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Organization Inspiration: Neat & Beautiful Closets
There's something about a neat and beautiful closet that just makes you feel good about getting ready in the morning. Whether you have a sliver of a space, an open closet or the luxury of a walk-in dressing area, these images are full of design ideas that can help make your space more user-friendly and well…more you.
Here are a few ideas you can apply regardless of the size of your space-
1. Everything should have a place. You will maximize your wardrobe and minimize your stress if you can easily find your things. Avoid using large bins or containers that don't allow you to see what you have at a glance.
2. Keeping hangers, shelving and containers in the same color palettes gives your closet a neat and organized appearance.
3. Color coding your clothes can help you coordinate items quickly.
4. Small spaces like closets are the perfect place to try more dramatic paint and wallpaper choices. Apply a favorite print to your walls and you'll receive a rush of happiness every time you catch a glimpse of it through your clothes.
5. Having a mirror in your closet will add light and depth to your space. (It will also help eliminate that "black hole" feeling!)
6. A pretty chandelier will make your space feel special and provide additional lighting. Don't have room for a chandelier? Try a wall mounted sconce.
7. A nice chair nearby provides a place to contemplate your options, put on and take off your shoes, and adds a touch of indulgence to your space.
8. Lastly, small touches such as mementoes and photos can add a personal dimension to your space, and help generate positive feelings whenever you use it.
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The markets fell on Friday, leaving Wall Street deeper in the red for the month of August as traders remained concerned about the Fed and Syria.
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Today's Markets
As of 11:40 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 58.5 points, or 0.39%, to 14783, the S&P 500 dipped 6.7 points, or 0.41%, to 1631 and the Nasdaq Composite slumped 30.2 point, or 0.83%, to 3590.
Action has been driven this month by worries about when the Federal Reserve will begin tapering its vast bond-buying program. Those concerns have driven the broad S&P 500 down by 2.8% and the narrower Dow down 4.3%. Late this month, worries about the potential for a U.S.-led strike against Syria have also weighed heavily on sentiment.
With Wall Street eyeing a long weekend, analysts said trading volume could be light on the day, which sometimes leads to heightened volatility. A handful of economic reports could help provide direction.
Consumer spending and personal income rose 0.1% in July from June. Consumer spending was expected to rise 0.3%, while economists expected personal income to rise 0.2%. A reading on consumer sentiment from Thomson Reuters and the University of Michigan came in at 82.1 in late-August, up from 80 earlier in the month. The reading slightly beat economists' expectations of 80.5, but is the lowest final number since April.
Meanwhile, the Institute for Supply Management-Chicago reports its gauge of manufacturing activity in the Midwest rose to 53 in August from 52.3 in July, matching economists' expectations. Readings above 50 point to expansion, while those below point to contraction.
In corporate news, Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) cut about 1,000 jobs and closed two Ohio offices, according to news report. Big Lots (NYSE:BIG) revealed better-than-expected quarterly profits.
Elsewhere, the benchmark U.S. crude oil contract fell 71 cents, or 0.66%, to $108.05 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline dipped 0.7% to $3.045 a gallon. Gold sold off by $17.30, or 1.2%, to $1,396.
Foreign Markets
The Euro Stoxx 50 fell 0.75% to 2738, the English FTSE 100 dropped 0.49% to 6452 and the German DAX slumped 0.7% to 8138.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 slipped 0.53% to 13389 and the Chinese Hang Seng rose 0.12% to 21731.

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Land. Sea. Land. Sea.
Ferry. Road. Ferry. Road
Fish for lunch. Fish for dinner. Pancakes for breakfast (yes, you can have fish if you really must).
A looping trip west out of Vancouver, British Columbia, means a lot of water and mountains that get in the way. But the Canadians have tamed their pockmarked geography with winding roads, deep tunnels and, most of all, ferries that link the once-isolated villages and big cities.
It's a fragmented trip. Just when you start rolling along the highway, you come to a stop at a ferry terminal. Just when you are relaxing on the deck of the ship gliding across a strait, it's time to hustle down to your car and follow the rest...


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This was the moment when Before
Turned into After, and the future's
Uninvented timekeepers presented arms.
This was the moment when nothing
Happened. Only dull peace
Sprawled boringly over the earth.
This was the moment when even energetic Romans
Could find nothing better to do
Than counting heads in remote provinces.
And this was the moment
When a few farm workers and three
Members of an obscure Persian sect
Walked haphazard by starlight straight
Into the kingdom of heaven.
(U.A. Fanthorpe)
Thanks to Charley F B for sending the poem as a Christmas greeting.
Tim Chesterton posted the video below by Bruce Cockburn, which I like quite a lot, so I'm sharing.


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Don't believe exaggerated tales about massively skewed doe-to-buck ratios.
QUESTION: I live in northern Louisiana. Can you tell me the buck-to-doe ratio where I live? Also, is it okay to take one doe out of the area in the first week in December? — Jimmy S.
ANSWER: Without contacting the state wildlife biologist responsible for the area you live, I have no way of knowing what the buck-to-doe ratio is. Even they might not know the answer for your specific area. There are so many factors that can influence it. I can tell you that the biological maximum for a pre-hunt adult population is 5:1. Space precludes me from explaining why that is so, but you can find a detailed explanation here.
As for taking a doe in early December, my short answer is: If the regulations allow it, then it will not be harmful to your deer population. The question then becomes whether or not you want to remove does before the rut, which in your case probably occurs somewhere between late December and early January.
Again, there are numerous variables, but in terms of energy conservation, I believe it's better to remove does before the rut — before they and the bucks have extended energy toward breeding that will not be realized into the population if that doe is removed. Besides, taking a doe before you go after bucks helps boost your confidence, takes the pressure off and puts venison in the freezer.
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Who's fat, who's feuding and who caught what from Paris Hilton this week, after the jump with our celebrity weekly round-up.
Well, as we mentioned earlier, Jen Aniston caught just about everyone on the hop, so we'll have to do with an awful lot of crap about Britney and Paris instead.
* There must be much gnashing of teeth over at Star Magazine today, as they came agonisingly close to getting a great cover, which would have smashed in the teeth of all their rivals. Close, but sadly no cigar. Plumping for the world's most blurry ugly picture of Angelina Jolie, clutching a baby, the mag screams 'WHY ANGELINA HAS THIS BABY!'. Now we celeb mag readers may be thick, but we're not that thick. Seeing as how Angelina is in full make-up/costume for her role as Marianne Perle, who had a baby after her husband Daniel was horribly murdered, we can actually guess that she has the baby because she's making a flim about someone who has a baby. Not too much of a strech, that one.
Meanwhile, nestling forlornly in a corner of the cover is 'MY SEXY NIGHT WITH VINCE!', which is actually a juicy little story about some girl who indulged in extended foreplay, possibly oral, we're not sure, with Vince Vaughn while he was filming on location and still OFFICALLY dating poor Jen. It's a bitch when Missed Opportunity ups and smacks you round the head, eh guys? Elsewhere Star attempts to have Britney and Justin back together, which as we recall they've done about fifty times before and still no-one believes them. It's like Demi Moore's eternal pregnancy. Sandra Bullock (yawn) is also allegedly pregnant, and in a world exclusive, Johnny Depp used to look like a nerd. All in all, Star's the best out there this week, but that's not saying much.
* In Touch has the holy trifecta of Britney, Lindsay and Nicole and asks the question 'DRUGS! ARE THE ALLEGATIONS TRUE?'. We'll save you the trouble of wading through the waffle and reveal the conclusions: Nicole - pills - NO! Britney - antidepressants - PROBABLY! Lindsay - every fucking drug you can think of and then some - PROBABLY! MIssing the Jen Aniston split just like everyone else, In Touch tries to lure you within its pages by telling you how Aniston and Jen Garner lost lots of weight. We can reveal the exclusive details: DIET AND EXCERCISE. We are dazzled by their scoop. Also 'inside Eva and Tony's wedding'. Not.
* Us Weekly leads with 'SAVING BRITNEY' which promises interventions, custody battles and scandalous photos. It's the same stuff you'll find in all the other celeb weeklies this week, except there's more of it. In other news Adrianne Curry got a boob job and that girl from the OC who wasn't Mischa Barton split from that other guy who was on the OC. Whatever.
* OK! continues it's dazzling run of non-stories containing no detail, with 'BRITNEY EXCLUSIVE MY CRY FOR HELP!', in which 'friends' say she's heading for a breakdown. Well, if by friends you mean the third cousin of the guy who used to carpool with the sisister of the man who briefly dated Britney's back-up dancer three years ago, then hey, this is a scoop. In their frenzied desperation, they spin a 57-word paragraph about Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban having lunch into a cover line 'NICOLE'S SEXY DATE WITH KEITH', which is about the saddest thing we've ever seen in our media career. And guess what? Pam Anderson was seen with her ex Tommy Lee. And Angelina is planning her marriage to Brad Pitt, in Africa. Yeah. Sure. Someone put this magazine out of its misery.
* Life&Style canned their editor-in-chief last week, and we're not terribly sure we can tell the difference this week. It promises all the juicy Brangelina wedding details and embarks on a round of speculation worthy of OK! only longer. It tries to get a bitchfight going by alleging Angelina wants to get married on the beach in Malibu - maybe, like outside Jen's house would be nice - but we're not falling for that. Elsewhere Britney is in crisis (really? Who knew!), Nick is still putting his naughty bits in Vanessa (and a couple of porn stars on the side, probably) and Eva and Tony are engaged and still no-one gives a fuck.
* The National Enquirer says that Britney fucked Mario Lopez, Brad and Jen are 'back in love', and Lindsay pops Oxycontin. All entirely believable. Yup.


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1: 10 miles around Old Key west. Some decent fartleks.
3: 8 miles to the convention center and back. Horrible Orlando!
5: 8 miles around Orlando
6: 4 miles on the treadmill
7: 10 miles of fartleks around some residential areas in Orlando.
10: 3 perimeter loops in the snow. Tired legs
12: Two hours slow with the Girl. 20 minutes tempo around Buddinge/Bagsværd. Felt zippy.
14: 3 Perimeter loops, preceded by dropping Natali off at school. Slippery trails, but decent legs
17: It was supposed to be 8X800m on the treadmill but I quit after 6. It was hot. I gotta get used to it. First 4, including 200m jogs in 15:04. Pace probably around 5:45 and felt terrible.
20: Two tennis court loops (10K?) tempo. Started rusty; finished strong.
23: 6K jog in the snow around Bagsværd.
26: 8Kish tempo in the snow along freeway trail.
27: 12K on the treadmill. "4x800" in 14:56. Description: firstname.lastname@example.com, then 800 fast. Repeat four times. Feeling surprisingly peppy.
29: 10K on the treadmill. "4x800" in 14:50. Ok legs.
31: New Year Social Marathon with the Girl. Not exactly too social, as we got left in the dust by the group. Nearly half the field dropped back and I'm sure a few got lost.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
December running log
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On CNBC's May 6 "Closing Bell," correspondent Matt Nesto explained that investigators for both the stock exchanges and for Citigroup, the firm that some are pointing fingers at for a so-called trader error, have narrowed it down to a futures index called the E-mini S&P 500.
"A person familiar with the Citi investigation said one focus of the trading probes were the futures contracts tied to the S&P 500 stock index known as the E-mini S&P 500 futures and in particular that two-minute window in which 16 billion of the futures were sold," Nesto said. "Again, those sources are telling us that Citigroup's total E-mini volume for the entire day was only 9 billion, suggesting that the origin of the trades was elsewhere."
Nesto named eight stocks that were hit with the supposed computer error/bad trade, if that's indeed what happened, that went all the way down to zero or one cent, including Exelon (NYSE:EXC), Accenture (NYSE:ACN), CenterPoint Energy (NYSE:CNP), Eagle Material (NYSE:EXP), Genpact Ltd (G), ITC Holdings (NYSE:ITC), Brown & Brown (NYSE:BRO), Casey's General (NASDAQ:CASY) and Boston Beer (NYSE:SAM)
"Now according to someone else close to Citigroup's own probe of the situation, the E-Minis trade on the CME," Nesto continued. "Now Maria, I want to add something else just in terms of these erroneous trades that Duncan Niederauer, the NYSE CEO was just talking about. I mean, we've talked a lot about Accenture, ACN. This is a Dublin-based company. It's not in any of the indexes. If you look in the S&P 500, for example, I show at least two stocks that traded to zero or one cent – Exelon and CenterPoint. If you look in the Russell 1,000, I show Eagle Materials, Genpact, ITC and Brown & Brown, also trading to zero or a penny, and also Casey's General Stores, as well as Boston Beer trading today, intraday, to zero or a penny. So those have at least eight names that they're going to have to track down on top of the Accenture trade, where we have the stock price intraday showing us at least, we'll assume, a bogus trade of zero."
Nesto calling these trades "bogus" drew backlash from the host and CNBC veteran Maria Bartiromo, who said those trades sounded like "market manipulation" to her.
" That is ridiculous," Bartiromo replied. "I mean this really sounds like market manipulation to me. This is outrageous."
According to Nesto, these are frequent occurrences, at least at the NASDAQ exchange and if you make a trade a lose money, there's no recourse.
"It happens a lot, Maria. It really does. I mean, we could probably ask the NASDAQ, they may not want to say how often it happens, but it happens frequently. And they go back and they correct. And the thing that stinks is if you in good faith put in a trade and made money and then lost it, you lose it. And there's no recourse and there's no way to appeal."
250,000 public sector employees will be fired in the next 6 months
all public sector wages will be cut by 25%
all pensions will be cut by 15%
social aid for payment of heating eliminated
Decisions on tax hikes will be announced tomorrow.
Senate votes 61-33 against a proposal to require giant U.S. banks to split up
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The New York Stock Exchange has canceled the offending trades, but can you imagine the grey hair...the coronaries ?


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68,000 Speeding Fines May Need To Be Refunded In Australia Due To Faulty Cameras
from the where's-that-brick-wall-heading dept
One of the main traffic camera providers is the company Redflex, which has been having trouble lately, as many governments are ditching the cameras. And it looks like things may be getting even worse. Reader midofo points us to the news that the government in Victoria, Australia is now realizing that its Redflex speed cameras were faulty. There's now an investigation into just how many fines will need to be refunded. Of course, the only reason they figured this out was because a woman got a ticket for traveling nearly 100 mph in a car that simply could not go that fast. That resulted in an investigation and the discovery that the cameras weren't working properly (of course, some might argue that since the cameras are really just about revenue generation they were working just fine...).


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Winnebago new coach Nick Roman has high expectations for his young Indians girls soccer team.
It's been a rough couple of years for the Indians, which have finished in the middle of the pack and last year's team lost in a regional semifinal to Big Northern West foe Byron.
"The mentality that I'm trying to instill in the girls is that mediocrity is not OK anymore," Roman said. "The girls have high goals they want to achieve and they are beginning to understand that with those goals there is a requirement of hard work in each training session."
The Indians return 12 varsity players led by senior midfielder Gabby Solis and senior defender Jenna Happach.
"I can honestly say that in each class there is someone that is pushing the girls during hard training session and helping to create a positive environment," Roman said.
Roman, who is also the boys coach, said the team's goal is to finish in the top three in conference.
"I feel that if our girls consistently play to their capabilities that we can compete against the top teams in the conference," he said.
For the past nine years, Lutheran has been that top team and this season seeks a 10th straight BNC title.
Despite being a young group, the Crusaders remain as the team to beat led by senior Nicole Fauerbach, juniors Jordan Stewart and Lizzie Long and sophomore Jaelyn Leslie.
Last year, the Crusaders lost in the sectional semifinals to Johnsburg, which went on to finish fourth in 1A.
Stillman Valley lost to Johnsburg in the sectional final last year. The Cardinals return a talented team, led by junior forward Abby Timm, who scored 26 goals and had seven assists last season. Timm is one of 10 varsity returners for Stillman Valley, which now has Erin McMaster as coach. She replaces longtime coach Lyn Larsen.
Genoa-Kingston moves back to the BNW this season. The Cogs return nine players, led by goalkeeper Alyssa Edwards, midfielders Ashley Grimm and Nicole Hebel, forward Viviana Beltran and defenders Kate McCloskey and Allie Pfeiffer.
"We are a little deeper this season as we start out with eight more athletes than we have had the past two years," Cogs coach Randy Tate said. "We think we are well balanced over the field. We have only three seniors, but have a strong bunch of juniors."
Byron also has a talented junior class, led by sweeper Keelyn Swanson and defender Heidi Galster. The Tigers were relatively inexperienced last year, but went on to reach the regional finals. Senior forward Katie Druin also returns for the Tigers.
Mendota will be led by all-conference picks, sophomore Sarah Hupfauer and junior Abby Bromenshankel.
Big Northern East
Richmond-Burton repeated as conference champs, but fell short of its goals in the postseason, falling in a Class 1A regional final. This is one year removed from finishing third in state.
Rockets coach Chris Wagner thinks his team is ready to improve with the return of 12 varsity players, including four all-conference picks.
"Our defense is one of the strengths of our team and we're looking to gain valuable experience for many of our younger players," Wagner said.
Senior midfielder Miki Winkler, junior defender Lauren Otto, junior midfielder Jessie Guenther and sophomore midfielder Halley Havlicek return for the Rockets.
Burlington Central along with Rockford Christian should also challenge for the title. Both teams reached their respective regional finals last season.
Rockford Christian brings back all-conference MVP and all-sectional pick Haley Kittle (28 goals) at forward along with all-conference players Abby Wright, Brooke Jerie and Sydnie Smith.
"We have a small team this year, but have been experienced players," said Rockford Christian coach Kevin Obee, whose team finished third in the conference in its first season.
Marengo will be a team to watch with the return of 11 varsity players. The Indians are led by senior midfielders Mikaela Broling, Kate Kasch and Natasha Van Der Lindin.
"We are experienced and the team speed has picked up where we needed it, too," Marengo coach J McKinnon said. "We have some inexperienced players starting this year and it will be interesting to watch their learning curve."
At North Boone, coach Ramon Guevera takes over for Katie Hampton. He inherits a group of 18 girls that lost to Richmond-Burton 8-0 in a 1A regional semifinal last season.
Big 12
Rochelle looks to turn it around this season after finishing 0-10 in the Northern Illinois Big 12 East Division.
"We have a good defense with most of last year's defenders returning including our keeper," Rochelle coach Keith Lamb said.
The Hubs are led by goalkeeper Marin Meiners, defenders Cynthia Valencia, Marina Erras, Cami Myers and Abbey Marquez and midfielders Brianna Ochoa and Luz Saldana.
Sycamore returns as the top team in the East after reaching a Class 2A sectional semifinal game for a second straight season.
Christian Life has nine returning varsity from a team that finished fifth in the conference last season.
Of those nine, seniors Allison Emberson, Kayla Yanik, Leah Caraotta and Amanda Jacobs lead the team.
"We have many strong returning players, and we are gaining strength in numbers," Eagles coach Hannah Pals said. "However, with so many new players, we have very little field experience."
Defending conference champ IMSA is the favorite.
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Randomly accurate rumor site Digitimes is once again beating the drum on rumors they spurred up back in May about Apple prepping a curved-glass design across iOS devices including the iPhone 6 for 2012.
Apple reportedly also has bought glass polishing equipment for its suppliers in preparation for the production of devices fitted with curved cover glass. Lens Technology, Fuji Crystal, G-Tech are said to be major cover glass suppliers of Apple. While Lens and Fuji focus on iPhones, G-Tech supplies mainly for iPad
As always with rumors from Digitimes we urge you to take this with a 3.5-inch grain of salt. Apple supposedly purchased upwards of 300 glass cutting machines earlier in the year that they've stored in warehouses until production yield rates meet their requirements, and glass makers have had a hard time entertaining the idea of producing curved glass for Apple because of capital costs.
We'll have to wait until next year before we see if Apple pushes out an iPhone with a curved-glass display... or if they're just using them for all the windows on their new mothership HQ.
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A little reminder, we will have a meeting on Thursday 19th April, 2007, at 4pm (16:00) UTC in #ubuntu-women IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. This special meeting with Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager for Canonical, is to discuss women's issues in Ubuntu community.
Everyone welcome (men included, so no fuss ;)).
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Looking for Robert McMillan who emigrated to Canada
Robert MCMILLAN was my Great Grandfather. He Fathered my Grandad named Hugh BELL. Born 1874 in Islay, Scotland.(he was illegitimate) Robert MCMILLAN wanted Hugh to bear his name so my Grandad became Hugh Bell MCMILLAN. Robert emigrated to Canada with his wife and I think he had two Daughters. I have no names for them though. He kept in touch with Hugh who married Mary Henderson NAISMITH and they had a large family, my Father being one of the children. Robert offered to pay for the whole family to go to Toronto, Canada but they declined as one of their children died and they didn't want to leave him buried on Scotland soil alone. I would be most grateful if anyone could shed on light on this for me. I have a lot of information concerning Hugh's family with his wife Mary if anyone needs help with that.
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Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec 10, 2013 / 04:34 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Thousands of Argentineans gathered on Dec. 8 to celebrate the 17th anniversary of the enthroning of an image of Mary Undoer of Knots, a special favorite of Pope Francis.
The Marian devotion has grown in Argentina after then-Auxiliary Bishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires – now Pope Francis – brought a copy of the image back from Germany some 30 years ago.
The original painting, created by Johann Melchior Georg Schmidttner in 1700, is kept in St. Peter's Church in Augsburg, Germany.
On Dec. 8, 1996, the parish of St. Joseph in the city of Agronomia, Argentina, received a copy of the painting by Betta de Berti.
Each year, thousands of pilgrims visit the church in Agronomia to venerate the image.
Archbishop Mario Poli of Buenos Aires celebrated Mass at the parish on Dec. 8 and reflected on the meaning of the prayer, "Mother, help us not to be indifferent to the suffering of our brothers and sisters."The celebration also included a procession through the streets of the city with a replica of the painting.
Catholics around the world have learned that Mary Undoer of Knots is the Pope's favorite Marian devotion.
An Ohio-based group has created a four foot-tall birthday card for the Holy Father featuring the image. More than 10,000 young people have signed the card, which will be sent to the Pope for his 77th birthday on Dec. 17.


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Recent news that China is looking to ease its controversial one-child policy and abolish the "reeducation through labor" camps are considered small positive steps, but experts do not believe that the Chinese Communist Party is suddenly embracing human rights.
The real motivations behind those reforms might have more to do with economic and demographic concerns, as well as an understanding that positive headlines heralding a relaxation of the one-child policy make for good public relations in the West, they said.
"I simply cannot summon any enthusiasm when I hear news like this," said Nathan Faries, an English professor at the University of Dubuque and author of "The 'Inscrutably Chinese' Church: How Narratives and Nationalism Continue to Divide Christianity."
Faries told Our Sunday Visitor that China still considers its "wrongheaded" one-child policy to be correct and successful, and that the Communist Party regularly tweaks the policy to great fanfare in the press.
"The best I could say is that all these relaxations of policy finally could, in a very optimistic view, end in an accumulation of small freedoms that might make China in 50 years look somewhat different in its human rights landscape than it does today," Faries said.
Meanwhile, Reggie Littlejohn, founder and president of Women's Rights Without Frontiers, a coalition of human rights activists and organizations that lobby against forced abortions, gendercide and sexual slavery in China, told OSV that Chinese women will still continue to be sterilized and forced to have abortions under the adjusted policy, which will likely remain in place for several more decades.
"We can't abandon the women or children in China because of a minor adjustment to the one-child policy. The atrocity is not over," said Littlejohn, who met with human rights activists recently in Hong Kong.
On Nov. 15, the Xinhua News Agency, the official press agency of the Chinese Communist Party, reported that China was planning to allow some couples — those in which one spouse is an only child — to have two children. The one-child policy, which was instituted in 1979, currently prohibits couples in China, with very few exceptions, from having two or more children.
Xinhua also reported that the Chinese state was looking to abolish the labor camps that Mao Zedong based on the Soviet gulags when he created the labor camp system in the 1950s. Political prisoners have often been detained without trial and sent to the "reeducation" camps, where millions are believed to have died through harsh conditions, overwork and suicide. The labor camps have been a regular source of human rights complaints in the West.
"The Chinese government has not been able to hide the existence of these camps. Saying that they're now going to abolish them is quite heartening, but we still have to see what this means. Are people being released? Are they just being reclassified differently? I'm not sure," said Jesuit Father Paul Mariani, a history professor at Santa Clara University and author of "Church Militant: Bishop Kung and Catholic Resistance in Communist Shanghai."
Father Mariani told OSV that the announced reforms might show some good will on the part of the Chinese government, though it is still a measured step. He said the government may have loosened up a little bit, but there are still many red lines that Chinese people cannot cross.
Faries said he remains pessimistic about the Chinese government's intentions.
"These small reforms are so miniscule to be nearly meaningless, and they do probably more to consolidate CCP power and entrench the one-child policy than they do to subvert that power or that policy in the long term," Faries said.
Experts noted that Xinhua ran a second report announcing that the "birth policy changes are no big deal. The report also quoted Wang Pei'an, deputy director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, who said that "the number of couples covered by the new policy is not very large across the country." Pei'an also said the government had no timetable to implement the revised policy.
The apparent backtrack did not surprise Steven Mosher, founder and president of the Population Research Institute, a nonprofit that argues against the global overpopulation theory. Mosher, who as a young Stanford University academic in 1979 was the first American social scientist to visit Communist China, told OSV that Chinese authorities are wary of major reforms because they do not want to see their system collapse like the Soviet Union.
"This is a baby step. I welcome a relaxation of the policy, but the fact is that the state still controls reproduction in China," said Mosher, who said he witnessed firsthand women being arrested and forced to have late-term abortions.
"I saw women arrested for the crime of being pregnant," Mosher said. "The basic problem is that the Chinese state still controls reproduction in the same way it controls the distribution of goods and services. This is an economic question for them. They treat people like cattle. They don't want to have too few, or too many."
The Chinese Communist Party instituted the one-child policy with the idea of preventing overpopulation, combating poverty and improving the nation's quality of life. The government believed the policy to have been successful as the national economy boomed over the last two decades and as millions of young adults migrated to the cities to work in the factories.
However, demographics are catching up to the Chinese regime. According to United Nations estimates, China's working-age population will begin declining rapidly after it peaks in 2015, and it will continue to fall for the next 15 years. The one-child policy has dragged China's fertility rate to an incredibly low 1.55 per woman, which is less than replacement, according to the United Nations.
The policy is also blamed for creating serious social problems, especially the gender gap between the number of young men and women in China. Forced to have only one child, millions of Chinese couples have been known to abort or abandon baby girls. The result is various academic studies that indicate there are 37 million Chinese young men who will not have any spouses their age to marry.
A 2009 British Medical Journal article reported that in nine Chinese provinces, the census data showed there were 160 boys born for every 100 girls. The article reported that "sex selective abortion accounts for almost all the excess males."
Dr. Susan Yoshihara, senior vice president for research and director of the International Organizations Research Group for the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, told OSV that she was happy for women who will not have to pay a fine — about a year's salary — for having a second child.
Yoshihara, who visited China last year and is the author of "Population Decline and the Remaking of Power Politics," said the one-child policy has been a "failure," and added that she was disappointed to read the Chinese regime's soft-pedaling the reform, which she added will still not eliminate gender-selective abortion or reverse China's population decline.
"They really just need to scrap policy altogether," Yoshihara said. "This is really too little too late."
Brian Fraga writes from Massachusetts.
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With Carlos Delgado not showing in winter ball he's capable of the defensive end of it, why not go with Ryan Garko at first over Fernando Tatis?
Garko hit a combined .268 with 13 homers and 51 RBI last season for Cleveland and San Francisco. Tatis, who has been serviceable the last two seasons with the Mets, doesn't have that power. Instead, he'll be remembered for grounding into 13 double plays last year.
Garko won't come at a high price, has some pop and plays first base by trade. I'd go with him over Tatis.


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Former San Bernardino City Councilman Chas Kelley was sentenced Friday, Dec. 20, to a 90-day sentence for illegally spending thousands of dollars in campaign contributions on himself.
His time will be spent either in weekend jail custody or by electronic monitoring that will restrict his movements.
Kelley sat quietly with his attorney Greg Kassel during the short afternoon appearance before Judge Annemarie Pace in a downtown San Bernardino courtroom, making short yes-and-no answers to Pace's questions.
Kelley was referred to the county sheriff's electronic monitoring program, which allows defendants to serve time outside of jail and seek work while wearing a location-transmitting device such as an ankle bracelet.
If he does qualify for the program, he will have to serve the entire sentence, rather than the half-time he would get if he went into custody, Pace told him. Kelley also was placed on five years' probation.
Terms of his sentence already had been worked out in a plea deal reached in October. Another term of probation bars him from running for public office.
Kassel said after court that Kelley will only have to restore the misused funds if individual campaign donors demand restitution. Kelley left the courtroom by a side door and did not speak to reporters.
Kelley, 44, pleaded guilty to one count of perjury on Oct. 17 after admitting to misuse of in campaign funds for personal expenses. He resigned his Ward 5 council seat and dropped out of the Nov. 5 mayoral race, in which he was considered a leading candidate.
When he entered his plea, Kelley admitted that he committed perjury on numerous occasions by falsely reporting the amount of money he was withdrawing from and depositing in his Friends of Chas Kelley campaign account.
His probation report filed in court said that between 2004 and 2012, the combined total of under-reporting money "in and out of the campaign account" was $78,524.84.
"Defendant Kelley cashed, deposited into his personal account, or otherwise potentially used for personal expenses, campaign checks or cash…$80,088.55," the report said.
The report also described Kelley as "remorseful, humbled, painfully distressed and embarrassed concerning his actions in this case, and having committed a felony offense."
After the brief court session, Kassel reaffirmed his client's remorse. "Obviously he's very bothered that he's caused problems for the 5th Ward, its constituents, and San Bernardino as a whole."
San Bernardino County prosecutors began investigating Kelley, based on a tip, in October 2011
A former neighborhood association leader, Kelley was elected to the council in 2003 and won re-election twice. He previously worked for the San Bernardino school district's nutritional services department, then in 2008 took a position as a field representative for Neil Derry, a fellow councilman who was elected to a county supervisor post that year.
Kelley had been unemployed since Derry lost his 2012 re-election bid.
In a separate case, San Bernardino City Councilman Robert Jenkins entered not guilty pleas Dec. 17 to identity theft, forging an official seal, stalking and harassing. He faces 18 felonies and 12 misdemeanors in Superior Court in Riverside. The case, which is not related to his position in San Bernardino, is being tried in Riverside because the crimes are alleged to have occurred in Riverside County.
A felony settlement conference was set for Jan. 22.
Jenkins, 33, is accused of posting personal ads with photos and personal information of two people, claiming they were seeking sex on Craigslist. Prosecutors said Jenkins was targeting an ex-lover and another man. Anyone who responded to the ads was directed to the two victims in the case. The ads listed photographs, names and addresses.


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Helen Mirren worked the red carpet in this soft gray gown with tonal embroidery. The coolest part of the look, however, had nothing to do with her dress—the British actress died her hair pink! And somehow, she pulled it off quite properly.
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Big Name Authors Realize Their Old Contracts Don't Cover eBooks; Route Around Old Publishers To Release New Versions
from the there's-a-legal-fight-coming... dept
Except some other big name, old time authors know better. They've been realizing that they could be free to take their ebook versions elsewhere, and now they're doing exactly that. A bunch of really well known authors, working via their agents, have decided to route around their publishers and offer some of the most popular books of all time as ebooks directly on Amazon's Kindle, without going through a publishing house. Among the books released through this effort are works from Philip Roth, Martin Amis, Vladimir Nabokov, Hunter S Thompson, John Updike, William Burroughs and Saul Bellow along with many others. Basically, some of the biggest names in literature from the 20th century.
Of course, more recent authors won't have this luxury directly, since new publishing contracts for books cover ebooks as well, but it will be interesting to see how well these new ebooks do for authors -- and if it leads to more authors realizing they can just self-publish outside of the traditional publisher system. I'm still not sure that makes as much sense, say, as going "indie" from a music standpoint, as publishers still offer a tremendous amount of value that's hard to recreate, but at the very least, it could open the door to more specialized "indie" publishers, who are more author-friendly.


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My mum made me this coat from some material she'd been given by a family friend before they passed away. She made it from a Burda pattern – but since all our magazines are in boxes (my mum just moved house) I can't tell you which one (I think it was from the 2000's).
Its got the world's biggest pockets, massive collar and sleeves and lots of drawstrings. The outside is nylon (guess) and the inside is lined with cotton. It's pretty good for rainy days when I have to walk to uni, but don't need a thick coat.
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this is a perfect NZ coat! (i live in Tassie but our weather seems similar!) I love the colour on your and the collar and pockets work perfectly with the weight of the fabric :-)
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Since taking office in January, the governor has made clear his vision for wholesale reform of Tennessee's education system. He has said student achievement should be the cornerstone of any educational initiative. Legislators agree and have stated on numerous occasions that promoting teacher excellence is one way to ensure that vision becomes a reality for Tennessee students.
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I recently had car trouble and went to a local car dealership to have my car scanned. I paid $79 plus tax to have my car scanned for an hour and was then told that I needed two small parts and the throttle body cleaned.
Their estimate to do this work was $657. They also attempted to add an additional "miscellaneous charge" for the scan, but I avoided having to pay this. I suppose this was the "female walking into a car dealership by herself" charge.
I want to thank Susan Sharp for the very timely article in the Press on March 3, "Mistakes today will shape a child's tomorrow."
There is nothing more delicate or more helpless than a child. Especially if they aren't cared for and protected by their mother or a very caring person. If they spend their life being neglected, abused or worse, they most often will think this is how it is supposed to be. Doesn't give them much of a plan for their life- children often imitate what they see.
This is Sunshine Week.
For the average citizen this might go by unnoticed. However, for journalists it is a time we observe the public's right to know how their governmental agencies are operating.
Without an open records law and open meetings law governments could operate sans public scrutiny.
Newspapers mounted "Sunshine Sunday" -- a campaign reminding Floridians of the high level of openness they enjoyed, highlighting the benefits of government transparency and detailing potential consequences of the proposals. Only a few passed.
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Welcome to the Commissioners' Corner. This will be a monthly column prepared by your County Commission and published, at no cost, by the local newspapers in the last edition of each month. This column will be used for informative purposes only and does not intend to stress any point of view. If you have a particular item you would like to discuss, please contact Peggy at the commission office at 562-9961.
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An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB. "Dearest Friends," WCCM International
Newsletter, Winter 2001.
Inner peace is hard to find at times of conflict and fear. We find it difficult to sit still when mind and feelings are in turmoil. It is easy to give up meditation at such times when it is most needed. So it helps to see that our meditation is not for ourselves alone.
If it were, we are no more than religious consumers. The meaning of contemplation is found in its fruits, especially the love and service of others. When we have inner peace we go out to others in compassion. Lacking it, all our out-going is subject to the ego's desire, anger and competitiveness. God is the love that casts out fear in our neighbor because, when we have truly met that love within ourselves, we can never do our neighbor harm.
Self-knowledge opens us to the mystery of human uniqueness - unity in diversity. Until we recognize and embrace our own uniqueness we can never relate to the universal. We remain trapped in the prison of egotism. Our own particular holiness must be realized before we can know the whole in which we have our being and where we most truly belong. The great error (and the sin of clericalism) is to pretend to have grasped the universal before we have come to self-knowledge. Trying to grasp the universal, to speak for it, to control it - these are the signs that we have still not been grasped by it.
What does the 'universal' mean? Jesus expressed it as the nature of divine love that bestows itself impartially on all that is. Like the sun it shines on good and bad alike. That means that God is beyond human morality. God never fights on my side against others. Like the rain divine love falls on the innocent and the wicked. That means God's justice is beyond any human attempt to be just. One love unites the persecutor and the victim. First we need to experience this universality as it bears down on ourselves. It then whittles away the ego. It simplifies us. It lifts us above the complexity of our lives as it pours into our whole being through our deepest centre. Only then are we really awake. Then the twin human adventure of discovery and celebration begins. We discover that the same love is everywhere and embraces all, even those we may not yet be able to love. But at least we can see they are loveable. We also celebrate. We rejoice in the intoxicating
beauty that only the eyes of a lover can see. Only then have we truly made peace with ourselves and the world.
Peace is not achieved by rooting out and destroying evil. When we become aware of our vices - anger, pride, greed, lust - the attempt to destroy them easily degenerates into self-hatred. After all, if we cannot love ourselves why bother to love others? Better than destroying your faults is to work patiently to implant the virtues - a slower and less dramatic work but far more effective. And by avoiding the dangers of religious hypocrisy and self-righteousness it creates a more pleasant working personality. Hidden in all our faults - our capacity for evil - there are also the seeds of many virtues. The terrorist may have had the seed of justice in him before his anger and the delusion that he is the instrument of God's wrath took him over. When we conduct war against ourselves (many of the greatest religious fanatics have been self-denying) we risk huge collateral damage: in the destruction of our own seeds of virtue. Every kind of violence is a crime against humanity because it deprives the world of unknown goodness.
The first step in implanting the virtues that will eventually overpower the vices is to establish the foundational virtue of deep and regular prayer. Through this silent rhythm of prayer wisdom slowly penetrates our mind and our world. Wisdom is the universal power that brings good out of evil. As the book of Wisdom says, 'the hope for the salvation of the world lies in the greatest number of wise people.' The wise know the distinction between self-knowledge and self-fixation, between detachment and hardness of heart,
between correction and cruelty. There are no rules for wisdom. Rules are never universal. But virtue is.
After meditation: an excerpt from The Book of Wisdom 8: 21-29 in Christian
Community Bible (Quezon City, Philippines: Claretian Publications, 1997), p.
I have come to know everything we see and everything hidden, because
Wisdom, who designed them all, taught me.
In her is a spirit that is intelligent, saintly, unique, manifold, subtle, active, concise, pure and lucid. It cannot corrupt, loves what is good and nothing can restrain it. It is beneficent, loving humankind, steadfast, dependable, calm though almighty. It sees everything and penetrates all spirits, however intelligent, subtle and pure they may be.
Wisdom surpasses in mobility all that moves, and being so pure pervades and permeates all things.
She is a breath of the power of God, a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; nothing impure can enter her. She is a reflection of eternal light, a spotless mirror of God's action and an image of his goodness.
She is but one, yet Wisdom can do all things and, herself unchanging, she renews all things. She enters holy souls, making them prophets and friends of God. . .She is indeed more beautiful than the sun and surpasses all the constellations; she outrivals light, for light gives way to night, but evil cannot prevail against Wisdom.
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Harvey Henry Duson, 45, faces a maximum sentence of 250 years to life in prison and a minimum sentence of 27 years, said Deputy District Attorney Martin Doyle.
Duson pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial to setting Mathis' home on fire to cover up the residential burglary during the Jan. 11 incident. He also pleaded guilty to kidnapping for robbery, three counts of false imprisonment and three robberies.
Mathis, who is the chairman of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Board, testified he was attacked in his garage after he arrived home from Mayor Jerry Sanders' State of the City address. He was taken to the hospital after he was beaten on the head.
Duson, who was in Mathis' garage at 9 p.m., attacked Mathis after he got out of his car. Mathis, who had a concealed handgun for protection, fired two shots, but missed hitting Duson. He was struck on the head with a gun for which he had a permit.
Mathis testified he was assaulted the day before his 79th birthday, but it was "the best birthday I ever had (because) I lived to see it."
The false imprisonment counts involve holding Harry and Mary Mathis and a neighbor against their wills. The robberies include a holdup of a Sprint store on Rosecrans Street on Nov. 9.
A second man who allegedly accompanied Duson in the crime has not been arrested, and the "investigation is ongoing" as to who he was, said Doyle. Duson left his car on Interstate 8 and was later arrested in Arizona after a collision with another motorist.
Sentencing was set for Dec. 12 by San Diego Superior Court Eugenia Eyherabide. Duson remains in custody on $1 million bail.


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Hamline University
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Hamline University: Student Suspended after Advocating Concealed Carry on Campus
May 29, 2007
Hamline University suspended a student after he sent an e-mail suggesting that the Virginia Tech massacre might have been stopped if students had been allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus. Student Troy Scheffler was required to undergo a mandatory "mental health evaluation" before being allowed to return to school. Scheffler was suspended without due process just two days after sending the e-mail.» Read More
Why can't students say 'guns' in school?
April 21, 2009
by Glenn Garvin Miami Herald Media snicker of the day: those crazy gun nuts, worried that the government is out to snatch their constitutional rights along with their AK-47s. 60 Minutes is the latest to have a chuckle, playing a commercial for a Washington, D.C.-area firearms show that that urges viewers to "Celebrate the Second Amendment and get your guns while you still can!" My own hunch is that the sheer number of Americans who own guns (the low estimate is something over 40 million) will keep their Second Amendment rights off the endangered-species list for the foreseeable future. […]» Read More
Loss of free inquiry on campus betrays liberal legacy
October 24, 2007
The newest big controversy about free speech on campus focuses on the case of a Hamline University graduate student in Minnesota who has been ordered to undergo psychological evaluation after expressing his political disagreements with campus diversity policies alongside a rather bone-headed reference to Virginia Tech. Although the student is a long-time gadfly who seems to revel in poking the Hamline administration with a stick, the case is important for precisely that reason. Freedom of speech is easy to support when the speech is politically correct or when dissent from political correctness is expressed with timidity and apology. It is […]» Read More
College Admins: If you favor Second Amendment rights, you must be crazy
October 17, 2007
A Minnesota college student was suspended and ordered to undergo "mental health evaluation" for his response to campuswide e-mails from school officials concerning the Virginia Tech massacre. The college, Hamline University, a private, liberal-arts institution affiliated with the Methodist Church, has a policy on "Freedom of Expression and Inquiry" that guarantees that Hamline students will be "free to examine and discuss all questions of interest to them and to express opinions publicly or privately." With such a strong guarantee on students' "freedom from censorship and control" by the university, student Troy Scheffler's e-mail must have been horrifically bad to warrant […]» Read More
Student advocates gun rights, gets suspended; Church-affiliated university to require mental evaluation before return allowed
October 11, 2007
A Christian church-affiliated university in St. Paul, Minn., has suspended a student after he raised questions about the campus ban on concealed weapons, and is ordering him to have a mental health evaluation before he can resume his education. The Hamline University case involves student Troy Scheffler, who, after the Virginia Tech massacre where a student shot and killed nearly three dozen others, suggested the killing spree might have been stopped if students had been allowed to carry concealed weapons. "Questioning administrators on controversial topics isn't going to be a threat even if the conversation involves guns," Robert Shibley, vice […]» Read More
Banning guns (and opinions about guns) in college
October 11, 2007
In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings in April, Hamline University student Troy Scheffler writes emails (in response to emails from them sent to the student body) to the president and vice-president for student affairs of the Minnesota university, complaining about his school's no-weapons and diversity policies. He is suspended pending a mental health evaluation. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) comes to his defense. From FIRE's press release: FIRE wrote to [university] President [Linda] Hanson on May 29, 2007, vehemently opposing the sanctions against Scheffler, since neither of Scheffler's e-mails even came close to meeting the […]» Read More
Grad student suspended after pro-gun-rights e-mail
October 10, 2007
A Minnesota university has suspended one of its graduate students who sent two e-mail messages to school officials supporting gun rights. Hamline University also said that master's student Troy Scheffler, who owns a firearm, would be barred from campus and must receive a mandatory "mental health evaluation" after he sent an e-mail message arguing that law-abiding students should be able to carry firearms on campus for self-defense. Hamline spokesman Jacqueline Getty declined on Wednesday to answer questions about the suspension, saying that federal privacy laws prohibited the school from commenting. Scheffler had previously waived his privacy rights in a letter […]» Read More
FIRE Launches New Video Series With Short Film on Censorship of Gun-Related Speech
June 30, 2010
PHILADELPHIA, June 30, 2010—Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is proud to release a new short film, "Empty Holsters: Gun Speech on America's Campuses," highlighting widespread campus censorship of student speech about guns. The film is the first in a new FIRE series focusing on how colleges and universities across America are preventing students and faculty members from speaking out on the weightiest political issues of the day. "In the wake of Monday's Supreme Court decision in McDonald v. Chicago, debate about the Second Amendment and gun rights is sure to be hotter than ever," said FIRE […]» Read More
Rights in the News: FIRE Issues Get the Lou Dobbs Treatment
March 13, 2009
As Will wrote earlier in the week, FIRE has seen far too many instances of students' First Amendment rights being thrown out the window when used to support Second Amendment rights. FIRE has been all over the news concerning the most recent instance of this, in which a student at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) was reported to the police by his professor and subjected to an interrogation on the basis of a class presentation he had given in favor of concealed carry rights on campus. Building on a FoxNews.com front-page story (tipped this week in an editorial on the […]» Read More
Threats, Intimidation, and Free Speech
December 27, 2007
One of the compelling storylines to take away from this year involves a matter that is still fresh in many people's minds and remains troubling to this day: the Virginia Tech shootings. The horrific events of that day may understandably send a chill down the spine of anyone who has a friend, significant other, child, or family member attending school or working on a college campus. In the wake of Virginia Tech, universities across the country have tried to take the necessary measures to ensure, to the greatest extent possible, that they can prevent a similar tragedy from taking place […]» Read More
FIRE to Hamline: Stop Stonewalling
November 13, 2007
Last week, FIRE wrote Hamline University again to register our continuing disappointment with President Linda Hanson's refusal to answer our concerns about the school's unconscionable treatment of student Troy Scheffler, who was suspended by Hamline for advocating for the right to carry concealed weapons on campus. Our latest letter reiterates our grave concern about the fact that the school refuses to tell Scheffler precisely why he was suspended, a clear contradiction of established Hamline policy. We wrote: We remain particularly troubled by Hamline's continuing refusal to be fully forthcoming regarding the reasons for Scheffler's suspension. The third determining factor you […]» Read More
Pope Center's 'Clarion Call' Highlights FIRE Speech Code of the Month Victory
November 9, 2007
This week's Clarion Call, the weekly column of the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, highlights FIRE's speech code victory at Fayetteville State University. Fayetteville State's Code of Student Conduct was picked as FIRE's Speech Code of the Month for January 2007. It defined racial harassment as: [V]erbal or physical behavior that stigmatizes or victimizes an individual on the basis of race and involves an express or implied threat to another person's academic pursuits or participation in activities sponsored by the University or organizations or groups related to the University. It was identical to a University of Michigan […]» Read More
John Leo on FIRE and Free Speech
October 23, 2007
John Leo has an excellent article on Townhall.com discussing the status of free speech on our nation's college campuses. In the article, Leo highlights the case of Troy Scheffler at Hamline University, who was suspended for suggesting in an e-mail to an administrator that students should be permitted to carry concealed weapons on campus.» Read More
Hamline Case on the Radio This Afternoon
October 19, 2007
Looking for more information on our case at Hamline University? Listen online to Minneapolis/St. Paul talk radio station 830-WCCO AM at 2:10 p.m. CST (3:10 Eastern) for an interview with FIRE's Vice President Robert Shibley with more details on this case!» Read More
Minnesota College suspends student for advocating gun rights
October 15, 2007
After discovering one of its students had sent an e-mail urging students be permitted to carry concealed weapons in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings that took place in April 2007 and killed 32 people, Hamline University in Minnesota not only suspended the student, Troy Scheffler, but university officials ordered Mr. Scheffler undergo a psychiatric evaluation before being permitted to return to school. "Hamline's punishment of Troy Scheffler is severe, unfair and apparently unwarranted," stated Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a Philadelphia-based civil rights advocacy group assisting Mr. Scheffler with this issue. […]» Read More
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October 11, 2007
Check out FIRE Board of Advisors member Wendy Kaminer's blog post on our case over at Hamline University: Hamline University prides itself on its commitment to diversity. Its website boasts that "Hamline's five schools have more than 4,500 students, and each one of these students is different …Hamline isn't a place where you 'fit in,' conforming to the Hamline mold. Rather, Hamline 'fits in' you, welcoming your unique contributions and valuing who you are." "Unless you're an advocate for gun rights," Hamline administrators might have added. Hamline suspended graduate student Troy Scheffler shortly after he sent two emails to school […]» Read More
FIRE Discussing Hamline Case on the Radio This Afternoon
October 11, 2007
FIRE Vice President Robert Shibley will be on Vicki McKenna's Madison, Wisconsin, radio show this afternoon at 4 p.m. ET to discuss our case at Hamline University, where a student was suspended and sentenced to mandatory psychological evaluations after advocating the use of concealed weapons on campus in the context of the Virginia Tech shootings. To hear more about FIRE's involvement in this interesting case—in which Hamline has trampled the student's free speech and due process rights and refuses to reconsider its decision—listen online at wiba.com.» Read More
Hamline Responds to FIRE's Press Release
October 11, 2007
A friend in the media forwarded us the following response from Hamline to yesterday's press release about Hamline student Troy Scheffler. It is very brief, so I will quote it in full: Hamline has never suspended a student for advocating for gun rights or for any other rights. The FIRE organization has inaccurately portrayed Hamline's interaction with one of its students. FIRE has inflamed the details of this student's grievance with university policy, enacted to ensure the safety of our community. As we have already informed FIRE more than once, federal privacy laws that protect the rights of that student […]» Read More
Hamline University Student Suspended After Advocating Concealed Carry for Students
October 10, 2007
ST. PAUL, Minn., October 10, 2007—Hamline University has suspended a student after he sent an e-mail suggesting that the Virginia Tech massacre might have been stopped if students had been allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus. Student Troy Scheffler is now required to undergo a mandatory "mental health evaluation" before being allowed to return to school. Scheffler, who was suspended without due process just two days after sending the e-mail, has turned to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help. "Hamline's punishment of Troy Scheffler is severe, unfair, and apparently unwarranted," FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. […]» Read More


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Posted: Sat 26 Sep 2009, 04:51
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Adventures with Woof
Subject description: Bigger is better!
I made 2 wooflets: both use all 4.3's default packages, kernel 22.214.171.124 and 2 extras:
- desk_icon_theme_stardust
- gtk_theme_stardust_zigbert
The first wooflet was supposed to be an all-in-one wooflet with all modules for maximal hardware support, while the second one was supposed to be a smaller wooflet with all uncommon modules and components removed.
First wooflet: all modules, nothing removed, nothing stripped
- Kernel 126.96.36.199
- SCSI drivers
- "Other" framebuffer modules
- All "exotic" modules
- Seperate zdrv, included in ISO
- Libraries not stripped
Second wooflet: no modules, everything removed, everything stripped
- Kernel 22.214.171.124
- No SCSI drivers
- No "other" framebuffer modules
- All "exotic" modules removed
- Seperate zdrv, included in ISO
- Libraries stripped
The end results:
First wooflet:
- pup-430.sfs:
- zp430516.sfs: 24 MB
- pup-430-SCSI.iso: 108 MB
Second wooflet:
- pup-430.sfs: 92 MB
- zp439516.sfs:
- pup-430.iso: 104 MB
So ... "bigger" is smaller and better?
The better choice is the first one ... I guess. It's better for older hardware and more-generic hardware.
- Puppy itself occupies only 81 MB, compared to the second's 92 MB.
- Supports SCSI.
- If you run it and understand that you need the extra modules, all you have to "pay" is extra 4 MB over the second wooflet's size. If you don't have any exotic hardware, you can get a 81 MB wooflet, with a smaller memory usage and faster boot.
To test my theory, I made third and fourth wooflets: same as the first and the second, respectively, but this time with kernel 220.127.116.11 and analog modems removed. Same story.
Third wooflet:
- pup-430.sfs: 82 MB
- zp430305.sfs: 25 MB
- pup-430-SCSI.iso: 111 MB
Fourth wooflet:
- pup-430.sfs: 93 MB
- zp430305.sfs:
- pup-430.iso:
We've got 1 and 3 - the heavyweight guys with all modules, and 2 and 4 - the smaller and less compatible competitors.
So ... If I make a size comparison ... (
ascending order
, from left to right):
pup-430.sfs: 1, 3, 2, 4
zp430xxx.sfs: 4, 2, 1, 3
pup-430.iso: 4, 2, 1, 3
Time to analyze the results.
- Wooflets with more modules have smaller pup-430.sfs's.
- Wooflets with all modules removed have smaller zdrv's, but that's understandable ... water is wet, less modules occupy less space.
- Wooflets with all modules removed have smaller pup-430.iso's. Again ... 1 and 3 contain heaps of modules, that's understandable.
- Wooflets with 126.96.36.199 are smaller than wooflets with 184.108.40.206. Not such a big difference.
So who's best?
- Generic hardware, old: 1 without zdrv
- Generic hardware, new: 3 without zdrv
- Exotic hardware, old: 1
- Exotic hardware, new: 3
That means that the most functional wooflets are 1 and 3, 2 and 4 seem quite useless.
Now, let's be stupid. I'll give the first place 4 points, second - 3 points and so on, so we can decide who's the winner, the childish way. It's unfair, I know.
1: 4+2+2 = 8
2: 2+3+3 = 8
3: 3+1+1 = 5
4: 1+4+4 = 9
So the winner is 4 (with 9 points) - which is very similar to 430-small.iso by Barry. Unlucky bet ... my favorite was 1.
However, 1 and 2 are very close ... there's a 4 MB difference between their ISO's, but a huge 11 MB difference between their pup-430.sfs's.
(Wrote this from my flash drive 1-wooflet)
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Posted: Sat 26 Sep 2009, 05:20
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Have you ever created a puplet?
From early alpha and beta testing, I thought the process of
creating a wooflet (yep a distro of your very own)
was very easy - and I am notoriously inept.
(ask any fish)
How long did the process take you?
I seem to remember, it took me an hour or two.
Simple instructions all the way through
Did you follow this:
or some other info
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Posted: Sat 26 Sep 2009, 05:34
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Downloading all the packages took about 2.5-3 hours. the ./3builddistro step takes about 10 minutes ... although all the woofination was done on the .25.16 kernel, so it used only 1 CPU (I have a dual-core CPU). It's much faster on .30.5 with SMP.
I read the Woof pages long ago, but they're kinda outdated, so I had to dig inside the scripts.
Woof is really easy, but it needs some GUI to be fully accessible to newbies. Just a xdialog script with "enter the distro name", "enter the version", etc', and a pupget-like dialog for packages.
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Posted: Sat 26 Sep 2009, 09:51
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Very interesting read Iguleder, Should be added to Barry's Woof documentation.
Do you know, why a stripped wooflet has a larger pup-430.sfs file?
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Subject description: Adventures with Woof
I like your message title, different, scary :)
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Posted: Sat 26 Sep 2009, 14:16
Post subject: Is there a help thread for Woof?
I had a problem with Woof--as I was following the instructions--but I just put it on the back burner, but now I guess I will ask if anyone knows what this means (or I will go to the proper place to ask):
I changed the distro specs to "ubuntu." and then executed 0 and 1. The download took quite a while (~1.5-2+ hours, I wasn't timing) and I got some new files in the Woof directory that look like lists of ubuntu packages.
However, when I went to execute 2createpackages what happened was that first I got the message "preprocessing...." for maybe 10 seconds and then I went right back to the prompt.
From the instructions at
I cannot see what I did wrong. Will appreciate any advice. thanks.
I was in 4.3 with Woof alpha 9 (from the 4.3 directory). 16GB disk space--1GB pup_sav; the Woof folder is in /mnt/home so should have 15GB; 512MB ram.
I did not do this because I was in Puppy 4.3 and assumed it applied to previous versions: "You must be running in a Linux environment. The Linux distro that you are running right now may have inadequate or missing 'dpkg-deb' and 'lzma' utilities. This problem also applies to Puppy Linux <= v4.
Place 'support/dpkg-deb' into /bin and 'support/lzma' into /usr/bin, replacing any other versions (first run 'which' to check they aren't existing elsewhere).
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Posted: Sun 27 Sep 2009, 04:02
Post subject: Re: Is there a help thread for Woof?
clarf wrote:
Do you know, why a stripped wooflet has a larger pup-430.sfs file?
I guess it's because it leaves modules inside it ... that's the only reason I can think of.
When you keep all the extras, I guess it moves them and other modules to the zdrv. Not sure about that ... gotta explore zdrv for that.
(Adventures with Woof II: Wonders of ZDRV?)
playdayz wrote:
However, when I went to execute 2createpackages what happened was that first I got the message "preprocessing...." for maybe 10 seconds and then I went right back to the prompt.
From the instructions at
I cannot see what I did wrong. Will appreciate any advice. thanks.
I first built Pituch (my custom 4.3
) on 4.2.1 (with lzma PET installed and devx), then booted it. In both 4.2.1 and 4.3 I did NOT copy dpkg-deb and lzma or whatever it was.
Woof worked out-of-the-box on 4.3, without any additions, just plain 4.3. For the stripping option in the end of 3 you also need the devx.
Use the woof-20090917.tar.gz Woof -
It's meant to be used with Puppy as the compatible distro, because all the other package lists are not modified, maybe it will still work, but you may face kernel panics, trouble with some applications ...
(Adventures with Woof III: The Clash of COMPAT_DISTROs?)
By the way, I'm currently experimenting
wonderful thing. I want to try to woofify a 2-series Puppy for my flash drive to replace or live in peace with my dear Pituch. ttuxxx is already working on improvements for the 2 series, maybe I'll try to make my own "branch", who knows ... it's for personal use, but maybe someone will want it.
I'll do some silly experiments with series 2 too, no worries
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well be warned the 2.18 woof has about 6+ dead file links, So you have toedit them out or replace them and, it downloads the wrong kernel for it, its very buggy to get working, took me awhile to figure it out, 5 series is much easier to use the first time,
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(OMFG!!! It's ttuuxxx! I'm your fan!)
Yes, I know that, thanks.
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I'm finally getting some time to read forum posts!
It has been quite a while since I used Woof to build anything other than from the Puppy 4.x "compatible distro" packages. I do need to do some testing of the Debian, Ubuntu builds, etc.
Regarding a GUI for Woof, I have just made a brief post to my blog about that. Yes, it is underway!
I expect it to be a lot more than just a basic GUI. I want it to be useful for newbies as well as for the most advanced users.
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BarryK wrote:
Regarding a GUI for Woof, I have just made a brief post to my blog about that. Yes, it is underway!
I expect it to be a lot more than just a basic GUI. I want it to be useful for newbies as well as for the most advanced users.
Thanks BarryK.
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This week's champion rotation is so not my type. Especially with Kennen since lots of people will insta-lock pick him and most of the time would end up badly played.
Also I kinda find it funny on how people react to how I build him (ap/tank) and calling it stupid. I bet they haven't seen a lot of Kennen users.
And who's Urgot?
This is quite the quote I'm seeing on the LoL forums.
|2010-12-07, 11:30
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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Age: 30
Lucky me I've mained Urgot in the past, so I know exactly how to kill him Laning is still a bitch, of course, but people are soooo into Karthus and Ezreal that almost nobody plays Urgot. Kennen's pretty popular too, but personally I hate all ninjas, so I end up supporting my team with off-tanks (Swain), offensive support (Zilean) or full-tank (Nunu). I've come to realize that I still like playing Morgana now and then, she's next on my to-buy list.
As for the new heroes, I too shall try Karthus and Ezreal Won't be buying them though unless they end up being made of win ~_~ The Karthi I've met die like ants regardless of who's doing the ganking, and nobody uses his passive for revenge. Also I've noticed an increase in Kats as I hit LV19...
|2010-12-07, 11:41
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
Age: 31
Even though people say he's bad after 10 minute of the game, I find he's still quite good even at 30 minutes mark, mainly because of how good he is in the early. Still....late game I can't do anything noticeable aside from shoot shoot shoot shoot.
Btw, I love those Kennen that lightning rush me just to get killed before they touched me. It's funny and sad at the same time.
|2010-12-07, 11:52
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Urgot's mainly there for team pressure: start off possibly with FB, at LV2 he's a guaranteed 3-rocket hit, denying lots of exp even from the most agile players. After I get the core build done (manamune, boots, brutalizer), I either get sword of the occult (if doing well) or build up for Randuin's (if doing not-so-well). The damage bonus from the sword allows Urgot to retain his zoning presence even mid-game, and makes him a viable pusher too. But yeah, if you start out bad, you'll be a squishy that gets focused on and feeds lots, considering the -cough- mobility issues...
Imma try me some Kennen nao.
EDIT: Right, so Kennen's all-powerful versatile minja, but god I think he's just ANNOYING! I don't mean any offence to any Kennen players out there, but people don't know how to play him. So far I've only met one notable Ken summoner, about 2 weeks ago. Also tried out Ezreal, but he's even tougher to play than Ken...My problem with both players is that, while they are good at chasing, disabling and dealing tons of burst damage, they are severely squishy. Going AP/tanky may work for Kennen, but Ezreal(AD) needs a lot of attack and a decent mana pool, in addition to the HP.
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In the mean time, I've been using this one for a while, guess I should inform the people for its awesomeness
Those are the new batch. I don't know if it also include the old one, for example like these (warning, Annie biased )
|2010-12-08, 07:55
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|2010-12-08, 09:22
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A Proud Lolicon
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Beside, people wrecked our jungle in Normal more than Ranked, which is funny.
|2010-12-08, 14:55
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: France
I play some ranked game in solo queue and it's really hard IMO.
Sometimes you're with the good team, sometimes you're with the no brain team.
Today, I had the feeder team.
Nice Ashe feed 0/7... great... I should take the carry...
In normal game, I just play for fun, but when I'm playing ranked, there is a tension...
There are so much noob in ranked game, it's really really annoying.
I have about + 22 victory more than defeat in ranked solo, I'm always between 1400-1500.
In my opinion, to begin ranked game:
- 3 characters (useful) you know to play VERY VERY WELL: a carry AD, a carry AP, a TANK (and maybe a support)
- 3 full runes pages for your 3 main characters
- No Teemo pick
- useful picks
- no kids
- know to play safe
- don't play if you can't finish the game
BTW chinese artworks of LoL are just awesome. I love Sivir and Ashe .
Taki Akali is cool (Soul Calibur).
The Morgana is great too.
Janna is sexy!
Katarina is uber sexy .
Lux is awesome!
Malzahar is amazing!
Ez is epic!
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It's still better to play against pre-made team in practice with draft mode.
Btw, how to turn your client into the same one as Chinese.
|2010-12-10, 07:41
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: the Philippines
I have bought Annie, Ashe and Soraka. One burst mage, one ranged carry and one support champion. However, with the current line-up of free champions, I find it tough to survive, especially with Yi, Malphite, and the occasional team-up of Singed and *insert anti-carry here*.
Any suggestions for a new champion to purchase? I'm somewhat nervous in getting melee champs because I'm simply uncomfortable with them, but I might be able to cope if the learning curve's less punishing. I also have 1395 IP.
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March 14, 2010
MARYVILLE, Mo. -- Northwest Missouri State University's Board of Regents will meet in regular session beginning at 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 16 in the J.W. Jones Student Union Board Room.
The complete board agenda is available online at http://www.nwmissouri.edu/aboutus/regents/meetings/20100316.htm.
The tentative agenda includes a vote to close part of the meeting pursuant to R.S. MO 610.021(1)(2)(3)(13).
Following any closed session, the board may, at its discretion, decide to go back into open session to discuss any old business or raise new items as individual members deem appropriate.
Mark Hornickel, Communication Manager
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Northwest Missouri State University
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