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Three weeks ago, Dr. Michael Brown, a leading anti-LGBT activist and religious leader in Charlotte brought 40 of his ministry schools' students and other friends to Charlotte Pride, the city's annual LGBT Pride festival and parade, on whose board of directors I sit. While at the event, Brown's students and others circulated the festival area, speaking to attendees and asking attendees to complete a survey entitled, "Are You Open Minded?"
I took offense to Brown's outreach efforts this year, calling his tactics dishonest, underhanded and deceitful. I even appeared on Brown's radio show on Sept. 3 to discuss my disagreements with his survey and tactics. I discuss more about that experience in my latest editorial in the current issue of QNotes, hitting newsstands and online today. In the editorial, I call Brown's outreach efforts this year a "spectacular failure." You can read more about why in the editorial.
Here, though, I'll run through and answer the several questions Dr. Brown's students posed to Charlotte Pride attendees. Brown and I had meant to answer a few of these questions together on his radio show. Unfortunately, we ran out of time. Here though, I hope I'll be able to offer a more balanced view and some more informed answers and insight I thought was missing from Brown's Aug. 26 radio discussion of the survey results.
First, all the questions (src):
- 1. Do you agree with the statement "I have the right to marry the one I love"?
Yes No
If so, are there any exceptions? (Polyamory? Polygamy? Consensual adult incest [opposite sex? same-sex?]? Age of consent for marriage?)
Yes No
- If same-sex marriage becomes the law of the land, should religious exemptions be allowed for those who do not want to participate?
Yes No
If so, does that apply to churches? Businesses? Individuals?
If not, what should the penalty be (for churches, businesses, individuals)?
- If someone is not happy with their gender, should they be allowed to pursue a change of gender?
Yes No
If they are not happy with their sexual orientation, should they be allowed to pursue a change of their sexual orientation?
Yes No
If so, should they have to wait until they reach a certain age?
- If you could snap your fingers and change your sexual orientation or gender, would you?
Yes No
- Is it bigoted to believe that homosexual practice is sin?
Yes No
- Is it bigoted to say there is only one way to God?
Yes No
- How would you characterize yourself?
Male Female Other
Gay Straight Bi Trans Other
And my answers:
Do you agree with the statement "I have the right to marry the one I love"?
If so, are there any exceptions? (Polyamory? Polygamy? Consensual adult incest [opposite sex? same-sex?]? Age of consent for marriage?)
Yes. All people should be able to marry the person they love, but there are common-sense restrictions, mostly protecting possible victims from abuse. Such is the case with age of consent laws and laws forbidding incest. Family law, however, should also recognize that not all families are the same; families with multiple unmarried parenting partners deserve the same or similar protections for their and their children's well-being that couples receive. Such families may, indeed, be polyamorous, but many others are commonplace, including single parents who depend upon relatives or friends for co-parenting. Marriage alone should not be the gateway through which we determine who is entitled to the legal and social means to protect their families and the interests of their children.
If same-sex marriage becomes the law of the land, should religious exemptions be allowed for those who do not want to participate?
A simple "yes"-or-"no" option to this question is misleading and doesn't provide for a full context needed for an answer. Brown's survey provided follow-up questions where this context can be explored. See below.
If so, does that apply to churches? Businesses? Individuals?
CHURCHES: Religious exemptions regarding marriage and any other religious sacrament or rite are already woven into the fabric of U.S. law. This nation, unlike others (as is the case in England), has no established church body entangled with government, and, as such, no government agency or official can force a minister or person of faith to conduct any marriage. Any pastor or officiant has the right to refuse to perform, conduct or participate in a marriage ceremony. In fact, many pastors require couples to meet certain criteria (e.g., faith requirements, church membership, couples/pastoral counseling, etc.) before they will agree to perform the ceremony.
BUSINESSES: For the most part, statutory and case law on business discrimination is largely settled. Federal and state laws prohibit discrimination in public accommodations. Specifically, the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides all people the "full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin." Elsewhere, the act states that all people are "entitled to be free, at any establishment or place, from discrimination or segregation of any kind on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin…" In many states, these laws have been extended beyond public accommodations (hotels, restaurants, movie theaters, etc.) to apply to all businesses operating in the public and to protect other characteristics like sexual orientation or gender identity. In one particular New Mexico case, a photographer lost a lawsuit after she refused to photograph a same-sex couple's wedding. Salon's Mark Joseph Stern writes: "Legally, this ruling was correct; the photographer offered her skills solely as a business service, not as a form of personal expression. It's the equivalent of a taxi refusing to pick up a gay couple, or a restaurant refusing to serve a gay family." Courts have ruled that constitutional interests of fair treatment and equal access outweighs an individual right to discrimination. The reasons for such laws are clear: (1) Arbitrary discrimination, or discrimination for the sake of discrimination alone, does not represent a legitimate business interest, and (2) Government has a legitimate interest in proscribing arbitrary discrimination in the offering of goods and services, primarily in protection of free commerce and trade and the protection of individuals who may be adversely affected by mass discrimination. Can you imagine what the U.S. would look like today if private businesses had been able to continue refusing services to people of color? The same "religious liberty" arguments being used by opponents of LGBT equality today are eerily similar to many arguments used by racist business owners in the past. As the racist arguments of times past sound ridiculously hateful, silly and arbitrary today, so, too, will arguments in favor of anti-LGBT discrimination sound as equally hateful, silly and arbitrary in the years and decades to come.
[As an aside: Brown has asked if laws prohibiting discrimination by businesses would apply to a gay business owner who is asked to provide a service for an organization espousing beliefs with which she disagrees. The simple answer is yes. However, all business owners are free to refuse service for a variety of reasons which are not unlawful or arbitrary. Among those circumstances, one stands out: Businesses are free to refuse service when a customer may harass or intimidate employees or other customers. So, should a gay owner of a T-shirt business refuse service to a church which seeks to have T-shirts printed with the text of John 3:16? Most likely, no. But, should the gay owner be allowed to refuse service when the Scripture in question is calling for their death, such as Leviticus 20:13? Most definitely, yes.]
[Second aside: Many of the most recent cases regarding anti-gay business discrimination centers around marriage equality. Businesses have included wedding photographers, flower shops and bakeries. Each have claimed their religious belief that same-sex marriage is sinful prevents them from providing the service. I find such arguments from "Christian" business owners hypocritical unless they can also prove they have queried each and every past customer on their sexual practices and beliefs; for example, has the business owner provided a cake, photography or flowers for a couple who are not virgins and who have had sex before marriage, or have they provided services for a couple which intends to engage in an open, non-monogamous relationship after marrying? The only difference between these scenarios and the gay couple's scenario is that the business owner is aware of the gay couple's sexual orientation; the business owner may not have been aware of another couple's actions, which they may believe to be "sin," but they have still, even unwittingly, participated in a "celebration" of it. You might say that one can't "unwittingly" or unintentionally be a hypocrite, and I'd agree. But, the fact that a business owner holds on to such cherished beliefs — so cherished that it prevents them from providing services to an entire class of people — and, yet, does nothing to see that such beliefs are not applied equally and fairly to all of their customers, is, without a doubt, hypocritical.]
INDIVIDUALS: Individuals are free to associate with whomever they wish. No law can force an individual to visit a particular retail establishment, stay at a particular hotel or eat at a particular restaurant. Similarly, no law can force an individual to join an organization. Constitutional rights to freedom of association and expression apply. This particular "individual harm" argument is a red herring.
If not, what should the penalty be (for churches, businesses, individuals)?
CHURCHES: Exemptions for religious institutions are already represented in most law. Next.
BUSINESSES: Most public accommodations and commercial non-discrimination laws and ordinances apply civil penalties to unlawful discriminatory practices. Civil penalties should be fair and equitable, as a faithful reliance on justice requires; it's cliche, but it's true: "The punishment should fit the crime."
INDIVIDUALS: No issue here. Individuals are free to associate with whomever they wish. Next.
If someone is not happy with their gender, should they be allowed to pursue a change of gender? If they are not happy with their sexual orientation, should they be allowed to pursue a change of their sexual orientation?
Again, simple "yes"-or-"no" option for this pair of questions doesn't give it full justice. But, simply and quickly, yes. See more below.
GENDER: Yes. The experiences of transgender and other gender-variant people are well-established medical, scientific and psychological phenomena. Book closed.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Yes, which, at first glance, may seem radical to some in the LGBT community. Though I do not personally believe sexual orientation is changeable (and most all legitimate medical, scientific and psychological literature agrees), I see no valid, legal reason to prohibit an individual from seeking to live life the way they see fit. It's a complicated answer, I recognize. It also includes a great many questions on the veracity of claims made by "ex-gay" "therapists," the efficacy of such "therapies" and the many ethical questions involved, especially among the many "ex-gay" therapists and groups which have been found to engage in unorthodox and potentially harmful therapeutic techniques, have failed to fully inform their clients of the body of medical and psychological research, literature and expectations on the topic, practice personal, religious intimidation and, at times, have been found to engage in sexual exploitation and abuse (here's a good example).
If so, should they have to wait until they reach a certain age?
Again, "yes"-or-"no" won't cut it. See below.
GENDER: Call me a radical if you wish, but I happen to believe that children are far smarter and have far more insight into their own personhood than adults often give them credit. This recent story about a young boy who personally enjoys more feminine clothing, toys and other items is a perfect example of a young person who knows his gender as he perceives it now but who is allowed by his parents to exhibit a perfectly healthy and, what should be, perfectly normal affinity for items not traditionally interpreted as "masculine." Parents of children with gender-identity issues should consult with their physicians and with psychologists to determine the best course of action for their young people. I, for one, am not a medical expert, and, so, I won't pretend to be. But, I'd imagine it'd be most healthy that gender affirmation surgery be considered in a young person's later adolescent years, following puberty.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: As "ex-gay" "therapies" have been shown repeatedly to be potentially harmful and abusive to young people, and as the medical, scientific and psychological literature is clear that sexual orientation is a mostly-immutable characteristic, such "therapies" should not be open to minors. No parent should be allowed to forcefully change their child's sexual orientation; these are decisions for an individual to make. I support laws that prohibit the use of "ex-gay" and "reparative" "therapies" on minors.
If you could snap your fingers and change your sexual orientation or gender, would you?
Absolutely not. I am who I am today because of the unique life experiences I have encountered, many of which would not have been without my identifying as gay. There was a time when I might have answered yes, especially when I was younger and subjected to near-daily and sometimes brutal verbal and physical harassment. It's shameful that our culture bullies young people into hating who they are.
Is it bigoted to believe that homosexual practice is sin?
Very simply, yes.
Is it bigoted to say there is only one way to God?
Bigoted? Depends, I guess, on how you apply it. I believe I have chosen a path — the one, true path for me — that leads me to reconciliation with God. It should come as no surprise to any rational person that another's journey toward and understanding of God may differ wildly from mine or any other person's. Is that bigoted? No, I don't think so. But, if you're one who thinks you can speak for God and eternally condemn, carte blanche, an entire group of people simply because you personally disagree with them, yeah, that's a little bit bigoted. If you use such a condemnatory personal belief to legislate against entire groups of people, well, yeah, that's extremely bigoted, and nothing short of theocracy.
How would you characterize yourself?
Gay. Male.


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At the 2014 Academy of Country Music Awards, Taylor Swift opted for a classic black and white ensemble made fun and youthful in the form of a crop top and high-waisted skirt.
The country-pop crossover looked gorgeous in her two-piece red carpet look, showing a little more skin than Swifties might be used to seeing. Swift's white crop top sports minimal shoulder cut-outs while her long, flowing skirt boasts a high slit that shows off her long legs. Her strappy heels pull the look together.
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Swift was nominated for two big ACM awards, Entertainer of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year, as well as a slew of awards for Tim McGraw's 'Highway Don't Care,' which Swift lent her vocals for.

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Costco, Walmart or JCPenney? Which Is the Top Big Retailer?
Costco, Walmart, JCPenney and all the other chain retailers are some of the best places to shop for everything we need, including 200 packs of toilet paper rolls and those 12 packs of cereal. But out of them all — Kmart, Kohl's, Macy's, Meijer, Sam's Club, Sears and Target included — which is the best?
The good folks at Consumer Reports asked 26,000 readers to rate their shopping experiences to determine what the nation's top retailer is.
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The most unpopular stores, in case you're wondering, were Walmart and Kmart. Almost a quarter of Walmart shoppers who returned an item reported having problems doing it, and Kmart scored poorly for selection, service and checkout speed.
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PHOENIX -- When things go from bad to really bad for wildland firefighters, their last best hope rests with a folded emergency fire shelter they all carry wherever they go.
But the shelters are not a surefire way to live through a raging wildfire, as the deaths of 19 Arizona firefighters on Sunday shows. They work only under the best of circumstances, despite redesigns intended to make them more effective. You can see the Granite Mountain Hotshots training with the fire shelters in the photo collection above.
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"It's an extreme measure that's taken under the absolute worst conditions," said Prescott Fire Chief Dan Fraijo. "Under certain conditions there's usually only sometimes a 50 percent chance that they survive."
Nineteen members of a 20-person Hotshot crew from Prescott's fire department died despite using their shelters, a tent-like contraption made of fire-resistant material. It is designed to reflect heat and trap cool breathable air inside for a few minutes while a wildfire burns over a person.
But its success depends on the firefighters being in a cleared area away from fuels and not in the direct path of a raging inferno of heat and hot gasses. That apparently wasn't the case Sunday in the hills about the community of Yarnell, about 95 miles northwest of Phoenix.
"If you're in an area with a lot of flame contact, high temperatures for a long duration, that's when it's most challenged," said Tony Petrilli, a Forest Service project leader in charge of shelters and protective equipment based in Montana.
Fire shelters have been used in the U.S. since the 1960s. The latest version of the shelter American wildland firefighters use was designed in the early 2000s and all state and federal crews were using it by 2010. Shelters often look like a small pup tent made of aluminum foil.
It's actually much more complex than that. The outer layer is made up of silica cloth that can withstand high temperature covered by aluminum foil. The inside layer is lightweight fiberglass also laminated to aluminum foil.
The shelter reflects heat but doesn't stand up well to direct flames, Petrilli said. Firefighters who are trapped and can't escape to a safe area are trained to identify spots where it can be best used in a pinch.
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But they need to find a clear area away from a slope the flames are racing up, such as a cleared fire road or a rock slide area. And they've got to pick the spot quickly.
"Every situation is different," Petrilli said. "The best instruction we can give to firefighters is it's up to you to find your best deployment sites."
Investigators are just starting to review Sunday's deaths, and it could take months to determine whether the flames were just un-survivable. The glue holding the layers of the shelter together begins to come apart at about 500 degrees, well above the 300 degrees that would almost immediately kill a person.
Firefighters must be recertified in using their shelters once a year. A video profile of the Granite Mountain Hotshots produced by Arizona State University students for the Cronkite News Service last year shows the crew doing that training, unfurling and climbing into the shelters and wiggling to point their feet in the right direction - toward the oncoming flames.
For training, crew members used green tarps shaped and packaged like fire shelters. Once the hotshots got inside, other crew members yanked on the tarps to simulate the high winds they could face.
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DAYTON, January 24, 2014 - At approximately 3:47pm this evening, Sheriff's Deputy Robert Dunn responded to a shooting call at 1136 CR 450 in south Liberty County where James Albert Nesler, age 63 reported to the dispatcher that he had just shot his son, J.A. Nesler, age 27. Sgt. Investigators Kenny Dagle and Billy Knox conducted the investigation with assistance from District Attorney Logan Pickett and Texas Ranger Brandon Bess who also responded to the scene.
Preliminary investigation indicates that the younger Nesler lives at the home of his father, James Nesler and that a family argument took place between them. At some point, according to James Nesler, his son came towards him in a threatening manner. It was at this point that Mr. Nesler fired one shot from a hand gun, striking his son in the chest.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Head Coach Barbara Tonry has yet again assembled a challenging schedule for the women's gymnastics team this year. The schedule features three home meets and 11 straight weekends of competition beginning with a Jan. 17 trip to New Hampshire, where the Bulldogs will also face unfamiliar foes Utah State and Ball State.
Following their meet at New Hampshire, Yale will travel to State College, Pa., to face national power Penn State. The Nittany Lions finished the 2009 season ranked ninth in the national polls. At this meet, the Bulldogs will also face Penn State's Big Ten foe Iowa and defending Ivy Classic champion Cornell.
After their trip to Penn State, Yale has four straight meets in New Haven, beginning with a Jan. 30 home matchup with Penn. The Bulldogs will then travel across the Elm City to meet crosstown rival Southern Connecticut State and Ithaca College from New York. The next weekend, on Feb. 13, Yale will square off with Springfield College before meeting SCSU yet again on Feb. 20. The Bulldogs' second meet against the Owls will be located in John J. Lee Amphitheater, and another Connecticut school, Bridgeport, will appear as the third competitor. Yale closes the month of February with the Ivy League Classic at Brown. The meet will feature Brown, Cornell, Penn and Yale, the four Ivy League schools with gymnastics programs.
The month of March provides what will likely prove to be Yale's most difficult stretch of the season. On March 7, the Elis meet Rhode Island College and Springfield College before traveling to Rutgers on March 13. In addition to the Scarlet Knights, Yale will face five-time defending ECAC champion Towson. The Bulldogs then appear in a three-way meet with Maryland, George Washington and Auburn hosted by the Terrapins. Auburn finished last season ranked No. 16 in the national polls. Following the meet at Maryland, Yale will travel to Temple on March 27 for the ECAC Championships, looking to improve on last year's seventh-place finish. Yale hopes to qualify gymnasts for the NCAA Regional Championships held at Penn State on April 10 before concluding the season with the Collegiate Championships at Texas Women's University.
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SCHLADMING, Austria (Reuters) - American Lindsey Vonn suffered a serious crash in the women's super-G on the opening day of the alpine skiing world championships on Tuesday.
A helicopter was called to take the four-times overall World Cup champion to hospital.
The race had been delayed by fog and commentators queried whether it should have even started with shadows beginning to form.
The race resumed after Vonn was helped from the piste but top skiers Maria Hoefl-Riesch and Anna Fenninger immediately made mistakes to also drop out.
Vonn had tumbled on the piste halfway down in a race which started three-and-a-half hours behind schedule given the poor visibility.
Vonn hurt her right knee as she nearly somersaulted on the snow and was heard screaming in pain on the side of the course.
Slovenia's Tina Maze, the runaway World Cup leader, was leading when the crash interrupted the race and she stared in horror as her arch-rival hit the ground.
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No scheduled signings today, only drive-bys:
B. Dalton in 1 Embarcadero Center signed 2 hardcovers, 2 paperbacks, sold 2.
Borders on Winston signed 4 hardcovers, 6 paperbacks.
Waldenbooks in 4 Embaracdero Center, signed 3 hardcovers, 6 paperbacks. (They were closed, due to flooding, but let me in to sign. Hundreds of books were ruined by water damage, but mine were okay. Perhaps they should have a liquidation sale...)
Waldenbooks on Portal, signed 2 hardcovers, 5 paperbacks.
Stacey's on Market, signed 2 hardcovers, 2 paperbacks.
Cody's on Stockton--dropped by, but they weren't open.
Books Inc on Market, signed 1 paperback.
Barnes & Noble in Berkley, signed 4 hardcovers, 4 paperbacks.
Cody's on Telegraph, signed 2 hardcoversd, 4 paperbacks.
Moe's in Berkley, signed 4 paperbacks.
Cody's on 4th, signed 2 hardcovers, 2 paperbacks, sold 1.
Borders on Shellmound, signed 3 hardcovers, five paperbacks, sold 1.
Waldenbooks on 14th street---closed ten minutes before I got there, dammit.
Barnes & Noble on Bay, signed 4 hardcvoers, 6 paperbacks, sold 1.
Barnes & Noble on Boradway, signed 4 hardcovers, 6 paperbacks.
I also dropped by the 10th Annual Books by the Bay Festival and met authors Leslie Glass and Rhys Bowen--both very classy ladies (you must buy their books). I also met Dylan Schaffer, who beat me out for the Gumshoe Award and is also up against me for the Macavity. Great guy (and a great writer, buy his books). I wouldn't have found him if it wasn't for the savvy Susan Tunis (thanks, Susan!)
I spent a few minutes at the M is for Mystery booth and handsold 3 hardcovers and 3 paperbacks, and then I schmoozed other indie booksellers, including folks from Cody's, Stacey's, and the Alexander Book Company.
TOUR STATS: To date, I've signed roughly 740 books at 83 bookstores, and passed out 550 signed Whiskey Sour coasters to booksellers, fans, and customers. Each person who gets a coaster gets to hear my pitch.
Lee Goldberg asked if this is worth it, to which I whole-heartedly respond: I don't know.
I do know I've met some great people who will continue to sell my books after I've left. I know I've spread a lot of good will, got the word out there, and will be remembered. I know that it beats sitting at home and hoping my books sell on their own.
But is the result with the time, effort, and money put in?
Time will tell...
FUN FACT ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO: The hit song by the Village People, San Fransisco, was about San Francisco.
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McMahon ignores WWE insults
Linda McMahon looked good for her debate Thursday against Christopher Shays, her latest opponent for one of Connecticut's U.S. Senate seats.
She was wearing a trim two-piece suit in Teflon green, and every single scrap of mud thrown her way slid neatly off.
McMahon looked every bit as calm and collected by the end of the debate as she did at the beginning. She never veered from obviously scripted answers or shed a hint of sweat.
Shays looked every bit as testy, annoyed and frustrated at the end as when the debate started.
In fact, Shays threw a bit of a tantrum at the outset when there was a problem with the auditorium sound system at the University of Connecticut.
He snapped a terse "no" when offered a handheld microphone, saying everyone should just wait until the wireless microphones were fixed. Everyone did wait.
Then, once the debate was under way, the former congressman turned irritable again every time McMahon ducked one of his insults about her tenure as head of World Wrestling Entertainment, as if she were somehow approaching him with a WWE handheld microphone.
I think Shays is less bothered that someone who once produced raunchy television programming would get to serve in the U.S. Senate than he is annoyed to think someone who peddled TV trash would take a Senate seat he considers his due.
I thought I detected just a bit of a flutter in Shays' voice when he made mention, more than once, of how McMahon's husband once appeared on camera to tell a woman to strip off her clothes and bark like a dog.
I doubt he would have even noticed when the segment first aired. Now it seems to infuriate him.
Each time, Shays' insults about WWE trash slid right off the green suit.
McMahon did so much better in Thursday's debate that it makes you wonder why she isn't the one calling for more debates in the primary campaign, not Shays.
I went into the debate Thursday convinced Connecticut Republicans would be crazy to send McMahon, who spent $50 million losing her last bid for a Senate seat, up against Democratic frontrunner Chris Murphy.
After all, this election is going to revolve around the country's looming deficit and the range of miserable solutions, from cutting entitlements to raising taxes, or at least raising them on the very rich.
McMahon, a very rich candidate who refuses to talk about whether she would support cuts to Social Security and Medicare, seems like a terrible choice to debate these issues.
But on Thursday, she debuted her script for debating class warfare 2012, and she talked over and over again about her economic plan and its call for a middle-class tax cut.
As Shays said several times Thursday, McMahon was trained in the arena of make-believe. What he neglected to say is that she is very good at it.
Who cares that proposing further tax cuts is like yanking cords off a patient on life support?
McMahon makes it sound like the most natural thing in the world, honest, easy, a cure for what ails the country: Tax cuts for everyone. Never mind that none of it is real.
One clear difference between McMahon's debate performance against now-Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Thursday's is that she seems much more likeable.
Maybe because Blumenthal had earned a lot of trust with Connecticut voters, his attacks on McMahon seemed more credible and substantial.
Shays on Thursday just seemed kind of mean-spirited.
At the end, when the candidates were asked a series of inane personal questions - what book they are reading, their favorite restaurant - McMahon disclosed that her first car was a Dodge Dart.
Those were so ugly, Shays said.
The retort fell flat, like the rest of his attack, however reasonable it may have been.
This is the opinion of David Collins.
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Bruno Mars Scores Fifth No. 1 Single With 'When I Was Your Man'
Bruno Mars is No. 1 again! It's getting to be old-hat, or old-fedora, in his case. The crooner notched his fifth No. 1 hit with the heartfelt ballad 'When I Was Your Man' -- you know, the one that he got all emotional performing on 'Ellen.'
The song, which appears on 'Unorthodox Jukebox,' has ascended to the top slot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album's first single, the infectious, Police-inspired 'Locked Out of Heaven,' was No. 1 for six consecutive weeks earlier this year. Mars has grabbed his Numero Unos at the fastest pace since Elvis, so say the bean counters and statisticians at Billboard!
Want another awesome Bruno Mars stat? The song, an affecting, lays-its-cards-face-up-on-the-table track, is his sixth No. 1 single on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 radio airplay chart, making him the solo male artist with the most chart-toppers in its 20-year history. He's got more than Justin Timberlake, yo!
Finally, 'When I Was Your Man' is his 11th song to notch 1 million downloads.
Maybe Tyler, the Creator (aka Bruno Hater) will finally be a fan. His name is Bruno Mars and he is a hit maker!
The singer will also be opening the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, which take place Sunday, May 19 at 8PM ET on ABC. Be sure and tune in.
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here I am back after a few months of life outside of my blog. Leaving the comfort zone was not easy, and specifically not made easy. This will be told another time.
Fortunately my number of lives is unlimited. I come back more determined than ever about my Lisp languages choices and my quest for a Lisp mentor.
I do not bring code yet this time, but I'd like to point out the two events that lead me definitively in the Lisp world, although being a Scala coder by day. First, I met the Amsterdam Clojurians and their meetings initiatives, and then the reading of Brian Marick book: Functional Programming for the Object Oriented developer.
The book uses Clojure as a support to picture various aspects of functional programming from the basics of functions as first class citizen to more experts monadic structures presentation (yes in Clojure!).
Astute readers will recognize some tributes to the SICP book specifically when embedding an Object-Oriented Language from the very start of book, or presenting lazy sequences, as close as they are to Scheme streams.
But in my humble opinion Mr Marick's book is not only "yet another book" on Clojure. Of course you learn about Clojure. The same ideas could be pictured in Ruby, Scheme, Haskell etc. For example, the intellectual exercise of embedding an OOP approach exposes a paradigm for what it is: a specific programmatic interface aiming to serve group of concepts for the better - or sometimes for the worse. The monadic structure examples expose clearly, concisely, and in a pragmatic way, why and how you should use some approaches of the monadic ecosystem. So far the best explanation on Monads I ever read.
Brian Maricks does not popularize functional programming for the average developer, but pulls her up to a new level of perception. As in his zipper example, he magnifies some aspects of mutable data structures and function application Whether you are new to functional programming or already an experimented functional programming developer you will certainly find meat for the brain in this book.
Brian Marick shares understandable knowledge and it shows that sharing matters to him. Each line, each page reveals a true and deep commitment in making the functional paradigm accessible to every willing developer.
Brian Marick works matters today more than ever. In a time where rock star developers with over sized ego seem to invade Computer Science, it is becoming harder and harder to find humble people committing into knowledge sharing. One can be a very clever hard core developer producing infinite volumes of open source code praised by a blind community, his cleverness serves no purpose if he is incapable of sharing the knowledge and pulling people at his level. The essence of progress is in the ability to pull the world with you, not to make it serve your purpose and flattering you. Unfortunately I mainly witness today exchanges between people who spend their coding lifetimes in congratulating each others for the sake of their own ego.
There were times when we had masters, humble, educated, sharing. It seems that some very rare people like Brian Marick keep the tradition alive. I would like to meet more of them, and it occurs to me that some remain from the Lisp community and new are coming into the Clojure communities as the new Common Lisp for the JVM. Maybe one day an old Lisper who wishes to mentor, who knows...
See you pals with more code next time. Be seeing you !!! :):):)


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If you're thinking about taking on the seemingly daunting task of cooking for your sweetheart this Valentines Day, but haven't a clue what to make, then you've come to the right place. Yes, you could go the usual route and do the steak and potatoes thing, but it's so…common. And what if your date isn't of the omni/carnivore persuasion, eh? What if I said that you could take an amazing dish that's traditionally made with beef and make it equally as delicious with a swap-out of mushrooms? Now you're curious. Read on.
The following is a great twist on the classic French dish, Boeuf (beef) Bourguignon, where beef stew meat is cooked with carrots, onions, herbs and tomato paste. It is then simmered in red wine until the beef is tender and the sauce has thickened and concentrated all of those lovely flavors into a savory, gravy-like sauce. This mushroom bourguignon replaces the beef with hearty mushrooms, like portobellos and criminis, but uses the same techniques — and most of the same ingredients — as the original. The traditional dish uses pearl onions, but I opted for peas as they give the dish some more color. Even better, this mushroom version takes a fraction of the time to cook.
Lastly, I must give credit where it's due. This recipe was adapted from the original incarnation of Mushroom Bourguignon by Deb Perelman on SmittenKitchen.com. It's featured in her new cookbook, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, and the first time I laid eyes on the recipe — and the book — I was smitten. I highly recommend picking up this book; it's full of dazzling looking dishes that are great for cooks of any skill level, and it features both meat and vegetarian main dishes.
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The New England Innocence Project
In 1983, Mr. Kenneth Waters was convicted of first degree murder and armed robbery in Ayer, MA. On March 15, 2001, the New England Innocence Project (NEIP) and its New York affiliate secured Mr. Waters' release after serving 18 years when DNA testing established that blood of the assailant found at the crime scene did not match Mr. Waters' DNA.
Click for information about working with the Innocence Project
Based on a review of the DNA test results, the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office did not oppose Mr. Waters' request for his release. NEIP is a nonprofit charitable trust that is part of the National Innocence Network of innocence projects.
NEIP, housed at Goodwin|Procter LLP in Boston, is reviewing more than 50 cases to determine whether further investigation or forensic testing can exonerate persons who may have been wrongfully convicted and imprisoned.
Recent New England Law | Boston Involvement
Martha Drane '10
Marie Giraud '10
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Brandon Watson. (PDF of amicus brief filed on August 13, 2009, by New England Law Professor David Siegel. Martha Drane '10 and Marie Giraud '10 assisted Professor Siegel in preparing the brief.)


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Rolling Stones Q&A: 'This Juggernaut Is Almost Unstoppable'
Mick, Keith Talk Reunion Shows, Arm-and-a-Leg Tickets and Plans for '13
The first floor of London's Dorchester Hotel is crowded with security men, management staff and press assistants, all moving between various suites. Little sensing the comedy value, they dart through one door only to appear from behind another moments later to check a watch or make another call. The business of promoting a new compilation, a film and a handful of live dates is afoot, and the Rolling Stones are working hard.
On Oct. 19, halfway through an intense run of rehearsal days in Paris, they interrupted that schedule to fly home for the London premiere of "Crossfire Hurricane" -- the documentary directed by Brett Morgen, produced by Mick Jagger and executive-produced by the rest of the Stones -- and a day of interviews. Ronnie Wood looks bleary-eyed, but enthusiastic to a fault. Charlie Watts is laid up at home with the flu. Keith Richards cackles as amiably as ever, noticeably without the omnipresent drink near at hand. Jagger is purposeful but animated.
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Billboard shared separate suites with Jagger and Richards to get the word on the film, the "GRRR!" compilation (due Nov. 13 in North America on ABKCO/Universal) and 50 years in the Stone age.
When did a reunion begin to look possible?
Keith Richards: We did some rehearsals in New Jersey [in the spring]. To me that was the acid test, and when Charlie Watts clicked in, then I knew that the juggernaut would continue. We were rocking, and everyone's going, "Yeah, the energy's there." Music takes you over and above any of the petty little things, the bickering and all that crap.
Did you expect to record the new songs ["Doom & Gloom" and "One Last Shot"] for GRRR!?
Keith: They were making this compilation, and at the last moment they tell us, "Oh, it'd be nice to have an extra track or two." So Mick and I say, "Oh, great, we've got a month. Just like that, huh?" I said, "I've got one," and he said, "I've got one"-it was probably the quickest Rolling Stones recording sessions that I can remember, ever. We cut two tracks in three days, boom. And to me just taking one step back, to watch the band playing, just as an observer... whoa, man, these cats are hot.
Mick Jagger: I knocked out "Doom & Gloom" in very quick time, did a quick demo of it, and it didn't come out a million miles away from that, to be honest. Everyone's saying good things about it, so I can't be happier. "One Last Shot" is a song that Keith wrote mostly. I wrote some extra lyrics for it. It's really good.
The retrospective film "Crossfire Hurricane" is quite dark, especially in its coverage of the Stones' '60s history. Was that the intention?
Mick: It is quite dark. Not as dark as it was in one cut. [We said], "Wait a minute, Brett, you've gone too dark! Come back into the light now, you can have a bit more funnies." If you lean too heavily on the dark bits, you can drag people down too much. I think it's a good balance now. Several people said, "I know the story, but I couldn't stop watching it. I still found new things in it."
Keith: Brett Morgen did an amazing job of keeping the story on track. He didn't get hung up with the chicks, which is a difficult thing to do. Also he found some amazing footage.
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There's been controversy about your ticket pricing for the London and New Jersey shows. What's your take on that?
Mick: I don't think there should be a secondary ticket market. I don't think it should be legal. To my mind, there has to be a better way of doing it, but we're living, really, with the way the system functions. We can't, in four shows, change the whole ticketing system. You might say, "The tickets are too expensive"-well, it's a very expensive show to put on, just to do four shows, because normally you do a hundred shows and you'd have the same expenses. [laughs] So, yes, it's expensive. But most of the tickets go for a higher price than we've sold them for, so you can see the market is there. We don't participate in the profit. If a ticket costs 250 quid [$400], let's imagine, and goes for 1,000 quid [$1,600], I just want to point out that we don't get that difference.
What sort of shows can we expect?
Keith: We'll have Bobby Keys in for a few horn things but we're not carrying sections. Charlie said, "We should have the stripped-down thing." I said, "Charlie, you realize how much pressure that puts on the guitar lineup?" But at the same time, it's a challenge, and he's right. The fact is that what we try and do onstage is deliver what's on the record, and there's a lot of horns and a lot of voices. OK, you want the blues band, you want the rock 'n' roll, stripped down? You're going to get it. It's going to be fun, man.
Do you see the 50th anniversary as a cause for celebration?
Mick: It's like a big birthday -- you come to it and then you move on.
Keith: There's a sort of sense of timing with this band that you can't really put your finger on. There's a sort of scratch and an itch that comes up, and I suppose the 50-year thing is an added spur.
And 2013? Keeping options open?
Mick: I suppose you could say, yeah.
Keith: This juggernaut, once it gets rolling, is almost unstoppable. "Oh, an extra gig," or, "Let's play somewhere you've never played before." So things go on. Right now, I'm just happy to have the thing rolling and moving. It'll be great, playing London and New York. The rest of it, it'll happen. Don't worry about it.


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HT: Byzantine TX. Source: Asia NewsIstanbul (AsiaNews) – On the eve of the holiday season, Bartholomew I delivered a major address before an highly qualified audience from the Orthodox world, defending the Ecumenical Patriarchate's choice for inter-faith dialogue. "We will insist on dialogue, despite the criticism that we suffer," he said. "There is, unfortunately, a certain religious fundamentalism, a tragic phenomenon, which can be found among Orthodox and Catholics, among Muslims and Jews. These are people who think they alone have the right to exist on earth, almost as if they alone have the right to rule on this our planet according to the Old Testament. And they say there is no room for anyone else, and are therefore opposed to any dialogue. "
The Patriarch continued: "We are subject to criticism and attack because we maintain relations with the Pope (because we are strong supporters of the ecumenical dialogue between Orthodox and Catholics), with Islam and the Jewish world. But we will continue to move forward on our journey, according to the path laid by our predecessors, well aware of our actions, regardless of the criticisms of which we are object. These fringes, characterized by extreme positions, are everywhere. It is therefore natural that we suffer their criticisms, according to their ideological dictates, all of us who try to widen our horizons and have a theological view of things. Because we want the peaceful coexistence of all, based on the principles of charity and friendship. "
Bartholomew I added: "This is the credo of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and I want to remember that in 1920 the regent of the patriarchal see, along with the synod, had addressed to Catholics and Protestants an encyclical, called 'The community of churches', along the lines of the newly created 'society of nations'. That encyclical is considered today by the World Council of Churches as the 'Charter' of the ecumenical movement of our time. This is a well known fact to insiders, and it is good that it should be made as widely known to as many people as possible".
Then Bartholomew I went on to highlight: "With regard to interreligious dialogue, it is our belief and our creed. Because we need to know each other better, to work together while respecting the religious beliefs of others, their cultural identity, without oppression. This is the only way to live in peace. For this reason, the Patriarchate, in addition to having a dialogue with other Churches and Christian denominations, has established over the past 25 years a dialogue with Islam and Judaism. We have had several successful meetings. With the Muslims and Jews, our brothers, we do not discuss purely theological issues as it would be difficult. But we talk about social issues, social issues that effect all people, all humanity, all over the world. "
Ecology has been one of the favorite themes of the Ecumenical Patriarchate since 1989. The Patriarch said: "Everything that we try to do, we do because we believe it is our duty, because the Church should be actively present in the contemporary world and be sensitive to people's problems, raise awareness and encourage them to love and protect nature like their own homes". He added: "The environment, nature, is God's creation and do not belong only to us who live today in 2010. They belong to all future generations. "
Bishop Dositheos spokesman for the Patriarchate, commented on the Patriarch's homily for AsiaNews, "a certain confusion prevails in some sectors of the Orthodox Christian world between the two terms, tradition and traditionalism. Tradition, to which those minorities often refer, is the ongoing search to interpret and understand the truth, while traditionalism which essentially belong to these minorities, is an intellectual sterility which often is identified with nationalism in the Orthodox world".


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While most of us don't think twice about our ability to see the world around us, many lack even the basic access to eyeglasses.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated Dr. Ahsan Khan was the president of Humanity First USA.
According to the World Health Organization, 20 million are blind because of cataracts, 90% of which are people in developing countries.
Dr. Ahsan Khan, a Kaiser ophthalmologist in Irvine and Yorba Linda, has seen the need first-hand in countries such as Guatemala, where he has been performing pro bono cataract surgery since 2010.
Khan is the director of Humanity First USA's Gift of Sight program, which opens eye camps in small villages in Guatemala and performs surgery, treats glaucoma and gives eyeglasses to people in need.
On Saturday, he ran the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Half Marathon in Irvine for the nonprofit, hoping to raise funds and awareness about the cause. He liked the idea because it combined both his passions — volunteer work and running.
By the end of the race, Khan had raised more than $1,300 for the nonprofit.
"I gave the gift of sight to 13 people by running this race," he said, pointing out that a cataract surgery costs about $100.
The fundraising isn't over. A play on perfect sight, Khan hopes to raise $2,020 and is keeping the fundraising web page open for a couple more months.
The money raised goes directly to the resources needed for Khan's medical camps.
Khan's first experience with the lack of access to eye care worldwide was while he was a resident at Loyola University in Chicago. During his residency in 2004, he traveled to Pakistan and observed the enormous impact doctors could have on the region.
"When you can help out in some way, it validates the whole reason for going into medicine," he said. "When I did that trip I realized that's what I wanted to do in my career."
In 2010 he was approached by a colleague that was involved with Humanity First. His friend had traveled to Guatemala and saw a need for eye surgery and reached out to Khan. Humanity First's American chapter didn't have eye camps at the time and had never sent a team of doctors to perform eye surgeries.
Khan dove into the project head first, going to Guatemala in May 2010 to assess the infrastructure. He came back and gathered necessary funds, getting donations from large healthcare companies such as Abbott Laboratories, Alcon and Bausch + Lomb. He set up the first eye camp in September in San Juan Sacatepéquez, bringing along a team that included his Kaiser scrub tech Juan Núñez, who he says he couldn't do the camp without.
The group went back to Chichicastenango in October with more resources — bringing on optometrists, an anesthesiologist and 1,000 eyeglasses donated by the Chicago Lion's Club. The doctors were able to perform around 30 cataract surgeries each trip and treated hundreds of patients.
Not only is treatment a priority, but Khan finds it pivotal to the cause that they teach the local doctors how to run the camps, use equipment and properly treat patients. They've successfully established relationships with doctors and nurses there so the patients can have proper follow-up treatment, which is crucial after surgery.
Prior to their stay in Guatemala, the local medical residents go to Mayan Indian villages, churches and advertise in newspapers, telling them of the medical team on its way.
The majority of the patients are Mayan, Khan said, and have virtually no access to healthcare.
"We had so many people from local villages that were basically blind and all they needed were a pair of glasses," he said. "They've walked around 10 or 20 years and didn't know that's all they needed. You give them a pair of glasses and they can see things they never thought they could see."
The impact is enormous on the patients, but Khan said he believes his team walks away with a much larger gift.
"At the end of the day it is what we get out of it. It changes your perspective," he said. "It makes you more grounded and makes you appreciate that you have eyesight and access to medical care, but above all that, that you are able to do this for people."
Khan is planning a trip for October and is hoping to bring along residents from his old program at Loyola University in Chicago.
For more information, visit Khan's fundraising page at http://www.tinyurl.com/giftofsight or usa.humanityfirst.org.
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Read, Show and Data.Binary do not check for repeated references to the same address. As a result, the data is duplicated when seri<alized. This is a waste of space in the filesystem and also a waste of serialization time. but the worst consequence is that, when the serialized data is read, it allocates multiple copies for the same object when referenced multiple times. Because multiple referenced data is very typical in a pure language such is Haskell, this means that the resulting data loose the beatiful economy of space and processing time that referential transparency permits.
Here comes a brief tutorial:
runW applies showp, the serialization parser of the instance Int for the RefSerialize class Data.RefSerialize>let x= 5 :: Int Data.RefSerialize>runW $ showp x 5 every instance of Read and Show is an instance of RefSerialize. for how to construct showp and readp parsers, see the demo.hs rshowp is derived from showp, it labels the serialized data with a variable name Data.RefSerialize>runW $ rshowp x v8 where {v8= 5; } Data.RefSerialize>runW $ rshowp [2::Int,3::Int] v6 where {v6= [ v9, v10]; v9= 2; v10= 3; } while showp does a normal show serialization Data.RefSerialize>runW $ showp [x,x] [5, 5] rshowp variables are serialized memory references: no piece of data that point to the same addrees is serialized but one time Data.RefSerialize>runW $ rshowp [x,x] v9 where {v6= 5; v9= [ v6, v6]; } this happens recursively Data.RefSerialize>let xs= [x,x] in str = runW $ rshowp [xs,xs] Data.RefSerialize>str v8 where {v8= [ v10, v10]; v9= 5; v10= [ v9, v9]; } the rshowp serialized data is read with rreadp. The showp serialized data is read by readp Data.RefSerialize>let xss= runR rreadp str :: [[Int]] Data.RefSerialize>print xss [[5,5],[5,5]] this is the deserialized data the deserialized data keep the references!! pointers are restored! That is the whole point! Data.RefSerialize>varName xss !! 0 == varName xss !! 1 True rShow= runW rshowp rRead= runR rreadp Data.RefSerialize>rShow x v11 where {v11= 5; } In the definition of a referencing parser non referencing parsers can be used and viceversa. Use a referencing parser when the piece of data is being referenced many times inside the serialized data. by default the referencing parser is constructed by: rshowp= insertVar showp rreadp= readVar readp but this can be redefined. See for example the instance of [] in RefSerialize.hs This is an example of a showp parser for a simple data structure. data S= S Int Int deriving ( Show, Eq) instance Serialize S where showp (S x y)= do xs <- rshowp x -- rshowp parsers can be inside showp parser ys <- rshowp y return $ S ++xs++ ++ys readp = do symbol S -- I included a (almost) complete Parsec for deserialization x <- rreadp y <- rreadp return $ S x y there is a mix between referencing and no referencing parser here: Data.RefSerialize>putStrLn $ runW $ showp $ S x x S v23 v23 where {v23= 5; }
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- class Serialize c where
- showSR :: Show a => a -> ST String
- readSR :: Read a => ST a
- rShow :: Serialize c => c -> String
- rRead :: Serialize c => String -> c
- insertVar :: (a -> ST String) -> a -> ST String
- readVar :: Serialize c => ST c -> ST c
- varName :: a -> String
- runR :: ST a -> String -> a
- runW :: ST String -> String
- readHexp :: (Num a, Integral a) => ST a
- showHexp :: (Num a, Integral a) => a -> ST String
module Data.Parser
|:: ST c
read the content of a expression, must be user defined
|:: c
|-> ST String
insert a reference (a variable in the where section).
|Serialize Bool
|Serialize Char
|Serialize Double
|Serialize Float
|Serialize Int
|Serialize Integer
|Serialize Ordering
|Serialize String
|Serialize ()
|Serialize a => Serialize [a]
|Serialize a => Serialize (Maybe a)
|(Serialize a, Serialize b) => Serialize (Either a b)
|(Serialize a, Serialize b) => Serialize (a, b)
|(Serialize a, Ord a, Serialize b) => Serialize (Map a b)
|(Serialize a, Serialize b, Serialize c) => Serialize (a, b, c)
|(Serialize a, Serialize b, Serialize c, Serialize d) => Serialize (a, b, c, d)
showSR :: Show a => a -> ST StringSource
if a is an instance of Show, showSR can be used as the showp method the drawback is that the data inside is not inspected for common references so it is recommended to create your own readp method for your complex data structures
readSR :: Read a => ST aSource
if a is an instance of Read, readSR can be used as the readp method the drawback is that the data inside is not inspected for common references so it is recommended to create your own readp method for your complex data structures
rShow :: Serialize c => c -> StringSource
use the rshowp parser to serialize the object
rShow c= runW $ rshowp c
rRead :: Serialize c => String -> cSource
deserialize trough the rreadp parser
rRead str= runR rreadp $ str
insertVar :: (a -> ST String) -> a -> ST StringSource
insert a variable at this position. The expression value is inserted in the where section if it is not already
created. If the address of this object being parsed correspond with an address already parsed and
it is in the where section, then the same variable name is used
runW showp (1::Int) -> 1
runW (insertVar showp) (1::Int) -> v1 where { v1=1}
runW (insertVar showp) [(1::Int) ,1] -> [v1.v1] where { v1=1}
This is useful when the object is referenced many times
readVar :: Serialize c => ST c -> ST cSource
deserialize a variable serialized with insertVar. Memory references are restored


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i met with Adam Shiverdecker today. Adam has proposed that we combine certain elements of his sculptural ceramics course and my phys. comp. course. i am truly excited that this seems like a great opportunity to teach my students about physical construction and Adam is interested in expanding his students' awareness of using kinetics, communication, and HMI in their projects.
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Over the years, Super Bowls have produced one recurring phenomenon: the unanticipated blowout. And it always happens for the same reason:
The team that falls behind, realizing that it isn't quite good enough, tends to lose heart, as the Raiders did Sunday, understanding that the big dream of a championship isn't going to happen.
At the same time, the other team, which might well have had some doubts about itself going into the first kickoff -- particularly after lining up as the underdog, as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did this time -- feeds on its success.
Gaining strength from a sudden prosperity that it hadn't expected, it attacks with more confidence and plays even harder than usual, as the Buccaneers did, and, in a wink, that team is on a roll.
That's how an overachieving defense-oriented team from Baltimore gathered itself only two winters ago to smash the New York Giants by 27 points.
And it happened again here in Super Bowl XXXVII, when, on the way to a 48-21 rout, the Buccaneers opened a 34-3 lead with 20 minutes to play.
Because the Raiders are the NFL's best passing team -- and because they have so many good veteran players -- they did, in the time that remained, regain some respect, show some character and score some points. But it was too late. Heavy of heart, outplayed by one of the great defenses of all time, the Raiders never had a chance.
It was Tony Dungy, this season's Indianapolis Colt coach, who built that Buccaneer defense in the seasons from 1996 to 2001 when he coached at Tampa. Hiring virtually all of the players on the Buccaneer defense Sunday, Dungy also designed the scheme that strangled the Raider offense.
Moreover, the players on offense are mostly his.
Dungy, however, a laid-back gentleman and scholar, has never been able to win a Super Bowl himself. It took a young fire-eater named Jon Gruden to supply the one thing the Buccaneers were lacking in all their years with Dungy -- an emotional approach that so often makes the difference in football.
Clearly, Gruden's rah-rah-go-get-'em notions caught on with Dungy's players and made them into champions.
Intellectually, this is the same team that couldn't win last season. Emotionally, it's a new team, which, surely, is the way Gruden planned it.
Gruden never could have done it, though, without Dungy's contribution. For example, you couldn't play for Dungy if you couldn't tackle -- no matter how much talent you had. And you couldn't play for Dungy unless you had some speed -- no matter how much style you had or how many other fine qualities you brought to work.
The Buccaneers aren't as fast as they looked in this game because the Raiders are so slow. But they're fast enough.
Otherwise, the way Dungy put together the Buccaneer defense was most visible in these respects:
The Raiders couldn't throw their usual short passes because the Buccaneers placed five fast linebackers and cornerbacks in the five short passing zones.
The Raiders couldn't throw downfield because the Buccaneers' rush line was on top of quarterback Rich Gannon before he could get the ball off.
The Raiders couldn't run the ball because the Buccaneer line slanted hard to the left or right on every snap while the Buccaneer linebackers compensated in the other direction. Every time Raider halfback Charlie Garner got a handoff, he ran into one group or the other.
Add Gruden's emotion, and it was enough to win a Super Bowl.
Here's the thing to keep in mind about the Raiders: Succeeding the St. Louis Rams, they became the passing team of 2002, and, as such, won the AFC championship.
With one of the finest short-pass attacks organized, they beat enough good defenses to reach the Super Bowl, where they learned, as early as the first quarter, that they couldn't beat a super team.
The Raiders' two weaknesses were more than their leaders, Gannon and Coach Bill Callahan, could overcome. First, and most significant, they weren't fast enough. Second, they don't have a ground offense to integrate with their overhead offense.
Passing is the way to go these days to win pro games -- Tampa Bay quarterback Brad Johnson, an ordinary player, got off enough passes to help his defense construct this rout -- but a passing team such as the Raiders needs some kind of running threat to be a champion.
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The Petrof piano factory was founded in 1864 by Antonin Petrof in Hradec Králové, an old, historic town 100 kilometers east of Prague, in the present Czech Republic. Five generations of the Petrof family owned and managed the business, during which time the company kept pace with technical developments and earned prizes for its pianos at international exhibitions. The Czechs have long been known for their vibrant musical-instrument industry, which also includes makers of brass, woodwind, and stringed instruments.
In 1947, when all businesses in the Czech Republic were nationalized by the state, the Petrof family was forced out of the business. In 1965 Petrof, along with other piano manufacturers, was forced to join Musicexport, the state-controlled import-export company for musical instruments. Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the liberation of Eastern Europe, the various factories that were part of Musicexport have been spun off as private businesses, including Petrof, which is once again owned and controlled by the Petrof family. Currently Petrof manufactures 5,000 vertical pianos and 900 grands annually.
Petrof recently introduced a series of six new grand piano models, named (in size order) Bora, Breeze, Storm, Pasat, Monsoon, and Mistral, from 5' 2" to 9' 2" in length. Most component parts are produced by Petrof or other Czech factories, including the hardware, plates, and cabinetry. Soundboards are of solid Bohemian spruce, grand rims are of laminated beech and birch, pinblocks are of compressed beech, plates are cast in wet sand, and hammers are from Renner or Abel. These pianos also boast several interesting features: The soundboard is custom-tapered and asymmetrically crowned for optimal resonance; the treble bridge is capped with genuine ebony for better transmission of treble tone; front and rear duplexes are tuned for tonal color; pianos are single-strung for tuning stability; an adjustable bolt has been added from the plate to the wooden cross block for additional tuning stability; and a decorative veneer has been added to the inner rim. The earlier series of Petrof grands with model numbers containing roman numerals will coexist with the new models as long as supplies last.
Actions in Petrof pianos are standard Detoa on the smaller verticals, Renner on the larger grands and larger verticals, and either Renner parts on a Petrof action frame or Petrof Original Actions made by Detoa on mid-size instruments.
Petrof has also invented and patented a version of its new grand action that uses tiny opposing magnets on the wippens and wippen rail. These magnets allow for the removal of the usual lead counterweights in the keys and, according to the company, significantly alter the action's dynamic properties. The new action also furthers the European Union's stated environmental goal of phasing out the use of lead in pianos. The action is adjusted in the factory for a standard touchweight and is serviced in exactly the same way as a standard action. The Magnetic Accelerated Action, as it is known, is a special-order option on the grands. Petrof also offers as an option the Magnetic Balanced Action, which allows the player to quickly and easily change the touchweight in the range of ±4–5 grams simply by turning a knob.
Petrofs are known for their warm, rich, singing tone, full of color. The pianos are solidly built and workmanship is good. After careful preparation, the pianos can sound and feel quite beautiful and hold their own against other European brands. Wages in the Czech Republic have risen in recent years, and with it the price of Petrof pianos, but the company has placed a greater emphasis on quality control and enhanced features in the new models in order to meet the higher expectations that come with higher prices.
Note: For years, Weinbach pianos were made by the Petrof company and were virtually identical to Petrof brand pianos. The Weinbach name is no longer being used in North America.
Warranty: 10 years, parts and labor, to original purchaser, from the manufacturer.
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"Utopie jetzt! / utopia now!" – The current exhibition's theme is reflected in the creations of young international designers. Utopia is an idea of an allegedly refined society – contradicted by a cross-section of modern urban lifestyle and it occasionally collides with a constantly growing examination of one's sensitivities and responsibilities.
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Hope College senior Tarin Coulas of Lansing has won first place in this year's annual Alumni Photo Contest sponsored by the AustraLearn study-abroad program.
Hope College senior Tarin Coulas of Lansing has won first place in this year's annual Alumni Photo Contest sponsored by the AustraLearn study-abroad program.
The contest received more than 350 submissions from students throughout the United States and Canada who had studied in Australia, New Zealand or the South Pacific through AustraLearn. Coulas won for her photograph "Sheep Traffic Jam," which shows a lone car surrounded by a throng of sheep crossing the road. As the winner she is recognized on the AustraLearn Web site, which shows the photograph, and will also receive additional prize-related materials from the program.
Coulas spent the spring of 2007 studying at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She photographed the road-crossing scene in February of that year on South Island, New Zealand, on a highway between Milford Sound and Te Anau.
"I think it does a very good job of summing up Kiwi lifestyle - it is so laid back - you don't get stuck in traffic jams, but rather sheep jams," she said. "We ended up having to wait for about 45 minutes to let all of the sheep come through! It was an experience!!"
The first-, second- and third-place photos in the contest were chosen by Kerala Goodkin, editor and chief of "Glimpse Magazine." Of Coulas's photo, Goodkin noted, "On message and composition - this photographer is the clear winner. The choice to focus the image around the point at which the flock meets the horizon rather than around the vehicle brilliantly represents a key cultural element of New Zealand Culture - the sheep to human ratio. The composition of the photo, with a dominant sky and distant horizon line adds to the viewer's ability to perceive the absurdity of this situation. The shadows of the sheep cast by the setting sun, when combined with the striping of the highway in the foreground, creates a brilliant series of right angles that draw the eye deeper into the photo."
Coulas is a psychology major at Hope, and her activities have included intercollegiate golf. She is a 2004 graduate of GrandLedgeHigh School, and is the daughter of Donna Coulas of Lansing and Paul Coulas.
The AustraLearn staff also chose "Honorable Mentions" in seven categories, including Best People Picture, Best Animal Picture, Best Beach/Water Picture, Best Mountain Picture, Best Sunset, Best Landscape and Best Overall Picture. All of the winning photos can be viewed on the AustraLearn Web site at:
During 2006-07, 134 Hope students spent either the academic year or a semester in 27 different countries, with 18 studying overseas through AustraLearn; in addition, many Hope students also participated in shorter-term study-abroad programs, such as the college's long-running Vienna Summer School held in May and June. Also during the 2006-07 school year, Hope hosted 67 international students from 29 countries.


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Yemen army says kills top al-Qaida militant
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen said Sunday that it killed one of the country's most wanted al-Qaida militants, hours after military officials said anti-terrorism units supported by army troops and US drones launched an attack against hideouts of the group in the mountainous Arhab region north of Sanaa, leaving five militants and six soldiers killed.
The statement by the defense ministry didn't provide details on where or when Saleh al-Tays was killed. His name is on the list of the country's list of 25 most wanted terrorists issued last year.
The military has targeted Al-Tays with operations and airstrikes before. He had been suspected to have been killed before in targeted attacks, including in U.S. drone strikes in 2013, 2008 and 2009.
The statement said al-Tays was involved in the assassination of a Yemeni politician earlier this year, and in killing foreign diplomats and Yemeni civilians. It did not give details.
Al-Tays is one of 25 on a list of wanted terrorists issued by the government in August 2013 on suspicion they were plotting to attack foreign offices and organizations, as well as Yemeni government installations and police and military. The statement listed some allegedly senior figures in the branch, known as Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, including Saudi nationals Ibrahim Mohammed el-Rubaish, who was released from the U.S.'s Guantanamo Bay facility in 2006, and Ibrahim Hassan el-Assiri.
Washington considers the al-Qaida branch in Yemen among the terror network's most dangerous, and has launched drone strikes against its top figures in Yemen.
Military officials said earlier that an attack in Arhab region targeted militants who had fled from Shabwa and Abyan provinces, where the army launched a big offensive earlier this month causing them heavy losses and forcing others to flee.
On Saturday night, Yemeni warplanes launched three airstrikes targeting suspected militants in cars the same area, killing two, the officials said.
The officials also said that a U.S. drone strike at dawn Sunday killed three suspected al-Qaida militants hiding in the Uther village in the same area, prompting others to flee to the nearby village of Wasil.
With U.S. logistic support, Yemeni army special forces attacked Wasil and fought a fierce battle with the fleeing militants which lasted for over an hour, resulting in the arrest of 12 militants, including eight Saudis. The clashes left six soldiers dead, the officials said.
The Arhab area is a bastion for the country's largest opposition Islamist Islah party which advocates for the application of Islamic laws in the country.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to brief the media.
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Yes. If you have an individual trust, you can transfer property in and out of it whenever you want - you don't need anyone else's permission. If you have a shared trust, you may need to get your co-trustee's consent if you're transferring property you own together.
A trust is an arrangement in which one or more people manage or take care of property for someone else's benefit. A living trust is a trust that is created during your lifetime. In other words, while you are still alive, you transfer title to your property from your name to that of the trustee of the living trust. You can use the trust to gather your property under one document so that it is distributed efficiently after your death.
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