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Research into the genetic factors behind certain disease mechanisms, illness progression, and response to new drugs is frequently carried out using tiny multicellular animals such as nematodes. Often progress relies on the microscopic visual examination of many individual animals to detect mutants worthy of further study. Now, scientists have demonstrated an automated system that uses artificial intelligence and image processing to examine large numbers of individual Caenorhabditis elegans .
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The start of the universe should be modeled not as a Big Bang, but more like water freezing into ice, according to a team of theoretical physicists at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University. The have suggested that by investigating the cracks and crevices common to all crystals our understanding of the nature of the universe could be revolutionized.
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Films made of semiconductor nanocrystals are seen as a promising new material for a wide range of applications. The size of a semiconductor nanocrystal determines its electrical and optical properties. But it's hard to control the placement of nanocrystals on a surface in order to make structurally uniform films. Now, researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have found ways of making defect-free patterns of nanocrystal films where the shape and position of the films are controlled with nanoscale resolution.
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Scientists from the National Physical Laboratory and Imperial College London have demonstrated, for the first time, a solid-state MASER (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). The device is capable of operating at room temperature, helping to pave the way for its widespread adoption.
Aerospace materials used to build endless green pipelineAugust 17, 2012 5:49 am | by Pete Brown, University of Arizona | News | Comments
Mo Ehsani, a University of Arizona professor of civil engineering, has designed a new, lightweight underground pipe he says could transform the pipeline construction industry. Instead of conventional concrete or steel, the new pipe consists of a central layer of lightweight plastic honeycomb, similar to that used in the aerospace industry, sandwiched between layers of resin-saturated carbon fiber fabric.
'Microthrusters' could propel small satellitesAugust 17, 2012 3:55 am | by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | News | Comments
A penny-sized rocket thruster may soon power the smallest satellites in space. The device, designed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, bears little resemblance to today's bulky satellite engines, which are laden with valves, pipes, and heavy propellant tanks. Instead, its design is a flat, compact square covered with 500 microscopic tips that, when stimulated with voltage, emit tiny beams of ions.
New form of carbon observedAugust 16, 2012 12:17 pm | News | Comments
A team of scientists led by Carnegie Institution for Science's Lin Wang has observed a new form of very hard carbon clusters, which are unusual in their mix of crystalline and disordered structure. The material is capable of indenting diamond. This finding has potential applications for a range of mechanical, electronic, and electrochemical uses.
Radiation belt probes may help predict space weatherAugust 16, 2012 9:26 am | News | Comments
Living with a star can be a challenge, especially as Earthlings extend their reach into space. A Rice University scientist is contributing to an effort to make life more comfortable for both the people and satellites sent out there, and provide valuable research for those who remain planet-bound.
Sunflowers inspire more efficient solar power systemAugust 16, 2012 4:38 am | News | Comments
A field of young sunflowers will slowly rotate from east to west during the course of a sunny day, each leaf seeking out as much sunlight as possible as the sun moves across the sky through an adaptation called heliotropism. It's a clever bit of natural engineering that inspired imitation from a University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical and computer engineer, who has found a way to mimic the passive heliotropism seen in sunflowers for use in the next crop of solar power systems.
Good vibrationsAugust 15, 2012 10:20 am | News | Comments
Using a unique optical trapping system that provides ensembles of ultracold atoms, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists have recorded the first direct observations of distinctly quantum optical effects—amplification and squeezing—in an optomechanical system. Their findings point the way toward low-power quantum optical devices and enhanced detection of gravitational waves among other possibilities.
Researchers reveal behaviors of the tiniest water dropletsAugust 15, 2012 9:58 am | News | Comments
A new study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Emory University has uncovered fundamental details about the hexamer structures that make up the tiniest droplets of water, the key component of life–and one that scientists still don't fully understand.
Recreating a slice of the universeAugust 15, 2012 9:07 am | News | Comments
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and their colleagues at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies have invented a new computational approach that can accurately follow the birth and evolution of thousands of galaxies over billions of years.
Future increases in U.S. natural gas exports not as large as thoughtAugust 15, 2012 8:42 am | News | Comments
Amid policy debate over potential liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the United States, a new paper from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy predicts the long-term volume of exports from the U.S. will not likely be very large. The paper also argues that the impact on U.S. domestic natural gas prices will not be large if exports are allowed by the U.S government.
Success of engineered tissue depends on where it's grownAugust 15, 2012 4:57 am | by Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | News | Comments
Tissue implants made of cells grown on a sponge-like scaffold have been shown in clinical trials to help heal arteries scarred by atherosclerosis and other vascular diseases. However, it has been unclear why some implants work better than others. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have now shown that implanted cells' therapeutic properties depend on their shape, which is determined by the type of scaffold on which they are grown.
Georgia Tech advances potential commercial space flight systemAugust 15, 2012 3:32 am | News | Comments
Last spring private industry successfully sent a spacecraft carrying cargo to the International Space Station. Now the race is on to see which company will be the first to make commercial human spaceflight a reality. Sierra Nevada Corporation will receive hundreds of millions of dollars to further develop its commercial human spacecraft system, NASA announced earlier this month; and they are now turning to Georgia Tech for help.
New design tool nixes mouseAugust 14, 2012 11:31 am | News | Comments
Researchers have developed a design tool that enables people to create 3D objects with their bare hands by using a depth-sensing camera and advanced software algorithms to interpret hand movements and gestures.
Impulsive micromanagers help plants to adapt, surviveAugust 14, 2012 10:02 am | News | Comments
Soil microbes are impulsive. So much so that they help plants face the challenges of a rapidly changing climate. Michigan State University biologists studied how plants and microbes work together to help plants survive the effects of global changes, such as increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, warmer temperatures, and altered precipitation patterns.
Photos reflect light like 3D objects with novel printing technologyAugust 14, 2012 4:48 am | News | Comments
A novel printing method yields photos that respond to different angles of light the same way a 3D object does. The technique, which uses specially designed "reflectance paper" covered with thousands of tiny dimples, was developed by a team of researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; and 3M.
Advance made in generating electricity from wastewaterAugust 13, 2012 9:43 am | News | Comments
Engineers at Oregon State University have made a breakthrough in the performance of microbial fuel cells that can produce electricity directly from wastewater, opening the door to a future in which waste treatment plants not only will power themselves, but will sell excess electricity.
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Princeton University form technology alliance partnershipAugust 13, 2012 8:48 am | News | Comments
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has entered into a technology alliance partnership agreement with scientists at Princeton University, establishing a formal collaboration to accelerate research in triple quadrupole and high-resolution accurate mass liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry for life science applications.
Scientists' gold discovery sheds light on catalysisAugust 13, 2012 7:20 am | News | Comments
An international team of researchers has discovered that the catalytic activity of nanoporous gold originates from high concentrations of surface defects present within its complex 3D structure. The research has the potential to assist in the development of more efficient and durable catalytic converters and fuel cells because nanoporous gold is a catalytic agent for oxidizing carbon monoxide.
Team discovers how stress, depression can shrink the brainAugust 13, 2012 6:42 am | News | Comments
Major depression or chronic stress can cause the loss of brain volume, a condition that contributes to both emotional and cognitive impairment. Now a team of researchers led by Yale University scientists has discovered one reason why this occurs—a single genetic switch that triggers loss of brain connections in humans and depression in animal models.
Researchers make optical fibers from common materialsAugust 13, 2012 5:58 am | News | Comments
Clemson University researchers are taking common materials to uncommon places by transforming easily obtainable and affordable materials into fiber. The research team found that sapphire possesses extraordinary properties that make it exceptionally valuable for high-power lasers in which the light intensity interacts with sound waves in the glass and leads to diminished power-handling capabilities.
Unraveling intricate interactions, one molecule at a timeAugust 13, 2012 4:37 am | News | Comments
A team of researchers at Columbia Engineering, in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory, has succeeded in performing the first quantitative characterization of van der Waals interactions at metal/organic interfaces at the single-molecule level.
Graphene's behavior depends on where it sitsAugust 13, 2012 3:41 am | by David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | News | Comments
When you look at a gift-wrapped present, the basic properties of the wrapping paper are not generally changed by the nature of the gift inside. But surprising new experiments conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology show that graphene behaves quite differently depending on the nature of material it's wrapped around. When sheets of graphene are placed on substrates made of different materials, fundamental properties can be drastically different, depending on the nature of the underlying material.


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NEW ROCHELLE, NY -- In a matter fraught with peril for New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson, a leading Democratic candidate for Westchester County Executive, Talk of the Sound has learned that the City government he leads failed to apply its own Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity Policy to a $100 million public-private partnership to replace federally-subsidized public housing in the largely African-American section of New Rochelle.
Bramson is currently running for the Democratic nomination against Westchester Board of Legislators Chairman Ken Jenkins who is seeking to be the first African-American County Executive in the history of Westchester. Jenkins declined to comment for this article.
New Rochelle's Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity Policy Statement Regarding Construction and Economic Development, adopted by the New Rochelle City Council in 1996, applies to any development project or land disposition agreements "funded" or "supported" by the City government. The policy is also referred to by its original council designation, "Resolution 205".
PDF FILE: City Council Resolution 205, 1996, Non Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Policy
Heritage Homes is a new development which will replace the Hartley Houses which is being built, in part, by City funds.
The new development is located in the heart of City Council District 3, a "Black Opportunity District" created in 1993 as the result of a Federal lawsuit brought by the NAACP. The organization charged that New Rochelle's voting system was discriminatory. The settlement of that groundbreaking lawsuit was followed by the election of African-American Council Member Rhoda Quash, the first person to hold the District 3 seat on the City Council.
There have been numerous complaints about the Heritage Homes projects within the African-American community, many of which surfaced at a meeting of The Gathering of Men last December. The meeting was emceed by Mark McLean, a former NAACP Vice President and Lieutenant with the New Rochelle Fire Department.
Resolution 205 was intended to give preference to qualified minority New Rochelle residents for skilled construction jobs and contracting opportunities. Instead, the entire project is being built by MacQuestern Construction Management, LLC a Mount Vernon builder with close ties to Steve Horton who was, up until recently, a City Councilman in Mount Vernon. Horton gave up his seat, deciding not to run for re-election as the Heritage Homes project was set to ramp up. Steve Horton is also the Executive Director of the New Rochelle Housing Authority which is the local agency responsible for both Heritage Homes and the Hartley Houses.
MacQuestern has hired just a handful of unskilled minority laborers from New Rochelle during the recently completed Phase I. Critics contend the $12 an hour jobs were "just for show". They point out that MacQuestern has not hired any skilled laborers for high-paying jobs on Phase I and that they subcontracted to just a single minority contractor from New Rochelle and only for a single day of work.
Despite strong efforts to resist acknowledging a problem, extensive interviews with current and former City officials, along with records obtained exclusively by Talk of the Sound, show the City of New Rochelle failed to apply the City's nondiscrimination and employment opportunity policy to the Heritage Homes project despite investing local taxpayer funds in the development.
Mayor Noam Bramson is the the only current member of the City Council to have voted on Resolution 205.
On October 22, 1996, then-Council Member Rhoda Quash introduced Resolution 205 in response to the City's failure to protect the interest of qualified minority residents in obtaining work on the New Roc City project. Following a march through City streets, Quash obtained reluctant support from the City Council which passed her resolution on a 5-2 vote.
In casting his vote for Resolution 205, Bramson gave a lukewarm endorsement.
I vote 'yes' on this legislation. But I do so in the hope that we will soon reach a point as a community and a nation when we no longer view each other through a racial lens and these kinds of classifications and distinctions are not a part of public policy or private action. I believe very deeply in a colorblind society and I support this only in the sense that it helps us achieve that ideal. (emphasis added)
New Rochelle City Council Members, who spoke with Talk of the Sound on background, admitted they had not heard of Resolution 205 until a few weeks ago.
City Council records show how language in an earlier draft of Resolution 205 was removed in Council meetings prior to the October 22, 1996 meeting. That language contained more absolute requirements but the "shalls" and "wills" in an early draft were replaced with "shoulds" and "trys".
The result was a watered-down policy statement that encouraged but did not require local minority hiring.
The final version of Resolution 205 did, however, retain two important elements for how the policy is applied and how that application of policy can be monitored. The scope of the conditions where Resolution 205 applies is broad. There are specific requirements placed upon the developer to file documents on a monthly basis for the life of the project.
In the case of Heritage Homes, these documents were never filed.
The scope of Resolution 205 covers not just "City funds", direct financing, but uses the open-ended term "City supported" which can mean free land transfers, low-cost leases, tax abatements, PILOT programs and more. The implication of Resolution 205 is that it applied to every public-private partnership in New Rochelle for the past 16 years.
Questions remain as to whether Resolution 205 was ever applied in the past and what will happen with current and near-future projects like Echo Bay, the New Rochelle Armory, the new DPW Yard on Beechwood Avenue, and Mariano Riviera's church on North Avenue.
Resolution 205 requires 3 sets of documents:
1. Before work begins Prospecting Bidders must be sent a copy of the City's Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity Policy Statement Regarding Construction and Economic Development as described in Resolution 205. Bid notices and RFPs must include a statement encouraging minority businesses to submit bids to the City. Developers must be sent a copy of the City's Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity Policy Statement Regarding Construction and Economic Development as described in Resolution 205 along with copies of any minority and employee training and placement program in which the City currently participates, as well as, a statement directing developers to consider qualified contractors based in New Rochelle for required contract work.
2. Once work begins, the Developer must submit monthly utilization reports in a form provided by the City indicating the number and percentage of minority men and women employed at a job site.
3. The Developer must also submit, on a bi-weekly basis, certified payroll sheets listing employees.
The issue of Resolution 205 with regard to Heritage Homes was first raised by New Rochelle resident Ronald Payne, a member of the International Laborers Union, at a meeting of The Gathering of Men at the Remington Boys & Girls Club on December 19th. Payne addressed questions to Council Member Jared Rice who was the featured speaker at the meeting.
Rice had come to speak about the Youth Works Construction Training Program, a New York State-funded program offered through the New Rochelle Municipal Housing Authority and the New Rochelle Youth Bureau. Rice, along with McLean and others, had played a role in securing funding to train 14 local minority youths in a six week program. The Youth Works Construction Training Program has no direct connection to Heritage Homes. Graduation took place after the completion of Phase I although Rice says the hope is that some of the graduates will find work as unskilled labor on Phase II. A second training program is anticipated this spring.
Rice took notes and offered to help get answers to the many questions raised and discussed at the meeting including the question of whether Resolution 205 applied to the developers and contractors of Heritage Homes and information as to the ownership of the underlying property.
The following day, on December 20th, Talk of the Sound followed up with City of New Rochelle officials to get answers and obtain records.
Does Resolution 205 applies to the Heritage Homes project? Have any City funds been used in this project. We specifically want to know how HUD, CBGB or other monies made their way to that project. Do those sorts of funds get sent to the City which then takes possession of the money and then disburses it to entities connected with that project or what? Is there any other money that went from the City or was directed by the City to Heritage Homes or related entities or developers. I would also want to know if Corporation Counsel has offered an opinion on this matter or based on my inquiry whether she believes 205 applies to Heritage Homes in any way.
There was no official response for more than a month.
Council Member Rice, having made his own inquiries stated to Talk of the Sound that he was being told it was the position of the City that Resolution 205 did not apply.
Two weeks ago, City spokesperson Kathy Gilwit responded to our inquiry from December 20th by stating that the City of New Rochelle transferred $50,000 of Affordable Housing Fund monies to Heritage Homes for Phase I.
A week after that, Gilwit provided Talk of the Sound with an unexpected position on Resolution 205 from the City's lawyer.
Corporation Counsel did not provide a prior legal opinion so there is no record. However, it is the Corporation Counsel's opinion that Resolution 205 is applicable to Heritage Homes. The City's resolution is consistent with those of Westchester County, New York State and the Federal government. In terms of payroll, records for the project can be made available. I will contact you when these records are available. (emphasis added)
Documents provided yesterday as a final response to our request for records do not include any communications with prospective bidders or developers nor do they demonstrate that the winning bidder received any notification of City policy under Resolution 205.
The documents did not include certified payroll sheets listing employees bi-weekly payroll.
The only documents provided by the City of New Rochelle were Monthly Utilization Reports for Heritage Homes which appeared to have been prepared to be filed with the New York State Homes and Community Renewal Office of Fair Housing and Economic Development.
PDF FILE: Heritage Homes - Monthly Utilization Reports
None of the documents purportedly filed with the City of New Rochelle in compliance with Resolution 205 is time-stamped or marked as "Received" by the City of New Rochelle. Documents filed to comply with legal requirements are typically time-stamped and marked "Received".
The Monthly Utilization Reports do not appear to be City documents based on a City form but rather forms provided by New York State and filed with the Homes and Community Renewal Office of Fair Housing and Economic Development. They are documents that the developer would file with New York State regardless of New Rochelle policy.
The Monthly Utilization Reports do not indicate the percentages of minorities hired. There is no space in the form to indicate the percentages of minority workers. On some of the forms, an employee is indicated under the "total" column but not under a column for a particular minority.
The Monthly Utilization Reports do not have a racial/ethnic filed for white minorities which would include women, LGBT, age, national origin, disabled or Vietnam Veterans.
The records appear to be only recently obtained from the developer in order to create the appearance that Resolution 205 was applied to Heritage Homes during Phase I. The absence of time-stamps suggests otherwise. The failure to produce corresponding certified payroll sheets listing employees bi-weekly payroll adds to the impression that the City may not be fulsome in their response to our inquiry.
Phase II of Heritage Homes is expected to begin in the coming months.
Talk of the Sound will explore in a future article whether Resolution 205 has ever been applied in New Rochelle since the Resolution was adopted as City policy in 1996.
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Religious Liberty Means Religious Privilege
So far two bakeries have faced legal challenges to their refusal to make wedding cakes for same-sex weddings. Opponents of same-sex marriage see these cases as the start of a fast approaching widespread persecution. Personally, I don't see how the act of baking a cake for a wedding implies approval of that wedding, but the owners of these bakers believe it would be a violation of conscience to participate in a same-sex wedding, even remotely by way of making the wedding cake, so let's go with their complaints for the sake of argument.
Let's say that, if the owners of these bakeries are legally forced to provide same-sex wedding cakes, they would be in a position of having to choose between violating their conscience and closing down their business. Would this situation qualify as an offense against religious liberty? I would say yes, but that in and of itself is not necessarily an intolerable state of affairs. If a bakery refused, the grounds of the owner's religious beliefs, to make a wedding cake for an interracial couple, no doubt that this owner would be met with a lawsuit. And well he should, I think. This lawsuit and its consequences would also be an infringement of religious liberty, but not one most opponents of same-sex marriage would protest.
The fact is not every infringement of religious liberty is morally problematic. Sometimes religious liberty ought to be curtailed. Sometimes justice demands it. Religious liberty can never be absolute, and so those whose religious liberty is culturally and legally recognized benefit from their beliefs being privileged by society. Christians in the United States (and elsewhere) are discovering what it means that their religious beliefs no longer hold social dominance sufficient to give them legal privilege. Going forward, they will have to discern which limitations of their freedom are worth fighting and which are tolerable costs of living in a pluralistic society.
Kurt permalinkJuly 26, 2013 9:39 am
Certainly the Catholic Church does not say that engaging in commerce with gay people is a sin, so there is no issue here for the members of our faith community. If some non-Catholics think that it is a sin to engage in commerce with people who sin (or people who commit selective sins), they need to get out of the retail business.
July 26, 2013 11:00 am
"Going forward, they will have to discern which limitations of their freedom are worth fighting and which are tolerable costs of living in a pluralistic society."
Yes. There is an enormous difference between an OB who is forced by law to provide abortions and a bakery who is forced by law to bake cakes for same-sex marriages. The degree of complicity and participation in the former example would be worth fighting against. In the second example, not so much.
ctd permalinkJuly 26, 2013 11:35 am
These were not cases of a business owner refusing to engage in commerce with a gay couple. They were cases where engaging in a particular act was seen as the owner as violating his or her conscience.
The situation is more like a printer who, being a pacifist, refuses to print flyers for a militant black separatist group. She is not refusing to print the flyers because of the customer's race, but because of what it is that is being printed.
Just because a person has entered into commercial activity does not mean that he or she loses their right to say no when something violates their conscience.
Yes, religious liberties are not absolute and sometimes need curtailing, but this is not such a case.
Kurt permalinkJuly 26, 2013 12:18 pm
I notice no one is willing to stand up and make the argument that selling a pastry to a gay person is a sin. Its all under the cloud of "someone's else delicate conscience" might tell them no pastries for homos (or sell gay people a home or a car or health care).
The fact is that selling someone a commerical product is not a participation in any sin they commit. And since it is not, there is no basis for a religious freedom claim.
July 26, 2013 12:23 pm
Yes, it IS "such a case." When you open a business that serves the public, you SERVE THE PUBLIC, unless that public has committed a grievous act against what the CULTURE considers to be either a crime, or a serious infringement of YOUR "religious liberty."
In Muslim countries–like the one I'm about to go and live in–certain critical businesses (like banks) are not allowed the option of closing on Sundays, even if their proprietors are Christian, because Islam does not recognise the Christian Sabbath. That's the price you pay for living in a country that is dominated by a religion or culture that is entirely different from your own.
And, as for Agellius's comment, that a sanction against miscegenation is a "crackpot"–or marginal–version of Christianity, he obviously is not from the Fundamentalist Christian "Bible Belt" of the American South, because I was told PLENTY of times during my period of sojourn there that the "curse of Ham" is God's explicit condemnation of miscegenation, and that its meaning is that, although "those people" may be good Christians and "worthy of love," their God-ordained destiny is "to serve us all their days." I was shown the Scriptural text that they interpreted thusly, and also told that their "preacher" had explicated it for them IN CHURCH!
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Many parents shudder at the idea of letting their teenagers behind the wheel of a moving vehicle, myself included.
But eventually, most of them relent and agree to let Junior join the ranks of licensed drivers.
After an Extremely Scientific Survey, I have determined that this capitulation takes place for three reasons:
1. Parents become so weary of hauling the precious ones around to their endless engagements that they'd do anything to quit being the Parental Taxi Authority.
2. Parents can't stand being hectored for one more second on the subject and finally agree to endanger their child's life, if only to shut her up.
3. The most important reason: They desperately want to regain control of their own car radios, which they haven't been allowed to program to their preferred station since the kids got big enough to reach the dials.
Right now, I'm wavering, while being influenced by all three of those factors.
Cheetah Boy is about to turn 16, or as high-school kids imagine it, the Golden Age of Driving.
I'm sure you remember those first few months when you got the magic keys in your hot little hands, and so do I. That's one reason I'd rather he wait until he's 30.
When I do relent and let him drive, it will only be after he's gotten a job and saved enough money to buy his own car. He says this attitude is tremendously unfair, and he usually says this at a very high volume.
My position is fueled by years I spent in Beverly Hills. I managed money for celebrities, watching them buy their kids Porsches for their 16th birthdays, and a second one a month later, after they'd wrapped the first one around a jacaranda tree.
Years of watching indolent rich kids take drugs because they had nothing else to do convinced me that my children will work for what they want – not because I can't afford to buy things for them, but because they need to learn the value of work.
A 1989 Honda Civic for which you had to work to purchase drives better than a new sports car that was handed to you by someone else.
At least that's the story I'm feeding my kid.
And it has motivated him to start filling out job applications.
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HARRISBURG—Looked to be a pretty bad wreck with injuries on Highway 45 at the intersection of the new Rte. 13, in front of ROC 1 in Harrisburg tonight (02.17.13), about 7 p.m. The red truck and a semi collided; when we get more info we'll post it, but since we can't call central dispatch and get information from them (YET), we're not even bothering. More on that as we get it, too…which should be long about Wednesday, via the glory of Freedom of Information Act requests.
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Transmittal Letter
Improving the TSPR
TSPR in the Wall ISD
Wall ISD in Profile
Exemplary Programs and Practice
TSPR Key Recommendations
What Still Needs to Be Done?
WISD's Ideas for Improving the TSPR
In August 2001, Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn completed a review of the Wall Independent School District (WISD) as part of a six-district project that also included reviews of the neighboring San Angelo, Veribest, Grape Creek, Water Valley and Christoval school districts. These six districts are located geographically near each other in Tom Green County. Based upon more than six months of work, this report identified WISD's exemplary programs and suggested concrete ways to improve district operations. If fully implemented, the Comptroller's 41 recommendations could result in net savings of more than $1.4 million over the next five years.
Improving the Texas School Performance Review
Comptroller Strayhorn, who took office in January 1999, consulted school district officials, parents and teachers from across Texas and carefully examined past reviews and progress reports in an effort to make the Texas School Performance Review (TSPR) more valuable, even vital, to the state's more than 1,000 school districts. With the perspective of having served as a teacher, and later a school board president, the Comptroller has vowed to steer TSPR toward being more accountable to local school districts and the communities they represent.
Comptroller Strayhorn began by establishing new criteria for selecting school districts for future reviews. Priority is given to districts judged poor performing-academically or financially-and to hands-on reviews that will benefit the greatest number of students.
Recognizing that only about 51 cents of every education dollar is spent on instruction, Comptroller Strayhorn's goal is to drive more of every education dollar directly into the classroom. In addition, no longer are school districts' best practices and exemplary models buried inside individual TSPR reports. Instead, Comptroller Strayhorn has ordered best practices and exemplary programs to be shared quickly and systematically among all the state's school districts and with anyone who requests such information. There is simply no reason for a district that has solved a problem well to keep the solution to itself. Comptroller Strayhorn has directed TSPR to serve as an active clearinghouse of the best and brightest ideas in Texas public education. Best practices identified in the original review are now included in the Comptroller's best practices database, A+ Ideas for Managing Schools (AIMS), which is accessible on the Web at www.aimsdatabase.org.
Under Comptroller Strayhorn's approach, the TSPR team and consultants work with districts to:
- ensure students and teachers receive the support and resources necessary to succeed;
- identify innovative options to address core management challenges;
- ensure administrative activities are performed efficiently, without duplication and in a manner that spurs education;
- develop strategies to ensure the districts' processes and programs are continuously assessed and improved;
- understand the links among the districts' functional areas and determine ways to provide a seamless system of services;
- challenge any process, procedure, program or policy that impedes instruction and recommend ways to reduce or eliminate obstacles; and
- put goods and services to the "Yellow Pages test"-government should do no job if there is a business in the Yellow Pages that can do that job better and at a lower cost.
Finally, Comptroller Strayhorn has opened her door to Texans who share her optimism about TSPR's potential. Suggestions to improve school reviews are welcome at any time. The Comptroller is a staunch believer in public education and public accountability.
Detailed information can be obtained from TSPR by calling 1-800-531-5441 extension 5-3676, or by visiting the Comptroller's Web site at http://www.window.state.tx.us.
TSPR in the Wall Independent School District
WISD is located in Tom Green County, approximately 12 miles southeast of the city of San Angelo. The area is a farming community and the district was formed in 1909 from several surrounding school districts. After several changes, the present district boundaries were determined in 1938.
The Comptroller contracted with Gibson Consulting Group Inc., an Austin-based firm, to assist with the review. The team interviewed district employees, school board members, parents, business leaders and community members, and held a public forum at the Wall High School on Tuesday, March 27, 2001 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. To obtain additional comments, the review team conducted small focus group sessions with teachers, principals and board members. The Comptroller's office also received letters and phone calls from a wide array of parents, teachers and community members.
To ensure that all stakeholders had an opportunity to give comment, surveys were sent to students, parents, teachers and campus and central administration as well as their support staff. A total of 247 respondents answered these surveys: 26 campus and central administrators and support staff, 86 teachers, 15 parents and 120 students.
WISD selected peer districts for comparisons based on similarities in student enrollment, student performance and community and student demographics. The districts chosen were Bangs, Crockett County, Grape Creek, Holliday and Reagan County.
WISD boundaries now cover 497 square miles and for 2001-02, 913 students were enrolled, a decrease from 944 in 2000-01. The central Wall campusincludes the high school, middle school, elementary school and administration building. The district is served by the Texas Education Agency's (TEA's) Regional Education Service Center XV (Region 15) in San Angelo.
In 2001-02, the district's student population included 80 percent Anglo and 19.6 percent Hispanic students. The district's population of economically disadvantaged students was 28 percent.
On August 1, 2002, TEA released the Texas Assessment of Skills (TAAS) results for 2001-02. Wall received an overall Recognized rating, as it did in 2000-01. According to these latest reports, all three of the districts' schools are rated Exemplary.
In 2001-02, 94.2 percent of all students passed all tests taken; 98.7 percent of all students passed the math portion of the test; 99.3 percent of all students passed the reading portion; and 94.4 percent of all students passed the writing portion.
In 2001-02, the district employed a staff of 162 employees, with teachers accounting for 89, or nearly 55 percent, of WISD's total staff. The district had expenditures of $6.8 million that same year. In 2001-02, 23.1 percent of WISD's budgeted revenues were generated from local taxes; 3 percent came from other local and intermediate sources. About 72.4 percent came from the state, while 1.5 percent came from the federal government. In 2001-02, WISD budgeted 53.7 cents of every tax dollar on classroom instruction compared to the state average of 51 cents.
The district serves as the fiscal agent for the Fairview Accelerated Education Cooperative (Fairview). Fairview was founded in 1994 as the Alternative Education facility for the communities surrounding San Angelo, Texas. Member school districts that use Fairview as their Alternative education campus are Bronte, Eden, Grape Creek, Miles, Paint Rock, Robert Lee, Sterling City, Christoval, Veribest, Wall, Water Valley and Irion County. The students who attend Fairview are bused to school each day from distances up to 50 miles. All of the students who attend Fairview are middle and high school students, grades 6 through 12. The Fairview Campus is located in Wall.
The district also serves as the fiscal agent for the Small Schools Cooperative (Cooperative). The Cooperative, which includes 18 school districts in the area, is a shared service arrangement designed to assist member districts in serving students with disabilities. It also serves as the "Special Education Department" for 18 member school districts in the area. Belonging to a cooperative allows WISD and the other member districts to access support services that could not otherwise be afforded because of their limited number of students and associated funding.
While the district still has some work to do, both WISD and TSPR team members have a sense of steady progress: the district has implemented 35 recommendations; four are in various stages of progress; and two have been reviewed but not implemented. (See Appendix A for details on the recommendations' status.)
Wall ISD Report Card
Excellent = More than 80% complete
Chapter Total Complete In
Rejected Percent Complete/
In Progress
Grades District Organization and Management 7 7 0 0 0 100%/0% Excellent Educational Service Delivery 10 9 1 0 0 90%/10% Excellent Financial Management 11 8 2 1 0 73%/18% Satisfactory Operations 13 11 1 1 0 85%/8% Excellent Overall Grade 41 35 4 2 0 95%/10% Excellent
Satisfactory = 80% to 100% complete or in progress
Needs Work = Less than 80% complete or in progress
Exemplary Programs and Practices
WISD is a school district with some notable successes, and TSPR has identified numerous "best practices." Through commendations in each chapter, the original report highlighted model programs, operations and services provided by WISD administrators, teachers and staff members. Other school districts throughout Texas are encouraged to examine these exemplary programs and services to see if they could be adapted to meet local needs. TSPR's commendations include the following:
- The board and superintendent work in an atmosphere of mutual respect, trust and cooperation. All board members view the superintendent as effective in his role and believe that communication among the board members and the superintendent is excellent. The board members take full advantage of continuing education, with all members receiving more than the minimum number of hours required by law.
Since the review, WISD has developed a board calendar as a result of a recommendation, and it has proven to be an excellent tool for communication.
- WISD takes full advantage of the comprehensive selection of training offered by the Region 15. Region 15 conducts the majority of the district's professional education training.All training provided through Region 15 is tracked through a database. Employees may request a transcript of completed coursework to meet TEA certification renewal guidelines. In addition, employees may register online through the Region 15's Web site. In 1999-2000, 159 WISD employees participated in 214 Region 15 training sessions.
The relationship with Region 15 has become even more beneficial because Region 15 representatives traveled to the district and held several training sessions.
- Surveys of graduates help WISD improve educational programs. WISD starts every student with the state recommended high school program plan but allows modifications as dictated by student needs. WISD uses the Life Track service to track student performance after graduation and assess their success. Former students are surveyed and the information is then used by WISD to improve instruction and services.
WISD has continued this practice and is receiving more information from students than in the past. These surveys have been invaluable in keeping track of how former WISD students are doing in college.
- WISD has developed a strategic approach to crisis management. WISD has become increasingly concerned about school violence, particularly in light of Columbine and other similar incidents. Although surveys indicate that most respondents feel safe at WISD, the administration and staff have become more alert to potential hazards. The district is using a strategic approach to crisis management that includes a "flip chart" that is kept handy in each classroom, rehearsed evacuations, cooperation from the sheriff's department and workshops and training for administrators and staff.
WISD rewrote its crisis management plan in 2002 using new information from TEA, who recommended that the district no longer use color codes, but continue to use the flip chart.
- WISD's board, superintendent, business manager and technology coordinator work together to establish a strong technology infrastructure. Based on the technology team's combined vision and cooperation, technology funding for 1999-2000 through 2000-01 averaged more than $125 per student in district funding and an additional $105 per student in grants based on the 1999-2000 enrollment of 976 students. The result is an impressive three-students-per-computer ratio and is based on Pentium 166 or better multimedia computers.
The district has continued to improve its technology infrastructure by adding a multi-media lab in the high school using funds from a Wolslager grant. The school board has continued to support the district's continual upgrades by matching dollar for dollar with Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund grant and other grants.
Following are some of the key recommendations that administrators and staff said they believe had the greatest impact on district operations. The highlighted recommendations are organized by chapter and by the area of operation contained in the original report. The comments came from district administrators during the review team's follow-up visit to the district.
District Organization and Management
Recommendation 1: - Develop a summary reporting format to present financial, management and program-related information to the board.
This summary reporting has been very beneficial because there are no surprises. If the district is one-third of the way through the year, district staff looks at the report to determine if WISD's spending is on target with its budget.
Recommendation 3: - Develop a long range strategic plan and link the plan to the budget and other district planning documents.
Developing a strategic plan has been crucial for examining several aspects of the district's operations. WISD officials now look down the road to determine when they should replace buses and update computers.
Educational Service Delivery
Recommendation 8: - Promote the importance of high performance for all student groups through specific objectives in the District Improvement Plan.
District officials found this recommendation to be very helpful because the district wants to promote learning for all students. Some of WISD's subgroups are so small that its state assessment rating can be altered because of the performance of just one or two students. Every one of its campuses now has an Exemplary rating.
Financial Management
Recommendation 19: - Prepare and distribute accurate, timely and useful budget reports to principals and department heads monthly.
This recommendation facilitated an important practice whereby the principals now have access to budget reports as often as needed, which helps them make better decisions.
Recommendation 30: - Involve schools in energy conservation.
This recommendation prompted WISD to update its energy management system during summer 2002. The bills now run lower than in the past.
WISD opted not to implement Recommendation 27 regarding periodically reviewing delinquent tax rolls to vendor files because it believes that Tom Green County's Appraisal District currently does this since the Appraisal District collects delinquent taxes for the district via a contracted delinquent tax attorney. While the district can enlist the help of the delinquent tax attorney in withholding payments to delinquent vendors, responsibility for periodically reviewing the delinquent tax rolls to vendor files remains with WISD. The district must ensure that it is not losing tax revenue from delinquent vendors. As such, TSPR urges the district to adopt a policy to withhold payments to vendors who are delinquent on tax payments to the district and to implement procedures to compare vendor files to delinquent tax files.
WISD's Ideas for Improving the Texas School Performance Review
The Texas School Performance Review team does not assume that its process for performing school reviews works so well that it cannot be improved. Therefore, as part of the progress report preparation, TSPR asked WISD staff members and administrators what went right and what went wrong -- and how the process could be improved.
The feedback TSPR has received from other districts led to improvements in the review process. For example, early reports did not include implementation strategies, and districts told TSPR they needed help getting started. As a result, the reports now include IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES AND TIMELINEs to complement the recommendations. District officials have told TSPR these blueprints are invaluable to achieving the desired results. It is important, however, for TSPR staff to be mindful of those things that did not work as intended so that the review process can be improved.
WISD board members made the following observations:
One board member said the board found the review helpful because it gave members areas to monitor on a regular basis as a management oversight board. Another member said that, overall, the review process was beneficial. It allowed the members time to address items that they normally took for granted. One of the more troubling issues, however, was the amount of time spent by school employees to gather detailed information for the TSPR study. In a relatively small district, those people are already busy with multiple duties and were burdened by the TSPR request.
TSPR takes this comment seriously, and will examine its procedures to ensure that it requests only the most important information.


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Heaven: Living in the Present
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Can the memories of childhood give us a glimpse of heaven?
|I want to tell you a story about something that passed through my mind a couple of weeks ago. I was driving near my home in Carson. There's a school there with a playground and I saw all of these kids playing on it. I had one of those experiences where you have an instance of psychological time travel. It was basically a split second because I was driving past when this happened so it didn't take much time. But as I watched the kids play on the playground, hitting the tether ball and swinging from the jungle gym hanging upside down, I was psychologically transported back about forty years to the time when I was a child doing the same things. I mean psychologically because I didn't see the circumstances of my childhood, I just for a brief moment felt the feeling of my childhood. The feeling was one of blissful uncomplication.I realized there is a very, very big difference between being a child and being an adult, apart from the obvious. Adults have responsibilities and they must plan, they must look to the future, they must take care of things, they must solve problems. But for the most part when you are a child, you don't have that perspective. You don't look far into the future because you just can't see that far. You don't have enough history to do so. You know little of responsibilities. Oh, make your bed, take out the trash, maybe. But you're not thinking about talks next week or goals for the organization next year or retirement in 20 years. Those are totally foreign concepts to you. Because of the nature of being a child, you are more locked into the moment. You don't have a past, really. Oh, a few years — five, six, seven, eight years — and half of those you can't remember because you were an infant. So you have no past to reflect on. You have very little history. (more…)


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Something wicked this way comes: If you've ever wanted to see Alan Cumming performing live, you're about to see a whole lot of him.
The Tony and Olivier Award-winning actor is bringing his one-man production of Macbeth to Broadway this spring after successful runs at The National Theatre of Scotland and last summer's Lincoln Center Festival. Cumming's iteration of the classic Shakespeare tale is set in a psychiatric hospital, and while there are two other actors portraying nurses, Cumming assumes all of the play's major roles.
Cumming, who also stars in CBS's "The Good Wife," will deliver six performances a week in a limited engagement directed by the Tony Award-winner John Tiffany ("Once") and Andrew Goldberg.
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2011: The Minnesota adult smoking rate has fallen to 16.1 percent – the lowest in history
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In 1994, the state of Minnesota joined with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota to bring a lawsuit against the tobacco companies. The suit accused the industry of deceiving Minnesotans about the harmful nature of their products. The case uncovered tens of thousands of secret documents revealing what the tobacco companies had hidden about the link between cigarettes and cancer, the addictiveness of nicotine and other inherent dangers of tobacco.
In May 1998, the tobacco companies settled, with the state receiving $6.1 billion in a settlement agreement and Blue Cross receiving $469 million. In August of that same year, the Ramsey County District Court approved the state's plan to administer 3 percent of the settlement through a new independent nonprofit tobacco control organization: ClearWay Minnesota.
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It's hard to put into words what Ron Paul means to me. In fact, it seems a little strange that someone who I do not know on a personal level has had such a big impact on my life. I guess the best place to start is from the beginning.
Back in college I was your typical neoconservative. I was a pro-war Republican who also gave passing, lackadaisical support to limited government and reducing spending. But limited government didn't have much true meaning to me back then. It meant simply this: support reducing spending only to the extent that it can be used to criticize the Democrats and promote the Republican Party and its agenda. That's a pretty shallow understanding, but it's an understanding that had a firm grip on my mind back in those days. I was even the chairman of the College Republicans at my university! I'd bought into the whole canard hook, line, and sinker.
I can't pinpoint the timing exactly, but somewhere around the end of 2005, I discovered Ron Paul. I think I stumbled upon a video of him on C-SPAN. I can't remember exactly what he was saying in the video, but I remember being annoyed and disliking it a lot, which means it was probably against the Iraq War in some way. From there forward and for whatever reason, I couldn't forget Ron Paul. For the first time, I was confronted with the idea that my worldview was internally inconsistent. On the one hand, I mouthed support for free markets and limited government; on the other hand, I supported pre-emptive war, like in Iraq. War, I was told by Ron Paul, was just another way to expand the size and scope of government.
From that point on, over the course of the next year or so, I followed a bread crumb trail Ron Paul had already left across the internet at that time. That trail led me to an obscure economist, one I'd never heard of before even as an economics major in college: Ludwig von Mises. I then found the Ludwig von Mises Institute's website; once that happened, there was a snowball effect. I read a lot of articles through the website and it caused me to purchase my first book by Mises through LvMI's online store: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow. To this day, that little book contains one of my favorite essays of all time. It's entitled simply "Capitalism." It's simple and to the point, and it caused me to begin to see the free market differently. The essay begins as follows:
Descriptive terms which people use are often quite misleading. In talking about modern captains of industry and leaders of big business, for instance, they call a man a "chocolate king" or a "cotton king" or an "automobile king." Their use of such terminology implies that they see practically no difference between the modern heads of industry and those feudal kings, dukes or lords of earlier days. But the difference is in fact very great, for a chocolate king does not rule at all; he serves. He does not reign over conquered territory, independent of the market, independent of his customers. The chocolate king — or the steel king or the automobile king or any other king of modern industry — depends on the industry he operates and on the customers he serves. This "king" must stay in the good graces of his subjects, the consumers; he loses his "kingdom" as soon as he is no longer in a position to give his customers better service and provide it at lower cost than others with whom he must compete.
Up until this time, I saw libertarianism as an interesting political theory, but I dismissed it as too extreme and unworkable in reality. It was by reading the above and similar works by Mises that I began to think that libertarianism might be a tenable position.
By reading Mises, I was inevitably led to his student, economist Murray Rothbard, and I eventually purchased Rothbard's book For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto and devoured it. I remember loving that book and being fascinated while reading it. I don't think I had ever enjoyed reading what some would consider "dry" material so much in my life. In those pages, Rothbard describes how a completely free market would function. That is, he describes how courts, police, and the military could be provided through the free market, i.e. without government. Reading Rothbard's defense of such a radical version of libertarianism (anarcho-capitalism) led me to the following conclusion: if the extreme views Rothbard espouses can be reasonably defended as logical and workable, then a more moderate version of libertarianism is surely defensible. I found Rothbard's arguments very persuasive. In short, it was For a New Liberty that caused me to start calling myself a libertarian without reservation.
While all of my self-study was going on, I was still following Ron Paul. As a matter of fact, I had attended CPAC (a conservative conference held in Washington, D.C. every year) in the previous year. It was rumored that Ron Paul would make an appearance at CPAC 2007 to give a speech. I had already become disillusioned with the Republican Party and had no plans to attend CPAC that year. But when it was confirmed that Ron Paul would be speaking there, I jumped at the chance to attend. No question about it. I was going to see Ron Paul, come Hell or high water!
As I mentioned already, I was chairman of the College Republicans at my school. However, by the time 2007 rolled around, I was now the past chairman of that organization. I had also been trying to convince some of my friends in the College Republicans that Ron Paul was the way to go. To hell with the Republican Party, I said. Ron Paul's message is consistent and principled, and he actually supports limited government. Imagine that! I won't say that I converted any of my friends in College Republicans to libertarianism and Ron Paul, but I did have a hand in making a few of them critically analyze their views. To make a long story short, the end result of all that discussion and argument was a few dedicated libertarians, libertarians even to this day.
The trip to CPAC that year was rather uneventful and I will even say boring. I remember having to listen to Ann Coulter speak and cringing the entire time. She even mentioned libertarians, as I recall, but not in a very flattering light. She muttered something about libertarians and drugs. You know, we're all drug addicts, us libertarians, since we want drugs legalized. I sat through many other speakers who were not even important enough to remember. And remember them I do not.
Finally, the day of the convention came when Ron Paul would speak. I was still delusional enough at that time to think Ron Paul would be in a big room in the hotel where the convention was held. That idea was quickly dashed when, upon finding the room on the bottom floor of the hotel, I discovered that it was tiny and there were no seats. You had to stand if you wanted to hear "Dr. No" speak, which I was fine with. I would have stood on my head to hear Ron Paul in person. Someone was kind enough to drag a lectern in there so Ron Paul would have something to stand behind to give his speech.
Once I saw the small size of the room and the lack of care by CPAC by not providing accommodations for those of us who wanted to hear Ron Paul, I doubted many people would show up at all. But, much to my surprise, that room, though small, slowly started to get crowded, almost a little too crowded. It was packed.
Ron Paul gave a great talk, much of it anti-war themed, and concluded to loud applause for that little room. He then went out into the hallway to talk with anyone who wanted to share a word with him. I was definitely one of those people who wanted to share a word — many words! I waited around for quite a while and slowly the crowd began to disperse. It finally got to the point where very few people were left and I was afraid Dr. Paul was about to leave, so I approached him, shook his hand, and introduced myself. I don't recall all the details of the conversation, as it was nearly six years ago from the time of this writing, but I know it lasted longer than I expected, probably five to ten minutes. My guess is waiting to approach him after nearly everyone had left was a good strategy because no one else was vying for his attention. During our talk, he encouraged me to attend Mises University that summer (which I did). We also talked about a couple of the books that both of us had read. I remember saying I wanted to read Mises' Human Action, and Dr. Paul said it was a great book but one that was difficult to understand without some background knowledge. So he recommended a few smaller books by Rothbard before I took on Mises' economic treatise. I got a quick picture, shook his hand, and that was it. That was my Ron Paul experience, at least when it comes to meeting him in person. That is now six long years ago.
Like I said, I did attend Mises University in the summer of 2007. When I claim Ron Paul started to change my thinking on a number of subjects, Mises University fundamentally changed many of my views for good. From that summer forward, I was convinced that the unbridled free market was not only the most moral social system conceivable but also the most efficient and workable. I still hold those views to this day.
A lot has happened in my life since I met Ron Paul and attended Mises University. For one thing, I attended and graduated from law school and am now a practicing attorney. But even though I have experienced a lot over the last several years, the foundation of my worldview remains intact that was laid thanks in large part to Ron Paul. In fact, I think it's safe to say that foundation never would have been laid without Ron Paul. For that, I will never forget Ron Paul.
When I watched and listened to his farewell speech to Congress I'd be lying if I said I didn't shed a few tears. Yes, yes, I know most people who read that I shed a tear over Ron Paul would think I'm bonkers. But they can think what they wish. I shed tears because I felt I was witnessing the closing of a chapter in history, a chapter in which I am grateful to have witnessed and been a part. I say without hesitation that Ron Paul has been the most principled and consistent Congressman in the history of the United States, perhaps the most principled politician in the United States of all time. Ron Paul has been far more consistent than even the likes of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, founders viewed as strong defenders of limited, constitutional government.
His consistency is quite remarkable really. And if you question his consistency, merely look at his voting history and see for yourself all the lone "no" votes he cast, and the "no" votes he cast in general. If legislation used the force of government against those who did not initiate force against others, it got a resounding "nay" from Ron Paul. In practice that meant quite a lot got a "nay" from "Dr. No."
In closing, one more short story. I recall a body language expert who was asked to analyze the Republican Primary Debates. This expert was on Fox News, so take it for what you will, but I thought her comments about Ron Paul spoke to the man he is. She said that his body language, of all the candidates, most obviously revealed that he was being honest and saying what he thought was the truth. Most telling of all, she said, was when he was about to make a comment he knew would not be received well by the audience. He would hunch his shoulders and lean forward, bracing himself to be booed. What's more, you could tell it made him uncomfortable, yet he did it anyway. Now, that's a standard of honesty I hope I can live up to.
Ron Paul, of course, is a man. He has his faults like we all do. But he's a special man to me because he is responsible for changing how I see the world. And for that I will always be grateful. I'm reminded of these words used to describe Ludwig von Mises from "Hamlet." I think they work equally well for Ron Paul:
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
Thank you Ron Paul, from the bottom of my heart.
Nathan Shore [send him mail] is an attorney in North Carolina.


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Shad (rapper)
|Background information
|Birth name
|Shadrach Kabango
|Also known as
|Shad K.
July 18, 1982
|Alternative hip hop
|Vocals, guitar
|Years active
|Black Box Music, Decon
|Associated acts
|Skratch Bastid
Shadrach Kabango (born July 18, 1982), better known by his stage name Shad or Shad K., is a Canadian hip hop artist.
Early life[edit]
Born in Kenya, of Rwandan parents, Shad was raised in London, Ontario.[1] His mother worked in London as a hospital lab technician; his father, as a machinist.[2] He attended London Central Secondary School.
His debut album When This Is Over (2005) was self-made, financed with the $17,500 he won from 91.5 The Beat's Rhythm of the Future talent competition during his time as an undergraduate student at Wilfrid Laurier University.[3] The album was recognized for Shad's self-deprecating lyrics[4] and focus on social causes—for example, the track "I'll Never Understand" examines the Rwandan genocide and includes poetry written by his mother, Bernadette Kabango.[5]
In 2007, he was signed by Black Box Recordings and released his second album, The Old Prince.[6] In 2008, The Old Prince received a Juno Award nomination for Rap Recording of the Year, and was nominated for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize.[7] The album was also nominated for two MuchMusic Video Awards.[8] Shad released his third album, TSOL, in 2010. TSOL was nominated for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize, a 2011 MuchMusic Video Award, and won the Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year at the 2011 Juno Awards.[9] On beating out Canadian compatriot Drake for the Juno, Shad said in an interview: "I did not think for a second that I would win. Not for one second. He's massive. He's massive in the States, he's massive in Canada."[10]
In June 2013, Shad released a collaborative EP with Skratch Bastid entitled The Spring Up.[11] Shad's fourth album,[12] Flying Colours, was released on October 15, 2013.[13] This album was also nominated for a Juno Award in 2014, and is a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize.[14]
Style and influences[edit]
Music critics have compared his style to that of K-os, Aesop Rock and of Common, and also to a "London (England) sound circa 1990".[1]
Personal life[edit]
Shad is bilingual, speaking English and French. He holds a business degree from Wilfrid Laurier University[15] and a master's degree in liberal studies from Simon Fraser University.[16]
Studio albums[edit]
- When This Is Over (2005)
- The Old Prince (2007)
- Flying Colours (2013)
- La Cassette Mixée (2007)
- Besides (2011)
- Two Songs (2011) (with Dallas Green)
- Melancholy and the Infinite Shadness (2012)
- The Spring Up (2013) (with Skratch Bastid)
- Boarding Pass (2014) (with DJ T.LO)
- "I Don't Like To" (2008)
- "Brother (Watching)" (2008)
- "The Old Prince Still Lives at Home" (2008)
- "Compromise" (2009)
- "Yaa I Get It" (2010)
- "Rose Garden" (2010)
- "We, Myself and I" (2010)
- "Keep Shining" (2011)
- "Give You All I Can" (2011)
- "It Aint Over" (2012)
- "Stylin'" (2013)
- "Fam Jam (Fe Sum Immigrins)" (2013)
Guest appearances[edit]
- Promise - "Shy Guy" from More Than Music (2008)
- Blue Scholars - "The Dawn Song" from Bayani: Redux (2009)
- Hey Ocean! - "Vagabond" (2009)
- Grand Analog - "Electric City" from Metropolis Is Burning (2009)
- Wax Romeo - "Boom Ha" (2010)
- Dirty Circus - "Into the Sun" from Alive and Well (2010)
- Mike Tompkins - "Only Girl" (2010)
- Lights - "Everybody Breaks a Glass" and "Flux and Flow" from Siberia (2011)
- Blitz the Ambassador - "Native Sun" from Native Sun (2011)
- k-os - "Spraying My Pen" from Black on Blonde (2013)
- The Procussions - "Today" from The Procussions (2013)
- Grand Analog - "The Great Rhyme Dropper" from Modern Thunder (2013)
- Said the Whale - "Resolutions" from Hawaiii (2013)
- ^ a b Dixon, Guy (October 29, 2007). "Echoes of hip hop's heyday". The Globe and Mail. p. R3.
- ^ Kaplan, Ben (January 16, 2008). "'He knows who he is': And you should, too: Why Shad K is Canada's best rapper". National Post. p. AL1.
- ^ Perlich, Tim (February 16, 2006). "Six-string rap: Canuck hiphop threat Shad sticks with guitar". Now. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
- ^ "Shad". The Gazette. December 17, 2010.
- ^ Quinlan, Thomas (October 2005). "Shad: When This Is Over". Exclaim!. Retrieved January 12, 2008.
- ^ Carlick, Stephen (April 6, 2010). "Exclusive: Shad Preps New Studio Album for May Release". Exclaim!.
- ^ Warner, Tyrone (March 17, 2011). "JUNO nominee Shad's scholarly days coming to an end". CTV Television Network.
- ^ Patrick, Ryan B. (June 2009). "Shad Gets It". Exclaim!.
- ^ "Shad nips Drake for rap Juno". Toronto Star. March 27, 2011.
- ^ Bernad, Adam (August 30, 2011). "Shad Interview". RapReviews.com. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
- ^ Aborisade, Femi (July 16, 2013). "Shad & Skratch Bastid – The Spring Up". Potholes in My Blog.
- ^ Matthews, Aaron (October 11, 2013). "Shad - Flying Colours". Exclaim!.
- ^ Hudson, Alex (July 30, 2013). "Shad Sets Release Date for 'Flying Colours,' Releases New Single". Exclaim!.
- ^ "Arcade Fire, Drake, Shad make Polaris Music Prize short list". CTV News, July 15, 2014.
- ^ "Shad K : Shad K Is Just Beginning In Never Ending Talent". Soul Shine Magazine. June 23, 2006.
- ^ "Arts Convocation includes Juno winner Shad". SFU. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Shad discography at Discogs


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This is a picture of a relic Criollo pod found in the island Tobago, in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It was identified by the researchers at the Cocoa Research Section of Ministry of Food Production.
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Relic cocoa types in Tobago
Location: L'anse Fourmi, Tobago.
I have these growing on my farm in Costa Rica. Note the color of the mucus, I find in these pods it can be yellow or pink. Have you ever seen that before?
The tree this was harvested from was over 100 years old. Only four pods on the tree. during September we [Tobago Cocoa Farmers Association] will be gathering 'bud wood' ,for grafting planting material, to be planted on farmer holdings. Maybe in a chocolate in 3-5 years.
A beautiful-looking pod. Have you made any chocolate from this variety? How does it taste?
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