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I read the raw foodists all the time (Patenaude, Wolfe, Boutenko, and lots more). I think their diet is fantastic. Sometimes I go all raw, for a few days, weeks, or even months. I wouldn't criticize anybody for a minute who wants to do it permanently, as some of my friends do–they […]23 Comments • Continue Reading →
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I just took my kids tonight to the traveling BodyWorlds exhibit currently in Salt Lake City, comprised of "plastinated" Asian cadavers posed in incredible ways (yoga, gymnastics, and many other stances). The skin is mostly flayed off of the cadavers of former political prisoners (one part of the audio tour explains why they do […]15 Comments • Continue Reading →
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More important books for parents to own: Denise Punger, M.D. is a GreenSmoothieGirl 12 Stepper and a brave new voice in modern medicine. She's a board certified doctor married to another medical doctor, but she's also a mother who has breastfed for 12 years and delivered her last baby via home birth. […]10 Comments • Continue Reading →
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These are books important for parents to own: Randall Neustaedter's The Vaccine Guide is the most science based, objective, and compelling look on the vaccine issue of all the books I read as I made the difficult decision not to immunize my children. For instance, although the DPT shot seemed a no-brainer to avoid […]13 Comments • Continue Reading →


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Teen Choice Awards Nominate The Vampire Diaries, Glee and Moreby Matt Richenthal at . Comments
The Teen Choice Awards feature categories for pretty much every realm of the entertainment industry, from television to music to movies.
You know where our interest lies, though, so take a look below at the nominees in a variety of TV-related fields. The ceremony will air on August 7...
Choice TV Show: Drama
"Gossip Girl"
"Make It or Break It"
"The Secret Life of the American Teenager"
Choice TV Actor: Drama
Penn Badgley, "Gossip Girl"
David Boreanaz, "Bones"
Chace Crawford, "Gossip Girl"
Daren Kagasoff, "The Secret Life of the American Teenager"
Hugh Laurie, "House"
Choice TV Actress: Drama
Emily Deschanel, "Bones"
Blake Lively, "Gossip Girl"
Josie Loren, "Make It or Break It"
Olivia Wilde, "House"
Shailene Woodley, "The Secret Life of the American Teenager"
Choice TV Show: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
"Teen Wolf"
"The Vampire Diaries"
Choice TV Actor: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Joshua Jackson, "Fringe"
Jared Padalecki, "Supernatural"
Ian Somerhalder, "The Vampire Diaries"
Tom Welling, "Smallville"
Paul Wesley, "The Vampire Diaries"
Choice TV Actress: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Nina Dobrev, "The Vampire Diaries"
Erica Durance, "Smallville"
Anna Paquin, "True Blood"
Crystal Reed, "Teen Wolf"
Anna Torv, "Fringe"
Choice TV Show: Action
"Burn Notice"
"Hawaii Five-O"
"NCIS: Los Angeles"
Choice TV Actor: Action
Jeffrey Donovan, "Burn Notice"
Daniel Dae Kim, "Hawaii Five-O"
Zachary Levi, "Chuck"
LL Cool J, "NCIS: Los Angeles"
Shane West, "Nikita"
Choice TV Actress: Action
Lyndsy Fonseca, "Nikita"
Linda Hunt, "NCIS: Los Angeles"
Grace Park, "Hawaii Five-O"
Maggie Q, "Nikita"
Yvonne Strahovski, "Chuck"
Choice TV Show: Comedy
"The Big Bang Theory"
"Modern Family"
"Wizards of Waverly Place"
Choice TV Actor: Comedy
Ty Burrell, "Modern Family"
Steve Carell, "The Office"
John Krasinski, "The Office"
Cory Monteith, "Glee"
Jim Parsons, "The Big Bang Theory"
Choice TV Actress: Comedy
Miranda Cosgrove, "iCarly"
Kaley Cuoco, "The Big Bang Theory"
Miley Cyrus, "Hannah Montana"
Selena Gomez, "Wizards of Waverly Place"
Demi Lovato, "Sonny with a Chance"
Choice TV: Animated Show
"American Dad"
"Bob's Burgers"
"The Cleveland Show"
"Family Guy"
"The Simpsons"
Choice TV: Personality
Christina Aguilera, "The Voice"
Tyra Banks, "America's Next Top Model"
Adam Levine, "The Voice"
Jennifer Lopez, "American Idol"
Ryan Seacrest, "American Idol"
Choice TV: Reality Competition Show
"American Idol"
"America's Best Dance Crew"
"So You Think You Can Dance"
"The Voice"
Choice TV: Reality Show
"Jersey Shore"
"Khloe & Lamar"
"Kourtney & Kim Take New York"
"The Real World: Las Vegas"
"Secret Millionaire"
Choice TV: Villain
Justin Bieber, "CSI"
Jane Lynch, "Glee"
Seth MacFarlane (as Stewie Griffin), "Family Guy"
Joseph Morgan, "The Vampire Diaries"
Ed Westwick, "Gossip Girl"
Choice TV: Female Scene Stealer
Dianna Agron, "Glee"
Katerina Graham, "The Vampire Diaries"
Jennette McCurdy, "iCarly"
Amber Riley, "Glee"
Sofia Vergara, "Modern Family"
Choice TV: Male Scene Stealer
Chris Colfer, "Glee"
Rico Rodriguez, "Modern Family"
Mark Salling, "Glee"
Eric Stonestreet, "Modern Family"
Michael Trevino, "The Vampire Diaries"
Matt Richenthal is the Editor in Chief of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Twitter and on Google+.Tags: Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, Glee, Teen Choice Awards
um JARED PADALECKI AND SUPERNATURAL WOO DONT LET THE GIRLIE VAMPIRE DIARIES WIN
really glad that Mark and Dianna have been nominated, both as scene stealers, Puck and Quinn are my favourite Glee characters!!!
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vampire diaries and nikita all the way and ian paul nina maggie q shane west joseph morgan kat graham and michael trevino
vampire diaries and nikita all the way
I hope either Jared, Paul, or Ian wins for Fantasy/Sci Fi actor.
I hope Supernatural wins for Fantasy/Sci Fi show. I love both The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural, but I'm going with Supernatural. I'm hoping that Justin bieber does not win choice TV villain, I think Joseph Morgan should or Jane Lynch.
This year's Teen Choice Awards is going to be huge. I can't wait for its arrival on August 7. The bestest characters of The Vampire Diaries should always be chosen cause this show is always my #1 choice. I'm not really interested a lot in the other shows(sort of)but I wish the shows that I've watched a big good luck. The awards show may be coming on the end of summer vacation but it will be a fun way to end it. =) XD
it sucks because the drama categories are all going to be those crap teen show's with people who can't act and bad writing like gossip girl, MOBT and SLAT... bones and house are so much better, better acting and writing..
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"House� Choice TV Actor: Drama
Hugh Laurie, "House� Choice TV Actress: Drama
Olivia Wilde, "House� Choice TV Show: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
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Nina Dobrev, "The Vampire Diaries� Choice TV Show: Action
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"NCIS: Los Angeles� Choice TV Actor: Action
LL Cool J, "NCIS: Los Angeles� Choice TV Actress: Action
Linda Hunt, "NCIS: Los Angeles� Choice TV Show: Comedy
"Glee� Choice TV Actor: Comedy
Cory Monteith, "Glee� Choice TV: Animated Show
"The Simpsons� Choice TV: Personality
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justin bieber best villain..!!
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Vote: Frontier wants you to pick its newest spokesanimal
Doris the Chicken? Samson the Sloth? Doug the Dung Beetle?
Those are among the choices rolled out by Frontier Airlines, which will decide the newest animal to grace one of its planes by a popular vote.
Frontier, of course, has made a name for itself by placing animal images on the tails of its planes. Each plane bears a unique character, ranging from Larry the Lynx to Hector the Otter.
In all, Frontier has a total of 63 animal tails – and now it's time for the next.
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"Frontier's spokesanimals have enjoyed such a loyal following and we have no doubt our fans will choose the best animal to join the team," Dan Krause, Frontier's vice president of branding and customer experience, says in a release.
Would-be voters can visit a special "Who Will be Next?" webpage, where there are options to "meet the contenders" and "watch auditions." And there's that all-important "vote here" link that allows visitors to cast their ballots for Frontier's next spokesanimal.
MORE: Frontier Airlines to leave Michigan's Manistee County airport
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"We hope our fans will enjoy getting to know the 18 potential candidates through our television spots and by visiting the audition room at FrontierAirlines.com. There is some real talent in this group and we expect our fans will have a difficult time picking their favorite," Krause says in the release.
Frontier says voting will begin today and run through April 7, "when the 18 potential characters will be whittled down to the top three. Voting on the final three will take place April 9-15, with the winning animal announced at the end of April."
As for the candidates, the 18 vying for the spot as Frontier's next spokesanimal are:
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- Vladimir the Bat
- Tina the Grebe
- Doug the Dung Beetle
- Enrique the Tree Frog
- Polly the Parrot
- Paula the Pig
- Ralph the Ram
- Alivina the Owl
- Samson the Sloth
- Melvin the Turtle
- Chloe the Chipmunk
- Cammie the Cow
- Joanne the Giraffe
- Fred the Walrus
- Duke the Arctic Dog
- Will & Hill the Prairie Dogs
- Mario the Lizard
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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Page, Jonathan Grant firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-09042008-130625 Document Title Energy efficient hybrid routing protocol for wireless sensor networks Degree MEng Department Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Prof G P Hancke Supervisor Keywords
- flat routing
- node lifetime
- energy efficiency
- energy consumption
- wireless sensor networks
- clustering
- hierarchical routing
Date 2008-04-09 Availability unrestricted Abstract
A wireless sensor network is designed to monitor events and report this information to a central location, or sink node. The information is required to efficiently travel through the network. It is the job of the routing protocol to officiate this process. With transmissions consuming the majority of the energy available to a sensor node, it becomes important to limit their usage while still maintaining reliable communication with the sink node.
The aim of the research covered in this dissertation was to adapt the flat and hierarchical architectures to create a new hybrid that draws on current protocol theories. The designed and developed protocol, Hybrid Energy Efficient Routing (HEER) protocol, builds upon the initial groundwork laid out by the previously developed Simple Energy Efficient Routing (SEER) protocol designed by C.J. Leuschner. Another aspect of the work was to focus on the current lack of credibility that is present in the WSN research community. The validity of SEER was examined and tested and this led to the main focus of this research, ensuring that HEER proves to be valid.
The HEER protocol for wireless sensor networks is designed such that it is computationally simple, limits the number of transmissions, employs a cross-layer approach, is reliable, is energy-aware, has limited support for mobile nodes, is energy efficient, and most importantly is credible.
Sensor nodes are extremely limited when it comes to their available energy resources. To maximise the node and network lifetimes requires the designed algorithm to be energy aware and as efficient as possible. A cross-layer design approach is followed which allows for the different layers of the OSI model to interact.
The HEER protocol limits the number of transmissions that are used for network operation. This is achieved by using a minimal amount of messages for network setup and by selecting the optimal route. Route selection is calculated using hop count, current energy available, energy available on the receiving node, and lastly the energy required to reach the destination node.
HEER combines and expands upon the method used by SEER for route selection. Network lifetime for networks of large sizes is increased, mainly due to more efficient routing of messages. The protocol was kept computationally simple and energy efficient, thus maintaining network survivability for as long as possible.
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Get to Give Back: EVA Safety Eyewear
While many of us enjoy shopping for ourselves and for our friends, family and loved ones, what makes shopping even more enjoyable is when our money extends beyond paying for the product and gives back. EVA, a brand by PIP (Protective Industrial Protects), offers a line of safety eyewear, including reading glasses, safety glasses and … Continue reading
Women's Gardening Gloves
Eager for some spring and summertime gardening? Before you start weed pulling and pruning, make sure you have quality gardening gloves to get you through those outdoor projects. We carry an impressive selection of women's garden gloves that come in a variety of sizes and materials. Ergonomically designed to fit your hands well as you … Continue reading
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The creation of such a broad coalition "is a great example of how (Moak) has bridged that gap," said Michael Robbins, ALPA director of government affairs. "They have all signed the same letter."
ALPA opposed the long-standing practice by which the U.S. Export/Import Bank enables foreign airlines to secure lower cost aircraft financing than U.S. airlines. Boeing (BA), the primary beneficiary, is so powerful in Washington that only ALPA and Delta were willing to speak out. Still, the 2012 Ex/Im Bank reauthorization bill requires, for the first time, public disclosure of financing for foreign airlines' aircraft purchases, giving parties a chance to object. The bill also requires the U.S. Treasury to negotiate with European export credit agencies to end similar discounts by Airbus, so that Boeing would not be disadvantaged if the practice were to end.
Soon after the Ex/Im Bank battle ended, and this demonstrates the ways of Washington, ALPA worked closely with Boeing and others to oppose a requirement for U.S. airlines to contribute to a European carbon-trading effort that would have increased trans-Atlantic airfares by $3.1 billion over the next decade. The money would have gone to the European Union general fund, not necessarily to fighting climate change. Last month, President Obama signed a law prohibiting implementation of the requirement.
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T.I. and Tiny Host Alzheimer's Benefit
T.I. may be receiving a fair share of bad press lately, but the rapper turned the spotlight on a worthy cause over the weekend in Atlanta. Tip and his wife Tameka "Tiny" Cottle hosted a luncheon for their foundation "For the Love of Our Fathers," which raises money for disease research and offers relief to caregivers. Tiny's father has the brain disorder and T.I. said his father and grandmother also had the disease when they died.
"It's very, very personally close to our family," Tip told the AP. "And while I was, you know, while I was going through my … period of hiatus, Tameka had the idea of … starting this foundation. And I thought it was an outstanding idea."
As for the couple's recent arrest on drug charges, T.I. declined to comment, saying, "We're not going to talk much except for Alzheimer's."
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For Adults and children over 12 yrs: Take one tablet per day with food or drink.
Warning: Keep out of reach of children. Do not take if you are pregnant or breast feeding. Do not use if blister package (inner foil) has been opened or tampered with. Store in cool, dry place.
Hair Volume™ is an advanced formulation of bio-active nutrients based on the latest scientific research. It has been developed by New Nordic's expert's with specific apple procyanidin B2 extract and nutrients to contribute to the maintenance of normal hair. The natural extracts and nutrients of Hair Volume are delivered via the bloodstream directly to the hair root and dermal layers of the scalp where they are needed most. Hair Volume also contains support for normal hair pigmentation and for your skin and nails.
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The holidays came to Bear Mountain a little early this year. We received 12-16 inches of fresh snow over the weekend and are looking at sunny skies again today. We now have excellent snow coverage, nearly 100% of the mountain open, the best snow conditions around, and 115 park features for all levels.
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Wishing the Forum for Education and Democracy's "Will We Really?" Campaign a Short Life
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"If I thought for a second that this Forum was an objective, non-partisan opportunity to discuss problems in public education instead of an ideological pow-wow, I would likely participate.
Again, thanks for the heads up – and I look forward to any more announcements you might have. Please tell Ms. Darling-Hammond, Ms. Meier and Mr. Noguera that I said hi."
I receive many e-mails a day with press releases, requests for exposure, requests for help/organization/administration/web design – lots of things. I can't always oblige, but I appreciate them. They keep me informed and alert me to blips on the massive radar of public education that I might otherwise miss.
And some of these notices are garbage. Well, not the notices/press releases themselves, but the events and initiatives they describe. The PR firms almost always do an excellent job.
Consider the following from the Forum for Education & Democracy, which is introducing a campaign called "Will We Really?" My e-mail response is after the jump.
January 6, 2009 (Washington, DC) – Just days before President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office, a major education group is launching a national web-based campaign that challenges all Americans to transform the optimism of the election season into the promise of collective action to improve public education.
"Our goal is to build on the "Yes We Can" hopefulness of the Obama campaign, address the shared anxiety about our uncertain future, and channel both sets of feelings into actions that will help support our nation's schools," said Sam Chaltain, National Director of the Forum for Education & Democracy, which is sponsoring the campaign.
A short web film, an homage to the "Yes We Can" will.i.am-produced video that has been viewed nearly 15 million times on YouTube, sets in motion a national petition drive, available at www.willwereally.com, in which all signers commit to work with President Obama to honor four promises that must be fulfilled if we are serious about supporting young people and public schools:
1. Every child deserves a 21st Century education.
To honor America's ongoing commitment to a democratic way of life, we must provide all young people with a high-quality, free education in schools that are designed to help students develop the skills and abilities they need to exercise a powerful voice in shaping their own lives — and our nation's future.
2. Every community deserves an equal chance.
To honor America's founding promise of "liberty and justice for all," we must provide equal access to a high-quality education to all young people, regardless of their family's money, race or power.
3. Every child deserves a well-supported teacher.
To honor America's commitment to its public schools, we must ensure that all young people have the same opportunity to learn from well-prepared, well-supported teachers, who are in turn empowered to exercise their professional judgment, and not just follow a script, when it comes to helping students learn.
4. Every child deserves high-quality health care.
To honor America's responsibility to take care of its youngest citizens – and to acknowledge the myriad out-of-school forces that impact a child's capacity to learn – we must ensure that all young people are free from want, and have access to high-quality health care.
To encourage action on the local level, the Forum provides a list of easy steps people can undertake individually and at the community level in support of each promise.
There's more, but I'll spare you. What I pasted above is the tofu and soy-flakes [meat and potatoes didn't seem appropriate]. Here's my e-mail response:
Thanks for the heads-up here, I appreciate it a great deal. It's not easy to stay in the loop – even with the internet – without being in one of those policy centers like New York City or Washington.
But I'm going to pass on this one other than posting the press release [and this e-mail] on my website. This initiative is tripe.
Please share that, along with the following opinions, with the folks at the Forum for Education and Democracy.
Here's a bullet-point review of the initiative's four core principles:
1. Every child deserves a 21st Century education. The rhetoric in support of that point is baseless, useless and unclear. FfE&D hasn't a clue what a "21st Century education" is – and hot air about a "powerful voice" means even less.
Stop that.
2. Every community deserves an equal chance. That's one we all agree on, and I've yet to meet a serious thinker in education, on a large or small scale, who thinks otherwise.
The bit about "power" may work well in a college freshman's Sociology 101 paper – or perhaps in an introduction to a Teachers College Press book, if we throw in a few typos – but it's not to be taken seriously outside of either. If you want to talk about failed pedagogy [Whole Language or 'Investigations'-style math], abysmal teacher education programs and the fiscal mismanagement that keeps so many communities from the equality we'd all like to see, I will welcome the discussion [provided that the conversation doesn't include will.i.am videos].
Not "power," though. Take that one up with Maxine Greene, a third-rate grad student or one of the distinguished conveners.
3. Every child deserves a well-supported teacher. Agreed. Nothing in the description, however, suggests that this Forum will take a hard look at teacher preparation programs – or the realities of teacher practice. I won't join you folks in railing against 'scripted' curricula because some of it is very good, and some teachers desperately need it. These points are tendentious rhetoric, not critical analysis of pedagogy or administration. When the Forum cares more about objective analysis than the storybook dignity it's invented for practitioners in public education, perhaps we can talk.
4. Every child deserves high-quality health care. Again, we agree – though points about keeping children healthy are low-hanging fruits. Unfortunately, this has almost nothing to do with education. The failures that have necessitated the Forum's examination of points 1-3, albeit a misguided examination, don't bode well for our ability to solve healthcare problems short of increasing already-bloated per pupil expenditure by an obscene amount.
I'd go into more detail on that point, but the fiscal responsibilities and the financial realities on which points 1-4 depend were not elements of the proposed discussions.
If I thought for a second that this Forum was an objective, non-partisan opportunity to discuss problems in public education instead of an ideological pow-wow, I would likely participate.
Again, thanks for the heads up – and I look forward to any more announcements you might have, and I hope the next one will be for a fairer, higher-quality initiative.
Please tell Ms. Darling-Hammond, Ms. Meier and Mr. Noguera that I said hi.


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The Washington Stealth will be hosting the Team Jesse Foundation at its regular season finale tonight at the Comcast Arena at Everett. The Stealth has partnered with Team Jesse in hopes of creating more awareness and support for a great cause.
The mission of The Team Jesse Foundation is helping families of fallen soldiers in honor of SSG Jesse Williams. Team Jesse also supports the efforts of other charitable organizations helping military families more broadly.
Kevin Mincio and Matt Corry started Team Jesse in 2007, to honor Mincio's fallen friend and comrade, SSG Jesse L. Williams. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Mincio left a Wall Street job to join the Army and served a tour of duty in Iraq with Jesse, where they became close friends. Before Jesse left for his 2nd tour of duty, after earning a Purple Heart in his 1st tour, he asked Mincio to "look after" his daughter Amaya in the event Jesse didn't make it back. Mincio obliged and Team Jesse is one of the ways Mincio is fulfilling his promise.
Team Jesse grew out of what was initially going to be a summer lacrosse tournament team founded by Mincio and Corry. Made up of former players from their alma mater, UCONN, and other friends from the lacrosse community, the team was entered into the 2007 Lax Vegas Lacrosse Tournament. Planning was under way when Mincio was informed of Jesse's death. Mincio and Corry immediately knew that honoring Jesse and raising money for Amaya would be the new mission for the lacrosse team and Team Jesse started to take shape.
With the help and support of family, friends and other connections throughout the lacrosse community, they got to work raising money for Amaya and sharing the story of Jesse, a courageous soldier who gave all for his country.
Inspired to do more in the Fall of 2010, Mincio and Corry founded the Team Jesse Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, with the help of Eileen Tang and Heather Hager. The vision of the leadership team is to assist in helping as many families of fallen soldiers as possible by raising money through awareness and events.
The biggest fundraiser to date for the Team Jesse Foundation will take place this summer. Mincio and Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Matt Sauri will cycle across America, a journey simpley entitled, "The Ride". This 95-day, 4,200 mile trek will begin at the gravesite of SSG Jesse Williams in Santa Rosa, CA and end at Ground Zero in Manhattan, NY where Team Jesse Foundation co-founder Mincio stood on 9.11.01 as a Vice President at Goldman Sachs before enlisting in the Army. All donations that are received during this event will provide education and support to families of fallen soldiers.
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Is the Roberts court the most partisan Supreme Court in history?
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The Justices of the US Supreme Court sit for their official photograph on October 8, 2010 at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC. Front row (L-R): Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Back Row (L-R): Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr. and Associate Justice Elena Kagan.
This week, the Supreme Court handed down a controversial judgment on Arizona's SB1070, and is expected to rule on the Affordable Care Act in the coming days.
In the past, the Roberts court has frequently been divisive between the conservative and liberal wings, with decisions on major cases being ruled 5-4 or 6-3. In Gonzalez v. Carhart, the Roberts Court ruled 5-4 that partial-birth abortions could be banned. In District of Columbia v. Heller, the court ruled, 5-4, that the Second Amendment protected the right to keep firearms in the home. In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the court ruled, again 5-4, that the government can't restrict independent political contributions by corporations and unions. Sensing a trend?
Are we in the most partisan Supreme Court in history? Or has the court always been viewed as legislating from the bench? Is it even possible to have a non-partisan Supreme Court?
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Train is the most popular way but the drawback is the long time and many people might not be into the idea of taking a night train. With car and motorbike, go with the highly experienced drivers since the road to Sapa is quite a challenge. If you are keen on taking the bus, here is some essential information.
From Hanoi: You can get on a Hanoi - Lao Cai Bus, and after that take a minu bus to Sapa from Lao Cai. There are also 2 bus companies running direct route to Sapa with a quick stop-over in Lao Cai: Vietbus (284 Giai Phong Street) and Hung Thanh (575 Nguyen Trai Street). Their offers are quite fair with a big bus (35 seats) with beds, TV, air conditioner and a free water bottle. These buses both depart from My Dinh bus station.
Schedule: Depart Hanoi at 7:30 P.M, arrive in Sapa at 5:30 A.M.
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Accreditation director presents at Higher Learning Commission meeting
Larry Peterson, director of accreditation, assessment and academic advising, presented at two sessions at the Higher Learning Commission's annual meeting in Chicago, April 5-9.
Peterson's "Strategies for Assessing General Education Outcomes within Disciplinary Capstones" won the best paper prize for the theme Assessing and Improving Student Learning. The paper was co-written with Joan Hawthorne, director of assessment and regional accreditation at the University of North Dakota, and Matt Smith, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Ind.
The writers focused on general education program outcomes within disciplinary capstones which can be a valuable source of artifacts for assessment because they offer a number of advantages, including the ability to motivate students' "best work" from which faculty can draw information about student learning that is meaningful to individual departments.
Peterson's second presentation and paper, "Authentically Assessing Liberal Education Outcomes in Two and Four Year-Degrees" was co-written with Michael Gress, director of institutional effectiveness at Vincennes University, and Cory Lock, dean of university programs at St. Edward's University. The paper summarized the major findings of a two-year, nine-institution project investigating how campuses used authentic assessments that did not lower expectations simply because they need to generate data, perhaps even quantitative data, for accountability reports.
Both presentations were based on an Association for General and Liberal Studies project that included two community colleges, a private professional college, three church-affiliated colleges or universities and three public research universities. The project was partially funded by the Lumina Foundation to identify, document and evaluate ways of assessing student learning at the about-to-graduate levels of liberal learning. Peterson and Susan Ray-Degges, associate professor of interior design, co-wrote one of the chapters in the resulting volume, "Judgments of Quality: Connecting Faculty Best Assessment with Student Best Work."
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On Sunday, I watched the Euro 2008 final soccer match between Spain and Germany. The game was mostly dominated by the Spaniards and in the end, my colleagues from Madrid celebrated the victory from a Fernando Torres goal in the first half. This year's tournament was great fun to watch, but I noticed something disconcerting from Sunday's closing ceremony.
Prior to the game, 16 giant puppets filled with colored balloons performed an elaborate waltz. Each puppet represented one of the teams in the tournament, and as they played out the games through dance, when a team was eliminated, that puppet's colored balloons were released into the sky.
While the image of the balloons floating into the sky was both aesthetically pleasing and metaphorically accurate, I'm bothered by the feeling that those balloons are going to end up as litter in the sea. Once in the water, sea turtles and other marine life can confuse the balloons for prey and swallow them, at which point they can become trapped in the digestive system, causing major harm or death. Latex rubber balloons eventually biodegrade - but it is unclear how long that takes, especially in water.
In fact, balloon releases have been banned in Florida, Virginia, California and Maryland, And BBC News reported earlier this month that the UK's Marine Conservation Society is calling for a ban on mass balloon releases because birds and mammals are dying from eating discarded balloons.
An MCS rep is quoted as saying, "A recent international survey found nearly 60,000 balloons over a two-day period last year. Who knows how many are in the sea. It's vast and we just don't know."
On a positive note about turtles, scientists in the Gulf of California successfully attached satellite tags to three hawksbill turtles. Along with having a population size that is considered critically endangered, hawksbills are enigmatic marine creatures and very little is known about their movements and habitat use.
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Google recently announced that Gmail users will be able to email all of their Google+ connections, even if they don't have their email address. The feature is currently being rolled out to all Gmail users. What does this mean? Well, if someone has you as a connection on Google+, you will appear in their To field when they search for your name, whether they have your email address or not.
However, they can only email you once and, if you click on Report Spam, that's the end of the conversation. Messages will go to your Social tab, so this might be a good reason to enable tabs, if you haven't already done it.
This definitely should be a feature that you should be able to opt in to, rather than having to opt-out. This seems like a ripe opportunity for your inbox to be inundated by messages you have no desire to read. However, you can control who's allowed to email you, and it's an easy process.
Disable Google+ Connections Gmail
Log in to your Gmail account on your computer and click the Settings (gear icon) option on the top right side of the screen.
You should be in the General Settings area. If for some reason you're not, click the General link at the top. Then scroll down until you find the Email via Google+ section.
Once you've found it, you'll notice that it's set to Anyone on Google+ which means anyone from the social network can send you a message. Click the dropdown and select who you want to get emails from – Anyone on Google+ (not recommended, in my opinion), your Extended circles, your Circles, or No one at all.
After you've made your choice, don't forget to scroll all the way down and Save changes.
What's interesting is that this feature could be useful if there was an option to select certain circles on Google+ to email you. For example, if you have a circle which only includes potential business partners, you might want to get emails from them, but not the rest of your circles. We already have far too many emails to deal with already, let a lone from strangers.
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ATLANTA, Jan. 10, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BlueLinx Holdings Inc. (NYSE:BXC), a leading distributor of building products in North America, expects to report a fourth-quarter net loss per diluted share in the range of $0.16 to $0.22 based on the Company's preliminary unaudited results for the fourth quarter ended December 29, 2012, compared to a net loss of $0.17 per diluted share for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. Revenue for the fourth quarter is expected to be approximately $440 million, an increase of 12.5% from $391.1 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. Gross profit margin for the quarter is expected to be approximately 11.9%, compared with 12.3% for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. Net loss included a pre-tax net gain of $0.2 million, or $0.00 per diluted share, and $3.9 million, or $0.07 per diluted share, from significant special items in the fourth quarter of 2012 and 2011, respectively.
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Written Answers. - Government Aid.
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43. Mr. Quinn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the total value of Irish Government bilateral aid, co-operation and development assistance with Mozambique since 1978; in respect of such assistance, the projects which have been assisted in (i) 1986, (ii) 1987 and (iii) 1988; if he will give details of these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Lenihan) Brian (Snr.) Lenihan
Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Lenihan): Ireland has provided official bilateral assistance totalling £292,000 to Mozambique since 1978, comprising £240,000 for disaster relief purposes, £29,000 in respect of voluntary service assignments sponsored by APSO, £20,000 for NGO co-financing purposes and £3,000 in respect of training in Ireland. A statement detailing the funds allocated under each of these headings for each of the years 1986 to 1988 is given below.
The disaster relief funding totalling £165,000 for the three year period supported a range of relief programmes operated by various United Nations relief agencies and by Goal, Oxfam and Trocaire, which were aimed at the victims of Famine and Conflict, both internally displaced within Mozambique and living as refugees in neighbouring States.
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The Shocking Truth
This is the machine.
It is a gray square of hard plastic, looks like a garage door opener but is perhaps double the size of one. Inside this square is the circuit board and all that is evil and beneficent and contentious about the machine. But the square itself couldn't be more pedestrian. Fastened to it, by Velcro, is another casing of hard plastic, another square, which houses a 12-volt battery. Dangling from the machine's corners are wires, and at the ends of these wires, electrodes that emit 60 volts and 15 milliamps of electricity in two-second bursts. The electrodes are attached to the arms, legs, or stomachs of roughly half of the 209 students at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton. The machine's sole purpose is to shock these students. The shocks are viewed by JRC, and pretty much only JRC, as a corrective therapy.
It is a painful shock; you hear all sorts of stories about it. JRC's lawyers used to let journalists receive it, but not anymore. They can watch, though. They can watch Ralph Antonelli, director of quality control training at JRC, a wiry man with swept-back black hair, secure an electrode to his right forearm, the machine on the table before him, and the transmitter for it, the little remote control that staffers hold at all times, sitting next to that. They can watch as Antonelli presses the button and his forearm tenses and his middle and ring fingers shoot downward toward his palm. Then they can watch his face, relaxed even as the transmitter is beeping and the electrode is bzzzing his skin. "See?" he says. "Just two seconds and it's over." Some liken it, as Antonelli does, to a bee sting. Others, including a student who's received it, call it the longest two seconds of their lives. One thing is certain about the machine, known as the Graduated Electronic Decelerator: What we just witnessed isn't it at its most powerful. There is a version that is three times stronger.
The school says that the GED needed more juice. The mentally handicapped and behaviorally impaired students who attend JRC, who are in fact its lone attendees, weren't responding to the machine. So in the early 1990s, a couple of years after the GED was first developed, the school made a new one—upping the milliamps from 15 to 41 and the voltage to 66, and calling it the GED IV. Even at its higher capacity, the GED IV still carries less power than a stun gun, a defibrillator, or a cattle prod. But the GED IV, as well as the base model, has been found in numerous state reports and in the accounts of former JRC staffers to burn students' skin. Some have been taken off it for a month at a time as a result. And then put back on.
These students are severely autistic, mentally retarded, or behaviorally challenged children and adults. JRC is the only school in the country to shock them—using a machine it alone manufactures, a machine it distributes to no one else. Some Massachusetts legislators who've filed bills this year to limit the use of the machine call it "barbaric" and the school "like Abu Ghraib."
The legislators are only half-correct. Spend enough time around the machine and it will test everything you know about right and wrong.
This is the machine's inventor. He is an unassuming old man, short and with a slight potbelly, rounded shoulders, half a head of curly white hair, and warm eyes. He looks as if he could be Fred Rogers's older brother. Matthew Israel, 75, is the founder and executive director of JRC, which he incorporated under a different name in 1971. Israel responded to questions for this article only by e-mail, but while watching the school's promotional video one notices the softness of Israel's voice, just above a whisper and even-toned, even while describing the GED's purpose. One notices the academic's indifference to dress: Israel often wears suits when he's photographed, but the tie droops a few inches below his belt line and the jacket fairly engulfs the tiny man. In Israel's writings on the school's website and in interviews he has given, one notices his dream, as grand as anyone's in Hollywood but documented and executed better than most scientists'. Matthew Israel is out to save those that society discards.
He grew up in Brookline, the son of a lawyer and the younger of two brothers. Israel had loving parents; they rarely spanked him, and punishment was never emphasized. At Brookline High School he was one year ahead of Michael Dukakis. They ran cross-country together and became good friends.
Israel entered Harvard in 1950 unsure of what to do with his life. Later that freshman year he picked up Walden Two, a novel by the behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner, who taught at Harvard. The controversial book is about a utopian society where behaviors can be modified for the benefit of all inhabitants. It is based on Skinner's theory of operant conditioning: If an action is rewarded, it increases the likelihood that the person will perform the action again. This is, after all, how Skinner had taught pigeons to play table tennis: by rewarding the behaviors that led to their game. Israel loved Walden Two and Skinner's theory. He wanted to start his own utopian community based on its ideals. For the next 10 years, he studied under Skinner, first as an undergrad; then as a grad student; and finally as a postdoctorate fellow, after having received his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard in 1960.
Following his time at Harvard, Israel started a commune in 1967 in Arlington. He hoped to grow it into his utopia. The previous year Israel had founded the Association for Social Design, whose objective was to "establish a network of associated experimental communities in cities throughout the world," writes Hilke Kuhlmann in the 2005 book Living "Walden Two": B. F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities. Israel's Arlington commune was the first step toward something he was tentatively calling "Walden Three."
At the commune, Israel lived next to a spoiled three-year-old named Andrea. Andrea whacked people with a broom. She screamed. She cried. She wanted always to barge into Israel's room. He asked Andrea's mother if he could try behavioral techniques on the girl. She agreed. Israel rewarded Andrea when she behaved well—going on walks with her and giving her treats. And one day when Andrea screamed as she sat in time-out, he flicked his finger against her cheek. The girl quieted down, and he left the room. A few minutes later, she started up again. Israel returned and once more flicked his finger. The crying stopped for good. In the days and weeks that followed, Israel could look at Andrea when she acted out and shake his head, and the girl would stop. She became a "charming individual," Israel once told Mother Jones.
Soon after that, Israel's commune fell apart. As did a second he started in the South End. As did, ultimately, the Association for Social Design, despite the fact that it had expanded to three other cities. In Living "Walden Two," Kuhlmann blames Israel, suggesting he, as the commune's patriarch, wanted his inhabitants to live lives based on altering one another's behavior; the others in the communes and the association thought this was no life at all. Israel says the communities fell apart because the people living in them didn't get along. Simple as that.
But he wasn't ready to give up. He thought if he opened a school, he could provide the commune's inhabitants with jobs. A self-sustaining economy might lead, ultimately, to utopia. Plus, he kept thinking about the success he'd had with Andrea. Skinner had experimented only with rats and pigeons, but Israel had had this little girl, a real person, whose behavior had changed as surely as Skinner's vermin's. Israel wanted his school to serve autistic children&mda
sh;their actions could be changed with fewer social ramifications, Kuhlmann writes—where he could implement the theories his predecessor had tested in the lab. But the pupil would differ from his teacher: He would punish the children when necessary. Skinner never advocated that.