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• * a Schedule Hearing To Consider Library Employee Under Giving Beaches To Government Fire By Gorton The Town Board will hold a public hearing in Town Hall at 8: 00 p. m. on Tuesday, January 9, to consider a proposal to deed over to the Federal Government Town- owned north shore beach lands, wetlands and Oyster Bay Harbor. The beaches included in the proposition areStehli Beach, Oak Neck Beach, Beekman Beach, The Center Island Beaches and Roosevelt Memorial Park Beach. Board member Ralph J. Marino said the Board is calling a public hearing on this matter because of the magnitude and far- rench-ing effects this project may have. He pointed out that millions of dollars' worth of Town lands are involved, as well as some private property. He said he felt the entire Town should have an opportunity to be heard on this proposal originally made by Con-ressman Lester Wolff. He noted that Town Attorney Bernard F. McCaffrey had met with Interior Department officials on October 17 and submitted to them a proposed draft agreement for their consideration. Marino pointed out that the Town is still negotiating with the Interior Department on this agreement The Majority Leader cited some of the major questions which he felt absolutely should be answered before any agreement is reached. If the Federal Government manages this property: Woul-' the Town beaches be open to residents outside of the Town; Would the Federal Government regulate, control and authorize taking wildlife, fish, shellfish and othe^ products from lands' and waters; Would they fix and retain all fees for the use of the beaches, docks, marinas,' launching docks and all facilities; Would the conveyance be made so as to exclude the applicability of the rules and regulations of Secretary of the Interior to these lands and waters and Could the entire demised premises revert to the Town if any part is* used in whole or in part for any purpose not provided for in this deed? Deeding all of this Town property to the Federal Government is one of the most important steps ever taken in the history of the Town of Oyster Bay and we should have all of the facts on the table-before a decision is made," Marino said. County Begins Anti- Litter Campaign 400 bright green posters, sym- H. Nickerson's on goingprogram bols of County Executive Eugene to maKe Nassau County agreen- » Trouble getting into the Christmas Spirit? $} s Why not stop by and see Peter Ganci's beautiful « K Christmas Display of Unusual Christmas Trimmings 8 tg and Artificial Trees at 8 i WAGNER'S FARMINGDALE FEED f « 300 Fulton Street, Farmingdale g er, cleaner place in which to live, have been placed in stores and offices throughout the county. Participating store owner sand supervisors use the posters as pledges of cooperation with the County Executive in a campaign against littering. The Office of Mobilization for Democracy, a non- budget county department is coordinating the anti- litter program. Over 300 litter complaints have been received and processed since January. The majority of the complaints were about litter in parking areas near shopping centers. ALL REGULAR ACCOUNTS EARN INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS Up to $ 25,000 may be deposited JOINT OR TRUST ACCOUNTS Up to $ 5 0 , 0 0 0 m a y be deposited COMBINATION OF ACCOUNTS Up to $ 100,000 may be deposited by two people a year Latest Dividend Declared PAID FROM DAY OF DEPOSIT COMPOUNDED 4 TIMES A YEAR NEW '<£?/ MASSAPEQUA Farmingdale Public Library Trustee Carl E. Gorton asked the Board to hold a hearing on library employee, Mrs. Hor-tensia Stoyan, in light of the District Court's recent decision in Gorton's favor of an assault case which Mrs. Stoyan instituted. The Board said that they were willing to hold an executive session some time in mid- January. After the board meeting, Gorton told reporters that he believed that Mrs. Stoyan was " unfit to serve the people of this district". He said, " the false charges she brought against me in order to defame me" were an indication of her character and that she should not be permitted to work for the library. Library Director OrrinB. Dow said that she was a valuable employe. " She has all the competence, creativity, initiative and ability that you look for in an employe". Gorton said that he was skeptical of the Board taking any action against Mrs. Stoyan in light of the fact that they had given her a $ 1000 raise after she had brought court action charging Gorton with twisting her arm in the library last August. Library Board President, , Robert Callahan said, " We're not considering a resignation, but we said we would talk about it because of the court decision." Last month, District Court Judge Francis J. Donovan dismissed the assault charges ruling that there . had been no hostile intent by Gorton. The encounter began when Gorton arrived at toe library with a portable tape recorder to seek information from employees. Mrs. Stoyan had testified that she had grabbed the microphone, that Gorton had grabbed her wrist and that she had taken Gorton's cane and tapped' him with it. Mrs. Stoyan was in the audience of the Library board meeting held Tuesday night at the South Farmingdale Library branch community room. There were about 20 others in attendance. In other matters before toe Board, a report by toe Nassau County Library system of technical book processing was reviewed. Callahan commented that this service saves about $ 30,- 000 in labor and supply costs for the Farmingdale library. Gorton proposed a motion that statistical reports by toe library director regarding the number of purchase requests by library patrons be tabulated. Dow FREE PARKING AT OUR CONVENIENTLY LOCATED NEW MASSAPEQUA OFFICE REGULAR BANKING HOURS Friday 10 A. M. to 8 P. M. Monday thru Thursday 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. DRIVE- UP and WALK- UP WINDOWS OPEN Monday thru Friday 9 to 10 A. M. Hicksville Road near Jerusalem Avenue ( Opposite Holiday Park Shopping Center) Massapequa, N. Y. 11758 KINGSCOUNTY SAVINGS BANK Incorporated I860 Member Federal Deposit insurance Corporation Central Office 539 Eastern Parkway at Nostrand Avenue Brooklyn, N. Y. 11216 PResident 3- 7000 Broadway Office 135 Broadway at Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, N. Y. 11211 STagg 2- 6676 For information telephone PYramid 9- 6100 Riverdale Office 3709 Riverdale Avenue, Bronx, N. Y. between West 236th and West 238th Streets said that in most cases the r e quest was for a book or periodical to be read which could be provided by loan. The motion did not receive a second. Later during the period of public participation, Edward Weiner of North Massapequa, asked about his request for purchase of a periodical entitled, " U. S. A. Magazine". Dow said that he had reviewed it and thought that $ 20 a year was too much. Werner saul that he would like to donate the periodical. Dow said that the library would accept it in this case. The Board also reviewed a uniform code of procedure for direct access by borrowers of Nassau County member libraries and authorized the director to vote in favor of its acceptance at a meeting of library directors set for January 7. The Board also reviewed a report on the borrowing and loaning pattern and noted that Farming-dale library users borrowed more from other libraries than other library borrowers took from Farmingdale. It was noted that this was probably due to the geographical location of Farmingdale. It was also noted mat the Nassau library system provided foreign language books for borrowing. L. iDrary Director Orrin B. Dow also noted that talking books for the blind, or partially blind, were now being offered directly by local libraries in New York State. During public participation a Dom Aiello of Bruce Lane, Farmingdale, asked the board to consider spending, in some other manner, the $ 38,000 in the fines and fees account for a future building site rather than spending this amount on the mezzanine for the South Farmingdale branch. He said that he objected to the expenditure because the building was not owned by the library. He also said that Farmingdale deserved a better building than this " rinky- dink" library. Trustee Paul Tilford explained that the library board was considering spending $ 38,- 000 for the additional 3,000 square feet for a nine year period, remaining on the lease. Callahan pointed out that the library did have the option to buy the building. Library nustee Gorton asked for a progress report on the flag pole being added to the central building. Dow said that he would give the job to the architect as soon as he had finished other work for the library. I want to take a deep breath Stanley Neisloss, builder of Heather wood. Stony Brook, Long Islun " I live in the country, and every fall I look around and see my neighbor's chimneys smoking. I have some neighbors who have oil h e a t . It would really feel good if my neighbors had clean gas heat like I've had for 9 years— then their chimneys wouldn't be belching and I wouldn't be getting that odor which hangs close to the ground during fall weather. ' AI feel very strongly about air pollution. I want to be able to go out and take a deep breath and not cough. I wish everybody had gas heat. Gas burns more completely. You get much cleaner air." s m? tjLCO dm WKlOHC ISt* » D LHiMllHC Page 2 Farmingdale OBSERVER,^ Thursday, December 14, 1967
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Mobile Cloud Labs easy-to-use camera application, Belynk, which supports creation and instant upload of videos and photos to Facebook, now offers Brazilian Portuguese translations in time for the upcoming Rio Carnival and World Soccer Championship.
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Mobile Cloud Labs Plc., developers of high-quality applications for smartphones, handheld devices, and portable computers, today released the addition of a Brazilian Portuguese translation for its Belynk app for Android mobile devices. This upgrade of Belynk is being announced just in time for the Rio Carnival, which runs on Friday, February 28th to Tuesday, March 4th, and also in time for the World Soccer Championship to be held in Brazil from June 12th to July 13th. Adding a Brazilian Portuguese translation to Belynk enables Mobile Cloud Labs to expand its penetration into the Brazilian market and extend its product offering to Portuguese speaking mobile users.
We are excited to offer Brazilian Portuguese translation to the Belynk product in preparation for the Carnival of Brazil and the World Soccer Championship, stated Richard Sylvester, CEO of Mobile Cloud Labs Plc. We expect our Brazilian users and those visiting these amazing events to share their experience with the rest of the world by instantly uploading pictures and videos to Facebook with Belynk.
The Rio Carnival is considered to be the biggest carnival in the world with two million people attending every day. With an explosion of music and color during five days of shows and samba parades, visitors are anticipated to take countless of photos with their smartphones, many of which will be shared via social media. Brazil is also preparing to host the final matches of the 2014 World Soccer Championships, and experts forecast that these two events will attract more than five million visitors.
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When you feel the elemental urge to connect two points on a map, you're required to respond--even if you didn't expect the fauxhawk, the firecrackers, the Old Chub or the all-downhill day that climbed 7,100 feet.
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Photo: Clockwise from top left: Kerbs, Long Gone Don, Travis and Gene get another kind of workout;
Travis's legs do the talking for him at the edge of White Canyon and the Circle Cliffs;
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on Burr Trail; Ariel and Abbey crank through the spectacular sandstone of Long Canyon (Lin Alder)
I pulled up a few miles west of Brian Head's cobbled summit and unclipped. I wanted a minute to stare at the strangely pink landscape of Cedar Breaks National Monument. It was fractured and surreal and stunning, and I wondered how it was possible that simple geologic forces could create something so artful and apocalyptic. I also wondered whether one of my lungs had just collapsed.
Except for a fair amount of deadfall, the trail that we encountered on our first day of riding had started out smoother than 30-year-old Glenfiddich, but the piddliest climbs had me gasping for breath, and I'd already fallen behind the others.
My situation, once I thought about it, was pretty easy to understand. I'd had all of 45 minutes--roughly the time it took our group of 10 riders to tumble out of Vinnie's van, suit up and strap on helmets--to acclimatize to 11,000-plus feet. My East Coast, sea-level blood was not taking this oxygen shortage lightly, and as it turned out everyone else lived out West, up above 5,000 feet. For another thing, I'm much more of a roadie than a mountain biker, and for yet another, I'm 6-foot-7, so I was correct in my hunch that the borrowed ride would be uncomfortably small. Also, Vinnie had stockpiled a roster of serious fat-tire talent. Among us were two cross-country mountain bike pros (Ariel and his girlfriend, Abbey); a downhill pro (Willy); a former pro turned downhill instructor (Gene); an adventure racer (Don) whose recent exploits included a 50-mile run up Oregon's Mt. Hood; and two industry reps who log serious saddle time (Kerbs and Nate). Our driver and cook, Travis, summed up the collective sensibility of Vinnie's recruits: He sports a "Live to Ride" tattoo on his left calf, and, on the right, in the same Gothic script, another that says, "Ride to Live."
As we dropped down off Brian Head, the group caught lots of air and gave itself over to the call of speed on steep drops, yet still took breaks here and there to watch red-tailed hawks and bald eagles soar on the thermals. The singletrack grew increasingly technical--leading to plenty of oh-crap moments for me--as we descended through stunning forests of aspen swaying like hula dancers in the wind, their gold leaves raining down. "It's snowing aspens," said Lin, Vinnie's co-organizer. Then we spilled out onto rollicking dirt roads with little camel's-hump hills and went whooping up and down, dropping, dropping, dropping all the way to 6,000 feet, to the pavement of Highway 143, where we hammered for 15 miles or so to an hour's ride on a dirt road, then onto a blacktop bike trail that led up into Red Canyon. We pedaled past our first official red rock--house-of-wax spires, plus a couple of sandstone windows leaking purplish late-day sky--and made camp with a 44-mile day behind us.
Travis grilled caveman-cut steaks over charcoal, and there was icy Old Chub and Rainier beer. Kerbs held court on the subject of women he's known and loved, however briefly. ("Nurses, they get wrong fast," he said admiringly.) Willy, not one to be upstaged, matched him beer for beer and story for bawdy story. When I finally wandered away from the campfire's magnetic pull, the desert night at 7,000 feet was so big and autumn-cold and beautifully blown open with stars it almost hurt to look at it.
We began day two on the route's toughest singletrack--it climbed at harsh angles and rattled over roots the size of Michael Moore's thighs, and made sidehill cuts the width of credit cards. I dabbed and dabbed. By afternoon, we'd spilled back out onto jeep roads that led to the whopping Powell Point ascent, where Kerbs's knee caved in.
His joint wasn't the only casualty. Driving down the last impossibly narrow dirt road to the Powell Point campsite, it took Travis 90 minutes to go 3 miles. Trees kept snagging bikes on the roof.
"Rocky Mountain pinstripes," Kerbs boomed. "Free of charge!"
Then Travis bounced too fast over a log, causing it to ricochet up and spear the trailer. We all scrambled to check the damage. The box-shaped hitch-on looked like the loser of a jousting scene in El Cid.
Still, the mere fact that most of us even attempted the climb to Powell Point had already given us some sort of victory over the only other group ever known to have attempted a version of this route. Back in 1990, a local tourist official named Jean Seiler traced her finger over roughly the same lines on a map and thought she saw promising adventure-tourism potential. But that group of seven pioneers included only one serious rider and showed no interest in the challenges most cyclists normally associate with biking--which is to say, the climbs. The trip account, immortalized in a local guidebook, alternates between describing lush, extravagant landscapes and lush, extravagant buffet lunches in Boulder and Escalante. The riders slept in lodges and rode only downhill, and thus created a trip that appealed to no one: The watered-down, tourist-board version was too rugged for the soft-adventure crowd and too lame for hard-core mountain bikers. The dream had gone into hibernation for 15 years, awaiting an inspired and fearless new trip leader--either that, or someone with enough insurance to cover a support van sliding off a cliff.
The ride, as it is said, would have to be believed to be seen.
Photo: After days of climbing, the flats across Big Thomson Mesa toward Glen Canyon National Recreational Area are all rolling hijinks. (Lin Alder)
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1. ScienceNOW: "Long-Neglected Experiment Gives New Clues to Origin of Life"
Believe it or not, the famous Miller–Urey experiment of the 1950s is still making headlines in the creation–evolution controversy.
In the biochemistry experiment, which took place more than half a century ago at the University of Chicago, graduate student Stanley Miller, adviser Harold Urey, and others ran an electric charge through a mixture of gaseous elements thought to replicate the early earth's atmosphere. The apparatus eventually produced a small portion of simple amino acids along with carcinogenic tar.
The results may seem underwhelming, but it's the closest evolutionists have come to demonstrating how even the simplest life-forms could have originated from inanimate matter. For that reason, evolutionary researchers have remained enamored with the prospect of producing life from non-life in the lab—although they've since changed their minds about the composition of the early earth's atmosphere.
In October 2008 we discussed the research of University of California–San Diego biochemist Jeffrey Bada, a former student of the late Miller, who inherited several boxes full of vials from Miller's experiments. Bada and a team of researchers are continuing to report their analyses of what is inside the decades-old vials—the "dried sludge" that is all that remains of a series of experiments like the one that made Miller famous. (For whatever reason, Miller saved the vials but apparently never analyzed their contents.)
The team found twenty-three amino acids inside the latest set of vials, including six amino acids that contain sulfur. Several sulfur-based amino acids play a prominent role in life, so the finding has excited evolutionists who are still eking hope out of the half-century-old experiments.
What the evolutionists can't be excited about are the lingering problems with the experiments. For one thing, as we mentioned above, evolutionists disagree about the composition of the early earth's atmosphere. The scientists believe Miller's use of hydrogen sulfide in the experiment was pivotal in allowing sulfur-based amino acids to form, but debate lingers over where life on earth could have (supposedly) appeared and whether sufficient hydrogen sulfide would have been present. (Of course, a truly committed evolutionist will point out that simply because life exists, we have sufficient proof that it must have evolved, somehow!)
The team also notes that the experiments produced an equal amount of "left-handed" and "right-handed" amino acids. Although this is taken as evidence that microorganisms did not contaminate the vials, it is also a major obstacle to the idea that life originated through inanimate processes because of the so-called "chirality" problem.
As we've written before, there is still a much bigger element of magic than science in evolutionary origin-of-life models. The origin of simple organic molecules is a far cry—and a number of highly unlikely steps—away from even the simplest self-reproducing life-forms powered by RNA. In fact, if anything, the Miller–Urey experiments are a reminder that the organic molecules produced through even carefully controlled laboratory processes are nothing like life.
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2. ScienceNOW: "A New Wrinkle on Why Shar-Peis Suffer Fevers"
In a society obsessed with youthfulness, wrinkles are features non grata. For some pet lovers, however, it's the extensive wrinkling of one breed of dog that makes it so adorable.
Shar-pei dogs are born heavily wrinkled, but the original breed lost this trait as the dog matured. In an ongoing attempt to help shar-peis maintain their youthful folds, breeders have selected for dogs that would carry the wrinkles into adulthood. But while breeders and shar-pei lovers consider the result an aesthetic "success," researchers now believe this mutation is responsible for what is known as Familial Shar-Pei Fever (FSF)—episodic fevers and inflammation that plague much of the breed.
The biology behind shar-peis' wrinkles is an excess of a skin component known as hyaluronic acid. While Uppsula University geneticist Kerstin Lindblad-Toh suspected a connection between the dogs' wrinkles and the syndrome, she did not expect that the same mutation would be responsible for both. Lindblad-Toh's team studied the DNA of seventeen healthy shar-peis and twenty-four with FSF, locating a region on chromosome 13 that was correlated with increased susceptibility to FSF. Concurrently, the team compared fifty shar-peis with dogs from twenty-four other breeds and identified a region near a gene that codes for an hyaluronic acid-producing enzyme called HAS2.
This region overlapped with the FSF susceptibility region, and it was this location where the researchers found a mutation—duplications of a DNA segment—present in the highly wrinkled shar-peis but not in the other breeds. Moreover, a follow-up analysis of shar-peis showed that the more times the gene is duplicated, the more intense the wrinkling—and the worse the FSF. The relationship isn't surprising, given that researchers already knew hyaluronic acid stimulates the immune system.
University of Washington geneticist Joshua Akey notes that the study exemplifies the "unintended consequences of selective breeding." Dog breeders were selecting for the cute wrinkles, yes, but they were also "selecting for shar-pei fever and increasing that in frequency," he adds. "That's probably generally true of a lot of traits that were selected for in dog breeding." The sad story of shar-pei fevers is therefore a reminder of the destructive force of most mutations—even many of those that convey some benefit. Over time, such products of artificial selection as popular dog breeds often remind us that selective forces reduce genetic information rather than adding to it—the opposite of the premise of Darwinian evolution. (For more information, see Did God create poodles? and As I Always Said: "It's a Mutant!")
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3. ScienceDaily: "Feeling Angry? Say a Prayer and the Wrath Fades Away, Study Suggests"
Jesus taught us to pray, "forgive us . . . [a]s we forgive" (Matthew 6:12), and instructed us to "bless those who curse you [and] pray for those who mistreat you" (Luke 6:28). And now, scientists are learning more about the power behind prayer.
In this case, the researchers are quick to emphasize that their studies aren't testing divine intervention. But in three related studies, scientists at Ohio State University, the University of Michigan, and Vrije Universiteit, found that praying can help individuals "feel less angry and behave less aggressively" in response to provocative behavior.
The experiments tested the effect of prayer on the attitudes of both American and Dutch college students. In one experiment, students were asked to write an essay about an event that had made them feel angry. They were told the essay would be evaluated by an unseen partner, but in reality, all essays were returned with the comment, "This is one of the worst essays I have ever read!"
The understandably angry students were next instructed to read a newspaper story about a student with a rare form of cancer. The students were "asked to imagine how [the student] feels about what happened and how it affected her life." Then, a random selection of the students were asked to think about the student with cancer, while the remainder were asked to pray about her for five minutes. (The students were not asked about the specific content of their thoughts or prayers.)
Afterward, the students who had been asked to pray for the cancer victim were significantly less angry about the essay than the students who had only been asked to think about the cancer victim. The decrease in anger occurred with those who prayed no matter their specific religious affiliation, church attendance, etc., although "nearly all the participants said they were Christian."
The other experiments varied slightly, but the principle was the same: exposing at least some of the subjects to a situation or situations designed to incite anger, then asking some subjects to think about—and other subjects to pray about—a specific person or persons. Across the board, those who prayed ended up less angry and aggressive.
Ohio State University psychologist Brad Bushman explained, "We found that prayer really can help people cope with their anger, probably by helping them change how they view the events that angered them and helping them take it less personally. The effects we found in these experiments were quite large, which suggests that prayer may really be an effective way to calm anger and aggression."
Meanwhile, team member Ryan Bremner, a University of Michigan psychologist, suggested, "When people are confronting their own anger, they may want to consider the old advice of praying for one's enemies." Of course, that "old advice" is actually Christ's command, but nonetheless we're glad to see experimental confirmation of one of the wonderful "side effects" of prayer.
4. PhysOrg: "Are You a Martian? We All Could Be, Scientists Say—and New Instrument Might Provide Proof"
Evolutionary scientists have spent years—and billions of dollars—searching for Martian life, coming up empty-handed despite their best efforts. Or is the problem their assumption that Martian life would be on Mars at all—instead of, say, Earth?
Although some evolutionists are keen to defend the idea that life originated from inanimate matter on the ancient Earth (see item #1, for example), other evolutionists have promulgated the idea that microbial life may have evolved elsewhere, then hitched a ride to Earth on an outbound meteoroid.
One of the locales of interest to the latter group is Mars. With evidence of a watery past and temperatures more like Earth's than any other planet in the solar system, Mars is seen by some as a natural candidate for the abiotic origin of life. Scientists are already hoping to find fossils on an upcoming mission to Mars (that's the title, by the way, of a film that helped popularize the idea that humans descended from Martians). So we shouldn't be surprised to learn about an expensive new instrument currently in development at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology designed to detect evidence of Martian life.
In fact, the scientists behind the instrument seem to have skipped over the question of whether Mars ever hosted life, for the device is designed to search for Martian DNA or RNA. The project is the centerpiece of the so-called Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes (with the name presumably an homage to the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence). The scientists hope to find room for their instrument on a future Mars probe, where it would test soil for genetic signatures and analyze any that are found.
Although MIT researcher Christopher Carr admits that it's "a long shot," he insists that "we could be related to life on Mars[, s]o we should at least be looking for life on Mars that's related to us." Again, it seems to us he has simply presumed Martian life into existence, given his greater interest in whether Martian and Earth life are related.
The same assumption is clear in comments by NASA's Christopher McKay: "It is not implausible that life on Mars will be related to life on Earth and therefore share a common genetics. In any case it would be important to test this hypothesis." McKay is even worried about astronauts being exposed to infectious Martian microbes!* But what is clear is that many evolutionists take it on faith that life exists, or existed, on Mars—despite the absence of evidence. Free-thinking and scientific skepticism notwithstanding, the almost humorously named Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes shows that these researchers have bought into the evolutionary faith hook, line, and sinker.
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5. The Southtown Star: "Teacher Who Taught Creationism Keeps Job"
We know evolutionists don't want science educators to be teaching creation in the classroom—but is it wrong to even mention it?
Beau Schaefer, a "longstanding" science teacher in the Chicago area who mentioned creation in the classroom, nearly lost his job in the face of a recent controversy fueled by local "[a]theist activist" Rob Sherman.
Sherman claimed he was "protecting conquered territory" by "remind[ing]" the school district that "creationism in the classroom is undesirable and . . . illegal." He also insisted that Schaefer had assigned a quiz with questions that would lead students to creationist beliefs—which is in violation of state curriculum rules. But according to one of Schaefer's students, the science teacher had clearly "explained creationism was not a scientific theory."
At a school board meeting, parents both supporting and opposing Schaefer showed up. "Why can't [students] make their own decision? What is the big fear?" one parent asked in the teacher's defense. Nevertheless, the school district warned Schaefer not to discuss creation again, with the school board superintendent asserting that "the United States Supreme Court and several other federal court decisions have found that creationism may not be referenced or taught in public school science classrooms."
If the Supreme Court has ruled that creationism can't even be mentioned in science classrooms, it's news to us. But it's no surprise to learn what may be (at least some) evolutionists' ultimate goal: banning the idea of creation entirely from the public sphere. Beyond having been denied enough information to choose for themselves which view of origins is right, will future students never even know what biological "creation" means?
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- A month ago we reported on news that scientists had rejected what had been considered the oldest fossil life on earth, although most scientists still believe the rocks in question contain indirect evidence of ancient life. Answers in Genesis geologist Andrew Snelling tells us, "If fossilized bacteria were to be found in rocks supposedly 3.5 billion years old, it still wouldn't be a problem to us. As I have argued in my book, such bacteria could have existed since the third day of Creation Week, and elsewhere in the rock record [the indirect evidence of the bacteria] ha[s] been found in reef-like structures that might have been part of a specialised pre-Flood biological community."
- Readers can almost see the holes in evolutionary theory by reading between the lines of research on the origins of several flying insects. A study that examined the supposed shared ancestry of the mosquito, the March fly, and the common house fly concluded that the species resulted from "fast diversification" and that "living representatives of these early branching groups, such as mosquitoes and March flies, are still with us"—i.e., that these creatures do not appear different from their supposedly ancient ancestors.
- "[R]emarkable preservation" of a reptile—and the help of the latest technology—has allowed University of Manchester scientists to view organic compounds in the fossilized skin of an animal said to have perished an incredible (should we say "unbelievable"?) fifty million years ago.
- Have Israeli archaeologists found evidence of the wall built by Solomon, referenced in 1 Kings 3:1 and 9:15? Some researchers warn against "leaning too heavily on the Bible to interpret the findings," though we would warn against leaning too heavily on the findings to interpret the Bible! While archaeological discoveries such as this can provide powerful confirmations of the Bible's true history, our faith lies not in uncertain and interpreted evidence, but in God Himself and His Word.
- Creation education won't be an option for free schools, the British Department of Education has clarified to anti-creationist critics. The British Centre for Science Education wrote the department, expressing its concern that creationists would use free schools in a "concerted attack" on science education. The leader of a free school newly established by a Nottinghamshire church responded, "Creationism will be embodied as a belief at Everyday Champions Academy, but will not be taught in the sciences. Similarly, evolution will be taught as a theory. We believe children should have a broad knowledge of all theories in order that they can make informed choice."
- Some say that the more you learn, the less you know, and that certainly seems to be the case with scientists' understanding of genetics. For years scientists believed that heritable characteristics were passed down solely through genes, but biologists continue to learn about so-called "epigenetic" mechanisms of inheritance.
- They may not receive as much attention as chimps, but capuchin monkeys have their own smarts. ScienceNOW reports on clever blonde capuchins that use a crafty technique to harvest termites without breaking their tools. The monkeys first hit the termite nest, then twist a stick in like a screw to gather termites without breaking the stick. It's another example of the intelligence we see throughout the animal kingdom.
- The latest coverage of the forthcoming Ark Encounter, backed by Answers in Genesis, appears in a rush to emphasize (in the first paragraph) the "skepticism about the projected attendance numbers for the Ark Encounter." Thankfully, the overall tone and content of the article about a full-size Noah's Ark to be built in Northern Kentucky is positive in spite of those baseless concerns (which we've mentioned previously).
- The Texas legislature is considering a bill written by state representative Bill Zedler designed to protect university faculty and students from discrimination due to "research relating to the theory of intelligent design or other alternate theories of the origination and development of organisms."
- In the news this week is the headline "Speedy Toads Advance Theory of Evolution." We explained why the toads don't advance Darwinism when the news originally broke last October.
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With one of the most anticipated bouts on slate for tonight at UFC 121, pitting Brock Lesnar against Cain Velasquez, it's time to catch up on Saturday's latest MMA news and more.
The event, which begins at 10 p.m. EST, should be quite entertaining.
Lesnar, entering tonight's bout as the undisputed heavyweight champion, will face Velasquez in the main bouts' UFC Heavyweight Championship.
According to 5thround.com, tonight's fights include the following:
Preliminary Bouts
Gilbert Yvel (249) vs. Jon Madsen (254.5)
Chris Camozzi (185) vs. Dongi Yang (186)
Sam Stout (155.5) vs. Paul Taylor (155)
Mike Guymon (170) vs. Daniel Roberts (170)
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Patrick Cote (185) vs. Tom Lawlor (185)
Court McGee (184.5) vs. Ryan Jensen (185)
Main Bouts
Diego Sanchez (170.5) vs. Paulo Thiago (170.5)
Gabriel Gonzaga (254) vs. Brendan Schaub (239)
Tito Ortiz (206) vs. Matt Hamill (203.5)
Martin Kampmann (170) vs. Jake Shields (170.5)
Cain Velasquez (244) vs. Brock Lesnar (264—UFC Heavyweight Champion)
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Story | Oct 5, 2010 | 4:33 PM⢠Danny DeVito collected the Golden Icon Award at the Zurich Film Festival on behalf of his pal Michael Douglas, who undergoes treatment for throat cancer. He told the crowd on Sunday night: "Michael is so strong. He gets better and better with every... -
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British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday defended his behavior at Nelson Mandela's memorial service in South Africa after he was criticized at home for posing with U.S. President Barack Obama for what some said was a disrespectful photograph.
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The sign language interpreter on stage next to world leaders during Nelson Mandela's memorial Tuesday has been deemed a "fake" doing nothing more than making meaningless hand gestures.
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Peter Ubertaccio, Professor of Political Science at Stonehill College evaluates President's Mandela address.
Obama, Castro shake hands at Mandela memorial
U.S. President Barack Obama shook hands with Cuba's Raul Castro at a memorial for Nelson Mandela on Tuesday, a rare gesture between the leaders of the ideologically opposed nations that reflected the anti-apartheid hero's spirit of reconciliation.
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More than 70 leaders from across the world, some of them locked in enmity, are flying to South Africa for memorials to Nelson Mandela that will hail one of humanity's great peacemakers, officials said on Monday.
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Hundreds of fans gathered at a public memorial in New York on Thursday for rocker Lou Reed, the frontman of the The Velvet Underground who died last month.
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The Shock Doctrine author Naomi Klein describes how Alan Greenspan, who fought to keep it unregulated, shaped the derivatives market.
Klein states that Greenspan argued the derivatives market was "too complex to regulate" and could be trusted to self-regulation by the professionals.
Hernando de Soto and Joseph Stiglitz trace the financial crisis to an insufficient property information system, meaning nobody knows who owns what.
de Soto says, "The real economy isn't only made out of things, the real economy is made out of paper that reflects those things."
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I've been using Gentoo since 1.1a and have converted all of my other Linux boxen to Gentoo. I'm even using it at work for a production server platform with no problems. It has the best package management and the fastest performance I've seen in any other distro -- and I've tried Suse, Mandrake, Red Hat, Lycoris, TurboLinux, Beehive, Peanut, Corel, Slackware, and Debian. |
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Boxen is acceptable, look it up.
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[JURIST] Four Thai prosecutors traveled to London Friday to discuss the extradition of ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on corruption charges [JURIST report], in order to discuss what evidence is necessary in UK courts to extradite Thaksin and his wife. The Thai lawyers said they would not file a request for Thaksin's extradition during the trip, but would instead discuss the bi-lateral extradition treaty [PDF text] between the UK and Thailand. Even if an extradition bid is unsuccessful, the Assets Examination Committee has said it intends to proceed with civil litigation against Thaksin in absentia.Thaksin and his wife Pojamarn have been accused of abuse of power for personal gain [JURIST report], conflict of interest violations, and dereliction of duty for personal gain in charges stemming from a 2003 land purchase by Pojamarn from the government-directed Financial Institutions Development Fund [official website]. Thai courts have issued multiple arrest warrants for them, including one for "evading prosecution" [JURIST reports]. Prior to serving as prime minister, Thaksin made a fortune in the telecommunications industry. BBC News has more. From Thailand, the Nation has local coverage.
[JURIST] The Sterling Heights Police and Fire Retirement System, a public Michigan pension fund, has filed a derivative action [press release] alleging misconduct by Mattel [corporate website], including failing to report toy defects to federal regulators, and in the case of one current and three former directors, engaging in insider trading. The lawsuit claims that Mattel's board of directors breached their fiduciary duties by allowing the company to purposely delay reports to the Consumer and Safety Product Commission (CPSC) [official website], which provides a 24-hour reporting period, of safety hazards in its toys in order to prevent a downturn in the value of the company's stock. Mattel has recalled approximately 21 million toys since August because they contained illegal lead paint or magnets that could become detached and cause injuries to children. The derivative suit calls for compensatory and other damages for harm suffered by the corporation due to Mattel's alleged failure to prevent the distribution and production of hazardous toys and the lapses in reporting. The suit also alleges that four directors violated laws against insider trading by dumping approximately $33 million in stock from January through May 2007 in Mattel stock in advance of public disclosure of the safety problems. While Mattel has not responded publicly yet to the lawsuit, it has told the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce [official website] that the stock sales by corporate directors occurred before the discovery of safety hazards in June. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in the Court of Chancery of Delaware [official website], on behalf of the pension fund, which owns 23,600 Mattel shares.Since announcing recalls of approximately 21 million toys, Mattel has also been sued in several class action and personal injury lawsuits filed by consumers alleging harm to children who came in contact with the recalled toys and requesting that Mattel pay for testing of the potentially affected children. The New York Times has more. Reuters has additional coverage.
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that he would appoint [press release] Judge Mohamed Amin El Mahdi, Judge Erik Mose and Nicolas Michel [official profiles] to the selection panel that will recommend the judges and chief prosecutor for the new Special Tribunal for Lebanon [UN materials]. El Mahdi has served on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Mose is a presiding judge with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Michel is currently the UN legal counsel and under-secretary-general for legal affairs. The selection panel will recommend four Lebanese judges, seven international judges and the tribunal's chief prosecutor to Ban, who will make final appointments. The UN Security Council unilaterally established the tribunal [JURIST report; UN News report] in May after a divided Lebanese government failed to agree on a proposal. The tribunal will investigate [JURIST report] and try suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri in 2005 as well as in 17 other attempted and successful political assassinations in Lebanon. The UN News Service has more.
[JURIST] Myanmar's military government Friday rejected a UN Security Council [official website] denunciation [statement text; press release] of its use of violence against peaceful demonstrators and its accompanying call on the government to release political prisoners and negotiate with the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) led by Aung San Suu Kyi [JURIST news archive; BBC profile]. The junta said September's actions against protesters were not of international concern, and insisted on continuing with its seven-step plan to democratic rule. So far, only the first step has been completed with the drafting of guidelines for a new constitution [JURIST report]. Critics contend that the drafting was essentially staged by the junta. The Myanmar government began cracking down on protesters [JURIST report] late last month, arresting hundreds of Buddhist monks demonstrating against human rights abuses by the military government. Government authorities subsequently raided several Buddhist monasteries, detaining monks [JURIST report] the junta believed to have led the demonstrations. While the junta reported only 10 deaths in the protests, dissident groups claim that some hundred and perhaps even thousands of people have been executed and over 6,000 detained. AP has more.
[JURIST] California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger [official website] signed a bill [AB1723 text, PDF] Thursday designed to increase funding to legal aid representation for low-income residents of California. The new law, which will take effect in January 2008, will enable banks to invest money from lawyers' client trust funds (IOLTA accounts) in higher interest-yielding accounts than those currently used. Client trust accounts, which are pooled together to generate a larger amount of interest, contain monies, such as damages, that are held for a short time until the court determines the appropriate amounts to be paid to the client. The Legal Aid Services Trust Fund Program of the State Bar of California [official website] collects the interest and allocates it among nonprofit organizations, including legal aid providers. While the accounts currently generate roughly $10 million of interest per year, the new law could greatly increase that amount,and would add to the roughly $200 million per year provided by the state to legal aid programs, from federal, state and private funds.Low income residents are guaranteed representation in criminal matters, but the state is not required to provide representation for civil matters, which fall to legal aid groups. The legal aid provided through these funds includes representation in areas of housing, family law, domestic violence, health, disability, and foster care. Despite its various sources of funding, legal representation for indigent people falls far short of the need, according to the bill's author, California Assemblyman Dave Jones (D-Sacramento) [official website]. Jones cited a state commission's recent report that in California there is currently one lawyer for every 8,361 poor people, as opposed to one for every 240 members of the general population. The bill is expected to broaden the numbers of poor who are able to access legal aid. The San Francisco Chronicle has more.
[JURIST] The Taiwan High Court [official website, English version] opened proceedings Friday in the corruption trial of Ma Ying-jeou [personal website, in Chinese], the opposition presidential candidate in the 2008 Taiwanese presidential election. Ma was acquitted [JURIST report] of the corruption charges by the Taipei District Court, but the Taipei High Prosecutors Office [official website, English version] appealed that decision to the High Court. Ma was indicted [JURIST report] in February, but has consistently denied the charges [JURIST report] that he engaged in corruption while serving as mayor of Taipei. He is accused of misappropriating a special discretionary expense fund for his personal use, but Ma has argued that his actions were legitimate because he used the money to fund municipal events and pay city employees. Allegations of corruption have recently been raised against other Taiwanese officials, including Vice President Annette Lu [JURIST report]. AFP has more. Radio Taiwan International has local coverage.
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Pakistan [official website] on Friday agreed to review a "reconciliation ordinance" [JURIST report] that granted amnesty to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto [BBC profile] and paved the way for a power-sharing agreement between Bhutto and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf [BBC profile]. The agreement reached between the two political rivals [BBC backgrounder] clears the way for Bhutto to return to Pakistan from self-exile in London and Dubai to campaign in parliamentary elections for prime minister later this year. The ordinance also applies to similar charges against politicians who were charged, but not convicted, of corruption between 1988 and 1999. Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry said civilians granted amnesty under the ordinance will "not be entitled to claim any protection if this court concludes that the ordinance and its provisions are beyond the constitution."Musharraf won an overwhelming victory in presidential elections [JURIST report] on Saturday, according to unofficial results. The Supreme Court barred the Election Commission of Pakistan [official website] from officially declaring a winner until the high court issues a ruling on whether Musharraf was in fact eligible as a presidential candidate. The Court will hear legal arguments [JURIST report] filed by opposition party members challenging Musharraf's bid for another presidential term while still chief of the army on October 17. Reuters has more. AFP has additional coverage.
[JURIST] Russian President Vladimir Putin [official website] threatened to withdraw Russia from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty [US DOS backgrounder] Friday unless the treaty is expanded to include neighboring countries such as China, India and Pakistan. The treaty, signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in 1987, requires signatories to disarm their ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of between 500 and 5,500 kilometers, their launchers and associated support structures and support equipment. Putin has asserted that Russia cannot remain a signatory to the treaty if neighboring countries can continue to develop their own intermediate-range weapons. Putin's comments came just before a meeting in Moscow between US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov [official profiles]. During the talks, the US rejected [AFP report] Russia's request for the US to freeze plans for an anti-missile defense shield in central Europe. In June, Russia also threatened to withdraw [JURIST report] from the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty [text; backgrounder] amid tensions between the US and Russia over the anti-missile defense proposal, which Russia perceives to be a threat to Russian national security. The Guardian has more.
[JURIST] The Arizona Supreme Court [official website] indefinitely stayed the execution of a man on death row Thursday, saying it will wait until the US Supreme Court reviews whether lethal injection is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment in Baze v. Rees (07-5439) [docket; cert. petition]. The Arizona Supreme Court has already ruled that the state's lethal injection method is constitutional, but stayed the execution of Jeffrey Landrigan [AZ DOC materials] pending the US Supreme Court's consideration of Baze because its method is so similar to the one under review. Arizona, like many other states, uses a controversial three-drug mixture [DPIC backgrounder] of an anesthetic, a muscle paralyzer and a substance to stop the heart. The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled in the Baze case that the state's current method of lethal injection, the same method Arizona uses, does not violate the constitution [JURIST report] because the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment "does not require a complete absence of pain." Several constitutional challenges [JURIST news archive] to the procedure have arisen across the country, arguing that the first drug fails to make the inmate fully unconscious, thereby making the inmate suffer excruciating pain when the heart-stopping drug is injected. AP has more. The Arizona Republic has local coverage.
[JURIST] El Salvador defended its 1993 amnesty law in a hearing [recorded video] Wednesday before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) [official website] dealing with the country's failure to investigate the 1980 murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero [BBC backgrounder]. Representatives of the Salvadoran government maintained that the amnesty law has prevented compliance with a 2000 IACHR report [text] recommending that the state investigate the archbishop's death, of which the IACHR declared El Salvador responsible. The government defended the law, saying that it allowed the country to make a peaceful transition to democracy after its 1980-1992 civil war [PBS backgrounder].Romero was assassinated by a death squad while saying mass in San Salvador. An outspoken critic of the military junta, his death is viewed as one of the catalysts of the war, which left over 70,000 people dead. In 2004, a federal court in the United States held Alvaro Saravia liable [CJA case backgrounder] for Romero's murder and ordered him to pay $10 million in damages to the archbishop's family. While other suits have been brought [JURIST report] against former Salvadoran state agents in US courts, human rights groups contend that the amnesty laws [ISP report] have undermined the rule of law and led to impunity in El Salvador. El Pais has more.
[JURIST] A private advocacy group requested a temporary restraining order [press release; motion, PDF; motion exhibits, PDF] Thursday to compel the White House to save back-up disks of all e-mails relating to the Bush administration. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) [advocacy website] sued the Executive Office of the President and the National Archives and Records Administration last month over their alleged failure to preserve e-mails [complaint, PDF; press release] throughout the Bush administration. The lawsuit arose from millions of e-mails that have been deleted from White House servers and now only exist on back-up tapes, if they exist at all. The CREW motion seeks an order "to prevent any further document destruction."Thus far, the White House has refused to confirm that they have maintained e-mail records since the beginning of the Bush administration, as they are required to do, according to CREW executive director Melanie Sloan. The US Department of Justice has been unresponsive about what back-up tapes the White House maintained, although it has stated that the White House has maintained all back-up tapes since CREW filed suit last month. The issue of missing e-mails has been an ongoing controversy in the Bush administration, arising first during the CIA leak investigation [JURIST news archive] into the revelation of Valerie Plame's identity, and again this year during controversy over the firings of eight US Attorneys [JURIST news archive]. AP has more.
[JURIST] Over 2,000 people died while being arrested [press release] by various US state and local law enforcement officers between 2003 and 2005, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) reported [PDF text; statistics] Thursday, including over 1,000 deaths caused by the law enforcement officers themselves. The report, which was required by the Death in Custody Reporting Act [PDF text], showed a 13 percent increase in the number of deaths from 2003 to 2005. Drugs and alcohol caused 13 percent of the deaths, while suicide, accidental injuries, illnesses and natural causes rounded out the rest of the deaths. Most of the deaths caused by law enforcement officers were gun related deaths, with most of the victims being suspects of violent crime. In addition, 380 law enforcement officers died during arrests over the same time period, most of them accidentally. The report studied 40 million arrests with the number of arrest-related deaths representing less than one ten-thousandth of one percent of deaths. The DOJ studied the period from the onset of law enforcement officers trying to arrest the suspect until the suspect was booked, with most of the deaths occurring at the scene of arrest. The DOJ used questionnaires, completed by 47 states and the District of Columbia, required by the Death in Custody Reporting Act as a condition for receiving federal correctional grants. The New York Times has more.
[JURIST] The Tunisian government Thursday condemned torture as "reprehensible," criticizing US District Judge Gladys Kessler for blocking the transfer [JURIST report] of a Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee to Tunisia because he faced a threat of torture. In her decision last week, Kessler granted a preliminary injunction [order, PDF] preventing the Defense Department from transferring Mohammed Abdul Rahman [Wikipedia profile] until the Supreme Court rules in a case currently on its docket concerning the rights of Guantanamo detainees [JURIST report]. Human Rights Watch reported earlier this month that Tunisian officials were abusing two former Guantanamo Bay detainees [JURIST report] since their transfer [JURIST report] in June. Since 2002, approximately 435 detainees have been transferred out of Guantanamo and approximately 330 detainees remain [press release], ten of whom are from Tunisia. AP has more.
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While some public hospitals do well on measures of patient care, many get lower ratings because of the added challenges they face, such as caring for more uninsured people, said Bruce Boissonnault, CEO of the Niagara Health Quality Coalition. Starting in October, hospital payments for Medicare patients will undergo a historic change. Using Hospital Compare scores, Medicare, the largest single payer of hospital services, will reward hospitals based on the quality of care they provide, not just on the quantity of services they deliver. Many states, including Texas, are overhauling their Medicaid programs for the poor in a similar way.
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This year, Veterans Day fell on a truly unique day: 11/11/11, and there was no shortage of local patriotic celebrations to commemorate veterans' services to our country.
To kick off the day, the Sarasota Patriotic Observance Committee held the city's annual Veterans Day parade. After a parade down Main Street of local dignitaries, the Sarasota High School band, the Sarasota Military Academy and others, the parade participants and spectators gathered around the Five Points roundabout flagpole for the national anthem, the Pledge of Allegiance and to listen to the guest speaker, retired Col. Ben Knisely, United States Army.
In addition to the city's parade, The Glenridge on Palmer Ranch held its fifth annual Veterans Day luncheon,and more than 250 people attended a special Veterans Day program at the Sarasota Senior Friendship Centers. President and CEO Bob Carter recognized the two senior-most veterans in attendance: Ken Meixell, 98, U.S. Navy, and Theodore Oxman, 96, U.S. Army Air Force.
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I'm in the new Gainesville Florida DMA. Our local NBC affiliate WNBW 9-1 has begun transmitting OTA MeTV on subchannel 9-2. My TV with it's own built-in DTS tuner gets 9-2 without a problem. The three DirecTV HD DVR's, HR20-*'s will not tune OTA channel 9-2 in spite of my doing resets and rescans. The guide information is in the Tribune News Service that DirecTV uses as seen on Zap2It.com for my zip code. So I'm guessing that DirecTV just needs to allow it's recievers to capture the information. I sent an email to DirecTV explaining all of this in detail and got back a standard boilerplate response of "Call technical support...."
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The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act requires all students to become technology literate by the end of the eighth grade. This means that basic or introductory technology concepts are addressed by benchmarks and indicators in the K-2, 3-5 and 6-8 grade bands in order to achieve the NCLB goal.
NCLB charged the Secretary of Education with the development of the nation's third National Education Technology Plan. The National Education Technology Plan was developed as part of a long-range national strategy and guide for using technology effectively to improve student academic achievement – either directly or through integration with other approaches to systemic reform.
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