2954-46f9-84c1-8372e2f6d0e7>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.killearn.org.uk/	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.97046	495	1.820313	2
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, March 19th, 2006 Definitive airway control by ETI is the "standard of care in prehospital airway management," emergency physicians in Germany explained. "However, there are specific factors that may influence and complicate ETI." In a "prospective, descriptive study at three German Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) over a 1-yr period," M. Helm and coauthors at the Federal Armed Forces Medical Center Ulm "examined the success and complication rate for field intubation performed by trauma anesthetists." "In 342 patients (9.3%)... Want to see the full article? Welcome to NewsRx! Learn more about a six-week, no-risk free trial of Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week	<urn:uuid:29d1ad64-d360-401d-af58-3dac98b8eae2>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.newsrx.com/newsletters/Medical-Devices-and-Surgical-Technology-Week/2006-03-19/03192006333165QW.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.943016	172	1.835938	2
Tech Tip \| Printing from Your Computer is a Snap Published: Thursday, January 31, 2013 Updated: Thursday, January 31, 2013 22:01 Printing to a campus pay-for-print printer from your own desktop or laptop computer is easy with Miami uPrint. This service allows you to configure your Windows or MacOS computer to access printers across the campus. IT Help, Miami’s technology knowledge base, has instructions for configuring Windows and MacOS computers, as well as a list of the available printers by campus. After the uPrint application is installed on your computer, and the desired printer is added, simply use your computer's printer selection functionality when you print and then swipe your ID as you normally would at the Pay-for-Print station to release your print job. You only need to install the printer once, and your print jobs will stay in the print queue for two hours. Note: To be able to use the uPrint service over the wireless network, you will need to set your computer for MU-WIRELESS using 802.1x Student Tech Fee Deadline Approaching A pool of funds from the Student Technology Fee is available to stimulate the development of student-focused technology projects on the Oxford campus. A total of $525,000 is available, and any student, faculty or staff member may apply for funding. The deadline for proposals is Friday, February 8, 2011. Guidelines for preparing proposals, the current application form and general information on the Tech Fee can be found on the Tech Fee web site. The Tech Fee was instituted in FY07 and generates approximately $3 million annually. These funds are used to support student technology and are managed by the division of IT Services.	<urn:uuid:e18f5d27-3ae6-4a5c-9516-370e66a4c354>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.miamistudent.net/tech-tip/tech-tip-printing-from-your-computer-is-a-snap-1.2980551	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.936199	354	1.757813	2
Although she was raised in a meat-eating environment, Ms. Helen Reddout, cherry farmer and president of the Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE) of Yakima Valley in Washington, USA explains that seeing the damage and abuse on industrial farms made her decide she could no longer support them, even in her daily life. Helen Reddout – President of the Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE) (F): I was definitely a “meat and potatoes” person, until on my trip to the market in Sunny Side, I had to pass by a dairy lot and a beef feedlot. By the time you drove the two miles down there, looking at how the animals were treated, and smelling the smells, and seeing the dust…sometimes so bad, coming off of those yards, that you had to actually turn your lights on in the middle of the day, it was that heavy. After a year or so of that, I began to think, being a part of buying these commodities is encouraging their operation. VOICE: Ms. Reddout has not eaten any meat nor dairy for 20 years, and is still glad of her choice. Helen Reddout (F): And to my surprise, it wasn’t very difficult at all. In fact my body kind of responded positively to it. VOICE: Helen Reddout is part of a growing trend of people who, once confronted with the disturbing reality of raising animals, have decided that the best approach is a humane, more eco-friendly plant-based diet. Meanwhile, the swine flu, another byproduct of animal agriculture, has spread to such an extent that the World Health Organization (WHO) is expected to declare a pandemic within days. With cases approaching 20,000 worldwide in 67 countries, some 120 people have lost their lives, with the more than 870 who have fallen ill fallen ill in Australia being the highest number outside of North America. We thank you, Ms. Reddout and the Community Association for Restoration of the Environment, for your compassionate and intelligent choice of a meat-free existence. Our sorrow for those who have suffered loss through the swine flu and the devastating effects of animal farming operations as we also pray that people everywhere realize the health and mental security that comes from consuming a plant-based diet.	<urn:uuid:a7613759-ec2b-49a2-a880-a3bde558c77d>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://suprememastertv.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=sos&wr_id=862&goto_url=veg&sca=sos_10&page=0&url=link1_0&eps_no=&show=&flag=0	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.963606	478	1.828125	2
Philly Protesters Seize Street to Demand Housing Rights Jeff Rousset \| 12.05.2009 Police watched as more than 100 people blocked a busy intersection at 6th and Market yesterday, near the Federal Building, to call attention to the nation's housing crisis. Speakers questioned national priorities, with President Obama sending 30,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan as thousands of Americans continue to be pushed into poverty and homelessness. The group, organized by Kensington Welfare Rights Union and the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, demanded a moratorium on evictions, and vowed massive nationwide civil disobedience at the end of January if Obama has not taken adequate steps to address the housing issue. Read More \| Related: PPEHRC Opening National Education, Organizing and Cultural Center Protesters gathered at the Federal Building at 11 am holding signs and banners, wearing colorful cardboard houses, beating drums in rhythm, and chanting “What do we want? Housing! When do we want it? Now!” Lead by about a dozen disabled individuals in wheelchairs, the group marched to the intersection of 6th and Market and picketed in a large circle, blockading the entire intersection, before converging on the south side of the intersection and blocking traffic across all of 6th Street. A number of people spoke to the gathered crowd, including two women whose homes were recently foreclosed. “I was renting a home and received a letter stating my house was going up for foreclosure because the owner had not been paying his mortgage. A week later the sheriff was knocking on my door giving me five minutes to leave,” said Starleen Pringle, a longtime resident of Philadelphia. Pringle said she was forced to immediately leave her home of three years, along with her nine year old daughter and seven year old son, even though she already paid full rent for the month. “I wasn't even allowed to get school clothes for my daughter the next day,” said Pringle. “They said, 'If you touch or take anything we're gonna lock you up.'” She had to make an appointment to later return to her house and collect all her belongings under a sheriff's supervision. “Every 15 seconds in this country someone's home is foreclosed!” announced Cheri Honkala, one of the rally organizers, and a national organizer for the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC). “We want to know what the government is going to do for these people!” PPEHRC organized similar rallies across the country and demanded that the Obama administration make housing its top priority and increase the federal government's funding for affordable housing to the $83 billion dollar level it was at in 1978. Honkala criticized the government for bailing out banks and corporations, and spending tens of billions of dollars to escalate war, while neglecting the swelling masses of Americans who are living in poverty and homelessness. “Bail out the people, not the banks!” the group chanted in unison. Another Philadelphia woman whose home was recently foreclosed spoke on the megaphone. “I'm homeless with my children,” she said with both her daughters, aged two and four, by her side. “I'm living in my car now. I want the government to get me a house so my kids don't get taken away from me by DHS.” PPEHRC is demanding that Philadelphia immediately take measures to house its entire homeless population, which numbers around 4,000 people on any given day. Last month dozens of people gathered at City Hall with the AIDS advocacy group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) to pressure Mayor Nutter to provide housing for the 8,000 people living in Philadelphia with HIV/AIDS who do not have access to adequate housing, one of the worst records for AIDS housing in any American city. People who are disabled and/or living with diseases are particularly hard hit by the nation's lack of housing and health care. As the economic crisis continues to strangle poor and working Americans, the numbers of homeless keep rising in Philadelphia and throughout the country. Meanwhile, many of the banks that received billions of dollars in federal taxpayer bailout funds are the same ones evicting people and taking their homes. The banks keep posting high and even record profits. The people keep paying the price. PPEHRC and the Kensington Welfare Rights Union announced that if President Obama does not adequately address the housing crisis there will be massive civil disobedience planned at federal buildings across the nation at the end of January, including Philadelphia. The highly energized crowd seemed fearless and ready for this escalation, even with police officers watching closely. As one of the speakers said to the crowd, “The war is not over there in Afghanistan. It's right here in America!” The nonviolent soldiers seemed determined to keep fighting for economic justice until all their demands are met, and everyone has access to adequate housing. The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is a national coalition of over a hundred groups building a multiracial movement to unite the poor and fight for economic justice and human rights. Their website is http://www.economichumanrights.org. 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"House report dismisses TWA missle theory" A report commissioned by a House subcommittee investigating the explosion of TWA Flight 800 endorses key government findings and dismisses the theory that a missile brought down the plane. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., Ohio Democrat, who earlier had backed the missile theory, renounces that scenario as incredible in a draft report to House aviation subcommitte Chairman John Duncan, who authorized the investigation. A copy of the report, dated today, was obtained by The Washington Times. Mr. Trafficant dismisses claims that the Boeing 747 was brought down by a U.S. Navy ship, terrorist missile, electromagnetic missile, meteorite or a bomb. "If, for argument's sake, the government is covering up the real cause of this tragedy it is a cover-up involving hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals," Mr. Traficant says in embracing the view shared by the National Transportation Safety Board, FBI, Central Intelligence Agency and the Boeing Co. Coming from a member of Congress who met and cooperated with "conspiracy theorists," the new report may blunt the impact of the principal critics. "Despite the good intentions of many of these individuals, their assumptions are not based on the available evidence," Mr. Traficant says. His draft report is based on a 10-month investigation of the explosion, which occurred shortly after Flight 800 left New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport for Paris. (end of excerpt) Most of the rest of the article discusses the fact that retired Navy Cmdr. William S. Donaldson heads a group that has objected to the official findings. There is no discussion in the article of the evidence that Traficant's draft report (Why just a draft after 10 months?) presents. Where have we heard arguments like these before? How many people, would you estimate, are in on the suppression of the news of the judge-ordered attachment of the Knowlton addendum to the Starr Report, to take just one example? Do not tens of thousands of people work for the American news media? In fact, in this short news item, one can see the clear and obvious use of techniques 5, 7, and 11 in Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression. 4 is invoked, as well, later in the article, to wit: "The NTSB yesterday characterized as 'extremely remote' suggestions that electromagnetic interference (EMI) from warships or warplanes ignited the explosion. That possibility was suggested by Harvard professor Elaine Scarry in published correspondence with NTSB Chairman James Hall." 6 is used ever so subtly by only mentioning Donaldson, in addition to Scarry, among the critics, and that, with a reminder that his group, Associated Retired Aviation Professionals, is receiving financial support from Accuracy in Media, which everyone knows can be dismissed as a blindly partisan right-wing outfit financed, in turn, by the head of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" himself, Richard Mellon Scaife. \|The Bird\|\|The Bird Columns\|\|DCDave's Homepage\|\|DCDave's Column\|\|DCDave's Column 1\| \|newsgroup: alt.thebird\|\|email: email@example.com\|	<urn:uuid:9085d8b5-273c-41e7-9ebf-6282e597dd0f>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.dcdave.com/article1/071598.html	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.947194	675	1.53125	2
BRATTLEBORO - The Selectboard is going to consider extending the curbside compost pickup program so that every resident in town would be able to take part. The town supported a voluntary pilot program over the past three months with 152 households. Recycling Coordinator Moss Kahler came to Tuesday night's meeting to say that the program has been successful. The board said it wanted a little more information before committing to a townwide program, but the board members seemed supportive and the townwide program could start as early as this spring. Kahler said that each household, on average, composted between 10 and 12 pounds of compost weekly, and Town Manager Barbara Sondag said the town has saved about $25,000 in tipping fees by diverting the heavy waste away from the landfill. If the town does move ahead, Sondag said the board would want to continue funding a coordinator, and she also said the town would probably have to purchase some bins. The board and Sondag discussed if there was money in the current fiscal year to begin the program in March, or if they would have to wait until the next fiscal year, which starts July 1. Sondag thinks the money saved would help support any future costs the town might have to pick up in education or material costs. "There is a real opportunity here for the town of Brattleboro to do something in a positive way," Sondag said. "It is a way to attack a portion of the The board might formally vote on extending the program at its next regular meeting. Kahler said the compost program has been successful in more ways than one. In October, he said, Brattleboro had its highest recycling rate ever, with 34 percent of the town's potential waste being recycled or composted. The state goal is 30 percent. Peter Gaskill, of Triple T Trucking, the company that has been hauling the waste, said it might be possible to start weekly recycling pickup if the town moves ahead with the compost program. And Windham Solid Waste Management District Director Bob Spencer told the board that the compost quality has been high. He said the program will only be successful if the waste does not include non-compostable materials, and so far, the garbage has been making high-quality compost. He said compost from the program might be available this spring. Spencer also said he was looking for a commitment from the town, because if the board decides to extend the program the waste management district would have to invest in some materials to handle the waste. "Brattleboro is now a leader in Vermont, and really, in all of New England," he said. "A lot of people are looking at this program." The last pilot pickup will occur on Dec. 21. Kahler said when he started the program there were 40 people who had to be put on a waiting list, and at the end of the program every single participant said he or she would continue with the pickup if it was extended. Howard Weiss-Tisman can be reached at email@example.com or at 802-254-2311 ext. 279.	<urn:uuid:bf8cbd5c-a659-4e26-b8a6-5326cbeefa22>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.reformer.com/health/ci_22126417/board-discusses-compost-program	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.976624	660	1.609375	2
Too little power won't get the job done, too much is a waste of money. So how many volts do you need? To find out, just answer one question (truthfully): How handy am I? The Golden Rule Stick with one manufacturer, and you can use the same battery in all your tools-as long as they have the same voltage. So don't go for a 9.6-volt drill if you think you'll want an 18-volt reciprocating saw later. The descriptions below will help you determine how handy you really are around the house-and, thus, your future cordless tool needs. The Unhandy Handyman	<urn:uuid:426db464-bee1-47fe-b43a-b56ee1b4deaa>	CC-MAIN-2013-20	http://www.popsci.com/category/tags/wall-sconces	s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz	en	0.948622	138	1.78125	2

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