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I had heard about the possibility of a ski becoming lost in deep powder after a fall, but never thought too much about it until it happened to me.
While skiing at Snowbird, Utah after a 14" spring snowfall of pretty dry powder I blew out of both skis. The first ski caught on the uphill side of a single file hard packed traverse, released, and stayed put.
The fall flipped me downhill on the steep slope and immediately yanked off my other ski. I remember seeing that ski dive under the powder as I careened down the slope.
I self=arrested about 30 feet below the traverse trail. My friend, still above me, picked up my first errant ski and one pole, but didn't see any visible sign of my other ski.
Being a Snowbird local he knew the real possibility of that pilot less ski continuing to submarine through the powder until the snowpack below the powder snagged the brakes or until it ran out of speed-inducing vertical and then stopped.
My friend knew the "lost ski drill" and here are the best sequential steps to take if you ever lose a ski in powder snow.
Get Safe and Sound
After the fall make sure you or are not physically hurt - worry about hurt pride later - and are not in danger of tumbling further down the slope. If you're not hurt, take some deep breathes and look around to orient yourself as to where you fell and where you stopped.
Determine Direction
Think back to when you fell - were you skiing on the fall line, or were you traversing? This will give you a good starting point to search from and then down. I.e. if you look up to where you fell and you were going left to right it is a good bet the ski continued right or turned down the fall line.
Determine Starting Point
Work back to where you fell - poke around as you go - you may get lucky right off. Mark where you fell with a pole or the one ski you have if you didn't lose both! As you, and hopefully a buddy or two start searching if you don't mark the spot of your fall you'll lose sight of it as you trample and posthole around.
Search the Clock
Using your pole or one ski start from the point you fell - start at noon, move toward 1 pm, then 2 pm then 3 pm scraping uphill, downhill and across hill as far as you can reach. Turn in a small circle until you make it back to noon. Remember to check a little above the point of falling as your ski just may have stopped on release but you impacted further down.
Move To Momentum
Move around the clock in the direction you were skiing and restart scraping a circle, overlapping a little on the first circle.
Continue Searching Downward - Slowly
Walking and post holing in deep powder, especially at elevation can be quickly tiring so take it slow.
Know When to Quit
As much as you like your lost ski there is a point where you may have to give up the search. remember you are on a mountain presumably a good distance from the bottom and in deep snow. You need to get safely down in daylight - period.
Call the Ski Patrol
The Ski Patrol doesn't have the time to search for your ski. However, it is a good bet that in powder country the mountain's Ski Patrol has a few Demo skis of varying length with adjustable bindings available for just such circumstances.
They can bring you a ski, set it to your boot size, and assist you to ski down if you are alone. If a spare ski is not an option, the Ski Patrol will get you down via downloading or toboggan if necessary.
Leave Your Contact Information
Find out from the Ski Patrol what office you should report the location of your fall, the make and model of the lost ski and your contact information. There is a 99% chance that at some point your ski will be found.
Either somebody will find it while skiing or it will surface in the melt out. Be sure to mention that you will be responsible for any shipping charges should you want your ski back.
Lucky Me
At Snowbird, I gave up the search after an hour or so and the Snowbird Patrol did have a ski available. I skied down and gave the necessary contact information to the Snowbird administration people. Fortunately the very next day someone found my ski and turned it in. Snowbird personnel contacted me and I went home with both skis.
Get a "Powder Leash or Cord"
As I found out, losing a ski in powder snow is not uncommon, but there is a good and cheap way to be sure it doesn't happen to you. Snow Sport stores and online outfitters in powder country sell "Powder Cords" or Powder Leashes." These are relatively inexpensive, long brightly colored ribbons that attach to the ski bindings and tuck into your pant leg gaiter, or into a special pouch which is commercially available.If you fall in powder and your ski takes off it pulls out the ribbon. since the ribbon tends to 'float' in the powder you can then easily find the ribbon and reel in your ski.
I've already invested in a pair of "Powder Cords" and I'll be wearing them whenever I ski in relatively deep powder.


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While I understand the move on the part of these players, isn't this a potential union-busting move? Sure, it's great that these dozen or so all stars are going to get a nice payday ($1 million being thrown out), but what does that do for all the young guys and journeman who aren't getting the invite? At some point, aren't the rank and file going to look at this and say "Screw those guys - I only get a million per season total, and I'm not even getting that - let's take the deal"


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We focused on many key workflows in GIS, urban planning and entertainment production. For example, we developed one of the first seamless solutions to share 3D city scenes in the cloud on ArcGIS Online, created intuitive tools for the 3D editing of buildings, and introduced unique new techniques for better urban design. Also, the software is now tightly integrated with ArcGIS, allowing you to work with huge 3D city models.
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New poster a few days ago, now followed by a new trailer - the second one I believe, introduced by director Brad Bird - for the 4th installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise, titled Ghost Protocol, which sees the return of Tom Cruise (I haven't seen much of Ving Rhames in marketing materials for the film thus far, though he's listed in the credits), as well as the addition of newcomers Paula Patton, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and others, with Renner's role here being Cruise's heir apparent, as this might be his last go-round with the franchise.
The film opens December 21.
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Just Curious | October 28, 2011 12:49 PM
How many times are you going to say that?
Love Tom & Simon! PP looks like she's getting some tongue from Cruise...nice!
Angela Watts | October 28, 2011 9:44 AM
Every Mission: Impossible movie is set in its own alternate reality/universe.
Paula Patton flaunts her sexy new post-pregnancy curves in this movie which probably added to her performance in delicious and wonderful ways.
jingmei | October 28, 2011 9:10 AM
Simon Pegg quirkly funny in this action; French actress Lea Seydoux is here that's cool.
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Wohoo!! Paula Patton looks like a strong, empowered and sexy IMF agent. Hahah.. freakin' fantastic, can't wait! Man! I feel like a woman!
Afrostyling | October 28, 2011 1:48 AM
Pegg was in the last movie too if im not mistaken. Just a small role.


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Padres Fans Catches Ball In Beer And Promptly Chugs It
Well played sir.
Well played sir.
Just sayin joggsfan. It isn't that hard. Only chicks chug like that dude did.
Holy shit bro… What is your internet on dial up or are you still getting your info by carrier pigeon?
I wish I was davemacinnh
what a pussy chug
On the other side of the arguement not one of you is gonna call that guy out for a 15 second chug? Please this kid is like 25 it should only take him 5 seconds tips. Shit I could chug it in 5 or less all day long what a pussy
There is simply no way there would be that much beer in the cup if the ball truly landed in it. Piss off you fucking attention whore.
the announcers are right. if the ball falls in your beer, you should be required to chug it. sign it, seal it, put it on the back of the ticket.
He Clearly picks it off the ground and puts it in the beer, there is no way it wouldn't have exploded. Lame video.
Can we trade Adrian Gonzalez back to SD for ball cup beer guzzle kid?
You know your a homer when you post a link to the same thing happening in Fenway park and claiming its better.
Now that's promoting rape culture
that guy who did it at fenway last year handled it much better.
Yerkey already did this at a sox game
prez was too busy bragging about what a taint-licking boner glove he was on inside edition to watch sportscenter today. cut him some slack
Could have sold that beer..
this has been on sportscenter literally all day. youre about 10 hours too late


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Editor's Note: The following article was submitted by Robert V. Tessaro, who recently moved back to Fort Lee after spending five years in Washington, D.C., where he worked for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
I think my interest in gun control advocacy started here in Fort Lee at an early age. Growing up I had heard the story about Fort Lee Police Officer William "Billy" Birch who was killed in the line of duty while responding to a hold up call at a motel on Route 4 west. He was shot by a repeat felon who had an illegal weapon. I remember trying to understand how such a "bad man" would be allowed to have a gun; a question I still try to answer today.
Fast forward to when I was a senior at Fort Lee High School, one of my classmates, Sujan Hong, started a student petition asking the government to ban assault rifles. The petition drew national attention, and Fort Lee High School was visited by Vice President Al Gore who praised Sujan and the other students for speaking up. The Assault Weapon Ban of 1994 was signed into law later that year. This was my first experience seeing grassroots advocacy at work, and the power a voice can have to affect positive change.
Several years later, I was serving as the Executive Director of the New Jersey Association of School Resource Officers (NJASRO), an organization for school-based law enforcement officers and school safety officials in New Jersey, when tragedy struck.
On July 18, 2005, a school safety officer named Dwayne Reeves was shot and killed as he and his partner were trying to protect students during a shootout outside of a Newark High School.
NJASRO had been a national leader in providing active shooter training for school-based law enforcement, and spoke out that more needed to be done to protect our children from incidents like this and other school shootings that been occurring around the country at the time. I had the privilege of representing NJASRO at the White House Summit on School Violence hosted by President George W. Bush.
While there was discussion on mental health counseling and improved training for school officials, there was virtually no conversation about firearms, or the easy access students had to them. I spoke about this notable absence in several conversations after the summit, and was told that the White House did not want to address guns at that time. Unfortunately, the Bush White House decided to allow the Assault Weapon Ban to expire and drastically cut funding to programs that supported law enforcement in schools. The assault rifle used in the Newtown, CT shooting would have been covered under the ban.
Soon after the summit, I received a call from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence inviting me to work for them. Based in Washington, D.C., the Brady Center, the nation's lead gun control advocacy organization, is named for Ronald Reagan's Press Secretary, James Brady.
Brady was shot, along with President Reagan, during an assassination attempt by a mentally ill individual with a handgun while surrounded by Secret Service agents. The Brady Center has worked tirelessly to pass common sense gun laws. The two laws they are best known for are the Brady Background Checks, which requires licensed dealers to check whether an individual is prohibited from owning a firearm, and the Assault Weapon Ban.
Over the last five years I have continued to be involved in the gun control issue. I have had incredible experiences meeting with some of the nation's top lawmakers, police executives, and community activists to strengthen and improve these laws. I have also seen the faces of heartache as I have worked with the parents and family members from locations that are now synonymous with gun violence: Columbine, Tucson, Aurora and Virginia Tech.
Every year in the United States 100,000 people are shot, and 32,000 Americans die from gunshots, either through homicide, suicide or accident.
Several months ago, I had the honor to join my good friends James Brady and his wife, Sarah, in a meeting with President Obama at the White House on the 30th anniversary of James getting shot. James, who suffered traumatic brain damage and is forced to use a wheelchair, told all of us working to end gun violence to "Fight fiercely."
In the coming weeks I hope to submit several articles that explain what our current gun laws are and what citizens can do. Shortly after I began my work at the Brady Center, a friend sent me a news clipping that the man who shot Billy Birch had been rearrested, while he was out on parole, for attempting to sell illegal guns. He was caught on tape bragging about how he shot a cop. He died in prison a short time after that. I kept that clipping up on my desk and looked at it every day to remind me of why I became involved.
More needs to be done to end gun violence in this country. Now is the time to "fight fiercely" to protect our children and our communities. We are better than this.


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Speak Up: What Healthy Snacks Do You Keep at Work?
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My tummy starts grumbling around 3 p.m., and when it does I'm always thankful that I have healthy snacks just an arm's distance away. Keeping healthy snacks at my desk prevents me from choosing something more unhealthy to satisfy my hunger (like the treats from YumSugar that magically appear in the kitchen) and from eating everything in sight when I get home from work.
Currently, my desk drawer is holding an apple, some almonds, and a Larabar. I also brought a couple containers of nonfat Greek yogurt for the communal refrigerator. What snacks do you keep at work?
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Today, special k 90 cal pack multigrain crackers and strawberries- am snack. Afternoon snack: raw almonds and fruit.. office supplies fresh fruit daily!!! Sometimes multigrain rice cake and unsalted pb with banana, or kashi fruit cereal bar and carrot sticks... yuuum yumm
7showgirl7 5 years
Nuts and fresh fruit
ohdeb 5 years
Banana Chips and Almonds!
0fashionqueen 5 years
Nutri-Grain Bars and bottles of water
ShedItandGetIt 5 years
For myself, almonds, Fiber One bars, and Muscle Milk lights in the little fridge! BUT it's my job to stock the dept snack area, so I've been getting healthy things and everyone is happy: almonds, 100 calorie packs, dried fruit, and pretzels. No more Oreos and peanut butter crackers!
UrbanBohemian 5 years
Almonds, pineapple slices, Fage 2% yogurt, Laughing Cow wedges and Wheat Thins.
bonbonagogo 5 years
Raw almonds ( I have 8 of them at 11am with some cut up veggies) Baby Carrots Boxed soup ak-mak crackers and I bring a piece of fruit every day!
Spectra 5 years
I always keep an apple and a baggie of carrots and celery in the fridge and I bring an Altoids tin full of almonds in my purse (it's automatic portion control).
Glitterbug 5 years
I always have a Luna Bar (Chocolate Peppermint) or Kashi GoLean Crunchy bar (Chocolate Almond) handy, plus mini Babybel light cheeses, apples (or other fruit - today it's kiwi), cream of wheat and oatmeal (keep these at my desk for emergencies) and tomato soup (the microwaveable kind). I'm never tempted by the vending machine!
bchicgrl 5 years
I bring in larabars, granola bars, baggy of fruit or veggies, and sometimes yogurt.
WorldTrekker 5 years
Every Monday I stop at the grocery store on my way to work for fruit to fill the bowl I keep on my desk. This week is pears. I also keep some of those 100-calorie cookie packs so when I'm dying for chocolately goodness - I walk past the office candy dish and have one of those instead.
WeTheLiving 5 years
Well, it's debatable how healthy some of my snacks are, but I suppose they are the more healthy of their categories. I keep wheat toasted crackers (they help w/ nausea too), Raisin Bran, carrot sticks, popcorn (mini bags), and peanut butter.
jessr1214 5 years
almonds, carrots, and luna bars
HMBowling 5 years
Almonds, bananas, apples, grapes, Kashi bars. :)
misstiffie 5 years
i have tons of fruits and i keep some larabars and yogurts i also have just in case oatmeal packets from kashi :D
1apple 5 years
String cheese, almonds, All-Bran bars, apples. I also bring a few snack sized chocolate bars every day. Oh, and tuna/cracker packages.
beram1220 5 years
Wow, I'm surprised(and pleased) at all the healthy answers! I usually keep a box of shredded wheat cereal, some babybel cheeses in my fridge and Trader Joes fruit leathers. I work on a college campus though so snacks are plentiful in the many little corner stores as soon as walk out of my office! Bin candy anyone? :)
tarall10 5 years
I keep apples and bananas, ak-mak crackers, laughing cow cheese, almonds and/or walnuts, yogurt, and frozen fruit to mix in with my yogurt.
LBGangel 5 years
I love the 100-calorie popcorn packs, I keep them in my desk at all times! They don't spoil when i forget them in the drawer :p On my desk I currently have an orange and a banana and an indivual package of almonds.
LBGangel 5 years
I love the 100-calorie popcorn packs, I keep them in my desk at all times! They don't spoil when i forget them in the drawer :p On my desk I currently have an orange and a banana and an indivual package of almonds.
amandaaa 5 years
granola bars, 100-calorie packs, various bars (larabar, jocalat, etc.). sometimes portioned trail mix or nut mixes
soccerkim 5 years
Almonds, apples, cottage cheese. :)
Graze-With-Me 5 years
Today I have a greek yogurt, a banana and an apple. I always bring larabars on Fridays, it's like my little treat. Also I drink green tea and other herbal teas all day to help keep me warm and satified.
foxie 5 years
I usually bring an apple or a banana, soy yogurt, and sunflower seeds.
SweetNGlow 5 years
I keep Justin's organic peanut butter squeeze packs in my desk drawer. It goes great with an apple, baby carrots, or Greek yogurt as mid-afternoon snacks.
kia 5 years
I always have a larabar with me (chocolate mole), but I usually take almonds, an apple, and lately fiberful fruit leathers from Trader Joe's.
Kelliegrl 5 years
Bear Naked Fit Granola, an orange and Dannon Activa Yogurt
NdHebert 5 years
I like to keep on hand: String Cheese, Nutrigrain Bar, Fruit, serving of nuts. (If I have a container of nuts it will be gone in an hour). I also drink green tea ALL day and that really seems to curb my appetite.
danzerdrea7 5 years
I work in construction so I cannot keep food in the trailer that pests may like. I opt for Quakers weight control oatmeal. I know its not as healthy as making it with real oats, but its warm and easy to make.
TidalWave 5 years
baby carrots and yogurt in the fridge. try to have at least one of these in my desk at all times: peanut butter, walnuts, papaya chewable vitamin (actually tastes good), or an apple
ilanac13 5 years
i usually keep pretzels or something like that at my desk since they aren't AS bad as other things that i could be eating.
lightstarangel 5 years
I'm trying to start eating healthier, though in a corporate office, its difficult with all the snack drawers full of chips/cookies/candy and all the birthdays/anniversarys/showers/etc. However, at my desk, I've started keeping fruit (apple, tangerines), nuts & dried fruit (almonds, walnuts, cherries), Kashi bars and Simple Harvest oatmeal if I don't have a chance to have breakfast at home.
Renee3327 5 years
I keep bananas, Lunabars and Kashi TLC crackers.
aimeeb 5 years
An apple, nuts and oatmeal. :)
theglossarie 5 years
Almonds, carrots, popcorn, Peanut Butter Puffins, and 2% string cheese.
syako 5 years
Always an apple (well right now) whatever fruit is in season.
Askimoli 5 years
Soycrisps and southbeach highprotein cereal bars, i snack on them pretty much every day, so I keep a well stocked stash.
tsp 5 years
i keep a bowl of fruit on my desk (currently contains bananas, cuties and apples) and i keep kashi tlc chewy granola bars handy. we also have a full kitchen at the office, so i keep fruit and yogurt in the refrigerator, too. i also really like those microwave-in-bag packages of cauliflower and broccoli. even though i tend to eat that with my lunch, in a pinch its also a healthy, easy snack.
OHmeetsBK 5 years
Apple or orange. Pretzels (not really that healthy, I suppose).
almostloli 5 years
a pack of mix raisins and nuts a banana applesss :D
mem952 5 years
pecans and a small container full of edamame beans.
halfbakedjake 5 years
An apple, carrot sticks, and a Larabar - apple pie flavoured.
lydialee_home 5 years
I keep a box of multi-grain cheerio at work. It's only 110 calorie per cup.
BellaDoLce 5 years
love the tips about keeping snacks..me too sometimes feeling hard to cooperate with my guts..dunno why..that's why i always keep my soy bean bar..it's de.li.cious...hahahahahahahaha
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Jason's a true artist—he gives a great cut, and his colour work has always been perfect for me. His chairside manner is warm and inviting, and his product knowledge is spot on!
In August, 2010 I lay down on Kristin's massage table an old, 58 year old woman. Years of work stress, life trauma and persistent pain brought me to her in this physical and mental state by the urging of my work colleagues. Her deep muscle massage on a regular and consistent basis has given me back my painless, young 61 year old body. Not a day goes by that I don't thank Kristin in my heart for the painless, freedom of movement and her knowledgeable guidance in everyday physical awareness. I highly recommend her for therapeutic and relaxation massage!
My appt. with Alicia was especially fantastic. I came in for a dramatically different cut and color and felt completely relaxed and excited about the process while in Alicia's hands. She has always provided amazing service and has wonderful skills. She is priceless! And my new color/cut is loved and envied by all of my friends.


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Archinect - News 2014-09-02T21:13:35-04:00 http://archinect.com/news/article/101638841/an-app-to-crowd-source-urban-disruptions An App to Crowd-Source Urban Disruptions Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2014-06-11T17:06:00-04:00 >2014-06-17T17:33:58-04:00
Maa2too3a, or 'Happin' in English, is a free app that uses news and crowd-sourced information to geo-tag disruptive events in the city as they occur, allowing users to mitigate risks or simply save time by avoiding them. Launched in May 2013, the app now has over 100,000 users, according to the developer, Mohammed Taha. "It's a tool to keep people safe," he says. And on calmer days, it can be used to simply avoid traffic jams or other routine problems.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/96490028/latino-placemaking-how-the-civil-rights-movement-reshaped-east-la Latino Placemaking: How the Civil Rights Movement Reshaped East LA Alexander Walter 2014-03-25T15:08:00-04:00 >2014-03-31T22:06:42-04:00
Latino Placemaking goes beyond creating great public spaces. It also includes cultural identity, which is shaped by needs, desires, and imagination. The Latino quest for cultural identity parallels the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the late 1960's and early 1970's, which has its genesis in protests – many of which were carried out in public spaces.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/86248875/the-pop-up-activist-of-the-lower-east-side The Pop-Up Activist of the Lower East Side anthony dong 2013-11-10T23:44:00-05:00 >2013-11-11T17:07:08-05:00
Eric Ho watches the boom on the Lower East Side...and sees...Detroit. Specifically...vacant storefronts — more than 200 of them in the area east of the Bowery and south of 14th Street. How was it possible, he thought, that in a neighborhood where space was at such a premium, so much of it was sitting idle? ...an architect who once intended to design housing for disaster zones,, he thought: What could be done with them?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/56372853/working-with-the-99-wins-a-future-cities-prize-in-venice "Working with the 99%" Wins a Future Cities Prize in Venice Alexander Walter 2012-08-31T19:13:00-04:00 >2012-09-03T18:43:26-04:00
Three winning projects were announced in the Future Cities, Planning for the 90 per cent competition: ateliermob (Portugal), Municipal Housing Secretariat of São Paulo (Brazil), and Interazioni Urbane (Italy). The projects are part of the exhibition Future Cities: Planning for the 90 per cent in Venice during the 13th Architecture Biennale. Ten projects were selected for the exhibition from more than 100 participants from several countries.

 Portuguese practice ateliermob presents one of the three winning projects, "Working with the 99%," a case study of the progress and community work of Lisbon's self-built PRODAC neighborhood.

 Click here to see more Archinect News posts related to the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.


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Dear Puyallup community member,
When a parent or a visitor strolls though the doors of a Puyallup School District building, we, the office professionals, are the first face they see.
If anyone has questions about any service the school or district provides, we, the office professionals are there to answer it. Additionally, office professionals are the first line of safety for the district's buildings.
However, despite our critical value to the district, we have been working without a contract since August 2013. When the recession hit, we volunteered to temporarily freeze our wages to ensure no Puyallup education professional lost their job. Since 2007, not one office professional has received a cost of living increase, despite other classifications receiving wage increases.
We're asking the Puyallup community, and you, to please stand with us as we work with the district for a fair contract that reflects our value to our schools, the district and the students.
It's not uncommon to find an office professional filling in for a principal or administrator in a time of crisis or emergency. Office professionals are "the right arm of the principal and the left arm of other staff members," according to Puyallup School District Superintendent Tim Yeomans.
We humbly agree with Yeomans. That is why Puyallup office professionals diligently work every day to provide a quality education to our students.
Please stand with us as we work with the Puyallup School District to create a fair contract that reflects our value to our district, our schools and our students.
(Letter submitted by the Puyallup School District Office Professionals.)


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One of my greatest pleasures is peering through the viewfinder to see the large beady eyes of a jumping spider stare right back at me. It doesn't even matter that I get a perfectly focused and composed shot although it's definitely a bonus as it immortalizes the encounter. But that moment when I stand face to face with one of the most beautiful creatures magnified by the macro lens, even if it lasts for less than a second, electricity runs through my entire body.
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Jumping Spider
Tags: jumping spider, macro
One of my greatest pleasures is peering through the viewfinder to see the large beady eyes of a jumping spider stare right back at me. It doesn't even matter that I get a perfectly focused and composed shot although it's definitely a bonus as it immortalizes the encounter. But that moment when I stand face to face with one of the most beautiful creatures magnified by the macro lens, even if it lasts for less than a second, electricity runs through my entire body.
Civilized Ruthlessness
Tags: evolution
Perhaps most people will agree that societies have become more civilized now compared to 100, 1,000, or 10,000 years ago. During our cavemen ancestors' days killing, stealing, and robbing must have been commonplace in their struggle for survival, but in today's "civilized" societies such acts are being prohibited and offenders are heavily penalized.
However, while we were somehow able to curb barbaric behavior, we still display our savage tendencies in other aspects of our social lives. In business, for example, executives are hired to kill the competitors, grab their market share, steal their customers, and even pirate their key employees. And these executives – educated and civilized – actually enjoy the "killing" in the marketplace as if it satisfies some deep evolutionary urge. And maybe it does.
In the caveman days ruthlessness would be a necessary trait not only for survival but also for propagating one's genes. Those who survived the longest got the most chances of dominating the gene pool; those who could gather the most food were most able to rear a large number of offspring; and those who gained the most territory could sustain the best security for their clan.
In today's civilized world – a world where the rules are set by big money and influence instead of big muscles and spears, where business, politics, and religion are the battlefields for power – the people who have evolved to rise above the others must have descended from the great warriors – smart, quick, strong, adaptable, and ruthless. Today these same qualities are as important as ever although quick and strong would now refer to the mind instead of the body. People still have ruthless tendencies, although it is more of a civilized ruthlessness. So while we no longer kill each other for food, we are still trying to "kill" each other in many different ways.
The Ant and the Spider
Tags: evolution, swarm theory
Whenever I see a tiny emaciated spider hanging on its web on the corners of the wall, I leave it alone. Perhaps it's because I respect the life in it, but more importantly, I am in awe of its struggle for life. For 250 million years it has not significantly changed in shape and lifestyle. (Actually it should have been 300 million years, but spiders then had their "spinnerets placed underneath the middle of the abdomen, rather than at the end as in modern spiders". Imagine lying down, facing the sky, hanging by a thread that comes out from your navel. Doesn't seem like a very effective position to catch prey, does it? As such, these early spiders were thought to be ground dwellers.)
As much as I try to do no harm to spiders, I cannot say the same for ants. And I'm not only talking about those ants that march in the hundreds to attack our food, contaminating it with germs and parasites from whatever surfaces they had stepped on – including bathroom floors, garbage cans, and dog poop. I would kill even a single ant whenever I had the chance. Why? Because that single ant is a patroller on a reconnaissance mission, as explained by the National Geographic article Swarm Theory:
"When a forager has contact with a patroller, it's a stimulus for the forager to go out," Gordon says. "But the forager needs several contacts no more than ten seconds apart before it will go out."
To see how this works, Gordon and her collaborator Michael Greene of the University of Colorado at Denver captured patroller ants as they left a nest one morning. After waiting half an hour, they simulated the ants' return by dropping glass beads into the nest entrance at regular intervals—some coated with patroller scent, some with maintenance worker scent, some with no scent. Only the beads coated with patroller scent stimulated foragers to leave the nest. Their conclusion: Foragers use the rate of their encounters with patrollers to tell if it's safe to go out. (If you bump into patrollers at the right rate, it's time to go foraging. If not, better wait. It might be too windy, or there might be a hungry lizard waiting out there.) Once the ants start foraging and bringing back food, other ants join the effort, depending on the rate at which they encounter returning foragers.
So that single ant you did not kill will eventually bring in a whole battalion of foragers, which will contaminate your food with germs and parasites from whatever surfaces they had stepped on – including bathroom floors, garbage cans, and dog poop.
And so whenever I see an ant, I carefully pick it up so as not to squish it. Then I look for the nearest spider web and flick the pesky ant towards it. Bon appetit, poor little skinny spider! Eat well and grow. You'll be handling cockroaches soon.
The Big Bang Theory
Tags: big bang theory
I took the lyrics of the song The Big Bang Theory and tried to write a line after each of the song's lines. The original lyrics are in normal type while my lines are in italics.
* * * * *
Our whole universe was in a hot dense state
A singularity – you can't predict its fate
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait…
Space-time became a growing estate
The Earth began to cool
And formed the primordial pool
The autotrophs began to drool
Helped produce our fossil fuel
Neanderthals developed tools
Placed the beasts under their rule
We built a wall (we built the pyramids)
And scaled them like we're arachnids
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries
As well as mankind's glory and all that misery
That all started with the big bang!
"Since the dawn of man" is really not that long
A lot has happened before we came along
As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song
(In one of them we happen to belong)
A fraction of a second and the elements were made
The stars and planets then came in cascade
The bipeds stood up straight
Tried new positions when they mate
The dinosaurs all met their fate
Just like the animals they ate
They tried to leap but they were late
Imagine jumping with all that weight!
And they all died (they froze their asses off)
While the furry mammals merely coughed
The oceans and pangea
Tibet and Himalayas
See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya
Saying all this blah blah
Set in motion by the same big bang!
It all started with the big bang!
It's expanding ever outward but one day
Gravity will make it sway
It will cause the stars to go the other way
And bring to mankind a great dismay
Collapsing ever inward, we won't be here, it won't be hurt
What will be left is only our dirt
Our best and brightest figure that it'll make an even bigger bang!
Australopithecus would really have been sick of us
Wondering what's all the fuss
Debating out while here they're catching deer (we're catching viruses)
They really needed good irises
Religion or astronomy, Encarta, Deuteronomy
Chemistry, biology, philosophy, theology
It all started with a big bang!
Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology
The proletariat and the bourgeoisie fighting over a decree
It all started with the big bang!
It all started with the big BANG!
A Cynical View on Attraction
Tags: attraction, evolution, human nature, sex
I remember a Darwinian article in Time (Asia) Magazine's special issue, The New Age of Discovery (January, 1998) because it tried to answer questions like why do we find certain human body figures sexy. It said that most men find a specific waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) of women sexy (now I won't tell the exact figure to avoid causing unnecessary insecurities) because that ratio signals fertility. Men don't consciously know this, but evolution somehow programmed it in our instincts to ensure the perpetuation of our genes.
In another article, I read about an experiment on human scent. It involved a certain number of men and an equal number of women. The men were made to shower using only unscented soap (no cologne or deodorant either) and sleep with a white shirt on. They would shower again on the second night but would wear the same shirt to bed. Then the shirts would be sniffed by the women, who would each try to determine which shirt smells the "sexiest." After their genes were tested, it was found out that the sexiest scents for most of the women belonged to the men whose genes were very much dissimilar from theirs. Parents with diverse genes often bear stronger offspring, and once again evolution has hardwired this into our physiology to help us find a suitable mate – and perpetuate our genes.
But in this overpopulated modern society of ours, procreation is no longer the primarily purpose of sex. In one of our joint articles, a fellow freethinker wrote:
Sex may lead to pro-creation but the two are still two totally distinct acts, no matter how much some belief systems may insist that they're one and the same. When you start a fire, you aren't obligated to go cook something. Sometimes, it's enough just to enjoy the warmth of a blazing fire on a cold night. The same goes for sex. It's a social activity and a recreational sport as well. From a liberal point of view, it's not even that different from a couple going dancing (that's why it's also called the horizontal tango).
Still, our instincts kick in when a genetically suitable specimen from the opposite gender walks by even if having kids is the last thing on our minds. But as we get to know a person, after a while we get attracted to non-physical traits like kindness and a sense of humor. Perhaps we instinctively know that certain personal attributes are preferable for long-term companionship, especially when it comes to the point when procreation and even sex are no longer possible.
But the beauty of these personal qualities is that they can be enjoyed now as much as in the future. Being the most highly evolved among all creatures, humans interact in ways beyond touching and smelling. A nice conversation between humans connects them more profoundly than two chimps grooming each other. Although touching is nice, it is often meaningless unless coupled with an emotional bond. And so while evolution already dictated what we should find physically attractive, it is our longing for a deeper connection that needs to be satisfied if we are to truly enjoy being human.
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Can you prove there are no fairies?
Tags: burden of proof, proving a negative
It is a basic rule of logic that burden of proof always lies on the affirmative, that whoever asserts something will be the one who has to prove it. Ei incombit probatio qui didt, non qui negat – "the burden of proof lies upon him who affirms, not him who denies" – and so whoever tries to shift the burden of proof to the opponent by insisting that a claim is true simply because it has not been shown to be false is committing a logical fallacy.
Burden lies on the affirmative. But now the question is, What is an affirmative? Does it simply mean a 'positive' claim, hence statements in the negative carry no such burden?
Let us see how Webster defines the word affirmative:
1 : asserting a predicate of a subject
2 : asserting that the fact is so
3 : POSITIVE <affirmative approach>
4 : favoring or supporting a proposition or motion
We see in No. 3 that affirmative also means 'positive'. Now let's see what positive means:
1 a: formally laid down or imposed : PRESCRIBED <positive laws> b: expressed clearly or peremptorily <her answer was a positive no> c: fully assured : CONFIDENT<positive it was her book>
It appears that affirmative and positive are about confident assertion instead of statements that are merely positively worded (take a look at the above example, "her answer was a positive no"). As such, the statements "There are no fairies" and "Fairies don't exist" are therefore actually affirmative statements and so they are also laden with the burden of proof. (By the way, asserting that "there are no fairies" is not the same as saying "I don't believe in fairies", because the latter is not affirming their non-existence but simply disbelieving their existence.)
Now some might say that it is impossible to prove a negative. I beg to disagree. One can prove certain negatives, like proving that there are no "supercontinents" ten times the size of Asia (one can easily accomplish that with Google Earth). Other negatives may be harder – but still not impossible – to prove, like the statement that "There is no oil in Davao City", because one would then have to dig up every square inch of the entire city to prove that.
I read this article about proving a negative that states that "a person is justified in believing that X does not exist if all of these conditions are met:
1. the area where evidence would appear, if there were any, has been comprehensively examined, and
2. all of the available evidence that X exists is inadequate, and
3. X is the sort of entity that, if X exists, then it would show."
I totally agree. In the case of the "supercontinents", all three conditions are easily met, especially #3.
But as for fairies, it would be virtually impossible to prove their non-existence because even if we had simultaneous 24-hour video coverage on every garden and forest on Earth showing no fairies (satisfying conditions #1 and #2), believers would simply say that fairies are normally invisible but can choose to show themselves to certain people at certain times, failing condition #3.
However, the inability to prove there are no fairies doesn't automatically allow for the conclusion that fairies do exist, because that would also be an affirmative statement requiring proof. And so we are left with a technical stalemate as far as proof is concerned – but not probability.
Fairies are simply way too improbable that although it is impossible to prove their non-existence, one can reasonably live his/her life on the assumption that they don't exist. And so when planting a garden, it would be a good idea to till it and water it and fertilize it – instead of just lying down waiting for fairies to magically make it bloom. inner minds
Of Grudges and Goals
Tags: emotions, heart over mind, human nature, mind over heart, revenge, vengeance
Some people are forgiving while others are not. Some hold grudges, and a few carry their resentment long after the injury – real or imagined – had healed.
I believe all of us are emotionally motivated beings, and that includes those who consider themselves as rational and logical people, who place their heads well above their hearts, who make systematic and well-thought decisions, who think before they act.
The difference between 'thinkers' and 'feelers' is how they go about in trying to achieve their goals. But they are the same when it comes to the goal itself, because goals are ultimately dictated by the heart.
Take two guys, for example: one impulsive and spontaneous; the other cold and calculating. Both fall deeply in love with the same girl. The first guy freely expresses his feelings and the girl grows defensive and distant; the other works a subtle seduction and stirs interest, intrigue, and eventually desire. The probability is that the second guy will win.
Now some might argue that he is not deserving because his feelings are not strong enough considering he was still able to come up with a strategic plan, whereas his rival was overflowing with so much desire he could not contain it. And yet it is precisely the person's control that proves one's sincerity. Speaking out what one feels is easy and even quite relieving, but it takes a lot of work and self-denial to keep holding back until the right moment just to get the girl. And when one refuses to give in to his natural tendencies for the good of some future goal, it means the goal matters more than the immediate release. Just because the method of courtship is systematic and deliberate doesn't mean the affection is planned as well.
Now as for grudges and vengeance, if we take these same two hypothetical guys, it would probably go like this: when offended or hurt, the emotional guy impetuously attempts immediate revenge – while the other waits for the perfect timing. The first guy's reaction is often ineffective and could bring in more trouble, but the calculating guy would most likely be able to exact his cold sweet revenge with impunity.
We are all emotional beings. All of our goals are largely influenced by our hearts' desires: love, happiness, vengeance. The only difference is that while some people turn the heart loose to go after the thing it wants, often with unsatisfactory or even disastrous results, others put the mind to work – literally as a slave doing the heart's bidding – to effectively grant the wishes of its master. inner minds
Time and Life Part Four: Seamless but Marked
Tags: philosophy, Time, time and life
I was struck by two seemingly contradicting definitions of time:
a. A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future
b. An interval separating two points on this continuum
The first definition talks about a continuum, which means "a continuous extent, succession, or whole, no part of which can be distinguished from neighboring parts except by arbitrary division," while the second mentions an interval or separator. Ah, time. Continuous but divisible, seamless but marked. Now come to think of it, we can theoretically mark time by the infinitesimal fraction of the second to end up with the continuum again.
I read somewhere about how change in the life of a subatomic particle or the sun hardly matters to a human, because one is too fast and the other too slow to affect him or her. Conversely, the changes in the life of a person are insignificant as far as the sun or the subatomic particle is concerned. As such, I guess change only matters if we can practically observe it.
Like the changes that happen in a year of one's life. Certain events must have occurred that are significant enough to be noticed. If these changes turn out to be generally desirable then we can say it was a good year. If not, perhaps it's possible to zoom out to include a wider scope and see if it was a relatively good half-decade. Or to look through the seasons and into the days. Surely there must be moments worth remembering, memories we can feed on during times when life doesn't seem so good. After all, it's just a matter of how we mark time.
Happy new year!
Time and Life Part Three: Circle and Straight
Tags: Attempts At Poetry, time and life
A day goes by routinely
In the same one singular life
The hours reset perpetually
But the years are finite though rife
Like a wheel that keeps spinning
On a long road unwinding
Up goes down and round and round
But never on the same patch of ground.
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Trust and Tolerance
Tags: corporate life, human nature, risk management
Someone told me that she just realized that I really do not trust people – I merely tolerate them. Hmmm…I never thought of that. I mean, I do trust people albeit only up to a certain safe extent. Like in lending money, for instance. If someone close to me asks for a loan, I make sure that the amount I lend is not more than what I am prepared to cover in case payment is delayed or defaulted.
And for this I was accused of not trusting but merely tolerating the anticipated worst-case scenario.
I remember this risk management seminar I took more than a decade ago. It taught us that risk has two dimensions: probability and magnitude. So in a four-quadrant matrix, risks are roughly classified as low-probability/low-magnitude (there's a 5% chance that you'll lose P5,000), high-probability/low-magnitude (there's a 95% chance that you'll lose P5,000), low-probability/high-magnitude (there's a 5% chance that you'll lose P100,000), and high-probability/high magnitude (there's a 95% chance that you'll lose P100,000).
I'd say I'm a risk taker even if the probability of losing is high for as long as the magnitude is low. But once a lot is at stake, I tend to play it safe, no matter how 'safe' they say the odds are.
In a certain company, the president explained the importance of credit security. The example he gave was about one sales executive who authorized the sale of goods worth a substantial amount without credit security because of the mutual trust he enjoys with the customer. The president said, "Okay, this customer is very trustworthy in terms of his ability and willingness to pay, and I take that. But what if he suddenly dies of a stroke, and the one who takes over the business is not as reliable?"
I guess we can only trust another person's intentions, because if we try to consider the possible circumstances beyond that person's control, e.g., a sudden stroke, we realize that we will be taking risks. However, if the calculated risks are deemed manageable and not unnecessary, it is never unwise to take them.
Perhaps I have unconsciously applied this business principle to my personal life. I do trust people, but only up to their intentions. If I foresee certain significant risks that were not explicitly considered by the person to whom I would be giving my trust, I back out. Unfortunately, sometimes people take it personally.
But some people do have the right to take it personally, especially the one I consider as my life partner, my 'soulmate'. To hesitate when I think there might be risks unforeseen by the person demanding my trust could mean I don't trust her judgment. I do trust her intentions; maybe just not her judgment. And in a way, that could mean I don't trust her at all.
This may be a hard reality for me. But if it's any consolation, I never totally trust anyone's judgment – not even my own. I just tolerate and try to manage the calculated risks.
And so to the person who said that I don't really trust her but merely tolerate her, let me say it this way: I trust you to the point that I can sleep soundly with you by my side with a loaded gun in your hand. Now there's a risk that you'd have a nightmare of being attacked and so you'd shoot the 'attacker' – me, or out of simple clumsiness you'd accidentally fire the gun pointed in my direction. But while the magnitude of the risk is too high, the probability is very much lower than you leaving because you think I don't trust you. Besides, the magnitude of the risk of losing you isn't too far from the magnitude of the other risk involving a loaded gun in your hand. inner minds


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Is there a market for a 5-7" RT Gaming device
The 3DS and Vita aren't doing as well as their respective manufacturers expected. Meanwhile, the iPod Touch and even Galaxy Player are selling like hotcakes, which suggests that people want a more convergent device for their mobile gaming.
So, I'm wondering, is there room in the market for an 'Xbox handheld' of sorts. A 5-7" WinRT-powered device with decent internals, and physical controls built in to the device, that sells for $200-$300 (to compete with all of the above mentioned devices)
So, on a technical level, this device is very possible. We know RT support mouse, keyboard and even an Xbox 360 controller. It has DirectX compatibility, apparently, so there's that as well, to encourage developers.
Throw in support for XBox Live, a few premium, XBLA-quality game titles (or maybe even allow a developer to publish the same app on both simultaneously), perhaps removable physical controls, and 'd be very tempted.
Edit: Called It! http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/6/3608432/xbox-surface-xbox-tablet-7-inch


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The fireplace tends to be one of the more prominent features in any room that it is located in. Because of this, you should design it to be the focal point. One of the fireplace design ideas that we recommend is to hang a mirror above the mantle. The following are just a few ways that you can manage this design in a successful manner:
- Fit the architecture of the space – If the area above your fireplace is wide, hang a wider mirror above it to help it integrate into the space. The same goes for a taller space – simply put up a mirror that is taller.
- Integrate the mirror into the fireplace itself – Instead of just hanging your mirror above the fireplace, surround it with a mold and trim that reflects the same mold and trim of the fireplace. This gives it the appearance of being part of the fireplace.
- Hang a light fixture in front of the mirror – The reflection of the light fixture will help provide additional depth to the entire design.
Use these fireplace design ideas for your fireplace. For information about radiant gas fireplaces, contact us online at Valor Fireplaces.


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Miriam Perrone
See it if you suffer from insomnia.
Jul 20 - 07:58 PM
Dale Jenkins
I think it is a wildly inaccurate portrayal of people, who by all accounts are charming, as grouchy dolts.
Jul 7 - 12:26 PM
Peg Carlson
There is NOTHING historically correct in this movie.It is insulting to the memory of all involved.
Jan 7 - 05:08 AM
Melissa Colombo
I was so looking forward to this...subj matter, the lead actors....yet people walked out!!! I don't remember the last time I was at a movie and that happened. It was very slow and yes, she was so uninteresting (Not Linney...her character..I didn't THINK she could be that boring) that it was an insult to FDR. Don't bother, really
Dec 28 - 01:48 PM
Claudine Jones
SPOILER ALERT. Awfully boring; slept through about 5 minutes, awoke refreshed & ready to be bored anew. Perhaps the trailer gave away so much that there was little left to surprise (except the hand job--didn't see that...um...coming. Sorry.)
Dec 27 - 09:47 PM
Ron Dylewski
I don't see how anyone can give this a positive review. Really. Linney's character of Daisy is the least compelling "lead" I think I've ever seen. Do we know more about her at the end of the movie than we did at the beginning? Nope. In fact, we know nothing about her at all. Who is she? Did she have a life before the day FDR found her at the bottom of his dance card? We'll never know.
And we have almost no context for the entire event. The director takes a huge leap in assuming that an audience in 2012 will have any cognizance of the European socio-political scene in the late 1930s.
As to Murray? Well, he tries. I respect him for that, but the script and direction is so somnambulant that he is left hanging far too often.
Too bad. FDR is a fascinating man, but this movie does nothing to help us understand him, or his times, better....
Dec 25 - 04:56 PM
Robin Burton
rex reed? is he still alive? I always thought he could be bought, but i still intend to see it.
Dec 16 - 06:25 PM
Le Anne Lindsay
I agree with both Jim and David - the movie is engaging and deserves better reviews, but on the other hand, without Murray's performance would the film fall a bit flat?
Dec 16 - 05:54 PM
Jim Boland
I guess all these negative reviews were written by viewers in a bad mood. I found the movie delightful. Murray was brilliant His best serious performance in movie. The story was engaging especially for those of us too young to have lived through it.
Dec 14 - 04:38 PM
David Tanny
Well, give Murray a break. It seems like he's the saving grace of the film. But it seems this is another Iron Lady-Strong lead performance, mediocre film.
Dec 6 - 11:19 PM
David Nussbaum
Yup. He's a hack and this movie (by the previews alone) seems terrible..
Dec 6 - 07:35 PM


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By Gilannie Pangburn
Twitter: @gilanniej05
BOSTON (AP) Massachusetts health and fishery officials are shutting down more oyster beds, this time on Martha's Vineyard, due to bacterial contamination.
The state announced Monday that oyster beds in Katama Bay in Edgartown have been closed after two cases of gastrointestinal illness linked to Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
In both cases, the people who were sickened by consuming the raw oysters have recovered.
Late last month, the state shut down several South Shore oyster beds due to contamination by the same bacteria.
Since May, the Department of Health has received 50 reports of laboratory-confirmed Vibrio in Massachusetts residents. Some of the cases were traced to out-of-state oyster beds.
There were 27 cases reported during the same time period last year.
The naturally-occurring bacteria are often found in oysters harvested in warmer waters.
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Scientist Uncovers New 'Biological Clock'
The discovery by Steve Horvath, professor of human genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and professor of biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, of a "biological clock" embedded in our genomes that allows scientists to accurately gauge the age of diverse organs, tissues and cell types was highlighted today by the London Times, Nature World News, New Scientist, Pulse Today, the Daily Mirror, the Daily Mail, Forbes, Red Orbit, Genome Web News, Counsel and Heal, Voice of Russia Radio, Ireland's "News Talk," Gizmodo, the Times of India, Asian News International, the U.S. and Arab Emirates' editions of Top News, Al Arabiya, Headlines and Global News, Science Codex, Medical News Today, International Business Times, News-Medical and R&D Magazine. The research was covered Sunday by NBC News.com, Fox News.com, the Guardian, Medical Xpress and Science Daily. Horvath was quoted in the coverage.
Soda Consumption up Among Teens
New York's Newsday reported Friday on a study by researchers from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and colleagues showing that while the daily consumption of sugary drinks among California youth is declining, it has increased 8 percent among teens. Susan Babey, project director at the center, was quoted.
Are You Qualified to Use That Laser?
Reuters reported Wednesday on a study led by Dr. H. Ray Jalian, clinical instructor in the department of dermatology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, showing that an increasing number of lawsuits stemming from skin-based laser treatments involve procedures performed by non-physicians. Jalian was quoted.
Regulating Climate-Altering Research
Edward Parson, professor of law and faculty co-director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law, was interviewed Sunday on NPR's "All Things Considered" about the lack of an international regulatory framework that would allow research on geoengineering — large-scale efforts to temper or reverse the effects of climate change — to move forward.
External Review Examines Policies for Bias Reports
The Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press reported Friday, and the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed report today, on an external review of how the campus handles faculty reports of racial bias. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block was quoted in the coverage.
Immigration and the Economy
A column in Friday's New York Times about the Obama administration's approach to immigration reform cited research by Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda, associate professor of Chicano studies and director of the North American Integration and Development Center at UCLA, on the effect immigration reform could have on the U.S. economy.
Asteroids on the Ceiling
Minnesota's Pioneer Press reported Sunday on a digital-projection art installation created by Jennifer Steinkamp, UCLA professor of design and media arts, at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts.
Recommended Stroke Treatments
MedPage Today reported Friday on research led by Dr. Gregg Fonarow, UCLA's Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science and director of the Ahmanson–UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, showing that hospitals participating in the national Get With the Guidelines–Stroke program are more likely to provide nationally recommended guideline-based care for patients.
Hard-Wired to Connect Socially
Matthew Lieberman, a professor of psychology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral science at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, was interviewed Friday on NPR's "Science Friday" about his new book, "Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect," which explains why the need to connect socially with others is as basic as our need for food, water and shelter.
Legacy of Columbus' Voyages
Wednesday's Cleveland Plain Dealer featured a review of "Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination," a book by UCLA professor emerita of history Joyce Appleby that explores the intellectual consequences of Columbus' expeditions.
Exercise Keeps You Wise
The Oman Observer reported Sunday on research led by Dr. Cyrus Raji, a radiology resident at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, showing that seniors who engage in regular aerobic activity have an increased amount of gray matter in their brains. Raji was quoted.
Consequences of the Government Shutdown
Franklin Gilliam Jr., dean of UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs and a professor of political science and public policy, was interviewed Sunday on KTLA-Channel 5 about continuing negotiations in Congress over the debt ceiling and the federal budget and problems with the online implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Affordable Housing Near Transportation
KPCC-89.3 FM and KNX-1070 AM on Saturday highlighted research by Paul Habibi, a lecturer in real estate at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, identifying the best spots for developing affordable housing along transit corridors in Los Angeles County. Habibi was interviewed.
State of Unconsciousness
Counsel and Heal reported Friday on research led by Martin Monti, UCLA assistant professor of psychology and neurosurgery, on what happens to the human brain when it slips into unconsciousness. Monti was quoted.
Treating Back Pain
Dr. Nick Shamie, associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the UCLA Spine Center, was interviewed today on NBC's "Today Show" about treating and preventing back pain.
Database of Brain Images for Chronic Pain
KPCC-89.3 FM reports today that the Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer Family Center for Neurobiology of Stress at UCLA will serve as the main hub for the first-ever international database for brain images and other key clinical information associated with chronic pain conditions.
Tips for a Safe Halloween
Sunday's Santa Monica Mirror offered tips from UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, on how to make Halloween safe and fun for children. Dr. Wally Ghurabi, medical director of the emergency department at the medical center, was quoted.
Docs 'Vacuum' Huge Clot From Patient's Heart
The Beverly Hills Courier reported Friday on a minimally invasive procedure performed at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in which doctors used a new device to 'vacuum' a 24-inch blood clot from a patient's heart, sparing him from open-heart surgery. Dr. John Moriarty, an interventional radiologist at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was quoted.
Film Archive Pays Tribute to Employee
Friday's Los Angeles Times highlighted an upcoming film series by the UCLA Film and Television Archive that pays tribute to veteran archive employee Charles Hopkins, who died last summer. Robert Rosen, professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, and Paul Malcolm, a programmer at the archive, were quoted.
M.V. Lee Badgett
Badgett, visiting professor at the UCLA School of Law and research director of the school's Williams Institute, was quoted Sunday in a New Jersey Star-Ledger article about the economic effect legalized same-sex marriage has had on New Jersey's wedding businesses.
Richard Hovannisian
Hovannisian, UCLA professor emeritus of Armenian and Near Eastern history and chair of the Armenian Educational Foundation at UCLA, was quoted Sunday in a Chicago Tribune article about one of the last survivors of the Armenian genocide during World War I.
Donald Neuen
Neuen, professor of choral conducting and director of choral activities at UCLA, was quoted Friday in an article in China's Epoch Times about the Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra.
Dario Ringach
Ringach, UCLA professor of neurobiology and psychology, is quoted today in a Wisconsin State Journal article about his upcoming speech in Madison on ethical issues surrounding animal research.
Jeffrey Simon
Simon, a lecturer in the UCLA Department of Political Science, was quoted Friday in a Government Security News article about the possibility of dry ice "bombs" being used in terrorist attacks.
Kent Wong
Wong, director of the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, was quoted Saturday in an Agence France-Presse article about efforts by the United Auto Workers to unionize a Nissan plant in Mississippi.


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MyDD Conversation with MN-02 Candidate Colleen Rowley
by Jonathan Singer, Tue May 30, 2006 at 01:23:22 PM EDT
Last week I had the chance to speak with Colleen Rowley, one of Time magazine's people of the year in 2002 for blowing the whistle on the FBI and a current Congressional candidate in Minnesota's 2nd district.
Unfortunately, I am having some difficulty uploading the audio from the interview (I'm almost done switching over to a new system, but the move is not yet complete), but you can read a rush transcript below.
Jonathan Singer: For those who are unfamiliar with your story still, could you please share with us why you are running for Congress?
Colleen Rowley: When you said story, I couldn't help thinking of that Country/Western song, "This is My Story and I'm Sticking with It."
But in my announcement, I explained that I had witnessed pre-9/11 some of the errors in the Moussaoui case that prevented more effective investigation and could have in some ways prevented or minimized 9/11. As bad as that was, I then of course had the misfortune of witnessing a whole number of series of mistakes, almost like dominoes, since 9/11. I think in many ways the terror attacks have furnished a basis and a pretext for so much of what's gone wrong.


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October 23, 2008
Getting political with pumpkins
My roommate and I are carving pumpkins tonight, so it's convenient that I stumbled upon the Associated Press' political pumpkin kit. There's also yeswecarve.com for Barack Obama and a page here set aside for John McCain.
Update: Yes, there was a nonpartisan pumpkin carving. Here are the photos:
I see...active link to McCain's site but not Obama's..hmmm do I detect a slight pumpkin bias here at CT?? Never mind we Obama supporters are so elitist (not to mention tech savvy) that we can type it in for ourselves.
Heather..... Let's talk about bias, Miss Obama supporter...How about the news media bias? The only news you can believe is Fox News any other news media is in the tank for Obama and won't show him for who he truly is.
He has consistently surrounded him self with radicals including his pastor that mentored him for 20 years!He only left the church after people realized what an America hating and white hating church he went to.
He is a christian? He is a hypocrite! True Christians do not believe in abortion, especially late term abortion like Obama does. He wants to pass the Freedom of Choice Act which would allow abortions at any time for any reason. Even if the baby is far enough along to be born alive. He voted 3 times against a bill that would give medical care to babies that survive late term abortions. He even stated at a debate that he felt late term abortions were ok for the health of the mother. If the baby is late term, why can't it just be delivered? Why does it have to be delivered feet first, have the brain sucked out and then delivered dead? Why is that ok? Did you ever hear of the Sanctity of Life?
He doesn't want to be seen as a Muslim, fine. But don't pretend to be a Christian and then have the morals that he does. I think you are on the wrong website. This one is for Christians.


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Ray, John Larry.
Truth at last.
Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2008
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|Martin Luther King, Jr.; James Earl Ray; James Earl Ray; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Martin Luther King, Jr.; James Earl Ray
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Looking for loot in all the wrong places --
The riddle of the Feds and the bughouse in Fulton --
The mole flies the coop --
Tricked into the Kill Zone --
Kangaroo court --
Kangaroo II --
No justice in Dixie --
House select cover-up on assassinations --
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|John Larry Ray and Lyndon Barsten.
The plea bargain of James Earl Ray for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. has been the subject of intense inquiry and debate among historians and researchers. Was Ray--a small-town petty thief--really the criminal mastermind the prosecutors said he was? Or was he a pawn in a broader conspiracy that involved an entity much more powerful: the U.S. government? Evidence reveals Ray was inducted into the CIA as a young man in the U.S. Army and subjected to mind control experimentation. Later, in the two years prior to the King assassination, Ray was under the influence of several government-connected hypnotists. In this book, Ray's eldest brother and M.L. King historian Lyndon Barsten offer incontrovertible evidence that Ray could not have assassinated Dr. King. they offer a new look at Ray's life, his encounters with the Feds and the Mob, and the crime that shook the world.--From publisher description.


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If we take into account the physical symptoms, the syndrome postvacacional to produces tiredness, fatigue, insomnia or drowsiness. The person may have lack of appetite and few eating or of any type of activity, because it feels certain apathy. Also tends occur lack of concentration, which is derived from the same feeling tired and dream.
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By HAVIV RETTIG GUR
Man who headed Cast Lead c'tee reportedly served as apartheid judge.
Goldstone in Gaza.
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In a report published on Wednesday in
Yediot Aharonot
, which announced a larger feature that would be published in the paper's Friday edition, journalists Techiya Barak and Tzadok Yehezkeli presented judicial rulings made by Goldstone that, they said, showed a willing and uncritical support for the race-based legislation of apartheid.
Furthermore, they wrote, Goldstone either ordered or sanctioned as an appellate judge at least 28 death penalty executions, and wrote in support of the practice in his judicial rulings.
"That is absolute nonsense," Chaskalson told
The Jerusalem Post
by phone from Johannesburg. Goldstone "was never part of the apartheid regime."
During the 1980s, at the height of apartheid's most violent and brutal period, "there was a whole discourse about judges staying on the bench," Chaskalson explained. Some anti-apartheid voices supported the move, some opposed.
Specifically, the reporters cited a ruling from 1981 in which Goldstone, then a judge on the Transvaal Supreme Court, acquitted four policemen who had conducted an illegal night raid on the home of a white woman because she was suspected of having had sexual relations with a non-white person – a crime under the apartheid statutes of the time.
"He acquitted the four officers for technical reasons, despite ruling that they had illegally entered the home. Yet in doing so, he did not refer to the law itself as racist or problematic. In fact, he simply enforced a racial law," said Yehezkeli.
Goldstone could not be reached for comment for this article because he was traveling. However, he had given a response to Barak and Yehezkeli in which he said that the officers' appeal had been upheld not because he supported the racist laws, but because there had been legal mistakes made in the case.
"It is clear, however, from the portion of the judgment [cited by the reporters], that [the other presiding judge] and I found that the entry of the police officers had been unjustified and unlawful. Their appeal was upheld on the technical grounds that the legal provision under which they were charged did not create a criminal offense," Goldstone wrote.
Still, said Yehezkeli, "we're saying that it was Goldstone's choice to be a judge under apartheid, and because of this decision, he ended up doing things that served the apartheid laws."
Others disagree.
Jules Browde, a founding member of Lawyers for Human Rights and a campaigner against apartheid during the period in question, insisted that "you can't draw any clear adverse inference from the fact that [Goldstone] became a judge [under apartheid]. In fact, while he sat as a judge, he gave judgments that were very progressive."
Browde himself refused to become a judge, "but there were others of real caliber who accepted it because they felt they could do good as judges, rather than having judges of extreme right-wing views."
Goldstone was such a judge, he said.
Chaskalson, too, insisted that Goldstone "was regarded by everyone who knew him as a liberal judge. Many people felt it was better to have an honest judge on the bench than another kind."
The article also challenges Goldstone's record on death penalty convictions, stating that "the man now campaigning for adherence to human rights [law] ordered the executions of at least 28 black defendants while serving as a judge in South Africa during the apartheid era. He speaks often about the death penalty, but has not yet publicly admitted his own deeds."
Yehezkeli points to his March 1993 ruling in the case of Purpose Bongani Khumalo, in which Goldstone seemingly justified the death penalty as a deterrent.
Khumalo had killed and robbed a restaurant owner in Johannesburg who had fired him. Despite saying that Khumalo was only 23 years old and could be rehabilitated, Goldstone wrote that the outrage of the surrounding community "is a relevant factor in the imposition of a proper sentence... A proper sentence should act as a deterrent to others who may be tempted to murder or rob defenseless and innocent people... The murder calls for the maximum sentence allowed by the law. It follows in my opinion that on that account the only proper sentence is the death sentence."
"Here he expressed outright support for the death sentence, and even brought public opinion as a factor in imposing it," Yehezkeli said.
Goldstone is quoted in the
article as saying that he "always opposed the death penalty, but I was part of a system that had such a punishment."
Chaskalson concurred: "The death sentence was compulsory for murder. There were no extenuating circumstances. If you got [a ruling of murder], you were compelled by law to impose it."
Chaskalson added that he disagreed vehemently with the image created by the reporters, insisting that Goldstone had used his judicial powers to mitigate the abuses of the apartheid regime.
As an example, he cited the 1986 Govendor case, which challenged the Group Areas Act, a piece of legislation that attempted to enforce separate living areas for whites and non-whites.
The case came before Goldstone in the midst of the period of emergency laws imposed to enforce apartheid against growing protests.
While he could not overturn the legislation, Goldstone ruled that ejecting non-whites deemed to be living in the areas proscribed to them by law was not compulsory, but at the discretion of the court. He added that exercising this discretion should take place only after the court had considered the personal harm that would come to the evicted party and the existence of alternative living arrangements. He placed the burden of proof for these considerations on the state.
In effect, "the state's campaign to enforce the Group Areas Act in Johannesburg ground to a halt," Chaskalson said. "Many of those of the 'wrong color' remained in the premises they were occupying."
Chaskalson rejected the
report as "scandalous" for its failure to capture the context of the times.
"It's one thing to disagree with [Goldstone's Gaza] report, but quite another to go after him personally like this," he said.
Yehezkeli believes the record speaks for itself.
"It may be true that judge Goldstone was more willing to listen [to defendants in race-based cases] than some other judges. But as a judge he had to work for the apartheid laws. You can't get away from it. Even if he was opposed to the laws of South Africa, he agreed to serve them."
Among the responses Goldstone submitted to the two reporters, Goldstone wrote, "I was always committed to safeguarding equality and nondiscrimination, as well as the law. Sometimes these principles clashed in very complex ways."
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The Metropolitan Police says it wants to re-examine the death of a Welsh woman who fell from a window of the house she shared with other members of a London commune that's now at the centre of slavery allegations.
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Any lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people who are unhappy with Arizona's laws have been given a formal invitation by the mayor of Baltimore to move to the East Coast.
According to the Baltimore Sun, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake made the offer during a Sunday appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"On balance, I think the LGBT community would be better off, save the weather -- we can't promise you the weather -- but better off in Baltimore," the mayor said. "I'm more than happy to deal with the welcome. I think it's a much friendlier place. We have a great LGBT community in Baltimore, I've been a big supporter to the first LGBT, the same-sex marriage in the state right after New Year's. And there's no war going on in Baltimore."
Last week, Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill that would have allowed businesses to deny services to anyone based on religious beliefs. The bill angered many in the gay rights community.
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