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US & World Summary: Congressional Dems Blast Bush (Washington, DC) -- Congressional Democrats are blasting President Bush for vetoing the war funding bill. Bush yesterday followed through on his promise to strike down the measure because it contained a timeline to withdrawal troops from Iraq. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress wont give Bush "a blank check" for Iraq. Despite the rhetoric, Bush and Congressional leaders will meet today at the White House to try to reach a compromise to provide funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. --- Immigration Rally Turnout Drops Drastically Immigration rights rallies across the country yesterday drew significantly smaller crowds than last years gatherings. The Phoenix rally drew about 15-thousand marchers, while about ten-thousand showed up in LA. Last year, the Los Angeles gathering drew about 500-thousand people. The LA rally turned violent after a brief confrontation between some protestors and police. After some protestors threw rocks and bottles at the officers, police responded by firing tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd. An unknown number of people were arrested. --- Corzine Pays Fine, Complaint Dropped (Trenton, NJ) -- New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine has voluntarily paid a fine for not wearing a seatbelt during last months crash that landed him in the hospital. According to authorities, the governors SUV was traveling 91-miles-an-hour when it crashed on April 12th. Corzine was thrown from the vehicle and suffered a broken leg, eleven busted ribs and other injuries. Because he paid the 46-dollar fine for the seatbelt infraction, a citizens complaint filed against Corzine for not wearing his seatbelt has been dropped. --- Study Suggests Racial Bias In NBA Referee Calls (New York, NY) -- NBA Commissioner David Stern is refuting a new study that claims calls made by the leagues referees are racially biased. According to the "New York Times," the University of Pennsylvania study looked at 13 seasons from 1991 to 2004, and claims that white refs called fouls at a greater rate against black players. Stern said the league did its own study after seeing a draft of the Pennsylvania study last year. The commissioner says the leagues review found that there is no bias. --- R. Kelly Pens Tribute To Virginia Tech Victims At least one singer is paying tribute to the victims and survivors of the recent mass shooting at Virginia Tech. R. Kelly has written a tribute to the victims of the massacre, entitled "Rise Up." According to Billboard.com, the song will be released through various digital services on May 15th, with the proceeds going to the Hokie Spirit Memorial fund. That fund gives aid to those affected by the April 16th tragedy. Jive Records says Kelly was inspired to write the song while watching TV coverage of the shootings. --- Man Objects To New Mosque, Files Suit (Pompano Beach, FL) -- One Florida man doesnt want an Islamic mosque in his neighborhood. The man filed a lawsuit yesterday against three Islamic groups who want to build the facility. According to the "South Florida Sun-Sentinel," Rodney Wright says the mosque would bring an extremist form of Islam to his Pompano Beach neighborhood and that it would be a nuisance that would decrease his property values. The Islamic Center plans to build a 29-thousand-400-square-foot worship center and school to replace an existing mosque. --- Britney Spears Performs At California Nightclub (Los Angeles, CA) -- Pop singer Britney Spears has performed publicly for the first time in more than three years. The unadvertised 20-minute gig happened yesterday at the House of Blues in San Diego. Television reports say the 35-dollar tickets were being sold for as much as 500-dollars. Rumors are the Britney gig was one of three scheduled events for the wig-wearing star. (Copyright 2007 by Newsroom Solutions/Regional News Service) RNS-05-02-07 0945CDT
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WHAT A BASS! Competitive Fishing to Become Sanctioned KHSAA Sport
By: Michael C. Fehn
Updated: March 18, 2013
KHSAA Commissioner, Julian Tackett, announced Wednesday, Competitive Bass Fishing will be an officially sanctioned varsity sport beginning with the next school year. It will join bowling and competitive cheer as the newest additions.
"To say we are excited to sponsor bass fishing as a state championship sport-activity is an understatement," said Tackett. ", Tackett said.
Kentucky becomes the second state in the country to offer bass fishing as a high school sport. Illinois was the first. Competition will begin in the spring with a regular season, followed by a postseason and state championship in late April.
No word yet on whether any of the schools in our area plan to participate. But we'll keep fishing for that information. As soon as we get a bite, we'll reel you in. Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Good question, I asked. Non-US TR6s received the Lucas mecahnical fuel injection system which, in the 1969-1970 models, was reputed to develop 150hp. The 1974 US-spec TR6 was quoted at 104hp. Direct comparisons are not really possible, because the methodology of quoting horsepower changed over the years. Through to the late 1960s, engines were placed on a engine dyno, and stripped of all auxillary items such as alternator, flywheel, water pump (cooling was provided by an independant pump), dry-sump lubrication, fan-forced cool air to the carburettor, no cooling fan, no air-cleaner, leaner jetting, and highly advanced timing, etc. By the early 70's, manufacturers were not allowed to be as liberal in estimating, but still the motors on the engine-dyno were not the same beasts as would be pushing around Mum's station-wagon.
The best measure of true horsepower and torque is to measure it at the rear wheels. This way a real-world estimate can be obtained.
My own TR6 is fairly stock; the engine has never been out of the car or worked on. It is a tired old donk with 80,000+ miles, so substantially less than the factory figures were to be expected. However, I have made some very simple and inexpensive modifications which I believe really helped; namely, K&N air filters, easy-breathing exhaust, Pertonix electronic ignition, electric cooling fan (ie, no mechanical fan), removal of all smog equipment, and carbs rebuilt and tuned by me.
The work was carried out by the helpful guys at the Dyno Shop in Santee, California (619/562-3933). Air temperature was 74F. I had the car tested at the same time as my Mates in the Pantera Club, and their big worked 351 Clevelands were pulling 300-450 rwhp (rear-wheel horsepower). Their runs on the chassis-dyno took only seconds. When time came to dyno the TR6, the run seemed to take forever, but everyone remarked at what a gorgeous exhaust note the 6 had. Some fellows likened it to an older V12 Ferrari, or maybe half a Ferrari!
The results of 91 rwhp at 5,000rpm and 123ft-lbs at 2850rpm are pretty impressive for an essentially stock and tired motor. What does this equate to in the real world? At the drag strip, my TR6 will dispatch equally tired Datsun 240Zs and early Mazda Miatas. I'm happy with that.
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The rains have come only just in time to save thousands of head of dying cattle. A few weeks longer delay and Kimberley would have lost stock to such a serious extent that years must have elapsed before its regaining a flourishing condition. As it is many thousands of cattle and sheep
have been lost. On all stations there has been loss. Some, however, have not suffered severely, whilst others have re- ceived a blow that will take a year or two to recover. Obogamma station is one of the favoured few. The losses there do not exceed 200 bead. The Yeeda station loss
is estimated at 500 to 600. The Gogo and Fossil Downs stations lost very heavily,
but no accurate figures are to hand. Kim- berley Downs station, or Balmaningarra as it was called until recently, had no loss over the average. The same can be said of the Barker River station. The losses
will be felt chiefly at shearing time up the Fitzroy, and until then no accurate esti- mate can be made, although it is known that many suffered heavily. In some parts
10 to 15 inches of rain have fallen within the last four weeks. In Derby we have had about 7 Inches since January 1st.
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Tonight on True Blood, we get to meet the mysterious authority. We’ve spoken with Council members Carolyn Hennesy (Rosalyn) and Jacob Hopkins (Alexander), so we already know a little about their characters. Also debuting tonight are Christopher Meloni as Roman and Peter Mensah as Kibwe, rounding out the Council who have some business with Eric and Bill.
Official Synopsis
Tara resurfaces in Bon Temps; Pam recalls her human life and first encounter with Eric; Bill and Eric meet Salome at the Vampire Authority headquarters. (Written by Mark Hudis; directed by Michael Lehmann.)
“Authority Always Wins” airs June 17 at 9/8c on HBO. Join us for our live chat during the episode at 8:45/7:45c.
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Omg….my cable is out …and company says will be back on ASAP…I am dying!
sorry to hear that someone else is suffering as I am
I do not have HBO… That is one of the many reasons I love this site! I can get the low-down on the happenings of Bon Temps
thanks ladies!
In in a hotel and their hbo channel is out until the technicians come on mindy what do i do i want to watch the new episode today
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Romney's Shape-Shifting Foreign PolicyBy Melvin A. Goodman, Consortium News | Op-Ed
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RESISTING RESENTMENT
This mother is wrestling with an insidious infection to relationships: resentment. Resentment results from being injured or insulted by someone. It is the negative response to being hurt. This devastating emotion often slithers into our souls unnoticed. We might respond in anger or sorrow initially and then “get over it” – so we think. A close cousin to the more hostile attitude of bitterness, resentment can hide in the crevices of the soul and go undetected as it poisons us.
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I have been reading a few magazines lately and have always snapped photo's of recipes I want to try, what do you think?
White Chocolate Panna Cotta with Stewed Strawberries
Chocolate Hazelnut Lattice Tart
Banana & Coconut Cake
They all sound so dang yum! Will have to give on a whirl soon ^_^
Have you got any yummy favourite recipes to share?
Ciao Lovelies!!
OMG they all look delicious!
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Jailbreak iPhone IOS 4.2.1 / 4.1.3 via RedsnOw 0.9.6b5 to Update iPhone 3G/3GS on baseband 06.15.00
by MAC Article posted in Apple, Cellphones, Latest News
Dev Team has done it again. On their official Dev blog, they have announced that Jailbreak and Unlock iPhone IOS 4.2.1 is now possible. You can simply Jailbreak and Unlock iPhone IOS 4.2.1 while updating the Baseband to 06.15.00 because previous basebands are not unlockable. So guys simple answer is that, if you update the baseband of your iPhone 3GS or iPhone #G, to 06.15.00, you can Unlock iPhone IOS 4.2.1 and iPhone IOS 4.1.3 via Ultrasnow and Jailbreak via Redsnow 0.9.6b5.
Now first of all lets move forward with the Jailbreak process, which is very very simple.
First of all some limitations are there to be discussed and they are:.
So guys do not rush onto it, if you do not need the unlocker.
Here is the process of Jailbreak later on you will be moving toward the Unlock. in our next up coming post.
1. first of all Download iPhone IOS 4.2.1 .
2. Restore / update iPhone IOS 4.2.1 via iTune.
3. Download RedsnOw 0.9.6b5 and start it. Download Redsnow 0.9.6b5 for MAC OS, Download Redsnow 0.9.6b5 for Windows.
4. Browse the stock iPhone IOS 4.2.1 which you downloaded earlier and proceed further.
5. now select “Install Cydia” and “Install iPad Baseband”, and process will fetch the 06.15.00 and it will replace the older baseband of iPhone IOS 4.2.1.
6. Now process will ask you to switch off your device and make sure you turn it off and plug it in to the system and then click “Next”.
7. The process will ask you to put your device on DFU Mode (when ever you connect your turned off device press the “power” button along with the Home button on keyboard and after few seconds, only release the power button and keep on holding Home button on keyboard) now setup will proceed further and rest of the things will be done by Redsnow 0.9.6b5 and your device will be unlockable. Proceed with post of Unlock iPhone IOS 4.2.1 with Ultrasnow 1.2
8. if you have the Latest Baseband or already on latest baseband, run Redsnow 0.9.6b5 and select the option “Just Boot Tethered Right Now”. and proceed further, your device will be Jailbroken and you can also unlock it via using Ultrasnow.
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For the radical Left, any Jew murdered in the name support for the Palestinians, had to have it coming.
Vasarahammer finds an interesting comment to a thread at the Hommaforum website concerning the brutal murders of the Rabbi and his family. the comment comes from a Finnish ‘lefty’ who also happens to work in a Swedish speaking daycare facility in Finland no less, who doesn’t agree that the cold blooded murders of the Rabbi and his children were acts of Jew-hatred (read = anti-Semitism).
H/T: Vasarahammer:
“He (Veini) says that Toulouse killer did not commit a racist hatecrime, because he wanted to avenge for the dead Palestinians (and not kill Jews because they were Jews). Therefore, his actions were politically and not racially motivated.It’s quite amazing how some people manage to perform such intellectual somersaults.”
NOTE: How would you like for this amoral jerk to work around your kids at a daycare? It’s totally unbelievable the kinds of crackpots and miscreants that inhabit the same breathing space as you or I, let alone access to your children.
Frida Ghitis:.
Europe’s blind spot on anti-Semitism
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It is beyond me that someone who works at a DAYCARE can say such things! How is it possible for people to even think those things? The girl tried to run away, got pulled back by her hair by him and was shot in the head. How is the murder of little kids in any way political? To what extent would it affect his ‘political goals’?
Pretty sick stuff. It’s a real sicko mind that hang on to such thoughts like that.
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A woman in the throes of a divorce rents out a spare room to a female student, but soon finds herself the victim of the evil woman.
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An intimate group of cast members, industry execs and celebrity guests showed up to the premiere party for Sony Pictures Classics dramedy Celeste and Jesse Forever at FigOly Restaurant on Thursday evening in Los Angeles.
“I’m so pleased with it. It’s like the dream version of what we wrote,” said actor Will McCormack, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rashida Jones.
STORY: Andy Samberg Gets Divorced in 'Celeste and Jesse Forever' Trailer
For Jones, the story -- about two high school sweethearts who marry and decide to divorce while remaining friends -- struck close to home.
“It is a kind of amalgam of a lot of relationships that Will and I were seeing around us and obviously personal experiences we’ve had in our past,” said Jones. “We felt like it was enough of a phenomenon amongst our friends to write about.”
Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker mingled with guests as Jones and her parents Peggy Lipton and Quincy Jones sipped on Love on the Rocks cocktails. “It’s very reminiscent of great American romantic comedies like Annie Hall or When Harry Met Sally,” said Barker. “But the difference is, it’s from a female point of view which makes it rich, modern, new and fresh.”
STORY: Sundance 2012: 'Celeste and Jesse Forever' Sells to Sony Pictures Classics
Andy Samberg, who spent the night catching up with his brother and friends at a corner table, was excited about his departure from comedic films and into a more dramatic role.
“A lot of people think of me as just a comedy [actor] — that’s kind of all I really wanted to do up until this point,” he said. “But I read the script and really liked it. I’m friends with Rashida and I asked her if she’d ever consider me for it, and it worked out.”
Celeste and Jesse Forever hits theatres in New York and Los Angeles on Aug. 3.
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I have defamed the Tooth Fairy.
Since the girls were little bitty, we’ve brushed their teeth. At first we used a soft silicone brush that they couldn’t impale themselves on. (We tried one of those impale-able ones first, and the girls insisted on grabbing them, and we could see the potential for injury, so we switched to the silicone ones.) Then after a while, the girls insisted on brushing themselves, with Mama and Dada doing a follow-up to get any missed spots.
But now they are growing and not so docile (if they ever were!) and insist on doing it themselves. We’ve now graduated to regular toddler brushes, so we supervise closely. The only problem is, they miss a heck of a lot of spots.
Zanna doesn’t mind us going over her teeth afterwards, but Halle passionately detests it. So how do I explain that she’d like it even less when the dentist has to fill her cavities, or worse, has to pull out her teeth? And not have her be a screaming wreck at her next dentist appointment, even if her teeth are fine?
So I dragged the Tooth Fairy’s good name through the mud.
Since they seem to be ok with the existence of the Garbage Fairy (that’s the one that lives in garbage cans and takes offerings in her ‘in-box’, and all dropped food on the floor is her rightful due, as well.) I told them that the Tooth Fairy is attracted to dirty teeth. She likes to take dirty teeth and that would be “Owie”. So that is why we have to do a good job brushing, so Halle will be safe and the Tooth Fairy will stay away.
We weren’t making much progress with that, until I took the girls on a shopping trip to our local Target store. It’s six weeks before Halloween and the shelves there are now full of related products. As we were wheeling our cart past, we must have set off a motion sensor, because suddenly a 6ft tall witch came to life, cackeling and scaring the daylights out of all of us. As I beat a hasty retreat with my girls, I had the presence of mind to say “THAT’S the Tooth Fairy! And she’s going to take your teeth if you don’t brush very well!.”
The girls were quite shaken after that encounter, but shook it off soon after. After that, though, Halle, while still protesting, allows us to do a final go-over with the tooth brush, to make sure there’s nothing left to attract that nasty Tooth Fairy!
I don’t like scaring the girls, but in this case, it’s not something that we can just wait until they’re older to get through to them. I really don’t think they’d handle well, being strapped down an administered a hypo and having the dentist work their teeth over with his drill.
Lesser of the two evils, I guess.
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Hi all. I'm writing a simple image archive program. The program is for indexing a whole lot of pictures we sell on a CD. The focus of the product is on the pictures, not the viewer, so it's pretty simple; it just shows the pictures, sorted by category's, resizes them to whatever size the user wants (with imagemagick), and searches though the collection. Right now, the program is using a Twisted webserver in the backend. All the pages are dynamic, based off one template file. The gui is a very simple Venster (venster.sf.net) frontend, mainly consisting of a web browser control, and some code to open a file-save dialog when the user clicks save to save a picture. I'm wondering if there is a better way to do this. Perhaps twisted is a bit too much for all of this? Another problem is when Twisted opens up the server port, firewalls start complaining. Perhaps there is a better way. Also, if there is something better then venster for a front end, I'd be glad to hear about that, too. -Robert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:
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Jean-Paul, Thank you for this tip! I will try it. Much appreciated. Darren On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 13:12 +0000, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote: > On 11:33 am, darren at ontrenet.com wrote: > >Hi? > > Yes. You've hit the arbitrary additional limit on the maximum length of > a single string that Int32StringReceiver will accept. When this limit > is exceeded, the connection is dropped. If you really want to accept > 7MB strings from your peer, set the MAX_LENGTH attribute of your > Int32StringReceiver subclass (or instance) to large enough value. You > can also get notification when this limit is exceeded by overriding the > lengthLimitExceeded method (the default implementation of which is what > drops the connection). > > Jean-Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python at twistedmatrix.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:
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Hello all, The past few years have seen the Twisted sprint at PyCon grow to a very impressive size. With expectations that this will be the largest PyCon yet, I have no reason to expect that the trend will be reversed this year. I have "run" the sprint for the past two years, though in practice there are not many duties associated with that post. This year, I need to hand off that responsibility to someone else, as I will only be attending the sprints for the first day. "Running" a PyCon sprint involves interfacing with the PyCon organizers to get a room assignment. Beyond that, all that's really necessary is to keep your eyes open for things that might be impeding the work of sprinters (yourself included, as these duties should not take up more than about 2% of your time). If you're interested in taking this on, please let me know. Let me know which days you'll be attending the sprints (preferably you'll be attending all days, but missing the last day or two might not disqualify you). Thanks! Jean-Paul
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On Fox News, Mike Huckabee says the shooting happened because "we've removed God from our schools."—
Sandra Rose (@SandraRose) December 14, 2012.”
Oh, and @GovMikeHuckabee? Funny sketch on SNL's Weekend Update back in 2008. But today? Go FUCK yourself. Forever.—
Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) December 15, 2012
I know some friends will differ w/ my gun control stance, but at least we can all agree that Mike Huckabee should go fuck a blender.—
Rebecca the Undead (@rebeccawatson) December 15, 2012
bit.ly/TZvzan Huckabee needs to be removed from all microphones.—
Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) December 14, 2012
"@AmandaMarcotte: bit.ly/TZvzan Huckabee needs to be removed from all microphones." constitution be damned!—
Karen Bullock (@the_amphibian) December 14, 2012
@the_amphibian No, you're right. Every time he talks, a handful more people turn from religion in disgust. He should keep going.—
Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) December 14, 2012
not helping; RT @mmfa Mike Huckabee on Fox News: Schools "become place of carnage" when "we systematically remove God" mm4a.org/12qfI7N—
Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) December 14, 2012
STFU Huckabee. Go away. RT @mmfa Mike Huckabee on Fox News: Schools "become a place of carnage" when "we systematically remove God"—
Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) December 14, 2012
Whenever something terrible happens, some zealot blows all his credibility by blaming atheists. Huckabee this time bit.ly/UYmdMW—
Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) December 14, 2012
God is everywhere. Except your kid's school. God too busy pouting about separation of church & state to save your kid. blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitic…—
Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) December 14, 2012
Be sure to hug your loved ones tonight, and while doing so, be sure to whisper in their ears, "Mike Huckabee is an idiot."—
Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) December 15, 2012
Burn in Hell, Mike Huckabee RT @gaycivilrights: Huckabee: CT Massacre Happened Because We ‘Removed God From Our Schools flip.it/Gq0Qe—
(@YellowDogDerek) December 15, 2012
According to Mike Huckabee, God is a terrorist who targets children when public schools refrain from worshiping him. Pretty sick.—
Dorian Staten (@Nicronon) December 15, 2012
Mike Huckabee: guns don't kill people. Godless evil liberals who believe in separation of church & state kill people. #p2 #tcot—
Mary W. Matthews (@MWM4444) December 15, 2012
To mike Huckabee: F–K you, you sanctimonious immoral fraud.—
F. Braun McAsh (@FBraunMcAsh) December 15, 2012
@jackiedouches if the only thing standing between Huckabee and murder is the opinion of his imaginary friend, he has bigger issues.—
Ryan McBride (@rpmcb) December 15, 2012
Memo to Mike Huckabee: What you're saying is God killed children at a Newtown, CT school ON PURPOSE. Because he felt ignored. You're sick.—
Nina L. Diamond (@ninatypewriter) December 15, 2012
If someone could just go ahead and taser Mike Huckabee in the sack for a good 45 minutes, that would be swell.—
Mark J Tompkins (@MarkJTompkins) December 15, 2012
Argh! Huckabee and his god fearing lot should all pile into a dead end cave and have a giant boulder lodged at opening.—
Somewhere is Jeannie (@whereisjeannie) December 15, 2012
What's worse than "politicizing" a national tragedy? Theologizing it. #Huckabee—
Not Matt Bellamy (@NotMattBellamy) December 15, 2012
Mike Huckabee is trying to top the Westboro folks.—
Nina L. Diamond (@ninatypewriter) December 15, 2012
We’d say Huckabee has a ways to go to even begin to compete with Westboro Baptist Church.
President Beast @BarackObama! Stop the phony tears!You brought this mayhem! STOP MARRYING FAGS! God is not joking! You've brought His wrath.—
MargiePhelps (@MargieJPhelps) December 14, 2012
Billy Hallowell, faith editor for The Blaze, delivered a message somewhat similar to Huckabee’s, though without going near the electrified third rail of public schools.
We have a cultural crisis in America. Until we admit that, there's no improving things. #faith #compassion #love—
Billy Hallowell (@BillyHallowell) December 15, 2012
In the meantime, citizens of Newtown on Friday night gathered for prayer services — the “back end,” so to speak.
look at this. all the people who gathered together for the memorial service at st rose church in newtown—
kate (@stopthispayne) December 15, 2012
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It’s that time of the year and it’s coming up fast. If you haven’t marked you calendar yet, we will be changing our clocks back from Daylight Saving Time on November 4th this year. This is the perfect time to ensure your family’s safety throughout the next year by changing out the batteries in your smoke detectors and emergency flashlights. Keep your loved ones safe by making this yearly practice suggested by the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), a tradition in your home.
Did you know that “Thirty-eight percent of fatal fire injuries occur in homes with no smoke alarms, while 24 percent occur in homes in which at least one smoke alarm is present but fails to operate, frequently due to dead or missing batteries”.(Fire Analysis and Research Division of the National Fire Protection Association).
I moved into my home over 12 years ago and never put much thought to the smoke detector up until last year when I heard all over the news “Change your batteries”. I got my little step latter out and wanted to check my alarms, all worked perfect. I walked away, till a few days later. I started to think. I was in that house for 12+ years and those batteries are still working strong? How in the world could that be? I walked back up to the smoke detectors, just to find out that someone, prior to us moving in, had hard wired all the smoke detectors in the house. How stupid (excuse my French) was that?
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Since its inception in 1915, one of the primary missions of TFS has been to enforce all laws pertaining to the protection of forests and woodlands and prosecute violations of those laws. To accomplish this, the TFS Director may appoint up to 25 employees who are commisioned state peace officers licensed and certified by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education to fulfill those duties.
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Posted 11:57 pm Wednesday, November 21, 2012
More controversy over Nativity scene
BY BETTY WATERS
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ATHENS--Patrick Greene, of San Antonio, is seeking to have a sign put up stating that two Texas atheists gave a star for the nativity scene that will be on the Henderson County Courthouse lawn in December.
He has indicated that he would file a lawsuit against the county if the sign is not erected, Clint Davis, county attorney, said Tuesday.
Greene submitted his request via email late last week to county Judge Richard Sanders' secretary.
Sanders said Tuesday that Greene will have to file formal application before a decision on the request is made. The judge has authority under county policies to act on the matter.
As soon as he receives a formal application, Sanders said he will rule quickly ... "within one day" ... and direct the county attorney to notify Greene.
The judge has turned the handling of correspondence between the county and Greene over to the county attorney.
Historically, the county has not allowed banners with any type of writing on the courthouse lawn, Sanders said.
The attorney said, "I don't speak for Judge Sanders, but I think it would be unlikely that we would approve any request for any type of signage or banner to be placed on the county courthouse (lawn)."
Davis noted that the judge recently denied a request from the Freedom From Religion Foundation to put up its banner.
"It would be difficult for us to then turn around and allow him (Greene) to put out his banner or sign," Davis said.
Davis said he conveyed to Greene that he is welcome to formally make his request using the county's application form, but that there are no other decorations that include signs or banners or wording or things such as that in the Christmas decorations.
On Monday, the attorney sent Greene a copy of the county's premises use policy and the application form that everyone who wants to put anything on the courthouse lawn must use.
"We will just wait on him and see what he does next," Davis said.
Attempts by the Tyler Morning Telegraph to reach Greene by phone for comment Tuesday were unsuccessful.
Greene sent the star last March and added the sign stipulation last week. Giving the star "was a wonderful gesture but he has put a dark shadow over that gesture," Carol Morton, executive director, Keep Athens Beautiful, said.
KAB's Light Up Athens Committee has been authorized to put up Christmas decorations on the courthouse lawn for years.
"Per our agreement with the county, we cannot put signage up on the courthouse (lawn)," Ms. Morton said. "The committee will be meeting later, and we will be discussing whether or not we will use the star and what we are going to do with the star."
Greene first threatened a lawsuit last Christmas in an attempt to have the nativity scene removed. Controversy swirled over the nativity scene also because the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation demanded it be removed and later sought to erect an anti-religion banner.
At that time, Greene described himself as an atheist. Last spring, Greene said in interviews with the news media that he converted to Christianity after Christians in Henderson County sent donations to help with expenses he incurred for a medical problem with his eye sight.
However, a San Antonio Express-News article from May reported Greene said he had returned to atheism.
In correspondence he sent the county within the last week, Greene said he and his wife contributed a star for the nativity scene because he had noticed last year that it did not have one.
His email told county officials, "Because the Freedom From Religion Foundation gave you so much trouble with wanting their insulting sign put up, my wife and I would like the KAB Committee to place a sign near the star stating that two atheists contributed the star because of the generosity of the Christians of Athens."
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Posted 12:25 am Sunday, December 30, 2012
East Texans inspire with health, fitness stories
BY COSHANDRA DILLARD
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Fitness was booming in East Texas throughout 2012. In these pages each Sunday, local health and fitness enthusiasts, as well as residents who are figuring it out as they go, have inspired readers to create new lifestyle habits and taught them that it's never too late to make a change.
These are the top 10.
1. Bob Moore:
At 80 years old, Bob Moore doesn't miss a day of walking and has inspired Canton city officials to create healthy living initiatives. Moore also led the effort to draw up a resolution to have the Texas Legislature recognize the small city as the "walking capital of Texas."
2. Vanessa Pearson:
In one year, the Tyler Morning Telegraph copy editor dropped 100 pounds after participating in the company's wellness challenges. Not only did she adopt healthy eating habits and commit to regular exercise, but she also inspired co-workers by sharing her journey and providing encouragement.
3. Abbie Halberstadt:
A fitness instructor, Mrs. Halberstadt led a Body Pump class until around her 37th week of pregnancy -- with twins. Within weeks of giving birth, she was back at the gym, with the healthy babies in tow.
4. Harold Wilson:
For the past 26 years, 79-year-old Wilson enjoyed running marathons and has set his sights on the 2013 Boston Marathon. He started running after his doctor advised him to lose weight and to lower his cholesterol level.
5. Sandra Baker:
In July, the 49-year-old mother of two competed in a bodybuilding contest for the first time. To prepare, Mrs. Baker worked out four days a week for up to 90 minutes, usually in the mornings. Although a crowd favorite, she didn't place in the show, but her confidence was boosted and she pledged to continue competing in body building contests.
6. Fire Station No. 9:
A group of firefighters were motivated to make a change following potential health crises and after watching p opular documentaries on the state of America's health, including "Forks Over Knives." Wes Malcolm, 34, started eating better quality foods and reduced his meat intake while Bob Moon, 48, became a vegan. Zach Houston, 34, and Matthew Houk, 46, also have been dedicated to eating clean and making better lifestyle choices.
7. Tyler Senior Center's dancers:
People at the center participate in Texercise, a statewide exercise program developed for older adults, and line dancing. Most are regular participants whose love of dance -- and life -- inspire others to get up and move while having fun.
8. Candace Harmon and Jerry Fincher:
A chance meeting in 2008 led to a partnership between the pair, who both enter bodybuilding competitions. Mrs. Harmon, 38, and Fincher, 67, have both been successful and rely on each other for accountability.
9. Lindsay Gray:
The fitness instructor and Whitehouse resident's life changed after suffering traumatic injuries to her brain and face. She was in the hospital for 20 days -- 16 of which she was in a medically induced coma. Her face was crushed and she underwent two facial reconstructive surgeries. Seventy-five percent of her face is covered in titanium plates today. She feels blessed to have recovered with hardly any visible signs of the crash and has since committed to a life of health and fitness.
10. Heather Garland:
Ms. Garland avoids excuses and has become an avid exerciser. She's a single mom and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a teenager. She's lost about 50 pounds over the years after adopting a healthier lifestyle, which includes fresh fruits, vegetables and lots of exercise.
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Are you are you are you?
Well, we'll find it out now!
First Test:
And of course, I did go to play myself too!
See whether you can beat my score (below)! I think sure can one, cause I'm pretty lousy in this eh! Wahlaoooooooooooo! First test already like that liao! :( Hahaha!
Second Test:
If you think the first one is easy for you, wait till you try this!
You just have to follow the instructions given on the site and answer it! Which I totally stuck at this stage, cause I don't know how to solve! :(
If you all can solve tell me hor!
Cause if you can solve correctly, you can stand a chance to win 1 of the 10 sets of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice movie premiums somemore! Awesome!
Faster! Tell me tell me!
Third Test:
This is pretty fun! See if you can pass the theory part!
Heheheheheh! Cause I can! Yay!
So how do you fare? Are you the next potential sorcerer's apprentice?
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Yup! Some of you guys might know that I've already watched The Sorcerer's Apprentice as I went for the press screening sometime back!
Overall, it's a pretty awesome movie I must say! Cause there's action, adventure and bit of comedy in there too which makes it nice to watch!
Oh! And here's the trailer, if you haven't seen yet! Good & The Bad:
Nicolas Cage as Balthazar Blake!
Alfred Molina as Maxim Horvath
I know those of you who likes magical stuff can't wait to catch it now!
So mark down the date, cause it will be showing on...
See! I even have it noted down on my calender! :p
p/s: Wanna win something? Join the “A Job So Cool, It’s Magic!” Promo! Just by telling who would you want your mentor to be, if you could be a sorcerer’s apprentice for a day and win cool prizes!
p/p/s: Do check out Disney Singapore Facebook, Twitter & Youtube channel as well for more juicy movies related information!
p/p/p/s: For those who are fun (like me! hahaha!) and wanna try be a sorcerer in real life, maybe you can try this out! I tried, and it works!
you stay in westmere condo?
You watch the movie already? :D Is it nice?
Yup!
eh, Have you somewhat figure out the code?
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*The Exposure Trifecta. Or, how to shoot on Manual.
Have you ever taken a photo where your subject looks like a deer in the headlights from the flash while the ambiance in the scene behind them fades quickly to a black abyss? Or, you try to catch your child scurrying around the house and no matter what you do, the picture turns out as a blurred mess? This post is being written to help those (mainly my mom) who’ve asked me “how do you do that?” when they see a picture that avoids some of the common frustrating problems. Whether it be a selective focus, blurred action to accentuate movement or an image that is intentionally over or underexposed, the key to photography is understanding the three main components of proper exposure control. Hold on to your hat, I am going to help get you off of the ‘auto everything box’ and manipulating your own exposure in no time.
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Le Figaro (Paris) reported Friday that a French-organized international military intervention in northern Mali is in the works. -- The government of François Hollande, pushing hard on the matter, is letting it be known that it is "only a matter of weeks" before its first phase is engaged, with the impending rainy season in Mali adding urgency to the situation. -- Paris, however, which "claims to be breaking with past 'Françafrique' practices" and "doesn't want to hear once again about its colonial past," is "refusing to be on the front line," Isabelle Lasserre said. -- And major difficulties have not been resolved, a meeting of the Support and Follow-up Group on Mali in Bamako showed on Friday: for the time being "the situation appears deadlocked both because of confusion over the sharing of power in Bamako after the March putsch and because of international disagreements over whether it is a good idea to engage in dialogue with the rebels before using force." -- And the U.S. is playing a larger role than originally expected: ." ...
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HOW FRANCE IS PLANNING INTERVENTION IN MALI'S NORTH
By Isabelle Lasserre
** The plan's first phase should be launched in November -- Paris will not send ground troops **
Le Figaro (Paris)
October 19, 2012
It's "only a matter of weeks" before a military operation gets underway that is intended to reconquer the north of Mali, occupied by Islamist groups linked to al-Qaeda, according to French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. The U.N. Security Council has given 45 days to West African countries to propose a concrete intervention plan. Urged on by France, the European Union will propose in the same timeframe a plan to manage the crisis. After that, the way ahead will be clear. "If we botch the meteorologial window, we'll have to wait for a year," warns one well-informed source. Everything should be engaged on a wide front before the end of March, when the rainy season begins. Concretely, Jean-Yves Le Drian's entourage is talking about a three-phase program: first, stabilize the south of Mali and protect Bamako by the end of November; second, put in place the formation of African armies in January; third, start the reconquest of the north by the beginning of March at the latest.
Officially, it's the African armies that will lead the operation. Although it has been designated as the principal enemy by AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb), Paris, which claims to be breaking with past "Françafrique" practices and doesn't want to hear once again about its colonial past, is refusing to be on the front line. France, hiding behind Europe and positioning itself as the support of African countries that will be assisted in planning and logistics, promises that there will "not be ground troops."
THREE THOUSAND MEN
The French authorities are communicating more discreetly about special forces at work in the region, whose mission is independent of the official calendar. They are preparing to intervene upstream in order to provide intelligence and guide the African forces on the ground. They could act more quickly still if France's interests or the life of the hostages come to be threatened.
As in Libya and in Côte d'Ivoire in 2011, covert means are positioned to provide support to local forces, in particular the Malian army, which is under-equipped and demoralized after its defeat by the Islamists. Behind the scenes, Paris has also taken charge of drawing up the intervention program that is supposed to be proposed by the West African countries..
All the details of the military operation have not yet been worked out. The African countries are expected to furnish 3,000 men, but the list of states participating in the intervention against Isalmist fighters armed with missile- and rocket-launchers has not yet been finalized. Nor have the political rules. But all the potential countries are well aware: without a lasting diplomatic solution, military intervention will not be sufficient to settle the problem of AQIM in the Sahel.
[INSET: THE MALIAN CONFLICT. AT STAKE IN THE CONFLICT: Northern Mali and cities under the control of Islamists and Tuaregs. Zone of AQIM's activity. TOWARD AN INTERVENTION? Member countries of CEDEAO [Communauté économique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest ('Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS] [ ]) [Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger]. Non CEdEAO-member country that may intervene [Chad]. Countries opposed to intervention [Mauritania, Algeria]. Presence of French military.]
MILITARY RECONQUEST UNDER DISCUSSION IN BAMAKO
The Malian interim president, Dioncounda Traoré, emphasized on Friday the "urgency" of a foreign armed intervention to liberate the north of his country when he opened the international meeting in the Malian capital whose goal was to hasten such an intervention.
"We shouldn't lose even a second. This is an emergency, we're in a race against the clock," said Dioncounda Traoré to high international officials gathered to harmonize their positions before sending a West African U.N.-supported force into the north of Mali.
The U.N. and the African Union have announced, for their part, the opening of permanent offices in Bamako in order to coordinate their respective actions in this crisis. But there are still divergences between West African officials and the representatives of the international organizations regarding what is needed for the deployment of the African force if it is to participate in a military initiative in the part of Mali controlled by al-Qaeda and its allies.
Given the extent to which the situation appears deadlocked both because of confusion over the sharing of power in Bamako after the March putsch and because of international disagreements over whether it is a good idea to engage in dialogue with the rebels before using force, this meeting of the Support and Follow-up Group on Mali is not expected to result in any spectacular progress.
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Stephanie Pelton
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September 7, 2012
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Dustin Hopkins took advantage of the 11 Florida State scoring drives to work on perfecting his kicks based on a host of new rules. The senior said it takes a little adjusting to, but that the new rules don't make kicking off much different.
New rules move kickoffs to the 35-yard line and bring touchbacks up to the 25-yard line. The kickoff coverage team can no longer take off to a running start. Coach Jimbo Fisher says the rules were put into effect to decrease significant kickoff return injuries. But he's not sure that they haven't backfired.
"I said to myself, I don't know, this might be more physical than not." Fisher said.
"I think they did it trying to eliminate [more] returns," Fisher said. "But I think they might have enhanced the problem because I think you're going to get more big bodies flying in shorter areas now [in terms of] collisions. I think there are going to be more [because of] less space."
Fisher doesn't think the new rules affect FSU adversely.
"The type of athletes we have, I think if we hit the ball right and do what we're supposed to do, I think it can be an advantage for us," Fisher said.
In the Murray State game, several of Hopkins' kicks soared high into the hair, gathering plenty of hang time before eventually landing in 10-yard line. FSU's kickoff coverage team was already there, ready to use their size and speed to swallow up the defender.
Of Hopkins' 12 kickoffs during the game, five went for touchbacks. The other seven that were returned for an average of just 16 yards. Murray State was pinned behind their own 25-yard line on six kickoffs.
"Our coverage team is so fast and athletic, every time we tried to put one in the 10-yard line, they were right there," Hopkins said. "Running down quick and they helped make me look pretty good. I'm lucky to have those guys running down."
FSU didn't always abide by the theory of putting your biggest, fastest guys on kick coverage, but they have since Fisher has been around. He believes it can drastically change momentum of the game and give Florida State a leg up on their competition.
"Those body types in special teams - which we have a lot of - the Christian Jones type, Telvin [Smith], Toshman [Stevens], Kelvin Benjamin, Nick Moody types, Nigel Bradham - those big physical guys give you such an advantage [on special teams]," Fisher said.
Those players take pride in their special teams work, and cornerback Nick Waisome, who works on second team punt coverage said it is a matter of being the best.
"It's definitely a pride thing. Coach Gran is hard on special teams here, he wants us to be number one in everything," Waisome said. "He definitely stresses it and we take it as a serious matter whenever we go on kickoff. He's always like, we have to be number one, so that's what we shoot for."
Hopkins said that he has not game-planned further out that Savannah State, but that his kicking philosophy will likely only change if the other team fields a great kick returner. With the coverage team that he has on his side, he's not worried.
"It gives me so much confidence, because I know that even if I don't get a great kick, the chances of the other team getting a great return is hopefully pretty slim given the people I have next to me."
'Noles support Team Fleetwood
EJ Manuel took a deep breath and then another. He asked for the media, and for those watching his Monday morning press conference to support the Team Fleetwood facebook page, since he was unable to tweet and spread the word.
Manuel became emotional while talking about a recent visit he and Dustin Hopkins took to see 17-year-old Austin Fleetwood, a Wakulla teen who had been battling cancer.
"It was
just
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Manuel couldn't finish the sentence. He had run out of words and shook his head back and forth.
Hopkins and Manuel went to Fleetwood's house on Sunday afternoon to visit the teen and bring him autographed FSU jerseys and gear. Fleetwood had wanted to come to the Murray State game the day before, but wasn't up to it.
Manuel said the teen was thrilled with the gear and the visit touched both he and Hopkins and helped put things in perspective for them.
"It definitely puts things in perspective - how unimportant football is and how important football is," Hopkins said. "The unimportance being that the beauty of life is just so much more significant than a game
And then I see the importance of football, in that the hope it can give people, just being able to relate to somebody on that level."
Austin Fleetwood passed away on Monday morning, not even 24 hours after the visit from Manuel and Hopkins.
"Being able to see him, I've never experienced something like that," Manuel said. "Luckily my parents and my sister were still here because I couldn't help but cry this morning when I [found out]."
Sadness tinged their memory now, but the visit itself was a happy one.
"Man, you can just see the smile on his face. I can't forget it," Manuel said.
Manuel and Hopkins won't soon forget the visit and both plan on wearing the red and black Team Fleetwood bands around their wrists for the rest of the season.
Waisome ready for bigger challenge
Nerves are par for course and Nick Waisome felt a little bit nervous running out of the tunnel and onto Bobby Bowden field for the first time as a starter.
It was different, he said, but he definitely liked the feeling.
"Little bit of nerves in the beginning, but after that first play, everything else goes away and it's just football," Waisome said.
Waisome, who made a tackle on Saturday night, was happy with the way he went out and performed for the first time on the big stage. He wished Murray State threw the ball more, but stayed on his toes throughout the game and worked on his technique so that he can be ready for teams that do throw more.
He's already looking forward to Savannah State and hoping that their offense throws the ball more.
"They know we're a pretty strong defense, I mean, I don't know if they would throw it on us a lot, but hopefully they do," Waisome said.
Waisome was prepared to see more action at field corner because opponents sometimes try to avoid challenging Xavier Rhodes, who is opposite Waisome at boundary corner.
"I thought I was going to get a little bit of action, but I'd watch and they'd give him one and they wouldn't give me anything," Waisome said with a laugh. "They did throw one time [to me], but it was a pretty good game."
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Perhaps it isn't fair to post this particular cape buffalo on Ugly Overload. Afterall, his looks come from a long and hard life on the African savannah (check out those nitched ears!). Though, when you poke around online, you quickly come to understand that the merit of this animal doesn't come from their looks.
Although they are herbivores, they are known to be very aggressive. These beasts are believed to have killed more big game hunters than any other animal in Africa. They can take down lions, who only bother attacking sick or old individuals. If wounded, they have been reputed to have stalked and then attacked the foolish man who shot him. When they decide to throw their weight around - nearly one ton of muscle, bone, and horns - they are lethal.
The cape buffalo may not have any brains underneath those gnarly horns, but I'll respect it just the same. From a distance. Behind a strong fence.
Thanks for the photo, Vearl.
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Lexington Virginia Music Festival
Upriver brings a show for the whole family that is an educational and a step back in time to the the Appalachian Mountains with Bluegrass, Folk, and Celtic Music to the Lime Kiln stage on on Sunday, July 24, 2011.
Upriver includes Dan Moorefield, with musical roots that stem back to Ireland, is featured on vocals, fiddle, guitar, and piano. Dan has a Masters degree in Education and provides not only entertaining music but also local history during his shows. Teresa Morrison adds a large amount of variety to the group as a talented artist on a multitude of instruments including the Irish tin whistle, alto recorder, tenor banjo, mandolin, bouzouki, and guitars. Both Teresa and Dan are committed to music education and Scots Irish heritage.
The band is occasionally joined by Myra Morrison. Myra is featured on fiddle, piano, and vocals. She is an award winning fiddle player and, like Teresa, teaches music at the Wayne Center of the arts. Their larger band adds an upright bass. The four piece band is used for large venues, festivals, large concerts, and dances.
Upriver is committed to education through music. They are active with music based enrichment and educational youth programs with activities to expose children to a variety of instruments, history, and culture. The group specializes in playing entertaining music while weaving in stories to tell how it came to be an integral part of our local culture. The performing artists and education specialists pride themselves on their goal to provide the audience with an experience that will thrill and entertain musically, and educate and enrich through oral tradition.
Upriver’s fifteen track album ‘Together This Time,’ features original music and old time favorites. The album contains a haunting rendition of the Appalachian classic ‘Shenandoah.’ This is music that is rarely heard on radio or television. It is tradition and legacy of rural American music that has been passed down through generations. The music is reminiscent of a time before technology when musicians were counted upon to provide entertainment were held in high esteem in the community.
This show is a wonderful event for families because of the focus and the artists' background in education. The concert on will be sponsored by Wells Fargo Bank and the gates and concessions will open at 6:00 pm and the show will begin at 7:30 pm. Advanced ticket prices are as follows; Adult - $20, Senior 60+ - $18, Child 12 & under - $10. Don’t miss out on this educational concert showcasing great Appalachian, Folk, Bluegrass, and Celtic Music. Call (540)463-7088 for tickets.
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Nexus Management Plc, the AIM quoted provider of specialist IT Managed
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members decide at the next Annual General Meeting.
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Singapore's benchmark index rose as much as 0.26 percent to a two-week high, with property developer CapitaLand Ltd and Singapore Technologies Engineering figuring among the gainers, while casino operator Genting Singapore fell.
The Strait Times Index was up 0.1 percent to 3,291.52 points matching the MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan.
Shares of Genting Singapore slid for four straight sessions ahead of earning results on Thursday after it hit a nine-month high.
The shares dipped as much as 2.2 percent to S$1.525, with 35.7 million shares traded, slightly more than the average full-day volume over the past 30 days.
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Ape Escape 3 News
- Sony delivers a double dose of fugitive simian action for gaming at home and on the go.News - Posted Jan 17, 2006 7:20 pm GMT
- The third installment in the monkey-grabbing action game series is coming to the PlayStation 2.News - Posted Oct 15, 2004 7:36 pm GMT
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Silicon Power proudly presented its USB/eSATA combi flashdrive last May. Thanks to the eSATA interface, this memory stick could reach very high transfer speeds, while the present USB-port made the drive maintain compatibility with systems not yet featuring eSATA ports. As of yet, Silicon Power has introduced a second edition of the flashdrive, available in storage capacities of 32 or 64 GB. The stick has slidable connectors, making it even more compact.
The combi-stick sports dimensions of 76,4 x 27 x 11,4 mm and weighs only 20 grams. By means of the eSATA connector, speeds of up to 90 and 50 MB/s for respectively reading and writing can be reached, while the conventional USB-port allows for a reading speed no greater than 30 MB/s. The USB-end of the stick is capable of writing at 20 MB/s. The 32GB combi-stick has a recommended price of 62 euro, while the 64 GB model is to cost 138 euro.
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One Direction aren't solely admired by teenage girls or dare we say it, older women too, even Hollywood A-listers are captivated by their charm with the boy's latest celebrity fan being Colin Farrell.
At last night's Total Recall premiere in Leicester Square omg! spoke to the star of the movie, Colin Farrell who initially stunned us by introducing himself (as if we didn't know who HE was).
[Related story: Colin Farrell on kissing Kate Beckinsale]
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Once we'd calmed down we asked if he was proud of fellow Irish fittie One Direction's Niall Horan…
Colin told us: "Yeah sure, I'm proud of anyone that puts anywhere on the map can I be so un-nationalistic?
"I'm proud of all my fellow country men and women, I do love the place I come from even if I'm not there as much as I'd like to. Yes [I'm proud of] Horan absolutely."
Colin Farrell praised Niall Horan. Copyright [Wenn]
Bless, we now await Niall's reaction to this…
Another famous face Colin spoke about was his Total Recall predecessor, Arnold Schwarzenegger who Mr (fittie) Farrell described as: "He had me by about six inches and 120 pounds on me."
Hehehe we're not sure those six inches matter when you're as fit as Colin.
And if his humourous side doesn't do it for you, the mocking of himself over his female fans certainly will.
After asking the star if he thought the movie would reward him with even more female fans he mockingly yawned saying: "I have more [female fans]? I couldn't possibly have any more!
"I just enjoy doing what I do anytime anyone comes out man, woman, dog, child, birds - I'm just grateful for it all."
And we are grateful for having you in celebsville too Mr C!
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Last night Jennifer Aniston looked stunning in a red Valentino dress as she arrived at the Oscars.
Jennifer Aniston revealed that she chose her dress because it was loo friendly. Copyright [Getty]
Not an easy colour to pull off when it has the potential to violently clash with the carpet.
However, unlike many other actresses who walked the red carpet last night, the 44-year-old admitted that she her decision to wear the dress had nothing to do with fashion.
Instead, Jen’s decision was based on a more practical aspect.
She told People magazine: "It fits, it's comfortable and it's easy to pee in. You just lift, hoist and do a couple squats!"
Yes that’s right, Jennifer Aniston chooses her award season gowns based on how easy it is to go to the toilet in them.
Smart girl if you ask us.
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The actress was joined on the red carpet by her fiancé Justin Theroux, with the two prompting speculation that Jen may be expecting a baby.
As the couple posed together for the cameras, Justin was seen stroking Jen’s stomach.
So either she had an upset belly or a mini Jen could be on the way.
The two are also rumored to be getting wed in as little as a matter of weeks after sources reported that the couple had had wedding bands delivered to their house.
Well at least we now have an inkling as to what Jennifer’s wedding dress will be like.
Toilet friendly.
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Hopes fading for climate agreement
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BONN, Germany (Reuters) - "Ask for a camel when you expect to get a goat," runs a Somali saying that sums up the fading of ambitions for United Nations talks on slowing climate change -- aim high, but settle for far less.
Developing nations publicly insist the rich must agree far deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, but increasingly believe that only a weaker deal can actually be achieved to keep the existing Kyoto Protocol, or parts of it, alive beyond 2012.
"They have to ask for a camel ... but will settle for a goat," Mohamed Adow, of Christian Aid, said of poor nations' strategy at a just-ended session of 180 nations in Bonn.
Hopes for a treaty.
At issue now is what can be salvaged from the talks.
"This process is dead in the water," said Yvo de Boer, the former head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat who stepped down last year to work at KPMG, a consultancy and auditing firm.
"It's not going anywhere," he said during the June 6-17 talks in Bonn among negotiators trying to avert more heatwaves, floods, droughts and rising sea levels.
Disputes between rich and poor on sharing curbs in greenhouse gases mean gridlock over the Kyoto Protocol, the existing U.N. plan which obliges about 40)
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But Witty said the $1 billion price tag was "one of the great myths of the industry", since it was an average figure that includes money spent on drugs that ultimately fail.
In the case of GSK, a major revamp in the way research is conducted means the rate of return on R&D investment has increased by about 30 percent in the past three or four years because fewer drugs have flopped in late-stage testing, he said.
"If you stop failing so often you massively reduce the cost of drug development ... it's why we are beginning to be able to price lower," Witty said.
"It's entirely achievable that we can improve the efficiency of the industry and pass that forward in terms of reduced prices.".
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Gelworm (ゲルワーム - Geruwāmu) is a monster that appeared in the TV series, Ultraman Cosmos. He appeared in episode Episode 23 "Luna vs. Luna".
Subtitle: Protein Life Form (変幻生命体 - Hengen seimei-tai)
StatsEdit
Powers/AbilitiesEdit
- DNA Absorb: Gelworm can absorb the DNA of others by biting them with its pincers.
- Size Change: Gelworm can change from his original tiny size to that of a monster at any moment.
WeaknessEdit
- If Gelworm is exposed to radiation it will cause him great pain.
HistoryEdit
Ultraman CosmosEditGelworm was a monster whom had lived its life on a tiny meteor with its mate. When the gelworms were separated, The mate was trapped on the meteor, which was then transferred to a university, where it was being tested with special radiation that was causing her great pain. The male Gelworm tried many times to reunite with
Once Gelworm grew larger EYES arrived on the scene only for him to evade their attacks. Once an energy net was dropped everything seemed fine until Gelworm's meteor reacted, making him react and shake off the net. Musashi turned into Ultraman Cosmos to save the fighter before fighting Gelworm. Gelworm continued trying to make his way towards his meteor, but Cosmos managed to hold him off until the creature used it's pincers to turn itself into Imitation Cosmos. Imitation Cosmos then fought Ultraman Cosmos. For a full minute neither of them could gain an upper hand on one another until Imitation Cosmos attempted the Cosmos Palm Beam only to realize he could not. Once Cosmos used the Cosmos Palm Beam, Imitation Cosmos reverted back into Gelworm. Once he turned back into his normal form he turned into his smaller form once he was near his meteor. On returning to it's meteor it was discovered that he had a mate and would able to live peacefully for the rest of his days.
TriviaEdit
- Suit actor: Kazunori Yokoo
- Gelworm's roar is a reused Gazoto roar.
Imitation CosmosEdit
Imitation Cosmos (ニセウルトラマンコスモス - Nise Urutoraman Kosumosu) is the form that Gelworm takes while battling Ultraman Cosmos.
Powers/AbilitiesEdit
- Extreme Speed: Like Ultraman Cosmos, Imitation Cosmos can move at blinding speeds.
- Extraordinary Jumper: Imitation Cosmos can jump extremely high into the air.
HistoryEdit
After Gelworm absorbed the DNA of Ultraman Cosmos, he himself transformed into an exact duplicate of the Ultra in every way, shape, and form. Imitation Cosmos was able to match Cosmos in terms of speed, agility, and skill, making their battle a perfect standstill. However once Gelworm tried to make a Palm Beam, the copy was powerless to so as he did not possess the ability to conjure up such an attack. With the opportunity, Ultraman Cosmos fired his own Palm Beam, transforming Gelworm back to normal.
TriviaEdit
- Imitation Ultraman Cosmos' suit is reused from the backup Luna Mode Suit.
- Imitation Ultraman Cosmos' grunts are low pitched Cosmos Luna Mode grunts.
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Last night, I did a lower body lifting workout - trap bar deadlifts, single leg Romanian deadlifts, kettlebell swings, and Swiss ball bridges/curls. Including my warm-up, the whole thing took less than 50 minutes and I could barely walk out of the gym.
Regretfully, when I got home, the rain hadn't yet started, which meant I needed to finish mowing the lawn. I spent at least 90 minutes finishing the mowing and it just plain sucked. From now on, I'm either going to mow every 3 days or so, or I'm just not going to mow at all. Mowing after a month of rain and rapidly growing grass is torture. It took me about 5 hours over two days to get the mowing done.
This morning was an upper body day in the gym, and my arms are so beat it's hard to type.
Running? I'm going to run tomorrow after work. I think.
I need to do some running miles between now and the VT100, just to be sure I'll be ready to pace. But right now, I'm having fun in the gym.
In about 4 months, the snow guns will be turned on in the northeast and ski sesason will be approaching.
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Mowing - gee, I don't do that. Our dirt never grows : )
I think the worst chore, for me (from the perspective of interference with training) was laying squares of linoleum in our kitchen.
I didn't use knee pads - I was SQUATTING for the whole time.
I simply could not walk. For days :)
...yeah, you get the snow and the skiing, but I get...uh, I get...darn. Can't think of a thing : )
You get to not mow your lawn!!!
$10 to the boy gets my lawn mowed fairly regular-like. But it's pretty tiny.
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University of Maine STEM Laboratories
Laboratories and departments on the University of Maine campus form educational outreach partnerships with UBMS; these partnerships are symbiotic. Professors often depend on these partnerships to meet grant or tenure criteria and UBMS depends on these partnerships to engage students in legitimate college-level science experiences with distinguished faculty. Many professors accept students into their laboratories because they believe in education and the mission of the program. UBMS also forms partnerships with existing organizations, developing grant opportunities to offer STEM learning opportunities for our students. What follows are some of the program’s more recent collaborations.
National Girls’ Collaborative Project
In 2009, UBMS received a $1000 collaborative grant enabling the students to take part in a water quality Group Research Project. The money funded the purchase of boots, macroinvertebrate nets and water testing kits, among other related items. In partnership with the Lower Penobscot Watershed Coalition, UBMS students collected data related to river and stream health in June and July 2009, for Sedgeunkedunk, Blackman Stream, Souadabscook and the Penjajawok. The program was fortunate to partner with this organization, as well as Maine Department of Environmental Protection Biologist Mark Whiting.
EPSCOR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research)
In 2008, UBMS received full support for the implementation of a Forest Bioproducts research project. Funded by the National Science Foundation, through EPSCoR, the project consisted of three segments: forestry, chemical engineering of forest bioproducts and making biodiesel. The Program was fortunate to partner with State of Maine Forester Ken Laustsen, Washington Academy Science Teacher of the Year Don Sprangers, and University of Maine Chemical Engineering Professor Martin Lawoko. Using the funding provided by EPSCoR, the program was able to buy lab coats and safety equipment to use in the biodiesel and chemical engineering labs. The support funded the participation of professionals and many of the materials used, such as the portable biodiesel chamber for making large batches of biodiesel in educational settings. The project also funded the purchase of secondary containment for the chamber, as well as seven MacBooks, one for each student group. Again in 2009, based on the pre-existing partnership, EPSCoR purchased $1000 worth of supplies for the rivers project, and in 2012 provided full support for Group Research Project faculty, financial support for Individual Project Supplies and financial support to students, all under the umbrella of science education and outreach.
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Police Reserve Academy
Umpqua Regional Police Reserve Training Program
Applications for the Academic Year 2013-2014 will open on May 20, 2013. Applications will be available at the link on this page or in the PE Office.
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Summer time in Australia is party time. It starts with the endless lunches and cocktail parties in the office for end of the year parties until the start of another and together with the traditional Yuletide festivities highlighted in its midst, there is no excuse not to join in the fun. There is no better way to celebrate its joys than to sit down at a table with family and friends and share all the complements of the season. Of course, for many Overseas Singaporeans, every festive season is also synonymous with fine food. And over the holidays, why not try to cook some of our traditional dishes? Besides bringing a dish of home cooked food makes a wonderful gift to bring along for any get-together or party with friends. What better motivation to spend these hazy lazy days of summer and to share some of our time honoured finger-food recipes– perfect with any party or makan session.
Agar -Agar with Coconut Milk Topping:
Ingredients:
30g agar-agar powder
1 ½ cup sugar
1 can (350ml) coconut milk
4 pandan leaves or 1 Tsp pandan essence
½ tsp green colouring
5 cup water
Stir and dissolve 20g agar-agar powder with 4 ½ cup of water in a sauce pan. Bring to a boil and add sugar and pandan leaves or pandan essence. Keep stirring while boiling for 20 minutes. Add green colouring and pour into a mould to set for about twenty minutes or until it is about to set but still wobbly.
Coconut Topping:
Stir and dissolve 10g agar –agar powder with water in a sauce pan. Bring to boil. Add coconut milk and bring to boil. Remove from heat once it started to boil.
Gently ladle coconut topping over green agar-agar and leave to set. When it is cooled keep in refrigerator to serve agar –agar cold.
Hi Uncle Phil!
Just writing in to say I love your blog. You never fail to make me salivate with your yummy-looking photos & recipes :p
And what a surprise to know that you live just a suburb next to me in Sydney!
Keep up the great work :)
Hi SydneyLibrarian,
Thanks for your visit and comment. Now that we know that we are neighbours, there is no excuse not to come over for a makan session with other Overseas Singaporeans at my place.
Please give an email so that I can add you in my list of new found friends of my blog.
Cheers,
Phil
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Bond girl
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“I have pierced Mr. Brosnan and gone spelunking in Daniel's crag, and I am at last prepared for the big leagues.”
James Bond: stealer of hearts, whacker of villains, Scottish in accent and arrogant in demeanor. But how does he maintain his remarkable attraction despite franchise setbacks and blond hair? A Bond girl is a woman from a James Bond film who serves as a love interest for the suave protagonist. They are always beautiful, and while they are unprincipled in general, they will reverse this lack of morals in order to save Bond when he's in a tight spot, regardless of their previous affiliation with the enemy.
edit Quality of life
The Bondness of a girl is ingrained at birth, but the condition can only be positively identified, and then only at puberty. In overt cases, the Bond girl will become dazed and remote, losing interest in normal activities. He or she will stand on a balcony if there is one, staring into space and muttering something about a lover. The condition can be frightening to family members not properly educated about it. While it is not life threatening, it does affect quality of life significantly. If and when James Bond does arrive, experiential time for the Bond girl will exceed twenty years while only ten minutes will pass for Bond. Once the encounter is over, the Bond girl will return to her stupor, never to take any interest in anything again. The severity of the condition is well known to the Spanish, whose tradition of reserving a day of mourning for their as-yet-unclaimed Bond girls dates back to centuries before Ian Fleming penned his first novel.
As evidenced in From Russia with Love, a Bond girl can maintain some of the qualities of a normal person by maintaining regular correspondence with James Bond. Regular letter writing can alleviate the pain associated with the condition, with the level of relief being proportional to the lavishness of the writing and the imagined probability that Sean Connery will return to her arms. This technique only works in the Bond authors' most tame novels though; the Bond effect has since been transmogrified to ensure the swift, tragic death of any woman who manages to overpower her Bondness to leave the movie set before filming is complete. The difficulty in relieving the condition is typically attributed to its resemblance to a literary device, though this doppleganging is superficial as reality is not literature.
edit The Bond field
The Bond field is a force field permeating all time and space according to the inverse quartic law function. As the field drops off very fast, it is virtually undetectable at distances reasonably far from James Bond or an actor who plays him. Adding to the challenge is the fact that, like all fields in physics, it can only be detected with a test object that is affected by it, in this case a Bond girl. Physicists at CERN tried to strap Bond girls into a supercollider in order to empirically measure the Bond field, but naturally this rendered the girls damsels in distress. When James Bond was through with the place not a single experimental physicist was left alive, leading to the dearth of progress we have in the field today. The Bond field puzzles theoretical physicists such as Stephen Hawking because its equations are of a far higher order of complexity than, say, the Unified Field Theory.
A Bond girl typically does not make the decision to be with James Bond rationally, but rather out of a primitive urge. This motivation forms part of the base of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, but the hierarchy typically excludes it as it is peculiar to Bond girls. Specifically, the Bond field supplies a mental pathos in the Bond girl accompanied by some physical attraction of the gravitational sort. The Bond girl takes on a zeal for saving James Bond from crisis situations such as exploding poker chips and Chinese snipers. The sense of gratification for this is weak, of course, and fades over time, especially as James Bond leaves the poor Bond girl, which he, with few exceptions, always does.
edit Well-known Bond girls
- Goldpenny Moneydollar
- She is Bond's secretary and lover on location, one of the few Bond girls to have the honour of her capitulation to the Bond field being satisfied on a regular basis. The Bond field affliction prevents her from leaving Bond even though he is constantly with other Bond girls and disloyal to her.
- Kitty-Titty
- A femme fatale with a dangerous penchant for cocktail weenies, Kitty outraged audiences for her prominent placement as a villain's henchwoman in Never Dream of Tomorrow Dying Another Day. Melting at the sight of the then-Bond Michael Harris's gently spinning nipples, she ultimately chose to push the giant red button labeled "Blow-em-up-a the lair," sacrificing herself for no reason other than to comply with the Bond effect.
- Helga Russianbone
- As her name implies (Bond films are normally constructed from far deeper stylistic elements), she is a Russian, but what the audience doesn't know until she intimates it to the fourth wall is that she is a spy for the KGB. Through a plot twist, a helicopter, and some sort of utterly unfeasible orbiting laser satellite, she enters Bond's arms. She is foresaken to the depths by the screenplay upon revealing the code to the aircraft-carrier submarine.
- Margaret Hotass
- In the box-office hit "007- Live and Let Goldfinger Die Another Day From The Spy Who Loved Me With Love" James Bond (Played by Larry Linville) goes to a Korean� Mobile Army Surgical Hospital unit disguised as a surgeon named Frank and meets the lovely Margarat Hotass (played by Loretta Swit). He proposed to her, but then everything blew up, forcing them to get a new Bond.
- Pussy Vaginacuntboobsnipplessex
- A recurrnig extra who ironically is not attractive and never engages in sexual activity or card games with Mr. Bond. She can typically be found in the background of car/boat/MIG/wombat chase scenes, glaring angirly out a window.
edit How to tell if you're a Bond girl
You may be a Bond girl if:
- You are female.
- You are aged twenty to thirty... one.
- You live in an "exotic" corner of the world.
- You have ever seen or slept with James Bond.
- You live in a town where objects frequently explode.
- You have a sexually suggestive name like "Pussy Galore", "Anita Goodtime" or "Valerie Lotsofsexualintercourse"
- You are fictional.
- You have Several Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- You are sexually aggressive
- You have slept with more than 10 men.
- Your career as an actress went nowhere.
A caveat: the above points are merely heuristics. Anyone could potentially be a Bond girl, without respect to age, gender, reality of person, sexual habits, loyalties, or geographic location. There is no completely reliable test to screen out Bondness. You will just have to live with the fact that you too could be a Bond girl.
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Denzel Washington
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“Denzel Washington was a really, really bad teacher.”
“I would marry him, if only my nostrils didn't manipulate me into not doing so.”
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is a teacher. His mother gave him the first name Denzel, which means "devil" in the chopped liver dialect (and that's why we call the devil "Denzel"). But I know him as Mr Washington. Mr Washington was also my mother's schoolmate, my cousin's, sister's, uncle's, brother's, nephew's, second cousin twice removed's son and my dad's best friend. His daughter Shaniqua and her twin brother Shaquille invited me to their birthday party.
edit Denzel "ON FIRE!" Washington: Biography
edit The Early Years
Mr. Washington and my dad Tom Sawyer grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. They became best friends when they met in Sunday School at the Pentecostal church . Mr Washington's father, the Reverend Reverend Denzel Washington who was my cousin's, sister's, uncle's, brother's, nephew's, second cousin twice removed, once lent my dad a paintbrush so that he could whitewash the fence. Sometimes to get out of chores my dad and Mr Washington used to go fishing on the Mississippi. Once they even ran away to become pirates. It was when they were pirates on the Mississippi that they first met my mother Pippi Longstocking, although they met her again the next day at school.
edit Mr. Washington at school
Mr. Washington was my mum's schoolmate at Pennington Grimes Elementary School, but she did not play with him very often because he was a boy. He was in her class for three years. My dad went to the same school but he was in a different class. He did play with Denzel Washington and they remained best friends throughout elementary school. The Reverend Reverend Denzel Washington who was my cousin's, sister's, uncle's, brother's, nephew's, second cousin twice removed decided that my dad, Tom Sawyer was a bad influence on his son, and sent Mr Washington to boarding school. Then he was no longer my mum's schoolmate. At this school he met Spike Lee who became his new best friend. My dad Tom Sawyer never met Spike Lee, but if he had met him I don't think they would have got on.
edit Mr. Washington becomes a teacher
When Mr. Washington left school his friend Spike Lee told him he should be an actor. Spike Lee asked Mr Washington to star in his movie Malcolm X, but Mr Washington only wanted to star in films about pirates. Since Spike Lee didn't want to make a film about pirates the two had a big argument and hit each other with spoons. Mr Washington dressed up like a pirate at home on the weekends, and Spike Lee cast Scottish actor Ewan McGregor in the lead role, resulting in McGregor's meteoric rise to fame. Mr Washington never talked to his best friend ever again and became a teacher at my school.
edit Mr. Washington the teacher
Mr. Washington is not a very popular teacher at my school. He teaches math and physics which are very unpopular subjects. He uses lots of text books and we have to sit silently in his class. Most of the kids don't like him, but I like him because sometimes he smiles and makes jokes. One day when he was talking about the theory of relativity he said to the whole physics class, "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!"
Some of the girls in my class think he is really good looking, but I think they're just being silly. He seems to like me because he has given me good grades. He gave me a certificate that made my parents Tom Sawyer and Pippi Longstocking very proud.
edit Mr. Washington the Police Officer
My cousin said that 13 years ago Mr. Washington had a break from teaching. He was very interested in elephant mating and went to the Doctor Doolittle Academy, Los Angeles to learn to how to talk to the animals. But he was quietly and quickly expelled for making a classmate smoke a bowl of marijuana with a little hint of TNT, a dash of hitler, and a pinch of pure evil at tip point. After laughing and yelling AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa!!! and throwing a few racial slurs around, he was reinstated and graduated the same day. He received the Academy's highest honor, Badass Cum Sallovertheplace only to return to teaching at my school three minutes later.
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HowTo talk:Get Around In A Fighting Tournament
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edit From Pee Review
Hello. This is my first time putting something in review. I'm not sure if it's the best though. I'd like to look for things to improve or add to it, cause I'd like to make it funnier and all, since it's supposed to reference and poke fun at fighting games in general. I feel I've got some good things down, but it needs something more, something I feel is missing... a sense of completion, perhaps?
Please don't be too harsh or critical on it, go easy on me, okay? I'll do my best to improve it. --Hanyouman 13:09, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Hm, you mean that "dues ex machina" thing? I had thought about putting that in, thanks for reminding me. I'll try what I can and I hope more people will give me suggestions on what more to do with it.
I do hope to improve the Characters section, since I feel it's essential for poking fun at what we usually seen for characters and stuff, and that me and other people who wish to contribute help with it. :) --Hanyouman 20:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
edit From Pee Review 2
Okay, this is my second time putting this article through Pee Review. I've improved on it some (and a couple people added their ideas too), but I feel my weakest is in the Character Types section, which I feel is essential to the article's humor. There's a way to poke fun at them that I need to tap into, but I'm not sure how to go about it. Possibly a few other areas that I have wary feelings on too, but not sure on them either. So any advice or ideas would be nice. Again, don't be too harsh on me.
I hope I can improve upon this some more so that it's just right. Thanks for any help, it's appreciated. --Hanyouman 00:01, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey this has definitely improved tons since I reviewed it the first time. I maybe wouldn't score it quite so highly but I have a natural aversion to being overly positive - it's really good. I'm guessing from the amount of work you've put into it you'll be looking at VFH pretty soon. The most important thing to work on now is the introduction. Get your readers to laugh out loud in the first few lines and they'll be on your side right the way through. At the moment I would be reluctant to vote for it since most of our ADHD afflicted viewers would simply give up before they got to the meat of it. --Kelpan 23:43, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
edit From Pee Review
Third time's a charm, eh?
I know this is probably getting tedious or something by now, but I would still like to know where I can improve this without removing anything too vital (there's a few things in there I feel are important to it). So any advice would be nice as long as you're not being mean about it or something. If you wanna discuss it feel free to leave me a message or whatnot.
I'm just trying my hardest to make it as good as I can. I appreciate any help. --Hanyouman 17:44, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
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Sheriff Takes Lesbian Drug Addict To Ex-Gay Evangelists Instead of Rehab
Amanda Booker is suing the pants off of Bartow County Georgia’s police force after her arrest led to a nightmarish kidnapping and imprisonment at an evangelical Ex-Gay center instead of one of the court-ordered drug rehab programs she was meant to attend..”
Paging Officer Homophobe! This story sounds INSANE.
Booker names 11 defendants in her lawsuits, and if her story is true (It sounds too crazy to have been made up), we hope a jury serves up a hot plate of justice. Preventing Booker from attaining the drug rehabilitation treatment she medically needed is bad enough, but forcing her to endure a week of religious fanaticism is just unbelievable.
If the homophobic culture of the Bartow County Police Force allowed this incident to manifest, we can only imagine other illegal and discriminatory conduct is going on as well. For the sake of all the LGBT residents of Bartow County, we hope some serious changes are made, and that those responsible for this horrific conduct lose their badges.
What the heck is going on in the Bartow County Sheriff’s Office?
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In April, for two special and fun weeks, Walla Walla businesses will go all out to show their growing commitment to good health and fitness.
Created in 2012, the Corporate Cup Challenge is organized by the Walla Walla YMCA with teams formed by local businesses. As part of a commitment to healthy living, the YMCA Corporate Cup is a demonstration of community health, fitness and spirit.
It’s a great opportunity for working men and women to discover the benefits of feeling and looking their best.
Teams will participate in 12 different events: 5K walk/run, basketball, bench press, bowling, endurance event, pickleball, poker, pool relay, tug of war, volleyball and wiffleball. The event will kick off April 8 and conclude with a family-friendly awards ceremony April 20.
Businesses of any size in the Walla Walla and surrounding areas are encouraged to take part in the upcoming YMCA Corporate Cup.
Any person, regardless of fitness level, may be a team member. The only requirements are each participant must be at least 18 years of age and an employee, or spouse of an employee of the participating company.
The emphasis is on activating the community and getting as many people as possible involved in health and wellness.
Last year’s Corporate Cup provided fun and excitement for over 1,000 participants on eight teams. The event continues into its second year with hopes of reaching an even higher amount of participation.
Reigning champions Baker Boyer Bank proudly displayed the traveling Corporate Cup Trophy in the lobby of their main branch over the past year. Runner-up was the Washington State Penitentiary with the host, Walla Walla YMCA, coming in third place.
In addition to the many benefits the Corporate Cup Challenge has for employees, it can also be used as a cost-effective marketing tool to promote your company and garner business. Throughout the two weeks of competition, players and spectators are repeatedly exposed to company names and logos as well as witness team spirit and sportsmanship.
The event will conclude with an awards ceremony which will provide events for the entire family along with a potluck and barbecue.
It will be a time for participants from each team to socialize, network and relax after the two-week competition. The first place team will be awarded the traveling trophy and will get to bask in their glory of being named the 2013 YMCA Corporate Cup Champions.
Now more than ever, our businesses, our teams, and our citizens need healthy activities to share. If you and/or your business are ready to step up to the challenge then sign up today! Register online at.
Lacey Evans is communications director at the Walla Walla YMCA.
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Fear is inertia. It’s a reluctance to change direction or a lack of energy that keeps you stuck.
The way to fight fear is simple. Each and every time you find yourself at a crossroads, and you know that the only thing keeping you from moving forward is fear, then you should head in that direction—even if your fear seems too big to handle. To turn back is to be defeated. If you choose to be defeated, you’ll remain scared until your dying days.
When you have a feeling that resembles fear, track it. That is, ask questions and pay close attention to what you discover. Find out its origin. Maybe you just need a refresher in learning how to jump over the obstacle. Listen to your body as you keep asking questions. Why am I feeling scared? What would make me feel calmer about this situation? What led me to be at this place today?
Keep building momentum to jump over the obstacle. Keep building your personal power. Fighting fear will do this.
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Archive for the ‘marriage promotion’ Category
Good news on federal policy for families in poverty
Stop taking low-income fathers’ money away from their children; help fathers form better relationships with children and mothers; don’t make legal marriage more important than good parenting. Finally, the federal government’s approach to the role of family structure in the lives of low-income children is starting to look more reasonable and realistic.
In a conference call last week, two Special Assistants to the President revealed the administration’s new strategy for TANF grants. The $150 million annual allocation for Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood will be split evenly between the two program types ($75M for marriage and $75M for fatherhood) in next year’s budget as well as this year’s current funding. There will be a new competition for these funds, and previous grantees will have to demonstrate past success to be considered for future grants. Marriage programs can’t get fatherhood funds just to keep doing marriage stuff (or vice versa).
This amounts to a permanent 25% reduction in marriage promotion and 33% increase in fatherhood funding. On the call, Martha Coven, Special Assistant to the President for Mobility and Opportunity, described it as a welcome increase for fatherhood. She also said the administration had decided to follow this funding pattern because it was acceptable to Congress, rather than dig in to fight for the much bigger state-level competition for innovative marriage, fatherhood and family programming which it had proposed last year.
The call further revealed the administration’s much bigger focus on fatherhood, in the form of a package of improvements to the child support system worth $2.8 billion over 10 years (i.e., averaging $280 million annually). The world of low-income child support collection is maddening for everyone, not least because it was originally designed as a cost recovery plan for welfare agencies. This design concept causes friction between mothers and fathers, fathers and children, families and agencies, courts and jails, and even between the federal and state governments. Much of the proposed federal funding will be used to pay the states to modernize and humanize their systems. Not my area of expertise, but sounds like a really good idea!
Now here’s the less good news – the line between fatherhood programs and marriage promotion is not as bright as you might hope. Here’s how federal law describes fatherhood programming (italics added):
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2) Activities to promote responsible parenting through activities such as counseling, mentoring, and mediation, disseminating information about good parenting practices, skills-based parenting education, encouraging child support payments, and other methods.
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4) Activities to promote responsible fatherhood that are conducted through a contract with a nationally recognized, nonprofit fatherhood promotion organization, such.
So, we can enjoy a modest celebration but it’s not time to kick back and relax. We’re pursuing two goals in 2011: first, to influence the ongoing use of TANF funds so that programs are less rigidly focused on marriage and more helpful to people in diverse relationships; second, to influence the reauthorization of TANF so that marriage promotion will not be stated as its primary purpose for the next five years.
You can help! Take on a specific research or outreach task. Recruit a brilliant summer intern. Contribute towards a stipend so the intern can afford to take this job.
Will Obama really fund failed marriage programs?
The President of the United States has proposed the federal budget – his wish list of revenues and expenses covering the period October 1, 2011 – September 30, 2012. Budgets, whether federal, nonprofit or family, are statements of priorities, goals and hopes. AtMP keeps an eye on certain federal budget lines that show whether the government promotes legal, different-sex marriage as being better than other relationships or family forms.
Unfortunately, while cutting things people really need, the President is proposing to fund two marriage-related programs that should be abandoned because they are insulting at best, and downright dangerous at worst:
- the grant program called Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood is still carving out $150 million per year from welfare funds under the umbrella of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
- to paraphrase our friends at SIECUS (the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States), the President is also continuing to put $50 million a year into Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, which have been widely discredited and proven by the federal government’s own study to be ineffective.
I’ll get to the second program another time. Today I’m wondering: Why are the TANF programs still funded?
Marriage programs are not a presidential priority. In his budget statement, Obama does not mention marriage at all. He does discuss fatherhood, mostly in the context of the very good idea of urging states to let fathers’ child support payments reach their children instead of getting absorbed into state treasuries. But it took quite a bit of digging to find any reference to this funding continuation (fellow wonks, see page 473).
The administration knows that marriage programs don’t work. An evaluation of an eight-site TANF-funded marriage program found no net effects on participants’ relationships.
The President’s team tried to replace marriage programs last year. Joshua Dubois – Special Assistant to the President and Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships – spearheaded a campaign to replace marriage programs with a potentially better, experimental package focused on the economic needs of low-income parents. (We commented on it extensively here.)
Congress moved money from marriage to fatherhood last year. When Congress extended budget lines instead of passing a whole budget last year, it assigned $75 million instead of $100 million to marriage programs. Fatherhood programs got a corresponding increase from $50 to 75 million.
In sum, I see a glimmer of hope. Although the title and size of the budget item is the same, maybe there’s a plan to develop a completely different kind of operating program using that money. AtMP and our allies will keep an eye on it, and we’ll weigh in with suggestions about how federal funds could be put to good use to reduce poverty and improve child outcomes.
Here are some basic components: financial assistance to cover food, shelter, health care etc; early childhood education; relationship skills and supports to help adults be great parents and partners. Want more ideas about how reducing poverty can improve a child’s prospects ? There’s a compelling article by Duncan and Magnuson article starting on page 25 of this magazine on poverty, inequality and social policy.
Marriage programs return to federal welfare budget
In the waning days of the year, marriage programs poured on the charm (i.e., lobbied like mad) and got themselves partially reinstated in the federal budget. Congress had not included marriage programs when it funded Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF, the umbrella welfare program) from October through December 2010. However, it did include them in the new extension through September 2011, though at only three-quarters of their previous dollar level – $75 million instead of $100 million.
Fatherhood programs got a corresponding increase from $50 to 75 million. From the sidelines, it can be interesting to watch the tug of war between marriage and fatherhood programs. The Obama administration wanted to merge them into one, even bigger, program that would be managed by the states. Our analysis of all that is available here. Congress also seemed to favor programs that help low-income fathers get jobs and stay involved with their kids. A bill called the Julia Carson Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2009 (H.R. 2979) was being considered as an alternative to the administration’s proposal. That bill would have to start from scratch in the new Congress.
The extra year of funding will allow Congress (and us) to review the evaluation results for many more marriage programs before deciding whether to include them in the full five-year reauthorization of TANF. Of course, the programs are acutely aware of the importance of demonstrating positive results.
Marriage is not an anti-poverty strategy
Last month we quietly celebrated the end of federal welfare funding for marriage programs. One reason our cheer was so muted was that Congress had let the programs die with a whimper by refusing to act on the President’s budget proposal. Instead of ensuring a safety net for very-low income people for years to come, Congress gave just a few months extension to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF – the main anti-poverty program). The extension did not cover marriage programs, nor did it cover “the Emergency Fund, which was created as a stimulus effort and helped millions of very low-income people make ends meet through the worst part of the Great Recession.” Next year we can hope for a full renewal of the safety net, plus a proper debate about whether marriage or relationship education belong in welfare funding.
At about that same anti-climactic moment, the Women of Color Policy Network published an interesting report about unmarried mothers. It has lots of good information, but strangely does not recommend policies to reduce marital status discrimination. This is especially surprising given single mothers’ low incomes, which might get a lift if we prohibited marital status discrimination in employment (yes, that’s still legal in all states except these).
Single mothers not only earn less than men, but they earn only 77 percent as much as married women with children and 87 percent as much as single women without children. In contrast, unmarried men with children earned 8 percent more than unmarried men without children.
As the report says, “lower earnings no doubt contribute to the wealth gap for single mothers, but they are just the tip of the iceberg.” Here are a few interesting excerpts about the intersection of wealth and marital status:
There is no single reason for the lack of wealth among single women mothers; the reasons are manifold and interrelated: lower wages and life-time earnings, occupational segmentation, lack of access to wealth escalators such as retirement and pension plans, and historic structural and institutional discrimination, among others. …
… Single mothers who have never been married have less wealth than women whose pathway to single motherhood was through divorce or widowhood. Divorced or widowed single mothers have a median wealth of $7,500 whereas single mothers who never married have a median wealth of zero. …
… Marriage is associated with higher wealth for two reasons: first, many women wait until they are financially stable to marry; second, marriage has wealth-building advantages such as economies of scale. Upon divorce, mothers may be able to access any wealth accumulated during marriage. Additionally, divorced single mothers are much more likely to receive child support, which gives them more disposable income to save or invest. …
Note to marriage promoters: these correlations still do NOT make marriage an ethical or effective anti-poverty strategy.
No more welfare funds for marriage promoters
This week, AtMP sent the Senate Finance Committee a petition calling for the end of federally-funded marriage promotion, along with detailed analysis and recommendations on the use of anti-poverty funds for marriage and fatherhood programs. AtMP’s statement describes the differences between marriage promotion, relationship education, and fatherhood programs. We ask Congress to use the evidence it has received to set performance standards for President Obama’s proposed $500 million Fatherhood, Marriage and Families Innovation Fund.
In contrast to President Bush’s $750 million program, we want the new Fund to
- serve only low-income people;
- not discriminate on the basis of marital status or sexual orientation, nor stigmatize unmarried
- relationships;
- make relationship education inclusive of all relationships;
- develop standards, educational requirements and/or an accreditation system for relationship
- educators;
- let service providers work from their strengths rather than pursue fads;
- help men and women be great parents and partners, not husbands and wives;
- not confuse parenting with gender role-modeling; and
- gather and publish evaluation results quickly.
Finally, we suggest directions for re-envisioning federal anti-poverty efforts, with the ultimate goal of eliminating poverty. All people, including people in poverty, should be legally and economically free to choose whether and when to marry or form other healthy relationships.
Read the entire testimony and see the petition signatories here.
Learn more about AtMP’s decade of research and advocacy on welfare-funded marriage promotion here.
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Big news on welfare-funded marriage programs: they don’t work
At last, a moment we’ve been waiting for! The release of a major evaluation of marriage programs funded by federal welfare dollars titled “Early Impacts from the Building Strong Families Project,” written by Mathematica Policy Research Inc. under a federal contract. Punch line: they don’t work.
The executive summary is very worth reading. It does not sugar-coat the dismal results, and I love the opening line: “Although most children raised by single parents fare well, …”
Our friend Shawn Fremsted at Center for Economic & Policy Research does a nice job of summarizing, concluding that the federal Healthy Marriage Initiative was a mistake that shouldn’t be repeated. Hear hear!
Rather than re-hash, I’ll add a comment on how the report’s detailed information about program operations speaks to the question of whether marriage programs should receive anti-poverty funds. I’m writing from the perspective of having spent 13 years working in low income neighborhoods around NYC, designing and running social service and housing programs for TANF* recipients and other community residents.
Mathematica reports that “Most BSF programs had little or no effect on relationships; however, there were two notable exceptions. The Oklahoma City program had a consistent pattern of positive effects, while the Baltimore program had a number of negative effects.” Oklahoma City was the only one using a relationship curriculum especially designed for low-income / low-literacy couples. Baltimore recruited couples with the lowest incomes and the lowest levels of commitment to each other or the program. Oklahoma City’s program was purpose-built; Baltimore’s was added to a pre-existing program “known for providing employment and fatherhood services to low-income men since 1999.” Although only 45% of participants in OK City graduated, that is five times higher than all the other programs.
There are many other distinctions, of course. But these few suggest that these marriage programs didn’t just fail, they failed to address the realities of people with very low incomes who could have been receiving more effective anti-poverty services if TANF funds hadn’t been diverted by marriage-happy politicians.
We eagerly await the release of more marriage program evaluations. To learn more about the upcoming evaluations, and what we hope to learn from them, turn to page 14 of Let Them Eat Wedding Rings.
Sign the petition to help us stop the federal government from throwing more good money after bad! If you are an expert on TANF and/or represent an organization that is working on TANF issues, join our professional coalition!
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*TANF = Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the primary federal welfare program.
Becoming an Adult Without Getting Married
When does a person become an adult? What is adulthood, and why does it matter? How have the answers to these questions changed over time, and what do the changes mean for American society? How should civic institutions respond?
These fascinating questions are the subject of Transition to Adulthood, the latest in a research series called The Future of Children published by Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School (my alma mater) and the Brookings Institution. This anthology of 10 essays does not answer all those questions. In fact, it doesn’t seem to recognize that some exist; but, it does provide valuable insight into demographic trends and policy responses.
Why review it here? Because, according to one of the authors,
Becoming an adult has traditionally been understood as comprising five core transitions – leaving home, completing school, entering the workforce, getting married, and having children.
However,
Today… only about half of Americans consider it necessary to marry or have children to be regarded as an adult.
The question begs so hard it practically jumps off the page: should marriage and parenthood still be understood as markers of adulthood by researchers and policy makers? Amazingly, none of the 19 authors in this anthology seem interested in changing their traditional understanding. For example, one lists women’s tendency “to delay marriage and parenthood” as a factor that has “helped to delay and complicate the passage to adulthood.” Even the use of “transition” (singular) in the book’s title suggests the authors’ devotion to the idea of one right way to become an adult, despite the rich diversity of reality which their data describe so well.
Equally amazing, none of the authors unpack the implied moral or normative value of adulthood; no one explains why it matters. Of course, I’d rather live in a country where my fellow adults act like adults, not like children. But my common sense definition of “acting like an adult” has little to do with the “five core transitions.” A book that recommends governmental and civic action towards a goal ought to justify why that goal is good for individuals and society. Instead, the closest it comes to explaining why adulthood matters is to describe the negative
consequences of the extended transition. … [F]irst … the growing burden placed on the middle- and lower-income families who were providing their children with schooling, housing, health insurance and income well beyond the age range of 18 – 21, the traditional age of majority. … [S]econd… the unexpected strain being imposed on key social institutions.
One thing the anthology does very well is highlight the different life patterns experienced by people of different gender, race/ethnicity, economic class and immigration history. For example, it cites one study of children of immigrants who (rather than becoming a long-term burden) provide regular or even total financial support to their parents, and another study finding that children of immigrants “differed in several ways from conventional American norms of departing the parental household and setting up a separate home.”
Another question begged: whose norms are “conventional?” A different essay mentions that “youth and parents from less-advantaged families continue to favor an earlier departure from the home than do those of more advantaged means.” Furthermore, “women are typically younger than men when they leave home because they complete college earlier, form cohabiting unions earlier, and marry about two years earlier, on average, than men.” However, “young mothers who do not enter a union before bearing a child typically remain in the parental home for several years and receive financial support and child care from their parents.”
What Transition to Adulthood does best is provide heaps of fascinating data. Here are just a few highlights about marriage and its alternatives: “About half of high school seniors say that they plan to cohabit as couples before they marry. … By age 34, 7 in 10 have tied the knot. … [T]he percentages of people who have never married, and who are intentionally childless, are higher now than at any other time in American history….”
Given this nation’s obsession with marriage and parenting – and our politicians’ willingness to legislate behavior – I was especially struck by the fact that, while there are many studies of people who are relatively rich or poor, “[r]esearchers know far less about the family formation patterns of young adults who grow up in families with modest resources.” Isn’t that the majority of us? I was also glad to see recognition that “young people who can build stronger and wider connections to adults other than parents (for example, teachers and adult mentors) also end up faring better than those who do not.” (emphasis in original)
With essays on education, labor, the military, civic engagement and “vulnerable populations,” as well as the immigration and family formation sections I’ve highlighted, Transition to Adulthood offers plenty of food for thought. I do hope that its target audience of “policy makers, practitioners and the media” will dig into the rich details and give more thought to what adulthood is, how people get there, and why it matters. Otherwise, we’ll end up with more legal carrots and sticks, more media hype, and less real help to build a society where we all can thrive.
Why TANF must give economic aid & help all relationships
Two heartrending news articles crossed my desk this morning. Both highlight the reasons that TANF (the main federal anti-poverty program) should focus on economic assistance. They also point to the importance of healthy relationships for all people, regardless of marital status. If any federal money is going to pay for relationship education, it really must be available to people in every type of relationship.
Women’s e-News details how the recession contributed to an increase in domestic violence.
The New York Times details how evictions have a disparate impact on unmarried African-American women.
President Obama’s budget proposal offers a one-year extension and expansion of marriage programs. Few details are available yet, but we’re inclined to agree with our colleague Wendy Mink, who writes.
If you haven’t signed our TANF petition yet, now is the time!
Conversations with a chief marriage promoter
A few days ago as I was heading into the office, my Blackberry picked up an email posting to AtMP-Talk, our interactive listserve. AtMP-TALK has been hosting important, enlightening and sometimes silly conversations among over 500 members for over a decade, but it had been pretty quiet in recent months. This posting caught my eye not only because it broke the silence, but also because of the writer’s name: Chris Gersten. “Gee, that sounds familiar” I thought as I walked up the stairs and unlocked the office door, then “nah, it couldn’t be him!” When my PC warmed up, I confirmed that yes, Chris Gersten is the chairman of the Fatherhood & Marriage Leadership Insititute, and yes, he has been lurking on our listserve since mid-September (not coincidentally, around the same time I last blogged about FAMLI). I posted his brief bio to the list and wondered what would happen next.
Chris’s initial message made several general statements about the value of marriage and government-funded marriage programs, including
[M]arriage is the critical building block for every civilization since the dawn of time. It is the institution that all the social science research tells us is best for children to be raised in. It is also very difficult for people in marriages to maintain strong relationships over the years. There is nothing wrong with society and government understanding that it is in the interest of the broader society for married couples to get help.
Of course, Chris works to secure not only government understanding, but big funding for marriage programs. AtMP opposes this use of funds, and invites the public to sign our petition.
Member responses came in quickly. Almost all were thoughtful, detailed, respectful and passionate about cherishing diversity, protecting children and supporting relationships. I’m really proud that AtMP has such wise members! Here is a brief sample of what AtMP members said:
FAMILIES are the critical building block. People need to be “built” in stable families in order to become adults who function well regardless of the living situation they choose. Adults who live alone aren’t destroying society. But children can’t be single; they need families.
What the social science research tells us is that children do best with a consistent, reliable family and adequate physical and emotional care. Married parents look good in research because the majority of consistent two-adult households are married ones. However, studies of other family types such as stable same-sex couples show that the important variable is not marriage but stability–having the same adults in the family throughout childhood. There are many advantages to having more than one
adult (particularly with more than one child) but single parents who intentionally became parents while single tend to do very well.
- ‘Becca
Several people echoed and expanded on the importance of family stability and relationship education.
I was going to ask about the nature of the help for married couples that is being funded, and why it wouldn’t be helpful for unmarried couples as well. You’ve explained that marriage education programs are really relationship education for all. Why not just call it that? Isn’t that a worthy goal?
- Kelly
Chris, if you replaced the word “marriage” with “loving, intimate, relationship” I might agree with a lot of what you say. However, marriage as a social/cultural/legal status has little to do with whether a relationship is loving or intimate! Programs should be aimed at improving love, communication, and intimacy in all relationships. Then the children would really benefit.
- Rene
Others raised questions and theories about the evolution of marriage and its connection to poverty.
Jobs for women pay less and are less likely to provide health insurance. Day care is expensive, and women’s wages simply aren’t high enough. Marriage has been a building block of civilizations because women have been relegated out of society outside the home. … We should be working to raise people up out of poverty, and marriage will *not* create that change. Improving work environments for women, creating opportunity in impoverished neighborhoods, and putting a stop to the shaming of single parents and their children will greatly help improve outcomes for children of single parents.
- Carolyn
Marriage was created as a mechanism by which to manage property. Our idea of “love marriage” is a recent invention. Marriage has historically been a partnership formed by families (most marriages were arranged in all cultures for centuries) for financial reasons.
- Jillian
Chris replied to most member responses, mentioning (but not formally citing) studies, percentages, experts and pastors, and stating “these are not just opinions. They are facts.” Our studious members were ready.
You know what, Chris? MARRIAGE CAUSES DIVORCE. There is a 100% correlation, and the causation is clear: Every divorced couple was married before divorce! Speaking more seriously … as best I can recall from my reading, child poverty and infant mortality have *decreased* significantly since 1960 (although there have been upticks recently, they’re not back up to pre-1960 levels), low birth weight is still a problem but hasn’t changed much, and child abuse is hard to measure reliably because of drastic changes in reporting standards.
- ‘Becca
How DARE you call me or my kids a national disaster.
Several members referred to Dr. Bella DePaulo’s careful analysis of marriage studies, and at least one contacted her offline to ask her to weigh in, which she did:
Thanks to those of you who recommended my book and my blog. Since Chris has specifically
challenged my work (obviously, without reading it), I’ll say a bit more.
Chapter 9 of my book, SINGLED OUT, is about the children of single parents. There, I explain why Chris’s claims do not pass muster and how those studies are so widely misinterpreted. (Because Chris seems to value appeals to authority over a close reading of the original research, I’ll mention that my PhD is from Harvard, I have more than 100 academic publications to my name, and I’ve taught graduate courses in research methods for decades.) My chapter directly addresses some of the claims Chris makes, such as the one about the alleged drug abuse among the children of single parents. I explain, in detail, how particular kinds of studies are misrepresented; so if you make the same methodological mistake each time (such as confusing correlation with causality, as Rachel pointed out), it doesn’t matter if you have 50 studies or 50,000 studies – if they are flawed, they can’t be used to support your point.
I stay on top of studies that have appeared after Singled Out was published. Many of my critiques can be found in a recent collection, SINGLE WITH ATTITUDE. I’ve also posted some critiques at my Living Single blog at Psychology Today. Here are a few specifically relevant to the points about the children of single parents:
1. Children of Single Mothers: How Do They Really Fare?
2. It Takes a Single Person to Create a Village
3. TIME’s Misleading Cover Story on Marriage
- Bella DePaulo
Members were uniformly unimpressed by Chris’s responses, and after about 48 hours the email storm collapsed in a heap of fatigue and curiosity, with members asking “Why is a former Bush Administration official on this listserve?” and “Are you just bored and looking for someone to harangue?”
Tiresome as it may be, we can expect many more conversations like this in 2010, because federal funding for marriage programs is up for renewal this year. If you agree that anti-poverty funds should be dedicated to reducing poverty, and relationship education should help everyone regardless of marital status, then please sign our petition!
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We’ve all been there. Wake up early for first chair, roll out of your inflatable mattress and head to the kitchen only to remember that it has been weeks since you bought any food. A fried egg or two would be ideal in this situation, maybe on a bagel with some pepper jack and hot sauce, who knows? The accoutrement is optional, but anyway who wants to pull out that large pan and crack a few eggs into it, then burn your bagel while you try and corral you eggs into a bagel-sized mess? Nobody. And that is why we usually just skip getting breakfast food all together and just go skiing.
What if there was a small, egg-sized pan that fries a perfect egg every time? A pan that could be carried to the lift line when GNAR points are needed? A pan that could change your life? Such a pan would even nicely fit in with camping supplies. There is such a pan. I just call my small pan the “perfect egg,” but for this review I looked up the proper name, just to share with all of you. The One Egg Wonder Pan is a mere $5 and will be your new lift-line companion and GNAR point MVP. It’s got a Teflon non-stick surface too so your backpack won’t start to smell like old grease after a few lift-line toasadas. Raving customer reviews will reveal, “the One Egg Wonder Pan’s compact design fits one egg perfectly [it’s true]”. But that is only because it’s difficult for the average breakfast connoisseurto say a whole lot about an unusually small pan. I’ll let the experts expand.
According to the American Egg Board, One egg has 13 essential nutrients in varying amounts, including high-quality protein, choline, folate, iron and zinc, for 70 calories. Eggs also play a role in weight management, muscle strength, healthy pregnancy, brain function, eye health and more. Not to mention, eggs are crucial to being the best skier on the mountain, everybody knows that. So this weekend, hold out on buying that last drink at the bar and go get yourself the One Egg Wonder Pan, it practically sells itself. See you in the lift line. To get a One Egg Wonder Pan CLICK HERE
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Unscripted Sketches #198
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Welcome to the new University of Louisville Department of Orthopaedic Surgery web site. We would like to tell you about the exciting things happening here as we carry on the rich 81-year history which began at the Kosair Crippled Children’s Hospital and has grown to include 20 orthopaedic surgery residents, 11 full-time faculty members, and 26 clinical faculty.
Our outstanding full-time faculty do much of the “heavy lifting”. These individuals deserve to be credited for their leadership and expertise: Dr. David Seligson for orthopaedic traumatology; Dr. Arthur Malkani and Dr. Madhu Yakkanti for adult reconstruction; Dr. Edward Tillett for the arthroscopy laboratory; Dr. Trey Crawford and Dr. Steve Glassman for spine surgery and spine research; Dr. John Dimar for spine surgery and serving as Chief of Pediatrics at Kosair Hospital, and Dr. John Johnson for spine surgery and spine research; Dr. John Nyland for outcomes research; and Dr. Mike Voor for the orthopaedic bioengineering laboratory.
On February 1, 2011, I became the 8th leader
of the Orthopaedic Surgery enterprise at the
University of Louisville School of Medicine.
The Department has traditionally been known
for its strengths in orthopaedic traumatology
and spine surgery. The subspecialties of
adult reconstruction, pediatric orthopaedics,
and sports medicine are also growing with
leaps and bounds. My vision is to elevate
our residency training program to top ten status,
bring Federal funding into the Department, and
significantly grow the clinical enterprise so that it is a huge resource to the region.
Our Department is currently at the tipping point of exponential growth and development. We added a night float rotation, expanded our conference series to a four-hour block of time on Friday mornings which starts with Grand Rounds, linked the educational conferences to a curriculum, and created new rotations in foot/ankle, and musculoskeletal oncology. A new orthopaedic traumatologist will also be joining the faculty fairly soon!
We want you to be a part of what is going on in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. I assure you, we are only warming up. Together we can do great things in the future.
Very truly yours,
Craig S. Roberts, MD, MBA
K. Armand Fischer Professor and Chair
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
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Our Daisy Belle chicken has been in moult; the lass is clogging on a bit in years, here she is in her youth in 2007
She can’t mange such a resplendent plumage these days. But she is working on this seasons feathers right now.
Chickens stop laying when they moult and general act ‘out of sorts’ not quite hanging out with the rest of the flock, first in the hen house at night, last out in a morning, having a bad feather day I suppose. They moult once a year, they don’t loose all the feathers at once (I’m not even sure how often some feathers are replaced, not every year I think).
Here she is with her new feathers emerging. Bless.
The quill grows first, and then the feather emerges from the tip of the quill,
it looks like she’s covered in little paint brushes.
Reader Charles is concerned for Spuds the dogs welfare, as he has been absent of late. I can report he is fine, muddy and wet, but that’s Springers for you… He’ll be along soon.
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Finders (Not) Keepers
Twice in five years, writer lost her electronics while traveling. What happened next surprised her.
I seem to have bad luck with electronics when traveling. These two stories top them all. They also illustrate stories of remarkable honesty.
August 2006:
During a trip to Colorado, I accidentally left my new Canon DSLR on a rock near a dam we stopped to see. Even worse, the card inside held over two weeks worth of irreplaceable family vacation photos.
I felt physically sick when we reached our trailhead in the heart of the San Juan Mountains and realized it had been left behind.
When we returned to the dam after a 60-mile round-trip drive down dusty, bumpy roads, the rock was there, the camera was gone.
My heart sank.
Instead of a fun birthday hike for my hubby, we spent the day frantically looking for my camera at every campground throughout the area. Perhaps someone had turned it in. Or maybe someone had spotted it and figured, “My lucky day!”
We returned to "the rock" several hours later. To my disbelief, there was a note in a plastic baggie.
Could it be? Were there still honest people in this world? I frantically opened the baggie and ripped out the note.
It said, “Found camera. Call to give description and retrieve.”
Hallelujah! My faith in mankind had been restored.
Fast forward to July 2011:
When we arrived in Las Vegas, it was too early to check into our room. The bellboy offered to store our luggage until our room was ready.
I decided to keep my MacBook with me, “just in case.” My laptop and camera are my lifelines to family, friends and work. Knowing my luck with electronics, I didn't want to take any chances.
Having my hands full, I asked my 9-year-old, Addison, to carry the MacBook for me.
We decided to hang out at Starbucks until we got the call for the room. After about an hour of relaxing with drinks, we gathered our things to leave.
The MacBook was missing.
“I just set it over here on this table, mom,” Addison said.
I searched above, below … every which way to find that slim laptop which happened to be full of very useful and important photos and information.
My heart skipped a few beats. Did someone TAKE it from right in front of us?
Maybe what’s taken to Vegas stays in Vegas, too!
I raced to the baristas to see if they knew anything about it. The young girl looked me over with caution and asked its color.
“Purple with white skulls and cross bones,” I said. (My husband’s gift to me.)
“Yes,” she said. “Someone picked it up off the table and thought it had been left here. It's being held in security.”
Hallelujah, again.
The moral of the stories:
There are still honest people in this world. Good DOES shine through.
My electronics were saved once again!
Willet Thomas
9:14 am on Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Horray for honesty
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Bidding Adieu To Congressional Trailblazers
Originally published on Wed January 9, 2013 8:15 am
The drama over the fiscal cliff and the familiar up-against-a-deadline dysfunction of Congress have largely overshadowed the leave-taking of some Capitol Hill originals.
So we wanted to remember a few true congressional trailblazers whose long Washington careers are ending. They include the first openly gay member of Congress, a leader of the libertarian movement, the first Jewish candidate to run on a major party presidential ticket, and the most fervent supporter of a U.S. Department of Peace.
While many members of Congress are departing by choice (like GOP Tea Party godfather Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who is taking a high-paying think tank job) or by loss (like eight-term Rep. Leonard Boswell, an Iowa Democrat who lost to a fellow incumbent in a redistricting battle), these are some we won't soon forget.
HOUSE
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
In his own words: "I'm used to being in a minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority."
At 72, Frank will wrap up more than three decades in the House, where he became not only the first openly gay member of Congress but also the first to get married to a same-sex partner.
Elected to the Massachusetts House in 1972, the irascible, irrepressible Frank co-sponsored that state's first gay-rights bill. "He was willing to speak out and be public about his sexual orientation when he was the only one," Lois Pines, who served in the state House with Frank, told us at the Democratic National Convention.
In the U.S. House, Frank was an advocate of affordable housing, a lightning rod for GOP criticism for co-writing the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulation law, and survived a 1990 House reprimand for fixing a male prostitute's parking ticket.
But his legacy will most likely always be best defined by traits he saw defining him as a perpetual outsider, including and especially his sexual orientation.
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas
In his own words: "There is only one kind of freedom, and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator, and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it."
Paul, a 77-year-old obstetrician who has served in the House for nearly a quarter century, has himself said he may appear in stature and tone an unlikely movement leader.
But the Texas native is a hero to libertarians — whom he once represented on a presidential ticket — and repeat GOP presidential candidate, much to the consternation of many party regulars. Before the 2012 presidential race, Paul's fierce supporters took over GOP leadership in a handful of states and battled publicly to get his delegates seated at Mitt Romney's nominating convention.
Nicknamed "Dr. No," Paul made news in 2009 when the first of 620 measures he had sponsored in his House career finally passed. He's remained consistently anti-intervention, anti-tax, anti-Federal Reserve and pro-gold standard. Social issues, he's argued, should be decided by the states.
His financial views, opposition to the war and criticism of government intrusion on personal privacy attracted an unlikely coalition of supporters. Paul's legacy now largely lies in the hands of his son, Rand, a first-term U.S. senator from Kentucky who shares his father's views, if not his unconventional appeal.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio
In his own words: "I am running for president of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world."
With the departure of Kucinich, 66, whose two quixotic runs for president served as a platform for his anti-war and pro-universal health care stands, Congress will lose its biggest dove and, perhaps, its most unconventional member.
The once-heralded youngest mayor of a major American city (Cleveland), Kucinich leaves a legacy of futile advocacy for a U.S. Department of Peace and Nonviolence, criticism of the nation's use of drones for targeted killing, and push for universal health care.
"I'm not selling insurance," he said in 2003. "I want to create a system which makes it possible for all Americans to have health care."
Kucinich, who as mayor ultimately earned the enmity of Cleveland voters when the city went into default under his leadership, is not willingly leaving the House: He lost after eight terms to fellow Democrat Marcy Kaptur in a primary after their districts were realigned.
But he'll be remembered as a critic of his own party for aligning with corporate interests, and as a peace advocate who used to some effect the language of conflict to bring attention to the poor, characterizing both poverty and unemployment as "weapons of mass destruction."
SENATE
Olympia Snowe, R-Maine
In her own words: "We've miniaturized the Senate. All we're doing is debating messaging points for the next election and the next political ad. Messaging isn't doing anything to bring the country together."
At 65, and after three terms, the moderate Snowe has said she's leaving the Senate in large part because of its historic dysfunction and lack of a goal of doing "what's in the best interests of our country."
A former member of the Maine state House and Senate, Snowe was sworn in to the U.S. House in 1979 and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994.
With her fellow Maine Republican, Sen. Susan Collins, Snowe has been in the middle of debates ranging from recent wars, which she supported, and Senate filibusters of judicial nominees, which she worked to block. She voted against President Obama's health care legislation, but for the Wall Street bailout and stimulus funding.
An advocate of environmental protections, Snowe has also supported legalized abortion and gay rights. Though frequently targeted by conservative Republican organizations, she remained exceedingly popular at home and won re-election in 2006 with more than 74 percent of the vote. In November, Maine voters picked independent former Gov. Angus King to replace her. He'll caucus with Senate Democrats.
Richard Lugar, R-Ind.
In his own words: "There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year."
It has been suggested that Lugar's primary loss this year to Tea Party Republican Richard Mourdock after 36 years in the Senate was proof positive that the GOP has no more room for moderates.
And though Lugar, at 80, ran a poor campaign and was criticized for being out of touch, it was, indeed, his friendship with President Obama and his even-keel statesmanship that did him in. He had won re-election in 2006 with 87 percent of the vote.
The low-key Lugar's departure leaves the Senate without one of its most experienced foreign policy hands, who leaves a decades-long legacy of reducing risks of nuclear weapons. His most notable accomplishment was his 1992 bill with then-Sen. Sam Nunn, a Georgia Democrat, to dismantle weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union.
Siegfried Hecker, a nuclear weapons specialist at Stanford University, told us this after Lugar's loss to Mourdock (who himself lost in the general election): Lugar "leaves an incredible legacy, having realized in 1991 that we were threatened more by Russia's weakness than its strength."
Lugar, elected mayor of Indianapolis at 35, also ran briefly for president in 1996.
Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.
In his own words: "Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons and the development of nuclear weapons, is a day of danger for the United States."
Campaigning as the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 2000, Lieberman, now 70, was the proverbial happy warrior, reveling in the attention lavished on him as the first Jew on a national party presidential ticket.
The crushing way the race ended — in a divided U.S. Supreme Court — dealt the centrist Lieberman a blow from which he seemed to have difficulty recovering. His own presidential campaign fizzled four years later, and soon his hawkish stands put him at odds with his home state party. Thumped by a liberal Democratic primary challenger in 2006, Lieberman ran and won re-election as an independent. Two years later, he would endorse Republican John McCain for president and speak at his nominating convention.
But during much of his four terms in the Senate, Lieberman, a tireless advocate for Israel, also sounded the alarm on global warming, supported the rights of women and gay Americans, and helped create the Department of Homeland Security after the attacks of Sept. 11.
Lieberman's 1998 Senate floor condemnation of President Clinton's dalliance with Monica Lewinsky as "immoral" was seen as a turning point in the controversy.
Despite his tangles with Democrats, Lieberman continued to caucus with the party and supported its positions 87 percent of the time in 2010 — the same year the American Conservative Union gave him a 4 percent rating.
A year ago, in an NPR interview, Lieberman expressed little regret for decisions that infuriated Democrats — and characterized his 2006 Senate win as an independent as the "most gratifying" moment of his political career.
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Kenny Engles, cofounder of Curious Brain that today launched a game in partnership with Zynga and Atari. Kenny Engels
The little-known Brooklyn-based Curious Brain today launched Super Bunny Breakout, a game it developed in partnership with Zynga, the leading mobile game developer, and Atari, the granddaddy of the videogaming industry.
"This is a validating event for us," said cofounder and chief executive Kenny Engels in an interview with Upstart Business Journal. Engles said he and his cofounder and wife, Unha Engels have been working to create such large scale rollouts of character-driven games and would eventually like to open up their business model to include merchandising. "That's our future," he said.
Originally known as Touchchords, a mobile music e-learning site, the husband-and-wife cofounders started going by Curious Brain in 2010 when they realized the demand for music education was too small for their ambition, and pivoted into a mobile/social user experience and development agency.
Kenny described the creative culture at Curious Brain as "ambitious, thoughtful, and design-oriented," where, unlike what he calls Internet 1.0 companies that play ping-pong in the lobby, a typical day might include a trip to Makers Faire or an afternoon at the Museum of Modern Art.
Curious Brain's character-driven games for mobile devices were previously based on such franchises as Power Rangers and Angelina Ballerina, as well as on Paul Frank's designs. But he told Upstart the company also does work for WebMD and FedEx Office, though those project aren't on the site.
In the Super Bunny Breakout game, players must rescue critters from “nefarious” Evil Animal Testing (E.A.T.) Labs by passing through 40 physics-based levels. It is available for $0.99 from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, and iPod, with an Android version due to come out.
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Kate Fletcher: Using Local Wisdom to Craft Our Use
Kate Fletcher. Photographer: Paige Green
In this interview Urban Times speaks with Kate Fletcher; researcher, writer and design activist. Over the past 15 years Kate has shaped the field of sustainable fashion whether this be through consulting with fashion businesses, the books she has authored and co-authored or teaching at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion at the London College of Fashion. Kate gives us an insight into the current state of fashion and how far off we are from achieving our sustainability end goal.
What brought you initially to engage with sustainability in fashion?
Being raised in a family of community activists, holidays in wild places and a youth of making clothes.
As a designer, lecturer, campaigner and consultant in sustainable fashion, you wear many hats. Is there a single goal you have in mind?
To contribute to the common good and – to borrow John Ehrenfeld‘s fabulous and evocative word – flourishing.
Having recently spent quite a bit of time in the US, how is the sustainability discussion in fashion different in the US from what it is in the UK and continental Europe?
I would say it is more similar than different – in certain ways Europe steals a march on the US, particularly with the extent to which sustainability is part of discussions in mainstream brands; but in other areas the US is ahead – many of its companies are, for example, key catalysts in the Sustainable Apparel Coalition.
Recently you gave a talk on Designing for Change. Can you give us an idea about what you touched upon and the importance of mastering “the craft of use”?
The talk explored broad ranging themes around fashion and sustainability, including consumerism, and focused on some key ideas such as true materialism and ‘the craft of use’. For me, the craft of use is about the life world of all of us who use clothes, and extending the design process to engage with this in a ‘social context’, in a way which fosters sustainability pleasure, authentic experiences and sustainability values.
What are you hoping to achieve with your ongoing fashion research project, Local Wisdom?
To foster ways of stories, practices, ideas, knowledge and products which generate more satisfying use. So we can and do do more with the stuff we’ve already got.
Lecturing at the LCF, what is the most essential message that you want your students to take away with them?
About the complex, dynamic, interdependent relationships in fashion which they are intrinsically part of…
Local Wisdom, mismatch-buttons. Photographer: Paige Green
Honest By‘s concept of full transparency and traceability is quite unique and is an important step forward. How far are we in the process of maintaining such transparency within all fashion supply chains? What are the biggest hurdles?
A long way … supply chains are dominated by third and fourth tier suppliers … while many brands may know about what happens at the second tier, they are hard pushed to know about what goes on with sub-contractors.
Perhaps one of the biggest problems is scale … things are now so big that trust is eroded … and people are using transparency as a replacement for trust. Which, of course, it is not…
It is quite hard to get hold of contacts of sustainable manufacturers for smaller to medium fashion brands, while designers are reluctant to share such information with peers/competitors. Why is there not more sharing going on?
Perhaps the best way to answer this question is to look at what happens in nature … here there are competitive relationships to be sure, but there are also collaborative ones where different ‘species’ work together to the benefit of the whole. The commercial imperative tends to value only a narrow spectrum of activity – and favours that activity which can be quickly co-opted to deliver economic gain – but new and broader understandings of value need to be developed …
Looking at the bigger picture: Are we getting anywhere at all with the efforts around sustainability in the fashion industry or are we just fighting the symptoms?
I think we are beginning to imagine what a satisfying and flourishing (sustainability) future may be like… but to date most effort goes into just fighting the symptoms.
Finally, do you have 5 top tips for our Urban Times audience looking to join the slow fashion movement?
I just have one tip. It’s not necessarily about slow. But about the right speed.
With thanks to texƧture, our Eco Fashion Strategy partners. texƧture helps players in the textile, fashion and jewellery industry become successful and sustainable businesses by addressing their strategical and operational risks.
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Helen Malinda Coleman was born on July 22, 1914 to Arthur Hingle and Elizabeth Primm in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and passed away on May 21, 2008 in San Antonio, TX. She graduated from Alamo Heights High School. She attended Oklahoma College for Women and Texas Western (UTEP). She had BA and MA and was a member of ALPHA CHI. Mrs. Coleman was a teacher and artist and genealogist. She taught biology in the public schools in El Paso, Corpus Christi and San Antonio. She taught accelerated Biology at Churchill and was so proud of her many doctors and nurses. She loved to teach and touched hundreds of minds and had a wonderful life. She retired from Churchill High. After retirement she taught painting at J.C.C. and painted and won numerous awards. She loved to travel and saw most of the world. She also was a ceramics maker. She traced her family with her genealogy work and belonged to the Colonial Dames (Robert Speer Chapter) and served as their president. She also belonged to the DAR, Daughter's of 1812 and the Magna Carta Organizations. She was a member of the San Antonio Genealogy Society, the North San Antonio Retired Teacher's Group plus other such organizations in El Paso and Corpus Christi. Mrs. Coleman was preceded in death by her husband, Joel Emerson Coleman in 1968; sister, Frances Finkbeiner; and brother, Arthur Thomas Hingle. Survivors include her step-daughter, Jean Hafernick & husband John; step-grandson, Gib Hafernick & wife Saskia; step-great-grandson, Rory Hafernick; sister-in-law, Margery Hingle; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. Graveside services will be held at 1:00 pm on Saturday, May 24, 2008 at Sunset Memorial Park. Sunset Funeral Home.
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IPO market, powered by Facebook, showing signs of life
Investors knew it would take awhile before the IPO market shook off the tech wreck. But not 12 years.
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Gary Hamilton boxes an order at CafePress in Louisville, Ky. Shares of Cafepress began trading this year on March 29.
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That's how long, though, it's taken for the initial public offering market to show signs of life after the dot-com IPO boom and subsequent spectacular bust.
After being almost comatose for years, the IPO market has hosted 63 deals this year and is expected to launch nine more this week, which would be the best start to a year since 2000, says Renaissance Capital. Add to that the biggest-ever technology IPO, Facebook — which is expected next week — and 2012 looks like the year IPO investors' bruises from the 2000 debacle may finally fade.
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"There's a huge pipeline" of IPOs, says Kathy Smith of Renaissance Capital. "There's lots to choose from for investors."
Even some entrepreneurs say the reception their IPOs are getting exceeded their expectations. "It's a surprise how much demand and interest there was" for the IPO of Infoblox, says CEO Robert Thomas. Shares of Infoblox (BLOX), which helps companies find patterns in corporate data, jumped 33% their first day of trading in April.
The recovery of the IPO market has profound meaning not just for investors in newly public companies, but for the U.S. economy and all its participants. Since the stock market is a main pool of capital that allows companies to fund their expansion, grow and ultimately hire, a robust IPO market is critical to keeping money moving into new ideas. Venture capitalists, too, need a robust IPO market to allow them to cash in on their winners so they can move on to fund the next big idea.
The IPO market is regaining its swagger thanks to a bevy of fortunate coincidences working in concert to give investors the courage to step in and buy.
The strong stock market is perhaps the first prerequisite for an IPO recovery. The value of the Dow Jones industrial average, Standard & Poor's 500 index and Nasdaq composite index has roughly doubled from the low in 2009, notched during the financial crisis. Furthermore, the market's relative tranquility this year is a big help, says Renaissance's Smith. When investors are jittery about huge swings in the stock market, it's difficult for them to feel comfortable putting their money at risk on some of the potentially most volatile stocks available.
The resurgence of the IPO market coincides, too, with a second coming of Internet companies. As was the case in the last IPO boom, investors are dazzled by the seemingly endless opportunity of Internet companies. It was a social-networking stock, Theglobe.com, that kicked off the last IPO boom in 1998. Today, eyes are on big Internet and social-networking companies such as Facebook, Groupon and LinkedIn.
Not deja vu all over again
While the role of tech in both the IPO boom of today and the one ending in 2000 may be notable, IPO observers note that this renaissance is a different animal. Not only are the companies coming public much more seasoned than they were then, investors are much more skeptical .
"The only thing in common between then and now is the word IPO," says John Fitzgibbon of IPOScoop.com.
Specifically, some of the key differences in the IPO market today from the boom time are that this time the deals are:
•Still a far cry from the level of 2000. Having 63 completed deals so far is notable, since it's been years since that many companies have gotten out of the gate this early in the year. And the number of IPOs through April 2012, 58, is the highest during the first four months since 2000. Even so, the deal volume this year pales next to the activity in 2000, when more than 150 IPOs started trading at this point. And this year's IPO activity through Wednesday is a smidgen below the 66 completed IPOs through this point in May 2007, the last time IPO activity spiked higher before hitting rock bottom in 2008.
•Coming from companies with better fundamentals. The companies coming public are much older and more financially sound than they were in 2000. Nearly 70% of the companies coming public today are profitable, Renaissance Capital says, while in 2000 just 30% of the companies with IPOs were making money. Additionally, companies coming public this year have been in business 26 years on average, which is twice the age of the average company making its debut in 2000. "The bar is much higher," says Francis Gaskins of IPOdesktop.com.
•Happening in a different marketplace. Large institutional investors, such as mutual funds and pension funds, drive the IPO market now as they did then. But in 2000, individual investors played a much more important role on the margins, says Gaskins. While individuals provided buying support for some household-name IPOs at first, such as Groupon, companies must now win over skeptical large investors who demand adequate returns. "The market is very selective," he says.
Meanwhile, many of the smaller investment banks that were aggressive in bringing smaller companies public are gone now, as are some significant larger players, Fitzgibbon says. Firms including Alex. Brown, Montgomery Securities, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, Lehman Bros. and Bear Stearns have vanished.
•Subject to heavy discounting. Investors were battling each other to get IPO shares in 2000. Such intense interest caused the average IPO in 1999 to soar 72% on its first day. Many of those investors wound up overpaying and suffered losses as a result. Today, however, IPO prices are being slashed to lure in enough investors. The average IPO has gained 16% the first day. And more than 40% of IPOs have seen their share prices drop below their initial expected range, Renaissance says. That's the most discounting that has been done in the past 10 years, which is as long as Renaissance has tracked the data.
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"There is price sensitivity" now, says Thomas of Infoblox, who took another tech company, NetScreen, public in 2001. Companies and their underwriters are pricing their IPOs at a level that may not attract speculators willing to pay top dollar, and flip, but investors willing to hold the shares longer term, he says.
•Less reliance on a single industry. Roughly 60% of the IPOs in 1999 and nearly half in 2000 were tech or Internet-related, says Jay Ritter, professor of finance at the University of Florida. This year, 33% are, Renaissance says. While that's still a healthy percentage of the deals, there are also 23% from energy and 13% from financials.
Just the beginning?
Optimists say the IPO recovery might just be getting started. The current state of the IPO market resembles 1998, Fitzgibbon says, which was when leading companies such as eBay were testing the IPO market. If top companies go public this year, hold onto their gains and make investors money, expect investment bankers to keep feeding the fire, he says.
There's a huge backlog of companies that have been waiting for precisely this moment and are ready to pounce, Smith says. Demand only continues to mount as investors make money on IPOs. The FTSE Renaissance US IPO Index, which tracks the performance of IPOs for the two years following their first-day closing price, is up 10% this year. That's a solid return, topping the Standard & Poor's 500 index's 7.7% gain.
Some are skeptical, though, that the IPO market can ever return to its heights of 2000. The 152 yearly average number of IPOs from 2000 through 2010 is well below the average of 420 from 1990 through 1999 and even the average 266 from 1960 through 1969, Ritter says.
There have been systemic changes in the ways companies' founders seek to cash in their fortunes, Ritter says. Rather than incurring the costs of going public, many smaller companies see being bought by giants as the end game, Ritter says.
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Selling to a rival can be more profitable, because it saves the smaller company the expense of building its own administrative capabilities, such as a legal department or human resources unit, he says.
Instagram, the online photo software company Facebook bought this year for $1 billion is an example of a company that might have gone public in another era. "There's a bubble, but it's not in the public market," Gaskins says.
Even so, the public markets can offer prices other companies cannot pay or are unwilling to pay, making the IPO still a big draw, Renaissance's Smith says.
If companies continue to successfully go public, it's only a matter of time before others will follow, Fitzgibbon says.
"The good stuff has to really get rolling. If they make it, the competitors come, and that's when the market really gets going."
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•Connecticut has increased its tax to $1.51 from 50 cents per pack in 2002. Since then, per capita consumption of cigarettes has fallen 37%.
•New Jersey raised its tax to $2.40 from 80 cents in 2002. Smoking has dropped 35%.
•California raised its cigarette tax to 87 cents per pack in 1999 but hasn't changed it since. Smoking is down 18% since the tax increase.
By comparison, South Carolina has kept its lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax at 7 cents since 1977. Cigarette consumption there has fallen 5% since 2000.
As Congress considers raising the federal cigarette tax to $1 per pack, the nation may be about to experience one of the biggest one-time declines in smoking, health experts and economists say. "I expect a bigger drop than almost anything we've seen before," says Frank Chaloupka, a University of Illinois economist who has studied the effect of taxes on smoking.
He predicts that smoking will drop 6% if the 61-cent-per-pack tax hike is passed, taking the levy to $1 a pack from 39 cents. The Senate last week approved the increase as a way to pay for expanded government health care for children. The House has proposed a 45-cent increase. President Bush has threatened to veto the bill over the increased cost of the health program.
Nationwide, the number of cigarettes smoked fell last year to 1,293 per capita from a peak of 2,095 per capita in 1976, according to "The Tax Burden on Tobacco," an annual industry report. Research shows that health concerns, tax hikes and higher retail prices all have played a role in the decline. Smoking falls 2.5%-5% for every 10% increase in the price of cigarettes, according to the Congressional Budget Office..
"Using taxes to legislate use of a legal product is not good public policy," Briant says.
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Prep showdown: No. 2 Aquinas plays host to No. 5 De La Salle
De La Salle (Concord, Calif.) coach Bob Ladouceur doesn't mind facing athletic, higher-ranked teams. He just doesn't like playing them this early. His Spartans, No. 5 in the USA TODAY Super 25 high school football rankings, play at No. 2 St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) tonight at 8 (ET) on ESPN2.
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St. Thomas Aquinas and linebacker Cole Champion, right, topped Prattville High School and running back Brandon Smith 34-31 in the season opener.
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St. Thomas Aquinas and linebacker Cole Champion, right, topped Prattville High School and running back Brandon Smith 34-31 in the season opener.
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"I'd rather play them at the end of the year, when we're playing our best football," Ladouceur said.
Thanks to its national record of winning 151 consecutive games, set from 1992 to 2004, De La Salle is the standard for elite teams, but St. Thomas Aquinas may be the new standard. When NFL rosters were pared recently, eight former players from Aquinas made the cut, more than any high school in the country.
"Schools like Aquinas and Prattville (Ala.) reload every year," Ladouceur said. "They're one of the best teams I've ever faced. Their defense is stout, strong and athletic. They're well-coached. It's going to be a tough one for us."
Both teams are coming off state championships and are usually better balanced than their opponents. While De La Salle runs more than the typical team from pass-happy California (the Spartans average 178 rushing yards and 82.5 passing yards a game), Aquinas relies on its passing game more (210 yards per game rushing and 129.5 passing) than most run-oriented teams in Florida.
A lot of the numbers clearly favor Aquinas. It has seven players who have offers from major-college schools to only two for De La Salle. The Raiders' record against out-of-state teams is 6-0 (Aquinas has never played a California team) and since 2002, California teams are 4-10 against ones from Florida. De La Salle lost 31-30 to Lakeland in overtime in 2009 in its only matchup against a Florida team.
But the biggest number that may benefit Aquinas is the 3,100 miles De La Salle is traveling to play at Aquinas' Brian Piccolo Stadium. At least, neither team should be intimidated by playing on television. Aquinas opened its season by defeating Prattville, 34-31 in a game on ESPN while De La Salle has frequently played before television cameras. "That could help us," Ladouceur said. "We have a lot of guys going both ways and against a team like Aquinas, we could use the extra timeouts."
Briefly: Andover, Minn., cross country runner Josh Ripley didn't win the Apple Jack Invitational Saturday in Lakeville, Minn., but he earned a lot of respect. Ripley heard Mark Paulauska screaming after the Lakeville South runner had been spiked on his ankle, a wound that would later require 20 stitches. Unlike the other runners before him, Ripley stopped, then carried Paulauska a half mile so he could be attended to. Ripley then continued his race. He'll be honored Monday by the Anoka-Hennepin School Board in Coon Rapids, Minn. … Fairfield Christian (Lancaster, Ohio) senior Hayden Welch accounted for 53 points in the his team's 59-18 football win against Green (Franklin Furnace, Ohio) last Friday. Welch returned two kickoffs and one punt for touchdowns, caught four touchdown passes and made eight extra-points and a 40-yard field goal.
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Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM.
The announcement follows similar plans by other technology companies.
Microsoft said last December that it would double its workforce in India with an investment of $1.7 billion in four years. Around the same time, Intel announced a $1 billion India investment plan, weeks after a group of expatriate Indians said they would spend $3 billion to build a chip-making facility with technology from Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices. Cisco Systems plans to invest $1.1 billion in India over the next three years.
While IBM's operations in India are primarily aimed at bolstering services for clients around the world, the company notes that its revenue within India has grown about 50% annually in each of the past two years.
Even so, IBM's $510 million in revenue from the India market last year, excluding the now-divested PC business, was a small part of the company's $88 billion total.
Bob Djurdjevic, an analyst with Annex Research, said he found IBM's presentations intriguing because they showed the company is not skittish about the topic of offshoring work to India and other developing countries, a subject that became contentious in the 2004 election.
"What IBM is doing is breaking new ground in that sense, by heralding its operations in India boldly and loudly as a success, not something they should be reticent about," Djurdjevic said.
AP Technology Writer Brian Bergstein in Boston contributed to this report.
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huge thank you to those who posted here and sent private email. I now have a much better working mutt, and I can send emails too. I'm not quite sure how I managed the latter, but I'm not complaining
I have now caught up with three people who have sent me ideas and/or patches for three of my distributions. Now I just need to find the time to implement them
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How do you like mutt so far?
:-)
Btw, I have some suggestions to try in Email for procrastinators [plasmasturm.org]. Particularly, using threaded view as the default and saving sent mail to the inbox is a combination that everyone should at least try once.
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I'm getting there. I still have a few tricks to learn, but it's not all bad. I've got used to the drag-n-drop of a GUI, so I find I'm having to think a bit more.
I do have threading set up as default, but I find I miss new entries in some mailboxes. I imagine I should be able to flip between threaded and date order, but I haven't got around to looking that up.
The next hurdle I need to address (pun intended) is the address book. I have a lot of people I mail, some have more than one address, and it would be
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You can change sort order by hitting [o]. (mutt will prompt you with the available orders and their shortcuts, so you don’t need to memorise those.)
The addressbook is handled by the
aliascommand:
alias ap Aristotle Pagaltzis <[email protected]>
With that you could send me mail by saying it’s To: ap. Don’t miss that tab completion for aliases is available on all email address prompts in mutt!
These commands are usually kept in a file customarily called
aliases. You point mutt t
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Superb. Thanks for all that, it's going to prove very useful. I think I owe you much beer
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Ever thought about writing a book?
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A book? Heh, not really; certainly not about mutt. You think?
I did go back to collect my comments from your journal entries, though. I want to tidy them up, flesh out the result, and eventually post it as an intro/tutorial on plasmasturm.
And thanks for the beer offer.
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These are the wind instruments the students made in 1999. Some are double-reed instruments like the oboe, some are excited by an air jet (like the flute), and some are lip-driven like a trumpet.
Elizabeth plays the Panda Flute, which
Caleb calls this instrument "Tylenol Not
she made from a bamboo plant and a Included," perhaps because it is a bit shrill.
bassoon reed. It is a double-reed instrument, with the cut end
of the straw serving as the reed.
John's Kurtzophone works on a principle similar to Ken jams on the Party Pipe, so named because it
Caleb's instrument, but with fingerholes to allow a sounds like a New Year's Eve party favor.
wider range of pitches.
Anne
Catherine plays a set of pan pipes she made from copper tubing. She
selected the lengths so the pipes play an F# scale.
Catherine's flute (which she named "Ed") is made from PVC piping. She drilled the fingerholes with a heated nail.
Adam's
Stretch Horn incorporates a bellows so that the length of the cylindrical
section can be changed. This is similar to the design of a trombone.
Ben plays the Sewage Horn (made from sewage pipe). The mouthpiece has a constriction, like a trumpet. The bell is made from a paper cup.
Jennie's Scytheridu was made from a Halloween
decoration. It is played like the Australian
didjeridu.
Here are a few more photos of the wind instruments, courtesy of Dan
Sears of the UNC News Bureau.
Back to the home page.
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The LHS is zero either if y=0, which isn't generally true as it's the dependent variable, or
if the bracket expression is zero. Finding the roots of the bracket expression is
entirely analogous to solving a polynomial equation of second order: The roots of the
equation x2+px+q=0, which can be factorised as
(x+x1)(x+x2)=0, are
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Although operators in general aren't commutative, the order in which the two operators (bracket terms) are applied to y does not matter in this case because they only differ in a constant factor, which doesn't affect differentiation. This is why this technique requires constant coefficients: If they were functions of x instead, the two operators would no longer commutate, and the analogy with polynomial equations would break down. Because the order in which the two operators are applied doesn't matter, we can split up the 2nd-order equation in two separable 1st-order ones:
Note that k1,2 may be complex.
Linear ODE with constant coefficients of higher order can be solved following the same principle. The number of 1st-order ODEs to be solved is equal to the order of the original equation. The corresponding constants k1,2,3,... are found by finding the roots of the associated auxiliary polynomial.
Armed with that, we can return to solving Laplace's equation.
At this point, you may want to try the second worksheet. Check your solutions when you've finished.
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After the script here, dated Oct 27, 2011:
became outdated last fall due to a site revamp, I had to rework it myself when the author wouldn't respond. I posted it in the Issues section of that script at the time:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Slate Single Page View (re-fixed)
// @namespace
// @description Automatically redirects Slate.com article URLs to a single page version if available.
// @include*
// ==/UserScript==
// Get the current window location (URL)
var curLoc = window.location.href;
// Get the html text
var bodyText = document.body.textContent;
if (curLoc.indexOf("single.html") == -1) { //Make sure it's not already singlepage
if (bodyText.indexOf("SINGLE PAGE") != -1) { //Does it think could be repaginated?
var newLoc = curLoc.replace(".html", ".single.html"); //Changes URL to single-page form
window.location.replace(newLoc); //Loads the new page
}
}
And that was working through last weekend, when it suddenly stopped working, not just in Firefox but Opera.
Does anyone know why? Something about the site must have changed to break it, since nothing changed on my end, but I don't know what. The URL format is unchanged. As a test, I even tried getting rid of the conditional lines temporarily so that it would always run, but no go. The conditional logic is not what's tripping it up. It's something with the other lines.
Test URL on the site, but any multi-page article will do:...
to load new page:
var newLoc = curLoc.replace(".html", ".single.html"); //Changes URL to single-page form
window.location.href = newLoc; //Loads the new page
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I haven't had much time to look into this, but the "View all photos" has stopped working (changes to "stop loading", but no new photos appear) on albums, but still works on tagged photos.
My best guess is an "&hash=" that's been added to all of the page links of the albums.
If I get a chance, I'll see what else I can find.
--Martin
I've had a go at this ... I think the problem was a combination of the new "First" and "Last" links and also that the format of the page numbers have changed. I'm almost certain there will be more bugs though, but this is working for now. Let me know if you notice anything that's not working.
Working so far - Thanks!
doesn't work for me, the many pages of photos do not load.
hi, i think the script is not working for now. it doesn't load even a single photo.
its looping now for fan photo '-_-7
since i've lost 1.214 photos 'T_T7 and i get this update
:x please dear author :* fix this :)
GREAT REGARD
I have a very busy weekend coming up, but I'll try to find time to do this. What is it not loading for? I believe I have tested for photos of a person and for photos in albums.
hi.... actually i am totally lost that how to use it ..can you please explain..
hi, does this script still work? It used to work great, but now it just starts to load and nothing happens. Thanks for any help.
@JasonJones Facebook natively does album pages now. Tagged photo support is broken. I'm looking at it, but I'm having trouble. Znerp's better than I am, but tends to be pretty busy.
@Martin Stone Thanks for the reply. I hope it can be fixed, it's a great script.
As far as I can see, this script is becoming increasingly redundant. What's not working for you? Any pages that I come across with the (View all photos) link still work fine for me.
For me, Facebook's combining all of the albums into one page, but not for "Photos of ..." pages. (View All Photos) isn't present for me on those. I get:
Error: navLinks is null
Source File:
Line: 56
With some fiddling I got the link to reappear, but when clicked it dies with:
Error: Permission denied for <http: /> (document.domain=<http: />) to call method UnnamedClass.toString on <> (document.domain has not been set).
Error: uncaught exception: unknown (can't convert to string)
This seems to be in the "GM_xmlhttpRequest" bit (from blindly slotting in alerts).
“See this Photo in its Album” is gone in most private facebook albums also "There are no photos to display. Photos of XXX may not have been tagged or may not be visible due to privacy". can you fix this if so will be very grateful
_bugmenot_ : This script won't bypass Facebook's privacy settings.
Hey there, it's been a while so I don't know if you're still working on this, but I've tried out the script and I can get the "Back to Album" to appear above a pic, but nothing happens when I click. It lights up blue when I scroll over it, but I click and nothing. If I right click it doesn't even identify it as a link. It's just a piece of text that acts like a link.
Is a fix still in the works?
mityman50: That functionality is available in stock facebook. I can't remember if that link is there, but if not, click the album name (bottom right). If the album name is not a link, you do not have permission to view that album.
Pressing the "View All Photos" for tagged photos doesn't work, please help!
It doesn't Keep an eye on the new profile - It seems to have this covered. Between that and the new albums page, I think Facebook has this stuff covered.
Thanks, znerp! It's been really useful for me up to now! (and it taught me some things!)
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Aaron Horn’s accountability chart—a multi-page matrix outlining goals, tasks, and an hourly schedule—would make all but the most hyper-organized a little nervous.
But Horn EdD ’08, MFT ’12 is convinced that his chart is exactly what the youths at San Francisco’s Youth Guidance Center, the city’s juvenile detention facility, need. A therapist trainee for the Youth Justice Institute and student in USF’s Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Horn works primarily with male youths at the Youth Guidance Center.
“They always tell me, ‘My father’s in jail’ or, ‘My father died.’ A lot of these boys don’t have reliable men in their lives. There’s a lack of integrity, consistency, and organization,” Horn said. “What I try to do is bring consistency to their lives.”
As part of the exercise, Horn has the youths identify accountability partners—people who check in and make sure they do what they say. For many of the youths, Horn plays a hybrid role as accountability partner and therapist, a delicate balancing act, but one to which he is particularly well suited.
Like many of his clients, Horn grew up in Bayview-Hunters Point, a predominantly African American neighborhood plagued by violence and poverty, and was raised solely by his mother and grandmother. That shared background, he says, has been key to nurturing relationships with the youths.
“When they see me come into therapy and I say I grew up in Bayview, that trust almost builds automatically,” he said.
For Horn, the path to becoming a therapist has been circuitous, with stops at local nonprofits and public schools and a five-year stint as an airborne ranger in the U.S. military, which, he says, taught him his signature focus and attention to detail.
It was his passion for educating underserved youth that brought him to USF, where he completed a doctorate in international and multicultural education. His research on the importance of father-like care in the education of young black males underscored what he had observed during his years in the classroom—the lack of available black men to serve as tutors and mentors.
Horn will graduate from USF’s MFT program in July with a new set of tools to serve the youth of his community on a one-on-one level.
“And that’s where I really want to be—working with youth of color as a black male therapist, teaching them to hold each other accountable,” Horn said.
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Matrix arithmetric and matrix algebra (determinants, adding and multiplying matrices, matrix inverse, using matrices to solve systems of equations), geometric applications of linear algebra (matrices as transformations, vectors in 2- and 3-dimensions, equations of planes, etc.); discrete probability, random variables, discrete and continuous probability distributions (including binomial and normal), expected value and variance. Prerequisite: MATH 201.
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Mid for developing high-performance building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) solutions for building and construction, focusing on both commercial and residential applications, according to a joint release issued by the companies.
Dow Corning officials say they can provide access to high-quality trichlorosilane, specialized silicon-based materials and supply chain consultancy to support the manufacturing approach developed by Crystal Solar to produce monocrystalline ultra-thin silicon epi-wafers for use in solar panels.
“We are looking forward to collaborating with Crystal Solar on this new opportunity,” says.”
“We are very pleased to be working with Dow Corning on a broad-based framework to make high-efficiency solar panels … ,” adds T.S. Ravi, Crystal Solar’s CEO. “Dow Corning’s reputation for quality and [its] ability to scale globally will help Crystal Solar expand [its] manufacturing footprint significantly.”
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Perceived benefits and barriers to joint protection among people with rheumatoid arthritis and occupational therapists. A mixed methods study.
Niedermann, K, Hammond, A, Forster, A and de Bie, R 2010, 'Perceived benefits and barriers to joint protection among people with rheumatoid arthritis and occupational therapists. A mixed methods study.' , Musculoskeletal Care, 8 (3) , pp. 143-156.Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)
Abstract
Background: deciding whether or not to perform a health behaviour is an active decision-making process which has an impact on current and future behaviour and can be influenced by the beliefs both of patients and their healthcare professionals. The aim of this study was to explore rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients' and occupational therapists' (OTs) perceptions of the benefits of and barriers to performing joint protection (JP). Methods: a mixed methods design was used. Questionnaires applied a theoretical framework of key themes to assess the relevance of JP benefits and barriers both to people with RA and OTs. Focused interviews with people with RA then enabled data triangulation. Investigator triangulation was used to check the validity of data interpretation. Findings: ten people with RA and nine OTs participated. From the questionnaires, both groups agreed that highly relevant key themes for JP benefits were physical well-being, potential benefit and personal control. By contrast, the three key themes for JP barriers – negative attitude of others, negative impact on others and taking time from other things – were relevant for the majority of the OTs but not patients. The interviews enabled an understanding of the meaning behind RA patients' ratings, particularly their differences from OTs. People with RA explained JP benefits, and disease acceptance had altered some initial barriers into perceived benefits over time. Conclusions: emphasizing benefits and identifying individually relevant barriers could be an important communication strategy for OTs in understanding patients' rationale for whether or not to adopt JP methods.
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The Weather Channel's Kelly Cass takes a look at the forecast.
A disruptive spring storm already pummeling the Atlantic seaboard Saturday will delay the space shuttle Enterprise’s trip to New York and bring winter-like snow to the Appalachians and Great Lakes, forecasters warn..
NWS
National Weather Service forecast for Sunday
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This article includes reporting by The Weather Channel, The Associated Press and Reuters.
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Salt Lake Tribune
Pyle: What our leaders think of us
Garn: Gondola won’t harm watershed
Op-ed: Utah deserves title to thousands of roads
Rolly: A same-sex perspective
Editorial: Model planning: Anadarko expansion done right
Editorial: Hatch hides: One radio debate is not enough
Editorial: Doomed boad: No protesting of blended waste
Editorial: Lawman's blues: Few dare tell the truth about drugs
Editorial: Mercury pollution: Utah should back the cleanup
Josh Romney helps campaign for father Mitt Romney
Rolly: Gov. Herbert enjoys the perks of incumbency
Guv received nearly 10,000 letters, emails, calls about sex ed bill
Mayor of Eureka: The man who blew up Utah GOP convention
D.C. Notebook: Lugar’s loss could be Orrin Hatch’s gain
Deseret News
John Florez: Common Core standards in nation's interest
Peter Corroon: Elected officials should perform duties with openness, transparency
Pignanelli & Webb: Political questions to ponder while honoring mothers
Editorial: Cars, roads must become safer — despite fewer deaths
Romney's speech at Liberty University value-laden and heartfelt
Columnist misrepresents LDS Church doctrine and policy
2nd District candidate Chris Stewart endorsed by Sen. Mike Lee
ATK unveils proposal it hopes will end NASA's dependence on Russia
Evangelical voters may be getting more comfortable with Romney
The fight for water: Here's why the West's oldest battle could hit you at the tap
Democrats return to UDOT issue in guv race; GOP says it's a losing strategy
The fight for water: Can the mighty Mississippi save the West?
Lake Powell Pipeline: Albatross or golden goose?
Other
Editorial: Publicity and the Cookie Candidate (Daily Herald)
Eagle Mountain looks to bring 400 jobs to city (Daily Herald)
Weber County hiring economic development director, hoping fresh eye will attract businesses (Standard-Examiner)
ATK project could bring jobs for Northern Utah (Logan Herald Journal)
Logan eyes pay ‘enhancement’; fee hikes also in mayor’s proposed 2012-13 budget (Logan Herald Journal)
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10:29 am
Thu October 18, 2012
Old Drug Gets A Second Look For TB Fight
Originally published on Thu October 18, 2012 11:04 am.
This kind of TB, called XDR-TB because it's extensively drug-resistant, is a lot harder to treat than multiple drug-resistant TB, or MDR-TB, a type that's unfazed by first-line drugs. A recent report from the World Health Organization estimates that 310,000 people have MDR-TB, most of them in India, China and the Russian Federation.
While XDR-TB is worse, MDR-TB is bad enough, says Dr. Kenneth Castro of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "All of a sudden you switch from being able to cure someone in 6 months to requiring 2 years of treatment and lowering your ability to cure, using lousy and toxic drugs," he says.
About 1 in 10 people with drug-resistant TB have the more severe XDR type. Eighty-four countries have seen cases of XDR-TB, although most of them have counted fewer than 10 cases so far. There are nearly 9 million new cases of all types of TB globally each year, and 1.4 million deaths.
Drug-resistant TB is a growing problem and a flashing neon sign of what happens when people don't get prompt and proper treatment for ordinary TB.
"One of the major reasons for MDR-TB is inadequate treatment of plain old TB," say Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "And one of the drivers of XDR-TB is inadequate treatment of MDR-TB."
Fauci and Castro spoke at a Washington press conference on Wednesday to mark the WHO's annual TB update.
The linezolid study, conducted in South Korea, suggests that even the most-difficult-to-treat form of TB may be curable most of the time. Patients have to take the drug along with others for 6 months and health workers have to make sure they're complying. That, of course, is no foregone conclusion in places with the worst XDR-TB problem, countries such as Tajikistan, Azerabijan and Belarus.
And, as with everything TB-related, the good news about linezolid comes with a dark side. There's a high incidence of serious side effects such as nerve toxicity and bone marrow suppression, which caused several patients to drop out of the study. And a few patients developed resistance to this antibiotic, too, though fewer than feared.
The linezolid report isn't the only encouraging news. The TB drug pipeline contains 10 other new or repurposed drugs, and two or three may get U.S. market approval in the coming year, says Dr. Mario Raviglione of the WHO's Stop TB program.
"Initial trials are showing that the capacity to kill bacteria resistant to the most important drugs is dramatically increased," Raviglione says.
The new drugs have been tested so far only in patients with MDR-TB, but Raviglione hopes they might ultimately be used as first-line treatment for TB that could shave months of the standard six-month regimen.
Millions of TB patients wouldn't progress to the MDR or XDR stages if they got treated promptly and correctly in the first place. And that's where another recent advance comes in.
It's called GeneXpert, a rapid diagnostic test that can tell in under 2 hours if someone has TB and if it's a drug-resistant form. Standard tests rely on growing the TB bacteria in the lab, which can take up to 8 weeks for results.
Castro says prompt diagnosis of TB is a big boon. "In the same day, you should be able to identify TB and start the patient on treatment," he says. "That is a game-changer."
Sixty-seven low- and middle-income countries have adopted GenXpert, and experts hope its use will expand rapidly due to a recent price cut for lower-income countries from around $17 per test to under $10.
In the future, Fauci is confident there will be an effective vaccine against TB. More than a dozen are in development.
But for all progress, the fight against TB remains a long slog. Patients have to be diagnosed, started on treatment, monitored and retained in treatment. Drugs have to be procured and distributed. Labs have to be built and their quality maintained.
It can be done. Over the past 17 years, 51 million people around the world have been successfully treated for TB. Consequently, the TB death rate has gone down by 41 percent. The world as a whole is on track to cut TB deaths by half the 1990 rate by 2015 – although Africa and Europe will miss that target.
But even though new cases of TB are falling at a rate of 2.2 percent annually, Raviglione says "that's far too slow to see elimination in this century."
He fears the campaign to stop TB will stagnate "if additional resources are not urgently mobilized."
The WHO says $8 billion a year is needed over the next three years for TB care and control. That's $3 billion more than donors have promised. Research and development has a $1.4 billion funding gap.
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SAN DIEGO, CALIF. - The University of Utah women's tennis team faced No. 56 San Diego State on Saturday at the Aztec Tennis Center for 6-1 loss. The Utes are now 3-5 in conference play after playing the Aztecs.
Elizabeth Ferris and Leigh Walsh made a come back at the top spot to earn the only win for the Utes in doubles play on Saturday. The Ute duo faced Alesya Vidov and Milana Yusupov from the Aztecs. The two duos were neck-and-neck right up to the end, where Ferris and Walsh stepped up to take the match 8-7(3).
The Utes had another tough day on the courts on Saturday during singles play. Karine Bourdages faced Sisse Nielsen at the No. 6 slot. The Aztec took the first set with a perfect 6-0. In the second set, Bourdages won four games, but couldn't pull out the win. Nielsen took the second set and match at 6-0, 6-4.
Cheyenne Reveche represented the Utes at the No. 5 slot against Esther Cadua. Although the first set was an close win, the Aztec still managed to pull out the win over Reveche in both sets at 7-5, 6-1. At the No. 2 slot, Emily Kwok battled Eliska Krausova from San Diego State. The Ute challenged the Aztec in both sets, however Krausova was the overall victor with a 6-4, 6-3 win.
At the top spot in singles, Ferris had another tough day. The Ute faced Alesya Vidov from the Aztecs for a three-set battle. Ferris took the first set with a clean 6-3 win. Vidov came back in the second set with a 6-4 win. In the tie-breaker, the two stepped up their games, but it was the Aztec that walked away with the win (3-6, 6-4, 10-8).
At the No. 3 slot Holly Bagshaw from the Aztecs challenged Walsh. The Ute slid by in the first set with a 7-6(4) win. Bagshaw answered right back with a 6-4 win in the second. The tie-breaker came down to a 10-4 win in the Aztec's favor to take the match 6-7(4), 6-4, 10-4.
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By Jaci Tweeten
March 25, 2011— Some 40 University of Wisconsin-River Falls students recently participated in a Pay It Forward Tour program, a dynamic multi-day program focusing on service, education and reflection.
The Pay it Forward Tour is through UWRF’s Student’s Today Leaders Forever (STLF) chapter, a non-profit organization that reveals leadership through service, relationships and actions. A chapter of STLF was established at UWRF in 2010.
The students traveled the country and volunteered in a new city each day. This year the Pay It Forward Tour ended in Denver, Colo. Before arriving in Denver, the students stopped in Fargo, N.D., Miles City, Mont., Rapid City, S.D., Casper, W.Y. and Alliance, Neb.
In Miles City, the group prepared to turn the Miles City Hockey Rink into a rodeo arena, including tearing down bleachers, getting rid of the ice as well as cleaning the space.
See Vang, a sophomore pre-major from Mosinee, is a core leader of UWRF’s chapter.
“The Miles City Youth Hockey Association had donated money towards our service trip and remarked that they were thankful for the service that we provided to them that day because what we had done in two hours would normally take them ten days,” says Vang.
In Rapid City, they volunteered their time at Mt. Rushmore National Park removing infested trees. In Alliance, the students helped at the Alliance Middle School where they gave a presentation about bullying.
Many university students go somewhere warm for their spring break, but these members took it upon themselves to give back.
Lee Thao, a freshman English major from St. Paul, Minn., says, “This trip has changed me a lot. Before I did not open up to anyone, but with this experience I have now opened up and have met many people.”
The STLF chapter at UW-River Falls hopes to expand in size in the future and have more participants in the service trips.
“The experience has changed my life. From being a participant in the organization a year ago, to now becoming a chapter core leader, it has really helped my leadership abilities. I would recommend this experience to anyone,” says Jessica Ryan, a sophomore biology major from Whitehall.
For more information on STLF, contact Vang at [email protected]
or Gina Sevick, adviser, at [email protected]
or call 715-425-3531.
Photo: Students Vang and Pang Thao, a sophomore art major from St. Paul, Minn., volunteer to clean up the environment in Denver, Colo.
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