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I stayed at the motel chain for the first time when visiting Shanghai and the Expo in July. The motel is most convenient with 2 subway stations both are 5-8 minutes walk away. I could easily get to the Bound, Renmin Square, Xintiandi, Pudong and other major attractions fast by catching the subway. Expo gate 13 is also 5 minutes walk.
The room and service condition is fair considering it's budget price compare to other Shanghai hotels (I paid RMB289 per night for a queen size bed room, which was expensive than normal due to the Expo). The room was clean but a bit dark, has a desk, a chair and a arm chair, enough room for 1-2 person to move around. Bathroom is well equiped will toiletories restocked daily, but one of the wall was made of glass so privacy may be an issue. One thing I dislike is there were no wardrobe in the room, only a few cloths hangers and a full length mirror. The aircon was excellent which is a must in the hot summer. The room was serviced daily, and the check in check out process was quick, I had no problem to use overseas credit card to pay for my bill.
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You're not supposed to discuss it at the dinner table, but politics is a perfectly acceptable topic for online deliberation; the web is also an unparalleled resource for political news and analysis. But which site is best? We asked PCAdvisor.co.uk site visitors to recommend their favourite websites.
They Work For You
Recommended by: Paul Godd
Accountability is the watchword here. This service enables you to find out who your constituency MP is (simply type in your postcode), then fires out reams of information on their parliamentary voting, committee and attendance records and how these figures compare with the average. You can read (and sometimes watch) their debate contributions, check up on expenses and even find out the reading age required to decipher their speeches.
Nosemonkey's EUtopia
Recommended by: James M Reith
Nosemonkey is a Europe-focused blogger with a strongly (but not blindly) pro-EU standpoint and a good sense of humour: when the Lisbon Treaty was ratified, he satirically 'liveblogged' the event, noting at one point that "Morris dancers are being rounded up and shot, and all bananas are being forcibly straightened".
"Best EU blogger around," declares self-confessed Eurosceptic James M Reith.
Richard Dawkins
Recommended by: mr simon
"I usually head to the Politics & Current Affairs forum on RichardDawkins.net, which is full of lively discussion," writes mr simon. "Obviously discussions are largely from an atheistic viewpoint, as that's the main element that brings people to the site. But it's the best place I've found for political discussion."
Fans of religon-related indignant ranting will be in their element here, even though topics can occasionally drift into crime, legal disputes or international affairs.
BBC Democracy Live
Recommended by: Forum Editor
A number of readers mentioned the BBC, but few seemed overwhelmed – mr simon damned it with faint praise by calling the political coverage "brief and mostly unbiased". The corporation's new Democracy Live microsite, however, looks more promising, and our Forum Editor pledged his vote.
You can watch live video of the UK's various assemblies (and the European Parliament) and even search for content of speeches, thanks to neat speech-to-text functionality.
Recommended by: TS Neame
"Jon Snow is easy to dismiss as an eccentric talking-head newsreader, but he's from the old school of informed journalist-presenters," says TS Neame. "Unlike the multitude of basement bloggers, Snow is out there interviewing world leaders and seeing political forces play out in real life, and I love reading his savvy take on current affairs."
Recommended by: QuizMan
Politics.co.uk, as QuizMan points out, is overseen by a three-man editorial board. Each represents one of the main political parties, thus ensuring that articles adhere to a code of political neutrality.
The site is therefore able to deliver an admirable blend of news and political sketches without having to continually take sides or push an agenda. Writers will generally attempt to consider both sides in a dispute, but it rarely feels like they're tiptoeing around the subject; the rule of objectivity forces contributors to work harder to draw conclusions, rather than encouraging them to play it safe.
The Vibe
Recommended by: David Gold
David Gold pointed us to The Vibe, a 'youth political website' to which he himself contributes. While the tone can feel a little patronising (as often seems to be the way with youth-oriented endeavours) and some of the debates are redolent of the sixth-form common room, it's a decent enough resource for political analysis delivered in a tone that's simultaneously informal and very, very earnest.
Guardian Politics
Recommended by: David A
David A recommended The Guardian's political blogs for their "spot-on tone and content, witty, informed writing and army of impassioned commenters".
The prevailing political position is a slightly left of centre one, but you won't find too much sloganeering – and there are plenty of dissenting voices among commenting readers.
Recommended by: MAT
"I usually head to ePolitix for the latest news about parliament and legislative affairs," writes MAT. "It's not the liveliest of sites, but that's fine with me – I don't want writers to preach to me, and this site keeps to the facts. The page design's nice and clean, too."
Bagehot's Notebook
Recommended by: Treebeard
The Bagehot column, written by a range of authors under a single anonymous byline (named in honour of a 19th-century Economist editor), reflects dispassionately upon the progress of British politics.
While The Economist itself is often thought of as somewhat conservative, Bagehot criticises the Tory party as much as Gordon Brown's incumbents – and does so with carefully phrased authority.

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GTTV promo teases Mass Effect 2, Alan Wake, more
A promo teasing episode 228 of GTTV has popped up, and looks like the latest episode is gonna be full of Mass Effect 2 goodness.
Apparently, not only will BioWare show off new areas of the game, but according to a tweet by host Geoff Keighley, we'll get to "meet and see the Illusive Man for the first time". Cool.
Not into ME2? Well, there will also be new details on Alan Wake, new trailers for Command & Conquer 4 and Dante's Inferno, and a review for Modern Warfare 2.
It usually airs around 12:30am EST on Spike TV, which is technically Friday morning, and snoozy time.
Therefore, expect more on this tomorrow should you not be able to stay awake for it.
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Star Gist is celebrating their 50th episode this Friday! This photo gallery takes you to the heart of the action, with the behind the scenes look at how the cast and crew prepared for one of the shows milestones.
Remember you too can be part of the conversation on what is happening on the show through Twitter by using the hashtag #MoneyDropNG!
This week in the Big Brother House is all about giving back. Muso Ice Prince spent time chatting with the Chasemates encouraging them to be involved with humanitarian work even outside of Biggie's House.


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Principal Investigator(s): William J. Strahle
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Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Recover surface mooring #448 on Stellwagen Basin and attach surface marker to subsurface mooring #452 in Greater Boston Harbor.
Start Port/Location: Boston, MA
End Port/Location: Boston, MA
Start Date: 1995-04-10
End Date: 1995-04-10
Equipment Used: GPS (wh), Bottom platform
Information to be Derived: Time series data;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Moorings recovered: 1 (#448 deployed FA 94048 WHITE HEATH Oct. 25, 1994).
Staff: Dann Blackwood, Marinna Martini, Joseph S. Newell
Affiliate Staff:
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Warner, J.C., Butman, B., and Dalyander, P. S., 2008, Storm-driven sediment transport in Massachusetts Bay: Continental Shelf Research, v. 28 no. 2, doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2007.08.008.
Warner, J.C., Sherwood, Christopher R., Signell, Richard P., Harris, Courtney K., and Arango, Hernan G., 2008, Development of a three-dimensional, regional, coupled wave, current, and sediment-transport model: Computers and Geosciences, v. 34 no. 10, doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.02.012.
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IPC Lauds Obama Administration for Beginning Immigration Reform Discussion
Released on Tue, Jun 23, 2009
Tomorrow, President Obama and Congressional leaders will meet to chart a roadmap designed to move comprehensive immigration reform forward in 2009. The President has already begun solving our nation's toughest problems and has promised to tackle our broken immigration system in his first year in office. Leaders in Congress are also committed to moving immigration reform this year and their efforts are buoyed by a groundswell of support from the majority of Americans who want immigration reform.
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Is there a version of the computer Scrabble game that uses the new dictionary (not really new anymore, came out in 2006)? I know about ISC, but we're looking for something that my technophobic mother-in-law can use to play against her computer. Any suggestions?
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Facebook Scrabble uses the new dictionary.
This can also be played via your iPhone (connects to the same same servers, so players on different platforms may play). The iPhone version has single-player.
Quadplex is another site that hosts Scrabble.


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This is the second year since this organization Mediterranean Interactive Dialogue started; and even with all friends and volunteers support, this organization rely majorly on an independent initiative and effort. Barcelona is undergoing many changes since few years back which make Barcelona's Homeless Project undergo changes and redirection its programs to address current societal problems that emerge from homelessness.
According to published sources, the new profile of homeless people have been changed in the recent years from the traditional profile of homeless people due to the economic crisis and increased by 35%. The new profiles of homeless people are mainly ranging between immigrants, people suffering from mental health problems, adult men with marital problems and women suffering from domestic violence, and involved in processes of separation or divorce where many of the listed above have attained higher levels of education.
According to the study by Pedro José Cabrera Cabrera, the budget for social action on homelessness in Spain is low. A generous estimate shows around 60 million Euros are assigned to help homeless people which means 15 to 19 € available per day and per person to cover all expenses ranging from food, clothes and accommodation, to maintenance and staff costs.
Theoretically speaking, the government plan and intervene in the city to ensure safety and well-being of its citizens but practically it is the private sector and non-governmental organizations that look beyond the mainstreamed requirements for what is a healthy prosperous habitat. In this organization, we believe that efficient interventions should be beyond basics as in food and shelter, but rather look deeper into the causes of the phenomenon.
The plan is to set a new network within the city that will care for homeless and provide a transitional place for rehabilitation, temporary job opportunity and a shelter until the individual is able to integrate and functions in the city So here we are, international random individuals reaching out to responsible citizens to help us bridge the gap between theory and practice, common and peculiar, collective and individualistic for us all to live happy together!
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SALT LAKE CITY — Immigration reforms proposed by a bipartisan group of senators, which include a path to citizenship for some 11 million people in the country illegally, were well-received Tuesday by many Utahns who have been key figures in the immigration debate.
"Undocumented immigrants have long waited for this day and so far they like what they hear. Most immigrants want to work without the fear of being deported. Many will be able to do so," said Tony Yapias, longtime immigrant activist.
The legislation would create tens of thousands of new visas for international workers in low-skilled jobs and spend billions on new border control technology and the hiring of 3,500 additional federal agents.
Most such immigrants who arrived in the country before Dec. 31, 2011, could gain immediate "registered provisional" status after paying a $500 fine and back taxes, under the proposal. This option would not be open to people convicted of a felony or three misdemeanor offenses.
People with provisional status could then apply for permanent resident status in 10 years after paying additional fees, according to summaries of the plan. Three years later, they could apply for citizenship.
Meanwhile, farm workers would have a faster path to citizenship. They could seek a green card after five years, a move intended to stabilize the agriculture workforce.
However, American citizens would no longer be able to sponsor siblings for eventual U.S. citizenship, a move backers say would help stabilize the immigration system. Visas for highly skilled, well-educated workers would nearly double, which would help the nation's high-tech and biomedical industries.
Former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said he was optimistic about prospects of the Gang of Eight proposal after meeting with each of the senators involved in the negotiations.
"I think it's actually possible" that the reforms will become law, Shurtleff said. "It looks like it's a reality. It's very exciting."
But others were not as enthused, such as Utah Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who released a statement Tuesday afternoon noting that the full details of the proposal had not yet been released.
"It is unfortunate that we have so little time to digest and evaluate such an expansive piece of legislation before we hold our initial committee hearing. As senators, it is our duty to read the bill and fully understand the impact it will have on our immigration system before casting votes."
The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled hearings on the bill Friday and Monday.
Ron Mortensen, co-founder of the Utah Coalition on Illegal Immigration, said the proposal is flawed in that it grants legal status to people before the nation secures its borders.
"We've been here before. They were going to secure the border in 1986," referring to immigration reforms instituted during the Reagan administration.
"We're still waiting for them to fulfill that promise."
But others, such as David Morales, a "Dreamer" who is one plaintiff in the ongoing legal challenge to HB497, Utah's immigration enforcement law passed by the Legislature in 2011, said he's "pretty content" with the proposed federal reforms, particularly the focus on youth brought to the country illegally by their parents. They would be able to apply for a green card in five years and citizenship immediately thereafter.
"I'm happy with it. I know it's going to benefit a lot of people. We should focus on the positive, not the negative," he said.
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Released: Jul 01st, 2001
Running Time: 85
Director: Robby D.
Company: Vivid Entertainment Group
Cast: Dasha (I), Sharon (I), Dillion Day, Bobby Vitale, Barbie Bell, Samantha Stylle, Dayton, Cheyenne Silver, Egypt (III), Dale DaBone, Topanga
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: All-Sex
New releases.
Kiri takes on the title role in this Vivid series as she spies on a random series of sexual encounters while filming the participants with a handheld 16mm camera. All six vignettes offer attractive girls and stimulating sexual acrobatics, but none of it makes a lick of sense. With no dialogue or story, and almost zero time wasted between sex scenes, this is serviceable porn fodder mounted with typical Vivid professionalism. Three- and foursomes abound, with most scenes anal-inclusive. On the downside, frequent cutaways to the voyeur-cam are shown in faux film-look style, complete with grinding camera noise, viewfinder grid, and those irksome, phony film scratches. Luckily, these stylistic intrusions only last a few seconds and thus do not dampen the appeal.


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Released: Sep 01st, 2002
Running Time: 140
Director: Bobby Rinaldi
Company: Wildlife Productions
Cast: Mark Kernes, Brett Rockman, Dillion Day, Catalina (I), Marty Romano, Tyce Bune, Nikko Night, Simone Clair, Henri Pachard, Nellie Pierce, Flick Shagwell, Sindee Coxx, Ashley Morgan, Tod Hunter, Jewels
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: All-Sex
Push for anal releases, and for its novelty value.
Sick and tired of the idiots who pass themselves off as contestants on Who Wants to be A Millionaire? Wondering when that crotchety old bitch on The Weakest Link is going to keel over as worm food? Ever wonder when those whiners on Fear Factor are going to do something worth watching?
Wildlife's Anal Contest 2002, taped before a live studio audience, tries to cure that sort of game-show apathy. Hosted by Ron Jeremy (much easier on the eyes, and nowhere near as annoying as Regis) and trophy girl Simone Clair, contestants of this game show put their asses up for, in the words of producer and director Bobby Rinaldi, "a good amount of money." (Probable translation: Their anal fee.)
Dave Cummings, Sindee Cox, Henri Pachard and AVN's Mark Kernes serve as judges for the contest and clarifies the fine points of this anal competition such as confirming that a cock is, in fact, in the ass. Tough job, but someone's got to do it.
Nellie Pierce, paired with Tyce Buné, steals the show with her enthusiastic solo, with Buné lending his fingers into her cootch before he invades her ass. Pierce proves to a competition-grade anal contender with lots of A2M, gapes and rims Buné's ass.
Jewels goes for volume, grunting and yelling to Dillion Day how she wants be fucked up her shithole, and, in an inspired moment, how she'll knock him out if he doesn't stick it in her ass. The nasty slut doesn't stop, and takes Day's dick in her ass like a woman with some serious stock options in Depends.
Just as interesting is the spontaneity, which includes Mark Ashley walking on his scene with Catalina, and Clair fucking on stage while the judges confer.
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"A country hotel" Hotel du Commerce Tip by ATLC
Hotel du Commerce, Houffalize: 1 reviews and 4 photos
Tidy room in a busy hotel that is quite old, right in the center of Houffalize. Very well situated to explore the Ardennes region as well as Luxembourg.
Unique Qualities: Neat but quite small room, tidy bathroom, a nice sauna area. Is a 4-star hotel but in danger of becoming tatty. Excellent breakfast (including bubbly wine) for only 41 euro per night (2007).
Various arrangements such as the Gastronomical: 2 nights, 2 dinners (4 course and 7 course) for 140 euro per person.
I'll describe the food in the restaurant tips.
Other extra's are: non-smoking hotel throughout, hairdryer in the bathroom, free internet (though I got connection, I didn't actually manage to get on the internet). Free use of sauna center in the hotel. Staff speaks French and Dutch/Flemish and German and English.
The hotel is an a reasonably busy point in the village. Our room did not have double glazing. I wasn't too bothered with that but if you're a light sleeper, this is good to know.
Address: Rue du Pont 10, , Houffalize, B-6660 Belgium
Price Comparison: about average
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Released: Feb 01st, 1998
Running Time: 77
Director: Mark Sands
Company: NOW Entertainment
Cast: Raylene, Kiki Morgan, Katie Gold, Dave Cummings, Alec Metro, Shawn Ricks, Julie Rage, Nico Treasures, Ian Daniels
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Feature
Kyle Stone is a paparazzo who takes photos of right-wing hypocrite Senator Jessie Holmes with porn star Nico Treasures and attempts to blackmail him. A series of sexual liaisons follows as the rival sleazeballs battle over the incriminating photos.
Some magnificent talent is on display here. Raylene gets it from Alex Metro in the opening sequence. Nico Treasures gives Dave Cummings, as the senator, a run around her rotunda, including some b.j., cunt-licking and mish action. Julie Rage is on hand as Stone's ex-wife, a photographer herself, who gets involved with subject Ian Daniels during a shoot. As they are doing it doggie style in the backyard, Stone stops by and joins in for a d.p. and double facial. Kiki Morgan as the journalist who uses sex to get the photos from Stone is excellent but underused.
A well-done, topical, and clever release that works on a number of levels.


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AlDhabaan & Partners in association with Eversheds LLP has announced the appointment of Fahad AlDehais, who joins the firm from Vinson & Elkins LLP as a Partner and General Manager for the firm's Saudi Arabia practice. (more…)
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), as a sponsor, on the development and financing for the US$8 billion expansion of an existing, world-scale petroleum refining and petrochemicals complex in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia (more…)
Clifford Chance and Al-Jadaan & Partners Law Firm announced today the appointment of Anas Al Sheikh to the position of Counsel. Anas joins Al-Jadaan from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) Capital Markets Authority (CMA) where he held the senior position of Manager of Rules & Regulations & International Standards in the legal department. Anas spent more than eight years with the CMA where he managed a large team of regulatory lawyers (more…)
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised the Republic of Indonesia on the issuance of US$1.5 billion, 6.125 percent Trust Certificates due 2019 (more…)
Latham & Watkins represented The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma'aden) in connection with the development of its US$7 billion Wa'ad Al Shammal greenfield phosphate project in Saudi Arabia and joint venture with the Mosaic Company and Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC). The project is a key part of the King Abdullah Project for the Development of Wa'ad Al Shammal Mineral Industrial City in the Northern Province of Saudi Arabia and is expected to create more than 1,500 direct job opportunities (more…)
Clifford Chance and Al-Jadaan & Partners have advised BNP Paribas Investment Company KSA and GIB Capital LLC (GIB Capital) in their roles as joint lead managers and bookrunners on the issuance by SBG Sukuk Limited of its fourth short-term sukuk al-murabaha, guaranteed by Saudi Binladin Group Limited (SBG). The financing is part of an approximately SAR12 billion financing of one of the phases of construction and development of the King Abdulaziz International Airport (more…)
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|Can black beans
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|9 Tablespoon (1 tbsp. for For Garnishing and remaining for Taco Pie)
|Taco seasoning
|2 Tablespoon (gluten free - For Taco Pie)
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs) (For Taco Pie)
|3 (For Taco Pie)
|1 1⁄4 Cup (20 tbs) (For Taco Pie)
|Low fat cheddar
|5 Tablespoon, grated (1 tbsp. for For Garnishing and remaining for Taco Pie)
|1 Tablespoon, chopped (For Garnishing)
|1 Tablespoon (For Garnishing)
|1 Tablespoon, dice (For Garnishing)
|1 Tablespoon, chopped (For Garnishing)
|Greek yogurt/Sour cream
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1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Grease a 10-inch deep dish pie plate.
3. In a medium skillet over medium high heat, crumble and brown the ground chicken with the onions.
4. Add the salsa, beans and taco seasoning then stir to combine. Allow it to cook for a minute.
5. Spread the meat mixture into the bottom of the pie plate.
6. Whisk the milk, eggs and Bisquick together until smooth. Pour the batter over the meat mixture.
7. Bake it for 30 minutes then remove it from the oven, sprinkle on the grated cheese and bake for an additional 10 minutes.
8. Allow the pie to cool for 10 minutes before slicing.
9. Make layers with olives, scallions, tomatoes, parsley, cheddar cheese, salsa and Greek yogurt over taco pie and serve.
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Martha O. Adams, former teacher, Christian educator, director of children's choirs and consultant to churches, will present a performance reading of her latest poem, Hide and Seek, at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Kaplan Auditorium of the Henderson County Public Library.
Adams published writings include a book for caregivers, Alzheimer's Disease, Courage for Those Who Care, and a play on women's history, She Rises Through the Sickle Moon, which has been performed at Blue Ridge Community College and other places.
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Old Friends, New Foes: President and a Preacher;One 60's Activist Runs Columbia; One Fights It
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Published: May 31, 1996
Summer of 1963. Jersey City. George was a college student animated by social reform. Bobby, the man he quickly came to admire, was the nervy and alluring rector of a black church. Both were tethered to a program for impoverished black youths in that tormented city. And they were self-appointed gadflies of a crooked Jersey City administration.
Conjoined by shared passions of social activism, they became close that fitful summer and the next. There was even that one memorable day when they expressed their dissent by mirthfully dumping several vanloads of garbage outside City Hall. The police locked them up for a few hours until they made bail.
It was the first and last time that George went to jail. Bobby, on the other hand, was just getting in practice.
Intersecting lives occasionally drift apart and then, obeying the perplexing dictates of fate, converge again propelled by fresh fires. It has been that way with George and Bobby.
Today, after three disjointed decades of separation, they have found themselves back in proximity -- with a difference. George Rupp, at 53, is the president of Columbia University, an entrenched establishment figure. The Rev. Robert Castle, 67, is the minister of St. Mary's Episcopal Church on 126th Street, a few blocks from Columbia's Morningside Heights campus, still an obdurate whirligig fulminating against the establishment, not the least of his targets being Columbia and its president.
Although each offers gentle words of commendation for the other, they now find themselves in odd juxtaposition, a distorted echo of the past.
It was Father Castle who embraced the recent band of Columbia student demonstrators demanding an ethnic studies department -- signing their petitions, offering his church for their press conferences, insisting that those who were fasting eat free in the faculty dining room the balance of the semester. It was George Rupp who spurned their demands and had 23 students arrested. It is Father Castle who uses his pulpit to flog Columbia, accusing it of failing the bordering Harlem neighborhood. It is Dr. Rupp who sat in the pews one Sunday and absorbed some heat from the Father.
As Dr. Rupp put it, "I have become one of the authority figures that he has criticized all these years."
Father Castle interprets the circumstances as willed by higher authority: "I really feel that it's divine intervention. God sent me here so I would be waiting for George to become president of Columbia so I could be his counsel."
The President and the Preacher. Old compatriots, new noodges.
'Willing to Take The Toughest Jobs'
Bob Castle was a child of Jersey City who framed his destiny early. The summer of 1953, while in Berkeley Divinity School in New Haven, he worked at St. Christopher's, a church serving poor blacks on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Exposure to the bleak lot of disadvantaged blacks caused rankling in his soul and offered the direction for his life.
In 1960, he became the rector at St. John's Church in Jersey City. The summer recreational program he ran was staffed by volunteer students. Among those who showed up in 1963, and returned in 1964, was a young man who mightily impressed Father Castle. "He had a lot of leadership qualities," he recalled. "He was willing to take the toughest jobs we had." This was George Rupp.
Dr. Rupp grew up in Springfield, N.J., and as an undergraduate at Princeton University, he attended a predominantly black church in Princeton. Part of his summers he spent building houses; the rest he devoted to the St. John's program.
"My most vivid memory was Bob Castle," Dr. Rupp said. "He really was a community organizer and knew how to work with people who had grievances and galvanize people to do something about them."
Father Castle, being heavily political, enlisted the volunteers in actions to protest the deprivations of the impoverished. One sore issue was to get dilapidated and unsafe city housing boarded up. The Mayor would not listen; hence the gift of trash. Dr. Rupp was fined $10 for littering. Father Castle received a suspended sentence of 90 days in jail and a $150 fine.
Dr. Rupp graduated from Princeton in 1964, and the paths of the two diverged. Dr. Rupp went on to Yale Divinity School and Harvard. He protested the Vietnam War, just as Father Castle did. Both in fact marched at some of the same demonstrations in Washington, unbeknownst to each other.
Dr. Rupp's career advanced fast. Though he became an ordained Presbyterian minister, he chose academia over a pulpit. He rose to dean of the Harvard Divinity School, then president of Rice University in Houston.
Picketing Bishop And Aiding Panthers
Back in Jersey City, Father Castle became entwined with the local arm of the Black Panthers. The Panthers held some of their meetings at Father Castle's house. The Students for a Democratic Society had their headquarters at his church.
He was especially enamored of Isaiah Rowley, the militant Panther leader in Jersey City. He was one of three Panthers arrested in 1970 on charges of strafing a police station. Father Castle mortgaged his house to bail him out. Mr. Rowley pleaded guilty to gun possession, and several years later was murdered on a Jersey City street.


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Has Academic Magnet replaced Bishop England as the Lowcountrys top Class AA soccer program?
Its early, but the South Carolina High School Soccer Coaches Association voted that way.
The Raptor boys are No. 1 in the preseason poll, while the Bishops are No. 2.
In the girls poll, Christ Church is No. 1, Academic Magnet No. 2 and BE No. 3.
The Magnet boys won their first state title last spring. The Raptors went 22-2 and have numerous talented players, including Jonathan Glenn, who set a school record with 34 goals.
The Raptors girls are bidding for the second state title in three years.
I would love to be able to say that we are the team, but there is a lot of pressure to stay on top, Academic Magnet girls coach Anna Merriman said. Its one thing to get to the top. Its another to stay on top. Bishop England was the top team for all those years. We just hope to show that we can be successful over a long period of time.
The Raptors girls seemed like a shoo-in to win the state title last year after winning three playoff games by a combined score of 20-0, including a 6-0 dismantling of the Bishops in the Lower State championship. But Christ Church stunned the Raptors, 2-0, in the championship.
Two years ago, The Raptors beat Bishop England 2-1 and captured the championship with a 2-1 victory over Christ Church.
Academic Magnet lost six players to graduation and another player moved, but Merriman is encouraged that a half dozen freshmen could make an impact this season.
The team also gets a boost with the return of Kallie Peurifoy, who collected 30 goals and 12 assists for the Raptors her junior season.
Wando is No. 2 behind J.L. Mann in the boys Class AAAA poll. T.L. Hanna holds the top spot in girls Class AAAA. Wando is third and West Ashley is ninth.
Eastside is the top-ranked boys Class AAA team, while Hilton Head is No. 1 in the girls poll.
St. Josephs is No. 1 in the boys Class A poll.
In SCISA, Porter-Gaud is No. 1 in the boys Class AAA poll. Pinewood Prep is second.
Cardinal Newman holds down the top spot in the girls poll. Porter-Gaud is No. 2 and Pinewood Prep is No. 3.
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Since Florida officials put new grading standards in place for schools last year, state and local school officials have known that this second year under the program of toughening could be even worse.
Complicating last year's harder grading was an error by the Florida Department of Education. The error resulted in incorrect grades being released for 213 schools in Florida, including 14 in Polk County.
The damage to the grading program and the statewide backlash saw Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson resign. He said he resigned for family reasons, but the grade foul-up and additional problems point to Robinson having been pushed out.
Unfortunately, state education officials do not seem to have learned from the grading mess of 2012.
Only this month are Florida education officials scrambling to control prospective 2013 damage.
The school-grade news in Polk County is expected to be so bad that the School District is having schools contact parents ahead of time, reported The Ledger's Merissa Green in an article June 19. School districts elsewhere in Florida are doing likewise.
A letter template provided by the Polk County School District to principals says, "Classroom teachers and school staff have attended countless hours of training to take classroom instruction to the next level." It adds: "Scores may not truly reflect this increased rigor students have experienced. Rather, the scores come as a direct result of the state raising the bar and changing the passing scores."
The letter may prove its worth by setting expectations for parents. However, it reads like one big excuse. Indeed, it could be considered the School District's equivalent of the dog-ate-my-homework excuse, regardless of accurate points it may make.
No more reassuring were the comments of Education Commissioner Tony Bennett, who replaced Robinson.
On June 7, Bennett criticized grades on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test for the school year just ended.
"The FCAT results are flat, and I find that personally unacceptable," Bennett said. "I think we have to have a return to rigor, and concentration on writing, reading and math at the elementary level."
That's certainly true, but it was equally true throughout the year. Even if he did not have a full year to institute improvements, his department did.
Now, they are left with only the prospect of painting a happy face on the 2013 grades, no matter how dismal.
In neighboring Hillsborough County, Superintendent of Schools MaryEllen Elia says the grades "show nearly 10 times more F elementary schools in our district."
In 2012, Polk County's tally of school grades was 30 A's, 38 B's, 30 C's, 17 D's and two F's.
Grades for elementary and middle schools are released in the summer. High school grades are released later.
Continual changes in grading standards complicate matters.
In 2012, 19 changes were made. For this year, 13 changes were made.
Most worrisome for schools with low grades is the elimination of the 2012 exemption providing a one-grade-per-year maximum drop in grades.
In a way, all this thrashing around with Florida's grading program and the FCAT seems a waste of time. The system will soon be replaced by the Common Core State Standards. Common Core has been adopted by 45 states, plus the District of Columbia.
Pushing for educational improvements, though, should be continual.
In any case, best of luck to Polk's schools — but hang on tight.
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Evil shows its face
As the Joker, Ledger joins an elite crew: the supervillain
Does the evil that lurks in the hearts of men show on their face?
This kind of book-by-its-cover profiling is discouraged and illegal in everyday life. But it thrives in popular culture.
One could look at the Joker in the new Batman film, "The Dark Knight," opening today, and be reminded of the 19th-century doctor and scientist Cesare Lombroso, considered the father of modern criminology.
Lombroso believed in biological determinism, the idea that criminals were born that way and you could spot them a mile away. His race- and gender-based constructs have long since been discredited.
But the Joker could have been created in the image of his theories.
With a jack-o'-lantern smile carved onto his greasepaint-smeared face, there is no doubt that the Joker, played in "The Dark Knight" by the late Heath Ledger, is as dangerous as he looks.
"I've been reading about how Heath Ledger's performance embodied the character," said Nickie Phillips, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. "But often with such characters, their physical characteristics indicate what their issue or moral perversity is.
"Sometimes their power is literally written on their body," said Phillips, co-author of a 2006 paper on the portrayal of crime and justice in comic books.
A necessary evil
Memorable villains are like great summer songs, and this summer movie season has yet to manufacture one.
Until now.
One thing all superhero films have in common are supervillains. In real life, villains come in all shapes and sizes and rarely announce themselves until they foreclose on your mortgage. In reel life, bad guys are cut from the same larger-than-life cloth as the good guys, and they favor bull-in-a-china-shop entrances and exhibitionist behavior.
In fact, a hero's worth is measured by the villain.
If Batman "beat up random pickpockets all the time, he would not be as exciting," said Austin Grossman, a videogame designer. "But the Joker gives Batman someone as dynamic, energetic and crazy as he is to go up against."
Grossman wrote the novel "Soon I Will Be Invincible," just released in paperback, which is set in a world flush with superheroes and evildoers. But beneath their gaudy costumes and mythic exploits lurk all too-human secrets, neuroses and rivalries. The title refers to a quest for world domination by a villain named Doctor Impossible, whose thwarted ambitions will seem familiar to fans of Charlie Brown.
Villains like Doctor Impossible "always think they are going to win, but they never do," Grossman said "And they always come back as hopeful as the last time, despite their constant record of failure. There is a special quality to people who you know are always going to lose but are struggling to win anyway."
Grossman said the character was inspired by his own experiences in graduate school.
"On the one hand, you're supposed to be really smart, and on the other hand, it's a humiliating experience," Grossman said. "You're psyched about your intellect and kind of arrogant, but at the same time, you're (insignificant) in the eyes of the world.
"You only have to exaggerate that a little bit to come up with an evil-genius character."
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Heroes "get their power from a trauma, flaw or weak
ness," Grossman said. "They all have some kind of crisis that kicks off their career."
And the villains' journey, "if you want to think about it archetypally, is a subtype of the hero's journey," said James Tobias, assistant professor of digital media studies at the University of California-Riverside.
But their non-conformist behavior gives villains a vitality that heroes are often missing, Grossman said.
"They are usually the most dynamic characters and the most creative."
Their plans usually "start with a great invention, which gives the story all its color and energy. The hero just has to come in and smash it up," he said.
A time for anti-heroes?
Enter "anti-hero" into a search engine and the hit count skyrockets, even as the motivations behind the cape and cowl become more opaque.
"The notion of the anti-hero . . . is that it's the hero that's a villain or the villain that's a hero," Tobias said. "There's an ambivalence there."
Anti-heroes perch on the twin peaks of the greater good and the lesser of two evils and flourish in times of unrest and ennui.
"If we feel something is wrong in the body politic and the common good is not immediately apparent, then the anti-hero is your guy," Tobias said.
"But if there's a clear sense of right and wrong and you need a hero, then Superman's your guy."
If anti-heroes reflect social or political anxieties, the current John Dillinger revival should be no surprise.
"Public Enemies," the movie about the Depression-era gangster shot in Wisconsin with Johnny Depp as Dillinger, is being made "at a time when people are feeling economic distress" and fantasize about "doing something drastic" to get out of it, Tobias said.
Dillinger's bank-robbing, G-man-defying sprees, Tobias added, "allow us to imagine some version of what those actions would be like and what their costs would be."
Whatever a villain's dysfunction, bending a city, a country or a planet to his or her will is no small thing. But why use your powers for evil instead of good?
When I asked Grossman, he replied with an e-mail that put Doctor Impossible's pathology into a "What, and quit show business?" context.
"If you asked Doctor Impossible himself," Grossman wrote, "I think he'd say it's a matter of integrity - he's sticking to his principles, doing science his own way, pursuing his goals - even if it means the entire world is against him, even if he looks ridiculous in his costume, even if he knows he's going to lose.
"The superheroes are taking the conformist path, and getting all the applause. Saving the world is a lot easier; taking over the world is hard work, and nobody thanks you for trying. But there you have it - as Doctor Impossible says, 'You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.' "
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Primary productivity on old, weathered soils often is assumed to be limited by phosphorus (P), especially in the lowland tropics where climatic conditions promote the rapid depletion of rock-derived nutrients. This assumption is based on a static view of soils weathering in place with no renewal of the bedrock source. In reality, advection of material through the soil column introduces a spatially variable supply of rock-derived nutrients. This flux is dependent on the residence time of soil, which can range from a few hundred years in rapidly uplifting collisional mountain belts to tens of millions of years in tectonically quiescent tropical cratons. We modeled the effects of tectonic uplift, erosion, and soil depth on the advection of P through the soil column and P availability, calibrating rate of change in biologically available P over time with data from two basaltic chronosequences in Hawai'i and a series of greywacke terraces in New Zealand. Combining our model with the global distribution of tectonic uplift rates and soil depths, we identified tectonic settings that are likely to support P-depleted ecosystems—assuming that tectonic uplift and erosion are balanced (that is, landscape development has reached steady state). The model captures the occurrence of transient P limitation in rapidly uplifting young ecosystems where mineral weathering is outpaced by physical erosion—a likely occurrence where biological N fixation is important. However, we calculate that P depletion is unlikely in areas of moderate uplift, such as most of Central America and Southeast Asia, due to the continuous advection of P into the rooting zone. Finally, where soil advection is slow, such as the Amazon Basin, we expect widespread P depletion in the absence of exogenous nutrient inputs.
Key words:uplift erosion nutrients phosphorus soil age limitation.
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- Uplift, Erosion, and Phosphorus Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems
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Volume 10, Issue 1 , pp 159-171
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- George E. Hilley (1)
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- 1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, St Brown, Providence, RI, 02912, USA
- 2. Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305, USA
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it gets on my nerves when all the newspapers and football clubs gets on man united's backs about singing bad chants because even though we have some chants that probably are offensive, everybody all goes on as if we are the only ones that do it and we are an easy target because other clubs are jealous and its there way of getting back at us rather than on the pitch and the media knows a story about us will send because we are a world wide brand you could say. But liverpool fans are disgusting as they complain about us making a heysel t-shirt but forget about the munich chants they sing and almost believe its there god given right to be able to say anything they want and no one can say anything back. and the city are the worst of the lot with the hundreds of enormously offensive chants and have no respect what so ever. imagine how the families of those who lost someone in the air crash feel when they hear what they sing about. Plus clubs like leeds and many others sing about it and when we retaliate its big news and all the other clubs become really hypocritical, it really gets on my nerves. what are all your views on this????????????Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
there'sonly1utd there'sonly1utd May 13, 2011 21:27 Flag
though other fans sing about "munich" and other offensive crap as UTD fans we should know how wrong they are 2 wrongs don't make a right.
Let the scum be scum. UTD fans in all rite should be above this as they have paid dearly from a disastrous accident.
Though Haysel wasn't an accident, still none the less it was a complete disaster
Haggis Heed Haggis Heed May 13, 2011 15:50 Flag
LMFAO That's a laugh about me dancing to your tune, when it's blatantly obviously that it's the other way around.
What happened to you not replying to my posts anymore like you claimed you would? You just can't help yourself, can you?
I post, you bite!
Pull out whatever post you like knobhead, because there's more than enough really silly and stupid ones from you on this board alone to throw straight back at you!
Catch you later my old geordie obsessed numpty. LOL
Haggis Heed Haggis Heed May 13, 2011 04:40 Flag
You really are one seriously Geordie obsessed numpty when it comes to me, ey Lyndy pops!?
Sorry, dude wheres my car (after the film) wasn't available as an e-mail address, so I chose a plane instead, is this alright with you knobhead or do you take the slightest mention of airplanes as some sort of offensive slur against the Munich air disaster?
I love your holier-than-thou attitude on this thread, especially when you're making light of what Josef Fritzl did and having a good old laugh about paedophilia at the same time.
You really are one stupid, ugly and pathetic little plonker. ;oD
dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 May 13, 2011 00:59 Flag
I would say the percentage of decent scousers and LFC supporters beyond Merseyside who find any singing, chanting or anything else designed to make light of true disaster as distasteful as you find them is about the same. Yes there is still a small minority that think it is funny to make jokes about these subjects, but unfortunately that is true of not just LFC and Man U, but many other clubs as well. It seems no one group of supports has a monopoly over the moronic, so the best we can do imo is try to educate our own, rather than pointing fingers.
To be honest, and you know this has happened, when I see a poster come on the LFC board with the same old bile about Hysel or Hillsbrough I no longer take offense as it tells me so much about the individual posting, and I have to feel a little sorry for them. They are obviously not football fans in the true sense, desperately want attention and are willing to say anything to get it, and have no or little humanity within them. Some may go through their entire lives like that, while others may get a rude awakening one day when personal tragedy hits them, and they finally understand the hurtful nature of their moronic ways. I hope the next time (and unfortunately there will be a next time) a so called fan (they are not) of Liverpool or City come on here making airplane jokes, you regard them in the same way.
United do rule United do rule May 12, 2011 22:32 Flag
you are
United do rule United do rule May 12, 2011 19:11 Flag
."..what an amazing insane rant there knobhead!" No, you jigsaw, is one of the worst offenders.
United do rule United do rule May 12, 2011 19:08 Flag
I, and 99 % of United fans completely condemn sick songs and chants about Heysel, Hillsborough , and other disasters. Steer, will you do the same about Liverpool fans singing, or chanting about Munich ?
Haggis Heed Haggis Heed May 12, 2011 17:52 Flag
...what an amazing insane rant there knobhead!
You don't half talk a load of codswallop, even your fellow Man U fans think you're a total numpty.
And again jigsaw, it's a pleasure to be hated by a dickhead like you!
dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 May 11, 2011 00:09 Flag
I'll tell you what Stash, next season when your lot visit Anfield we'll all sing what a lovely day for a plane crash in Germany! We'll be careful to not mention the words Manchester United, or Munich, so don't take too much offense as its obviously not directly insulting to you. In fact I'd encourage the away fans to join in the sing along.
Wake up lad, and give your brain a chance. Listen to your fellow mancs they really do make sense on this issue.
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